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With the possible exception of whoever's in charge of determining which comics get banned from being sold on Apple devices, Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarksy's Sex Criminals has been universally hailed as one of the best comic books of the year. The story of strange sexual awakenings, bank robberies, and the untold impact of porn left in the woods has earned its creators a huge fan following, a fourth printing of the first issue set for January, and being declared Time 's best comic book of the year. To cap off a pretty triumphant year, I talked to Zdarsky about how he hooked up with Matt Fraction, his reaction to the response the book's been getting, and, perhaps most importantly, the secret origin of Sexual Gary. ComicsAlliance: How did you and Matt Fraction hook up and decide to do Sex Criminals ? Chip Zdarsky: Matt and I knew each other, obviously, online, the way we all know each other. We'd chatted before about doing something, and a couple years ago I was on assignment in Ottawa. They sent me to Ottawa to cover a politician boxing match, which was very weird, and I ended up working all night. I was up 'til 4 in the morning, and I think I had to catch a train at 6, and while I was on the train working, I e-mailed him and said "We should do something!" I originally suggested we do our take on fantasy, because we both don't care for fantasy. I've never read Lord of the Rings , as a kid, I remember throwing the book across the room after forty pages. I know Matt and I both make fun of Ed Brubaker for his love of Lord of the Rings , and I thought it would be really funny if we did a comic about fantasy, knowing nothing about fantasy. Matt was like "that's a good idea, but here's a better idea: what about a comic about people who f**k, and they stop time by doing that and rob banks?" I was like "oh... yeah, okay, that's pretty good. That's cool." I was just delirious because I hadn't slept and I was on this train, but we went back and forth for the whole trip and I got super excited about it, and that was the beginning. CA: It's such a weird premise, and yet, as someone who's followed your work for as long as I have, and who's been a... do your fans have names yet? CZ: "Restraining Orders." CA: As someone who's been a Restraining Order for so long, it kind of is the perfect comic for you to draw. CZ: Yeah, I think Matt likes the idea of really tailoring what he's pitching to a specific artist, especially when he's doing a creator thing. Like with Chaykin and Satellite Sam , that's perfect, right? Picturing someone else doing it doesn't even make sense. I think Sex Criminals is the same thing, like Casanova , oh my God. Those brothers working on that. He's good at figuring out exactly who should be working on what. CA: There's so much stuff in here that seems purely visual. I don't want to go through a list of awesome background gags, because I could, but there's that bit in the first issue where it's two pages of weird sex positions. Was that in the script as, like "pages 18 and 19, go nuts," or did those names come from the script? Censor bars added by ComicsAlliance CZ: Issue #1, we spent a long time on, just feeling each other out and setting the stage, creating the world and everything. With that sequence, it wasn't in the original script. There was another scene, I don't want to give it away in case Matt uses it somewhere down the line, but it was a touching scene of Suzie's youth. Reading it through, I was like "this is really good, but I feel like we need a break where it's just a barrage of laughs." I had an idea for a bathroom scene that was a bit more convoluted and didn't really work as well in comics, and Matt took that and was able to pace it out much better. When it came to the time to come up with the sex moves, we just went back and forth and I think we came up with a hundred of them. Just names that meant nothing. When he scripted it out, he just narrowed it down to his top twenty, I think. I was able to put them in where I needed to, and then I just had to come up with how to draw them. We didn't actually talk about what each of the names meant, we just came up with as many as we could, and I had to figure out visually how to do it. CA: I think my favorite is "ET: The Sex Move." CZ: With that one... I kept trying to make them not super obvious. I knew there would be a finger involved, there would have to be a finger involved, but I thought "if we could get a Reese's Pieces in there somewhere..." that's art. That's art. Even after I did it, Matt rearranged them for maximum joke effect, and we went back and forth on it for a while. It was the one scene that I was most worried about. If it didn't work, the comic would not do well, I think. That seemed to be the barometer right there, because we'd promised a lot of sex jokes, and that was the scene with the sex jokes. If nobody liked it, we were kind of dead in the water. CA: It makes an interesting contrast with the rest of the book, because you hear the premise of time-stopping orgasms and bank robberies, and you go in expecting a sexy action romp, then on page 3, Suzie's dad commits suicide. CZ: [ Laughs ] Yeah, that's the thing. When we first started talking about it, it was like "hey, it's going to be a couple of guys with their amateur dick jokes," even up until the solicitation. The solicitation really played it up a bit more as a sex romp with jokes all over the place. I don't think it even hinted on any kind of sexual journey or sexual awakening. By the time I got the script to #1, I was floored. I was like "Oh my God, this is beautiful, I probably shouldn't be the one to draw this." It was too much of a heartwarming story to wrap my head around the idea that Matt wanted me to draw it. CA: It works well, though. It's immediately compelling and engaging and fun and sexy and horrifying. There's a lot of emotions involved. CZ: It's a weird thing to try to pull off. I'm glad Matt trusted me with it. CA: Before we move on from the subject of the background gags, two questions. First, I want to know where Sexual Gary came from. CZ: I had to decorate a teenager's bedroom, and I knew I was going to put a pop star on the wall. I was just like, it's got to be one of those weird, hypersexualized guys. "Gary" is my default name when I'm working with the National Post , whenever I have to name a character in a column, they're always Gary for some reason. Actually, I know the reason. The guy I work across from dated a guy named Gary for a while, and after they broke up, I just, I don't know why, I was so mean to him, I would just put "Gary" in the paper all the time, just to drive him nuts. CA: [ Laughs ] That's horrible! CZ: Yeah... I think Gary recently got married, so I brought Gary back again. I'm a bit of an asshole. I don't know if he appreciated it as much. So yeah, Gary is my defaut name, and the idea of a teen pop sensation named "Sexual Gary," I was pretty happy with that. CA: My other question is that when they go to the unprintable porn store, the store I can't name at my job, thanks, there's all these different background gags for genres of porn, like "Obamacore." Is that another one where you went back and forth or was it all you? CZ: It's back and forth. In the script, usually, Matt will list four or five items to set the scene, and for me, it's kind of like automatic writing, where I'll just sit there and sketch it out, and as I'm sketching I'm just filling in boxes. Like "Obamacore," I just made the space for text and thought "hardcore, softocre, Obamacore..." and just wrote it in. After I do all that and show it to Matt, he usually has a couple of extras to play off what I've done. Background stuff is mostly me, but Matt's got a good eye to start it off, and what should stay and what should go. CA: Another interesting thing about your work on this book is that, unless I've missed something, it's been a long time since you've done a big sequential project like this. CZ: Yeah. The last one I did was the third issue of Prison Funnies , which I didn't even really put through Diamond. I just had a party here in Toronto and released them, and said "oh yeah, one day I'll set up shipping and get these out to people," but I never did. I was just too busy. So yeah, it's been a long, long time. CA: I was really surprised by it, because I know your illustrations from the Post . A lot of times you see people going from spot illustrations and static pictures to sequential pieces, and everything looks really staged. Everything in Sex Criminals looks natural. Nothing looks stiff -- unless it's meant to. Was that a challenge? CZ: At the newspaper, they let me do whatever styles I want for illustration, so I've been keeping pretty busy in terms of illustrating and keeping it as natural as possible. With the comic, Matt's script helped me a lot, because he was a bit more descriptive than he'd probably normally be, I think because he knew it'd been a while since I'd done comics, and to get a feel for each other. He's done it on a very strict eight-panel grid. The entire book, when you flip through, the first two pages are the only times we really break any panel borders. It's very easy to lay out, and that's definitely made it easier for me to get into and set the stages. I've just been practicing. I've been doing illustration every day for fifteen yeras, so at some point, you get a bit more natural at it. Comics, you're telling a story, so it's different than static illustration, but I think most illustrators are okay to make the jump from illustration to comics, because they've been telling stories in single panels for so long that it's kind of liberating to be able to spread it out a little bit. CA: An eight-panel grid would certainly make it easy to read on an iPhone. CZ: I've never even thought of that. I've never done anything on a grid before, Prison Funnies I just made up as I went along. If I had done anything on a grid, it would be nine panels, because Watchmen was my Bible in terms of layout. When I first started doing eight panels, I thought "my God, this is so awkward, all the balloons have to be off to the side." There's not a lot you can do besides wide panels. I never even thought about reading it on a phone. That's funny. CA: Do you want to talk at all about the Apple stuff ? CZ: [ Laughs ] Ah yeah, the Apple stuff. That was an unpleasant surprise. It was weird. CA: The book has been a hit. It's been a pretty strong seller, and it's so weird. CZ: It's upsetting. The most upsetting thing for me is that people who buy exclusively on Comixology don't know what's wrong. If they go there and they bought #1, they're just waiting on #2. There's no notice that pops up that says "Guess what? You have to get #2 through the website and upload it to your device. Sorry!" I see people posting messages like "The second issue's taking forever to come out!" and I have to ask if they're trying to get it on Comixology. I have to tell them they're not going to get it because it's bad. It's bad and naughty. CA: They're anti-Obamacore. CZ: It was both a blessing and a curse. I hate, hate the idea that anyone who wants something can't get it, or doesn't know it's available. But at the same time, it was a fun little burst of press for us. CA: It always sucks to have a book that's controversial for not being available, but it is one of those things that keeps it in the news after that first issue. The first issue always gets a lot of coverage, and when the second issue comes out, even if it's really good, which Sex Criminals #2 and #3 are, nobody talks about twos and threes the way they talk about #1s. This has kept you guys in the news cycle, and you've gone out of your way to let people know that they can get it on the web, through Image, in stores... You've got multiple printings of the first issue. The fourth printing is, I think, everyone's favorite cover of 2014. CZ: That was another pleasant surprise. CA: How long was that in the works? You're in Toronto, Fraction's in Portland. I know you guys had that release party where Fraction got his nipples pierced onstage... CZ: The funny thing was that it came out last week, and we discussed it and did it two days before that. We knew there was going to be a fourth printing, because Image had already said that. They said "We know you don't have a cover ready, so we're just going to mention it to retailers," and I was like "maybe we should do this ." The question was how, so I basically did a sketch and sent it to Matt, and said "you pose like this, light it from the front, and send me that photo. I'll take care of the rest." He did it overnight, and then in the morning, I got my girlfriend to take a photo of me, and then by mid-afternoon it was done. CA: So you weren't together for it. CZ: No. CA: I feel like you just told me there's no Santa Claus. CZ: I know! I'm proud of the fact that I was able to pull it off and people thought we were together to do it. That's another thing with my newspaper job, they get me to PhotoShop things all the time, so I'm pretty good at quick, basic, not-cinema-quality photo manipulation stuff. Matt sent me his photo and his friend Alex was taking the place of me, and it was an iPhone quality photo, so it took me half an hour to match that and make it look like a studio photo. It was maybe two or three hours of work in the morning and then I sent it off to Image, and they were like "hoooooly s**t." The next morning, it came out. It was really quick. It all happened extremely quickly, and I didn't even know if people would like it. I have no concept of that, really, I do something because it makes me laugh. Originally, across the top, we had "The Time Magazine Comic Of The Year!" and then Matt suggested the Hawkeye / Inhumans gag and the Applebee's gag, and yeah. That's what went out. CA: Time Magazine Comic of the Year. I mean, I know you were excited about being in ComicsAlliance's Best of the Year list... CZ: They both hold a special place in my heart. CA: That's gotta be nice. CZ: It's one of those things. My parents have never quite understood what I do, even for a living. They understand that I'm in the newspapers and that I'd do comics once in a while. Whenever I'd do Prison Funnies , I'd hand it to my dad and he'd look at it and laugh and go "oh, son." That was kind of the extent of it. Then the Time thing happened and you get the call from the parents and they're super happy, Image is super happy, Matt's super happy, and wow, people are super happy with me. That's weird! CA: And then your parents ask you what the book's about... CZ: My parents love it! CA: Really? CZ: Yeah, it's pretty funny. They were there at the launch party at the sex club. CA: [ Uncontrollable laughter ] CZ: The funny thing is that Matt knew they were coming, and said "oh, when I'm onstage getting my nipple pierced, I should call your mom up to hold my hand, that would be amazing." When it came time to do that, the club was beyond capacity, it was so hot, we said into the mic "Chip's parents are here, can Chip's mom come up and hold his hand?" They weren't even there. They were upstairs in the sex rooms. There's a third floor where everyone goes to have sex and apparently my parents went up there, so they couldn't hear Matt's cries for help. CA: That's uncomfortable. CZ: It's mildly uncomfortable. My parents are pretty happy with everything. CA: Was that the first time they were aware that you own that Garfield suit? CZ: Yeah, probably. But they didn't even flinch. There were photos being taken of us together and they never once said "hey, I couldn't help but notice that you're dressed as Garfield. That's, uh... that's something new." They just roll with it. It's great. CA: On the subject of real-life interactions with Sex Criminals (the book), I saw you mention on Twitter that you use a model for Suzie, and she's getting recognized. CZ: She went into a comic shop in London, Ontario with her fiancee, and they asked for Sex Criminals and the guy was telling her they'd sold out of some but might have a couple left, and her fiancee goes "yeah, she's in it! She's the model!" and the guy goes "Oh my God!" and has photos taken with her, got her to sign copies, wrote a blog post about encountering her . She's ecstatic with this weird level of notoriety. I don't know if she's told her parents yet that she's the main model for Sex Criminals . CA: For Time 's Comic of the Year. CZ: Exactly. It was funny. I knew I wanted her for the character when Matt and I first started discussing the character, I had the visual in my head, and it looked just like my friend. For the guy, for Jon, he's a friend of mine that works for the Beguiling, the comic shop. We mostly used them because of the wide disparity in height, because we thought it'd be really funny. The idea of a very tall man and a very short woman making love is always a pretty good visual, I think. So when I got them into the studio for the first time to take reference shots, they'd never met each other, and I was like "so, okay, so, um, scene one, you will be... kind of... grinding.. her body... with your body... on a sink, and, uh, all right, let's start!" It was a nice uncomfortable three hours. CA: It's just like Love Actually ! CZ: It's just like Love Actually . Imagine being invited, by me, into my studio, where I'm going to take pictures of you simulating sex acts for a few hours. CA: And I assume you're in the Garfield suit in this scenario. CZ: The one thing I've noticed with this, and so has Matt, is the fact that since the models are real people and they're friends of mine, it stops me from making them objects of titillation, if that makes sense. If I'm going to draw them in a sexual situation, I'm not going to play up my friend's sexiness or something, you know? It keeps the focus on the story and less on someone getting off to the comic, which I can't really imagine, and which is what Apple imagines people doing. CA: You say that, but people are determined, Chip. CZ: But still! CA: One last question: When's Monster Cops coming back? CZ: Well, I've got a five-issue outline sitting here on my computer. A few years ago, I pitched the idea around to a couple of companies, and nobody quite bit, but I'd love to do more. CA: Are you going to call those same people up again and go "Hi, this is the artist of Time Magazine's Comic of the Year, Chip Zdarsky." CZ: I know I should be more business savvy and leverage this, but Sex Criminals is going to take time. We have a fair number of issues planned out. Unless something horrible happens, we're going to keep doing that for the forseeable future. I've definitely got the Monster Cops scripts sitting here ready to go, it's the kind of pitch where I come back to it every couple of months and just think "oh man, this is good." I'm not usually a fan of my own work, but I love the idea of getting into fans of kids, you know? And it would be such a funny follow-up to the sex book that's banned: my all-ages book. CA: It is, without question, my favorite use of Vampirella in a comic. CZ: I can't believe they went for it! CA: You can't believe the people who published Vampirella let you do a comic where Vampirella was illiterate? CZ: I know, but in the end, she learns to read, so it's all right. I remember when Harris approached me to do some sort of crossover. I said "all right, here's the pitch, I don't expect you to go for it," and they were like "no, do it." CA: One imagines that Harris Comics had a sense of humor about Vampirella. Congratulations on a pretty successful year. CZ: I honestly did not think it would happen. It's pretty weird. I'm used to being this weird guy right outside of comics, and I'll do one weird thing once in a while and people will go "oh, ho ho ho, that's good, but you can just go right back to where you came from." But yeah, this... this is a whole different thing.
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Chapter 5: Fallen Star, Pt. 2 "Star, who is that?" Marco had learned very quickly that when it came to Star, anything was within the realm of possibility. Still, a woman emerging from the wand who Star was clearly terrified by? That was pushing it a little. Star, on the other hand could hardly speak. She didn't know much about Eclipsa, having only first known of her on her journey to fix her wand and then reading a little more about her in her spellbook. But it was enough to know that she was not someone you ever wanted to cross paths with. And besides, Eclipsa had lived hundreds of years before. Yet here she was, admiring her reflection in a mirror she had conjured up as though she had just woken up from a light nap. "Star..." Marco tried asking again, "What's going on?" Star finally discovered the ability to form words again, but before she could say anything she was interrupted. "Why Star, aren't you going to introduce me to this lovely boy of yours?" Star looked around for the source of the voice, and when she couldn't find anyone else in the room she turned back to where Eclipsa was standing. Star was surprised at the sound of her voice, it was...almost pleasant. Definitely not the voice you'd imagine a centuries old evil witch to have. "Well, are you just going to stand there or are you going to come say hi to your Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandmother?" Star laughed nervously, holding Marco's hand tightly. "I'm...gonna stay right over here if that's alright. Marco, this uh, this is Eclipsa. She's one of my ancestors from a long time ago. Also...she might be very evil." Eclipsa had heard her and smiled almost demurely, "Evil? I prefer to think of myself as...misunderstood. What was mine was taken from me; I simply fought to get it back." She turned to Star now, and Star could see now that her eyes were dark and cold. "Isn't that what you'll do, my dear girl?" Star was taken aback. "What're you talking about?" Eclipsa's smile suddenly turned wicked. "Why, you don't think they'll let you keep him, do you? Sure, they'll let you have your fun now, but when your time comes you'll marry who they want you to. That's what a queen must do after all! How do you think they'll react when they meet him?" Star tilted her head to the side quizzically, if Eclipsa had been inside the wand shouldn't she have known? "Uh...my parents have already met Marco, and they like him. A lot. And besides...even if something were to happen, I wouldn't hurt anybody over it. Marco wouldn't want that." Eclipsa sighed. "Oh, Star...I so hoped you would see things my way." The star symbol at the tip of her umbrella started glowing, and a powerful pulse of green light came from it. The ground around them started shaking. Bones started emerging from the ground and out of the cave walls, quickly putting themselves back together into what must have been hundreds of monster skeletons. Eclipsa was raising an army. Two of them immediately grabbed Star, pulling her away from Marco. "MARCO!" she cried out after him, but when he tried to run to her two more of them seized him as well. Eclipsa looked around at her newly assembled army and nodded with approval. Then she turned to Star, still struggling to try and free herself. "You may be the most powerful user of that wand since, well since myself. I hope you will understand why I must do this then." Eclipsa raised her umbrella once again, casting a vortex of green light at Star. To her horror, Star could feel herself being pulled towards the source of the spell, her signature headband getting knocked off in the process. Marco finally managed to throw off his captors and lunged to grab her, but it was too late. Star had vanished into the heart of the vortex. "STAR!" Marco cried out, lunging at Eclipsa only to run into two of her guards. "What have you done to her? Where is she?" Eclipsa smiled at Marco, unfazed by his attack. "Don't worry dear boy, I believe she will be quite safe where she is. Besides, I've awaited this far too long and nothing can be allowed to stand in my way now." She turned now to the skeletal masses assembled there. "Prepare to march, we are going home!" Eclipsa's army fell into formation as quickly as they could and began marching towards Mewni Castle. Star woke up on a cold, hard floor. She sat up, trying to take in her surroundings and figure out where she was. The place looked like Mewni Castle but something seemed...off about it. Star couldn't put her finger on it as she walked around, but then she turned a corner and gasped. The room before her contained a star shaped window that reached from the floor to the ceiling, and through it Star could see Eclipsa's army advancing towards the castle with Marco in tow. Star instantly realized where she was. "I'm...inside the wand?" Buff Frog made his way through the woods as fast as he could. Luckily, he alone knew the fastest way to get to the castle. After the army had left, he had grabbed Star's headband and started making his way there. He may not have particularly cared for the royal family, but he felt like he owed Star for the help she had given him. They had to be warned of what was coming. It wasn't far to the barrier surrounding the castle, at which point the army stopped to allow Eclipsa to reach the front. She struck the barrier with the wand and immediately it started to disappear. A moment later and it was gone completely, allowing her to advance. The castle was strangely quiet. The guards normally at the gate and patrolling the walls were nowhere to be found. Another spell was all it took and the front gate was lowered to allow them entry. Mewni Castle had fallen without a sound. Eclipsa made her way to the throne room with Marco being dragged along close behind. She frowned, there were still no guards to be found and the king seemed to have disappeared as well. Queen Moon sat alone in her throne, she had clearly been expecting someone. "And there she is, dear old Moon the Undaunted! Surprised to see me?" "Somewhat. I knew of the prophecy about your return, but I had hoped it would never come to pass." Your daughter has told me so much about you. But where, oh where is your dear husband? Has he run away to hide? It was always the women in the family who were the strong ones..." "You will never find him or our army. You may take this castle, but as long as they are out there you will never take all of Mewni." The wicked grin returned to Eclipsa's face. "And whatever makes you think Mewni is what I'm after? I have plans far greater than simply this boring old place. In fact..." She turned away and walked out to the balcony. Hundreds of monsters were gathered in the courtyard below, having been emboldened by the disappearance of the castle's barrier. Eclipsa stood on the edge of the balcony and started addressing the crowd gathered below. "Creatures of Mewni, my name is Eclipsa Butterfly, and I have come to set you free! No longer will you suffer under the tyranny of the Mewman royalty, no longer will your lives be spent in hunger and fear, Mewni belongs to you!" The crowd erupted into cheers, Eclipsa smiled to herself and continued. "No longer will you be driven away and force to hide in the woods like beasts, you will live amongst the Mewmans as their equals! My humble servant Ludo will remain here as your protector, and this castle that has stood here a thousand years as a symbol of your oppression shall be taken away forever!" The crowd went wild, and with a wave of her hand they went off to enforce her reign. Eclipsa turned back to her prisoners. "Well now that that's taken care of...there's a whole new realm I've had my eyes on for the longest time." Eclipsa now looked into the orb at the end of her umbrella, "I told you you were the most powerful wielder of this wand since myself, but sadly you just don't have the knowledge to make use of it's true power. Watch now, and see the power I wield!" Suddenly, the entire castle started shaking. Marco could only watch in awe as the entire castle started pulling away from the ground below. Above them, a dimensional portal much bigger than any he had ever seen before, and the castle slowly floated up and into it. Almost instantly, they were through the portal to the other side. Eclipsa motioned at the two minons holding Marco, and they brought the struggling boy forward to her. "Look familiar, Marco? I've seen so much of this realm in such a short time...I've grown quite fond of it." Marco's eyes grew wide as he recognized where they were: Earth. Mewni Castle now hung in the skies above Earth, overlooking the Los Angeles skyline. "Hold this for me, will you? I don't want her to miss a moment of this." Eclipsa seized Marco by the arm, handing off the umbrella to one of her guards. Marco thrashed around to try and free himself, but Eclipsa's grip was surprisingly strong. "Let. Me. Go!" She laughed, "You want me to let you go? Well, since you asked so nicely..." Inside the wand, Star was transfixed in horror at the sight of Eclipsa inching Marco closer and closer to the edge. She pounded against the giant star window, desperately trying to free herself and save him. They were now at the very edge of the balcony, looking down to the city hundreds of miles below. Eclipsa looked directly at her with cold, heartless eyes. "Believe me, Star...it breaks my heart to have to do this. But you must understand, I cannot allow you to interfere with my plans. Even trapped in there you still threaten to undo everything...but without him, I imagine you'll be in no state to cause me any trouble." "NO NO NO!" Star had never felt more powerless, continuing to pound on the glass to no avail. Eclipsa looked back to Marco, who was now panicking as he dangled over the edge, "Now, Marco...say goodbye." Marco looked to the wand, continuing to struggle against her grip. "I love you, Star." Eclipsa stayed true to her word and let him go. Marco screamed as he plummeted off the edge of the castle towards the ground below. "MARCOOOOOO!" Star felt numb. She slumped against the window, hugging herself tightly to try and keep herself together. "No...no no no no no no...", she mumbled. When she had seen Marco kissing Jackie it had broken her heart; now, it felt as though half of it had been ripped out entirely. It wasn't fair! It had only been hours since Marco had confessed his love to her, yet this was going to be her last memory of him. Helpless, terrified, and falling to his doom. The realization of that was too much for Star, and she broke down sobbing on the floor. Tears pooled around her face, but Star didn't care. She just wanted to cry and cry and never stop. But then, she heard something over the sound of her sobs. Footsteps. The footsteps were slow and shuffling, and Star could hear what sounded like a cane of some sort with every other step. Slowly but surely, the footsteps drew closer and closer. Then suddenly, they stopped. A wrinkled, reptilian hand reached out to Star. Her eyes followed the hand upwards, and when she saw the stranger's face she gasped. The face appeared to have aged several centuries and the hair was white now, but Star still recognized it instantly. "T-Toffee?" The lizard-man looked down at Star, his eyes full of regret. "Princess Butterfly...I have much to answer for." Author's note: Here we are finally! This...this was interesting. I got stuck several times, especially when it came to Eclipsa, but her voice finally came to me which helped immensely (side note: if/when she appears I nominate Helena Bonham Carter to voice her) It doesn't flow as well as I'd like it too, hopefully I can make up for it in the next chapter. Good news is that now that I've appeased the followers for my other work (for now), I should be able to devote all of my writing time towards seeing us through till the end. Till next time -fatal
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We’ve known for quite some time that President Donald Trump’s political opponents paid for the opposition research that led to the infamous Russia dossier of assorted allegations — some subsequently confirmed, some not, some salacious, some not — involving the Republican’s connections with the Putin regime. We’ve known for months that a wealthy Republican opposed to Mr. Trump’s candidacy initially paid for it, and after the primaries, Democrats took over. It turns out those Democrats were the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee via a Washington law firm that hired the opposition research company that hired the former British intelligence agent who did the digging. That’s interesting, but mainly in that none of the contents of the dossier became public until after the campaign was over. Apparently the Clinton camp showed some modicum of compunction about throwing around unsubstantiated allegations. How quaint. But what this does not mean is that the questions about the Trump campaign’s possible ties to Russia or the Putin government’s efforts to help him get elected are made-up or unimportant. And it definitely does not mean that, as Mr. Trump put it Wednesday, “the hoax is turned around, and you look at what’s happened with Russia and … you look at the fake dossier, so that’s all turned around.” Nor does it mean, as White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted, “The real Russia scandal? Clinton campaign paid for the fake Russia dossier, then lied about it & covered it up.” Or what former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer tweeted: “Hard 2read this w/o concluding Clinton campaign colluded w Russia 2interfere in US election.” In other words, someone hired by someone hired by someone hired by the Clinton campaign talked to sources in Russia and got dirt that the campaign didn’t use that could have undermined the Kremlin’s goal of electing Mr. Trump, ergo, Hillary colluded with Mr. Putin. For that, Mr. Fleischer earns undisputed Alternative Fact of the Week honors. If people who knew the Clinton campaign and DNC paid for part of the research eventually conducted by Christopher Steele directly lied about it, as some who have covered the story allege, that’s bad. If the Clinton aides who criticized the media for not reporting on the contents of the dossier before the election knew that the campaign had played a role in funding it, that’s disgraceful. If Ms. Clinton knew about it before airing similar criticism in her post-campaign book, that’s worse. Indeed, there may well prove to be many alternative facts from the Clinton side in regard to this whole episode. But none of that represents a threat to national security or to the integrity of our elections. What we actually know about about Russian interference in the election does. Just to recap, we know that Russian hackers spread fake stories designed to boost his prospects and hurt Ms. Clinton’s. Russians bought thousands of Facebook, Google and Twitter ads in a targeted effort to influence swing-state voters. Leaders of those companies are due to testify about it before Congress next week. For decades I have argued against any form of increased government regulation of media. But Facebook's dirty dance with the Russians in the 2016 election proves it can't be trusted to police itself. (Ulysses Muñoz / Baltimore Sun) For decades I have argued against any form of increased government regulation of media. But Facebook's dirty dance with the Russians in the 2016 election proves it can't be trusted to police itself. (Ulysses Muñoz / Baltimore Sun) SEE MORE VIDEOS Russians attempted to hack into at least 21 states’ election systems (including Maryland’s). Assorted U.S. intelligence agencies have unanimously concluded that Russians sought to intervene on Mr. Trump’s behalf, and the bi-partisan leaders of a Senate panel investigating the matter have said the same thing. Oh, and there was the bit about Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and then-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort sitting down with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer who promised to deliver dirt on Hillary Clinton in what an intermediary who set up the meeting said was part of the Russian government’s effort to help Mr. Trump. That all happened, and it’s a big deal whether the Trump campaign was actively involved or not. If Robert Mueller, the special counsel leading the Department of Justice’s investigation into the matter, finds any evidence that the Clinton campaign engaged in any illegal activity, by all means he should follow it. (He’s reportedly already investigating Tony Podesta, the brother of former Clinton campaign manager John Podesta, for work in Ukraine, though from what is known it appears to have had to do with an election there, not here.) But we trust that neither Mr. Mueller, the Senate nor the American people are ready to ignore all the evidence that Russia wanted to help the Trump campaign because of some twisted Trumpian effort to tie the mess around Hillary Clinton’s neck. Become a subscriber today to support editorial writing like this. Start getting full access to our signature journalism for just 99 cents for the first four weeks.
