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Guide to the Sanford Aday Collection, 1952-1965 csf.1997.001
Finding aid prepared by Processed by Diana Bustamante; machine-readable finding aid created by James Lake
Special Collections Research Center, California State University, Fresno
5200 North Barton Avenue, M/S ML 34
specialc@listserv.csufresno.edu
Title: Sanford Aday Collection
Identifier/Call Number: csf.1997.001
Contributing Institution: Special Collections Research Center, California State University, Fresno
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 1.25 Linear feet
creator: Aday, Sanford
The collection was donated by Sanford Aday.
Sanford Aday Collection, Special Collections Research Center, California State University, Fresno.
Sanford E. Aday, originally from Venice, California, established his home in Fresno, California, where he published numerous books from his location on Belmont Avenue. Aday became interested in writing while in high school. He wanted to pursue a career as a full-time writer but was unable to support himself through writing. He held various jobs while working on his novels. Aday reportedly wrote ten novels but only two were published, Amber Dust and Satan's Harvest.
Sanford Aday began his career as a publisher presumably in 1955 (this is the earliest publication date in the collection). He published under three imprints: Fabian Books, Saber Books and Vega Books. Aday published books that were often deemed "obscene" in the 1950s. He was often under attack and vigorously fought against censorship. He faced several charges in Hawaii, Arizona and Fresno. He was eventually tried and convicted along with associate Wallace de Ortega Maxey for shipping an obscene book into Michigan in 1963. He was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison and fined $25,000. Sex Life of a Cop by Oscar Peck (1959) was the only book of seven deemed obscene by the jury. Although the United States Constitution protects the right of an individual to freely publish and distribute material, it prohibits the circulation of obscene material through the mail.
The Sanford Aday Collection measures 1.25 linear feet and dates from 1952 to 1965. The collection is arranged in three series: Written by Aday, Published by Aday and Related material.
The Written by Aday series (1952-1953) includes both of Aday's novels, Amber Dust, published in 1952 and Satan's Harvest,published in 1953. The novels are in their original dust jackets.
The inside cover of Amber Dust reads "Tigre Niort, a novelist, inspired by a girl who knew all the answers but the one she wanted him to get, comes face to face with the most powerful man of the state and has to challenge him for his life." Aday's second novel, Satan's Harvest, explores " life and love along the Mexican border," (Box 1, Related material, Newspaper clippings, book review, undated). Aday worked hard to ensure that his novel was accurate and true to life. He discarded his original version of Satan's Harvest after researching Mexican customs and the people who lived along the border of Mexico and United States.
The Published by Aday series (1955-1965) includes three imprints: Fabian books, Saber Books, and Vega Books. The series is arranged according to imprint and then alphabetically by author and title.
Most of the material on Sanford Aday himself can be found in the Related material series (1958-1963). The series includes newspaper clippings on Aday's fight against censorship. A brief article which is undated and does not list a source of publication, gives some background information on Aday. The series also includes three issues of the magazine, Sex and Censorship, which then became Candida. The magazines contain articles on censorship, Aday and his legal case, and his lawyer.
Written by Aday
General Physical Description note: Box 1
Box Box 1
Amber dust. (Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1952)
Satan's harvest. (New York: Vantage, 1953)
Published by Aday
Fabian Books
General Physical Description note: Boxes 1-2
Anderson, Janet. Circle of Lust (1962)
Baker, Brenda. The Third Bedroom (1960)
Genera Physical Description note: Box 1
Bates, Marsha
Decisive Years (1959)
Each Won Two (1959)
Belley, James H. The Violent and the Fair (1961)
Bennett, William. Nor Fears of Hell (1959)
Bradley, Lee. Rose of Sharon (1960)
Brandon, Ralph
One Violent Year (1959)
Witch Finder (1960)
Dammann, Ernest. Dark Holiday (1961)
Dee, Dolores. Passionate Lovie (1959)
Devon, Joseph. Scarlet Sisters (1964)
Between the Two (1960)
Cherita (1961)
Emotional Jungle (1961)
Foster, John. Return to Vista (1960)
Gooch, Mary S. The Tainted Rosary (1960)
Hampton, Stella. The Dark Quarters (1957)
Hayes, Reese. Long December (1957)
Hynes, Floyd. Beach Mavericks (1958)
Linkletter, Eve
Our Flesh was Cheap (1959)
Taxi Dancers (1958)
The Gay Ones (1958)
Madigan, Kip
Incest for Rene (1955)
Stairway to Sin (1957)
Rene (1955)
Maxey, Wallace de Ortega. Man is a Sexual Being (1958)
McIntosh, Georgia. Naked Return (1960)
Mener, Dorothy. Tomorrow's Light (1959)
Nye, Nelson. Come a-Smokin' (1965)
Omarr, Sydney. My Bed Has Echoes (1957)
Peters, Willi. Taunted Wife (1957)
Rowell, Don. Age of Innocence (1960)
Runnels, Benny. Blood on Big Sandy (1956)
Sela, Lora. Push-Over (1958)
Shane, Mark
15 Bodies to the Morgue (1956)
The Lady That Was A Man (1958)
Short, Betty
Black Night (1956)
High Pillow (1958)
The Rambling Maids (1957)
Southern, Cherri. Violent Surrender (1957)
Strand, Bunny. Twice the Fool (1960)
Turni, Marie. Beyond the Realm (1960)
Vincent, Jay. The Barefoot Blonde (1961)
Imposed Rebellion (1959)
Never to Belong (1960)
Saber Books
Abbott, Sheldon. The Women Were Willing (1963)
Bass, Lonny. Out of Darkness (1959)
Bunyan, Pat. I Peddle Jazz (1960)
Carroll, Ann. Summer of Sex (1964)
Devon, Joseph. We Poor Sinners (1964)
Ford, Robert B. The Emerald Bikini (1963)
Gilman, Wilson G. Society Daughter (1958)
Harris, Frank G.
A Wife to Lend (1963)
Beauty Contest (1964)
Hayes, Reese. Turbulent Daughters (1958)
Hitt, Orrie. Love Princess (1958)
Lucas, Mark. The Left Hand of Satan (1965)
Marmor Arnold. Ruthless Fraternity (1960)
Martin, Henry. Lust Has No Bounds (1964)
Moore, Jack. Party Girl (1965)
Parker, Lynda. The Odd Switch (1961)
Pauve, Richard. Double Crossed Beds (1965)
Peck, Oscar
Sex Life of a Cop (1959)
10:04 Sgt. Thorne (1959)
Rand, Lou. The Gay Detective (1961)
Roberts, Jay. The Tricked and the Wicked (1965)
Sela, Lora
Camera Bait (1960)
I Am a Lesbian (1958)
Sherman, Lousie. The Strange Three (1957)
Spruill, Jock. Deception (1959)
Wade, Vern. Karla (1957)
Walter, Lee
A Town in Heat (1963)
Bachelor Husband (1960)
The Right Bed (1959)
Weldon, Rex
Sex Mates (1964)
Untamed Desires (1964)
Williams, Randall. Wanted: Broad-Minded Couples (1965)
Woolfe, Byron
Bold Desires (1959)
Hot Angel (1964)
Never Enough (1958)
Vega Books
Brandon, Ralph. Joy Killer (1960)
Cannon, Frank. Satan in Malibu (1961)
Foster, John. Campus Iniquities (1961)
Gooch, Mary. Included Out (1960)
Hayes, Floyd. Beach Maverick (1958)
Harvey, Linda. Executive Bed (1960)
Miller, Frank S. Murder's for the Birds (1961)
Peters, Willi. Lesbian Twins (1960)
Roberts, Willo R. Murder is so Easy (1961)
Spears, Francine. Burden of Guilt (1960)
Stacy, Jan. The Takers (1960)
Turni, Marie
Cousin Jess (1960)
The Opposite Sex (1961)
Woolfe, Byron. The Animal Urge (1960)
Newspaper clippings, court information 1960-1965 and undated


