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Unpublished Disposition, 931 F.2d 59 (9th Cir. 1991)
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit - 931 F.2d 59 (9th Cir. 1991)
AVEMCO INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee,v.WINTERS AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING COMPANY,Defendant-Counter-claimant-Appellant,Omac, Inc., Steven G. Mihaylo, Defendants-Appellants.
No. 90-55213.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted April 2, 1991.Decided April 22, 1991.
Before WILLIAM A. NORRIS, CYNTHIA HOLCOMB HALL and TROTT, Circuit Judges.
MEMORANDUM*
Winters Aircraft Engineering Company ("Winters"), Omac, Inc. ("Omac"), and Steven G. Mihaylo appeal summary judgment for Avemco Insurance Company ("Avemco"). Winters agreed to advise Omac on engineering matters, and did so negligently. Avemco, Winters's insurer, filed an action for declaratory relief, seeking to avoid coverage under Winters's policy. The district court granted summary judgment for Avemco, finding that Winters's liability for negligent engineering advice did not trigger coverage under the terms of the policy. Winters, Omac, and Mihaylo (collectively, "Winters") filed this timely appeal. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.
* Omac was engaged in the development and manufacture of an experimental business aircraft. In May 1983, Winters agreed to advise Omac on whether the aircraft could satisfy various rules and regulations required for certification by the Federal Aviation Administration (the "FAA"). Mihaylo agreed to provide substantial funding for Omac's project if Winters determined that the aircraft would be certified.
Winters conducted several tests and eventually determined that the plane could be certified within two years, and within Omac's projected cost limits. Some months and several million dollars later, Omac discovered that, in order to meet FAA specifications, the aircraft would require a complete engineering overhaul. Omac put a halt to the project until significant engineering modifications could be made.
Subsequently, Omac and Mihaylo sued Winters for breach of contract, alleging Winters was under a contractual duty to provide accurate engineering advice, and failed to do so.1 Although it disputed coverage for the claim, Avemco provided a defense for Winters at a cost of approximately $300,000. The parties agreed to a stipulated judgment against Winters in the amount of $2,250,000.
Avemco then filed the present action for declaratory relief, seeking a judicial determination that it was not liable under Winters's insurance policy for the sum paid to Omac and Mihaylo. The district court granted summary judgment for Avemco, finding that Winter's policy covered only damage caused by an "occurrence" resulting in "bodily injury" or "property damage." Because there was no such occurrence within the policy's time limits, Winters was not covered.
A grant of summary judgment is reviewed de novo. Haphey v. Linn County, No. 90-35226, slip op. 1349, 1354 (9th Cir. Feb. 5, 1991). The district court
shall grant summary judgment if the evidence "show [s] that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law. This court must determine ..., viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to [Winters, whether] there are any genuine issues of material fact and whether the district court correctly applied the relevant substantive law.
Smolen v. Deloitte, Haskins & Sells, 921 F.2d 959, 963 (9th Cir. 1990) (citations omitted).
Finality of the Summary Judgment Order
As a threshold matter, Avemco asserts that the summary judgment is not a "single, final and appealable order" under Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(a) because a claim against Winters for attorney's fees remains pending in the trial court. We disagree.
It is now settled in this circuit that "all attorney's fees requests are collateral to the main action. Thus, a judgment on the merits is final and appealable even though a request for attorney's fees is unresolved." International Ass'n of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental, and Reinforcing Ironworkers' Local Union 75 v. Madison Indus., 733 F.2d 656, 659 (9th Cir. 1984); see also Wong v. United States, 859 F.2d 129, 131 (9th Cir. 1988).
Terms of the Insurance Contract
Avemco issued a policy to Winters on December 21, 1982 (the "Policy"), with coverage to commence on December 15, 1982. Coverage under the Policy is limited to "occurrences," defined as "accident [s], ... which result [ ] in bodily injury or property damage neither expected nor intended from the standpoint of the insured."2 The damages here resulted from Winters's breach of its contract with Omac, and included such economic losses as lost investment, lost profits and lost anticipated benefit of a bargain. Accordingly, the district court found that
Avemco's policy, whether it be for products liability, professional services, or omissions and errors, ... provide [s] for payment upon an "occurrence," which under California law must occur during the term of the policy. Since there was no occurrence in this case triggering liability occurring during the term of the policy, [Avemco] is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.
.... The language of [the policy] is conspicuous, clear and unambiguous, and as such is controlling.
Winters does not dispute the district court's conclusion that there was no occurrence under the Policy. Rather, it argues that material questions of fact exist concerning the terms of the insurance contract to which Avemco is bound. On December 16, 1982, Winters's broker, Steve Nourse, hand-delivered Winters's initial premium payment to Avemco. The check was accompanied by a letter from Nourse (the "Letter"), which stated:
Attached please find our check in the amount of $6,338.00 which represents the first installment due for the professional and products liability coverage for the above captioned insured. Per our conversation the total annual premium is in the amount of $25,352.00
I have also enclosed copies of the summaries from Winters Aircraft showing the operations in detail.
The limit of liability is $5,000,000 professional and products, with a $1,000,000 grounding limit.
Winters argues that Avemco is bound to the terms of the Letter, and not the Policy. It claims: "The Court overlooked the fact that the [L]etter and Avemco's acceptance of the premium created an insurance contract on terms set forth in the [L]etter. Avemco had no right to alter or limit those terms without Winters' [s] approval, particularly after it accepted payment of the premium."
Winters believes that because the Letter mentions the term "professional liability," it "does not limit coverage as [the Policy does]. No reference is made by the [b]roker concerning bodily injury or property damage.... Only the [P]olicy, subsequently issued, contains a limitation for bodily injury and property damage." (emphasis in original). Winters further claims it bargained successfully for the same professional liability coverage it received under a prior Lloyds of London policy. In response, Avemco concedes that the Policy covers "professional liability," and that the coverage is identical to that under the prior policy. Nonetheless, it argues, coverage is limited to occurrences which result in bodily injury or property damage. We agree.
Avemco concedes that the Policy covers "exactly what Winters requested."3 All parties involved in the negotiation believed that Winters desired coverage identical in scope to that of the Lloyds of London policy, and Avemco concedes for this appeal that its policy is identical to the prior policy. That policy, however, like the Policy here, limited coverage to damage caused by "occurrences." As a result, even if the Policy covers professional liability--as Winters argues and Avemco concedes--there is no coverage unless there has been an occurrence. The inclusion of "professional liability" as a covered peril does not alter the requirement that there be an "occurrence." An "occurrence" under this policy requires either "bodily injury" or "property damage," neither of which is present here. We therefore agree with the district court's conclusion that Avemco is not liable because there was no occurrence.
Endorsement 3
Even if it is bound by the terms of the Policy, Winters claims material questions of fact exist because "Endorsement 3" to the Policy is ambiguous and should be construed to favor coverage. See Hanson v. Prudential Ins. Co., 793 F.2d 762, 764 (9th Cir. 1985). We disagree.
According to the Policy, coverage is triggered if bodily injury or property damage that is caused by an occurrence "arises out of the aircraft products hazard." "Aircraft products hazard" in turn refers to "aircraft products." Endorsement 3 defines aircraft products to include "General Aviation Engineering [and] design and testing for F.A.A. regulation compliance and approval...." Winters claims that because this definition covers professional services and contains "no limitations to coverage," it is somehow not subject to the clear language of the Policy. This argument is without merit.
Endorsement 3 merely defines the products covered by the Policy. It does not purport to change the Policy or expand the coverage trigger beyond the original language. Indeed, it states that " [n]othing herein contained shall be held to vary, waive, alter or extend any of the terms, conditions, agreements, or warranties of the ... Policy, other than as above stated." Further, the language is not ambiguous. As we stated above, even if professional services are covered by the Policy, there must be an occurrence causing bodily injury or property damage.
We agree with the district court that the language of the Policy is conspicuous, clear, and unambiguous.
Winters's Reasonable Expectations
Winters claims the district court erred in failing to interpret the language of the Policy in light of Winters's reasonable expectations at the time it purchased coverage. See Hanson, 783 F.2d at 765. This argument is without merit.