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A reader sent me an exchange that she had with a recent graduate who applied for a job with her company. The applicant had submitted a three-page resume with short essays about her experience on it. That exchange is further down, but first here’s what the reader wrote to me: I thought I’d share something that could help a lot of your recent college graduate readers. I keep coming across this complaint that recent and upcoming college grads aren’t ready for the working world. I used to think this was unfair and ageist, as I work with a lot of them that I think are, in fact, ready and able. However, I’ve recently changed my mind a bit. As I work on hiring for my company, I also come across a lot of graduates who seem to prove this point. Things like keeping your resume to 1 page if you’re a recent graduate really do escape them. I’ve included an email exchange below that proves the point. I’ve taken out the person’s name to protect her. (Please note that her resume is a 3 page debacle complete with short essays about her experience.) Perhaps my point is that many recent and upcoming college graduates might stop and take some time to do a little research on the finer points of how to hunt for a job, how to behave at their first job, etc. There is also plenty of confusion about graduate school and what its function is (see email exchange below!). I think there may be something to this rumor that recent and upcoming college grads aren’t as prepared as they think. I just want to spare them some pain if this is applicable for them. Okay, so here’s the email exchange. First, the email our reader sent to a job applicant: Hi [name removed], I passed this on to my manager to fast-track things and he declined. Just thought I’d pass on some advice in case you’d like to use it in your future job search. The resume you sent me is way too long and detailed for most employers to want to look at. Try to bring it all down to 1 page with very few details. I am happy to look it over for you if you’d like once you fix it. I read and write about how to search for jobs constantly as part of my job so I’m happy to share any information I know. Good luck in your search and I’m sorry again it didn’t work out here. The applicant responded with this: Very few details? Then what is the point? Isn’t a resume meant to “show yourself off” to the world? I’m skilled in writing, that is what I know, I never had a class in college teaching me the etiquette of prostituting myself on paper. I do not understand a job market that desires watered down individuals. What does that say about the jobs or employers? Are they as watered down as the people they employ? Thank you it will be Graduate School for me. Sigh. There are so many problems here — the “why should I learn about how job searching works” attitude and the idea that if school didn’t teach her something, she shouldn’t be expected to look into it for herself; the expectation that employers should be willing to read whatever she gives them about herself, regardless of length, because she shouldn’t have to “water herself down” (and isn’t this condensing, the opposite of watering down?); the idea that concise resumes are “prostitution” — but the biggest problem of all is the rudeness to someone who went out of her way to help her. To be clear, I’m not printing this because I think this job applicant is representative of most people in her peer group; she’s not. But she’s also not entirely alone in approaching things this way, even if she’s on the extreme end of the silliness spectrum. This resistance to making an effort to learn what employers want and why — and then getting bitter and huffy when the way that you want things to work doesn’t align with the way employers actually do things — isn’t terribly uncommon … and it will make you far less happy and your life harder than it otherwise would be. Regardless of how you think things should work, it’s worth learning how things do work, and why. You’ll be happier. You’ll probably be more successful at whatever it is you want to do. And you won’t find yourself heckling kind strangers offering you favors.
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As the financial crisis jolted the nation in September, Senator Charles E. Schumer was consumed. He traded telephone calls with bankers, then became one of the first officials to promote a Wall Street bailout. He spent hours in closed-door briefings and a weekend helping Congressional leaders nail down details of the $700 billion rescue package. The next day, Mr. Schumer appeared at a breakfast fund-raiser in Midtown Manhattan for Senate Democrats. Addressing Henry R. Kravis, the buyout billionaire, and about 20 other finance industry executives, he warned that a bailout would be a hard sell on Capitol Hill. Then he offered some reassurance: The businessmen could count on the Democrats to help steer the nation through the financial turmoil. “We are not going to be a bunch of crazy, anti-business liberals,” one executive said, summarizing Mr. Schumer’s remarks. “We are going to be effective, moderate advocates for sound economic policies, good responsible stewards you can trust.” The message clearly resonated. The next week, executives at firms represented at the breakfast sent in more than $135,000 in campaign donations. He succeeded in limiting efforts to regulate credit-rating agencies, for example, sponsored legislation that cut fees paid by Wall Street firms to finance government oversight, pushed to allow banks to have lower capital reserves and called for the revision of regulations to make corporations’ balance sheets more transparent. At times in Congress, Mr. Schumer has teamed up with Republicans, like former Senator Phil Gramm of Texas, who aggressively promoted a free-market agenda. Mr. Schumer pushed for the Gramm-Leach-Bliley law, passed in November 1999, which knocked down the walls between investment banks and commercial banks and allowed financial supermarkets to flourish.The law also weakened regulatory oversight by fracturing it among different agencies. – From The New York Times article: A Champion of Wall Street Reaps Benefits Great way to start off the new year for the Democrats. New Senate Minority leader, and Wall Street mega-defender, Chuck Schumer just went on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show and warned Donald Trump that U.S. intelligence agencies could retaliate against him for disagreeing with their claims (based on no public evidence thus far) that Russia hacked the DNC/John Podesta and released it to Wikileaks with the intent of helping Trump win the election. Here’s what he said courtesy of The Washington Examiner: The new leader of Democrats in the Senate says Donald Trump is being “really dumb” for picking a fight with intelligence officials, suggesting they have ways to strike back, after the president-elect speculated Tuesday that his “so-called” briefing about Russian cyberattacks had been delayed in order to build a case. “Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community — they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Tuesday evening on MSNBC after host Rachel Maddow informed him that intelligence sources told NBC news that the briefing had not been delayed. Now watch the clip for yourself. I’m certain the near permanent grin on his face will not be lost upon you either. The exchange is especially disturbing given the CIA’s not so warm and fuzzy history, both internally and externally. For some light reading on the matter, I strongly suggest the following post, How America’s Modern Shadow Government Can Be Traced Back to One Very Evil Man – Allen Dulles. Here’s a brief passage to whet your appetite: Allen Dulles, the CIA director under presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy, the younger brother of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, and the architect of a secretive national security apparatus that functioned as essentially an autonomous branch of government. Talbot offers a portrait of a black-and-white Cold War-era world full of spy games and nuclear brinkmanship, in which everyone is either a good guy or a bad guy. Dulles—who deceived American elected leaders and overthrew foreign ones, who backed ex-Nazis and thwarted left-leaning democrats—falls firmly in the latter camp. But what I was really trying to do was a biography on the American power elite from World War II up to the 60s. That was the key period when the national security state was constructed in this country, and where it begins to overshadow American democracy. It’s almost like Game of Thrones to me, where you have the dynastic struggles between these power groups within the American system for control of the country and the world… Absolutely. The surveillance state that Snowden and others have exposed is very much a legacy of the Dulles past. I think Dulles would have been delighted by how technology and other developments have allowed the American security state to go much further than he went. He had to build a team of cutthroats and assassins on the ground to go around eliminating the people he wanted to eliminate, who he felt were in the way of American interests. He called them communists. We call them terrorists today. And of course the most controversial part of my book, I’m sure, will be the end, where I say there was blowback from that. Because that killing machine in some way was brought back home. Threaten the U.S. President-elect with the CIA. How liberal. If you enjoyed this post, and want to contribute to genuine, independent media, consider visiting our Support Page. In Liberty, Michael Krieger Donate bitcoins: Like this post?Donate bitcoins: 3J7D9dqSMo9HnxVeyHou7HJQGihamjYQMN Follow me on Twitter.
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Israel will not tolerate any missiles or mortars being fired from either Syria or from Gaza and will respond with disproportionate force, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Thursday, a day after projectiles were fired at Israel from across both frontiers. Speaking in the southern Israeli city of Netivot on Thursday evening, Netanyahu said that the country will not continue to absorb rocket fire “not from the north or from the south.” “Anyone who thinks [of firing] a drizzle will receive a downpour,” he said during a ceremony in the Gaza border city. “The response of the past weeks speaks for itself.” Get The Times of Israel's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up On Wednesday, a mortar shell fired from Syria struck the northern Golan Heights. The projectile, the latest of a series of apparently errant rounds to hit Israel in recent days, exploded in an open field near Israel’s border with Syria, causing no casualties or damage, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement. It was the sixth such incident this week and came as fighting between President Bashar Assad’s regime and the numerous rebel groups in southern Syria escalated in recent weeks. In response to the incidents, Israeli jets have targeted Syrian regime artillery batteries near the border several times, though there were no reports of any Israeli response in Syria Wednesday. The United Nations, Russia and others have called for Israel to show restraint and keep tensions from spiraling out of control. Later Wednesday night, a mortar shell fired from Gaza landed in an open field in the Eshkol region, causing no injury or damage. In response, Israeli jets struck three targets overnight, which belonged to the Hamas terror group, which rules the Strip. The strikes were all carried out in northern Gaza, according to an IDF statement. Israel is currently readying itself in case of all-out war. Beginning next week, the Home Front Command will kick off “Standing Firm,” a preparedness drill which will include exercises to test the ability of the IDF and local governments to handle rocket attacks, terrorists infiltrating communities, electric grid failures and other emergency situations. On Tuesday morning, the Home Front Command will sound the rocket alert siren in cities around Israel at different times and then throughout the country at 7:05 p.m., except for the communities surrounding the Gaza Strip. According to the army, some 230,000 rockets of various sizes and warhead capacities are currently aimed toward Israel from a host of enemies.
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Two Qantas planes involved in a near-miss over Adelaide on Friday were just 25 seconds from a disastrous mid-air collision, according to the Australian International Pilots Association. QF581 was flying from Sydney to Perth at 38,000 feet and QF576 from Perth to Sydney was flying at 39,000 feet when the lower-flying craft received permission from an air traffic controller to ascend to 40,000 feet. At that point, the collision warning computer on the other aircraft went off, advising it to climb to avoid a collision. "The computer warning system is time-based," said Richard Woodward, vice-president of the AIPA. "But typically it's about 25 seconds head-on. It'll go "climb now" or "descend now", and that's a resolution advisory. They got one of those, so I assume they were within 25 seconds of each other. Mr Woodward said the two aircraft would have been flying towards each other at about 32 kilometres a minute, or one kilometre every two seconds. When the warning went off, "they would have been within 10 or 15 kilometres of each other", he said.
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Lincoln University is in a delicate state and needs significant course cuts, more Māori and Pasifika students, and more donations, an advisory board says. Photo: Wiki Commons The report by the university's transformation advisory board also recommends the university "move away from being a stand-alone university" and focus on its role as part of the Lincoln Hub partnership with several Crown research institutes. It said the university should out-source administration and contract other institutions to provide courses that were not central to Lincoln's focus on land-based sciences. The university has been seeking a viable business model after years of struggling with low enrolments and financial deficits. Last year, an independent report said the university had not generated an operating surplus since 2007 and its best option for the future was to "integrate" with another university. The transformation board report did not recommend a merger but said the university should remain open to future partnerships of all types, including integration. It said its recommendations had the potential to transform the university, which "should aspire to become a globally-ranked, top five agri-focused university and top five New Zealand university". The university should redefine its course offerings, build its research and "reset" its governance and management capability, the report said. The university had improved significantly, but there was still more to do. "There remain a number of hurdles for the university to overcome, however, before it gets to the point where the board would consider that it can be a successful university long-term, domestically and internationally. "These include overcoming its small scale, substantially growing student numbers, developing a viable long-term strategy, and strengthening current weak relationships with key stakeholders and other organisations." Transformation board chair Sir Maarten Wevers said Lincoln had an important role to play in New Zealand's land-based economy. "The responsibility now lies with Lincoln University and its leadership to accelerate and expand its change programmes in order to realise the opportunities in front of it."
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Match-fixing has reared its ugly head once again at the CONCACAF Gold Cup, according to a report. Players on the Belizian national soccer team have come forward and told a television outlet that they had been approached to fix Tuesday's match against the United States at Jeld-Wen Field in Portland, Ore. Andres Makin Jr., Ian Gaynair and Woodrow West said they were approached by an unidentified man, who offered them large sums of money in exchange for losing to the heavily favoured Americans. Despite losing 6-1, the four national team selections claimed to rebuff the attempt to manipulate the outcome. "He [the fixer] started talking that we don't really stand a chance to beat the U.S, so he wanted us to promise him that we would lose the game and that he would give us a large amount of money to change our lives in Belize and to help our families," Gaynair told 7 News Belize. "I felt really uncomfortable just to be around the guy because I was already aware about the 'match fixing' and I know that I could get banned for life. "He saw that my features changed and he saw that we weren't into it, so he got frightened and took out a large amount of money to bribe us, a lot of hundred and fifty dollar bills, and threw it at us on the table and told us to keep it and to not say anything and to keep the money." 'I stood firm' West, the Belize goaltender, related a similar story. "I made him understand that we're not into taking money from him or anything like that and we're here for our country," West said. "We are Belizeans and that is what we're doing out here -- to represent our country and, to me, Woodrow West, and being loyal to my country -- that [is] bigger than any amount of money that they can ever give me and that is why I stood firm." It is not the first time in recent memory that the Gold Cup has been plagued by match-fixing allegations. In 2011, German magazine Der Spiegel revealed three games from that summer's Gold Cup in the U.S. were being investigated by FIFA for alleged manipulation. At the time, former CONCACAF general secretary Chuck Blazer, who faced fraud allegations himself earlier this year, denied any wrongdoing at the Gold Cup in 2011, declaring there was no evidence. In December of 2011, FIFA reaffirmed it had received information that suggested games had been manipulated and, while they did not name which games had been targeted, it did confirm an ongoing investigation. It left a black mark on the tournament and resulted in CONCACAF, ahead of this year's Gold Cup, promising to ensure there would be no future fixing. Earlier this year, however, ESPN, as part of a story on the wide-reaching effects match-fixing is having on the global game of soccer, reported that a "prolific fixer" had bragged that he had already arranged to rig the entirety of the 2013 Gold Cup. 'Happy the players came forward' CONCACAF has yet to release a statement on the Belize report. When asked if Canadian players had been approached by fixers or if they had been offered any bribes at this Gold Cup, the Canadian Soccer Association declined to comment. Belize soccer federation president Ruperto Vicente did comment and commended the players for their actions. "I'm happy that the players came forward and made the report when they were approached," he said. "This happens as a result of what happened right before the players left Belize. "When people like this find that the players are clamoring for monies, they become targets for people who are involved in match fixing. Belize then has become a target because they realize we are a poor federation. "We're a federation that doesn't have money and who isn't paying the players a lot of money, so monies offered to players by match fixers is very attractive."
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(CNN) -- Tony Gwynn, a Hall of Fame outfielder who spent his entire Major League Baseball career with the San Diego Padres, has died after a multiyear battle with salivary gland cancer. He was 54. "Major League Baseball today mourns the tragic loss of Tony Gwynn, the greatest Padre ever and one of the most accomplished hitters that our game has ever known, whose all-around excellence on the field was surpassed by his exuberant personality and genial disposition in life," MLB Commissioner Bud Selig said in a statement. Gwynn -- known for slapping singles between third base and shortstop in his 20-year career with the Padres -- had 3,141 hits and a .338 batting average. He also was a 15-time All-Star. In 2007, Gwynn was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame with Cal Ripken. "He was beloved by so many, especially the Hall of Fame family, for his kindness, graciousness and passion for the game," Jane Forbes Clark, chairman of the board of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, said in a statement. "Tony was one of baseball history's most consistent hitters and most affable personalities. He was an icon for San Diego Padres fans, never more evident than on Induction Day of 2007, when tens of thousands of Tony's most appreciative fans filled Cooperstown for his Hall of Fame speech. We extend our deepest sympathies to Alicia and the entire Gwynn family." "I am deeply saddened to learn that Tony Gwynn has lost his courageous battle against cancer," Tony Clark, executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, said in a statement. "Since his diagnosis, Tony displayed the same tenacity and drive in his fight against this horrible disease that he brought to the plate in every at bat of his Hall of Fame career." Gwynn was known as "Mr. Padre" during and after his career in the majors. The team retired his No. 19 jersey in September 2004 at Petco Park. In the spring of 2005, the street on which the stadium is located was named Tony Gwynn Drive in his honor. There's also a statue of Gwynn at Petco Park, which was unveiled in 2007. After Gwynn retired from the Padres in 2001, he became the head baseball coach for San Diego State University, his alma mater. He was diagnosed with cancer almost a decade later. In March, Gwynn took a medical leave of absence while undergoing cancer treatment, but he had recently signed a one-year extension with the Aztecs. San Diego State tweeted Monday, "Our hearts are heavy today. RIP Tony Gwynn. Thoughts to the entire Gwynn family and SDSU Baseball family." As a collegiate baseball player, Gwynn was an All-American at San Diego State. He also played basketball while growing up in Long Beach and arrived at San Diego State as a highly recruited point guard in 1977. He played basketball for the Aztecs for four seasons and baseball for three seasons, garnering all-Western Athletic Conference honors in both sports. According to San Diego State's athletics website, Gwynn remains the only athlete in WAC history to be honored as an all-conference performer in two sports. Baseball still runs in the Gwynn family. Gwynn's son, Tony Gwynn Jr., followed in his father's footsteps and currently is an outfielder for the Philadelphia Phillies. "Today I lost my Dad, my best friend and my mentor," Gwynn Jr. tweeted on Monday. "I'm gonna miss u so much pops. I'm gonna do everything in my power to continue to... Make u proud!" Gwynn died surrounded by family at Pomerado Hospital in Poway, California. People we lost in 2014 Tony Gwynn and a habit all too common in baseball Opinion: The joy of Tony Gwynn
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The Republic of Ireland, Scotland and Wales have formally declared an interest in hosting Euro 2020, it can be disclosed. The countries have told UEFA that they would be interested in bidding to host the European Championships on a three-way basis. So far Turkey are the only other nation to inform UEFA that they want to want host the tournament. A source close to UEFA has confirmed that a written expression of interest from the three ’Celtic’ countries has been submitted to the European governing body. UEFA have a deadline of midnight tonight for any other declarations of interest. Bidders would need to put forward up to 10 stadiums to host matches in the European Championships, which is being expanded from 16 teams to 24 from 2016. Scotland and Wales would struggle to provide that number of stadiums to satisfy UEFA requirements but Ireland’s involvement would cover the shortfall. The formal declaration of interest does not commit the Celtic countries to proceeding with a bid however – a decision is not due to be taken by UEFA for 18 months. The countries have not fared well in the past in bidding for the tournament. Scotland and the Republic of Ireland bid jointly for Euro 2008 but were one of the first to be eliminated, and Scotland and Wales considered bidding jointly for Euro 2016 but decided against it. Turkey’s bid is in some disarray already because their FA has been engulfed by allegations of corruption and match-fixing in Turkish football, and it also conflicts with Istanbul’s bid to land the Olympics in the same year. UEFA president Michel Platini had signalled he would support’s Turkey bid but only if Istanbul fails in its Olympic bid. Scottish Football Association chief executive Stewart Regan said the idea of bidding for Euro 2020 had been discussed but would not confirm or deny whether an expression of interest had been made. Regan told www.insidethegames.biz: “I’m not able to comment publicly at this stage because it has not gone to our board but there will be an exchange of correspondence before the deadline. “It’s obviously something that has been discussed.” Asked if Scotland and Wales would be able to meet the UEFA criteria for stadiums, Regan replied: “There are other ways of skinning a cat and alternative ways of being considered for a major tournament.”
