Tuesday, November 30, 2010
When Does Partisanship Morph into Treason?
It may be just an amateur's opinion, but treason is when Republican Eric Cantor of Virginia meets independently with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to express his sympathies and allegiance to Israel, stating that he stands with Israel's leader against his own President--and that the new Republican majority will serve as a check on the administration in defending the interests of Israel.
Treason is when Republican Senator Jon Kyle of Arizona risks the President's (and America's) international credibility by sabotaging passage of the START treaty, designed to reduce the proliferation of nuclear warheads and set up a mutual system of inspections, as a means of deliberately damaging Obama's "reset" of America's ties with Russia for crass political opportunism.
Treason is when Republican state governors band together to pass a "repeal amendment" that would allow a super-majority of state legislatures to overturn federal laws and sabotage the entire federal system of government. It's when the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Republican Darrell Issa from California, declares his intention to hold one or two hearings a day--hopefully maybe even "seven hearings a week, times 40 weeks"--to investigate Democratic policies like the stimulus, the health care bill, and the bank bailouts.
Treason is when the co-chair of the President's fiscal commission on deficit reduction, Republican Alan Simpson, gleefully predicts that the new freshman class of congressional Republicans will do their best to shut down the government, if the national debt limit is not capped. (The debt limit now is at $14.3 trillion, and it will probably be reached in early 2011, so that if Congress doesn't pass legislation to raise it, the government will no longer be able to borrow money, whether or nor not the economy is in recovery.) Simpson has called those who would force the government into default "sharp cookies," claiming that closing down the government is exactly what they came here for.
Treason is a bunch of white Republicans in Congress who have decided it is politically smart to show disrespect for the first black American president, and who treat him, in Maureen Dowd's inimitable phrase, "like a dirt sandwich." This is a dishonor to the office of the presidency in full view of the whole world. By definition, if you Google it, treason is a crime that undermines the offender's government. It is disloyalty by virtue of inviting mutiny towards one's country or sovereign, or aiding its enemies by attempting to overthrow the government through subversive behavior.
"The fact is, Paul Krugman wrote recently in the New York Times, "that one of our two great political parties has made it clear that it has no interest in making America governable, unless it's doing the governing. And that party now controls one house of Congress, which means that the country will not, in fact, be governable without that party's cooperation--cooperation that won't be forthcoming."
I think even Google would have to concur that what is happening in America today is more than just shameful and distressing. This isn't your garden-variety partisanship. By definition, it has to count as nothing less than treason.


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This pastor lost her mother to a white supremacist's hatred, but her faith helped her find peace.
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I made the trip from Charlotte to Charleston, South Carolina, full of dread. I didn’t want to be there, didn’t want to sit through the trial of the man who’d killed my mother at the church she loved, didn’t want to be in the same room with him. She’d gone to church for the Wednesday night Bible study, as always, and been gunned down along with eight other innocent souls. We’d waited a year and a half, and now, just before Christmas, the trial would begin. Justice would be served—or so I hoped. I’ve got to keep myself together, I told myself. For Momma.
The courtroom was small. There was room only for the victims’ immediate families. The prosecution team had talked to us beforehand, telling us what to expect, giving us a crash course in courtroom decorum. No outbursts. No running out mid-proceeding. But how could anything prepare me for what I knew I would have to see and hear, reliving those terrifying final moments of Momma’s life?
She was the last person shot, the last one to die that day, June 17, 2015, at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church—or Mother Emanuel as we called it. She had witnessed all the violence, then been gunned down by the white supremacist killer. Anger surged through me at the thought of it.
A chaplain prayed with us. I didn’t envy his job. I’m a minister myself. I worked as a hospital chaplain, helping people deal with the trauma of illness, accidents, gun violence. Now the prayers would be for me. I didn’t want to be overcome by hate in the wake of a hate crime. I wanted to hold on to my faith, hold fast to God, but it was so hard. Especially now.
We sat in our seats, girding ourselves. The killer came in. He kept his head down, never looking at us. He sat, hardly moving, his posture erect. There was no sign of regret, no remorse. A shiver went through me. He was only 15 feet away, but it was impossible to bridge the gulf between us. I wanted to understand why he did what he’d done, what awful thing had motivated him, but there was no comprehending. I felt as if I were in the presence of pure evil.
The pastor of Mother Emanuel, Rev. Clementa Pinkney, had been one of those killed. His wife, Jennifer, was the first to testify. She’s soft-spoken, gracious. She told everyone how she had come into the fellowship hall earlier that evening to say hello to the folks at the Bible study. Then gone into the pastor’s office with their daughter.
That’s where she was when the gunfire began. How terrifying that must have been for her. She and her daughter moved to an adjoining office and locked the door. They crouched under a desk as shot after shot was fired. They heard the killer try to get in the locked office.
I thought I already knew a lot of the details about what had happened that day, but sitting through the court testimony was torturous. We were shown pictures of the crime scene, images of bloody, lifeless bodies. How would I ever get them out of my mind? Would I ever stop having nightmares about them? We watched a video of the killer talking to FBI agents the day after the shooting. He laughed when he admitted he’d shot those people. Pure evil.
The killer actually visited the church three times before the shooting, scouting it out. When he arrived at the Bible study that night, the people there invited him in. I could picture Momma giving him a warm welcome, reaching out, telling him to come and hear the word of God at the place it spoke to her.
He sat with the group for almost an hour. It was only when the members stood and bowed their heads to pray that he took out an .45 Glock semiautomatic and started shooting, stopping only to reload.
There were three survivors in that room. One of them was my cousin Felicia Sanders. Lying in her son’s blood, she survived by smearing blood all over her clothes and spreading herself over her 11-year-old granddaughter and playing dead. She saved them both.
The other one was Polly Sheppard. We listened to her heartbreaking testimony. After the killer had shot everybody, he turned to her as she wept and prayed aloud. “Shut up!” he said. This young man, so filled with hate, so filled with evil, told her he wouldn’t shoot her. “I’m going to leave you to tell the story.” He wanted her to be the lone witness.
Prosecutors shared Momma’s autopsy report. We had to hear about the many bullets that hit her; I could feel them as if they were hitting my own flesh. As we left the court, reporters surged around us. “Rev. Risher, can you give us a comment?” they said. “Just a few words.”