Interpreting an insurance policy, a court may consider the insured's expectations only if the policy fails to define the term at issue. Id. Here, again, the language of the Policy was clear and unambiguous. We therefore conclude that the district court did not err in failing to consider Winters's expectations.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3
Omac and Mihaylo also asserted claims against Winters for negligence and negligent misrepresentation
The Policy defines "Bodily Injury" as "physical injury, sickness or disease sustained by any person which occurs during the Policy Period, including death at any time resulting therefrom." "Property damage" is defined as "physical injury to or destruction of tangible property which occurs during the Policy Period, including loss of use thereof at any time resulting therefrom."
Moreover, Winters signed the Policy and presumably is bound to its terms. With this fact in mind, it appears that Winters is asking for reformation of the written contract to reflect its own perception of the parties actual agreement. Winters did not raise the reformation theory before the district court. Rather, it argued that coverage was mandated by the express terms of the policy because professional liability coverage was not limited by the "occurrence" language
"This court will not 'review an issue not raised below unless necessary to prevent manifest injustice.' [We] will address the issue only if the proponent can point to 'exceptional circumstances why the issue was not raised below.' " Davis v. Mason County, Nos. 88-3947, 88-4394, 88-3951, slip op. 2599, 2607 (9th Cir. March 12, 1991) (citations omitted). Because Winters did not raise the reformation theory below, it is precluded from raising it now.
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Hrabal, Bohumil
Nationality: Czech. Born: near Brno, 28 March 1914. Education: Grammar school and at Charles University, Prague, law degree 1946. Career: Worked as lawyer's clerk, railwayman, salesman, steel worker in Kladno foundries, laborer, stage hand and extra; writer from early 1960s. Awards: Gottwald state prize, 1968; Artist of Merit, 1989. Died: 1997.
Hovory lidí [People's Conversations]. 1956.
Taneční hodiny pro starší a pokroč ilé [Dancing Lesson for the Advanced and the Elderly]. 1964.
Ostře sledované vlaky (novella). 1965; as A Close Watch on the Trains, 1968; as Closely Watched Trains, 1968.
Automat svět. 1966; as The Death of Mr. Baltisberger, 1975.
Morytáty a legendy [Fair Ditties and Legends]. 1968.
Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále (novella). 1971; as Jak jsem obsluhoval anglického krále, 1980; as I Served the King of England, 1989.
Příliš hlučná samota (novella). 1976; as Too Loud a Solitude, 1990.
Hovory lidí (selection). 1984.
Vita nuova: kartinky [Vita nuova: Episodes]. 1987.
Perlička na dně [A Pearl at the Bottom]. 1963.
Pábitelé [Palaverers]. 1964.
Inzerát na dum, ve kterém uz nechci bydlet [Advertising a House IDon't Want to Live In Anymore]. 1965.
Postřiziny [The Haircut]. 1970; as Cutting It Short, 1992.
Sklenice grenadýny [A Glass of Grenadine]. 197-?.
Nězný barbar [Tender Barbarian]. 1973.
Krasosmutnění [Lovely Wistfulness]. 1977.
Mestecko ve kterém se zastavil čas [The Town Where Time StoodStill]. 1978.
Tři teskné grotesky, 1944-1953 [Three Melancholy Grosteques]. 1979.
Každý den zázrak [A Miracle Every Day]. 1979.
Kluby poezie [The Poetry Club]. 1981.
Harlekýnovy milióny [The Harlequin's Millions]. 1981.
Poupata [Burgeoning]. 1982(?).
Svatby v Domě [Weddings in the House]. 1984.
Proluky [Vacant Sites]. 1986.
Můj svět [My World]. 1988.
Kouzelná flétna [Magic Flute]. 1990.
Closely Watched Trains (translation of screenplay), with Jiří Menzel.1971; as Closely Observed Trains, 1971.
Screenplays:
Fádní odpoledne (A Boring Afternoon), with Ivan Passer, 1965; Ostře sledované vlaky (Closely Watched Trains; Closely Observed Trains), with Jiří Menzel, 1967; Postřiřiny [The Haircut], 1980; Nězný barbar (Tender Barbarian), from his own novel, with Václav Nyvlt, 1989.
Bambino di Praga. 1978; with Barvotisky and Krásná Poldi, 1991.
Chcete vidět zlatou Prahu? výbor z povídek. 1989.
Ztracena ulička. 1991.
Toto město je ve společné péč i obyvatel [This Town Is in the Joint Care of All Its Inhabitants]. 1967.
Slavnosti snězenek [Celebration of Snowdrops]. 1978.
Domaci ukoly z pilnosti [Voluntary Homework] (miscellany). 1982.
Zivot bez smokingu [Life Without a Dinner Jacket]. 1986.
Prazská ironie [Prague Irony]. 1986.
Zivotopis trochu jinak [A Biography Done Differently]. 1986.
Ponorné řičky [The Subterranean Dreams]. 1990.
Kličky na kapesniku: román-interview [Knots in a Handkerchief]. 1990.
Schizofrenické evangelium, 1949-1952 [Schizophrenic Gospel]. 1990.
Slavná Vantochova legenda. 1991.
Editor, Výbor z české prózy [Selected Czech Prose]. 1967.
Critical Studies:
" The Haircutting and I Waited on the King of England: Two Recent Works by Hrabal" by George Gibian, in Czech Literature Since 1956: A Symposium edited by William E. Harkins and Paul I. Trensky, 1980; This Side of Reality: Modern Czech Writing edited by Alexandra Büchler, 1996.
Bohumil Hrabal is probably the most popular contemporary Czech novelist and short story writer. His earliest work, written in the 1940s and 1950s and for political reasons not published until the early 1960s, is heavily influenced by dadaism and surrealism. Hrabal typically used the artistic collage, montage, or assemblage—cutting out details from everyday reality, changing their established order, and assembling them in new connections. The effect of the collage results from the confrontation of contrasting meanings. In Hrabal's stories it is the simple, unmediated record of events and objects that affects us immediately and influences our imagination. Just as in the real world, there are contrasts: beauty with ugliness, brutality with gentleness, life with death. Their common poetic aspects become clear if we place banality into an unusual place—this is the basis of the device of the collage, which stresses the principles of play and chance, and which is essentially poetic.
Hrabal's early stories, some of which can be found in The Death of Mr. Baltisberger, the English translation of Automat svět, express the life philosophy of pábení (commonly but not entirely adequately translated as "palavering"). This is a word coined by Hrabal himself to describe the narrations of his simple and common characters. Their actions are sometimes eccentric, grotesque, hilarious. Their speech is that of the pub—crude, sometimes vulgar, full of slang. The stories they tell are exaggerated tall-stories. But Hrabal's humor is not crude; it is very sensitive and poetic. The grotesque atmosphere has its gentleness and emotionality. Pábení is a philosophy of life oscillating between plebeian roughness and surrealistic sensitivity. The main theme is the miracle of everyday reality.
Hrabal has a great admiration for the beauty of the world and its common people. He talks of "the common people that sift reality through the diamond eye of fantasy." ("The Diamond Eye" is also the title of one of Hrabal's stories.) Although Hrabal pretends to be only "the recorder and cutter of conversations" overheard in a pub or on the street, he is, in reality, the poet of urban periphery. Urban folklore is filtered through the author's own experience. Many of his stories are autobiographical or based on real-life characters ("Angel Eyes," "Prague Nativity," "Romance").
At the beginning of a long series of "palaverers" is "Little Eman," who entertains the Prague suburb of Libeň in pubs, cafeterias, and on the street—a very autobiographical type. The peak of Hrabal's achievement is Uncle Pepin, based on the author's real-life Moravian uncle of the same name who, with the help of his stories, overcomes the handicap of his existence and position. In the story "The Death of Mr. Baltisberger" we hear his palavering bragging in juxtaposition to the image of the dying race driver Baltisberger, by means of which Hrabal creates a stronger impression on the reader's imagination.
Abroad Hrabal is probably best known for his short novel Ostře sledované vlaky (A Close Watch on the Trains). This is obviously because of the great success of the Academy Award-winning movie Closely Watched Trains, directed by the Czech director J. Menzel. (From the 1960s Hrabal's stories and novels have tempted Czech directors, who with more or less success have adapted some of his work for television or the film screen.) Contextualized by a whole wave of World War II novels in 1960s Czech literature, this short novel offsets the traditional theme of the fight against the Nazis by the very intimate problems of the adolescent Miloš Hrma. His personal tragedy ironically emphasizes the tragedy of the more general historical events, and vice versa. Another part of the narrative is the mock-heroic and parodic description of the idyllic life on a railroad station in a small town at the end of the war. The narrative technique is again based on the intertwining of all plot lines.
Hrabal wrote another short novel, Obsluhoval jsem anglického Krále (I Served the King of England), in the summer of 1971, but it was not published until 1982. This text moves into levels of symbolism, allegory, and myths. The theme is the most natural of all human emotions, the desire for love and happiness. The narrator is a waiter of small stature, suffering from an inferiority complex. His aim in life is to get revenge on those that have hurt him. In his eyes power is equated with money, and so this becomes his obsession. The emptiness of this view of life is disclosed from the outside, by paradoxical historical events. He marries a Nazi woman and this makes him a collaborator. By chance, however, he participates in the underground resistance movement. Finally he sees through the falseness of his life goals. He gains money, but he gives it all up and ends in an international camp with other "former" millionaires. In the end he shuts himself off from the world in the mountains.
Hrabal changed his narrative technique in I Served the King of England from the collage to a continuous narrative. The compositional device is that of the monologue, the free flow of speech held together by lyrical association.
