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Reducing the harmful use of alcohol: towards a whole of society approach in Sub-Saharan Africa (WP1667)
Reducing the harmful use of alcohol is one of the cornerstones of preventing and controlling non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The Political Declaration of the third United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting of the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases outlines the need for full, active and responsible engagement and participation of all relevant stakeholders to combat NCDs- including engaging the private sector, and civil society, for a whole of society approach.
‘Time to Deliver’, the 2018 Report of the WHO Independent High-Level Commission on Noncommunicable Diseases, explicitly outlines the positive impact of public private partnerships- especially in harnessing technological innovation and engaging with economic producers of alcohol for better global health and development outcomes.
This Wilton Park series aims to chart a positive and productive way forward to reduce the harmful use of alcohol and build a roadmap for a whole of society approach. By convening those from across public, private and civil society sectors to build trust and engagement, the series seeks to build consensus and common purpose on how alcohol producers can best support global efforts to improve health and reduce the harmful use of alcohol.
Following on from the first event of the series that took place at Wiston House in Sussex in the UK, this event will take place in South Africa, the first event in the series that is regionally focused. As WHO states, “there is no other consumer product as widely available as alcohol that accounts for as much premature death and disability”1 in the region. The meeting seeks to explore new and innovative methods of reducing the harmful use of alcohol in a manner that accounts for national, religious and cultural context within sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
Mon 1 - Wed 3 April, 2019
South Africa
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Sustainable development and the environment
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Six Accessible Activities Around the World
If your job or school is stressing you out, it’s important to take a breather. Studies have found that going on vacation is beneficial for one’s physical and mental health. You don’t have to worry that your disabilities would prevent you from seeing the wonders of the world. More and more attractions are expanding so that people of all ability levels can enjoy them.
After you’ve filed your disability application in Utah, here are some activities around the globe that you can experience:
Arches National Park, Utah
Besides boasting ruby-colored rocks and formations sculpted by nature and time, Arches National Park also offers accessible trails. You can breathe in the fresh mountain air and the spectacular view, no matter your level of ability. Also, if you apply for an Interagency Access Pass, you can get free or discounted admission.
Eiffel Tower, Paris
The Tour Eiffel is the cherry on top of Paris’s rosy charm. It makes a captivating backdrop to vacation photos and lights up in colors at night. With the help of technology, it’s possible to climb up the French icon on a wheelchair or on crutches.
The Eiffel Tower has lifts that can take you up to the first floor. From there, you can have an unforgettable lunch while admiring the Parisian cityscape. Present an ID or document as proof that you’re disabled to get a discounted ticket and priority access.
Mt. Fuji, Honshu
Japan’s tallest peak is a postcard-worthy sight all year round. In winter, you can admire its snow-capped peak. Or you can soak in the vibrant foliage framing the volcano during autumn. Besides being a sight to behold, it’s also accessible.
You can go on a wheelchair-friendly cruise to view Mt. Fuji from Lake Kawaguchi for stunning views. Or drive up the peak via several available trails for a bird’s eye view of its surroundings. If you need some inspiration, a 47-year-old man has reached the mountain’s summit on wheels.
friends going out for a trip
Machu Picchu, Andes Mountains
With a rich history and unforgettable scenery, Machu Picchu is unsurprisingly Peru’s most visited site. The UNESCO World Heritage Site’s centuries-old architecture is a testament to the ancient peoples’ capabilities. Now, wheelchair users can also retrace the history of the Inca and marvel at the ruins. Don’t forget to take your camera with you for photos of the ancient walls and vibrant mountains.
Sydney Opera House, Sydney
As Australia’s arguably most famous sight, the Sydney Opera House is an architectural marvel. Its iconic shell-like design is recognizable anywhere. Beyond its appearance, the performing arts center also proudly prioritizes barrier-free access. This means that it welcomes guests with limited mobility, hearing, vision, and other disabilities. It even has interactive theater experiences catered for disabled children. You can enjoy a performance or tour the site’s hallowed halls.
Disability is more common than you think. The United Nations estimates that there are more than one billion disabled people worldwide. You’re not alone, and you shouldn’t let your ability level stop you from reaching for the skies. Plan ahead of time, bring a friend, and travel on.
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FOSS Open Content/Emergence of the Open Content Paradigm
In response to the excesses of copyright system, there has been a need for strong alternatives. The FOSS movement was perhaps one of the first to articulate such an alternative in a formal manner. While phrases such as "Free Software" and "copyleft" conjure up an image of alternatives to copyright, it is relevant to note that FOSS is not a model that abandons copyright. In fact, quite the opposite, it relies on copyright law, but users it creatively to articulate a positive, rather than a negative rights discourse. What does a positive rights framework mean?[ 50 ] As we have seen, copyright has traditionally been an exclusive right that is granted to the owner of copyright to exploit his / her work.
Copyright is usually thought of as a bundle of rights that are available to the owner, and these are:
• Reproduction rights: the right to reproduce copies of the work (for example, making copies of a book from a manuscript).
• Adaptation rights: the right to produce derivative works based on the copyrighted work (for example, creating a film based on a book).
• Distribution rights: the right to distribute copies of the work (for example, circulating the book in bookshops).
• Performance rights: the right to perform the copyrighted work publicly, (for example, having a reading of the book or a dramatic performance of a play).
• Display rights: the right to display the copyrighted work publicly (for example, showing a film or work of art).
Another important dimension is that there are no procedural requirements for obtaining copyright; it vests automatically with the creator the moment the work has been created and fixed in some tangible form. This can be a very serious problem. For instance, suppose that I have made a useful graphic file and posted it on the Internet. Even if I do not object to having the file downloaded and used for any purposes, such as including it in a teaching pack or on a homepage, the law of copyright is such that someone who uses the graphic without my permission would be infringing my copyright.
It may be that I choose not to prosecute them, but what has effectively happened is that the rule of exclusion has become the default rule in copyright. We have effectively moved away from a time when everything was presumed to be in the public domain unless otherwise stated, to a system where everything is presumed to be protected unless otherwise stated.
Licenses and the Control of CopyrightEdit
At this point, it is useful to return to the story of the extension of copyright law. Given the fact that copyright includes so many rights, it basically becomes impossible for any person to use another's work without running into the danger of being an "infringer." Thus, one needs to obtain a license from the owner of copyright to use any portion of the work. A license in copyright law is basically the grant of a right by the owner of copyright which allows the recipient of the license, the licensee, to exercise certain rights with respect to the copyright work. Without this license, any use not granted by copyright by default would be considered an infringement.
Derived from the Latin word licere, "to allow," license literally means "permission." Theoretically, a license can only permit things that copyright law places under the provision of the copyright owner and does not already permit by default. A license can thus only allow more, not less than, the default copyright regulations. FOSS and Open Content licenses, therefore, are licenses in the proper sense of the word. Proprietary software licenses, however, are even more restrictive than default copyright regulation.
Information can mean anything from numbers to images, from white noise to sound. A weather report, a portrait, a shadow in surveillance footage, a salary statement, birth and death statistics, a headcount in a gathering of friends, private email, ultra-high pedestrians as they walk in a city - all of this is data.
Etymology: 1646, from Latin datum "(thing) given," neuter pp. of dare, "to give."
Similarly, the word "data" in Hindi / Sanskrit is taken to mean "giver", which suggests that one must always be generous with information, and make gifts of our code, images and ideas. To be stingy with data is to violate an instance of the secret and sacred compacts of homophonic words from different cultural / spatial orbits as they meet in the liminal zone between languages, in the thicket of the sound of quotidian slips of the tongue. Errors in transmission and understanding too carry gifts and data.[ 51 ]
How is it possible that such a "license" is not a permission, but imposes additional restrictions? The catch lies in the term "license agreement", which shifts the whole matter from copyright to contract law. By making users click on a box signifying their agreement to the terms of the license agreement, software vendors make you sigh a usage contract with them, thus circumventing even the scarce "fair use" liberties granted by copyright law (such as public lending of works in libraries).[ 52 ]
As Pamela Samuelson notes:
Software is not the first time that they have attempted to restrict user rights via a license, and even book publishers have attempted to do so. Book publishers and sound recording companies once tried to restrict what purchasers of their products could do with they by "licenses", but fortunately the courts didn't let them get away with it. (Take a look at an old Victoria recording jacket and you'll see that it purports to license use of the recording to one Victoria machien and to deny authority to retransfer one's copy of the recording.) One important case was Bobbs-Merrill vs Straus. Bobbs-Merrill sued Straus because he sold copies of bobbs-Merrill books in violation of a license restriction that conditioned the right to retransfer copies of the books on an agreement to charge at least US$1 per copy. The US Supreme Court treated the license restriction as ineffective as a matter of copyright policy. The Bobbs-Merrill decision contributed to the emergence of the "first sale" or "exhaustion of rights" doctrine in copyright law, under which publishers lose authority to control redistributions of copies of their works when, in commercial reality, the transaction is a sale. In the aftermath of this and similar cases, publishers and sound recording companies abandoned these overly restrictive practices.
The GNU General Public LicenseEdit
It is within this highly rigid regime of copyright that the Free Software movement sought to make an intervention. As a result, it has become highly popular across the world, and has become an inspiration for similar licensing models beyond the world of software. While the traditional software license specifically denies certain rights, the GNU General Public License is a license that is designed to grant certain fundamental freedoms.[ 53 ] These are:
• Users should be allowed to run the software for any purpose.
• Users should be able to closely examine and study the software and should be able to freely modify and improve it to better serve their needs.
• Users should be able to give copies of the software to other people to whom the software will be useful.
• Users should be able to freely distribute their improvements for the benefit of the broader public.
The Free Software model differs drastically from the "closed source" principles of licensing. Why then do we say that the GNU GPL model is based on an innovative use, rather than an abandonment of copyright? The Free Software model is predicated on ensuring that the fundamental freedoms are not taken away or removed from the public domain by anyone; thus, there is a condition attached to the use of Free Software.
The fundamental condition is that any person who uses Free Software to create a derivative work, or an adaptation of the software, must ensure that this software is also licensed on the same terms and conditions, namely under the GNU GPL. If the author of a piece of Free Software decided to relinquish his copyright, it would mean that someone could use his or her code and create a derivative work and then license it as a proprietary piece of code, therefore preventing others from making use of the software in a free manner.
Challenges to CopyrightEdit
What the Free Software movement did was to use copyright in an innovative manner to ensure access rather than restrict people's ability to use, distribute and modify code.
At the heart of the Free Software movement lies a radical reworking of the very idea of the user. While in the realm of proprietary software, the user was a passive consumer, the Free Software model is based on the idea of the user as producer - a user who has the ability to contribute to the existing work and simultaneously become a producer as well. Copying, cutting and pasting, changing things, applying filters, and so on are part of the basic language of digital media. The user-producer concept speaks to he digital experience and the freedoms that this digital culture allows for ordinary people to become artists and producers. This model fundamentally challenges the traditional assumptions of copyright law. It moves away from the romantic notion of authorship which saw cultural production as an isolated activity carried out by a solitary genius creating something out of nothing. Instead, it argues that the very essence of cultural production has been about learning by creatively using works that exist in the public domain. It also moves away from the mythical notion of the originality of the work to recognize the value that various users contribute through their modifications and adaptations to an existing work, thus placing a higher premium on collaborative rather than isolated production.
It is not at though the idea of collaborative production is a new one. In fact, the history of cultural production has, to a large extent, been the history of collaborative production, and this is true in all kinds of human achievements. Take for instance a few simple illustrations:
• The Oxford English Dictionary was only possible through the collaborative efforts of hundreds of people from across the world. It did not bear the tag of being an open model of production because it was created in a time when the myth of copyright backed by the power of large content owners had not yet engulfed the imagination of production.
• Hip-hop music has been about the ability to build on previous work by sampling and creating new works.
• The world of dance is marked by a constant culture of borrowing and building on previous efforts.
• Media design is constantly building upon and linking to the work of others.
The Open Content model also brings into place a community of givers and receivers who see themselves as linked within chains of reciprocity. So, while the formal trappings of the exclusivity of property may not exist, this does not mean that the social norms and etiquette governing relationships of creation and use within Open Content communities do not exist. The gift economy may, therefore, be a useful way of characterizing relations in Open Content projects. The gift is a fascinating phenomenon marked by complex relationships of reciprocities, and the idea that there is no such thing as a free gift is true, though not in the monetary sense of the term. The giving and taking of a gift sets in chain a complex relationship of reciprocity, where a gift transaction is always incomplete until the person receiving the gift has also given the gift back. While the relationship of reciprocity may be between the gift giver and the gift taker, it is certainly not restricted only to them. The exchange of the gift actually brings into play an economy of circulation, which includes a wider network of participation by members of the community.
The Raqs Media Collective says that:
The gift is something freely given, and taken, as in free code. Gift givers and gift takers are bound in networks of random or pre-meditated acts of symbolic exchange. The code begets the gift as the form of its own survival over time. In this way a gift is a quiet meme. Reciprocity begets reciprocity. The principle of the gift demands that the things being given be price-less, in other words so valuable as to be impossibe to quantify in terms of the possibilities of abstract generalized exchange.[ 54 ]
What was unique about the FOSS model was that it used the copyright regime for the first time to express this aspect of collaborative production, and also afford it protection to ensure that it remained within the public domain. Having gotten rid of the heavy burden of the myth of copyright, the challenge was then to translate the terms of the GNU GPL into other models of creative licensing would enable people to ct as collaborators / producers rather than merely as passive users, and also ensure that there is a rich public domain of materials that people can use and build on for the future.
Case Study:Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a global and multilingual web-based cooperative free-content encyclopedia.
It exists as a wiki, a type of website that allows visitors to edit its content; the word Wikipedia itself is a portmanteau of wiki and encyclopedia and is often abbreviated to WP by its users.Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers, allowing most articles to be changed by anyone with access to a computer,web browser and Internet connection. The project began on 15 January 2001 as a complement to the expert-written (and now defunct) Nupedia, and is now operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.Wikipedia has more than 3,800,000 articles in many languages, including more than 1,154,000 in the English-language version. Since its inception,Wikipedia has steadily risen in popularity and has spawned several sister projects.55 Wikipedia combines two core characteristics: First, it uses a collaborative authorship tool, a wiki. This platform enables anyone, including anonymous passers-by, to edit almost any page in the entire project. It stores all versions, makes changes easily visible, and enables anyone to revert a document to any prior version as well as to add changes, small and large. All contributions and changes are rendered transparent by the software and database. Second, it is a self-conscious effort at creating an encyclopedia – governed first and foremost by a collective informal undertaking to strive for a neutral point of view, within the limits of substantial self-awareness as to the difficulties of such an enterprise.56
• Kenneth F. Kister, Kister’s best encyclopedias: a comparative guide to general and specialized encyclopedias, (1994) p. 450. [Article count is for the 82-volume edition,
rather than the 119-volume one].
• Includes 10,000 historical archives.
† Number of encyclopedic articles.The Nationalencyklopedin contains a total of 356,000 entries.
‡ Kister, op. cit., p. 365.
§ Advertised as containing “over 63,000 articles, with 36,000-plus map locations and over 29,000 editor-approved website links.” The 2006 Premium CD-ROM had 68,000 articles.
It is important to note that the Wikipedia has also answered one of the usual criticisms against Open Content projects, namely, the question of the reliability of the information of knowledge that is produced. The journal Nature compared science articles from Wikipedia to the gold standard of the Encyclopædia Britannica and concluded that "the differene in accuracy was not particularly great."[ 57 ]
The Public DomainEdit
We have been using the idea of the public domain. What exactly do we mean by that? For the purposes of understanding cultural production, the public domain could be understood as the body of works to which we have access to create newer works. Thus, while Shakespeare was a brilliant playwright, we should also remember the fact that he drew rather liberally from various sources, from history, mythology and the works of his peers, etc. as inspiration and as sources to modify. Similarly, even Walt Disney had a rich variety of sources from which he could draw from to make his cartoon versions of Fantasia, Steamboat Willie, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, etc. This public domain has also often been referred to through the metaphor of the "commons" - resources that are not divided into individual bits of property but rather are jointly held so that anyone may use them without special permission. Think of public streets, parks, waterways, outer space, and creative works in the public domain - all of these things are, in a way, sub-set of the commons.[ 58 ]
The idea that a cultural good can be marked as an ‘original’, that it is therefore of higher
value, is in turn premised on the idea that goods once sold (or purchased, or in any other way transacted) perish, at least in an economic sense.Here, it is held that the transaction, and the transference of ownership onto the person of the consumer that it entails, ‘consumes’ the value of the good. It is as if the life of a thing is short-circuited when it is sold. It can no longer enter the chain of circulation (except at a diminished value) as a thing that could be used for different purposes by different people.Hence,once bought, an object becomes,‘second-hand’,‘used’,‘depreciated’ or in some general sense,‘degraded’. While this may be true of some material goods, (and is strictly true only for rapidly perishable goods) it is difficult to imagine how it can be true for non-material goods today – a recording of sounds or images, an arrangement of text or numbers, or a piece of software, loses nothing when it is reproduced, or is passed on from one user to another in a digital environment.With the arrival of digital encoding of information, it no longer makes sense to distinguish between an original (which attains only the status of an event, or an instance of its first emergence) and a copy, because the act of making of copies in and of itself need not involve any perceivable loss of information. In fact, with each instance of a data object moving from person to person, the information content contained within it may actually increase. It does not make sense to speak of ‘end users’ of digital information; rather it would be more accurate to speak of custodians who nurture pieces of information when they receive them, as part of a networked community of receivers who are also always givers – of users, who are also potentially, if not actually, producers. Thus, each person who becomes a custodian of the ‘material’ has the possibility of adding to it something that was not present before, before passing on a copy. It is in this way for instance,that ever-lengthening playlists of music make their way from hand to hand, or rather between disc to disc in a community of aficionados. There is nothing new in this process.The epics, stories, songs and sagas that represent in some ways the collective heritage of humanity have survived only because their custodians took care not to lock them into a system of ‘end usage’, and embellished them, adding to their health and vitality, before passing them on to others.When codes or languages closed in on themselves, allowing no ‘interpolations’ or trespasses after a point, they rapidly haemorrhaged.However, the contemporary digital environment does tend to give to this process an unprecedented velocity. Unlike commodities, gifts can accrue value to themselves as they pass from one person to another in a network of gift exchange. Raqs Media Collective, Value and its Other in Electronic Culture: Slave Ships and Private Galleons
Open/Collaborative Production and its AdvantagesEdit
It is as a response to the shrinking of the public domain through stronger enforcement of copyright laws that the FOSS and Open Content movements have emerged. What are some of the benefits of licensing works on an Open Content model rather than relying on the traditional copyright model? There may be a number of reasons and advantages for wanting to do so.[ 59 ]
• For most artists, musicians or designers who are not already established, the easiest way to make a name for yourself is by ensuring that your work is sen by a large number of people, and by a wide range of audiences, as this helps to popularize your work, and establish your reputation. Open Content licenses enable your work to circulate in a much wider manner than if there were restrictions on the work. Apart from making you more visible, this model of distribution also enables you to obtain more shows, more work, sponsorship, etc. The English music group Thermal and a Quarter based in Bangalore, for instance, have made their albums available online for people to download, to enable their fans to listen to them and attend more of their shows.
• Since the model of distribution relies, more often than not on a P2P system of sharing, it cuts out significant costs in terms of a middleman, an agent or a gallery who act as distributors. This is a system in which people can often contact the content creator directly rather than having to go through an institution of an individual who mediates on their behalf. Often creators who are struggling to establish themselves have no bargaining power with publishers, record companies, etc. since they do not have the ability to distribute on their own. The Open Content model, combined with the powers of the internet, is a great way for someone to establish themselves without having to rely on the big business model of authors and artists.
• The value of value - added distribution: One of the major advantages of using an Open Content model arises when you are looking at the distribution process not merely as the distribution of a final end product but also as a way of harnessing extra support and labour in projects which require, for instance, value-added contributions. An instance of this is "Distributed Proofreading." Originally unaffiliated with Project Gutenberg, the site is devoted to proofing Project Gutenberg e-texts more efficiently by distributing the volunteer proofreading function in smaller and more information - rich modules.[ 60 ]
• More often than not, people do not create content only for monetary reasons. They do it to express themselves, to share their works, to get an idea across, etc. In such cases, by licensing the work through an Open Content license, you have the ability to reach out to a much larger group of people as people can freely use your work, and distribute your work without the fear of violating your copyright.
• But leaving aside the romance of altruism, assuming that you do want to make money out of your work, it is important to remember that Free / Open Content is not inconsistent with the abiliy for you to charge for your work. The licensing model allows enough flexibility for you to determine the manner in which you will license the use of your work. For instance, while you may allow for academic uses and other not-for-profit use (or even charge for them), you could reserve the right to any commercial usage (such as distributing copies of a book for sale, or using a design on a t-shirt or website). Thus, you will still be able to charge for such usage.
• There are also cases of relatively unknown part-time musicians such as Allan Vilhan from Slovakia, working under the name Cargo Cult, who made his group's music available online for free and receives donations from people who have enjoyed the music (this and many similar stories are available at the Creative Commons website,
• The Internet model of distribution may seem like a disaster for large content companies or already-established artists (even that is contestable), but for emerging artists or creators who do not hve access to a great deal of capital investment, the Internet is truly a god-send in terms of its ability to reach out to a large number of people at a relatively low cost.
• There have been some recent examples of how people make their works available for free online, and yet this has not affected their offline sales. Science fiction author Cory Doctorow took advantage of this trend when he released an online version of his book, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom simultaneously with a print version of the book. The print version has done very well; in fact, it could even be argued that the print version has sold better as a result of the book having been distributed for free. This is very similar to allowing people to browse through a book in a shop before they decide whether they want to buy it.
• More and more people are realizing the value of collaborative content creation. By making their works available not only to a larger community of users but also a larger community of creators, they also realize that there is a value that is added to their work. Most Open Content licenses demand a detailed recording of the process of authorship, and every use of your work is also at the same time a record of your authorship. There is therefore a very significant attempt to move away from the binaries of originals and copies, to the idea of a rescension, a version or a re-mix that is neither a copy nor an original but instead a work that builds on existing work and yet has an autonomy of its own.
a narrative within oral, and from now onwards, digital cultures.Thus one can speak of a ‘southern’ or a ‘northern’ rescension of a myth, or of a ‘female’ or ‘male’ rescension of a story, or the possibility (to begin with) of Delhi/Berlin/Tehran ‘rescensions’ of a digital work. The concept of rescension is contraindicative of the notion of hierarchy. A rescension cannot be an improvement, nor can it connote a diminishing of value. A rescension is that version which does not act as a replacement for any other configuration of its constitutive materials. The existence of multiple rescensions is a guarantor of an idea or a work’s ubiquity.This ensures that the constellation of narrative, signs and images that a work embodies is present, and waiting for iteration at more than one site at any given time. Rescensions are portable and are carried within orbiting kernels within a space. Rescensions, taken together, constitute ensembles that may form an interconnected web of ideas, images and signs.61
• Some people may want to use the open licenses model for distributing their content simply because they are tired of the monopoly of the content industry and the limitations of the system of copyright. Thus, the idea of being able to contribute to an intellectual commons may seem highly attractive. Some people may be attracted by the notion of others building upon their work, or by the prospect of contributing to an intellectual commons.
• This idealism has not only inflicted young people who are used to an age of access, but even established stars like George Michael, who recently announced that he was not going to produce any commercial music in the future and that all of his music in the future will be available for free via the Internet.
• Very often, we forget that a lot of content owners - especially those in the world of academia or artists who benefit from endorsement grants from public bodies - are actually producing intellectual property using public resources. In such case, it is important for us to start thinking in terms of "public intellectual property for public money."
Case Study: Shoot, Share and Create
A Case For using Open Content by Documentary Film Makers
Copyright licensing makes the acquisition or use of a pre-existing work very expensive. If copyright owners have their way, then as a film maker, you may have to obtain a hundred copyright permissions before you use any music, clip, etc. while making your own film. Think about your own experiences. If you had to pay for every time you wanted to use a clip or a song, how much would that add to your overhead? A cautionary take: In 1990, Jon Else, an American documentary film maker was working on a documentary about Wagner’s ‘Ring Cycle’. The focus was stage-hands at the San Francisco Opera.Stage-hands are a particularly funny and colourful element of an opera. During a show, they hang out below the stage in the grips’ lounge and in the lighting loft.They make a perfect contrast to the art on the stage. During one of the performances, Else was shooting some stage-hands playing checkers. In one corner of the room was a television set.While the stage-hands played checkers and the opera company played Wagner,‘The Simpsons’ was playing on the television set. Else thought this shot would be great to use and he went ahead and shot it; he then decided to obtain permission to use the four-second clip from the owners of the copyright of ‘The Simpsons. While Matt Groening, the creator, did not have a problem,he did not own the copyright. However, Gracie Films, the owner, demanded that he pay them $10,000 for the use of the four seconds.
Else obviously could not afford to pay Gracie Films.He could have gone ahead and used the clip, and it would have fallen under his ‘fair use’ right to do so. But this was too risky given that Gracie Films had a record of pursuing copyright infringement cases, and the average costs of defending a law suit in the US is $250,000. The situation in the US is pretty bleak now, and any documentary film maker submitting a film to a broadcast organization has to get copyright clearances for all materials used, otherwise they refuse to broadcast the film.This sounds almost like countries where you have to obtain a censor certificate for films before broadcast. So why should documentary film makers start taking the Free Software movement seriously and think about similar licensing models for their works, as well as the very idea of collaborative production for the future?
Here are some sound reasons:
Distribution is a major headache: One of the biggest problems faced by documentary film makers has been the question of circulation and distribution. If the work were available freely (note, this does not mean that you cannot charge for the documentary, but means that a person who has bought a copy may make a copy and distribute it to others), there would be a far greater circulation of documentaries amongst other film makers, students, activists, scholars and general public. It is a fact that, currently, if you want to access documentaries, then you either have to approach the film maker or approach a non-governmental organization that keeps documentaries. Greater availability will ensure greater distribution and subsequently promote documentary film viewership.
If you have no problem, say so: I am sure that most documentary film makers do not mind if people circulate their work, but it is important to remember that unless you state explicitly that people have a right to do so or to otherwise use your work, it is presumed that they do not have the right. In that sense, copyright by default applies to your work, which is why it is important to start thinking in terms of a proactive licensing policy that allows people to use your work.
You do not have to waive all your rights: There may be one or two immediate concerns that arise. If I make my work available, isn’t there a danger that someone will use my materials and pass them off as their own work?
By licensing under an ‘Open Content’ license, you do not waive all your rights as the author of the work. It is really up to you to determine the nature of the usage involved. For instance, you could have a license that allows the work only to be copied for non-profit purposes (thus, I would not be able to make a hundred copies of your work and then start selling them for profit). Similarly, by licensing under an Open Content license,you do not loose your other rights, such as the right to be identified as the author of the work, and so on. You may or may not allow someone to modify the work or use significant portions.
Film makers do not live off of royalties: More importantly is the fact that most documentary film makers do not live off royalty earnings in any case. Their films are either commissioned or they earn some money from various prizes, invitations and the like. So, fear of lost revenue cannot be a very serious one.But apart from the film maker’s fear of potential revenue loss is a more important issue.When a film maker is commissioned to make a film, it is important to ask where that money comes from. If the money comes from public funding, there should be no reason why the film should then become the private property of an individual film maker. Let’s assume that the money that is provided for the film is not that great and cannot be measured in terms of the efforts that the film maker has put in. It is important to acknowledge that the film maker still benefits in terms of experience, credits, recognition, future assignments, etc.
Film-making is collaborative by nature: Copyright’s myth of the individual creator genius is perhaps more violently expressed in film-making. Film-making, as we all know, is perhaps one of the most collaborative of the arts, and the amount of diverse labour that goes into it is incredible. Yet, for the purposes of copyright, the author of the film is considered to be a single individual, namely, the producer of the film. To its credit, the system of credits in film-making, especially in feature film, still recognizes this process of joint authorship. Another issue, of course, is to recognize the hundreds and thousands of influences and inspirations that have gone into our own films.We need to work beyond the assumed myths of copyright law, and develop alternative practices that recognize the multiplicity that goes into the making of a film.
When this principle is extended to the making of films, we can start thinking in terms of the great benefit that making film footage available has on film-making itself. I think at this point we really need to laud the efforts taken by a few documentary film makers post the riots in Gujarat in which thousands of Muslims were killed, in the form of the shared footage project. Given that documentary film makers in India are a small community, it is important to start thinking in terms of the benefits of collaboration, prime among which will obviously be vast amounts of footage available to be used.
Copyright increasingly threatens creativity: If copyright is increasingly threatening creativity, then one of the means of protecting this creativity is by ensuring that we take proactive steps that build towards an ethic of the public domain in our own practices as well. One thing is sure: the digital revolution has arrived.You have more and more people from non-film making backgrounds who want to experiment with films, use them in the course of their work, etc. In that sense, the media and the medium is no longer external to any of our practices. At some level, whether we are academics or lawyers or activists, we all have to start thinking of ourselves as media professionals as well.And the great thing that digital media has done is that it has enabled almost any person to become a low-cost production studio.
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//
// Declaration of the MyUserControl class.
//
#pragma once
#include "winrt/Windows.UI.Xaml.h"
#include "winrt/Windows.UI.Xaml.Markup.h"
#include "winrt/Windows.UI.Xaml.Interop.h"
#include "MyUserControl.g.h"
namespace winrt::SampleUserControl::implementation
{
struct MyUserControl : MyUserControlT<MyUserControl>
{
MyUserControl();
hstring MyProperty();
void MyProperty(hstring value);
void Button_Click(winrt::Windows::Foundation::IInspectable const& sender, winrt::Windows::UI::Xaml::RoutedEventArgs const& e);
};
}
namespace winrt::SampleUserControl::factory_implementation
{
struct MyUserControl : MyUserControlT<MyUserControl, implementation::MyUserControl>
{
};
}
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
namespace Lib.Interfaces
{
public interface IScore
{
int TotalScore { get; set; }
}
}
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In FIG. 6C, at 606 the WTRU1 may request relocation of the MEC application instance (e.g., to improve communication latency following movement of WTRU1). This request may include a second target ID with a value among those described with respect to step 603, but typically different from the target ID provided at 603. Alternatively or additionally, the MEAO may decide to relocate the MEC application instance (e.g., based on monitoring of WTRU1's location).
At 607, the MEC system may select an effective target WTRU (hereafter referred to as “WTRU3”) based on the value of a target ID from step 606. WTRU3 may be a MEC host located in a local area data network, or a WTRU enhanced for an on-WTRU MEC as described in FIG. 4. The MEC system may trigger the creation of a new suitably located second MEC application instance on WTRU3. The state from the first MEC application instance may be transferred to the second MEC application instance. In some embodiments, the first MEC application instance may be paused from this point on.
At 607 a, as part of this process, the MEC system may send an Instantiate App Request message to WTRU3, which may include a TIRSI and/or a D2D flag.
At 608, upon creation of the MEC application instance (e.g., when MEC application instance requests connectivity), the WTRU3 may initiate connectivity to WTRU1.
At 608 a, the WTRU3 may trigger a PDU session establishment for the MEC application instance traffic. A PDU session establishment request message may include the TIRSI. The AMF may select the SMF based on the TIRSI. The SMF may retrieve an old PDU session context, release the old PDU session, and/or allocate to the new PDU session the IP address that was used in the old PDU session. The SMF may associate the TIRSI with the new PDU session context.
At 608 b, if applicable, WTRU3 may initiate the establishment of a D2D link to WTRU1, and route traffic between the client and MEC application instance over this link.
At 608 c, if WTRU3 and WTRU1 are the same WTRU, WTRU3 and/or WTRU1 may set local forwarding rules to enable traffic between client and MEC application instance to stay local on the WTRU.
As shown in FIG. 6D, at 608 d, when old the PDU session associated with a TIRSI is released, WTRU2 may use the TIRSI to retrieve and remove local forwarding rules and/or D2D link.
At 609, WTRU3 may send a response message to the MEC system. The MEC system may send an Application Context Create Response message to WTRU1. At this point, connectivity may be established between a client application on WTRU1 and a second MEC application instance on WTRU3.
FIG. 7 illustrates an example of PDU session establishment to a V-DN. In this example, there may be additional details on how client-MEC application instance connectivity is established when the MEC application instance is on the client WTRU, in a local virtual DN as described in FIG. 4. These details may be used, for example, in Approach A (i.e., when the MEC application instance is on the client WTRU) and shown in steps 505 and 510 of FIGS. 5A and 5B. These details may also be used in Approach B, for example, at steps 605 c and 608 c as shown in FIGS. 6A and 6B. While not illustrated in FIG. 7, as this example may focus on demonstrating V-DN and virtual UPFs, when these details are implemented in Approach A or Approach B, the TIRSI information element may be present in a PDU session establishment request.
At 701, the WTRU may decide to request a local PDU session for the client application, setting as DNN the name of local virtual DN.
At 702 the WTRU may send, to an AMF, a PDU session establishment request message, where the DNN field may be set to the name of the Virtual DN on the WTRU. This name may be known by the WTRU or configured at the WTRU. The name may use a scheme such as “<ue-id>.<mec-operator-domain>.local.”
At 703, the AMF may select an SMF, at least in part, based on the fact that DNN is a virtual DN. For example, a single SMF may handle all connections to V-DNs corresponding to a given MEC operator.
At 704 the AMF may forward the PDU session establishment request within a CreateSMContext Request message sent to the SMF.
At 705 the SMF may retrieve subscription information for the WTRU. At 706 the SMF may send a CreateSMContext Request response.
At 707 an optional secondary authentication/authorization may take place. This may involve a DN-AAA server which is located in another DN than the V-DN. For example, the SMF may be configured with a DN-AAA server to use for all WTRUs requesting a V-DN related to a given MEC operator domain.
At 708, the SMF may select a PCF and establish or modify a policy association. The SMF may select UPF, which may be in some cases such as this, a virtual UPF on the WTRU).
At 709, the SMF may send a N4 session establishment or modification request to V-UPF. This message may be sent over an N11 interface to the AMF and then over an N1 interface to the WTRU. This message may include any IE used in N4 messages between the SMF and UPF. Such messages may include those used for packet detection, enforcement, and reporting rules to be installed on the virtual UPF. In some embodiments, the V-DN name may be present, which may help support cases where multiple V-DNs are present on the WTRU. This message may be a simplified version of the current N4 message. For example, QoS enforcement and marking rules may not be necessary over the loopback interface. In one or more embodiments, the message may be limited to only a few IEs, such as the packet detection rules and V-DN name.
At 710, the virtual UPF may set packet filtering and forwarding rules as per an SMF request. The virtual UPF may perform additional actions, depending on the content of the message of 709. For example, this may include counting and reporting traffic statistics, performing traffic forwarding or recording for legal traffic interception, and the like. At 711, the virtual UPF may send back a response to SMF over the same path as the request.
At 712, the SMF may send a PDU Session Establishment Accept message to the WTRU through the AMF. At this point, user plane traffic may be enabled between the client application and the local virtual UPF.
D2D link establishment in procedures for Approach A and Approach B may be performed through a D2D control function. In some embodiments, the WTRU may request a PDU session establishment, and then the SMF may request a virtual UPF to perform a D2D link establishment. The example described in FIG. 7 may be extended to cases where the virtual DN is on a different WTRU than the client application (e.g., client application is on WTRU1, and a virtual DN is on WTRU2). In such cases, the N4 message described with respect to 709 may reach a virtual UPF on WTRU1 or WTRU2. In 710, a virtual UPF on WTRU1 or WTRU2 may establish a D2D link to the other WTRU and set up the traffic rules to forward user plane traffic over this D2D link.
In some situations, the techniques described herein may be applied to cases where the MEC application is a pass-through application. In such cases, no IP address may need to be allocated to the MEC application instances for data plane traffic, and no IP address may need to be transferred. Besides this aspect, the procedures described herein may be applicable to pass-through MEC application instance relocation (e.g., TIRSI can still be used by 5GS to retrieve the old PDU session context during an MEC application instance relocation procedure).
Similarly, the techniques described herein may be applied to application-assisted instance relocation (e.g., applications that support a redirection mechanism based on HTTP, SIP, etc.). In such cases, there may be no need to reuse the same IP address for data plane traffic. The second MEC application instance may use a new IP address and let the application deal with redirection (e.g., first MEC application instance may redirect the client towards the second instance). Similarly, application session state transfer may be performed at the application layer (e.g., through the client). Besides these aspects, the procedures described herein are applicable to application-assisted MEC application instance relocation. For example, a TIRSI may still be used by 5GS to retrieve the old PDU session context during an MEC application instance relocation procedure).
The techniques described herein may be applied to support cases where the MEC application is stateless. In this case, the application state transfer related messages may be omitted, and no application state may need to be provided in create application instance messages. Additionally, the techniques described herein may be combined to support different types of applications, such as stateless pass-through applications.
While the techniques disclosed herein may discuss one logical SMF, multiple physical SMFs may be involved. SMFs may store session management subscription data in a Unified Data Management network function (UDM). For a 5G system, an SMF may retrieve session management subscription data associated with a given WTRU, for example, by using the WTRU's Subscription Permanent Identifier (SUFI) as a key as follows: “GET . . . /{supi}/sm-data”.
To support the mechanism described herein, a UDM may provide an API to retrieve a session context using TIRSI. For example, SMF may send a “GET . . . /sm-data” query along with a new query parameter “tirsi=<value>”. The UDM may maintain a list of TIRSI-associated PDU sessions in its internal state, or in a table stored in UDR, that the UDM uses (possibly with UDR support) to search for a PDU session matching the value of the new query parameter. The UDM may then return the corresponding session management subscription data to the SMF, therefore enabling MEC application instance relocation across multiple-SMFs.
An in-network entity, such as a MEAO, may decide to relocate an application instance from a WTRU/MEC host to another WTRU/MEC host. For example, a MEAO may receive a notification that a client WTRU has changed its attachment point and decide based on the new attachment point location to relocate an application instance serving this WTRU, such as to an application server collocated with the new attachment point. Therefore, relocation procedures described herein may be triggered by MEAO without an Mx2 message from a WTRU.
Although features and elements are described above in particular combinations, one of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that each feature or element can be used alone or in any combination with the other features and elements. In addition, the methods described herein may be implemented in a computer program, software, or firmware incorporated in a computer-readable medium for execution by a computer or processor. Examples of computer-readable media include electronic signals (transmitted over wired or wireless connections) and computer-readable storage media. Examples of computer-readable storage media include, but are not limited to, a read only memory (ROM), a random access memory (RAM), a register, cache memory, semiconductor memory devices, magnetic media such as internal hard disks and removable disks, magneto-optical media, and optical media such as CD-ROM disks, and digital versatile disks (DVDs). A processor in association with software may be used to implement a radio frequency transceiver for use in a WTRU, UE, terminal, base station, RNC, or any host computer.
1-19. (canceled)
20. A method for transparent relocatable application deployment performed by a client wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), the method comprising: transmitting a first message including: information indicating a request to deploy a relocatable application instance, information indicating that the client WTRU supports relocation of application instances, and information designating one or more target devices; receiving a second message including information indicating to establish communication with an application instance on one of the one or more target devices; initiating, in response to the second message, communication with the one of the one or more target devices via the application instance; transmitting a third message including information indicating a request to relocate the application instance; receiving a fourth message including information indicating to establish communication with the relocated application instance and configuration information for forwarding data to the relocated application instance, wherein the relocated application instance is deployed locally at the client WTRU; and receiving a fifth message including user traffic data to be forwarded, based on the received configuration information, to the relocated application instance.
21. The method of claim 20, wherein the fourth message is received from a core network via a radio access network (RAN).
22. The method of claim 20, wherein the information designating the one or more target devices is one of: an identifier associated with a single device; or a generic designation associated with one or more devices.
23. The method of claim 20 further comprising receiving a message including information indicating to deploy the application instance locally at the client WTRU.
24. The method of claim 20, wherein the one or more target devices include the client WTRU.
25. The method of claim 20, wherein the fifth message including user traffic data to be forwarded to the relocated application instance is included in a transmission received from another device.
26. The method of claim 20, wherein the fifth message including user traffic data to be forwarded to the relocated application instance is received from a local client application operating at the client WTRU.
27. The method of claim 20, wherein communication with the application instance and communication with the relocated application instance are initiated using different Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.
28. The method of claim 20, wherein communication with the application instance and communication with the relocated application instance are initiated using a same Internet Protocol (IP) address that is associated with a relocatable session.
29. The method of claim 28, wherein the IP address that is associated with the relocatable session is a transparent instance relocation session identifier (TIRSI).
30. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU configured to deploy a transparent relocatable application, the WTRU comprising: a transmitter configured to transmit a first message including: information indicating a request to deploy a relocatable application instance, information indicating that the client WTRU supports relocation of application instances, and information designating one or more target devices; a received configured to receive a second message including information indicating to establish communication with an application instance on one of the one or more target devices; the transmitter configured to, in response to the second message, communication with the one of the one or more target devices via the application instance; the transmitter configured to transmit a third message including information indicating a request to relocate the application instance; the receiver configured to receive a fourth message including information indicating to establish communication with the relocated application instance and configuration information for forwarding data to the relocated application instance, wherein the relocated application instance is deployed locally at the client WTRU; and the receiver configured to receive a fifth message including user traffic data to be forwarded, based on the received configuration information, to the relocated application instance.
31. The WTRU of claim 30, the receiver configured to receive the fourth message from a core network via a radio access network (RAN).
32. The WTRU of claim 30, wherein the information designating the one or more target devices is one of: an identifier associated with a single device; or a generic designation associated with one or more devices.
33. The WTRU of claim 30, the receiver configured to receive a message including information indicating to deploy the application instance locally at the client WTRU.
34. The WTRU of claim 30, wherein the one or more target devices include the client WTRU.
35. The WTRU of claim 30, wherein the fifth message including user traffic data to be forwarded to the relocated application instance is included in a transmission received from another device.
36. The WTRU of claim 30, wherein the fifth message including user traffic data to be forwarded to the relocated application instance is received from a local client application operating at the client WTRU.
37. The WTRU of claim 30, wherein communication with the application instance and communication with the relocated application instance are initiated using different Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.
38. The WTRU of claim 30, wherein communication with the application instance and communication with the relocated application instance are initiated using a same Internet Protocol (IP) address that is associated with a relocatable session.
39. The WTRU of claim 38, wherein the IP address that is associated with the relocatable session is a transparent instance relocation session identifier (TIRSI)..
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Tezcatlipoca: Aztec God of Night and Smoking Mirrors
The Skull of the Smoking Mirror, Cult Representation of Tezcatlipoca
Representation of Tezcatlipoca.
Critian Roberti / Flickr / CC BY-ND 2.0
Tezcatlipoca (Tez-ca-tlee-POH-ka), whose name means “Smoking Mirror”, was the Aztec god of night and sorcery, as well as the patron deity of Aztec kings and young warriors. As with many Aztec gods, he was associated with several aspects of Aztec religion, the sky, and the earth, winds and the north, kingship, divination, and war. For the different aspects he embodied, Tezcatlipoca was also known as the Red Tezcatlipoca of the West, and the Black Tezcatlipoca of the North, associated with death and cold.
According to Aztec mythology, Tezcatlipoca was a vengeful god, who could see and punish any evil behavior or action happening on earth. For these qualities, Aztec kings were considered Tezcatlipoca’s representatives on earth; at their election, they had to stand in front of the god’s image and perform several ceremonies in order to legitimize their right to rule.
A Supreme Deity
Recent research suggests that Tezcatlipoca was one of the most important gods in the Late Postclassic Aztec pantheon. He was an old-style pan-Mesoamerican god, considered the embodiment of the natural world, a frightening figure who was both omnipresent--on earth, in the land of the dead, and in the sky--and omnipotent. He rose to importance during the politically dangerous and unstable times of the Late Postclassic Aztec and early Colonial periods.
Tezcatlipoca was known as the Lord of the Smoking Mirror. That name is a reference to obsidian mirrors, circular flat shiny objects made of volcanic glass, as well as a symbolic reference to the smoke of battle and sacrifice. According to ethnographic and historical sources, he was very much a god of light and shadow, of the sound and smoke of bells and battle. He was closely associated with obsidian (itzli in the Aztec language) and jaguars (ocelotl). Black obsidian is of the earth, highly reflective and a vital part of human blood sacrifices. Jaguars were the epitome of hunting, warfare, and sacrifice to the Aztec people, and Tezcatlipoca was the familiar feline spirit of Aztec shamans, priests, and kings.
Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl
Tezcatlipoca was the son of the god Ometéotl, who was the original creator entity. One of Tezcatlipoca’s brothers was Quetzalcoatl. Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca joined forces to create the surface of the earth but later became fierce enemies in the city of Tollan. For this reason, Quetzalcoatl is sometimes known as the White Tezcatlipoca to distinguish him from his brother, the Black Tezcatlipoca.
Many Aztec legends hold that Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl were the gods who originated the world, told in the myth of the Legend of the Fifth Sun. According to Aztec mythology, prior to the current times, the world had passed through a series of four cycles, or “suns”, each one represented by a specific deity, and each one ending in a turbulent way. The Aztecs believed they lived in the fifth and last epoch. Tezcatlipoca ruled the first sun when the world was inhabited by giants. A fight between Tezcatlipoca and the god Quetzalcoatl, who wanted to replace him, put an end to this first world with the giants being devoured by jaguars.
Opposing Forces
The opposition between Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca is reflected in the legend of the mythical city of Tollan. The legend reports that Quetzalcoatl was a peaceful king and priest of Tollan, but he was deceived by Tezcatlipoca and his followers, who practiced human sacrifice and violence. Ultimately, Quetzalcoatl was forced into exile.
Some archaeologists and historians believe that the legend of the fight between Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl refers to historical events such as the clash of different ethnic groups from the North and Central Mexico.
Tezcatlipoca’s Festivities
To Tezcatlipoca was dedicated one of the most ostentatious and imposing ceremonies of the Aztec religious calendar year. This was the Toxcatl or One Drought sacrifice, which was celebrated at the height of the dry season in May and involved the sacrifice of a boy. A young man was chosen at the festival among the most physically perfect prisoners. For the next year, the young man personified Tezcatlipoca, traveling through the Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlan attended by servants, fed with delicious food, wearing the finest clothing, and being trained in music and religion. About 20 days before the final ceremony he was married to four virgins who entertained him with songs and dances; together they wandered Tenochtitlan's streets.
The final sacrifice took place at Toxcatl's May celebrations. The young man and his entourage traveled to the Templo Mayor in Tenochtitlan, and as he walked up the stairs of the temple he played music with four flutes that represented the world's directions; he would destroy the four flutes on his way up the stairs. When he reached the top, a group of priests carried out his sacrifice. As soon as this happened, a new boy was chosen for the following year.
Tezcatlipoca’s Images
In his human form, Tezcatlipoca is easily recognizable in codex images by the black stripes painted on his face, depending on the aspect of the god that was represented, and by an obsidian mirror on his chest, through which he could see all human thoughts and actions. Symbolically, Tezcatlipoca is also often represented by an obsidian knife.
Tezcatlipoca is sometimes illustrated as the jaguar deity Tepeyollotl ("Heart of the Mountain"). Jaguars are the patron of sorcerers and closely associated with the moon, Jupiter, and Ursa Major. In some images, a smoking mirror replaces Tezcatlipoca's lower leg or foot.
The earliest recognized representations of the pan-Mesoamerican god Tezcatlipoca are associated with Toltec architecture at the Temple of Warriors at Chichén Itzá, dated to AD 700-900. There is also at least one image of Tezcatlipoca at Tula; the Aztecs clearly associated Tezcatlipoca with the Toltecs. But images and contextual references to the god became much more abundant during the Late Postclassic period, at Tenochtitlan and Tlaxcallan sites such as Tizatlan. There are a few Late Postclassic images outside the Aztec empire including one at Tomb 7 at the Zapotec capital of Monte Alban in Oaxaca, which may represent a continuing cult.
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In two player/etc I'll often accidentally press X to select my character, when to pick an explicit palette from a list you need to press Start (otherwise a palette is mapped to whatever button you press and you get that one). Is there any way to cancel out of this palette choice so I can choose again? If I press circle (cancel in PS3 controls) it just continues anyway.
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Pressing Select (PS3, probably the same on 360) will act as "cancel" anywhere in the Character Select screen. This lets you cancel out of a palette, character or assist choice.
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Normal blood pressure and hypertension were defined according to age and sex based on the data on Japanese children. When high blood pressure is found, both white-coat and secondary hypertension should be excluded. Subsequently lifestyle modifications should be initiated in children and adolescents with essential hypertension. These modifications include: weight reduction, reduction of dietary salt intake, high dietary potassium intake and increased physical activity. When nonpharmacologic treatment is not effective after 3 to 6 months, or when there is an evidence of target organ injury, antihypertensive drugs such as ACE inhibitors and Ca antagonists will be started to control blood pressure. Lifestyle modifications are also important for primary prevention of hypertension in normotensive children. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '73b3a2c7d71eed5a2961755a7f6dcef291a70e486ee9ed57901bb8527e5be527'} |
History of the Canadian Slovak League
kanadska slovenska liga
Since 1886, after the first groups of Slovaks settled in Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, many Slovak associations were founded in Canada. Most were just focused on the cooperative efforts of own members, not interested in the destiny of their homeland.
In 1932, the leaders of the Slovak League in America decided to have its own organization in Canada.
This turned out to be the best and most reliable base for self-help, maintaining their Slovak heritage while integrating into the multilingual and multicultural Canadian society. Mass immigration to Canada began after WWI, primarily after 1925 when the USA reduced the immigration quotas from Central Europe. Slovaks, in their desire for a better life, turned their attention to a new and little known country, Canada. Initially, there were few immigrants to Canada. In later years their number grew to about 1,500 immigrants a year. Statistics from 1921 show that there were only 1,500 Slovak immigrants in all of Canada in that year.
In the following decades their numbers grew to more than 35,000. According to the statistical data from year 1961, there were more than 42,000 residents of Slovak heritage. In reality, there should be around 65,000 Slovaks in Canada. As elsewhere, Slovaks have moved to Canada mainly for economic reasons, however, there were also political grounds. Most have arrived with the intent to earn money, pay back their ticket to Canada, save few dollars, and then return home. Fate has crossed their plans. When they’ve settled in Canada, they quickly recognized that one can have a better life here than at home; many did not wait long and brought here their families, which caused a more intense social and organized life of Slovaks in Canada.
In December 1932, the Slovak League in Canada was founded in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It was established from the branches of the Slovak League in America that already existed in Eastern and Western Canada. This new, independent, Canadian-Slovak organization was not born from some ungratefulness toward the American Slovaks, but from the necessity and urgent needs to have an independent organization focused solely on the needs and aspirations of Slovaks in Canada. In February 1934, Slovak League in Canada received its “Dominion Charter” that caused a name change to Canadian Slovak League. Its founders were Andrej Kučera, Juraj Rondoš a Pavol A. Sabo.
