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All posts tagged "Doctor Strange"
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Second Doctor Strange Trailer Even Trippier Than First
Doctor Strange, one of my most anticipated movies of 2016, has received a second trailer, and it’s even trippier than the first one. Revealed at San...
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Watch the First Official Trailer for Doctor Strange
Marvel has released the worldwide trailer debut for Doctor Strange, and — I gotta say — I have never been so excited for comic movie in...
New ‘Doctor Strange’ Concept Art Revealed at D23 2015
At D23 2015, Marvel gave comic geeks around the world lots of information about their Phase 3 superhero movies and TV shows, including some cool Doctor...
Marvel Phase 3 Superhero Movies – All You Need to Know
With Warner Bros and DC announcing their long list of upcoming superhero movies, it was only a matter of time before archrival Marvel Studios did the...
Benedict Cumberbatch is Doctor Strange
Marvel fans, Benedict Cumberbatch is the lead star in the upcoming Doctor Strange movie. Cumberbatch has long been linked to Marvel’s wish-list for the project and...
Doctor Strange Movie Release Date Set to Summer 2016
Marvel has confirmed that the upcoming Doctor Strange movie will be released in summer of 2016; in particular, on July 8 in the U.S. According to...
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Hunt Companies Inc.
Hunt Cos., Oakwood Break Ground on Atlanta Mixed-Use Project
The $166 million Herndon Square is being developed across five phases on a former public housing site.
Tampa Bay Luxury Community Trades for $80M
The 180-unit high-end residential property in Sarasota has obtained one of the highest prices per unit ever achieved in the Florida multifamily market.
Avanath Pays $35M for Affordable Asset in Texas’ Capital
At the time of sale, the 280-unit property was 96.4 percent occupied, with historical occupancy averaging 98 percent over the last three years.
Military Housing Public-Private Partnerships: Lessons Learned for Social Infrastructure
More than $30 billion has been invested by private sector partners into the military housing P3s, at a leverage ratio of $8 private for every $1 public.
National 02 October 2018 17:53
Hunt Mortgage Group Finances the Acquisition of Houston Community
The new owners of Oaks of Ashford Apartments are planning upgrades.
Houston 20 February 2017 16:33
Hunt Companies Adds Military Housing to its Fleet
Hunt Companies signed a definitive agreement to acquire Forest City Enterprises' entire military housing portfolio.
South 11 November 2015 14:26
Weidner Keen on Minneapolis Multifamily
A Washington-based real estate company is investing in the North Star State.
Minneapolis St Paul 20 August 2015 14:35
Hunt Launches New Transit-Oriented Apartment Development in Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
Construction has begun on a new transit-oriented development in Richardson, Texas.
South 11 May 2015 16:33
Major Milestone Reached in New $45M Cadet Residence Hall
A flag-raising ceremony took place to celebrate a construction milestone in the building of the new Texas A&M Maritime Academy Residence Hall.
South 21 April 2015 13:33
Working to Revitalize Public Housing Stock
Hunt Companies and the Housing Authority of the City of El Paso have closed on 1,590 units at 13 separate properties across the city in a $250 million, Phase 1 Rental Assistance Demonstration Project.
Vegas Senior Living Community Trades for $19M
CBRE provided the buyer, ConAm Group, with acquisition financing for the purchase of the 113-unit, Class B asset located in Henderson.
DTZ Investors, The Collective Launch Co-Living Fund
The venture, which bills itself as the world’s first institutional co-living fund, is seeking to raise up to $815 million.
Herman & Kittle Properties Opens Affordable Community in Indiana
The Gables in Greenwood features both market-rate and low-income housing tax credit apartments in Greenwood, Ind.
JV Pays $166M for Affordable Housing Portfolio
A trio of developers picked up more than 1,200 affordable housing units in the Bronx borough of New York City.
Black Creek Group Expands Footprint With $178M Buy
The company has purchased a 333-unit property in Rockville, Md., and a 268-unit building in Winter Park, Fla.
CBRE: Multifamily Market Benefiting From Student Debt
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Vodacom to launch a new VOD service
South Africa’s biggest mobile operator has announced plans to soon launch an on-demand video streaming service in the first quarter of 2017 in partnership with MultiChoice. The new OTT service will provide linear TV programming on-demand, transnational video on demand, and subscription video on demand.
The content on the new service will be available from both DStv – the premium TV service from MultiChoice and from its SVOD platform ShowMax. The service will allow users to pay a certain price and download the content rather than charging for data per megabyte used. The service will be available on a variety on platforms including web and mobile.
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FuboTV introduces Sports OTT service in Spain
Aardman acquires distribution deal for Hopster originals
Young millennials prefer OTT rather than broadcast content: Study
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© 2017 Maker with Rame Parish Council. Site design by Ryan Hamill. Images courtesy of Ryan Hamill, Kerrie Livick and Cliff Bennett.
Here you'll learn what we as the Parish Council are responsible for and what the county council of Cornwall or other bodies manage within our community.
The Role of the Parish Council
The role of the council is to take on responsibility of their community and representation of the constituencies. The council is a corporate and statutory elected body in the first tier of government. The local Parish Council are given the power to act by parliament to raise money through the Precept. The Council has the power to act but very few duties. Each council is very different and unique to its parish and therefore, work for and act on recommendations from its committees and electorates, delivering services and financially supporting local needs.
The responsibilities of the council is to make decisions and deliver services to the local needs of the community. Supporting projects and organisations within the community, working with other services to improving the quality of life and the local environment. The council are responsible of employing staff for the functioning of the council. The council must meet at least three times a year and hold one Annual Meeting of the Council. The council have very few duties, one being, they must appoint a chairman of the council and adopt a code of conduct also act in an open and transparent manner.
The Role of the Parish Clerk
The role of the clerk as the proper financial officer of the council. Trusted, professional and responsible in ensuring that the council is run efficiently in accordance with the law. The Clerk offers independent advice and guidance on matters of law and procedures. Making sure the council is well advised before making a decision on any matter. The clerk does not have a vote at the council meeting.
The responsibilities of the clerk is to administer council documents which include:-
Setting agenda
Taking and typing up minutes
Manage and insure assets
Managing planning applications
Corresponding to the public
Implementing the council’s decisions
Setting the precept for discussion
Overseeing the implementation of current and future projects
First point of call for the public
Reporting to the media of developments within the council
Retaining legal documents
Checking election procedures for election years
Ensuring register of interest are up to date
Reviewing insurance cover
Attending training courses to continue with personal development
Organising training for councillors
Informing councillors of new policies and local government news
Scan for available funding for projects within the parish and supporting grant application processes
Issuing summons to the councillors for their attendance to meetings.
The Role of the Chairman
The role of the chairman who is an elected head of the council. He/she is elected at the annual meeting of the council as the 1st item of business at the Annual Meeting of the Council and can serve for any number of consecutive terms, appointed by members of the committee. If present he/she must presides at all council meetings and maintain good order within the meetings, determining the order of the agenda. He/she has the same duties and obligations as other councillors and cannot make decisions alone. The Chairman has the power of using a second or casing vote to determine the resolution where there is a tie.
The responsibility of the chairman is to act as a representative for the council. The Chairman maintains a close working relationship with the Clerk to ensure awareness of protocol and smooth running of the council. The chairman is usually the person the clerk would approach if he or she had a grievance. The chairman must preside at every council meeting and can call a meeting given three clear days’ notice. He may also appoint one of his members to be Vice-chairman.
The Role of the Councillor
The role of the councillor - they must be over 18 and be a citizen of the commonwealth the European Community or the republic of Ireland. A councillor is a volunteer and accountable to the local people and be proactive in their duties, taking an interest in the local area and representing electorates. Influence and shape the long term developments e.g. Neighbourhood Plan. Councillors are elected for a term of four years and can bring with them different skills and experiences to the parish.
The responsibility of the councillor - they have a duty to attend all meetings, if not an apology of absent must be sent to the clerk. The councillor should study the agenda and accompanying document in readiness for a forthcoming meeting. A councillor must sign a declaration of acceptance of office read and abide by the code of conduct and standing orders of the council also practice the seven Nolan Principles. Take part in voting with consideration of the supporting evidence. They must represent the whole of the electorates always acting in the public interest. A councillor has a duty to declare, disclose and decline from a vote if they have a pecuniary interest.
The Role of the Responsible Finance Officer
The role of the responsible finance officer usually the clerk and would hold a separate job description. Responsible Finance Officer must ensure that the account and records are maintained and regulated and in accordance with proper practices.
The responsibility of the responsible finance officer to report and advice on financial activities and prepare end of year accounts to include a brief report. An accounting system must be in place to ensure accurate recordings of financial transactions. Make certain the council does not take any unnecessary risks with public money. The RFO is also responsible for drawing cheques which must be signed by two councillors and that the accounts are presented for internal audit. Once the annual return is satisfactorily complete and signed by the Chair and RFO is sent to the external auditor for inspection. The RFO will ensure the councils assets and liabilities are adequately insured. To be responsible for monthly financial book keeping, administering PAYE and NI when necessary, calculate and claiming all VAT due to the council. Review financial regulations annually, record and minute. Computer facilities to be backed up to safeguard council documents. Make available to the councillors a copy of the Governance and Accountability 2014.
Maker with Rame
Coombe Park Children’s Play Area - maintenance of equipment
Street Furniture (Seats and litter bins) - maintenance
Public Footpaths - maintenance of designated paths, stiles, kissing gates
Village Orchard - trimming and general maintenance
Rame Graveyard - trimming and general maintenance
Advise Cornwall Council on local planning applications
Street sweeping - Cornwall Council
Cawsand Bay Moorings - The Parish, in the name of the Clerk, used to hold the licence issued by the Queen’s Harbour Master. This is now run by the Gig Club.
Refuse Collection - Cornwall Council
Cawsand Car Park - Cornwall Council
Cremyll Car Park - Mt Edgcumbe Joint Committee
Maker Graveyard - Cornwall Council
Roads and Verges - Cornwall Council
Key Responsibilities for the Parish
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US Business
Biden Remains Atop a Shifting Democratic Field
WASHINGTON - The Democratic presidential field continues to shift as one candidate dropped out this week and another joined an already crowded group hoping to oust President Donald Trump from office next year.
At the top of the field, former Vice President Joe Biden remains the leading contender but finds himself fending off increasingly strong challenges from two senators-Kamala Harris of California and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. And 2016 contender Senator Bernie Sanders continues to lurk in the top tier, offering liberal voters one of several candidates to choose from.
The latest to join the Democratic race is billionaire liberal activist Tom Steyer who made his candidacy official in a campaign video.
"If you think that there is something that is absolutely critical, try as hard as you can and let the chips fall where they may. And that is exactly what I am doing."
Steyer had been funding a grass roots effort to build support to impeach President Donald Trump and some months back decided against a presidential run. Now Steyer is in the field but will have to scramble to make the cut for some of the upcoming Democratic debates.
Biden Remains Atop a Shifting Democratic Field video player. Embed Copy
Even as Steyer entered the race, California Congressman Eric Swalwell became the first Democrat to formally drop out of the crowded presidential field.
"Look, it is a talented field, and that was one of the challenges for us," Swalwell told reporters in California this week. "You had a lot of heavyweights in that field and it is going to take more twists and turns and I look forward now to being a citizen watching the debates."
Swalwell took part in the first Democratic debates in late June and tried to capitalize on the moment by taking a shot at frontrunner Joe Biden.
"Joe Biden was right when he said it was time to pass the torch to a new generation of Americans 32 years ago. It is still right today," Swalwell said to a mixed reception from the debate audience in Miami.
Biden smiled through Swalwell's remarks and then offered a cryptic response. "I am still holding onto that torch!"
Shaky frontrunner
Biden remains the Democratic frontrunner despite a rocky performance in the first debate.
But the former vice president has seen some slippage in the polls as Senators Kamala Harris of California and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts have been climbing.
A new Morning Consult survey showed Biden dropping seven points among Democratic primary voters in the wake of the first debate, while Harris gained eight points.
Overall this latest poll has Biden in the lead at 31 percent, followed by Sanders at 19 percent, Harris at 14 percent and Warren with 13 percent. Rounding out the field are South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg with 6 percent, former Texas Representative Beto O'Rourke at 3 percent and New Jersey Senator Cory Booker at 2 percent.
In addition, the Morning Consult survey said that Biden's support among African American voters has dipped by eight percent since the debate, though he still leads overall among black voters with 38 percent support, followed by Sanders at 21 percent and Harris at 16 percent.
The culling begins
The departure of Swalwell from the race is an indication that the lengthy winnowing process for the large Democratic field has begun, according to Jim Kessler of the centrist Democratic group, Third Way.
"I think we are really at the point where there is eight to ten who have some shot (at the nomination). I mean, one of the things these debates did is that you looked at some of the also-rans (lesser candidates) and you thought, they are also-rans and they are going to be forever also-rans and maybe it is just time for you to go."
Democrats do not begin the voting process to choose their 2020 nominee until the Iowa caucuses in February, and analysts warn that leaves plenty of time for the various contenders to go after one another and sow division within the party.
"Will they be willing to rally around the one candidate out of the 20-plus candidates who will actually get the nomination when their candidate loses? And that is a great test for a party in any year and you simply don't know the answer this early," said University of Virginia analyst Larry Sabato. He spoke to VOA via Skype from Charlottesville, Virginia.
The Democrats hold their next debate in Detroit at the end of this month. A third debate has been scheduled for mid-September in Houston.
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December 16, 2018 Mike Matei 8 Comments
Here’s a list of my personal favorite game controllers.
5) Gamecube Controller
Nintendo was known for bizarre game controllers around this time. Unlike the N64 controller, the Gamecube one actually benefits from its weirdness. The face button layout is unlike anything seen before or since, but for certain games, this layout works better than the standard 4 button cross arrangement. You have a big chunky A button for the thumb’s neutral position, and you can roll off it to easily hit any of the others. You never have to worry about being confused about whether A or B is confirm or cancel, every Gamecube game (that I’m aware of) adhered to the green button being confirm and the red button being cancel. Games that require a lot of multiple face button presses benefit from this arrangement, which is why I think this is still a highly preferred choice for Smash Brothers to this day.
The analog stick quality is just about as good as any I’ve ever used. The texturing on the control stick minimizes slipping and the octagonal plastic surrounding the stick is a really smart idea that I wish was still used in modern controllers. If you press up you know you’re going exactly up and not veering off slightly in a different direction. I’m sure I’m not alone in saying that sometimes it’s fun to just idly swirl the joysticks around during a loading screen because there’s something oddly satisfying about how it feels.
A big complaint was the small d-pad offset below the analog stick, but I’ve never had an issue with it. If the size and placement really are the issues, you can’t blame the quality of the actual component. It’s accurate and solid, and has a nice texture that minimizes thumb slipping.
The top of the controller is where I start to take issue. The analog shoulder don’t feel quite right because they need to be depressed straight down instead of rotating into the controller like modern controllers do. They click when you depress them all the way, which some games took advantage of, but requires a bit of extra force than you would likely want. The Z button is oddly positioned and needs to be pressed in a specific fashion in order to get it to fire. I have no idea why they didn’t put an additional bumper on the left side of the controller when there was space for it and an extra button could have been helpful for the console.
The Gamecube controller differs wildly from convention in a way that makes it fun to use. I overlook the flaws in favor of its strengths, and I wish some of the better aspects of the design would show up in future controllers.
4) SNES
The SNES controller was a very good early attempt at shaping a controller to fit human hands comfortably. It builds upon the phenomenal design of the NES pad and adds more buttons, and curved the edges for additional comfort.
I miss the old days when Nintendo was more conservative with their controller upgrades with each generation. Here we have a good followup to the previous design that doesn’t add insane stuff like multiple controller grips, analog shoulder buttons, crap you have to wave around and crap you have to plug into other crap. Nobody liked having a WiiMote sitting in their lap with a Classic Controller plugged into it, it’s just something everyone had to put up with at the time.
One big improvement that the SNES generation added was the concept of rolling your thumb upwards in games that require a simultaneous button pressing. You can use the joint of your thumb to use B to jump and the tip of your thumb to hit Y to attack. This was a clear advantage over this controller’s main competitor, the Sega Genesis gamepad.
Shoulder buttons were a great addition, although they are in somewhat of an unnatural spot and don’t conform exactly to the natural position your index fingers want to rest when holding a controller, something that modern controllers do a lot better. If you’re right handed, the L button going to be your least favorite button on the controller to press.
This one tends to make creaking noises during intense game sessions, but it’s very durable and reliable overall.
3) Turbo Duo Controller
This one is more of a personal preference. I just really like how this one feels, and it always works well for me. I’ve favored this controller over recent years because of how reliable it is, even though there’s nothing particularly special about it, apart from how awesome it looks. The turbo switches are pretty superfluous, but they don’t get in the way. It’s solid, it feels nice, and it’s reliable. For me, the D-Pad functions perfectly every time, as do the buttons. It’s a controller I have literally zero complaints with.
2) DualShock 1 or 2 Controller
Sony did themselves a big favor by designing an excellent controller to compete with Nintendo when they were first starting out. If this one is your personal favorite, I’m not going to argue with you. The DualShock 1 and DualShock 2 are pretty similar with a couple minor differences, and it’s hard to find yourself wanting for anything else in a game controller. These controllers are so close to perfection that every iteration of DualShock onwards just got weirder and weirder instead of better.
The D-pad will never let you down. No erroneous inputs, no thumb slipping. Nintendo and Sony offer the best D-pads, and they’re pretty much tied for 1st as far as I’m concerned. You can always depend on this D-pad to correctly read your intended inputs.
I’ve always been fond of the aesthetic choices. Sony obviously wanted to break away from Nintendo’s established ABXY face button labeling scheme, and they came up with a really simple and pleasing set of colored basic shapes that were well used in their advertisements and promotional materials. They’ve become synonymous with the PlayStation brand and it’s always been elegant and fun. I’ve always liked how the shapes of the start and select button are reminiscent of the Stop and Play buttons on a VCR/CD Player/etc.
I prefer these over the DualShock 3 because the analog L2 and R2 buttons feel terrible on that controller. Analog triggers rarely are required to play a game, they feel springy and gross, and they wear out quickly. I like a good solid digital trigger that doesn’t require a lot of pressure to activate.
The analog sticks are unfortunately where this controller falls short of perfection. They aren’t terrible, but they could have been textured a bit better to reduce slipping. I prefer the octagonal plastic around analog sticks like what the GameCube controller has. Depressing the sticks to get the L3 and R3 functions feels strange when the stick isn’t in the neutral position, but it still works. And unfortunately, these sticks can wear out over time and become unusable.
When all else fails, the DualShock always works as a fallback, and the design is more focused on function and reliability than flashy gimmicks.
1) NES Controller
This is the controller that saved the gaming industry. There was no way to continue the trend of crappy uncomfortable joysticks that were ubiquitous before this time, and it had come to the point where customers needed a proper tool to play home consoles in order for the art form to move forward.
For intents and purposes, this was the first truly good controller for a home console, and the design still holds up more than 30 years later. Nintendo (specifically, Gunpei Yokoi) invented the cross style d-pad, and it’s one of the most important innovations in all of gaming. For the first time, the controller itself was no longer an obstacle, and games could be a contest between the player and the game’s challenge instead of fighting with a controller that isn’t comfortable, accurate or responsive. After this controller was brought into the world, game design was off and running.
Sure, other controllers have more buttons and analog sticks, but those are innovations are dependent on the type of game being played, and don’t make a controller better in a universal sense. If a game only needs a d-pad and a small amount of buttons, this is the best controller to use.
The build quality is top notch. It remains fully functional after years of use, and doesn’t break when it gets thrown at a wall. It’s also a design that will never become obsolete, because of its simplicity. No matter how advanced games get, there will always be games made that don’t require anything more than a d-pad, two face buttons and two function buttons. And this controller does everything it sets out to do at the highest level of quality and accuracy.
I will always favor games that let me use the NES controller, because it’s the game controller I want to use the most.
Honorable Mention: Arcade Stick
An arcade stick doesn’t get a spot on the numerical list because it’s more of a concept than a specific design or model I can point to. There’s a lot of different types of arcade stick setups, probably more than you can count. Different manufacturers make different joysticks, buttons and full units, and each have their own feel that people have different preferences for.
It’s no surprise that many professional competitive game players use joysticks. D-pads are great, but even the best ones don’t quite give you the precise level of control over diagonal directions that a well made joystick can. You can feel the click of the gates inside the mechanism that let you know exactly which direction you’re moving in. And for games that require rapid button presses, hitting a large button on a flat surface is superior to your thumb. This becomes obvious when you think of how lots of people tend to switch to their index finger or middle fingle away from the thumb on a handheld controller during minigames or other segments that require the player to push a button as fast as possible.
I like using them, but its unrealistic for me while doing videos and live streams. Mainly because of the button tapping being harsh on the ears.
The problem with arcade sticks is they’re a muscle memory investment. You do need to relearn how to play your favorite games with an arcade stick and you will likely suck at first. Although, it’s not all bad because arcade sticks are inherently fun to use, so that process of practice isn’t entirely sacrifice.
I would encourage anyone who is into retro or retro-style games to look into purchasing an arcade stick, you might discover it breathes new life into the experience of playing games. It’s very easy to make the case for the switch if you play bullet hell shooters or fighting games, but other genres can benefit from them as well.
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Namco51 says:
Great observations. I agree with your top pick because I like having the main buttons in line so I can press them at the same time. It always bugged me how the SNES design moved A up and to the right away from B so I couldn’t play SMW the same way I could play SMB. It makes A into a tertiary button instead of the secondary it should be.
The N64 controller seems so natural to hold. The thumbstick felt so natural when controlling Mario in Mario 64. The only design flaw I found was the creation of Mario Party.
Anyone who says the NES controllers edges hurt their hands is a fuckin bitch.
JJRambo says:
It hurt my hands
The NES controller is number 1 for me because all these years later and i still have what i call “NES controller thumb”
In agreement with Albert on the N64 controller, it feels really great when held the correct way. As for best controller though, I’ve always been partial to the Xbox 360 controller. Its buttons are have a very satisfying amount of give to them, and the sticks never felt too stiff or too loose. The only issue is the d-pad, I think. It was never fun to use and was often unreliable. Later models fixed it a bit, but it’s never felt right in the same way those on the SNES, NES or Sega Genesis controllers do.
32bithero says:
yeah i mostly agree i would had a bit of a different order but other than that i see why you picked them.
Ryan B says:
Mike, Please play Rival Megagun on your show. It’s an awesome game that deserves some attention.
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Posted on February 24, 2016 by Yves Smith
Death Valley Is Covered In Flowers PopSci (Robert M)
Australia’s Barrier Reef could be in worse shape than anyone thought Business Insider (David L) :-(
Should Dictionaries Do More to Confront Sexism? New Yorker (Dan K). Note the example that frames the piece is a case of the OED reinforcing sexism by picking a not-terribly-common usage of a word that was sexist. So one does not even have to go as far as “confront”. “Not reinforce” would be a step forward.
How women started to smoke failed evolution. For those of you who have not seen Adam Curtis’ documentary Century of the Self.
World’s First Modular Smart Phone Hits the Market Slashdot (Dan K)
U.N. agency bans lithium-ion batteries on passenger aircraft Reuters
Fukushima – Deep Trouble Counterpunch
The charts that suggest the housing bubble is out of control Sydney Morning Herald (YY). I thought housing prices were too high in Sydney (eastern suburbs) in the early 2000s when I was there, due to the negative gearing (see bottom chart) and rentals prices/mortgage servicing costs relative to incomes. Silly me for not being a true believer!
China?
Col. Wilkerson: All War Games Between China and US Lead to Nuclear Attacks Real News Network (NV)
China’s Bond Bubble Wall Street Journal
China’s Credit Conundrum Bloomberg
Brexit?
America, Stay Out of Britain’s EU Debate Bloomberg. Ahem, I gather he did not get the memo, but the US and UK fit Ambrose Biere’s definition of partners: “When two thieves have their hands so deeply plunged into each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third party.” However, Obama trying to sway UK voters is likely to have the opposite effect.
Why Brexit Matters for America National Interest
Woodford: Brexit won’t hurt UK economy BBC
Tony Blair admits he is baffled by rise of Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn Guardian (YY). OMG, more parody. And the comments are brutal.
Syraqistan
John Kerry says partition of Syria could be part of ‘plan B’ if peace talks fail Guardian
Latest Wikileaks documents: Irish citizen working for the UN Refugee Agency was targeted by the NSA Medium (guurst). A must read. Implications of this type of surveillance way more serious than you’d think.
Apple’s iPhone: The Backdoor Is Already There Dissident Voice (Alan C)
The REAL Reason Bill Gates Supports Backdoor FBI Access George Washington
Judge orders Clinton aides to testify on emails Financial Times. This is big. The judge is annoyed with the foot-dragging and missed deadlines. State is now being told that they may have to turn over all e-mails and that Hillary’s too-many-hat-wearing aide Huma Abedin and even Hillary herself might have to testify. In other words, unless the Clinton side gets cooperative pronto, the judge is pulling out his procedural artillery. Pissing off a judge is not wise and it looks like the Clinton side has done that. (PS I wonder if Obama is back to his 11th dimensional chess form, that he or his top advisors allowed State to play a delaying game that the Clintons pushed for, thinking it would help them, when the Administration knew playing it as hard as the Clintons wanted to play would backfire. We also have the specter of the ongoing FBI leaks, which have helped stoke media interest. On the one hand, there are no doubt conservative agents who are happy to babble to the press about the Clintons. On the other, this Administration has been particularly ruthless about going after leakers, yet we have no sign the Administration has done bupkis to tamp this down).
People in a position to hear from loose lips on her side say Team Clinton is mighty concerned and is trying to figure out the best timing for this to come out, as if the judge will let them exercise control. It’s Clinton Foundation related stuff, natch, and I gather the most polite term that can be applied to what is coming out is “crass”. I don’t see how they can drag this out past November. And that means, in case you have any doubts, no way does she get elected absent a wild card like Trump being shot or caught in bed with an underage girl. You can stick a fork in her candidacy. Please send the memo to Team Dem. To switch metaphors, they put all their chips on a horse which is turning out to be a broken down nag.
Trump wins landslide victory in Nevada Financial Times. Linking to this despite the paywall (Google the headline) because you must see the photo. His face is way harder than I’ve ever seen it.
President Donald J. Trump—It Could Happen Nation (resilc)
Hillary Clinton just can’t win: Democrats need to accept that only Bernie Sanders can defeat the GOP Salon (Judy B). But this isn’t about winning. It’s about preserving the patronage roles of the current crowd of Dem hacks. They’d rather bet on the long shot of a Hillary win than them losing their perch for sure if Bernie succeeds in making a hostile takeover of the party.
“It’s the corruption, stupid”: Hillary’s too compromised to see what Donald Trump understands Salon (Eric A)
Sanders’ ambitious growth plan might not be so crazy after all Business Insider (David L)
Illinois governor eyes blocking Chicago school debt Reuters
Black Injustice Tipping Point
Black Progressives, It’s Time to Unite Against Establishment Politics Anthony Conwright
Oil prices fall as OPEC squabbles over output targets, crude stocks swell Reuters
Reaction: Oil drops after Saudi min rejects cuts CNBC
Investors fear central bank policy errors Financial Times
Not All Fed Presidents On Board With March Pause Tim Duy
Kentucky pension funds push back against fee disclosure bill Reuters (Chris Tobe)
Guitar Center Tells Employees To Sign Arbitration Agreements Or Lose Their Jobs Huffington Post (Randy K)
The Immigration-Data Conundrum Atlantic
Antidote du jour (Rajesh):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
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allan February 24, 2016 at 7:19 am
Solid support for Apple in iPhone encryption fight [Reuters]
Nearly half of Americans support Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O) decision to oppose a federal court order demanding that it unlock a smartphone used by San Bernardino shooter Rizwan Farook, according to a national online Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Forty-six percent of respondents said they agreed with Apple’s position, 35 percent said they disagreed and 20 percent said they did not know, according to poll results released on Wednesday.
This is the opposite of the widely publicized Pew poll of a few days ago.
So, the exact wording of poll questions matters. Huh. Who knew?
Steve H. February 24, 2016 at 8:26 am
I was a pollster for a year, for an academic organization that did it well. It’s not just the exact wording of the question. The fact that it’s being paid for, the assumptions implicit in that, means that it could be argued every poll is a push poll. I still remember the plaintive “I don’t know” from a seventh grader, when I asked him what he thought would be his major in college. Poor kid thought he was behind the curve.
I also became that guy, who’d call people who had already refused to answer twice. (People who don’t answer polls have non-independent opinions which must be included for an unbiased result.) Intonation of voice was critical to achieve compliance. It was also a factor that I believe biased responses.
fresno dan February 24, 2016 at 2:44 pm
Thats very interesting – you must write a small blog dissertation in the comments section about what you learned is critical in judging the accuracy and objectivity of a poll sometime!
Steve H. February 24, 2016 at 3:42 pm
Thanks, but I’m coming dangerously close to blogging in the comments already…
Robert Callaghan February 24, 2016 at 7:35 am
When I was a kid there were just 2 sexes, with everyone being more or less one or the other. I’m not sure but I think there are about 5 sexes now one for each sense and I can’t wait for the 6th so that we’ll have more sexes than senses.
I think Gloria Steinem endorsed Hillary and if so, then feminism hasn’t really changed anything since they got women to smoke and vote.
When I read that someone thought the word “feminism” was sexist, I thought how glad I am that I’m not too long for this world. I can’t wait to see how we can take the word “man” out of “woman”, but I’m sure someone’s working on that right now.
I read the other day at Truthout how Hillary lied about the coup in Honduras. Hillary is a pathological liar and war psychopath. Trump is a dickhead with a wolverine living on top of his head. America is falling apart, physical, emotionally and mentally. Good luck folks.
Yves Smith Post author February 24, 2016 at 8:48 am
The Thais say there are thirteen sexualities:
http://bangkok.coconuts.co/random/thailands-smorgasbord-of-sexualities-in-one-handy-diagram
But agree with your political rant.
PlutoniumKun February 24, 2016 at 9:52 am
Fantastic link – I love how the Thai’s have such a fluid approach to sexuality (even while not being immune to various forms of bigotry). A lesbian friend of mine was travelling there and she said she lost count of the number of Thai women who approached her and would say something like ‘oh, I’m not gay but… hey, you look interesting!’ Unsurprisingly, she said she had a very good time.
Optimader February 24, 2016 at 12:22 pm
I am all for any two people having a equally legal relationship as any one else and keeping ones “sexuality” to oneself.
The rest is pretty simple, If you have an urgent need to go to a public lav be appreciate that its available (they arent so much in many other countries), take care of business in whichever one you’re plumbed for and STFU.
cwaltz February 25, 2016 at 4:26 am
My personal feelings is the restrooms ought to be universally made and there ought to be stalls then it wouldn’t matter what your plumbing looks like.
People act is if you go into a restroom to look at other people instead of eliminate waste. Just ewwwwwwww.
ambrit February 25, 2016 at 6:34 am
I’ve had to guard the door to the mens’ room for our daughters many a time. I don’t know about the womens’ rooms, but, if you go into a mens’ room to sit down, be sure you have had all of your shots.
OpenThePodBayDoorsHAL February 24, 2016 at 2:12 pm
It’s easy to lose sight of the fact that America was founded by fundamentalist Puritans, and the Europeans were glad to see them go, when Henry Miller discussed the subject he said that this just bestowed a perverted quality on all American discussions of sex.
And the nice part about Thailand and the 13 sexual categories is how little prejudice, judgement, and scorn there is about which category you feel like being in.
Massinissa February 24, 2016 at 5:07 pm
Im sure its there. But the fact that theres this sheer number is probably testament to the fact that they at least keep their prejudices either quiet or personal, while in many parts of America its actually a public political issue. I assume none of these groups are considered a public thai issue.
Tory February 24, 2016 at 9:09 am
I guess you have not seen the spelling “womyn”.
windsock February 24, 2016 at 9:39 am
We have wimmin in London.
HotFlash February 24, 2016 at 10:18 am
Woperson was tried in a group I was involved with long, long ago. There were objections and woperdaughter was suggested but voted down. Then they went on to the real wrangle, how many washrooms and what to put on the doors. This really happened!
craazyman February 24, 2016 at 10:39 am
sounds like you had some Weirdos in your group
What would Snoop D. say? Maybe “Ladies“…
Irrational February 24, 2016 at 4:39 pm
Only a problem for anglophones, rest of the world has it much easier!
vidimi February 25, 2016 at 5:54 am
did it not occur to anyone that the masculine word ‘son’ casts its shadow on ‘woperson’?
craazyman February 24, 2016 at 9:34 am
I count 6 sexes, which I’ve grouped below into 2 categories. Note that weirdos is a sex independent of male or female.
Men – Manly men, girly men, weirdos
Women – hot women, lesbian women, regular women, weirdos
A critic might say “That’s not 6 sexes, that’s only 3: Men, Women and Weirdos”.
They might be right. I’ll have to think about that.
In Thailand they may be counting 11 categories of weirdos and calling them all different sexes. It helps to have math skills when studying this topic or all hell breaks loose. It may be math skills aren’t well developed in Thailand. If they keep going, somebody there may come up with 200 or 300 sexes if they’re not careful.
Robert Dudek February 24, 2016 at 1:24 pm
Which category does “centaur” fall into?
craazyman February 24, 2016 at 2:57 pm
It had occurred to me that sexuality could be a vector space in two dimensions — M and F, where M and F are the bases of the space.
What some may confuse as additional sexes may simply be linear combinations of M and F.
This would clearly allow for an infinite number of sexes although the differences between any particular 2 may be so slight as to be imperceptible.
They should review the Thailand data and see if a vector space construct can explain the observation as well, or better, than 13 sexes. There are no Weirdos, there are only linear combbinations of M and F.
Is there a Pink Helicopter category? Ive always wanted to be one of those.
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-sexually-identify-as-an-attack-helicopter
nobody February 24, 2016 at 9:56 am
Fausto-Sterling, Ann. “The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough”
http://www.fd.unl.pt/docentes_docs/ma/TPB_MA_5937.pdf
fosforos February 24, 2016 at 3:56 pm
“All humans are bisexual”–C.G. Jung
Michael February 24, 2016 at 12:07 pm
When you were a kid, you were a kid.
Michael, I knew a Goat when he was a Kid, and you Sir are no Goat.
alex morfesis February 24, 2016 at 2:26 pm
The world is full of buy sexuals.
whoever is paying for the party they are having sex with…
peace hope and sobriety…it will probably not happen in our lifetime but one can always dream…
“Take the word man out of woman”
That was done decades ago. Back in the 70s. Never caught on. Thank goodness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womyn
My bad, didnt see someone had pointed this out
cwaltz February 24, 2016 at 5:18 pm
Are you talking about gender or are you talking about sexuality? Because, they aren’t the same.
I would bet money that anomalies in both of those areas have been going on since before you were alive even if you didn’t notice it as a child . Personally, I’m a little sad that the world appears to be coming more and more complex and I can no longer rely on childlike simplicity to define things but happy that slowly there seems to be an understanding from the majority that there should be tolerance towards others. It’s not right to tell others they have no right to be happy and can’t be themselves simply because they don’t fit into the little boxes that society has decided work for the majority of us and the fact that they are anomalies can make us uncomfortable and a little afraid because we don’t understand them. That’s OUR problem, not theirs.
Plenue February 24, 2016 at 7:31 pm
“I can’t wait to see how we can take the word “man” out of “woman”, but I’m sure someone’s working on that right now.”
Oh, that one’s been around for decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womyn
Critical language failure on their part, since Old English ‘man’ just meant ‘person’. The word for adult male was wer, preserved today in the word werewolf. ‘Woman’ comes from wifman, ie female person, partially preserved today, obviously, in ‘wife’.
interesting as it shows the latin origins of this english word. homo was the word for human, or person, whereas vir (wer in olde english) was the word for man (as in trium-vir-ate or vir-ile).
Pavel February 24, 2016 at 7:38 am
Re Clinton emails: looks like carrying two devices (heaven forbid!) would indeed have been more convenient than this totally Clintonesque scandal Hillary has concocted for herself.
And her BFF Huma (a/k/a Mrs Carlos Danger) — working simultaneously for State, the Clinton “Foundation”, a third consulting firm… what could possibly go wrong?
I just read that Sanders and Trump are the only declared opponents of TPP. (Of course Hillary no longer is sure if it is “the gold standard” of trade agreements, so who really knows what she would do as president?)
On that basis alone, I’d support Trump over HRC.
But lets hope Servergate does indeed explode in her face, and she’ll have to withdraw for “health reasons” or the like, and no doubt the DNC will parachute in Joe Biden.
Interesting times!
ProNewerDeal February 24, 2016 at 7:56 am
Yves “You can stick a fork in her candidacy”
Wow. I’m glad I read NC. Pro-H Clinton BigMedia will not report/explore this topic.
Yves, perhaps you could write about some scenarios of the timing of an email scandal/indictment, & what that might mean to the D nomination or general election process?
Roquentin February 24, 2016 at 9:58 am
I agree completely. The blog posts and articles linked here have been first rate the entire primary season, especially with so much of what is usually termed the “liberal media” publishing straight-up garbage any chance they get.
I ventured into the smug echo chamber of HuffPo yesterday and there was lots of coverage of Trump’s victories, there were 3 articles about why Bernie is so deluded/dangerous, and almost nothing on Hilary. So even THEY can’t find anything good to say about their gal…maybe they should finally prepare that list of her “accomplishments” over at State.
And it’s hard to imagine Obomba’s Justice Dept, that has so vehemently and forcefully avoided any prosecution of anyone except whistleblowers and junior-level scapegoats, doing anything at all to let this proceed. The Basketballer-in-Chief is all about legacy now and I bet there might be some embarrassing testimony that could come out on a number of fronts.
Ed S. February 24, 2016 at 2:56 pm
PND —
My long shot scenario has been that HRC wins enough to defeat Bernie, but knowing that she can’t win (email scandal or something else) she withdraws for “medical” reasons and Big Joe parachutes in as the nominee. Imagine HRC giving a speech a few weeks before the convention and collapsing on stage. Regretfully can’t continue. Asks Joe to carry the torch forward.
Everybody in the D party wins. And I don’t think it’s such a long shot now.
optimader February 24, 2016 at 5:56 pm
I do enjoy the fork metaphor! Good imagery.
Actually, I prefer the below phraseology, I first heard it from a guy in South Carolina referring to himself. Another good one was “ahmmm so tired I heard somthin draggin behind me, ahh turned around and it was mahh asss”
optimader
….even if she knows..
This is just another data point on my assessment that’s HRC is one of those walking job title resumes who thinks she’s the smartest (guy) in the room.
I wonder if she knows what ” so cooked you don’t need to stick her with a fork” means.
susan the other February 25, 2016 at 11:39 am
interesting too, and unreported, is Hillary’s threat (not sure if it is even true she made it) to make public her J. Edgar Hoover file on everyone and their dog in politix if the DoJ actually indicts her.
YY February 24, 2016 at 8:24 am
The carrying two devices was such a lame excuse, though the real sad part is that these made up tropes never get challenged by the fourth estate. The real problem is not the security or lack thereof of a “private” mail server, but the probable real reason of the desire for manipulation and concealment (from authorized official access) of ALL non-personal communications.
Yves Smith Post author February 24, 2016 at 10:02 am
The Congressional staffers I know carry two devices all the time and make a big point of church/state separation. But I gather HRC regards that level of inconvenience as being fit only for little people.
Couldn’t she have a lady-in-waiting, er, intern carry one?
Pat February 24, 2016 at 11:04 am
Hell I always thought the idea was ridiculous because I have multiple email accounts on my current android and my previous blackberry. The fact that pictures later came out where she had both a blackberry and an iPhone was just icing on that lie.
But lets face it, it was never about multiple devices. It was always about two things – control of the information and the ability to say screw you to FOIA requests. If a stupid and unnecessary choice finally ends her political career, I’ll just consider it just desserts to an arrogant entitled corrupt ass.
Not to mention keeping friendly foundation support correspondence on a private server where you had a firewall for any communication with State would have been smarter since I’m thinking we are weeks away from the Judge forcing State to just turn over everything and taking all control of it out of their hands. But foresight and judgment are hallmarks of Hillary Clinton.
tiresoup February 24, 2016 at 12:45 pm
Yes to YY! What amuses me about Hillary setting up a private server and not using dot gov: the proactive coverup of such a move. She knew in advance she’d have stuff to hide.
Llewelyn Moss February 24, 2016 at 8:36 am
This email scandal reminds me of the movie Primary Colors about Bill Clinton’s 1992 run for president. In the movie Governor Jack Stanton (John Travolta) was trying to hide the scandal of sleeping with an under age teen.
Now the punchline is that I saw a photo of a Hillary campaign lead (in NH I think) and he looked like a dead ringer for Henry Burton (Adrian Lester) who was Stanton’s campaign manager. But dam I can’t find the pic now.
And ya gotta wonder if the deleted emails would have revealed unseemly dealings between the Clinton Foundation and govt agencies.
Katniss Everdeen February 24, 2016 at 10:10 am
I don’t wonder about that at all. I’m absolutely certain of it. As far as “unseemly,” I’d be more inclined to use the terms raw influence peddling, solicitation of bribes and extortion.
Whine Country February 24, 2016 at 10:40 am
Any chance you are available to fill the SCOTUS opening we now have? I like your take on things.
Llewelyn Moss February 24, 2016 at 11:21 am
Bernie needs to hire you as a speech writer. :-)
Very under-reported was the pressure she put on Sweden to accept Monsanto poison, with explicit quid-pro-quos, or the pressure she put on the WHO when they were about to release a report declaring that refined sugar is a dangerous toxin. In that case she made a direct threat to pull the $400M the US gives to WHO.
Pavel February 24, 2016 at 3:57 pm
wow OTPBDHal (love that BTW!)
That is under-reported indeed. Esp re the WHO and refined sugar. So much for caring about “women and children” I guess.
TsWkr February 24, 2016 at 9:33 am
Paul Jay over at the Real News has been predicting Biden vs. Romney for a while. He thinks either Clinton will secure the nomination, or just keep enough pledged delegates away from Sanders to need the Super Delegates and then the email scandal will hit the fan — of course they wouldn’t turn to Sanders.
Romney would be a fairly plausible result coming out of a brokered convention, an outcome Rubio and Kasich are banking on by sticking around.
Carolinian February 24, 2016 at 10:25 am
Since media celebrity is proving to be the big draw I think the Dems should dump Morgan Freeman endorsed Hillary and just run Morgan Freeman. I’d vote for him. Plus he’s already played the president in movies. Twice.
Morgan Freeman as president would be very soothing.
polecat February 24, 2016 at 12:13 pm
‘soothing’ ………like slow poison !!
Carolinian February 24, 2016 at 1:00 pm
No picking on Morgan. As Atrios would say, leave Morgan Freeman alooooooone……
I wish George Clooney would run, he has the right politics, can speak in complete sentences, has the name recognition, a very presentable and effective wife (ethnic background), and the wow factor would be good for the country.
Compare that to a shrill war criminal harridan virago whose big backer is Rupert Murdoch and whose ideological mentor is fellow genocidal war criminal Henry Kissinger.
MyLessThanPrimeBeef February 24, 2016 at 3:44 pm
The death of the Roman political establishment was on display when a horse was made senator.
Will they nominate a donkey?
An elephant?
Anything but Trump/Sanders.
Other than advertising saying how wonderful are candidates are, and plenty of empirical evidence that they are incompetent, corrupt scum, there is NO serious argument that any of the professed party candidates would match Morgan Freedman in ability – – and quite a bit of evidence that they would not match Morgan in judgement…
There’s a funny comedy from the 90s called Dave where a lookalike is brought in to sub for the real president after a stroke. The joke is that this man plucked off the street as it were is a better president than the real one.
So really, why not Morgan Freeman? Where is it written that our presidents all have to be lawyers?
EmilianoZ February 24, 2016 at 5:27 pm
That was Kevin Kline. The movie seems to be a remake of the Prisoner of Zenda. Kevin Kline would make a good prez too although my preference would be for Bill Murray since he played FDR convincingly.
HotFlash February 24, 2016 at 6:33 pm
Heinlein did it too, in Double Star
NotTimothyGeithner February 24, 2016 at 6:58 pm
People as a group are far too stupid to be trusted with elections. Government by lottery is the only sensible solution.
How about we give animals a chance?
Maybe cats can do better.
cnchal February 24, 2016 at 9:40 pm
I second that. It would be a job a normal person would hate to win, but did anyway, just like jury duty.
The asteroid hit in his first term! The earth exploded!
I saw it myself. I’m not making this up.
As John McEnroe said back in The Day, “You must be joking.”
Get a VFX film crew out to film Morgan F. rolling “The Beast” in a ditch –(the POTUS limo, not HRC) on a late night liquor run
NotTimothyGeithner February 24, 2016 at 10:34 am
Mittens would beat Biden. Biden is Hillary without the celebrity and nostalgic appeal. Oh great, a pre-war Democrat who is largely the single most responsible individual for out of control student debt. Democrats are this stupid.
neo-realist February 24, 2016 at 11:48 am
I don’t see how the heck an ego like Trump is brokered out of a nomination at the convention. I could see one of the aforementioned unfortunate circumstances knocking him out, but not a brokered one that hands it over to a Mormon mannequin with minimal appeal to the common American who would lose GOP votes.
Well now that it seems Brittany Spears is off her Advisors List, HRC may be rethinking TPP on her own?
re: The REAL Reason Bill Gates Supports Backdoor FBI Access
“Micro$oft programmers have allowed NSA backdoors in all Windows software since 1999 or before.”
Micro$oft was a prominent building block in most of the Snowden NSA flowcharts. And lest we forget that even after you turn off ALL of the Windows 10 privacy settings, Win10 still phones home to Micro$oft 4 times per hour with “Telemetry” data. Micro$oft refuses to say exactly what’s in the Telemetry data (it’s encrypted). They call it system health and security data, whatever that means. Micro$oft is taking a lot of flack in the tech forums for not giving a way to opt out and the secrecy around what data is collected.
Now I ask the question, why does Micro$oft offer a free Win10 upgrade to current windows users? — An unprecedented offer. Did they suddenly become hippie commies offering free love and software? Or is it because someone is paying Micro$oft to push it on an unsuspecting public? Is it someone like the National Stasi Agency? Hey, I’m just askin questions here.
human February 24, 2016 at 1:46 pm
“He Who Controls the Bootloader
Scot Hacker, August 2001
The day before I submitted this column, news hit the net that the other shoe had finally dropped. After months of waiting and wondering what was to become of Be, we learned that Palm, Inc. will be purchasing Be’s technology, intellectual property, and assets. While we don’t yet know exactly what Palm plans to do with Be, my guess is that the company intends to beef up and extend its product line — make palm-sized devices more media-friendly, and possibly build appliance-like units for the home. As analyst William Crawford recently said, “Where they have to go, Be already is.” Be’s lightweight footprint and excellent media handing capabilities make the technology a good fit. Be will receive $11 million in Palm stock, which they intend to liquidate to pay off debts. Considering that Apple allegedly once considered paying $125 million for Be, Palm got Be for a song — a fire-sale blowout.
Palm initially stated that they don’t intend to develop a desktop version of BeOS, which means the version of BeOS you’re using now may be the last one you’ll ever see. However, users who have corresponded with Palm’s top ranks have been met with an open ear, and BeFAQs is currently preparing a full report on the state and potential of the BeOS user base for the big cheeses at Palm. Whether the report will have any effect is anybody’s guess, but barring a miracle, it seems that BeOS is now officially dead in terms of its prospects for further evolution. That, however, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s dead to the users who already have it installed. The BeOS userbase will likely become similar to the Amiga userbase – hanging on to those souped-up boxes out of sheer love for years, maybe decades.
Some in the community met the news with relief. Others simply seem exhausted by the endless process of battling ridiculous odds, and are ready to move on to something else. But many still believe deeply in what Be is and what they’ve created. Believe that there is a way to best Microsoft at its own game (without having to tread the open source quaqmire). Believe that there is no better desktop user experience, period.
But the reality is that Be’s failure has made a point to the world, to whit: “Don’t bother trying to create a better commercial desktop OS — it doesn’t matter how hard you try, how many engineers you throw at the problem, how much money you spend, or how many years you put into it. Microsoft owns that space and, worse, the public is totally complicit with that fact. People will not stop using Windows. It is a losing battle.”
Read the rest: http://birdhouse.org/beos/byte/30-bootloader/
Daryl February 24, 2016 at 6:49 pm
Good news, Microsoft is a dead company walking at this point.
Bad news is that Microsoft Windows has been replaced by software-as-a-service.
Arthur Wilke February 24, 2016 at 2:07 pm
It’s been reported that the older Microsoft business model was of declining value and there’s hope to get users to purchase items at the Microsoft store and annually subscribe to what used to be stand-alone suites (Word Perfect, Excel, etc.).
DakotabornKansan February 24, 2016 at 7:53 am
How women started to smoke [failedevolution.blogspot]
As one who has worked many years caring for victims of tobacco related diseases, I found the prominence of cigarettes on seven seasons of “Smoke Gets in Their Eyes” Mad Men – Betty Draper, Sally Draper, et al. – quite fascinating. Seeing all that puffing made me wince and wonder if they too would eventually become victims.
“Everyone else’s tobacco is poisonous. Lucky Strikes are toasted.”
“When the EPA took steps to limit indoor smoking, Fred Singer joined forces with the Tobacco Institute to challenge the scientific basis of secondhand smoke’s health risks. But they didn’t just claim that the data were insufficient; they claimed that the EPA was doing “bad science.” To make this claim seem credible, they didn’t just fight EPA on secondhand smoke; they began a smear campaign to discredit the EPA in general and tarnish any scientific results that any industry didn’t like as “junk.” – Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
I saw victims of tobacco related diseases who did not smoke, victims of secondhand smoke, women whose husbands were heavy smokers.
Betty Draper’s diagnosis of aggressive lung cancer in the final season brought back memories of the countless needless losses experienced by so many others that I had witnessed.
Smoking and tobacco use pose a serious risk of death and disease for women. Annually, cigarette smoking kills an estimated 201,770 women in the United States. Today, with a much smaller gap between men’s and women’s smoking rates, women share a much larger burden of smoking-related diseases.
How we still struggle today to end the lies and mass mind manipulation ushered in by Edward Bernays.
Bwilli123 February 24, 2016 at 8:55 am
Does anyone else remember the catchy jingle from the days of women’s lib?
“You’ve got your own cigarette now baby,
You’ve come a long, long way”
Virginia Slims, I believe.
Oh yes, I do remember it. No ‘guy’ in my highschool would be caught dead smoking a Virginia Slim, even a free one. Sexism starts early.
NotTimothyGeithner February 24, 2016 at 9:42 am
Homer: What’s your brand?
Bart: Anything slim!
Homer: Doh!
The whole point to cigarettes is to make you look cool. At least my dad told me this. He then said it wouldn’t work for me.
I sincerely hope your dad was trying reverse psychology to keep you off of ‘smokes.’ And yes, in school, the urge to be ‘cool’ leads to too many poor decisions.
Dad just pointed out I would never be cool, so why try? They didn’t believe in lying, withholding information is a different matter. We had a creek and a natural spring at our old house in the hills. They didn’t tell me or take my collie there, so I never found out. My mom is legally blind, so as a result, I was a free range child with no oversight except a collie who would pull on my clothes when I went too far.
NotTimothyGeithner
“….except a collie who would pull on my clothes when I went too far.”
http://www.tv.com/shows/its-garry-shandlings-show-season-one/laffie-61405/
If only I had had a collie like Garry Shandling named “laffie” who would have kept me from investing in all those mortgage back securities…
Laffie: Barks, than growls, than whines
fresnodan: What’s that laffie – little timmy is in a well?
Laffie: NO, NO, NO you imbecile – little timmy geithner is a shill of corrupt financiers who promote a housing bubble and know after complete carnage, only the squillionaires will be bailed out due to the fact Washington gets the best congressmen money can buy. Now, how about buying dogfood somewhere besides the dollar store????
But alas, I never owned a dog – just the occasional cat. And cats are Randian….
Brooklin Bridge February 24, 2016 at 3:13 pm
i always found, “You’ve come a long way baby” positively revolting with implied sexism! Who the hell is a poison tobacco company to tell women that “baby” has come a long way cause they can give themselves cancer now all by themselves?
Which of the 13 sexes in Thailand would smoke V Slims?
Most of the women that are not Toms could or would I think, plus the Ladyboys. I dont think gay men would smoke those things, but then, I dont know any gay men who also smoke.
I dont know any gay men who also smoke.
Good for them! Why does anyone still smoke? Its not like the data isnt in on it at this point, or what?
Even if a smoker dodges the cancer bullet, I saw a graph of Smoking (years) vs Emphysema and it was basically a straight sloped line going to a bad place. Not much to debate on that one.
A couple weeks ago walking into my office I saw a guy outside. smoking a cigg pulling a little dolly w/an O2 bottle with the clear tubing coiling up to his nostrils. . WTF in the wide world of sports is the guy thinking ??
On gay men ..Wizened with age, I have found when having to go to some large catered socail function like a reception where you really don’t know anyone, picking out the table with a few gay guys will usually be the most fun
Totally! Best gossip and best flirts.
diptherio February 24, 2016 at 9:30 am
“You’ve come a long way…but that won’t stop us from referring to you as ‘baby’.”
Ian February 24, 2016 at 12:54 pm
one of my favorite lines from Army of Darkness. “that’s just what we call pillow talk, baby.”
qualifier, never used. Just he beautifully captured the stereotype.
Jim Haygood February 24, 2016 at 12:51 pm
Remember the Clinton administration’s “tobacco settlement” in the late 1990s? How did that work out for us?
Result: in the past 25 years, the S&P 1500 tobacco sector (constituents from Compustat; returns from CRSP) has delivered a 21% compounded annual return. Better than high tech. Better than health care. Better than anything.
Having a government-enforced oligopoly is the next best thing to the Federal Reserve’s license to print money. Only three players are left in the U.S.: Altria, Reynolds American and Imperial Tobacco (up 15%, 41% and 10% respectively in the past 12 months).
They really should build a bronze statue of Joel Klein (the Clinton admin’s tobacco settlement point man) in downtown Greensboro NC, in honor of this Democrat shakedown artist making Big Tobacco and its investors rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
Propertius February 24, 2016 at 3:10 pm
I remember the tobacco settlement quite well, since I was sitting in my mother’s hospital room watching her die from small-cell lung cancer when it was announced. I remember thinking to myself, “I don’t want their money – I want them dead.”
I haven’t really changed that opinion. Okay, I’d settle for a few million counts of voluntary manslaughter with sentences to be served consecutively, but I really want them dead. Preferably by several months of cisplatin and etoposide
Adrian H February 24, 2016 at 8:07 am
“Hillary Can’t Win” link goes to Sabon beauty products page instead of Salon.
OIFVet February 24, 2016 at 8:18 am
Way off topic, but I’ve been looking for an antidote from last year, of these beautiful golden horses, and I can’t find it. Could anyone help direct me to it?
evodevo February 24, 2016 at 8:39 am
I don’t know where that particular photo is, but the horses are Akhal-Teke, from central Asia.
OIFVet February 24, 2016 at 11:08 am
Thank you! Beautiful…
MyLessThanPrimeBeef February 24, 2016 at 12:26 pm
They are legendary…linked, maybe, to the Heaven Horse that sweated blood and treasured so much by the ancient Chinese they sent numerous expeditions into Central Asia to obtain.
juliania February 24, 2016 at 11:48 pm
A wonderful book, if you can still find it, is “Sacred Horses; The Memoirs of a Turkmen Cowboy” by Jonathan Maslow.
STEPHEN V February 24, 2016 at 8:23 am
http://www.salon.com/2016/02/19/hillary_clinton_just_cant_win_democrats_need_to_accept_that_only_bernie_sanders_can_defeat_the_gop/
vlade February 24, 2016 at 9:23 am
it’s very simple.
Short of a major miracle, Trump WILL win the GOP nomination.
The people who didn’t vote DT in primaries are unlikely to vote either BS or HC, at best the stay at home.
HC has absolutely nothing to offer to Trump voters. I suspect that a non-trivial number of Sanders voters would see Trump as representing them more than HC, and those that detest him would just rther stay at home, as they couldn’t decide who was a lesser evil.
On the other hand, with Sanders nomination, few if any HC voters would flock to Trump, and most would rther vote Sanders than Trump. And Sanders can take Trump’s votes.
The logic of the decision here is really simple. HC win hands the Presidency to Trump and on,y then will the real fun begin.
Not if you talk to Clinton supporters. Turnout is down because she is a shoe-in. No self-respecting Democrat will vote for Trump. She will wipe the floor with him in a debate. Women will flock to her, and he has alienated every minority in America. The Denial about both her liabilities and his abilities is at 50 year flood levels. The funny thing is they have seen the future and refuse to understand it. It is in front of them on a daily basis, with the GOP establishment, they just haven’t realized that even as Democratic supporters they are just the flip side of the same coin.
Pavel February 24, 2016 at 12:54 pm
There is a lot of “denial” in politics but I can’t remember as much as is exhibited by the HRC supporters. Over at Daily Kos, for instance (where I go for amusement at times) I see them regularly:
* excusing the Goldman Sachs speech payments (“she deserves it”, “everybody does it”, etc)
* horrifically, and astoundingly, they excuse her praise of and friendship with war criminal Kissinger (“he did some good things”, “he did the China deal”)
* re the emails: “what’s the big deal?”, “Rice and Powell did it also”
* all the Super PAC money…
you get the point. There seems to be so much blindness to her hypocrisy — and to their own: if a Republican did these things they’d be screaming blue murder.
Well, apparently Henry really did save the world during the Sino-Soviet War when he discouraged the USSR from launching a ~500 MT first strike against the nascent Chinese nuclear weapons infrastructure. According to most models, that would have produced enough cooling to have wiped out agriculture (at least in the Northern Hemisphere) for several years. That probably counts as a “good thing”, although I don’t think it was enough to excuse the rest.
I’m not going to provide links because it will place me in moderation hell forever, but a quick search on:
sino-soviet war nuclear
ought to be informative (although the best documents are a little harder to scare up).
Rhondda February 24, 2016 at 4:54 pm
Sounds all too similar to the assertion that W and Cheney “kept us safe.”
Not quite. In 1969 the USSR approached several US diplomats inquiring what the US reaction would be if the USSR launched a first strike against the PRC to remove what they viewed as the Chinese nuclear threat. They suggested that they were prepared to discontinue aid to the North Vietnamese in exchange for the US remaining neutral in such a conflict. This is all pretty well documented declassified documents from both the US and the USSR (many of which are available on-line from the National Security Archive at George Washington University). Of course, at the time nobody was aware of what the climate implications of such a strike would have been because the computing power necessary to do the modeling wasn’t available in 1969 (and wouldn’t be until after 1976, although no one thought to try to evaluate this sort scenario until 1982 or so).
Kissinger and Nixon certainly didn’t intend to save much of the world by turning down the Russian offer, but they seem to have done so almost purely by accident.
I fail to see how this is the equivalent of the administration that was in office on 9/11 claiming to have “kept us safe”.
Cry Shop February 26, 2016 at 1:35 am
I suspect most of those sources have been contaminated by Henry. It’s not the first time he’s had the history written his way, and he’s not alone it it either. Also, Kissinger didn’t have that kind of power in those days, and he was not an Asian wonk.
After all, this is the same Kissinger who is on record as threatening North Vietnam with nuclear attack to get them to the negotiation table in Paris, he had no qualms about using Nukes; and if he said anything to the Russians, it would only have been because he wanted to fish to then sell the info to China.
rich February 24, 2016 at 12:54 pm
She also seems to have “strong arms”?
Pro-Clinton union threatens labor official to back out of Sanders event
A union supporting Hillary Clinton reportedly pressured a labor official to back out of speaking at an event held by Bernie Sanders, the former secretary of State’s rival in the Democratic presidential race.
Jeff Johnson, the head of the Washington State Labor Council, was scheduled to speak in Seattle during a “Labor for Bernie” rally, the Huffington Post reported Tuesday. But an international labor union threatened to take away funding from Johnson’s group if he spoke at the event, an emcee told the audience at the event.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/270579-pro-clinton-union-threatens-labor-official-to-back-out-of-sanders-event
The silent majority?..hmmm…
Money is power.
Whoever is dispensing funding has a lot of power.
I remember when the dems were ITCHING to run against Reagan….
for people that is chock full of geniuses, it is amazing how frequently they lose to the stupid…
Steven D. February 24, 2016 at 1:07 pm
Hillary’s Nevada win was engineered largely by Harry Reid and the SEIU. Don’t want to discount the importance of organization but it’s not like Hillary’s appeal suddenly became apparent to people. Anyone know what Hillary’s South Carolina organization is like?
From the FT article on Trump’s win in NV:
In one of the most surprising developments in Nevada, NBC News exit polls found that Mr Trump had won 44 per cent of the Hispanic vote, compared with 29 per cent for Florida senator Mr Rubio, who is a fluent Spanish speaker, and Texas senator Mr Cruz on 18 per cent. Mr Trump has repeatedly claimed to have strong support from Hispanics despite his signature policy to deport 11m — mostly Mexican — illegal immigrants and to build a wall along the US-Mexico border.
Of course, this is 44% of Republican Hispanics, but still.
How long before the MOTU give up on Rubio and Cruz and pretend they’re leading the parade?
The GOP will be sitting pretty for the Fall, with an energized base
and a candidate who the media can’t get enough of.
Clinton would be their dream opponent.
It would be interesting to see the break-down of those hispanics – many I suspect would be Cuban-Americans who have, to put it mildly, a very different perspective than most other hispanics.
But it actually doesn’t surprise me that many hispanics would vote for Trump. Sometimes the most hardline on immigrants are actually first generation immigrants – the motivations are often complex, but its often a mix of not wanting their own status undermined by too many of their countrymen arriving, and a sort of ultra nationalism that you often find among people who find their own status insecure. Plus wealthy hispanics really don’t have any emotional connection with their poorer compatriots.
trinity river February 24, 2016 at 1:50 pm
Try to remember that a very large portion of the US was once Mexico. Many Hispanics have been here longer than Europeans. They are not and do not feel like immigrants, despite the discrimination they have suffered and in some times and places still suffer.
Robert Dudek February 25, 2016 at 12:37 am
If U.S. “whites” are Europeans, then so are most Hispanics.
The dirty little secret is that ‘Hispanics’ differentiate between Hispanics, Mestizos, and Indios, internally.
To see racism in action, look into the histories of various ‘Native Peoples’ throughout the New World. “La Layenda Negra.”
different clue February 24, 2016 at 2:10 pm
Cuban-ancestry hispanics in Nevada? How many Cubans ever went to Nevada?
Any at all? Even one?
I think one factor may be the exporting of jobs to China, forcing many people of all races to move from California to Nevada.
PlutoniumKun February 24, 2016 at 3:37 pm
Many Cubans who left after the revolution worked (or had businesses) in the gigantic Cuban gambling industry. One reason Las Vegas grew so much was that Havana was no longer available for gamblers. So I would imagine quite a few made a straight move to Las Vegas
But those in Miami seem to be more vocal, giving the impression, falsely perhaps, that there are not too many outside of the area.
A lot of the ‘vocal’ Cuban politics in Miami was the result of CIA fomentation of anti-Castro movements. Miami is right next to Cuba, Las Vegas is not.
Steve Gunderson February 24, 2016 at 4:37 pm
Marco Rubio and his family moved to Nevada.
There is, fortunately, now a viable alternative to the coffin nails. Electronic cigarettes (95% safer according to Public Health England).
Unfortunately, the EU decided to regulate them out of existence through the onerous article 20 of the tobacco products directive.
One more little reason,on top of the disasters visited on the Eurozone, to quit the EU.
vaping is everywhere in europe. in paris, there’s an e-cigarette store on every street. how did the EU regulate them out of existence?
paul February 24, 2016 at 11:17 am
Arbritrary limitation of nicotine strength,costly testing and notifications, limitations on the container size of liquids (max 10ml) to start with.
The TPD doesn’t kick in till 20th May this year,
Clive Bates (ex director of Action on Smoking and health) explains what’s wrong here
Can’t speak to the regulations, but just to confirm what vidimi said–I was in Paris recently and there is indeed an e-cigarette shop on just about every corner. Amazed they can stay in business.
The flip side: I was in France when they banned smoking in restos and cafés and elsewhere. I was prepared for major rebellion, but the clients all took it in stride. Amazing!
I have tried to find the article I read about vaping having a chemical in it that might be seriously dangerous in the long run and is used with tobacco & cannabis. It sounds good, but . . is it another win for marketing.
susan the other February 25, 2016 at 12:02 pm
I remember stg. about e-cigarettes like that too, a chemical or too-fine smoke that gets down into the tiniest capillaries of your lungs – and yes e-smoke does bother bystanders, i knew the minute my husband lit up in the back room because i could smell the fumes, they smelled just like nicotine. honest, my nose is phenomenal.
Back in the 1980’s I worked on the carbon fuel pellet for what I believe was the first smokeless cigarette, RJR’s Premier.
It ended up being a complex little widget – pressure drop/burn time/ temp. Heated gas was pulled through a “flavor capsule” that vaporized all the things smokers crave, all contained in a little aluminum capsule (why not just eat the capsule I asked? –dirty looks…)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_(cigarette)
RJR spent a serious amount of dough,like $1BB at the time – (how was that even possible!?? Not knowing this, probably why I got the dirty looks) developing, test marketing and further tweaking.
