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Kountry Kitchen Soul Food Place delivers meals, toys and hope on Christmas morning
The 11th annual Christmas Dinner Giveaway saw volunteers provide thousands of meals and toys to the city of Indianapolis.
Kountry Kitchen Soul Food Place delivers meals, toys and hope on Christmas morning The 11th annual Christmas Dinner Giveaway saw volunteers provide thousands of meals and toys to the city of Indianapolis. Check out this story on IndyStar.com: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/indianapolis/2019/12/25/kountry-kitchen-delivers-meals-toys-and-hope-christmas-morning/2745744001/
Justin L. Mack, Indianapolis Star Published 12:34 p.m. ET Dec. 25, 2019 | Updated 2:55 p.m. ET Dec. 25, 2019
The formal title may be the "Christmas Dinner Giveaway," but the annual holiday event at Kountry Kitchen Soul Food Place has long transcended the hot, free meals they serve up by the hundreds every Christmas morning.
Over the past 11 years, it has become a place where those in need of a warm meal are just as likely to receive a warm embrace. A place where volunteers who have powered the event since day one welcome first-timers looking to carry on tradition like family.
A place that takes all of the things that make Indianapolis special, and packs them into a beloved soul food restaurant at the corner of East 19th Street and College Avenue.
"I have seen a lot of downs (this past year) but this always lifts me up," said Andrew Jarrett, an Indianapolis native who was in line about 30 minutes before the doors opened.
Kountry Kitchen's volunteers band together on Christmas
Eric Durrett (left), Mayor Joe Hogsett, his wife Steph Hogsett, and Charles Peterson, all volunteers, dredge chicken with flour and spices before going into the fryers at Kountry Kitchen Soul Food Place, Indianapolis, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019. At least two thousand fried chicken dinners will be distributed to area people in need for the Christmas Holiday. A number of area vendors, businesses, and non-profits helped provide toys, baked goods, and volunteers for the effort. Robert Scheer
Lorilane Orr (left), who will get a carry-out meal and other items, gives her name to Tereise Woods, who is volunteering at Kountry Kitchen Soul Food Place, Indianapolis, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019. At least two thousand fried chicken dinners will be distributed to area people in need for the Christmas Holiday. A number of area vendors, businesses, and non-profits helped provide toys, baked goods, and volunteers for the effort. Robert Scheer
Adrian Murray waits to pick up some toys for a child along with hot meals at Kountry Kitchen Soul Food Place, Indianapolis, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019. At least two thousand fried chicken dinners will be distributed to area people in need for the Christmas Holiday. A number of area vendors, businesses, and non-profits helped provide toys, baked goods, and volunteers for the effort. Robert Scheer
Volunteer April Garrett, Indianapolis, brings hot fried chicken out to waiting folks at Kountry Kitchen Soul Food Place, Indianapolis, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019. At least two thousand fried chicken dinners will be distributed to area people in need for the Christmas Holiday. A number of area vendors, businesses, and non-profits helped provide toys, baked goods, and volunteers for the effort. Robert Scheer
Annie Caruso waits for fried chicken to come out of the kitchen as she volunteers at Kountry Kitchen Soul Food Place, Indianapolis, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019. At least two thousand fried chicken dinners will be distributed to area people in need for the Christmas Holiday. A number of area vendors, businesses, and non-profits helped provide toys, baked goods, and volunteers for the effort. Robert Scheer
Keagen Ferguson, Indianapolis, who has been volunteering for several years, gets a bag of toys together for a family in need at Kountry Kitchen Soul Food Place, Indianapolis, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019. At least two thousand fried chicken dinners will be distributed to area people in need for the Christmas Holiday. A number of area vendors, businesses, and non-profits helped provide toys, baked goods, and volunteers for the effort. Robert Scheer
The cluster of volunteers waiting to bag up dinners for folks in need, at Kountry Kitchen Soul Food Place, Indianapolis, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019. At least two thousand fried chicken dinners will be distributed to area people in need for the Christmas Holiday. A number of area vendors, businesses, and non-profits helped provide toys, baked goods, and volunteers for the effort. Robert Scheer
Mayor Joe Hogsett gets a hair net applied by employee Rachel Ross, as he works with about 150 other volunteers at Kountry Kitchen Soul Food Place, Indianapolis, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019. At least two thousand fried chicken dinners will be distributed to area people in need for the Christmas Holiday. A number of area vendors, businesses, and non-profits helped provide toys, baked goods, and volunteers for the effort. Robert Scheer
Justyce Chenault, 2, is waiting for her mother, a volunteer, to get items they'll deliver to people in need, at Kountry Kitchen Soul Food Place, Indianapolis, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019. At least two thousand fried chicken dinners will be distributed to area people in need for the Christmas Holiday. A number of area vendors, businesses, and non-profits helped provide toys, baked goods, and volunteers for the effort. Robert Scheer
Volunteer Regina Marsh (left) helps coordinate the front end delivery drivers at Kountry Kitchen Soul Food Place, Indianapolis, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019. At least two thousand fried chicken dinners will be distributed to area people in need for the Christmas Holiday. A number of area vendors, businesses, and non-profits helped provide toys, baked goods, and volunteers for the effort. Robert Scheer
Mayor Joe Hogsett gives out hugs as he comes to put in some time working in the kitchen with his wife Steph Hogsett, at Kountry Kitchen Soul Food Place, Indianapolis, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019. At least two thousand fried chicken dinners will be distributed to area people in need for the Christmas Holiday. A number of area vendors, businesses, and non-profits helped provide toys, baked goods, and volunteers for the effort. Robert Scheer
The final assembly line of volunteers waiting to help out folks with free meals and other items at Kountry Kitchen Soul Food Place, Indianapolis, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019. At least two thousand fried chicken dinners will be distributed to area people in need for the Christmas Holiday. A number of area vendors, businesses, and non-profits helped provide toys, baked goods, and volunteers for the effort. Robert Scheer
Tim Jackson (right), 14, who has worked with homeless kids in the past, volunteers at Kountry Kitchen Soul Food Place, Indianapolis, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019. At least two thousand fried chicken dinners will be distributed to area people in need for the Christmas Holiday. A number of area vendors, businesses, and non-profits helped provide toys, baked goods, and volunteers for the effort. Robert Scheer
Rachel Ross (left), an employee, waits for the slow link of fried chicken to be ready for folks waiting at Kountry Kitchen Soul Food Place, Indianapolis, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019. At least two thousand fried chicken dinners will be distributed to area people in need for the Christmas Holiday. A number of area vendors, businesses, and non-profits helped provide toys, baked goods, and volunteers for the effort. Robert Scheer
Garrett Holland (right), waits to pick up about 30 meals that he'll deliver to folks in need, at Kountry Kitchen Soul Food Place, Indianapolis, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019. At least two thousand fried chicken dinners will be distributed to area people in need for the Christmas Holiday. A number of area vendors, businesses, and non-profits helped provide toys, baked goods, and volunteers for the effort. Robert Scheer
Dawn Jones, Avon, a first year volunteer, waits for friend chicken to come out of the fryer at Kountry Kitchen Soul Food Place, Indianapolis, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019. At least two thousand fried chicken dinners will be distributed to area people in need for the Christmas Holiday. A number of area vendors, businesses, and non-profits helped provide toys, baked goods, and volunteers for the effort. Robert Scheer
Fried chicken, right out of the fryer, at Kountry Kitchen Soul Food Place, Indianapolis, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019. At least two thousand fried chicken dinners will be distributed to area people in need for the Christmas Holiday. A number of area vendors, businesses, and non-profits helped provide toys, baked goods, and volunteers for the effort. Robert Scheer
Kristy Haugher, a volunteer, works a food line at Kountry Kitchen Soul Food Place, Indianapolis, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019. At least two thousand fried chicken dinners will be distributed to area people in need for the Christmas Holiday. A number of area vendors, businesses, and non-profits helped provide toys, baked goods, and volunteers for the effort. Robert Scheer
Volunteer Regina Marsh helps coordinate the front end delivery drivers at Kountry Kitchen Soul Food Place, Indianapolis, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019. At least two thousand fried chicken dinners will be distributed to area people in need for the Christmas Holiday. A number of area vendors, businesses, and non-profits helped provide toys, baked goods, and volunteers for the effort. Robert Scheer
Lauren Neely (left), Blake Neely, 17, Paige Neely, and Julian Neely, 17, all siblings from Indianapolis, take a look at their list before they volunteer to distribute meals to area needy families at Kountry Kitchen Soul Food Place, Indianapolis, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019. At least two thousand fried chicken dinners will be distributed to area people in need for the Christmas Holiday. A number of area vendors, businesses, and non-profits helped provide toys, baked goods, and volunteers for the effort. Robert Scheer
A few of the dinners, ready for distribution for area needy families, at Kountry Kitchen Soul Food Place, Indianapolis, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019. At least two thousand fried chicken dinners will be distributed to area people in need for the Christmas Holiday. A number of area vendors, businesses, and non-profits helped provide toys, baked goods, and volunteers for the effort. Robert Scheer
An early line forms at Kountry Kitchen Soul Food Place, Indianapolis, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019. At least two thousand fried chicken dinners will be distributed to area people in need for the Christmas Holiday. A number of area vendors, businesses, and non-profits helped provide toys, baked goods, and volunteers for the effort. Robert Scheer
