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https://www.lmtonline.com/texas/article/Jury-chosen-for-couple-s-tax-evasion-trial-in-10147509.php
Jury chosen for couple's tax evasion trial in Hattiesburg
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — Jurors were chosen Tuesday in the trial of a Mississippi sheriff's deputy and his wife who face federal charges that they evaded taxes by hiding income from their restaurant and liquor store.
Eight men and six women were selected. The 12 jurors and two alternates will hear the case of Forrest County Chief Deputy Charles Bolton and his wife, Linda.
The Boltons are each charged with five counts each of filing false tax returns and tax evasion, stemming from tax returns they filed between 2010 and 2014, The Hattiesburg American reported (http://hatne.ws/2cTFVM3 ).
The Boltons own two Hattiesburg businesses, Sports 22 Restaurant and Hall Avenue Package Store. They are accused of trying to hide income by "cashing tens of thousands of dollars in checks purportedly issued in payment for liquor, wine and catering services to prevent those payments from being recorded on the business bank statements," according to an indictment.
The couple, according to the indictment, also allegedly provided deceptive records and made false statements, telling their tax preparer that some payments for goods were loans.
Their trial began a day after another federal jury in Hattiesburg convicted a politically connected pastor, the Rev. Kenneth Fairley, of conspiracy and theft in a case involving money skimmed from a federal housing program. U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael Parker decided Tuesday that Fairley will be out on an unsecured $25,000 bond until the Dec. 19 sentencing. That means Fairley will pay nothing unless he violates the terms of his release.
During a detention hearing Tuesday, prosecutors said they don't believe Fairley, 62, is a danger or a flight risk. The lifelong Hattiesburg resident was convicted Monday in a case involving money skimmed from a federal housing program.
U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., wrote to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch in April questioning prosecutions of Fairley and Charles Bolton. Thompson wrote that he was getting complaints that supporters of Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny DuPree have been singled out since the city's contested 2013 election.
Assistant Attorney General Peter J. Kadzik replied to Thompson Aug. 19, saying allegations were being reviewed by the department's Office of Professional Responsibility and Office of the Inspector General.
Information from: The Hattiesburg American, http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com


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#region License

#endregion
namespace System.Web
{
    public static partial class HttpExtensions
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Moderns the transfer.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="httpServerUtility">The HTTP server utility.</param>
        /// <param name="path">The path.</param>
        public static void ModernTransfer(this HttpServerUtility httpServerUtility, string path)
        {
            if (httpServerUtility == null)
                throw new ArgumentNullException("httpServerUtility");
            if (HttpRuntime.UsingIntegratedPipeline)
                httpServerUtility.TransferRequest(path);
            else
                httpServerUtility.Transfer(path);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Moderns the transfer.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="httpServerUtility">The HTTP server utility.</param>
        /// <param name="path">The path.</param>
        /// <param name="preserveForm">if set to <c>true</c> [preserve form].</param>
        public static void ModernTransfer(this HttpServerUtility httpServerUtility, string path, bool preserveForm)
        {
            if (httpServerUtility == null)
                throw new ArgumentNullException("httpServerUtility");
            if (HttpRuntime.UsingIntegratedPipeline)
                httpServerUtility.TransferRequest(path, preserveForm);
            else
                httpServerUtility.Transfer(path, preserveForm);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Moderns the transfer for URL routing.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="httpServerUtility">The HTTP server utility.</param>
        /// <param name="path">The path.</param>
        /// <param name="handlerBuilder">The handler builder.</param>
        public static void ModernTransferForUrlRouting(this HttpServerUtility httpServerUtility, string path, Func<IHttpHandler> handlerBuilder)
        {
            if (httpServerUtility == null)
                throw new ArgumentNullException("httpServerUtility");
            if (HttpRuntime.UsingIntegratedPipeline)
                httpServerUtility.TransferRequest(path);
            else
                HttpContext.Current.TransferForUrlRouting(path, handlerBuilder);
        }
    }
}

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package com.knitelius.sample.jee6longpolling.web;

import java.io.IOException;
import javax.ejb.EJB;
import javax.servlet.AsyncContext;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.annotation.WebServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;

/**
 * Registers the incoming request as an AsyncContext with the Notifier.
 *
 * @author Stephan Knitelius <stephan@knitelius.com>
 */
@WebServlet(urlPatterns = {"/longpolling"}, asyncSupported = true, loadOnStartup = 1)
public class SampleLongPollingRegistration extends HttpServlet {

    @EJB
    private SampleLongPollingNotifier notifier;

    @Override
    protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
            throws ServletException, IOException {

        response.setContentType(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN);
        response.setStatus(202);
        response.setHeader("Pragma", "no-cache");
        response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
        response.flushBuffer();

        final AsyncContext asyncContext = request.startAsync();
        asyncContext.setTimeout(300000);

        notifier.addAsyncContext(asyncContext);
    }
}


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Q: Multiple coroutines using shared resource, how to synchronize them? I'm trying to find a way to to synchronize access to resource shared between two coroutines. I'm using boost C++20 coroutines Boost C++ 20 Coroutines
My application is single-threaded, however, the second coroutine still affects the resource used by the first coroutine. Below you can find code snipped (in my real scenario the shared resource is not a timer, it's a boost::asio::posix::stream_descriptor, but for simplicity, I used a timer here).
#include <boost/asio.hpp>
#include <catch2/catch_test_macros.hpp>
#include <iostream>

using boost::asio::awaitable;
using boost::asio::use_awaitable;

int main
{
  auto ctx = boost::asio::io_context{};
  auto timer = boost::asio::steady_timer{ctx};

  auto func = [&timer](std::chrono::seconds duration) -> awaitable<void> {
    timer.expires_after(duration);

    auto ec = boost::system::error_code{};
    co_await timer.async_wait(boost::asio::redirect_error(use_awaitable, ec));

    std::cout << "Error code: " << ec.message() << '\n';
  };

  co_spawn(ctx, func(std::chrono::seconds(15)), boost::asio::detached);
  co_spawn(ctx, func(std::chrono::seconds(5)), boost::asio::detached);

  ctx.run();
}

Here is also the output from the execution:

@asio|1642753302.405703|0^1|in 'co_spawn_entry_point'
(/usr/local/include/boost/asio/impl/co_spawn.hpp:154)
@asio|1642753302.405703|0*1|io_context@0x7ffd2423c2b0.execute

@asio|1642753302.405764|0^2|in 'co_spawn_entry_point'
(/usr/local/include/boost/asio/impl/co_spawn.hpp:154)
@asio|1642753302.405764|0*2|io_context@0x7ffd2423c2b0.execute

@asio|1642753302.405788|>1|

@asio|1642753302.405802|1*3|deadline_timer@0x7ffd2423c248.async_wait

@asio|1642753302.405815|<1| @asio|1642753302.405819|>2|
@asio|1642753302.405823|2|deadline_timer@0x7ffd2423c248.cancel
@asio|1642753302.405829|2*4|deadline_timer@0x7ffd2423c248.async_wait

@asio|1642753302.405835|<2| @asio|1642753302.405839|>3|ec=system:125

Error code: Operation canceled @asio|1642753302.405870|<3|

@asio|1642753307.405906|>4|ec=system:0 Error code: Success

@asio|1642753307.405954|<4|
@asio|1642753307.405967|0|deadline_timer@0x7ffd2423c248.cancel

