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Why this current spate of crazy airline stories? Airline travel was already bad enough, but currently it’s been an avalanche. Possibly it’s just because the one “dragging” incident sparked so much outrage that any additional bad news reignites the rage. Just the other day, a musician was assaulted by a ground staffer over a violin in another absurdity.

All these affronts are mostly concentrated within the three scummiest airlines, too, United Airlines, American Airlines and Delta.

Dao dragged down aisle

When something really does hit the fan at a corporation, particularly when the CEO or other high official is shamed or embarrassed, they clean house immediately. The same day, processes change, people are fired, staffers are told in no uncertain terms to clean up their act… None of this happened at United, and the staffers instead became more incompetent, petty and authoritarian.

Quick & Dirty Summary

  • The Dr. Dao/United Airlines incident
  • Government & the airlines
  • Explanation & suggested measures

We know it’s a no-risk game for United to abuse its clients, because its routes are guaranteed, and it can… here we go again… count on bailouts.

Like car companies disdainful and disrespectful of their customers, knowing they are protected oligopolies that can count on a bailout, the same pattern is seen again with these airline Bozos.

You know, there comes a time for every company, when it has to look at its priorities and decide: Is it in the airline business? Or, is it in the transportation business? Or, is it in the assault and battery business?

The Doctor Dao incident on United Airlines (UA), on Sunday, April 9, 2017, when UA staff called security to remove a passenger from his seat to make space for dead-heading crew, stinks to high heaven.

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The incident reeks of lies and sketchy events, but clown-wrapped in sensationalism. There are some issues that beg to be answered.

  1. Why would Dao’s lawyer ever accept Muñoz’ apology, as he did, at a press conference soon after the event?

  2. How did the security crew get away with blatant lies contradicted by the video evidence?

  3. Why were obvious omissions in the “official reports” of airport security tolerated?

  4. The lawyer for Dao framed this almost as a crusade for justice for all travelers, yet didn’t follow through — why not?

It’s not in the public interest for society to allow people to “settle.” I don’t know how it is even lawful, (and it may not be). With a bit of money can anyone throw around a bribe, called a “settlement,” and get off the hook? Can a corporation murder someone, but with a contrite apology and a big payout, so the family will “understand” and drop any prosecution?

In fact, the law has already tackled and addressed such questions, and in fact we’ve established “law” so it will step in to resist just this sort of thing as being against public interest, for obvious reasons.

So, time for a decent analysis of this odd Dao incident, that was resolved out of court.

Everyone was surprised when the case was settled so soon, that UA didn’t want to drag it out, heh-heh.

What a bizarre scene. No one, even the incompetent “captain” intervened, even when airport thugs were dragging a stunned Dao down the aisle. That no passenger intervened speaks ill of the passengers as well. In an ideal world, one of them should have citizen’s arrested the captain for gross dereliction of duty.

Muñoz, UA’s chief executive, should be fired, of course, and every employee down the line, plus the Chicago thugs, and their bosses. The thugs should be charged for aggravated assault and terrorism.

At least, they should, if the Dao story actually is reality.

Any sensible organization would purge Muñoz, who comes off as an obtuse, vapid, buffoon. But not UA — he’s probably just the type they want in there, the sociopathic type.

A point about Muñoz and the general state of CEOs these days: They want idiots, thugs and scumbags in upper management. Look at recent examples of CEOs — some of them even ruin the company and march out with staggering payouts in the hundreds of millions! Stupid people are generally more brutal, or more easily swayed in that direction. And they are tasked with a brutal job: dehumanizing and brutalizing customers and staff alike. Who else but a sociopath or psychopath are you going to want in charge if you’re going to purge many employees, or introduce rotten policies?

As government and big business becomes ever more joined at the hip, they want the public to be conditioned to obey. It’s simple. We don’t have to agonize over, “how can people and companies act like that?” while they pick our pockets and treat us like dirt.

Amusingly, if you check out the comments to blog reports of the UA incident, there are endless, absurd justifications for UA, even after United admitted guilt, and even now, after they’ve settled. These are the comment trolls and shills, mostly hired by the corporation. They seek, not so much to support the airline (partly because any dummies still flying UA are so numb to reality, nothing will faze them), but to justify brutalization and terrorism by big corporations and big government and twist logic to make the corps and government look always in the right.

It’s beyond tiresome to see these clucks and cucks, shills and lawyers, jabbering about how UA “had the right to remove Dao.” No. UA started a controversy — a bidding war, if you will, when it started an auction, offering compensation, to find “volunteers” to vacate their seats. If Dao got confused on when the bargaining ended, that’s hardly his fault… If he had, “just gotten off the plane,” you can bet his compensation would be laughable or non-existent. These airlines are scum. The swine are decreasing your in-cabin space (note that this occurred right around the time that cramped seating was discovered to cause vein thrombosis — blood clots in peoples’ legs). They’re revealing their hand, too, by having their paid shill flunkies go over the top on their criticism of Dao — and even others that were mistreated and brutalized. Like another man who came forward to tell how, they kicked him out of his first-class seat for someone “more important.” The passenger was threatened with handcuffs if he didn’t leave his seat for a “VIP” (and the plane wasn’t even overbooked).

(Presumably, anyone can hire Internet trolls, including people with financial interest in a corporation, or governments. If you stood to lose a lot of money in stock value, you would consider using them to hopefully prop up the company, too.)

Early June, saw a new report that a crazed UA attendant tried to rip a concert violinist’s violin away from her when she was trying to carry it on board (as sanctioned by airline regulations).

Now what are people not seeing? Any changes from those “bastiches.” Right after the Dao incident, there were yet more abuses that should have been easily handled before escalation. The woman with a stroller wrenched from her hand by a mincing little brute, the big bunny they froze to death(?!), and many others. And there were nonsense things with other airlines, too, arbitrarily kicking people off, or ignoring misconduct that affected other passengers.

Some of the many UA offenses:

  • facing a $435,000 FAA fine for flying a potentially unsafe plane 23 times
  • telling a passenger to “pee in a cup,” when they wouldn’t let her use the lavatory
  • deliberately breaking a musician’s checked guitar — he even wrote a song about it, United Breaks Guitars, that got quite a following
  • locking a baggage handler for an hour and a half flight in the plane’s belly
  • separating families and seating young children far from their parents
  • being unaware of fuel spills, having to turn back when informed of such by a passenger who saw fuel spilling from a wing
  • having psycho pilots like the one that went nuts on the plane, lecturing passengers in a psycho rant after showing up, out of uniform, in street clothes
  • shoving a 71-year-old man on his ass, for protesting abuses UA staff were pulling on him
  • making a disabled man crawl up the jetway off the plane — guess they didn’t want Delta, that did the same thing five years before, to show them up!

One of those is a strike against the manufacturers: they’ve been building planes for 100 years, but they can’t put a sensor in the overflow tube to inform of fuel expulsions?

And what about the ground crew — they can’t calculate the proper amount of fuel to add for the ambient temperature to avoid fuel spills? It’s laughable.

The entire staff of UA needs purged. Their institutionalized, ingrained behavior is not going to change.

The comment trolls don’t actually have to troll in support of the airline, though: It doesn’t matter. UA and AA are basically part of the government. There are guaranteed profits, and if they go under, they’ll be treated to a big “bailout.”

Part of the “communization” of the West involves extensive double-speak. Ever since they started this talk about how businesses act like “teams,” they’ve become ever less like “teams,” and infinitely more dictatorial, handing down decrees “from above.” When they say that no staffer on the plane is able to exercise judgment or common sense, that’s true. The abuse has been mandated from above.

A note: Muñoz did not actually apologize, and still hasn’t, despite his so-called “public apology.” He first accused and slandered Dr. Dao; second, praised his own scummy “team;” then, finally, about-faced, pandering to the media and public with a mealy mouthed mea culpa, in hopes of defusing a bad scene. That UA still has bad-behaving employees, and no one was fired, shows it’s the same environment there as ever.

The word “apologize” needs to be abolished. No one seems to understand it. An apology should be genuine contriteness, involving corresponding action, designed to counter any possible repeat of the situation, and to mitigate harm. What we today call “apology,” is a child’s remedy, and has no place in an adult world.

I would say that the actions on both sides ring as odd. There’s no reason Demetrio (Dao’s lawyer) should’ve accepted Muñoz’ “apology” on Dao’s behalf.

