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Cook County Jail inmates said they are staging a hunger strike over their continued detention as COVID-19 spreads inside one of the nation's largest jails
By Megan Crepeau
COOK COUNTY, Ill. — Cook County Jail detainees worried their tiers will be overtaken by COVID-19 have started refusing regular food and demanding better conditions, the Tribune has learned, a development sheriff's officials are downplaying.
Inmates told the newspaper they are staging what they describe as hunger strikes over their continued detention as the coronavirus spreads inside one of the nation's largest jails.
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"Inmates put out a stress signal to each other, like, man, we need to stand together," Donnelle Thurman told the newspaper in a phone interview this week, noting that people like him facing first-degree murder charges have little to lose.
"I'm fighting 45 years to life (if convicted)," he said. "I could possibly lose my life by a virus 'cause I can't go home, or I could lose my life to the justice system."
He and other inmates on three tiers in Division 11, and one tier in Division 10, have intermittently refused their food trays for a couple of days at a time in recent weeks, a statement from the sheriff's office confirmed.
But it would be "reckless and inaccurate" to describe that as a hunger strike, sheriff's officials said, noting that the detainees were eating food from the commissary instead and jail procedures define "hunger strike" as abstaining from food altogether.
Still, the sheriff's officials confirmed they have forwarded a petition from the inmates, who requested their demands be reviewed by a judge.
Among their demands: release on bond, increased access to calls with family, cleaner conditions and a reopening of the courthouse so their cases could be heard more quickly. Thurman said he realizes the chances are slim that a murder defendant gets released on bond pending trial, so they were sure to make additional requests.
"(The strike) was based on trying to get us something, because of the fact they said we are violent criminals and cannot leave Cook County," he said.
The jail has become a hot spot for the virus and a hot spot of controversy. Authorities have scrambled to release detainees in recent weeks in the hope of stemming the disease's spread, with a focus on those facing nonviolent charges.
Activists have demonstrated in favor of emptying the jail completely, and defense attorneys have repeatedly brought cases up for emergency bail reviews even for those charged with more serious offenses.
Prosecutors and some judges, in turn, have expressed serious concern that releasing defendants with violent charges or backgrounds could endanger the public.
Sheriffs pointed to a brutal attack on jail guards in maximum-security Division 9 on Tuesday as an example of the risks some defendants pose, even behind bars.
Meanwhile, the jail's population has reached all-time lows — with just 4,322 people behind bars as of Wednesday. Those remaining are much more likely to have violent cases.
Sherrif Polk is one of them, locked up since last year on charges of first-degree murder in the killing of an 18-year-old man on the North Side in 2016.
"We matter too," he said. "We felt like since they were just releasing nonviolent offenders … we felt (a hunger strike) would be our only chance to try to prove a point."
Veteran public defender Marijane Placek, who represents Thurman, told the Tribune she had never seen a mass hunger strike at Cook County Jail in her decades of practice.
"The jail has always (had) such a transitory population," she said. "It's not a place where people get to know each other, trust one another, and know that people have their back. The fact that this is happening so quickly, you can imagine how desperate conditions must be."
The transitory, "revolving-door" nature of the jail is part of the reason it could pose such a risk to public health, experts have said. As of Wednesday evening, there were 181 detainees with confirmed COVID-19 infections, and 156 others who previously tested positive but are now recovering. Three detainees died at local hospitals after testing positive.
Polk told the Tribune that those on his tier and others refused food for all three meals on Friday. Those who had money on their commissary accounts bought snacks to pass out among detainees instead, items such as honey buns, noodles and sausages.
They started accepting their food trays after a supervisor at the jail came to speak to them, and they felt their message had been heard.
Thurman, in a different area of Division 11, said their food action lasted a few days longer.
They refused trays beginning April 8, Thurman said, in support of the petition that they wanted delivered to the chief judge. After a couple of days, a supervisor said he would deliver the petition, and most of Thurman's fellow detainees began to take their trays again.
A sheriff's office spokeswoman confirmed that a petition from Division 11 detainees addressed to Chief Judge Timothy Evans has been "forwarded on."
Conditions in the division have improved significantly in recent days, Thurman said. Detainees have face masks and can get hand sanitizer on demand. The tier is regularly sprayed with bleach, and detainees are now mostly housed in single cells rather than being confined with a cellmate.
But a few detainees, including Thurman, decided they would continue fasting until they were assured that their petition had actually been delivered.
"I am as healthy as I'm ever going to be," he said Monday night, noting that he practices Islam and is used to fasting for religious purposes. "I'm hearing daily that people are dying and the numbers are outrageous. It's not me I'm actually afraid for, it's everyone else."
Detainees have written messages in the windows of some parts of the jail: "We matter 2," one reads, thanking activists outside for demonstrating.
And inmates watch the news regularly for any updates, Polk said.
"Basically every time they bring up Cook County, we expect them to be like 'the judge just said also offenders with serious cases, they also get the release,'" he told the Tribune on Tuesday. "Our hopes is so high."
Placek scoffed at the notion that released detainees would go out and reoffend like "something out of a bad Western."
"What they're afraid of is somehow these people will form some sort of marauding bands," Placek said. "Because they don't see them as human beings, they have no sympathy for them."
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This wrap is best suited for aged cheeses such as Edam, Gouda and Cheddar, where the foil surface will help prevent moisture loss. The cheese should be wrapped with the foil surface outermost and the cheese touching the inner paper side.
Cheeses with a higher moisture content such as Brie, Camembert and washed-rind types, should not be wrapped until they are ready to consume. The foil surface lets very little air through, so the cheese should be inspected regularly (every few days) and re-wrapped to keep the cheese fresh.
The length of time you can store the cheese will depend on the type of cheese and the temperature that it is stored at. As a general rule of thumb, you will find drier, aged cheeses will keep for much longer than surface ripened/high moisture type cheeses.