I wanted to get away, escape the images in my head. I found myself clinging to any detail that could offer a shred of comfort. Witnesses told how Momma’s cell phone had fallen out of her pocket and slid across the floor. It was the phone that Polly Sheppard used to call 911. Momma’s phone. A link to help even after her death.
We out-of-towners were put up at the Residence Inn. I was grateful to be able to bring my dog, Puff Daddy, to stay with me. I couldn’t have afforded to board him back home in Charlotte. Moreover, I needed his company, needed the excuse to rush back to the hotel and take him out for a walk. “Rev. Risher, give me a few minutes,” a reporter would say.
No, I had to be with my beloved dog.
The day came when I had to speak. I felt sick to my stomach, but I knew I had to do it. The shooting made me think hard about capital punishment for the first time in my life. Before Momma’s death, I would have said that a killer like hers, someone who had done something so heinous, deserved to die. But I’d been praying about it and reading about it. Killing this killer wouldn’t solve a thing. It wouldn’t kill the hate. It wouldn’t bring Momma back. She wouldn’t have wanted him to die.
I said all that for Momma.
On December 15, the jury went into deliberations. Two hours later, we were called back to hear the verdict: guilty on all counts. Family members hugged each other and cried. Part of me wanted to celebrate too, but I was so weary. And we still had to get through Christmas. Another Christmas without Momma.
In January, we were back in court for the sentencing. The prosecutors read from the journal that the killer had written in jail: “I would like to make it crystal clear. I do not regret what I did. I am not sorry. I have not shed a tear for the innocent people I killed.” No regret, no remorse.
Relatives of those innocent people were allowed to speak. My cousin Felicia held up her blood-smeared Bible from the night of the shooting. “It reminds me of the blood Jesus shed for me and you,” she said to the killer. “May God have mercy on your soul.” When it came my turn, I stared at him. He didn’t look back—I knew he couldn’t—but I knew he heard every word. “I pray,” I said, “that before your life is over, you will call on the name of Jesus for mercy.”
I also prayed for peace, for God’s guidance, and that whatever happened would be in God’s hands. The jury ultimately recommended the death penalty. It was over.
I returned to my new calling, what had come to me now: to speak out about gun violence. To tell how, when I was a youngster, Momma had called me down to Charleston’s County Hall to hear the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., speak powerful words of love and forgiveness, to know that I’d been called to speak too.
A couple weeks after the trial, I addressed a group at Limestone College in Gaffney, South Carolina, for their Martin Luther King, Jr., Day observance. I wore a green dress to the occasion because green was Momma’s favorite color. The deeper work, though, had to be internal. I’d heard a preacher once, on a roll, tell his congregation that forgiveness should be instant. We could all do it at the drop of a hat. I beg to differ. I’d been praying and working at it, but I also knew, as someone who has struggled with depression, that anger couldn’t just be buried. It was too dangerous. Momma’s death and all that had happened since, all that I’d felt during the trial, couldn’t just be swept aside. I wasn’t going to run away from it. I could move forward only with God’s help.
Then one day, in church, I felt this warmth spread over me and words as though God were whispering to me: “Okay, it’s time. You’ve done all the work. You’re ready to get past this, to get past all this anger, this hurt.”
Hate is a fact of this world. But so is love. So is justice. Hate is a fire that feeds off its own flames. That night at Mother Emanuel, it erupted in the form of a racist gunman with a semiautomatic weapon who killed nine godly people, including my beloved mother. But her goodness and love did not die with her. It lives in me. It lives in all of us who turn to God. Love lives in the world, and it can save us from hate.
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[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: rt5640: add headset detection function
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Thu Jul 25 05:36:42 CEST 2013
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Brown [mailto:broonie at kernel.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 9:00 PM
> To: Bard Liao
> Cc: lgirdwood at gmail.com; alsa-devel at alsa-project.org; Flove; Oder Chiou
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ASoC: rt5640: add headset detection function
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 02:54:29PM +0800, bardliao at realtek.com wrote:
> > + * @codec: SoC audio codec device.
> > + * @jack_insert: Jack insert or not.
> > + *
> > + * Detect whether is headset or not when jack inserted.
> > + *
> > + * Returns detect status.
> > + */
> > +int rt5640_headset_detect(struct snd_soc_codec *codec,
> > + struct snd_soc_jack *jack, int jack_insert)
> This doesn't look like it implements jack detection, it looks like it's some sort of
> callback. I'd expect to see some sort of interrupt for example...
> What's going on here?
Usually, our customers use cpu's gpio as the interrupt pin of jack insert/remove.
So we assume they will handle the interrupt event in machine driver.
When machine driver get a jack insert/remove event, it will call this function to know the jack type(headset or headphone).
Should I handle the interrupt event in codec driver?
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Trigger warning: References to sexual abuse.
My therapist tried this on me once. Back in Bethlem, sitting on that thin carpet which was as frayed as my mind, and as stained as I perceived my body to be, I was told to close my eyes and speak aloud the words I would like to say to myself. The person that was Me, as opposed to the white Thing, which was crouching inside my head, waiting with subtle whispers on a demon’s pity-me tongue.
We’re in this together. You don’t need the world. What has it ever brought you, but pain?
I did close my eyes, and counted backwards from ten as I had been told to do. My arse was already going numb. There had never been much to pad it out anyway; not that this had stopped the catcalling, when I tried wearing my sister’s jeans into town. Those words stay slotted behind my ears, and fetch out their claws from time to time, when I am red-raw with tiredness.
All I could see was my little brother’s pixie face. All I could hear, were the wintery words of anorexia.
Don’t give in now. You’re so close.
You mean death. I’m not ready yet.
You were ready from the day you were born. From the day the first one touched you. From the first time you were told to be quiet, to stop waffling on, to –
Oh, shut up. Things are different now.
And I had to open my eyes and, in tears, tell the therapist that I wanted to get up. My butt was killing me, and I needed to pace about, to get rid of these nerves.
“Nope. That’s not how this works. You have to sit with those feelings, and ride it all out.”
But you’ll get fat.
“But I’ll get fat.”
“From sitting still for ten minutes? That’s not you talking, Rachael.”
And so forth.
Truth is, I wasn’t ready then, to consider what she was asking for. Still two stone underweight, with a head full of white noise that is akin to TV static, I couldn’t think beyond the stick-lines of calories, exercise and – occasionally – what I was still alive for, things like my Lord of the Rings and Dragonlance books, and my baby brother. He has recently turned twenty – older than I was then, older than the age the therapist had asked me to mentally withdraw to, for the duration of that therapy session. She wanted me to write, or recite into a dictaphone, a letter to my sixteen year old self.
