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Messianic Jews Respond to Anti-Israel Report
In response to "The Inheritance of Abraham," a report issued by the Church and Society Council of the Church of Scotland, leaders of major Messianic Jewish organizations--the British Messianic Jewish Alliance (BMJA), the International Alliance of Messianic Congregations and Synagogues (IAMCS), the International Messianic Jewish Alliance (IMJA), the Messianic Jewish Alliance of America (MJAA), and the Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations (UMJC)--have issued an open letter criticizing the report for faulty interpretation of Scripture, mischaracterization of Zionism and Israel's history, invalidation of Scriptural prophecy, and disregard for principles of justice. Click here to read the statement on the UMJC website.
David Rudolph (PhD, Cambridge University) is the Director of Messianic Jewish Studies and Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at The King's University in Southlake, Texas.
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Q: Can I continue my save on a new switch with a new game copy So my dad has a switch which I managed to briefly use to play breath of the wild. However, recently he's decided to never let the switch out of sight so I'm thinking of saving up for my own console and copy of the game.
The problem is that I want to continue with my progress that I made on his copy. Is there any way that I can get my save file onto a new switch with a new cartridge for the game?

A: Yes you can.  You will need both Switches.
From the Nintendo Help pages:

On the source console:

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*From the HOME Menu, select "System Settings" > "Users" > "Transfer
  Your User and Save Data."

*Select "Next," and then "Next" again, then
  select "Source Console" to indicate that the content will be
  transferred from this console.

*Select "Continue," and then finish the
  following preparations on the target console.

  On the target console:

*From the HOME Menu, select "System Settings" > "Users" > "Transfer
  Your User and Save Data."

*Select "Next," then "Next" again, then
  select "Target Console" to indicate that the content will be
  transferred to this console.

*Select "Sign in" and choose to sign in
  using your Nintendo Account e-mail address or sign-in ID.

*Enter either
  the e-mail address or sign-in ID associated with your Nintendo
  Account, and the password, then select "Sign in" > "Next."

  On the source console:

*Wait for the target console to be found, and then
  select "Transfer."

*The transfer process will begin, wait for this
  process to complete.

*Once complete, select "End" to complete the
  process.

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*If no users are left on the console after the transfer is
  complete, a placeholder user account will be created.

They also include a helpful video on how to do this:

As for if you can play different saves on different copies of the game, yes you can.

A: As of September 2018, saves can be backed up to the cloud, and restored without the original Switch. However, you must pay for online service to use this feature, and you must have purchased online service before losing access to your old Switch.
According to Nintendo's product page, backups are automatically taken whenever you have an internet connection (and you have paid for online service). Their help page describes the following procedure to download cloud saves onto a new console:

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*To download a backup from the software menu:

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*Open the game's software menu and select "Save Data Cloud Backup."

*Select the desired user, then select "Download Save Data."

*To download a backup from within System Settings:

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*From the HOME Menu, select "System Settings" > "Data Management" > "Save Data Cloud Backup."

*Select the desired user, then choose the backup file you wish to download.

*Select "Download Save Data."

The page also warns that this procedure will erase any local saves. The same settings page can also be used to verify that your saves have backed up successfully, if for some reason you're concerned about that.

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Bird & Bird and enervis launch a report on the Italian power market 2019 – 2050, with a focus on renewables
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International law firm Bird & Bird and power market consultant enervis today launch a report, the "Italian Power Market Outlook 2019-2050"
Bird & Bird team up with more than 10 law firms to scale up solar power
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International law firm Bird & Bird teamed up with more than 10 law firms to scale up solar power as part of the Open Solar Contracts initiative, launched on 13 June 2019 at the African Energy Forum in Lisbon, Portugal
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International law firm Bird & Bird grows its Energy & Utilities team with the appointment of Roger van Buuren as a finance partner in The Netherlands.
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How Do Our Holidays Prepare You For The Year Ahead?
As we prepare to welcome the New Year, 5776, we find ourselves facing tremendous challenges globally and locally.
Not much needs to be said about the drought, and appropriately the festival that closes out the holiday period, Sukkot, focuses on two important aspects: prioritizing what and who really matters in our lives and acknowledging that none of our priorities will mean much if we don't get some water.
What leads us into this closing festival are the Days of Awe that themselves focus on processes we must engage that address conditions of life in all realms of the world. Rosh Hashanah, in celebrating the birth of humanity, revisits "who's" in charge in our world. On the surface, we are; human beings have decisions to make, constantly, that determine in large measure the safety and future of our planet. Paradoxically this holiday emphasizes that regardless of humankind's attitude about power and the centrality of human decision making in governing each day and all processes, the reality is that this is God's world we inhabit. God is central in terms of our empowerment and more importantly in terms of providing wherewithal that can enable us to decide and act wisely.
Rosh Hashanah welcomes you into the Presence of God for a Day of Judgment; a different kind than humans tend to dispense. It is human projection that presumes God's Judgment will be harsh. Not so. God's system i.e. the Torah, looks to Teshuva, changes in actions and behavior that will benefit the world, if in a small way. Just as God's judgment is less "judgmental" than human judgment, (the message of Yom Kippur) so are teachings and principles celebrated on Rosh Hashanah more constructive in providing leadership and direction than is often found among many human leaders worried more about their posturing and positioning in winning games of power than they are in seeking ways to make the world safer. Scientists seem more candid and forthcoming about the looming catastrophe of global warming than leaders in government.
Rosh Hashanah focuses on three principles that leaders would do well to respect and heed. One, God's Presence mandates accepting responsibility to serve people and the world, not self-interests. To choose to welcome God into the equation means welcoming partnership, sharing power and opening to different and differing points of view in how to address ills in the world. We learn with Rosh Hashanah that God chooses to work through and in partnership with people; we would do well to reciprocate in welcoming God's Presence not as intimidation nor overwhelm but as Light and Insight that can show ways we humans alone may not be able to see.
The second principle in Rosh Hashanah that leaders don't honor enough is the importance of studying and learning from the past. This holiday is also called Yom HaZikaron, the "Day of Remembering". We celebrate this New Year not by throwing calendars away but by studying the annals of the year that was to learn from mistakes and build on successes. Is it possible the deal with Iran now on the table is too close in concept to the policy of appeasement that Chamberlain negotiated with Germany with the disastrous consequences of World War II? Is it wise to overlook or dismiss policies of a government that belittles the Holocaust while encouraging all forces dedicated to destroying Israel?
The third principle of Rosh Hashanah is the centrality of the Shofar, the Rams Horn blown as an instrument of danger, warning and awakening to realities in the world that won't go away with good wishes and sincere hopes. We have to avoid being the proverbial frog in the pot that is heated slowly enough (i.e. not unlike global warming and climate change) so as to not realize it is being cooked. The Shofar is a call to awareness and change that is needed while we still have options for rescuing our world (which, God-willing, we do!).
And, it is not enough to raise the agendas in all these matters at well-meaning conferences and gatherings, which Rosh Hashanah symbolizes in presenting the issues. We also need the process of Yom Kippur to resolve to take tangible and substantive steps and measures to change the fate of humanity and the world…that our leaders and all who make decisions that spell the difference between blessing and curse and life and death, revisit and revise their understanding of their responsibility and principles of leadership. It means allowing God to reenter the picture through teachings and values that enable us to embrace changes, even if not politically indicated.
These holidays are not about specifically Jewish values; they are about life-affirming human values and changes that humankind can and must make to turn in the direction of health and wellbeing. Then, we can emerge from Yom Kippur with the resolve to build our Sukkot, fragile, yet sturdy, booths that remind us not only of our vulnerabilities but of the harvest of humankind as most important; we can determine to take action with intensions that changes we make will bring on the rains, metaphorically, if not literally, and cleanse our world and replenish our resources.
5776 is not just the next year to mark on the calendar; it is a year that needs application of all the details, nuances and teachings that generate this holiday period we now enter in this month of September. Nor is this holiday cycle one to treat as solely rituals of Jewish identity; these holidays provide critical strategies for us to engage and share as light to the nations and the world for all to embrace as humanity looks more positively to the future.
Shana Tova Tikateyvu! May You be Ticketed for a Good Year!