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Get your mop and bucket at the ready, a certain easily destructible glob of meat is heading to a Playstation near you. Get your mop and bucket at the ready, a certain easily destructible glob of meat is heading to a Playstation near you. Co-creator Tommy Refenes announced the news today on the Playstation.com blog. Refenes gave some background to his and Edmund McMillen's punishingly tricky platformer and wrote about hating leaving Playstation fans without the game, due to "very complicated reasons." But something changed with those, presumably legal, reasons. "Earlier this year, Team Meat got an unexpected gift. The gods smiled upon them and opened up a teeny tiny sliver of a path that could eventually lead them to re-release Super Meat Boy. Even though the path would be difficult they knew they owed it to their fans to at least try." Wrote Refenes. The result is an expected release of Super Meat Boy for PS4 and PS Vita later this year. The game will be free on Playstation Plus at launch. The announcement came complete with meat tossing video. Look what else the PS4 is getting - Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection confirmed for PS4 Online Editors
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In a stunning, unexpected development, Moonlight has won the Oscar for Best Picture at the 89th Academy Awards... after La La Land was initially, incorrectly announced as the winner. The shocking turn of events happened when presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were erroneously given Emma Stone's Best Actress win announcement envelope instead of the Best Picture one, resulting in the wrong film's name being announced. Three La La Land producers had given acceptance speeches before the mistake was revealed. Below, find video footage of the moment, as well as an apology statement from PricewaterhouseCoopers, the accounting firm in charge of tallying Oscar votes and handing out the envelopes. PricewaterhouseCoopers statement: We sincerely apologize to Moonlight, La La Land, Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, and the Oscar viewers for the error that was made during the award announcement for best picture. The presenters had mistakenly been given the wrong category envelope and when discovered, was immediately corrected. We are currently investigating how this could have happened, and deeply regret that this occurred. We appreciate the grace with which the nominees, the Academy, and Jimmy Kimmel handled the situation. The film beat out other movies including La La Land, Arrival, Hidden Figures, Manchester By the Sea, and more for the coveted accolade. It marks the third award for the Barry Jenkins-directed picture tonight. Earlier in the evening Mahershala Ali won for Best Supporting Actor, and the film won Best Adapted Screenplay as well. Moonlight was nominated for 8 awards in total. Read “Director Barry Jenkins on the Music that Made Moonlight” and “No More Classic Men: On Moonlight’s Bizarre Jidenna Moment” on the Pitch. For more of Pitchfork’s coverage of this year’s Oscars, click here.
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Oakland police chief under fire for response to raid by federal agents Anne Kirkpatrick (left) talks after being sworn in as Oakland’s permanent police chief of Police at an Oakland City Hall ceremony Feb. 27. Her response to an August operation by federal agents has been criticized by a city commissioner and several City Council members. less Anne Kirkpatrick (left) talks after being sworn in as Oakland’s permanent police chief of Police at an Oakland City Hall ceremony Feb. 27. Her response to an August operation by federal agents has been ... more Photo: Liz Hafalia, The Chronicle Buy photo Photo: Liz Hafalia, The Chronicle Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Oakland police chief under fire for response to raid by federal agents 1 / 1 Back to Gallery Oakland’s police chief is facing a complaint from a city commissioner and questions from City Council members over her department’s assistance in an immigration-related operation by federal agents that resulted in deportation proceedings against a West Oakland resident. At issue is whether Chief Anne Kirkpatrick made false statements and whether the department’s involvement violated Oakland’s sanctuary-city ordinances that bar police officers from cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. At the request of Homeland Security Investigations — the criminal division of ICE — Kirkpatrick agreed to send a sergeant, two police officers and two marked police cars on Aug. 16 to provide traffic enforcement while federal agents conducted what they said was a human trafficking investigation at the home of a Guatemalan family. Federal agents detained two adult brothers. Records indicate that deportation proceedings began against one, Santos Alberto, but that no criminal charges have been filed — contradicting a claim Kirkpatrick later made and meaning that city police officers provided aid to an immigration operation that only saw civil, not criminal, consequences. Councilwomen Desley Brooks and Rebecca Kaplan have questioned why the police assisted ICE in this case. In a written response to the council members’ questions, Kirkpatrick defended her actions, saying traffic enforcement was needed in part to reduce the risk of “friendly fire” — in which confused city police officers might shoot at armed plainclothes federal agents, or vice versa. And Kirkpatrick reiterated that she ordered the officers not to participate in the operation itself. Brian Hofer, chairman of the city’s Privacy Advisory Commission, took issue with both the involvement of Oakland police officers and Kirkpatrick’s statements around the operation. He and seven others concerned about the issue filed a formal complaint against the chief with the citizen police review board and the internal affairs division of the Police Department. Their complaint points to several purportedly false statements Kirkpatrick made about the operation. At a September town hall meeting, she said that one person had been charged with a crime and that it was “not a deportation matter,” both of which were untrue, the complaint says. The Police Department initially said on Aug. 16 that federal agents were investigating the sex trafficking of juveniles, but later statements amended the language to “human trafficking.” A news release that day also said the Police Department no longer had an agreement in place with Homeland Security Investigations. In fact, while the City Council in July voted unanimously to immediately rescind the contract — under which police officers could work on task forces with federal agents to investigate transnational crimes — City Administrator Sabrina Landreth did not send notice to the federal agency until the end of August, and its cancellation didn’t go into effect until a month later. Officer Johnna Watson, a police spokeswoman, said she couldn’t answer questions about the issues because the case is now the subject of an internal affairs complaint. In her report to the council ahead of the meeting, Kirkpatrick said the department will start posting after-action reports within two weeks of any immigration operation in the city, detailing what happened, how many police officers were involved and at what cost. ICE spokesman James Schwab said Tuesday that he couldn’t comment on the case because the investigation is still open. Abraham Simmons, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office in the Northern District of California, did not provide information about any criminal proceedings. Kimberly Veklerov is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @kveklerov
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By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The majority of the world is convinced that humans are changing the climate, for the worse. Now, evidence is mounting that paints just how grim a future we are making for ourselves and the planet. We will experience more extreme weather events, including hurricanes and droughts, mass extinctions and severe food shortages globally. The world’s leading group of climate-change experts, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has issued its most recent report after a five-day meeting last week in Yokohama, Japan. The IPCC, over 1,800 scientists from around the world, collects, analyzes and synthesizes the best, solid science on climate and related fields. The prognosis is not good. At the news conference announcing the report, IPCC chairperson Rajendra Pachauri warned, “If the world doesn’t do anything about mitigating the emissions of greenhouse gases and the extent of climate change continues to increase, then the very social stability of human systems could be at stake.” Pachauri speaks with the discipline of a scientist and the reserve of a diplomat. The latest report, though, states clearly: “Climate change can indirectly increase risks of violent conflicts in the form of civil war and inter-group violence.” It stresses how the world food supply, already experiencing stress, will be impacted, and those who are most vulnerable will be the first to go hungry. But the problem is even larger. The IPCC’s previous comprehensive report came out in 2007. Since that time, the amount of scientific findings has doubled, making human-induced climate change an irrefutable fact. But there are still powerful deniers, funded by the fossil-fuel industry. Oxfam, a global anti-hunger campaign organization, also is challenging the deniers with a report released last week called “Hot and hungry—how to stop climate change derailing the fight against hunger.” Oxfam’s Tim Gore says that “corporations like Exxon, the powerful economic interests that are currently profiting from our high-carbon economic model … stand to lose the most from a transition to a low-carbon, fair alternative.” Undaunted, ExxonMobil issued its own report following the IPCC’s this week, asserting that climate policies are “highly unlikely” to stop it from producing and selling fossil fuels in the near future. Fossil-fuel corporations like ExxonMobil exert enormous influence over climate-change policy, especially in the United States. The U.S. House of Representatives this week passed a measure that would effectively force the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and related bodies to ignore climate change, focusing instead on forecasting severe weather, but not its likely causes. Meanwhile, at the state level, the Tennessee Senate passed a bill banning investment in certain forms of public transit. According to ThinkProgress, the measure received critical funding from the billionaire Republican oil barons Charles and David Koch. The political influence of people like the Kochs will likely become more direct, with the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to eliminate personal contribution caps to candidates in its ruling in the case of McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission. One of the IPCC report authors, Bangladeshi climate scientist Saleemul Huq, put it this way on the “Democracy Now!” news hour: “Fossil-fuel companies … are the drug suppliers to the rest of the world who are junkies and are hooked on fossil fuels. But we don’t have to remain hooked on fossil fuels. We are going to have to cut ourselves off from them if we want to see a real transition and prevent temperature rises up to 4 degrees Celsius [7.2 degrees Fahrenheit].” That is the crux of the crisis: The major polluting nations are obstructing a binding global agreement to combat climate change. They have agreed, in principle, with the rest of the world, at the United Nations climate negotiations, to limit greenhouse-gas emissions to levels that would allow a global temperature increase of only 2 degrees Celsius [3.6 degrees Fahrenheit]. But the science says that goal is quickly slipping away, and that we are facing a 4-degree increase. Princeton professor Michael Oppenheimer, another IPCC report co-author, told me: “It’s not just a problem for the rest of the world … think about Hurricane Sandy. Think about how hard it was to deal with that storm. That’s today’s storms. Think about what happens over the next 10, 20, 30 years, when sea level goes up and the storms get worse.” “America is addicted to oil,” President George W. Bush, himself a failed oilman, famously said at his State of the Union address in 2006. The U.S. political establishment is swimming in fossil-fuel money, which is drowning democracy. Change will come from grass-roots organizing, from movements like students pushing their university endowments to divest from fossil-fuel corporations, from local communities fighting against fracking, and from the growing nonviolent direct-action campaign to block the Keystone XL pipeline. Amy Goodman is the host of “Democracy Now!,” a daily international TV/radio news hour airing on more than 1,200 stations in North America. She is the co-author of “The Silenced Majority,” a New York Times best-seller. © 2014 Amy Goodman Distributed by King Features Syndicate
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If one regards himself superior or equal or inferior by reason of the body that is impermanent, painful and subject to change, what else is it than not seeing reality? Or if one regards himself superior or equal or inferior by reason of feelings, perceptions, volitions or consciousness, what else is it than not seeing reality? If one does not regard himself superior or equal or inferior by reason of the body, the feelings, perceptions, volitions or consciousness what else is it than seeing reality? A word of warning may not be out of place here. It is inadvisable to dwell too much on our so-obvious faults. By unwisely reflecting on them we encourage them to root themselves still more firmly in our unconscious (i.e., our sankharas ). Instead remember the advice of Paul the Apostle "Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest... whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, if there be any praise, think on these things ." We as Buddhists have the Buddha Dhamma to think about — "lovely in the beginning, lovely in the middle, lovely in the ending." This as Dr. Henn Collins has pointed out is the true philosopher's stone whose alchemy will transmute the base metal of our ordinary consciousness into the gold of Enlightenment. Alternatively "I" am the result of past kamma. My talents are not due to my own virtue, but have arisen on account of the skilled actions performed by vanished personalities whose kammic descendant "I" am. Therefore it is silly of me to be conceited about qualities which are not in any real sense "mine." The method of analysis is also helpful. "I" am being praised for some real or imagined virtue, say generosity. Generosity is non-greed ( alobha ) one of the Good Roots, and as such appears in the list of dharmas given in the Abhidharma philosophy. According to Mahayana "All dharmas are empty of own-being" — that is to say they are non-existent. Therefore "I" am being praised for something which doesn't exist. This is so absurd that it knocks the bottom out of my conceit. 2. Get back to the first two "steps" of the Noble Eightfold Path (a) Right Understanding of the mental quality or capacity involved: to see according to reality "This (quality) is not mine; I am not this; there is no self in it"; (b) Right Aspiration towards the expunging of Conceit. In the Discourse on Expunging (Majjh. Nik. I.8) we read "Now I say that the arising of thoughts is very helpful in regard to skilled states of mind. Therefore the thought should arise 'Others may be harmful; as to this we will not be harmful' and so on for all our evil propensities. Others may be conceited; but we as to this will not be conceited.'" 1. Recognize Conceit whenever he pops up and name him. This as readers will remember is the advise given by Nyanaponika Thera in his valuable articles in "Sangha." Mara, like Satan, hates to be recognized. This practice is doubly effective because it "keeps one on one's toes," and induces a real dislike of the tendency. For our comfort we find that much can be done to curb the activities of this persistent Mara. Pride has been aptly described as the "giant weed." We may grub up a few roots in this life-span, but the thing has already gone to seed and will appear in the future. The cultivation of humility is not easy; there's a temptation to indulge in mock-modesty, and untruthfully disclaim any real achievement, and still worse to be conceited about not being conceited. It is wiser, I think, to tackle Conceit at its first uprising; if one can do that, then Humility will develop in the natural course of events. Conceit is very prone to arise when one is praised for some particular work or mental quality. Within limits praise from a knowledgeable person is stimulating and encouraging; some people who are modest or diffident by nature can only work well when they are appreciated. The trouble is that too much praise, particularly if it borders on flattery, stimulates the sense of "I"-ness. The ego sticks out its chest and feels two inches taller; it has a delicious feeling of security and believes itself to be invulnerable! Any conceit that arises in connection with the practice of Dhamma is much to be deplored. This sometimes occurs when students are making good progress in their studies. Some queer experience or flash of "insight" is assumed to be a sign of virtue or an advance towards Higher Consciousness, and the student, instead of checking up on his experience with a wise teacher, jumps to the conclusion that he is half-way to being an Arahant. We do well to remember that no two people have exactly the same experience in regard to meditation practice. The was recognized in the Buddha's own day: Sariputta was revered for his wisdom, and Moggallana for his psychic powers, but both were venerated as "Great Beings." Conceit can arise from the most trivial cause. One completes a piece of work, and having made a good job of it, one is naturally pleased. There's no harm in that: we all know the difference between a worker whose only interest is his pay-packet, and the man who takes pride in his work. The trouble arises when we begin to make comparisons — "X. couldn't have done it half as well." That may be quite true, but it is dangerous to think that because one's skill is superior in a single instance that one is therefore a better person. That is "Superiority Conceit," and it has its counterpart in the "Inferiority Conceit" of the unsuccessful person, and the "Equality Conceit" of the man who says "I'm as good as you." With the underlying implication "And a good deal better!" Pride in all its forms, devolves from self-esteem, which is in reality "ego-worship." It stems, so they say, from Greed, the first of the Roots of evil. The thought here is rather subtle: when the ordinary person thinks of greed he thinks first of what one puts into one's tummy — that second helping of plum-pudding, or the consumption of a pound of candies in a single evening. The commentators of old were much more drastic. Greed is "delight in one's own possessions." Hence we can be greedy about anything to which we have affixed the label "mine." My car, my table, my cat, my best beloved. The Greedy aspect of Conceit is recognized when we realize we are "taking delight" in our own good qualities or capacities. In Christian literature of the lighter sort we sometimes come across the expression "Little Devil DOUBT." This personage is not known to Buddhists, but another little devil can be still more devastating. He is an ugly little Mara, named CONCEIT. Unlike his big brother Pride, who is not lacking in dignity, Conceit is a mean, slinking little devil, lurking in dark corners and always ready to rush out and nip our heels. Doubt is slain when the disciple wins the stream: Conceit being a manifestation of Pride, remains a menace to the very end. by Brian Fawcett (From "The Sangha," The Journal of the English Sangha Association, V.1) Few of us are free from Pride in one form or another. We know that in the interests of spiritual development it must be killed out. We are taught as much, and accept the teaching without question. But the method by which Pride may be eliminated is a problem not easy to solve, and the indirect, sweeping precepts of the sages are of little practical help to us. It is all very well saying: "Kill out this, and kill out that," but what we want to know is, how may we go about it? In the first place: what is Pride? Let us call analogy to our aid. Regard pride as a weed, propagating itself with alarming fecundity in the garden of the mind. Its root is not visible, but the flowering shoots are in plain view. Cut down these shoots and either they grow again or the roots puts out new ones. The only way to destroy it is to dig it up altogether. That root is Self-Esteem. From it grow the roots of Conceit, Boastfulness, Ambition, Jealousy, Envy and Intolerance. There are others, but let us take these six manifestations for the sake of discussions. Unbiased, detached self-scrutiny will disclose what others may exist in one's own character, and it is unlikely that all will be found equally developed. There is cause for alarm when we discover them in ourselves. Pride is invariably despised when observed in others, yet we sometimes boast of possessing it. "I have my pride, you know," is a common assertion. Beneath every manifestation of Pride, lies Self-Esteem. It is the conviction of superiority over others — the feeling that we are what they are not, or that we can do what they cannot do. Successes in early childhood may sow the seeds of it. The praise of relatives fosters it. Once planted, it grows, and not even the flattening criticism by one's own contemporaries in adolescence can stop it. By and by it becomes a habit to compare oneself with the people one meets or passes in the street, generally to their disadvantage. What we know of our own accomplishments is measured by what we presume they lack. We think we know our friends inside and out, and our judgments are based on a firm belief in the infallibility of our perception. There is a tendency to group those who are not obviously outstanding under the heading of "Ordinary People," and sometimes to place them in the inferior category for no more reason than that they look as if they belong there. How often we hear the remark: "He seems so ordinary, but when you get to know him there's a lot in him!" We are surprised to see our spot judgment wrong — that there really is something in that very ordinary-looking person. Can we honestly claim to be free of this habit of automatically comparing others with our own ideas of ourselves? If so, then Self-Esteem is not present. It would be bad enough if Pride flourished in no more then Self-Esteem, but it must manifest itself in every way it can. It strives to show on the surface, which is perhaps just as well, for then it becomes obvious. Conceit, first shoot of the weed Pride, is Self-Esteem manifesting in visible form. Not content with merely feeling superior to the people around us, we show it in our bearing. A glance from some passer-by of the opposite sex may be interpreted as a look of approval. The fine figure reflected in the shop window as we pass engenders a feeling of warm satisfaction. Smart clothes, we believe, do justice to our carriage. We may not be so tall as that person over yonder, but we have a more distinguished look. No one would pick out any one of them in a crowd, but all can see we are different. Crude, isn't it? But that is the way Conceit affects us, and its crudity is indeed shocking when self-analysis brings us face to face with it. Inspired by a consciousness of a desire for Truth, our minds turn the searchlight of enquiry inwards upon our own characters, and then there dawns the realization that Conceit has been part of us for as long as we remember. Formerly, we would have angrily denied the charge of being conceited. Now we see that it is well founded. Our "apartness," our treasured "individuality," is plainly one of its aspects. Conceit has grown without its presence being suspected, and an even more dangerous and disgusting shoot has sprung up beside it. This is Boastfulness — Self-Esteem's oral manifestation. One of our national conventions is the taboo on bragging, and the idea of voicing a plain, undisguised boast would shock us as much as it would disgust the conventional listener. a very admirable convention too — but it by no means eliminates Boastfulness, for there are other ways of boasting, and as long as the desire to call attention to oneself exists, that particular ramification of Pride is a danger. We can get others to boast for us. We can also impress them (particulary our relations) that they sing our praises to others. In this way we gain more than were it to come from ourselves, and run no risk of its incurring disagreeable criticism. We can seek publicity and, once gained, declaim it. We may artfully bring a conversation round to a point at which we "modestly" have to admit to something we are really proud of. It takes a certain amount of courage to probe one's own secret heart and bring to light some of the many ways in which we who sincerely believe ourselves to be guiltless can actually indulge in Boastfulness. It is one of the most persistent roots of the weed of Pride, and the most dangerous because so frequently overlooked. There are two kinds of Ambition. There is Wrong Ambition, and Right Ambition. One is based on Self-Esteem; the other is free of any taint of it. Wrong Ambition is the desire to excel or succeed in order to enhance one's standing — one's reputation. It is the urge to achieve with the object of "putting the other chap's eye out!" In its more acceptable, and therefore more insidious aspect, it is the will to gain admiration and respect — to become, in fact, a worldly "success," which nearly always means a financial success. Confident of our great worth, we cannot be satisfied until repeated success have called the attention of others to it. We feel that wealth is a concrete recognition of it. Right Ambition, on the other hand, is above itself. It is the will to succeed, not for the gratification of self-esteem, but to further achievement for its own sake. The painter who strives to express adequately the idea inspiring him — the poet who seeks to express an emotion as it has never been expressed — the craftsman ever intent on bettering his achievement — all are followers of Right Ambition. Their "selves" are forgotten. They work as instruments, and they feel that in the expression of their art is little personal, but rather a universal power whose tools they are. Noblest ambition of all is the desire to achieve an objective of disinterested service to one's fellow creatures, whether human or animal. it is sometimes gratifying to learn how many of us have this objective. Jealousy might be defined as the resentment felt against another for competing at the same level. Note that it is at the same level that competition begets jealousy. An admission of inferiority by the other will quickly banish the jealousy we may feel against him. Those we admit to be our superiors do not arouse our jealousy. It is a bestial emotion, but one that undoubtedly had its uses in our passage through the lives in the Instinctive Mind, for it was an aid to our survival. Carried over into the influence of Intellect it has no place, and puts a drag on our upward progress. He who is at one moment the object of our jealousy, is regarded with affection once that jealousy has been smothered. What may has served us for the conservation of the means of life when we existed in a lower condition is now no more than a vehicle for Pride's manifestation, and its redundancy is obvious the moment the reason has torn Jealousy's red veil from the perception. We know it is useless, and long to rid ourselves of it. We seem to succeed, and then conditions come about favorable to its reappearance, and the unwelcome pangs are felt again. Remember, then, that it is a shoot of Self-Esteem and until that root has been killed out the shoot may be beaten down only to blossom again. We joke about Envy, and are inclined to look on it as less despicable than Jealousy, its near relative. Think about it — think over and around it — define it to yourself — get to know it. When the nature of an unpleasant thing is known, it is less to be dreaded. With all these ramifications of the weed of Pride the same approach can be recommended. Define them to yourself. Figure out what they are and how much you are subject to their influence. Envy can be called the resentment felt against another for possessing that which one values and does not posses oneself. It may be only a gentle resentment sometimes, but is dangerous nevertheless, for it may become fierce. Underlying it is the feeling, "Why should he have it, and not I?" Self-Esteem is outraged. Then there is Intolerance. Sometimes it is the only form of Pride we are subject to. It is often the most robust shoot of the whole plant. It springs directly from Self-Esteem, for it is a refusal to accept anything that conflicts with our own ideas. It is to brand as wrong all that to us is not right. Intolerance causes us to condemn a person for doing that with which we disagree, but let him do just what we would do ourselves and — here is what is so unreasonable — a feeling of jealousy may be aroused. Pride sweeps us first one way, then another. There is no keeping our feet when once in its grasp. Don't expect Pride to be in any way "reasonable," for it wilts and disappears in the light of reason, its greatest foe. We are repeatedly being asked: "Why carry the burden of Pride? Throw it aside! It is so much relief to rid yourselves of its weight and know the lightness of freedom!" We feel inclined to retort: " That's all very well, but how can we get rid of it? We know we must, but we don't know how to begin!" The sickle which can cut down these roots is Reason — calm reflection — Meditation. Make it your task for a few weeks to give up half an hour daily for reasoning it out, and the results may amaze you. Look at yourself, as it were, from outside. Be honest with yourself, in making a searching examination to determine how Pride is manifesting through you, for fair self-analysis is in itself a powerful weapon to use against it. Classify those manifestations. Reason them out. Do they make sense? In your everyday life try and form the habit of watching with interest to spot each of Pride's several shoots as it appears, and once a week spend a meditation hour in asking yourself for a detailed report of every one noted. Form a picture in your mind of the perfect character, and compare your own character with it. For example, say to your self: "Now, I think there was an inclination to boast in my remark to Mrs. So-and-so at tea yesterday. How would the Ideal Being have acted under the circumstances?" Or again: "Would the Ideal Being have considered himself superior in bearing to those ugly people I passed in such-and-such a street? Of course not! He would have been above that." The power of standing apart from, and criticizing, the Ego who is subject to Pride, allows you to find satisfaction in adverse criticism from others. Whereas formerly you felt bitter if ridiculed or put "in the wrong," it now amuses you, for you see what good medicine it is for the Self you desire to set free. When others treat you with intolerance, welcome it, for they are doing you a favor by striking direct at your own intolerance. Seek those things which formerly aroused in you the pangs of Envy or Jealousy. Find pleasure in feeling that other self hurt by them, knowing that the wounds are suffered by the false Ego — Pride — and not by the real You. It will not be long before the pain is gone, and then you will have a good laugh at the memory of that squirming demon who fled surprised and vanquished. We who are subject to Conceit dread ridicule. Cease to dread it. When we see the wicked caricatures, or witness those vivid mimicries of ourselves, it is for us to welcome them, for they are aiding us materially in the conquest of Pride. So also, to hear ourselves belittled is an antidote for Boastfulness. When we do, there is no need to hide a raging heart behind a sickly smile. Once we have learned the trick of standing apart from ourselves these things can no longer hurt. But beat down the shoots of Pride as we may, we cannot be free from the weed until the root has gone. It is right to prevent the shoots from thriving. Destroy them by all means. But Pride will persist in making its appearance until Self-Esteem is rooted out — and to accomplish that is the hardest job of all! Here is a tip that may perhaps be of service. Try and form the habit of supposing every passer-by on whom the thoughts rest to be possessed of at least one attribute superior to your own. Think to yourself: "This creature isn't much to look at, but I'll bet she is far more even-tempered than I am!" Look at that rather foppish young man whose appearance used to annoy you, and think: "All the same, in a pinch he would show far greater physical courage than I." Cease to regard the large, loud-mouthed person as empty-headed, and think instead: "He's probably far cleverer with his hands than I." We are all learning our lessons in Life's school-room. Some are more advanced than us in one thing, and behind us in others. The person who cannot resist the temptation to gratify the senses may nevertheless be a good angel to others in need of help. The thief may be an actual hero. If we consistently regard others as possessing at least one of those desirable characteristics we ourselves are striving for, we are actually admitting our inferiority, and Self-Esteem suffers a staggering blow. Remember that Self-Esteem is a habit, and just as a habit must be acquired, so may it be abandoned. We are not born with it. We cultivate it by regarding ourselves as superior to others in some particular thing — later in more things — ultimately in everything. Kill it out by recognizing the superiority of others in some way. Credit them with that superiority, even though you don't know they possess it. Self-Esteem will die for lack of nourishment, and one day will come the first joyful realization that there is no Him nor Her nor You, but that we are all one. You need not fear going too far and acquiring an "inferiority complex." Your eyes will be open, and what you will find is True Humility.
