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Thinking About Toilets
By Nandita Dinesh
Dirt Essay
Blood, Sweat, Turmeric
Dirty days, dangerous days: I was a problem now.
By Shilpi Suneja
Illustration by Anne le Guern
My very first period came to me like a stranger on a train. My parents and I were taking an overnight sleeper from Delhi to Bombay to visit my paternal grandmother. Because of a feud between her and my mother, Dadi and I had never met, but the stories I'd heard had already caused me to fear her more than anyone else in the world. Perhaps it was the dread of seeing her that sent my organs into overdrive, but sometime around the break of dawn I felt the urge to pee, and even though using a toilet on an Indian train is an exercise in an extreme form of Buddhist tolerance, I had my mother rush me there. I lifted my shirt, and from the folds of my ochre salwar, a blossoming field of red stared back.
I was convinced that sometime during the night, while we were sleeping, a man had snuck into our compartment on the train, entered my body, and punctured my delicate innards. I was thirteen and obsessed with Nancy Drew; I believed I could solve the mystery of my body's behavior like my auburn-haired hero, by making a list of all possible suspects. By then I'd already been molested more times than I had fingers on my hands. Strange men had offered me their penises behind bushes, watchmen at chai stalls had aimed stones at my breasts with remarkable precision, and a family friend, a boy just a few years older, had explored my vagina with his teeth. What if the man came back to finish the job? I'd have to make sure I wasn't alone for the rest of the journey.
As I peed, more blood rushed forth. I withheld the urge, hoping to conserve a bit of my life.
"What's the matter?" my mother asked, watching me hobble back to our seat.
I didn't know how to tell her that her only child, the one who she hoped would take care of her in her old age, was going to die.
Once we reached Dadi's house and my mother and I were finally alone, I told her in the most solemn tone I could muster: "I'm going to leave you." Slowly, I lifted the hem of my kurta to reveal the river of blood.
My mother's face permanently aged that day. The lines on her forehead hardened, her nostrils took in breath and thinned. My father, on the other hand, expressed his scorn with a single word. He watched me scrub my bloodied salwar under the shower, the red making its shameful, bubbly journey to the drain, and the corners of his mouth curled. "Korhni," he pronounced, a Punjabi curse that meant leper. He washed his hands in the bathroom sink for a long time and marched away.
As for Dadi, as soon as she found out, she pinned me to the wall with her eyes. "Doesn't your mother have the sense to keep you home on your dirty days?" Her eyes looked enormous behind her glasses. "Don't enter my kitchen, don't touch my gods, don't touch my holy books. Don't touch the food, and don't appear before my friends."
For the next several days, I was kept confined to the guest room. I wasn't allowed to say hello to aunts and uncles and cousins who stopped by. I couldn't show off my newly acquired roti-making skills. If I touched the dough, I'd contaminate it. My shadow would make the food unfit for consumption. I felt as though I'd done something horribly, irrevocably wrong. Unlike the errors of stealing, or telling lies, or eating too much sugar, I couldn't apologize my way out of this.
My grandmother, I now understand, was coping with my growing up the way her mother had coped with hers, by turning to mythology. Her religious texts told her that menstruation was a punishment, and a punishment for a crime women didn't even commit. The god Indra killed a Brahmin, the gravest of sins, and he decided to share his guilt with the land, the water, the trees, and women. The land was cursed with deserts and barren soil where nothing grows, the water with unpleasant bubbles and foam, the trees with sap and gum that cannot be eaten, and women with periods that cause pain, suffering, stigma. In Hindu mythology, women became associated with nature; we became known as elemental, vast, capable of creation and destruction, unpredictable, untamable. Whereas Christian ideology believes that women are subordinate to men, ancient Indian texts view us as equal, or as even more powerful than men. But because they think us capable of cunning, they also condone the need to punish us. The Rigveda, the oldest Vedic text, lumps us in with drums, "the illiterate," "the lower caste," and animals, all of which require a sound beating once in a while. And monthly bleeding, along with physical pain, confinement, humiliation, and association with filth and ill luck, functions as a sound beating from the universe. If all this shame is too much for our birth families to handle, the infamous Manusmriti, believed to be the first legal text in Hinduism, recommends marrying us off before we begin menstruating. Behold the advent of child marriage.
Although there was no talk of marrying me off, my family constantly reminded me that I was no longer a child. There'd be no more Navaratri festival celebrations for me, no more neighbors lining up to wash my feet and offer me food and money. They'd push me away from their gods and their kitchens. As a pre-menstruating girl, I'd represented the Goddess Durga; now, I was part bearer of Indra's guilt, looking to sap on the trees and bubbles in the water for company, seeking their shame to hide mine.
As though the mythology wasn't severe enough, my mother came to deliver a stringent dose of science. "Dadi can think what she wants," she said, tucking a jumbo pack of overnight sanitary napkins in my school bag. "This is her house, so I have to follow her rules. The way I see it, you are on your dangerous days. You have to hide your 'body'" — she looked at the offending space between my legs — "from the gaze of men." What she meant was, the next time an errant penis wagged its way to me, I'd end up pregnant. She'd have to move me and my bastard baby to a hill station for the rest of our lives. Shame, excommunication, probable suicide.
Dirty days, dangerous days. My grandmother and my mother might have disagreed on the semantics, but not on the essential fact: I was a problem now.
In civics class at school, we learned that India was a very dirty society. Our temples got muddy in the rains, our streets were punctuated with trash, our drains clogged. Because we lacked toilets and the government didn't care to build enough public ones, we shat on railway tracks. Infrastructural problems had dictated our habits for so long we came to believe that there was something inherently dirty about us; otherwise, our streets would glitter like the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The British colonizers certainly formed this opinion as soon as they transitioned from traders to permanent residents. In letters home, in novels, and in sanitation reports, they whinged about the filth of the native cooks, butlers, and waiters who held together the colonial household. In The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook, an 1888 guide to domesticity in the British Raj, Flora Steel and Grace Gardiner, wives of British civil servants, described the "dirt and slovenliness" of their employees as "simply inconceivable to the new-comer in India." The Indian heat and humidity didn't help matters. Bathed in our sweat, festering with diseases, the colonized body became an obsession for Europeans who were only too happy to position themselves as agents of cleanliness, who viewed colonial rule as a necessary force of sanitation and hygiene.
Despite the spirit M.K. Gandhi ignited throughout India to liberate the country from the British Raj, he internalized these colonial attitudes. He was educated in London, after all. In trying to answer the question of how we became a subjugated people, he dug deep within himself and encouraged his followers toward similar introspection. Why did England hold us in chains? Because, he argued, we lacked social sanitation. In speech after speech, Gandhi made a direct link between cleanliness and sovereignty: "Is it right that the lanes of our sacred temple should be as dirty as they are?" he said at Banaras Hindu University in 1916. "If even our temples are not models of roominess and cleanliness, what can our self-government be?" For Gandhi, a straight line connected the ideals of cleanliness and nation-building. "Members of a family will keep their own home clean," Gandhi laments in another speech, "but they will not be interested in the neighbor's. They will keep their courtyard clean of dirt, insects, and reptiles, but will not hesitate to shove all into the neighbor's yard."
How could cleaning overcome the entrenched divisions of caste? Arguably the worst hierarchy in the world, the caste system is so strict and damning that it doesn't allow people of different groups to sit and dine together, let alone pick up after each other or care for each other. The social reformer and chief architect of the Indian constitution, Babasaheb Ambedkar, called caste a division of laborers. People who are tasked with the work of picking up shit, cutting hair, and burning the dead are permanently condemned to the lowest ranks of society. In The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy described caste as "the love laws" that tell us "who should be loved, and how. And how much." But caste can also be thought of as the "who-should-we-call-dirty" game. Growing up in India, I watched the Brahmin priests chanting Sanskrit mantras at the temples. I could see the crusted dirt in the priest's toenails, smell his sweat as I got closer, but a thousand showers wouldn't make me cleaner than him. By arranging people according to their ancestral occupations, caste becomes a hierarchy of cleanliness.
