During my 33-year career I was involved in more drug busts than I can count, but my most memorable bust will always be my first.
When I climbed in I discovered that in place of the back seat there was an old couch cushion. I had to nudge a large suitcase over to make room. As I slammed the door the driver squealed away to the music of The Doors' "Love Her Madly," which seemed appropriate as both the passenger and the driver were Jim Morrison look-alikes.
As soon as the car slid into traffic on I-90 the driver and passenger, undeterred by my presence, each lit up a doobie. The passenger turned, leaned over to the back seat and popped open the suitcase next to me.
"The grass is free, but you will have to pay for anything else. We got it all…ludes, uppers, downers, acid, smack. What's your poison?" he asked.
"Dude! That's so sad," was the response.
I was riding in a car that had no working muffler with a driver who did not feel compelled to respect either speed limits or lane markers. If the car was stopped I doubted any police officer on the planet would believe I was just hitchhiking.
The drug-filled suitcase next to me had the capacity to not only kill my dream of becoming a police officer, but also land me in prison.
The passenger turned, looked at me and slowly turned back. "Portage," he declared, clearly suspicious. I was thankful when one more hit of THC changed his focus.
I counted the miles, while dripping with dread, until the ever-careening-drug-dealer-carrying-car pulled off the interstate and dropped me on the Portage ramp. I climbed out of the car, thanking them for the ride. Shouldering my pack, I leisurely walked to the back of the car, waving as I mentally noted the tag number.
I looked for cover, but there was none.
I was relieved as the driver accelerated, causing the back tire to spit gravel loudly. Standing alone on the ramp I watched the car's single tail light disappear into the line of traffic on the interstate.
Without a second thought I walked to the pay phone at the nearest diner/gas station. I had little money on me so I dialed zero and asked to be connected to the Wisconsin State Patrol Dispatcher. The operator connected me for free.
The dispatcher was a pro. He kept me on the line and took down the description of the vehicle and plates, the description of the drugs I saw, as well as the description of Jim Morrison one and two. I heard the call go out and the trooper acknowledge he was in position to intercept the vehicle. The dispatcher told me to stand by and put me on hold.
"Do you need me for anything else?" I asked.
I longed for the day when I would not just be hearing those words, but saying them. I wanted to be a police officer and catch the bad guys before they killed innocent people with their bad deeds, bad driving and bad drugs.
While coming down from the rush I realized I was standing in the middle of nowhere with a buck twenty five in my pocket without a ride. But that didn't matter because the suspects were in custody!
I shuffled over to the counter of the diner and ordered a Mountain Dew on ice knowing that in order to get home, I would need to initiate Plan D.