Nor do I know why Muñoz “apologized” at all. He might as well have played out his hand, stuck to his guns, and kept blaming the victim, because the damage was already done. Then, after a “full investigation,” done his about-face and blamed the plane crew for not informing him of the facts, then, ideally, fired all the staff, down the line, pilot and flight staff and crew, and then said, “Of course, in light of this serious matter, United and I are assuming full responsibility…” You see how much easier that would have gone? Even just a few select firings or demotions may have done the trick.

Firing the UA plane crew would save face for the company, even if it looked like Muñoz was covering his ass, which he would be, but at least he would have had plausible deniability. It would be a sensible tactic to at least help to recover from the problem. His failure in that respect indicates Muñoz’ incompetence.

But the failure makes you wonder: Is it possible to be that stupid? For a CEO of a major global company??? It’s something that calls the whole incident into question.

Whatever the truth, we do know that, nothing has changed at that hell-hole.

I’ve seen estimates ranging from a mere five or six figures, by web punters, to more serious estimates, from about $1 million up to $140 million. One site purports to be more analytical, and claims a settlement in the range of $5-15 million. I was thinking of an amount of $40-50 million, but even the $140 million claim seems possible. Remember, the lawyers would take 30-40%, and taxes would take, maybe 40% on the taxable portion.

(Tax liability will be determined by the wording of the settlement. Compensatory damages — his medical care and suffering — are not generally taxable. Punitive/exemplary damages generally are taxable.)

Out of curiosity, we can still approximate his settlement in a few ways:

  1. Start by looking at his expenses from the assault, add any losses he may have incurred, plus add anticipated “compensatory damages” that they would seek in a trial, which were going to factor into the consideration of a settlement whether or not they did proceed to court.

    On the plantiff’s side, they’ll say that all of Dao’s claimed injuries could easily cost a million a year for life, for treatment. Then they’ll pull out the actuarial charts, and say, well, average life expectancy in the U.S. is 79 years, but Dao took a hell of a beating and survived — so he seems in pretty good health — give him 25 years. He’s possibly lost his ability to practice medicine due to the trauma, or perhaps due to the fact his patients might shy away after the public spectacle. Add another 10 million for ten years’ potential lost earnings. That’s thirty-five million. Now add the fact that he was assaulted, battered and terrorized. (And that’s certainly true. What the Chicago “authority” did was pure terrorism.) There’s a federal law regarding “terroristic threats.” Say five million tacked on for that.

    For punitive damages, you might see mention of triple the compensatory damages, something Dao’s lawyer is going to speculate on, with the UA attorneys. That brings us up to $160 million, a number they might forward just to put a chill into the suits at UA!

    This would be a possible starting point, that UA would cautiously balk at. Still, even if they cut to a quarter of that, we’re well into eight figures, and this doesn’t even account for the humiliation of the dragging and so forth. The defense would have their numbers to counter with — relatively low numbers — but they’d have to be careful, fearing the lawyer’s successful reputation and the fact that the public opinion was generally so strongly against UA. So I think they’d counter around $10 million.

  2. We can look at past settlements of similar cases for a ballpark figure. Of course, nothing prior has garnered this type of publicity, so that’s a tough one.

    With no obvious similar cases to Dr. Dao’s, it’s tough to use this method, but if Dao is the poker player they say he is, you know he held out for a good payday. Here’s the thing: Things like concussion are tricky — who’s to know what their effect may be? Even if Dao is exaggerating his injury claims, remember, he was dropped onto that armrest and the floor; again, there’s no way to assess the effects from that, which may not surface until later, which is why he’d be foolish to settle for less than $10 million.

    Ashley Alford got $95 million from Aaron’s Rents Inc. in a 2008 sexual harassment suit against a St. Louis Aaron’s, so there’s precedent for large payouts — and that’s quite a payout at almost nine figures! But then, after appeals and such, her award was reduced to $6 million! Still, not chicken feed, but it shows why people like to settle out of court and avoid such travails as having your hard-won settlement knocked out from under you.

  3. We can wait, then look at UA’s financial statements for the period, when released, then do some deduction from that. In the end, the settlement can’t stay secret. UA (actually, United-Continental if you want to get technical), is publicly listed, so it’s going to come out in the financials, if only indirectly. At least a forensic accountant would be able to come up with something.

  4. We can use general approximation: Six figures is too low. The Internet comment damage control squad is out there saying he may have gotten up to a million. Ha! Even seven figures, in the millions, is also too low, judging from the speed with the settlement was reached and because, to repeat, Dao can’t know if future health issues will crop up, even if he “oversold” his injuries. Now, nine figures would buy a new plane or planes — new Airbuses list from about 70 million to 415 million USD. Put it this way: you can see why nine figures is unlikely. So, again, an eight figures settlement seems the most probable.

No doubt, the amount that UA saves in legal fees for not having to defend this case will have been considered when arriving at an amount. According to one survey and study, average total outside litigation cost per major company was nearly $115 million in 2008! Got to imagine a high-profile case like Dao’s would double that figure if they went to court.

With all of the praise the lawyer heaped on UA, we know he has to kiss its arse as part of settlement, and he was seemingly so pleased to do so, you know it’s a good haul he brought in. Probably in the neighborhood of $10-$40 million.

  1. There is a video of Muñoz, wearing a yellow safety vest, lecturing staff, in a clip accompanying a news report. Though most staff are trying to be attentive, one of the employees in the background rolls his eyes and looks supremely bored. You have to wonder at the arrogance for any CEO, to come in from a different industry and start giving lectures? How much worse when this blathering boob comes to town to “share his knowledge?” But it fits with the intimidation tactic to assert, “who’s the boss.” In a real company, interested in constant improvement, each employee of the company would lecture him, one a day, sharing his or her experiences and suggestions. In this system, it would never realistically happen.

  2. What hypocritical nonsense: This talk of “congressional oversight of the airlines,” when it contributed to the problem, in most cases creating it, such as with the TSA it established, and the “enhanced powers” it “granted” to airline personnel. What do the statistics show? 77% of U.S. domestic air routes are a monopoly, no competition, according to That doesn’t happen without government collusion. That is, government created this problem itself, now is posturing and posing like the big hero.

It only is logical that, because U.S. airlines are incorporated by the U.S. government, they are under all the restrictions of the U.S. Constitution. That means their passengers retain all their rights guaranteed by the Constitution, have the right to seek redress of grievances, and basically the paying passenger is on equal footing with the airline corporation. I don’t think you’d ever get litigation like this into a court, but the reasoning is sound. The U.S. government can’t grant anything it doesn’t have the power to do itself.

Was David Dao beaten in the jetway, or afterwards, which would account for injuries that weren’t apparent in the video of part of the event? Again, if this whole thing even went down the way we’re told.

Was the effect on UA’s value, as reflected in the decline in its stock price, permanent?

In trying to find some answers, I found the police reports made by the security staff that “re-accomodated” Doa. The good doctor Dao “pushed by” the security goons, supposedly, in one account. Dao could overpower those men? We’re to believe he manhandled at least three physically capable thugs.

Then one clownish goon said Dao clung to a “pole” on the airplane. What airplanes have poles? A stripper pole? On the airplane? What kind of flight was this?

The so-called legal system thrives on the artifice of lawyers, who concoct:

  • arguments so complex, they twist the mind
  • endless lies and nonsense, instead of truth and simplification of issues
  • strategies that make it so you “need a lawyer,” not to help you, but as translator for this nonsense

If the legal system is not comprehensible with a few minutes of simple explanation to reasonably intelligent persons, it’s not a legal system.

The narrative refers to Dao’s impertinence, “disobeying a direct order,” and “failing his obligation to follow the contract,” and “failing to obey the police,” incorrectly. UA itself refutes those points.

Then there’s the claim that Dao, bloodied and disoriented, after trotting back on the plane, was saying, “Just kill me.” Those fools couldn’t “report” the spittle dribbling down their chins! He was actually saying, “They kill me,” or “They’re (trying to) kill me…”

Also, Dao wasn’t necessarily, “shrieking and crying,” like shills babble. He was likely a victim of the “pain compliance,” that the Chicago thugs are taught and were probably using on him, in the process of pulling him from his seat, wrenching his wrist or fingers.

Then there’s Muñoz’ incompetence, just one of many factors that makes this incident weird.

Then, there’s the senseless dragging of Dao, not even picking him up. They could have at least lifted him to his feet and walked him out — you know those lazy bastiches aren’t going to do anything too strenuous, if at all possible — it’s easier to walk someone out than drag him. It almost looks as though they were trying to make the whole thing as absurd as they could. The goons apparently roughed him up more than we’ve seen on video, as well! Now, if UA personnel could call the goons in, they could also call them down, when they saw them getting too rough, but didn’t.