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The mental trick that helped me claw way my back from debilitating anxiety
Throughout my teens and the entirety of my twenties, it seemed like I was weathering one health-related disaster after another. At fifteen, I was hospitalized with ovarian cysts giant, fluid-filled sacs that would spontaneously rupture and leave me vomiting and doubled over in pain within a matter of minutes. At twenty, I underwent emergency surgery for a kidney stone obstruction while I was studying abroad in southern India. (If you've never had the misfortune of trying to squeeze out a kidney stone over a squat toilet, consider yourself lucky). Then, at twenty-five, my unborn son was diagnosed with a permanently paralyzing disability. Throughout all of this, a latent anxiety disorder sprouted, and then bloomed.
Anxiety doesn't always go away -- but your relationship with it can change.
Using defusion -- a strategy of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy -- can help you separate yourself from anxious thoughts.
Throughout my teens and the entirety of my twenties, it seemed like I was weathering one health-related disaster after another.
At fifteen, I was hospitalized with ovarian cysts -- giant, fluid-filled sacs that would spontaneously rupture and leave me vomiting and doubled over in pain within a matter of minutes.
At twenty, I underwent emergency surgery for a kidney stone obstruction while I was studying abroad in southern India. ( If you've never had the misfortune of trying to squeeze out a kidney stone over a squat toilet, consider yourself lucky).
Then, at twenty-five, my unborn son was diagnosed with a permanently paralyzing disability.
Throughout all of this, a latent anxiety disorder sprouted, and then bloomed.
But at age 29, a battery of tests revealed two new problems inside my body, and I suddenly reached the limit of what I felt like I could endure, physically and psychologically.
The first test -- a routine urinalysis - showed that my kidneys were hemorrhaging protein, a sign of potential kidney disease or diabetes.
The second test revealed a four-millimeter lump on the outer wall of my bladder -- and it was malignant.
Fortunately for me, these health issues have all been pretty resolvable: After giving up added sugar cold-turkey, I dropped fifteen pounds in two months and my kidney function improved.
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###Index
* [Ada](#ada)
* [Agda](#agda)
* [Assembly Language](#assembly-language)
    * [Non-X86](#non-x86)
* [Groovy](#groovy)
    * [Gradle](#gradle)
    * [Grails](#grails)
...

###Meta-Lists
* [25 Free Computer Science Ebooks](http://www.coderholic.com/25-free-computer-science-books/)
* [atariarchives.org](http://www.atariarchives.org/) atariarchives.org makes books, information, and software for Atari and other classic computers available on the Web.
...

###Language Agnostic
####Algorithms & Data Structures
* [A Field Guide To Genetic Programming](http://dces.essex.ac.uk/staff/rpoli/gp-field-guide/toc.html)
* [Algorithmic Graph Theory](http://code.google.com/p/graphbook/)
* [Algorithms](http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~vazirani/algorithms/) - Dasgupta, Papadimitriou, Vazirani (PDFs)
* [Algorithms, 4th Edition](http://algs4.cs.princeton.edu/home/) - Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne

####Mathematics
...
* [Think Bayes: Bayesian Statistics Made Simple](http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkbayes/) - Allen B. Downey
* [Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers](http://greenteapress.com/thinkstats/) (code written in Python) - Allen B. Downey

####Misc
* [97 Things Every Programmer Should Know](http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/)
* [97 Things Every Programmer Should Know - Extended](https://leanpub.com/97-Things-Every-Programmer-Should-Know-Extended)
* [A Mathematical Theory of Communication](http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/paper.html) by Claude E.Shannon
* [Asterisk™: The Definitive Guide](http://asteriskdocs.org/en/3rd_Edition/asterisk-book-html-chunk/index.html)
* [Barcode Overview](http://www.tec-it.com/download/PDF/Barcode_Reference_EN.pdf)
* [Come, Let's Play: Scenario-Based Programming Using Live Sequence Charts](http://www.scribd.com/doc/175241338/Come-Let-s-Play)
* [Communicating Sequential Processes](http://www.usingcsp.com/cspbook.pdf) (PDF) by Tony Hoare
* [Computer Musings](http://scpd.stanford.edu/knuth/index.jsp) (lectures by Donald Knuth)
* [Designing Interfaces](http://designinginterfaces.com) by Jennifer Tidwell
* [DevDocs](http://devdocs.io/) - Documents for Developers in 1 place

####Javascript Frameworks
For resources on Angular.js, Backbone.js, D3.js, Dojo, Ember.js, Express.js, jQuery, Knockout.js, and any other JS toolkit/framework, please refer to [Javascript Frameworks Resources and Tutorials](http://resrc.io/list/18/javascript-frameworks/), or to its source file `javascript-frameworks-resources.md`.

####Node.js
* [JavaScript and Node FUNdamentals](https://leanpub.com/jsfun/read) *(Leanpub - by Azat Mardanov)*
...
* [Node.js Succinctly, Syncfusion](http://www.syncfusion.com/resources/techportal/ebooks/nodejs) (PDF, Kindle) *(Just fill the fields with any values)*

###LaTeX
* [The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX](http://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort/lshort.pdf) (PDF)
* [LaTeX Wikibook](http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX)
* [Arbirtrary LaTex Reference](http://latex.knobs-dials.com/)

See also [TeX](#tex)

###Markdown
* [Learn Markdown](https://www.gitbook.io/book/gitbookio/markdown) (PDF) (EPUB) (MOBI) - GitBookIO, Sammy P., Aaron O.

###Mercurial
* [HGInit - Mercurial Tutorial by Joel Spolsky](http://hginit.com/)
* [Mercurial: The Definitive Guide](http://hgbook.red-bean.com/) -

###Mercury

###Parrot / Perl 6
* [Using Perl 6](http://github.com/perl6/book/) (work in progress)

###PHP
* CakePHP Framework
    * [CakePHP Cookbook 2.x](http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/_downloads/en/CakePHPCookbook.pdf)
* Drupal Framework
    * Drupal 7
        * [The Tiny Book of Rules](https://drupal.org/files/tiny-book-of-rules.pdf) (PDF)
        * [Master Drupal in 7 hours](http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/54624702/Master%20Drupal%20in%207%20hours_v1.1.pdf) (PDF)
    * Drupal 8
* Laravel Framework
    * [Laravel 4 Official Documentation. Synced Daily](https://leanpub.com/l4)
    * [Official Documentation (Offline Version)](https://leanpub.com/l4-offline-doc)
    * [Laravel: Code Bright](http://daylerees.com/codebright)
* [PHP 5 Power Programming](http://www.informit.com/content/images/013147149X/downloads/013147149X_book.pdf)
* [PHP Best Practices](https://phpbestpractices.org/)
* [PHP Essentials](http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/PHP_Essentials)
* [PHP Internals Book](http://www.phpinternalsbook.com/)
* [PHP Programming](http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/PHP_Programming)
* [PHP Security Guide](http://phpsec.org/projects/guide/)
* [PHP: The Right Way](http://www.phptherightway.com/)
* [PHP with Guru99](http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/324888)
* [Practical PHP Programming](http://www.tuxradar.com/practicalphp) (wiki containing O'Reilly's *PHP In a Nutshell*)
* [Practical PHP Testing](http://www.giorgiosironi.com/2009/12/practical-php-testing-is-here.html)
* [Symfony2](http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/index.html)

###Python
* [A Beginner's Python Tutorial](http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/A_Beginner%27s_Python_Tutorial)
* [A Bit of Python and Other Things](http://jessenoller.com/good-to-great-python-reads/)
* [A Guide to Python's Magic Methods](http://www.rafekettler.com/magicmethods.html) - Rafe Kettler
* [Building Skills in Object-Oriented Design (Python)](http://www.itmaybeahack.com/book/oodesign-python-2.1/latex/BuildingSkillsinOODesign.pdf) (PDF) (2.1.1)
* [Building Skills in Python](http://www.itmaybeahack.com/book/python-2.6/latex/BuildingSkillsinPython.pdf) (PDF) (2.6)
* [Byte of Python](http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/Python) (2.7.x)
* [Data Structures and Algorithms in Python](http://www.brpreiss.com/books/opus7/html/book.html)
* [Dive into Python](http://www.diveintopython.net/) - Mark Pilgrim (2.3)
* [Dive into Python 3](http://getpython3.com/diveintopython3/) - Mark Pilgrim (3.0)
* [Full Stack Python](http://www.fullstackpython.com/)
* [Google's Python Class](https://developers.google.com/edu/python/?hl=de-DE&csw=1) (2.4 - 2.x)
* [Google's Python Style Guide](http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/pyguide.html)
* [Hacking Secret Cyphers with Python](http://inventwithpython.com/hacking/chapters/) - Al Sweigart (3.3)
* [Hitchiker's Guide to Python!](http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/) (2.6)
* [How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python](http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkCSpy/) - Allen B. Downey, Jeff Elkner and Chris Meyers (2.4)
    * [How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python, Interactive Edition](http://interactivepython.org/courselib/static/thinkcspy/index.html) (3.2)