As you can see, the timeout that was configured by the first-spawned coroutine has been canceled, when the second coroutine started execution, and I would like to avoid such a situation.
Of course in this example, I could have just used two instances of the timer, but as I mentioned above, in my case, instead of a timer I'm using a stream descriptor, so I can't just either copy it or use the second instance.
What would be a quite realiable way to synchronize access in such a case?
//EDIT
I created a piece of code that seems to act as a workaround.
Here is a snippet.
#include <boost/asio.hpp>
#include <iostream>
#include <spdlog/spdlog.h>
#include <queue>
#include <atomic>

using boost::asio::awaitable;
using boost::asio::use_awaitable;

template<class Executor>
class AsyncMutex
{
public:
  using Timer_t = boost::asio::steady_timer;

  explicit AsyncMutex(Executor& executor)
    : executor_{executor}
  {}

  AsyncMutex(const AsyncMutex&) = delete;
  AsyncMutex(AsyncMutex&&) = delete;
  AsyncMutex& operator=(const AsyncMutex&) = delete;
  AsyncMutex& operator=(AsyncMutex&&) = delete;

  awaitable<void> async_lock()
  {
    spdlog::debug("AsyncMutex: async_lock");

    if (counter_++ == 0) {
      spdlog::debug("AsyncMutex: async_lock first lock, retrun");
      co_return;
    }

    spdlog::debug("AsyncMutex: async_lock, aquire");

    auto ec = boost::system::error_code{};
    auto timer = Timer_t{executor_};
    timer.expires_after(boost::asio::steady_timer::duration::max());
    waiters_.push(&timer);

    spdlog::debug("AsyncMutex: waiting...");
    co_await timer.async_wait(boost::asio::redirect_error(use_awaitable, ec));
    spdlog::debug("AsyncMutex: done...");
  }

  void unlock()
  {
    if (counter_.load() == 0) {
      return;
    }

    --counter_;

    if (waiters_.empty()) {
      return;
    }

    spdlog::debug("AsyncMutex: unlock");

    auto* next = waiters_.front();
    next->cancel();

    waiters_.pop();
  }

private:
  Executor& executor_;
  std::queue<Timer_t*> waiters_{};
  std::atomic<int> counter_;
};

int main() {
  spdlog::set_level(spdlog::level::debug);
  auto ctx = boost::asio::io_context{};
  auto timer = boost::asio::steady_timer{ctx};
  auto mutex = AsyncMutex{ctx};

  auto func = [&timer](auto& mutex, std::chrono::seconds duration) -> awaitable<void> {

    co_await mutex.async_lock();
    spdlog::debug("Got lock");

    auto ec = boost::system::error_code{};
    timer.expires_after(duration);
    co_await timer.async_wait(boost::asio::redirect_error(use_awaitable, ec));

    spdlog::debug("Relaseing a lock");

    mutex.unlock();

    std::cout << "Error code: " << ec.message() << '\n';
  };

  co_spawn(ctx, func(mutex, std::chrono::seconds(30)), boost::asio::detached);
  co_spawn(ctx, func(mutex, std::chrono::seconds(15)), boost::asio::detached);

  ctx.run();
}

Of course - we're talking about a single-threaded environment.

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Sorry, that may have been a bit excesive, but I greatly appriciate that. Thanks again.
I will try to get some pics on here in a minute, but for now this is what I got. This is just kinda off the top of my head because I am not exactly near my collection at the moment. Hockey LA Kigns black Minn. Wild white NY Rangers white Omaha Knights red (my all-time fovorite) Canada red Baseball Minn. Twins white, navy sleeves Houston Astros gray Chicago White Sox black, black pinstripes (both are for sale. size L) UNC Tar Heels navy Nebraska Huskers red Omaha Royals white KC Royals white, blue sleeves Football Minn. Vikings purple, white, both AP 28 Nebraska Huskers red FSU Noles maroon Atlanta Falcons black Chiefs red, #10 trent green Basketball old Charolette Hornets teal Toronto Raptors purple UNC Tar Heels sky blue, gray That's all I can think of at the moment but I know that there is much more.
From what I have heard the RAYS will have an alternate jersey next season, no word on design yet. Also, if you don't know already, the Ray is on the sleeve currently: I have heard that it will be a regular version of the bp jersey.
Here is the Thrashers one. Maybe that will ring a bell if you didn't know what I was talking about. Unfortunatally, this is the only one I have been able to find. Thanks for any help!
How do you find these "official logo sheets"? Thanks for the answer by the way.
I remember Zephyr had some hats that had "made up" NHL logos on them. I know I remember seeing them somewhere in one of these topics but I can;t find it. One example was the Flames horse head turned side-ways or something. Any pics?
Does anybody know if this logo is still an official logo?
November 26 vs. Boston is the first game. Thanks. I plan to watch the game on NHL Centerice.
I'm caught in the middle of this whole thing. On the one hand, I love the NHL so much and I love the idea of more teams to watch. I just love watching each team even I am not a fan of that team. I like the idea of having more new teams to get to know. However, the NHL just isn't in the best position to do this. They aren't getting enough attention as it is. There are plenty of teams as it is. As said earlier, there just isn't enough talent to go around. That really goes for any league. I had this fantasy type league, goalies only, and there were 36 teams. Several real-life NHL backup goalies were starters, mostly those splitting time with another. Anyway, there wasn't enough talent to go around, and 6 teams had to fold. So back to what I was saying, expansion would just bring too many teams. I have always thought there could be 2 "NHLs". Almost like the NFL and AFL. Both would be equal professional leagues. The winner of each league would come together to play in the Stanley Cup finals, after playoffs, of course. Anyway, just some thoughts... BTW, if any of this has basically already been said, I apoligize. I did not read each and every page of this.
The Sens are in white at home tonight.
Yes, that is the eye. I am considering moving up slighty. As for the jaggedness, I was trying to make it somewhat sharper, However, I think it might be a little too much.
surprisingly a well written article concerning the fishermans. Yep, it was an awesome read. I had posted a reply there but have not seen any follow-up regarding the possibility of these sweaters (as seen above) being prototypes. If you look closely, the waist stripes are diagonal like the Mighty Ducks sweaters instead of the wavy stripes as seen on the on-ice sweaters. Any thoughts, guys and gals? I noticed the same thing. I think it is a protoytpe. Nice catch.
Compare to this: I sharpened the buffalo itself. I also separated the eye from the horn. Those ar the most noticable changes. Not much change.
Does wearing white at home count as an alternate jersey date? Is there a limit as to how often that can happen? There seem to be so many different rules and I'm getting a bit confused.
I am trying to work from photobucket, but it is not allowing me to post it.
Thanks, that's a great picture. Please keep an eye out for any more!
Does anybody know when the Sabres 3rd will be worn? I'm dying to see it in action!
Sorry guys, I'm having trouble getting things to work.
No problem, I'm just trying to complete this "project" soon. Sorry.
The only picture I could find is on Pitt State's website. http://www.pittstategorillas.com/football/ It's not a very good one. Oh, and why are you wondering about UNO anyways? Northwest is where it's at . Pretty sure he is talking hockey, not football. Ya the title includes the word HOCKEY so I'm referring to hockey.
Whoops...afriad not. I thought those Ducks' jerseys were technically a very dark green no? I thought they were black. Or an even darker shade of purple than the pants and stripes.