Hrabal's next work Příliš hlučná samota (Too Loud a Solitude) is another short novel that again introduces a new narrative situation to Hrabal's work. The protagonist Haňta works at a scrap paper salvage center; amidst the dirt and dust he comments on the decline of culture and education. Hrabal uses the monologist form of confession and philosophical meditation. The impressions of the narrator are then commented upon by the author. The aim is not to discover the miracle of everyday reality with the help of eccentric imagination and surprising confrontations (as is the case in his short stories), or to render the sheer delight of storytelling (apparent in I Served the King of England), but to disclose the mysteries of life and its deepest paradoxes. In its melancholic mood this fiction differs from the previous ones.
The political climate in postwar Czechoslovakia was not friendly toward Hrabal's artistic efforts. His first works were suspect, published 20 years after they were written. In the 1960s, when political restrictions were loosened, Hrabal published his previous and new work in quick succession and was promoted to the status of a "living classic." Because of Hrabal's political stance in the Prague Spring of 1968, he fell into political disfavor again and was allowed to publish only after 1975—with great restrictions from the censorship. Hrabal frequently rewrote his stories and some were adapted by the editors. After the Velvet Revolution of 1989 the official attitude to Hrabal's work has changed again: the literary authorities have embarked on the project of publishing his collected works; they aim to reprint all his work including the original manuscript versions. Throughout all the political changes Hrabal has remained greatly popular with the reading public, which cherishes him as a national writer.
—Soňa Nováková
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By Anna Hotter	on Oct 21, 2014 7 Comments
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A few moons ago, resident music critic Anna Hotter made the trek to Williamsburg to check out Columbia and NYU duo Jack and Eliza. After coming to terms with her own lack of artistic accomplishment, she is now finally ready to report from the field.
When someone told me about a "really successful indie-rock band" on campus called Jack & Eliza, I was skeptical. It's never easy to hear about other peoples' success. Especially at Columbia. Especially when your idea of a great accomplishment is doing laundry before you run out of underwear. Intrigued and mildly irked, I looked them up online, only to find with great horror that Eliza Callahan, CC'17 and Jack Staffen, NYU'17 weren't only every bit as celebrated as my friend promised, but also a whole year younger than me.
Two weeks ago, they played a show at Baby's All Right in Williamsburg, and so, equipped with my MetroCard, a friend, and an unbecoming bitterness, I boarded the M train.
The venue hilariously describes itself as a "hip music venue with elevated pub grub," but once you get past the Brooklyn-ness of it all, and the exceptionally friendly bouncer, it's actually very nice. The drinks menu boasts an "illegal mescal" cocktail called the "Ai Weiwei," which my friend and I felt very plainly pandered to our demographic. It almost worked, until we realized that neither of us wanted to shell out $11 for a drink named after a political activist. You're mostly paying for the name.
Gin and tonics in hand, we made our way to the stage, where a sizeable crowd was already gathered. I was surprised by the overall age distribution, which my friend accurately described as "bi-modal:" Standing in front of the stage was the expected collection of students from Columbia and NYU, but in the back was a whole congregation of extremely hip-looking fifty-somethings. Did Jack and Eliza invite both of their extended families? Is it weird that we thought some of them were actually pretty attractive? But before we could do anything we might regret, Jack and Eliza took the stage.
They opened with "Secrets," one of their more well-known songs, and I immediately heard what all the fuss was about. Their music is nostalgic and intimate, and with only their vocals and two guitars to go around, Jack and Eliza's sound is actually pretty stripped down. That said, their EP "No Wonders" is still rhythmically interesting and complex in terms of its harmonic arrangements. Jack and Eliza tease a surprising depth from their melodies, which is in large part due to their vocals. Their bittersweet harmonies really are the centerpieces of songs like "Simple Strait," or "Hold The Line," and add a great amount of personality to their performance.
While Jack and Eliza list bands like The XX, The Beach Boys, and The Beatles as their main influences, I was also reminded of Slow Club, Real Estate, and maybe even Local Natives (that last one might be the G&Ts talking). The audience was responsive during the entire set, and at the end immediately demanded an encore, which they delivered in the form of a great cover of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough."
Jack and Eliza certainly aren't underdogs. They move rather confidently on stage and fulfill, at least visually, the indie-rock archetype. And yet, their talent, complete lack of affectation, and visible enthusiasm for music make them extremely, disarmingly charming. You almost can't help but root for them.
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@Anonymous Dont really care what the article says but Jack + Eliza are awesome.
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@Review review When someone told me Bwog was reviewing music, I was kind of apprehensive. It's never easy to read someone trying to be Lester Bangs. Especially at Bwog. Especially when there are other things to read, like the exact riboflavin content of cereals BEFORE you eat it. Curious but also irritated, I clicked the link only to find that someone had actually written something, which somehow reflected on me in a way that I found horrifying.
So, weighed down with emotions I was not at all prepared to deal with, I began to read the article. I thought of a girl I met, years ago. She could have settled down and had kids, by now. I thought of how the sunset looks more beautiful on a smoggy day, which is weird and possibly undertone-laden. Equipped with a chair, someone reading over my shoulder, and something electronic that downloaded, I bravely forged on.
The host site interestingly describes itself as 'a preeminent independent source of news and information', but once you get past the resume-bullet sound of it, and the somewhat indulgent editors, it's pretty good. I went to my fridge and got a soda, what New England kids might call a "tonic", or Midwest kids "pop"- it was pretty good if overpriced, and consistency is what you want in a carbonated beverage. It was store-brand, but after all, you're usually paying for the name with soft drinks.
So, drink comfortably in my favored right hand (a hand I've had ever since my parents gave two of them to me, as a child), I was surprised to see people not exactly like me reading the article, too. I mean, some of them were pretty hot, but that's neither here nor there. Anyway, they were all at screens reading too, which made acting on it (socially, logistically and gymnastically) unlikely.
Someone apparently wrote some stuff. It was pretty good, if sort of think-piecey. I was reminded of stuff I'd read before, but that's neither here nor there. I had more soda. The other people seemed to like it (the piece, not the soda).
The author isn't Scrappy. The text was typed competently, and the tone wasn't dissimilar from other me-and-oh-yeah, my-topic stuff you see. You can't help but suspect you'll see more of it.
@anon literally two sentences about the actual music again, did bwog not take music hum? There are so many more people on campus who actually know shit about music or read the interviews on spec…
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About 20 people gathered for a small protest in early December against the Line 3 oil pipeline replacement project outside Bagley, Minn., where the pipeline route crosses the Clearwater River earlier this month. Dan Kraker / MPR News
DULUTH -- Opponents of the Line 3 oil pipeline replacement project have filed a federal suit seeking to halt construction on the project, arguing that a key water quality permit granted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in November failed to consider several environmental impacts.
The White Earth and Red Lake Nations, along with the Sierra Club and Honor the Earth, filed the complaint on Christmas Eve in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.
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Thanks It is kind of unreal how perfect and picturesque this castle is.
That's amazing – like something out of a film set.
It is very fairy tale looking. The inside is charming too (and a little surprising), but no photos allowed inside. King Ludwig may have been a little nuts, but his sense of design was fabulous!
This is so beautiful it doesn't even look real! I love it!
I know. I'd seen photos before and thought that it seemed photoshopped–it was so pretty and "Disney-esque." But no. It's really just that fairy tale-like. . . especially when the sun is just creeping out from behind the clouds. And the interior is fun!
Worth the visit! If you go in the summer, try to purchase tour tickets ahead of time–long lines. The hike up to the castle is great too.
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MIRRORING THE ROYALS
Before we started talking with our daughter's friends in Georgia via Skype, my wife made a point of correcting my "skype manners." "When you speak on Skype, your voice is too loud," she said. "Besides, be careful when you make up your mind to take a stab at humor. Georgian humor may be different from what is considered to be humorous in Ukraine, and you may be misunderstood."
