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Peace reigns between Larry Hackett, People managing ed itor and the new president of the American Society of Magazine Editors, and Allan Dodds Frank, the ex-Bloom berg TV correspon dent and current president of the Overseas Press Club.
The OPC was upset with ASME because for the past two years, the National Magazine Awards were held on the third Thursday in April — the day on which OPC has traditionally held their awards for the better part of a decade.
The dismal logic of total decline.
I am haunted by a vision in which medical science cures everything and makes everyone immortal—and I am the last person to die before scientists get it right. The New York Times nourishes my vision with frequent reports of promising new treatments for cancer and arteriosclerosis, which jointly account for the great majority of deaths.
So be beginning, be beginning to despair.
The poetic invention economists most love to cite is “The Deacon’s Masterpiece or the Wonderful One-Hoss Shay,” built—according to Oliver Wendell Holmes—so it couldn’t break down. A breakdown, you see, requires some part to fail before another. So the deacon deliberately made every part exactly as strong as the rest and rendered that kind of failure impossible. The result?
Just as bubbles do when they burst.
Ever since, economists have used the phrase “one-hoss shay depreciation” to describe machinery that works perfectly well right up to the day when it fails beyond repair.
So to a first approximation, well-designed mechanisms should depreciate just like the wonderful one-hoss shay—all at once and nothing first. The human body, for example, is a well-designed mechanism, thanks to the pressures of natural selection. Therefore (and I believe this observation was first made by the physiologist Jared Diamond in his insightful book The Third Chimpanzee), we should not be surprised that our vision, hearing, mental faculties, physical strength, arteries, and resistance to cancer all tend to deteriorate at around the same time. Nature is a good economist.
Not everything fails at exactly the same time—either in your car or in your body—but that’s only because designers can’t always predict the exact moment of failure. There is one circumstance in which you’d design a part to last much longer than the whole: when it’s just as cheap and easy to make a part long-lived as to make it short-lived. But Diamond argues that such cases are unlikely to arise in the human body. That’s because virtually all our organs require routine maintenance, and the frequency of that maintenance is part of the organ’s “design.” You can always make an organ last longer by maintaining it better, but you can never do that for free because maintenance consumes energy that could otherwise be available for gathering food or fighting predators. If your stomach were designed to last 100 years longer than the rest of you, your body would be well-advised to conserve energy by taking less good care of your stomach—which means your stomach wouldn’t last 100 years longer than the rest of you.
A navy diver fought off a shark as it attacked him during an anti-terrorism training exercise in Sydney Harbour, the navy says.
Able Seaman Paul Degelder, 31, of the clearance diving team based at HMAS Penguin at Balmoral, is in a serious but stable condition following the attack at Woolloomooloo Bay, in Sydney's inner east, just before 7am today.
A NSW ambulance spokesman said he suffered severe injuries to his right hand and leg and is serious but stable in St Vincents Hospital.
Able Seaman Degelder was taking part in the Kondari Trial, a test of new technologies to protect ports and ships from terrorist attack, which began on Monday.
A spokesman for the Defence Science and Technology Organisation said it was likely the trial would be cancelled today.
A defence spokesman said it was the first recorded attack on a navy clearance diver.
He said no shark repellent equipment was used as the equipment was only used in water deemed to be a high risk of shark attack.
Sydney Harbour had been assessed as being low risk, he said.
There was also no sonar equipment being used.
The spokesman said the attack would be subject to an investigation.
Royal Australian Navy Rear Admiral Nigel Coates said the attack occurred in the area between Mrs Macquarie's Chair and Garden Island Naval Base.
Navy divers were a "pretty tough breed" who trained regularly in Sydney Harbour and were used to the conditions, he said.
The shark was most likely a bull shark, and sharks were now increasingly common in the harbour, said John Dengate from the National Parks and Wildlife Service.
"February and March tends to be the time of year we get more sharks and surface fish in the harbour," he said.
"I guess it's the downside of the environmental controls ... 20 or 30 years ago the harbour was a very difficult place to be for a fish, these days it's actually quite beautiful."
Bans on waste discharges into the harbour by factories, a crackdown on toxic emissions and use of chemicals, and improvements to the stormwater system had improved the harbour, resulting in more fish and - to feed on them - more sharks, Mr Dengate said.
However, shark attacks in the harbour were not that common, with the last serious attack believed to be more than a decade ago, he said.
Mr Dengate was not sure what the shark's next movements would be.
"It's hard to say, sharks are not tremendously predictable creatures," he said.
"But sharks are comfortable in estuaries and in that sense people should exercise caution ... and if they're going swimming look to swim inside the many swimming nets in the harbour."
John West, a shark expert from Taronga Zoo, added: "This time of year, there's a number of species of sharks which are in the harbour: wobbegong, Port Jackson, as well as more dangerous types such as the bull shark and the dusky shark.
