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As Lujan Grisham pledges to tackle racial justice, she's slow to release NM prisoners amid new virus outbreak
By Jeff Proctor, New Mexico In Depth | June 11, 2020
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Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham speaks with State Rep. Sheryl Williams Stapleton, the Rev. Donna Maria Davis of Grant Chapel A.M.E. Church and Alexandria Taylor of the New Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs, at a June 4 announcement of the creation of a new advisory Council for Racial Justice.
Hundreds of nonviolent New Mexico prison inmates, including people convicted of drug possession, remained behind bars last week, even as COVID-19 killed its first state prisoner and infected one in three inmates at the Otero County Prison Facility near the southern border.
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who has won national praise for how she's led New Mexico through the pandemic, is facing questions over why she hasn't moved more aggressively to ensure more of the state's 11 prisons don't become viral hotspots.
Since March, her administration has freed about 50 inmates — less than 1% of the state's prison population — through an April 6 order that requires her to commute sentences rather than using a law already on the books that would allow hundreds of prisoners to be released early.
The minimal prisoner releases pale next to what some states have done to ease crowding in — and the 30% reduction New Mexico counties have accomplished in the state's 27 jails.
Lujan Grisham's approach has given some pause, especially given the first-term Democrat's advocacy for legalizing recreational cannabis and her recent creation of a Council for Racial Justice in response to protests that spilled into New Mexico streets over the killing by police of George Floyd, a black man in Minneapolis.
About one quarter of those locked up in New Mexico's prisons are in for nonviolent drug offenses, including many, some long-time criminal justice watchers say, who were prosecuted for possessing marijuana — an offense that would be legal if New Mexico green-lighted recreational cannabis as Lujan Grisham has lobbied. Hispanic and black people are disproportionately incarcerated in New Mexico, as they are nationwide.
State Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino, D-Albuquerque, believed the pandemic represented a "golden opportunity" for the Lujan Grisham administration to try a different approach besides prison, but he's "very disappointed," he said.
"They basically haven't dented the prison population, and now there is an outbreak which anyone could have predicted," Ortiz y Pino said. "I have been concerned about why we have these kinds of low-level drug offenders locked up for a long time, and I am even more concerned now."
Mark Donatelli, a longtime criminal defense and civil rights lawyer based in Santa Fe, wants to know why the governor hasn't released prisoners using the Community Corrections Act.
In the 1980s, Donatelli lobbied for passage of the statute, which gives governors and their Corrections Department secretaries the power to release anyone within 12 months of the end of their prison sentence, provided they weren't locked up for a gun crime.
At the time, Donatelli and others helped convince the Legislature that the law would accomplish three goals seen as essential: ease overcrowding in the prisons as required by a federal consent decree, give inmates a structured path to reentry into society and save taxpayers millions in incarceration and new prison construction costs.
But the law never was used.
When the pandemic hit in early March, Donatelli saw an opportunity.
He dashed off an email to Matt Garcia, Lujan Grisham's general counsel and himself a former civil rights lawyer, reminding Garcia about the controlled release program.
Controlled release would free up space in the prisons and, hopefully, reduce the risk of an outbreak of COVID-19, Donatelli wrote. Freedom for large numbers of inmates under the law would also accomplish those original goals — cost savings and recidivism reduction.
"It was like, now's the time to jump on it for god's sake," he told New Mexico In Depth in a recent telephone interview. "And sometimes it takes a crisis like the coronavirus for people to reevaluate their options and see the logic, saying, oh, we're not just doing this because we're worried about people getting sick in prison and driving up the medical costs; it really would help the public to get these people out earlier and get them support so that they don't end up victimizing someone else or ending up back in prison. I really thought that would happen."
It didn't.
Garcia didn't respond, Donatelli said. Neither did anyone else in Lujan Grisham's administration.
Based on a fall 2019 report by the New Mexico Sentencing Commission, which NMID wrote about in April, nearly 300 people could be released over a 12-month period.
Donatelli contacted New Mexico In Depth after publication to say the real number, under a plain reading of the statute, is closer to 300 people a month.
"Even if you limit it to nonviolent offenders, which isn't required under the law, if you back it up to 90 days (before the end of someone's sentence), you could eliminate 500 people in prison," he said. "If you back it up 180 days, then you've got a thousand. You could close entire prisons, do you follow me? You're shutting down prisons."
NMID dove into prison population statistics provided by the Corrections Department to examine who is locked up in New Mexico.
Several figures stood out.
The Corrections Department did not separate drug possession from drug trafficking offenses in the breakdown it provided, but officials said in an email that 1,712 people were locked up as of mid-May on "drug crimes, nonviolent."
That's more than a quarter of the state's roughly 6,400 prison inmates.
Further, an annual prison population forecast compiled by the Sentencing Commission last year showed that 8% of new male admissions were for drug possession; 13% for women.
The statistics don't break down the prison population by substance, but Donatelli and other longtime criminal justice system watchers say many are behind bars for marijuana related charges.
Legalizing recreational cannabis, which Lujan Grisham supports, would make legal many of those now criminal actions.
"If there was ever a time for wishful thinking, I wish we had passed recreational cannabis because that was $100 million," she said at an April news conference. "Those are pre-COVID-19 estimates, but $100 million in the budget. And I am very sad about that."
Asked to square the governor's stance on legalization with the large number of prisoners still locked up for nonviolent drug crimes during the pandemic, spokesman Tripp Stelnicki responded with a question of his own.
"How does anyone square it?" he wrote in an email response. "We live in the world we live in until things can be changed for the better. The governor pushed very hard for legalization this year because it would be an economic game-changer and, at least equally if not more importantly, would be the right thing to do."
Corrections Department figures also show racial disparities among those in the state's prisons.
The data are incomplete and likely skewed — there is no state requirement that race and ethnicity data be kept in any corner of the criminal justice system — but by the department's accounting, 448 African Americans were incarcerated as of mid-May.
That's 7% of the prison population, while black people make up about 3% of the state's overall population.
People listed under the label "Hispanic white" made up 58% of the prison population, while Hispanics account for about 47% of people in New Mexico.
Lujan Grisham clearly has an eye on racial disparities in criminal justice. In a June 4 news release announcing her new Council for Racial Justice, she offered a stark assessment.
"Our country is in a dark place right now, but it has long been a dark place for so many voiceless and powerless and poor and systemically disadvantaged people and families," the governor said in the release.
Earlier in the day, the release said, Lujan Grisham ordered state flags to half-staff to commemorate George Floyd and "all other victims of systemic racism and police violence."
Ortiz y Pino said the pandemic should have forced a high-level, public discussion about New Mexico's incarceration rates for nonwhite and drug offenders — "things people would not have even gone to jail for if they were white, let alone prison."
"I am hesitant to say the governor doesn't want to appear soft, but that has been the case for every governor here," he said. "But at this point, I still don't sense any real momentum from the administration on releasing people."
Donatelli points out that nonwhite people are at particularly high risk if they contract COVID-19.
"You have a high percentage of at-risk populations" in prisons, he said, adding that nonwhite people have higher indicators for poor health than whites.
Between hepatitis C, diabetes, poor diets in prison, obesity and other issues, it's a recipe for illness and even death, Donatelli said.
"I just wish the governor would tour one of these facilities and see the men and women stacked up in close quarters and know that social distancing is impossible," he said. "All it takes is one staff member to come in who's positive, and it will be nuclear in these populations. I'm just holding my breath every day."
Donatelli's fears came true over the past two weeks.
On June 1, the state announced the first death of a prison inmate from COVID-19 — an inmate who had been housed at the Otero County Prison Facility. The next day, officials announced 116 new cases of the coronavirus in the state's portion of the privately run prison.
Today, the total number of prison inmates who have tested positive stands at 224, according to the governor's office, in addition to the 385 federal detainees in New Mexico who have tested positive.
In emailed responses to questions for this story, Stelnicki made it clear the governor is not considering controlled release to ease prison populations.
The Legislature, he said, has never properly funded the reentry programs necessary to make the program effective and that the governor's executive order provides for a "safe place" for released inmates to go after release.