###Scheme
* [An Introduction to Scheme and its Implementation](http://www.cs.rpi.edu/academics/courses/fall00/ai/scheme/reference/schintro-v14/schintro_toc.html)
* [Concrete Abstractions: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Scheme](https://gustavus.edu/+max/concrete-abstractions.html)
* [How to Design Programs](http://htdp.org)
* [Simply Scheme: Introducing Computer Science](http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ss-toc2.html)
* [Structure and Interpretion of Computer Programs](http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html)
* [Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days](http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dorai/t-y-scheme/t-y-scheme.html)
* The Scheme Programming Language [Edition 3](http://www.scheme.com/tspl3/), [Edition 4](http://www.scheme.com/tspl4/)
* [Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours](http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_Hours)

###TeX
* [Notes On Programming in TeX](http://pgfplots.sourceforge.net/TeX-programming-notes.pdf) (PDF) by Christian Feursänger
* [TeX by Topic, A TeXnician's Reference](http://eijkhout.net/texbytopic/texbytopic.html), by Victor Eijkhout
* [TeX for the Impatient](https://www.gnu.org/software/teximpatient/), by Paul Abrahams, Kathryn Hargreaves, and Karl Berry
* [The Computer Science of TeX and LaTeX](http://eijkhout.net/texsci/), by Victor Eijkhout

See also [LaTeX](#latex)

* [Clipper Tutorial: a Guide to Open Source Clipper(s)](http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Clipper_Tutorial%3A_a_Guide_to_Open_Source_Clipper(s))

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President Trump claimed a victory Thursday after the House approved a more free-market approach to health care.
"We have a failing health care — I shouldn't say this to our great gentleman and my friend from Australia," Trump said, as The Post's Abby Phillip reports, "because you have better health care than we do."
Consider this merely the latest evidence that Trump, in his heart of hearts, wants single-payer health care. Indeed, it seems to be his forbidden fruit.
Back in 2000, he advocated for it as both a potential Reform Party presidential candidate and in his book, "The America We Deserve."
"We must have universal health care. Just imagine the improved quality of life for our society as a whole," he wrote, adding: "The Canadian-style, single-payer system in which all payments for medical care are made to a single agency (as opposed to the large number of HMOs and insurance companies with their diverse rules, claim forms and deductibles) … helps Canadians live longer and healthier than Americans."
Just before the 2016 campaign, Trump appeared on David Letterman's show and held up Scotland's socialized system as the ideal.
Then, early in the 2016 campaign, he again praised the single-payer systems in Scotland and Canada — while also arguing that the United States needed to have a private system.
Asked on "Morning Joe" whether he supported single-payer, he said: "No, but it's certainly something that in certain countries works. It actually works incredibly well in Scotland. Some people think it really works in Canada. But not here, I don't think it would work as well here."
He said two days later at a GOP debate: "As far as single-payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland. It could have worked in a different age, which is the age you're talking about here."
Later on, Trump would repeatedly push for universal health care without specifically subscribing to the words "single-payer."
"Everybody's got to be covered. This is an un-Republican thing for me to say," Trump said in a September 2015 "60 Minutes" interview. "I am going to take care of everybody. I don't care if it costs me votes or not. Everybody's going to be taken care of much better than they're taken care of now."
He added when asked who is going to pay for it: "The government's gonna pay for it." That was enough for Breitbart, which would become vehemently pro-Trump during the 2016 campaign, to declare Trump had embraced single-payer.
And some see the current debate eventually winding up with single-payer.
Law professor F.H. Buckley argued in the New York Post last month that, in the face of defeat for the Republican health-care bill, Trump should just go for it. He argued that it would be a great thing for the Republican Party because it would eliminate Democrats' claim to being the party of compassion and that Trump's supporters would actually like it.
"Leave behind all the people who hated you, who curse when you succeed," Buckley wrote. "Reach out to the people who voted for you. Challenge the Democrats by offering them what they've always said they wanted."
Whatever happens, though, Trump's past — and now current — rhetoric doesn't lie: He's pretty impressed with government-run health care in the places it works. It's almost like he wishes he could do it here.
Republicans' health-care bill isn't really a health-care bill. It's a political prop.


