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stuffing stockings for you….
Stockings are my favorite.
I closed my eyes today and stuffed one for each of you,
my heart layering wishes and prayers
into bright quilted spiritsocks to send on Christmas breezes.
Down in the bottom, like a big shiny apple,
I plunked a prayer that you’d hop quick and light through tangles
like a surefooted wren in underbrush,
never bogged down or boxed in.
Then I melted down the crayons
that would color you a victim,
scooped balls from the molten pools,
then sculpted and dried into powerful pellets
for you to pitch at lies and sink them
like the accuser in a dunking booth.
I dropped in big belly laughs, lush meadows, quiet pools,
and plenty of light and space,
a string of exhuberant stars burning hopeful through the night
that you’re never alone,
and a Mary Oliver poem about another sunny morning
and the lucky person who is in it
(oh let that happy lark be you)
I tucked in Dickenson’s wish that your rambles be sweet,
your reveries spacious,
and some colorful feathers that whisper “you’re worthy of wings”
I draped a bouquet of flowers from the top
to gently croon that it’s safe to bloom
and a loveable Lionel….a sort of communication angel like his character in The King’s Speech
to coach out every bit of your voice that may still huddle stuck and shut down.
Into the nooks and crannies I tucked candles that flicker encouragement,
pretty little packages of savory sustenance
and teas for chasing chill and fatigue.
Then I scooped in a whole caboodle of newborn dreams;
they trickled down like skittles into every crevice,
and some truffles of precious time wrapped in glittering foil
in strong flavors of go slow and savor
(I went heavy on these so that THIS year you’re gaining time)
And I smiled at all the love packed snug like a stowaway inside;
I hope you feel it like a song,
a warm hand on your back when you need another along,
a blanket pulled up on a cold night,
a glad squeeze for how you share and shine.
Go ahead and open it early……there will always be more,
always be enough,
A big warm thankyou to beautiful Kamana for having me over at her stunning place! Treat yourself to a visit
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Lyudmila Pavlichenko: Ukranian Sniper
This week’s badass woman of history is one of histories most deadliest snipers, Major Lyudmila Pavlichenko, aka Lady Death. After an attack on her beloved university in Kiev, Ukraine, Maj Pavlichenko approached recruiters with her civilian expert shooting certificates and asked to join the infantry. “She looked like a model, with well-manicured nails, fashionable clothes,Continue reading “Lyudmila Pavlichenko: Ukranian Sniper”
Valerie Andre: le General helicopter pilot
A little known piece of history is that one of the earliest proponents of modern day helicopter rescue and medical evacuation is credited to le General Valerie Andre, a French doctor and highly decorated helicopter pilot. le General Valerie Andre began her career in 1948, entering the service as a pilot, parachutist and army surgeon. Continue reading “Valerie Andre: le General helicopter pilot”
Khutulun: It’s normal to be a badass girl
One of the challenges of our modern western milieu is the implicit bias that, despite numerous examples otherwise, steers us into believing women are somehow not athletic or strong, competitive or political. Laypersons make sweeping generalizations about women (uhhhh…. Google guy James Damore), and through confirmation bias, deceive themselves into thinking they are righteous orContinue reading “Khutulun: It’s normal to be a badass girl”
Because I’m a girl
Everyday our achievements can be diminished by our peers by the simple phrase “you achieved that because you are a girl/woman” or “management/instructors/the boss goes easy on you because you are a girl/woman” or “that was great for a woman”. Who knows why they say it- but let’s remind ourselves why we keep doing it… Continue reading “Because I’m a girl”
The majority often misunderstand their biases
Are women treated differently? Do we take things too personally? I would argue yes, we are treated differently and yes, we might benefit from taking things less seriously. A short story: While I was in advanced pilot training for HH-60Gs, I began to notice that my older, retired (circa 1990) academic instructors would refer to pilots as “he”Continue reading “The majority often misunderstand their biases”
The change starts with us
“Someone with authority can demand compliance, but they can’t dictate optimism, trust, conviction, or creativity.” Brian Walker If we want to affect change we have to start with the people. Our leadership might make new rules, push for more change, but it takes us. This is the purpose of The Milieux Project, to change perspectives,Continue reading “The change starts with us” | <urn:uuid:57b0f27e-b5a0-445d-8208-1cc9d5dbf234> | https://themilieux.org/author/milieux01/page/11/ | en | 0.90513 | 0.09399 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
NavCoin was one of the first cryptocurrencies and is one of the few cryptocurrencies to live a long and prosperous life. NavCoin was created in 2014 as an open source and fully decentralized coin, and it continues to maintain this status today.
With a strong community of international developers and supporters, NavCoin continues to prosper in adoption and tech advancement. Every single proof of stake cryptocurrency can look to NavCoin as the wise elder. NAV has trailblazed in transaction speed, user adoption, low barrier usage, and community growth.
The NavCoin values have been laid out for a long time, and the goal is to provide an easy to use and transparent cryptocurrency that gives the people of the world the ability to be your very own bank. NAV is open source and controlled by no one. Craig Mcgregor is the project lead, and he is the forefront of many initiatives and provides excellent leadership for all tech advancements that happen to NavCoin. Nav wants to give freedom, privacy and financial power to the citizens of this world. Let’s take a look at ten must-know facts about NavCoin
1. NavCoin is a proof of stake focused cryptocurrency with some of the fastest transaction times clocked to date, with an average 30-second tx speed. PoS, of course, has become a widely adopted algorithm, but NavCoin has been able to get the most out of it with an average 260 transactions per second and a transaction fee amounting to less than a penny.
1. NavCoin adopted the “Open Alias Protocol” which allows you to send NavCoin to an email address that’s pegged to an alphanumeric address. To create real-world adoption, this was one of those initiatives to help ease users into NavCoin.
1. Privacy has become a key feature for many cryptocurrencies, and the Nav contributors are well aware that this is a feature that needs to be integrated. That is why in the upcoming months ZeroCT or Zero Confidential Transactions will be integrated into the NavCoin. It will combine the power of the Zerocoin privacy protocol feature and confidential transactions while eliminating the factors that have made Zerocoin fail before. A complete and sophisticated explanation can be found here. ZeroCT uses “Bulletproofs” to conceal the number of coins spent in a transaction. A bulletproof is a non-interactive protocol that verifies the coins being sent without revealing the amount and that is in conjunction with the confidential transactions protocol.
1. The community fund is a new initiative to help boost NavCoins tech, exposure/marketing, and community-focused consensus. Every year an average of 500,000 NAV is accumulated into the fund. Anyone from the community can create a proposal and seek votes. Stakers can vote yes or no on a proposal, and for each stake, a vote is added onto that stakers original ballet. No one owns the community fund and it can only be spent via dual network consensus. There is a 4 step process that starts with the submission of a proposal which requires a 50 navcoin fee. Then the community members vote yes or no. You have six cycles to get your proposal accepted or denied. Once the task mentioned is completed, you submit a payment request and the community votes on that as well. This is without a doubt one of the most advanced and genuinely decentralized community funds available in the space.
1. The NavHub site is fueled by community engagement and features news, projects and current events. The site also contains a guides section to help community members to become contributors to the NavCoin community and the NavHub site. This adds another pillar to its dedication to being a decentralized and community focused cryptocurrency.
1. NavCoin has a long list of wallets that provide users with different levels of experience. The original wallet known as NavCore is the most used. It gives users all the necessary tools to send and receive NAV and to participate in community activities. The NEXT wallet was designed to provide the user with a more accessible and more beautiful user interface. It’s a consumer-friendly application that can be downloaded onto your computer. The NEXT wallet gives you access to the community fund proposals and the ability to have several addresses in one location. NavPay is an easy to use a light wallet that can be downloaded to your desktop, mac, android and iOS devices. There’s no blockchain to download, unlike the NEXT and Core wallets. Control your own privacy in a safe and secure light wallet.
What’s been going on recently with NavCoin?
1. At the moment NAV is producing some great new features and tools. Cold staking was recently enabled and many community members migrated from online staking to the new cold staking feature. This gives users the ability to earn NAV and secure the network while being offline, it’s an added layer of protection.
1. Sakdeniz created the beautiful and easy to use NEXT wallet, but now he’s working on the lite version. One of the new features will be a password protected log in. Without that password, no one can access or see your transactions.
1. The “NavDroid StakeBox” is being developed and it’s a web Interface which will be able to be used on low power staking devices like the ODroid XU4. An ODroid XU4 is a single board computer that uses a considerably lower amount of energy than what most stakers need.
1. ZeroCT integration is still ongoing and being developed as we mentioned earlier in the article. This is what the community wanted for a long time and it’s finally happening.
NavCoin is the real trailblazer in the proof of stake community. That’s why it’s a perfect contender for the “Community Speaks” segment. Anyone that wants to get involved with NAV can easily visit their telegram and discord and receive help from it’s an active community. This article was meant to give you an overall look at the NavCoin cryptocurrency and the mission behind it. You can visit to learn more.
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Tax Haven
Tax havens have been catering to the super wealthy, dictators, terrorist groups, organized crime and legitimate corporations for centuries.
There is no clear definition for “Tax haven”. It could mean a country or territory which has a low tax rate. It could also mean a country that offers foreign investors financial secrecy, allowing individuals to hide assets from their country of origin.
Is it Legal?
It is perfectly legal to open a company and/or bank account in an offshore tax haven as long as your country of origin is aware of it and you pay your taxes.
Legal issues arise when individuals use the offshore banking system to avoid paying taxes or transfer undeclared assets during a divorce.
Let’s examine the mecca of all tax havens, Switzerland.
A population of only 7 million manages 27% of the worlds offshore wealth. For centuries, the Swiss economy has relied so heavily on a secrecy banking system that in 1934 it became a criminal act for a bank to reveal the name of an account holder.
In 2007, Bradley Birkenfeld, an American banker working for UBS, one of Switzerland’s largest banks, became a whistleblower disclosing a colossal tax evasion scheme involving thousands of Americans.
As a result of Birkenfeld’s information, UBS was fined $780 million and had to release information on American tax evaders. At the end of lengthy negotiations UBS provided U.S. authorities with 4500 clients out of an estimated 52000.
The U.S. government offered a limited time amnesty to its citizens hiding money abroad. Those who confessed, pay their taxes and penalties the government would not prosecute. 15000 Americans voluntarily came forward.
Birkenfeld was sentenced to 40 months in prison and fined $30,000 for his part.
Six weeks after Birkenfeld was released from prison he received a $104 million award from the IRS Whistleblower Office.
The Swiss banking system was beginning to crumble and needed immediate overhauling. In 2009, the Swiss amended their federal banking law. They also signed the Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters on 15 October 2013 and on May 27th 2015, Switzerland signed an agreement with the European Union. Under the agreement, both Switzerland and European Union countries will automatically exchange information on the financial accounts of each others residents from 2018.
This agreement is seen as the death knell for Swiss bank secrecy.
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Ask LH: How Can I Apply For A Job When I Have No Referees?
Hi Lifehacker, I’m a student trying to find a part-time job, but many places require me to have details of referees before I can submit an application. What should I do if I don’t have any? There would be no way to submit an application in those cases. Thanks, Reference Free
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Dear RF,
If you've never held a job before, your best bet is to ask a professional who knows you on a personal level. This could be a teacher, a neighbour or the parent of a close friend. Concentrate on people in a senior position who are willing to vouch for your work ethic and character.
We're guessing you want an entry-level job that won't impact on your studies? If so, your referee won't have to go into too much detail about the specific skills you possess. Most prospective employers will just want to know if you're a quick learner, reliable and able to get along well with others.
You should also ensure that your referees are willing to be contacted multiple times. It can be frustrating to get a referee call out of the blue when you're not expecting it; so get permission each and every time!
In some circumstances, securing a written reference could be worthwhile. This will allow you to review their testimonial and ensure everything important is covered. Again, you don’t have to restrict your referees to the relevant industry: instead, get them to highlight skills and strengths that carry across multiple jobs.
To be honest, we wouldn't worry too much about this. Many students will be in the exact same position as you, so it’s not like you’re particularly disadvantaged. Chances are, if a position places a huge amount of importance on referees, you're probably under-qualified anyway.
If any readers have additional ideas on how to impress prospective employers with limited experience, please let RF know in the comments section below.
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• This is probably more of a “Dark Week” idea, but I’ve known a few friends who have been successful in faking references.. It’s fairly easy.. get trusted friends or family members to pretend to be a former supervisor in a real (or even made up) role.. You can even get yourself a pre-paid sim card and extra cheapo mobile and be one of your own references.. it’s not like your perspective employer is going to be that familiar with your voice.. I know someone who only uses fake references, as their real references are less than stellar.
• I hear Vandelay Industries gives good references. They are purveyors of fine rubber products, after all.
• As a student, get a Teacher/Lecturer/Head of School/Principle/Cleaner if everyone else thinks you’re a dick to give you a written reference.
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It’s possible, after a short walk in this national monument, to completely forget that downtown San Francisco is less than 15 miles away. This relatively small park, which is part of Golden Gate National Recreation Area, contains an impressive diversity of plants and animals, including an intact old-growth coast redwood forest and habitat that supports many ferns, wildflowers, small birds and mammals, and several federally listed species. Naturalist John Muir himself called the park "the best tree-lovers monument that could possibly be found in all the forests of the world."
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World Cup comes to Los Gallardos
The regional PSOE have decided to show the voters of now-PP owned towns what they’re missing out on, by ensuring that the only town allowed to have the World Cup for a day in the Levante would be Los Gallardos (which returned Maria to power with an even greater PSOE share of the vote than before. This is mainly down to Maria being a good mayor rather than the inhabitants being left wing, I hasten to add).
The World Cup, which I’m told Spain won at the last World Cup Football Match, was paraded around town before being put in the townhall for people to queue up and have their photo taken with it. Hundreds of people turned up.
This time, nobody dropped it.
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House Drake
The eyes of this purple-scaled dragon glint with a mischievous intelligence and the sting of its tail has a silvery sheen.
House Drake CR 2
Source Curse of the Crimson Throne (PFRPG) pg. 474
XP 600
CG Tiny dragon
hp 19 (2d12+6)
Fort +6, Ref +5, Will +7
Defensive Abilities ferocious will; Immune paralysis, sleep
Speed 20 ft., fly 50 ft. (good)
Melee bite +6 (1d4), sting +6 (1d4)
Space 0 ft., Reach 0 ft. (5 ft. with tail)
Special Attacks breath weapon, silver strike
Spell-Like Abilities (CL 3rd; concentration +5)
Constant—see invisibility
3/day—cure light wounds
1/day—alarm (CL 12th), obscuring mist
Str 11, Dex 15, Con 17, Int 12, Wis 14, Cha 14
Base Atk +2; CMB +2; CMD 12
Feats Weapon Finesse
Skills Acrobatics +4, Fly +15, Knowledge (local) +6, Perception +7, Sense Motive +7, Stealth +15, Survival +7
Languages Common, Draconic, Infernal
Environment urban (Korvosa)
Organization solitary, pair, or clutch (3-9)
Treasure standard
Special Abilities
Breath Weapon (Su) Up to three times per day and no more than once every 1d4 rounds, a house drake can breathe out a small cloud of silver mist in a 10-foot cone. All creatures in this area must succeed at a DC 14 Will save or be confused for 1 round. This is a mind-affecting effect. The save DC is Constitution-based.
Ferocious Will (Ex) House drakes have a stubborn streak of fierce independence and gain a +2 racial bonus on Will saves (this bonus is included in the stats above). In addition, the first time in a day that a house drake successfully saves against a mind-affecting spell or spelllike ability, the caster of the spell must succeed at a DC 13 Will save or be staggered for 1 round by a blast of magical, mental feedback. This feedback is a mind-affecting effect, and the save DC is Charisma-based.
Silver Strike (Ex) All of a house drake’s natural attacks are treated as being silver for the purposes of overcoming damage reduction.
The Korvosan house drake is not a true drake, but rather an unusual local variant of the more common pseudodragon—an example of how a creature placed under extreme conditions might adapt and evolve to grow stronger. In this case, house drakes are the result of brutal and violent predations upon their pseudodragon ancestors by Korvosa’s imps, who began to become a true infestation in the early years after the Acadamae was founded and its students began accidently releasing the little devils into the urban wilds after failing to claim them as familiars. These imps found Korvosa’s indigenous pseudodragons to be a delightful (and delicious) population to torment, for there was little that the pseudodragons could do against an imp’s defenses.
It wasn’t long before the most able, wise, and stubborn of the city’s pseudodragons began fighting back, chewing on silver coins to build up traces of the metal in their teeth and stings to be able to penetrate their enemy’s supernatural skin, focusing their studies on magic to see through impish invisibility and recover from the constant fights, and gorging on fat dream spiders to develop a befuddling breath weapon. The evolution of the pseudodragon into the house drake took only a few generations, quickly enough that many scholars suspect the outside influence of a mysterious patron of some supernatural source.
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Public Health
With its publicly financed, universal healthcare system, Denmark serves as a unique case study of the challenges and opportunities in public health issues.
In Denmark and across Europe, healthcare systems are facing rising costs, aging populations, and inequality in health. Analyze and debate these challenges, while examining their interplay with the organization, financing, and priority-setting of the various systems you encounter in class and on Study Tours.
Is This Program For You?
Why Study Public Health in Denmark?
With its renowned system of extensive register-based population information, Denmark is a unique case study of how tracking health-related parameters over time can inform policy and decision-makers about important public health issues.
From visiting hospitals and dissecting the Danish healthcare systems, this class has given me perspective. Our professors never try to force us to decide which country’s system is better, but encourage us to see strengths and weaknesses within both. I no longer look at health care as a black and white system. I’ve been challenged to think in a different way than I would in the United States, and have had an experience that stretches far beyond the classroom.”
– Shannon, Lafayette College
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The internet is the most widely used source of information the world over, and as such all people from all walks of life frequent the net for almost anything from business, information, social networking and many more, however there is a negative side to the internet,There is a whole myriad of potentially destructive and illegal activities in the internet. From Identity theft, internet scamming, spamming to prostitution, gambling and even organized crime.
In this article I will discuss one very common internet scam which is called Domain Scams or Domain Name Scams, These types of scams are a very tricky way to get domain owners and domain users to either pay for promised services that turn out to be nothing but fraudulent.
A common domain scam is when a .com owner gets an email asking them to either register to get more traffic to their website by placing their website on top of a search engine’s search lists. This is very lucrative for any domain owner as the promise of more traffic means more prospective business, but when the .com owner registers his info and places his financial information, he will soon find out that he was scammed out of his own hard earned money by a program that identifies .com owners via a very official looking email.
Another technique that is used quite often is when you get an email telling you that one or more of your domains are in danger of being assigned to another owner, or that it is being domain hacked by another site stealing domains, the aim of this is to get the domain owner to panic and make uninformed decisions that lead to him looking for a way to save his domain, and voila! the email contains a link that is supposedly the one thing that will save your web domain, the poor .com owner clicks on the link and gives all his info and soon realizes that his domains are fine and that he paid top dollar for absolutely nothing.
The sad part about all this is that these type of scams are very easy to identify and so much more easier to avoid, one common denominator to this are the emails, Spamming is the most common tool for domain scamming, spam emails are unsolicited emails addressed to millions of users in a database and is designed to gain personal and financial information from unknowing victims. One helpful tip is if you do need servicing for your web domains is that you find them yourself, if it is a spam, always think twice, if it contains info that speaks of trouble, then verify through your own means, check with your host, server’s and other providers. the only key to your safety is yourself so do make that effort to protect yourself, be aware and be knowledgeable, this puts you one step ahead.
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Review: Hotshot Handle
Is this the perfect companion for smartphone skate filming?
The video above was filmed entirely with the Hotshot Handle, paired with an iPhone SE. Fisheye footage was taken with the Hotshot Handle and Death Lens Fisheye for iPhone. We figured that a video was the best way to show off what the Hotshot is capable of, and to demonstrate the uses explained below.
Remember when making a skate clip meant sneaking out with your parents' cumbersome VHS camera, constantly rewinding and taping over the bails with makes, and wondering how the heck they put music into the background of Blind's Video Days? If you're under 25, you probably don't. We live in a world of instant media, filmed on iPhones and the like, at the flick of a smartphone screen. When you take a step back, it's pretty hilarious – imagine showing someone a modern iPhone clip back in the 90s, and then telling them you filmed it on your telephone. Bizarre.
We've previously talked about the monumental impact the smartphone has had on skateboarding – it's something that goes without saying at this point. It's no surprise then that companies are offering up solutions to the problems that arise while filming with a tiny piece of plastic and aluminium, and the Hotshot Handle is one of those contraptions. Smartphones can certainly be awkward to hold while you're filming with them – especially if you need to zoom or roll alongside a skater – and the Hotshot Handle aims to alleviate those issues. So how does it stack up?
Build Quality
The Hotshot Handle is made mostly of plastic, which makes it extremely light and, at first glance, makes it seem a little fragile. Fortunately it's not the shoddy piece of plastic it might initially seem to be, and after genuinely wondering whether it would adequately hold my iPhone in place, my fears were quickly quashed. The device locks your smartphone in place with a clamp system, which can be adjusted to fit any reasonably sized phone, and can be tightened in a way that makes sure your phone is tightly secured and totally safe – with some slight padding to avoid any potential scratches.
The grip part of the handle is hardly much to write home about. The plastic is rippled which makes it easy to grip onto, but doesn't feature any padding or added comforts. It's perhaps what you'd expect from a plastic handle, though, and to be honest the lack of grippy material went barely unnoticed while I used it. Filming with the Hotshot never felt uncomfortable, and its plastic nature meant it was light and easy to carry around for extended periods of time – exactly what you'd want from a phone handle.
Filming Long-Lens
The majority of people who purchase a smartphone handle do so because they want to film fisheye angles with it. While the handle obviously makes fisheye filming much simpler, I was blown away by the effect it had on filming regular, long-lens angles. I was using the iPhone SE during the review period, the lightest current-gen iPhone, and the stabilisation I was able to achieve with the Hotshot was nothing short of totally surprising. Holding the handle instead of gripping the actual phone makes filming anything a breeze, but rolling long-lens shots were the major beneficiary to the Hotshot's stabilisation ability – an underrated feature for sure.
Another major benefit to using the handle during regular filming is the way you're able to 'pinch zoom' on the fly. Holding an iPhone completely still while rolling alongside a skater and zooming at the same time was a nigh impossible task before I got my hands on the Hotshot. I was able to steadily hold the grip one-handed while zooming with the touchscreen, without it ever feeling awkward or uncomfortable. This was another surprise benefit, and a technique I used prominently while filming the video above.
Filming Fisheye
After using the Hotshot extensively while filming long-lens, I almost forgot that its primary use is usually as a fisheye handle. It works exactly as you'd expect, with the handle long enough to get low to the action without sacrificing stability. This makes the Hotshot Handle a perfect addition to the Death Lens fisheye, which I used during this review and in the Bato Yard video above.
During our Death Lens review, I spoke about using a cheap selfie-stick as a handle while filming fisheye, but the Hotshot is a vastly superior option. With a comfortable grip, more nimble shape and size, and a proper lock-in mechanism, the Hotshot is definitely a high-quality and safer option when compared to a cheap selfie-stick.
An often overlooked asset to the Hotshot is its universal tripod mount, which is situated conveniently on the bottom of the handle. If you're someone who often films themselves skating, this is an absolute godsend. It works perfectly with any tripod, from mini to massive, and has the potential to add another dimension to your photo and video work on a smartphone, even outside of skateboarding.
The time-lapses from the introduction of the Bato Yard video were filmed using a mini tripod attached to the Hotshot, and everything went without a hitch. While it's definitely not the major selling point of the product, it's most definitely an underrated bonus feature that'll probably save you plenty of time and frustration, along with adding some extra polish to your videos.
I was extremely surprised by the Hotshot Handle. For something that appears to be a flimsy piece of plastic at first glance, its ability to stabilise footage and aid smartphone filming can't be understated. Whether you're filming fisheye lines, rolling long-lens, time lapses or selfies, the Hotshot has every base covered. It's significantly cheaper than any gimbal on the market, and while you can't expect the absolute precision of an electronic gimbal, it does a standout job as a significantly cheaper alternative.
To cap it off, the Hotshot Handle was founded and developed by none other than Garrett Hill, along with his brother Gantry, so it's not just another product from a big-shot company trying to capitalise on the popularity of skateboarding. Garrett is a skater through-and-through, and if you need further convincing with regards to the Hotshot, just know that you're supporting a modern skate legend with every purchase. The product was clearly designed with skateboarding in mind, and it greatly exceeded all initial expectations I had. I'm backing it.
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Ways to Guide Kids to Independent Living
Children have unique ways of adapting to change. They learn those mechanisms either through what is being done at home or by the guidance given by their parents or other family members. One of the exciting and challenging roles that parents play is how to train kids to live independently. It is said that it is better to introduce this idea to children at a young age for them to be ready for a bigger world they have to deal with later. Independent living involves the manner how kids respond to basic functions at home and in society, as well as to how to protect their well-being. There are certain methods to hone children to become independent creatures, without sacrificing the time to enjoy their childhood years.
Let them see how things work at home
A comfortable place to stay is vital to every person, especially for children. This area lets the children act freely making it essential to make them familiar with their functions and purposes. Knowing how things work at home, the children will be aware of what is safe for them to touch or use, and the things that they should keep themselves from doing. Aside from the material aspects found at home, they should also learn the mechanisms for dealing with one another, like how to show respect, extend help, and express concern to other family members. Having this kind of home environment provides children with a sense of security, as well as building their character that can easily blend with other people.
Introduce a sense of responsibility
Letting the children help with household chores is effective training for independent living. The more they get involved with different tasks at home, the more they will appreciate how it feels to be responsible. Parents may start introducing kids to simple home duties like preparing the table before every meal, putting the toys back in their storage, watering the plants, or placing the dirty clothes in the laundry basket. Doing this work should encourage their willingness and it can be done by explaining to them the importance of helping one another to get the chores done quickly and easily.
Allow them to decide on simple matters
Being a child does not mean they are not capable of deciding on matters, even the simpler ones. Letting them choose what they like or believe to be what is best for them is a good practice to make them independent. This tactic trains the decision-making aspect of children which is essential when they reach the growing years. Parents may let them decide what to wear when going out or choose the bedroom designs from the selection in www.myfittedbedroom.com. Allowing them to decide on simple matters means trusting their instinct, which is essential in building their confidence.
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A frank memo to the youths
Also important to note is that youths should see leadership beyond political agitation but broadly: in school, in business, academia, civil society, religion, trade unions and mass media. Secondly youths should not see leadership as centralised but as diffuse. You don’t have to be president to lead. You can lead as a prefect in a school, a supervisor at a call centre, a captain of a football team.
Most critically, youths should not seek leadership for leadership’s sake. Do the youths understand the political economy of postcolonial Africa? Do they have an agenda for the liberation and transformation of Africa? In my many unhappy encounters with many of them on social media, I get the sense that very many of them believe in a nanny state: that their fortunes are dependent on getting alms from the state. I am inclined to advise youths using the words of John F Kennedy: ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.
Secondly, in these unhappy encounters with youths on social media I get the sense that many are angry at many things. Now being angry is not a bad thing but righteous anger is rarely a basis for good public policies. The fact that you feel aggrieved, however genuinely, does not mean you have the right response to the problem. Often what sounds appealing politically is dysfunctional as policy.
The problem we face is that most struggles in Africa are over who should grab power and inherit the neo-colonial state believing that getting into power is the solution. Africa has had over 300 changes of government without much change in governance or its outcomes. The state we have today was designed to serve foreign interests. There is little domestic input into the policy making process. What is the response of our youths to this reality?
The bigger problem is that Africa elites, and most especially our youths, fight over concepts borrowed from Europe and North America. But functional institutions evolve organically from within societies to reflect historical and cultural realities. Copying and pasting European institutions onto the African social structure will not work.
Secondly, the transformation of Africa does not only require youths getting into power. Rather it requires that those in power, regardless of their age, possess the right values, believe in the appropriate policies and make alliances with transformational social forces. Many youths are inclined to hate entrepreneurs yet only private capital can help our nations build the prosperity we seek and crave.
What is the guiding ideology of our youths who are seeking power? Does this ideology seek to liberate Africa from foreign interference and transform our nations from backward peasant economies to modern industrial societies? We can take a leaf from the youths excited by Bobi Wine in his struggle against Museveni. What is the ideology of People Power? What are the treasured values of those who support it? And which social forces are they allied to?
Youths in East Africa need to avoid the temptation to support individuals but to support values, policies and the right social alliances. For instance, youths do not need to wear opposition to a particular leader as an identity. If a leader acts against your values and preferred policies, oppose him and when he upholds them defend him.
1. 1.The youth of today are just feigning madness thats why most of their tranquilizes are now drugs ,sex and participating in activism;Most of the real work in the area of politics,economics and Religion was already sorted in the 194os.For example the cold war shaped the destinations of all first world countries.
2.Why is there a big difference between the youth of then and the ones of now?The likes of M7,Joaquim Chissano,Samaro Machel were passionate about ideology while the likes of Bobi Wine,Julius Malema are just masqueraders of politics.
3.The role models of today’s youth are people like Kyle Jenner,Justine Bebier,Kim Kardashain here in Uganda the youth are inspired by the likes of Bad black ,sheila Gashumaba,Zari can you imagine Sheila Gashumba has more followers on twitter than the Speaker of Parliament ?
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UAlberta scientists have created a maple leaf 10,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair.
Jennifer Pascoe - 27 June 2017
At just 32 atoms and visible only through a million-dollar scanning tunneling microscope, a tiny maple leaf created by UAlberta PhD student Roshan Achal illustrates the next wave of green technology, all while showing patriotic pride.
Invisible to the naked eye, the little leaf is pulling triple duty: celebrating Canada's 150th birthday, attempting a world record, and-with critical implications for our technology-driven information society-providing critical steps towards the next generation of smaller and faster computers.
"It's super cool and super Canadian and demonstrates our strength and skill in this niche of nanotechnology," said Achal. "Almost no one else in the world can do it this well."
Unlike other ultra-small atomic creations, this maple leaf retains its structure at room temperature.
A tiny act of patriotism
At ten nanometres in width, the leaf is roughly 100 times smaller than the world's smallest national flag-created at the University of Waterloo in September 2016-10,000 times smaller than a human hair, and 53 million times smaller than the world's largest maple leaf.
The leaf demonstrates the technique of building structures atom by atom (via something called scanning tunneling microscopy), which is being used to create and study circuitry to make smaller computational components while simultaneously speeding them up. In this particular niche of nanotechnology, Canada rates high on the international stage, with the University of Alberta leading the way.
"It's hard to imagine, because it's so small, but picture a surface almost like bubble wrap," explained Achal of the silicon crystal wafer on which the leaf is patterned. "The bubbles are actually hydrogen atoms bonded to the surface, and we are able to pop those bubbles to create patterns."
Nano pioneers
Achal is working on perfecting that patterning process to make atomic structures which will help revolutionize the next generation of computing by consuming less power. He's using an ultra-sharp tool, a tip just one atom in width, which was perfected by his supervisor, UAlberta physics professor and National Institute for Nanotechnology research officer Robert Wolkow, whom Achal calls a "visionary."
A pioneer in scanning tunneling microscopy technology, Wolkow already has a Guinness World Record for the nano-tip, the world's sharpest man-made object, which provides unparalleled precision for patterning electronic circuits.
Achal explained the team wanted to do something to demonstrate their technological capabilities, but also something fun and meaningful to mark the occasion of Canada 150.
While they wait to hear back from Guinness World Records with an official nod to their small sculpture, the scientists continue to perfect their technique, with significant implications for next generation computing. This capability is now being put to commercial use by local spin-off Quantum Silicon Incorporated to make revolutionary ultra-fast and efficient silicon electronic devices. | <urn:uuid:88ae9d1a-b82c-4581-993b-dae511001e5a> | https://www.ualberta.ca/science/news/2017/june/scientists-have-create-maple-leaf-ten-thousand-times-smaller-than-human-hair.html | en | 0.921623 | 0.108473 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Virtual Dice for Games and Math
Here are some virtual dice for your games, math or Smartboard activities:
BGFL's Virtual Dice:
Choose from four different types of dice with six to twelve faces.
TeacherLed's Space Dice:
Choose from 1-3 dice to roll for games or math.
Curriculumbit's Virtual Dice:
Roll 1-3 dice or choose the +/- dice for math games.
Magic Dice Level 1:
Roll 2 dice and add.
Roll 3 dice and add.
Choose from 1-25 dice. Play games of probability or percentage. Dice sums can be found at the bottom of the screen.
1. Have you come across any dice games that you can customize? I keep getting requests from my teachers to have dice that they can customize. For example they want to make a die with 2's and 4's and then the other die with all six numbers. Or they want to put various words on them.
2. Manuel,
The BGFL Virtual dice can be customized. Click the "Customise Your Die" button right under the dice choices to add your own numbers or words (up to 5 letters).
3. Awesome collection! Thank you Karen.
4. Very informative post. That's really a good collection. Thanks for sharing.
5. Have you found any place that let's you customize more than one dice? I love BGFL's, but it doesn't let you customize or roll more than one die :(.
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Over the decades many theories, some more realistic than others, were tested about the purpose of the lines (also called geoglyphs). Some people were convinced they were archeological calendars or remnants of Inca roads. Others thought they were irrigation plans marking subterranean water routes. Still others theorized they were an ancient pilgrimage route, and, for some, the only thing that made sense was that they were a means of communicating with aliens. One recent theory that is gaining momentum is that, they were used in rituals, by entire communities.
The Nazca Lines Aren’t just Lines
The lines are located in one of the driest places on earth, where water is often a scarce commodity. The Nazca people settled there, in a sheltered valley in the Andean foothills, somewhere around 200 B.C., and flourished for several centuries. Ten rivers come down from the Andes into the valley still today; evidence of Nazca settlements dot the terrain around these ribbons of green.
The Nazca lines are not only lines. They are shapes, including sharks, orcas, lizards, dogs and monkeys, camelids, and bizarre humanoids, scenes of decapitation and trophy heads. They also include lots of geometric shapes, including trapezoids, triangles, and intersecting lines.
The Nazca People
First really researched only after world war two, recent studies have revealed new meanings for the lines. Researchers believe entire communities too part in the creation of the geoglyphs, which were made by removing the rock on the surface, to reveal the lighter, dry sand underneath.
The spiritual capital of the early Nazca was Cahuachi, a site first excavated in the 1950’s. It was an almost 400-acre complex with an adobe pyramid, broad plazas, several large temples, and a network of corridors and staircases.
The Nazca managed their limited resources for hundreds of years. For instance, they had a sophisticated system of water delivery and conservation, and they worked to protect the fragile substructure of the soil, planting seeds one at a time instead of plowing. There is also evidence that they recycled their garbage and used it as building material.
As their population grew, however, the Nazca may have lost the rationale behind some of their methods. In the pursuit of supporting a growing populations, they cleared forests to plant crops. Unfortunately, the trees they cleared were the hurango, a tree with roots that can stretch as deep as 180 feet under the earth to reach subterranean water channels. These trees were vital for stabilizing the soil. Evidence shows severe flooding probably caused the Nazca downfall.
The Real Purpose of the Lines
Although the Nazca weren’t he only civilizations that created geoglyphs, they are certainly the most well-known. While they flourished, they moved east and west along with the rainfall patterns. Researchers have explored the region from the Andean highlands to the Pacific coast, and have found evidence of Nazca villages, and nearby geoglyphs, almost everywhere they looked.
Researchers are now coming together on a conclusion that the lines were used as pathways for ceremonial processions. One of the rationales for that conclusion are the single-line drawings (the spider and the hummingbird). The theory is that a person or people could walk each geoglyph without ever crossing another line.
When a lot of peop0le walk over one area regularly, the soil is compacted. Some of the lines (such as the 2,000 foot trapezoid), have been tested and shown to be compacted. This further supports the theory that, though the rituals may have originally been single-person quests, they grew as the population grew, with more people participating.
The Nazca Lines are a Sight to Behold
Whatever their purpose, the Nazca Lines are a marvel and a must-see for any trip to Peru. We invite you to join us on one of our excursions to see the Lines, as part of a customized visit. Bestperutours.com has received the Certificate of Excellence from Trip Advisor for the second year in a row. Book your tour to see Peru, and the Nazca Lines here.
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Daily Adams
‘The dumbest [anti-immigration reform] excuse yet’
Jennifer Rubin sees the latest House GOP objection to immigration reform as the absurdity that it is:
So these voices [opposing reform] have latched onto a new argument that is the most inane yet in the immigration debate. The president can’t be trusted to follow the law….
if the logic of anti-immigration members of Congress logic holds, then the House should not pass any legislation on anything since the president won’t enforce the “good parts.” Why pass the sequester, a balanced-budget amendment, tax or entitlement reform or anything else? Ironically, it’s the president who wants to sidestep Congress and operate by executive mandate.
Via The dumbest excuse yet @ Right Turn.