A system that condemns and dehumanizes people who play vital roles in society is a vehemently evil system. Gandhi strove to liberate the people of India by elevating the habit of cleaning as well as the workers who did this work. By locating the reason for our subjugation within ourselves, Gandhi attempted to turn independence into a goal we could achieve. The work of cleaning, Gandhi said to a gathering of sanitation volunteers in 1938, "requires a pure and tender heart, as it requires clean and stout hands. If you have both, and address yourselves to this task, 1,200 stalwarts like you will be enough to win swaraj (self-rule)."
In the end, we didn't quite clean our way to independence. If you ask me, the cost of World War II might have had something to do with the British departing. But we ought to be thankful to Gandhi for pointing out the links between colonial stereotypes, caste, and cleanliness. Because, a century on, we are still subject to them.
As a child, I suffered from severe bouts of asthma. My body constantly exhausted from wheezing, I couldn't play any sports. Even my youngest cousins outran me. When I was fifteen, a maternal uncle sponsored us to immigrate to the United States, the fulfillment of a promise made to my grandmother to bring her children closer together. Hours before my parents and I boarded our flight, a relative promised that the minute I set foot on American soil my asthma would disappear. The air in America was just that clean. I was gullible enough to believe it. My uncle in the US had rid himself of his association with the third world and worked as a medical resident at an American hospital — the Mecca of cleanliness. Anything was possible in America.
Our first jobs in the new country were at a local motel, where my mother and I worked as housekeepers, and my father worked at the front desk. My mother and I scrubbed toilets, washed soiled linen, made beds, and vacuumed nicotine-scented carpets. My mother's never been fond of cleaning, nor is she very good at it. She'd left a job as a science teacher to move to America. She'd launched her school's first chemistry lab and almost finished a Ph.D. in organic chemistry. Now, she sprayed chemicals whose contents she contemplated as she watched her face disappear and reappear in bathroom mirrors. It felt like a fall from grace.
As soon as she began to work as a housekeeper, her eyesight began to deteriorate. She regularly overlooked water stains on bathroom mirrors and couldn't detect blond hairs on white sheets or countertops, which prevented the hotel from achieving the four stars its owners desperately desired. Our manager gave her an earful after every shift and threatened to fire her if she didn't improve.
I tried to clean up after my mother to save her job, but soon, the manager found something else to complain about. "Every time you leave a room it smells of garlic and onions," she complained to my mother. "I think it's your clothes. Or your armpits. Or could be your va-jay-jay. Don't you douche?"
It was none of these. It was, in fact, the breakfast my mother cooked for my father at seven, right as his night shift ended and her morning shift began. At breakfast time, he was eating his dinner, robust curries flavored with strong spices to remind him, as loudly as possible, of our lost home. My mother chopped onions, fried garlic, sautéd tomatoes and seasoned them with spice. The sauces splashed on her work clothes, staining the pale pink fabric an offending shade of yellow-brown.
"It isn't my vagina," my mother pleaded with the manager. "It's my breakfast."
"You smell bad, Miss N.," the manager replied. "Your armpits are always leaking. Don't you use deodorant? Look at Miss Vera, look at Tony, how neat they look. You always look so shabby."
To keep her job, my mother and I spent our tips at the dollar store on cheap bottles of perfume. We gave up on sandalwood talcum powder, a staple in most Indian homes, and learned to use deodorant. We replaced our natural hair oils with chemical products. But no matter how much perfume my mother doused on herself, she couldn't mask the smell of the garlic and onions she fried before work. To keep the manager from complaining, I took to sneaking into the rooms my mother had cleaned to pour bleach into the toilet and spray bleach on the mirrors, even as the fumes made me dizzy and exacerbated my persistent asthma, which hadn't magically disappeared. Our rent was five hundred dollars, an astronomical sum to us then, and we made $5.15 an hour, the state's minimum wage at the time. We needed our jobs.
The manager didn't fire us, but not because she felt pity; it was pure economics. In a town with a population of two thousand, reliable workers like us were likely hard to come by. Our manager had to ignore our smell and our black hair falling out of hairpins (we weren't aware of such drastic measures as hairnets and shower caps). But she constantly tried to shame us into looking cleaner and smelling better. Once, she had the motel's owner, Mrs. Shah, give us a dressing-down, pitting one Indian family against another.
Mrs. Shah's black hair, unlike ours, was never out of place. She wore impeccably ironed light-colored trousers and silk shirts purchased from expensive stores like Belk's, stores we didn't dare step inside. She drove a Jaguar, impeccably white and shiny. I had the grand luck to hitch a ride in it the one time my father worked a double shift. Mrs. Shah taught me about the association of wealth and power and cleanliness. She never had turmeric-stained fingers or garlic-scented hands. She smelled clean and artificial, like her car.
Nothing could make me and my mother smell like that. We just couldn't understand how to look like Mrs. Shah, and, more than that, we couldn't afford it. The only way to access our memories of home was through our food, and we didn't understand that the trick was to show up to work without those memories splattered all over our clothes. Better still, to give up cooking our food altogether.
Many years later, while working at a software firm in Raleigh, North Carolina, my very first job out of college, I was reminded of those disputes with the motel manager. On pleasant afternoons, my colleague and I used to have lunch on the picnic tables outside the office. The colleague, a young engineer from Tamil Nadu, lived a lonely bachelor's life in a one-room apartment but still managed to cook two meals for himself every day. One day, our boss happened to notice my colleague's lunchbox full of potato and cauliflower curry spiced with turmeric and cumin and hing. "Uhh," came a sound out of the boss's mouth. He had a look on his face like he was transfixed by the horror of what he was seeing. "That's food, is it," he said. "Why is it that color?" He shut his eyes with a shudder. I couldn't talk back to my boss; I couldn't tell him that potato-cauliflower was indeed food, very tasty food.
From that day on, my colleague stopped bringing his lunch to work.
I must've copied the phrase "Cleanliness is next to godliness" in my cursive-writing exercise books at least a thousand times as a child. Even then, I knew that "godliness" had little to do with the Indian gods who sat on our mantle. In the soaps on TV, based on ancient myths, the gods lied, cheated, killed, menstruated. Some of them looked monstrous with their mud faces and black eyes. On our mantle, their brass idols tarnished. Godliness had to be a quality exclusive to the god of the Bible. Many years later, my hunch was confirmed.
As a freshman in college in the American south, I found myself in a dorm full of enthusiastic proselytizing girls who singled me out, due to my non-Christian name, as being in dire need of the gospel. Given my lifetime of questioning Hindu mythology, I was an easy convert. And I was starved for love, to boot. The promise of Christ's eternal love came to me like a cure-all.
Our church met in the chemistry building's lecture hall. The pastor's wife — very pretty, very blonde — would cover her head with a piece of white lace, the sort my grandmother draped over her television set. "You look like a bride," I once plucked up the courage to say. "It's a veil," she revealed. "The bride is always veiled. We are all the bride of Christ. You are, too!" (Thank goodness my parents weren't around to hear I'd found a husband without their approval.) Jesus was the groom; he was also the bridge between the world and the heavens, and he was the savior. "Just like an Indian god, always multitasking," I once blurted in a group meeting, only to get a sound chastising because comparing the son of God to other, "satanic" gods was a big no-no.
I felt that I had a lot to prove. Which is why, one Sunday, when the pastor asked which of us "baby Christians" the Lord was calling to get baptized, I rose to my feet, in slow motion and full of conviction. Baptism, I hoped, would be a grand enough gesture, a legitimate sign of purification and rebirth. True to its born-again creed, my church believed only in full immersion baptisms, the kind that John the Baptist performed on Jesus.