Ultimately the effort was foiled by a lukewarm consumer acceptance and threats that the FDA would rule it to be a drug delivery device requiring prescription. In the end, these little Frankenstein cigarettes would have been a recycling nightmare :o/ but at the time I thought they were a great idea.. Hated Cigg smoke in the music venues.
So what’s changed regarding the sensibility of not considering those Steampunk looking Vapping thingees I see people huddled around on the sidewalk in the City sucking as drug delivery devices I wonder? That is precisely what they are!
I will call it a small incremental victory for us nonsmokers, as well perhaps for the incremental acceptance of allowing people to ingest what they want without a government entity interfering –while also thankfully improving my breathing experience in The Commons
i have a theory…
originally, vaping was supposed to allow smokers to smoke indoors again as, technically, they didn’t produce smoke. however, most countries quickly put the kibosh on that idea but, by then, a lot of people had already bought them. a lot of smokers don’t like to smoke at home, and vaping allows them to do that without going on the balcony or opening windows. now, we’ve reached a critical mass and most smokers have an e-cigarette in addition to traditional fags. back in the 80s, everyone smoked indoors in offices and public spaces anyway so the appeal wasn’t there.
For The Win February 25, 2016 at 5:43 am
…”why not just eat the capsule I asked?”
Those dirty looks were because you were too close to a sensitive deeper truth. The difference between nicotine in a cigarette and digested/skin patch is the same difference between “crack” cocaine and cocaine up the nose. The former method of ingestion is far more addictive.
Only direct IV injection has greater impact on the addictive properties of stimulants (and the other extreme – Opioids/Barbiturates) than a pathway through the lungs. Hence “smokeless” tobacco never took on smoking, though both are filthy, but injecting heroin overtook smoking opium, though the former is far more risky to life and health, as well as messy.
Back in the day, heads would paint a line of hash oil down a cigarette and put it back in a pack of smokes. “I’ll take the one with the line” was code speak for “light up!”
Vaping has become literally a drug delivery device. Mix some of what you like in with the fluid you inhale, and, “lets light up!” This dynamic has been playing out for as long as there have been humans.
The famous citation is from Herodotus:
“The Scythians, as I said, take some of this hemp seed, and, creeping under the felt coverings, throw it upon the red hot stones; immediately it smokes, and gives out such a vapour as no Grecian vapour-bath can exceed, the Scyths, delighted, shout for joy…”
Everything that is old is new again.
In the same way as a coffee cup is a drug delivery device.
The main difference between vaping and smoking(weed or tobacco) is combustion.
Cannabis oil is not something I would want to inhale as I do not know of any mechanism for the lungs to clear it.
There are ‘dry herb vaporisers’ for that sort of thing, but I don’t really know anything about them.
Smoked for 30 years,vaped exclusively for four. I am confident that that it is an extremely safe substitute for smoking.
jgordon February 24, 2016 at 8:39 am
“You can stick a fork in her candidacy.”
Actually last night I was feeling a bit disappointed that Bernie seemed to be going nowhere. But then I was reading about how hilariously vicious Trump has been to his Republican stepping-stones in the primaries so far and I had a thought: wait a minute. If Trump is being this nasty to Republicans over relatively minor stuff, just what would he do if Clinton is his target? And then I thought: Holy CRAP this is going to be AWESOME!
It does suck that Hillary will get the nomination… but think of the entertainment! Every dirty dark secret and verboten topic that Sanders has been too yellow to hit Clinton on is going to be fair game for Trump. Not even Rubio or Cruz would eviscerate Clinton like Trump will; after all, Rubio, Cruz, and even Bernie (really) are all beholden to the establishment and therefore can’t mention anything specific or of real significance. But Trump doesn’t give a crap about that! Trump will gleefully start out each of his debates with Clinton pointing out that as soon as he’s elected he’ll be indicting her–and that’s just the start! How many (former) Bernie supporters will be right there with Trump, lighting candles and praying to God for Trump’s victory and for the indictments to come down. Only Trump can do it!
I hope he doesn’t say crazy things like he’s going to nuke some country. But there is no guarantee.
What he said about blood and bullets was really nasty, that contrasting with calling the decision to go to Iraq an American mistake. (I suppose that can lead to reparation and apologies).
Being bombastic about blood is gory, but actual bombing and maiming is the worst.
And one more thing – his Great Wall of America is not a good idea, even if he can get Mexico to pay for it. At least twice it was breached in the history of China.
Once, 16 northern provinces were ceded to the Khitans. The Great Wall went through some of them. There went the defense with that ceding Once the Mongols defeated the Jurchens, they were inside the Wall.
The second time was when a rebel captured Beijing and the Ming commander of one the key passes along the Great Wall opened the gate to Nurhachi and his soldiers, in order to put down the rebellion.
Perhaps that’s a ploy to strengthen border patrol. You stake out an extreme position in order to compromise on one you can live with. Still, border patrol is secondary to solving that problem, because we have to work the Mexican government to defeat neoliberalism and NAFTA that is converting Mexican peasants into cheaper labor for the people in the north.
jgordon February 24, 2016 at 1:09 pm
The key to understanding Trump’s popularity is that few people actually believe that he’ll build this wall. People who are arguing that he really won’t do it because it’s impossible are misunderstanding something important.
I don’t understand all this anti illegal immigrant stuff. All you have to do is levy heavy penalties on the EMPLOYERS, up to and including closing down the business and seizing all assets, plus jail time for senior management. No jobs, no reason to cross the border.
I agree, Robert. It was the employers who brought them in in the first place. Lots of processing plants in the midwest. In fact, after Katrina, the people in Oaxaca did not arrive to help rebuild until they were asked to come. I had an attorney in TX tell me that his yard was so big that to hire someone to mow it cost him $200 a week, but w/o immigrants, it would cost him upwards of $800 a week.
cnchal February 24, 2016 at 10:02 pm
Isn’t that the same guy that charges $8.00 per minute.
Only 25 minutes of “work” to pay for the Mexican. An eternal 100 minutes for the American.
Cheapness doesn’t come any cheaper.
Its very hard for a business, especially a small business, to identify applicants that are not eligible to work. Fake documents, IDs, and identity theft are very prevalent.
That seems to be a regulatory problem more than anything.
tiresoup February 24, 2016 at 1:03 pm
Best case scenario in my opinion is Hillary gets indicted and goes out fighting. I gotta believe she knows some deep sh*t. It’s the only way the American people get a glimpse behind the curtain.
Bernie Sanders is the Worst Presidential Candidate in History, and You and All Your Friends are Idiots
thanks, that was excellent
That’s great. The commentors think it’s poor satire, but I disagree
Kulantan February 24, 2016 at 10:35 am
“the Oompa Loompa version of Hitler”
I think I’m going to have to steal that one.
A guy I know that did business with Trump in the late 1980’s told me last Friday evening . “Yeah the guys hair, no kidding.. But when you meet him it’s his ass. The guy has a huge ass!”
Just putting it out there as a public service for anyone that takes this sort of thing into consideration when making a POTUS selection decision. Personally I’ve never seen it. but for a guy to point out the size of another guys ass, well draw your own conclusions.
Rendered to Bumper Sticker lingo:
Trump has Back!
So far I am still occasionally displaying my “God Bless Spiro Agnew” sticker in the rear window.
Call me old school. I will say, it does elicit some looks
given that trump has indulged in the odd fit of misogyny now and then, perhaps it would be only fair if opponents started commenting on his full, child-bearing hips.
Friar Tuck February 24, 2016 at 12:19 pm
“Hillary Clinton has a far worse approval rating, is loathed by Independents, couldn’t land a millennial voter if she turned into an anime version of Kanye West and Gangnam-styled across America”
Ppfffffhfhfhfhfhffffhahahahahaa.
Okay, I laughed.
Llewelyn Moss February 24, 2016 at 1:34 pm
Ha. That was great. The Hilarious truth. Thanks for posting.
Brindle February 24, 2016 at 9:18 am
re: President Donald Trump It Could Happen–John Nichols The Nation
Nichols is a smart journalist, although too accommodating to the Dem establishment for my taste.
Here we see what the HRC strategy against Trump will be–surprise—Identity politics. Ilse Hogue is president of Clinton supporting NARAL:
—The challenge to Trump must address economic anxiety while also emphasizing pluralism, says Hogue. “Where Trump’s weakness is, and where his opponent will have an advantage, is that the way this country genuinely experiences economic inequality has everything to do with your race, your gender, your treatment as an immigrant—all these issues.” Clinton has begun speaking to this. Even if Wall Street is reined in and economic challenges are addressed, she warned in the Democratic debate in Milwaukee, “we would still have racism holding people back. We would still have sexism preventing women from getting equal pay. We would still have LGBT people who get married on Saturday and get fired on Monday.”—
I think Trump will beat Hillary—she is just a weak candidate.
I don’t believe Trump will just “beat” her, I think he will dismember her. She and bill WENT TO HIS WEDDING.
They both run in the same circles, but Trump was SUPPOSED to be there. She was not.
MyLessThanPrimeBeef February 24, 2016 at 11:41 am
Income Guarantee guarantees equal pay, for all races and genders.
Job Guarantee doesn’t do that. It would need another guarantee – equal pay guarantee. I suppose we can do it, though it’s already on the book to not discriminate.
Back to the point of economic inequality – the writer makes a good point that economic inequality has always been there, not just looming large in the last few decades. I think they need something more than ‘This time, we are fighting for all of us,’ given the broken promises.
“You just want our votes and you will forget about us.”
“Our economic challenges remain.”
ewmayer February 24, 2016 at 6:09 pm
@Brindle, thanks for the Ilse Hogue quote. LOL at “Clinton has begun speaking to this.” Sure, but only HRC’s deluded supporters believe that is anything other than tell-em-what-you-think-they-want-to-hear verbiage. As I’ve long said about Hillary, to her, words are wind. Stick a damp index finger up before the speech, figure out which way the breeze is blowing (or whither direction the $$ are coming from), lie shamelessly in that direction. Lather, rinse, repeat.
LMS February 24, 2016 at 9:21 am
Nice summary of analysis and criticism of the Sanders economic plan:
http://billmoyers.com/story/the-sanders-economic-plan-controversy/
Relevant to the storms in the southern U.S. yesterday, this site is both beautiful and useful:
http://hint.fm/wind/
Very impressive at the moment. NW of the low, there is icing happening over a huge area.
edit, icing potentially happening
As for Trump being caught in bed with…
I like Edwin Edwards, the still much beloved Democratic ex-Governor of Louisianas’ quote about that subject: “The only way I can lose this election is if I’m caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.”
Trump is a lot like “Fast Eddie.” For all his faults, Edwards, not related to todays Governor Edwards, is still remembered as a having been a good governor for the average Louisiana denizen.
I hope Trump gets the lesson from the saying attributed to an early Cuban Dictator: “When the Shark (el Tiburon) takes a bath, he splashes a lot.”
I suspect that Trumps poll numbers would go up if it happened!
Clive February 24, 2016 at 10:03 am
I think you’ve touched on quite an important point there, Trump could sodomise a donkey in Times Square and it would only augment his mainstream-thinking-can-go-take-a-flying-frig-at-a-rolling-doughnut aura.
It gets even more bizarre if you think, as I do, that the more Hillary tries to clutch her emeralds warmly around her neck and portray herself as the sensible, reliable and proven candidate, the more alienated people seem to get. It’s the exact opposite of what you’d expect.
U.S. politics is certainly interesting right now! Most everyone I talk to on this side of the Atlantic gets a look of total bewilderment at what has come to pass. It’s like Italy, only uglier and stranger. And without the fashion sense.
allan February 24, 2016 at 10:05 am
“It’s like Italy, only uglier and stranger.”
And with nukes. One toy that Berlusconi never had.
Jagger February 24, 2016 at 11:02 am
It is clear as day the objective of support for Trump is simply to give the finger to the establishment. So the worse he is, the better, because the more horrible Trump is, the bigger the finger to the establishment.
Of course, he very likely would be a disaster as a president. It is a sign of the times that people are willing to risk disaster to slap around the establishment.
clinton 1.0 was a disaster as were baby bush, obama and ronny raygun.
It’s not a disqualifier.
Maybe it’s time to play the expectations game the way wall street does–set the bar low enough and “beat by a penny.”
To the extent ANYTHING is getting done, it is only what Wall Street /Military Industrial Complex want done. The US government has NOT done anything for the likes of me in…..hmmmm, I remember about 40 years ago my mom got some cheese (she gave some to me – I don’t actually much care for cheese, but it was free). I forget what the program was called.
With the caveat that all the politicians are lying, I would say Trump is on record as more sympathetic to social security than most repubs/many dems.
Could Trump get anything through???? But if he stops even half the crap that gets through now that would be a big improvement!
Now, all he could do is STOP what wall street and the MIC want, and eventually …oh what is that called????? Where people negotiate????
The ART of … hmmmmm – – The compromise? …..Oh, I got it – The TRADE!!!….No, no that’s not it either. Is it The bargain????
Well, the word escapes me now – but really, I don’t see where the average person would be any worse off than what has been accomplished under Obama…
Trump has said a few scary things (for me anyway), but he’s got the skillset to toy with Congress, like he did with Jeb.
Caesar was a scary guy, but at least he was able to horse the Senate around.
You know, until they all killed him and stuff.
To preserve the republic, they believed.
Not long after, Octavius became divine.
Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.
The line between democracy and a darker social order is thinner than we think.
The time has come to view ignorance as regular rather than deviant.
What were the odds a great nation like Germany would look to a demented street bum and former corporal to be its heroic leader?
Today we have Trump and the modern day “Know Nothing” Republican Party. Agnotology is alive and well in America.
One cannot help but think of the great Roman satirist Juvenal’s scornful words, “Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the people have abdicated their duties; the people, that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now meddle no more and long eagerly for just two things – bread and circuses.”
Just as the Romans lost the capacity to govern themselves by being so distracted by mindless self-gratification, we also have our bread and circuses as well as many other outlets for mindless self-gratification.
According to Juvenal, writing about the Rome of his time, it was hard not to write satire. It is hard not to write satire these days, when we and our government are so consumed with bread and circuses. We constantly satirize ourselves.
At some point will the audience begin to realize that there is no longer any bread, just circuses?
Trump is a one man circus.
That’s better than attempting some beer hall putsch with his followers.
“My struggle to build a great wall for my country.”
The Great Wall of China is 13,000 miles long. The US-Mexico border is just 2,000 miles. Surely the Chinese could be persuaded to ship the least touristic parts of their wall. It would surely beat building a new wall from scratch using US labor. It would save us a bunch of money.
They will sell us a fake Great Wall, but so genuine looking that even experts are fooled.
They will even put in some dead chinese people into the mortar to increase the realism!
Unlike the mega structures in the Middle East, the Great Wall (the first one, built by the first emperor) was erected by forced laborers, many died and were said to have been buried in it.
Most likely it was the same for many pre-Columbian pyramids, given that they raided their neighbors for prisoners to sacrifice to their gods.
Re: Australian property bubble.
I’ve been telling people for years that Australia has a bubble as bad as Irelands in the 00’s. If anything, it seems even worse (even Ireland didn’t have interest only mortgages). And its been ongoing for a very long time, as Steve Keen has pointed out. If you subtract the contribution of investments in bank bonds which is feeling the bubble, Australia has actually been a very poor economic performer for several decades. A combination of a bank crash, property crash and low commodity prices could get very nasty for Oz.
Listening to the debate going on at the moment here about negative gearing has been pretty scary (if not unexpected). The pollies are going about how important and valuable the housing industrial complex is and how we must support it. Nobody is talking about the bubble or how to deal with it.
Whenever I read the Oz media on house prices, it is all too reminiscent to me of the sort of things that were in the Irish media around 2005-2007.
After looking at the graphs, my question is, wouldn’t the US graph on price of housing vs income be approximately the same?
@trinity river
Nowhere near – if you look at the Economist House price widget:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/11/global-house-prices
You can see that by that measure Oz prices are about 40-50% higher. US prices are about at their historic average (thats not to say there aren’t regional bubbles).
Skippy February 24, 2016 at 3:58 pm
Its just the Calif RE portfolio scam of the 80s taken to absurd heights and enabled by all the credit dramas the US experienced.
Sydney and Melbourne are the majors w/ mining towns spread out nationally a close second.
Skippy… High density is the new rage in all urban and near CBD locations.
Micky9finger February 24, 2016 at 4:14 pm
Do the banks’ have excessive CEO compensation?
Are the banks selling CDOs, derivatives and other investment instruments loaded with bad loans?
See William Black’s writing and interviews on the subject of the criminal behaviour of the “banksters”.
Is the situation similar to the way the to big to fail US banks crashed the world financial
Market?
Further, see the movie or read the book: “THE BIG SHORT”
ChrisFromGeorgia February 24, 2016 at 9:51 am
It isn’t possible to overstate how clueless and behind-the-curve the GOP establishment is. The latest “secret weapon” to stop Trump was supposed to be a flood of endorsements from the likes of Lindsey Graham, Bob Dole, and other assorted beltway apparatchiks and nursing home residents for Rubio.
They don’t seem to understand that every mainstream endorsement from the likes of these clowns is like super-fuel for Trump mania.
Then there was the crazy idea that if only Rubio/Cruz could meld themselves into one candidate, that would stop the Donald. Sounds an awful lot like the “bargaining” stage has been reached.
Last night’s results from Nevada put an end to that fantasy.
I think we should all enjoy the next week, after that I suspect the party insiders will get past the bargaining stage and move to acceptance.
MikeNY February 24, 2016 at 10:14 am
I had the same thought on the endorsements. It’s like Malaria endorsing Dysentery.
Left in Wisconsin February 24, 2016 at 1:56 pm
That Dole endorsement video is creepy. I guess I should show sympathy to an old man but the notion that it would fuel Rubio enthusiasm was, like, really?
nippersdad February 24, 2016 at 9:54 am
Here is an update on Ukraine that goes well with the China south sea island story:
http://www.salon.com/2016/02/23/this_is_how_we_spooked_putin_what_the_new_york_times_wont_tell_you_about_the_american_adventure_in_ukraine/
Clinton et al are just a disease.
It is for this reason alone you can read a smidge—but only a smidge—about the events now unfolding in Ukraine in the New York Times and all other media that reliably do as the Times does.
Marty Baron, the current Washington Post editor, had a column in this morning’s Post immodestly celebrating his role in Oscar nominated Spotlight (a good movie). However the Catholic pedophile scandal was 16 years ago and 2016 Baron, like his colleagues at the Times, is doing a very poor job of informing the public about Ukraine. Lacking meaningful competition, our current crop of journos don’t even realize how bad they are. Big media have always had a dubious history when it comes to war–Iraq, Vietnam are modern examples–but cheerleading a confrontation with Russia is the height of irresponsibility. I guess there’s some cold comfort in knowing that should the ICBMs ever fly our East coast media overlords will be sitting at the center of the bullseye.
According to Col. Wilkerson above, those on the west coast will not be exempt from the show.
What will be the trigger – some atoll in the South China Sea, or some other atoll east of China/north of Taiwan/south of Japan?
DJG February 24, 2016 at 9:55 am
I haven’t been following the debate, but let me put this as seriously as I can: What do the English (and it mainly the English) expect from withdrawing from the E.U.? What does England make anymore besides the occasional Cadbury Creme Egg, money-laundering scandal in The City, and heir to the throne as tourist attraction?
I read that column by Tony Blair and his Cloud of Unknowing in the Guardian. Even by U.S. standards, the guy is clueless. Does he think that cluelessness and a plummy accent are going to save England from the depredations of its upper classes? (And I do mean England here, given that the Scots appear to be the most highly educated nation in Europe.)
I’ll try to answer this as best I can, which isn’t unfortunately to give an “it’s because of x-, y- and z-” type of answer but rather to illustrate with a contrast in how people here tend to think when confronted by this sort of decision.
I was speaking with a Japanese friend who lived in England and we were discussing about the (as it was at the time) question of whether Britain should join the euro. I asked my friend how, if the same question were being debated in Japan, would the Japanese consider what to do for the best. My friend said that the Japanese would review the question, consider the information that was available to them and then vote, after some consultation with people who’s opinions they trusted, on what was in Japan’s overall long-term interests.
At which point I laughed out loud. My Japanese friend’s undoubtedly accurate description of the method that the Japanese would tend to use in arriving at what they hoped would be the best way forward threw into sharp contrast how most English people are making their “in” or “out” choice. Which is to say, based on the most cockamamie, ridiculous, trivial and short-term load of old bollocks non-reasons reasons you could possibly imagine.
My mother in law doesn’t like the EU, barely tolerates foreigners and makes occasional references to how much better the world was when the British Empire helped “backward people” (her words, groan) run their affairs. An archetypal “little Englander” then. So she, naturally (not!), is voting to remain in the EU because you don’t want to go doing anything rash. My partner is also voting to stay in the EU because, apparently, so I was told, the EU does a lot of good things for animal welfare so cats will be worse off without EU legislation (I wish I was making this up; I considered for a moment looking up whether in fact any EU regulations do improve standards for domestic animals, I know there are welfare standards for livestock in EU but I don’t know if there is anything specific for non-farm animals — but in the end, my poor enfeebled brain couldn’t be bothered to try and come up with a fact-based argument (or agreement)).
My Dad is voting to leave the EU purely on the basis that the local (conservative) MP is a rabid pre-EU greasy political pole climber who is only trying to gain favour in the Tory party so my Dad is voting to leave, even though he thinks on balance we should stay in the EU, just out of spite.
And these are amongst the more sensible examples of the maturity of the British people’s thought-processes on the matter. So don’t expect any considered, intellectual analysis. Overall, it (the referendum) is all viewed as a bit of harmless fun and a good excuse for the electorate to settle some political scores in a (so they think) not too significant or impacting way. It’s like we’ve all entered the Twilight Zone and woken up in Donald Trump’s mind.
DJG February 24, 2016 at 12:08 pm
Thanks. So it is just like U.S. politics, without bubble-and-squeak. Of course, you may just have explained where several very strong strains of Unknowing in U.S. politics derive from. In the English-speaking world, it is always 1740.
[Does your father think that if the U.K. leaves the EU, the Tories will leave England? You’ll have a Tory on every street corner.]
Vatch February 24, 2016 at 4:36 pm
Okay, I have to ask: what is the significance of 1740?
DJG February 24, 2016 at 6:07 pm
I was searching for a period with a kind of stasis: After the Glorious Revolution, before the Seven Years War and American Revolution. Not quite into the First or Second Great Awakening.
[Vivaldi’s last years (?).]
‘Being Donald Trump’……………..john malkovich eat your heart out
Your partner is right.
Cats are very important.
Without them, we wouldn’t have Soseki’s “I am a cat.”
inode_buddha February 25, 2016 at 7:23 am
Well, just to put things in perspective (from a US viewpoint) the welfare of cats *is* quite important compared to the EU. And to the UK I say: Bless You for considering your independence, this kind of thing is important.
Maybe I was reading my own skepticism but I thot that the article above in National Interest implied that the “British Political Class” of mostly conservatives actually wanted out of the EU in order to sever ties with us because they don’t want to be our go-between with the EU and would rather be footloose to wheel and deal internationally (I read that as internat. finance) without obligation to either the EU or the US and the Transatlantic Alliance. And knowing full well that the US will always maintain trading ties with them, etc. That actually makes sense, Cameron’s theatrics included bec. motives are always so well hidden.
human February 24, 2016 at 12:34 pm
Kraft Foods purchased Cadbury in 2010. Much production was moved elsewhere.
Katniss Everdeen February 24, 2016 at 9:58 am
“…….absent a wild card like Trump being shot…….”—–Yves
I read somewhere that Trump always wears a bulletproof vest. I guess it’s not like he hasn’t considered the possibility.
That just means it would take a better shooter.
ambrit February 24, 2016 at 11:07 am
Also consider an ‘inside job’ for such an “accident” to happen. (Small aircraft have short circuited many a career.) A la Huey Long, bodyguards have always been suspected of double dealings.
Carolinian February 24, 2016 at 12:00 pm
Unlikely an air incident will send him the way of the Kingfish. Trump has a 757….probably has a chaff dispenser for surface to air missiles.
Yves Smith Post author February 24, 2016 at 10:55 pm
Oh, small planes are much more accident-prone, and he’s going to be flying it to all sorts of airports where it will at least have to be refueled.
Gio Bruno February 24, 2016 at 11:51 pm
As a longtime passenger in small aircraft (State plane) it’s usually pilot error that brings them down. (It’s not the drop, but the sudden stop that hurts.)
I don’t think this country could survive another “shooter” with the magical marksmanship of Lee Harvey Oswald.
alex morfesis February 24, 2016 at 12:39 pm
Trump need only worry about character assassination…he lost key casino employees and working multi generations with mafia influenced nyc construction and bldg mgmt trades he had to learn to be careful at a young age…certainly his not keeping to a tight schedule makes it harder for a lone gunmEn to catch an opening easily…
He is vulnerable if he does not get ahead of the curve after super tuesday and comes up with a tagline to deal with his need to try to explain himself…maybe…
I am not running for sainthood…
I am running for president…
And then basically hide behind an i used to be young and dumber and was in rooms with people i should not have tried to deal with
Maybe some public disclosures before anyone digs too deep…
If billary steals the demok rats coronation he will be fine enough since she will have a hard time convincing her ad media stenographers that her “honesty” contrasts with the teflon dons “past”…
Although he and colonel sanders will be a battle of contrasts, he wont be mugging the mental midgets hes been shadow boxing with in the primaries anymore…
We are living in interesting times…
And his Magic Bullet. Acting alone.
jrs February 24, 2016 at 5:29 pm
Dripped in pig blood?
myshkin February 24, 2016 at 1:58 pm
If he’s wearing a vest it would have to be a head shot but with all that camouflage hair it would require quite a sharpshooter with a minor in coiffure, anyway it’s his least vulnerable point. More likely he shoots himself in the foot though that’s proven impervious to date.
You don’t think that’s hair on his head? hmmmmmmm…..
HotFlash February 24, 2016 at 11:26 pm
Kevlar toupee?
kj1313 February 24, 2016 at 10:48 am
A part of me thinks a Trump win will help diminish the neocon/neoliberals wings in both parties.
They will probably join each other to form a neo-Republican-Democratic party.
Just as a rose by any other name smelling as sweet, how many dems/repubs already are in the same interest group, only distinguished by color designators?
Wall street bail outs
Lack of wall street prosecutions
more and more mid east involvment
I guess they get to disagree on gay marriage and abortion rights.
It will definitely be a hit to the neoliberal.
The neocons still have congress.
Black thinkers like Bernie Sanders. They’ve studied the Clintons’ true cost
Steven W Thrasher
Spike Lee is the latest black public intellectual to endorse Bernie Sanders and to question the sanity of black voters and politicians pledging their allegiance to the Clintons, who have done as much harm to black America as any living political couple. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I am mystified by robust black support for Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing helped me wake up about race in America when I first watched it as a teenager. That’s why I was delighted to read that Spike Lee encouraged South Carolina democrats to “wake up” in a radio ad on Tuesday and to vote for “Brother Bernie”.
Bill Clinton governed through playing to white fears by hurting, locking up or even executing black Americans.
Much less intellectually sound are the arguments of Clinton’s black surrogates. When she was endorsed by the corporate-funded Super Pac of the Congressional Black Caucus (not by the CBC itself or by its members), the only reason seemed to be political expediency. The black members of congress seemed intent on maintaining their relationship within the Clinton power structure, no matter how deeply invested it may be in white supremacy. Like Clinton, much of the CBC is beholden to Wall Street. So Sanders – with no connection to Wall Street or to a global foundation ripe for harvesting political chits – offers CBC members little possibility of power except by way of his gamble for the White House.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/24/black-thinkers-bernie-sanders-studied-clintons-true-cost
Katniss Everdeen February 24, 2016 at 12:52 pm
Malcolm X infamously said: “You can’t have capitalism without racism.”
Curious that this quote is not more widely repeated and circulated.
trinity river February 24, 2016 at 12:32 pm
Why would a private equity deal gone sour prove so instructive? It indirectly proves a pet theory of mine: that a lot of what is wrong with US management generally comes out of the leveraged buyout wave of the 1980s.
I wasn’t sure how you felt about private equity. I definitely agree. What I saw in the 80s has become so common that I am always amazed that they can find more companies to fleece. Early on I naively assumed that congress, or the business world itself, would limit this practice. Thanks for this article.
allan February 24, 2016 at 12:47 pm
Seven Reasons Democrats Should Be Terrified of Donald Trump [trigger warning- Washington Free Beacon]
… While I still believe he would be the underdog in a general election, there are several reasons the Democrats are underestimating his powers. Here are seven: …
I’m not underestimating him.
I think he’ll win if Clinton is the nominee and he’ll be another disasterous 4 years. *shrugs*
I’m sure I’ll survive no matter who wins. It’s others who are less secure that I worry about. Personally, I think the South should be worried. President Trump is going too cut social programs AND he thinks you make too much money.
aletheia33 February 24, 2016 at 1:01 pm
i’m a vermont resident and longtime NC reader. i’ve watched bernie for years, and i am not about to give up on him. starting tonight, i’m going to be doing an hour of phonebanking for bernie every evening from now through the SC primary this saturday. from what i’ve heard, it is very easy to do. i can’t afford to donate much, but volunteering this way clearly makes a real difference in the outcomes at the polls.
i think that now through march 1 is the crucial moment, and i feel that volunteering is our only hope to keep bernie out there speaking the truth to a wide audience, maybe even up to getting the nomination/winning the election.
i realized that if i didn’t do it, i’d always regret it. i don’t think any major change to our broken system/establishment can happen unless the people make it happen. and we can.
i have always wanted the thrill of participating in a big political movement that is actually accomplishing something. i believe that is what is taking form now. were it not so, bernie would not have taken NH with such a historic margin. whatever happens with his campaign, i’m sure whatever energy and time i invest now will bear fruit down the line.
if you are not already volunteering, i invite you to join me.
Torsten February 24, 2016 at 1:37 pm
re: Archibishop of St Louis says Girl Scout Cookies encourage sin
Alas, not “Only in America”
/www.thelocal.es/20160105/archbishop-blames-domestic-violence-on-wives-not-obeying-husbands
I, too, was skeptical of the “only in America” comment. I don’t have a specific example convenient, but just about any patriarchal culture will have examples like the one in St. Louis, US, and the one in Toledo, Spain. In other words, just about every country in the world.
Should Dictionaries Do More to Confront Sexism?
Oldspeak doubleplusungood.
Synoia February 24, 2016 at 2:46 pm
Words fail me.
Well, maybe not. That is one of the most arrogant (we adults know better) articles I’ve read.
I still strongly suspect that Trump got into the race on behalf of Hillary. The scare man. The American house of mirrors that makes Hillary seem almost human. He may have been nearly as surprised as anyone -well maybe not- regarding his success and at some point he simply shifted naturally into actually running.
MichaelC February 24, 2016 at 8:00 pm
I’ve been perplexed about what Trump has been playing at since day 1.
I don’t believe he’s even remotely interested in being President. I ‘ve assumed his run was always about excercising his option to raid the Govt purse. The feckless Rs are ridiculously easy marks. As a successful spoiler, he’d be well positioned to negotiate a lucrative blackmail severance deal with the Rs. And as a twofer, Hillary would owe him a huuuuge debt for clearing a path for her if their deal came to fruition. Easiest (and probably the most fun) deal of his life.
If he did get into the race on behalf of Hillary, which is plausible, he did it for a price. But at this point I doubt Hillary (or the D party establishment) can afford that escalating price anymore, and worse for her (and any of her strategists who signed off on the deal) she may not ever be able to pay it thanks to Bernie.
Initially I thought his price was Dept of Interior via proxy (to dominate (or save/protect/resurrect)/consolidate his gambling empire), but with each primary victory combined with Hillary’s fading prospects his going away spoils are looking richer and richer.
Trump is interested in collecting chits, not votes.
They are the same thing in his book, but as long as he continues to be seen as a viable Presidential candidate (which he is not) rather than the grifter that he actually is this race will be continue on its bizarre path until he closes his deal with the R establishment.
I’m pretty sure Trump will exit when its most profitable to Trump. Both parties are now hostage to that reality.
That bodes well for Bernie I think.
I have to wonder how much “patronage” is going to be occurring for a fairly irrelevant party IF THEY LOSE. They won’t have the Senate, House or WH. Or in short, they’ll have virtually no control over policy. Now mind you the Senate is not filibuster proof but short of stopping something in Senate they’ll have no political power.
If I’m smart money, I’m not paying payola for virtually nothing.
Re. Trump wins landslide victory in Nevada | Paywalls-R-Us. “His face is way harder than I’ve ever seen it.” — If you suffer a facial hardening lasting more than 4 hours, see your doctor.
Re. Illinois governor eyes blocking Chicago school debt | Reuters — “How dare you interfere with our death-spiral financing, sir?”
http://www.iitaly.org/14152/authentic-neapolitan-pizza-find-one-and-learn-how-make-one-yourself
A little political anti venom
Hey, thanks for the Death Valley link. The video was the most peaceful moment of this day.
I’ll call my botanist/naturalist friends for a ride out.
http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org/2016/02/the-devil-can-quote-scripture-to-his-purpose/
So our physical analogy has to change somewhat. What Apple has done is produce a lock which is already compromised — compromised by design. It has a second keyhole, if you like, to which Apple has the key. The cops are demanding that Apple give them that key, a key that they can copy at will, and share with whomever they please, and use on whatever lock they please.
Now I am not a lawyer, but if I understand the matter at all, this state of affairs means that Apple has already forfeited, for these phones, whatever tenuous legal protections privacy still has in the United States, and moreover, has forfeited them on behalf of who knows how many of its customers.
Gaylord February 25, 2016 at 9:10 pm
I’ve noticed that a lot of people still eat fish caught in the Pacific Ocean and risk getting cumulative doses of Fukushima radio-isotopes. Death wish?
On China:
Anyone who wants to understand why Obama’s China policy is so completely wrong need only read this paper at Brookings by Jeff Bader, his former Asia czar. It’s a long apologetic for Xi Jin-ping, terrifying and deeply depressing as it comes from a former Administration official. Bader had come from Stonebridge, the consulting firm that does tons of business with China, into the Obama Administration. Wonder what door he’s revolved to now?
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July 11, 2016 by wpfixit
Analyst’s Murder Highlights Cambodian Misrule
Dictator Hun Sen uses brutality to maintain power & erode international confidence, writes Nate Thayer
Nate Thayer
Minutes after prominent Cambodian independent political analyst Kem Ley was gunned down in broad daylight, police arrested a “suspect” who had “confessed” to the assassination.
Within hours, a video of the suspect’s interrogation—the man bleeding from the head and scared witless—was released to the TV Station BTV, which is 100 percent owned by the daughter of the Cambodian dictator Hun Sen. The arrested suspect was asked his name by police. “Juap Samlab,” he answered, lips quivering.
“Juap Samlab” translates directly in English as “Meet Death” or “Meet Killed.” A more literal translation would be “To be killed upon encountering.”
There is not a mother in Cambodia who would give her son such a name.
Kem Ley’s assassination–and make no mistake, this was a targeted political killing ordered by the highest level ruling powers in Cambodia—is the normal rhythm of life under Hun Sen’s government. There are uncountable precedents of murder that stretch back decades.
“Whenever I make a criticism, I never expect myself to be alive,” Kem Ley said recently.
Independent political analyst Kem Ley’s body mobbed by spontaneous mourners in Phnom Pen July 10, 2016
Trail of Death
Not a single case, out of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of murders carried out by Hun Sen’s regime in the last 30 years has ever been brought to justice. This includes hundreds of political opponents who were murdered during the United Nations-controlled runup to elections in 1993. It includes the 16 killed and more than 100 wounded when government agents with grenades attacked a peaceful rally led by opposition leader Sam Rainsy in March, 1997. It includes the hundreds more who were hunted down, tortured and assassinated three months later in July 1997 when Hun Sen launched a coup d’état and wiped out the opposition to his rule.
It includes numerous others murdered prior to and during the 1998 so-called elections which cemented Hun Sen’s rule in power. And it includes hundreds in the 20 years since that Hun Sen has led his country to the precipice of collapse, an embarrassment to the comparably more-properly organized community of nations in Asia.
“Villagers feel totally helpless as they see no recourse against official arbitrary violence and abuses. Deprived of any means to seek justice, even when their children are taken away and being murdered, they swallow their anger and sadness, bow to the powers that be, accept with resignation their fate and withdraw in silence, knowing after long years of oppressive experience that words can kill,” reads a Confidential UN Center for Human Rights report from 1994 leaked to this reporter.
(For complete story, please go to below link)
http://www.asiasentinel.com/opinion/analysts-murder-highlights-cambodian-misrule/
Filed Under: Cambodia, Cambodia censorship, Cambodia corruption, Cambodia human rights, Human Rights, Hun Sen Tagged With: #Kemley, Cambodian political assassination, Hun Sen, Nate Thayer
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The Nigerian Bar Association Section on Business Law (NBA-SBL) has inaugurated the first ‘SBL CLUB’ at the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka.
The initiative is part of the section’s objectives to build capacity and promote the development of commercial law practice in Nigeria. At the event were the faculty’s Dean, law professors, members of the NBA-SBL Council, Committee Chairpersons, members of the ADR Committee of the NBA-SBL, executives of the UNILAG Law Students Society (LSS), amongst others. It is the first in a series of clubs being set up in selected universities across the country.
NBA-SBL Young Lawyers’ Committee Chairperson, Olubukola Olabiyi, said the Section had keen interest in the development of the legal capacity of law students. She said: ”It is hoped that through the Young Lawyers Committee of the NBA-SBL, we would facilitate this development by way of mentorship and internship initiatives as well as invitations to SBL committee programmes focused on various areas of specialisation.
We appreciate the interest and assistance of the UNILAG Faculty of Law and Law Students’ Society in establishing this Club in their institution and look forward to achieving note worthy progress at the UNILAG and other tertiary institutions. SBL Chairman Mr Olumide Akpata expressed delight at the final takeoff of the first SBL club. The SBL Club is primarily aimed at introducing Law Undergraduates to contemporary issues in Commercial Law and Practice that may not yet form part of their curricula but are a ‘must have’ if they are to effectively compete on the global stage as Law Students and ultimately, in the future, as Commercial Law Practitioners.
The Dean, Prof Ayo Asenuwa, welcomed the initiative, expressing faith in the students’ ability to utilise the opportunity. “We are happy that you have considered our faculty for the very first of this capacity building project and we pledge the support of the management to ensure the success of this laudable initiative,” she said. Vice President of the Law Students Society, Ms. Oluwatamilore Sowunmi thanked the Council of the NBA-SBL for the initiative.
After the inauguration, a special ADR session was held by the NBA-SBL committee on Arbitration & ADR, for the benefit of the students. Chair, Advisory Board of the Lagos Court of Arbitration – Young Arbitrators Network (LCA-YAN), Mr Isaiah Bozimo, introduced the students to the practice of ADR.
He highlighted issues such as the nature of arbitrable disputes; arbitration as a mechanism for dispute settlement; the consensual nature of arbitration; arbitration as a private procedure; the legal framework governing international commercial arbitration; and the fact that arbitration leads to a final and binding determination of the rights and obligations of the parties involved.
Another member of the ADR Committee, Mrs Josephine Akinwunmi, spoke to the LSS audience about the benefits of ADR, the core principles of mediation, the role of a mediator, key attributes of an effective mediator, benefits of mediation, obstacles to a successful mediation, the goals of mediation, ethical guidelines for mediators and mediation institutions.
According to her, disputes were generally an inevitable part of human interactions arising from different human transactions including economic activities, family relationships, community, neighbourhood and other civil activities.
“When these disputes arise, it is only natural that the parties will want to resolve them peacefully and the common method of doing so without going to court is to go through the Alternative Dispute Resolution process. The one thing all disputes share is that ultimately they involve people and people involve relationships,” Akinwunmi said, while harping on the importance of maintaining good relations in the resolution of disputes and the need to achieve this through mediation.
The CEDR (UK) Accredited Mediator and SCMA Accredited, Mediation Advocacy Trainer, went on to school them about the attributes of a good mediator; listing those to include, credibility, patience and tact, objectivity alertness, adaptability, perseverance, appearance, demeanor, amongst other things.
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Mail Bomb Suspect Cesar Sayoc’s Personality Changed Radically Over the Years
"We were friends, we were boys ... When I think of the guy I knew and the guy I see now on MSNBC, CNN and at Trump rallies, I think, 'Did he really slip?'"
By Terry Spencer and Ellis Rua • Published at 7:59 pm on October 27, 2018
Thirteen years ago, mail bomb suspect Cesar Sayoc traveled the country leading a mixed-race troupe of male exotic dancers — he ran scams and had a temper, but a fellow dancer who is African-American said he never expressed racism or homophobia.
Years later, working as a pizza driver, Sayoc would often express hatred for minorities, Jews and gays, his manager said. He drove a van plastered with stickers supporting President Donald Trump, criticizing media outlets and showing rifle crosshairs over liberals like Hillary Clinton and filmmaker Michael Moore. But she kept him around, even though she is a lesbian because he was honest, dependable and never got into fights.
Why Sayoc changed so radically over the years remains a mystery, but to those who know him, there seems little question that he did.
"We were friends, we were boys, we traveled in the same van, slept in the same room," said former dancer David Crosby, who is black. "When I think of the guy I knew and the guy I see now on MSNBC, CNN and at Trump rallies, I think, 'Did he really slip?'" He thinks Trump's sometimes bombastic criticism of liberals may have pushed Sayoc over the edge.
"He really wasn't a bad guy," a puzzled Crosby said.
But former pizza restaurant manager Debra Gureghian said that while Sayoc originally came across as respectful, articulate and polite, within days a dark side emerged and he told her he was disgusted by her sexuality.
"I was an abomination, I was God's misfit ... I was a mistake," Gureghian said of her former employee, who quit his job earlier this year. Sayoc thought she "should burn in hell with Ellen DeGeneres and Rachel Maddow... and President Obama and Hillary Clinton."
Sayoc, 56, was arrested Friday near Fort Lauderdale and is charged federally with mailing at least 13 mail bombs to prominent Democrats and other frequent targets of conservative ire, including former President Barack Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and the cable network CNN. He is scheduled to make his first court appearance Monday.
That radicalism is a stark contrast to the mid-2000s when Sayoc managed and performed with two male-dance revues — "Men of Steel" and "American Hunks." He never expressed political views back then, Crosby said.
"I don't know if he was a Democrat or Republican," said Crosby, who now runs a gym and is a comedian near Minneapolis.
Along with three or four other chiseled men, Crosby and Sayoc traveled the country by van, stripping to G-strings for screaming women in honky-tonks and nightclubs. They would check into a motel, perform, bring women back to party, sleep a few hours and then get up early the next morning to drive several hours to the next gig.
"It's a hard life," Crosby said, quite seriously. The partying, bad food and lack of exercise takes a toll, he said.
Sayoc hosted, then danced last. Crosby said he and the other all-but-naked dancers would bring women up on stage, make them and their friends laugh and do some sexual innuendo — except Sayoc, who wasn't a good performer.
He said Sayoc would have women sit in a chair, get between their legs and drive his pelvis into theirs hard — "bang, bang."
"The chair is bouncing off the wall, their head is bouncing off the wall," Crosby said. Sometimes, he would bite the women's exposed skin hard enough to leave teeth marks. Crosby said women would complain to the other dancers that Sayoc was too rough, but no one ever called the police.
He said Sayoc had a "zero to 100" temper and would sometimes use his 6-foot, 250-pound (1.8-meter, 113-kilogram) frame to intimidate other men.
"If he wasn't happy about something, he would definitely let you know," Crosby said.
Still, he never saw Sayoc hit anyone and he treated his employees well — though he would sometimes scam the shows' financial backers.
For example, Crosby said Sayoc would sometimes drive separately in his own older van, though not the now infamous one he was arrested with. He would then take parts from the troupe's newer van, which was owned by an investor, and swap them with dying parts from his clunker, Crosby said. Sayoc would then ask the investor to pay for the troupe van's now-needed repairs.
Twelve years later, however, when Sayoc worked for Gureghian at New River Pizza in Fort Lauderdale, honesty and reliability were his job-saving attributes. He never stole and customers never complained, Gureghian said.
But until he quit earlier this year, he regularly subjected co-workers to fiery political rants. Gureghian called his views "pure hatred."
He detested liberals, blacks, Jews and especially gays, who he called slurs, Gureghian said.
Gureghian said Sayoc used his van for deliveries and one rainy night he offered her a ride home.
"The first thing I did was kind of look to make sure — God forbid — if something happened, can I open that door to get out and how do I tuck and roll?" she said.
Sayoc lived in the van and Gureghian said it was a mess. There were empty containers from fast-food restaurants, men's fitness supplements and alcoholic beverages. Dirty clothes were everywhere.
And, ominously, there were dolls with their heads cut off.
"He told me he was fixing them for his two nieces," Gureghian said.
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Sponge-like action of circular RNA aids tissue repair after heart attack
Reviewed by James Ives, M.Psych. (Editor)Sep 20 2019
The human genetic blueprint is like a string of code. To follow it, the code, or DNA, is transcribed into shorter strings of RNA. While some of these shorter strings carry instructions for making proteins - the functional units of cells - most RNA is not involved in protein production. Among these noncoding RNAs are the recently discovered circular RNAs, so-named because of their unusual ring shape (most other RNAs are linear).
Circular RNAs, like other noncoding RNAs, were thought to be nonfunctional, but recent evidence suggests otherwise. Circular RNAs may in fact act like sponges to "soak up," or bind, other molecules, including microRNAs and proteins, and now, new work by researchers at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University (LKSOM) and colleagues supports this idea. They describe, for the first time, a circular RNA that fills a critical role in tissue repair after heart attack, thanks to its ability to soak up harmful molecules.
The study was published online September 20 in the journal Nature Communications.
We discovered that a circular RNA known as circFndc3b, when added therapeutically to the injured heart after surgically induced heart attack in mice, enhances cardiac repair and helps restore heart function. We attributed these effects of circFndc3b to its ability to function like a 'sponge,' binding a protein called FUS that mediates cell death and reduces vascular growth, which hinders heart tissue repair."
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Dr. Kishore and colleagues focused their investigation on circFndc3b after finding that this particular circular RNA was significantly decreased in the heart in mice that had experienced a heart attack. "This observation led us to wonder whether the change in circFndc3b expression meant that it was important functionally in the heart," Dr. Kishore said.
To investigate this possibility, a gene product to induce circFndc3b overexpression was injected into the heart in mice after heart attack. Subsequent examination showed that within eight weeks of injection, treated mice experienced gains in heart function and in survival compared to their untreated counterparts. There was also evidence within heart tissue that new blood vessels had started to form, greatly aiding the tissue repair process.
The findings offer exciting insight into circular RNAs and the significance of their potential role as molecular sponges that limit the activity of damaging molecules. "CircFndc3b specifically soaked up an RNA binding protein that suppresses blood vessel formation," Dr. Kishore explained. "In doing so, it made way for new vessels to grow."
Dr. Kishore and colleagues are now in the process of developing a large animal model to further investigate the therapeutic potential of circFndc3b. The team also wants to begin analyzing plasma samples from patients just after heart attack to investigate whether specific circulating RNAs could serve as biomarkers for heart disease or injury and to get a better sense of their clinical significance.
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Garikipati, V.N.G. et al. (2019) Circular RNA CircFndc3b modulates cardiac repair after myocardial infarction via FUS/VEGF-A axis. Nature Communications. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11777-7.
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Ravi Shastri to BCCI: Won't Stand In Queue, Want Guarantee On Team India Coach's Job
In what could be seen as a major twist in the 'Who will be the next Team India coach?' saga, CricketNext has learnt through sources close to the developments that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has approached former team director Ravi Shastri to apply for the coveted post, after deciding to re-open the application process for the now vacant position.
Baidurjo Bhose |Cricketnext |June 22, 2017, 1:02 PM IST
New Delhi: In what could be seen as a major twist in the 'Who will be the next Team India coach?' saga, CricketNext has learnt through sources close to the developments that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has approached former team director Ravi Shastri to apply for the coveted post, after deciding to re-open the application process for the now vacant position.
Former coach Anil Kumble opened the proverbial can of worms after stepping down from the position, stating in a personal note that his position had become 'untenable' due to the 'difference in style' with captain Virat Kohli. Kohli's chemistry with Shastri is well documented and an attempt by the board to get Shastri to apply could well be seen as another sign of Kohli flexing his muscles.
"It is no secret that skipper Virat Kohli wants Shastri back at helm and Shastri was spoken to so that he applies for the interview process, but the former team director isn't willing to be in a position where his claim is rejected again. He has made it clear that he will speak to the BCCI or CAC on this matter only if he is given a guarantee that he will be handed the job. There is no question of joining a queue and hoping that he is considered for the post," the official told CricketNext.
It is quite clear that the board wants to give the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC), comprising of Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman, more options before they pick the ideal candidate. As of now, former India opener Virender Sehwag, Sunrisers Hyderabad coach Tom Moody, former Team India manager Lalchand Rajput, former Pakistan coach Richard Pybus and Doda Ganesh are the applicants.
Acting BCCI president CK Khanna told CricketNext that the next Indian coach will be appointed before the team's Sri Lanka begins in late July.
"I don't want to discuss this matter - (re-application for post of coach) - as it is a call that has been taken keeping the on-going situation in mind. All I can guarantee is that the Indian team will get a new coach before the Sri Lanka tour and whoever is handed the job will get a contract till the 2019 World Cup,” the top official said.
Shastri's return though will not be as easy as it appears. The former Team Director had an ugly showdown with CAC member Sourav Ganguly after his candidature was rejected last time. Shastri had accused Ganguly of not being present when he had given his interview via skype. Ganguly on the other hand had criticised Shastri for not meeting the CAC in person.
While Kohli clearly wants Shastri back, the CAC will surely not be too comfortable with the idea as the trio of Tendulkar, Ganguly and Laxman had picked Kumble over Shastri a year back. But a member of the SC-appointed Committee of Administrators has made it clear that it is the job of the CAC to pick the ideal candidate and the COA has complete faith in their abilities.
"Issues and rifts are not bigger than Indian cricket. We have handed the job of picking the suitable candidate to three men who have always had Indian cricket's best interest on their mind and we feel that whoever they pick will be the best person for the job,” the source said.
In fact, the COA had already told CricketNext on Wednesday that Shastri could still be approached for the job if the CAC wish to consider him for the post.
“The doors are open for Shastri if the CAC wants to interview him. As per the current rules, Shastri is not eligible because he has not submitted his resume. But the CAC has the authority to request the BCCI to allow the interview of candidates from the outside who they deem fit for the position. For that to happen, all the CAC will need to do is submit a special request. But all this can happen only if the CAC wants. If they are happy to interview just those who have applied, then obviously the door is closed for Shastri.
“It is not something new or unheard of. It happens not only in big corporates, but also in top government positions wherein people from the outside are also interviewed in certain cases. At the end of the day, it is for the CAC to decide what is best for Indian cricket and if they feel the man who can do the job is Shastri, then why not,” the official explained.
Surely the game is far from over and it could well be Shastri who has the last laugh, having been refused the job last year.
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Buy Buy Baby worker who came to infant's aid hailed as 'Hometown Hero'
On Friday, the Town of Hempstead recogized Katherine Falco of Elmont, a registered nurse and part-time sales associate at Buy Buy Baby in Garden City, for coming to the aid of a 5-week-old baby boy who had stopped breathing while his parents shopped in the store on Sept. 6. Falco's "rescue breathing" is credited with saving his life. (Credit: Howard Schnapp)
By Robert Brodsky robert.brodsky@newsday.com @BrodskyRobert Updated September 14, 2018 4:59 PM
Five-week-old Sergio DeVincent had stopped breathing and his face was turning blue. Sergio's distressed parents, who were shopping for a stroller at Buy Buy Baby, called out desperately for help, seeking anyone who knew CPR.
Katherine Falco of Elmont, a registered nurse and part-time sales associate at the Garden City store, responded, placing the child on the floor and performing life saving "rescue breathing" on the infant, likely saving Sergio's young life.
On Friday, Falco, a retired pediatric and OB-GYN delivery nurse at South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside, was honored by Town of Hempstead officials and state lawmakers for her heroism.
Sergio DeVincent is shown in an undated photo taken by his mother, Alexandria DeVincent. Credit: Alexandria DeVincent
"It happened so fast," Falco said at a news conference at the store. "It was like a moment of time. To be there at the right time at the right place. God puts you there for certain reasons in life and I truly believe that."
Hempstead Receiver of Taxes Donald Clavin, who awarded Falco the town's first "Hometown Hero" award, said her actions were inspirational.
"What makes a person a hero is somebody who does the extraordinary, who steps up when you need it the most," Clavin said. "The story surrounding Kathy Falco and what she has done and how she rose to the occasion and became a hero would inspire anybody."
State Sen. Elaine Phillips (R-Flower Hill) also presented Falco with the Liberty Medal, the highest honor given by the Senate.
On Sept. 6, Alexandria and Joseph DeVincent were shopping when their son Sergio — who was born with a hole in the wall of his heart that interferes with his blood and oxygen flow — started to cry and cough. When his face turned blue, Alexandria DeVincent began to panic.
"I thought he was going to die," she said.
Twenty minutes into her shift, Falco, who works only one day a week at the store, ran to the child and took over while Joseph DeVincent called 911.
With a 911 operator on speakerphone providing guidance, Falco gently tilted Sergio's head back and began breathing into the infant's mouth and nose while intermittently performing chest compressions, Alexandria DeVincent said.
"Within seconds he started crying and I said 'thank God he's coming back,' " Falco said. "He continued to cry harder and harder. I said 'Sergio, get mad at me. I want you to get mad at me so you are crying and fill up those lungs.' "
Jim Mahoney, the store manager, said he could hardly believe what he was seeing.
"I watched over with my eyes welling up cause I couldn't believe she was saving this life on the floor right there in my store," Mahoney said. "And everybody watching couldn't believe it either."
EMTs quickly arrived and took Sergio to a nearby hospital. He is now in the pediatric intensive care unit at Cohen Children's Medical Center in New Hyde Park, DeVincent said, and will need open heart surgery in about six weeks to correct the defect.
DeVincent said she is forever thankful that Falco's quick actions saved her son's life.
"I am so grateful to her and grateful she was there," DeVincent said. "She just knew what to do."
By Robert Brodsky robert.brodsky@newsday.com @BrodskyRobert
Robert Brodsky is a breaking news reporter who has worked at Newsday since 2011. He is a Queens College and American University alum.
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Dame Fiona Kidman won the Ockham award for her novel This Mortal Boy. Photo: Supplied.
MAY 14, 2019 Updated May 15, 2019
Steve Braunias
Steve Braunias edits Newsroom's books section, ReadingRoom, is an author and a noted writer for the NZ Herald.
And the winners of the 2019 Ockhams are…
ReadingRoom literary editor Steve Braunias breaks the news of the winners of the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
An author who writes books that quite a lot of people actually really like to read has picked up $53,000 as winner of the award for best novel at tonight’s Ockham New Zealand Book Awards held in Auckland.
Dame Fiona Kidman, an exceptionally nice woman from Hataitai who also happens to be an exceptionally readable author, has won this year’s $53,000 Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize for her novel, This Mortal Boy.
Her book – a fictionalised, moving account of Paddy Black, the second to last New Zealander to be hanged, at Mt Eden prison in 1955 – has featured in the best-seller top 10 charts ever since it was published in June last year, by Penguin Random House. It’s her 11th novel in a stellar literary career which began with her ground-breaking 1979 book, A Breed of Women.
Other winners at tonight’s Ockham ceremony are:
Sean Mallon and Sébastien Galliot share $10,000 as winners and joint authors of the Illustrated Non-Fiction category for their work Tatau: A History of Sāmoan Tattooing (Te Papa Press). When Te Papa get it right, and back a work of expert scholarship, they do the best-looking books in New Zealand by a country mile. Tatau is a sensitive and vivid af photoessay, a real knock-out, and a totally deserving winner.
Joanne Drayton wins $10,000 as winner of the Royal Society Te Apārangi Award for General Non-Fiction for Hudson & Halls: The Food of Love (Otago University Press). It’s an enjoyable, fairly thorough, not especially deep or profound biography of the famous TV chefs. Douglas-Lloyd Jenkins, writing in New Zealand Books: “Hudson and Halls never came out of the closet…They were self-hating, closeted celebrities heavily implicated in the repression of their fellow gay men. [Drayton’s book], impressively researched and highly revealing, is an absorbingly good read, but it is rather like watching an old silent movie clip of a train being driven at speed into a solid wall by two nincompoops.”
The Te Mūrau o te Tuhi, a discretionary Māori Language Award, was presented for the landmark work He Kupu Tuku Iho: Ko te Reo Māori te Tatau ki te Ao by pioneering language and tikanga academics Sir Tīmoti Kāretu and the late Dr Wharehuia Milroy published by Auckland University Press. Te Reo Māori judge Dr Ruakere Hond said Kāretu and Milroy "invite the reader into their conversations, their yarns and musings from decades of cultural experience. This book’s value is undeniable. Its language, accessible. This is a doorway to their world."
Helen Heath pockets $10,000 as winner of the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry for her collection Are Friends Electric? (Victoria University Press). The judges blathered, “By turns thoughtful and moving, Are Friends Electric? asks how the material world might mediate—or replace—human relationships.” Which is to say there are quite a few poems about sexbots. Here is the opening section of her poem, “The owners”.
It’s a little embarrassing.
Sechan spends most of her time
in my room.
Being alone with her, in bed
in the early daylight, looking at her
looking at me, regarding me,
it’s the difference
between being alone and lonely.
When she first came
into my life it was just
sex, sex, sex. Now that’s tapered
off to where we are just there
for each other, we’re always
there for each other.
The thing my father finds
really difficult about my relationship
with Sechan is the fact
that she’s not alive. She’s an anchor
for me. I know
what to expect. With women
you don’t really get that.
Congratulations are also due to the winners of the MitoQ Best First Book Awards: best first novel winner Kirsten Warner for The Sound of Breaking Glass (Mākaro Press), best first work of non-fiction winner Chessie Henry for We Can Make a Life (Victoria University Press), and Tayi Tibble, winner of the best first book of poetry for Poūkahangatus (Victoria University Press). Each author takes home $2500.
But the big winner is Dame Fiona Kidman. On top of the $53,000 in instant loot, she’ll likely be picking up some pretty decent royalties. News of the Ockham win will inevitably boost sales for This Mortal Boy – last year, when Pip Adam won the best novel award for The New Animals, her book shot to number one in the weekly Nielsen sales chart. It then promptly fell off the chart. An award can work its magic for a brief time but word of mouth is the real mover of sales. It failed to ignite action for The New Animals – a clever, brilliant book, but not an easy read. Kidman’s novel, though, looks set to reclaim a prominent position in the Nielsen chart for quite some time. People like her books, always have.
And yet she never sets out to appeal to the public. That way lies madness, and bad art. Kidman recently took part in a fascinating interview alongside the three novelists who were shortlisted for the Ockham fiction award. It was published at the always first-rate Academy of New Zealand Literature site, run by Paula Morris, and Tony Eyre asked Kidman, “Is art the thing, rather than the reception of it? Do you ever doubt there’s a realm of readers waiting?”
Kidman replied, “Once I’ve sat down to begin a novel everything like the audience just moves away. I don’t care what anyone thinks of what I’m writing. Because, if I did, I know I would start self-correcting. I’ve worked in other genres where audience was everything – journalism, television drama, and so on. But writing fiction is different, it’s about following the idea and being true to one’s personal vision…I care when the book has a cover and is sitting in the book shops. Not until then.”
She also talked about the genesis of This Mortal Boy – the impulse to write it, the need to write it. “One day I picked up a newspaper story that was about Albert (Paddy) Black, the second to last person to be hanged in New Zealand, and that old story from my growing up years came flooding back. I was fifteen, and Paddy was twenty. My era, my time and my concerns. I knew it was time to write the book.”
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Kayihura also called for the documentation of the history and attributes of great people, in order to inspire posterity.
Gen. Kale Kayihura with the family of the late Sibo after the requiem mass. Photos/ Mathias Mazinga
The IGP, Gen. Kale Kayihura has asked Ugandans to develop a new culture of respecting elders.
“It is unfortunate that in Africa we don’t value our great people. In European countries like the UK, people who have done good things are treasured. Books are written about them and the musician sing about them. But in Africa, we talk about people when they die. I wish we could have more birthdays than death days.”
The Late Sir Adrian Sibo
“Our children and grand-children need to read about the values, experiences and works of our great people. Today many of our young people are fond of chanting the agende slogan. This is risky.”
“If you say chase away our elders, you weaken yourself as an individual, as a family and as a country. You will lose out on the rich historical experience of these people and thus remain in ignorance. So, let us preserve and enrich ourselves in this rich historical experience. Let’s understand that life is legacy and experience.”
Sibo's casket being rolled out of Rubaga Cathedral
Kayihura also called for the re-writing of African history, which he argued was in a distorted form. “The history we have is full of lies. How can you say that Speke discovered us? Civilisation started in Africa, in Ethiopia, before Christ. Africans ruled Europe and man of the early Bishops were Africans!”
Cardinal Wamala left Archbishop Lwanga and Fr Mpiima( right) lead the commendation prayers for the late Sibo
Kayihura was delivering his remarks during the requiem mass of Adrian Sibo at Rubaga Cathedral Thursday evening. Sir Adrian Sibo, a papal knight of the order of St. Gregory the great, was a retired civil servant and social development expert. He died at Nsambya Hospital, last week, aged 89. He will be buried at Shozi, in Kisoro, tomorrow (Thursday, September 1).
The family of the late Sibo after the requiem mass
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Sibo’s requiem mass was also boosted by the Presence of President Yoweri Museveni. The President highlighted Sibo’s contribution to the political and economic recovery of Uganda, before asking Ugandans to emulate his life and examples. He said Sibo had spearheaded the establishment of Centenary Bank and Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi, among several other things. Museveni nonetheless had to leave before the beginning of mass owing to his busy schedule.
The mass was celebrated by Archbishop CyprianKizito Lwanga of Kampala Archdiocese. Co-celebrants included Cardinal Emmanuel Wamala.
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About 15 years ago, Jean Jones sought chiropractic treatment from Jack Chin, DC, for sciatic nerve pain during pregnancy. After delivery, Ms. Jones saw Dr. Chin four times for lingering back pain before discontinuing chiropractic care.
Posted in Case Studies on Tuesday, September 04, 2018
Three years after discontinuing care, Ms. Jones experienced sharp shoulder pain after turning her head. When the pain didn’t subside, Ms. Jones went to a nearby hospital emergency room. Ms. Jones was given a cortisone shot, released with muscle relaxers and instructed to take ibuprofen.
The following week, Ms. Jones returned to see Dr. Chin for what she believed was a pinched nerve. After reviewing the hospital’s films, Dr. Chin had Ms. Jones lie supine on the table and adjusted her at C2–C3 and C3–C4 without incident.
Then, Dr. Chin took her neck and applied forceful rotation in both directions, resulting in what Ms. Jones said was a painful popping in her neck. When Ms. Jones got to the front desk, she felt dizzy, and the front desk assistant told her to call back the next day if she didn’t feel better.
As her mother was driving her home, Ms. Jones developed numbness on her left side and was having trouble speaking. Ms. Jones had to be assisted out of the van and into the house. By this point, her entire left side was going numb, she could not swallow, she couldn’t speak clearly, and she felt dizzy and nauseous.
Doctor Thinks the Patient Has Vertigo
Ms. Jones’ mother called Dr. Chin’s office and told him about her daughter’s many symptoms. Dr. Chin said she had vertigo, and instead of advising immediate medical attention, he suggested that her daughter take some Dramamine.
When Dr. Chin learned they didn’t have any Dramamine, he offered to bring the medicine to the house. Once there, Dr. Chin attempted to force the medicine down Ms. Jones’ throat since she was having difficulty swallowing.
Ms. Jones’ family asked if she should go to the hospital, and Dr. Chin responded that she’d be better off just resting at home. Dr. Chin told Mr. Jones, the patient’s husband, that he would follow up in the morning.
Not satisfied with these developments, Mr. Jones called an emergency room nurse at the hospital who advised getting his wife to the hospital immediately. At that time, Ms. Jones was throwing up and could barely move. She had to be assisted into the car. She couldn’t focus and had to keep her eyes closed to keep the room from “spinning.”
When Ms. Jones presented to the emergency room, she was unable to open her eyes due to dizziness, she was continually gagging and had difficulty swallowing, and she was experiencing headache and neck pain. She was admitted to the hospital.
The history and physical taken by the hospital physician indicated that Ms. Jones had no visual disturbance, but she had residual tingling in the left side of her body. The CT and MRI scans were unremarkable. The physician’s impression was intractable nausea and vomiting and vertiginous symptoms.
Four days after being admitted, Ms. Jones was transferred to another hospital for further neurological evaluation. She was admitted with numbness on the left side of her face, left arm and leg. She presented with what the hospital staff thought was a post-cervical manipulation brainstem insult.
Findings Point to a Probable Dissection
A cerebral arteriogram showed findings suspicious of a dissection involving the distal left vertebral artery extending into the region of the basilar artery. There was no evidence of aneurysm formation and no significant arterial occlusion.
An MRI of the brain revealed abnormal focus of signal intensity involving the left aspect of the brainstem with areas of increased T1 signal intensity. The most likely consideration was a small area of acute infarction involving the brainstem just above the level of cerviocomedullary junction on the left. There was also abnormal adjacent signal intensity within the left vertebral artery flow void.
