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HomeGOVERNMENTFrench strikes: 'I've never seen anything like it' – but guess what happened next …
French strikes: 'I've never seen anything like it' – but guess what happened next …
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Pam Barker | Director of TLB Europe Reloaded Project
I'm taking the opportunity to publish a couple of reports of Thursday's huge strike across France in opposition to Macron's neoliberal attack on public services in case it vanishes from the radar. According to TheLocal.fr:
Seven unions representing staff in the public sector led strikes and protests, and a third of railway workers walked out to join the demonstrations against 40-year-old Macron's bid to shake up the French state.
Around 200,000 people demonstrated nationwide, according to police figures, including 49,000 in Paris. The CGT union, the biggest in the public sector, estimated the total turnout at over half a million.
Train services and flights were disrupted and many schools closed their doors for the day. Protests typically turned violent in places as they are wont to do here. And this from the New York Times:
"This is a wake-up call for the government," said Laurent Berger, the secretary general of the second-largest railway union. He said the government needed to have real discussions with the unions before "everything falls apart."
More than 200,000 workers and students joined in protests around the country, about 48,000 of them in Paris, according to a consortium of journalism organizations that hired a company to estimate crowd sizes to avoid relying on police estimates.
The student presence in Thursday's strike was an echo of France's historic protests of 1968, which were led by students and began on the same day, March 22, 50 years ago. Those strikes started in French universities and were quickly joined by union members and others, bringing the country to a standstill and forcing reforms in many sectors.
It's been a busy week all in all. Tuesday was noteworthy for the sight of former President Nicolas Sarkozy being held by police for 2 days for questioning over longstanding suspicions of illegal campaign financing from Muammar Gaddafi; he was then finally charged.
Friday saw a false flag – sorry, I mean terrorist attack – in the middle of nowhere in the south of France around Carcassonne. Radouane Lakdim, apparently a member of ISIS, killed the driver of a car in the
wee hours, wounding its passenger, then stole the car to drive later in the morning to a military police barracks where he wounded an officer jogging on the street. He later took refuge in the local SuperU supermarket (pictured) where he took hostages and killed two more people; a police officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Arnaud Beltrame, was taken at his own request in exchange for another hostage. Beltrame was subsequently shot, to die later of his wounds, and the ISIS member was killed. Lakdim was known to the authorities as they usually are, shouted Allahu Akbar right on cue, and then died. A familiar script.
Rolling TV news was naturally full of it, including paeans of praise for the officer who sacrificed himself, as well as an opportunity for Macron to come on TV looking presidential in a crisis, flanked by his older looking PM, Edouard Philippe, for a little gravitas. Which all prompted me to wonder why this attack had just happened. We hadn't had an election, which is often the reason for these attacks to mushroom. Then of course it hit me that the day before had seen France's biggest, violent strikes in some time, headlined in the rolling news as the first big test of Macron. First suspicious sign.
The second? A review of the week on TV news – both Saturday and Sunday – is totally avoiding speaking about Thursday's massive strikes. We've got Sarkozy, Friday's shooting, and today's (Sunday) church services for the victims. We've even got coverage of the anti-gun marches in the US and Trump's praise of French cop Beltrame, but not a peep about Thursday.
Massive protests, a likely false flag and MSM silence in quick succession. Orders had to come from a place on high to editors of news organizations to perpetrate this selective act of forgetting.
French strike: 'I've never seen anything like it'
French riot police, had to fire tear gas in response to angry transport protesters in Paris and in Nantes tear gas as well as water cannons were used against strikers.
FREEWEST MEDIA
Published: March 23, 2018, 10:23 am
PARIS – Public services were disrupted across the country on Thursday (March 22) as teachers, train conductors and airline controllers called labour action against President Emmanuel Macron's proposed reforms.
"I've never seen anything like it, never seen a threat like it," Guillaume Pepy, chairman of the SNCF state rail company, told RTL radio.
Electricity generation in France dropped by over three gigawatts (GW) on Thursday – the equivalent of three nuclear reactors – as energy sector workers joined the protest consisting of some 150 marches countrywide.
This is the first large protest against Macron, ahead of a rolling rail strike, The Express reported.
Rail workers are planning a three-month rolling strike starting April 3 with two days of action each week, Reuters reported.
They say they are fighting to keep their job-for-life guarantees, automatic annual pay rises and early retirement payments.
Chaos reigned at Paris' Gare du Nord station with the labour action expected to lead to the cancellation of 60 percent of fast trains, 75 percent of inter-city trains and about 30 percent of Paris airports' flights.
The action is shaping up to be the biggest challenge of Macron's presidency since he took office last May. In 1995, the CGT, the biggest union among the roughly 150 000 SNCF rail staff, had forced the then-prime minister, Alain Juppe, to quit.
Seven unions representing staff in the public sector, and a third of railway workers walked out on Thursday.
The state's privatisation drive is set to accelerate in 2018 as it prepares to sell off state assets…
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Image of strike courtesy of AFP 2018/Boris Horvat
Image of police at SuperU supermarket courtesy of AP
Featured image of Macron courtesy of Twitter
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Rules for Snitching
Maria Kefalas, Patrick Carr, Susan Clampet-Lundquist
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While campaigning to be mayor of Philadelphia in 2007, Michael Nutter said that there was a war in the streets of the city and promised that he would declare a "crime emergency" on his first day in office. His claim was more than the typical politician's polemic: The chance of a black man meeting a violent death in his city is greater than the chance of a U.S. soldier dying on the battlefields of Iraq.
In the spring of 2008, a year after now-Mayor Nutter and his new police commissioner moved into their offices, our research team embarked on a project to interview 150 black, Latino and white Philadelphians, male and female, delinquent and nondelinquent, ranging in age from 15 to 24 years old. We wanted to hear their views on policing, violence and crime, and what they do to stay safe on Philadelphia's streets.
We discovered that there's a crisis of trust in the City of Brotherly Love. "Stop snitching" T-shirts first popped up around 2002. The earliest versions showed images of red stop signs with the word "snitching" beneath. Another shirt featured yellow smiley faces (the '70s ones now resurrected as emoticons), but the faces had zippers instead of parenthetical mouths. But as we learned, the rules about snitching are broad and flexible.
District attorneys and the police blamed the subversive "stop snitching" subculture on the usual suspect: gangster rap's glamorization of violence. Kids coming up in Philadelphia's neighborhoods, though, tell us the politicians and the cops have it backward: Rap music's lyrics do not create truth; they are mirrors reflecting the ugly truth for the rest of the world to see. "Change the reality," one 19-year-old college freshman, born and raised in the city's notorious Badlands neighborhoods of Kensington, told us, "and then the culture changes, not the other way around."
"Stop snitching" is a community's submission to the "reality" of an entrenched drug economy that is, like it or not, one of the primary employers of its young men. It is also the toxic by-product of decades of mass incarceration and overpolicing of segregated neighborhoods in the era of stop-and-frisk.
"Stop snitching" doesn't mean never talking to the cops, either. You can call the police about a sexual assault, child molestation, if someone beats a woman or child, in the case of shootings or homicides, or about harm to family members, as long as the violence is unconnected to your own illicit business activities.
Young people told us that witnesses are different from snitches: A witness comes forward to help, while a snitch goes to the cops to do the dirty work of hurting somebody else. The problem is that even DAs and cops know that finding a citizen in a position to truly help is no simple feat. There are people who do come forward despite the grave risks. Other witnesses come forward to help themselves, not their neighbors: They want a reduced sentence, to get paid or to put a rival out of business.
Another reason young people say you don't snitch is that calling the police is futile. Even the police admit that clearing a corner of dealers means a replacement crew is out there within two hours. Worse, many kids tell us that bringing in cops is like putting gasoline on a fire: Things just burn out of control.