For the first time, a combination of aspirin and the anti-platelet drug dipyridamole has been shown to significantly reduce blockages and extend the useful life of new artery-vein access grafts used for hemodialysis, according to a study by the Dialysis Access Consortium (DAC). The study, supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), part of the National Institutes of Health, will be published in the May 21, 2009, New England Journal of Medicine.
Artery-vein access grafts, called arteriovenous (AV) grafts, fail most often due to narrowing of blood vessels (stenosis) at the graft site and subsequent clotting, which block the flow of blood. A blocked graft cannot be used for dialysis and is a major cause of worsening health in dialysis patients.
The DAC trial found that the combination treatment decreased the rate of loss of primary unassisted graft patency - the useful life of a graft before it becomes blocked the first time - by 18 percent and the rate of developing significant stenosis by 28 percent, compared to placebo. Previous smaller clinical trials of anti-clotting therapies failed to show that these drugs improve AV graft patency or that they could be used safely in dialysis patients.
"This drug combination provides a modest but important new therapy to keep AV grafts in good working order so patients can get the dialysis they need," said NIDDK Director Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D. "But clearly more research is needed to extend the useful life of AV grafts."
A total of 649 participants with new AV grafts were recruited for the trial at 13 clinical sites in the United States and were randomly assigned to treatment with dipyridamole plus aspirin or to a placebo. The trial took place over a period of five years.
"Our trial results show that we now have a drug therapy that significantly prolongs the viability of AV grafts," said Bradley S. Dixon, M.D., of the University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, and lead author of the study. "This is an important step forward as we proceed to develop therapies to improve dialysis patients' quality of life."
According to the 2008 U.S. Renal Data System Annual Data Report, more than half a million patients have kidney failure, 70 percent of whom are on dialysis. Costs for kidney failure are more than $30 billion. Annual costs of vascular access-related procedures in the United States have been estimated to exceed $1 billion.
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. provided the study drugs and placebo at no cost and provided additional funding as well. The company was not involved in the design of the study, the analysis of data, or the preparation of the manuscript.


Hooray for Friday! This weekend will be busy for us--soccer, groceries, cleaning out the closets and junk drawers (prepare for an influx, Goodwill!), movie time and much more, I'm sure. Have a fantastic weekend filled with fun and staying warm... and cats.


The 1-year-old was pronounced deceased but hospital officials later said they had detected a pulse.
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A one-year-old child was found to be alive after initially being feared dead.
A pulse had been detected in the child, the hospital said, according to authorities.
The child was playing outside with siblings near Caruthers in Fresno County on Tuesday evening when he appeared to drown in a container that collects rainwater.
Emergency respondents attempted CPR at the scene but the child was unresponsive, and was rushed to CRMC, authorities said.
Due to what appeared to be a miscommunication, authorities initially said the child was deceased.
Later, the hospital called the Fresno County Sheriff's Office to say that the child was alive and a pulse had been detected.
The incident occurred in the 12,000 Block of the S Walnut Cross of W. Saginaw Ave at around 4:11 pm.


Soft and sumptuous Lemon Blueberry Whoopie Pie Recipe with tangy lemon filling! Inspired by our road trip through Maine, where whoopie pies and blueberries rule the roads.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line several baking sheets with parchment paper. Set out the butter and cream cheese to soften.
For the Whoopie Pies: Using an electric mixer, cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy, 3-5 minutes on high speed. Meanwhile mix the first four dry ingredients in a separate bowl. Scrape the mixing bowl, then turn the mixer on low and add the eggs and vanilla extract. Slowly mix in the flour mixture and the milk. Turn off the mixer once fully combined. Add 1 1/4 cup fresh blueberries to the batter and mix by hand to incorporate.
Use a 1 1/2 – 2 tablespoon cookie scoop to portion the batter out on the prepared baking sheets, at least 2 1/2 inches apart. There should be about 32 mounds. Add additional blueberries to the batter mounds that are lacking on top. Bake for 12 minutes, until puffy and just slightly golden around the edges. Rotate the baking sheets once in the middle. Cool on the baking sheets and repeat if needed.
Meanwhile, prepare the lemon filling. Using a clean mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese and butter together until completely smooth. Turn the mixer on low and add in the zest of one lemon and 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Slowly add in the powdered sugar. Scrape the bowl and beat until smooth. Add additional powdered sugar if the filling seems loose.
Once the whoopie pie cakes are completely cool, flip half of them over. Scoop the lemon filling into a large piping bag with a large tip. Pipe approximately 2 tablespoons of filling on the cakes that are bottom-side-up. Then gently top them with another cake. Eat immediately or wrap them individually for lunch box treats.


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The Double Hs - The People Think I Ate Too Many Chocolate Bars Award.
Herohill is unveiling its first annual Best (or Worst) of the Year awards, known henceforth as the Double Hs. The first award is the 'The People Think I Ate Too Many Chocolate Bars Award.' This award is for the biggest breakout. Do you remember that poor bastard who had that hideous complexion, coupled with a think accent? Made for years of ridicule I'm sure, but he is laughing now as he gets referenced in the Herohill year end awards.
This year, the influx of indie kids blogging helped bands become huge before they even officially released a disc. A couple people in the know write a few lines about a band and within weeks, people are downloading the album and posting mp3s. How do I feel about this? Not too bad. Lots of very talented bands toil in obscurity while bands like Creed and Matchsticks 40 rehash radio singles and reap all the benefits.
This year, one band came from nowhere to explode onto the scene. I remember telling a few of my friends in NYC to go check out a band that was playing at a small club every Wednesday for a month. Then, on the strength of four unreleased demos they became the SPIN band of the day. Over the next few months, this band became the most talked about band on the planet (much like the Arcade Fire the year previous). This band is Clapyourhandssayyeah!
A unique mixture of Bob Dylan, the Talking Heads and catchy songwriting pushed this NYC based quintet self-titled debut to the top of most hipster's top ten lists. The most amazing thing is that the album is self-released. They opted not to sign to a label for this release, and by now I'm sure their pennies amount to many. The song "The Skin of my country yellow teeth" is one of the best songs released this year. Celebs like David Byrne and David Bowie would stop by to see them play. Not a bad year for these guys.
Antony and the Johnsons – Mercury prize, single of the year on Pitchfork. Not much else to say. The post cabaret stylings of "I am a Bird Now" also features Boy George, Lou Reed, Rufus, and Devendra.
Rogue Wave - Coverted bloggers from hate to love. Gone are the "Oakland hippies" comments. In their place are – "favorite album of the year" type praise. Cracked the OC collections as well. "Descended Like Vultures" gets heavy rotation on my Ipod and has helped this band finally jump out of the shadows… of the Shins.
The Stars - This Canadian band should be the biggest band on the planet. Catchy, fun, well crafted songs. Selling out shows everywhere, including an upcoming 4 day, 6 show performance in TO. Set "Yourself on Fire" is a must have.
The Wolf Parade - Signed to Sub Pop, thanks in large part to Modest Mouse front man Isaac Brock. Re-released their EPs in album form, exploded onto the scene and have helped Montreal usurp Brooklyn and the breeding ground for hipster bands. "Apologies to the Queen Mary" combines all the things you love about Modest Mouse, CYHSY and the Arcade Fire. These guys will be huge (well I guess they already are).
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Sir William Spens, CBE (31 May 1882 – 1 November 1962) was a Scottish educationalist, academic and Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Life
Born in Glasgow on 31 May 1882, one of four sons of John Spens and Sophia Nicol, Spens was educated at Rugby and King's College, Cambridge, graduating in natural sciences. Elected a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1907, he spent the rest of his working life in Cambridge, apart from wartime service between 1915 and 1918 with the Foreign Office, for which he was awarded the CBE in 1919, was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by the French and appointed an officer of the Crown of Italy.