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One of the reasons pollution has been able to become such a huge problem is that those creating the pollution are usually not the ones suffering its consequences. Let's take the classical fictional example of a paper factory using a nearby river in which to dump its waste-material. The river-current drags these materials away from the paper factory and to a nearby town that uses the river water for drinking purposes. The paper factory might use the same river for drinking water for its employees or production processes, but it will use the water a bit higher up the river, at a point where the water is still clean. So – even though the factory is producing the waste material, dumping it in the river and so contaminating the quality of the water – it is not the factory itself/those working at the factory who feel and experience the consequences of polluting the river to get rid of its waste. Since the factory doesn't feel the harm in what it's doing, it won't change what it's doing, unless there are complaints from the villagers who DO experience the consequences of the river pollution and take action so that solutions can be implemented.
Now – a study was done by James K. Boyce, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, where he investigated the 'distribution' of air pollution. Most people have heard about distribution of income and wealth and how unequal it is. But what about air pollution – is everyone suffering to the same extent or are certain groups/categories of people more exposed – and why?
LP: Do patterns of inequality differ across the country? How can a person of color or a poor person avoid air pollution?
JKB: Avoiding industrial air pollution is difficult, particularly if you're poor or a member of a racial or ethnic minority. That's partly because of housing prices. It's partly because of discrimination in housing and mortgage markets — the phenomenon of red-lining. And it's also partly because of the tendency for firms to site polluting facilities in relatively low-income and relatively high-minority communities because they expect less political pushback.
Hmmm, that last statement is quite interesting, isn't it? In the example of our paper factory we were giving the factory 'the benefit of the doubt' in saying that – they probably didn't realize what they were doing within polluting the water of the river, because they weren't experiencing the consequences of the polluted water. But this statement clearly shows that – polluting firms are not only aware that they are polluting, they are aware that it has negative consequences for others – and yet, so long as they think they can 'get away with it', they'll still do it. And when can they get away with it? When those experiencing the negative outflows are unlikely to speak up or take action to hold the firm accountable.
Or maybe it doesn't mean that at all. Perhaps – let us entertain this notion for a moment – perhaps people of color or poor people are less likely to initiate political push back because they just don't mind the air pollution. Maybe they are the enlightened ones who realize that air pollution is really not a big deal and therefore simply don't want to make a fuss when it isn't necessary.
LP: What are some of the most concerning economic effects of industrial air pollution on communities?
JKB: Air pollution has adverse effects on people's health, and that means that they have to spend more on healthcare and they miss more days of work, either because they themselves are too ill to go to work or because their kids are sick and they have to stay home and take care of them. It also has adverse effects on property values, which vary with the levels of air pollution in the community.
On top of those outcome effects, it also impacts equality of opportunity, particularly for children. Because communities that are heavily burdened with air pollution tend to have higher incidence and greater severity of childhood asthma, the kids miss more days of school, and partly because they're missing school and perhaps partly because of the neurological impacts of air pollution on their young and developing cognitive function, there is an adverse effect on school performance.
If you believe, as I think most Americans believe, that every kid deserves an equal chance, that equality of opportunity for children is dear to our society for reasons of both equity and efficiency, then the impacts of disproportionate pollution burdens on the children in some communities – the fact that the playing field is tilted against them through no fault of their own – is a troubling feature of our environmental landscape.
That settles it then – air pollution is definitely a problem that impacts the lives of those who are most exposed to it in a harmful way. So, it's highly unlikely that they don't mind – it must be that there is a problem in their ability to voice themselves and push for solutions that would improve their standard of living. And that makes total sense. As we have argued before – political participation is currently a luxury that can only be afforded by those who have the money and the time to firstly educate themselves on what procedures are available to them to organize themselves, formulate complaints and propose solutions – and secondly, walk these procedures and taking action.
With the implementation of a Living Income Guaranteed, companies would no longer have the ability to get away with excessive air pollution in low-income or minority community areas. No matter how much one currently struggles to get by income-wise and no matter if one belongs to a 'minority community' – each one's economic situation would be secured and therefore, each one's political influence is guaranteed as well. Herein, we could make an end to the cycle of impairing opportunities of those who already have a harder time to make the best of the opportunities they do have. Because once one is caught up in the struggle to survive, one has no bargaining power – one becomes the equivalent of a 'slave' within a system where one's long term benefits are sacrificed for the short term goals of having enough money to put food on the table and pay the bills. And this is known by firms who release excessive amounts of pollutants into the environment for which they do not want to take responsibility – and so they will callously ensure that the consequences they create are carried mostly by those who don't have the luxury to put a stop to it.
So, is a Living Income Guaranteed 'bad news' for firms? No – not at all. The philosophy of the free market is based on the premise that off-setting individual interests can create the best outcome for everyone. Of course, interests that are not voiced have no power to off-set anything at all – which is precisely what we're witnessing in the world today. A Living Income Guaranteed would ensure that all interests are considered and play a role within the creation of an optimal outcome. Air pollution is a great example herein, because, what is air pollution? It is a way in which the natural equilibrium is disturbed, which, as we are all too aware of, is having consequences on the larger natural systems that the air forms a part of. In essence, it is a form of poisoning the planet, the planet we all share.
We can try for a while to keep the effects of pollution isolated so that most, or at least the more affluent, in society don't have to worry about it. But the planet is an interconnected system and eventually – as we're noticing with global warming – the effects will reach everyone. So – implementing a Living Income Guaranteed is not only a matter of empowering those without means or voice to make a decent living for themselves in this world – it is a vital step to ensure that we create optimal outcomes for everyone, that cannot be achieved if not everyone is part of the discussion.
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Socialism is an idea that has as its basis equality pertaining to property being shared by all and distributed equally. Unfortunately, when the idea was first put into practice by a British man called Owen in the US State of Indiana in 1825 on the huge property he bought and called New Harmony, it ultimately failed. This was not due to the fundamentals of the idea of socialism as such, but due to the organization of the distribution of the produce, the fact that the land was not owned by the residents themselves and in part in consequence to this, there was a lack of self-responsibility as to the cultivation of the land, the workforce needed to maintain self-sufficiency, and finally, due to the nature of the people that it attracted. Though the people who chose to live in New Harmony on the basis of the shared idea of socialism that received the tinge of its founder Robert Owen, were open-minded and socially oriented, they were very theoretically and philosophically minded. This set of characters and personalities gave the experiment a bias that ultimately tipped it toward being marked as not sustainable. However, Owen implemented a set of social rules to live by, such as no public drinking, personal cleanliness, emptying trash at specific intervals, free education in which the human character was to be developed in more fortunate ways and having to make time for family, he granted sick pay and shortened working hours. All of which were directed at changing human nature and optimizing the conditions of living together.
The idea was recast by two philosophers Engels and Marx later, who considered socialism to be humankind's destiny which was considered to become a triumph over capitalism. It was thus directly placed to have a polarity nature toward capitalism, which allowed the idea of Revolution to settle in as a means to drive socialism forward and gain supremacy over capitalism. This was adopted as a point of self-identification that amounted to demonic obsession which found its most extreme manifestation and expression under the dictatorship of Stalin in the USSR. Here the term socialism was actually abused to cover up and, where not possible, to justify the atrocities against its population and the antagonists of the ideology. Socialism had been turned into communism, though the term was still used by the ruling figures to benefit from the moral appeal that true socialism had among large parts of the general world population.
The 'other side of the polarity', the capitalistic states, the 'States of Freedom' as they were contrasted to socialistic states, used the label of socialism as a propaganda operation also but for the opposite reason, namely to defame socialism by way of association with this miserable and rapacious tyranny.
Socialism, as the core notion of working people being in control of production and of their own lives basically, on the principle of equality with respect to property and distribution of goods, has been evacuated of content over the last century, due to the Soviet Union being called a socialist society as a propagandistic means of directing the world to suit the vested interests of the elite by keeping the masses enslaved. It seems the few at the top are doing their best that nobody would be able to easily pick up the idea of socialism and try to establish a working structure on that basis for the common good of man.
As a solution it is necessary to distinguish between the socialistic/communistic ulcerations of true socialism. The collapse of the Soviet Union can actually be counted as a small victory for socialism as such, because it has been freed of the radical revolution aspect as well as the aspect of tyranny and debasement toward the working class. The latter will have to be solidly embraced within the term of communism and within that, of course, dictatorship. Along those lines the term nationalization and nationalistic should be looked at and stripped of its associations with fascist developments and resulting atrocities of Nazi Germany leading to and in World War II. The pros and cons of the Israeli kibbutzim are to be investigated, and seen that these are said to have worked until they were ridden into a debt crisis in the middle of the 1980's from which they weren't able to recover. One must ask who is pulling the strings here and why. It is pretty obvious that they simply weren't supposed to work in the public eye.
The solution to humanity's demise should not be found in an idea or ideology, as that can be used within polarity and undermined, but within a living principle, that does not have to be named socialism or capitalism or democracy. It's certainly not about the name or the idea.
Of course at first there must be something communicable as the name for a solution presented, such as a democracy on a real people-basis, a form of direct democracy, as has been proposed by the platform of Living Income Guaranteed. The realization must be fostered that life can only strive on earth – we can only strive, or even simply survive – when we give to the other what we ourselves would like to receive, on an equal and one basis. If we do not see that we are already equal on the basis of the substance of Life and are killing ourselves and others by not acknowledging and living this principle, we will perish.
We must turn to Life lived on the principle of equality and incorporate the lived realization of oneness, as we are all of and as Life here.
The reward is a state, where competition exacted on the basis of live or die / grow or perish will be of the past; where we implement our realization that we are able to stand as the living principle of equality and oneness and give to the other what we want for ourselves and our children, which is the kind of socialism that has not been compromised through fear and desire for control, greed and power. Giving to the other as one would wish for oneself means to distribute resources fairly and adequately, as required by each and on the basis of ensuring that everything used can be reconstituted and replenished, that resources are sustainable. This will provide for real, actual support of all equally resulting in peace and dignity. Responsibility will be more readily lived because there won't be the point of 'it's not my responsibility – I don't have a say anyway, I'm just a small keg in a big machine' when equality is lived on principality.
We will see truly happy children that are able to play and enjoy themselves because they are cared for on a steady basis from the start with actual equal opportunity within education, good nourishment, and a stable social environment. One will find the ability to truly trust oneself and others within a trustworthy, self-responsible society that is not self-incapacitated through the allowance and acceptance of a maniac Elite that irrespective of the whole pulls the strings in utter self-interest. There will be no one to polarize to 'defend' a status of self-interested accumulation of wealth on the basis of democracy vs. socialism/communism when the principle of equality is truly implemented and lived.
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"Liberalism is a theory in economics emphasizing individual freedom from restraint and usually based on free competition, the self-regulating market and the gold standard; in political terms it denotes a belief in progress, the essential goodness of the human race, and the autonomy of the individual and standing for the protection of political and civil liberties" (ref.:www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liberalism).
Classical liberalism has its focus on securing the freedom of the individual by limiting the power of the government – the concept emerged as a response to the Industrial Revolution and urbanization in the 19th century. It advocates civil liberties with a limited government under the rule of law, private property and laissez-faire economic liberalism. Social liberalism believes in government intervention to provide equal protection and opportunity. Neoliberalism promotes a market economy with a strong state, a 'social market economy'. Later the meaning had shifted to hold one of a more radical and laissez-faire capitalistic ideas. It was used to criticize legislative initiatives for free trade, deregulation, enhanced privatization and an overall reduction in government control of the economy.
Neoliberalism is what we are still allowing and accepting as our economical and political system nowadays.
A change in economic course was taken with the program Ludwig Erhard formulated after the Second World War, where demand was not taken as the driving factor of production any more, but rather the other way around, wherein the idea was assumed that every offer created its own demand – which is said to only be valid for trade economies. This new directive of a social market economy, where focus is to be on profit, competition and consuming goods for and within each and everyone, not only economy and politics, which was implemented thereafter, caused dire consequences reaching up to the current situation where the financial sector as a non-producing element in the system is reaching blown-up and disproportionate extents of power in that major banks are able to demand to be bailed out by the government using the financial means of the public when a tide of bad investments collapses back onto them in consequence and leaves them unable to rectify their position of creating money from loans, financial products and other financial machinations within the state.
Thus the real economy is in the process of subsidizing the banking sector which doesn't produce consumer goods and thus doesn't contribute to the productivity and added-value, but only creates claims for consumer goods with the respective finance products they conceptualize, the consequence being a discrepancy between factual goods and the claim for them, which in turn leaves people in the upper middle financial ranks of society feeling richer and better off than years ago, but they aren't in fact, as they are holding only claims to potential goods and not the actual manifested object. This is actually a matter of window-dressing based on agreements without basic real securities.
Thus accepting the ideology of Neoliberalism as a political directive for how we manage our economy has led to the debt crisis of 2007, which should in fact show us what we are allowing, i.e. the economical coups that are possible by stock markets against democracy and in that against the people itself. A criminalist system of unfettered capitalism has been allowed, wherein values are destroyed instead of creating them, the consequence of which living beings have to bear in form of abuse, denigration, immense suffering, poverty and starvation, conflict, war, hopelessness and despair, death – all for an idea that has proven that it doesn't work for society, where the principle of best for all is being ridden roughshod over.
