Chronicling Willa's life during decisive years for her. Willa's reactions to life events depend on how she sees others responding. She then works to make sure they calm down. It is not until the end she learns to stand up for herself (in small ways) that she becomes her own person.
I liked Willa. I felt bad for her because most of the people around her were jerks and she enabled them to continue acting that way. She idolized her father because of the calmness he exhibited when her mother went off the rails. She wanted to be like him in that way. So many others in her life went off the rails like her mother and, like her father, she was the calm but the others walked over her because they knew that Willa would accept them and their behavior and not lash out.
When she gets a call from Baltimore, she goes even though she has no connection to the people involved except her son used to live with the woman. It is here where she finds a purpose and herself. No, she does not go off the rails like her mother but she does finally stop accepting and glossing over the bad behavior. Willa will never be the scream out loud type but she does make her feelings known if you look for the signs.


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Closer Look - The Vectrix VX-1 Electric Moped
Posted by Sima Aktar on July 7, 2021 at 9:24pm
Mopeds have come an extended way from their early days as glorified bicycles and nerd-haulers. They aren't only for geeks anymore, but have grown up into fashionable and smooth performance machines. The Vectrix VX-1 is one of the pinnacle machines on this listing and is fast becoming the world's chief in all-electric, road worthy electric powered mopeds. Even the NYPD is fielding them! France Phone Number List , These mopeds (they look more like a small motorcycle to me) debuted in America in 2006 and went into broader countrywide income in 2008 and are actually to be had in most fundamental towns in both the usA. And the EU. The '08 and '09 models retail for approximately $eleven,000 (before rebates or incentives) with all of the trimmings and are made (for the most component) inside the organization's Massachusetts plant while EU fashions are made basically in Poland.
Sounds quite steeply-priced. Right? It is, unexpectedly, for a "moped." Consider this, though: if you hold to drive your automobile, what is going to that price? Let's do a little brief math. Over a 12 months, the average person will drive their vehicle to paintings about 250 days of the yr. At a go back and forth of about 30 miles spherical experience, fuel fees at $2.50/gallon, and miles per gallon at 25 in-town, that works out to $750 in gas (7500 miles, 300 gallons). That's an positive set of numbers and does no longer consist of upkeep expenses, however it receives the point across. A VX-1 moped, under the identical conditions, could have less than half the renovation costs of a car and zero fuel purchases. Ad in the different errands you use a vehicle for and you may see why those have become so desirable to people.
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BIG OLD HOUSES
"And now..." if I may crib a 43-year-old line from Monty Python, "...for something completely different." My old car, purring like a kitten these days, recently took me to Bethlehem, PA. I spent the night with my daughter and son-in-law, admired the baby, and continued the next day to Fonthill Castle in Doylestown, PA.
To describe this house as the gingerbread palace of an enchanted prince is not far from the truth.
The builder of Fonthill, Henry Chapman Mercer (1856-1930), seen in the photo below embracing his dog Rollo, has the look of a "good little boy," which I don't think he was. Like myself, his middle name was his mother's before her marriage. The Chapmans and the Mercers were both prosperous - indeed, prominent - families, although Mercer's own father William, according to the Bucks County Historical Society, was "well bred, but without means." A rich aunt, Elizabeth (Lela) Chapman Lawrence (1829-1905), underwrote young Mercer's education, took him all over Europe, even built a substantial house, called Aldie, for his mother in Doylestown.
Fonthill, completed in 1912 when Mercer was 56 years old, engulfs an earlier structure. Crouched behind the triple arches in the image below is what used to be a free standing Pennsylvania Dutch farmhouse dating from 1742.
Fonthill, seen below from the south, is a National Historic Landmark, called by some "An Architectural Treasure." Its unorthodox design and construction methods, however, led one contemporary critic to wonder whether its owner risked "being responsible for a house which might terrorize the whole neighborhood." What looks like a distant wing on the far right is actually a separate garage, built in 1913.
This house is a fantastic object, but I wouldn't classify it as a work of "architecture," partly because there was no architect. Mercer himself designed the thing, one room at a time, molding each of those rooms from blocks of clay (really), which he then stacked in a pile with little regard to interior traffic patterns or exterior appearance. Fortunately, the result is picturesque, albeit unlivable for all but a few. Except for the farmhouse contained within its eccentric embrace, Fonthill is constructed entirely of reinforced poured concrete, not the warmest of building materials, although the exterior gestalt is undeniably appealing.
Lucy the horse played a bit part in the production, which we shall get to in time.
The front door is on the east facade, facing the entrance allee.
Let's pause in the foyer - or what approximates a foyer - for a (very) few words about the long and distinguished career of Henry Chapman Mercer. Harvard 1879; admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1881; then a career volte-face to archaeological exploration. Mercer, with the help of Aunt Lela, spelunked from Ohio to the Yucatan, eventually becoming the curator of American and Prehistoric Archaeoloigy at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1897 he started the company that would make him, for a time anyway, nationally famous. The Moravian Pottery and Tile Works of Doylestown, PA used a unique process to glaze and colorize so-called Mercer Tiles, whose historical designs and craftsmanlike appearance made them the ceramic darlings of the Arts and Crafts movement.
Arts and Crafts was a reaction to the late 19th century's soulless industrialization. Its proponents, "limousine liberals" in the minds of many at the time, plunged into a mindset of handmade anything, in lieu of goods, implements, furniture, you name it, produced industrially. One of the problems with Arts and Crafts was that only rich people could really afford the best of it. Its biggest problem, however, afflicts design work to this day, specifically work that is principally informed by intellect as opposed to appearance. Buildings whose ugliness is explained by some crackpot intellectual thesis as "referencing" something or other, are nothing new. That which architects and/or designers find symbolic or amusing often never occurs to the suffering public, who must endure wretched looking buildings until they either fall down or are demolished. But...I digress.
Mercer's Moravian Pottery hit the big time in 1901, when Isabella Stewart Gardner installed medieval-style flooring made entirely of Mercer tiles in her famous Boston mansion. Business was good before and booming after, but it wasn't until rich Aunt Lela died in 1905, and her will was settled in 1907, that Mercer inherited money sufficient to build Fonthill. From the start, the house was intended as a combination personal residence, giant catalogue of Moravian Tile products, and museum of tiles from around the world. It is, in fact, encrusted with tiles.
The main room on the main floor, called the Saloon, is one of several dramatic double-height chambers whose intended use and location could only perplex a Beaux Arts graduate. Big dinners were served in it during Fonthill's early years, despite the fact that it's nowhere near the kitchen. Then again, there is no designated dining room anywhere else, so why not eat here? Mercer possessed a sort of Bedouin mentality at mealtime, food being served wherever he happened to be.
The Saloon connects to the Morning Room, located at the southern end of the house. Tiles, tiles, more tiles, more structural columns, bewildering staircases, and a settee in its own little niche repeat an aesthetic theme seen throughout the house. Mercer's background in pottery presumably explains the decision to design rooms with blocks of clay.
I have been in many big old houses, and I'm one of those guys who never gets lost, but this place really had me foxed. In the images below we're traveling from the Saloon, across the not very well defined Entry Hall, to the Conservatory. Plans for the first four of Fonthill's interlocking levels appear at the end of this post.
A nice room for plants, if that's indeed how it was used. There are stories about the tiles in every room in the house, but we'll just glance and keep moving.
Let's recross the Entry Hall and head north into the serving pantry. Together with the main kitchen beyond it, the pantry occupies the interior envelope of the old farmhouse. For reasons unknown it is called the Front Kitchen on the plan. The ceiling in the Back Kitchen beyond it, which of course is just the kitchen, has been blown out to create another double-height space. What was originally a fireplace on the second floor of the farmhouse now hovers on the kitchen wall above the stove.