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Biden Narrowly Beats Trump in Latest Hypothetical 2024 Matchup Poll, Despite Low Approval – Newsweek
Although President Joe Biden's approval rating remains low, new polling suggests that he would narrowly beat former President Donald Trump in a hypothetical matchup if the 2024 election were held now.
While Biden has repeatedly said that he plans to seek reelection, Trump has not officially confirmed whether he will run in the next presidential election. However, the former president has repeatedly teased the possibility, and most recent polls have suggested he would be well positioned to potentially defeat Biden in a rematch.
However, the latest polling data from London-based Redfield & Wilton Strategies shows Trump slightly behind the current president.
"With regard to the 2024 Presidential Election, Joe Biden is back to leading over Donald Trump in our latest hypothetical voting intention, after our previous three polls found Trump ahead," the strategic consulting company said in a write-up of the polling data released Thursday.
The survey results showed that 43 percent of eligible voters would cast ballots for Biden. Just 41 percent said they would vote for Trump, so the former president trails the current president by 2 points. Eleven percent of eligible voters said they didn't know how they would vote.
New polling shows President Joe Biden beating Donald Trump in a hypothetical matchup if the election were held today. Above, Trump and Biden during the final presidential debate on October 22, 2020.
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The same poll found that Biden's approval rating remains underwater. Some 44 percent of eligible voters said they disapprove of the president, while only 39 percent said they approve of his job performance. FiveThirtyEight's average of recent polls shows that about 42.4 percent of Americans approve of Biden, and 51.4 percent disapprove.
The poll had a sample size of 1,500 respondents and was conducted from January 8 to 9.
Biden's overall approval rating has declined by double digits during his first year in office. FiveThirtyEight's average showed Biden at about 53 percent approval when he took office in January 2021. A year later, that has declined by just over 10 points.
Although Redfield & Wilton Strategies' latest data shows Biden ahead of Trump, a poll released this week by the conservative Rasmussen Reports had Trump several points ahead. That survey found that 46 percent of likely voters would back Trump and that only 40 percent would support Biden if the election were held today.
Rasmussen's polling data was released Tuesday. The survey was conducted on January 5 and had 1,016 respondents.
Biden first said in March 2021 that he intended to seek reelection, despite some concerns expressed about his age. The president, 79, is already the oldest in U.S. history and would turn 82 shortly after the 2024 election.
Even as his approval rating has declined substantially—and while some have speculated about alternative Democratic candidates—Biden has insisted that he plans to run again. In December, he said a Trump decision to make another White House bid would make it even more likely that he would stick to his plan.
"Why would I not run against Donald Trump if he were the nominee? That would increase the prospect of running," Biden said during an interview with ABC News.
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When people claps there hands, the hands etend to stick to gether in a couple of frames when they have hit. Then ease out to open up. And then accelerate back to impact again.
Just a tip that could makes your claps look a bit more "clappier" he he.
Use it if you like and good luck for future.


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Q: Core Data template: Data Not Persisted Between Runs I created a small test Mac app using the Core Data template (on Lion 10.7 and Xcode 4). I used the example on this site, http://www.swampfoetus.net/chapter-7-fail/,  to hook up all the Cocoa Bindings with a tableview, an NSArrayController, a text box and an Add button. The NSArrayController is linked to the managedObjectContext of the App Delegate.
Everything seems to work fine when I launch the app ... I can type in text and press Add, and it gets saved in the tableview. I saved a few rows, and then pressed Save in the file menu (linked to the saveAction IBAction) and quit the app. I can see the data being saved in the xml data file (I renamed it .xml ... the PSC is of type  NSXMLStoreType).
The problem is that when I launch the app again, it launches without the data that was saved in the Core Data file in the previous run.
This happens each time ... I can add data and it keeps appending to the data file, but at launch it never seems to read from this data file.
Any ideas what could be wrong here? I haven't messed around with the App Delegate generated code at all, only set up the bindings which seem to work fine. What could I check to make sure it's setup correctly?

A: If the data shows up in the persistent store, then the only explanation would be a problem with the binding where the UI doesn't display the previous data for some reason. It's hard to say why that is happening but my guess would be a fetch predicate or some other bound qualifier that causes the controller to ignore older objects so that they are not displayed.
I can't say for sure because I don't have access to the book.
This is one of the drawbacks of using bindings. When they work, they're fantastic but when they don't, they're a @#%! to debug.


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Q: How can I go about creating a driver to get my touchpad to work? I have an ACER ES 15 laptop, and the touchpad works perfectly fine on Windows but not Ubuntu. I've tried fixing it including checking out the accepted answer here: Touchpad under 16.04 not working. I entered the suggested command less /proc/bus/input/devicesand I couldn't see my touchpad anywhere, and the person who answered says this means the kernel has no support for it.
So
is there a way I can go about creating a driver to get my touchpad to work? I'm not under any impressions that this is necessarily something easy.


We draw the attention of the subjects of foreign economic activity to the fact that on 01.01.2018 the Decision of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission (hereinafter - EEC) No. 171 of December 13, 2017 "On the Application for the Release of Goods Before the Declaration of Goods" (hereinafter - Decision No. 171) , which approved the application for the release of goods before the declaration of goods (hereinafter - Application) and found that until 01.07.2018 the Application is used only as a document on paper.
By the Decision of the Collegium of EEC of 19.12.2017 No. 177 "On the structure and format of the application for the release of goods prior to the filing of a declaration of goods" (hereinafter - Decision No. 177), the structure and format of Application were approved. At the same time, by Point 2 of Decision No. 177, member states of the Eurasian Economic Union are recommended from 01.07.2018 to ensure the use of the structure and format of the Application approved by this decision.
In accordance with point 2 of Article 441 of the Customs Code of the Eurasian Economic Union, when the goods are declared for release before filing a declaration for goods, the authorized economic operator who acts as the declarant of goods shall file an application for the release of goods before filing a declaration for goods in the form electronic document.
In order to comply with the aforementioned EEC Recommendation in the Republic of Belarus, as well as to reduce the time for customs operations from 01.07.2018 in software products used by the declarants, the opportunity to fill and print the Application, and also present its electronic form to the customs authorities on information carriers in the structure and format established by the Decision No. 177.


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Q: Cloud run service deleted but the website is still running I have deployed a containerized website with Cloud Run on GCP. The URL is something like this https://my-website-kjasd8hd81-sad.a.run.app.
I don't need it anymore and I deleted it. But when I access the URL again, the website is still there.
Does anyone know how to completely delete the website?