If you met a welded wire mesh company in a traditonal way or a exhibition, the risk of doing business with them is much smaller than wiring money to a company name which is obtained from the internet, even it is shown on a B2B website, the B2B website will never pay your possible losses.
If all the companies you get are from the internet, how to judge them?
Tip 1: Look at their websites to see the products range, choosing the narrow & deep one other than the wide & skin deep one.
There are a lot of "metal mesh" companies, but the fact is: the metal mesh are a huge industry, it covers hundreds kinds of products and hundreds of specifications for each product. if a company survives very well, they must be good at some specific product and focus on it. For example: you are looking for a business partner to supply the stainless steel 304 grade 1.5mm x 1/2in x 1/2in welded wire mesh, thousands companies may be found and it looks they all can do it, choosing the ones introducing welded wire mesh and related products only, quitting those which introducing not only welded wire mesh, but also a lot of unrelated information such as stainless steel wire cloth, plastic window screen, binding wire etc. The website of a company reflect part of their business ways, if it is not focusing on welded wire mesh too much, it is most likely they are not doing welded wire mesh very well.
TIP 2: Look at their websites to see how many mistakes there are, and how many images are copied from other websites.
There are a lot of mistakes on the websites of "metal mesh" companies. Some part of their web call the PVC coated welded wire mesh, some other part called PE coated welded wire mesh, some other parts may refer it as plastic coated welded wire mesh, they do not understand what is the difference between PVC coating and PE coating. and some website write the stainless steel 304 grade has a nickel content of 0.8%.
There is only one or two persons in that company, and they do not have enough professional staff to write down the correct information.
This is just their habits, as they treat everything like this including your order.
That company is not a company; they register and disappear very quickly.
TIP 3: Call their phone number to see if you are contacting a real person.
In case you can not make a visit to the company, it is very necessary to make a phone call to the company, talk to the person who wrote to you, tell them that you have sent a inquiry of hot dip galvanized welded wire mesh, and you need it to be hot dip galvanized after welding, and confirm other elements you described in the email. In this way you will make sure whether you are contacting a real person.
TIP 4: See how quickly and how professionally they reply.
Good companies can always reply to you very quickly in a very professional way. Considering the time difference, a good company may reply to you within 24 hours or even shorter, but not on weekends. They know what are important in your inquiry or if they handle your job, they may need to clarify some issues which are not very clear in your inquiry. That is much better than a company that gives you a quotation based on incomplete information, which is meaningless.
TIP 5: Tell them that you may pay for samples, ask for their bank details to see if it is different from the one you are contacting.
Some companies are using different beneficiary names when you want to pay. It is very dangerous to pay to a different company name or to a personal bank account. Even if you finally decide not to pay, it is not cheating. It is only a way of preventing you from fraud.


Over the last few years Bournemouth has been growing in popularity as a destination for hen parties.
A hen weekend in Bournemouth guarantees a weekend you'll never forget, with a charming personality providing the perfect back drop for any hen party.
Offering up sun soaked beaches with chilled out vibes and plenty of daytime options. By night the city showcases upmarket stylish bars and its award winning nightlife.
So check out why Bournemouth is such a popular hen destination.
Wondering where to go? Be sure to check out our Bournemouth Hen Party Guide.
Why not build your own Bournemouth hen do package?
We have various ready-made Bournemouth hen do packages loaded with different activities, from cocktail making, pole dancing, unlimited prosecco and chocolate to perfume making.
If they don't suit your needs why not check out our Hen Party Ideas Bournemouth page here you can choose from 70+ activities to create your own bespoke Bournemouth hen weekend.
As the sun begins to set Bournemouth comes to life at night with over 40,000 party goers flocking the streets.
There's something to suit every kind of hen personality; from upmarket bars to mega clubs. Whether you fancy like chilling out with a mojito in hand taking in the picturesque views or your a party animal who won't be rolling in until sunrise, Bournemouth has it all.
Cameo - The epitome of clubbing cool, Cameo is a bustling party place. Showcasing 4 party rooms, brimming with VIP booths and tables, Cameo is a sure destination for any Bournemouth hen party.
Le Chic - A fun loving party atmosphere, Le Chic is a glamorous late night hot spot in the heart of the city. With a gold room, endless party spaces and VIP booths those looking for a little glamour whilst partying are sure to be satisfied.
Aruba - Overlooking Bournemouth's award winning beach Aruba offers up an exotic Caribbean experience. A stylish modern hideout this cocktail bar oozes cool and tranquillity with tropical decor to match. The perfect place to kick off your hen night.
Bar Republiq - Hailed a secret VIP boutique club, Bar Republiq offers up a blend of Manhattan lifestyle and Bournemouth nightlife. This ultra trendy bar offers up an array of hand crafted cocktails and luxe liquids such as Jeroboam.
Unlike other hen destination Bournemouth's train station is 15-20 minute walk from the city centre, something worth baring in mind with luggage.
The city centre is easy to navigate around via foot... at night a taxi might be a better option. Its best to book a taxi in advance to avoid higher fares.
Once you have booked your Bournemouth hen party we will send you a map so you can clearly see your hotel and activities labelled and the distance between.
Did you know in summer Bournemouth offers an average of 7.7 hours of sunshine a day!


A typical scenario which occurs for most traders is they enter a trend with their currency trading signal the price retraces, takes out their stop and then the trend immediately goes back the way they thought, piling up thousands of dollars and their not in!
If this has happened to you, you're not alone. Most traders have this problem and volatility is the cause.
Of course prices don't trend in a straight line otherwise currency trading would be easy – they constantly retrace against major trends. Quite simply, you need to employ money management rules to keep you in the major trend and not get stopped out so here are some tips.
If you want to avoid getting caught by random volatility avoid short term trading strategies such as forex scalping or day trading. All volatility in a day is random. So if you place stops using daily support and resistance you are wasting your time.
Forget day trading and look at long term trend following.
You don't get paid for how often you trade you get paid for being right with your trading signal and getting your market timing right. The big high odds trades don't come around every day and you need to be patient to wait for them. I know traders who trade less than a dozen times a year, who make triple digit gains and you, can to.
You will also find many of the best trading moves come from breakouts and you need to look for these.
Most major trends start from breaks of highs and lows and pick valid ones (check our other articles for more information on breakouts) When a break occurs your stop is obvious below the breakout point. If the breakout continues do not trail your stop to close! This is the major error of most traders in any form of trend and we will discuss this next.
Most traders fail to win because they trail stops too soon. They want to restrict risk so much they create it by bringing their stop within normal volatility and getting bumped out the trade.
Make sure you leave your stop until the trend is well underway and trail outside of random volatility.
A good way of doing this is using the 40 day Moving average as a stop. Sure you miss a bit of the trend when it turns – but you can't predict that anyway, so there is no point in trying. If you caught 50% of every major trend you would be very rich.
Today you can get leverage of 200:1 or more but for a small trader to use all of this is madness.
Sure your gain will be huge – but your stop has to be so close, you are guaranteed to get stopped out. De-leverage and use 10 or 20:1 and risk more per trade.
In forex trading you have to take a risk and you need to be outside of daily volatility with your stop, or you're going to lose. Risking more to your stop means your chances of winning are higher, if you hit high odds trades and that's what you need to do.
Volatility can destroy your account quickly, if your forex money management doesn't handle it.
The above tips will work. In the next series of these articles we will look at how to measure volatility and look at standard deviation of price, which is essential forex education for any trader and a great tool to help time trading signals – the Bollinger Band.
Many traders think forex money management takes care of itself, it doesn't and you need to get protection for your trades and deal with volatility to win.


