Food robotics company Chowbotics announces that its first product, a salad-making robot called Sally, recently passed the UL and NSF-25 safety and sanitation standards.
To obtain these certifications, Sally the Salad Robot underwent and passed an evaluation at Underwriters Laboratories (UL) to ensure it and the facility where it is produced meet specific standards for food safety. The certification indicates that Sally meets health and safety standards for use in commercial establishments.
Offices, convenience stores, hotels, airports as well as fast casual restaurants are places that can use Sally to bring fresh, healthy and delicious food to consumers. These certifications open the door for a comprehensive roll-out of Sally at these target locations.
Sally offers over 1,000 custom salad options. Salads are created in less than a minute and a half with any combination of up to 22 ingredients, and users can fine tune the calorie total by adding or subtracting ingredients via touchscreen.
Like a vending machine, Sally doesn't require staffing; it can whip up salads around the clock, making it ideal for employers who want to provide options for when the cafeteria is closed, hotel operators who want to give guests an array of a healthy choices beyond the minibar and convenience store operators wanting to provide a quick, fresh meal for commuters on the go.
Sally's proprietary technology reduces the risk of foodborne illness, as ingredients are kept refrigerated, sanitary and separate. Each of Sally's ingredients is replenished on a regular basis and contained within the robot, greatly reducing the potential for contamination. Sally is an ideal alternative to a salad bar, especially in higher-risk facilities such as schools, retirement homes and hospitals.
About Chowbotics: Chowbotics develops robots for food service. By automating repetitive tasks, Chowbotics aims to increase productivity and enable creativity, both in and out of the kitchen. The company's first product, Sally the Salad Robot, allows users to create custom salads. Proprietary technology ensures precise caloric counts and protects the integrity of ingredients, keeping them fresh, sanitary, and separate. Future robots will offer breakfast as well as Mexican and other ethnic foods. These robots could be used in cafeterias, restaurants, hotels and other commercial venues. Chowbotics, was founded by Deepak Sekar, Ph.D., an inventor with more than 100 patents. He serves as the CEO. Rich Page, an Apple Fellow who joined Steve Jobs as Co-Founder and VP at NeXT, is Executive Chairman. Investors include Techstars Ventures and Foundry Group.


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Leveraging complimentary brand's associations
You may have seen my Twitter post about the creative of the video for the Tom Tom iPhone app and car kit. What I liked about it was the associations it was creating between the Tom Tom brand and descriptors like urban, sophisticated, simple, worry free, elegant and future thinking. But then I realized why […]
You may have seen my Twitter post about the creative of the video for the Tom Tom iPhone app and car kit. What I liked about it was the associations it was creating between the Tom Tom brand and descriptors like urban, sophisticated, simple, worry free, elegant and future thinking. But then I realized why the associations were so powerful. The music, brand elements and the 3D road projected from the iPhone were inspired by a brand with all these associations powerfully built in for many people: Sim City.
What was most clear to me was the music. I always liked the music from Sim City, and probably was a pivotal driver in my love for jazz. I often work to the Sim City Rush Hour soundtrack (free download) because it is stimulating but non-distracting. The ambient music in the Tom Tom iPhone demo video is very similar. I put the connection together consciously, but for most the association is there on an unconscious level. Players who played Sim City will link the positive feelings they remember from Sim City to Tom Tom, to a certain extent. A good move, because I would be willing to bet the people interested in the iPhone car kit would be on the geekier side of the general population (I am a self admitted geek) and are more likely to have played Sim City. Even if a potential customer hasn't, Sim City did a great job of orchestrating those feelings and why try to reinvent their great work if they are making the associations you want.
This can be done by any business. Think of a descriptor you would like your brand to be described as. What brand is best described that way? (Elegant = Mercedes, Free Spirited = Echo) Analyze that brand. What colours are they using? What sort of lines does the graphics have? What sounds do they use? How is the material composed? Look at everything that speaks to your descriptor. Don't be afraid to integrate some of these aspects into the design of your company's material. But put your brand's spin on it, and give credit where credit is due.
Check out the video for yourself. I think it is very well done:

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Q: Coq tutorial and/or book with exercises involving subset types Is there a Coq tutorial and/or book with discussion and exercises involving subset types, as in the following SO question?
Coq case analysis and rewrite with function returning subset types
It doesn't have to be that set of exercises specifically, but I am interested in learning how to use subset types.

A: Mystery solved, the exercises were from Homeworks from CIS 670 at Penn in Fall 2012, which is linked from the website for the CPDT book, and they are related to a chapter from CPDT that deals with subset types.

A: Subsets (sig) are defined inductively. They pair an object and a proof about that object. They're similar to ex but reside in Set/Type instead of Prop. There's also a sigT.
Print ex.
Print sig.
Print sigT.

The Program command allows you to ignore the proofs that come bundled in subsets and to build those proofs interactively after the function is defined. There's a chapter about the Program command in the manual. Be aware though that links to the manual are ever changing.