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Betroffenheit, Crystal Pite & Jonathon Young, Sadler's Wells
Astonishing, unclassifiable work of dance theatre about an unrepresentable subject
by Sanjoy RoyWednesday, 12 April 2017
Fragmented self: Jonathon Young and the dancers of Kidd Pivot in 'Betroffenheit'© Wendy D Photography
Where does my voice come from? Whose is my body? It's apt that these questions run deep through a work that was created jointly by an actor, Jonathon Young, and a choreographer, Crystal Pite.
The faultlines between body, voice and person are everywhere in Betroffenheit, which opened at Sadler's Wells last night, a dance theatre piece that delves deep into the psychology of trauma. The work's origins are profoundly personal – the death of Young's teenage daughter and her two cousins in a fire – yet Betroffenheit (the word means "a state of shock") is not so much about this event as a consequence of it. An aftershock.
The opening scene already disorients and unsettles. In a darkened warehouse room, an electric cable snakes across the floor; another rises like a cobra up the wall, in search of its socket. Powered up, the room itself seems to speak to Young, who hunches in a corner as the lights flash in sync with a voiceover of repeated, fragmented phrases: "Oh my God", "There's no information", "The system is failing".
Young switches on a black-box speaker, and it speaks back in his voice. Dancer Jermaine Spivey sidles in like a shadow against the wall, his limbs twitching in sync with the speaker's voice. When he turns to face Young, we see that he is lipsyncing too. They synchronise their stances. From here on through to the end, Young and Spivey now seem to be the same person, one whose voice appears in various guises too: live, recorded, lipsynched, located, disembodied. No wonder Young (pictured right) is having trouble holding himself together: he is all over the place.
But he can't escape: the room is not only where he is, it's who he is. Instead, he escapes into a drugged, hallucinatory fantasy; he "gets out of it". The room is invaded by nightmarish cabaret entertainers with painted faces (pictured below) – a grinning, hunched tap dancer, pink plumed showgirls, a glitzy salsa couple – and he and his other self Spivey take the stage as a bantering double-act, an imaginary audience guffawing at their every quip. Until the inevitable come-down – Young appears as a puppet version of himself, a diminished man – and then the inevitable crash, as he returns to the bare room, his sparkling fantasy figures slumped stoned around him.
Considering he had no dance training before creating this piece, Young is an astonishingly accomplished mover, holding his own in the skilfully choreographed sections with Pite's dancers. His performance as an actor, neither sentimental nor manipulative, is wrenchingly moving, almost unbearably painful – and still, his character has more to suffer. His "system" fails: the walls of the room move away, the stage is swept by a billowing sheet of darkness, and Young collapses, the dancers clustering around his body and gesticulating to panicked voice-overs like characters in an ER drama, desperately trying to revive a critical casualty (main image).
Pite's direction throughout this first act has been commandingly cinematic: dense with incident but with fluent scene cuts, tightly synchronised soundtrack, tracked focus, swift pacing and high tension. For the shorter second act, she shifts to a less dramatic, more dance-based mode that nonetheless – like a series of softer aftershocks – often echoes images from Act One. On a clear stage now, the dancers run ragged like the fugitive figures that we'd glimpsed before in flashes of torchlight. They replay the whole ER section as choreography, only with no voiceover and no supine patient to attend, just the motion of their own bodies. The underlying patterns of Act One are still here – in a duet of constantly collapsing support, in solos which trip up their own performers – but they feel less locked down, less tethered by trauma's obsessive retelling of its own story.
Does this allow Young to resolve his crisis? That would be a facile, Hollywood ending. Instead Betroffenheit offers a more ambiguous loosening of ties, an opening of space – not a resolution as such, but a change of sorts. The room is still inside him, but Young is no longer inside the room.
Betroffenheit is an astonishing accomplishment. It is intense, raw and often itself traumatic; yet even as we feel its force, we notice how very finely crafted, paced and performed it is. Young's harrowed soul is of course central to its achievement, but this is fundamentally an ensemble piece. Pite's five dancers are marvellously versatile, whether moving to the rhythms of sputtered speech, shuddering as if in stop-motion film, or dancing full-out through dense sequences of reckless skids, skewed turns and limb-wrangling tumbles. Full credit, too, to the design team, for their inventive and effective use of light, costume, sound and set. But it's the piece itself that grips, its imaginative treatment of a subject as intractable, as unrepresentable as trauma itself. Instead of telling the story of a trauma, it stages its patterns, follows its arcs. When you leave the theatre, its aftershocks stay with you.
Betroffenheit is on at Sadler's Wells until 12 April. It will be screened on BBC Four, date as yet unconfirmed
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This article is part of our Let's Talk blog series, presented as part of our exhibition Democracy. Are you in?. This address was originally delivered as part of the National Press Club event 'Rebooting Australian Democracy; renewing faith with voters' on 5 September 2018.
I don't have time to run through all the arguments about why Australian politics needs a reboot.
But I don't think I have to; we all know it does. And we think we know why.
My summary in two sentences would be: we don't think much of politics or of politicians, they know that, and they know why, and too many of them (not all!) don't seem to care. So we just hand them the country and turn away – I remind you that roughly 2.2 million of us did not even bother to vote in 2016.
And why would it change unless, or until we, the people, exercise our power to force change?
But when so many of those we employ to work in our interests can be so brazen about the supremacy of their own political games over the national interest, why would the rest of us bother?
I believe we have to bother. Because if we don't, the outcome will be the Australia we end up with after more aimless drift riddled with infantile posturing and spin, underpinned by self-interest and grounded in a breath-taking hypocrisy that demeans us all.
To earn our respect and our trust there has to be more than endless electioneering climaxing in a three yearly ritualistic smooching badged with the ever-new Akubra. The solemn declarations of commitment to 'Australian values' or to the 'fair go' and even to a 'new generation' out there 'listening', is risible. If they really did listen to us we would have, just as an example, more focus on renewable energy (polls show approximately84% want more investment) , less on coal (60% support a global alliance promising to phase-out coal power by 2030) and more sensible emissions targets (56% want a 45% or greater reduction on CO2 emissions by 2030). And where are we – pretending this is less important than a $3 per week reduction in electricity prices.
A combination of cliché piled upon cliché, three-word mantras, endless quick fixes, avoidance of anything intellectually demanding, dog-whistling, vengeance politics and the adjourning of democracy (as just happened), is no way to build confidence or trust.
So yes, politics needs a reboot.
But how? I can't change a preselection process that yields both what we see and what we lament; I can't wave a wand and appoint talent to Cabinet from outside parliament to fill the gap that preselection leaves behind.
So today I'll settle for a plan to increase accountability and transparency. If we can't change the people, we can at least make clear what we expect. My suggestions are based on: 1. A reminder that politicians are of us and should be subjected to similar rules and obligations that the rest of us have (many of which they write for us); 2. Designed to start the rebuild of respect and trust in part by acknowledging that respect is a two-way street.
1. Capacity
There are very few jobs in 2018 which can be secured with no qualifications and no relevant experience. One of them happens to be "Member of Parliament". Another is "Minister of the Crown".
Maybe that is how it should be in a representative democracy - they should be of us, ordinary people full of life's ordinary experiences (although we've recently seen what happens to interlopers from outside the self-anointed political class).
But these people are not only of us, they work for us.
They don't become special, or especially wise or knowledgeable just because we have given them that job; but we can surely expect from them what our employers expect from us – the capacity and the will to learn what is needed to do the job.
In 2015 the Royal Statistical Society of the UK issued a challenge to all candidates in the UK election: commit to a statistics training session if elected.
We could extend that idea.
Nearly everybody but the contemporary Neanderthals acknowledges the importance of science and mathematics, technology and innovation in our futures. All areas in which too many politicians seem both to be proud to declare ignorance and to be willing to demonstrate it.
MPs should be required to complete short courses to learn how science works and its methods; how to distinguish evidence from snake oil; how to distinguish the genuine from the noisy. And to learn a basic statistical literacy so they know that experiencing a 'one in a hundred years' event does not mean 99 years until the next one.
The MPs who choose not to attend or who appear to think that understanding was not relevant to the policies on which they vote should be listed publicly.
2. Competence/ Performance
Nominated Ministers are not required to demonstrate aptitude, interest, experience or competence relevant to their portfolio.
Any other employee in Australia with a professional or management position these days would be expected to demonstrate their performance to their employer against agreed objectives and outcomes. KPIs, indeed.
Incoming Ministers should be no different.
They should be required to articulate their goals for their portfolio and report publicly and formally on their progress on an annual basis, explaining to the Australian people the relationship between what they said they would do and what they actually did.
To help, question time should be re-worked so that 1. Every Minister would have to answer a minimum number of questions during each sitting; 2. Questions could only be taken from the Opposition.
There would be a formal and publicly available independent assessment of the goals, the achievements and the responses to questions – and importantly of the questions themselves.
The payments to politicians are administered by the Department of Finance. And we have seen how (inappropriately named) 'entitlements' can be repaid to 'avoid ambiguity' when unusual expenditure is exposed.
But we have a large and highly capable infrastructure that is purpose-built for the administration of payments to citizens from the public purse. It's called Centrelink.
Let's achieve some efficiencies, and improve accountability, by transferring responsibility for MPs so-called entitlements to the same agency. After all, they are of us.
No changes to practice guidelines would be required. MPs would be held to the same standard of proof regarding, for example, their personal arrangements, the declaration of their assets and liabilities, and their travel, exactly as required of other Australians in receipt of public benefits.
Debts would also be recovered using the approach that MPs have mandated for others.
Any MPs who considered the standard of service to be inadequate or wrong could call the Centrelink helpline, or argue the toss with the Robocall.
We have been told that Australia is the land of the fair go. Henry Parkes toasted 'one people, one destiny' way back when he and his colleagues persuaded us to vote 'yes' to federation.
Four words that capture one important characteristic of the nation the people of the time committed to.
Politics and politicians for all their faults and glories, their failures and their successes, all the good ones (and there have been and are good ones) and bad ones, were a means to that end. It is what was wanted, along with prosperity and security, and what they tried to deliver.
To presume nation-building will be a priority in an era dominated by a self-serving political class infiltrated by a 'born-to-rule' mob, is folly of a high order.
We must lift our expectations. We must require talent and principles and ethics in our politicians, and competence, consistency and vision. And leadership, along with courage – sometimes they will simply have to persuade us that they have to do things that some of us might not like. That might even include the so-called base we are now hearing so much about.
To get better politics, means more politics, I suggest, not more disinterest.
Change is what we have to demand. And we will have to engage to get it.
Emeritus Professor Ian Chubb was Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University from January 2001 to March 2011. In 1999, he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) and in 2006 a Companion (AC) in the order for "service to higher education, including research and development policy in the pursuit of advancing the national interest socially, economically, culturally and environmentally, and to the facilitation of a knowledge-based global economy".
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David Jemmali (born 13 December 1974) is a Tunisian former professional footballer who played as a defender. He spent most of his career at FC Girondins de Bordeaux.