On our next retreat, the pastor and a mentor walked me into the Atlantic Ocean. The sea was choppy that day, and the waves rose to five or six feet. For a minute, I wasn't sure if I'd be reborn or buried there. Still, I persevered. I was letting go of the part of myself that was instructed to stand several feet away from Brahmin priests, the part that wasn't welcome at my grandma's on my "dirty days." I was only too happy to release those unsavory bits of my identity into the Atlantic.
The Atlantic was a far cry from the Arabian Sea, with its moss-green tinge and fishy sea smells. Bombay's Marine Drive curved outward, imposing the Indian skyline upon the water; you couldn't see the infinite blue beyond, unhindered by the local. Your imagination reached only as far as Dubai. But the Atlantic, with its blue-white tinge, was the beyond. And if we know anything from watching Windex and sanitary pad commercials, we know that blue is the color of clean. So is white. White is clean. As I was dipped backward into the blue-white ocean, every single one of my pores opening to accept its salty, eternal life truth, I told myself I was shedding a layer. The pastor was smiling benevolently; my mentor too, despite her auburn hair slapping into her face. They were welcoming me into their eternal family. They'd love me forever. For the rest of the day I felt scrubbed. My insides squeaked. Seawater trickling down your eardrum and up your nose can have that effect.
But the feeling didn't last. I'd offered up my soul for them to save, and still the church wanted more. They concerned themselves with my parents' souls next. When were they going to join me in worship? Had I shared the gospel with them yet? Did I not care that they were hell-bound? I grew tired of their constant badgering, and after graduation, stopped attending Sunday service, ignoring their daily calls asking me to come back.
It didn't occur to me then — in fact, it took a graduate degree in postcolonial theory for me to see — that the American Jesus I'd accepted into my heart had a colonial cousin in the Anglican Jesus of the sanitation reports, who'd traveled with the missionaries to wipe us Indians clean of our satanic gods and unsanitary habits. Seeking redemption in the Atlantic, I'd forgotten that the same Atlantic had facilitated the slave trade and the extraction of South Asia's resources and wealth. The Atlantic was tainted, too.
The image that hasn't tarnished is of my mother slicing garlic and onions and offering them into a cauldron, her fingers tinted saffron and glistening with oil. Like a goddess, she conjured delicacies of childhood and home. Home — maybe, someday, it could be the place where bodies come as they are and do what they can for one another, where we could be enough and everything.
Shilpi Suneja
Shilpi Suneja has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her first novel, about the long shadow of India's Partition, is slated for publication in fall 2022 from Milkweed Editions.
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filed: March 17, 2011 • England
Wind farm refused
Credit: Lincolnshire Echo, www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk 16 March 2011 ~~
Campaigners are celebrating after a proposal for a wind farm at Orby Marsh was turned down by planners.
Members of East Lindsey District Council's planning committee went along with the officer's recommendation to refuse the application on the grounds of "cumulative impact" on the area, given the number of consented and proposed developments both on and off-shore.
The application for nine turbines on land off Marsh Lane, at a height of 81 metres, was the third to be made by Mark Caudwell since 2003, the latest one seeing reductions in both the number and height of turbines in an attempt to appease planners.
However, objection was strong in the local community, with more than 500 letters being received by ELDC against the plans. There were 230 in favour.
Addressing the committee, objector Geraldine Smedley said: "Is Lincolnshire to become a dumping ground for these industrial units?
"Ladies and gentlemen, your duty of care is not just to us, but to the district, residents, the tourism industry and the wider community of Lincolnshire."
Almost all members of the committee spoke in agreement with the officer's recommendation. However, an alternative proposal for approval was put forward by Councillor Daniel Simpson, although this was unsupported.
Mr Simpson said: "I don't think we have sufficient evidence to refuse this application on the basis of cumulative effect.
"If this went to appeal, I don't think we would succeed."
A vote to refuse permission was carried, with nine out of ten committee members in favour.
Chairman of the Orby Wind Farm Action Group (OWAG), Gill Watson, said: "On behalf of OWAG, we are delighted that the planning committee upheld the officer's decision to refuse this application.
"A great deal of the credit for this decision must go to the local residents who, in their hundreds, wrote in to ELDC and expressed their opposition.
"We are now hopeful that after nine years this decision will bring an end to this unwanted and ineffective venture."
Speaking after the meeting, Mr Caudwell said: "I was surprised by the officer's recommendation and do not believe it can stand up.
"I will be seeking legal advice, but am expecting to appeal."
Source: Lincolnshire Echo, www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk 16 March 2011

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AFGHANISTAN - USA
Afghanistan: US and Taliban agree on 'partial' truce
The truce should precede the signing of a broader agreement. However, people continue to die in the country. 157,000 victims of the conflict, including 43,000 civilians. The number of Taliban attacks has grown following the failure of a previous negotiation with Washington.
Kabul (AsiaNews / Agencies) - The Taliban and the United States have reached an agreement in principle for a partial seven-day truce that should serve as a basis for the conclusion of a broader understanding. The two sides have long been conducting complex negotiations to end over 18 years of conflict in Afghanistan.
It is not yet clear when the "stepping down" of armed operations should start. The Kabul government said today, February 15, that military actions against Islamic extremists are continuing. Five airstrikes have been carried out by the anti-Taliban coalition in the past 24 hours. Six guerrillas were killed, but eight civilians are also among the victims.
On February 13, five children died in a bomb attack on a madrassa in Kunduz, in the north of the country, a city that is often targeted by Taliban formations. On February 8, in the eastern province of Nangarhar, two American soldiers and an Afghan soldier were killed by a man wearing a local army uniform.
The heirs of Mullah Omar are active in almost all the Afghan provinces, where other Islamic armed groups are also present, such as the local branch of Isis and al-Qaeda. Sensitive to the demands of his electorate, who wants the return of US troops home, President Donald Trump said he was ready to close an agreement with the extremist Afghan group.
Currently 13,000 US troops are deployed in the country, supported by 17,000 staff made available by NATO and other Washington partners. Since the outbreak of the conflict in 2001, when the Taliban controlled Afghanistan and hosted Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda who masterminded the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, US forces have suffered over 2200 casualties.
According to Brown University data, the conflict has killed 157,000 so far, of which 43,000 are civilians. In early 2019, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had revealed that 45,000 members of his armed forces had been killed in the past five years.
The Taliban and the United States had started discussions about a "roadmap for peace" as early as December 2018, but the negotiations proved immediately complicated, especially due to the refusal of the guerrillas to negotiate with the legitimate government of Kabul.
After several negotiating sessions in Qatar, Washington announced that it was ready to withdraw 5400 soldiers within 20 weeks of signing the final agreement. In return, the US asked the Taliban not to turn Afghanistan back into a jihadist "sanctuary".
Negotiations were called off last September by Trump, after the killing of an American soldier by the Taliban militias. Since then, guerrilla attacks on American and regular Afghan forces have seen a surge, as reported by the Sigar (Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction), the US agency that oversees the reconstruction of the battered Asian country.
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Does anyone know how to turn off the chanel display on the tv? On the bottom of the screen there is a small rectangular box that contains the chanel number. I can't seem to turn that off. Please help. When I change the aspect setting to expanded it disappears but on the other aspect choices it remains on the screen. Thank you.
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The set will need a digital box to receive digital channels as it does not have a digital tuner in it--it is a very good set.
1. Audio OUT from VCR to AUDIO IN of TV.
selection button on the TV's remote control.
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The 65XWX20B comes apart in 2 pieces - there is a top half and a bottom half.
- The bottom half houses all of the electronics, projection lenses, etc. It is very heavy and should be moved with care.
- The top half is basically just the screen.