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Giro Aether MIPS: Slip Plane Beauty With new MIPS Spherical, Giro puts MIPS at the core of its new helmet.
When Team BMC Racing rolls out for the Tour de France on Saturday, July 7th, with the hope of putting Richie Porte in yellow, they will be wearing the new Giro Aether MIPS. On your TV screen it's going to look like an updated Synthe – a little lighter, a little more aero, new lines, some fancy new marketing terms. What's to get excited about, right? But wait, the usual incremental improvements we've been trained to believe are groundbreaking are really the least exciting things about this helmet. What is special about Aether is its reimagining of MIPS technology. No longer an after-thought added to existing helmets, or even a helmet designed natively around the ubiquitous plastic 'slip plane' liner, the Aether MIPS puts MIPS at its core, literally.
There is no plastic liner in the Aether MIPS, and at first glance, if you don't catch the bright yellow MIPS dot on its shell, it appears to be a non-MIPS helmet. Unlike Giro's other MIPS helmets which either feature a MIPS liner in an existing design, or a MIPS liner integrated into the helmet's fit system, the Aether debuts MIPS Spherical – a beautiful, elegant and stealthy solution to fighting oblique impacts. Using two independent EPS shells, with a friction reducing layer between, the Aether MIPS provides the critical 10-15mm of movement, in the critical 10-15 milliseconds after impact, to reduce the affects of rotational force on the brain, without the usual plastic liner. You need to get to a bike shop and hold it in your hands to truly appreciate it.
Checkout this video to see how MIPS Spherical in motion.
RELATED: Does MIPS Matter? Check out the newly minted helmet ratings from Virginia Tech, MIPS helmets dominated the results.
We have a hard time imagining any other helmet brand could have produced this helmet. Giro, sharing facilities with its sister brand Bell, has 30 years of helmet experience, the most extensive testing facility in the industry – much of it designed to test rotational impact specifically – and amazing proficiency in producing dual density and dual shell helmets which we saw in the Bell Zephyr.
The GIRO Synthe undergoing testing in one of the many test rigs at Giro's facility.
Giro's production of helmets for other sports also played a huge role in the Aether's development. While studying the impacts a slalom skier withstands from hitting gates, Giro realized they needed a helmet to withstand repeated low power impacts, yet still retain the ability to withstand a high velocity critical wipeout. It created the Avance, a dual density helmet with the very first MIPS Spherical design, but that was child's play compared to Aether. The Avance is $600, heavy, large, and hidden under a carbon shell with almost no ventilation. Putting MIPS Spherical in a helmet light enough, ventilated enough, comfortable enough and safe enough for the World Tour took three years and pushed the envelope of essentially every aspect of Giro's core proficiencies.
Aether is undoubtedly the most complex helmet Giro has ever made, but incredibly, that complexity is hidden in a simple, clean and elegant design. Aether is basically two helmets in one. The outside EPS shell is high density for high speed impacts, the internal EPS shell is lower density to handle slow speed impacts, and the shells move 10-15mm relative to each other to disperse oblique impacts – MIPS raison d'être – thanks to a friction reducing layer between. With the Giro Aether it feels like MIPS has finally come of age. No more squeaky plastic layer, no more Frankenstein retro fits. No more pro racers ripping out MIPS layers because they muddled up helmet fit. Shortly after MIPS debut, PELOTON got a call to check out the new MIPS helmets of a team which will remain nameless. We drove out to their hotel outside of Oudenaarde, Belgium. The team handed us one of the rider's helmets, the spanking new MIPS layer had been pulled out. We asked for another rider's helmet, the layer had been ripped out of that one too. Needless to say, we didn't write a story about this new helmet.
To put this in a lightweight, ventilated helmet required a six piece polycarbonate shell. It was not just time consuming and difficult to make, it pushed Giro to work with new materials. Instead of the manufacturing team telling the design team something wasn't possible, they worked to find solutions. The best example of this commitment is the intricate shapes required by the dual shells and six polycarbonate outer shells. Manufacturing found EPS beads would not flow into the small spaces demanded by the design during molding. Instead of rejecting the design as impossible to make, they found dual density nano-bead EPS which would flow into the tighter spaces and provide the beautiful fit and finish the design demanded.
When it came to passing the slew of drop tests required for CE CPSC certification, Giro was again pressed to find new solutions. It wanted huge vents with deep channeling, but the two shells required reinforcing that would not impact ventilation. The result is a polycarbonate bridge crossing the vents and providing structure for blunt impacts called the Aura Reinforcing Arch and cooling numbers better than the Synthe MIPS.
As if all this wasn't enough the helmet has plenty of features that would actually make it a legitimate product update even without the innovative MIPS Spherical design. A new Roc Loc 5 retention system adds occipital contact adjustment to the usual dial and vertical fit tuning of the Roc Loc. Just to add extra complexity, because 'Why not, right?', the Giro logo is a single three dimensional piece pressed into laser cut opening from the back of the shell. Add integrated eyewear docks and the Aether has all the bells and whistles one could want in a 250 gram package.
As for the ride, you'll quickly forget about the Aether, and that is the point. It has Giro's usual head form, the fit system is incredibly comfortable but will adapt to more head shapes, it feels among the coolest and best ventilated helmets, at high and low speed, we have ever ridden. Giro says it's plenty quick too, although they have not yet finished their aero testing so no comparisons have been made. The Aether is beautiful, its MIPS equipped, and it represents not just cutting edge tech, it's an exquisite piece of design that gracefully adds protection for your most important asset. Go to the bike shop. Hold it in your hands. Admire the incredible fit and finish. Rock the internal shell back and forth against the external shell. Of course, only do that if you're willing to spend $325, because you'll want the new Aether to go home with you.


Your little one is worth melting for in this Officially Licensed Frozen Olaf Classic Toddler Costume. Everyone will be asking for a warm hug in this plush costume that has Olaf's classic 3 snowball body, buttons and carrot nose.
The costume is great. It fits well for the size group. The material is thin so in the Midwest we had to layer under it. Overall a great costume that our two year old enjoyed.


HOUSTON -- Transformers The Last Knight is the 5th film in the franchise, marking the 10- year anniversary of the autobots. Anthony Hopkins joins Mark Wahlberg in the action flick, but can director Michael Bay offer something we haven't already seen in the previous four films? Film critic Dustin Chase reviews the summer blockbuster plus this week's counter release. Earning the best director award at Cannes this year, Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled stars Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst and a group of young women who give fallen soldier Colin Farrell interesting treatment during the civil war. More honest film reviews this week on Flix Fix.