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Bolsonaro: Brazil to buy 'promising' Oxford vaccine
Freitag, 07. August 2020 00:30
Brazil will purchase the world's "most promising" COVID-19 vaccine which is being developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca, President Jair Bolsonaro stated as the country faces one of the largest outbreaks of the disease in the world.
Bolsonaro added he set aside 1.9 billion reais ($356 million) to buy the vaccine. However, Brazil is also aiming to take part in the production of the vaccine, Bolsonaro stressed.
In July, Oxford and AstraZeneca stated that their vaccine creates an immune response to the coronavirus behind the ongoing pandemic.
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Drives at High Temperatures
Over the years Northern Industrial has assisted in the installation of drives in some of the world's toughest environments. With customers based around the globe, drives serviced and repaired by our engineers contend with the world’s most extreme environments on a daily basis.
Whether or not the drive is installed in a hot climate, it’s normal for drives to be situated near a heat source. For example in the metals industry hot temperatures are a day-to-day requirement. Yet, hot temperatures pose risks to the functionality and the ageing process of a drive.
For every AC drive, minimum and maximum operating temperatures are listed within the specifications tables. For most AC drives the maximum operating temperature will be 40 °C, to put this temperature into context this is the average July temperature for Kuwait City and below the record temperature of 45.9 ℃ reached in France in June 2019. So, in reality we often need to consider how our AC drive will cope when the mercury tops this 40℃ limit.
What impact does high temperature have on an AC drive?
Firstly, it is worth considering the impact of high temperatures on drives. Even before it hits maximum output drives can be affected by high temperature. When drives are stored in direct sunlight capacitors are vulnerable to damage. High temperatures will accelerate the natural aging process within the electrolytic capacitors as the electrolyte dries out. A solution for this would be a drive reliant on thin film capacitors which are less likely to fail.
How to ensure a drive remains functional at high temperatures
When a drive operates at high temperature, the drive compensates for the stress incurred by using built-in derating algorithms to limit the output current to the motor. This functionality is designed to protect both the drive and its motor. For unusual periods of high temperature this preservatory functionality could be enough to ensure your drive remains operational. However, if you know your drive will be subject to this stress on a regular basis then it’s worth considering a drive with a higher rating. With a higher rating the output can be high enough to ensure the motor remains functional.
Consideration should also be given to switching pattern and switching frequency. Switching pattern and switching frequency selected for the insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) can become unreliable as the temperature rises. A drive’s ability to switch frequency is impeded and load cycles are also affected.
It is also worth noting that a drive’s lifespan is generally considered to reduce by 50% for every 10 °C the drive exceeds the operating temperature. So, not only will functionality be sacrificed at high temperatures but reliability will also be lost. To avoid costly repairs and replacements it really is worth choosing the right drive for your application.
How to choose the right drive for high temperatures
Manufacturers such as Danfoss can help you plan for high temperatures. They offer a large range of drives capable of operating at temperatures of up to 50 °C, at full load without derating. They even offer a drive which can operate at 60°C, the VACON® 100 X. This drive combines large front cooling fins and oversized cooling fans, to fully maximise its high temperature capabilities.
It really is worth thinking about how your drive can be cooled, especially if the application demands functionality above 60°C. An option could be to use a drive with a cold plate designed to dissipate heat from the drive.
Although sometimes a cold plate simply isn’t enough. In these instances external cooling should be considered. When a drive is located within an electrical room or cabinet then air conditioning can be a solution. However, costs can quickly mount when using an air conditioning solution, especially when the drive is the only device which requires cooling.
Further cooling capacity can be gained through flange-mounted installation. This method of installation allows hot air to be expelled through a back-channel. Most of the control electronics are housed within the panel, the heatsink protrudes so it can be cooled by external air flow, or by a separate air duct. This method vastly improves efficiency and maintenance costs.
Under normal circumstances when air pressure allows for thermal energy to dissipate this is a great solution. However, at high altitudes air struggles to conduct heat from the drive. This is when it’s worth considering using a liquid cooled drive. The VACON NXP Liquid Cooled drive from Danfoss offers fantastic power density due to the efficiency of liquid cooling. This drive only dissipates 5% of its heat loss through the air, meaning there’s no need to build a separate room to enclose the drive. Liquid cooled drives are also exceptionally quiet, at the most they’ll just have small circulation fans, so additional noise impact is significantly reduced.
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My goal is to limit access to docker containers to just a few public IP addresses. Is there a simple, repeatable process to accomplish my goal? Understanding only the basics of iptables while using Docker's default options, I'm finding it very difficult.
I'd like to run a container, make it visible to the public Internet, but only allow connections from select hosts. I would expect to set a default INPUT policy of REJECT and then only allow connections from my hosts. But Docker's NAT rules and chains get in the way and my INPUT rules are ignored.
Can somebody provide an example of how to accomplish my goal given the following assumptions?
• Host public IP on eth0
• Host private IP on eth1
• docker run -d -p 3306:3306 mysql
• Block all connection to host/container 3306 except from hosts and
I'm happy to bind the container to only the local ip address but would need instructions on how to set up the iptables forwarding rules properly which survive docker process and host restarts.
Two things to bear in mind when working with docker's firewall rules:
1. To avoid your rules being clobbered by docker, use the DOCKER-USER chain
2. Docker does the port-mapping in the PREROUTING chain of the nat table. This happens before the filter rules, so --dest and --dport will see the internal IP and port of the container. To access the original destination, you can use -m conntrack --ctorigdstport.
For example:
iptables -A DOCKER-USER -i eth0 -s -p tcp -m conntrack --ctorigdstport 3306 --ctdir ORIGINAL -j ACCEPT
iptables -A DOCKER-USER -i eth0 -p tcp -m conntrack --ctorigdstport 3306 --ctdir ORIGINAL -j DROP
NOTE: Without --ctdir ORIGINAL, this would also match the reply packets coming back for a connection from the container to port 3306 on some other server, which is almost certainly not what you want! You don't strictly need this if like me your first rule is -m conntrack --ctstate ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT, as that will deal with all the reply packets, but it would be safer to still use --ctdir ORIGINAL anyway.
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• Should this be edited to include the --ctdir? I use -m conntrack --ctstate NEW --ctorigdstport 3306 --ctdir ORIGINAL – lonix Sep 15 '19 at 19:41
• @Ionix, yes it should, although I've only just worked out why it's been confusing me. I've added a bit of explanation. – SystemParadox Sep 16 '19 at 11:04
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Note the default DOCKER-USER table contains the entry: -A DOCKER-USER -j RETURN which will run before the above if you use -A. A solution is to insert rules at the head in reverse order with -I. – BMitch Sep 16 '19 at 18:29
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@BMitch Or even better yet, add all rules in a new FILTERS chain, and -I insert new rules (like you said), to jump to it: -I INPUT -j FILTERS and -I DOCKER-USER -i eth0 -j FILTERS – lonix Sep 17 '19 at 11:02
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I first had a look at this help page from docker: docs.docker.com/network/iptables and just managed to block my entire LAN network. How great!? Your solution, however, worked. What I'd like to know, though, is whether we could block all ports instead of just a few. Would it work as expected without the --ctorigdstport? Then I can open a few ports (placing a few rules before this one) if necessary and then have everything else blocked. – Alexis Wilke Feb 21 at 1:54
With Docker v.17.06 there is a new iptables chain called DOCKER-USER. This one is for your custom rules: https://docs.docker.com/network/iptables/
Unlike the chain DOCKER it is not reset on building/starting containers. So you could add these lines to your iptables config/script for provisioning the server even before installing docker and starting the containers:
-A DOCKER-USER -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 3306 -j DROP
Now the port for MySQL is blocked from external access (eth0) even thought docker opens the port for the world. (These rules assume, your external interface is eth0.)
Eventually, you will have to clean up iptables restart the docker service first, if you messed it too much trying to lock down the port as I did.
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• I miss why this DOCKER-USER table is any different than any other user-added table.. It has no filter pre-applied to it so you still have to specify the interface names yourself. If you create a "MY-CHAIN" and insert it into the FORWARD chain it will have the same result, no? – ColinM Dec 4 '17 at 18:13
• Yes, it makes a difference, because Docker inserts the DOCKER-USER chain into the FORWARD chain: -A FORWARD -j DOCKER-USER -A FORWARD -j DOCKER-ISOLATION That's why, the custom instructions are executed before the DOCKER chain. – ck1 Dec 5 '17 at 18:26
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Note that if you use --dport inside DOCKER-USER this must match the internal IP of the container service, not the exposed port. These often match but not always and this could easily conflict with other services so I still argue that this DOCKER-USER solution is half-baked. – ColinM Dec 6 '17 at 22:03
UPDATE: While this answer is still valid the answer by @SystemParadox using DOCKER-USER in combination with --ctorigdstport is better.
Here is a solution which persists well between restarts and allows you to affect the exposed port rather than the internal port.
iptables -t mangle -N DOCKER-mysql
iptables -t mangle -A DOCKER-mysql -s -j RETURN
iptables -t mangle -A DOCKER-mysql -j DROP
iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 3306 -j DOCKER-mysql
I've built a Docker image that uses this method to automatically manage the iptables for you, using either environment variables or dynamically with etcd (or both):
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UPDATE: While valid in 2015, this solution is no longer the right way to do it.
The answer seems to be in Docker's documentation at https://docs.docker.com/articles/networking/#the-world
Docker’s forward rules permit all external source IPs by default. To allow only a specific IP or network to access the containers, insert a negated rule at the top of the DOCKER filter chain. For example, to restrict external access such that only source IP can access the containers, the following rule could be added: iptables -I DOCKER -i ext_if ! -s -j DROP
What I ended up doing was:
iptables -I DOCKER -i eth0 -s -p tcp --dport 3306 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I DOCKER 3 -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 3306 -j DROP
I didn't touch the --iptables or --icc options.
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If you do iptables -vnL DOCKER, the destination ports are all ports within the container. If I get that right, that means the rules above would only affect the port 3306 within the container - that is, if you were to -p 12345:3306 your container, your rule would still be the one required to lock down the access (i.e. --dport 12345 wouldn't work), because the DOCKER chain's ACCEPT rules are post-NAT. – sunside Nov 6 '15 at 13:31
• That's right, the rules need to relate to the ports within the containers. – GGGforce Nov 6 '15 at 13:35
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Hum, that's sort of ugly if you happen to run multiple containers that use, say, an internal NGINX to do reverse proxying (e.g. Zabbix, a custom load balancer, etc.) because it would require you to know the container's IP in advance. I'm still searching to a solution for that problem that does not require --iptables=false, because this seems to be the worst choice of them all. – sunside Nov 6 '15 at 13:38
• Thank you! You've solved my issue after many hours of searching. Now I'm finally able to jail MySQL just to my home IP address without exposing the soft underbelly to the entire world. – Matt Cavanagh Jul 16 '17 at 19:45
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The DOCKER chain is not supposed to be directly manipulated by the user! Use the DOCKER-USER chain for that. Check the accepted answer. – Paul-Sebastian Manole Nov 8 '18 at 19:56
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Discomfort at Swarthmore
I come from a traditional Asian family, with parents who didn’t see the point of going to a liberal arts school. Given that I wanted to major in computer science, we all thought that it was going to be a no-brainer to choose a school with the most reputable computer science program.
When I visited Swarthmore, I wasn’t immediately captivated by the campus. I didn’t have that “love at first sight” feeling. To be completely honest, I felt pretty uncomfortable. I felt intimidated by all the academically-inclined students and by what I perceived as tremendous academic stress. I felt confined in a small campus, and I always thought that I would go to a big university because I would be comfortable there. My perception of college was feeling surrounded by a pool of people and having the most fun four years of my life, making new friends, and partying often. To top it off, Swarthmore isn’t really a household name that is thrown around, and my parents had never heard of it. From the outside looking in, these reasons should have been clear as day for me not to choose Swarthmore. But something inside me kept urging me to go to Swat, and what made it worse was that I knew exactly what that was.
Looking back, the people I looked up to the most weren’t necessarily extremely smart, extremely rich, etc. They were people who were grounded by their human values, people who could genuinely connect with other people, and people who wanted to truly expand their lives. What is most important to me is cultivating those human values, and I knew that if I went to Swarthmore I would be in an uncomfortable environment, where I would be forced to be introspective and truly understand why I’m doing things. I noticed how there was nothing related to computer science in the books I read about music, acting, or death. Interests are plastic, and they will continue to change and develop as long as I am open to them.
With regards to the academics here at Swarthmore, I was not the most studious student in high school. But discipline and focus were lifestyle traits I wanted to cultivate, especially for the rest of my life. And I knew that at Swarthmore I would be able to work on this part of me. There have been days I’ve stayed up late working on math problem sets, understanding computer science concepts, or reading religion papers, but on the inside I am smirking because it is fun and this is the reason why I came here. I didn’t like the idea of constantly working; college is supposed to be relaxing! But the reason why I came here was to grow, to change. How much would it suck if I came out of college exactly the same as I was right now in high school. Something my Swat admissions officer told me was that yes, Swarthmore is going to be extremely challenging. Honestly though, that is how I’m going to grow. I had been coasting throughout my whole high school career, and although it was fun, it left me bored and ultimately unfulfilled. If I’m going to be coasting through college all four years, then basically it’s like me wasting my time at an expensive summer camp.
At a technical school, I could see myself graduating, meeting people who will become my best friends, and probably working at some tech company — which indeed is a great life. At Swat, however, I honestly have no idea who I will become or where I will end up, but maybe that’s the why I wanted to come here so badly. I would’ve never seen myself going to a liberal arts college, but hey, that’s a whole new world that I will be able to be a part of.
Every time I’m struggling with my classes, struggling with the relationships I’m making, I am still able to smile because I know that is the very reason why I chose Swarthmore. I will face these fears in order to grow. My best friend told me something that I will hold onto as I go on exploring my life in college:
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Indian Husband finds Wife’s Affair Photos on Her Phone
An Indian husband discovered his wife was having an affair after finding pictures of the woman with her lover on her phone.
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Raj noticed a change in his wife's behaviour.
An Indian husband was asked by his wife to transfer her mobile data to the laptop, however, the phone revealed photos of her affair.
The husband had sent his wife abroad in the hope that she would earn good money by working there.
The husband, Raj, explained that he got married in 2012. His wife had been studying at the time. While studying, she expressed her wish to study abroad.
Raj agreed and sent his wife to Singapore in 2018. After this, she wanted to go to Cyprus.
In 2019, she went to Cyprus. Whilst there, the woman met a man named Navdeep Kumar and the pair had an affair. They reportedly ended up getting married.
To ensure she could stay, Navdeep and the woman produced fake divorce papers and claimed that the two were siblings.
As she continued her time in Cyprus, Raj noticed a change in his wife’s behaviour. She then started saying that wanted to obtain a degree from Europe.
The woman eventually returned to India. Soon after returning to her husband, the wife insisted on going back to Cyprus and wanted to take their daughter with her.
The wife was set to go, however, her phone ran out of memory. She asked Raj to transfer some of the data to the laptop.
While going through her phone, he found photos of his wife with Navdeep.
He also found a video of the pair which confirmed their illicit relationship.
When he confronted her, she admitted that she had been having an affair while in Cyprus. She then left for Cyprus.
Nine days later, she returned to the Indian husband and began apologising. The wife then told him that Navdeep had prepared fake divorce papers.
She admitted that the documents were created by her, Navdeep and his father.
Raj felt cheated and went to the police. It was discovered that the marriage between Navdeep and the woman was registered on October 29, 2019.
Reportedly, Navdeep produced the documents so that the woman could stay in Cyprus.
Meanwhile, Raj stated that he has not divorced his wife. He told police that his wife and her lover produced bogus divorce documents.
Following the complaint, police registered a case against the wife, Navdeep and his father.
An investigation into the affair and fraud is currently ongoing.
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The Church
The thought, expression of that thought, dominates the minds of many. It saturates the media, runs the rule through the planes of realities that exist.
Muslims are terrorists.
Or, at the very least, extremists.
I won't sit here and deny that there are a few idiots out there. More than a few, it has to be said, armed with AK-47s and what have you. These are the idiots that are so good at doing blow jobs (see what I did here) that they do it on everything from buildings, cars, embassies, even themselves.
These people are idiots. Looking at it another way, I suppose being driven to the edge of sanity and existence would make a man do anything. After all, for the most part, it is a reaction to the social structure that surrounds them, so to generalise by calling them idiots may not be that great an idea either.
But they're stupid, darn idiots who misuse religion to further their own ends.
Unfortunately, there are those of the same ilk, people who aren't idiots, who gets tagged along for the ride. Muslims that are fair minded and rational gets tagged along as extremists, as freedom fighters, as terrorists, as whatever, courtesy of the media, and even people on the ground.
But why aren't Christians tagged along the same way?
Granted, I've yet to hear of Christians blowing up embassies in the name of Jesus Christ. But on the ground level, on an everyday basis, I see far more examples Christians who take their ideologies to an extreme. I have read of people who have had difficulties converting out of Islam, and even more commentaries about how inflexible Islam can be.
But if you're talking about converts, I personally know of how much more active Christians can be in trying to convert others. Trust me, I've had Christians trying to convert me at least three times in my life (once while I was even filming a short film, believe it or not). They offer incentives and money along with salvation and a few dollops of the holy water on my forehead.
Of course, each time, I politely refuse. And each time, I walk away feeling amazed that that is not considered extreme by others. "A few blown embassies, and I'm a terrorist," I thought to myself as the two old Korean men walked further into the distance, leaving me and my camera behind. "This shit goes on, and no one bats an eyelid. Is this not as extreme, trying to twist others into your own religion with money?"
And then there is God. Or, in Christian terms, "God has spoken to me." Christians pray, and believe, and have the faith, and that's actually great. I do see a stronger hold on religion amongst some of my Christian friends. I myself should not be lecturing others on the hold on religion, since my own isn't a particularly strong one.
But really...I do think the line should be drawn somewhere before you talk to God and then break up with your girlfriend. "Because God told me to." (A true case, by the way. I couldn't believe it when my friend told me about it.)
It does reach ridiculous proportions, but there are other examples that I've heard of, but couldn't really corroborate. I couldn't find the truth, the evidence, the samples or the anecdotes that would, in my mind, validate them. I suppose it's still the Communication student in me, wanting to validate everything.
But these are the things that I know, for a fact, that do go on. Christians, as much as Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, and Jews, amongst others, can be just as stupid. Just as extreme, just as idiotic.
So when they do become idiots, let's call them for what it's worth. Let's call the idiots idiots, and leave the rest out of it.
Nathaniel Soo said…
Well, I know for a fact that most (if not all) Christians ARE dickheads... And that's putting it very mildly.
That also includes me in the bargain. :D
Personally, I believe it's wrong to stereotype people of a particular social class (be it race, religion or your choice of sauce to go with your burger). End of the day, no matter which religion you profess, your choice for a presidential candidate or which bimbo deserves the Miss Universe crown...
You're still a dickhead.
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The truth will be revealed in no time if your sponsee if using meth. Considering you are her sponsor, if you think something is off with her it probably is.
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Jamaal Bowman’s Likely Defeat of Eliot Engel Caps a Big Election Night for Progressive Democrats
New York Democratic House candidate Jamaal Bowman greets supporters.
Jamaal Bowman appears set to defeat a sixteen-term incumbent, Eliot Engel, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.Photograph by Stephanie Keith / Getty
When the former middle-school principal Jamaal Bowman, who is running for Congress in New York’s sixteenth district, which encompasses parts of the Bronx and southern Westchester, addressed a group of his supporters in Yonkers at about 11 p.m. on Tuesday night, it was becoming clear that this was a big Democratic primary night for progressive candidates.
In the neighboring seventeenth district of New York, which has a majority-white population and includes all of Rockland County and parts of Westchester, Mondaire Jones, a thirty-three-year-old black lawyer, was holding a big advantage in the contest to replace Nita Lowey, a veteran Democrat, who had held the seat since 1989. In the fifteenth district, which encompasses much of the Bronx, Ritchie Torres, a thirty-two-year-old member of the New York City Council, was leading in the race to replace Representative José Serrano, who is retiring for health reasons. If Jones and Torres win their general-election contests, they will become the first openly gay black representatives in Congress.
Down in Virginia’s fifth district, which includes the city of Charlottesville, Cameron Webb, a black physician and researcher who was a White House fellow in 2016, was headed for a landslide win. To the west, in Kentucky, Charles Booker, a thirty-six-year-old state assemblyman who is the youngest black politician to hold elected office in the Bluegrass State in nearly a century, was in a competitive race for the Democratic Senate nomination with his opponent Amy McGrath, a former fighter pilot who is known as a prolific fund-raiser. (On Wednesday morning, only about ten per cent of precincts had reported results, and McGrath was leading by less than five points. With a large number of mail-in votes still in play, final results aren’t expected until next week.)
Riding a wave of enthusiasm, civic engagement, and racial awareness sparked by the protests against the police killing of George Floyd, the campaigns of these impressive candidates had surged in recent weeks. But no contest encapsulated the political moment more vividly than Bowman’s pending victory over Representative Eliot Engel, a sixteen-term incumbent and the head of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, who had recently received endorsements from Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton. Like almost all progressives these days, Bowman, who is forty-four, campaigned as a supporter of Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, affordable housing, and reform of the immigration and criminal-justice systems. He had the backing of Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. But Bowman, who was born in Manhattan and spent part of his childhood living with his grandmother, in Harlem, also ran as an individual with a specific life experience that served as the grounding for his politics and his understanding of the current moment.
“I’m a black man in America,” Bowman said in his victory speech, which was live-streamed. “You know, raised by a single mom, spent some time in the housing projects, lived in rent-stabilized apartments, went to public schools my entire life, grew up during the crack-cocaine epidemic which hurt and ravaged many parts of my family, as well as my friends’ families.” Once, when he was out at a club, he recalled, his best friend called with the news that the friend’s brother had been shot and killed. “At a very young age, as a black man in America, you get to learn about death and homicide and suicide, and how it impacts not just you individually but your community and the rest of the country.”
It was these experiences that prompted Bowman to become an educator, he said. After attending high school in New Jersey and graduating from the University of New Haven, he became a public-school teacher. In 2008, he started a public middle school in the Bronx, which he called Cornerstone Academy for Social Action. “As an educator, working for the Department of Education for twenty years, I’ve seen the impact of poverty on the lives of kids each and every day,” Bowman said. Contrary to what some people say, this poverty isn’t the result of a lack of hard work, he added. “Our children and families work as hard as anyone else. Poverty is by political design, and it’s rooted in a system that has been fractured and corrupt and rotten from its core, from the inception of America, especially over the last several decades.”
Bowman’s advocacy and experience attracted the attention of progressive groups like the Working Families Party and Justice Democrats, which encouraged him to challenge the seventy-three-year-old Engel, whose support for the Iraq War, Israeli-government policies, and financial deregulation has long alienated the left. After making important strides inside the Democratic Party during recent years, the progressive movement was deeply divided by the Presidential primary, which pitted Sanders against Warren. It needed some wins. Bowman appears on track to provide it with a big one, and he seems destined to become a leading figure in what he described as “a movement designed to push back against a system that is literally killing us.”
“It’s killing black and brown bodies disproportionately, but it’s killing all of us,” he went on. “It’s killing us mentally, psychologically, and spiritually. It’s forcing us to live in a country and in a world where so many people are hopeless and have lost faith, not just in the political system but in each other. But our movement is designed to restore that faith, to restore that hope, to bring back the belief in what is possible—to root our values in everything we do, values of equality, humanity, and justice.”
After issuing this uplifting message, Bowman returned to the politics of the now, and the immediate task ahead of him. His opponent Engel “used to say that he was a thorn in the side of Donald Trump,” he remarked. “But you know what Donald Trump is more afraid of than anything else? A black man with power. That is what Donald Trump is afraid of. . . . It will be our job to hold Donald Trump accountable, and to hold every elected official accountable that continues to be beholden to corporate interests, that continues to be beholden to the wealthy, and is not fighting for the poor, and is not fighting for the working class in our country. . . . The results show that this district is demanding change. This is what this district has been waiting for. This is what this country has been waiting for.”
The ultimate impact of the Black Lives Matter movement will hinge on whether it brings about the sort of structural changes, including economic ones, that Bowman was talking about. Changing policing and raising consciousness of racism, as vital as these things are, will not, by themselves, eradicate deep-seated inequality. But an important step in creating radical changes is electing politicians who favor them. Even as Bowman was speaking, progressive activists were busy hailing the primary results. “The rage and mourning we’ve seen in the streets is making itself felt in elections from New York to Kentucky,” Maurice Mitchell, the national director of the Working Families Party, said in a statement. “These Black progressive candidates are expanding the scope of the possible and laying the ground for the future of our work.” Sean McElwee, the executive director of Data for Progress, tweeted, “Very, very good night for progressives.”
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Mobile App Security Threats and Secure Best Practices
Is your mobile app secure?
Mobile application security is one of the primary concerns as the data residing within the app can be hacked by hackers to get access over consumer personal information and details. Hence developers need to be extra cautious while designing and developing an application for both android and iOS platforms.
What is Mobile App Security?
Mobile app security is a preventive measure to secure applications from hackers so that critically personal and financial information do not get leaked.
Here are some of the ways to build a completely secure mobile app:
1. Write a secure code
Avoid malicious code and write hard code so that it cannot get reversed engineered by hackers. Follow agile development so that code gets updated time to time.
2. Encrypt the data
Ensure your app has high level of data encryption so that it cannot be easily cracked.
3. Use authorized API
Use authorized API in your code to gain maximum security.
4. Use high level authentication
Password policy should be strong. Multi-factor authentication should be achieved by the means of OTP login or authentication code on mails or through biometrics.
5. Session handling
Session expiration should be considered. Use tokens instead of device identifiers.
6. Manage Keys Securely
Keys should be stored properly and not in any device. APIs should be encrypted with latest encryption standards such as 256- bit encryption with SHA -256 hashing.
7. Ensure HTTPS Communication
A valid SSL certificate must be ensured in server side to which the app is connected and send the data between the app and the server only using the HTTPS protocol.
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Paying Respect to the Master
Updated: Jan 11, 2019
Understanding Shaolin etiquette ensures the best possible results.
Holy cats! I can't believe there's less than two weeks to go before Grandmaster Wong's first ever courses here in St. Paul! If you've already signed up then I'm guessing you're getting as excited as I am. If not, space is filling up fast so don't wait, sign up today!
Some of you have already trained with Grandmaster Wong and know what to expect (here's a hint for the rest of you: it's pretty incredible) and what to do to maximize the benefits of these classes. If this is your first time, congratulations! You're in for a real treat. But you might also be nervous because you don't know what to expect. Don't worry about that, it's pretty normal. I felt the same way before my first intensive kungfu course. But you can calm some of those nerves by reading the information on this page that I've put together about what to expect and what sort of etiquette is required around a Shaolin Grandmaster. Once you know that, you can turn all of your attention on absorbing the amazing arts of Shaolin Qigong.
While talking about etiquette and how to act might sound pretty stuffy, it is entirely for the benefit of the students. Shaolin tradition is just that- traditional, and paying respect to the master is the best way to ensure you approach your training with an open mind while making you ready to receive heart to heart transmission.
There's nothing very complex to know, it's mostly just common sense and courtesy. I recall a time in my life where I couldn't be bothered to show respect for my elders. But as I've gotten gotten older, and particularly since I've reaped so many wonderful blessings from training these arts, it has greatly humbled me so much that now I can't help but show the utmost respect both to my sifu (Grandmaster Wong) and all of the past masters that came before him. The very act of doing this continues to elevate my training, and deepen my respect. It's kind of a circle like that.
Above all, come curious, ready to learn, and ask questions. Grandmaster Wong loves questions, and often a student's curiosity will lead to a story with nuggets of wisdom that benefit everybody. I can't tell you how happy I am to be able to host this incredible event. Follow this link to snag one of the few remaining places!
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article imageProposal Set to Curb Bank Giants
By Owen Weldon Jan 21, 2010 in Business
On Thursday president Obama said that he will propose new limits on the risk taken by the country's biggest banks which will be Obama's latest attack on Wall Street. The new limits could cause curbs on finance put in place throughout the great depression.
Over the last decade the nation witnessed widespread consolidation among big banks that created huge banking titans. If the new proposal is passed by congress than there could be more constraints on the size and nature of banking by the government.
The new restrictions will be based on the size of the country’s largest financial institutions. The restrictions will deter makes from becoming so big that they put the wider economy at more risk. The restrictions will also deter makes from becoming to big that they distort normal competitive practices. It is not known what limits the White House will endorse or if the president will talk about limits on Thursday.
Measures that were pushed by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker are expected to be endorsed by Obama. The measures would target the proprietary trading done by big commercial banks, which in turn will limit how banks bet with their own capital. Officials say that firewalls should be placed between certain parts of banks and their divisions to make sure that they do not subsidize suspicious trading through other subsidiaries that are federally insured deposits.
Bank of America, Wells Fargo and J.P. Morgan Chase will be the hardest hit b the proposals. The financial institutions control a huge amount of deposits made in the U.S. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Sachs and Citigroup, which all have a big presence on Wall Street, will also be hit hard by the proposals.
If the proposal goes through than some of the biggest banks could be kept from certain activities when it comes to their investing banking units. The investing units allow banks to make their own bets on markets while underwriting securities.
In the recent years investing units have grown a lot and were also at the center of the financial crisis. Banking operations were actually less profitable than investing banking units.
Throughout the crisis the banking industry has undergone a major consolidation and left four banks with no previous market share in businesses like credit cards, deposits and mortgages.
The banks could also be stopped from running hedge funds, investing in real estate or private equity, thanks to the new rules. Those businesses have become profitable parts for banks. The collapse of Bear Stearns was caused by the fall of two hedge funds that were highly leveraged.
If investors think that the new rules could go into effect and that might push them to sell of shares of some of the biggest financial stocks because they might fear that the companies could cause them to lose profits.
A source says that the proposal would not revive the exact limits that were put in place by the Depression-era Glass Steagall Act. The act was put in place to wall off commercial banks from investment banks but was repealed in 1999. The source says that they just want to return the spirit of the act because it would limit the large banks from becoming complex that could create a huge risk to the economy.
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Originally published in the monthly Explorer, September 2013 edition.
Brian Doyle is an editor at the University of Portland who writes a weekly online column titled Epiphanies. Often it’s worth a read.
In a recent column he writes about a memory from his college days. Doyle shared a casual friendship with five other boys around a common love for basketball. The six played together every day, and the game was the common language they spoke, the glue that bound them fast.
They parted for Spring break, but one of the six, Stevie, never returned to campus. He died in a car accident while home.
Doyle writes that the five rode together in a car to Stevie’s fu- neral, shook hands with Stevie’s parents, sat in a row in the back of the church, then drove to the cemetery afterwards.
There, after their buddy’s casket was lowered into the earth, the boys dropped Stevie’s sneakers into the open grave. Then, one by one, each guy dropped his own sneakers into the grave. It was a small gesture of solidarity, a final, quiet moment of respect.
Small gestures acknowledge our common humanity, loyalty, respect, grief, compassion, defiance, hope. They are important, powerful. The three-year-old son of President John F. Kennedy rendering a salute at his father’s funeral. The ink-stained index finger of an Iraqi citizen signifying his vote cast in a post-Saddam election. Rosa Parks’ refusal to relinquish her seat on a bus. Some gestures of meaning are spontaneous, serendipitous events. They are not contrived, orchestrated, rehearsed for the benefit of an audience. Others, like the shoes for Stevie, require forethought, though they are not delivered for effect or praise.
Small gestures are a vital part of relationships in church. A hand offered in friendship, a wink or nod of recognition, a small gift of flowers or fruit, an invitation for dessert, an offer of a ride, a walk to the parking lot, a simple question: “would you like to sit with me in church?”
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Judge Haywood Gilliam, a U.S. District Court Judge based in Oakland, California put a stopper in the President’s border wall ambitions when he issued a preliminary injunction to stop $1 billion of border wall funding.
The money, which came in the form of a now halted transfer of funds from the Pentagon’s counterdrug funding, would’ve been used to expand and enhance border barriers. Further, though the possibility is untested and therefore speculative, the order may also jeopardize an additional $1.5 billion the administration was planning to divert. So far, the President’s Office had planned to use $8.1 billion for border wall purposes.
Judge Gilliam, an Obama nominee, issued the order on the reasoning that the administration’s diversionary transfer of funds was unconstitutional because its legal authority to use the funds was restricted to addressing “unforeseen” needs. Naturally, the government argued that the need to build the border wall was unforeseen, an argument that Judge Gilliam rejected.
In his decision, the Judge pointed to the numerous requests the administration had made for border wall funding as evidence that the project was anything but unforeseen. He also cited recent news events such as the lengthy government shutdown earlier this year, which resulted in $1.375 billion for border-wall construction. He further opined that permitting the administration to divert counterdrug funds in light of numerous Congressional funding denials would violate fundamental notions of separation of powers.
The President, predictably unhappy with this legal result, vowed that the appeal would be swift.
The ruling was the result of a lawsuit brought jointly by the Sierra Club and the Southern Border Communities Coalition who sought to legally oppose the President’s wall. However, though the order constitutes a setback, there are limits to Judge Gilliam’s decision. For example, the order only prohibits construction operations from occurring at certain border zones in the states of Texas and Arizona. Further, the order does not stop the President’s Office from diverting funding from alternative sources towards border wall construction.
Though the reasoning behind Judge Gilliam’s decision was primarily to ensure the constitutional separation of powers, the order has the short-term effect of halting wall construction which provides relief for landowners whose property will be bisected by the wall. Landowners should be aware that this order does not immediately impair the government’s ability to seize land via eminent domain. Therefore, individuals with property at the border should stay current on legal developments concerning wall construction.
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Facebook boss hits out at 'backwards' ACCC privacy policies
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Australia's consumer protection watchdog has adopted a "backwards" approach to data privacy that will cause Australia to fall behind global best practice if implemented, Facebook's global head of privacy regulation says.
The approach, which would require companies such as Facebook to obtain consent from users whenever personal data was collected, will do nothing to improve user privacy but instead will simply cause Australians to be "bombarded" with consent warnings that they will soon ignore, said Melinda Claybaugh, Facebook's Washington-based Privacy Policy Director.
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Facebook's global head of privacy regulation, Melinda Claybaugh, says the ACCC is backwards. Edwina Pickles
In July, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) handed down the findings of its far-reaching Digital Platforms Inquiry, recommending, among other things, that an ombudsman be established for big digital platforms such as Google and Facebook, and that those companies should be forced to develop a code of conduct for dealing with the fake news they disseminate.
Ms Claybaugh, herself a former regulator at the US Federal Trade Commission, who switched sides when the FTC was negotiating Facebook's record $US5 billion ($7.3 billion) fine for repeated, grievous privacy violations, said that Facebook supported the majority of the ACCC's recommendations, but took issue with the 16th recommendation, which would "require consent to be obtained whenever a consumer’s personal information is collected, used or disclosed" by an agency or organisation, and would "require all collection of personal information to be accompanied by a notice".
Facebook would rather Australia follow the lead of the European Union, where the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was moving away from notices and consent, and was instead placing the burden on companies to justify their collection and use of data.
"The direction that the ACCC report is going in is actually moving away from that standard. It's moving backwards, " she told The Australian Financial Review.
The ACCC's heavy reliance on consent would only result in Facebook "bombarding users with notifications about how their data is being used."
"We very much support providing transparency to users about how their data is being used ... But the ACCC's recommendation to really go all in in the direction of providing detailed notice and requiring consent for every particular data use is not in line with global best practices.
"We know from our own experience that people don't pay attention to the notifications that bombard them when they sign up to a service, or to the long terms and conditions and privacy policies that they have to agree to," Ms Claybaugh said.
Global consistency is important because people deserve to know that their data will be protected wherever it goes around the world.
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Instead of simply bombarding users with even more notifications, as the ACCC has recommended, Ms Claybaugh said obligations should be placed on companies to provide meaningful transparency and controls to people over the course of any interaction they have with the service.
"Companies shouldn't consider that they can simply get away with getting consent from someone by putting a bunch of terms in front of them, getting them to click, and that's it," she said
"That's not a good privacy outcome. It puts all the burden on people to read and digest and understand, rather than on the companies, which is where it should be."
Facebook itself had implemented the GDPR's privacy policies for all its users globally, and if it were forced to implement the ACCC's recommendations, it believes it would only lead to confusion for users, and to the balkanisation of the internet.
"Global consistency is important because people deserve to know that their data will be protected wherever it goes around the world. And it's important that organisations will have a clear set of rules to follow around the world," Ms Claybaugh said.
"There will always be local differences, and that's appropriate, but if the rules start to diverge in really fundamental ways, it leads to a place of fragmented services, of different services being offered in different countries, and a fragmentation of the internet."
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Everything You Need to Know About the 'Alien' Franchise to Understand 'Alien: Covenant'
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Like a mysterious parasite that infects your body and results in a demon-faced alien spawn bursting from your chest and rapidly growing into a murderous eight-foot creature, the Alien franchise has made its presence known over the past 30-something years, itself spawning a number of sequels (Aliens, Alien 3, Alien: Resurrection), crossovers and 2012's it's-not-a-prequel-but-really-it's-a-prequel, Prometheus.