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Sheila Liming's Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time is a thoughtful manifesto on the inherently subversive and joyous act of socializing. In seven chapters about different types of hanging out ("Dinner Parties as Hanging Out," "Hanging Out on the Job," etc.), Liming explores the fading art of leisure and its cultural roots.
Liming defines hanging out as a conscious act of refusal in a production-obsessed society. "Hanging out is about daring to do nothing much," she writes, "and, even more than that, about daring to do it in the company of others." She acknowledges that it is a peculiar time—amid the COVID-19 pandemic—to call for a return to the in-person hang, but this context is precisely why we are realizing the importance of spending idle time in physical communities. We cannot let corporate capitalism snatch away what is left of our free time, Liming argues. "Time is being stolen from us—not for the first time . . . but at newly unprecedented rates."
Hanging Out reads as a chattier, slightly more precious version of How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell. The book embraces its call for intentional meandering with wide-ranging references and a loose narrative structure. An English professor, Liming is unsurprisingly the most compelling when she incorporates literary criticism into her treatise. While the personal stories drag, the fiction references crackle. This is particularly true in her analysis of "party literature" in the chapter "Hanging Out at Parties," in which Liming looks at several 20th-century novels and examines the different ways parties have functioned as social mechanisms.
What is quickly revealed in Liming's contemplative writing is that hanging out—and all of its possible ramifications, limitations and effects—is too enormous a subject to comprehensively discuss. Instead, Liming uses her time to argue for the importance of mingling with others and finding time, even in an increasingly virtual world, to enjoy the hang.
This article was originally published by Bookpage.com. Read the original article here.
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Published: July 30, 2015, 12:00 am
Tags: Jimmy Hoffa, News
Interview: Charles Brandt, author 'I Heard You Paint Houses'
Frank Sheeran and Jimmy Hoffa (Photos courtesy of Charles Brandt, Getty Images)
Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran had long been a suspect in Jimmy Hoffa disappearance. Shortly before his death in 2003, Sheeran confessed to the crime in a memoir "I Heard You Paint Houses," co-authored by Charles Brandt.
An associate of Philadelphia mafia boss Russell Bufalino and a Teamsters official, Sheeran had been a Hoffa ally. But when Bufalino and other organized crime figures turned on Hoffa, Sheeran sided with his organized crime mentor.
According to his confession, Sheeran came to Detroit on July 30, 1975 ostensibly to attend the wedding of Bufalino's niece to the son of criminal defense attorney William Bufalino (no relation). Sheeran claims he used that opportunity and his friendship with Hoffa to lure Hoffa from the Machus Red Fox parking lot to a house where he ultimately killed.
While law enforcement has never verified Sheeran's story, his name appears in the FBI's "Hoffex" memo.
ClickOnDetroit interviewed Sheeran's co-author Charles Brandt, about his confession and life.
In "I Heard You Paint Houses," you describe Russell Bufalino as possibly the most powerful crime boss in America at one time, though he was less known than Carlo Gambino or Sam Giancana. Sheeran portrays himself as Bufalino's go-to muscle. Who were these men and how did they enter Jimmy Hoffa's orbit?
Jimmy Hoffa was more in their orbit than they were in his. Presidents were elected by delegates at a convention, not by the rank-and-file. Fat Tony Salerno, the boss of the Genovese family, which sat on the ruling Mafia Commission at the time of Hoffa's murder, controlled a large block of delegates. After Hoffa was killed Fat Tony Salerno was picked up on a wiretap dictating to the Teamsters Union whom their next President would be. Salerno was prosecuted for that in the Mafia Commission Case.
Russell Bufalino was the boss of Pennsylvania, excluding Philadelphia; and the boss of New York State excluding Buffalo and most of New York City. Nevertheless, his holdings in Manhattan were extensive: restaurants including the Vesuvio Restaurant in the theater district, his hangout; two jewelry stores in the diamond district on 47th Street; and the Copacabana nightclub. Bufalino had final script approval of the movie The Godfather.
While Bufalino did not sit on the Ruling Commission, his status within the Mafia was enormous and no major undertaking was done without his approval or his planning and leadership of the operation.
Bufalino kept a suite at the Hotel Consulate and went to Manhattan with Frank Sheeran every Thursday. Lin DeVecchio, the FBI Supervisor of the Mafia Commission Case that liquidated the Mafia's Ruling Commission for all time, told me for our co-authored book, "We're Going to Win This Thing" that he had Bufalino's Hotel Consulate suite bugged and his phone tapped but Bufalino was so old school that he never talked business in his suite or on the phone.
Undercover FBI Agent Joe Pistone, the real Donnie Brasco told me for our co-authored book, "Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business" that he hung around at the bar at the Vesuvio on Thursday nights posing as a jewel thief trying to listen for intelligence, but Bufalino kept to himself even though Bufalino did a lot of business with jewel thieves.
There are several circumstantial reasons to believe Sheeran's story. The FBI mentions him prominently in the Hoffex memo, for instance, and the two men had been close. At the same time, there have been many Hoffa stories. What convinced you Sheeran's account was credible?
"In the parking lot Sheeran lured Hoffa into a car driven by Chuckie O'Brien and containing Sheeran and Sal Briguglio who worked for Provenzano. Frank told Hoffa the meeting location had been changed and that Hoffa's ally and Frank's Mafia boss Russell Bufalino would be at this meeting."
I am a professional interrogator. I know when a subject has a need to confess. I taught interrogation to cops and cross-examination to other lawyers. I didn't have Frank on the witness stand for an afternoon; I had Frank to myself for close to five years.
Frank was truly remorseful. Frank was raised a strict Roman Catholic. His father had studied for the priesthood and his mother went to mass every morning. Before his 411 combat days in World War II, Frank had never done anything wrong in his life.
Following his final and most significant confession to me done on videotape, a remorseful Frank Sheeran took Communion from the priest and committed suicide by refusing to eat. He was dead in six weeks. Since publication in 2004, Frank's confessions have been corroborated by others.
Looking at Sheeran's story critically, he puts himself at so many significant organized crime events. He claims he delivered guns to Dallas before the Kennedy assassination, that he killed Crazy Joey Gallo, that he took Bufalino to Apalachin, that he delivered a bribe to John Mitchell. Do we have to separate fact from some fiction here, or do you think Sheeran was on the level?
On the level in every way. After Big Billy D'Elia corroborated Sheeran, the FBI's Detroit office interviewed me by phone and subpoenaed my tapes. In a nearly five-year period I questioned and re-questioned Frank on tape to ensure that it was all true.
When you're as close as he was to two of the most powerful men of that era you are going to be exposed to a great many things.
The Gallo integrity test is the best demonstration of Frank's integrity. Frank confessed to that hit in the face of an overwhelming number of claims that three Italians did it.
Interestingly, the bribe to John Mitchell was the one item that my publisher Chip Fleischer had a little trouble with. In visiting his parents he told them about the book he was eager to buy, but not being alive during Watergate he had trouble imagining that an Attorney General would take bribes. Chip's father had been a very prominent attorney in Kansas City. His parents told Chip that a close family friend told them during the relevant period that Kansas Senator Bob Dole had told the family friend that he was concerned about the tons of cash that Nixon and Mitchell were taking in as if they were preparing, as future Presidential candidate Dole put it, "to finance a coup."
As a former prosecutor, have you seen evidence that strengthens or weakens your belief in Sheeran's story in the 11 years since "I Heard You Paint Houses" was published?
HOFFA – In 2006, the Bufalino family boss who succeeded Bufalino on his death, the former underboss to Russell and Russell's nephew, Big Billy D'Elia, a man who didn't like me and didn't trust me to be traveling with Frank in Mafia circles, got arrested for ordering hits on two government witnesses on tape. For a reduced sentence Big Billy D'Elia became a cooperating witness for the FBI. The first question the agents asked him in jail was what happened to Hoffa and he told them Sheeran had told the truth. When "I Heard You Paint Houses" came out in 2004 Big Billy D'Elia had inscribed it to one of his men, Frank Pavlico: "Sometimes you can believe everything you read."
GALLO – In 2004 a top editor on the New York Times saw Frank's photo in I Heard You Paint Houses. It gave her "chills." She had been at Umberto's Clam House in New York's Little Italy the early morning that "Crazy Joey" Gallo was shot to death. She fled with her friends and over the years had not read any accounts.
The prevailing story was that Gallo had been killed by three Italian shooters. There are several books and two movies that portray the murder as the work of three Italians. During my sessions with Frank, I challenged him with these stories when he told me that he'd killed Gallo and that he did it by himself.
This NY Times editor eyewitness positively identified a photo of Sheeran as the shooter and said that Frank had no one else with him. Frank was directly in front of her while shooting. With her face hidden she later picked Frank out on camera for PBS television's Histories Mysteries.
The Gallo case belonged to NYPD Det. Joe Coffey, who had founded the NYPD Organized Crime Homicide Division. He agreed that Frank was the lone killer of Gallo. He explained that he had allowed that story of three Italian men doing the shooting to circulate unanswered to serve as what law enforcement calls an "integrity test." Any street informant who came forward to sell information about the three shooters would be instantly dismissed for failing the "integrity test" because it was a lone gunman who was very large and not Italian. Frank and I passed the test.
Based on Sheeran's account, of the other alleged players in the Hoffa murder, who else was actually involved and how? Tony Provenzano? Tony Giacalone? Chuckie O'Brien? Sal Briguglio? Frank Fitzsimmons?
Provenzano and Giacalone were part of the set up to lure Hoffa to a meeting at the Machus Red Fox Restaurant in Bloomington Township to square a personal beef between Hoffa and Provenzano and to enlist Provenzano's support in Hoffa's upcoming 1976 union election.
In the parking lot Sheeran lured Hoffa into a car driven by Chuckie O'Brien and containing Sheeran and Sal Briguglio who worked for Provenzano. Frank told Hoffa the meeting location had been changed and that Hoffa's ally and Frank's Mafia boss Russell Bufalino would be at this meeting. In Hoffa's mind having Russell there would be good news. The car took Hoffa to what Hoffa thought would be a meeting with Bufalino at a house in Detroit where instead he was killed on walking in.
The cleaners who took the body to a crematorium were brothers Tom and Steve Andretta. Frank wasn't involved in the cremation and so he doesn't know which cemetery Hoffa's body was taken to. A Taylor, Michigan police officer Jeff Hansen did his own investigation and wrote a book about his search and his conclusions, "Digging For the Truth."
As Frank put it to emphasize that the body was cremated and not buried: "If there was a body to be found, the FBI would have found it a long time ago."
Fitzsimmons played no role. All are dead, but O'Brien. He is living in Boca Raton, FL and Tom Andretta who is living in Las Vegas NV. Because these two are still alive it remains an open FBI case.
What did Sheeran understand as the motive for the hit?
There were three interconnected motives.
First, when Hoffa went to jail, courtesy of Attorney General Bobby Kennedy's personal crusade against Hoffa, Hoffa put a weakling Frank Fitzsimmons in charge as President with Hoffa still calling important shots from jail. The Teamsters Central States Pension Fund was a billion dollar fund in 1960s money that Hoffa had made available over the years for loans in real estate development, mostly Las Vegas casinos. The Mafia, often through Bufalino helped builders get these loans and took a ten percent finder's fee, which was split with Hoffa under the table.
Under Hoffa the loans were legitimate, collateralized and repaid into the pension fund. Under the weakling Fitzsimmons the loans were not so legitimate and the Mafia misused the billion-dollar fund. When Hoffa was released from prison on a pardon by President Richard Nixon in 1971, Hoffa announced publicly and repeatedly that he was going to run for President against Fitz in 1976 and that once he got his hands on the Pension Fund records he was going to expose all the bad loans Fitz had made to the Mafia.
This was loose talk, "puffing" that Frank [Sheeran] did not believe Hoffa intended to put into action. Nevertheless, that talk and talk like it that was just as threatening to the Mafia, sealed Hoffa's fate. Both Frank and Russell tried to warn Hoffa at a meeting at Broadway Eddie's in Philadelphia in 1974. But Hoffa couldn't be talked to. When Frank told Hoffa "what it is", meaning Hoffa would be killed if he didn't drop out of the race, Hoffa replied, "They wouldn't dare."
Second, capo Tony Provenzano and his boss Fat Tony Salerno of the Genovese family controlled Fitz, and even if Hoffa had controlled his incendiary language they were not about to let Hoffa run in the next election and take away their golden goose, an election Hoffa likely would have won.
Third, Pro and Hoffa had a deep feud going back to their days in jail together in the 1960s. At a meeting in Miami, when both were out of jail, held to square the prison beef, instead, Pro threatened to kill Hoffa's grandchildren and rip out Hoffa's guts.
But the main motive was control of that billion-dollar pension fund. As Frank put it: "I don't have to tell you how much juice comes out of a billion dollars."
The FBI's files on the Hoffa disappearance mention Sheeran prominently. It seems like they understood what happened. Why do you think the Feds were unable to crack this case and make arrests?
Bob Garrity, the Hoffa Case Agent, the FBI agent in charge of the investigation from day one and the author of the Hoffex Memo, cracked the who-done-it part very quickly, but could not learn what the participants did. Nobody talked. Nobody could even be interrogated. The 1966 Supreme Court decision of Miranda v. Arizona took power away from law enforcement when it came to picking up suspects for interrogation. Miranda put into the hands of the criminal a mute button on the remote control. Press the button and the cop who picks you up can't ask a single question. As a result, picking a suspect up for questioning has pretty much gone out of style except in old movies. For example, Frank was in jail with one of the infamous 1950s Brinks Armored Car robbers. From informants the Boston Police knew who had done the job, but had no proof. For eight years the police picked up the suspects and interrogated them. Finally, one of them confessed and implicated the others. No can do since 1966.
However, all of the Hoffa suspects were pursued for whatever crimes the authorities could get on them. The way Al Capone was pursued and jailed for tax evasion the FBI got them all for something. The FBI got Frank for Labor Racketeering and he was sentenced to 32 years; when someone else might have gotten five years. The FBI visited him in jail regularly, but he used his mute button. I got Frank released on early parole for medical reasons after he had served nine years, and that's how our relationship got started.
What did Hoffa's disappearance ultimately mean for organized crime and the Teamsters?
As a result of the Hoffa case the FBI put on tons of new agents. As I recall, 200 or so. Many leads were developed and evidence gathered that would be put to use against the Mafia.
The Teamsters were put under and still are under a federal receivership.
I believe it exposed the Mafia to headline after headline for many years and that alone proved damaging to the bosses, and therefore, to the crucial "organized" part of organized crime.
The real damage began to be done to the Mafia about five years after Hoffa's disappearance by the FBI's New York office of Organized Crime under then United States Attorney Rudy Giuliani; by FBI Supervisor Jim Kossler; and by the agents that I call the New Untouchables in the books I wrote with undercover agent Joe Pistone, the bravest law enforcement officer ever, a man who lived with death day and night as an associate in the Bonanno crime family and by the supervisor of the RICO case against the Mafia Commission, Lin DeVecchio whose skills at informant development decapitated the Mafia by destroying the Commission.
Lin's "crown jewel" of an informant Greg "The Grim Reaper" Scarpa was responsible for nearly all of the probable cause used to tap and bug the Mafia Commission. In retaliation, the Mafia unsuccessfully tried to frame Lin for murder.
In addition, Prof. G. Robert Blakey of Notre Dame law school, a former Mafia fighter under Bobby Kennedy wrote new laws, especially the RICO statute, that the New Untouchables were able to use effectively to bring the Mafia to its knees.
By the Way, Frank Sheeran was one of only two non-Italians who were sued by Rudy Giuliani in the Civil part of the RICO Mafia Commission Case with the likes of Fat Tony Salerno. The other was Moishe Rockman, the Jewish brother-in-law of the Cleveland boss John Scalise, married to Scalise's sister and in charge of the Cleveland family's interests in Las Vegas.
A movie is in development about Sheeran. Are you involved in the production and what can we expect from the film?
The names of the artists involved speak loudly for what we can expect from the film. Martin Scorsese is expected to both produce and direct. Robert De Niro is expected to both produce and star as Frank Sheeran. Al Pacino, Joe Pesci and Bobby Cannavale are expected to costar.
The screenplay adaptation of "I Heard You Paint Houses" is by Steve Zaillian who won the Oscar for Schindler's List and has written many acclaimed movies, such as American Gangster and Moneyball. I hope to serve as an advisor. I don't know when it might be filmed, but getting these big name artists together at the same time must be difficult for the producers.
The working title has been "The Irishman," but recently in a Wall Street Journal video interview Robert De Niro said he preferred the movie be titled "I Heard You Paint Houses" after the book.
To paint a house is to kill someone. The "paint" is the blood that spatters on the walls and the floor. "I Heard You Paint Houses" were the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever uttered to Frank Sheeran when Russell Bufalino introduced Frank to Hoffa.
Charles Brandt will join us at 3:00 p.m. for a live web chat to answer your questions about the Hoffa case and Frank Sheeran's life.
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How Democrats Can Win Texas in 2022
By: Paul Stekler
In 2003, I interviewed Karl Rove in the White House. At the height of his powers as George W. Bush's political guru, he consented to what was his first filmed interview because the subject was not President Bush, but how he helped make the Republican Party dominant in Texas.
He described the GOP ascent, running candidates who articulated a message that appealed to the state's conservative tilt. But he acknowledged that Democrats might have a hope someday if they were able to identify races where a good candidate with a strong and powerful message might get elected, "perhaps by accident, perhaps as an upset, perhaps looking for opportunities that might not be easily seen."
Two decades later, as unlikely as it might seem, 2022 may be that time.
When the Supreme Court declined to halt Texas' new abortion legislation, on top of a new voter restriction law, our state became the epicenter of national attention. This came as a result of Republicans in the Legislature, emboldened by their wins in 2020, passing perhaps the most ideologically right wing set of bills in the history of the state.
In the face of this, what can Democrats in Texas do? Donors were demoralized after the expectations that Democrats would build on their 2018 gains were totally dashed this past year. Partisan gerrymandering won't help either. But even with Democrats, fearful of COVID-19, abandoning door-to-door contacts, flipping just over 10,000 votes statewide would have given them control of the state House. Joe Biden came just 6% short against Donald Trump, the Democrats' best result in more than two decades.
So how can Democrats win in 2022? Look at the issues and how next year's political messaging might work.
Texans froze and died when the state's energy grid failed in February, but despite promises, the Republican Legislature did virtually nothing.
After the murder of 23 innocent victims in an El Paso Walmart, the Republican Legislature's response was to allow anyone to buy and display handguns without a permit.
After a state election that the GOP won — an election that saw increased voter participation and no evidence of voter fraud — sweeping measures that will decrease minority turnout were passed. Partisan poll watchers were also empowered to harass poll workers doing their jobs.
Conservatives used to believe in local control whenever possible. Now the desperate attempts of local school boards and city governments to protect children in public education, with mask mandates in schools, have been overruled by a defiant governor and the state's attorney general.
And we now have the Texas GOP allocating about $1 billion to keep building a Rio Grande border wall that is an environmental disaster and does virtually nothing, along with legislation that empowers neighbors and strangers to sue anyone abetting abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, with a bounty as their reward.
Gradually, what the state Republicans have done this year is sinking in. The latest UT Texas Policy Project poll showed that 52% of Texans think the state is headed in the wrong direction, the worst recorded percentage since 2008. Gov. Greg Abbott's disapproval ratings have risen to 50%.
The issues are there for Democratic candidates who are skillful enough to use them. But in a country and a state suffering from two viruses, the coronavirus and political polarization, both of which are killing us, perhaps this is also the moment for a message that transcends pure politics.
Can a message of working together, not hating those you disagree with, cut through in Texas? A message of acknowledging and pledging to try and cure the sickness of division? Can we do better than pit Texan against Texan for ideological and partisan gain?
This message, on top of a reaction to the divisive actions taken by our state's elected leaders, just might resonate. Delivered by candidates capable of gaining the attention of Texans. It's a message that just might win.
Paul Stekler is a documentary filmmaker and the Wofford Denius Chair in Entertainment Studies in the Moody College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin.
A version of this op-ed appeared in the Austin American-Statesman, San Antonio Express News, Waco Tribune Herald and the Bryon Eagle.