And where was his wife in all this? We are told there was a wife. She just disappeared from the scene, without a trace? And without a mention in any report, or in any “press conferences” afterwards?

And, of course, Dao got back on the plane! Why is that account missing even from the individual reports on the attack? One thug’s report stated Dao “somehow” got away? “Somehow” is not a report. Reports are meant to reveal details.

Subtlety isn’t these thugs “forte,” yet, we are to believe that their egos permitted them to be bested by a relatively small, concussed, diabetic senior citizen?

Even the name of the central character in all this, “Dao,” and his oddball past, are questionable. Even his reported age, 69. Look at the letters: DAO, which rearrange to “D.O.A.,” or “A O.D.,” (O.D., of course, being an abbreviation for “overdose,” “D.O.A.,” for “Dead on Arrival”).

Here’s a rule that is very powerful: If some part of the story is impossible, you must discard it — the entire story — as tainted. Then you regroup and search for the actual truth.

It’s dubious that “security” would allow anyone, including Dao, to “escape” and re-board the plane, unless, perhaps, they were starting to have second thoughts about what they had done.

Imagine them explaining to their boss how the elderly, diabetic Dao overwhelmed them and broke away. It’s outrageous.

We are told that, for security, any passenger has to be on the plane with his baggage — the baggage can’t be on the plane unless the passenger is, as well. That means they would have to sort through all of the bumped passengers’ luggage in the belly of the plane. How does that “save time,” and get the “crucial UA employees to their destination ASAP?” We’ve also been told that airlines have to pay big fines if they don’t get out on time, but airlines’ behavior belies that.

Don’t forget the other incident where “the rabbit died,” when UA subsequently killed a giant bunny foolishly entrusted to its care.

It wouldn’t be too far out to say it looks like UA, and AA as well, what with their offenses, could be players in schemes to run scams and tests/trials on the public.

The airline trolls supporting UA all have the same stupid, discredited arguments, too. But not everyone realizes, in addition to virtual, on-line trolls, companies and governments can employ physical trolls, as well, such as actors.

  1. It is sad that the rent-a-cops who dragged Dao are not going to go up on charges.

    They dragged Dao out of the plane, then cleaned up the blood, then took off, though two hours late. Two hours late! When the catalyst in the first place was some “urgent need” to transport crew.

    Of course, owing that it was a crime scene, that plane should have stayed put. They shouldn’t have been allowed to destroy evidence. Where were the police to do an investigation? The whole “investigation” was passengers’ cell phone recordings?

  2. UA, along with its cronies, still does not get it. Nothing has been learned: Delta’s first response to a minor disagreement was to threaten some passengers, with jail, and sending their kids to CPS. “Federal Crime!” shrieked one attendant. Supposedly, a father tried to “smuggle” his infant son onto a flight, using the ticket he’d bought for another son. That is, he put an older son on a different flight, and apparently didn’t update the ticket he’d already bought to conform to the change. So Delta kicks him and his family off the flight. Why didn’t they just charge him for a name change?

    At first, it looked like both sides were at fault in this incident, but there was still the question as to why they didn’t offer to change the original ticket. Shouldn’t that have been handled at check-in? What exactly is the point of check-in, anyway, if not for things like that?

    As it turns out, the guy, Brian Schear, already had approval from the gate, on this April 23 flight. They issued boarding passes and the family got on board. That was, or should have marked, the end of it.

    Of course, on board, the attendant starts with the badgering approach, then, when he doesn’t jump when she says jump, tells him, “Now you’ve gone too far!” A glorified housekeeper, itching to wield her mock authority, fueled by excess testosterone due to hormone imbalance, and a mental issue of authoritarianism, no doubt.

    Also got to love all these legal experts “commenting,” getting on the bandwagon with their legal conclusions and determinations. They don’t know, or try to find out, the full facts of what happened. Or they simply ignore them, completely oblivious to the fact the check-in desk had already approved the family to board. So how was there any controversy at all?

    Unfortunately, it seems Schear didn’t do what needed to be done to counter future problems of this nature. He called Delta, to try to get “closure,” or a sense of well-being. He didn’t want confrontation. How sweet.

    The only thing he could do that makes any sense is to raise a stink, not “take the high road,” like a chump. Maybe, as with Dao, he couldn’t make things better for the majority, but at least he could cash in, and set an example for others to do the same.

    In Dao’s case, there was a lot of BS thrown around, about how abusive the airlines and security were, and how “something had to be done,” and it all fizzled out. No one was punished, when several should have been in jail. No one does the right thing. A corporation “takes responsibility” for the assault committed by the security detail, because there will be no repercussions for any of the perps that way.

  3. Flight staff are afraid to have people not “respect their authoritah,” based on the spurious reason that “People won’t pay attention to me when I’m giving life-saving instructions.” This idea is actually somewhat justified, in that, yeah, people might be less slavish lackeys to their nonsense, but really it’s only a silly excuse. The bigger the phony justification, the more self-righteous. That is, these are weak-minded souls, looking for a kick of being able to exert power and authority, and it’s an embarrassment.

    In some “inadvertent landing,” they aren’t going to be a talented and organized “rescue force,” they’ll be as disoriented and panicky as anyone else. Anyway, think about it: If a crisis happens, doesn’t that prove the crew is incompetent? What they should be fostering is a cooperative environment, if only to make their own jobs easier. To give these types any authority always results in heartbreak and disaster. There’s no reason for it, but, sadly, no one is speaking against it.

  4. People still seem to be fooled by UA’s outrageous claim that their jets are “private property.” In fact, I was triggered enough to “fight back” against this…

I was creeped out by a “law student’s” blog, authored by a fellow claiming to be a law student. It looks more like a place for a hustler to polish his rhetoric. He claims that it’s a place to “learn law,” and I don’t know how he gets away with that claim, if he’s just a student. It’s also hard to understand how a “student” can devote so much time — and blogs are very time consuming — to his professionally-styled blog, plus his crusading.

It points, also, to a big problem online where no one knows who is shill, propagandist or government agent, or just believes his or her own BS.

Ostensibly, he’s a “legal justice warrior,” who fights against abuses by TSA, but his words and deeds don’t meet in the middle, somehow. Instead, he demonstrates the shady weasel tactics lawyers learn in school.

One thing that got me steamed was his subtle reinforcement of the discredited notion that airline planes are “private property.” You’d think someone who was so concerned about passenger rights would know better.

There is an ongoing psyop to make people want to give up their rights, with specious arguments and contrived logic. The excuse for “speeding tickets” is a good example. Everyone thinks they’re, perhaps not good, but “necessary.” Of course that’s nonsense. Places with no speed limits have been found to have fewer accidents. Now they are pushing this idea of “private property.” Because everyone is defensive of their own private property, it’s an easy sell. But they’re trying to apply it where it doesn’t apply. Your car may be your own private property, but if you start to use it as a taxi, you, clearly, give up some of your private property rights to it. That’s not hard to understand. As a place of business, it comes under completely different regs. But big business would love to sucker you into thinking their semi-public offerings are somehow private, for their convenience. I guess it’s just smart business, in a way.

One thing that creeped me out then, is that this CLB (Creepy Little Bastich) is errand-boy for this message.

Lawyers have a task, in their practices, to set up “controversy,” and come up with “arguments.” Doesn’t matter what the argument is. This isn’t generally a valuable service. What it really is, is “muddying the waters.”

And many people fall for the trap. “Justice was served,” goes the line, as long as an excuse was made, regardless of any injustice. And either side can argue anything.

Anyway, in his assessment of the Dao incident, this “legal blogger” said that this was a case of UA, “granting license,” (permission from an authority), and that UA was practicing the “efficient breach theory” of law, which basically says that companies routinely can and should breach their contracts if it’s to their financial benefit.

…Contract law, on the other hand, generally allows any party to breach their contract duties at any time, under penalty of having to pay damages to the non-breaching party…

That’s not “law.” “Efficient breach theory” is, clearly enough, not even much of a theory, but an exploit. And not much of an exploit, either, because it merely attempts to legitimize a dark side of human nature — weasel behavior. Yeah, most everyone wants to take advantage, sometimes even benefit at others’ expense, if it means “coming out ahead.” That doesn’t mean it’s enshrined in law. So I wrote a comment to his blog, that he neglected to publish, of course:

This is not a situation of granting “license…” United Airlines is a common carrier engaged in offering a service for hire. No one… strays from the fact that this is a contract situation. There is nothing “illegal” about hiring/contracting someone to transport you from place to place that would require a “competent authority” to grant leave (license)…

There would be no purpose for contracts at all if law, “generally allows any party to breach their contract duties at any time,” as you indicate… Contracts are to ensure performance. Start playing games like that, you could get yourself up for criminal charges — fraud for one — as well as civil penalties.