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The RCMP is alleging top brass of the Ontario Provincial Police union participated in a sophisticated financial scheme involving a travel company, a consulting firm and high-risk offshore investments, “to profit and deceive” their members, putting their union in peril. Among the alleged investments: two beachside condos in the Bahamas, one valued at $1.5 million, and $100,000 in union money wired to an income fund in the Cayman Islands. OPP Association president Jim Christie, right, and chief administrative officer Karl Walsh are two of the union's leaders alleged to have committed theft, breach of trust, fraud and laundering the proceeds of crime, according to unproven allegations in an affidavit the RCMP used to obtain search warrants executed late last week. ( FACEBOOK ) OPPA president Jim Christie, left, chief administrative officer Karl Walsh and vice-president Martin Bain stepped aside Monday in the wake of the RCMP raids. No charges have been laid. According to unproven allegations in an affidavit the RCMP used to obtain a series of search warrants executed late last week, Ontario Provincial Police Association president Jim Christie, vice-president Martin Bain and chief administrative officer Karl Walsh are alleged to have committed theft, breach of trust, fraud and laundering the proceeds of crime. “(Christie, Bain and Walsh) have made numerous decisions that demonstrate an intentional lack of stewardship and accountability,” wrote RCMP Sgt. Gordon Aristotle, who petitioned the court for permission for the Mountie raids on the OPPA office, union vehicles and residences of Christie, Bain and Walsh, and more. “I believe they have financially benefited from their actions, breached the trust of the OPPA membership and placed the OPPA and its membership at a significant financial risk,” Aristotle concluded. Article Continued Below The trio stepped aside on Monday in the wake of the RCMP raids. No charges have been laid. Their alleged accomplices include Toronto criminal lawyer Andrew McKay, a former police officer, as well as Noel Francis Chantiam and Klara Kozak, who are partners in First Response, the travel company believed to be involved in the scheme, the affidavit states. McKay, Kozak and Chantiam are alleged to have committed fraudulent concealment, laundering proceeds of crime and fraud, according to the affidavit. (L-R) Partner - First Response, Klara Kozak, Lawyer and owner First Response, Andrew McKay. RCMP search warrant document, unsealed Friday, detail a complex web of suspected criminal activity within the top echelons of OPP union. The following report is based entirely on allegations in the affidavit, none of which has been tested in court. None of those named in the document could be reached for comment Friday. Acting OPPA president Doug Lewis said in a statement that he was “saddened and shocked to learn of the allegations contained in the document.” The union is currently conducting its own independent internal investigation by the legal firm of Stikeman Elliott, Lewis said. In a message to the union’s more than 6,000 members on Thursday, the OPPA said, “the RCMP investigation is in early stages, and ... no charges have been laid.” Article Continued Below RCMP Const. Jean Juneau declined to comment on the investigation, which he described as “complex.” “Those warrants were obtained because we had suspicions of activities that we needed to confirm,” Juneau said. “It’s going to take quite a while before we’re able to establish if there’s a crime or not.” (Click/tap here for a primer on the key players.) The RCMP document, unsealed Friday, suggests a complex web of suspected criminal activity within the top echelon of the union. The allegations range from risky offshore investments, to thousands in unearned pay, to a sudden, unexplained switch to a new travel agency the Mounties allege is partly owned, in secret, by Christie, Bain and Walsh. The probe of the OPPA was triggered from within by four union whistleblowers who approached the OPP in October after growing increasingly concerned about possible fraudulent activity, the affidavit states. Much of the alleged fraudulent activity centres around a mysterious company called PIN Consulting Group. According to the affidavit, it was registered last June and its sole director is McKay, the lawyer. Shortly after PIN was registered, Walsh and Christie signed a three-year contract with the company on behalf of the OPPA, which began last July and was valued at $180,000, roughly $5,000 per month. The services to be provided by PIN, run out of the same Bloor St. address as McKay’s law office, included real estate and commercial investments, vacation property opportunities and travel benefits, according to the document. PIN has no presence on the Internet and whistleblowers told the RCMP that they have no “knowledge or evidence” to show that McKay has skills or experience in the travel and investment industry “which would be of any value to the OPPA,” the document states. “Walsh, Christie and Bain are allegedly benefitting financially from PIN’s business relationship with the OPPA, however, the extent of this benefit is not yet known,” Aristotle wrote. According to the document, the consulting firm was allegedly responsible for introducing the union bosses to Kozak and the travel company First Response. The company was registered just 10 days after PIN, as a partnership between Kozak and Chantiam, who is described by a union whistleblower as McKay’s “rich friend” who hosted OPPA members in a Rogers Centre box. “Without any cause or explanation,” Walsh abruptly dropped the OPPA’s former travel company, Flight Centre, and directed union members to use First Response exclusively for all their travel needs, the document states. The travel company is also allegedly being used to secure contracts for the OPPA’s golf tournament, the annual general meeting and the spring board meeting, which have an estimated value of $400,000. ( FACEBOOK IMAGE ) First Response was listed as a division of Leximco, according to the document, whose directors are shown as Kozak and McKay. One of the whistleblowers told RCMP that emails on Walsh’s computer showed the six players owned all the shares in the travel company, the affidavit states. The document alleges that the monthly consulting fees paid by the OPPA to PIN were being used “for the benefit” of the union bosses, to pay $30,000 for 30 First Response shares. To hide their ownership in First Response, the shares belonging to the union bosses — none of whom disclosed their stake in the company to their board of directors or membership — were held in trust by Kozak “through an offshore investment scheme,” the document alleges. In early 2014, the RCMP says Walsh, Christie and McKay took two trips to the Bahamas. After these trips, they started making “higher risk investment decisions” on behalf of the OPPA, two of which were based in offshore jurisdictions and allegedly not pre-approved by the board of directors, the affidavit states. The first was a $20,000 deposit on two condos in Nassau, Bahamas, which were valued at $1.5 million and $625,000; it was only discovered when union staff requested backup paperwork for the charge on Walsh’s OPPA-issued credit card, the affidavit alleges. According to the document, Walsh claimed he was buying the condos as high-end vacation rental property investments for the OPPA. But the employees who reported their concerns to police did not understand the purchase, which was a departure for the union’s historically conservative investment strategy and not-for-profit status. One of the whistleblowers told the RCMP that the OPPA can’t make profits or the union will risk losing its not-for-profit status with the Canada Revenue Agency. The backup paperwork showed the deposit for the condo investments was made in Walsh’s name, and listed McKay’s office as the mailing address, but had later been changed to the OPPA and its address, the document states. Walsh later advised that he was cancelling the condo investments; however, more than $13,000 had yet to be refunded. Last August, Walsh allegedly made another “high-risk” offshore investment, wiring $100,015 of OPPA funds to the Cayman Islands to pay for shares in the Cayman-based New Providence Income Fund. Walsh told his employees that he intended to endorse New Providence and encouraged the membership to invest in the income fund, according to the document. One of the whistleblowers told police they had been upset that nothing was said about the condo purchase or the Cayman investment at the union’s annual general meeting. The whistleblower told the RCMP that they ran into Walsh, who said, “We could have spent a million dollars and these idiots wouldn’t have said a thing.” The affidavit alleges that PIN was responsible for the OPPA investing in New Providence. Some of the OPPA employees believed that PIN is also involved in the “evaluation, procurement and development” of the proposed site for the new OPPA office in Oro, Ont., and that McKay’s brother, Barry McKay, has a hand in the project. The RCMP is also looking into allegations that the union bosses further profited with fake claims for vacation leave payouts and personal expenses. Aristotle wrote in the affidavit, “The totality of the alleged behaviour demonstrates an ongoing breach of trust . . . by Walsh, Bain and Christie that has escalated in sophistication and significance.” The search warrants were executed last Friday.
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About This Game Key features: 3D First-person bullet-hell giant robot boss-battle(Titans) action! Build Titans with the Giant Robot Construction Kit -- 600+ Titans in Steam Workshop already! Create your own levels in the Arena Builder -- 200+ maps in Steam Workshop Drunken Robot Pornography (DRP) is a bullet-hell first-person shooter for Windows. Battle giant robots -- called Titans -- as they try to slice you apart with their lasers. Pick off their missile launchers, fry away their carbon fiber armor, and tear off their claws, leaving them writhing.You're Reuben Matsumoto. You used to own a bar.You gave your robot bartender, Tim, sentience. He went nuts, stole your other 12 bots, and burned down your bar.He's attacking Boston with 20,000 drones, 40 Titans, and his lieutenants, the 12 Drunken Robot Centerfolds.30-story tall giant robots. Jetpacks. Guns. It all started so innocently. Your robot bartender, Tim, used to make the best drinks at your nightclub. But you gave him sentience so that he could better empathize with the customers. Struck by the world's problems, he went crazy, burned your club to the ground, and fled with your twelve exotic robot dancers. Weeks later, giant robots started attacking the City of Boston -- not a coincidence!
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CONSOLE: Famicom DEVELOPER: Shimada Kikaku PUBLISHER: Character Soft RELEASE DATE (JP): December 11, 1992 GENRE: Platformer // review by SoyBomb This won't take long. Obviously, this game is based on the Hello Kitty franchise, and it shows. There is about as much challenge here as there is sitting in an old lawn chair: takes about half a minute to finally settle down into the thing, and then once you finally get comfortable, you discover there's a twig in your bikini shorts. You play the role of Kitty, and your duty is to make every flower in the land grow. 'Tis a noble quest, prettying up the world, one flower at a time, and perhaps it is a lofty one, knowing how many gardens exist in the world today. Luckily, for Hello Kitty, the world is very small and she can probably take care of the situation in about an hour. With a watering can in tow, Kitty goes through 18 stages, trying to water all the potted plants conveniently strewn about to make a tall flower grow out of each of them. By holding Down, Kitty will release water from her can to cause a sprout to grow. But you have to keep watering it until a full impressively-surprised flower pops out. Isn't that a grand central theme for a video game? Oh, Kitty. If it wasn't for Kitty's absolutely adorable flat feet, I wouldn't give this a second look. Sounds pretty simple, eh? For the most part, it IS simple — perhaps TOO simple. The only major obstacles that really get in your way are moving platforms (yikes!) and some foes that are nothing to scoff at, although feel free to do all the scoffing you wish against these little creatures: snails, small squirrels, and those pesky bouncing beach balls. Okay, who forgot to put their beach ball on a leash?! That's it: six months in the hoosgow! (Did I spell that correctly?) Luckily, Kitty has a secret weapon: a wooden mallet! Kitty isn't so harmless now, is she? Within those pleasant whiskers and those adorable flat feet flows the blood of a cold-hearted killer! Okay, not really. She just temporarily stuns enemies. We can't have violence in a Sanrio game. That would be unreal. That being said, if you grow a flower and a strawberry pops out, you can become invincible and knock out anything that gets in your way. Oh, Kitty. At least the game is cute, even if it's painfully plain for a game from 1992. One cannot say no to the ever-powerful warming glow of Kitty. Also, every part of this world in which she lives is coated with wallpaper. Where even IS this? Are there lands out there coated in polka dots and dull fish design? If there is, I'm packing my bags! (There IS a place like that, actually. It's called a wallpaper store.) So I've basically described the game. Does it ever get difficult? No. Does it ever get particularly exciting? Not really. Did it make me love Hello Kitty more? Not at all. Maybe it caused me to love her a little less. It's a Hello Kitty game; it was designed primarily for kids, not for adults with fetishes for flat-footed felines. Yet as a reviewer, it just didn't pop for me. Perhaps that's because it can be completed in under an hour on the first try... with minimal effort... while fending off wild miniature squirrels. Oh, Kitty. Kitty Carlisle.
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I recently learned all about "Poe's Law," from Cracked Editor David Wong. Poe's Law is a handy little concept invented by Nathan Poe in a religious Internet forum a few years ago. According to Wikipedia, the "core of Poe's law is that a parody of something is by nature extreme, [which] makes it impossible to differentiate from sincere extremism." In Nathan's case, the law applied to his inability to distinguish religious extremism from a parody of religious extremism. I don't hang around religious forums (court order), but I'm starting to feel like Poe's Law is just as applicable to movies. Something about movies changed over the last few years. Like Poe, I'm looking at the world around me and desperately searching for a joke that would be impossible to find. I can no longer tell if movies are being serious. I used to be able to watch trailers and say, "This is clearly a parody" or "This is just a bad movie." But, these days, the gap between the two has become so blurry and thin, I'm like Nathan Poe, looking for some kind of winking emoticon that let's me know what's what. So many people will say that they love movies like Machete and Drive Angry and Snakes On A Plane "ironically" which is absolutely meaningless to me because A) I'm kinda dumb, B) irony as a concept was murdered by the Internet years ago and C) I only know how to like movies or hate movies genuinely. Some filmmakers are embracing this idea of movies being designed to be consumed ironically, while other filmmakers are just making shitty movies. And the frustrating thing is that there is no observable difference between the two. Once upon a time, I could finish watching a trailer and my only thought would either be "That was good" or "That was bad." Now, I watch most trailers and I just scratch my head, thinking, "Hey, filmmakers: Did you really mean that? Do you think shooting a movie where Nicolas Cage has sex on a motorcycle while he shoots machine guns is a genuinely good idea, or a patently ridiculous (and therefore 'ironically' good) idea? Is any of this a joke?" Continue Reading Below Advertisement To help illustrate my point, I watched three current movie trailers of films that are either terrible or hilarious from three different genres (Romantic Comedy, Comedy, Action), over and over again, all day. (My job is pretty cool.)
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Minister for Finance Michael Noonan will abstain in the vote on the remuneration package for Bank of Ireland chief executive Richie Boucher at the bank’s agm today, the Dáil has heard. The Government has rejected a call by Labour backbenchers for Mr Noonan to exercise his vote based on the State’s shareholding against the package for Mr Boucher and other directors of the financial institution. In a series of questions five Labour TDs urged the Minister to send a “very clear and loud message that these outrageous salaries are not acceptable in a bank that this State and taxpayers had to bail out”. Dublin South East TD Kevin Humphreys said “abstention is not policy and it’s not good policy in this case”. Minister of State for Finance Brian Hayes insisted however it was a decision of every member of the Government that Mr Noonan abstain. He also said Mr Noonan was voting “in favour of the election and re-election of the bank’s directors”. Bank strategy The Minister holds a 15 per cent stake in the bank on behalf of the Government. He expects to receive an outline of each bank’s strategy by the end of April to reduce payroll costs by between 6 per cent and 10 per cent. “It was in this context that he decided to abstain on the resolution to consider the report on directors’ remuneration,” Mr Hayes said. Mr Humphreys said Mr Boucher received a basic salary of €690,000 well above the Government cap of €500,000. “He also receives other payments including pension contributions to bring his package to over €800,000. He was one of the architects of the lending bubble who directed lending in Bank of Ireland.” He added: “I urge you to abandon the policy of abstention on this issue and vote No in this case.” The bank had “lapsed back into its old ways” and was using market research “to try and trick people off tracker mortgages to improve their bottom line so they can pay super salaries to their top executives”. Dublin Mid-West TD Robert Dowd said: “We as a Government have been too soft on the banks for too long and it’s time for the Minister to take a stand for the public when dealing with them.” Voice of the people Wicklow TD Anne Ferris said she was looking to the Minister to ensure the voices of the Irish people were heard at the Bank of Ireland agm. She asked why the State had not repossessed the bank’s historically significant College Green premises, “the world’s first purpose-built two-chamber parliament”, as part of the social dividend for the State’s investment in the bank. Carlow-Kilkenny TD Ann Phelan said the payments to Mr Boucher and other directors showed “the blatant disregard for the current economic situation in this country”. She urged Mr Noonan to “say no to the bankers and say no to the huge salaries and restore some faith to the Irish people that we will do right by them”. Kerry North TD Arthur Spring said Mr Boucher joined Bank of Ireland in 2003 and became a director in 2006. Mr Boucher “should have a shot across the bow” and “should be put in his place”.
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Mary Dailey | Lead Organizer [email protected] Quote “I had to turn my anger into a slow burning fire, instead of a consuming fire. You don’t want the fire to go out — you never let it go out — and if it ever gets weak, you stoke it, but you don’t want it to burn you up. It keeps you going, but you subdue it, because you don’t want to be destroyed by it. When I talk about a slow burning fire, I mean a fire that is banked for the moment. All the fire it ever had is still there. I can uncover a little bit at a time, and if it flames up too high, I can throw more ashes on it so it won’t come up and burn me, and everybody around me. But I don’t want to put it out, I want it to stay there. It’s there, it could flare up, and there may be times when it should flare up. What you need is a good backlog going all the time.” – Myles Horton – from The Long Haul
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Do the Crucifix Stretch Our society has become increasingly sedentary, which isn't good for low back pain and function because prolonged sitting has been linked to low back pain. Now pain is multifaceted, and biomechanics is just one aspect to the popular biopsychosocial model of pain, so the effects of sitting and back pain (and posture) are probably over-exaggerated. However, we should still try to preserve good posture throughout life, especially since it doesn't take much effort. The typical desk-worker is slumped over with a rounded spine, rounded shoulders, and a forward head position. We want to "undo" this posture by stretching the shortened muscles and strengthening the lengthened muscles. The crucifix stretch achieves both. What to Do Stand tall and place the arms out to the sides. Simultaneously extend the spine by picking the chest up and externally rotating the shoulders by pointing the thumbs behind you. Keep the head and neck in a neutral or packed position (which resembles a double-chin). Hold this position for 3 seconds and repeat 5-10 times. How to Step It Up Okay tough guy, you think you're too cool for the crucifix stretch? Give the band face pull/pull apart combo a try. Related: Increase Athleticism in 6 Minutes Related: 4 Things to do After Lifting to Boost Gains
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Abe has been into prickly pears as a crop for a year or so, and his enthusiasm has now really caught on with the rest of us. Planting When Abe originally told me that he wanted to plant 5000 prickly pears over the next few years, I kind of smiled and patted him gently on the shoulder. However, we have now started gathering pads for real and that goal seems easily attainable. Last year, he cut five pads from a cold-tolerant, spineless variety, which he planted in and around the forest garden. This year, he was able to cut and plant 22 pads off of those original five, and even since he did that they have re-grown so that we could probably cut another 20. These will be used mainly for the pads as a vegetable, and will be planted close to the house. Last year, he also planted about 100 pads with spines around the contours of the property. These are designed to help mark future swales that we wish to make. Not only do they show the contour, but they also help retain run-off. This year, we have gathered at least another 150 pads of various different kinds. When we cut a pad, we generally leave it a couple of weeks for the “wound” to callous before planting it. Plating is easy, just make a small hole and plant the pad vertically, with about half below ground We have had almost zero losses propagating them this way. This year’s harvest are almost ready and so we’ll soon be planting them every 6 feet or so around the perimeter fence. Then, next year, we will be able to take pads from those and fill the space between plants. After a few years, this will become continuous, impenetrable wall of spines encircling the property.
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Advertisement Though a lot of money sneaks into next generation gaming, smaller, browser-based games are far from extinct. Everyday, tons of them are released MUO Games - The Best Websites to Play Flash Games MUO Games - The Best Websites to Play Flash Games Read More on the world wide web. As a reply to this huge part of the free gaming community, there will be one weekly MUO Gaming compilation of Flash games. For this very first episode, we have pointed the theme towards a very important aspect of ourselves and our lives. It’s the thing that keeps the drool in our mouth and our feet on the ground nearly every day. As you may have guessed, I’m talking about our brain. Featured in this article are five web-based games to kick-start your brain in the morning, or to keep it going in the evening. Our favorite logic and memory flash games. Z-Rox is a brilliant game. It’s a game that’ll make you use parts of your brain that you probably haven’t used before, maybe even parts you don’t realise you have. Here’s the concept. On your screen is a line. This line is getting longer, shorter or breaking up into different parts. The thing is, you don’t have to look at it as a line, you have to look at it as a very slim window. Behind this window, several things will fly upwards, be it letters, numbers or shapes. By looking at the changing line, you have to determine the global form of the object. It’s almost impossible to guess all of them, but because it’d be a huge shame to miss out on half of the levels, just because you’re stuck at one, a walk-through is provided here. Try to use it as less as possible. You’ll probably recognize the principle behind “Loops of Zen”. Your screen is filled with lines, which you can turn respectively 90, 180, 270 or 360 degrees. Hereby, you must reach the point wherein all the lines are properly connected. At the beginning of the game this looks pretty easy, but the levels gradually get harder, towards the point where you’ll be staring in despair at the screen. Use your mouse to tilt the tiles, the arrow keys to skip back and forth through the levels and the ‘m’ key to mute the sound. Meet light-Bot. He’s like Wall-E. Only less cute, less patented and less smart. You can help him with that last one, though. Your job (no, you won’t get paid) is to program little light-Bot. Using simple commands (like walk, turn jump, etc.) and repeating functions, you can make him maneuver through the environment and light up specific tiles. A woman took her four kids shopping one afternoon. To keep the peace, she said she’d buy one item each of their choice. As she shopped, she discovered that there were four extra items in her shopping cart that she hadn’t added or approved. After leaving the store, they stopped at an ice cream stand for a snack. She bought each child got an ice cream cone and a drink. From the clues, determine the item each child got, the extra item each child snuck into the cart, the flavor of ice cream each got, and the type of drink. 1. Amanda, who had maple walnut ice cream, didn’t get the fruit juice or the coloring book. 2. Sara didn’t get the comic book or the doll but she did slip the board game into the cart. 3. The boy who got the toy car didn’t add the action figure and didn’t have strawberry ice cream. 4. Each child is represented by the following: the girl who got the doll, the boy who got chocolate chip ice cream, Chris, and the girl who got milk. 5. Sara didn’t have vanilla ice cream. The boy who added the baseball cards got water to drink. 6. The child who got the computer game got iced tea. Larry didn’t get water. Now which is connected to what item? This is a very classic type of riddle, but one that never gets old. Push your deduction skills to the limit and learn to make connections. Puzzles.com hosts tons of different entertaining and mind-breaking puzzles. We’ll bring you more compilations of flash games next time. In the meantime, do you have any favourites of online brain games that you’d like to share with us? What games get you thinking?