22 July— The Only Real Victim is Whoever Watches This Tragedy!
Where were you on 22 July 2011? For myself, I had just graduated high school and was at my first job as a summer camp dishwasher, at a place that overworked and underpaid me. On top of that, I struggled across two months to find someone willing to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 with me. Overall, 2011 became the most miserable summer I ever had, but that was a day at Disneyland compared to the 69 teenagers and 8 adults killed by Anders Behring Breivik, an anti-Muslim, right-wing Christian extremist—the one responsible for Norway's deadliest mass tragedy since WWII.
It of course remains greatly unfortunate that these lives ended on a day like any other; if you ask me, the one who causes such a disaster ought to pay back double to whomever family he took a precious child away from. Similarly, the filmmakers behind 22 July should pay back double to the victims, both of the tragedy and the audience seats, for their great disservice done to the memory of this horrific day. Instead of an actual movie, Netflix craps out a Wikipedia article converted into a screenplay that diffuses any emotionally heavy hits.
Everybody, particularly the man portraying Breivik, Anders Danielsen Lie, strains through the sensitive subject without clear direction. He starts by slumping through his dull moments in the motiveless beginning, then leads up to his anticlimactic presence into a "big finish" by attempting an emotional monologue to match Matt Damon's improvised story near Saving Private Ryan's climax, except without heartful sincerity. Another atrocious performance by Ola G. Furuseth, the prime minister, is impossible to take seriously with his empty speech… even Inglourious Basterds is easier to take seriously!
Then there's the teenage "actors," none of which can create trauma with even one-tenth the transparency of Chiwetel Ejiofor's wide-ranged emotions in 12 Years a Slave. First off, there's Seda Witt's naïve performance as a useless love interest who serves no plot importance besides delivering the message that feels written last minute. Then there's the boy playing Viljar Hanssen, who suffers from random inconsistent framing tossed around by the director/screenwriter Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips, United 93).
Greengrass fails hard to help you identify with anyone as he jumps between subplots without rhyme or reason, the randomly selected scenes setting an infinitely random compilation. Nothing is learned about anybody at a personal level, their spoken words written only to push plot progression, not to establish the fire-breathing conflict. The deepest it goes in giving actually important information is Anders calling his targets, "Marxists," due to his presumption that Europe promotes a false Democracy. That's it, nothing else informative to be found here. As if this wasn't inauthentic enough: Despite its Norwegian setting, everyone speaks English! Pretty disrespectful, isn't it?
The only authentic thing about this noise is the look of the land, being the foggy weather that freezes into pale snow that looks of former beauty now the consistency of ashes. It contrasts the numerous nasty surgical procedures seen in the bloody reality of the hospital, ugliness penetrating deeper after smoke bellows out a blown-up building before the attack that sends these victims to that hospital. But even then, these low points of humanity still turn unintentionally hideous from how little real conflict is recreated.
Thus, teenage boy viewers will feel little connection with the little tangibility of fear triggered, instead of each victim's backstory utilized through the narrative in the same fashion done by something like Schindler's List or Spotlight, it abuses the typical scared, scrunched, crying faces to force out emotions. It's inexcusable that this little care went into a biopic about something so recent, especially something American people need to hear, something that will hit uncomfortably close to home for all the relevant issues of gun violence and the public image of the law force.
Which stinks, because if the story of Viljar Hanssen, the focused survivor of this film, was pursued further, seeing him suffer through his struggle of limping on a cane would generate a sincerer desire to see good come of him. A better screenwriter could have matched this subject matter's power to how Titanic generated empathy for the unnamed background faces just by detailing their predicament, but instead, 22 July does no help besides merely telling people that this event existed.
Better surveys of tragic chaos include The Hurt Locker, Paul Greengrass's Oscar nominated United 93, or even Deepwater Horizon, which while also surface-level, still made the destruction of its water piece look incredible. Heck, most other surveys of historical turmoil would be better than this not-incredible, disrespectful rubble pile.
22 July. Netflix. Web. <https://www.netflix.com/title/80210932>.
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Help nesting sea turtles by keeping beaches dark and free of obstacles at night
Posted on March 1, 2018 by Staff reports
Keeping beaches dark at night and free of obstacles will help sea turtles during their nesting season, which begins in Florida on March 1 and lasts through the end of October.
Bright artificial lighting can misdirect and disturb nesting sea turtles and their hatchlings, so beachgoers should avoid using flashlights or cellphones at night. Turning out lights or closing curtains and shades in buildings along the beach after dark will ensure nesting turtles are not disturbed as they come ashore and hatchlings will not become disoriented when they emerge from their nests. Clearing away boats and beach furniture at the end of the day and filling in holes in the sand are also important because turtles can become trapped in furniture and get trapped in holes on the beach.
Florida's beachfront residents and visitors taking these actions will help conserve the loggerhead, leatherback and green sea turtles that nest on the state's coastlines.
"Keeping Florida's beaches dark and uncluttered at night can help protect sea turtles that return to nest on our beaches," said Dr. Robbin Trindell, who heads the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's (FWC) sea turtle management program. "Many agency partners, such as nature centers, marine turtle permit holders and local governments, contribute greatly to sea turtle conservation. But caring beachgoers can also make a significant difference in helping nesting and hatchling sea turtles survive."
Exactly when sea turtle nesting season starts depends on where you are in Florida. While it begins in March on the Atlantic coast from Brevard through Broward counties, it starts later in the spring, in late April or May, along the northeast Atlantic, the Keys and Gulf coasts.
Wherever you are, other ways to help sea turtles include properly disposing of fishing line to avoid entanglements, and reporting those that are sick, injured, entangled or dead to the FWC's Wildlife Alert Hotline at 888-404-FWCC (3922) or #FWC or *FWC on a cellphone.
Purchasing a "Helping Sea Turtles Survive" Florida license plate at Buyaplate.com contributes to sea turtle research, rescue and conservation efforts. People also can donate $5 and receive an FWC sea turtle decal.
Go to MyFWC.com/SeaTurtle for more information on Florida's sea turtles, and click on "Research," then "Nesting" for more data on sea turtle nesting.