Fonthill's live-in staff had rooms on the upper levels of the north wing. Beneath those rooms, adjacent to the kitchen is one of the more elaborate servant halls I've seen. It's called the Oven Room, a reference to an antique stove that once heated it. It's once again a staff lounge.
Besides results of a lot of experimental concrete pouring, the basement contains a crypt - because every castle needs a crypt.
Without Mr. Eichenburger's excellent plans, I would have been quite unable to correctly locate the rooms in these photos. Of course, my helpful guide Dan knew Fonthill like I know Daheim. The powder room, an obligatory inclusion in every Big Old Houses post, is just outside the Library.
The Library connects to the Saloon, from which I climbed a flight of stairs, the location of which I've completely forgot, and arrived shortly at a 3rd level guest bedroom called the Yellow Room. Would that I had brought crumbs with me from the morning's breakfast muffin.
The Yellow Room and the adjoining West Room, each with en suite bath, are situated directly above the Library.
A corridor on the south flank of the house traverses the Map Room en route to Mercer's Study, another double-height chamber sitting on top of the Morning Room below.
Honestly, I don't have an over-fondness for the Arts and Crafts sensibility.
Mercer's bedroom, called the Dormer Room and seen in the images below, is, with unexpected logic, located next to his Study. A decade after moving in, the lord of Fonthill migrated from the Dormer Room to the Terrace Room, located one level up on the other side of the house. A lifelong retainer by the name of Frank Swain (1876-1954), whom Mercer hired at the age of 20 to help on archaeological digs and eventually made head of Moravian Tile, lived with his employer at Fonthill. Also living in the house was Mercer's housekeeper Laura, who also happened to be Swain's wife. When Mercer moved from Dormer to Terrace, Swain moved from Marine to Dormer. Meanwhile, Laura, on an hegira of her (searching for light and warmth perhaps) slept first in Pine before ending up in East.
Mercer never married and the mysterious intersection of stairways in the hall below might be a metaphor for who was actually sleeping with whom. The honorable state of bachelorhood, recognized for centuries before our own, now raises eyebrows. So here is a good place to address the enchantment we joked about at the beginning of this post. It's really no joke, however; poor Henry Mercer suffered from gonorrhea, an unhappy thing today but a real curse in the past. Who knows how he got it, or from whom. Alas, this dark family secret likely torpedoed his rumored engagement to the debutante daughter of a Baltimore socialite named Gustave Lurman. At least, that's one explanation.
At the other end of the 3rd level hall is a stair to the Columbus Room, named for its themed tiles.
Who was Rollo? The dog. What is the Wind Room to which these stairs lead? I dunno, but it's the last stop before the roof, from which there's an astonishing view of, among other things, the rest of the roof.
Let's take the stairs down and visit the Terrace Room on 4, where Mercer spent his last years.
Where was this staircase? I have absolutely no idea.
The East Room on the 4th level was Laura Swain's. Mercer's will gave Fonthill to Bucks County, subject to a life tenancy by the Swains. Laura outlived her husband by 20 years, staying at Fonthill until overcome by age and decrepitude, a fate that shadows us all. She was moved to a nursing home in late 1974, and died a few months later.
A creepy passage (let's be frank) runs north from the hall on 3 to the servants' wing. It passes what used to be an exterior window overlooking what used to be the second floor of the farmhouse, and is now the upper level of the kitchen. Beyond are former servants' rooms.
Everyone who worked on the construction of Fonthill, including Lucy the horse, is commemorated in (what else?) Mercer tiles mounted on a wall in the servants' wing.
Also on 3, placed oddly in the servants' wing, is a Smoking Room, next to which is the even more bewilderingly located Breakfast Room.
According to "Henry Chapman Mercer; An Annotated Chronology" published by the Bucks County Historical Society (of which Mercer, incidentally, was president), his "pro-German sentiments during World War I were misunderstood by some. True to the standards of the Victorian era of his youth, he found much to criticize about the modern age - women's hair and dress styles, the training and manners of the young, the novels of Hemingway..." In other words, he turned into a curmudgeon, another threat that shadows us all.
Doylestown's "Mercer Mile" contains not just Fonthill, but the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works, seen in the image below, where you can still buy a floor, a backsplash or a fireplace, and the fantastical looking Mercer Museum. The latter was designed in 1916 with the same poured concrete look, and is filled with early American tools and artifacts. Is Fonthill beautiful? No. Did I have fun climbing all over it? You bet I did. The link, for castle and museum both, is www.mercermuseum.org.
Floor plans courtesy of Kurt Eichenburger, a puzzle master as well as a draftsman.
Posted by John Foreman at 10:02 PM
Michael Hampton February 13, 2014 at 6:08 AM
Thank you for another fascinating post. Without a doubt this has to be one of the most unusual and bizarre houses Ive seen. But there is something rather enchanting about it too, like a fairy tale house. I have never been a huge fan of the Arts and Crafts movement either but I found the tile work to be rather beautiful in a strange way. Hope you made it out ok?
Dear Mr. Foreman,
Loved the post! What a gloomy place....plus those bare bulbs! I suppose you have seen the blog Architectdesign.com. I barely know how to use the computer but here is the posting about the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works....I remember thinking how fascinating it looked (unlike the house!):
http://architectdesign.blogspot.com/search?q=+moravian+pottery+works
ArchitectDesign™ February 13, 2014 at 11:27 AM
How pleasant to see my blog listed here on one of my favorite blogs! Thanks you Margaret!
I found Fonthill fascinating but like you can't even begin to imagine living in such a cold and forbidding place! It appears especially uninviting in the snow. I guess it would be best in the high heat of summer?
I LOVE this place, I wuld t live here. I'm confused though is this a museum or private home? Why all the mess through out the home? it doesn't look very clean.
Shawn Cullen February 14, 2014 at 7:58 AM
Thank you for this nice coverage of Fonthill. I live about 10 miles away. Fonthill, the Mercer Museum and the Moravian Tile Works are all well worth a visit. Doylestown itself is a pleasant Victorian town with a nice art museum (the Michener Museum of Art).
Mr. Mercer was very much an old-school, patrician sort of fellow. The novelist James Michener, who grew up in poverty in Doylestown, had a colorful boyhood memory of watching Mercer ride his bicycle out of the gates of Fonthill, chin do doubt firmly raised, paying on attention to the gawking hoi polloi.
In the 1920s, Mercer's bother and his wife tore down the family home, Aldie, and replaced it with a rather lovely Tudor estate (available today to rent for weddings and such). Mercer was furious and supposedly refused to speak with them thereafter. As for his personal life he was a rather handsome fellow...one wonders.
Very creepy and interesting at the same time. I would love to use a little shellac to shine the place up. Many Thanks John...
Douglas February 22, 2014 at 6:14 PM
I know this will sound corny but the place needs a woman's touch. Eh?
Otherwise some guy might like it.
KOJohnson February 16, 2014 at 6:12 AM
That is the ugliest--the most aggressively ugly--building that ever I saw. It doesn't even have that quaintly musty Addamsesque charm that one might expect--a house without wit or humor. And yet they tear down all of the pretty ones.
Carrowmac February 16, 2014 at 9:15 AM
Makes me think of some kind of Scottish baronial castle - and some of the tiles are beautiful....but as for the interior overall, hmmm...My Mom always said to try and find something nice to say, so.....I love the guy's suit in the photo with the dog! Cheers!
The thing that really worries me are those scary stairs throughout the mansion. The twisting and turning, this way and that.....OMG.
Lavender cat March 22, 2014 at 6:10 PM
I think it is crazy beautiful. I could live here happily ever after.
Bethany July 10, 2014 at 5:15 PM
Wow, without a guide you might never have made it out! The craziest of the crazy to me was that mid-air fireplace in the kitchen.
So glad to discover this site. Engaging writing and a plethora of pictures. And this must be the wackiest dwelling I've seen. I agree, beautiful, no, but oh what fun!
I am a native Doylestonian and grew up on the other side of the woods from Fonthill. Mrs. Swain, the housekeeper, chased me across the grounds with a broom on several occasions for peeking in the windows. It was made with poured, premodern concrete (as John describes above) so it is and will be covered in a patina of concrete dust for eternity. It was Mercer's private residence, now open to the public, as are his tile works and museum on the other side of town. Growing up, I thought everyone lived in a town with two castles and a Spanish mission! http://www.mercermuseum.org/
~Karen
montana channing February 21, 2016 at 8:19 PM
If I had money, this is exactly where I would love to live. Hurray for wacky eclectics.
The Owners' Suite
An Under-appreciated Classic
A Solomonic Compromise