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Q: How to ignore a column of a TableModel in a JTable? I have a TableModel to a JTable and I must put it on another table, and I've done it just seting the model of the second table with setModel(firstTableModel).
The problem is that I don't want that one of the columns of the model shows on the second table.
Is it possible to ignore/not display a single column, or I really must create another TableModel with all the redundant information of the first table model to omit just a single column?

A: Thanks to @mKorbel I found the solution:
secondTable.removeColumn(secondTable.getColumnModel().getColumn(columnIndex));


--No classes on Monday, December 31 and Tuesday, January 1, 2019.
--December 29, 2018(Saturday) will adjust to Monday's class schedule.
--No classes from Tuesday October 1, 2019 to Monday October 7, 2019.
--September 29, 2019 (Sunday) will adjust to Friday's class schedule.
--October 12, 2019 (Saturday) will adjust to Monday's class schedule.
*Schedules list above are subject to change without notice in advance.


After dissatisfying service from a previous company, Frank switched to Innovative Basement Systems and was quite happy!
Homeowners in in Wayzata, MN called Innovative Basement Systems when the floor above their crawlspace had sagged over an inch. A crew came in and installed SmartJacks to stabilize and straighten the sagging floor joists.
Homeowners in Wayzeta, MN, emailed the TEAM at Innovative regarding a cracked and bowing basement wall. The home was built in 1957 and it had the cracks when the homeowner purchased the home eight years ago - but was interested in the cost he'd be looking at to correct it. Owner, Keith Johnson, met with this homeowner and educated him on PowerBrace. The homeowner was impressed not only with the product, but was shocked to see the estimate under 5K for the job.
If you have bowing or cracked basement walls, call 877-365-0097 today!
When it isn't possible to anchor walls in the soils outside the foundation due to properly line restrictions, we recommend repairing your damaged foundation walls with the PowerBrace Wall Repair System.
The PowerBrace is an adjustable steel I-beam system with two important benefits: stabilizing bowed or tilting walls, and (over time) forcing bowed or tilting wall sections back to their original position. All PowerBrace components are manufactured to exacting standards, with an anti-corrosion zinc coating that will keep them looking like new for decades to come!
House has a sump pump system but concrete floor has significant efflorescence and is dusty. The walls can get very damp and moldy if there is significant rain and have developed leaks in the past but this is not a common occurrence.
Garage floor has some cracking. Having the floor coated. Coating contractor recommended we do this.
1950's tuck under garage foundation needs repair.
Innovative worked on a piering project for us on a large commercial building and did a great job.
Wall anchors can be tightened over time to further straighten your foundation walls and pull them back to their original position.
Note the visible cracks above the tool board.
Joan B. from Wayzata, MN, called TEAM Innovative after noticing water in her basement. System design specialist, Greg Grant, met with Joan and inspected the foundation and basement thoroughly.
We have over 10 years of experience in the industry, and have been recognized by the BBB and Basement Systems for our service and craftsmanship. We are well-known for our engineered waterproofing products, custom designed to work well in any home.
Waterproofing with our WaterGuard drainage system and TripleSafe sump pump was all that was recommended to keep her basement nice and dry.
Since installation, there have been no further water issues. Another DRY basement in Wayzata, MN! If you are experiencing water in your basement, call 877-365-0097 today to schedule your free inspection and estimate!
I am purchasing a home and the inspection revealed serious cracking on a block wall in basement. It was suggested I have it looked at for suggested repairs. I'm happy to pay a fee for an opinion... need this done Monday or Tuesday. Thanks.
Potential foundation issues. Basement walls are showing cracks and floor above the basement area with cracks is starting to slope. The city replaced all of the water mains in our neighborhood last summer and trenched out a large and deep portion of our front yard near our house (which might be causing our problems).
Found small area of moisture in corner of basement.
I am buying a home that has a crawl space on three sides of the basement. one of the crawl spaces is approximately 24'x10' and is settling back toward the house. There is one large offset shear crack in the side wall (the 10' side) near where it meets up with the basement. I am looking for a ballpark range of what it might cost to repair the foundation to prevent continued settlement.


Byron J. Racki made an average of $611.3K in compensation at Neenah Paper between 2017 and 2018.
In 2018, Byron J. Racki earned a total compensation of $639.7K as Senior Vice President, President Fine Paper & Packaging at Neenah Paper.
Byron J. Racki's 2018 compensation ranked 7,107th out of 8,692 executive pay records tracked by us this year.
Racki earned more than 18.2% of all executives tracked by us in 2018.
In the industry group of Paper Mills, Racki's pay ranked 33rd out of 34 executive pay records tracked by us in 2018.
Racki earned more than 2.9% of executives in this group.
Racki received $326.8K in salary, which accounts for 51.08% of total compensation.
Racki also received $68.3K in non-equity incentive plan, $55.8K in option awards, $146.9K in stock awards and $42K in other compensation.
In 2017, Byron J. Racki earned a total compensation of $582.8K as Senior Vice President, President Fine Paper & Packaging at Neenah Paper.
Byron J. Racki's 2017 compensation ranked 10,261st out of 13,224 executive pay records tracked by us this year.
Racki earned more than 22.4% of all executives tracked by us in 2018.
In the industry group of Paper Mills, Racki's pay ranked 42nd out of 44 executive pay records tracked by us in 2017.
Racki earned more than 4.5% of executives in this group.
Racki received $292K in salary, which accounts for 50.10% of total compensation.
Racki also received $94.9K in non-equity incentive plan, $43.8K in option awards, $118.9K in stock awards and $33.2K in other compensation.