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The Class of 2004
Celebrating 10 Years Since Graduation
The Class of 2004 is celebrating its 10th Reunion in the spring! We look forward to welcoming you to the College of Charleston Alumni Association's Alumni Weekend on May 2-4, 2014 for festivities recognizing this reunion milestone for family, friends and classmates of 2004.
The Class of 2004 classmates and the other alumni celebrating reunions who give at least $35 to the Reunion Challenge will have access to purchase $75 discounted tickets (limited quantity, first-come first-serve) to the Class Reunion VIP area at A Charleston Affair on Saturday, May 3rd. This all-reunion celebration will be in Craig Courtyard directly across from the Cistern Yard and A Charleston Affair.
To make a gift to the College of Charleston Fund or purchase your VIP tickets, contact Ryan Small '01 in the Alumni Office at smallr@cofc.edu or (843)953-1833.
Included in your discounted ticket:
Private celebration area with security
Enhanced menu
Private restrooms
Unlimited access to this area as well as A Charleston Affair general admission areas
Individual areas will be provided for each of the ten reunion classes.
Some restrictions apply:
You must be celebrating a class reunion AND have given a gift of $35 or more to the College of Charleston Fund in order to purchase no more than two $75 discounted tickets (giving date must be between July 1, 2013 to April 25, 2014).
Reunion classmates and guests must be 21 to attend.
Tickets are non-transferrable (ID is required and must match the registered name).
Additional event details will be sent out via broadcast email, so update your contact information in order to receive correspondence from the College.
If you would like to assist the Alumni Office with your reunion, please let us know! Alumni who volunteer to rally their classmates to attend the reunion ALWAYS have stronger participation!
Class Reunion Giving Challenge!
The Class Reunion Giving Challenge is in full swing! The ten classes celebrating reunions in 2014 (2009, 2004, 1999, 1994, 1989, 1984, 1979, 1974, 1969 and 1964) are going to battle with one another to determine which individual classes can accumulate the highest total giving and the highest percent of giving to the CofC Fund between July 1, 2013 and April 25, 2014.
In Spring 2013, a total of 377 alumni celebrating a reunion participated in the Class Reunion Challenge and gave a total of almost $50,000 to the CofC Fund!
Check out your class' progress here!

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A spoonful of reality helps Macon property values go down
Written by Becky Johnson
It's been two weeks since new property values hit the mailboxes in Macon County, but there's nary a line to be seen at the county property appraisal office.
Only 400 appeals have trickled in so far. The last property revaluation in Macon County saw a whopping 4,000 appeals.
Ask Richard Lightner how they managed all those appeals, and the answer is simple.
"Worked a lot," said Lightner, Macon's tax administrator who oversees the property revaluation.
The huge volume of appeals during the 2007 revaluation, and far smaller number this time, is a sign of the real estate times.
In 2007, property values went through the roof — they went up 69 percent on average — and people were fretting over what that would do to their property tax bill.
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Fast forward to 2015, and this time real estate values have gone down by 15 percent on average.
Nonetheless, appeals are still coming in. But instead of being upset by how much their property went up, they're confused why it didn't go down more. Especially those with vacant house lots in stalled or sputtering subdivisions, Lightner said.
Lightner said foreclosures and short sales are giving people a false sense of what property is worth. Those bargain basement sale prices aren't considered the going market price of real estate, so don't expect your property to be valued on par with those distressed sales, Lightner said.
But it's hard to explain that, he said.
"They are looking at it and saying, 'It sold for $3,000, so why do we have it valued at $20,000?'" Lightner said. "They got a good deal and that's what they think it should be worth. But that was a foreclosure, so it is not recognized."
A countywide property appraisal has one purpose: to figure up what everyone should pay in property taxes.
Some people appeal their property value every revaluation, no matter what, just to see if they can talk the county into lowering the appraised value, and thus lower their taxes.
"Whatever they get it reduced by, it is their idea of winning," Lightner said.
Some who appeal have legitimate issues, however. The county's appraisal team tries to peg the going market value of 44,000 parcels and 27,000 buildings. And so there are obviously going to be things the appraisers miss.
"Some people come in and say, 'I don't have a completed basement. It is just a crawl space,' or someone has built a two-story house and didn't finish the upstairs," Lightner said. "Some of those things you can't tell unless someone actually brings it to your attention."
Nearby, Haywood was one of the first counties in the mountains to tackle a reval after the real estate crash. Haywood saw just as many appeals in the post-crash reval of 2011 as it had during its 2006 reval, according to Haywood Tax Administrator David Francis. The 2011 appeals mostly came from people who thought their property should have gone down more than it did.
While Haywood saw roughly the same number of appeals in its reval after the bust, it didn't see the same spike in appeals as Macon back during the real estate boom.
In Macon, about 10 percent of all the parcels landed on the appeals desk in 2007. In Haywood, it was about 5 percent.
Given how high Macon's was last time, the appeal rate is bound to be lower this time.
New this reval is an online appeal form. Macon is one of the few counties in the state that offer online appeals, something Lightner is proud of, even though making it easier to appeal could lead more people to do so.
Lightner's office is the first stop for property owners appealing their value. The appraisal team decides whether there's good reason to adjust the value. If the property owner doesn't like the answer they get, the next stop is the so-called Board of Equalization and Review. A panel of Realtors and local appraisers hears the appeals and decides on their merit. The next stop after that is a state review board.
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Antoinette Sandbach has been returned to parliament as Conservative MP for Eddisbury with 29,192 votes.
In second place was Cathy Reynolds for Labour with 17,250 votes. Ian Priestner for Lib Dems had 2,804 votes Mark Green for the Green Party had 785 votes whilst John Bickley for Ukip took 1,109 votes and Morgan Hill had 179 votes for the Pirate Party UK.
An emotional Antoinette Sandbach said that were a lot of challenges ahead and a lot of work to be done at Westminster.
The MP praised council staff, police especially as Winsford Lifestyle Centre - where the count took place - was targeted by arsonists the day before. There had been a higher turnout for this snap election than the one in 2015.
Labour parliamentary candidate Cathy Reynolds, who came second, believes voters have turned 'their back on Brexit' and focused on education, the NHS and social care.
She said: "On the streets and rural areas of Eddisbury, Brexit has not been a factor in this election. Of all the people I canvassed two asked about Brexit and of the hundreds of emails I have dealt with it was mentioned only once The state of the public sector, social care, the NHS, education funding cuts have been the issues that people have voted on.


Historically, enterprises have walked a difficult line when using workforce optimization tools to keep down labor costs while trying to improve the customer experience. The problem was really viewed as a zero sum game. You had to sacrifice one objective to improve the other. Aspect has broken the mold on that antiquated thinking by introducing technologies that give agents a much more engaging work environment, and that manifests itself in better agent performance, lower turnover and ultimately lower cost while improving the customer experience.
According to a study done by Forrester, the organization's biggest challenge in improving the overall customer experience is finding, attracting and retaining staff with the correct skills. That's not surprising. With the largest single expense in the typical contact center being labor, anything you can do to maintain your skilled labor force is a savings vs. finding, attracting and educating new employees and obviously skilled employees are better at serving customers.
Progressive contact centers are finding that you can change the zero-sum game into a win-win game by taking a more holistic approach to managing skilled labor that elevates and empowers agents rather than treating them as a commodity. The key is to create an environment that "engages" agents in their work. One of the most important elements of the agent's (and supervisor's) work existence in the contact center is the workforce management system and other workforce optimization tools. These tools, if poorly designed can be a source of ongoing frustration for agents. This is especially true in this era of pervasive awareness of how simple and flexible a user interface can be. We see it every day when we use our smartphones or Macs or PCs. Agents can be engaged by a good user interface just as they are with their iPhones. Aspect has created such an engaging user interface for its Aspect WFO offering using icons, widgets and other graphical techniques employed by Apple, Google and Microsoft.
Aspect is also providing accessibility to the workforce optimization system that is modern and convenient. Aspect Workforce Mobile gives agents the ability to review and change their schedules directly through an app on their mobile phones, and this is a very popular option for organizations that truly want to empower their agents. Aspect also provides Virtual Schedule Attendant that give agents the ability to review and change their schedules via IVR.