i moved to maryland after college. i got a teaching job and moved with a friend from college (now my best friend). we lived in an apartment complex with garbage corrals like the one pictured. (it was kind of ghetto) we were both from western, pa and she was 4 hours from her family while i was about 6.
so, one weekend, my roommate left for the weekend to go home and visit her family. i think this was the first time i stayed for the weekend by myself. i had no plans. i was doing some light cleaning on friday night at about 9pm. i decided to take the garbage out. i was humming when i threw the garbage bags over the side into the dumpster (our corral was built around the dumpster so you didn't need to go inside.
needless to say i spent the rest of the weekend locked in the apartment with the alarm on.
when my roommate came back we made a "never go to the dumpster after dark" rule.


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New Technology, Same Principles: The Supreme Court and Tech
Ashley N. Baker
Note: The following paper appeared in a larger volume of essays from the American Action Forum, which can be found here.
During the confirmation hearings for then-Judge Neil Gorsuch, Senator and former Judiciary Committee Chairman Orin Hatch asks a question about interpreting constitutional provisions in the digital age. How, he asks, can a two-century old document apply to technologies that were not even imagined by the Founders?
Gorsuch responds, "So, the technology changes, but the principles do not. And it cannot be the case that the United States Constitution is any less protective of the people's liberties today than it was the day it was drafted."
Will the Supreme Court — with the recent addition of Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh — adhere to the dictum "new technology, same principles?" Only time will tell, but a few recent cases may serve as good indicators. Still, the law governing emerging technologies is predominantly statutory, which means that despite decisions by the courts Congress will inevitably have many questions to address.
Between the current cases before the Supreme Court and sensible legislation from Congress, there is still hope that our institutions will succeed in protecting both innovation and the principles of our founders in this brave new high-tech world.
What's Left of the Fourth Amendment?
In what was one of the most important technology cases in Supreme Court history, the justices ruled 5-4 last June that the historical cell phone location data used to convict Timothy Carpenter of armed robbery is subject to the protection of the Fourth Amendment. Acknowledging that Fourth Amendment doctrine must evolve to account for "seismic shifts in digital technology," the high court said that the government was required to obtain a search warrant for the data.
The question before the justices in Carpenter v. United States was whether the third-party doctrine and the lower standards of the Stored Communications Act (SCA) allow law enforcement authorities to obtain such data from an individual's cell phone provider without the finding of "probable cause" required for a search warrant.
The third-party doctrine, first articulated by the Supreme Court in United States v. Miller (1976) and Smith v. Maryland (1979), holds that people have no reasonable expectation of privacy under the Fourth Amendment when they voluntarily convey information to a third party, such as a bank or a telephone service provider.
In a world where digital information can be transmitted without affirmative consent, the doctrine has created a gaping hole in the Fourth Amendment. Cell phones are so ubiquitous that, as Chief Justice Roberts wrote in Riley v. California (2013), "nearly three-quarters of smart phone users report being within five feet of their phones most of the time, with 12 percent admitting that they even use their phones in the shower."
With Carpenter, the Supreme Court concluded that the voluntary conveyance assumption behind the third-party doctrine doesn't hold up in light of the precise, retrospective nature of cell phone location data. As Roberts explained in the majority opinion, "a cell phone logs a cell-site record by dint of its operation, without any affirmative act on the part of the user beyond powering up."
As the Court said in the ruling: "Our decision today is a narrow one. We do not express a view on (scenarios) not before us." Because the high court's reasoning logically applies to a variety of current and future technologies, however, the ramifications of the Carpenter decision are likely to be anything but narrow.
One practical, short-term implication of the decision is that law enforcement, defense attorneys, and courts will begin to think differently about metadata. Because Carpenter was so vague, attorneys may apply the logic of Carpenter to a wide array of situations involving other technologies. Carpenter may well cause law enforcement to adjust their practices and seek a warrant when searching the digital data that is so pervasive in our lives today. That alone makes the ruling a major victory for privacy rights that will reign in the tendency of the government to use subpoena power to circumvent the higher standards of a search warrant.
Possible Paths to Digital Property Rights
The Court's opinion in Carpenter included four dissents — the most written in a single case since Obergefell, the 2015 same-sex marriage decision. One of those dissents came from Justice Neil Gorsuch. His dissent was more like a concurrence on other grounds, but it reads as if he was laying the groundwork for future changes to Fourth Amendment jurisprudence, which may ultimately be in his hands.
Justice Gorsuch's dissent was partially based on the Court's failure to confront the third-party doctrine head-on. Gorsuch's dissent argues that rather than employ a Fourth Amendment analysis focusing on the reasonable expectation of privacy, the court should follow a property rights-based theory of the Fourth Amendment. Under that theory, Carpenter had a property interest in his cell phone data.
Although the Court is unlikely to completely discard the third-party doctrine anytime soon, it will likely slowly chip away at the doctrine, and Justice Gorsuch's suggestion of a positive-law approach may be the best path forward. When the legislative branch acts to create specific property rights, as Justice Gorsuch noted, "that may supply a sounder basis for judicial decision-making than judicial guesswork about societal expectations." And since the Supreme Court's ruling in Carpenter did not include more invasive and increasingly prevalent technologies such as facial recognition software, stingray devices, DNA collection, and drone surveillance, it may be time to discuss another approach to vindicate the full protections of the Fourth Amendment.
Meanwhile, Congress should act to strengthen statutory requirements for searches enabled by new technologies. Now that the third-party doctrine is no longer the bright-line rule it once was, confusion is inevitable, and the branch closest to the people is best-equipped to weigh in on societal privacy expectations.
Whether or not Congress picks up its glacial pace of legislation, the Supreme Court and lower courts will continue to settle important technology issues. Policymakers need to be especially cognizant of how legal responses to innovation will impact technologies' application and implementation, as well as expose the need for congressional action.
Will the Supreme Court Take a Bite Out of Apple?
This term's big antitrust case is Apple v. Pepper, in which users of Apple's iPhone claim that the company is violating federal antitrust laws by requiring them to buy apps exclusively from Apple's App Store.
The question before the Supreme Court is whether iPhone users have standing to bring this suit for damages. The answer hinges on the Court's application of its 1977 Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois precedent, which holds that only the direct purchaser of a product or service may sue for antitrust damages.
Apple argues that it is merely acting as an agent or middleman for app developers, as evidenced by the fact that it sells the apps at the prices set by the developers. The only direct purchasers, Apple says, are the developers themselves, who pay the company a 30 percent commission for use of the App Store. The plaintiffs disagree, noting that iPhone users pay Apple directly and are thus direct purchasers.
If oral argument is any indication, the plaintiffs are likely to prevail. All four members of the Court's liberal bloc and at least a couple of the more conservative justices voiced skepticism of Apple's argument that the instant facts are analogous to Illinois Brick. In that case, contractors purchased bricks from the defendant company and used them in buildings the plaintiffs purchased, but the plaintiffs had no direct contact with the defendant. Unlike those plaintiffs, the plaintiffs here buy apps directly from Apple.
Some of the justices seemed to hint that the Court should overrule Illinois Brick. Justice Brett Kavanaugh noted that, at very least, it is not clear how Illinois Brick should apply to the facts here and suggested that the Court therefore look to the broad language of the governing Clayton Antitrust Act under which "any person injured" by an antitrust violation can sue. If that language is taken literally, iPhone users would have standing.
Only Chief Justice John Roberts seemed to lean toward Apple, noting that the plaintiffs' arguments had evolved from what they said in their complaint. Corey Andrews of Washington Legal Foundation explains that on the way "to the Supreme Court, the plaintiffs' theory of monopolization went from the claim that Apple monopolized the distribution market for apps by charging app developers a supracompetitive 30 percent commission to the claim that Apple's App Store is itself a monopoly because consumers can't buy an app from anywhere else."
Roberts also voiced concern about the possibility of duplicative recoveries in situations such as this if, say, both iPhone users and app developers sue for the same antitrust violation. Justice Gorsuch, however, pointed out that even in states that allow indirect purchasers to file antitrust suits under state law, duplicative recoveries have not been a problem: "Shouldn't we question Illinois Brick perhaps," Gorsuch asked, "given the fact that so many states have done so? They've repealed it."
Apple v. Pepper Is About Who Is Entitled to Sue
If the plaintiffs do prevail on standing, the case will go back to the lower courts where the iPhone users will still need to demonstrate that Apple is in violation of antitrust laws. Similarly, any precedent set by the Court's decision later this year will be limited to standing and will not address the central question of whether the App Store violates antitrust law. In other words, Apple v. Pepper will decide who is allowed to sue.
The reach of any decision will also be limited by the practical fact that Apple has a unique business model regarding app sales. Since the plaintiffs were unable to point to other distributors with a similar business model, the justices may not worry, as some amici do, that a ruling against Apple would open the floodgates to similar e-commerce lawsuits.
That said, if the Court overturns Illinois Brick, giving indirect purchasers standing, the impact on antitrust law will not be limited to the tech industry. For the Court to overturn Illinois Brick, however, would be an extraordinary step, especially since the plaintiffs have not asked it to do so and the Court did not grant certiorari on the question of the precedent's viability.
Moreover, Congress has rejected 17 bills over the past four decades to overrule Illinois Brick and repeal the direct purchaser rule. Nonetheless, given Congress's recent heightened interest in enforcing the antitrust laws against the tech giants, this case — especially a decision for Apple —could motivate Congress to consider legislation that negates or modifies the rule.
Will a Free Speech Case "Break the Internet"?
A relatively low-profile but important free speech case this term is Manhattan Community Access Corporation v. Halleck, in which two content contributors are suing a public-access television channel, claiming it is violating their First Amendment rights by barring them from appearing on the channel for harassing an employee in 2012. The question before the Supreme Court is whether the private operator of this channel (known as MNN) is a "state actor" — that is, a person or entity acting on behalf of the government — and is therefore subject to the First Amendment, which normally applies only to the government.
The potentially broader issue before the high court is when private property can be a "public forum" — a place like a public street or park, where free speech is protected — and the owner of the property can be deemed a state actor and thus be subject to the First Amendment. This question is increasingly relevant as Congress and the legal community debate whether privately owned social media platforms such as Facebook and YouTube have any obligation to respect the requirements of the First Amendment.
If the justices conclude that Manhattan's designation of a private company to operate a public-access channel turns the company into a state actor, could the precedent apply to online media providers as well? That's an unlikely outcome, but the case will undoubtedly impact the larger ongoing debate over content moderation.
While acknowledging that on its face this case has little to do with online platforms, a brief filed by the Internet Association urges the Court to issue an "exceedingly narrow" ruling because of concerns "that any decision that deems MNN a state actor will be misinterpreted in ways that are highly damaging to the Internet."
Another amicus brief warns the justices that "Internet service providers and platforms are directly affected by the uncertainty" generated by this case, because "these companies have developed business models that rely on providing open platforms" and some have even "sought to partner with municipalities to provide communities with access to the Internet." Therefore, it is important to clarify the line between state and private actors.
The concerns of Internet companies may have been alleviated somewhat at oral argument, when the plaintiffs' attorney emphasized that the Court was not asked to consider the broader public-forum question. Furthermore, plaintiffs explain, "only a government can create a public forum," so Internet platforms can't be analogized to government-mandated public-access channels.
At least two of the Court's liberal justices, Ruther Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, appeared sympathetic to the plaintiffs' argument that Manhattan's designation of MNN to run the channel and its operational requirements that limit MNN's discretion render the company little more than an agent of the government. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, on the other hand, was skeptical of that argument. He noted that MNN was a private company "not operating on government property" and was thus very much like public utilities, which have been held to not be state actors.
Kavanaugh and Congress Could Matter Most
For the past three decades, a substantial portion of opinions in important free speech cases were authored by Justice Anthony Kennedy, giving him substantial influence on First Amendment jurisprudence. Although he, like Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, was often a swing vote in these cases, some would argue that Justice Kennedy's central legacy was his insistence on putting First Amendment cases first.
Following his departure from the Court last June, it remains to be seen which justice will fill his shoes in prioritizing free speech cases. Although Chief Justice Roberts recently declared himself the First Amendment's "most aggressive defender," Justice Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Court is likely to be more consequential, as he is replacing the swing vote. And if lower court judicial records are any indication, Kavanaugh is likely to weigh in on free speech cases, and may even place an emphasis on online speech. The role of the D.C. Circuit combined with the increasing number of tech-related cases over the past several years has given him ample exposure to the issue.
There is no shortage of evidence supporting this prediction. In an opinion dissenting from the denial of rehearing en banc in United States Telecom Association v. FCC (2016), Kavanaugh wrote that the government may not "regulate the editorial decisions of Facebook and Google" or "impose forced-carriage or equal-access obligations on YouTube and Twitter." In Cablevision Systems Corp. v. FCC (2010), Kavanaugh also wrote separately to discuss the First Amendment problems raised by carrier restrictions, noting that "[t]he First Amendment endures, and it applies to modern means of communication as it did to the publishers, pamphleteers, and newspapers of the founding era."
Although the high court's decision in Manhattan Community Access Corporation v. Halleck is likely to be a narrow one, policymakers should pay extra attention to Justice Kavanaugh for potential discussion of Internet platforms.
As for Congress, while this case won't directly impact social media platforms, conversation surrounding it is certain to spill over into the debate over Section 230, the law that protects online speech by providing limited immunity from third-party speech liability. Lawmakers are upset about social media companies' content moderation practices, and — rightly or wrongly — want to do something about it. That Section 230 immunity is politically vulnerable was demonstrated when Congress passed SESTA-FOSTA last year, ending immunity for content related to sex trafficking.
Since the Court won't grant a more directly relevant case in the immediate future, it may be that Congress decides the fate of their limited immunity provision that inadvertently created the Internet as we know it. It is therefore important for policymakers to consider carefully each aspect of this issue rather viewing it through the lens of politics alone.
In the areas of the law most important to the future of America's tech industry — privacy, antitrust, and free speech — both Congress and the Supreme Court can contribute to the continued vibrancy of America's tech industry and the economic growth it spurs.
The Supreme Court holds tremendous power, but as these three cases demonstrate, it both moves incrementally and is constrained by the law. Sometimes the Supreme Court is the wrong forum for updating American law to reflect technological advancement, making the need for congressional action greater. Protecting the Internet could require wise legislation on current issues.
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London, England. After the death of his father and inheriting the family fortune, Lord Henry Calvert decided that it was time for a change. Eager to make a fresh start, Henry, his wife, and their young daughter moved to a beautiful manor in a lovely part of Indianapolis. Although the manor appeared to be perfect at first glance, the newlyweds did not know about its dark secrets. You see, what the Calverts didn't know was that their home was built on a graveyard. The foundation was built using dispirited tombstones. Strange things started happening and the only explanation was to blame the dark tortured souls of the thousands of rotting corpses under the manor.