There were several attempts to unite Slovak organizations, mainly the Canadian Slovak League and the Slovak Benefit Society, the two largest. The closest it came to achieve such unity was in 1970 when both organizations called their Conventions to ratify the merger. After considering several options, they have parted without a unification agreement because neither agreed to change its name. Today, both organizations struggle for their existence, stemming from a shortage of new immigration. Old immigrants are fading away, the last bigger wave was in 1968, and even they have stayed away from associations because they disliked organizing. They’ve chosen an easier path and have assimilated into the Canadian society.
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Chemical Kinetic Strategies for High-Throughput Screening of Protein Aggregation Modulators.
Insoluble aggregates staining positive to amyloid dyes are known histological hallmarks of different neurodegenerative disorders and of type II diabetes. Soluble oligomers are smaller assemblies whose formation prior to or concomitant with amyloid deposition has been associated to the processes of disease propagation and cell death. While the pathogenic mechanisms are complex and differ from disease to disease, both types of aggregates are important biological targets subject to intense investigation in academia and industry. Here we review recent advances in the fundamental understanding of protein aggregation that can be used on the development of anti-amyloid and anti-oligomerization drugs. Specifically, we pinpoint the chemical kinetic aspects that should be attended during the development of high-throughput screening assays and in the hit validation phase. The strategies here devised are expected to establish a connection between basic research and pharmaceutical innovation. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '14312c811871e43b9c841ee90eea6a28f37642bf85c027d5062c6f55e164b4d9'} |
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WASHINGTON — This week, the Pentagon is expected to release its plan outlining next steps in the long-stalled effort to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center.
The plan assesses seven possible U.S. sites — including one in Colorado — for housing detainees who officials believe should never be released.
According to administration officials, the plan makes no recommendations on which of the U.S. sites is preferred and provides no rankings. But it lists the prison sites in Colorado, South Carolina and Kansas that a Pentagon assessment team reviewed in recent months and mentions advantages and disadvantages for the facilities. Those elements can include the facilities' locations, costs for renovations and construction, the ability to house troops and hold military commission hearings, and health care facilities.
The report says the Centennial South Correctional (Colorado State Penitentiary II) facility in Cañon City, which was toured in October, has advantages that could outweigh the disadvantages there, according to officials, but no details were available and no conclusions have been reached.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
The plan represents a last-gasp effort by the Obama administration to convince staunch opponents in Congress that dangerous detainees who can't be transferred safely to other countries should be housed in a U.S.-based prison.
Any decision to select a U.S. facility would require congressional approval — something U.S. lawmakers say is unlikely.
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The Pentagon plan also lays out the effort to reduce the detainee population at Guantanamo, through transfers to other countries. The center now holds 112 detainees, and 53 are eligible for transfer. The rest are either facing trial by military commission or the government has determined that they are too dangerous to release.
In order to approve a transfer, Defense Secretary Ash Carter must conclude that the detainees will not return to terrorism or the battlefield upon release and that there is a host country willing to take them and guarantee they will secure them.
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O Love, How Strangely Sweet
O LOVE, how strangely sweet
Are thy weak passions,
That Love and Joy should meet
In self-same fashions!
Oh, who can tell
The cause why this should move?
But only this:
No reason ask of Love.
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LA RADIA (1933)
1. theater because radio has killed the theater already defeated by sound drama
3. books because the book which is guilty of having made humanity myopic implies something heavy strangled stifled fossilized and frozen (only the great freeword tableaux shall live, the only poetry that needs to be seen)
1. the space and stage necessary to theater including Futurist synthetic theater (action unfolding on a fixed and constant stage) and to cinema (actions unfolding on very rapid variable simultaneous and always realistic stages)
2. time
3. unity of action
4. dramatic character
5. the audience as self-appointed judging mass systematically hostile and servile always against the new always retrograde
1. Freedom from all point of contact with literary and artistic tradition. Any attempt to link la radia with tradition is grotesque
2. A new art that begins where theater cinema and narrative end
3. The immensification of space. No longer visible and framable the stage becomes universal and cosmic
4. The reception amplification and transfiguration of vibrations emitted by living beings living or dead spirits dramas of wordless noise-states
5. The reception amplification and transfigurahon of vibrations emitted by matter. Just as today we listen to the song of the forest and the sea so tomorrow shall we be seduced by the vibrations of a diamond or a flower
6. A pure organism of radio sensations
7. An art without time or space without yesterday or tomorrow. The possibility of receiving broadcast stations situated in various time zones and the lack of light will destroy the hours of the day and night. The reception and amplification of the light and the voices of the past with thermoionic valves will destroy time
8. The synthesis of infinite simultaneous actions
9. Human universal and cosmic art as voice with a true psychology-spirituality of the sounds of the voice and of silence
10. The characteristic life of every noise and the infinite variety of concrete/abstract and real/dreamt through the agency of a people of noises
11. Struggles of noises and of various distances that is spatial drama joined with temporal drama
12. Words in freedom. The word has gradually developed into a collaborator of mime and gesture. The word must be recharged with all its power hence an essential and totalitarian word which in Futurist theory is called word-atmosphere. Words in freedom children of the aesthetics of machines contain an orchestra of noises and noise-chords (realistic and abstract) which alone can aid the colored and plastic word in the lightning-fast representation of what is not seen. If he does not wish to resort to words in freedom the radiast must express himself in that freeword style which is already widespread in avant-garde novels and newspapers that typically swift quick synthetic simultaneous freeword style
13. Isolated word repetitions of verbs in the infinitive
14. Essential art
15. Gastronomic amorous gymnastic etc. music
16. The utilization of noises sounds chords harmonies musical or noise simultaneities of silence all with their graduations of appaggiatura crescendo and decrescendo which will become strange brushes for painting delimiting and coloring the infinite darkness of la radia by giving squareness roundness spheric in short
17. The utilization of interference between stations and of the birth and evanescence of the sounds
18. The delimitation and geometric construction of silence
19. The utilization of the various resonances of voice or sound in order to give a sense of the size of the place in which the voice is uttered.
The characterization as the silent as semisilent atmosphere that surrounds and colors a given voice sound or noise
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Soviet propaganda played a large part in blinding the people to real truths of what their government was doing. A common citizen would never see any statistic regarding the amount of people that had been taken to the gulags, or any statistic that showed a negative image of the Soviet Union.
The year this poster was created, 1935, and the Soviet Union was in the middle of their second five-year plan. In the first plan, which went from 1928 to 1932, Stalin insisted that the nation increase its labor production significantly. For example, it was demanded that electric power increased by 335%. This plan is considered a success by many because of how it helped transition the Soviet Union into an industrial nation.
The second plan called for similar, if not increased, expectations as well as a focus on heavy industry. It looked to make the soviet infrastructure and communication systems stronger, such as railroads and bridges, which had become evident during the previous plan that they were a burden. It incorporated fresher ideas when it came to increasing production, which comprised of penalties, rewards and child-care for helping get the mothers to contribute more. The second plan has been labeled as a failure because it did not reach the goals that were set in place for it, specifically in the oil and coal industries. This can be attributed to the fact that many of the factory managers had been disposed of during Stalin’s purge known as the Great Terror. It also lowered the standard of living in the USSR. This is because factories were more worried about how much product they were making rather than how well the product was being made. Factories often times had to inflate their production numbers to cope with the massive expectations they were expected to reach, despite being almost unattainable.
Capitalism at this time was viewed as the enemy of the progress the Soviet Union had been making. Capitalism is where the countries trade and industry are controlled by private owners for their own profit and is the opposite of the socialist society in the USSR. In many other instances of propaganda, people who were regarded as capitalist were seen as trying to slow down the train of the five-year plans. The title of this poster being as it is shows that it will take a group effort from the people to stop the capitalist from destroying the development of the Soviet Union.
The most noticeable part of the image is the two men at the forefront. The men are dressed as an everyday man in the Soviet Union would be, that is with work boots, pants that are held up by a belt and dirty, but not torn, shirt. They appear to be young, but experienced. They also walk closely together and hand in hand to show that they are united. The men are strong and well put together, showing no signs of weakness. Their faces showing no signs of worry. Prominent jaws and thick forearms show they have been forged in the everyday battle and fire that is their lives. Closely behind them are legions of people who are like them in complexion, clothing and intent. They carry rifles, which shows that they are ready for a fight with whatever may attempt to stop them. The title says that they are ready to “storm” capitalism. Storm is an aggressive word and it displays the mindset these people have. They will not go quietly, but rather disrupt and destroy anything that comes into their path, like a storm would. There also appears to be military training involved because they march in an orderly fashion and step with the same foot.
Most of the people in the image are men, but there is the inclusion of the lone women on the right side. She too dresses like the men, carries a weapon like the men and will fight the same battle as the men, because every person, regardless of gender, can play a role in the fight against capitalism in the eyes of the Soviet Union.
The text in the image does not call for people to join this movement like the famous Uncle Sam “I want you” poster did where it tells the viewer straight to them, rather it employs a “join us or get out of our way” strategy based on imagery and the text tells the viewer who they are. People have a natural tendency to join the crowd, especially if they are doing as well as the Soviet Union was doing at that time. Or at least as well they are told the Soviet Union is doing at the time. Since the Soviet system is based on the people, they want to include everyone that they can and they also want to please those that are doing the hard manual labor and instill them with the confidence that their system is continuing to do well.
United Front for the storming of Capitalism
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package com.example.trent.assignment1;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.TextView;
public class Adventure5 extends AppCompatActivity {
TextView attackPhrase;
Button winner5;
Button Adventure3;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_adventure5);
//When "showButton" is pressed:
Button showButton = findViewById(R.id.btnAttack5);
showButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener()
{
@Override
public void onClick(View view)
{
//textviews becomes visible.
TextView attackPhrase = findViewById(R.id.attackPhrase5);
attackPhrase.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
Button winner = findViewById(R.id.winner5);
winner.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
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});
}
//When the function is called, sends user to "FinalAdventure" screen.
public void sendBack5(View view)
{
Intent intent = new Intent (this, FinalAdventure.class);
startActivity(intent);
}
}
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Boat trips on the Adèle
Attractions and places of interest
Trips and Tours
Leaving from the Pont Tournant, the Adèle operate various boat trips in the summer. Daily boat trips with a commentary can be taken around the harbour, unveiling the secrets of the largest man-made harbour in the world, as well as its sea walls and fortifications.
Other boat trips include a trip about the Titanic and emigration looking at the development of the Cherbourg sea ports from 1904, including the shipping companies and their vessels, and the naval base and the arsenal, as well as learning about emigration at the beginning of the 20th century. You will even see where the Titanic was anchored.
The Adèle also operates a 3-hour cruise around the coastal waters of La Hague, narrated by an experienced guide. Or, you can enjoy a boat tour at night and explore the wonders of the night sky with experts from the Ludiver Planetarium. A great opportunity to find out more about the constellations, as well as the tides and weather, and how to navigate by the stars.
Booking is essential for some boat trips, and the content and topics of trips are subject to change.
Nearby attractions
Cherbourg's markets are mainly held in the Place du Gaulle, which is named after the great French hero and has, at different times in history, been known as Castle Square and Freedom Square.
Cherbourg has been an important naval base since the 19th century and it was Napoleon himself who pushed for Cherbourg to be a major transatlantic port by creating large artifical breakwaters.
An unmissable attraction when you are in Normandy, La Cité de la Mer is a fantastic place to spend the whole day learning about man's adventures under the sea.
This excellent museum is set in the Fort du Roule, a Second Empire fortress which was occupied by the Germans during WW2 and liberated by the Americans in 1944.
Places to visit nearby
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Children's concepts of illness: an intervention to improve knowledge
Br J Health Psychol. 2002 May;7(Pt 2):129-47. doi: 10.1348/135910702169402.
Objectives: This study aimed to explore children's understanding of illness and attempted to improve their knowledge through the presentation of a factual story and group discussions.
Design: Children's responses to questions pertaining to three ailment types (contagious illness, non-contagious illness and injury), for three process variables (cause, time from cause to effect, and recovery factors), were recorded before and after a training intervention.
Method: Children aged 4 (N=30) and 7 years old (N=30) were initially individually interviewed about common ailments (contagious: chickenpox and cold; non-contagious: asthma and cancer; injury: scraped knee and broken arm). A week later half of the children in each age group (N=30) were included in a small group (N=5) intervention where factual information about three of the ailments was provided and children participated in guided group discussions. The remaining control children received no intervention. All children were subsequently individually interviewed a week later using the initial interview schedule.
Results: The 7-year-olds exhibited more sophisticated knowledge of illness at pre-test than the 4-year-olds. Comparison of pre- to post-intervention changes showed that children who participated in the intervention condition improved overall in their understanding of the ailments significantly more than controls. However, detailed analyses revealed a large degree of variation across the sample in terms of post-test change for individual items.
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INTRODUCTION – Best Motion Picture: 1994
Once I got Pulp Fiction in my hands, I know I want to do this year already.
So, I just need to do some rewatching. I hated one of the nominees, but I’ll see it again with open mind just for the sake of fairness. I remember liking the other three, on varying degrees. This year excites me, so here it is. The nominees are:
Forrest Gump
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Pulp Fiction
Quiz Show
The Shawshank Redemption
What would be my pick?
Would it be the epic comedy drama romance film with some Vietnam War scenes? Or the British romantic comedy that took the world by surprise? Or the non-linear crime film that gained Tarantino his hardcore following? Or the historical drama film about a television show? Or the prison drama that gained a cult following after a great word-of-mouth?
The arrangement would be by lottery, then the last profile would be the Best Picture winner, Forrest Gump.
Would I go with the Academy? Or would I go with an another nominee? =)
3 thoughts on “INTRODUCTION – Best Motion Picture: 1994
1. I like this year, save for the winner.
1. Pulp Fiction (easy pick)
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. Quiz Show (really underrated)
4. Four Weddings and a Funeral
5. Forrest Gump
2. I know which one you don’t like! 🙂
For me this is easily Pulp Fiction. I don’t like Four Weddings or Shawshank (soooo overrated and manipulative). Forrest Gump is whatever, and I don’t hate it like many people seem too. Haven’t seen Quiz Show, but I’m definitely interested in it! Bullets Over Broadway should be in here!
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French air traffic control strike: Flights cancelled as country's labour dispute grows
Dozens of flights from the UK and Ireland have been cancelled as air traffic controllers join the growing strike action in France.
The industrial action is in response to the dispute over changes to employment law.
The country is being brought to a standstill with strikes affecting the railways, fuel and electricity supplies.
Aer Lingus and Ryanair have cancelled a number of flights to and from France on Thursday.
Aer Lingus flights has cancelled ten flights to and from Dublin and France.
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Physical Fitness
imageBy now you’ve probably started to model your life around this blog. That’s what I’m here for. Between my Grandfather and myself, we know pretty much everything there is to know, so relying on this blog when making big life decisions is a good thing for you to do. That’s what I’m here for. Ooops, already said that. Well you know what they say about repetition being the…
132_oval_decalLet’s now turn our weary heads to look at something I’ve begun to notice: those little oval stickers on cars that say “13.2” or “26.4.” It’s a secret code between a secret society of fitness nuts that we, the slovenly, are not supposed to know. Except they really do want us to figure this out so we can ask them: “When did you run your last half-marathon?” or something like that. For some stupid reason these people put this magic number on their car or t-shirt and we are supposed to be clever enough to break their code and realize that 13.2 is how many miles are in a half-marathon. So what? Why didn’t they just put a sticker on their car that said “Ask me about how I ran my last half-marathon?” No, I’m supposed to play dumb and say: “Hey, What’s that 13.2 sticker for?”
First, yours truly has zero interest in your current jag of ego-stretching self-torture that you like to call fitness. Second, I know nothing about it. I don’t know or want to know anything about your shoes, your special running shorts, your iPhone running app, your running social network, your training regimen. Remember you are talking to someone who has zero interest already in spectator sports where they actually keep score, so watching, hearing, thinking about a little thing like running faster has no appeal; especially listening to your self-torture sagas, isn’t on today’s to-do list.
I used to try to run. Actually ran a few races but I found I hated it. I have some physical debilities which we won’t go into here that makes running a pretty painful and unrewarding experience anyway. Let’s call it a physical limitation. That got me thinking about exercise and physical fitness in general.
Exercise is always painful. It is always harder to do than not do, as Hamlet or Yoda would say. I mean what’s so bad about being lazy? Why are we so crazy about exercise? We take the idea of a pleasant walk hither and yon to some extreme painful sweating, pounding, breathing, agonizing speed obsession. There you have it. “I can run a Marathon just like some Greek messenger with a Post-it Note did a coupla thousand years ago.” Big deal! They didn’t have cell phones back then so this was pretty much the only form of speedy communication. Pick up the phone! Why do we imitate this poor sucker who probably had to do this or he wasn’t getting any dinner?
It makes me feel better…
What? You felt better while you were trying to come up that steep hill at 10 mph than you would have if you had been sitting with me having a few watching Spongebob Squarepants? I don’t think so. Oh you meant afterwards, like when you puke your gravy at the finish line and have to drink only Gatorade for two days straight to get rid of that headache and the trots. That feelin’ better. I tell you what, I feel a little winded when I get up to get another cold one from the fridge, so why don’t you put on those fancy shoes you just bought and get me a brew and then we’ll both be feelin’ a whole lot better.
SpongeBob_main_charactersSo now we have established the universal rule that all exercise that’s going to be “good” for you is also going to be painful and boring while you are doing it.
Our next hurdle:
You’ll live longer…
Yeah, so you can torture yourself with more marathons. Here I introduce the science of the “life extension equation.” The principle is simple: exercise effort time (feelin’ bad time) has to be less than life extension time for exercise to be a net gain in life. So, say I run a marathon in four hours (what is a reasonable time? doesn’t matter just for example), if my life is extended by only four more hours I want my money back. See 4 hours of pain = four hours longer life is the game breaker. If I can’t at least get more life extension than time I’ve spent in exercise hell then I’m a loser.
Well this is easy, sure you’re gonna get more than four hours of life back for running that marathon (versus Spongebob + Beer). Now wait a minute. The devil is in the details. How do we define the feelin’ bad time, the torture time? Is it only the actual exercise time, or is it something else? Maybe we should include the training time, or the warmup time, or the time it took to drive, fly, bike to the event. But hey, those were all “feel good time” life wasters, weren’t they. Yeah sure. But were they as good as they could have been? (Spongebob + Beer) To be fair you’ve gotta include all the time you spent jogging, preparing, training, shopping, etc. for the marathon as bad feelin’ time. No way were they as fun as Spongebob+Beer time.
beer%20can%20genericI’m pretty sure when you total it all up you would have been better off in the old life extension equation spending your time with me watching Spongebob and drinkin’ beer.
So I don’t run, I don’t go to any gym, I don’t own any exercise equipment (=clothes racks). When I go for a walk it’s to get somewhere, or listen to the tweet tweets (Mother Nature), or an excuse to listen to an audiobook or some loud music my family hates. I don’t wanna live longer if it includes some self flagellation ritual I have to exchange daily for my life to be extended.
Because I figure when I go there are going to be three options: nada, Spongebob+Beer, or a Treadmill machine and I won’t get to pick when the so-called inevitable comes at whatever time of life. I’ll know when I get there if I’ve been good.
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Running with Bertha
The panel at the Skippers Briefing for the 2014 Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race. Credit: Paul Wyeth/pwpictures.comThe Royal Racing Club made the following announcement on the eve of the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race.
"In consideration of the weather forecast for the foreseeable future, showing a low pressure moving through The Channel in the early hours of the morning and eventually becoming stationary over Northern Scotland, bringing a strong Westerly to North Westerly airflow for the first days of the race, it has been decided by the Race Committee to reverse the course to sail anticlockwise around Great Britain and Ireland. The decision was based on aiming to provide a more enjoyable race for all the yachts in the fleet. The start will still be from the Royal Yacht Squadron to the East."
News that the course would be reversed drew a packed house to the Press Conference and Skippers' Briefing. It was standing room only, as world-class professional sailors and experienced offshore Corinthians listened in.
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston was a panellist at the Press Conference, made up of a broad cross-section of the 200 sailors from all over the world who will be taking part in the race. Sir Robin will be competing two handed at 75 years old. The offshore legend has raced around Britain and Ireland eight times before and was the first man to race around the world non-stop, single-handed.
The packed room at the Skippers Briefing. Credit: Paul Wyeth/pwpictures.comRORC CEO, Eddie Warden Owen asked if Sir Robin was happy with the change of course: "Is the Pope Catholic? Like everyone else I'm absolutely delighted we're going that way round. We'll get round faster. I think it's a very sensible decision on your (RORC) part. The smaller boats will have taken a hammering and none of us would have enjoyed it. So I think this is a very sensible decision by the race organisers."
RORC Commodore, Mike Greville, welcomed Sevenstar Managing Director, Richard Klabbers to the Skipper's Briefing. Richard Klabbers competed in the 2010 Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race on board Harry Heijst's S&S 41,Winsome. "From my own experience last time, I know how hard it is. It took me 14 days that time but we avoided the bad weather at least. I wish you all the best of luck. We are a partner of this race to give back to this sport, not to create more business, so please, all of you, come back all in one piece safe and sound."
Volvo Ocean Race navigator, Campbell Field gave a detailed weather briefing to the ensemble, explaining why the decision was made to reverse the course. "Part of the decision when we looked at the forecast this morning was due to the following: quite a lot of wind has been driven from a westerly direction as former Hurricane Bertha makes her way through. Part of that data that helped make the decision to not go to the west was that boats would have been making their way across the Celtic Sea with the potential for significant wave heights of 6-8 metres - you could see 10 metres out there - and a fairly ferocious westerly breeze with nowhere to go."
The Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race is set to start on schedule at 1200 BST, tomorrow, Sunday 10th August. The fleet will still start in an easterly direction from the Royal Yacht Squadron Line towards the Forts in the eastern Solent. Conditions look to be absolutely spectacular with the fastest boats flying downwind at phenomenal speeds.
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([identity profile] wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2009-03-12 12:09 am
When Wondy was Awesome, part 7 (Tacos and Traitors)
Whatever else he may have gotten weird or wrong, I give WML this: he did truly understand at least two fundamental things about Diana. One, that for all that she's a princess, she doesn't have a haughty or judgemental bone in her body, and two, that she has a real talent for turning her enemies into allies and even friends (I especially like what he did with the Cheetah, making her a bit of a combo Magneto/Two-Face in her relationship to Diana - but not how he got there, so that one's definitely not in this series).
We see both of these character traits during the middle bulk of WML's tenure, a time I like to call "Wondy flips burgers." Admittedly she's actually working at a taco joint, but you can't tell me that makes a practical difference to the connotations.
It all starts when Diana gets back from outer space to discover that Julia Kapatelis has rented out her room to some random college dyke named Quinn. (We never actually see Quinn date anyone, but given she's a walking stereotype I think it's fair to call a spade a spade.)
Leaving aside such insignificant and minor details as that Julia wasn't renting the room before she met Diana, and wasn't renting the room to Diana, and is a tenured professor who owns her own home and has no need of the money, and isn't the kind of person who'd want a total stranger sleeping ten feet away from her teenage daughter at this point in their story, and loves the hell out of Diana and would always, always put her up for free and has plenty of space in her house to do so with, even if Diana weren't perfectly comfortable sleeping on the back lawn, and therefore this entire thing is really forced.... what this comes down to is that Diana needs a new place to live, which means she needs money.
Cue stupid hijinks where she tries to find work and somehow, in defiance of all reason and sanity, isn't qualified for anything (like, I dunno, translator/negotiator, or self-defense instructor, or frigging WayneCorp CEO), and eventually ends up at a Taco Whiz.
Now, the reasons why Wonder Woman should not be flipping burgers are legion. It's dumb on a story level, it's dumb on a meta level, it's dumb on a mythic level, it's dumb on whole new unnamed levels that sprang into existence at the first publishing of this story solely as nature's desperate attempt to accommodate the overwhelming magnitude of inanity here. But here's what I *like* about this plot:
Diana takes it seriously.
She doesn't find it demeaning, she doesn't think she's above it, and she believes that anything you take the time to do, you should do well. And when she gets sidetracked by a (not time-sensitive) hero thing and misses work, even her boss is more forgiving of her than she herself is. This is total idiocy, but WML does use it to say something that's totally insightful.
(Naturally she doesn't get fired here, and Hoppy gives her standing orders to shove off when the world needs her and make up the time on weekends.)
Meanwhile, as Diana is working at Taco Whiz and running around helping Etta buy wedding dresses and getting shot at by hemophiliac speedster assassins, we get an introduction to Donna Milton.
The guy she's talking to here is Ares Buchanan, who's a mortal who's let Ares possess him. Which is kind of annoying. At least when Byrne made Heracles revert to a bad guy again he attempted to justify the guy's sudden change in attitude. Anyway, Ares is trying to take Boston apart just for the hell of it, which involves getting rid of Diana. Donna is part of his master plan to do so.
A little background on Donna: she's not a nice person.
She becomes a corrupt DA, then ends up working for Ares after a failed shakedown. Her current assignment is to worm her way into Diana's life. She gets a room in the same complex where Diana is staying, and shows up at the hospital when Diana gets out (Diana got shot in the mastoid process while fighting the hemophiliac speedster assassin, so her balance is all thrown off and she can't fly).
Sometimes I love this art - it's clean and a cartoony and full of expressive, varied faces. And sometimes Etta stares down Diana and the look on Diana's face makes me wonder what in God's name I was thinking and who the hell hired this Moder clown in the first place.
I love this page in an MST3K way, just for its sheer absurdity. Donna lays it on so thick here and Diana just completely eats it up. This is, remember, the woman who took all of two seconds to figure out that Menalippe was acting strange under Eris' influence, and she's somehow buying a story so excessive a twelve-year-old wouldn't fall for it.
So Donna and Diana make friends, and Diana explains how she has no money because the JLA isn't paying her because she's still officially dead (all that time in space, y'see). Then they finally get to Taco Whiz.
Diana promises to track down Hoppy's hubby and Donna goes with her. They discover that he's a leg-breaker for the Sazia crime family, and so they go pay Sazia a visit, in what is probably the best scene WML ever wrote; Diana can't make the mook pay, not even legally with Sazia protecting him, but she can hang around Sazia's office until he does...
Sazia folds, and pays a massive child support check, including back pay, out of his own pocket.
Donna, apparently inspired by her little adventure with the mob, then proves herself awesome by shaking down Max.
Time passes and Donna plays her part to the hilt, worming her way ever deeper into Diana's confidence.
I'm a big fan of the colorist error here that makes it look like Diana has holes in her panties. Nice, guys. Nice.
... "enjoyable," Donna?
Eventually Donna is able to lure Diana into a trap, and Ares Buchanan chains her up (WondyBondage!) and gloats at her like any good megalomaniacal villain. And Donna discovers that she's not quite as indifferent as she thought she was.
I like the writing here, because the way Donna does this is very much appropriate to her characterization as a lawyer. She makes her decision in an instant and then immediately plows full speed ahead with a cogent, well-reasoned argument. I bet she does a killer cross.
... unfortunately for her, Ares has a *truly* killer rebuttal.
So Diana flips out at him and tries to kick his ass, and he goes on about how her chains were forged at STAR labs to hold Superman and she'll never break them, and he's going to flood Boston with drugs and weapons yadda yadda. But Donna's not quite done with him yet.
What she's holding there is a macguffin that creates a localized "black hole" which sucks everything in and then falls to the center of the earth. Ares used one to try to kill Diana a few issues back. So she pulls the trigger and chucks it at him, and he gets sucked in and dies, and Diana busts out of her chains, and the whole place comes down around them and they fall into the old smuggler caves under the building.
So Diana helps deliver the kid, and they get rescued by Etta and Hoppy, and Donna's like "I've killed people! I betrayed you! I'm a horrible person and I'm sorry!" and Diana's all "Dude, chill. You repented and saved my life. I am so not even mad." She even brings up Donna's selfishness and the fact that she duped Diana as reasons why she *can* stop whining and successfully deliver a baby underwater in the freezing cold and pitch black cave. Because Diana is not judgemental. (I'm not going to scan any of it, though, because the pacing is really slow and the art is hideous.)
Anyway, they're *actual* friends after that, and Diana swears she'll always protect the baby (which will become important when we get to Rucka's run), and you'd think that that would be the end of that. But no, Donna Milton's story isn't over quite yet.
I... I'm going to apologize, right now, for the scans I'm about to post. Because they're mid-90s Liefieldesque Deodato art, and while the particular pages I'm putting up are far from the worst of the lot, the obscene excess to which hips, boobs, butts, spines, muscles, articles of clothing, and women in general just don't work that way make me want to kill it with fire. Just sizing these scans it's all I can do not to burn them to a CD and chuck it in the microwave just for the ritualistic purging of the pain and blind white rage this stuff causes in my mind. And I regret inflicting that same pain on any of you.
Oh, and you know how I occasionally used to say that everything Diana's ever worn looks better than the bathing suit? That's because I apparently suppressed the memory of the Artemis!Wondy period so thoroughly that I'd completely forgotten the Bolland... thing. Seriously. Ew.
That said, they're still good story, so....
Diana has lost the mantle of Wonder Woman to Artemis, and Artemis has gone after Asquith aka the White Magician aka A Giant Demon Thing that's Going to Kill Her. Diana wants to help, but doesn't know how to find them, so she takes a moment to go visit Julia in the hospital. While she's there, Donna mentions that her scars from the Ares fight have almost faded, which causes Diana to make a weird face and start musing about Circe.
That's right, Donna is Circe. This is a total asspull and causes a bunch of plot holes but it's so BAD ASS that I don't even care.
So Diana has been teleported to where Artemis is getting her ass kicked by Asquith in his Giant Demon Thing that's Going to Kill Her form. Artemis and Diana duke it out with Asquith, but it doesn't go so well - they can't even deal with his feline minions (more on that in a different series). Diana's about to become kitty kibble to one of them, when suddenly her opponent gets blasted right off her by eldritch fire.
Thanks to Donna's help, the pressure is off a bit and Diana can worry about Asquith... and the dying Artemis.
Supercharged by the gauntlet, Diana lays the smackdown for several badly-drawn pages, and eventually takes him out, leaving only her replacement to deal with.
The next page is Artemis lying dead in Diana's arms, and it's very sad, but it's also a crime against all that is aesthetic and decent, so we'll end on that note as far as the immediate story goes. In terms of the wider arc of Circe, she herself isn't seen again in the Wondy title until nearly four years and forty issues later, when Bright and Priest bring her back to take revenge on Diana for the fact that she can't be Donna Milton *or* the original, blissfully-ignorant-of-true-friendship Circe again.
This is why I don't actually have any problem with the idea of Diana confiding in Circe during the recent Wondy annual (disregarding the content of the confession itself); WML made Circe and her relationship with Diana fantastically complex, and they do have a strange sort of mutual understanding. That's a big part of why I like Diana, I think - that when she doesn't vanquish her enemies, it's for reasons that make sense. Her recurring rogues are all that way because they're powerful enough that she has to reason or bargain (Ares, Circe, Darkseid) or because they're sort of *friends* and she wants to help them (Cheetah, Silver Swan). And therefore she's always on speaking terms with them, which leads to interactions far more interesting than straightforward white hat-black hat antagonism, and prevents the Joker Fallacy from sticking its head in.
Scans from v2 72-83 and 100, the very tail end of which is collected in Challenge of Artemis, which might be worth purchasing if you someday find yourself in a city that doesn't sell toilet paper.
Next time: Diana breaks atmosphere again to visit Thanagar and save the last Vuldarian in a Very 90s Crossover that somehow manages to be ridiculously fun regardless.
[identity profile] 2009-03-12 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
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Why Tillman’s Experts Show He is Wrong
Alternate title: “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Hamilton Report (and Much, Much More).”
Readers of this blog are aware that Professor Seth Barrett Tillman has long maintained that the presidency and vice presidency are not “offices under the United States” within the meaning of various clauses of the Constitution which use that expression or a variant thereof. Tillman’s theory has a number of implications. We first discussed the theory in a December 20, 2008 post entitled “Can Joe Biden Be Vice President and Senator at the Same Time?,” in which it was noted that one implication is that the Incompatible Offices Clause (U.S. const., art. I, §7, cl. 2) would not prohibit someone from serving as president or vice president and at the same time as a member of the House or Senate.
More recently, Tillman’s theory has received a good deal of attention for its application to the Foreign Emoluments Clause (U.S. const., art. I, § 9, cl. 8). If, as Tillman maintains, the president does not hold an “Office of Profit or Trust under [the United States]” within the meaning of the FEC, then President Trump is not subject to the prohibitions of that clause, much to the dismay of many, including the plaintiffs in three separate lawsuits who have sued Trump for violating it.
Tillman has not (at least yet) convinced many people that his theory is correct. Among the unconvinced are President Trump’s personal lawyers and the Department of Justice, which represents the president in his official capacity in the aforementioned lawsuits. Because no party to these suits disputes the FEC’s applicability to the president, Tillman filed this amicus brief in one of the cases, CREW v. Trump, Civ. A. No. 1:17-cv-00458-RA (S.D.N.Y.), to ensure that the court has the benefit of his point of view.
(One prominent legal scholar who has been convinced is Professor Josh Blackman, who is representing Tillman in the CREW case. For brevity’s sake, this post refers only to Tillman, but it should be noted that Blackman also believes that the FEC does not apply to the president.)
Tillman’s argument relies in significant part on a 1793 document prepared by the Treasury Department that suggested, by omission, the president and vice president were not among those who held any “civil office or employment under the United States.” See Amicus Br. at 18-21. This document, which was submitted to the Senate under the signature of Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, will be referred to herein as the “Hamilton Report.”
Before getting into the nuts and bolts of the Hamilton Report, I want to stress that Tillman’s reliance on the report depends on four assumptions about or inferences from the report: (1) the omission of the president and vice president from the report was a deliberate decision, rather than an oversight or error; (2) this decision was made or approved by Hamilton personally; (3) the decision was made for one specific reason, namely that the phrase “office or employment under the United States” excluded the president and vice president; and (4) the interpretation of this phrase was based on the unambiguous meaning of the words, rather than the context of their use or an extra-textual source of information. None of these can be definitively proved (or disproved), but Tillman evidently believes they can be adequately established for his purposes.
A foundational element of Tillman’s argument, though, came under attack in the CREW litigation when various experts and others aligned with the plaintiffs questioned whether the presidency and vice presidency had actually been omitted from the Treasury Department’s 1793 list. They contended (see here, here and here) that a subsequently published version of the Hamilton Report did include the president and vice president and therefore it was “grossly misleading” to suggest that Hamilton had omitted these offices at all. Moreover, in an amicus brief filed with the court, a group of legal historians contended that Hamilton had in fact signed the second version of this report, contrary to Tillman’s position.
Tillman responded to these charges by filing a proposed amicus response brief with a number of supporting exhibits, including declarations from five expert witnesses, two with expertise on authenticating founding-era documents and three with expertise on Alexander Hamilton. The evidence from these witnesses showed, to the satisfaction even of Tillman’s critics, that Hamilton signed only the Hamilton Report and not the version which listed the president and vice president. (That second version, which we will discuss later, was likely created in the 1830s, well after Hamilton’s death). In fact, the legal historians who had filed the brief criticizing Tillman issued a formal apology to him as well as a letter to the court withdrawing the footnote in which the criticism was made.
At this point you may be thinking this is all very interesting (if you’ve read this far I will assume you are the sort of person who would find this interesting), but is this really the way we go about determining the meaning of a constitutional provision? An inference from omission that is said to cast light on the view of a single framer about the meaning of a phrase that is used in an entirely different context but is similar (though not identical) to a phrase used in the Constitution? And which then leads to a battle of forensic experts about whether the omission happened in the first place? Is this original public meaning originalism or National Treasure originalism?
Well, these are good questions you ask, and I must admit I find the whole thing a little odd myself. Perhaps the judge did too, as he declined to accept Tillman’s proposed amicus response brief. But here at Point of Order, we never hesitate to waste large amounts of time on arcane matters that will never affect anyone in the real world. (Ask Vicki Divoll if you don’t believe me.) So here goes.
The Hamilton Report
The genesis of the Hamilton Report was a resolution adopted by the Senate in May 1792, which is quoted in full below:
Ordered, That the Secretary of the Treasury do lay before the Senate, at the next session of Congress, a statement of the salaries, fees, and emoluments, for one year, ending the first day of October next, to be stated quarterly, of every person holding any civil office or employment under the United States, (except the judges) together with the actual disbursements and expenses in the discharge of their respective offices and employments for the same period; and that he do report the name of every person who shall neglect or refuse to give satisfactory information touching his office or employment, or the emoluments or disbursements thereof.
1 Journal of the Senate of the United States of America 441 (May 9, 1792), bit.ly/2rQswt8.
Some nine months later, on February 26, 1793, the Treasury Department gave birth to a 90-page handwritten manuscript entitled “Report on the Salaries, Fees, and Emoluments of Persons Holding Civil Office Under the United States.” If you would like to see an excerpt of the original handwritten document (and why wouldn’t you?), it may be found at bit.ly/2rQCDxX.
Submitted under the signature of Secretary Hamilton himself, the Hamilton Report begins as follows:
The Secretary of the Treasury, in obedience to the order of the 7th of May last, respectfully submits herewith sundry statements of the salaries fees and Emoluments for one Year ending the first of October 1792, of the Persons holding civil offices or employments under the united States (except the Judges) as far as Returns have been rendered—together with the disbursements and Expenses in the discharge of their respective offices and employments for the same Period.
Tillman emphasizes that because the Senate demanded information regarding every person holding civil office or employment under the United States, the Hamilton Report’s omission of the president, vice president or members of Congress shows that these elected officials did not hold such offices (in Hamilton’s view). See Amicus Br. at 18-19. The Hamilton Report, however, does not use the word “every,” but only purports to include information on persons “as far as Returns have been rendered.” The appendix (no. 19) listing “the Persons of whom no information has been received” also does not use the word “every.” Perhaps the word “every” in this appendix is implied, but given the stress Tillman places on its use in the Senate resolution, its absence from the Hamilton Report is worth noting.
We should also consider the possibility that the omission of the president and the vice president from the Hamilton Report was an error or oversight. It is easy to imagine how this might have happened. Responsibility for collecting information responsive to the Senate resolution was delegated to unknown official(s) in the Treasury Department. It might never have occurred to these subordinates to make inquiry of President George Washington or Vice President John Adams or they may have assumed (entirely reasonably) that they were not authorized to do so. Perhaps everyone involved in compiling the report assumed that someone else would take responsibility for this issue. It happens.
Tillman attempts to discount this possibility by submitting expert testimony regarding Hamilton’s character. According to Professor Stephen Knott, a political scientist and Hamilton expert, Hamilton was “inherently incapable of leaving the President and Vice President off a list as an oversight.” Knox Decl. ¶ 7. Hamilton was a “careful lawyer” with “a fastidious attention to detail,” who “simply would not have left individuals off a list by accident.” Id.
No doubt Professor Knott is right about Hamilton’s attention to detail and concern for accuracy, but it seems a bit much to claim that everything that Hamilton ever wrote, much less every report he signed off on, was error-free. For this proposition, I cite no less an authority than Professor Tillman himself. See Seth Barrett Tillman, The Federalist Papers as Reliable Historical Source Material for Constitutional Intepretation,105 West Va. L. Rev. 601, 603-13 (2004) (pointing out various errors in the papers authored by Hamilton and suggesting, presumably tongue in cheek, that they would not meet the Harvard Law Review’s standards for publication).
There are other plausible explanations for the omission, moreover. For example, Hamilton may have construed the Senate resolution narrowly for reasons having little or nothing to do with its text. It is worth noting here that the Senate resolution was not a law, but an order from the Senate to Secretary of the Treasury Hamilton. Thus, one should expect that Hamilton and his staff would read the resolution the way you might read a directive from your boss or client, rather than the way a lawyer might parse the words of a statute. If the Treasury Department was uncertain about what the resolution required it to do, it most likely would have consulted directly with the Senate and/or used common sense based on its understanding of what the Senate was trying to accomplish.
As an example, the resolution states that responsive information is to be “stated quarterly,” but the Hamilton Report presented the information on an annual basis. (The full Hamilton Report is only available at the National Archives so I am basing my comments on excerpts that are available online). Presumably Hamilton and/or those who drafted the report did not see any point in reporting an annual salary in four quarterly amounts and were not concerned about literal compliance with the Senate resolution.
Similarly, Hamilton might have decided not to include the president and vice president in his response even if he believed that the literal terms of the Senate resolution so required. For one thing, he may have questioned the Senate’s authority to compel him to make inquiry of the president. Congress’s authority to obtain information directly from the president was an unsettled and delicate matter in 1792 (as it remains to some degree today). The traditional protocol, reflected in resolutions of inquiry, was for the House or Senate to “request” information from the president but to “direct” department heads to produce information. For the Senate to order the Secretary of the Treasury to obtain financial information from President Washington and to report any refusal or failure to cooperate on Washington’s part to the Senate would seem, at the very least, to push the bounds of protocol and constitutional propriety. Perhaps more importantly, interpreting the Senate resolution in such a fashion risked putting Hamilton in an untenable position if the president declined to cooperate.
In short, it is entirely possible that Hamilton omitted the president and vice president from his report for entirely pragmatic “non-legal” reasons. You don’t have to take my word for this. Tillman’s own expert suggests that information on the salaries of elected officials could have been omitted because Hamilton thought “Congress was well aware of these payments.” Kaminski Decl. ¶ 13.
Another theory offered by legal historians aligned with the plaintiffs is that the purpose of the Senate resolution was to obtain information related to a different emoluments clause in the Constitution, namely art. I, § 6, cl. 2, which provides that “[n]o Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office . . . the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time.” Since this purpose would not have required information about the salaries of the president or vice president (as these are not appointed offices), the historians suggest that Hamilton may have “initially focused his list for his immediate practical task.” Speculation, to be sure, but there is no particular reason to favor Tillman’s speculation over any other.
For sake of argument, however, let’s assume that Hamilton did in fact approach the interpretation of the Senate resolution as a “careful lawyer” would read a statute. In other words, Hamilton (or his staff) would have read the Senate resolution and first attempted to discern the meaning of the phrase “civil office or employment under the United States (except the judges).” If this phrase were unambiguous, then it would be the duty of the Treasury Department to comply with the Senate’s unambiguous directive, unless so interpreted the directive would violate the Constitution. As already noted, it is plausible that the Treasury Department could have viewed a directive to interrogate the president and vice president as a violation of separation of powers or otherwise unconstitutional. Since we have no evidence that Hamilton refused to comply with the resolution on constitutional grounds, however, we will discount this possibility.
But how could Hamilton have read the resolution as unambiguously excluding the president and vice president (or members of Congress, for that matter)? Tillman contends that the phrase “office under the United States” was a legal term of art that excluded elected officials. Amicus Br. at 20. But even if that were true (which we will consider momentarily), the resolution also uses the term “employment,” a term which did not have a technical meaning and was not used in the Constitution. As a textual matter, therefore, it seems entirely reasonable to read the Senate resolution as seeking information regarding every federal official, except for military personnel and judges. If Hamilton construed the resolution more narrowly, it almost certainly was for reasons other than the text alone.
If Hamilton considered the text of the Senate resolution to be ambiguous, it is not terribly difficult to see why he might have concluded that it was not intended to cover legislators. The resolution requires the Secretary of the Treasury to interrogate every covered official and to “report the name of every person who shall neglect or refuse to give satisfactory information” regarding his compensation and expenses. It exempts judges, presumably because of separation of powers considerations. Similar considerations, not to mention self-interest, would likely have led the Senate to exclude its own members from the scope of the Secretary’s work. Moreover, interpreting the resolution to apply to members of the House would have resulted in a serious breach of comity between the two houses. Indeed, it is not at all obvious that the Senate has the constitutional authority to interrogate members of the House, either directly or through the Secretary of the Treasury.
Similarly, if Hamilton thought the Senate resolution was ambiguous with regard to its application to the president and vice president, he would have had plausible constitutional reasons, as already discussed, to construe the resolution narrowly. Thus, even assuming that the president and vice president were deliberately excluded from the Hamilton Report and that this exclusion was based on a formal legal analysis of the resolution (as opposed to political/pragmatic reasons or informal guidance from the Senate or the president himself), the most one can conclude is that the language of the resolution was ambiguous in this regard.
Moreover, that ambiguity would not necessarily focus on the words “office or employment under the United States.” Hamilton might have considered these words to clearly encompass the presidency, but he may have determined that the use of the word “civil” created an ambiguity because the president serves as commander in chief. See U.S. const., art. II, § 2, cl. 1. We simply do not know.
But what of Tillman’s claim that the term “office under the United States” was a term of art that excluded elected officials? See Amicus Br. at 20. One problem with this is that Tillman has no direct evidence of any kind to support this proposition. What he does have is a strong argument that “office under the United States” does not apply to members of Congress because the phrase must be read in the historical context of the British “Office under the Crown,” a term that did not apply to members of Parliament. There is, however, no reason to generalize from this exclusion to a broader exclusion of all elected officials.
In fact, there are several reasons not to make this logical leap. The reason that members of Parliament do not hold “offices under the Crown” is that (1) they hold seats, not offices and (2) they are not part of the executive branch of the government that is “under the Crown.” The fact that they are elected is not determinative. If it were, then members of the House of Lords would hold offices under the Crown, something that neither Tillman nor anyone else has claimed. See 8 Annals of Congress 2291 (“A member of the House of Lords, no member, no writer, no speaker ever denominated an officer of the Crown or Government.”) (Rep. Ingersoll). Moreover, when members of Parliament are appointed to positions in the executive branch (eg, prime minister, chancellor of the exchequer), they do hold offices under the crown, despite the fact that they are elected officials.
Similarly, if Tillman were correct, elected officials in the executive branch of state government would not be encompassed within state constitutional provisions applying to “offices under this state” or similar phrases. Although Tillman has acknowledged that this is the implication of his position, he has offered no evidence that any state has reached that conclusion, either prior to the adoption of the Constitution or since. What evidence I have found (without having exhaustively researched the issue) points in the opposite direction.
Even as to members of Congress alone, it seems doubtful that Hamilton could have reached the conclusion that the Senate resolution unambiguously excluded them from its terms. There was undoubtedly in1792 a strong textual argument, as just noted, for the proposition that federal legislators are not “officers of the United States” and do not hold “offices under the United States.” Recall, however, that several years later these issues would be vigorously debated in the House and Senate during the impeachment and subsequent trial of Senator Blount. If they were not settled in 1797-99, they presumably were not settled in 1792-93. And even if it had been settled that members of Congress did not hold a “civil office under the United States,” it is hard to see how Hamilton could conclude that the Senate’s use of the broader term “employment” unambiguously excluded legislators.
Finally, let us consider the views of Tillman’s own expert on this subject:
In Hamilton’s day, some, perhaps many (but certainly not all) understood and used the phrase office under the United States (and its close textual variants) to include those officers who went through the Appointments Clause process of presidential nomination, Senate advice and consent, and presidential appointment, or to other lesser officers, such as those who only received presidential commissions (e.g., inferior officers). Office under the United States did not extend to elected officials. In my professional judgment, Hamilton’s roll of officers . . . is consistent with what was one strand (perhaps the prevailing strand) of the contemporaneous (that is, circa 1793) public understanding of office under the United States.
Bolling Decl. ¶ 16. If we accept Professor Bolling’s view, Hamilton would only have interpreted the “office under the United States” language in the Senate resolution as unambiguously excluding elected officials if (1) Hamilton was one of the “some, perhaps many” who understood the term to exclude such officials and (2) Hamilton was unaware of the fact that “certainly not all” used the term in this way. We can no more than guess at the first, but the second seems rather unlikely.
In short, there is no way of knowing whether the Hamilton Report’s omission of the president and vice president was a deliberate decision, rather than an error or oversight, whether Hamilton himself made the decision if there was one, or whether the hypothetical decision was based on a legal interpretation of the term “office under the United States.” We can, however, say that it is highly unlikely that any interpretation was premised on the belief that the term in question unambiguously excluded the president and vice president.
The ASP Version
But wait, there’s more. As I mentioned at the beginning, there is a second version of the Hamilton Report. See 1 American State Papers/Miscellaneous 57 (1834). This document is entitled “List of Civil Officers of the United States, Except Judges, With Their Emoluments, for the Year Ending October 1, 1792,” and, like the Hamilton Report, it purports to be a response from Hamilton to the Senate resolution and bears the same date, February 26, 1793. Its opening paragraph is identical to that quoted from the Hamilton Report earlier, with some spelling and punctuation differences.
Tillman refers to this second version as the “Condensed Report,” for reasons we will get to in a moment, but I will refer to it as the “ASP Version” (referring to the fact that it was published in American State Papers and likely prepared for that purpose). In his initial amicus brief, Tillman describes the ASP Version as “an entirely different document” from the Hamilton Report. Amicus Br. at 19 n.76. However, Tillman also has referred to the ASP Version as “nearly identical” to the Hamilton Report. See Seth Barrett Tillman, Who Can Be President of the United States?: Candidate Hillary Clinton and the Problem of Statutory Qualifications, 5 Br. J. Am. Leg. Studies 95, 108-09 n.33 (2016). In his proposed amicus brief, Tillman calls the ASP Version a “scrivener’s copy” and “the antebellum equivalent of a photocopy” of the Hamilton Report. Proposed Amicus Br. at 4-5.
Some background may be helpful here. American State Papers resulted from an act of Congress. On March 2, 1831, in response to a proposal from the private printer, Gales & Seaton, Congress authorized by law the preparation of a compilation of congressional documents from the first 13 Congresses. The act required the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House to direct the selection of the documents to be included in this compilation.
The Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House regarded the production of ASP as a matter of the utmost importance, as they explained in some detail in a formal communication to Congress (published in the Introductory Notice to ASP). They viewed it as essential that congressional staff, rather than Gales & Seaton, be responsible for all aspects of the work other than the physical printing of the volumes. The original documents were from the archives of the two Houses, and “[c]harged as we are, with the care and preservation of all these important documents, we could not, for a moment, permit them to go into the hands of those over whom we had no control.” Instead, the work had to be done “by the most patient, persevering industry of the most able of our assistants, and of ourselves”:
From all these considerations, it was evident to us, that, if we acted at all under the act of Congress, it was our duty to assume the whole responsibility of editing the work. Other considerations . . . led us to the same conclusion. We stood in an official relation to the two Houses, and had every possible motive to devote our entire ability to the proper completion of the work. From long experience, and close application to the business of Congress, we had a reasonable confidence in our ability to do the work justice. We had under our direction able and industrious men, and whose experience in these things were even greater than our own.
So while it may be true, as Tillman says (Amicus Br. at 19 n. 76), that the ASP Version was prepared by “an unknown Senate functionary,” there is every reason to believe that it was prepared carefully by an expert congressional archivist, acting under the close supervision of the Secretary of the Senate. There is no reason to compare its preparation unfavorably with that of the Hamilton Report itself, which after all was prepared by an unknown Treasury functionary, not by Hamilton personally. See Kaminski Decl. ¶ 16 (the Hamilton Report, though signed by Hamilton, was written by a “scrivener”).
As best I can tell, there are two noteworthy differences between the Hamilton Report and the ASP Version. First, the ASP Version is somewhat abbreviated or condensed compared to the Hamilton Report. As Tillman’s experts convincingly argue, this is most likely because the ASP Version was prepared circa 1833 in accordance with a specific order of the Secretary of the Senate to prepare a condensed version for publication in ASP. See Kaminski Decl. ¶¶ 16-17; Martin Decl. ¶ 15. Thus, for example, the ASP Version does not include Annex 19 of the Hamilton Report, which contained a list of “the Persons of whom no information has yet been received on the subject.”