I have moved this Television multiple times, even up and down from a 3rd floor apartment!
- First remove the screws holding the top and the bottom, the important ones are on the sides of the TV.
- This is important, I suggest 3 people do this part: Slowly lift the top away from the bottom half of the TV, but -not- very far. There is small wiring harness that that attaches the top of the TV to the bottom to a circuit board. This must be unplugged by one person while the other 2 hold the top half of the TV slightly above the bottom half. Note carefully where this plugs in so that you can reassemble easily.
- Once this is disconnected the TV is much easier to move, although still quite heavy and bulky. Do not turn the TV on its side - keep it upright while moving.
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Un plug the power to the Plasma Screen and also to the Media Receiver for ten minutes. Disconnect the off the air antennas both A and B. After ten minutes plug in the plasma screen then the media receiver and turn on wi the remote control. You should now be back in operation. I was.
Also It may not be a bad digital tuner. The TV Guide feature is active even when the zip code is set to all 0s so if you have an over the air antenna attached the TV will look for the TV Guide info and if it can not find it because of a weak signal or the chanel it is tuned to does not carry that information the TV thinks that tuner does not work which triggers the 12 flashes. Also on power up the gray box with the waring message "Plasma Display Starting Up, Please Wait" appears and the screen is blank.
using your remote ,off the close caption. the black rectangular box that you see for the message but since you have message in the box. that why you see a rectangular black screen.
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Health Concerns Aug. 1, 2014
Ruth Reichl Has Some Problems With the FDA's Stance on Antibiotics
By Hugh Merwin
These pigs are done with tetracyclines. Photo: Shutterstock
Today author and former Times food critic Ruth Reichl pens a strongly worded op-ed about her dismay over a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York 2-1 ruling last month, which essentially left the Food and Drug Administration with the ability to continue allowing the use of antibiotics in animal feed. Despite clear signs that the practice is bad for animals and increasingly lethal for people, drugs like tetracyclines are still doled out to pigs and cows that aren't sick, just because it makes them grow much faster and makes production entirely more profitable. The net effect of all that, Reichl writes, is just unhealthy.
This isn't an elitist opinion coming from the former Gourmet editor: The FDA itself declared the so-called subtherapeutic use of penicillin a threat in 1977, identified 17 other drugs that could have catastrophic effects on human health starting in 2001, and last year even moved to reduce the estimated 30 million pounds of antibiotics used annually on animals raised for meat by pushing a set of voluntary industry guidelines.
The same drugs that accelerate growth also have the somewhat-nasty effect of mitigating infections that arise by packing lots and lots of chickens or pigs into tightly cramped quarters, perpetuating the system and a lot of cheap meat. "This practice breeds antibiotic-resistant bacteria that threaten us all," writes Reichl, calling the agency's most recent guidelines "toothless."
She's also hopeful, and points to developments in Europe and continued growth of "responsible producers" who supply meat from free-roaming animals raised without antibiotics. Moves toward better meat on the part of chains like Chipotle and Panera are also good signs, she writes, and "proof that as we vote with our wallets and our roasting pans, producers will rise to meet us."
The F.D.A.'s Blatant Failure on Food [New York Times]
Related: FDA Determined Livestock Antibiotics Were 'High Risk' a Long Time Ago
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Q: Word or phrase for people who spend a long time in each others company I'm looking for a word or phrase to describe two people who would have spent long periods of time together, to the point where they know each other's idiosyncrasies, would have many in-jokes, finish each other's sentences etc.

A: Simpatico: "Being on the same wavelength," M-W
The word captures the idea of two or more people who are in tune with each other.

A: It is a bit old fashioned, but bosom buddies fits.

One's close or closest friend; a friend one holds dear to one's heart.
We grew up right next door to each other, so we have been bosom buddies since we were kids.
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A more modern (and informal) phrase would be brother from another mother.

These expressions don't refer to actual half-siblings. A brother from another mother is a friend that you feel as close to as if they were your actual brother.
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That one person in your life who is like a sibling. You'll do anything for them, literally. They understand you, you understand them and you're always happy when you're around them. You just click.
Similar to best friend, but you can only really have one best mate, otherwise they are probably just good friends.

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A: Old friends are those who have had the time together to have had all those moments and formed all those jokes.

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nerd rock
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A genre of music that, while not popular, has an immense cult following. Quite similar to both punk rock and garage rock, Nerd Rock is most notable for its often ironic or irreverent lyrics. Its musical hallmarks are a driving eigth note beat played on heavily distorted guitars combined with a punk rock vocal line, and a deceptively simple chord structure that turns into a deliciously catchy hook. Compare with Angry Nerd Rock, which tends to be more angst-ridden and less inherently fun.
There are innumerable Nerd Rock bands. Most notably, though, we have Weezer, Nerf Herder, The Ataris, and, arguably, They Might Be Giants. Although Nerd Rock tends to be heavily "alternative", Weezer enjoyed a great deal of popularity with their bubble-gum-like debut single, Buddy Holly.
Nerd Rock crops up from time to time in movie soundtracks, owing at least in part to the fact that its catchy hooks and driving beat make it immediately appealing, even if only presented in the background of a scene.
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Just seen Tricia's result.....4hrs 13 mins!! Brilliant result!!
Thanks for everyone's support it has been fantastic. I can honestly say that was the hardest thing I have done in my life, however it was an amazing experience and a very emotional journey. Its lucky I didn't have to be vetted at the end.
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Senior All Night Party (SANP) Introduction and Notes
Northville Michigan High School
by Clay Harrell.
Links to pictures below of recent Northville Senior All Night Parties.
2009 Northville SANP
Northville HS 'Main Street' Decorations Layout
What is a 'Senior All Night Party'?
The concept of a SANP (Senior All Night Party) was pioneered by Northville Michigan's high school parents about 20 years ago (1985 was the first year). The idea was to hold a safe party immediately after high school graduation. The kids would be 'locked-down' in the High School, unable to leave the party from start (10pm) to finish (4:30am).
This way the party environment could be controlled. No one could leave and re-enter, and security would make sure no drugs or alcohol could be brought into the school. This would keep the kids safe for one last time - Really the last time the entire high school senior class would be together as a unit.
Attendance for this party is very high. Of a class of about 450 kids, about 400 attend. That's about a 90% attendance rate. So for the most part, the kids won't be on the streets partying, causing trouble, and won't be drinking and driving.
I had NO idea that other area SANPs were using this web page!
I received an email from Nancy Thomas in Allen Park MI that they are doing their *first* SANP-after-graduation party. They are using this web page as their "inspiration" for their SANP party, and they had LOTS of questions. So here's a rundown of what has worked (and not worked) at the Northville SANP (that has been running since 1985).
Passionate People Need Only Apply. At Northville, the "head" of SANP are the parents of the class-elected Senior Class President. This is NOT how to choose the head of of SANP! In the past parents of the elected class president have made their kid turn in their "crown" so they wouldn't have to be involved with SANP (it IS a lot of work after all). Instead, a better method is to find people that WANT to be involved, and that are passionate about doing this project.
Theme. The parent choose the theme, not the kids. Also the prime objective is to keep the theme SECRET! This keeps the kids guessing and talking. Yea sure they'll figure it out at some point, but no need to "show your hand" before the fact. And parent, remember this is a party for 18 year old kids, not for you. So choose your theme wisely, and cater to your audience.
Set up your SANP as a non-profit. Yea this is a major headache, but in the long run, it's *really* going to help your situation in terms of money.