Within this, forces that propagate and uphold this ideology of neoliberalism feature a tendency of obscuring the inner workings of the economy resulting in an impenetrability of the same for the common person. There also seems to be a tacit prohibition in place to further the common wealth on an equal basis, based on the presumption that there is a fundamental inequality between and amongst people, which in fact has to be intensified so that the principle of free competition works.
Another feature is the maintained rationality that there is 'no alternative', as if this is how humanity inherently functions – on the basis of inequality and a competitive nature. Slogans such as 'the market shall regulate society through competition' show that the model as the blueprint of neoliberalism that leading figures sought to implement was to basically make individuals into enterprises who are required to establish entrepreneurial traits and behaviors on all levels of their social interactions, dominated by demand and offer, costs, gains and investments as the new social values post WWII within 'free competition of inequalities'. This kind of freedom cannot accept other liberties along with it, as Erhard stated: "Rights shall find their expression in the freedom of consumption." This ultimately allows for a constant state of fear of not being able to express within these limitations, and being judged by one's ability or inability to do so and thus to hold one's status within society and remain competitive.
One must realize the allowance and acceptance of the manipulation leading to the change of focus from surviving within WWII and a hands-on approach of rebuilding and producing some kind of added value to what was left in the ruins of the war to a focus on and the dominion of competition and competiveness. This has brought forth an alienation within oneself toward one's self-expression and what life is about and can be, and the diversion from the principle of best for all within giving another what one would like to receive oneself. This is where one can actually find a handle for the fear of not surviving. One is able to refocus, to redirect one's focus on equality and in that seeing, realizing and understanding that there is an alternative way, because all are in fact equal as and within life and in that we are all one, one humanity, one life.
As it is us, the people, each and every one, that constitute the system, politics, economy, what we focus on, what we allow and accept as the statement of who we are, we create. It is important to see one's immediate starting point for one' s actions and interactions and make sure it is not one of competition, of proving oneself better or superior over another, where one comes from the point of fear of not surviving. One is able to realign oneself with one's self-expression.
Alongside with this personal process we are able to and in fact must reorganize the existing financial structures and the realign the power we give to institutions with what serves all equally. To this end as a first platform there is LIG – Living Income Guaranteed which states common sense rationalities – those we could have observed and referred to in ourselves instead of accepting and allowing the manipulations that have and are taking place in politics and underlying powers which we have submitted ourselves to. Such are among others a guaranteed living income on an as-needed basis as provisions for shelter, food and education etc. – basically everything that is required to ensure one's well-being. We can stop this ideology that we have supported inadvertently by having accepted the misinformation and manipulations over many decades by bringing out the information that is relevant and valid and constitutes a basis for implementing a change on the principle of what is best for all equally as life.
The rewards are obvious: No more fear of losing one's job and not surviving. No more competition as an all-pervading overlay on every social interaction, instead of self-expression. A letting go of pressure and an allowance to see the other and be with him without placing a price tag onto the time spent for support so one has money to survive. The security of having food, a home one can return to and feel comfortable in, education to expand in this existence, and providing children with a world that nourishes and supports all on the basis of true care.
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Sony XZ Premium Scores Android 8 Oreo Update with 3D Creator
Oct 24, 2017, 7:52 AM by Eric M. Zeman
Sony has begun updating its Xperia XZ Premium smartphone with Android 8 Oreo. Android 8 includes a handful of new features for smartphones, including notification dots, better app management, and picture-in-picture. Sony is taking things a step further. Sony is giving the XZ Premium one of the best features of the new XZ1 and XZ1 Compact handsets, the 3D Creator tool. With 3D Creator, people can create 3D scans of real-world objects such as faces, heads, and food. The update also gives the XZ Premium predictive (smile) capture, autofocus burst, improved sound quality, and app shortcuts. Sony says the update is being pushed out in phases.
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Samsung Note8, Sony Xperia XZ1, LG V30 Earn Netflix HDR
Sep 5, 2017, 1:08 PM by Eric M. Zeman
Netflix recently added the Samsung Galaxy Note8, Sony Xperia XZ1, and the LG V30 to the short list of those able to play back high-definition video in HDR. High-dynamic range content offers better contrast than standard content. The only other handsets capable of supporting Netflix HDR are the LG G6 and Xperia XZ Premium, which have the needed HDR displays. In order to view HDR content on these handsets, owners have to subscribe to the $12 premium Netflix plan (streaming on four screens and ultra HD resolution). They'll also have to ensure the latest version of the app is installed on their phone, and select "high definition" for video playback quality.
Sony Xperia XZ Premium Gains HDR Video from Netflix
Aug 4, 2017, 11:36 AM by Eric M. Zeman
Netflix recently added the Sony Xperia XZ smartphone to the short list of those able to play back high-definition video in HDR. High-dynamic range content offers better contrast than standard content. The only other handset capable of supporting Netflix HDR is the LG G6. Both the G6 and Xperia XZ have the needed HDR displays. In order to view HDR content on either phone, owners have to subscribe to the $12 premium Netflix plan (streaming on four screens and ultra HD resolution). They'll also have to ensure the latest version of the app is installed on their phone, and select "high definition" for video playback quality.
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Sony's High-End Xperia XZ Premium Reaches the US June 19
May 31, 2017, 7:25 AM by Eric M. Zeman
Sony today said it will make its flagship Xperia XZ Premium smartphone available unlocked to U.S. buyers in June. Pre-orders kick off June 12 and the device is expected to ship starting June 19. The Xperia XZ Premium costs $800. It will be sold online by Amazon, BestBuy and Fry's. The XZ Premium has a 5.5-inch 4K HDR display with Sony's TriLuminos and X-Reality technologies to improve video performance. Other specs include a Snapdragon 835 processor with Adreno GPU, 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of storage. It boasts a 19-megapixel main camera with predictive focus, a 13-megapixel selfie camera, and a 3,230mAh battery with rapid charging. It's waterproof and ships with Android 7.1 Nougat. Sony also today said its mid-range Xperia XA1 Ultra handset, with a 6-inch screen, will be available for preorder June 12 with a June 21 ship date. Last, the Xperia Touch display, which is a short-throw projector, goes on sale June 16 for $1700.
Hands On with the Sony XZ Premium
Feb 27, 2017, 2:45 AM by Eric M. Zeman
Sony's luscious new phone is to die for. The 4K HDR screen is the best display you've ever seen on a mobile device and Sony wrapped it up in a serene metal-and-glass package. We spent a few moments looking at what might be Sony's finest-ever smartphone.
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Sony XZ Premium Dazzles with 4K HDR Display
Sony today announced the XZ Premium, a high-end smartphone that has a 4K HDR display. The screen measures 5.5 inches across the diagonal and packs 3,840 by 2,160 pixels for the ultimate in high definition. It includes Sony's TriLuminos and X-Reality technologies to improve video performance. The phone features Gorilla Glass 5 both on front and back, with an aluminum frame in between. The XZ Premium is powered by the Snapdragon 835 processor with an Adreno 540 GPU. It includes 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of storage, with support for memory cards up to 256 GB. Sony has updated its camera and lens technology for the XZ Premium, which has a 19-megapixel sensor, optical image stabilization, and the ability to capture 960fps super slow-motion video. Other camera features include predictive focus, predictive capture, and an anti-distortion shutter. The user-facing camera captures 13-megapixel images and shoots full HD resolution video. Sony gave the phone a 3,230mAh battery with rapid charging and Qnovo adaptive charging to help lengthen the life-span of the battery over multiple charge cycles. Other specs include USB-C, IP68 for waterproofing, high-end audio processing, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, and NFC. The device ships with Android 7.1 Nougat. Sony did not announce pricing nor availability.
Hands On with the Lenovo ThinkPhone by Motorola
Motorola has a new phone specifically for "business" folks. It's a high-end phone with a design inspired by Lenovo's ThinkPad laptops.
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News SummariesMay 1st 1999 edition
Business this week
Taking the weight
America cannot continue to drive the world economy alone. That was the message that emerged after the spring meeting of the Group of Seven rich countries. The official line was that the worst of the global financial crisis is over for the emerging economies. Beyond that, however, America is worried that its economy may cool even as Japan and EU countries remain unable to take up the slack.
See article: IMF meetings, America v Europe
As if to confirm this, six German economics institutes cut their forecast for German growth in 1999 to 1.7%, down from the 2.3% estimate made last autumn. In Britain, there was relief that the economy managed growth in the first quarter of 0.1% over the previous quarter, but this is the lowest figure since 1992.
The beef trade war between Europe and America intensified. The EU said it may ban all American beef imports from June 15th unless they can be proved to be hormone-free. The EU looks increasingly unlikely to comply with a World Trade Organisation ruling against its existing ban on American hormone-treated beef, which is supposed to be lifted by May 13th.
The telecoms race
America's AT&T is continuing to expand its cable reach. Barely had it completed its $55 billion purchase of the second-biggest cable firm, TCI, giving it cable coverage of a quarter of America, than the telecoms giant leapt in with a $58 billion bid for the fourth-biggest, MediaOne, which last month agreed a $48 billion merger with Comcast. Comcast hopes to find a white knight (perhaps Microsoft or America Online) concerned about so much cable being controlled by one company.
See article: Beware the Internet gatekeeper
Bermuda-based Global Crossing is paying £550m ($890m) for the undersea cable-laying operations of Britain's Cable & Wireless, as it continues to build fibre-optic networks round the world. The business is one of C&W's oldest, going back 150 years, but the company is shedding units to concentrate on business-communications services.
Another British company turning rapidly to telecoms is GEC, which two months after buying one American maker of telecoms equipment (Reltec, for $2.1 billion) announced that it was buying another, Fore Systems, for $4.5 billion. In January, GEC said it was selling its defence business to British Aerospace for £7.7 billion ($12.8 billion).
See article: Britain's GEC communicates
Consolidated net profits at Sony fell by a miserable 19% in the year to end-March, to ¥179 billion ($1.4 billion), hurt by economic woes in Asia and Latin America, and price wars in the United States. On top of that, Sony said that this year's profits are likely to slide to ¥110 billion as sales of its games console, PlayStation, begin to sag after four years of heady growth.
Disney issued a profits warning for the full year after reporting that net profits had fallen by 41% in the second quarter to $226m; revenues rose by 5% to $5.51 billion. Theme parks, as usual, continued to do well, but video and retail sales were weak.
Eurosurf
Britain's Kingfisher and Groupe Arnault of France are to launch Libertysurf, a free Internet service that will be available first in France and eventually throughout the whole of Europe. The two retailers hope that by jumping in early, they will gain the sort of lead that Dixons, an electrical-goods retailer, did in Britain last September. It launched a free service that rapidly gained 1.3m users and brought a host of other free services into the market.
See article: Free Internet services in Europe
Two British health and fitness groups broke off merger talks. A deal between First Leisure and Cannons fell through over finances. First Leisure may now be vulnerable to a bid.
Keith Henry resigned after four years as head of National Power, leading to speculation that Britain's biggest electricity generator may be vulnerable to a break-up or a takeover.
Karel Van Miert, the EU's competition commissioner, gave the go-ahead to a French defence merger between Lagardère's Matra and Aerospatiale. But he warned two other giants that they could not "get round" competition rules. Cadbury Schweppes has agreed to sell its soft-drinks brands outside the United States to Coca-Cola for $1.85 billion, but the two have asked individual European countries, plus many others round the world, to clear the deal, when they should have asked the EU.
Mr Van Miert also raised questions about British government aid to BMW to help keep a Rover car factory at Longbridge in Britain. Did BMW seriously consider moving the factory to Hungary, he asked?
Bausch & Lomb, an American optical group, has agreed to sell its sunglasses business, including Ray-Ban, to Italy's Luxottica Group, for $640m.
Take the cash
Bradford & Bingley, Britain's second-largest building society, lost its battle to remain as a mutually owned society when its members voted to convert it to public ownership, a move that will bring each of them a cash windfall. It was the first time that members of a building society have over-ridden a board's wishes on mutual status.
See article: Can mutuality survive?
Two deals that seemed to signify a grand restructuring of Italian banking seem to be unravelling. The Bank of Italy blocked a bid by the country's largest banking group, Sanpaolo IMI, for a reluctant Banca di Roma. Mediobanca, a powerful merchant bank that wants to remain that way, objected to the bid and also to one proposed by UniCredito Italiano for Banca Commerciale Italiana.
See article: Banking's regulatory impasse
This article appeared in the News Summaries section of the print edition under the headline "Business this week"
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Can I kill a dog for trespassing?
Trespassing laws don't apply to animals.
Other laws (not trespassing laws) make animal owners liable for damages their animals cause (wherever they might cause them).
Other laws (not trespassing laws) allow people to kill animals that threaten their personal safety or that of their livestock or pets.
Leash laws, where they apply, generally prohibit people from allowing their dogs to be out of their direct control (e.g. not leashed and/or not otherwise under the owner's control, depending on the leash law).
Park laws, where they apply, often prohibit people from allowing their dogs onto picnic grounds, swimming areas, environmentally-sensitive areas, etc.
None of the above laws allow landowners to harm dogs simply because the dogs are on their land.
None of the above laws supersede animal-cruelty laws.
None of the above laws supersede trapping regulations.
In other words, anyone who thinks it's OK to kill a dog just because it crosses his property line is thinking outside of the law. Anyone who says that trapping ethics or trapping regulations should not apply to "trespassing dogs" just made that up.
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DiversityJobs.co.uk launches direct resourcing service
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DiversityJobs.co.uk the UK's leading diversity and inclusion recruitment specialist is launching a new direct resourcing function as a result of feedback from its members, many of whom have found it difficult to engage with recruitment suppliers that understand their diversity & inclusion agenda.
The new service has diversity and inclusion as its foundations, ensuring that everyone is treated fairly and that DiversityJobs.co.uk members can be certain that their roles are reaching candidates from the widest talent pools.
Jonathan Graham joins DiversityJobs.co.uk following a period as an independent recruiter with his own company to head up the new resourcing service.
Jonathan has previously worked as a management consulting recruiter and also spent five years as a trainer and learning and development manager for a global engineering consultancy. Jonathan commented:
"I am thrilled to be working with the team at DiversityJobs.co.uk to build the new direct resourcing function. Our members spend a lot of time and effort on their diversity & inclusion strategies, but their message rarely gets through to candidates via the recruitment supply chain.
We put this conversation at the front of the process so that our candidates are fully aware of the company culture and values. This results in higher levels of commitment and the right candidate and employer fit"
Morgan Lobb, CEO and founder of DiversityJobs.co.uk said:
"Jonathan is joining our team at an exciting time in the recruitment sector. More and more employers are realising that they need to invest in recruiting diverse talent and are looking for a specialist provider to help them find the 'best-fit' talent for their organisation.
"Resourcing teams are struggling to find talent providers that truly understand the diversity & inclusion agenda; this is in our DNA and is at the heart of our service delivery approach."
Job hunting gets easier with UK launch of new generation career site
International recruitment consultancy sees banking recovery.
Tradewind Recruitment and SANZA Teaching Agency appoints new CEO
"Blind" Application Site Bids To Banish Job Discrimination
SThree recruitment firm cut its medical insurance premiums by more than £23,000
CONFIDENCE IN RECRUITMENT AGENCIES REMAINS HIGH