The second difference is the most significant for present purposes. The ASP Version, unlike the Hamilton Report itself, includes both the president and vice president (though not members of Congress) in its list of “persons holding civil offices or employments under the United States.” Indeed, the very first entries in the ASP Version list are President George Washington (and his annual salary of $25,000) and Vice-President John Adams (with his annual salary of $5,000).
But even though the ASP Version was not signed by Hamilton and was prepared well after his death, it still has significant probative value with respect to the meaning of the Hamilton Report itself. Interestingly, none of Tillman’s experts attempt to address the question of why the Secretary of the Senate and his staff would have added these entries to the ASP Version. After all, their task was to faithfully replicate the documents contained in the congressional archives (as the Secretary and Clerk note in the Introductory Notice, ASP provides “the future historian [with] a body of authentic materials”). How would adding information omitted from the original Hamilton Report accomplish this objective?
One plausible explanation is that there was additional documentation in the Senate files to show that the Treasury Department did consider the president and vice president to hold “civil office or employment under the United States” within the meaning of the 1792 Senate resolution. For example, there could have been subsequent correspondence from the Treasury Department with the information that was added to the ASP Version. The original documentation may have been lost or destroyed in the process of preparing ASP. See Bowling Aff. ¶ 15 (noting that a number of original documents were lost during this process).
The only other plausible explanation would be that the congressional officials responsible for preparing ASP thought it so obvious that the president and vice president should have been included in the Hamilton Report that adding them was a mere ministerial correction to the original. Since the purpose of ASP was to preserve and publish authentic materials from the congressional archives, it seems highly unlikely that they would have made changes merely because they disagreed with a judgment made by the original authors.
In either case, the Secretary of the Senate and his assistants must have been convinced that Hamilton (or the “scrivener” who prepared the original report) did not deliberately omit the president and vice president from the Hamilton Report because he deemed these offices to be non-responsive to the Senate resolution. Of course, they might have been wrong in their view. But given that these congressional officials had access to more documentation, had greater understanding and expertise with regard to the congressional files and were far closer in time to the Hamilton Report, it is difficult to see how anyone today could reach a different conclusion. Notably, Tillman’s experts do not do so.
To make a short story long, I fail to see how the Hamilton Report helps Tillman’s theory. Standing alone, it provides evidence that Hamilton or someone working for him omitted the presidency and vice presidency from a list of “offices under the United States” in 1793. It cannot, however, tell us why the omission occurred and therefore we cannot know whether that reason had any relevance to the meaning of the FEC. The ASP Version, for reasons we have discussed, undercuts any minimal probative value that the Hamilton Report might otherwise have had.
Even if we accept every inference and resolve every doubt in Tillman’s favor, the most one can say is that the Hamilton Report is consistent with the proposition that the phrase “office under the United States” in 1793 did not unambiguously include the president and vice president. See Bolling Decl. ¶ 16. But accepting this proposition would still be a long way from showing that the framers intended, when they wrote the FEC in 1787 (by taking the operative language verbatim from the Articles of Confederation), to exclude the president and vice president from its terms.
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The birth of Jaylene Faani
Jaylene Ruthiemilane Faani was born on November 8, 1992 in Los Angeles County, California.
Her father's last name is Faani, and her mother's maiden name is Malaepule. If Jaylene is still alive, she's now years old.
Name Jaylene Ruthiemilane Faani
Sex female
Birthdate 11/08/1992
Birthplace Los Angeles County, California
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As Gay Becomes Bourgeois
Jonah Goldberg
Posted: Dec 29, 2010 12:01 AM
So now openly gay soldiers get to fight and die in neocon-imperialist wars too?
David Brooks saw such ironic progressive victories coming. In his book "Bobos in Paradise," he wrote that everything "transgressive" gets "digested by the mainstream bourgeois order, and all the cultural weapons that once were used to undermine middle-class morality ... are drained of their subversive content."
Two decades ago, the gay left wanted to smash the bourgeois prisons of monogamy, capitalistic enterprise and patriotic values and bask in the warm sun of bohemian "free love" and avant-garde values. In this, they were simply picking up the torch from the straight left of the 1960s and 1970s, who had sought to throw off the sexual hang-ups of their parents' generation along with their gray flannel suits.
As a sexual lifestyle experiment, they failed pretty miserably, the greatest proof being that the affluent and educated children (and grandchildren) of the baby boomers have re-embraced the bourgeois notion of marriage as an essential part of a successful life. Sadly, it's the lower middle class that increasingly sees marriage as an out-of-reach luxury. The irony is that such bourgeois values -- monogamy, hard work, etc. -- are the best guarantors of success and happiness.
Of course, the lunacy of the bohemian free-love shtick should have been obvious from the get-go. For instance, when Michael Lerner, a member of the anti-Vietnam War "Seattle Seven," did marry, in 1971, the couple exchanged rings made from the fuselage of a U.S. aircraft downed over Vietnam and cut into a cake inscribed in icing with a Weatherman catchphrase, "Smash Monogamy."
Today Lerner is a (divorced and remarried) somewhat preposterous, prosperous progressive rabbi who officiates at all kinds of marriages -- gay and straight -- and, like pretty much the entire left, loves the idea of open gays becoming cogs in the military-industrial complex.
The gay experiment with open bohemianism was arguably shorter. Of course, AIDS played an obvious and tragic role in focusing attention on the downside of promiscuity. But even so, the sweeping embrace of bourgeois lifestyles by the gay community has been stunning.
Nowhere is this more evident -- and perhaps exaggerated -- than in popular culture. Watch ABC's "Modern Family." The sitcom is supposed to be "subversive" in part because it features a gay couple with an adopted daughter from Asia. And you can see why both liberal proponents and conservative opponents of gay marriage see it that way. But imagine you hate the institution of marriage and then watch "Modern Family's" hardworking bourgeois gay couple through those eyes. What's being subverted? Traditional marriage, or some bohemian identity politics fantasy of homosexuality?
By the way, according to a recent study, "Modern Family" is the No. 1 sitcom among Republicans (and the third show overall behind Glenn Beck and "The Amazing Race") but not even in the top 15 among Democrats, who prefer darker shows like Showtime's "Dexter," about a serial killer trying to balance work and family between murders.
Or look at the decision to let gays openly serve in the military through the eyes of a principled hater of all things military. From that perspective, gays have just been co-opted by The Man. Meanwhile, the folks who used "don't ask, don't tell" as an excuse to keep the military from recruiting on campuses just saw their argument go up in flames.
Personally, I have always felt that gay marriage was an inevitability, for good or ill (most likely both). I do not think that the arguments against gay marriage are all grounded in bigotry, and I find some of the arguments persuasive. But I also find it cruel and absurd to tell gays that living the free-love lifestyle is abominable while at the same time telling them that their committed relationships are illegitimate too.
Many of my conservative friends -- who oppose both civil unions and gay marriage and object to rampant promiscuity --often act as if there's some grand alternative lifestyle for gays. But there isn't. And given that open homosexuality is simply a fact of life, the rise of the HoBos -- the homosexual bourgeoisie -- strikes me as good news. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9599937200546264}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '73154', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:WHQLULSPXX5OON26IZUV3GKDKBDHUAL5', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:8d76d088-3912-48ee-a7c4-56d14e0694b5>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 4, 27, 0, 42, 33), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.20.27.59', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:6A4BEWL5NAERKZ74DPK3ULW6F5FPH4KD', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:9efdfd6f-5353-4a89-a0f2-59d8a9cbb1dc>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/2010/12/29/as-gay-becomes-bourgeois-n1338301', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:7122dd22-467a-4b5f-ade5-074b38dcf713>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '677', 'url': 'https://townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/2010/12/29/as-gay-becomes-bourgeois-n1338301', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-17\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2017\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.01826000213623047', 'original_id': '1257a536161e44ca5d51bad34bd49ba57e6b35cdcbc942cb2ee211299337e671'} |
How Did Dr. Jeffrey Lang Convert to Islam?
The Fifth Article of Muslim Faith: Belief in the Day of Judgment
By Editorial Staff
Belief in the Day of Judgment means to believe that the life of this world will come to an end.
We read in the Quran, which Muslims believe to be the final word of God, what gives the meaning of:
The disbelievers claim that they will never be resurrected. Say, ‘Yes, by my Lord, you will surely be resurrected; then you will surely be informed of what you did. And that, for Allah, is easy.’ (At-Taghabun 64:7)
And [warn of] the Day when We will remove the mountains and you will see the earth prominent, and We will gather them and not leave behind from them anyone. (Al-Kahf 18:47)
And they shall be brought before your Lord, standing in rows: ‘You have certainly come to Us just as We created you the first time. But you claimed that We would never make for you an appointment.’ (Al-Kahf 18:48)
Till, when they reach it, their hearing and their eyes, and their skins will testify against them as to what they used to do. And they will say to their skins, ‘Why do you testify against us?’ They will say: ‘Allah has caused us to speak, He causes all things to speak: and He created you the first time, and to Him you are made to return.’ And you have not been hiding yourselves, lest your ears, and your eyes, and your skins testify against you; but you thought that Allah knew not much of what you were doing. (Fussilat 41:20-22)
But stop them; verily they are to be questioned. [They will be asked], ‘What is [wrong] with you? Why do you not help each other?’ But they, that Day, are in surrender. (As-Saffat 37:24-26)
There is not one of you but will pass over [Hell]; this is upon your Lord an inevitability decreed. (Maryam 19:71)
Then, as for him who will be given his Record in his right hand, He surely will receive an easy reckoning. And he will return to his family in joy! But whosoever is given his Record behind his back. He will cry out for destruction. And [enter to] burn in a Blaze. (Al-Inshiqaq 84:7-12)
Verily, they who disbelieved among the People of the Scripture and the polytheists will be in the fire of Hell, abiding eternally therein. Those are the worst of creatures. Verily, those who believe and do righteous deeds, they are the best of creatures. Their reward with Allah will be gardens of perpetual residence beneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide forever, Allah being pleased with them and they with Him. That is for whoever has feared his Lord. (Al-Bayyinah 98:6-8)
What is the fifth article of Muslim faith?
What is the Day of the Judgement?
What does it mean to believe in the Day of Judgement?
What are the merits of belief in the Day of Judgement?
Do Muslims believe in incarnation?
Why good things happen to bad people?
Why bad things happen to good people?
What are the sings of the Day of Judgement?
What will happen in the Day of Judgement?
Watch with us this short video to know the answer to all these questions.
Source of the video: Guide to Islam Channel
Source of the introduction:
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There was a full moon last night. I watched it slowly rise above the distant hills and thick tree line while I wandered around the streets by my home. It will still appear full tonight, but with the low, dark clouds there is only a small chance that I can catch a glimpse once more.
Early last week I went for a quick run to the beach. I hadn't done any form of physical activity, with the exception of rolling out of bed (literally...our mattress is on the floor) and walking, due to over a month of stupid foot injuries. (I kicked driftwood barefoot then bruised my heal from jumping across a tiny creek on the beach followed by bruising the top of my foot with a surfboard fin.) My feet still hurt, but it was a relief to move, if even a little.
As I headed down the road on that brisk, drizzly afternoon my eyes caught a flash of bright yellow amidst the dull dead colors that are the remnants of winter before spring. Standing boldly by itself in a dead grassy corner at the edge of an open space was one daffodil plant, with one blooming daffodil. It felt like a tiny, beautiful gift that no one knew about except for me. The yellow warmed my heart and gave me a spark of joy that felt unfamiliar, yet comforting.
Joy is something that I miss. The uninhibited burst of lightness and ease expressing itself through belly laughter or a spring in my step or a gentle, unforced smile. It is that deep, internal settledness, knowing that despite exterior circumstances, life within abounds, roots remain strong though seasons may wither the leaves and strip the branches.
Happiness and joy are often interchanged, although different. Happiness is temporary and joy is, well truthfully, eternal, if cultivated. Happiness is dependent upon, while joy is independent of. Happiness is definable and joy revels in its mystery.
There have been many, many moments of happiness in my life and I am ever so grateful for them. However, as time has gone on, years have passed and worked away layers, exposing me to the raw elements, the lines between happiness and joy have become blurred from a desperation to simply survive. In my need for survival, I have clung to moments of happiness in their provisional promises, desperate to hold on as long as possible knowing that it would be an undisclosed amount of muddling through the valley before even the option of a peak would present itself.
Happiness tends to only be found at the peaks. Joy can be found in the valleys.
And that is something that I had forgotten, until the rising.
The rising moon.
The rising daffodil.
The resilient moon.
The resilient daffodil.
In season, they rise.
So shall you.
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Different Ways of Learning a Language
Different people learn in different ways. There is no best way to learn a language, just different ways that suit different people. Here are three of the main ways:
1. Naturalistic Acquisition
Some people prefer to 'pick up' the language naturally by immersing themselves in the culture, by reading books or magazines, watching films, visiting the country where the target language is spoken, etc. They learn the language the way we learned our mother tongue as children. They focus on the meanings of words and don't worry too much about the language forms used. This method often suits children if they find themselves in a foreign country or with foreign friends. They just play together and pick up the language quickly and effortlessly. It is also a method that can work for some adults. Some students who go abroad to learn a language spend more time chatting with the locals in bars, and end up learning more of the foreign language and culture than their classmates who attend all the lectures! However, this approach does have its drawbacks and it doesn't suit everyone. If you spend your time chatting in the foreign language that is what you tend to get good at. If your aim is to become good at writing essays or letters you'd better practice that too. If you think that this approach is for you and you already have a good grounding in the language, try clicking on the links to books, magazines, newspapers, games, music, films, radio and TV on one of the language pages. If your language level is not good enough to use these links you could try a tutored course or a self-study package.
2. Tutored Learning
Probably the most common way to learn a language in the UK is in a classroom with a teacher. The teacher can provide small snippets of language that are easy to digest, explain difficult words, give guidance, provide extra motivation and feedback on progress, set a structured programme, and manage the whole experience. Unfortunately, some people do not have very pleasant or successful experiences of learning a language in the classroom. Language learning does not have to be like this; it can be great fun and very rewarding. With a well qualified and experienced teacher, a group of highly motivated students, and a good selection of learning materials, the learning can be rapid and very satisfying. Lingualearn can arrange a wide range of courses in different locations, at various times, and to suit different budgets. It is also possible to travel abroad and study at a language school or university in the country where the target language is spoken. This is a particularly effective way of learning a foreign language as it combines naturalistic and tutored learning. See the study abroad links for futher details.
For those people who find it difficult to attend a course at fixed times, and require extra flexibility, Lingualearn can arrange one-to-one distance courses in a range of languages. Using a personal tutor you can select your course content and arrange a very flexible system of tuition. This means that if you have to go away on business or you are busy at a particular time you can still arrange to have your language tuition at a time that suits you.
3. Self-Study Packages & Methods
With recent improvements in modern technology, it is now possible to purchase a wide range of multi-media materials for learning a language. You can learn a language on your own using cassettes, videos, CD ROMs, books, and any combination of these. This approach is well suited to students who are self-disciplined, well organised and highly motivated. It is also an approach that tends to assist with the development of reading and listening skills. If you want to become fluent at speaking and writing the language, you'll also benefit from some interaction with other users. There are many ways to achieve this, depending on your situation and location. One relatively easy way is to try to arrange some type of tandem learning, either face-to-face or using email.
See the section on penfriends, keypals and chats for some ideas. When you are studying alone you might find some type of dictionary useful when you come across a difficult word.
The "Good Language Learner"
We know from research by Rubin (1975) that the Good Language Learner:
1. is a willing and accurate guesser
2. has a strong drive to communicate
3. is often not inhibited
4. is prepared to attend to form
5. practises
6. monitors his own speech and the speech of others, and
7. attends to meaning.
So what does this mean? Although this research is a bit dated and culture specific, we can still learn a few lessons from it.
Language Learning Strategies
Another researcher (Naiman et al. 1978) identified five major strategies for language learning:
1. active task approach (Good Language Learners actively involve themselves in the language learning task)
2. realisation of language as a system (Good Language Learners develop or exploit an awareness of language as a system)
3. realisation of language as a means of communication and interaction
4. management of affective demands (Good Language Learners realise initially or with time that they must cope with the affective demands made upon them by language learning and succeed in doing so)
5. monitoring of performance in the target language.
The most frequently used techniques (Naiman et al., 1978) by Good Language Learners were:
1. having contact with native speakers
2. listening to radio, T.V., records, movies, commercials etc.
3. reading anything: magazines, newspapers, professional articles, comics, etc.
4. repeating aloud after teacher and / or native speaker
5. making up bilingual vocabulary charts and memorising them
6. following the rules as given in grammar books or text books
7. having pen-pals.
Study Skills
If you're going to learn a foreign language, you might need to brush up your general study skills first. This means you should attend to issues such as:
• managing your time effectively
• making good notes
• planning out your studies
• collecting together the resources you need
• making sure you have a suitable place to study
• brushing up your IT skills
• trying a few memory exercises
• developing your own confidence-building techniques.
Please see the Liverpool Hope University and Sussex Language Institute sites for some tips. Also see study skills packages to help overseas and native students with essay writing and studying. In addition, Clarity have two useful products Study Skills Success and Report Writer.
General Tips for Language Learners
The BBC has a few useful tips. The EU Europa site gives more tips, asks some useful questions about why you should learn a language, how to learn a language, your reasons for learning, and gives some information on study skills.
You may also benefit from our pages on motivation and what to expect on a language course.
Dr M I Freeman
Useful books (click on the images for our latest prices and availability):
The Complete Guide to Learning a Language: How to Learn a Language with the Least Amount of Difficulty and the Most Amount of Fun
by Gill James
Mind Your Language!: A Practical Guide to Learning a Foreign Language
by Remo L. Nannetti
Breaking the Language Barrier (Paperback)
by Georgina Howard
ISBN-10: 0954120302
This colourful and user-friendly guide to language learning will inspire people of all ages and abilities!
Drawing on her long experience as a linguist and language teacher, Ms Howard sets out to challenge our linguaphobia, and demonstartes that languages are well within our grasp.
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19 Stages of Missing your Pet while away at College
19. Why can’t you just come live in my dorm??
18. I’ll just pack you in my suitcase and no one will ever know…
17. When the day comes you have to go back to campus
16. And you take one last look before shutting the door and your pet is looking at you like
15. When your roommates ask if you’re okay
The Struggles of Being a Freshmen in College as told by Rory Gilmore
Being a freshmen in college is tough. Here you are right back at the bottom of the totem pole once again. You’ve got four more years (at least) to get through. It can be hard sometimes. No one knows that more than Rory Gilmore-one of the most relatable fictional characters ever.
13. When you don’t do mornings.
12. When you’re having a really bad day.
11. When your teacher calls on you in class and you don’t know the answer.
10. When you have 2 quizzes, 3 exams, and a lab practical all in one week.
9. When you kiss the jerk frat guy at the open party and then realize your mistake.
The Struggle of Still Being Underage in College
I’m 17. Seventeen. I’m 17 years old and I’m a freshmen in college. Also, I didn’t turn 17 until a month before I started college. How? Well my birthday is in July and I skipped 6th grade. So yeah, I’m a young one. Welcome to the life of the underage college student and my constant struggles.
11. I can’t go to concerts/comedy shows/clubs with my friends.
10. I have to have my mom call the doctor and tell them it’s okay to treat me.
9. I can’t sign any forms or waivers myself.
8. I can’t register to vote at the voting fair yet.
7. I can’t take out any loans, legally own anything, or have my own bank account yet.
Stereotypes of Christian Universities
“Christian universities are too expensive.”
10 Reasons I’d Never Join Any Other Chapter Than Beta Omega
Zeta Tau Alpha: Beta Omega is my home away from home. I feel so blessed to have found such a welcoming and loving sisterhood. Here’s 10 reasons I’d never join any other chapter..
10. My sisters are my support system.
9. I met my Big and joined the best family out there (the Butterfly fam, of course!).
8. I’ve learned the importance of philanthropy and ours means something to me personally.
7. My sisters give the best advice (unlike Chandler Bing).
6. All of the study dates in the library with my sisters.
Why “guys and girls can’t just be friends” is the Ultimate Myth
You’ve heard it said it million times, “guys and girls cant JUST be friends.” Either feelings or attraction always get in the way. Sometimes one falls for the other and the feelings aren’t reciprocated. Sometimes one is just really attracted to the other physically. Sometimes one has a jealous significant other. And in most of these scenarios, the friendship is ruined or severely damaged. Further supporting the case that men and women cannot have purely platonic relationships.
And I do not think this is the case.
Sure, I understand how this misconception can be made. I just gave you all the evidence to support it. And in some cases, it can become the case. But NOT ALWAYS.
Believe it or not, it is ACTUALLY possible to have a 100% pure friendship with someone of the opposite sex. If you both stay within those limits. It is a little different than a relationship with someone of the same-sex. There are certain boundaries that must be followed. Especially if one or both of you are in actual relationships with other people. You can’t just be 100% comfortable and carefree. You have to respect your boyfriend/girlfriend and that relationship first. However, you should not let a jealous bf or gf control who you get to be friends with.
I, personally, have been in a relationship with someone that was super controlling and jealous and where I ultimately ended up sacrificing some amazing friendships with some of my best guy friends. I regret having to had give those up so much. And once my ex and I broke up, I swore to myself that I’d never let that happen again.
So now, fast-forward, I’m in a beautiful healthy relationship with a guy who is the complete opposite as far as jealousy goes. We both trust each other completely. We both have strong and casual friendships with other guys and girls. We’ve been dating for almost a year and have never had any issues with the other having a friend of the opposite sex. He even went to one of his friend’s that’s a girls semi-formal with her after her and her boyfriend had just broken up so that she could still go. Everyone asked him if we had broken up and were shocked to find out that we hadn’t and that I was just okay with him going with another girl. I find this so ridiculous. Why do people think this way?
20 Reasons Why Brooke Davis is One of My Role Models
Brooke Davis is one of the most inspirational fictional characters to ever be created. She may not have gotten married and pregnant in high school, written a famous novel, or played on a pro basketball team, but she still manages to stand out above the rest of the “One Tree Hill” cast in her own way. She is strong, independent, and fierce while somehow at the same time being vulnerable, sensitive, and kindhearted. She exemplifies all the qualities that every girl wants to find in herself. She also shows us that even those considered the “most popular” or prettiest who seem to have it all together are actually just like you and me-real girls with real problems.
20. She was always true to herself and never compromised for anyone else.
19. She was THE best and truest friend that anyone could have had.
18. She gave the best relationship advice.
17. She wasn’t afraid to be blunt and always said what was on her mind.
16. Everyone always knew she was destined for greatness-even when she didn’t.
15. She sometimes felt like she wasn’t good enough and questioned herself worth. But she learned to overcome stereotypes and inspired us all.
14. She learned to become confident in who she was and no longer needed boys to give her meaning.
13. She knew that clothes always came before guys (she even created her own fashion line based on it).
12. She then used her fashion line to endorse a positive body image for young women everywhere.
11. She may have been captain of the cheerleading squad but she wasn’t afraid to bust out some ridiculously goofy dance moves every now and then and just have fun.
18 Thoughts You Have After Binge-Watching Netflix All Day
18. wow what time is it?
17. No way, my clocks not right.
16. OMG IT REALLY IS 11:42pm.
15. how did it get that late???
13. I had so much stuff I NEEDED to do.
How I Learned to Study for College the Hard Way
College is not high school. Not even remotely. Every single aspect of college is a total 180 from what you’re used to after attending 4 years of high school. The social life is different, the schedule, the living situation, the food, the responsibility, the expectations, the students, the teachers, and most importantly- the studying. If you go into your first semester of college expecting to study like you did for your classes in high school, well, let’s just say you should be finding a job really soon. It’s not going to work.
If you’re like me, I took all honors courses in high school and made practically all A’s (despite one B- thanks Mrs. Yankee) with much ease. I rarely studied at all. And when I did it was maybe 2 hours for my Anatomy final and that’s about it.
Once I began my first semester, I quickly realized that even my hardest courses in high school were a joke compared to the courses I was embarking upon at Union. My lectures were short and we didn’t have nearly enough time to go over all of the information that we would be tested over. Which left us with hours of studying and learning on our own, not simply reviewing or refreshing our minds on what we already had been taught (like in high school).
This was a completely new world.
This is not what I has been used to. It was unexpected. Sure, I had anticipated that college courses would be more difficult, but I figured the material would just be harder (which it is) but I wasn’t expecting to have to study 20+ hours and 2 weeks in advance for one exam.
I got super overwhelmed and stressed out. I felt like I was drowning in textbooks and an insane amount of material. It felt impossible to be able to efficiently study and be prepared for all 6 tests within two days of each other. Not to mention keeping up with all my actual assignments, rushing and joining my sorority, getting used to living with 3 strangers, making new friends, and finding time for my boyfriend. There was so many new things and so much change going on at such a rapid pace. It felt unmanageable.
It was hard to accept when I failed my first huge biology test. I thought that I had studied so well and hard and I felt prepared. Not so much after I took the test. But I had never failed a huge test before and I was devastated. I realized I needed to find a new and effective studying technique.
I began to study harder. I pre-planned my entire week and wrote out when my study time would be and I stuck to it. I would get out of class and go back to my dorm and read the chapter we had gone over in class-and then reread it and reread it again. Except I really read it and understood it. I didn’t just skim and mindlessly read with actually taking in the information like I may have done before. I would make time to rewrite my notes out and go over subjects that I didn’t fully understand. I watched Youtube videos, I wrote out diagrams, I made flashcards, I was in study groups, I did everything I could to be prepared for the next exam.
And it worked. I did significantly better. I was thrilled. I learned that the key to studying successfully in college is to be prepared and to plan out your studying and stick to it. If you have a plan to follow it’s much easier to stick to then if you just decide to impromptu study whenever. It really works. If you’re struggling with finding a successful studying technique, I definitely recommend preparing, planning, and not procrastinating.
How I Established a Routine For Being Healthy in College
Being healthy in college is hard. You constantly feel stressed or overwhelmed with all the work and studying, and taking care of your body seems to drop on your priority list. You feel like you just don’t have the time to make it to the gym or to go on that run. You find yourself ordering pizza or quickly scarfing down some junk food during your study break. There’s no way you have time to actually cook a healthy, well-balanced meal for yourself. And as far as sleep goes, well it’s practically non-existent. You definitely haven’t gotten that recommended 8 hours in a longggg time (probably since the first week of the semester).
But don’t fret. I know it seems totally impossible with your crazy schedule to actually find the time to take care of yourself. But there is a way. You just have to commit to it.
Being healthy and taking care of your body and your mind is a responsibility everyone has as a human being. If you aren’t being active, or eating right, or getting enough sleep, it all comes back to you and your decisions. Bad habits can be changed, or can easily be continued. But you have to want to change.
I played basketball and ran track and cross country in high school and I was in extremely good shape. The summer after graduation I tried to keep my old habits of waking up early and going for my morning run. However, I found that I no longer had the same motivation or drive to run hard and I began to sleep in more and more. Once I started my first semester of college I was determined to start running well again. I did well at first, but with all the chaos of my first semester and rush and my difficult courses, it became less and less of a reality.
Then all of the sudden one day I decided to change. I realized that I was just making excuses for myself before because I was too tired or stressed and I really just didn’t have passion to run like I used to. But at that moment I decided all that was going to change. Running 3 miles only takes about 25-30 minutes and I definitely had that much time to spare, despite my busy schedule.
This time when I decided to stick to a running schedule every day, I changed a few things. Instead of trying to force myself to wake up early and run like I had always done before, I decided to run at night. Waking up early before my classes would just be more difficult and probably result in me pressing snooze. This was the key to me succeeding in my commitment. At the end of the day I was actually looking forward to take my 9:00pm study break to go for my run. Plus, it was cool outside instead of extreme heat. It became my way to de-stress from my hectic day and just let out any frustration or whatever. It once again, became my passion.
After I started running again and getting back into good shape, I decided I wanted to start eating healthier too. I’ve never eaten super bad and when I did eat not so great things for me it never seemed to effect me because of my fast metabolism and my small portion eating. However, I knew if I made more of an effort to just substitute some of the junk I did eat for a healthier option, it would make me and my body feel even better.
So I began to buy healthier snacks for around my dorm and drink a lot more water than I already was. I also took advantage of my dining hall and the meal plan I have which offers unlimited food in the cafeteria. Which along with all the junk and not so good foods for you, actually offers an amazing salad bar. As well as a healthy alternative to any of the usually foods on the menu. My body felt so much better. I flushed all the junk that was in my system out and it made me wake up happier, feel more energized, and be in an overall better mood.
Now to the sleep issue. I’m still at a constant struggle with this one to be honest. My whole first semester I don’t think that I was ever in bed before midnight, and most nights I was up until at least 2am studying. And I had to wake up every morning at 7:00am. I was definitely sleep deprived, as most college students are. Which makes you even more tired and have zero energy to take on the day or to study or to do anything at all really.
The only times when I would get to bed at a halfway decent hour was when I was prepared for that day. And I think that is the key. If you write down all of your assignments in your planner and plan to do them ahead of when they are due and actually study for tests the night or even a few nights before, it makes all the difference. You are not nearly as stressed or anxious and can get things down way more efficiently. So though sometimes all-nighters can be unavoidable to a college student, the key to sleep on a consistent basis is without a doubt time management and being prepared.
So if you take anything at all from this article, just remember that it is 100% possible to be a successful college student, as well as being a healthy individual. It’s just determined by the choices you make and how you decide to live.
11 Things College Students Constantly Find Themselves Eating
Life of a college student can be pretty rocky sometimes. You often just don’t have disposable money to go out to eat every night without a care in the world. This is real life. We’re all adults now. We have to learn to manage our money and what we spend it on. And, unfortunately, quality food often doesn’t cut the list. Therefore, we’re forced to cram our bodies with whatever we can put in it that is quick to make and cheap to buy. So here’s a list of foods that I often find myself or my roommates munching on in-between classes.
11. Cliff Bars- This is one that is so relevant to me it’s no joke. They’re the perfect on-the-go bar for breakfast before your 8am. They’re also not gross junk food. They’re extremely healthy for you and packed with the protein and nutrients you need to have the energy to take on the day. Plus, they’re delish.
10.PB&J- Seriously, find myself making these real quick for a fast lunch ALL THE TIME. But cmon, who doesn’t love a good peanut butter and jelly? It’s a classic.
9. Grilled Cheese- Like the pb&j, this is a quick and convenient sandwich that is easy to make and tastes good. Classic childhood grub.
8. Mac n Cheese- These are a staple in our kitchen at my dorm. You get the kind prepackaged in their little individual bowls. You add some water, pop it in the microwave, and then add the little cheese pack. And BOOM. You’ve got a nice hot bowl of delicious noodles covered in cheese. I have one roommate who I’m pretty sure lives solely off of these things.
mac n cheese
7. Ramen- Now I’m personally not a ramen girl. However, you hear so many college students talk about how this is the one thing they live off of for their entire four years through school. So, it had to make an appearance on the list. It makes sense though. It’s cheap and one of the simplest things to make.
22 Thoughts When Picking Out Underwear
Ladies, we all know that picking out underwear can be quite the task. Of course, who doesn’t love to go shopping for some cute new undies? However, sometimes finding the perfect pair can sometimes be a bit of a challenge. Things can even get a little overwhelming and stressful. Especially if you don’t know exactly what you’re looking for or you’re not sure what type you’re wanting. So here are some thoughts that each and every one of us has had at our nearest Victoria’s Secret..
22. YES. 7 for $27.50. Today is a good day.
21. Okay, I’ve got to find the perfect seven pairs of underwear.
19. Okay, I’ve located the bin with my size. Let’s start digging.
18. OH, these are CUUUUUTE.
17. OMG. If the bin says size small then why is practically every single pair of underwear in here XL?????
16. And they’re so cute, but not my size.
15. Why are all the cute underwear either too small or too big??
14. What the heck? How do you even wear this contraption?
13. Awwwwwww. LOOK! These ones have cute little pink flamingos on them.
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With millions of school students stuck at home hogging the big tv and eating all the snacks, one industry is experiencing explosive growth.
Unsurprisingly, it’s the medical industry, although the sheer number of new medical research centres is beyond anything Australia has seen before, with over 2 million Research Centres opening in the past week alone, mostly in suburban 3 bedroom family homes.
“It’s been all systems go here” said father of 3 Doctor Florin, who until last week was known as Jason Florin, a sheet metal worker from Unanderra.
“I’ve been getting deliveries all day as I turn this double garage into a Research Institute. So far I have a lab coat, a microscope and a big pile of grant applications. Obviously I’m going to need some big glass doors to replace the roller door over here, but that won’t be delivered until Tuesday, along with the fancy reception desk and 45 tins of white paint. But then after the painting, it’s on to the next step, whatever that is”.
Although the next phase in the establishment of the Florin Medical Research Institute is unclear, Doctor Florin has a solid medical background, having watched the first 8 Seasons of ‘Scrubs’ and all of the breast augmentation episodes of NBC’s ‘Botched’.
“Yeah, I’d say the next step is that we get someone that has this COVID thing, and then we stab their finger to get some blood, and then I’ll get some of my blood, and then have a quick squiz at both of ‘em under this microscope to see if they look different, cause it’s something to do with blood, I reckon”.
“It’s all very exciting” enthused wife Doctor Florin, who until last week was known as Megan Florin, a mobile dog wash operator.
“Just imagine, the COVID-19 cure could come from our own home, and then the schools can re-open and we’ll be able to safely walk around the house all day without anyone rolling their eyes at us”.
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It hurts Matt Harvey, quite obviously, and it undoubtedly hurts the Mets, who have so much of their future riding on that electric right arm.
But Harvey's shutdown with a partial tear of a right elbow ligament -- an injury that could lead to surgical intervention -- also hurts all of us baseball fans who love the next wave, the irresistible pull of dominance in development and in bloom, the bright orange cleats at the All-Star Game, the near no-hitter(s), and even the brief forays into late-night comedy and, um, modeling.
Harvey not only has the talent to be a superstar but the personality to embrace all that comes with that billing. He came out of the Mystic (Conn., that is) and emerged a Manhattanite, and while it's no secret some percentage of East Coast bias helped land him on the cover of Sports Illustrated and the forefront of our fascination, he did plenty on the field of play to justify the incredible attention.
So, yes, this is a bummer for everybody. When Matt Harvey gets shut down, even temporarily, we all lose, and we will, of course, all hold out hope that Harvey won't become the latest member of the ever-growing Tommy John fraternity.
Harvey is now faced with the game's most expensive and most vexing reality, which is that, even in an era of prescribed pitch counts and innings limits, nobody has figured out the formula to avoid what happened here, and you wonder if anybody will.
Theories abound, and the most compelling -- to me, at least -- are the theories about extreme long toss and its ability to build up arm strength. I wrote extensively about it during Spring Training, focusing on O's prodigy Dylan Bundy and his utmost conviction that long toss was the key to his durability and velocity.
You know, Dylan Bundy? The kid who had to have Tommy John surgery on his right elbow three months later?
Ugh.
If defections of the human body are unavoidable, the latest and greatest attempts to avoid surgical intervention usually revolve around platelet-rich plasma injections. But as Bundy himself can attest, that methodology has proven more meaningful for guys experiencing inflammatory or osteoarthritic conditions than in guys faced with the dreaded elbow tear.
All of this is a long-winded way of saying that the pitching motion is unnatural, the human body is unpredictable and there's really no accounting for why some guys enjoy prolonged and prolific careers while others take their prescribed 10-14-month detour on the road to Major League relevance. The elbow is a fickle mistress who doesn't seem to care about your fantasies (or fantasy team, for that matter).
You look for tell-tale signs, but they're as easily offset as they are alarming. Sure, as a student at UNC, Harvey did throw 157 pitches in an April 2010 complete game at Clemson, a jarring workload to every scout who tracked him. But he also had 22 days off after that start and has been properly pampered at every step of his pro career, so how much should we read into that outing?
It would be helpful, if only for future application, if the Mets had used and abused Harvey in some mathematically meaningful fashion. But they were as careful with him as any club is with a burgeoning ace. He threw 135 2/3 innings in 2011, 169 1/3 (between the Majors and Minors) in 2012 and had thrown 173 1/3 this year, en route to an innings limit general manager Sandy Alderson revealed to be about 210.
That's a 24.8 percent increase from 2011-12 and a prescribed 24-percent increase from '12-13. Quite reasonable.
Harvey averaged 103.7 pitches per game and never topped 121. Also very reasonable.
Perhaps the only lesson here is self-prescription, of sorts, for Harvey admitted he pitched through forearm discomfort for several weeks but chalked it up to usual pitchers' soreness. You want your professional athletes to apply the competitive fire that allowed them to ascend to their lofty state, but you also want them to listen to what their bodies are telling them.
People much more scientifically savvy than me will undoubtedly have better theories, but the most pertinent point, at this point, is how the Mets handle Harvey going forward. The desire to avoid surgery at all costs is understandable, and Adam Wainwright -- diagnosed in 2004 and surgery-free until 2011 -- is a prominent example of a guy who endured a partial tear for an extended period. But Wainwright is obviously more the exception than the rule, and these tears tend to be addressed inevitably, if not immediately.
Injuries are inevitable in athletics and, most particularly, at Harvey's chosen position and profession. Nobody has cracked the code, and Major League organizations have paid the price, to the tune of more than $1 billion of salary to injured pitchers in the past five years alone.
As fans of the game, we, too, pay a price, one more emotional than fiscal. It wasn't hard to get swept up in the Harvey hype, and it's not hard to empathize with every Mets fan praying for his speedy recovery.
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How the UK Supreme Court used allegations to deny al-Sirri refugee status
Written by Frances Webber Monday, 26 November 2012
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Frances Webber assesses how Yasser al-Sirri’s refugee appeal in the UK has resulted in a strange decision where despite never having been convicted of an offence in the UK, the evidence in accusations has been used to deny him refugee status.
The Supreme Court’s 21 November 2012 judgment throws light on the issue of who should be denied protection as a refugee and on what grounds
The issue of who is a terrorist is as intensely political as the relationship between political exiles and the countries that have hosted them. In the UK, late nineteenth-century extradition law provided protection to exiles accused by their home governments of political crimes – and the ‘political exception’ was recognised and carried forward in the 1951 Refugee Convention, the instrument which purported to consolidate and rationalise the protection of the international community for victims of persecution.
The Convention’s exclusion clause, Article 1F, denied recognition as refugees to those in respect of whom there were serious reasons for considering they were guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity; of ‘serious non-political crimes’, or of acts ‘contrary to the principles and purposes of the United Nations’. The first and third categories of exclusion were clearly based on the notion that perpetrators of persecution should not themselves receive protection, and perhaps the second category too, excluding as it did those committing serious crimes such as homicide, rape or robbery. But implicit in the formulation was that those committing serious political crimes were protected by the Convention from return to persecuting states.
This caused no problems while refugees were few in number and were coming from Iron Curtain or other ‘enemy’ states. But with the demise of the Cold War, the growth in the numbers of refugees seeking protection in Europe from the 1980s on, including many supporters of political or ethnic struggles in Turkey, Sri Lanka and the Maghreb, the grant of protection to those guilty of crimes in their own countries in support of a liberation struggle or political movement came under increasing attack, in parallel with the increasing cooperation between the UK and US security services and those of the countries of origin of many of the refugees. In the 1990s France and Germany banned Algerian and Kurdish movements respectively and deported activists.
In the UK, the Terrorism Act 2000 came up with a definition of terrorism so broad as to encompass street protest. That Act also banned 21 organisations, from Al Qaida to movements with mass support including the PKK and LTTE – creating insoluble dilemmas for thousands of ‘ordinary’ asylum seekers whose claims were based on support for those who were fighting for their right to exist.
Terrorism as ‘non-political crime’
Four years earlier, in 1996, the UK House of Lords had declared that terrorist crime was ‘non-political’ even though purportedly political, because of the disproportion between means and ends. Further legislation criminalised conspiracies in the UK to commit crimes abroad. By now the right to self-determination proclaimed by the UN Charter appeared to have been virtually obliterated by its re-drawing as ‘terrorist violence’ which could not only attract criminal penalties in countries of supposed refuge but could also found exclusion from refugee protection. (Those excluded from refugee protection cannot legally be returned to a country where they risk torture, since the European Court of Human Rights has upheld, in theory at least, the absolute prohibition on return to torture in the Human Rights Convention in the face of sustained attack by European governments including the UK.)
Is membership of a banned organisation enough for exclusion?
Over the past decade, battles have raged in the courts over just what acts can disqualify someone fleeing persecution from refugee status. The Home Office, along with European counterparts, has argued that mere membership of a proscribed organisation, even historic membership, is enough to disqualify. The courts have disagreed, holding consistently that there must be more than mere membership; individual responsibility for terrorist acts must be attributable to the asylum seeker before he (invariably) can be excluded. (But of course inferences of individual responsibility can be drawn from command positions in terrorist organisations.)
The European Court of Justice[i] upheld this interpretation in a 2010 case[ii] involving two asylum seekers in Germany who had been members of Kurdish liberation organisations and had supported armed struggle. Neither support for a proscribed organisation nor support for armed struggle was enough, ruled the court, to provide ‘serious reasons for considering’ that they had committed serious non-political crimes or acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
What such ‘purposes and principles’ are is another area of controversy. And yet a further issue which has vexed the court is that of proof. To exclude someone from refugee protection, the excluding government must have ‘serious reasons for considering’ the person to be guilty of the prohibited acts. What does this mean? All these issues were canvassed in the Supreme Court in the case of Al-Sirri and the companion case of DD (Afghanistan), in which judgment was given on 21 November.
The allegations: Al-Sirri
The reasons for excluding the Egyptian from refugee protection were as follows:
· he published and wrote a foreword to a book by a member of al-Gamma al-Islamiyya, an organisation proscribed under the Terrorism Act;
· he possessed an unpublished manuscript on jihad by Ayman Al-Zawahiri, a former leader of the organisation, Egyptian Islamic Jihad;
· he possesses books and videos on Al Qaida and Osama bin Laden;
· he had transferred relatively large sums of money abroad;
· he had been convicted in absentia by Egyptian courts of conspiracy to kill the prime minister and of membership of a terrorist organisation, and on a US indictment on charges of providing material support to a terrorist organisation;
· he had been indicted at the Old Bailey for conspiracy to murder General Masoud, the Northern Alliance leader killed in Afghanistan by suicide bombers posing as journalists two days before the 9/11 attacks, a charge which the judge dismissed on the basis that the evidence was equally consistent with guilt and innocence.
Of these, the first four were not contested, but the Court of Appeal ruled that in themselves these allegations could not support a decision that he had acted against the purposes and principles of the United Nations. The Egyptian convictions in absentia were ultimately excluded because they had been obtained by torture of others. The US indictment was excluded too, because the US authorities had provided no evidence in support. That left the Old Bailey indictment. Al-Sirri’s lawyers argued that the charge could not give rise to exclusion for two reasons: first, conspiracy to kill a general in Afghanistan was not of itself contrary to UN purposes and principles; and second, that (as the judge had found) the evidence pointed to innocence and guilt as equally likely, and ‘serious reasons for considering’ meant more than that.
The allegations against DD
Al-Sirri’s case was joined in the Supreme Court with the case of DD (Afghanistan). DD had been involved in fighting UN-mandated troops ISAF) in Afghanistan as a sub-commander in Jamat-e-Islami, which allied itself with the Taliban. He fled to Pakistan with his brother when the US invaded Afghanistan but then returned after an assassination attempt which killed his brother, and fought until he felt equally at risk from his former colleagues as from Karzai’s troops, when he came to the UK and claimed asylum. The Court of Appeal ruled that fighting against International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops mandated by the UN (although not directly controlled by it) to provide security and to protect and support the UN’s work in Afghanistan was contrary to its purposes and principles, justifying DD’s exclusion from refugee protection, although the issue of individual responsibility had to be addressed. DD’s lawyers argued that he had been engaged in armed insurrection, which is not in itself contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
‘Purposes and principles of the UN’
Both cases raised the question: what is the meaning of the phrase ‘acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the UN’. At first glance you would think it could apply only to state actors, since the UN Charter and its founding principles are all about relations between nation states and securing international peace. In the 2010 case involving the Kurdish separatists, the European Court of Justice decided that non-state actors could in principle commit acts contrary to the UN’s purposes and principles, and the Home Office position was that all terrorism was caught by the provision, relying on UN declarations and resolutions secured by western governments in the 1990s to the effect that acts of terrorism were in principle contrary to the UN’s purposes and principles. Al-Sirri’s lawyers argued that such acts must have an international dimension and must be capable of affecting international peace and security. It would not be enough, they argued, that actions are taken in one state to destabilise the government of another (the alleged motivation for the conspiracy to kill General Masoud).
The Supreme Court accepted that to qualify as ‘contrary to the purposes and principles of the UN’, an act would have to impinge on the international plane, in terms of gravity, international impact and implications for international peace and security. But as the Tribunal had held, the killing of Masoud had had such international impact, so it was legitimate to categorise it as it had been. In relation to DD, the Supreme Court ruled that while armed insurrection per se would not necessarily be contrary to UN purposes and principles, attacking ISAF was frustrating the purposes of the UN and in principle fell within the exclusion clause (subject to issues of gravity, international dimension and individual responsibility).
‘Serious reasons for considering’
The last issue in Al-Sirri’s case was how to assess the evidence. Did the charges have to be proved? Clearly, the phrase indicated that decision-makers did not need to be convinced of guilt in order for the exclusion clauses to apply. But did the decision-maker (and the court) need to believe it was more likely than not that the allegations were true? If so, the Old Bailey charges could not found exclusion.
The Supreme Court was reluctant to lay down a hard and fast rule – but gave some pointers. Evidence giving rise to serious reasons for considering that someone was guilty of the acts in question had to be clear, credible and strong. ‘Considering’ was stronger than ‘suspecting’ or ‘believing’. If it was more likely than not that the person had not committed the act in question there could not be serious reasons for considering that he did. And finally, the sentence which could be decisive:
‘The reality is that there are unlikely to be sufficiently serious reasons for considering the applicant to be guilty unless the decision-maker can be satisfied on the balance of probabilities that he is.’
According to the judgment, the Home Secretary accepts that neither Al-Sirri nor DD could be returned to their countries because of the real risk of torture. But the difference between non-return and the grant of refugee status is the difference between the recognition of a status and the civil and social rights which go with it, and a precarious, contingent life where planning a future is impossible. Both cases will now return to the Tribunal for further rulings in accordance with the Supreme Court’s guidance. But it is hard to see how the Tribunal could now refuse to recognise Al-Sirri as a refugee, in the absence of further evidence of terrorist involvement.
Frances Webber is a former barrister who specialised in immigration, refugee and human rights law until her retirement in 2008. She co-edited Macdonald’s Immigration Law and Practice (5th edition, 2001, 6th edition 2005) and Halsbury’s British Nationality, Immigration and Asylum (4th edition, 2002 reissue). She lectures part-time at Warwick University and Birkbeck College and speaks and writes on migration and human rights issues. She is currently working on a book, Borderline justice: the fight for refugee and migrant rights (Pluto, October 2012)
[i] The EU Qualification Directive sets out criteria for refugee status, roughly in line with the Refugee Convention, and the ECJ rules on member states’ implementation of the Directive.
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Sunday, February 1, 2015
Cleansing Your Blood
Although widely misunderstood, cleansing the blood is probably one of the most important weapons in the alternative health arsenal for achieving optimum wellness and defeating cancer. To be sure, by some measures, we seem to be doing better when it comes to cancer. The medical community touts the fact that both the incidence of--and deaths from--cancer have finally started trending down. But this actually represents a bit of illusory back slapping. The biggest declines are in lung cancer and breast cancer.1 But the decline in lung cancer has virtually nothing to do with advances in diagnosis and treatment but, rather, is the result of decreased cigarette smoking in the U.S. Unfortunately, tobacco use is growing worldwide and has even started trending back up among young people in the United States, as we now add about one million new young American smokers every year. As for breast cancer, once again, that has less to do with medical advancements than with a decline in the use of hormone replacement therapy drugs—a primary factor in the onset of breast cancer. In effect, doctors are patting themselves on the back for no longer killing people.
Have there been improvements in diagnosis and treatment? Absolutely…for some cancers. Colon cancer, for example. But overall, the simple truth is that in 2014, there will be an estimated 1,665,540 new cancer cases diagnosed and 585,720 deaths from cancer in the US alone. Cancer remains the second most common cause of death in the U.S., accounting for nearly 1 of every 4 deaths. Someday, advances in genetic therapy and scientific research will make a real difference, but until that day, you’re largely on your own, and you would be wise to take advantages of the defenses that nature offers such as blood cleansing. There are actually several ways to cleanse your blood. One of the most effective is to use systemic proteolytic enzymes between meals or before bed. When taken without food, the enzymes enter the bloodstream within a matter of minutes and begin cleaning protein-based detritus, such as antigens and circulating immune complexes out of the blood, which would otherwise compromise the immune system. This can make a significant improvement in your overall health rather quickly.
What we're talking about now, though, is something quite different -- using herbal blood cleansers to eliminate systemic pathogens, remove toxic residues from the blood, stimulate the lymph system (which is essential for keeping your blood clean), and break down rogue cells to assist your immune system in minimizing the chances of malignant growths taking root in your body. The great blood cleansing herbs--in no particular order--are: red clover, burdock root, chaparral, poke root, and sheep sorrel. These are the herbs you will find in the famous blood cleansing formulas such as the Hoxsey formula, Essiac Tea, the Dr. Christopher and Dr. Schulze formulas, and in my own version of the formula. These formulas can literally "drive" bad things out of your body -- or prevent them from entering in the first place. With that in mind, let's look at the "perfect" blood cleansing formula. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '13', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9455780982971193}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '93637', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:H4LP3QZ4NXFPDMO5JGGOXLKMLRHTMOKY', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:6683022a-00ca-4f93-9657-599af8d2f488>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 7, 21, 9, 36, 8), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.3.33', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:ZAMGZ4HRDQCL7E4O2PDVXXPTUOP3G7OS', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:6ee13f24-c44a-4079-8c6b-ef955de5f9df>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://welcometohealth.blogspot.com/2015/02/cleansing-your-blood.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:20ab2001-713d-49b1-8565-6cd31810ab2a>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '516', 'url': 'http://welcometohealth.blogspot.com/2015/02/cleansing-your-blood.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-167-111-254.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-30\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for July 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.19662851095199585', 'original_id': '451c961123f3b620e423f05661a04c730773eb5bd756e00d2be22c2cf6bcd23f'} |
Kimera Develops First-Ever Artificial General Intelligence
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The first-ever commercial human-like intelligence technology has been launched by Kimera systems. The artificial general intelligence (AGI) began observing people and learning from their behavior, much like humans would, with Nigel-enabled devices.
Work on the single-algorithm, federated perspective to artificial intelligence, was started by Shita in the year 2005 and the company, Kimera System was established in 2012. The technology was named Nigel in the honor of its principle designer and famous wireless technology expert, Nigel Deighton who died in 2013.