It's Friday, And The Week's Been A Long One, So Here's Victor Borge. You're Welcome.
Some days, there's nothing to do except to sit down and watch scratchy old VHS-sourced videos of a Danish pianist who was born at the beginning of the last century as he cracks joke after hilarious joke about the rich comedic gold mine that is classical music. Today is probably one of those days, so it's really fortunate that The Legendary Victor Borge is currently streaming on AMAZON PRIME.
This set is essential for Borge fans. It contains six of Borge's most popular public television specials, all of his most requested routines, and it is the first time everything contained in this box-set has been released in one collectible DVD package. Included in this set are such greatest hits as Phonetic Punctuation, The Timid Page Turner, The Opera Singer (featuring Marylyn Mulvey), and Inflationary Language, Autumn Leaves (featuring Robert Merrill), and Victor Borge as Frank Liszt. This is the ultimate Victor Borge collection for which his millions of fans have long been waiting.
Attribution(s): "Borge Performing" comes from Joe Clark and is in the public domain via Wikipedia; "Happy Victor" comes from Jesper Jurcenoks (CC BY-SA 3.0) via Wikipedia; video, images, and stills are the property of Questar Video and other respective production studios and distributors.
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Chrissy Taylor new CEO at Enterprise
Chrissy Taylor, CCO at Enterprise Holdings, has been appointed the company's new CEO. Her tenure will start on 1 January 2020.
Ms Taylor (pictured in front of the company's global HQ in St Louis, Missouri) is only the fourth CEO in the multinational's 62-year history, and the third generation from the same family. She was preceded by her grandfather Jack Taylor, her father Andy and, since 2013, by Pam Nicholson, who is retiring at the end of this year.
The family-run group's core business is car rental, but it also offers carsharing, truck rental, fleet management, retail car sales and other transportation services. Enterprise Holdings owns and operates Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National Car Rental and Alamo Rent A Car, as well as Enterprise Fleet Management, hence it is one of the most important players in the global car rental and fleet industry.
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/**
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 * Four terms always associated with the command pattern are command, receiver, invoker and client. A command
 * object (spell) knows about the receiver (target) and invokes a method of the receiver. Values for parameters of
 * the receiver method are stored in the command. The receiver then does the work. An invoker object (wizard)
 * knows how to execute a command, and optionally does bookkeeping about the command execution. The invoker
 * does not know anything about a concrete command, it knows only about command interface. Both an invoker object
 * and several command objects are held by a client object (app). The client decides which commands to execute at
 * which points. To execute a command, it passes the command object to the invoker object.
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 * In other words, in this example the wizard casts spells on the goblin. The wizard keeps track of the previous
 * spells cast, so it is easy to undo them. In addition, the wizard keeps track of the spells undone, so they
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		wizard.castSpell(new InvisibilitySpell(), goblin);
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Maybe There'll Be Soylent Bacon
Well, the future's here and somehow we're expected to handle it without the guidance of Charlton Heston. This is disconcerting.
I realized from watching The Planet Of The Apes as a child that no one was more at ease in dealing with the future than Heston. It wasn't just maladjusted monkeys. An after-school viewing The Omega Man in the mid-'70s made it clear that the man was equally as capable of keeping a horde of psychotic, Luddite cultists at bay.
And, with The Omega Man, it's almost as though the filmmaker had peered thirty-five years into the future and been inspired by a glimpse of a town-hall meeting on health care.
(of course, that flick ended badly for Heston – it would seem that you can only keep a horde of psychotic, Luddite cultists at bay for so long)
Each time I read of the folks who believe that passing a health care program would be like smothering old folks with a pillow, I can't help but think of another Heston movie – Soylent Green.
I think I was eight or nine, sometime in the late '70s, when CBS showed Soylent Green on the Tuesday Night Movie (or whatever night it happened to be). It had one of those "mature audiences" announcements beforehand.
Of course, I watched it.
And it freaked me out.
Soylent Green was set in the future – from an early '70s perspective – with most of the human population unemployed and sleeping in the crumbling stairways of roach motels.
The small handful of uber wealthy live in high-rise apartment buildings playing video games and eating steaks and strawberries. The poor have never seen a steak, a strawberry, or a Pop-Tart as pollution and global warming has ravaged the environment.
So, the future is playing out pretty much according to that script.
(why couldn't it have been talking monkeys running the planet?)
And, if the rantings of the misinformed and Sarah Palin are to be believed regarding old people and the health care debate, you'd think Soylent Green – the foodstuff – might be in stores by Thanksgiving.
A Girl Called Eddy – People Used To Dream About The Future
from A Girl Called Eddy
I received a promo of this album; the debut for an American ex-pat in London named Erin Moran who goes by the less Happy Days-centric A Girl Called Eddy. Her 2004 debut was one of those deals where I checked it out, thought enough of it to move it into another pile of discs, and it promptly got lost in the shuffle.
Hearing this song was a fortunate rediscovery. I'm not sure how the rest of the album sounds, but People Who Used To Dream… is gorgeous. If you're a fan of Burt Bacharach, it's an excellent use of five-and-a-half minutes.
Leonard Cohen – The Future
from The Future
There are outtakes of stuff I've never posted where Leonard Cohen has popped up. And I keep thinking I need to write about him. I mean, the man has lived a full-grown life.
If I were Canadian, I'd want Mr. Cohen to be prime minister.
Timbuk3 – The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
from Greetings from Timbuk3
This song's simply more fun than killin' drifters.
Matthew Sweet – Future Shock
from In Reverse
Paloma does not find The Heston to be as endearing as I do. Fortunately, I have studied his work and should we have to address talking monkeys, a horde of psychotic, Luddite cultists, or Soylent Green in the future, I will be prepared with a dramatic, over-the-top solution.
Paloma is extremely fond of the work of Matthew Sweet and, after hearing Future Shock, it's not difficult to understand why.
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package org.bitcoins.core.protocol.script

import org.bitcoins.crypto.ECPublicKeyBytes
import org.bitcoins.testkitcore.util.{BitcoinSUnitTest, TestUtil}

/** Created by chris on 3/8/16.
  */
class MultiSignatureScriptPubKeyTest extends BitcoinSUnitTest {