Work areas. Again to keep the theme secret, you need an "off site" work area for the decorations and meetings. Since the Detroit area is in recession, it shouldn't be too hard to find some empty space that you can rent. Northville set up a official NON-PROFIT status for their SANP. This helps for a lot of things. For example, they rent an old closed plaza Rite-Aid drugstore for $1 a year. The landlord can right-off this rental. This is good for him on a couple levels. First, the town hall likes the gesture. Second he gets thousands of dollars in tax right-offs (remember Northville SANP is a non-profit). And third he 'rents' the unused plaza space. (This is important because if he rented the space for undervalue to a 'retail' client, that rental price goes on public record. If other plaza clients see the lower price, it puts them in a position to ask for a lower rental from the landlord... See where that is going?)
Break up the SANP job into smaller pieces (committees). For example, a Decorations Committee and Finance Committee and Security. Then these can be broken down further too. For Northville the Decorations Committee has sub-committees, one for each area of decoration used in the High School for SANP. Like for 2007 and the James Bond theme, there was a committe for "Live and Let Die", "Casino Royale", Goldfinger", etc. For the Finance committee, this can be broken down too. Security is a group that maintains the high school lock-down, and also hires a nurse for the party.
Donations, you need them! Again if you are set up as a non-profit, people can donate to your SANP and write it off on their taxes! In the case of Northville, the Prizes and Gifts Committee goes to all the local businesses looking for product donations. The Food Committee solicits the local sub shops, Great Harvest bread donates bread, shakes, etc etc.
How much to charge for SANP attendance? At Northville, the price is $55 advance sale, $70 after January 1st for a kid to attend SANP. I believe SANP provides a custome t-shirt for the kids too, and they are asked to wear it at the party (this makes finding and keeping kids out of trouble a lot easier for SANP security). Northville also sells unpainted "horses" for $40 to the parents (the team mascot is the "Northville Mustangs", get it??) These are wooden horses mounted on a 3 foot dowel with a stand. The parents paint the horses and put pictures of their kid and other memorabilia on the horse. Then the parents deliver their horse to the SANP party beforehand, and they are arranged in an area of the SANP party. The kids get to look at their "shrine" and their friend's horses too. At the end of the night, the kids bring their horses home. But bottom line is someone in the Finance committee makes these horses, so they become a profit center for SANP. So between the money taken in for attendance and the $40 horse sales, this gives SANP a significant amount of money to work with.
Gifts. Another thing Northville does is make sure each kid gets a "decent" gift for attending SANP. These range from an embroidered towel or laundry bag for college, to whatever SANP can afford to purchase (or get donated by local businesses). These gifts are given out at the end of the night in an "awards" assembly, which runs the last 45 minutes of the party. Not all the gifts are the same either (though they could be). In addition the kids can win a random drawing of a gift card, dvd players, or other small gifts under $75. There's also door prizes of college goods (mugs, t-shirts, banners etc.)
Have lots of activities at your SANP. The worst thing you can have is a boring SANP. At Northville they have a casino (poker, craps, blackjack). They also hire an "inflatables" company. (I don't quite understand that, as these kids are 18 not 8 years old. But hey I guess jumping on inflatables is somewhat fun.) They rent electric motorized rideable "toliets" and have toliet races in the gym. They have a beauty parlor for the gals (run by the moms). Also usually hire a music video company, so the kids can "green screen" complete with costumes, and make their own DVD video. Also nice to have a photograph area again with costumes. In 2006 (western theme area), they had cowboy and dancing girl outfits, which the kids could dress up in and get their picture taken in front of a western town scene. There are also a Caricature artist hired to paint kids, and a coffee stand (for 2006 my wife did this see coffeecathq.com for details.) Often these people will do this for free if you ask (my wife did the coffee stand for free). They also hire a trained certified Hyptomist who has a seminar. In 2006/2007 I provided for free real casino slot machines and coin operated games (pinball, chexx hockey, bowling, etc), all set to free play for the kids to use. These were implemented into the decorations areas. The bowling games were a HUGE hit, as kids love to throw stuff! (Ball bowler and shuffle alley/puck bowler.) Again, you can't have too much for the kids to do. In all years but 2006, the kids generally complained at Northville there wasn't enough to do.
What Can YOU Do to HELP?
You, as a parent of a graduating Northville senior, can do quite a bit. This is your last manual-labor chore as a parent. Soon your kid will be gone, and all will be left are the bills. So what can you do? GET INVOLVED. In 2006, of 425 kids attending SANP, about 50 parents did 95% of the decoration work. In 2007, it was only 15 parents. That's PITIFUL. More time was spent arguing about whether the event should be held at Rock Financial or the High School. Please don't make that mistake again.
Northville is a rich suburb. But that doesn't mean you have to act that way, and hire-out all the work for this last-hooray. Yea sure, it's easy to just "cut a check" to Rock Financial and hire out everything there. But your kids won't remember that. THEY WILL remember something that YOU DID for them, like all the decorations and games at their High School's Senior All-Night Party. The kids WILL appreciate the efforts YOU do in the decorations. They may not give it a huge notice, but they do notice. So as a parent, get involved. The cost is some time, but it's for YOUR KID.
What is the Purpose of this Web Page?
I have been involved with the Northville SANP for the last two years. As a 'static' part of this non-profit project, I have gotten to see what works and what doesn't work. That is, how some things go well, and other not so well. With this in mind, I wanted to document the process as I see it, highlight the good stuff, and make suggestions for how it could be made better.
I also wanted a place to put pictures of the Northville SANP. No one seems to document this work, and it really should be archived. The amount of work involved for the decorations is incredible, and from year to year, largely forgotten after the party is over.
I provided 15+ coin-operated games (all set on free-play) for the SANP party (pinballs, chexx hockey, gun games, slot machines for the casino, bowling machines, etc.) I also provided A LOT of technical support and tools for the decoration construction. And my wife did the FREE coffee bar (didn't charge anyone anything, not the kids or SANP.) To give an idea on how valuable this service is, I have had several other high schools try and hire me to do the games for their schools' SANP (to date I have turned these offers down.)
These are the games I have bought and fixed for the SANP project. I store and repair these at the drug store, and move them to the SANP party. This is provided (of course) free of charge, and the game are operated at the SANP party on free-play (no money needed to play). And YES that's a 17 foot long ball bowler and a 10 foot long skee-ball machine, in addition to various other arcade games, slot machines, and pinballs (Star Wars, Terminator3, Simpsons, Lord of the Rings, etc.)
When the games are broken down they take up an area of about 10'x20'.
This shows the layout of the Northville High School. The area in blue is the "Main Street" hallway, and that's what get decorated. I propose the area in Red be the "arcade game" area, where I place the above pictured games.
Who is Involved with the Northville SANP?
The people involved change every year, because the people that attend the SANP (the graduating Seniors) change every year. This creates a continuity problem. That is, the lessons learned from year to year are largely forgotten.
The way it works is like this: the Senior class elects a Senior Class President. By default, the parents of this class president become the chairs of SANP. For Northville 2007, this created a problem. The original elected 2007 class president was forced (by his parents) to turn back his elected position! Why? Simple, his parents didn't want to do the work involved to make the Senior All Night Party (SANP) happen. Unfortunately, this was an indicator of things to come, as the 2007 SANP started out on a bad foot.
Having the senior class president's parents as head of SANP is generally a major mistake. The type of parents needed to run this party are people that understand FUN. Generally the class president's parents are, well, probably not the best candidates for this job. They tend to miss the whole concept of FUN and often forget WHO THE CLIENT IS (the kids!) The parents tend to be more concerned with themselves, and what they want, instead of remember this is about the KIDS and putting on a good-time party. Just something to keep in mind. (I'll say this a few times, because again, this point gets missed a lot.) It would be a far better approach to pick a set of parents that WANT to be head of SANP, opposed to just forcing the (kid class elected) Senior Class president's parents as the SANP heads. Think about that for a second, does it make any sense? It's almost a formula for disaster, putting people in charge of your kid's last High school function, where they really don't want the job (and frankly don't usually do a very good effort).