Looking for love in 2019?
One of the things I most love about working with crystals and crystal jewellery is the wonderful people it brings into my life.
As well as the beautiful clients who share with me their personal stories or let me know their crystals arrived safely, I am also meeting some awesome suppliers.
During my recent travels in Far North Queensland, I had the pleasure of meeting my new friends, Karin and Rudi. They create the beautiful pendants and jewellery I stock in my gift shop. I was able to visit their showroom and workshop and chat with them for the morning. What an amazing experience! I'm excited to share this behind-the-scenes look at how the crystal jewellery I stock, is created.
I'm really picky when it comes to selecting all of my stock, whether it be crystal tumble stones and specimens or crystal jewellery. Karin and Rudi are the same! Rudi has been creating gemstone jewellery for over 20 years and I'm sure that what he doesn't know about gemstones is not worth knowing.
As I sorted through the thousands of stones that were available to be made into pendants, rings and bracelets, Karin and Rudi patiently explained where the stones had come from (this Charoite from Russia; that Chrysocolla from the Congo; those Rhodochrosite pieces from NSW….), how the colours in it were formed, how it could be cut in various ways etc. I could have stayed there for weeks and soaked up this information!
As you can see from the photos below, the stones are laid out on trays, ready to be sold as they are, or converted into wearable pieces.
I chose the stones I wanted to be made into pendants, and was expecting to pick them up in a week, but Rudi offered to add the silver bails (the silver part that attaches to the stone to allow a chain to go through) while I waited, and invited me to watch.
He uses a fine drill to create a clean hole though the stone. This is done in a flat tub of cold water. The dust of many of stones, like malachite and shattuckite is poisonous and cannot be inhaled – so drilling the holes in the water bath stops the dust from flying everywhere, lubricates the stone and keeps its temperature down to stop it from cracking.
Once drilled, the bail is fitted to the stone. This happens on another dedicated bench in the workshop. All of the plastic bags you can see along the window in the photo below, contain various sized bails. It looked like there were hundreds of different sizes.
Rudi explained that the bail was really important – it could either help to support the stone's true magnificence or diminish it. He feels that bails should be generously sized, without being too big (or overpowering the stone). I just love his perfectionist view about crystal jewellery making!
With a few pieces, he also asked whether I would like the bail in one end of the stone or the other – there's no right or wrong with this stuff as it's all personal choice, but I really enjoyed having input into those pieces.
As he came to make up one of my pieces, he noticed a flaw on the tip of the stone. He asked if I wanted to pick another one or if I wanted him to polish it out. I was happy to have him polish it out.
I absolutely love the process of buying crystals, and working with Karin and Rudi has added an entirely new dimension to that. It's truly a pleasure to work and speak with people who are masters of their craft, and passionate about it.
When you buy jewellery from my Gift Shop, you can be assured that it has been hand selected from a place of love and intention, by Rudi, Karin and/or me. Through these lovely people, I am able to source a huge range of gemstone jewellery – so if you are after a specific piece (ie, type of crystal, shape or size), I am happy to work with you to create it!


Original lithograph with colour of Bosnia, Herzegovina, Albania, Montenegro, Serbia and Croatia as published in 'Meyers grosses Konversations-Lexikon,' Leipzig & Vienna, c.1890. 230 x 275 mm.
Meyers Konversations-Lexikon was a major German encyclopedia that existed in various editions from 1839 until 1984, when it merged with the Brockhaus encyclopedia. The original founder and publisher who initiated this famous enxyclopedia was Joseph Meyer. This map shows Croatia's Dalmatian coast line, Herzegovina, Bosnia, Montenegro and parts of Serbia and Albania. The place names along the Dalmatian coast are still Italian and the borderlines do not correspond with today's borders in all cases.