If you've never seen Prometheus -- or if you saw Prometheus, hated Prometheus and had a sort of PTSD reaction to Prometheus that now renders you incapable of remembering anything that happened in that movie -- you may think the latest installment, Alien: Covenant, is not for you. But it can be! There's even a section in the middle of the movie where it stops to just kind of...explain the plot of Prometheus. But while Covenant proves an easy enough entry point for those new to the Alien franchise, you may still have a few questions. Hopefully, ahead of its release this weekend, this Q&A can equip you with some answers.
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That black alien with the teeth, that's the "Alien," right? Also, is there only one alien? Or how many aliens are there?
OK, so good question, and I recognize that we need to start with a foundation of the basics and build from there. There are a number of alien species in the Alien-verse (facehuggers, chestbursters), but what you're referring to is called a xenomorph. Different xenomorphs have wreaked havoc in each Alien movie, as well as sort of pro-xenomorphs, like the alien nicknamed Deacon that appears in the final scene of Prometheus.
So, how Alien-y was Prometheus?
Deacon is the closest we got to an actual Alien alien (or, as you now know them, xenomorph) in Prometheus. Which may be why, back in 2012 when the movie was released, director and Alien franchise maestro Ridley Scott said it took place in the same universe, but claimed that Prometheus was not a direct prequel to Alien. Which was kind of true then and kind of not true now. Prometheus is essentially Alien: Prometheus, now that Covenant links the two. And it is irrefutably a prequel to Alien. There are just a few films in between.
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OK, then what happened in Prometheus?
Oyeboy. Well, if you know who Prometheus is in Greek mythology, then you already have a head start. Prometheus is the Greek god who created mankind and Prometheus, the movie, is about the search for mankind's creators. A crew -- aboard a ship named, naturally, "Prometheus" -- sets out into space and eventually discovers an Engineer--
Ho'dup. What is an "Engineer?"
Engineers are the pasty, giant humanoid people you saw in all the Prometheus posters. They created human life on Earth and, as the crew ultimately learns, the Engineers had sent a ship carrying a deadly virus to Earth to kill all of humanity. David, the resident android aboard Prometheus (played by Michael Fassbender), uses that virus to infect a fellow crewmember, who then unwittingly proceeds to impregnate Noomi Rapace's character with a tentacled alien that then "impregnates" the Engineer, and thus is born the beginnings of what will become the xenomorph.
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Ummmmmmmmmmm, OK. Is that the same character Fassbender plays in this one?
Yes, but he also plays another synthetic named Walter. There's a introductory scene at the beginning of Covenant that explains David's creation by the Weyland Corp -- i.e. there are various portions of Alien: Covenant that take place before and after Prometheus -- then he reappears later on, having recovered from his decapitation at the end of Prometheus. (He was decapitated at the end of Prometheus.)
Is there anyone else I need to remember?
Everyone else died. (Rest in pieces, Captain Charlize Theron.) Everybody, that is, except archaeologist Elizabeth Shaw (Rapace), who you will see again. Kind of. Prometheus ended with Elizabeth Shaw and David continuing their search for the Engineers' home planet (people in movies are dumb), which is where the first Alien: Covenant prologue, "The Crossing," picks up.
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What about Alien? Aliens? Alien vs. Predator? Anything?
Nope. This is a prequel, so all of those movies follow Covenant, chronologically. (Except Alien vs. Predator, but that crossover is confusing so, like everyone did when Alien vs. Predator: Requiem came out, just ignore it.) You should watch the second prologue, "Last Supper," which provides slightly more context to the characters you meet in Covenant. Like the fact that they're all married to each other. And that James Franco is one of them.
I take it Sigourney Weaver doesn't make a cameo, then?
Sigourney Weaver does not make a cameo. And since Scott himself recently reported that Alien 5 has been scuttled, it looks like Sigourney Weaver will not need to get away from that bitch anytime soon.
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The most amazing meal I've ever had: Sushi Park LA
The morning and nighttime routines I swear by: In the morning I drink Noni juice; take my probiotic by Dr. Udo's; drink a green juice and coffee, which is made from warm homemade almond milk; and medicinal mushrooms: reishi and chaga. I also eat a ton of pomegranates and use magnesium oil.
The best décor hack I've learned: A creative way for hanging my son’s artwork was born by removing the backs of old picture frames and stringing wire across the ends to make a clothing line of sorts. You can rotate your child’s masterpieces in-and-out to always showcase something new!
The Instagram handles I follow religiously are: @thetot, @newearthmama, @bandier, @violetgrey, @raisedgood, @nasa
This season, my go-to cocktail order is: My favorite green juice made out of cucumbers, kale, ginger, apple, and lemon.
The first lesson I learned as an Adult with a capital A: How to be independent!
The most surprising thing I learned from a MyDomaine story is: I travel often and handling frequent time zone changes can prove challenging so I was pleased to learn that eating at regularly scheduled meal times is a scientifically proven way to fight off jet lag.
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Tuesday, December 24, 2013
The Skin Care Breakdown
I got a question today asking me why people use toner. I knew immediately that I had to do a whole post on skin care! There are so many important parts to skin care so I'm going to break it all down for you today! I'm going to talk about the different steps that should be in yous daily skin care regimen, why we need them, and what they do. I'll also talk about the ingredients you should look for in skin care and which ones to make sure aren't in yours! I will then direct you to my favorite skin care lines for different skin types.
Daily Skin Care Regimen
You daily skin care regimen should include five things at least! Here are what those five things are (and an optional sixth) and what they do for your skin and why they are so important!
1- Cleanser
Cleanser is pretty self explanatory, it cleans your face. It will get rid of all of the surface dirt and oils on your skin. But what most people don't realize is that cleanser also raises the pH of your skin. It does this so the pours will open a little wider for step 2.
2- Exfoliant
A good exfoliant helps to get into pours and clean out clogs. It will also scrub away the dead skin cells on the surface of your skin. There are both physical and chemical exfoliants out there. Chemical exfoliants are generally best for most skin types, although most people find physical exfoliant (like scrubs) to be more relaxing.
3- Toner
Toner is SUPER important! People always overlook and skip this step, and if you are one of the stop! Toner will first of all help balance your skins pH back to normal. It will also dry out your skin, which kills any bacteria or left over oils from the exfoliant. It will also go down into the open pores and kill the live bacteria that could cause clogs and infections. These bacteria form when dirt and dead skin build up in a pore. The bacteria forms using moisture for the oils in your skin and they kind of camp out under all of that yucky buildup. The exfoliant will get rid of the buildup and then the toner kills the bacteria and closes the pore.
4- Moisturizer
Toner does a lot of great things, but it does one really bad thing too, it dries out your skin. After you use a toner you need to moisturize! Use a high quality moisturizer to hydrate your skin back to life!
5- Sunscreen
People always overlook facial sunscreen as an important part of skin care, but it is probably the most important step. %60-%80 of all skin damage including aging and spotting is done due to sun damage on the skin. Those who do not use a good facial sun screen will age up to 3X faster than someone who does. And for all of those thinking "I use sun screen in the summer" you need it in the winter too! The only time you don't is in fog and rain. If you live somewhere it snows (like me) it is even more important. The sun reflects off the snow and will hit your skin a lot harder! Make sure you are using a facial sunscreen that is broad spectrum with an SPF of at least 30
6- (optional) Anti-Aging Serum
A good anti aging serum will help tighten and brighten your skin. But it will also prevent signs of aging. It is so much less expensive to prevent aging than to repair it. I honestly suggest all women 16 and older use an anti aging serum. That may sound crazy but the younger you make it a habit, the more effective it will be. And most women begin to show signs of aging as young as 18.
Using quality skin care is important, but it doesn't matter how high end it is unless you use it properly. So here are some important skin care rules to remeber and follow!
• Don't over moisturize your skin
• Don't over wash your skin, it can be just as damaging as never washing it at all
• Use your full skin care regimen once a day
• Don't use your full skin care regimen more than once a day
• Use them in the proper order
What is the proper order you wonder? Well here is yet another list! But I will also include the time of day that it is best for you to do these things.
wash face with water only
Anti-Aging Serum
It's important for us to read labels on our food right? I mean there are ingrediants that most people look out for like High Fructose Corn Syrup and for me Coconut (not my personal favorite flavor). So why aren't we looking at the labels of things we put on our skin? The answer is, we should be. Here are 2 lists of ingredients to look out for on you labels!
cleansers and exfoliants
Salicylic Acid - this is the best chemical exfoliant safe for at home use
Retinol - Another amazing safe for at home use chemical exfoliant.
Citric Acid - A mild and common chemical exfoliant
Alcohol - this should be listed within the first 2 ingredients
Salicylic Acid - not necessary for a toner, but a nice bonus
Eucalyptus Leaf Oil - This will sooth the skin so that the toner is kept under control and doesn't damage the skin. It basically keeps the alcohol in check.
Water - This should be listed within the first 2 ingredients
Dimethicone - This is the only filler product that is acceptable in a moisturizer! That is because it is the only filler product that also helps your skin. It will fill in unevenness and fine lines as well as wrinkles.
Glycerin - This should be listed withing the first 3 ingredients. It is a humectant that works by capturing the moisture in water and then delivering it into your skin.
cleaners, exfoliants, and toners
Synthetic Fragrances - it's not needed, and the oils used in synthetic fragrances can clog pores and can even effect your hormone balances.
Parabens - These are frequently found in drug-store skin care. They are used to preserve other ingredients and extend shelf life, but they also have hormone disrupting effects.
Wax - Any kind of wax ( although micocrystalline wax is the most common) is not good for your skin. It can suffocate your skin and weigh it down, and it is a filler product that you don't want on you skin!
Apricot Seeds - You know that apricot scrub you love so much? Go throw it out! Apricot scrubs are made by taking apricot seeds and crushing them into little sand like pieces. They have a rough unrefined edges that can (and usually does) create micro fissures in the skin and can irritate it or create more acne. They can also cause dark spots and other premature signs of aging. Instead use scrubs with gel beads in them.
Oil- Oil is a big no-no in moisturizers. If you take a raisin and you put it in a jar of oil what will happen? Nothing. But you put a raisin in a jar of water it will start to rehydrate a little. The secret ot skin hydration isn't oil it is water! Most moisturizers have a little water in them but if it isn't in the first 2 ingredients than it is not a good moisturizer. And you never want to put oil on your face. That is why I NEVER use or recommend Olay products! Almost all of them are chalked full of oils.
Product Recommendations
For those with clear skin who want to maintain it and keep it healthy:
Mary Kay Timewise Miracle Set
It comes with a 3-in-1 Cleaner that cleanses, exfoliates and tones all in one step! This is for the girl who has the usual zit or two every now and then and want to maintain her healthy skin and prevent aging. Because of this you don't need a dramatic 3 step application, and gentle cleansing with a light exfoliator to remove dead skin without changing your skins pH is just fine. It also comes with a great Moisturizer, Broad Spectrum Facial Sunscreen with a SPF of 35 and a Night Solution Anti Aging Serum. The whole set should last you 5-8 months and costs $90
For those who want to fight acne and clear their skin:
Mary Kay Clear Proof Acne System
I love this system (it's the one I use!) because it has everything you need! I comes with a cleansing chemical exfoliant, a toner, a moisturizer and a acne spot treatment gel that has benzoyl peroxide in it! This set is affordable and works wonders! A set should last you 4-7 months and costs $45
For those who have advanced signs of aging and are trying to get their youthful skin back
Mary Kay Timewise Repair Volufirm Set
This set comes with a foaming cleanser, a lifting serum, a broad spectrum day cream with SPF 30, a night treatment with retinol, and an eye renewal cream. This whole set is designed to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, lift the contours of the face, even skin tone and restore moisture lost in aging. Because this is for someone who has advanced signs of aging, we don't want to exfoliate aging skin, because it is more delicate. We also want to make sure that is hydrated, and although this set doesn't have a moisturizer every single item in it has a lot of moisturizing ingredients! The full set is supposed to last for 5-7 months and costs $199
So here's the thing, I am not going to act like I $99 is chump change, it's not. These prices (other than the acne system) are a little much for someone who is used to Clean & Clear from Walmart. As far as the Clear Proof Acne System, it's $45, but it comes with 4 products. that's $10 each, which isn't that much more than you do spend at Walmart. Plus these products have a much higher quality!
As for the Miracle a Volufirm sets, have you heard of Clinque? Estee Lauder? Lancome? Because these are the high end skin care brands that have the same quality as Mary Kay. BUT these brand usually cost around 2-4 times more than Mary Kay. That is why I am such a Mary Kay fan! Plus if the products don't work or you don't enjoy them you can get a %100 refund even if you have used the whole set! Usually you have to find a Mary Kay consultant, but you can buy the products online, although I am not sure how the garuntee works with the online purchases. BUT if you go to the Mary Kay website's Beauty Consultant Finder you can find one in your area!
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Essay on Memory. The Analysis of Infantile Amnesia
Humans tend to retain few memories of events that occurred during their first few years of life, this concept has been named Infantile Amnesia. In class, we learned that on average the earliest memories seem to be at age 3. I chose to discuss this article because I am extremely interested in infantile amnesia and memory as a whole. Furthermore, I have decided to do my research project on infantile amnesia, so the information from this article will aid me in formulating appropriate questions for the project. It is fascinating for me to read about a topic that is not fact but instead a combination of theories about concepts that can’t be proven yet, such as infantile amnesia or the storing of long-term memory.
The article that I have chosen shows that previous research on infantile amnesia suggests that individual differences, such as culture, and the methodology of the study influence how early patients are able to recall their first memories. Also, Young children can recall events (especially traumatic ones) from when they were 2 or 3, thus 2 and 3-year-olds have well-functioning memory systems. However, adults seem unable to recall events from events this early in their lives. Because of this, many suggest that the boundary of childhood amnesia seems to increase as you grow older, for example, a 7-year-old’s earliest memory is of a time when they were 4-years-old while an 18-year-old’s earliest memory is of when they were 6-years-old.
Issues identified in the previous studies were that most infantile amnesia research was done on adults, who seem to lose their ability to recall events from their early childhood as they grow older. Also, many of the events that researchers asked participants to recall were important family events that were nominated by parents and usually heavily discussed, videotaped, or kept as pictures. This may lead to an underestimation of the forgetfulness of the children because they were constantly reminded of the event. In contrast, when children are asked to identify their own earliest memories, they are often not ones of heavy family importance, but parents often don’t recall or didn’t experience these events with the child so the accuracy of these events can’t be confirmed. However, the detail of these events is often so meticulous that researchers are convinced that these are genuinely the earliest memories of the children. As a result, this method seemed to accurately assess a child’s earliest memory. Based on this information, the main study discussed in this article concluded that they had to perform a longitudinal study on children, who are asked to identify their own earliest memories, to observe the differences of infantile amnesia as children grow.
The researcher believes that this study is the first longitudinal study of infantile amnesia and looks at the consistency of earliest memories over time. Children were first asked to identify their earliest memories, then 2 years later those same children were interviewed to see if they recalled the same earliest memories (both event and content) or if these memories changed over time. The methodology of this study separated children into age groups and then children were asked about their earliest memories. Parents were then asked separately to verify the memory’s accuracy if possible. The children’s memory of both the event and their age during the event was found to be remarkably accurate. Results of this study suggest that older children, between 10 and 13-years-old, were more likely to consistently recall the same earliest memory 2 years later than younger children, between 4 and 7-years old. Older children were also more likely to recognize forgotten memories when cued compared to younger children. Therefore, memories that occurred when a child was younger seem to be less stable and more likely to be forgotten over time. While older children’s earliest memories seem to be more stable and less likely to be forgotten (although they may have difficulty recalling them and need cues). Older children were also more likely to have the same content in their recalled memories 2 years later, compared to younger children who were likely to recall different (but not contradictory) details about their same earliest memory. There was little to no contradictory information reported between the memories recalled both initially and 2 years later. Also, the majority of children of all ages were able to correctly identify false memories.
This article challenges the theory we learned in class, that memory develops through language development because language helps encode memory. If young children are able to recall seemingly meaningless memories as early as 2-years-old, then this challenges the language theory of memory development due to children at this age having developed only a few words of language at best. By following the language theory of memory development, children at 2-years-old with only a few words of language should not be able to recall salient and detailed memories, such as 9/11 or breaking an arm, as seen in this article. Therefore, the data in this article is contradictory to the language theory of memory development. While this article does not make any claims as to how a child is able to recall a memory from a time before they had sufficient language development, I believe the heightened emotions involved in these salient memories is the reason for their encoding. Due to the intense levels of emotions (such as sadness, fear, or happiness) involved in memories such as 9/11, breaking an arm or the birth of a child, this may cause a child to focus on and encode these memories even at an extremely early age (such as 2-years-old).
Also, the data in this article suggests that over time children’s memory improves and becomes more stable. Therefore, this article supports theories discussed in class such as; children do not have enough space in their working memory to retain memories for long periods, or memory improves with age because we continue to learn and improve concepts such as metamemory and metacognition. As children grow and develop their memory, either through increasing working memory capacity or by learning, they are able to better process and retain memory which explains and supports the data found in this article.
Both the theories discussed in class and Piaget’s theory of child development, which believed children were active participants in their own development, support the data found in this article. As children progress through Piaget’s stages of development, Piaget believed that children actively developed more abstract thinking through their interactions with their society and environment (thus teaching themselves). The development of abstract thinking is seen when progressing from the concrete operations stage to the formal operations stage in Piaget’s theory. The results in this article, which showed that older children seemed to have greater memory development and retention, can be explained using the development of abstract thinking discussed in Piaget’s theory by using one of the theories discussed in class. This theory states that an increase in learning about memory or memory strategies (such as metamemory and metacognition, which are examples of abstract thinking), leads to memory development. Therefore, as a child grows and actively develops their abstract thinking (Piaget’s theory), they improve upon concepts such as metamemory and metacognition, which according to the theory discussed in class, helps with memory development. This explains the results seen in this article that suggest that older children (due to developing abstract thinking) are better able to retain memories (22 kids in the 13-15-year-old group had consistent earliest memories compared to only 2 kids in the 4-6-year-old group). Since the results of this article support Piaget’s stages of child development, it must also support the idea that children are active participants in their own development, which Piaget believed is the method through which children progress through the different stages. However, both this article and Piaget fail to consider children with disabilities, such as Autism, when studying and theorizing about memory and child development. How would various genetic disabilities affect memory development?
Lastly, in class, we discussed how socioeconomic status may impact infantile amnesia because higher socioeconomic families typically have more frequent and unique vacations. For example, higher socioeconomic families may go on vacations all over the world while lower socioeconomic families can typically only afford to vacation at few spots close to home. Through constantly being exposed to new and unique environments, children of higher socioeconomic status may start to develop memory faster. In contrast, children of lower socioeconomic status are more likely to stay in the same environment, and thereby become desensitized to it and develop memory slower. By failing to consider or take into account socioeconomic status, the data in this article may falsely be attributed to other aspects of the children such as age. Therefore, by using class material I was able to both support and identify flaws regarding the data in this article.
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Are you busy?
What kind of busy are you? Is busy the goal? Check out these definitions and insights below …
1a: engaged in action: occupied b: being in use <found the telephone busy>
2: Full of activity: bustling <a busy seaport>
3: Foolishly or intrusively active: meddling
4: Full of distracting detail <a busy design>
My friend, Dennis Seeb, shared this with me, and I wanted to share it with you!
Are you busy? Why do we ask people that question? Is it a true measure of success? Is it a goal we wish to obtain? Do you say “Look at Dennis. He made the big time. He is super busy!”
If you were to ask a hundred young people what they would like to be when they grow up how many do you think would answer: “I want to be busy.”
Busy seems to equate with stress, with long hours, with being overwhelmed. Is that what we are after?
Wouldn’t you rather be blessed, or content, or fulfilled, or at peace or in a state of bliss or tranquility? If that is the case why not ask one of those questions instead?
Could it be because asking “Are you busy?” is a safe question to ask? The answers we get really provide no meaningful information. I believe it is simply a way to interact with someone and not really connect with them.
Could it really be a reflection of our own situation? A way to keep people at a distance. If you wish to change your outlook, to change your mindset, start by changing your words and begin to ask questions of others what we truly want for ourselves.
Awareness is the first step.
Thanks, Dennis, I agree! “Busy” seems like a badge of honor around the water cooler on a Monday morning; he who had the busiest weekend wins. Another friend shared with me years ago that her schedule isn’t busy, it is full. May your weeks ahead be full of blessings, opportunities and abundance. | <urn:uuid:c1cdb4f9-a59e-48f8-a20d-81c9ddd263b9> | https://teresainspires.com/are-you-busy/ | en | 0.958277 | 0.052865 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Do you suffer from test anxiety? You’ll want to read this
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If you think back to your high school or college days (perhaps you are still navigating the latter) you may recall getting sweaty palms, a stomach ache or even full-blown anxiety attacks just before taking a test. Test anxiety is a common condition. You might know the material like the back of your hand, but when you sit down to take a test, you draw a blank and wind up failing. New York police officers sometimes administer tests during traffic stops.
If you have test anxiety, you’ll want to think twice before submitting to a request to take a field sobriety test. Police use such tests to determine if they have probable cause to arrest you on suspicion of drunk driving or other impairment. If you fail a field test, you might very well spend your next several hours in a jail cell. In such situations, it pays to know your rights ahead of time and to know how to quickly access support.
The Big Three
There are numerous types of field sobriety tests, but most New York police officers use the same three tests. If a patrol officer pulls you over and asks you to step out of your car, the next request might include one or more of the tests described in the following list:
• The horizontal gaze nystagmus test is an observational test to determine if your eyes move erratically while tracking an object from left to right or up and down. Intoxication often causes people’s eyeballs to jerk before they’ve reached their maximum peripheral vision point.
• A police officer who suspects you’ve been drinking while driving may also ask you to stand on one leg with the other leg six inches off the ground. You will have to keep your arms at your sides and look up at the sky while counting a series of numbers aloud, as well.
• The field sobriety test with which most people are familiar is the walk-and-turn test. This test requires you to walk a straight line by placing the heel of one foot at the tip of the toes of the other with every step while holding your arms outward at shoulder length.
Even a sober person might experience high levels of stress while trying to perform these maneuvers on the side of a road with traffic passing by. Also, if you have an eye condition or have recovered from a past sports or auto accident injury, you might have a lot of trouble successfully performing such tasks.
You are not legally obligated to submit
Many New York drivers believe it is better to cooperate as much as possible to avoid making matters worse when a police officer asks them to take a field sobriety test. However, you are not legally obligated to take such tests. There are no administrative or criminal penalties for refusing. Threatening someone with arrest for his or her refusal is a personal rights violation. The more you know about your rights, the better able you are to protect them. | <urn:uuid:dddb3302-a271-4e98-a495-f48c114598c7> | https://www.duvalcriminaldefense.com/blog/2019/01/do-you-suffer-from-test-anxiety-youll-want-to-read-this/ | en | 0.956518 | 0.04901 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Ahead Of Historic Obama Trip, Stripe Lends Hand To Cuba's Tech Entrepreneurs
Miguel Helft
This article is more than 4 years old.
Cuba has virtually no Internet access. Its citizens cannot incorporate a business. And banking, not to mention digital payments, is all but inexistent.
Yet Havana has a colorful and burgeoning digital economy fueled by dogged entrepreneurs determined to build successful businesses against all odds. Last year, I traveled to the island nation to tell their stories.
Soon, those entrepreneurs will have a much easier time to do what their peers in much of the world take for granted -- build a business, get paid for their services and distribute their apps globally through digital storefronts like Google Play or the Apple app store. That's because San Francisco-based digital payments startup Stripe, at the encouragement of the White House, will open its newish "business-in-a-box" service to Cuban entrepreneurs on Friday.
The service, called Stripe Atlas, will allow Cubans to easily incorporate a business and open a bank account in the United States that can receive payments from around the world through Stripe. Atlas, which Stripe announced three weeks ago at the Mobile World Congress, also includes basic tax and accounting support for entrepreneurs. The company has already received applications from 186 nations, or virtually every country in the world.
The capabilities offered by Atlas are "a bigger deal there than any other market," Patrick Collison, the co-founder and CEO of Stripe, said in an interview. "You can't incorporate a business in Cuba." Getting paid for digital goods is virtually impossible, he added.
Stripe decided to open up Atlas to Cuba after officials from the Obama administration contacted the company "based on requests they had gotten from Cuban entrepreneurs," Collison said.
The administration has been seeking a rapprochement with Cuba for more than a year. On Tuesday, it announced it was relaxing travel restrictions and allowing Cubans to open bank accounts in the United States. In the first visit by a U.S President in 88 years, Obama is scheduled to make an official trip Cuba next week. He will be accompanied by a group of business leaders from American companies who see the thawing of relations between the two nations as an opportunity. Collison said he expects to be part of that group.
A few Cuban entrepreneurs have managed to build digital businesses, creating local apps and sites that are the equivalent of Craigslist and OpenTable, and even a digital-only magazine called Vistar. But distribution of their services is often a laborious manual process that involves sharing data through portable drives, and where payment is either in cash, or with the help of an overseas account set up by a relative.
"The people who were lucky enough or savvy enough to have outside connections and could navigate the complexity, found ad-hoc solutions," Collison said. "This is about regularizing and formalizing that and making it far easier for entrepreneurs."
Collison said the idea of extending Atlas to Cuba aligned perfectly with the company's mission to facilitate commerce globally on the Internet, or as some people at Stripe refer to it, "growing the Internet's GDP." While business from that country won't materially affect Stripe's financial results any time soon, over time, and if Cuban-American relations continue to normalize, Cuba could become important to Stripe's overall success.
Stripe has agreed to work with Merchise Startup Circle, a Havana-based group supporting tech startups in Cuba, to reach entrepreneurs. "There are lots of very good software developers, with very good ideas, inside Cuba. But until now, there has been no way for people to put those ideas into practice, no way to create a company that investors could put money into," Alex Medina, co-founder and director of Merchise Startup Circle, said in a statement. "For the first time, Stripe Atlas will give people in our community a way to start their own business online and get paid for the things they create."
Since last year, the Cuban government has begun to expand Internet access through public wifi hotspots. It plans to bring broadband connections to various places on the island soon. Until now, Cubans relied on El Paquete Semanal, a weekly Internet-on-a-terabyte-disk packed with digital content, that's distributed across the island and whose operations Forbes reported on last year.
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Can You Have Beans On The Keto Diet
Foods To Eat On The Keto Diet
Is a keto diet the best way to lose weight?
When you’re eating the foods that get you there (much more on that in a minute), your physique can enter a state of ketosis in one to three days, she adds. For the duration of the diet regime, the majority of calories you consume come from fat, with a tiny protein and really small carbohydrates. Ketosis also happens if you eat a really low-calorie diet plan — consider doctor-supervised, only when medically suggested diets of 600 to 800 total calories. “Net carbs” and “impact carbs” are familiar phrases in ketogenic diets as effectively as diabetic diets.
Most of all, give your body time to respond to the fantastic modifications you’re making. Quickly sufficient you will have the keto diet plan outcomes you want. The brain demands the most glucose in a steady supply, about 120 grams day-to-day, since it cannot retailer glucose. In the course of fasting, or when really tiny carbohydrate is eaten, the physique 1st pulls stored glucose from the liver and temporarily breaks down muscle to release glucose.
How Many Grams Of Carbs Per Day On Keto
A ketogenic diet could be an alternative for some people who have had difficulty losing weight with other techniques. The precise ratio of fat, carbohydrate, and protein that is needed to attain health rewards will vary amongst folks due to their genetic makeup and physique composition. A dietitian may also provide guidance on reintroducing carbohydrates after weight loss is achieved. None of the studies compared the two diets with every single other rather, the participants’ appetites had been compared at baseline before beginning the diet plan and at the finish.
Does The Keto Diet Raise Your Cholesterol
Plus, it will take far more energy to method and burn fat and protein than carbs. So you’re burning slightly more calories than you did ahead of.
One downside to a ketogenic diet plan for weight loss is the difficulty keeping it. “Studies show that weight loss benefits from becoming on a low-carb diet plan for far more than 12 months tend to be the very same as getting on a normal, healthy diet regime,” says Mattinson. Due to the fact individuals typically locate it hard to sustain, it is easy to rely on it as a brief-term diet rather than a long-term life-style.
Net carbs or effect carbs are the quantity of carbohydrate that are straight absorbed by the body and contribute calories. They are calculated by subtracting the quantity of indigestible carbohydrates from the total carbohydrate quantity. Nevertheless, these calculations are not an precise or trustworthy science because the impact of sugar alcohols on absorption and blood sugar can differ.
Side effects of such an intense life style change can incorporate fatigue, lightheadedness, nausea, mental fog, cramps, and headaches. But a single main possible side effect of the keto diet is weight loss. Effectively, your caloric intake will be reduced considering that your intake of wholesome fats and lean proteins will make you really feel fuller sooner.
In spite of losing a considerable quantity of weight on each diets, participants reported less hunger and a reduced wish to consume compared with baseline measures. This could let inclusion of healthful greater carbohydrate foods like complete grains, legumes, and fruit. The ketogenic diet regime can help you shed weight and improve your overall wellness, so stick with it and do not be afraid to make adjustments as required. Track what you eat, stick within your keto macros, and test your ketone levels frequently to make positive you are staying in ketosis.
So it is a great notion to track what you consume in a diet program app like MyFitnessPal even though you are receiving started. The important to weight loss is not eating “fat burning foods,” the crucial to weight loss is a sustained calorie deficit. Use the keto calculatorto get your personal keto macros. Possessing a nutritional target based on your body composition will make it a lot easier to enter and remain in ketosis (and lose weight).
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If this continues for 3-4 days and stored glucose is totally depleted, blood levels of a hormone known as insulin decrease, and the physique starts to use fat as its primary fuel. The liver produces ketone bodies from fat, which can be used in the absence of glucose. To lose weight on the keto diet regime, you nonetheless have to watch your calories. You don’t necessarily have to cut them, but you cannot go hog wild and eat 3 occasions the amount you employed to. Keep in thoughts that fat has twice the amount of calories per gram than protein or carbs do.
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STOP Perpetual Dieting
There’s a dark side to bodybuilding that no one seems to be talking about. Perpetual dieting, back-to-back competitions, and the constant drive to stay lean are all creating lifetime issues -- physically and mentally. Today Laurin and Celeste are taking a stand: it’s time to stop the madness. You’re going to hear exactly why your body needs a break, especially if you want to perform better and last longer in the sport. Laurin gets real about what happens to your body if you don’t take time off, and Celeste shares her experience with perpetual dieting when she was wrestling. Take it from these pros: no Instagram likes or six packs are worth this kind of trouble. Tune in to hear why.
“If you want to make progress, you have to take time off stage.”
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• How bodybuilding has changed in the past decade to be more popular, but less attainable for the average person
• Why the bikini build is not sustainable
• You have to take a break between competitions! Hear what happens to your body when you don’t
• The mental effects of perpetual dieting and trying to stay lean
• Why you might be experiencing body fat overshoot: Understanding hyperphagia
• Do you need to stay lean to stay relevant? Here’s why you don’t need to stay in perpetual diet mode for judges, sponsors, or business
• How coaches can step up and hold their clients accountable for treating their body well, while still helping them compete
• It isn’t just bodybuilders who need to be aware of this: Hear Celeste’s dieting experience that taught her a really valuable lesson when she was wrestling
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The 'Hacking' Involved in Stealing Celebrity Nude Photos Isn't Even Impressive
I talked to former hacker and leading internet security blogger Nik Cubrilovic about the process of stealing celebrity nudes, and to hear him tell it, the hacking skills required are pretty remedial.
September 23, 2014, 6:00am
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Over the weekend, Emma Watson got in trouble with the uglier parts of the internet when she spoke at the UN about women's rights. Having commited the crime of being an outspoken women's rights advocate, people now claim to have nude selfies of Watson, which they are prepared to leak—out of vengeance, I guess? It could be a hoax, but on the other hand, there was another such leak a couple days ago, which makes the threat plausible.
Although there are still crotchety columnists blaming singers and movie stars for having nude selfies on their phones in the first place, most of the media noise this time around has a very bored air about it. Maybe the voracious appetites of the crotch-pounders on Reddit and 4chan have given the media grainy-boob-shot fatigue. After all, stealing the dark, badly framed snapshots people take in haste to communicate "I'm horny" to their significant others isn't exactly like stealing their polished boudoir pictures. In fact, it's a step above stealing their chest X-rays and jerking off to the nipple outlines.
In other words, this politically-motivated threat against Emma Watson is like the work of the most ineffectual, small-potatoes terrororist group in the world. But if former hacker and leading internet security blogger Nik Cubrilovic is correct, perhaps the only thing less impressive than the photos themselves is the process we're generously referring to as "hacking."
I talked to Cubrilovic about how these photos get stolen. At first I thought we would be discussing who's to blame when these diabolical photo leaks occur, but during our conversation I learned more than I ever thought I would about cloud storage. While it may have been old-school, penetrating-the-firewall-to-access-the-mainframe hacking, it's very possible that these photo thieves accomplish their heists simply by researching celebrities online for hours at a time, and then telling a bunch of lies to get what they're after—more or less the skillset of Hannah Horvath from Girls.
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VICE: Hi Nik! Who's to blame for all the nude photo leaks?
Nik Cubrilovic: When you try to convey a story to the general public, they often perceive an issue to be very binary: good guy, bad guy. And this is a case where, outside of the actual hackers who broke into the accounts, the blame—and even “blame” is probably a strong word—but the responsibility can be distributed quite broadly.
Is it right to blame Apple?
Does Apple have a responsibility to secure their data? They do. Because the users are putting trust in them.
But what makes Apple less secure?
The best way to explain their culpability (for lack of a better word), is to think about it in this perspective: there are three major mobile crowd providers—everyone belongs to one of these three ecosystems: you’ve got Apple, which is available on the iPhone, you’ve got Google’s cloud services, which are available on Android devices, then you have the Microsoft cloud services which are available on Nokia and other devices. Of those three, Apple is the only company that still has security questions.
So, they’re doing something different, and it just happens that in this case, one of those things that they’re doing different than the other two major providers, was used to break into these accounts.
You’re anti-security question?
Oh yeah[…]. Security questions are a huge flaw. Google got rid of them four years ago or so. Microsoft abandoned them completely about three years ago. So, the core of this issue—if you want to summarize—is the ability to reset a user's password by simply providing their date of birth and then two security questions.
Those security questions have been making me feel safe. What's wrong with them?
When you hit reset, it will show you two of the three questions from when you signed up, and if you get them right, it lets you into the account. […] The security question scheme is something that used to be used offline in banks and places like that in the 1960s and 1970s to prove your identity. It was adopted online in the 1990s, but companies quickly realized that it was very easy to bypass because on the web today, everybody is just sharing that information. It’s a lot easier to find. It’s a lot easier to go on to Facebook and find out some of these things like date of birth. It’s a lot easier to find what high school they went to, their pet's name, what type of car they drive. And for celebrities it’s even easier to find, because a lot of that information is either on Wikipedia, or on one of the gossip websites.
If I could figure out what Jennifer Lawrence would enter for “favorite city,” and “favorite sports team,” plus I knew her date of birth, then I could get in?
That’s right, yeah. And somebody did do that.
How do you know that's all it took?
It’s not confirmed 100 percent. [However], I knew where these guys hung out. I knew the forums they frequented, and I knew that they were all a part of this sort of subculture of hacking into online backups and stealing pornographic pictures, "revenge porn" or whatever you wanna call it. So [I've been] hanging out in those forums, and speaking to some of those members there. If you read some of their tutorials of how to hack an account—and this is actually the forum where these pictures came from—the number one tutorial is explaining how to answer the security questions.
It's a forum for exchanging tips?
I’ll give you a glimpse of what it looks like on the forum: You’d have somebody post a picture of a car, and it would be like, a maroon Mercedes, mid-1990s model, parked on a beach. Just a car completely in the middle of nowhere, and the question next to it would be, “What type of car is this?” I kept seeing those. There was a picture of a car interior, and some guy was asking what type of car that was. I couldn’t figure out why they were asking that. And it only occurred to me later that one of the security questions on iCloud is “what type of car do you drive?”
So [here's] what these guys were doing: Looking at the public photos of the people they were attempting to hack, and trying to find photos of their cars. Then, when they couldn’t identify them themselves, they were posting those pictures to these forums to get other people to help them out.
They're crowdsourcing their hacking, in a sense?
Yeah. And the penny dropped for me when somebody answered, “Sometimes the girls give their cars a nickname.” The entire forum—90 percent of it—is centered around, first of all, teaching people this method, and then second, helping people—crowdsourcing the answers to the questions. So teaching people techniques like how to stalk somebody online.
To answer some of these questions, you really gotta know your target intimately. You have to spend a lot of time absorbing as much information as you can about them. Then you go back and try and answer their questions. If you go into an Apple account you’ll see there are ten or twelve questions that users can choose from. But all of them, with enough persistence, an attacker can find the answers to.