In his time at Bordeaux, he won Ligue 1 in the 1998–99 season and the Coupe de la Ligue in 2002 and 2007.

Hoping for a selection to the France national team, he turned down several opportunities to represent Tunisia. However, when the 2006 World Cup was approaching, Jemmali accepted the offer and made his debut for the "Eagles of Carthage" on 1 March 2006 against Serbia and Montenegro. He was subsequently called up to the 2006 World Cup. Jemmali started Tunisia's first game of the 2006 World Cup against Saudi Arabia but did not appear in the other two group matches.

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Last month, WSOC-TV did an investigation piece on the use of confidentiality agreements in medical malpractice cases. The piece highlighted the case of a woman who underwent a partial hysterectomy in Elkin, North Carolina 20 years ago. During that surgery, a surgical sponge was left in her body. The woman knew something was wrong, but when she returned to the doctor, he was unable to determine what the problem was. Six months later, the woman visited another doctor who took an abdominal X-ray which revealed the surgical sponge inside the woman's body.
The woman took her case to trial, but the jury was deadlocked at 6-6. The woman had had a previous surgery at another hospital, and some jurors felt they could not determine which surgery resulted in the retained surgical sponge. After the deadlock outcome, the woman accepted a settlement from the hospital which included agreeing to a confidentiality agreement.
Although the woman cannot talk about her settlement with the hospital, she is speaking up now in an attempt to change North Carolina laws which allow confidentiality agreements in medical malpractice cases. She feels such confidentiality agreements serve to protect healthcare providers and keep information from the public.
One lawyer and senator in the Durham area is working on a bill to change the current law. In South Carolina, Florida and California, the use of confidentiality agreements is either banned or limited in federal courts and some state matters. The bill that the Durham senator is working on would be similar to these bans or limitations and leave the decision of using a confidentiality agreement up to a judge. A judge would be able to weigh the balance between public information and the need for secrecy or privacy.
This is not the first time that the Durham senator has discussed introducing a bill that would limit confidentiality agreements. In 2013, the senator spoke of sponsoring a bill that would do just that in an effort to "protect our families." The bill that was later introduced during that session limited confidentiality agreements only in claims involving public hazards and was not passed into law.
The concern with using confidentiality agreements in personal injury cases, including medical malpractice cases, is that by keeping the details of these cases secret, the public is limited in the information they have to keep themselves and their families safe. The average health care provider, on the other hand, is motivated to limit this information out of concern for their reputation. According to legal experts, most cases end in settlement with a confidentiality agreement.
Knowledge of these types of mistakes especially can be argued to help the public keep themselves and their families safe. However, in August, the federal government stopped publicly reporting some mistakes involving retained foreign objects. Although the government began reporting these mistakes again just one month later, some people were concerned that the reporting stopped at all.
One of those people concerned was the woman who underwent the partial hysterectomy in Elkin 20 years ago. She wishes that she had had access to this type of information before her surgery. Now, she hopes that North Carolina law changes to limit the use of confidentiality agreements in cases such as hers so that healthcare providers will be held accountable for these types of mistakes.


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The configuration for the Endpoint Trigger for an experience workflow is relatively simple - just choose an endpoint that has been set up for the application as described in the endpoint documentation.
In the above example, the workflow will be triggered whenever the "GET /logout" endpoint receives a request.
The payload for a workflow triggered by an endpoint will include all of the information about the triggering request in the data field. This includes the request path, the request method, any request headers, any request query parameters, any parsed path parameters (based off the route definition for the endpoint), any cookies, and the request body. If there is no body present, the value for the body field will be null. Otherwise, if the content type is multipart/form-data, application/x-www-form-urlencoded, or application/json and the request body is valid for that content type, it will automatically be parsed into an object. For other content types, such as text/plain, the body will be left as a string.
The payload will also contain an experience field, which will contain three properties - endpoint, user, and version. The endpoint property will always be the Experience Endpoint that received the request. The user property can either be the Experience User making the request, or null if it was a public unauthenticated request. The version property will contain the name of the experience version for the request.