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The Chessie System Railroad Corporation (or simply Chessie System, Chessie or, CS) was a railroad corporation or holding company which owned three railroads: the Baltimore And Ohio (B&O), Chesapeake And Ohio (C&O), and Western Maryland (WM) railroad companies in the Eastern United States in North America.
The railroad corporation's iconic "Chessie Cat", "Sleeping Chessie", "Sleeping Kitty", or "Sleeping Cat" logo. (Many nicknames were given to the actual logo.)
The C&O initially created the corporation and served as the leading company or stockholder for such (though the railroad itself initially established and controlled everything as a whole, while the B&O and WM were responsible for freight operations).
The company officially existed from 1973 to 1980; yet was dissolved up until 1985 due to the merger with the Seaboard System Corporation, thus the creation of the CSX Corporation.
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In 1972, the Chesapeake And Ohio (C&O) railroad negotiated plans to merge with the Baltimore And Ohio (B&O) railroad due to covering most of the same trackage, and that both railroads were practically "neighbors" who never interferred with one another (except for several occasions). The initial success of the Penn Central merger led to the inspiration for most "neighboring" freight railroads to acquire one another by merging as a result of "staying alive" during the "Decline of Railroads" era which occurred from 1959 to around 1985 (minus the "Mega Merger" era from 1988 to 2002), as a result of trucks and interstate "super highways" over-taking trains and railroads with revenue freight, general goods, and consumer product service (besides the decline of passenger service leading to the formation of Amtrak).
But as a result of financial issues leading to the initial bankrupcy of the Penn Central in 1973-1974, the Interstate Commerce Commission (Department of Transportation) objected the plan for the proposed merger between the B&O and C&O until further notice until things were situated between the bankrupt Penn Central, the Reading Railroad (RDG), and the Erie-Lackawanna Eastern-based railroads which were also on the verge of becoming financially debt and almost into bankrupcy due to severe revenue loss. Thus, during the formation of the Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) and the government's attempts to solving the issues and redeveloping the troubled Eastern railroad economy between 1973-1976 (Conrail, in-turn wasn't officially established until April 1, 1976; three years after the Chessie's establishment), the Chessie System Corporation was established on February 26, 1973 as a result of the ICC's realization after being convinced by then-C&O president Cyrus S. Eaton of the state or status of the troubled rail economy in the East, and opted to give the Corporation a chance at an attempt to redevelop freight revenue throughout the East Coast on the B&O and C&O's respective systems (while the ICC focused on the PC and numerous other failing railroads by loaning funds, though proved to be even much more less than successful).
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When we look back at our humble beginnings, we start at our love for Stone Work. There are few Landscape Services that can impact a property as much as a quality stone walkway or patio. Plymouth Landscaping offers a variety of options for you to chose when looking at stone work and masonry. Many times this project is part of the "Big Picture" that you have when designing your new wonderland.