Anyway, the first meetings for SANP start usually about October/November of the school year. For 2007, the start was hampered by the above. And the new chairs that eventually took the SANP job were not as enthusiastic about their new position (compared to the 2006 Northville class).
Because of this, the whole SANP 2007 didn't really get rolling until well after January 2007. Compared to the prior year, this was a very late start. The 2006 SANP parents were well on their way to planning and creating the party by January (unlike the 2007 class). I hope the 2008 SANP people can get it together better than the 2007 SANP organizers.
What is My Involvement with SANP?
I have a kid in a Northville middle school. So my involvement in SANP has nothing to do with having a graduating senior. I have a rather unique position in that I have no political or kid involvement in the whole SANP process (and hence this web page), and I have continuity, as I would like to help SANP every year.
I provide games, at no charge, to the SANP party. What kind of games? Unique coin-operated games. Like pinball machines, Ms.Pacman video games, slot machines (for the casino), bowling games (yes an actual 17 foot long bowling alley and 10 foot skee-ball), rifle games, chexx hockey (bubble hockey), and other novelty type coin-op games. All coin-operated COMMERCIAL GRADE equipment, set to FREE PLAY. In the last two years, I provided 15+ games for each of the two SANP parties at absolutely NO cost to SANP. If SANP hired out for the games, I would say it would cost them in the neighborhood of $5000 for the game party rentals, for the level of service and number of games I provide. In addition, my wife ran a Cappuccino Coffee bar at the SANP party (2007 was her first year), again at NO cost to SANP (the cost to hire-out that job is about $1500).
In return, the SANP provides me a place to store and work on my games for the year. This way I have a place to prepare them for the party. And a place that I can go and make a mess working on games without my wife yelling at me that she can't get her car in the garage! So it's a win-win situation for both me and SANP. I'm happy with the arrangement (well, kind of happy, depending on the personalities involved, which changes from year-to-year).
For example, the 2006 class and Karen Polis were great. They were extremely supportive of my efforts, and integrated my games into their SANP decorations. This made the play environment for the kids great. The 2007 class was not as supportive. In fact initially the chairs of 2007 SANP tried to push me to pay them for storing my games (which they used for their SANP) at their facility. Frankly I was shocked and floored, since I put A LOT of work and money into this project. Ultimately I didn't have to pay them, but the fact that they demanded that really set a bad mood for the whole thing. But after it was all over, the head of SANP personally thanked me for the job I did.
What Makes a Good SANP?
The key here is to remember who is your customer! (At times I wonder if the SANP is more for the parents, and less for the kids.) Theme has some importance, as it's something for the kids to "hang their hat". For example, this year (2007), James Bond was picked for the theme (get it, 007, 2007?) Though that's a cute tie-in, most 18 year old kids don't relate to Bond. It was something *I* grew up with, but in the last 20 years there have not been a lot of memorable Bond movies (though Casino Royale helped put Bond back in the current kid's mindset, it's just one movie). In 2006 the theme at Northville SANP was again movie related (as it often is). But they picked more recent movies that the kids probably related to better like Wild Wild West (Will Smith), Star Wars, Napoleon Dynamite, Harry Potter, etc.
But theme aside, the paramount things is to have plenty to do for the kids at the SANP. The key is INVOLVMENT and INTERACTIVE DESIGN. This point is often missed, especially by the decorations committee. In the 2007 Bond SANP, this point was missed more than it should have been.
At the Northville 2006 SANP, this was done right (largely because of two people, Dave Laabs and Karen Paulos). For example, in the Wild West area, there was a gold mine. The gold mine was constructed using a sump pump to move water down a "river" (trough) and into a kiddie poll. Mud was put in the kiddie poll. Gravel was purchased and dried, and then spray painted gold. This was mixed with regular gravel and put in the kiddie pool. The kids would use pans and 'mine' for the gold gravel. Then they would take the gold to the Wild West's General Store, where it was weighed. In exchange they would get game tokens. Now they could go to the Casino and either turn the tokens in for raffle ticket(s), or they could gamble the tokens in the slot machines! This whole process took some kid time and some fun kid work. That's the idea - keep the kids moving and having fun, accomplishing some goofy tasks.
At the 2007 Bond SANP, this point was nearly missed. Just ONE person (Jeff Holler) in the decorations committee had a plan for interactive design. He had been to a James Bond themed restaurant in Milwaukee, and implemented some of their ideas into the 2007 SANP decoration design. What he did was pure genius, and if it was not for his efforts (in my opinion), the 2007 Bond SANP would have totally missed a great opportunity. There was also John Sprader, who did a considerable amount of work (that needs to be acknowledged and THANKED), but he largely missed the whole interactive design idea. John Sprader did a great job, and did an incredible amount of work, but he needed to put himself into the kid's shoes a bit more, and understand the importance of interactive design in a Senior All Night party.
Thanks to Jeff, for 2007, when the kids came into the school for the party, he took groups of 10 to 20 kids into a waiting room called "Universal Exports", aka Univex. (He designed this room a bit like the waiting room at Disney Land's Haunted House.) He introduced the kids to the Bond theme, and explained that they had to solve some basic clues inside the room. This would expose a hidden door, allowing them access to Moneypenny's office. The hidden door had an electric latch system, accessible by pressing one of the wall panels (I designed and implemented the electrics). The kids needed to find this switch to advance. He also had a hidden cam taking movies, which he would later burn to DVD. Once inside Moneypenny's office the kids were checked in and free to go to the rest of the party facilities.
Talking to the kids inside the party, they all commented how cool the electric hidden door was, and what they had to go through to find it. Jeff only had about 2 to 3 minutes with a group of 10 to 20 kids. But he made that short time one of the kid's most memorable moments of the party. This is what they talked about and what they will remember. All the non-interactive decorations they just walked by, *maybe* noticing for all of one second.
What Facilities or Events are at SANP?
The facilities and events are key to keeping the kids busy. At the Northville SANP, they provide the following ('rental' means SANP had to pay for this service):
Inflatables in one gym (rental).
Electric Toilet races in same gym (rental).
Casino with blackjack, poker, craps in other gym (free via volunteers).
Pinball, bowling, rifle, chexx hockey, slot machines and arcade games scattered throughout (free, my expertise).
Hypnotist (rental) in the auditorium at midnight.
Tattoo (temporary) artist (rental)
Caricature artist (rental, but very reasonable at $100)
Cappuccino Coffee bar (two in 2007: one rental and one free coffee bar from my wife).
Manicure area (free via volunteers).
Green screen DVD music video area (rental)
Food court in cafeteria
Decorations at SANP - Make it Interactive.
A lot of time goes into this portion of the SANP. More time is spent on the docorations for the Northville High School than probably any other part of SANP. In 2006, parents worked on the decorations from October 2005 to the party in June 2006. In 2007, decorations really didn't start until February 2007, leaving only four months to get the work done.
The key to remember when designing the decorations is INTERACTIVE DESIGN. Static displays are little more than wallpaper. The kids look once for a few seconds, if they notice at all. This was a major problem at the 2007 Northville SANP party. For example, Q's Lab could have been made much more interactive. This was a lost opportunity. In fact all the decorations past Moneypenny's office were static. Almost a waste of time, as the kids just don't notice. In today's Nintendo age, the decorations have to do something or somehow be interactive to get their attention. The kids won't stop to read static displays, or to notice small details. They are all about partying, and unless the display does something, they just walk right by.