Hand dredged chicken, waiting to go into the fryer at Kountry Kitchen Soul Food Place, Indianapolis, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019. At least two thousand fried chicken dinners will be distributed to area people in need for the Christmas Holiday. A number of area vendors, businesses, and non-profits helped provide toys, baked goods, and volunteers for the effort. Robert Scheer
Cynthia Wilson, co-owner, smiles as she and others wait for fried chicken to come out of the fryer at Kountry Kitchen Soul Food Place, Indianapolis, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019. At least two thousand fried chicken dinners will be distributed to area people in need for the Christmas Holiday. A number of area vendors, businesses, and non-profits helped provide toys, baked goods, and volunteers for the effort. Robert Scheer
Mark Harris, Indianapolis, volunteers at Kountry Kitchen Soul Food Place, Indianapolis, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019. At least two thousand fried chicken dinners will be distributed to area people in need for the Christmas Holiday. A number of area vendors, businesses, and non-profits helped provide toys, baked goods, and volunteers for the effort. Robert Scheer
An early lineup at Kountry Kitchen Soul Food Place, Indianapolis, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019. At least two thousand fried chicken dinners will be distributed to area people in need for the Christmas Holiday. A number of area vendors, businesses, and non-profits helped provide toys, baked goods, and volunteers for the effort. Robert Scheer
"It's not always easy, but I know that there are people who care and people who are willing to step up when you need that push to keep grinding," he said. "I'm thankful for the push."
Dinners complete with fried chicken, mac & cheese, green beans, dinner rolls and dessert were being packaged, served and delivered from 9 a.m. Wednesday until supplies ran out. But the work of putting the event together started long in advance.
Event organizers said more than 100 volunteers help provide more than 2,000 meals to the community, and hand out more than 1,000 toys collected through local community donations in conjunction with Toys for Tots.
Two of those volunteers were Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett and his wife, Steph Hogsett, who made their way to the kitchen to dredge chicken after greeting people waiting in line.
Tons of volunteers working hard at Kountry Kitchen Soul Food Place in Indianapolis to pass out meals, toys and clothes. @IndyMayorJoe just arrived to greet those waiting and line and pitch-in to help. #MerryChrismaspic.twitter.com/t2U12ArlLN
— Justin L. Mack (@justinlmack) December 25, 2019
But the giving didn't stop at a meals and toys. Blankets and warm weather clothing items like gloves, scarves and socks were organized and distributed to anyone who needed them.
Cynthia Wright-Wilson and Issac Wilson, owners of the Kountry Kitchen, say the event carries on in recognition of the significant need that exists during the holiday season.
They believe that something as small as a holiday meal can provide not only a full belly, but hope to overcome the next obstacle.
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"And they are giving us that hope," Jarrett said. "They make a real difference here. I really hope they know that.
"Christmas wouldn't be the same without them."
DeAndre Payten, a first-time attendee, said seeing so many different people coming together for the common goal of making Christmas a little more merry was overwhelming.
"If you look at TV and the news, you start to think that everyone is a war," he said. "But look at this man ... this is proof of the love that still exists."
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Sir Hugh Low and his adventures in Malaysian Borneo
by Patricia Hului - September 19, 2018
Malaysian history textbooks gave credits to Sir Hugh Low as the first successful British administrator in Malayan states during the late 19th century.
He was the fourth Resident of Perak in 1877. It was reported that he left Perak with a credit balance of 1.5 million Straits Dollars by the end of his retirement in 1889.
Low's most acknowledged contribution to Malaysia was for introducing rubber plantations to the country.
He first planted the seeds in Kuala Kangsar in 1877 and subsequently created a model for rubber plantations in Malaya.
Before Low even arrived in Malaya, however, he first travelled Sarawak before making his way up to Sabah.
Hugh Low, a British Naturalist and Administrator. Credits: Public Domain.
Hugh Low and his accounts of Sarawak
Born in 1824 to a horticulturist father, Low started to show interest in botany at an early age while working at his family's nursery.
At the young age 20, his father sent him to Southeast Asia to collect plants. Low was based in Singapore first before he made friends with Sarawak's first White Rajah, James Brooke.
Brooke invited Low to Sarawak and together they travelled to the interior.
He spent about 30 months in Sarawak, long enough for him to pick up a little bit of conversational Malay.
He recorded his experience and published it in a book Sarawak, Its Inhabitants and Productions: Being Notes During a Residence in that Country with His Excellency Mr. Brooke in 1848.
The book not only provided the general survey of the kingdom, but also its natural resources and the indigenous peoples.
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He described the customs and traditions of Sarawak tribes he encountered during his stay. This included the Malays which he became acquainted with, Sea Dayaks, Land Dayaks, Melanau and Kayans.
Being a botanist, Low also detailed the significance of plants he collected during his adventure in his book.
Low's book was considered one of the first detailed accounts on Sarawak.
Hugh Low and his exploration in Sabah
After writing his book about Sarawak in England, Low made his return to the island of Borneo.
Again thanks to his friendship with the Rajah, he became Brooke's colonial secretary in Labuan.
This was when Brooke was appointed as the first governor of newly established British Colony, Labuan.
During his stay in Labuan, Low explored part of North Borneo. His notable exploration in the area is when he ascended to Mount Kinabalu, the highest peak in Southeast Asia.
Low made the first documented ascent of the mountain in March 1851. Then in 1858, he made another two ascents that year in April and July.
Although now the highest peak Low's Peak is named after him, the truth is he never reached the highest point of the mountain. He described the peak as "inaccessible to any but winged animals."
Nonetheless, a non-winged English explorer did actually reached the highest peak of the mountain. John Whitehead, a naturalist and zoologist made it to the top in 1888.
Hugh Low and a gully
Besides the highest peak of the mountain, the lowest point of the mountain was also named after the British administrator.
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Low was recorded as the first person who looked down into it in 1851. Low's Gully is a 1,800m deep gorge on the north side of Mount Kinabalu.
To this day, the gully is dubbed one of the least explored places on Earth.
More than 100 years after Low looked down into the ravine, Low's Gully made headlines across the world.
In March 1994, a British Army expedition of seven British and three inexperienced Hong Kong soldiers made a disastrous descent in to the gully.
Half of the party (two British and three Hong Kong soldiers) were trapped for 16 days before being rescued.
One British media reported the search and rescue as an embarrassing and expensive rescue operation.
Years later in 1998, a joint expedition by Malaysian and British team made the first successful complete descent of Low's Gully.
The highest and lowest points of this mountain was named after Hugh Low. Credits: Pixabay.
Hugh Low's Legacy
Besides Low's Peak and Gully, there were numerous species named after him thanks to his contribution.
He discovered Nepenthes lowii, a tropical pitcher plant endemic to Borneo during his ascent to Mount Kinabalu.
There are also five species of orchids, a treeshrew, a squirrel, a beetle and two butterflies named after him.
Low made home in this part of the globe and even raised a family in Labuan. After his wife Catherine Napier died of fever in 1851, he buried her at the Government House which was locally known as Bumbung 12.
Low designed Bumbung 12 (twelve roofs in Malay) with a long and low structure and planting trees around it.
Unfortunately the house was completely destroyed during World War II and the only thing left was its water storage tank.
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Today the site is one of the island's main attractions called the Labuan Botanical Garden.
Located behind Labuan's old airport, some of the oldest trees in the garden are believed to be planted by Low.
All of the graves in the area were relocated to different parts of Labuan except for one, a grave which belonged to a foxhound named Jim.
Although the grave of Low's wife was already relocated, urban legend has it her ghost was still roaming around in the area.
As for Low, he died on Apr 18, 1905 in Italy.
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Patricia Hului
Patricia Hului is a Kayan who wants to live in a world where you can eat whatever you want and not gain weight. She grew up in Bintulu, Sarawak and graduated from the University Malaysia Sabah with a degree in Marine Science. She worked for The Borneo Post SEEDS, which is now defunct. When she's not writing, you can find her in a studio taking belly dance classes, hiking up a hill or browsing through Pinterest. Follow her on Instagram at @patriciahului, Facebook at Patricia Hului at Kajomag.com or Twitter at @patriciahului.
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Being a port city Montreal has a long-standing tradition in prostitution including streetwalkers
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I've had to do some things at work lately that are out of my comfort zone—mainly talking on the phone to strangers, learn the legal lingo of permissions and rights and license agreements, and keep within a corporate budget. These are things my editors do on a daily basis—yet I've gotten by for thirteen months without having to worry about any of it.
All of it is turning out less scary than I thought, of course—Marcia from the largest news organization in the world (AP) asked me how the weather was in Minnesota in her Brooklyn accent and expressed sympathy at my report of morning snow. I heard music playing somewhere in the background—probably in her cubicle. I asked Ashley in Chicago a billion questions about licensing and exclusivity without tripping over my words as soon as she expressed disorientation due to it being a Friday afternoon. These people are normal! I thought. It's not like I'm being tried in court. If I don't know what the hell I'm doing, these people are the right people to ask—they're there for the asking.
Excellent. By the way, new things don't get much easier when one gets older, except there is a larger pool of experience from which to draw (sometimes) and one doesn't worry so much about what others will think/say (sometimes).