"Certainly, sharks occur in the harbour all year round.
"The bull sharks are the most dangerous."
He said bull sharks could grow to up to three-and-a-half metres and dusky sharks up to two metres.
The presence of sharks in the harbour was reflected in the experience of Balmain resident Louise Keats yesterday afternoon, who says she saw a very large shark leap from the water off Balmain.
Ms Keats had been walking her dog about 5.10pm at the harbourside park at Mort Bay when she heard a loud splash.
"I felt like I was transported to Universal Studios, like it was Jaws ... it launched itself out of the water," she said.
She said the shark appeared to be chasing fish.
"I was with a fisherman and he estimated it was about four metres long. The shark was only about five to 10 metres from the edge of the wharf ... it had a white belly and very dark coloured skin.
"It was just the most amazing site to behold, to see this thing the size of a monster in an area where people's dogs are always swimming.
"I've lived in Balmain 25 years and never seen anything like it."
The last shark attack in Sydney Harbour was at Athol Bay, near Taronga Zoo, in 2000, and the last fatal shark attack in the harbour occurred in 1963, Mr West said.
Martha Hathaway was killed by a bull shark at Middle Harbour in 1963.
A report on the likelihood of shark attacks in Sydney Harbour during the 2000 Olympic Games said the risk was infinitesimally small.
However, the report, by Mr West and Dr John Paxton, research fellow at the Australian Museum, also said: "We recognise that in biology exceptions can occur and that it is never safe to say never."
But there has been such a spike in shark numbers in the Harbour in the last three weeks that fishing tour operators ran a book to bet when and where the first attack would occur.
Sydney Harbour fishing guides said there was also a jump in the size and variety of shark breeds encountered, as the sharks feasted on an abundance of fish in the harbour.
"There are some nasty creatures in the harbour ... we're seeing hammerheads, bullsharks, makos, bronze whaler,'' said Myer Berg, a Sydney Harbour fishing guide for Foreshore Fishing Tours.
In the last three weeks shark encounters had become an almost daily occurrence, while normally he might not see a shark for months, Mr Berg said.
Some of the encounters had been extraordinary, Mr Berg said.
"Last Saturday I had a charter out anchored off Clifton Gardens, we hooked on to a kingfish and almost got it to the surface and the next thing - `Bang!' - an eight foot bronze whaler took it.
"Last Wednesday we hooked a kingfish and instead of running away and making us wrestle with it as it normally does, it swam straight up to the boat and jumped straight in.
Other encounters were at Balmoral and at Garden Island, near where this morning's attack occurred.
The spike in shark encounters had caused a buzz among fishing tour operators, who had started to wager on when the first harbour shark attack would occur.
"Last Wednesday a few of us were standing at the end of the boat ramp chatting about it ... talking about how long it wold take for someone to be attacked,'' Mr Berg said.
The charter operators had run a book amongst themselves on where the first attack would occur.
Most guessed popular harbour beaches, such as Balmoral, but none had predicted the area near Woolloomooloo.
The growth in shark numbers was not necessarily bad news for fishing tour operators, Mr Berg said.
"From a guide's perspective it quietens the fishing down but if you've hooked up to [a shark] it's excitement plus,'' he said.
"People look off the boat and see this big animal and we lift up the anchor and chase it around the harbor - it makes the excitement for the day.
WASHINGTON — Since Friday’s attacks in Paris, the world has showed up to help the people of Paris and those beyond the city who were touched by the terrorism.
If you’re looking for a way to help, several organizations are more than willing to accept your help. And some individuals may also be grateful for some one-on-one help.
The citizens of Paris have been using the social media hashtag #PorteOuverte to offer shelter to those displaced by the attacks. But we on this side of the Atlantic can also get in on the act. Hunt #PorteOuverte for people who might be stranded by delayed flights home. They may be running out of money and need a place to stay for a day or two.
If your bedroom’s not available, how about your dining room? That same stranded person may have a place to say, but could be running out of money for meals. Sharing a dinner or two would certainly help.
Facebook has a feature called Safety Check, which has been activated during big natural disasters. But Facebook has decided that this tragedy is worthy of activating Safety Check, which lets friends and family know the status of those caught in the literal crossfire.
And, of course, there’s also money. The International Red Cross, The Red Crescent Societies and Doctors Without Borders are the major relief organizations doing work on the ground in Paris.
Local French charities would certainly welcome your help. Restaurants du Coeur is a group that gives food to the needy. Secours Populaire Francais helps victims of poverty, disasters and conflicts. Secours Catholique-Caritas France is the major Catholic relief organization in France.
Bradford Kelly landed this 14-pound, 33.5-inch king on Labor Day at 39th Street on the South Side of Chicago. It hit a K.O. Wobbler.
I would add that this is a good example of how to take a good basic fish photo.
FOTW, the celebration of big fish and good stories, runs Wednesdays on the Sun-Times outdoors page. The story part matters as much as the big fish part, well and the photo part.