Working with some of the best songwriters and producers in Los Angeles, Scottish singer/songwriter JOSEPH is making moves in the industry. Known for his unique vocal tone, melodies, lyrical concepts and vocal production.
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Stuart Skinner (né le  à Edmonton dans la province de l'Alberta au Canada) est un joueur professionnel canadien de hockey sur glace. Il évolue au poste de gardien de but.

Biographie

Carrière en club
En 2013, il commence sa carrière en junior avec les Hurricanes de Lethbridge dans la Ligue de hockey de l'Ouest. Le , il est échangé aux Broncos de Swift Current avec qui remporte la Coupe Ed-Chynoweth 2018. Il est choisi au troisième tour, en soixante-dix-huitième position par les Oilers d'Edmonton lors du repêchage d'entrée dans la LNH 2017. Il passe professionnel en 2018 dans l'ECHL avec les Condors de Bakersfield.

Le , il joue son premier match dans la Ligue nationale de hockey avec les Oilers face aux Sénateurs d'Ottawa.

Après le début de saison 2022-2023 où il affiche un dossier de 9-8-1, un taux d'arrêt de ,915 et une moyenne de buts alloués de 2,83, les Oilers lui accordent une prolongation de contrat de 3 ans. Cette entente qui entrera en vigueur en saison 2023-2024 lui rapportera une valeur de 7,8 millions $.

Carrière internationale
Il représente le Canada en sélections jeunes.

Trophées et honneurs personnels

Ligue nationale de hockey
2022-2023 : participe au  Match des étoiles

Notes et références

Naissance en novembre 1998
Naissance à Edmonton
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Choix de repêchage des Oilers d'Edmonton
Joueur des Hurricanes de Lethbridge
Joueur des Broncos de Swift Current
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Q: NSLayoutConstraint and determining which subview is wider I create a UISwitch and a UILabel in a subclassed container UIView:
UISwitch *toggleSwitch = [UISwitch new];
toggleSwitch.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = FALSE;
[toggleSwitch addTarget:self action:@selector(switchToggleDetected:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventValueChanged];
self.toggleSwitch = toggleSwitch;

[self addSubview:toggleSwitch];

UILabel *label = [UILabel new];
label.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = FALSE;
label.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentCenter;
label.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
label.font = [UIFont fontWithName:HELVETICA_FONT_STYLE_BOLD size:10.0];
label.text = [self.text uppercaseString];

self.label = label;

[self addSubview:label];

[self addConstraints:[NSLayoutConstraint constraintsWithVisualFormat:@"V:|[toggleSwitch]-5-[label]" options:NSLayoutFormatAlignAllCenterX metrics:nil views:NSDictionaryOfVariableBindings(toggleSwitch, label)]];
[self addConstraints:[NSLayoutConstraint constraintsWithVisualFormat:@"H:|[toggleSwitch]|" options:NSLayoutFormatAlignAllCenterY metrics:nil views:NSDictionaryOfVariableBindings(toggleSwitch, label)]];

[self addConstraint:[NSLayoutConstraint constraintWithItem:self attribute:NSLayoutAttributeRight relatedBy:NSLayoutRelationEqual toItem:label attribute:NSLayoutAttributeRight multiplier:1 constant:0]];
[self addConstraint:[NSLayoutConstraint constraintWithItem:self attribute:NSLayoutAttributeBottom relatedBy:NSLayoutRelationEqual toItem:label attribute:NSLayoutAttributeBottom multiplier:1 constant:0]];

which gives me this:

The last two constraints lets me give the container view an "intrinsic size". The container would be rect(0,0,0,0). I then tell the right side should be the same width as the UILabel and the bottom should be the same value as the UILabel to give a height.
The problem I may run is when the label is shorter then the switch:

This will lead to an issue with the switch container view not being placed correct:
[contentImageView addConstraints:[NSLayoutConstraint constraintsWithVisualFormat:@"H:|-5-[toggleView]" options:0 metrics:nil views:NSDictionaryOfVariableBindings(toggleView)]];

So I would like to base the constraints on the longer of the two, either the switch or the label but I'm not sure how to determine which is wider. The switch is a constant width, but I can not get the width of the label until after is added to screen which would be too late.
I've tried adding [self layoutIfNeeded] and [label layoutIfNeeded]:
[self layoutIfNeeded];
[label layoutIfNeeded];

DLog(@"label: %@", label);
DLog(@"switch: %@", toggleSwitch);

//Constraints added here

result:
DEBUG | -[SwitchContainerView createContainerSwitch] | label: <UILabel: 0x7af7c6d0; frame = (0 0; 0 0); text = 'ON'; userInteractionEnabled = NO; layer = <_UILabelLayer: 0x7af7c7b0>>
DEBUG | -[SwitchContainerView createContainerSwitch] | switch: <UISwitch: 0x7af7b370; frame = (0 0; 51 31); layer = <CALayer: 0x7af7b430>>

Any suggestions on determining which of the two is wider?

A: There is no need for you to "determine which is wider" - just set up the constraints and walk away, and let auto layout do its job. Simply use two constraints with inequalities / priorities to determine the width of the containing superview relative to the two subviews.
I achieved this arrangement using constraints alone - all I'm doing at this point is changing the text of the label:

Whenever the label text is short, the superview is 20 points wider than the switch. Whenever the label text is long, the superview is 20 points wider than the label. That is configured entirely with constraints. Here are the constraints that determine the width of the yellow superview in my screen shots (as shown in the debugger console):
UIView:0x7fdb03435450.width >= UISwitch:0x7fdb034355c0.width + 20 priority:999
UIView:0x7fdb03435450.width >= UILabel:0x7fdb03433260'Infundibulum'.width + 20 priority:999

The constraints do not change; I set them up once and the layout just works, and keeps working as the text of the label changes.


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Somos un equipo que asume el desafío de trabajar para la mejora continua del servicio de justicia para una
mayor satisfacción de los usuarios internos y externos, mediante la planificación de proyectos institucionales
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Ser el modelo de instancia institucional interna que consolide la cultura de la autogestión, promueva la
interacción y coordinación entre unidades e intermedie en el uso de nuevas tecnologías, liderando el cambio
orientado por la calidad.


There is a movement afoot in New York (and other places) to allow private companies to house and mine tons of information about children and how they learn. It's being touted as a great way to tailor online learning tools to kids, but it also raises all sorts of potential creepy modeling problems, and one very bad sign is how secretive everything is in terms of privacy issues. Specifically, it's all being done through school systems and without consulting parents.
The issue is super important and timely, and parents have been left out of the loop, with no opt-out option, and are actively fighting back, for example with this petition from MoveOn (h/t George Peacock). And although the InBloomers claim that no data about their kids will ever be sold, that doesn't mean it won't be used by third parties for various mining purposes and possibly marketing – say for test prep tools. In fact that's a major feature of InBloom's computer and data infrastructure, the ability for third parties to plug into the data. Not cool that this is being done on the downlow.
Who's behind this? InBloom is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation and the operating system for inBloom is being developed by the Amplify division (formerly Wireless Generation) of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. More about the Murdoch connection here.
InBloom essentially offers off-site digital storage for student data—names, addresses, phone numbers, attendance, test scores, health records—formatted in a way that enables third-party education applications to use it. When inBloom was launched in February, the company announced partnerships with school districts in nine states, and parents were outraged. Fears of a "national database" of student information spread. Critics said that school districts, through inBloom, were giving their children's confidential data away to companies who sought to profit by proposing a solution to a problem that does not exist. Since then, all but three of those nine states have backed out.
Finally, according to this nydailynews article, Bill de Blasio is coming out on the side of protecting children's privacy as well. That's a good sign, let's hope he sticks with it.
I'm not against using technology to learn, and in fact I think it's inevitable and possibly very useful. But first we need to have a really good, public discussion about how this data is being shared, controlled, and protected, and that simply hasn't happened. I'm glad to see parents are aware of this as a problem.
I agree. A public discussion (and then some restrictions on) "how data is being shared, controlled, protected…" would be great.
Not just for data on children but all of us. Data on children is clearly a particular area of concern and perhaps a good way to get people to focus on the issue.
It would be nice to hear from some parents who don't come across as total Luddites on the issue, and who don't seem ignorant of the fact that school districts would be incredibly handicapped if they couldn't keep track some pretty basic information about students. So far the opponents have nothing to offer except for rather hysterical speculation about unspecified wrongdoing that could hypothetically occur.
That's what happens when reasonable standards are not in place – people concentrate on worst-case scenarios. I totally get that, and that's why reasonable laws protecting student data are urgent and crucial.
You mean "historical speculation about well-documented wrongdoing".