…you are saying the heart surgeon who gets bored, can up and leave his patient’s chest gaping while he goes out for a round of golf? Or United Air might toss a passenger out at 30,000 feet, because they decide the guy is “trespassing”, and they have a spare parachute in the locker. “Trespass” does not and cannot apply here. These planes are not “private property.” They are a semi-public place of business, much like a department store is not strictly “private property,” but semi-public. “Just anyone” can walk into the store and look around, and airline ticket sales are to the general public.

You can’t just put “anything you want,” into a contract, and have a valid contract. A contract has to be, not just legal, but conscionable. For example, a part of a contract that says, “I’ll give you some money, and you can do whatever you want,” is not enforceable.

There is a question that remains unanswered, but should have been one of the first points of discussion. How did Dao manage to make his way back on board the plane? It calls into question whether this is a staged event of some kind, or some kind of social experiment. The three young guards who “re-accommodated” Dr. Dao were not police, as revealed in a Chicago hearing over this issue, but a sort of security patrol that was supposed to have the “Police” call-outs removed from their clothing, months ago.

That isn’t a frivolous speculation. I hope people step back to really consider the issue. There is no way that those three physically capable cretins just allowed Dao to mosey his way back along the jetway, then proceed, unhindered, deep into the plane. It’s an absurdity. Are we to suppose he overpowered them? Perhaps with a tricky form of “Vietnam Kung-fu,” performed with the prowess of Chuck Norris in a ’70s Chop Suey movie that left them cowed and broken under his vengeful fury.

No one in authority would have let him back on the freakin’ plane! In fact, anyone with some authority and common sense, would have immediately hustled him off for treatment for his injuries, while trying to hide him from any onlookers.

Really odd, that he didn’t print my comments, when he did print a different writer’s email, and it insulted him rather rudely. I guess I must have been on point, at least.

This rather shocked me, when I suddenly realized how hard it is to trust anyone on the web. He represents as a “just folks” type, yet seems to be part of this vast majority that have a hidden agenda. I always liked to think of the web as allowing for the average person to have a voice, but independent opinions are really swamped by yet another vast scheme of control, looks like.

So, if that’s what we’re teaching our lawyers now, the system is really broken. “I don’t want to bother with this contract, so I’ll just ‘efficiently breach’ it. After all, it’ll cost me more in time and inconvenience if I fulfill the contract.”

Of course, a lawyer’s trick is to forward arguments that are legally and/or morally absurd, but so incomprehensible or idiotic that it’s a struggle to fight them, to wear out his adversary. So thanks anyway to the blogger for providing a nice example to showcase a problem of our legal system.

It’s an example of how society is stepping away from morals and absolutes. One guy might go in to court with my argument, another might go in trying to float the “efficient breach theory.” It doesn’t matter what the argument is, as long as there’s a “controversy” set up.

And the judge might decide in whatever manner he chooses. There’s no justice, it’s a farce. People who resist moral relativism and insist on absolutes are scorned and hated in this dysfunctional system. It’s a cash bleed scheme, with only government, courts and lawyers benefiting.

There has always been a method to the madness.

One commenter made an excellent point: With their “system” in place on the airlines, it allows them to take anyone they wish off a flight, that doesn’t fall into their, “agenda of compliance.”

There is a real possibility they are trying to make flying as miserable as possible, and that is part of an agenda of control, in this case, of people’s patterns of movement. It’s a typical policy for totalitarian systems. You’ve heard all about China and North Korea and the Soviet bloc and their internal passports and restricted movement, of course, and that is something they’re moving towards here. No need to dispute it, you merely have to wait and see what the trend is. Better yet, examine the trend from past to present.

  • They want disruption, and for the “little people” to not fly, or even travel outside their communities.
  • They want control over whom they permit to fly.
  • Events like this are good for practice/training in “enforcement techniques.”

As part and parcel of this ongoing agenda, they doctor the news and even “grass roots” sources, like small web sites. But there is a telltale: The lies and inconsistencies, which are usually pretty obvious.

Immediately on assuming the CEO position of UA, I would have reviewed all the bad airline policies and all other idiocy going on involving all the airlines, not just UA, and taken the steps that discourage or stop any such things from happening at UA. Pretty simple start.

I would have eliminated re-selling seats, and brought back good old standby. I’m sure there’s some profit motive behind eliminating it before, but I’m sure it’d be better than multi-million dollar lawsuits (and incurred legal fees, that accrue no matter what the result at trial). I’m also sure that with modern methods and smart phones for communication, “standby” could be made more effective and practical.

That’s the smoking gun right there: They would have done just that — implemented a sophisticated standby system and eliminated the ridiculous system they have now — unless they wanted a dysfunctional system that allows them license to do whatever they want.

Which reminds me: That’s another suspicious element of this Dao story: The callous mishandling of the situation would have been mitigated by the fear of a lawsuit. In a business that resorts to any length to save pennies on flights, those parsimonious leeches are going to be cautious regarding anything that affects the bottom line, let alone something that can have a multi-million dollar backlash. If not, you have to wonder what positive outcome they could envision, if the UA morons can think at all, from dragging a passenger out. I guess it’s possible that their simple minds were just flush with the excitement of “schooling” a “disobedient civilian” who “didn’t follow the rules,” or respect their authoritah.

Back in the CEO seat, I would also have discontinued the use of BS language. Like “our team,” and other absurdities. There’s no “team work,” those airline staffers are ruled from the top with an iron hand.

Then I would have quietly introduced real reforms that let them use some common sense (and quietly gotten rid of the staff that have none).

That they didn’t make even these elementary, simple improvements shows that there is no motivation to even bother, and that dysfunction is all part of the plan.

There are some good ones, but the bad airlines are a real train wreck these days. Is that mixing my metaphors?

In a predictable and nauseating turn of events, Muñoz was promoted to executive chairman of the board at UA, from May 2020.

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What is a Gambling Addiction?

Gambling identifies an activity in which a person pays money to attempt to win some other thing of value, usually a cash prize. Like all activities involving money and action, gambling requires three components for it that occurs: risk, consideration, and a payoff. An integral aspect to any gambling activity is known as a danger. This identifies any situation in which the likelihood of losing more money than you have invested in the wager is high. If that is so then your expected payoff from such activity is negative and can not bring you profit.

Although the reasons for addiction change from individual to individual and in what regards the kind of gambling involved, there’s one common factor that is associated with most forms of problem gambling. Gambling, like many addictions, occurs when an individual is seeking an alternative for a specific feeling or sensation. For example, if a person is depressed they may perform work related tasks to be able to pick up the feelings or thoughts they are depressed about. Similarly, if a person feels tense or nervous about meeting someone they are romantically interested in, they may spend time at a casino or bar watching their preferred team play.

The issue with gambling addiction is that not merely does the individual feel a loss of some kind after missing a payoff; they often feel a constant need to repeat these same experiences until they will have lost enough money to completely lose it and no longer have any sense of self. The individuals who have problems with gambling addictions are much more likely to lose everything all in one night or in one month’s time. Although this can happen to any individual, the people who do return back and experience the same feelings multiple times because of the addictive nature of the experience they have engaged in are a lot more prone to doing so. The problem is compounded by the truth that most gamblers won’t experience a ‘loss’ until their bankroll has been depleted, either through missing a payoff or the withdrawal of gambling money due to the undesireable effects of illegal drug use. The constant have to win to be able to continue gambling will drive an individual to keep gambling until they have lost everything and then there is absolutely no turning back.

The bigger risk of developing gambling addictions is partially due to the individuals upbringing. Many of the those who are highly competitive in nature at early ages and so are constantly trying to prove themselves to others tend to be more vunerable to develop gambling addictions. A few of the factors that contribute to this addiction are stress, depression, lack of coping skills and poor financial management. In addition, there are specific kinds of gambling that will create these kinds of emotional problems for a person such as for example bingo and poker.

Individuals who have been gaming for a long period of time may also be at an increased risk for developing gambling addictions. This is due to the fact that gambling behavior is habitual and over time will cause an individual to need larger amounts of profit order to trigger the same response when they gamble. If you gamble small amount than you should not have to worry 온라인 카지노 about developing addictions. However, if you are a constant gambler you may experience a few of the same addictive-type behaviors.

Probably the most common types of gambling addiction is progressive casino gambling addiction. That is also known as blackjack or card room gambling. These individuals are always playing multiple cards at the same time and will proceed through great amounts of money while doing so. This is simply not uncommon among bingo players, since lotteries are based on skill and therefore having a lot of practice can improve your chances of achieving success. Blackjack has gained its reputation as one of the easiest games in town to play because it is typically create in tables with a maximum of two different people.