Families still grieving from the Orlando nightclub shooting filed a federal civil suit against Twitter, Facebook and Google Monday, according to reports.
The relatives of the victims argue that the three web platforms “provided the terrorist group ISIS with accounts they use to spread extremist propaganda, raise funds, and attract new recruits,” reports Fox News.
The three deceased men of the families who filed the legal complaint in the Eastern District of Michigan were Tevin Crosby, 25, Javier Jorge-Reyes, 40, and Juan Ramon Guerrero, 22.
“Without Defendants Twitter, Facebook, and Google (YouTube), the explosive growth of ISIS over the last few years into the most feared terrorist group in the world would not have been possible,” the lawsuit states, according to Fox News.
Mateen, 29, pledged allegiance to ISIS prior to opening fire inside the Pulse nightclub in June. He ultimately murdered 49 people, and wounded 53 others before eventually being killed by a member of a responding SWAT team. The tragedy is widely considered the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
“Mateen was radicalized by ISIS using the defendants tools for that express purpose,” Keith Altman, the lawyer for the three families, told Fox News.
Suing these tech companies, though, may prove difficult due to constitutional rights and legislation already on the books.
Blackman cited a case called Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project in which organizations were accused of providing legal advice to foreign groups the U.S. government considered terrorists. The reason the Supreme Court permitted the prosecution under the First Amendment is because the defendants “knowingly” provided help. Blackman points out that this will be difficult to prove with Facebook, Twitter and Google, especially since these companies, for the most part, use algorithms.
“And that’s a deliberate choice by Congress, aimed at protecting free speech (even at the expense, common with free speech, of tolerating harmful speech) — if service providers were liable, they would be subject to powerful pressure to suppress not only speech by actual terrorists, but also any speech that someone claims promotes crime (even if in fact the speech does not do so),” Volokh concluded.
Volokh represented Google several years ago in writing a commissioned white paper on the First Amendment rights of search engines.
These companies have expressed that they are doing everything they can to weed out the communication capabilities of terrorists, while also maintaining free speech rights. Twitter announced in August that it shut down more than 235,000 accounts related to terrorism in the prior six months.
Israeli siblings together, but separate, in S.F. Jazz Fest – J.
Israeli jazz musicians Anat and Avishai Cohen make a great brother-sister act. Then again, sometimes they don’t.
When the siblings perform Oct. 9 at Congregation Sherith Israel as part of the 28th San Francisco Jazz Festival, they will not be playing together, as they often do. Instead, they will lead their own separate bands.
While the trumpet-playing Avishai has leaned toward African and funk styles, Anat has developed a passion for South American jazz and folkloric traditions, especially upbeat choro music from Brazil, which features her clarinet as a prime solo instrument. She also plays the saxophone.
Anat’s reverence for music shows in her recordings and live performances, though she contends that the borders of jazz have shifted over the years.
The Cohens, along with a third sibling, saxophonist Yuval Cohen, grew up playing jazz together in their native Tel Aviv. The three siblings later attended Boston’s Berklee College of Music. Anat and Avishai now live in New York, while Yuval still makes his home in Israel.
Anat credits her parents, both music lovers, with instilling their kids with a passion for music, even to the point of making careers out if it.
She began classical clarinet studies at age 12, but the music of Louis Armstrong, more than anything else, turned her on to jazz. Cohen later attended a Tel Aviv arts high school, where she added tenor sax to her arsenal of reed instruments.
She went on to play sax in the Israeli air force band, before moving to Boston for intensive study. After Berklee, she moved to New York, where she found work with various Afro-Cuban and Brazilian ensembles. She made her recording debut in 2005, and has since released three more solo CDs. She also recorded an album with her brothers.
Anat does get back to Israel for visits. She says since she left in 1996, the Israeli jazz scene has expanded well beyond the “couple of bars” she remembered patronizing in her younger days.
Though she’s lived in the United States for many years, she remains a proud Israeli. That’s why she is troubled by musicians such as Elvis Costello and Carlos Santana canceling Israeli tours, as well as the boycotting of Israeli concerts.
Meanwhile, Anat, like her brothers, continues to tour the world. Though as a musician, sometimes traveling is not so simple. She says more than once, she has been detained from boarding a flight while carrying more than one instrument.
The Anat Cohen Quartet and Avishai Cohen’s Triveni will perform at 8 p.m. Oct. 9 at Congregation Sherith Israel, 2266 California St., S.F. $25-$50. Information: (866) 920-5299 or www.sfjazz.org.
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As admin mounts up and death benefits end up directed away from the nominated beneficiary, it is time to reconsider the way they are granted.
Will? Check. Life assurance? Check. Pension death benefit nomination? Check. That is good, everything seems to be in order. When I shuffle off this mortal coil, everything will be OK. Right?