The order requires only a "parole plan" for people within 30 days of the end of their sentence who meet certain criteria, such as not being convicted of violent crimes, some DWI offenses and other exclusions.
Stelnicki said commuting sentences under the executive order is the safest way to release people during the pandemic. That's because, in part, community corrections programs are not funded, he said.
Donatelli wondered why the administration, during two legislative sessions, has not asked the Legislature to fund programs under the law.
"Don't they get to submit a budget every year?" he said. "Why have they not asked for the money to fund this infrastructure? And in any case, Community Corrections does not require these programs anyway, if you read the statute. Plus, all of these people are going to get out eventually anyway, and they're all going to the same place: parole. It makes no sense to delay that during a pandemic."
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Why Do Kids Say "Search It Up?"
Tuesday, February 14th 2017
I've been teaching various programming classes through Saturday Academy the past few months. It's been particularly interesting to get the kids perspective on web-related things. Questions like "What's the difference between an app and a website?" yield curious answers and suggest the distinction is surprisingly blurry.
The most curious thing to me though is the phrase kids use when they talk about searching for things on the internet. If you ask them how they find games on the internet it's never "I'll do a search for games" or "I'll search for games." It's always "I search it up."
"Search it up" shows up time and time again in my classes but I cannot figure out the etymology surrounding it. I found this Urban Dictionary definition, which is in-keeping with how I hear the kids use it. I can also find plenty of discussions surrounding whether or not it's grammatically correct, but nothing that seems like a definite origin for the expression.
Trying to be too clever for my own good, I did a Google Trends search for "search up" which produced an interesting graph:
It's certainly looks like its use might be on the rise, but this isn't a very scientific study and it might not mean anything.
The earliest reference I stumbled across was this post in a forum from 2006. It's also achieved novelty t-shirt status on Amazon—a paragon of authority in any field 🙄.
Finally I came across a series of videos from a company called Azoomee — specifically one entitled Internet Safety with Search it Up.
That's my best guess — this series must've been used in the schools around here when teaching about internet safety. It also seems to be British, which is funny to me only because "search it up" sounds like bad English to my ears.


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Kevin Richards (behind Brett Davey on the ball) playing for Ton Pentre in Europe against Heerenveen.
Back in April we reported that Ton Pentre were the subject of a documentary that was to be broadcast in the Netherlands.
The Dutch documentary was about the Bulldogs UEFA Intertoto Cup match against sc Heerenveen in 1995.
The 30 minute documentary appeared on national television in the Netherlands on Fox Sports NL. You can watch it in full below.
A huge thank you is due to Ian Johnson (Twitter: @ianjamesjohnson) who has kindly provided a translation for the Fox Sports documentary.
Using Ian's translation below, you can follow the video and read what the Dutch contributors are saying.
Rob Dowling
Narrator: It's the 1994-95 season. SC Heerenveen are having a good year – the stadium is full, the football is flowing. With the introduction of the renewed Intertoto Cup it's possible to achieve European football outside of the major competitions.
Wilco Hellinga (former player): Of course, it's something you want, but it was a huge surprise. When you're from a small, but fast growing club, with the advantages of a new stadium and everything that comes with it – you get better players, finish higher up, so we came seventh and that meant European football. For us that really meant something.
Johan Hansma (former player): It was a tournament organised so you could qualify for European football – I think they called it Europa Cup 3 at that time and you could play official European football, even if it was in the preliminaries. Something we'd never done before.
Riemer van der Velde (former chairman): There was a structure for qualification if you wanted to participate, so after the clubs had qualified for the major competitions then the others had the opportunity, with one or two per country, so for a few years we had some great experiences.
Hansma: I arrived two years earlier, from Zwolle where I'd been playing in the Jupiler League, the first division, and then came to Heerenveen and played in the Premier Division, so having the chance to play in those games in another country, well, that was just amazing.
Lize Crossen (fan): You had to register, you know, sign up. There was never any doubt, though, we had to be there. So I was there with a group, seven or eight of us who always to go to Heerenveen games, usually at the back of the supporters bus, so we all rang each other up to ask what we were doing and, you know, put our names down on the list.
NOS Studio Sport (24 June 1995). Advert says 'You and Heerenveen – off to Europe together!'
(There is another slogan in Frisian as well, 'The Frisians are flying out!')
Newsreader: Heerenveen today begin their European mission and the Frisian club have taken out an advert in the regional papers to show they're taking it seriously – calling on fans to support the club in their European football quest. Tonight was the first game but the Abe Lenstra Stadium wasn't full for the first game in Group 4 against Danish club Naesteved IF.
Commentary: The ball falls to Hellinga…(goal). Hellinga and a chance for Tammer (goal). Erik Tammer in the penultimate minute
Narrator: The first opponents in European competition were Naestved IF. Heerenveen win the match 2-1 and later travel to Wales to take on Ton Pentre.
Evert ten Napel: Ton Pentre. Well, it won't mean much to most people but Ton Pentre is a small village in Wales, the birthplace of Tom Jones, by the way.
Van der Velde: They were a modest, traditional club. I understand they've had a tough time of it since, because of the travel costs that came with it, but Ton Pentre was the start of our European adventures.
Hansma: Yes, this was the first European international away match so we had to go to Wales to play a big club away.
James (Paul) Willoughby
Narrator: Ton Pentre, a small historic village in the heart of the Rhondda Valleys in south Wales. Ton Pentre has one local football club, Ton Pentre FC, also known as the Rhondda Bulldogs. The Bulldogs were promoted in 1993 to the Welsh Premier League and surprisingly finished third two seasons running, placing them in 1995 in the Intertoto Cup position. That Ton Pentre were in a position to play in European football is quite remarkable – the players are amateur, the club hasn't a penny to rub together and the stadium is seriously ageing.
Brett Davey
Narrator: And so on 25th June 1995, Ton Pentre became the hosts for an official European competition match, but, not entirely unexpectedly, Ton Pentre's traditional Ynys Park was rejected by UEFA, leaving the Rhondda Bulldogs to search for another venue to play their home matches.
Narrator: Cardiff, Wales's capital with almost 350,000 residents. Right in the centre is Cardiff Arms Park, the stadium for the Cardiff Blues rugby club. The Arms Park is right next to the Millennium Stadium, the national stadium for Wales' football and rugby teams.
Hansma: [laughing] We saw the large stadium, the national stadium, a fantastic ground that I think is where they play rugby. We played in the stadium next door, but that was still an improvement on Ton Pentre's home ground.
Hellinga: We got there, the whole team, and thought 'wow, that's impressive!', looking through the gates, but something wasn't right – the gates were all locked up, but we could see the pitch through them, and were like 'wow', but we pretty soon realized it was the ground next door! That was a bit of a disappointment [laughs], so the rugby ground, the 80,000 seater stadium, that wasn't for us!
Narrator: The Little Arms Park, right next to the rugby stadium of the same name, of Cardiff RFC. Just before six o'clock local time the Heerenveen players are warming up. Here are the fans arriving at the ground, after hours en route, 120 of them in total getting to Cardiff on three buses.
Cozens: We left Heerenveen in the afternoon. Went to Oostende in Belgium where we had a hotel overnight. We had a 7am departure and weren't waiting for anybody. But we went out and had a big party, and then we were supposed to be off. But there was a fan who wasn't there and we were like, well, we can't wait, so we went. We went down to Calais, and got on board the boat, and had lovely views of Dover on our arrival there, and the buses drove off the boat and I think we were around London when we heard this huge noise alongside us and everyone turned to look and there was a taxi with a Heerenveen scarf flying out the window, and it was him – the guy we'd left behind. He'd got a ticket for the boat and then got a taxi, all paid for by himself. So they rode up next to us and the bus pulled in and he got on board. Great story. Brilliant. And then soon after we were in Cardiff.
Narrator: The Ton Pentre team in new shirts ready for their first big European match.