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Magic Forest (Gone)
Lake George, New York
The theme park reopened in 2019 with a new owner and a new name: Lake George Expedition Park. Almost all of the quirky attractions of Magic Forest described below -- including the diving horse, the gigantic Uncle Sam, and the Muffler Men -- have been removed.
Most fairy tale theme parks eventually suffer the fate of a fabled cursed kingdom. We spot their blistered, sagging entry gates on lonely back roads, or squeezed between the Amusements of the Month in some overdeveloped Mecca. A bean pole droops, a gingerbread house caves in, a Humpty Dumpty falls one last time.
Then there are the fairy tale worlds blessed with good fortune, as if every child who ever visited used up a secret wish on its behalf.
Magic Forest is one, aided by a combination of prime location and classic clean kid fun. Probably nowhere else is the disturbing world of children's' fairy tales brought to life more vividly.
The World's Largest Uncle Sam looms in the center of the parking lot, and other friendly icons beckon from the heavily wooded knoll where the Magic Forest lives. Visitors passing through the garish fairyland entrance building are inundated with choices, as paths curve away into clusters of statues, rides and brightly painted cottages.
All the classic cautionary tales are here, displayed in miniature within wooden shelters, or lurking in the woods along serpentine trails. About 20 dioramas -- accompanied by audio at the push of a button -- bring to life the Three Little Pigs, Jack Sprat, Hansel & Gretel, assorted princesses and woodsmen...
Magic Forest opened in 1963, the brainchild of Arthur Gillette, who wisely built his fairyland along a major highway (Route 9) and just south of the town of Lake George, a magnet for summertime and weekend crowds from New York City. Today, many roar obliviously north on the interstate, but enough families exit to keep MF hopping, under the management of Arthur's successor, Jack Gillette, since 1988.
Magic Forest probably has the longest running permanent "Diving Horse" show since Atlantic City's Steel Pier burned down. Rex the Diving Horse leaped on cue into a pool for many years; now his son, Lightning, takes the plunge twice a day.
There are plenty of unnerving fairy tale statues along the wooded trails of Magic Forest -- an impressive collection of contorted bodies, asymmetrical faces, weird leers, and bulging eyes. The Spider Man is a creepy top-hatted arachnid, maybe not so scary in a world of chest-bursting aliens and zombies. But we bet this up close encounter will come back in someone's nightmares....
Uncle Sam is 38 feet tall and formerly stood at the Danbury Fairgrounds in Connecticut. When the Fair went out of business, Jack Gillette bought him in April 1982 (along with dozens of other statues) and stood him in the Magic Forest parking lot. Also guarding the minivans and SUVs is a large Santa Claus, reportedly the most popular statue on the property. Both are protected with Clear Coat, as are all the statues in the Magic Forest.
Mixed among the dioramas are giant statues of American icons, several of them reworked Muffler Men: Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan, Smokey Bear, the Statue of Liberty, a big Indian, a couple of space-walking astronauts.
The dark, woodsy allure of classic fairy tales is part of Magic Forest's charm. In fact, kids seem oblivious to the creepiness of this place, and so do the adults, for that matter.
Two Muffler Men are particularly disturbing. One, a giant clown, has to be the most remodeled MM in the world. The other is a Happy Halfwit with an Amish beard and hat, holding an ax just opposite the Little Miss Muffet display.
We have an awkward moment -- not uncommon for us -- when we ask a passing manager why the grimacing, Amishized Alfred E. Neuman holds an ax. She doesn't understand our concern, and is probably wondering why grown men traveling without children are in her park in the first place.
"His head is the way we got him. We put an ax in his hands and made him a woodsman."
Actually, that helps to explain a lot about this place. It's perfect.
Magic Forest site is now Lake George Expedition Park. I-87 exit 21 to Hwy 9 north. Just south of town, east side of the road.
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At 08h43, Monday, 26th December, NSRI Port Elizabeth duty crew, aboard the private boat Beast, belonging to Albatross Off-shore Services, who provided their boat to assist, launched accompanied by 2 EC Government Health EMS rescue paramedics and an interpreter to rendezvous with the 327 meter ore carrier, Cosco Ansteel, last Port of call Brazil, to patient evacuate a 31 year old Chinese crewman, the vessels 2nd Engineer, suffering suspected Appendicitis.
Due to the larger number of personnel accompanying the operation the private boat the Motor Vessel Beast was seconded to assist.
On arrival on the scene the patient, walking wounded, was transferred onto the MV Beast and in the care of EMS rescue paramedics he was brought safely to the Port of Port Elizabeth in a stable condition and he has been transported to hospital by ambulance.