Peace reigns between Larry Hackett, People managing ed itor and the new president of the American Society of Magazine Editors, and Allan Dodds Frank, the ex-Bloom berg TV correspon dent and current president of the Overseas Press Club.

The OPC was upset with ASME because for the past two years, the National Magazine Awards were held on the third Thursday in April — the day on which OPC has traditionally held their awards for the better part of a decade.

The dismal logic of total decline.

I am haunted by a vision in which medical science cures everything and makes everyone immortal—and I am the last person to die before scientists get it right. The New York Times nourishes my vision with frequent reports of promising new treatments for cancer and arteriosclerosis, which jointly account for the great majority of deaths.

So be beginning, be beginning to despair.

The poetic invention economists most love to cite is “The Deacon’s Masterpiece or the Wonderful One-Hoss Shay,” built—according to Oliver Wendell Holmes—so it couldn’t break down. A breakdown, you see, requires some part to fail before another. So the deacon deliberately made every part exactly as strong as the rest and rendered that kind of failure impossible. The result?

Just as bubbles do when they burst.

Ever since, economists have used the phrase “one-hoss shay depreciation” to describe machinery that works perfectly well right up to the day when it fails beyond repair.

So to a first approximation, well-designed mechanisms should depreciate just like the wonderful one-hoss shay—all at once and nothing first. The human body, for example, is a well-designed mechanism, thanks to the pressures of natural selection. Therefore (and I believe this observation was first made by the physiologist Jared Diamond in his insightful book The Third Chimpanzee), we should not be surprised that our vision, hearing, mental faculties, physical strength, arteries, and resistance to cancer all tend to deteriorate at around the same time. Nature is a good economist.

Not everything fails at exactly the same time—either in your car or in your body—but that’s only because designers can’t always predict the exact moment of failure. There is one circumstance in which you’d design a part to last much longer than the whole: when it’s just as cheap and easy to make a part long-lived as to make it short-lived. But Diamond argues that such cases are unlikely to arise in the human body. That’s because virtually all our organs require routine maintenance, and the frequency of that maintenance is part of the organ’s “design.” You can always make an organ last longer by maintaining it better, but you can never do that for free because maintenance consumes energy that could otherwise be available for gathering food or fighting predators. If your stomach were designed to last 100 years longer than the rest of you, your body would be well-advised to conserve energy by taking less good care of your stomach—which means your stomach wouldn’t last 100 years longer than the rest of you.