Evert ten Natel: I was working for NOS (Dutch TV channel) and sent there to commentate on the match and also to make an 'atmosphere' background piece in advance. So I thought, I've got to get something out of this as it could be a big win as they were not a well-known club. So, you know what's in your head, what's on your mind. So we went up to get some images in Ton Pentre, in Tom Jones' birth house and around there, and then I was like 'do you want to come to the pre-match team talk' and they were all 'can we?', and I was like 'Sure, bring your cameras, film what you want and make of it what you can!'
Foppe de Haan's team talk compares Ton Pentre with Dutch Amateur clubs.
Hansma: We knew nothing about them. We knew they had 11 players and their home ground had been rejected by UEFA and they were playing in another ground. And that was it.
Narrator: Heerenveen quickly put Ton Pentre under pressure with a quick passing game, a deep lying forward, Pieter Bijl, and three blocks of three behind. Here's the first chance, in the first minute, for the Dane, Tomasson.
Halsma: Tom Sier, left back; Michel Doesburg, he played right back. In goal was L'Ami. Alex Pastoor, Tomasson, Jan de Visser and of course Roelofsen. Regtop, yeh, Erik Regtop, Erik Tammer, Romeo Wouden. Yeh, at that time we had a pretty special team.
Narrator: The corner was taken by Regtop himself, the chance made by the defender and so in the 9th minute, Heerenveen take the lead against Ton Pentre in Cardiff through Johan Hansma. The Welsh amateurs make a series of mistakes. Ellacott started to come, but hesitated, saving Regtop's first shot but, a minute after Hansma's opener, it's 2-0 to Heerenveen, thanks to Regtop.
Marty Ellacott
Narrator: The free kick from Johan Hansma is struck precisely through the gap between Ellacott's hand and the goalpost. It's already 3-0 to Heerenveen, with Hansma's second goal.
Hellinga: We knew early on in the game that we could take them apart. It was clear, not just from the final result but throughout the game that we would get a lot of chances, and that's how it ended up a convincing victory.
Narrator: Halsma just about keeps the ball in, but a terrible challenge from Davey – probably not deliberate but maybe more acceptable on Wales' cabbage patch pitches.
Narrator: A concerned look on Foppe de Haan's face, who gets young central defender Schumacher to warm-up. But Hansma returns after some brief treatment.
An attack from De Visser and then back of the net from Erik Tammer. 4-0 to Heerenveen.
Tomasson and a blunder from Ellacott. Tomasson. Thank you very much, scores his second, and that's 5-0 to Heerenveen.
Impressive attack from Tomasson and it's 6-0.
Narrator: Here an example of the Welsh team tiring. Heerenveen play the ball out quickly out, through Erik Regtop playing on the right this half. Wouden is now also on the pitch and Regtop fires home to make to seven and Heerenveen win their first proper European away game, in Cardiff, against Ton Pentre, 7-0. The travelling support are appreciative.
Hansma: I think 7-0 is, in Heerenveen's history, still the biggest ever European victory.
Cozens: As a fan, you go to matches like this with a certain sense of expectation, so 7-0 was, well, a bit of an anti-climax, but, yeh, for the first European away game and you're up against an amateur team then 7-0, well done, lads, we've done what was needed.
Hansama: Another of my memories is that the victory was a big one, 7-0, and that the players they honoured us by lining up and we walked past and took the applause from the players. That's now pretty much unimaginable.
Hansma (interviewed at the time): We did well from the corners and the free-kicks. The corner went in and then the free kick went in. I'm very pleased.
Interviewer: You were also part of an incident and took a bit of a knock…
Hansma: Yes, I kept the ball in play, and then I tried to… it was an awful challenge, both legs outstretched, I wasn't really able to get out the way but luckily it wasn't too bad"
Hansma: Ha, yes, I saw the footage and thought, "that's a totally different era". You wouldn't do that now.
Hellinga: Crazy, eh?! Standing in the middle of the dressing room, with Doctor Wiesman behind you and totally naked men standing there. These days you'd never do that. It would all be done outside.
Foppe de Haan (at the time): I thought we played well and kept the ball. We had a good win. But we're sporting people, we didn't want to humiliate them.
Hansma: A night out on the town! Sierk Kooistra was the reserve keeper but he didn't have anything appropriate to wear so went out in his club suit on, but by the following morning he'd lost half of it!
Narrator: After the big win at Ton Pentre, Heerenveen won almost all the other ties and were group winners. Eventually Heerenveen lost the semi-final to Bordeaux, later UEFA Cup finalists with players such as Zinadine Zidane and Richard Witschge. SC Heerenveen's first European adventure is a huge success.
Hellinga: I think the club made a lot from it. Playing Bordeaux brought a lot of people on board. Commercially it was good for the club. I think the club made a lot of money. I think it gave a good push towards the Champions League, which is bigger, much much bigger, I think.
Hansma: I think this was Heerenveen's second year in the Premiership and the whole club grew and developed through this and eventually wound up second in the Premiership and went from the Intertoto to reaching the Champions League. That was a great time.
Narrator: But while the Intertoto adventure was the stepping stone for SC Heerenveen's later success, for Ton Pentre it was a step too far. The Intertoto costs put Ton Pentre in serious financial problems. The club was on the brink, but survived. From a sporting perspective, the Heerenveen match remains the highpoint in the club's history.
Narrator: Ton Pentre may not be one of Heerenveen's biggest opponents, but certainly one that will never be forgotten. The Intertoto competition wasn't a success for them, but the south Wales village fought hard to play in European football, and, who knows, maybe Ton Pentre will once again play familiar opponents – SC Heerenveen.


My Grandfather, The Butcher
My grandfather escaped from Russia in 1916. Â His family was in the meat business and provided beef for the Russian army. Â Because of this, my 16 year old grandfather received a couple of deferments. Â But that didn't stop the recruiting teams from scooping him up and putting him in pen with other young and old men to be shipped off to the front. Â His father had given him a leather jacket, which he was able to toss over the barbed wire topping the fence so that he could scale it and get away. Â After this happened for the second time, his father decided enough was enough. Â The front was chewing up young men like a meat grinder. Â The untrained replacements, growing younger and younger weren't provided with so much as a rifle and were instructed to wait until one of their compatriots with a rifle was killed so they could fight. And so it was off to America.
Forty years later, still in the meat business, he was the proud owner of a meat market in Milwaukee Wisconsin. Â America had been good to him and he had a twinkle in his eye and a gentle sense of humor.
One day while standing behind the counter and helping a customer he spied a woman in a long coat standing next to a rack of sausage strings. Â Out of the corner of his eye, he saw her stuff a string of wieners under her coat.
What she didn't realize was that the string was longer than her coat and that some of the sausage string was hanging beneath the coat's hem.
My grandfather came out from behind the counter with a knife in his hand and approached the woman, whose eyes grew wide at the approach of the bushy-eye-browed, knife-wielding butcher. Â He calmly reached down with the knife and trimmed off the portion of the sausage string that was visible. Â He held it up and smiled, patting her on the shoulder and said in his heavily accented English, "That don't look so good." Â He walked away and let the woman leave with her prize.
UPDATE: Â My mother read this and told me:
"The end of that story is that she was a customer until the day she died."
Hypothetical Pizza
Aw, Cut It Out Already …
1 Ann Herzer { 02.04.16 at 10:53 am }
I loved the story. Is it actually true? If so, I think I would have liked your grandfather.
February 4th, 2016 at 12:52 pm
It is a true story.
2 Jeff Edelman { 02.04.16 at 9:35 pm }
Yeah. But, was she a paying customer?
3 George Archibald { 02.06.16 at 6:58 pm }
The Founders would love this story, the "sin factor" being as prevalent as today but human frailty not hypocritically judged as "pointy-nosed" observers are wont to do presently. A book project I have under way is a different look at Thomas Jefferson's "common law" love relationship and children with slave Sally Hemings, which prompted a Muslim volunteer in our local public library to denounce me for not "hating Jefferson." The lady's teenage son had robbed a local bank at gunpoint with several cohorts 12 years earlier and was helped to be released from prison by local officeholders whose equanimity for the lady was comparable to your Jewish grandfather's. God's grace blesses all who follow the path spelled out in Isaiah 1:16 through 20.