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It has a wearable camera that allows you to record various scenes without having to hold it and you can record with its DVR and helmet camera options. Consumers like how many accessories come with this camera to make it easy to record and view what was filmed and they like the price.
This waterproof and shockproof camera – ASX Action Pro Sports Camera enables you to take some of the more spectacular sites underwater and fast action sporting events. It has a two in LCD screen and a wide angle of 140 degrees. It has a built in APS screen for viewing recordings and changing settings. It has a waterproof case and a case clip.
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Congressman Vern Buchanan was elected on Nov. 7, 2006 to serve the people of Florida's 13th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Vern Buchanan grew up with five siblings in a blue collar household in a small town near Detroit, Michigan. He served six years in the Air National Guard and worked his way through college, where he met his wife Sandy. Prior to serving in Congress, he and Sandy raised a family and were active in their community.
Currently serving his first term, Congressman Buchanan was sworn in to office on Jan. 4, 2007. He quickly rolled up his sleeves and went to work as a conservative businessman who emphasizes common sense and constituent services.
For his first bill, he sponsored legislation with Congresswoman Ginny Brown-Waite of Florida to address the state's insurance crisis. The Homeowners Insurance Protection Act would establish a federal reinsurance catastrophic fund to increase access to affordable property insurance in Florida by providing lower cost reinsurance to states.
A strong fiscal conservative, the Congressman has also introduced the Buchanan Balanced Budget Amendment Act to require a balanced federal budget and the Earmark Accountability and Reform Act to reform the process through which federal funds are "earmarked� for pet projects.
The Congressman's other top legislative priorities are national security, maintaining tax relief, providing our seniors and veterans with the benefits they have earned, and protecting the environment, which is vital to Florida's economy and quality of life.
Congressman Buchanan serves on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, through which he is fighting for Florida's fair share of federal transportation dollars; the House Committee on Veterans, on which he is working to address the needs of the District's more than 95,000 veterans; and the House Committee on Small Business.
The self-made businessman is a respected leader in Florida's business community. He chaired both the Florida Chamber of Commerce and the Sarasota Chamber of Commerce. He was also a member of the Board of the U.S. Chamber.
In addition, Congressman Buchanan has given both time and money to diverse community causes, including the Boys and Girls Club, the Community Foundation of Sarasota County, the Walk to Cure Juvenile Diabetes, the American Heart Walk, the Mote Marine Laboratory, and the Ringling Museum of Art.
A husband and father, Congressman Buchanan lives in Longboat Key, Florida with his wife of more than 30 years. Mr. and Mrs. Buchanan have two grown sons, James and Matt.
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Testing urged after health worker at Oakland/Macomb clinics diagnosed with TB
Karen Bouffard
A health care worker at Lakeview Pediatrics clinics in Macomb Township, Rochester and St. Clair Shores has been diagnosed with an active pulmonary tuberculosis infection — and people who visited the practices since April should be tested for TB, public health authorities announced Thursday.
The infected employee worked at the clinics between April 1 and Jan. 9 while unknowingly sick with the contagious disease, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said in a press release.
State health officials are working with the Macomb and Oakland county health departments to identify patients or family members who may have come into contact with the worker so they can be tested.
Pulmonary tuberculosis is a highly contagious lung infection that spreads through the air when a person with TB talks, sneezes or coughs. It can be fatal if left untreated.
"TB is a treatable bacterial disease that is spread through the air from one person to another," said Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, chief medical executive and chief deputy for health for MDHHS. "While the infection can be serious, not everyone who is exposed to TB will be infected, and many people who are infected never develop symptoms."
Ascension Medical Group Michigan has set up a call center for scheduling tests and responding to questions. The call center is open 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday, and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday. It can be reached by calling 855-757-4376.
The worker diagnosed with pulmonary TB is receiving treatment and is not currently working, according to the press release. All associates and providers at the practice have been tested and do not have active TB disease.
Not all people with TB are contagious, the press release noted. Some people have "latent" TB, meaning the bacteria are in their bodies but they are not sick.
TB disease, which the worker at Lakeview Pediatrics was diagnosed with, are actively sick and can spread the bacteria to other people through the air.
In 2018, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 9,025 new cases of TB disease in the United States, of which 108 cases were reported from Michigan.
State health officials noted that TB bacteria usually grow in the lungs but can attack any part of the body such as the spine, brain or kidneys.
Symptoms can include a bad cough that lasts three weeks or longer, chest pain, coughing up blood or phlegm, weakness or fatigue, weight loss, loss of appetite, chills, fever or night sweats.
For more information about TB, visit Michigan.gov/tb or cdc.gov/tb.
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I don't claim to know an over-arching "Meaning of Life", but I do operate under the understanding that life should not be lived under the pretense that it is simply a "test" propagated by an invisible, intangible, Creator-God. And it should not be spent identifying with religious traditions and organized groups that, historically, have been at the root of oppression and violence. Our precious time on earth should not be spent attempting to justify unbelievable acts of cruelty, death, and disease as a part of "God's Plan" or the greater good- and clinging to ancient texts that preach ill-concealed bigotry and sexism.
What makes you think your God is the right one? There are thousands of proposed gods and goddesses with similar stories and myths that supposedly link them to reality- the Judeo-Christian God is no exception, and each canon has its fallacies and contradictions that we have outgrown scientifically. I do not believe in any gods, devils, angels, talking snakes, ghosts, vampires, or any other supernatural beings. That does make me an atheist, but it is not how I'd identify myself foremost. I simply utilize scientific evidence and common sense to form opinions based on the best information I have, without relying on traditional and familial influences to make my decisions.
Religion has been used in order to accomplish an infinite number of goals throughout history, from oppressing women and lower-class citizens to justifying the most brutal of wars; but the reason for the existence of religion is, in almost all cases, as a crutch for providing an explanation for the otherwise inexplicable. A cause which we, as modern humans, have little-to-no use for; scientific discoveries have shown us how to earth came to be, how humanity evolved from our primitive ancestors, where the sun goes at night, and how viruses spread- leaving little room for the outdated religious explanations for these so-called "phenomena" and "miracles".
All-in-all, I'm not one to dispute the therapeutic value of spirituality; but those who claim to need religion in order to cope with the realities of day to day life- or to justify their morality- could not be further from the truth. In fact, for those people, a religion may provide a sense of well-being in an otherwise overwhelming world- but it rarely leads people to solve their problems, it often only encourages them to leave these issues to the mystical higher-power and dodge responsibility. While this tactic may give the appearance of resolution to the believer, it is hard to justify such an action in light of the loss of individual accomplishments and spirit. It is when the principles of religion begin to be taken too seriously, to the point of extremes, that it becomes no longer therapeutic but harmful to society- when man begins to act on God's behalf and shifts priority from the important issues of the known temporal world to the faith-based belief in the next.
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Your comments insinuate that morales and values are inherent to the human condition. That a false understanding. If your assumption were correct, children of abusive parents would never grow up to be abusive themselves and we know most do unfortunatetly.
Morales and values are the product of the environment within which you are raised. Human behaviour is taught…not inherited. There are many societies where death and "take what you need to survive" cause that society to behave in ways where killing to take what you want is "morally acceptable" and "normal".
Whether or not you want to admit it, those morales and values you claiim as your own are a result of the civilized society which was formed by our God fearing, Christian forefathers. Yes…most of those men were Christians. Our Constitution and laws are strongly based on what is deemed necessary and appropriate within scripture. You can argue against that all you want…but that doesn't dull the potency of that simple truth.
Whether or not you want to admit it, those morales and values you claiim as your own are a result of the civilized society which was formed by our God fearing, Christian forefathers.
Who taught Catholic Priests to molest small Children Bobby?
Christian Forefathers? No mention of Christianity in your US Constitution (I'm English) only a command to keep Religion and politics separate. To protect you from opposing Christian Denominations!
Your simple truth is bronze age drivle, not enough to run a modern society.
Your 10 commandments are also not enough to form even a basis for the rules needed.
How do you choose what is appropriate within Scripture? Most and I do mean most of Scripture is evil, violent and divisive. No thank you.
What does it mean to be an atheist? Not much, really. People try to attach their personal agendas to their atheism, but atheism really just means you don't think there's a god. That's pretty much it. Or, if the 2008 Pew Survey is to be believed, about 80% of atheists don't believe in god. Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life / U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, p. 8 (2008). All else is superimposed.
I'm not particularly "proud" to be a non-believer. I just don't happen to believe. It's not anything I did, other than perhaps read, study, and pay attention. I don't think I got to choose the conclusion to which I came. I think I reached the conclusion to which I was forced by my reasoning and the evidence. Given my choice, I'd have chosen to believe. It would have been much more convenient. Of course, I'd have chosen to believe a fairly benign version of theism. I wouldn't have been a fundamentalist.
And yes, there are benign forms of religion. We need to stop pretending there's no difference between the Taliban and the Episcopal Ladies' Altar Society. There is a difference. I reject the morality taught by Jesus of Nazareth in the Sermon on the Mount that all sin is sin so there is no question of degree. It's astounding that so many atheists follow Christ's teaching in that respect. There is a difference between killing your brother and calling him a fool, and there's a difference between Al Qaeda and the Sisters of Charity.
Isn't your argument agianst fundamentalism hypocritical? Atheism is a fundamentalist movement in and of itself. You work so diligently to "proclaim" your supposed logic and rationale. How is that any different than a religion that proclaims their faith in an all-knowing, all-doing creator?
Hiding behind "rational thought" does not make you less fundamental or extreme. Labeling yourself as "atheist" is forming a group which shares a common belief. That sounds like a religion to me.
We don't need to hide behind rational thought Bobby. It is open for inspection. That is why science advances.
Your 'faith' in an all knowing , all doing creator, is not open for inspection.
However science has chiselled away at the bible teachings which were the only way of knowing in bronze age times.
Atheism isn't a fundamental version of something else Bobby? Atheists are just passionate about the truth.
If you could come up with verifyable evidence for your god (or any of the myriad gods of other religions) then most athiests would convert. They don't see any convincing evidence, so remain atheist.
The common belief you talk about, does not rely on invisible friends (not a very nice friend either).
So called fundamental atheists (actually anti-theists if you want to be correct), despair at the way thick christian fundies try to insist their bronze age shade of the 'truth' be instilled into politics, schools and bedrooms of the majority of citizens. Keep it to yourself. I could respect that.
Gerry, you're bashing a strawman — no one thinks or claims that there's no such difference. But that there is such a difference, indeed a wide gap, does not make tame forms of religion benign; all religious thinking is at odds with rationality.