That age holds a variety of meanings across the world. Age of consent, age of gambling with the lottery; sweet sixteen, with (as I recall from my Judy Blume memory book) balloons coloured silver, purple and pink, hung up in the basements of big American houses. Sixteen comes with its cruelties and its expectations, its disappointments and its undeniable ecstasies. Exam passes and failures, one last cigarette behind the gym-equipment shed, before banging out through the double doors, passing beyond the walls that had held formal education, and into the glorious summer light and thick buddleia smells … with the looming presence of that first full-time job, the rainy afternoons spent hanging around the shop floor, bored and wondering Is this where it all goes downhill?
Dry skin around the eyes. Hair like straw, frayed on straighteners bought to align each kink; a diet to smooth out each curve, to achieve and sustain the perfection that the first “real” boyfriend (who broke your virginity) always said you possessed; and he in turn possessed you, called you his “trophy girlfriend” to your face, because he thought of it as a gift of words – the highest compliment he could give, though he lacked self-esteem.
People see you with me.
You had started out late on everything. Boys, make-up, socializing, clubbing, smoking, drinking. Always about two years behind your peers, and by the time you had caught up, they had mastered something else. Even as you laughed with a sound like breaking glass at all their stupid little self-imposed rules, the playground Goddesses and their little lackey-boys with lighters … You wanted to be standing with them under that lean-to roof by the admin office, out of the rain. You wanted to be at their house parties, and be able to talk like excited blackbirds the next morning, about all of their midnight-hour escapades. You wanted to fall out of their windows.
Instead, you fell into the wrong crowd. Or whatever “wrong” constitutes. You drank and smoked and gave lip, occasionally gave head – though that all stopped when the last one, the older one, got you so blind drunk with his girlfriend, that you couldn’t recognize his dick over that of the boy you loved at the time. They didn’t bother to tell you any different. They just smoked and sang and got high; and made sure that you finished the very tall bottle of cheap cider.
There are certain places in your old home county that still make your stomach clench up with fear. You can’t go into a seaside town, without breaking into a cold sweat.
It happened, once, on Facebook – one listless afternoon, when the now grown-up girl was recommended to you, as a “mutual friend” of an old class mate. You were almost-certain nearly-sure that it was her. The sheath of champagne hair hadn’t changed. The puckish face. The fuck-you eyes. Her tone had shifted, though. So self-effacing, she might have been dragging herself by her hair, back through the door. You wondered how long she lived with him, when they ran away together.
You almost did it. Almost sent her that message, which would have torn her pretty little life apart. But who holds truth in their hands, without evidence? You have nothing but memories, scribbled over with alcohol, charred by time’s swift passing, and anorexia’s cunning ability to make a mess of anything long-term. There are large swatches of your life, which will always be blank.
So you left her alone, for now at least. You haven’t tried to find him either, though only his first name comes to mind. You’re not sure if you ever actually learned the second one. If it would make you throw up again.
Fast forward. Rewind. Repeat.
Stand still, for once. Sit with it all. Actually feel something, without the need for distractions. For numbness.
You’re in a good place now. You live with a woman who is as tall and beautiful as she is elegant and kind; a living diamond, with two precious-jewel children. They came home from their holiday with arms full of presents and smiles and freckles, and they have since grown another inch. You feel yourself part of another family; though the ties with your original one are as cobwebs, they still hang in the sky, and waft in the changing winds.
Your baby brother has grown tall, with a lion’s heart and more empathy than he should bear. He’s seen his own share of pain and misunderstandings, and struggles through dark times. You wish you could see more of him. Of anyone, he is the person with whom you are the most honest, without the need for stars and constellations, for petrol rainbows trailed all around the block. Your meaning is clear as his hair, under the summer sun.
Your father, by comparison, has become blurred around the edges. You wonder if this will always be so; if you will exist in the same world, and apart … And perhaps it is for the best. But you miss the presence of your grandmother, her bird-bone wrists, her shadow on the wall; her words, her music, The Green Field of France; the long talks about wars and history, shipyards in Tyneside. You look to the paling sky, and watch the birds make their to-and-fro flights in readiness for the long haul, and wonder if this will be your final year in the city of ancient walls and bones, fashion and fortunes.
You need to keep in contact with her more; to remember that incoming-outgoing tide, the restless hands of the clock.
You are gaining confidence, in your words and in yourself. There are still the old inhibitions – you find it difficult to look people in the eye, and come across as shifty, unreliable. That’s only half of the truth, for you still shun responsibilities that land, unbidden, in your lap. But when it comes to choice – when the focus is yours – you will chase something down until all else falls away, until it seems as though you’d stepped through the clock and frozen Time itself; though you have to remember that this is not true. Life, the world, people, all go on. Regardless of whether a conflict has grabbed your attention, or a man, or a kitten, or a tragedy, a book, a story you are writing for yourself and possibly about yourself. The tide will still come and go, the pendulum will swing on.
Details will always be your enemy. Bogged down in them, you lose sight of the bigger picture.
You haven’t lost sight of that dream, though – the silver glinting skyline, threaded with pearls set into deep windows; the snaking trail of train lines, and the black-diamond sky. You still long for the Big Smoke, for the Big Apple, too. You still trawl through the horse market in Camden, and wander down the sticky-elegant Portobello Road, on the hunt for The Perfect Trunk, cracked at the corners and plastered over with pale peeling postcards. Other worlds. Places you want to be, to see, though they represent the sort of changes you have always feared, and still long for. You look across the face of the world, and see the fracture lines appearing. You feel the changes in the air with every word you read, though they are but a particle of what is going on; and you cannot hope to understand it all, without actually smelling the iron tang and seeing those blackened skies, the noir streets.
(You listen to the Last Shadow Puppets, and still believe yourself to be in a film, for a little while at least – dodging beneath a forest of umbrellas, to the next golden porch.)
You wonder if you have the courage or the skills to go there, anywhere; to give others a sense of reality in words.
Thrown up in the air, they settle into the jumble of reasons you got ill in the first place; because you couldn’t make up your mind where you wanted to go, who you wanted to be.
You are still that chameleon, changing colours to suit the walls. But you’ve learned about accent and dialect, about language convergence and divergence, and you know how to keep things sweet with some, while gently tearing apart others. Still … it is difficult – isn’t it? – to know when to stop, to back up and say No. To put across your own point of view. As much as you enjoy a decent debate, when it comes to confidence in your own opinions, you are still standing outside in the rain.