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The simultaneous fall of the Murdoch and Berlusconi media empires – symbolic of an epoch – is not a coincidence but part of a deep global change in which the exponential growth of horizontal communication networks plays a central role. In this global epoch, despite the thin line between new democratic opportunities and the old threats of control, unforeseen democratic movements are demanding a new kind of democracy. The fall of the two most symbolic and influential media barons of the last thirty years might strike one as at most an important and pleasant coincidence. Here, I will reflect on the causes and implications of this double event and on how it could be a decisive model for a certain manner of exodus from the previous era. My argument is that what happened was no casual coincidence but rather determined by a movement of multitudes that, using networks of horizontal autonomous communication, has drained power from the vertical media empires. I address certain links between the two people in question in order to shed light both on their behaviour and the ideology that animates them. One thing is certain: nothing will ever be able to restore the terrible power that they have exercised throughout all these years. Their extensive and infernal multimedia machines will continue to disseminate what is left of their disastrous influence, but progressively deprived of their essential energies (like the savoir-faire of how to create majoritarian political consensus), they will inevitably burn out or fade away. These highly personal projects of dynastic continuity, coupled with the shame they profited from for what they imagined would be in perpetuity, suddenly appears illusory and out of step with current times. The circumstantial causes behind these two illustrious disappearances at first sight appear dissimilar: - Berlusconi inextricably intertwined three types of power: media domination, financial rule and political supremacy, all regionally localized, making their joint operation impregnable. - By contrast, Murdoch’s strategy was elaborated on the basis of a progressive expansion of his influence through an immense media network, acting in osmosis with other political and financial nerve centres of global governance. As we will see, the fall of his pre-eminence originates in the media and only appears fortuitous. Multimedia corporations and financialized global governance The rise and consolidation of global media corporations is one of the keystones of the transition from industrial capitalism to cognitive capitalism. The processes of privatization open up spaces previously reserved for the traditional media of nation-states and naturally favour conglomerates and hybrids. The big network moguls found themselves in an ideal position to assume this new role; our two ‘heroes’ are their own illustrious self-promoters, integrating their capitalist and financial projects into this new strategy of biopower. Corporations in the media sector became cognitive factories where the complex and articulated machines of mass immaterial production operated. In addition, big conglomerates like Time Warner, Viacom/CBS, Mediaset or Canal+ are connected through a dense network of collaborative participation and constitute, de facto, an oligopoly; a privileged environment in which to create a meta-language obeisant to biopower and spreading standardized content. Television had already undermined the Gutenburg Galaxy,[i] replacing the typographical symbol with images, as the first great media visionary, Marshall McLuhan, hypothesized, and had already become the dominant mass media in the ‘60s and ‘70s without this preventing, however, the social upheavals of that time from emerging and even involuntarily contributing to their propagation. In the meantime, privatization generated an enormous proliferation of television channels whose abundant production found a socially fertile terrain in the political flux of the ‘80s, which saw the rapid growth of single-parent families and young singles themselves (the latter accounting for around 25% of the US population in the 1990s).[ii] In this context, the daily number of hours spent watching television rapidly increased (4.5 hours in the US as against 2.5 hours in France at the end of the 1980s) on top of the time dedicated to other unidirectional media like the radio, the press, etc. Subjection and fear: dominant elements in biopower’s media framing[iii] The idea of mass manipulation is certainly not new. As Hermann Göring stated in an interview with G.M. Gilbert on April 18, 1946 during the Nuremberg Trials: The people don't want war, but they can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. […] This is easy. […] All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and for exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country. [iv] What is interesting are the techniques that were used by postindustrial media empires during this epoch. Information and entertainment, from which we get the famous neologism infotainment, are the legs of this mass-media cyborg. Biopower concentrated a particular effort in these two fields in order to create and enable the techniques of manipulation. In sophisticated ways, ‘framing’ was deployed – understood as the ability to create frames of interpretation and opportune associations and meanings in the minds of the viewers. Let’s take for example ‘reality shows’, an entertainment created with these goals in mind. One of its main supporters, the Dutch producer Endemol, invented ‘Big Brother’. Today, he is one of the owners of a consortium led, tellingly, by Mediaset and Goldman-Sachs. In this sense, Maurizio Lazzarato wrote in 1992 of the, “staging of information and public opinion that the [first] Gulf War unashamedly revealed in a series of ‘fabrication processes’ that rapidly shifted to the staging of ‘real life’”.[v] In reality, today we are beginning to realize that it wasn’t only real life that was being staged, but the spectacle of psychological and social isolation experiments; a form of calculated torture that is, quite possibly, a plausible matrix for the interpretation of Abu Ghraib.[vi] What we are looking at, as Jean Baudrillard rightly evokes, is the attempt to strengthen the fusion of the ‘enslavement show’ with the spectator – a technique developed to solicit collective animal automatisms.[vii] This media action led to paroxysms on Fox News in the period after the failed global coup d’état of the US administration,[viii] culminating in the campaigns to re-elect Bush and for the second Gulf War. In the first case, after the tenacious staging of a false neutrality continually highlighted by their ‘fair & balanced’ pop-ups, we saw Fox News’ masterful media coup announcing the victory of its candidate on the closing night of the polls. It dragged all the other networks into imitating it, thus taking out a decisive psychological mortgage on the controversy that would follow the Florida vote. In the second case, we witnessed the unlimited exploitation of the images of the World Trade Center in flames, with various media pundits hauntingly repeating keywords in a mantra, the systematic use of polls, music and graphics created ad hoc, and talk shows with the fire-breathing fascist Bill O’Reilly and his aggressive “Shut up!” against anyone who tried to contradict him, as revealed in the 2004 documentary Outfoxed, Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism.[ix] Manuel Castells wrote, “violence, broadcast over the communication networks, becomes the medium for the culture of fear communication power”.[x] In fact, the ‘production’, the commercialization and the daily and widespread dissemination of narratives and images of war, terror, violence and death are the leitmotif of nightly news and the other various transmissions from the media factory. The use of this media device has increased until it became a truly obsessive, continuous hammering after September 11. Messages were spread thanks to a meta-language created ad hoc to generate primary emotions and feelings; fear of the other, disgust and suspicion, all evocative frameworks used in classic ideological totalitarianism: the love of country, religious fundamentalism and the xenophobia so dear to many of our current ‘democratic’ leaders in Europe. As Castells states, “mirror neurons, by activating certain neural patterns, appear to play an important role in emotional communication”.[xi] Today, we have a build-up of neuroscientific evidence on how and how much the mass media can shape our mental processes, starting with A. Damasio’s findings on the influence that emotions and feelings have over reason and social behaviour.[xii] It is precisely on the basis of these thoughts and feelings that the process of political decision is formed. Added to this, we can include the discoveries made around the biological trait of mirror neurons,[xiii] the innate mechanism of automatic neural activation generated by the actions of those who surround us or by communication and which makes it possible to identify ourselves with the behaviour and intentions of others. The complex mechanisms triggered by mirror neurons are at the base of empathy and the evolution of language but, at the same time, make us vulnerable to political narration through media like the television: “mirror neurons produce the tendency to imitate in our brains and we are often unaware of it. They limit our autonomy with powerful conditioning that plays out on a social level”.[xiv] Over the course of this research, scientific evidence of the levels of conditioning have emerged and a new light has been shed on the efficiency of framing and other media conditioning techniques in a posthumous validation of the prophetic intuitions of Baudrillard and Debord in this field.[xv] Not to mention the validity of Michael Moore’s hypothesis when, in Bowling for Columbine, he highlighted the link between the use of violence in American media and the terrible massacre – the same could be said of what recently happened in Oslo. Not by chance, governance politicians hire communication specialists from multinationals, paid for with public money: “spin doctors” and “story spinners” that produce the ad hoc narratives broadcast by the media as illustrated by C. Salmon in his Storytelling. Bewitching the Modern Mind.[xvi] The rise to power: two parallel stories Returning to the parallel emergence of the two media empires in question and their respective creators, we need to go back to the ‘80s when a stream of privatizations and the attack on wages, employment and welfare began. It is during this time that the two began to gain visibility, when Reagan – who understood media, claptrap and cutting public expenditures quite well – sounded the first great charge of neoliberalism. Then Thatcher, whose neurons had already began to stiffen from epic antiunion and postcolonial battles, answered his call from London. It is precisely in this period that the Australian Rupert Murdoch, who had earned the nickname ‘Dirty Digger’, started the transformation of the tabloids Sun and News of the World into official news outlets, extracting huge profits in the process. These are some of the ‘talents’ that Murdoch already had in common with Silvio Berlusconi, the other rising media star of his generation, as well as traits such as the lack of any scruples in liquidating adversaries and business partners and the populist perspective that in due course made them the natural allies of the Iron Lady. Murdoch will repeat the process in the mid-‘80s when he lands in Los Angeles, the Mecca of global media power, buys a major network, Fox, and creates Fox News that from then on will be put to the service of Bush and the Republican party. As far as Berlusconi is concerned, without going over his complex life story here, what remains most vivid about his ascent are the images from an old documentary on the cultural channel ‘Arte’ that showed him entering the ’94 political race with his media and managers and hoards of call centres transformed into a political weapon for the lightning victory of his new Forza Italia party. This is the perfect example of the use of massive marketing and mass vertical communication as a way to mould minds into accommodating a political and personal model. He successfully fused neoliberalism, populism, corruption and illegal business practices in a single crucible. His character perfectly incarnated the model: he flaunted his hardnosed business practices, vulgarity and aggressiveness like a street hawker under the guise of common sense. Not to mention the particular aura created by his innumerable trials and summons in various tribunals. Despite all this, we cannot deny the favourable conjunctures he has been smart enough to exploit, nor the risks he has taken, something he loves to show off in the euphoric wake of opportune situations like the famous 1977 photo that shows him with a .357 magnum revolver negligently resting on his desk. This photo was taken and was understood in the context of his friendship with Bettino Craxi, at the beginning of his rise in the media. The Dirty Digger and the Caiman – a figure immortalized in Nanni Moretti’s film by the same name – had the same intuition: the media power of television at its historical height was crucial to their political projects. In fact, when the two appropriated the medium of TV, the conditions for creating and exploiting ‘available brain time’ were more than favourable. Patrick Le Lay, cynical ex-director of the French channel TF1, claimed with some pride that it was this ‘brain time’ that was the product being sold to Coca Cola in the form of commercials. Both were the first to use this principle of persuasion, subliminal, compulsive and heavily tilted towards the dominant ideology, on behalf of the political establishment. If this operation became the insignia of that global era, this was due above all to its perfect fit with the socio-political developments of the ‘80s. Television was dumbed down with very little by way of resistance to the lack of social, political and cultural stimuli after a hard day of underpaid, precarious work, not to mention the marketing segmentation that generated the famous over-50 housewife, the privileged target of commercial and political ads. Though they shared the same intuition, their rise and later fall were inevitably shaped by their surrounding contexts of class relations and geopolitical situations: Berlusconi, driven by the need to avoid bankruptcy and prison time, took advantage of Italy’s political contingency in the 1990’s, together with his regional media reach, to access his country’s executive power. Instead, Murdoch applied a different strategy of associating his networks with the political class and global finance in a rise to a personal power that may be less blatant but even more consistent. The name of his group reveals the ambition: News International Corporation. Manuel Castells maintains that network commutation, or ‘switching power’, resides at the heart of Murdoch’s authority: “the ability to connect different networks to ensure their cooperation by sharing common goals and increasing their resources”.[xvii] His 2007 buyout of the Wall Street Journal, one of the most influential voices in the financial world, seemed to confirm this hypothesis; while his attempt to buy into the world of social networks with his 2005 purchase of Myspace for $580 million (recently resold for $35 million), profoundly questioned it. I’d like to suggest that the strategies that once worked in the era of vertical media are no longer effective in the era of the networked multitudes. The fall from grace In many respects, Murdoch seemed far ahead in the media hierarchy; he was the third man behind Bush and Blair in the war against Iraq. We could call him Rupert XIII, as this was his ranking in Time magazine’s ‘100 Most Influential People’. Although Berlusconi has never been classified in this list, it would seem that he is poised to win 2011’s top prize for ‘Political Sex Scandals’ due to his noted sexual escapades with underage prostitutes. Berlusconi, even adding up all his media and political power, has never enjoyed this level of global influence; if anything his role in Italy, Europe and on the global chessboard has become ever more marginal. On a personal level, he has often made a fool of himself, calling a Social-democratic Member of the European Parliament a Kapo in full session and clowning around at various G8 and G20 Summits – a cruel and perverse clown, certainly, as emerged from the tragic demonstrations against the Group of Eight in Genoa in 2001, where Carlo Giuliani was murdered. However, we can begin to see certain common features in the falls from grace of Murdoch and Berlusconi. Each of the three heads of Berlusconi’s hydra has been severed in a striking coincidence of events. His political power suffered two electoral major defeats in quick succession this summer: the local elections, where he is was humiliated in his own town, Milan, and the national popular referendums abrogating his government legislation. The march of over 1 million women who took to the streets out of pure indignation was also telling. But despite these recent events, he is still the Prime Minister of a discredited government facing comatose institutional opposition, as in so many other European countries. A coma reflecting a model of representative politics whose media havoc seems to have to put itself out of its own misery. Regarding his financial power, the humiliating blow of having to pay €530 million euro to De Benedetti, Berlusconi’s longterm media adversary, for the Mondadori fraud is also quite significant. However, the fact remains that the most symbolic, most decisive and most irreversible loss of power has been through communication. It is irreversible, because his vertical media network, although reinforced through his preponderant control of state-run channels, is no longer the decisive factor in winning electoral campaigns. For the first time, it is precisely the strength of the multitude’s independent network communication that is substituting for the influence of nightly news and biased programming. This, I believe, is an irreversible historical development. For Murdoch’s part, it is ironically a leak published by a traditional media source, The Guardian, that will be fatal for him and that opened the first peephole into the backroom deals of his empire. A backroom based on a corruption of historical proportions involving Her Majesty’s decrepit governments, Scotland Yard, Secret Services, etc., in facilitating the intrusion and manipulation of personal databases from celebrities to anonymous victims of crime. In reality, these practices were doubtless already the common currency in the Murdoch archipelago and it is probable that we will see further revelations of the same sort in the future. Today, there is the impression that anything could happen, as expressed by Anthony Barnett in his article ‘After Murdoch’ when he says that populism has become a double-edged sword.[xviii] The Guardian’s uncovering of News of the World’s prying into the voicemail of a 12-year-old girl who had gone missing gave her parents a vain hope she still might be alive when, in fact, she had already been killed. This was taken as the double death of an innocent girl with Murdoch’s organization pulling the trigger. This child was a symbolic victim, recalling the symbolic act that took place in Tunisia, in Sidi Bouzid. Less surprising is the fact that Cameron chose one of Murdoch’s key men as his media consultant who, not by chance, is responsible for the corruption. We have already seen how Murdoch has had free access to the backdoors of 10 Downing Street: after Thatcher, he had a long relationship with Blair and finally a (fortunately) brief relationship with Cameron. He has always practiced lavish distribution on a wide political scale, having financed Hillary Clinton’s run for Senate and other Democratic candidates while simultaneously supporting Bush’s campaign for the war on/of terror. His own New York Post even supported Obama.[xix] This is just more evidence of the crisis of representative politics and of a political class that has gone awry. So, Murdoch and Berlusconi’s use of power for generalized corruption is a common trait: politicians, magistrates, public offices, lawyers… anyone who can be corrupted, while their media networks are the spokespersons of a securitarian discourse based on order and legality, up to the point of passing laws, or getting laws passed, for their own personal advantage. At this point, how can we be surprised by the fact that both share a strong sense of impunity? It is likely that they too were astonished by the sudden change of events. One could certainly object that they have a morbid sense of greed and probably weren’t aware of anything: Silvio occupied in his sessions of ‘bunga-bunga’ and Rupert spread thin between a young and adventurous wife, dynastic problems and the fragile acquisition of BskyB. Dominique Strauss Khan was also used to impunity, and has recently been made a fresh political cadaver. Are we facing an epidemic ? ICT[xx] networks as a tool for the production of the commons I fully concur with the recent analysis of Judith Revel and Toni Negri, in which they highlight the common denominators of the social movements that have emerged from Tunisia to Spain, passing through England, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Syria and a growing number of important countries, including Israel: These are revolts born, in Egypt, Spain, or England, out of the simultaneous refusal of the subjection, exploitation and plunder this economy has prepared for the lives of entire populations of the world, and the political forms within which the crisis of this biopolitical appropriation has been managed. And this is also true for all the so-called “democratic” regimes. Such a form of government appears only preferable for the seeming “civility” with which it masks the attack on the dignity and humanity of the existences it crushes, but the vanishing of political representation is now at the point of collapse.[xxi] Still, I’d like to add that the main and indispensable tool of these developing movements is precisely the autonomous, horizontal communication network of the multitude. The use of internet and its progressive integration with mobile networks, are breathing life into a new paradigm, as we shall see. This is the crux of the matter for democratic communication and also the main cause of the fall of media empires. The exponential growth of user-generated media such as social networks, blogs and the joining of mobile internet with the body (bio-hypermedia) are visibly generating an effect of critical threshold in which a new creation of the commons in all its forms – including revolt – are developing not only more and more rapidly and in vaster and vaster spaces, but are overwhelming the old world in ways and in locations that are quite unpredictable: first in Tunisia and now in Brasilia, Santiago del Chile and Tel Aviv. The fall of Murdoch and Berlusconi and their sinking ships fit perfectly into such a framework and complete it. It is evident that the influence, the pervasiveness and the mental formatting exercised until today by their mass media is in irreversible decline. The free multitude, through reticular infrastructures that it has learned to manage and control, has become an autonomous force of information, creation, cooperation, exchange and the generation of new meanings, i.e. the production of value that breaks the barrier of imperial governance’s vertical and hierarchical communication. With this understanding, the causes behind these two men’s fall are the same: the production of the commons renders their enclosing communication machines ineffective and throws their illegal operating means into relief. After “Murdosconi”: capitalism 2.0 and a new paradigm of bio-hypermedia Even though it is clear that it will be less and less possible to shape opinion with twentieth century communication technologies, we cannot say the same about the use of new technologies in twenty-first century governance. The example of Myspace, mentioned earlier, shows how the Murdosconi generation is shut out of the reappropriation of new media such as social networks. But the same cannot be said for the leaders of capitalism 2.0 that, in the end, are their heirs. Take for example: – the tyrannical and paranoid celebrity, Steve Jobs, the ex-CEO (for health reasons) and cofounder of Apple, today the most valuable company in the world thanks to the iPhone, the iPad and its Appstore that are on an equal footing with Exxon. What better way to symbolize the fact that the new global fuel, cognitive fuel, is just as important as the old one. – Marc Zuckerberg, CEO and co-founder of Facebook, with more than 750 million of active users, who was received with honors by the Head of State in Paris in the spring of 2011. His business methods, every bit equal to Murdoch’s in cynicism, were recently illustrated in the film ‘The Social Network’. – Sergey Brin and Larry Page, founders of Google, who, in their totalitarian anxiety to hoard all cognitive terrain, have declared that they activate more than half a million Android smartphones every day.[xxii] There is no doubt that we are up against a new generation that holds a part of the powerful tools of communication and that is the very essence of digital capitalism. The ambiguities of this position are hinted at in the title of my article, ‘Digital Capitalism and Cognitive Bioproduction: The Thin Line between Control, Capture and Opportunity’. [xxiii] On the one hand, interactive media are fully conditioned by the political instances and media of cognitive capitalism: the tactics of viral marketing, the commercial and political use of social networks, multichannel communication and mobile applications are essential elements in their strategies. On the other hand, Zuckerberg and others like him know that their power is fragile and their kites are kept afloat exclusively thanks to the multitudinary wind from which they capture value through crowdsourcing.[xxiv] However, as noted, this wind cannot be managed as one pleases. In turbulent phases, these instruments become uncontrollable or easily replaced by new tools created by the commons of the internet. Introducing bio-hypermedia We need to remember that there are more than 5.5 billion active cellphones on a planet with a population of 7 billion inhabitants. Even if the spread of the iPhone remains relatively small in relation to these figures, other smartphones with internet connection are rapidly replacing older phones, as Google’s claims regarding Android show. We are facing the fastest, most capillary technological revolution in human history. Bio-hypermedia is the birth of a new paradigm of internet-meets-body, prefigured by ‘always connected’ devices like smartphones, tablets and others, invented in qualitatively and ontologically different ways to be infinitely more powerful than landline internet and the PC. This is the first media that interacts with our lives, freeing the exchange of information from the fixed time and place to which television and the PC are limited. Production, interaction and autonomous exchange are set free from the cocoon that was so popular in the thirty years of political and social change that we have just endured, a context that reduced and flattened perception and possibility. The ability to interact in the socially ubiquitous metropolis and in an environment of collective intelligence is already implicit in new technologies, including near field communication (NFC), object-oriented internet and augmented reality. It seems evident that our minds function differently ‘on the road’ and that it therefore interacts differently with networks. This is an important area for further research, already spearheaded by Antonio Damasio, who affirms that “the current digital revolution, the globalization of information and the arrival of the era of empathy represent the pressing examples that can lead to structural changes of the mind and the Self, attacking the cerebral processes that shape the mind and the Self”.[xxv] Certainly, governance will try and has already tried to use these technologies to its advantage, as we can see in the individual ‘profiling’ nowadays used for commercial scoping – a profiling that, without a doubt, will be used tomorrow in directly political ways. Nevertheless, this project seems difficult to get off the ground: revolts and multiple and varied signals of a diffused and intergenerational awareness, quite foreign to the previous generation of social struggles, are the expression of a generalized refusal to pay for a crisis managed with the sole intention of extracting value, expropriating common production and increasing rent. Political hacks are starting to threaten restricted network access. But it will not be difficult for them to obtain the support of ICT corporations. What will be difficult to handle is the implicit and paralyzing contradictions that these threats inspire. This is highlighted by the title the Economist chose for coverage of the London riots – the “Blackberry Riots”; an irresistible irony if one considers that this smartphone was the exclusive symbol of successful business executives until just a few years ago. Among other things, this means that bio-hypermedia is in the hands of a biopolitical movement that is difficult to stop. And that governance is facing the same scenario that has confronted Berlusconi and Murdoch: cognitive capitalism’s classic capacity to recover is, perhaps as never before, in trouble. It is precisely the awareness of this weakness of cognitive capital that is the harbinger of threats: a traditional identitarian implosion that is crystalized in a post-fascist, populist and ‘anti-systemic’ political expression that is emerging in nearly all of Europe and elsewhere. In addition, there is the second, possibly more dangerous symptom of the lashing tail of financial power that knows the danger it is facing, threatened with losing a control that it is not willing to give up. Once again, we experience fear mongering politics. Now that the imperial wars have lost control and that its designated and useful external enemy, Islamic fundamentalism, has been politically defeated by the Arab world itself, only the option of market terror remains. “Without us there is only chaos” is the threat voiced by these “institutional investors”. This is where the vital importance of the networked multitude will use its constituent power to stop this nefarious design, where it will be able to build new forms of democracy. We are facing an unprecedented change that will collectively involve not only our minds and our lives but also the very biosphere in which we live. This article was translated by Jason Francis Mc Gimsey. Notes [i] Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy, University Toronto Press, Toronto, 1962. [ii] Manuel Castells, Rise of the network society, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, 2000, vol. I, p.356. [iii] “A frame in social theory consists of a schema of interpretation – that is, a collection of anecdotes and stereotypes – that individuals rely on to understand and respond to events. In simpler terms, people build a series of mental filters through biological and cultural influences. They use these filters to make sense of the world. The choices they then make are influenced by their creation of a frame. Framing is also a key component of sociology, the study of social interaction among humans”, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_(social_sciences). [iv] Gustave Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary. Farrar, Straus, 1947. [v] Maurizio Lazzarato, “Reality shows: le sujet et l’expérience. Variations sur quelques thèmes benjaminiens” in Multitudes, 1992. Available online at: http://multitudes.samizdat.net/Reality-shows-le-sujet-et-l. [vi] See “Bagdhad Central Prison” on Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_prison. [vii] Jean Baudrillard, Telemorphose, Sens&Tonka Editeurs, Paris, 2001. [viii] Antonio Negri, Michael Hardt, Empire, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2000. [ix] Robert Greenwald, Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism, MoveOn.org, 2004. [x] Manuel Castells, Communication Power, Oxford University Press, USA, 2009, p. 417. [xi] Ibidem, p. 145. [xii] See, for example, Antonio Damasio, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, Penguin, New York, 2005; The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness, Mariner Books, Boston, 2000; Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain, Mariner Books, Boston, 2003; available only in French, L'autre moi-même - Les nouvelles cartes du cerveau, de la conscience et des émotions , Paris, Odile Jacob, 2010. [xiii] Giacomo Rizzolatti and Corrado Sinigaglia, “The Mirror Neuron System”, in Annual Reviews, Vol. 27: 169-192, July 2004. [xiv] Marco Iacoboni, I neuroni a specchio. Come capiamo ciò che fanno gli altri, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2008, p. 180 [our translation]. [xv] “A recent longitudinal study of American children (2005) […] produced one of the most impressive empirical results supporting the hypothesis that media violence induces imitative violence […]. In statistical terms, the “wideness of the effect” relative to media violence and aggressiveness by far surpasses that observed in the relationship between smoke and lung tumors […] or exposure to asbestos and tumors”. Marco Iacoboni, op. cit., p. 180 [our translation]. [xvi] Christian Salmon, Storytelling: Bewitching the Modern Mind, Verso, London, 2010. [xvii] Amelia Arsenault, Manuel Castells, Switching Power: Rupert Murdoch and the Global Business of Media Politics A Sociological Analysis, Sage Publications, 2008, p. 489. [xviii] Anthony Barnett, “After Murdoch”, in OpenDemocracy, 2011. Available online at: http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/anthony-barnett/after-murdoch. [xix] Manuel Castels, op. cit. 2000, p546. [xx] ICT: Information and Communication Technologies. [xxi] Judith Revel and Antonio Negri, “The Common in Revolt” in Uninomade, 2011. Available online at: http://uninomade.org/commoninrevolt/. [xxii] Except then shooting himself in the foot with the purchase of Motorola Mobility thus making Google his competition of his smartphone and tablet producers. [xxiii] Giorgio Griziotti, “Capitalismo digitale e bioproduzione cognitiva: l’esile linea fra controllo, captazione ed opportunita’ d’autonomia”, in Uninomade, 2011. Available online at: http://uninomade.org/capitalismo-digitale-e-bioproduzione-cognitiva-lesile-linea-fra-controllo-captazione-ed-oppotunita-dautonomia/. [xxiv] “The term "crowdsourcing" is a portmanteau of "crowd" and "outsourcing," first coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 Wired magazine article "The Rise of Crowdsourcing". Howe explains that because technological advances have allowed for cheap consumer electronics, the gap between professionals and amateurs has been diminished. Companies are then able to take advantage of the talent of the public, and Howe states that "It’s not outsourcing; it’s crowdsourcing." A less commercial approach was introduced by Henk van Ess in September 2010: “Crowdsourcing is channelling [sic] the experts' desire to solve a problem and then freely sharing the answer with everyone”, Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing. [xxv] A. Damasio, op. cit., (2010), p. 224 [our translation].