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Barrie Trower Lecture - University of Toronto
History of Microwaves
From Weapons to Your WiFi
[2 page PDF] 'History of Microwaves' Event Flyer and 'Open Letter from Barrie Trower'
Barrie Trower, a British physicist, who was a microwave weapons expert and who worked for the Royal Navy and the British Secret Service, was in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on August 24, 2010, to speak about the health effects of WiFi and other forms of microwave radiation at the University of Toronto.
Barrie Trower debriefed spies who used stealth microwave weapons. He believes WiFi in schools and other forms of microwave radiation is dangerous and he told us why.
Mr. Trower came out of retirement because he was concerned that the microwave frequencies and intensities to which children are exposed in schools are similar to those used for microwave weapons.
He provided Dr. Magda Havas, PhD, with a copy of a talk he gave to the King of Botswana earlier this year [April 2010] and that document can be viewed on your right.
[PDF] 'Talk Prepared by Barrie Trower for the King of Botswana, April 2010'
Here is a PDF of his credentials and a presentation to the Welsh Parliament.
[6 page PDF] Barrie Trower's credentials and a presentation to the Welsh Parliament.
[Source] 'Barrie Trower's address to Welsh Assembly'
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The talk at U of T was well attended with standing room only (well over 250 in the audience). There were 7 video cameras trained on Mr. Trower while he spoke. His talk will be made available within the next couple of weeks.
After giving a presentation that lasted well over one hour, the questions continued for an additional hour showing the interest in this topic.
Mr. Trower received a standing ovation and applause broke out numerous times during this talk.
[Source] 'Barrie Trower Speaks About Microwave Radiation'
Toronto Star, August 26, 2010
U.K. Expert Warns against Wi-Fi
By SAN GREWALStaff Reporter
Thu., Aug. 26, 2010
The debate surrounding potentially dangerous Wi-Fi networks in schools has been put to rest by the Ontario education ministry, which feels that if Health Canada endorses the technology as safe, end of story.
But Barrie Trower, a British physicist who carried out research for the Royal Navy and military intelligence into the effects of microwave radiation, has come out of retirement to exhort bodies such as Health Canada to heed his life's work.
The Star caught up with Trower after his Tuesday lecture at the University of Toronto on the dangers of Wi-Fi technology and other common household sources of microwave radiation.
In the face of its recent declaration that Wi-Fi networks are safe in schools, what would you tell Health Canada?
"That's wrong. If we know there are no levels safe for children and children are everywhere, how can they be safe? I have never met a single person that has read the ICNIRP (International Commission for Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection) guideline. It says, 'Children, the elderly and some chronically ill people, might have a lower tolerance for one or more forms of microwave exposure.' Your government uses a safety threshold of 'not (greater than) 1,000 microwatts per cm2.' In 2007 a group of scientists came up with a safety level, the BioInitiative Report. Their level is 'not 0.1 microwatts per cm2.' "
Other than those with "electrosensitivity" why are children so susceptible to illness from Wi-Fi?
"Children are physiologically and neurologically immature. It takes years for the blood-brain barrier to form, leaving children more prone to cell-leakage from microwave radiation. And a person's immune system, which fights off damage, takes 18 years to develop. In all of the schools I have visited around the world with Wi-Fi, every one has reported the same symptoms in students: fatigue, headaches, nausea, chest pain, vision problems.
You have been invited to advise numerous countries about these dangers, but almost all have ignored the warnings. Why?
"The governments have buried this for 40 years. They have known about these dangers since the research was coming in decades ago. Now, what do they say? They've painted themselves into a corner. I think they're hoping the whole thing will go away. They're afraid of lawsuits if they admit this is dangerous. And despite all the research that shows microwave radiation is dangerous, no one in the telecom industry has ever admitted it. No one."
© 2010 Torstar Syndication Services
[Source] Toronto Star: 'U.K. Expert Warns against Wi-Fi'
Please see Barrie Trower Videos on how WiFi affects children and more.
[Page] 'Barrie Trower Videos'
TETRAWATCH:
a research based campaign against TETRA Airwaves
In 2001, Barrie Trower gave a talk on TETRA to the Devon and Cornwall branch of the Police Federation.
Confidential Report
Strictly for the
Police Federation
B TROWER
[PDF] 'Barrie Trower report on TETRA to the Devon and Cornwall branch of the Police Federation'
TETRAWATCH
[Source] 'The true origins of the Trower Report'
Barrie Trower
[Page] 'Barrie Trower'
[Page] 'Concerned Parents Protest as Telecom Invades Schools' Government and Industry Denies the Risk', by Aliss Terpstra, Vitality Magazine, Features, October 2010
Professor Curtis Bennett: Barrie never should have been ignored, dismissed or even minimized but it is important to note that even declassified military documents admit the mechanisms were missing linking these RF EMFs to adverse health effects. Mechanisms are the science and why some feel it more than others, why are some deemed to be Electrohypersensitive(EHS). How are people hit, how are they hurt, prove it. Hard to imagine the mechanisms missing from the beginning but EMFs interacting with anything requires a qualified electrical opinion first.
Have you seen the science the whole world uses to determine RF EMFs are safe? Specific Absorption Rate Test(SAR) for Limits of Human Exposure to RF EMFs used by FCC, Health Canada, Global Governing Bodies, American National Standards Institute(ANSI), International Electrical and Electronic Engineers(IEEE), International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection(ICNIRP), UK, the National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB) is Baseless Science Using a Plastic Head or body part.
This picture should set off alarm bells because this is the science used; anyone know anyone with a plastic head? They could radiate that plastic dude forever and why isn't there a plastic girl, child, pet, bee, bird, plant, tree. I am just joking of course, this science isn't science.
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Mirka Szychowiak
Fiction, In Translation, Prose, Saturday European Fiction
"I don't believe my Antoś is dead," Grandma said.
Kitchen full of black aunties sighed, outraged with Grandma's lack of respect for the written word and the bloody stamp in the corner of the page. Nobody questioned the war death. She was the only one who put her foot down.
"I wouldn't have dreamed him so," she said. "He was acting out, pretending to be this Antichrist Hitler, making children laugh, pulling their noses. No! My Antek was alive in the dream, so he must be really alive. He might even be on his way back home right now."
They were a mystery in this small village. He found her in the church choir. She was illiterate. He married her and taught letters using the prayer book. He fell in love with high-breasted Tolka, kind-hearted and shapely, with eyes like moist forget-me-nots. Grandpa was learned. He took a separate room, him and his suitcase full of books. Beautiful, noble, with his head full of hair. He was the master and the oracle.
After they got married Grandma forbid him to work in the fields.
"Antoś, you have a big wise head and I have strong hands. You will do your thing, I will do mine."
She gave him two children. They loved them both very much, but each in a different way.
"Look, Antoś, how different our children are. Helusia stays away from the books and only wants to be in the fields. And she is so swift. She feeds the cattle, plucks chickens. Your Pietrek, on the other hand, has lost the cows again 'cause you gave him a book to take to the meadow. He's no good looking after the beasts."
She was busy raking June hay in the fields by the woods then. She had her scarf pulled low on her forehead, to protect it from the sun. She looked longingly towards the trees, thinking about the shade. She only saw him when he stepped out onto a beaten track amongst the still green rye.
I've waited and waited for you, Antoś, she thought when he was already running towards her through the crop, shouting: "My Tola, my Tola!" and the echo repeated his words. Grandma fell to her knees and screamed towards the village, shaking her fist in the air:
"You see, you miserable assholes, he is back!? You have already buried my Antek, mourned him and told me to look for a new one, but the heart knows better."
Hearing all that screaming Józia Walczak ran out, followed by Andzia Kowalik. Grandma was in tears, hugging gaunt Antek, but, being her, she quickly regained composure and straightaway started dishing out orders to the women:
"Go and ask all the people over. We need to celebrate Antek being alive!"
The women ran towards the village. And Grandma took the heavy canvas sack from Grandpa, grabbed him by the hand and led him home.
MIRKA SZYCHOWIAK is a Polish poet and short story writer. So far she has published four poetry collections (Człap story, Jeszcze się tu pokręcę, Proszę nie płakać and Gustaw znikąd). Jeszcze się tu pokręcę was nominated for the Nike Award (Polish equivalent of the Booker Prize) in 2011. Szychowiak was also awarded numerous other literary prizes in Poland. Her poems have been translated into English and included in the Free Over Blood anthology published by Off_Press. She has just published her first short story collection called Gniazdozbiór. She lives in Księżyce near Wrocław in Poland.
ANNA HYDE (Anna Blasiak) has translated over 30 books from English into Polish (mainly children's books, including Anthony Horowitz's South By South East) and fiction from Polish into English (Mariusz Czubaj, Wioletta Grzegorzewska, Jan Krasnowolski. Kaja Malanowska, Daniel Odija, Anna Augustyniak and Mirka Szychowiak). She has also translated Maria Jastrzębska's, Mary O'Donnell's and Nessa O'Mahony's poetry into Polish. Apart from translating, Anna has worked in museums and a radio station, run magazines, and written on art, film and theatre. She helps run the European Literature Network. She writes poetry in Polish and English.
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Placekey: The new standard identifier for physical places is adopted by world's largest organizations, goes no-code
DENVER, CO. – December 17, 2020: Placekey, the new universal standard identifier for physical places launched in October with the backing of over 500 organizations, today announced the arrival of its no-code solutions for Google Sheets and Excel, as part of a larger strategy to make its identifier available to the wider world.
The move brings Placekey's free, universally-accepted industry standard to more organizations and individuals, since it allows Placekeys to be easily appended to address records and latitude/longitude coordinates in tabular data sets, without writing a single line of code. Nitin Duggal, Chief Product Officer of Affinity Solutions, a leading technology provider of consumer behavioral intelligence that recently appended Placekeys to its location service, affirmed the move: "We couldn't be more excited to announce that we've added Placekeys to our location service to enable our clients to provide consumer purchase intelligence based on points of interest or location. The new solutions will allow Affinity's customers to expand the range of connected consumer insights they can derive from our offerings."
The sentiment is echoed by Andrew Castro, Affinity's Senior Director of Product Management: "What's great about this solution is that it connects people, location and devices to derive everyday consumer behavioral intelligence , and I can access these insights via APIs that requires no additional code and can be downloaded to Excel or Google Sheets." Ross Epstein, Chief of Staff at SafeGraph, a leading geospatial data company, explains: "The no-code solutions expose the full functionality of the Placekey API in order to quickly append Placekeys to address records, so users can streamline geocoding, address matching, and spatial analytics without leaving their workspace of choice."
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Lemonade Stand with a Twist | Shafer...Power!
Since most entrepreneurial journeys begin with a neighborhood lemonade stand, I figured now would be a great time for us to give it a try. After all, we've just kicked off our entrepreneurial journey and it will be fun and easy for us to pull it together, right? Not only that, but there's sure to be some learning opportunities along the way. Hey, fun and educational – two of our four goals – in one fell swoop. I love it when a plan comes together!
Let's start with the learning opportunities. I've been talking through the idea of a lemonade stand with Owen and Malia and two lessons have begun to evolve. First of all, we're learning about the concept of a good location. Since we live on a cul-de-sac, we've discussed hosting the stand at the end of our block or – as Owen suggested – near the neighborhood park. Since the park is just a short distance from a large number of homes AND includes a playscape, Owen believes there will be many more potential customers. That's my boy!
The second lesson – and this one may be a little too advanced for them – is the concept of being unique. For example, I realize the main purpose of a lemonade stand is to make and sell a product to a paying customer, but I've passed a lot of lemonade stands in my time without stopping (even though that little voice in my head says, "you should stop and buy some lemonade from those young kids.") Why is it that I keep driving? I think it's because I tell myself I'll stop next time as there will surely be another one tomorrow or the day after that. I guess the only thing that's unique about the stands are the children behind them. Yikes, now I feel really bad. I promise I'll stop the next time.
In an effort to be unique and provide a needed service in our neighborhood, I suggested to the kids we host a coffee stand instead. Unfortunately, the closest coffee shop is about twenty minutes away and I'm confident there are many coffee drinkers amongst the 900 houses in our subdivision. And when the kids suggested we could sell chocolate milk as well, I knew we were on to something. So that's the plan. We're going to host a neighborhood coffee stand and we'll also have milk for the kids. Based on our level of excitement, I wouldn't be surprised to see it happen this weekend. Shaferrrrr…Power!
What are your thoughts on lemonade stands?