(But you’re getting better at finding your own shelter. You read, learn, find reasons to argue and still more, to make up your own mind. Then there are No Excuses not to know, to have your own voice.)
Voice. Oh yes. You’re a writer again – didn’t anybody tell you?
Turns out, we’re all on the rat-race of envy and pride. There’s always a bigger school, a person with a unique way of expressing him/herself. You thought yourself to be a fraud, a copycat, nabbing ideas from your childhood favourites.
Turns out, everyone else is doing it, too. Only, we call it “inspiration”. It’s only plagiarism when the words are a sort of copy ‘n paste mulch, smeared over the page or screen by someone unwilling to break out of their own confines.
Speaking of which – you have found others like you, who find safety in symbolism. They too, paint with words. The trouble is, when throwing pictures at each other, all of the colours bleed down the walls to make a meaningless mess of the floor. One picture becomes another, becomes another.
You’re starting to sketch with graphite pencils, too, in the hope that they would follow. But you are not an apt teacher, for all that the lines were stark, carved into a sky turning pale. You tried more than once, but the lines were blurred, along with your resolve.
Time has this funny habit of moving, like the shadows of a sundial, when you’re not looking. The next thing you know, it’s almost autumn again. There are scars in the ground and in your heart, and you’re laughing at yourself even now for that terrible cliché. But with a slight undercurrent of Joni Mitchell’s infamous bittersweet-almond tones, because if there’s one thing you have learned about love, it’s that it is in no way linear. Nor is it dependable, or able to be packaged away at the back of a closet, in plastic wrapping, like a neatly-pressed shirt.
It is wildfire; it is whisper-whisper forest fire. It is waking with sore eyes, after crying so hard that you couldn’t breathe, and your mind went so white you thought you would never see again. It is learning how to cope with this, how to deaden it down, eclipsed by a blue-steel smile; because there is only one way for you now, and that’s forward.
You still hang banners across the sky, throw cotton balls for kittens, and look to the west with its bleeding-heart sun. But you don’t hope for too much. You write, instead.
Which is how this letter has finally come out, to you, my sixteen year old Self. I couldn’t do it then, in that threadbare therapy room, when only a scant two years had passed. It was too soon, and I didn’t know myself enough to want to live (or to die, either.)
Oh yes – you have finally learned the true meaning behind the blue rose, your emblem. The world has, as you once thought it would, got in the way; but then, the lasting question hung on this quickening breeze, is How much did you allow it to be so?
Not always the clearest of ways.
The mythical, the unobtainable. That which cannot be interpreted fully. A language of petals and thorns, of talons and wings, where clarity exists in a single droplet of rain ready to fall; in the angling wheel of a kite.
You have found trust again, friendship such as you had not dared to hope could exist; and love. And love again, though the two don’t always walk the same path; but we make our own journeys.
P.S: Those colours in your head? That’s synaesthesia! It’s actually a Thing. You’re one of many, with a palette for a mind, and a weird habit of crossing comparisons that will cause others to look at you with “Huh?” written all over their faces.
Just watch out for loud noises. They always did get on your nerves, in more ways than one.
P.P.S: All those dreams you had as a small child – the jungle temple, and your Nanna’s house made large and black-gold with midnight and candlelight, twisting staircases and secret rooms behind walls? The red-rock canyon, with its crimson sun that would not die, and the black-blood ground where bodies of friend and foe were scattered together like autumn leaves, united at last?
Keep an eye on those.

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Canonical Explains Its Convergence Goals
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Richard was last seen with his friend, Danielle Imbo, at approximately 11:45 p.m. at a restaurant in the vicinity of the 500 block of South Street in Philadelphia, PA.
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Petrone, who worked at his family's bakery business, and Imbo had known each other since their school years but only began dating after both having children.
Investigators have reason to believe that Petrone and Imbo were victims of foul play; neither the couple nor the vehicle has been found. Their bank accounts have not been accessed since, and surveillance footage in the area never picked them up. There has been no activity on their cell phones.
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National Fishing and Boating Week 2012 will be highlighted in West Virginia by the 23rd annual Free Fishing Weekend on June 9 and 10, according to Frank Jezioro, Director of the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources (WVDNR). During these two days, residents and nonresidents can fish in West Virginia without a license.
“It is a great opportunity to remind people of the fun of fishing, especially with family and friends. If you already have a license, take someone fishing. It may be your children, spouse, or co-worker, and introduce them to a lifetime of outdoor enjoyment,” said Jezioro.
The National Fishing and Boating Week began as a promotional activity near Father’s Day by the sportfishing industry. The recreational boating industry partnered with its sportfishing counterparts to develop a fishing and boating educational campaign. From those beginnings, National Fishing and Boating Week has evolved into a very effective private/public partnership. The sportfishing and boating industries, fishing organizations and local, state, and federal agencies work together to promote the message that fishing is great fun and healthy aquatic ecosystems are important.
WVDNR participates in a number of activities during National Fishing and Boating Week and the Free Fishing Weekend,” said Jezioro. Two of the largest and most successful events are the Bowden Fishing Derby, held at the Bowden Hatchery in Randolph County (June 2), and the Fishing Derby at Little Beaver State Park in Raleigh County (June 9). Children receive basic fishing instruction and will get the opportunity to enjoy time fishing with friends and family.
There are other fishing events planned across the state. Please contact the DNR office closest to you for more information.

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A SCHOOL cannot carry out its full curriculum due to extensive flooding to playing fields allegedly caused by a new bypass.
Alwen Watkin, the headteacher of Porthmadog’s Ysgol Eifionydd, says the £35m Porthmadog, Tremadog and Minffordd bypass – which was opened last autumn and skirts the school boundary – appears to have caused drainage problems to the school’s football and rugby pitches.
Mrs Watkin said the flooding had affected the school’s 432 pupils as they cannot take physical education classes on the pitches, adding: “It’s a huge nuisance for the school and has compromised how we teach the curriculum.
“We’ve undertaken a risk assessment and we just can’t let the pupils use them as they are. They are just too dangerous.
“The school had an arrangement with the Welsh Government and the bypass contractors that the pitches would be fit for use following the completion of the bypass.