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You wanna know the best thing about being a black-market organ dealin’ clown? People laugh atcha’ jokes. Sure, a knife to the throat is pretty fricken good incentive, but god-damn! The laughs…that’s what I do it for; the laughs. I mean, I been a clown for twenty-five fuckin’ years, twenty-five fucking years, and I ain’t never heard so many laughs in my life as I have in the last few weeks. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve never had a problem makin’ friends, in fact, Mattie and Mort are the best fuckin friends an old bastard like me could ever ask for. Shit, even talkin’ about them makes me a little teary eyed. Makin’ people laugh though…that’s something different. ‘Specially in today’s world. This fucking technology shit is takin’ over. The worst part? I’ll tell ya the worst part…the worst part is that no matter how fuckin funny I am, the god-damn internet is always funnier. I go to a party now, and some of these little shits actually have the balls to fuckin’ call me out on my tricks. They fuckin’ Google it. Can you believe that shit? They fuckin’ Google my jokes, and then I’m stuck there, standin’ in front of a buncha little snot nosed brats with no jokes and no tricks, because they went and Googled the whole damn show! Now, I’m not gonna tell you the blood doesn’t still make my stomach turn a little. I can’t tell you that, cuz’ I’d be lying. It’s fucking disgusting, but Mort says it’s therapeutic for my anger issues. I’m startin’ to think he might be right, too. “Hey Kev, you okay man?” I glance at Matt in the rear-view mirror and smile, “Yeah, of course. I was just thinkin’, that’s all. Why, what’s up Mattie?” Matt smiles back at me and I notice how much better he’s gotten at applying his face make-up. It doesn’t even crack at the corners anymore. He’s one of the good ones; knows how to honor the fuckin’ uniform. “Well, it’s just that you parked in front of the house, man.” Matt’s concerned gaze meets my own in the mirror, before it darts off to Mort. “I mean, it’s just…I think we might have already fucked this one up a little, ya know? Cuz’ Santiago said one of the big ones was, uhmm…” I watch as Matt closes his eyes and scrunches his face in thought. “I’m pretty sure he said, like, don’t park no wheres near the house of the hit…or something like that.” I look around me and realize the kid is right. I pulled right into the fuckin’ driveway. “Shit.” I look over at Mort, who shrugs his shoulders. “Shit…I did, huh? For fucks sake.” I pull in a deep breath and shake my head. I fiddle with the keys in the ignition and think about how bad breakin’ this rule would really be. What’s the organ dealin’ fucker gonna do, kill us? I chuckle and look up at my boys, “Oh well.” Matt grins back at me and Mort grunts, a small smile curling the left corner of his mouth. “Who’s the hit again? Some broad, right?” After that first time with Jerry, may his alcoholic fuckin soul rest in peace, the organ dealer we had lined up became a partner of sorts. He was kind of hesitant, but I’m a real business man, so we made a deal. We do the work, he pays the money. Personally, I think he’s one of those pansy asses who got that clown phobia nonsense. That just makes it easier for me to negotiate business though, cuz’ that means we got somethin’ over him. So, all it really took was some common fuckin sense logic, and Mort holdin’ a balloon starin the guy down through the whole fuckin conversation, and bada-bing bada-boom, he was sold! Matt looks down at the paper in his hands and nods, “Yeah, that’s right. Some chick named Marsha Duvall,” he looks up and squints toward the house, “at this address.” “Okay.” I pull the latch that opens the trunk and smile, “Time for some therapy, boys.” Mort smiles and glances in the rearview mirror from his spot in the passenger seat, “Don’t forget the duct tape this time, Matthew.” “Oh yeah! Thanks Mort, you’re a real pal man.” We file out of the car and I wait by the front while the boys grab Mort’s bag and whatever else they’ve decided to bring this time. I watch them together and my heart does this stupid little thumpy thing. It feels nice to have a real-life family. I chuckle at how funny they look standin next to each other. Mort all serious and shit, and Mattie all lanky and wide-eyed. Mort is about 6’4 next to Matt’s 5’8…some people get all the luck. I used to be 5’4 before my unicycle accident a few years ago; I lost a god-damn inch to that fuckin accident. That’s okay though, because I got a good face, so whenever I decide to seek out some much-needed lady companionship, I do alright. I’ll never touch a fuckin unicycle again, though, that’s for damn sure. I look down at my water-squirting joke watch and sigh. “Yous guys almost ready? Just cuz we parked in the driveway don’t mean we should be takin our sweet ass time out in plain sight.” Matt looks up and hoists a bag onto his shoulder, “Sorry Kev, we’ll hurry, won’t we Mort?” Mort nods his agreement and closes the trunk, his medical bag in his free hand. “Yup.” I turn around toward the house and frown. Should we go in the front door? I’m pretty sure that was on the list of shit Santiago said not to do, but we already fucked that up by parkin in the driveway, so… “Let’s take the front door. Maybe the neighbors will think it’s a business call, if they see us.” Matt smiles broadly, “Hey, Kev! That’s a great idea.” God, I love this kid. There ain’t a damn person in this world who can make me feel more important than this fuckin weirdo kid. “Thanks, Mattie. I appreciate you sayin that.” “Of course, Kev.” Matt looks over at Mort, “I love you too, man. Just in case you were feeling left out, ya know.” Mort chuckles, a rare fuckin sound, and nods his head. We walk the short distance from the car to the house, and stop in front of the door. Should we knock? I raise my hand to knock, but hesitate. “Yous guys think we should knock?” Matt tilts his head to the side and says, “Maybe just try the handle?” “Try the handle? Try the…what kind of fuckin idiot leaves the door unlocked? There’s dangerous people around here, Mattie. They ain’t gonna just –” I try the handle, just to humor the kid, and it fuckin turns. “Jesus Christ…it’s unlocked. These people are some real fuckin winners, huh?” Matt purses his lips and nods his head, and Mort grunts. “Alright, hand me a bat or somethin’, huh? We got some weapons, right?” I look at Matt, who packed a bag of what he likes to call “end of life” equipment. Matt turns to rummage around in his duffel and says, “Yeah, sure Kev. I think I got one of them travel sized ones in here somewhere.” He feels around for another minute and then pulls a medium sized bat out of the bag, “Here ya go, man.” I take the bat and nod to the bag, “Yous guys should maybe get somethin’ out too. Ya know, just in case she’s a fighter.” I cringe slightly as the memory of the last lady we wasted pops into my head. The bitch kneed me right in the nuts; KO, down for the count. Luckily Mattie was quick thinkin’ and clocked her in the head with his bag, or else the bitch mighta turned my jewels into fuckin crystal dust or somethin’. “Oh, yeah. Good idea, Kev.” Matt reaches into the bag and hands Mort a crossbow, and then pulls out a battle axe for himself. I stare at him for a minute. “Mattie…where the fuck did you get that shit?” He looks back at me in that wide-eyed way he has and says, “Well, I got the crossbow from a flea market,” He pulls a couple arrows out of his bag and hands them to Mort, “and the battle axe is a replica of Gimli’s, from the Lord of the Rings, ya know?” “Lord of tha?” I shake my head, “Nevermind, let’s just get going.” Who the hell brings a battle axe to an organ harvesting? Gotta love the fuckin little weirdo. I push the door open slowly and peek inside. There’s a stair case right in front of me, but it’s dark. I look to the right and see someone sitting in a chair facing away from the door. Bingo. I check behind the door quickly, there’s a kitchen to the left of the stairs, but it’s dark as well. I turn behind me to nod to the boys, and then slowly enter the house. We file in, all quiet like, and I nod at Mort to shut and lock the door behind him. I turn back toward the living room and slowly walk toward the chair, careful not to make too much noise or bump anything with my over-sized clown shoes. The television is blaring and I can’t help but think how stupid this bitch is, leavin’ the door unlocked and the TV on loud enough for burglars and shit to just come traipsin’ in. I hold my bat in the air as I round the chair and yell, “Don’t make no noise, and don’t run, and everything will be –” I look back at Matt and Mort, “What the shit is this?” I point to the person sitting in the chair. The man sitting in the chair, the man who is clearly not Marsha fuckin Duvall. “Oh, god damn it!” Matt peeks around the chair, battle axe held high and says, “Huh. By any chance, is your name Marsha Duvall? I don’t want to like, assume your gender or anything, but you do kinda look like a man…like, a lot.” I smack my free hand against my wig, careful not to mess up my face paint and look up at Mattie from under my lashes. He’s such a thoughtful person, but sometimes I wonder what woulda happened to him if I hadn’t found him. He’s too nice. “Just answer the fuckin kid.” The man’s mouth hangs open, and he shakes his head quickly, “N-no. I’m George Duvall…Marsha is my w-wife.” I sigh heavily. Could this hit get any more fucked up? “God, damn it. God fucking damn it.” I look at George and shake my head, “Well, is your wife home?” He glances nervously from me to Mort, before his eyes land on Matt’s battle axe. “No. No, she’s at the hairdresser.” I purse my lips and look back at Mort and Mattie. “What the fuck do we do now?” Matt itches the back of his head with his free hand and sucks his teeth against his cheek. “Gee…I don’t really know, Kev. I guess we could just take him, but –” The TV cuts from some dumb ass commercial about stain removers and Matt’s head snaps up as the regular program resumes, “Hey! I fuckin’ love this show man!” George shifts anxiously in his seat and laughs weakly as he says, “Yeah? M-me too.” He looks from Matt to me, then up at Mort as he says, “Uhm…you guys want a…uh, you want a beer…o-or something?” Mort laughs, he laughs as he plops his bag down on the floor and crosses the room to sit on the couch next to George’s chair. I stare at him. I guess a beer does sound kinda nice. “Yeah, George. You know, that’s real thoughtful of you. A beer sounds real nice.” I glance at Matt and nod, “Hey Mattie, maybe you should grab the beers, huh?” Matt looks at George and smiles, “Yeah, sure. Good idea, Kev. Your kitchen is past the front door, right George?” George swallows quickly and nods at Matt as he says, “Yeah…I only have Miller lite though. My wife, she only lets me buy lites because she says I’m getting fat.” “Oh, man…that’s not fair at all. I think you have a good body. I mean, I’ve only seen you in that chair, but you look pretty handsome for a random dude who watches TV and drinks beer in the middle of the day, ya know?” Matt shakes his head as he walks toward the kitchen. “T-thanks.” George’s brow rises and he nervously pulls on his fingers. “That’s nice of you to say. My wife is never satisfied with anything.” I shake my head as I move over to sit next to Mort on the couch. “That shit don’t fly with me. Nope, they either appreciate what they got, or they get the fuck out. I can’t take that naggin shit.” George nods his head slowly, “Yeah. It’s just hard, because we’ve been married for seven years now…so it’d be hard to leave.” I look at Matt as he comes back into the room carrying four beers and shake my head, “That’s bull shit pal. Life is too short for that shit, trust me.” George takes the beer from Matt and sighs, “Yeah. I know.” He shifts in his chair and crosses his legs as Matt hands the boys their beers, then takes a seat on the end of the couch near me. “I never understood women.” Matt takes a sip of his beer as he watches the episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia that has, so far, spared George’s life. Mort nods his head in agreement. Matt glances at George, “Doesn’t matter what you do, eventually they end up pissed, ya know?” George, Mort and me all nod. The kid is right. “So, uh, what do you do George?” George takes a sip of his beer and replies, “Oh, I’m an accountant.” He looks at the three of us and asks, “What exactly do you fellas do?” I shake my head, because I think it’s pretty fuckin obvious what we do, but answer, “We’re clowns, George. See the uniforms? Clowns. We got some side business right now, but at the end of the day, we’re just some clowns tryin ta make a living in a fucked up, laughless world.” George took a long swig of his beer and laughed. “I didn’t know clowns made house calls.” I look at him for a minute, trying to make sure he isn’t tryin’ to be a wise guy. “You being a wise guy, George?” I look at the bat still in my hand. His eyes get huge and he stutters, “N-no, I just…” I laugh, “It’s okay George, I’m only fuckin’ with ya. You’re a good guy, George.” He laughs again, slightly nervous, but not anywhere as nervous as he should be. I mean, this guy is really not aware of his own safety at all. “You know George, you should really lock your door. I mean, it’s dangerous around here. All kinds of crazy bastards lurkin’ around.” Matt looks away from the TV and nods, “Yeah man, you’re lucky we came by. Think of the kinds of guys who break in houses with guns blazing. You’d be toast, man.” George eyes us as he finishes off his beer and nods slowly, “Yeah…I guess you’re right. Sorry boys, I’ll uhm, I’ll be more careful from now on I guess.” He laughs again and glances at the bat. Matt nods. “Good, man. That’s good.” He turns his attention back to the TV just as the end credits roll on the screen. “That was such a good episode, right Mort? I don’t think we’ve seen that one before, have we?” Mort nods his head and replies, “Nope, haven’t seen it.” He raises his beer to George and says, “Thanks, George.” George’s brow furrows, but he nods. “No problem guys. No problem at all.” I clear my throat and look at my boys, “So, George…I really hate to do this pal, but we’re kinda on a schedule.” I look down at my joke watch and sigh, “We’ll probably have to do you now.” George sits up straight in his chair and his eyes widen to the size of saucers. “I’d really rather you didn’t. I mean, I…I’m not really into that kind of thing.” He chuckles nervously, and it sounds kind of like one of them hyenas from The Lion King to me. What a solid fucking movie. Matt laughs and shakes his head, “No man, he doesn’t mean “do” you like, sex…although it’s a shame you’re so closed minded. You should really be open to more things, George. Except like, locks…you should not have those open, obviously.” Matt looks at me and I nod. George clears his throat, “I’m afraid I don’t really understand what you mean then.” Matt leans forward and his voice is gentle as he explains, “He means we gotta kill you now, Georgey.” George takes in a deep breath and scrambles, “But…I thought you said I was a nice guy, remember? You said I was nice. You want my wife, remember?” I smile politely, “Well, yeah George, you’re great. Thanks again for the beer, by the way.” He nods slowly and waves his hand in the air. “The thing is, your wife ain’t here, and we can’t go back empty handed.” I watch as George presses himself into the chair as his eyes dart from me to Matt, to Mort and back. “You can wait. You can take her. She’s a bitch. She deserves to die way more than I do. For pete’s sake, she buys lite beer!” I look at Matt and Mort and shrug. He has a point. “He has a point.” Matt nods, “He does…plus he was super nice to us. That’s never happened before, ya know?” Mort shrugs and nods. I look back at George, who is crying like a little bitch, and nod. “Okay, we’ll wait for your wife.” “Oh, thank you! She’ll be home soon. You want me to call her? I can call and have her come home early…you know, make up an emergency or something?” I nod, “That works. Do it on speaker phone though, got it?” George nods and pulls out his phone. He punches in the numbers and presses speaker. Hello? George, what do you want? I’m busy. “Hi, hon…I just, I had a bit of an accident. What? What’d you do now? You better not have made a mess, or so help me god. I just cleaned George! “No, baby. I didn’t make a mess, but I need you to come home. It’s pretty bad. Oh, for heaven’s sake George. Fine. I’ll be there as soon as I can. And George? “Yes, babe?” You better be dying. *Click* Matt looked at George and shook his head. “Wow, man. Your wife is kind of a twat.” George ran a hand through his chestnut colored hair and nodded. “Yeah. Yeah, she is.” I shake my head and sigh, “She’s got you by the balls, pal. You want another beer?” George shakes his head, “Nah, I’m good. Thanks, help yourself though.” “I’m okay.” I look at Mort, who is just staring at George. “So how long you think she’ll be?” George straightens his arm and then pulls it toward himself to look at his watch. “Hopefully only a few minutes. Her hairdresser is only just down the road.” “Okay, okay…that’s fine.” I twist the bat in my hands and glance at the TV. The boring ass stain commercial is playing again. “How many times do they play this same fuckin commercial, huh?” George lets out a quick laugh, “A few hundred times a day, I think.” Matt shifts on the couch next to me, and I look up at him. He’s fingering one of the edges of his axe. I look over at Mort. He’s tapping a finger against the trigger mechanism on the crossbow. I clear my throat. This is kind of awkward. “This is kind of awkward, huh?” Matt and Mort nod, and I purse my lips. George giggles. I look at him and feel my face scrunch up. It’s weird to hear a grown man giggle. Maybe he knows we just decided to kill him. He looks up at us, “You’re going to kill me anyway, aren’t you?” Matt, Mort and I nod. George looks at the television and nods. Tears are streaming down his cheeks and snot is glistening in a trail from his nose down into his mouth. “Well, I guess we can start now, huh Mort?” I look over at Mort and he smiles. It is, after all, his turn. He pulls the trigger on the crossbow and…TWANG! Matt leans forward and whistles, “Oh, nice one Mort! Right through the eyeball.” I watch as George’s head turns toward us, his eye is twitching around the arrow. “Oh, shit…he ain’t dead yet fellas.” I stand up and move in front of the chair, George’s head follows me. I lift the bat and whack him in the crotch. “Hnnng! Ugh…” George raises his arms, and I raise my bat again. How the fuck is this bastard still alive? Matt stands up and moves forward, he lifts his battle axe and smashes it down into George’s chestnut hair. His skull makes a cracking noise as blood splatters everything within a five-foot radius of George’s chair. I feel a little nauseous at the sight of all this fucking blood, but the adrenaline keeps me clear-headed. “You okay, Kev? I didn’t really think about all the mess that would make. I’m sorry, man.” “Oh no, Mattie, I’m fine pal. Thanks for worryin’ though.” Mort stands and reaches across us to pull the arrow out of George’s collapsed skull. The arrow comes out easily, and the eyeball is still skewered on the bolt. Mort holds it up in the air and pokes it with his free hand. He smiles. I hear a car pull into the driveway and look to my boys. Their faces light up, and I know in that moment…no matter how fucked up they are, or I am…we’re family. I lift my bat up against my shoulder as a calm the likes of which I ain’t never felt before settles over me. I’d do anything for family. As Marsha Duvall’s key turns in the door, that damn stain commercial plays on the television again. I look around the living room, which is now covered in blood, and think maybe we should get some for the cleanup. I nod toward the television as the door slowly opens, “Maybe we should pick some of that shit up. Might come in handy.” Matt’s eyes widen and he nods enthusiastically, and Mort chuckles. Marsha Duvall closes the door behind her and yells, “George! I’m home,” she shoves her keys into her purse as she mumbles something about George being a man-child. “George? I swear to god if you’ve made a mess –” She freezes in her tracks as she looks up at us. I smile. “Welcome home, babycakes.” Advertisements
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The man at the head of a new government asbestos agency has warned that home renovators and DIY heroes will keep Australia’s asbestos-related death toll rising until the 2030s. Former Communications, Electrical, Plumbing Union boss Peter Tighe, now CEO of the Asbestos Safety and Eradication Agency, says the trend for do-it-yourself renovations is creating a growing “fourth wave” of asbestos victims. He told the inaugural National Asbestos Forum in Sydney on Monday it was generally predicted that rates of deadly conditions like mesothelioma would peak in about 2020. “The way it’s going, unless this agency can turn the process around (the peak will probably occur) further down the track, somewhere around 2030,” Mr Tighe told the forum. Training was “critical” to his agency’s strategy for wiping out asbestos-related deaths, he said. He told reporters that could include requiring home renovators to achieve a basic level of competence and asbestos awareness before they could be issued an owner-builder licence. Critics in the audience said that approach risked leading homeowners to believe they knew what they were doing based on limited information. Wendy Tredinnick, the managing director of South Australian firm Total Asbestos Services, said she met unsuspecting renovators on an almost-weekly basis. “Six months ago I had a young woman come into my office with a baby on her hip, literally crying,” she said on Monday. “She said, ‘I’ve just been down to the hardware store to buy more scrapers, and the guy down there said, are you sure it’s not asbestos vinyl you’re trying to scrape up?'” A sample analysis showed it was. “She said, ‘I’ve been in there with my children, my sister and her children have been in there,'” Ms Tredinnick said. “‘Why aren’t people doing something about this?'” Mr Tighe said he didn’t want renovators to think they were fully trained simply because someone had “given them a leaflet”, but many were taking risks already. “The problem is that it’s happening anyway,” he said.