Kimera has demonstrated the AGI’s ability to learn and respond to numerous contexts and circumstances. This major advancement in the field of artificial intelligence has come for the commercial deployment decades before experts predictions.
Nigel is the result of years of design, development and tests and has reached the stage where it has been given to a select set of private beta users to help the technology collect information and start to learn in the real world. A public beta will be given in the near future.
There are billions of connected devices and objects people call ‘smart,’ but ‘smart’ does not include comprehension. Personal assistant apps found on most smartphones are ‘smart’ but have limited utility because they are programmed to react in specific ways, and are constrained by this programming. You cannot ask your smartphone ‘is everyone there?’ and expect it to give you an answer relevant to your situation at that moment. Because Nigel will understand this question, it can give you a meaningful answer.
Mounir Shita, CEO, Kimera
From Smart to Intelligent
Nigel uses a new technique where it combines a wide range of soft and hard sensor data. Through this the AGI gains a moment-to-moment awareness of the context, which then enables it to learn from and apply the learned knowledge to real-life circumstances.
Nigel uses a constantly growing, neural network, the nodes of which can reach all types of connected devices, in place of a knowledge bank or centralized brain, for learning. With an increase in the use Nigel-enabled devices and apps, the technology’s comprehension of various concepts increases, enabling it to recognize the needs of its users based on the information gathered from their calendar, contacts, location, environment, time of the day and other such things.
Not Just Theory
A test conducted earlier showed Nigel’s unique ability to help people solve problems and achieve goals. Nigel technology had been installed in the phones of all the attendees of a particular meeting. A particular attendee was running late, and had texted his fellow attendee a message saying, “is everyone there?”
The recipient of the message had, however, put his phone on silent mode and did not see the message. Nigel was able to see the data from the calendar and location of all the attendees, and hence comprehended the question in its context and reply with a message reading “everyone is here except you” to the attendee who was late.
In another test conducted at a Super Mobility Week expo at Las Vegas, Nigel deduced if a person had a particular sensitivity or preference of food. If someone paused in front of a restaurant to check it out, without prompt Nigel would gather and send a filtered menu of the place to the person’s smartphone. The menu would show only items that match the person’s food preference as learnt and deduced by Nigel.
Privacy is Paramount
The data that is collected by Nigel are stored, after encryption, and do not go beyond the “personal cloud”, where it is stored and remains in the control of the person. These personal clouds are not revealed to anyone, including other personal clouds and Kimera Systems.
Kimera is joining hands with device manufactures, network operators and app developers to incorporate Nigel and create an ecosystem that has a significantly increased end-user value than any available now.
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Wednesday, 14 September 2011
Invite: Skydiving @ iFly Sentosa!!!
WHOA!!! OVERDUE!!!! If I don't post this up now you're gonna miss the great offer they have for the month of September!!!!!
Thanks to iFly Singapore I was invited for an indoor skydiving session (yah can do skydiving INDOORS!!!! Like so cool right!!!!) at iFly Singapore Sentosa!!!!!!
If you still haven't heard of it you're not thr first. If I haven't been to Sentosa lately I wouldn't have known that this building here exists just outside Beach Station. You know, that station where you go for Songs of the Sea? Yah, there.
Before I start, I wanna let you guys watch this:
I gotta admit I only knew this building exists, but have never known that so much fun looms within~~~
Yup, in that very same building lies MacDonalds, one of my favourite growing-up comfort food joints. Like, who doesn't love Macs right? Okok I'll save tht for next post....
And look closely at the sign... there is actually a Check-In area!!!
Wah like a real flight!
Ok la it is a real flight, cos you're going to be air-borne. ^.^
For the noobs (like me), skydiving is actually the same as parachuting. Think about it, you jump off the plane and you skydive, right? And you need to land, yah? Without the parachute you're just going to splat on the floor somewhere.
Since this is indoor skydiving, you go without the parachute, and it's EXTREMELY safe, so you don't have to worry about splatting anywhere. Lol~
Woo I'm excited!!!!
You are kidding me....
Self-check-in counters!!!!! Wah like at the airport!!! So cool OMG!!!!
After you have registered and checked-in, you will have to go through a briefing. This briefing is kinda like a crash course into skydiving, where the instructor will teach you how to position your body during the flight. And because while you are in the wind tunnel, the wind is going to be strong so you won't be able to anything (including instructions) other than the wind ,so you will also be taught how to recognize the hand signals the instructors will be giving you while in-flight.
This was our instructor who would be briefing us.
His name? Joshua. How I knew?
All their instructors' info are on the iFly website. So if you forget your instructor's name? Don't worry, look them up on the site. ;)
All their instructors are certified by the International Bodyflight Association, and iFly periodically organizes training camps and arrange for coaching by world champions to constantly upkeep and improve the standards of the instructors, so you can be assured of a safe flight, and that you are being taught in the best way for efficient learning~
There's this massage-bed-looking thing in the room!!!???
It is here that every single person will have to go up and try the basic flying posture. Yah, cannot run. Every single person who is going to fly will HAVE to do this.
That's me on the bed. I think my ass looks quite nice here. Lol~
Some of the hand signs...
This means chin up...
This means you have to straighten your legs...
Wah lao this one like so obscene...
Okay it's just my dirty corrupted mind at work...
It means erm...bend your legs....Yup...
Tsk tsk tsk...Silver~~~~
They have flight schedules so you know what's happening with each flight (training, gearing up, flying...) and which flights are still availble.
That's the wind tunnel!
Eh don't scold me for taking pictures when there is the No Camera sign okay. I'm here to promote the place so taking pictures is ESSENTIAL. I got exclusive media rights. ;)
One thing so cool about this wind tunnel - it's like being in space, except that you can breathe in there. The instructors brought ALL OF US in (it can apparently house 20 adults in there at one time, though us being beginners, we can only fly one at a time la) to let us have a feel of how it's like. They could control the wind speed from a control room beside the wind tunnel so we could all stand up inside without floating all over the place. Then the youth ambassadors (yeah they have youth ambassadors, and these girls are only 9 years old!) started pouring water from theirw ater bottles into the wind tunnel, AND THE DROPLETS OF WATER FLOATED AROUND, JUST LIKE HOW YOU WOULD SEE IN SPACE OR NASA!!!!!!!!!!!
Like, floating beads of water in the air, and you can feel and touch them!
You can choose either the red or blue suits. Well, we have our preferences, don't we? ^.^
So exciting!!!
Gearing up for the flight!!!!! ARGH!!! *so mega excited!!!*
Whoa...I want to try this stunt leh!!!
Qiu even said she wants to try doing chio poses ala America's Next Top Model style.
Sadly, the instructor said we could only do the basic posture as we were just beginners. Oh well...
You'll go into this area where you will see this.
Exclusively for flyers only area. Ha! I AM A FLYER!!!!
With Godsis Mint!
Take 2!
Nope the outfit is not complete. You still need to wear these....
...that kinda look like too-small Bras...
but they're goggles for the eyes...Lol~
As well as the helmets. Well, in case you anyhow fly and hit the glass on the wind tunnel.
Not likely to happen since the instructor will be inside with you while you're still a beginner...still...better to be safe.
Before our actual flight, the Youth Ambassadors as well as their instructor did a live demo for us...
Super inspiring~~~
Our turn!!!
I'm going in! Bye!
Okay to be honest I'm super scared and nervous just before stepping in, like what if I cannot fly properly? What if I start flipping around? What ifs...what ifs....
All you got to do is keep your arms crossed in front of you, and you let your body lean forward. The wind is so strong you will automatically start floating!!!!!
Takes some skill here, but always remember: Don't panic, keep your arch maintained, your backside tucked in, and your hands steady.
One word of warning: If you have flabby cheeks, they will start flapping around inside. Lol~ That's how strong the wind is. And it's kinda cold....
Having fun!!!! I could fly in my first attempt! YAY!!!
Though the first flight was only 45 didn't feel as short!
I would have wanted a longer flight time though~ ^.^
Okay...he's gonna bring me up so high~ (no,no pun intended...don't go there...)
I guess it was difficult to get a clear shot, but I have to say I am truly amazed that these instructors can stand, run around, jump in the wind tunnel, and take off as and when they please, and come back to ground again.
Okay after you're done right, take off your helmet and re-wear it again, if you're vain. If not you risk looking like this:
That's after his flight. LOL~~~ Actually he looks kinda cute like that...
Watch what happened on our Bloggers' Night!
Special thanks to Joe for the video edit! ^.^
You really have to keep your posture proper or you will be thrown off-balance if you flail your arms around too much, or if your legs are not bent properly, or if you start trying to grab the instructor.
That's me at 2:24 and 3:50 leh. Steady right? Eh cut me some slack! Not bad la for a first timer! ;)
Qiu's hair is so long and nice now!!! *envy!!!*
Ok sidetracked...Lol~
Just an excuse to take chiobu know~ ;)
Another one here~ One half of the pretty twins - Jayley!!!
She's in this year's New Paper New Face yeah? Support hor!
Flying's really safe, and it can accomodate EVERYBODY - young, old, ugly, handsome/pretty....I heard they've recently organized a birthday party for a bunch of really young kids! Like, cater the food, and then after the food and the birthday cake, off and into the wind tunnel to skydive!
Last time birthday at Macs, now high-tech already go skydiving okay. Lol~
Anyway, want to find out if you qualify to fly at iFly Singapore?
You do if -
• You weigh less than 120kg if you're shorter than 1.8m tall & less than 140kg if you exceed 1.8m.
• You are at least 7 years old (though the Bodyflight Assocation has flyers as young as 3. Actually I think arrangements CAN be made. ^.^)
• You are not pregnant
• You have not previously dislocated your shoulder/back injuries nor sustained any of these injuries.
• You are not in a plaster cast. (Doubt you should try any activity like that while in a cast, yah?)
• You are not under the influence of alcohol or non-prescriptive drugs (like Marijuana, know...not your regular Panadol or Oral Contraceptives...)
How much do you think this will cost you?
Well, if you're talking about the actual jumping off a plane and engaging a parachuter and skydiving like, in the sky, it's going to be a few hundred bucks, I assure you. (Go Google "Skydive packages" if you don't believe me.)
iFly Rates:
Usual price for 2 45-second sessions (like what we did) is S$89 for the Adult First-Timer Challenge Package. You can check out their rates at the iFly Singapore website.
Think it's cheap?
That's the USUAL PRICE...
Special offer for you, since you read my blog! ^.^
Just flash this blogpost (either on your tablet,iPad, laptop, smartphone, printout, however as long as you show this part) and you'll get to enjoy the package at $59.
Offer is valid EVERY WEDNESDAY for the month of SEPTEMBER, for all flights.
Remember to present the post upon purchase of flight tickets at the iFly Singapore Ticketing Counter for the offer! Online advance bookings do not apply.
Each flight will take about 2.5 hours, including briefing, training, gearing up, and the actual flight. And do check in at least 1.5 hours before your flight. Like if you book your flight at 7:30pm (all schedules can be checked on the online booking page on their site), do arrive at 6:00pm or slightly earlier.
How to Get There?
It's in Sentosa, right next to Beach Station, between Siloso and Palawan Beach. Most of you may want to go in via VivoCity, and take the Sentosa Express to get into Sentosa. If you don't already know (where HAVE you been???), you can use your EZ-Link card to take the Sentosa Express to get into Sentosa, so you won't have to pay separate admission charges after that. It'll bring you right to Beach Station.
For drivers, just drive towards Artillery Avenue, and turn into Beach View, towards the Beach Carpark.
Go on, call a few friends, head to Sentosa, and go to iFly after school/work on Wednesdays, and have a laugh at each others' flying skills. Lol~ And just enjoy a first-time together. These days everyone seems to have tried everything, but this is kinda new, so it's great for bonding!
Who says you can only Mambo on Wednesdays. There are other fun things to do, like indoor skydiving, for example. ;)
Well, AFTER the flight you can still go and party~~~ NO alcohol before the flight yah? ^.^
I've got my wings!!! Like pilots! ^.^
P.s. 2 more Wednesdays to enjoy this offer, so hurry~
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I started playing with ubuntu server edition. I'm still extremely new to ubuntu, but I can't seem to figure this problem out. I am running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server. I need to use htpasswd to generate some password hashes, but bcrypt is supported only in apache2-utils 2.4.
The latest version of this package is 2.2.22 in ubuntu 12.04 repository. I don't want to install it by source since that is extremely messy and hard to remove it in the future.
Is there an official ppa by apache to get the latest version? Or is there a another relatively easy and secure way of updating to the latest?
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I was going to leave this as a comment, but I don't have enough rep to post a comment. So I will write it as an answer. This might help your cause or might not or maybe you have already found another solution. In any case, here is my solution. Adding a ppa that carries the latest package you are looking for. You can find one that fits your need. Or you can add this one, ppa:ondrej/php5. I use this ppa to stay up to date with php, but he started adding latest apache as well. Hope it helps, you or anyone else that might be looking for an answer. Thank you.
add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php5
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Repositories are not the only way to install. You can also use Gdebi. Get the .deb from http://packages.debian.org/sid/i386/apache2-utils/download And use Gdebi to install it. (You might have to uninstall 2.2 first).
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You should not mix debian and ubuntu packages! – Braiam Aug 28 '13 at 10:59
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IVA TV Grid (EPG) API - Sample Source Code
The Internet Video Archive (IVA) TV Grid (EPG) API simplifies access to TV listings and channel lineups. It allows developers to create engaging guides through the combination of IVA’s metadata, images, and trailers. Use the API to broadcast information about your TV content. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.6918083429336548}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '98159', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:3RYJG6LSPTFAQBUWYJXOCAE6HQUQ4DLP', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:1e0be5fc-8d23-455e-b515-dc05c6d81517>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 2, 16, 22, 48, 3), 'WARC-IP-Address': '13.249.44.110', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:535TBV6BPKOR33ZTKOYEIWYTAS5M67YV', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:0beb9422-43bf-485a-8d8b-2c6855d4f13c>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.programmableweb.com/api/iva-tv-grid-epg/sample-source-code?qt-top_most_menu_other_directories=3', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:30ddeeab-6f58-431c-b3c9-26104e92660f>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '51', 'url': 'https://www.programmableweb.com/api/iva-tv-grid-epg/sample-source-code?qt-top_most_menu_other_directories=3', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-09\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for February 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-151-171-77.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.8680872321128845', 'original_id': 'bf079e3897704d4be9cb663c67a306e1ab83f86926d55e3ec631e3d8e474b4ee'} |
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* Copyright (c) 2018-2020 Red Hat, Inc.
* This program and the accompanying materials are made
* available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0
* which is available at https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/
*
* SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
*
* Contributors:
* Red Hat, Inc. - initial API and implementation
*/
import React from 'react';
import { connect, ConnectedProps } from 'react-redux';
import {
Alert,
AlertActionCloseButton,
AlertGroup,
Button,
EmptyState,
EmptyStateBody,
EmptyStateIcon,
EmptyStatePrimary,
EmptyStateVariant,
Gallery,
Title,
AlertVariant,
} from '@patternfly/react-core';
import { SearchIcon } from '@patternfly/react-icons';
import { AppState } from '../../../store';
import * as DevfileRegistriesStore from '../../../store/DevfileRegistries';
import { SampleCard } from './SampleCard';
import { AlertItem } from '../../../services/helpers/types';
import { selectMetadataFiltered } from '../../../store/DevfileRegistries/selectors';
type Props =
MappedProps
& {
onCardClick: (devfileContent: string, stackName: string) => void;
};
type State = {
alerts: AlertItem[];
};
export class SamplesListGallery extends React.PureComponent<Props, State> {
constructor(props: Props) {
super(props);
this.state = {
alerts: [],
};
}
private removeAlert(key: string): void {
this.setState({ alerts: [...this.state.alerts.filter(al => al.key !== key)] });
}
render(): React.ReactElement {
const metadata = this.props.metadataFiltered;
const cards = this.buildCardsList(metadata);
if (cards.length) {
return (
<React.Fragment>
<AlertGroup isToast>
{this.state.alerts.map(({ title, variant, key }) => (
<Alert
variant={variant}
title={title}
key={key}
actionClose={<AlertActionCloseButton onClose={() => this.removeAlert(key)} />}
/>
))}
</AlertGroup>
<Gallery hasGutter={true}>
{cards}
</Gallery>
</React.Fragment>
);
}
return this.buildEmptyState();
}
private async fetchDevfile(meta: che.DevfileMetaData): Promise<void> {
try {
const devfile = await this.props.requestDevfile(meta.links.self) as string;
this.props.onCardClick(devfile, meta.displayName);
} catch (e) {
console.warn('Failed to load devfile.', e);
const alerts = [...this.state.alerts, {
key: meta.links.self,
title: `Failed to load devfile "${meta.displayName}"`,
variant: AlertVariant.warning,
}];
this.setState({ alerts });
}
}
private buildCardsList(metadata: che.DevfileMetaData[] = []): React.ReactElement[] {
return metadata.map(meta => (
<SampleCard
key={meta.links.self}
metadata={meta}
onClick={(): Promise<void> => this.fetchDevfile(meta)}
/>
));
}
private buildEmptyState(): React.ReactElement {
return (
<EmptyState variant={EmptyStateVariant.full}>
<EmptyStateIcon icon={SearchIcon} />
<Title headingLevel='h1'>
No results found
</Title>
<EmptyStateBody>
No results match the filter criteria. Clear filter to show results.
</EmptyStateBody>
<EmptyStatePrimary>
<Button
variant='link'
onClick={(): void => this.props.clearFilter()}>
Clear filter
</Button>
</EmptyStatePrimary>
</EmptyState>
);
}
}
const mapStateToProps = (state: AppState) => ({
metadataFiltered: selectMetadataFiltered(state),
});
const connector = connect(
mapStateToProps,
{
...DevfileRegistriesStore.actionCreators,
}
);
type MappedProps = ConnectedProps<typeof connector>;
export default connector(SamplesListGallery);
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Bullet Journaling 101: Ideas and Advice for How to Get Started
If you like making to-do lists, handwriting things, or using a planner, you'll definitely love bullet journaling.
A lot of people feel intimidated by the prospect of starting a bullet journal, and with fair reason. Go on Instagram and search the term "bullet journal" and you'll find so many pictures of intricate layouts, perfect handwriting, and mistake-free pages it'll make your head explode.
But creating a journal should not feel like a beauty contest, you guys! The goal of a bullet journal is to help you get your shit together — to keep track of things you want to keep track of in a way that makes your life easier and better.
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So, to help newcomers and first-timers figure out how to approach starting a bullet journal, I'm going to walk you through the basics of what you need to know and how to get started, including some simple layout ideas, supplies, and tips.
So first of all, what is a bullet journal and what's the point of using one?
Bullet journals are basically like the love child of a diary, a planner, and a to-do list. By definition, bullet journals rely on the use of bullet points and symbols instead of fully-written sentences to track your day-to-day tasks, events, calendars, goals, habits, and/or experiences.
The main point of bullet journaling and using these symbols is to keep your daily lists totally streamlined and easy to track. They're also extremely helpful visual aids for people who appreciate getting a big-picture look at what's to come for the week/month/year ahead.
Some people keep a bullet journal at work and for home use, but many people combine their journals to cover everything going on in their lives. It's completely up to you.
Do I need a special type of notebook? What about supplies?
You can use any type of notebook to create a bullet journal since the layout is completely customized by you. Most journalers like using notebooks with a dotted grid, which allows for all sorts of custom layouts, and the size is up to you (we like the midsized ones, but larger ones like this are good for when you like to embellish or draw a lot). I personally like to use spiral-bound, ruled notebooks because I hate having to fight the page crease for a flat surface, and I like having lines to write on.
You'll also definitely need a pen you like, and if you want to get ~fancy~ with your journal, consider some dual tipped brush pens for calligraphy, title highlighting, and colorful doodles (don't forget a pen case). Washi tape also comes in handy for when you fuck something up, which I do all the time.
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Layouts are confusing AF. Where am I supposed to start?
There are a few basics we'll go over about how to lay out your journal, just so you have a solid starting place to work from. You can decide to get as fancy or intricate as you want, but here I'll just walk you through some simple formatting options to start with, and explain how you might want to expand upon them.
I'll also show you a few examples of what an embellished/decorated journal can look like (including my own personal journal), but you'll also see a completely no-frills version in case doodles and colorful accents aren't your thing.
Tip: Before you head straight to your journal to start laying it out, practice drawing a mock-up of your layout in another notebook, so you can get a feel for what it'll look like.
Step 1: Lay out the big picture stuff.
There are three things you'll need to start with, each of which have fancy names but are actually incredibly simple concepts.
1. A Key
2. An Index
3. A Future Log
Your key will be a list of symbols that you use in creating your monthly, weekly, and/or daily lists. These symbols are mostly standard across the bullet journaling world, but you can customize and change them yourself (see below). They will always be on the first page of your journal.
Your index will be a place where you track the page numbers of important sections of your journal, just like how a book's index shows you its chapter pages. This means you'll need to number every page you write on. Usually the index is also on the first page of your journal, but you'll want to make sure to leave lots of room to keep adding to your index over time.
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Your future log is basically your "year-at-a-glance" section, where you'll keep track of future events and dates of importance (like weddings, birthdays, etc.). The future log is usually the second and third page of your journal.
This is what a standard key and index look like:
And here's a simple way to set up your future log (just remember to add page numbers):
Step 2: Make your lists.
Now the next step is not something you have to do, but it is something most journalers do.
Think about what it is you want to keep track of in a big-picture sense. Do you have 12 scattered notes in your phone about all the restaurants you've wanted to try? Make a "restaurants" page where you can keep track of the places you want to go or the places you've eaten. If you want, you can give yourself a ranking system or create space to write about what dishes you tried and loved.
Do you read a lot? Create a "books" page where you can track all the books you want, and all the books you've read. The sky is the limit in this section of your journal! Some additional topics to track include movies you want to see, birthdays, national holidays, museums or exhibits you want to visit, sports team schedules, or places you want to travel to. I definitely suggest leaving yourself a few extra pages to work with in case you think of something else later.
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Note: This step can come before or after your future log — it's totally up to you.
These are some of my personal lists, for reference:
Step 3: Lay out the month.
At the beginning of each month, you'll want to spend at least a few minutes setting up a sort of big-picture page where you list out the to-dos, important dates, goals, etc. for the month ahead.
I like to create an at-a-glance look at the month, plus a general list of important dates, and things I need to do, buy, or plan over the course of the month. You can break these out and go as in-depth as you want with pretty much any category, for example a whole section dedicated to "things to buy" or "things to do" instead of just listing them all together. Leave lots of extra room for yourself to add to this list through the month! I cannot emphasize this enough.
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You can certainly also add in things like goals (whether they're financial, health- or wellness-related, or anything else, really), or even habit trackers that help you visualize your activities and accomplishments over the course of the month. This can take up as much or as little space as you want.
Step 4: Lay out the week, or skip that and go day by day.
There are a lot of ways to do this, but it's totally up to you to figure out what works best. Most people like to lay out at least a week's worth of time so they can plan out each day and write in important events or to-dos in advance.
You may choose to dedicate an entire page to each day if you plan to keep track of or write a ton of stuff like daily affirmations, food or water intake, etc., but if you're not planning to track that much besides basic to-dos, you can also opt to just write in your journal day-by-day.
Tip: If you're going day by day but you know there's an important date to remember, just write it in your future log, or on the first page of your monthly spread.
Here are some examples of monthly and weekly or day-to-day layouts, from embellished to totally basic:
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You'll notice in the daily logs that the symbols from the key are being used to track my to-dos and events (which is the majority of what I use them for). If you take a look at the second image, you'll see how I use the x symbol to note that I've completed a task. If I don't finish something on my list but I know I need to let it roll over, I just add a little arrow next to it. Then I'll re-write that task into the next month's spread.
And here's what a habit or health tracker might look like:
Step 5: Don't be afraid to add in non-standard pages.
I used to get so worried that I'd throw off the perfect formatting of my journal if I needed an occasional page to write out my groceries or weekly meal plan. But to treat your journal's format as such a precious and rigid thing totally defeats the purpose!
Don't be afraid to deviate from your layout. Your journal is there to serve you, so if you need to make a grocery list, do it! I often find myself listing out "go grocery shopping" as a task, so I'll just make a note next to it to go to page X for the list.
If something major happened and you need a page to process and write about it, go ahead and do it! If you're going on a vacation and need a place to keep track of all your flight numbers, reservations, hotels etc., add that in! The best thing about bullet journals is that they're all about what YOU want and need to keep track of.
Here's an example of how you might need to deviate from your normal formatting (look closely at Wednesday's list):
Lastly, remember not to freak out!
Check out Instagram for inspiration, but don't let it intimidate you! It's really easy to get wrapped up in trying to create the perfect layout or get your handwriting just right. You will make little mistakes all the time, but all you need is a cute sticker or some washi tape to cover it up!
Your journal doesn't need to be perfect, it needs to be functional. Always remember that when you're trying to choose what to do with your page.
Photos by Sally Kaplan
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Atreyu:
The Neverending Story Script Page 6 of 6
Good old Falkor, can you see anything ? Anything at all ?
Falkor:
No, all the land is gone.
Atreyu:
I know, and all because I failed.
Falkor:
You tried.
Atreyu:
Do you suppose the Ivory Tower is still standing?
Falkor:
Let's hope so, Atreyu. Let's hope so.
Atreyu looks down at the amulet dangling from his neck, and gets an idea that might just help them.
Atreyu:
Let the Auryn guide you.
(He clutches the medallion with his hands )
If the Ivory Tower still stands take us there.
CLOSE UP-
VIEW-
The Auryn starts glowing and the fragments move, behind them standing in all its glory is the ivory tower.
Atreyu:
Falkor ! The Ivory Tower !
They approach the tower. And it appears to have been spared by the Nothing. We span over all its beautiful features before we come to rest at the court before the Empresss chamber.
VIEW- Bastian. He leans forward and whispers
Bastian:
The Empress
VIEW-
Atreyu walks up the stairs that lead to the Empress's room. The chamber door begins to open. He pauses and looks back at Falkor.
Falkor:
Go on.
He enters the room and the door closes behind him. Before him was the Childlike Empress in person. She sits silently on her bed, her gaze never leaves Atreyu.
Childlike Empress:
Atreyu, why do you look so sad?
He takes off the Auryn and hands it to her. She looks at it, and then him for an explanation.
Atreyu:
I have failed you Empress.
Childlike Empress:
No, you haven't. You've brought him with you.
Atreyu:
Who ?
Childlike Empress:
The Earthling child. The one who can save us all.
The Neverending Story Script Page 6 of 6
Atreyu:
You knew about the Earthling child ?!
Childlike Empress:
Of course. I knew everything.
(Atreyu grows angry with her)
Atreyu:
My horse died, I nearly drowned, and I just barely got away from the nothing. For what ?! To find out what you already knew ?!
Childlike Empress:
It was the only way to get in touch with an Earthling.
Atreyu:
But I didn't get in touch with an Earthling !
Childlike Empress:
Yes, you did.
Bastian sits up slowly as we hear what she's saying.
Childlike Empress:
He has suffered with you. He went through everything you went through. And now, he has come here with you. He's very close. Listening to every word that we say.
Atreyu looks around, as does she.
Bastian:
What ?!
Two fragments of Fantasia collide and explode shaking the Tower Violently.
Atreyu:
Where is he ? If he's so close, why doesn't he arrive ?!
Childlike Empress:
He doesn't realize that he's already a part of the Neverending Story.
Atreyu:
The Neverending Story, what's that ?
Childlike Empress:
Just as he is sharing all your adventures, other's are sharing his. They were with him when he hid from the boys in the bookstore.
Bastian:
But that's impossible!
Childlike Empress:
They were with him when he took the book with the Auryn symbol on the cover, in which he's reading his own story right now.
Bastian:
I can't believe it, they can't be talking about me.
The Ivory Tower cracks. Atreyu turns around to see where it cracked, then he turns back to the Empress.
Atreyu:
What will happen if he doesn't appear?!
Childlike Empress:
Then our world will disappear, and so will I.
Atreyu:
How can he let that happen ?!
Childlike Empress:
He doesn't understand that he's the one who has the power to stop it. He simply can't imagine that one little boy could be that important.
Bastian:
Is it really me ?
Atreyu:
Maybe he doesn't know what he has to do !
Bastian:
What do I have to do ?!
Childlike Empress:
He has to give me a new name. He's already chosen it, he just has to call it out.
Bastian:
It's only a story, it's not real. It's only a story.
The Ivory Tower shakes and cracks some more. Atreyu falls over backward and is knocked unconscious.
Bastian:
Atreyu ! NO!
Childlike Empress:
Atreyu !
EXT. VIEW- the courtyard is being taken away by the Nothing. Because of Bastians new found disbelief the Nothing has grown stronger and is now attacking the last remaining part of Fantasia.
Childlike Empress:
Bastian, why don't you do what you dream, Bastian ?
Bastian:
But I can't ! I have to keep my feet on the ground!
Childlike Empress:
Call my name ! Bastian, please ! Save us !
Bastian:
All right, I'll do it. I'll save you. I will do what I dream!
He climbs up to the window and opens it. He leans out into the storm and calls out the name he had chosen for her.
Bastian:
MOONCHILD!
NEXT SCENE- Darkness, pure and black as night. We hear Bastian speak.
Bastian:
Why is it so dark?
Empress Moonchild:
In the beginning it is always dark.
A small light appears and starts growing until the two childrens faces are illuminated. It is coming from an object in Moonchild's hand. Bastian looks at it.
Bastian:
What is that ?
The Neverending Story Script Page 6 of 6
Empress Moonchild:
One grain of sand. It is all that remains of my vast empire.
Bastian:
Fantasia has totally disappeared ?
Empress Moonchild:
Yes.
Bastian:
Then everything has been in vain.
Empress Moonchild:
No, it hasn't. Fantasia can arise in you . In your dreams and wishes Bastian.
Bastian:
How ?
Empress Moonchild:
Open your hand.
She puts the grain into his hand and he looks at it.
Empress Moonchild:
What are you going to wish for ?
Bastian:
I don't know.
Empress Moonchild:
Then there will be no Fantasia any more.
Bastian:
How many wishes do I get?
Empress Moonchild:
As many as you want. And the more wishes you make, the more magnificent Fantasia will become.
Bastian:
Really ?
Empress Moonchild:
Try it.
Bastian:
Then my first wish is...
Moonchild follows his gaze and smiles.
CUT TO- Bastian riding Falkor
Below them Fantasia has been reborn. Everything appears as before.
Bastian:
Falkor, it's even more beautiful than I thought.
Falkor:
Like it ?
Bastian:
Falkor, it's wonderful !
(Bastian looks around.)
Falkor, it's like the nothing never was.
They fly over Rockbiter, the Nighthob, and the little man. Bastian waves to them and Rockbiter waves back. They change their direction and suddenly below them is a great endless field, the Great Plains. Bastian looks down and sees a familiar face from his imagination, only now its real.
The Neverending Story Script Page 6 of 6
Bastian:
Atreyu ! Artax !
Atreyu looks up, laughs, and waves as he and Artax are headed for home.
Falkor:
What would you like to wish for next?
Bastian leans over and whispers in his ear. Falkor laughs.
CUT TO- View of the three bullies talking out on the street where they had chased Bastian the day before. They look up at the sky as Falkor and Bastian appear and start chasing them. They scream
Bully:
A monster !
Bastian:
Yea ! Look there they are ! Get 'em Falkor. Let's see how you like it chickens!
Bully:
Down here !
(one of them cries pointing to the alley. They start to rest, but Falkor chases them down there too. They start running again.)
Bastian:
We're gonna get you guys !
They run down the alley and jump into the dumpster as Falkor flies by them, laughing. They peer out of the dumpster and then duck back in.
VIEW- of buildings and the sky. We hear a voice, a narrator.
Narrator:
Bastian made many other wishes and had many other amazing adventures before finally returning to the ordinary world . . . But that's another story.
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Q:
Index seek much slower with OR condition compared with separate SELECTs
Based on these questions and the answers given:
SQL 2008 Server - performance loss possibly connected with a very large table
Large table with historical data allocates too much of SQL Server 2008 Std. memory - performance loss for other databases
I have a table in a database SupervisionP defined like this:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[PenData](
[IDUkazatel] [smallint] NOT NULL,
[Cas] [datetime2](0) NOT NULL,
[Hodnota] [real] NULL,
[HodnotaMax] [real] NULL,
[HodnotaMin] [real] NULL,
CONSTRAINT [PK_Data] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
[IDUkazatel] ASC,
[Cas] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[PenData] WITH NOCHECK ADD CONSTRAINT [FK_Data_Ukazatel] FOREIGN KEY([IDUkazatel])
REFERENCES [dbo].[Ukazatel] ([IDUkazatel])
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[PenData] CHECK CONSTRAINT [FK_Data_Ukazatel]
It contains cca 211 milion rows.
I run following statement:
DECLARE @t1 DATETIME;
DECLARE @t2 DATETIME;
SET @t1 = GETDATE();
SELECT min(cas) from PenData p WHERE IDUkazatel=24
SELECT min(cas) from PenData p WHERE IDUkazatel=25
SET @t2 = GETDATE();
SELECT DATEDIFF(millisecond,@t1,@t2) AS elapsed_ms;
SET @t1 = GETDATE();
SELECT min(cas) from PenData p WHERE IDUkazatel=24 OR IDUkazatel=25
SET @t2 = GETDATE();
SELECT DATEDIFF(millisecond,@t1,@t2) AS elapsed_ms;
The result is shown here:
The third SELECT also loads much more data into SQL Server memory cache.
Why is the third SELECT so much slower (8.5 s) then the first two SELECTs(16 ms)?
How can I improve performance of the third select with OR? I want to run following SQL command but it seems to me that creating cursor and running separate queries is much faster than a single select in this case.
SELECT MIN(cas) from PenData p WHERE IDUkazatel IN (SELECT IDUkazatel FROM ...)
EDIT
As David suggested I have hovered over the fat arrow:
A:
For the first two queries all it has to do is scan in the clustered index to the first entry for that value of IDUkazatel - because of the order of the index that row will be the lowest value for cas for that value of IDUkazatel.
In the second query this optimisation is not value and it is probably seeking to the first row for IDUkazatel=24 then scanning down the index until the last row with IDUkazatel=25 to find the minimum value of cas over all those rows.
If you hover over that fat arrow you'll see it is reading many rows (certainly all those for 24, probably all those for 25 too), whereas the thin arrows in the plan output for the other two show the top action causing it to only consider one row.
You could try run each query and then get the minimum for the minimums found:
SELECT MIN(cas)
FROM (
SELECT cas=MIN(cas) FROM PenData p WHERE p.IDUkazatel = 24
UNION ALL
SELECT cas=MIN(cas) FROM PenData p WHERE p.IDUkazatel = 25
) AS minimums
That said, it seems you have a table with IDUkazatel values rather than an explicit OR clause. The code below will work with that arrangement, simply replace the table name @T with the name of the table containing IDUkazatel values:
SELECT
MinCas = MIN(CA.PartialMinimum)
FROM @T AS T
CROSS APPLY
(
SELECT
PartialMinimum = MIN(PD.Cas)
FROM dbo.PenData AS PD
WHERE
PD.IDUkazatel = T.IDUkazatel
) AS CA;
In an ideal world, the SQL Server query optimizer would perform this rewrite for you, but it does not always consider this option today.
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INTERVIEW — T.R. Reid
T.R. Reid, a correspondent and reporter for notable documentary producers NPR and PBS, is leading a panel Nov. 13 in the wake of his recent documentary, U.S. Health Care: The Good News, where he will discuss the potential of universal health care in the United States and how seeds of that system have already sprouted in corners of the country. Reid took some time with us to explain.
INLANDER: What are the most incorrect assumptions America has about health care?
Many Americans believe we have the finest health care in the world. That’s only half true. For people with money or good insurance, we provide great care in great facilities. For about 49 million Americans, the access to care and quality is much worse than in other rich countries. Why do we have good health care, but a third-rate health care system? Because it doesn’t cover everybody.
Is universal health care possible?
It is possible. If we covered everyone, we’d actually spend less too. This is the crucial point. If you cover everyone, you spend less on health care than a fragmented system like ours. So how?
In the German system, everyone has to have insurance; it’s mandated. You buy insurance from a private insurer, not the government, and you split the cost of the premium with your employer. Britain is completely different. Health care is the government’s job there. The hospitals are run by the government, the bills are paid by the government. There’s no premium, no co-pay, no deductible, no bill. Ninety-eight percent of people there never get a doctor’s bill over the course of their entire life. You go in when you need it, and the government handles it. You pay in some ways of course, through taxes. But when you net it out, by taking the average tax bill and health insurance premium, people in the U.S. are paying 60 percent more than the average Brit. Japan has mostly private insurance with seniors on a government plan. They have the longest life expectancy in the world. They have one-third the infant mortality per capita and they spend 48 percent of what we do. With much better results.
There are many different approaches and they include less government involvement than what occurs in the U.S. Universal coverage doesn’t have to mean socialized medicine.
What’s stopping the U.S. from having universal care?
The primary reason is money. Health care is a $2.6 trillion industry. There are a lot of big winners with money invested in the industry. There are 1,000 companies making more than $1 billion a year off our current system. They fight change. They want to keep what they have. If you think about it, if you’re making $1 billion, spending $10 million on lobbying to protect it is peanuts; it’s nothing. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'a8f9a77d50ee841280f0ab14542a904ae3b2400791b817dc6c1075be6e042f17'} |
Societal Implications of Wearable Technology
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Societal Implications of Wearable Technology: Interpreting “Trialability on the Run”
This chapter presents a set of scenarios involving the GoPro wearable Point of View (PoV) camera. The scenarios are meant to stimulate discussion about acceptable usage contexts with a focus on security and privacy. The chapter provides a wide array of examples of how overt wearable technologies are perceived and how they might/might not be welcomed into society. While the scenario is based at the University of Wollongong campus in Australia, the main implications derived from the fictitious events are useful in drawing out the predicted pros and cons of the technology. The scenarios are interpreted and the main thematic issues are drawn out and discussed. An in depth analysis takes place around the social implications, the moral and ethical problems associated with such technology, and possible future developments with respect to wearable devices.
This chapter presents the existing, as well as the potential future, implications of wearable computing. Essentially, the chapter builds on the scenarios presented in an IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine article entitled: “Trialability on the Run” (Gokyer & Michael, 2015). In this chapter the scenarios are interpreted qualitatively using thick description and the implications arising from these are discussed using thematic analysis. The scenario analysis is conducted through deconstruction, in order to extract the main themes and to grant the reader a deeper understanding of the possible future implications of the widespread use of wearable technology. First, each of the scenarios is analyzed to draw out the positive and the negative aspects of wearable cameras. Second, the possible future implications stemming from each scenario context are discussed under the following thematic areas: privacy, security, society, anonymity, vulnerability, trust and liberty. Third, direct evidence is provided using the insights of other research studies to support the conclusions reached and to identify plausible future implications of wearable technologies, in particular use contexts in society at large.
The setting for the scenario is a closed-campus environment, (a large Australian University). Specific contexts such as a lecture theatre, restroom, café, bank, and library, are chosen to provide a breadth of use cases within which to analyze the respective social implications. The legal, regulatory, and policy-specific bounds of the study are taken from current laws, guidelines and normative behavior, and are used as signposts for what should, or should not, be acceptable practice. The outcomes illustrate that the use cases are not so easily interpretable, given the newness of the emerging technology of wearable computing, especially overt head-mounted cameras, that draw a great deal of attention from bystanders. Quite often resistance to the use of a head-mounted camera is opposed without qualified reasoning. “Are you recording me? Stop that please!” is a common response to audio-visual bodyworn recording technology in the public space by individuals (Michael & Michael, 2013). Yet companies such as Google have been able to use fleets of cars to gather imagery of homes and streets, with relatively little problem.
There are, indeed, laws that pertain to the misuse of surveillance devices without a warrant, to the unauthorized recording of someone else whether in a public or private space, and to voyeuristic crimes such as upskirting. While there are laws, such as the Workplace Surveillance Act, 2005 (NSW), asserting a set of rules for surveillance (watching from above), the law regarding sousveillance (watching from below) is less clear (Clarke, 2012). We found that, while public spaces like libraries and lecture theatres have clear policy guidelines to follow, the actual published policies, and the position taken by security staff, do not in fact negate the potential to indirectly record another. Several times, through informal questioning, we found the strong line “you cannot do that because we have a policy that says you are not allowed to record someone”, to be unsubstantiated by real enforceable universitywide policies. Such shortcomings are now discussed in more detail against scenarios showing various sub-contexts of wearable technology in a closed-campus setting.
The term sousveillance has been defined by Steve Mann (2002) to denote a recording done from a portable device such as a head-mounted display (HMD) unit in which the wearer is a participant in the activity. In contrast to wall-mounted fixed cameras typically used for surveillance, portable devices allow inverse surveillance: recordings from the point of view of those being watched. More generally, point of view (POV) has its foundations in film, and usually depicts a scene through the eyes of a character. Body-worn video-recording technologies now mean that a wearer can shoot film from a first-person perspective of another subject or object in his or her immediate field of view (FOV), with or without a particular agenda.
During the initial rollout of Google Glass, explorers realized that recording other people with an optical HMD unit was not perceived as an acceptable practice, despite the fact that the recording was taking place in a public space. Google’s apparent blunder was to assume that the device, worn by 8,000 individuals, would go unnoticed, like shopping mall closed-circuit television (CCTV). Instead, what transpired was a mixed reaction by the public—some nonusers were curious and even thrilled at the possibilities claimed by the wearers of Google Glass, while some wearers were refused entry to premises, fined, verbally abused, or even physically assaulted by others in the FOV (see Levy, 2014).
Some citizens and consumers have claimed that law enforcement (if approved through the use of a warrant process) and shop owners have every right to surveil a given locale, dependent on the context of the situation. Surveilling a suspect who may have committed a violent crime or using CCTV as an antitheft mechanism is now commonly perceived as acceptable, but having a camera in your line of sight record you—even incidentally—as you mind your own business can be disturbing for even the most tolerant of people.
Wearers of these prototypes, or even of fully-fledged commercial products like the Autographer (see, claim that they record everything around them as part of a need to lifelog or quantify themselves for reflection. Technology such as the Narrative Clip may not capture audio or video, but even still shots are enough to reveal someone else’s whereabouts, especially if they are innocently posted on Flickr, Instagram, or other social media. Many of these photographs also have embedded location and time-stamp metadata stored by default.
A tourist might not have malicious intent by showing off in front of a landmark, but innocent bystanders captured in the photo could find themselves in a predicament given that the context may be entirely misleading.
Wearable and embedded cameras worn by any citizen carry significant and deep personal and societal implications. A photoborg is one who mounts a camera onto any aspect of the body to record the space around himself or herself (Michael & Michael, 2012). Photoborgs may feel entirely free, masters of their own destiny; even safe that their point of view is being noted for prospective reuse. Indeed, the power that photoborgs have is clear when they wear the camera. It can be even more authoritative than the unrestricted overhead gazing of traditional CCTV, given that sousveillance usually happens at ground level. Although photoborgs may be recording for their own lifelog, they will inevitably capture other people in their field of view, and unless these fellow citizens also become photoborgs themselves, there is a power differential. Sousveillance carries with it huge socioethical, environmental, economic, political, and spiritual overtones. The narrative that informs sousveillance is more relevant than ever before due to the proliferation of new media.
Sousveillance grants citizens the ability to combat the powerful using their own evidentiary mechanism, but it also grants other citizens the ability to put on the guise of the powerful. The evidence emanating from cameras is endowed with obvious limitations, such as the potential for the impairment of the data through loss, manipulation, or misrepresentation (Michael, 2013). The pervasiveness of the camera that sees and hears everything can only be reconciled if we know the lifeworld of the wearer, the context of the event being captured, and how the data will be used by the stakeholder in command.
Sousveillance happens through the gaze of the one wearing the camera, just like a first-person shooter in a video game. In 2003, WIRED published an article (Shachtman, 2003) on the potentiality to lifelog everything about everyone. Shachtman wrote:
The Pentagon is about to embark on a stunningly ambitious research project designed to gather every conceivable bit of information about a person’s life, index all the information and make it searchable… The embryonic LifeLog program would dump everything an individual does into a giant database: every e-mail sent or received, every picture taken, every Web page surfed, every phone call made, every TV show watched, every magazine read… All of this—and more—would combine with information gleaned from a variety of sources: a GPS transmitter to keep tabs on where that person went, audio-visual sensors to capture what he or she sees or says, and biomedical monitors to keep track of the individual’s health… This gigantic amalgamation of personal information could then be used to “trace the ‘threads’ of an individual’s life.”
This goes to show how any discovery can be tailored toward any end. Lifelogging is meant to sustain the power of the individual through reflection and learning, to enable growth, maturity and development. Here, instead, it has been hijacked by the very same stakeholder against whom it was created to gain protection.
Sousveillance also drags into the equation innocent bystanders going about their everyday business who just wish to be left alone. When we asked wearable 2.0 pioneer Steve Mann in 2009 what one should do if bystanders in a recording in a public space questioned why they were being recorded without their explicit permission, he pointed us to his “request for deletion” (RFD) web page (Mann, n.d.). This is admittedly only a very small part of the solution and, for the most part, untenable. One just needs to view a few minutes of the Surveillance Camera Man Channel ( to understand that people generally do not wish to be filmed in someone else’s field of view. Some key questions include:
1. In what context has the footage been taken?
2. How will it be used?
3. To whom will the footage belong?
4. How will the footage taken be validated and stored?
Trialability on the Run
In this section, plausible scenarios of the use of wearable cameras in a closed campus setting are presented and analyzed in the story “Trialability on the Run”. Although the scenarios are not based directly on primary sources of evidence, they do provide conflicting perspectives on the pros and cons of wearables. As companies are engaged in ever-shorter market trialing of their products, the scenarios demonstrate what can go wrong with an approach that effectively says: “Let’s unleash the product now and worry about repercussions later; they’ll iron themselves out eventually—our job is solely to worry about engineering.” The pitfalls of such an approach are the unexpected and asymmetric consequences that ensue. For instance, someone wearing a camera breaches my privacy, and, although the recorded evidence has affected no one else, my life is affected adversely. Laws, and organizational policies especially, need quickly to respond as advances in technologies emerge.
“Trialability on the Run” is a “day in the life” scenario that contains 9 parts, set in a closed-campus in southern New South Wales. The main characters are Anthony, the owner and wearer of the head-mounted GoPro (an overt audio-visual recording device), and his girlfriend Sophie. The narrator follows and observes the pair as they work their way around the campus in various sub-contexts, coming into contact with academic staff, strangers, acquaintances, cashiers, banking personnel, librarians, fellow university students and finally security personnel. Anthony takes the perspective that his head-mounted GoPro is no different from the mounted security surveillance cameras on lampposts and building walls, or from the in-lecture theatre recordings captured by the Echo360 (Echo, 2016), or even from portable smart phone cameras that are handheld. He is bewildered when he draws so much attention to himself as the photoborg camera wearer, since he perceives he is performing exactly the same function as the other cameras on campus and has only the intent of capturing his own lifelog. Although he is not doing anything wrong, Anthony looks different and stands out as a result (Surveillance Camera Man, 2015). His girlfriend, Sophie, is not convinced by Anthony’s blasé attitude and tries to press a counter argument that Anthony’s practice is unacceptable in society.
Scenario 1: The Lecture
In this scenario, the main character, Anthony, has arrived at the lecture theatre, in which the lesson had already begun, intending to record the lecture instead of taking notes. Being slightly late, he decided to sit in the very front row. All the students and eventually the lecturer saw the head-mounted camera he was wearing. The lecturer continued his lecture without showing any emotion. Some students giggled at the spectacle and others were very surprised with what they observed, as it was quite probable that it was the first time that they were seeing someone wearing a camera to record a lecture. The students were generally not bothered by the head-mounted recording device in full view, as it was focused on the lecture material and the lecturer, so proceedings continued, as they otherwise would have, had the body-worn camera not been present. Students are very used to surveillance cameras on campus; this was just another camera as far as they were concerned, and besides no one objected: they were too busy taking notes and listening to instruction about the structure and form of the final examination in their engineering coursework.
Wearable User Rights and Intellectual Property
In some of the lecture theatres on university campuses, there are motion sensor based video cameras that make full audio-visual recordings of the lectures (Echo, 2016). Lecturers choose to record their lectures in this manner as available evidence of educational content covered for students, especially for those who were unable to attend the lecture, for those for whom English is a second language or for those who like to listen to lecture content as a form of revision. In this regard, there are no policies in place to keep the students from making audio-visual recordings of the lecture in the lecture theatres.
Lecture theatres are considered public spaces and many universities allow students to attend lectures whether or not they are enrolled in that particular course or subject. Anyone from the public could walk into lectures and listen, as there is no keycard access. Similar to centrally organized Echo 360 audio-visual recordings, Anthony is taping the lecture himself and he does not see any problems with distributing the recording to classmates if someone asks for it to study for the final examination. After all, everyone owns a smartphone and anyone can record the lecture with the camera on their smartphones or tablet device.
This scenario raises a small number of questions that need to be dealt with foremost, such as “What is the difference between making a recording with a smartphone and with a head-mounted camera?” or, “Does it only start being a problem when the recording device is overt and can be seen?” If one juxtaposes the surveillance camera covertly integrated into a light fixture, with an overt head-mounted camera, then why should the two devices elicit such a different response from bystanders?
These questions do not, however, address the fact that an open discussion is required on whether or not we are ready to see a great deal of these sousveillers in our everyday life, and if we are not, what are we prepared to do about it? Mann (2005) predicted the use of sousveillance would grow greatly when the sousveillance devices acquired non-traditional uses such as making phone calls, taking pictures, and having access to the Internet. This emergence produces a grey area, generating the requirement for laws, legislation, regulations and policies having to be amended or created to address specific uses of the sousveillance devices in different environments and contexts. Clarke (2014) identifies a range of relevant (Australian) laws to inform policy discussion and notes the inadequacy of current regulation in the face of rapidly emerging technology.
Scenario 2: The Restroom
In the restroom scenario, Anthony walked into a public restroom after his lecture, forgetting that his head-mounted camera was still on and recording. While unintentionally recording, Anthony received different reactions from the people present in the restroom, all of whom saw the camera and suspected some foul play. The first person, who was leaving as Anthony was entering the restroom, did not seem to care; another tried to ignore Anthony and left as soon as he was finished. The last person became disturbed by the fact that he was being recorded in what he obviously deemed to be a private place. Later that day when Anthony searched for lecture recordings on the tape, he got a sense of wrongdoing after realizing that, in the restroom, he had accidentally left the camera on in record mode. He was surprised, upon hindsight, that he did not get any major reactions, such as an individual openly expressing their discontent or the fact he did not get any specific questions or pronouncements of discomfort. If it were not for the facial expressions to which Anthony was privy, he would not have been able to tell that anybody was upset, as there was no verbal cue or physical retaliation. Of course, the innocent bystanders, going about their business, would not have been able to assume that the camera was indeed rolling.