I live not far from there, and I am not opposed to it, as long as it's done the right way. If they are gonna leave trees and be part of the environment let's do it. If they are gonna clear cut, pave and dump waste into the water & streams, well, we have a problem.
The online petition used a picture of the Natchez Trace in the area around Lost Rabbit for their "greenspace" image, which is super misleading. That same area using Google Maps or Bing Maps, is much more developed than it was in that image, but I guess that goes against their narrative.
On a separate note, the taco takeout place has closed in what long-time residents refer to as "the Sing station" at Grants Ferry and Spillway. Fresh food, nicely spiced. I regret its passing.
I share your sadness, Owen. I pulled up last week to La Taqueria to find it closed. Nothing like good gas station Mexican food. I can report there are no immediate plans to replace La Taqueria. Perhaps Jumbo will resurface . . . ?
Bring back Jumbo! That whole shopping center is like a hospice facility. Sad.
Ahh...fine dining examples in reservoir.
La Taqueria was hit and miss for me. Sometimes it was great. Sometimes it was so swimming in grease, I couldn't bear to eat it.
I do wish we had good Mexican here. I find "Mississippi Mexican" around here to be laden with salt and grease. I find Cinco De Mayo to be just OK and Jacos Tacos to be really good - and that's about it.
I live close to the area in question for a restaurant. I must say I'm in favor. I would love to have a good restaurant conveniently located, especially if you could go by car or boat.
The best Mexican food experience i had was at Salsa. Every time i go it is always great!