Three days after the vertebral artery dissection diagnosis, Ms. Jones was discharged to a rehabilitation center to receive physical therapy. The orders included inpatient (and later outpatient) occupational therapy and physical therapy.
Dr. Chin subsequently received a letter from an attorney stating a malpractice claim was being filed against him. Dr. Chin notified NCMIC, and a claims representative requested that the opposing attorney provide all appropriate documents and information.
Another three months passed before the opposing counsel provided NCMIC with the information—approximately 1,500 pages of documents relating to his client’s care and treatment. This attorney also produced a report by a DC consultant that contended:
Dr. Chin’s negligent treatment caused Ms. Jones to suffer a dissection of the left vertebral artery with left brain stem insult
Dr. Chin failed to provide a clinical basis for the treatment of Ms. Jones
Dr. Chin should have obtained Ms. Jones’ informed consent
Experts Review Volumes of Records and Studies
NCMIC retained an attorney to assist in coordinating the expert reviews of the records and imaging studies. Additionally, the company retained two DCs to assess the case.
These DC consultants were critical of Dr. Chin for not conducting a thorough history, for failing to conduct vascular compromise tests, for failing to obtain the patient’s informed consent, and for not keeping adequate and complete records.
The consultants pointed out another major potential problem in the case—Dr. Chin kept a diary, which summarized his perceptions of the events and treatment of Ms. Jones. This diary:
Showed Dr. Chin to be unaware of the possibility of a stroke, despite Ms. Jones’ classic symptoms of nausea, dizziness, left-sided numbness, inability to swallow and pain
Dr. Chin never referred Ms. Jones for treatment when her symptoms progressed
Was verbose and appeared to have been written after the fact—like a doctor trying to cover his tracks
Ms. Jones’ attorney made it known he wanted to explore a settlement. Before doing so, the NCMIC defense team asked to interview Ms. Jones. At this interview, Ms. Jones contended:
Her entire family required counseling to cope with and accept her current physical, psychological and cognitive limitations
Her right hand was numb, and she’s right-hand dominant
Her right side and right extremities felt like they were burning or being scratched by sandpaper
Her left side was so weak that she noticeably favored it when walking and standing
She couldn’t see out of her left eye when stressed or tired, she would experience double or blurred vision, and she had& trouble reading
She was hypersensitive to noise and visual stimuli. When overloaded with auditory or visual stimuli, she would become dizzy and nauseous
She grew weak and experienced fatigue much more often than she did before
Shortly after this interview, opposing counsel made a settlement demand of $1 million, which was Dr. Chin’s policy limit. If the demand was not accepted by year end, Ms. Jones would proceed with litigation.
Nonetheless, before this time elapsed, Dr. Chin was served with a lawsuit. Opposing counsel told the NCMIC-retained defense attorney that he had to file suit because the statute of limitations was approaching. However, he was still amenable to settling out of court.
Strategies Initiated by Defense Team
NCMIC retained a neurologist to review the records and imaging studies. The neurologist was critical of Dr. Chin’s lack of documentation and for not obtaining Ms. Jones’ informed consent. He estimated a 50-to-80-percent likelihood that Dr. Chin’s manipulation caused Ms. Jones’ stroke.
The NCMIC defense team also reviewed Ms. Jones’ social media activity before her deposition. The defense team wanted to assess whether Ms. Jones was embellishing the severity of her complaints.
Once her deposition was taken, Ms. Jones’ attorney approached the NCMIC-assigned defense attorney and asked if mediation was a possibility—though he stressed his client would not accept much less than $1 million. In consultation with the defense team, Dr. Chin agreed to mediation.
During mediation, Ms. Jones stressed her loss of wages and medical expenses would dramatically exceed Dr. Chin’s policy limits. However, as a compromise, she would discount her claim and accept $950,000 but “not a penny less.”
At this time, the NCMIC defense team invited opposing counsel to view screenshots and video captures of Ms. Jones’ social media activity. This was set up to provide a side-by-side comparison of Ms. Jones’ testimony at the deposition with her social media activity.
Words cannot describe the impact these videos and images had on Ms. Jones’ attorney. His face turned beet red, and he tried to claim it didn’t hurt his case. The mediator immediately retorted that if he were a jury member he would be hard pressed to award her anything close to the settlement amount demanded.
Settlement Offer Made
At the same time, the defense team realized that Dr. Chin would be difficult to successfully defend for a number of reasons. These included Ms. Jones’ significant medical expenses and the less-than-favorable consultant opinions. So, with Dr. Chin’s written consent, NCMIC made a one-time settlement offer of $150,000.
The mediator agreed that the amount was reasonable and that Ms. Jones should seriously consider the offer. Though initially reluctant to accept the offer, Ms. Jones and her attorney came to the realization that obtaining a higher award in court was unlikely, especially given her contradictory social media activity. As a result, they agreed to the $150,000 settlement. NCMIC spent more than $53,000 to defend Dr. Chin in this case.
Plaintiff's Responses to Deposition and What Social Media Revealed
Do you find it difficult to go up steps and balance yourself?
Yes, extremely difficult.
Facebook video posted by Ms. Jones shows her performing a vigorous step aerobics class.
Do you find it difficult to bear weight or balance on your left leg without your right leg’s support?
Yes, I need both legs to support me.
This same Facebook video showed Ms. Jones with her hands on hips, kicking one leg in front of her while balancing on the other. She then switched sides to kick the other leg.
Would it be difficult for you to perform multiple actions with your body on a routine basis?
It would.
Facebook video captured Ms. Jones doing an upper extremity workout with light weights while at the step aerobics class.
Can you raise your left arm above your head?
I still have weakness in my left hand and arm that makes it difficult to raise my hand above my head.
Instagram selfie showed Ms. Jones with her left arm over her head lifting a 5-lb. weight
Can you walk normally?
I run into things and tend to move toward the left.
Instagram video posted by one of Ms. Jones’ children shows her walking into a shopping mall—nothing noticeably wrong with her ambulation.
Can you think of other limitations that would prohibit you from working?
I would need to work in a neighboring community, and I don’t think it would be good for me to drive.
Facebook video posted by Ms. Jones’ son showed her driving her van on a busy four-lane highway
What Can We Learn?
By Jennifer Boyd Herlihy, Boston, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island
Heed the Obvious
A doctor’s credibility would be immediately lost if unaware of the fundamental signs of an impending CVA, and Dr. Chin clearly fit that category.
Consistency Is Important
In this case, Dr. Chin did not keep precise and accurate office records, yet he expected a jury to believe his extensive home diary of events was factual.
Informed Consent Is a Reality
In today’s litigious world, obtaining written informed consent is the best practice. It’s a significant risk management tool and one of the most powerful patient discussions a doctor can have.
Evidence Tells the Tale
With social media, there are very few secrets. In this case, Ms. Jones’ own posts— and those of her children—revealed her poor health claims were exaggerated.
Defense Team Expertise Is Essential
It is critically important to have an experienced legal and claims team at your side, especially in a challenging case like this one.
Jennifer Boyd Herlihy is healthcare defense lawyer with the firm of Adler / Cohen / Harvey / Wakeman / Guekguezian, LLP, located in Boston, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island. She represents chiropractors and other healthcare providers in matters related to their professional licenses and malpractice actions. The firm’s website is www.adlercohen.com.
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Nye County leads Nevada in opioid use, says WaPo
Dana Gentry
Las Vegans took an average of 56.5 opioids a year from 2006 through 2012 — or slightly more than one a week. But their neighbors to the west in Nye County took 96.6 opioids a year during that period, the highest rate of any Nevada county, according to data analyzed and mapped by the Washington Post. Mineral County had the highest rate of death from opioids.
The Post‘s dive into how drug manufacturers flooded the nation with opioids includes some informative interactive maps that drill down into the Nevada problem.
• From 2006 to 2012 there were 1,002,207,355 prescription pain pills supplied to Nevada.
•273,800,350 of the pills were distributed by Walgreen Company and 483,661,290 were manufactured by Actavis Pharma, Inc.
•Lam’s Pharmacy, at 2202 W. Charleston in Las Vegas, received the highest number of pills. The business is no longer open.
Actavis Pharma, Inc. made 483,661,290 of the pills distributed in Nevada, the most of any manufacturer.
In June, Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford’s office expanded the state’s opioid lawsuit to retailers, including Walgreens, and also to Actavis as well as other manufacturers and distributors.
Reporter | Dana Gentry is a native Las Vegan and award-winning investigative journalist. She is a graduate of Bishop Gorman High School and holds a Bachelor's degree in Communications from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Gentry began her career in broadcasting as an intern at Channel 8, KLAS-TV. She later became a reporter at Channel 8, working with Las Vegas TV news legends Bob Stoldal and the late Ned Day. Gentry left her reporting job in 1985 to focus on motherhood. She returned to TV news in 2001 to launch "Face to Face with Jon Ralston" and the weekly business programs In Business Las Vegas and Vegas Inc, which she co-anchored with Jeff Gillan. Dana is the mother of four adult children, three cats, three dogs and a cockatoo.
JD July 23, 2019 at 1:49 pm
Not a big surprise. Seems most of the people living in Nye County (Rural Nevada) are druggies due to lack of competent law enforcement.
I am wondering where Mineral County comes in on the list since they allow “Labs” to exist everywhere.
Even when it is blatantly obvious a LAB is active, the so-called Law Enforcement looks the other way. Probably because the “Cops/Deputies” are “party” to the operation which lines their pockets if they look the other way.
Maybe instead of the DEA checking them out, the IRS should do some audits. It sure is funny how low-level county employees seem to have lots of money for all the “Toys”.
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency FRN Published – availability of draft SEIS 03/2016 02/19/16
Public Meeting – draft SEIS meeting 03/22/16 03/22/16
Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) Subcommittee meeting 04/2016 04/19/16
End of draft SEIS comment period 04/04/16 04/04/16
Issue final SER 06/2016 06/02/16
ACRS full committee meeting 07/2016 07/06/16
Issue final SEIS 08/2016 08/26/16
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency FRN Published – availability of final SEIS 09/2016 09/09/16
Decision – Director, NRR (no hearing) 11/2016 10/19/16
Commission decision (if hearing is granted) TBD
Note: The LaSalle County Station, Units 1 and 2, review schedule was established and updated based on the letters below:
Revised Schedule Letter (October 22, 2015)
Revised Schedule Letter (March 27, 2015)
Original Schedule Letter (January 26, 2015)
The NRC staff reviewed the LaSalle County Station, Units 1 and 2, license renewal application for compliance with the requirements of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 54, "Requirements for Renewal of Operating Licenses for Nuclear Power Plants," and prepared this report to document its preliminary findings. The document was issued on February 29, 2016, as "Safety Evaluation Report with Open Items Related to the License Renewal of LaSalle County Station, Units 1 and 2." Upon further review and resolution of open items, the staff prepared a final report to document its findings. The document was issued on June 2, 2016, as "Final Safety Evaluation Report Related to the License Renewal of LaSalle County Station, Units 1 and 2," and subsequently published as NUREG-2205 in September 2016.
NUREG-1437, "Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants Regarding LaSalle County Station, Units 1 and 2 (NUREG-1437, Supplement 57) Draft Report for Comment," was published in February 2016. This supplement documents the NRC staff's review of the environmental issues at the LaSalle County Station, Units 1 and 2 regarding the Exelon Generation Company, LLC., application for license renewal of that facility. The supplement was prepared in accordance with 10 CFR 51.71. This supplemental environmental impact statement includes the NRC staff's analysis that considers and weighs the environmental effects of the proposed action (license renewal) and the environmental impacts of alternatives to the proposed action. It also includes the NRC staff's recommendation regarding the proposed action.
NUREG-1437, "Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants Regarding LaSalle County Station, Units 1 and 2, (NUREG-1437, Supplement 57) Final Report," was published in August 2016. This supplement documents the NRC staff's review of the environmental issues at LaSalle County Station, Units 1 and 2, regarding the Exelon Generation Company, LLC application for license renewal of that facility. The supplement was prepared in accordance with 10 CFR 51.71. This supplemental environmental impact statement includes the NRC staff's analysis that considers and weighs the environmental effects of the proposed action (license renewal) and the environmental impacts of alternatives to the proposed action. It also includes the NRC staff's recommendation regarding the proposed action.
The public is encouraged to participate in the reactor license renewal process through public meetings, and public comment periods on rules, renewal guidance, and other documents. The Reactor License Renewal Public Involvement page provides general information to help the public participate.
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Meeting to discuss the license renewal process and environmental scoping for LaSalle County Station, Units 1 and 2.
Meeting Notice
Afternoon Transcript
Evening Transcript
Meeting to discuss the LaSalle County Station, Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement.
Meeting Transcript
LaSalle, Units 1 and 2 PMs
License Renewal (Safety) Jeffrey Mitchell
License Renewal (Environmental) William Ford
Lead Power Plant Bhalchandra Vaidya
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NuoDB Formally Supports Docker, Releases NuoDB 2.4
Distributed database design aligns with architectural requirements for container-based deployment
Cambridge, MA – Dec. 22, 2015 – NuoDB, the database for cloud-enabled global applications, today announced formal support of Docker as an approved implementation platform. NuoDB’s distributed database design aligns with the architectural requirements for container-based deployment. Coinciding with this announcement is the general availability of NuoDB Release 2.4, which delivers advanced management capabilities, expands NuoDB’s enterprise-class SQL support, and streamlines database administration.
Expanding native support for Docker
As more organizations embrace containers as a development and deployment platform, they often struggle to reconcile Docker’s inherent administrative benefits, resource efficiencies, and horizontal scaling with the monolithic, rigid, and deeply physical nature of traditional databases. In contrast, NuoDB’s Durable Distributed Cache (DDC) architecture enables customers to add capacity on-demand across multiple hosts, containers, and even data centers, making it easier for the database to work naturally within and with containers to deliver an elastic, transactional data management service for Docker.
This integration exploits that natural affinity to ensure customers deploying on Docker can rely on a robust database platform built around the same principles that are driving Docker’s widespread adoption. Specifically, NuoDB enables:
Container mobility and on-demand capacity at the data layer
Automatic cross-container caching of database data
Operational and administrative capabilities such as security and backup that have been designed expressly for the container environment
NuoDB’s native support for Docker provides customers with a wide range of deployment options based on their requirements. As a network of peers capable of functioning within a hybrid environment, NuoDB’s processes can operate wholly within Docker containers or split between containers and physical servers. This flexibility extends also to private, public, or hybrid cloud deployments.
NuoDB Release 2.4
Coinciding with this announcement is the general availability of NuoDB Release 2.4, which delivers advanced management capabilities, expands NuoDB’s enterprise-class SQL support, and streamlines database administration.
In addition, customers can take advantage of a new online backup feature, which creates a “hot copy” of the current state of a database without shutting down any of the database processes. This creates a transactionally consistent copy of the archive and journal of a database with no interruption of service. The database continues running and transactions keep processing, even in a single host database.
More details on specific features can be found on the NuoDB TechBlog.
Bruce Lawler, co-founder and chief product officer at Kodiak:
“Kodiak is singularly focused on providing highly reliable, highly scalable, standards-based broadband push-to-talk (PTT) solutions for our carrier partners. NuoDB was the best database to support our need for scaling up our distributed network to meet demand requirements while maintaining transactional consistency and integrity.”
Barry Morris, co-founder and executive chairman at NuoDB:
“Both NuoDB and Docker were developed with the same fundamental principles in mind: distributed processing, resource efficiency, administrative simplicity, and elastic scalability. This natural affinity means that the two technologies work in tandem, out of the box. With this announcement, we further strengthen this integration, even as Docker transforms the way applications are developed and deployed.”
For more information about Cranes Release 2.4:
Read the TechBlog, “Welcome to NuoDB Cranes Release 2.4 GA!"
Read our TechBlog, “NuoDB Backups & Hotcopy"
NuoDB’s purpose-built SQL database combines the simplicity, rigor, and reliability of a traditional relational database with the elasticity, agility, and global accessibility provided by the cloud.
As application vendors and enterprises increasingly turn to the hybrid cloud to support their growing, global, and increasingly mobile, customer base, they rely on NuoDB as the only database that can maintain transactional consistency and integrity at global scale. These organizations trust NuoDB to meet all their needs - active-active deployment, elastic scalability, data residency, and more - as they run applications in the cloud.
NuoDB is headquartered in Cambridge, MA, USA, with offices in Dublin and Belfast. For more information, visit nuodb.com.
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NYCLU v. New York County District Attorney (Seeking access to records concerning the D.A.'s Trespass Affidavit Program)
This lawsuit challenges the refusal of the Manhattan District Attorney's Office to disclose public records concerning a program that allows NYPD officers to regularly patrol privately owned apartment buildings. Landlords can enroll their buildings in the District Attorney's Trespass Affidavit Program, which permits police officers to patrol the premises. The NYCLU has received numerous reports that police officers make unconstitutional, suspicionless stops – and even trespassing arrests – of TAP building residents and their invited guests. In the course of investigating residents' complaints, the NYCLU filed a Freedom of Information Law request with the District Attorney seeking TAP policies, a roster of buildings enrolled in the program and information about trespass arrests during 2009 and 2010. The District Attorney refused to disclose the buildings roster, claiming that disclosing it would be an invasion of the landlords' privacy.
The lawsuit, filed Jan. 20, 2012 in State Supreme Court for New York County, maintains that the District Attorney's privacy argument has no merit given that a building's enrollment in TAP is not secret. In fact, the District Attorney requires all buildings enrolled in TAP to post signs publicly announcing their participation in the program. TAP is a component of Operation Clean Halls, a citywide NYPD, a citywide NYPD program designed to combat illegal activity within residential apartment buildings. In 2010, the Civilian Complaint Review Board, a city agency that investigates complaints of police misconduct, reported a spike in complaints concerning officer misconduct in buildings enrolled in Operation Clean Halls. The NYCLU has received numerous reports of illicit police tactics being used in Operation Clean Halls buildings throughout the city, including locations enrolled in TAP.
State Supreme Court, New York County, Index No. 12/100682 (direct)
Court Filings
The Complaint (PDF)
Attorney(s)
NYCLU Senior Staff Attorney Alexis Karteron and Associate Legal Director Christopher Dunn
Freedom of Speech and Religion
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Government Gazettes: Northern Territory
The current series of the Northern Territory Gazette is online and includes:
General (G), published weekly
Registration (R), contains lengthy non-urgent notices, published irregularly
Special (S), contains special urgent notices, published irregularly.
The General, Registration and Special gazettes are published online from January 2011.
Mining Notices contain notices requiring gazettal under the Northern Territory Mining Act.
Previously the gazette's 'M' series
Published online for the previous two years
The following historical gazettes from the Northern Territory can be read online at Trove
Northern Territory Times and Gazette 1873-1927
North Australian, (the gazette was briefly published here) 1883-1889
Northern Standard, the gazette was published here from 1929 possibly up to 1942
The Northern Territory Government was selected for preservation by the Australian National Archive, Pandora. Some, but not all, Northern Territory gazettes can be accessed online here. Choose the date you need, then 'A-Z Government' to find Gazettes.
Where can you find Northern Territory Gazettes in print?
Use the Australian Government Publications Guide, GovPubs, to help locate Northern Territory gazettes in Australian libraries.
Note that the gazettes are published in different series:
General (G)
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Select the link which shows the gazette series and the date you need
Select the link for the library you are using ('NLA' for the National Library of Australia)
Use the 'Amicus Number' or call number from this record to find it in the Catalogue.
Notice of appointment
A Public Servant is searching for a gazettal notice for the appointment of the Hon Thomas Pauling as Administrator of the Northern Territory.
The Northern Territory Gazette is found online for the last two years only, so we will need to use the print resources.
As Mr Pauling was sworn-in in November 2007, we should be able to find the notice at that time. This date has not been archived, so we cannot find it online.
To find the notice we would request the November 2007 Government Gazette S (special notices). Mr Pauling mentioned on page 2778 of the 2007 Gazette.
You can request a copy of the notice through our Copies Direct service.
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From 1873 to 1929, the Northern Territory Government Gazette was published in the local newspaper, the Northern Territory Times and Gazette
For a brief period in 1889–1890, it appeared in the North Australian.
From 1929 to 1942, it was published by the Northern Standard, although it is unclear whether it was in fact published with that newspaper after 1935, and some libraries have separate holdings for this and earlier periods
From May 1942 to 1946 it was not published, and notices were included in the Commonwealth Gazette.
Since 1946 it has been a separate publication, including several series, and with slight variations in its title.
The Genealogical Society of the Northern Territory has produced some indexes for early dates of the Northern Territory Times and Gazette.
These are available on microfiche in the Newspapers and Family History zone.
A settlement was established at Port Darwin in 1869; the Northern Territory Times and Gazette was first published in 1873.
Northern Territory Times and Gazette, Vol. 1 No 1
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In the Library, you can photocopy or photograph printed pages. Microfilmed gazettes can be printed or saved to a USB drive.
If you can't visit the Library, you can use the National Library's Copies Direct service to request a copy and have it sent to you via mail or email.
To place a Copies Direct order, simply click on the Copies Direct button that is located at the bottom of the catalogue record, and complete the online order form. Add as much information as you have:
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Dillard Smith Advocates Safe Space to Communicate About Transgender Rights
The national controversy and media coverage of Transgender rights and fervent "Bathroom Bill" debates has claimed another victim. Maya Dillard Smith, the newly appointed Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Georgia, has lost her job after finding herself caught in the crossfire’s of the Transgender movement and race relations. She apparently has been punished for daring to ask pertinent and probing questions about the divisive issue.
Ironically she was sacked the same day hundreds of parents packed a North Georgia school district in response to the federal government's threat to pull funding if students aren't given the choice of whether to use the girls or boys bathroom. Dillard Smith's transition arose as she sought to address the balance between transgender rights and legitimate public safety concerns to protect women and girls.
"There are many issues the ACLU tackles -- and rights we defend -- that I am particularly well-versed in. Transgender issues are not one of them,” she says in a public statement. “As such, I have actively sought out opportunities to learn more since I joined the ACLU. I've had numerous conversations with subject matter experts to learn more about the issue and its intersectionality with other competing rights, particularly the implications for women's rights. The conversations have been refreshingly candid.”
She continues, “I understood it to be the ACLU's goal to delicately balance competing rights to ensure that any infringements are narrowly tailored, that they do not create a hierarchy of rights, and that we are mindful of unintended consequences. I have been thoughtful in so doing as the Executive Director of the ACLU of Georgia.”
Upon taking over at the ACLU of Georgia, Dillard Smith found herself embroiled in an uncomfortable and racially charged situation. Dillard Smith is a strong and uncompromising Black woman who inherited a case defending the KKK's free speech rights.
“Although the KKK has a legacy of ‘hate’ speech as well as having enacted untold violence against Black people, especially here in the South, I zealously defend their free speech rights because it is the principled thing to do under our constitution,” she says. “It is what we do as the ACLU. What I personally think about the KKK is of zero consequence to the right we defend. And, I have spent considerable time educating Blacks who are enraged by our efforts. Likewise, I passionately defend the rights of Transgender, and I educate others, but I still have questions, as I deal with issues that implicate multiple competing interests.”
In a parting shot at the ACLU, Dillard Smith suggests that the organization has lost its way, and is now being guided by money and not principle or the pursuit of true civil liberty.
“Regrettably, although the ACLU is legally designed to be a non-partisan organization -- with a mission to defend the rights of all people -- it became increasingly clear to me that it is a special interest organization not unlike the conservative right, which creates a hierarchy of rights based on who is funding the organization's lobbying activities,” she says. “Thus, I found myself principally and professionally unaligned with the organization as it consistently failed to honestly and authentically balance the competing interests of religious freedom and LGBT equality, free speech and nondiscrimination, and criminal justice reform and racial justice."
Building upon her ACLU experiences, Ms. Dillard Smith is creating a new community Face Book page about the need for creating a safe space for conversations, and launching an educational video called "A Safe Space" on her website: www.findingmiddleground.org.
At 37, Maya Dillard Smith was the youngest of the ACLU's 53 executive directors, and one of only 5 African Americans. In a Saporta Report story I wrote about her entrance into the position, Smith shared her excitement about coming to Georgia:
"One of the reasons I am going to love this job is because the ACLU takes on the toughest and most controversial civil rights and civil liberties issues.
"We litigate and we legislate, but there is also the strategic part about it which is the ability to have conversations and shape public opinion on all of these various issues. So it is from that level of candor and transparency that I assume this role of leadership."
Dillard Smith has been acknowledged as "super qualified" to lead ACLU of Georgia by seasoned leaders in Atlanta. Acclaimed attorney Sherman Golden, a native Atlantan and financial specialist characterized the millennial leader in a recent interview with this reporter:
"She has an undergraduate degree in economics from Berkley, a law degree from UC Hasting, a Masters in public policy from Harvard, clerked at the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, clerked at the California Supreme Court. That's a serious background. You tie that with somebody whose heart is in the right place and is fearless, and has a budget.....That's an opportunity that is rare in Atlanta -- for somebody with resources, who is also educated and exposed, who also has courage. Those are very, very rare qualities."
A year ago, Maya Dillard Smith was recruited from California to fill the ACLU of Georgia affiliate's Executive Director position. Professing to be up for the charge, Dillard Smith moved her family of three daughters, and began re-building ACLU of Georgia. In her first year, she took the fledgling organization from near zero credibility to one regularly called upon.
As Executive Director, Maya Dillard Smith communicated her commitment to "provide thought leadership on civil rights and civil liberties, execute strategy on public policy change, and initiate high-impact, game-changing litigation" throughout the state of Georgia, and nationally.
There has been no comment from the ACLU of Georgia Board of Directors.
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Cambridgeshire XIII.5 (includes: Upwell; Upwell) - 25 Inch Map
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Norfolk LXVIII.5 (includes: Upwell; Upwell) - 25 Inch Map
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A Chart of the Fens between Lynn Regis, Denver Sluice and Wisbich
This is a plan of the Fenlands around Kings Lynn dating from around 1610. It is thought to be a close copy of a map of the same area by William Hayward dating from 1591, now lost. Fenlands are wet lands usually dominated by grasses and sedges, and often used for agricultural purposes. Here the fenland is divided into plots with the names of the land holder marked. Red roofed buildings provide a generalised view of Kings Lynn on the River Ouse. A scale bar records the scale in perches and furlongs and a decorative but unfinished cartouche dominates the top right corner. Hayward, William
1 : 31680 This plan covers part of East Anglia, with the town of Wisbech depicted at lower left. The Great Ouse estuary, depicted near top right, served as a way into the Port of Wisbech until it became so silted up that the river was diverted into the sea at Kings Lynn. Drains across fens and marshland are highlighted in blue. These date from the 17th century, when James I appointed Dutch engineer Cornelius Vermuyden to direct the drainage of the fens wetlands. Many local people opposed the scheme as the plan involved commonland on which they grazed cattle. As a result of Vermuyden's work, the Fens changed radically in appearance, from an area of flooded marshes to one of extensively farmed agricultural land. Yeakell, Thomas Jr.
Wisbech (Hills) - OS One-Inch Revised New Series
Wisbech (Outline) - OS One-Inch Revised New Series
1 : 31680 This drawing covers the Bedford Level and part of the East Anglian fens, with the town of Wisbech shown at top left. Drains across fens and marshland are highlighted in blue. These date from the 17th century, when James I appointed the Dutch engineer, Cornelius Vermuyden to direct drainage of the wetlands. Many local people opposed the scheme because the land involved was commonland on which they grazed cattle. As a result of Vermuyden's work, the fens became a very different landscape, transformed from one of flooded marshes to extensively farmed agricultural land. Yeakell, Thomas Jr.
1 : 31680 This drawing covers part of the Cambridgeshire fenland, an area characterised by straight, water-filled dykes dividing arable land. The New Bedford River is shown running down the middle of the sheet, almost parallel to the original Old Bedford River, taking the waters of the Great Ouse to Denver Sluice, at top right of the plan. In the 17th century, the Dutch engineer, Cornelius Vermuyden was appointed by James I to direct the drainage of the wetlands. As a result of Vermuyden's work, the fens took on a very different appearance, changing from an area of flooded marshes to one of extensively farmed agricultural land. Yeakell, Thomas Jr.Draughtsman
Cambridge and Ely - OS One-Inch Map
Kings Lynn - OS One-Inch Map
Cary's Improved Map of England and Wales
Cary, George, & Cary, John London : G. & J. Cary
Cantabrigiensis comitatvs
1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 41 x 51 cm Blaeu Joan Blaeu
Cambridge, Huntingdon, Sheet 19 - Bartholomew's "Half Inch to the Mile Maps" of England & Wales
1 : 126720 Topographic maps Bartholomew, John George John Bartholomew & Co
Comitatis Cantabrigiensis; vernacule Cambridge Shire
1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 40 x 50 cm Valck; Schenk venditant Gerardus Valk et Petrus Schenk
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A general plott and description of the Fennes and surounded grounds in the sixe counties of Norfolke, Suffolke, Cambridge
1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 44 x 55 cm Valck; Schenk sumptibus G. Valk et P. Schenk
Regiones invndatæ in finibus comitatus Norfolciæ, Svffolciæ, Cantabrigiæ, Hvntingtoniæ Northamtoniæ, et Lincolniæ
1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 44 x 55 cm Mercator; Hondius sumptibus Henrici Hondii
An accurate map of the county of Norfolk
1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 52 x 70 cm Bowen; Hinton sold by I. Hinton at the Kings Arms in St. Pauls Church yard
Nortfolcia; vernacule Norfolke
1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 36 x 47 cm Valck; Schenk penes Gerardum Valk et Petrum Schenk
Nortfolcia
Sheets 33-34. (Cary's England, Wales, and Scotland).
1 : 360000 Cary, John, ca. 1754-1835
This is a map of the fenlands dating from around 1603. It is thought to be the model for Hondius's "A generall plotte of the Fennes" published in Amsterdam in 1632 and is signed Ro. Cotton. The map shows the area in some detail, generalised representations of churches represent small settlements. Larger towns such as Cambridge and Bury St Edmunds' are shown in more detail with individualised red roofed buildings. The sands or the washes are indicated by dotted lines and a beacon is marked on the sands. A notable feature of the drawing is the proliferation of windmills as the wind from the sea can move inland unhindered by hills.
SUFFOLCIAE Comitatus Sheet 16
This map of Suffolk is from the 1583 edition of the Saxton atlas of England and Wales.This atlas was first published as a whole in 1579. It consists of 35 coloured maps depicting the counties of England and Wales. The atlas is of great significance to British cartography as it set a standard of cartographic representation in Britain and the maps remained the basis for English county mapping, with few exceptions, until after 1750. During the reign of Elizabeth I map use became more common, with many government matters referring to increasingly accurate maps with consistent scales and symbols, made possible by advances in surveying techniques. Illustrating the increasing used of maps in government matters, Lord Burghley, Elizabeth I’s Secretary of State, who had been determined to have England and Wales mapped in detail from the 1550s, selected the cartographer Christopher Saxton to produce a detailed and consistent survey of the country. The financier of the project was Thomas Seckford Master of Requests at the Court of Elizabeth I, whose arms appear, along with the royal crest, on each map. Saxton, Christopher Ryther, Augustine
SUFFOLCIAE Comitatus f.38
This is a map of Suffolk by Christopher Saxton which dates from 1576. It forms part of an atlas that belonged to William Cecil Lord Burghley, Elizabeth I’s Secretary of State, who used this atlas to illustrate domestic matters. This map is actually a proof copy of one which forms part of Christopher Saxton’s Atlas of England and Wales. This atlas was first published as a whole in 1579. It consists of 35 coloured maps depicting the counties of England and Wales. The atlas is of great significance to British cartography as it set a standard of cartographic representation in Britain and the maps remained the basis for English county mapping, with few exceptions, until after 1750. During the reign of Elizabeth I, map use became more common, with many government matters referring to increasingly accurate maps with consistent scales and symbols, made possible by advances in surveying techniques. Illustrating the increasing use of maps in government matters, Lord Burghley, who had been determined to have England and Wales mapped in detail from the 1550s, selected the cartographer Christopher Saxton to produce a detailed and consistent survey of the country. The financier of the project was Thomas Seckford Master of Requests at the Court of Elizabeth I, whose arms appear, along with the royal crest, on each map. This map, unlike many of the others in the series, is divided into administrative units called hundreds which are shown by areas of different coloured. Lord Burghley has added information to the map, particularly along the coast line, knowledge of which was vital for defence.The map was engraved by Lenaert Terwoot, one of a team of seven English and Flemish engravers employed to produce the copper plates for the atlas. Saxton, Christopher Terwoot, Lenaert
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The 2001 Dolphinarium Massacre in Tel Aviv
March 7, 2017 March 7, 2017 GideonHISTORY
Twenty-one teenagers were killed and 132 were wounded on June 1st, 2001, in what was one of the most gruesome terrorist attacks in the nation’s history after suicide bomber Said Khutari made his way into the heart of a crowd of party-goers waiting in line outside the club, before blowing himself up. 16 of the victims were teenagers. The majority of them were teenage girls, whose families had recently immigrated from the former Soviet Union.Both the Islamic Jihad and a group called Hezbollah-Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack, and it was also reported that the terrorist had links to Hamas.
The suicide bomber was standing in line on a Friday night in front of the Dolphinarium, when the area was packed with youngsters (most of them from Russian-speaking families) waiting for admission. Survivors of the attack later described how the young Palestinian bomber appeared to taunt his victims before the explosion, wandering among them dressed in a disguise that led his victims to mistake him for an Orthodox Jew from Asia. Before detonating his bomb, he banged a drum packed with explosives and ball-bearings, while taunting his victims in Hebrew with the words “Something’s going to happen”. At 23:27, he detonated his explosive device. Witnesses claimed that body parts lay all over the area, and that bodies were piled one above another on the sidewalk before being collected. Many civilians in the vicinity of the bombing rushed to assist emergency services. The suicide bombing followed a failed attack attempt on the same target five months earlier.
After the attack many in the Israeli public demanded a harsh military retaliation; nevertheless, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon decided to not take any immediate retaliatory actions. US and other governments applied heavy diplomatic pressure on Israel to refrain from action. Nevertheless, the attack was later on noted as one of the reasons cited by the Israeli government for building the Israeli West Bank barrier.
In the video below, Susana Bobis sings “If There’s Heaven in a 2011 memorial ceremony for the Dolphinarium victims
Killed in the Attack
Maria Tagiltseva, age 14, of Netanya
Raisa Nimrovsky, age 15, of Netanya
Ana Kazachkova, age 15, of Holon
Katherine Kastaniyada-Talkir, age 15, of Ramat Gan
Irina Nepomnyashchi, age 16, of Bat Yam
Mariana Medvedenko, age 16, of Tel-Aviv
Yulia Nelimov, age 16, of Tel Aviv
Liana Saakyan, age 16, of Ramat Gan
Marina Berkovizki, age 17, of Tel Aviv
Simona Rodin, age 18, of Holon
Aleksei Lupalu, age 16, of Ukraine
Yelena Nelimov, age 18, of Tel Aviv
Irena Usdachi, age 18, of Holon
Ilya Gutman, age 19, of Bat Yam
Roman Dezanshvili, age 21, of Bat Yam
Pvt. Diez (Dani) Normanov, age 21, of Tel Aviv
Ori Shahar, age 32, of Ramat Gan
Yael-Yulia Sklianik, age 15, of Holon– died of her injuries on 2 June 2001
Sergei Panchenko, age 20, Ukraine – died of his injuries on 2 June 2001
Jan Bloom, age 25, of Ramat Gan – died of his injuries on 3 June 2001
Yevgeniya Dorfman, age 15, of Bat-Yam– died of her injuries on 19 June 2001
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Home Newsroom News and press releases Spot Report by OSCE Observer Mission: Eighty-third Russian convoy of nine vehicles crossed into Ukraine and returned through Donetsk Border Crossing Point
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OSCE Observer Mission at the Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk
Spot Report by OSCE Observer Mission: Eighty-third Russian convoy of nine vehicles crossed into Ukraine and returned through Donetsk Border Crossing Point
KAMENSK-SHAKHTINSKIY, Russian Federation 25 July 2019
This report is for the general public and the media.
On 25 July at 06:39 (Moscow time), the eighty-third[1] Russian convoy arrived at the Donetsk Border Crossing Point (BCP). A total of 9 vehicles were checked by Russian Federation border guards and customs officers prior to their crossing into Ukraine. All 9 vehicles had crossed back into the Russian Federation by 13:46 on 25 July.
Leaving the Russian Federation
On 25 July at 06:39, the Observer Mission observed the arrival of a Russian convoy at the gate of the Donetsk BCP. The convoy consisted of 9 cargo trucks; some of them belonged to Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations (MES), others were civilian trucks with MES covers. Some cargo trucks also bore the inscription “Humanitarian aid from the Russian Federation” (in Russian). At 06:39 the vehicles entered the customs control area and queued in three lines. Once the convoy arrived, the vehicles were visually checked from the outside by Russian Federation border guards and customs officers. The truck drivers rolled up/opened the tarpaulins of the trucks and the border guards and customs officials performed a visual observation from the outside. Two dogs were present and used by Russian Federation border guards to check the vehicles from the outside.
Three Ukrainian border guards and two customs officers were observed accompanying their Russian counterparts; they also performed a visual observation of the vehicles from the outside (without entering the trucks’ cargo space). They had clipboards in their hands and were taking notes. By 06:53 all of the vehicles had left the BCP towards Ukraine.
Returning to the Russian Federation
At 13:40, the convoy returned and queued in the customs area. The tarpaulins of the trucks were opened and Russian Federation border guards and customs officers visually checked the returning convoy from the outside. Ukrainian representatives – three border guards and two custom officers – were present during this check. The Ukrainian officials also performed visual checks of the opened trucks from the outside. By 13:46 all 9 vehicles had crossed back into the Russian Federation.
[1] Based on the Observer Mission’s counting, this convoy is considered the eighty-third convoy that has crossed into Ukraine through the “Donetsk” or “Gukovo” BCPs. However, so far all these convoys crossed through the “Donetsk” BCP.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto In-Store Signing of "The Revenant" 2xLP OST (Thursday, 2/25 @ 7p.m.)
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In an effort to get bigger on the interior defensive line, the Bucs went out and sign Beau Allen at the beginning of free agency. But, they didn’t stop there, as they have officially signed defensive lineman Mitch Unrein.
Welcome to Tampa Bay, @MitchellJUnrein!
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— Tampa Bay Buccaneers (@Buccaneers) March 16, 2018
Unrein’s deal is for three years at $3.5 million per year.
Unrein, who turns 31 later this March, is 6-foot-4, 300 pounds. He’s a player who has played both interior defensive line in a 4-3 and defensive end in a 3-4.
After going undrafted in 2010, Unrein was signed by the Denver Bronocs, in which his first snap as an NFL player (which was against the Buccaneers) was actually at fullback, where he caught a touchdown pass from Peyton Manning. Unrein has played for the Broncos, the Chargers, and most recently the Bears. He had 37 tackles and 3.5 sacks over the last two seasons, but is more of a big body than a stats guy. he was the second highest graded run stopper at his position according to PFF.
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Trevor Sikkema is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat reporter and NFL Draft analyst for PewterReport.com. Sikkema, an alumnus of the University of Florida, has covered both college and professional football for much of his career. As a native of the Sunshine State, when he's not buried in social media, Sikkema can be found out and active, attempting to be the best athlete he never was. Sikkema can be reached at: [email protected]
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FLBoy84 Mar. 14, 2018 at 6:30 pm
Odd signing considering some were saying Bucs were looking to get bigger and younger on DL. Seems like McDonald 2.0.
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Rating: 0. From 12 votes.
Ken Grant Mar. 14, 2018 at 6:31 pm
This is good news. Was one of the top run stoppers in the league last year.
Rating: +8. From 33 votes.
geno711 Mar. 15, 2018 at 8:45 am
I am not sure where your reference is from (that he was one of the top run stoppers) but I guess that it is from PFF. If using their site, it was his highest rating ever. Before that his highest rating was a 64.6 back in 2013. Here is hoping we get the 80 rating 2017 version of this player for the Bucs next year.
Rating: +1. From 3 votes.
Phil Mar. 14, 2018 at 6:33 pm
Here we go! Another backups backup! Why are we so cheap!? Use the CAP!! I know when I say this I speak for every Tampa Bay Buccaneers fan we are tired of losing and not making the playoffs!! Wtf are y’all doing!
makski Mar. 14, 2018 at 7:10 pm
No, you don’t speak for all of us.
Rating: +16. From 36 votes.
WiltheBrewer Mar. 14, 2018 at 10:53 pm
No shit- you aren’t “tired of losing and not making the playoffs”???
Ok, makski, you’re a rebel!
makski Mar. 15, 2018 at 12:43 am
I am tired of the losing, but I personally don’t believe it is because of a lack of trying. Easy for negative fans like Phil to complain about everything that doesn’t work out perfectly, but this is the real world and it is harder to hit on all of these free agents and draft picks than everybody thinks. In case Phil doesn’t remember, Baker was one of the best signings last year before the season started, but nobody knew he was going to just sit back and collect his money without even trying. No one will ever know what was said behind the scenes unless they were in the room with the Bucs at the time. I’ll even bet that Baker has a very good year this year because he is again playing for the money, we just didn’t time it well. At least the Bucs are trying to sign the right people and pay them a fair amount if they can. I know a lot of people who wanted McKinnon. I didn’t really care if we got him or not because I felt he was the same as Simms, good receiver that is not a very good runner. But, when I saw that he is getting like 7.5 or 8 million a year, I just about had a heart attack!! That is WAY too much and I’m glad the Bucs stopped trying.
sunshineben Mar. 16, 2018 at 3:53 pm
YOU don’t pay for season tkts do you!!! So all good with the worst team in its own devision
Rating: -1. From 5 votes.
Brooks Dunn-Winston Mar. 14, 2018 at 6:36 pm
sounds like a stud
Sorry Sunshineben, there wasn’t a reply option available for your post but I hope you see this! I WAS a season ticket holder for 21YEARS. I sat in my seat until the very last second of EVERY game cheering for my favorite team!! I now have 2 boys that are in competitive soccer which is very expensive and I had to finally do away with my tickets. It was the worst day EVER. I love the Bucs and always want them to do well, but that just is not reality for most teams. I cheer them on and support the new players, whoever they are because they are now Bucs.
I saw:>)to pay 3k 4 two seats when the bucs don’t seem to really care about winning upsets me as I went to bucs superbowl and have had tkts since 76… It is not easy being a bucs fan,huh.. I understand the soccer deal as I had a stepson into that .
They do care, the choices they make just don’t always work out. Just like EVERY other team in the league. If they didn’t care, it would be a lot more like H Culverhouse and we would be NOWHERE NEAR the salary cap. We wouldn’t sign ANY FA’s and all our players would leave as FA’s when their rookie deals expired because we would be unwilling to pay them to stay. But we DID re-sign our core players, Evans, etc, and will re-sign the guys coming up, Winston, Alexander etc, and we did sign FA’s to good deals, R Jensen etc.
Rating: +1. From 1 vote.
MWD Mar. 14, 2018 at 6:43 pm
Again…..another depth player at best…..starter?….ehhh!
Let’s see if they sign Mathieu, Claiborne(Adrian), Claiborne (Morris) or Suh
VTBucs Mar. 14, 2018 at 6:49 pm
Backup Free Agents across the league must be on their phones calling the BUCs right now! LoL
skipper Mar. 14, 2018 at 6:59 pm
Wow, talk about bottom of the barrel. What’s up with these big fat guys that can’t move? Don’t we have and have tried that with Stevie T and Silega? Big worthless fat guys that only clog up the middle and do nothing else. Uninspired with these two signings, At least McDonald comes up with a sack now and then.
Jury’s still out on Stevie T since he was on IR last year. Unrein’s a solid depth DT and Allen is a great value with upside. Assuming most have no clue that he was Philly’s #3 DT playing behind starters Fletcher Cox and Timmy Jernigan, and he basically split snaps with Jernigan over the course of the season. And Philly’s D led the league in rush defense at 79.2/gm while the Bucs gave up 117.5/gm. But yeah you’re right, McDonald came up with a sack now and then.
The typical K-mart blue light special. Licht likes to sign two or three third tier free agents that won’t be a factor and actually have much any impact on the roster, basically camp bodies rather then pay for one good player that will have an impact and actually help this team.
Rating: -1. From 21 votes.
We did sign 1 good player that will have an impact and help the team… C Catanzaro !!!!!
Could have won a couple more games the last couple of years if we only had a kicker!!!
Hopefully they are saving the money for the O line!! We still need 2 interior linemen.
I like it!! We have now signed 2 quality , experienced run-stuffing DT’s to teach Stevie T the ropes. Unrein only has a few years left, but that’s OK, Allen is still only 26, so he has plenty of time left. If Stevie T doesn’t improve soon, we will have Unrein to fill in until we get another kid in here. I have not put much stock into it until now, but, it seems like we might be heading for a lot more 3-4 this year. Both of these tackles seem to be a good fit for a 3-4. I guess they also could be a NT in a 4-3, and as hot as it gets here, you can never have too many good ones. Now we just need a real hard push for Jensen to play C and Pugh to play G. I wouldn’t mind Sitton like the reports have been going, but, I think Sitton is a LG and that is Marpet’s spot. I hate it when we try to switch sides on the line, though it is usually more successful at G than T. I only picked Pugh because I hear he is a real good G and was out of place at T last year. I also hear he is a better RG than a LG and that is where we need him! Then, if we want, we can pick up a cheap CB and RB to compete for a roster spot.
Oops, and ANY kind of DE would be a huge plus. We need bodies on the D Line!
Marpet would probably go back to RG if Jensen is signed, where he’s been prior to going to C this year.
Oops, my bad, I thought Marpet was at LG and then we got Sweezy to play RG. You’re right , Marpet was at RG and we got Sweezy to replace him, I guess. I am all confused now that they put Marpet at C. Should have never even tried moving him!
Rating: -1. From 1 vote.
He started for Chicago for the last 2 years. He’s an upper tier run-stopper which, in case you missed it, we were not good at last year. Some of you will not be happy no matter what the team does.
geno711 Mar. 14, 2018 at 7:56 pm
Ndamukong Suh and undrafted free agent a better combo then these two guys. Suh with 877 quality snaps last year. Allen and Unrein combine for 802 average snaps. I’d rather sign Suh at 16 million per year than these two guys at 9 million per year combined. Just sayin. Offensive coordinators would be having nightmares about how to defend both GMC and Suh.
There’s lots more to DL construction than just grabbing two guys with names to try and scare OC’s.
Your point is half accepted. There is more to DL construction than grabbing two guys with names. My opinion is the two guys I named are superior players not just names. Superior players make the difference in the NFL. I am a Bucs fan, so I hope that the Bucs made the right moves. Winning the interior line battle every game Seems to have been Minnesota’s strength last year (especially v. Bucs).
I did not watch every snap of Suh or GMC but they seem to require double teams. I watch the Buc’s mostly and sometimes rewind a game to watch individual players. I will defer to someone who watches game film more thoroughly than myself if that is you.
If we signed Suh at 16 million, we wouldn’t be able to sign enough other players to help us out. Probably would have a roster full of UFA’s and other teams’ rejects. That would NOT be better, especially if Suh were to get injured. He also has a real bad attitude and I personally would not want him on my team.
vtrantb Mar. 14, 2018 at 7:56 pm
Whoop doo. Our best signing so far has been a kicker. SMH.
Pete Wood Mar. 14, 2018 at 8:00 pm
A lot of glass is half empty types in pewter land. Not every free agent is going to have the impact of a Lawrence Taylor or Warren Sapp. Somebody has to sit on the bench and this guy is better than the guy he’s replacing.
A step in the right direction.
I am very happy with the Bucs free agent moves so far.
Horse Mar. 14, 2018 at 8:09 pm
Okay with it. It’s another rotational guy. Do some really believe they’re going to find an impact player in free agency? Rarely happens.
deeznuts Mar. 14, 2018 at 8:41 pm
Not sure why we are signing two backup DT’s to 3+ year contracts when Suh is a free agent. Would even be happy McDonald…what hasnt he done to warrant another contract offer?? we don’t have any good DE’s… im all for building the best DT tandem in the game…. Kwon and Lavonte could freelance all game with Suh and GMC eating double teams every snap
plopes808 Mar. 14, 2018 at 10:30 pm
For all the naysayers…let’s not forget that free agency is a negotiation process. Top tier FA will either go to top contenders or be overpaid. In case you all haven’t noticed, we aren’t exactly a top destination for FA right now.
I remember back when we “won free agency” and haven’t heard the end of it since. The same people complaining about FA busts are complaining of the lack of spending on big name FA this year. Pick a side please people!
The fact is this…Allen and Unrein are both better than what we had on the roster. Therefore, the team has improved…and without breaking the bank. Or would you rather we have thrown an exorbitant amount of cash at Suh just to complain and label him a bust next offseason?
I feel like the moves we’ve made so far were good ones, both in terms of improving talent and managing cap space. Allen, Unrein, and Catanzaro are all improvements to our current roster. We still remain in the hunt for Jensen and Sitton which would open us up to move Marpet back to his future all-pro position at G, vastly improving our OL. Pass rush help is virtually non-existent at this moment in time, so that will have to wait.
The negativity from Bucs fans is off the charts right now. I understand the reasons behind it, but at the same time we should be celebrating the improvements we’ve made, even if they aren’t as drastic as we’d have liked.
Pete Wood Mar. 14, 2018 at 11:13 pm
Well said, plopes808
Ktown Mar. 15, 2018 at 7:34 am
Agreed plopes808. Hoping we get Jensen and a guard.
cgmaster27 Mar. 15, 2018 at 2:47 pm
Is it an upgrade? I see Clinton McDonald as better than both of these guys. Heck he had more sacks last year than both of these guys had combined. And it’s not like we saved money, we paid Beau just as much as we paid Baker last year. While both of these guys produced in the run game neither bring anything at all to the pass rush, which was dead last in the NFL. You’ll have to excuse us half empty guys but these to signings do nothing but add bodies, for starter money. I look at free agency as a way to get some good B guys so yeah there’s these guys, but these two and everything else we haven’t done so far have fixed ZERO of the bucs larger problems from last year. This pass defense is completely untouched, and I’m not counting signing Grimes as that was a desperation move. Not one pass rusher and no DB’s. We passed on a bunch of pretty good running backs, granted most of them got a little over-paid, but that is another horrible roster spot for us. And that doesn’t include Guard, which we hopefully will address this week with the ravens center. Will we approach RB in the draft, clearly, but we can’t just hope these rookies come in and set it on fire. That’s tough. Licht is banking on getting at least three starters out of this draft and to me that’s just foolish.
I agree, I’m disappointed we didn’t at least land one of the FA RBs, but maybe it was a numbers thing. Licht and co. seem to be sticking to their guns when it comes to the cap and that may be hurting our chances at these guys that want to make money. It definitely helps us next year though when we need to resign our stars. Or maybe it’s the trend that so many rookie rushers have come into the league and had so much success lately. I personally wouldn’t bank on that and would’ve wanted an established rusher to fall back on but then again, we don’t have a whole lot of bargaining power right now other than overpaying. If we get Jensen and move Marpet back to his natural G position it will definitely help our run game. Barber isn’t a bad back, he did decent behind our bad OL so I imagine he will do well behind a good one (if we get Jensen.)
As for the 2 DTs we signed, you’re right they haven’t produced sacks, but I believe they were picked up to help stop the run rather than rush the passer. If you remember, our run defense was also horrible last year. Not much in the way of pass rushers on the market at the moment so we’re gonna have to hope to hit on a few rookies or UDFAs.
Yes, there is almost NOTHING out there in FA in the form of pass rushers. We picked the wrong year to need 2 DE’s!! All that is out there are real old players on the downside of their careers that we would have to give a 3 year deal to and hope they are good for at least 1 more, or younger guys with potential that are injury prone, pick your poison.
Honey Bear Mar. 14, 2018 at 11:59 pm
The only way this move makes sense is if we are switching to primarily 3-4. Also it makes Gholston completely expendable, since this guy is a better cheaper version.
makski Mar. 15, 2018 at 1:03 am
Gholston is a DE, not a DT. Both of these signings are DT depth. We can not get rid of Gholston yet, we need MORE DE’s. Even if we sign Okafor or someone else and draft another DE, we probably still need to keep Gholston for one more year. I hope FA and the draft have some good quality DE’s next year.
Honey Bear Mar. 15, 2018 at 9:30 am
Gholston is a 3-4 DE that we’ve been playing as a 4-3 DE. This guy and Gholston are basically the same size. The difference is this guy produced last year, and Gholston did nothing.
Rating: 0. From 2 votes.
Ja'crispy Mar. 15, 2018 at 9:38 am
I like the signing of Allen and Unrein. Quality depth and is an improvement over what we had. We are also saving moiney at the same time. win, win if you ask me. Both of these guys are good run stuffers. we sucked at stopping the run last year. We wanted Licht to build the trenches and thats what hes doing.
owlykat Mar. 15, 2018 at 4:10 pm
Unrein is 30 years old and 300 pounds and we let Mc Donald go who was about the same size but was much better at sacks and turnovers and even could play McCoy’s position when he was hurt and was good at stopping the run too so to me Unrein is not as good a replacement of what we had in McDonald. Apparently Allen is a little bigger if he could play NT in a three four, which we are not going to by the way; and he was just a rotational backup at Philly. The person he is replacing is our backup over the last few years, Siliga, who also could play NT because he was 330 pounds. So that is no gain but just replacing one backup NT for another one. So to me we are slightly worse off than we were last year because we’ve lost McDonald’s sack production and ability to cause fumbles and McDonald’s ability to play the three technique and superior knowledge of our Defense. Licht has not upgraded the trenches at all, he has just tried to catch up for what he has let go, and hurt our cap space and defensive flexibility and our sack production, and even worse has an excuse now for not getting Vea in the draft who will be a future star player like Latuia and play for ten years as an elite player. So don’t expect me to be giddy about these two signings!!!
Buc 1976 Mar. 16, 2018 at 2:27 pm
I guess soccer is more important than American Football! Sale the team please! But they won’t because they are getting Richer and we the Fans are getting little . JMO
surferdudes Mar. 16, 2018 at 2:50 pm
Allen, and Unrein are up grades over Baker, and McDonald you’re kidding yourself if you don’t think that’s true. McDonald is over 31, and has been oft injured. Allen is 26, bigger, younger stronger with much more upside. Anything is better then Baker, so we’ve improved in an area of need. It’s just not the big names we were looking for. If they can get Jensen to sign, and Gaines, you’d have to consider that a good haul going into the draft.
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Jury Says Samsung On the Hook for $539M Over Apple Designs
May 24, 2018, 7:21 PM by Eric M. Zeman @zeman_e
A California jury today decided that Samsung must pay Apple $539 million for copying its smartphone designs. The decision comes after a retrial concerning the amount of damages owed for the 2012 case that found Samsung guilty of infringing on Apple's design patents. A jury in that case initially awarded Apple $1.05 billion, though that amount was later reduced in subsequent appeals and hearings. The courts eventually decided to retry the damages portion of the case, as the original jury was improperly instructed on how to calculate damages. Samsung later paid Apple $399 million in December 2015. If today's award survives appeal, Samsung will owe Apple another $140 million to cover the entire $539 million figure. Apple said it was pleased with the outcome. "We believe deeply in the value of design," said the iPhone maker in a statement. "This case has always been about more than money." Samsung did not immediately say if it will appeal this latest decision, but it did say, "Today's decision flies in the face of a unanimous Supreme Court ruling in favor of Samsung on the scope of design patent damages. We will consider all options to obtain an outcome that does not hinder creativity and fair competition for all companies and consumers." Apple and Samsung eventually settled all outstanding lawsuits and patent fights other than this case.
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Malaysian liner down--cui bono?
By Patrice Greanville (View How Many People Read This) 9 comments
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OpEds--
PATRICE GREANVILLE
(First filed on 7.17.14 @ 10:07 am)
The US TV networks --the West's Ministry of Truth organs--and other media have been blabbering all morning almost nonstop about the Malaysian airliner downed in Eastern Ukraine, blown clear out of the sky, as Joe Biden so delicately put it, by some malevolent force. Events of this nature taking place in areas where the two long contending blocs clash and overlap almost invariably mean trouble for world peace, so, brothers and sisters, fasten your seat belts.
Beyond the immediate tragic loss of life, this latest casualty in the Malaysian civil aviation fleet packs a great deal of peril for the prospect of European independence from intensified American meddling in the Continent's politics.
The plane fell apart over a zone where an unfurling civil war is raging, involving a proxy of the West with highly dubious moral and political credentials, and an almost preternatural eagerness to please its Washington sponsors. (It's curious that no one seems to have alerted the Malaysian pilots to the danger of overflying a part of the world where surface-to-air projectiles are becoming common.) That alone and other contradictions should have given a professional press some pause before proceeding to indict the Russian and the pro-Russian militias, but we don't have such a press in the United States. What we have is a very biased and smooth machinery of state propaganda in private hands. This ostensible separation of jurisdictions gives the American press (along with the rest of the media in capitalist nations) the illusion of independence from the commands of the state or any ruling class.
In any case, as is by now customary for the American media, its assets immediately swung into action. Hence from the earliest coverage on CBS, ABC, CNN, etc., it was easy to perceive a marked tendency to suggest "Russia or her proxies did it", as fingers were pointed at the separatists in East Ukraine, a rabble (judging by the invidious tone of the reports) that supposedly "had been shooting at planes" indiscriminately. Now, as these lines are being written (it's almost 17:00 EST in the US), the US media are cheerfully parroting the convenient statements supplied by the puppet Ukrainian military (Kiev), talking openly of the plane having been downed by a Russian missile. Need we say any more? The perfidy has been demonstrated.
This latest accusation seems to be a strong card in the propaganda approach being used by the West to assassinate the character of the Russian government and its allies. CBS anchor Scott Pelley, for one, a man loyal to his duties, was insistent on the fact that the plane could have been brought down only by a missile from an antiaircraft battery provided by the Russians, in direct contravention, mind you, to Washington's pleas not to make such weapons available to the Ukrainian rebels. Tsk, tsk, those irresponsible, childish and untrustworthy Russians, always up to no good and defying the maximum goodness emanating form the American president. The sheer sanctimoniousness and hypocrisy implicit in such type of posturing is clear (and I hope revolting) to those who understand the way American news manipulation works.
Indeed, as the accusations fly, it is noteworthy that the context for these events remains nebulous for most Americans--perhaps the developed world's worst informed people. The American media, in full compliance with the US government's line, has shielded Washington's new client regime in Kiev from any sort of real criticism by blatantly under-reporting or simply ignoring the savagery of its offensive against lightly armed separatist militias in the Eastern provinces of Ukraine, a campaign conducted by President Peroshenko quite probably on direct instruction and counsel from his Western advisors.
Cherchez the motive, or, rather cui bono?
Who stood to gain?
As most sophisticated observers will probably agree, this heinous act, the downing of a civilian plane, which could easily escalate into an ugly confrontation, looks pretty much like a provocation by the West, or--equally as damnable--the direct result of Washington's criminal policies in Ukraine.
It's easy to determine several scenarios in varying degrees of plausibility and culpability. While it's very plausible the plane was shot down by Eastern Ukraine separatists, it's also obvious they (and Russia) have little to gain from such an act. So at worst, even if "they" did it, we can still argue it was simply an error, a miscalculation on their part.
Plausibly guilty but no criminal intent
Indeed, in the heat of battling Kievan air force assets that have been brutally and indiscriminately pounding their positions--an offensive that has often deliberately rained bombs and death on scores of civilian targets and devastated entire villages and townships--East Ukraine rebels could have easily fired the fatal missile, especially since many in their ranks apparently lack the professional expertise to properly manage some of these weapons. This is a militia, after all. [Update: Reports seem to confirm it was an Eastern Ukraine militia that shot the plane, albeit, by accident. Hold your faith in these reports until absolutely certified by reliable sources.--Eds]
But that's not where the argument should end. While the culpable missile may have indeed be of Russian design and even manufacture, what does that prove?
The Ukraine, and much of the world, is awash in Russian arms (not to mention US weapons, the biggest seller of such items), and the Kievan regime certainly has such weapons in their arsenal as all former Warsaw Pact nations shared many weapons designs, maintained similar arsenals, and probably even manufactures some to this day. More to the point, its own forces are currently operating deep inside Eastern Ukraine territory, which cannot discount them as the folks behind the dastardly deed. Hell, even the CIA maintains huge stockpiles of all types of such weapons, from AK-47s to sophisticated ground-to-air systems, for reasons we can only imagine given the sordid nature of the CIA and its sister agencies. If necessary, could a specialist team have done it? You bet.
Guilty with a cause?
The second type of suspect involves not mere error but direct and deliberate intent and therefore moral culpability. What folks in the judiciary trade call, "malice aforethought." I'm talking here about an act carried out by agents provocateurs working for the West.
Here the lineup is clear, and pretty short, with Kiev's regime itself the chief suspect, as the shot could have come from Kievan forces in the region seeking to heighten tensions as per script, or a third party also working for the West. Kiev had something to gain by such treachery. Kiev needs the world's approval and support to pursue its campaign of pacification throughout Eastern Ukraine, an effort that has already yielded some minor victories but which may require, in their eyes, the administration of a higher level of brutality. The unspoken motto is "No more Crimeas!"
Kiev also aspires to brownie points with its American masters, by serving loyally as a pawn to draw Putin into a regional war, an invasion, no matter how risky, since such a development would successfully block Moscow's plans for closer collaboration and integration, economic and political, with the European Union. This is something that Washington is very much eager to forestall, by any means necessary. Conveniently, and almost on cue, Kiev's puppets are already saying without hesitation that the culprits sit in Moscow.
And yes, there are other scenarios, but they fall more and more into the realm of implausibility. Some might say the plane disintegrated as a result of a loco bomb placed in the aircraft by one of the many Jihadist factions at play in the world these days, or a suicide bomber, but if so, why a Malaysian plane instead of an American, Israeli or Western European plane? Makes no sense from "their" angle. I'm simply applying here the cui bono rule. And some more extravagant souls have even suggested that Israel did it. Now, Israel has a lot of bad karma on its ledgers, but this is a long shot, too much risk for a nation that depends literally on American opinion. Still, Israel is now embarked on a genocidal expedition against the Palestinians, one of its periodic "in-depth" ethnic cleansing paroxysms, a criminal ground offensive on a captive population, so it does have something to gain by averting the eyes of the world away from Gaza, but as I say, it would be a major risk to its image (whatever is left at this point) were it to be shown that her intel services were the actual perp. My feeling therefore is that Israel is innocent on this one.
Conclusion: The Godfather did it
My bet here is similar in logic, in fact identical, to the argument used by our colleague historian Eric Zuesse in his own article on the topic. Let's assume therefore that the American media's main interpretation prevails, and that the public gets the idea that it was indeed Eastern Ukraine fighters in the Donbass region who felled the plane--by mistake. (But not as an act of terror, as Kiev's new head, Peroshenko so obligingly insists). Is that all we have to say about this disaster?
That is all we would say if our noses remained stuck on the wall, but when we look at the situation from the broader perspective the picture changes. In the larger context, it is the US that clearly emerges as the principal and very real cause, albeit at one remove, of this sad event. Too bad that this simple truth will be lost to most Americans. The fact that probably some advanced anti-aircraft missile system given by Russia to the rebels --in lieu of an outright invasion--was the actual, immediate cause of the incident will be brandished everywhere as proof conclusive of Russian perfidy, etc., etc. We know the drill.
But if that is indeed "the gun that did it", so to speak, who loaded the gun? The Russkies and their allies may have pulled the trigger, but someone else loaded the weapon. So we must ask: Which superpower reneged on its promise to dissolve the NATO alliance and literally expanded it wantonly to tighten the noose around Russia's neck? Which of the powers maneuvered, agitated, and paid for the terrible instability and civil war that engulfs Eastern Ukraine today, in fact that entire unfortunate nation? Again, you hardly need to guess. But if Washington did it, what are the motives? The motives are related to the preservation of US hegemony over the globe, to the continuance of enjoying the catbird seat with no contenders. Jack Rasmus, a highly original and insightful thinker recently penned a piece that pretty much summed up the stakes for the US empire in this game. It's darned worth a read. (See Putin, Ukraine and the Future of Europe.)
So there we stand. Exactly 100 years after the start of the Great War, the world is again in unnecessary disarray actively courting disaster. True democracy--based on truthful information-- is nowhere to be seen, especially in those precincts where it is invoked the loudest. Welcome to the new, even higher stakes Cold War, courtesy of the usual plutocratic elites at work in Washington, their accomplices and tentacles around the world, and our seemingly indefatigable tax dollars.
The problem for progressives now is how to counter the inevitable warmongering propaganda sure to follow. Brace yourselves for a veritable barrage of hypocrisy and sanctimonious invective to pour out of Washington's mouthpieces. All of which represents a mountain of trouble for President Putin. It's a contemptible, revolting world. How's that rule by a handful of billionaires working for ya yet?
Patrice Greanville is The Greanville Post's founding editor.
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Facebook tweaks algorithm to relegate prolific fake news posters
Posted by David Hobart
Facebook continues to clamp down on fake news after revealing that it has tweaked the algorithm for its news feed so that content spammed by certain accounts is relegated further down users’ home pages.
In a new announcement on Friday, Facebook’s Vice President of Product for News Feed, Adam Mosseri, said that recent research by the social giant shows that people who post more than 50 articles each are generally sharing lower-quality content, and the latest move will ensure that more relevant videos and news takes a greater precedence in users’ feeds.