- Improved "Edit - Text" functions and Loading UI.
- Android OS version 4.4 or later is supported.
- Improved bluetooth connection error of PD221 early model.
you should download the update tool for PC from "www.lge.com" and update the firmware.
- Picture decoration functions are reinforced.
- Functions are added to decorate picture with various methods such as brush, sticker, etc.
- View design is changed.
-. bug fix on a 4:3 tablet.


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New Tech Is Fundamentally Changing the Power Balance Between Police and the Public
The NYC subway saboteur gazed into the surveillance state. What looked back?
Jack Denton
Police monitor security cameras at the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative on April 23rd, 2013, in New York City.
(Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
As New York slouched through the pre-Memorial Day workweek this year, a fissure appeared in the surveillance state.
Someone—a "supervillain," "Braking Bad," the "subway saboteur"—was yanking the emergency brakes on subway trains, disrupting many thousands of commutes. And, he'd been doing it continually for months—perhaps even years. Despite the MTA's awareness and chagrin, he remained free and relatively unimpeded from meddling with more trains.
Many of the responses to reports of the brake-puller were predictably hostile. But amid quasi-joking calls for his beheading and jokes about him being Governor Andrew Cuomo (who controls the struggling subway system and has overseen its decline in service), an undercurrent of sympathy and celebration of the mischief maker gurgled through New York's discourse streams. "WHY AM I ROOTING FOR THIS GUY??" an editor at The Nation wondered aloud. Across Twitter, the "supervillain" found stans, and was repeatedly called a hero.
Supporters sometimes explicitly characterized his actions—witting or not—as a protest against police surveillance. "Monkey-wrenching is an important part of anarchist praxis," one reporter wrote. "His manifesto:" another person tweeted, "tell NYPD hands off immigrant delivery workers," referring to the department's practice of stopping food-delivery workers and seizing their e-bikes. In the face of rapidly increasing police surveillance, people were finding delight in a regular person who had successfully bucked the machine, at least for a few months.
In some international cities, the average person is captured on camera an estimated 300 times a day, and most United States cities are not far behind. But if a rogue brakeman can repeatedly kneecap entire train lines for months without getting caught, then how much surveillance are our cities under, exactly?
Surveillance isn't exactly new. Tailing individuals in person is about as old as policing itself. Wiretapping of individual telegraph lines goes back to the mid-19th century, and became a widespread police tool during Prohibition. But these old forms of surveillance required lots of manpower, and were annoying to carry out. "It used to be that police had to sit in their hot cars, drink cold coffees, and watch their suspect go from place to place in order to follow them," says Andrew Ferguson, a law professor at the University of the District of Columbia and author of The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement.
What Ferguson calls "big data policing" is a much more recent surveillance paradigm that has been developing since the 1990s—but especially over the last decade with the rise of predictive policing, camera ubiquity, facial-recognition technology, and sensor surveillance from Internet of Things devices that create data trails useful to police investigators. Fitbit data and recordings from "Alexa" speakers are already being used in criminal trials. Across the country, new technologies continue to appear in different ways, but one thing is true almost everywhere: People are being watched more than ever, with little oversight.
Surveillance cameras and license-plate readers became common in cities' public spaces in the '90s, but the technology was relatively new and spotty, says Bryce Clayton Newell, a surveillance scholar at the University of Oregon and editor at the journal Surveillance & Society. As city streets grew increasingly pockmarked with cameras, an activist group called the Surveillance Camera Players created camera maps of many major American and European cities in protest, showing routes that objectors could take to opt out of being filmed. "It's becoming much more difficult to plan one of those sorts of routes," Newell says.
This preemptive, eyes-everywhere approach is fundamentally changing policing. "This isn't the same power balance we've had between law enforcement and the public," Ferguson says. "We're used to police collecting information when a crime has been committed in order to find the person who did it, but not this generalized monitoring of people because it might be useful later for crime investigation."
Chicago, for example, has installed some 35,000 public surveillance cameras that police have access to. And although large cities, with their similarly sized police budgets, have the highest camera density, smaller municipalities are catching up. Rural areas are increasingly adopting police body cameras, license plate readers, and more. "One of the things that happens with technology is that it all gets cheaper and easier to acquire," Ferguson says.
Three new surveillance technologies have gotten notably easier to acquire in recent years: police body cameras, predictive policing programs, and facial-recognition software. Body cameras were first deployed in the United Kingdom around 2006, and have been in use in the U.S. for about a decade, Newell says, but have become increasingly ubiquitous in the five years since police officer Darren Wilson shot Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. No footage of the shooting existed, and witness testimony disagreed on the facts; a nation searching for a quick solution to prevent this situation from happening again quickly embraced body cameras as a panacea for police accountability. Regulation of the cameras, however, has been scant, and always long after implementation.
For his research, Newell embedded in police departments during their adoption of body cameras. Initially, officers feared the accountability promised by the cameras. However, after a while, the officers began to see body cameras "as a tool to exonerate themselves, and to collect evidence, such as an admission of guilt or witness statement," Newell says. "I think the sense is that the cameras haven't brought the level of oversight that the officers feared at the beginning."
A police officer watches television monitors showing a fraction of London's CCTV camera network in the Metropolitan Police's new Special Operations Room in London, England.
(Photo: Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
An Arizona State University study of the Mesa Police Department found that officers who wore body cameras issued more tickets than those who did not, "perhaps because they were concerned about being reprimanded for not issuing citations when the video evidence showed citizens violating an ordinance," the researchers wrote. However, the study also found that officers wearing cameras conducted fewer stop-and-frisk searches. "Like us, police are also being monitored in new ways," Ferguson says. "So this is an interesting workforce surveillance experiment going on with policing."
By the end of 2016, nearly half of the U.S.'s police departments had body cameras, in part thanks to the Department of Justice's distribution of over $20 million in grants for the technology. That number has continued to grow as the company formerly known as Taser (which rebranded itself as Axon in an effort to distance itself from the stun-gun weapons it still makes) began giving away cameras to departments for free—later charging lucrative, recurrent subscription fees for requisite storage of data and footage. As of 2016, Axon reportedly controlled at least three-quarters of the body camera market, and last year purchased its main competitor.*