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New CTO Appointment
Economics of Going Green
State of Caribbean Media
Passport to Paradise
Death Sentence in 2 Years
Priest Thinks Twice
Charges & CounterCharges
Communication in Tourism
Moves to Oust Savarin
WIBC Settles with Gregory
UWP Leadership Question
Threat to State College?
Why Marpin Was Rejected
Sanford Now In Barbados
Hotels Threaten Shutdown
Urban Baron to Cross Floor
Lestrade & Stabilisation
Urban Baron Did Not Cross
PM Charles Tightens Grip
Search for New President
Tension at N.D.C.
New Independent Party?
AT & T in Dominica
Curtis Matthiew - DFP?
Sonia Williams - Indep...
SARS in Toronto, Canada
Bobby - Independent?
Casino Gambling Begins
Formal Opening of DSC
End of Douglas Dynasty?
Wage Bill Cut
DLP Want Theodore Fired
DFP Virtually Dead
PM's Fiscal Adjustment
Dr Etienne to PAHO
Relations with China?
Sam Raphael Resigns
Tour de Dominica Politics
PJ on Independence
Politics 25 Years Later
Cure For Aids Mooted
DSS Stymied by IMF
New Development at CTO
The Silent Killer
Grenada & Hurricane Ivan
Regional Tourism Security
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Criminals Make Millions On Smuggling Haitians
A staggering EC$60 million. That's the amount of money that "criminals" have made by smuggling Haitians and nationals of the Dominican Republic from here to neighbouring countries, a senior police officer estimates. "Organisers of the illegal departure have amassed among them approximately EC$60m," Nicholas George, superintendent of police in charge of Central Division/Operations said at a recent forum.
George later explained to The Sun that his estimation was based on the fact that over 12,000 Haitians and Dominicans have come here between October 2003, when the government implemented a US$400 bond requirement, and September 2005. Of these, he said, over 11,000 have left the country through the back door. "They are charged up to US$3,000 US to leave. If a certain number leave at that cost it will come to at least EC$60," he said.
One senior police officer, while admitting that "a lot of money has been or is being made" through the illegal practice, has said the amount quoted by George is exaggerated. "That figure is an exaggeration. to give an exact amount, we really cannot tell because the persons involved in this illegal activity charge different amounts," said the officer, who asked not to be named. However, this officer shared one of George's major concerns that this much money in the wrong hands can be bad for the country.
"With 60 million in the hands of a few criminals, there are things they do with it. They can buy political influence, they can seek to corrupt the judiciary, corrupt the police," George told The Sun. While he said he had no evidence to suggest that any one among these had been bought by the criminals, his colleague wasn't so sure and cited "a kingpin" who has been arrested and charged for smuggling Haitians.
"The amazing thing is to see the kinds of person who are at the court supporting the criminals," the senior officer said. "Look at the number of persons who are defending these people. Can't a lawyer say I'm not getting involved? You must see the number of persons providing some kind of moral support (to this individual)." Saying that Dominica does not belong to the police only, the officer questioned whether the political directorate had the will to stop the practice.
"I don't want to go there," he said when asked if the political leaders had been corrupted, "but politicians themselves are the policy makers and they must come out publicity and condemn it. Not only stay so at a cocktail party and seek to find a scapegoat. They are policy makers."
Back in July, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit announced with much fanfare that in order to curb the smuggling operations, his government would impose visa restrictions on Haitians and Dominicans entering the country. The bond deposit would also be raised to US$1000. Since then it has been business as usual and none of the new measures has been implemented. "I've not seen any of the new measures," one police officer said. "We are still collecting the 400 dollars. The bells have been rung but the campaign has not begun."
Adding to the police's headaches is the fact that, while Haitians are being smuggled out, the Dominican Republic women are remaining here and are engaging in prostitution. George told The Sun he believes that what the police have on their hands is an international crime ring that extends beyond Dominica's shores. "I have a concern that we are involved here in transnational crime and it is possible that this activity does not begin in Dominica and the question needs to be raised if slavery is being returned to the Caribbean," he said.
He questioned where the Haitians are getting the monies to pay for the service that they receive and asked whether pimps were forcing the Dominican women into prostitution. "Is it possible that the Dominica Republic women are using sex to pay back their sponsors? It is organised crime and we need international help combat this situation."