What about the challenge of finding a person's main email address to begin with?
The way they do it is by paying to access the online people databases such as, and there are a couple other providers where you can go in and plug in somebody's name. You pay anywhere from $2 to $60 and you get to get all their public records. So if you know someone’s full, Christian name and where they’re born, you can go and apply for their public database records.
Is there a different method if they're famous?
The second method is social engineering, where you get in touch with an agent or something like that, pretending to be somebody else, and you try and fish out an email address that way. And the third way is that once you’ve hacked one celebrity, you extract their address book, and then you’ve got contacts for a whole lot of other celebrities. That’s what happened in this case. One celebrity getting hacked led to that celebrity having other celebrities in their address book, which then led to the other celebrities.
Should people think of themselves as security vulnerabilities for all of the people they know?
We talk about it being sort of the “weakest link” in the chain. With social networks and address books now, a weak link is often easy to find. An attacker only needs to find one weak link somewhere whereas the [victim] is sort of playing defense. You have to protect and secure everything which involves clues and, everybody that you’ve ever been in contact with, because most modern email clients now will automatically add anybody you’ve emailed into your address book automatically.
I'll have to be more careful then. Thanks Nik!
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Hideous. Filthy. Obscure. Old School. These words reportedly go well with the second full-length effort from the Polish death metal cannibals Amorphous (featuring members of Vader, Esquarial and Dissenter). The album, aptly titled “A Perfect Evil”, is set to be released on March 1st through Let It Bleed Rec.
In an exclusive comment for Zero Tolerance the band’s vocalist and bassist Plaski reveals: “In contrast to our debut (Return From The Dead), this album is a collection of ideas delivered by all the band’s members, both in instrumental parts and the lyrical sphere. I’m glad that this has been achieved, despite Spider having a very busy time in Vader. The songs we created are dark in their reference to the old school and brutal in the fullest sense of the word. A huge piece of juicy meat served in ten different ways”.
The album will be released as a strictly limited (to 500 copies only) digipack CD. The tracklisting goes as follows:
1. Psychosis
2. Deception… lie… forgivness
3. Shred
4. My revenge
5. Lonely reality
6. Escape
7. The abyss of nothingness
8. Discouraged
9. Let’s paint the death
10. Agony part II
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Where the Growth Happens
Erin and I have a knack for killing plants. We always start off with great intentions, but for some reason by the time mid-July hits, our flowers are usually long gone.
I remember one spring, several years ago, we planted some flowers in the front flower bed. We were so excited because we had miraculously kept them alive for a whole three weeks. They weren’t the most thriving-looking flowers, but at least they were alive.
One day my mother-n-law came for a visit. When I got home from work that day I noticed all of our flowers had been completely lopped off. My initial thought was, “She has ruined our flowers!”
Three days passed.
The flowers grew back, but not like before. They were better than before. They looked healthier, fuller, and stronger. The flowers were thriving through the process of pruning.
Pruning in Life is Hard.
It’s counterintuitive. How can subtraction lead to multiplication?
Jesus explains this phenomenon for us in John 15 when He says, “Every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit” (John 15:2b).
Why doesn’t Jesus say, “Every branch that bears fruit, He rewards.” Or “He plucks the branch and places in His fruit bowl in the kitchen for all to see what a great piece of fruit it is!”
He prunes it. He cuts it off from the branch.
When it comes to spiritual growth, there is no growth without pruning.
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The Vinedresser.
Jesus explains that we are the branch. He is the vine, and the God the Father is the vinedresser.
God is the one working, shaping, and forming the branch to do what He has purposed for it to do.
Pruning is a temporary decrease that produces an eternal increase. Even though pruning feels like an immediate loss, in the long run it produces an eternal gain.
What to Expect?
There are a few things you can expect when it comes to the pruning process.
1. Expect it to hurt.
There really is no way around it. When God removes something from your life there will be pain involved. Sometimes it’s something good that He desires us to let go of. Sometimes He prunes a destructive habit we have been clinging to.
Remember, there is a difference between hurt and harm. God doesn’t prune to harm us. He prunes because that’s where growth happens.
2. Expect it to heal.
A plant heals when the wound closes. Sure, there is a scar, but the wound is closed up.
The same is true when God brings spiritual healing in our lives. He closes up the wound, the hurt, the pain. Sure there is a scar, but scars are just evidence of a story where healing took place.
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3. Expect it to help.
As God prunes and heals, the end result is growth in our lives. A dying plant is pruned in order to help it grow again.
Is there an area of your life that needs pruning? Is there something God is working to remove? Let me encourage you to welcome the pruning process. Allow the vinedresser to begin/continue the pruning work in your life. It’s where the real growth happens!
Growing Forward,
Andy Comer
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Looming at large was the daily drill of capitalism, I was supposed to be awake; I was supposed to grind away another day of my life writing computer code for computers sitting far away from me. It was a miracle that we could even do such a thing from our homes in pyjamas and slippers. I flipped my phone from its slumber like one would flip a beetle on summer grass; The underside glowed. I tore my eyes open to the faint glow. I was looking at a digital clock, 6:00AM it said. I swiped my thumb on the piece of glass, like I was trained to do by large corporations of this century. I looked at my calendar that had my time organised into precious chunks of meaningful conversations. The first meeting of the day wasn’t until a few hours. The light of my screen was becoming too much for my eyes, I blinked my eyes closed.
The bed was still warm, and my eyes were closed. The little cocoon of warm air was getting uncomfortable, so I slid my hands onto the cold sheet around me. There could be another human being, warm and in slumber, but I was held together by the cold. The air around the blanket was comforting, I threw my blanket off of me. The cold air came around me like ghosts trying to haunt adventurous teenagers, without restraint. I realised it was miserably cold outside, but I didn’t want to put the blanket back on. I wanted to float in cold like I would float at the deep end of a swimming pool on a fine summer evening, with a pointless fear of drowning nagging from the back of my head.
I started shivering.
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In 2017 the World Health Organisation estimated that 1 in 3, or 2.3 billion people, are still without sanitation facilities, whilst 844 million people still lack access to safe and clean drinking water. Lack of sanitation contributes to about 700,000 child deaths every year due to diarrhea, concentrated in developing countries.
WASH is a collective term for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene – relating to access to safe, clean water, improved sanitation facilities and basic level of hygiene maintained. These issues are all highly interconnected, and so are combined together within this targeted ‘WASH’ approach to represent a growing sector. The benefits of having access to an improved drinking water source can only be fully realised when there is also access to improved sanitation and good hygiene practices.
Universal, affordable and sustainable access to WASH is a key public health issue with international development, and is the focus of Sustainable Development Goal 6.
Education and training on WASH is mandatory as part of our Safe Water Projects. With the organisations and charities with which we partner, hands-on education and training sessions are ran with the communities in which boreholes are rehabilitated and occasionally in local schools. They highlight the importance of washing equipment such as plates and cutlery with soap, personal daily hygiene routine including soap, ending open defecation and collecting water in clean and secure containers to ensure the clean water is not contaminated amongst the diverse topics covers. Demonstrations are given and then groups encouraged to participate and share information amongst their communities.
Our WASH campaigns are an essential component of our Safe Water Projects, ensuring they are high-impact for the communities involved and directly contribute to SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation.
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Missing out on shingles might also indicate problem inside if water has dripped through. Windows will include significantly to your restoration budget, too, so watch out for rotting around window frames or condensation. You may also want to upgrade single glazing to double, for example, minimizing heat loss and running expenses at the same time.
If your home is not big enough for your needs consider how you might change it to rectify that. You may be able to easily transform existing space such as the garage or the attic. An easy attic conversion is frequently a fairly cost effective option for additional area if the pitch allows.
Again, take a look at surrounding properties for a sign of what might be possible. There is a lot you can do to improve a home, but if the cost of this is going to be really high and restrict your ROI it might not be the property for you. Instead try to find something that is closer to what you require in terms of size and design.
Signs of outdated electrics are an old-fashioned circuit box; black or fabric cable televisions; and old fashioned sockets. (Image credit: Jody Stewart)If the homes in your area are historic, you might desire to (or even require to, if you're in a historic district) protect them. For many years, lots of period homes have been stripped of the important things that make them lovely.
It is unfortunate to see homes that have lost all of their character, but before you go about 'restoring' period functions, remember it can be similarly harming to a house's heritage to install what would not have actually been there in the very first location so do some research. Learn more about your home, the age it was integrated in, and the kind of people who would have lived there.
When you have actually taken possession, have a good appearance around and appropriately assess the extent of the work to be done, so you can get a detailed financial schedule in place. Some mortgage lenders will assist you money your renovation job and use the cash in staged payments. If you are decreasing this route, discover out what those stages are and work out by when you will have each action of the renovation finished.
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In other cases, you need to be practical about what work you can manage to do and when. If the property is not in a habitable state, your first priority should be to make it safe and dry, with hot water and heating, so that you can relocate particularly if you are spending cash to live somewhere else while the work goes on.
'Guideline top is make a budget plan and stick to it,' she states. Work out costs for each room, considering whatever from structural work, such as framing, to ending up touches, then add everything up to see if you can manage it. If a professional is assisting you with your task they have to offer you a clear quote, which will help you with your spending plan.
You will likewise require to produce a different spending plan for decorating and furnishing the home when structural work is completed. It needs to have been made clear to you during the sale whether the residential or commercial property is a historical home or located in a historical district, but if you are not sure, it's a good idea to inspect - How Much Does It Cost To Do A Kitchen Remodel.
You can examine if your house is on the National Pc Registry of Historic Places, or is designated as historical with your State Historic Preservation Office. If it is, you'll want to check the regional standards for renovating the home (they will vary from state-to-state and even city-to-city), prior to you begin making changes.
Typical work that generally needs a permit in the majority of areas: structural modifications, additions, HEATING AND COOLING work, demolition, and re-roofing. However, allowing guidelines and building regulations vary depending upon where you live, so you'll desire to consult your city or town for specifics. If you do require authorizations for all or part of your proposed work, aspect in the amount of time required to submit the applications.
Note: Licenses are not something that ought to be avoided, as they can prevent the re-sale of your home - How To Remodel House. Lots of homebuyers will ask to see licenses for any modifications made to your house. It deserves taking your time to best the style of your restoration and make sure the ended up residential or commercial property will fulfill your needs.
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Think thoroughly about space placement, too. 'Focus on introducing natural light, which has the power to transform and uplift any space,' says Sarah Beeny. 'Wherever possible, organize rooms so you invest most of your time where the light is. It's also worth considering the view an excellent one can go a long method.'Be clear on the actions you will require require to refurbish the home you proceed, and prioritize works that stop even more decay or stabilize the structure.
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If you are carrying out significant structural work, or extending a house, consult the proper experts initially, as there may be implications you are uninformed of. For example, converting an attic may appear like a job isolated from the ground flooring of your house, but adding an additional habitable flooring brings structure policy and permitting needs and may need adding brand-new techniques of egress or additional structural assistance. "Anybody claiming that you will earn your refund in energy savings by setting up replacement windows is either mistaken or searching for your money himself (How To Remodel A Basement For Cheap)." When you know what size sofas, tables, and sconces you require, compose them down and carry that list with you constantly. You never know when the ideal product will jump into your path.
While you're at it, jot down your door widths, too. "Make certain your new purchases can fit through the front door," says Chiappone. "You won't believe how typically this gets overlooked." Undersized carpets are the most typical error Chiappone sees. "Your carpet ought to ground your furniture so that at least the front legs of the upholstery are on the carpet," she states.
Hit up your regional carpet shopthey can make any broadloom into a different size and shape."" If you are acquiring appliances, lighting, and other items for a renovation, print out all your specs and/or setup instructions," states Chiappone. "I put them in a binder for the professional and the subs and keep onsite so everyone has access to these docs." Perk suggestion: "If you were to ever sell or lease your residential or commercial property, this is a valuable tool." Aside from their experience with building and construction, products, and sources, basic specialists have something else to offer: accountability.
Sub-contractors, however, have relationships with G.C.'s that will suffer if they don't finish the job right. Often, it'll work out, especially if your jobs are reasonably small. However understand that it can be a danger. Technology can be expensive and end up being outdated rapidly. While electrical wiring every room in your home for video might appear cool, it's not always a great investment.
For anybody on a budget (i.e., everybody) Chiappone recommends concentrating on the living areas first. "Doing a little here and there in multiple spaces will only leave you feeling unclear and disappointed," she notes. "The place where you invest the most time needs to truly serve as the focus of your energy and financial investment.
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If you have actually been living in the same house for numerous years, or if you purchased a fixer-upper, it's natural to desire to refurbish and update your home. However, upgrades are expensive. A brand-new set of cooking area cabinets will cost countless dollars. New counter tops, bath vanities, and hardwood floorings will cost several thousand more.
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Use peel-and-stick contact paper with stainless-steel finishes on home appliances. This provides you the contemporary look you're going for without the astronomical cost. Your appliance will have a stainless-steel faade at a fraction of the cost of the genuine offer. No one will know the distinction. Set up new switchplate coversthese are the covers on light switches and electric outlets.
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Worcestershire sauce
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Important Seed Terms That Every New Gardener Should Know
Gardening is not a complicated thing to do, but some new gardeners may still have a hard time learning and understanding some concepts about it.
For example, you may have found seeds that are labeled as organic. These organic seeds are the rage nowadays. They’re preferred among all seed types because they’re the freshest and healthiest seeds you can possibly get. They also contain more nutrients than their synthetic counterparts.
Another seed term example that’s quite common these days is GMO. GMO stands for “genetically-modified organism,” which means the seeds have been genetically altered. The process generally involves taking some genes from the DNA of one plant and adding those genes into the specific plant they want to modify.
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I couldn't find an image that was really appropriate for this article, so instead have a kitten.
I've got a message for a certain Reid "Frolixo" Paskiewicz (the one who works here): enough is enough. This rivalry between the two of us has gotten out of hand. It was one thing when you were devoting full paragraphs of your articles to ridiculing me in fairly creative ways. You had enthusiasm, you had passion, you had style. How could I not respond? My honor was at stake week after glorious week, and I was always thrilled to take my own little jab back at you. I felt vindicated and knew that I had pissed you off just enough to expect another barrage of insults the following Saturday. So now I want to know one thing: what happened to us? No, let me revise that. What happened to you?
You've been getting lazy, my anti-friend. The paragraphs dwindled to derogatory references to me within the general text of your articles. The references shrank further still to quick sentences at the very end of your articles. It was like insulting me had become nothing more than an afterthought to you, something to do out of habit, not out of a true desire to make me cry like little girl. I can't even remember how long it's been since you questioned my sexuality or told me I was grossly overweight. I only have a vague memory of the last time you pointed out a specific flaw in one of my articles or pointed out a particular joke that flopped. And then there was yesterday. What the hell was that? Like your penis in the presence of a naked woman, your insult shriveled to nothing more than a picture caption. And all that the caption had to offer was another "Ben 'Greasnin' Platt isn't funny" line. Please. Zack "Geist Editor" Parsons has been calling me unfunny better and longer than you could ever hope to achieve. Hell, even when he does it, it's not that great of an insult. I don't need you to tell me I'm not funny, Reid. I've got plenty of people just itching to do that.
There, do you see what I just did? I just insulted myself better in one little witticism than you have in a month. Now that's just sad.
Again, this is just here to take up space. "Frolixo" doesn't bring up a damn thing in the Google image search.
Last week, I didn't bother responding to your pathetic attempt at irking me. "Also, Greasnin is the the worst person ever and I pray for his demise nightly, and at brunch." Pretty lame, Reid. The gag hinges on the comedic value of the word "brunch," which isn't much to begin with. But I gave you the benefit of the doubt. Hey, we all have our share of days when we have to struggle just to get enough words on the page to substantiate a full article. I figured you were having an off week and couldn't quite muster the energy and inspiration to really tear into me. I think it was a pretty fair assessment, considering the quality of the article itself. I made the gentlemanly decision to let you off easy, so I took all the hostility I had built up toward you and focused it on organized religion instead. Let me tell you, since then I've been called "a pathetic little bigot," "another Hitler," "one of the worst wastes of genetic material ever to manage to stand upright" and a hundred other wonderful insults by a wide assortment of fundamentalist Christians. Every one of those holy-rolling Jesus freaks managed to zing me with both originality and considerable aplomb. So when you failed to come through with a halfway decent attack on my masculinity, I was horribly disappointed.
Now, maybe you were just having another off week. After all, you did resort to writing about home repair. Come on, Reid, how many Something Awful readers do you honestly think are going to put down their Milk Duds and go build a deck? Well, at least it wasn't another lawn gnome article. Lord knows one is enough of those. To be perfectly frank, I don't think your inability to come up with an entertaining topic is the problem. After all, it hasn't hurt Zack any. No, I have a suspicion that your recent lack of ambition in the realm of Greasnin-bashing is a result of a burn out from overextending yourself. You put so much effort into trying to humiliate me that you completely ran out of juice. I can even pinpoint the precise moment when it happened. It was during your article from March the first, Let's go Camping you Nerds! (Part 1). I'm talking about this little guy right here:
A great image, but at what cost?The sad sign of obsession.
Now, I'm not going to sit here and tell you that this isn't a fantastic picture, because it is. I made the mistake of exposing a terrible picture of myself to the internet, and you turned it into a work of comedic gold. I'm giving that round squarely to you, Reid. Congratulations. You earned it. I love this picture, I won't lie. But this little gem came at a terrible price. Since then, your insults have been going rapidly downhill. You sort of rode the success of the Greasmunk the following week, but the chinks in your armor were starting to show. Your witty observations on how I suck gave way to a startling obsession with my anus. For the readers, it must have seemed quite strange to see Reid "Frolixo" Paskiewicz suddenly consumed with interest in my rectal cavity. I know the truth, of course. That was no sudden obsession - it was a relapse. I thought that the years of therapy had helped you get over the time I rejected your advances. To this day, Reid, I'm flattered, but simply not interested. The textual Greasnin-hating suffered that week, and you had to enlist the help of forum member The Yellow Yell to provide artwork depicting various woodland creatures sodomizing me (see right). What puzzled me most about those pictures is that they didn't really look like me at all. I don't really get that. There was obviously source material out there. My appearance is ripe for caricature. The only assumption I can make is that you had The Yellow Yell make those pictures for you long ago so you could desperately masturbate to them in a futile effort to expunge your anal fixation from your troubled psyche.
The truth of the matter is, Reid, you blew your proverbial load with that cheaply assembled picture of my head on a chipmunk's body. The decline of your insults continued at an alarming rate throughout the rest of March and all of April. Your attacks hardly showed any enthusiasm and started to become repetitive assertions that I'm not funny. In a bid to maintain the appearance of still being able to mock me, you contracted another goon from the forums, SlickWombat, to make the following animations:
I have to give it up for SlickWombat. Those animations might not be the most beautiful things to come out of a computer, but they are funny as hell. The problem I have with them is that they're someone else's work. People don't come to Something Awful on Saturdays to see what The Yellow Yell and SlickWombat are up to. They come to read an article by Reid "Frolixo" Paskiewicz! I don't know why they come for that, but apparently they do. They want to see your work, Reid. Goddammit, man, you're a Something Awful writer now! I don't know, maybe I just have an overinflated opinion of this site, but I read SA for years before I had the good fortune to work here, and I always held the writers in a certain regard. If you're good enough to work here, you should be able to come up with your own damn insults, not letting other people do your dirty work for you. You're letting the team down, Reid, and that's something that I don't take lightly.
Bam! The puppy faction comes in with a blow from the left at the last minute!
Alright, Frolixo, let's get down to the business of how we're going to fix this little problem we're having. If you've got any sort of pride left in that worn out husk of a body of yours, you'll want to prove that you still have what it takes to make me feel bad about myself. It's in your hands now. Remember, you were the one who started this rivalry. I was perfectly content to welcome you aboard and let you do your own thing while I put together a multi-tiered assault against Josh "Livestock" Boruff. You decided to go on the offensive, so it's up to you to maintain that position. I can only respond to what you throw at me. If you give me crap like you have been the last few weeks, I'm not going to waste the readers' time fighting back. I'm not asking for paragraphs dedicated to making me look like a jackass like you used to do. Those were nice as a novelty, but it's just stupid to take up that much space every single week for a shouting match that maybe five people actually follow. All I'm asking is that if you're still committed to going a few more rounds with me, come up with something a little better than "Greasy's not funny."
You're obviously tired, Reid. I'm not going to force you into a battle you're not prepared to fight. Take a few weeks off. Regain your strength. Collect your anti-Greasnin thoughts. Come up with a worthwhile joke or two. Stop hanging around that shrine to my anus you built in the bedroom. When you're ready to match wits again, give me your best shot. Don't worry, I'll be waiting for you. I'm not going anywhere. Just remember - in the end, there can be only one.
– Ben "Greasnin" Platt
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Curing the World
If I could cure the world of one thing it wouldn’t be cancer. Or AIDS. Or even the common cold. I know it sounds heartless to say, but while these are terrible things I think there are other kinds of evil in the world that even a scientist isn’t able to find a cure for. I would cure people of fear. Before you write me off as a heartless person, hear me out.
I believe most evil in the world stems from fear. For example, jealousy often stems from fear. If you’re jealous you have a fear of that person cheating on you, fear of them liking someone else more than you, fear of them viewing you as inadequate, a fear of them doing something you don’t want them to do, etc. Complacency is caused by fear: fear of change, fear of a new job, fear of unfamiliar surroundings, etc. What about the awful things that go on in the world that aren’t stopped because of fear? You can draw connections of most things back to fear.
Now, what happens when we live with fear? Best case scenario we live with status quo. Worst case scenario we live with pain – enduring things we wouldn’t normally tolerate because the pain of dealing with them is less than the fear of making a change.
How would your life be different if fear didn’t exist? What would you do if you weren’t afraid?
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Alone in Berlin
“Hans Quangel” a young German infantry soldier runs terrified through the woods in France, he is shot and killed in action.
“Otto” (Brendan Gleeson) and his wife “Anna” Emma Thompson receive the news in Berlin, via post. Their only child killed in pursuit of a war they do not believe in, they do not take it well.
The couple are cold with each other, they appear to have lost any real connection as husband and wife. “Otto” goes to work as usual, ironically making coffins for the war effort, leaving his wife distraught and with no comfort.
Over time, Otto’s disgust with Hitler’s aims and lies prompts him to start writing postcards, denouncing the regime in harsh terms. He distributes the cards for anyone to find in random places. Anna is aware of this dangerous pursuit and over time begins to help.
To say this is foolish or brave would be an understatement. Nazi sympathizers are everywhere, people will be turned into the authorities for any disloyalty. Rather someone else be killed or tortured then yourself, fear is everywhere.
The portrayal of a Berlin during the height of Nazi power is very effective, the iron grip and total fear imposed on the populace is palpable. A police Inspector “Escherich” Daniel Brühl is assigned the case to find the culprit, with most cards handed in by terrified Berliners, the pressure to achieve a result increases.
Of course the real power is held by the SS and there is a notable scene where even the Inspector is not safe from their reach and influence.
Thompson and Gleeson are as you would expect, excellent in their roles. There are quiet performances from other doomed characters and Bruhl also makes the most of his character’s arc.
However, whilst any viewer choosing the film would hardly expect a comedy, this is depressing stuff indeed. The ending is never really in any doubt and understandably there are few rays of sunshine in the story.
What really causes the film to falter is the lack of warmth between the central characters, until at least it is too late. This provides no life raft for the audience to hold on to and makes for a difficult and lengthy watch, despite the relatively short running time.
The story also takes a turn where you feel the protagonist almost want/need to be caught, which seems an exercise in self flagellation, given everything that has gone before and risks undertaken.
Based on a true story, the film highlights the considerable bravery of this couple standing up for what they believed was right, in the face of insurmountable odds.
Well acted with excellent locations and period setting, within a presumably tight budget.
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Trip Report: Adventure Island (March 19, 2015)
It’s been 5 years since the last time I was at Adventure Island. Armed with a Sanyo waterproof camcorder, this was one of the earliest water parks I had ever documented for Water Slide Database back in 2010! This time I come prepared with a DSLR and GoPro Hero4.
Adventure Island is a large water park located in Tampa Bay, Florida, and is across the street from a world-class African-themed zoo/theme park, Busch Gardens Tampa!
Adventure Island contains a variety of attractions from the expected like a wave pool and lazy river, to the not-so expected like a 20 foot cliff jump into water or a water slide with two mid-course pools. The water park stands out quite a bit because of its selection of older and newer attractions and slides. Plus the large amount of shade and foliage makes walking around the park on a bright and sunny day much more manageable.
The park has 14 standalone water slides total, not including flumes that are connected to or beside each other (which would bring the number to 23)!
These slides range from gentle such as Runaway Rapids, Calypso Coaster, and Key West Rapids, to the more intermediate slides such as Riptide, Caribbean Corkscrew, and Water Moccasin. Other slides include two family raft rides, a ProSlide OctopusRACER belly mat slide, 5 open-flume body slides, and a toboggan slide that skips riders on top of water!
Along with these include two water playgrounds (one with two slides), a wave pool, a lazy river, a splash pool with lily pad crossing, a 20 foot cliff jump into water, and two drop slides.
Runaway Rapids are five standalone body slides that intertwine with each other while weaving in and out of an artificial rock mountain. The slide is very gentle and enjoyable, especially for kids, while still having enough distance and turns for the older folks to not mind trying as well. The only downsides to Runaway Rapids that day were that they had some of the longest waits in the park, and getting to the slides were quite confusing due to there being no clear entrance or directional signs leading to the slides.
Aruba Tuba and Calypso Coaster are two average inner-tube slides that share the same starting platform and consist of various easy left and right turns and small dips along their courses. The difference between the two are that Calypso Coaster is an easy open flume slide, and Aruba Tuba is a slightly faster and mostly enclosed water slide with many sections along the way where the ceiling is open.
One of the park’s most unique slides is the Everglides. This ride starts with two riders boarding their small, yellow, hard plastic toboggans to which the operator then throws a switch that tilts both riders forward, causing them to slide down onto a steep decline. The ride then levels out and shoots the riders horizontally across the water, to which both then skids across the pool parallel to each other for roughly 20 yards before coming to a stop near the opposite end. It’s a surprisingly exciting and quick slide in which kids and adults equally enjoy!
Towards the far back corner of the park sits the ProSlide-brand OctopusRACER slide, Riptide! This four-lane belly mat racer slide starts with the lifeguard giving a countdown before riders leap into their designated tunnels. Riders then go into four separate helixes opposite of each other before rejoining side-by-side, exiting their tunnels and going into a double-down towards the shutdown lane.
Riptide is one of the park’s more exciting water slides due to being able to race three other sliders down the high-speed flume to see who will make it to the end first. The helix on each flume also produce an impressive amount of positive g-forces, as well as the following double-down producing small pops of airtime if a rider goes fast enough! This slide is sure to please the thrill seekers for the speed, as well as the gentle riders for being a very “in-control” and easily re-ridable slide!
Near Riptide sits some of the park’s few speed slides.
Caribbean Corkscrew are two purple enclosed body slides that simply warp around each other in a long spiral, making its way towards the shutdown lane at the end.
Do not be fooled by its gentle slope, for this slide can get riders picking up quite a bit of speed on the way down, becoming wilder with every drop and curve as they progress toward the end for a spectacular finale. It’s a fun and thrilling slide that’s a worth a try for those looking for an out-of-control thrill!
Water Moccasin are the park’s last three enclosed speed body slides. The center slide makes steep drop giving brief airtime before quickly leveling out and shooting the rider out towards the pool, while the two slides on the ends perform a gradual steep helix before shooting the rider out parallel with each other into the same pool. While these slides offer short, simple thrills, they suffered from having harsh seams and tiny gaps between flume connections, causing water leakage and uncomfortable back scratching; especially on the center freefall slide.
Last, but not least, Key West Rapids is another slide unique to Adventure Island by the fact that it requires riders to ride in single-person inner-tubes down an extremely wide flume big enough to fit a family raft. Along with that, the slide has two splash pools during the course where riders float down a lazy river-like section before a lifeguard advances them onto the next section.
The slide consists of three sections split by the two pools: the initial right helix and single dip, a left helix followed by a double-down, and lastly a much larger double-dip section into the final pool at the end. The slide are easily re-rideable, although the pool sections in between each slide section makes for a sometimes slow and very tame ride. Nothing to wow any park go’ers, but it is something worth trying at least once considering how rare these slides are in the U.S.
The two water slides I were not able to try while at Adventure Island were the two family raft slides, Colossal Curl and Wahoo Run. Wahoo Run is a ProSlide DarkMAMMOTH brand slide which means that the majority of the slide is enclosed and pitch black inside. This ride utilized circular family rafts that can accommodate 2 to 6 people per raft. The slide is situated on top of a hill giving the illusion of it being the tallest water slide in the park when it is not. Wahoo Run was closed during my visit, but it would have still been unlikely for me to ride due to visiting the park solo and the slide not being able to accommodate single riders.
The latter can be applied to the park’s other family raft slide, though, which was operating.
Colossal Curl is a brand new family raft slide that opened earlier this year and has special elements to it to make it more of a thrilling family raft slide. Riders board the four-person cloverleaf raft, then are sent down the flume into a few curves. Riders then enter the first element, a Tantrum (now known as the Tornado 24) section where the raft oscillates back and forth before exiting the small funnel. The raft continues down a few more easy curves before performing a u-turn and dropping down an incline and rocketing up a quarter-pipe wall for a moment of airtime before coming back and exiting out of the element and slowly making its way to the pool at the end.
Most riders that disembarked the slide seemed to have bright smiles on their faces, with many mentioning that they were taken by surprise at how thrilling the quarter-pipe element on it was! The slide also had one of the busiest queues in the entire park, with the line having come down as far as the halfway point from the top of the tower.
All-in-all, Adventure Island has a enough of an assortment of water slides to satisfy all levels of thrills, from the thrilling slides to the gentler slides, and many in-between! You can expect to spend at least half the day at the park, though it can easily turn into a full-day if one is a group attempting to tackle as many slides and attractions in the park as they can. While most visitors to the Tampa Bay area may be there for the Busch Gardens theme park next door, I’m certain that if they chose to spend at least half a day at Adventure Island, they will likely not be disappointed.
Ratings for slides ridden (N/A= Unavailable):
Aruba Tuba: 7/10
Calypso Coaster: 6/10
Caribbean Corkscrew (2): 8/10
Colossal Curl: N/A
Everglides (2): 8/10
Key West Rapids: 6.5/10
Riptide (4): 9/10
Runaway Rapids (5): 6/10
Wahoo Run: N/A
Water Moccasin (Center Flume): 3/10
Water Moccasin (Side Flumes)(2): 7/10
Overall Waterpark Rating: 8/10
Have you been to the water park before? Do you agree with the scores given? Leave a comment below with your thoughts on the water park!
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Chapter 57
Everything was in place. Still, something was off. Viktor glared at the fire raging in the hearth.
Gunnar had sent reports of meetings between the Thran. Grenden had left Jormund and Henrik’s camp just before sunset. Illhiem had spoken with him hours earlier.
Dag had kept to his camp for most of the day. He had only made a foray into the city on a couple of occasions. Both appearing to be for supplies.
Word was Thulm had completely taken over the Grey Beard alongside the druids. Shuet and Eirik had been seen there. Kala rarely left, she was probably still nursing Wulf back to health. Her two Shaylin aids had been seen tending to errands for her.
The idea of Thulm staying in the same inn as the Rangers seemed strange. Especially since they had abandoned their obligations. Have they reached some agreement and reconciled? No, that’s too simple an explanation.
Thulm was a man to hold a grudge, he wouldn’t so casually let a slight go. His defeat at Wulf’s hands would be too much of a sting to his pride. Even if they were negotiating, Thulm would demand a lot of the three Huntsmen as recompense.
As he thought about the Rangers, Viktor recalled Gunnar saying something about them ceasing their patrols through the streets. They were keeping to themselves instead and only working local contracts. They were mostly congregating around the inns and taverns they had rented.
There had only been a couple of skirmishes between the Blades, the guard and the Rangers throughout the day. Fewer than the day before. A knock at the door of his chambers tore him from his thoughts.
“Thran Agrim?” Gunnar called.
“What is it, Gunnar?”
“I have news of something suspicious,” the seneschal replied.
“Come in…”
Viktor turned to see one of Savar’s men with the seneschal. He was rugged like the others with a full thick beard and dark brown eyes. He wore a red cloth on his left arm.
“Finnes has something to report. You asked me to recruit him.”
Viktor smirked. Clever as always.
Taking as his cue, Finnes stepped forward. “Gren has been acting strangely today,” he said. “He made us wear red and white cloths around our left arms. I was told it was to break us into groups for our patrols, but it seems that it is for other reasons.”
Viktor drew his eyebrows together. “What reason might that be?”
“Red shows who still follow Savar unquestioningly,” he replied. “White is for those who have doubts.”
“What does Savar say about this?”
“Savar thinks you ordered it or so he claims,” Finnes replied.
“Does he now?”
Finnes nodded.
“Tell me, Finnes, what does Gren wear? What you think Gren is planning?”
“He wears none,” Finnes answered. “I cannot speak to his plans, either, my Thran, but he is loyal. I’m certain his reasons are just.”
The look in Gunnar’s eyes showed the seneschal had questions. He was doubtful. Loya he says. Loyalty can be bought it’s only a matter price.
“Keep watching him Finnes, send word the moment you see something amiss.”
He bowed and left. Viktor scowled, feeling the skin on his face drawing taut. Gunnar stood there patiently as always.
“Spit it out.”
“He has become a liability,” he said. “Savar’s devotion casts doubt on his men.”
“It was a gamble, having him drink the brew. Long term, it secures my position.”
“Provided tomorrow goes smoothly,” Gunnar replied. “As of yet, Finnes shows no side effects, but it could be days before we see anything. If this batch holds true, then further refinements will be unnecessary.”
“I grow tired of the process, Gunnar. There is a wealth of knowledge at my fingertips and we have squandered our time on this one thing.”
“Progress takes time when building a future, my Thran,” he replied. “Sometimes it is grueling.”
“What of the other test subject?”
Gunnar cast his eyes to the stone flooring.
Viktor narrowed his eyes. “Gunnar?”
“I have discovered a flaw, an unintentional flaw at that,” he replied.
“Did the subject die?”
Gunnar flinched. “No, my Thran, he lives,” he answered. “But it seems the brew has no effect on those who were already loyal to begin with.”
The silence in the chamber was unsettling. Gunnar could feel it prickling across his spine. It was like the long spindly fingers of the Keeper creeping across one’s skin from behind.
Viktor’s expression was stoic. He simply stood there arms crossed, his attention appearing elsewhere. Still, the seneschal was too afraid to move. It wasn’t the first time his master has exploded In a rage from this quiet calm.
“You drank it yourself, didn’t you?” he suddenly asked.
His dark eyes were focused. Gunnar couldn’t help but think of a hawk that had set its sights on its prey. He locked his knees, holding his ground.
“I did. I felt grabbing some random person from the street was too dangerous to your plans.”
Viktor simply nodded, turning to his chair by the hearth and sat down. The silence returned, save for the wood crackling in the fire. Gunnar felt his stomach churn, but dug his heels against the stone floor.
“You may go,” Viktor said calmly. “If I need you I will send for you.”
“Until then, my Thran.” Gunnar turned toward the door, hit hand barely made it to the handle before Viktor spoke again.
“Gunnar, why do you serve?” he asked. “It is truly out of loyalty?”
Gunnar swallowed hard but kept his eyes focused on the door. “My mother used to say: Where there is no vision, there is no future and the people starve. You are a cruel man, riddled with ambition and a desire for conquest. Yet, within your vision there still lies a future. It may be bleak, but it is still there.”
Silence returned once again. Gunnar thought he might gag from the fear raging in his chest. It was tempting to look toward Viktor to get an inkling of what might be going through the man’s mind. Instead, Gunnar swallowed hard, took a breath and left the room.
It was only after the door shut that the crash of a chair being thrown across the room sound from the other side. Gunnar doubled over, the contents of his stomach emptying onto the keep’s stone floor. The commotion from Viktor’s chambers continued but he didn’t wait to see the aftermath.
He turned his mind toward the armbands and Gren. “You may be testing your men or perhaps raising an army. If we are to have a future, I must know which.
Gunnar rubbed his hands together to stave the chill in his fingers. Savar’s camp was quiet in the late hour. He looked up at the sky, the moon shone brightly overhead. It was almost full.
There were barely any clouds and the stars were clearly visible. He smiled. Nights like this were rare. Cloud cover was normally much thicker and more abundant.
“Gunnar?” The guard to his right asked.
Gunnar turned his attention to the tent in front of him. Now we will see. “Take him quickly.”
The guards he had brought with him rushed the tent. There was a sudden shout, but it was quickly silenced in the wake of a loud grunt. The struggle hadn’t lasted long as the men drug Gren from his tent, tied and gagged. Blood ran down the side of the face where they had hit him with one of their clubs.
I hope you haven’t addled his mind with that blow. Still, he looks relatively intact.
Gunnar froze after feeling something sharp press softly against his side. “If you value your life, take your men and leave,” the voice said.