Sophisticated predictive policing tools are also undergoing a widespread spike in adoption. These algorithmic programs synthesize massive amounts of data to identify people and locations most at risk for committing crimes, in order to allow police to deploy resources in a more targeted way. Such programs have faced strong criticism that their assumptions result in unfair targeting of black and latino communities; for example, in April, the Los Angeles Police Department was forced to end its LASER program for this reason, after community outcry and a lawsuit from the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, which works to fight police oppression and dismantle government surveillance systems in L.A.
Because these intelligence programs require so much information on an entire population to make meaningful predictions, they also require perpetual surveillance regimes. "In order for [predictive policing programs] to work and do the social network analysis, they need to have constant streams of data coming in," Ferguson says. "That ends up surveilling a lot of people who aren't under suspicion as well."
Even further along the Minority Report spectrum is facial-recognition technology, which finally developed enough that police departments are beginning to adopt its use for real-time scanning of video-feeds to match faces with those in a database. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and many local police departments already do a manual version of this, comparing pictures and video stills to national databases of government ID photos and mugshots that contain images of the majority of American adults, according to the Georgetown Law Center on Privacy & Technology.
But many experts warn that the available facial-recognition softwares, such as Amazon's Rekognition, are still far too unreliable for police usage, especially at identifying darker faces. One police officer in a suburb of Portland, Oregon—reportedly the first to deploy Rekognition—ignored Amazon's guidelines about "search-confidence percentages," and set the system to always return five matches, no matter the likelihood. He also created a website that allowed officers to search from their cars, and "[t]o spice it up, he also added an unnecessary purple 'scanning' animation whenever a deputy uploaded a photo—a touch he said was inspired by cop shows like CSI," the Washington Post reported.
In the past two years, Seattle and Oakland have passed local ordinances requiring the city council to approve the adoption of any new surveillance technologies, and, last month, San Francisco banned the use of facial-recognition technology. But almost everywhere else "there's no one watching, police can just make things up as they go," Ferguson says. "There are no rules."
However, that might be changing. Perhaps because of its strong associations with dystopian science fiction, facial-recognition technology has become a flashpoint lately for discussions about police surveillance. Ferguson recently testified about the tech before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, and said that, even as a professional surveillance Cassandra, he felt like a moderate in the room. "I was surprised by the bipartisan concern about this technology," he says. "The conservative Republicans seemed as outraged as progressive Democrats that this technology was being used without any regulation."
A 3-D facial-recognition program is demonstrated during the Biometrics 2004 exhibition and conference.
(Photo: Ian Waldie/Getty Images)
Irrespective of the concerns of our federal politicians (and, perhaps, their constituents), most cities continually build onto their surveillance state without having a conversation about whether its residents are OK with the architecture. "Whenever I give a talk, I always ask: How many of you know what surveillance technologies are being used in the community we're in right now? Most people don't know," Ferguson says. "And where would they even go to find out? Even council members often have no idea of the technology being used."
Instead of surveillance regulation by elected representatives, police technologies are primarily governed through what Newell calls "policy by procurement" (making policy simply by adopting a new, unregulated technology) and Ferguson's idea of "policy by contract" (the stipulations on the usage of the technology and its data are determined only by the contract lawyers for the city and tech company). "There's no overriding legislation or constitutional mandate that restricts their ability to use these technologies," Newell says. "Our political and legal responses come after the fact."
Legislation also isn't always a check on surveillance. "Post 9/11, national security prerogatives and counterterrorism tactics were rapidly incorporated into domestic policing," says Hamid Khan, an organizer for Stop LAPD Spying. Khan says that the 9/11 Commission Report, the Patriot Act, and the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act all created programs that brought "behavioral surveillance and data mining into the mix, and expanded the scope of intelligence gathering locally."
These reports and legislation resulted in the country-wide creation of local Fusion Centers, which are "are repositories of all the information that is gathered from the military, the National Counterterrorism Center, private contractors, and local police," Khan says. "At the heart of that program is the notion of behavioral surveillance."
Despite all the ongoing privacy erosion, there's not good evidence that much of the surveillance actually reduces crime or makes people safer. Research in the U.S. and the U.K. shows cameras' effects to be at best unclear, and no better at deterring crime than less-intrusive techniques like increasing lighting. Beyond cameras though, many surveillance technologies haven't really been studied at all, Ferguson says.
And the tools that are implemented often aren't well-utilized, thanks to limited training and resources for equipment and software updates. When Newell was embedded with a department, "all the police officers were using laptops in their cars that ran Windows XP, and this was in 2014, 2016," he says. Other officers told him that their license plate readers got so many false matches, that they stopped trusting them at all.
The NYPD did eventually catch the subway brake-puller. But it was only able to identify him thanks to a cell phone picture submitted by a bystander. All that government watching—but to what end?
*Update—June 10th, 2019: This article has been updated.
Body CamerasPredictive PolicingSurveillance TechnologiesSubwayFacial RecognitionBig Data
Topic: Policing
Jack Denton is a contributing writer at Pacific Standard. He was previously a producer for The Brian Lehrer Show, a news-and-politics talk show on New York Public Radio, and a reporter for Solitary Watch. His work has also been featured on Gothamist and Impose Magazine. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill.
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The vote comes amid concerns that the technology violates civil liberties and is subject to racial biases.
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Hackers got access to photos of border crossers and their license plates this week, raising questions about border authorities' plans to collect reams of sensitive biometric information.
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What Can We Learn From a Flawed Live Facial Recognition Experiment?
Facial recognition technology can be used to prevent criminal activity. But, in London, one study shows the police system gets it wrong 81 percent of the time.
Who's Legally Responsible for Prison and Jail Suicides?
Lawsuits used to be a path to prison reform, but they're now an uphill battle for prisoners and their families.
Can Bystander Videos Effectively Stop Police Misconduct?
An incident at a Texas pool party puts the psychology of surveillance to the test.