“I lost part of one pitch as the new road travels through it, and we now feel abandoned since the building work was completed, with muddy unusable and unsafe pitches full of puddles.”
Mrs Watkin added that the football and rugby pitches were regularly saturated with water, while a new pitch supplied by the bypass contractors to replace the one they lost also had drainage problems.
She said: “We are obviously very disappointed. We’re still waiting for them to put the rugby posts back in the ground as well. Whenever we have complained to the Welsh Government or the contractors we’ve been told to use the leisure centre or hire pitches at Clwb Chwaraeon Porthmadog, with the promise we’ll be reimbursed, but we are also waiting for these funds.
“Regardless of the money it’s just not an ideal situation to have to travel there for sports lessons.
“We only have one school minibus, which isn’t always available. The school needs full use of our own facilities.”
To compound the flooding of pitches, the floor of a nearby classroom has risen up over the past few months – a problem which has not been encountered at Ysgol Eifionydd in the past.
The headteacher said: “I can’t prove any link, but the floor underneath the classroom is damp, and has risen up. It makes you wonder about the drainage of the site, especially in a place like Porthmadog which is prone to flooding.”
A Welsh Government spokesman said: “We are aware that the works to the school fields are not yet complete. They have been delayed by weather conditions and we are in discussions with Gwynedd Council and the school to ensure that this matter is resolved as quickly as possible."


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All of the Fun People We Saw at the 2019 San Antonio Music Showcase
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The 7th annual San Antonio Music Showcase was an absolute blast! While this year's iteration of the local music fest was smaller with 10 venues, it provided a more intimate (and super convenient) look at the local music scene. Here's a look at all the folks having a blast exploring the scene while partying it up on the St. Mary's strip.


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Diving, Whale Watching and Backpacking - The Bohol Way
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Experience Bohol in three ways. Hawaiian isle beauty where you can dive, whale watch as well as just enjoy on offer by backpacking.
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There are plenty of great dive sites in Bohol. The most popular and thought to be the most effective may be the Balicasag Island. Some say it's shaped is circular and flat while others express it is crab-shaped. Lined with palms and pristine sand beach, its waters work best place for black coral bushes and cathedral-like caves. Divers love its crevices, overhangs and steep walls. Schools of barracudas, jackfish and mackerel are found here. Large green turtles and grey reef shark are also seen on this island.
Inside the southern part of Bohol will be the Panglao Island. The currents here are deep and powerful. Most diving sites listed below are ideal for macro photography because of the many colors of hard coral. Its reef platform is shallow and canopied with hard and soft corals. This island is also great for drift diving.
Cabilao Island will be the favorite hangout of hammerhead sharks. A much awaited encounter with seahorses, stargazers and pegasus is a great night dive experience.
Pamilacan Island may be the farthest dive site in Bohol. It's recognized for big whale sharks, mantas as well as the rarest in addition to most expensive Conus Gloria Maris seashell. Additionally, it houses a colony of white and black banded sea snakes. However the main tourist attraction here's whale and dolphin watching. Our recommendation is that you are doing whale watching through the months of March to June since the waters as calm and clear while the dolphins love strong currents. Both animals would be best seen not later than 8 in the morning. Melon-headed whale, giant sperm whale, pygmy killer whale, bottlenose dolphin and spinner dolphins a few of those that inhabit the waters of Pamilacan.
Since diving and whale watching is over, try going around some scenic sites in Bohol. The famous you are the Chocolate Hills. In line with the locals, it's named therefore because when they observed during dry season it becomes brown like chocolates. There are 1268 perfectly cone-shaped hills here as well as the height ranges from 30-50 meters. April and could are the most useful months to see these spectacular hills as well as the ideal time to trek it too.
Other tourist spots to visit would be the Philippine Tarsier Sanctuary. Tarsier is definitely the smallest primate on the planet at 4-5 inches only. When you are within the mood of visiting sanctuaries, check out the Butterfly Sanctuary. It houses diverse collections of butterflies, of most sizes and colors.
Lastly, a flavor of history. Go to Bohol Blood Compact Site in Tagbilaran. It is really an important event between Rajah Sikatuna and also the Spanish explorer, Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, where peace created by drinking a mixture of their particular blood and wine.
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June Programming Highlights on PBS SoCal
Saturday, June 4, 6 p.m. – “Opry Memories” – PREMIERE
This show takes viewers back to the golden era of country music with host John Schneider. Broadcast from the Grand Ole Opry, the show will feature music from Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, George Jones, Loretta Lynn and others.
Saturday, June 4, 10 p.m. – Great Performances: “Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival 3”– PREMIERE
Grammy Award-winning guitar superstar Eric Clapton has re-teamed with fellow “guitar gods” for a third Crossroads Guitar Festival in Chicago, America’s Blues Capital.
Sunday, June 5, 8 p.m. – Great Performances: “Jackie Evancho: Dream with Me”– PREMIERE
Jackie Evancho, the 11-year-old girl with the extraordinarily big voice, came to national prominence on “America’s Got Talent” and now returns to PBS. This solo concert was filmed at the grounds of the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Fla., and coincides with the release of her first full-length solo album, “Dream with Me.”
Wednesday, June 8, 8 p.m. – “Out in America” – PREMIERE
This uplifting collection of unique and inspiring personal narratives is told through the lens of the country’s most prominent LGBT figures and pioneers, as well as many average, yet extraordinary citizens from the gay community.
Wednesday, June 8, 9:30 p.m. – “Tommy Emmanual and Friends: Live at the Balboa Theater” – PREMIERE
Tommy Emmanuel – considered one of the finest acoustic guitar players in the world celebrates his 50th anniversary as a performer with a concert featuring some of his favorite musician friends.
Thursday, June 16, 7 p.m. – “The Rumba Foundation” – PREMIERE
Guitar sensation Jesse Cook teams-up with some of World Music's elite artists to create a potent new music hybrid. From recording sessions in Colombia with Latin Grammy winners Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto to a concert at the Montreal Jazz Festival before 70,000 people, Director Brian Adler explores Cook's latest chart- topping project, The Rumba Foundation.
Sunday, June 26, Noon – American Masters: “Maestro James Levine: 40 Years at the Met”
To celebrate his 40th anniversary at the Metropolitan Opera, Maestro James Levine’s life and current work is the subject of a documentary film.