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Stefano Pilati est un styliste italien né en 1965 à Milan, en Italie. En 2004, il devient directeur de la création du prêt-à-porter de l'entreprise Yves Saint Laurent, succédant à Tom Ford. Après un premier défilé recevant des critiques, il remet YSL sur les voies du succès. Il y est remplacé par Hedi Slimane en 2012 et rejoint la marque Zegna en tant que directeur artistique quelques mois plus tard pour la quitter finalement début 2016.

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Francesca Bria is the President of the Italian National Innovation Fund. She is an Italian innovation economist and  information technologist who lectures at various universities and is a consultant to the United Nations and the European Commission.

Bria is Honorary Professor in the Institute  for Innovation and Public Purpose at UCL in London. She is part of the Management Board of the Italian public broadcast company RAI, and a member of the EC President Ursula von der Leyen's High level Roundtable for The New European Bauhaus. She is a senior adviser and Ambassador to the United Nation (UN-Habitat) on digital cities and digital rights. She is the former Chief Digital Technology and Innovation Officer for the City of Barcelona and founder of the Decode Project, an EU-wide effort to reclaim citizen's data sovereignty . She is an Honorary Professor on Technology and Innovation Policy at University College London (UCL), where she teaches about the platform economy, digital sovereignty and people-centered smart cities.

Biography
Francesca Bria was raised in the Monti district of Rome. She is the daughter of a renowned and influential psychoanalyst, and an Olympic gymnast. Bria is today the President of the Italian National Innovation Fund and a Board Member of the Italian public media company RAI. She is Honorary Professor in the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at UCL in London and she is part of the High-level Roundtable for the New European Bauhaus set up by the EC President Ursula von der Leyen. She is the former Chief Digital Technology and Innovation Officer for the City of Barcelona in Spain. In this role, she was leading the smart city Agenda and she was one of the founders of the Cities Coalition for Digital Rights, a UN-backed platform to promote sustainable digitization and urban digital transformation that work for the benefit of all. She has served as Senior Adviser to the United Nation (UN-Habitat) on digital cities and digital rights, launching the People-focused smart cities programme at the World Urban Forum convened in Abu Dhabi that promotes the deployment of technological innovations to realize sustainability, inclusivity, and human rights. Francesca Bria is leading the DECODE project on data sovereignty in Europe, is a member of the European Commission high level expert group Economic and Societal Impact of Research and Innovation (ESIR), and a Senior Adviser on the EC programme STARTS (Innovation at the nexus of Science, Technology and the Arts).

She graduated with a BSc in social sciences for international cooperation from Sapienza university. She then moved to London and gained an MSc in E-business and Innovation from the University College of London and a PhD in Innovation economics and management from Imperial College in London. Bria joined Nesta, a UK based innovation agency, where she was to remain for 8 years, and was promoted to senior project lead. While still at Nesta, Bria also lectured at various universities, along with consulting and facilitating various projects in the UK and Europe, with clients ranging from grassroots NGOs to national governments and businesses.

She was EU Coordinator of the D-CENT project (Decentralised Citizens ENgagement Technologies). This involved building digital tools and platforms to help citizens engage in large scale democratic deliberation, integrating the collective intelligence of citizens in the political decision-making process, and included elements of deliberative democracy,  direct democracy and participatory budgeting. She was also  principal investigator of the DSI project on digital social innovation in Europe.

Bria has been a member of the Internet of Things Council and an advisor for the European Commission on Future Internet and Smart Cities policy. She is also a member of the EC Expert Group on Open Innovation (OISPG) and a member of the European Research Cluster on the Internet of Things (IERC).

Bria advised the City of Rome and the Region of Lazio on innovation policy, open technology, and open cities. She has been teaching in several universities in the UK and Italy and she has advised Governments, public and private organizations on technology and innovation policy, and its socio-economic and environmental impact. She is also active in various organizations advocating for open access, digital rights, and  decentralized, privacy-aware technologies.

Bria's work with D-CENT brought her to the attention of Ada Colau, who in 2016 invited her to become the CTO of Barcelona. Bria moved from London to the Spanish city, where she remained until 2020. In January 2020 she was appointed president of Italy's newly created national innovation fund, a role she performs in parallel with lecturing and consulting on digital transformation, democracy and innovation to the United Nations and European Commission.  In 2021 she was elected by the Italian Parliament in the Management Board of RAI, the Italian public broadcast media.

Awards
Francesca has been nominated Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. She is also Culture Persons of the Year 2020 according to the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). She has been listed in the top 50 Women in Tech by Forbes, and in the World's top 20 most influential people in digital government by Apolitical. She has also been featured in the Italian Magazine Repubblica "D", amongst the 100 Women Changing the World.