The guards drew their weapons in response, but Gunnar held his hands up waving them off. “This is Viktor’s business, young warrior, and none of your concern.”
“We server Savar, not Viktor,” the young warrior replied.
“Savar has sworn fealty,” Gunnar replied. “You understand what that means…” The warrior’s seax didn’t budge. “Put the knife down, boy.”
Gunnar could feel his heart pounding, his chest tightening. Age was showing. Silently he hoped his tone was enough to intimidate.
The guards were wary but tense and ready to strike. They were looking to him to give the word. After a long silence, the young warrior pulled the seax away. Gunnar turned around, noting he was wearing a white cloth on his left arm.
The young warrior was angry, his expression full of resentment. “What does Viktor want with Gren?” he asked.
“That is our business, but we were never here.”
He locked his jaw, eyebrows drawn together in an intense stare. His gaze shifted briefly looking over at Gren and the guards. “If he doesn’t return…”
Gunnar stole himself away, forcing a hard look as he locked eyes with the young warrior. “Whatever happens, you would do well to remember on whose lands to stand, boy. If an offense has been dealt we are within our rights to carry it out.”
The young man averted his eyes and Gunnar boldly stepped past him. A sudden gurgling sounded to his ears and the seneschal spun around to see one of the guards sliding a seax across the warrior’s throat.
Gunnar bit his lip, fighting to keep his expression stoic. Where is no Vision… “Since you made the effort, you get to carry the corpse,” he commented.
The guard nodded, taking the time to unclasp his cloak and wrap it around the body. He paid special care to sop the blood around the knife wound to keep too much of it from dripping in the snow. He then displaced the snow where some of it had fallen and covered it over so no one would notice.
The faint sound of shifting snow to his left drew his attention among the tents. Gunnar turned, scanning them in the pale light of the moon, but there was nothing.
“Let’s get this over with.”
It didn’t take long to reach the keep’s dungeon. The main chamber was circular with a metal grate set into the floor at its center. Shackles liked the circumference of the room along with six torches spread apart at ten-foot intervals.
There were two large iron doors, one directly across from the main entrance and another set to the left. Each led to a corridor the circumvented the perimeter of the chamber where the prison cells awaited offenders.
The torches were the only source of heat, but it was just enough to keep the cold from doing much. They would never burn out either. A remnant of the previous Thran’s inventiveness.
In Viktor’s early days as Thran, they had seen frequent use. Now they were primarily vacant. The Blades and The Watch saw to most punishments, most of which were executions after a third offense.
Theft was one offense that never ended well for the accused and murderers fared even worse. Viktor kept a handful of Hungering Ones in the dungeon. Each a member of his predecessor's family.
Murders were tossed into the caged cell they were kept in from the upper floor. He thought it was comical to watch them be killed by monsters. Especially those who think of themselves as one.
One of the guards walked over to the wall where a gear connected to a crank and a set of chains were set into the wall. He turned the crank, the chains rattling loudly and the grate in the floor at the center of the chamber opened. Guttural moans came from inside.
Gunnar looked toward the guard carrying the corpse of the young warrior. “Toss it in.”
Like a burlap sack, he unloaded the corpse, dropping into the opening. The guttural moans grew louder and the sound of flesh being torn followed. The other guard quickly turned the crank closing the grate.
Gunnar stared at the grate. When was the last time they were fed?
The guards looked squeamish as the listened to the Hungering Ones feast in their cell. Gunnar turned away from them and started toward the doorway on the opposite side of the chamber. “We don’t have time for you to stand around.”
Gunnar opened the door and stepped in the hall. Each of the cells were enclosed rooms, with a solid oak door. There were no windows, so prisoners would have no idea if it was day or night and be unaware of how much time had passed.
He followed the hall to one of the cells at the end. Taking the keys from the pouch on his belt, he opened it and stepped inside. The guards followed and set Gren in the chair sitting in the middle of the cell, strapping him in.
The seneschal paused, noting the white cloth tied on Gren’s left arm. He frowned, feeling a bit annoyed at initially missing that detail. So you do have your doubts.
“Wait outside.”
The guards backed out of the cell closing the large door behind them. Gunnar stepped closer to Gren and checked the straps. The man was stout and serving under Savar meant he was capable of putting up a good fight.
Gunnar began patting him on the cheek. “Time to wake up.”
It took a few minutes of coaxing to rouse him. A nasty bruise was already starting to show on the side of his face. Gren slowly opened his eyes, wincing as he tried to get his bearings.
Gunnar removed the strip of cloth the guards had used to gag the man.
“You!” he said, looking around the enclosed cell. “Did Viktor put you up to this!?”
“It’s better to see me than him, Gren. I am asking on his behalf.”
He curled lip, struggling against his bonds, eyes burning with anger. “Savar will be furious when he hears of this!”
“Will he?”
It was brief but still noticeable. Gren’s expression changed just enough to show he knew or rather suspected something. He understood his bluff had been called.
“What do you know Gren? Why the colored cloths on the arms of your men?”
He narrowed his eyes, his jaw locked in stubborn defiance. Gunnar sighed, reached into his belt pouch and pulled a small corked vial from it. He stared at the vial, then shifted his gaze.
“I don’t want to use this, Gren, but I will if I have to.”
Gren eyed the vial warily. “So that’s what you did is it?” he said. “I remember the day Savar went to see Viktor upon our arrival. He wasn’t the same after.”
“Tell me what I want to know Gren. Why are your men wearing colored armbands?”
He turned his head and spat on the ground. “Even if I tell you, my life will be forfeit; or worse, I’ll be Viktor’s puppet just like Savar. I’m no fool, Gunnar.”
Gunnar turned toward the door, there was a chair set beside it. It wasn’t in the best shape, but it would do. He took the chair placing it in front of Gren and sat down.
“Viktor is a monster. I’ve known men similar to him. I’ve lived long enough in this cursed land to see many horrible things. I’ve seen men betray one another for mere scraps, women abandon their children to the cold because they couldn’t feed them.
We live harsh lives, yet to my knowledge, none have ever proposed what Viktor does. A land united under one banner. Instead, the other Thran are content to rule their domains and maintain the status quo.”
Gren sneered. “That is the way of things, only the strong survive in Sokoras. The land gives nothing to the weak.”
Such a small man. “What would you consider me? Would my status as Viktor’s seneschal say that I am strong? I’m no fighter. I have no skill with a blade or skeggox.”
Gren scowled and narrowed his eyes. “Even cowards have sharp tongues.”
Coward? How many times have I been called that? “Clever men have their own way of fighting, Gren. Now, why the colored cloths?”
He juggled the vial between his fingers in plain view. Gren’s eyes never left it. Even brave as he was, the idea of being enslaved was a terrifying prospect.
“You know this isn’t perfected. The first test subjects died horribly from Fern Withdrawal. They were fanatically loyal, even as they died of hypothermia. The process to make this drug is quite different from the normal refining process.
The heat requirements are immense. Most of the tubing in the stills burst before we can reach peak temperature. Later batches made the subjects devolve into mindless zombies, capable of menial tasks only.” Gunnar held the vial up between his fingers. “The question is, which batch did this vial come from, Gren?”
There was something about the unknown that put fear in the hearts of men. When magic was assumed to be involved, that fear became something more. Gren had that look of a man who had fallen into such fear. His eyes shone with it.
Gunnar glanced back at the vial as he thumbed it between his fingers. It was never clear how much of the potion’s effects were magical or alchemical. Still, there was a part of the process that Viktor never spoke about. Something that lent to the idea that it might be a bit of both.
“Killing me will only cause you more problems,” Gren said.
“Oh? What kind of problems?”
He averted his eyes, turning them toward the stone floor.
“Gren…What problems?”
“The men are wary, many only wear red out of fear,” he replied. “Others are looking to me to decide what happens. I know Savar has betrayed us for Viktor’s interests.”
His eyes are focused on the vial now, a resigned look on his face. He was expecting to die regardless of whatever he might be told.
“So if you disappear, they will revolt?”
He nodded. “My death, will turn the army against you, fear or not. Viktor will take the blame and we match your forces in number.”
Gunnar frowned. His confidence was disturbing. “You forgot the dragons and the giants.”
“Do you think Henrik or any of the other Thran will allow them to respond when the fighting breaks out?” he commented. “The minute they see them make a move on the city they and the Rangers will descend on them like a winter storm.”
He’s right, it would be chaos. I imagine the Blades would start fighting whoever bared their fangs to them. The giants don’t know all the banners of each Thran. Our own men could easily get caught in the middle.
“And if you don’t disappear, Gren?”
“That depends on Viktor,” he answered.
“Then I am left with no choice, Gren. As I have said, his vision offers a future, bleak or not.”
Gunnar stood and set the chair by the wall. “Guards!” The heavy oak door swung open allowing the torchlight to fully flood the cell. “Hold him still and keep his mouth open.”
“No! Gunnar, wait!” he shouted. “Talk to Illhiem, he sent his goblin. That’s how I knew!”
“Goblin? You believed the word of an animal…A stupid beast?”
“He isn’t like the others! He’s smart and dangerous!”
Gunnar passively thumbed the cork of the vial. An intelligent goblin?
“There was more than just the one, the others hid under white cloaks so they wouldn’t be seen.”
Gunnar paused. “White cloaks?”
He nodded as best as he was able with the guards holding him.
Gunnar put the vial back in his belt pouch and glanced up at the guards. “You two stay here and watch him. You and you, follow me.”
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Climate Gentrification: Inequality in the Shifting Miami Housing Market
By Elizabeth LeapePublished April 30, 2018
Rising sea levels primarily affect low-lying coastal communities, but, as beachfront residents move to higher ground, historically black and low-income neighborhoods such as Little Haiti are disappearing and their residents forced out to flood-prone areas. The shifting housing market reveals deep-rooted inequality in the region and the need for a comprehensive relocation strategy.
The historic shops and homes of Little Haiti, a neighborhood formed as a refuge for Haitian immigrants, are quickly disappearing and replaced with modern commercial and housing developments. This change is driven by rising sea levels, which have compelled wealthier, predominately white Miami residents to seek the district's higher elevation. Consequently, rent rates are spiking, pricing out Little Haiti residents from their homes and shops. This forces black residents to move out to flood-prone areas, reinforcing racial inequality.
In the mid-20th century, redlining and segregation in Miami forced black people to live in-land, which, in the case of Little Haiti, happened to be at the significantly higher average elevation of 7 feet. Historically, Miami developers determined beachfront property to be the most desirable and enacted racist housing policies to exclude black people from these neighborhoods. Impacts of historical redlining are still noticeable in Little Haiti today, where the population is 72% black, compared to just under 20% in Miami. In recent years, however, the racial demographics in Miami are changing as beachfront property owners begin to fear the effects of sea level rise and place greater value on elevation than proximity to the ocean.
Miami, like many other coastal regions in Florida, faces a dual threat of flooding from the ocean and inland bays and marshes, risks worsened by climate-induced sea level rise. From 1985 to 2016, sea level in Florida rose 6 inches and scientists predict another 6 inches of sea level rise will occur by 2032. Even small increases in sea level rise have substantial impacts on the frequency and severity of flooding. In the past 10 years, tide-induced flooding in Florida increased 400%.
Increased flooding has begun to take a toll on predominantly white, middle class Miami Beach residents. These residents are starting to sell their beachfront homes and purchase property in Little Haiti, driving up average home values by 135% in the past five years. In 2014, developers bought out Magic City Trailer Park, displacing around 40 families in the 86-year-old community, with plans for a $1 billion project to build a new "Innovation District."
Developers are pricing out long-time residents and shopkeepers and forcing them to move to now cheaper flood-prone areas, in a process social scientists term climate gentrification. This reversal of historic housing practices is problematic for several reasons, including the loss of history and culture and the reinforcement of racial inequality.
Government regulation must protect existing neighborhoods from rising housing prices to prevent low-income residents from being forced out to flood-prone areas. Local governments should also enact historic preservation and zoning laws to protect the rich history and culture of districts like Little Haiti. As sea level rise becomes a foremost concern for coastal communities, local and federal governments must develop feasible long-term plans for relocation. Governments should subsidize developments in higher elevation areas near coastal communities to offer viable alternatives to gentrification. | <urn:uuid:e69093a0-b70b-4692-b6ca-122b3b0e5816> | https://www.cornellrooseveltinstitute.org/env/climate-gentrification-inequality-in-the-shifting-miami-housing-market | en | 0.943342 | 0.037735 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Forcible Transfer
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Forcible Transfer
The forcible transfer of children of a protected group to another group is the fifth punishable act of genocide. It originally formed part of the definition of cultural genocide. The definition was contained in a draft by the UN Secretariat, submitted as a first step in creating the Genocide Convention that was adopted in 1948. The definition reads as follows:
Destroying the specific characteristics of the group by (a) forced transfer of children to another human group; or (b) forced and systematic exile of individuals representing the culture of the group; or (c) prohibition of the use of the national language even in private intercourse; or (d) systematic destruction of books printed in the national language or of religious works or prohibition of new publications; or (e) systematic destruction of historical or religious monuments or their diversion to alien uses, destruction or dispersal of documents and objects of historical, artistic, or religious value and objects used in religious worship.
The UN General Assembly rejected the concept of cultural genocide, holding that it was not consonant with the principal aim of the law of genocide. The aim of that law is to protect the right of national, ethnic, racial, and religious groups to physical existence as such. The acts that are listed in the Genocide Convention as acts of genocide are: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; and forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. The list is exhaustive and, with the exception of the forcible transfer of children, all the acts contained therein are physical. Generally speaking, therefore, the law of genocide is not concerned with cultural, economic, educational, linguistic, and political or social continuity. These concerns are protected elsewhere, by laws pertaining to human rights and minority rights.
The forcible transfer of children was added to the list of acts of genocide at the insistence of Greece after the UN General Assembly had rejected the inclusion of cultural genocide in the Convention. Its inclusion was achieved by a minority vote. Only twenty-five member states voted for its inclusion, whereas thirteen opposed it and thirteen abstained from voting.
The lukewarm support for including the forcible transfer of children among the acts of genocide may be explained by the fact that it is out of harmony with the other listed acts, whose common denominator is the physical destruction of the protected groups. Forcibly transferring children from one group to another results in the dispersal of the original group's members. It weakens their cohesion as a group, but it does not take away their physical characteristics. An African or Chinese remains African or Chinese, wherever he or she may be. The transfer, however, does make the transferred members of the group lose their cultural or linguistic identity by forcibly assimilating them into other groups. If those other groups speak different languages, practice different religions, or possess different cultures, transferred children will be forced to do likewise. Strictly speaking, this would constitute genocide only if the purpose of the transfer were to subject the children to slave labor or other forms of physical or mental harm. Such treatment would weaken them physically and would amount to subjecting them to conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction, in whole or in part.
It must, however, be conceded that the forcible transfer and isolation of children from their original group frequently makes it difficult for them when they become of age to marry people of their original group, for they may no longer share the linguistic, religious, cultural, or social traditions with that group. They are thus unable to reproduce their own kind and to perpetuate their group. As a direct result, the group itself will gradually dwindle in number and ultimately become extinct. The inclusion of the forcible transfer of children as an act of genocide is designed to prevent this eventuality.
Key Concepts
There are several key conceptual elements that under-pin the assignment of forcible transfer to the broader category of genocidal acts. These concepts include the definition of "child," the characteristics that define an act as forcible transfer, the definition of "protected groups," and the broader issue of the intent behind the transfer of children from their group of origin to another group.
Definition of Children
Neither the Genocide Convention nor the statutes of ad hoc tribunals or the International Criminal Court defines who a child is. The statute of the International Criminal Court that outlaws the conscription or the enlisting of children into armed forces confined the crime to "children under the age of fifteen years" (Article 8(2), paragraph (e) (viii)). The U.S. proposal to adopt the age of fifteen as the defining criterion of children within the Genocide Convention was rejected, possibly because the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, to which most states were already party, used the criterion of "every human being below the age of 18 years" in defining who qualified as a child. State representatives therefore took the view that the definition of what constituted a child was already settled and did not want to reopen it. In keeping with that understanding states that were party to the Rome Statute subsequently accepted the age of eighteen as the cut-off point in the definition of "child" and incorporated it as one of the elements defining the crime of genocide (Article 6(e)).
The Genocide Convention and the statutes of ad hoc tribunals and the International Criminal Court specifically refer to the forcible transfer of children. Does this mean that more than one child must be transferred for such transfer to qualify as an act of genocide? Not necessarily so. The transfer of even one child qualifies as an act of genocide if it is shown to be manifestly part of a master plan to destroy in whole or in part a protected group. It would be even more so if it were coupled with other acts of genocide. However, before a person who is charged with genocide on account of the forcible transfer of children can be found guilty of the crime, the prosecution must prove that the defendant knew or ought to have known that the persons being transferred were children as defined above. Such proof may not always be easy, particularly when large numbers of children are involved. For that reason it would be sufficient for the prosecution to prove that the accused knew or ought to have known that at least some of the people transferred were under eighteen years of age.
Forcible Transfer
Transfer means removing children from their parents or guardians and placing them in the custody of persons belonging to groups other than the one in which they had been raised up to the time of the transfer. It also includes removing the children from their physical place of residence, such as a neighborhood, village, district, or community inhabited by members of the child's group and sending them to another location that is inhabited by members of different groups. During the meetings of the Preparatory Committee for the International Criminal Court. the United States proposed that forcible transfer be restricted to children in "lawful residence." The Preparatory Committee rejected the proposal, contending that it is immaterial that the place of residence from which the children are transferred is unlawful, for the children are not responsible for their place of residence. Accepting the U.S. proposal would have denied legal protection to children of illegal immigrants, for example. Instead, the committee held that what is material is that the children are uprooted from the custody of their parents or guardians or from their actual place of residence.
Not only must there be a transfer, the transfer must be forcible. "Forcible" transfer means transfer by force or by compulsion, without the consent of the parents or guardians of the affected children. It is no defense to say that the children consented for, in law, children lack the capacity to give such consent. It must also be stressed that the term "forcible" is not restricted to physical force. It also includes the threat of force and coercion caused by fear of harm or oppression to the children or to their parents, guardians, or others. It also includes artifice and trickery, as well as psychological force exerted on the children, parents, guardians, or others connected with them.
Protected Groups
For purposes of the genocide law the children who are forcibly transferred must belong to a particular national, ethnic, racial. or religious group. These are the only groups that are protected under the law of genocide. One reason for restricting protection to these groups is that membership in the groups is involuntary. It is inherited, not opted for by an individual. Another reason is that such groups are relatively stable and easily identifiable. The only group that does not meet these criteria and is therefore out of place is the religious group. Membership in this group, as is the case with respect to cultural, social, or political groups, is voluntary. One may join or abandon the group as his or her conscience dictates. It is true that a child may be born into a religion, but on reaching the age of discretion, he or she may repudiate that religion and embrace another, or give up belief altogether. In the modern era of religious liberty, it can no longer be assumed that children will necessarily cling to their parents' or ancestors' religious beliefs.
The Concept of Intent
It is not enough to show that there was a forcible transfer of children from their group to another. Such transfer, in itself, is only what is known in law as the actus reus. To prove a charge of genocide, it must simultaneously be shown that the transfer was done with the specific intent of destroying the group, in whole or in part, and that the transfer was part of that plan. This aspect of intent is known in law as the dolus specialis. This point is well illustrated by the Australian case of Alec Kruger & Ors; George Ernest Bray & Ors v. Commonwealth of Australia. The plaintiffs in the case were aboriginal Australians, members of the so-called "lost generation." They alleged that, when they were children, they were forcibly removed from their home communities in the Northern Territory and forcibly transferred into the custody of the Chief Protector of Aborigines (or of his successor in function, the Director of Native Affairs). Thereafter they were denied contact with their families and kept in aboriginal reserves. Section 6 of the 1918 Aboriginals Ordinance under which they were so removed provided as follows:
1. The Chief Protector shall be entitled at any time to undertake the care, custody, or control of any aboriginal or half-caste, if, in his opinion, it is necessary or desirable in the interests of the aboriginal or half-caste for him to do so, and for that purpose may enter any premises where the aboriginal or half-caste is or is supposed to be, and may take him into his custody.
2. Any person on whose premises any aboriginal or half-caste is, shall, on demand by the Chief Protector, or by any one acting on behalf of the Chief Protector on production of his authority, facilitate by all reasonable means in his power the taking into custody of the aboriginal or half-caste.
3. The powers of the Chief Protector under this section may be exercised whether the aboriginal or half-caste is under a contract of employment or not.
These provisions were supported by further conditions set forth in Section 7 of the same Ordinance, which read:
1. The Chief Protector shall be the legal guardian of every aboriginal and of every half-caste child, notwithstanding that the child has a parent or other relative living, until the child attains the age of eighteen years, except while the child is a State child within the meaning of the Act of the State of South Australia in force in the Northern Territory entitled The State Children Act 1895, or any Act of that State or Ordinance amending or substituted for that Act.
2. Every Protector shall, within his district, be the local guardian of every such child within his district, and as such shall have and may exercise such powers and duties as are prescribed.
Under the Ordinance it was an offense for an aboriginal or half-caste child to refuse to be removed. Only in certain specific circumstances could a child be exempted from compulsory removal to the reserves or other state-run institutions. These circumstances included children who were lawfully employed, who held permits that authorized them to be absent from aboriginal reserves or institutions, or females lawfully married to and residing with a husband who was substantially of European origin or descent.
Alec Kurger & Ors; George Ernest Bra & Ors v. Commonwealth of Australia
In the case of Alec Kruger & Ors; George Ernest Bray & Ors v. Commonwealth of Australia, the plaintiffs sought, among other things, a declaration that the provisions of the 1918 Aboriginals Ordinance were invalid. They contended that the ordinance was contrary to an implied constitutional right to freedom from any law or executive act that, among other things, constituted or authorized the crime of genocide. In support of their case they cited several provisions contained within the Genocide Convention, which they argued were violated by the Aboriginals Ordinance. These included:
1. The removal and transfer of children of a racial or ethnic group in a manner which was calculated to bring about the group's physical destruction in whole or in part;
2. Actions which had the effect or likely effect of causing serious mental harm to members of a racial or ethnic group;
3. The deliberate infliction on a racial or ethnic group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.
The Australian Parliament had passed the Genocide Convention Act in 1949, which had authorized the government to ratify the UN Convention. However, by as late as 1997 the Australian Parliament had not gotten around to enacting legislation to implement the Convention. In the case of Alec Kruger & Ors; George Ernest Bray & Ors v. Commonwealth of Australia, this had significant consequences. The court held that:
[T]he Convention has not at any time formed part of Australian domestic law. . . .[I]t is well established that the provisions of an international treaty to which Australia is a party do not form part of Australian law unless those provisions have been validly incorporated into our municipal law by statute. Where such provisions have not been incorporated they cannot operate as a direct source of individual rights and obligations.
The court did acknowledge that the rules of legal interpretation allowed preference to be given to legal interpretations that accorded with the country's international obligations. However, the court hastened to say that it would not accord such a preference where the laws to be interpreted had been enacted before the international obligations had been assumed. This was the case of the Aboriginal Ordinance. The Ordinance was passed in 1918, long before Australia became party to the Genocide Convention in 1951.
The court could nonetheless have interpreted the provisions of the Aboriginal Ordinance in light of Australia's international obligations by referring to customary international law rather than by referring specifically to the Genocide Convention. After all, genocide was already forbidden under customary international law at the time that the Aboriginals Ordinance was enacted. The court, however, found difficulty here as well, this time based on problems inherent in the definition of genocide as a crime. According to the court, the transfer that the Aboriginals Ordinance authorized lacked the requisite mental element of "intent to destroy" the children's racial or ethnic group. Rather, the court held that the forcible transfers authorized by the Ordinance were intended "for the good and welfare" of the aboriginal population. The court based this interpretation on the conditions that prevailed at the time of the Ordinance's passage. At that time, the population of the aboriginals in the Northern Territory was rapidly decreasing due to disease and unsanitary conditions. The policies and measures adopted by the government of Australia were supposedly designed to rescue the aboriginal population from extinction.
The court did, however, admit that the measures adopted under the Aboriginals Ordinance were ill advised and mistaken, particularly by contemporary standards. It acknowledged that the measures led to the physical abuse, humiliation, dehumanization, and traumatization of generations of the aboriginal people. They also callously disregarded familial unity and cultural cohesion in the aboriginal community. They ultimately resulted not only in the cultural but also in the physical extinguishment of the group as a race. Nevertheless, according to the court, "a shift in view upon the justice or morality of those measures taken under an Ordinance which was repealed 40 years ago does not of itself point to the constitutional invalidity of that legislation and to the legal basis of the plaintiffs' claim." For all these reasons, the court dismissed the case.
Nevertheless, the case of Alec Kruger & Ors; George Ernest Bray & Ors v. Commonwealth of Australia, and others that followed, served to awaken national consciousness over the injustice done to the aborigines in Australia. At the level of the state legislatures, such cases led to the passage of motions acknowledging the inequity and cruelty of Australia's treatment of her aboriginal population and offering apologies for such treatment. For instance, the State Legislative Assembly of New South Wales passed a motion in 1997 that apologized "unreservedly" to the aboriginal people of Australia for the systematic separation of generations of Aboriginal children from their parents, families, and communities. It also acknowledged and regretted the assembly's role in enacting laws and endorsing policies of successive governments whereby "profound grief and loss have been inflicted upon Aboriginal Australians."
The Native American Experience
Similar to the case of the Australian Aborigines is the experience of Native Americans in the United States during the nineteenth century. The Removal Act of 1834 authorized the forcible removal of American Indians from desirable land to hostile environs. One of the results of the act came to be known as the "Trail of Tears," in the course of which aboriginal peoples were removed from Georgia to Oklahoma. Thousands of them died during the difficult march to their newly assigned territory. At the time, a U.S official asserted that, "[t]he American Indian is to become the Indian American," implying that the motive behind the forced transfer was to facilitate education, "civilization," and assimilation. Again, the charge of genocide is difficult to make in this case, since assimilation is not synonymous with physical destruction. As with the example of Australian Aborigines, the requisite mental element of "intent to destroy" the group as such, in whole or in part, was lacking. Therefore the transfers, though catastrophic in some instances, did not amount to genocide.
However, although the U.S. government's forcible transfers of Native Americans may not have qualified as genocide, they could qualify as crimes against humanity and subsumed under "deportation or forcible transfer of (a) population," according to the standards set forth by the International Criminal Court. This species of crime against humanity is defined as the "forced displacement of the persons concerned by expulsion or other coercive acts from the area in which they are lawfully present, without grounds permitted under international law." The other element that is needed to qualify the transfer as a crime against humanity is that the transfers must be carried out "as part of a widespread or systematic attack" directed against a civilian population. It would appear that this was the case with respect to the transfers forced upon Native Americans.
Forcible Transfer and Forced Labor
In his 1996 Nobel Prize–winning book Fateless, Imre Kertesz tells the story of Jewish boys from Hungary who were forcibly taken to Germany to work in labor and concentration camps. For instance, Georg Koves, the main character in the book, was described as a "laborer in training." He was only fourteen years of age when he and many other boys were snatched from buses and taken to Germany. Once there, they were subjected to unspeakably cruel and inhumane treatment. Anyone who did not qualify to work, whether due to age, ill-health, or pregnancy, was killed in the gas chambers. Those who were not killed at the outset faced hunger and privation. Koves was so desperate for food that, in his words:
[I]f I did not eat wood, iron, or stones, it was only because they were not chewable or digestible. For instance I did try to eat sand, and if I spotted some grass, I didn't hesitate for a moment. Unfortunately grass was difficult to find in the factory and in the camp (p. 120).
In spite of their deplorable state of health, Koves and the boys who shared his fate had to work. If any complained of being tired or hungry, they would have been subjected to beatings, kicks, and other forms of physical and psychological torture. Any who dared to complain of sickness were sent to the gas chambers. According to Koves, "Everyone works; don't get tired, don't get sick" (p. 62).
Kertesz's account of the treatment of the Hungarian boys by the Nazis amounted to genocide in several respects. Those who were to unable to work were actually and deliberately killed. Real physical and mental harm was inflicted on many of them. The deliberate reduction of food rations, leading to the boys' virtual starvation, also amounted to the "infliction of conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of their group," as invoked in the Genocide Convention.
Nevertheless, it is debatable whether the forcible transfer of Hungarian boys to Germany in and of itself amounted to genocide. This is so because the purpose of their transfer to Germany was not that they be absorbed into another group. Rather, the principal purpose of their transfer was to facilitate their contribution to Germany's war machine through forced labor. Indeed the inhumane and barbaric treatment that the German authorities subjected them to discounts any idea of any notion of their being absorbed or assimilated into any group in Germany.
Forcible Transfers, Genocide, and the Rights of Children
In condemning the forcible transfer of children as an act of genocide, the law is primarily concerned with protecting the larger group to which they belong. However, by such condemnation the law does indirectly protect children as a particularly vulnerable group. Children as such possess rights that are recognized and protected today under international human rights law. These rights are most concretely embodied in the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Article 7 of the Convention provides that a child has "the right to know and be cared for by his or her parents" insofar as this is possible. In Article 9, the Convention further provides that "a child shall not be separated from his or her parents against their will, except when competent authorities subject to judicial review determine" that this should be done. The Convention assumes that, by protecting the parent-child custodial relationship, children are naturally guaranteed affection, as well as moral and material security—conditions that are vital to their physical, emotional, intellectual, and social development. Forcible transfer, by contrast, generally traumatizes children and naturally inhibits their normal physical, emotional, intellectual, and social development.
Article 8 of the Convention also provides that "the child is entitled to preserve his or her identity, including nationality, name, and family relations as recognized by law without unlawful interference." It is inhuman and deplorable to forcibly transfer children from their families, communities, and countries to groups, communities, or countries not of their choosing, even when this is done for allegedly altruistic motives, such "civilizing them." The forcible transfer of children violates their right to liberty and security of the person as well as their freedom of movement and residence, and is also an affront to their human dignity.
SEE ALSO Almohads; Australia; Residential Schools; Trail of Tears
Bassiouni, M. Cherif (1979). "International Law and the Holocaust," particularly Appendix A "Has the United States Committed Genocide Against the American Indian?" California Western International Law Journal 9:201–298.
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (2000). "Bring Them Home: The Report." Available from
Kertesz, Imre (1996). Fateless. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press.
Kittichaisaree, Kriangsak (2001). International Criminal Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Lemkin, Raphael (1944). Axis Rule in Occupied Europe. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Division of International Law.
Nsereko, Daniel D. Ntanda (2000). "Genocide: A Crime Against Mankind." In Substantive and Procedural Aspects of International Criminal Law: The Experience of International and National Courts, ed. Kirk Gabrielle McDonald and Olivia Swaak-Goldman. The Hague: Kluwer Law International.
"On the Occasion of National Sorry Day 26 May 1998: Personal Apologies and Parliamentary Speeches." Available from
Schabas, William A. (2000). Genocide in International Law. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
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Thursday, November 7, 2013
‘Defending the Constitution’ and Other Matters
One of the most important parts of the oath for office in the federal government is this phrase:
‘I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that….I will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.’
What does that mean exactly, to ‘preserve, protect and defend’ the Constitution anyway?
Keith Hennessey gives a really great insightful look at what it means for professional staff (see Accuracy and Honesty) to ‘preserve, protect and defend’ the Constitution in their roles as advisors to any US President but especially in the failure of the professional staff to win the battle to prevent President Obama from saying the following:
‘You can keep your health insurance if you want’.
He said it at least 29 times on nationally televised events. We can even say it on our sleep.
‘Keep your health insurance if you like. Keep your health insurance if you like’
Except we can’t. Our high deductible policy has been summarily canceled and executed by BCBSNC as of December 31, 2013. The next most affordable plan we can find is almost 100% more than what we currently pay in a self-employed individual policy. Millions of others are in the same boat as we are today with more to come on a daily basis.
We have been very fortunate at The Institute for the Public Trust to have the ability and occasion to invite constitutional scholars to come in and explain in minute detail what the Framers of the Constitution had in mind and what specific things in the Constitution ‘really’ mean.
Such as the ‘Corruption of Blood’ Clause. Or the Emoluments Clause. Or this 'clause', which is a direct quote from our revered document:
What the heck is that all about? It is the first recorded ‘white-out’, spellcheck, grammar resolution function in our nation’s history. Right there in the Constitution. Making corrections to the previous long handwritten document. They were NOT going to rewrite the whole thing after 4 months of tortuous debate in hot, smelly, unsanitary Philadelphia during the summer of 1787.
The gist of what we heard this past week can be encapsulated in the piece by Keith Hennessey above. Our representative democracy depends almost completely on men and women of brains and integrity working to ‘defend and protect’ the Constitution once they are in office. Whether as elected representatives or staff selected to serve those elected officials.
Political people don’t usually think that way. Their job is to ‘get their guy or gal elected!’ whatever it takes.
The problem almost always arises when the political people go into the White House or any elected representative or Senate office to ‘run things’. They typically have a blind eye to what it takes to run the government and serve as a 'public servant' sworn to defend the Constitution...but they do have a keen sense of how to 'get your man elected so your side can win!
Haldeman and Ehrlichman ran the White House for Richard Nixon…and we got Watergate. Bill Clinton had his close political allies in the White House run things in the White House in his first term when things didn't get done. Erskine Bowles took over the chief of staff job in 1996 and then he started to get things done for the nation as a whole, not just to advance Clinton's political interests.
Mr. Hennessey points out the most important things that goes into the success of the American Democratic Republic Experiment for these past 224 years. Truth and honesty on the part of our elected leaders.
Those are harsh words. But those are true words based on the everything we ever saw working on Capitol Hill as chief of staff in the employ of former Congressman Alex McMillan of Charlotte for a decade and then later with Senator Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina as well.
We took extreme measures in both campaigns and offices to check, back-check, double-check and triple-check facts and figures so as to never put the elected representative and senator in a bad light of appearing to be outright lying to their constituents and the American people. Elizabeth Dole had over 35 years of public life we had to dig deep in to research to make sure that she did not say things during the campaign that were contradictory to prior statements and if she had had a change of heart, be able to explain why in a coherent fashion.
The moment a politician is caught lying, their effectiveness diminishes considerably.
President George H.W. Bush did not win re-election in 1992 because he 'broke his promise' to the GOP Convention in 1988 for everyone in America to: 'Read My Lips! No New Taxes!'
In 1990, he signed the 1990 Budget Act that had new taxes in it but it also had all of the budgetary ingredients that ultimately led to the balanced budgets of 1998-2001; PAYGO; Discretionary Spending Caps; Credit Reform among other. He did the right thing for the country in that regard.
But he did break a promise. President Bush 41 paid for it by not being re-elected in 1992 when he lost to Bill Clinton.
Maybe President Obama felt as if the price of lying about Obamacare was worth it to get universal coverage for all Americans. He may prove to be on the right side of history on that score. Then again, he may not.
Regardless of the outcome, President Obama has now entered the 'death valley' of American politicians who have willingly lied to the American people. He can't be defeated for re-election which is more than a little convenient when you consider that he was re-elected 1 year almost to the day before people realized just how big of a whopper he has laid on the American people.
But President Obama can and will be subject to the same disapproval ratings that every President has seen in their second terms. Presidents Jefferson and Madison proved to be so unpopular in their second term due to policies they enacted that historians estimate they may have left office with approval ratings equal to or below Richard Nixon when he resigned in 1974. 24%.
Who were those people and where did they live...San Quentin and Leavenworth Prisons?
The American people are a forgiving people. They will forgive someone once they get caught in their lie and then ask for forgiveness. Look at President Clinton for goodness sakes! He is beloved and revered by many after he confessed to the truth about the Monica Lewinsky affair and moved on with his presidency and life.
But Bill Clinton will not be regarded as 'great' of a President as he and his admirers would hope he would be.
President Obama had a chance to be a transformative President given his speech that declared: 'There is No black America. There is no white America. There is only the United States of America!'
Wonder if that is the same place where 'you can keep your health insurance if you like it'? We'd like to find it again.
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Amnesty blasts global ‘politics of demonization’
Politicians wielding a dehumanizing rhetoric are creating a more divided and dangerous world, warned Amnesty International as it launched its annual assessment of human rights around the world. The report, "The State of the World's Human Rights" (PDF), warns that the consequences of "us vs them" rhetoric setting the agenda in Europe, the United States and elsewhere is fuelling a global pushback against human rights and leaving the global response to mass atrocities perilously weak. "President Trump's policies have brought the US to a level of human rights crisis that we haven't seen in years," said Margaret Huang, executive director of Amnesty International USA. "As the world braces itself for a new executive order, thousands of people inside and outside of US borders have had their lives thrown into chaos as a result of the president's travel ban. This administration, like other governments across the world, is playing politics with people's lives. President Trump and leaders across the globe should be reaffirming and upholding international human rights protections, not exploiting fear and prejudice for their own agendas."