Elected Master of Corpus in 1927 he was Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1931 to 1933 and then chaired the consultative committee of the Board of Education (known in retrospect as the Spens Report) which recommended the tri-partite split of secondary schooling into grammar, technical and modern varieties.

During the Second World War he was Regional Commissioner for Civil Defence for the Eastern Region, which prompted and exacerbated rumours that the cellars of Corpus extend across (and indeed further than) the entire college campus and that the college was to be used as the centre of operations for East Anglia in the event of a German occupation. Spens wished to maintain the high moral ground in fighting the Nazis. He opposed the use of guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines to oppose any Nazi invasion as being contrary to international convention.  He objected first to the plans of SIS in June 1940 and then to the operation of the Auxiliary Units   - threatening to have them arrested!

Spens retired in 1952.

Personal
Spens married Dorothy Teresa, daughter of John Richardson Selwyn in 1912; they had four children; a son and three daughters, one of whom died in infancy.

Spens died on 1 November 1962.

See also
Text of the Spens Report

Notes

Attribution:

Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
British educational theorists
Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Knights Bachelor
Members of HM Foreign Service
Masters of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
People educated at Rugby School
Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge
1882 births
1962 deaths
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Q: Why is this non-open ifstream still "good" after I try to extract from it? In GCC 4.7.0 20111217, GCC 4.1.2, GCC 4.3.4 and GCC 4.5.1:
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>

int main() {
   std::ifstream f;
   std::cout << f.get() << ", " << f.good() << ", " << f.bad();
}

// Output: -1, 1, 0

I'd have expected -1, 0, 1 (which Clang 3.1 gives me), because of these paragraphs:

[C++11: 27.7.2.3]:
int_type get();

4 Effects: Behaves as an unformatted input function (as described in 27.7.2.3, paragraph 1). After constructing a sentry object, extracts a character c, if one is available. Otherwise, the function calls setstate(failbit), which may throw ios_base::failure (27.5.5.4),
  5 Returns: c if available, otherwise traits::eof().

and:

[C++11: 27.9.1.1/3]: In particular:

*

*If the file is not open for reading the input sequence cannot be read.

*If the file is not open for writing the output sequence cannot be written.

*A joint file position is maintained for both the input sequence and the output sequence.

Is GCC in the wrong here? Did an implementer misinterpret the "otherwise" in [C++11: 27.7.2.3/4]? Or did I misinterpret the standard?

A: The problem is that the order that the operations on f is called is not specified by the standard.  The compiler is free to call f.good(), f.bad(), and f.get() in any order it chooses.
Try changing to print it on separate lines.

A: I've just realised I'm being silly:
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>

int main() {
   std::ifstream f;
   std::cout << f.get() << ", ";
   std::cout << f.good() << ", " << f.bad();
}

// Output: -1, 0, 0

Unspecified evaluation order. Duh.

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Seoul's developers were once unconcerned with design, their dense, cookie-cutter high rises flooding the capital following the destruction of the Korean War. Though most are architectural eyesores, a few iconic structures have been worth preserving. Case in point: Kim Swoo-geun's soaring white Tower Hotel, originally constructed in 1967, on the slopes of Mount Namsam. Now remodeled as a boutique resort by Architrave, Banyan Tree's in-house design team, the property unveiled 34 luxurious guest rooms, each with an in-room plunge pool; panoramic views of mountain and city can be had from outdoor wine bars, dining cabanas and an open-air gym. The clean, modern design pays homage to Korea's close relationship with nature: think leaf-shaped loungers, rugged granite pillars, marble-and-pebble interiors and a profusion of fountains and streams.


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Q: Strange Nuance of self in Method Argument List I've encountered a pythonic curiosity whose meaning eludes me.
I've found that method dispatch using a dictionary in a class appears to work differently, depending on whether the dispatch is done in __init__().  The difference is whether the selected method is invoked with or without the self argument.
Code illustration:
#!/usr/bin/python

class strange(object):
    def _eek(): # no self argument
        print "Hi!\n"

    dsp_dict = {"Get_eek" : _eek}
    noideek = dsp_dict["Get_eek"]

    def __init__(self):
        self.ideek = self.dsp_dict["Get_eek"]
        self.ideek2 = self._eek
        self.ideek3 = self.noideek

    def call_ideek(self):
        try:
            self.ideek()
        except TypeError:
            print "Alas!\n"

    def call_ideek2(self):
        try:
            self.ideek2()
        except TypeError:
            print "Alas!\n"

    def call_ideek3(self):
        try:
            self.ideek3()
        except TypeError:
            print "Alas!\n"

    def call_noideek(self):
        try:
            self.noideek()
        except TypeError:
            print "Alas!\n"

x=strange()
print "Method routed through __init__() using the dictionary:"
x.call_ideek()
print "Method routed through __init__() directly:"
x.call_ideek2()
print "Method routed through __init__() using attribute set from dictionary:"
x.call_ideek3()
print "Method not routed through __init__():"
x.call_noideek()

Running this, I see:
I, kazoo > ./curio.py
Method routed through __init__() using the dictionary:
Hi!

Method routed through __init__() directly:
Alas!

Method routed through __init__() using attribute set from dictionary:
Alas!

Method not routed through __init__():
Alas!

The try-except clauses are catching this sort of thing:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./curio.py", line 19, in <module>
    x.call_noideek()
TypeError: call_noideek() takes no arguments (1 given)

That is, if the indirection is accomplished in __init__ by reference to the dictionary, the resulting method is not called with the implicit self argument.
But if the indirection is accomplished either in __init__ by direct reference to _eek(), or by creating a new attribute (noideek) and setting it from the dictionary, or even in __init__ by reference to the attribute originally set from the dictionary, then the self argument is in the call list.
I can work with this, but I don't understand it.  Why the difference in call signature?

A: Have a Look at this
>>> x.ideek
<function _eek at 0x036AB130>
>>> x.ideek2
<bound method strange._eek of <__main__.strange object at 0x03562C30>>
>>> x.ideek3
<bound method strange._eek of <__main__.strange object at 0x03562C30>>
>>> x.noideek
<bound method strange._eek of <__main__.strange object at 0x03562C30>>
>>> x.dsp_dict
{'Get_eek': <function _eek at 0x036AB130>}
>>> x._eek
<bound method strange._eek of <__main__.strange object at 0x03562C30>>

You can see the difference between static methods and class methods here.
When you store the class method in that dict, it loses the information about it's enclosing class and is treated as a function (see output of x.dsp_dict).
Only if you assign that function to noideek in the class context, it will then become a class method again.
Whereas when referencing the dict from the init method, python threats it as a static method ("function") not changing anything and omnitts the self parameter. (ideek)
ideek2 and ideek3 can be seen as "aliases" where that class method is only re-referenced.