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I ran into a guy I know at the gym the other day, a card-carrying liberal from Berkeley. He was puzzled. “Why didn’t Obama go down to the border?” he wanted to know. When a lefty from lib Mecca is wondering what the heck is going on, you know the president has a problem. In fairness, the president almost went to the border, but he stopped several hundred miles away where he raised millions from fat cats to help the Democratic Party. Hey, we all have our priorities. But his failure to visit the kids on the border was such a blatant screw up that it’s almost as if he doesn’t care what any of us think. He’s not running for re-election. He knew that if Americans saw pictures of him with those poor children, they’d blame him for letting it happen (especially when he was warned about the surge in kids heading for the U.S. several years ago). When those pictures got out, he would have owned the crisis. That’s not something he wanted. So he did what the more contemptuous of our politicians do when they’re in a mess of their own making. He blamed his critics. Having tens of thousands of kids in what amounts to refugee camps in the United States of America provides him with an opportunity he never passes on: Blame the Republicans — in this case, for not passing immigration reform. You know what they say in the Obama White House: Never let a crisis go to waste. But why should Republicans sign on to immigration reform when they don’t trust this president. Republicans want the border protected as part of any deal and they have no confidence Mr. Obama has the same level of concern, no matter what he says. A cynic might actually think he wants as many immigrants from Mexico and Central America to come in to the United States, because almost all of them, someday, will vote for Democrats. I don’t put anything past this president. To give his side of it, Mr. Obama said he wasn’t going to the border because a trip there would amount to nothing more than a photo-op. This from a man who while running for President of the United States tried to deliver a campaign speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin (but the Germans said no). You think candidate Obama might have been thinking photo-op? What about the speech he delivered in Denver after winning his party’s nomination for president — in front of Greek columns. And remember when he strolled the devastation of super storm Sandy with New Jersey Governor Christie? That photo-op helped the president get re-elected. And what should we make of a man who supposedly disdains photo-ops but blasted President Bush for not visiting the victims of Hurricane Katrina, which almost certainly would have been portrayed by Mr. Bush’s liberal critics in an out of the media as … a photo-op? On February 7th, 2008, at Tulane University in New Orleans, candidate Barack Obama said this about President Bush, who flew over the city hit by Katrina instead of visiting the victims on the ground: “When the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast extended their hand for help, help was not there. When people looked up from the rooftops, for too long they saw an empty sky. When the winds blew and the floodwaters came, we learned that for all of our wealth and our power, something wasn’t right with America. We can talk about what happened for a few days in 2005, and we should. We can talk about levees that couldn’t hold, about a FEMA that’s seen as not just incompetent but paralyzed and powerless, about a president who only saw the people from the window of an airplane.” He gets away with this kind of rank hypocrisy because his pals in the media let him get away with it. There’s been naïve chatter lately by some media analysts that the press has finally turned on Mr. Obama, that they’re finally getting tough on him. Nonsense! Like my pal from Berkeley, reporters may wonder out loud why this oh-so-smart president whom they have adored for years wouldn’t visit the border. They care because they know it hurts him with the American people. But if they were really starting to behave like real journalists, more of them would plaster his remarks at Tulane on page one and put that sound bite on their evening news — to show how he says one thing and does the opposite, both in the interest of … himself. Thank God for conservative media. Without them we might not know how two-faced Barack Obama can be. Magic is a powerful force. And Barack Obama had it. Big time. But when the magic fades, the magician is left just standing there – his incompetence no longer hidden by the fog of lofty rhetoric and a million dollar smile. And all that’s left is the pathetic image of a man who told us he would make America a newer, better, different place where old-fashioned politics had no place – looking like the old-fashioned politician that he is and always was.
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OTTAWA — A Conservative supporter at a Stephen Harper campaign event heckled a reporter Wednesday who was asking about the government's handling of the Syrian refugee crisis. The government's response of the crisis is now front and centre in the federal election campaign. The catcalls came in Welland, Ont., as the Conservative leader was taking questions from journalists, almost a week after the world was riveted by the image of a dead Syrian toddler on a Turkish beach. A low, collective groan was heard in the crowd before a lone voice was heard to say: "How many kids drowned in pools in Canada this past summer? Do you blame the government for that?" Three-year-old Alan Kurdi drowned along with his five-year-old brother Ghalib and their mother, Rehanna, in their unsuccessful attempt to find sanctuary in Greece. Harper tried to keep his daily question and answer session with journalists from going off the rails. "OK, go ahead," he told the reporter, an awkward smile on his face, as the heckler kept speaking. OK, OK. Go ahead." The prime minister is under pressure to admit more refugees, and Harper said he will — but while taking care to avoid allowing terrorists from a war zone into Canada. "This government is committed to acting, committed to bringing more people in, committed to expediting the process. And frankly, I said this before this was in the headlines earlier in this campaign, we already made announcements and we'll continue to look at how we can improve," he said. "But yes . . . we are talking about a terrorist war zone a lot of people are coming from. We will make sure we are also protecting Canadians from the security risk." It wasn't the first time that hecklers have taken issue — not with Harper, but the questions he's been asked. The incident knocked Harper off message, just as it did in August when Conservative supporters heckled reporters asking questions about the Mike Duffy fraud trial. Prior to the incident, Harper spent almost an hour talking expansively about the economy in a controlled question-and-answer session with the Ontario Chamber of Commerce. Harper, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and NDP Leader Tom Mulcair were all campaigning in Ontario on Wednesday, where the fate of the province's ailing manufacturing sector is a key issue. Harper was responding to an earlier attack by Trudeau on Wednesday. The Liberal leader invoked examples dating back more than a century, when Canadians helped people fleeing Europe, Africa and Asia. "Quite frankly, security concerns didn't stop Wilfrid Laurier from bringing in record numbers of Ukrainians," Trudeau told supporters in Toronto. "Louis St. Laurent didn't let security concerns stop him from welcoming — at the height of the Cold War — tens upon tens of thousands of Hungarian refugees." Nor did the government of his father, Pierre, "let security concerns prevent him from welcoming in thousands upon thousands of Ismaili refugees fleeing Idi Amin in Uganda" in the 1970s, Trudeau added. And he noted that the short-lived government of former Progressive Conservative Prime Minister Joe Clark — who briefly drove Pierre Trudeau's government from power — helped alleviate the Vietnamese refugee crisis at the end of the 1970s. "Joe Clark certainly didn't let security concerns prevent Canada from welcoming tens upon thousands of boat people fleeing what had been a war-ravaged area of the world." A reporter tried to question Mulcair on the Syrian crisis in Niagara Falls, Ont., but his staff ended a press conference before it could be answered. Like Us On Facebook Also on HuffPost
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Aimless Wandering Blog || Politics || Philosophy || Science || Fiction || Quotes Aimless Wandering: Chuang Tzu's Chaos Linguistics by Hakim Bey The bait is the means to get the fish where you want it, catch the fish and you forget the bait. The snare is the means to get the rabbit where you want it, catch the rabbit and forget the snare. Words are the means to get the idea where you want it, catch on to the idea and you forget about the words. Where shall I find a man who forgets about words, and have a word with him? -Chuang Tzu Certainly later Taoism, influenced by Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism, developed elaborate cosmology, ontology, theology, teleology, and eschatology - but can these "medieval accretions" be read back into the classic texts, the Tao Te Ching, the Chuang Tzu, or the Lieh Tzu? Well, yes and no. Religious Taoism certainly established such a back-reading. But, as J. Needham pointed out, the Maoists of our century were able to evolve a Marxist reading of Taoism, or at least of the Tao Te Ching. No doubt any reading of a "spiritual" text may have some validity (since the spirit is by definition indefinable); the Tao Te Ching has proved especially malleable. But Chuang Tzu not only has no metaphysics, he actually condemns and derides metaphysics. Supernaturalism and materialism both appear equally funny to him. His only cosmogonic principle is "chaos". Oddly enough the only philosophical tool he uses is logic - although it is the logic of dream. He makes no mention of divine principle, of the purpose of being, or personal immortality. He is beyond Good and Evil, sneers at ethics, and even makes fun of yoga. The Chuang Tzu must surely be unique amongst all religious scripture for its remarkable ANTI-metaphysics. It qualifies as "revelation" not because it unveils hidden knowledge from "outside" the self - as other scriptures claim to do - but because it transmits a sure way to "spiritual realization", SELF-realization, in this lifetime, in this body, in this daily life. If this way or method can be summed up in one word, one might say spontaneity; and if this term were to be "defined", one might mention the phrase wei wu wei, "action/non-action". The universe comes into being spontaneously; as Kuo Hsiang points out, the search for a "lord" (or agens) of this creation is an exercise in infinite regress toward emptiness. The Tao is not "God", as some Christian translators still believe. The Tao just happens. On the human scale misery arises solely from the uniquely human ability to fall out of harmony with this Tao - to not be spontaneous. Chuang Tzu has no interest in why humans are so inept (no concept of "sin"); his only concern is to reverse the process and "return" to the flow. The "return" is an action; the flow itself is not an action but a state - hence the paradox "action/non-action". The concept wu wei plays such a central role in Taoism that it survives even in modern religious Taoism as the truth BEHIND all metaphysics and ritual. In the great expiatory and communal rites of cultic Taoism as practiced in Taiwan or Honolulu today, at least one person - the priest - must attain union with the Tao, and must do so by a process of voiding his consciousness of all "deities", all metaphysical principles. As for so-called ancient "philosophical" Taoism, we might say that it has wu wei instead of a metaphysics. Lao Tzu's goal seems to have been the conversion of the Emperor to Taoism, on the assumption that if the rule does nothing (wu wei) the empire will run itself spontaneously. Chuang Tzu however shows almost no interest in advising rulers (except to leave him alone!), and his examples of "real humans" are almost always workmen (butchers, cobblers, cooks), or drop-out hermits, or bandits. If Chuang Tzu can be said to advocate a social program - and I'm not sure he does - it certainly has nothing to do with any imperial/bureaucratic/Confucian values or structures. His "program" could be summed up in the phrase AIMLESS WANDERING. Chuang Tzu is more anarchistic than Lao Tzu - but is he an "anarchist"? I think yes - not because he wants to overthrow the government, but because he believes government impossible; not because he would ever sink so low as to espouse an "ism", but because he sees chaos as the essence of all becoming. To illustrate this chaos-ontology we could do worse than investigate Chuang Tzu's take on language. But first let me define a few terms. I call hermetalinguistics the concept that God revealed language and that there exists such a thing as the conveyance of essence through language. This conveyance can be direct (Hebrew and Arabic are languages "spoken" by God) or emanational, as in Neoplatonic linguistics. It can be "hermetic" (or occult, as in Kabbala), or even meta-linguistic (as in religious glossolalia, the "charism of tongues") - but in either case it saves language from utter relativity and opacity. Against this traditional theory of language we moderns have developed a nihilistic linguistics in which words convey nothing of essence and in fact do not really communicate anything except language itself. I trace this current to Nietzsche, to Saussure and his nightmarish experience with the Latin anagrams, and eventually to dada. A leading exponent of hermetalinguistics today (oddly enough) is Noam Chomsky, who (despite his anarchism) believes that language is somehow wired in, although he substitutes DNA for the Platonic archetypes! Whom might we pick as a leading exponent of nihilistic linguistics? How about William Burroughs? (In his honour we might call it "heavymetalinguistics".) Much as I admire the aesthetics of both schools I can "agree" with neither. I find myself wishing (as a "spiritual anarchist") for some language theory which might "save" language from the charge of mere re-presentationalism and alienation. However, I want a theory without teleological excrescences - no "lord" of language, no categorical imperatives, no determinism, no revelation from "outside" or "above", no genetic coding, no absolute essence. I find it in two places, one "ancient" nicely balanced against one "modern" - Chuang Tzu, and Chaos Theory. In part our language troubles arise from the absolute quality assigned to the Word in all western hermetalinguistic traditions. Although some western mystics already express distrust of human words, they can never - on pain of heterodoxy - question the integrity or finality of God's Word. All western religious thought is based on a sort of sacred nominalism which goes unquestioned till "heresy" calls it momentarily into debate. "Orthodoxy" crushes the rebellion against the Word in its own ranks, while the war against the Word becomes an underground guerilla campaign carried out primarily within literature, in criticism, and in linguistics - against "religion". We might learn something useful for our search by looking at a spiritual tradition with begins with a distrust of words and yet still manages to make language perform in a magical way. Taoism supplies us with precisely such a radical tradition. "The Tao which can be spoken is not the Tao," begins Lao Tzu. Why then did he write the book at all? Why not stick to the silence where all language eventually vanishes, right from the start? One might answer that such a project would amount to precisely the sort of refusal to go with the flow which Taoism most despises. Humans talk, so Taoists talk. This answer might suffice - but a much more interesting response is given by Chuang Tzu. "Saying is not blowing breath, saying says something," Chuang Tzu asserts - but "the only trouble is that what it says is never fixed. Do we really say something? Or have we never said anything?" Finally this question must remain unanswered, since Chuang Tzu's uncompromising perspectivalism and linguistic relativism make any categorical attempt to distinguish between "It" and "Other" an act of futility. As the translator (A.C. Graham) points out, for Chuang Tzu "all disputation starts from arbitrary acts of naming". Nevertheless, "saying says something" rather than nothing. Language is at once totally "arbitrary" and yet capable of meaning. Otherwise the Taoist would indeed fall silent. A writer of the School of Chuang Tzu discusses what he calls "ward and sector words", by which he means the sorting and classifying functions of language. (The metaphor refers to the wards and sectors of the grid-arrangement of Chinese cities; it's worth noting that the very earliest cities, such as Jericho and Catal Huyuk, were laid out on strict grid-lines.) This aspect of language is not "the Way", and at worst can become a "chopping to bits and disputing over alternatives". But it is also not not-the-Way. Some paradoxical stance between saying and not-saying is called for, because "the man who perceives the Way does not pursue [names] to where they vanish or explore the source from which they arise," for "this is the point where discussion stops." "There IS a name," but also "there is NO name." Chuang Tzu distinguishes three kinds of speech. An appended commentary by one of the original editors of the book asserts that all three kinds are used by Chuang Tzu himself. First there is saying from a lodging-place. Inasmuch as language is arbitrary one may occupy any position or use any definitions to expound the Way. The old editor says Chuang Tzu thought this kind of verbal situationism broadened the scope or "widened the range", i.e. that it could be used to open up ordinary mind to the non-ordinary and meta-verbal Tao. In fact, it works "nine times out of ten," says Chuang Tzu. "Weighted saying works seven times out of ten" - this is the aphorism, the statement made on authority, spoken from a position "ahead of others". Both lodging-place and weighted language would appear to belong to the category of ward-and-sector words. Chuang Tzu's third category clearly interests him the most, since he describes it at the greatest length. He calls it Spillover saying, and comments that it "is new everyday. Smooth it out on the whetstone of Heaven. Use it to go by and let the stream find its own channels." Since language is arbitrary, and the sage knows it, he (or she - for many Taoists were women, including Lao Tzu's legendary teacher) knows that "in saying he says nothing". And yet paradoxically by knowing this and in fact by "refusing to say", the sage "says without saying" and "refuses to say without ever failing to say". How can this be? When Chuang Tzu says that "the myriad things [i.e., the signifieds] are all the seed from which they grow," I assume that "they" refers to words, to signs, and that he does assert some link between the two categories, despite his (paradoxical) counter-assertion that no such connection can be found. The connection cannot be found (expressed in words) because in unlike shapes they abdicate in turn, with ends and starts as in a ring. That is, "things" themselves are ontologically fluid and protean, unfixed. If you mark a wheel and then spin it, none grasps where to mark the grades, and all becomes a blur. As for this flux-state of sign and signified, call it the Potter's Wheel of Heaven or "the whetstone of Heaven" on which the sage is advised to "smooth out" or polish his speech. Without this understanding, "who could ever keep going for long?" What decent Taoist could ever speak at all, much less meaningfully? But because language, by this understanding, becomes "new every day", the sage is finally not stunned or stultified by the arbitrariness and relativity of language, by its failure, but is refreshed and revivified by its freedom. The most important clue to understanding this teaching about language is in the image "Spillover". Graham says it refers to a vessel which tips over when filled to the brim, then rights itself, like one of those little oriental dolls which are legless and weighted at the bottom, so that they always pop back up when you try to knock them over. These dolls by the way are shaped like gourds and were probably originally made from gourds. The gourd is a symbol of Chaos, "Mr. Hun-T'un", described in the famous final passage of the Inner Chapters. Could the original "Spillover" vessel also have been a gourd, and thus associated in Chuang Tzu's mind with Chaos? In Chinese myth Chaos is not a figure of Evil (as in most western mythology), but is instead full of potential, benevolent if somewhat eerie, the ultimate force and source of all creation. From Chaos comes the "myriad things", like the seeds in a gourd or the chopped-up goodies in a won-ton (hung-t'un), or the water in a spillover-vessel which flows out, letting each stream find its own channel, fertilizing the earth, bringing everything into becoming. The vessel could refer to the Sage, who spontaneously "overflows" with illumined words. The words find their meanings (channels) spontaneously, according to the language-state of the listener, the reader. And then spontaneously the Sage pops upright and is filled again, and each day overflows again. A chaotic process - but one from which meaning comes into being. Moreover, one can become practiced at this conjuring act, polished, "smooth". The vessel could refer not only to the sage but even more to the words themselves. A word, which in itself is arbitrary and meaningless, spontaneously fills up and overflows with meaning. The meaning is not fixed, but it is not mere "blowing breath", nor just a semantic raspberry, bllllatttt. The vessel fills up and empties again and again - same vessel, but potentially a new meaning each day. So the word contains more meaning than it appears to nominate or denominate. There is something more, something extra in the word. There are words beneath (or upon) the words, which flow out spontaneously and find their channels, their expression, their use in a given situation. "Taoist Poetics". Thus, beginning with total linguistic relativism, Chuang Tzu ends with a sort of metalinguistics. Spillover words do not ward and sector, they PLAY. They contain more than they contain. Like the famous cleaver which never needs sharpening because the Taoist butcher can pass it between all tendons and joints, the Spillover word "finds its proper channel". The sage does not become trapped in semantics, does not mistake map for territory, but rather "opens things up to the light of Heaven" by flowing with the words, by playing with the words. Once attuned to this flow, the sage need make no special effort to "illumine", for language DOES IT by itself, spontaneously. Language spills over. Now, recall that when Saussure was studying the Latin anagrams, he found that the key words of the poems spilled over into other words. For example, syllables of character's names were echoed in words describing those characters. At first the founder of modern linguistic considered these anagrams as conscious literary devices. However, little by little it became apparent that such a "reading" would not hold. Saussure began to find anagramatic spillovers everywhere he looked - not only in ALL Latin poetry, but even in prose. He reached the point where he couldn't tell if he was experiencing a linguistic hallucination or a divine revelation. Anagrams everywhere! Language itself a net of jewels in which every gem reflects all others! He wrote a letter to a respected academic Latinist who had composed Latin odes - poems in which Saussure had detected anagrams. Tell me, he begged, are you the heir to a secret tradition handed down from Classical antiquity - or are you doing it unconsciously? Needless to say, Saussure received no answer. He stopped his research abruptly with a sensation of vertigo, trembling at the abyss of pure nihilism, or pure magic, terrified by the implications of a language beyond language, beyond sign/content, langue/parole. He stopped, in short, precisely where Chuang Tzu begins. Words are like wind and water. -Chuang Tzu If words can be compared to matter (and why not, give their equally dubious ontological status?!) and "grammar" can be compared to the Strange Attractors (patterns which are "real" but only "come into existence" in the presence of words and are only "real" IN the words), then we may also compare Chuang Tzu's Spillover Linguistics with the chaos theory of such mages as Prigogine and Ralph Abraham, and launch the science (or pseudo-science) of chaos linguistics. This useful fiction will be born under the sign of what Feyerabend calls "anarchist (or dada) epistemology" - a kind of anti-Method already dreamed by Chuang Tzu. In religious Taoism the deity of automatic or "spirit"-writing, Tzu-Ku-Shen, is also the goddess of the latrine - thus calling up the image of magical language as a kind of caca-phony or defecatory chaos which somehow manages to convey meaning (reminiscent of the paradox known to Information Theory in which "noise" can be "richer" in "information" than certain ordered codes). In time Tzu Ku came to preside over a panoply of Immortals who wielded the magic inkbrush or "flying phoenix" through human mediums. Usually women, as in western spiritualism, these mediums act as amanuensis to the spooks, and have transmitted everything from garbage to canonical scripture. (Mao Shan Taoism was founded in this way, by two mediums channeling a dead woman sage under the influence of hemp incense.) An eleventh-century author named Shen Ku describes the process under the evocative title "Dream Torrent Essays" - a sweeping away of daylight consciousness in a wave of hypnogogia. A great deal of Taoist scripture, both Canonical and heterodox, has been produced in this way. Some of it is "found", like the tantric Tibetan "treasure"-texts (terma), encased in solid rock or living wood, or under water, or in other impossible places. An entire order of Tibetan treasure-finders devotes itself to the lore and discovery of such texts. Some Taoist texts are not composed in human language or writing, but in the "tadpole" or "cloud" script of the spirits. An immense amount of language has spilled over from the Cinnabar Grottos of the Immortals into our world. While vulgar materialists may content themselves with scoffing at the provenance of this huge indigestible heap of writing, we might prefer simply to marvel at the overwhelming superabundance and generosity of reality itself, a plenitude which seems to conspire with us in all our maddest japes. As Nietzsche and Bataille have suggested, the myth of scarcity is merely a means of control through immiseration, whereas the actual nature of the world is one of absolute fullness, indeed over-fullness, spilling over as constant EXCESS. In language, this over-supply of meaning proves too big to be handled by human consciousness; hence the intervention of the spirits, the "muses" and other extra-conscious sources. Taoist writing serves as a monument to the "generosity of being" or the perpetual overflow of the cornucopias Tao. At its most chaotic and ambiguous peak of expression, it "saves" language itself - both from the tyranny of any lord, and from the abyss of aloneness.
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Chocolate Almond Cookies, which I call Chalmonds, are super tasty, quick to make and have endless topping variations. They aren’t too sweet but are packed with flavor, and are small enough to eat in two bites. Ingredients: 1 1/2 Cups All Purpose Flour 1/2 Cup Natural Cocoa Powder (Sifted) 1/2 Tsp Baking Powder 1/2 Tsp Salt 3/4 Cup Butter (softened) 1 Cup Granulated Sugar 1 Large Egg (Room temp) 1 Tsp Vanilla Extract 1 Tsp Almond Extract Topping Options: Slivered Almonds (or Whole Almonds), Chocolate Chips, M&M’s, Pecans, Walnuts, and pretty much anything else you can think of! Whisk together the dry ingredients (except sugar) in a medium bowl and set aside. In a large bowl (or a stand mixer) beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes. Once mixed, add the egg and vanilla/almond extracts and blend for about 1 minute (until smooth). Add the flour mixture all at once and mix until well blended. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Roll 1 inch balls out of the dough and place on a cookie tray. Using two fingers, flatten the balls slightly so you have a flat surface to add your topping variations onto. Put your topping into a bowl and press the flat side of the cookie into it. Place cookie back onto tray and repeat until full. Be sure to leave about 1 inch between the cookies as they do puff up a bit in the oven.
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Fallingwater, the legendary architectural masterpiece of Frank Lloyd Wright, famously includes elements of its natural surroundings. Specifically, the house integrates the waterfall on top of which it was built. Like Fallingwater, this stunning home in Portland, Oregon celebrates the natural setting in which it exists. (all images via: Robert Harvey Oshatz) Architect Robert Harvey Oshatz conceived of the design when his client declared that he wanted a house which would not only be in harmony with its environment, but also be a physical representation of music. The home’s lot includes a very steep slope, which allows the main floor to sit on the level of the tree canopy. Surrounding trees lovingly brush their leaves up against the gentle curves of the home’s levels. Echoing the compelling natural flow of Fallingwater, the Portland house features vast uninterrupted walls of glass and organic shapes throughout. Walls, floors and ceilings are made of natural wood, reinforcing yet again the feeling of being in a highly sophisticated tree house. Generous use of natural stone and curved shapes add fascinating nature-like elements to the impressive interior. Overall, the home took seven years to go from concept to completion. The care and thought that the architect obviously put into the realization of the client’s wishes is evident in every facet of this truly poetic home. Although the photographs are beyond impressive, according to the architect they do the property no justice. To really enjoy this unusual home, he says, one has to walk through it and take in every feature first-hand.