“As a result, we want to reduce the influence of these spammers and deprioritise the links they share more frequently than regular sharers,” Mosseri said. “Of course, this is only one signal among many others that may affect the ranking prioritisation of this type of post. This update will only apply to links, such as an individual article, not to domains, Pages, videos, photos, check-ins or status updates.”
Fake news has become a huge challenge for the tech industry’s major players since last November, when it was cited as a factor in the US Presidential Election. Facebook has attempted to reign in fake content since then with fact checkers, algorithm tweaks, fake news flags and other tools, though its influence across the Web doesn’t appear to be diminishing.
Mosseri added that prolific posters on Facebook often share content that contains misinformation and can be deemed sensationalist and clickbait. He also claimed that the latest update underlines Facebook’s commitment to delivering worthwhile content to its two billion monthly users.
Reports late last week also suggested that Twitter is thinking about introducing a new feature that allows users to flag tweets that they believe are either inaccurate or false as it also attempts to curb the spread of misinformation. A similar tool was launched by Facebook in December last year.
Twitter has previously been wary of such a feature, as it could potentially be used to “game the system,” though users on the platform can already report individual tweets that are harmful or abusive. The desire to eliminate fake news is a pressing issue, though, as research by Oxford University found that both Twitter and Facebook have been key outlets for third parties attempting to manipulate public opinions in recent elections across the globe.
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THE PLAGUE DOGS.
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IN THE WINDOW-SEAT: A Selection of Victorian Stories.
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ON GOING TO BED.
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Dangerous spaces – youth politics in Brisbane, 1960s-70s
‘Youth’ has plagued Queensland, and in particular the State capital Brisbane, for at least a century.
Tommy Wills and the Aboriginal cricket team, 1867
Tommy Wills and the Aboriginal cricket team, 1867. Wills (middle, back) coached and captained the team in Victoria before it toured England in 1868. Collection of the National Library of Australia
Collection of the National Library of Australia
Cullin-la-ringo Station, c1875
Cullin-la-ringo Station, c1875. Collection of Wills Family Records, image by Liz Huf
Collection of Wills Family Records, image by Liz Huf
Tommy Wills, c1875
Tommy Wills, c1875. Collection of Wills Family Records, image by Liz Huf
Tommy Wills (right) with cricketing colleagues, 1864
Tommy Wills (right) with cricketing colleagues, 1864. MCC Collection.
MCC Collection
Thomas Wentworth Wills narrowly escaped death on 17 October 1861 when his father and 18 others were killed at Cullin-la-ringo Station on Garden Creek, near Springsure.
Trades Hall, Rockhampton, c1920
Architect’s drawing of Trades Hall Theatre and adjoining Trades Hall, Rockhampton, c1920. Collection of Barbara Webster
Collection of Barbara Webster
The Tree of Knowledge Memorial, Barcaldine, 2009
The Tree of Knowledge Memorial, Barcaldine, 2009. Featuring the original trunk, poisoned. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland
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Inside the Tree of Knowledge Memorial, Barcaldine, 2009
Inside the Tree of Knowledge Memorial, Barcaldine, 2009. Barcaldine – and the labour movement –suffered a symbolic blow in October 2006, with the poisoning death of the heritage-listed Tree of Knowledge. However, a spectacular architect-designed new Tree of Knowledge memorial using the site and the trunk of the original tree was opened in May 2009 by Premier Anna Bligh. It features an 18 metre high cube in which 4000 suspended timbers of varying length form the tree canopy. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland
Australian Workers Heritage Centre, Barcaldine, 2009. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland
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Category: Data breach
New Jersey changes data breach law to extend it to online account information
On May 10, 2019, Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, signed a bill amending the law regarding notification of data breaches in New Jersey. The purpose of the amendment is to extend the definition of personal data to include online account information.
The amendment requires companies subject to the law to notify New Jersey residents of security breaches concerning the user name, e-mail address or other account holder identifying information.
The amendment states that companies should notify their customers affected by violations of such information electronically or otherwise and instruct them to promptly change any password and security questions or answers or take other appropriate measures to protect their online account with the company. The same shall be done for all other online accounts for which the customer uses the same username or e-mail address and password or the same security question and answer.
In addition, the amended law prohibits the company from sending notifications to the e-mail account of a person affected by a security breach. Instead, notifications must be sent in another legally required manner or by a clear and unambiguous notification sent online when the customer’s account is connected to an IP address and the company knows that the customer regularly accesses their account from that online location.
The amendment will take effect on 1 September 2019.
Category: Data breach · Personal Data · USA
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Twitter shared location data on iOS devices
Twitter recently published a statement admitting that the app shared location data on iOS devices even if the user had not turned on the “precise location” feature.
The problem appeared in cases in which a user used more than one Twitter account on the same iOS device. If he or she had opted into the “precise location” feature for one account it was also turned on when using another account, even if the user had not opted into using the feature on this account. The information on the real-time location was then passed on to trusted partners of Twitter. However, through technical measures, only the postcode or an area of five square kilometres was passed on to the partners. Twitter accounts or other “Unique Account IDs”, which reveal the identity of the user, were allegedly not transmitted.
According to Twitter’s statement, they have fixed the problem and informed the affected users: “We’re very sorry this happened. We recognize and appreciate the trust you place in us and are committed to earning that trust every day”.
Category: Data breach · GDPR · General
Tags: Data breach, Social Media, Twitter
Data of millions of US-citizens available in the internet
Sensitive data of 80 million US households are unprotected available in the internet. The data are stored on an openly accessible database whose owner is unknown.
Affected are 65 % of all US households, in numbers, 80 million households. The database includes detailed information regarding the number of persons living in a household, their names, marital status, age, date of birth, residential address including GPS data for localization and household income.
The number of affected US-citizens cannot be named due to the fact, that in one household can live a different amount of people. Because of this it is possible that over 100 million people are affected.
On the basis of the accessible data an identification of individuals is easily possible because hackers or thefts of identity can find out the mailaddresses and connect this information with free accessible information from e.g. social media.
Regarding the owner of the database no information is known. It is presumed that it is a company from the health or insurance sector.
The owner need to be find, otherwise the leak cannot be closed.
Category: Cyber security · Data breach · USA
Morrisons is Allowed to Appeal Data Protection Class Action
The British food store chain VM Morrison Supermarkets PLC (“Morrisons”) has been granted permission by the Supreme Court to appeal the data protection class action brought against it and to challenge the judgment for all its grounds. The case is important as it’s the first to be filed in the UK for a data breach and its outcome may affect the number of class actions for data breaches.
An employee who worked as a senior IT auditor for Morrsisons copied the payroll data of almost 100,000 employees onto a USB stick and published it on a file-sharing website. He then reported the violation anonymously to three newspapers. The employee himself was sentenced to eight years in prison for various crimes.
5,518 employees filed a class action lawsuit against Morrisons for the violation. It claimed both primary and representative liability for the company. The Supreme Court dismissed all primary liability claims under the Data Protection Act (“DPA”), as it concluded that the employee had acted independently of Morrisons in violation of the DPA.
However, the court found that Morrisons is vicariously liable for its employee’s actions, although the DPA does not explicitly foresee vicarious liability. The company appealed the decision.
The Court of Appeals dismissed the appeal and upheld the Supreme Court’s ruling that the Company is vicariously liable for its employee’s data breach, even though it was itself acquitted of any misconduct.
In the future appeal of the Supreme Court, it will have to examine, among other things, whether there is deputy liability under the DPA and whether the Court of Appeal’s conclusion that the employee disclosed the data during his employment was incorrect.
Category: Data breach · GDPR · Personal Data · UK
Tags: Data breach, data protection, GDPR, UK, UK Data Protection Act
Latest Facebook Data Breach
Since May 2016 Facebook uploaded email-contacts without respectively against the will of 1,5 million users.
Facebook itself discovered the mistake in March 2019 and according to it’s own statement has now corrected it. The data was uploaded unintentionally and not shared with third parties. The data will be deleted and Facebook will contact the concerned users.
Facebook was able to read the email-contacts of 1,5 million users, but the concerned amount of data subjects is a lot higher due to that many users have thousands of contacts. Facebook denied that e-mails have been accessed by its employees. It expects a fine of three to five billion dollar in the USA.
Category: Cyber security · Data breach
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Poland: First GDPR-fine imposed
The President of the Polish Supervisory Authority (Personal Data Protection Office, UODO) imposed the first fine for the amount of PLN 943,000, which is around € 220,000.
A Warsaw-based company received this fine for not being compliant with GDPR, particularly for failure to meet the information obligation of Article 14. The fined company commercially processes data from more than six million entrepreneurs, which it obtained from publicly available sources, such as the Central Electronic Register and Information on Economic Activity (CEIDG). The company’s database is often used by banks to verify the creditworthiness of the data subjects. According to the Polish Authority, the company did not provide the data subjects with the information requested in Art. 14 para 1-3 GDPR (e.g. the source of their data, the purpose of the data processing, the data subject’s rights under GDPR), hence the data subjects had no possibility to object to further processing of their data or to request their rectification or erasure.
Out of the six million data subjects only 90 000 were informed by the company via e-mail (more than 12 000 of them objected to the processing of their data). For the remaining subjects (whose e-mails were unknown) the company only presented the information clause on its website and therefore failed to comply with Art. 14 GDPR.
“The controller was aware of its obligation to provide information. Hence the decision to impose a fine of this amount on this entity”, said Dr Edyta Bielak-Jomaa, President of UODO. The company claimed that information by registered mail would be associated with disproportionate costs and thus relies on the vaguely worded exception of Art. 14 (5) GDPR, which states that the provision of such information proves impossible or would involve a disproportionate effort. The supervisory authority however, finds this explanation insufficient as they could have called the data subjects or inform them by regular mail.
Category: Data breach · GDPR
Tags: Fine, Information Obligation, Poland
Massive data breach in Sweden: Millions of Health Hotline Calls exposed online
Recently around 2.7 million sensitive phone calls were uncovered by Swedish technology news site Computer Sweden. In total, 170,000 hours of conversation were available online on an unencrypted web server. The server had no login mechanism so the recorded calls could be accessed freely.
Sweden operates a national health advice line (1177), which is run by Swedish company Medhelp. For out-of-hour calls they subcontract with a Thailand-based firm called Medicall. According to repords, most of the uncovered calls were made outside the regular times and therefore answered by Medicall. A request from the BBC left Medicall unanswered.
The uncovered data is extremely private as People usually call 1177 seeking medical advice, talking about their symptoms, their kids’ illnesses and giving out their social security number.
The Swedish Data Protection Authority is currently investigating the case.
Category: Data breach · Personal Data
Tags: Data breach, sensitive data
Apple advises app developer to reveal or remove code for screen recording
After TechCrunch initiated investigations that revealed that numerous apps were recording screen usage, Apple called on app developers to remove or at least disclose the screen recording code.
TechCrunch’s investigation revealed that many large companies commission Glassbox, a customer experience analytics firm, to be able to view their users’ screens and thus follow and track keyboard entries and understand in which way the user uses the app. It turned out that during the replay of the session some fields that should have been masked were not masked, so that certain sensitive data, like passport numbers and credit card numbers, could be seen. Furthermore, none of the apps examined informed their users that the screen was being recorded while using the app. Therefore, no specific consent was obtained nor was any reference made to screen recording in the apps’ privacy policy.
Based on these findings, Apple immediately asked the app developers to remove or properly disclose the analytics code that enables them to record screen usage. Apples App Store Review Guidelines require that apps request explicit user consent and provide a clear visual indication when recording, logging, or otherwise making a record of user activity. In addition, Apple expressly prohibits the covert recording without the consent of the app users.
According to TechCrunch, Apple has already pointed out to some app developers that they have broken Apple’s rules. One was even explicitly asked to remove the code from the app, pointing to the Apple Store Guidelines. The developer was given less than a day to do so. Otherwise, Apple would remove the app from the App Store.
Category: Cyber security · Data breach · Personal Data · Privacy policy
Tags: App, Apple, Data breach, data protection, Privacy Policy
620 million accounts available for sale on dark web
According to the British news website The Register, 620 million accounts from hacked websites are for sale on dark web. For less than $20.000 in Bitcoin, people can buy the stolen accounts on Dream Market, located in the Tor network. Criminals should also be able to buy the copied user data individually. The data comes from hacks from the years 2016 to 2018. Some were already known others now became acquianted.
Among the sixteen hacked websites are the video messaging application Dubsmash (162 million accounts), the diet and exercise app MyFitnessPal (151 million accounts) and the family-tree-tracking service MyHeritage (92million accounts).
As reported by The Register, the account records appear to be legit. The data leak contains e-mail addresses, names and passwords but it does not contain any bank or credit card information and the passwords are encrypted and must therefore be decoded before they can be used.
Depending on the affected side, there are also a few other categories of personal information such as social media authentication tokens. It can be expected that the vendees will use the data for credential stuffing attacks. In such attacks, attackers try out lists with email password pairs at various online services to hack accounts. These attacks are made possible because many users reuse the same password across many websites.
The seller told The Register that they possess one billion accounts in total and that their aim is to make “life easier” for hackers. The seller said “I don’t think I am deeply evil, I need the money. I need the leaks to be disclosed […] I’m just a tool used by the system. We all know measures are taken to prevent cyber attacks, but with these upcoming dumps, I’ll make hacking easier than ever.”
Update: 127 million more stolen accounts appeared a few days ago. Affected sites include architecture, interior and designe website Houzz (57 million records), live-video streaming site YouNow (40 million records) and travel booking site Ixigo (18 million records). This data is sold by the hacker for a total of $14,500 in Bitcoin.
Category: Data breach · General · Personal Data
Aetna to pay fine for HIV privacy breach
Healthcare insurer Aetna will have to pay a 935,000$ fine after letters had been sent to nearly 12.000 patients in 2017, disclosing highly sensitive information on the windows of the envelopes.
The information revealed that the recipients were taking HIV-related medications.
In addition, the insurance company will have to complete privacy risk assessments annualy for three years.
The patients have received compensation through a private class action settlement.
Category: Data breach · General · General Data Protection Regulation · Personal Data
Tags: California, Health Data, USA
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Bio-Integrated Design
UCL - University College London · Bartlett School of Architecture
A minimum of a second-class UK Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate subject or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard. Applicants will also be asked to submit two short pieces of writing. Details on this will be provided once the completed application has been received by the department.
If your education has not been conducted in the English language, you will be expected to demonstrate evidence of an adequate level of English proficiency.
The English language level for this programme is: Standard.
Further information can be found on our English language requirements page.
Our habitat today is being fundamentally shaped by revolutions in biotechnology, computation and climate change. Bio-Integrated Design takes these life-changing phenomena as the foundation to explore radical, sophisticated, yet also critical, design solutions that will shape our future society.
Bio-integrated Design MSc is a science-orientated programme, in which students undertake cutting-edge research, analysis and experimentation with new modes of architectural simulation and production. This programme is hosted by The Bartlett School of Architecture and co-directed by the Department of Biochemical Engineering, providing you with access to unique facilities for both design and scientific research.
The interdisciplinary nature of the degree merges a wide range of expertise, employing laboratory testing in biotechnology and synthetic biology; novel design as a research tool to encompass high-end computation and fabrication; multifunctional and bio-receptive materials; ecology and space.
In REF 2014 46% of The Bartlett’s research was rated 4* i.e. “world-leading”, with a further 35% recognised as 3* i.e. “internationally excellent”.* The Bartlett submitted the largest quantity of 4* world-leading research outputs (156 items) of any university submitting to the Architecture, Built Environment and Planning sub-panel. On “Research Environment”, which grades the “vitality” and “sustainability” of the research environment, the Bartlett received the highest score for submission to the Architecture, Built Environment and Planning sub-panel.
This programme is part of B-Pro or Bartlett Prospective, which groups together five of the architecture school's graduate programmes with a unique philosophy and shared approach to the future of design, architecture and the urban environment. Students studying Bio-integrated Design will participate in The Bartlett's annual B-Pro Show, an exhibition of student work in Bloomsbury attended by the industry and public alike each autumn.
Please see UCL website for full information about fees and costs for this programme.
This programme is taught through workshops, seminars and crits. The programme promotes learning via research and enquiry, in particular through iterative design, material studies and laboratory work.
Assessment will be mainly via coursework, but also through on-going evaluation of transferable skills including presentations, criticism, work ethics in the lab and general teamwork. Your key assessed elements include design portfolios, physical prototyping, illustrated essays and reports, and final oral presentation.
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PizzaExpress launches national PR campaign to tap back into its musical roots
August 03, 2011 by Alec Mattinson
PizzaExpress is using Frank PR to handle a project to search for new musical talent led by jazz performer Jamie Cullum, who himself was first spotted at the PizzaExpress Jazz Club.
Jamie Cullum: fronts PizzaExpress’s Big Audition
The Big Audition is open to all musicians and bands, with the winner’s voice set to feature inside thousands of ‘singing’ takeaway pizza boxes.
Frank is handling the campaign on a project basis and has worked on a number of consumer projects with the brand in the past. PizzaExpress also uses Unity for consumer PR campaigns.
The firm is especially targeting ‘young socialisers’ and looking to leverage its musical heritage.
PizzaExpress has been associated with music, particularly jazz, since founder Peter Boizot opened the PizzaExpress Jazz Club in Dean Street, Soho, in 1971.
The public will be asked to vote for their favourite act later in the year as the top 50 acts perform at live regional heats. After the field is narrowed down, five acts will perform at a live final in November.
The firm, along with Barclaycard Freedom, will award the winner £5,000 to help kick-start their career.
The brand chose Cullum as the face of the campaign due to its long history with the artist. Cullum started his career performing three or four times a week for £50 and a pizza at PizzaExpress restaurants all over London.
He said: ‘There are so many brilliant performers out there with genuine talent that never get the chance to be heard, so I’m really proud and excited to be part of this search.’
Meanwhile, Frank has picked up a retained consumer brief with Swiss mechanical watch manufacturer Oris. The brand, which dates back to 1904, has a strong association with Formula 1 motor racing and has been one of the sponsors of the AT&T Williams Formula 1 team for the past eight years.
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In 2017, Red Hat launched CO.LAB, presented by Open Source Stories, in Boston. Since then, we have shared the principles of open source and collaboration with more than one hundred middle school female students in five locations. These students built digital cameras out of Raspberry Pi computers and took photographs to visualize a poem. The result was a collaborative work of art.
This week we’re kicking off our Fall 2018 tour in Boulder, Colorado, where we will introduce a new CO.LAB curriculum. Local middle school students will join us for two day-long engagements in our mobile lab, outside of the Boulder Public Library. During the program, they’ll be introduced to paper circuitry and LilyPad Arduinos — small, flexible microcontroller boards that can be easily mounted to paper. The students will use the LilyPad Arduinos to program a page of their code book to perform a specific function — like light up, buzz or beep. Once complete, the pages will be assembled to create a collaborative code book. Through this engagement, the students not only become beginner programmers, but they’ll also unlock codes in the book that provide clues to solve the story’s mystery.
The code book project is an innovative collaboration between Red Hat; Alicia Gibb, open source advocate and researcher, and founder and CEO of Lunchbox Electronics; and Lauren Sabel, the author of two young adult thrillers and a Boulder local. When considering an evolution of the program, our team reached out to Alicia for her advice on using open hardware in a new way. We have been working with her since 2016 when she built open hardware badges that were distributed at Red Hat Summit. In 2017, she took the main stage and was a keynote speaker at Red Hat Summit. This year, she is featured in the Prologue to our latest Open Source Stories documentary film, The Science of Collective Discovery. Given our history, it was a natural fit for her to help us create the new curriculum for CO.LAB.
After brainstorming and creating several do-it-yourself prototypes, the team decided to use a paper circuitry project for the program as it provides a hands-on introduction to basic circuitry. Alicia connected us to Lauren, who agreed to write an original story to complement the technology.
"It's not every day a software company asks me to build a hardware project for them with a young adult author and a team of illustrators," said Gibb. "It's been a true cross-section of interdisciplinary work."
After our stop in Boulder, we’ll also be traveling to Minneapolis and Milwaukee to share the CO.LAB curriculum. We’re excited to share this collaboration with the students and we look forward to showing you these students’ stories as they are introduced to new open hardware.
As a part of Red Hat’s Open Source Stories initiative, CO.LAB is an ongoing effort to create and share stories about how openness can be a catalyst for change. Red Hat has championed communities—both big and small—as we strive to build innovative technologies. With Open Source Stories, we are sharing what happens when people defy convention and say to the world: "Take this. Build on it. Make it better."
You can follow along with the CO.LAB initiative via our website: www.redhat.com/colab and on our social media channels via #RedHatCOLAB.
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Retail N Illinois
The bank backfill: Sourcing retail tenants for vacant branches
July 9, 2019 | Matt Baker
This former MB location at 2607 Lincoln Highway in St. Charles has four drive-through lanes—more than any non-bank user would ever need.
This former MB Financial location at 356 Park Avenue is in the heart of downtown Glencoe, a North Shore suburb populated by high-income residents.
This Fifth Third location at 2934 N. Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago should have little trouble finding a replacement as it located on a bustling portion of Milwaukee, surrounded by other retail tenants.
This week, 44 bank branches throughout Chicagoland will shut down as a redundancy mitigation measure following Fifth Third Bank’s acquisition of MB Financial in March. Property owners will want to get a new tenant lined up as soon as possible, but there’s one issue: the only fitting tenants for these spaces are other banks.
The easiest and best use for any single-tenant retail location is to find a user who could operate in the space with minimal construction, using the facility as a whole. But with a constrained tenant pool for these spaces in their current conditions, some could languish on the market without repositioning. However, Austin Weisenbeck, senior vice president, investments at Marcus & Millichap, sees only opportunity in these vacant locations.
“Banks have been known to choose solid real estate, much like drug stores,” said Weisenbeck. “The retailers that are expanding right now, most of them are restaurant based, which I think is a perfect use for re-tenanting, especially one that could use the drive through.”
Obtaining a drive through in Chicago or its suburbs usually requires a variance and some sort of approval from the village or community. Having a drive through grandfathered in is a valuable benefit and should attract a number of potential tenants.
However, teller lanes are to banks what blades are to disposable razors—every year it seems like they’ve added one more. Finding a new user for a modern, stand-alone bank branch could be difficult as few tenants have a need for multiple lanes.
“When you have all of those other drive throughs, up to three or four, that really is only utilized by a bank or credit union,” said Sean Sharko, senior vice president, investments, Marcus & Millichap. “However, that’s often expandable building area. We’ve actually sold banks in the past that developers have bought, built out that whole drive through area to add gross leasable area and make it into a small shopping center.”
Chuck Taylor, director of operations at Englewood Construction, agrees. “We’ve seen other concepts come in and simply remove the drive through and convert it into a two-story medical office building,” he said. “The building itself can really be converted into a lot of things, but an element like the drive through really wouldn’t work with something else.”
Bank branches were actually prohibited in Illinois, stemming from the Illinois Constitution of 1870. This ban was in place until 1970, but even then they were restricted, with full branches only allowed in the mid-‘80s. Because of this, Illinois has a legacy of two-story banks intended to house numerous employees. Following the deregulation, all of this space was unnecessary and many of these buildings have been repositioned over the years into office, medical or other space.
There are other internal components of a bank that make it difficult to hand the keys over to a non-bank user. Bullet-proof glass is thick, heavy and obvious. A new restaurant, for example, wouldn’t want to leave that in place and give off the impression that security is an overt concern. The large teller window with its oversized drawer box is another mark that a building used to be a bank. And then of course, there’s the vault.
“In older banks with walk-in vaults, you can do one of three things,” said Taylor. “We’ve seen new tenants use that room as storage, but never lock the door. We’ve seen them put a wall in front of the vault and just leave it as dead space. If it’s a complete gut on the inside, then we’ll have the vault removed.”
If a vacant bank branch isn’t attracting any tenants, it may be time to put in some capital and reposition the space for a broader retail base. Many owners aren’t in the position to or don’t want to go through that headache, so they look to sell.
“A lot of these tenants, in order to achieve that turnkey status, they expect the landlord to make some significant tenant improvement contributions,” said Weisenbeck. “Some landlords perhaps can’t or don’t want to finance it, so they will look to find a developer who will just buy it out right from them and the developer will go about adding value themselves.”
If a developer does reposition a former bank branch, one flourishing trend to follow is the increase in “medtail,” or the retailization of medical space. Not only are many of these locations well-suited for immediate care, physical therapy, dialysis or other healthcare uses, these users often pay rents commensurate to what the bank would have been paying.
“The good thing about these branches is that a strong majority of them are in a good retail locations,” Sharko said. “They are accessible, they are on hard corners, they are in desirable spots where other retailers, even traditional retailers or food users, would like to be.”
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At Paradise Wildlife Park; meet animals like lions, tigers & meerkats at the most visited tourist attraction in Hertfordshire for a great family day out. A great gift idea for kids.
The Zoological Society of Hertfordshire (reg charity No. 1108609), also known as Paradise Wildlife Park, offers corporate guests a unique business experience.
Home to over 500 animal friends, corporate packages include access to the Park and the opportunity to enjoy close-up animal encounters. How would you like to come to work and hand feed a Big Cat or Meet a Meerkat?
For meetings and conferences, team builds, product launches, family fun days, daytime and evening parties, the Park offers a choice of stylish, fully equipped venues, to suit every type and size of event.
The Discovery Conference Centre caters for 12-60 guests, with the Boardroom offering meeting space for smaller groups.
The stunning Paradise Marquee Suite is popular for weddings and corporates alike, with a capacity of 200 cabaret and 300 theatre style. Set in its own private area of the Park, the Marquee and Events Arena can accommodate up to 2000 guests, with full access to the animal park, events and shows.
Both venues are provided with complimentary wi-fi and ample free parking.
The Park is easy to get to: just off junction 25 of the M25 and only 25 minutes from Liverpool St Station, with a regular shuttle from Broxbourne mainline station.
Paradise is an award-winning conservation and education led zoo, raising funds for charitable causes and projects both at home and across the natural world. By choosing the Park, businesses are making a valuable contribution to this vital work.
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The Ringling College Studio Labs
Take your story from the studio to the big screen.
Welcome to The Ringling College Studio Labs, the first academic and commercial soundstage and post production facility of its kind in the state of Florida.
Spanning the length of a city block, our 36,000 square foot complex is home to two acoustically-isolated 8,400 square foot soundstages (Studios A and B), three 2,000 sq ft soundstages, and over 5,000 square feet of post production spaces, including editing suites, dubbing bays, faculty offices, a private screening room, and a Foley sound effects stage.
The Ringling College Studio Labs was conceived and built in partnership with Semkhor Productions to offer a groundbreaking program that brings film professionals to Sarasota to offer the opportunity to collaborate with Ringling students and provide real world experience on real world media productions.
Commercial Studio Space Available
Editing Suites
Dubbing Bays
Private greenroom with large tv monitor
Hair & Makeup room
Private Meeting Rooms
Wifi & Boosters
Large Roll-Up Doors for Loading
Ample Parking On Site
Producers and Directors, Meet Ringling Students
A collaborative academic and commercial facility, Studio A is available for directors and producers of commercial media productions. It offers attached production, meeting, editing, and makeup rooms. And, best of all, producers have the opportunity to bring in talent from Ringling College’s highly-acclaimed Film program, if desired.
Contact us for more information about details and availability.
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Studio Space for Teaching & Student Projects
Large Classrooms
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Home to Ringling College Film
Our students become professionals by working like—and with—professionals.
At Ringling College, Film students work on projects with renowned filmmakers, writers, directors, and actors to make critical industry connections—connections which often lead to internships and careers.
Of course, we believe an extraordinary education is its own reward. But we enjoy raking in a few accolades anyway. Despite coming on board as recently as 2007, our program has been ranked by The Hollywood Reporter among the nation’s Top Film Programs (the youngest to receive that honor!) and our department head Brad Battersby was recognized by VARIETY as the 2017 Mentor of the Year.
Learn more about Ringling College Film.
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"The facilities here look stunning! I'd be happy to build any set I need inside that beautiful building over there."
–Anna Paquin, November 2017
We invite the top names in filmmaking to campus to collaborate on projects and deliver insight into the world of filmmaking.
We are excited to welcome Kevin Smith back to Sarasota to work on his upcoming anthology, Killroy Was Here.
The director of Training Day, Antoine Fuqua, attended the opening of our first completed soundstage in 2017.
Justin & Christian Long
The Long brothers have collaborated with our students on web series such as The Real Stephen Blatt-and shot on our campus!
Anna Paquin & Stephen Moyer
Anna Paquin and Steven Moyer came to campus to screen The Parting Glass, the second film they've worked on with Ringling College.
Our Film students have worked with Dylan McDermott a web series, called Sugar, that premiered at The Ringling College Studio Lab.
We were proud to host a screening and Q&A with Woody Harrelson, who provided extraordinary advice for emerging filmmakers.
Students of the Ringling College ART Network interview our amazing visiting artists - in an elevator!
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Jewels of Russia with Spectacular Scandinavia
(Copenhagen to Moscow)
29 days with Scenic Rating: Deluxe
Day 1 Copenhagen
Celebrate the start of your journey at this evening’s welcome reception. You’ll stay two nights in Copenhagen.
Among the highlights of your guided tour this morning is Christiansborg Palace, home of the Danish Parliament. You’ll also see the courtyard of Amalienborg Palace, home to Princess Mary and the Danish Royal Family. The afternoon is yours to take in the wonderful sights of this fabulous city at your leisure. Your welcome dinner tonight is at one of Copenhagen’s finest restaurants. (Breakfast, Dinner)
Day 3 Copenhagen > Oslo
Take a short flight to Oslo, the capital city of Norway. Upon arrival you’ll be met by a local guide for an insightful sightseeing tour through the city, before arriving at your two night stay. (Breakfast)
Day 4 Oslo
The Bygdøy Peninsula, home to three famous museums, will be your first stop today. Wander the Viking Ship Museum, the Kon-Tiki Museum and the Fram Polar Ship. (Breakfast, Dinner)
Day 5 Oslo > Lofthus
Drive through the majestic Hardangervidda, Europe’s highest mountain plateau and home to Norway’s largest herd of wild reindeer, before reaching Lofthus. Enjoy your overnight special stay at a historic hotel. (Breakfast, Dinner)
Day 6 Lofthus > Bergen
Journey to Norway’s second largest city, the Hanseatic fishing port of Bergen. One of the prettiest cities in Norway, Bergen dates back to the 12th century. Admire the many multi-coloured wooden buildings close to your base for the next two nights. (Breakfast)
Day 7 Bergen
Today you’ll explore Bergen and drive to Troldhaugen, the former home of Edvard Grieg, Norway’s greatest composer.
Freechoice: Journey 320 metres up the funicular railway to Mt. Floien for a spectacular view of the city and fjord. Alternatively, visit Fantofte Stave Church.
Tonight, enjoy a magnificent dinner in one of Bergen’s most spectacular locations. (Breakfast, Dinner)
Day 8 Balestrand
Journey on the world-famous Flåm Railway. Amid spectacular scenery and roaring waterfalls you’ll find the picturesque village of Flåm where you’ll take a gorgeous fjord cruise to Balestrand. Your haven for the evening, is located waterside at the junction of the majestic Sognefjord and Esefjord. (Breakfast, Dinner)
Day 9 Loen
Travel alongside mountains that boast the largest icefield in continental Europe, Jostedalsbreen, which covers an incredible 487 square kilometres.
Visit one of the most impressive arms of the icefield, Briksdalsbreen, and be taken by ‘trollcar’ up the glacier for a spectacular view of the glacier and magnificent waterfall.
Continue past spectacular and dramatic scenery to the small town of Loen, your base for the next two nights. (Breakfast, Dinner)
Day 10 Loen > Geiranger > Loen
This morning, travel to Geiranger where you’ll cruise the incredible Geiranger Fjord and sail past the Seven Sisters, The Suitor and The Bridal Veil waterfalls. This afternoon, travel Troll’s Ladder Road for unforgettable views. (Breakfast, Dinner)
Day 11 Loen > Alesund > Stockholm
Transfer to Alesund where you will board your flight to Stockholm where you’ll stay two nights. (Breakfast, Dinner)
Day 12 Stockholm
Your local guide will unveil the city’s most treasured hotspots during a city tour. You’ll also visit the Nobel Museum. The Nobel prize is the most prestigious in the world and here you will learn about the laureates and their prize winning ideas from the last century. (Breakfast, Dinner)
Day 13 Stockholm > Helsinki
Transfer to the airport for your internal flight to the trendy Finnish capital, Helsinki. Upon arrival, tour the city with your local guide enjoy a two night stay. (Breakfast, Dinner)
Day 14 Helsinki
Today, explore the authentic Finnish open-air museum of Seurasaari. (Breakfast)
Day 15 Helsinki > St. Petersburg
Travel by high-speed train to St. Petersburg and board the boutique Scenic Tsar. (Breakfast, Dinner)
Day 16 St. Petersburg:
Freechoice: Explore the Imperial Bath House and Lower Garden at Peterhof on a guided tour, or be seduced by the sheer extravagance of Peterhof’s Grand Palace. Alternatively, wander the incomparable Upper and Lower Gardens at Peterhof.
Enjoy lunch in a local St. Petersburg restaurant, followed by a guided tour of this beautiful metropolis. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Day 17 St. Petersburg
Freechoice: Visit magnificent St. Isaac’s Cathedral or discover Yusupov Palace, located on the Moika River. Revel in the wealth of the Yusupov family and learn about the mystery surrounding the assassination of Grigory Rasputin.
Following lunch in a local restaurant, enjoy a cruise along the city’s canals. This evening, you’re invited to join Scenic Tsar’s Captain for your official welcome dinner. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Visit Catherine’s Palace, famous for its grandiose white and gold façade and elaborate gardens. Afterwards, enjoy a highlight lunch at the old-world wooden Podvorie restaurant. This afternoon, enjoy some free time to explore or relax as you please.
Tonight you’ll be treated to a glass of sparkling wine, followed by a private Russian ballet concert at the majestic Palace of Prince Vladimir. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
A special highlight awaits as you visit the Hermitage, formerly the Winter Palace and home to Russia’s Imperial family. Today, it houses one of the world’s most magnificent art collections. This evening, join your fellow guests on the Sun Deck as your ship sets sail down the Neva River. Tonight, cruise across Lake Ladoga, Europe’s largest lake. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Day 20 Mandrogi
Explore this charming museum village and its distinctive buildings before trying shashlik, a traditional meal similar to shish kebab. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Day 21 Kizhi Island
Dock at Kizhi Island, an open air museum with a precious collection of wooden churches and chapels. View the Church of the Transfiguration with its 22 timbered onion domes, easily amongst the most magnificent examples of wooden architecture in Russia, if not the world. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Day 22 Goritsy
Explore the Kirillo-Belozersky monastery, built in 1397 and home to a wonderful collection of Russian Orthodox icons. Back on board, toast the occasion with a little vodka, the beverage integral to Russian culture for over 600 years. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Day 23 Yaroslavl
Explore the fascinating and ancient city of Yaroslavl and visit the former Governor’s house that is now a fine arts museum. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Day 24 Uglich
Explore Uglich, part of the ‘Golden Ring’ of cities surrounding Moscow, on a guided tour. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Day 25 Moscow
Sail towards Russia’s mightiest city, Moscow. Arriving after lunch, visit the Armoury and the Kremlin, the intriguing seat of the former Soviet Union. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Start your day by seeing the city’s finest sights, before a ride on Moscow’s Metro, which is guaranteed to surprise you. Enjoy a delicious lunch in a local restaurant before discovering world-renowned sights such as Red Square and the stunningly beautiful St. Basil’s Cathedral.
Tonight, you’ll attend an internationally renowned Russian circus. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Visit the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics, where you’ll have the opportunity to meet a real cosmonaut and learn about the history of space exploration, with original exhibits and models relating to space technology, history and art
After lunch, enjoy free time to explore this bustling city.
Tonight, witness a thrilling Russian folk show complete with traditional costumes and dances. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Freechoice: Visit the State Tretyakov Gallery or explore the fascinating Museum of the Great Patriotic War, commonly known as the World War II museum.
After lunch, enjoy free time to explore this bustling city. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
After breakfast, your cruise comes to an end, as all good things must, but it’s also the start of a lifetime of wonderful memories. (Breakfast)
Discover Scandinavia and Russia on a 29 day adventure from Copenhagen to Moscow. Encounter reindeer, see the fjords, waterfalls and cruise the Volga river.
Discover the wonders of Scandinavia and Russia, from Norway’s magnificent Geiranger Fjord to Russia’s grandiose architecture.
Scandinavia will enthrall with majestic mountains and fjords, Viking history and stylish capital cities, while cruising through the beautiful Russian heartland will leave you with a lingering sense of amazement.
65 meals including 28 Breakfasts, 13 Lunches and 24 Dinners
Cruising: Cabin onboard Scenic Tsar
Itineraries are subject to change.
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AAP Other sport
Zampa expects Kohli to have point to prove
Adam Zampa - AAP
Adam Zampa still classes Virat Kohli as the toughest man in world cricket to bowl to, despite claiming his wicket six times in his international career.
Zampa has touched down in Rajkot for Friday's second ODI against India as the talk of the town after knocking over Kohli again earlier this week.
The legspinner was asked about his record against the Indian megastar five times during a 10-minute media conference on Thursday for local media.
Kohli's own batting is also a hot topic, with the Indian megastar under pressure to move back up to No.3 with heavy criticism of his drop down to No.4.
Zampa took his wicket three times on last year's tour across the Twenty20 and one-day series, before getting him out with a spectacular caught-and-bowled on Tuesday in the opening one-dayer in Mumbai.
But the Australian tweaker expects a far-tougher task against the hosts' captain in India's must-win match on Friday, given he will likely arrive with a point to prove.
"He's one of the toughest guys I've ever had to bowl to, particularly after game one," Zampa said.
"Game two coming up tomorrow, I think he will be even more switched on.
"We basically just find that Virat finds legspinners hard to line up early in his innings, to be honest.
"I think it's important to try and have a game plan to him, so we figured out for that last game that it would be good to start with legspin to him.
"I've got him out four times in the last year so it's nice to have that confidence to bowl to him at the start of his innings."
Zampa's record of dismissing Kohli four times in ODI cricket and twice in T20s is at odds with the Indian batsman's usual lofty standards.
Kohli generally plays spin well, and has only been out to tweakers 55 times in his 243-match ODI career.
But the Aussie said the key was not losing your cool against the world's best batsman, given he has hit him for 126 runs from the 97 balls he's bowled at him.
"It's got to be an attacking approach," Zampa said.
"If you're on the back foot and have a defensive mindset, then that's when he can get on top of you.
"You probably know you're going to get hit for boundaries but it can really get worse if you make that affect you.
"I'm not the most skilful legspinner in the world, that's for sure. Guys like Kuldeep Yadav and Rashid Khan are guys that are really hard to pick.
"One of the most important things I have always tried to do is have strong character."
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Nissan GT-R Cup Car
By Sam Mitani
Nissan is expected to introduce a refreshed version of its GT car, the GT-R in October later this year. This car is expected to receive a power increase to about 520 bhp, which is nearly 40 bhp more than the current car. This model will be followed by the eagerly anticpated M Spec in December (although we haven't heard yet if this car will be available in the U.S.).
Our sources have discovered that Nissan was hiding yet another ace up its sleeve. It's called the GT-R Cup Car. We reported on the possibility that Nissan was working on such a car earlier, but now we have confirmation that this car will indeed make its appearance not long after the introduction of the M Spec. The car specifications will be in the same spirit of previous GT-R "track" versions dubbed N1. Because the new stock GT-R will be producing about 520 bhp, we hear that Nissan won't be tweaking the engine for the Cup Car. Instead, the Cup Car will have upgrades brakes, suspension, wheels and a variety of carbon-fiber body panels.
Price will be about $120,000 to $150,000.
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Home The Best Password Managers of 2020 — Secure, Affordable and Recommended The Best Password Managers for Linux 2020
The Best Password Managers for Linux 2020
Linux isn’t exactly user-friendly. This is an operating system that only the most computer-savvy out there know how to manage. Those that put the effort into building their own Linux distribution most certainly care about their online security as well. That, and they like knowing what goes into their software.
It’s because of this that password managers for Linux must be more carefully considered. These users won’t be happy with just any manager, but one that’s open source, one that’s free, and one that provides useful features like autofill, industry-standard encryption, and two-factor authentication.
In order to find the best password manager for Linux, we’ve examined a lot of the most notable software in the community alongside top password managers within the world of security as a whole. As you can imagine, that’s over dozens of them. Now, we’ve taken what we’ve found and put it into an easily digestible list so you can take advantage of the best password manager for Linux.
The Best Password Manager for Linux 2020
Dashlane – The Best for its Useful Free Plan
LastPass – Best for its Easy Install
RoboForm – Best for its Feature Packed Browser Extension
Bitwarden – Best For Its Open-Source Approach
KeePass – Best For Its Nostalgic Look
To learn more about password managers and their features, click here.
How We Rate The Best Password Managers for Linux 2020
There are dozens of password managers for Linux out there. With so many offering a lot of the basics, how do we know which are the best ones to use? Well, this is how we break down our reviews of each manager:
Feature Set: What sort of features do they provide? How many are on the free plan and how many must you pay for?
Security: Does the manager offer proper security? If so, how does it do so?
Pricing: There are all different kinds of payment tiers for password managers. Some provide better features than others, but it’s important to know if the price is worth the product.
1. Dashlane – The Best for its Useful Free Plan
$4.99 - $9.99 / year
Dashlane is a popular password manager that keeps your information stored on the cloud, making it accessible via any device. Like many of its competitors, Dashlane brings with autofill, a strong password generator, two-factor authentication, and much more. It’s an ideal manager with cheap plans including a surprisingly useful free plan for up to 50 passwords.
Note that Dashlane only works with browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft’s Edge on a Linux machine. It isn’t something that will work with everything just yet, but the team is constantly working on extra support.
All you need to do is head to the Dashlane download page and select an extension compatible with the browser you’re currently using. From there, you log in with your master password and get to managing passwords.
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2. LastPass – Best for its Easy Install
Similar to Dashlane, LastPass is a powerful browser extension that connects with a web-based platform. It’s one of the most high-profile password managers available on Linux, and comes with fantastic autofill capabilities, password strength monitoring, AES-256 encryption and a fleshed out free plan to pair with its valuable premium plan.
Users on Linux tend to lean towards free, open-source software. However, while LastPass has a free plan, it isn’t open-source and in fact resembles a pretty traditional web application. While you can be sure it’s entirely safe, if you’re one of those Linux users that likes to examine what you’re installing on your computer, you may want to do a bit more research before committing to this.
LastPass is great because all you need to do is install the browser extension, import your passwords, and start browsing from that point on, entirely securely.
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3. RoboForm – Best for its Feature Packed Browser Extension
RoboForm is on all sorts of top password manager lists due to its usefulness. The software has a wide variety of different features that both beginners and experts can take advantage of thanks to how well they’re laid out. Plus, there’s a free plan you can try out before jumping into the reasonably priced premium one for any extra features.
Similar to Dashlane, you’ll have to download RoboForm’s browser extension instead of the desktop application due to being on a Linux machine. However, that doesn’t mean you’re limited. RoboForm’s browser extension allows you to access most of its features such as its organizational system, its vault, and its password generator.
Since you can’t support the RoboForm desktop application on Linux, all you need to do is download the respective browser extension and go from there. Plus, if you’ve set up RoboForm on a previous device, you can simply import all of that information over to this one.
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4. Bitwarden – Best For Its Open-Source Approach
$1.00 - $10.00 / year
Bitwarden is an entirely free, open-source password manager which makes it more than ideal for any Linux user. Not only can you download Bitwarden’s desktop version on Linux, but you can also take advantage of its browser extension, which houses traditional passwords on top of credit cards, identities, and much more.
While its most useful features such as two-factor authentication, unlimited storage, and password generator are all free, there is a premium plan, paid yearly, for very cheap as well. This upgraded plan brings with support for third-party authenticators like YubiKey, priority customer support, and much more.
Bitwarden is as easy as ever to download. All you need to do is head over to the Bitwarden webpage, download the password manager, and set everything up. Plus, its browser extension supports Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Edge, Safari, Vivaldi, Brave, and even the Tor Browser, making it one of the most versatile we’ve ever seen.
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5. KeePass – Best For Its Nostalgic Look
Like Bitwarden, KeePass is a free password manager originally designed for Windows but now available on Linux and other platforms. It locally encrypts your information, making it as safe as possible and ensuring nobody else will ever gain access to your data. It’s also open-source, meaning that multiple users have looked over the code and seen what the application has to offer.
The browser extension supports Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Internet Explorer, and encrypts via AES-256. It also has many of the best basic password manager features, like a password generator, entry notes, and autofill.
While KeePass has some useful features, is free, and even has a desktop version for Linux, it isn’t the prettiest user interface in the world. In fact, KeePass looks like it’s from the early 2000’s, sporting a look straight out of Windows XP. It’s entirely usable, and those with nostalgia for that era may even love the interface. But, this is worth noting.
KeePass is easily downloaded via its website. Since the application is free, there’s no dealing with payment information or other barriers to your entry. Rather, it’s a quick download, a setup of your master password, and enjoy encrypted password management.
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Now, it’s important to note that because of Linux’s nature, not every piece of software will natively support it. Instead, some password managers will only allow users to install browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and a few others. But, this doesn’t mean they’re bad for Linux users, rather that they can only use them while browsing the web.
However, there are some great password managers that natively support Linux as well, which we’ll get into soon. But first, we need to examine the best features of any password manager in general.
The Basic Features of the Best Password Managers
You’ll want a password manager for Linux to have the following features:
A Master Password: A master password is vital for security purposes. This is the passphrase you enter when starting up your password manager, and if one doesn’t have this then you need to worry about your security a little more.
Autofill: An autofill features automatically enters your information into a respective form whenever you need it. So, for example, if you’re logging into Netflix on your device, the password manager should automatically fill out that information.
Auto Password Capture: Sort of the reverse to autofill, auto password capture means that every time you enter in a new username and password, the password manager will fill that in so it can autofill properly the next time you log in.
Advanced Features of Password Managers
That was the basics. You’ll want a password manager for Linux to have these specific features:
Open-Source: While this isn’t necessarily a vital feature, a password manager that’s open-source is the best way to go. Open-source means that anybody can take a look at the code and make sure there’s no issues or anything fishy within. Essentially, if a developer makes their software open-source, they have nothing to hide and you can probably trust them.
Browser Extension Support: Where are you using your passwords the most? In a web browser. That means you want your password manager to have a browser extension that ties directly into your browsing experience. This makes things much easier on you and ensures that your logins are entirely secure no matter what.
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Royal Marines trainee musicians strengthen links with Youth Band
Members of the Royal Marines School of Music (RMSoM) with staff and two trained ranks, spent a rewarding weekend with Brentwood Imperial Youth Band (BIYB), showcasing the exciting career options offered in the band service.
Led by Assistant Director of Music Training, Captain Phil Trudgeon RM (36), Bugle/drum instructors from RMSoM delivered engaging workshops, whilst Capt Trudgeon rehearsed the Youth band for a forthcoming Christmas concert. The Royal Marines then hosted a question-and-answer session after lunch.
Among the RM musicians visiting were two former members of the Bentwood Band: Recently promoted Band Lance-Corporal Chris Turrell, currently serving in RM Band Portsmouth (Royal Band) and Musn Cowley, who is currently in training studying Flute and Sax at RMSoM.
Music was played by Stevie Wonder to 90s pop, as well as music from The Lion King, with all enjoying the fun environment.
It was very exciting to return to the band that had motivated me to join the Royal Marines and show them how much the Royal Marines had done for me.
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Musn Cowley said: “It was very exciting to return to the band that had motivated me to join the Royal Marines and show them how much the Royal Marines had done for me.”
She added: “Capt Trudgeon encouraged the youngsters to relax and enjoy themselves, he had whole sections of the band swinging from side to side or standing up and sitting down in sequence to the music. Everyone had a great time!”
Brentwood Imperial Youth Band were one of the participating Bands in the inaugural Victory Youth Tattoo held in HMNB Portsmouth during May this year, so have now established a firm link with RMSoM.
The Q A was a great success, with an array of questions from the Brentwood musicians, including the importance of sport and fitness. All present were awarded a free RMBS water bottle at the end.
Capt Trudgeon said: “It was fantastic to see all the musicians having so much fun during rehearsals and then asking some really good questions in the afternoon.
“I may be a little biased, but life as a Royal Marine Musician is fantastic, and we all relish the chance to share our experiences with the next generation.” He added, “I’m also pretty sure mine was the biggest smile at the end of the day!”
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How to Manage VMFS Datastores in VMware
Virtual machine file system (VMFS), exclusive to VMware, functions as both a volume manager and a filesystem; it controls block devices associated with a host or hosts and resides on the same pool of storage resources that it manages. VMFS is used to store disc images and the files that make up a virtual machine or template; unlike most other filesystems, VMFS is optimized for use with large files.
Multiple servers can write data to, and read data from, a VMFS volume. ESX and ESXi Server use a file-locking mechanism, called SCSI reservation, to preserve the integrity of data contained on a volume. SCSI reservation occurs when a VMFS operation modifies the metadata of logical unit number (LUN) -- an individual, unique, block-based storage device (the term "LUN" is often used interchangeably with "disk" or "drive"). Examples of VMFS operations include creating a virtual machine or template, turning a VM on, or creating or deleting a file. These reservations are dynamic, rather than static; once an operation is complete, the host will release the lock.
VMFS deposits files in a storage container called a datastore, a separate filesystem that runs on top of a volume. Datastores reside on a block-based device such as iSCSI. Virtual machine disks (VMDKs) are housed in the datastore.
VMFS-5, released with vSphere and ESXi 5.0, can handle volume sizes of up to 64TB and datastores of 2TB - 512B in size. VMFS is limited to 256 volumes per host and a maximum of 64 hosts can be associated with a single volume.
To ensure the best performance, administrators should determine what kind of datastore is most suitable for a particular virtual machine. Datastores running on low-end disks or lacking redundancy, for example, should be associated with low-priority VMs. Continue reading to learn how to configure and manage your datastores in VMware vSphere.
Create a New Datastore
VMFS volumes should be created in vSphere, rather than via the fdisk tool or from the ESX/ESXi installer. The start sectors on volumes formatted in the ESX/ESXi installer or via command line will not be aligned at 128K, negatively impacting disk performance as a result.
In vSphere, select the ESX or ESXi host. Click the Configuration tab and then select "Storage" from the Hardware pane.
Click "Add Storage." Select "Disk/LUN" as the storage type and then click "Next."
Select the LUN to format. Click "Next." Choose from the following options if the selected disk is not blank:
Use All Available Partitions - Erase all data from the LUN and dedicate the entire disk for use with the datastore.
Use Free Space- Create a VMFS volume on the remaining space available on the disk.
Create a unique name for the datastore and then click "Next."
Select a block size from the drop-down menu. The block size determines the maximum file size a volume can manage. 1MB corresponds to 256GB, 2MB to 512GB, 4MB to 1024GB, and 8MB to 2048GB. The block size limits the size of the VMDK.
Check "Maximize Capacity" to use the entire LUN, if applicable. For the best performance possible, it's recommended to have a 1:1 ratio of VMFS volumes to LUNs, although LUNs can hold more than one VMFS volume at a time. Click "Next."
Review your selections and then click "Finish" to create the VMFS datastore.
Mount a Datastore
Datastores in VMware aren't locked to their original host and can be mounted to, or unmounted from, a server. To associate an existing datastore with a new server:
Follow the instructions in steps 1 and 2 in the above section. When prompted to select a disk, check the Label column to find the LUN that holds the existing datastore.
Select the LUN and then choose "Keep Existing Signature" or "Assign a New Signature." Select the former if the server is a copy of a now-defunct host; select the latter if the server is a snapshot of an existing host that is still active.
Follow the remaining prompts to attach the datastore to a new host.
Unmount a Datastore
Go to the Configuration tab after selecting the ESX or ESXi host and then click "Datastores."
Right-click the appropriate datastore and then select "Unmount" from the context menu.
If the datastore is shared, deselect the host to unmount the datastore; select a host to keep the volume mounted. Click "Next."
Click "Finish" to unmount the datastore from the target host or hosts.
Increase the Size of the Datastore
Administrators can increase the size of a VMFS datastore using an extent, which represents a partition on a LUN. VMFS volumes can accommodate multiple extents -- up to 32 at a time if each extent is the maximum 2TB in size. You can also grow an existing extent so long as it has available free space after it.
Select the target host and then click the Configuration tab. Choose "Storage" from the Hardware pane.
Right-click the appropriate datastore and then choose "Properties" from the context menu.
Click "Increase." Select a device from the list. To add a new extent to the datastore, select an unexpandable device; to increase the size of an existing extent, select an expandable device. Click "Next."
Select one of the following options:
Use Free Space to Add New Extent - Allocate available space on the disk to the new extent.
Use Free Space to Expand Existing Extent - Add additional storage space to an existing extent.
Use Free Space- Use all remaining, available space on the disk to deploy a new extent.
Use All Available Partitions - Reformat the disk, removing any existing datastores, and dedicate all available space on the disk to create a new extent. The disk must not be blank.
Check "Maximize Capacity" to use all available space; otherwise, enter the desired size, in GB, into the available field. Click "Next."
Click "Finish" to increase the size of the datastore.
As stated above, it's important to have a firm understanding of the requirements of your environment before associating a virtual machine with a datastore. You should have a good idea, for example, of the block size to choose when first setting up your VMFS volume; selecting too small a block size affects how large your VMDKs can be, which could have deleterious effects in the long run. Make your choices wisely when configuring your datastore.
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Bolton Wanderers 1 PNE 1 (Bolton Win 3-0 On Penalties)
Stevie May made his comeback after almost a year out with a serious knee injury, but North End lost out on penalties in the second round of the Lancashire Senior Cup against Bolton Wanderers.
Eoin Doyle had taken the game to penalties with an injury-time equaliser to Alex Samizadeh’s first half strike for the Trotters, but home goalkeeper Will Jaaskelainen saved from Doyle, Liam Grimshaw and Dylan Davidson to put David Lee’s side into the next round at Leyland's Lancashire FA County Ground.
It was a game North End had dominated, Doyle’s effort their 20th shot on target, with Simon Makienok, partnering Doyle and May in a three-pronged attack, setting up the Irishman as early as the second minute, for him to head home, only for the referee to pull it back for a foul by the big Dane.
Academy players Josh Earl and Melle Meulensteen were selected amongst the nine professionals and the former forced a fine save out of Jaaskelainen in the opening exchanges as well, the start of an excellent night for the young Wanderers stopper.
May looked lively on his return to the side; just five days before the year anniversary of his injury, picked up in the closing stages of the Lilywhites’ trip to Fulham in late November 2015 and he also forced a save from the goalkeeper before the game was even five minutes old.
The North End pressure continued as Chris Humphrey showed power and pace to shrug off a defender down the right hand side before drilling a shot just wide of the left hand upright.
Whilst Makienok headed over from close range from Humphrey's whipped cross from the right.
But completely against the run of play the home side opened the scoring on 26 minutes. It was their first shot on target and the goal came from Alex Samizadeh; shooting hard and low into the bottom left corner from 25 yards out.
Right on half-time Jaaskelainen made yet another superb low save, to once again deny Makienok an equaliser as the No.9 headed Humphrey's cross towards goal from ten yards out, but a sprawling and smothering stop from the keeper denied the Dane a goal.
It was almost a comeback to remember for May 11 minutes after the interval when he was played in down a left and channel by Doyle, drove into the box and unleashed a vicious low drive. Jaaskelainen was this time beaten, but the ball flew back off the base of the left hand post to deny the Scot a dream return.
The saves continued from the Bolton custodian in the closing stages. The game became more stretched, with the home side having a couple of half opportunities as well, but it was Josh Earl who was denied when put in by substitute Dylan Davidson three minutes from time, the keeper spreading himself well to save one-on-one with the young PNE winger.
It looked like Bolton would go straight through to the next round until the first of two minutes of added time when Earl this time got down the right hand side and crossed to the edge of the six yard box to where Doyle volleyed home to finally beat Jaaskelainen and take the game straight to penalties.
But it was the Bolton No.1 who came out on top once again, making superb saves from Doyle, Grimshaw and Davidson, with Hyuga Tanner, skipper Sam Lavelle and George Newell all beating Mathew Hudson to give Wanderers a place in the next round.
Bolton Wanderers line-up: Jaaskelainen, Spooner, Honeyball, Barrow, Lavelle (c), Tanner, Willoughby (Green, 61), Earing, Newell, King, Samizadeh. Subs not used: March, Aspinall, Lonsdale.
PNE line-up: Hudson, Meulensteen (Smart, 81), Spurr, Davies, Earl, Huntington (c), Humphrey, Grimshaw, Makienok (Davidson, 62), Doyle, May (Stead, 71). Subs not used: Roberts, O’Neil.
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A Hutterite Funeral
Mary-Ann Kirkby
Last week I returned to Fairholme for my Uncle’s funeral.
Providentially, my mother, sister Genie and I had been to Fairholme 2 days earlier and mother had a chance to say good-bye. Fairholme is the Hutterite Colony in Manitoba in which I grew up and the place of many cherished childhood memories. My uncle, Peter Maendel whom we all refer to as Peter Vetter is the last of my mother’s 12 brothers to pass away. He was 93.
As we rounded the corner into Fairholme we stopped at the community graveyard where Peter Vetter’s freshly dug grave had been prepared. We walked among the grave-markers as a cold wind snapped at our skirts. My brother Renie and our beloved Oma and Opa all lie here.
Peter Vetter and my mother are both members of the iconic Maendel family. The 16 children of Joseph and Katherina Maendel, of which my mother is the youngest, were a robust, gifted and lively bunch.
While most of my mother’s siblings were gregarious and engaging, Peter Vetter stood out for his quiet demeanor. When we lived at Fairholme Colony he was my father’s best friend. I remember on Saturday evenings when Peter Vetter would come over to our house and he and my father would give each other haircuts with dad’s Wahl hair clippers. I would watch, broom in hand, because I was responsible to sweep up the hair clippings after they were done; an assignment of which I felt quite proud.
In Hutterite tradition, Peter Vetter’s body lay in the living room of the family home on the afternoon that we arrived. Two circles of chairs were placed around the coffin and people came and went to pay their respects in roughly half hour shifts. It was like a flash forward from my childhood. The women and men I grew up with eased in and out of the room to comfort the family and reminisce. Peter Vetter and his wife Sarah (Wurz) Basel had 12 children. Sarah Basel tragically died of cancer in 1970 and Peter Vetter remained a widower. It must have been a difficult and lonely time.
When the bell rang we all proceeded to the new community kitchen. It is still under construction but the new dining room was far enough along to host the supper. Fairholme is re-imagining itself and the face of the community is changing. New homes, barns and community buildings are springing up.
My sister and I quickly took a sentimental journey through the old kitchen, a stone’s throw from the new one where the next generation of beautiful Fairholme women were cooking the supper. The old kitchen is weathered and weary but for us it’s a priceless antique. The linoleum floor in the Essenschuel (children’s dining room) where we once ate still gleams and the enduring industrial oven in the bakery with its square peep-hole fuels my mind with moist and creamy poppy seed Krapflen (pockets). Upstairs in the creaky attic the aromatic blocks of Speck Saften (homemade lard soap) are curing in brimming baskets just like they did when we lived here.
After supper, Peter Vetter’s coffin was carried from his home to the colony school and placed in the center of the gymnasium. Nearly 500 people have arrived from other colonies and the room is near capacity. Traditional German funeral songs flow from the crowd, the voices rich and full.
I am struck by Peter Vetter’s beautiful hands folded against his chest, as he lies there. His fingers are long and elegant. Peter Vetter was the first Hutterite to graduate from teacher’s college in Manitoba and become a teacher; a significant achievement at a time when most Hutterites shunned higher education. Early Hutterites were the among the most educated society in Europe. Peter Vetter helped reintroduce our forefathers model of higher education to future generations of Schmiedeleut Hutterites. He was also the colony gardener. While Peter Vetter had scholar’s hands he didn’t mind getting them dirty as head gardener of Fairholme’s expansive community garden, a job he both loved and excelled at for decades.
In 1979, he was elected colony Predigar minister. Ruhe in Frieden, Peter Vetter.
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Can Microsoft Edge Start the Browser War We So Desperately Need?
How browsers work, why they suck, and how Microsoft Edge could save us.
By Eric Limer
Flashback to 2008. iOS 2.0.1 just brought some sort of "app store" to the new iPhone 3G. Rumors are swirling about a new Microsoft operating system codenamed "Windows 7." And in September, Google releases the first version of its new Chrome browser.
In the seven years since, we've seen our fair share of iterations, reboots, and sequels but no new web browsers. Until now.
Today, Windows 10 launches, and with it, the new Windows 10-exclusive Microsoft Edge Browser. Edge is more than just a new coat of paint on ancient Internet Explorer. It borrows strength from Microsoft's gargantuan footprint and legacy without being weighed down by it. The clean slate of Windows 10 and a Microsoft that's trying so hard to viciously cut its losses leaves Edge free to abandon the bloat and commitment to the past that weigh so many browsers down. Free to light a fire under the competition.
But before we dig too much further into that, let's take a look at how we got to where we are.
How Chrome became king
When Google Chrome was released in late 2008, the web browser world was already in flux. Internet Explorer, bloated by years of monopoly, was under vicious guerrilla attack by Mozilla Firefox. In the five years prior, Firefox had climbed up from two percent of the market to nearly twenty, siphoning users from IE, which bled out from 95 percent to 75 percent in the same time.
And the version of Internet Explorer that Firefox was stealing users from was a real dog. IE 6 (supported from 2001 to 2008) was, and is, widely reviled as one of the worst pieces of tech garbage ever. It was rife with security issues, offered poor support for the day's web standards, and lacked now-basic features like tabbed browsing that were present in the competing Firefox. When IE7 came out in 2006 it was much improved, no doubt spurred on in part by the looming threat of Firefox. But the true browser golden age was ushered in by Google Chrome.
While Internet Explorer continued to hemorrhage users, the speedy upstart Chrome gave Firefox competition that was much more serious than anything it had faced before. A 2010 article from Slate sums up the fantastic effects of the frenzy:
Browsers keep getting faster. Mike Beltzner, the director of Firefox at Mozilla, told me recently that his browser's "javascript engine"—which runs complex, interactive Web applications like Gmail or Google Maps—is 20 percent faster in the new Firefox 3.6 than in the previous version. Keep in mind that the previous version was released just last June. Can you think of anything else in the world that can get 20 percent better in only a few months? When I asked Beltzner how coders managed that feat, he pointed to his rivals. "Were there not other competitors who were just as interested in making Web browsers faster, I don't know if we'd be able to find the gains that we can find," he said. "Now it's a game of one-upping each other."
Skip forward to today and we're facing a different scene. Chrome is squarely the browser to beat. Through a combination of better distribution and heartier code under the hood, it bested Firefox to took the seat on Internet Explorer's vacant throne. Modern counts have Chrome's market share as high as 50 percent—nothing close to IE's once monolithic lead, but still way out in front, with little to fear.
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Like any far-and-away leader, Chrome seems to have lost its edge. It's a hellish battery drain on laptops, especially on OS X. Vague but pervasive dissatisfaction lead various tech writers—including me—to break up with it in public. And seemingly in response, Google has started to address Chrome's failings, updating the browser to block Flash and tweaking rendering behavior, both in order to squeeze out better performance.
Chrome's competitors aren't attracting hopeful immigrants, just angry refugees.
But there's a bigger problem for any potential Chrome quitters: a distinct lack of anything worth getting excited about. Yes, Internet Explorer has come a long way from its troubled past, Firefox is still chugging along, and Apple's Safari is better than its ever been, but none are mind-blowingly good enough to counter Chrome users' inertia. Chrome's competitors aren't attracting hopeful immigrants, just angry refugees. With its new look, new name, new features, and new guts, Microsoft Edge might have what it takes to kickstart a new arms race.
Building the next great browser
A browser looks simple when you're stalking exes on Facebook or trolling celebs on Twitter, but actually bringing one into being is a Herculean effort. "Browsers aren't trivial to build," Drew DeBruyne, Director of Program Management for Microsoft Edge told me over the phone. "There are very few organizations in the world, whether they're companies or open source organizations, that can mount that sort of effort." And the deeper you go into a browser's inner workings, the easier it is to see why that's the case.
Imagine your browser as a car, the digital jalopy in which you cruise down the Information Superhighway, memes and #whatevergates ticking by you like telephone poles. The part of your browser you're actually using to drive is its user interface. The most basic components of this have been the same for ages: address bar, bookmark folders, back button, refresh.
But other, rare and ingenious innovations have actually changed the game. Like tabs, which bubbled up from a tiny browser in 1997 and wormed their way into Mozilla, or the Omnibox, Chrome's combined address/search bar. Both redefined the way we use the web.
Microsoft Edge has a few tricks up its sleeve as well. Edge comes with Microsoft's Cortana voice assistant built-in, bringing the sort of voice control you're used to on your phone onto your desktop as well. It also comes with an Instapaper-style "Reading mode" to strip web writing from busy (and sometimes god-awful) layouts into a form that's easier to digest, ads and whatever else be damned. All that on top of a design that's stark and modern.
But user-facing features are only a slice of what makes a browser great (and, they're easy to rip off); the more reliable way to make a browser drip with appeal is simple in theory, but complicated in practice. Get under the hood and make it fast as hell.