  "MultiSignatureScriptPubKey" must "derive the amount of required signatures from a multisignature script" in {
    val multiSigRawScriptPubKeyHex = TestUtil.multiSigScriptPubKeyHex

    val scriptPubKey = ScriptPubKey(multiSigRawScriptPubKeyHex)
    val multiSigScriptPubKey: MultiSignatureScriptPubKey = scriptPubKey match {
      case s: MultiSignatureScriptPubKey => s
      case _ =>
        throw new RuntimeException("Should be a multisig script pub key")
    }

    multiSigScriptPubKey.requiredSigs must be(2)
    multiSigScriptPubKey.maxSigs must be(3)
  }

  it must "derive the public keys encoded inside of a multisignature script" in {
    val multiSigRawScriptPubKeyHex = "695221025878e270211662a27181cf" +
      "4d6ad4d2cf0e69a98a3815c086f587c7e9388d87182103fc85980e3fac1f3d" +
      "8a5c3223c3ef5bffc1bd42d2cc42add8c3899cc66e7f1906210215b5bd0508" +
      "69166a70a7341b4f216e268b7c6c7504576dcea2cce7d11cc9a35f53ae"
    val scriptPubKey = ScriptPubKey(multiSigRawScriptPubKeyHex)
    val multiSigScriptPubKey: MultiSignatureScriptPubKey = scriptPubKey match {
      case s: MultiSignatureScriptPubKey => s
      case _ =>
        throw new RuntimeException("Should be a multisig script pub key")
    }

    multiSigScriptPubKey.publicKeys must be(
      Seq(
        ECPublicKeyBytes(
          "025878e270211662a27181cf4d6ad4d2cf0e69a98a3815c086f587c7e9388d8718"),
        ECPublicKeyBytes(
          "03fc85980e3fac1f3d8a5c3223c3ef5bffc1bd42d2cc42add8c3899cc66e7f1906"),
        ECPublicKeyBytes(
          "0215b5bd050869166a70a7341b4f216e268b7c6c7504576dcea2cce7d11cc9a35f")
      ))

  }

  it must "find the required signatures from a multisignature scriptPubKey using an OP_CHECKMULTISIGVERFIY" in {
    val multiSigRawScriptPubKeyHex = "695221025878e270211662a27181cf" +
      "4d6ad4d2cf0e69a98a3815c086f587c7e9388d87182103fc85980e3fac1f3d" +
      "8a5c3223c3ef5bffc1bd42d2cc42add8c3899cc66e7f1906210215b5bd0508" +
      "69166a70a7341b4f216e268b7c6c7504576dcea2cce7d11cc9a35f53af"
    val scriptPubKey = ScriptPubKey(multiSigRawScriptPubKeyHex)
    val multiSigScriptPubKey: MultiSignatureScriptPubKey = scriptPubKey match {
      case s: MultiSignatureScriptPubKey => s
      case _ =>
        throw new RuntimeException("Should be a multisig script pub key")
    }

    multiSigScriptPubKey.maxSigs must be(3)
    multiSigScriptPubKey.requiredSigs must be(2)

  }

}


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Saved by the Early Birds - Spear's Magazine
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Saved by the Early Birds
1st February 2010 by Spear's
When the credits rolled was my name now going to be included under 'Extras' or 'With thanks to'? Clearly I wasn't playing myself any more.
The other day my friend Lotte Eagar of Tatler called me and asked whether I would like to play myself in a London 'literary' restaurant scene in a romantic comedy film she had written about a girl who is stalked by a Scooterman she once booked to drive her home. That afternoon, in fact.
'I know it is rather short notice,' she said. 'No lines. All you have to do is show up at 3pm and it'll take about an hour. We've got an Oscar-nominated director from LA on board. You'll get a credit in the movie as yourself.'
Having missed out on an opportunity that came along last summer to be immortalised by Sir David Hare as the editor of Spear's last year on the stage of the National Theatre in The Power of Yes, his play about the financial crisis, I wasn't going to let a second chance in six months slip away. I said, 'Yes.'
When I duly showed up at 3pm at the 'production HQ', the house was in mayhem. I was told there was a delay and directed to the local pub. Over the next hour or so, various other cameos showed up including Caroline Dalmeny, the glamorous wife of Harry's deputy chairman Harry, and Philip Eade, author and a former obituary editor at The Telegraph.
Finally – it was now about 5pm – we were told to report for duty at Roussillon restaurant next-door. Make-up was applied and the assistant director sat me down at a table where I was introduced to the actress Georgie Rylance, the debonair male lead whose name I can't remember and – so I was informed by the producer – my 'wife' for the purposes of the film, a charming blonde mid-fortysomething friend of the screenwriter who told me – as more make up was applied – that she lived in the country and had two almost grown up children who had left school. Her husband was a banker.
As I heard the director shout 'Action', and the cameras rolled, I had a sudden identity crisis, combined with an attack of whatever the opposite is of deja vu. What was I doing there? Who was I these days? A third wife? I needed to get into character. I needed direction. Was I playing myself, or was just sitting there as the intellectual equivalent of a banker's body double?
Was what my screenwriter friend meant when she called to say I was 'playing yourself' is that – far from playing a media figure about town aka the late Dominick Dunne who often played tiny cameo movie roles – she meant could I play an anonymous extra?
As the short film is expected to tour the global film festival circuit, from Sundance to Cannes, would anybody actually recognise me, or even know what the real William Cash looked like or was? When the credits rolled was my name now going to be included under 'Extras' or 'With thanks to'? Clearly I wasn't playing myself any more.
Such thoughts reeled around in my head as I was ticked off by the director for nearly taking a sip of the rather good smelling half drunk glass of claret that was put in front of me. 'You can't drink the wine, William,' said Georgie. 'The glass needs to be at the same level for each take'.
'Reset.' No, that didn't mean, the shoot is over, you can all go home now and kindly please reset the table for dinner. 'Reset' means do the scene again; and again; and again. After about ten takes, with the actors ad libbing lines ('God, my pork was awful' within earshot of the maitre d' of Roussilon, one of London's best French restaurants), it was now about 6pm and I could see the restaurant staff getting anxious about when they would actually be able to reset the table, still littered with glasses and plates, in time for dinner.
As the script kept changing a la Mike Leigh, all I could think of was what Walter Donohue, the screenwriting producer had said at the previous week's Faber Academy class on screenwriting: 'Ad libbed lines never work on screen – that's why we employ writers.'
Then, having been advised to keep quiet and not speak, my 'wife' and I were then told by the director to engage in banal marital banter as we left the table with the film's two leads to collect our coats.
'Are you ok to drive or do you want me to?' my 'wife' said as we stood by the coat-check.
'I'm fine. I'll drive.'
'Looking forward to seeing the children when we get home.'
The director attempted to get us to engage in more painful Pinter-esque marital banter. I said nothing. After about another five takes, my cinematic acting debut playing a banking husband extra mercifully came to an end as a taxi pulled up outside Roussillon.
An elderly but well dressed Chelsea couple stepped out and headed up the stairs, no doubt wondering what the hell a film crew of about fifteen, along with lights, extended sound booms and a turquoise Scooterman motorbike were doing on the steps of the restaurant. 'Cut' shouted the director as the startled couple walked into the set. I looked at my watch. Exactly 6.30pm. Saved by the early birds.
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In our recent podcast, I mentioned my top three all-time favorite Halloween films while also asking my cast mates what are their favorites. The only exception in sharing our lists was that The Exorcist could not be included as it is always on every scary film listing across the globe – and for good reason but is tiring in this format. Some that were mentioned during our discussion were expected and some surprising.
So, to finish out the list from the podcast, here are my top five Halloween films.
I saw this film for the first time at a sold out Paramount Theatre in Abilene, TX on Halloween back in 1992. I had no clue as to what I was walking into other than it was a haunted house film. As the lights dimmed and the film reel rolled, screams from the audience quickly made me question, how in the hell did I let this movie slip under my radar? I never had heard of it until this showing and I had thought I had seen every horror film at our local video store. Catalog fail!
The Changeling is a classic ghost story starring General Patton himself – George C. Scott who moves into a massive mansion alone to focus on healing after his family is tragically killed in an auto accident but quickly realizes he is not alone.
If you like the current renaissance of haunted house films, you should definitely revisit this film and the ghost of Jospeh as he torments the occupant and his visitors to his home all based on events that apparently took place at similar mansion in Denver, Colorado.
This made-for-TV movie that aired on ABC back in 1985 is one that many have been asking for to be released again on DVD (along with my personal crusade for Screams of a Winter Night). This Halloween flick includes zombies, witches, vampires and a bunch of other crazy creatures who blend in among our costumed cast of Shari Belafonte, LeVar Burton, Dedee Pfeffier and Peter DeLuise who steal an old trunk that houses a scroll which unleashes a curse on the town.
The promos for Midnight Hour were on Thriller level as it was heavily marketed in print and tv ads – it was an event during the days of set your VCR to record for instant replays. Sadly, this movie is out of print but there is a full version of the film thankfully here on YouTube.
Not the remake. The original! Stay away from the remake. Whatever you do stay away from the remake!
Set in the small coastal town of Antonio Bay celebrating its 100th anniversary, some of the towns descendants hold a dark secret connected to the six of the founders of Antonio Bay in 1880 who sabotaged The Elizabeth Dane, a ship helmed by Captain Blake who had leprosy along with his crew that wanted to establish a leper colony nearby. Fearing the disease, the founders set up the Elizabeth Dane to crash. And you can guess what happens from there… revenge!
We all know the film. The score and the shape who continues to haunt Halloween in many, many sequels (one I would rather forget – Resurrection), remakes and from news on the interwebs a possible reboot.
"I met him, fifteen years ago; I was told there was nothing left; no reason, no conscience, no understanding; and even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, of good or evil, right or wrong. I met this six-year-old child, with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and the blackest eyes… the devil's eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized that what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply… evil." – RIP Donald Pleasance.
That title alone as a kid was just scary enough for me. This is another made-for-TV event movie on this list, this time airing on CBS back in 1981.
Dark Night begins with "Bubba" (played the late and talented Larry Drake) who is a large and mentally challenged teenager who is wrongfully accused for attacking a young girl and of course the town's rednecks who have been itching at getting Bubba are quick to judgement so they chase him down. Bubba cleverly hides in a scarecrow in a field but is soon discovered, killed and framed with a pitchfork placed in his hands to show the dastardly henchmen were acting in self-defense.
But is Bubba really dead? Soon the same scarecrow begins to show up in fields near the killers homesteads… the rest you will have to see.
In closing, it's Halloween, everyone's entitled to one good scare.