This month we mark the centenary of John Jerwood's birth on 17th September 1918. Before he created what was to become one of the largest cultured pearl dealerships in the world and established the Jerwood Foundation with Alan Grieve, John Jerwood had been commissioned into the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (KOYLI) in 1940. He served with distinction as a Captain and Adjutant with the 1st Battalion of the KOYLI, winning the Military Cross in the Italian Campaign in 1944.
On 1st August, the KOYLI's Regimental Day and the anniversary of the Battle of Minden, Alan Grieve CBE, Chairman of the Jerwood Foundation, attended the unveiling and dedication of a memorial statue to commemorate all the soldiers who served in the KOYLI.
Given his service with the Regiment and in John Jerwood's memory, Jerwood Foundation contributed towards the memorial appeal fund for this imposing memorial statue by Steve Winterburn. It stands in Elmfield Park, Doncaster to remind all those who pass by of the soldiers who served and those who gave their lives inn the wars of 1914-918 and 1939-1945.
On 21st September 1998 the then Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Chris Smith MP (now Lord Smith) and Alan Grieve CBE, Chairman, Jerwood Foundation, officially opened the Foundation's first major capital project, Jerwood Space in Southwark. A former Victorian school, the converted building was refurbished to create rehearsal studios, meeting rooms, a versatile gallery space (home to the Jerwood Visual Arts programme), a café with glasshouse and office space for Jerwood Charitable Foundation.
Further construction in 2007 added a top storey to create much sought-after space designed for rehearsing large-scale musical theatre which has proved such a success.
The past 20 years have seen the Space become one of the best rehearsal studios in the country, providing theatre/musical theatre, opera and dance practitioners with excellent facilities for the work of art. In 2017 over 350 different companies used Jerwood Space, 50% of which received a subsidy from Jerwood.
In 2017, the Gentleman Baristas took over the running of the café, providing the Space's talented customers with great food and outstanding coffee.
On behalf of the Jerwood Family we wish Peter Wilkinson, Director, Chris Cotton, Chairman and the fabulous Jerwood Space team a very, very happy 20th Birthday!
Nine works from the Jerwood Collection are currently on show at the Gibberd Gallery, Harlow, as part of Show Women. The exhibition, which is a collaboration between the Gibberd Gallery, the Ingram Collection, and the Jerwood Collection, opened on August 9 with a speech from Jerwood Collection Director Lara Wardle. The exhibition displays work by female artists as a response to the first wave of women to obtain the vote 100 years ago. Artists featured from the Jerwood Collection include Hannah Bays, Nicola Bealing, HaYoung Kim, Nancy Milner, Shani Rhys James, and Rose Wylie.
The celebrated artist, illustrator, and Jerwood Gallery's Artist Patron Sir Quentin Blake (b.1932) has created a new series of works for this exhibition. Walking with Birds features extraordinary creatures and new characters, all brought to life in Blake's distinctive style.
Blake has collaborated with many writers including Michael Rosen and Roald Dahl and has also written and illustrated many of his own books. He has worked on exhibitions and projects for museums, hospitals and public spaces in England and France. Blake has received a knighthood and a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur. He lives and works in London and Hastings.
Represent is a series of artworks inspired by the Representation of the People Act 1918. While the act gave the vote only to women over 30, Represent invites three young female artists- Selina Thompson, Debris Stevenson and Rachael Maclean to explore democracy, equality and inclusion in contemporary Britain. Presented by 14-18 NOW and supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation, Represent is accompanied by a programme of events, talks and professional development opportunities.
Jerwood Staging Series is a curatorial project that provides a performance-based platform in the galleries at Jerwood Space for film, live music, performance, readings and discussion led by Sarah Williams, Head of Programme and Lauren Houlton, Gallery Manager.