They say the cops are brutal but oddly powerless, an occupying force patrolling enemy streets. The corner boys may be vicious and deadly, but at least they're from the neighborhood. Most people prefer their own tyrants to foreign invaders.
So youths feel caught between warring factions, unsure whether making alliances with either will improve their lives. A young man named David, who was not involved in hustling but had many friends and peers on the streets, put it this way: "I don't support either side of it. I think it's like kind of a broken dichotomy, like you have two choices and both of them suck, and it has to do with the way things are set up in this city and in this world. But, so, we need to start looking at other options."
The only thing everyone agrees about is this: Philadelphia's street wars aren't over.
Maria Kefalas is director of the Richard Johnson Center for Anti-Violence at Saint Joseph's University and founder of Philadelphia Youth Solutions Project. Patrick Carr (Rutgers University-New Brunswick), Susan Clampet-Lundquist (Saint Joseph's University-Philadelphia) and Kefalas lead the Stop Snitching Research Project, funded through an Edward R. Byrne Memorial Grant from the Department of Justice, named after a New York City police officer killed in the line of duty while protecting a witness.
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It's my late Nostalgia meme. My nostalgia post this time was about one falling incident. I forget the exact date; but I remember that it was dusk time and the rain was falling lightly.
At that time, we were visiting potatoes farmers in Kaligua hill (Bumiayu, Central Java, Indonesia). Knowing the day will be dark soon, we decided to hurriedly go back to the city.
Riding a motorbike, we passed through the winding roads on the hill. Since it rained, my husband drove slowly. He wore a wide raincoat. I sheltered behind his back and my body was covered by the same raincoat. I wasn't able to see the road ahead!
Next thing I knew, as the road is a downward one, I fell down off the motorbike and slided toward the gap ahead. Thank God, my husband can catch my left hand, though his half body was below the motorbike. Thank God too that the road was empty from another vehicle. It could make things worst.
Soon, we can stand and calm ourselves. We had no severe wounds; just a little pain on legs and hands. A few minutes later, we continued the journey. We must be more careful next time! I captured this falling spot while we were visiting the hill a few months ago. My husband still remembered the precise spot.


I vote for Danny Woodhead.
He's the favorite to be sure.
This could be the year a defensive player wins, Jones had a monster year.
Nah, FINALLY justice will be done . . . Xavier Omon will get what was rightly his in the senior for both of these gentlemen in their final 2007 season. Both amazing. Omon was denied what he deserved in that Harlon Hill voting that year. No question. Silly to say otherwise. And, in the 2007 quarterfinal game, NW blitzed Chadron St. and Omon had over 300 yards rushing and Woodhead only had 29 yards. Still, absolutely silly to say Woodhead was not an absolute phenomena that same season. Omon . . . first player in the history NCAA football at ALL levels to rush for at least 1500 yards in all four years of football. Two of the greats. Both in the same year. Crazy good.
I don't think he will win it, and nor should he, but if Jayru Campbell were to win the award it would be one of the great comeback stories in college football history. This is a player who is only playing at the D2 level because of completely self inflicted mistakes while in HS. He had a college scholarship lined up to Michigan State and left off the field behaviors ruin that opportunity. He took the long road back through the middle of nowhere to get back to playing meaningful football. I really hope he has truly turned his life around. I know this, if he ever does what he did before again his football career will be long gone. Time has largely forgiven Jayru this time. It won't happen again.
Who says Kansas is the middle of nowhere?
I'm thinking the top 4 are something like this..
Wells doesn't have the tops-at-his-position kinda numbers as much as the others I have listed here (the 4 players)....but his team should be in the chip and he's their top offensive player..and been real good.
Watson has fantastic RB numbers but I think he will suffer from his team not playing in the postseason. Might have the best numbers of any player as the regular season ended.
I think that brings it down to Campbell and Hall. Campbell has scored the most of any player in D2 this year and has added to his passing totals by rushing for over 1,000 yards and 20 more scores there. Hall has the top passing numbers of any of the 9 finalists and was a finalist a year ago....so his name should be established with voters.
Those are the ones that I'd think are in the running....maybe the NDC RB also, as his team is still alive, but Watson has better numbers hth.
Just looked back through the history of the HH. Have been 32 awarded.
Re: Rogan Wells - doesn't have the gaudy numbers, but we sure wouldn't be where we are without him. He makes it all click in our offense, which seems to run pretty effectively.
He has thrown for 32 TD's with only 4 INT's (our passing game is much about throwing the ball downfield, so gonna be hard to have a 70% completion percentage). Also has 656 yards rushing and has run for 11 more TD's.
Wells is a low key and humble guy. I imagine he's a lot more focused on this weeks game (and the opportunity to get to the next week) than he is the HH.
BTW, when the dust settles this Saturday we'll have had 3 HH finalists play down here in the last 3 weeks (Amir Hall, Jaleel McGlaughlin and Wells). That's pretty quality football.
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Where has the Harlon Hill website gone?
Jaleel McLaughlin (RB). True Freshman!
Didn't know Rogan Wells, also plays for Sioux Falls.
I just sent them a message telling them to change the picture of Gabriel Watson from USF. That isn't him.
Well, according to the text under Wells' picture he plays for "Souix Falls."
Bronko Nagurski of International Falls MN and the Minnesota Gophers was once named All American at tackle and at fullback the same year. But playing for two different teams at the same time would be even tougher!
Like minds think alike. I also sent them a message. Plus I asked them to correct the spelling error.
Good. Maybe they will correct it.


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The ugliness of racism is on display at a new museum on the campus of Ferris State University in Big Rapids. The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia opened last week, and features thousands of troubling artifacts, including whips, chains, and signs which once dictated where African Americans could sit, or even get a drink.
David Pilgrim, the museum's curator and founder says the museum is designed to teach tolerance, not glorify racism.
"If you hear about the museum, then you form opinions in the abstract, and that's very different from what happens with people that actually visit the facility," he says. "They really get it. They understand what it is. ... We're not a shrine to racism, any more so than a hospital is a shrine to disease."
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The Kyoto Protocol was agreed at Kyoto on the 11 December 1997 in accordance with the Berlin Mandate given at the first Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held in Berlin from 28 March to 7 April 1995.
It contains the outline of policies and measures that each Party included in Annex I will undertake in achieving its quantified emission limitation and reduction commitments. Annex I countries are those countries listed in the Annex to the Kyoto Protocol which have a quantified emission limitation or reduction commitment under Article 3 of the Protocol. The Kyoto Protocol came into force on 16 February 2005.
The Greenhouse Gases which are regulated under the Protocol are Carbon dioxide (CO2), Methane (CH4), Nitrous oxide (N2O), Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), Perfluorocarbons (PFCs), and Sulphur hexafluoride (SF6).
Article 2 of the Protocol lays out what each party shall do in achieving its quantified emission limitation and reduction commitments in order to promote sustainable development. It lists out various kinds of policies and measures.
Under Article 3, the Parties included in Annex I agree that they will reduce their emissions of Greenhouse Gases. They agree that they will do this individually or jointly, and that they will reduce such gases by at least 5 percent below 1990 levels in the first commitment period from 2008 to 2012.
The Annex I countries have agreed that they will ensure that their "aggregate anthropogenic carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of the 6 greenhouse gases do not exceed their assigned amounts". "Anthropogenic" means caused by humans, and "carbon dioxide equivalent" means that the other 5 Greenhouse Gases are measured and multiplied by their Global Warming Potential to give a value in Carbon Dioxide equivalent.
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They agree that the net changes in greenhouse gas emissions by sources and removals by sinks resulting from direct human-induced land-use change and forestry activities (limited to afforestation, reforestation and deforestation since 1990), measured as verifiable changes in carbon stocks in each commitment period, shall be used to meet the commitments under this Article of each Party included in Annex I.