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Заявление о начале кампании (рус.)
The Disappeared
Campaign Reports
Turkmenistan's Prison System and Political Prisoners
Список исчезнувших (рус)
The Disappeared List
Ovadan Depe: Medieval Torture in Modern Turkmenistan
The Iron Doors of Dictatorship: Systematic Violations of the Right to Freedom of Movement in Turkmenistan
Parting Song Book
Ahmedov, Geday
Biography: Former Khyakim of Lebap Province, an esteemed "elder" and "Hero of Turkmenistan."
Arrest and Conviction: He was arrested in February 2006 for economic crimes, and sentenced to 17 years in prison (http://archive.chrono-tm.org/?id=112). According to the Turkmenistan Initiative for Human Rights, Ahmedov died in early July 2006. His body was delivered to the relatives in the Lebap Province in the trunk of a car and buried in secrecy. According to his cellmates, Ahmedov suffered from diabetes, but because he was imprisoned in Ovan Depe, did not receive the necessary medicines. About a month or two before his death, he could not walk. http://archive.chrono-tm.org/?id=150
Akmammedov, Gurbangeldy Akgaevich
Adov, Vladimir
Reyimov, Atadjan
Reyimov, Atadjan Imitjanovich Biography: Master of Sport for Boxing. Participated in informal studies on Islam, conducted by Bahram Saparov. Lived in Lebap Province. Arrest and conviction: Arrested on March 9, 2013. Charged with involvement in anti-state activities (conspiracy to take power, etc.). Convicted on May 22, 2013, by Lebap province court under Art. 174 p. […]
Saparov, Bakhram
Saparov, Bakhram Jumanazarovich Biography: Born on May 31, 1982, in Turkmenabad city of Lebap Province. The leader of an unregistered Muslim group (up to 60 people), since 2007 unofficially taught Islam. Worked in the fueling service of the local airport. Lived in Turkmenabad. Arrest and conviction: Arrested on March 9, 2013 together with approximately 20 […]
Yaylanov, Lukman
Biography: Born in Garabekivul District of Lebap Province. Since 2007 participated in informal studies on Islam, conducted by Bakhram Saparov. Arrest and conviction: Arrested on March 9, 2013. Charged with involvement in antistate activities (conspiracy to take power, etc.). Convicted on May 22, 2013, by Lebap province court under Art. 174 p. 1; 175 p. […]


Travelport was the first GDS provider to introduce a graphical user interface (GUI) to travel agents for shopping and booking car rentals and hotels.
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 * Entry of a `BufferedHistory`, added when the initial buffered range of a
 * **full segment** (and not just of a sub-chunk of a segment like in some
 * low-latency streaming usages) in the buffer becomes known.
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export interface IBufferedHistoryEntry {
  /** `performance.now()` when the event happened. */
  date : number;

  /**
   * Timestamps of what has been buffered with that segment.
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    /** Start time at which we observed that segment/chunk starts at, in seconds. */
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    /** *End time at which we observed that segment/chunk ends at, in seconds. */
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  /** Complete recent history in chronological order (from oldest to newest) */
  private _history : IBufferedHistoryEntry[];
  /** Maximum time a history entry should be retained. */
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    this._lifetime = lifetime;
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   * range of a pushed segment.
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Dream Big Dreams And Share Your True Heart.
Most of us have a governor on our capacity for full authentic self-expression.
A governor is a device that "automatically regulates the supply of fuel, steam, or water to a machine, ensuring uniform motion or limiting speed." The governor we have inside us automatically regulates the supply of shakti, life force, in order to limit our ability to speak truthfully, to disturb the Universe with our primal presence and cosmic roar. In Australia, this governing device is called tall poppy syndrome.
My first direct experience of this tall poppy notion came one morning in a workshop I was leading, shortly after I moved to Australia in 2005. I wondered aloud why a few of the participants danced so delicately around an issue they wanted to discuss. They did everything but speak plainly. I encouraged them to speak more boldly and directly.
In our subsequent conversation, they said they had learned to not be bold or direct. They said that it wasn't right to speak out too loudly. They didn't want to stick out, or stand above others. They told me about the tall poppy syndrome, which I've come to understand as a kind of cultural suppression of creative self-expression.
The tall poppy syndrome is a topic that showed up in every one of my workshops in Australia, over the course of almost six years. It is a fire-walk that many have to take in order to break the hold of this socialization, their learned reticence to stand up, stick out, and speak brilliantly, powerfully, passionately, authentically!
What a tragedy! To own our innate right to express our voice and vision, to exercise our intrinsic right to fully express our own aliveness and beauty and genius and creativity and wildness as only we can, is not arrogant or self-centered, but natural.
I think of how natural it is for children throughout the world to exult in discovering their creative and expressive powers! Once we can make a sound, we start gurgling, humming, singing, crying, wailing — wow, look, we can make sounds! Once we can crawl, and then walk and skip, you can't keep us penned in! And then, we can draw! We can create with color, with pencils, pens, crayons, paint — on everything!
And then, to the dismay of all grown-ups, we realize we can make music by banging with this on that! The poet Derek Walcott surely wrote this line for children, and anyone, in the throes of discovery: Feast on your life!
Expressing our self in uniquely creative ways is natural. It is the feast prepared for us at the moment we were created. And it is also natural to want to be appreciated and recognized for our creative expressions, for they represent our very essence of being! Look at the gleam and glow of any child as they rush to show a parent or teacher their picture — all excitement, joy, and pride!
The only — I repeat, the only — appropriate response is overwhelming appreciation and encouragement. If we in any way ignore, disparage, or dismiss their work, we do the same to them, we will have hurt and wounded, perhaps fatally, their self-image and self-esteem, their enthusiasm and joy, their confidence and courage.
Since I have always been interested in the transformative power and inspirational potential of public speaking, I began to extrapolate this tendency to underachieve.
If people were guarding against authentic self-expression and self-censoring heartfelt sentiments, if people were aiming for the lowest common denominator, if people were afraid to be vulnerable and transparent, to connect intimately with others… what happens to people's soul? How would this cultural leveling mechanism restrict and repress a person's urge to rise above mediocrity?
What happens when you begin to speak in unauthorized, powerful, poetic, passionate ways? What happens when your speaking sets you apart, because you are clear, confident, compelling? What happens when you begin to speak the unspeakable, which rocks the status quo, or which gives shape and texture to new possibilities, new freedoms, new solutions?
What happens when you speak dreams and visions from other levels of consciousness, from other dimensions of being? What happens if you question a public official's rhetoric?… Hey, that's enough!
Stop right there! Who do you think you are to say such things? You have gone far enough. Now be quiet, mister, or you are going to find yourself in a world of trouble.
In a Sydney workshop, one woman told of standing in front of her class, I guess she was about seven years old, to show her picture. Everyone had been told to draw snowflakes. This woman proudly showed a picture of multi-colored snowflakes, not a single one was white! How original! How imaginative! How colorful!
In the midst of this public shaming, this poor little girl just then and there decided for all time: I am not good enough. I can not draw. I am stupid. I will never again dream, imagine, or do anything different.
These self-limiting decisions in the face of life events are the beginning of what I call diminished capacity, which is the major, if not singular, cause underlying our inability to lead truly authentic, happy, creative lives of intimacy and originality.
Once we shut down and close off, we are cut off from the very life-force we need to be whole, to be powerful, to be passionate, to be productive, to be successful in whatever way we want.
The tall poppy syndrome, especially as it pertains to speaking, is not proprietary to Australia. It is universal. Every society and each culture has sought to regulate speaking with bribes and intimidation. The antidote? Confidence.
Confidence is a choice to accept, own, and fully use our intrinsic, inborn, factory-installed right to fully express ourselves in whatever way we want, any time, any place, no matter what. We all have to learn to speak our truth from the depths of our being, heart to heart and eye to eye. We all have to transform diminished capacity into ferocious and fearless speaking and truth-telling.
This is where and how we connect with our life-force, how we inspire ourselves to dream big dreams, to take on unimaginable projects, to bring forth fire, and to learn to love the Earth. This is how we fulfill the promise of our life, how we share our true heart, and seed the world with soul-seeds of beauty.