Mike Reply:
He was a Russian Grandfather. You have to read.
4 George Archibald { 02.07.16 at 12:58 pm }
He was a Russian Butcher. You have to like blood, red meat, and read on the toilet. Anything else?


Global Alliance for Tibet & Persecuted Minorities
Human Rights | Freedom | Equality | Democracy
China committing "cultural genocide" in Tibet, a 15-year old British Tibetan student told the Resist CCP Day Rally in London
(GATPM, London | 2nd October 2021)
Political and human rights activists from Hong Kong, Tibetan and Uyghur communities and NGOs slated the CCP regime as a real threat to global peace and security as China celebrates its 72nd founding anniversary of the People's Republic of China in London.
Resist the Chinese Community Party Day – Joint London Rally, was held in central London on 1st October, showing unity among British Hongkonger, Tibetan and Uyghur Communities in the fight for freedom, justice, human rights and democracy.
The protest started off in Piccadilly Circus and finished in front of the Chinese Embassy. Protesters chanted loud slogans of "Free Tibet", "Free Hong Kong", "Free East Turkistan" and "Shame Shame Xi Jinping".
Prominent British, Hong Kong, Tibetan and Uyghur activists addressed the rallies.
Benedict Rogers, Co-founder and CEO of Hong Kong Watch, said, "It is time now for the free world, for our governments of democracies around the world, to stand up to the CCP, to take action to hold them to account, to sanction them, to stop trading with them, to stop kowtowing to them, and to do everything possible to end these 72 years of bloody repression."
Andrea Venzon & Colombe Cahen-Salvador, co-founders of Atlas also spoke at the Piccadilly Circus rally. Andrea Venzon said, "A threat from an authoritarian regime impacts democracy at large. We have a duty to stand up for the hundreds of millions of people living in captivity under the CCP rule. Democracy is a fundamental right, and we will not back down."
Finn Lau, Founder of Hong Kong Liberty, addressed the rally. He said, "We have witnessed genocide and severe crackdowns in East Turkestan, Tibet and Hong Kong in that Beijing is wiling to do whatever it would cost to sustain the one-party tyranny. The ambition of the CCP is also being reflected by its infiltration into the international academic, business sector and even intergovernmental organisations like the UN with the tactic called United Front. In light of its ascent as a global threat to human rights and universal values, the free world has to stand firm against the CCP."
After the national anthems of East Turkistan, Hong Kong and Tibet were played, the protesters marched to the Chinese Embassy via Regents Street, Oxford Circus and the BBC. Some protesters burned a Chinese flag, a sign of defiance against the CCP regime for its actions right in front of the Chinese Embassy.
Speakers outside the Chinese Embassy:
In his opening remarks, Tsering Passang, Founder and Convener at the Global Alliance for Tibet & Persecuted Minorities, said, "Resistance against the CCP regime is growing within China and around the world.
"Exactly 72 years ago, the Chinese Communist Party and its regime under Mao Tsetung's dictatorship, announced the illegal invasion of Tibet and the Republic of East Turkistan. Mao Tsetung called the illegal invasion of Tibet a "peaceful liberation". That so-called "peaceful liberation" has cost millions of lives of Tibetan and Uyghur people amongst others."
Passang further added, "For the Tibetan and Uyghur victims under the Chinese regime's military occupation and repressive policy, there is nothing to celebrate so long as China continues to illegally occupy Tibet and East Turkistan.
"For the people of Hong Kong, there is nothing to celebrate so long as Beijing disregards the UK-China Joint Declaration and the universal basic rights are not restored in Hong Kong.
"For the people of Taiwan, there is nothing to celebrate when their democratic country faces the imminent threat of military invasion from the Chinese regime.
"There is nothing to celebrate so long as the Southern Mongolians cannot maintain their own language and Buddhist culture.
"Certainly, there is nothing to celebrate so long as the Falun Gong followers as well as other religious and faith groups cannot practice their devotions. And the list goes on… including lack of democracy and freedom of speech."
Rahima Mahmut, UK Director of World Uyghur Congress and Executive Director of Stop Uyghur Genocide, addressed the rally. She said, "Today we marched against the persecution of Uyghur people over not just the past 5 years, but the entire 72 years of CCP Government. Celebrations in Beijing cannot drown out the pleas for freedom from across the world today, from communities that continue to be denied their human rights. Our people are facing torture, rape, and genocide – it is time for the international community to stand tall against the CCP's crimes."
Basil, Representative of Power to Hong Kongers, also spoke outside the Chinese Embassy in Cantonese language.
A 15-year old British Tibetan student from the Tibetan Community in Britain addressed the rally outside the Chinese Embassy. She said, "China hopes to eradicate Tibetan identity. It is robbing a generation of Tibetan children their rights to their language, culture, and heritage. This is cultural genocide. And we have seen what happens when those inside Tibet speak, even amongst themselves. China silences those voices, because they know that when people speak up about injustice, they can bring about change."
Tom, from the Hong Kong Aid addressed the rally. He said, "The CCP is a friend of terrorism. The CCP is the threat to the whole world. We must keep on fighting for the freedom of Hong Kong. Step out! United and Resist!"
Sam Walton, CEO of Free Tibet, addressed the rally. He said, "Chinese Communist Party's aggressive expansionism is a threat to democracy, human rights and freedom around the world. Bootlicking world leaders are as good as inviting China to wipe Tibet, Hong Kong and East Turkestan off the map, It's time for everyone who cares about human rights to stand up to the Chinese Communist Party."
National anthems of East Turkistan, Hong Kong and Tibet were played once again before Tsering Passang gave his concluding remarks. He said, "We know that the CCP regime poses a real threat to global peace and security.
"Xi Jinping and his regime must immediately end their brutal crackdown on innocent people across China and its occupied territories, who are entitled to basic rights as enshrined in the Universal Declarations of Human Rights. It is about time China ends the colonisation of its neighbours and discrimination against the minorities.
"As Mao Tsetung once said, "where there is oppression there will be resistance". So, we the people of Tibet, East Turkistan, Hong Kong, Southern Mongolia, Taiwan as well as all those oppressed groups such as the Falun Gong practitioners, will continue to defy and resist the Chinese Communist regime and its repressive rule."
This year protest was jointly organised by:
– Atlas
– Free Tibet
– Hong Kong Aid
– Hong Kong Liberty
– Power to Hongkongers
– Uyghur Community UK
– World Uyghur Congress
– Tibetan Community in Britain
– Global Alliance for Tibet and Persecuted Minorities
Author: Tsering Passang (Tsamtruk)
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Difference between revisions of "Johnny B. Goode"
In 1969, Berry released the album ''Concerto In B Goode,'' but the title track is an 18 minute instrumental.
Mr. Goode gets a mention in Ricky Nelson's 1972 hit song "[https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2173/in-ricky-nelsons-garden-party-who-is-mr-hughes/ Garden Party]":

Someone opened up a closet door and out stepped Johnny B. Goode
Playing guitar like a-ringing a bell and lookin' like he should.
More impressive are the balls of the band Devo, who killed off Goode in their song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbvXPYwzkvY Come Back Jonee]" from their 1978 album ''Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!'':

"Johnny jumped into his Datsun. Drove out on the expressway. Went head on into a semi. His guitar's all that's left now."

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Early rock and roll star from the Chuck Berry song of the same name. Berry wrote the semiautobiographical "Johnny B. Goode" in 1955, but it was not recorded and released until 1958.
What you probably don't know is there's more to it than that. Goode appears in other Chuck Berry songs:
"Bye Bye Johnny" (1960), where Momma says bye to Johnny as he goes to Hollywood to make some motion pictures. Johnny falls in love there, and promises to build his momma a mansion after he's married.
"Go Go Go" (1963, from the album Chuck Berry on Stage. Johnny starts going jazz! "Backed up by a jazz band, layin' on the wood, Mixin Ahmad Jamal in my Johnny B Goode. Sneaking Errol Garner in my Sweet Sixteen, Now they tell me Stan Kenton's cutting Maybelline."
"Johnny B. Blues" ?