A navy diver fought off a shark as it attacked him during an anti-terrorism training exercise in Sydney Harbour, the navy says.

Able Seaman Paul Degelder, 31, of the clearance diving team based at HMAS Penguin at Balmoral, is in a serious but stable condition following the attack at Woolloomooloo Bay, in Sydney's inner east, just before 7am today.

A NSW ambulance spokesman said he suffered severe injuries to his right hand and leg and is serious but stable in St Vincents Hospital.

Able Seaman Degelder was taking part in the Kondari Trial, a test of new technologies to protect ports and ships from terrorist attack, which began on Monday.

A spokesman for the Defence Science and Technology Organisation said it was likely the trial would be cancelled today.

A defence spokesman said it was the first recorded attack on a navy clearance diver.

He said no shark repellent equipment was used as the equipment was only used in water deemed to be a high risk of shark attack.

Sydney Harbour had been assessed as being low risk, he said.

There was also no sonar equipment being used.

The spokesman said the attack would be subject to an investigation.

Royal Australian Navy Rear Admiral Nigel Coates said the attack occurred in the area between Mrs Macquarie's Chair and Garden Island Naval Base.

Navy divers were a "pretty tough breed" who trained regularly in Sydney Harbour and were used to the conditions, he said.

The shark was most likely a bull shark, and sharks were now increasingly common in the harbour, said John Dengate from the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

"February and March tends to be the time of year we get more sharks and surface fish in the harbour," he said.

"I guess it's the downside of the environmental controls ... 20 or 30 years ago the harbour was a very difficult place to be for a fish, these days it's actually quite beautiful."

Bans on waste discharges into the harbour by factories, a crackdown on toxic emissions and use of chemicals, and improvements to the stormwater system had improved the harbour, resulting in more fish and - to feed on them - more sharks, Mr Dengate said.

However, shark attacks in the harbour were not that common, with the last serious attack believed to be more than a decade ago, he said.

Mr Dengate was not sure what the shark's next movements would be.

"It's hard to say, sharks are not tremendously predictable creatures," he said.

"But sharks are comfortable in estuaries and in that sense people should exercise caution ... and if they're going swimming look to swim inside the many swimming nets in the harbour."

John West, a shark expert from Taronga Zoo, added: "This time of year, there's a number of species of sharks which are in the harbour: wobbegong, Port Jackson, as well as more dangerous types such as the bull shark and the dusky shark.

"Certainly, sharks occur in the harbour all year round.

"The bull sharks are the most dangerous."

He said bull sharks could grow to up to three-and-a-half metres and dusky sharks up to two metres.

The presence of sharks in the harbour was reflected in the experience of Balmain resident Louise Keats yesterday afternoon, who says she saw a very large shark leap from the water off Balmain.

Ms Keats had been walking her dog about 5.10pm at the harbourside park at Mort Bay when she heard a loud splash.

"I felt like I was transported to Universal Studios, like it was Jaws ... it launched itself out of the water," she said.

She said the shark appeared to be chasing fish.

"I was with a fisherman and he estimated it was about four metres long. The shark was only about five to 10 metres from the edge of the wharf ... it had a white belly and very dark coloured skin.

"It was just the most amazing site to behold, to see this thing the size of a monster in an area where people's dogs are always swimming.

"I've lived in Balmain 25 years and never seen anything like it."

The last shark attack in Sydney Harbour was at Athol Bay, near Taronga Zoo, in 2000, and the last fatal shark attack in the harbour occurred in 1963, Mr West said.

Martha Hathaway was killed by a bull shark at Middle Harbour in 1963.

A report on the likelihood of shark attacks in Sydney Harbour during the 2000 Olympic Games said the risk was infinitesimally small.

However, the report, by Mr West and Dr John Paxton, research fellow at the Australian Museum, also said: "We recognise that in biology exceptions can occur and that it is never safe to say never."