Get under the hood and make it fast as hell.
When you visit a website, you aren't actually visiting some sort of "page" as if you were flipping through a magazine. When you type in an address or send out a query, your browser initiates a conversation with a web server somewhere. Your browser introduces itself and the server replies with a stream of data—tailored as specifically as possible for your exact browser and device. From there, it's up to your browser to take this data—broken up into countless packets—and build a page on the spot, as fast as it can. This is the work of what's called a rendering or layout engine.
Here's a clip from a slow-mo visualization that shows how Gecko, the Firefox rendering engine, builds a page.
Every browser has a rendering engine, but some of them share DNA, and virtually all of them date back decades. Firefox's Gecko engine has roots that go back to Netscape Navigator in 1997. Apple's desktop Safari browser uses an open-source engine called WebKit, which was born out of code from a late 90's browser called Konqueror. Chrome used to use the very same engine—the strength of which ultimately contributed to its success over Firefox—but in 2013, it started taking the code in a new direction and took to calling this parallel version "Blink."
There are all sorts of things in a rendering engine that can make a browser fast or slow. If the engine does more work than is strictly necessary, or spends a lot of time checking and accounting for old, outdated standards and technology, that will slow the load process down. Decisions as simple as what order to render things like text, images, or embedded stuff like YouTube videos and tweets contributes to speed (and the perception of speed) as well.
Google Chrome stands as a great historical example of how this can affect your day to day browsing, and how those effects can change over time. Chrome's engine spends resources to render tabs you aren't looking at. Initially this made Chrome feel snappy, as Slate pointed out in 2010. No waiting for a load when you switch tabs! But here in 2015 with heavy web pages, sophisticated web apps, and power-users that juggle 30 tabs, that same distribution of resources made Chrome devour RAM and battery until Google scaled it back.
It's easy to see how a faster rendering engine could be an important gun in Edge's arsenal. Edge is the first browser to use Microsoft's brand new (and closed source) EdgeHTML renderer. Like Blink or Gecko, EdgeHTML isn't entirely new; it's a modified version of the Trident engine that was introduced to run Internet Explorer in 1997. But this new tricked-out version of Trident has been ripped down to the studs to eliminate as much old cruft as possible.
Windows 10 will ship with two browsers, Edge and Internet Explorer 11, with IE 11 remaining essentially unchanged. That redundancy gives Edge the freedom to abandon cumbersome legacy functionality, the freedom to say, "Nope, that page is too old, go use IE instead." It's an absolutely crucial break according to DeBruyne: "It allowed us to keep Edge as clean and slim as possible, without any of the burden of IE-specific technologies."
So does it work? Boy oh boy, does it ever. I've spent time using preliminary versions of Edge through Microsoft's Windows Insider Program, and back to back with Chrome, the improvement is pronounced and lovely. It's not just the speed at which Edge loads in web pages (which is fast), but also its pacing. Where Chrome has a tendency to load pages piecemeal—an image here, a block of text there—Edge loads with a pause, then an all-at-once snap. There's a rhythm to it: load...POP, load...POP. That little detail goes a long way to making Edge feel faster even though it isn't always.
Chrome on the left, Edge on the right
But the benchmark numbers bear out Edge's general prowess. The ludicrously detail-oriented AnandTech found that Edge has best-in-class scores on several common speed benchmarks. And that speaks not only to the strength of its rendering engine, but its Javascript engine as well, the sub-engine of the browser that handles forms and buttons and virtually everything you interact with on the modern web.
Even better, Edge has even managed to improve a bunch since the debut of its rendering engine, which speaks to the speed at which it can continue to advance. And all the while, it's stayed out ahead of competitors that have been improving as well.
But is Edge sharp enough to draw blood?
Microsoft Edge has a lot going for it as it leaps into the fray, and DeBruyne attributes much of that to Edge's brazen newness. "It was not easy to decide to build a new browser, purpose-built for Windows 10, and make a break from the past," he says. "But it created a big opportunity for us because it makes for a much lighter weight browser."
And it's a call that's not without its drawbacks. Take the bit about being purpose-built for Windows 10. Edge is bound to Windows 10, full stop. It's not on your Android phone, or iOS. It won't come to Macs or Linux or even older versions of Windows. A Windows 10 laptop or tablet is the price of admission. Maybe someday that will change, but Microsoft has been adamant that it has no currently plans to complicate the simplicity of Edge by considering any other platforms.
A Windows 10 laptop or tablet is the price of admission.
That's a massively limiting factor. Even Apple's Safari—which has come packed in with Macs for over 10 years and iPhones from day one—still lags behind the competition by most counts. Much of what helped Chrome gain its ubiquity is that it's available on virtually anything with a screen. Ditto Firefox. As such, tab- and data-syncing between phones and laptops have spoiled a good many of us for anything less seamless.
That's not to mention that mobile browsing in general is perpetually on the rise, and Edge won't be on either of the two largest phone platforms. DeBruyne is quick to point out that Windows 10 is technically an OS that will also run on phones, and Edge will make a mobile debut that way, but how many Windows Phones have you seen out in the wild? And phones that run full Windows 10 out of the box haven't even been announced yet.
The caveats don't end there. Edge is launching without features that we've come to take for granted as building blocks of the modern browser. Most notably Edge currently has no support for extensions right now—a sticking point that kept many Firefox users from migrating to early Chrome.
But for all its considerable weaknesses, Edge still comes from a position of strength for a brand-new browser. As DeBruyne is keen to mention, the difficulty of entering the space isn't just building something, but delivering it as well. "It's very important to have a way to distribute your new work. Of course for Google, that was Google.com. For operating system vendors, it's the operating system, whether that's iOS, or OS X, or Windows 10."
Of those options, Windows 10 is a uniquely good conduit. Like Windows 7 before it, Windows 10 is "one of the good ones" and the bad taste of Windows 8 has left anyone who hasn't defected to OS X or Linux positively starving for a change. Moreover Windows 10 is free for the vast majority Windows faithful and ostensibly the last major update Microsoft will ever release as it transitions into perpetually maintaining Windows 10 as a service, rather than a product on which to iterate.
Even though Edge locks out plenty of people for now—people like me, who have a MacBook and an Android phone—it stands to improve all browsers. Edge doesn't need to steal millions of users from Chrome. It just has to pose a credible threat.
Edge doesn't need to steal millions of users from Chrome. It just has to pose credible threat.
So far, that outcome is promising because for all its missing features, lack of cross-platform support, and lack of mobile apps, Microsoft Edge has a crucial new feature I haven't seen in years: I actually want to use it. It's a browser I'm excited about. Enthusiasm is perhaps the greatest edge Microsoft could wield against an army of browsers that for the moment are mostly content to just not get too much worse. A full-on browser war between Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft is one fight worth having.
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By: Githens, Perry (ed)
Publisher: New York, Popular Science Publishing: 1948
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Publisher: New York, Popular Science Publishing : 1945
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The Ascent Of Man: Why Did Our Early Ancestors Walk Upright?
By News Staff | May 26th 2013 11:33 AM | Print | E-mail
Archaeologists think they have some responses for the hypothesis that our early forebears were forced out of the trees and onto two feet when climate change reduced tree cover.
Our earliest ancestors changed from tree dwelling quadrupeds to upright bipeds capable of walking and scrambling and the authors in Antiquity ('Complex Topography and Human Evolution: the Missing Link') say our upright gait may have its origins in the rugged landscape of East and South Africa, which was shaped during the Pliocene epoch by volcanoes and shifting tectonic plates.
Hominins, our early forebears, would have been attracted to the terrain of rocky outcrops and gorges because it offered shelter and opportunities to trap prey. But it also required more upright scrambling and climbing gaits, prompting the emergence of bipedalism.
Dr. Isabelle Winder, from the Department of Archaeology at York and one of the paper's authors, said, "Our research shows that bipedalism may have developed as a response to the terrain, rather than a response to climatically-driven vegetation changes. The broken, disrupted terrain offered benefits for hominins in terms of security and food, but it also proved a motivation to improve their locomotor skills by climbing, balancing, scrambling and moving swiftly over broken ground - types of movement encouraging a more upright gait."
They suggest that the hands and arms of upright hominins were then left free to develop increased manual dexterity and tool use, supporting a further key stage in the evolutionary story. The development of running adaptations to the skeleton and foot may have resulted from later excursions onto the surrounding flat plains in search of prey and new home ranges.
Winder said, "The varied terrain may also have contributed to improved cognitive skills such as navigation and communication abilities, accounting for the continued evolution of our brains and social functions such as co-operation and team work.
"Our hypothesis offers a new, viable alternative to traditional vegetation or climate change hypotheses. It explains all the key processes in hominin evolution and offers a more convincing scenario than traditional hypotheses."
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Cubs at Reds game postponed because of rain
CINCINNATI (AP) The Reds lost a game to the weather - a recurring problem this season - and took a couple more steps toward getting some injured players back on the roster.
The opening game of a series with the Chicago Cubs was postponed on Monday following a 57-minute delay to the first pitch. It was the eighth postponement in 12 years at Great American Ball Park.
The game wasn't immediately rescheduled. Manager Bryan Price said the game won't be made up during this series. The Cubs visit for a four-game series from July 7-10.
''There's no way we'll make it up in this series,'' Price said. ''The way it works out, we'll probably be able to make it up during that series in July before the All-Star break.''
Rain has been a problem in Cincinnati this season. The Reds have had one game postponed and another suspended overnight because of rain. They've had rain delays for four of the 10 games totaling 8 hours, 57 minutes.
The teams will stay on schedule with their starters. Chicago's Jeff Samardzija will face the Reds' Alfredo Simon on Tuesday night.
It will be Simon's first scheduled start since an unidentified woman filed a civil lawsuit against him in a Washington, D.C. court last Thursday, claiming he sexually assaulted her in a hotel one year ago.
''I take him at his word that nothing happened and he's assured me that he's ready to pitch and his focus is on pitching,'' Price said.
Simon has been one of Cincinnati's best starters while filling in for the injured Mat Latos, who had surgery to repair torn cartilage in his right knee on Feb. 14. Simon is 3-1 with a 1.30 earned run average in four starts.
Latos had a setback in his recovery from the knee problem when he developed soreness in his pitching forearm near the elbow. He has resumed playing catch and could get back to throwing off the bullpen mound later this week.
''Once we get him on the mound a couple of times, then we go out there and do a simulated game and then get him into rehab games,'' Price said. ''He's not like starting from square one, even though he's just playing catch now.
''If we don't have any setbacks, we should be able to progress pretty quickly through this rehab.''
Closer Aroldis Chapman is scheduled to throw to Reds batters again on Tuesday before the game. If that goes well, he could start a rehab stint in the minors.
Chapman was hit on the forehead by a line drive on March 19 and had a metal plate inserted in his forehead to help fractures heal.
''If everything goes well with that (on Tuesday), then we anticipate getting him out on a short rehab and then having him back with us pretty quickly,'' Price said.
Samardzija is trying to break a streak of 11 straight starts without a win since last Aug. 30. Samardzija has pitched well - quality starts his last eight games - but the Cubs have scored only 21 runs while he was on the mound in the last 10 games.
Last Wednesday, Samardzija left with a 5-2 lead before Arizona rallied for a 7-5 win.
The Cubs haven't fared well against the Reds overall. They dropped two of three at Wrigley Field this month and haven't won the season series against Cincinnati since 2009. They're 6-16 against Cincinnati over the last two seasons and 10-28 over the last three.
NOTES: Cubs RH Jake Arrieta will be activated off the DL and could start later this week. He's been sidelined since March 21 with tightness in his pitching shoulder. RH Carlos Villanueva will move into the bullpen. ... RF Nate Schierholtz was going to get a day off. ... The Reds' Skip Schumaker started a rehab assignment at Triple-A Louisville on Monday. He's recovering from a separated left shoulder sustained during spring training.
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Sunderland Set to Sign Palace Midfielder Jonny Williams on Loan After Failing to Impress De Boer
Sunderland are set to sign Crystal Palace's Jonny Williams on a season long loan, according to Sky Sports' Keith Downie.
Williams has reportedly left the Wales international squad's camp, in order to finalise a move to the north east.
The 23-year-old has struggled to force his way into the Crystal Palace side since being promoted to the senior side in 2011, making only a handful of first team senior appearances.
The Welshman has had a lot of loan spells over the past few seasons, returning to Ipswich a number of times, while also having stints at Nottingham Forest and MK Dons.
The midfielder only played eight times for Ipswich, on loan last season, with seven of those appearances being from the bench.
Nevertheless, the Welshman's talent is still highly regarded at Palace and only signed a new deal with the London club in July, such that they only want a loan deal for the player.
Williams is also highly regarded by his national team and has regularly featured in the senior squad. He played four times in Wales Euros campaign, including a substitute appearance in the semi-final defeat to Portugal.
Sources are now claiming that Williams is heading to the Stadium of Light to complete a medical, with Sunderland having agreed the terms of a season-long loan deal.
Williams should be confirmed as a Black Cat for the rest of the season later on Thursday night. The Welshman may not be the only signing however as the north east side continue to try and push through moves for Villa's Ross McCormack and Tommy Elphick as well as Bournemouth's Marc Wilson.
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After an experiment destroys his lab, Trace wakes up to find himself somewhere else. Somewhere unfamiliar and somewhere hostile. He is given some vague guidance by a mysterious voice and sets off to find out where he is and what is happening.
Look at any screenshot of Axiom Verge and you’ll see Metroid’s influence. It runs deep and elements of it can be seen everywhere, from the way you progress around the map to how enemies behave and general gameplay. Even the connecting doors between rooms look like the ones from Metroid. However, simply saying “Well, if you like Metroid, you’ll like this”, would be doing this very promising game, a disservice.
There’s a heavy sense of mystery about Axiom Verge. Trace seems to know no more than we do about his current situation. It’s up to the player to piece things together from clues dotted around the map and what Trace has been told. You’ll come across certain rooms and objects that make you wonder if they’ve got a greater significance than what they seem. I haven’t really got any firm ideas yet of what it all means, but I’m looking forward to seeing where it will take me. As interesting as the mystery is, personally, I really enjoyed just exploring the world at hand.
There’s a dark atmosphere to the game that’s almost horror like. The colour palette is dark and grim. The retro aesthetic feels like a combination of Metroid and Cave Story. The small details in the background with the subtle animations really made the world look and feel alive. It might sound silly, but I really like the way enemies and such explode and just fall to pieces, it’s a really satisfying small bit of visual feedback. The enemies have an organic and grotesque appearance, they reminded me of something from Doom, especially the boss creatures. The music has a moody sci-fi feel to it. The sound design on the whole gives off eerie vibes. There’s these blood red bubbles that when shot, make these squelchy sounds and other enemies later in the demo that make these high pitched wails.
Just what is really going on in this game?
The use of weapons in this game is really interesting. I only had a handful to play with in the preview build sent to Siliconera, but each have very different purposes. Early on in the game, you’re given the basic gun to use but this is quite an impressive multi-purpose weapon capable of not just firing bullets and missiles. One weapon launches a bomb which is fired with one button and detonated with another press. While I didn’t find it helpful in combat, it was much more useful to reach switches and such, that your regular gun cannot reach. There’s also the Laser Drill, which is used to dig through walls and floors. It’s not always immediately obvious, what can and can’t be drilled, so I imagine a lot of the game’s secrets will be hidden away like this.
Personally, I found the moment that I got the drill, to be the point that the game clicked for me. I was seeing how the weapons function as both combat and exploratory devices and the game’s map started to become much more accessible with the extra weapons in my arsenal.
One of the last weapons I received was the Glitch Ray. This one is definitely one of the more unique weapons in Axiom Verge. You use the ray to manipulate the world around you. Not everything is glitchable, but like the Laser Drill, understanding how it works is the key to success. For example, there was a giant mushroom spreading its spores. Using the Glitch Ray, I could turn the spores into a rising platform so I could progress on. You can use on it on enemies too, with varying results.
So far, there’s a lot to like about Axiom Verge and I feel impressed. It’s a game that feels well-crafted and has a lot of potential. I’m looking forward to seeing more of it, and how it’ll continue to open up. If you’d like to learn more about the game, you can read Siliconera’s interview with the developer of Axiom Verge at this link.
Alistair Wong
Very avid gamer with writing tendencies. Fan of Rockman and Pokémon and lots more!
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Our Sixt car hire branch in Fuerteventura is centrally located at the island's airport. Fuerteventura is the second largest of the Spanish Canary Islands, an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean just off the coast of Africa. When you hire a car on Fuerteventura you have the freedom to really explore its beautiful landscape where nature reveals itself in the colours of tropical spices.
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The right-hand tab reveals a map showing the location of our car hire in Fuerteventura office in relation to the rest of the island while the left-hand tab gives you its exact address and opening hours. These opening hours are conveniently extended to work with holiday flight times. To see just how affordable it is to hire a car with go through and compare our various vehicle categories before making your reservation. Our Sixt iOS and Android apps along with dedicated phone lines make reserving rental cars quick and easy. We guarantee your chosen car hire on Fuerteventura category but cannot do so for specific makes. We do, however, guarantee you a warm and sunny welcome when you arrive, whether you need your rental vehicle for one hour, a weekend or longer.
At Fuerteventura Airport we have a full range of rental vehicles in our premium fleet, a fleet designed to meet your needs whatever your budget or party size. Vehicles range from compact and economical saloons through family-sized estates to the rugged charms of 4x4s, perfect for exploring the island's countryside and mountains. Sports cars and convertibles make a luxurious treat for cruising the coastal roads on Fuerteventura. Our vehicles, supplied by trusted names like BMW, Porsche, Audi and Mercedes-Benz, also include a choice of cars adapted for different mobility needs. An attractive and inexpensive range of extras can be reserved with your car hire in Fuerteventura. Navigate your way around the island with a Sat Nav and keep younger family members safe in our child seats. Look out for special deals on comprehensive insurance, unlimited mileage packages and additional drivers. We are also happy to insure younger drivers under 25.
Our car rental on Fuerteventura works in partnership with Top Car Autoreisen. Its logo and desk are clearly visible in the arrivals hall of the airport. Fuerteventura Airport is also known as El Matorral Airport and is located just over three miles South West of the island's capital, Puerto del Rosario.
Driving on the island of Fuerteventura is straightforward. Road surfaces are generally very good and destinations are clearly signposted. Spanish regulations state that children under 12 must not ride in the front seats of vehicles.
Parking, both free and paid, is plentiful across the island, especially in the remoter and quieter areas. The main towns such as Puerto del Rosario and Corralejo have clearly marked public car parks but these can get busy at peak times.
Your car rental in Fuerteventura gives you the flexibility to set your own itinerary and really get to know this charming Canary Island. The island was declared a Unesco Biosphere Reserve in 2009 and your journey from one end to the other takes you through beautiful natural parks and along stunning coastlines. The island's capital, Puerto del Rosario is a relatively new town but does have a bustling port and pleasant promenade to explore while its centre is full of quirky street art. If this has whetted your artistic appetite, visit the open-air sculpture park where you can admire hundreds of works by local artists. Corralejo sitting on the Northern tip of the island gives you a greater sense of history, with narrow cobbled streets and fishermen's cottages. Miles of sand dunes protect its broad sandy beaches. Other historic and picturesque towns to visit are Antigua in the centre of the island and Betancuria, Fuerteventura's original capital. It is also located in the centre and now enclosed within a rural park.
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As the landscape of Fuerteventura is mainly flat and arid the volcanic mountain of Tindaya in the North stands out clearly from many miles around. This mountain has a unique history as a sacred destination with the original inhabitants of Fuerteventura considering it to have magical properties. Much of this belief only came to light in the 1970s when hundreds of engravings in the shape of feet were discovered around the mountain's base. Follow the marked footpath that takes you up the South West crest of Tindaya to really appreciate its saffron colours and the panoramic views from the top. The little village at the base is the perfect spot to stop for some lunch and souvenir shopping.
The biggest attraction for visitors to Fuerteventura has to be its miles of sandy beaches. The island boasts more than 150, many of which are wonderfully isolated and unspoilt. Playa Grande, near Correlajo, has over 8 miles of family-friendly stretches with plenty of watersports to enjoy and regular boat trips to the small, tropical Isla de Lobos which lies a few miles out to sea.
Distances to Playa Grande
From Fuerteventura Airport: 24.5 miles about 40 minutes
From Puerto del Rosario: 18.5 miles, about 30 minutes
For many centuries salt provided a livelihood for the islanders, allowing food to be preserved before Spanish ships set off for the New World. Discover this history at the Salt Museum near Caleta de Fuste. Browse the fascinating exhibits before taking a tour of the actual sea salt mines.
Distances to the Salt Museum
From Fuerteventura Airport: 7 miles, about 15 minutes
From Puerto del Rosario: 10 miles, about 17 minutes
The whole family will enjoy a visit to the Antigua Windmill Craft Centre. Here you can explore a windmill and discover the traditional arts and crafts of Fuerteventura as well as going back in time with its archaeological and folk history displays. The site also has a large cactus garden and the Majorero Cheese Museum. This tasty goat's milk cheese is a typical product of the island and makes an ideal gift.
Distances to the Antigua Windmill Craft Centre
From Fuerteventura Airport: 20 miles, about 35 minutes
Business Destinations
Although Fuerteventura is the second largest of the Canary Isles it has a relatively small population. The pleasant year-round climate has seen tourism become its most important economic sector, a large proportion of which is dedicated to watersports. Historically fishing, salt mining and the production of artisan cheeses were also vital. The island has three auditoriums. The largest is the Isle of Fuerteventura Auditorium which along with the Gran Tarajal and Corralejo Auditoriums is used for artistic performances, conferences and exhibitions.
Distances to the Isle of Fuerteventura Auditorium
Below are the quick answers to some of our most frequently asked questions. Please be reminded that every country has slightly different rules and regulations, so for the most specific and detailed information pertaining to your desired rental please visit rental information for more information.
All credit cards from internationally recognized credit card companies and Airplus are acceptable as payment methods, whereas all prepaid and debit cards, such as VISA Electron are not accepted. The payment method must have been issued in the name of the driver. This must be presented at the time of vehicle pick-up and be valid at this time.
Can I hire a certain car model? If I'm not happy with my vehicle can I change it?
Due to various reasons we are unable to guarantee make and model, however we will be happy to accept requests for any particular preference you may have. However please be advised this is not guaranteed.
Do I have to pay a security deposit?
A deposit of up to three times the hire price is charged to the chosen means of payment as a security. The deposit for high-value vehicles may differ. The exact deposit is determined on collection since the amount is dependent on the vehicle.
Which documents are needed to pick up the rental car?
A valid driver's license and an identity card or passport while receiving delivery of the vehicle. Driver's licences from non-EU countries (except Switzerland) are accepted if:
a) no visa has been entered in the passport.
b) the customer has a visa in his passport and at the time of hire has not been in Europe for longer than 6 months.
Driver's license printed with non Roman Alphabet (Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Cyrillic etc) must be complemented by an international driver's licence. For driver's licenses from countries not part of the international driver's license treaty.
What do the various insurance options cover?
We have a wide range of insurance options, including Third Party Liability, Loss Damage Waiver, Glass and Windscreen cover, and Roadside Protection. Please check our country-specific rental information for further details on the limits and amount deductible for each type of cover.
Yes, although this may incur a one-way rental fee that will be shown during the booking process. Please note: one-way rentals may be restricted if you plan on crossing borders.
It is perfectly possible to make changes to your booking, but please note that any fees incurred may vary dependent upon your booking.
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Deliveries and collections are available at the local rental station subject to a fee. This service is available on request for an additional commitment fee outside opening times at selected locations.
It is possible to take your rental car across national borders, but this is dependent upon the country you will be entering and the type of vehicle you are renting.
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If desired, the vehicle will be refuelled according to currently available conditions after returning it to the station. Alternatively, you may purchase a full tank of fuel at the time of rental at a price that is competitive with local fuel stations and return the tank empty. No refunds will be given for unused fuel.
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Movie Review: The Carter (New Documentary Redefines the Notion of a Mainstream Pop Star)
Posted on Saturday, November 21st, 2009 by Hunter Stephenson
Wow. After watching The Carter, the new all-access documentary on Lil’ Wayne, one might consider recommending it as the best doc about a hip hop icon ever. The problem with this superlative lies in its limitation. Similar to labeling Lil’ Wayne a rapper—even “the best rapper alive” as many profess—and leaving it at that, labeling this a great hip hop doc restricts it to the confines of a niche or genre coated in personal taste and stigmas. That is to say The Carter is foremost a fascinating portrait of a remarkable, modern artist and celebrity who has cooked most if not all bridges for comparison.
In The Carter we experience the exact moment when Wayne calmly finds out, overseas and perma-high, that his latest album, Tha Carter III, has sold one million plus physical units in its first week. As his friend and manager, Cortez Bryant, tells the camera, Wayne now undisputedly ranks with the world’s top pop stars; and this doc ranks with the best of the year. It’s also highly difficult to cite precedent for a film so privy to a superstar’s love of, and possible dependency on, drugs. Clearly, the recent, This Is It, failed in this regard.
Of course, it comes as no shock to anyone who follows current music that Lil’ Wayne hearts marijuana and cough syrup, but truly witnessing his relationship with drugs to the extent that one can feel the chemistry intertwine and inspire Wayne’s tireless, unorthodox creative process and fiery ethos def qualifies as one. (I say this as a writer who has actually interviewed him in person in a hotel room with a blunt on the table.) As the camera rolls, Wayne quickly deadens an interviewer’s comparison in terms of his current popularity to the Rolling Stones. He has business beef with them over a sample so they don’t exist. Funny.
Nevertheless, I find Cocksucker Blues, the 1972 doc on the Rolling Stones, to be an apt cinematic comparison in terms of access to excess. Especially when comparing each doc’s’ stylistic preference of cinéma vérité for capturing a lavish lifestyle of touring, partying, and recording. More reason for comparison is that the release of Blues was infamously blocked by the Stones for decades. Lil’ Wayne has similarly attempted to block The Carter to no avail. Though President Obama positively references Lil’ Wayne in speeches, he currently faces a one-year jail sentence for a gun charge, and the film will only heighten that criminal rep. Minutes after the flick started—when I realized the sheer number of viewers who will watch this—I subconsciously began to rethink the meaning of “pop superstar” in regard to Weezy. I’ve been meaning to do this, but even following his interview on 60 Minutes, it required a harder push thanks to the manufactured, horrible-for-pop state of pop music.
Not only is Lil’ Wayne an artist whose outlaw-sensibility has a global reach—as he proclaims here—this is a rapper who sees himself as the aughts’ amalgamation of Kurt Cobain and Russell Crowe‘s true-life schizo in A Beautiful Mind; he is the only icon of gangster rap to share semblance with a voodoo child and poetically harbor a crush on Topanga from Boy Meets World.
Directed by Adam Bhala Lough—he previously helmed the Lee Scratch Perry doc The Upsetter and the indie Weapons with Paul Dano—The Carter follows Lil’ Wayne on his travels in 2007 and 2008 bouncing around to Los Angeles, Amsterdam (for obvious reasons), various concerts and other locales, and on to Miami’s famous The Hit Factory to record. Produced by QD3, a company founded by Quincy Jones III, son of the American producer legend, by way of sheer immediacy, The Carter surpasses James Toback‘s excellent doc on Mike Tyson (Tyson) from this year.
And both of these subjects share countless parallels: both are black men who grew up in lower income neighborhoods (in New York/New Orleans); both were involved in crime at a young age (troubled beginnings later parlayed into racially propagated, commercial-savvy images); both showed tremendous promise and talent in their teens and won awards (Junior Olympics/Album Sales) to foreshadow massive success; both had priceless, father-like mentors (Cus D’Amato/Baby) and money-hungry showmen (Don King/again, Baby); both have unique tattoos on their faces meant to incite intrigue and fear and both possess formidable physiques. I’ll stop here, but there are certainly more profound connections. One big difference, though, is that Lil’ Wayne has an incredible business acumen and surrounds himself with a Ziploc-tight team of confidants. The doc does a nice job at penetrating this inner circle, but it wasn’t possible—and it’s likely impossible—to explore the deeper end as a documentarian or journalist.
The Carter is illuminating because one senses that an artist with a lesser constitution would drop all cares for the outside world and forever hole up in hotels in a sizzurp-addled abyss. Wayne’s support system is there to handle and welcome all facets except the recital of drug-induced rhymes. And there are times here when Wayne’s behavior has an unlikeable psychotic edge, not to mention an involuntary twitch. Screened outside of time to someone who was completely unfamiliar, if Wayne collapsed on the floor and r.i.p.’d in this doc, it would seem an inevitable conclusion. When he’s shown sleeping, the footage feels taboo, but it’s also a relief. Like The Lost Boys, he does, in fact, sleep.
A genuine Reaper-shadowed tension surrounds Wayne in the footage that differs from similar, albeit posthumously released, footage of Tupac or Biggie; Wayne is utterly consumed with the act and idea of racing down a yellow brick road of output. It’s impossible to tell if he’s ever entertained the notion of peaking before age 30. Right now, he’s 27, the infamous age attributed to rock’s mythologized 27 Club, but what is reassuring and yeah, awesome, is that Wayne clearly sees bigger and bigger things ahead. Unlike so many artists and celebrities, the loneliness that exists at the top fuels him, and this is perhaps a sign of greatness.
He’s trailblazing on camera, and that’s partially what makes his life here reel out like impeccably scheduled chaos. We see Wayne experimenting on guitar (his rock album Rebirth is forthcoming) and on the drums, and singing the blues with a tortured croak. But rather than serve as a commercially-complicit gloss over, the camera views Wayne as an outsider and vice versa. This alien element is the key to the doc’s success. Constantly, the film shows him setting up a mic in hotels, studios, and on the bus and unleashing the characteristic unwritten lyrics that at their best dip into aesthetic similarities between the brain and space. At times, the camera often seems invisible like a two-way mirror. This is not artistic grandstanding.
His wordplay is so spontaneous and eerily out-of-body in these scenes that it can feel as if he’s lifted up the Giant Curtain, stood behind it, and returned. Stop. Record some more. “Repetition is the father of learning,” he repeats in a haze, like a father sternly reprimanding all of the current children of rap outside his Young Money rap posse. Keep in mind, this is within minutes of Lil’ Wayne informing a Young Money kid about the first time he had (oral) sex, an initiation he refers to proudly as “rape” (which it was, legally). Wanye implies that if the kid aspires to be as great—and he won’t be—repeating his life is the only way to try.
Wayne refuses to discuss his own death on camera, and says of the inquiry, “that’s stupid,” behind thousand dollar sunglasses and a million dollar grill. And yet the most jarring, intimate footage in the doc as it pertains to his uncertain future is of Wayne’s daughter, Reginea. Wayne had her at age 15 and she’s shown here, a charming and happy school girl. Interviewed in her bedroom—followed by an effective juxtaposition of Wayne on tour—she proceeds to kick a rhyme about her dad that is inventive and killer. Whatever the fuck goes on in Lil’ Wayne’s mind, bookended by racing matrices of football scores and dollar signs, nobody knows. Maybe she does? Let’s hope not (though the idea of a future duet with Frances Bean is enticing).
Photo used in this article by Terry Richardson. Note: The review’s author personally made the editorial decision to include the apostrophe on Lil’.
Hunter Stephenson can be reached at h.attila/gmail and on twitter.
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Wrongful death is the taking of a life as a result of willful acts or by way of medical error or negligence. When it happens due to the carelessness or negligence of another party or parties, this tragic experience is even more devastating.
Death of a loved one is a devastating event in anyone's life. A family's search often begins on the internet for civil case attorneys near me, because virtually no one would have information on the top law firm for handling such tragic cases. Not just any injury lawyer will do, for such a high stakes case.
Regaining peace of mind and closure in this untimely death, due to the negligent act that caused your loved one's death, will not come for a while, if ever. You know that you need legal advice from a wrongful death attorney near me, but you do not know where to start.
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Wrongful death, or the taking of a life as a result of willful or negligent acts (or failure to act when a duty to act exists) occurs on our highways, in recreational settings, and possibly even in our hospitals. Damage awards often turn upon how much of a dollar value the jury gives for pain and suffering, and possibly for punitive damages, where facts support that category of recovery.
Following the loss of a key family member, relatives of the deceased may have funeral proceedings to organize or insurance policies to track down. At the same time, they must try to offer consoling support for those who are grieving. It is often difficult to maintain emotional control. Most fatality cases are caused by the acts or omissions to act by another individual, individuals or businesses.
Wrongful death laws were enacted to provide a victim's family with a means of seeking monetary compensation for the value of the lost life. Without a doubt, this remedy is INADEQUATE, but it is all that the civil justice system allows. Getting the full value of the life of the deceased person may heavily depend upon which personal injury attorneys Atlanta GA that you hire.
Georgia's Wrongful Death Statutes
Many types of collisions and vehicular accidents can lead to a wrongful death case. After the tragedy occurs, the victim's family is usually focused on funeral arrangements, instead of pursuing evidence for a lawsuit. This part of the article covers the Georgia Code sections applicable to most cases.
In Georgia, the legislature acted to pass a special wrongful death statute [found in OCGA 51-4-2(a)] and did away with the antiquated common law rule, which was in no way a modern law for an industrialized society. The most common claim that civil attorneys call “the wrongful death claim” distinguishes it from the “estate” claim.
Georgia laws delineate WHO can bring the wrongful death lawsuit, such as the spouse (if married), children of the deceased, etc. The goal of this litigation is to have a jury place an intangible value on family, friend and faith, or whatever was important in that person's life. Plus, lost future earnings based upon the deceased person's age and life expectancy is the usual case presentation route taken at a jury trial.
Rules about what categories of damages must be brought by this type of Estate claim under OCGA 53-2-1 and subsequent code sections (e.g., any punitive damages claim, for something like a hit and run or DUI driver causing the death). If the person died with a last will and testament, the Executor of that estate pursues the estate claim for funeral bills, medical costs, and (unless death was instantaneous) for any pain and suffering.
It is understandable that a family in mourning may not be prepared to deal with legal issues surrounding collecting life insurance, starting the legal paperwork for a worker's compensation claim (if the victim was killed during work), and gathering potential witness statements. The victim's family usually needs the assistance of a well-qualified wrongful death attorney as early as practicable in these cases.
Preserving and protecting critical evidence that can help facilitate the eventual wrongful death lawsuit can mean everything in a civil litigation case. Loss of contact with a key witness or allowing a damaged vehicle to be sold for scrap and crushed before the “other side” (whomever is being sued to recover), can seriously compromise the value of a family's civil claim.
Trucking Accident Cases Are a Common Cause of Wrongful Death Cases
Truck accidents on our highways are statistically proven to have a higher likelihood of causing one or more wrongful deaths. Truck drivers receive extensive roadway safety training that should prepare them for the hazards they will encounter. To obtain a commercial motor vehicle license, (commonly called a CDL license), a full DOT course must be taken and passed. Plus, a trucking company that hires one of these newly-licensed drivers is aware that the DOT will not allow a person with a bad driving record to sign up for the CMV license training.
A death caused by negligence is always a very tragic event. When a wrongful death occurs, legal procedures and evidence preservation rules need to be followed. Where liability exists for a suit against a third party, a skilled wrongful death attorney can help the victim's family send out the appropriate demand letters, and (when necessary) file a wrongful death lawsuit.
Wrongful death cases can be difficult, confusing, and highly emotional undertakings for a victim's family members. This is one of the most important aspects of hiring the right lawyer --- to stand by you to see this legal notification process is handled correctly.
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Judge revokes bail for Avenatti, cites new crime evidence
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FILE - In this May 28, 2019, file photo, California attorney Michael Avenatti leaves a courthouse in New York following a hearing. Avenatti has been rearrested for alleged bail violations, prosecutors in New York told a judge late Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020. less
FILE - In this May 28, 2019, file photo, California attorney Michael Avenatti leaves a courthouse in New York following a hearing. Avenatti has been rearrested for alleged bail violations, prosecutors in New ... more
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SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A California judge revoked attorney Michael Avenatti's bail Wednesday, forcing a delay of his New York extortion trial set for next week after prosecutors said he was hiding assets from creditors to live lavishly.
U.S. District Judge James Selna said Avenatti, best known as the brash lawyer for porn actress Stormy Daniels, likely committed the new financial crimes and was a threat to engage in other crimes if he remained free.
In New York, U.S. District Judge Paul G. Gardephe said the disruption had thrown a trial scheduled to start in a week into chaos, and he noted that California prosecutors used evidence largely gathered last summer to make the surprising move.
The New York trial, in which Avenatti is charged with trying to extort up to $25 million from Nike, was supposed to begin with formal questioning of prospective jurors next Wednesday after they filled out questionnaires Tuesday.
Gardephe said he wants the trial to start no later than Jan. 27. Avenatti has pleaded not guilty and cited his skirmishes with President Donald Trump as proof that prosecutors targeted him.
Defense lawyers complained that they may need a longer delay because they have no money for trial now that Avenatti's finances are viewed suspiciously.
Prosecutor: Avenatti arrested on alleged bail violation
Selna was asked to revoke Avenatti's $300,000 bail and he did. “I believe the danger to the community is real and palpable,” Selna said in court.
Prosecutors described several schemes orchestrated by Avenatti to hide his assets from a client, a former legal partner and an ex-wife while living in an $11,000-a-month apartment, being chauffeured in a Mercedes and staying at luxury resorts.
He pocketed $1 million in legal fees during the period and then shifted the money around to conceal the payment despite mounting debts that surpassed $20 million, prosecutors said. After receiving the money, he even sought legal representation from a public defender while declining to provide a financial affidavit to show his ability to afford a lawyer.
Defense lawyers contested the evidence, saying Avenatti didn't hide funds, has been paying his bills and posed no threat. Attorney H. Dean Steward said Avenatti was making it difficult for creditors but didn't commit any crime.
“I suggest it doesn't go over the line," Steward said.
Federal prosecutors said Avenatti would be transferred by Friday to New York, where Gardephe scheduled a conference for Tuesday for lawyers to tell him where things stand.
Avenatti was arrested by IRS agents at a state bar court hearing Tuesday, where he was facing suspension of his license to practice for allegedly stealing from a client, said Thom Mrozek, spokesman for the Los Angeles U.S. Attorney’s office. He was collared during a break in his testimony.
"Completely innocent," Avenatti said as he was being led out of the Los Angeles courthouse, according to the Daily Beast.
Prosecutors were seeking to hold Avenatti behind bars for allegedly committing new acts of wire and mail fraud, both federal offenses, as well as possible state crimes in California and Washington state.
The alleged new crimes follow a pattern of misconduct since 2011 and appear to mirror crimes he is charged with committing in a 36-count indictment, prosecutors said.
"Defendant’s extensive pattern of criminal conduct and the overwhelming evidence supporting those charges demonstrate that defendant is a substantial danger to the community,” prosecutors wrote in a court document. “If allowed to remain on bond, defendant will almost certainly continue to engage in further fraudulent and obstructive conduct.”
Avenatti faces trial in May in California for dozens of charges alleging he defrauded clients of millions of dollars, stiffed the IRS and committed bank fraud.
He has pleaded not guilty to those charges, along with the Nike extortion allegations and a separate case charging him with ripping off ex-client Daniels of book deal proceeds.
The arrest of Avenatti marks a new low for the attorney who was flying high a year ago while in the spotlight championing Daniels' case against Trump.
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, went to court to tear up a $130,000 hush money deal she said she made to cover up an affair with Trump before he was president.
Although Trump has denied the affair, he chose not to challenge that effort, so she effectively won what she was seeking. But the president won a judgment for his legal expenses after successfully challenging a related defamation case Daniels brought against him.
Avenatti had positioned himself as a Trump troll of sorts, attacking the president on Twitter frequently, and even flirted with running for president at one point, making appearances in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Despite losing the Daniels defamation case, Avenatti had claimed he would eventually prevail and win her even larger lawyer fee judgement than the nearly $300,000 she owed Trump. But Daniels hired a new lawyer to take the case, and Avenatti's own criminal legal problems began with his arrest in New York in March.
While free on bond, prosecutors said Avenatti funneled $717,000 from $1 million he earned in a legal settlement to an account his first wife set up. She then returned $500,000 to him and used some of the remaining balance to buy her ex-husband a used Mercedes for $50,000.
Avenatti maintained his membership at Exclusive Resorts, a Colorado-based company billed as as the “world's elite private vacation club,” according to prosecutors. He paid over $35,000 to the club last summer and stayed at the club's resorts four times in California, Florida and New York between August and November.
His girlfriend, who is not named in the court papers, also stayed as his guest at one at an Exclusive Resort in Tuscany, Italy, prosecutors said.
Melley reported from Los Angeles. Associated Press writer Larry Neumeister reported from New York.
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And Justice for Some
Bail amendment passes convincingly
New Mexicans overwhelmingly voted to limit the role of money in judges’ decisions about which defendants stay locked up and which go free before trial.
Nation has been slow to follow through on LBJ’s bail reform dream
Before signing the federal Bail Reform Act in 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson heralded the legislation, saying it put the nation “at the threshold of a new era” in its criminal justice system. But 50 years later, few states have crossed that threshold.
New Mexico vote: Should people be stuck in jail because they’re poor?
On Nov. 8, New Mexicans will vote on a constitutional amendment to overhaul the use of money bail in the state.
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You Are Not an Artisan
July 10, 2013 By Venkatesh Rao
A couple of weeks ago, after reading yet another piece of high-minded marketing copy, full of words like hand-crafted and artisan, a silly verse popped unbidden into my head:
This is not the renaissance.
You are not an artisan.
Go around to the back door,
you’re a smelly tradesman.
So long as we’re pretending that we’re rediscovering an early-modern work ethic, I think I can call myself a bard and allow myself a bit of anachronistic doggerel.
Thinking through the implications of the whole artisan-crafts-guilds meme in the future-of-work debates led me to an odd conclusion: the future is significantly brighter (or less bleak) than people realize. So long as you stop thinking in terms of crafts and aim to practice a trade instead, there is more work for humans than people realize.
What’s the difference? It’s the difference between bards and chimney-sweeps.
Conspicuous Production
The future of work looks bleaker than it needs to for one simple reason: we bring consumption sensibilities to production behavior choices. Even our language reflects this: we “shop around” for careers. We look for prestigious brands to work for. We look for “fulfillment” at work. Sometimes we even accept pay cuts to be associated with famous names. This is work as fashion accessory and conversation fodder.
We can think of this as conspicuous production, by analogy to conspicuous consumption. First-world artisan tendencies take this to a logical extreme.
When you subconsciously think of work as something you consume for pleasure, you end up with a possibly irrational (economically speaking) attraction to artisan work. Even those who don’t actually end up as artisans choose work the way they choose cars, jewelry or handbags, over-valuing things like resume-value and exposure-value.
The result is a misguided analysis of the impact of computers and automation that makes us think the future of work is much darker than it is.
What’s the difference between a tradesman and an artisan? Think chimney-sweep versus bard as the extremes of the spectrum. Both are archetypes that mostly disappeared with late industrialization in the early twentieth century, thanks in part to automation, but there the similarities end.
One fulfilled a critical economic function by engaging in unpleasant and inconspicuous production. The other fulfilled a non-critical economic function in the economy by engaging in pleasurable and conspicuous production .
One generated a higher, less volatile income, but with little potential for upward mobility, the other generated a lower, more volatile income, but with more potential for upward mobility.
The median chimney sweep did better than the median bard, but the best bards did better than the best chimney-sweeps (by finding favor with a king for instance). Since this was before mass media, bard reward distribution was not as skewed as it would become, but it was still skewed.
The emerging future of work does resemble pre-modern patterns of labor organization in a few key ways, but most of us are going to turn into digital-era chimney sweeps rather than bards. And this is a good thing.
The difference between bard work and chimney-sweep work is that it far easier to convince yourself that a relaxing hobby is actually real work. It is a kind of gollumizing effect: behavior that makes you atrophy psychologically.
What makes it worse is that in an economy based on a fiat currency, shareholder value maximization and deficit spending, the capacity to generate an income does not necessarily imply that meaningful work is being done, either in a subjective psychological sense (it helps you evolve rather than atrophy) or economic sense (net wealth is being created rather than consumed or harvested). You might even end up having to pay to do real work.
Since income being generated at an individual level is not a reliable indicator that work being performed, I prefer a different distinction: schlep work versus sexy work. If there is schlepping involved, it is more likely to be real work. If there are sexy elements involved, it is more likely to be conspicuous production pretending to be work.
Schlep Work and Sexy Work
I first broached this topic in my 2010 post, Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Sailor, where I noted that worker archetypes seem to fall into two categories in every era. The dull-dirty-dangerous category and the (potentially) sexy-lucrative-powerful category. Let’s simplify the labels into schlep work and sexy work.
Sexy work, such as being a bard, is work that:
humans find easy to enjoy
easily catalyzes mindful absorption while learning (flow)
is easy to value as a status currency
is good raw material for social identity formation
People who seek sexy work are often members of what I called the Jeffersonian middle class in an earlier post — motivated by creative self-expression and a sense of personal dignity rather than economic survival.
The first three attributes are self-explanatory. By social identity, I mean the part of your self-perception that is derived from what you think others think of you. Sexy work is attractive to those who like their social identity to be harmoniously integrated within itself (what your mom thinks of you and what your boss thinks of you are not in conflict) and with your private identity (you don’t feel misunderstood). There is consensual external validation of your internal sense of self-worth. You feel authentic.
Sexy work is easy to enjoy, learn, value and integrate into your identity, primarily because it is downhill psychological work: it is the cognitive equivalent of muscular atrophy. You have to choose to make it hard for yourself. You can cash out some status and attention even if you’re not making any money. It does not test your sense of self-worth significantly.
Schlep work has the opposite characteristics along all four vectors. It is harder to enjoy, learn, value and integrate into your identity, primarily because it is uphill psychological work for a social species. It is hard whether or not you want it to be. It is hard to cash out status and attention even if you’re making good money. It tests your sense of self-worth every day.
Somehow, over the past decade, we’ve gone from a useful heuristic (“focus on your strengths” and “find flow”) down a slippery slope of use-with-caution ideas (“work smart, not hard” and “follow your passion”) to the idea of work as a kind of consumption that should be chosen based on the pleasure one can derive from it.
Sexy/schleppy is to my mind, the most natural way to break down human preferences for work. They arise from fundamental desires and aversions. In choosing consumption behaviors or conspicuous production, we tend to feed desires and starve aversions. In schleppy work, we do the opposite: we defer gratification and accept, even seek out, a degree of pain based on the no-pain-no-gain heuristic. A little nudge from a plausible “play to your strengths” philosophy is enough for us to choose the easier way.
Unfortunately, the entire current conversation around work is confused because we prefer a less meaningful distinction, creative vs. uncreative.
Creative versus Sexy
I started rethinking my sexy-versus-schlep ideas in light of the emerging debate around jobs, and especially the question of whether the rise of smart machines might lead to a permanent loss of work for humans.
To address this question correctly, we need to stop deluding ourselves about the word creative.
In reading books like the rather banal Race Against the Machine and articles in the same vein, I was struck by an underlying assumption in much of what is being said: that all “non-creative” work is destined to be taken over by automation. So the anxiety around jobs reduces to anxiety around how creative computers and robots can get, and whether there is enough leftover “high-end creative work” to go around for humans.
Defining “creative” is an interesting challenge, but beside the point.
This is because when you actually poke at what people think of as creative — the broader universe around prototypical categories like fine art, rock music or programming — you realize they don’t really mean creative. They mean sexy. The “creative” attribute (whatever its subtle definition might be) is actually an optional extra. Push comes to shove, that’s an attribute people are pretty willing to give up, so long as the four key attributes are preserved (easy to enjoy, easy to learn, easy to value in a status economy, and easy to integrate into an “authentic” social identity).
In other words, we’re more afraid of machines taking away our social status than our jobs. This might seem like an obvious point. After all, most status-conscious people have strong feelings about what work is “beneath” them, but with machines in the picture, the point gets considerably more subtle.
People substitute creative for sexy in describing their aspirations (to themselves and others) because it sounds less narcissistic. If you seek sexy work, you could be viewed as self-absorbed, entitled and attention/status seeking.
If you pretend it is creative work, you’re suddenly God’s gift to the world, basking in the gratitude, admiration and adoration of all simply for existing.
This is one reason vanity startups, garage bands, indie coffee shops and boutique handbag design businesses proliferate. The valuation of Apple is a good proxy for the valuation of sexy work in our economy, since the company effectively panders to sexy-work seekers (it is revealing that Apple’s stronghold is in consumer markets, while Microsoft’s stronghold is in enterprise markets, but I won’t go down that bunny trail).
So when people talk about saving work or jobs, they mostly talk about saving sexy, income-generating conspicuous production packaged as creative work, in a debt-fueled de facto leisure society. Since few people actively aspire to do the schlep work anyway, we don’t poke much at the consensus view that it can be automated away.
I think this conclusion is premature and in fact mistaken. Just because sexy work is the kind we want to save doesn’t mean it is the kind that is easier to save. In fact it is harder to automate schlep work, which we grievously misunderstand.
To understand what makes work easy or hard to save from computers, robots and automation, we have to consider work from the point of view of machines.
Algorithmically Scalable Work
Machines don’t see the world in sexy-versus-schleppy, creative-versus-uncreative or production-versus-consumption terms. For the moment, they don’t consume at all.
For the moment, computers only produce. The world according to computers (and by extension, robots and soon all machines) offers two kinds of work: algorithmically scalable and algorithmically unscalable.
Algorithmically scalable work typically involves a small variety of typical cases that require a sort of bounded-variety repeatability in the tasks being accomplished. A kind of repetition whose logic can be captured within a very compact process description: an elegant algorithm.
These tractable universes, on which elegant algorithms operate, don’t emerge magically out of messy realities. They emerge because humans work to either censor out or encode a million little exceptions, corner cases and arbitrary domain-specific details. They emerge because humans work around problem regimes that resist generalization and simple automated learning models. Programming is theory building, and computers work not with reality, but with the theories we construct for them to inhabit. They need us to define the base categories through which they see the world.
In algorithmically scalable work, machines need very little help from humans to do a lot. In algorithmically unscalable work, they need a lot of help to do much less. Whether what they do is sexy or creative in human terms is besides the point. What matters is how truly repeatable the defined tasks are.
Almost all our confusion about automation can be traced to a single sloppy conflation: between algorithmically scalable/unscalable and schleppy/sexy. We do this by inappropriately defining the word repetitive as “whatever humans find boring.”
Just because we don’t want to do certain kinds of work, doesn’t mean machines are better at it. They might be worse.
Machine Repetition and Human Boredom
We make the mistake of thinking that just because computers do bounded-variety, repetitive information work very well, that they can do anything that seems repetitive (boring) to humans very well.
But when we’re talking complex systems-level schlepping, like the refining of crude data from disparate information systems, there are rarely any elegant algorithms. Just dozens or hundreds of arbitrary details, small fixes, one-time operations, error corrections and so forth. Humans think of it as repetitive work, but it isn’t. It is hundreds of similar, but not identical, special cases that are easy (if tedious) for humans to handle, but resist general attacks via elegant algorithms.
In fact I suspect the amount of messy and non-repetitive but critical detail determines the amount of human work a domain can sustain.
The human share of the work pie isn’t the gap between machine creativity and human creativity. The real human share of the work pie is the gap between machine repeatability and human boredom.
Human work in the digital age is not about the sideshow of faux-creative artisan urges and conspicuous production. It is about accommodating messy variety that requires non-algorithmically-scalable work. Work that is not worth automating. This is a combination of work being hard to automate and low returns to the automation due to limited algorithmic scaling potential (a good example is tax software for parts of the tax code that change very frequently).
Whether or not it is sexy is irrelevant, since machines don’t compete for status or strive to form “authentic” social identities. Whether or not it is creative is also irrelevant since we are usually being insincere when we talk about creativity.
The big point here is that computers are an industrial age technology. Algorithms are codified processes that deliver economies of scale in narrowly circumscribed kinds of information work. They are information processing assembly lines.
There is deep uniformity to the output of algorithms just as there is deep uniformity to the output of assembly lines in China producing coffee mugs. The Big Secret of the Big Data revolution, which is often characterized as teaching computers to handle “volume, velocity and variety,” is that the last of the triad involves far more unsexy human schlepping than the first two.
We forget this obvious point that computers are an economies-of-scale technology because the processes are very high-resolution. So we mistake fine-grained combinatorial variety (think Starbucks drinks or the dizzying variety of cellphone plans) for the sort of true variety that computers still leave humans to handle. It’s another matter that we don’t like having this unsexy work left for us.
Speaking of true variety and coffee mugs, let’s get back to artisans. A class that includes people who think producing hand-crafted coffee mugs in Portland at a cost of $20 apiece is work rather than conspicuous production, and morally superior to $0.50 mugs mass produced in China.
Isn’t there true variety there?
No. The key is an idea called requisite variety that sexy-work seekers take great pains to avoid thinking about.
Requisite Variety and the Artisan Delusion
Aspiring artisans seek sexy work at small-and-local scales. They reject mass celebrity and status in a global culture, but still crave local celebrity and status (they call it “being respected in the community”). They still look to engage in conspicuous production. They are as prone to deluding themselves that sexy is creative as wannabe actors.
How do they do this?
They do this by confusing economically essential variety (such as handling all the potential variety and ongoing evolution in an online payment system) with economically optional variety (such as uniqueness in hand-crafted coffee mugs). This is the artisan delusion.
If the uniqueness in the product mainly makes the producer feel more special and unique, without leading to profitable differentiation, it’s the optional kind, like latte art.
The former is variety that must be handled to make a market profitable. Essential variety exists in even the most low-end, mass-produced version of an economic good. Optional variety only matters, if it matters at all, in premium niches that can only sustain a few producers. When too many producers swarm into these niches, a lottery economy is created and customers essentially enjoy free variety sustained by a churn of deluded producers offering under-priced goods.
Often, the optional variety doesn’t matter even to the most refined customers (who care least about what they get in return for marginal dollars). So an unprofitable amount of marketing effort must be expended simply to convince people to care about distinctions that make no difference.
Most of us would reject the conclusions of a data science project that dropped key data sources or a payment system that failed to handle common methods of payment. Most of us are completely happy drinking reasonably good, non-pour-over coffee out of unremarkable mass-produced mugs from China. Unless of course, we can get the artisan stuff at the same price.
Economically essential variety is related to what systems theorists call requisite variety; irreducible domain variety that must be handled to achieve baseline performance. Artisanal variety is often the opposite of requisite variety: noise. Information that is, at best, an element of consumption pleasure (much of it accruing to the producer rather than the nominal consumer) and somewhere between inconsequential to actively distracting in profitable production. Variety that we are predisposed to ignore as consumers or actively eliminate as producers.
The artisan delusion is important because almost everything artisans want to do — all the local-and-sexy work — is actually algorithmically scalable once you filter out the noise. There just isn’t much requisite variety there. Which means it is more vulnerable to being taken over by post-industrial modes of automated production, not less. Because software makes assembly lines more capable, not less.
This is a harsh truth to accept. So much so that artisans and their small-and-local advocates often go to great lengths to manufacture environmental and other non-economic justifications in the hope of creating structural distortions that neutralize their sexy-work biases. While there are certainly legitimate concerns of this sort around every sort of scaled production (whether industrial or post-industrial), there is often a lot of bad-faith overstatement of such concerns.
An example of this is the case of a disposable artisanal container traditionally used in India to serve tea, kulfi ice-cream and a variety of other street foods. The container, called a kulhar, is an unglazed earthen pot usually made in small kilns in the small-medium scale sector and smashed into shards after use.
These pots are massively damaging to the economy and environment, because they require fertile topsoil to make (so desperate farmers during drought years are often good sources for raw material rights), and are effectively a kind of crude glass that is the opposite of recyclable. They are arguably worse than paper or plastic in terms of landfill degradation time.
Yet, because kulhars look more artisanal than paper or plastic cups (and have historically been associated with small-and-local vendors rather than modern industry), for a while the Indian middle class was championing them as being “better for the environment.”
A Towering Babel of Confusions
So let’s take stock: we’ve schlepped though a series of subtle but pervasive confusions and delusions that cloud the future of work debates and the impact of computers.
The application of consumption sensibilities to production activity choices
The assumption that income generation is the same as work in a psychological sense
The sexy vs. schleppy distinction that emerges as a result
The creative versus uncreative red herring that we use to disguise narcissistic sexy-work seeking
The resultant conflation of creative with what humans are supposedly “still better at”
The obscuring of the algorithmically scalable/unscalable distinction that actually matters
The conflation of repetitive and boring resulting in a mis-characterization of schlepping
The failure to recognize that algorithms are an economies-of-scale technology
The failure to recognize the distinction between true and combinatorial variety
The failure to distinguish between requisite and optional variety
The rise of unprofitable boutique sectors that rely on “educating” consumers to care about distinctions that don’t make a difference
The resulting unwinnable “race against the machine” to retain “creative” human work at the edge of this optional-variety economy
The overall result: under-resourced schlep-work sectors that need humans and overcrowded sexy-work sectors
This is a formidable multi-dimensional space. We’ve got sexy/schleppy, algorithmically scalable/unscalable, creative/uncreative, high/low requisite variety, profitable/lossy marketing.
But this whole towering babel of confusions falls apart if you discard anthropocentric categories (creative versus uncreative) and human desires (sexy versus schleppy) and distortions resulting from the nature of fiat economies (income versus work) and simply break down work according to what computers qua computers are good at in terms of their own intrinsic nature as algorithmic information factories delivering economies of scale.
If you actually look at the work computers leave for us — supporting algorithmically unscalable information work — you will see that it is a far larger category than the “sexy that can be packaged as creative” subset that we are racing desperately to save. It may still not be enough to keep everybody productively employed, but there is certainly more to do than we think there is.
The easiest way to appreciate the emerging human condition to adopt a couple of new metaphors for machines: machines as children and humans as intestinal flora.
Machines as Children, Humans as Intestinal Flora
First, machines are like children. The opposite of the overlord personification we’ve been encouraged to adopt by science fiction.
Like parents, we have to let them have the fun while we child-proof the environment (sanitize their inputs) and clean up after them (do whatever they are too clumsy to do and clean up any messes they create). They may not (yet) crave status or social identities, but they certainly look for easy-to-learn high-flow tasks: algorithmically scalable work (which is a sort of aspie-sexy choice of work if you think about it).
Second, humans are like the intestinal flora in the body of technology. I don’t recall where I first heard this analogy, but it isn’t original to me.
The data refining example illustrates the second analogy: without intestinal fauna, humans and other animals could not digest many nutrients. Even dish-washing is hard for machines, so we have to pre-clean to some extent before loading dishwashers.
Without humans inhabiting their guts, technological systems cannot process much of the arbitrariness of the world (Amazon’s Mechanical Turk illustrates this most dramatically at scale). This is requisite-variety schlepping, for which we can expect to be paid in proportion to the true creativity involved (which may not be easy to convert into sexy status currencies).
Put the two together and you get a view of technology as a giant child we’ve given birth to, that is probably never going to grow up and take care of us in our retirement. Instead, we’ll have to live in its guts and take care of it forever, doing the complex schlep work it cannot do.
So one way to understand the historical change transforming human society today is by analogy to parenthood. Life as we know it is over. It’s all about taking care of the big, messy brat now (this is another way of describing what I called hackstability in an earlier post). It likes to play chess, drive cars, fly fighter planes, make coffee mugs, win at Jeopardy, compose music and maybe in the future design clothes, do elegant mathematics and so forth.
So what is it like to do thankless parenting work like data refining, while living in the guts of a giant, developmentally disabled savant child?
It’s chimney-sweep work. Not bard work. Thankless parent work. But work that just might help us evolve rather than atrophy.
The Fate of Artisans
If you want to be a bard, prepare for misery. And not the soul-uplifting kind either.
Artisans are going to have a bad time in the next few decades. They will spin their wheels trying to sell nonessential variety just out of reach of machines, that require unprofitable amounts of customer-education marketing. They will hawk under-priced artisanal coffee, food, clothing, jewelry and handbags to a shrinking class of consumers with enough discretionary income.
This phenomenon isn’t new. Photography — another savant-child machine capability — put a lot of painters out of work by taking away the most reliable and profitable supply of requisite-variety work (what we call photo-realistic art today, which I find deliciously ironic).
In every sexy-work market, automation takes away the most profitable irreducible-variety segment and leaves behind a pure attention economy segment subject to the highly random celebrity and fashion dynamics of the Internet age. This follows from the fact that people choose sexy work mostly due to conspicuous production (status and identity) considerations. They are effectively working for attention, not money.
But much of the attention (which is the scarce commodity all sexy sectors compete over) is cornered by a few at the top, leaving dregs for the rest. The Internet merely creates pocket change in the long tail and more churn in the short head. It doesn’t really change industrial-age winner-take-all dynamics.
Certainly, there is room for a few artisan-of-the-week spots in the hand-made coffee mug sector. Every year, maybe a few hundred such artisans will have a profitable year. The rest of their careers will be spent waiting for the next break. The majority will have no breaks at all and crash out of the sector, to be replaced by new hopefuls.
The role of technology in sexy work is to take away the algorithmically scalable, high-requisite-variety market segments that actually generate profits, leaving behind a casino economy for a class that is destitute in the median case. It is democratization in the sense of turning an unfair lottery that you can at least game with some cleverness (such as pitching a gullible movie producer with more money than taste) into a true lottery that you cannot.
The Fate of Tradesmen
The chimney sweep represents schlep work. Dull, check. Dirty, check. Dangerous, check. No bard options in the posterity memeplex economy? Check.
Today, the dangerous part is being engineered out of sector after sector, starting with drones replacing human pilots in war zones. We value human life in ways that cannot be easily modeled in economic terms, so we allocate more wealth to eliminating dangerous than a free market would (whether that allocation is effective or not is a different matter). But dull and dirty enjoy no such moral protection from economic logic, so long as they can be rendered safe.
Fortunately, machines are not quite as good at carving away the profitable parts of schlep work as they are with sexy work. Which means that when you subtract the algorithmically scalable varieties of dull and dirty work, you’ll likely have more than a casino economy left over for humans.
The early example of information-age chimney sweep work are just emerging: data cleaning, image interpretation, human customer service as a differentiator from voice-prompt hell, various kinds of machine repair. Some of these categories will go away, but I suspect new kinds of schlep work will emerge faster than old kinds vanish. That’s what happened the last time around.
Chimney sweeps emerged with early industrialization because more people had coal-heated homes with narrow chimneys in every room. Those in the trade began life as small children climbing down chimneys until they were too big. If they didn’t die of cancer, they had a shot at becoming master sweeps with their own troops of children.
Regulation, appropriate machinery and the slow replacement of coal with gas and electricity eliminated the profession.
But before the trade declined, it helped establish the industrial age middle class, marked by varied kinds of schlep work.
We are just beginning to discover the schlep work in the information economy. From solar panel installers to driverless car debuggers, several schleppy professions are starting to emerge. Those who are fixated on saving sexy work are most likely to miss schleppy opportunities.
What unites all these trades is that they accept roles based on kinds of schlepping that machines are bad at rather than insisting on work that humans like to do.
I think of them as forming an emerging Hamiltonian middle class — a class that accepts and adapts to large-scale technological systems as a part of life (the kind that Alexander Hamilton promoted in early America). Unlike the Jeffersonian middle class, the Hamiltonian middle class is willing and able to redefine its identity and evolve with machines rather than remaining attached to a static, romanticized notion of what it means to be human.
I’ll talk about the two middle classes another day. I am still working this stuff out. Including figuring out where blogging fits in the grand scheme of things. It’s less sexy and more schleppy than it looks, so there’s hope for me yet.
Thanks to Nick Pinkston and Kartik Agaram for helpful conversations.
Markus says
Haven’t been past Ribbonfarm for a while. First entry and there you go again, Venkat.
You are a bloody brilliant purveyor of inspiring epistemic compression algorithms. Scientific and artistic POV’s meet and have beautiful children :-)
I do believe you are a bit of a bard yourself in this context…? On the other hand I would argue that the Jester – albeit of a unusually solemn variety – would perhaps be closer to the mark. You know, sort of Tyrion Lannister minus the hedonistic streak ;-)
In short, you got the worker vs the artisan, but I’m seeing a 3-part monster and miss the head: Where’s the artist, the conductor, the Man, so to speak? Trialisms is so much more potent than dualisms….
Hmm… not sure this orchestra has a conductor. I think this is a natural outcome of slowing growth.
Alexander Boland says
I might just second what Markus said, if only because the artisans seem like the clueless and the schleppers seem like the losers.
Agreed, there’s not much detectable conduction/leading going on.
Let me put it another way:
I miss a representation of whoever puts the art in the prevailing artisanships? Even if we are talking a leadership of the “chasing butterflies” variety, I’m sure there’s some detectable patterns here as well?
Maslows heierachy of needs, the decline of the middle class and Malthus/The Verhulst equation seems like potent starting points for triangulation.
Alexander, thank you for providing the junction to the Gervais Principle, there was something “tickling my spidersense” regarding the missing part of a trialism and I just couldn’t nail it down.
Micah Redding says
To jump on this theme, it seems to me like the third part of this is the person who discovers the algorithmically scalable work, and sets up the machines to do it. This is, I think, what startups attempt to do. Their reward is different than that of the schleps – they benefit by showing up at the right time, and finding the right industry to sell to the machines. Yes, ultimately this is just a scaled-up version of schlep work, but the difference is that schleps are maintaining an already-running machine, while the startup is claiming new continents in the name of the machines.
Or am I misreading this?