I'll start from the beginning my wife Hannah (25) and Myself (28) had been trying for children for about 4 years with no success. After making an appointment with our GP in England, we found out that Hannah had Polo-cystic Ovaries. Hannah was given Ovarian Drilling where they tried to burn the cysts off the ovaries but unfortunately this was un-successful. The NHS then put us forward for government funding for 1 free shot of IVF on the NHS at Wessex fertility center in Basingstoke, we were over the moon, finally thought we were going to have our own little family - A few days after egg collection we got a phone call to say they won't be putting the embryos back inside Hannah as they had abnormalities. We were later told that during the egg collection process they had difficulties because the eggs were deformed. That was it, everything was over/ We had a follow-up appointment to explain everything and to go over costs if we wanted to try again.


Near Mint. No tears, rubbing wear, flea bites, fading, or stains. The felt does not rub off on your hands (or clothes.) No wear on the handles. The turn clasp is shiny with tiny, unnoticeable scratches. The lining is free of dirt, stains, or tears. Clean inside and out.


We published An Ecobardic Manifesto in 2008.
Here is an extract from the opening page of An Ecobardic Manifesto.
The world is in crisis. It's been in crisis before. Individual regions have suffered environmental collapse. The planet has undergone global ecological crises in the deep geological past. But in our time we've become aware that for the first time during the history of civilisation the world faces such a global ecological crisis – one caused not by asteroid impact or the slow cycles of plate tectonics or celestial oscillation, but by the accelerating exploitation of the earth's resources by an ever growing human population. In such a crisis what place is there for the arts?
We believe it's time for the arts to respond whole-heartedly to the ecological challenges facing our planet. In place of the commodification of alienation, we need to celebrate connection; in place of intensifying polarisation between entrenched dogmatisms, we need to foster respect for otherness and diversity; in place of self-interested denial, we need to promote engagement with ecological reality.
(5) re-enchanting nature and existence as filled with significance.
This Ecobardic Manifesto is, firstly, our own mission statement as a group of performing artists and writers. But it's much more than that. It aims to draw attention to groundbreaking 'ecobardic' work that many other artists have already done. And, by making our artistic intention conscious and public, we hope to provoke and inspire yet others. From little acorns, mighty oaks may grow.


This is a little riverfront street that connects the Cobo and Joe Louis Arena. It's a very pleasant little stroll, and the pathways are very nice. It's definitely very fun to walk when it's quiet and dark outside, as it's usually very private, and well maintained.
Travelling to Civic Center Dr?


Downtown Boone Development Association | Welcome to Downtown Boone!
Embraced by the gentle slopes of the Blue Ridge Mountains and the campus of Appalachian State University, Boone is a real downtown experience.
Parking is always free on Sundays, after 5:00 pm, and on Town of Boone observed holidays. Check out our parking page for more information.
See King Street, Downtown Boone by checking out the live video feed.
The month of May every year is set aside as Preservation month. Downtown Boone has so much to celebrate when it comes to preservation and the history in our little town, and are so pleased to participate in the national campaign spearheaded by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Click here to learn more #ThisPlaceMatters.


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	private SingletonThreadSafeMethodPattern() {
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	public static synchronized SingletonThreadSafeMethodPattern getInstance() {
		if (instance == null) {
			instance = new SingletonThreadSafeMethodPattern();
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		return instance;
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Discussion in 'Z3 M Roadster & Coupé' started by Off Your Marks, Jun 21, 2012.
So after dealing with owen a BAS my new hood arrived - all looked great until I spotted a human hair laminated into the rear screen, I called BAS and even without question they sent out another and collected the first. Perfect!
Can I ask what the cost of the roof was. Is the rear window sewn in and whats the cost to fit it?
Thats good news. They do look well made dont they. Cant wait to see it fitted.
The cost of the roof including VAT and delivery was £390. Our local fitter is called Joe Galeano and he's and older chap who has been fitting hoods for years. I had him replace a roof on my boxster a few years back and he was bang on.
He has quoted me £170 to fit is its £560 all in.
It is indistinguishable from the outside and the only difference is that the rear screen is bonded and sewn in as opposed to being zipped.
Did BMW quote you for a new roof Matt ? If so how much?
matt, did you have to ask up front for no stamp?
very good fitting cost, most charge over 200 pounds.
yep, not worth it imho, too many good ones out there for 400-800 pounds.
not being held to ransom on this.
It is a pity there is not an after market one that has the zip window.
The stitched ones are fine but don't you have to replace the whole roof once the window splits?
Will it be waterproof though?
I am led to believe the material for the window is just as durable as the fabric.
Heres some pics of my current roof - it's pretty mint but not perfect. How much would I get for it if I sold it?
Your current roof look in better condition than mine and you are changing it?
Used roofs sell for around £150 on Ebay but with the condition your is in it should do £200 plus.
if i was matt, i would change it too.
unless its perfect it can make the car look less than perfect.
Well, new roof was fitted today and to say I'm impressed is an understatement!
The ONLY way to tell is to climb inside, zip down the windbreaker and observe the lack of a zip.
The fitter is called Joe Galleano and he has been fitting soft tops for 37 years straight from school. He is based in the NW however travels nationwide and I can HIGHLY recommend him. He is very professional, a true gent and his work is perfect. If anyone wants his details then pm me.
paul (mr hornel) has one, and they are great.
why anyone would pay for oem is beyond me!


Leeds United have confirmed the transfer of Oxford United star Kemar Roofe for an undisclosed fee.
The Championship promotion hopefuls are believed to have met the U's £3m valuation of the League Two Player of the Year Award winner and have finalised a four-year deal for the forward.
Roofe scored 18 goals in 40 league appearances last season as Oxford won promotion to League One in his first full season at the Kassam Stadium, having joined permanently from West Brom following a successful loan spell the previous year.
Roofe becomes the Whites sixth signing of the summer, following hot on the heels of Swansea midfielder Matt Grimes, who has joined the club on loan for the season, and 'keeper Rob Green.
The 23-year-old expressed his delight at signing for a club of Leeds size: "It's an amazing feeling," Roofe told leedsunited.com. "I don't think I'll actually realise how big the club is until the first game of the season, but I'm amazed by what I've seen so far.
"As soon as I found out, I was really pleased to be a part of a club like this. The club has a great history and a bright future as well.
"You can tell there's something exciting happening here with the signings we're making – they're all good signings.
Asked about his style of play, Roofe added: "I like to be entertaining – I like to play football how I would like to watch football. The fans want to be entertained, see creative play and goals.
"I think I can play in several positions and I wouldn't like to nail myself down to one place. I like to have the ball in the attacking third and try to create something.
For Oxford, the move represents a vast profit on the sum they paid West Brom just 12 months ago. Chairman Darryl Eales admitted he could not stand in the way of Roofe's develop once the club's valuation had been met.
"We would prefer to keep all players but Kemar wanted to test his talent at a higher level and ultimately, once Leeds met our valuation, we would not want to stand in a player's way," Eales said.
"We are serious about preparing for a strong campaign in the season ahead and will continue to enhance the squad over the next few weeks. Overall we are in great shape with a superb positive mood across the squad and we can't wait for our first friendly on Saturday," Eales concluded.
Roofe is in line to make his debut for the Whites when they take on QPR at Loftus Road in their opening Championship fixture.