Online gambling is another common form of gambling addiction. There are millions of Americans who play online gambling and an excellent majority of them are people who have gambling addictions. Many of these people will spend plenty of their income on gambling online. Online gambling is quite easy to enter because there are no physical tables to create. You don’t have for real gambling money, which makes online gambling more appealing to many people with gambling behavior problems.

The Internet is not right for everybody with a gambling problem, nonetheless it is certainly wii idea to gamble any place that you don’t feel safe. Many gamblers will choose to gamble at an online casino, which is usually safer than other online gambling locations. If you are interested in playing blackjack at a progressive casino, you should look into the gaming laws of the state where you live before you proceed. Most states have specific rules that govern progressive casinos. It is very important find out before you begin gambling where you can have as much fun as possible.

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The One Minute Coach™: Change Your Life One Minute at a Time

An International bestseller, The One Minute Coach™ Change your life one minute at a time book by Masha Malka combines a pragmatic and spiritual approach to both personal and professional success. It gives readers the tools to create more abundance, joy, fulfillment and happiness for themselves through easy to understand processes and routines.

The book not only inspires the reader, it also provides evidence that no matter where you have been or where you are, your future is based on your decisions, actions and beliefs.

Written using Accelerated Learning Techniques, The One Minute Coach™ is very easy to read and internalize. Each chapter is followed by specific action steps as well as engaging images – all designed to make the reading experience fun, memorable, practical and easy.

Based on proven and tested success principles and often used as a reference guide for a happier and more fulfilling life, The One Minute Coach™ is sure to be a welcome addition to virtually any personal or professional library.

As Brian Tracy, Best-selling author and top speaker on personal and professional development, points out, “This is a powerful, practical book, loaded with great ideas you can use to get better results in every area.”

The One Minute Coach™ to Mastering Your Emotions

Whether you’re a C-level executive, corporate consultant, keynote speaker, published author or business coach, mastering emotions is, by far, the most important skill you can develop.

When you can understand how to master your emotions, disassociate from them, and work with them rather than push them away, or get swallowed by them, you can then navigate your life to have the kind of experiences that your soul desires.

You can learn to use your emotions to be your guides and your friends and understand how perfectly you are designed when your emotions, your body, and your mind work harmoniously together.

Within these pages you are guided to understand, accept, get unstuck, feel in control, and move through life in a confident and enjoyable way, appreciating all emotions without attaching to them.

Using the unique format of the The One Minute Coach™ books is easy
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Private Mentoring

The more responsibility you have, the more you require the confidentiality of a highly skilled coach. You know how important it is to have someone who understands your position, your obligations and your need to find solutions in the most appropriate way possible.

Masha Malka offers one-on-one private coaching to a select group of individuals. This is a great fit for those in positions of high responsibility in need of a safe and confidential mentor to help you work through various aspects of your personal and professional endeavors.

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The Year at a Glance program is designed to create clarity of the road ahead – financially, in personal relationships, health-wise, and, most importantly, in the kind of emotions you would like to experience on a regular basis and the quality of life you desire to live.

With my guidance, after just six short weeks, you will put together a comprehensive and balanced monthly action plan for a year ahead based on the goals derived from the long-term vision, core values, and your life purpose.

In the process, you will also identify patterns that have been holding you back and learn how to transform them into new empowering ones. You will learn how to rewrite your story, how to handle unwanted emotions and how to use emotions to manifest what your heart most desires. You will also learn how to create a healthy balance in your life.

This program is not about changing you, it is about you gaining a better understanding of what you really want, why you still don’t have it and what you can do to manifest it, step by step.

This is an intensive program that will make you think, re-evaluate, accept, let go, and fine-tune. It will require an investment, not just financial, but more importantly, an investment of your focus and commitment to making your happiness and well-being a priority and doing what needs to be done to get to where you want to go.

If you are ready to make this commitment, review the page below and let’s talk. I offer a free, no obligation, first coaching session via the page below.

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Fleeing the Soviet Union at the age of to living below the poverty line when her family settled in the United States after being bounced from country to country, to hold down several minimum wage jobs while attending university, to becoming a bestselling author, executive coach and successful business owner, Masha Malka’s life story reads like a bestselling novel.

Turning her experiences into entertaining and deep meaningful stories, Masha loves sharing how anyone can master their destiny when they master their emotions. From the minute Masha steps on the platform, it’s obvious impacting audience members is her passion, love and joy.

Whether she’s weaving a life lesson into a story of her travels around the globe, to flying a Boeing 747, to riding motorcycles, to helping her clients gain clarity and joy after a tragic experience, Masha’s audiences learn that it’s not what happens that matters, it’s how they respond that makes all the different.

Her favorite stories to share are those of how she has managed to balance her career along with her most important role in life… that of being the mother to three children.

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Drawing from real life experiences, Masha Malka has been inspiring audiences around the globe for over 15 years. With a unique style that has been described as “understated power” Masha’s presentations are a blend of compassion, humor and inspiration.

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@jebug29 Great Machine with GREAT software!😆 I saw you msg on the term!

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@peron lol I was sitting on the couch and heard a floppy drive and was like "Wait is that the Altair or Sector Disk"

Saw the blinkenlights so I got up and went and watched the log lol

@peron Do you mind if I link to this from my SDF page?

@jebug29 Please do! You deserve it! Its nice to have remote access to this kind of computer systems. There were no Altairs in the Country.

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Oral Exam: On Radial Symmetry of Uniformly Rotating/ Stationary Solutions to 2D Euler Equation

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Tuesday, April 23, 2019 - 3:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
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Jaemin Park – Georgia Institute of Technology – jpark776@gatech.eduhttp://people.math.gatech.edu/~jpark776/
Jaemin Park

We study whether all stationary solutions of 2D Euler equation must be radially symmetric, if the vorticity is compactly supported or has some decay at infinity. Our main results are the following:

(1) On the one hand, we are able to show that for any non-negative smooth stationary vorticity  that is compactly supported (or has certain decay as |x|->infty), it must be radially symmetric up to a translation.

(2) On the other hand, if we allow vorticity to change sign, then by applying bifurcation arguments to sign-changing radial patches, we are able to show that there exists a compactly-supported, sign-changing smooth stationary vorticity that is non-radial.

We have also obtained some symmetry results for uniformly-rotating solutions for 2D Euler equation, as well as stationary/rotating solutions for the SQG equation. The symmetry results are mainly obtained by calculus of variations and elliptic equation techniques. This is a joint work with Javier Gomez-Serrano, Jia Shi and Yao Yao.


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Matsuri Sushi is a premier destination for Japanese cuisine in Woodside, Queens. Simply put, Matsuri means “festivals " or “holiday” in Japanese. We welcome people to join us and celebrate, no matter what the occasion, with one hope, that each visit will provide happiness, fun, and most importantly, a venue for friends and families to gather together to eat, drink and enjoy themselves.
We offer the perfect selection of both traditional and modern Japanese food, from sushi, ramen, to izakaya. We strive to provide the highest quality food and excellent service with reasonable prices. Our goal is to deliver a superlative dining experience, in a relaxed setting.

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Will You be a Victim of Killer Coal?

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Truthout - So, you thought inhaling glue or driving without a seatbelt was bad for your health? Try living next to a coal-fired power plant.

That's the diagnosis that Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) relayed to the public in a comprehensive medical study released on November 18, 2009, called "Coal's Assault of Human Health." In it, the organization, comprised of physicians and public health experts, claimed that coal pollutants damage every major organ in the human body and contribute to four of the top five leading causes of death in the United States.

"The findings of this report are clear: while the U.S. relies heavily on coal for its energy needs, the consequences of that reliance for our health are grave," said Dr. Alan H. Lockwood, a principal author of the report and a professor of neurology at the University at Buffalo.

It is not simply about cleaning up the coal process; it is about halting its production altogether in order to immediately save lives - an estimated 24,000 every single year. Read more.

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German stoner metal – with a twist.

It’s easy to think you’ve got this, the excellent second mini album from the German five piece Grand Massive, pegged. Their Facebook “About” section simply says “massive heavy metal” and opening pair of songs the mighty “The Sound Of War” and the even better “Backseat Devil” thump in the most pleasing of monolithic ways, full of downtuned thud and bass filled groove. It’s meant as the biggest of compliments when we say that if this was the opening pair of tracks on an Orange Goblin record you wouldn’t be at all disappointed.