I accepted my wife's remarks. I don't remember a single observation she has made about me within the last 43 years which has been out of place and not to the point. Actually, that's what married life may be about – to self-improve through mutual "observations."
And then I thought that Queen Elizabeth might instruct her husband Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the same way before official meetings they usually have. Prince Philip may have even more reasons to be instructed than I have. He is known for many jokes he made that are considered as gaffs, and he even coined a special word for his blunders – "DONTOPEDOLOGY": a science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it," as he once said. Believe me or not, but after my wife's words I felt (in my own small way) like His Royal Highness with the title Prince of Edinburgh.
Meanwhile, we agreed with my wife that in the course of our current "re`mont" we'll empty our lumber room to make it into "FANS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY" room. We'll drape it with the Union Jack and some souvenirs bearing the royal image which we already have, and when our granddaughter Sophia's sentimental favourite Princess Charlotte of Cambridge (now one year old) gets married, we may be invited by Her Royal Highness to London to put up a tent on her wedding route, to live there for three days and nights with thousands of other fans and to catch a glimpse of her, which will be a "moment with eternity" for the centenarians, which we will be by that time.
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While delivering lectures in English lexicology I used to tell my students about dialects on the British Isles and, among them, about Cockney: about the phrase "to be born within the sound of Bow Bells" which is the traditional definition of a Cockney, about the rhyming slang, "h"s dropped and "h'"s added before opening vowels, etc. I told the students about my own experience of talking with Cockney people, and played back recorded Cockney voices. Today I have read that Cockney is predicted to die out in some 15 years. The prediction is contained in the book This is London: Life and Death in the World City by Ben Judah. The book will appear this coming Thursday (January 28), but a number of sites, like the Financial Times, the Amazon, Goodreads, Book Depository, the Daily Mail, and the Telegraph (definitely more, but I have looked through these only), have announced the future publication giving some brief excerpts from it. Incidentally, it's Ben Judah's third book, the first two (Fragile Empire about Putin's Russia, and The Yeti Hunts about the author's travels through Russia and Central Asia) were published in 2013. Last year Ben Judah, together with Ukrainian journalists, worked on a documentary Russia with Cash which exposed the practice of selling property in London to Russian and Ukrainian nouveaux riches by British real estate agents despite the agents' knowing that the money paid for the property had been stolen. In September 2015 Ben Judah was interviewed in Kyiv by the International Service of Hromadske Radio (Public Radio). In his interview he said that the "oligarchic" corruption in Ukraine and Russia is also explained by the fact that the British Virgin Islands and Switzerland and the Cayman Islands were turning a blind eye to where the deposited money came from (http://int.hromadske.tv/en/articles/show/Russia_Ukraine_Money_Laundering_London_Ben_Judah).
As you may understand, with that previous knowledge about Ben Judah and his principled, uncompromising stand, I have every reason to give credit to him and to what he writes in his latest work. And the picture of London he presents is rather gloomy.
Ben Judah writes about the results of the British successive governments relaxing immigration into the UK. Actually, it's not the governments now, but criminal gangs who decide who comes into the UK and in what numbers. The gangs once used to blight their own countries and now, having been "imported" into Britain, they keep "supervising" their compatriots here. 40% if immigrants in London do not have a British passport. London, says Ben Judah, is no longer an English city. It's a patchwork of ghettos. From 1971 to 2011 the white British share in London population slumped from 86% to 45%. 57% of all children born are born to immigrant mothers and nearly all who die are white British. With the uncontrolled immigration, unimaginable squalor, misery, and criminality "reminiscent of Victorian times" take hold. 96% of prostitutes are migrants. The author describes a case when a brothel was opened in a house near his son's primary school in Hampstead. The mother of one of his son's friends lived opposite. She was intimidated by the sinister men in leather jackets who sat in the nearby coffee shop all day. She reported to the police that the girls on the top floor looked underage and never went out. After some time her car was smashed up. That was a warning to keep her nose out of it. The mother never raised the matter again.
Local workers have problems because huge numbers of new arrivals push down wages. A manual worker complains that he earns now 7 pounds per hour, while before he earned 15 pounds for the same work. Additional payments for overtime work have gone forever.
Rich suburbs, such as Edmonton, once were "terraces of respectability." Now they are turning into tenements for migrants. The "oldies" who live there still may be satisfied that the property market remains buoyant. As one of them says, "that's the one true way people like me can sell up, cash in and get the hell out."
I can only add that it's not just London. When I was in Sheffield on an educational exchange in 1978 I was charmed by the district I lived in: a beautiful park nearby, my house which overlooked the park (the house had the name Park View), amiable neighbours with friendly smiles, a pub round the corner where we gathered almost every evening for half an hour before the closing hour…. I couldn't recognize the place when I visited Sheffield several years ago. A depressed district, the park overgrown with weeds, broken fences, two-three families of immigrants living in every house… As regards pubs, Ben Judah in his book charts the gradual disappearance of the English by the fate of their pubs. There were 12 pubs in one place, he says. One has been turned into a Nigerian mosque, another into an Afrikko nightclub, the rest have been simply demolished.
Was there any need for a book like this? What is going on in Britain, in Europe, and (maybe, to a lesser degree) in the U.S.A. , is a secret that everybody knows. But as soon you start having an opinion which is different from one being formed by the propaganda machine, you are immediately labeled as a "racist." I'm glad that this young, intrepid and talented writer came up with his study. Being a Londoner himself ("born and bred") and, later, an Oxford graduate, he immersed into the world of migrants, talked with them, bedded down with them in their shelters, so he has the right to speak up about the ills of the system (or shall I say "of the chaos"?) created by those short-sighted who live in their ivory administrative towers.
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After US President Donald Trump slammed Twitter for 'shadow banning' Republicans last year – which the micro-blogging platform said happened owing to a 'technical glitch' – the company is now in the thick of a similar controversy in India.
Twitter will face a 31-member Parliamentary panel on February 11 which will be the first-ever hearing of a global tech giant in the country. The allegation is that Twitter has a bias against 'right-wing' accounts as general elections loom – serious enough for the government to call Twitter for a hearing before a House panel.
This is in line with what we have seen with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifying and being grilled last year by lawmakers in the US and in the European Union (EU) over data privacy, political interference and fake news.
The big question is – Who will represent Twitter in the India hearing on February 11 at 3 p.m. in Parliament Complex? The company currently has an interim head in Balaji Krish who is Twitter's global head of revenue strategy and operations after Country Head Taranjit Singh quit in September.
Mahima Kaul, who is Head of Public Policy and Government, is very active when it comes to fire-fighting. Vijaya Gadde, Legal, Policy and Trust and Safety Lead at Twitter, who accompanied CEO Jack Dorsey to India in November last year, had to apologize on the 'Smash Brahmanical Patriarchy' poster row.
The Parliament's Standing Committee on Information Technology, headed by BJP MP Anurag Thakur, is tasked with examining several aspects related to data security and privacy. The house panel has 21 members from Lok Sabha that include Hema Malini, Prasun Banerjee, L.K. Advani, Raosaheb Patil Danve and others.
It also has 10 members from Rajya Sabha that include Raj Babbar, Beni Prasad Verma and Subhash Chandra. The tech giants are in a huddle over the abuse of their platform, especially when the elections are inching close. Twitter told IANS on Wednesday that it is in touch with the Indian government on the issue.
"Discussions with the government on this issue are currently on and nothing further can be commented at the moment till further clarity," said a Twitter India spokesperson.
The House panel has summoned Twitter India along with representatives from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) for the meeting to examine the issue of 'safeguarding citizens rights on social media/online news platforms'.
The Indian government has also formulated new IT guidelines where social media platforms have to remove within 24 hours any unlawful content that can affect the 'sovereignty and integrity of India' – which has not gone down well with them.
The message from the Twitter hearing will decide how Facebook and Google will later fall in line, at a time when governments the world over are gathering courage to protect the sovereignty and integrity of their citizens on social media platforms.