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Keywords: georadar, ice thickness, ice volume, changes in the area of the glacier, south of Siberia.
GEOGRAPHY AND NATURAL RESOURCES, 2018, № 1, p. 158-166
Georadar investigations of the Peretolchin glacier (Southern Siberia)
А.D. Kitov*, Е.N. Ivanov*, V.M. Plyusnin*, А.S. Gladkov**,
O.V. Lunina**, E.V. Serebryakov**, A.M.Afon'kin**
*V. B. Sochava Institute of Geography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences,
ul. Ulan-Batorskaya, 1, Irkutsk, 664033, Russia, kitov@irigs.irk.ru, egoryo@bk.ru, plyusnin@irigs.irk.ru
**Institute of the Earth' Crust, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences,
ul. Lermontova, 128, Irkutsk, 664033, Russia, gladkov@crust.irk.ru, lounina@crust.irk.ru,
serebryakov.e.v@mail.ru, andrei.afonkin@mail.ru
Presented are the results obtained from the radar profiling of the Peretolchin glacier in the Munku-Sardyk mountain range in the south of Siberia (June 2014 and May 2016) using georadar "Oko-2" with the ABDL "Triton" antenna unit operating at the radiation frequency of 50 and 100 MHz. The ice thickness was determined from the profiles and the ice volumes from the cross-sectional areas and distances between profiles. The ice volume was calculated for the body of the Peretolchin glacier to be 0.007 ± 0.0019 km3. An analytical method was also used to determine the ice volume according to the type and area of glacier. It is established that the correlation between the volume and the area of the glaciers is expressed by a power function V = kSp. The mean ice volume, calculated with due regard for different coefficients, was 0.0061 km3. The GlabTop model that takes into account the cross-sectional form of the glacier was used to infer the ice volume: the mean volume for two cross-sections (parabolic and ellipses) was 0.0073 km3. It is established that for 110 years since the start of the investigation into the morphology of the Peretolchin glacier, it has increased twice in its length and in area, its volume has decreased by a factor of 3.7, and the lower boundary of the open part of the glacier has risen 184 meters for that time.
DOI: 10.21782/GiPR0206-1619-2018-1(158-166)


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Q: Why does JQuery give different results for .text(), .html(), and .val(), when used on an empty JQuery object? This is really less of a practical question, and more theoretical, but it does affect some code that I am currently writing, so I'll go ahead and ask.
I'm using JQuery to parse an XML feed and build page elements, based on the returned XML elements.  The XML is converted into a JQuery object and getting to the elements is all well and good.
At one point, when I am retrieving values, I test to see if an element exists and retrieve it's contents using .text().  I wanted to be careful and check to make sure that my selector had returned something before checking for the text, but noticed something funny . . . .text() doesn't seem to care.  If JQuery object that is returned by the selector is empty, .text() will return "" when used on it.
"Pretty cool", I thought, until I realized that the behavior is different with .html() and .val() . . . .html() returns null and .val() returns undefined (in Firefox . . . in IE, they both return undefined).
Try it out:
var tempVal = $("#noWayThisIsAnElement");
window.console.log(tempVal.text());          // returns ""
window.console.log(tempVal.html());          // returns null (undefined, in IE)
window.console.log(tempVal.val());           // returns undefined

So, does anyone know what the reasoning behind this is?
The main reason that I ask is that, considering that they are looking for similar kinds of values (conceptually), you would think that the "oops, can't do that" result would be the same.
I guess I can see that .val() might be different than the other two, because it can return one of three data types, but even if you remove that, both .text() and .html() return strings, and those strings represent the content of the DOM node . . . you would think that they would both give a similar result when the JQuery object holds no reference to a node.
So, I guess I'll just code differently for the two situations for now, but, in the meantime, does anyone have any insight here?

UPDATE:  Kevin B brings up a good point (not sure why I didn't think of it, actually   :D   ) about .val() in that it is looking for the value attribute, which is undefined.  That's consistent with how .attr() behaves in this situation as well.
The difference between .text() and .html() is still open, though.   :)

A: It comes from the implementation :
val()
val: function( value ) {
        var ret, hooks, isFunction,
            elem = this[0];

        if ( !arguments.length ) {
            if ( elem ) {
                hooks = jQuery.valHooks[ elem.type ] || jQuery.valHooks[ elem.nodeName.toLowerCase() ];

                if ( hooks && "get" in hooks && (ret = hooks.get( elem, "value" )) !== undefined ) {
                    return ret;
                }

                ret = elem.value;

                return typeof ret === "string" ?
                    // handle most common string cases
                    ret.replace(rreturn, "") :
                    // handle cases where value is null/undef or number
                    ret == null ? "" : ret;
            }

            return;
        }

As you see, if there is no elem (ie empty jquery object), function directly return; : you got an undefined
text()
jQuery.fn.extend({
    text: function( value ) {
        return jQuery.access( this, function( value ) {
            return value === undefined ?
                jQuery.text( this ) :
                this.empty().append( ( this[0] && this[0].ownerDocument || document ).createTextNode( value ) );
        }, null, value, arguments.length );
    },

getText is the implementation of the jQuery.text() function
getText = Sizzle.getText = function( elem ) {
    var node,
        ret = "",
        i = 0,
        nodeType = elem.nodeType;

    if ( !nodeType ) {
        // If no nodeType, this is expected to be an array
        for ( ; (node = elem[i]); i++ ) {
            // Do not traverse comment nodes
            ret += getText( node );
        }
    } else if ( nodeType === 1 || nodeType === 9 || nodeType === 11 ) {
        // Use textContent for elements
        // innerText usage removed for consistency of new lines (see #11153)
        if ( typeof elem.textContent === "string" ) {
            return elem.textContent;
        } else {
            // Traverse its children
            for ( elem = elem.firstChild; elem; elem = elem.nextSibling ) {
                ret += getText( elem );
            }
        }
    } else if ( nodeType === 3 || nodeType === 4 ) {
        return elem.nodeValue;
    }
    // Do not include comment or processing instruction nodes

    return ret;
};

As you can see, with an empty object, we don't enter in any condition. ret is initialized to "", so it returns "".
html()
html: function( value ) {
return jQuery.access( this, function( value ) {
    var elem = this[0] || {},
        i = 0,
        l = this.length;

    if ( value === undefined ) {
        return elem.nodeType === 1 ?
            elem.innerHTML.replace( rinlinejQuery, "" ) :
            undefined;
    }

Here, you can see it returns undefined too. I don't know why it would return a null but you are right, I tested it on Chrome.
If others can complete this post.