But then guitarist Jochen didn’t form this band from the ashes of Cursed some six years ago to solely plough the doom and stoner metal furrow, and contained within these six marvellous tracks there are a couple of twists and turns that you just don’t see coming initially. Notably on “Woods” the second video clip, the band eschew all notion of heaviness and just play up the atmospherics. The song broods with a menace, like it wants to smash you with a concrete block but is forced to restrain itself for its own good. It is a quite brilliant and quite unsettling two and a half minutes.

Then there’s “Embracing The Eyesore” which is a superb heavy rock track, that bursts along on a tidal wave of riffing and a chorus that’s as big. The EP ends with “My Own Sickness,” which echoes with an air of almost desperation.

Right in the middle there’s arguably the heaviest of the lot. “I Am Atlas” a track that pummels, slowly and deliberately as singer Alex Andronikos, who does a sterling job throughout, excels himself here, showcasing his full range.

All of which adds up to a mini album that is a superior collection from a band that deserves to be heard on a much, much bigger stage. If ambition counts for anything, then these boys will be massive.

And that’s just grand.

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Music Venue Trust (MVT),  which represents hundreds of grassroots music venues throughout the UK has issued a dire warning to the UK government that the entire grassroots live music sector is now at “red alert status” and has called on the wider music industry, local communities and music fans to support its ongoing #saveourvenues campaign by taking “decisive, direct action” to ensure every venue can survive and re-open safely.

With the announcement of how the government’s much-touted £ 1.57bn Cultural Recovery will be distributed due on October 5th , and final decisions on funding for grassroots music venues in England, Scotland and Wales announced by October 16th, MVT has declared the situation ‘critical’  today, with a warning that the fate of these venues is now hanging in the balance.

Mark Davyd, co-founder & CEO of Music Venue Trust (MVT) said: “After six months of struggling to survive, grassroots music venues now face a two-week period of huge uncertainty in which their future will be decided by the outcome of a single government funding announcement. The Government has put all its eggs in one basket and has no backup plan to prevent the complete collapse of this entire cultural sector, placing at risk over 200,000 jobs, and billions of pounds of economic activity”.

The Westminster government’s singular reliance on the impact of the Cultural Recovery Fund was revealed last week when the Winter Economy Plan contained no additional measures to address the specific restrictions that have been placed on the live music industry. This was compounded during a meeting hosted by The Department of Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) when numerous enquiries from MPs asking what the government was going to do to prevent the collapse of the live music industry was answered by stock answers stating that the Cultural Recovery Fund was “being made available”.

Beverley Whitrick, Strategic Director of MVT, said, “Music Venue Trust is extremely concerned that the situation has become Schrodinger’s fund; hardly anyone has received any significant support from the Cultural Recovery Fund yet, but everyone is going to be saved by it. This is not a coherent strategy; the government does not even control the distribution of the funding they have made available and on which their entire strategy for the UK live music sector now rests”.

With this in mind MVT is calling on the wider music industry, music fans and local communities to redouble their efforts to prevent the permanent closure of grassroots music venues by getting directly involved in the #saveourvenues campaign ( through fundraising, letter writing to local councils, MPs, social media support and more.

Mark Davyd continues: “Venues, artists, audiences, and communities have done everything they can to support the #saveourvenues campaign, which has helped hundreds of grassroots music venues to survive to this point. Music Venue Trust has offered extraordinary support to enable grassroots music venues to make strong, evidenced applications to the Cultural Recovery Fund. The entire government focus on what can be achieved by that single fund will reach its conclusion between October 5th and October 16th when the results of those applications are announced. Any venue that is not successful, or any venue that is ineligible, will still be unable to open, will still have to pay rent and will still have no possible income sources from the day those decisions are announced until the day they are finally able to open. We need everyone who cares about the future of grassroots music venues to take note of these  decisions as they are made and if necessary to take direct action to save any venue that is unsuccessful. It’s up to us – the government may very well fail to save our venues but we as individuals can still fight for their survival.”

Music Venue Trust will be announcing the funding decisions as they are made via their social media channels and the media and will provide a list of both successful and unsuccessful venues so that can support efforts be directed to where they are most needed .

Beverley Whitrick added, “We don’t know what the outcome here will be; worryingly, neither does the government despite their singular reliance upon this funding to protect access to culture across hundreds of communities. But we do know that the Save Our Venues campaign, with the incredible support it has received, has got the grassroots sector to this stage with minimum losses. That campaign may now need to be stepped up. Grassroots music venues are at Red Alert status and hundreds are confronted by the possibility of imminent decisions which will result in their permanent closure. Our whole grassroots community sector will need to take part in decisive, direct action if we are to ensure we reopen every venue safely.”


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Not All Dogs are Friendly: Tips for Preventing Dog Bites

Published on July 14, 2015

Dogs might be cute, but that doesn’t mean that they are safe to be around. Even the cutest, littlest dog can give a nasty bite. Whether you frequent dog parks, or simply live in a community where your neighbors are likely to be out walking dogs, you should know a few basic rules for how to approach a dog, avoid a dog and keep yourself and your children protected from being bitten.

Children are at highest risk for dog bites

Children are more likely to be bitten by dogs than are adults, and many of those bites will be to a child’s face. In fact, dog bites are one of the top three reasons why children must visit an emergency room. You probably don’t want to teach your child to be afraid of dogs, but you do need to teach him to use caution, especially around dogs he doesn’t know. Teach your child that before he approaches any dog, he should ask the owner whether the dog is friendly, and whether the dog likes children. Especially if the dog is skittish around children, most owners will be relieved to have your child ask first rather than having to pull the dog away if they are worried that the dog might not interact well with the child. If the owner is hesitant or answers that the dog is not friendly or doesn’t like children, respect that. It’s for your own safety that you not touch or approach that particular dog.

Why kids and dogs aren’t always a great combination

Even a sweet, good-natured dog is an animal, and it has the natural response of defensive aggression if it is startled or feels threatened. A young child moves fast, is small, and could easily stumble onto a sleeping dog, poke it or pull its tail (even accidentally). The child likely isn’t trying to hurt the dog, and the dog might not intend to hurt the child, but even a growl or “warning snap” by a dog is something that you have to take seriously.

Whether you have a dog in your home or your child is around other people’s dogs, it’s important to teach a child never to take something that the dog thinks is his. That means that the child should never come between a dog and its food, a bone or a toy. Even if the dog takes a toy that belongs to the child, the child should be taught to have an adult intervene to get it back – not to try to take it back herself. As well, if a child is frightened by a dog’s behavior, if the child runs away or screams, that could trigger a dog’s predatory behavior and increase the likelihood that the dog would go after the child.

There are specific dog body language cues that can tell you when a dog is feeling threatened, scared or aggressive.

Good pet habits for kids

If you have a dog in your home, teach your child some basic rules:

  • If the dog walks away during playtime, it means that the dog is finished playing or is no longer having fun. The child should not follow the dog – the dog will return when it wants to play again.
  • The child should never tease the dog or pretend to take its toys, food or treats.
  • Children should not pull a dog’s ears or tail, and they should not try to ride on the dog.

How to “meet” a dog

Even adults should follow certain guidelines for becoming acquainted with a new dog. Regardless of how much of a dog lover you are, you still need to exercise caution when you meet a new animal. Just like you would teach a child, you should always ask a dog owner’s permission before you pet the dog. If the person says no, respect that and don’t touch.

  • When you meet a dog for the first time, slowly offer the back of your hand for the dog to sniff. Once the dog has become familiar with your scent, pet it gently under the chin or on the chest.
  • Learn to recognize a relaxed dog, as opposed to a threatening one. A relaxed dog has:
    • tail down or wagging
    • mouth and lips relaxed
    • ears in regular position (neither back nor forward)
    • hair lying flat on its back

    A threatening dog has:

    • a wrinkled nose or teeth showing
    • tense or cocked body language
    • “hackles”, or hair standing up along the back of its neck and spine
    • growl or snarling noises
    • ears pinned back against its head
  • If the dog is exhibiting any of these, do not approach.

“Be a Tree”

If any dog approaches you in a way that makes you feel threatened, whether it’s your own dog or a loose dog you encounter, be a tree. If you run, the dog will be more likely to chase you and attack. If you stop, stand perfectly still and look at your feet, the dog will lose interest.

If you Suffer a Dog Bite or Dog Attack

First, get the medical attention you need. If you or your child has been bitten by a dog, call your physician or head for the nearest urgent care or emergency department. Even if you think that the bite is minor and doesn’t require much treatment, it’s important to watch for signs of infection. Second, contact us. At McIntyre Law, we take dog bite injuries seriously and can get you the compensation you deserve. While any breed can bite, there are some dangerous dog breeds that are more likely to put you in harm’s way. Know the statistics, and be safe.