This means that each country has to measure all the sources of their emissions, mainly from burning fossil fuels, but also various forms of methane emissions, and so on, and then they have to measure all the absorption of Greenhouse Gases which their forests are doing, and then they have provide the UNFCCC with a national report on what their net Greenhouse Gas emissions are every year by subtracting the absorption by their forests from their national emission from burning fossil fuels and other sources.
Every year these amounts have to be calculated to see whether the Annex I country is meeting its commitments.
Any Party included in Annex I may use 1995 as its base year for hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulphur hexafluoride, for the purposes of the calculation.
Article 3 also decides that Assigned Amount Units (AAUs), Emission Reduction Units (ERUs), Removal Units (RMUs), or Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) acquired by one Party from another Party can be added to their Assigned Amount Units.
It also decided that the Meeting of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol should look into what actions are necessary to minimize the adverse effects of climate change, and the impacts of response measures on Parties, and that they would for example establish funds, create insurance and transfer of technology to minimise the effects both of climate change, and of dealing with climate change. These actions were partly included because many countries including oil producing countries and coal producing countries like Australia would suffer by having to reduce exports of their fossil fuels. Developing countries are also going to suffer from the impacts of climate change such as sea level rise and desertification. Activities coming in this last category are generically referred to as "adaptation" measures.
Assigned Amount Units (AAUs) are emission reductions quotas allocated to installations in Annex I countries.
Emissions Reduction Units (ERUs) are emissions reductions achieved in various project activities, such as for example in Joint Implementation Activities in Eastern Europe, or in Annex I countries where emissions reductions are generated specifically to trade, and are verified accordingly.
Removal Units (RMUs) are emission reductions achieved through forestry where Greenhouse Gases in the atmosphere are removed through the sequestration of Carbon Dioxide in trees as they grow.
Under Article 6 the Annex I Parties agree specifically that for the purpose of meeting their commitments any Party included in Annex I may transfer to, or acquire from, any other such Party AAUs, ERUs RMUs or CERs.
These various certificates are acquired by entering into a transaction through one of the various trading platforms or emissions registries set up by governments and private market players in many countries.
Every sale or purchase of such an emission reduction certificate has to be registered with the national registry where the buyer is located. Once the transaction is registered with the national registry, the installation can count that certificate towards its AAUs, in other words it will have more emission space.
In the case of CERs the developing countries have their registries in the UNFCCC system, and they do not yet have registries in their home country separately. This is because they do not have reduction commitments, and so they do not need to create a market for emissions reductions in their own country yet.
The CERs from any developing country are transferred through the UNFCCC holding accounts to the relevant national registries of the buyer. The CERs are tracked through the UNFCCC transaction log, and the linking Directive for example with the EU Emission Trading System ensures that each certificate is traceable and there is no double counting.
Under Article 10 all Parties, not only Annex I Parties, agree to formulate regional programmes to improve the quality of national inventories, and to formulate, implement, publish and regularly update national and, where appropriate, regional programmes containing measures to mitigate climate change and measures to facilitate adequate adaptation to climate change.
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This provision is relatively controversial as the financing mechanism of the UNFCCC is not a democratically accountable body with the right to allocate per capita emission rights, tax GHG emissions world-wide, or in any other way force countries to transfer resources to non-polluters in an equitable and sustainable manner. Instead the GEF was created as a body with no teeth, into which Annex I countries periodically pay money to keep least developing countries and other special interest groups happy. Specifically under Article 11, Annex I countries have to create funds to help developing countries create their national greenhouse gas reporting systems, and they have to transfer clean technologies. The last commitment is very difficult to get any movement on, as all these technologies are in the private sector and the governments are not willing to force their companies to pass on the benefits of these technologies free.
to assist Parties included in Annex I in achieving compliance with their quantified emission limitation and reduction commitments under Article 3.
Under the Clean Development Mechanism Parties not included in Annex I will benefit from project activities resulting in Certified Emission Reductions because they will be able to benefit from sustainable projects in their own country; Parties included in Annex I may use the Certified Emission Reductions accruing from such project activities to contribute to compliance with part of their quantified emission limitation and reduction commitments under Article 3, as explained above.


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With a vibrant array of colors in his arsenal, Billy B. verbally paints on the canvas of your mind. You will feel like you were actually with him through each relationship, watched him grow up, and experience the effects of being brought up in a two story trailer. Now mid 30's, his charming personality, comedic prowess, and all-around dedication to the art have combined to quickly propel his talents to the forefront of the modern comedy scene. He is now working on the East Coast and some Mid-West states. Continually writing and recording, Billy B. is Sure to be a Future History Maker.All the way from the back of a small trailer park in Jacksonville, Florida, he learned he had to be quick witted to contend with family members around the holidays. Christmas, being told he was adopted and they don't buy presents for strangers, and Thanksgiving being Popeye's chicken instead of turkey, he will leave you busting at the seams as you relate to everyday situations you often hear about, but rarely think can happen to you.
His career began as innocent as going to a comedy club for the very first time with family for his cousin's 18th birthday. After the show, the M.C. mentioned to the crowd about a workshop there every Saturday. Billy took this as a way to sit in the back and watch comedians practice for free with no inclination he even had "It" in him to stand on a stage. Later that week, he jotted down a couple of original ideas, and thought it would be fun to try a couple of jokes that next weekend. Even if he wanted to, Billy could not hide the natural charm and poise that would prove to be his "Gift". After that first time on stage, he got laughs from some Very critical local comics, and one of them even booked him to do a show in another bar later that week. Hence, Billy B. was "born".
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This policy defines how Moulton Parish Council and Moulton Playing Fields Trust administers and operates the Moulton Playing Fields. Moulton Playing Fields is defined as the land that borders Main Road, the houses on Summerfield Drive and Moulton School, and contains the park, the Multi-Use Games Area and playing field.
Moulton Playing Fields Trust delegates day-to-day responsibility for the maintenance and management of the playing fields to Moulton Parish Council. who must operate this community space in accordance with the conditions demanded in the original bequest of the land.
The primary intended use of the Moulton Playing Fields is for residents under the age of 18, and all management activities of this area must have an expected outcome to improve or benefit some or all of this group. However, the trustees of the playing field acknowledge that this is a community asset and is utilised by the entire community, but under-18s will always have priority use of the land.
Vehicular access to Moulton Playing Fields, apart from the use of the car park, is strictly controlled and restricted by Moulton Parish Council; no vehicle is allowed to enter drive on non-paved surface without the express permission of Moulton Parish Council or delegated person.
Moulton Parish Council operates CCTV within the playing fields; access to the CCTV footage and data is only made available to a member of the Police when anti-social behaviour, or a crime has been reported and releasing the footage is required to aid the investigation of this reported matter. All data is processed in accordance with Moulton Parish Council's Data Protection Policy.
Moulton Playing Fields is a key focal point of the village and it is expected that community events, run by Moulton Events, will utilise this space for the benefit of the community. During such events, ground operation and responsibility transfers to personnel of Moulton Events.
The organiser has valid liability insurance for the event.
The organiser has valid safeguarding and criminal record checks for themselves and all adults working with them, if hosting participants under 18.
The organiser agrees to yield to an under-18 during the event, if asked.
We keep this policy under regular review and we will place any updates on this web page.


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Daniel Pettersson (* 6. Mai 1992 in Eskilstuna) ist ein schwedischer Handballspieler, der seit 2016 beim SC Magdeburg auf der Position Rechtsaußen spielt.

Pettersson begann im Jahre 2001 das Handballspielen bei Eskilstuna Guif. Ab der Saison 2010/11 lief der Linkshänder mit der Herrenmannschaft von Eskilstuna Guif in der Elitserien auf. Pettersson wurde mit Eskilstuna 2011 schwedischer Vizemeister. Im Sommer 2016 schloss er sich dem deutschen Bundesligisten SC Magdeburg an. Mit Magdeburg gewann er 2021 die EHF European League und den IHF Super Globe sowie 2022 die deutsche Meisterschaft. 2022 verteidigte er mit dem SCM den Titel beim IHF Super Globe 2022.