"2016 was the year when the cynical use of 'us vs them' narratives of blame, hate and fear took on a global prominence to a level not seen since the 1930s. Too many politicians are answering legitimate economic and security fears with a poisonous and divisive manipulation of identity politics in an attempt to win votes," said Salil Shetty, secretary general of Amnesty International. "Divisive fear-mongering has become a dangerous force in world affairs. Whether it is Trump, Orban, Erdoğan or Duterte, more and more politicians calling themselves anti-establishment are wielding a toxic agenda that hounds, scapegoats and dehumanizes entire groups of people. Today's politics of demonization shamelessly peddles a dangerous idea that some people are less human than others, stripping away the humanity of entire groups of people. This threatens to unleash the darkest aspects of human nature."
The global trend of angrier and more divisive politics was exemplified by Donald Trump's poisonous campaign rhetoric, Amnesty found, but political leaders in various parts of the world also wagered their future power on narratives of fear, blame and division. In 2016, governments turned a blind eye to war crimes, Amnesty charged—singling out the horror in Aleppo, reports of chemical warfare in Darfur, and the murderous anti-drug crackdown in the Philippines. Governments from Russia to China to Egypt also passed laws that violate free expression, justified torture and mass surveillance, and extended draconian police powers.
Governments around the world also turned on refugees and migrants—often easy targets for scapegoating. The report documents how 36 countries violated international law by returning refugees to countries where their rights were at risk. (Amnesty International, Feb. 21)
1. Amnesty International notes “Whataboutery”
Amnesty International lists five tactics used by rights violators to deflect critical reports. Note especially number 3. "Whataboutery." When a US interviewer pressed Bashar Assad about the mass hangings at Saydnaya military prison, he replied: "I will ask you, how could you have this close, very close relation and team relation with Saudi Arabia?" Amnesty adds, with an ironic hyperlink: "Assad’s sleight of hand was quickly called out by the interviewer, who pointed out that human rights violations by Saudi Arabia were not the question at hand." | <urn:uuid:6194b960-672b-4867-bd47-ebfa7aab806c> | https://cvwp.crywalt.com/blog/amnesty-blasts-global-politics-of-demonization/ | en | 0.945842 | 0.490436 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Mississippian Sunset
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1. Potpourri says:
Stunning shot. I am dumbstruck by almost all the shots here.
2. pundit says:
Why thank you!
3. niyati says:
this is beautiful.
4. pundit says:
It was! I mowed down two people in the process of getting this before the sun set.
5. iris says:
u seem 2 hav trapped d sun itself.. literally
6. pundit says:
I hadn’t thought of it that way (trapping the sun), but that’s a cool way of looking at it. Thanks!
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Science Fiction author Ray Bradbury dies
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury transformed his inner child in to notable works of science fiction that have been recognized with awards and citations for lifetime achievement.
Image: Alan Light.
Austrian actor Oskar Werner portrayed the fireman Guy Montag in the 1966 Truffaut film adaptation of Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451.
Image: Geoffrey Chandler.
U.S. science fiction writer Ray Bradbury, who was 91, died in Los Angeles on Tuesday, according to his daughter.
Bradbury's most famous novels are The Martian Chronicles (1950) and Fahrenheit 451 (1953), and a collection of short stories The Illustrated Man (1951), but he was also known for helping write the script for John Huston's film adaptation of Moby Dick (1956), his works for the televised anthologies The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents and hosting a similar TV show later, The Ray Bradbury Theater, which included episodes based on his work.
In an interview, Bradbury said that he was "that special freak, the man with the child inside who remembers all."
He started as a short story writer for pulp magazines like many science fiction and fantasy writers in this period, and eventually compiled his first book: Dark Carnival (1947), a short story collection. He wrote his two most famous novels at the beginning of the 1950s. A book editor suggested he use his stories about Martians to create a unified work in book form, and Bradbury turned the idea into his Martian Chronicles. He said he churned out Fahrenheit 451 on a typewriter that he rented at the library for a dime every half hour at a total cost of US $9.80, which meant that it would have taken him exactly 49 hours to write the classic.
His book Fahrenheit 451 cut to the heart of book banning and burning in the twentieth century as it imagined a future in which books were outlawed and minds were controlled by the state through a TV-and-Internet-like technology. French director François Truffaut adapted Fahrenheit 451 into a 1966 New Wave film of the same name and in English, which starred Austrian actor Oskar Werner as the fireman Guy Montag and British actress Julie Christie as Clarisse. The BBC dramatized the same book in 1982. Fahrenheit 451 was even adapted to an off-Broadway play. Bradbury said he did not like the similarity of Michael Moore's title for the documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, a film critical of the George W. Bush administration, to his novel about book burning.
The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451 and The Illustrated Man have been a staple of reading in U.S. education. In an interview with Fox News in 2004, Bradbury talked about changes in reading that occurred in education since his generation of science fiction started their careers: "When I started writing that book [The Martian Chronicles] 53 years ago, science fiction was not being taught in the schools. Now every school in the country has a course in science fiction. So we have more power, more influence, more imagination than ever before. Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, The Martian Chronicles."
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The name of his play Dandelion Wine was used as an honor when it was used to name a crater on the moon. An asteroid, known as 9766 Bradbury, was named after him. At the turn of the century, his body of work was recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Award committee in 2000, U.S. National Medal of Arts in 2004, and later a Pulitzer Prize citation in 2007.
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“Bad Habits” is a short about, well, bad habits. Whether they be drugs or sex with underage girls they’re bad and this movie wants to make sure you know that. In fact, “Bad Habits” comes off a bit like an after school special, which unfortunately makes it harder to take seriously.
We start at the end. Yes, this is yet another unnecessarily non-linear movie, an editing technique that is used more often to mask a shallow story than it is to compliment the plot. A man and a young woman are sitting in a car and the man is going on about why he likes to manipulate and have sex with young girls, as if he could justify it. After his little speech he tries to force himself on the girl but is interrupted by a young man with a gun.
We then go back in time to learn that the young man is Brian, a drug addict fresh out of juvie. The girl is his girlfriend and the perv turns out to be Brian’s social worker, a guy that uses his position to lure misguided children into his bed. We also meet Brian’s best friend, a drug dealer with a penchant for poetry. The movie tells the story of one day in these people’s lives and how they got themselves in situations that lead to the film’s final confrontation.
The acting is pretty solid all around, with each actor getting a chance to shine while telling their individual stories, and the dialogue is fairly believable but the movie never shakes the feeling that it’s something that might be shown to high school students as part of a drug awareness program. Everything is just a bit too over the top and melodramatic to really push the message home. Look out kids, this could happen to you. As a Public Service Announcement the movie is a success but it falls a bit short as a dramatic endeavor.
Drugs are bad, ok. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.
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Film Review : This is the End (2013)
IMDB Score : 8.0
RT Score : 83%
When I first saw the trailer for this one I was anxious to see it but also skeptical. I’m always skeptical when it comes to comedies. I have favorites but most were made in the 70s and 80s such as Airplane! and basically anything Bill Murray touched. Today there have been a few I liked such as Anchorman, Step Brothers, Superbad, and Pineapple Express, but there have been some horrible ones such as anything with Vince Vaughn or Adam Sandler. This is the End is joining the former group. I loved it. It’s so off the walls batshit insane that it’s hard to believe that some of the scenes actually made it into the film instead of being deemed too ridiculous. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg make their directorial debut and also pen the film. It centers around a party at James Franco’s house and that’s all you should know. Watching the trailer isn’t a bad thing but man does it help not knowing much. Every funny person under the age of 35 is in this film and it really helps that they’re all playing themselves. This is a movie where the actors can actually joke about their own careers and the careers of others. They know what people say about them and now it can all come out. It was a great experience to see a bunch of real life friends make a crazy ass hysterical movie like this. Michael Cera is the only one who doesn’t play himself, at least I hope it’s not himself. The end might be the funniest part of all. It’s a cameo you did not see coming. Hysterical. It’s one of the funniest movies to come out this decade. I mean that. See it with a bunch of people. Oh god Michael Cera…what have you become?
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What is PrEP?
PrEP stands for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis. This is not a drug, but rather a regimen for taking the common HIV treatment medication named Truvada.
PrEP is available for specific populations of people with clinically identified risk factors and can help prevent you from getting HIV if you are exposed to the virus. It does not prevent other sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
How Does It Work?
The pill in the PrEP regimen, Truvada, contains two antiretroviral medicines that interfere with HIV’s ability to grow and take hold in your body if you are exposed to the virus.
When taken every day, PrEP can provide a high level of protection against HIV, and is even more effective when it is combined with condoms and other prevention options. In several studies of PrEP usage, the risk of getting HIV was reduced by up to 92% for those who took the medicines consistently than for those who didn’t take them at all.
People who use the PrEP regimen must take the pill every day and return to their health care provider every 3 months for lab monitoring, risk review, and prescription refills.
How Can I Start PrEP?
Make an appointment at Planned Parenthood to talk to a health care provider and determine if PrEP is right for you.
If you and your health care provider decide that PrEP is a good option for you, you can get a prescription through PPHP.
What is PEP?
PEP stands for Post-Exposure Prophylaxis. The sooner you start, the better it works -- every hour matters. PEP can help protect you if ou had anal or vaginal sex without a condom with someone who has, or might have, HIV. PEP can also prevent HIV if you were exposed while injecting drugs.
How Does PEP Work?
PEP works best if started right away. You should begin PEP within 72 hours after a potential exposure to HIV.
You take PEP for 28 days. You need to take PEP pills each day to keep enough medicine in your body to stop HIV. If you want to stop taking PEP, talk to your health care provider first.
How Do I Pay for PrEP or PEP?
PrEP and PEP are covered by most insurance programs, but if you do not have insurance, Planned Parenthood can direct you to medication assistance programs that may help pay for PrEP or PEP.
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Parker Porter Just Wants To Put On A Show In His Debut
It has been a wild journey for Parker Porter, who makes his first walk to the Octagon at UFC 252 this Saturday. It's a moment he has been waiting for since he can remember:
The night of August 5. Parker Porter and his wife were about to get some rest in their Connecticut home. It wouldn’t be accurate to call it sleep, because with a three-week-old baby in the house and no air conditioning thanks to Tropical Storm Isaias knocking the power (and the air conditioning) out, there would be no deep sleep, not for a while at least.
But as the Porters drifted off to a modified slumber, little Charlie was knocked out without a care in the world. Maybe the heavyweight mixed martial artist and his bride would get some sleep.
Then the phone rang. 1:30am. It was Porter’s manager, Tyson Chartier.
“Hey man, do you want to take a four-fight contract with the UFC?”
“Am I even awake right now?” thought Porter. He would be excused for thinking it was a dream. The heat, the baby, having not fought since last September. But as a fighter, Porter didn’t have any questions for Chartier, only an answer.
“Absolutely, you literally just changed my life,” said Porter, who was about to officially become a UFC fighter nearly 13 years after his pro debut.
“Okay,” said Chartier. “Try and go back to sleep.”
Porter laughed, knowing that was an impossibility.
“I couldn't fall back to sleep for another two or three hours,” he recalled. “It was something out of a movie.”
Opponents Chris Daukaus and Parker Porter face off during the UFC 252 weigh-in at UFC APEX on August 14, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)
Opponents Chris Daukaus and Parker Porter face off during the UFC 252 weigh-ins on August 14, 2020 in Las Vegas, NV (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)
The juicy part of the film premieres Saturday in Las Vegas, when Porter makes his Octagon debut against fellow newcomer Chris Daukaus. He’s not the hot 22-year-old prospect with the pristine undefeated record. Instead, he’s a 35-year-old prospect with a 10-5 slate built the hard way. But he earned his spot on the roster and he’s grateful to finally get his chance to compete on the big stage.
“I've been working at this for a long time but I haven't been actively working at it the whole time,” said Porter, a pro since 2007. “I've had some issues personally that derailed me for a year or two here and there with family and stuff like that where I had to completely stop and put all my focus into that to make sure that everybody was okay and taken care of. But I've been on this upswing ever since and I've had the ball rolling really strong now. I'm finally there.”
Sporting wins in three of his last four bouts since returning from a three-year layoff in 2018, Porter, who is also the father of seven-year-old twin boys, has finally given himself the time to make a run at this UFC dream. It’s a message to all veteran fighters that if you stick with this long enough, good things can happen. As for the other folks out there beyond the fight game, they probably wouldn’t get why anyone would chase anything for 14 years, let alone a career in prizefighting.
“I used to try to explain it to people, and the only people who really, truly understand it are people that are actually involved in martial arts and competitive sports,” Porter said. “Trying to explain it to the average person who doesn't do anything physically competitive or come from an athletic background, it seems to go right over their head a lot of the time. So I just stopped bothering to explain it to people. They're like, 'You're crazy, man.' Yeah, I know.”
Porter laughs, but there’s nothing crazy about chasing a dream. What may be considered crazy are some of the choices the Connecticut native made picking fights early in his career. How about future pound-for-pound king Jon Jones in your third pro fight or Gabriel Gonzaga in your ninth with “Napao” fresh from a 12-fight stint in the UFC?
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“I don't like to shy away from a challenge,” said Porter, who fought Jones in June 2008. “Bones” was 4-0 with four finishes heading into the bout. He made it five and five after facing Porter. Two months later, he was in the Octagon.
“Nobody knew who he was at the time, other than that he was this kid who was just tearing through the local scene,” said Porter of Jones. When I signed up to fight him, I think he was 2-0 and it was six weeks away from the fight. By the time we fought, his record was 4-0, so he had two other fights in that six-week span and he just crushed those guys. And I was the second to last one he crushed before the UFC called him up.”
Okay, Porter can get a pass for facing a relatively unknown Jones. But Gonzaga in a headlining bout for the Reality Fighting promotion?
“I couldn't excuse that,” he laughs. “But I was also confident that the UFC was where I belonged and him being who he was, and being fresh out of the UFC, I was confident in my abilities. We know now that this isn't the case, but I felt an obligation that I couldn't say no because I had just won the title for the promotion I was fighting for. In my mind, champions don't say no. Once you're at the top, you have a target on your back; you don't get to pick your fights anymore.”
Gonzaga submitted Porter in the third round of their 2011 bout and his next fight would be back in the Octagon. Porter was inactive for nearly two years before going 1-1 in Bellator, and then it would be a three-year break before he returned, determined to make a concerted run at the UFC.
He made it. Is it the ideal time, with this being in the middle of a pandemic, on short notice and with an infant at home? Absolutely not. But Porter doesn’t care. He would have taken this fight under any circumstances. Dreams don’t ask for a convenient time to show up.
“Honestly, I'm just so excited to have gotten this far and make this become a reality,” said Porter. “For the first time in my life, I have the mindset of I don't even care if I win or lose; I just want to go out there and put on a great show because this is exactly what I've been working towards.” | <urn:uuid:7ef93499-85a5-401e-9bc6-d47ef8b07773> | https://www.ufc.com/news/parker-porter-just-wants-put-show-his-debut-ufc-252 | en | 0.984225 | 0.037034 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Aliya Summary: Lavan answers that the women are his daughters, that the children are his children, and the animals are his as well. Yakov and Lavan make a pact and form a mound of rocks as a sign of their agreement. Yakov offers a sacrifice to G-d and swears to the covenant. In the morning, Lavan kisses his children and grandchildren, blesses them, and returns home. Yakov continues on his journey and encounters angels on the way, Yakov names the place Machanayim.
What was the pact for? Did they agree on something? They disagreed about the mound of rocks, Yakov calling it Galed and Lavan calling it Yegar Sahadutha. But then Lavan agreed that since the mound is a witness to the truce between them, he would call it Galed. They went on to agree to stay away from each other in peace, but were only able to do so once they appreciated and respected the others’ perspective, as shown by Lavan’s willingness to call the mound Galed. This is an important blueprint to overcoming conflict in our lives, as well. | <urn:uuid:bf6cd557-9d5a-42a1-915d-c5ceaaed1262> | http://lelamed.com/daily-aliya-for-vayetzei-shvii-7th-aliya-3/ | en | 0.98698 | 0.414341 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Lab 04: Function Generator and Oscilloscope
• Function Generator
• Digital Multimeter
• Resistors: 1M, 1K,
1. What value of output resistance would the "ideal" Function Generator have? Explain.
2. A Function Generator is adjusted to give a no-load (open-circuit) voltage of 1.0 V. When a 1 KΩ load is placed across the output terminals of the Function Generator the output voltage drops to 0.8 V. Find the output resistance of the Function Generator.
Voltage Ratio in decibels (dB) = 20{\log _{10}}\left( {\frac{{{V_1}}}{{{V_2}}}} \right)
1. Express the following ratios in decibels (dB):
1. V1 / V2 = 100
2. V1 / V2 = 0.1
2. Change these dB values to voltage ratios:
1. -10 dB
2. 3 dB
3. A Function Generator has a specification that the variation in the output voltage with frequency will remain flat to within ±1 dB over the frequency range of 10 Hz to 100 kHz. Find the corresponding maximum percentage variation in the output voltage over this frequency range. | <urn:uuid:5546a5b1-dbc9-437e-bd6b-bb4990bc062a> | http://www.airsupplylab.com/lab_electrical-measurements-and-circuits/130-ee2049-lab-04-function-generator-and-oscilloscope.html | en | 0.69199 | 0.992664 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Mario Party 9 Review
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On 03/23/2012 at 12:00 PM by Kathrine Theidy
The crew is back and rowdier than ever in Mario's latest bash.
For everyone who enjoys a good casual party game with friends.
After nearly five years since Mario's last party, it may have started to look like the portly plumber was all partied out. With a new developer and a new direction, Mario Party 9 brings the series back in a big way. Even with a multitude of party games available on the Wii, Mario Party 9 still stands out for numerous reasons, though it's also bogged down by an abundantly luck-based system.
For the uninitiated, Mario Party is best described as a video board game, though it offers more than your standard board game. Players take turns hitting a dice block to move around a board, where various outcomes and events may take place depending on which spaces the players land. Mini-games are a common occurrence throughout the game, which come in a variety of types. The ultimate goal is to collect the most stars through any means necessary. That's the gist of Mario Party, but this ninth entry offers some spins to the tired formula to shake things up.
The biggest changes have to do with the board setup. Instead of every player traveling on their own around the board, everyone rides together in a vehicle, each taking a turn as the “Captain.” Whoever is the Captain when the car lands on a space is the one affected by whatever occurrence takes place. The boards are mostly linear, with the car traveling from one end of the board to the other, with a couple small branching paths along the way.
The dice block can now roll 1-6, which makes more sense than the 1-10 range of previous games, because it has six sides. However, there is no longer any trick in hitting the dice block to try for certain numbers, and the number rolled is entirely random. Items come in the form of special dice blocks, which include the 0-1 block that can help avoid upcoming dangers, and the old 1-10 block that can help gain more ground. There are five different special dice in all, and one can be picked up when landing on a Dice Block space.
This time around, the goal of the game is to collect the most Mini Stars, which replace the coins and stars of previous games. Many Mini Stars are scattered around the board, and whoever is the Captain when the car drives through a batch of Mini Stars will pick them up. They can also be earned from numerous spaces on the boards, such as Lucky spaces that will feature a quick event to gain a few stars, or larger Captain events where everyone gets a chance at them but the Captain controls the outcome. These events can provide some entertainment, if players choose to badger the Captain player about what choices to make.
In addition to Mini Stars, there are also what are called Mini Ztars on the board. Like Mini Stars, these can be found scattered around the boards, but picking these up will decrease the number of Mini Stars held by the Captain. As another balancing factor, there are Unlucky spaces on the board where the player can lose a number of Mini Stars. The biggest loss of stars will come from Bowser spaces. Landing on one of these will bring up Bowser's roulette, which contains four undesirable outcomes that all involve at least one player losing stars.
Mini Stars are also awarded for winning mini-games, which also work a little differently. Mini-games no longer happen after each player takes one turn, and are most often triggered when a player lands on a minigame space. They can also come out of the surprise boxes that appear on Dice Block spaces, and may occur from a couple other event spaces. Mini Stars aren't just handed out to the player who wins a minigame; every participant gains some stars, with the amount depending on where they placed. Because of this, the player who placed first doesn't gain an amount significant enough to create much of a lead.
Each board features two boss battles, one at the end, and one somewhere in the middle, which are essentially longer mini-games than usual and also have larger payouts of Mini Stars. These mini-games involve the players all attacking the boss in some such way in order to deplete its health bar, scoring points by causing damage. When a boss's health is halfway down, it will grow angry and begin moving faster, as well as act more aggressively. Players will lose points if they are hit with an attack, and some bonus points are awarded to whichever player lands the finishing blow. At the results screen, whichever player was Captain when arriving at the boss space will earn a few extra stars.
The Mini Star system is unfortunately where the game begins to fall apart. In most cases, gaining and losing Mini Stars is a matter of nothing but luck. Mario Party games have always had some element of luck, but it never felt excessive; this game brings it to the point of absurdity. Lots of the stars gathered in a game will come from the boards and its event spaces, which leaves them up to the roll of the dice. In addition, there are a lot of ways to lose stars or hand them over to other players, especially during the final moments of the game. Once the car reaches the final stretch, an angry Bowser will show up and toss 3-7 Bowser spaces along the remaining path. It then becomes extremely likely for at least one player to lose a significant portion of their stars. Not only that, but some boards have hazards that will cause the Captain to lose half of their stars. This can make everything before the endgame feel pointless, so it definitely helps to have players who will laugh at the insanity.
The mini-games themselves vary in quality, but most can provide entertainment and laughter. In one minigame resembling New Super Mario Brothers Wii, players must jump across spinning and falling platforms to reach the goal first. In another, a horde of Goombas is seen running across the screen, and players must count how many there are; it's devious fun to yell out random numbers in the hopes of breaking the concentration of the other players. There are a few other mini-games that could spark outside player interaction, such as one where players must make their character look in the opposite direction of on-screen arrows, another case where yelling out directions can distract people. There are 80 mini-games in all, which is a sizeable number that will take many games before all of them have appeared. Some of them are similar in concept to those featured in previous games, but none of them are a straight rip.
The boss battles are some of the best mini-games available, as everyone fighting a boss but also trying for the best score creates an interesting dynamic. Some of these are pretty straightforward, like the battle with a giant Wiggler where every player frantically ground-pounds its back to cause damage. Others require a bit more strategy, such as the fight with the King Bob-omb. In this battle, players choose one of four bombs of varying size and point value; if two or more players pick the same bomb, their characters will stumble over each other and no one gets to use the bomb. Sure, players could coordinate by agreeing to use different bombs... or it could be a trick to go after the big points. It would have made for a little more intensity if the battles lasted just a little longer, but as they stand, they're one of the highlights of the game and a great way to end each board.
Those who grow tired of the boards can play the Mini-games mode, where they can freely play any and all available mini-games. There are also a few setups to play through a series of mini-games; for the single player, there is a Solo mode, which is a series of six games, one on each board. Given the luck-based system, this one is mostly a chore, and it is unfortunately required to unlock the two secret playable characters. There is also a Time Attack mode (complete ten mini-games as quickly as possible) and a Perspective mode (ten mini-games played from a zoomed-in view which increases their difficulty). These modes are actually surprisingly enjoyable, and left me wanting more than ten.
Previous Mario Partys have always lacked in the presentation department, but 9 sheds the cheapness for a clean look on par with recent Mario platformers. There's a board with the grassland hills of New Super Mario Brothers, and a space level reminiscent of Super Mario Galaxy. The animation of the characters is mostly smooth, and there are no drops in framerate to be found. The glossiness is a little overdone, as it makes some of the characters look a bit like plastic figurines. Classic Mario sound effects abound, especially in the mini-games, and the music provides upbeat tunes for the more fast-paced mini-games and more mellow melodies for the slower ones. The compositions themselves fit the generally cheerful style of the franchise, though they're not very catchy or memorable.
Even with its abundance of luck, I still enjoyed playing Mario Party 9 with my friends and family. The key here is in finding the right crowd, as anyone who wants to play competitively will likely find themselves frustrated from the experience. It also has nothing to offer the single player, not that Mario Party ever did. In the end, it's a mostly welcome change to the series, and I, personally, can't wait to see where it goes from here.
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What is Wet Macular Degeneration?
What is Wet Macular Degeneration?
All Eye Care Doctors is your leading source for everything from advanced treatment to eye exams in Cambridge, MA. As part of our commitment to spreading greater awareness of vision health and treatment, we are taking the opportunity to discuss wet macular degeneration (AMD), along with its causes, symptoms, and treatments.
What is Wet Macular Degeneration?
Wet macular degeneration, or wet AMD, is a chronic eye disorder that causes blurred vision or a blind spot in one’s vision. Further, there are two kinds of AMD: wet and dry. The vast majority of the time, wet AMD starts as dry AMD.
Inside the retina of your eyes, there is a zone of cells called the macula that helps you see clearly through your direct line of vision. Dry AMD occurs when the cells beneath the macula begin to break down. This condition may worsen gradually as the years pass, eventually progressing to advanced, or wet, macular degeneration. Wet AMD affects approximately 1/10 of all people with age-related AMD.
What Causes Wet AMD?
The precise cause of wet AMD is not understood. However, we know that the disease is connected to changes in blood vessels towards the back of the eye. In many instances, wet AMD occurs when new blood vessels grow abnormally beneath the retina, causing blood and other fluids to leak into the layers of the retina. At times, excess fluid can even form a cyst within the macula. Either way, the disease can negatively affect your central vision.
What Are Some of the Symptoms?
The symptoms of wet macular degeneration can vary greatly, and may include blind or blurry spots in your field of vision, visual distortions, impaired central vision, or decreased intensity and brightness of colors.
Treatments for Wet AMD
Several treatments are now available that can slow the progression of wet AMD, protect your existing vision, and even restore your lost vision in some instances. Your treatment will depend on your particular medical needs and goals.
Your optometrist may recommend medications such as painless anti-VEGF injections to stop the growth of abnormal blood vessels, as well as procedures such as photodynamic therapy and photocoagulation — both of which use specialized lasers to seal abnormal blood vessels and prevent leaking.
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Ki-Regeneration, that is it!
I passed the 10 last years to answer to these questions:
« Who are we ? Where do we come from ? Where are we going »
I discovered that we have free will -the freedom of doing that we want. I also learned that we belong to a larger Works more greater than us which is called Life, and Life has his own laws -Universal and Natural ; « drive away the Natural, it comes back in gallop ».
Each time of our life we make choice. These choices will have consequences with advantages, disadvantages, joy, sadness, suffering,… because they follow the laws of life. We make these choices on board of a body which is physical and energetic, in a swirl of feelings and emotions, offering a palette of sensibility of great beauty but difficult to master and harmonize, it must be recognized.
I decide to follow the Universal Declaration of Life Rights, to understand the physical reality which animates us, to put the space, the time, feelings, emotions back in their place. I chosen to live Humanly. I learn to master my entanglement to the Universe. It is magic but not easy. If I good understand my lesson, I have the capacity on me, to regenerate Life like Duality Energy/Matter Conscious:
Find again the inner peace: Source of the health,
the harmony with the world.
For success, I need to describe the physical reality of the world in which we live. One part is about Science, the relativity -which is relative: develop the notion of Time, Space, Fractal and Sensible Hologram, understand the Duality Energy/Matter, the Conscious, the Memories. But also define the place of emotions, feelings, beliefs in order to fully know the human being -a multidimensional and emotional being.
Each human being has his own history link with memories, emotions that is complex to sort out to make a modelization. To elucidate the feelings, emotions, beliefs, I turn towards research on Humanity. At this scale, studies can be done using Art which has gone through history without alteration, links space and time, awakes one’s sense and the Culture which is a regard posted on Life by a whole of person.
In parallel, I want to set up practical applications for an evolution to a world in harmony with nature and life:
• Write to explain the creativity offered by life,
• Regenerate the amputated limbs,
• Make again raining in Africa,
• Rebuild the houses destroyed by bombing or natural disasters,
• Open centers of Ki-Regeneration® to free themselves from blockages that prevent self-regeneration.
To continue the visit, you can read the following clickable documents:
Life is not a fatality.
It is a « becoming »
according to our present acts.
Like the version of my website not allows me to manage a multilingual version, each page has a link towards the english translation on the top.
These is the translation of the menu.
« Nouveautés » means News:
Articles relating the progress of the project for, « Heal thanks to the conscious properties of matter ».
« Les 5 thèmes » means The 5 themes:
Direct access in french to the 5 themes that compose Ki-Regeneration®, « On the way to Ki-Regeneration® ».
« Applications » means Applications:
Direct access in french to the applications offered by Ki-Regeneration®, « Applications of Ki-Regeneration® ».
« Qui je suis ! » means Who I am:
My philosophy, « I am one part of Fraternal Humanity in becoming ».
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Gastric Band Surgery is No “Quick Fix”
Weight loss surgery, especially the Gastric Band, often gets a bad rap. It’s generally considered to be a quick fix for people who don’t have the drive to lose weight through diet and exercise. This however, cannot be farther from the truth.
The truth is, our bodies are actually designed to resist starvation. They are also not designed to lose weight. If you look at Australian statistics, you will find that around 90% of patients who lose weight with diet and exercise alone will gain it back within six months.
When surgery is required
Matthew Brooks, head aftermarket sales manager knows first-hand the struggle with diet and exercise. In a job where he travels all over Australia, Matt usually doesn’t have time to pack a healthy lunch or sit down at a restaurant for dinner.
Of course, bariatric surgery should not be the first option, but it also shouldn’t be the last. Matt chose to have reversible Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Band Surgery or Lap Band surgery to significantly reduce his calorie intake and help manage his weight. Lap-Band surgery is a procedure where an adjustable silicon band is placed around the upper section of the patient’s stomach. Adjusting the size of the band restricts the amount of food that can be consumed by the patient, ultimately resulting in weight loss.
What to expect after surgery
As Lap-band surgery is laparoscopic and only small incisions are needed to operate, it is less invasive than traditional open surgery. Because of this, Matt has seen his weight drop “slowly but surely” and has had quite a fast recovery.
Having a smaller stomach can be a huge adjustment and for Matt, he’s noticed he can’t eat the foods or portions he used to “I have to be mindful of what I can and can’t eat”.
One non-permanent side effect of the Gastric Band Matt has found is “the slimes”. When you eat something that requires a little extra work to digest, your body will produce secretions like saliva and mucus that, pre-sleeve, you swallowed without even knowing it. This fluid helps the food slide down into your stomach where the body uses it to digest the food. Now as the volume of your stomach is much smaller and can’t always hold both food and secretions it can sometimes causes an unpleasant situation of either feeling painfully full for half an hour or so to being ill with bubbles of mucus.
Even though I have the band open (which is hindering my weight loss). I can have bouts that can last a few days. It makes me quite uncomfortable and inconvenient for my work.
Another challenge for Matt was how this surgery would impact his social life. As party enthusiasts, Matt and his wife are constantly busy on weekends with a large group of friends. Matt was worried that this surgery would hinder his ability to eat at parties or feel up to socialising.
Of course other than the normal risks like complications and inadequate weight loss, I was concerned if I would still have a social life.
Post-operation planning
Throughout his recovery Matt has had a relatively smooth ride. Several follow up appointments from staff ensured both him and his family had all the knowledge and education they needed for Matts long-term weight loss journey.
In general, everyone at WALOS is very understanding of the patient’s needs. They give clear and correct advice and motivation to make the procedures work effectively.
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Epstein Not Dead? Prosecutors Make Huge Announcement
From the moment of Epstein’s arrest being announced, conspiracy theories have been circulated by many. And now, in the wake of his death and the questionable circumstances surrounding it, they seem to have come alive. There is truly no end to the ideas that some people have come up with.
One of the most recent and most appalling is the idea that Jeffrey Epstein isn’t really dead at all, that somehow this is all just a cover-up.
As one person wrote on Facebook, there’s “Not a chance he is dead.” And it added, “Very well protected. In federal custody in maximum security. In a suicide watch cell.”
The post was shared over 2,000 times in a short period before Facebook flagged it in their effort to keep false news and misinformation from its platform and user’s news feeds.
And many, many questions are and have been asked about the case. And some of the answers or the lack thereof lead much of America to believe that something was going on that was being covered up.
But that he didn’t die? That’s a bit of a stretch, if not wholly impossible.
However, even the small bit of information included in this radical post is controversial at the moment. And it leads to more questions than answers for many. Let’s look at some of this controversial info.
Was he actually on suicide watch?
Well, after his first brush with death, he was rightly put on suicide watch. However, two weeks later, his very own legal reps ‘supposedly’ took him off of it. And so the question of why comes into earnest play.
And what about the guards? Aren’t they supposed to watching out for him, even if the only danger is from himself?
Well, this is where it gets even fishier. Apparently, Epstein’s guards fell asleep. But of course, they also falsified the log records to avoid punishment. However, we also have reports of other, substitute guards being assigned to him. Was this the information that was falsified or is this fact?
At this point, it’s hard to say. What we do know is that two guards were suspended after the 66-year-old financier’s death. The warden on duty at the time was reassigned in the aftermath as well.
Then there is the report that shrieks and screams were heard coming from his cell before he was found dead. Does someone hanging themselves shriek and cry during the act?
And what about injuries noted on the autopsy report?
The report says that he was found hanging in his cell by his bedsheets, which had been hung from the top of his bunk bed. He apparently then leaned hard enough toward them that bones in his neck broke. And the autopsy confirms this. There were multiple breaks in his neck bones. And these injuries have been found in those who have hung themselves, especially if they are older.
However, experts also note that these injuries are more commonly found in homicide victims who have been strangled. So this just adds more fuel to the fire.
Needless to say, there are a lot of questions being asked, and many that should be. Obviously, there are some inconsistencies with the case. US Attorney General William Barr agrees. He said on August 12, “We are now learning of serious irregularities at this facility that are deeply concerning and demand a thorough investigation.”
And it is easy to believe that someone is covering up something. In fact, it’s almost a sure thing. But his death? That’s unlikely. What is more likely is that there were several little mistakes made, and obviously ones that ended in a life or death situation.
But to suggest that the whole thing is a scam of some sort is just not realistic. And there have been plenty of people to confirm his death. To say anything otherwise would be to insinuate that all of these people including medical examiners, prison officials, elected leaders, government heads, police officers, and more, are working seamlessly together to create some sort of fiction.
However, for those who assisted Epstein in his crimes, it may not make a difference if he is dead or not. Prosecutors have announced they will continue their investigation regardless of the fact that he is most definitely dead. | <urn:uuid:3be9b511-51a2-4d49-91d3-c790dcca0215> | https://theteapartydaily.com/epstein-not-dead-prosecutors-make-huge-announcement/ | en | 0.989385 | 0.033513 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
What is IR35 ?
Many people won’t recall (or they weren’t around at the time) that, in the draft rules which became IR35 in April 2000, HMRC always envisaged that it would be up to the end user clients to decide if their off-payroll workers were what HMRC call “disguised employees”.
If they were then HMRC would expect to receive broadly the same amount of tax and NI as they would have had received had the worker actually been on the client’s payroll.
In the end HMRC changed the rules so that it would be up to the worker (typically engaged via a limited company) to self-assess their IR35 status but now, almost 20 years later and having re-imposed the original rules in the public sector, HMRC are now doing the same in the private sector from April 2020.
How does it affect the Private Sector ?
Under the new private sector rules, medium and large organisations have to inform their freelancers if they believe that their assignments would be within IR35 and they have then to issue a “Status Determination Statement” (“SDS”) setting out their reasons.
A copy of the SDS must be given to the individual worker and to the person with whom the end user contracts. This will usually be the agency, though there may sometimes be multiple parties in the chain between the freelancer’s company and the end user. Where this is so, each person in the chain passes the SDS down the chain until it reaches the person who actually pays the freelancer’s company (the “fee-payer”) and typically this would be the agency.
If the SDS states that the notional direct contract would have been one of employment, then the fee-payer is required to deduct tax and NIC from the payment (exclusive of any VAT) and pay it over to HMRC.
If either the fee-payer or the individual whose services are being provided via the limited company disagrees with the decision of the end user, then they can invoke what is described as the “client-led disagreement process”.
Under this, the end user may be asked to review the decision and to notify the results of that review (either confirming or withdrawing the decision that the rules apply) within 45 days. There is, however, no independent appeal process.
In order to avoid having to engage with their freelancers on employment status issues, many end user clients have simply announced that they will no longer engage directly or indirectly with individual service companies, leaving their freelancers with the choice of joining the end user or the agency’s payroll or joining an umbrella company or other PAYE intermediary. At the other end of the scale some organisations have said that they will review their freelancers on a case by case basis. | <urn:uuid:7ce608aa-a849-4d8e-a810-142b90c4f40c> | https://www.conosco.com/blog/ir35-background-guidance-for-private-sector/ | en | 0.976633 | 0.204302 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
What Use is Your Money When It is Infected?
If money is the root of all evil, does it get more evil when it is infected with a coronavirus that can kill you?
One could also postulate an opposite view that the evil money is somehow being cleansed by the coronavirus because it is becoming worthless.
The Chinese Central Bank may have millions of tonnes of cash in its coffers, but what use is that if the notes are worthless due to being infected? The distribution of cash itself could be one of the many conduits for the spread of the virus, therefore what does the Chinese Central Bank have to do about that conundrum?