Another idea I had for decorations, which was not implemented in either 2006 or 2007, was to use actors. That is, parents dressed up, and willing to "play a part". For example, mad scientists inside Q's Lab. They could rope the kids into doing some silly stuff, or helping with some goofy science experiment gone bad. In the 2006 SANP party, I had the idea of having a good/bad guy fight inside the Wild Wild West section. That is, two actors, one dressed in white, the other in black. And they would spend the night basically fighting each other (cap guns, fake blood, fake punches, rope fights, etc.) This is much in the style of what you would see on the Las Vegas strip in front of the Treasure Island hotel, where they have a pirate battle. Also having some of the parents dress up as western drunk bums or party girls or gamblers would have been a good gag too - they could interact with the students playing their parts. The problem is finding parents willing to play these parts - it's not easy work, and you have to have the right sense of humor.
The Rite Aide drug store SANP work area for making and storing the decorations.
CoffeeCatHQ.com doing her thing at SANP2007. She provides hot and cold custom-made coffee drinks
(lattes, cappuccinos, mochas, etc.) for the kids at no charge.
Other Interactive Decoration Ideas.
I can't stress this enough - INTERACTIVE DESIGN. The decorations need to be interactive. This makes a huge difference. The interactive design could be simple or complex. For example, the 2006 SANP decorations were very interactive, but complex (making they hard to construct, set up, and tear down). The 2007 SANP decorations were non-interactive and simple (a much easier workload, but provided little impact). A mid-point between these two approaches is a better plan.
A good mix that keeps things easy is to implement the pinball and arcade games into the hall decorations. This keeps the parents from going nuts trying to design and build interactive displays. They can basically do the "wallpaper" approach, and allow the games to be the interactive part. Unfortunately in 2007 this concept was largely lost, as the games were not implemented into most of the hallway designs. Putting the games in the Casino is not a good idea. Keep the Casino with a gambling theme, and don't try and mix the arcade games into that theme. The games work much better in the hallway designs. The Northville hallway has a different 'feel', and is more social than the casino. And the games make the hallway an even better social and interactive environment.
Get a Static Project Leader.
Another thing that needs to happen with the Northville SANP is to have a static chair person or static decorations project leader. Every year there is a new chair, and all the lessons learned from the prior year are lost. SANP does keep a log book of ideas and what worked and what didn't. But that is hardly a substitute for having a human who went through the whole project in prior years. If the same project manager was used year after year, things could easily improve. Otherwise the learning curve for the new yearly chair is just too great. This is especially a problem with the decorations committee. A central project manager (the same one year after year) needs to be implemented - someone that can oversee all the designs for better integration and interactive design year after year.
The other problem is the storage of the prior year(s) decorations. Again without a project manager that did it the year before, A LOT of unnecessary work is replicated year to year. I saw it happen in 2007 in a big way, where designs for decoration panels were re-done because they didn't understand how it could have been recycled from the prior year. Also nothing ever gets thrown out. You would think this is a good thing, but unfortunately the wrong things seem to get saved. In the drug store, where all the decorations are stored, there were many years of "crap" piled up. John went through this stuff this year, and threw out MANY dumpster loads worth of junk. This made the storage area (drug store) much more manageable and easier for people to work on this year's decorations. But I kind of doubt that initiative will be taken again in the future (John and I loaded up his van many times with old useless displays, and he hauled them to his work and unloaded the trash into dumpsters there, since there is no garbage collection at the drug store.)


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Developing legislation to obtain the expected protection is not enough. It is also important to put in place the necessary means to sanction on acts infringing the patent.
Like other rights relating to industrial property, the law 17/97 has provided a frame work for the protection of its own, namely the title VIII, Sections 201 and followings, which deal in detail with the infringement action. If this action is at the forefront legal actions to allowing to protect the right to a patent, there are also others for the same purpose as the action for nullity (Article 85-88 of Law No.17.97), which his distinguished by its special character, and unfair competition action or parasitism (art.184 and 185 of law No.17/97), which is a general aspect, since it is based on the general principles of responsibility, and that, al though its regulations contained in law No.17/97.
Action to claim ownership of the patent
The principle of this action lies in the prohibition of any person other than the inventor, except in determined cases as that of the employer (art. 18(a) of Law No.17/97), to demand the inclusion of the patent title at OMPIC. If, however, this occurs in defiance of the principle mentioned above, article 19 of law 17/97, allows the affected party to claim ownership of title delivered either contracted outside the inventor or his invention assignees, or in violation of legal or conventional obligation.
Nullity action of patent
The action for nullity is an action applied by any person or the public department, by which we demand to the court to order the total or partial cancellation of the patent title (art.85 and 88 of Law No.17/97). This action tends to sanction the absence of validity conditions of a patent issued under the article 85 mentioned above.
Under these articles, the person eligible to request the court pronouncing the invalidity of the patents one having interest. It may therefore be the inventor or his assignees, a person claiming a prior right to the patent, a beneficiary of a license agreement, obligatory or office, or a co-owner.
Infringement action
The infringement action represents the best way to protect against attacks that the owners of the patent right may suffer from, and the appellation of this action reflects its content. The Moroccan legislature has granted the inventor of the patent owner, who suffered damage as a result of a violation having been brought to his right, to seize the criminal or commercial court in the context of infringement, and, in agreement with the spirit of the TRIPS Agreement and, in particular, under the terms of the free Trade Agreement with the United States.
The infringement action is closely related to most of the rights of industrial property-(sections 1 and 201 of Law No.17/97). Moreover, if we compare the action on the brand and the one related to patent, it appears that the legislature has distinguished within the first, between two acts complained of, imitation and counterfeiting; However, under the second action, that is to say that relating to patent ,law has contented to punish counterfeiting.
If the foundation of industry and commerce lies in the freedom of enterprise and competition, that freedom is supposed to be exercised without violating the interests of others. Any transgression of this limit is considered as illegal and gives rise to liability if a damage results from this act, either intentional or not. The rules related to unfair competition are contained sections 184 and 185 of Law No.17/97, enouncing certain acts, within this competition and related actions. For cons, the legal basis for these acts and procedures that should be implemented is subject to the general rules, with the exception of competence by reason of the material, which belongs to the Commercial Court under Article 15 of Law No.17/97.


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DOD on track to take on background checks ahead of White House order
By Lauren C. Williams
The Defense Department is on track to absorb the National Background Investigations Bureau ahead of an anticipated executive order demanding the shift by the end of fiscal 2019, officials told Congress.
The Department of Defense is "going into this clear eyed," Garry Reid, the director for defense intelligence for the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Office, told Congress during a House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing Dec. 12, but it also understands "this is a significant undertaking."
NBIB is slated to transfer functions, resources, infrastructure and personnel to DOD over nine months, starting Jan. 1 and ending Sept. 30, 2019.
Subcommittee Ranking Member Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) said he was "skeptical of DOD's ability to absorb" the NBIB, but officials ticked off recent successes as evidence that they were ready for the transition once an executive order hits.
Dan Payne, director of the Defense Security Service, testified that his agency was waiting for executive guidance to integrate NBIB's structure into its own, minimizing layoffs and maintaining progress.
"We are expecting the exec order will allow NBIB to integrate structure into DSS in a way that will not reverse or impact the great progress that NBIB has made in drawing down the investigative inventory, while allowing DSS to continue the progress we have made in innovation and transporting the vetting process," Payne said.
DSS and NBIB are developing a joint transfer plan and joint transition team, Payne said. The goal is to focus on high-risk cases within the cleared workforce and reduce the backlog.
In prepping for the transfer, NBIB and defense officials said there has been some reduction in the security clearance backlog even ahead of official directive.
Reid said that there's been an approximate 20 percent reduction of overall DOD inventory at NBIB. DOD's investigations make up about 80 percent of the bureaus investigative load.
The bureau's director Charles Phalen testified that NBIB's highest inventory level hit 725,000 investigative products in April but that number would fall below 600,000 in the next 24 hours, marking a 17 percent reduction in six months. Phalen also clarified that the number of government and industry employees waiting for a security clearance was 275,000, of which 110,000 are already at work under a clearance.