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So, you know you have a food shortage when people start breaking into Zoos to eat the animals—and the animals themselves die from starvation. In Venezuela, the country has virtually collapsed, with shortages in food, a lack of access to medicine and clean water, and a government completely oblivious to the fact that left wing economics is killing its society. With Venezuelans resorting to looting in order to survive, why should we think that they wouldn't break into a zoo to kill a horse for its meat (via Fusion)?
Prosecutors say the crime occurred in the small hours of Sunday [7/24/16] morning at Caracas' Caricuao Zoo, when "several people" sneaked into the state-run park under the cover of darkness and busted into the stallion's pen. The horse, the only one of its kind in the zoo, was then led to a more secluded area and butchered on the spot. Only its head and ribs were left behind in a gruesome pile for zookeepers to find after sunrise.
The India Times reported last month that 50 animals have starved to death over the past six months due to food shortages at the same zoo. Over at Hot Air, John Sexton wrote about the deplorable conditions Venezuelans have found themselves in has only gotten worse, with mounting cases of severe malnutrition among children—along with Human Rights Watch declaring that the economy has collapsed. Still, the mindset of President Nicolas Maduro, the successor to the late Hugo Chavez, is Viva la revolución. It appears left wingers always seem to be content with human suffering as long as they're not in the mix.


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The majority of protective equipment bought by the Government still hasn't arrived, the National Audit Office has revealed
The Government has come under sustained fire for the way it has procured personal protective equipment (PPE) during the Coronavirus pandemic.
While these criticisms have largely been carried by Byline Times, the Good Law Project and a handful of others, official vindication finally arrived last week.
In the first of a two-part report on PPE procurement, the National Audit Office (NAO) reached a range of damning conclusions. The spending watchdog said that the Government had awarded £10.5 billion in Coronavirus-related contracts without inviting competition, that an expedited "high-priority" lane was established for suppliers with links to ministers and MPs, and that glaring conflicts of interest were somehow missed.
The Government has maintained a consistent comeback to these accusations, articulated in its official response to the first NAO report.
"The Government pledged to do whatever it took to protect the people who protect us, deploying hundreds of officials to work night and day to source as much PPE as quickly as possible to protect the NHS and care sector and save lives," the Cabinet Office said. On this logic, the need to procure PPE rapidly and in vast quantities outweighs any criticisms.
However, the second NAO report, released today, bursts this idea – that the Government's efforts should be looked on favourably, because it succeeded in its overall objective of delivering PPE to the frontline.
Government's Rushed, Biased Procurement ProcessExposed by Spending Watchdog
To begin with, the NAO contextualises the UK's frantic procurement efforts. NHS trusts spent £146 million on PPE in 2019, the report highlights, while the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) did not set any targets for the availability of equipment in the event of an emergency.
"The operating model was not designed to respond to a pandemic," the NAO states.
In fact, the situation was pretty dire. The Government's stockpile contained enough PPE to cope for just two weeks, with some items in dangerously short supply. There were only aprons to last six days in the national stockpile, the report suggests.
What's more, the stock was not exactly easily accessible. Much of the PPE was housed in "deep storage," which led to delays in ferrying it to the frontline. Some of the equipment had also passed its expiry date or did not meet safety standards, including six million respirator masks that had to be tested and re-labelled.
Delays were likewise compounded by an archaic IT system, meaning it was not actually possible to add new PPE storage warehouses onto the database, to track their stock.
However, despite these problems, the NAO explains how the Government still believed in mid-March – when England was about to enter its first full fat lockdown – that its existing stockpiles "would provide most of the PPE needed to manage a COVID-19 pandemic".
It was only by late March to early April that the DHSC realised the NHS Supply Chain could not procure and distribute PPE quickly enough to meet demand, and so took responsibility for the process.
By late April, the Government's previously held optimism had been fully dismantled. Modelling future demand, the DHSC estimated a huge increase in the need for some types of PPE compared with previous flu pandemic calculations: an 820% increase in demand for aprons, 388% for gloves and 125% for face masks.
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However, though the Government subsequently set in motion a mass procurement drive, this didn't solve the problem. By the end of May, the DHSC had ordered 14.6 billion items of PPE worth £7 billion, yet because of the time lag between ordering the equipment and its delivery, the supply chain "could barely satisfy local organisations' requirements," the NAO claims.
Indeed, while existing NHS suppliers delivered 738 million items of PPE in April and May, new firms delivered just 235 million, largely limited due to a lack of air freight capacity.
"Trusts and other local organisations relied on getting PPE from a combination of centrally-allocated deliveries, what they could buy directly themselves, and items shared by other organisations with higher stock levels," the report says.
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To recap: the Government didn't stockpile adequately prior to the pandemic, yet believed there was enough in the bank to see us through the crisis. When officials realised this wasn't the case, the Government rushed to procure as much PPE as possible – an effort that wasn't entirely successful. But that's not all.
The Government's frantic attempt to refill its coffers led to huge waste. The NAO claims that, if the country would have been able to purchase PPE at the same unit prices as 2019, it would have paid £2.5 billion. As it stands, the DHSC has approved up to £15 billion of PPE spending in 2020/21.
Indeed, the UK entered the market when demand for PPE was it its highest and supply was falling. The case study of body bags, that went up in price by 1310% compared to last year, epitomises the hyper-inflated prices suffered by the Government.
The DHSC also "wasted hundreds of millions of pounds" on equipment that wasn't up to scratch, the report says. 75 million respirator masks that cost £214 million, for example, will not be used in the NHS for their original purpose.
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The Government has wasted a massive amount of public money during the pandemic. This is bad; generations will be forced to pay back this needless excess.
Yet the human cost of the Government's actions are far more important.
A lack of foresight from ministers and officials before the pandemic, and their indecision during it, led to a deficit of protective equipment. As a result, care workers, doctors and nurses faced the reality of going onto the frontline without the tools to protect themselves.
This is spelled out in the NAO report. Health workers, at least 8,152 of whom contracted COVID-19 and 126 died from the disease, "considered that they were not adequately protected during the height of the first wave of the pandemic".
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Commenting on the NAO report, Justin Madders MP, Labour's Shadow Health Minister, said the Government had put frontline workers "at unnecessary risk".
"There is no doubt that a significant reason for the shortage was the Government's failure to prepare properly and take on board warnings about PPE stockpiles," he added.
And it was adult social care providers that suffered the worst excesses of the system. While NHS trusts received 80% of their estimated PPE need from central government, social care providers were supplied with only 10%.
Even now, the majority of the 32 billion items of PPE procured by the Government still hasn't arrived. The Government ultimately claims that it has built a stockpile that will last four months, yet even this might be wide of the mark.
Given that the Government currently distributes 500 million items of PPE a month, the backlog of supplies would last five years even if, contrary to expectations, demand continues at the same rate.
As the two NAO reports have explained, the Government's procurement of PPE during the Coronavirus crisis has been a multi-dimensional failure. The standard defence has been that officials needed to bend the rules in order to replenish the country's stockpile.
Now we know the process was slower than expected, thus limiting the amount of PPE that made it to the frontline during the first peak of the virus, we are left with a procurement exercise that simply funnelled millions in taxpayer cash to friends of the regime. An exercise the country is now being billed for.
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Q: Git pull merge issue with remote origin I did git fetch and git fetch --all but there was no output for the same. after that when I do git pull again I get the below error again.
I am willing to fetch the origin from the remote to my local.
I even did this below but still there is an error.
[root@connect /myurl/fd-ansible]# git fetch origin master
Password:
From https://github.com/myurl/fd-ansible
 * branch            master     -> FETCH_HEAD
[root@connect /myurl/fd-ansible]# git clean -df
[root@connect /myurl/fd-ansible]# git pull
Password:
Updating 8bf6b66..a0b2167
error: Your local changes to 'group_vars/system1' would be overwritten by merge.  Aborting.
Please, commit your changes or stash them before you can merge.