Granted, the virus may only be on a note or surface for a few hours, but when it comes to cash, that’s good enough time to infect a dozen or so people from one single note.
All those years selling plastic junk products to the West, all made with slave labour thanks to the communist system, may now be lost, simply because the good stuff is now infected with a virus that has killed thousands of people in China, as can be attested by the crematorium staff working day and night burning the bodies.
How do you spend your now worthless infected currency? The plain truth is you don’t because if you’ve been anywhere near the notes, you will soon feel a heavy temperature and eventually keel over and die.
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University of Leicester - Bioengineering Group
1. Introduction
2. Mechanical
3. Electronic
4. Control
1. Eye-Tracking
2. Object Detection
5. Project Execution
Amy Lymn
Mechanical Systems Design
Amy Lymn & Joe Ahuja
Mechanical Systems
Mainly Horizontal Displacement
Mainly Vertical Displacement
Concept Ideas
Concept 1
Measurements in metres
Concept 2
Measurements in metres
Concept 3
Grip Concepts
Development of Chosen Concept
Detailed Mechanical Design
Full Technical Drawings
Monitor Manufacture Process
Limiting Factors
Electronic Control System
By Will Scott-Jackson
Design Rationale
Breakdown of Sub-Systems
Having considered the options, an Arduino Mega 2560 was selected:
This was selected because:
• It has many digital I/O pins
• 16 Analogue to Digital Converter pins
• USB port can interface with PC via serial link
• 16MHz of processing power
• Can be programmed with an Open Source IDE
Actuator Systems
Actuator Systems (Research)
Actuator Systems (Research cont.)
Actuator Systems (Selections)
Based on the aforementioned research, several electrical motors were selected:
One Trinamic QSH-5718-51-28-101
One Astrosyn - MY3002 Size 11 Stepper Motor
Two RE 385 DC Motors
Actuator Systems Circuitry Development
Feedback Systems
Feedback Systems (Implementation)
User Interface
Progress to Date
Problems and Limitations
Further Improvements
Electronic Control System
Live Demo
Control Systems
By Ian Chapple
• Build a cheap eye tracker
• Normally cost >?10,000
• Built for ~?70 using:
• Playstation Eye Camera
• Infra Red LED's
Image Processing:
Data Mapping:
Contour Finding
Find the edges of objects in an image
Circle Finding
Locate circular objects from within an image
Glint Finding
Find brightest point in image
Data Mapping
Linear 3D map:
Object Detection
By James Reuss
Why is Object Detection Needed?
Because the system is unable to detect its environment!
How can this help?
What's the Problem?
All of these systems are expensive!
The Kinect
How does the Kinect work?
Pixel Organisation
RGB and Depth Images - Depth in millimetres
Point Clouds
The Algorithms
Need to convert the raw data into a usable form.
Then it is posible to detect the objects.
This requires the use of the following operations:
Surface Normals
Calculate the surface normal of each 3D point
using neighbouring points.
Plane Segmentation
As mentioned previously, this contains many steps
Point Clustering
Use Tags!
Now each point has a tag
Cluster Filtering
Now filter out tags that don't represent a plane
Dominant Plane Finding
Which plane cluster is the table?
NB: This assumes that there is a table
The RANSAC Algorithm
RANdom Sample And Consensus
The Convex Hull Algorithm
Point Inclusion
There is now a lot of information available:
Which points make up objects on the table?
Use a Point-In-Polygon algorithm
Object Point Clustering
K-Means Algorithm
A process by which:
Before Calibration
Some Calibration
After Calibration
With Object Detection
Extended Calibration
Future Work
Project Execution
By Joe Ahuja
Weekly Meetings
Online Group
File sharing group
Conflict Resolution
Project Timeline
Thank you for listening!
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Thursday, November 11, 2010
Seminar in Media & Design Studies 11/11/10 Notes
Hayles, N. Katherine. Writing Machines. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002 (Laila)
Written in 2002... it's a book project
Talks about the materiality of language the way the book is printed is impt to it. It has rough cover, glossy sheets
experiment of the book... Kate came up with a persona in order to do an autobiography ...serves the role that the autobiography would play. It's an intellectual autobiography. Felt confined in the chemistry lab ...all these hours and rules, wanted to find out the meaning. Went back to a degree in literature ...she's housed as a literary critic. Stories / vignettes of learning the politics of a place, in a department. Think there are rules in place to prevent issues, however there's always a culture, depends on the people in the department
Using eco-tomes ...the place where we have to get along (fissures, trying to work together)
Read her post-human book in the past
Thought I'd like My Mother is a Computer but liked WRiting Machines alot more, b/c the way its written.
Story of Kay... she's an academic. We find out that Aserteth (student) ...have advised that impt text in the field. She is very interdisciplinary. She looks at 3 texts, framed through the narrative voice of Kay. All hypertext literatures...
1) Lexia to perplexia
2) Humorant
3) House of Leaves
Kay Hills to humanities as Bruno Latour is to social science. Kay's moment is to find that which is simulated or signified as a pre-reference (Post-bart, post-seceur). Words are pre-material and we need to think about
We have a signified and something that we are signifying ...beyond deconstructing that, we need to think of text as being simulated from nothing.
Her mistake was concentrating on the navigation to see the words, instead of the work embedded the narrative in a topical environment. The word was interwoven with the world... layered images, simulated documents. Focus on the words along, she missed the point of the piece. An integrated piece of all components became signifying practices.
** By making text the only domain of signification, before you read it, the form already signifies what meaning is possible **'s about the materiality of the way the text comes to us and the signifying influence of the form itself. (this is in the next book)
It's not just the construction of matter, but the matter of construction to human beings. How else do we find meaning, its not always through the word.
The word
The text
The document
What is the semiotic and performative discourse to the text. Expand textuality beyond the printed page.
Kay addresses the theory in this way... the theorists are interwoven in the fictional narrative of this woman Kay and how she learns about academia.
She pulls out in this autobiography:
* the importance of medium specificity analysis (think about Jenkins 7 principles of transmedia)
Three key pieces / conditions / things to look at when looking at electronic texts:
1. Materiality of language itself = It is authored what "book-ness" is. This is what gets authored over and over again. [Whether it is designing your own application or taking one that exists ie: twitter and enacting, using it in new ways]
2. Recursivity language of techno-texts [the role of practice in text-making], This is about practicing theory. Your moving between things, the feedback loop to make better meaning. The relationship between theory and practice, not in one place or the other.
3. The need of looking at a medium specificity analysis = know the affordances of the text
Interesting conversation on the text the database a text?
Book is designed by Anne Burdick ...a book that is a collaboration between a designer and a writer
Hayles, N. Kathering. My Mother Was a Computer (Laila)
Written in 2005
Computational perspectives and more traditional perspectives ... a way to synergize a theory that respects both.
Technogies of Engendered Bodies talk about it. Woman who did computational work use to be called computers.
Brings together the computational with the natural.
Bring the 2 worlds together in conversations.
Talks about mothers reading their children stories and when we grow up they are replaced by other stimuli
The Making of the Discreet - intermediation and relates to technologies driving the regime of computation. Code is the language system of speech and writing.
Intermediation -- co-evolution, electronic literature is exploring human and non-human, that we are in relationship with technologies... make meaning, age of computing might make this more predominant or more evident.
ie: what kind of subject am i musing in front of the installation. (standing at the presence of a student that has gone beyond you. A child that does something that surprises us.)
Distributed cognition ...jointly articulated activities. i think therefore i connect... human and non-human ...processes that you de-code or ones that you don't even have to de-code.
Laila shares her poetry.
Node Job
it's been a long time, it's been a really long time
since the site of you watermarked on my chest and
fragments of touch embedded in the nodes of my body.
the culture of movement needs lubricant from a whisper of our love
it's been a long time, a really long time
since i extended into you.
she screamed rape at a glance,
and felt whipped by my tongue
remains just like before
when today followed yesterday and tomorrow was fantasy
i leave the scent on my fingers to linger
like a reminder of the experience
made me
and we are the summation of our experiences;
and the people we've touched
leave imprints of their scent on our skin
mediated by cultural logic
and the basic text just extends
into worlds like silly putty
unreal in my fingertips
i kneed your breath
into my imagination of you.
-Laila Shereen Sakr
Los Angeles, 11/09/10
Use poetry to respond to theory. how can you use a poetic performance as my methodology.
Diego - a way to analyze.. take sexual words to make theoretical argument
Alan Sokol ...Sokol Hoax
...point that the poeople of post-modernism theory didn't know what they were talking about. Don't adopt metaphors that you don't understand... especially when coming from another discipline. We've been burned by not understanding... then neither discipline is served.
...what are those non-scientists doing.
Ralph Abraham (father of fractal theory)
Reflexive Practices as Transformative Research
1. Self-reflexive practice
1. Personal interest (cross-generational digital media & learning)
2. Creative insight (cyphibian theory, hybrid models, images, audio not as an observer but as a participant itself)
3. Discipline knowledge (constructivism [Piaget], social constructivism [Vygotsky], constructionism [Papert], participatory culture [Jenkins])
2. Reflect on information gathered or conceptual strategies
3. Dialogue ..what is its significant meaning
4. Question content and context
Thursday, October 28, 2010
10/28/10 Notes for Seminar in Media & Design Studies
1) One page Methodology
2) Research Practices in Media Studies Programs
• Go back to thinking about methodology (initial paragraph, visual representation)
• Think about my methodology in relation to the question of Arts-based practice as transformative research (page 110)
• For panel, would be more multimodal ...piece of interactive experience
• Notion of my own research practice, coming out of a creative practice, exemplary for transformative research
• Action Item: Read Ch 4 in Arts Practice as Research
• Methodological stance on a set of practices, demonstrate what we mean by practice as research, research as transformative (how does your practice inform research)
• ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Media Art) and CAA (College Art Association)
Virtual Window by Anne Friedberg
Presentation by Gabe and Discussion with class
• overview of visuality, how it develops through practice, schools of practice
• Alberti ...visual idea of perspective drawing & painting ...practical philosophical school up to computer, tv, mobile screens being post-perspectival
• Central metaphors grounded in frames, windows & screens ...tracing development over time from renaissance through to today
• replaced books with screens ...all of my input through my devices.
• for a couple of weeks, didn't read traditionally for a while. Stepped into reading this book with those ideas in mind.
• First sat down to read book ...videotaped myself. What does reading look like?
• Relationship between books and screens. relationship between printed page and the screen can become a page. In the introduction but not throughout
• Think alot about what's not in the book -- a real compiltation of the book, it interesting moment when this book was released, everything exploded ...questions, extensions, further lines of inquiry could happen to now. She finished reading the book in 2004, released in 2006 (pre-youtube or on the edge)
• One youtube icon in interactive part but not in the book
• Virtual mobility within cinematic frame ...virtual mobility of the cinematic viewer
• Images & Ideas of mobile framing, recording playback, consumption, devices that carry around
• context given by professor and then learn to read for that goal
• sift, scan, extract info really easily -- visual, verbal, textual learner
• found i could read for about 2-3 hours, more i read, the easier it got
• always take notes by hand ...whatever scrap is around
The Practice of Everyday Life is a book by Michel de Certeau
Chapter on Reading as Poaching
• A misunderstanding of reading
• An image of ourselves reading, sitting at a table reading a bound book, but we read in all sorts of ways
• The readers body is a wild orchestration of ticks, manners, shifts that are evoked by the reading of the book. We don't read in a state of quiestence.
• Is reading in an absence of ubiquity? When one enters and leaves as one wishes...
Interactive Extension on Virtual Window ...great after you read the book
Book is loosely chronological along different themes. Each chapter went back and forth along a different inquiry.
Mining and interpreting the metaphor of the window
Historicity of these things ...looking not just the technical development (Alberti in Renaissance period, he invokes the window of the metaphor but also as a practical point in perspective & drawing) You paint as a look out on the world, paint the window as where you're seeing
Frame of a painting ...frame a view
Window -- imagine a line that you'd replace with an opaque substance to draw on, as a tool from 3d to 2d space
Create a virtual imagined space that shares a connection
Moving from single viewer perspective to multiple perspectives
From window, she goes to the frame
link camera obscura as a perspective tool (though this camera was there before perspective drawing)
early example of virtual movement. Within projection of camera obscura -- it as own device for moving, perspective ...linked what the cinema would become, fixed, immobile frame, virtual mobility, image moves but you as spectator does not move
Apparatus theorists -- focus on unique quality of cinema apparatus
Suturist Theorists --
Sequential multiple perspective, temporal multiple perspective -- The window
Ch 3
Material history of glass
how windows changed over time
as glass became bigger, more transparent, stronger -- than windows changed. Able to see how visuality changed over periods and time
Make buildings completely out of glass, architecture is framing the world, viewing devices that connect it to cinema, cubist paintings
Ch 4 - Architecture of Screening Places
dynamic space of movie palace is to distract u from the edge of the frame
edge never moves, its fixed and immobile... it kills the experience of mobility and movement that is happening at the center of the frame
Courbousier framed windows horizontally not vertically -- viewer of the world
arguments / discussions on cinematic and tv aspect ratios. There was a time when aspect ratio was not set
Orientation of aspect ratio come up. Eisenstein wanted vertical, horizontal frame ...argument of cinema and television
Talk about pillow talk (movie) -- how it divides up the frame, multiple frames, multiple persectives are contained simultaneously in mainstream films
Ch 5
Sequence and stackability
deeper fleshing out of multiple criticisms
1968 exhibition, 1st video monitor connected to a computer
could have focused on the computer screen as multiple perspectives
President Obama on campus
Recording, experiencing them through the screen, posting them on FB and reliving them with friends. I wanted to see him with my own eyes. We're doing what Anne Friedberg tried to pre-sage...
Vertical framing to happen ...what type of videos would look like? how will that be viewed?
pocket of our pants dictate the size of the iPhone, or our hand...
illustation of when things converge
Are these practices contribute to globally, industrial marketplace?
Made bigger through digital practices ...recording, remixing, sharing
Market is changing that, effecting it... take strength and comfort in that
find room for intervention, invention of imagine the future
Transformative works that reflects on my real world
Big commercial can be used for creative, artistic expression
mobility and immobility
agency ...doesn't extend to talk about them
spectator of being immobile and frame as static is impt to Anne
what's going to happen originated, shifted, used
do u notice if your seeing a digital projection or 35 mm production ...existential connection to the image. Existential link back to the original...
a word pins down a meaning
space for interpretation that happens in your mind ...reading the words
Wondering what is at stake?
** memes aren't history
** diy culture ...history is memes
what history are you giving up and not?
what is that form that you will take, do in the world that will be in perpetuity ...leave a mark in the world of thinking
Anne: own obsolescence is quicker than our deathbed
Vice versus focus ...
Friday, October 22, 2010
Launch of PBS Kids Go! Webonauts Internet Academy
This past year, I had the privilege of working with PBS Kids Go! as educational advisor to their new media literacy game. Webonauts Internet Academy encourages young children to reflect on privacy, credibility and what it means to be an ethical participant in a community. I had a chance to sit down with Abby Jenkins, PBS Online Community Manager, to reflect on the development of the game and how this fits into the PBS Kids Go! experience.
Knowing that PBS KIDS had an original game on media literacy, what sparked you to want to develop a new one? And how is this new game, Webonauts Internet Academy, different than the other?
Today’s media landscape is much different than it was ten years ago, when PBS KIDS first launched a game on web safety. Since that time, the media kids are exposed to have become increasingly social. For that reason, a focus on digital citizenship was important because kids’ social interactions and presentation of self are increasingly blurred by “online” and “offline” interactions. The Webonauts Internet Academy game is part of the new PBS KIDS GO! Digital Citizenship Initiative to help kids and parents navigate today’s digital landscape.
With this new initiative, PBS also supports parents and educators by offering discussion guides and other resources to help foster discussions about online safety and good digital citizenship with children.
Creatively, the Webonauts Internet Academy is new world we created, where kids take on the role of the Webnonaut and complete a series of missions. There’s a cast of characters that includes the Bamdudes, who are the best cookie makers in the galaxy, and a mysterious enemy called the Great Static who is set on stealing the Bamdude’s secret recipe. While entertaining kids, it is designed to teach kids about online privacy, how to deal with bullying and how to distinguish credible sources online.
How does Webonauts Internet Academy play into the entire PBS KIDS GO! experience?
Like other games on, we want to put kids in the driver’s seat. We carefully develop game mechanics and content that are age appropriate. We also know that kids now expect to be able to customize their experiences online to reflect their interests and personality. At, kids can customize and shape the content in many ways, including the creation and sharing of video mashups, modding games (to modify or make changes to games), creating a playlist of favorite videos, customizing the look of their Secret Box, and more. Webonauts is reflective of the PBS KIDS GO! experience in that it offers kids the opportunity to shape their experience through the creation of their suit. On, we step kids through the account creation process and provide help with creating username and passwords. After setting up an account, kids can save their customized Webonauts suit in their “Secret Box,” which is a customized place for saving creations and points from across with the option to share it with friends.
PBS KIDS GO! also has content that focuses on other aspects of media literacy. The site, Don’t Buy It, focuses on helping kids identify and understand advertising And for parents, PBS Parents Guide to Children and Media offers tips on how parents can use media to support their childs development and other strategies for raising children in the digital age.
What are the key media literacy themes you wanted to get across in the Webonauts Internet Academy game? And why did you find these concepts most relevant for kids to learn?
Designed for kids 6-9 years old, the game consists of a series of 12 scenario-based missions around three themes: privacy, credibility and citizenship. As we set about thinking what topics to address, these three themes emerged. Developmentally, kids are discovering who they are as individuals and are starting to make some of their own decisions both in screen mediated environments and offline. Many of these decisions involve understanding what information is ok to share publicly and how that information gets shared, sifting through vast amounts of information to find answers to questions, and learning what it means to be part of a community.
We took a scaffolded approach to each of theme, with game scenarios that introduce a topic and then build on the concept throughout the game.
In-game missions address the importance of protecting passwords and maintaining privacy settings, teach how to differentiate between credible and non-credible sources of information, and how to react to bullying, among other topics. When all missions are completed, kids become full-fledged Webonauts and earn their certificate, which they can print and share at home.
People are always eager to learn the process of how a game like this is developed. Can you tell us how many people were involved in developing Webonauts Internet Academy? How long did it take to create the game? What are some of the skills of the team that makes Webonauts Internet Academy a success?
Game development involves the work of many people working closely together. The core PBS Kids production team included two designers, two content leads, one educational advisor (thanks, Erin!), an advisor for parent and teacher content, a team of Flash developers, and our design intern. You can see who produced the game here
This game was developed over a period of about six months. Because it involves such a variety of skills and areas of expertise, it really could only have been produced as a team effort.
And if I were to want to one day work for a company like PBS KIDS GO!, what are some of the skills I would need to have?
The team that makes up PBS KIDS Interactive is a group that’s passionate about making the most educational and best designed interactive games for kids. Besides being committed to PBS’ mission to deliver the highest quality educational media, you would need experience developing media for kids—whether as an educator, developer, designer, or producer. Plus, you need to like playing games and have fun!
In developing Webonauts, what was one thing you learned in the process? Did you learn something new about media literacy that you didn't know about before? And if so, what have you done with this new information?
In researching for this project we learned that there is still surprisingly very little media literacy material out there for kids 6-9 years old, so we saw this as an opportunity to do something new and fill a gap for addressing this topic for this age group. We also learned that it’s important to also provide support material to engage the whole family and classroom teachers, since the true effectiveness in addressing issues related to privacy, credibility and citizenship involves an ongoing dialogue between kids and grownups. Webonauts Internet Academy can be a conversation point to address these important issues and also to empower kids as informed decision makers.
And we also confirmed that game development is totally challenging!
Abby Jenkins is Online Community Manager for She joined PBS KIDS Interactive in 2005, and has worked with producers on many award winning television program sites and web original projects.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
10/21/10 Seminar in Media & Design Studies
These are my notes from class take it all with a grain of salt.
In Looking at Sullivan's Art Practice as Research
• Applied Research and how digital humanities has taken up Applied Research... engage technologies in research
• always necessary transformative research ...rearranges how things are taken up and done. Rearrange habits, rituals, cultural habits.
• inflection of applied research as transformative research
• Digital humanities ...there are people who are not happy with this. Evacuation of the intellectual property of humanities. Not suppose to take up with fads. Their province of research was in transcendental questions ...anything that smacked of doing anything that was part of addressing the populist
• Train classics, ancient greek / latin -- still need to be documented. There's still plenty to be done. Traditional humanists don't see it as applied in the same way... don't want to be justified in contemporary terms.
• Traditional humanists ...text based interpretation of research
Digital Humanities state out of these new practices come new questions to ask.
Producing Techno-Culture Innovation ...Anne Balsalmo's idea
The Humanities for Tax Payers by Megan Morris
Art Practice is interventionist work. Art engages with the material, what its researching and in its engag
Anne: Technology is broader than the tools. It's the arrangements
Cultural Studies
What is culture?
Culture is always technological, technology is always cultural ...don't bifurcate, ie: technology = tools, and then it separates it from culture. Apprehension of the technolocgical is always culturally inflected. It differes throughout history, and culture from culture.
Anthropological approach to culture ...anem for human practices that are exhibited in a group of practices in a
Margaret Mead, study of islanders ...culture approach, culture is the practices and several kind of meaning-making practices (language, etc) -- particpated in meaningfully ....naturalized culture, a way of bounded way. (ie: in the 60s)
After the 60s Antrhopological issues ...discipline of Anthropology ...culture as abounded concept
Multiple cultural theories
Anthropologies as acoloniast project ...has tools in a way of fixing it in time. Naturalize culture as a provence of that group that is bounded.
We impose on them a definition of culture (less developed culture, primitive culture ...invocation of a natural culture)
Post-colonialism forget that ...we're transforming that group into a technological way
It's not you studying someone else's culture ..but way to engage with multiple cultures.
Technological process, resources, part of the natural world.
Coloniasts have science on their side ...any concept of culture was always processing
The Colonial Harem by Malek of the others watching the observers, when the others look back.
Birmingham tradition. Bifurcation of technology and culture isn't useful.
Technology Culture Primer (Greg Weis
** notions of formations, notion of a cultural assembly
** constitution of the social ...doesn't pre-exist, constitute through the practices
"Circuit of Culture" models what culture reproduces (taken from Culture, Media and Identities series (london: Sage, 1997)
Marxism as Cultural Theory Marx talked about why the workers continued to be oppressed. Rise of the middle class. Theory of exploitation. No longer a direct relation to the production. I produce and unlike producing on the farm where I have a direct relationship to what I produce (farm = food for home). Marx unalienated my fruits of my labor. Move into the urban spaces. Wanted to talk to them about how they can be masters of their own destiny
Cultural Studies starts with a critique of high culture. Founded on a critique of the form of value. Everyday culture is not worthy. Purpose of education (early culture studies critique) is to inculturate the masses of the value system of the elite. Brought into schools, treated to literacy, etc. Not for the purpose to empower them, but to bring them into power dynamic where culture elite is what we should aspire too.
• Question posed: How does culture get reproduced so it can be reproduced in more powerful ways? How could you change culture to be more empowering?
Modalities of Culture in Cultural Studies
• High / Low Culture (that is a value judgment, see it institutions all the time)
Popular Arts by Paddy Wenell -- looks at all the arts that are created by everyday people. Founding moment for cultural studies ...our transformative intervention is to not just study high culture but everyday life.
This leads Raymond Williams to redefine culture as the practices of everyday life. He also comes up with a different way to taxonomize culture ...dynamism of culture (dominant, emergent, residual) ...always in a process of reproduce. Its value doesn't get set up once and for all. Value of high art is reproduced.
• Interested in the conditions of emergence ...whereby new forms of cultural expression are created, incubated, expressed, designed, manfested -- intentionally or not.
• Some cultural products become valued and they're maintained over time... There's an ediface that's affixing them with cultural value.
• Seeing an explosion of popular forms of culture... start to see the popular arts of everyday people. What are the dynamics? Based on analyzing the popular arts that this model comes up, "Circuit of Culture"
• Example -- Discourse Analysis of the Sony Walkman
• Today, reflection between consumption and production would not be so separate today -- think HJ's convergence.
What is the circuit of culture for DIY culture? How does DIY culture reproduce cultural understandings and practices?
Cultural reproduction as a circuit through which flows happen...distributed cultural formation -- image that shows school in the 21st century. Someone has to intentionally produce the relationships between the different places, ie: universities, home, afterschool programs, libraries, streets, museums, recreational / entertainment venues, cultural and religious centers, etc
Discussion of Anne Balsalmo's Ch 4 models
* Where the digital generation learns?
* The University as Site of Technoculture Innovation
• In a circle and all connected -- Learner-Centered Pedagogies, New Research Questions, Transformative Applied Research, Technology Prototyping, Publications & Outreach, Technologies of Literacy, Disciplinary Programs, New Educational Programs
• Where did Labrynth (USC Cinema school project) a decade ago come up with their new forms of teaching?
• Technologies of Literacy is the most lacking do you change your classroom to allow your students to read / write in new ways, participate in the media they are studying.
• Account for the reproductive moments in the innovation cycle
• Innovation is not about technology ...its about helping to shift culture
Articulation practices ...what are the broader cultural practices meaningfully now
Why are we studying this now?
Mimi ...interest driven relationships, object of study: creation of a community of interest / anthropological look
Model of a distributed learning environment, the nodes that represent spaces and places of learning
de Certeau ...difference between space and place. "A space is a practiced place."
Look at Whyville, etc (spaces) ...where are these
"A place is a practiced space."
Not look at the virtual spaces but the actual places that organize practices, stage that embodies practice. The role of the body, reinsert the body to virtual possibilities... School in the digital age is the place where bodies go.
Another constellation of practices shaped in different ways
Articulation = Notion of this that's central to cultural studies, notion that articulation is the connection between 2 things (2 disparate elements) ...make an art piece and they become one, a sutured ensemble.
Stuart Hall -- Cab of a truck / Bed of a Truck ...meeting of the 2 is an articulation and we call it a semi (Sutured Ensemble). Elements that have the integrity on their own come together and create a new ensemble.
Material practices
Building technologies are articulatory practices
Adding a chemical to a chemical is an articulatory practice
Articulating symbolic meaning of the ensemble ...physical bring into connection, forging a new ensemble ...articulating the meaning of, not in isolation. Dual meaning of articulation. This is the basis of Articulation Theory (grounded in Gromsky) ...culture gets reproduced moment to moment by people's individual activities. Gromsky sees the individual as a plurality.
Identity is itself an ensemble... construct my identity by pieces of my lived experience... clothes i wear, technology i use, sense of my competency, networks all the way down.
Every node is a constellation, its already an ensemble, embedded in networks.
We inherit this intellectual enterprise...
Use that we are a network of networks to inform your theories. Philosophical foundation.
How does that network configure? Regularities in the network?
Latour focuses on the assembly of narrative. John Law / aircraft stories
Look at Decentering the Object in Technoscience
** object was preassembled to be fixed. Law takes up how to decenter an object, never priviledge it as being the only thing to answer the questions.
** Gets from latour ...creation of the stories that circulate the object that in the end makes the object something different than it actually it is. The heterogeneities ...object in multiple stories, the object is something different for each story.
** Every stakeholders had a different story.
** the object is all of these things but it does cohere across stories. Law has this great notion of assembling and reassembling the project / object and the identity of itself. How do you create an identity for yourself as the one that has a priveledged relationship wtih the object ...his identity as pre-digest of the object of something
Chronicle his own identity and its relation to multiple stories ...its networks all the way down.
Identity about being reassembled through the process of tracking the object in multiple stories
How do I write the story of the projects I've been involved in when none of the projects were singular? I enact a subject position through my writing. I am the subject who was remembering. I'm not the subject of one that participated in the story... the fixity of my own story, this is only one story ...a fiction as much as a cultural archiving.
Latour ...fantasm and the symbolic
Law ...makes sense of it through material practices, an account of analytical processes of an object
Saturday, September 11, 2010
I'm currently taking Anne Balsalmo's class, Seminar in Media & Design Studies, one of the required courses for the iMAP PhD program at USC's Cinema School. This is one of the assignments she had us start out with.
My Philosophy
Often I start developing a project when an idea comes to me sparked by some issue in culture. Here are some examples from my past on that:
• Zoey’s Room -- the AAUW report on women and girls in STEM
• xDREAM -- the lead article in Time Magazine on youth in America as the most obese in the world
• Learning Library – Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century white paper combined with what I learned from ZR’s Tec-Treks
• Sk8-66 – My family’s exodus from east coast to west coast and its relation to Grapes of Wrath
Ideas that I get from reading the papers, articles, books or having experiences are further explored by me through searching and synthesizing what already exists in the areas I’m interested in. I wouldn’t say it’s purely a lit review, because I often don’t just look at articles and such, but instead look at media projects that already exist in those areas. Looking at what has come before my idea, helps me to lay out a core argument …why create this?
In designing technology, I’m constantly looking at the agency of the users and the environment to figure out how it will work within a larger ecology.
My Methodology
I take a mixed methods approach when developing technology. Having been a documentary filmmaker in my past, in my next phase, I often take the role of an ethnographer. I try to immerse myself in the subject I’m interested in exploring by observing, talking and interviewing people who are active participants in the subject. By doing this, it helps me define my scope of work and ensure I address the social need of the people.
Coming from a film / tv background, I don’t think I’ve ever worked alone. I often bring a core team together from varied disciplines and really work to have the expertise of each person create the project. The methodology at this point is to step back from talking and interacting with people and synthesize findings into a design project. This often includes combining game design with Internet-Speed Development cycle to create the storyline, world, where the content will come from, the architecture, wireframes, user-interface and use-case models. Enough is done in this phase to create a paper prototype to take back to people in the field and get their reactions and feedback.
Based on feedback, we redesign and build a prototype. If I have the funding, then Internet-Speed Development is important at this point because often I’m attracted to an immediate need in society. I believe in sharing sooner rather than later and sharing often to continue to iterate during this phase. The methodology I use is a combination of structured usability and focus groups, as well as just let them play with it and see what happens. I find the later always being the most informative.
When the technology moves into beta phase, I often am writing about the experience or about design principles that emerged in the process. I try to create all projects with a database, one that I can sift through and review often to see if what’s been created actually is effective. Because in the end, I’m an interventionist at heart, so my hope is that my work helps to improve the issue that sparked me to begin the journey.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
What is Distributed Cognition?
Do you own one of these tools?
* Record player
* Radio
* Still Analog Camera - like a Polaroid
If so, how are you using these tools?
Are you wearing a watch?
Do any of you know Ken Robinson, he often speaks at Ted and he tells this great story about his 20-year old daughter who doesn't understand why anyone would wear a watch, it only does one thing - tells time. Think about the young people in your life they wear a watch? More importantly, when they ask what time it is in class, do they ever look up at the clock on the wall? There are so many ways now to find out the time of day's often embedded into many of the new tools that we have at our fingertips. This understanding of what time it is becomes second nature because there are so many means of gaining this knowledge.
* Think holistically and be aware of the entire system.
Friday, July 2, 2010
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5 NYPD Officers Charged in Sodomy Assault
Posted on: January 7th, 2009 71 Comments
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Michael Mineo, 24 years old tattoo artist, was brutally arrested by five police officers in Brooklyn metro station. Then they sodomized him with a police radio antenna. Subway station was full of people and no one witnessed this incident, but two other officers told at trial that they did see the whole brutal situation including Mineo being sodomized.
“The principal diagnosis was status post-anal assault, The information that we have, based on consultations with doctors, certainly suggests that he is there due to complications from the assault,” Mineo’s lawyer said.
NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau’s investigators took DNA tests on police equipment taken from the lockers of the five police officers. Two of them tried to cover up the whole incident but they’ll be charged for that as well.
“I relive this every day,”
Mineo said, still suffering from the day of the attack. “Nobody should have to go through something like this.”
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1. Hors says:
2. Anonymous says:
Come on!!! What is the matter with human beings nowadays. Our very own police officers, the very ones who are supposed to serve and protect.
It’s completely disgusting and sick. Those officers need to be severely punished and have their jobs taken away forever.
3. Fey says:
Assault of any kind is wrong, but it is ridiculous and cruel when it comes from the people that are supposed to be protecting us. I can’t imagine going through something like that especially with the police. I already don’t trust them like a lot of other people don’t.
4. Ian says:
I think that it is a disgrace that these “Thugs” in blue uniform are allowed to roam society much less remain officers of the law, its a fr*aking disgrace and a horrible joke. I am somewhat relieved that these particular hooliguns have been charged, I just hope that justice is served. I can’t wait for change for the better in the administration when obama is inaugurated this month. “Keep Hope Alive”
5. Wayne says:
Ask yourself what kind of ‘personality’ is attracted to police work. How many steroids are flowing through there illegally? Testosterone junkies, life flunkies. I had one that lived next door (K9 cop) who was fired for having ‘fun’ in his patrol car with various ‘young’ ladies. Testosterone junkies pumping iron thinking they are invincible and the judge jury and executioner. Thinking they are GOD.
6. wood079 says:
This is the kind of police officer you get when you lower the recruitment standards. The same thing happened in the last sixties. Its a shame that a few bad apples can taint the good work of a lot of good men.
7. Teddy says:
They should have the same thing happen to one of their own family and then let them go through the pain of knowing someone did that to their wife or child. Why do it to them,they would expect it. I hope they get everything they deserve.
8. Mips says:
if it turns out to be true after a thorough investigation righteous police should shoot em for blackening their reps. This kinda stuff cannot be allowed.Remember though “Absolute power corrupts absolutely!”-Voltaire.
9. Tends says:
I’ve said all along, that is too much authority to give a mortal. You have a judge in a robe impersonating God, and the low life officers with guns. Too much authority, most of them abuse it. My own son was beaten by police and of course the court justified it. A beating should never be given to anyone. The have pepper spray, stun guns. They shoot to kill, yet they are supposed to be marksmen, why can’t thye wound someone. bunch of low life criminals. Trouble doesn’t start until these punks show up (they are just like any other street gang).
10. Ted T. says:
The officers involved should be fired and charged. They are criminals and a disgrace to the whole police force.
11. Anonymous says:
Unbeliveable! Why would someone (ESPECIALLY A POLICE OFFICER) do something like this to another human being??!!! This is what makes citizens not trust law enforcement!!
12. Penny says:
Police bruatally is wrong ,and the lawyer , judges ,and other high official let them get away with murder , they are given too much power , and they abuse so many innocent people with that power . i think their should be a law pass banding the use of stun gun on human , because it is in humane . why is it that the electric chair is in humane ? and people are put to death by lethal injection . cops treat other like animal because they carry a gun and a badge. without these two things they are powerless.my daughter who weigh 105 lbs was push down on the concreat and was pepper spray by 5 officer while being in hand cuff, after she didnot give them the answer to a question that they wanted to hear .if this is not brutally what is ? cops are worse than the criminal they arrested . all law inforcement should be drug tested , god knows what they are on . i believe in an eye for an eye . do to the cop what they do to others . i work with 2 law inforcement children the 17 yrswas pull over after swirving on the road . instead of taking him to jail like they should have , the officer call his dad another cop to come get his son . if this was someone elses children they would have gone straight to jail . there is no justic when it come to law inforcement .their children are the worst because they get away with whatever and the court is always on their side always .
13. Ush says:
This assault on a civilian is a crime and a slap in the face on the trust people put on those supposed to protect them.
The assaulting cop or cops also give a very bad name to their peers in uniform who put their lives on the line often enough to do their job right, just to be backstab like this.
14. Danny Z says:
These PIGs are really pigs. In prison, they should be put in General Population for our enjoy of course.
15. 66 Ts says:
They should have better back ground checks the cops have done before I am sure, maybe when they get to jail they will have the same thing happen to them I hope the person who was the victum gets a large judment against them and the police dept and the city we cant have this going on
16. Vills says:
sorry so sorry
17. Preyst says:
Is this from a clockwork orange?
18. Thomas says:
Get educated folks- one of you actually believes the new pres will impact who are our policeman. This scares me! 99% of the police work everyday with real jerks and do not resort to their own violence. You condemn 50,000 policeman working daily in this City for the actions of 5.
• Crazy Bob says:
5 Thomas???? 5 is usually the number they have for backup when they murder a frail autistic man…. or when they choke out another man and murder him Yes, these cowards like that ratio-6 to 1, oh and they get guns and indemnification.
You have a lot of nerve defending these bottom feeders. So they think the president will help, big deal. At least they are not making excuses for repeated murder of your countrymen. Get educated? Get human you sick fuck
This won’t stop until civiilians put the POLICE in fear.
19. Kickin in says:
Wanting to be a police officer, in itself, produces a personality, that is conducive to brutality, most of them are cowards, that use their badge, simply to push people around, and try to exert dominance. Bad apples, except for a conscienceable few, the rest are thugs.