In 1969, Berry released the album Concerto In B Goode, but the title track is an 18 minute instrumental.
Mr. Goode gets a mention in Ricky Nelson's 1972 hit song "Garden Party":
Someone opened up a closet door and out stepped Johnny B. Goode
More impressive are the balls of the band Devo, who killed off Goode in their song "Come Back Jonee" from their 1978 album Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!:
"Johnny jumped into his Datsun. Drove out on the expressway. Went head on into a semi. His guitar's all that's left now."
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How NITDA is driving NASSE in Nigeria
By Business Hilights On Apr 1, 2021
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), as part of its Nigeria Smart Initiative in the Education Sector, is partnering with sub-national Governments at the grassroots to deploy digital education platform to aid remote teaching and learning thereby preparing the nation for the future of education.
NASSE is an implementation of Nigeria Smart Initiative by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) in the education sector, in collaboration with relevant stakeholders, as a policy directive of the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy led by Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami to aid implementation of National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy (NDEPS) for a digital Nigeria. As part of our strategic objectives, we are to support every sector of the economy to succeed at this digital age.
NDEPS, as the main driver of digital Nigeria, is in support of the global Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) in education, especially the Goal 4 on "Quality Education" and the campaign promise of President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration in education. NASSE is designed to accelerate the achievement of this global and national agenda by smartly engage in "building and upgrading education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive with provision of safe, nonviolent, inclusive and effective learning environments for all".
The first pilot scheme is in partnership with Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC). This has led to the selection of the Junior Secondary School (JSS) Karshi. The pilot scheme is adopting the current JSS 2 students that will be promoted to JSS 3 in a short while. Adopting JSS 2 will provide a better means of measuring learning outcomes against students' performance into Senior Secondary School 1 in 2022.
The following are the benefits:
1. Indigenous Cloud based Digital Education Platform for smart teaching and learning;
2. National Educational Research Development Council (NERDC)-based curriculum and contents;
3. Digital literacy capacity building for more than 500 students and teachers;
4. Free WiFi (unlimited contents download and upload) for students and teachers;
5. Renewable Energy System;
6. Smart Education Devices (Tablets and android-enabled screen)
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Marlin raises $1.6 billion for fourth private equity fund
LOS ANGELES, July 9, 2013 – Marlin Management Company, LLC ("Marlin"), a global investment firm, is pleased to announce the first and final closing of Marlin Equity IV, L.P. ("Fund IV"), with $1.6 billion of capital commitments. Fund IV completed its fundraise at its hard-cap in just over four months and was more than three times oversubscribed from its initial $1 billion target.
Consistent with Marlin's predecessor funds, Fund IV will invest in businesses that can benefit from the firm's significant capital base, deep industry relationships and extensive network of operational resources. It will focus on industries where Marlin has developed extensive domain expertise, including technology, business services, healthcare, consumer and manufacturing, among others.
Marlin has closed four private equity funds since its inception in 2005 and has more than $2.6 billion of capital under management. The limited partners in Fund IV include some of the world's largest and most sophisticated investors, including leading sovereign wealth funds, public and private pension funds, endowments and foundations, insurance companies, fund of funds and family offices.
"We are pleased with the extraordinary level of support that we received from such a prestigious group of global investors," said David McGovern, Managing Partner of Marlin. "The successful fundraise is a clear endorsement of our operationally focused investment strategy and reflects our ability to deliver superior returns to our investors and partners."
Peter Spasov, a Partner at Marlin, added, "In just over three years, we have more than doubled our assets under management. To have accomplished this in a difficult fundraising environment speaks to the quality of our team, our innovative and disciplined investment strategy, and the strength of our past performance across economic cycles."
The closing of Fund IV follows a very active year for Marlin. Since the beginning of 2012, Marlin has acquired over 15 businesses, including six corporate divestitures, and has achieved five successful exits to strategic buyers. Additionally, the firm established a London office to further strengthen its European presence.
Bruce Ettelson and Karin Orsic of Kirkland & Ellis LLP served as legal counsel and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC acted as an advisor and exclusive placement agent for Fund IV.
Marlin Equity Partners is a global investment firm with over $2.6 billion of capital under management. The firm is focused on providing corporate parents, shareholders and other stakeholders with tailored solutions that meet their business and liquidity needs. Since its inception, Marlin, through its group of funds and related companies, has successfully completed over 65 acquisitions. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California with an additional office in London. For more information, please visit www.marlinequity.com.


PBPN Battled Fast Moving Wildland Fire
3.4.21 – A wildland fire crests the hill heading toward the area of 182nd and E Roads after crossing over the PBPN reservation boundary into Jackson county Kansas.
The Prairie Band Potawatomi Tribal Fire Department responded to a report of an out-of-control burn during the late afternoon of Thursday, March 4, 2021, ultimately resulting in over 1,000 acres of land burned in multiple jurisdictions.
The fire originated in the northwest quadrant of the reservation near 166th and G roads on privately owned land, just west of Our Lady of the Snows Church. Upon response, PTFD noted the fire had initially impacted an estimated 100 acres of land, roughly the size of 75 football fields. The fast-moving wildland fire traveled along a northwest route toward the corner of 182nd and E roads burning across trust land and additional private lands. Spurred on by winds, low relative humidity conditions, and natural fuel sources such as grasses and shrubs, the fire was unstoppable through direct attack.
3.4.21 – This map details the approximate fire area of 1,000 acres, with the green line delineating the western boundary of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Reservation.
During containment efforts, several surrounding agencies were called in for assistance including the Kansas Forest Service which was able to provide the use of their air tanker and deployed three water drops on the head of the fire. Defenses were established at the natural barriers of 182nd road and E road with multiple brush trucks deployed to stop the fire from jumping E road. Several homes and structures were saved, and no one was injured during the fire.
In all, the Potawatomi Tribal Fire Department, Potawatomi Tribal Police and Dispatch, Jackson County Sherriff, Jackson County Sheriff Dispatch, Jackson County EMS, Mayetta Fire, Hoyt Fire, Delia Fire, Soldier Fire, Holton Fire, Netawaka Fire, Whiting Fire, Silver Lake Fire and the Kansas Forest Service responded to the incident and played a part in containment.


Obama to ease immigration rules on millions of undocumented - source
Anti-deportation protesters chant in front of the White House in Washington August 28, 2014. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/Files (Reuters)
By Richard Cowan
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama is poised to give relief from deportation to millions of undocumented immigrants who are parents of U.S. citizens or of permanent legal residents, according to a source familiar with White House deliberations. Obama has promised to lay out the details of an executive order on immigration. The action could come as early as this week. The source, who asked not to be identified, said some details were not yet available on which parents of citizens or permanent residents would be included. The Obama administration, the source said, had been looking at options including those parents who have been living in the United States for five years or 10 years. A top Obama aide is scheduled to have lunch with Senate Democrats on Thursday on Capitol Hill. White House chief of staff Denis McDonough, who will discuss the state of the economy and the post-election legislative agenda, is likely to be pressed on the immigration issue in the closed-door luncheon. On Monday, in an interview with Univision, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, said that Obama should move on immigration "now." Obama is expected to take actions to allow some undocumented people to live here at least temporarily without the threat of deportation and to hold jobs in the United States. Obama's executive order could also include further border security steps, according to sources. Obama is expected to stress that he wants to focus efforts on deportations of illegal residents with serious criminal backgrounds. Obama repeatedly has warned that he would take steps to fix immigration problems because Republicans in Congress have refused to pass legislation. He also has said that even with his unilateral steps, Congress could still replace his measures with permanent legislation. For the past two weeks, Republicans in Congress have been looking at ways to stop Obama from carrying out these anticipated actions, arguing that only Congress should initiate such moves through legislation. While the Senate in 2013 passed sweeping bipartisan immigration legislation, Republicans in the House of Representatives have blocked such a bill, saying they first want to concentrate on further securing U.S. borders. (Reporting By Richard Cowan; Editing by Steve Orlofsky)
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Roger Federer's schedule for 2018
Roger Federer during an interview in Basel, Switzerland/ - Image credit - ATPWorldTour | YouTube
The Swiss has one more stop left in 2017 before heading into another season.
by Christian F.