Citizen Privacy, Voyeurism, and a Process of Desensitization
Restrooms, change rooms, and shower blocks on campus are open to the public, but they are also considered private spaces given that people are engaged in private activities (e.g. showering), and are, at times, not fully clothed. The natural corollary, then, would lead to the expectation that some degree of privacy should be granted. Can anyone overtly walk into a public toilet sporting a camera and record you while you are trying to, for modesty’s sake, do what should only be done in the restroom? Is the body-worn technology becoming so ubiquitous that no one even says a word about something that they can clearly see is ethically or morally wrong? Steve Mann has argued that surveillance cameras in the restroom are an invasion of privacy more abhorrent than body-worn cameras owned by everyday people. The direct approachability of the photoborg differs from an impersonal CCTV.
There is a long discussion to be had on personal security. For instance, will we all, one day, be carrying such devices as we seek to lifelog our entire histories, or acquire an alibi for our whereabouts should we be accused of a given crime, as portrayed in film in the drama “The Entire History of You” (Armstrong and Welsh, 2011)? It is very common to find signs prohibiting the use of mobile phones in leisure centers, swimming pools and the like. There remains, however, much to be argued around safety versus privacy trade-offs, if it is acceptable practice to rely on closed circuit television (CCTV) in public spaces.
University campuses are bound by a number of laws, at federal or state level, including (in this case) the Privacy Act 1998 (Cth), the Surveillance Devices Act 2007(NSW), and the Workplace Surveillance Act 2005 (NSW). This scenario points out that even when there cannot possibly be surveillance cameras in restrooms or change rooms, the Surveillance Devices Act 2007 (NSW) does not specify provisions about sousveillance in those public/private spaces. In Clarke’s (2014) assessment of the NSW Crimes Act (1900), the voyeurism offences provisions exist relating to photographs. They pertain to photographs that are of a sexual and voyeuristic nature, usually showing somebody’s private parts. These photographs are also taken without the consent of the individual and/or taken in places where a person would reasonably expect to be afforded privacy (toilets, showers, change rooms etc). When a person claims to have had his or her privacy breached, however, exceptions to this rule apply if s/he is a willing participant in the activity, or if circumstances indicate that the persons involved did not really care if they were seen by onlookers (Clarke, 2014). It is even less likely to be illegal, if the act was conducted in a private place, but with doors open in full view (Clarke, 2014). Thus, the law represents controls over a narrow range of abuses (Clarke, 2014), and, unless they find themselves in a predicament and seek further advice, the general populace is unaware that the law does not protect them entirely, and depends on the context.
Scenario 3: The Corridor
This scenario depicts a conversation occurring with Sophie (Anthony’s girlfriend and fellow undergraduate coursework student). In the corridor, Anthony bumps into their mutual friend, Oxford, as they vacate the lecture theatre. Throughout the conversation, Anthony demonstrates confidence in his appearance. He believed wearing a head-mounted camera was not a problem and so consequently, he did not think he was doing anything wrong. On the other hand, Sophie was questioning whether or not body-worn cameras should be used without notifying the people in their vicinity. Oxford, an international student, became concerned about the possible future uses of the recording that featured him. His main concern was that he did not want the footage to be made publicly available given how he looked and the clothing he was wearing. Although Oxford had no objection to Anthony keeping the footage for his personal archives, he did not wish for it to be splattered all over social media.
Trust, Disproportionality, and Requests for Deletion
The two student perspectives of “recording” a lifelog are juxtaposed. Anthony is indifferent as he feels he is taping “his” life as it happens around him through time. Oxford, on the other hand, believes he has a right to his own image, and that includes video (Branscomb, 1994). Here we see a power and control dominance occurring. The power and control is with the photoborg who has the ability to record, store and share the information gathered. On the other hand, the bystander is powerless and at the mercy of the photoborg, unless he/she voices otherwise explicitly. In addition, bystanders may not be so concerned with an actual live recording for personal archives, but certainly are concerned about public viewing. Often lifelogs are streamed in real-time and near real-time, which does not grant the bystander confidence with respect to acceptable use cases.
In the scenario, Sophie poses a question to those who are being incidentally recorded by Anthony’s GoPro to see whether there is an expectation among her peers to get individual consent prior to a recording taking place. Oxford, the mutual acquaintance of the protagonists, believes that consent is paramount in this process. This raises a pertinent question: what about the practice of lifelogging? Lifeloggers could not possibly have the consent of every single person they encounter in a daily journey. Is lifelogging acceptable insofar as lifeloggers choose not to share recordings online or anywhere public? Mann (2005) argues that a person wishing to do lifelong sousveillance deserves certain legal protections against others who might attempt to disrupt continuity of evidence, say for example, while going through immigration. On the other hand, Harfield (2014) extends the physical conception of a private space in considering the extent to which an individual can expect to be private in a public space, defining audio-visual recording of a subject without their consent in public spaces as a moral wrong and seeing the act of sousveillance as a moral intrusion against personal privacy.
In the scenario, Sophie pointed out that if someone wanted to record another individual around them, they could easily do so covertly using everyday objects with embedded covert cameras, such as a pen, a key fob, a handbag or even their mobile phone. Sophie was able to put into perspective the various gazes from security cameras when compared to sousveillance. The very thought about the mass surveillance she was under every moment provided a sobering counterbalance, allowing her to experience tolerance for the practice of sousveillance. Yet for Oxford, the security cameras mounted on the walls and ceilings of the Communications Building, provided a level of safety for international students. Oxford clearly justified “security cameras for security reasons”, but could not justify additional “in your face” cameras. Oxford did not wish to come across a sousveiller because the recordings could be made publicly available on the Internet without his knowledge. Further, a clear motive for the recordings had not been conveyed by the camera holder (Michael et al., 2014).
Between 1994 and 1996, Steve Mann conducted a Wearable Wireless Webcam experiment to visually record and continuously stream live video from his wearable computer to the World Wide Web. Operating 24 hours a day (on and off), this had the effective purpose of capturing and archiving day-to-day living from the person’s own perspective (Mann, 2005). Mann has argued that in the future, devices that captured lifelong memories and shared them in real-time would be commonplace and worn continuously (Mann, 2013).
It is true that almost everywhere we go in our daily lives someone, somewhere, is watching. But in the workplace, especially, where there is intent to watch an employee, the law states that individuals must be notified that they are being watched (Australasian Legal Information Institute, 2015). When it comes to sousveillance will this be the case as well? In Australia, the use, recording, communication or publication of recorded information from a surveillance device under a warrant is protected data and cannot be openly shared according to the Surveillance Device Act 2004 (Cth). In the near future when we are making a recording with an overt device, a prospective sousveillance law might posit: “You can see that I am recording you but this is for personal use only and as long as I do not share this video with someone you cannot do or say anything to stop me.” Mann (2005) claims that sousveillance, unlike surveillance, will require, and receive, strong legal support through dedicated frameworks for its protection, as well as for its limitation (Mann & Wassell, 2013).
A person can listen to, or visually monitor, a private activity if s/he is a participant in the activity (Australasian Legal Information Institute, 2014). However, this Act forbids a person to install, use or maintain an optical surveillance device or a listening device to record a private activity whether the person is a party to the activity or not. The penalties do not apply to the use of an optical surveillance device or listening device resulting in the unintentional recording or observation of a private activity (Surveillance Devices Act, 1998 (WA)). Clarke (2014) combines optical surveillance device regulation with the regulation for listening devices and concludes that a person can listen to conversations if they are a participant in the activity but cannot make audio or visual recordings. The applications of the law cover only a limited range of situations and conditions may apply for prosecutions.
Scenario 4: Ordering at the Café
Anthony and Sophie approached the counter of a café to place their orders and Anthony soon found himself engaged in a conversation with the attendants at the serving area about the camera he was wearing. He asked the attendants how they felt about being filmed. The male attendant said he did not like it very much and the female barista said she would not mind being filmed. The manager did not comment about any aspect of the head-mounted GoPro recording taking place but he did make some derogatory comments about Anthony’s behavior to Sophie. The male attendant became disturbed about the idea of someone recording him while he was at work and he tried to direct Anthony to the manager, knowing that the manager would not like it either, and it would disturb him even more. Conversely, however, the female barista was far from upset about the impromptu recording, acting as if she was on a reality TV show, and taken by the fact that someone seemed to show some interest to her, overcoming the normal daily routine.
Exhibitionism, Hesitation, and Unease
People tend to care a great deal about being watched over or scrutinized and this is reflected in their social behaviors and choices, which are altered as a result without them even realizing (Nettle et. al., 2012). Thus, some people who generally do not like being recorded (like the male attendant), might be subconsciously rejecting the idea of having to change their behaviors. Others, like the manager, simply ignore the existence of the device and others still, like the female attendant, feel entirely comfortable in front of a camera, even playing up and portraying himself or herself as someone “they want to be seen as”.
Anthony did not understand why people found the camera on his head disturbing with the additional concerns about being recorded. In certain cases where people seemed to show particular interest, Anthony decided to engage others about how they felt about being filmed and tried to understand what their reactions were to constant ground-level surveillance. Anthony himself had not been educated with respect to campus policy or the laws pertaining to audio-visual recording in a public space. Anthony was unaware that in Australia, surveillance device legislation differs greatly between states but, broadly, audio and/or visual recording of a private activity is likely to be illegal whatever the context (Clarke, 2014). An activity is, however, only considered to be “private” when it is taking place inside a building, and in the state of New South Wales this includes vehicles. People, however, are generally unaware that prohibitions may not apply if the activity is happening outside a building, regardless of context (Clarke, 2014).
If people were to see someone wearing a head-mounted camera as they were going about their daily routine, it would doubtless gain their attention, as it is presently an unusual occurrence. When we leave our homes, we do not expect pedestrians to be wearing head-mounted cameras, nor, (although increasingly we know we are under surveillance in taxis, buses, trains, and other forms of public transport), do we expect bus drivers, our teachers, fellow students, family or friends to be wearing body-worn recording devices. Having said that, policing has had a substantial impact on raising citizen awareness of body-worn audio-visual recording devices. We now have mobile cameras on cars, on highway patrol police officer helmets, and even on the lapels of particular police officers on foot. While this has helped to decrease the number of unfounded citizen complaints against law enforcement personnel on duty, it is also seen as a retaliatory strategy to everyday citizens who now have a smartphone video recorder at hand 24x7.
Although the average citizen does not always feel empowered to question one’s authority to record, everyone has the right to question the intended purpose of the video being taken of him or her, and how or where it will be shared. In this scenario, does Anthony have the right to record others as he pleases without their knowledge, either of him making the recording, or of the places where that recording might end up? Would Anthony get the same reaction if he were making the recordings with his smartphone? Owners of smart phones would be hard-pressed to say that they have never taken visual recordings of an activity where there are bystanders in the background that they do not know and from whom they have not gained consent. Such examples include children’s sporting events, wedding receptions, school events, attractions and points of interest and a whole lot more. Most photoborgs use the line of argumentation that says: “How is recording with a GoPro instead of a smartphone any different”? Of course, individuals who object to being subjected to point of view surveillance (PoVS) have potential avenues of protection (including trespass against property, trespass against the person, stalking, harassment etc.), but these protections are limited in their applications (Clarke, 2014). Even so, the person using PoVS technology has access to far more protection than the person they are monitoring even if they are doing so in an unreasonable manner (Clarke, 2014).
Scenario 5: Finding a Table at the Café
In this scenario, patrons at an on-campus café vacated their chairs almost immediately after Anthony and Sophie sat down at the large table. Anthony and Sophie both realized the camera was driving people away from them. Sophie insisted at that point in the scenario, that Anthony at least stopped recording if he was unwilling to take off the device itself. After Cygneta and Klara (Sophie’s acquaintances) had joined them at the table, Anthony, interested in individual reactions and trying to prove a point to Sophie, asked Klara how she felt about being filmed. He received the responses that he had expected. Klara did not like being filmed one bit by something worn on someone’s head. Moreover, despite being a marketing student, she had not even heard of Google Glass when Anthony tried to share his perspective around the issue by bringing up the technology in conversation. This fell on deaf ears, he thought, despite Cygneta’s thought that visual data might well be the future of marketing strategies. Anthony tried to make an argument that if a technology like Google Glass was to become prevalent on campus in a couple of years that they would not have any say about being recorded by a stranger. Sophie supported Anthony from a factual standpoint reinforcing that there were no laws in Australia prohibiting video recordings in public. That is, across the States and Territories of Australia, visual surveillance in public places are not subject to general prohibitions except when the person(s) would reasonably expect their actions to be private if they were engaging in a private act (NSW); or if the person(s) being recorded had a strong case for expecting he/she would not be recorded (Victoria, WA, NT); and in SA, Tasmania and ACT legislations for recording other people subject to various provisos (Clarke, 2014).
The reactions of Klara and Cygneta got Sophie thinking about gender and if men were more likely than women to get enthralled by technological devices. She could see this happening with drones and wearable technologies like smart watches - and came to the realization that the GoPro was no different. Some male surfers (including Anthony) and skateboard riders had well and truly begun to use their GoPros to film themselves doing stunts, then sharing these on Instagram. She reflected on whether or not people, in general, would begin to live a life of “virtual replays” as opposed to living in the moment. When reality becomes hard to handle, people tend to escape to a virtual world where they create avatars and act “freely”, leading to the postponement of the hardships of real life, and some may even become addicted to this as being a more exciting lifestyle. These issues are further explored in the following popular articles: Ghorayshi (2014), Kotler (2014) and Lagorio (2006).
Novelty and Market Potential
The patrons at the first table appeared to find the situation awkward and they rectified this problem by removing themselves from the vicinity of Anthony and his camera. Klara did not possess adequate knowledge about emerging wearable technology, and she claimed she would not use it even if it were readily available. But once wearable computers like Google Glass permeated the consumer market, Cygneta, who seemed like she ‘kept up with the Joneses’, said she would likely start using it at some point, despite Klara’s apparent resistance. While smartphones were a new technology in the 1990s, currently close to one third of the world’s population are using them regularly, with 70% projected by 2020 (Ericsson, 2015). One reason this number is not bigger is low-income countries with widespread rural populations and vast terrains: the numbers are expected to rise massively in emerging markets. By comparison wearable computers are basically advanced versions of existing technology and thus uptake of wearable technologies will likely be seamless and even quicker. As with smartphone adoption, as long as they are affordable, wearable computers such as Digital Glass and smartwatches can be expected to be used as much as, or even more than, smartphones, given they are always attached to the body or within arm’s reach.
Scenario 6: A Visit to the Bank
When Sophie and Anthony visited the bank, Anthony sat down as Sophie asked for assistance from one of the attendants. Even if Anthony was not the one who needed help, he thought people working at the bank seemed to be more friendly than usual towards him. He was asked, in fact, if he wanted some assistance with anything, and when he confirmed he did not, no further questioning by the bank manager was conducted. He thought it strange that everyone was so casual about his camera, when everyone else that day had made him feel like a criminal. Again, he was acutely aware that he was in full view of the bank’s surveillance camera but questioned if anyone was really watching anyway. The couple later queued up at the ATM where Anthony mentioned that had he had some disingenuous intentions: he could be filming people and acquiring their PINs so easily. No one had even attempted to cover up their PIN entry, even though there were now signs near the keypad to “cover up”. This entire situation made Sophie feel very uncomfortable and slightly irritated by Anthony. It was after all a criminal act to shoulder surf someone’s PIN, but to have it on film as well to replay later was outrageous. It seemed to her that, no matter how much advice people get about protecting their identity or credit from fraud, they just don’t seem to pay attention. To Anthony’s credit, he too, understood the severity of the situation and admittedly felt uncomfortable by the situation in which, with no malicious intent, he had accidentally found himself.
This scenario illustrates that people in the workplace who are under surveillance are more likely to help clients. Anthony’s camera got immediate attention and a forward request: “Can I help you?” When individuals become publicly self-aware that they are being filmed, then their propensity to help others generally increases. The feeling of public self-awareness created by the presence of a camera triggers the change in behavior in accordance with a pattern that signifies concerns with any damage that could be done to reputation (Van Bommel et. al., 2012).
Anthony also could not keep himself from questioning the security measures that the bank should be applying given the increase in incidence of cheap embedded cameras in both stationary and mobile phones. When queuing in front of the ATM for Sophie’s cash withdrawal, Anthony noticed that he was recording, unintentionally, something that could easily be used for criminal activities and he started seeing the possible security breaches which would come with emerging wearables. For example, video evidence can be zoomed in to reveal private data. While some believe that personal body worn recording devices protect the security of the individual wearer from mass surveillance, rectifying some of the power imbalances, in this instance the recording devices have diminished security by their very presence. It is a paradox, and while it all comes down to the individual ethics of the photoborg, it will not take long for fraudsters to employ such measures.
Scenario 7: In the Library
After the ATM incident, Anthony began to consider more deeply the implications of filming others in a variety of contexts. It was the very first time he had begun to place himself in other people’s shoes and see things from their perspective. In doing this, he became more cautious in the library setting. He avoided glaring at the computer screens of other users around him, as he could then record what activities they were engaged in online, what they were searching for on their Internet browser, and more. He attracted the attention of certain people he came across in the library, because obviously he looked different, even weird. For the first time that day, he felt like he was going to get into serious trouble when he was talking to the librarian who was questioning him about his practice. The librarian claimed that Anthony had absolutely no right to record other people without their permission, as it was against campus policies. Anthony did take this seriously, but he was pretty sure there was no policy against using a GoPro on campus. When Anthony asked the librarian to refer him to the exact policy and university web link, despite clearly stating that his actions were a breach of university rules, the librarian could not provide a link. She did say, however, that she would be calling the library management to convey to them that she suspected that someone was in the library in breach of university policy. While this conversation was happening, things not only began to become less clear for Anthony, but he could sense that things were escalating in seriousness and that he was about to get into some significant trouble.
Campus Policies, Guidelines, and Normative Expectations
The questions raised in this scenario are not only about privacy but also about the issues around the University’s willingness to accept certain things as permitted behavior on campus property. Token inappropriate filming of other individuals was presently a hot news item, as many young women were victims of voyeuristic behavior, such as upskirting with mobile phone cameras, and more. Yet, many universities simply rely on their “Student Conduct Rules” for support outside criminal intent. For example, a typical student conduct notice states that the students have a responsibility to conduct themselves in accordance with:
1. Campus Access and Order Rules,
2. IT Acceptable Use Policy, and
3. Library Code of Conduct.
However, none of these policies typically provide clear guidelines on audiovisual recordings by students.
Campus policies here are approved by the University Council, and various policies address only general surveillance considerations about audio-visual recordings. The Campus Access and Order Rules specifies that University grounds are private properties (University of Wollongong, 2014), and under the common law regarding real property, the lawful occupiers of land have the general right to prevent others from being on, or doing acts on, their land, even if an area on the land is freely accessible to the public (Clarke, 2014). It is Clarke’s latter emphasis which summarises exactly the context of a typical university setting which can be considered a closed-campus but open to the public.
The pace of technological change poses challenges for the law, and deficiencies in regulatory frameworks for Point of View Surveillance exist in many jurisdictions in Australia (Clarke, 2014). Australian universities as organizations are also bound (in this case) by the Workplace Surveillance Act 2005 (NSW) and the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (NSW) (Australasian Legal Information Institute, 2016), which again do nothing to specify what is permitted in terms of rules or policies about sousveillance in actions committed by a student on campus grounds.
Scenario 8: Security on Campus
Security arrived at the scene of the incident and escorted Anthony to the security office. By this stage Anthony believed that this might well become a police matter. Security did not wish to ask Anthony questions about his filming on campus but ostensibly wanted to check whether or not Anthony’s GoPro had been stolen. There had been a spate of car park thefts, and it was for this that Anthony was being investigated. Anthony then thought it appropriate to ask them several questions about the recordings he had made, to which security mentioned the Surveillance Devices Act 2007 (NSW) and how they had to put signage to warn people about the cameras and the fact that activity was being recorded. Additionally, Anthony was told that CCTV footage could be shared only with the police, and that cameras on campus were never facing people but were facing toward the roadways, and footpaths. When Anthony reminded the security about Google Glass and asked if they had a plan for when Glass would be used on the campus, the security manager replied that everything would be thought about when the time arrived. Anthony left to attend a lecture for which he was once again late.
Security Breaches, the Law, and Enforcement
Anthony was not satisfied with the response of the security manager about campus rules pertaining to the filming of others. While Anthony felt very uncomfortable about the footage he had on his camera, he still did not feel that the university’s security office provided adequate guidance on acceptable use. The security manager had tended to skirt around providing a direct response to Anthony, probably because he did not have any concrete answers. First, the manager brought up the Video Piracy Policy topic and then the University’s IT Acceptable Use Policy. Anthony felt that those policies had nothing to do with him. First, he was sure he was not conducting video piracy in any way, and second, he was not using the university’s IT services to share his films with others or exceed his Internet quota, etc. Somehow, the manager connected this by saying that the recording might contain copyrighted material on it, and that it should never be transferred through the university’s IT infrastructure (e.g. network). He also shared a newspaper article with Anthony that was somehow supposed to act as a warning message but it just didn’t make sense to Anthony how all of that was connected to the issue at hand.
Scenario 9: Sophie’s Lecture
Arriving at the lecture theater after the lecture had already begun, Anthony and Sophie opened the door and the lecturer noticed the camera mounted on Anthony’s head. The lecturer immediately became infuriated, asking Anthony to remove the camera and to leave his classroom. Even after Anthony left the class, the lecturer still thought he might be being recorded through the lecture theatre’s part-glass door and so he asked Anthony to leave the corridor as well. The entire time, the GoPro was not recording any of the incidents. The incident became heated, despite Anthony fully accepting the academic’s perspective. It was the very last thing that Anthony had expected by that point in the day. It was absolutely devastating to him.
Ethics, Power, Inequality, and Non-Participation
Every student at an Australian university has academic freedom and is welcome to attend lectures whether or not they are enrolled in the subject. However, it is the academic instructor’s right to privacy to keep a student from recording his or her class. A lecturer’s classes are considered “teaching material” and the lecturer owns the intellectual property of his/her teaching material (University of Wollongong, 2014). In keeping with the aforementioned statements, any recording of lectures should be carried out after consulting with the instructor. Some lecturers do not even like the idea of Echo 360, as it can be used for much more than simply recording a lecture for reuse by students. Lecture recordings could be used to audit staff or surveil whether staff are doing their job properly, display innovative teaching techniques, possess poor or good knowledge of content, and stick to time or take early marks. Some faculty members also consider the classroom to be a sacred meeting place between them and students and would never wish for a camera to invade this intimate gathering. Cameras and recordings would indeed stifle a faculty member’s or a student’s right to freedom of speech if the video was ever to go public. It would also mean that some students would simply not contribute anything to the classroom if they knew they were being taped, or that someone might scrutinize their perspectives and opinions on controversial matters.
Possible Future Implications Drawn from Scenarios
In the scenarios, in almost every instance, the overt nature of Anthony’s wearable recording device, given it was head-mounted, elicited an instantaneous response. Others displayed a variety of responses and attitudes including that:
1. They liked it,
2. They did not mind it,
3. They were indifferent about it,
4. They did not like it and finally,
5. They were disturbed by it.
Regardless of which category they belonged to, however, they did not explicitly voice their feelings to Anthony, although body language and facial expressions spoke volumes. In this closed campus scenario, the majority of people who came into contact with Anthony fell under the first two categories. It also seems clear that some contexts were especially delicate, for instance, taking the camera (while still recording) into the restroom, an obviously private amenity. It is likely that individuals in the restroom would have had no problem with the GoPro filming outside the restroom setting.
Research into future technologies and their respective social implications is urgent, since many emerging technologies are here right now. Whatever the human mind can conjure is liable to be designed, developed, and implemented. The main concern is how we choose to deal with it. In this final section, issues drawn from the scenarios are speculatively extended to project future implications when wearable computing has become more ubiquitous in society.
Privacy, Security, and Trust
Privacy experts claim that while we might once have been concerned, or felt uncomfortable with, CCTV being as pervasive as it is today, we are shifting from a limited number of big brothers to ubiquitous little brothers (Shilton, 2009). The fallacy of security is that more cameras do not necessarily mean a safer society, and statistics, depending on how they are presented, may be misleading about reductions in crime in given hotspots. Criminals do not just stop committing crime (e.g. selling drugs) because a local council installs a group of multi-directional cameras on a busy public route. On the contrary, crime has been shown to be redistributed or relocated to another proximate geographic location. In a study for the United Kingdom’s Home Office (Gill & Spriggs, 2005), only one area of the 14 studied saw a drop in the number of incidents that could be attributed to CCTV.
Questions of trust seem to be the biggest factor militating against wearable devices that film other people who have not granted their consent to be recorded. Many people may not like to be photographed for reasons we don’t quite understand, but it remains their right to say, “No, leave me alone.” Others have no trouble being recorded by someone they know, so long as they know they are being recorded prior to the record button being pushed. Still others show utter indifference, claiming that there is no longer anything personal out in the open. Often, the argument is posed that anyone can watch anyone else walk down a street. This argument fails however: watching someone cross the road is not the same as recording them cross the road, whether by design or by sheer coincidence. Handing out requests for deletion every time someone asks whether they’ve been captured on camera is not good enough. Allowing people to opt out “after the fact” is not consent-based and violates fundamental human rights including the control individuals might have over their own image and the freedom to go about their life as they please (Bronitt & Michael, 2012).
Laws, Regulations, and Policies
At the present time, laws and regulations pertaining to surveillance and listening devices, privacy, telecommunications, crimes, and even workplace relations require amendments to keep pace with advancements in wearable and even implantable sensors. The police need to be viewed as enforcing the laws that they are there to upkeep, not to don the very devices they claim to be illegal. Policies in campus settings, such as universities, also need to address the seeming imbalance in what is, and is not, possible. The commoditization of such devices will only lead to even greater public interest issues coming to the fore. The laws are clearly outdated, and there is controversy over how to overcome the legal implications of emerging technologies.
Creating new laws for each new device will lead to an endless drafting of legislation, which is not practicable, and claiming that existing laws can respond to new problems is unrealistic, as users will seek to get around the law via loopholes in a patchwork of statutes. Cameras provide a power imbalance. Initially, only a few people had mobile phones with cameras: now they are everywhere. Then, only some people carried body-worn video recorders for extreme sports: now, increasingly, many are using a GoPro, Looxcie, or Taser Axon glasses. These devices, while still nascent, have been met with some acceptance, in various contexts including some business-centric applications. Photoborgs might feel they are “hitting back” at all the cameras on the walls that are recording 24×7, but this does not cancel out the fact that the photoborgs themselves are doing exactly what they are claiming a fixed, wall-mounted camera is doing to them.
Future Implications
All of the risks mentioned above are interrelated. If we lack privacy, we lose trust; if we lack security, we feel vulnerable; if we lose our anonymity, we lose a considerable portion of our liberty and when people lose their trust and their liberty, then they feel vulnerable. This kind of scenario is deeply problematic, and portends a higher incidence of depression, as people would not feel they had the freedom to act and be themselves, sharing their true feelings. Implications of this interrelatedness are presented in Figure 1.
Since 100% security does not exist in any technological system, privacy will always be a prominent issue. When security is lacking, privacy becomes an issue, individuals become more vulnerable and the anonymity of an individual comes into question. A loss of anonymity limits people’s liberty to act and speak as they want and eventually people start losing their trust in each other and in authorities. When the people are not free to express their true selves, they become withdrawn and despite a high-tech community, people may enter a state of despondency. The real question will be in the future when it is not people who are sporting these body-worn devices, but automated data collection machines like Knightscope’s K5 (Knightscope, 2016). These will indeed be mobile camera surveillance units, converging sousveillance and surveillance in one clean sweep (Perakslis et al., 2014).
Figure 1. Major implications of wearables: the utopian and dystopian views
Future Society
Mann (2013) argues that wearable sousveillance devices that are used in everyday life to store, access, transfer and share information will be commonplace, worn continuously and perhaps even permanently implanted. Michael and Michael (2012, p. 195) in their perception of the age of Überveillence state:
There will be a segment of the consumer and business markets who will adopt the technology for no clear reason and without too much thought, save for the fact that the technology is new and seems to be the way advanced societies are heading. This segment will probably not be overly concerned with any discernible abridgement of their human rights nor the small print ‘terms and conditions agreement’ they have signed, but will take an implant on the promise that they will have greater connectivity to the Internet, and to online services and bonus loyalty schemes more generally.
Every feature added on a wearable device adds another layer of risk to the pre-existing risks. Currently, we may only have capabilities to store, access, transfer and manipulate the gathered data but as the development of technology continues, context-aware software will be able to interpret vast amounts of data into meaningful information that can be used by unauthorized third parties. It is almost certain that the laws will not be able to keep up with the pace of the technology. Accordingly, individuals will have to be alert and aware, and private and public organizations will need to set rules and guidelines to protect their employees’ privacy, as well as their own.
Society’s ability to cope with the ethical and societal problems that technology raises has long been falling behind the development of such technology and the same can be said for laws and regulations. With no legal protection and social safe zone, members of society are threatened with losing their privacy through wearable technology. When the technology becomes widespread, privacy at work, in schools, in supermarkets, at the ATM, on the Internet, even when walking, sitting in a public space, and so on, is subject to perishability.
The future is already here and, since the development of technology is seemingly unstoppable, there is more to come, but for any possible futures that may come, there needs to be a healthy human factor. “For every expert there’s an equal and opposite expert” (Sowell, 1995, p. 102; also sometimes attributed to Arthur C. Clarke). So even as we are enthusiastic about how data collected through wearable technology will enhance the quality of our daily life, we also have to be cautious to think about our security and privacy issues in an era of ubiquitous wearable technology. In this sense, creating digital footprints of our social and personal lives with the possibility of them being exposed publicly do not seem to coincide with the idea of a “healthy society”.
One has to ponder: where next? Might we be arguing that we are nearing the point of total surveillance, as everyone begins to record everything around them for “just in case” reasons such as insurance protection, establishing liability, and complaint handling (much like the in-car black box recorder unit can clear you of wrongdoing in an accident)? How gullible might we become to think that images and video footage do not lie, even though a new breed of hackers might manipulate and tamper with digital reality to their own ends. The überveillance trajectory refers to the ultimate potentiality for embedded surveillance devices like swallowable pills with onboard sensors, tags, and transponder IDs placed in the subdermal layer of the skin (Michael & Michael, 2013). Will the new frontier be surveillance of the heart and mind?
Discussion Points
• Does sound recording by wearable devices present any ethical dilemmas?
• Are wearable still cameras more acceptable than wearable video cameras?
• What should one do if bystanders of a recording in a public space question why they are being recorded?
• What themes are evident in the videos and the comments on Surveillance Camera Man Channel at
• What is the difference between making a recording with a smartphone and with a head mounted camera?
• If one juxtaposes a surveillance camera covertly integrated into a light fixture, with an overt head-mounted camera, then why should the two devices elicit a different response from bystanders?
• In what ways is a CCTV in a restroom any different from a photoborg in a restroom?
• Are there gender differences in enthusiasm for certain wearables? Who are the innovators of these technologies?
• What dangers exist around Internet addiction, escapism, and living in a virtual world?
• Are we nearing the point of total information surveillance? Is this a good thing? Will it decrease criminal activity or are we nearing a Minority Report style future?
• Will the new frontier be surveillance of the heart and mind beyond anything Orwell could have envisioned?
• How can the law keep pace with technological change?
• Can federal and state laws be in contradiction over the rights of a photoborg? How?
• Watch the movie The Final Cut. Watch the drama The Entire History of You. What are the similiarities and differences? What does such a future mean for personal security and national security?
• Consider in small groups other scenarios where wearables would be welcome as opposed to unwelcome.
• In which locations should body-worn video cameras never be worn?
• What is meant by surveillance, sousveillance and überveillance?
• What is a photoborg? And what is “point of view” within a filming context?
• Research the related terms surveillance, dataveillance, and überveillence.
• What does Steve Mann’s “Request for Deletion” webpage say? Why is it largely untenable?
• Why did Google decide to focus on industry applications of Glass finally, and not the total market?
• Are we ready to see many (overt or covert) sousveillers in our everyday life?
• Will we all be photoborgs one day, or live in a society where we need to be?
• Do existing provisions concerning voyeurism cover all possible sousveillance situations?
• If lifelogs are streamed in real-time and near real-time what can bystanders shown do about the distribution of their images (if they are ever find out)?
• Is lifelong lifelogging feasible? Desirable? Should it be suspended in confidential business meetings, going through airport security and customs or other areas? Which areas?
• Should citizens film their encounters with police, given police are likely to be filming it too?
• Should the person using PoVS technology have more legal protection than persons they are monitoring?
• Are wearables likely to be rapidly adopted and even outpace smartphone use?
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Key Terms and Definitions
Body-Worn Video (BWV): These are cameras that are embedded in devices that can be worn on the body to record video, typically by law enforcement officers. Closed-Campus: Refers to any organization or institution that contains a dedicated building(s) on a bounded land parcel offering a range of online and offline services, such as banking, retail, sporting. Closed campus examples include schools and universities.
Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV): Also referred to as video surveillance. CCTV is the use of video cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place. CCTV cameras can be overt (obvious) or covert (hidden).
Digital Glass: Otherwise referred to as wearable eyeglasses which house multiple sensors on board. An example of digital glass is Google Glass. The future of digital glass may well be computer-based contact lenses.
Lifelogging: When a user decides to log his/her life using wearable computing or other devices, that have audio-visual capability. It is usually a continuous stream of a recording 24/7.
Personal Security Devices: These are devices that allegedly deter perpetrators from attacking others because they are always on gathering evidence, and ready to record. PSDs may have an on-board alarm alerting central care services for further assistance.
Policy: An enforceable set of organizational rules and principles used to aid decision-making that have penalties for non-compliance, such as the termination of an employee’s contract with an employer.
Private Space: Somewhere geographically that one has an expectation of privacy, naturally. Some examples include: the home, the backyard, and the restroom.
Public Space: Somewhere geographically where there is no expectation of privacy save for when someone holds a private conversation in a private context.
Sousveillance: The opposite of surveillance from above, which includes inverse surveillance, also sometimes described as person-to-person surveillance. Citizens can use sousveillance as a mechanism to keep law enforcement officers accountable for their actions.
Surveillance: “Watching from above” such as CCTV from business buildings. For behaviors, activities, or other changing information to be under the watchful eye of authority, usually for the purpose of influencing, managing, directing, or protecting the masses.
Citation: Michael, K., Gokyer, D., & Abbas, S. (2017). Societal Implications of Wearable Technology: Interpreting “Trialability on the Run”. In A. Marrington, D. Kerr, & J. Gammack (Eds.), Managing Security Issues and the Hidden Dangers of Wearable Technologies (pp. 238-266). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-1016-1.ch010 | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '130', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9574652910232544}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '120469', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:JXOAIMAUHE6N2A2HWYSRZ43BECWSRYDS', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:a6353eec-3ebb-40a8-821b-7ca1235a2da9>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 20, 15, 3, 43), 'WARC-IP-Address': '198.185.159.144', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:3S2U33QZMLATNE7EXA5ZVM53YIKDHEJO', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:60e6054b-25b6-4a1c-8688-d5699b1238a6>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.katinamichael.com/research/2017/5/8/societal-implications-of-wearable-technology', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:3c49c003-6578-49b3-8bdc-b2a2b6b7f47b>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '11088', 'url': 'http://www.katinamichael.com/research/2017/5/8/societal-implications-of-wearable-technology', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-18\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-165-178-231.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.05341362953186035', 'original_id': '24b3ebf8a60d7c5022b5cecfce3b0dbafbe63ceb09c64e621dac7c7a1a959324'} |
Nothing Is Impossible.
The phrase "Nothing is impossible" is a short phrase, yet the meaning is so wide. You may be wondering why I chose this phrase to be the choice of my title.
This phrase always makes me believe that there are thousands of ways available to achieve what we want in our lives. If you failed in your first try, it doesn`t mean it is all done. The point where you are, justify your means. No! You have to try so hard pushing to the edge.
There is nothing in this globe that comes out easily. Everything that we want to achieve comes with a price! Are you willing to pay the price?
You want a car, a big house, a beautiful wife, a simple happier life? You should never give up on what you want. You can obtain all these if you are focused and determined. Most of the people I have been talking to, they had always been telling me their deepest desires.
They wish to be rich, successful in life, being famous with recognizable titles. When I asked them, "Do you know the price of the things that you want in your life?"
About 20% had no idea of what they need to do. The things that we wish for are always possible to be acquired. But do you know the ways you can acquire them? Don`t just rely on luck. It is true that nothing is impossible, but for you to attain what you want you must work.
Make your plans to achieve what you want in life. The plans should be accompanied by your objectives. The objectives should simply break down your plans and goals to your daily activities.
You can take an initiative, of writing down your goals and plans. Create your timeline. Identify the things that you want to achieve every day. This is to ensure that your day does not go into waste. This will ensure you use your time efficiently to achieve what you want in your life.
I want to have a simple life in the future. I want to be happy. In my opinion, I identified a way that can make me achieve my happiness. I know I have to give charity, and this is to ensure the community you live in is all happy for your existence.
I know I have to have a religious connection with my creator. Having a spiritual connection with God is another point of achieving your happiness. You never decided on your own existence. You have to offer gratitude to your creator. This is a point of happiness.
I have to work and earn what if lawful and legally mine. When you live by your own means. It feels good to earn from the power of your own hands. How would you feel if someone somewhere is happy using your wealth? That you worked for years to get it. Corruption and greedy people will never attain peace in their lives.
Surely, for instance, you are fully satisfied using someone`s else wealth just to make yourself at a better point. While someone else is suffering just because of what you did to him or her. You will never find peace unless you go back and ask for forgiveness and give back what does not belong to you. In which, only few will manage to do that.
You too have to find the ways in which you will acquire what you want. Trust me, nothing is impossible under the sun. You can get what you want if you only know the way you are going to achieve it.The ways of achieving it, should be lawful!
It will be so hard to achieve what you want if you can`t know the ways you are going to use to achieve it.
Determination and focus are the aspects that everyone should have. You have the chance to move from zero to one, you have the chance to turn stone to soil; you have the chance to turn a mountain to a hill if only, you are focused and determined.
Nothing is impossible. You want to be a manager in a certain company. Never lose hope on whom you want to be. The pain you go through, the tears you drop every single night, the struggle you put and the fight you have been fighting, one day you will see the worth of it.
Every pain gives you a reason to be strong, it does not only break you but also build you, never take it negatively. Work to make the worst into best. Improve on your skills every day. Make better choices in your life. Focus on your goal. Nothing is impossible to achieve.
The hard way is always the good way.
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Watch GHOST Perform On 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert'
Watch GHOST Perform On 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert'
Swedish occult rockers GHOST performed their song "Cirice" on last night's (Friday, October 30) episode of "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert". Video footage of their appearance can be seen below.
GHOST's third album, "Meliora", entered The Billboard 200 chart at position No. 8 with first-week sales of just over 29,000 units — nearly all from pure album sales. The set follows the No. 28-peaking "Infestissumam", which was released in 2013 and has sold almost 70,000 copes in the U.S. to date.
"Meliora" was released on August 21 via Loma Vista Recordings. The CD was helmed by Klas Åhlund, a prolific songwriter, producer and guitarist who is also a member of the Swedish rock band TEDDYBEARS, and was mixed by Andy Wallace (SLAYER, NIRVANA, SEPULTURA, LINKIN PARK, GUNS N' ROSES).
Asked if there was a particular direction GHOST was looking to go in on "Meliora", one of the Nameless Ghouls told Guitar World magazine: "Yes. There were a few guidelines we were working off of. The main one was that we felt on 'Infestissumam', there was definitely a shortage of… I don't know what the word is… let's say riffage. Whereas that was not the case on the first one ['Opus Eponymous']. So we wanted to make a record that had more riffs on it, because the guitar took a bit of a backseat on 'Infestissumam'. And the main reason for that was the production. The guitars were just put in the back. If we were to take all the tapes from that album and go into a different studio and remix the whole thing, I'm sure it would sound very different. So this time we wanted to focus on the guitar aspect from the start. Secondly, from a thematic standpoint, we wanted the whole record to have something of a futuristic feel. So there are organs and things like that, but there are also other things that we excluded, because this is not, you know, our medieval record. This is our futuristic, urban-dystopia-metropolis record. So we knew it had to possess a certain sort of flair. Because if you want to make a futuristic record that is sort of '80s-sounding, you would do that by using a lot of chorus everywhere. But that's not what we were trying to do. Or you could make a JUDAS PRIEST or IRON MAIDEN–style record that sounds very futuristic. But that's not what we were trying to do either. Sometimes you have to know what to leave out."
Regarding GHOST's sound, a Nameless Ghoul told Rolling Stone magazine: "We sort of came up with this mixture where we could combine basically all our favorite childhood and adolescent music styles. And we grew up listening to a lot of different music. A lot of Swedish music, and also a lot of '60s and '70s bands — AOR things like KANSAS and YES and CHICAGO and BOSTON. JOURNEY. TOTO. Professional-sounding music. And with all of that we found a way, for us at least, to make sense of having an extreme-metal riff and then throwing a pop melody over it. So that was the initial thing. After that it was, 'Oh, shit! Maybe we could turn it into a horror-rock band, and we could throw in this very childish sort of fascination of horror films! And also ALICE COOPER! And KISS!"
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Cuckooing is not a good secret to keep
Don't let anyone use your home to sell drugs.
Don't let anyone hide things in your home.
Don't let anyone grow drugs in your home.
Cuckooing is a crime.
It is when someone uses your home to carry out their drug business.
Smoking cannabis
The person sells drugs from your house.
Drugs - pills
The person makes or grows drugs at your house.
Drugs - white powder
The person hides drugs at your house.
Eating round a table
The person invites their friends to your house and eats your food.
Gun and a knife
The person asks you to look after something that could be a knife or gun
If a someone asks you to do anything like the above.
They are NOT your friend they will get you into trouble with the police.
If this is happening to you, please tell someone, please tell the police.
You do not have to put up with it.
If you tell someone you won't get into trouble.
Speak up
If you tell someone they can help.
You can tell to a third party reporting centre
My area
A third party reporting centre is a place you can go to tell someone about a crime, that is not a police station.
Day centre
Different areas have different third party reporting centres.
The ones in your area could be your day centre or gateway club.
Citizens advice
Your local citizens advice bureau.
Your council or the adult social care learning disability team.
Devon Linkup
If you live in Devon you could also tell Devon Link up on 07808 053992.
Cornish People First
If you live in Cornwall you could also tell Cornwall People First on 01736 334857.
Dorset People First
If you live in Dorset you could tell Dorset People First on 01305 257 600.
Tell a friend, case worker or family member
Tell a friend
If you have been a victim of Crime but you do not feel like you can speak to a stranger about it, you can tell your case worker, a friend or family member.
Tell the police
They can support you to go to the police or phone a helpline.
Or if you do not want to report the crime, they can help you deal with what has happened and help you to stay safe in the future.
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February 24, 2014
McDonald's Eyes Longer Breakfast Hours?
Oak Brook gets asked this question every time a competitor does something
with breakfast and McDonald's executives always give out the wrong answer.
job possible with each menu segment."
That kind of statement is a positive
without admitting the restaurants can't handle what they already have.
McDonald's eyes longer breakfast hours - AP
1 comment:
Anonymous said...
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As Oregon burns, authorities warn smoky air 'not something to mess with'
Smoke and ash from wildfires raging across large sections of western Oregon is "not something to mess with," state environmental authorities said Tuesday, urging millions of people to stay in their homes and avoid prolonged exposure if possible.
The Eagle Creek fire in the Columbia River Gorge brought heavy smoke and ash to the Portland area late Monday, but other fires also contributed to smoky skies elsewhere Tuesday.
Greg Svelund, spokesman with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, said air quality throughout much of the state's most populous areas is bad enough that it would likely affect more than just children, the elderly and those with asthma or other respiratory or heart issues.
"This is going to impact virtually everybody," Svelund said. Headaches, watery eyes and scratchy throats could be early symptoms of over-exposure to the stagnant smoky air. The health effects could be much more serious for asthma sufferers and other so-called sensitive groups. "This is not something to mess with," Svelund added.
The National Weather Service issued a statewide air quality alert through noon Friday in response to the devastating wildfires burning from the Chetco Bar Fire in Southwest Oregon to the Eagle Creek fire in the gorge.
DEQ and the state health authority are urging people to stay inside in air conditioned places if at all possible, as high temperatures complicate the unhealthy air quality situation. People are encouraged to limit driving and not mow their lawn, or what's likely left of it after weeks of scorching temperatures.
State public health officials encouraged people to stock up on prescription medicine to make sure they are equipped to stay indoors. When in a car, drivers should use the recirculation feature on the air conditioner if they have one. People should turn on indoor air filtration systems, such as HEPA filters, if they have them.
cur_aqi_wa_or.jpgThe Air Quality Index in Oregon as of Tuesday afternoon. Darker colors equal more hazardous conditions.
"I think we're in this for the long haul," Svelund said, saying it's possible conditions could improve in the Willamette Valley in the next 48 hours.
When asked if relief may be in sight, Svelund said that was the million-dollar question.
Portland felt socked in by smoke and ash by the ever-growing Eagle Creek fire in the Columbia River Gorge. A dull yellow hue hung over the city throughout the day, but some cyclists still braved the elements with bandanas, masks and other cloth materials trying to prevent breathing in the particulates.
Much ado was made Tuesday morning of ash falling in the metro area and beyond, but Svelund said that was more "dramatic" than anything else.
It's smaller particulars, less than 2.5 microns, or fractions of the size of a human hair, that cause the most health concerns.
Svelund cautioned against any outdoor exercising, and he said there's not much people can do in the short-term to avoid the smoke. Bandanas won't do much other than "probably it makes you feel better."
Health officials said masks may not be as helpful as people think. Multnomah County's Health Department warned if the masks don't fit property they "provide almost no protection."
Dust masks and painting masks are completely ineffective at blocking out harmful particulates. Masks that are labeled N95 or N100 could be effective if properly fitted. Those are available at hardware stores
--Check the current local air quality conditions on DEQ's website ( Avoid outdoor activities, especially exercise, when air quality is unhealthy and hazardous.
-- Stay inside, close windows or use air conditioners if you have them. Also use a filter to remove fine particulates.
-- If you have heart or lung problems, or young children, you are especially vulnerable.
-- Asthma sufferers or those with other respiratory problems should follow their breathing management plans or talk to their doctors
(Courtesy of OHA)
Dr. Ann Thomas, a public health physician with Oregon's Health Authority, said the chief advice for much of western Oregon is to limit the time outdoors. She said that applies to animals, too.
Thomas biked to work Tuesday but her commute is only about a mile.
Air quality was the talk of the state Tuesday.
The state website that provides those real-time air quality updates crashed as people tried to learn more about the conditions in their area. DEQ referred users to the federal Environmental Protection Agency's AIRNow website, which has the same data.
The separate Oregon Smoke Blog also had issues loading as tens of thousands of people tried to learn more about conditions there.
Oregon's high school sports governing association issued a memo in recent days outlining what schools should do with outdoor athletic competitions if the air quality remained poor. The health authority also has a tip sheet for schools when considering whether to hold recess or other outdoor activities.
At one point Tuesday, at least half of the state's 35 air quality stations showed unhealthy levels, according to DEQ. Unhealthy air quality is any reading that between 151 and 200 on the index used to measure airborne particulates. Very unhealthy air ranges from 201 to 300, and anything beyond 301 is deemed to be hazardous conditions.
Ashland and the Southern Oregon's Applegate Valley had readings of 242 and 252 respectively around noon Tuesday. Eugene-Springfield's rating topped the chart at 434, as smoke filled the southern Willamette Valley.
Correction: An earlier version of this story misspelled Greg Svelund's name.
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The first week’s schedule for 7flix has been revealed.
Seven’s new multichannel is designed to utilise the US general entertainment content it has acquired through its output deals, with an emphasis on its primetime movie lineup.
Brook Hall, Seven head programmer digital channels & sport, has advised Mediaweek that “there will be a movie at 8:30pm every night on Flix. That’s our sell in terms of the movies. It isn’t just a movie channel. We will be running seven nights a week at a time that is consistent.”
READ MORE: Mediaweek’s in-depth interview with Seven’s Brook Hall about 7flix
7flix launches on Sunday 28 February 2016 at 6am.
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Thursday, March 01, 2007
March Book Review
Even though WALDEN TWO was written in 1948, it is the "bible" for many of the communes of the 60's.
Walden Two is the name given a utopian community in the delightful fiction. "Walden" after the Henry David Thoreau book ( still haven't read it. Am I going to have to get a switch?)
Several communes were started using this book as their charter. Several still remain, the most noticeable being Twin Oaks .
In the book, Rodger ("Rodge") and Steve Jamnik, two young men returning from service at the end of WWII, stop by the office of Professor Burris to ask if he knows anything about a man named Frazier, and the new society Frazier is trying to build. Burris remembers that Frazier was a classmate of his in graduate school, one with radical ideas. He sends a letter to Frazier and immediately gets a reply inviting him to visit the community. Burris agrees to take time off from his academic duties to accompany Rogers and Steve on a visit to "Walden Two," Frazier's community. Rodge's girlfriend Barbara, Steve's girlfriend Mary, and Burris' Colleague Castle, also come. The population of Walden Two is about one thousand people, all of whom seem to be healthy and happy. They live in dwellings, eat in common dining spaces, raise their children in a nursery, and grow and build much of what they need. The standard workday lasts only four hours, or less; no one is paid wages--but nothing at Walden Two costs money. Each of the visitors responds to the community differently. Castle finds it challenging he spends the duration of the visit arguing with Frazier about such a community like Walden Two. Burris, on the other hand, finds himself somewhere in the middle: he is skeptical that such a community could work, but he finds Frazier's arguments compelling and he cannot forget the evidence of success in front of him. Steve and Mary are both convinced that this is the life for them; they decide to stay at Walden Two. Rodge, too, is convinced, but Barbara is not; he leaves Walden Two with her at the end of their visit. Burris decides to return to his academic life. However, at the train station he suddenly realizes that he would rather try life at Walden Two, for whatever it's worth, than go back to the university. He walks back to Walden Two and begins his new life there along with the rest of the group.
Everyones idea of "Utopia" is a little different but this is a very thought provoking book.
Walter Jeffries said...
For me this was a very influential book. Unfortunately what I discovered is it is totally wrong. I've lived in several communal situations and studied a great many of them including Twin Oaks from afar. The real situation is that there is a core of individuals who provide most of the force, the energy, the work to make it happen. Then there are a middle group who go with the flow. Lastly there is the large group of leaches that invariably seem to get attracted to these groups. Sometimes they're mere pests, other times they are highly destructive.
In the end, after decades of trying various formulations I've come to the conclusion that communes work great as a family unit and possibly slightly larger but beyond that we need Democracy, Capitalism and a small dab of Socialism.
Anonymous said...
I don't know where the cell phone info came from, but the car door bit does not work. Check
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Are the pressures of the Premier League really harming development?
For many supporters, there has always been a perceived, idealistic way to run a football club. The dreams of not just lifting trophies, but seeing the local boy come good, parading it around the ground. There is a certain satisfaction to seeing clubs taste the riches of football’s success, with an element of the squad that they have forged and evolved themselves, which is hard to put into practical terms. To craft your own success and to achieve silverware through shaping your own philosophies is perhaps, the paragon of glory in the beautiful game.