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In watching the video pitches for the early teletext, or videotex, services, it's easy to be amused by their Paleolithic production values: the clunky fonts, the syrupy speed, the awkward remote clicker. And yet, most of the content being hyped is eerily prescient of what was to come for the interactive consumer over the next 25 years: "real time" sports scores and stock quotes, "electronic" games, a directory to find an ethnic restaurant in a particular neighborhood, and of course, "news" (from the local newspaper), scrolling across the TV screen. Once the smug laughter fades, the real takeaway may be that there really aren't any new content ideas, only new technology platforms.
So, by the mid-'80s, when the media giants were folding their costly experiments to marry the telephone with the television, and basically turning their backs on the notion of an interactive future, the real key to that future — the personal computer — was proliferating in offices everywhere, having been introduced in the mid-'70s and then to the mainstream business community by IBM in 1981. Another significant moment came in 1983, when Apple introduced the innovative Macintosh, a more user-friendly device that was clearly meant for more than crunching numbers at work; it was, in fact, the birth of self-publishing, a phenomenon that would later have enormous impact on the news business.
Steve Case on major shifts in AOL's business model, including the move to unlimited pricing.
By 1985, two entrepreneurs, Steve Case and Jim Kimsey, had converted a struggling interactive company called Quantum Computer Services, which had begun under previous management as a dial-up interactive Atari gaming company called Control Video Corp., into something called America Online. It — and for a while its competitors, CompuServe, the Source, Delphi, the Well and Prodigy — would launch the "dial-up" era of so-called "walled garden" proprietary online services, which would explode on to the consumer market and pave the way for much of how news and information services would be distributed and consumed for years to come.
AOL took its stock public in 1992 and over the next few years peppered the country with its free software disks, like some Johnny Appleseed of interactivity. The combination of AOL's simple, user-friendly interfaces and rapaciously aggressive marketing skills paid off handsomely. The company eventually gathered an audience of more than 30 million paying customers into its "walled garden" — racing from behind to surpass early mover CompuServe, and having a huge impact on how consumers would behave online for years to come. AOL was where many Americans acquired their first screen names and their first email addresses. They had their first "social media" experiences hanging out in AOL chat rooms; they used instant messaging in ways remarkably similar to the early Twitter experience. They even went to the movies and related as Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan hooked up to the sound of that familiar voice then streaming into everyone's living room with the not-so-subtle reminder of all the excitement that could await you online: "You've got mail." Could it really be Tom or Meg?
For this project, we asked Walter Isaacson, historian, journalist, and president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, to interview Case.
My interest in the space really started a few years before, when I was still in college. I think it was 1979. I read a book by Alvin Toffler called The Third Wave. He was talking about a number of things that were going to happen in the future. But one of them was the idea of an electronic cottage.
Someday, people would be living in this more interactive world, getting information in new ways, communicating with people in new ways. It struck me as an obvious thing that eventually would happen….
How did you see AOL, originally? What exactly was the mission, in terms of forming community, helping with email, delivering content and news?
When we started AOL in 1985, only about three percent of people were online [for about an hour a week]. It really was a pretty niche, almost hobbyist kind of market. Our goal was to expand it and make it much more of a mass market, mainstream phenomenon. Everything we did was geared towards that, trying to make it accessible, easy to use, and more affordable — more useful, more fun, things like that.
Our big bet, even back in 1985, was what we called community. Now people refer to it as social media or other kinds of things, but we thought it was the killer app…. People interacting with people they already knew in new ways that were more convenient, but also people interacting with people they didn't yet know, but should know, because they had some kind of shared interest.
Also in 1979, two years after graduating from Georgetown University, Ted Leonsis travelled to something called the West Coast Computer Faire, where Commodore, Osborne, and early Apple computers were being hawked from booths. He bought an Apple II computer, consisting of a motherboard, a keyboard, and a separate cathode ray tube. Outside the hall, he paid a sidewalk vendor six dollars for a homemade manual (wrapped in a Baggie) that explained how to put it together. While there, he met digital pioneer Robert Metcalfe (who co-invented Ethernet at Xerox PARC and later founded 3Com), and came home convinced that the computer, television, and software were somehow all destined to merge into a new form of media. Leonsis then went on to found a series of ventures that included software directories, buyers' guides to Macs and PCs, a private satellite business, and an interactive shopping business on CDs. By 1993, he was mayor of Vero Beach, Florida, and running a "new media" company called Redgate Communications, where he coined provocative slogans like "New Rules, New Media" and "Digitize or Die." Then he met Steve Case, and the almost overnight shotgun marriage of their two companies would accomplish Steve Case's goal faster than anyone could've imagined.
I thought I should hire an investment bank, which I did. My investment banker was Dan Case, who was head of Hambrecht and Quist. Dan worked really closely with us and one day said, "I've got a brother who's just been named head of this little online company, and you talk about stuff the way he's talking about stuff. He's seeing the world from one vantage point, you're seeing it from another, but you're seeing something very similar. Can I introduce you?" And so I had breakfast with Steve, and over coffee he bought my company.
What was the idea? Because Steve didn't like advertising at AOL.
Ted Leonsis recalls his first experience with a computer in college in 1976.
[AOL was predominantly a B-to-B company.] People forget that AOL started as a private network for Commodore, Q Link, and a private network for Apple-AppleLink — and one for IBM. My experience in the sponsored publishing business was similar. Steve brought all of those together, and that's how America Online was started.
And I get online at 1,200 [baud], but what do I do? We were talking about content and interactive shopping and communications apps.
We were all young, and it was populist. Our message was ease of use and take the drudgery out of your business day.
[To Steve Case:] Let me plug the theory that, like Steve Jobs, you believed it had to be really simple, and you had to get people online in an unintimidating way. Those disks and the marketing that would come with Time magazine. You'd say, "Oh, this can't be that hard. I can put it in and it says 'You've Got Mail.'" Which made it, to me, more distinctive than The Well, Prodigy, CompuServe, which always seemed a bit more intimidating to the average user.
But the idea was that we didn't just want to appeal to technologically sophisticated people. We really wanted everyone to get online. We really wanted to get America online. In order to do that it was going to have to be simple. Some of that was the software. Some of it was things like getting PC manufacturers to bundle the modems in and bundle our software in….
In the process of building its nationwide service, AOL had established a wide network of local dial-up "nodes," which saved subscribers from having to make long distance toll calls. At the same time, the fledgling service was hungry for content.
We had the idea of, "We have this national network, but we have these local nodes. And what we should do is create affiliates with local companies." The first company we went to was the Tribune in Chicago, and they embraced us totally.
They made an investment that ended up, I think, making them about $4 billion. It was obviously their best investment, but they wanted to learn about digital. They carved out the Chicago territory, so when you logged on to AOL from Chicago it would come up with AOL News, followed by Chicago Tribune news. Then they programmed Chicago Tribune Online. We did the same thing with the [San Jose] Mercury Center, and The New York Times [embraced us].
One of the people who first heard AOL pitch its call to digital arms was Tim Landon, then at the Tribune Company, which not only invested early in AOL and made billions on its stock, but also experimented with putting local news content online under its own brand.
A guy showed up on our doorstep [in 1991] and essentially he was trying to reposition his service into an online news information service. The guy was Steve Case. I got involved [because] I had written things…basically saying that these early-stage dial-up proprietary services — Prodigy, CompuServe, Genie — had made a market connection between buyers and sellers, and that that market would displace our classified advertising market. So I was invited into these meetings.
As you've just described, Tribune invested very early in AOL. In '93, '94, the web starts going and the Tribune Company, but in particular The Chicago Tribune, is now starting to build websites. Most of what people did in that era was pretty much just simply repurpose the editorial content from the paper and put it online. You guys had the distinct advantage of having a lot of visibility into a service that was succeeding with the consumer. Clearly, they were doing a lot more than publishing newspaper copy into an online service. Did you guys, at that point, think about what AOL was succeeding at doing and triangulate that back to the newspaper?
If you recall, AOL was declared dead a number of times….When the open web was launched, there was a real question by the digital intelligentsia whether AOL would survive. The period you're talking about, we were wrestling with a number of things at Tribune. One was, "Is AOL just a passing fancy and were things really moving to the web? There was tremendous energy on the editorial side of Tribune to take control of our destiny and not be captive to an AOL environment, but publish on the open web. That was one factor. Another factor was…Ted Leonsis. Ted is a tremendously charismatic and compelling figure.
I did not feel that was an appropriate thing, in terms of my fiduciary responsibility. We end up saying, "God, we really like these AOL guys, but it's so disorganized. It's chaos. Everybody's saying it's going to shift away from AOL. Let's build it outside of AOL." That's why we started Classified Ventures and CareerBuilder. And I really think, on the news side, it was a similar set of discussions.
Eventually we monetized that five- or ten-million-dollar [investment] into two-and-a-half billion dollars. [Authors' Note: Leonsis says $4 billion.] But it was a hedging strategy….In retrospect, we could have cut a deal there. We could have owned and controlled those channels on AOL. As it played out [from '94 to '99], to be able to program a national news channel, a local news channel, the employment channel, the auto channel, the real estate channel on AOL, we would have created a lot of value for Tribune Co. Just one man's opinion.
The drive to persuade local newspaper companies to come online inside AOL would continue, but as Leonsis recalls, it wasn't always met with the same enthusiasm as in Chicago.
And then we went to The Washington Post. We said, "It's such a natural. We're in D.C.; The Post is in D.C." At the time there were some people that thought what we were doing was easy. How hard can it be? You buy some computers, you send out some disks, you hire some editors. I remember Steve and I went to a meeting, and it was obvious that they [The Post] couldn't make that decision. We were driving back and Steve asked me, "So what's your Plan B?" And I said, "Well, how hard can it be to do what they do? What do they do? They hire some writers. They get a photographer. Why don't we make a local media product and try it in D.C.? It would at least get their attention, and we'll learn something." So we launched AOL D.C. That was the precursor to Digital Cities.
So you were forced into the news business?
Donald Graham recalls that newspaper circulation has been dropping for decades, starting well before the Internet came along.
One of the biggest challenges established media companies faced in moving online wasn't the problem of finding successful business models, it was the difficulty of creating successful online cultures inside legacy publishing companies. Eventually, they suffered a sort of "Revenge of the Nerds" when it became clear that without hiring and empowering computer scientists in roles of real importance, the legacy media companies couldn't keep pace with the new all-digital entrants. Despite having passed on a deal with AOL — for content or maybe even something grander like a major investment or acquisition — this lesson of engineering wasn't lost on Washington Post publisher Don Graham (who, as mentioned, finally threw in the towel in August 2013, selling The Washington Post to Jeff Bezos, no stranger to building and leading engineering cultures).
You would have to look at AOL and say, the lesson of this is not the uses it's being put to. The lesson of this is that it's being built by a kind of people we do not have in these walls [at the Post Co.] and we'd better go get some. [Bill] Gates, at that time, was going to everybody's editorial board and saying, "Good technology people won't go to work for people like you. Good technology people want to work for Microsoft." He was wrong. He was wrong. Good technology people want to work on hard problems, and news quickly became a very famous hard problem.