Für die schwedische Nationalmannschaft bestritt Pettersson bisher 63 Länderspiele, in denen er 144 Tore erzielte. Zuvor gehörte Pettersson dem Kader der schwedischen Junioren-Nationalmannschaft an, mit der er 2013 die U-21-Weltmeisterschaft gewann. Bei der Weltmeisterschaft 2021 wurde er mit der A-Nationalmannschaft Vize-Weltmeister. Mit Schweden nahm er an den Olympischen Spielen in Tokio teil. Während der Europameisterschaft 2022 wurde er positiv auf COVID-19 getestet und durch Valter Chrintz ersetzt. Zum Halbfinale kehrte er in den Kader zurück, im Finale warf er zwei Tore beim Sieg über Spanien.

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Predictions for the Trump Administration as of October 2018
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Wayward Son
Re: Predictions for the Trump Administration as of October 2018
Amid issues of economic depression, world war, torture, nuclear proliferation, climate change, Zika, and resurgent hate crimes, what really makes this group of otherwise intelligent people poo their pants and howl at the moon in rage is the idea that a few bigots might imagine themselves to be "acceptable."
Because Trump is a blowhard and a bully and bullheaded, and no one know what he will do. We all have our guesses, and we may all believe we know, but he is so impulsive we really don't.
So when someone who is sympathetic to bigots has his ear, that person may suggest something to Trump and Trump might go for it. Like house-to-house searches for illegal aliens. Interment camps for muslims. Declaring illegal immigrants have no Constitutional protections because they are not citizens. Stupid, unconstitutional stuff like that. Sure, the courts will shut him down as soon as they can, but who knows how much damage he could do before he is forced to stop. And he believes all sorts of stupid stuff, like "clean coal." From what we've seen, convincing him of something that is obviously untrue (birtherism) ain't that hard.
So when he had an advisor who has no problem publishing arguments that are untrue and bigoted--how far will it be before some of those arguments reaches Trump's ear, and he acts on them?
Trump strikes me as a man who is mainly concerned with business and making money for himself. That is probably his main goal for his Presidency. But he is certainly not concerned with racial or religious equality. And I don't see it being a very big step for him to throw those American values under the bus if he can achieve his primary goals. Especially if he has some advisors who find those concerns equally irrelevant.
Pete at Home
everything that you just said is reasonably defensible, Wayward. with one howling exception. The word "because" prefacing it all. There is no causal connection between my observation and your reply. None that I can see.
Quote from: Pete at Home on November 18, 2016, 05:52:09 PM
Are you saying, Pete, that racial equality and civil rights are not on the same level as economic depression, world war, the Zika virus and climate change? (Obviously, resurgent hate crimes are related, since empowered bigots who think they are now "acceptable" are more likely to commit such crimes.) That they are so far less important that we should ignore any loss of these rights, since we have more pressing problems to address?
If that is what you are saying, then, in one sense, you are right. I would much rather lose civil rights than to have climate keep rising, or a nuclear war, or every pregnant woman give birth to a Zika baby. These are extremely serious problems that must be addressed.
But in another sense, you can't be more wrong. Because it isn't an either/or situation. We should be worried about climate change, world war, the Zika virus, economic depression AND racial equality and loss of civil rights. Of an Administration that thinks that racial equality is simply a thing that doesn't exist and it doesn't need to worry about. Because there are those who do think about it and are trying to make the situation worse, trying to make sure their group retains all the advantages and that no other group has them. And if the government doesn't oppose them, or worse, helps them, then this whole country will be worse off in many ways.
We will be more divided, more hostile to each other, and less united in addressing other concerns, like climate change, preventing world wars, and making our economy stronger.
Look back at what you said "because" to.
Loss of civil rights is not co terminous with the spectre of bigots imagining themselves "acceptable."
TheDeamon
Quote from: Wayward Son on November 21, 2016, 11:17:04 AM
Are you saying, Pete, that racial equality and civil rights are not on the same level as economic depression, world war, the Zika virus and climate change? (Obviously, resurgent hate crimes are related, since empowered bigots who think they are now "acceptable" are more likely to commit such crimes.) That they are so far less important that we should ignore any loss of these rights, since we have more pressing problems to address? ??
Just which "civil rights" are we talking about losing here in all of this?
Are we talking about the "right to buy homosexual wedding cakes" or freedom of association/religion?
Or are talking about rights that are already protected under criminal law? You know, the right to not be physically assaulted. The right not to be killed by homicidal(/&homophobic/&racist)maniacs. And so forth?
I'm pretty sure the full range of the criminal codes are going to be more stringently enforced under Trump then they were under Obama.
How about the right not to discriminated against based on race, religion, sex or sexual orientation?
How long before someone says that they don't need to rent to a person, sell to a person, or allow in a public place a person because they are of the wrong race, religion, sex or sexual orientation and there are "separate but equal" (i.e. other) facilities they can use? That the hovel down the street is just as good as the nice apartment they are renting?
While I respect a person's religious beliefs, just how different is not selling them a cake from not selling them food, or renting them a house, or allowing them in their schools?
What makes you think Jeff Sessions is going to vigorously defend those who are discriminated against because of race or religion? And if he doesn't do so, what makes you think President Trump is going to order him to do so?
Or is it more likely that they will turn a blind eye to these things, say it is the individual right of the owners to discriminate against anyone they want, and if the person doesn't like it, they go somewhere else--like Africa?
Based on what, Daemon? Because he wants the police to crack down on protesters--excuse me, "rioters," because out of 200 people walking peacefully, one or two broke the law?
Do you think he will crack down on armed assailants taking over government property, like in Oregon? Or flagrantly ignoring Federal law on land use of Federal property? Or using water cannons to break up protesters in the sub-freezing weather in North Dakota? Or would you expect him to being even more lax than Obama?
I expect him to be more "law and order" for crimes that are normally enforced (such as those against the poor and minorities), but less enforcement against those that are less enforced (such as those against the rich and those in power).
And, of course, I expect at least one or two in Trump's Administration being convicted of crimes themselves. Which, I suppose, means he will enforce crimes more than Obama, although he will be one of those vigorously defending them.
Just love arguments that misstate the facts.
"While I respect a person's religious beliefs, just how different is not selling them a cake from not selling them food, or renting them a house, or allowing them in their schools"
"Selling a cake,",yes. Custom making a cake otoh steps on Freedom of the Press and Freedom of speech as well as freedom of religion.
Would you require a jewish cake maker to write stuff on a wedding cake that celebrates the "clean" unuon of two "pure-blood Aryans"?
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So their objection to making the cake was only the lettering of the cake?
So if the cake had no writing on it, you believe that they would be in the wrong?
It's a fine line between not joining in with someone else's morality and trying to force them to adhere to yours. This is pretty close to that line.
(BTW, I myself would have argued Freedom of Association for the couple.)
But please be more explicit on how different it is from selling someone a cake with some writing on it, and refusing to sell them the cake itself, and refusing to sell them the eggs and flour to bake a cake? All of them have the same effect--to try to prevent what they consider immoral behavior based on religion.
Fenring
Quote from: Wayward Son on November 21, 2016, 03:36:47 PM
Do recall that the issue wasn't willingness to sell, but willingness to create a custom product. Within that context I don't think it would make all that much of a difference whether the Jewish baker had been asked to bake a cake for Nazis with writing or without writing. For some curious reason the specificity of the issue always gets system restored back to "won't sell a cake" whenever someone dredges up the topic again. To date I don't think I've heard of a case falling under this recent 'religious freedoms' issue where a merchant refused to sell a pre-made product to someone based on their beliefs/orientation/race.