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The Firefly Party and the Japanese Iris Exhibition
YUGAWARAMost secluded hot spring in japan
About Yugawara
Activties
This early summer event is unique to Yugawara where the water is pristine!
As the shades of night fall, Genji fireflies (Luciola cruciata) dance around near the water in Manyo Park. The fireflies of Manyo Park are first bred in "Fireflies' Cabin" until they grow into larvae, and are then released by the first graders of Yugawara Elementary School in mid March. What guests see are fireflies that have been generated naturally, later. In addition, large numbers of wild fireflies inhabit the Fujiki, Chitose and Niizaki rivers, and, during the firefly season, you can enjoy viewing fireflies all over Yugawara Town. Please enjoy this fantastic time when fireflies dance around among the trees in the darkness.
Manyo Park has no entrance restriction throughout the year, and after the event is over, the usual lighting (park road lights) is turned on for safety. This may make it difficult to view fireflies, since the whole park becomes bright. After the event is over, there will be no staff on attendance, so please be very careful about your safety in the park.
Running period
※The running period for 2019 will be decided around mid March.
It is tentatively scheduled to take place from early to mid June.
7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. (The Japanese Iris Exhibition starts at 10:00 a.m.)
Kaboku en (inside Manyo Park)
Yugawara Onsen Tourism Association Phone: 0465-64-1234
About appreciating fireflies in Kaboku en in Manyo Park
①During the Firefly Party at "Kaboku en," in Manyo Park, it is very dark with only the footlights on, so that you can thoroughly enjoy the light of the fireflies. Please watch your step.
②Please, refrain from bringing your pets into the firefly viewing zone (Kaboku en, Manyo Park).
③ Please, note that there will be no staff on attendance after 9:00 p.m., even though you can still enter the park after that. Please be careful, however, as the lights along the road to the venue are turned off at 11:00 p.m.
Access the entrance to Manyo Park from the square in front of the Yugawara Tourist Hall.
The walk to the venue is about five minutes. There is a long flight of stairs.
Walk a little more after passing Rifuku Shrine. You will find the place for hanging ema (votive picture tablets) on your right.
Please, take your time and enjoying meeting the fireflies in "Kaboku-en."
Please, practice good manners while appreciating the fireflies.
① Camera flashes are prohibited where fireflies can be seen!
It is difficult even for professional photographers to take photos of fireflies, and nearly impossible to take good pictures with ordinary cameras. Moreover, the flare of flashlight in the dark has a very bad effect on the eye.
② Bright light can have a negative influence on fireflies.
Light has such a strong impact on fireflies that even the light of a full moon restrains their light emitting activities. Fireflies prefer darkness, so they can better sense the light of friends and members of the opposite sex, and communicate through light. Camera flashes can have a negative effect on their natural behavior.
Help conserve the beautiful environment where fireflies can grow-up safely. We ask for your kind cooperation.
Q & A about fireflies
When is the best season to see fireflies fly?
The season varies from place to place, but in Yugawara fireflies fly from late May through late June.
Many people ask when the largest number of fireflies fly, but they are natural creatures and their numbers are greatly influenced by the climate of the year and the weather of the day.
After fireflies have begun to appear, we take a variety of things into account and then make a rough guess about when the most fireflies can be viewed. But the accuracy of the guess depends on subsequent weather conditions, so it is rather difficult to make an accurate prediction. Information on about how many fireflies can be seen will be posted on this page, so please check before visiting the venue!
On what kind of days do many fireflies fly?
Fireflies fly most actively on warm, cloudy, windless nights―nights that meet the three most favorable conditions for fireflies. Even more fireflies can be seen on dark nights without moonlight. On rainy, windy or chilly evenings, however, they hide on the backs of leaves or in the bushes where they can avoid the wind and rain, so they cannot be seen flying. Naturally, fireflies fly in the evening, but the actual time span when many fireflies fly is pretty limited. Many fireflies begin to come out right after sunset, with the first peak usually happening around 9:00 p.m. The second peak comes around 12:00 a.m. and the third around 3:00 a.m. Of the three peaks the largest number of fireflies fly at the first peak, and during this time their activities last the longest. After the peaks in their activities are over, each firefly goes to sleep in the grass or in the trees.
Why do fireflies flash?
It is said that males and females emit light to find partners. The substance called "luciferin" and the enzyme called "luciferase," which are present in their bodies, react and cause them to give off light. But it is not known exactly why their light flickers.
How many kinds of fireflies are there?
Only "Genji fireflies" (Luciola cruciata) can be seen in Yugawara, but it is said that there are 2,000 kinds all over the world. In Japan, about 43 to 48 kinds have been found.
Among these, "Genji fireflies" and "Heike fireflies" (Luciola lateral or Japanese fireflies) are considered to be very rare in the world, because they spend their larval stage in the water. Most other kinds live on land almost all their lives.
Info on the venues of the Firefly Party and the Japanese Iris Exhibition
During the "Firefly Party," food and drink and local handicrafts are sold at the square in front of the Tourist Hall.
There are many types of food, such as fried noodles, grilled chicken skewers and croquettes, prepared by the local shopping center. Since table seating is available in the square, please take your time and enjoy the feeling of an early summer's evening breeze. (In the case of inclement weather, sale of food and drink may be cancelled, depending on how hard it is raining.) Handicraft stalls open: 10:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m./ Food and drink stalls open: 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
Yugawara Onsen's "uchiwa" are given away after 7:30 p.m. every night!
Every night, during the period of the "Firefly Party," Yugawara Onsen's original uchiwa (round paper fans) are given away to the first 1,000 people to visit the venue.
The uchiwa have a stylish ukiyoe picture on them.♪
Since the fans are limited in number, one person can get only one uchiwa. (Please note that even during the Firefly Party, the distribution will end as soon as the uchiwa have run out.)
The Japanese Iris Exhibition is held at the same time!
The Japanese iris blooms during the same period as the fireflies fly.
The Tourist Hall multi purpose plaza is likened to a Japanese iris garden, and about 200 varieties of Japanese irises are displayed in as many as 3,500 pots. Their seedlings are on sale, too.
Transportation Info for the Firefly Party and the Japanese Iris Exhibition
By bus from JR Yugawara Station
Take the bus for Oku yugawara or Fudo taki and get off at "Ochiaibashi" bus stop (about a 10 minute ride).
※Buses for Oku yugawara or Fudo taki operate every 10 to 15 minutes.
※Buses for Yugawara Station operate every 10 to 15 minutes, until the last bus leaves Ochiaibashi bus stop at 21:57.
By taxi from JR Yugawara Station
About a 7 minute ride from Yugawara Station.
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Q: How to specify long url patterns using Regex so that they follow PEP8 guidelines I have a long url pattern in Django similar to this:
url(r'^(?i)top-dir/(?P<first_slug>[-\w]+?)/(?P<second_slug>[-\w]+?)/(?P<third_slug>[-\w]+?).html/$',
    'apps.Discussion.views.pricing',

Definitely it doesn't follow PEP8 guide as the characters are more than 80 in a single line. I have found two approach of solving this:
The first one (using backslash):
   url(r'^(?i)top-dir/(?P<first_slug>[-\w]+?)/(?P<second_slug>[-\w]+?)'\
       '/(?P<third_slug>[-\w]+?).html/$',
       'apps.Discussion.views.pricing',

The second one - using ():
 url((r'^(?i)top-dir/(?P<first_slug>[-\w]+?)/(?P<second_slug>[-\w]+?)',
      r'/(?P<third_slug>[-\w]+?).html/$'),
      'apps.Discussion.views.pricing'),

Both of them break by Regex. Is there a better approach to solve this issue. OR Is it a bad practice to write such long Regex for urls.

A: Adjacent strings are concatenated, so you can do something like this:
url(r'^(?i)top-dir/(?P<first_slug>[-\w]+?)/'
    r'(?P<second_slug>[-\w]+?)/'
    r'(?P<third_slug>[-\w]+?).html/$',
    'apps.Discussion.views.pricing',)

A: PEP8 has no regex formatting tips. But try these:

*

*use re.compile and have these benefits

*

*quicker to match/search on them

*reference them under a (short) name!

*write the regex multiline with (white)spaces

*

*use re.VERBOSE to ignore whitespace in the regex string

*use flags instead of "magic groups" ((?i) → re.IGNORECASE)

slugs = re.compile(r'''
    ^
    top-dir/
    (?P<first_slug>[-\w]+?)/
    (?P<second_slug>[-\w]+?)/
    (?P<third_slug>[-\w]+?).html/
    $
        ''', re.VERBOSE|re.IGNORECASE)

url(slugs, 'apps.Discussion.views.pricing', ...)