Hasn’t the startup business in the last couple of years being mostly about services being moved from the professionals to the users? For instance each time I’m doing a journey I spend quite some amount of time for booking hotels, flights, trains etc. instead of delegating them to a travel office. So it isn’t the algorithm which solves the schlep work but instead the algorithm enables me to do it. In a sense the industry discovered the user for unpaid schlep work, which otherwise costs us nothing as well. In reward for that gratitude we give them our data.
Goblin says
Kay, I think the prevailing paradigm you mention, the only one some start ups seem to think exists. Algorithms and “user” driven is just part of the picture. Not all work at a firm that makes heavy use of algorithmically enhancement is capable of being strictly user driven. In larger industries the user feedback loop has long since hit its peak efficiency. The new algorithms merely open up a new angle for competition and marketing to smaller industrial startups.
The companies still need professionals, if fewer of them, to do whatever it does. And that sets aside the other services that those specific industries require to remain functional within society. So people are less consumerist nowadays.. but that doesn’t mean they don’t want to invest in “well-crafted” products that will actually last and remain fully functional for years on end. It isn’t as pretty or as full of growth as the Kayak.coms but it still is there, and has been witnessing a small rebirth of its own.
I think I agree with Goblin here… 9/10 of “work” is hidden in the B2B world where it isn’t as easy to trade higher skilled workers for lower-skill+automation. But the same forces are emerging there. Except that machines take away the “middle” — you still have a need for a few high-skill schleppers (like people who can program robots or master machinists) and a bunch of low-skill schleppers. In consumer “shadow” labor, like in self-checkout, you often see the same split, except unpaid humans share the middle with machines.
Venkat, would you say then that machines generally widen income gaps?
Chang Lee says
Great analogy between machines and children, Venkat. I’d just like to point out that bacteria in the intestines are referred to as flora rather than fauna.
Anyway that biological analogy also led me to wonder, what if symbiosis occurs between humans and machines? Such that our need for sexy bard work can be derived from opportunities carved out by the nature of a machine society? Just as children occasionally require bard work from their parents in telling them bedtime stories, might the machine society desire optional variety? After all, some work exists at the intersection of creative and sexy, where creative is the work face of the coin and sexy is the worker face. And one requisite of creativity is challenge. Algorithmically unscalable work can be unscalable because unprofitable to scale or because irreducible to algorithm. Satisfying demand for the latter type may require creativity, and at the same time come to be regarded as the sexy work within the remaining schlep work that the machines have left/imposed on/opened up for us.
Intriguing speculation, but I can’t think of good examples of essential “reading bedtime stories to machines” type work. Do you have any in midn?
“Reading bedtime stories to machines” isn’t the right metaphor. The purpose of reading bedtime stories to children is to give them pleasant sleepy emotions: essentially to put them in a trance from which they’ll go easily and happily to sleep. The metaphor fails because machines don’t have emotions (nor will they, as emotions are the sensation of neurochemicals affecting neurons, and chemistry + biology != electronics).
What I think you’re looking for there is, the use of human-optimized skills and subjective judgements while engaged in building or maintaining technology. For example a high-skill automobile mechanic who modifies a vehicle in some manner to suit the particular needs of a customer. There are plenty of these types of jobs for those who wish to develop the skills, and they span a large portion of our range of technology. For example a friend of mine who graduated from Cal Berkeley, chose to work as a machinist. Smart choice, he has a good job while a lot of his classmates are unemployed.
Your use of chimney sweeps to make a point, reminded me of this quote from Martin Luther King:
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
And as for real creativity (not the kind that conflates with sexiness), it often flourishes more readily when someone has a job that involves primarily physical labor rather than mental labor: this because you get home at the end of the day physically tired but not mentally tired, so you can sit down and write another chapter of your novel, or compose a song, or whatever.
Whether the novel or the song ever sells is immaterial if one creates because one _must_, because it’s intrinsically fulfilling regardless of anything else. The market is not an altar, too often it is a Procrustean bed.
Reading bedtime stories to machines would be a human input of optional variety. When would optional variety become requisite? When optional variety is itself the thing that is being modeled, becoming one more data point, for instance machines seeking to understand human psychology. When optional variety is a step in a process, like a designed genetic algorithm, causing exaptations to arise. When optional variety is needed for unpredictability by other machines. However, all these scenarios require the optional variety to actually have an impact, i.e. if they lead to functional differences.
That’s a good point.
netcan says
Nice write-up. An articulation of the “all these artisans are bullshit” sentiment. with an artisanal style.
I wonder how new this desire for artisan status is. If it is really a product of our current status as a leisure society, it might tie in to you ideas on legibility nicely. Material needs (shelter, food) are trivially met (in some cases by a generous welfare state). Beyond that, the value of wealth is relative, a game most are destined to lose. Artisanship is a way out of that game and into a game where without winners and losers.
The bits on narcissism and identity broadcasting really struck a chord with me, as I’ve been reading a lot by a blogger known as The Last Psychiatrist. She (he?) writes a lot about narcissism, pointing out that it’s about prioritizing identity broadcasting and preservation over all other things, which leads to a kind of mental atrophy based on refusing to acknowledge the uncertainty and limitations of the real world.
As for the question of what constitutes “creativity”, narcissism also seems to play a role here. I don’t have a solid definition of creativity, but most “creative” work actually seems to be much schleppier than people want to believe. Executing just about any project requires a great deal of tedium, and the main reason why so many people never commit to taking such a risk is because they know it but nonetheless want to continue to preserve the identity of being a potential (or worse, “misunderstood”) artist. And, yes, I might be saying this from personal experience.
Still, if I use the concept of synthesis as a tentative definition of creativity, I’d say that “creative” work of some kind is needed in order to discover ideas that are outside of the phase space of the current infrastructure. The conflation I see, however, in both popular media and in Jaron Lanier’s new book (I assumed the title was a play on “You Are Not A Gadget”), is one between the existence of innovators, and the ability of the middle class to be a class of innovators. The truth may be, however, that truly creative work may be a privilege of the super-affluent or some kind of clergy, the way it was in older times.
She (he?) writes a lot about narcissism, pointing out that it’s about prioritizing identity broadcasting and preservation over all other things, which leads to a kind of mental atrophy based on refusing to acknowledge the uncertainty and limitations of the real world.
Yes, but isn’t this just a desperate attempt to operate in a mode we would judge as self-confident in less instable societies, where social differentiation isn’t coupled to some weird personality trait but to class inclusion/exclusion which inhibits social mobility?
I perceive freedom + creativity as modern answers to the meaning of life in a universe with a dead or absent God, where devoutness didn’t make sense anymore. Maybe Venkat’s child metaphor for our huge, noisy, interconnected machine and the insistence on requisite variety offers a slightly more catholic working ethics after we have worshiped the entrepreneur to death? A refactoring of the kind we love this blog for.
A lot of things to answer in that question. For one thing, class mobility does not seem all that prevalent in America (though maybe I’m wrong.) “Artisinal” pursuits, insofar as they can be seen as conspicuous production, themselves seem to be a reflection of status.
On the other hand, I may be jumping the gun to conflate narcissism and identity signalling so tightly, considering that it seems to be a very normal human behavior. On the other hand, some behaviors that may seem more genuinely narcsisistic may include: an extreme fear of commitment (to either projects or lovers) because it’s a forced encounter with reality and interferes with someone’s desired identity, over-identification with something specific (such as your occupation, your choice of a spouse, or some brand you wear), and/or a constant need for validation in the form of attention (better to be hated than ignored, etc.)
Of course, you may be absolutely right that if it’s the case that narcissism is the result of a lack of social anchors. I myself have believed most of my life that self-expression is the best way to find some kind of “meaning”, but this seems more and more to be a sort of irrational religious belief, and possibly a little bit narcissistic. Still undecided about that.
diozen says
The Etsy Effect?
tfnw says
I’m sure I am being dense, but I am finding it difficult to see the connection between the three following things; fiat currency (currency backed by a government, right?), shareholder value maximization, and deficit spending, and the disconnection between income and useful work. Maybe you could clarify?
Fiat currency allows for easier deficit spending than with gold, since it can be financed with bond issues (Keynesian economics). This allows governments to “create” work to keep people employed, and such work need have no relation to economic necessity (you can pay some people to dig holes and others to fill them up again, as the joke goes, and many real-world scenarios come close to this). The US actually doesn’t have too many outrageous examples of such make-work, but that might change. Besides directly distorting incomes, it also allows governments to use subsidies and tax incentives to make some professions artificially attractive etc. For example, incentives for “local” businesses that may be far more inefficient. This can be done in non-deficit, non-fiat regimes as well, but is obviously a bit harder to pull off. Governments often use this capability to appease the artisan sector.
Shareholder value maximization creates perverse incentives for corporations in similar ways. You might cut essential functions to show paper profits next quarter to prop up the share price, and deliberately spend money on “vanity” projects that boost share prices by manipulating investor perceptions while doing nothing for company value. In a way this too is similar to deficit spending, since high shareholder value allows corporations to borrow money more easily.
For the consummate analysis of this mode of economic existence, one need look no further than Moldbug:
http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.co.nz/2013/03/sam-altman-is-not-blithering-idiot.html
Through this process, make-work is distributed at the margins across all sectors, without as much cognitive dissonance (near/far).
neil21 says
> The US actually doesn’t have too many outrageous examples of such make-work
There’s a case that the suburban experiment is close to such a system. Heavily subsidised car-first infrastructure that demands billion dollar repairs, street designs that force car-buying, maintenance, fuelling etc. Regulatory mandated but useless “green space” (strips of grass that aren’t parks) that have to be maintained, sprinkled, cut.
No clear improvement in wellbeing compared with compact, walkable etc. towns as built throughout human history up to ~WW2 (coincident with fiat). Indeed many costs – oil wars, obesity, social isolation, lack of serendipitous innovation from proximity and diversity, etc.
Greg Borenstein says
Great post, Venkat. I’m interested in poking a bit more into how our idea of “creativity” relates to your sexy vs. shleppy distinction.
The essence of “creative” fields (cultural production) appears from the outside to be about making choices and expressing preferences. It seems to be on a continuum with “liking” the artifacts of that production. As a comic book fan, the essence of being a comic book artist seems to be making good decisions about what the art should look like, i.e. having good taste, like you perceive in yourself as the fan. But actually becoming a comic book artist is a shlep. It involves learning drawing which can only be done by slow repetitious effort. It’s a complex visual-muscular skill and acquiriring it is more like body building than “having good taste”. There’s a complex interpay between your taste, what skills you choose to shlep towards, and your critical self-evaluation of the actual virtues and limitations of your work. With enough shlepping you might be able to become a good comic book artist, but your taste will only be one contributing factor to the resulting style of your work. This holds for all creative/cultural production fields. It’s what every artist or programmer refers to as the “craft” part of their work. This kind of skill acquisition in general is also pretty clearly not algorithmically scalable. From expert systems to the endlessly fiddly application of machine learning algorithms (every book and article I’ve ever read about using SVM for machine learning has described the designing of the vectorization and the tuning of the kernel parameters as “more art than science” or something you’ll “get a feel for”) is completely dependent on human capabilities built-up through shleppy craft-acquisition.
I think part of the move towards “conspicous production” that you’re describing has to do with the radical increase in the visibility of our taste preferences in the era of social media. This has raised the profile of “liking” while the shlep of acquiring craft has stayed invisible. Also, the democratization of media production means that people undergo the stages of producing media (creation, distribtuion, public dialogue) without ever passing through the craft stage of creating a feedback loop between their taste and how they exercise their craft. They feel they are “being creative” or “producing media”, but they’re never choosing to shlep. They then project this onto cultural producers who do shlep, imagining that their own production is the same kind of activity as that of these actual craftspeople. This kind of shlep-free cultural production happens as (if not more) frequently in technical fields like web programming as in cultural ones like drawing, partially because our pedagogy for technical fields is still so primitive, whereas we have drawing books like Niccolaides The Natural Way to Draw, that have been the definitive text for 100+ years and specifically spell out a schlep schedule.
Been thinking about this a bit more from the perspective of teaching and learning.
It seems to me that the job of educational materials is to support shlepping: to make it easier or to increase its effort-to-reward ratio.
In my experience as a teacher (and learner), there are two kinds of shlepping necessary in skill acquisition. The distinction is something like the difference between static and dynamic friction.
Dynamic shlepping is what happens when you have good educational materials and/or you understand the conceptual bounds of the task you’re trying to learn. You have to put in the time and do the repetitions in order to move forwards, but there’s a clear effort/progress tradeoff. This is where I’m at with drawing. The more practice I put in drawing from photographs or life the better my drawings look.
Static shlepping is like static friction. It happens at the start of learning tasks when you don’t have a good mental model of the domain you’re trying to learn — you don’t even necessarily know the right search terms that will turn up the material you’d then need to shlep through. You can put in huge amounts of shlepping without making any relevant progress. This is where talking to an expert or finding the right text or other educational material is invaluable. This is the most important part of what schools do as institutions: enable you to move from static (or meta-) shlepping to dynmaic shlepping.
Now, static shlepping is truly deadly because it also presents a second danger. In addition to having low effort/progress ratio, it also has the tendency to dissolve into “sexy” production. Before you figure out how to shlep dynamically, you can find yourself reading _about_ other people’s acheivements in your field, watching behind-the-scenes material that’s really lifestyle branding for the industry, even researching and buying professionally-branded gear — all tasks that are fueled by your shlep, but move you away from the “no pain no gain” mindset and back towards lifestyle defintion through “creative production”. There are whole industries designed to capture shlep-willingness and convert it into this kind of consumption.
As a teacher and author of technical books, what I try to do is eliminate the barriers to dynamic shlepping. I provide conceptual overviews so you know which pieces of the problem you need to learn about to acheive your goals. I provide incemental problems for you to work on that will guide you through the shlepping required to gain skills. And I try to unlock problems by providing converting vague expressions of interest into search terms and names of technical fields that will themselves yield large amounts of unblocked dynamic shlepping.
I’ll have to think more about this static/dynamic schlepping distinction and its relation to learning.
I agree that to actually get *good* at many sexy things takes serious schlepping, but in many fields, you can get away with just looking the part and delivering a mediocre effort. Coffee is an example. The taste difference between a good and exceptional cup of hand-pour is not noticeable to most drinkers, so you can easily get away with pretending to be an artisan if you dress the part, talk semi-knowledgeably etc.
Singing/dancing (both activities people start enjoying as children) are somewhere in between. I am consistently saddened by the number of mediocore (not laughably bad) people who show up on shows like American Idol/America’s Got Talent, clearly having built their entire identities around singing/dancing, but just not good enough to succeed or sustain themselves in that market.
Lumiere says
Take a look at Google Brain and other recent deep learning systems. It is definitely becoming less of a schlep. The amount of human-feasible work that isn’t computers feasible is dropping fast.
I agree. I think Verkat’s position is predicated on the idea that human and computer intelligence are fundamentally different. Indeed, this is currently true. On the other hand, Kurtzweil gives us an upper bound on how long this state of affairs will be sustained. Roughly speaking, we will have complete human brain simulation by the 2030s, at which point human and machine intelligence would be entirely equivalent. Hopefully, I’ll be retired by then.
I think Verkat’s position is predicated on the idea that human and computer intelligence are fundamentally different.
It’s quite likely that they won’t converge even if they are built on similar biological principles. It can also turn out that super-human AIs are fair energy suckers and are at least as expensive to build and maintain then human workers. Finally it is not clear that humans even want them and their use wouldn’t be severely restricted by law to research institutes, the military and a few other special purposes that need approval by state authorities.
LC3 says
Wow. Mind blown. That is all.
Greg Jorgensen says
Thank you for this — great read.
As a professional computer programmer I’ve been able to have the best of both worlds in some ways: My “work” is usually perceived as creative and maybe even sexy (or at least lucrative) by non-programmers, but the work is schleppy enough that it has resisted automation, so I’m employable even in my fifties.
Among software professionals there’s the sexy/creative world of startups and new technologies, and the schleppy world of maintenance programming, database cleaning, debugging, testing, and so on. Anyone who wants to make a decent living working with software would choose the schleppy side, the bottomless pit of boring but non-repetitive work on old and usually ugly software (much of it produced by dilettantes and “rock stars” who have moved on to sexier projects). But that kind of work isn’t sexy, so thousands of good-paying programming jobs with low geek social status go unfilled while vanity startups and public showing-off open source projects provide the artisinal coffee mug niche for programmers.
lelnet says
I was pretty much with you, until you flat-out advocated “discarding anthropocentric categories and human desires”, as if incorporating such categories and desires were a priori erroneous.
It can be argued that the particular categories we use are bad ones or the particular desires we feel are self-destructive, certainly, and consequently that we ought to use different categories and focus on different desires, but going into a discussion about the organization of human society with the baseline axiom that said organization ought to fit itself to humans seems pretty basic, to me.
Sean Fleming says
`Discarding`may be a word choice with unnecessarily negative connotations.
It seems to me that the major idea prompting the article is that the forces driving economic value creation, when juxtaposed with the cost of that creation, are changing in distinct ways as a result of ongoing technological progress. This point is not really disputed as far as I know.
Rather than advocating the wholesale abandonment of human desires in the face of these technological shifts, it`s my interpretation that the author is merely recommending that the reader put aside these concerns for a moment in order to better examine the forces that will shape the reorganization of society along new patterns of value creation and personal fulfillment. It is a request to put aside preconceived notions in order to reach the heart of a phenomenon, not a plea to leave humanity behind.
The basic point underlying this interpretation is that it is more likely (read: easier) for us as a society to adapt to new economic realities and still find a level personal fulfillment, than to change or halt the economic shifts currently taking place. For this reason we have to step outside of current assumptions and base predictions of future societal organization on the changes occurring , not current notions of human desires and potential paths to fulfillment.
Peter Christensen says
This post seemed like an exercise in trying to philosophize away people you don’t understand or don’t agree with.
I think that the sexy/schleppy division is real, but not as fundamental as you make it out to be.
When people choose what to work on, they’re making a trade off of the cost of the work to them vs the rewards they expect to receive. Money and “doing what you want” are both forms of currency, and each person has their own exchange rate between them.
Peoples’ needs for money and fulfillment give a 2×2 matrix of the kind you love:
– Low need for money, low need for fulfillment: shiftlessness, non-working or odd-jobs to scrape by
– Low need for money, high need for fulfillment: sexy jobs – fulfilling low-paying jobs (camp counselor, artisan baker, yoga instructor, etc)
– High need for money, low need for fulfillment: schleppy jobs – payment systems, enterprise software, B Wayne Hughes
– High need for money, high need for fulfillment: photo sharing + social media websites, non-profit leadership, veterinarian
Also, like a geek dismissing fashion, your statements like “producing hand-crafted coffee mugs in Portland at a cost of $20 apiece is work rather than conspicuous production” display a misunderstanding of what’s being bought and sold. People don’t buy the $20 handmade mug because they think it’s better at containing liquids – they buy it to reinforce their feelings about themselves and what they value.
You organize conferences and visit trainyards because it reinforces your values, and that’s your consumption that probably looks crazy to others. The fact that people find it worth their life to make those $20 mugs is supply and demand in action. If they could only sell them for the price of the Chinese mug, they would find other work. But since they’re selling taste, style, community, and someone is choosing to buy it, then they are producing value. It might not be value that you ascribe any value to, but that doesn’t make it vain, wrong, or wasteful.
The coffee mug example is about producers, not consumers. I am perfectly fine with the logic of consuming premium-priced fashion goods. The question is whether the *production* model is sustainable or whether a rotating cast of starry-eyed artisan-wannabes is providing underpriced products for a while before crashing out of the market.
There may be no price-point on the hand-crafted coffee mug supply curve that can be sustainably served, so there may be no rational market there. Which means the producer is subsidizing the customers in return for something besides money. If the producer stays in business, it means an indulgent parent or other investor is subsidizing it.
Your point about money and “other stuff” having an exchange rate between them only applies in one situation: a leisure society where basic needs are easily taken care of either through patronage/inheritance or the state. The issue is that a lot of people are *acting* like they are in a leisure society when they are not, and are being encouraged to do so via a narrative that assumes the currencies are far more tradeable than they are in practice. This is causing people to adopt callings with extremely over-optimistic expectations.
Writing is a great example. Tons of aspiring writers provide work for free or nothing trying to convince themselves that what they’re being paid in “exposure” is worth it. Most drop out when they realize the equation doesn’t balance. The odds of any “exposure” leading to breakout profitability are so low that you are effectively supplying underpriced product on the strength of an unfounded expectation. Others (I count myself among these) enter the game with more realistic expectations, including the expectation that the cost of the self-indulgent line of work is schlepping in a cross-subsidy line of work (consulting in my case… almost pure schlep).
Hrishi Mittal says
“the cost of the self-indulgent line of work is schlepping in a cross-subsidy line of work”
That reminded me of the gapingvoid Sex & Cash theory –
http://gapingvoid.com/2004/03/25/the-sex-cash-theory/
James Bach says
I enjoyed reading your post, Venkat. As usual it’s a feast of new mental models; stimulating and sensible.
What I’m struggling with is your apparent concern with economic unsustainability of types of work people want to do. So what? What difference does it make if my son “crashes out” of writing his novel? I guess he’ll try for a while and either “succeed” or go and do something else. I’ll support him if I can, because not only is he my son, but he’s providing a valuable service to me: I find his process entertaining.
People crash out of lots of things, but it seems to me our society is culturally and artistically richer for it. I’m glad there are mugs for sale, and whole shops devoted to weird art that I, personally, will never buy. I don’t know how they stay in business, but my village is better for it.
Humans, above all, are story-making creatures. We live in cocoons of meaning. Although reality always asserts itself, reality is never seen for what it is. In the end, the story therefore trumps reality.
I suppose your point must be that the overriding societal narrative has beatified the meaning of sexy work and damned the meaning of schleppy work, and that in turn has made our economy less robust. That’s a fair point, except that you don’t have to sneer at artisinal work to rehabilitate schleppiness, do you? It is no sin to seek satisfying work, is it, regardless of what you might define as “success?”
I think what bothers me is the conflation of self-actualization and self-indulgence. Your reading of my argument is basically correct.
Minor Heretic says
An observation: Self actualization requires some self denial.
A personal definition: If you are sleeping indoors, eating three meals a day, and doing what you love, you are better off than 99.99% of the world.
I started off out of high school as a blacksmith. I apprenticed to an experienced smith for, quite literally, room and board. I worked on my own for a couple of years and realized that it was a tougher buck than I wanted to earn. Decades later I am an installer of solar energy systems and a renewable energy consultant. I happily hammer hot iron in my spare time. Both career paths involved sacrifice on the way to mastery. Both have their own kind of social status. Blacksmithing went from a necessity to an indulgence, while more recently renewable energy went from being an indulgence to a reasonable investment and a necessity.
Back when I was smithing we had a derogatory term for the work of undisciplined smiths: spaghetti iron. That was swoopy, organic form that hid (or displayed, to an insider) a lack of control over the material. Observation and practice led to work that “looked like you meant it.”
Tastyfrizzle says
Think, then, of the young woman(man) who goes to law school because of the status the profession. She then goes to work for the government (funded by fiat spending), e.g., the EPA, which is increasingly dedicated to addressing ever-smaller environment threats to the point interfering with “real”, “schleppy” work which produces actual (hard currency, balance of trade+) goods, such as energy. She then migrates to the private sector, helping clients minimize their exposure to the increasingly complex and arbitrary web of regulations she helped promulgate. Her education funded by subsidized loans at a subsidized institution, she has a long and successful career without producing anything of value.
Lawyer says
People think lawyers don’t produce anything of value until they need a lawyer.
Lawyers don’t produce anything of value. At best, they keep other people from getting in your way when you want to produce something of value.
You think that because you don’t understand that society is more about humans dealing with other humans than it is about chairs or software or whatever it is that you do.
Not true. I’ve both needed and “needed” lawyers. The difference between them is the subject of the my first response. Given my misspent youth, I realize that an attorney is sometimes all that stands between one and the ever-increasing plenary powers of the state. But I don’t “need” a $500/hr average intellect to guide me through the elaborate kabuki dance that is employment law, but for the thicket of regulations created by (perhaps) well-meaning dolts seeking “self actualization” via the bureaucracy. Two fools in a he said/she said about who showed whom their genitals first(in a manufacturing environment) both deserved to be summarily fired. This is not what occurred. The difference is pure waste driven by exactly the type of “sexy” work (I’m a lawyer!) that yields a negative net contribution to the real economy
IMHO lawyers are part of the category I refer to as “protectors” or “defenders,” whose role is to protect others from attack by predators and parasites.
Protectors & defenders include: military, police, firefighters, health workers, and legal workers.
Other categories: makers (primary-producers such as farmers, builders, engineers, factory workers, etc., also includes scientists), educators (teachers, professors, also librarians, museum curators, etc.), managers (organization, logistics, administration), capitalists (provide capital and business expertise for creating the means of production), culture workers (the media and performing arts including athletics), and arguably a category for government (that includes the executive and legislative branches and the judiciary, all of which are directly or indirectly chosen through elections). (Some of this language sounds vaguely Marxist but is not intended as such.)
The idea that lawyers “produce nothing of value” is like the idea that vaccination or street cleaning is a waste of money: as long as there isn’t an active disease epidemic, people don’t recognize the value of these services. And as long as someone isn’t under legal attack, they don’t recognize the value of legal services.
The root of the problem is that the human brain doesn’t do a good job of representing negatives or “the absence of a narrative.” For example “heroic surgery” has an obvious narrative, but the success of vaccination, clean drinking water, clean streets, etc., is in the absence of disease: benefits that have no obvious narrative.
I like this taxonomy.
At best, lawyers and the other “protectors and defenders” are like janitors, repair technicians, doctors, or other maintenance workers. They don’t build up anything, but they prevent things from falling apart. That’s actually a pretty valuable service, as they’re preserving the capital (social and private) which makes additional wealth creation easier, and they can free the “makers” from having to deal with those issues themselves, letting them make more.
(Incidentally, I’d include many non-primary producers as makers. Teachers, for example, generally make people more effective at whatever they’re doing, so they are creating value – they’re building people’s individual “intangible capital”.)
However, the “protectors and defenders” have a terrible tendency to degenerate into predators or parasites themselves, justifying their parasitism by preventing others from preying or parasitising the community. While most of history is littered with the actual police or military performing this role, lawyers too can go from being useful to being oppressive parasites. In the U.S., the legal field is largely engaged in deflecting attacks made possible by other lawyers, or in actively trying to tear down what others have built up, primarily for their own benefit.
I think your biases are getting the better of you. You would never be in a position to make the statements that you have made so far without first having been living in a (reasonably) secure environment.
It is wrong to pretend that graft and human malfeasance only rests with one category or profession. The human condition is full of angelic and demonic deeds alike; all that have little bearing on what profession a person has chosen. This goes for lawyers just the same as your neighbor.
If we accept your premise that lawyering is bad we might as well accept that anyone with the knowledge of any accepted social-speech-oriented-process is categorically a “bad” person. That entire premise is baseless.
It is one thing to call an individual lawyer morally corrupt, but to extend that critique to even the overworked public defenders and pro-bono/ Non-profit work that (possibly) carries great value for you is simply irresponsible.
If you want to put the Electronic Frontier Foundation and its lawyers on the level with Trial Lawyers and Ambulance Chasers, then by all means, just don’t expect everyone to accept that the two are categorically the same, even if both are colloquially know as “Lawyers”.
Ashwin Parameshwaran’s blog raises slightly related questions.
http://www.macroresilience.com/2011/12/29/people-make-poor-monitors-for-computers/
http://http://www.macroresilience.com/2013/07/08/explaining-the-neglect-of-doug-engelbarts-vision/
A money quote from the second post is
“But in a world where machines do most of the work, how do humans become skilled enough so that they can take over during the inevitable emergency when the machine breaks down?”
You’re thinking of a scenario where the edge cases can be handed off to humans. Ashwin’s fear seems to be that when the time for the handoff occurs, there is no one with the big picture to take over and actually solve the issue, leading to utter breakdown.
Yes, the breakdown question is a serious one. I attempted an answer in https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2012/04/18/hacking-the-non-disposable-planet/ but am not satisfied with it.
Daniel Lemire says
I know what you mean but, for the record, chimney sweepers are still around. I’ve got a chimney and I get visits from desperate professional cimney sweepers every year.
foo says
You’ve almost got me feeling good about cleaning the house, but not quite.
I like your use of the word ‘heuristic’ where I might have put ‘meme’, it implies a bit more personal thought was invested, (rather than just mindless rule replication)
‘refining of crude data’ love that term
Creativity can be simulated by a program. A bit of random selection combined with a data mining/ranking can create an idea-generating program that can continually surprise me and hold me transfixed like a moth.
I can envision a program that deconstructs the rules behind the application of ornamental elements and creates a grammar for itself to follow and generate new configurations. It then lets you select from patterns you consider ‘elegant’ while generating more like them.
Home decor, for instance, observes a grammar which varies only slightly
year to year. A computer could be trained to observe the current color,
pattern, theme trends and generate ‘unique’ permutations on them – causing
interior decorators and architects to one day go the way of travel agents, perhaps.
Somewhere in here you are hitting on a notion dear to me: the ‘surprising’ variation on a theme as safe expression of ‘individuality.’ Meaning: you’re paying attention to what’s going on currently, reassembling the building blocks of contemporary ideas and memes and reacting to it conversationally by tossing in a little combo maybe others had not thought of, producing amusement
Have you considered making Ribbonfarm t-shirts? What would be the image elements in this ironic context?
I don’t think there’s really a way to do schwag ironically.
hyuk! I can only think of the most literal visual translations. I’ll bet one of these days though you will come up with just the right brain bending image suggestion.
David C says
Frederick Pohl dealt very effectively with the future of work in a novelette written almost 60 years ago, “The Midas Plague”. Read it:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005QQO90A/ref=kinw_myk_ro_title
You are a great thinker. Your ideas would come across better if you proofread more, however. For example I think you mean Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor.
Lots of good food for thought here.
An Onyx Mousse says
Hi Venkat,
I think you are on to something very interesting here, especially the algorithmically scalable vs. unscalable distinction. But I think you are also missing another dynamic in the economy – the return of the aristocracy due to scale effects. People who win the various cultural production lotteries can now become fabulously wealthy, such as J.K. Rowling, professional athletes, movie stars, etc. due to effects of scale of distribution and global culture. Those who can do “schleppy” work that can be scaled algorithmically become even wealthier – think hedge fund traders and Facebook founders. Most people will not be winners as it is often a ranking competition – the top 10 authors, actors, painters, programmers, etc. enjoy extreme wealth while most are poor / average. Many more of the rest will now become, directly or indirectly, servants to the rich… providing goods and services at “premium” prices to the wealthy class, similar to the peasant farmers, maids, butlers, & cooks of old, under the protection of a wealthy patron. There will be increasing numbers of people whose primary economic value is that they are a human and not a robot, and these will end up as servants to the wealthy people who can afford to hire humans, while robots will handle mass production for the poor and middle class. Good social skills & manners, personal beauty for “marrying up”, and having a good reputation will return as being valuable assets to the ne0-servant class, with falling returns to job credentials and formal education that aren’t top-tier (already happening). The proliferation of six-figure nannies and personal chefs, high-end designers, and many of the “artisan” type jobs fall into this category, which are growing with the wealth of the 1%. Opera and dance companies are already under the patronage of the wealthy few, many artists live off of grants from non-profits paid for by wealthy patrons (plus the workers at the non-profit), and there will be more like this until the next big social upheaval overthrows the new aristocracy.
Onyx Mousse – you’re missing a point. (I’m not sure if it’s Venkat’s point, or if I’m reading it into this essay.) Part of the reason we’re ending up in such a winner-take-all society is that people are “irrationally” valuing conspicuous production over actually-creative schlep-work. (Both people working in those jobs, and people who pay for them.)
No Anthony, our economy is really driven by capital, not by working class desires for status and turning hobbies into jobs. It is not the artisans who determine the prize of schlep work.
Unlike Onyx Mouse I don’t believe there is any significant contradiction between the artisan class and the new aristocracy which owns it. So why should there be an upheaval which overthrows the aristocracy? At worst it will be taxed a little higher.
Craig says
Some fantastic stuff there.
There are “communities” of conspicuous consumers and producers who “support” each other. I’m not sure how they make money!?
The Oatmeal seems to have it right about artisinal coffee:
http://en.ilovecoffee.jp/posts/view/71
Robin Turner says
This article makes some good points, but what it mainly comes over as is a picture of the absurdity of late capitalism. Come to think of it, Marx said something similar, but of course with the opposite conclusion: if capitalism is deskilling and alienating the artisans, the solution is to get rid of capitalism, not to celebrate alienated labour.
Marx category of “alienation” had little to do with the distinction between sexy work and schlep work which is a purely socio-psychological one. The sublation of alienation was about the self-appropriation of the working class whose work was owned by capitalists. By no means did he believe that this would turn the working class into artisans.
Marx work is puzzling for several reasons. He introduced Hegel’s sophisticated dialectics into economics, which wasn’t done before him and no one tried this after him in a different way. Intellectually this was already a dead end. More importantly he had little to say about microeconomics: there were just no enterprises, no complex, layered economic entities, no management theory as a discourse. Instead the capitalists and the workers were opaque social classes with antagonist interests in a macroeconomic theory.
Kay, with regard to Marx, I’m working from a memory of reading “Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844” about 30 years ago, so I could be off the mark a little! You’re right of course that the alienation Marx talked about was primarily the alienation of workers from the products of their labour. However, as far as I remember, there is still a socio-psychological aspect to this; one thing that makes work psychologically satisfying is seeing the end result of your work in your hands (or the abstract equivalent). Actually, in this respect, sweeping chimneys isn’t the paradigm of schleppy work; that would be working on a production line. Sweeping chimneys is dirty, claustrophobic and possibly painful (grazed knees etc.), and the child-labour side is obviously problematic, but in some ways it’s closer to sexy work. If coal was still a popular way of heating homes, I’m sure there’d be hipsters advertising hand-cleaned chimneys ;-)
I agree, there is such an undercurrent in Marxism, but it is ambivalent and the asexual Organization Man with its belongingness to the corporate organization may express another, high modernist undercurrent. Marxism is complex, not only because of its Hegelisms, but emotionally: it has a voice, is not bipartisan, it is compassionate with the lower classes but still full of admiration for the violence of modernity. It’s hard to get done with it, despite the regimes which based themselves on it were an epic failure.
In an odd sort of way Venkat buy using “tradesman” rather then “craftsman” you kind of hit at a debate that goes on within “The Trades” (ie Mechanics, Millwrights, Welders etc) themselves.
I like to think of the distinction as the difference between Jesse James and Paul Tuttle Jr. Both have a re markedly different take on their shared “trade.” Paul Tuttle Jr. is defiantly the artisan often building semi-functional objects that really are nothing but a status symbol. After all who among the well-to-do “doesn’t” have one?
James still appears to care more for “the craft” and seems to like to build fully functioning objects that revels in the “creative” (or whatever you might characterize it as) use of applied principles. But when you get right down to it most of the work is manually intensive and fraught with many frustrating problems (schleepy).
I’ve always been more partial to the ideas of craftsmanship/ “trademanship” (I understand these terms as interchangeable) that values concreteness and functionality over flashiness. You are also the first person I know other then myself who has made the shift to think about the new economy in terms of “trades.” In hindsight this was the principle lesson I took for Shop Class as Soul Craft (as strange as that might sound)
The whole concept of “trades” or “technical education” is looked down upon by The Academy and academia. Even still as returning to “trade” school with an Arts degree has been fairly common practice for many years. Regardless it seems those of us who do are always shunned at by those who remain overly attached to their liberal arts institutions and might have found a schleppy spot of their own nearby.
John Gorman says
I love this:
You’ve hit upon an idea that I’ve been feeling for many years but have been unable to articulate. Thank you.
Though you bring forth many, many ideas in this post which could all be expanded upon, the general takeaway for me is that you’ve come up with new ways to describe elitist vs. non-elitist ways of thinking and behaving. Living in the DC area, I see a lot of sexy jobs. The people who hold them and are able to make lots of money (without generating value) in these kinds of jobs don’t even know word one about schlepping. Subsequently, they can’t connect emotionally at all with schleppers, and I think it’s one reason people have become so divided politically. A little more schlep and a little less sex might rightsize the values of the elites.
Josh W says
I think when people talk about creative work, they are talking about work that is responsive to human values. There’s definitely also that aspect of “work that is too awesome for machines”, but it’s also about the non-mechanical, non-functional domain of what we are deciding to do at all. As computers get into marketing or politics, or even philosophy, this will very likely change, but we aren’t there yet.
Then there’s the second category that you rightly recognised is based on what computers need us for. Although, given the way genetic algorithms are being applied to some of these “bug-fix” problems, that might not work forever:
If we can make programs that can create unit tests and specifications for changing situations, then they could also apply genetic processes to them step by step, knowing what the correct functionality should be, and so the human level moves on into “strategic” sense, observing areas of change and the adaptions that should be made.
This is obviously still a huge task, sort of a superset of sanitising inputs and statistical data analysis (or the observe side of “orient” in ooda, with evolutionary algorithms going towards the other half ).
The world of machines continues on at least two fronts then, the first is becoming more and more in tune with not only our current needs and desires but the way they are formed, and the other is in replacing those information processing functions supplied by humans.
On the broader scale, people become less necessary to support machine infrastructure, and machine infrastructure becomes more effective at solving people’s needs instead of other people. What then begins to matter more is the needs of the different systems of infrastructure that remain when people are removed, or that act as substitutes for them. Fuel, raw materials for replacement parts, and probably heat sinks eventually. Developing countries nationalising their oil supply and rare earth minerals becomes about people reappearing as gatekeepers who must be paid off before the infrastructure can be fed.
So there’s a sci-fi world for you, even schleppy work gets eaten by machines, and we just ransom the raw materials they need to live off in return for the food and cultural products we need. Humans as oppressive land owners!
Even in this doomsday scenario for work, I’m not sure which side of the pie looks to be shrinking faster, is it the robot vacuum cleaner or the robot musician that has further to go? As well as that, and where you’ll find the most competition from other humans, the other criteria to consider is about where best to set up your own algorithmic army to roll out and conquer some problem space, seeing if you can ride the front of work destruction instead of running from it.
Since this has become a lively discussion, I have a question to the audience:
Does anyone expect that the quality of human life in the developed countries will still increase in the future by means of technological progress or has it essentially peaked? By quality I mean “well being”, something which might or might not have already decreased.
The intention to ask the question this way is to side step technological determinism for a moment, which, together with capitalist totalitarianism, is our current mainstream ideology.
Metatone says
Kay – I think if you apply some kind of utilitarian calculus – “most benefit for most people” – then there are two conflicting trends at work.
1) The spread of technologies, both technical and social across the world will lift a lot of people to a better life than before. (Notably regarding basic diseases of sanitation and simple vaccines.)
2) The re-creation of an aristocratic/feudal society. Destruction of the middle class etc.
At some point (1) will peak, but it’s probably decades away. Once it does, (2) becomes the dominant trend and “well being” goes into decline.
Connected to this – I like Venkat’s conception here, but I feel there’s a missing reality, which is that the “schleppy” work is of much smaller volume than chimney sweeping.
But there’s low evidence of these as mass-employment opportunities. Indeed, away from the artisanal coffee shops the largest category (human customer service) is in retreat. Machine repair has been static for a while, because technology creates centralisation.
To add an extra wrinkle, some of these schleppy jobs (e.g. data cleaning) are in the main never going to be valuable enough to sustain middle class living. There are some islands of data where the cleaning is important enough to spend on, but for most there’s no economic case for paying a middle class salary.
Kay, any walk through the Smithsonian will show the innumerable attempts to “improve the quality of life” of the developing world. For example, there is a one/two person “stand up” helicopter at Udvar with a placard containing sentiments similar to those you mention. I remember shaking my head as I walked by it.
As you may or may not know, I’ve spent significant time in some parts of the developing world; I think most people are genuine when they speak of “increasing” the quality of life in such places but I also don’t think that most people really consider the weight of action such pronouncements carry. I’ve been involved in such actions and the high flying rhetoric, regardless of the source, never – ever- matches the hard realities.
I agree with you, or at least I think I do, when you question technological determinism. As someone who is more of a “doer” I think that such matters like discussions over Technological Determinism are used specifically to gather around the proponents who use its arguments an aura of rhetorical morality without any of the real questions of implementation, or consequences. It to me is the fundamental flaw of technology borne civil-libertarianism
I suppose you could apply this standard to things “closer to home” and ostentatiously or at least rhetorically related to OWS as many of them seem to argue, via determinism, that technology will somehow vis-a-vis bring about the fall of capitalism by its mere existence.
I sometimes get the feeling that the technology has the exact opposite effects that proponents of determinism claim, namely that it has actually centralized (or as Venkat says, guts out the middle of) things rather then “decentralizing” or “democratizing”. The fact such activists even encourage “Darknet” projects and “Freeing All The Information – Except Mine” seems to bely their points about technological determinism.
So if a proponent of technological determinism does not put their boots on the ground in such developing nations then I think it follows that they will not have any meaningful influence through their rhetoric alone.
The internet is a newspaper when related to technological determinism .
Jack Tame says
Thankyou for your interesting article. I’d like to know where you consider yourself in this cycle. Is your article conspicuous production? Also, how do you address your very middle class assumptions about work ‘choice’? I’m not entirely sure that that career choices are that simple, or so binary as you make them. Perhaps these are not simple socio-economic lines here but the delimiting lines of ‘taste’ as you see it (I notice your clear distaste at the ‘smelly tradesman’ attempting to transcend his class boundaries by his using of terms that you consider now unfashionable). I am also confused by your use of the word ‘sexy’. Are these the jobs that you don’t find sexy? I’d like to know which jobs you find the most viscerally sexy. Is being a mechanic a sexy job? Perhaps it is a sexy job to one class, to whom being a poet is distinctly effete and distinctly unsexy. This brings me to my other confusion is that ‘sexy’ by your definition seems too fixed in time as well as class – surely what is sexy changes over time, and to which class is viewing it? Where does changing fashion intersect here?
A Bad Pun About The Word Artisanal says
A fascinating article.
I may have missed a key point here, but you seem to imply that the value (in terms of satisfaction rather than $) created for the artisanal / conspicuous / sexy producer through the enjoyment of their work is of lesser importance than value created for their conspicuous consumers; in fact, that artisanal production is in some way a contemptible decadence. You also deride the inefficiencies of local vs. centralized, global production.
If we take these factors to the logical extreme, we would have a world of local communities of individual artisans providing a highly specialized service to other artisans. Wildly inefficient, utterly meaningless, totally impossible, and infinitely more satisfying and conducive to happy individuals and communities than a life cleansing data or replacing cogs for The Machine. Schlep work tends toward being crushingly awful for humans to do; arbeit does not macht us frei in this context. The guarantee of an income under our child-machine overlords is not a very satisfying vision of our future as a species. We must hope that the Is which you so accurately describe does not come to be taken as an Ought.
Especially given the fundamentally arbitrary nature of advanced capitalism, perhaps a more human-friendly discussion would be around how we can make the creation of enjoyable, sexy, artisanal roles and communities more economically viable, rather than advocating a faster descent into us all being paid $2.50 a day by Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to post comments like this ;-)
“Totally impossible” is your key phrase here. It makes your thought experiment uninteresting in the same way speculating with literal-minded belief on the nature of a hunter-gatherer vision of heaven from 4000 BC is uninteresting. Unless there is fictional entertainment or a more direct allegorical lesson there, I don’t see the point in even thinking the what-if through, let alone living it by censoring reality artfully. It’s angels on a pinhead stuff.
Perhaps there is a way to do machines so we can all be happy artisans without killing off the extra people, hiding truths or giving up the very real non-artisanal/non-human joys of participating in technological evolution. If so, I’d be happy to repudiate my position and join that religion.
Thanks for the fast and thoughtful response :-)
I think the Is-Ought issue is the key one, actually. Your accurate and creative insights into the role of sentiment in our choice of career should serve as a warning to people who plan to pursue the sexy path; you’re right to note that these are the people who too often end up being exploited by providing free or unsustainably cheap labour. You’re also right to note machines will steal a lot of so-called ‘creative’ jobs in the near future – an obvious example is web design, where professionals are increasingly displaced by easy-to-use consumer tools.
I don’t agree, however, that this is a necessary or inescapable truth now or in the future. I don’t agree that the wise alternative is to abandon this path for all time in favour of sensible and difficult-to-replace schlep work, although that does of course have its own value. I don’t even agree that given the current market realities, pursuing the sexy work is totally inadvisable: I can think of dozens of examples in my city (not Portland, I swear) of fetishistically conspicuous producers surviving and thriving. Will they be there in 10 years? I don’t know. Are they happier carving locally-sourced meat / selling organic flowers / doing latte art than digital chimney-sweeping? Certainly.
I’d be interested to hear more about what you see as the non-artisanal and particularly non-human joys of participating in technological evolution? Do you mean finding joy and meaning around the edges of your life, while consigning your day-to-day existence to data cleansing and gear polishing?
What a lot of people mean by phrases such as “the non-human joys of participating in technological evolution,” has something to do with their hopes for immortality via “upload” into an artificial intelligence. Toward that end, all human values are rendered obsolete.
This sort of thing, in an earlier era, was referred to as being “assimilated by the Borg”. But now the Borg has been re-packaged and slickly marketed, and gains eager converts day by day.
See also my reply to Venkat’s reply to your posting, re his comment about “join(ing) that religion.”
No, more like
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2012/02/16/glimpses-of-a-cryptic-god/
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/11/11/technology-and-the-baroque-unconscious/
http://www.aeonmagazine.com/living-together/americas-artificial-heartland/
Thanks for the links – I’ve actually already read the Aeon one (another interesting piece and a great publication) although I didn’t realize it was by you!
Will read up and respond if my questions are unanswered.
Yes, Venkat weaved together lots of themes in the Aeon article, which were presented here before in greater length. The intellectual level of articles comments is disconcerting. At best people complain that they get fooled, that their Jeffersonian village illusion is not perfect, despite longing for nothing else. This is a cynical loser attitude if there ever was one.
Structurally the article is basically classical metaphysics, discerning the real world from its mere appearances and public opinion. I do think many of us can relate to it, but would avoid the use of the word “religion” to emphasize the authors “decoding” activity. It is somewhat strange of course that the metaphysical attitude has been stronger discredited as religious belief and we see now that it is badly needed for the ongoing life of the mind.
Re. “join(ing) that religion.” Be careful what you wish for. There’s another new religion afoot, which is highly-promoted beyond its actual number of adherents. The primary tenets of that religion are:
1) Computers are the new deities that humans must serve.
2) Humans who are successful at serving the new deities will be given a rewarding hereafter.
3) The rewarding hereafter will consist of immortality through nanotech reincarnation into an AI.
4) Humans who do not serve the new deities will suffer cessation of existence at death.
5) The appropriate ethical stance is harsh social darwinism with post-facto justifications built in.
6) There is no room for mammalian values, much less human values, only machine values and market values.
The name I would propose for the new religion is “neo-golem worship”, or just “the Computer God cult,” but somehow I don’t think its adherents will appreciate either of those.
No, this is not at all what I mean. You’re reading something unrelated into my remarks.
Hi Venkat- Sorry about my lack of clarity, I didn’t mean to imply that you meant those things. Only that those beliefs are popular in certain circles, are being highly promoted, and that we should be aware of them and their implications, and view them with healthy skepticism.
We are living in a somewhat unusual time when many new belief systems are emerging. Many of them have non-obvious ethical implications that are troubling upon closer examination. Some of them “look like but are not” others, and are easily confused with others. For example the “nanotech immortality” crowd are not the same as the “singularitarians.” Progressive libertarians are not the same species as regressive libertarians (the latter I call “propertarians” who are big on property rights but regressive on person-rights).
The present times resemble earlier eras when numerous new religions and philosophies emerged. I’m tempted to say “a kind of Biblical era,” similar to the Middle East at the time when Christianity emerged and many other new or minority religions flourished and underwent a kind of ecological selection process. (Zoroastrianism still exists to this day, and interestingly there has also been a re-emergence of ancient Greek polytheism.)
The major difference is that a substantial number of today’s new belief systems are overtly agnostic or atheistic, locating their ground of being elsewhere than in a deity. Absent a deity to provide a first-cause for ethical principles, very often the question of ethics is not directly addressed, or is addressed in a manner that leads to numerous unintended consequences. (And to be clear, here I am not promoting the idea that belief in a deity is a necessary precondition for a grounded or complete ethical system: theistic belief systems can and often do have significant holes in their own ethical fabrics as well.)
(More later, meanwhile back to work for me, yes at this hour, and it’s going to be a long night…)
G: agree with the general thrust of your argument. Can you link to anything on new Greek polytheism? That sounds fascinating.
G, all of this exists mostly on the level of pop-science and pop-philosophy and I guess its impact is much smaller than the belief in science and technology has been in 1960s.
About the Neo-Golem. There has been a Stanislav Lem novel, GOLEM XIV from the 1970s. The English version is part of the book Imaginary Magnitude.
GOLEM XIV is somewhat like the singularity for grown ups, approaching the event without religious fervor. GOLEM delivers two speeches, one about our anthropocentric delusions and the other one about the abyss, which separates us from him as well as ANNIE, a next generation supercomputer which surpasses GOLEM just like he surpasses mankind. Lem’s conclusion is one of existential solitude: the new God has spoken and now he leaves us alone again. He is neither our judge nor our messiah, nor our nanny. He just explains how the world is like from the viewpoint of a being which begins to control its own evolution, after this had been an accidental and stupid path like any other – written in the 1970s, GOLEM is a child of the cold war. Today he would possibly be created with even more stupid goals then winning the war against the USSR.
G, I’ve come across those beliefs before, and agree that there’s a whiff of that in any discussion of ‘non-human’ values or ‘technological evolution’ of which we should be wary – but don’t quite think that’s what Venkat is talking about here.
Agreed, I don’t think Venkat is promoting that belief-set, any more than he’s promoting any particular economic class orientation in his original posting (it can be read in various ways). He writes in a manner that often appears to have one set of meanings when read on the surface, and a substantially different set of meanings when one really pays attention. That’s also a good method for selecting in favor of a more thoughtful audience (as we’ve seen from the commentary on his blog generally).
I’d be interested in where and what context you ran into the beliefs I mentioned, and how you responded to them, and how your beliefs differ. Reason is, I think we are at a point where strong assertions of human values (or in a broader sense, natural-person values) are called for, to explicate the differences between some of these emerging belief systems, and to engage a broader debate about beliefs & values. The economic and personal values associated with work are one instance, there are many others.
I’m a little confused by the conflation of “sexy” work with psychological atrophy and “shlep” work with psychological growth. I hear the point that a lot of sexy work is easy work masquerading as demanding work, and thus the presumption that sexy = growth is wrong, but I would think atrophy / growth is a dimension orthogonal to all the categories on the table. (For instance, you’re associating sexy work with a state of flow, which I tend to associate with psychological growth, since achieving and maintaining flow generally requires continually improving one’s skills).
Also, I don’t think one can really consider the question of “saving work” without separating out the current role that works plays as a means of economic redistribution from the role that it plays in creating a purpose / narrative for one’s life. Computers and automation threaten the former; the latter is only at stake insofar as it remains tied to the notion of work.
Anyway, interesting, thought-provoking post…
Since it appears that reply-comments don’t exist after a certain level of reply-and-reply in threads, I’ll post this reply to a bunch of replies here:
Re. Venkat re. my taxonomy: Thanks, and there’s plenty more where that came from;-) I wonder what you think of this: definition of “civilization” as “a type of society within which knowledge increases and violence decreases.” Those two items entail the development of law and provide the precondition for the development of cities. That is, law and cities are effects of the two conditions I identify, rather than causes or spontaneous arisings. The development of law and cities then has a relationship of reciprocal reinforcement with knowledge increase and violence decrease. There are exceptions such as the Nazi regime, wherein violence increases and is exported as a primary product of the regime, but so far those exceptions don’t appear to rise to the level of falsifying the definition.
Re. Anthony and Goblin, re. corruption among those in the “protectors & defenders” category: In general corruption, as well as predation and parasitism, can be defined as an illegitimate attempt to coerce others to perform energy-conversion for one’s own benefit, usually toward one’s own energy-surplus. This occurs in all categories in my taxonomy. Financialization of the economy, and takeover by the managerial/administrative sector, are obvious modern examples. But any individual or group with power, particularly in the absence of checks & balances, can behave in a parasitic or predatory manner, and can exhibit corruption. IMHO the solution to this requires further social evolution in terms of cultural norms that can be effectively enforced.
Re. “A Bad Pun” re. link to info on Greek polytheism: There was an article in BBC News recently. Sorry but I didn’t save a link, but you can probably find it by searching BBC or using DuckDuckGo or Ixquick (thou shalt not use the name of Google as a synonym for search engines, lest thee sacrifice thy privacy and with it thy liberty).
I suppose from my “doer” perspective I find the notion of “social evolution” somewhat at odds with my own experience. I’m of the mind that the culture and its norms, though often helpful, aren’t the really the crux of the matter. Fundamental human need is, and in my it view remains the best, and often only motivator of consequence.
Fictional works of lucid prose can portray: graft, malfeasance, or sloth as “morally acceptable” within certain circumstances. Yet these narratives don’t always have to be fictional. Who after all holds it against the fast food worker if they, only working part time as an only job, might not pay for a meal or two; or the openly slothful office type who feel justified in dragging his/her feet over an important project because of… let’s call them corporate factors?
These corporate factors are what I am assuming you are making reference to when you refer to “cultural norms”? If this is the case I would argue you aren’t actually dealing with culture but rather with the fundamental linkage between what work pays and what that pay gets in fundamental needs.
I suppose you could call all worker-boss relationships “coercive” and Venkat unpacks these at length in his writings on this site, but I think that definition alone doesn’t give you much to work with. Not matter how you cut the fat, it’s still the fat. In the end all thats left is the carving game, and some players are naturally better than others.
This is the sort of nihilism of Universal values, I’ve described it before, (in job interviews of all ironies!) as a sort of “Existential Crisis” of a certain sub-set of us in the economy. We “followed or dreams” and realized that they weren’t tenable, and so now we seek to find “meaningful” work that also is “needed” work, always with a drift towards the “needed” category.
I could write fictional prose of my own about the “corruption of the system.” Indeed some radical political movements ostentatiously tried, and still continue, to exploit this avenue making it their reason-for-existence. Yet what do we keep coming back to? its all a game!
And a game where the rules are only based upon agreement between fluid individuals. Sure there are some areas of agreement across the sweep of humanity but even still the expression thereof, and thus the rules so written, may motivate one person to act one way and another individual to act another. The only fix is more ink, and the process repeats. without any true “evolution.”
Sorry for being long winded about it, but I think the prefix-“social” anything is simply a way to smudge in ambiguity under the guise of morality, and in this day and age of internet communications that is simply the easiest way to kill the dialogue between two individuals that may have in fact been in agreement, or at least “near enough” to not warrant a complete severance of their ties no matter how weak those ties might have been. It’s one of those strange inverse functions of internet.
Re. Goblin:
Social evolution is at odds with your own experience? Do you live in a part of the world where child-beating and spouse-beating are increasing rather than decreasing, where slavery is making a comeback, and/or where racism and antiSemitism are becoming newly institutionalized in law?
Strictly speaking, evolution is change over time in the heritable characteristics of species, as a function of natural selection. However we as humans use the term with the semantic implication of increase in the characteristics we value in our own species, notably intelligence. A more accurate term for what I have in mind would be “social progress.” And make no mistake, there has been social progress during the 20th century, which continues on numerous fronts today, with (among many examples) a black American president and a gay-friendly Pope. That progress is not a straight line: as with many natural phenomena it moves in fits and starts, and occasionally moves against the prevailing trend, but the overall trend continues.
Cultural norms != “corporate factors,” and the meaning of that phrase is unclear. Where I speak of “cultural norms” I’m referring to pluralities and majorities within entire cultures; and by “cultures” I mean societal groupings that are associated with the elements of personal identity and are not identical with national boundaries.
Worker/employer relations are not coercive in an economy where workers have real and effective capacity to bargain for pay and for terms & conditions of employment. That capacity may come in the form of collective bargaining, or in the form of true choice of jobs in a full-employment economy, or in the form of ready access to capital for starting new businesses. In the present economy none of those conditions obtain to any realistic degree, so worker/employer relations are more likely to be coercive, and examples of coercion abound.
The rest of your paragraph about “the carving game” is unclear.
“Needed” work is inherently “meaningful” by virtue of its necessity. However one of the perversities of our economy is that the most necessary jobs are very often radically underpaid, for example farm labor. And here is one of the grand ironies of late-stage crony capitalism: “jobs Americans won’t do” is a Big Lie to mask an obvious truth: Jobs Americans won’t do _at that wage level_. That’s what’s called a _market signal_, and the law of _supply and demand_ requires a _wage increase_ to increase the supply of labor. But the crony capitalists instead seek to circumvent the very market principles they claim to worship, by opening the floodgates to immigrants and thereby artificially drive down the price of labor! Socialism for the cronies, social darwinism for the masses, about which I say: socialism for all or socialism for none.
“…its all a game …where the rules are only based upon agreement between fluid individuals.” Nope. And “…the prefix-”social” anything is simply a way to smudge in ambiguity under the guise of morality…” is not even wrong, on two counts.
I’m highly cynical about the use of the term “social” in the context of “social networking” and all of the hyped internet-fluff that very often is used as a disguise for promoting a panoptic surveillance dystopia. But I refuse to concede the definition of “social” to its Newspeak derivative in that context.
Humans are social animals, that form societies in order to increase their probability of natural selection success. Social progress entails (among other things) explication and codification of social rules, and bringing social rules into alignment with empirical realities.
Lastly, an explicit and unambiguous system of morality can ultimately be derived from empirical facts about the characteristics of living organisms. Yes, I’m heading straight for deriving Ought from Is. I’m going to publish a lengthy piece on that subject elsewhere, and my reasoning will stand or fall on its own merits.
You beg the question. Is there any place where such behaviors do not exist?
Human trafficking still exists, even in the 1st world, even though there are both laws and active enforcement efforts made to suppress and eliminate its practice. The very recent Ariel Castro Kidnapping case, seems apropos here, and the existence of such cases is central to my point. Are you suggesting that “social evolution” will prevent such cases as these in the future? If so how?
History is filled with failed utopias.
The frameworks, and settings of societies change but how that structure changes over time doesn’t fundamentally affect the fact that humans still behave the way they do. Show me a human who does not thirst and then I will believe that his morals and morality are fundamentally different.
I guess as the “knuckle-dragger” of the discussion board I want to take away something that is reliant upon a framework that is based on empirical fact and thus be readily recognized within the rubric of everyday life. Since my Liberal Arts days I have been very skeptical of any claims of an “unambiguous system of morality” I provided examples in my last post , where does the morality fall for the starving fast food employee, what about the also under-payed small boss between that worker and the middle-class owner?
“But I refuse to concede the definition of “social” to its Newspeak derivative in that context.”
So far you have not demonstrated or defined “social” in any meaningful way. It is that failure to demonstrate or define on your, and other’s, part that is the source of this comment. I have more or less defined “social” as “ambiguous” and I think it is notable that you rather then dis-disambiguating or defining the term promote further ambiguity by simply stating what “it-is-not”. That is all well and good, but what exactly is it within the framework your phrase “social evolution”.
I would be very interested to see how that term defines and fits into your thinking, and your response to the continued existence of bad actors within that system.
With regards to “Corporate Factors”: it was a poor reference to Venkat’s lengthy writings on what he calls the, “The Gervais Principle”
How do you refute the idea that the rules themselves are fluid? You are dismissive of this idea, why? What allows you the freedom to make this judgment if not the very fluidity you seemingly deny? Not even Kant and his “empirical facts” could derive fully accepted rules for morality and as I stated earlier I am skeptical of such attempts to move such theory into action. Implementation is everything.
I would be interested to read the article you are working on whenever you are finished.
Thanks for the engaging discussion.
I do question, but I work so I don’t have to beg;-)
Yes, human trafficking still exists, but the key point is that it is no longer tolerated in civilized cultures. (The fact that diseases still exist does not mean that there is no progress in medicine.) Just this week the FBI rescued over 100 underage girls across the US, and busted their pimps.
Social evolution means that in America, Ariel Castro is a criminal who has been brought to justice and sentenced to life in prison. In Saudi Arabia, conduct such as his still has a legal avenue via arranged “marriages” to underage girls, but if Saudi culture evolves, that type of conduct will no more be tolerated there than it is here (there are signs: Saudi women are starting to demand the right to drive automobiles, which is a beginning). The pace of change and the steps forward are not the same everywhere. China has made an enormous leap in industry and technology, and is going to catch up in workplace conditions. The US still has to catch up to certain countries in Europe on a number of measures of quality of life. Etc.
Humans everywhere yearn for freedom and dignity, equality under law, economic security, and improving quality of life. As long as any country is moving ahead on any of those, and the information has any way of spreading (even North Korea can’t keep the news of life in South Korea from spreading), there will be demands for progress. Occasionally a regressive regime will take power (such as the Taliban in Afghanistan) but those exceptions don’t invalidate the generalization. In the 1930s it appeared as if dictatorship (both fascist and communist) was the wave of the future. We all know how that worked out;-)
The core ingredients for social progress are built into living organisms: hardwired all the way down the phylogenetic scale. Every organism seeks to preserve its own existence (altruistic sacrifice does not invalidate that generalization). Even the fruit fly demonstrates behavioral evidence of free will (Maye et. al., PLoS One). And even the planarian (1/4″-long flatworm) demonstrates preference for pleasure over pain (learning to seek sugar water and avoid electric shock). That’s “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” respectively, an empirical and intrinsic Is with an automatic Ought.
History is more than filled with untried options, both utopian and dystopian. Human imagination always extends the range of the possible beyond the range of the existing.
Humans thirst, lions eat gazelles, and mosquitos carry diseases. The difference is that humans have the choice to satisfy their thirsts without harming others, and lions and mosquitos do not.
I am skeptical of unambiguous moralities, highly skeptical of moralities based upon “revealed truths” (even those that exist in my own system) and overtly cynical about rigid moralities that fail to deal with changing empirical realities and with their own internal contradictions. But I am also skeptical of ambiguous moralities, majoritarian rules, and post-facto rationales.
You’re quite right, I haven’t defined “social,” so I’ll do that now, right off the top of my head (or out the bottom of my bottom if you prefer;-)
“Social”: of or pertaining to the characteristics of a society.
“Society”: a recognizable group of individuals living under a common rule-set.
“Social evolution” or more accurately “social progress” at its most basic level consists of increase of knowledge and decrease of violence within a society: this may (hypothetically) be operationalized and measured as an increase in the quantity and longevity of embodied information.
One can always construct apparent exceptions, but beyond a certain point, those sorts of constructions are themselves invalid when it is clear they do not obtain empirically. (For example the “ticking bomb” torture scenario is, according to FBI and military sources, wholly unrealistic and thus an invalid basis for justifying torture.)
Ahh yes, you spotted my Kantian influences;-)
What you identify as “fluidity” in rules, I identify as their “fractal dimension”: sets of rules and exceptions nested “all the way down” like the proverbial turtles, scaling with magnification. For example, “you should obey the law.” But an exception is, “where the law requires you to harm others, you should not obey the law.” And an exception to that is, “where harming others is necessary in the course of defense of self or innocent others (or defense of one’s own or an innocent other society) against aggression, you should be willing to do so, within the limits of a Just War theory and the laws on justifiable uses of force.” And the exception to that is, “where a society claims to act in self-defense but the manifest facts demonstrate such claim to be fraudulent, you should be willing to disobey.” Notice that at each step, there is a “conscience call” to be made.
Fractal rules and exceptions all the way down. For which reason, the practices of mindfulness and concentration improve the capacity for moral discernment, including the ability to parse out the difference between conscience, convenience, and self-interest.
What allows me the freedom to say these things (and attempt to live by them), is my intrinsic nature (neurophysiology) plus my citizenship in a free country. What makes what I say correct or incorrect or “not even wrong” is whether it comports with empirical facts, experiential facts, and logical reasoning.
Kant didn’t have the findings of 20th and 21st century science at his disposal. We do. A few centuries from now, people might say “G and Goblin didn’t have the findings of 22nd and 23d century science at their disposal.” And onward they’ll go.
BTW, what I’m writing is more than an article, though I wouldn’t be so hubricious as to call it a book, particularly if self-published online. Nor is it popular philosophy since I do not have the academic credentials of a philosopher nor the public recognition of popularity. It was and is an exercise that needed to be done, and to be published on the chance it may encourage others to do similar exercises for themselves.
Meanwhile, tonight I have to get back to chopping wood and carrying water… (15% artisanship, 85% schlepping)
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You obscure your entire point by using BARDS as an example.
All bards were paid in roughly similar fashion — with SEX.
In this, they served a highly necessary biological function —
decreasing the rate of inbreeding.
You call “Creative Class” …sexy. And then drop the fucking ball on it, completely.
Not everyone is interested in money — a lot of folks just want to have sex (or, alternatively, find a cool life partner).
Asimov: “Mankind will therefore have become largely a race of machine tenders.” http://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/isaac-asimovs-1964-prediction-of-2014-is-frighteningly-accur
June Gorman says
Asimov: “Mankind will therefore have become largely a race of machine tenders.”
The most “unsexy” and “meaningless” work of all. But then again, who needs sex as both its functions will have lost their point in this model of what is valuable human work or life. Since the machines will be our new “children” we can slavishly work for until we, not they, die and since the alienation will become even more acute in this emotionally unintelligent model that means we won’t even need the “porn” for faked human intimacy. Their is no intimacy between “machines” and their now intestinal flora/fauna tenderers, who will be reduced to parasites upon them.