DonaldD
Quote from: Fenring on November 21, 2016, 03:49:00 PM
For some curious reason the specificity of the issue always gets system restored back to "won't sell a cake" whenever someone dredges up the topic again. To date I don't think I've heard of a case falling under this recent 'religious freedoms' issue where a merchant refused to sell a pre-made product to someone based on their beliefs/orientation/race.
http://www.npr.org/2016/11/15/502111408/washington-state-court-case-religious-liberty-versus-anti-discrimination
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/catholic-couple-fined-13000-for-refusing-to-host-same-sex-wedding-at-their
http://www.christianpost.com/news/calif-caterer-refuses-to-do-gay-wedding-based-on-christian-beliefs-i-hope-you-appreciate-my-honesty-112281/
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/659484/Mississippi-law-refuse-service-gay-couples
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Quote from: DonaldD on November 21, 2016, 05:07:29 PM
he asked the couple's long-time florist, Arlene's Flowers, to do arrangements for their upcoming wedding.
The New York State Division of Human Rights (DHR) has ruled that the Roman Catholic owners of an Albany-area farm violated the civil rights of a lesbian couple when they declined to host the couple's same-sex "marriage" ceremony in 2012.
Kama Kaina and Mathew Rivera, a same-sex couple of four years, reportedly contacted Janet Zimmerman Catering back in November to request her services at their upcoming gay marriage ceremony in Big Bear, Calif. in June 2014.
Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/calif-caterer-refuses-to-do-gay-wedding-based-on-christian-beliefs-i-hope-you-appreciate-my-honesty-112281/#yrKagY5O6l48Me5o.99
Republican Governor Phil Bryant argued the law is targeted at preventing government interference "in the lives of the people".
It is not only shops and services who are now allowed to refuse to serve gay couples, but the law also protects business who refuse to provide goods, services or facilities for gay weddings due to religious or moral objections.
The first three are irrelevant to my point since they consist either of providing services or hosting. The issue has always been about whether a person can be compelled to provide a service; this is nothing new. WS, above, was mischaracterizing the issue as being about refusal to sell goods.
The last link, however, while not pertaining to a case (which was what my post was about) is indeed about a law that would permit refusal of service, including selling of goods. However I don't know anything about how that law is intended to be implemented, and what standards of "religious reasons" can be used as the basis for refusal. I doubt it is a carte blanche to refuse anything to anyone on any pretext; although if that is actually what it is it will probably be struck down. Again, so far I've not heard of a case of a vendor refusing to sell pre-made goods to people for this kind of reason. It's always been about requesting services from people who don't want to provide that service.
I'm always exceedingly torn by the "bake a cake" argument. As a person who likes the "rational consumer" model of economics, these things are not really supposed to persist. If Cake King refuses to bake a gay cake, then this should spur competition to capitalize on the opportunity. They open just down the street, get tons of great press, and a solid advantage (assuming that non-bigots outnumber bigots in the area). Cake King gets demolished on social media, ratings systems, and eventually sees that this was a poor economic decision. To preserve the integrity of their views, they hire a part time guy to write "Congrats Adam and Steve" on the cake and everyone wins.
Unfortunately it just doesn't seem to work out that way in real life. So then we're left with lawsuits and other mechanisms by the force of a gun to remedy the situation. I don't have a "so therefore" kind of conclusion or summary. I think it isn't easy, however. I also think that deciding who is a protected group and who is not tends to be a little problematic. If the couple seeking a wedding cake run a haberdashery and the bakers come into the shop, can they refuse service? Can you refuse service to a person wearing a Donald Trump hat? What if its a Hijab instead?
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If it's a pre-designed cake that baker has made for any other couple, then baker is stuck without an argument.
But no, it's not just writing Nor would writing of "congratulations" suffice to give baker right to say no.
Any artistic/creative effort forced on baker against his political religious or even semantic beliefs, violates freedom of speech and of the press. A baker should be able to take Jan 20 off from work, and absolutely refuse to decorate a cake with "happy birthday Adolf Hitler" regardless of said baker's religion or ethnicity. It putting pictures or symbols on the cake to communicate the same.
AI Wessex
How is that different from a meal that is cooked to order at a restaurant?
Quote from: AI Wessex on November 21, 2016, 08:30:48 PM
If you show up at a vegan/kosher/halal restaurant, order a veggie burger, then take some bacon out of your pocket and eat it at the table, you very likely may be asked to leave.
What if my special friend and I gaily walk into a local diner and we ask to split an order for a burger rare with blue cheese, jalapenos and a dab of saffron mayonnaise? If they don't have it they don't have it, but if they can make it and refuse while the het hunk at the next table orders scrambled eggs with crab meat and bechamel sauce and they run out to get the ingredients and he gets it, I think I should be able to win a lawsuit on Constitutional grounds. I know where to get that kind of burger locally, but I'm not sure everyone would have the success I would.
cherrypoptart
Oh, we've gotten to hypotheticals now?
I didn't want to bring this up because of the painful memories but what if you work legally as a male prostitute in Nevada and you only provide your services to women while refusing gay men?
Should that be illegal under federal law?
Depends on what you think the meaning and purpose of anti-discrimination laws are meant to be. Why do you think my hypothetical doesn't apply? I need to know if everyone else's rights are comparable to yours.
What if my special friend and I gaily walk into a local diner and we ask to split an order for a burger rare with blue cheese, jalapenos and a dab of saffron mayonnaise? If they don't have it they don't have it, but if they can make it and refuse while the het hunk at the next table orders scrambled eggs with crab meat and bechamel sauce and they run out to get the ingredients and he gets it, I think I should be able to win a lawsuit on Constitutional grounds.
I should hope not. Are those the parrochial Michigan stereotypes for what gay people eat? I grew up in Europe and am startled that Saffron is considered gay in your neck of the woods. Also, sharing a burger between two people isn't constitutionally protected.
Incidentally, I was banned from one bar for expressing my opinion that Barack Obama was not "the Antichrist".and not the Messiah either, and it never occurred to me that I had legal recourse.
Al, I suspect that most gay cooks in this world would agree with me that your hypo trods on a cook's artistic license in his or her own kitchen. I think that hypo is actually much weaker on the facts for your case, than the wedding cake one that we were discussing
Still, this is a real conversation and you and the rest of us are really engaging the issues with these sample facts so that's cool.
Also, proceeding on another axis of sexual deviation from "norm", does a wedding photographer get sued for refusing to photograph the collaring and stripping of a bride at a BDSM themed ceremony?
I think it's a lot easier to maintain the lines where they have been sine Heart of Atlanta and such cases, I.e. housing hotels and generic products cannot be sold in a discriminatory way, but discrimination laws cannot trample on artistic freedom, freedom of speech or of religious practice (including what is done with a religious facility or religious service.
Cherry, in theory, a Nevada legal prostitute is a contract employee and the brothels are supposed to be banned from advertising across county lines. So they are told at least that they can discriminate as they please. A legal prostitute is told that she or he has the right to discriminate by race, sex, or whatever. So the gqblts &etcs (apparently new letters have migrated to the string) are demanding legal entitlements that have never applied to racial discrimination.
Pete, if my hypothetical is (intentionally) absurd, how is it different from the cake scenario? Maybe the restaurant would have run out to get saffron if they didn't know I was gay, as they would be willing to go get nutmeg for the bechamel sauce for the guy groping his girlfriend at the next table.
So the gqblts &etcs (apparently new letters have migrated to the string) are demanding legal entitlements that have never applied to racial discrimination.
Evidently, near as I can tell, it is "LGBTQI+" now, but that was last week according to someone else, and I don't know how current he was on their lingo. (Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Trangendered/Queer/Intersexed/"and others")
I think a Wedding Photographer has already been subjected to a legal challenge after refusing to photograph a Gay Wedding, citing "artistic expression" as well as freedom of religion. Since the photographer did not believe in, or support gay marriage on religious grounds. The photographer felt, "as an Artist" that (s)he would "be unable to provide satisfactory (artistic) service" and thus declined.