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Putting Ethics Back Together Again: A British Perspective
March 19, 2010September 29, 2018By John Haldane
Much of our moral confusion comes from our failure to find a replacement for the Judaeo-Christian outlook that once animated the West. We need, and generally now lack, a philosophical understanding of human life.
It is hardly possible to get through a week in Britain without reading or hearing some discussion of a moral problem, dilemma, or challenge. Between fending off or falling foul of criticisms of abusing their positions for personal advantage, or equally of using their wealth to secure positions of privilege, British politicians have also been debating the ethics of war, the liberties of religious denominations and faith schools, the rights and wrongs of assisted suicide, and the sexualization of children. Such topics form the staple diet for radio and television discussions, for print media and for online commentators and bloggers.
Consider two prominent areas of current concern: sex and money. As in the U.S., there has been widespread condemnation of the salaries and bonuses paid to bankers, broadcasters and executives in public services. Apart from their faults and failures, it is often said to be simply wrong that there should be large inequalities of income and wealth within society. On the other hand, there is the view that aspiration to affluence is a good thing. As Prime Minister Gordon Brown recently put it, "the driving force behind New Labour remains the insight that all people have the chance to rise as far as their talents take them … we stand for an age of aspiration in which a strong economy can provide greater opportunities for people to get on in life." But if getting on is good, and rising as far as your talents will take you is right, then how can there be a duty to limit aspiration by restricting rewards, particularly when these may be necessary for the recruitment and retention of those who have the skills to create and maintain a strong economy?
As for sex, we find ourselves in a very confused condition. On the one hand celebrating sexual freedom, guilt-free pleasure, social and recreational sex, made ever more youthful by the lowering of the age of consent and ever more present through the media and internet. Yet on the other, we agonize about teenage pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases and the sexualization of the young. To quote from the recent report commissioned by the U.K. Home Office (roughly equivalent to the American Justice, Interior, and Homeland Security departments):
It is a drip, drip effect. Look at porn stars, and look how an average girl now looks. It's seeped into every day: … We are hypersexualizing girls, telling them that their desirability relies on being desired. They want to please at any cost.
Apart from recent headline issues there are ongoing debates about reproduction, abortion, gay partnership, marriage and family life, schooling and higher education, public support of the arts, the treatment of animals, the environment, and so on. Then there are the rafts of ethical issues about conduct within various professions and fields of activity: medicine and health care; science and technology; policing and the legal system; social work and welfare; not to mention sport and journalism.
Seen from the inside, these debates and controversies each have their own particular features, but stepping back some common patterns begin to emerge.
First, there is often superficial agreement on form but deeper dispute about substance. It may be agreed, for example, that at the heart of an issue lies the question of welfare, but then it is disputed quite what welfare involves, and whose welfare takes precedence. Equally, it might be accepted that an issue is about rights, but there is fierce disagreement whose rights are 'genuine' or which are more pressing. Again, all parties might insist on the need of principles and codes of conduct, but then disagree fundamentally on what these should be and on how they should be interpreted.
Second, there is an inverse relation between the increasing number and complexity of the issues that confront us, whether personally, professionally or socially, and the common resources we have to draw upon in analyzing and resolving them. Social changes have brought some old issues into sharper focus: fidelity, integrity, respect, justice, etc. Meanwhile, medical and technological developments have created new possibilities such as egg-selection, cloning, genetic manipulation, multiple organ transplantation, electronic surveillance, and weaponry of mass destruction. Yet over the same time-period, from the second half of the twentieth century onwards, our ethical currency has been devalued and our moral reserves have been diminished.
These two patterns—first, agreement in form but disagreement in substance; and second, increasing problems and diminishing resources—are connected, and are largely traceable to a common cause, namely the decline of Judaeo-Christian belief and practice. Such a suggestion will immediately prompt some readers to think that this is just the old complaint of the religious conservative that the world is going to hell in a handcart. What I want to suggest, however, is a somewhat different analysis which poses a challenge as much to a certain kind of religious believer as to a familiar sort of secular atheist. In short, I propose that our problem is that we need, and generally now lack, a philosophical understanding of human life.
The fact that we describe ethical challenges in certain ways using the concepts of human welfare, of equality of respect, of demands of justice and charity and so on, is not a creation of recent times but has a particular cultural and intellectual history. Central to this history is Christian moral theology, in which were fashioned the ideas of human dignity, of the inviolability of the innocent, and of the duty of concern for those in material and spiritual need. Certainly in the last two centuries there have been important developments in moral philosophy that were not avowedly religious, and indeed often came from the pens of agnostics, but of itself this does not challenge the claim that the core ideas originated in a Judaeo-Christian understanding of human nature.
Let me offer two examples: the impartial promotion of happiness, and the respecting of rights. These are particularly relevant, both because of their rhetorical power in contemporary discussions and because they are often thought to originate in secular rather than religious thought. Indeed, they are often paraded as achievements of secular philosophy working in opposition to religious morality, as represented by the Ten Commandments and other systems of 'divine law.'
Many today associate the principle of acting so as to promote the happiness of all, treating each as equal, with the liberal utilitarians of the nineteenth century, who avowed it without reference to Christian doctrine. Yet if one asks why this should be done, and in particular why each should count equally in one's regard, it is hard to find a coherent secular answer. For the Christian, by contrast, the principle of equality of consideration is rooted in the idea that each human being, whatever their condition or talents, is equal insofar as they are adopted children of God whose existence was divinely chosen and sustained. Likewise, in asking the question "who are we to care for," the answer, "whoever one encounters who is in need," has its origins in the parable of the Good Samaritan offered by Jesus in answer to the question "who is my neighbor?"
Similarly, the idea of human rights has its origins not in the secular enlightenment but in the world of the scholastic theology. In the middle ages there was a debate over holy poverty, which turned in part on the question of whether Christ and his Apostles owned anything individually or held everything in common. The conclusion was that everyone has inalienable rights of ownership and control over their own bodies, from which was developed, by extension, the idea that people have rights over what they create through their labor. These various ideas of equality of regard, of duties of beneficence and charity, of the universality of rights of bodily integrity, and of ownership of one's body and of the products of one's labor, are fruits of a particular religious understanding of human nature. Detached from that understanding it will only be a matter of time before they dry and wither. Of course, one might seek to develop equivalent fruits from a different source, but the question is whether that can be done.
We continue to use concepts and language that have their origins in a religious outlook, but we now lack the single coherent source for that use. We speak of "universal rights" and of the "equality of all people" but by any natural measure human beings are evidently unequal, so whence comes this elevated status and inviolability? We speak of the obligation to clothe the naked, and feed the hungry but whence comes that duty, if not from some broad notion of common membership in an all-inclusive moral community? And what can be a natural basis for this that can substitute for the religious idea of brotherhood?
Not only has the original foundation been lost sight of without an evidently adequate alternative being provided, but in losing touch with the source of moral meaning, our moral thinking has become confused. On the one hand we invoke the principle of the inviolability of innocent life in condemnation of the bombing of civilians, but on the other we set it aside when it comes to the matter of abortion. We assert the principle of non-exploitation in opposition to slavery yet countenance the creation of "sibling saviors" for the purpose of harvesting tissue from them. We deploy the language of innocence in relation to underage sex, yet switch instantly to talk of a right to gratification with the passing of a birthday. We assert the importance of community and of autonomy, yet legislate to restrict the latter in ways that will forseeably destroy the former. We oscillate between understandings of doctors, nurses, teachers and judges as motivated by vocations to serve the common good, and as salaried service-providers in a consumer economy. Little surprise, then, that we face confusing and apparently irresolvable conflicts.
How then to procede? It will not be surprising if a professional philosopher suggests that philosophy is the place to start, and perhaps even the place to end. Nor will this seem a novel suggestion to those familiar with the burgeoning fields of "applied" and "professional" ethics, which often presents themselves as providing guidance to those in moral need. But these are not what I have in mind, since applied ethics generally takes for granted the ethical position it applies, and professional ethics tends to restrict itself to fashioning codes of conduct for practitioners in specific fields. Our need, by contrast, is for an enquiry into ethical foundations sufficient to provide a guide to life more generally, which is something far broader and deeper.
One thing that philosophy, even of a preliminary sort, does well is to improve one's grasp of an issue by clarifying it. Philosophy involves the analysis of ideas, assumptions, and arguments—and that brings with it the resolution of ambiguities and confusions. For example, it is increasingly common in talking of "rights" to conflate liberties and entitlements. A clear instance of this is the argument that people have a claim to reproductive services based on article 16 of the Declaration of Human Rights which specifies "the right to marry and to found a family." On analysis, however, it is clear that this refers to a right of non-interference from the state (a liberty) not a right to the provision by it of the means necessary to conceive and bear children (an entitlement). Again, in speaking of "acceptance" there is a tendency to confuse toleration with approbation. So, while it may be reasonable on grounds of liberal toleration to require secular humanists to tolerate public displays of religious devotion, or to require traditional Christians to tolerate public recognition of gay partnerships, it does not follow that it is reasonable to require either party to approve or support these. Acceptance-as-toleration, and acceptance-as-approval are distinct, and it is both a confusion and an imposition to require the latter on the basis that a liberal society should be a tolerant one.
The value of philosophical clarification could hardly be overstated, particularly for a culture that is generally mentally sloppy. Yet clarity is not enough: for a position can be sparkling in the distinctness of its formulation and still false. Beyond lucidity one needs truth. It was, and remains, the business of philosophy to state such truths as there may be about morality and the conduct of life. Judaeo-Christian belief and practice in its mature forms was itself the embodiment of a philosophy of life, but with its decline no equivalently comprehensive account of human existence has emerged to take its place.
This matters for two reasons.
First, without such an account we are threatened with the thought that human existence is absurd and pointless. That was the dread possibility explored by Albert Camus and the pessimistic existentialists in the 1940s and '50s. For them it raised the question of whether, faced with meaninglessness, one would do better to kill oneself. This prompts the question, of course, whether rising rates of self-harm and suicide among young people today may be connected to a similar sense of the absence of human meaning.
Second, with such an account we will fail to see the intrinsic value of every person at every stage of life, and this returns me to my theme of contemporary ethical conflict and confusion. For what the Christian philosophy offered was an overarching narrative, an account of human life in total, from conception through infancy and childhood into adulthood and old age and towards and beyond death. In that respect it was a fully comprehensive theory. But more importantly it was one that identified dignity in each phase, aspect and part of the totality of life, singly and socially. Within this scheme the value of childhood was accounted for, as that of old age. Similarly, the value of male and female, of parent and child, of laborer and administrator, etc., were each understood in relation to their expression of divinely gifted powers, and their contribution to the common good of society.
Such a narrative relates persons not as separate, autonomous individuals but as socially completed persons. It is an evident fact of human life that we are not regularly or uniformly contoured, like round pegs fitted to round holes. But what from one point of view look like awkward and pointless shapes, from another can be seen like the contours of jigsaw pieces made to fit together to create a larger picture. What otherwise appears fragmentary takes on a larger and fuller meaning than could be contained within the boundaries of separate pieces. Moreover the fuller narrative, or larger picture, is one that ennobles human life by seeing it as a sacred creation made for eternal joy.
None of this, of course, establishes the truth of the Judaeo-Christian philosophy of life, but it helps to explain the sources and original meaning of the moral ideas with which we are left. In doing so, however, it also reveals why in the absence of the narrative that gave them point, and which integrated them as parts of a larger account of human meaning, they no longer seem to function to guide us, so much as to leave us conflicted and confused. Such is the case, for example, with "respect for life" which is now invoked equally forcefully by opposing sides in debates about abortion, capital punishment, and euthanasia; or again "material wealth" which is one day denounced as an indulgence, and the next praised as an aspiration.
If ethics is ever again to make the kind of sense it did to generations past, it will have to be set within a broader philosophy of life. That is a challenge to secularists who have yet to provide a non-religious alternative, and to Christians who wield biblical passages as if they were swords provided for the striking down of unbelievers. For they too need to seek out the larger narrative. Supposing then that both step up and meet the challenge, how might we tell which is true? The only possible answer, I think, is that we should favour that philosophy which best makes sense of human life including both its intimations of human transcendence and its demonstrations of human depravity. It is hard to see how such an account could be other than a religious one, at least to the extent of identifying something in humanity that transcends its material foundations and orients it towards some kind of spiritual fulfillment. Certainly there are intellectual challenges in recovering such an account, but there are also moral dangers in trying to live without one.
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This snippet will disable all the widgets on your dashboard, but you can just pick ones you want to hide. But you might just want to hide these for certain users, such as if the user isn't the admin then hide these widget. Copy the following snippet to disable all widget if the user isn't the admin user.
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I had mentioned I wanted to read this book to one of the library assistants and she actually reminded me to borrow it. lol. I absolutely love this cover though, so if the book is really good I might just have to go buy my own copy anyway. Or maybe the author will stumble on through my town, which would be the best scenario. You never know.
"There are things that make us stand out. Things normal people dismiss, because people believe what they want to believe. The difference with us is that we believe in everything."
I'm so jealous! I really want to read this book! Great Teaser, already added to my TBR but this just makes me want it even more!
Stop by my TT! ?
This book is on my TBR list and it looks like a good read. I love the idea of fairy tales coming to life, and I'm interested to find out in what way the author does this. Great teaser, and thanks for sharing!
I like the way the line in your teaser -- "we believe in everything" -- ties in with all the fairy tales in the synopsis. Sounds like there's plenty of opportunities for drama in this book!
I've been so curious about this one. I've always been fascinated by fairy tales and retelling the classics. Hope you're enjoying it! Great teaser!
My teaser is from Fever by Lauren DeStefano.