Though a cognitively interesting discussion to some, I suppose, this is not a world I would want to bring either more real and thus human children into, or myself find value in continuing to live in at all. I think I do truly prefer to me more “creative” in what else I can imagine in that world instead.
Strange how many premises of determinant uber-value assumptions underlie this original post and how bleak and cold, its ultimate conclusions. As if we have to resign ourselves to the dominant (and increasingly ugly and narrow) current economic/production model and make our unhappy peace with becoming machine-slaves in every sense of the word. And accept it all because that’s the “logic” of this economic model.
I don’t. :-) I don’t think that logic is the actual counter to this model of life or value. And think there is plenty of creative, hard, complex alternative-modeling work that is indeed “sexy”, as working with other people who themselves aren’t so resigned to the narrowness of these paradigm restrictions , and who can imagine and create together a far more exciting and “human” alternative, can actually be a real “turn on”.
But I’m demanding that way — preferring real human interactions and still believing them far more “intelligent” and creative and complex in all the truly important ways than machines can ever be. And thus far more attractive.
Just kinky that way, I guess.
Madge says
Schlep work is not doing what machines don’t do well, it’s doing what the other various types of bards, who are still increasingly employable, don’t or won’t touch with a 10 foot pole to save their own lives.
Ultimately the real schlep in the information age becomes a completely unemployable jack of all trades. So it’s ironic that the real hard work results in unemployable status and the conspicuous consumption aspect of work specializations is used to get a job.
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Arguing About How the World Should Burn
May 16, 2017 By Sonya Mann
After eavesdropping on a thousand Twitter arguments and reading just as many thinkpieces, I’ve noticed that there are two main ways of conceptualizing community governance. Both are normative. Both primarily arise when it comes to conflicts over free speech — or who it’s okay to punch.
A glitched version of the famous photo of an old lady clobbering a Neo-Nazi with her purse. Original photo taken by Hans Runesson in Växjö, Sweden circa 1985.
One mode is to focus on content, and the other is to focus on process. These are two different paradigms that shape people’s reactions to a given controversial issue. For example, let’s say a major news event happens. How do you go about selecting the articles you’re going to read about it?
Choose the outlets or individual writers who share your worldview, and see what they have to say.
Seek out authors who signal thoughtfulness across the political spectrum, perhaps with an emphasis on original reporting.
Here’s another example: Computer scientist Curtis Yarvin applies to speak at a technical conference, and his talk is accepted in a blind evaluation process. After Yarvin’s speaking slot is announced, the conference organizers find out that he has an alter-ego as a blogger called Mencius Moldbug. His blog promotes views that much of the conference’s larger community finds abhorrent.
The content approach is to sever ties with Yarvin — because the content of his character has been judged to be objectionable. His work and their personality are deemed toxic or actively harmful. On the other hand, the process approach is to point out that Yarvin’s submission was selected blindly, on its own merits, and affirm that he will be ejected only via the process laid out in the pre-established code of conduct.
To put it in more abstract terms, content people focus on ends over means, and process people focus on means over ends. This is an imperfect way to summarize the principle, because the reason why process people focus on means is that they think this approach leads to better ends. But “ends over means and vice versa” will do as catchy shorthand. (The distinction is similar to the conflict between deontological ethics and consequentialism, although my emphasis is less on the philosophy and more on the praxis.)
Nate Soares encapsulates what the two sides of any argument miss about each other:
When I was younger, I’d regularly see people taking actions that I would never take unless I was acting maliciously. I would automatically, on a gut level, assume that the other person must be malicious. Only later did my models of other people become sufficiently diverse to allow me to imagine well-intentioned people taking actions that I would only take if I were being malicious, via differences in ways of modeling the world, choosing actions, or coping with feelings of defensiveness / insecurity / frustration / etc. that stem from benign motives.
Soares started out with the assumption that everyone perceived the world the way that he did. Then became aware that he was committing the typical mind fallacy — “the mistake of modelling the minds inside other people’s brains as exactly the same as your own mind.” (As another example, Democrats do this when they claim that Republicans want poor people to die.) He was able to adjust his methods for judging others to account for diverse paradigms. (Theoretically, Democrats could do this by recognizing that Republicans have different priorities and assessments of policy effects, while sharing the goal of making the world better for everyone.)
Neither the content approach nor the process approach is objectively correct, although it’s perfectly valid to prefer one or the other. Proponents of both are trying to optimize for community health as they conceive it, but based on different criteria. Content is about correctness whereas process is about fairness.
Friendly Fire Defined by Framework
I believe that effective principles for governing society have to account for individuals and groups who disagree with each other all participating. The rules should be robust even when there are rival factions. But not everyone agrees with me — some believe it is better to eject those with conflicting paradigms. Neither position is correct, per se. Rather, we hold different values that optimize for different types of communities.
The internet social justice movement sometimes baffles its critics because of its focus on ends. The uncharitable way of describing their attitude goes, “It’s okay when we do it.” What’s missing is the addendum “because our ends are just.” There is no hypocrisy when certain feminist circles shun an outspoken misogynist but welcome an outspoken misandrist, because they’re not working with a process mindset. They are not optimizing toward a “fair” process; that is explicitly not what they want nor what they deem desirable.
Take the issue of whether saying “men are trash” is hate speech. The social justice position is as follows, articulated by Libby Watson:
“Men are trash” is simply not the same thing as sexist attacks on women, because you don’t face the systemic oppression that makes sexist slurs so toxic. If you’re a man and someone calls you a stupid trash man, wow, I’m sorry you had a bad day. If someone calls a woman a bitch or a slut, that’s tinged with millennia of oppression.
It is obviously unfair for “men are trash” to be considered acceptable when “women are trash” wouldn’t be. But that’s not the point. As another example of intentional double standards, here’s what a leftist wrote in response to the Nazi-punching debate that boiled over in response to Richard Spencer getting clocked:
An anti-fascist outlook has no tolerance for “intolerance.” It will not “agree to disagree.” To those who argue that this would make us no better than Nazis, we must point out that our critique is not against violence, incivility, discrimination or disrupting speeches in the abstract, but against those who do so in the service of white supremacy, hetero-patriarchy, class oppression and genocide. The point here isn’t tactics, it’s politics.
See? Ends over means.
In the same vein, there is no hypocrisy when free-speech activists advocate for both outspoken misogynists’ and outspoken misandrists’ rights, with the aim of ensuring liberty for all. Their focus is on the process of protecting free speech rather than the content of what people are choosing to say. Many of the same people believe that no one should be assaulted, regardless of how controversial their political views are.
Slate Star Codex’s 2014 classic “In Favor of Niceness, Community, and Civilization” makes the quintessential process argument against a content position:
Civilization didn’t conquer the world by forbidding you to murder your enemies unless they are actually unrighteous in which case go ahead and kill them all. Liberals didn’t give their lives in the battle against tyranny to end discrimination against all religions except Jansenism because seriously fuck Jansenists. […] Liberalism does not conquer by fire and sword. Liberalism conquers by communities of people who agree to play by the rules, slowly growing until eventually an equilibrium is disturbed.
Tragically, content-focused groups and process-focused groups often have common goals, despite their disparate approaches. The shared ground gets obfuscated when partisans can’t identify the root of their differences, or attempt to see the world through the other side’s eyes. The smoke of the battle covers their overlapping territory, if you will.
The different approaches are sometimes practiced according to ingroup-outgroup divides. Ingroup members are subject to process-based evaluations, whereas outgroup members are dismissed entirely because of who they are. Think about what I said earlier, that the content approach prioritizes correctness while the process approach prioritizes fairness. Members of the outgroup don’t conform to your norms and values, and that’s the basis on which you judge then. Ingroup members share your cultural assumptions and expectations, and you hold social power over each other. It makes sense that you’d want the governance process within your ingroup to incorporate some kind of due process, lest you be unfairly ejected.
For example, tribal blood feuds were governed according to complex rules, like the Albanian Kanun, although the parts of that code intended to deescalate have been neglected, perhaps because modernity has broken up the community institutions that managed the process. The norms of the Nuer tribe (see slide 24 here) also qualify.
The Dordrecht Confession, a set of doctrines followed by Anabaptist groups like the Amish, says that “in shunning as well as in reproving, such moderation and Christian discretion must be used, that it may conduce, not to the destruction, but to the reformation of the sinner. […] Therefore, we must not count them as enemies, but admonish them as brethren, that thereby they may be brought to a knowledge of and to repentance and sorrow for their sins, so that they may become reconciled to God, and consequently be received again into the church[.]”
An erring ingroup member is put through a process of atonement and reconciliation. Anarchist accountability processes are meant to work the same way.
However, some ingroups maintain opposite policies. Consider this anecdote about President Trump and ousted FBI Director James Comey:
As they ate, the president and Mr. Comey made small talk about the election and the crowd sizes at Mr. Trump’s rallies. The president then turned the conversation to whether Mr. Comey would pledge his loyalty to him.
Mr. Comey declined to make that pledge. Instead, Mr. Comey has recounted to others, he told Mr. Trump that he would always be honest with him, but that he was not “reliable” in the conventional political sense.
A loyalty pledge is content-based: “Because you are who you are, I will support you and stand by you.” A promise to be honest is process-based: “I will base my stances on what I know to be true.
Deconstructing the Emperor’s Clothes
You can look at the content paradigm and the process paradigm as competing egregores. Each paradigm can be experienced by individuals, but it becomes something larger and more powerful when many individuals experience the framework in tandem, binding each other to it through social cohesion incentives. Sarah wrote in “Weaponized Sacredness”:
Egregoric entities, whether gods or demons or dictators at the center of a cult of personality, are powerful entities, even as they are imaginary — wholly created by and consisting of thoughts, speech, and behaviors. The human mind is a powerful entity, and becomes more powerful in coordination with others. To say that an “imaginary” entity, existing only in human minds, has agency, is not much stranger than suggesting that humans themselves, inscrutable piles of preferences that we are, have agency.
Sarah noted later in the essay, “Sometimes a sacred entity is personified, as with gods or demons or the centers of cults of personality. At other times, the sacred entity is composed only of abstract ideas, refusing to personify itself. Why might it benefit such an entity to hide its nature?”
My guess is that certain egregores — or certain sociocultural interpretative frameworks — tend to lose their potency when the bearers recognize them. When you figure out how they function, you see the way that you’ve acted as a cog in the meaning-making machine, and you’re able to decide whether you still want to serve that role.
For me, the content-versus-process dichotomy worked like that. In the past I’ve held the content stance. More recently I’ve held the process stance. In fact, I still tend to gravitate toward and defend the process crowd by default, despite being aware of the blinding effect of dogged adherence to a single simple framework. But recognizing the structure of both dogmas loosened the hold of the entire duality.
It helps to realize that neither paradigm will grant liberty to its adherents. Social governance and freedom are incompatible. I don’t mean that ideologically (to the extent that any assertion about politics can be non-ideological). I mean that the whole purpose and function of governance is to impose constraints. Personally I don’t think this is inherently bad — but I do think it’s inherent.
In a society of one, you are at perfect liberty to do whatever you want to. You can follow any whim that strikes you, take any action you want, and yell whatever you want. You may be constrained by available resources, but not by rules or status games. No one will try to get you fired, or toss you in jail, or even shush you. Your choices are limited only by your environment and your own capabilities.
A society of two is immediately more complicated. You have to decide how to cope with each other — rivals, partners, or an uneasy indifference? What if you want to be partners but they take advantage of your goodwill and act as a rival? What if you want mutual deference but they try to encroach on your territory? A society of three introduces the possibility of factions. And on it goes, as you add people.
Some constraint on one’s options is acceptable to most of us. We’re social creatures; we need companionship. Cooperating and specializing is also good for productivity, and therefore survival. When you decide to have governance, to codify the norms of your community, you’ve already decided to limit people’s freedom. Your next decision is what constraints you’re going to impose. What will you punish and what will you tax? What will you encourage and subsidize?
Content and process are two dueling answers to this question, championed by fighters who mostly don’t understand the cause they’ve been marshalled to defend. Those who espouse the content approach want to push people out when they don’t buy into the norms and beliefs of the majority. Those who espouse the process approach want to compel everyone to obey the same rules. Neither side will ever be satisfied as long as the other exists.
About Sonya Mann
Sonya Mann is a writer of various sorts. She runs a cyberpunk newsletter called Exolymph and spends a lot of time on Twitter.
Narrative Leaps says
Thanks for framing this discussion in a way that’s so cogent!
To give my own two cents, I think it’s helpful to to point out that both content-based and process-based social norms have pretty well-documented failure modes. For example, the rules in content-based systems can be very difficult to predict and can change rapidly in ways that appear arbitrary and capacious to outsiders (think basically every criticism of the ever-changing list of acceptable terms to use in social justice spaces). Meanwhile, process-based systems can become calcified into rituals that are obviously bad, but everyone accepts because, hey, they’re following the rules.
This link is a good illustration of the latter:
https://www.popehat.com/2017/05/08/the-elaborate-pantomime-of-the-federal-guilty-plea/.)
Eugine Nier says
Another failure mode of process oriented norms, and a big asymmetry between the two, is that process oriented groups have a hard time defending themselves against infiltration by content oriented people. If a group starts out with process oriented people, any person who completes or is approved by the process can join, including content oriented people. However, once they join they will ignore the process in favor of including more people oriented towards the same content in the group.
Sonya Mann says
YES. This is a huge social problem that’s hard to guard against. I’m only aware of a few groups that manage this successfully.
Very good point!
David Sims says
Awesome article Sonya, the content versus process dichotomy is a really clean framework for interpreting the dogged motivations of both sides.
I think I’ve held a similarly conceptual division between these two camps (though not as well formed or expressed as yours) however rather than viewing them as distinct and seperate, I see them as representing a symbiotic adversarial relationship. You note the tragedy that these divergent groups can often share common goals; what if this isn’t entirely tragic, but indicative of an underlying collaboration. Not a predetermined or considered collaboration, but a structurally induced collaboration in the same way two businesses compete for market share in a capitalist system in order to encourage innovation through competition.
This would also address the fact that the rules and freedoms advocated by the process camp are not immune to the influence of the content camp – even with their divergent world models. I think this is becuase the process camp represent a set of predefined liberties that, through historical experience and conceptual validity, present a model that will optimise equitable fairness. But this legacy does impart a degree of institutionalism on them and lend to their being equated with the status quo.
I could ramble on, but I’ll be strict with myself and try to wrap up my thoughts in one last paragraph. Essentially, I’ve always viewed the process camp as equivalent to incrementalists – they share liberal ideals and goals, but balance this with an ingrained pragmatism that sees change as best realised and sustained through a slow and.steady grind, rather than a bang. On the other hand, content people appear to actively occupy the role of extremist. By this I mean, they agitate and aggrevate with the underlying belief that such confronting views and behaviour will force awarenesss and change in their desired direction. They’re unashamed envelope pushers. The real fascination I find here is that envelope pushers do hold an advantage in their position because their actions on the fringe can disrupt and reframe what is perceived as being moderate, and I think this links back with the idea that the process camp is invariably influenced by the content camp over time.
Anyhow, this one got me thinking – it was great, good work! :)
I find your extension provocative and compelling — I’ll have to ruminate on that.
Alastair Roberts says
Thought-provoking post. The content-process distinction also often seems to intersect with the distinction between utopian and practical people. The content approach also tends to be married to a Whiggish view of history, which assumes that the arc of history is moving in its general direction and that it is both on the right and more powerful ‘side of history’. By contrast, the process approach is much more dubious about the inevitability of desirable and just outcomes from the game of history and is more concerned to ensure that it is played by fair rules that protect the losing side. Such a vision of history is more amenable to compromise, negotiation, accommodation, provisionality, etc., without necessarily requiring the abandonment of a vision of and pursuit of more radical social goods.
In my experience, which has caused me to become rather more cynical on these fronts over the last year or so, content or process positions often rely more upon a sense of what benefits one’s side than on deeper principle. It is interesting to observe how the defenders of free speech tend to be the people who are the weakest in a given situation. Placed in situations where they have the advantage, these same people reveal themselves to be content people, masquerading as process people. There are also a number of process people (Freddie deBoer may be an example here) who strongly favour playing by ‘fair rules’, but consistently stress that they do so because they are convinced that they serve their desired ends. Their commitment to the means as such is not always clear to me, as if the supposed connection between those means and their preferred ends were disproven, it is by no means clear that they would stand by the means. It seems to me that the most committed process people either operate more with a sort of Rawlsian veil of ignorance, being uncertain about how things will pan out and wanting to ensure that no one gets mistreated in the process, or with an even more strong deontological commitment to the means themselves, even beyond their ensuring desired fairness.
Interesting point — it reminds me of epigenetics. Self-interest could be the underlying principle that is expressed differently depending on the context.
A few further things.
First, More’s speech to Roper in A Man for All Seasons is a great process versus content argument.
Second, appeals to ‘process’ and perhaps even more so ‘content’ are seldom as straightforward as they seem, as such positions usually serve purposes beyond their ostensive ones. See SlateStarCodex’s ‘The Ideology is not the Movement’, for instance. I would beware of taking people’s commitment to these things at face value. More often than not, the driving impetus for such commitments lies elsewhere and the appeal to process or content is designed to give leverage to other ends.
Third, Edmund Burke argues, rightly I believe, that many of the restraints upon us, and not merely our liberties, should be reckoned among our rights and the grounds of our freedom. So governance is not necessarily a limit upon freedom, unless freedom is defined as autonomy. Under certain conditions limits can make us freer, enabling us to achieve things that we couldn’t achieve otherwise.
Romeo Stevens says
Some other common dual-process frames carving at the similar, though slightly different joints:
Systems vs Goals
Inputs vs Outputs
Content vs Context (I think the word context can load some very different intuitions than process)
Forward chaining vs Backward chaining (effectuation vs theory of constraints maybe?)
more interesting overlaps?
Oh dang systems versus goals is particularly good, that might have been better terminology to use in this case!
Venkatesh Rao says
I actually don’t think so. Systems and goals are both “process” in your sense of the word — ways of structuring behavior (habit formation versus planning) independently of the content of what the behavior is about. Content in your sense is only partly about being goal directed. It is mainly about processes being subservient to judgments rather than substitutes for them. You can be goal directed in a very procedural way. It’s harder, but you can be “content” focused in a systems way too. For example, redlining was a “system” that had a “content” effect (denying blacks housing).
mattmc says
I disagree with Dr. Rao. Goals are not processes, they are objectives or outcomes. The general applicability of the distinction is that goal focus can overlook the persistent application of processes needed to get there. However, I agree that it’s not the best way to think about this subject.
Goals are not processes, but a growth process can be goal-oriented.
Harsh Pareek says
Consequentialist vs Deontological models can sometimes be thought of via a utility function optimization perspective which leads to the following distinction:
If you have a single goal, the consequentialist / ends-over-means / content-based approaches are correct, because they optimize for that single goal. Consequentialist models, however, are hard to solve for. In the face of uncertainty (and often even without it), how do you decide what action or series of actions is optimal? Course corrections when you get new information can lead to “discontinuities” in this approach, examples of which have become famous paradoxes like in the Trolley problem (What if one of the people on the tracks is a close friend?)
If, however, you have multiple goals (say, competing goals or subgoals leading up to a final goal), or your goals may shift over time, the deontological / means-over-ends / process-based approach seems like the better one. Instead of trying to predict the consequences of your actions, pick your next action according to a set of virtues or processes that approximately lead closer toward your current goal or are shared by your multiple goals, and move a small step in that direction.
Eventually in the multiple goal setting, you will come to a point where competing goals lead you towards different actions. At this point, you should probably pick a goal to optimize and switch to the consequentialist point of view.
I obviously have my own biases, but in real-world situations, I would say that the process-based approach is superior but can end in some kind of conflict and can necessitate a switch to the content-based approach.
A great in-depth response here: https://status451.com/2017/05/18/the-backchannel-is-the-message/
Daniel C says
I’m reminded of something Lowtax said in a recent interview, on striking a balance between rule-based and content-based moderation:
“I find Twitter’s situation to be of their own making. They never concretely set out a set of rules. When I first started the forums, I wrote four pages of rules and a catch-all at the end: If there’s something else we don’t like, we’re going to ban you. We have every right to ban you and that’s it. With Twitter, they never defined anything. They never said what’s allowed, what isn’t allowed, what will happen. They just kind of floated around. If something got really out of hand they would get rid of it, but since they had no concrete rules, they had no active moderation, people didn’t know what was or what wasn’t allowed. They dug their own grave and now they’re way too far into it to dig out.”
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/fuck-you-and-die-an-oral-history-of-something-awful
Mike Plotz says
To add to Romeo’s list of similar distinctions:
The bias-variance tradeoff: the fundamental problem of how a model or intelligent agent can generalize from past experience. A high bias / low variance model (“process”) has few parameters and is therefore simple, easy to understand, and can be computed quickly. It also cannot adequately represent the full complexity of reality and makes poor predictions even when tested against familiar experiences. A low bias / high variance model (“content”) is complex, has many parameters, makes arbitrary exceptions for every edge case, and is relatively slow and expensive to compute. This model predicts past experience very well, but fails to generalize to new experiences. It is often possible to trade a small amount of increased variance for a large reduction in bias, which usually leads to better predictions (read: better decisions) in novel situations.
Also in Robert Kegan’s Constructive Developmental Theory, “content” roughly corresponds to stage 3, while “process” is roughly stage 4. Stage 5 has to do with finding a synthesis of the two modes (or perhaps by default engaging in a dialectic that can find many syntheses) in order to avoid a “dogged adherence to a single simple framework” while still understanding the utility of prior modes.
I wonder about correlations with other personality measures.
Is content-orientation associated with low openness and high neuroticism (to use big-5 categories)? Is process orientation associated with high openness and low neuroticism?
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Portugal’s Rural Alentejo: Authentic and Proud
It's true: In spring, the Alentejo is indeed lush. (photo: Ashley Sytsma)
The hills of the Alentejo region are largely covered with cork trees. (photo: Robert Wright)
Life moves slowly along the twisty lanes of Évora, inland capital of the Alentejo region (photo: Dominic Arizona Bonuccelli)
Ninety minutes after pulling out of Lisbon, I'm driving into a different world — unpretentious but proud Évora, capital of Portugal's Alentejo region.
Alentejo is a vast and arid land — the bleak interior of the country where cork seems to be the dominant industry. The rolling hills are covered with cork trees. With their bark peeled away, they remind me of St. Bartholomew…and, like him, seem to suffer in silence.
Arriving in Évora, I find a Deadwood kind of town with barely a building over three stories high, yet the skyline is crowned by the Corinthian columns of a stately Roman temple. Just outside of town stand 92 stones erected by ancient locals — a Stonehenge-type celestial calendar. Évora sits on lots of history.
The people of Alentejo are uniformly short, look at tourists suspiciously, and are the butt of jokes in this corner of Europe. One example: "There was an Alentejo farmer who nearly succeeded in teaching his burro to live without eating. He was so excited that he couldn't wait tell his friends. Then his burro died."
I'm here researching my Portugal guidebook with the help of local experts. Libanio, my Évora guide, circles the words "arid" and "suspiciously" in the book and does his best to turn my chapter into a promo for Alentejo. Actually, in April, it is lush. But I'll stand by "suspicious."
Libanio says it's part of these people's character to laugh at themselves. He asks me, "How can you tell a worker is done for the day in Alentejo? When he takes his hands out of his pockets." He then continues, more philosophically, "In your land, time is money. Here in Alentejo, time is time. We take things slow and enjoy ourselves."
While this corner of Portugal looks humble, I still sense a distinct pride. Every country has its Appalachia and its Ozarks. I'm impressed when a region that others may insult has strong local pride. But I often wonder if it's an honest feeling or just a matter of making the best of the cards you're dealt.
For Alentejanos, quality and authenticity require the respect of tradition. For instance, even the fanciest restaurants refuse to ornament a standard, rustic dish. And they love their sweets so much they seem to know the history of each tart.
While on my research rounds, I find a romantic little restaurant that offers live fado singing. Esperanza, the woman who runs the place, explains that she wants the diners to finish by 10 pm so the musicians can perform without waiters wandering around. I'm impressed by her commitment to the art.
For my last stop of a very long day, I sneak in between songs and sit in the back of Esperanza's place, hoping to be wowed by the ambience.
The traditional fisherman widow's blues, fado is like musical oysters — sexy and full of the sea. While most tour groups go to big, stuffy venues, I like the amateur bars where old-timers croon and diners pay only for their sardines and wine. Tonight, a diminutive Nora Jones look-alike wails soulfully while the man next to me says, "In Portugal the women are like sardines — the smaller the better."
During some applause, I duck out and head home, happy to have affirmed my hunch that this experience merits a spot in my new edition.
When I am half a block away, Esperanza runs out the door and charges after me. I think she's angry that I left without paying a cover charge, or the door made too much noise, or I insulted the musicians. Like a guilty little boy, I nearly turn down an alley and run away. Then I decide to turn back and "face the music."
She apologizes for not welcoming me and begs me to come back for a glass of port and to meet the musicians. The rest of the evening is a plush experience. Next year travelers with my book will help Esperanza — whose name means hope — keep the art of fado alive in Évora.
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Seafood Nutrition Partnership Increases Seafood Consumption with Moms & Kids
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Little Seafoodies Digital Pilot Boosts Seafood Sales in Indianapolis
Seafood Nutrition Partnership (SNP) is reeling in moms and kids to the great health benefits of eating more seafood and growing Little Seafoodies. SNP recently completed an eight-week digital pilot campaign in Indianapolis, where seafood dollar sales grew by 2.4% promotional period year-over-year, generating a 300% return on investment. The next step is to develop expansion plans and conduct a fundraising campaign to scale this digital campaign nationwide.
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Achieved 3X on project investment with seafood dollar sales up 2.4% YOY. For a $100,000 investment, generated a return of more than $300,000 in sales.
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Why Old People Have Big Ears And Noses
Our hair and nails continue to grow until we die, but are there any other body parts that get bigger as we age?
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The late baseball sage Yogi Berra once said that you can observe a lot by watching. And it's true. Watch a person age from 20 years old to 90 years old, and you may observe that the ears and the nose just keep getting bigger. Yogi himself was a prime example.
Actually, there's a reason that certain body parts get bigger, or at least seem to get bigger, as we age -- but the science behind it all may surprise you. Trace Dominguez has the scoop in today's DNews report.
For most people, male and female, primary development ends around age 21. You're not likely to get any taller, and while your cells will continue to replace themselves throughout life, you're no longer growing as an organism, strictly speaking.
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So why do the ears and nose get demonstrably bigger as we age? It has to do with cartilage. The body has four basic types of tissue -- connective, epithelial, muscular, and nervous -- and each has unique properties. Cartilage is a connective tissue that can be thought of as the body's duct tape. It's extraordinarily versatile and useful, and is used to patch together other tissue all over the place.
Cartilage doesn't have blood vessels or nerves, however, and as such doesn't age and heal like other tissues. As cartilage gets older, it undergoes a kind of scarring process that makes it thicker, heavier and less elastic. As you may have intuited, the structural elements of your nose and ears are made of cartilage.
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SAMSN runs groups for men who were sexually assaulted as young boys or adolescents. The groups run for eight weeks and are held on weeknights from 6pm to 8pm. Any male who was sexually assaulted during his childhood can contact SAMSN about joining one of our groups, and there is no cost to attend.
SAMSN’s groups are conducted within a safe peer-support environment and are facilitated by two experienced professionals. To help create a safe environment for recovery, clear rules and guidelines for the group ensure appropriate conduct and confidentiality.
All men who have registered their interest to attend are required to undergo a detailed telephone assessment with one of the group facilitators.
As acceptance is an important feature of our joint recovery, the groups are open to men from different cultural and religious backgrounds and sexual orientation who are over the age of 18 years old.
Each week topics and issues commonly faced by male survivors are discussed. Weekly readings, written by SAMSN are provided for discussion. These readings are also available as audio files.
The 8 weeks are divided into two parts:
Weeks 1 to 4 – Childhood. We discuss how sexual abuse can affect a child and examine issues such as family of origin, disclosure and grooming.
Weeks 5 to 8 – Adulthood. We look at how sexual abuse can affect men. This includes the way they think about themselves, the emotional impacts and the effects on their relationships.
We understand that abuse experiences can vary and that no two stories are the same. The sex of the abuser, the number of perpetrators, whether the perpetrator was within or outside the family or whether there was violence, are just some of the key differences that survivors report.
Click here to read about SAMSN’s trauma informed approach.
Men who complete an Eight-week group may wish to continue to meet with other survivors in a monthly meeting forum, held in a number of locations. These two hour meetings focus on a topic each month which continues to explore issues survivors have identified and strategies for recovery and healing. They are professionally facilitated by SAMSN staff and are a great opportunity to stay connected to the SAMSN network.
Dates & Locations 2020:
– Feb 18 to Apr 7 (Tue)
– Aug 04 to Sep 22 (Tue)
– Feb 19 to Apr 08 (Wed) FULL
– Jul 22 to Sep 09 (Wed)
– Feb 25 to Apr 14 (Tue) FULL
– Oct 13 to Dec 01 (Tue)
– Oct 21 to Dec 09 (Wed)
– May 12 to Jun 30 (Tue)
– May 14 to Jul 02 (Thu)
Session times: All session times are from 6pm until 8pm.
To receive detailed information – or to register your interest to attend a SAMSN Eight-week group – click on the button below:
“I am less reserved, less angry and high strung. This group has saved my life. Thanks to everyone who made this possible, I owe you everything and more.”
Scott – 30yrs
“At the first night of my first SAMSN group even before a single word was spoken, I knew that here were 9 men who understood more about me than all my psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health nurses, and even my wife.”
Stuart – 59yrs
“I thought I was the only one going through it. The group made me realise I’m not alone and it’s okay to ask for help.”
Carl – 27yrs
“I wish I had known about this group years ago. It has lifted me out of a very dark place, I no longer feel isolated and alone.”
Joe – 29yrs
“The group helped me break feelings of isolation and gave me a sense of belonging. It’s given me confidence and hope of a better future.”
Al – 55yrs
“Prior to the group I did not want to live, at this point I can say it saved my life. I now want to live and be able to thrive in life having the courage to face my issues and fears.”
Greg – 48yrs
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That’s not just a slogan for University Ministry, it is a fundamental aspect of the Catholic theological tradition. The word “Catholic,” after all, means universal. The great Catholic writer James Joyce once put it this way: “Catholic means here comes everybody!”
So, truly, everybody and everyone is warmly welcome to everything that we do. Our Masses, retreats, faith sharing groups, immersion experiences, service projects, social events, everything. All are welcome. We are always better when we are together, and we always delight when new people feel comfortable joining us.
If you identify as Christian but not Catholic, you are welcome. If you identify as a Muslim, Jew, Hindu or a member of some other tradition, you are welcome. If you do not identify with a church or religious tradition, you are welcome. If you are not sure what you believe or how you feel about God or religious people, you are welcome. If you identify as LGBTQ and fear you might not be accepted, you are welcome (and you will be accepted). No matter who you are, where you come from, or what your background, you are welcome on our campus and in all that University Ministry does.
Beyond welcoming people of all faith perspectives to all that we do, University Ministry works very closely with several organizations to ensure that the religious and spiritual needs of all our community members are met. Toward that end, we have a long and fruitful partnership with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. InterVarsity, or IV as it is often known, offers weekly worship in the Protestant tradition. Called “Encounter,” this dynamic worship takes place on Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. in the Manchester Auditorium. InterVarsity also facilitates Bible study groups, sponsors retreats and organizes a range of fun, social events. For more information about IV, please contact Jason Belcher at jason.belcher@intervarsity.org.
For those students who identify as Protestant Christians, we have worked with InterVarsity to create a list of local churches that would be happy to include USD students in their Sunday celebrations (please see the list below). If you need a ride to get to these churches, or have other concerns, please contact University Ministry and we’ll happily do all we can to meet your needs.
Since the Catholic tradition is deeply committed to inter-faith dialogue and support, we also work closely with the USD Jewish Student Union / Hillel San Diego. Hillel is active on our campus, supporting students who identify as Jewish and helping educate the entire campus community about the richness and beauty of the Jewish tradition. Each fall, Hillel sponsors a Sukkah, an outdoor “hut” or temporary dwelling that commemorates the feast of the Tabernacles. These tent-like structures represent the huts in which the Israelites dwelt during their 40 years of wandering in the desert after escaping slavery in Egypt.
Hillel San Diego also sponsors an interfaith, social justice Passover Seder meal each spring. This meal is an opportunity not only for Jewish students to celebrate but also a key educational opportunity for all students to learn about the shared history of Judaism and Christianity as well as grow in appreciation for the implications and meaning of Passover for today. Likewise, Hillel San Diego offers regular opportunities for Jewish and non-Jewish students to enjoy fellowship as well as attend local synagogues (see list below). Finally, Hillel sponsors Birthright trips to Israel for students who identify as Jewish. For more information about Hillel at USD, please contact Glenda Jaffe at gjaffe@hillelsd.org.
University Ministry also supports our Muslim students by partnering with the Muslim Student Association (MSA). The purpose of the MSA is to provide a welcoming and inclusive environment for both Muslim and non-Muslim students through education, community and worship. It is a social group for students on campus consisting of people from different origins, nationalities and cultures. MSA is a vehicle by which people on campus can learn about Islam and its beauty as well as a voice for the Muslim students on campus and for Muslims worldwide.
USD’s commitment to honoring the religious diversity on our campus is perhaps best expressed through our annual All Faith Service. This wonderful USD tradition brings together students, faculty and staff for a dynamic experience of interfaith prayer. Leaders from the Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim and Native American faith traditions bless us with their presence and lead us in prayer.
Celebrated at the start of the spring semester, the All Faith Service complements the Mass of the Holy Spirit which is held at the beginning of each fall semester. Together, these two university-wide celebrations embody in a special way our Catholic identity and our commitment, because we are Catholic, to supporting the spiritual lives of all our students.
Respect for the religious traditions represented in our community is a critical component of the Catholic identity of our university. Because we are a university deeply grounded in the Catholic tradition, we welcome diversity and are committed to inclusion. While we readily acknowledge the differences that exist among the world’s faith traditions, we also recognize the goodness and beauty characteristic of each.
A calendar of the holy dates for each of the world’s major religions is located on the left tab, "Interfaith Calendar."
table of local multifaith worship centers
Local Christian Churches Local Jewish Synagogues Local Mosques
1954 Komet Way
https://diveintoflood.com Congregation Beth Israel
9001 Towne Centre Drive
https://cbisd.org/ Islamic Center of San Diego
7050 Eckstrom Ave
http://www.icsd.org/
Grace Church San Diego
4637 Oregon Ave.
https://gracesd.com Congregation Beth El
https://www.cbe.org/ Islamic Center of Lakeside
10390 Mountain View Lane
Lakeside, CA 92040
Programs in English
4133 Mt. Albertine Ave.
https://coastvineyard.org Adat Yeshurun
8625 La Jolla Scenic Drive
http://www.adatyeshurun.org/ Evecina Cultural and Educational Foundation (ECEF)
1550-A Rockfield Blvd.
http://www.ecef.org/
Programs in English and Farsi
Mt. Soledad Presbyterian Church
6551 Soledad Mountain Rd.
https://www.mountsoledad.org Ohr Shalom
2512 Third Avenue
http://ohrshalom.org
Restored Church
3911 Kansas Street
http://www.restoreduptown.com/ Chabad of Pacific Beach
4240 Gresham Street
http://www.chabadpb.org/
Makers Church
2869 Historic Decatur
http://makerschurch.org/
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New Battery Changes
These electrifying little devices are getting more restricted by the year.
by CaseyD-SFE April 4, 2016 6:00 am UTC 21
Recently, new IATA (International Air Transport Association) rules and regulations for 2016 came out that initially gave lithium battery shippers a heart attack. The information was vague and had an implementation date of April 1, 2016, instead of the end of the year, which is what we are used to. Some of the changes we are being faced with are:
Lithium ion cells and batteries must be at a State of Charge (SoC) of 30 percent when they ship.
Lithium ion cells and batteries must now have a Cargo Only sticker on the package when being shipped as a battery only.
"A shipper is not permitted to offer for transport more than one (1) package prepared according to Section II in any single consignment."
Shipping lithium ion in "Overpacks" has effectively been removed.
So what does all of this mean? And what exactly does number three mean?
Let's take a couple of steps back and look at what SparkFun ships out. We sell lithium ion and metal batteries, both of which can be found packed with equipment or contained within the equipment. For each type of battery (ion or metal) and each packaging method (by itself, packed with equipment, contained in equipment), IATA provides IDs that are called UN numbers – or United Nation Numbers – as well as packing instructions.
All of our batteries and shipments are done under Section II, which is the lowest limit for both quantity in a package, as well as watt hours of the battery or cell. It's considered a "non-regulated" shipment, which means that we don't have to fill out additional paperwork or have special inspections for each order. All we need is the lithium battery handling sticker, along with the safety document that indicates what's in the package and how to handle it in case the box is damaged.
Lithium metal batteries (UN3090) used to give us the most grief. Back in 2014, airlines and shipping couriers like FedEx and UPS started cracking down on the limits per package, as well and where you could ship them internationally. Eventually, lithium metal batteries were banned from shipping on passenger aircrafts and could only be moved in cargo planes. Even then, a large portion of contracted airlines refused to transport them. Now, we're seeing the same level of restrictions on lithium ion batteries when shipped by themselves.
These guys are giving our little batteries a bad name.
UPS and FedEx have different countries that they will and will not ship lithium ion and lithium metal batteries to. Don't be surprised if you receive an email from our Customer Service team letting you know that the carrier you selected isn't going to work. There are constant changes to each list, so it's a bit difficult for us to have an up-to-date list posted of which shipping carrier can deliver to which country.
So, to review the changes:
Lithium ion batteries must be shipped at a State of Charge (SoC) of 30 percent. This means that whatever the max charge of the battery is, when it leaves SparkFun HQ, it must be at charged capacity of 30 percent. Previously there wasn't a regulation for this, and some companies shipped their devices with batteries at 50-90 percent. If you've ever purchased a new cell phone, you'll notice don't have much of a battery when you turn it on. This restriction is a lot like that, but it affects lithium ion batteries that are shipping by themselves.
Lithium ion batteries must have the Cargo Only sticker on the package when being shipped as a battery only. With the increase in issues arising from lithium ion batteries exploding, the regulatory authorities became more concerned about the safety of passengers and pilots on commercial airlines, and ruled that these batteries are no longer allowed to be transported on flights where passengers are present. With the addition of the Cargo Only sticker, these packages can only be moved on the giant planes that hold packages and other cargo items.
"A shipper is not permitted to offer for transport more than one (1) package prepared according to Section II in any single consignment." Don't worry, this one was confusing for us in the beginning as well. After spending time researching and consulting with professionals in this field, it was determined that IATA's definition of "consignment" was a shipment from SparkFun to a customer. This includes multiple-piece shipments, as long as the battery is in the same shipment, using the same master tracking number or airway bill. One tracking number from us equals one consignment. This rule states that if we offer more than one package in a consignment, only one of those packages is allowed to have batteries in it. If you plan on ordering a larger quantities of batteries from us, please send us a quick email so we can help you ship them in the most effective, cost-saving way, while still following all of the rules.
Last but not least, and personally my least favorite change this year: Overpacks are effectively gone. For anyone who has read the regulations, you'll notice that there is still a paragraph under Section II for Overpack. The catch with this paragraph is it says "no more than one package under Section II can be put in an Overpack." The point of Overpack was to be able to package up several boxes, with the max quantity for that packing instruction, place it in a larger box and complete the rest of the Overpack instructions. Now the rule only allows one package, instead of multiple, so we're essentially only able to ship out one box. For those of you who were waiting for us to be able to ship batteries in an Overpack, I'm very sorry about this change!
Luckily for everyone looking to purchase batteries from us, this informational post isn't ending like my last one did. I do expect that in the upcoming years, the regulations are going to become more rigid. The section that we ship under will more than likely go away, which would push us into the first "regulated" category (Section 1B), which requires all of the additional paperwork and extra processing through the shipping carrier.
As always, if you have any questions about the regulations or about ordering large quantities of batteries, please feel free to contact our Customer Service team!
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Amundsen / about 4 years ago / 1 /
Sometimes I fly with a few LiPo cells in wy luggage to power some wearables. Are LiPo cells concerned by this?
CaseyD-SFE / about 4 years ago / 1 /
So sorry I missed your comment! I need to ask some additional questions to give you a proper answer. If you can email cservice at sparkfun dot com ATTN: Casey I'd be more than happy to help you with the limits when you fly commercially. :)
scharkalvin / about 4 years ago / 1 /
I've seen youtube demos of how difficult it is to get a battery to self destruct in flames, and others showing it happen. I worked at a company designing a remote control device that would use a 'flat pack' Li battery similar to the kinds that sparkfun sells. A fully charged battery was accidentally dropped from a table, and thanks to Murphy it landed corner first onto a concrete floor. It burst into flames instantly leaving a black scorch mark on the floor along with a huge stench that set off some smoke alarms. The only thing that caught fire however was the battery, and the mess didn't take long to clean up.
MFindley / about 4 years ago / 1 /
Nice little window into the byzantine world of dangerous goods shipping - thanks for sharing. Also, thanks for staying on top of these rules. ValueJet underscores that this stuff is serious.
Aristarco / about 4 years ago / 1 /
I'm in Mx. If I want to buy some batts, can I use Ground to avoid this? Or Air is the only way?
There are two options. Either an air shipment with us, or a ground shipment to a freight/mail forwarder which would then be delivered by someone that company is contracted with.
MrCS / about 4 years ago / 1 /
My concern is that once the lithium battery gets to 2.5 volts you will permanently damage the battery. A fully charged cell is at 4.2 volts. What voltage is required to get to the 30% capacity mark to ship?
Madboy #82637 / about 4 years ago / 1 /
IIUC it would be different for each kind of cell per the discharge curve on the datasheet where it also shows that 0% is at some voltage determined by the manufacturer, definitely higher than 2.5V. They say lithium should be at 40% for long term storage so it seems fine.
That's correct. A 3.7V Lipo is "empty" at 3V (the voltage is falling like a rock at this point), so a 30% state of charge would be about 3.2V.
bennard / about 4 years ago / 1 /
This is just for AIR, right?
It is still slower and cheaper to ship via GROUND, without these annoyances.
Correct, these new changes are for air. Ground is still the best way to go, for now, if you're within the contiguous U.S. Shipping to Alaska and Hawaii requires the package to get on an airplane at some point, so "ground" options have to be treated like air shipments.
Things can happen to ground shipments as well. Three or so years ago, I got a package from Digi-Key that looked like it had been through a train wreck. Good reason for it looking that way because the UPS tracking showed it HAD been through a train wreck! Fortunately, (a) that order didn't have any batteries in it, and (b) although the outside box was in pretty poor shape (and someone had clearly added a bunch of extra tape), the only damage to the contents were that a couple of those white cardboard boxes some things come in (e.g., wall-warts) were mashed, but since the boxes would end up in the recycle bin anyway, they were no great loss.
That's very lucky. In addition to the limits of how many batteries we can ship, and what stickers we have to put on the box, we also have packaging requirements. The boxes we use to ship batteries have been tested (Edge Crush Testing) so they are more sturdy than your regular ol' cardboard boxes. We also have extra padding for the items that are or contain a battery, just in case the box is thrown off the back of the truck.
Doctor Who / about 4 years ago / 1 /
Not just those dangerous little pests my friend. It is a whole collection of batteries coming out of several places that are doing it.
Take a look at what happened with the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, as it applies to her battery box and you'll see why. It presumably contains a considerable number of the large cylindrical ones that you showed us there. And several times it exploded and burned..... Messy.
The transport methods that you describe will be difficult to implement and worse annoying to your customers, myself and everyone else.
sgrace / about 4 years ago / 2 /
For the Dreamliner, it wasn't the battery that was at fault, it was poor manufacturing oversight (basically bad connections, inspections, design flaw, etc), just so happens that it was inside the battery box. Overall, yes it is extremely dangerous.
It's annoying what people have to go through to get batteries, but that's the way the world works as of right now.
I'm still amazed that Boeing didn't put out a "stop gap" (hopefully temporary) conversion to either pocket plate (wet cell) NiCd, or some lead-acid technology, both of which have been used in aircraft for many decades. Yeah, it would have weighed more, cutting down some on the capacity of the aircraft, but not a huge proportion, and could have gotten the fleet safely back in the air a lot sooner. There's an old saying in the airline industry that "airplanes don't make money sitting on the ground".
Sembazuru / about 4 years ago / 1 /
The energy density of lithium cells (either lithium metal or lithium ion) is much higher than other battery technologies, so any stop-gap conversion not only would have weighed more, but taken up more volume for the same capacity (or the same volume at a limited capacity). The heavier weight and possibly larger volume would have required more stress analysis of the airframe to verify it would be strong enough to handle the increased point-load.
Presumably someone crunched the numbers and found that the time and expense wasn't worth it as a stop-gap measure. Better to pour the time&money resources into finding and fixing the actual problem ASAPOS (as soon as possible or sooner).
TheEngineerFormelyKnownAsCaseyTheRobot / about 4 years ago / 2 /
p conversion not only would have weighed more, but taken up more volume for the same capacity (or the same volume at a limited capacity). The heavier weight and possibly larger volume would have required
The fix they went with was thick stainless steel boxes to contain any "explosion". They killed their mass savings. But switching to an alternate chemistry would require redesign of the power system. Once they get it figured out the stainless can go away.
Lithium ion batteries have, at best, about 5x what lead acids do. So you'd have to have, at most, 5x the weight of the Li batteries, not accounting for the differences in allowable discharge rates. Modern jet passenger aircraft have substantial cargo holds, and they do NOT have to do stress analysis for every cargo container loaded on board (though I believe that they do make a weight-distribution analysis to assure the balance of the aircraft, but that can pretty much be automated). It would seem to me that the alternative batteries could have been accommodated in one, or at most, two of the cargo containers, with them being left on board the aircraft "until further notice". Yes, wiring and ventilation (both lead acid and pocket plate NiCd require ventilation for safety) would have required a few hours (maybe even a man-week) of mechanic's time per aircraft, but compared to the cost of having the aircraft sitting on the ground for months, that's peanuts. Oh, yes, said containers would probably have to be modified for details like strength and fire containment/suppression, but that, too, is doable.
Also, when "crunching the numbers" on the cost, you need to include the P.R. damage from having a noticeable fleet grounded for several months.
You make good points. Lets both agree that we are both conjecturing and leave it at that. :-)
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Chris Trew
CEO, Founder
Chris Trew is the CEO and Founder of Stratis Platform.
Chris is a consultant, architect and technologist with over 10 years’ experience in Enterprise IT.
His background includes extensive experience in the financial sector, working for some of the top financial institutions as well as in the Legal, Aviation and Local government sectors.
He is also a backend developer specializing in C# and ASP.NET technologies.
Krushang Patel
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Over the course of 15 years Krushang gained extensive experience in retail and international import/export, working with contacts in over 10 different countries and involved in sectors as diverse as publishing, technology, manufacturing, retail and pharmaceuticals.
Mahesh Chand
Adviser and Team Member
Mahesh is the founder of C# Corner, Microsoft Regional Director, serial entrepreneur, chief strategy advisor, and the CEO of Mindcracker Inc. He has published a number .NET programming books and has been awarded the prestigious Microsoft MVP Award for 13 consecutive years for his contributions to the .NET developer community. Mahesh will assist Stratis in building strong relationships with enterprises and developer adoption of the Stratis Platform.
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Paul is responsible for blockchain application development and technical pre-sales for Stratis Enterprise. He is also responsible for articulating Stratis’s vision for blockchain adoption and proofs of concept to industry stakeholders, customers and consulting partners.
Before joining Stratis he worked at Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse as a Vice President.
He holds a BA (Econ) and Master of Philosophy in Finance and Economics.
Jordan Andrews
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Micro Influencers – What are they and where can you find them?
By Fiona Watson
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If you’re unfamiliar with influencer marketing, it is the term used to describe brands using influential individuals to promote their products.
Influencer marketing is fast becoming one of the most effective ways to reach your target audience as consumers are trusting third party recommendations more than traditional outbound marketing efforts.
The term influencers can cover a wide range of people including celebrities, sports stars, bloggers, YouTubers, Instagrammers and more. However, often when the term influencer is thrown around we think of A-list celebrities with millions of followers and fans.
Yet, brands are increasingly stepping away from the most well-known influencers and looking towards a new type of influencer – the micro influencer.
What is a micro influencer?
A micro influencer is someone with a following of 3,000 – 100,000 – otherwise known as the sweet spot for engagement. Micro influencers are very successful in terms of interaction, engagement and conversation. This is because social media users aren’t as keen to interact with celebrities compared to someone they can relate to and influencer marketing is most effective when the individuals are viewed as peers.
Why you should be using micro influencers
Engaging with micro influencers is the perfect way to promote your brand’s offerings though genuine and authentic content. As their audience is very valuable to them, the micro influencer will only post content they know their audience will want to see and a lot of their success depends on authenticity. As a result, sponsored posts will feel more genuine if they align with the usual style of content posted by that influencer.
Generally, studies have shown that the larger someone’s following is, the lower levels of engagement they received from their followers. Someone with 1,000 to 3,000 followers is likely to receive, on average, 8% post engagement in relation to their followers whereas, someone with between 500,000 and 1,000,000 is more likely to receive 1.7% – 2.4% post engagement on average.
Despite having a smaller following, micro influencers are likely to have a much more engaged, targeted audience because they are more likely to share content related to a particular niche as opposed to just being followed for being ‘them’. Examples of this include travel instagrammers and fitness bloggers. As the user will follow that micro influencer due to their interests, they are much more likely to engage with the content – much more valuable than hundreds of thousands of eyes scanning a post yet not registering it in any way.
Based on this, using micro influencers is proving to be cost effective for brands. Micro influencers generally charge significantly less than an influencer with a much larger following. Therefore, it is likely you will be able to engage with several micro influencers for a fraction of the price of one celebrity, yet see higher engagement and more effective results.
How to find and choose the right influencers for your brand
To find influencers who are right for your brands, the following tips are useful:
Use relevant hashtags to find micro influencers who are interested in what your brand offers
Research on social media to see who has a large following and is already interacting with your brand
Search on Google for influencers in your target area. An example of this could be ‘travel blogger in London’
Research the influencer’s audience – are they valuable to your brand?
Look for a community or network relevant to the niche that your micro influencer works in. Such as ‘mummy Facebook accounts UK’
When Style transforms into a Story
By Rebecca McNaughton RebeccaLooove
Today marks the start of London Fashion Week (LFW) which can only mean two things for the week ahead, stylish consumers will be glued to their phones and fashion brands will be working a lot of overtime.
LFW is the opportunity for journalists, consumers, buyers, celebrities and influencers to catch a glimpse of the next season’s collections six months before they hit the shelves – unless it’s Nicola Formichetti, then you can receive it within an hour from Amazon. But do not fret, if you are without an invite or ticket, this season, fashion brands and influencers alike will keep the FOMO at bay. And if you are within the 150,000 who are attending then well done, you’ve essentially made it.
Thanks to its audience of more than 500 million users, Instagram Stories has evolved to become the top choice for fashion brands to trial instant content. According to Instagram Advertiser statistics, 75% of Instagram users take action after viewing an Instagram sponsored post, and the number of brands using Instagram Stories is expected to rise to 70.7% by the end of 2017.
But how do Instagram Stories actually provide long-term value for a brand with content disappearing after 24 hours?
Fashion brands will benefit from this platform in a number of ways; whether it’s providing a countdown or showcasing their garments in action, it will create an impact. By inviting their followers to witness behind-the-scenes action of models getting fitted or practicing their walk pre show, this will provide an in for fans to what was previously an exclusive experience. This indoctrinates the viewer to become invested in the brand, becoming encouraged to view future posts and establishing longer term brand affinity.
You may have seen organic posts with ‘swipe up’ at the bottom that are reserved for users/brands with 10k+ followers. Most brands will have these verified accounts, enabling them to link out to their websites, landing pages or blog posts from within their stories – helping to provide a ROI for their short-lived stories.
A study from Rakueten Marketing has found that premium fashion marketers will pay up to £93,000 per post, showing just how powerful influencers and their stories are to an event like LFW. This year Topshop have invited actress Sophia Brown and Women in Fashion co-founder Lily More to take over their blog and to involve them both in a live streaming via Topshop.com.
For the social media spectators like myself, it’s a long term benefit to the brands to provide access into the behind the scenes of the event and are exposed to every aspect of this season’s collection, developing brand ambassadors and fans and fortunately Instagram Stories provide just that.
Fortunately London Fashion Week lasts a full 7 days, unlike Insta Stories – which can only be a good thing for fanatics like myself! So before you tap through those #LFW posts, take a second to think about the lasting power of Instagram Story.
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Written by Jack and Diane
We recently went to Hamburg and visited the Reeperbahn. I'm 48 and my wife, Diane is 41. She has a 38d bust and enjoys flirting. Whenever we go on holiday we do like to sunbathe naked. On our second night in Hamburg, we had a meal in our hotel's retaurant Traders Vic and stayed after the meal as the cocktail of the night were MAi Tai's at 5 euros each. It was about midnight we were quite merry and decided to go and see a live sex show. we got to the Safrai Club at about 1pm. We were taken to seats right at the front. There were about 10 blokes and two couples already watching a show which were two naked busty girls doing a 69 on each other. They then started to play with dildo's and ende up fucking each other's shaven pussy with them. I got quite an eyeful sitting in the front row. When they finished there was a break of 5 minutes and the next show began. This was a show with classical music involving a scene from dracula. A male performer was dressed in black and a girl in a corset and stockings. He grabbed her and in time to the music ripped her clothes off, until she was naked. He then stripped and stood in front of us with his limp 8 inch prick. Diane whispered to me that she would like to play with it. A bed was lowered onto the stage and the girl got on it on all fours, Dracula went over to her and she gave him a blow job, bringing him up to a 11 inch erection. I could hear Diane saying"I'd give that a try anyday". He then walked around the stage showing off his erection and then proceded to fuck the girl in various positions. They kept moving around to show the audience that he was fucking her. After 10 minutes the curtains were closed.The show lasted for 2 hours, where watched girls strip and more girl on girl shows.The drinks were not cheap, but we were enjoying ourselves. The male came out and did a strip. He got down in the audience and got the women to take his clothes off. When he got to Diane, he mad her take his g string off with her teeth. He than allowed her to rub her hands over his body. She went to his prick and played with it and his ball bag. It started to stiffen. He then moved it across her face, as she went to kiss it he jumped back on the stage and the act finished.The next act was the girl that had been fucked on stage. she stripped and came into the audience with a dildo. She would place it on men's laps and then mount it and bounce up and down. She got to me and faced me as she fucked the dildo. I stared to massage her lovely large tits and as she got off the dildo, I fingered her shaved pussy. She winked at me and rubbed her crutch up and down my leg before walking up the steps back to the stage.Diane wanted to stay and see the dracula show again. The couple came on as the last act of the night. The male performer fucked her and near the end of the performance laid the girl on her back and fucked her. He then withdrew, his prick twitched and he spunked came over her stomach. The curtains closed and people started to leave. Diane said she had to go to the toilet. After 10 minutes she had not come back up the stairs, so I went to look for her. The toilets were next to a open space where the 'actors'dressed. I looked in and saw Diane with her tits out and down sucking dracula's prick. He waved me over and the young girl he had just fucked was still naked, she came over to me and invited me to suck her tits. I started to suck them and got an erection. The girl unzipped my flies and started to wank my prick. She asked me if I wanted a fuck. I said yes. She then led me up some stairs to the stage and laid on the bed. She told me to strip and produced a condom and rolled it on my prick and I started to fuck her. I then saw Diane come up the stairs she was totally naked, closley followed by dracula. She laid own next to the girl and dracula put a condom on and started to fuck diane. She started to moan and shout out. I could not hold on and came. I withdrew from the girl, who turned on her side and started to suck Diane's tits. Dracula was pumping away. he fucked for a good 20 minutes. She had 3 orgasms. He finally came and withdrew. We sat around and had a drink with them and finally got back to our hotel at 6 in the morning. We had to leave that afternoon, otherwise we would have gone back and Diane would have been up on the stage as an actress doing a fuck show. Diane is now looking at going to Amsterdam or Barcelona, to try their live sex shows and hopes one of them will allow her either with me or another male to fuck on the stage in front of the rest of the audience. She is desperate to do a live sex show with or without me.
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The People's Bible by Joseph Parker
Joshua Joshua 14
"Handfuls of Purpose"
For All Gleaners
"There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed."— Joshua 13:1
This is no threat. This is no sentence of discouragement. This indeed is inspiration.—It is true of every department of life. It is true, for example, of a man"s own individuality: every man is not yet master of his entire self: some men have possessed themselves of their whole reason who have yet left their imagination unchastened and unsubdued.—Many men are chaste who are not generous. Many men are generous who are not just. Many men are impulsively good who are not rationally benevolent.—Such men may say to themselves, "There is yet very much land to be possessed."—It is true with all intellectual education.—He knows best how much land is yet to be conquered who has conquered the most.—The advanced student is the most modest.—The wisest man is most assured of his ignorance.—Sir Isaac Newton said that he was like a child on the seashore who gathered a few pebbles, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before him.—It is true with regard to the spread of the kingdom of Christ.—Take a map of the world, and show where Christianity has made progress, and where it is unknown; and even the imagination will be appalled by the extent of land yet to be covered.—We need not rest because there is no more to be done.—We do not obliterate what is to be done by closing our eyes and resolutely refusing to look upon it. The infinite darkness is still round about us, and is not at all decreased by the closing of our eyes.—But instead of the text being a discouragement, it is an encouragement; the land is there in order that it may be possessed; it is not afar off and inaccessible, but is immediately in front of us, and is intended for our use; we may have to obtain possession through battle and even through suffering, but the battle and the suffering do not destroy the possibility of possession.—What is worth holding that has not to be secured through suffering and loss of a temporary kind? The kingdom of heaven itself lies at the end of a strait road; but the very straitness of the road gives some hint of the value of the kingdom.—The Church must enter into a full realisation of the fact that the work yet to be done is greater than any work that has yet been accomplished: it is not an acre that awaits conquest, but a whole continent; not a whole continent only, but a whole world.—The work to be done enlarges in proportion to the work that is done.—If the work were superficial only, it might be completed with comparative ease, but it is cubic, solid, through-and-through work, and, therefore, it is difficult, but its difficulty is an indication of its glory.
A Recorded Life
Joshua 12 , Joshua 13
THESE two chapters contain a good deal of hard reading. They are studded with unfamiliar and difficult words and names, so that reading them is like reading the writing upon gravestones in a foreign land. Still, there is much for our instruction here. For example, we are called to behold how good a thing it is to keep a detailed record of life. These chapters are in a certain sense diaries or journals. The men of the ancient time wrote down what they did—that is to say, they kept their story freshly before their memories: they lost nothing; they wrote their accounts up to date; and at any given moment they could peruse the record and derive from it the advantage of stimulus which such an exercise could not fail to supply. The twelfth chapter deals with the slaughter of many kings. Their names are given, or the names of their cities. Men were not slain, and forgotten. This was not a heedless fight, wherein the soldiers on the victorious side struck in the dark and knew not what men they slew or what progress they made. The whole matter is detailed, put down—simply, clearly, and definitely. Moses seems to figure but poorly in the record of slaughter. He killed but two kings; and Joshua killed thirty-one kings. But who are the kings that Joshua killed, compared with the kings slain by Moses? The two which Moses slew have famous names; they were great and mighty men. The thirty-one slain by Joshua did not add up to the two slain by Moses. Thus work is estimated by quality. We do not reckon by number in the sanctuary, but by quality and by relation, by just standards, and the weighing is done in scales of gold. The poor woman who gave all she had gave more than all the rich: for they gave out of the margin, out of the abundant and all but unreckonable profit, the surplus of their earnings or savings; but she plucked out her whole heart and cast it into God"s treasury, the only donation she could give; said the Treasurer, It is more than they all. This shall be the law of judgment: according to what we have, according to the quality of our work. The fire shall try every man"s work of what sort it is. He who has killed many kings, and he who has killed but two, shall be judged, not according to the number, but according to the difficulty, the dignity, the quality involved in the tremendous exercise. Do we keep a record of life? How few men write their own story: in truth, there seems in many cases to be nothing to write. But this is quite a mistake. It is better to write the little nothing there Isaiah , than to omit the inscription altogether. A man may be shamed by the very nothingness of his entries to go out and do something worth putting down on paper and leaving as a record. We do not know what we do until we detail it. No man knows how much money he spends unless he puts down every coin. That is the difference between the wise man and the fool. The fool knows nothing as to what he is doing: he goes out in the dark, works in the dark, returns in the dark, and he cannot tell what he has made of the trust which was put into his hands. The wise man is his own Judges , his own scribe and secretary; and many a page he peruses which his hands wrote long ago with tears and penitence, with the difficulty of self-conviction. No man knows how much he gives in charity unless he puts it down. But who dare put that down? Who can say how little paper would be required for the record in many cases? Yet, on the other hand, who can say how much paper would be required by other men? But there is a deadly sophism which relates, not only to the giving of money, but to the giving of service, which expresses itself in this form: I am always giving. If you think Song of Solomon , you are never giving. Have you put down what you have done, and added it up? Now add up the other page on which the luxuries are written, the adornments of the house, the decorations of the person, the indulgences of appetite, the tribute paid to social ambition. Add up the figures: recite them if you dare! Yet it is well to write down the story—the story of discipline and battle and sorrow: the story of spiritual kings that have been slain, of enemies that have been conquered by love, and of positions that have been seized by prayer.
Then, again, we see how time beats the strongest This is set forth very pensively:—
"Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the Lord said unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed" ( Joshua 13:1).
We have seen Moses go up to die with the fire of his eye unquenched. Joshua is said to be "old," but not in the sense of years; he was "stricken in years," that is to say, the years had told heavily upon him. There was not much of him to begin with. He was fertile, keen, quick, flashing; but he had not much stubborn stuff in him to stand the wear and the tear of a captain"s life. He was only about a hundred and ten when he died, a sum counted as nothing in the ancient days. But the word here used literally means, time has told upon thee; this wear and tear has made havoc in thy strength, Joshua; how old thou art!—not in days, but in anxiety, in care; thou art whitened, blanched, withered; and yet there is much work to be done, much land to be possessed. So God takes note of our failing strength. He says, concerning this man and that, Grey hairs are here and there upon him, and he knoweth it not. About some supposedly strong men, he says, They are wearing out; they are old at forty; at fifty they will be patriarchal, so far as the exhaustion of strength is concerned; they will die young in years, but old in service. God"s work does take much out of a Prayer of Manasseh , if the man is faithful. A man may pray himself into a withered old age in one night: in one little day a man may add years to his labour. We can work offhandedly: the work need not take much out of us; but if we think about it, ponder it, execute it with both hands,—if it is the one thought of the soul, who can tell how soon the strongest man may be run out, and the youngest become a white-haired patriarch? But blessed is it to be worked out in this service. A quaint minister of the last century said, "It is better to rub out than to rust out." How many are content to "rust out"! They know nothing about friction, sacrifice, self-slaughter, martyrdom. The work tells upon men in different ways. Moses was as young when he died as when he began. As for his spirit, his enthusiasm, he could have taken a thousand kings; but it was time he was in heaven: God knew his life, God counted his pulses, God estimated his strength; and God sends for a man when he wants him. Joshua came briskly forward, though at first we felt there was something wanting in the man somewhere. He needed so much encouragement. The opening of his story is full of "fear not;" "be not dismayed;" "only be of a good courage;" hope in God; keep your spirits up; cheer yourself: now go forward. We wondered as to the meaning of this. We could not tell at first all it signified. Now it comes out. He is old already, stricken in years before he has begun to live; and the land unconquered lies before him like a challenge, yet darkens upon him like a despair. No man completes the work. This is saddening, even to the point of agony. A man is permitted to build the wall of his tower half-way up, and then when he has got into the way of it, and could build blithely, because of added skill and experience, he is told to come down—and to die! Providence is thus a continual rebuke to human ambition. We cannot put on the topstone. How much we would like to do so! to see the last child thoroughly educated and comfortably settled in life; to see the last effort crowned with success! Then we should retire into the sylvan shade, and listen to the singing birds all day, and spend a quiet eventide, and glide into heaven, rather than die into its splendours! But the column is broken in the middle. A man is old whilst yet his friends are rallying him on the fewness of his years. And the uncompleted work testifies that God is the Builder and man but the labourer of a day. Seldom can a man complete his own work. There is always "much land to be possessed." The author has planned ten more volumes. Men, looking on, say, How active he Isaiah , and busy and prolific! He says, I have done nothing yet, I have not even begun; presently I will set to work and go through it like a man. It is not to be! The man who has lived well has a thousand schemes in his head when he dies. He says, I was just planning the noblest work of my life; I had just settled in my mind to begin what would have proved to be one of the most useful projections of the age; and now my right hand is withered, and the one strong arm falls by my side in impotence. "In the midst of life we are in death;" "boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth;" "work while it is called today, for the night cometh, when no man can work;" "whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might;" for the time of ceasing is at hand. Does God look at the worker only? No; he looks at the work as well:—"there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed." So he will have the land divided; he will have it allotted before the battle goes any further. What, is not this an allotment on paper? The battle has not yet begun in these other regions. We have seen the conquest of Jericho, and the burning of Ai, but as to these other portions of the land, the foot of Israel has not even been set upon them. God says, That does not concern you; take pen in hand, and write after my dictation. Then he maps out the land, fixes the boundaries, appoints the possessor, determines the tribal relations, and creates a new geography. But suppose that the fortunes of war should alter all these appointments? What is God"s answer to that? His answer Isaiah , There are no fortunes of war, there are no accidents; life is not a speculation, human history is not a game of chance; all things are ordered and appointed, and move by a massive and inevitable law, the meaning of which in the long run is—righteousness, beneficence, right. And the scribe wrote how the land was to lie. This is the Christian"s comfort!" The very hairs of your head are all numbered." If we are doing anything on our own account, in a kind of practically atheistic manner, God will allow us to build a little more, but he will come down to see the tower we have been building; he will put his finger upon it,—and in the morning it will be found a ruin! Only they build wisely who build under God"s direction and by his daily inspiration.