November 1, 2017 at 8:52 AM November 1, 2017 at 8:52 AM
Right after winning his eighth title at the Swiss Indoors Basel, Roger Federer held an interview to clear some things up. The announcement that he won't travel to Paris for the last Masters 1000 of the season held in Bercy venue didn't' come as a shock. It was an expected move for him to make, and only that potential world No.1 seat could've influenced his decision. However, when it comes to Federer planning his schedule, with age comes greater game responsibility. His speech has acquired a philosophical feature somewhere along the way. Probably that six-months hiatus from tennis handed him the perfect opportunity to reflect better on which point of his career he was standing, and more importantly, how to proceed onward.
Ranked second in the world, Roger Federer has booked himself a spot for the Nitto ATP Finals in London. He will lead one group at the O2 Arena with another clash with Rafael Nadal looming for the semis or the final, depending on how they'll handle things in the Round Robin stage.
Roger Federer wants to keep it short and simple
Asked about his plans for the next season, Federer made it clear that his only chance to keep himself relevant is to go for a shorter schedule with the focus on Grand Slams and Masters 1000 events. The only thing yet to be determined is whether or not he will choose to skip the entire clay court swing of 2018 as he did this year. Although a risky move, this strategy paid off as Federer returned to dominate the entire grass court swing with a minor flaw at Stuttgart in the beginning.
There are some certainties too, with Roger Federer having booked two appearances for January 2018. The warm-up prior to the 2018 Australian Open will be at the Hopman Cup, an exhibition event that comes with no strings attached, which is good for the mindset. It's the same path Federer walked on earlier this year before entering that marvelous campaign at Melbourne Park.
Learning from mistakes of the previous season
In 2017, following his success at the Australian Open, Federer headed to Dubai where he unexpectedly lost to Evgeny Donskoy. it was a simple flaw that didn't hamper his efforts at Indian Wells and Miami where he went on crushing competition, including two wins over Rafael Nadal. For the 2018 schedule, Dubai might be left off the table, with Federer focusing on the Sunshine Double once again.
Then, the clay court swing will probably give him an extended break prior to the grass court tennis festival. Depending on how things work out at the time, Federer will adjust his schedule for the summer swing on the hard court, in a way to reach a peak of intensity at the 2018 US Open. Earlier this year, his decision to play in Canada ost him greatly as he was later forced to skip Cincinnati while the US Open turned into ashes pretty fast.
A carefully nourished schedule might give Roger Federer a chance to clinch at least one more Grand Slam before thinking about retirement.
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Japan expects to reap ¥437 billion in economic benefits from hosting Rugby World Cup
Teammates Shota Horie (left), Michael Leitch (center) and Kenki Fukuoka show off Japan's new national team uniform for the Rugby World Cup, which gets underway Sept. 20. | KYODO
by Junko Horiuchi
Organizers say they expect the Rugby World Cup to bring ¥437.2 billion in economic benefits, pinning their hopes on the 400,000 foreign visitors who are projected to visit Japan for the tournament.
As that estimate only takes into account the impact before and during the tournament, and not afterward, real success depends on whether the Japanese rugby community, sports-related companies and host cities can carry on the effects to boost budding businesses, analysts say.
An economic impact report by the Japan organizing committee of the Rugby World Cup, released in March 2018, says that the tournament to be hosted in Asia for the first time since the inaugural edition in 1987 could attract up to 1.8 million fans, including 400,000 from overseas.
The World Cup, taking place in 12 venues in 12 cities from Sept. 20 to Nov. 2, will generate an estimated total of ¥437.2 billion, resulting in a boost in Japan's gross domestic product worth ¥216.6 billion, an increase in tax revenue valued at ¥21.6 billion and the creation of 25,000 jobs, according to the report.
"Fans from faraway countries tend to stay longer, with some staying as long as several weeks," the report said. "Visitors who come to Japan for the tournament are expected to spend an average of ¥20,000 per day, giving their stays a sizeable economic impact."
Takayuki Katsurada, senior vice president in the regional planning department at the Development Bank of Japan, said the organizers' estimated total output can only be achieved if the inbound travelers spend as much as expected.
"The key is whether Japan can offer convenient and attractive services for foreign travelers that encourage them to stay and spend," Katsurada said. "There is a language barrier and foreigners also still tend to have an image that Japan is prone to natural disasters and (therefore) unsafe."
A survey conducted last fall by the Japan Tourism Agency found that local governments face such problems as too little in the way of hotel accommodations or emergency preparedness, as well as overcrowding and poor behavior by visitors in areas with popular tourist destinations.
According to analysts, regardless of whether the projected economic impact of the Rugby World Cup comes true, initiatives to link sports to businesses need to be further strengthened if Japan wants to maximize the benefits from the Rugby World Cup.
Japan, which has traditionally put an emphasis on the educational and cultural aspect of sports rather than the economic potential, has seen little growth in sports-related markets, prompting the government to push for a boost in investments in the industry as part of its growth strategy.
The government has set a target to expand the sports-related sector, estimated to be worth ¥5.5 trillion in 2015, to ¥10 trillion by 2020 and ¥15 trillion by 2025, by hosting world-class sports competitions and promoting sports-related businesses both at home and overseas.
"While the sports boom may continue through the Rugby World Cup and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, it is certain to lose its attraction afterward," Katsurada said.
"For sustainable growth, it is important that Japan proactively puts out a message that sports can be a new business," he said.
He cited hospitality services for VIPs, stadium and arena management, sports-related tours and the offering of high-tech devices, such as sound and display systems for viewing sports as potential areas of expansion.
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Update to our legal status
Engineering Archive started as and has remained a grassroots effort, by researchers, for researchers. As Engineering Archive has grown, it has become increasingly necessary to create an entity that is capable of managing its own finances and have its own legal status. Up to this point, Engineering Archive has been almost entirely financed by Director Devin Berg in addition to the in-kind contributions of the Center for Open Science.
With that in mind, Devin launched Open Engineering Inc. to search as an umbrella organization, and legal entity, over the top of Engineering Archive. Open Engineering is:
a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization for the promotion of open practices in the engineering field. We are working towards increased awareness of open practices as well as providing tools to better enable engineers to be more open. We also provide resources and trainings that allow engineers to develop open workflows and participate more fully in the open dissemination of engineering knowledge.
Under Open Engineering, we now have the ability to accept tax-deductible donations and use other forms of generating income such as Amazon Smile.
Introducing the Membership Circle
Financing a grassroots effort such as Engineering Archive has always been, and probably will always be, a challenge. To this end, Engineering Archive has launched a new funding mechanism called the Membership Circle for libraries and institutions interested in supporting open engineering scholarship. We hope that in the shifting landscape of academic publishing, academic libraries and institutions will be able to find room in their budgets to support open access efforts such as Engineering Archive. At risk of sounding self-serving, we feel that efforts such as Engineering Archive are critical for increasing the availability of research and knowledge to the general public, particularly when the generation of that knowledge is publicly funded. This is especially important in engineering, a field where when applied correctly can have significant positive societal impact.
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Op-Ed: Why Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak must step down to beat Liberals
By Andrew Moran Sep 10, 2012 in Politics
Toronto - Before you know it, the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party could become the second Official Opposition party behind Andrea Horwath's New Democrats. If Tim Hudak stays on any longer as the provincial Tory leader, this could be the party's fate.
I was only in junior high school when Dalton McGuinty was put into office by getting his party to win 72 seats. My science teacher at the time was thrilled over McGuinty's win, while a friend's father was also ecstatic. He said at the time, "No more waste of my money!" As a conservative-later-turned-libertarian, I highly doubted it, but I wasn't much of a follower of provincial politics at the time.
After eight years of Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty's scandal-laden, promise-breaking and debt-ridden Liberal government, it was thought that Tim Hudak and the Progressive Conservatives would win at least a minority government during last year's provincial election.
In the summertime, before the election campaign officially got underway, polls indicated a Hudak win. Following two terms that was marred with a $1 billion eHealth scandal and new taxes, it was certainly a given that the PCs would establish a new government. However, the opposite occurred and McGuinty was nearly given another majority government.