Since originally premiering in 2009, the world has been waiting on a sequel to Avatar probably more for the filming innovations that could come with it than the story itself, and those fans will be pleased to hear that the franchise could be planning to make a slightly newer emerging technology more mainstream come Avatar 2.
It is reported by filmmaker/inventor Douglas Trumbull that his new system of '4K 3D at 120 frames per second' is in discussion stages with Avatar producers, (more specifically, producer Jon Landau, according to The Hollywood Reporter).
It is believed that Avatar's creator James Cameron was a fan of Trumbull's prototype 'large-format high-frame rate projection system' (known as 'Showscan'), and Trumball has taken a more refined version into action with short film UFOTOG, showcasing the abilities of the process now known as MAGI.
The upcoming remainder of the Avatar quadrilogy, meanwhile, is to be filmed starting 2015 with returning stars Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana, with airdates in the Christmas periods of 2016, 2017, and 2018 for the blockbuster parts 2, 3, and 4. It is a guarantee that they will be in 3D given the first film, but will the format be adding '4K' and '120fps' to its description by that point as well?
In a handheld technology industry where Japanese company Nintendo are busy selling their new and groundbreaking Nintendo 2DS 2 years after the 3DS first hit shelves, it will be refreshing to some to see a company take a more natural order in the visual display capabilities products (regardless of what is behind the screen).
In Amazon's case, though, it is an issue of their first smartphone setting the trends rather than upgrading in keeping with rivals, after sources of the company reported that the long-rumoured smartphone they are producing will be revealed with a 3D display.
Also noted by the sources was that the announcement of said smartphone is likely to occur in June, presumably not long after Apple's potentially product-underwhelming 'WWDC' event.
Speaking to The Wall Street Journal, the online retailer-turned e-reader/tablet computer manufacturer are already said to have demonstrated the technology to their developers, and are on course for a 'late September' date when it comes to shipping the device.
Technology-wise, it is believed that the handheld set is set to implement 'retina-tracking' capabilities via four embedded front-facing cameras/'sensors', designed to offer a 3D 'hologram'-style effect from any angle, all without having to use specialised glasses. The developments are also reportedly capable of using a person's eye movement, alongside face-screen distance, as means to create automatic zoom on images as an optional feature.
The stereotype that older people are intimidated by new technology could be well and truly demolished if nature documentarian David Attenborough was used as the sole example in any studies, as his efforts to experiment with developing viewing methods continues with the announcement of new series Conquest of the Skies.
While the core concept of the programme (a nature documentary looking primarily at creatures of the sky) will not be a surprise to anyone, the manner in which it will be displayed could be described as such, after it was confirmed that the programme is set to be one of the world's first (in particular for the 'wildlife documentary' genre) to be produced primarily for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset.
Set to at least provide commentary on the footage filmed, 87-year-old Attenborough's association with the project will continue from a Galapagos Islands nature special filmed in recent times for Sky 3D, and will be an additional filming mission for those sent to the Asian island of Borneo, with the primary purpose being to film there and in 'other locations' for another Sky 3D special.
Part of that schedule, though, will be used to set up an '8-camera rig' for filming Conquest of the Skies , which will culminate in a unique '360-degree visual experience' that only the Sony-backed device can currently deliver.
With content such as this high-profile nature documentary on its way, the Facebook subsidiary (at the price of approximately $2b in March) known as Oculus VR will soon have plenty to showcase on their 'Rift' product primarily intended for immersive video gaming on Sony PlayStation products, so can Attenborough help give life to a potential new entertainment experience?
In the 1960's there was an animated television show called The Jetsons. One of the things that appeared on the show set in the future was a 3D television that projected the content onto the living room floor. Back then audiences marveled at this and wondered if it would ever be possible. Nowadays, 3D technology is alive and growing by leaps and bounds.
There are several ways 3D is achieved. One is via the screens you watch. New flat screen televisions have 3D built in as an option. One can wear specialized glasses or sit in a specific viewing area to see the content in 3D. Special glasses that project a 3D movie screen, software for your computer or flat screen that allows for conversion to 3D and more are here and now.
What's going to happen in the near future is the hope of surround 3D but that would be a monumental effort that only video games could achieve as shooting a motion picture this way would be far too costly and complex.
Sports fans love the 3DTV content. Feeling like they're right there at the game makes for more fun viewing. Broadcaster and content developers are rapidly competing to get to the newest technologies. Inside helmet cams, on the field embedded cams, if all were 3D compliant you wouldn't be able to peel people from the television set.
Online you can use a number of software converters for 3D viewing. These programs convert content you watch into the usual 3D formats. They require glasses or seating positioning to enjoy the content. Video games are storming forward with whatever they can get away with to get more 3D content and make the gaming community catch up.
One of the funnest things is to use some 3D conversion software to watch your favorite classic shows like I Love Lucy or The Beatles on the Ed Sulllivan show in 3D.
What Does The Future Of TV Hold?
Producers, directors, actors, network execs, and the general public are all wondering what the future holds for video and television on the web and computing.
People are talking about the amazing 3D screens and technology. So far you can watch a huge number of content and video games in 3D. Making the next step where one is enveloped by the video action is what the Japanese have been feverishly working on. Imagine watching a 3D movie but you can reach out and feel the air, the textures, the actors, and so on.
This is something that sci-fi movies and television shows have tantalized us with for decades. The old Jetsons cartoon sitcom had a television set that was a wall that projected the content into the living room in full 3D. Star Trek introduced virtual reality environments in its 1970s cartoon series and later as the Holo Deck in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Immersing oneself into the narrative of a story or historical event in 3D or perhaps some new 4D technology has investors on Wall Street chomping at the bit. They have no clue where the next technological breakthrough is going to come from and from whom. History has shown that big paradigm shifts can come from someone's garage or their parent's basement not some multi-million dollar laboratory.
That being said, it's wise to keep an eye out for that next breakthrough. It could come at any second from any direction. When it does you can bet it will be all over the place as there's no place left to go but to make fantasy a tangible reality and whoever enhances this technology will rule.