But there has been such a spike in shark numbers in the Harbour in the last three weeks that fishing tour operators ran a book to bet when and where the first attack would occur.

Sydney Harbour fishing guides said there was also a jump in the size and variety of shark breeds encountered, as the sharks feasted on an abundance of fish in the harbour.

"There are some nasty creatures in the harbour ... we're seeing hammerheads, bullsharks, makos, bronze whaler,'' said Myer Berg, a Sydney Harbour fishing guide for Foreshore Fishing Tours.

In the last three weeks shark encounters had become an almost daily occurrence, while normally he might not see a shark for months, Mr Berg said.

Some of the encounters had been extraordinary, Mr Berg said.

"Last Saturday I had a charter out anchored off Clifton Gardens, we hooked on to a kingfish and almost got it to the surface and the next thing - `Bang!' - an eight foot bronze whaler took it.

"Last Wednesday we hooked a kingfish and instead of running away and making us wrestle with it as it normally does, it swam straight up to the boat and jumped straight in.

Other encounters were at Balmoral and at Garden Island, near where this morning's attack occurred.

The spike in shark encounters had caused a buzz among fishing tour operators, who had started to wager on when the first harbour shark attack would occur.

"Last Wednesday a few of us were standing at the end of the boat ramp chatting about it ... talking about how long it wold take for someone to be attacked,'' Mr Berg said.

The charter operators had run a book amongst themselves on where the first attack would occur.

Most guessed popular harbour beaches, such as Balmoral, but none had predicted the area near Woolloomooloo.

The growth in shark numbers was not necessarily bad news for fishing tour operators, Mr Berg said.

"From a guide's perspective it quietens the fishing down but if you've hooked up to [a shark] it's excitement plus,'' he said.

"People look off the boat and see this big animal and we lift up the anchor and chase it around the harbor - it makes the excitement for the day.

WASHINGTON — Since Friday’s attacks in Paris, the world has showed up to help the people of Paris and those beyond the city who were touched by the terrorism.

If you’re looking for a way to help, several organizations are more than willing to accept your help. And some individuals may also be grateful for some one-on-one help.

The citizens of Paris have been using the social media hashtag #PorteOuverte to offer shelter to those displaced by the attacks. But we on this side of the Atlantic can also get in on the act. Hunt #PorteOuverte for people who might be stranded by delayed flights home. They may be running out of money and need a place to stay for a day or two.

If your bedroom’s not available, how about your dining room? That same stranded person may have a place to say, but could be running out of money for meals. Sharing a dinner or two would certainly help.

Facebook has a feature called Safety Check, which has been activated during big natural disasters. But Facebook has decided that this tragedy is worthy of activating Safety Check, which lets friends and family know the status of those caught in the literal crossfire.

And, of course, there’s also money. The International Red Cross, The Red Crescent Societies and Doctors Without Borders are the major relief organizations doing work on the ground in Paris.

Local French charities would certainly welcome your help. Restaurants du Coeur is a group that gives food to the needy. Secours Populaire Francais helps victims of poverty, disasters and conflicts. Secours Catholique-Caritas France is the major Catholic relief organization in France.

Bradford Kelly landed this 14-pound, 33.5-inch king on Labor Day at 39th Street on the South Side of Chicago. It hit a K.O. Wobbler.

I would add that this is a good example of how to take a good basic fish photo.

FOTW, the celebration of big fish and good stories, runs Wednesdays on the Sun-Times outdoors page. The story part matters as much as the big fish part, well and the photo part.

Families still grieving from the Orlando nightclub shooting filed a federal civil suit against Twitter, Facebook and Google Monday, according to reports.

The relatives of the victims argue that the three web platforms “provided the terrorist group ISIS with accounts they use to spread extremist propaganda, raise funds, and attract new recruits,” reports Fox News.

The three deceased men of the families who filed the legal complaint in the Eastern District of Michigan were Tevin Crosby, 25, Javier Jorge-Reyes, 40, and Juan Ramon Guerrero, 22.

“Without Defendants Twitter, Facebook, and Google (YouTube), the explosive growth of ISIS over the last few years into the most feared terrorist group in the world would not have been possible,” the lawsuit states, according to Fox News.