Sunday, June 26, 1 p.m. – Great Performances at the Met: “Nixon in China”
Peter Sellars makes his Met debut with this groundbreaking 1987 work. “Nixon in China” explores the human truths beyond the headlines surrounding President Nixon’s 1972 encounter with Communist China
Sunday, June 26, 4 p.m. – “Keeping Score: Mahler: Origins”
Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony perform Mahler's famous and poignant love song, Adagietto from Symphony No. 5, the Scherzo from Symphony No. 7 in E minor and the Rondo Burleske from Symphony No. 9 in D major.

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Plasma torches were once quite expensive. For this reason they were usually only found in professional welding shops and very well-stocked private garages and shops. However, modern plasma torches are becoming cheaper, and now are within the price range of many hobbyists, less than $300.
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Plasma cutting is a metal cutting process where a jet of hot plasma is used to cut electrically conductive materials. Plasma is basically a collection of charged particles which in form of a jet of ionized gas can generate temperatures above 20000 0 C that melt the material to perform the cutting operation.
Mar 19, 2021 · Plasma cutting basics. Plasma is an ionized gas that conducts electricity, and it is created by adding energy to an electrically neutral gas. The energy is electricity and the gas is typically compressed air. Both elements are combined in a chamber between an electrode and nozzle, causing the gas to become imbalanced, creating plasma gas.
5′ x 10′ plasma cutting machine cost: 150,000 – 250,000 RMB (faster, equipped with height adjustment and dust removal) Cutting cost per unit part or unit length: On carbon steel from ¼” (approx. 6.35mm) to 2″ (approx. 50mm) thick, plasma cutting costs are the lowest relative to other processes. Ease of use:
The portable cnc plasma / flame cutting machine is modern cutting equipment with digital program control. In addition to automated cutting, it has high cutting precision, high material utilization and high production efficiency. Along with the mechanical electronic technology and computer technology progress, the CNC cutting machine with its ...
Average Cost for a Plasma Cutter on Sale. One of the biggest considerations when shopping for equipment is the price. The average cost of a plasma cutter unit on sale can range from $475 – $800. Although the price is not necessarily an indication of the product quality, you can expect to pay more for plasma cutters on the high end of the ...
Sep 10, 2020 · Apart from the metal thickness a plasma cutter can handle, the cost of an average machine is higher than that of an oxy-fuel setup. Even if you are looking at a typical plasma system, you’ll need at least $500 where the cost may go up to $4,000, and I’m not talking about a high definition system that would cost even more.
Plasma is one of the fourth state of matter, after solid, liquid and gas. It is formed when overheating a gas. In case of plasma cutting machine the gas is subject to strong electric system. This causes the gas to ionize by losing electrons and in the same time overheat, going into plasma state.


The standby arrangements for Belgium’s volunteer firefighters are set to cause new headaches for employers with workers who are paid flat rates for time on-call or when sleeping in the workplace, with a judgement that will affect companies across the European Union.
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that volunteer firefighter Rudy Matzak is a ‘worker’ and that within the meaning of the Working Time Directive his time on standby is ‘working’ time.
Under that Directive, ‘working time’ refers to “any period during which the worker is working, at the employer’s disposal and carrying out his activity or duties, in accordance with national laws and/or practice”. It applies to all sectors, including both public and private, and ‘rest period’ refers to any period not classed as working time.
When he was on call, Mr Matzak had to be at home and able to fulfil the requirement of an eight minute response time to reach the fire station, and the Court said that this obligation to remain “physically present at the place determined by the employer and the … constraints resulting from the need to reach his place of work within eight minutes” meant that he was limited in how he could pursue his personal and social life. This contrasted with a worker who may be asked simply to be contactable.
The knock-on effect for employers of standby time being deemed to be working time is that it has to be taken into account when complying with rest periods, working hours and the National Minimum Wage.
The judgement follows hard on the heels of last year’s hearing by the Employment Appeal Tribunal of three cases – Focus Care Agency Ltd v Roberts, Frudd v The Partington Group Ltd and Royal Mencap Society v Tomlinson-Blake – which said that businesses must conduct a ‘multifactorial evaluation’ as there was no clear, hard and fast way to distinguish between on-call workers who are considered to be ‘at work’ and those who are not. In that judgement, the factors highlighted as likely to be a ‘working’ situation included whether an employee was on site to comply with a regulatory or contractual obligation, whether they would be disciplined for failing to remain on stand-by, and if they had to keep a listening ear and respond, and the extent to which they had to initiate action.
“This latest judgement adds to the already complex minefield for compliance with on-call workers,” said Huseyin E. Huseyin, Senior Partner at Bowling & Co. “It’s in Belgium, but as we are still part of the EU, it is just as important here.
“Whether or not a worker on standby is ‘working’ will depend on the circumstances of each case, but the fact that the issue is complicated with grey areas does not mean that businesses can ignore it – ignorance of the law has never been a valid defence. Back-pay for up to six years could be due and that could mean substantial sums.
“For any situation that seems unclear, it’s worth getting some independent advice. An easily made change to the way that on-call systems are operated might clarify things and take an employee out of a potential ‘working’ situation.”
In any situation where the on-call claim is found to be ‘working’ time the National Minimum Wage Regulations (NMW) will apply. The NMW Regulations apply to any eligible worker, whether or not they are paid by the hour and calculations must be made according to the payment basis, to check if the equivalent hourly rate is at the right amount. New rates for the National Minimum Wage come into force from April 2018, applicable to the various rates, including the National Living Wage for eligible workers aged over 25, and other age-related rates.
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Paris, France – 1 Sept 2019: Ticagrelor reduces ischaemic events in patients with diabetes and previous percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), according to late breaking results from the THEMIS-PCI study presented in a Hot Line Session today at ESC Congress 2019 together with the World Congress of Cardiology(1) and published in The Lancet(2).
Senior author Professor Philippe Gabriel Steg of Hospital Bichat, Paris, France said: “Treatment with ticagrelor and aspirin also increased major bleeding relative to aspirin alone, but there was a net clinical benefit with dual antiplatelet therapy.”
Patients with diabetes represent 25–35% of those undergoing PCI, making it a sizeable population. Dual antiplatelet therapy is administered immediately following PCI, but in the long-term, patients are generally treated with a single antiplatelet agent (usually aspirin).