But there appears to be a reason why the concept of developing your own, title-challenging team in-house, is esteemed in such merit. The likes of Sir Alex Ferguson’s ‘Class of 92’ and Pep Guaridola’s golden generation may never be replicated ever again, but are the pressures of success and economic gain in the Barclays Premier League, stunting the progression of youth development for all teams chasing success? Because for all the talent and money invested in the likes of Spurs, Liverpool and Chelsea’s youth set-ups, the results just haven’t been there. Can you really not have your cake and eat it?
It’s important to not get too carried away with the concept of a football club winning a Premier League title or European Cup with a starting XI that all began life kicking about in the youth team and waving season-tickets around. Of course, in both the examples used of Ferguson and Guaridola’s immortal teams, there have always been experienced foreign heads and expensive signings adorning them. But the point is that they were always the layers on top, not the foundation. Manchester United and Barcelona have developed both the cores of these teams respectively. They weren’t just a team of assembled Galacticos strung together for millions of pounds.
Likewise, it is also important to not look sneeringly upon teams who do not have the resources to create such a wonderful youth set-up. Make no mistake about it, Barcelona’s fabled La Maisa academy isn’t particularly cheap to run, with estimates ranging up to £9million a year. That may seem cheap to some and around the cost of a half-decent striker in the transfer market. So why would you possibly choose to sign someone like Stephen Fletcher for a similar fee when you could try and replicate the system that produced Lionel Messi et al?
But this is precisely the issue that could be proving the stumbling block for the likes of Liverpool and Spurs. The echelons that sit between the realms of Europa League and Champions League football are amongst the most volatile in the Premier League. Of course the stakes aren’t as high for a football club staring relegation in the face, but the need to reap financial rewards are treated with as much urgency as the need to prevent them at this level.
Tottenham Hotspur’s revenue has increased some £48million from the season ending 08/09 to 10/11. You don’t need an economics degree to figure out what caused that spike. Champions League football is football’s Zeus and all clubs will bend over backwards for it.
But the problem with the Europa to Champions League badlands, is that there is no real means of security. As Tottenham found out when they qualified, you just have to keep investing, as everyone else around you keeps getting stronger. There was no time to splash £9million on a mini La Maisa when Rafael van der Vaart was about for similar money. Although you could argue it backfired for King Kenny anyway, where was Dalglish supposed to find the time to give Jack Robinson a run of games? You can’t risk it when Jose Enrique is about for decent money. The pressures of success and reward are harming the development of youth team products.
After winning their first Premier League title, it will be interesting to see how Manchester City, who bestow one of the better academies in the league, nurture their younger talent. Because it is a lot easier to integrate youth into a team like Manchester City’s, than it is for Spurs or Liverpool. The more often you’re winning or cruising to victory, the less pressure and risk there is on giving one of your academy starlets some game time. Cup competitions like the FA and Carling Cup begin to get treated, rightly or wrongly, with less importance and younger players get more first-team game time. Issac Cuenca is a good example of this at Barcelona and although he benefitted greatly from a year at Sunderland, Danny Welbeck at Manchester United.
Likewise, one of Chelsea’s youth products, Ryan Bertrand, made the step up in the Champions League final, but what does the future hold for him this season? Josh McEachran is one of the jewels in their youth development crown, but with all their investment to push on for a title push during this close season, is he ever likely to settle in the first XI?
And then there is Tottenham Hotspur. The financial gain of Champions League football means investment was put into the team this summer with the likes of Jan Vertonghen, Hugo Lloris, Moussa Dembele, Emmanuel Adebayor and Clint Dempsey coming in. But where does that leave the likes of Stephen Caulker, Tom Carroll and Harry Kane? The Lilywhite’s hold an extremely talented youth side, as demonstrated in their performances in the NextGen tournament last season. But with the economic pressure of the Premier League, is there likely to be a steady first team path for any of them?
This isn’t to say that young players aren’t breaking through at these clubs, because they are. But the point is, for all the investment and talent that lurks in the ranks, not enough are making the step up. It could well be that Financial Fair Play encourages more focus on in-house production. But the pressures of monetary success are stifling youth production and if you’re a young player with a choice of clubs, maybe your fate is better served at Crewe Alexandra, than the boys chasing European riches.
How do you feel about the state of youth development at your club? Do you dream of producing more of you’re own talent? Or are you happy poaching someone else’s? Tell me what’s going on, follow @samuel_antrobus on Twitter
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Posts Tagged ‘industry’
March 22, 2020
So wait. In the last 5 years, airlines spent $44B on stock buybacks. That’s 96% of their free cash flow. Plus billions more on dividends. They did not improve their services, nor improve their structure, nor, and this is the biggie, did they save anything for the inevitable downturns or other acts of woe.*
They act fiscally irresponsible, line their pockets, impoverish us, and now they want a bailout? They have the audacity to ask for a bailout? A bailout that is essentially in size of what they spent on buybacks?
This is why good governance is important. This is why oversight is important. This is why societal involvement and accountability is important.
THIS is why your/our vote matters!
* Nor, of course, did they boost their employee pay, or working conditions, or aid the consumer in any way… but that’s a whole other story.
** As a whole, the top 500 companies spent $5T on buybacks + dividends vs $4.5T in earnings — they are willingly and wantonly enriching themselves while foisting their liabilities into debt and the public trust & our pocketbooks (by both charging more and paying employees less, plus foisting costs into the environment into which we all live). All aided by the recent tax code “revision” (read: giveaway). | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9413585662841796}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '30303', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:TX7ZTSTHMTH4XMF6F4KMNM7FARPY6DJL', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:15cffe65-5189-4024-acd8-4b3d729b063e>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2020, 4, 4, 2, 30), 'WARC-IP-Address': '192.0.78.24', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:S4Y5QYJYN7LVMWNOGG5HP2SD7NMURBFG', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:fd5bd1a9-ec8f-4fad-b754-eb9670e37f84>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://lynxthoughts.com/tag/industry/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:845bd674-444e-44c3-9928-6f2937105bc9>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '209', 'url': 'https://lynxthoughts.com/tag/industry/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-16\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March/April 2020\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-155.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.39560896158218384', 'original_id': '9bd15852874e22260484f366eb4d7c7f4a537040d4479ff599af83076a130d95'} |
Carson mayor calls for state of emergency in polluted Carousel neighborhood (map)
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Frustrated by years of delay and protracted cleanup efforts, the mayor of Carson has called on city leaders to declare a state of emergency over polluted soil that is affecting a neighborhood of about 300 homes.
More than two years have passed since the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board ordered Shell Oil to implement a cleanup plan for the Carousel neighborhood, which was built on top of land that the company once owned and used to store barrels of oil. Past testing has found cancer-causing and toxic chemicals under homes in soil, soil vapor, and in groundwater.
On Tuesday, Mayor Jim Dear called on the city council to declare a local emergency, a move he said might be used to prod regulators into action and ultimately force Shell to buy up all the homes, relocate residents and replace the contaminated ground with clean soil.
"It's been 5 years since the situation was discovered, and we've gone through a long, long process of discovery and analysis and a legal order to clean the land, but it just seems to me that a delay game is being played with the lives of the residents of the Carousel tract, and that's why we're taking this kind of more dramatic action," Dear said in an interview by phone.
But Dear, and Carson residents, would have a lot of hurdles to clear before anything resembling the scenario he laid out begins to happen. Dear said he has the power to call an emergency city council meeting, but council members still have to pass a resolution making it official.
Even then, it's unclear whether a local declaration would give residents much leverage. The state water control board has suggested that its power to enforce the original order is limited.
L.A. regional water control board chair Maria Mehranian earlier told KPCC that it’s a complex problem.
“The steps that we’re taking need to be methodical, need to be scientific,” she said.
As for Shell, company spokesman Alan Caldwell said it takes its responsibility seriously.
“We want to minimize impact to the community, we want to do a good job and get it right, and address any issues we’re responsible for and continue to move forward as best as possible,” Caldwell told KPCC late last year.
Dear was unable to give any details about how this latest move fits into any larger legal strategy, because the city is engaged in a lawsuit against Shell. He did say that if there was an alternative to removing the homes to get at the contaminated soil, he would be open to it, but he didn't seem convinced that would happen.
"I really feel there's one outcome, and that is to relocate the residents," Dear said.
The city council is scheduled to hold an emergency meeting about the matter on Monday, July 29, at 5 p.m.
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Costco expands efforts in region
Costco Wholesale continues to push into the Washington market with plans for a new store on a 12-acre tract in Alexandria, one of three locations in the works in the region, The Washington Post reported. The other two planned stores are in D.C. and Montgomery County.
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“El que sigue:” Cuba’s next generation faces a nation in flux
By Mike Adams, Havana, Cuba, January 2018
Cuban President Raul Castro is set to step down from office in April. In just a few months, the country will have its first head of state from outside the Castro family since military dictator Fulgencio Batista was ousted from power in 1959.
The nation’s next president will be elected by the 612 members of the National Assembly, Cuba’s main legislative body, after parliamentary elections are held on April 19. First Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel is widely seen as Castro’s successor, but any Cuban citizen over 18 years old can run for the position.
Cuba’s next leader will inherit the daunting task of navigating through a pivotal period in the nation’s history without the authority of the Castro name. For Cuban diplomat Camilo Garcia-Lopez Trigo, uncertainty is the only guarantee for the future.
“The most important decisions made today in Cuba are in the hands of the new generation of Cubans,” Garcia-Lopez Trigo said. “You don’t see one that is going to be the next leader, who is going to replace Raul Castro.”
El Capitolo: Cuba’s capitol building and the seat of the National Assembly in Havana.
The diplomat believes that Cuban politics will change dramatically as the revolutionary guard passes the torch to the next generation.
“Not having anyone in the leadership from the generation who made the revolution is going to create a completely different perspective on the relationship between the constituency and the leadership,” Garcia said. “It’s not the same when you have the people who made the revolution as your president as it is having a regular citizen.”
Cuba’s political and economic fate have been tied to its relations with the United States ever since President John F. Kennedy issued an embargo on all American trade with Cuba in 1962. The nation has withstood over 50 years isolated from the largest economic force in the world, and while relations began to normalize under former US President Barack Obama, current President Donald Trump has tightened restrictions since he took office.
Opinions of Trump vary on the island. Jonathan Ruvira Perez, a sales representative at Clandestina, a famous Havana clothing store that makes its products in the US, believes President Trump is directly impeding Cuba’s advancement.
“I think that what we really need right now is for Trump to go away,” Ruvira said. “All the progress that Obama made, Trump is taking back. All these guys in the government in Cuba have the same ideals, but if there’s someone in the states willing to work with them to make change, I think we may have a future like we expected with Obama.”
A European-made gas truck on a side street in Havana, Cuba.
Despite popular opposition to the blockade, Cuban journalist Cristina Escobar worries the nation will be unable to handle the shock of its eventual repeal.
“We don’t know how to live without the embargo, our economy is not ready for that,” Escobar said. “We don’tknow how to deal normally with the world.”
Escobar is also concerned that US business interests will hold sway over Cuban affairs like they did during the Batista government.
“They use the word ‘normalization,’ normal relations with the US,” Escobar said. “And I wonder, is it possible to have normal relations with the US? Was it normal before 1959? I’m afraid that the only possibilities are none or everything, no relations or Puerto Rico 2.0.”
Safi Quinteros Navarro, a housewife and mother of two living in Havana’s Vedado neighborhood, hopes a changing Cuban economy will help people like her children make a better living in the future.
“I’d like to see that the salary that people get matches their work and the general prices,” Quinteros said. “That’s the main change I’d like to see in this country.”
While many Cuban people desire a more capitalistic economy, Canadian author Hal Klepak, a military history professor and expert on Cuba, believes the Cuban government is wary of rapid change. Even the small pushes towards capitalistic reform the government has made, Klepak argues, have ultimately been opposed by the Cuban people.
“Everybody has lunch, at their work if they work for the state,” Klepak. “So, of course they say ‘we’ll raise the salaries a little’ and they charge for that. Food prices worldwide are not what they were, so what you’re making in exchange for giving up your lunch is half of it. So while people support the move towards greater capitalism, not when it affects them.”
While experts inside and outside of Cuba doubt the youth’s willingness to stand for Fidelista values, at least one young Cuban said his generation’s commitment should not be underestimated.
“Yes, they believe,” Jorge David, a 14-year-old student from Vedado, said. “Because there are multiple achievements from the revolution. Medicine, free education, everything. That’s good! We are expecting a positive change.”
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Bitter and bigoted
This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2013, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
Why should anyone give credibility to Ed Firmage Jr.? His most recent rant ("Norman Rockwell and the LDS ideal," Opinion, July 28) solidifies his status as a bitter, isolated individual and religious bigot.
Comparing sweeping European religious architecture to a small exhibit of American paintings is laughable to begin with but, in so doing, Firmage failed to mention that a significant message sent by the buildings of early Christianity was power, wealth, social status and exclusion of anyone who didn't fall into those categories.
Firmage's dismissal of Norman Rockwell is in itself "bourgeois," as he seems unaware of many of the artist's canvases which directly and courageously address issues such as integration, poverty and voter rights.
Rockwell illustrated Saturday Evening Post covers at a time when the American public actually read and relied on periodicals to accurately inform them of their times and the world around them. So it was, too, with his scouting calendar illustrations and covers for Boy's Life, from which the exhibit is compiled. Sorry, Mr. Firmage, no clandestine message or collusion with the LDS Church.
If the virtues of trustworthiness, loyalty, helpfulness, friendliness, courtesy, kindness and obedience are offensive, naive or unacceptable in our society today, what should be substituted in their place? | mini_pile | {'original_id': '520467a51f4987972801787348a61d9f2c7896c1156813ab872aebbd49fc2251'} |
Ronald and Allis Radosh: Why Truman recognized Israel
[Ronald Radosh is the distinguished historian and author of books includingThe Rosenberg File (with Joyce Milton), The Amerasia Spy Case, Spain Betrayed:The Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War, and, most recently, with Allis Radosh, Red Star Over Hollywood. The Radoshes’ new book, available online and at bookstores today, is A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and The Founding of Israel]
On May 14, we’ll be celebrating the sixty-first anniversary of President Harry S. Truman’s decision to recognize the State of Israel, the first country to do so. The most complex and controversial issue of Truman’s presidency, the official recognition of Israel was a watershed moment in American foreign policy. His daughter Margaret claimed that Palestine was the most difficult dilemma her father encountered while in office. Indeed, Truman faced pressures from all corners of the globe to reach a decision that would have been a challenge to Solomon: the future of the Middle East, the Jews, and the demand to create a Jewish State in Palestine.
In A Safe Haven we seek to answer the persistent question, why did he do it? We follow Truman as he grappled with the pros and cons of supporting the creation of a Jewish state and making crucial decisions that would affect the outcome. Through a narrative history, we view Truman as he confronted the Holocaust, the situation of the Jews still lingering in European DP camps after the war, and the resolve of world Jewry to have a country of their own in Palestine. Supporting this goal were significant numbers of the American public and Congress, key White House advisors, influential opinion-leaders, and ultimately the United Nations.
Along the way, we tried to capture the remarkable cast of characters involved, among them Truman’s Secretaries of State James Byrnes and George C. Marshall, British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin, Secretary-General of the newly formed Arab League, Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam, White House Advisors Samuel Rosenman, David Niles, and Clark Clifford, Zionist leaders Chaim Weizmann, David Ben-Gurion, Rabbis Stephen Wise and Abba Hillel Silver, and Truman’s friend and former business partner Eddie Jacobson.
Strong opposition came from Truman’s own Defense and State Departments, the Arabs, and the British who held the Mandate over Palestine. No wonder Truman claimed the issue left him in a state of “political battle fatigue.” Our research uncovered the fierce fight waged by the State Department to prevent Truman from moving to recognize the new Jewish State. Their opposition began from the moment Truman became President, and increased in intensity as it appeared that he was leaning towards approval of the Zionists’ dream.
The claim made by the head of the Jewish Agency in New York City, Eliahu Epstein, that the State Department was undertaking a “vast conspiracy” against the President, was not far off the mark. Among other things, we pay attention to the major argument against recognition presented to Truman by George F. Kennan, the architect of “containment,” who it turns out was equally involved in attempting to reverse US approval of the UN Partition Resolution of November 29, 1947, that separated Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab.
It is our argument that had FDR lived and Truman not become President, Israel most likely would not exist today. It is a dramatic story about the many forces Truman had to deal with, especially his handling of the Arabs who insisted that the only acceptable outcome was for the Jews to live as a minority in an Arab state, the recalcitrant British who gave up their Mandate over Palestine and handed it over to the United Nations to come up with a solution, and his own. Department of State, whose Arabists sought to undermine him.
We hope that Pajamas Media readers will consider reading this story of how a great Democratic Party leader, President Harry S. Truman, came to undertake one of the great moral decisions of his presidency. You can order the book by looking on the right under “Books,” and clicking on the cover of A Safe Haven.
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Recipe: Appetizing Curry dosai
Asian, Food Recipes and tasty.
Curry dosai. Welcome to Dosa-n-Curry! " You are what you eat ". Check it out here: Vegetarians Can Delight in Dosa 'n Curry's Fusion Cuisine. Bring the taste of India into your farmhouse with these Dosa is traditionally made from a fermented-lentil batter, but I divy out this rice-flour version into.
Curry dosai Best selling cookbook author Dan Toombs aka The Curry Guy shares his recipe. Dosas are one of the most popular South Indian breakfast. Now it seems to be becoming popular in the North. You fulfill simmering nuke Curry dosai applying 4 instructions also 2 as a consequence. Here is how you reach.
receipt of Curry dosai
1. You need 1 cup of Dosai batter.
2. Prepare 2 of Eggs.
3. It's 1/2 Cup of Minced mutton dry gravy.
4. Prepare 2 tsp of Gingelly oil.
Vada Curry and Set Dosa, a quite famous combo in food. And it is often had as a breakfast meal, not This vada curry turned out really good. This can be paired with idlies or dosa. I add curry leaves not only for flavor but for curry leaves amazing benefits.
Curry dosai prescription
1. Heat a tawa, Spread out the dosa batter, make thick dosas, pour in spicy mutton gravy, break in one egg and mix everything with a spoon..
2. Add in the mutton gravy and spread, add in gingelly oil, turn over and cook till the dosa and egg is cooked well..
Check out their menu for some delicious Indian. Drain the water and grind the rice along with the grated coconut to a fine paste adding water as required. Vada curry recipe - steamed version with full video and step by step detailed pictures. Healthier steamed version of vada curry, a popular street food in TN. Spicy and tongue-tickling, this Kadala Curry is a traditional Kerala favourite that has now become well-known throughout the world as the best combination for soft, fluffy aappam! | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '1', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.922776997089386}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '12052', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:HWY7CJV4GTHP5FMEWNGCCLJDGT5QKCCX', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:ea3556a6-9b4a-41e9-ac3a-2e6bef082492>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 3, 8, 19, 16, 51), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.21.89.101', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:VBAIX45TJNSKH5WCFQY7X4327ZSSSE7G', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:d8d510ff-80b9-44b9-9a08-32d0fa19c8eb>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://pickupsolly.info/113-recipe-appetizing-curry-dosai.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:9986c2be-1fe8-468f-abdb-0794bfb80dd4>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '329', 'url': 'https://pickupsolly.info/113-recipe-appetizing-curry-dosai.html', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-10\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for February/March 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-215.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.08624476194381714', 'original_id': 'f1ee886f01e9178c60fa004ea7a59c39f9be00d664087fde70a7d09a1b524b12'} |
Adrian Mrowiec
Adrian Mrowiec (born 1 December 1983 in Wałbrzych) is a Polish footballer who currently plays as a defensive midfielder for Miedź Legnica.
Career
Hearts
Mrowiec joined Hearts on loan from FBK Kaunas in 2008 as a holding midfielder. He made his debut against Falkirk in a 2–1 away defeat.
Arka Gdynia
In July 2009 he moved to Arka Gdynia in the Polish Ekstraklasa on a one-year loan.
Return To Hearts
Mrowiec returned to Hearts for a trial spell in 2010 and he subsequently signed a three-year contract. He left Hearts in May 2012 having not being offered a new contract.
Germany
On 18 May 2012, he joined German side RB Leipzig on a two-year contract. He was released by the club without making a league appearance and signed for Chemnitzer FC.
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Fox News digital politics editor Chris Stirewalt predicted Wednesday that Democratic voters who tune into a debate later this month and see Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and former Vice President Joe Biden on stage will gasp when they realize the trio is all the party has left to face-off with President Trump.
Stirewalt reacted to former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg's announcement that he is dropping out of the presidential sweepstakes, saying shortly after the mogul addressed supporters in Manhattan that it may not be the last the public sees of him.
Bloomberg, who was introduced by former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, appeared to have a "wistfulness" about him, according to Stirewalt.
"He has to be thinking, 'I kind of was good at this -- not in debating -- but I was kind of good at this,'" said Stirewalt, who added that while Bloomberg may regret that he waited until this past November to jump into the race, Democrats may not be done with him.
"When the buyer's remorse hits the Democrats as they watch that CNN debate stage [March 15] and they go 'Ughh, this is it?' When that happens, there's gonna be people who would say, 'Mike, did you ever think about getting back in this sucker and running it down?'"
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Stirewalt also joked that Biden's campaign should only allow him to speak for "only five minutes at a time and then put him, in cover, covered up with Mike Bloomberg's money for as long as they can" in order to avoid more viral gaffes.
While Bloomberg endorsed Biden after dropping out, Stirewalt said Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., seriously benefitted from her withdrawal-and-endorsement of Biden on Monday.
"Her vice-presidential stock is way, way, up," he claimed. "She delivered her home state for Biden in a big way and he needed it." | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'a8bfcbcd53ad9d05819b2e72d4016ba5dcb6b9d599a73c04493b066d64053f04'} |
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Moments before Utah plane crash were captured on video, official says
Emergency officials respond to a fatal plane crash near the St. George Municipal Airport on Saturday.
By msnbc.com staff and news services
Security video captured a small plane taking off from a southern Utah airport just before it crashed about 300 yards from the runway, killing all four men aboard, a federal investigator said Sunday.
Zoe Keliher of the National Transportation Safety Board said the video shows the single-engine Cessna 172 flying at a low level early Saturday morning at St. George Municipal Airport.
"The airplane continued down the runway and made a rapid ascent," Keliher told the Salt Lake Tribune. "Shortly after that, you see a descent of a few flickers of light but not the plane."
She added that it's too early to say whether the airport's camera video will offer clues into the cause of the crash.
Marc Mortensen, assistant to the St. George city manager, said officials believe the four men aboard the plane were killed upon impact. The wreckage wasn't discovered until more than four hours later because the airport is not staffed at night, he added.
The victims were identified Sunday as Colby Hafen, 28, and Christopher Chapman, 20, both of Santa Clara; Tanner Holt, 23, of Washington City; and Alexander Metzger, 22, of St. George.
Keliher and Mortensen said they were unsure where the plane was headed at the time. Keliher said only one of the four men had a pilot's license, but neither she nor Mortensen would identify the plane's pilot.
Holt's friend, Paul Hogue, told the Deseret News that Holt was a trained pilot who had flown commercially.
"The future can be taken from you so quickly and they had so much for their future," Hogue said. "They had future families and future wives and kids."
According to Federal Aviation Administration records, the Cessna 172 was built in 1999 and owned by Diamond Flying LLC of St. George.
Keliher said a cursory check of the plane's maintenance records turned up no major problems. She and representatives of Cessna and the company that built its engine inspected the aircraft after it was moved Sunday to a nearby hangar, she said.
It will take months for her agency to examine the plane and pilot, and issue a final report, she said. The NTSB will issue a preliminary report on the crash in five days.
"I'm now trying to get ahold of family members (of the four), and will finish the inspection of the aircraft Monday," Keliher said Sunday evening. "I hope to wrap up the on-scene investigation and leave Tuesday."
'Wonderful son'According to the National Weather Service, there were no severe weather conditions at the airport during the early on Saturday.
The airport, which has been in operation at its current site for about 1 1/2 years, does not have a control tower. Pilots use an automated system to communicate with one another when landing or taking off.
Hafen's family issued a statement describing him as a "wonderful son, brother and uncle" who loved to travel and who served a Mormon church mission to Oregon. He worked in the insurance business with his father.
"The community is grieving together," Mortensen told the AP. "St. George is a tight-knit community, and some of the families involved have been in the area over 100 years. If you live in this area, you know someone who knows one of these men." | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'eb87de8bf9d9bbca962ad5fa6da5517adbc88398801fa7f11298b18ce2821a27'} |
SI Vault
E.M. Swift
October 12, 1981
Lightweight champ Alexis Arguello was too classy, too cunning and too much for 20-year-old Ray Mancini, who may have learned a valuable boxing lesson
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October 12, 1981
Lowering The Boom Boom
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It was a remarkable scene after what had been a remarkable fight. Alexis Arguello had retained his WBC lightweight championship by knocking out 20-year-old Ray (Boom Boom) Mancini at 1:46 of the 14th round. It was Mancini's first loss in 21 professional bouts. Mancini's lip was cut and his face was puffy, but considering the number of left jabs he had absorbed, Mancini didn't look too bad at the postfight press conference. He started with a little joke: "It would have been a helluvan upset, huh?"
It would have. Arguello is one of six men to have held world championships in three weight classes. At 29, he's at his peak: He's 16-1 in title fights—with 16 wins in a row—and has a 72-4 record. Still, last Saturday afternoon in an overcrowded ballroom in Bally's Park Place Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, Mancini gave Arguello all he could handle.
"I'm just glad it's over," Mancini said. "It takes a lot out of you—these championship fights." It had been a tense, emotional few days, and it showed. "The disappointment's going to hurt longer than these wounds. I wanted to win it for my father...." Mancini's voice cracked, and his eyes filled with tears. "I'm sorry I'm not acting like a professional," he said, trying to smile.
In a few minutes, Arguello arrived. He is a strikingly handsome man, a slim Omar Sharif, but now there was a cut on his left eyelid and a purple crescent beneath it. "It was the best fight so far this year, my friend," he said to Mancini. Then, to the press: "I think my heart is special. But his heart is bigger than I have."
Arguello is a gentleman as well as an estimable champion, and he knew Mancini's story well—how Mancini wanted to win the championship for his father, Lenny (Boom Boom) Mancini, who was drafted in 1942 before he could fight for the lightweight title and then sustained a shrapnel wound in WW II that ended any hope for a title. The elder Mancini attended Saturday's fight in a wheelchair because he was convalescing from a heart-bypass operation three weeks before. "After the fight I saw Mancini's father," Arguello said, "and I felt bad." Then, as if he needed to explain the thundering right hand that dropped Mancini and obliged Referee Tony Perez to stop the bout, Arguello added, "But it's my job." He sounded apologetic.
Shortly afterward, Mancini excused himself to be with his father, pausing to say, "This isn't the end of the story. This is the standard first chapter. I'll be back. I'm just sorry that...sorry for all the people...." His voice began to crack again.
Which was when the champion put an arm around Mancini and spoke to him as one would to a younger brother: "You don't have to be sorry. This is a better experience than any fight you've ever had. You'll be better for this." Mancini nodded, and with a roomful of eavesdroppers, Arguello told the kid about his first title fight, how he had lost by decision to Ernesto Marcel in February 1974 and had cried afterward, how he now drew on that experience and was a better boxer because of it. This took place about 15 minutes after Arguello had nearly taken Mancini's head off. When the champ was through, Mancini thanked him and everybody clapped. Quite a show.
Arguello was born in Nicaragua, but has lived in Coral Gables, Fla. the past three years because of political strife in his homeland. He held the WBA featherweight title from 1974 to 1976 and the WBC junior lightweight title from 1978 to 1980, and last June he won the WBC lightweight championship from Jim Watt of Scotland. He has designs on Aaron Pryor's WBA junior welterweight title, which would make him the first to win championships in four divisions. He has even talked about moving up two divisions to fight Sugar Ray Leonard for the welterweight crown. "I don't need $10 million or $20 million," he concedes. "Just one million." The $400,000 he made fighting Mancini was his largest purse. " Mancini's strengths are that he's in great shape, he throws a lot of punches, and he's very aggressive," said Eddie Futch, Arguello's trainer, before the fight. "He makes fighters hurry their punches. But it's hard to hurry Arguello. Mancini's never been hit by a fellow that hits as hard as this guy."
The key to the fight, according to both men, was whether Arguello's left jab could keep Mancini from moving inside, where he's most effective. Said Arguello: "I have the equipment to fight him any way he wants, but I know if I get close to him, I'm in trouble."
The other question was whether Mancini, who fights best at a whirlwind pace, would have the stamina to go 15 rounds. " Arguello has won most of his title fights in rounds 10 to 15," Mancini said before the bout. "I'm a 15-round fighter, he's a 10-round fighter," Arguello would explain after the fight. And to his great pain, Mancini was proof of that assertion.
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Third Party Manufacturers / New Pentax K-5 IIs - no AA filter!
« on: September 11, 2012, 07:48:35 AM »
Another manufacturer is now offering a DSLR without the low-pass AA filter - Pentax.
Nikon was first with the D800e and now Pentax with the K-5 IIs.
Will Canon offer us the option?
Lenses / New: Canon CN-E15.5-37mm T2.8 L S/SP
« on: August 29, 2012, 08:29:09 AM »
Along with the C100, Canon has announced a new wide angle lens that comes in at 15.5-47mm.
Now that's a lens I could really do with on a DSLR!
Except that at $24,500, it's a bit out of my reach.
Canon, why can't you give us a photography version of this lens?
With autofocus and no (or very little) field curvature?
EOS Bodies - For Stills / 5D3 - AFMA similar to 5D2 or 1DX?
« on: August 17, 2012, 08:51:11 AM »
Does the AFMA in the 5D3 work in a similar fashion to that of the 5D2 (one setting per lens) or does it work like that of the 1DX where it is possible to have two settings for zoom lenses?
From a local newspaper:
Verdict: This is a wonderful camera. If you hvae Canon lenses and want to move into the blissful realm of full-frame capture, then the 5D Mk III is for you. But the MkII is just as good for stills and costs $1600 less. If you already have a 5D Mk II (as we do), there is no pressing reason to upgrade. If you are starting from scratch with nothing invested in lenses and accessories, then look at the Nikon D800. It has superior ergonomics, a more luxurious feel and higher resolution sensor, and produces uncompressed video. And it is several hundred dollars cheaper.[/u]
This guy uses the raw sensor data from DxO (remember, they're worthless!) to create some different measurements:
ModelQEMin Read Noise (e-)Max Saturation capacity (e-)
This table also makes the 60D better than the 50D and 7D.
Third Party Manufacturers / 41MP Nokia PureView Reviewed
« on: July 31, 2012, 06:52:32 AM »
Page 4 with the interview with the Head of Imaging Resources at Nokia is very enlightening.
EOS Bodies / New, cheaper, Canon FF DSLR... 70D?
« on: July 21, 2012, 12:13:00 AM »
Given that Canon seem to be putting APS-C into the EOS M cameras, why wouldn't they be just a bit more aggressive and make the 70D full frame?
Sure, if it debuts at $1999, it is vastly more expensive than what the 60D is today, but over time we should see prices drop.
It also solves the problem of which "digit" to use for the camera in the 6-9 numbering scale.
Lenses / Why did Canon release the 40/2.8 pancake before the A1?
« on: July 20, 2012, 07:50:41 AM »
Any thoughts as to why Canon released the 40/2.8 pancake so far ahead of its mirrorless offering?
Lenses / Are these new lenses expected to be sold for 15-20 years?
« on: July 17, 2012, 09:16:30 PM »
When we look at some of Canon's current lenses, such as the 50/1.4, we can see that they either are or are approaching being 20 years old and that their price hasn't changed a whole lot in that time. However in the last 20 years, lots of other things have had rather dramatic price changes, for example houses and cards and last but not least, wages have gone up.
What that makes me wonder is in 10 or 15 years time, will the prices of these new primes with IS still be considered to be "high" or will they have moderated if the price stays the same but our take home salary has increased?
Is Canon delivering new lenses at a higher price with the expectation that they will remain on sale for close to 20 years and that if the price doesn't change then as they approach end-of-life, they will have become as affordable as the current lenses are today?
Is an $800 lens today a $400 lens (in terms of affordability) in 20 years?
Something that I just realised is that Canon have to replace or retire a lens within 26 years of its first manufacturing date as their date code system does not have a way to handle it wrapping.
Looks like Canon think that recycling the 5D Mark II's sensor technology continues to make sense.
The technology in that sensor is approaching 4 years old now. Isn't it past time for something better?
Something with less read noise?
Something that is free of banding?
Third Party Manufacturers / Is the future of DSLRs FF only?
« on: July 06, 2012, 11:06:28 AM »
On another rumor site was a link to a blog that talked about the future of DSLRs being FF only:
Lenses / Canon 40mm/f2.8 STM review at
« on: June 26, 2012, 04:07:47 PM »
Score: 4/5
Is it sharp? You better believe it!
Lenses / Would you get a tattoo of a Canon lens?
« on: June 21, 2012, 07:21:45 AM »
Watching TV tonight, one guy shows a tattoo on his left side of the glass lenses in the 50/1.4.
Yes, a tattoo pattern that is the glass elements of the 50/1.4.
Why? Because it is his favourite lens.
Now that is dedication!
How dedicated are you to Canon and Canon equipment?
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At this point, Jason La Canfora of CBSSports.com (Twitter links) is much more bullish on Bobby Wagner reaching a new deal with the Seahawks than Russell Wilson doing the same. The linebacker is seeking a deal in the range of $10MM per season and Seattle’s evaluation of him likely isn’t far off from that. Wagner, who will turn 25 near the end of this month,graded out as fifth out of 60 qualified inside linebackers according to Pro Football Focus (subscription required). Earlier this month, the two sides began talks on a new deal. Here’s more from the AFC and NFC West..
Rams coach Jeff Fisher acknowledged that the club has engaged in contract discussions with quarterback Nick Foles , according to Howard Balzer of USA Today Sports (on Twitter). Earlier today, Nick Wagoner of ESPN.com reported that the quarterback loves being in St. Louis, but he’ll let agent David Dunn handle negotiations. The Rams are also talking to a few other potential 2016 free agents about new contracts, so it doesn’t sound like they’re focused exclusively on Foles.
coach acknowledged that the club has engaged in contract discussions with quarterback , according to Howard Balzer of USA Today Sports (on Twitter). Earlier today, Nick Wagoner of ESPN.com reported that the quarterback loves being in St. Louis, but he’ll let agent David Dunn handle negotiations. The Rams are also talking to a few other potential 2016 free agents about new contracts, so it doesn’t sound like they’re focused exclusively on Foles. Antonio Gates , the Chargers ‘ all-time leader in catches, receiving yardage, and touchdowns, isn’t thinking about retirement after this season, Michael Gehlken of U-T San Diego writes. “As you get older, people say things,” Gates said. “They make speculations about where you’re going, about how much you have in the tank. To me, it’s all about how I feel as a person, how my body feels physically and mentally. As of right now, I feel great physically. I’m in a great place mentally. So, we’ll see how it goes. I have no expectations for how long I’ll play or if this is my last year. Right now, my main focus is just being around the guys … and working to bring a championship here to San Diego.”
, the ‘ all-time leader in catches, receiving yardage, and touchdowns, isn’t thinking about retirement after this season, Michael Gehlken of U-T San Diego writes. “As you get older, people say things,” Gates said. “They make speculations about where you’re going, about how much you have in the tank. To me, it’s all about how I feel as a person, how my body feels physically and mentally. As of right now, I feel great physically. I’m in a great place mentally. So, we’ll see how it goes. I have no expectations for how long I’ll play or if this is my last year. Right now, my main focus is just being around the guys … and working to bring a championship here to San Diego.” Kealoha Pilares (WR, Hawaii), Kenneth Penny (CB, UNLV), and Derek Dennis (G, Temple) were at Kansas City’s minicamp today to try out for the Chiefs, tweets Terez A. Paylor of the Kansas City Star. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '77e4f1a40e85e9a5d43f91061249f8a0a7d270bff290be6a7ee78b4c074619c7'} |
How Captain Underpants turned a Sorting Task into Saving the World
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I was worried.
How would they handle the gravity of the task before them…
As I gazed into the eyes of the 20 kindergarteners in front of me, I played for them the message on my phone. They grinned in excitement as the message played and the math lesson began.
Hello, Dr. Amidon, this is Captain Underpants. TRA LA LAAAAAAAA! And I would really like you to sort the bin of objects I gave you. I need to know how many of each thing there are! Please! The world depends on it. TRA LA LAAAAAA!
Oh and Dr. Amidon, please get me the answers by lunch time. I need to save the world before lunch because I get hungry. TRA LA LAAAAAAA!
Let me back up.
I was given an opportunity to teach a lesson on sorting to my son’s kindergarten class. Looking up the standards for kindergarten I saw the standard for sorting was
A pretty straight forward standard with many ways to go about sorting and counting objects according to some category. In preparation for the day my colleague gave me a bin full of colorful objects that consisted of teddy bears, dinosaurs, and fruit.
The previous day I had brainstormed with preservice teachers in my math methods class on ways to teach the lesson. Our ideas centered around getting the students to name their own categories for sorting. The categories we came up with for the objects was sorting by color, type (fruit, bear, dinosaur), plant or animal, even texture (some of the objects were hard plastic and others were made of rubber). Then it would be up to them to count the objects and we would combine the number of objects between groups of students. Basically, the task would be
How many of each group are there?
A Problem with the Problem
This is what I call a messy task because it is open ended. I won’t define for the students what makes up a group. And it will be up to the students to name the categories and then to group and count the objects with assistance from me for adding up all the different numbers.
What bothered me is motivation. Why are we doing this task? Enter Captain Underpants.
When in Doubt Save the World
My son loves Captain Underpants. I don’t know if it is the name or the silliness of the stories, but he wants to see the movies and check out the books (even though the books are way beyond his reading level). My guess is that there are more kindergarteners that share his love of Captain Underpants, especially given a movie starring the Captain was released this summer.
So being bothered by the lack of motivation I thought what if the world depended on these kids sorting these objects. That seems silly, but if you have ever seen or read Captain Underpants you understand that such a task could plausibly save the world in the Captain Underpants universe. So I recorded the message to provide a little motivation and focus to the task.
What Happened
Plan from Captain Underpants Sorting Lesson
I used the teacher-created table groups to make the task dependent on social interaction. Each child was responsible for sorting their pile of assorted objects into the piles of objects at their table. Then each child was responsible for counting (or recounting) one of the piles of objects. This involved a lot of counting and sharing of strategies for counting a messy pile of objects. Some lined up their objects and used their fingers to make sure they counted each object. Some slid each object as they counted, which is a more advanced way to count given they have to coordinate saying the word with sliding the object.
They first sorted by color and then by type (fruit, bears, or dinosaurs). We collected all the numbers of objects onto a single white board and then after we had all the numbers of objects from each of the groups we gathered on the carpet to add them up. It became a little tense at the end of class as we were using a hundreds chart to add up all the numbers for each of the groups. The teacher reminded me that Captain Underpants needed the numbers by lunch and lunch was five minutes away! We were able to finish and call Captain Underpants and report our findings. And, guess what, we saved the day!
In Reflection
In no way am I saying that this is a perfect lesson, or that the details I provided were all that is needed to enact the lesson. Honestly, I can think of a dozen ways that I would change it given my new knowledge of the classroom, the needs of the students, the standards, etc. For example, it would easy to incorporate recycling into this lesson to talk about how sorting can save the world. Or to use hundreds charts and crayons as a way to represent all the total number objects and each group based on color.
I share this lesson, not as an exemplar, but just as a reminder (to myself) that learning can be fun. And some of the best learning is fun (just listen to my kids while playing Minecraft). If we are to love others through the teaching and learning of mathematics, then there should be some fun, right?
Was it silly? Yes. Did it work? I don’t know. What I do know is that we sorted, we counted, we even added. Kids appeared to be excited and engaged. More importantly, they wanted to know if Captain Underpants would be calling again. I believe he will…
What are small things you do to create fun/engagement in your lessons?
Photo by Ben White on Unsplash
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Edinburgh enchants first-time visitors with its effortless old world elegance. Its UNESCO-listed historic centre is a beguiling maze of winding alleys, the skyline dominated by the regal crown steeple of St Giles Cathedral and the imposing turrets of Edinburgh Castle. But scratch beneath this grandiose surface and you'll discover a down-to-earth modern capital city.
It's packed with laid-back bars, quirky boutiques, lush parks and friendly people. Art aficionados can lose themselves for hours discovering the masterpieces in the Scottish National Gallery, while nature lovers can escape the hustle and bustle with a hike up the verdant hillside of Arthur's Seat.
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Uma loja da rede de lanchonetes Mc Donald´s foi metralhada em Bonsucesso, na Zona Norte do Rio, depois que funcionários se recusaram a fornecer hambúrgueres aos bandidos. Segundo uma funcionária, um deles pediu 40 sanduíches, batatas fritas e refrigerantes de graça. O caso aconteceu em agosto, mas o vídeo investigado pela polícia foi divulgado nesta quinta-feira (28) pelo RJTV. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '5afefcf0e9d21dc500c8f7c4d414040675f091d3687f399ab68694580e2e1b3c'} |
Personality Disorders
How does psychotherapy treat personality disorders?
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• Psychotherapy treats personality disorders through the process of talking about the disorder with a trained mental health professional. This process is not a short-term treatment and may take months to several years. There are four types of psychotherapy used in treatment. These include:
• cognitive behavioral therapy. This helps a person identify unhealthy beliefs and actions and teaches how to replace them with healthy beliefs and actions.
• psychodynamic psychotherapy. The aim of this treatment is to make the person aware of unconscious thoughts and behaviors, gaining insight about those unconscious acts, and resolving conflicts to improve quality of life.
• psychoeducation. This involves the person with the disorder, family, and friends learning about the illness, including treatment, strategies for coping, and problem-solving.
• dialectical behavior therapy. This method teaches skills for tolerating stress, controlling emotions, and improving relationships.
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Q:
PHP echo in echo
I have a string that looks like this:
<center>
<div style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 20px; color: #000; font-weight: bold;">
<?php echo strlen(file_get_contents('test.txt')); ?> Applications Sent
</div>
</center>
However, I want to echo this with an if statment. For example:
if ($test == '') {
echo '<center><div style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 20px; color: #000; font-weight: bold;"><?php echo strlen(file_get_contents("test.txt")); ?> Applications Sent</div></center>';
}
The problem is that this will not work, because the original string already has an echo in it. How can I get around this?
A:
In order to achieve this you should concatenate your strings. In this case you have two strings surrounding a function - but that function returns a string so it is perfectly valid to just concatenate them all together.
if ($test == '') {
echo '<center><div style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 20px; color: #000; font-weight: bold;">' . strlen(file_get_contents("test.txt")) . ' Applications Sent</div></center>';
}
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BTS is keen to overtake BIGBANG and SMTOWN at live streaming app rankings
BTS (Bulletproof Boy Scouts) makes an impressive breakthrough after scoring a high ranking in popular online streaming app.
According to Big Hit Entertainment, BTS managed to reach more than 1 million likes in their official profile after streaming a Halloween special with their fans. The number of likes earned them the third spot on the total number of fans with BIGBANG and SMTOWN on first and second spots respectively. Trailing behind BTS are YG Family, iKON and Apink.
Meanwhile, BTS has been gaining a lot of following as they prepare for their comeback and concert. They also proved their popularity after securing a “Worldwide Act” nomination for the MTV EMA 2015.
Image: Herald
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Obviously the Mayan doomsday thing was nothing to worry about.
And, no, the world is not going to end when the Earth is sucked into some black hole or hit by a screaming meteor. Stop worrying about such nonsense.
The truth is we're going to bring the end of the world upon ourselves through one simple act: Upgrading.
Talk about doomsday. All I wanted to do was upgrade the Wi-Fi signal in our modest home. OK, "wanted" might be a little strong. I'm a proud late adopter. I hate to upgrade. I don't want to make my technology better because I know that always makes it worse.
But our 8-year-old router constantly crashed. It was slow in delivering the goods when we'd try to load Web pages, especially in the evening when apparently the entire neighborhood was downloading "The Godfather" trilogy.
Apple's AirPort Extreme (Doug Rosa/Apple)
Anyway, how hard could it be to replace a router?
I decided to swap our overpriced AirPort Extreme with a new overpriced AirPort Extreme. Hey, the thing lasted eight years and I wanted something that would work seamlessly with the smaller AirPort Express we use to broadcast our iTunes over our old living room stereo speakers. Besides, Alan at the Apple (AAPL) store explained that what you're paying for is the customer service, the support, the knowledge that if anything goes wrong, Apple will make it right.
But what could possibly go wrong? Other than our DSL modem croaking as soon as I hooked up the new router.
I called AT&T, our Internet provider. The technician came up with a solution, but not before asking me to unplug and plug in every conceivable cord and cable. (I became a little suspicious when she had me unplug the toaster and then plug it back in.) Oh, the solution? Sixty-nine dollars for a new modem sent by UPS.
Thus began the dark days -- 80 straight hours without a home Internet connection. And no, none of us were armed with a smartphone. (Late adopter, remember?) I've heard about people who swear by "unplugging," going on a digital diet, shutting off life's machines and living life's precious moments.
Listen, it's one thing to voluntarily push yourself away from the digital feast sated. It's another to be desperately seeking the smallest crumb of Internet connectivity.
At hour 36, after I'd crept over to the neighbor's house to feed off their robust Wi-Fi signal, I saw a Facebook post from my cousin: "Yesterday was my second Sunday without technology. My choice to begin this practice. I highly recommend taking a day off from handheld devices and laptops, to do what we would have done before technology arrived!"
Uh, what?
The thing is, technology has arrived and it's here for a reason: I need it.
For days, I walked around in an Internetless daze. I didn't know if my alma mater was playing basketball or whether various very important people were trying to reach me by email. I couldn't look up the ZIP code for Scituate, Mass. I couldn't track the progress of the online Christmas gift assault we'd launched through Amazon and Shutterfly.
On day three of the darkness, our 15-year-old daughter, Riley, realized she was going to have to text her friend just to find out what the weather forecast was.
"We live in a cave," she said. "We have no knowledge."
And it was true. Google (GOOG), you see, isn't making us dumber. Google is making us smarter. Without it, we didn't know anything, including what to do with ourselves.
Of course, I made the speech when the Internet went dark. "Kids, this will be great. We'll huddle together and play board games. We can read by the fire. Maybe Mom will knit us sweaters or churn some butter."
But I didn't believe any of it, and neither did my wife or two daughters. In fact, they began to turn on me. As if it were my fault that we didn't have an Internet connection. Well, I mean, it was my fault, but shouldn't I get credit for trying to make our lives better?
The new modem did finally arrive. I hooked it up and -- after two more calls to AT&T and an hour or so of tinkering with settings -- the Internet was back. Mostly.
No, the AirPort Express would no longer play our iTunes over the old speakers and our wireless printer didn't work. But YouTube, Facebook, "Words with Friends" -- they were all back.
And that AirPort Express problem? Nothing a quick trip to the Apple Genius Bar and $83 couldn't fix. (Why is it the genius advice from the Genius Bar always seems to be: "Buy a new one.")
So now, after several days, innumerable phone calls, a trip to the Genius Bar and about $350, things are almost as good as they were when I started. No, the printer still doesn't work and I'm too exhausted to wrestle with it.
But you know what? It's not exactly the end of the world.
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10 May 2012
Alexandria,the capital of memory
The Murder of Khalid Said
13June2010 Alexandria policemen beat young man to death, says rights group | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today's News from Egypt “On Sunday, Khaled was at cyber café at around 11:30 in the evening. Two policemen asked him for money and when he said he didn’t have, they beat him,” Muhammad Abdel Aziz, lawyer with el-Nadeem, told al-Masry al-Youm. “As he was beaten up, his head hit a marble table and he started bleeding.” arabist
... "For insltance, the arrest of protesters in front of Sidi Gaber station in Alexandria was filmed by a blogger and uploaded to Youtube, ______________________________________________________________________________ aaa ______________________________________________________________________________ I am re-re-reading "The Alexandrian Quartet" since 2012 is the centenary of Lawrence Durrel. in 1960 it was hailed as a masterpiece,. It was certainly disturbing to a 16yr old when I read it. The book(s) rapidly went out of fashion. Now regarded as over-writter, sexually incorrect, not (post)modernist enough? One early review described it as "false orientalism" - which begs the question ... what it true Orientalism? ______________________________________________________________________________ Mohammed Ali completed the canal in 1826. Which awoke the modern Alexandria
1863 Constantine Cavafy born
Rue de Soeurs riot 1882 .. a riot in the European quarter ( over a cab fare) 50+ dead A month later British fleet bombarded the fortifications British occupied Egypt 2 months later
..Gilbert and Sullivan had Wolseley in mind when they created "the very model of a modern Major-General" in the Pirates of Penzance.. Wolseley "took no offence at the friendly satire" — in fact, he often sang the part himself to entertain his family .. The only other exception to the Wolseley luck was rather more notable: he arrived two days too late to save Gordon in Khartoum.
The British army was guided by Commander Wyatt Rawson, naval aide-de-camp to Lieutenant-General Wolseley. He navigated successfully using the stars and the army moved into position silently. The Highland Brigade moved to the front of the attacking force. At about 05:00 on 13 September 1882, the Highland Brigade approached the Egyptian positions and there was a blaze of gunfire. The bagpipe players struck up and the Scots charged the Egyptian defences. The British army had approached the lines at Tel-el-Kebir in a staggered formation and so attacked in waves from left to right. The fighting was intense, but after just over an hour, the Egyptians fled. "General Lord Wolseley (of Cairo)" _______________________________________________________________________
Alexanders tomb
.Re Tomb of Alexander: Is it possible that the mummy under St Marks in Venice is actually Alexander... then there is .."the claim of Stellio Komotsos, a Greek waiter in.. cafe-bar L'Elite in Alexandria. ..when not waiting tables, go off and dig holes everywhere he could in the city. Now retired and reportedly living in Athens, he is said to have amassed more notes, maps, and documentation on the subject than any scholar. ..Komotsos once offered to share his data with a patron in exchange for a pension in dollars and a new Mercedes... Is anyone taking up a collection? ..................
. Caracalla sacked the city in 215, but apparently respected the Mausoleum of Alexander the Great. Others to do so in the third century included Claudius II (269), Aurelian (273) and Diocletian (296) resulting in a terrible repression against the population of Alexandria which destroyed nearly the whole of the city. __________________________
.in 641 (20AH) the Arabs under the general Amr ibn al-As captured it during the Muslim conquest of Egypt, after a siege that lasted 14 months.
. After the Battle of Ridaniya in 1517, the city was conquered by the Ottoman Turks and remained under Ottoman rule until 1798....French troops stormed the town on 2 July 1798, and it remained in their hands until the arrival of a British expedition in 1801. The British won a considerable victory over the French at the Battle of Alexandria on 21 March 1801, following which they besieged the town, which fell to them on 2 September 1801.