On March 6th, JETAA NW held its annual Hinamatsuri at the usual location, Sugar and Dice Board Game Cafe. Though Hinamatsuri is known as Girls Day, and our get-together usually falls just before International Women's Day, the event was open to all and we were pleased to hold it alongside the local Go Club.
All in all, it was a fun celebration of Japanese culture and a great chance to chat amongst alumni and also meet some of our local Japanese community. Indeed, it was the first hinamatsuri for our friend's baby so it was quite a special event.
If you missed out this time, not to worry. We will certainly be holding another get-together in the near future so watch this space. Until then, take care!
Corrina Ellis - JETAA North West Chair.


The new classic. Kailis launches its 2017 collection, Charleston, with a short film directed by Margaret Zhang. Captured in New York City, the film stars Australian model Alexandra Agoston and French-American artist Anh Duong.


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UT-ORNL Expert to Discuss Cyberspace Insecurity Risks, Precautions
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KNOXVILLE — Stacy Prowell, UT associate professor and chief cybersecurity research scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will speak about computer network security on Oct. 19 at the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Prowell's presentation, which is free and open to the public, begins at 7 p.m. in the Toyota Auditorium. It will be webcast live and archived for future viewing.
Prowell will focus on how and why computer networks are fundamentally insecure and how existing economic, political and social forces are likely to make things worse. He also will talk about changing strategies and motivations for exploitation, as well as what individuals can do to increase their own security.
Prowell works in ORNL's Computational Sciences and Engineering Division and holds a joint appointment as associate professor in UT's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
For more than a decade, Prowell has worked on making software systems more reliable, safe and secure. He also has developed novel ways of specifying, analyzing and testing software applications and embedded devices. As an industry consultant, he has worked on projects ranging from tiny embedded devices to large distributed industrial control systems, from simple software applications to sophisticated medical imaging. More recently his work has focused on computationally intensive cybersecurity, combining formal analysis methods with high-performance computing.
C O N T A C T :
Amy Blakely (865-974-5034, amy.blakely@tennessee.edu)
Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy


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