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Q: what to do about chunks not loading? Sometimes not loaded chunks create holes in the world. Why is it that some chunks don't load while everything around them gets loaded? Yesterday i traversed such a hole flying, it still didn't load. Is there anything that can be done to avoid such things? It destroys immersion, apart from that chunk being unusable while not loaded.

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*Log off and log on again

*Press F3 + A

*Reset your Render distance in display options

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Edit: As additional information, option 2 and 3 forcibly reload all chunks.

A: Three ways to help chunks to load

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*Try resetting your world. The chunks may not cooperate with how fast/slow your world is loading.

*Check your render distance. Make sure your world is not too many/less chunks.

*Check your WiFi. Another reason your world may not be loading fully is because of WiFi. If you have 2 or less bars, (or none) your world will not load. Try resetting your WiFi if it is running slow.

A: Use MCEdit if chunks do not load. Make sure you try logging off and back on to make sure beforehand.

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Councillor Josh Matlow said it's time for Mayor Rob Ford to speak about cocaine controversy
City Centre Mirror
Justin Skinner
As controversy continues to swirl around Mayor Rob Ford, St. Paul's councillor Josh Matlow has added his voice to the growing number of councillors calling for the mayor to speak out about allegations he was captured on video smoking crack cocaine.
"The mayor has a decision to make," Matlow said. "He can continue ducking from this issue or he can stand up and face it like an adult."
Matlow said he was "very saddened" when the allegations that Ford had smoked crack cocaine arose, noting the incident has both distracted city hall from its regular business and given the City of Toronto a black eye around the world.
"A controversy like this isn't good for anyone, including the residents of Toronto and the mayor himself," the councillor said.
Matlow addressed his constituents regarding the issue in his recent Community Update email earlier in the week, acknowledging that speaking on such a strange subject still seemed surreal.
"It's not like every month there's a new controversy at city hall; it's virtually every hour now," he said.
"There's never been a controversy this sensational and bizarre and concerning at Toronto City Hall."
Matlow has not had a chance to speak with Ford since the controversy erupted, but he would like to see the mayor deal with the issue quickly and honestly. Even if Ford does have an addiction problem – something the mayor has denied – Matlow said it would behoove him to admit as much.
"I would tell him, 'Mr. Mayor, please put Toronto before yourself," he said.
"This is not about your political career."
Matlow said he feels that if Ford has an addiction problem, he could earn some sympathy from Torontonians by admitting as much and seeking help to overcome it.
Even as the controversy continues, Matlow said, most councillors and city staff members are doing their best to tackle ongoing issues such as traffic, gridlock and housing that plagued Toronto long before the allegations against Ford.
"I would like to remind Torontonians that while this controversy is taking a lot of the air out of the room, this city continues to function as imperfectly as it always has," he said.
Councillor Pam McConnell was at an out-of-town meeting and could not be reached for comment. Representatives for Mike Layton and Adam Vaughan said those councillors were not commenting on the allegations, while Kristyn Wong-Tam could not be immediately reached for comment.
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Bernie And PDA Rocking AZ!
Bernie Sanders, the people's Senator, spoke to 1500 supporters in Phoenix on Sunday. Sanders fired up the young and diverse crowd, all part of a "Red State" tour gearing up for the 2018 elections.
PDA in Phoenix, local Our Revolution, DSA members, and activists from the Maricopa County Democratic Party all pitched in on very short notice to make this event a big success. People left the event energized and determined to fight for the issues based on a progressives agenda and rejecting the ideas of hate and division coming from President Trump and Republican Party.
Sanders, was joined on stage by PDA National Advisory Board Member, Tucson CD-3 Congressman Raul Grijalva, and Phoenix CD-7 Congressmen Ruben Gallego. Nina Turner, a former state Senator from Ohio, and current president of Our Revolution, introduced the Democratic Socialist from Vermont with her now famous "I Know Someone" speech.
As is always the case, Nina brought down the house, and was the perfect table setter for the senator.
We're proud to stand with Bernie, and if you'd like to see him capitalize on his tremendous showing in 2016 and run for president again, sign and share this petition wide.
Onward to a more progressive world for all!
PS: For great video from the event, see the PDA Facebook Page.
I'm glad to see Sen Sanders came out to Arizona. I will be sure to vote for him again if he chooses to run for president. Thanks for listening to the American people and all that you do for us.


Clara Sandoval is a qualified lawyer and Professor in the School of Law at Essex University. She was Acting Director of the Human Rights Centre (January to December 2017), Director of the Essex Transitional Justice Network and former Director of the LLM in International Human Rights Law. She teaches and researches on areas related to the Inter-American System of Human Rights, Legal Theory, Reparations, Business and Human Rights and Transitional Justice. Most of her recent scholarship has been focused on reparations for gross human rights violations by the State and by TNCs. She was a visiting professional at the International Criminal Court in 2005, providing the Court with analysis on the award of reparations for gross human rights violations by regional human rights courts, and has equally worked as a consultant for the ICC in the area of reparations (Lubanga). More recently, she was appointed as one of four experts by the ICC to advice the Court on various questions surrounding the award of reparations in the Bemba case (Situation in the Central African Republic). Besides her academic commitments, Clara also engages in human rights litigation, training and capacity building with organisations such as REDRESS and the IBA and has been a consultant for the UN OHCHR for which she wrote the Special Issue onTransitional Justice and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the UN Guidance Note of the Secretary-General on Reparations for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence. More recently, Clara also worked as a consultant to the Transitional Justice of the Ministry of Justice in Colombia providing advice on transitional justice issues during the peace negotiations with the FARC. Clara is co-investigator and leads on the Americas part of a major three years ESRC funded Human Rights Law Implementation Project which looks at the factors that hinder or enable implementation of reparation orders/recommendations (in individual cases/petitions/communications) of regional systems and UN treaty bodies. The Americas team is looking at Canada, Colombia and Guatemala. From October 2017 Clara has also been working as a co-investigator on the AHRC funded project Reparations, Responsibility and Victimhood in Transitional Justice which will study, among others, the domestic reparation programmes in Colombia, Guatemala, Peru, Nepal, Northern Ireland and Uganda. Clara is currently working on a co-authored booked on Reparations for Victims of Armed Conflicts (Third volume of the Max Planck Trialogues on the Law of Peace and War) written by Sandoval, C., Furuya, S., and Correa, C., to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2019.