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Q: Tracking Duplicates Based Specific Criteria In a Pandas DataFrame Task
I would like to track duplicate rows based on the item column. I would also like to add a column that states if it is repeated repeated ?.I've used the duplicate function but it just returns true or false, I would like to return the entire column where the condition is met. ps5 is the targeted item that repeats in the item list.
item   price   serial        repeated ?
----   ----     ----          ----
ps5    499     p413          True

ps5    399     p412          True

xsx    499     x720          False

xss    299     x360          False

Expected Result
ps5    499     p413     True

ps5    399     p412     True

A: tmp = pd.DataFrame([[1,2,3],[2,3,1],[3,2,4], [1,2,3]], columns=['a','b','c'])
repeated = tmp.duplicated('b', keep=False)
tmp[repeated]

https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.DataFrame.duplicated.html

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NIOSH made a cohort mortality study of chemical laboratory workers at Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear plants.
Many laboratory workers are often exposed to toxic chemicals and ionizing radiation. Some studies have found the likelihood of dying of certain cancers is higher among lab workers.
In this study, we examined the different causes of death in chemical lab workers who worked at certain Department of Energy facilities.
What workers did we include?
We included 6,157 men and women chemical lab workers in this study.
These workers worked for at least one day between January 1, 1943 and December 31, 1998, at one of four DOE facilities.
We used work records to identify chemical lab workers. Using death certificates, we then identified workers who had died, and the causes of death. We determined the number of workers that died from each cause of death and compared each to the number of deaths that would be expected in the U.S. general population. We also compared workers to other workers in the study. We did not compare workers to other chemical lab workers outside of these facilities.
We were most interested in studying chemical exposures in these workers, but little information existed. Instead, we examined the amount of time each worker was employed as a chemical laboratory worker.
The overall death rate among these workers was lower than that of the general population. This may be because working people tend to be healthier than the general population.
The overall cancer death rate among these workers was also lower than that of the general population. This may also be because working people tend to be healthier than the general population.
Deaths from multiple myeloma (a cancer of the blood) were higher among women chemical lab workers at these facilities compared to women in the general population.
Compared to the general population, workers were less likely to die of leukemia (a cancer of the blood). We also compared workers to other workers in the study, based on length of employment. In doing so, we found the likelihood of dying of leukemia went up slightly the longer workers were employed at these facilities.
Compared to the general population, workers were less likely to die of lung cancer. We also compared workers to other workers in the study, based on length of employment. In doing so, we found the likelihood of dying of lung cancer went up slightly the longer workers were employed at these facilities.
Internal exposures to ionizing radiation (radiation that is inhaled, ingested, or absorbed through the skin) did not seem to increase the likelihood of dying of lung cancer in these workers.
Please note that our study looked at chemical laboratory workers as a group, and therefore cannot predict the future health of any one person.
We were not able to look at actual chemical exposures to workers.
Though we found multiple myeloma deaths were higher in women chemical lab workers, this was based on a small number of deaths.
Smoking information was not available for each worker. This made it difficult to interpret results about smoking-related cancers, especially lung cancer.
Workers in the study were mainly Caucasian, making it difficult to examine effects on workers of other ethnic backgrounds.
Cancer occurs when cells in parts of the body begin to grow out of control. Normal cells divide and grow, but cancer cells do this much faster.
Leukemia is a type of cancer. The cancer starts in blood-forming tissue such as bone marrow and causes large numbers of abnormal blood cells to be produced. The cancer cells interfere with the body's production of healthy cells, making the body unable to fight off infections. There are many different types of leukemia. Each type is different depending on what blood-forming cells become cancerous and how quickly the cancer progresses.
Lung cancer is a type of cancer that starts in the lungs. Most lung cancers start in the bronchi, but can also start in other parts of the lungs. Often, lung cancer takes years to develop. There are two main types of lung cancer: small cell and non-small cell cancer.
Multiple myeloma is a type of cancer that affects the plasma cells in blood. Plasma cells work to protect the body from infection by making proteins called antibodies, which attack and help kill germs. When plasma cells grow out of control they can form a tumor, usually in bone marrow. This type of tumor is called a myeloma. If there are many of them, they are called multiple myeloma.
To learn how to file a claim, contact DOL at 866-888-3322. Workers from Oak Ridge can also contact Oak Ridge DOL Resource Center by calling 865-481-0411 or toll-free 866-481-0411. Workers from Savannah River can also contact Savannah River DOL Resource Center by calling 803-279-2728 or toll-free 866-666-4606.