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MCreator 2021.2 pre-release

Published by Klemen on Tue, 08/10/2021 - 07:24
MCreator 2021.2 pre-release

MCreator 2021.2 pre-release is here! This is the first time in history we had 4 snapshots before the full release so this update will be packed with new features. Read on!

Snapshot changelog

Major new features, improvements, and bug fixes in this snapshot are highlighted with bold text.

  • Added fluid tick rate parameter
  • Added potion effect tick condition
  • Set and get player variable procedure blocks now support specifying the entity dependency
  • Added fire immunity parameter to custom armor mod element
  • Improved display of biome and entity lists with human-readable names
  • Added new plant parameters: suspicious stew effect and duration, generation patch size
  • Added new enchantment parameters: can appear in villager trades and can be used in loot tables
  • Brewing recipes now support potions as output and/or inputs
  • Added new fluid properties: tint type, flow strength, flowing condition, before replacing block procedure trigger
  • Added new block base: button
  • [Bugfix] Importing and display of some mod language translations did not work properly
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Spin dance : for chamber orchestra

by Paul Stanhope (2005)

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Spin Dance is a spiky-textured and fast-paced movement for chamber orchestra. On a surface level, the title refers simply to the whirling, repeated figures heard in the woodwinds and later the strings in the opening musical statement. However other connotations of the word "spin" suggest themselves: namely the idea of "spinning a yarn" (telling a tall story) which is also related to the all-too-common art of political "spin". In this sense Spin Dance is an ironic tribute to politicians of all persuasions who are able to dance around the plain truth through their crafty and rather suspect art of "spin doctoring".

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Year: 2005

Instrumentation: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets in B flat, 2 bassoons, 2 French horns in F, percussion (1 player), strings.

Duration: 4 min.

Difficulty: Advanced — Professional or good standard youth orchestra

Commission note: Commissioned by Ars Musica Australis.. Commissioned for the Sydney Symphony's Discovery Series.

First performance: by Sydney Symphony Sinfonia, Richard Gill — 3 May 05. City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney

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29 Oct 09: Sale Community Centre, VIC. Featuring Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Richard Gill.

22 Apr 07: Regent Theatre, Dunedin, New Zealand. Featuring Southern Sinfonia, Luke Dollman.

24 Feb 06: Sydney Olympic Park. Featuring Sydney Symphony, Guy Noble.

3 May 05: City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney. Featuring Sydney Symphony Sinfonia, Richard Gill.

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by Chimene Suleyman

His name is Aylan Kurdi. Say it. He was three years old when he began his journey from the Syrian town, Kobani which has only known violence throughout Aylan’s short life. Amidst a Syrian civil war and a town besieged by Isis, Aylan’s family travelled thousands of miles through Turkey where they took a boat from Akyarlar. The boat — rather, an overcrowded dingy — would take them to the Greek island of Kos, only it capsized and Aylan, with his five year old brother, Galip and their mother, Rehan drowned with at least a dozen more. It was eventually Canada that the Kurdi family and others like them hoped to reach. Not for jobs, benefits, or social housing. Simply for a chance to live. Instead, on a Bodrum beach their bodies washed up and it was here that a photograph was taken of Aylan on the shore.

On the front page of The Independent, The Guardian, The Sun, Daily Mail, and The Times, the young boy lay face down in the sand, or carried by a Turkish gendarme. “If these extraordinarily powerful images of a dead Syrian child washed up on a beach don’t change Europe’s attitude to refugees, what will?” The Independent’s headline asked. “Tiny victim of a human catastrophe” from the Daily Mail.

There is a peculiarity to it. Memories are short. To this day much of the British press have riled suspicion and contempt towards refugees and Muslims, which has contributed to the depressing lack of aid and resentment shown to Syrians over the last few years.

Where the vast majority of Syria’s refugees are living

On the same day as Aylan’s death, 200 refugees were pulled from a train by Czech police and, in scenes horrifyingly reminiscent of Nazi practice, were marked with numbers on their arms. It is not the first time comparisons have been made between current-day European treatment of Muslims and the rhetoric that surrounded Jews in the 1930s. Name-calling, such as bugs and rats (the language of extermination) circulates beside caricatures of long and hooked nose Arabs within a Europe that deeply resents those travelling to safety from persecution elsewhere. A worrying template is being followed.

In fact, if you are presented with press cuttings about refugees and asylum seekers from the 1930s and present day, then asked to identify which period they are from, the Refugee Council have some very disturbing realisations on the matter. Most people get it wrong. Britain — and indeed Europe’s — intolerance of refugees (if you haven’t noticed by now) is not new. It’s this that makes the published images of dead Syrians, Palestinians, Nigerians, and so on, feel a touch insincere. It begs the question, why was Aylan Kurdi’s life worth kindness from the press in death, but not in life?

I do understand the public’s desire to share it — the overwhelming urgency with which we must desperately provide evidence of tragedy, so those with a harmful stance on asylum can reassess. The logic is there: If you wish this child were still alive (why wouldn’t you), then you must welcome refugees so others like him may live. It makes sense. Only, it’s impossible not to be cynical of the click-bait like nature of it all. In particular from a British press, who have both danced lightly and bulldozed over the line, when presenting on the topic of immigration and Muslims. Are they nameless burden-on-society migrants; or refugees? Are they cockroaches who deserve to drown (as The Sun has published in the recent past, in an article still on their website); or are they the image of a dead child who should have legally been let into Europe to live?

Here is another question it seems the media are unsure of — Do we need to see photos of death to gauge the severity of it? Last week journalist, Alison Parker and her cameraman, Adam Ward were shot live on air by an ex colleague. Western media was clear on the message: don’t share the video or stills from it. News outlets across America and Britain urged social media users to share only the pictures they ran with. Smiling photos of the pair at work or with their partners, nestled into a happy time of life. Whilst unavoidable debates took place around America’s gun-laws, the discussions would not be allowed to interrupt our perception of Parker and Ward as people, not as tragic political examples.

Aylan Kurdi has been made an example of. As well-meaning as the photograph’s sharers may be, unfortunately it is not his life that we are urged to remember and consequently do better by, but a sensationalism of his horrific death.

On a television set in New York a blurry video of a policeman with his hand on a gun walked towards a car, the occupant a black man: “Did this officer kill this man? Stay tuned to find out.” I was slack-jawed. All across the black community and BLM movement people were grieving. In mainstream media their lives were entertainment. It was the cliff-hanger before the advert. The pivotal moment in the scene. Suspense. You didn’t want to miss this.

42-500x269The videos of black people murdered by the police play news channels on loop. Alongside them still images of the victim are shown from photographs in which they look tense, brutal, aggressive. It’s hard not to think of the photo of Mark Duggan standing beside his daughter’s grave, cropped of all context so that his pensive look should now be displayed as ‘thuggish’. It is not smiling images of black and brown people at graduation and family-functions that we are urged to look at it. Cheerful, happy and successful is not how we are expected to remember them.

Of course, when black and brown people are unequivocally not to blame, they are sacrificed to victimhood. There is no middle ground. “If there’s one picture you share of Alison and Adam let it be this one of them accomplished, loved and alive.” No, this is not the case for people of colour. It is not three-dimensions we are afforded. Bleakly, we remain the poster-face for violence and death.

There is also the matter of consent. One which bypasses the family in its entirety. Does it matter that the family of Aylan Kurdi and many like him will come unwillingly, unprepared, across the image of their son, or brother, or wife? It should. For those of us that know what it is like — you must take my word — it is devastating. And where does the interaction with the image end? In 1964 a photograph of my grandfather’s tortured body was taken in Cyprus and immortalised in such a manner. Then In 2014 an American man entered a restaurant in Port Washington, on the other side of the world, wearing a t-shirt with the image of my grandfather’s corpse spread across his chest. The restaurant’s owner was shocked. “That’s my uncle,” he said, “Why are you wearing a photo of my uncle like that?”

The answer is always the same: to raise awareness for human rights. It may sound well meaning but don’t be fooled by it. It conveniently overlooks that it is never white bodies that are worn or shown like this. Simply put, the bodies of people of colour are commodified for white gaze. They are used to sell t-shirts and newspapers and memes and clickbait. Their function is political and to push agendas. We are never allowed to just live.