THEMIS-PCI is a prespecified subgroup analysis of the THEMIS trial, also presented today at ESC Congress. The THEMIS trial investigated whether adding the antiplatelet drug ticagrelor to low-dose aspirin would reduce the risk of thrombotic events in patients aged 50 or older with type 2 diabetes and stable coronary artery disease (defined as a history of PCI, bypass grafting, or angiographic stenosis of 50% or more in at least one coronary artery). Patients with known prior myocardial infarction or stroke were excluded.
THEMIS enrolled 19,220 patients at 1,315 sites across 42 countries in North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Europe. Of those, 11,154 patients (58%) had undergone PCI and were included in the THEMIS-PCI study.
“We hypothesised that the efficacy, safety and net clinical benefit of ticagrelor may be different in the subgroup of patients with a history of PCI, who have previously been exposed to dual antiplatelet therapy with aspirin and a P2Y12 inhibitor such as ticagrelor, prasugrel or clopidogrel,” noted Prof Steg.
Participants were randomly allocated to ticagrelor versus placebo, both on top of aspirin. The primary efficacy outcome was the composite of cardiovascular death, heart attack, or stroke. The primary safety outcome was Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) major bleeding. The median follow-up was 39.9 months.
Ticagrelor added to aspirin reduced cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, and stroke, (the relative reduction was 15% in patients with prior PCI, p = 0.013) although with a doubling of major bleeding (p<0.0001). The net clinical benefit appeared more favourable in patients with previous PCI than in patients without previous PCI, when evaluated as the composite of efficacy events and bleedings (15% relative risk reduction versus 6% relative risk increase, significant interaction, p = 0.012).
Prof Steg said: “The results suggest that long-term therapy with ticagrelor in addition to aspirin may be considered in patients with diabetes and a history of PCI who have tolerated antiplatelet therapy and have high ischaemic risk and low bleeding risk. This is a novel therapeutic option for a large and easy to identify patient population.”

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It's launch time — again — for the federally run insurance marketplaces at the heart of President Obama's signature health care law.
The Health and Human Services Department has set this weekend as the deadline to fix HealthCare.gov, the primary enrollment website for Obamacare. Officials say the site will still have some glitches, but they'll be more like true glitches, not the crippling front-to-back system failures that plagued the site's initial launch.
HHS has had two months to fix the broken website, and the White House needs a dramatic improvement to stop the political bleeding it has suffered from the site and the uproar over canceled insurance policies.
So, how will we know if HealthCare.gov is working? Here are five important metrics to keep an eye on.
The administration vastly overstated how much of the site's initial problems resulted from higher-than-expected traffic, but high volume was still an issue. In tests just before the site's launch, it collapsed under a mere 2,000 simultaneous visitors — far short of the 4.7 million visits the site logged on its launch day.
Jeff Zients, the former White House budget director who is quarterbacking the HealthCare.gov repair effort, has said that by this weekend, the site will be able to handle 50,000 users at once, or about 800,000 per day. That's where it was supposed to be at the time it launched. If the site can actually handle that many users without crashing, it'll be a big improvement.


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Perth velvet voiced minstrel, Madoc Plane has come sauntering across the country on desert winds with his debut release 'Lilac in June.' A soothing soul tune for the heart, 'Lilac in June' combines hints of juniper, Jeff Buckley spritz & a drop of honey to drizzle the smoothest track into your tender ear holes. 'Lilac in June' was brewed with love at the Tone City Production studio with the help of maestro Sam Ford.
We were lucky enough to have Madoc on the old string and two cans to get a slice of the Lilac pie:
Tell us about yourself! Where does the name come from? What led you to your current position? How long have you been playing? I want to know everything there is to know about the absolute legend named Madoc Plane!
"Firstly, thanks for having me on for the Q&A, I’m just super stoked to have finally released some of my own music! I’m a 22 year old singer-songwriter from Perth and I’ve been singing and performing for as long as I can remember. I’ve only just finished my studies at WAAPA and was lucky enough to graduate with First Class Honours in the Bachelor of Music.
There are some incredible artists that have come out of WAAPA including the likes of Meg Mac, Noah Dillon, Blake Rose, Kyle Charles Hall, Dulcie and Supathick… who I’m all big fans of! I’d love to add to this list of talented artists through the contribution of my own music!"
Your voice is absolutely incredible. I was wondering what influences you draw from? And also, who have you been listening to recently? Give us some of your favourite tunes or artists to wrap our ears around! I want to view life through the lens of your ear holes…
"I’ve always been inspired by the vocals of Jeff Buckley, Matt Corby, Jordan Rakei and Allen Stone. What I also love about those artists is their song-writing style and their ability to combine an intricate melody with complex harmony. As part of my Honours degree, I wrote a dissertation on Jeff Buckley’s vocal characteristics in his song, 'Grace.' Being able to research Buckley’s vocal ability definitely amplified my love for music and singing.
Recently, I’ve been listening to a lot of Jordan Rakei’s latest album, What We Call Life, and also Yebba’s album, Dawn. Some of my favourite tunes that I would recommend listening to would have to be:
o 'You and Me' - Jordan Rakei
o 'Grace' - Jeff Buckley
o 'Brown Eyed Lover' - Allen Stone
o 'Over' – Robert Glasper and Yebba"
Your debut single ‘Lilac in June’ has just come out. What can you tell us about the track? What is it about? What inspired you to write it? What do you really like about it, lyrically or production-wise?
"I wrote 'Lilac in June' early last year as part of a song-writing component in my degree. During that time, I was doing a lot of writing/producing at home, and this was the one tune that seemed to fall into place perfectly. I just remember finishing the chorus and knowing that this was going to be something special.
From a song-writing perspective, the melody and harmony in the song is really what comes first for me, while the lyrical theme ends up being the last thing I look at. I tend to try and draw emotion out of the music and then attach a lyrical meaning to it after.
Lyrically, the song discusses the idea of holding onto a feeling of hope when you have lost something special but knowing that it will come back. I liked using the metaphor of the seasonal blooming of a Lilac flower to help represent this feeling. Luckily enough, Lilac’s bloom in June which helped when trying to make the hook more catchy!
The tune really developed when I brought it to the band (Joel Dalton – Drums, Blake Weller – Bass, Ben Lazzaro – Guitar, Trevor Stockton – Keys) as they were able to expand on the musical ideas, while adding their own influences to the song. As a group, we all have very similar musical influences, which helped us to collaborate really well. Furthermore, Tone City producer, Sam Ford was able to draw out all the emotion and musical colour to bring the song to life.