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Scandal-hit Stafford Hospital nursing boss handed training post
A NURSING boss criticised for her management at a Midland "hospital from hell" has been handed a new role TRAINING staff at an NHS trust.
Alison Dayani
Dr Helen Moss was blasted by campaigners for the standard of nursing at troubled Stafford Hospital, where more than 1,000 patients died in appalling conditions.
The chief nurse has now landed a high profile role at NHS East Midlands running the Leaders Development Placement Programme, a training scheme for potential health service talent.
Dr Moss will be responsible for planning training and organising the numbers of nurses needed in trusts across Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.
She moved on from Mid Staffordshire Trust, where up to 1,200 patients died due to poor standards between 2002 and 2007, earlier this week after the Sunday Mercury revealed that she was part of a team that authorised severe cuts to staffing and nursing services.
But the scandal-hit trust will continue to pay her £100,000-a-year salary as she carries out her new management role.
A spokeswoman for NHS East Midlands said: "We are currently making arrangements with Mid Staffordshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust for Dr Helen Moss to undertake a placement as part of her professional development.
"This placement will involve her working with Professor Dame Catherine Elcoat, director of Patient Care at NHS East Midlands, on the education and workforce planning aspects of nursing in the region.
"Dr Moss will not be employed by NHS East Midlands and her salary, terms and conditions will remain the responsibility of her current employer."
NHS East Midlands is in charge of nine primary care trusts, and is responsible for spending £6 billion on the healthcare of millions of residents.
Dr Moss joined Mid Staffordshire Trust in 2006 and became an integral part of the board, which managed the running of the hospital.
Julie Bailey, who set up the Cure the NHS campaign group to fight for patients who died at Stafford Hospital, including her mother Isabella, said it was "unbelievable" that Dr Moss could land another high profile role.
"I want to see all the trust board members replaced," said Julie. "I want to see them forced to give evidence about their part in what happened, not allowed to get promoted."
Of the trust board members in place during the failings, chairman Toni Brisby resigned ahead of a damning Healthcare Commission report in March.
Chief executive Martin Yeates resigned in May from his £169,000-a-year position before an internal report into his role was finished. It was claimed he walked away with a £350,000 tax-free lump sum.
Dr Moss is the third trust board member to leave following the Healthcare Commission report.
sunday.mercury@sunday mercury.net


As snippets and stories circulate, it is of the utmost importance that we all refer to the most credible of news sources, and equip ourselves as trail runners to know how best to support firefighting efforts, and reduce our own risk on the trails of South Africa.
We spoke to well-known Cape Town photographer, Justin Sullivan, for some insight in to his front-of-line imagery which takes us all in to the catastrophic heart of a blaze.
Patrick Ryan of Vulcan Wildfire Management emphasises the importance of referring to reliable sources when assessing risk, supporting firefighting efforts and communicating the progress of wildfires. His company specialises in Wildfire Risk Consulting as well as Wildfire Investigations, and his advice for following Wildfire stories is to refer to the Twitter feed of the Volunteer Wildfire Services. The Volunteer Wildfire Services (VWS) has been combating dangerous and sometimes deadly runaway wildfires since its baptism during the devastating 1999/2000 fires in Cape Town. With over 200 volunteer members at four stations (Newlands, Jonkershoek, South Peninsula and the newly developing Grabouw Station), VWS is a highly-organised Non-Profit Organisation, run and managed by a team of volunteers as well as a recently employed General Manager.
Patrick has seen trail runners getting dangerously close to wildfires, unaware of the speed at which fires move, and the danger of a small change in wind direction. What should you do if you are out on the trails and spot a fire?
"The first thing to do is phone for help or alert authorities to your location, do not panic but stay calm and think clearly about what actions you will take to get to safety. Put the phone numbers for each District's fire services into your phone with a heading like Emergency so you can easily find it, e.g. Emergency Fire Overberg.
Wildfires can move a lot quicker than people understand and when you combine the elements of terrain (slopes, gullies, ridge lines etc) and wind they can move dramatically quickly, often quicker than someone can run. For example, for every 10˚ of slope the fire will double in speed.
"For this reason never run away from a wildfire uphill, move sideways and downhill as soon as possible and stay on the path if you can. Moving off trail is much slower. Move with haste but still carefully, you don't want to trip and injure yourself.
Move in a direction that is against the wind as fire will move slower against the wind.
If unable to get down the mountain look for natural breaks in vegetation that might be a safety zone — such as cleared or rocky areas, these need to be at least 8 x the height of the flames in size to be safe. If it is possible, clear as much vegetation from the area and use natural barriers like large rock outcrops or boulders to shield you from the radiant heat.
If caught in smoke, get down low on the ground and take shallow breaths through material if you can. If possible dig a small hole and put your face into it as the lower you are, the more chance of cleaner air.
Remember that most sports clothing is made of synthetic materials and will not protect you against the heat of a wildfire, it may even burn onto or melt on your skin, so rather discard as much as possible if sheltering in a safety zone."
On the problem of misinformation that occurs from social media, please follow the following organisations' social media platforms. They are proactive and go to great lengths to provide accurate information on a wildfire occurring within their area. Sharing the wrong information can be very dangerous during an emergency incident. It can cause people to evacuate needlessly which may put them in a greater danger or get in the way of the emergency services. It can also cause panic and the correct information is lost in the 'drama' of all the fake news.
Nine deaths were reported as wildfires spread across Rheenendal, Knysna, in October 2018. The Sunday Times reported that a family lost seven members, including a pregnant woman and five children.
The Garden Route fires spread across the southwestern Cape, raging through George and Tsitsikamma. About 2,000 people were displaced and more than 92,000ha of vegetation destroyed. This is not a scenario that is unique to the Western Cape regions.
And what of Lion's Head after the blaze of 27 January?
SanParks Statement: "Table Mountain National Park will continue with mop up operations today the 28th January 2019 to ensure the fire that started on the 27th January 2019 does not flare up again. Firefighters will be active in the area for the next few days. We ask the public and all recreational users to remain out of the area whilst this occurs. Signal Hill Road remains closed. This is a city road and the City will announce through their channels when the road will reopen.
The Fire has impacted the Lion's Head maintenance work which is currently underway. This project will only be able to resume once the park has confirmation from the Fire Incident Commander that the area is safe to access. Infrastructure on Lion's Head has been damaged and this will delay the reopening of Lion's Head. The reopening was originally scheduled for the 15th of February 2019. As yet the park is unable to determine a new date for the reopening of Lion's Head.
Remember, people's lives, houses, livelihoods can be on the line during these times, so stay well clear until the green light is given. Equip yourself with emergency numbers, and be particularly cautious during fire season in your area. Remove problematic litter, alien vegetation and never start a recreational fire in an environmentally sensitive area. It goes without saying that cigarette butts should never be tossed to the ground, and the release of fireworks and (unnecessary) flares can put you on the wrong side of the law, so simply abstain.
Imagery was supplied by Justin Sullivan at no cost to Wildrunner, but with an agreed R500 donation to VWS by editor, Kim Stephens. We urge our trail running community to make a donation to this incredibly worthy cause, and ensure that their work continues in the face of growing adversary. SMS vws and your name to 41006 to donate R25.