Edited with @Stephen Kitt solution
[root@connect /myurl/fd-ansible]# git checkout group_vars/system1
[root@connect /myurl/fd-ansible]# git pull
Password:
Updating 8bf6b66..a0b2167
Fast-forward
 cmdb/vm.csv |  118 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
 group_vars/system1       |   56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 115 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)

A: To overwrite your local file (losing your changes):
git checkout group_vars/system1

Then you should be able to git pull.


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Nareit Hawai'i Donates $25,000 to Boys & Girls Club of the Big Island
January 13, 2022, 4:00 PM HST
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Inspired by the daily efforts of the Boys & Girls Club of the Big Island to improve the lives and future for children and families in need, Nareit Hawai'i donated $25,000 to support the continuation of the club's programs.
"This $25,000 donation couldn't have come at a better time for our Hawai'i Island youth-based nonprofit, as this is a gift that will have lasting benefits for our children and participating families," said Boys & Girls Club of the Big Island Executive Director Chat Cabral. "The services we provide are free for kids to participate in, which helps families who are unable to afford the often high cost of out-of-school child care. We keep their children safe after school and support them with the mentoring, supervision and nurturing that is needed."
Cabral noted that the donation will help ensure key youth development enrichment programs and daily critical resources are provided to support children from struggling households.
"We applaud the dedication of the Boys & Girls Club of the Big Island and are proud to support the incredible work being done every day for kids and families needing assistance," said Nareit Hawai'i Executive Director Gladys Quinto Marrone. "We made this donation on behalf of REITs in Hawai'i during the celebration of the holidays to help fund Boys & Girls Club programs this coming year."
For more than 72 years the Boys & Girls Club of the Big Island has supported families with youth development activities throughout Hawai'i Island, servicing mostly rural communities located in Hilo, Kea'au, Pāhoa, Pāhala-Ka'u, Ocean View and the greater Kona region. Each day, club youth receive the transportation needed to access program locations.
The children participate in various enrichment activities, including healthy lifestyle activities, cultural-based programs, organized sports, gardening activities, as well as daily tutoring and academic support. Before going home, each child is provided with a hot dinner meal to ensure their nutritional needs for the day are met.
Nareit Hawai'i represents the interests of REITs in Hawai'i and their participation in civic, community and policy initiatives to benefit residents statewide, while also supporting community and charitable organizations that address social issues of importance. REITs are long-term property holders that own, renovate and manage affordable housing projects, commercial buildings, medical facilities, shopping centers, cellphone towers, public storage facilities and hotels in the state.
Nareit Hawai'i and the Nareit Foundation also have supported other agencies on the Big Island during the past couple of years.
In November 2021, the foundation and Nareit Hawai'i presented a $145,000 grant to EAH Housing to support the development of Hale Nā Koa 'O Hanakahi, which will provide 92 affordable rental apartments in Hilo for seniors with a preference to serve U.S. military veterans and spouses of deceased veterans. In December 2020, the Nareit Foundation and Nareit Hawai'i donated $195,000 to Hale O Hawaii to help purchase a 1-acre lot in Puna and build a new, affordable home for a family displaced by the 2018 Kīlauea eruption.


A recent photo of Marc Emery taken at a US federal prison in Yazoo City, Mississippi.CANNABIS CULTURE – On July 9, 2011, imprisoned marijuana activist Marc Emery will begin a three-year countdown to his early release date from a US federal prison, scheduled for July 9, 2014.
US federal prisoners who show good behaviour are released after completing 85% of their sentence. For Emery, with time served and a clean prison record, his early release date is set for July 9, 2014.
Emery, the former publisher of Cannabis Culture and founder of the BC Marijuana Party, had a prison transfer application that would allow him to serve his time in Canada rejected by the US government in April, but he can reapply in two years. He is currently in Yazoo City Medium-security prison in Mississippi.
July 23 marks the Emery's five-year wedding anniversary, and July 29 is the six-year anniversary of the 2005 D.E.A. raid in downtown Vancouver that resulted in Emery's extradition in 2010.
In more worrisome news, Emery was recently diagnosed with MRSA.
MRSA is the superbug that runs rampant in hospitals and prisons. Although it can be fatal in some cases, the Emerys are trying to stay optimistic.
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Q: Creating release using Octopus rest API Please can anybody explain me how to create release using Octopus REST API.
I can create a release using octo.exe but have no idea how to do that using REST API.
I went through the http://localhost:8080/api, but cant figure it out how to create a release.
Is this REST api providing that feature??

A: I have not used Octopus myself, but as far as I understand you have to make an HTTP POST request to an URL like this:
http://localhost:8080/api/projects/1/releases

In your request body you specify the same parameters as you would do it using the command line tool but you have to encode them as JSON.

A: I had similar trouble with this myself.
In order to create a release, you must make a POST request to the Octo server.
https://myoctoserver:port/api/releases
Provide the following headers:

*

*X-Octopus-ApiKey: API-XXXXXXXXXXXX

*Content-Type: application/json

The body of the request must be JSON. Below is an example:
{
    "Version": "2017.02.25.183053" ,
    "ProjectId": "MyProject" ,
    "ChannelId": "DefaultOrOtherChannelId
}

The Version and ProjectId properties are required. Channel ID is optional. However, if you have more than one channel or if no channel in your project is marked as default then you must include ChannelId as well.
I hope this helps!

Curl Example
The sample below has been successful.
BODY='{"ProjectId":"'$PROJECT_ID'","ChannelId":"Channels-1","Version":"'$VERSION'","SelectedPackages":[{"StepName":"$STEP_NAME1","Version":"'$VERSION'"},{"StepName":"$STEP_NAME2","Version":"'$VERSION'"}]}'

curl -X POST --write-out %{http_code} --silent --output /dev/null -H "X-Octopus-ApiKey:$API_KEY" -H "Content-Type:application/json" -d $BODY "https://octopus.example.com/api/releases"

Notes
In order to find the ChannelId and ProjectId I had to query the Octopus database. The IDs will look something like Projects-1 or Channel-1

A: Documentation for interfacing with the Octopus REST API leaves a lot to be desired:
https://github.com/OctopusDeploy/OctopusDeploy-Api/wiki/Releases
I could never get it working through this approach, instead, I use the octo.exe command line utility to create releases:
octo create-release --project HelloWorld --version 1.0.3 --server http://octopus/ --apiKey API-ABCDEF123456

Octo.exe included as part of tentacle or server installs, Octopus also provide it as a seperate utility:
http://octopusdeploy.com/downloads


Welcome Spring is this lovely 4BR/2.5BA country home for the entire family to enjoy and an equestrian's dream wrapped into one. Set back from a gorgeous country road dotted with old farms and country manors, the site assures privacy and takes advantage distant views over 100's of protected acres. With an attractive interior, it was designed for entertaining and those who enjoy the peacefulness of unfiltered nature. The rear of the house is south facing, flooding the house with sunlight from the walkout basement to the 2nd floor MBR suite. Perks include central AC/alarm system/standby generator/gas FP. A huge deck opens into the family room & kitchen and offers al fresco dining off the formal dining room in warmer months. For the horse lover, the 7+ stall barn and indoor arena complex encompasses everything the serious rider could want. The facility is wrapped in vinyl siding with vinyl clad windows keeping maintenance to a minimum. Fencing is vinyl post & rail and there is a Nelson automatic waterer in the pasture for year-round use. Bring in a few boarders to offset costs and to share your passion with as this facility would be a great place to train year round with friends, share an instructor's services or a clinician's tips for your chosen discipline, and then hit the miles of trails on the abutting conserved land to the rear. Heated tack/viewing room and, to take the chill off, radiant heat in aisles. Highly-rated Souhegan schools. ... .