For me to feel confident enough to finish a song, there needs to be a moment in the process where that particular song has been my favourite thing to listen to. That was absolutely the case with 'Lilac in June.'"
You’re no doubt working on some new music! What is in the works, and what will it sound like? What can we expect from Madoc Plane this year?
"Since finishing up at WAAPA, I’ve had plenty of time to develop my song-writing and producing craft in order to give myself every chance at creating the sound that want to create. I’ve got plenty of music in the works and through working closely with my band and Sam Ford there will hopefully be a couple more singles or even an EP in the coming months."
Do you have any upcoming live gigs, shows or tour plans we could hype up?
"I'm playing a 'Lilac in June' single launch at El grotto on the 22nd of April, supported by local talent Ken Paolo and the Space Cadets, and Sago. Hopefully the first of many gigs!"
The last two years were so weird for the whole music industry. Some people used the free time really creatively to write new songs, and others were destroyed by the live scene evaporating. What was your experience like over the last two years with the old ‘Rona? How do you think it affected the music industry & live scene?
"When covid first kicked off I tried to use the time at home as efficiently as possible and guess this is when I first really started to develop my song-writing and production ability. Prior to investing my time into my own music, I was singing in a band called Ferncroft, and we lost a lot of momentum during covid due to the fact that we weren’t about to play gigs and build our fan base.
I think that the last few years demonstrates how much emphasis needs to be placed on the importance of the music industry (especially local music) in times like these. We’ve seen that the music industry hasn’t been prioritised by the government in terms of helping out local music and supporting local artists. I think that this has made the music community closer than ever and shows just how resilient the music industry is."
You heard it loud and clear from the Voice of a Thousand Tears, April 22nd is the date to get your shiny shoes on and your dancing tie primmed and proper. 'Lilac in June' is out now on all your dog's favourite sound services. Madoc Plane is landing near you. See the hair behind the man.


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And Baby Makes 2½ (The Homegrown Café Book Club 5) by Mellanie Szereto
And Baby Makes 2½ (The Homegrown Café Book Club 5)
The women of The Homegrown
Café Book Club are over 40, single, and loving it. Fate, however, has a
different plan with a younger man for every last one of them.
Heroine is 45; hero is 38.
Marriage and children aren’t in the cards for family law expert
Georgina Swofford, but that didn’t stop her from butting in just enough to
ensure her friends from The Homegrown Café Book Club found happily-ever-after. Hers
will have to be fake—with the man she almost bankrupted in divorce court five
years ago. A pretend engagement to help him gain custody of his nephew will
make them even, won’t it?
Hermit Oscar Banyan prefers solitude after the high-profile
divorce that nearly cost him everything, including his freedom. But payback
backfires when living together with his attorney for appearances’ sake costs
him more than his ponytail and shaggy beard. Playing house becomes a little too
intimate to deny his feelings, and convincing her to stay will take more than
sleepless nights of sharing a bed and parenthood.


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New law on higher education has been given the green light in Sejm
Yesterday before midnight Polish Sejm (lower chamber of Polish parliament) adopted, with more than 80 amendments, the Law on Higher Education and Science (Ustawa 2.0 - so-called Constitution for Science) and its introductory regulations. 233 deputies voted for the new law, 195 were against it and 1 abstained from voting. The next step in the legislative process will be voting on the act in the Senat and submitting the project for signature by the President.
The controversial law will introduce major changes in universities organization, the principles of their evaluation, methods of financing, as well as the academic career of university employees.
Representatives of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education emphasize that the project was initiated in the course of more than two years of consultations with thousands of representatives of the academic community. In their opinion, the act will improve the functioning of the higher education system in Poland, and increase the reputation of Polish universities on the international dimension. - The Act increases the autonomy of the university by strengthening its organizational freedom inside. It is the academic community that decides how the university works, not the law - emphasized the deputy minister of science and higher education, Piotr Mueller.
The adoption of the regulations was preceded by many stormy discussions throughout the country. In June, a series of grassroots protests, organized by the Academic Protest Committee, took place. Many of Polish universities were involved, including University of Warsaw, Jagiellonian University, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan and universities in many other cities. According to opponents of the "Constitution for Science", the act may limit the autonomy of the university and worsen the situation of universities from smaller towns. Representatives of the scientific and academic community, as well as politicians, reported on the project. As a result, the ministry recommended the adoption of numerous amendments to the project.
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Join Professor Ben Gordon and his guest Eric Cirillo every Wednesday at 7 p.m. for a talk show full of anecdotes, news and sports talk. Oh, and did we mention the great music in between discussion?
Your host Emmet Clark comes on air every Thursday for Throwback Thursday, taking songs that are <i> really <i> old and some just<i> kind of <i> old and fusing them into a groovy mixdown of throwback jams. Tune in (almost every) Thursday at 5 p.m. to hear for yourself.
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We just returned from a beautiful, but way too short, holiday on Ponza Island. My husband and I were desperate to take a break from being parents, so when my mother in Law offered to stay with the baby, we packed our bags pretty quickly!
Ponza Island is located west of Terracina (between Rome & Naples). There are regular fast boats from Terracina, or for those that want to take their cars or scooters, it is possible to take the less expensive, slow ferry boat as well. Upon arriving on the island, you enter on the port side of the island. There is a small beachfront here along a boardwalk that is filled with tourist shops, restaurants and cafes. One street over from the boardwalk is Via Nuova that runs parallel to the boardwalk where you can find some beautiful boutique stores with speciality items that are made there on the island.
To navigate around the island is best by scooter or by rental car. There are also frequent bus and taxi boat service to the other areas of the island, but we found these to be a little less exciting. We really wanted to be free from schedules so we rented a scooter for our time there. After getting settled in, we took a long ride around the island on the only major road that will take you to the nothern side of the island where there are several "Piscine Naturali", natural swimming pools. Our favorite was in Le Forna. You have a steep walk up & down the side of the cliff, along partial stairways, and partial rockways to arrive to the pools. The water and views are absolutely breathtaking once you do it though!
We found the people, service and food to be wonderful. Every meal we had was delicious and fresh from that day. For anyone that enjoys small fishing villages.....Ponza is for you. For us, the getaway was extremely theraputic because the weather was absolutely perfect. Sunny & warm during the day with cool breezes in the evening. There is a true sense of tranquility here for anyone that is looking for a taste of R&R. We went in early June, but it's our understanding that from the mid- June to mid-August the island is jam-packed with Italian tourists.
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