As soon as I heard about this book I knew I wanted to read it. Just mix a sinister house, a mysterious owner and thrown in a scary past and you know you have an excellent thriller!
This one sounds really scary! I would, indeed, read this with the lights on! I hope you enjoy reading this one. Thanks for sharing.


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Humboldt's Cappa Selected By Tampa Bay In NFL Draft
Alex Cappa was a four-time GNAC Offensive Lineman of the Year and is the ninth Humboldt State player selected in the NFL Draft's common era.
All-Time GNAC NFL & CFL Draft Selections
Cappa's NFL Draft Profile
by Humboldt State Athletic Communications
ARCATA, Calif. – Humboldt State All-American offensive lineman Alex Cappa was selected by Tampa Bay in the third round of the 2018 National Football League Draft.
The Buccaneers picked Cappa with the 94th overall pick. He is just the third football player in GNAC history selected in the NFL Draft and the highest pick in conference history.
The Dublin, Calif., native was a record four-time Great Northwest Athletic Conference Offensive Lineman of the Year and three-time All-American. Cappa was recognized as one of the top linemen in NCAA Division II and was a national finalist for the prestigious Gene Upshaw Award.
"The entire Humboldt family is unified today in our excitement for Alex's accomplishments," said HSU interim athletic director Duncan Robins. "Congratulations to him, his family, teammates, coaches and boosters. We have been fortunate to watch him develop and earn this huge opportunity."
Cappa becomes the ninth Humboldt State football player selected in the NFL Draft common era, which began in 1967, and is the program's 11th all-time selection. He is the first Lumberjack picked since Freeman Baysinger was chosen by the New England Patriots in the 12th round of the 1992 Draft.
The GNAC's two other all-time NFL Draft picks came from Western Oregon. Kevin Boss was selected in the fifth round by the New York Giants in 2007 and Kevin Slowey was selected in the sixth round by the San Francisco 49ers in 2012.


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La Rousserolle des buissons (Acrocephalus dumetorum) est une espèce de passereaux appartenant à la famille des Acrocephalidae.

Proche de la rousserolle verderolle cette espèce migratrice nidifie en Europe de l'Est et en Asie (Russie) et fait l'objet de rares observations en Europe occidentale lors de migrations alors que l'essentiel des populations passe l'hiver dans le sous-continent indien jusqu'au sud du Sri-Lanka.

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According to Washington County Sheriff Roger Newlon, officers had responded to 3-4 slide-offs locally. No injuries were reported.
Fortunately, thus far, the Indiana State Police has not taken any fatality crash reports related to today's winter storm from 12 noon to 8 p.m.
If involved in a property damage crash, the participants should, if possible, move their vehicles off the road to a safe place and exchange information.
According to INDOT, the following counties in the WSLM LISTENING AREA are under an advisory driving condition because of the snow and ice – Monroe, Brown, Bartholomew, Martin, Lawrence, Orange, Dubois, Crawford, Washington, Floyd, Jennings, Clark and Jefferson.
Scott County is under a WATCH category, which means that conditions are threatening to the safety of the public. During a "watch" local travel advisory, only essential travel, such as to and from work or in emergency situations, is recommended, and emergency action plans should be implemented by businesses, schools, government agencies, and other organizations.


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Industry Agenda
Why we need a new approach to 'environmental art' for the 21st century
Christo's artwork used 25,000 square metres of fabric to wrap a building, at a time when we need to abandon the practices of overconsumption and high-waste packaging. ronmental art?
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Carlo Ratti Director, MIT - Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Forum in focus
The one essential element needed to accelerate action on climate change
Environmental artists re-envision humans' relations with nature and highlight how damaged environments can be remedied.
The environmental artist Christo's posthumous work in Paris has drawn hundreds of thousands of visitors in recent weeks.
The work used 25,000 metres of fabric to wrap a building, at a time when we need to abandon all forms of high-waste packaging.
A new environmental art for the 21st century would use technology to create bold artworks that are truly sustainable.
Back in 2014, in the small alpine village of Alpbach, Austria, I found myself at a dinner with Christo, the environmental artist who died last year at the age of 84. His kind eyes glowed as he shared with us the project he was working on – the expansive floating pier on Italy's Lake Iseo that engaged the natural environment. Recently, his posthumous work in Paris, an installation at the Arc de Triomphe, has drawn hundreds of thousands of visitors. The work presents us with the perfect opportunity to reconsider how art and environmentalism work together.
A new look at 'environmental art'
From an environmental point of view, it is hard to justify a project that used 25,000 square meters of fabric to wrap a building. The fashion industry is responsible for 10 percent of global carbon emissions, and the water-intensive process of fabric production is the second-largest consumer of water in the world – a world where 2.7 billion people are already water-insecure. Although the fabric used for Christo's project was recycled, this does not go far enough. As we seek to leave behind a society of casual overconsumption in the West, we must abandon all forms of high-waste packaging.
What does digital art have to do with sustainability?
Two rhythms and a sharpened pencil: how art can help us heal and make sense of the world
Rethinking urban installations
More importantly, there are intellectual reasons to rethink urban installations such as the wrapping of the Arc de Triomphe. The legacy of Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude is longer-lasting than their temporary installation. They have taught us to see urban and natural landmarks with different eyes. Their process – which resembled the literary method of Verfremdung, or radical defamiliarization, that Bertolt Brecht famously popularized – helped us become reacquainted with our environments under new, woven silhouettes. In Christo's words, "We have to borrow [urban] space and create gentle disturbances for a few days." As citizens, we then become aware of how the supposedly "static" buildings and environments could be transformed in unpredictable ways.
Today, such processes are needed more than ever, as cities all over the world need creativity to reinvent themselves following the pandemic. We need more speculative design – imagining distant futures and radical transformations, however brief and experimental, that could help transform the time we live in. Fiona Raby and Anthony Dunne have taken such an approach at the Royal College of Arts in London over the past two decades. It is especially needed in the field of urban planning, where bureaucracy, politics, and inertia can stand in the way of efforts to change. Our designers, and our built environments more generally, need the bold, artistic spark that people like Christo and Jeanne Claude have given us in the past.
"New technologies can help us achieve such objectives in more sustainable ways."
There are now new technologies that can help us achieve such objectives in more sustainable ways. This is not about wrapping a building in a hundred different materials on Photoshop, or modelling it from every angle in virtual reality. We stand by Christo when he once said, "the real thing is the real thing. The work is not a photograph, a film or an image. It is the real thing." However, to reinvent his style of unified, collective spectacle, imagine lighting up the Arc de Triomphe or other urban and natural landmarks with high-powered projections, such as the ones that Black Lives Matter activists used to transform a statue of the Confederate General Robert E. Lee. More complex 3D imaging can now be done with holograms or drones. As Christo noted, "it is very boring to do something when we already know how to do it." New technologies can help us push the boundaries of temporary transformations in our living environment.
In an ever more connected world, we must become adept at seeing our surroundings from multiple perspectives, engaging citizens in transformative wrappings of their own. People should be involved in the design choices that can reveal our cities in new lights. Again, this is something that was not possible in the beginning of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's careers, but it is now, thanks to contemporary network technologies.
Now the Arc de Triomphe has been unwrapped, we should all think about how to move from environmental art to true environmentalism.
Carlo Ratti, Director, MIT - Department of Urban Studies and Planning
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'Good Bones' Reveals a Cool Alternative to Open Floor Plans That You Must See/Realtor.com
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Heather Rae Young's Top Real Estate Secrets From 'Selling Sunset'/Realtor.com
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