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Medical Technology Experts Convene for the 2nd Annual Asia Pacific MedTech Forum
This Year's Theme: Creating New Partnerships In Healthcare
Plenary Discussion Global Leadership Dialogue- The Evolving Role of Asia Pacific on the Global Stage Credit: Biotechin.Asia
The Asia Pacific MedTech Forum, the leading gathering of medical technology professionals, government leaders, regulatory experts, healthcare practitioners and researchers in Asia Pacific, started today in Singapore with the theme Creating New Partnerships in Healthcare.
Hosted by the Asia Pacific Medical Technology Association (APACMed), the two-day conference will explore how multi-stakeholder collaboration across the healthcare sector can address challenges in upgrading the region's regulatory systems, accelerating the pace of medical education, and ensuring patient access to new life-saving and life-changing innovations.
Medical devices and diagnostics allow people to live longer, healthier and more productive lives. "Over the past 30 years, medical advancements have helped extend life expectancies in both developed and developing countries across the globe. These innovations also yield savings across the healthcare system by replacing more expensive procedures, reducing hospital stays and allowing people to return to work more quickly," said Fredrik Nyberg, Chief Executive Officer, APACMed.
"Beyond innovation, meaningful and inclusive collaboration is key to creating sustainable partnerships. Although great progress has been made in global health over the last three decades, progress is not uniform. According to the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery 2030 Report, an overwhelming five billion people across the world lack access to surgery and anaesthesia care," Nyberg added.
Professor Russell L. Gruen, Vice-Dean (Research) & Professor of Surgery, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (NTU) speaking in the Global Surgery 2030 plenary session Credit: Biotechin.Asia
And true to that, the Global Surgery 2030 plenary session and panel discussion at the MedTech Forum focussed on the critical role that the medical technology industry can play in addressing this challenge. The panel discussion included key stakeholders such as Prof Russell L Gruen, Vice-Dean (Research) & Professor of Surgery, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (NTU); Dr William Magee, CEO and Co-founder of Operation Smile.
"This year's MedTech Forum is another incredible milestone for APACMed. It continues to mark our commitment as medical technology professionals to come together and address the region's most pressing healthcare challenges. As an industry of companies, including local SMEs and large multinationals, the MedTech Forum provides an opportunity to look beyond our separate expertise and cultivate strategic partnerships that can improve healthcare systems in Asia Pacific for the lives of our patients," said Vladimir Makatsaria, Chairman, APACMed.
Dr William P Magee, CEO and Co-Founder, Operation Smile speaking on the impact of Operation Smile in developing standards of surgical care in Vietnam. Credit: Biotechin.Asia
Other plenary and breakout sessions will address topics around regulatory harmonisation and convergence, digital and mobile health, medical education, universal healthcare and a series of patient testimonials.
Day 2 of the forum on November 9th will see some interesting plenary discussions on topics such as Impact of Innovation on Patient Choices; Medical Education & Capacity Building in Asia- What can the Industry do to Accelerate Change? and a Consensus statement on the Future of Medical Device Registries across Asia-Pacific and Middle East-North Africa.
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On the Map 2022, #7 Iris Sullivan from Dream Bird Studio in Astoria, Oregon
Happy April,
Our newest indigo story of April is from Iris Sullivan who is an Oregon-based textile artist and grower. I hope you enjoy the introduction part of her story as well as her indigo journey in the Pacific Northwest region.
My first meeting with natural indigo happened while attending the University of Oregon.
Because I had learned to weave as a child, I ended up with a work study job as a teaching
assistant in the weaving department, even though I was studying biology at the time. The magic of indigo transported me, and contributed to the choice to reorient my studies away from biology, towards fiber arts, finishing with a BFA focused on natural dyes.
Soon after graduation, my husband Joe and I relocated to Astoria, Oregon so that I could teach at Clatsop Community College. I taught weaving, dyeing, and book arts there for 8 years. We have two sons, now in college, whom we homeschooled.
In 2005 I traveled to Laos to visit indigo dyers and weavers, with my mentor Michelle
Wipplinger. This experience, being with the Laotian weavers and dyers, was incredibly
impactful. The genuine sharing and connection across barriers of language and culture that
happened gives me hope for the world to this day. As an artist my goal is to create installation spaces that help people connect more deeply to themselves, and to the natural world. I often include indigo in my work, as I believe natural indigo contributes to the mending of our hearts, and has the capacity to bring us together across our differences.
Starting to grow indigo was a watershed event. I met Persicaria tinctoria through Brittany Boles, when she gifted some plants to our mutual friend Kestrel Gates in 2017. Britt and I hit it off, and started our joint venture, Indigofest, in 2018 as a community gathering to celebrate and learn with this marvelous plant. (We are happy to be hosting the retreat again for 2022 after a 2 year pandemic hiatus.)
In addition to Indigofest I teach workshops on natural dye and indigo regionally, and
occasionally in other parts of country. There is so much mystery and beauty in the process of
working with indigo, that as a dyer, the vat, and the indigo plant itself, will continue to be my
teachers for the rest of my life.
1. Location & Environment
All photos were submitted by Iris Sullivan
Dream Bird Studio is tucked into a forest of Sitka spruce, western red cedar, red alder, and
maple trees on a north facing hillside overlooking the Columbia River estuary in Astoria,
Oregon. The USDA growing zone designation for the North Oregon Coast is 8B. This is a
temperate rainforest, receiving over 2 meters of rain each year. The historic temperature range
is cool and mild year round, 40-65 °F, (4-18 °C) with only occasional freezing temperatures, and rarely hot. The Coast Range mountains hug the Pacific Ocean, gathering moisture. Forests here have been extensively cut over the last 100 years. Intact old growth forests are now rare sacred places of wonder and deep beauty.
2. Indigo plants & practices
I first began growing Persicaria tinctoria indigo in 2017. That first year we tried fresh leaf dyeing, and fermented the leaves, going straight to a vat using fructose and lime. In 2018 I purchased seeds and planted indigo at our house, gave away some starts to neighbors, and began growing additional plants off site at a friend's farm.
The growing site at our place is a deck on the south side of our woodland house. It receives about 5 hours of direct sun during summer months. There is enough room for about 100 plants in large pots. I have noticed a wide assortment of native pollinators hanging out with the indigo. A few of my kind neighbors also grow dye plants for me in their sunnier gardens. These plants grown close to home are what I tend use for fresh leaf processing, and sharing with classes.
Farmer John Huelman, a friend who grows three to four 50' rows of Persicaria plants for me, lives in Knappa, Oregon, 12 miles further inland. His site receives full sun, and is about 10 ℉ warmer in the summer. The plants get somewhat larger on the farm, and also seem to have a
higher pigment yield, which I assume relates to his more optimal site. These plants get turned into pigment, using the water extraction method.
For pigment extraction the first few years I used multiple buckets, and garbage cans, and now use an 85 gallon stock tank. I have found that aerating in the stock tank with a good sized stick is a more pleasant experience for me than either the paint stirrer drill attachment, or the immersion blender I used prior.
I have dried some leaves each year, enjoying it as tea. Last year I dried 15 pounds (7 kg) of leaves, and participated in an online small scale sukumo making class, with Debra Ketchum Jircik. The class was guided by the book The Way of Indigo by her teacher, Takayuki Ishii. I am very much looking forward to making my first sukumo style vat later this spring with the results. Drying even at this scale is challenging due to the high humidity here on the coast.
I usually store pigment wet so that it is in a good state for creating vats, or printing with. I have been experimenting with both minimizing the lime I use for extraction, and washing the pigment with vinegar to remove lime in an attempt to increase the purity of the pigment. Some pigment is used for other art processes, including paints, inks, paste paper, and to color handmade soap.
Over the years I have used several types of vats. While our boys were little we even made a sig vat using their urine with indigo pigment from India. (Very smelly while in use, but now that my boys are grown, I treasure the things dyed in it.) My favorite vat for work in the studio is the fermentation vat, usually made with madder.
3. Culture & Story of the region
Dream Bird Studio is in Clatsop County, Oregon, in the Alderbrook neighborhood of Astoria, overlooking the Columbia River estuary. These are the traditional lands of the Clatsop and Chinook peoples. There is no known historic use of indigo in this region by original peoples.
My ancestry is mostly Irish, with a sprinkling of Scottish and French. I grew up in rural Michigan, and learned many farmwife skills from my relatives before setting out into the world.
I have been entranced with nature, color and string from a young age. One of my earliest memories is burying tiny bottles filled with colored water as gifts to the trees in our yard. An aunt began teaching me to weave at age seven, and the rhythm of the loom has been present throughout my life. The first experience with natural dyes came with my mother, who taught me to dye with black walnuts, which she used to dye the basketry materials she worked with.
While at university I studied weaving and dyeing under Barbara Setsu Pickett, who brought traditions from her Japanese heritage to our studies, and inspired a deep appreciation for Japanese textile to my practice as an artist.
I continue to seek knowledge about the dyeing practices of my own ancestors. This effort is somewhat hampered by a lack of documentation, as Irish dyeing traditions were very disrupted by colonialism. Woad, the indigo bearing plant of my lineage, is considered a noxious invasive plant in the state of Oregon, and illegal to grow. Growing Persicaria tinctoria, as a stand-in for woad, allows me to dye with home grown pigment. This process aligns both blue worlds for me - of my teacher's ancestors, and my own. I like to imagine the ancestors smiling as they watch the hand work of artisans today.
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The word Clatsop comes from the Chinook word, łät'cαp, meaning "place of dried salmon," and was originally the name for a single village. The Clatsop and Chinook people, though currently denied federal recognition, continue to reside here, and to organize for recognition.
Early contact with European sailing ships in the late 1700's brought disease ahead of western settlement, and caused enormous loss of life for the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest who had lived and worked here for many thousands of years.
The history of this place in the last 200 years has many dark stories. The expedition led by Lewis & Clark in 1805 was soon followed by more people eager to exploit the land. Astoria was established by 1811, making it the oldest western settlement west of the Rocky Mountains. The emphasis on resource extraction has often been twined with violence in the region.
Waves of white settlers came here to clear the ancient forests and fish for salmon in the Columbia River. There were also migrations of Chinese and Indian Sikh workers. Both of these groups faced significant hostility from white owners and workers of the canneries and mills. Conditions for all workers were generally dangerous, and there was frequent violence against any workers who tried to organize. Finnish Socialists in particular did have some success in forming worker owned cooperatives for both fisheries and lumber workers in order to improve conditions. (These early activists provided an inspiration for the 10 year grassroots effort which successfully prevented the building of a Liquified Natural Gas export facility at the mouth of the Columbia in the mid 2000's. (https://www.columbiariverkeeper.org/news/2016/4/ victory-oregon-lng-withdraws)
In the early twentieth century there was widespread corruption, and a brief though notable KKK presence, which was focused against Catholics, the Finnish Socialists, and immigrants.
There were several massive fires in Astoria around that time, which in combination with over cutting forests and over fishing, largely ended the boom days. The resulting decades of economic depression for the area were only relieved in recent years. The population in 2022 is still roughly 2/3rds what it was prior to the 1922 fire, which burned the entire business district and many homes. The 1922 fire has been linked to activities of the KKK, and may have led to their fall from favor.
In the last 25 years Astoria has undergone significant changes, including gentrification and an influx of new residents. Its economic base has largely switched away from resource extraction, and towards a tourist economy.
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The "Bicibus" is not an actual yellow school bus. Every Friday in the Eixample district in Barcelona, a group of five families ride their bikes to school. Now hundreds are joining in, becoming a weekly event. "It all started with a group of five families, a lot of determination and a deep sense of the greater good," said Mireia Boix, a parent of a 5-year-old son. All modes of transportation are welcomed, from bikes to scooters to roller blades. The families in the district wanted to encourage the authorities to build school-friendly bike lanes away from the main road.