Slogans such as "Protect our rivers", "Save Thoubal River", "Save our future" were used as people marched along the Thoubal River today where a huge dam has been constructed by the government amid protest from the people.
A group of people and activists from various organizations chose to observe this year's International Day of Action for Rivers at Tumukhong village, few hundred metres away from Mapithel Dam, jointly organized by Mapithel Dam Downstream Affected People (MDDAP) and Citizens Concern for Dams and Development under the theme "Protect our Rivers! Save Thoubal River! Save our future" and "Let Thoubal River Flow Free, Not to commissioning of Mapithel Dam".
Centre for Organisation Research and Education (CORE) chairman Dr Debabrata Roy Laifungbam, Manipur Commission for Protection of Child Rights member Keisham Pradip Kumar, CPNRM convenor Tingenlung Pamei, CRAM president Sanaton Laishram, Irabot Foundation assistant secretary Khunjamayum Gopen, NPMHR (South) member Hungyohung Hungyo, social activists Honreikhui Kashung and Dr Mamta Lukram participated the event as resource persons.
Dr Debabrata Roy said that the International Day of Action for Rivers is a day to celebrate victories such as dam removal and river restoration. "It is a day to take to the streets, demonstrate and demand improvements in the policies and practices of decision makers", Dr Roy stated. "It is a day to educate one another about the threats faced by our rivers, and learn about better water and energy solutions", he added. "Above all, it is a day to unite by acting together, we demonstrate that these issues are not merely local, but global in scope", Dr Roy added. Dr Debabrata Roy further stated that the day is observed to promote a sustainable developmental model, especially alternatives to hydropower development, dam decommissioning and urbanization that impact the free flow of rivers and health for all.
According to Dr Roy, in Manipur the day will be an occasion "to celebrate, rejuvenate and revitalize the intrinsic relationship of indigenous communities with rivers and also the crucial roles of rivers in sustaining well being and livelihood of the community while conserving our natural heritage for future generations".
Dr Roy then said that the Mapithel Dam has divided the people into two divisions as up- stream and down-stream. "That separation has broken the long relationship of villages which were bonded in the past many years. The dam affected not only environment but other people livelihood practices", he added.
CRAM president Sanation Laishram highlighted the break-up percentages of water on the planet. Tingenlung Pamei said that development should be accepted by all sections of people. "However, the construction of railways and dams are not developments but they are destructive activities in the name of development", Tingenlung stated.