Fast forward a year later, the premier held two by-elections in Kitchener-Waterloo and Vaughn. This time, the PCs and NDP worked hard to avoid the Grits from getting those seats to secure a majority government. Hudak attempted to get these two seats. What happened? He lost both; the Liberals held on to Vaughn with Steven Del Duca defeating the PC's Tony Genco and the NDP's Paul Donofrio and the NDP's Catherine Fife surprisingly beat the Liberal's Eric Davis in Kitchener-Waterloo.
Hudak claimed that the Kitchener-Waterloo by-election was bought by the unions.
Although Hudak generated 78 percent of the vote from delegates at the party's Annual General Meeting earlier this year, it could be about time that those who really want to beat the Grits in the next election and avoid a fourth Liberal term urge Hudak to step down as leader.
How could anyone lose to a governing leader with this kind of record?
-	Healthcare premium: One of the biggest tax hikes in Ontario, which was done after McGuinty promised not to raise taxes.
-	$1 billion (and counting) eHealth scandal: the Auditor General called it a waste after it was revealed how much money consultants were paid and how they abused taxpayers' funds.
-	ORNGE: The Toronto Star uncovered controversy at the province's air ambulance service. Taxpayers' money was wasted, yet again, on compensation to executives, including $1.4 million to President and CEO Chris Mazza.
-	Bonuses: It was reported that the Liberals gave bonuses to 98 percent of managers, costing the province $35.6 million
-	Power Plant Cancellation: Finance Minister Dwight Duncan admitted in July that the government cancelled construction of a Mississauga power plant days before the fall election. This cost taxpayers more than $190 million.
Please note, this is just the tip of the iceberg of the scandals that McGuinty and company produced.
During last year's election, Digital Journal brought extensive coverage to you and I received a number of emails explaining that the PCs didn't have much a platform and just consistently reminded voters of McGuinty's failure as premier. Indeed, our readers were correct in their analysis. Ontarians already knew what McGuinty did with his government, but they wanted a change. So why repeat these utter malfunctions of our esteemed provincial officials?
It doesn't look as if Hudak will step down anytime soon. If he did, who would be a possible replacement that could reinvigorate the conservative base and finally defeat the governing Liberals or even the growing New Democrats?
Anyone who will not blow it again.
This opinion article was written by an independent writer. The opinions and views expressed herein are those of the author and are not necessarily intended to reflect those of DigitalJournal.com
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design critique: model + code
Design Computing: 3D Modeling in Rhinoceros with Python/Rhinoscript
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Why should a designer learn to code? As our world is increasingly impacted by the use of algorithms, designers must learn how to use and create design computing programs. Designers must go beyond the narrowly focused use of computers in the automation of simple drafting/modeling tasks and instead explore the extraordinary potential digitalization holds for design culture/practice. Structured around a series of fundamental design problems, this course will show you Python code in terms of its rules and syntax, and what we can do with it in its application and design. So, by the end of this course, you will know the fundamentals of Python and Rhino script, but importantly, through the lens of their application in geometrically focused design lessons and exercises. Subjects covered in this course - An introduction to Design Computing as a subject and why designers should learn to code. - The fundamentals of coding in the Python scripting language. By the end of the course students will be familiar with the basic structure and syntax of this language. - The understanding and application of Rhinoscriptsyntax, a native coding language in Rhinoceros that's imported into Python, which allows one to create and control geometries through authoring code. - The application of Procedural Logics - the structuring of coding systems to produce variable geometric form. - The output of geometries in still and animate forms.
Very good course. Explains the usefulness of Python scripting in CAD Application.
it is really helpful course. perfect pace and perfect teaching by Glenn Wilcox
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Following an introduction to the fundamentals of the interface and explaining what code does, we will look at Variables and Points, the building blocks of code and geometry.
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So really unique part of this course is the gallery tool. So this is an environment in which you're going to be sharing your own work, whether it's still images or animations, or even the code that you're working on. And you're also going to be able to see work of other learners. And we think this is a really important part of this course, to have this kind of exchange of information. And also to be able to comment on each other's work, and peer review each other's work. I think that's a really important part of learning to be able to talk about somebody else's work in a constructive way. And I know it's been a really important part of my learning throughout my career, to be able to teach and comment on people's work. So I wanted to use this video to talk a little bit about some of the guidelines for doing that and maybe demonstrate a little bit how we can talk about work. What we've done with each assignment is, not only giving you the assignment, but we've also given you a commenting rubric that's specific to each assignment. Although it does share a common three part scheme, three different ways in which you might start to think about the work. So there's design, presentation and code. Design has to do with, how they're, you're going about designing the elements that you're producing within the course. How much does it vary from some of the things that I'm showing in the tutorials. Is somebody really starting to do something that you can't really figure out sort of how they're doing it. But it sorts of peaks your interest, and they're doing something unique. So, how are they pushing the limits of the design aspect of a presentation has to do with, how are they showing that. Are they using presentation to show a variety of different types of geometries that can be produced with the code that they've made. And there is a kind of crossover I would say between design and presentation. Oftentimes, you can't completely separate representation from the thing you're representing, that those things can often be very closely tied to each other. The last part is code, and code is really about how the code is presented, how it's organized. It's not always about the originality in the code, but it's about its legibility related to some of the things that I'm going over in the course. And also in terms of how it's commented, how clear is it. To understand what somebody is doing with the code. Now, commenting on work, and also receiving comments on work, is going to be an important aspect of the course. It's not about commenting on the person themselves, but it's about commenting on their work. So it's important to be very inclusive, and open, and helpful, and constructive within your criticism. It's also important not to take the criticism personally. What I tell my residential students is, don't put yourself between the commenter and your work. That means don't be in a position of defending your work. You want to be open to comments. You want to be frank about what you're doing, and you want to have a discussion about it. So don't be defensive. Now there's tools for commenting, and one of my favorites is the like, wish method. So, I like to start by talking about what I liked about a project, and starting it with like. And not just saying that I like it, but why do I like it? What are the certain aspects of it that I like? If I don't like something about a project, I don't use terms like hate, or that I really don't like that. But instead, I try to use the term wish. That I wish they had explored this a little bit further. I wish they had maybe shown more variation in this. So, it's a way of using language, to be more constructive, and more engaging with the other learners. And that's a really important part of this. It's not about attacking someone for something, but it's about helping them and helping yourself. Now what I'd like to do is show a couple of projects, and talk a little bit about what I think is, the qualities that I like within the projects. And maybe what they could have worked on, a little bit more. These are projects that might be round the level, that you might get. They're working with a 3D point matrix to create variable geometry. So, this first one I would say is about in the upper middle level of work. I think it's these four illustrations are really demonstrating very well, how they're producing variation, within the system. That it goes from a sort of more ordered, rigorous system that's adhering to the grid and that slowly sort of breaks down. I think the way they chose the the representation that they chose, this kind of almost drawing like I think is works very well with these angular forms. I don't think the project diverges to a really great degree, in terms of its the design coding, from what I showed in the tutorials. So that those aspects might have been pushed further, but it's not, it's a fairly good project. This project is, I would say not as strong as that last project. The things that I like about, it I like their use of color. I like the levels of transparency in the project. I don't think the three images I wish they had shown maybe some different angles of the project. It's difficult to understand what it is that they're varying within the geometry. All these three images all sort of share the same angle, so I wish they might have shown it from different perspectives, might have given different sort of views, and a different understanding of the project. This one is is not as strong as those other two, so I would say this is on the sort of weaker side of the projects. Although I think it it accomplishes a number of a number of things in terms of addressing the assignment. I think it does show some variety in the types of geometry produced, but probably not enough. I don't think it goes far enough, that I wish it had gone much, much further. Things that I like about it are, these sort of umbrella like forms which seemed to float in space. I don't