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Nancy Davolio Sales Representative Ms. 12/08/1968 05/01/2012 507 - 20th Ave. E. Apt. 2A Seattle WA 98122 USA (206) 555-9857 5467 Education includes a BA in psychology from Colorado State University in 1970. She also completed "The Art of the Cold Call." Nancy is a member of Toastmasters International.
Andrew Fuller Vice President, Sales Dr. 02/19/1972 08/14/2012 908 W. Capital Way Tacoma WA 98401 USA (206) 555-9482 3457 Andrew received his BTS commercial in 1974 and a Ph.D. in international marketing from the University of Dallas in 1981. He is fluent in French and Italian and reads German. He joined the company as a sales representative, was promoted to sales manager in January 1992 and to vice president of sales in March 1993. Andrew is a member of the Sales Management Roundtable, the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, and the Pacific Rim Importers Association.
Janet Leverling Sales Representative Ms. 08/30/1983 04/01/2012 722 Moss Bay Blvd. Kirkland WA 98033 USA (206) 555-3412 3355 Janet has a BS degree in chemistry from Boston College (1984). She has also completed a certificate program in food retailing management. Janet was hired as a sales associate in 1991 and promoted to sales representative in February 1992.
Margaret Peacock Sales Representative Mrs. 09/19/1957 05/03/2013 4110 Old Redmond Rd. Redmond WA 98052 USA (206) 555-8122 5176 Margaret holds a BA in English literature from Concordia College (1958) and an MA from the American Institute of Culinary Arts (1966). She was assigned to the London office temporarily from July through November 1992.
Steven Buchanan Sales Manager Mr. 03/04/1975 10/17/2013 14 Garrett Hill London SW1 8JR UK (71) 555-4848 3453 Steven Buchanan graduated from St. Andrews University, Scotland, with a BSC degree in 1976. Upon joining the company as a sales representative in 1992, he spent 6 months in an orientation program at the Seattle office and then returned to his permanent post in London. He was promoted to sales manager in March 1993. Mr. Buchanan has completed the courses "Successful Telemarketing" and "International Sales Management." He is fluent in French.
Michael Suyama Sales Representative Mr. 07/02/1983 10/17/2013 Coventry House Miner Rd. London EC2 7JR UK (71) 555-7773 428 Michael is a graduate of Sussex University (MA, economics, 1983) and the University of California at Los Angeles (MBA, marketing, 1986). He has also taken the courses "Multi-Cultural Selling" and "Time Management for the Sales Professional." He is fluent in Japanese and can read and write French, Portuguese, and Spanish.
King Robert Sales Representative Mr. 07/02/1983 10/17/2013 Edgeham Hollow Winchester Way London RG1 9SP UK (71) 555-7773 428 Robert King served in the Peace Corps and traveled extensively before completing his degree in English at the University of Michigan in 1992, the year he joined the company. After completing a course entitled "Selling in Europe," he was transferred to the London office in March 1993.
Laura Callahan Inside Sales Coordinator Ms. 01/09/1978 03/05/2014 4726 - 11th Ave. N.E. Seattle WA 98105 USA (206) 555-1189 2344 Laura received a BA in psychology from the University of Washington. She has also completed a course in business French. She reads and writes French.
Anne Dodsworth Sales Representative Ms. 01/27/1986 11/15/2014 7 Houndstooth Rd. London WG2 7LT UK (71) 555-4444 452 Anne has a BA degree in English from St. Lawrence College. She is fluent in French and German.
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Map of the Indian Tribes of North America about 1600 A.D. along the Atlantic; & About 1800 A.D. westwardly.
American Antiquarian Society, 1836. Map. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Image measures 15" x 16.25". Page measures 16.75" x 17". This beautiful map shows the locations of Native American tribes throughout the United States in Canada. Areas are color-coded by tribe and include Eskimo, Athapascas, Algonquin-Lenape, Iroquois, Cherokees, Creek, Choctaw, Sioux, Black Feet, and Pawnee. However, this harmonious appearance obscures a much more troubled history. Distinguishing between 1600 in the east and 1800 in the west, the map speaks to..... More
All Roads Are Good; Native Voices on Life and Culture
Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. Color and b/w Illus. Square 8vo, pr. wrs. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, (1994). vg.	More
AMSDEN, Charles Avery.
Navaho Weaving; Its Technic and History.
Glorieta: Rio Grande Press, 1969. many illus., Frontis. in color and folding. 8vo, green boards, boards soiled. (Glorieta: Rio Grande Press, 1969.	More
ANDRIST, Ralph K.
The Long Death; The Last Days of the Plains Indians
New York: Macmillan, 1966. Illus. 8vo, red cloth, spine sunned. New York: Macmillan, (1966). Very good.	More
New York: Macmillan, 1964. Illus. 8vo, red cloth, d.w. torn, chipped and lightly soiled, corners of cloth lightly bumped, cloth lightly soiled. New York: Macmillan, (1964).	More
ANTON, Ferdinand & DOCKSTADER, Frederick.
Pre-Columbian Art and Later Indian Arts.
New York: Abrams, 1968. Illustrated with 277 plates, including 148 in color; 5 maps. 264 pages. Square 8vo, cloth, d.w. New York: Abrams, (1968). A fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper. Panorama of World Art series.	More
ARDEN, Harvey and Arden, Steve
Wisdomkeepers; Meetings with Native American Spiritual Elders
Hillsboro: Beyond Words, 1990. Many Color Illus. 4to, 1/2 black cloth, d.w. (Hillsboro): Beyond Words, (1990). Fine.	More
ASTROV, Margot, ed.
The Winged Serpent; An Anthology of American Indian Prose and Poetry
New York: John Day, 1946. 12mo, red cloth, d.w., small area of lightly soiling to top of back cover. New York: John Day, (1946). Very good.	More
AVERY, Susan and SKINNER, Linda
Extraordinary American Indians
Chicago: Childrens Press, 1992. Illus. Square 4to, pr. wrs. Chicago: Childrens Place, 1992. Juvenile Edition. Near Fine.	More
AXTELL, James
The Invasion Within; The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America
New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Illus. 8vo, tan cloth, d.w. lightly soiled, pencil marks in margins of a few pages. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.	More
BABCOCK, Barbara A., et al.
The Pueblo Storyteller; Development of a Figurative Ceramic Tradition
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1988. Many Illus., some in color. 4to, black cloth, d.w., corners of cloth lightly bumped, cloth lightly soiled. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1988).	More
BAHTI, Tom
Southwestern Indian Tribes
Flagstaff: KC Publications, 1968. Many color and b/w Illus. 72pp. 4to, pr. wrs. Flagstaff: KC Publications, 1968. vg.	More
BAIRD, W. David
The Chickasaw People
Phoenix: Indian Tribal Series, 1974. Illus., a few in color. 104pp. 8vo, pr. wrs. Phoenix: Indian Tribal Series, (1974). Fine Signed by Overton James, Governor of the Chickasaw Nation.	More
BARNARD, Sandy
Digging Into Custer's Last Stand
Terre Haute: AST Press, 1998. Illus. 8vo, tan cloth, d.w. creased on front flap. (Terre Haute: AST Press, 1998). Very good.	More
BARNETT, Louise.
Touched by Fire; The Life, Death, and Mythic Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer.
New York: Henry Holt, 1996. Illus. 540pp. 8vo, 1/2 black cloth, d.w. New York: Henry Holt, (1996). Very good.	More
(BARROWS, William).
The General; or, Twelve Nights in the Hunter's Camp. A Narrative of Real Life
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1869. Illus. 12mo, original yellow decorated cloth, cloth lightly soiled, corners bumped, front endpaper and front flyleaf lightly soiled, lacks top of front flyleaf. Boston: Lee and Shepard, (1869). First Edition Author writes of the experiences of his brother, General Willard Barrows, in Iowa and on the Great Plains. Includes conflicts with American Indians. Howes B-188. Graff 196.	More
BARTRAM, William.
Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida
Savannah: Beehive Press, 1973. Map of Florida, plates. Thick 8vo, 1/2 green cloth, d.w. chipped and lightly soiled. Savannah: Beehive Press, (1973). A facsimile of the 1792 London edition embellished with its nine original plates with seventeen additional illustrations.	More
(BAYNTON, Benjamin).
Authentic Memoirs of William Augustus Bowles, Esquire, Ambassador From the United Nations of Creeks and Cherokees.
New York: Arno Press, 1971. To the Court of London. vi, 79pp. 8vo, rebound in full tan polished calf, calf very lightly soiled. (New York: Arno Press, 1971). Very good Facsimile of the London, 1791 edition.	More
BEAUCHAMP, W. M.
Indians Names in New York, with a Selection from Other States, and some Onondaga Names of Plants, Etc.
Fayetteville: H. C. Beauchamp, 1893. 148pp. 8vo, original blue boards, spine rebacked in black cloth, small area of wear to bottom edge of back board, boards lightly soiled. Fayetteville, N.Y.: H. C. Beauchamp, 1893. First Edition.	More
BEAUCHAMP, William M.
5 books bound in one volume on the Indians of New York State
Albany: University of the State of New York, 1897. Many plates. 2 books, each with a folding map. 5 volumes in one. 4to, later black buckram with leather label, rubbed, original wrappers bound in and lightly soiled. Albany: University of the State of New York, 1897, 1898, 1900, 1901. First Editions. Very good Each title is inscribed by Beauchamp on the front wrapper. Individual titles are: 1. Aboriginal Chipped Stone Implements of New York. 2. Polished Stone Articles used by..... More
Aboriginal Place Names of New York.
Albany: New York State Education Department, 1907. 333pp. + 8pp. of publisher's ads. 8vo, rebound in later black cloth with original wrappers bound in, a few pencil marks in margins. Albany: New York State Education Department, 1907. First Edition. Very good. New York State Museum Bulletin 108. Cole 318.	More
BLAEU, Willem Jansz.
Nova Virginiae Tabula
Amsterdam: Willem Blaeu, 1647. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 14.75" x 18 7/8". Rare and early 1647 map of the Chesapeake Bay and the Virginia Colony by Willem Blaeu. Oriented with north to the right, the map shows the Chesapeake Bay in its entirety and extends from Cape Henry to the Susquehanna River. This map was originally a derivation of the map by John Smith from 1612. Settlements are marked with a house and the parameters of..... More
BRENNAN, Louis A.
American Dawn; A New Model of American Prehistory.
New York: Macmillan, 1970. Illus. 8vo, purple cloth, spine cocked, d.w. chipped. (New York): Macmillan, (1970).	More
BRINE, Lindesay
Travels Amongst American Indians, Their Ancient Earthworks and Temples; Including a Journey in Guatemala, Mexico and Yucatan,
London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1894. and a Visit to the Ruins of Patinamit, Utatlan, Palenque and Uxmal. Illus., 9 maps, 2 folding. 429pp. 8vo, original blue cloth, page margins uncut, cloth soiled, lightly worn in middle of spine and repaired on spine ends, corners bumped. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1894. First Edition.	More
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... though, as it turned out, we never really went away. The 'vacation' proved an ideal opportunity for the Elucubrator to sing the praises of his new toy - ahem, tool. Welcome to many new readers who got on board during the hiatus. Hopefully everyone had a relaxing and enjoyable Christmas break.
The single day of Parliament in December resulted in some modest changes, with three new bills introduced. We'll talk about these, as well as some improvements to the parliament's website, in our first Legislation Watch for the year on Thursday.
On January 11th the new Attorney-General announced that retired Supreme Court judge Frank Vincent will conduct an inquiry into recent happenings at the Office of Public Prosecutions. The focus seems to be on the appointment of Diana Karamicov as an Associate Crown Prosecutor and various reaction to it, rather than a broader analysis of the Office's role and functions. The terms of reference ask Mr Vincent to conduct his inquiry, 'in light of claims that have been made in recent months' without actually saying what they are. There is some reportage of the story here and here.
Less media attention was paid to Victoria Legal Aid's decision not to proceed with the controversial whole of job fee structure it proposed last year. We discussed it here and here, and strong feelings were evident. VLA hasn't been very forthcoming about why the concept was scrapped. There's nothing I could find on their website, but the Law Institute obviously had the inside word when making an announcement confidently on their website.
Finally, the cases of Kypri, Piscopo, Rukandin and Serbest went before the Court of Appeal for directions hearing on 19th January. Each of the separate DPP appeals relates to the validity or invalidity of a police demand for a driver suspected of drink-driving to go to a police station for a breath test. The Kypri case was discussed here. Kyrou J's judgments in Piscopo and Rukandin were discussed here in November.
The appeals won't go ahead until at least June, leaving the situation with at least 800 other cases unclear until then.
Welcome back. What is Serbest about?
Has the court granted leave to appeal in the Kypri & Rukandin case?
Serbest is another case about the correct wording of a police requirement to a suspected drink-driver. It has not yet had a hearing in the Supreme Court, so the OPP's application to join it with other cases going to the Court of Appeal seems unorthodox and doomed to fail.
The grant of appeal in Kypri is posted here.