The gay couple filed suit.
I guess if I was the photographer I would have reiterated the comment about not be enamored with the shoot, get them to sign a document acknowledging such, and then created one of the most epicly bad wedding photo sets ever.... And make sure it's done in a subtle enough way they can't prove in court that it was malicious.
Same question as my noble predecessor AI Wessex asked, chefs are artists of a different sort, but not much different from a pastry/cake chef. Can they refuse to serve a gay customer if s/he requests to leave the mushrooms out of the risotto? Note this is different from a pharmacist refusing to sell a commodity to a customer, which should never be allowed to happen. Odd that recent court tests rule in favor of the pharmacist and against the pastry chef.
While cooking may be an "art" cooking a previously set menu is not "art" or at least, it isn't "original art." Even if the recipe in question was their own creation. While the Chef may have a Freedom of Association/Religion claim they could assert, as far as their service is concerned, it revolves around their ability to perform a specified task in accordance with specified instructions.
Of course, that being said, there is cooking the food, and then there is presenting the food. Much in line with the photographer above, and why I'd personally not push to get a service provider to render services they've told me they don't want to provide me. After all, taking pictures is just point and shoot right? Well, there is a bit of difference between a professional photo and an amateur one, using the right exposure settings(with the right equipment), getting ideal focal lengths for what is being pictured, creating or otherwise working with existing lighting conditions, "framing the picture" and so on. Any one of those things, when just a little bit off, can turn a great picture into just a good one(or "lucking into" the reverse in the case of a amateur getting a great photo instead of just a good one).
So the Chef could perfectly select the ingredients, and perfectly cook the foods, but when it comes time to present the finished product, he half-asses the presentation, or deliberately screws with it. So while the food may otherwise be cooked to perfection, it looks like complete s___. Which is where a LOT of the artistry of cooking happens, but if you've told them that their personal views as an artist don't matter, well....
But this also goes back their claim as both professionals and artists, they probably take great pride in their work, and they don't to present anybody with what they think would be a sub-par product. So when they say they don't think they'd be able to perform to their usual standard on a given project or task, it's probably a good idea to heed the warning and let them reject the work.
Which takes us back to the bakery, cooking a cake doesn't take a lot of artistry(robots can, and now do, often bake cakes), but decorating it with original work does involve a human, and "Artistic" touch. If you want a cake, by all means buy a cake. If you want original work done, once again, you probably should avoid the "artist" who is warning you that they "don't think they'd be able to perform to the usual standard" in regards to meeting your request.
Heck I have a sister that used to decorate cakes for a grocery store at one point, its a skill she retains decades later and still uses on occasion. The skill isn't THAT rare, every grocery store in the country probably trains 1 to 6 people a year in how to do so. She also often does skip the "bake the cake" step by opting to get one from a store, and then providing the customization herself.
The internet is a wonderful thing these days, finding a cake decorator, rather than someone to bake the cake and decorate it, is probably far easier today than any time in history. So yes, on the bakery, the breakdown becomes: Yes, they have the right to refuse to decorate a cake in certain specified ways. No, they do not have right to simply refuse to sell a cake on any grounds other than inability of the customer to pay for it, or other more specific causes that are widely accepted reasons for refusing service. (No shirt, no shoes, no service; walking in while waving a gun around, etc)
I can't see how "cooking" is different from baking. Both use recipes and add individual touches. I've been to cake shops and been shown a gallery of cake sizes and shapes, as well as to restaurants and had the waiter describe the specials of the day. Either both are art or neither is. Hold the mushrooms and the jimmies, please.
Quote from: Kasandra on November 24, 2016, 02:38:24 PM
There are chef's out there that are extremely particular about how, and what they'll prepare. They WILL take the suggestion cook to things a certain (different) way as a personal insult to them, or an insult to the food, if not both. The most immediate example would be going to 5 star chef, ordering an extremely high tier of steak, and asking them to cook it until its "well done." Best case, if you're there to see it, they're probably going to grimace, worst case you're going to get yelled at and possibly have things thrown at you or even get thrown out.
There is cooking, and then there is cooking, and do not confuse the two. Kind of like there are cars, and then there are cars. If you can't tell the difference between a Ford Pinto and an Ashton Martin DB11, there's not much that can be done for you.
I think what Al...sorry, Kasandra (with one S) is getting at is "where is the line" dividing services offered from goods sold. Of course, I'm sure this line of reasoning is meant to demonstrate that since the line may be undefined at present that therefore there should be no line and therefore no religious grounds to decline to offer services.
Putting aside that implied line, I do think some decisions would have to be made regarding what is a 'special' or 'custom' service versus what is the rendering of a good. Buying frozen food at a grocery store may require the cashier to render the 'service' of cashing out the order, and yet we are hopefully not discussing the case of whether a cashier should be able to refuse to cash out an order for someone based on their sexual orientation. Almost all retail sales require some sort of 'service' in order to process the order, so I think we can discount all of these that involve buying standard products. The word "standard" is, I think, the important qualifier here, as certain businesses, such as restaurants, do offer an array of standard products; i.e. the menu. It is not even debatable that these products are offered - also as standard - with certain variations when possible. For instance, if someone allergic to peppers orders their pasta sans peppers, it is not controversial that it will be almost automatic that the chef will comply. The exceptional case would be one where a chef will not comply with customer requests of this type, and such cases almost should be the ones where a blanket rule is stated, such as we will sometimes see on a menu in the form of "no substitutions". So yes, a restaurant making a dish without one of the ingredients based on customer request is not a 'custom' or 'special' service, but is a standard good offered. It's more or less the equivalent of taking in your dry cleaning and asking them not to use bleach on a white shirt. It's a specification, but not a custom service.
The different case could be where a person goes into a restaurant and tries to order something not on the menu, knowing it's within the technical capability of the chef. In such a case the request can be honored or rejected, and this type of situation I'd say may be more similar to a baker being asked to bake a custom cake. It's imperfect, since the restaurant isn't in the business of offering dishes made up by the customers, but still it's the one situation in a restaurant where I could see it being a special service.
Rather than worry about who believes what in order to define what can and can't be refused, would it not merely be simpler to suggest that anyone can refuse special services for any reason? Even if this means including bad reasons in there (racism, sexism, etc.) is that perhaps not preferable to instituting a type of slavery where a customer can command a person to do a thing and they must do it?
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That misses the point: If there is a line, show it. If there's no line, don't arbitrarily draw one separating things based on a personal preference.
Again, that misses the point: Does the bakery sell a cake with writing on it that says "Congratulations, Tom and Harry!"? Does the baker buy the cake and keep in the storeroom until someone comes along to order it? I can analogize every step in the cake baking process with a chef cooking a meal to order. They both start with a recipe and ingredients and the person who orders asks for personalized or special touches. If a baker can discriminate because of sexual orientation, so can a chef. OTOH, someone providing a service would correspond more to the waiter or order taker at the bakery. You shouldn't expect them to impose their own religious or moral view on both the company/store they work for and the customer. The same goes for a pharmacist or a county clerk in Kentucky or elsewhere.
OTOH, someone providing a service would correspond more to the waiter or order taker at the bakery. You shouldn't expect them to impose their own religious or moral view on both the company/store they work for and the customer. The same goes for a pharmacist or a county clerk in Kentucky or elsewhere.
Well I did make the distinction between a standard service and a custom one. A waiter takes all orders; that's his job. If a baker only makes standard products (like all the loaves, desserts, etc. you see in a typical bakery) then there's no issue. But if part or all of the baker's business involves making custom products, then yes, I do think that's different from other kinds of services.