Mateen, 29, pledged allegiance to ISIS prior to opening fire inside the Pulse nightclub in June. He ultimately murdered 49 people, and wounded 53 others before eventually being killed by a member of a responding SWAT team. The tragedy is widely considered the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

“Mateen was radicalized by ISIS using the defendants tools for that express purpose,” Keith Altman, the lawyer for the three families, told Fox News.

Suing these tech companies, though, may prove difficult due to constitutional rights and legislation already on the books.

Blackman cited a case called Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project in which organizations were accused of providing legal advice to foreign groups the U.S. government considered terrorists. The reason the Supreme Court permitted the prosecution under the First Amendment is because the defendants “knowingly” provided help. Blackman points out that this will be difficult to prove with Facebook, Twitter and Google, especially since these companies, for the most part, use algorithms.

“And that’s a deliberate choice by Congress, aimed at protecting free speech (even at the expense, common with free speech, of tolerating harmful speech) — if service providers were liable, they would be subject to powerful pressure to suppress not only speech by actual terrorists, but also any speech that someone claims promotes crime (even if in fact the speech does not do so),” Volokh concluded.

Volokh represented Google several years ago in writing a commissioned white paper on the First Amendment rights of search engines.

These companies have expressed that they are doing everything they can to weed out the communication capabilities of terrorists, while also maintaining free speech rights. Twitter announced in August that it shut down more than 235,000 accounts related to terrorism in the prior six months.

Israeli siblings together, but separate, in S.F. Jazz Fest – J.

Israeli jazz musicians Anat and Avishai Cohen make a great brother-sister act. Then again, sometimes they don’t.

When the siblings perform Oct. 9 at Congregation Sherith Israel as part of the 28th San Francisco Jazz Festival, they will not be playing together, as they often do. Instead, they will lead their own separate bands.

While the trumpet-playing Avishai has leaned toward African and funk styles, Anat has developed a passion for South American jazz and folkloric traditions, especially upbeat choro music from Brazil, which features her clarinet as a prime solo instrument. She also plays the saxophone.

Anat’s reverence for music shows in her recordings and live performances, though she contends that the borders of jazz have shifted over the years.

The Cohens, along with a third sibling, saxophonist Yuval Cohen, grew up playing jazz together in their native Tel Aviv. The three siblings later attended Boston’s Berklee College of Music. Anat and Avishai now live in New York, while Yuval still makes his home in Israel.

Anat credits her parents, both music lovers, with instilling their kids with a passion for music, even to the point of making careers out if it.

She began classical clarinet studies at age 12, but the music of Louis Armstrong, more than anything else, turned her on to jazz. Cohen later attended a Tel Aviv arts high school, where she added tenor sax to her arsenal of reed instruments.

She went on to play sax in the Israeli air force band, before moving to Boston for intensive study. After Berklee, she moved to New York, where she found work with various Afro-Cuban and Brazilian ensembles. She made her recording debut in 2005, and has since released three more solo CDs. She also recorded an album with her brothers.

Anat does get back to Israel for visits. She says since she left in 1996, the Israeli jazz scene has expanded well beyond the “couple of bars” she remembered patronizing in her younger days.

Though she’s lived in the United States for many years, she remains a proud Israeli. That’s why she is troubled by musicians such as Elvis Costello and Carlos Santana canceling Israeli tours, as well as the boycotting of Israeli concerts.

Meanwhile, Anat, like her brothers, continues to tour the world. Though as a musician, sometimes traveling is not so simple. She says more than once, she has been detained from boarding a flight while carrying more than one instrument.

The Anat Cohen Quartet and Avishai Cohen’s Triveni will perform at 8 p.m. Oct. 9 at Congregation Sherith Israel, 2266 California St., S.F. $25-$50. Information: (866) 920-5299 or www.sfjazz.org.

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As admin mounts up and death benefits end up directed away from the nominated beneficiary, it is time to reconsider the way they are granted.

Will? Check. Life assurance? Check. Pension death benefit nomination? Check. That is good, everything seems to be in order. When I shuffle off this mortal coil, everything will be OK. Right?