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Unthinkable (2010) : A critique of the "more torture" approach to the war on terror – A review by Mario Casonato
For the last 15 years, ever since the watershed events of 9/11, terrorism has become a central topic in the discussion surrounding security. The Bush administration's decision to wage "war on terror" has spurred much debate about the sort of practices employed to counter this phenomenon. The consequences of the "war on terror" are visible in the attempts to reshape the international legal framework, however they equally weigh into the ethical, political and social domains, making terrorism an all-encompassing issue in the contemporary political landscape.
This crucial debate of our epoch had an obvious fallout on popular culture, especially TV shows, videogames and cinema. A theme that has become predominant in the cultural appreciation of the terrorism issue is the retrieval of information through the so called "enhanced interrogation", or in a less nuanced way: torture.
Torture is a theme that appeared in many mainstream products since 2001 and it has hardly been approached in a critical manner. However, some rare products seek to problematize the idea of its effectiveness and go as far as suggesting ethical puzzles on how such a method is deployed in the fight against terrorism. One of these products is the 2011 movie "Unthinkable" never released in the theaters.
The movie's storyline stages an often-mentioned situation of counterterrorism that involves the moral dilemma of choosing between saving countless lives from an imminent attack on one hand and physically abusing an individual in possession of relevant information on the other. This scenario is commonly known as "the ticking bomb situation". The ticking bomb is exactly the plot mechanism that drives the story in Unthinkable: a terrorist (Michael Sheen) has placed three nuclear devices in three major American cities and threatens to trigger them if his demands are not met. Once in captivity, the perpetrator is submitted to ineffective enhanced interrogations by the military authorities while the FBI struggles to investigate on the devices' locations. The dire situation and the limited time call for even more exceptional methods to interrogate the uncooperative captive. Thus the military outsources the job to a shady contractor (called H) experienced in actual, brutal, medieval torture. For the entire length of the film FBI counterterrorism agent Brody (Carrie Ann Moss) and the contractor (Samuel L. Jackson) engage in a good cop/bad cop routine to make the terrorist talk. As it is evident from the setting of the movie the interrogation is a covert operation approved by the highest ranks of the military authorities. Notwithstanding the vocal protests of the FBI, the contractor is forced to cope with the terrorist's uncooperativeness with increasingly gruesome methods of torture. The breaking point of this crescendo of brutality comes when the nuclear explosions are soon to occur and Jackson's character threatens to harm the family of his victim, hence exacerbating the logic of "the ticking bomb scenario" by directly harming an increasing number of innocent civilians: first the wife and then the children. Throughout the movie the dialogues are animated by a direct confrontation between idealist and consequentialist philosophies and it is in these, often ambiguous, dialogues that the ethical and legal aspects of this movie become relevant.
This scene showcases the common trope of black sites and military competence even over domestic counterterrorism.
The terrorist in the film is virtually only protected by the rights to which he is entitled as a human being, in particular the prohibition of torture, a well-established norm of the international legal order considered as ius cogens. Its importance has been re-affirmed over the years also with the specifically dedicated instrument of the 1984 "Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment".
The international legal framework, just like domestic (U.S.) law, is unequivocally driven towards a total ban of torture from any state activity and the impossibility to derogate from this rule. However, if the ius cogens character of this norm is indubitable, how is it then possible that torture enjoys such longevity among the repressive practices at the disposal of states?
One argument can be that the vagueness of the term allows some wiggle space in its definition. For instance, the U.S. have been able to defuse criticism by advocating alleged substantial differences between "enhanced interrogation" and torture. The typical claim is that enhanced interrogation, which involves practices such as waterboarding, strictly speaking cannot be considered torture. Another issue is the material impossibility to enforce the rule before the torture takes place, together with the difficulty for victims to denounce such treatments with sufficient evidence of the abuse. Nonetheless more generally and in the specific case of the film, the answer can come from Schmittian remarks on sovereignty and exception. For the German scholar the sovereign is "who can decide on the exception" and sovereignty casts aside the rule in a renewed constituent moment on the threshold between politics and law, where the will of the sovereign and the way in which it is enacted sets off to form new laws. What happens when a state decides to resort to torture is nothing but the will of the Sovereign being enacted and falling completely under the specificities of the State of Exception even when this eventuality is excluded by ius cogens.
In the movie this exceptionality is shown by addressing the military's indifference to the rule of law as they are driven only by the unique circumstances and their will to carry out their orders. A brief scene of legal jousting shows the FBI agent clinging to the constitutional prohibition of torture and the jurisdiction of U.S. Criminal Courts. But then she discovers that the terrorist has been stripped of his American citizenship and taken into custody under military jurisdiction as an enemy combatant under the powers of the Military Commission Act[1]. This act curtails any appeal to humanitarian law such as the Geneva Convention and is very restrictive towards habeas corpus. Tellingly, this brief legal debate approaches the prohibition of torture under the provisions of U.S. Law, rapidly dismissing the international legal framework in conformity with the general U.S.' stance towards international legal instruments which, more often than not, are believed to be binding only as long as they do not hinder the interests of the United States. In this sense, perhaps unwillingly, the movie showcases not only the discourse of exceptionalism that pervades (American) counterterrorism, but also the more general assumption that the U.S., in its foreign policy, is seldom bound by the same rules that apply to other states. Implicitly this hints another level of the discourse of exceptionalism, in which the U.S. perceive itself as a sort of sovereign able to contravene to the rules of the international legal order.
In this fragment the viewer is brought to see the lengths Stephen Arthur Younger's abusers are ready to go but also, the brief legal joust between agent Brody and H's "Handler" shows how the abuses take place in a normative vacuum and constitutional rights are set aside under a sort of martial law that strips the victim of every right. Even more interesting is how domestic counterterrorism provisions are believed to trump the Geneva Convention.
Giorgio Agamben[2] in his analysis of the state of exception carves out the crucial role of the absence of law, or anomie. This theme is highlighted also by "Unthinkable" when agent Brody discovers the condition of legal vacuum in which the military is operating.
The viewer is introduced to the regime of semi-martial law progressively enacted after the 9/11 and the military authorities' faculty to operate outside the law. Moreover, the scene exemplifies the moral grey area in which counterterrorism operations are carried out. Precisely the exceptionality of the crisis portrayed in the movie is what allows these brutal practices: the narrative of the exceptional means has been resounding during the "war on terror" when operating outside the law became common, as was, for instance, the case with the use of extraordinary renditions.