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Q: tvos AVPlayerViewController how to display subtitles tab on swipedown menu In tvOS, in the menu that is being displayed when a user swipes down on the remote, that shows "subtitles, audio & info" on other movie apps, how to create another tab with buttons?
Below is my code:
AVMutableMetadataItem *titleMetadataItem = [[AVMutableMetadataItem alloc] init];
titleMetadataItem.locale = NSLocale.currentLocale;
titleMetadataItem.key = AVMetadataCommonKeyTitle;
titleMetadataItem.keySpace = AVMetadataKeySpaceCommon;
titleMetadataItem.value = @"The Title";

NSArray *externalMetadata = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:titleMetadataItem, nil];

_player.player.currentItem.externalMetadata = externalMetadata;

Can someone please tell me how  can I create a buttons in the swipe down menu of an AVPlayerViewController so that a user can toggle between turning off or turning on the subtitles? I do not have the srt files embedded in the video. Instead I have a separate subtitle parser and I display it on a label. I was able to get info section to show with text but is there any way to add buttons?
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how I can add a subtitle option to the video?
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  _player.requiresFullSubtitles = YES;
Thanks!

A: The AVPlayerViewController only loads subtitles if they're embedded in the HLS streams, and that is also the only legal way to show the "Subtitles" tab on the swipe down menu.
I built a utility for dynamically adding VTT subtitles to HLS (m3u8) streams called ACHLSCaptioningServer (https://github.com/acotilla91/ACHLSCaptioningServer).
Note: If you only have access to SRT files you'll need to find a way to convert SRTs to VTTs.
How to use:
NSURL *origStreamURL = your_original_stream-url;
NSURL *vttFileURL = your_vtt_file_url;

NSURL *streamURL = [[ACHLSCaptioningServer sharedInstance] getCaptionedHLSStreamFromStream:origStreamURL vttURL:vttFileURL];

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AVPlayer *player = [AVPlayer playerWithPlayerItem:playerItem];