think the six illustrations are going to showing enough variety or change in the geometry. I think the quality of the presentation is a bit sort of standard. It's a standard, rendering in rhino, and so those aspects of it haven't really been pushed that much and they could be pushed a bit further. This project, I would say is on a higher level than the ones we've seen so far. It does show a good variety in form. This is only one illustration of a number of illustrations that the students submitted for this project. You wouldn't recognize it at this point, but they're doing something very sophisticated with the code, in order to get the matrix to generate this specific types of form. So at a design level, it's a bit more advanced. I think they could have done more with the presentation. And the different sort of angles in which ways, in which they showed the work, but it is a strong project for these other reasons. This last project, I would say it's not as strong as that last project, in terms of the coding that was involved in producing it. The coding wasn't as complex, but I think in this case, the level of presentation, trumps the complexity within the coding. I think it's an extremely sort of evocative project. I really like the way that they're using both solid rendering and linework that there's this kind of delicacy within the project, but then there's also a weight to it. I think the absence the actually absence of color within the project actually thinks works better for it, gives it this kind of austere quality. And they presented a number of illustrations of it, that showed it in different varieties that were produced from the code. I think to also, what I really like about this project is, it shows the complexity possible, with doing something through code. If you could imagine, if you had to manually model this and produce these variations within these illustrations. It would probably take you weeks and weeks to do that, to do a single illustration. And so it really represents the power available within coding to produce that kind of complexity and variation. And so I think it is for this level, I think it is a really extraordinarily illustrated project. So the last issue is the code, and so as I said, you you're not going to be inventing completely from scratch new code, what you're really doing is working with the code that I'm giving you. Maybe editing a bit adding certain parts to it. So, commenting about it isn't about commenting about a completely invented new code, but it's more about its organization, how is it presented, and its legibility. And that has to do with a couple things. One of them is the use of variable names. So, can you clearly understand sort of the mnemonic structure of the variables? Where they're important, where they're holding. So, that's one aspect of it. So, looking at this code, it's very clearly organized. They have this area where they're declaring all their empty lists, and everything is really well commented which is all these green text parts. They tell me exactly what these individual things are. They have comments at the beginning of sections of the code here. Which really explicate, you know what the code is doing. So if I've never seen this code before, it's fairly easy for me to go through it and understand it. What it's doing, and how it's working because of the clarity of the variables, and also the clarity of the comments. Now, this is probably at this point, this is a lot more complex code than what you're used to seeing. And it has a number of different elements in it like functions, and iteration. And a whole bunch of things that maybe we haven't gone through yet. But that's okay, I mean, you could sort of look at it, and probably see that it's how it's clearly organized. The other aspect of the code is that in some assignments, I will be asking you to do certain things in the code. So, in some of them are asking, I'll say specifically, you should use conditionals in this or you use iteration in this or you should use a dictionary structure in this. So the other issue around the code is, are you using those things which are required within the assignment? And so if we look at a code, that's another code that works just fine. So and it's actually doing some interesting things in terms of its design. I would say I wish that it did things better was in its commenting and also perhaps in the way that some of the variables are named. They're not really telling me. Too much about what they're doing. I don't know, this is a conditional part of the code. I don't exactly know what that's doing because it's not commented out. I don't know this is definitely creating geometry here, but I don't know exactly what for and so. I will have to spend sometime picking through the code to figure out what's it doing. And that would have been helped by more comments within the code to make those things legible. So that's what I'm talking about when I'm talking about code. So I hope this video has helped you understand a little bit about the critiquing process and a little bit about what we're looking for in some of the assignments.


THE LAND OF RAPE AND HONEY
Ministry successfully combined industrial Heavy Metal and electronic beats with a punk attitude. The Land Of Rape And Honey was their breakthrough album released in 1988, which laid the foundation for a series of successful 'Tech Metal' albums that appealed to alternative audiences all over the globe.
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Ministry successfully combined industrial Heavy Metal and electronic beats with a punk attitude. The Land Of Rape And Honey was their breakthrough album released in 1988, which laid the foundation for a series of successful 'Tech Metal' albums that appealed to alternative audiences all over the globe. Drawing heavy on the sampler, synthesized sounds and thick layers of distorted guitars, this group preceded highly successful acts such as Fear Factory and Nine Inch Nails. Highlights on The Land Of Rape And Honey include the songs "Stigmata", "The Missing" and "Flashback" - all examples of the band's distinctive signature sound.
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Teeth fight back
Annemarie Mannion
Dental Products Report, Dental Products Report-2011-04-01, Issue 4
A recent study demonstrating that odontoblast cells are part of the immune system and launch their own response when attacked by bacteria paves the way for possibly reducing the number of unnecessary root canals and shows that these cells are a critical weapon in the fight against dental disease.
The 2010 study was done at the University of Washington in Seattle by dentists Dr. Orapin Horst, along with her husband, Dr. Jeremy Horst, and colleagues.
Odontoblast cells lay between the pulp and enamel within a tooth and produce a layer of dentin that supports the enamel structurally and forms an extra barrier to protect the pulp from infection.
When bacteria attack, the Horsts' research showed that odontoblast cells trigger their own immune response, combating the infection by using antimicrobial peptides, which fight the infection directly. The cells also use protein messengers (chemokines) to recruit white blood cells that bring an inflammatory response to the infection site - but only to the odontoblasts and not the rest of the pulp.
"The study showed how the cells respond to deep cavities and how they fight infection," Jeremy Horst said. "It (the odontoblast cell layer) doesn't need the rest of the body to fight infection. It can fight it on its own. Only when inflammation spreads through the pulp is there real trouble."
It has long been accepted that teeth can protect themselves from bacteria, to some degree, but the inflammation within a tooth can be harmful and, if left untreated, will lead to the demise of the tooth and a spreading abscess.
The study has implications for how tooth infections should be treated.
"We found that we can trust the odontoblast layer much more than we realized," Jeremy Horst said. "Maybe we don't need to do as many root canals. There are cheaper, more efficient ways to treat local infection."
He said the way dentists today determine if a root canal is needed is imprecise and is based on whether the patient has lingering pain that lasts more than 20 seconds or experiences sudden pain without cause - or simply that a cavity is too deep.
"Right now, there's a lot of guesswork in our drilling and filling," he said. "But there is a desire (among dentists) to increase our knowledge base and do the best for our patients. This study gives the first molecular basis for not doing root canals simply because a cavity is too deep."
Another use intended for this study is the development of a diagnostic test of the inflammatory markers, to be used by dentists to determine if a deep cavity will only need a simple filling, or if the tooth really does need an expensive root canal.
"This study tells us that the tooth has its own antibiotics and maybe we don't need such invasive treatment," Jeremy Horst said. "We were surprised that both the microscopy and the molecular markers indicated that these teeth with very deep cavities, more than 2/3 of the way to the pulp, could have been saved with simple fillings."
He said the next step is to repeat the test in patients who have been determined to need a root canal, because of sudden or lingering pain, in order to pinpoint the markers of inflammation that cause the pulp to die.
The Horsts, who currently are working at the University of California at San Francisco, are applying for grants to fund the next steps in the study.


Criterion's April slate, plus Legion, Fear the Walking Dead, Last Jedi artwork & more on HDR & physical media
We've got another Blu-ray review for you today from Tim: A look at Warner Archive's new Blu-ray release of Freebie and the Bean. You can find that here.
We've also updated the Release Dates & Artwork section with all the latest Blu-ray, DVD and 4K Ultra HD cover artwork and Amazon.com pre-order links. You'll find that here.
Meanwhile, the big news today is that Criterion has just announced their April Blu-ray release slate, which is set to include Leo McCarey's The Awful Truth (Cat #917 – Blu-ray and DVD) and Sergei Parajanov's The Color of Pomegranates (Cat #918 – Blu-ray and DVD) on 4/17, and Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides (Cat #920 – Blu-ray and DVD) and Jim Jaramusch's Dead Man (Cat #919 – Blu-ray and DVD) on 4/24. They're also releasing Eclipse Series 46: Ingrid Bergman's Swedish Years on DVD on 4/10, including The Count of the Old Town (1935), Dollar (1938), Intermezzo (1936), Walpurgis Night (1935), A Woman's Face (1938), and June Night (1940). [Read on here…]
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