___________________________________________________________________ Sydney: Abercrombie Lane: it was created as a dividing road when the area was first subdivided in 1842. The name was in common use for decades but was only gazetted in 1975. Believed to be named after a British military officer of the Napoleonic Wars, though why it was named thus and by whom is not known.
Abercromby was buried at Malta.???? There is an unimpressive monument to Abercrombie near the railway station in Alex. Possibly not his tomb, if the Malta tomb is correct... Sir Ralph Abercromby (sometimes spelled Abercrombie) (1734-1801), was a British lieutenant-general caught a musketball in the thigh, died onboard a Brit ship in Alex harbour. ..................... cealex
The Afternoon Sun
C. P. Cavafy
(translation Lawrence Durrell)
This little room, how well I know it!
Now they've rented this and the next door one
As business premises, the whole house
Has been swallowed up by merchants' offices,
By limited companies and shipping agents. . . .
O how familiar it is, this little room!
Once here, by the door, stood a sofa,
And before it a little Turkish carpet,
Exactly here. Then the shelf with the two
Yellow vases, and on the right of them:
No. Wait. Opposite them (how time passes)
The shabby wardrobe and the little mirror.
And here in the middle the table
Where he always used to sit and write,
And round it the three cane chairs.
How many years. . . . And by the window over there
The bed we made love on so very often.
Somewhere all these old sticks of furniture
Must still be knocking about. . . .
And beside the window, yes, that bed.
The afternoon sun climbed half way up it.
We parted at four o’clock one afternoon,
Just for a week, on just such an afternoon.
I would have never
Believed those seven days could last forever.
durrell2012 Apparently Julie Christie is joining in TAQ readings .. dont know if mp3s will be available the Centenary is being celebrated in June2012 _______________________________________________________________________ ...And when Pombal said" 'you are abstracted this evening. What is the matter?' I felt like answering him in the words of the dying Amr 'I feel as if heaven lay close upon the earth and I between them both, breathing through the eye of a needle'. _____________________________________________________________
Josa and Oswald Finney's ballroom The scene of fabulous parties and costume balls – and murder and conspiracy – in the Alexandria Quartet
07 May 2012
Greece, Methane, Germaine Greer
..fourth year in recession, Greece now outstrips even Spain for youth unemployment yesterday ... under-25s at 51.2%. The headline .. is 21.7% while the real rate 25%">..
Somewhere around 25-35% unemployment, wage-salvery becomes untenable, even to those repressively tolerant.. independent ______________________________________________________
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The Fongoli Chimps - How to Grow a Planet - Episode 3 - BBC Two youtube ______________________________________________________
methane from AQUA satellite Looks like methane is coming from the ocean?? (see south atlantic) also siberia, china? Not equatorial regions. SCIAMACHY satellite is now lost (6Apr12) - seemed to be source of a bunch of science-Methane papers - is AQUA adequate ? Is there a giant burp coming from Arctic? Was there a flat level pre-2007? Is CO2 even well mixed? ______________________________________________________
n methane concentration, we estimate that sea–air fluxes amount to around 2 mg d-1 m-2, comparable to emissions seen on the Siberian shelf. aaa ggpht ______________________________________________________
Marx doesn’t use the word ‘capitalism’. The term never occurs in the finished first part of Das Kapital he never talks of Kapitalismus.... The terms he preferred were ‘political economy’ and ‘bourgeois political economy’, which he saw as encompassing everything from property rights to our contemporary idea of human rights to the very conception of the independent autonomous individual. I think he didn’t use the word ‘capitalism’ because that would have implied that capitalism was one of a number of competing possible systems – and Marx didn’t believe that. He didn’t think it was possible to move past capitalism without a fundamental overturning of the existing social, political and philosophical order. ______________________________________________________
Paper Promises: Money, Debt and the New World Order by Philip Coggan 2011, ISBN 978 1 84614 510 0
Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber Melville House, 534 pp, £21.99, July 2011, ISBN 978 1 933633 86 2 99
Credit arrangements organised by religious authorities, like the differential schedules of interest for separate castes in India, could still lead to steep inequality. Elsewhere, however, Confucian strictures against extraordinary profits or the Islamic prohibition of usury allowed markets to run on credit without indenturing one portion of the population to another. Graeber’s account of medieval Muslim commerce has warmer words for the institution of the market than are usually heard on the left: By abandoning the usurious practices that had made them so obnoxious to their neighbours for untold centuries before, [merchants] were able to become – alongside religious teachers – the effective leaders of their communities … The spread of Islam allowed the market to become a global phenomenon … But the very fact that this was, in a certain way, a genuinely free market, not one created by the government and backed by its police and prisons – a world of handshake deals and paper promises backed only by the integrity of the signer – meant that it could never really become the world imagined by those who later adopted many of the same ideas and arguments: one of purely self-interested individuals vying for material advantage by any means at hand. Notwithstanding some equivocations on the role of the state (‘Markets were never entirely independent from the government. Islamic regimes did employ all the usual strategies of manipulating tax policy to encourage the growth of markets’), here is a glimpse of the anti-rentier but pro-market conception of economic life that must surely count as an intermediate necessity for radical politics today. lrb longnow youtube crookedtimber thenewinquiry _______________________________________
mondoweiss.net palestinian-flag _________________________________________________________________________________
Shakespeares wife. Germaine Greer Wgtn Festival March 2012 Social History The women of Stratford backfilledhe trenches dug for the enclosure of the ancient commons. Was Ann amongst them? William was aligned with the enclosers, fiscalisation, privatisation . It was surely Ann that was buying and selling malt. 1/3 of Stratford were on poor relief Hathaways were successful in America, GG hails Covendales Psalms, the Geneva bible, 1599 the first commonly available.. .. the Authorised version " a nasty piece of work" ?? radio national
My soul waiteth on the Lord more than the morning watch watcheth for the morning. (Psalm 130 Geneva 1599)
"Kissing the Rod" GG in Tulsa.. (C17 womens poetry) "they that have power to hurt and will do none" Women of the later tragedies are impotent... Ophelia incapable ofhonesty, sets up Hamlet to be murdered... - its advisable to attend GG, despite her silly Australianness, she is lively on literature
28 April 2012
Arhame, curcumin,Madagascans
Athame, Witches' dagger
Professor Laura Lewis .. may face the highest hurdle of all. Her mission is to make a rare-earth-free magnet, using a compound found only in meteorites. She is trying to replicate the meteorite mix of iron laid on top of nickel on top of another layer of iron. Iron and nickel, both abundant, by themselves are easily demagnetized. But in this special crystal structure, they take on strength that makes them hard to demagnetize. The problem: "They only form naturally by a tenth of a degree per million years," says Lewis. "So it takes one billion years." _
i always wanted a witches dagger (athame) with the Widmanstätten pattern.. (grind your athame from a meteorite, dont melt that ancient pattern
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edge craig venter
The Life of Super-Earths: How the Hunt for Alien Worlds and Artificial Cells Will Revolutionize Life on Our Planet By Dimitar Sasselov
Lecethin dangerous? April 7 2011 Nature Stanley Hazen, Cleveland Clinic blood plasma 18 small molecules associated with fat buildup in the arteries. One of the best predictors turned out to be a by-product made when gut bacteria break down a fat called phosphatidylcholine lecithin). trimethylamine N-oxide or TMAO the higher the risk of getting heart disease microbes convert lecithin to a gas that smells like rotten fish. liver changes to TMAO. if the researchers eliminated most of the mice’s gut microbes with antibiotics, the animals didn’t get clogged arteries. probiotics or drugs might be able to block TMAO production. nutrition
NZ the worst place in the world? norightturn.blogspot
The Lancet infectious disease rates had doubled in New Zealand over the past twenty years, with significant ethnic inequalities, while they had been falling every where else The Lancet's editors calling on the government to solve the problem: The apparent widening of long-standing health disparities based on economic position and ethnicity ... Disparities have changed little for either the Maori or for Pacific peoples ( a fifth of the population ) stuff "There is something very wrong in NZ with such a stark and growing inequity burden."
Robert Hirsch wrote that total economic meltdown wasn't an inevitable consequence of peak oil. Yet... most economic recessions in the United States after 1969 were preceded by a spike in oil prices, "Economically, the decade following peaking may resemble the 1970s, only worse, with dramatic increases in inflation, long-term recession, high unemployment,,,
70s (67-74 say) was the most fantastic time ever, in the history of humanity (past or future) the possibility of human liberation was all around turned out the dream was based on cheap oil, neo-colonialism, and cheap inner city rents Whatever... things will never get as good again Those who booted out flatmates and bought those city shacks made a 70x profit - but by their very nature, that minority are too up-tight and fearful to cash out and go live somewhere human (Belize? Costa-Rica? Chaing-rai?) and without the hope the expectation of liberation, the anti-colonial,pro feminism, just the idea of liberation from all tyranny in particular the tyranny of wage-labour-slavery Actually theres not much of any ideas about, - the one idea from Occupy-Wall_st seems to be "be nice, share" populace has acquiesce in surveillance, confiscation of assets on suspicion, drone murder worldwide on suspicion
Before the Lights Go Out: Conquering the Energy Crisis Before It Conquers Us [Hardcover] Maggie Koerth-Baker
Prediction: the idea of cybernetic central planning, constitution based justice, production with feedback, every idea, every enterprise subject to feedback. every tyrant subject to replacement every person welcomed, every idea heard, every greed subject to criticism - these will fail. We are headed back to a Non_surplus Feudalism. a boot grinding in the face forever. Remnants of liberation ideology whispered until ... ?
Hot Chicago aaa Chicago hot in March
Cold Beijing Winter Ice 2nd highest eve
Madagascan women
Dr Cox says. “What we’ve done is developed a computer model to find out more about that very early settlement history. Our research suggests that around 30 Indonesian women came to the island about 1200 years ago, around the 9th century AD.” Almost all Madagascans today are related to those 30 founding women. “There has been trading along the Indian Ocean for millennia, and people have assumed that Indonesians settled there as a result of lots of people using this trading route,” he says. “But if it is only 30 individuals, that theory doesn’t make sense. So it appears more likely that this may have been an accidental event – it certainly wasn’t a big, planned movement of people.” massey
but 30 women means about 10 canoes, or more than a few, but less than a "big" movement what is a fleet of 10 canoes? what idea drives it? ________________________________________________________________________________
tumeric spice curcumin
curcumin can rescue proteins from aggregation, the first steps of many debilitating diseases Professor Lisa Lapidus c... binds strongly to alpha-synuclein and prevents aggregation at body temperatures,.. also speeds up the protein's folding and reconfiguration.. it doesn't go into the brain easily.. curcumin .. potential protection against prostate cancer, Alzheimer’s, ..heart failure, diabetes, and arthritis. negative article 13.1 opinions by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in February 2010. jbc _________________________________________________________________________________
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badastronomy the sky is about 40,000 square degrees. Now we also know that there are about 6000 stars visible to the naked eye. So there must be 6000/40,000=0.15 stars per square degree. So how big is the Moon? The Moon has a radius on the sky of about 1/4 a degree. The area of a circle is pi * radius^2, so the Moon's area is pi * (1/4)^2=0.2 square degrees. aaa
Is that earth gleaming_ within those rings?
England dry Following the driest 18 months on record for some parts of the country, streams and rivers are drying up leaving insects, fish, mammals and amphibians fighting for survival. Newly hatched tadpoles of frogs, toads and newts are under threat while wading birds such as snipe, curlew and lapwings will suffer from a lack of moist soils in which to find food such as worms for themselves and their young. In drought-affected areas, some streams, ponds and shallow lakes are likely to dry up before aquatic insects such as dragonflies have taken wing, which will cause them to perish,...
Rivers such as the Pang, home to Wind In The Willows' water vole Ratty, have already dried up in places.
telegraph Heat wave in USA record 9days warmth in Chicago maybe: 1)GlobalWarming may be picking up 2)increased rain.. not always
27 April 2012
Boinc, Assange-Nasrallah,HERV
Winter approaches, time to fire up some Boinc
, use yr computer participate in some big science - in the cold world, computer cycles heat your house and solve some big problems..
Mullers Ratchet
Caenorhabditis elegans is known for his high rate of selfing that may make it susceptible to the operation of Muller's ratchet. Now evolution@home has found that this worm would indeed be in trouble if there were no processes that would counter genomic decay in this worm or if selfing was very old. we conclude that pure selfing can persist for only short evolutionary intervals, and is expected to lead to extinction within thousands of years for a plausible portion of parameter space. Credible lower-bound estimates of nuclear mutation rates do not extend the expected time to extinction much beyond a million years. biomedcentral existing simulation results suggest that outcrossing rates of less than 1% do not reduce the rate of mutation accumulation substantially ... existing simulation results suggest that outcrossing rates of less than 1% do not reduce the rate of mutation accumulation substantially
C.Elegans can only be thousands of years as selfing??
[I am not convinced by Muller's ratchet. Mystified how mitochondria can persist for 2B years with no crossing ]
Earthquakes Apple laptops manufactured since 2005 are outfitted with accelerometers, as are many IBM (now Lenovo), Acer, and HP laptops. They detect sudden acceleration--as when a laptop falls from a table, for instance--and brace the hard drive for impact. Quake Catcher Network's software analyzes shakes sensed by a computer's accelerometer and report only big movements to the central server, ignoring the vibrations from a passing truck, a bump to a table, or even a minor earthquake. The pattern of signals received by the server allows the network to recognize a significant earthquake.
Primes primegrid n 19 Apr 2012, 21:12:27 UTC, PrimeGrid’s Generalized Fermat Prime Search, through PRPNet, found the mega prime: 773620^262144+1 The prime is 1,543,643 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's “The Largest Known Primes Database” ranked 2nd for Generalized Fermat primes and 22nd overall. The discovery was made by Senji Yamashita of Japan using an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 in an Intel Core i7-970 @ 3.20GHz system with 6GB RAM, running Windows 7 Professional x64. This GPU took about 47 minutes to probable prime (PRP) test with GenefCUDA. Senji is a member of the PrimeSearchTeam. ega prime: 773620^262144+1 (2^18 = 262144)
I'm running this, only 3,300 others, an interest in proving primality, somewhat recondite.. primaboinca seeking counterexample to Agrawal conjecture primaboinca targets reached: no counterexample for n < 10^11; next target: 10^11- 10^12; imath If Agrawal's conjecture were true, this would improve the polynomial time complexity of the AKS primality testing algorithm Lenstra and Pomerance and suggest strongly that this conjecture is false. efmer berkeleyin boinc unitedboinc _________________________________________________________________
thanks JulianA, great interview Hezbollah seems to startle itself with its successes. Their fuel-air device in Beirut killed so many US marines that Reagan pulled out of Lebanon.
In 2006 Hez snatched a couple of IDFers and then surprised everyone (including themselves?) by resisting invasion for weeks. I suspect that fibre-optics and actual cryptography were used, not just the farm-boy ciphers that SN claimed rt _________________________________________________________________
wafa Hundreds of Palestinians Arrested in March, says Rights Group NABLUS, April 11, 2012 (WAFA)..... One woman was arrested in Hebron under the pretext she attacked soldiers while crossing a checkpoint after soldiers took her 3-year-old son away from her.
The Genome Generation by Elizabeth Finkel 2012 Melbourne book review.
On first glimpse, another chatty pos sci book. On closer inspection a solid and startling investigation of C21 genetic revelations. EF is an ex research scientist, which typically means a book is solid. With a heap of references, many http (buy the kindle version?) This book is startling. I thought I had been keeping up with popular science news about the Genome, but I had fallen behind. Starts with an intro chapter, about that Saturday in 1953 - in the morning we were in the medieval vitalistic dark, in the afternoon we had a view of how molecules did life. Turns out the new 'Dogma' was over-rated. Only 1.5% of the human genome codes for protein. Chap2: "Junk is telling us something" One of EF's heroes is John Mattick (Melbourne?) sciencemag
The Eukaryotic Genome as an RNA Machine the genomes of all studied eukaryotes are almost entirely transcribed, [in various cell lines?] generating an enormous number of non–protein-coding RNAs (ncRNAs). In parallel, it is increasingly evident that many of these RNAs have regulatory functions. EF says 8% of our DNA is fossil retrovirus and 45% are transposons (jumping genes) (others think the LINE etc may be retroviral traces, so over half , ie including the retrotransposons may be retroviral traces? .... virolution)".. Melbourne Simons: nature Rett Syndrome fugu fish have less junk DNA, but they do have some. Bacteria: 20% of genes are regulatory proteins
This is the sticking point: if it takes genes to make proteins to regulate genes, there is evidently a limit to complexity. Is this why multicell took billions of years to arrive?
Junk DNA Amoeba 50% roundworm 75% humans 98.5%
have we reached another sticking point of complexity, even using small RNA controllers? 1993: C elegans missing vulva if micro RNA lin-4 not present (22Base RNA from 70 Base DNA)
Its Double strand RNA (dRNA) that interferes , the cell recognises dRNA , DICER chops it into 20 base segments, RISC uses these to halt RNA expression. (plants,fungi,worms,flies). So far not useful medically, dRNA is fragile. in Humans 125 base miRNA protects against transposons oxfordjournals 2007 However, only a small proportion of these retroelements 0.05%, remains able to transpose...
among the non-long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons, only some long interspersed nucleotide elements-1 (LINE-1, or L1) and short interspersed element (SINE) (Alu and SVA) subfamilies continue to be mobile in mammals today (1,2). sciencewatch miRNAs A Macro View of MicroRNA
nobelprize RNA interference ENCODE Project nytimes ‘Gene’ Has a Multitude of Meanings nytimes Now: The Rest of the Genome Although only 1.2 percent of the human genome encodes proteins, the Encode scientists estimate that a staggering 93 percent of the genome produces RNA transcripts. John Mattick, an Encode team member at the University of Queensland in Australia, is confident that a lot of those transcripts do important things that scientists have yet to understand. “My bet is the vast majority of it — I don’t know whether that’s 80 or 90 percent,” he said.
..... But Only about 4 percent of the noncoding DNA in the human genome shows signs of having experienced strong natural selection. Some of those segments may encode RNA molecules that have an important job in the cell. Some of them may contain stretches of DNA that control neighboring genes. Dr. Haussler suspects that most of the rest serve no function. plosgenetics The Genetic Signatures of Noncoding RNAs John S. Mattick* sciencemag skinny moms nature genome-wide association study (GWAS). Missing Heritability and GWAS Utility bbc Spotty mice flout genetics laws nature Has evolution learnt how to learn? hopkinscolon From Polyp to Cancer nytimes
David B Goldstein A Dissenting Voice as the Genome Is Sifted to Fight Disease ... men from Jewish communities all carry a certain lineage of Y chromosomes, one that is shared by many Near Eastern peoples.. ...the mitochondrial DNA of many Jewish communities looks as if it was derived from the population of the host community. Jewish communities may therefore have been founded by Jewish men, arriving perhaps as traders(sic), who took local wives......................... ...............
...... As part of a project on schizophrenia, Dr. Goldstein has done a genomewide association study on 2,000 volunteers of all races who were put through cognitive tests. “We have looked at the effect of common variation on cognition, and there is nothing,” Dr. Goldstein said, meaning that he can find no common genetic variants that affect intelligence
to be continued...
the scandal is, that the Human Genome Sequencing project has shown such few useful disease results
... if 1000 genes combine to produce a phenotype, testing would need 2^1000 examples...
Fracking . Most of the chemical-laced slick water injected down the well will stay belowground, but for every million gallons, 200,000 to 400,000 gallons will be regurgitated back to the surface, bringing with it, McGraw writes, not only the chemicals it included in the first place, but traces of the oil-laced drilling mud, and all thee noxious stuff that was already trapped down there in the rock: iron and chromium, radium and salt—lots
of salt. ,,The question is what to do with that volume of bad water. If it leaks into small streams, disaster results: the classic case is Dunkard Creek, which rambles for forty miles along the Pennsylvania–West Virginia border. In Wilber’s words, “its clear, green eddies and swimming holes, shaded by hemlock and sycamore trees, attracted generations of anglers, paddlers, picnickers, and nature lovers” who enjoyed the 161 aquatic species found in its waters. In September 2009, however, pretty much everything died in the course of a few days— nybooks ________________________________________________________________________________ the Kapuni Stream is contaminated and they are blaming the toxic poisons being used by oil companies .. fracking.. They talk about the polluted stream and contaminated ground water and point to a curious cluster of cancer cases. Even the Taranaki District Health Board admits that the death rate from cancer in the province is significantly higher than in the rest of New Zealand. Even the Straterra website says the company recommends all waste be stored in metal tanks. I visited many sites in Taranaki and didn’t see any metal tanks, just wide-open concaved mounds of earth that certainly didn’t look lined in any way and were often near streams. “I haven’t seen any metal containers. Any garbage from their activities is kept there [the pits],” Michael Self says. “You have a big downpour of rain and it goes into the rivers.” When I push Fred McLay on the subject again, he tells me the pits are “generally lined with clay and that some operators are now using liners.” Only “some” operators?
But the tragedy is that even if all companies now using lined pits, for many, many years they weren’t and the damage may have already been done. “One guy from the oil company told me that they were having difficulty in get rid of their drilling fluids,” says Sarah Roberts. “There was an effluent pond nearby and so they dumped it in there and it overflowed into the local stream. Another guy told me that he was disturbed about how his company was handling the discharge and voiced his concerns and was told that the oil company pays at the front end so that the Taranaki Regional Council doesn’t check at the back. massivemagazine propublica
[the Kapuni Stream pollution may not be from Fracking per se, some other Oil Co drilling..] ________________________________________________________________________________ DrOz Nutrition
1. Nori..r wrap of sushi rolls omega-3s
2. Wakame miso soup calcium and magnesium one of the few non-animal sources of vitamin B12. 3. Kombu: Metabolism Booster long, thick brown strips iodine fucoxanthin fat metabolism.
Sunflower seeds contain lignin phytoestrogens,
Fennel, an anti-inflammatory;
Cranberry juice disrupts the formation of plague placque
23 March 2012
Steel cont , Tessalit, Larus bulleri
BAMAKO, 22 March 2012 (IRIN) - Former Malian President Amadou Toumani Touré, overthrown this morning ..
the Comité national pour le redressement (CNRDRE), captain Amadou Sango, has dissolved state institutions, suspended the constitution, reportedly arrested several ministers,
Touré’s “incapacity to manage the crisis in the north ..
"There are no Malian soldiers left in the base, they have all fled," said Bayes Ag Dicknane, an officer with NMLA
600 rebel fighters .. the base in Tessalit and none of the rebels had been killed..
The government has few bases in the Sahara.. Tessalit is of strategic importance .. has an airport. .. National Movement for the Liberation of the Azawad..
The NMLA began attacking towns across north Mali(the Azawad) in mid-January.
..Tuareg who once fought for Libya's Moammar Gadhafi..
one of the band’s founders, singer-guitarist Ibrahim Ag Alhabib and singer-guitarist Elaga Al Hamid are the two members stranded. Ag Alhabib is reportedly staying in a refugee camp near the Algerian border but the crossfire between the Malian Army and MLNA (Mouvement de Liberation National Azawad) rebels is so heavy he "is unable to get out using his vehicle..."
.. members of Lo'Jo will join Tinariwen on stage ..
Tinariwen album 'Tassili,' Grammy Award for Best World Music Album.
Wellington Town Hall on 13 March at 8pm.
tinariwenmusic tinariwenmusic
neonatal or newborn screening tests are no longer being carried out because there isn't enough money to pay for them.
Neonatal screening is the process by which babies are screened for up to 40 serious developmental, congenital and metabolic disorders, including sickle cell disease and cystic fibrosis, that may be treatable but difficult, or even impossible, to detect clinically. The tests are usually carried out on small blood spots obtained by pricking the infant's heel soon after birth.
In Greece, Hatzinikolaou said, "it is effectively grinding to a halt".
"If the institute's funding does not come through, or if it is closed down, national neonatal testing in Greece will stop. We will see children dying from disorders that we know how to detect, and know how to treat."
- a "left" NZ blog ["norightturn'0 - evidently a Stalinist, who fantasises about micro-control over people, gasoline, stubbies, polystyrene beads, lighters.
- Bring on the libertarians, if they will protect us from these Stalinist overlord. It is NOT a crime to burne some gasoline/polystyrene
It was Ross Meurant in 81, as head of the Red Squad, who warned about the use of bean-bag refill as a dangerous cocktail additive - HART had no idea. Ironically Ross M is in the doc "Operation 8", now on t'other side.
independent fisk
Pithecophaga jefferyi
Whale Sharks Isla Mujeres, Mexico
Steel continued...
1415 Agincourt " the recent adoption of steel (rather than iron) for armor."
1429 Orleans Jeane d'Arc armour made of steel? "rolled rusting steel" is "authentic"?
"In the middle of April, Joan was at Tours, where her standard was made according to her indications, and she was fitted with a steel armour like a knight's, a plain suit, however, and for this reason called white."
1872 England gets Phosphorous out of its ore
1877 Union SteamShip Dunedin orders steel ships
1888 Eiffel tower, iron not steel... Eiffel was familiar with iron
Quenching: in water bade the blade brittle. Tempering restored toughness
but many would not risk the brittle breaking breaking so not wate quenched (slave guts instead?)
"Slow Steaming" how slow can it go?
Baltic Dry Index how low can it go?
Phylo.. The aim of the game is to improve the sequence alignment of promoter regions ..of 521 disease-associated genes from 44 vertebrate species. Sequences are represented by strings of blocks with a color corresponding bases
find the best possible match between sequences for up to eight different species at a time by shifting the sequences to the left or right, one block at a time.
If a player's alignments were better than that calculated by MULTIZ, a state-of-the-art alignment program UCSC
12,252 registered users 3,000 regular players. 350,000 solutions to various MSA problems, beating the accuracy of alignments from MULTIZ in roughly 70%
humans' game-playing visual talents can do some things better than a computer algorithm
IN 1856 WILLIAM PERKIN invented mauve.
Y chromosome
Afropop Worldwide (Host: Georges Collinet)
Global Village (Host: Chris Heim)
Mary Ann Kennedy's Global Gathering
Slacker.com World (Host: Tom Frouge)
Thursday Morning on WPKN (Host: Cliff Furnald)
Average amount of pesticides used per acre, per year,
on golf courses 18.0 pounds
in agriculture 2.7 pounds
New Zealand has 33 endemic seabirds. The next biggest country count is 5
.I take my lunch with Larus scopulinus eying my every move. A bird of "Least Concern"
Fiordland Penguin Eudyptes pachyrhynchus,
Snares Penguin Eudyptes robustus,
Erect-crested Penguin Eudyptes sclateri,
Yellow-eyed Penguin Megadyptes antipodes,
Antipodean Albatross Diomedea antipodensis,
Northern Royal Albatross Diomedea sanfordi,
Southern Royal Albatross Diomedeaepomophora,
Campbell Albatross Thalassarche impavida,
White-capped Albatross Thalassarche steadi,
Chatham Albatross Thalassarche eremita,
Buller’s Albatross Thalassarche bulleri,
White-headed Petrel Pterodroma lessonii,
Magenta Petrel Pterodroma magentae,
Mottled Petrel Pterodroma inexpectata,
Pycroft’s Petrel Pterodroma pycrofti,
Cook’s Petrel Pterodromacookii,
Chatham Petrel Pterodroma axillaris,
Westland Petrel Procellaria westlandica,
Parkinson’s Petrel Procellaria parkinsoni,
Buller’s Shearwater Puffinus bulleri,
Fluttering Shearwater Puffinus gavia,
Hutton’s Shearwater Puffinus huttoni,
New ZealandStorm-petrel Oceanites maorianus,
Campbell Island Shag Phalacrocorax campbelli,
New Zealand King Shag Phalacrocoraxcarunculatus,
Stewart Island Shag Phalacrocorax chalconotus,
Chatham Islands Shag Phalacrocorax onslowi,
Auckland IslandsShag Phalacrocorax colensoi,
Bounty Islands Shag Phalacrocoraxranfurlyi,
Spotted Shag Phalacrocorax punctatus,
Pitt Island Shag Phalacrocorax featherstoni,
Red-billed Gull Larus scopulinus, LC least concern
Black-fronted Tern Sterna albostriata
[Black Billed Gull Larus bulleri why is it not on this list?]
threatened species (Figure S3), New Zealand retains “pole position”,having more than double the number of threatened species of any other country
... of the 22 species of albatross, 17 are in decline.
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Tsunami double waves
gsfc mov
Boiling Water Piles
AP-1000, .. so-called passive safety ..enough water to cool a reactor for three days "If this design had been used in Fukushima, we would not have a news story," Aris Candris, CEO of Westinghouse
..the plume of contamination spreading to the northwest.. may (sic) have come from such spent fuel. Despite having been shut down for refueling, Unit 4 also suffered an explosion and what remains identified by Japanese authorities as a "lube oil fire." (.. "We know it wasn't a lube oil fire," Larry Camper, director of the NRC's Environmental Protection )..
In the U.S.,.. spent-fuel pools are even more densely packed, .. 45,000 tons..
Ironically, the loss of walls and roofs may have been the key to preventing a worse accident at Fukushima. ..the explosions enabled emergency workers to spray cooling water into the pools directly—if inefficiently—via water cannons (sic) and other devices. "
on March 10, 2011, the NRC licensed the boiling-water reactor of similar design and vintage at Vermont Yankee to operate for another 20 years just one day before the Fukushima crisis.
As of 2000, conventional rocket (US$25,000 per kilogram) for transfer to geostationary orbit Saturn V low Orbit 120Tons
Space Gun
those people, including some suspected insurgents believed likely to return to the fight if released, would probably have to be released because Afghanistan has no law that allows for indefinite detention for national security reasons.”
Honestly, what kind of a backward country doesn’t have a provision for the indefinite detention, on suspicion alone, of prisoners without charges or hope of trial? As a mature democracy, we now stand proudly for global indefinite detention, not to speak of the democratic right to send robot assassins to take out those suspected of evil deeds anywhere on Earth.
in the country’s modern history, no Afghan national army has ever saved a government, or even tried. More often, such an army has either sat on its hands during a coup d’état or actually helped to overthrow the incumbent ruler.
Ann Jones
Cambodia's Shrinking Forests
Botum Sakor National Park in southwest Cambodia is fast disappearing ..the Chinese gambler.
Chut Wutty, director of the Natural Resource Protection Group
Tianjin Union Development Group 340 sq km of Botum Sakor into a gambling resort ..
..economic land concessions 7,631 sq km most of it in national parks and wildlife sanctuaries,
Fishing families in Botum Sakor say that Union Group is using strongarm tactics to relocate them deep inland.
- mining for gold and other minerals -- are dominated by the Chinese..
Cambodia's 2001 land law forbids economic land concessions >10,000 hectares ..But China's Union Group won a 99-year lease thanks to a 2008 royal decree
Botum Sakor resort,
Mathieu Pellerin rights group Licadho, "Botum Sakor is melting away,"
.. "Cambodia is giving away 36,000 hectares to a foreign entity ..
..at the picturesque seaside village of Poy Jopon, people were preparing to leave after signing away their property to Union Group -- under duress
..Nhorn Saroen, 52, was among hundreds of families who have already been moved from another fishing village, called Kom Saoi. "We were told it was Chinese land and we couldn't cut down a single tree," ..
He was provided with a house in a purpose-built village far inland, robbing him of his main livelihood: fishing...Many families cannot make ends meet in the remote area and have moved away..
Seng Sok Heng of Community Peace Network,..Open Development Cambodia,.. additional bribes were common.
..huge leaseholds at the heart of wildlife sanctuaries such as Boeng Per and Phnom Aural, while 19 concessions have swallowed up almost all of Virachey national park
..cancelling a $3.6 billion Chinese-led dam project in September..
Ted Alexandro
Hannibal Buress
Pete Holmes
Anthony Jeselnik
Moshe Kasher
John Mulaney
Kumail Nanjiani
Chelsea Peretti
Amy Schumer
Rory Scovel
spiders after floods - saveing us from mossies?
highest levels of lutein and zeaxanthin 42 and 41% reduction in the risk of cataract
against age-related macular degeneration,
U Eastern Finland 1,689 between 61 and 80
113 cases age-related cataracts, of which 108 nuclear..
..significant reductions in the risk of cataract,
both ..similar levels of protection from cataracts.
The ratio of zeaxanthin:lutein is much higher in the lens
Both protect liposomal membranes from light-induced oxidative..
Z more effective protector against UV ..
also against peroxyl radical oxidation
So lets grind up all those crayfish shells
but its astaxanthin in crays?
"dietary xanthophylls (astaxanthin and zeaxanthin)"
hens increase in the astaxanthin concentration in theegg yolks, r
powder is produced dehydration process (5-8 seconds, 350 °C) at low pressure.
crayfish residues initial 70-80% moisture and after processing 8-10%.
The carbohydrate, fat and protein crayfish powder are 20.3%, 3.3% and 30.2%,
normal diet milled corn lutein (7.45 mg/kg), zeaxanthin (7.86 mg/kg) and canthaxanthin (2.30mg/kg).
Then 20% crayfish powder (provided by Seafood Sevilla S.L.) 25 d. Hens eat around 100 g per day
astaxanthin absorbancevalue at 470 nm concentration 90.3 mg/kg.
benefits against a number of vision-related problems
astaxanthin, microalgae Haematococcus.
the most powerful antioxidant known in the natural world, demonstrating 550 times the antioxidant power of Vitamin E,
Swanson $8.50 60*4mg
see PLOOH below
Polyphenol-rich cranberry juice has a neutral effect on endothelial function but decreases the fraction of osteocalcin-expressing endothelial progenitor cells
osteocalcin, linked to hardening of the arteries
osteoblastic EPCs [endothelial progenitor cells],
urinary tract health proanthocyanidin (PAC)
(Vaccinium macrocarpon) 36mg of proanthocyanidins (PAC) reduce the adhesion of E. coli bacteria to the urinary tract
69 participants,
double-strength Ocean Spray four months.
peripheral arterial tonometry (EndoPAT)
markers of EPC and osteocalcin
no differences for endothelial function,
12 March 2012
Gillard, epigenitics, steel
Feminism falls to a faux male warrior myth?
On 3 March, Greer wrote in the Sydney Morning Herald that she “fell in love with” the “matter-of-fact” Gillard long ago. Omitting entirely Gillard’s politics, she asked, “What’s not to like? That she’s a woman, that’s what. An unmarried, middle-aged woman in power – any man’s and many women’s nightmare”.
That Gillard might be a nightmare to the Aboriginal women, men and children whom this quintessential machine politician has abused and blamed for their impoverishment, while implementing punitive and racist measures against their communities in defiance of international law, is apparently not relevant. That Gillard might be a nightmare to refugees detained behind razor wire, children included, in places that are “a huge generator of mental illness”, according to Australia’s ombudsman, is of no interest.
That Gillard has pledged to keep Australian soldiers in Afghanistan indefinitely and that the overwhelming majority of those killed or wounded has happened during her period as prime minister, is beside the point. Gillard’s feminist distinction, perversely, is her removal of gender discrimination in combat roles in the Australian army. Thanks to her, women are now liberated to kill Afghans and others who offer no threat to Australia, just like their comrades in “hunter-killer” units currently accused of massacring civilians
Pilger antiwar
Germaine spoke tonight for the arts festival, I failed to show
The epigenetics of the cells in the brains of alcoholics is messed up-- both the epigenetic markers on the DNA and epigenetic markers on histones ... epigenetics is one of the main ways our genomes have for restricting the expression and movement of transposable elements..they found that ERVs were stripped of their DNA methylation in the alcoholic brain, and saw the expected huge increase in ERV mRNA as a result of this.
So, take home message-- they found a ton of ERV mRNA floating around in the brain cells of alcoholics.
The authors think that ERVs .. are actively contributing to the brain damage ... inducing neuroinflammation. ,,
periodic table of swearing
slack quenched bloom , mere bainite
[ no mention of East African steel?]
200 BC Celtic metallurgists supplying the Roman Republic with swords made from manganese iron ores mined in Austria ( Noricum).
blast furnace in westernEurope (± 1300). By
1500, the indirect process of decarburizing cast iron to producewrought and malleable iron and German steel dominated iron- and steelmaking strategiesafter the transition was made to utilizing the larger and more efficient Stucköfen and blastfurnaces. ..
Wayman (2000),
* are excerpted fromBarraclough (1984a).
Date Event
1900 BC First production of high quality steel edge tools by the Chalybeans from thehigh quality iron sands of the south shore of the Black Sea.
1200 BC End of the Bronze Age in the eastern Mediterranean region; steel isprobably being produced by the bloomery process.*
800 BC Carburizing and quenching are being practiced in the Near East.*
800 BC Beginning of the European Iron Age. Celtic metallurgists begin makingnatural steel in central and eastern Europe
.650 BC trading through Europe of iron currency bars, often percentage of raw steel
400 BC Tempered tools and evidence for the ‘steeling’ of iron from the Near East*
300 BC The earliest documented use of crucibles for steel production was thesmelting of Wootz steel in Muslim communities (Sherby 1995a).
[Wootz bars said to come from Sri Lanka, hilltop ridges forced air through the bloom?]
Damasc blades could be bent 90 degrees? Some say that some organic additive put carbon nanotubes into the blades.
200 BC Celtic metallurgists begin supplying the Roman Republic with swordsmade from manganese-laced iron ores mined in Austria (AncientNoricum).
55 BC Julius Caesar invades Britain
50 BC Ancient Noricum is the main center of Roman Empire ironworks.Important iron producing centers are also located in the Black Mountainsof France and southern Spain.
43-410 AD Romans control Britain.
125 AD Steel is made in China by ‘co-fusion’.*
700 High quality pattern-welded swords being produced in the upper RhineRiver watershed forges by Merovingian swordsmiths from currency barssmelted in Austria and transported down the Iron Road to the DanubeRiver.
1000 First documented forge used by the Vikings at L’Anse aux Meadows(Newfoundland)
1250-1350 First appearance of blast furnaces in central and northern Europe
+/- 1465 First appearance of blast furnaces in the Forest of Dean (England)
1509 [“Natural” (German)] steel made in the Weald [Sussex, England] by finincast iron*
1601 First record of the cementation process, in Nuremberg*
1607 First shipsmith forge in the American colonies used at Fort St. George,Maine
1613/1617 Cementation process is patented in England.*
1709 Abraham Darby discovers how to use coke instead of coal to fuel a blastfurnace.
1720 William Bertram invents manufacture of ‘shear steel’ on Tyneside.
1742 Benjamin Huntsman adapts the ancient process of crucible steel-productionfor his watch spring business in Sheffield, England.
1758 John Wilkinson begins the production of engine cylinders made with theuse of his recently invented boring machine.
1763-1769 James Watt designs and patents an improved version of the Newcombatmospheric engine, i.e. the steam engine.
1774 John Wilkinson begins the mass production of engine cylinders used inWatt’s steam engine pressure vessels.
1775 Matthew Boulton and James Watt begin mass production of steam engines.
1784 Henry Cort redesigned reverbatory puddling furnace, decarburization of cast iron to produce wrought and malleable iron without contact with sulfur containing mineral fuels.
1804 Samuel Lucas of Sheffield invents the process of rendering articles of castiron malleable.
1828 Adoption of the hot air blast improves blast furnaces
1835 Steel is first made by the puddling process in Germany.*
1837 In England, Joseph Nasmyth introduces the steam-powered rotary blowingengine.
1839 William Vickers of Sheffield invents the direct conversion method of making crucible steel without using a converting furnace.
1856 Gasoline is first distilled at Watertown, Massachusetts.
1856 Bessemer announces his invention of a new bulk process steel-productiontechnique at Cheltenham, England.*
1862 Robert F. Mushet sets up his Titanic Steel and Iron company in the Forestof Dean and begins producing alloy steel with tungsten and titanium.
two-lives-added-to the tree-of-souls
08 March 2012
Syria,John Holloway, Wedelia paludosa
On March 5, Russia Today (RT) headlined, "Stratfor leaks: NATO commandos in illegal special ops in Syria," saying:
On March 4, the Syrian Free Press claimed 100 foreign mercenaries captured after regaining control of Homs. Most were French. Others were from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and other Arab states. They had weapons supplied by America and Israel.
On March 5, 13 French officers were captured. RT said Lebanon's Daily Star newspaper reported it.
On March 7, RT said Mossad, CIA and Blackwater elements are operating inside Syria. In addition, according to Lebanon's Al-Manar, "around 700 gunmen were recently arrested in the former rebel stronghold of Babar Amr."
They came from Gulf states, Iraq and Lebanon. Qatari intelligence operatives were with them, as well as fighters from Afghanistan, Turkey, France and other European countries.
Iran's Fars News Agency says Tehran has "corroborative evidence to prove US involvement in arms smuggling into Syria."
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian said thousands of weapons and mercenaries have entered a number of Syrian border towns and cities.
AFP 5 Mar -- Israel on Monday allowed the Palestinians to export two truckloads of date bars from Gaza to the West Bank in what was the first such trade between the territories since 2007, the military and an NGO said. The rare move was permitted as part of a World Food Programme (WFP) initiative to feed Palestinian school children, Israeli NGO Gisha said in a statement, which hailed the trade as "an important step." But the military said it was a "one-off" trade and did not mean its nearly five-year ban on exports between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank was being lifted.
John Holloway Auckland historian
1,091 possible new planets, bringing the total count to 2,321—up from 1,235 candidates formally announced last February.
Of the 46 planet candidates found in the habitable zone (where liquid water could exist), 10 are near-Earth-size.
An examination order allows the police to force someone to turn up and answer their questions, on pain of a year in jail if they refuse.
Judith Collins assures us that the police will never abuse this power:
In response to the concerns of some groups, the 7-year threshold means that examination orders are not available to investigate such crimes as protesting,{sic}
fan is designed to sit on top of a freestanding wood or pellet stove, and generates its own electricity without cords or batteries. Your Ecofan AirMax starts automatically when placed on top of a stove http://www.gaiam.com/product/ecofan+airmax.do
and adjusts its speed with the stove temperature.
The official fishing-industry suck-arse brigade is proposing a Protection zone where you can actually keep fishing...
"Rob Murdoch, general manager of research at NIWA told Wilcox, "I think New Zealand is taking a very pragmatic approach to creating a MPA. I think it is a good first step.""
- would that be the guy who fired Jim Salinger for speaking out about climmate change?
A shipping container from Auckland to Singapore costs $1553 while it cost only $486 from Sydney, as Oram concludes, "shipping costs dwarf whatever productivity gains the ports can achieve so the government must investigate them. If it refuses to do so, yet it heaps pressure on council-owned port companies and their unions to eke out efficiency gains, the government, quite simply would be acting uneconomically and, worse, immorally."
, it is fascinating to watch how formerly radical organizations like the Center for Biological Diversity and individuals like Andy Kerr and Andy Stahl, the bête noires of the timber industry in the late 80s and early 90s, become seen as sell-outs by the next generation of environmental radicals.
...maybe Kerr and Stahl do see more room for collaboration with the timber industry ...
...the formerly hard-core are seen as selling out over time, to be replaced by a new cadre of the real activists. Donnelly equates Oregon Wild with the Sierra Club, suggesting that the former’s willingness to think about collaboration with the timber industry is equivalent to the latter’s extremely unfortunate embrace of fracking as a bridge fuel. ..
[whatever happened to the RAN Rainforest Action Network - they were pretty darn radical in the late 80s]
Why now, and what next?
Why was 2011 the year that brought such a ferocious assault on labour standards? .. the long-term economic decline experienced by working- and middle-class Americans. For the past thirty-five years, wages for non-professional employees have been on a steady, if gradual, decline,.. If the country continues in the broad policy directions of neoliberal trade, privatization, de-unionization and deregulation, there is no possibility but that living standards for most Americans will continue to decline, as the country is slowly but inexorably competed down to the level of less wealthy trading partners. This broad reality provides the fundamental background framing contemporary politics. For the economic elite, the primary political challenge is how to manage the politics of decline ..
It’s almost certain that Breitbart was referring to his plan to release damning footage of President Obama that he...
wedelis daisy
Wedelia paludosa protected against paracetamol-induced hepatotoxicity, an effect not observed over oxidative stress-related parameters.
Hepatoprotection is likely mediated by some terpenes present in W. paludosa extrac
Bay Biscayne Creeping-oxeye,
Sphagneticola trilobata, commonly known as the Bay Biscayne Creeping-oxeye, is a plant in the Heliantheae tribe of the Asteraceae (sunflower) family. It is native to the Neotropics and is widespread as an invasive species in the Pacific.
\activity up to the lowest dose of 0.68 mg/mL in the in vitro assay against trypomastigotes of T. cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas' disease (American trypanosomiasis).
antinociceptive Wedelia paludosa, a Brazilian folk medicine dolorous pathologies. kaurenoic acid and luteolin marked antinociceptive
more active than acetyl salicylic acid, acetaminophen, dipyrone and indomethacin...
luteolin is present only in leaves and stems, but in small quantities. .. support its popular use for the treatment of algesic processes.
low DHA levels in red blood cells are associated with smaller brain volumes and a ‘vascular’ pattern of cognitive impairment even in persons free of clinical dementia.
..1,500 dementia free ..average age of 67 ..MRI brain scans. .. tested to measure mental function, body mass, and the omega-3 fatty acid level in their red blood cells
DHA levels in the lowest 25% ..had lower brain volume.. appear two years older
bottom quartile also scored lower on tests of visual memory and executive function, such as problem solving and multi-tasking and abstract thinking.
Brain scans also showed signs of less blood supply ..
nutrition diet
. People who have psoriasis were significantly more likely to have the gene variants known to defend against HIV-1 and delay its progression to AIDS.
01 March 2012
Mangosteen, Jolo Drone, Mercury
the purple stuff in the rind (& in Kumera skin)
...alpha-mangostin, beta-mangostin, garcinone B, and garcinone E, which are collectively called xanthones.
Queen Victoria offered knighthood to any subject who could bring her a mangosteen fruit in prime condition. No one succeeded.
Feb 29, 2012
US drones over the Philippines
By Jacob Zenn
airstrike Abu Sayyaf Jolo first known use of the unmanned aerial assault craft in AFP..
reportedly killed 15 Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah
incl Zulkifli bin Hir (alias Marwan), Gumbahali Jumdail ( Doc Abu), and Mumanda Ali ( Muawayah)
Marwan US$5M reward ..was in JI's central command,..the markaziyah, founder of the Kumpulan Mujahidin Malaysia,
conspired in 2002, bombings Bali with ..brother, Rahmat,..radios and cash..
In August 2003, Marwan Mindanao,..training Abu Sayyaf members in explosives..
Muawayah Singaporean military officer Indian descent.. 2002 Bali bombing $50,000 reward ..
Doc Abu, Mindanao's Tausug ethnic ..kidnapping, Sipadan, Malaysia in 2000 Dos Palmas Palawan 2001.
..villagers reported to the AFP.. left a sensor at his hideout ..
a separate air strike on October 2011 killed Marwan's aide, Madarang Sali, and three other Abu Sayyaf . ground operations .. "counter-productive" because they "cause locals to have negative perceptions of the military".
October 18, 2011, 100 MILF fighters + Abu Sayyaf ..13 AFP special force killed.
drone tracked the sensor
Luz Ilagan, called for the abrogation of the US Visiting Forces Agreement and an end to US military intervention ..
See Lotsa Planets (Saturn at midnight?)
For once in my life I have a hig up bedroom facing distant east horizon - sunrises, for tha sodden mind...
hope to see Mercury
Saturday, May 7, though the mornings before and after should be almost as good. You will need a low, cloudless eastern horizon.
First to rise will be Venus, about an hour before sunrise -- check your local paper for local sunrise time.
Venus will be joined by Jupiter about 5 to 10 minutes later. Jupiter will appear about 4 degrees (half a binocular field) to Venus' left. Your fist held out at arm's length covers about 10 degrees of the night sky.
A few minutes after Jupiter's appearance, Mercury will rise directly below Venus. About 5 minutes after that, Mars will join the other three. The Red Planet will appear another half binocular field to the left of Jupiter. [Skywatching Tips: Viewing Planets in 2011]
Doomer Porn, Putin Fanon
Doomer Porn
I am not in the Olduvai camp. The downshoot surely wont be back to the stone age.
It does seem that Wage-Slave-Labour, ie Capital, depends on surplus, which depends on EROEI ie fossil fuels.
Hard to envisage the post concentrated-energy ie diffuse energy economy
Where I sit the wind blows every day, more or less, and the wind turbines power the entire city. Dams + geothermal + wind do 70% of the countries energy. Fine if the rains persist.
Which it looks like they will.
Unfortunately the populace is gripped by a fierce intensity, a determination not to be human.
Thin on the ground, determined to bar refugees (660 per year permitted!). Triumphant in their weatherboard Cu-Cr-As soaked pine bungalows, still yet worth a dozen years pay,
determined to drive 100kW chariots from their 'driveway', determined not to live next to their kin.
Blissful fugue adoration for Capital. Lockouts of unions, even 'on the waterfront' where the navvies humping sacks were long replaced by a single guy way up in the seat of a massive container crane.
I suppose that on the worlds way down, in the grab for the last drop, some fools will let fly some nukes. I refuse to believe that a mere 50 cities burning will do for a nuclear winter.
Surely at least a third of people will survive.
horizonsofsignificance dark-mountain disasturbation-and-doomer-porn yoism
‘Few men realise,’ wrote Joseph Conrad in 1896, ‘that their life, the very
the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.’
Shipping Container Architecture
- exactly where in Wellington is that house?
firmitas cryptogon progressiveradionetwork
Putins sensible propoganda
the Arab Spring was initially received with hope for positive change. People in Russia sympathized with those who were seeking democratic reform.
However, it soon became clear that events in many countries were not following a civilized scenario. Instead of asserting democracy and protecting the rights of the minority, attempts were being made to depose an enemy and to stage a coup, which only resulted in the replacement of one dominant force with another even more aggressive dominant force.
Foreign interference in support of one side of a domestic conflict and the use of power in this interference gave developments a negative aura. A number of countries did away with the Libyan regime by using air power in the name of humanitarian support. The revolting slaughter of Muammar Gaddafi – not just medieval but primeval – was the manifestation of these actions.
No one should be allowed to employ the Libyan scenario in Syria.
This just in: Zionists still disgusting, threat to world peace.
timeinc change blogspot
Fanon, the absence
The explosion leveled the walls, leveled the structure for the Unit 4 spent-fuel pool all the way down to the approximate level of the bottom of the fuels. So, there’s no water in there whatsoever,” an NRC official said on March 16, according to the transcripts. [...]
“If this happened in the U.S., we would go out to 50 miles,” Bill Borchardt, the NRC’s executive director for operations, told NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko on March 16.
Energy consumption is still increasing rapidly, 550 exajoules (523 Quadrillion BTUs) ..primary energy in 2010.
..80% fossil fuels, 11.3% bio-energy mainly wood 5.5% nuclear, 2.2% hydro, 0.4% other renewable
1 to 10 exajoules time to rise: 12 years nuclear, 33 crude oil, 39 natural gas, 52 coal, and 59 hydro-power.
exajoules (E18 joules) Quadrillion (E15) BTU's ..
1 joule = 9.48 E-4 BTU.