Aylan Kurdi’s father survives him. He will remember his son in the moments he was happy, smiling and loved. The narrative of Aylan Kurdi’s life should not be dictated by the British or European press. If the anti-immigration rhetoric and mistreatment of Muslim’s is playing on British minds, so be it. There is an intense level of damage they have caused, which needs to be undone. It will take vast commitment from the British press to do so and it will not go away with reactionary images.

Write to your MP and demand that our government accepts and helps refugees. Sign the petition circulating and others like it. Educate yourself on why people need to relocate urgently and why they are willing to risk their lives to do so. Challenge your colleagues, family, friends and the table sitting next to you in the pub who are unforgiving of people across the world moving with a right to live and without fear. Do not be complicit with silence. Do not hijack the image of someone’s death to make your point. Frankly, it is lazy of the media to use a powerful image like this in the hope it will overwrite the thousands of harmful words they have used to demonise Aylan Kurdi and his family when they lived. We all bleed the same. We do not need to cut people of colour open to believe it.

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Chimene Suleyman is a writer from London of Turkish / Middle Eastern heritage. She writes opinion pieces, contributing to The Independent as well as regularly featured writing for online blog and events organiser Poejazzi. She has represented the UK at the International Biennale, Rome 2011 with spoken word. Her poetry collection “Outside Looking On” published by Influx Press is out now. She collects photos of Canary Wharf. Find her on Twitter: @chimenesuleyman

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8 thoughts on “Why was Aylan Kurdi’s life worth kindness from the press in death, but not in life?

  1. If you want a comparison, look at how white (by most definitions) Che Guevara is remembered. To this day the iconic image taken at a funeral is used and distributed, not the one of his tortured and mutilated body.
    Brown and black bodies are there to stare at.
    White people are there to be remmebered.

  2. Great article.

    People often respond saying, well if this image changes hearts and minds then doesn’t it serve a greater purpose. But will it really? Cameron said the UK would take 10,000 people in, but he also said the UK would take the most “vulnerable” and so the discourse and rhetoric around migrants / refugees / people doesn’t move away from the deserving (vulnerable, weak, compliant, etc.. migrants that we can “save”. “They” become “heros”, and “we” (white / British / European etc are gratified by our selfless actions) and the undeserving (illegals, agentic, non-Christian, bit too brown tone skin, etc.). The picture doesn’t serve a greater purpose because it doesn’t really change anything at all. It will change the lives of these 10,000 people, but it won’t change how they are treated (badly) in the UK, the lives of their families left behind and other migrants / refugees still struggling to get into Europe.

    Essentially, the images make people feel bad, makes them want to do something, they do something and then they want to feel good about it. But the images should never have been distributed in the first place. People should understood the root causes of migration, ie. inequality, racism and legacies of colonialism to change the debate and discourse around migration, they should stop feeling sorry for brown / black people around the world, and act on pity alone (bc that’s really what’s happening here). No one wants our (white / European) pity!

  3. Although I agree with the sentiments of this article the fact remains that the press publishing the picture of Alan has lead to Cameron softening his stance in relation to allowing more refugees in. Whether we like it it not, our press is on the whole right wing and as a result my grandparents, parents and my generation have grown up being told migrants are bad, with no differentiation made between them and refugees. Over the last few months I’ve spoken to friends and colleagues and i get a very similar response from all… We are full. Our services cannot cope.

    Yes, the hypocrisy of the press showing the photo of Aylan is shocking but if it means that Cameron’s promise to offer refuge to some from UN camps is a result then surely that is a positive outcome from such a horrific and heartbreaking picture. If people sharing the photo of his lifeless body changes the attitudes of some people by highlighting the tragedy of one family then surely this is a positive outcome from such an horrific and heartbreaking picture. The public read about swarms, invasions, economic migrants and cock roaches. Sometimes, we all need reminding about the horrifying reality of the situation.

    1. What you say here Becky makes some relative sense, i wouldn’t doubt that.. but it seems like in the next turn things will be worse..don’t you have the same sense??

      Seems crucial that all of us should ask ourselves “what is a holistic, total action in relation to this huge issue”.. can thought in terms of justification (such tragedies are inevitable, we can’t do anything), condemnation (humanity deserves to extinct), blaming (politicians should be punished), pre-measurement (whatever i do, it won’t solve the problem so i feel its hypocritic to offer anything) bring a holistic action? Or it’s just inaction/reaction that makes things even worse?

      Thought being a limited (based on limited knowledge) and divisive (focusing on the best interest of Me against yours) factor seems to perpetuate the issue (the core of such issue, seems it’s the division, the illusion that we are separate, its Me and You and our interests are conflicting), it can’t solve the problem..

      ..having seen the truth of that we are not interested anymore in thoughts.. then thought ceases and the capacity to see things exactly as they are, the capacity to connect with What is, seems to bring on its own, immediate, holistic action..

  4. Kenan Rahmani:
    The ultimate injustice one can commit to Aylan Kurdi and his family is to omit the parts of his story which explain why he ended up dead on the beach. The details matter:
    1) Abdullah Kurdi, the father, was detained for 5 months in Air Force Intelligence in Damascus. While in detention, he was tortured and his teeth were pulled out. He had to sell his shop in Damascus in order to bribe the officers to let him out. This cost him 5,000,000 Syrian Liras (around $25,000)
    2) After he bribed his way out of jail, Abdullah fled to Aleppo with his wife and sons, Alyan and Ghalib. The situation in Aleppo became dangerous due to the constant aerial bombardment, so he fled again to Kobani, his hometown.
    3) When ISIS attacked Kobani last year, the family could no longer live in their hometown, so they fled to Turkey. Once in Turkey, the Turkish government did not provide them with assistance, so they paid almost $6,000 to secure 4 spots on a rubber dingy to the Greek island of Kos.
    4) While on the boat, rough waters caused the boat to flip. The lifejackets they were given were fake. His sons and wife all drowned in front of his eyes, in his arms.
    5) Kurdi had applied in June for refuge to Canada, but was rejected. After Aylan’s photo became a media story, he was reportedly offered citizenship to Canada. But he doesn’t want to go to Canada or Europe anymore. He says he will go bury his family in Kobani and stay there to fight against ISIS, because everything has been taken away from him and he has “nothing to live for.”
    So if the world wants to no more Aylans on the beach, someone needs to do some combination of the following based on above: (1) stop torture and arbitrary detention by the Assad regime, (2) stop the regime’s aerial bombardment, (3) stop ISIS, (4) make traveling to Europe safe, (5) get Canada and the USA to accept more refugees.

  5. (that’s not to say I don’t whole-heartedly agree with what you’re saying re: black/ brown people being shown in certain ways)

  6. Interesting blog. Would like to respond to the paragraph that says:

    “Why are you wearing a photo of my uncle like that?”
    The answer is always the same: to raise awareness for human rights. It may sound well meaning but don’t be fooled by it. It conveniently overlooks that it is never white bodies that are worn or shown like this. Simply put, the bodies of people of colour are commodified for white gaze. They are used to sell t-shirts and newspapers and memes and clickbait. Their function is political and to push agendas. We are never allowed to just live.”

    Amnesty is one of the worlds leading human rights organisations. It’s worked on SOSEurope campaign, on OpentoSyria campaign and released MANY MANY docs on the situation in Syria. It uses photos that show the devastation of the situations and always seeks permissions in the form of written consent, from the families involved and generally aims to show the people born into these situations in a positive light.

    For example here’s the photo they ran today:

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Sony wants to further optimize the future of the TV experience and immerse viewers even deeper into the world of series, concerts and movies. For this reason, the entertainment giant wants to advance its 360 Reality Audio and is now bringing it to video streaming.

“360 Reality Audio is a new music experience that uses Sony’s spatial sound technologies. Listeners can experience music in an immersive spherical sound field.”

We really only know the three-dimensional sound image from the cinema. If voices in the series or in the film come from a certain direction, you hear this sound as a visitor also from the corresponding direction. Sony’s 360 Reality Audio also creates the impression and mixes position data of the voices in the movie, concert or series with the audio files.

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So far, however, the range of such offers is limited and is used especially for live video concerts, such as those of Alicia Keys or Zara Larsson. To change this and to make other broadcasters and streamers take notice, there is now a live concert tomorrow with Zara Larsson, who will give a performance in 360 Reality Audio at 11 pm. The effect will be enhanced even further with Sony’s special headphones, which support 360 Reality Audio.

Content production is also expected to become easier over the course of the year. Together with Virtual Sonics, Sony has developed new software for fast content production. This is compatible with most popular digital audio workstations and will be released at the end of January.

Sony has turned an industry on its head more often than not, especially in the wake of CES. This year, the company hopes to use it to further shape the multimedia experiences of the future and reinvent the production system that has existed until now.

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