AVPlayerViewController *avPlayerController = [[AVPlayerViewController alloc] initWithNibName:nil bundle:nil];
[avPlayerController setPlayer:player];
[avPlayerController.view setFrame:self.view.frame];
[self addChildViewController:avPlayerController];
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Raw food diet is fast becoming the talk of the town what with the diet books, recipes, detox retreats, and even restaurants that are offering all-raw dishes, it's hard to miss this healthy diet that is being bandied about in many health circles. The question that you are probably asking yourself today is whether this particular diet is actually the one that we all need to follow not just in terms of losing weight but also for our overall health?
Although there are several benefits that you can get out of this diet program, there are quite a few misconceptions about it. Here are a few that you will most likely hear or read about it.
Well, this is a complete myth and one that you shouldn't really consider unless you are willing to miss out on important nutrients. Although some may be able to stick with a complete raw food diet, they are at risk of suffering from nutrient deficiencies such as protein, iron, and the like.
This is probably the biggest misconceptions of raw food diet. Many believe that raw food is considerably better compared to those cooked because they think the nutritional benefits are still intact. Although some are better eaten at their natural state, some are better off cooked if you really want to get their full potential.
This is completely false and one that your body is going to thank you for not following it. Suddenly switching to a raw food diet just because you want to flush out the toxins in your body or you want to speed up your metabolism isn't going to work as you are actually shocking your system with this sudden change that will eventually lead back to weight gain.
There is nothing wrong with following the raw food diet but if you really want to get the most out of it, it is time to pay attention to what foods you can eat raw and which ones you should eat cooked. Although raw means organic or in its natural state, keep in mind that not all raw foods should be eaten as is as some may be dangerous to your health. So here's a break down of foods that you can eat raw or cooked and their benefits.
They are much better eaten raw because they can retain all their nutritional value at this state. Raw bell peppers have higher amounts of vitamin C which is known for its immune building properties. Adding this to salads can help protect you against eye and heart diseases in the long run.
Eating tomatoes raw may be all well and good but it is better to cook them first. You see, tomatoes do have lycopene which is an antioxidant phytochemical that is good for your health but it is better absorbed by the body when it is cooked. Lycopene can actually reduce your risk from heart problems and cancer even.
Beets are actually best eaten raw so you will be able to absorb the folate that they contain. Folate plays a part in your brain function and health which can disappear if you cook this ingredient. What can folate do for you? Well, it can support your brain and heart health and supports normal fetal growth in pregnant women.
Eating mushrooms raw may be something you have seen done in cooking shows and the like, but unless you are familiar with different types of mushrooms, it is much better to cook them before eating. Mushrooms are one of the best sources of polysaccharides but they do have some toxins in them. Cooking them can help remove them for safer consumption. Eating mushrooms can help regulate your blood pressure, reduce your cholesterol levels, and maintain healthy blood sugar levels.


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I have been putting travel posts behind the scene on this blog for awhile now because travel isn't in my mind at the moment due to my tight schedule. But I want to take a bit of my time to tell you about Antwerp. I only had a day trip there and it is the most amazing town that I have seen in Belgium.
I get to know about this city from Monocle Forecast magazine that I bought early of 2016. It's been in my mind throughout the year to visit the place. Thankfully, at the end of the year, I had the chance to visit the city. It's like a dream come true.
My favorite organic fast food restaurant, Exki. Go for clean eating!
The significant beauty of Antwerp is the classic 19th century architectures with modern shop fronts reimagined by young designers. The fact that you can see, feel and experience the past and the present through the buildings, food, culture and way of life makes this place one of the unique town in Europe. Although living in the shadow of the more popular sibling, Brussels, Antwerp is not shy away from visitors. It has been serving Belgium as a port since the Middle Age which grants them the bragging rights over the economy power of the country. Thousands of diamond traders here carry their multi-billion dollar businesses and you can even grab the opportunity to own a high-quality diamond at a bargained price.
Het Steen. Ain't it look like Harry Potter scene?
Every first Sunday of the month is dedicated to shopping activities at Antwerp. There will be performances, flash sales, and you can even get a cheaper train pass.
Antwerp is well-known for its cheap diamond. Bring extra cash to grab high-quality diamonds at bargained price.
The town can be explored in a day. But to get a complete experience, I would recommend you to stay a night.
Visit the old town in December and you can experience the Christmas market and pop-up ice skating rink.
Hilton Antwerp Old Town is a strategic place to stay. All the attractions are within walking distance from the hotel.
Before leaving Antwerp, I bought the 2017 Monocle Forecast. It is the magazine that brought me here and hopefully, it will bring me to the next amazing place.
2017 to-visit according to Monocle Forecast is Cardiff. Let's go!!!!


Ah, how is it already Friday!? I feel like this week went so fast! Maybe it's because we're fresh off a vacation? We need more of those if that's the case.
We've suffered from major kitchen avoidance this week. With triple-digit temperatures nearly all week (Wednesday was nearly being 107 degrees!), it feels impossible to do just about anything comfortably, even just sit still. We've managed to keep up with our goal of working out at least 4 times a week, but it has been tough. I even nearly passed out while running during our workout on Monday. We were doing 200m sprints between rounds of cleans, kettlebell swings and front squats. Despite drinking a lot of water and keeping myself as cool as possible, I just got too dizzy. It was brutal. Running on the pavement felt like being cooked on a stove. My eyeballs were even hot, how does that happen?
So, in our avoidance, the crock pot has gotten a bit of a workout too. We put together a big crock of Thai pork with almond sauce, and it's managed to hold us over with a variety of meals for the entire week. It's juicy and sweet and perfect with steamed veggies or wrapped up in big pieces of lettuce. You can of course serve it over steamed rice too if that's your game.
Coat the slow cooker with coconut or olive oil. Put the pork, bell peppers, red pepper flakes and garlic in the cooker. Combine coconut sugar, lime juice, Braggs Liquid Aminos, and rice vinegar, stir, and add to cooker. Cover and cook on low until pork is fork-tender, 8 to 9 hours.
Remove the pork from the cooker and coarsely chop. Add the almond butter to the liquid in the cooker; stir well to dissolve and blend with the liquid to make the sauce. Return the pork to the sauce and toss to coat the meat evenly.
Serve over veggies, lettuce wraps or jasmine rice and sprinkle with green onions and peanuts and a squeeze of lime juice from the wedges.


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So encouraged was Bush by the tame Democratic pledge of support for his wars, that he announced on January 10th that he would send over 20,000 fresh troops into Iraq to try for victory. Restive Democratic members of the House and Senate, well aware that they had achieved their majority because the overwhelming majority of Americans reject the war, promised to hold hearings. Even Senator John "Send More Troops" Kerry, who lost the 2004 presidential election after refusing to oppose the war, expressed his opposition to increased troop levels. At press time, Senators were working on a toothless non-binding resolution. But almost every Democrat who spoke up against sending more troops also promised to vote for additional money to pursue the war in Iraq at current troop levels.
As Bush pushed his escalation in Iraq, his threats against Iran and Syria and his bombings in Somalia drew not a whimper of opposition from most Democratic Party officeholders. Neither has any Democratic leader raised questions about the Afghan war, where casualties increase steadily as US troops prop up a deeply unpopular government of utterly corrupt warlords. There were a few questions after it was announced by a U.N. agency that the Afghan opium crop had broken all records, but no Congressional leader has spoken out against the warlords' brutality toward women and workers, who have no rights under the US-backed regime.
Having been fooled into electing pro-war Democrats to defeat pro-war Republicans, frustrated voters may be willing to turn to progressive third party candidates in 2008. Meanwhile, sufficient pressure from voters, particularly in the streets, may push some of the Democrats and Republicans now in Congress to stop their support for war funding. Demonstrations were held in hundreds of cities and towns on January 11, after Bush announced he was sending more troops to Iraq, and larger demonstrations are planned on January 27 and on the anniversary of the war on March 20. The Mayday rallies for immigrant rights in many cities are also expected to have a strong anti-war message.
At the congressional district level, angry Democratic and Republican voters are joining with independent left activists to pressure members of congress to stop voting for war funding. In Sacramento, a community press conference early in January was followed by a sit-in at the office of Doris Matsui (D-Sacramento), who says she opposes escalation but refuses to stop voting funds for the war. One of those joining the sit-in was John Reiger, the Peace and Freedom Party nominee against Matsui in November. He points out that Matsui's statements that she must vote for war funding or leave soldiers defenseless on the field of battle are nonsense. "The money already approved can be used to bring them home," Reiger told reporters. Around the country, rallies and vigils demanding an end to war funding have been held at the offices of at least 120 members of Congress.


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