Brody's quarrel with her superior showcases how the FBI is also brought to bend the law under the premises of discourses of exceptionalism that set aside the constitution by invoking the existential nature of the threat.
Despite the unequivocal prohibition of torture in numerous instruments of international and domestic law across the world, torture still enjoys not only the favor of those who are ready to use it but also the favor of some vocal advocates who plead for its legalization. This is the case of American lawyer Alan Dershowitz who advanced this controversial hypothesis specifically in the context of the fight against terrorism. In the nightmarish scenario that Dershowitz envisages in "Why Terrorism Works"[3], the use of torture is dramatically similar to the one depicted by Unthinkable. When the retrieval of information is a matter of life and death in light of an imminent and existential threat, Dershowitz deems feasible/proposes to empower a judge with the possibility to approve and oversee torture. By suggesting this, Dershowitz tries to demonstrate that torture could become an integral part of the American legal system without conflicting with existing legal instruments. Dershowitz's argument draws from the notion of security as common good which would be endangered by terrorist acts like the ones shown in "Unthinkable". This reflection takes into account the possibility of weakening the individual rights of one dangerous individual in order to maximize the common good. The reasoning balances the human costs of torture against the safety of the thousands of citizens endangered by the terrorist. This quantitative approach to the consideration of suffering diverges slightly from the origins of utilitarian philosophy that in XVII century probed for new ways to maximize aggregated societal happiness and eliminate suffering. Dershowitz instead reverses this tenant of utilitarianism by proposing to maximize suffering on an individual to minimize it on a greater number of people. Furthermore, he applies a consequentialist approach to the decision whether or not to torture an individual; such logic evaluates possible actions only in terms of their consequences without moral or deontological variables. In addition, Dershowitz argues that the legalization of torture could be essential in regulating and monitoring a practice that is used despite its prohibition. To this point, the emphasis that Unthinkable puts on the element of time is already a good argument to criticize the pledge for the legalization of torture. In fact, the lengthy and burdensome administrative procedure that would require a judge to review documents and approve the action would defeat the purpose of torturing somebody in reason of an imminent threat.
Other issues are raised by the movie in response to this light-hearted advocacy of torture: for instance, what if the terrorist precisely because he seeks martyrdom, is prepared to endure any kind of brutal abuse? This is indeed the case in the film, where the victim, far from being innocent, endures atrocious abuse inspired by the desire of martyrdom and even finds the time to psychologically manipulate his abusers.
Lastly, what Dershowitz purposely overlooks is the scarce evidence that torture is an effective tool. Cesare Beccaria[4] already in the XIX century stressed the fact that a person subjected to abuse could release false information just to be relieved of the pain, thus stalling the process to pre-empt mass murder. This punctually happens in "Unthinkable" when the terrorist misleads the investigators to stop the interrogation and rest before it resumes. As for Beccaria, he also used a utilitarian framework, and approached the matter under the perspective of its utility in gathering evidence that could be used by a prosecutor to incriminate a suspected criminal. In Beccaria's treatise the common-sense answer is that to prevent any more pain, the victim/suspect will confess anything even to the point of self-incriminating, which obviously would not help prosecutors discover the truth and punish the real culprit of a crime.
This last argument brings us to another issue that Dershowitz ignores: how could a judge authorize ex ante practices that could reveal themselves ineffective? In the movie, the torturer, endowed with carte blanche on the range of methods, goes as far as murdering the terrorist's wife. From a utilitarian perspective, torturing an individual and murdering another still maximizes the benefits for the society but how could this be approved by a judge? From this perspective as long as losses are less than the benefits the utilitarian reasoning maintains its validity. So without any moral consideration, in order to save 10 people, you could keep on torturing and killing up to 9 people, 9.5 if we count children. The pivotal problem in Dershowitz's argument is that it is at odds with the classical utilitarian literature such as Bentham or Beccaria that define in a completely different way both the concept of security and the concept of torture[5].
Bentham in fact considered "spanking a child" already an act of torture and questioned its utility only in some marginal preparatory notes to his work, Dershowitz's interpretation is far from being this light. Moreover, what Dershowitz suggests when he advocates the legalization of torture is nothing but the opening of a path of exceptional measures that would become harsher out of inertia and could easily reach the level of abjection achieved by the Third Reich. This particular "reductio ad hitlerum" is not casual since Agamben already had warned that the problem of constitutional dictatorship that turns the exception into the rule was precisely what happened in the Weimar Republic. In that case the permanent state of exception that was declared by Hitler created a set of rules that formally, under German law, made the Holocaust legal as well.
In conclusion it seems that the eventuality of legalizing torture is not only subjected to moral reserves but also to doubts on its effectiveness and a vast array of subjective variables that would make torture an unviable solution even in a worst case scenario such as the one shown in "Unthinkable". Lastly, the film, however ambiguously, portrays effectively all the instances of this debate and perhaps allows to problematize the issue more than other products. In doing so, Untihinkable leaves a margin ample enough to take on a critical perspective. It might be said that the ineffectiveness of torture is emphasized by the underwhelming finale: when threatened with the murder of his children the terrorist eventually reveals the location of the three devices, knowingly withholding information about a fourth, whose existence was ignored by the investigators and whose detonation is only suggested for dramatic purposes.
The grim end of the movie shifts the attention of the viewer from the violence he witnessed to the poor work of intelligence of the officials that have been asking the wrong questions to the terrorist for the entire movie, questions that even when they were answered could not prevent a nuclear disaster. This suggests an interpretation that pivots around the excessive reliance on controversial methods by state authorities. Such uncompromising methods, that eventually forsake the humane content of legal instruments, are portrayed as utterly superfluous and damaging as opposed to evidence-led investigative and intelligence work.
Notwithstanding the large international consensus behind the respect for human rights and the prohibition of torture, the issue is far from being ancient history and this is ultimately confirmed by periodical inflammatory declarations of public figures of the likes of Dershowitz and by troubling reports indicating how torture is still alive and well as a repressive method in many state security apparatuses across the world[6].
Even if the longevity of this method stands tall against any attempt to its eradication, the intrinsic value of Unthinkable is to show how the ethical stance of western democracies becomes loose when confronted with the growing need for security brought along by the narrative of the "war on terror". If a very little known film cannot singlehandedly bring to an end the diffusion of such practices at least it can be used to locate visually compelling examples that help to defuse incendiary discourses that advocate for "more torture".