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Amy Schauer (2 June 1871– 13 August 1956) was an Australian cookery instructor and author.

Biography
Amy Schauer was born on 2 June 1871 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. After completing her schooling in New South Wales, she took training in domestic sciences at Sydney Technical College. She later joined the  Brisbane Technical College, and taught cookery from 1895 until 1922.

She also taught at Nambour Rural School. She, as Ryan claims, became "an outstanding influence on the education of Queensland girls." Her recipes regularly appeared in magazines including Sapford's Queensland Almanac and the Queensland Farmer's Gazette.

She died at  Strathfield, Sydney, on 13 August 1956.

Publications
Her cookbooks were widely used in academic institutions as well as in homes. Her popular books include
The Schauer Australian Cookery Book ,
Cookery for Invalids,
 Theory of Cookery, and
Schauer Australian Fruit Preserving and Confectionery.

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 1956 deaths

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Joy McFarlin was in a wreck and says that Milwaukee Police officers treated her poorly.Angela Peterson
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Starting her day with a serious traffic accident was bad enough.
But Joy McFarlin's run-in with two Milwaukee police officers was worse.
Before it was over, this 75-year-old grandmother had been threatened repeatedly with jail, arrested, put in handcuffs, placed in a squad car and taken to a police station.
The two cops had the notion based on witness statements that McFarlin was lying by insisting she, and not some mystery man, was driving her car at the time of the crash. They thought she was covering up for a guy who fled the accident scene.
There was no such guy, she said, but she could not convince the police of that.
And the accident wasn't even her fault.
"This was not about my driving. They didn't think I wasdriving," she told me. "I always believed you had to do something wrong to be arrested. I'm too old to be naive, but I really did."
Milwaukee police are saying the officers eventually realized they couldn't prove she was lying, and they let her go with no charges or citations. But it was a rough couple hours.
Let's back up to Tuesday morning when this story begins. McFarlin, a widow who lives on Milwaukee's northwest side, was heading to Potawatomi Casino for bingo and buffet with friends. She was driving her late husband's 20-year-old Dodge Dakota pickup, which is now totaled.
Eastbound on Wisconsin Ave., she stopped for the traffic light at the intersection with N. 35th St. When the light turned green she proceeded, but was hit by a northbound car that she said ran the red light. Her truck spun around and wound up on the median, with the driver's door facing the eastbound traffic lanes.
So she struggled to get out the passenger side door instead. That's when a young man showed up to assist her. She didn't catch his name.
"He helped me across the street. There was a bus stop shelter there. He stayed with me and kept me talking because I was so shaky," she said.
Another man walked up and asked the good Samaritan if he was driving the truck. McFarlin said no, that she was driving. McFarlin thinks witnesses might have seen the young guy helping her from the passenger side and assumed he was the driver. When the paramedics showed up, the helpful guy left the scene.
Then two Milwaukee police officers, one male and one female, approached her. The female officer immediately set the tone.
"She took an aggressive pose with her hands on her hips and told me that I better be telling the truth or I was going to jail. This was her first approach to me. I told her just what happened, and she said I was lying and I better not lie or I was going to jail," McFarlin said.
She was in pain and feeling faint, so the paramedics took her by ambulance to Aurora Sinai Medical Center. The same two officers showed up there and continued questioning her, with the female officer being aggressive and the male officer being more friendly.
"I watch a lot of TV. I know the term. It's good cop, bad cop. When I thought about it afterward, they both overplayed it," said McFarlin, adding that she had never before been arrested.
"She said things like what are your grandchildren going to think of you. She said there was a video of a black man getting out of the truck, and I was lying. This went on and on. She kept saying I would go to jail for some man," McFarlin said.
There was no such black man, she said, and even the good Samaritan was white. It sounded like a bluff.
Finally, they put the handcuffs on and led her, in view of other patients and visitors, to the squad car. She was not allowed to call anyone. "It was as if I had gone into the Twilight Zone. I was so frightened," she said.
She was taken to the District 3 police station, questioned more and then released. A friend contacted by a doctor at Aurora Sinai drove her home.
Milwaukee police spokesman Sgt. Timothy Gauerke talked to the officers Friday and told me witnesses at the crash scene said McFarlin was lying about being the driver. But traffic cam video did not capture the incident, despite their claims to her that it had, so they released her.
I asked if she received an apology. Gauerke said McFarlin told the officers she understood they were doing their job. The officers told Gauerke they gave the woman a break, because of her age, by handcuffing in front rather than behind her back.
It's a common police technique to tell someone we know you're lying based on witness statements, Gauerke said.
"It's to encourage the person, 'Look, the jig is up, we know what happened. You may as well just tell us.' She stuck with her story and that's why she was arrested," he said.
She stuck with the truth, it appears.
McFarlin still has pain in her neck, chest and back from the crash impact, but that will probably go away before the trauma of the police interaction. She doesn't plan to file a formal complaint or lawsuit, and said she contacted the newspaper so people would know what she experienced.
"That was the wrong way for me to be treated," she said. "It should not have happened."
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Prince Albert welcomes Amazonian chief
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