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Eliza Taylor previews The 100 season 3 finale
By Dalene Rovenstine
May 19, 2016 at 05:24 PM EDT
Diyah Pera/The CW
How do you solve a problem like A.L.I.E.? Well, that's the problem: No one knows. But in Thursday's season finale of The 100, someone is going to have to figure some way to stop the world-destroying AI because she's on a path to… well, destroy the world once again.
A.L.I.E. has been gobbling up every body available to her on the ground to populate her City of Light. Clarke and Co. had a great plan of attack in the first half of the finale (they would remove the City of Light key from Ontari and give her the Commander chip so they could stop the AI), but with Ontari dead, the gang has run out of options. In a bit of a last ditch effort, Clarke will, herself, enter the City of Lights — a move that Eliza Taylor, who plays Clarke, says is "extremely dangerous."
"There are people literally climbing the walls of this tower to get to us, so it's a race against time," she adds. "It's their only option, so Clarke is taking the chip and hoping for the best — and who knows what that's going to do to her."
We have an idea of what could happen…. In one of the worst-kept secrets of the season, fans know that Clarke will be reunited with a certain Commander in this final episode. "I think everyone knows that we are going to see Lexa again," Taylor says. "What I am excited about is for them to see how and in what way we find her again. It's going to be a really beautiful reunion."
And as for if it will be painful for her to be reunited with her love? "Thinking someone's gone forever and then seeing them again is pretty non-explanatory," she says. "It's going to change Clarke for the best and make her stronger and even more determined to save her people… as usual."
Clarke saving her people is nothing new for The 100, let alone 100 finales. As for how she saves her people, that's something Taylor won't reveal much about. Although, she promises the finale is "very, very powerful" and something she's excited for fans to watch.
"I haven't been this excited about an episode in a very long time," she says. "I love how well [EPs] Jason [Rothenberg] and Dean [White] put together these two-part finales. I think they leave people wanting more — even me! … I don't think this finale is going to disappoint in any way."
The 100 season 3 finale airs Thursday at 9 p.m. ET. on The CW.
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After a nuclear apocalypse, a group of people who have been living in space return to Earth—and quickly learn they're not alone.
Eliza Taylor,
Bob Morley,
By Dalene Rovenstine @RealDaleneR