Mario Casonato
Master en sciences politiques et relations internationales, U.L.B.
Section 3§ 948b Art 2(g) of the Military Commission Act of 2006 https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/pdf/PL-109-366.pdf ↑
Agamben Giorgio, State of Exception, University of Chicago Press, 2005 passim. ↑
Dershowitz Alan, Why Terrorism Works, understanding the threat, responding to the challenge, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2003. ↑
Beccaria Cesare, Dei Delitti e delle Pene, Universale Economica Feltrinelli, Milano, 1991, passim. ↑
Gianelli Alessandra & Maria Pia Paternò, Tortura di Stato, le ferite della democrazia, Carocci, Milano, 2004, pp. 35-49 ↑
Last week tonight with John Oliver, HBO, 14/06/2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmeF2rzsZSU ↑
Cette entrée a été publiée dans "Culture-pop" et droit international, Droit international et Cinéma le 26 octobre 2016 par Arnaud.
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Price tag on $2.3 million project to be picked up by state
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ELIZABETHTOWN | Essex County supervisors awarded the bid to deconstruct the Rome Dam in AuSable Forks to Reale Construction Inc., of Ticonderoga.
The $2,298,000 funding grant to remove the historic earthworks comes from the Governor's Office of Storm Recovery, part of the New York Rising initiative to help mitigation and repair work after Tropical Storm Irene hit in 2011.
The dam removal project was formally approved by the Jay Town Council in April 2017. The town has been under state Department of Environmental Conservation consent order to address safety at the Rome Dam site since 2010.
Jay Supervisor Archie Depo said the county had to award the bid because funds were coordinated for the town through Essex Co. via NY Rising.
The contract suggests construction would begin Sept. 8, but Depo said town officials and the contractor are trying to push the date back to Aug. 15.
It will likely take six weeks or more to complete removal of the four-story dam that stretches 103 feet across the West Branch.
"The Town of Jay will meet with personnel from the governor's office and Reale Construction to go over the details of deconstruction," Depo told The Sun on Wednesday.
"The timeline is six to eight weeks, and they've got to be out of the river by Oct. 1. We're pushing for Aug. 15 to start right now, and we're pretty confident that we'll get that date."
Asked why the project cost nearly $2.3 million, Depo said the dam's size, location and tons of sediment behind it are part of the cost equation.
"They have to remove 48,000 cubic yards of sediment out of the area behind the dam," Depot said.
"And they've got to build a road down into it. There is an almost 90 foot-drop to reach the dam from the river bank.
"It's a large dam, 103 feet long, 38-feet deep," Depot said.
"Just to see what's involved to get down to that dam would show you. The cost to remove it actually came in less than what they thought it would."
Removal of the Rome Dam is planned in sections.
"They are actually going to be taking it out in layers, a foot at a time, to lower the water. There's really no other way of doing it to let the water out slowly. It's going to quite an operation," Depot said.
"I don't believe there will be any flooding related to dam removal."
Some of the sediment removed from the Rome Dam is going to be stored a mile and a half away, Depo said, where it can be crushed for gravel.
"The rest of it is going to our sand pit in Harkness for use when we do riverbank restoration. The big, stony stuff can be used for (Ausable) river restoration on the East Branch. The other stuff can be crushed into gravel and used for fill."
The removal is expected to reveal a natural gorge and waterfall on the West Branch, according to studies done by Vermont water resource engineers at Milone & MacBroom.
The Ausable River Association working with historian/photographer Stephen Longmire, of Upper Jay, documented current and historic details of Rome Dam over the past year.
Longmire published some of his work via the Ausable River Assoc.'s website in a piece called "Undamming Rome."
He put the project into perspective: "the dam currently impounds 30 acre feet of sediment (more than 3,000 dump truck loads), according to the water resource engineers."
Longmire's research also looked to local concern about the dam:
"...some residents believe it protects them from flood waters and ice jams, breaking up ice as it cascades over the spillway," Longmire says in his online documentary.
"The engineers believe bedrock drops currently submerged in the gorge will break ice naturally, and the amount of water passing downstream will not change after the dam's removal. What everyone wants to avoid is an unplanned breach of the dam."
According to the Milone & MacBroom Rome Dam Engineering Study:
"Modeling results indicate that flood levels and ice-jam thicknesses are reduced locally and within the impoundment with full removal of the dam.
"The modeling results with full dam removal indicate that there is no change in ice-jam thickness at the bridges, Grove Islands area, or near the confluence with the East Branch downstream."
In fact, the engineers found: "Removal of the dam is anticipated to increase the rate of ice erosion during thaw."
The Rome Dam, historically known as the Pulp Mill dam, is visible in this photo circa 1903 behind the J&J Rogers mill operations it was built to power.
The first version of the structure was built circa 1893 to 1894, according to Longmire, on the West Branch of the Ausable River just above its confluence with the East Branch.
It was built to provide power for the J & J Rogers Paper Mill operations at the location. Stone masonry of the original structure was partially destroyed by a flood in 1936 and then rebuilt with concrete.
It ceased operation in 1971 and has since fallen into disrepair.
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Title: Officers of University
Description: The following shall be the officers of the University:-- (1) the Chancellor; (2) the Vice-Chancellor; (3) the Registrars; (4) the Finance Officer; and (5) such other officers as may be declared by the Statutes to be the officers of the University.
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When Kentucky is playing basketball, Demetria Caldwell is going to be there to watch her nephew, Kentucky freshman Immanuel Quickley,.
She was in Nashville for the SEC Tournament and in Jacksonville for the NCAA Tournament. She'll be in Kansas City Friday when UK plays in the Sweet Sixteen.
Even in high school there was never a question if I was going somewhere to watch him play. The only question was who was going with me and I could always find somebody," Caldwell said.
The Quickley family travels well. When he played in the McDonald's All-American Game in Atlanta last year, about 40 family members came on a bus from Baltimore to the game. When he played for Team USA in Egypt on a team coached by John Calipari, the freshman's mother and grandmother were there. When he played for Team USA in Spain, his mother, grandmother and Caldwell all were there. His grandmother had to miss some games this year because she slipped on ice in Maryland and fractured her ankle.
"I have loved watching him play since he was 4 years old, and he was not supposed to be playing on a team then," Caldwell laughed and said.
Turns out she was coaching a rec league team for players ages 5-6 but was a player short at a game.
"When I played for her, I just shot every single play every time I could. That was the best part about playing for her," the Kentucky freshman said.
You can normally spot her in the UK crowd because she wears a pink UK baseball hat.
The UK freshman says he can "definitely hear her" and sometimes can make eye contact with her.
"She loves me a lot. We have had a bond pretty much since I was born. She has been like a mother to me along with my mom. Great people, love them to death. She is not exactly my age but she gets the younger generation. We are kind of close and she kind of spoils me while my mom is more of the disciplinarian type, so it balances out," Quickley said.
Caldwell won't deny spoiling him — but in the right way.