20. Larry says:
as a Police Officer,I don’t know how many times I’ve repeated the folling senetence?…Sure,there are bad cops,but the vast majority of us are good and decent…we’re only human beings like everyone else…any professions all have their bad and good…many of us have given the ultimate sacrafice, trying to protect and serve all……If there we’re not cops.all chaos would break out loose..Give me a break
21. Willy says:
Yes there will always be a few bad apples in any profession…but when a police officer crosses the line..in any way…they should be fired from they’re position and charged with a sex crime just like any other civilian would be.They have sworn to protect and serve and to act professionally in public. If we catch a police officer or anyone else on camera and it is hard to disprove a picture than they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. That is they’re job… To protect and serve.And they should not have to kill anyone when they train to be marksmen. They can wound as well as kill. Come on America…how can you judge other countries for their violent ways when our own government and law enforcements are abusing their power.
22. Sade Tere says:
This criminal act took place in front of police officers whose responsibility is the arrest of criminals in any criminal act that they witness. The failure of the officers who witnessed the act makes them assessories in the crime and they are no less guilty of the crime. The police cannot claim that only a few police are bad and all the rest are unjustly stained by that few. All were present are bad police and were just as guilty as those who were directly involved. And all of them should likewise be prosecuted for the crime and fired and prevented from ever wearing a badge again.
23. Anonymous says:
There is no doubt that society needs the services of police officers, but for all too long now the principle of “to serve and protect” and “community-focused law enforcement” has been substituted w/an obsessive focus on revenue procurement. This is no more evident than w/ the present-day law enforcement ideology and practices where we see 3 or 4 individual cop cars flocking to the scene of an arrest for simple drug possession while giving lower priority to the call from a citizen in need of protection from a violent offender; there’s no money for the “cash cow” in sending the boyfriend who beats the shit out of his girlfriend to jail when they can arrest her for a 1/4 gram of dope instead. And the entire rest of the criminal “justice” system backs up and protects this outrageous, twisted logic to the point where all too many cops start getting the idea that lying, rousting, fabricating evidence, excessive force, and subversion of legal tactics are acceptable means to an end and that they can literally do no wrong.
And when law enforcement no longer respects the law, we’re all in big trouble.
I have literally read the penal (and other) codes from cover-to-cover, looking/hoping for something–ANYTHING on the books, that laid out some degree of prosecution for cops who broke the law–there is NOTHING…! There are no external restrainsts; their bad behavior has been condoned and sanctioned as a correcting response to the “liberal years” when “guilty dudes got off on technicalities.” In conclusion, cops generally are of the opinion that all civilians are “lying losers, or other such reprehensible low-lifes” that somehow deserve their fate–and it’s their job to inflict degradation on such “inferior beings,” all because they have the badge and uniform; it’s classic domination/subordination behavior. Those officers should be stripped of their positions at THE VERY LEAST and to all things fair and just, prosecuted like anyone else for their heinous crime(s) PLUS a more severe disposition for “impersonating peace officers…!!”
24. Jane says:
Police are either good people or bad people. If they are good people, they don’t last for very long, so then they either quit, or they become bad.
25. Tim says:
26. Preston says:
why is there a photo of the victim here? why aren’t there photos of the accused instead?
27. Anonymous says:
If these allegations are true, then these officers have disgraced the badge and all of the fine men and women proudly wearing the uniform that risk their lives everyday to serve and protect their fellow citizens. Unfortunately, a very small minority of miscreants slip through the rigorous preemployment selection processes to wield unrighteous dominion over people, but they are always eventually exposed.
28. Shocking says:
This is RAPE. Try them for rape, and label them sex offenders. Just like you would do with anyone who committed this type of crime.
29. Ut says:
I wonder what he was being arrested for. For all we know, he might have been arrested for trying to pick up a little girl. In which case, he deserved to be sodomized.
30. Texas says:
This is why im glad i live in Texas we can carry handguns without a license so we dont need the police.
• schrodinger says:
No sir, you need a CHL to carry in Texas. Texas does not have open carry, only concealed, and that needs a permit. However, a traveler in a MOTOR vehicle may carry in that vehicle without a license or CHL. I emphasized ‘motor’ because Texas also defines bicycles as vehicles, but the right to carry on a non-motorized vehicle like a bike doesn’t exist here. Nor is the definition of a traveler clearly defined. On the surface, Texas looks very ‘pro-gun’, but in reality, many of our laws are quite diluted. For instance, one can lose the right to carry (CHL) for 5 years for a non-viiolent Class B misdemeanor like driving on a suspended license, yet be able to keep the CHL for Class C simple assault. That makes no sense whatsoever. A DL can be suspended and the driver might never get notice of the suspension, and then be pulled over simply because they are in a neighborhood doing something totally innocent like collecting flyers on homes for rent (because the person is planning on moving), and someone thinks the person is doing something wrong and calls the police. Then the police pull that person over, the person has not committed any moving violations like speeding or blowing a light– only being pulled over because someone got paranoid and called the cops. Then when the person provides proof of their activity (namely, the flyers that the person had collected), the police accuse the person of other criminal activity. This happened to a lady I know, a middle aged woman who sings in her church choir and volunteers with the city and county emergency response teams. The woman has no criminal background as proven through the background checks needed to even volunteer with the response team, and a second check done by the church before she could sing in the choir or work in any ministry. Yet she had a suspension based on info from another state that said that she failed to pay a fine for a 25 year old ticket. So, now she can no longer carry for 5 years after that conviction– a nonviolent administrative offense, while someone who commits an assault, Class C, can keep the CHL. Makes NO sense.
31. Derek says:
The scariest thing is that these criminal thugs go home after work everyday. No one is safe with these brutal thugs masquerading as law enforcement. I’ll bet most of the unsolved murders are the ones committed by cops…sorry to say it, but I do believe it’s true. Is everyone who posts here in danger now?
32. rick says:
These police get these jobs because they are mis-fits and they feel powerful and the misused their power…they go into urban area where people can not protect them selves and can not afford a lawyer and the abuse them……
The write tickets un-necessary, this is how they make money for their state and town…..the judge and the police are working together to make money off of people wo can not afford a lawyer…..
Then you have cops that have major mental issues that are working that need to be taking off duty….
You have cop come into the force dis-liking certain types of people…and they take their bias out on the people they hate…..
You also have cop that start things with people and mis use their power…then their partners cover it up….
They have a tendency to come into urban areas and o minorities and get away with it….
You also have good cops…that really do help…and are friendly and fair…….
33. Vernon 4e3 says:
cops should be giving a test to see if they have hatred against certain people….before they are allow to work…..
34. Maurice says:
They should make the hiring standards better….they should also have a mental test….they should also have a cultural training to be respectful of other people cultural besides their own…..
Better testing and screening should be done…
Just because your father Grandfather, uncles or aunts have been cop, do not mean everybody in the family should be cops…..it is not an inherited job….
It’s a job where you should want to help people not finally getting the power abuse people or get back at people….
35. Anonymous says:
What do you say after reading something like that… all I can say is that my prayers and thoughts are with Mr. Mineo…
36. Hector Eh says:
the guy deserved it. He beat and robbed a 15 year old kid a few months before this happened. I hope his intestines fall out.
37. Anonymous says:
Line the pigs up against the shower wall and let the inmates get their turn
38. Cody Julio says:
To protect and defend? Only each other apparently! Hurrah for the guys that spoke up. Pigs is still apros pos
39. Anonymous says:
Mineo’s nick name is ‘FM’ 🙂
40. Mary says:
Once the antenna was inserted, they heard music playing!
41. Anonymous says:
stiffer penalty’s just might prevent most of this sickness. they know all about lieniency , and know the consequences is’nt really a factor even if proved guilty! we all need to pay close attention to these crimes and stay on top of them,… very well could have been our own son’s and daughters!, or us. God Bless us all.
42. Motha Fucka says:
My GOD. :O
43. Anonymous says:
this is extreamly immoral and wrong I hope that these officers get thrown in jail as one aspiering to be a COP i AM ASHAMED
44. psycho says:
I hope that if this situation (god fobid) ever happens to anyone else that true justice is served and that there are many other people that this has happened to and they are too scaed to come forward. but with all honesty if this really did happen to you that you find closure because im currently in school to be a cop and not all have bad intentions.
45. yeller12 says:
There is no such thing as a good cop. All cops hide behind there badge and try to cover everything up. In the NYPD covering up for each other is standard protocol for these thugs and it is a disgrace that it is so tolerated. The best lesson I learned is always try to have a video camera around otherwise these low life scum of people will always win.
46. Anonymous says:
Believe it or not a third of Americans think ANYTHING cops do is justified simply because they're cops. Same third that voted in Bush (they stole the rest), and against Public Health Care even though most of them are on Medicare.
A word of caution: they will come for you one day if something isn't done to weed out the thugs. Who will defend 'we the people' from the police?
47. Anonymous says:
I'm just about sick to death of hearing about police officers 'breaking the law'.
I listened to a local cop being interviewed recently. He states that police officers are held to a higher standard, because they KNOW the Law, yet choose to ignore their own standards.
Here in small town, Texas~McGregor, my son was found dead in Amsler Park!!
McGregor PD did not investigate, did not ask me if Josh might have been depressed, suicidal, or on antidepressants…NOTHING!
For over 3 years, I have been posting my son's circumstances, the inconsistencies, and blatant lies being told by the on scene officers.
All 8 McGregor officers knew my two sons, especially Joshua, yet the four, on scene, stated they did not recognize him!
I find out from an associate with Southwestern Inst. of Forensic Science/Dallas, that Joshua was last seen alive by a McGregor patrol officer in the DARK park @ 1AM. He was in the same clothes @ 1AM and @ 5:36AM, when the ONE officer arrived on scene.
THIS same officer ran a wants and warrants check on the 'unknown' subject with NO identification nor a suicide note!
When I asked the chief of police about this, he said, "It's not like the officers have drivers license numbers in their heads. A wants and warrants check is done in case there's a warrant, it can be dismissed." I said, "WHO CARES, HE'S DEAD!!!!!!"
http://www.americaiswatching.org (Joshua Robinson) Attached documents, including a crime scene photo, petition, contact numbers/email addresses.
Please sign the petition to show your support in my fight for justice!
48. Anonymous says:
the messed up part is they will probably get suspended for a couple weeks and then back "fighting crime"
49. Walkers says:
they cannot get away with this as they had an" ariel" view.it is incredible that the cops have to"channel" their aggression this way.they are obviously "out of tune" with the public.lets hope the powers that be "probe" this incident and bring these naughty police to book.it is reported that now when the victim breaks gas,his arse says code 10 code 10
50. Anonymous says:
Police bruttality may be scientifically linked to annabollic steroid abuse.The overuse of steroids/performance inhanscing medication may be @ the root cause of police bruttality.It is common knowlege that steroids changes the user's mood and behavior.It is also common knowlege that most cops use and abuse performance inhansing drugs &,or annabolic steroids.I recomend to any individual victimised by the police to insist that the offending Citizen On Patrol be subjet to an extensive battery of substance abuse screening.
51. Anonymous says:
This is why I don't get upset when police officers get shot.
52. Anonymous says:
Fuck the Police. A.C.A.B. There should be a non-profit organization that investigates all the cases worldwide. And the guilty should be trialed by a military trial. Until then cases like this will be a regular occurence!
53. Anonymous says:
NYPD police officers You are sick mens, sick and very sick. You know what dont cover up evidence
54. Anonymous says:
PLEASE STOP SAYING that these men should also be raped. NOBODY DESERVES RAPE. And NOBODY is ANYBODY'S 'BITCH'. The misogyny and ignorance in these comments astounds and saddens me.
55. Anonymous says:
whats the world coming to
56. Anonymous says:
This same article was posted in the NY Daily News. Mineo's claims were unfounded after two witnesses testified that the officers did not have tasers, and the injuries were not caused by the walkie talkie antennas. Mineo's witnesses stories could not be verified either.
57. Anonymous says:
Dont move to canada theyre all sodomizing fucking goofs here too.
58. Anonymous says:
Not guilty!!! way to jump to conclusions you wankers
59. Anonymous says:
Not all police are bad we all know this, but it is getting worse out there for sure. If anyone cop or otherwise is found guilty of this kind of crap strap em down and give em the needle. Just a thought.
60. Brooklyn Blood says:
"NYPD police officers You are sick mens, sick and very sick. You know what dont cover up evidence"
Another well written, and valued opinion – NOT!
61. thEe bEsT says:
omfg dats fukkin messed uhp
62. Anonymous says:
I like how some jackass police officer commented this site and said that bullshit sentence of how the "majority of police are good" fuck you buddy this porves that MORE than half are fucking scum…enjoy contributing to the problem by defending these sick fucks…they raped him with a fucking antenna!!! you my friend, can go suck a fat dick
63. Anonymous says:
You animal rights types shouldn’t overreact; after all subhuman monkeys have no souls and attempting to give them human characteristics is simply errant thinking.
64. kyle says:
look up the definition of a gang and if this doesnt fit in every way let me know… COPS ARE WORSE THAN WHAT THEY LABEL AS GANGS because have power over every single one of us and abuse it daily.
65. Joe dick says:
wtf…is this, a third world country!?
66. James says:
Theres only one way to deal with crooked cops like this and that is to kill them just kill them outright with a bullet to the head.
67. anonymous says:
As long as cops get charged like everyone else it wouldn’t look so bad. When a cop rapes someone and gets a few days in jail and then paid leave is pure BS. Someone gets more time for a dui then cops get for rape, murder, and assault. If the roles were reversed there wouldn’t be many cops left. Revolution will soon come and we outnumber all authority by the millions.
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Any word on LB NaVorro Bowman?
“No, NaVorro’s in, I think he’s still there, he’s getting an MRI right now, so they sent him over this morning. Have not gotten any updates on his status.”
With DL DeForest Buckner, I know it’s the same thing, but do you know what his injury was?
“He has a foot injury.”
No update on his status then?
When you go back and look at what happened yesterday, what kind of stood out to you?
“I thought from a positive standpoint, we got out to a great start offensively. Two straight drives, get down the field, score, get out to 14 points. We got into a couple long situations on the next drive that set us back. The sack actually hurt us. Whenever you get behind the stakes that much, trying to convert ends up being difficult from that standpoint. Came back in the second half, had a really good drive down in the red zone, but came away with three instead of another touchdown there and I think that was disappointing to us. Really it was an interesting game. There was only 10 drives on each side of the ball, which is kind of low. And then, we just didn’t convert when we got a chance after our defense made a great stop in the red zone. Held them to a field goal down there, made it a seven-point game and then got the ball down the field and then just didn’t convert on the, missed on the third-and-six on the throw to [WR Jeremy] Kerley and then on fourth-and-six they played man but dropped a couple extra guys out underneath, did a good job. Good call by them on their part and really didn’t have anywhere to go with the ball. They kind of had everybody doubled on that side.”
You mentioned yesterday that a couple of your receivers on the outside were grabbed. Obviously it wasn’t enough to warrant a penalty at least in the estimation of the officials out there. But, was it good defense?
“It wasn’t enough for the officials to call a penalty.”
LB Aaron Lynch, is he cleared to come back today?
“Yeah, he’ll be practicing today. He goes into, I think he gets a couple, what’s it called?”
It’s an exemption.
“Exemption. So, he’ll be back at training today.”
How has he looked just from the reports you’ve heard from the training staff?
“They said he’s really done a great job working. We’re excited I think to get him back and get a chance to start working with him again as coaches. He’s been available to do everything except be on the field with us. So, he’s been around and we get to see him and according to [director of human performance Mark Uyeyama] Uye and the guys in the strength and conditioning room, he’s done a great job when he’s done, with his workouts with them. So, he’ll be a welcomed addition today.”
Is it reasonable to think that he could play Thursday or would he need a warmup?
“We’ll see. Again, I haven’t seen him, but I think from what they’ve said he’s worked extremely hard. So, we’re hoping we can get him on the field on Thursday.”
Will that be predicated if DeForest is available?
“No, because they play different positions.”
Aren’t they both outside though? They play different sides?
“No, DeFo is a defensive lineman and he’s an outside linebacker.”
What do you need to see from him in these–?
“Just where his conditioning is and how he feels. Kind of figure out if he is ready to play, how many plays can he play? Kind of just see where he is, but he’s in-tune. One thing about him, he’s a really intelligent football player. So, from a mental standpoint I don’t think that’ll be an issue, but obviously the speed of the game and things like that are obviously something that you can’t simulate when you’re out. So, he’s got to catch back up to that.”
What will he bring to the defensive side when he does come back?
“Obviously, he’s a very talented player. I think the ability to set the edge and to rush the passer from the outside and that’s something that I think we’ll need as we continue to move forward here. So, I think those are the two things we’re really looking forward to.”
If NaVorro is out for an extended period, would the dynamic we saw yesterday, LB Michael Wilhoite and LB Nick Bellore be what you go with or could there be other combinations?
“And [LB Gerald Hodges] Hodgey in there and then [LB Shayne] Skov will back up the other MIKE position. If NaVorro is out for this week or an extended period of time it’ll be really those four that you will see in there. Bellore, Wilhoite, Hodge, and Skov. Those are the four we’ve got.”
And Wilhoite can play MIKE and WILL. Hodges plays WILL, Bellore plays MIKE and–?
“And Skov’s got to play them both. Whenever, and it’s just like any position, I know we’ve talked about it before, whenever you’re the backup you have to be able to play multiple positions just because we just can’t say ‘Hey, two guys are down, Shayne can’t play because he doesn’t know how to–,’ real smart kid, Stanford kid. He can play both positions.”
But also, can’t you fit it so that Wilhoite and Hodges play together?
“Yeah, we could.”
Because I thought you had said previously that Wilhoite had been cross training?
“Wilhoite has been cross training. I said we could. That’s a possibility.”
ME: How late will you stay at the facility tonight and how long is a typical work day for you?
“We’re here, I mean, we stayed here last night. I think everybody slept here last night. So, we’ll probably be close to the same tonight. Just, that’s just the nature of what you’ve got to do on a short week. So, I guess they think because we don’t have to do anything on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, we can catch up on sleep then.”
In talking to your players last night, they said obviously the first quarter they showed what they can do offensively. They just were unable to finish it. They hurt themselves. When you look at the film, is it lack of concentration, lack of technique or–?
“No. I don’t think it’s a lack of concentration. I mean, I think we just, again, we had the ball down in the red zone. I thought we had a really good drive to start the second half and got the ball down inside there. We had a mental mistake on a play where we thought we had it, it just wasn’t blocked up the right way that we thought it was supposed to be blocked up. So, there was a mental mistake on a player, but not a concentration issue by any stretch of the imagination and then we’ve got to make a play on the pass. I think we had an illegal procedure penalty that knocked us back and made it a third-and-long. I think we were in third-and-medium, if I can recall, and then we had a five-yard false start. So, we moved back to a third-and-deep there. So, again, sometimes those penalties are the things that kind of hurt you. We only had five on the day, but I think they were very glaring the five that we had.”
And then the disparity, you were seven-of-seven on the first third down conversions and at the end of the game, you weren’t. Was there anything different that Dallas was doing defensively that you weren’t able–?
“No. It was the same thing. It’s just you’ve got to make plays when your number’s called.”
Now that you’ve taken a look at the film, can you take us through that long pass to WR Torrey Smith that ended up being an interception?
“Yeah. Torrey did a nice job on the route. I think [QB] Blaine [Gabbert] said it yesterday. He just, he kind of, he was behind him in the throw and he needs to put the ball out in front of him. So, he just missed on the throw.”
You had also mentioned after the game you thought he played pretty well except for that one play.
“I did.”
Do you still believe that?
“Yeah. I mean, you look at that ball he threw to [TE] Garrett Celek. That’s as good a throw as you’re going to see in this league. I mean, if I was coaching on the defensive side of the ball for Dallas, I don’t know what to tell [Dallas Cowboys LB] Sean Lee. I don’t think he could be any closer in coverage to him and to put the ball where he put it is the only place he could put it. I thought he did a nice job in the decisions. We’ve got to block some things a little bit better on the perimeter in the run game. I don’t think our guys did a good job and helped him out there. I thought he made some good decisions in the run game, but we didn’t block up the guys that were coming who were responsible for the quarterback. We’ve got to do a little bit better job on that but that’s not Blaine’s issue. I thought he put the ball on people. I think he found [WR] Quinton Patton a couple times inside there. I thought there was a couple blitz looks where they brought an unblocked guy off the edge. He threw the hot throw to Kerley. They brought another guy off the edge. He threw the hot throw to Celek. So, I thought he did a good job from that standpoint.”
On some of those keeps where he keeps it and makes it to the corner but isn’t going to get back to the line of scrimmage–?
“Yeah because he’s reading the defensive end.”
Do you ever teach him to just throw it away?
“No, because we have linemen downfield, because it’s a run play. So, you can’t do that.”
The fourth-and-six, did he have another option?
“Not really. Like I said, they did a good job of clamping down on the two guys that were going deep, the backside in. But, he got flushed and got sent over to his right. So, really, Torrey was supposed to come back underneath, come back inside, but when Torrey saw him flushed and go to the right, he stuck his foot in the ground and broke back out with the quarterback like he’s supposed to do but we just did get it deep enough to get to the sticks.”
How come Torrey hasn’t produced more through four games? It took until the fourth quarter to get a target his way.
“Again, a lot of it just depends on how people play us and what they’re doing. We’ve gotten a lot of man coverage out there. Sometimes people are leaning safeties towards his side. So, we’re taking advantage of what’s going on. I think we knew going into the game, we thought the matchups inside were going to be beneficial to us. Obviously, you look at where Kerley was and the job he did on the nickel. [Dallas Cowboys CB Orlando] Scandrick was out, but [Dallas Cowboys CB Morris] Claiborne and [Dallas Cowboys CB Brandon] Carr were still in. So, we thought we’d attack the nickel a lit bit more and that’s what we did and that was kind of our game plan. And if it wasn’t the nickel, then it was the tight end on the safety. So, sometimes it’s just how the matchups go in a game.”
DL Arik Armstead has mentioned he might need surgery after the season. Is that shoulder injury something he just has to play through?
“Yeah, I guess so. I mean, I haven’t really talked to him specifically about that. I know he’s been cleared to practice and cleared to play. So, I haven’t sat down specifically and talked to him about that.”
Can you tell he’s dealing with something just in his performance?
“I just think he’s missed a lot of football. So, that’s what I kind of look at it as. You know, he missed an extended period of time in camp. He was playing really well and then was out. This is a sport you have to practice and you have to train at. It’s very difficult just to take time off and then go out there and expect him to play at an extremely high level that he’s capable of playing because of his athletic ability and what a good football player he is. So, I think he’s just coming back into that right now, to be honest with you.”
ME: Just to clarify, you spent the night here along with your assistant coaches last night?
“Yeah, I think so. Some of them may have gone home, but I didn’t.”
This article has 49 Comments
1. I’m not sold on Chip Kelly’s simplistic, precision based offense and I definitely have buyers remorse concerning O’Neil. Where’s that receipt?
1. I agree…at this point I’m along the lines more with Lowell, I’m not seeing the advantages of letting Jim Tomsula go. Part of my reasoning was that turning over an entire staff of coaches sets you back. We’re seeing all that now. Blaine really liked and improved under the wing of QB coach last year. Mangini is great on Defense and I was shocked that Chip didn’t keep him on but it’s probably a threat to his ego to have another ex-headcoach. This offense is learning and we’re so close. This team can’t afford momentum swings or turnovers. That horrible call by ref’s on Defense for late hit was BS since there is no way players could hear that whistle.
What I love about Blaine is he doesn’t throw lots of INT’s. Unfortunately he had a wide open shot to win game much like in Chicago last year and he failed…so it goes. With Kap it would be a mess & of course Bennett from SEA wants to see Kap in there so that LB & Safeties can juice there stats on the back of Kap who will gift wrap it for them.
1. Gabbert has thrown an interception the past 2 games.
I think Bennett is just being truthful, and I would take his assessment over any blog poster.
1. Chip Kelly answered this already, you can look up his comments regarding that the last game. Good to know the coach is focused on the details unlike you, who maybe got up to grab a beer from your fridge and turned around to see only the worst part of the play…..but missed how that WR totally let it through his butterfingers & that has nothing to do with Blaine’s pass. This game against Cowboys, he owned it and it’s obvious, he flubbed that one bad. So really he has one INT (even though it shows as 2)
That’s 2 games where we prob have 2 wins (maybe) V-Mac dropped a would be TD in Carolina (which he has done his whole career), if Blaine hits this throw at home, we prob win this game.
2. “On fourth-and-six they played man but dropped a couple of extra guys out underneath, did a good job.”
Yes Chip the Cowgirls did a good job. The played man and took away your short of the stick routes with zones. You are so predictable. At least you admitted to being outcoached by Garrett.
1. If you rewatch the play you will see that none of Gabbert’s receivers had any separation except Smith, and I think Smith was the only one not beyond the 1st down marker.
1. Yep,
The WRs have had trouble getting separation all year. It’s an easy call for Garrett to call man coverage and a couple of zones at the marker.
Gabbert rolling out left him with less options to throw to. He doesn’t have enough arm strength to throw across his body. It would have been nice to have a WR run a 10 yard in route from the left side.
Outside of Torrey our WRs aren’t good enough to get separation on vertical routes against man coverage. They need to do one or two moves to get open.
2. It did not matter if they had separation or not. It would have been better if he had thrown a jump ball, because throwing short of the sticks is just obtuse.
1. A jump ball would have gave them a chance to convert for sure. Maybe Blaine was gun shy after his terrible pick. It’s time for Kap or Ponder.
2. Biggest mistake on the play imo was Gabbert bailing so quickly. He could have stepped up instead of rolling to the right and would have had more options.
1. Sorry Rocket.
I didn’t see your post when I started typing. I wasn’t trying to piggyback on your take. BTW, good call.
2. Rocket,
Agreed, Staley was beaten initially, but recovered and took his man down. There was no other rusher coming from BG’s left. He would’ve had all day to throw, had he stepped up.
3. This season is already worse than last year after only 4 games. Trent and Jed for the sake of the franchise please step down!
1. Grant just wanted to show that he knows how to use a non sequitur as a literary device. He ask for confirmation to illustrate it to anyone who might have missed his humor the first time.
He also illustrated how useless it is to expect meaningful answers to questions at a post game news conference a day after a bad loss. One example might be “Why were Dallas runners able to drag multiple tacklers for an extra five yards so often in the second half?”
2. Just wants to know how serious Chip is about winning.
If he went home, it would be conceding defeat, and not caring if they won or lost.
4. Well, 4 games in I can say that the team is unlikely to win too many contests. With the linebacker group as thin as it is it will be tremendously hard to stop runners from getting into the secondary. That will make for long days no matter who is on offense.
Tough days ahead fellas…
5. I hate this for Bowman. He is a great 49.
With his loss we are going to have the ball run down our throats every game until we show we can stop it, but I don’t think we can.
6. I think it has been demonstrated that you can not run a continual hurry up offense in the NFL. Over the course of the season the Offensive Lineman lose weight and wear down. Also, it seems to me that we have rarely, or ever, been in true hurry up offense this season. If so, what is the value in not huddling up? The qb has a head set, but the other players must get the play from hand signals on the sideline, this must limit the selection of plays available. Right now I am not seeing an upside to abandoning the huddle.
1. Well, being so incompetent that they cannot run the hurry up offense with quick snaps, is not a good sign. Especially if they want to get a play off before the 2 minute warning.
It is interesting to see Chip go from not wasting at least 15 seconds every play to having the players nonchalantly dithering away and staring at the side lines.
Sounds like he lost the blog post debate with Baalke.
7. And look at the crappy throw to Torrey Smith who would have scored easily but instead was under thrown by about 5 yards and was intercepted
8. Wow. Chip is defending the indefensible.
Sounds like he is not as powerful as we thought.
Looks like he is parroting the company line.
Chip does not seem to be able to shift from the College game to the pros. He is way too stubborn, and cannot make the proper adjustments. He thinks he is the smartest guy in the room, but demonstrates a lack of football game management skills needed to succeed. Chip needs to get smarter if he wants to win.
He also does not seem to get it. Defending Gabbert is like Tomsula defending Devey. We all can see how his play is hurting the team, but they will stubbornly stay the course over the waterfall.
Gabbert did well for 2 series, but his subsequent play just makes me wish they would cut him on the team bus.
They are a bunch of liars to say that Kaep is not ready, when we are given Gabbert and his putrid play, and they refuse to play Kaep, while Kaep says he is ready and willing to play.
Guess Kaep is getting the RGIII treatment.
Baalke is letting his emotions dictate his decisions. He hates Kaep so much, he would rather the Niners lose than play him. Well, if the Niners keep losing, the good thing is that Baalke is just going to fire himself.
Jed better show some leadership, or the Niners will dwell in the cellar as perennial losers.
1. Seriously?
You’re asking why a coach defended a player? Because throwing a player under the bus is shown to improve team chemistry and moral.
That’s not the way it works… simply put coaches defend their players to outsiders but light into them in behind the scenes. Lets stop pretending that what coaches tell the media is what they really think. I can think of few faster ways to lose a locker room than by throwing a player under the bus whether their play has been good or not.
1. Defending a player when he sucks makes a lot of sense.
Maybe they should not have stabbed Kaep in the back.
Maybe they should not keep stabbing him in the back by refusing to play him.
Maybe they are losing the locker room because some players want to win.
Kaep lost his job because he needed 3 surgeries. There is an unwritten rule that once healthy, a player should not lose his job that he lost due to injury.
Sounds like they are throwing Kaep under the bus.
In fact, they are throwing the whole team under the bus. They are intentionally tanking to get a high draft pick.
1. “There is an unwritten rule that once healthy, a player should not lose his job that he lost due to injury.”
SMH. Tell that to Alex Smith
1. Yup, but he then led the Niners to a SB.
Tom Brady replaced Bledsoe, and played so well, Bledsoe could not win his job back.
Gabbert is not playing so well…..
1. Doesn’t matter, in your own words, a player should not lose his job that he lost due to injury. You actually are parroting Prime with that one BTW. He wrote the same thing repeatedly in 2012.
As for Gabbert’s level of play, yes it is up and down…but once again you focus too much of the blame for the losses on one piece while missing the whole.
1. Jack, I also said there are exceptions to the rule.
Kaep, with his stellar play, setting a playoff record, and coming back from a 17 point deficit on the road, clearly played well enough to keep the job.
Gabbert, with his 3 game losing streak, has not shined.
2. That was an adjustment once your original comment was called out.
Who is saying that Gabbert shined?
Perhaps you didn’t watch Kaepernick this preseason? Was awful against GB and hit a few easy single read underneath throws against a bunch of grocery store baggers down in SD.
2012 was a long time ago.
2. Seb
This is plagerism from when everyone was on Alex’ injury….I don’t remember you defending his injuries…under the bus ?…Kaep is a perfect fit….’Chip’ has explained it several times…you just need some fresh material to bitch about
1. Ore, maybe posters will stop repeating the same old screeds, then I will not respond to them.
By you parroting Blah, blah blah, you are guilty of repeating the same old thing, so maybe you should take your own advice and start thinking of something new to say.
In Alex’s case, I was sick and tired of Niner QBs with weak arms who go 1-13 passes to his WRs and never threw it past 20 yards.
You bet your bippy that I was jumping for joy when Kaep came around. Here, the Niners finally got a QB who could think quick on his feet since he ran the pistol. He could throw the ball the length of the field with a cannon arm, and could run like a gazelle. He put up 10,00 yards passing and 400 yards rushing, no small feat. Kaep could make those jaw dropping throws, and was deadly accurate on the run.
Then, the troglodyte coaches decided that since the pundits intoned that Kaep would never be a great QB until he could deliver it from the pocket, they fell for their trap and said that they would make Kaep a pocket passer even if it killed him.
It almost did.
To be a successful pocket passer, one needs a pocket. Kaep was expected to perform miracles behind a line that gave him less than a nanosecond of protection.
Now we have intellectual lightweights that cannot connect his errant throws to significant injuries to his shoulder and the thumb on his throwing hand. After he left to have multiple surgeries, they said he was a quitter, and should have played through it.
Getting back to AS, I said that AS was his own worst enemy. He was so concerned about his passing completion percentage, he would rather.take sacks instead of throwing the ball out of bounds past the sticks. Guess what? a sack led to his concussion, which cost him his starting job.
I thought he handled his promotion with grace and dignity, and praised him for being so classy. I applauded his trade, and wished him well.
However, when AS does not make a TD pass to a WR for an interminable stretch, and tries to huddle up while running the hurry up offense, my assessment of him seems correct. Alex is a swell guy, an asset to the community, a good family guy and a good QB, but he has never achieved greatness, and may not ever. Maybe with better support, but AS just falls short, like Gabbert throwing short of the sticks. I do not care who can do it. If Joan in accounting could, I say let her start. All I know is Gabbert is a 9-30 QB, and keeps making the same mistakes. He must admit that he is hurting the team, or I will accuse him of being selfish, with an ego as inflated as Baalke’s.
Baalke is the sole reason Gabbert is still playing, but Baalke may be on a short leash.
Denise should be aware that they are talking about more banners, and publicly humiliating the Niners and her family even more. Since she is the real owner, and Jed is just a figurehead, she should put her foot down, and stop them by taking decisive action. Baalke should be kicked upstairs so he can save face, and gamble can take over. Then Jed, if he will publicly state that he wants to win, should be allowed to continue, and he can let the coaches coach.
Denise likes Tomsula, so she should be decisive, get rid of the mistake that has allowed 466 yards per game, and bring back Tomsula. Tomsula built a D line that came close to not allowing a rushing TD or a 100 yard rusher. With the talent the Niners have, I have confidence Tomsula could do it again.They are paying him anyways, the record of 5-11 was Ballke’s fault, nit his, and it would atone for the classless mean spirited way they LEAKED that he would be fired before his last game.
Niners have a chance, but only if they go bold. If they stay cowed by Baalke, and let him run this once proud franchise into the ground, they deserve banners.
Thank you for giving me the chance to write something original.
2. You said it.
‘ Because throwing a player under the bus will improve team chemistry and moral(e)’.
Niners did that with Hayne by cutting him on the team bus.
Niners did that when they told Kaep that nothing was wrong, and they should just ice his shoulder.
Maybe Gabbert should admit that he is hurting the team, instead of clinging onto his job and being content to lose.
ANY player should not be guaranteed a job after a 3 game losing streak. Especially if he is partly responsible for those losses.
1. Couple of points.
1. None of what you have said has any bearing on how a Head Coach deals with his players when speaking to the media.
If Gabbert needs to be benched fine, that’s understandable… but calling him out publicly serves no purpose. It does however tell every player on the team that their coach does NOT have their back. There goes the us vs them or vs the world mentality, because now the players know their coach is not part of “us”.
2. Alex Smith lost his job to Kaep due to an injury and the explosive play of CK in that stretch.
3. CK lost his job because of poor play and then elected to shut it down for the season due to injuries that are typically played through (per independent doctors interviewed)
4. If you’re going to replace Blaine, fine, I get it. But you need to do it in a way that allows Kaep to succeed as well. Bringing in Kaep on a short week vs an Az defense that he has thrown more touchdowns to than against in recent memory is good for him or the team how?
1. Chip should not lie through his teeth about Gabbert. He comes off as a toady for the FO, and Baalke.
Granted, Gabbert did well for the first 2 series, but that pick was a dying duck, and sealed the loss. Gabbert is hurting the team, and should admit that.
Chip should have just said that while Gabbert played well, he could have played better. That, I would have believed.
This reminds me of a man who is gets caught in bed with a woman by his wife. He says, “Do you believe my story or your lying eyes?”
Oh great. Believe some ‘independent’ doctors who never examined Kaep. I will believe his surgeon who said there was a ‘significant’ tear.
I believe in redemption. Kaep is hungry to redeem himself, especially after his last game against them.
Gabbert lost to them, too, so why start him over Kaep?
I just want the Niners to win. Kaep gives them the best chance to win, because he throws past the sticks, and is a much more dangerous runner. Gabbert has shown the world that he is a 9-30 QB. Now that Kaep is fully healthy, I expect he will take the league by storm, again.
1. Labral tears to non throwing shoulders are typically played through. (see below)
“In my NFL experience, quarterbacks with nonthrowing (shoulder) labral tears have finished the year and had offseason surgery,” said Dr. David Chao, who spent 17 years as the San Diego Chargers team physician. “This signals that there may be more than just medical that leads to this decision on the part of one or both parties.”
I’m sure Big Ben or heck even Blaine Gabbert would quit if they had this injury… oh wait they played through it??? Then they must be exceptionally tough. Err Gabbert tough hmmm not sure that can be said. Maybe CK is just making a me decision.
But I don’t understand why Chip would do this??? Didn’t he… what was it? Threaten to leave if Kaep wasn’t retained.
1. So the injury to his thumb on his throwing hand did not cause him to be inaccurate?
That doctor did not examine Kaep, so how can he make an educated guess? Much less diagnosis, without looking at the MRI.There are different degrees of severity of injuries.Maybe those 2 could play through those injuries, but then again, Gabbert was 2-22, so maybe he should have realized he was hurting the team and stepped back.
9. Grant I think you’re on to something! When Kelly sleeps at HQ, there are no riots in the streets! I hope TB picks up on this.
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