1 boe (barrel of oil equivalent) = 5.45 E6 BTU. = 5.75E9J
1 ft³ of natural gas = 983 BTU. 1.04E5
1 m³ = 3.6E6J??
1 metric ton of coal = 22.72 E6 BTU.
1 exajoule = 174 million barrels of oil equivalent.
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Monday, November 15, 2010
Got Mana?
Do you ever find yourself OOM? Do you rely too much on friendly Druids who can spare an Innervate spell? THERE IS A SOLUTION!
Now you can make your own [Mana Potion].
For a magical Halloween display I illuminated the mana potion by placing a battery-powered LED light underneath it.
I cut the top off of a clear plastic cup and Mod Podged white tissue paper over it to create a diffusing shell that the LED sits within.
Never go Out Of Mana again!
Materials (for one mana potion):
1x [Yaley Gel Candle Wax]
1x [Yaley Candle Dye Block - Blue]
1x [Glass Vial] (with stopper)
1x [Piece of Gold Trim] (just enough to wrap around the rim)
* all of these items can be found at craft stores such as Michaels or JoAnns.
You will also need a small funnel, super glue, a small cooking pot, and access to a stove/burner.
1. Follow the directions on the Gel to heat it and add blue coloring. Keep adding more blue coloring until you get it dark enough.
2. Carefully pour the blue gel into your mana potion using a funnel (or make a funnel out of aluminum foil). Do not let it touch the sides because it will stick - you want it to fill up from the bottom.
* At this point we realized we did not have enough gel to fill the entire vial and decided that a half-filled vial would look stupid. So, after pouring in the gel, I rolled the vial around to cover all of the sides thoroughly to give the illusion that it was full. If I did this again I would make enough gel to fill the entire vial.
3. Tap to try and remove bubbles - do not stick anything in there because it will just add bubbles. Leave the vial alone and don't touch it until it has cooled and turned to a "solid" gel. If you move it at all, you will get bubbles or the gel will creep up and stick to the sides instead of settling correctly.
4. Add the stopper.
5. Attach the gold trim using super glue.
WARNING: Do not try to drink/eat/ingest this potion, it is just a PROP. If you want a drinkable mana potion, try water + blue food coloring.
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Friendship and Being Cranky
My Quiet, Groovy, Life. Happy with my alone time, sitting at Indy's yesterday after three hours at the gym, and getting ready to go home, have some wine, listen to Prairie Home Companion, and bliss with my dog.
But I am different. I view friendships differently because I am SINGLE and not ashamed.
If you're single and friends with single people, there's a sort of a Democracy going on. It goes like this:
"Hey, man, you wanna hang out Saturday?"
"Sure what were you thinking of doing?"
And it sort of goes from there. But I've noticed things different with my neighbor whom I'm friends with.
"Hey, girl I've been thinking about you. Let's hang out."
"Dude, I've not hung out with you in over a year, but OK. What looks good to you?"
"Well, hubby will be out of town, so I was thinking . . ."
Did I mention that she ONLY wants to hang out, when her husband is out of town? When he was stationed in Iraq, we hung out all the time, but the minute his ship landed, and he was back, GONE-O.
Whenever I get STUCK at the gym watching (the worst cooking show, ever), Ree Drummond's Life at the Ranch, or whatever the hell the backwards show is called, I'm reminded of my neighbor and other women like her who completely disappear into their man, and think doing so is super neat. Ree thinks she's the head of the household, calls herself a "Writer" whatever! Ree, your husband runs the show because basically, you DO NOT WORK, and he pays all the bills! You are a glorified housekeeper, cook.
Likewise, my neighbor thinks it is sort of cute that she asks, like asks for permission from her asshat husband, to hang out with me, on the rare occasions that we do hang out, even though "hubby" (anyone who says that word around me will be shot) is out of town. Patriarchy gone bad, let me tell you. And every other gawd damned sentence is, "Well HUBBY thinks" this or that, as if he's gawd himself, and this is only because he is a man.
It's like some women glorify men, or maybe I just have a shitty attitude. But I have NEVER disappeared into a man, nor would I respect or want a guy who's disappeared into me. You have to have your OWN life.
Speaking of men, what's going on here? Not much. (Crickets chirping) Cowboy-artist is still texting me. I'm wondering if we are ever going to meet or if it's that fantasy thing that so many guys do where they just text (you never wind up meeting them), shrug. No news from Deadwood Dick, but I am getting an occasional text from the cute car salesman in town, but it seems the timing is off. Hipster has disappeared from the radar. BUT, I spent about 45 min. talking to Shawn-the-cute-guy-from-the-gym at Paddy's.
He's cute. I'm friends with his best friend's niece. He's educated. But I'm approaching it as a friends-only thing, because I can't figure out if he has a girlfriend or not. So best not get hopes up.
So pretty quiet around here, UNLESS Cowboy-Artist comes into town this weekend, so stay tuned.
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Neurologist says ADHD does not exist
Breitbart News today reports the claim by Chicago-based behavior neurologist, Dr. Richard Saul, as claiming that Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) doesn't exist. Bretbeit reports, “After 50 years of practicing medicine and seeing thousands of patients demonstrating symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Dr Saul’s observation is that: ADHD doesn’t exist.”
Doctor says ADHD is not a real disorder
Dr. Saul said the diagnosis lead many children to be prescribed the drug Ritalin to treat the alleged disorder, which in many cases lead to dangerous behavior.
Breitbart reports, “Dr. Saul has identified up to twenty diseases that have been misdiagnosed as ADHD, including Tourette syndrome, obsessive compulsive disorder, and schizophrenia. He believes that people who think they have ADHD or some other condition are dealing with a normal level of stress in a faster-paced world. The doctor recommends that changing your lifestyle, eating better, getting exercise, and sleeping more will mitigate the symptoms normally associated with ADHD.”
The documentary “Generation RX” also extensively covers the ADHD issue, and how this diagnosis is one of several likely bogus illnesses that were designed to sell more psyciatric drugs and make excessive profits for the major pharmaceutical companies. It also documents how virtually all of the “expert” panalists who are on the committee that decides which mental disorders are included in the American Psyciatric Assocation's “Diagnostic and Statistical Menual of Mental Disorders have close ties and connections to major pharmaceutical companies.
The ADHD hoax has made billions in profits for drugs companies from the tens of millions of children labeled with this bogus “disorder” and prescribed a variety of dangerous psyciatric drugs, including Ritalin. It has also been extensively documented that children who grow up taking drugs for ADHD are highly likely to go on to a life of drug abuse (including illegal drugs) and crime as adults.
Basically, we're ruining an entire generation of children, to make money for drugs companies, by diagnosing them with ADHD and putting them on drugs. It's time we stop this madness, and it's time for parents to say no to ADHD, and say no to drugs, and look for the root causes of the sympton that Dr. Saul notes as the cause, and address those issues rather than letting the so-called experts, who are bought and paid for by the drugs companies, to get their children addicted to drugs.
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Now, there’s a place for watching, no question about it. Take environmental testing, for example. We test the water, we test the air, we test the earth, and in doing this, we’re watching for an evil that has not yet arisen and trying to prevent it from arising. But when it has arisen, then watching must, of necessity, give rise to action. In the commentary to this koan it says, “Governments and rulers are traditionally driven by power, politics and money, and they’re usually not inclined toward clear, moral commitments.” I think the current state of affairs gives ample testimony to this. When we look at what’s going on in terms of war and peace, in terms of the economy, it’s clear that our government is not leading on the basis of what’s morally right. Meanwhile, we watch. We follow the story. We’re becoming a nation of voyeurs who have forgotten how to put one foot in front of the other.
The next line of the commentary says, “However, for a Zen priest to avoid taking moral responsibility when asked is inexcusable.” It’s inexcusable, but sadly it is also part of Zen history. In the book Zen at War by Brian Victoria, there’s the story of Sawaki Kodo, a Zen priest who was drafted into the Japanese army during World War II, and he writes, “My comrades and I gorged ourselves on killing people. Especially at the battle of Baolisi Temple, I chased our enemies into a hole where I was able to pick them off very efficiently. Because of this my company commander requested that I be given a letter of commendation.” Kodo wrote about how one of his fellow soldiers, upon learning that he was a Zen priest, said, “I see, just what you’d expect from a Zen priest: a man with guts.” This was the attitude that existed at that time and it reflected the way Zen was understood by many people. But this is not my Zen. It’s not my teacher’s Zen. And it’s not the Buddha’s Zen.
The commentary says, “Enlightenment without morality is not yet enlightenment. Morality without enlightenment is not yet morality. Enlightenment and morality are nondual in the Way. One does not exist without the other.” It can’t possibly. What is enlightenment? What is prajna? What is wisdom? By definition, the self is forgotten. We realize that the bag of skin is not who we are. The edges that we define as our self dissolve and the ten thousand things are realized as the self. That includes everything. And if it includes everything, then the ten thousand things are as important as the individual, and you deal with them the same way you would deal with yourself. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '41', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9702923893928528}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '14350', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:OAMKAP5UZK4OAPZA6OFCMRDSMIF7A6T5', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:f1a9ae30-f37a-4ec6-9d0c-cc82456f3881>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 8, 2, 6, 30, 35), 'WARC-IP-Address': '162.243.225.225', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:5WVPLNG6HAJOMQZ2FUSDVBYDR7C4TDES', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:aec01d70-6ff4-4d94-8355-442d51439c76>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://dharma.net/mountainrecord/archive/30-4-morality/be-what-you-are/3/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:20243c86-e4ba-4430-ae23-3b58f2e097f0>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '450', 'url': 'http://dharma.net/mountainrecord/archive/30-4-morality/be-what-you-are/3/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-146-231-18.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-23\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for July 2014\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.019301891326904297', 'original_id': '4fa10f60b67ae2e0c79e3351f66ea25cf41cf6ae368da504b29cdc8e6d3ba21b'} |
Are Clearblue digital pregnancy tests reusable?
In a word: no. Here’s why: When you take a home pregnancy test, your urine causes a chemical reaction to give you results. If you take a test one morning, stick it in your drawer and then pee on it three days later, those chemicals that were activated the first time can’t just regroup, go back to their proper places and then re-react to new urine and give you an accurate result. That first urine has already caused the chemicals to have their reaction, so you need to use a fresh, unused test each time you take one.
The same rules apply to Clearblue digitals and all other digital pregnancy tests for that matter. Though digital tests have the added component of sensors that read your urine, they’re still made to only read a sample of urine once, and any additional testing after that just wouldn’t give you reliable results.
One myth that’s floating around the internet is that you can retake a pregnancy test once it’s fully dried because then the urine can reabsorb through the test strip. That’s not true! While the urine will probably reabsorb and travel back through the test just as it did the first time around, it’s not going to give you an accurate result because, again, the chemicals have already had their reaction, and they’re no longer able to activate from the fresh state they were in when you first unwrapped that test.
To make sure that you get an accurate result the first time you take a digital test make sure that you’re taking the test at the right time, in the right way. Read the instructions on the box before taking it. In general, when you’re using a digital, you should make sure you have a clean, dry cup to catch your first pee of the day. Then, dip the test into the urine rather than peeing directly on the test to ensure the test strip is exposed to the urine for the right amount of time and to avoid getting any moisture on the digital face of the test.
You should also only take a digital test just before or after your missed period since these tests aren’t as sensitive as traditional HPTs and need more of the pregnancy hormone “hCG” (which there will be more of the further along you are) to turn positive.
Updated on September 19, 2018
Original Article:
What Does the Inside of a Clearblue Digital Test Look Like?
By Kierstin Gunsberg
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Apple's Cook tries to tantalize shareholders
Published February 28, 2014 1:32 pm
In making his case Friday, Cook touched upon familiar themes during Apple's annual shareholder meeting at the company's Cupertino, Calif. headquarters.
As he often does, Cook promised Apple Inc. is working on new gadgets that will expand the company's product line-up beyond smartphones, tablets, music players and personal computers.
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Lowlands "Gypsy Child" Gypsy Child Records
A big sounding band that blend roots rock highway anthems with folk rock anthems. This Italian band sing in English and sound American. Given that Green and Red keyboard Chris Cacavas player help to mix the album with producers and band members Edward Abbiati and Roberto Diana that should not be surprising. Cavacas also quests on a trio of tracks as does Australian band You And I's Tim Rogers and American lap steeler Mike Brenner. Abbiati sings well has has no trace of his native language in his impassioned vocals. Abbiati is also writer for the 7 piece band who are capable of subtly as well as a full on sound. The band's playing is good and the sound strong even if what they're doing is not particularly original or distinctive outside of the overall parameters of their chosen songs. But that doesn't take away from the fact that all the component parts of the songs and of the playing deliver as they're supposed to. In the end it's down to the songs and some stand out like the accordion bolstered Between Shades And Light, Without A Sigh and the frantic Gotta Be (Something Out There). There are some songs that are stripped back as with the solo guitar and voice of the sad He Left or the lament of the closing Blow, Blue Wind Blow which features Amanda Shires on fiddle and vocals. Lowlands have I'm sure built up a strong loyal fan base and when they tour give a powerful show that like this album will find fans who go for the big sound they make. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.972971498966217}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '33091', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:6VOFOTXZLVW7MI4XL64WMPFGTHZBGY56', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:c920aa5f-837c-46a1-8776-a9d4f471286c>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 24, 8, 41, 59), 'WARC-IP-Address': '198.185.159.145', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:F7A27B4UNP5O3AMHAWU7BNMNYFGDPZVY', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:42a97cf8-d0e5-4003-adc0-7f31d1a99aea>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.lonesomehighway.com/music-reviews/2011/3/9/lowlands-gypsy-child-gypsy-child-records.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:c93d70e4-6887-4379-8c0e-4f05c8859838>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '272', 'url': 'https://www.lonesomehighway.com/music-reviews/2011/3/9/lowlands-gypsy-child-gypsy-child-records.html', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-18\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-203-193-188.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.022936522960662842', 'original_id': 'eabeb8ee7669811d6386fdd3dfc20b380eb51c7cc90a34a8be673c012084a15d'} |
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Tuesday, May 8, 2007
The Foggo-Wilkes Leaks
Dusty & 'the Boys' II: Secrets of the Black Budget Scandal
May 08, 2007
by emptywheel
Unlike Monday's earlier filing, there is no snark in the government's response to Brent Wilkes' motion to dismiss his indictment because of pre-indictment leaks. Instead, for the purposes of the case, there's just a simple logical argument:
• Before Wilkes lawyer Geragos' complaint, DOJ had already started an investigation into the pre-indictment leaks.
Note: the timing on this is a bit fishy. The filing says only that the San Diego USA Office forwarded the Geragos' February 1 allegations to main DOJ "several weeks" before Geragos' formal complaint, which was April 23. So it's possible that SDUSAO didn't do it immediately upon receiving the letter.
• On November 29, 2006, one of Wilkes' prior lawyers acknowledged that Wilkes was named in the Cunningham indictment.
• Several of the press reports cited by Geragos are not incriminating (for example, the could be based on the earlier revelations about Wilkes mapped onto the Cunningham indictment).
• For the key leaks (specifically, that government officials had shown draft indictments to reporters, that Lam had set a deadline for the indictments, and that Main DOJ was worried about the leaks), Geragos has provided no substantiation--and the substance of the leaks was not published.
That's the legal argument. But I'd like to go back and review the whole back and forth to see if we can get to what happened with the leaks (the ones from January, rather than the ones going back to 2005).
Geragos' February 1 Letter and Lam's Response
The issue started on February 1, when Wilkes lawyer Mark Geragos sent Carol Lam a letter memorializing a conversation he had with AUSA Sanjay Bhandari. Geragos quoted from two newspaper articles that, he said, showed "wholesale leaking of matters occurring before the grand jury."
The first cited two federal officials saying the SD USAO was close to seeking an indictment for Wilkes. The article described the first source this way.
The source, who has intimate knowledge of the case and spoke on condition of anonymity, said a preliminary draft indictment is under review by "many eyes on what is going to be proposed to the grand jury," the Times reported.
And it specified that the second source was from another agency.
Another official who is with a different agency but is also familiar with the case said an indictment is "imminent,"
The second article Geragos cited in his letter also relied on two government officials.
Federal prosecutors are preparing to seek indictments against a former top CIA official and a San Diego defense contractor linked to the bribery scandal that sent former U.S. Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham to prison, two government officials familiar with the investigation said Wednesday.
But the article later suggested that these government officials were not prosecutors.
Prosecutors in San Diego would not comment about an ongoing investigation.
Allison Hoffman, the author of this second article, would write a detailed description of the alleged crimes just six days later that clearly relies at least partly on CIA sources. That second Hoffman article again cited the two government officials--and others--and broadened the list of those who refused to comment on the case:
Those officials and others spoke on condition that they not be identified because the charges have not been finalized and because CIA contracting is classified. Justice Department and law enforcement officials in San Diego and Washington declined to comment.
In addition to those two articles (the second Hoffman article post-dates Geragos' letter), Geragos describes another leak.
As I told Mr. Sanjay [note Geragos may be deliberately trying to rile Bhandari, because he misspells his name elsewhere in the letter in addition to referring to him here as Mr. Sanjay] during our phone call today, it has been brought to my attention that yet another reporter who today claims to have been shown two separate indictments of Mr. Wilkes. One in the Foggo matter and one related to Thomas Kontogiannis. In addition, this reporter was apparently told prosecutors wanted to arrest Mr. Wilkes possibly as early as today on one of those indictments.
But this journalist got the story wrong--not only was Wilkes not arrested on February 2, but Kontogiannis was not indicted with Michael and Wilkes. The latter mistake--predicting an indictment for Kontogiannis--is one Hoffman's sources made too.
This was a point Carol Lam made in her response to Geragos--she requested more details about the journalist spreading leaks with wrong information.
We invited you to provide any specific information you have, including contact information for the reporter who claimed that he had seen copies of indictments, but had his facts wrong.
The March 19 Hearing
The leaks to journalists become a central issue in the March 19 hearing, which was ostensibly about arranging the sharing of classified information. Against the background of the discussion of secrecy associated with classified information, Judge Larry Burns scolds the government team about leaks (the AUSA here is Halpern).
Halpern: What I can say is it has nothing from prosecution team. There have been no leaks [of classified information]. There certainly have been no suggestions that any information that we had that we're under control of has been leaked.
The Court: I disagree, Mr. Halpern. Look at their Exhibit B to the motion.
Burns goes on to read from the first Hoffman article (though he did not read the line noting that prosecutors would not comment). Burns labels that leak as a violation of grand jury secrecy rules.
You and I both know that's a violation of Rule 6. Whoever did that shouldn't have done it.
Mr. Halpern: Clearly your honor. But I don't think there's an indication that that's a member of the prosecution team.
The Court: It's somebody associated with the government that's forecasting this for the media and telling them what's going on in front of the grand jury.
Mr. Halpern: There are many people associated with the government. I'm not going to quarrel on the Court's point. I think you're making a valid point.
Burns returns to the issue again.
The Court: Somebody ignored the conventions of federal criminal practice and Rule 6 in the two disclosures that were made. Somebody did.
Again, I'm not assuming that this has anything to do with you or Mr. Forge or Ms. Chu. I'm assuming it was somebody else who was anxious to get a headline or do something that led to this.
I take your point, Mr. Halpern, that whoever it was didn't disclose confidential secret national security information, but it was still--it's a pretty egregious violation to say, "here's what's going on in front of the grand jury, and expect an indictment in the next couple of weeks."
Mr. Halpern: Your honor, there's no way I will defend that action be whoever it was made, and I don't intend to.
All of this makes something crystal clear to the defense attorneys: Burns is pissed about the leaks, and they can use that to their advantage. Which Geragos then does.
Could I also address one other area, which is the leaks and the idea of the stand-alone order.
I had suggested in a letter prior to my client's indictment, because I was so irate at the time and I've mentioned before, that I wanted all of the people on the prosecution team, however we want to define that, to file declarations under penalty of perjury.
As this court well knows, the source privilege is not met with a whole lot of success in the federal courts anymore. Unfortunately, in the state courts it's still there. And you can't get to the bottom of this. Here we can get to the bottom of this. Clearly, as they've conceded, it did not come from the defense. I think it potentially is Brady or Giglio information as to who it is who willingly will go out and violate 6(e).
And the way to find out is to get these people to put their declarations under penalty of perjury and bring in the reporters and put them under oath and let them say who it was who disclosed the information.
Note Geragos' move here. He says that, because this is a federal case, the reporters privilege does not hold up, so the Court can order the journalists to reveal their sources.
At this, one of Foggo's lawyers, Randolph Teslik pipes up to note that he, too, learned the details of the indictment from a reporter.
Just for the record, we learned the details of the indictment from a telephone call from a reporter before the indictment was returned as well. We didn't put that in our motion. But given the nature of the representations and the Court's concerns here about 6(e), I think it's important that the record reflect that we got the same telephone call as Mr. Geragos.
The hearing as a whole served to get Burns riled up about leaks to reporters and to get Halpern to cede the seriousness of the leaks. Which Geragos then uses to set up his May 23 motion to have the entire indictment dismissed because of the leaks.
Geragos' May 23 Motion to Dismiss the Indictments
Foggo's lawyers file a motion regarding the leaks on May 23, too. But they don't ask for a dismissal. They only ask for a thorough investigation. But Geragos, as is his wont, goes big, asking to have all the charges dismissed. I don't think he really hopes this will work. But he does use it to foreground the Lam dismissal, suggesting Lam leaked the information personally to pressure main DOJ to approve the charges.
Before indictments were returned against Mr. Wilkes, news articles cited government officials as the source of secret grand-jury material. Those government leaks to reporters disclosed secret matters before the grand jury violating of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e), including the targets of the grand jury, the nature and focus of the investigation, and the likelihood that an indictment would be returned and when.
During the grand jury proceedings, counsel for Mr. Wilkes regularly received phone calls from reporters relaying specific information about the pending indictments. The reporters had even seen drafts of the indictments weeks before the indictments were returned. The government’s illegal disclosure of secret grand jury matter to the press was not accidental or haphazard. It was part of a deliberate campaign by the former United States Attorney, Carol Lam, to use Mr. Wilkes and the other defendants here in her political squabble with the Justice Department’s main office in Washington D.C. The United States Attorney used the leaks to create a public atmosphere that compelled the grand jury to return indictments and present Main Justice with a fait accompli, a gesture of defiance by Carol Lam as she was forced out of office.
There are important points that Geragos makes in his statement supporting the motion. First, he uses Halpern's concessions from the March 19 hearing to put the blame back on the prosecution team.
As the prosecutors have conceded in open court, these leaks can only have been from members of the prosecution team.
Second (though I'm presenting this out of order), he describes hearing from six different reporters, two of whom have printed all the information shared with Geragos, his colleagues, or Wilkes. He then explains he has attached the stories representing these leaks.
At least six reporters telephoned me, my co-counsel, or my client. At least two of those reporters published all or part of the information disclosed to them by government officials in violation of Rule 6(e). Attached hereto as Exhibit 2 are true and correct copies of newspaper articles from a few of those outlets as authored by some of those reporters disclosing secret grand jury matters illegally disclosed to them by government officials.
As the government points out in its response, some of these articles could be based entirely on Wilkes' previous lawyers' own revelations coupled with reading the Cunningham indictment. Further, two of these articles are those described above in connection with the February 1 letter, which report that the prosecution team would not comment. Also, it includes the article apparently relying on CIA sources. In other words, the visible evidence Geragos supplies doesn't really prove that the prosecution team was behind the leaks--one point the government made in its response.
I'm curious, though, about the reference to Wilkes. Because I'd be deeply curious about any so-called leaks going directly to Wilkes. Was Wilkes, for example, the one who received the erroneous leak referenced in Geragos' February 1 letter?
The leaks for which Geragos provides evidence don't really support his larger argument to dismiss the case. But Geragos uses another leak--one not apparently reported--to implicate Lam in the leak.
A few days before the indictments were unsealed, I received a telephone call from a local reporter who told me that the United States Attorney would ask the Grand Jury to issue the indictments against Mr. Wilkes the following day, and described, in detail, the contents of those indictments. When I asked the reporter about the timing of the indictments, the reporter told me that United States Attorney, Carol Lam, wanted the indictments issued and announced before her departure date the following Thursday, two days later.
This is the basis, presumably, for Geragos' claim that Lam was behind the leaks.
Finally, Geragos reports another leak that also has not been reported on--and this one comes from Main DOJ.
Around the same time the print reporters were disclosing to me detailed knowledge of the draft indictments, and stating that government officials were showing them copies of draft indictments, a television reporter told me that an attorney at the Justice Department main offices in Washington D.C. (“Main Justice”) had disclosed that Main Justice believed that it could no longer exercise its normal supervisory role because the leaks of the indictment “would now make any action taken by Main Justice appear to be political”.
This is the final necessary piece for Geragos' argument, because it suggests that the leaks prevented Main DOJ from fulfilling their normal supervisory role in the case. The implicit message here is that Main DOJ would have prevented the indictments, if only someone (and Geragos alleges that someone is Lam) leaked all the details in the case. Of course, simple logic would tell you that the burgeoning USA Purge--and not the leaks in San Diego--limited Main DOJ from intervening too obviously in the case. But the leaks provided a convenient excuse--presumably for a member of the clique back in DC--to taint the indictments.
Government's May 7 Response
Which is what brings us to the real anger evident in yesterday's government response to Geragos' motion. While the rest of the response simply shows that almost all of the evidence Geragos relies on is either irrelevant or wrong, the last passage of the response makes strong insinuations that the most important pieces of Geragos' argument--those touching on Lam's involvement and Main DOJ's response to the leaks--lack corroboration.
In the weeks and months since Wilkes’s counsel sent his February 1st letter, made his representations at the March 19th hearing, and filed his April 23rd declaration, not a single article or story has been published or broadcast that corroborates his representations regarding: (1) the disclosure to the media of actual draft indictments; (2) frustration at Main Justice over a perceived inability to exercise its normal supervisory role over these cases; or (3) a reporter’s pre-indictment awareness of the detailed contents of the indictments.
Under the circumstances, Wilkes’s counsel’s declaration simply raises more questions than it answers. For example, why, in the most publicized case in this district, and one that has generated national interest, did no reporter report any of the events described in paragraphs 5 and 6 of Wilkes’s counsel’s declaration?
The insinuation is clear. The leak that implicated Lam and the one that reflect hesitation at Main DOJ were never published. They were simply shared with Geragos, and then dropped. Why would a reporter with such an incendiary story just sit on it?
While I suspect the reporter alleging that Lam had ordered indictments before her departure may have been speculating (it was a common speculation at the time), I'm most curious about the Main DOJ leak. The clique at Main DOJ had been panicking about public coverage of Lam's resignation since mid-January. In early February, Rahm Emmanuel and others requested that Lam be made a special prosecutor on the Wilkes case. Geragos' TV reporter would have you believe that it was the leaks--and not the larger USA Purge scandal--that forced Main DOJ to back off of any intervention into the Wilkes indictment.
No wonder the prosecution team sounds so skeptical.
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Gamma ray
electromagnetic radiation of high frequency and therefore high energy
(Redirected from Gamma rays)
Gamma rays (γ-rays) are electromagnetic waves with the smallest wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum.[1] They were discovered in 1900 by Paul Villard, and named in 1903 by Ernest Rutherford.
Gamma rays are like x-rays, but the waves are smaller in wavelength. Both gamma rays and x-rays are photons with very high energies, and gamma have even more energy. They are also a type of ionizing radiation. Gamma rays can travel through thicker materials than x-rays can.
Gamma rays are produced by some types of radioactive atoms. Cobalt-60 and potassium-40 are two isotopes that emit gamma rays. Cobalt-60 is created in accelerators and is used in hospitals. Potassium-40 occurs naturally. Small amounts of potassium-40 are in all plants and animals. Gamma rays from potassium-40 each have an energy of 1460 thousand electron volts (keV).
Gamma rays and X-rays can also be distinguished by their origin: X-rays are emitted by electrons outside the nucleus, while gamma rays are emitted by the nucleus.[2]
Gamma rays in medicineEdit
Gamma rays can also go through the skin to kill cells, such as cancerous cells. Doctors can use radiation therapy machines which produce gamma rays in hospitals to treat people with some types of cancer.[3]
Doctors also use gamma rays to find disease. In hospitals, doctors can give patients radioactive medicine which emits gamma rays. Doctors can find some types of disease by measuring gamma rays which come from a patient afterward. Hospitals can also use gamma rays to sterilise (clean) things as disinfectants do.[3]
1. The electromagnetic spectrum is made of many types of waves that are like light, but you can not see all of them.
2. Feynman, Richard; Robert Leighton, Matthew Sands 1963. The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol 1. USA: Addison-Wesley. pp2–5 ISBN 0201021161.
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This week in history: October 17-23
17 October 2016
25 years ago: Former Ku Klux Klan leader wins large vote in Louisiana primaries
David Duke
October 19, 1991, ex-Ku Klux Klansman David Duke finished second in a primary election for governor of Louisiana, winning a place in the November 16 runoff. The result revealed a further shift to the right in capitalist politics and the utterly reactionary character of the AFL-CIO bureaucracy’s alliance with the Democratic Party.
Campaigning on the basis of thinly veiled racism and right-wing populist demagogy, Duke took 32 percent of the vote, narrowly behind the 34 percent for former three-term Governor Edwin Edwards, a Democrat. Incumbent Governor Buddy Roemer, running for re-election after switching parties to become a Republican the previous March, came in third, with only 27 percent.
This second-place finish for Duke followed his US Senate campaign the previous year, when he won 44 percent of the vote in a contest against incumbent Democrat J. Bennett Johnston. Duke had gained widespread notoriety after winning a seat in the state legislature in 1989 in a special election.
Duke was a white supremacist and admirer of Adolf Hitler. A former national grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, he was also the founder of the neo-Nazi National Association for the Advancement of White People.
Edwards, the Democratic candidate in the runoff, was a notoriously crooked stooge of big business who narrowly survived two well-publicized corruption trials. He had been governor for 12 of the previous 20 years and was widely hated as a symbol of the corrupt capitalist political establishment in Louisiana.
The relationship between Edwards and Duke was symbolized in the case of Gary Tyler, a young black man, then 32, who had been held in state prisons on a frame-up murder charge since he was 15 years old. David Duke led the racist mobs that backed the local judge and sheriff who railroaded Tyler to prison in 1974. Edwards, as governor, repeatedly blocked all efforts to overturn the frame-up conviction or grant Tyler a pardon.
50 year ago: GE workers strike military plants
The Schenectady, New York GE plant
On October 17, 1966, members of three national unions struck five General Electric plants, after their local contracts expired without agreements. In Schenectady, New York 12,000 members of the International Union of Electrical workers walked out after rejecting the national contract backed by the union bureaucracy. GE workers also struck at plants in Utica and Albany, New York, and Evendale, Ohio. GE workers at plants in Warren, Michigan and Ashland, Massachusetts continued strikes that began October 3. A total of 27,650 workers were involved in the action, which, in the midst of the Vietnam War, included plants involved in military production.
The strikes erupted following the end of a two-week “cooling off” period requested by President Johnson and accepted by the trade union bureaucracy. GE workers in Warren and Ashland stayed out on strike in defiance of both President Lyndon Johnson and the AFL-CIO bureaucracy. Another strike by GE workers in Louisville, Kentucky was narrowly averted only after the bureaucracy succeeded in gaining a contract extension.
Meanwhile, Gardner Ackley, chairman of Johnson’s Council of Economic Advisers, denounced as “clearly inflationary” a contract signed between the Transport Workers Union and American Airlines, which included a 6.5 percent wage increase. In Twinsburg, Ohio, 4,000 Chrysler workers struck the stamping plant over working conditions, forcing the temporary layoff of 38,000 assembly workers. Chrysler President Lynn Townsend denounced the strike as irresponsible and threatened permanent job reductions in retaliation.
Johnson relied on the trade union bureaucracy to prevent a full-scale walkout by all 120,000 workers at GE, a major defense contractor. The government held in reserve the threat of a Taft-Hartley injunction to end the strike, which it claimed threatened to disrupt vital supplies of war materiel to US forces in Vietnam.
75 years ago: Japan forms war cabinet
On October 17, 1941 the third cabinet of Prince Konoye collapsed after negotiations between Japan and the United States failed to reach any compromise over conflicting imperialist interests in Asia and the Pacific. One day later, General Hideki Tojo formed a new cabinet, which prepared for war with the United States.
Japanese imperialism, which had made a belated appearance behind the European powers and America, found British, US and Dutch imperialism unwilling to share the colonial spoils in the Far East. For four years Japan had been fighting a war of conquest against China, but had been unable to derive any economic gain from its military victories. Japan’s invasion of French-controlled Indochina and threat to move into the Dutch East Indies had led its imperialist rivals to freeze Japanese assets and block the shipment of oil and essential materials.
The Japanese economy now stood two years away from complete collapse, it was believed. Konoye had attempted to find terms acceptable to the US that would allow Japan to have a sphere of influence in the Far East, but US imperialism had no interest in coming to terms with Japan. The Roosevelt administration saw in Japan’s dilemma an opportunity to get into World War II and fight directly for its own interests.
The longer the United States dragged out negotiations, the more time was given to military preparations in the Pacific. For Japan, the longer it waited, the weaker it would stand in relation to the virtually unlimited increase in US military power. Hence, the Tojo cabinet was formed to dispense with negotiations and prepare for war.
The United States, having cracked the Japanese communications code, was well aware of the crisis that was shaking Japan’s government and economy. Henry Stimson, US Secretary of War, summed up the tactic American imperialism would follow in relation to Japan: “The question was how we should maneuver them into the position of firing the first shot...”
100 years ago: Friedrich Adler assassinates Austrian Prime Minister
Friedrich Adler
On October 21, 1916, Friedrich Adler, a leader of the Social Democratic Party of Austria, assassinated Prime Minister Karl von Stürgkh in a politically bankrupt act of terrorism, which flowed from the Austrian SPD’s turn away from a socialist perspective oriented to the working class.
Friedrich Adler was the son of Victor Adler, the “father” of Austro-Marxism, a trend in international social democracy that sought to maintain a veneer of Marxist theoretical orthodoxy at the same time as it adapted to the Austro-Hungarian state and its participation in the imperialist world war that had erupted in August, 1914.
Leon Trotsky, leading Russian revolutionary, described the political physiognomy of Austrian social democracy. He wrote, “Around Victor Adler, the first and greatest victim of his own method, grouped the mediocrities, the lobby politicians, the routinists and the careerists to whom there was no need, as there was for their leader, to blaze out a path through the wearying chaos of Austrian politics from revolutionary conceptions to complete skepticism in order to remain sworn enemies of any revolutionary initiative and of mass action. The miserable prostration of the official bosses of Austrian socialism revealed itself at the outbreak of the war in the form of an unbridled servility towards the Austro-Hungarian state.”
As leader of Austrian social democracy from 1911, and editor of its theoretical publication, Friedrich Adler adopted a stance towards the war that owed more to pacifism and outraged moralism than revolutionary internationalism.
Trotsky later contrasted Adler’s act with the stand taken by Karl Liebknecht, the German socialist leader, who had led a mass demonstration against World War I in May 1916. Trotsky wrote, “Friedrich Adler is a sceptic from head to foot: he does not believe in the masses, or in their capacity for action. At the time when Karl Liebknecht, in the hour of supreme triumph of German militarism, went out to the Potsdamerplatz to call the oppressed masses to the open struggle, Friedrich Adler went into a bourgeois restaurant to assassinate there the Austrian Premier. By his solitary shot, Friedrich Adler vainly attempted to put an end to his own scepticism. After that hysterical strain, he fell into still more complete prostration.”
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The Absolute Best Moisturizers For Your Skin Type!
Say goodbye to dry, flaky winter skin! Whether your skin is super sensitive or kinda oily, here are the best lotions, gels, and oils for your skin type!
Combination Skin
If your skin just can’t make up its mind (dry here, oily there), you need a lotion that will soothe dry patches without being overly greasy!
Neutrogena Oil-Free Moisture—Combination Skin ($8.99, Specifically formulated for combination skin, it moisturizes where you need it and absorbs oil where you don't.
Bare Minerals Purely Nourishing Moisturizer—Combination Skin ($28, It's super lightweight and balances out your combo skin to create an even, super-soft texture. Plus, it helps quickly heal blemishes on patches that are acne-prone! | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8370879292488098}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '101234', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:DUF2AN5JT2XO7Y5FBXHDBTHVIBM5IHO6', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:13282686-0f6a-45e3-8aab-48feed74dc00>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 8, 1, 22, 39, 3), 'WARC-IP-Address': '23.62.6.56', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:JWTPUKVFP27NJAVN4UDKWXGBNLEBZHIY', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:ef87034a-3e6e-4ba5-81c9-b7267da36043>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.seventeen.com/beauty/tips/best-moisturizers-for-skin-type-2', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:ec6ab89d-fc42-4329-9608-251ac3ad1cd6>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '119', 'url': 'http://www.seventeen.com/beauty/tips/best-moisturizers-for-skin-type-2', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-146-231-18.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-23\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for July 2014\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.041255414485931396', 'original_id': '6c6b8619de0c8404171970be70131bfcaed1ebc30391461fde2dfc9ef4437c4a'} |
Live With Passion
Passion can be a tricky thing. It feels good when an exciting, promising new passion arises in one’s life – where with this passion take me? What conversations will I have? What people can I inspire? What change can come of it?
But be careful not to grow weary – passions may grow stale, stagnant, and sometimes die all together (God forbid). Don’t lose heart! Don’t forget how inspired you were to share your thoughts, life, and instigate change in the world. Don’t tire from the negative feedback of others, or the seemingly close-mindedness. Those people will exist…you can’t convince everyone. You can’t expect the change you want to see to become the heart and soul of everyone you share it with. This may take time. The world will catch on in her own way…possibly slower than you’d like…but somewhere along the way, you are making a difference.
We spent an impromptu weekend in the Walbran Valley, surrounded by the rainforest we have grown to love deeper than I ever imagined possible. I swear those trees can talk, and what conversations we have had!
As we drove to the Walbran, down the never-ending forest service road, I found myself fairly melancholy. Yes, there were the unsightly clear-cuts from years past and (sadly) present, but there was more going on in my tormented heart. I found myself discouraged that while I cared about this gem of a valley, Teal Jones and the government cares about short-term profits and exports. How can I stand against Teal Jones, let alone the government of Canada? I was losing heart. Who am I? My connection to these trees and this alive, thriving eco-system doesn’t hold any weight.
But it does my friends. My seemingly minuscule impact, while a drop in the bucket, is a drop none-the-less. There are people who care deeply…it’s hard to say it, but much more deeply than I! They have fought for this valley for decades. They stopped the logging then, and they continue to fight to stop it now. I am a part of a community who not only “speaks for the trees,” but speaks for the whole eco-system – the animals, plants, fungi, water, fish…air.
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The film was really inspiring, I think AA is really the only of the NewSpace companies besides SpaceX that is really flying vehicles.
I had some questions on the modular design concept. I've been a fan of this concept since the late '70's when Lutz Kaiser pioneered it with OTRAG.
The first question is whether you've looked at the mass ratio tradeoff between modular and integrated design and whether there is some sized module that optimizes the mass ratio? Some of the opponents of modular design claim that the mass ratio scales sublinearly with size, so that when you make the tanks and other structures bigger, you actually get better scalability than by stacking modules together.
The second question is whether you've decided on going with the serial staging concept shown at the end of the film or whether that was just for illustration purposes? As you probably know, OTRAG staging was parallel. The second stage was contained within the first and simply slid out of the first stage when the first stage fuel was exhausted and fell away as the second stage ignited (in theory, I don't think they ever managed to launch a multistage vehicle). The outer stage could even support the inner with wheels, such as T-space is using for exiting their air launched vehicle from the back of the plane. Thus, no need for any explosive separation or mechanical staging hardware to risk the kinds of problems at staging that SpaceX experienced recently.
One reason I can think of for not doing parallel staging is that if you are planning on flying back the first stage, then it will have propellant in it and you probably don't want to ignite the second stage surrounded by half full propellant tanks. It might be possible have some kind of cold gas thruster on the top of the vehicle that pushed the first stage down when the engines were turned off, then only igniting the second stage when it was clear.
The second reason I can think of for not doing it is that your modules are much wider than OTRAG's were. If I recall correctly, Lutz used very long but thin stainless steel oil pipe milled down very thin, which made sideways stacking much easier. Increasing the breadth of the vehicle might increase wind resistance unacceptably.
Parallel staging has gotten a bad rap due to incidents such as the Challenger disaster and other cases involving parallel staged solids, but in your case, the stages will be liquid fueled which could change the consideration.
I know your questions are directed toward the Armadillo team but let me answer what I can from memory. (dubious as it is)
On modular vs scaling, I do remember them mentioning they may scale up their modules because of the exact thing you are saying. (still being modular however) At this time they are using the smaller modular design because at the moment they can make them cheaper and more reliable. John's example on the subject of reliability:
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If each module only had 99% reliability, an eight module system would have an 7.7% chance of having a failure of some kind (1.0 - 0.99^ 8 ). However, the configurations we will likely use would require two modules in opposite "banks" to both fail to bring the vehicle down, which would only have a (1.0 - 0.99^4) * (1.0 - 0.99^4) = 0.00155 chance of happening. I expect the real number to be much smaller than that, because I expect we will have better than 99% reliability per module. Each bank should have its own guidance electronics as well, so that will also be redundant.
As for how wide the vehicle will be John, said he had investigated flowformed tanks, but they were expensive so they went with other options. I think when the time is right Armadillo will likely use some flowformed type tanks for the superior aerodynamics, probably before they begin to scale too up much.
This is sorta the question I wanted to address. I don't think there is anything wrong with parallel stacking. You see the problems the shuttle had were do to foam falling off the shuttle and damaging the heatshield. IMO this is a problem with the foam and not a problem with the parallel stacking. If they were to remove the foam from the fuel tank and find a better solution (which didn't involve shedding matterial) to keep the liquids cold/ice from forming... case closed. Not sure of the solids cases you mentioned but yeah since Armadillo uses liquid fuels, the rocket engines themselves can be carefully, independantly throttled.
Let me clarify a bit about my previous comment about the mass ratio of modules, it was somewhat cryptic.
Suppose you need a certain volume of propellant, and tank geometry is spherical as would be the case for a Pixel derived module.
As the first case, assume that, instead of modules, you're going to use a big, honkin' booster like Truax's Sea Dragon. Suppose the radius of the propellant tank is r, then the volume would be
4/3 * pi * r **3.
Now, suppose, instead, that you want the same amount of propellant, but you're going to distribute it over modules with radius one half the big, honkin' tank. The volume of each tank is
4/3 * pi * (r/2) ** 3 = 4/3 pi * (r**3)/8
In other words, it would take 8 tanks to match the same volume as the big, honkin' tank.
Now, the amount of mass in the tank shell scales as the area. Densities are typically in grams/cc of material, and cc can be calculated by multiplying the thickness of the shell by the surface area.
The surface area of the big tank is
4 pi r ** 2
The surface area of one little tank is
4 pi (r/2)** 2 = 4 pi (r**2)/4 = pi r**2
Since there are 8 tanks, the total surface area for the module-based machine is
8 pi r**2
In other words, the module based machine has twice as much tank surface area as the big, honkin one. Since the mass scales as the surface area, it would have about the twice as much mass too.
"About" because it is possible that the thickness of the big, honkin' tank would need to be more to hold the additional weight of propellant, so that might result improvement in the comparative mass, but it probably won't need twice as much thickness.
There are two counterarguments I can see:
1) Economies of scale make modules much, much cheaper, and the reduction in learning curve associated with making lots of them make them potentially more reliable too (though, I've heard that the classical learning curve has gradually disappeared as CAM techniques have become more common). So, from a cost per launch standpoint, even if you can't lift the same amount of payload, it is cheaper to use modules.
2) The tank material and manufacturing process is such that it is not possible to make a big, honkin tank out of an especially lightweight material, whereas it is possible to make smaller, module tanks. For example, if the tank is carbon fiber and needs to be autoclaved, but there isn't an autoclave big enough (nor would it be economical to build one) to bake the big honker.
Anyway, unless I've made a grevious error in my algebra, this is the argument that people use against a module architecture, or at least did w.r.t. OTRAG. Personally, I think some combination of 1) and 2) (most especially 1) is likely to prevail, which is why I'd be interested in seeing whether there's some kind of optimum possible when you figure in something other than just the geometry.
Yes, it needs twice. According to this source:
http://www.innovatia.com/Design_Center/FundRoc_4-8.htmwall thickness scales as the radius. A tank with twice the diameter would have 4 times the surface area and 8 times the volume, but it would also have twice the wall thickness and therefore 8 times the mass. So the mass to volume ratio does not improve.
Which means a shuttle external tank could hold 3 times more RP-1 / LOX, than it does LH2 / LOX. With 7 RD-180's, and no SRB's, it would have a mass ratio over 20 and could put over 50 tons into LEO, as a SSTO.
Which means a shuttle external tank could hold 3 times more RP-1 / LOX, than it does LH2 / LOX. With 7 RD-180's, and no SRB's, it would have a mass ratio over 20 and could put over 50 tons into LEO, as a SSTO.
Yeah this is why I'm very much in favour of LOX/Hydrocarbon and other higher density propellant combinations. Clearly LOX/LH2 wins in terms of performance but when you choose propellants you have to take into account a range of factors, not just ISP.
- Density, LOX/LH2 has a combined avg density of 0.33g/cm^3 in non-ideal ratios designed to increase density. LOX/Kerosene has an avg combined density of 1.02g/cm^3 ideal ratio, a 3.09 times advantage to the kerosene based combination and therefore 3 times the tank mass ratio for any given size.
- Cryogenics, LOX is a cryogen but it is common for both, kerosene is perfectly storable and so you don't need any tank insulation. Tank insulation on the shuttle is heavy (especially so considering the massively increased volume needed per unit mass LH2) and fragile (as evident by the huge delay due to hail damage), and has managed to cause the total loss of a shuttle and crew. A kerosene tank for a given volume would be lighter, simpler, hold many times the mass and be less susceptible to damage.
- Other component design. Yes we can make turbine systems run with LH2 but it's a VERY complicated thing to do. LH2 as woeful as its density is requires very large and powerful turbopumps compared to denser fuels such as kerosene. They also need to be made out of exotic materials and need a whole host of support systems to handle start/stop transients without freezing.
I thing for too long a time ISP has been the drive of government agencies but if ISP was all that mattered in a propellant combination we'd all be flying with liquid fluorine and liquid hydrogen gel with a suspension of beryllium particles.
Regarding cerosene I permanently have in mind that the ressources cerosene is refined off are going to be exhausted in a not that far away future. The only ways out seem to be Sintin which is expensive or a new technology which is a thread about in the technology section. That technology is based on solar power to turn CO2 into cerosene, gasolune and the like again.
Regarding tank mass I am wondering a bit - it can scale linearly with tank volume only if the thickness etc. are increased. Else tank mass should scale linearly with tank surface merely because of Geometrics.
I thing for too long a time ISP has been the drive of government agencies but if ISP was all that mattered in a propellant combination we'd all be flying with liquid fluorine and liquid hydrogen gel with a suspension of beryllium particles.
Andrew,
What do you think about lithium aluminum hydride? I've seen a technical paper involving combining it with kerosene and using hydrogen peroxide for the oxidizer (with which it is apparently hypergolic) citing ISPs around 400, and one US patent where they combined it with some kind of polymer binder and got an ISP of around 420 (their experimental solid burned through a steel casing that would have worked fine with a typical aluminum perchlorate solid). None of this work was done by the guv'nment. It is stable when stored in oil-based liquid, but I think it may self combust (as lithium does) in air, or maybe just oxidize more or less quickly. I'm not sure if the combustion products are hazardous, certainly for aluminum they're not since that is used in the shuttle solids and other solids as well and the combustion product is aluminum oxide. I'm not sure about lithium oxide, though. I think it might be expensive to make, but I am not sure. It has also been studied as a possible material for hydrogen storage in vehicles and such, since it apparently freely absorbs and releases molecular hydrogen.
I haven't heard much about lithium aluminium hydride so I just had a quick search around for info. It looks good, albeit fairly dangerous and reactive when on its own. Assuming the mixture with kerosene reliably (very reliably) passivates its pyrophoric tendencies it certainly has advantages. I have only two potential problems I could see with a biprop using LAH 'sweetener'.
1) Either the suspension has the be fine enough or the kerosene partially gelled so that the LAH doesn't settle out of the fuel during storage or even as the rocket sits on the pad.
2) Steps have to be taken to eliminate propellants drying on the insides of tanks and plumbing. It's unlikely using hydrocarbon fuels, but I wouldn't like the idea of some small film of fuel left in a tank as the bulk is used, that film drying out or separating from the LAH and having spontaneous combustion occur.
Certainly if these issues could be solved and some testing were to be done with it, it might be a nice work around the generally low ISP's associated with peroxide fuels. I definitely think it has way more going for it as a peroxide based hybrid additive though. If you could get 420sec ISP out of a peroxide based hybrid (a hybrid grain would effectively solve the settling a reactivity problems) you'd have a very competitive propulsion system, especially so counting hypergolic ignition and the ability to use decomposed peroxide as turbine/reciprocating pump working fluid. I can imagine you'd be able to build a booster orders of magnitude simpler than other motors of similar performance, and with huge performance advantages compared to solids of the same thrust level.
All this gets us off the topic which is modularity, and whether bigger modules would be more efficient. The answer is: only slightly due to some components (e.g. electronics & sensors) not increasing in mass as the module increases.
Of course some labour requirements would decrease with fewer bigger modules, but others would increase with more difficult handling. Overall, starting with smaller modules makes sense for faster, cheaper (better? ) development & testing.
Explore the solution space, then scale up!
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Scaling up in size may end up necessary where scaling up solely in numbers fails. Unfortunately as you use more and more modules, the stresses on them increase and so you may find out their limitation at an inconveniently late point in development.
e.g. Aerodynamic drag will be less significant with larger modules, in addition stresses due to acceleration are significant when there are a large number of modules in a stage and may become limiting. Reducing the number of modules within a stage reduces the stresses between the spheres somewhat both by reducing the stage width and increasing the height to something more favourable.
Armadillo have chosen a flight profile that will minimize aerodynamic effects. While they will pay a small penalty for this in delta V, at the same time it lessens many 'traditional' concerns, allowing then to go with spherical tanks, wider vehicles etc.
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Q:
In campaign, is it more profitable to keep buying colony modules or paying off debt / accumulating cash?
I've noticed that after a certain number of purchased modules, the projected cash/week figure doesn't increase noticeably. My play style results in a lot of debt until the steady production can be established, and so I wonder if I'd be better off by paying it off until the end of the last sol or buying all available colony modules? Or maybe the most efficient is to find a middle ground between the two?
A:
I think I've figured it out. It's best to buy as many colony modules as possible, while maintaining the habitat/workplace ratio because one is useless without the other in terms of future profit. And future profit is the key thing here, because even if you end up in debt for the first several days, it will quickly be paid off by these huge colonies you've helped build, and you'll end up with a lot of cash later on.
Additionally, investing in an offworld launchpad early on can help buy more colony modules, which in turn will increase your future income.
Remember that each colony will keep giving you money, while opting to not buy colony modules will reduce that potential income in exchange for cash only for one day.
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