"Though these numbers are not optimal, they are not as high as the 600,000 number," Phalen said.
Additionally, NBIB has increased federal and contractor workforce in the past two years and begun implementing robotic processing automation via about 20 bots to streamline and automate manual activities and expedite case closure, Phalen said.
Separately, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the vice-chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and a vocal critic of the security clearance backlog, recently introduced a bill that would enshrine the NBIB move to the Department of Defense into law.
"In light of new and emerging threats, this bill reflects the changes we need to make to this 70-year-old system to adjust to the increasing availability of data, new technologies, and a more mobile workforce so that we can maintain the pipeline of trusted professionals that the nation requires," Warner said in a statement.
Lauren C. Williams is a staff writer at FCW covering defense and cybersecurity.
Prior to joining FCW, Williams was the tech reporter for ThinkProgress, where she covered everything from internet culture to national security issues. In past positions, Williams covered health care, politics and crime for various publications, including The Seattle Times.
Williams graduated with a master's in journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park and a bachelor's in dietetics from the University of Delaware. She can be contacted at lwilliams@fcw.com, or follow her on Twitter @lalaurenista.
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Mirantis emerges as one of the leading contributors to OpenStack.
Mirantis, the pure play open source company, has announced the release of Mirantis OpenStack 9.0, which is based on OpenStack Mitaka.
Kapadia wrote in a blog post that they have added new functionalities in Mirantis OpenStack to simplify both initial deployment and post-deployment operations. Because no cloud is static and it changes after deployment they focused on the shaded box, i.e., post-deployment changes.
Customers can use Fuel, the OpenStack management project, to add certain plugins post deployment without having to redeploy the entire cloud. "It also keeps certain settings 'unlocked' after initial deployment. If a setting remains unlocked, it can similarly be changed without having to redeploy the cloud," wrote Kapadia.
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How to get abandoned, lost and discarded 'ghost' fishing gear out of the ocean
Tony Walker, Alexa Goodman and Craig Brown - September 2, 2020
An estimated 640,000 tonnes of lost and abandoned fishing gear enters the oceans annually. (Piqsels)
About the authors: Tony Walker is an Associate Professor in the School for Resource and Environmental Studies at Dalhousie University. Alexa Jillian Goodman is a Research Assistant in the Marine Affairs Program at Dalhousie University. Craig J. Brown is an Associate Professor in the Department of Oceanography at Dalhousie University. Ariel Smith at Coastal Action also co-authored this article.
Fishing gear and plastic marine debris is a growing global issue. Abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear — often called ghost gear — can contribute up to 76 per cent of all marine debris found during beach cleanups.
Estimates of the weight of abandoned fish gear vary widely by region and by type of gear used. One study retrieved 14 tonnes from the northwestern Hawaiian Islands. In one fishing region in Nova Scotia, an estimated 22 tonnes of fishing gear remains at sea. Overall, an estimated 640,000 tonnes of ghost gear is lost globally in the oceans every year.
This derelict fishing gear continues to catch fish, including commercially valuable and threatened species, and other marine fauna. For example, ghost gear, especially nets, are responsible for entangling seals and sea turtles. One abandoned fishing net in Puget Sound in the United States is expected to catch two invertebrates per day, one fish every three days and one seabird every five days.
It also costs fishers. Ghost gear reduces catch rates and cuts into profits, it is expensive to replace and it can be dangerous — getting tangled in propellers and snarling anchors.
But a new project aims to get ghost gear out of the ocean and provide the fishing industry with the opportunity to be part of the solution.
Ghost gear impacts
Ghost gear can damage seafloor habitats and break down into microplastics. Wildlife may eat large pieces of it — and small ones — or become entangled in it. When plastic coatings from wire crab or lobster traps fragment over time, microplastic particles can be ingested by marine life, disrupting natural hormone production and endocrine function, causing shell disease and affecting reproduction.
Read more: Microplastic pollution is everywhere, but scientists are still learning how it harms wildlife
Ghost gear creates an endless negative cycle of self-baiting. Trapped animals die, attracting other scavengers, which meet the same fate. This can have negative impacts on commercial fish populations. For example, ghost gear caused approximately US$21.3 million in economic losses to the blue crab fishery in Chesapeake Bay, Md. Gear losses are often unrecorded or unobserved, which makes knowing specific causes of gear loss challenging.
Crab pots on a dock in Chesapeake Bay, Va. (Shutterstock)
Research suggests that gear losses are the result of environmental conditions, gear conflicts among fishers and other industries, poor gear condition and inappropriate disposal at sea.
Lost gear can be transported long distances by tides and currents, resulting in tangles (called snarls), which can be hard to relocate and retrieve. Losses can be accidental, but inappropriate discarding of gear at sea also occurs due to inefficient and inadequate solid waste management for end-of-life fishing gear.
Ghost gear in the Maritimes
Commercial lobster is the dominant and most valuable fishery in the Maritimes, with 3,000 license holders and exports valued at $2.1 billion in 2017 — one-third of Canada's fishery exports.
The region is deeply connected to the fishing industry. Fishers and those working in related industries rely on healthy commercial fish stocks and habitat to support their livelihoods.
Although fishers retrieve gear when possible and return lost gear to other fishers when they encounter it, some gear inevitably remains lost at sea. A recent study using seafloor imagery estimated 1.8 million pieces of marine debris remain on the Bay of Fundy seafloor, 28 per cent of which is fishing debris. Although the economic losses caused by ghost gear in the Maritimes is unknown, recycling of retrieved ghost gear can create lucrative economic opportunities.
Management of ghost gear
Given the scope of the problem, national and international policies and programs to reduce sources of plastic marine pollution are growing, along with global movements to address ghost gear, such as the Global Ghost Gear Initiative.
As of 2020, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) has implemented reporting requirements for lost and retrieved gear in all groundfish and shrimp fisheries. However, existing licence conditions prohibit retrieving gear outside of the prescribed fishing season if the gear does not belong to the fisher who found it.
Ghost gear settled on the seafloor. (cesar harada/flickr), CC BY-NC-SA
Even so, DFO has supported more than two dozen programs valued at $8.3 million to reduce the amount of abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear, and implemented the Sustainable Fisheries Solutions and Retrieval Support Contribution Program.
Coastal Action is leading one of these projects in the Maritimes. The collaboration between industry, academia and government aims to prevent, reduce and assess impacts of ghost gear in three lobster fishing areas on Nova Scotia's south shore from 2020 to 2022.
Ten rope recycling bins will be installed at wharves throughout the region and ghost gear will be retrieved by fishers from identified hot spots areas over 159 days at sea. A recent pilot study collected more than three tonnes of rope in wharf recycling bins around the Bay of Fundy. The project will also conduct an impact assessment of ghost gear during retrieval to determine impacts on marine life and to estimate economic losses.
Sustane Technologies Inc. will recycle retrieved rope into diesel fuel. Innovative mapping technologies will be used in partnership with Dalhousie University and the Ocean Tracking Network. Mapping of ghost gear will improve the retrieval process by using side-scan sonar technology to create detailed maps of the seafloor and identify where lost gear has settled.
Fishers do not want to lose gear and they recognize that ghost gear continues to harm marine life and impacts their bottom line. Future programs to retrieve ghost gear helps protect marine ecosystems and creates economic opportunities for communities that rely on fragile marine resources.
This article was first published on The Conversation, which features includes relevant and informed articles written by researchers and academics in their areas of expertise and edited by experienced journalists.
Dalhousie University is a founding partner of The Conversation Canada, an online media outlet providing independent, high-quality explanatory journalism. Originally established in Australia in 2011, it has had more than 85 commissioning editors and 30,000-plus academics register as contributors. A full list of articles written by Dalhousie academics can be found on the Conversation Canada website.


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