That being said I agree with you that someone providing an incidental service (such as a waiter, cashier, clerk, etc.) should have no business imposing their personal beliefs on a customer unless they are merely enforcing a rule passed down by the establishment. If the owner is also the waiter then that changes things somewhat, but even so that merely reverts the conversation back to whether a standard or custom service is being offered.
Again, that misses the point: Does the bakery sell a cake with writing on it that says "Congratulations, Tom and Harry!"?
The line is Assent, Kasandra. I cannot force my religion on you, not can you use antidiscrimination law to humiliate and impoverish people of a religion you dispose, just because they won't bow to your tin god.
If what they call marriage is sacred, then assenting to another definition of marriage may blaspheme their religion. Consider the bureaucrat who refused to personally sign a same sex marriage certificate, but approved a subordinate to validate it. What's the problem here? There's no fundamental right to force people to force a Jewish food critic to approve a bacon cheeseburger. These lawsuits are vindictive maliciousand opportunistic. In most cases the plaintiffs never genuinely wanted the service from that individual. Please. You really think there were no gay friendly photographers in town?
The Heart of Atlanta case responded to a fact set where lack Americans slept in cars with their kids while traveling because no inn would take them.
Well said and agreed, provided more clarification of special services. Legal prostitution, where it exists, should work that way. I think a fertility medicine should work the same way. No one should be forced against his or her will to help another make babies. The alternative is court-ordered rape like in Pakistan.
There is much to disagree with in every sentence.
Thus (the bolded part), any service can be denied to anyone for any reason, because somewhere somebody will be offended or their religion blasphemed by almost anything you can think of.
The bureaucrat in Kentucky refused to let anyone in her office sign the marriage license, even though she was a public servant. By that token the police don't have to help stop a Muslim from being mugged.
The food critic isn't hired by the restaurant, but chooses where to eat. If s/he works for a newspaper it's between them to decide what the critic's territory includes.
What about the cases where the plaintiffs genuinely did want the service? If gay people should look for gay-friendly photographers, should black people look for black-friendly restaurants?
Quote from: Kasandra on November 27, 2016, 08:39:38 AM
You mean they don't already tend towards doing this? Granted, it's something of a learned trait, but it certainly is a thing that is out there. Or else I'm just imagining that there has been an openly "Gay Bar" operating in my overwhelmingly Mormon hometown since the late 1990's.
Quote from: TheDeamon on November 27, 2016, 08:45:43 AM
Do they do that because they won't be served at other bars, or is it because that's where their friends tend to hang out? I have a favorite bar that I didn't pick because I wasn't welcome elsewhere.
I think it's a little bit of everything honestly. People go and do things to "destress" which means they'll preferentially go to "safe spaces" for lack of a better term(and ignoring other more recent usages) to do so. Which means Gays will tend to congregate at venues they KNOW as being "Gay Friendly" over others that may be ambiguous at best, or overtly hostile at worst. This also ignores the nature and "quality" of the patrons that a particular venue attracts.
While not one for the bar scene myself(I don't drink), I understand the local "gay bar" back home had a LOT of straight customers as well, as they much preferred "the atmosphere" there over the other more limited local options. (Being an overwhelmingly Mormon community, the Bar scene is rather limited, as most of the population doesn't drink)
That being said, my time in the Navy left me rather jaded on this front, I went in with rather egalitarian ideas about race relations. Then I met reality. People tend to congregate around that which they are familiar and comfortable with. Which means they tend to congregate around people with comparable backgrounds to their own.
And sadly, for most minority groups, that means that skin color is a pretty significant indicator as to "what is your background" so pick a particular ethnic group that any kind of substantial number on board ship(more than 3 or 4), and you'd find that people in that ethnic group would tend to spend most of their time "hanging out" with members of their own ethnicity.
The only real exception to that was the whites, but I think that has a lot to do with the rather wide ranging variability in the backgrounds to be found among White Americans in particular. The other thing in play there is likely to be some of the social engineering that has been going on since the 1960's in terms of drilling it into the minds of white people in particular, that they need to be more open and accepting of people with different skin colors and cultural backgrounds. Reverse racism is a thing, I've experienced it personally, luckily not in a professional context for me. I've seen other racial minorities discriminate against other racial minorities, and the list goes on and on.
It all ultimately boils down to tribalism(/factionalism) in one form or another, whatever the basis of "tribal(faction) identification" may be.
The Gays go to "Gay Bars" because they're known to be reasonably safe for them, and they know they'll find people there who likely have comparable backgrounds to their own, or are otherwise likely to be sympathetic to their situation. (More/better shoulders to cry on while drunk) So in many areas it has nothing to do with the service (not) being offered to them in those venues, it has to do with other "intangibles" instead. Likewise for minorities preferring their respective "ethnic" venues over the ones that "the White People" are going to.
The homophobes and the racists/bigots obviously provide their own "special" kind of negative reinforcement of their preference towards staying away from the standard "(straight/) white" venues, and that is something that does need further curtailment, particularly when it's happening against the wishes of the business owner/management. But even absent such abuses, the natural tendency is going to be for "like to find like" and for them to build their own little communities around whatever their major focus happens to be, be it on racial lines, sexual preferences, other special (medical) circumstances, religious reasons, or simply political preferences. (I recently had a (conservative) family member move to Texas to escape the "liberal madness" in California after getting a job offer there that made the move worthwhile... Of course they moved to Austin, which probably isn't an improvement for them, but anyhow)
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I think it's a little bit of everything honestly.
Most likely (and your comments are good), but this discussion is about needing to go elsewhere because service was refused.
Straw man or you're disagreeing before you have thought it through. You have an absolute right to blaspheme my religion. I simply ask you to not use color of law to try to coerce me to blaspheme my own religion, absent national security reasons. No problem making persons who cross the border piss on statues of Baghdadi and Khomeini, since those who regard those monsters as holy men pose in imminent physical threat to national security. Otoh notices are saved by your insistence that I piss on Christ.
^^^ OYOH NO LIVES are saved by ....
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The Gays go to "Gay Bars" because they're known to be reasonably safe for them
Gosh, no. The most dangerous homophobes target folks near or in gay bars.
The biggest gay bars provide a different culture partly descended from the 1920s speakeasy culture. So straight people attracted to that culture hang out there too. When I went to my (gay) boss' birthday party. a greater number of female prostitutes solicited me than ever did in any other Vegas dance establishment. I infer from that that there a lot of straight guys that go there.
On the other side of the Spectrum are hookup bars with obvious names like "Cruising" and "The Back Door". (Actual names of two places near my old house in Vegas.). One of my clients worked at TBD, and I take it's not a place that women or straight men ever frequent, but there's anti gay violence in the immediate area.
Well, safe being a relative thing. They can vent their spleen within about their homosexual "relationship issues" within that venue without concern about reprisal from the listener for being gay. Now once they leave the bar, the non-patrons are a concern.
I honestly think the "gay bar" thing is more cultural in nature than refused service. The bartender and wait staff likely doesn't care. The patrons may be another matter however. But I think that's a near universal if you find your way into the right(wrong) bar.
I also think outright refused services is comparatively rare(quality of service is another matter), or many of the (test) cases that have been floated wouldn't be the ones they'd send to court first. Housing discrimination and employment discrimination are probably much more common(but again still fairly rare), all things considered, and those come with their own set of perils.
Another thing I remember is that no male ever hit on me in a gay bar, in contrast to all the times guys hit on me in non gay venues. I can only conclude that gay males act or dress differently in such environments, though I don't know what it was. Or maybe gaydar just works better there. LoL.
Another tidbit ... You might be surprised at the number of out of the closet gays don't even know the Leftspeak "LGBT" acronym.
No, nor should gays have to find gay friendly restaurants. No more than a bigoted racist photographer have to commemorate a so called "mixed race" wedding. Do you really not recognise the artistic freedom difference between a wedding photographer and a Restaurant? An artist should be able to choose her subject matter, otherwise the first Amendment is trashed.