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Q: TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for *: 'float' and 'geoprocessing Layer object' I am getting a rather unclear type error, and after searching online I cannot find any solutions that help. I am trying to create my own python toolbox for wifi router signal loss, and I am trying to create a raster based on a few inputs that will populate from an equation. The error that I am getting lies on line 107, which is the equation line
fspl= (4 * math.pi * distmod * dist_float * hertz)/(2.99792458 * (10**8))
output_rast = fspl

I cannot figure out what is causing this error, initially it did not like me trying to use a raster instead of a float, so I changed the distance raster into a float, and now it does not seem to like the float being part of the equation. Here is the rest of my code incase the error stems from an earlier mistake. I cannot find anything that relates to my specific error, and I have not been able to find any way to to work around this issue.  Any suggestions?
import arcpy
import math

class Toolbox(object):
    def __init__(self):
        """Define the toolbox (the name of the toolbox is the name of the
        .pyt file)."""
        self.label = "Toolbox Label Property"
        self.alias = "Toolbox Alias Property"
    # List of tool classes associated with this toolbox
    self.tools = [FSPL, WAP_Buffer]

class FSPL(object):
    def __init__(self):
        """Define the tool (tool name is the name of the class)."""
        self.label = "Free Space Path Loss"
        self.description = "This python script tool will create Free Space Path Loss to determine the dB range output from the WAPs."
        self.canRunInBackground = False

def getParameterInfo(self):
    """Define parameter definitions"""

    param0 = arcpy.Parameter(
    displayName="Wireless Access Points",
    name="wireless_pts",
    datatype="GPFeatureLayer",
    parameterType="Required",
    direction="Input")

    param1 = arcpy.Parameter(
    displayName="Network Frequency Type",
    name="network_freq",
    datatype="String",
    parameterType="Required",
    direction="Input")
    param1.filter.type="ValueList"
    param1.filter.list = ["2.4 GHz", "5 GHz"]

    param2 = arcpy.Parameter(
    displayName="Distance Raster Float",
    name="dist_float",
    datatype="GPLayer",
    parameterType="Required",
    direction="Input")

    param3 = arcpy.Parameter(
    displayName="Distance Raster Units",
    name="units",
    datatype="String",
    parameterType="Required",
    direction="Input")
    param3.filter.type="ValueList"
    param3.filter.list = ["Feet", "Meters"]

    param4 = arcpy.Parameter(
    displayName="Output Raster",
    name="output_rast",
    datatype="GPRasterLayer",
    parameterType="Required",
    direction="Output")

    return [param0, param1, param2, param3, param4]

def isLicensed(self):
    """Set whether tool is licensed to execute."""
    return True

def updateParameters(self, parameters):
    """Modify the values and properties of parameters before internal
    validation is performed.  This method is called whenever a parameter
    has been changed."""

    return

def updateMessages(self, parameters):
    """Modify the messages created by internal validation for each tool
    parameter.  This method is called after internal validation."""
    return

def execute(self, parameters, messages):
    """The source code of the tool."""

    #Get inputs
    wireless_pts = parameters[0].value
    network_freq = parameters[1].value
    dist_float = parameters[2].value
    units = parameters[3].value
    output_rast = parameters[4].value

    #Create expression

    if network_freq == "2.4 GHz":
        hertz=2400000000
    else:
        hertz=5000000000

    if units == "Feet":
        distmod=0.3048
    else:
        distmod=1

    #equation

    fspl= (4 * math.pi * distmod * dist_float * hertz)/(2.99792458 * (10**8))
    output_rast = fspl

    return

A: Raster Calculator is an option but limits what you can do. When using arcpy, you must convert your raster dataset to a raster object to perform map algebra.
When defining the parameters in a python toolbox, it may be sufficient to change the data type to GPRasterLayer or GPRasterDataset.  Otherwise, just cast the path of the raster to a raster object with Raster().

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