There are not that many things about which we can rejoice. In a world of conflict and ill will it's always good to get some good news. The Mueller Report is completed with the integrity of our nation still in intact. This occurred as numerous threats and charges against Robert Mueller were hurled from the White House. The phrase "witch hunt" was used so often it's surprising that it didn't summon a coven of witches. At this point, the full Mueller Report has not been released and the public is left to discuss and debate the four page AG Barr's summary.
In this time of indecision, the President has proclaimed total vindication and exoneration. The fact that the President was not charged has received resounding praise from high places. This feeling of exhilaration has been brought about because the report does not proclaim our President is a traitor. How many nations can forthrightly say their head of state is not a traitor? Well, we can! The very thought that this conclusion is a moment for rejoicing is astounding. While NO COLLUSION rings out through the land, the evidence of Russian interference and cooperation with the Trump Administration is staggering. The list begins with the President and extends to his advisors and appointees. While the President is not a traitor, it is obvious that he trusts the leader of Russia over our intelligence officers. The President has held at least five meetings with the Russian leader without any American advisor present and no notes made available.
While the Russians hacked our electoral systems and used social media to influence the 2016 vote, the President has been very reluctant to charge them with the offense. In a news conference, the President said, "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 [Clinton] emails that are missing, I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press," The President fired FBI Director James Comey because of the Russian matter and then invited the Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and Ambassador Kislyak to a closed door meeting at the White House to celebrate the firing. While the President publicly stated that he had no dealings with Russia, his son Eric Trump reportedly bragged about access to $100 million in Russian money saying, "We don't rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia." At this point in President Trump's administration, he is being labeled the most corrupt President in American history.
Presidential historian Robert Dallek argues that no American leader has acted with more unadulterated self-interest as Trump and in terms of outright corruption, Trump is worse than both Ulysses S. Grant and Warren G. Harding. The statement is astounding on its face since Grant and Harding oversaw the most flagrant instances of graft in American political history. While Professor Dallek is willing to give some leeway to Grant's naiveté, Dallek sees something more nefarious is at work in the White House of Donald Trump. The man who promised to drain the swamp has appointed a laundry list of individuals who have admitted lying to the F.B.I. or having secret meetings with Russians. The list includes: George Papadopoulos, a former member of the foreign policy advisory panel to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign; Donald Trump Jr., President Trump's eldest son; Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and a senior adviser; Jeff Sessions, the former attorney general; Michael T. Flynn, Mr. Trump's former national security adviser; Michael D. Cohen Trump's former lawyer found guilty and sentenced; Paul D. Manafort, Mr. Trump's former campaign chairman indicted and sentenced; Rick Gates, Manafort's associate, indicted and found guilty; Roger J. Stone Jr., a prominent informal adviser to Mr. Trump, indicted; and Carter Page, an early foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign who was questioned by the F.B.I. but not charged since he was a man who knew too little. Most of the above individuals were questioned, indicted, plead guilty, and sentenced in Trump's first two years in office. Let us now see what the future brings.


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Q: Help getting dataSource working on OpenFlow I need help getting dataSource in OpenFlow. I
I want to provide CoverFlow functionality whenever the phone is turned horizontally. I'm using Alex Fajkowski's awesome code OpenFlow ( http://fajkowski.com/blog/2009/08/02/openflow-a-coverflow-api-replacement-for-the-iphone/ ) but the example provided is very different than what I need.
I am using OpenFlow in a horizontal view inside a navbar view controller. I have OpenFlow working already. I can scroll through all my images and works really good. However I am using it with over 100 images and it takes a while to load at first. In looking into performance improvements I realized the AFOpenFlowViewDataSource delegate is not getting called. I was able to get AFOpenFlowViewDelegate working by specifying the delegate in the view controller class "flowView.dataSource = self;". But I am not able to get the datasource delegate working. Not even with "flowView.viewDelegate = self;".
Is the datasource needed at all? It seems it is needed for threading of loading.

A: Ok, it looks like it is running beautiful now. The DataSource delegate is only called when there the objects are loaded dynamically. Meaning, if I use "[(AFOpenFlowView *)self.view setImage]" then dataSOurce is never called because all it knows images are already loaded. However, using "[(AFOpenFlowView *)self.view setNumberOfImages:30];" triggers the DataSource delegate to load the images as they are needed. I found the GetImageOperation NSThread very useful for my 100+ images. However, images are not unloaded after going offscreen. Anyone know how to unload images as they go off screen?


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With surge in viewership on TV screens, YouTube plans for further ad push
San Francisco, May 8 2020 - There's been an 800 per cent (year-on-year) increase globally in the number of people watching ad-supported and purchased movies on the Google-owned YouTube, with 125 per cent jump in TV shows and 250 per cent growth in live content.
While overall watch time has jumped 80 per cent (YoY) in social distancing times, YouTube is seeing different user behaviour when people engage with YouTube on the TV screen, the company said in a statement.
"It is often enjoyed with others, unlike the more individual experience on the mobile device. In a recent custom Nielsen study commissioned by Google, we found that 26 per cent of the time, multiple 18+ viewers are watching YouTube together on the TV screen, compared to 22 percent on linear TV," said Debbie Weinstein, Vice President, Global Video and YouTube Solutions.
Buyoed by the growing usage, YouTube on Thursday announced number of tools - including Brand Lift measurement on the TV screen and more flexible formats for content casted onto the TV screen - to help advertisers navigate this rapidly changing environment.
"As people spend more time at home, we're seeing major shifts in streaming viewership. A recent Comscore report highlighted that over 70 million US households are now streaming content on their connected TV screens," Weinstein added.
People are also gravitating to the consistently new and fresh content YouTube creators put out every day.
In fact, over 60 per cent of signed-in viewers of YouTube on TV screens watched a video published in the last 7 days.
YouTube said it is accelerating the launch of Brand Lift for YouTube on TV screens.
For viewers, this means surveys are now optimized for the big screen and interactivity with a TV remote, so people can easily respond or skip the survey.
"This will enable marketers to make informed decisions about ad performance, and better optimize streaming campaigns in real time whether they are using Google Ads or Display & Video 360 for both reservation and auction campaigns," said YouTube.
Brand Lift that will help make budgets go further will be available in the coming weeks for the YouTube app, and in early Q3 for YouTube TV.
"As viewers spend more time watching YouTube on the TV screen, we are continuing to evolve to help advertisers better reach their customers where they are," said the company.
Late last year, it launched the YouTube Masthead on TV screens to help advertisers drive awareness with a large audience in a single moment.
"This year, we're also bringing more format flexibility to streaming by introducing the popular skippable ad format for content that is casted onto the TV screen," the company said.
As casting watch time soared by over 75 per cent year over year, this provides advertisers a new way to reach their audience as they embrace the evolving ways consumers are watching their favourite content, YouTube added.


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Die Wahlen zum Dáil Éireann fanden am 24. November 1982 statt. Bestimmt wurden die Mitglieder des 24. Dáil.

Ergebnisse 1982 (November)
Die 166 Parlamentarier versammelten sich erstmals am 14. Dezember und die Amtszeit dauerte 1546 Tage.

Die zweite Unterhauswahl im Jahr 1982 fand nur neun Monate nach der letzten Wahl statt und war die dritte Wahl innerhalb von 18 Monaten.

Die Wahl wurde notwendig, da Fianna Fáil die Unterstützung der Workers' Party und der Unabhängigen verloren hatte, die die Finanzkürzungen der Regierung nicht mittragen wollten. Obwohl die wirtschaftlichen Probleme drängten mussten die Parteien nun einen weiteren Wahlkampf ausfechten.

Nach der Auszählung der Stimmen erreichte Fine Gael die größte Anzahl an Sitzen in der Geschichte und lag damit nur 5 Sitze hinter Fianna Fáil (es gab Zeiten, da hatte Fianna Fáil doppelt so viele Sitze wie Fine Gael). Die Labour Party hatte mit Dick Spring einen neuen Anführer und konnte sich recht schnell mit Fine Gael auf ein Regierungsprogramm einigen, so dass Garret FitzGerald zum zweiten Mal Taoiseach wurde. Das schlechte Abschneiden von Fianna Fáil lag vor allem an dem (intern) umstrittenen Anführer Charles Haughey, der sich sogar einer (gewonnenen) Vertrauensfrage in seiner Partei stellen musste.

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