While Kasandra sounds familiar, I am confused. I'm hearing Marnie's sociopolitics but Kate's poise and dignity.
The bureaucrat in Kentucky refused to let anyone in her office sign the marriage license, even though she was a public servant.
Don't know that case but agreed that's wrong.
In the case I heard, she was an elected official, not a bureaucrat, and she was jailed even though she offered to let someone else sign the documents.
An elected local official making a merely nominal token rejection to a new Supreme Court ruling, is federalism working as designed. You don't have a right to silence people or force them to bow to the new tin god in town.
Bureaucrats can be elected to fill a slot in a government organization. She is a functionary, and not even a very glorified one.
Election implies representation, and unless you are from Kentucky, you have no stake nor say in whether her actions represented the feelings of constituents. Your analysis assumes totalitarian efficiency and fails to appreciate that the inefficient safety valves of a representative federalist system keep a large country from blowing apart without the mind numbing might makes right nationalism of Russia or the systematic fact suppression of the People's Republic of China. For Frack sake let it go. As Mr Burns said, "let the fools have their tar tar sauce.". Left washed suppression of dissent in respectable places is what gave us Trump and the Apt Right. And as someone recently said, things are going to get worse before they get better.
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When I started work as an IT professional I remember chasing my tail quite frequently. I would click and click until I was blue in the face. When that didn't work I would venture out into the jungle that was internet. Of course these trips were perilous and infrequently yielded results worth the effort. The early days of internet were not exactly known for their efficient search engines. Learning how to travel down the road of effective troubleshooting can be a journey in and of itself. So that brings us back to the old adage, "Use the right tool for the right job." One of these tools I have come to love is Iometer. On initial download and install it appears confusing and clunky to the eager user, but with the right guide this can be a trip of wonderment and intrigue.
The latest release of Iometer can be downloaded from iometer.org. Version 2006.07.27 is the latest non-beta release. A newer beta release can be obtained from sourceforge.net. If you want to download the manual, pop some popcorn and kick off your finest Mozart tunes. It's a tad lengthy and a bit dry but very informative. Once you get Iometer installed on your system, fire it up. You will notice a DOS command window spawning separately. Note: If you are running Windows Vista or Windows 7 be aware you will be required to run Iometer as "Administrator". The background window is the Dynamo process executed independent of the Iometer GUI process.
Iometer is the controlling program. Using Iometer's graphical user interface, you configure the workload, set operating parameters, and start and stop tests. Iometer tells Dynamo what to do, collects the resulting data, and summarizes the results in output files. Only one copy of Iometer should be running at a time; it is typically run on the server machine.
Dynamo is the workload generator. It has no user interface. At Iometer's command, Dynamo performs I/O operations and records performance information, then returns the data to Iometer. There can be more than one copy of Dynamo running at a time; typically one copy runs on the server machine and one additional copy runs on each client machine.
When Iometer starts up you should see the "Topology" panel on the left listing your host as a manager. Iometer should automatically create a worker (thread) for every CPU (core) on your system. If for some reason it fails to create any workers under the manager, make sure you started Iometer as "Administrator". Otherwise create a worker manually by selecting your manager (hostname), and clicking on the "Start a new disk worker…" icon. For our walkthough we will only be testing against one worker. Select your newly created or preexisting worker and proceed to the next step.
Select the physical disk where you wish to perform the IO testing. You will notice a red line striking through the disk icon. This indicates a missing test file, so Iometer will automatically create the file on first run. Consider the amount of RAM in use on your system. It is recommended you create the largest possible file for testing to avoid caching your Iometer test file in RAM. I try to keep my memory at 10% of the Iometer test file. I have 8GB of RAM so I would create an 80GB file. To accomplish this you multiply 80 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 \ 512. That gives us 167,772,160 sectors, or 80GB. One sector is 512 K. The full calculation is 80GB * 1024 = 81,920 MB * 1024 = 83,886,080 KB * 1024 = 85,899,345,920K / 512 K = 167,772,160 sectors. I know, I'm over-complicating it. Just multiply the size of the test file (in GB) * 2,097,152 to get the number of sectors for Iometer. Start "# of Outstanding I/Os" at 1 for now.
Here you assign a series of targeted tests that get executed in sequential order under the "Assigned Access Specifications" panel. You have quite a bit of freedom and flexibility here to pull from preexisting IO scenarios or define your own custom access pattern. For this lesson we will just assign the "4K; 100% Read; 0% Random" specification by selecting it and clicking the "Add" button. This scenario is self-explanatory, and is generally useful for generating a tremendous amount of IO since your read pattern is optimal and the blocks are small.
Moving along, we arrive at the "Results Display" tab. The purpose of this tab is to display your test results real-time once the test is executed. I leave the radio button for "Results Since" set to "Start of Test" as it averages the results as they roll in. I set "Update Frequency" to 2 or 3 seconds. Be careful about setting it too low as it is possible to affect the test negatively if it is borrowing CPU cycles to keep Iometer updated. While running you will see activity in the "Display" panel at the frequency you set. The three most important indicators are "Total I/Os per Second", "Total MBs per Second", and "Average I/O Response Time (ms)". Total I/Os indicate the current number of operations occurring against your storage target. MBs per Second is a function of <I/Os> * <block size>. This indicates the amount of data your storage target is reading per second. One thing is for certain, that you don't want to see any errors. You have another serious issue if that is what you are seeing.
The "Test Description" is used as an identifier in the output report if you select that option. "Run Time" is something you can play with. There are no strict rules regulating this setting. Generally speaking, the longer you run your test the more accurate your results. You system is expected to hicup, slow start, incur external requests and things of that sort. So extending your test a bit will level those bumps out. If it is a production test run it for 20 – 60 minutes. "Ramp Up Time" is a useful setting as it allows the disks to spin up and level out the internal cache for a more consistent test result. Set this between 10 seconds and 1 minute. "Record Results" is used when you would like to produce a test report following the test. Set it to "None" if you only wish to view the real-time results. You can accept the defaults for "Number of Workers to Spawn Automatically". "Cycling Options" gives one the choice to increment Workers, Targets, and Outstanding I/Os while testing. This is useful in situations where you are uncertain how multiple CPU threads, multiple storage targets, and queue depth effect outcome. I encourage you to experiment with these parameters, especially the Outstanding I/Os (Queue Depth). Sometimes this is OS dependent and other times it is hardware related. Remember you can set the "Outstanding I/Os" under the "Disk Targets" tab. For this lesson we are going to take the default.
Moving back to the "Results Display" tab, ensure you are not running any unnecessary applications or background jobs that may be consuming disk I/O. If you are running Windows Vista/7 you can pull up the "Resource Manager" (Task Manager -> Performance Tab -> Resource Monitor button) and view disk activity to validate the timing of your test run. Now that everything is ready, click the Green Flag button at the top to start the test. Following the Ramp Up time (indicated in the status bar) you will begin to see disk activity. Enjoy!
Thanks so much for this guide/tutorial! It was a great introduction and kept on a good level a well. Kudos!
thanks much on this video, helped me to get an idea on how this tool works and how to use it. and i see only 4 videos on IOmeter, do you also have more videos, if so can you please post them to me. like testing controller, etc.
Thank you…just wondering if you are testing a RAW disk ie with no file system, do you still need to specify the maximum sector size ?
I believe the tool was originally designed to test raw disks, but NOT in its current implementation. The idea is to create a "disk" by specifying cylinders. Iometer actually creates a file in the root partition of the disk you select. So if you select your C: drive and tell it 1024 cylinders it will create the file c:\iobw.tst as a 512k file. Of course that is too small to test with so like in my article I recommend a significantly larger test size than the memory in your box.
DO you tell me how to run iometer using command line.
IOMeter on pc says that runs at 18 MBPS (total), DiskMark64 at 260 MB/s read 180 MB/s write ….


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