Then, comes the alarming, yet comforting thought,—that God keeps a record, if we do not. Read chapter Joshua 13:2-6, and see how detailed is the knowledge and purpose of God:—"This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri, from Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites: from the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites: and the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath. All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto Misrephoth-maim, and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee." Yet we try to exclude God from his own world. We think we make the fields to grow; whereas we have no power to make anything grow, except we obey the unwritten and eternal law of nature. We can do wonders in little patches of land; but who can strike a light that will illuminate a landscape? Who can kindle a fire that will warm the earth? We are such toy-makers; we do all our work on such a minute scale, that we deceive ourselves by supposing that we are doing something: whereas, in reality, we are only keeping the law. We can break the moral law, but we must keep the natural law. Breaking the moral law, we call ourselves free men; keeping the natural law, we do not know what we are. But that is our position. We work by the sun; we take our time from the meridian. We are the slaves of nature: we are the rebels of the sanctuary. Blessed is the man who meditates in the law of God day and night—the great law, the whole law, natural, moral, spiritual: it is really one law, because the Law-giver is one. Why not be as obedient in morals as we are in labour, in agriculture, in travel? Who counts it degradation to wait for the tide? Who calls himself a slave because he waits for the seedtime, and cannot hasten it one hour? The whole scheme of things is set in law, "the Lord reigneth." All we have to do is to study the law, understand it, obey it; then our peace will flow like a river, and our righteousness as the waves of the sea. God knows what has been done. He says, in effect, I have watched you, and I have marked down every step you have taken: you are at this moment at this point; now from this point the course is thus and so; and all the land is to be possessed. God will have the land, even if we die. Noble is the thought that he has entered into covenant with his Son. We may smile at the old theological terms as we please, but noble is the thought that there is a covenant pledging that Jesus Christ shall have the heathen for an inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for a possession. Sometimes it seems as if this could not be. We say it never can be accomplished; the Song of Solomon -called Christian civilisation is going backward. Only going backward as we have seen the waves go backward, that they might come in with a fuller force and throb against the appointed boundary. We believe that all the land shall be possessed, because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Then there is another consideration, and that relates to the recurrence of bad names in the comings and goings of human history. We are startled on reading the twenty-second verse of the thirteenth chapter:—
"Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them." ( Joshua 13:22)
Almighty God, we pray for one another that, according to the necessity of each heart, thou mayest command a great blessing from heaven. Thou knowest what our life is—how full of pain and trouble and unrest, how much disabled, how weary oftentimes, yea, how dejected and even despairing. But thine eyes are upon us for good; the heavens are opened unto our prayer; the Cross of Christ is still the centre of our hope. We come to that Cross day by day, longing to understand more and more of its love, of its deep meaning in relation to our sin. We would be affected by that love; we would see what thou feelest and thinkest concerning men, and would exclaim, Herein is love! God is love; God is very pitiful and kind: his mercy endureth for ever. He is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil: while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. May we be subdued by that love, chastened and elevated by its infinite spirit; and as thou dost love us, so may we love one another. We know that we have passed from death into life because we love the brethren. May this love grow within us, and find continual expression in our speech and conduct, so that others looking on may begin to wonder and inquire, saying, Behold how these Christians love one another in deed and in truth! We have come up to worship God. We would be bowed down before thee in penitence and humiliation, because of sin. God be merciful unto us, sinners! The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin. There is a fountain opened in the house of David for sin and for uncleanness. We have no answer; we are without excuse or defence; all we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way. Have mercy upon us for the sake of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who freely bore our griefs and carried our iniquities. Amen.
"The Lord God of Israel was their inheritance, as he said unto them." — Joshua 13:33
This was spoken of the tribe of Levi—in a peculiar sense the religious tribe of Israel.—The kingdom of God has an outward and an inward aspect: it has a land to be conquered, and it has a doctrine to be received and obeyed.—The idea of the text is that man may so live in God as to have no conscious need of outward things: and then the counterpart of the idea is that he who ascends to spiritual functions need have no fear with regard to the supply of physical necessities.—God is not the portion of religious men in the sense of feeding themselves only with thought and consolation and promise; he is pledged so to act upon the impulses and consciences of other men as to see that every lawful necessity is abundantly supplied.—Whilst the Levites were asking for God, God was asking for them, in the very sense of finding them bread and home and security.—If we trusted God more we should receive more from God.—If we will always persist in undertaking our own business, what wonder if God should leave us to ourselves and give us the reward of disappointment? "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."—Blessed is he who has God for a treasurer.—It is more than folly to say that all this is impossible.—We imagine that we must do so much ourselves, or God will do nothing for us; and that statement is so far true as to give the sophism which lies at the heart of it some hold upon the confidence of the least earnest thinkers.—The text certainly suggests that God has appointed some men to be the spiritual teachers and guides of the world.—We cannot get rid of the idea of spiritual ministry.—It is right to disclaim all merely official dignity and importance, but infinitely beyond the merely official lies the grandly personal and real, which all men recognise with admiration, and many men honour with homage and generous support.—When spiritual thinkers and workers give themselves wholly to the function assigned them of God, they will realise more perfectly God"s meaning when he says he has undertaken to be their inheritance; the meaning is not that they are to live upon fine thoughts and splendid conceptions, but that in addition to such thoughts and conceptions God himself will undertake to see that their house is watched and their table is supplied.—"He is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think." "God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love."—No man can work wholly and lovingly for God, and be neglected by him.—"Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed."
Parker, Joseph. "Commentary on Joshua 13:4". The People's Bible by Joseph Parker. https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jpb/joshua-13.html. 1885-95.
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NCERT Solutions for Class 11th: Ch 6 Geomorphic Processes
Abhishek 14 Jul, 2017
1. Multiple choice questions.
(i) Which one of the following processes is a gradational process?
(a) Deposition
(b) Diastrophism
(c) Volcanism
(d) Erosion
► (d) Erosion
(ii) Which one of the following materials is affected by hydration process?
(a) Granite
(b) Clay
(c) Quartz
(d) Salts
► (d) Salts
(iii) Debris avalanche can be included in the category of:
(a) Landslides
(b) Slow flow mass movements
(c) Rapid flow mass movements
(d) Subsidence
► (c) Rapid flow mass movements
2. Answer the following questions in about 30 words.
(i) It is weathering that is responsible for bio-diversity on the earth. How?
Weathering processes are responsible for the bio-diversity on the earth. Biomes and biodiversity
is basically a result of forests or vegetation. The forests depend upon the depth of weathering mantles.
(ii) What are mass movements that are real rapid and perceptible? List.
Mass movements transfer the mass of rock debris down the slopes under the direct influence of gravity. No geomorphic agent like running water, glaciers, wind, waves and currents participate
in the process of mass movements.
The mass movements that are real rapid and perceptible are:
• Earth flow
• Mud flow
• Landslide
(iii) What are the various mobile and mighty exogenic geomorphic agents and what is the prime job they perform?
Weathring, mass movements, erosion, transportation and deposition are the various mobile and mighty exogenic geomorphic agents. These agents bring the geomorphic changes on the surface of the earth.
(iv) Is weathering essential as a pre-requisite in the formation of soils? Why?
Yes, weathering is an essential as a pre-requisite in the formation of soils. Weathering processes are responsible for breaking down the rocks into smaller fragments and prepare the for formation of soils.
3. Answer the following questions in about 150 words.
(i) “Our earth is a playfield for two opposing groups of geomorphic processes.” Discuss.
It is right to say that our earth is a playfield for two opposing groups of geomorphic processes. The earth’s crust is dynamic, it has moved and moves vertically and horizontally. The differences in the internal forces operating from within the earth which built up the crust have been responsible for the variations in the outer surface of the crust. The earth’s surface is being continuously subjected to external forces induced basically by energy (sunlight). Also, the internal forces are still active though with different intensities. That means, the earth’s surface is being continuously subjected to by external forces originating within the earth’s atmosphere and by internal forces from within the earth. The external forces are known as exogenic forces and the internal forces are known as endogenic forces.
The actions of exogenic forces result in wearing down of relief or elevations and filling up of basins/depressions, on the earth’s surface. The endogenic forces continuously elevate or build up parts of the earth’s surface and hence the exogenic processes fail to even out the relief variations
of the surface of the earth. So, variations remain as long as the opposing actions of exogenic and
endogenic forces continue.
In general terms, the endogenic forces are mainly land building forces and the exogenic processes are mainly land wearing forces.
(ii) Exogenic geomorphic processes derive their ultimate energy from the sun’s heat. Explain.
The exogenic processes derive their energy from atmosphere determined by the ultimate energy from the sun and also the gradients created by tectonic factors. All the exogenic geomorphic processes are
covered under a general term, denudation. Weathering, mass movements, erosion and transportation are included in denudation.
• Weathering: It is action of elements of weather and climate over earth materials. The components of of weather and climate are temperature, pressure, winds, humidity and precipitation. All these components directly or indirectly derive their energy from the sun.
• Mass Movement: These movements transfer the mass of rock debris down the slopes under the direct influence of gravity. Weathering is not a pre-requisite for a mass movement. However, weathering aids in mass movement.
• Erosion and deposition: Erosion involves acquisition and transportation of rock debris. The erosion and transportation of earth materials are brought about by the wind, running water, glaciers, waves and ground water. Of these, the first three agents are controlled by climatic conditions while climate is decided by the energy of the sun.
Thus, All exogenic geomorphic processes derive their ultimate energy from the sun’s heat. However, the gravitational force of earth aids in all exogenic geomorphic processes because gravity makes mobility possible.
(iii) Are physical and chemical weathering processes independent of each other? If not, why? Explain with examples.
Physical and chemical weathering processes are not independent of each other. Physical weathering processes depend on some applied forces. The applied forces could be gravitational forces such as overburden pressure, load and shearing stress; expansion forces due to temperature changes, crystal growth or animal activity; water pressures controlled by wetting and drying cycles. While in chemical weathering processes such as solution, carbonation, hydration, oxidation and reduction act on the rocks to decompose, dissolve or reduce them to a fine clastic state through chemical reactions by oxygen, surface and/or soil water and other acids.
Chemical Weathering process depends on the work of physical weathering process. The agents of physical weathering such as temperature change and freezing break the rocks and provide easy passage to chemical weathering process to work on. The chemical weathering processes make rocks decayed and decomposed which can be easily broken down by the physical weathring processes.
(iv) How do you distinguish between the process of soil formation and soil forming factors? What is the role of climate and biological activity as two important control factors in the formation of soils?
The process of soil formation starts with weathring. The weathring mantle provide the basic input for soil to form. First, the weathered material or transported deposits are colonised by bacteria and other inferior plant bodies like mosses and lichens. Also, several minor organisms may take shelter within the mantle and deposits. The dead remains of organisms and plants help in humus accumulation. Minor grasses and ferns may grow; later, bushes and trees will start growing through seeds brought in by birds and wind. Plant roots penetrate down, burrowing animals bring up particles, mass of material becomes porous and sponge like with a capacity to retain water and to permit the passage of air and finally a mature soil, a complex mixture of mineral and organic products forms.
Soil formaing factors control the formation of soils. These are five in number: (i) parent material; (ii) topography; (iii) climate; (iv) biological activity; (v) time. Soil forming factors act in union and affect the action of one another.
The climate and biological activity play very important role. The climatic elements involved in soil
development are moisture and temperature. Precipitation gives soil its moisture content which makes the chemical and biological activities possible. Excess of water helps in the downward transportation of soil components through the soil (eluviation) and deposits the same down below (illuviation). Temperature acts in two ways — increasing or reducing chemical and biological activity. Chemical activity is increased in higher temperatures, reduced in cooler temperatures (with an exception of carbonation) and stops in freezing conditions.
Biological Activity includes the effects of vegetative cover, organisms and bacteria. The vegetative cover and organisms help in adding organic matter, moisture retention, nitrogen etc. Dead plants provide humus, the finely divided organic matter of the soil. With the increase in temorature, biological activity increases. In humid tropical and equatorial climates, bacterial growth and action is intense.
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Amazon's faster new Fire TV Stick comes with an Alexa-enabled voice remote
Alexa comes to Amazon's media streamer.
Building on the system update for the Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick that rolled out earlier in September, Amazon is rolling out a new Fire TV Stick equipped with an Alexa Voice Remote. The streaming device is available for pre-order now for $40 and will start shipping on Thursday, October 20.
As an added encouragement to buy the new Fire TV Stick, Amazon is offering a bunch of streaming freebies for anyone in the U.S. who activates their device by October 31. The free offer includes one month of Sling TV, two months of Hulu with limited commercials, and a $10 credit to Amazon Video.
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The new Fire TV Stick will have the added benefits that Amazon debuted in early September, including voice search and the ability to control Amazon Video playback with voice commands. When you search for content using the Alexa Voice Remote the Fire TV Stick will present you with all the various options available, such as where you can stream, rent, or buy the TV show or movie you’re looking for.
The impact on you at home: In addition to TV-related actions, the Alexa Voice Remote will let you interact with Alexa similarly to what you can do with an Amazon Echo—though as we said when we looked at the Fire TV box, it’s not quite as powerful as the Echo. The Alexa Voice Remote can be used for quite a few actions, however, such as checking local movie times, playing music, delivering weather or news updates, and ordering an Uber.
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Zalman Z11 Neo
Zalman still got it. The Z11 NEO may not be on many peoples' radar, but it is actually a very affordable chassis that offers a lot for your money. Sure, the look may not be for everyone, but design is always a subjective matter. Those who like it, will also love its well-rounded feature set, like the five fans that come with the chassis right out of the box and the solid construction quality.
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From 1942 onwards the British kept a number of captured German staff officers, most of them from the army, at Trent Park house in the north London suburb of Cockfosters. Here they lived a boring but relatively free-and-easy existence, chatting, exercising, enjoying an occasional ramble.
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Teenager discovers new planet on day 3 of Nasa internship
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The best most teenagers hope for from a summer internship is some work experience, beer money and perhaps a good future reference.
Wolf Cukier, a 17-year-old high school student from New York, went a step further. He discovered a planet.
Mr Cukier was on only his third day as an intern at Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center when he made the find.
He had been trawling through satellite images flagged by members of the public where the brightness of a star seemed to temporarily dip.
Then he spotted something different. An object appeared to be moving in front of the star, blocking its light. It turned out to be a planet.
“That’s what I noticed at first,” Mr Cukier explained to CBS New York. “It was like, oh … there’s something here that was cool."
Flagging what he saw to seniors, over the coming days his more experienced colleagues grew in confidence that Mr Cukier was right – he had found a planet.
Unlike the Earth which orbits one star (the Sun), the new planet discovered goes around two Credit: NASA Earth Observatory via AP
The planet was named TOI 1338 b. It is almost seven times larger than Earth – around the size of Saturn – and can be found 1,300 light-years away.
More unusually, the planet was found orbiting two stars – unlike Earth, which orbits one. TOI 1338 b goes round its two stars around once every 95 days.
It was the first time that the Nasa program he was working on, called the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (Tess), had discovered a planetary system with two stars.
The find back in June was so significant that Mr Cukier co-authored a paper with other scientists from a number of different US universities which is being submitted to an academic journal.
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“It was an amazing, cool bit of serendipity.” Experts have since explained that discoveries like this one are easier to make by sight rather than through utilising computers.
Veselin Kostov, the lead author on the paper and a research scientist at the SETI Institute and Goddard, said: “These are the types of signals that algorithms really struggle with.
“The human eye is extremely good at finding patterns in data, especially non-periodic patterns like those we see in transits from these systems.”
As for what comes next, Mr Cukier needs to finish his last year at high school first.
Then he hopes to study physics or astrophysics at either Stanford, MIT or Princeton - some of the top universities in the country.
And after that, it could be back to Nasa and possibly more discoveries. “Future research would involve finding more planets,” Mr Cukier said.
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SB1297/HB1151, also known as the indecent exposure bill, was amended to remove the portions specifically targeting the transgender community. Legislators noted in committee meetings and during floor debates that it codifies existing law. If that is the case there is no reason to proceed. Given the long history of harassment of transgender people in spaces like restrooms, we believe Governor Bill Lee should veto the bill to prevent any anti-transgender misuse of the legislation.
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We call on you to veto SB1297/HB1151. Even though it has been amended, risks remain for the transgender community in any bill that further enumerates Tennessee's indecent exposure law. Legislators commented during committee and floor debates that the bill merely codifies existing law. If that is the case, there is no reason to allow the bill become law, considering the potential harm to transgender people and the negative reaction of the business community.
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A foster care and adoption license to discriminate measure was recently put into a health and human services funding bill in the House Appropriations Committee.
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It would allow taxpayer-funded foster care and adoption service providers to discriminate against children in care and against prospective parents, based on sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, and marital status.
The measure breaks the cardinal rule of child welfare services: to act in the best interest of the child. This amendment would actually HARM CHILDREN.
This amendment would greatly harm the 440,000 children in foster care, particularly the 117,000 who are waiting to be adopted into loving, forever homes. There is a crisis in foster care due to the huge shortage of available families for children. Each year, over half the children waiting to be adopted do not find a loving home, and most devastatingly, over 17,000 foster youth age out of care without a forever family. Those youth are at greater risk of involvement with the criminal justice system, homelessness, unemployment, and being trafficked.
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The bill endangers vulnerable students and it risks significant U.S. Department of Education funds to Tennessee. If this bill became law, the enforcement would be a nightmare for school districts across the state.
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WHEREAS, Rep. Susan Lynn has introduced a resolution urging the members of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee to express their disagreement with the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges; and
WHEREAS, the Tennessee Constitution affirms "That the citizens have a right, in a peaceable manner, to assemble together, for their common good, to instruct their representatives, and to apply to those invested with the powers of government for redress of grievances or other proper purposes, by address or remonstrance;" and
WHEREAS, the State of Tennessee ought to be focused on the legal equality of all its people rather than attacking the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community; and
WHEREAS, "the equal protection of the laws" is a cherished principle in American jurisprudence; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, that we oppose House Joint Resolution 529 and urge the members of the 109th General Assembly of the State of Tennessee to uphold the entire Constitution of the United States, including the Fourteenth Amendment, and cease their legislative attacks on gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people.
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What Are No-Contract Phones?
By Kevin Ohannessian, Tom Spring 2013-11-28T20:00:00Z
Learn about no-contract phones and whether it makes more financial sense to buy a phone at full price and pay for month-to-month service.
T-Mobile has upped the ante in no-contract offerings. Is it good enough? CREDIT: T-Mobile
Everyone knows the routine: A new phone comes out and you take the subsidized upgrade price, reupping your contract for two more years. If you want to jump to another carrier a year later, you have to contend with early termination fees. All the major carriers offer plans and phones without a contract, however; but how do they compare to the typical two-year service?
It's time to pull out the calculator and take a look at the asterisks on those contract-free wireless plans to see if they really offer savings and headache-free convenience.
What's a no-contract phone?
Typically, when you buy a phone from a mobile provider, you are getting the device at a greatly reduced price to encourage you to join the service. As part of the deal to get this subsidized phone, you have to sign a two-year contract with said carrier. You may pay $199 for an iPhone 5S, but the device is worth much more. Without a contract, you'll have to pay the full cost of the phone upfront.
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What's the difference between contract and payment plans?
With no-contract cellphone packages, you pay the full cost of a phone up front. Virgin Mobile, for example, charges $550 for the iPhone 5S. But you subscribe one month at a time and can ditch the service whenever you want. Many services, like AT&T and Sprint, limit the no-contract plan to only certain phones — you can forget about an iPhone 5s. Sprint is similar, but at least you can get an iPhone 4.
T-Mobile's no-contract plans offer a twist. You have the option of buying a phone outright or providing a down payment, such as $150 for an iPhone 5s or $100 for a Samsung Galaxy S4, and paying an extra $20 or so per month for two years. Virgin Mobile allows you to buy a phone using PayPal’s “Bill Me Later” service, a credit-based plan that gives you six months to pay it off before the company starts charging interest.
Some services allow you to bring your own phone to a no-contract plan, but it has to be compatible with their network. Verizon, T-Mobile and MetroPCS currently offer this option.
What happens if I leave a carrier before the phone is paid off?
You have to pay whatever you still owe on the phone, immediately. This "balloon payment" is what got T-Mobile in trouble in Washington State in May 2013 for advertising "no restrictions."
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How does paying up front compare to paying an early termination fee (ETF) for a contract?
Break a two-year wireless contract with Sprint for a Samsung Galaxy S4, for example, and brace for an early termination fee of up to $350 and a possible ding to your credit score if you can't pay the full ETF immediately. Some carriers shrink the ETF over the life of the contract. Verizon reduces its ETF by $10 each month, for example. Sprint starts to reduce its ETF by $20 a month, but only beginning with the 17th month of service.
With no-contract plans, your penalty is the cost of the device. Buying the iPhone 5S from Virgin Mobile ($550) and saying "goodbye" means you are out the $550 you spent on the phone — though you may be able to sell it.Parting with T-Mobile for an iPhone 5 will cost you a balloon payment of $530 after one month of service but $20 less each following month, so time is a factor.
Can I sell my a no-contract phone to recoup costs?
Yes. Gazelle and uSell.com, for example, buy some used AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon phones, but they are picky about the models. They won't accept phones from traditional no-contract (also called prepaid) providers such as Virgin, Boost Mobile and Cricket Wireless.
At the time of writing, Gazelle was paying between $170 and $200 for a Samsung Galaxy S4 in good condition, for example. At uSell.com, it was $185. Gazelle would pay $205 for a 32GB iPhone 5 in good condition, and at uSell.com, the same iPhone would fetch $195.
If these services don't take your phone (say, in the case of Virgin), you can always try your luck on eBay or Craigslist.
How compatible are phones between carriers?
It depends on the phone and the service. Some use CDMA networks (Verizon Wireless, Sprint, MetroPCS, Cricket and U.S. Cellular) and some use GSM (AT&T and T-Mobile), though the future is the LTE technology for all carriers. Only a few carriers, such as T-Mobile, Verizon and MetroPCS, support bringing your own phone for a no-contract plan. And when you do make the switch, not all of the features may work depending on the phone. For instance, you can call and text normally with an AT&T iPhone 4S on T-Mobile's network, but your Internet surfing is stuck at 2G speeds — basically good for only email, without attachments. Your best bet is asking the carrier if your current phone is compatible with their service.
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You may not need as much data as you think. CREDIT: Karl Tate/Leslie Meredith
Can I buy a used phone that will work with a contract-free plan?
Yes, if the network you are going to supports the device. Try Mobile Karma for refurbished smartphones with 30-day warranties. Another good choice is Swappa, which acts as a broker between buyer and seller.
Is it better to buy the phone outright or on a payment plan?
To save money, skip the contract, buy your own phone and pay as you go. That beats the subsidized racket, which forces you to sign a two-year contract and keep paying for years — long after the handset cost is covered. A monthly $70 contract-free plan from T-Mobile, compared with a two-year $100 contract from Verizon, saves you $720 over two years.
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Two Men Exposed After Buying Human Skulls From Cemetery Worker In Lagos
Posted by Samuel on Wed 08th Jan, 2020 - tori.ng
Two men have been exposed and nabbed after buying human skulls from a cemetery worker in Lagos state.
Three men were on Wednesday brought before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, over alleged possession of two human skulls, NAN reports.
The defendants, Olanrewaju, 27; Kazeem, 38; and Salami, 43, are facing two counts of conspiracy and unlawful possession of human parts.
They, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The Prosecutor, Sgt. Modupe Olaluwoye, told the court that the defendants committed the offences at 6.00 pm on November 21, 2019, along Adeniji Adele Road, Lagos.
She told the court that the second and third defendants were caught in possession of two human skulls in a black nylon, which they had earlier claimed contained biscuits.
Olaluwoye said the two defendants later confessed to having purchased the skulls from the first defendant, Olanrewaju, who was a cemetery worker.
She said the alleged offences contravened Sections 411 and 238 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015 (Revised).
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Section 238 stipulates a 14-year jail term for unlawful possession of human part, while 411 provides for two years imprisonment for conspiracy.
The Magistrate, Mrs S.O. Obasa, granted the defendants bail in the sum of N1 million each, with two sureties in like sum.
She said one of each sureties must be a blood relation to each defendant, and that both sureties should be gainfully employed.
Obasa also directed that the sureties should reside within the court’s jurisdiction, and show evidence of three years’ tax payment to the Lagos State Government.
The case was adjourned until January 20, for mention.
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Acoem expands air monitoring abilities with acquisition of tunnel sensor firm
By Adam Frost on September 3, 2019 Environment & Emissions, Partnerships, Acquisitions & Mergers, Tunnels
French environmental analysis equipment provider Acoem Group has broadened its portfolio with the acquisition of UK-based manufacturer of emissions monitoring systems DynOptic Systems Ltd together with its Tunnel Sensors subsidiary.
Due to increasingly stringent air quality legislation and an awareness of public health issues, ‘smart cities’ worldwide are demanding more proactive and integrated environmental monitoring systems. In response, the Acoem Group has made a string of strategic acquisitions following the purchase of another UK company, Air Monitors Ltd, in July, bringing together air, noise and vibration monitoring solutions as one complete offering. As surface streets become more congested, urban planners are turning to underground road tunnel networks to support infrastructure planning, with the monitoring of these subsurface routes seen as a core capability to support the Acoem Group’s smart cities strategy.
Formed in 2005 as a subsidiary of DynOptic Systems, Tunnel Sensors designs and manufactures a range of air pollution monitoring equipment specifically for the tunnel market. The business provides a complete range of tunnel air monitoring sensors for measuring visibility and dust, toxic gas emissions, air speed and direction as well as tunnel luminance and illuminance. The company’s product range includes the Viconox, Airflow, Crossflow, Illios, and Lumios sensors, which are currently installed in various combinations in famous road tunnels worldwide, such as the Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy, Tunnel du Chat in France, the Dublin Port Tunnel in Ireland, and the newly opened WestConnex motorway in Sydney, Australia. In addition, DynOptic offers an innovative range of opacity, dust, particulate and smoke monitors to support companies and public authorities in reducing their environmental impact.
“The combination of new technologies, access to hyperlocal information and higher expectations from citizens will dramatically change the way we measure air quality in the coming years,” explained Nicholas Dal Sasso, CEO of Acoem’s Environment division. “Breathe London is a perfect example, showing that smart cities need comparable, stable, and accurate data in order to act. With an alarming new study demonstrating how breathing in air pollution can be as harmful to your lungs as smoking cigarettes, it’s increasingly important for citizens to understand exactly which locations expose them to the highest levels of risk. Access to such information can only be supported by tools that reliably measure air and gas quality in a range of environments, and provide this data in real-time.”
Fabien Condemine, Acoem’s CEO, added, “We have taken a deliberate step towards becoming a single-source provider of integrated environmental monitoring systems and services to address the growing and future demand for these highly specialized instruments.”
Paul Jones, managing director of DynOptic Systems and Tunnel Sensors, said, “Acoem has acted quickly in its response to the growing global demand for specialist environmental monitoring technology and instruments. Joining forces with Acoem Group allows us to accelerate our research and development, and deliver new technologies that meet the needs of customers seeking the highly technical solutions required to monitor and control their urban environments.”
Adam Frost
Adam joined the company in 1994, and has been News Editor of TTT since 2009. In his other role as Circulation Manager, he helped create the original Traffic Technology International distribution list 23 years ago, and has been working on it ever since. Outside of work, he is a keen fisherman, runs a drumming band, and plays an ancient version of cricket.
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Nvidia buys Portland Group for compiler smarts
C++ and Fortran to span ARM and GPU ceepie geepies
By Timothy Prickett Morgan 30 Jul 2013 at 02:02
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Graphics chip maker Nvidia has big aspirations to get into computing proper with ARM processors and GPU coprocessors, and its odds in its battle against archrival Intel may have just gotten a lot better now that it has snapped up The Portland Group.
The financial terms of the acquisition, which has been completed, were not disclosed.
PGI, as the company is known, was founded in 1989 and kicked out Fortran and C compilers for Intel's i860 RISC processors two years later. It has been a driving force behind the development of parallel Fortran compilers over the years.
It was tapped by Intel to do the Fortran for the ASCI Red massively parallel supercomputer at Sandia National Laboratories in 1996 and the first machine to break the teraflops performance barrier.
PGI also did the compilers for the "Red Storm" machine built by Cray using Opteron processors from Advanced Micro Devices and the "SeaStar" interconnect developed by Cray to lash them together.
The company has been very good at seeing and riding changes in processor or coprocessor technology and was out in front with support for OpenMP for Linux, SSE/SIMD engines in x86 processors, 64-bit x86 processors.
In recent years, it has been the Fortran supplier for Nvidia's CUDA GPU programming environment and has created a set of compilers that allow for CUDA to dump code onto multicore and multithreaded x86 processors.
Significantly, PGI was one of the partners that joined Nvidia in setting up OpenACC, which is trying to establish an open standard for adding directive hints to compilers to help them parallelize applications for CPUs, GPUs, and any other kind of parallel execution engine (such as a Xeon Phi from Intel). The company also last year launched an OpenCL compiler for multicore ARM processors.
With Nvidia working on its "Project Denver" ARM processor, those ARM skills are going to come in handy. And rather than just partnering tightly with PGI, as Nvidia has been doing, the company has decided that it needs to control a compiler stack.
This makes sense. IBM has always controlled the compilers on its proprietary and Power processors, and Intel followed suit and has control of its own compilers, too.
Both companies are happy to have others make compilers for their chips, of course, but the important thing is to have a set of your own compilers that can be tweaked alongside chips as they change. In a world where performance is everything, the compiler is often the deciding factor. (And sometimes, captive compiler makers put a thumb on the scale and they usually get caught, too.)
Nvidia has a software development team that spans 2,400 software engineers, and some of them work on compilers and other aspects of application development. But Buck says it is hard to extract who is working explicitly on GPU computing because the Nvidia software team is "highly leveraged" across all aspects of GPUs.
"What we don't have is a world-class HPC compiler team on the scale and with the kind of products that PGI is offering,' Ian Buck, general manager for the CUDA compiler stack at Nvidia, tells El Reg. "By working as one company, we can now better align our technology roadmaps and hopefully accelerate our innovation around GPU computing,"
He also stressed that Nvidia would continue to work with TotalView, CAPS, Cray, Allinea, and other compiler partners, and that nothing would change in this regard in the aftermath of the PGI acquisition.
And even more importantly, with Nvidia doing its own server-class ARM processors and aiming them at high performance computing jobs, it is going to need good compilers for that work on ARM chips and can offload work to GPU coprocessors.
"PGI has experience with ARM," says Buck, "but there is no commercial Fortran compiler available – yet."
He was quick to add that Nvidia was not pre-announcing any product plans, of course.
The PGI team will remain in Portland and that all 30 people working on various compilers and development tools will start getting their paychecks from Nvidia.
PGI will remain a wholly owned subsidiary of Nvidia, as it has been a subsidiary of chip maker STMicroelectronics since 2000. PGI has about 5,000 sites worldwide using its compilers and development tools. ®
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Canada Pension plan buys Skype stake
By Chris SorensenBusiness Reporter
Wed., Sept. 2, 2009timer3 min. read
Canada Pension Plan's investing arm – known mainly for parking money in low-key, cash-producing assets such as office towers and gas utilities – is among a group of buyers purchasing a majority stake in the comparatively sexy free online calling service Skype.
After paying $2.6 billion (U.S.) for Skype four years ago, online auction giant eBay Inc. said yesterday it had reached a deal to unload a 65 per cent stake in the business for about $2 billion to a group of private funds, including the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board, or CPPIB.
CPPIB's contribution to the deal is about $300 million, or 15 per cent, said Joel Kranc, a spokesman for the investment board.
Skype's service allows users to make free calls to other users over the Internet.
"This does seem like an atypical investment for (CPPIB)," said Carmi Levy, senior vice-president of strategic consulting for AR Communications Inc.
"It's usually conservative, stable, cash-producing investments that don't get a lot of attention."
However, others note that CPPIB has made several investments alongside private-equity firms in businesses that range from enterprise communications provider Avaya Inc. to British music publisher EMI Group Ltd.
With more than $105 billion (Canadian) in assets, CPPIB's interest in Skype barely amounts to dipping a baby toe into the Internet's notoriously unpredictable waters.
Founded by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friss, Skype was first rolled out in 2002 and uses peer-to-peer and VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) technologies to provide its Internet calling service. The company quickly attracted a sizable subscriber base and was bought in 2005 by eBay, which sought to incorporate the service into its online auction platform.
The idea was to give buyers and sellers another way to communicate, helping to drive eBay's business to another level. But the two companies never really meshed – some argue that part of eBay's appeal is precisely due to the absence of direct interaction – and Skype quickly became viewed as a distraction from an otherwise profitable business.
"They likely lost boatloads of cash on day-to-day operations," said Levy, noting that the bandwidth Skype uses for its service costs money.
"Of the last decade, this is probably the most spectacular failure of an acquisition to generate the type of synergies that were promised."
While Skype does charge for some of its services – for example, there is a small charge to place a call to a regular phone – most of its 480 million users pay next to nothing, although the company has shown evidence of being able to grow sales in recent months.
EBay said yesterday that Skype generated sales of about $551 million (U.S.) last year, representing a 44 per cent increase from 2007. The number of subscribers also increased 47 per cent to 405 million during the same period, the company said.
Analysts predict the new investors, led by private-equity firm Silver Lake, will take steps to grow the number of paying subscribers and, possibly, try to make Skype more appealing to businesses looking to save money on communications services.
But the investors will also have to contend with an ongoing legal dispute over intellectual property with Skype's founders, who previously tried unsuccessfully to buy back the business.
In addition to CPPIB, the consortium of buyers includes Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, the fund set up by web browser pioneer and Netscape founder Marc Andreessen.
It's not the first time CPPIB has expressed interest in the communications space. Two years ago it led one of several investor groups looking to purchase Canadian phone giant BCE Inc.
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"This acquisition represents an opportunity to acquire a leader in the rapidly growing Internet telecommunications market and one of the most strategically valuable Internet brands in the marketplace," Mark Wiseman, senior vice-president of private investment with the CPP Investment Board, said in a statement yesterday.
"We look forward to working with our partners to help grow Skype in this accelerating industry."
CPPIB invests funds that are not needed by the Canada Pension Plan to pay current benefits on behalf of some 17 million Canadian contributors and beneficiaries.
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Malaysia and Indonesia willing to create joint fishery development area
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JAKARTA: Malaysia and Indonesia have agreed in principle to create a joint development area for the fishery industry in over-lapping maritime areas.
Home Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said these overlapping waters were often contentious with claims of encroachment by fishermen and issues connected to fishery.
“The concept of joint development area for the fishery industry is based on what has been agreed to avoid enforcement action taken in these areas,” he told reporters during a working visit to Indonesia today.
Earlier, Muhyiddin met with Indonesian Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Edhy Prabowo.
He said both countries will renew the memorandum of understanding on the issue next year, previously signed in 2012.
Muhyiddin stressed that the issues relating to allegations of encroachment by fishermen must be resolved more efficiently to preserve the good relations between the two countries.
Edhy Prabowo, who was recently appointed to the Indonesian Cabinet for the 2019-2024 term, had said that Indonesia will no longer sink or burn the boats of foreign fishermen who were detained for encroachment.
Commenting on the new Indonesian policy, Muhyiddin said it was a positive development in fostering good relations between the two countries and related parties.
The boats or ships of fishermen who were detained for encroachment into local waters have always been an issue in Malaysia, and it was reported that since 2018 alone, 23 boats and ships of Malaysian fishermen have been detained. - Bernama
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Wales Twp. residents approve fire service tax Tuesday
UPDATE: Voters approved the tax, with 199 ballots cast in favor compared to 60 no votes.
Wales Twp. residents approve fire service tax Tuesday UPDATE: Voters approved the tax, with 199 ballots cast in favor compared to 60 no votes. Check out this story on thetimesherald.com: https://www.thetimesherald.com/story/news/2019/08/02/wales-twp-residents-vote-fire-service-tax-tuesday/1888164001/
Liz Shepard, Port Huron Times Herald Published 1:00 p.m. ET Aug. 2, 2019 | Updated 11:08 a.m. ET Aug. 7, 2019
Electors can take an "I Voted" sticker after casting their ballot. (Photo: Wm. Glasheen/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
Voters in Wales Township will be the only residents in the county to be heading to polls Tuesday.
The township board is asking a 0.6 mill be renewed for four years to cover contracted fire protection services. If approved, it would raise nearly $91,467 in its first year.
The township is covered by Memphis and Emmett fire departments.
Linda Waddy, Wales Township's deputy clerk, said the tax helps cover a portion of the cost for fire services.
She said in 2018, the township paid Memphis about $48,000, and Emmett more than $92,000.
Waddy said voters have been supportive of the tax.
Wales Township contracts with Memphis and Emmett for fire services. (Photo: JEFFREY M. SMITH, TIMES HERALD)
Memphis Chief Justen Diaz said his department also covers Riley, Columbus and Richmond townships, along with their own city.
He said the contracting communities pay a percentage of the department's about $200,000 budget based on call volume.
Diaz said they respond to calls including structure fires, traffic crashes and medical emergencies.
A call to Emmett Fire Chief Jerry Nuss wasn't immediately returned Thursday.
Wales Township voters last approved the fire service tax in 2015, at a rolled back rate of 0.58 mill. Tuesday's proposal asks to be returned to it's original level of 0.6 mill, costing the owner of a $100,000 home about $30 a year.
Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday.
Contact Liz Shepard at (810) 989-6273 or lshepard@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter @lvshepard.
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Inside attack guides Pineville to victory over Menard
PINEVILLE — There were a couple of goals that Pineville coach Tiffany Edmundson had for her team Wednesday.
Inside attack guides Pineville to victory over Menard PINEVILLE — There were a couple of goals that Pineville coach Tiffany Edmundson had for her team Wednesday. Check out this story on thetowntalk.com: https://www.thetowntalk.com/story/sports/high-school/basketball/girls/2015/12/09/inside-attack-guides-pineville-victory-over-menard/77045240/
LaMar Gafford, lgafford@thetowntalk.com, (318) 487-6352 Published 9:58 p.m. CT Dec. 9, 2015
Pineville's Krystal Freeman (25, front) takes the ball in against Menard's Emily Feazell (44, back) Wednesday at Pineville High School.(Photo: Melinda Martinez/The Town Talk)Buy Photo
Use its size to its advantage and let junior center Krystal Freeman go to work.
The Lady Rebels did both as they kept Menard at bay for a 41-19 victory to push their winning streak to four games.
"We said that at shootaround today," Edmundson said. "Give Krystal the ball and we thought that she could score at will because of her height advantage. I thought that she did a good job."
With no one in the paint to contain her, the 6-foot-3 Freeman scored 22 points and grabbed a number of rebounds, as Pineville attacked the Lady Eagle bigs inside.
Menard (5-5) did its best to limit its possessions by slowing the game down and winning the game from behind the 3-point arc, but the Lady Rebel defense locked down, giving the visiting team nothing to work with.
Pineville (4-3) held the Lady Eagles to one 3-pointer — a shot made by junior point guard Maddie Smith that gave them a 5-4 advantage midway through the first quarter.
"We were having to talk them through where all of their players were on our end of the floor," Edmundson said. "So we focused in on them — communicating on the defensive end to make the statement of where their shooters were and I thought that we did a good job on the defensive end of keeping their shooter in check because I know that is their strength."
The Lady Rebels are off Thursday, before concluding the McDonald's Invitational with Jena Friday and Woodlawn of Shreveport Saturday. Menard faces the Lady Giants Thursday and Avoyelles Saturday — both games at Pineville.
BOSSIER 50, NATCHITOCHES CENTRAL 47: Natchitoches Central nearly rallied back from a 48-41 deficit with 66 seconds left to play, but it suffered a 50-47 defeat to the hands of Bossier Wednesday at The Reservation in Tioga.
"We didn't do what we needed to do," Chiefs coach Micah Coleman said. "We missed layups. We weren't tough with the ball in our hands. We didn't go chase down tough rebounds. Bossier made all those kinds of plays, their kids inside were really tough around the basket. They made tough shots and got loose balls."
NCHS (4-2) was led by senior power forward Austin Guy, who scored 22 points, while junior point guard Brandon Rachal added 10 points. Bossier's (6-2) top scorer was Antonio Davis with 17 points, followed by Larry Robinson's 14 points.
The Chiefs are off Thursday before big showdowns with Tioga and Leesville to conclude the McDonald's Invitational.
Menard's Maddie Smith (4) shoots against Pineville Wednesday at Pineville High School. (Photo: Melinda Martinez/The Town Talk)
At Pineville (Main Gym)
3 p.m. — Peabody vs. Rapides (girls)
4:15 p.m. — Menard vs. Jena (girls)
5:30 p.m. — Winnfield vs. Leesville (boys)
6:45 p.m. — Ouachita vs. Winnfield (girls)
8 p.m. — Pineville vs. Rapides (boys)
At Pineville (girls gym)
4 p.m. — Buckeye vs. Grant (boys)
5:15 p.m. — Avoyelles vs. Grant (girls)
6:30 p.m. — Teurlings Catholic vs. Northwood (boys)
7:45 p.m. — Buckeye vs. Byrd (girls)
At Tioga High
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Guns for Beginners
Facts About Guns
BREAKING: Sons of Guns Star Arrested (Again) for Alleged Rape of 12 Year Old [UPDATED]
by Nick Leghorn |
You might be thinking to yourself, “didn’t you report on this already?” And while there was a story a couple weeks ago about William Hayden (star of Discovery Channel’s TV show Sons of Guns) being arrested for child molestation, it looks like he’s being booked once more — this time for rape. Of a 12 year old . . .
From the nola.com:
The founder and owner of Red Jacket Firearms in Baton Rouge was arrested Tuesday evening and charged with the aggravated rape of a 12-year-old child, Casey Rayborn-Hicks, a spokesperson for the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office said.
The U.S. Marshal in East Baton Rouge Parish arrested William Hayden less than an hour ago.
Hayden had a warrant out for his arrest and was apprehended in Livingston Parish as a fugitive from East Baton Rouge Parish.
Last time, Red Jacket issued a statement categorically denying the charges and indicating that the accusation was an attempt at smearing Red Jacket by someone with an axe to grind. A statement has not yet been issued this time, but we will update this article when we see it.
An associate in law enforcement has informed me that it’s often common practice (although not official procedure) to serve one arrest warrant at a time if multiple charges are being filed for crimes involving sexual offenses against children, a process that increases the expense and embarrassment to the charged individual regardless of whether the charges are true.
UPDATE: According to TMZ, the victim is Will’s daughter who is backing up the allegations. From their article:
TMZ has obtained arrest docs in Hayden’s case … and Hayden’s daughter is now backing up the allegations. She told investigators Hayden took her virginity in March, 2013 when she was 11-years-old. She said she was orally and vaginally raped almost daily, but did not report it because he threatened her physically.
According to the docs, the victim says Hayden told her, “Don’t tell them nothing, because I’m all you got.”
Red Jacket has also legally separated themselves from Will Hayden following this latest accusation, posting the following on their Facebook page:
Today, Red Jacket Firearms has received complete legal separation as an entity, from Will Hayden. We will continue to operate, although with heavy hearts and promise to do everything in our power to fill customer orders, back orders and provide support to those affected by these new developments.
More as this story develops.
Bobby McKellar says:
Well, looks like castrating time! Then about two weeks in a cell with Big Ol’ Sweet Bubba!
michael3ov says:
Familiar with the concept of innocent until proven guilty? It very well could be true but with the information we have it is just as likely that they are false charges. Charges made by the state are certainly not sufficient for condemnation.
Innocent until proven guilty in the eyes of the law, not the internet. He has no protection from bubba jokes.
In other words: people on the internet are scum.
Gene says:
Keep in mind that, in general, you can wave a ham sammich to a GJ and get an indictment.
Most states either don’t have or don’t use a grand jury. LA does not use a grand jury. There was no indictment. Rather there will be a prelimnary hearing to determine if the evidence warrants a trial.
This is how it works now. Grand juries (grand because of the size, versus petite juries) are not a right guaranteed to you, except in federal cases.
Good information – much appreciated!
Benson Smith says:
Actually not good info. Louisiana does have a grand jury system. It’s different than the other states because it’s not based on English common law and I’m not sure when it applies and doesn’t but it does exist.
moveableDO says:
Ain’t nevuh been done befoah…
Probably a scam committed by the Red Jacket Firearms.. the only way to legally push him out of a company he owns a large stack in, is if he is a convicted felon….
Kevin L says:
Do you really think he’s guilty after what happened last time?
Nick Leghorn says:
Honestly I have no idea. But the charges are serious and the arrest is real, and we are reporting it as such.
TheBear says:
^ What Nick said.
Shit just got very real if there is any substance to this at all.
ChrisCIcc says:
maybe you could post…. a LINK???
Nevermind, I’ll do it myself:
http://tinyurl.com/lawk689
neiowa says:
quoting TMZ? Really? What’s next telling us what CNN or the Dem Senate Majority Fund says?
Stinkeye says:
neiowa, I get your point, but come on. Comparing CNN to TMZ? One is a muckraking, gossipy circle-jerk with no journalistic integrity and zero credibility, and the other is TMZ.
Frank Masotti says:
If he is guilty strap him don and throw the switch. If he is not I hope he wins the lawsuit against the people who went to the police with this latest charge.
James Chant says:
Unfortunately, people who habitually use the courts as a weapon of revenge and harassment, rarely have anything worth suing them for in civil court. It actually ends up costing you more money.
Good luck getting the courts to charge them with perjury or filing false charges either. This type of thing is money in the bank to those who run the court system. Its job security and repeat business for them, so they don’t want the practice to stop.
Not only that, going after someone in civil court who has no money is a useless waste of money.
You can’t get a million in damages from someone who barely pays their rent.
The Brotherhood of Steel says:
That picture sure doesn’t help. Looks like a certain meme that was real popular awhile ago if you get my drift. In all seriousness though there’s a reason why we have court. Innocent until proven guilty. Not everyone on facebook decides your guilty therefore your guilty.
This should’ve been a DGU by either the poor kid or a parent.
Jay in Florida says:
needa bit more info here…….
Not who the kid is obviously. But who filed the charges.
A repeat of 2 weeks ago with a little more teeth??
Once the damages are done, who remembers 2nd place??
that’s fine, he should be patient with it. Once the charges have been dropped sure his ex for personal damages.
I hope that what they’re accusing him of isn’t true that is a horrible crime to commit against a youngster! Maybe there is something to it??? But for right now I think the best thing to do is wait and see what happens and then make your decision on him.
A key comma is missing…
That is probably the worst-constructed sentence in the history of “journalism.”
Very first thought was, “WHY WOULD THEY NAME THE VICTIM?!?!” Oh, just terrible sentence structure. By someone who writes for a living. In a national publication. Again. Still. S’more.
Albaniaaaaac says:
Innocent until proven guilty, just like I said last time.
blackspike2710 says:
I’ll be damned, something that has been dun befo!
Matt in FL says:
I laughed out loud.
Prairie Patriot says:
In regards to the last accusation, isn’t it a crime if the person making the accusation is making a false one? I know there’s a lot of lawyers here so hopefully one of you all can explain.
Akira says:
False rape accusations are rarely punished.
One has to ask why a 12 year old would want to ruin the reputation of her father?
Also, how would you charge a 12 year old for making a false charge?
How would you even prove it occurred?
Paul G. says:
Serving one warrant at a time to increase expense and embarrassment….now that is truly justice in action (sarc). They seek to make sure you end up broke and unable to exist in public, just in case you happen to be innocent.
MotoJB says:
I like ’em a bit older than that…by at least 10 years.
Michael McLean says:
Wow hope it’s not true.
I smell a lawsuit in somebody’s future
Well I do believe in the concept of innocent until proven guilty.
And somehow, I can’t resist to the idea it could be pretty convenient to project a bad image of gun owners, just to help some gun control agenda, such: “Hey look guys, all gun owners are rapist…”
In the other hand, the world is full of sick sick sick people… even amongst gun owners.
So, wait & see…
The Pixelated says:
Same as last time. This is a common tactic by crazy ex’s. I’ve seen this before. A friend of mine, who actually is friendly with many state cops & judges, was accused of such lies by his girlfriend’s ex-husband. Although he was never arrested because Family Services didn’t have any proof of the charges. The kids were clueless about what was going on.
Hayden’s ex will eventually be arrested for filing false police reports.
rlc2 says:
And if this is an either/or situation: he did it, or he did not, then the ex has some explaining to do, either way.
If the allegation is true, and this has been going on daily, for two years, then where was the daughters mom?
Is the mom, and ex girlfriend the same person? If so, how could she not know?
Either way, this poor kid is going to need a lot of counseling.
I’m sure Bloomberg is behind this somehow.
But hey check it out, we’ve got two articles involving rape in a row now… we’ve seen the constant articles about MDA slow down and the articles about cops slow down too. Went from being the TruthAboutMoms to TheTruthAboutCops…. now is rape up for the headlines, are we to become TheTruthAboutRape?
First article, “Bugs Bunny raping Elmer Fudd”
I find the practices described in the final paragraph to be particularly detestable.
Indiana Tom says:
Agree. It is just stupid and a waste of time and money.
“It is just stupid and a waste of time and money.”
In other words, just the government’s modus operandi.
From Red Jacket’s FB page:
“Please direct any media inquiries to: [email protected]
See the website for updates. http://www.redjacketfirearms.com“
Jus Bill says:
Clickbait? “Gotta make a buck off this mess somehow.”
Or, y’know, that “visit the website” is the most common way to provide people with information nowadays. Or would you have expected them to tell people to send a self-addressed stamped envelope for more info?
The reason Red Jacket “completely legally separated” itself from Wiil Hayden is so the company doesn’t go under if he loses his entire fortune fighting legal battles. If he goes bankrupt, they can’t go after RJF. This legal move is not an indication of guilt, but an indication of not wanting the business and partners to go under.
I’m guessing he transferred everything to his adult daughter.
If he did that before claiming bankruptcy, it would legally be considered bankruptcy fraud.
Hope they’re an LLC…
Chipsa says:
I’m…. skeptical. If it’s the same kid as last time (which it appears it is), then the only thing new is that the kid is backing up the charges. And it’s not out of the question that the mother has prepped the girl this time.
Still sounds sketchy like the first time, but definitely not headed in the right direction.
Not the first firearms celebrity with jungle gym fever. Remember Team Glock?
http://www.ksccw.com/showthread.php?t=29870
That guy went to jail (ie was convicted) of only one count he was charged with – and that was purchasing the dildo for the minor in question. I’m not going to mention her name, but a quick google search makes it obvious.
I personally think it’s ridiculous that people can go to jail for purchasing sex toys for teens. That means technically that all the mothers out there who bought a vibrator for their daughters should be felons.
Also of note is the fact that (and I believe this information – also easily verifiable) during the investigation it was found that 5 people’s DNA was on the underage girl’s dildo.
All this stuff is still on Ar15.com I believe. I found the thread one day and it was a fascinating read.
“…all the mothers out there who bought a vibrator for their daughters…”
Is that something that actually happens? I mean, would you use a sex toy your mom gave you? Ick.
Yes – it happens all the time.
Same as fathers who buy a porno mag for their sons. It’s the same kind of thing and both gifts would be a felony if we all followed the (ridiculous) letter of the law.
If some people had their way, the person who sells a 17 year old a porn mag at a convenience store would go to jail. Meanwhile, Casey Anthony is scott free.
Fair, huh?
PS – Forgot to say the girl in the case mentioned above was 16 too which is the age of consent in most states. So you can legally have sex with a 16 year old in these states, but buy him or her a sex toy and you go to jail.
/makes sense
Buying a vibratory for you teen daughter is a lot different from buying one for a 12 year old. Think about that. You want some dude to buy one for your kid? Whether for a boy or girl it’s wrong. If they didn’t know what to do with it would you show them? And showing porn to a child is illegal too. Incimination of pornography to a minor.
Not here to comment about him or the accusations against him which sound pretty damning if his own daughter is saying she believes them and that he raped her, but since when do reporters release the name of underage victims of sexual battery or rape?
I think the reporter should be shot, and if convicted, so too should Mr. Hayden.
Nevermind… Apparently their grammar is horrible, not their intentions.
MiniMe says:
To coin a phrase, this is damned peculiar.
former water walker says:
It would be easy enough to find out his daughters name. Not a fan but I find this to be really offensive if not true. I’ve been falsely accused( NOTHING like this) by an ex-wife. Hope it’s not true.
the ruester says:
Only Steve Wilkos (or possibly Dr. Phil) can save him now.
Pro2Aguy says:
WOW–I pray that this is nothing more than groundless allegations filed by a “scorned-ex-girlfriend”…And I couldn’t make out from the public information I have read so far if the “daughter” that verified the allegations as legitimate was the 12yr old or Stephanie, Will’s oldest daughter…?
If this is true, I am getting that same “can’t be him, living in denial” type feeling I had when I first heard OJ might be the actual perp in the murder of his ex-wife…
Seems like nothing is sacred anymore…
Courts suck. They drag you through the mud make you spend tens of thousands of dollars defending yourself against allegations that they know are crapnjust to stroke their own egos. I know a very good man who had to spend $100k to clear his name even though the da knew he was innocent…but they were protecting a witness on a capitol case. They suck! Innocent until provent guilty. I say the state should have to pay for any fees they cause if they loose. These crape cases will cease.
I don’t know how seriously I should take that TMZ update, TMZ loOOOOoves dragging celebrities names through the dirt – it’s how they make money.
John Q Public says:
Prediction: Suicide
esitue says:
mean while under Obama’s most beloved, most beautiful sound on earth, rape victims are regularly stoned to death
bigfinger76 says:
Thrawn says:
He is referring to the Muslim call to prayer, which Obama once referred to as “the most beautiful sound on earth.” Muslim rape victims are routinely stoned to death in the Middle East.
TiC says:
Can we bring back flaying alive as a punishment for convicted child molesters?
The charges are nasty, the tactics of the prosecutor are nasty, I just hope the guy is able to make a decent defense for himself.
Trial by media is your first clue that the “case” is suspect. I’d like to see the prosecutor flogged for poisoning the jury pool for his own benefit – if there is evidence, it can come out at trial, not through tmz after multiple unecessary perp walks.
pwrserge says:
This is why we need a law that mandates that filing false charges lands the perjurer with the same penalty as their would-be victim. The double arrest is also bullshit. He already had a court date and no substantive facts in the case had changed. They could have amended the charges on appearance.
I thought that they released the daughter to his house after the first charge. If they knew about a more serious charge, with supporting evidence, then why would they let the daughter go back to him after the first trip to jail?
Didn’t the girl come out and say it was BS the last time? Why would she change her story like that? Doesn’t make for a very reliable witness.
FedUp says:
Two daughters, one alleged criminal situation.
Daughter Stephanie, who shares a TV show with him, said it was all a bunch of BS. Stephanie is married and has two kids of her own.
The daughter involved in the accusation (one accusation, that he had a yearlong affair with his pubescent daughter) is now 12.
After charging him with molesting the 12 year old and letting him post bail, they arrested him again and charged him with raping the 12 year old, just to make it especially expensive for him and the other taxpayers. For bonus points, they declared him a “fugitive” and sent the Federal Marshals after him. These are not the actions of a parish attorney who has any interest in justice.
RD says:
So this is the second accuser now?
His phone records could damn him or exonerate him.
One reason to consider always having a miniature recorder with you to protect yourself as a caregiver or teacher.
SouthernPatriot says:
Same alleged victim already discredited, but apparently the D.A. is following a well established precedent by separating related charges and announcing one at a time and making a dramatic re-arrest and the ancillary charges. This will really challenge any accused to come up with the extra legal costs, and greatly reduces the accused’s ability to fund a vigorous defense.
same person, His 14yr old daughter, ex wife who has a long drug addiction history is involved in these allegations.
DA’s now a days try to arrest and re-arrest, add multiple charges, over whelming and financially breaking a person and try to get someone to negotiate a plea deal so they get a conviction. Its pretty sad what prosecutors do to get convictions of innocent people,.
The more convictions the better their record, the better (more money) job they can get. so corrupt its not even funny.
Charges are Most likely not true
Fug says:
Why did they rearrest him? I read he was arrested as a fugitive, did he hide out? Unless he was hiding from them I don’t see why the court couldn’t just proceed without re-arresting him.
I met a guy before who was a “controversial” political activist out in Missouri. Very not-PC and he had a record of confronting state officials and policemen. One day they got it in their head to get rid of this guy and somehow they got an in-law to say this dude had molested his autistic step-grandchild. They carted him off to jail, broke one of his front teeth booking him and eventually put him in a psych ward due to his behavior before a judge. He got out a couple years later when the allegations against him vaporized.
I am not saying Mr Hayden is innocent, but he could be.
Retired LEO says:
He was picked up in a different parish (county) so he could have been in violation of his bond, or a Judges order of some sort. Most likely reason US Marshalls picked him up.
I’m just shaking my head at all the people here giving the benefit of the doubt to a rapist thug. It’s funny, but not surprising, to see how many humans are stuck in a tribal mindset.
We prefer to call it the presumption of innocence, but when you are falsely accused of something we will be certain to just say “whatever”.
lizzrd says:
How about we don’t presume anything and agree to withhold judgement until the facts are known?
@Paul G.
I wonder how fast and eager you were to presume Michael Jackson innocent? LOL, whatever.
Yellow Devil says:
I thought Michael was really odd, a very naive individual who was probable trying to recapture the childhood he didn’t seem to have, not exactly “innocent”. But since he wasn’t found guilty in the court of law, I couldn’t say otherwise. I also didn’t give the parents of the children much credit during the civil suit, since if they willfully let their children stay over at his “neverland ranch” even when accusations were still out there.
When you automatically impose your own feelings upon others, it is called projection. At least we are learning a lot about your own emotional immaturity. Whatever.
I am just going to keep my mouth shuts and hold judgement until the trial is over. TMZ isn’t exactly a reliable source (for the update) if it is true though it could go either way that he was manipulating her on what to say when she was questioned on the initial charges, her mother is manipulating her to change her story, or the police pressured her to say it.
TMZ is the most accurate gossip rag out there.
Bob Brown says:
The consensus of the gun nuts on this board is that the girl (girls) are liars and or this is a police conspiracy. Many GN’s have had bad experiences with ugly divorces, child support litigation, restraining orders and all the other abuses White Males suffer at the hands of women.
It is just possible that this cordite soaked thug is as guilty as he looks. Rape is about domination and so are guns.
@Bob Brown Buddy, I take offense at your post for over-generalizing by stating that the readers of TTAG are in your words “Gun Nuts” and therefore are naturally into, again in your words, “domination.” Holy Cow that’s defamation of character in the worst sense…!
To in any way whatsoever associate/infer an alleged child rapist’s demonic behavior with their love of a great American Past-time and ever so popular contemporary sport/hobby is enough to necessitate an abrupt emergency visit with your local Dentist where I come from…
Fred Ziffle says:
LCB says:
I worked with a guy named ****** that was arrested for molesting a 13 year old. His name and picture were in the paper (this was back when people still read papers). Months later the charges were dropped. Seems ***** was dating the mother of the 13 yr old and she (the 13 yr old) just plain didn’t like him. So she made it up to break up the “romance”.
Of course, the paper reported this…on about page 10. The accusation was on Page 1. Where was ****** supposed to go to get his reputation back???
I don’t know if Hayden is guilty or not. Given my dislike of him after trying to watch the soap…a…his show, it wouldn’t surprise me if he was guilty. But then again, I wouldn’t be surprised at him being innocent either. We’ll just have to wait and see.
David_TheMan says:
Wonder why no one is calling him a thug
AJ HERRMANN says:
TOTAL B.S. THIS IS A HARD WORKING GOD FEARING MAN, EVEN HIS OLDER DAUGHTER IS STANDING BY HIS SIDE, YOU PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU HEAR OR READ ARE TOTAL [email protected]#KING MORONS,GROW UP !! MAKES ME SICK TO THINK YOU CAN RUIN A MAN’S LIFE JUST LIKE THAT, THIS COUNTRY IS GOING TO HELL RIGHT QUICK
2ndAmendFan says:
I have watched the show since it aired. I would never assume that I know someone’s character by watching a TV show. However that said I can’t believe at this point that all the facts are in. So in light of that I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Innocent till proven guilty. I’ll stand with him till that happens. Seems these days everyone is guilty till proven innocent. Especially on the Internet. I wish him, his family, his employee’s, and his friends all the best thru this ordeal.
das booty says:
Red jacket… More like RED WINGS. That old fart was banging that little girl with one of them big barreled AKs. Better call Bloomberg. I think the guns made him do it . All that gun powder and no boom boom you know what im saying. Took her cherry and ate it that man did. I think he was touching them boys too. They act alittle funny like a couple of queers with squirt guns filled with cum on pride day.
Matt Dunn says:
If this turns out to be lies! Just to destroy his reputation. Then both girlfriend and 12 year old should be locked up.
First off, I would not take the word of a 14 years old girl who has a mother that is a drug addict. I have seen this scenario time and time again, angry teen girl with a mother who hates her ex and wants money, encourages the teen girl to hate her strict Dad even more, tell her how they can get what he has if he goes to jail, she persuades the teen girl to make accusations that are not true, the kid is to young to understand the seriousness of the accusations.
Yea, this is a repeating scenario, mind you, you still have to investigate it just in outside chance it is true
john seagus says:
He probably did it or he wouldn’t have had a warrant issued for his arrest.
God is good at getting the bad guys arrested. And I’m sure the 12 year old kid is there to testify truthfully to all allegations. Case closed. Just shoot him now.
Paul Welch says:
I think this is a ploy to destroy ones character and nothing more. If they so prove he did it I will be surprised to say the least. Cause if you are molesting one girl would it not be the case with his other daughter? And she said nothing like that ever happened in her household. So let’s see how things pan out.
christiep221 says:
Child molestation, incest, and rape isn’t something to be light heartedly joking about or debating the truthfulness online like it’s a debate over the usual celebrity gossip. Yes I agree in the weight of being innocent until proven guilty. However, I also believe that with a rape and/or molestation accusation from a child you absolutely treat it like a truth and proceed with following the proper measures for protection and prosecution until it’s either proven or cleared of guilt. Not taking them seriously when/if it’s true is violating them again.
Patrick Wider says:
Well my, my, my! Further info:
Former “Sons of Guns” reality star William Hayden is facing more charges of raping children.
An East Baton Rouge Parish grand jury indicted the 49-year-old on two counts of aggravated rape and one count of forcible rape Wednesday.
Hayden is charged with raping a pre-teen girl repeatedly, from a little after her 11th birthday in March 2013 until August of this year, East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office said.
He is also accused of raping another woman, now in her 30s, when she was a pre-teen about 22 years ago. She told police she was staying with Hayden’s family at the time after her house burned down and did not think her family would believe her, according to the Advocate.
Hayden is already facing charges in Livingston Parish for sexually abusing his 12-year-old daughter, authorities said.
The Red Jacket Firearms founder was arrested in August for “orally and vaginally” raping his 12-year-old daughter, according to police.
East Baton Rouge District Attorney Hillar Moore could not confirm whether the new charges involve the same child from Livingston Parish.
Hayden’s other daughter and former TV co-star, Stephanie Hayden Ford, came forward with allegations that Hayden sexually abused her as a child.
The father came into Ford’s bedroom drunk one night, she said on the talk show “Dr. Phil.” He began pinching and kissing her while trying to remove her clothes, she said. She escaped his advances, which never happened again, she said.
Aggravated rape convictions in Louisiana carry a mandatory life sentence without parole. If Hayden is convicted of forcible rape, he could face five to 40 years in prison.
He is being held at the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on $350,000 bail.
“Sons of Guns,” a Discovery Channel show centering on life in Hayden’s custom gun shop, was canceled after Hayden’s arrest in August.
And that dumb son-in-law and his trans-sexual wife were arrested as well. What a cluster f-ck:
By Jessica Chasmar – The Washington Times – Sunday, October 26, 2014
The daughter of reality star William Hayden, of the now-canceled reality show “Sons of Guns,” has been arrested on child abuse charges just two months after her father was arrested for child molestation.
Kristafor Ford, husband of Stephanie Hayden, is accused of hitting a 9-year-old with a leather belt on the child’s lower thigh, causing a large bruise. Mrs. Hayden was arrested Friday in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, and charged with principal to cruelty to a juvenile because she was allegedly in the room at the time of the incident, a local Fox affiliate reported.
Both Mr. Ford and Mrs. Hayden appeared on the canceled Discovery Channel series that followed employees at Red Jacket Firearms, which was owned by William Hayden before he was forced out of the company over molestation charges
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