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PPTP: Point to Point Tunnelling Protocol is the most common type of protocol and is also one of the oldest. It is fast to set up and easy to use but offers only minimal level of security.
L2TP: The encryption level in Layer to Tunnel Protocol is similar to PPTP but is more secure for the users. Most of OS and devices have built-in interfaces for this protocol and so, it becomes very easy to use.
OpenVPN: This relatively new protocol is also commonly referred to as the SS Layer (SSL) and is the most popular browser-based protocol.
There are other protocols but these three are the ones you need to look for in the feature list of the VPN service provider. What you choose is dependent on your requirements. If you are looking for just browsing privacy, any protocol will do but if you are looking to do more with the VPN, like downloads, remote access, bypass, etc, you'll need an OpenVPN or L2TP connection.
The idea with getting a VPN is to have a secure connectivity, especially through the internet, right? So, you'll need to make sure that your VPN gives you multi-OS and multi-device connectivity option. There is nothing more irritating to find out that you cannot connect to an open WiFi with your mobile device with your existing VPN. Get a VPN that allows automatic compatibility to iOS, Android, Windows (or any other OS you use).
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Obama Gives Former Food Lobbyist Michael Taylor a Second Chance at the FDA
By Melanie Warner
Updated on: January 15, 2010 / 4:52 PM / MoneyWatch
With big changes to the nation's food safety system looming in 2010, the FDA made a strange move earlier this week when it appointed former Monsanto lobbyist Michael Taylor to lead the agency's fight against contaminated peanut butter and lethal lettuce. Taylor was named to the new post of deputy commissioner for food.
Taylor, who has circled three times between government and industry, isn't the sort of person you'd expect to see issuing orders in the Obama FDA. The last time he was at the FDA, the agency created several policies on genetically modified foods that no one would ever call consumer-friendly. (Which is perhaps why the FDA staffer who wrote Taylor's bio seems to have all-but-forgotten his decade-plus of Monsanto work.)
Is this time around going to be different? Real and substantial changes to food safety aren't going to happen without ruffling a few feathers in the food industry. Is Taylor the guy to stand firm in the face of the inevitable lobbying assault? You hope so, but there isn't much in his record to suggest it.
There's little doubt that Taylor is an expert in both food safety and food regulation. Even his critics will grant that. He once ran the USDA's food safety program and has spent years studying the issue. Taylor says he is ready to get tough on food safety and that 2010 will be a "groundbreaking year."
But here's where that claim runs up against the past. While Taylor was the FDA's policy chief in the early 1990s, the agency approved genetically modified crops and bovine growth hormone for cows, new technologies that both benefited Monsanto enormously. And FDA rules stated that both GM foods and bovine growth hormone would not need labeling to let consumers know when it was appearing in their food.
But that's not all. As a lobbyist, Taylor argued against the Delaney Clause, one of the foundations of food safety regulation that prohibits cancer-causing chemicals to be added to food. Even some of Taylor's food safety achievements don't look so great. HACCP, a safety system he championed while at the USDA, is essentially a program in which the industry gets to regulate itself.
It's true that Taylor has been out over the last few months promoting a plan to ban Gulf Coast oysters that are not treated with antimicrobial technology. But taking on the mostly small, unorganized oyster community isn't exactly standing up to Cargill or Tyson Foods. And Taylor didn't stand up to the small guys for very long anyway.
The FDA desperately needs someone who will address the systemic issues in our food production system that cause people to become horribly ill from merely eating their lunch. Think overproduction, overly crowded animal feeding operations and very little traceability. But is Taylor going to create real change or simply champion band aid approaches (irradiation, ammonia treatments) on a broken system? Anyone who cares about eating safe food should stay tuned.
First published on January 15, 2010 / 4:52 PM


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Musician Serves Veterans Through Weekly Guitar Lessons
Daily Point of Light # 7093 Aug 6, 2021 By Morganne Mallon
James Leitch, back row, third from right, meets with his guitar class for veterans in January 2020./Courtesy James Leitch
Meet Daily Point of Light Award honoree James Leitch. Read his story and nominate an outstanding volunteer or family as a Point of Light.
James Leitch has been a passionate guitar player for the past 25 years. When his own guitar teacher posted about a need for a music teacher for Loch Raven VA Outpatient Clinic's music program for veterans, he thought this would be a great opportunity to use his passion for service.
Each Wednesday, James teaches guitar and music theory to a class of veterans. While the classes were initially at the clinic, which is in Baltimore, MD., the pandemic caused the instruction to go virtual. Loch Raven even provides guitars, replacement strings and other equipment to veterans who need help obtaining them.
Describe your volunteer role with teaching veterans at Loch Raven VA Outpatient Clinic.
I teach guitar. My role is that I provide them with instruction on how to play, give them diagrams and homework to help them progress, show them songs they would like to learn and give them a little bit of instruction in music theory so they understand what they're doing.
What inspired you to start this?
I first got involved in January 2020. My guitar teacher at CCBC [Community College of Baltimore County] had been posting about his experience teaching a guitar class, and he had to move on because he had other obligations, so he asked if anybody was interested in taking over. I though it sounded like a great opportunity. I enjoy teaching and especially teaching guitar, and these are people who have a need that I can fulfill.
Since January 2020, James Leitch has served veterans through guitar lessons via the Loch Raven VA Outpatient Clinic in Baltimore, MD./Courtesy James Leitch
How do these music lessons help the veterans?
Music is therapeutic. Having something to distract you or to focus on can be really beneficial to people who have PTSD and other sorts of trauma related to war. I think it's important for everybody to have an outlet for expression and something for their creative side. We don't always get that. Guitar is safe because even though it's hard, it's a skill you can learn and the guitar does the work. People have a lot of problems learning to do things like sing or play some of the orchestral instruments and things like that, but when it comes to guitar, people have an impression that it's a little more accessible.
Why is music something you would want to share in this way?
It's a source of achievement. It's a source of diversion. It's a source of expression. It can help you to get feelings and thoughts and emotions out that you might not have another vehicle to get them out, and they need to get out.
What kind of feedback have you received from your students?
The students seem to be very happy. They're coming along playing little tunes here and there, and it's a really great feeling to see it click for somebody. They struggle with something a little bit for maybe a couple weeks, and then all of a sudden it just falls into place and makes sense and they are very excited. I try to be as supportive as I can. I get calls at weird random hours from some of my students sometimes saying, "Hey, I don't know if I really understand this thing you want me to do," and I like to help them with that. I think they really enjoy it.
What's been the most rewarding part of your work?
Definitely meeting and hanging out with people and developing some friendships and relationships and camaraderie. Some people really take to the guitar and some people really struggle. They're almost there for something else, and that camaraderie is really exceptional and I think it keeps people coming back.
Why do you think it's important for others to give back?
It's a rough world out there and we don't all have what we need. Many of us have a surplus in one area that other people will benefit from if we share. I think that's really important for people to do. When you have something you can give people, I think you should.
What do you want people to learn from your story?
Volunteering is great fun and it is work. It's rewarding because you feel good about yourself, but more importantly you develop relationships with people. The relationships with people are what get you by, and are the most important things that we have, honestly. I think that's what people should seek out. There's a function to volunteering — people need this thing, you have the thing, bring them the thing, help them with the thing. But ultimately that's just a vehicle for developing relationships, and developing those relationships is what's crucial.
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Love, Gilda is pretty much what one would expect from a modern day documentary about Gilda Radner.
The feature-length debut of Lisa Dapolito utilizes the usual combination of archival footage, photos and talking head interviews with the late comedienne's family and close friends, crafting an informative and engaging profile in the process.
Elevating this tried-and-true approach is the recruitment of SNL alums (Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Bill Hader, Cecily Strong) and notable hosts (Melissa McCarthy) significantly influenced by Radner to read from her hand-written diaries, a choice that yields frequent awe and delights from these honored participants.
While the film — like many of its contemporaries — could do with additional inspired decisions in this vein, it nonetheless accomplishes its goals and pays thorough homage to one of the all-time greats who made a sizable impact before departing this world all too soon.