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Fonterra is reviewing its rules for milk powder resellers in China, after 19 people were arrested for on-selling milk powder that should have been thrown out. Fonterra says it does not know if anyone has fallen ill from consuming its expired milk powder, as the NZ dairy giant tries to come to terms with the latest scandal to engulf the Chinese food industry. Chinese police on Monday (NZT) arrested 19 people in Shanghai for selling about 300 tonnes of expired Fonterra milk powder, Shanghai Daily reported. The suspects were allegedly managing a company, which was packaging expired products of the New Zealand dairy company - one of the most popular brands in China - into smaller packages for resale below market prices, according to media reports. FAIRFAX The suspects were allegedly managing a company, which was packaging expired products of New Zealand dairy company Fonterra. After a months-long investigation, the police discovered that one of the suspects sold the expired products to another company, who in turn allegedly resold almost 200 tonnes to distributors in Shanghai and in the Jiangsu, Henan and Qinghai provinces, who sold them on e-commerce platforms or in wholesale. READ MORE: * Fonterra's big profit shows it can pay suppliers on time: Prime Minister John Key * Support loans cast shadow on Fonterra half-year result * Fonterra bill payment extension criticism grows * Fonterra says it is feeling the pain alongside farmers, contractors SUPPLIED Fonterra milk powder being bagged at Waikato's Te Rapa processing plant. The authorities have seized 100 tonnes of these products and have shut down the websites selling them. Fonterra spokeswoman Maree Wilson said on Monday night it supported the enforcement steps taken by Chinese officials. "The Chinese authorities have acted strongly and swiftly to investigate and arrest the people they believe are responsible for this and we fully support their actions. "Food safety is our top priority and we are committed to providing safe and high quality dairy products. "We work actively with our direct customers to ensure the integrity of our products. This includes providing guidelines on how to manage expired product in a responsible way. "In this case there appears to have been criminal activity much further along the supply chain. "While we believe this is an isolated criminal incident, we are reviewing the case internally." It's the latest scandal to hit China's beleaguered food industry, where food safety incidents, including sale of adulterated or expired products have been on the rise. The dairy sector has been among the worst affected by such incidents. In 2008, six babies died and 300,000 were affected by melamine-contaminated baby milk powder produced in China, prompting many Chinese citizens to begin turning to foreign milk products. Fonterra milk products were pulled off shelves in 2013 when it emerged they were potentially contaminated with botulism. Testing showed the risk of botulism never existed and none of the products were contaminated, but the false alarm prompted a review of New Zealand's food safety system. Wilson said Fonterra was not directly involved in this case - the issues related to alleged criminal activity much further along the supply chain - and the company was alerted to the issue by Chinese media reports. Wilson said that, to Fonterra's knowledge, the milk powder was not being resold with Fonterra packaging. It was not aware of anyone falling ill as a result of consuming the expired milk powder, she said. *Audio courtesy of RNZ
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Updated, March 10: Climate denialists, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, and Donald Trump himself have expressed interest in the idea of a “red team blue team” debate on climate change, conducted on a national stage. But it looks like they are out of luck. According to The New York Times, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly has definitively put an end to the notion. Kelly and other White House officials “regarded it as ill-conceived and politically risky, and when Pruitt sought to announce it last fall, they weighed in to stop him.” At a crucial inter-departmental meeting, “every office within the White House was opposed to the idea.” Ah well, so long, red team. We barely knew ye. Below is a post I wrote in 2017, exploring the idea — not only Pruitt’s proposal, but the way the exercise could be used to glean real insight about climate change. It’s still worth reading! Back in June 2017, E&E’s Emily Holden broke the story that EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is planning a “red team, blue team” exercise to critique climate change science. He told Breitbart he got the idea from a Wall Street Journal editorial by physicist Steven Koonin. Rick Perry is also a big fan. Then on Thursday, at his first oversight hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment, Pruitt told Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) that he has a timeline: the red team/blue process will be underway by "early next year." The way Pruitt reportedly plans to do it is, he will assemble a team of climate “skeptics,” who doubt some or all of the results of mainstream climate science, to be one team. Another group of climate scientists would defend the existing body of research, as the blue team. And there will be some kind of public debate or exchange between them, perhaps televised. This is, for many, many obvious reasons, a terrible idea. But one of its worst consequences is perhaps the least obvious: It will discredit the idea of a red team, blue team exercise focused on climate change. That is too bad, because the concept could be used for a more productive conversation about what to do about this gigantic threat. I’ll get to why in a second. First, briefly, the main two reasons that Pruitt’s idea is bad and wrong. The red-team exercise is not suited to basic science The red-team exercise has its origins in the military, which has done some of the most rigorous thinking of any institution about decision-making in the face of deep uncertainty. Military planners do not typically use cost-benefit analysis in pursuit of ideally efficient results. They are not focused on optimality, but on resilience and robustness. They seek to create systems — computer systems, systems of rank and discipline, combat systems, decision-making systems, war plans — that are robust against a variety of risks. Risk, crudely speaking, means probability multiplied by severity. So lower probability does not necessarily mean lower risk. It depends on the shape of the curve. The black line shows a more probable risk, with outcomes grouped tightly around a narrow (and low) range of severities. The red line shows a less probable risk but with longer “tails,” encompassing some extremely severe outcomes. The red scenario is less likely, but contains more total risk. One way to assess a system’s resilience is to attack it — or rather, to simulate an attack. That, in a nutshell, is the origin of the red-team exercise. The idea is to create a group devoted to taking the system down and find out how it holds up under stress. The blue team and read team do faux battle, whether it’s hackers trying to penetrate a computer system or terrorist cells trying to take down US installations. Then blue teams figure out how to ruggedize their systems and run the exercise again. (For an extensive account, see Red Team: How to Succeed by Thinking Like the Enemy, by Micah Zenko of the Council on Foreign Relations.) It’s a great way to help figure out what to do. (More on that in a minute.) It’s not necessarily suited to determining what’s true, scientifically speaking. Or rather, what you’d want for science is something with the same spirit, but slower, more deliberate, more systematized. Call it “peer review.” As many scientists and others have already pointed out, science basically is one giant, slow-moving red-team exercise, and it’s working just fine. Scientists spend a great deal of time scrutinizing one another’s work. Correcting or amending important work can make a scientific career. There is always the possibility of cultural bias in peer review, as there is in everything, but there is no evidence, at long last, after years of attacks, that the many disciplines that fall under the rubric “climate science” face any unique problems in that regard, or have ignored significant results. There is certainly no reason to believe that our collective understanding would be improved by a televised debate. No body of science has been more reviewed and stress-tested than climate science. The most-cited list of skeptics hasn’t changed in years, in some cases for decades. They are kept in the public eye entirely through the efforts of an organized ideological campaign, but they rarely add to their ranks. Which brings us to the second reason this a dumb idea. Trump’s a denier, Pruitt’s a denier, and the whole point of the exercise is denialist Whatever theoretical good a red-team exercise might do for climate science — Niskanen Center’s Joseph Majkut makes a decent case for them — there is every reason to think that this administration will approach the exercise as it has everything else: incompetently and in bad faith. Trump has a long record of dismissing climate change. Neither Pruitt nor Perry believes the consensus conclusion that human beings are the primary drivers of recent warming. They have not thought a lot about climate science, certainly not about systemic weaknesses in the peer review process. They don’t even really know what those words mean. “What the American people deserve,” Pruitt told Breitbart, “is a true, legitimate, peer-reviewed, objective, transparent discussion about CO2.” You’re thinking “uh, that’s science.” But the thing to remember, the thing that becomes clear when listening to any Pruitt speech or interview, is that he’s just saying words. He’s heard liberals say “peer review” a lot, so he’s gathered that it’s some kind of synonym for “good” and just co-opted it. Almost nothing Pruitt has ever said about climate change has made sense, or been true, or either. He is not a man one might reasonably trust to run an objective stress test on the findings of a large and diverse scientific field. Meanwhile, in a recent budget hearing, Sen. Al Franken explained to Perry that the red-team thing is basically what scientists do all the time. He mentioned the red team of skeptics assembled by the Koch brothers several years ago, run by Dr. Richard Muller. At the end of the process, Muller renounced his skepticism and urged action on climate change. Here is Muller’s New York Times op-ed: “The Conversion of a Climate-Change Skeptic.” “I don’t believe that,” Perry said. “I don’t buy it.” These are not people who care about climate science. Red team exercises would be great for climate decision-making Where red-team exercises excel is in helping with decision-making — figuring out what to do. Climate science confronts us with a skein of overlapping risks of varying probabilities, some of them high probability and moderately severe, many of them low probability but extremely severe. Even among the “known” risks, like droughts and crop failures, it is difficult for scientists to predict regional effects with confidence, especially at the temporal scale humans need (decades, not centuries). Risks arise not only from the physical manifestations of atmospheric heat, but from its social effects — the heat stress, starvation, migration, and conflict it will drive. Climate is what the military calls a “risk multiplier.” Faced with these rising and potentially catastrophic risks, and not much time, we very urgently need to figure out what to do. And climate science, whatever its merits, can never tell us what to do. In a large and complex culture, any collective decision involves myriad conflicting interests and influences. Decisions must take climate science into account, but also how to balance risks, how to judge the economic and political challenges against the atmospheric one, how to weigh lives, money, and time. Decisions require not just true facts and accurate projections, they require wisdom, a balancing of risks and interests. The military’s experience making urgent decisions in the face of deep uncertainty will soon prove extremely valuable to all of us. Like military strategists, we will have to think in terms of risk management, make decisions based not primarily on optimality — the situation is too urgent and too uncertain for economic optimization — but on resilience. We will need to ruggedize our systems, in Alex Steffen’s words. We need ways to make good, reliable decisions quickly (especially, I would argue, at the city level). That is the kind of thing red-team exercises can help with. Come up with plans, budgets, and strategies and then assign teams to tear them apart: Point out overlooked risks, challenge the weighting of values, or expose possible unanticipated effects and feedback loops. Run the exercise until you find a plan that is rugged against multiple attacks, points of failure, and unanticipated outcomes. Red team exercises are something other parts of the government could adopt from the military to healthy effect. It will be a shame if their name and reputation are tarnished by Pruitt’s hackish attempt to prosecute old and long-settled disputes over basic science. Further reading Back in 2012, I did a couple of posts for Grist on these themes:
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The made-up scandal that just won’t quit is back, with a vengeance. A group of Republican lawmakers in New Hampshire asked the state’s attorney general on Tuesday to launch an investigation into President Barack Obama’s citizenship, The Associated Press reported. The effort was being staged in hopes that they may be able to knock Obama’s name off the New Hampshire primary ballot. The group, led by state Rep. Laurence Rappaport (R), has not been told whether the investigation will proceed. Rappaport has long been attached to the so-called “birthers” in New Hampshire, and he helped former dentist Orly Taitz pursue a “birther” complaint with the state’s Ballot Law Commission in November. Other Republicans who helped Taitz, who’s been repeatedly rebuked by the courts, included Republican state Reps. Harry Accornero, Lucien Vita and Carol Vita. All of them have alleged that the long-form birth certificate presented by the White House last April was a forgery, but the Ballot Law Commission rejected their claims. “There’s sufficient controversy that I want it investigated,” Rappaport said in November, according to The Concord Monitor. “Every time this is brought up… we get a lot of flak, but we’ve never gotten an answer.” President Obama released his birth certificate long before running for office. After challenges to its authenticity became popular among prominent Republicans, he publicly shamed them and released the original document, pulled from the state of Hawaii’s archives. The president’s citizenship has been attested to by Hawaii officials, and newspapers published in Honolulu in 1961 bear record of the family’s birth announcement.
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Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. Dec. 3, 2015, 8:28 PM GMT / Updated Dec. 3, 2015, 8:28 PM GMT By Hannah Rappleye, Tracy Connor and Stephanie Gosk Members of two California mosques where San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook worshipped told NBC News they knew him as a mild-mannered and devout Muslim who came to prayers on his lunch break and got married at Islam's holiest shrine. They said that if he had been radicalized — authorities now say it appears he was recently in touch with people with extremist viewpoints — it did not happen at their Southern California masjids. "It doesn't make any sense at all," said Nizaam Ali, 23, of Dar-Al-Uloom Al-Islamia mosque in Muscoy, a suburb of San Bernardino. "We never saw him raise his voice. We never saw him curse at anyone, disrespect anyone. He was always a very nice guy, always very simple, very straightforward. ... He had a lot of manners." Mustafa Kuko, director of the Islamic Center of Riverside, another mosque Farook attended for several years, had the same impression. "He was very mild, very calm, very peaceful, very nice, very decent," Kuko said. In interviews with NBC News, they said that despite his regular attendance, Farook was so reserved that they did not get to know him intimately. "He was always a very nice guy, always very simple, very straightforward." They worried that Wednesday's massacre would bring a backlash against peaceful Muslims who would have turned in Farook had they known his plans. One imam said investigators showed up at his home with guns drawn to question him. "I swear that if any one of the Muslims had any idea that this man would do such a thing, we would be the first people to respond, the first people to tell authorities that this is what's going on," Ali said. "It's our religious duty." Farook attended the Riverside mosque for several years, faithfully appearing at morning and late evening services, Kuko said. READ: Suspects Had Radical Ties — and a Baby Registry In 2013, he went on Umrah, a pilgrimage to Mecca, telling Ali that he planned to meet the fiancée he had met online — Tashfeen Malik — and to get married at the Black Stone in the Grand Mosque. "Imagine to say, 'I got married in the holiest shrine of Islam,'" Ali said. When he returned from Saudi Arabia, Farook asked Kuko if he could have a marriage celebration at the Islamic Center. "He invited some people, his Pakistani brothers and sisters. And it was a good evening," Kuko said.
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On Saturday, some of the brilliant folks comprising the hard leftist group Antifa accidently beat the hell out of a fellow Antifa protester whom the morons mistook for a "neo-Nazi" (which basically means anyone right-wing or classically liberal). No one has ever accused Antifa of being particularly bright. The leftist group was out in full force to protest a free speech rally in Boston, which reportedly had a grand total of zero "neo-Nazis," though there were some members of the so-called "alt-right" in attendance. "This anti-white nationalist protester was punched in the face after being mistaken for a neo-Nazi in Boston," reads a Facebook post from Fusion. "Do not hit someone that you assume is a neo-Nazi. You cannot do that," said one protester. "He's on our side!" That's right, you must first be sure you don't like their ideology and then you can punch them, because screw dialogue and the First Amendment altogether. When a reporter asked the man who was assaulted and now bleeding from his head and mouth if he planned on sticking around the fine folks at the rally, he replied, "I'm not exactly sure right now." Apparently getting assaulted by the people you thought were helping you protest "neo-Nazis" isn't reason enough to reject Antifa and leave the rally. Interesting. WATCH:
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In vitro demonstration of the pumping of the soft robotic sleeve (Video courtesy of Ellen Roche/Harvard University) Harvard University and Boston Children’s Hospital researchers have developed a customizable soft robot that fits around a heart and helps it beat, potentially opening new treatment options for people suffering from heart failure. The soft robotic sleeve twists and compresses in synch with a beating heart, augmenting cardiovascular functions weakened by heart failure. Unlike currently available devices that assist heart function, Harvard’s soft robotic sleeve does not directly contact blood. This reduces the risk of clotting and eliminates the need for a patient to take potentially dangerous blood thinner medications. The device may one day be able to bridge a patient to transplant or to aid in cardiac rehabilitation and recovery. “This research demonstrates that the growing field of soft robotics can be applied to clinical needs and potentially reduce the burden of heart disease and improve the quality of life for patients,” said Ellen T. Roche, the paper’s first author and former PhD student at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and The Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. Roche is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the National University of Ireland Galway. The research, published in Science Translational Medicine, was a collaboration between SEAS, the Wyss Institute and Boston Children’s Hospital. “This work represents an exciting proof of concept result for this soft robot, demonstrating that it can safely interact with soft tissue and lead to improvements in cardiac function. We envision many other future applications where such devices can delivery mechanotherapy both inside and outside of the body,” said Conor Walsh, senior author of the paper and the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at SEAS and Core Faculty Member at the Wyss Institute. Heart failure affects 41 million people worldwide. Today, some of the options to treat it are mechanical pumps called ventricular assist devices (VADs), which pump blood from the ventricles into the aorta, and heart transplant. While VADs are continuously improving, patients are still at high risk for blood clots and stroke. To create an entirely new device that doesn’t come into contact with blood, Harvard researchers took inspiration from the heart itself. The thin silicone sleeve uses soft pneumatic actuators placed around the heart to mimic the outer muscle layers of the mammalian heart. The actuators twist and compress the sleeve in a similar motion to the beating heart. The device is tethered to an external pump, which uses air to power the soft actuators. In vivo demonstration of cardiac assist in a porcine model of acute heart failure (Video courtesy of Ellen Rouche/Harvard SEAS) The sleeve can be customized for each patient, said Roche. If a patient has more weakness on the left side of the heart, for example, the actuators can be tuned to give more assistance on that side. The pressure of the actuators can also increase or decrease over time, as the patient’s condition evolves. The sleeve is attached to the heart using a combination of a suction device, sutures and a gel interface to help with friction between the device and the heart. The SEAS and Wyss engineers worked with surgeons at Boston Children’s Hospital to develop the device and determine the best ways to implant the device and test it on animal models. “The cardiac field had turned away from idea of developing heart compression instead of blood-pumping VADs due to technological limitations, but now with advancements in soft robotics it’s time to turn back,” said Frank Pigula, a cardiothoracic surgeon and co-corresponding author on the study, who was formerly clinical director of pediatric cardiac surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital and is now a faculty member at University of Louisville and division chief of pediatric cardiac surgery at Norton Children’s Hospital. “Most people with heart failure do still have some function left; one day the robotic sleeve may help their heart work well enough that their quality of life can be restored." More research needs to be done before the sleeve can be implanted in humans but the research is an important first step towards an implantable soft robot that can augment organ function. Harvard’s Office of Technology Development has filed a patent application and is actively pursuing commercialization opportunities. “This research is really significant at the moment because more and more people are surviving heart attacks and ending up with heart failure,” said Roche. “Soft robotic devices are ideally suited to interact with soft tissue and give assistance that can help with augmentation of function, and potentially even healing and recovery.” The research was co-authored by Markus A. Horvath, Isaac Wamala, Ali Alazmani, Sang-Eun Song, William Whyte, Zurab Machaidze, Christopher J. Payne, James Weaver, Gregory Fishbein, Joseph Kuebler, Nikolay V.Vasilyev and David J. Mooney. It was supported by the Translational Research Program grant from Boston Children’s Hospital, a Director’s Challenge Cross-Platform grant from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Science Foundation Ireland.
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By Hal Koss Birthday month? Jan-Feb: Even the Stones Cry Out: Mar-Apr: Here I Stand: May-June: Agape, Actually: July-Aug: Habits of the Kingdom: Sep-Oct: We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Tent: Nov-Dec: The Apocalypse is Inside You: On your burrito? Chicken: How Steak/Pork: The surprising reason Veggie: Three sneaky ways Ideal low-key Saturday? Netflix: Chance the Rapper’s faith Read a book: The Russell Moore CNN interview Go out for coffee: Every millennial thinkpiece Watch / do athletic activity: the mommy blogger controversy As long as it involves sweatpants: The Last Jedi’s virtue signaling Favorite la Croix? Mango: fills us with wonder amid Grapefruit / Cran-Ras: speaks prophetically to Coconut: is a parable for Orange / Tangerine: shines a light on Other or None: teaches us about Birthday day? 01-08: the twilight of Christendom 09-17: longing for shalom 18-24: our fractured republic 25-31: our disenchanted imagination Hal Koss received his BA from Loyola Marymount University and his MDiv from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He and his wife live in Chicago, IL, where he works in marketing.
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Initially identified as Short-billed Dowitcher, identification was changed to Long-billed Dowitcher upon further review of dowitcher identification and the photos below. This afternoon, Bill Oyler and I checked Tadpole Rd for shorebirds. Shortly after we arrived, Bill spotted a dowitcher foraging. While I was watching it in my scope, a second dowitcher walked into view and then both birds instantly flushed. I never got a good enough look at the second bird to say what species it was for sure, but the first bird I was able to get good looks at as well as photos, and it is a Long-billed Dowitcher. There were also Pectoral Sandpiper, Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, Killdeer, Wilson’s Snipe, and one lone juvenile American Golden-Plover. Long-billed Dowitcher was a new Centre County lifer for me as well as a few other area birders that stopped to check it out, like Tim Schreckengost. Bill and I also stopped by the Polled Hereford farm ponds and there were Northern Shovelers and Blue-winged Teal there, as well as a very wet and angry juvenile Cooper’s Hawk.
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Reclaim Australia is one brick in the wall indonesia / philippines / australia | anti-fascism | opinion / analysis Thursday July 02, 2015 11:24 Thursday July 02, 2015 11:24 by MACG - Anarkismo by MACG - Anarkismo PO Box 5108 Brunswick North VIC 3056, Australia PO Box 5108 Brunswick North VIC 3056, Australia Let's knock the whole wall down We must go a few steps further, therefore, than just engaging in anti-racist and antifascist organising. We must fight the ongoing displacement of Aboriginal people from their homelands in Western Australia. We must fight the mass incarceration and illegalisation of people seeking asylum in this country. We must confront all of these “single” issues. They are part of an entire against the working class and our communities, by the Government, capital and the State. Reclaim Australia is one brick in the wall Let's knock the whole wall down It looks like we are in for another round of Reclaim Australia's Islamophobic, racist and anti-Left mobilisations around Australia, particularly in Melbourne. Lately we have seen the racist, Fascist thugs raise their heads, ready to organise not only against Muslim communities, but also against anyone who opposes them. We have seen the split from Reclaim Australia, the ugly United Patriots Front (UPF) trying to storm Richmond Town Hall believing that by doing so they could destroy the what they imagine to be the main organisers against their rally in Federation Square back in April. They thought they could destroy the Left and the antifascist movement. What they actually showed was a few dozen thugs wearing swastikas and other Nazi paraphernalia, failing to “give the Left a lesson”. We believe that, in order to fight back and effectively kick out their new round of hate mobilisations ion 18 July, the whole antifascist movement must not follow the same faults that have been apparent on 4 April. There is an urgent need for a trade union and mass community mobilisation. We need the migrant communities’ participation in the counter-rallies and other activities planned for 18 July in Melbourne and for the next day in the rest of the country. The counter-rally on 4 April was comprised mostly not only of white activists but also of mostly Anglo-Australian militants. With the important exception of activists from the Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance (WAR), and some non-white supporters of larger organised Left and Anarchist groups, the non-white and the migrant communities were simply absent. The same happened in the most recent counter-rally against United Patriots Front at Richmond Town Hall on 31 May. This description of the weaknesses of the mobilisations so far is not meant to discredit the efforts of the organisers of these events. Every effort towards kicking the Fascists out and building of an effective antifascist movement is welcome. Rather, we say this to emphasise that the task in front of us is larger than the work we have done so far. The task we face is to draw the mass of the working class into direct and active participation in the movement. On the one hand, the Muslim and Asian communities who are the immediate target of Reclaim Australia. On the other hand, the union movement, which is the Fascists' ultimate target. Without these two sectors, the anti-racist, antifascist mobilisation is likely to be seen as a war between fringe groups of our society to which few will pay attention. This orientation, however, does not mean we recognise the leaders of the Muslim communities or the union movement as having a veto on our activities. Through our mobilisations we seek to halt the progress of the far Right. We must realise the far Right are only a symptom of the government push to criminalise Muslims, indigenous people, immigrants and people of colour. They label them as potential terrorists and thus enemies of some imagined “Australia”. We must go a few steps further, therefore, than just engaging in anti-racist and antifascist organising. We must fight the ongoing displacement of Aboriginal people from their homelands in Western Australia. We must fight the mass incarceration and illegalisation of people seeking asylum in this country. We must confront all of these “single” issues. They are part of an entire attack against the working class and our communities, by the Government, capital and the State. Capitalism generates racism and produces the potential for Fascist groups to emerge. To abolish racism and to eliminate the Fascist threat for good, we need a workers’ revolution to overthrow capitalism. *This is the main article of the latest issue of “The Anvil”, newsletter of Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group (MACG). You can download the issue (and all the back issues) from here http://melbacg.wordpress.com/the-anvil/
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Illustration by Charlie Powell. Fossils are priceless. I mean that in both senses: They are invaluable clues about vanished lives, and their worth should never be measured in dollars. But Eric Prokopi made quite a bit of money dealing fossils and, as it turns out, brazenly smuggling them. He recently pled guilty to conspiracy, making false statements to customs officials, illegally importing fossils into the United States, and fraudulent transfer of dinosaur bones. He is set to be sentenced in April and faces up to 17 years in prison. Prokopi’s string of fossil offenses was finally exposed in the past few months because of a dinosaur that was almost sold for $1 million. His story is one of the most egregious cases of dinosaur rustling in recent years, and it shows just how corrupt and harmful to science the fossil market can be. The ugly tale began when Texas-based Heritage Auctions put out a catalog for a May 20 event in New York City. The lots included an ankylosaur skull, a troodontid skeleton, and the hyped star of the sale, a “75 percent complete” Tarbosaurus bataar skeleton. This tyrannosaur, which roamed Mongolia about 70 million years ago, was comparable in size and ferocity to its famous cousin Tyrannosaurus rex. (The auction ads took advantage of a taxonomic disagreement among paleontologists and called the fossil Tyrannosaurus bataar, but I’m in the camp that believes these dinosaurs should be kept in distinct genera.) It seemed the dinosaur was going to slip away into a private collection. For years, paleontologists have watched as significant specimens have gone from field sites to wealthy fossil enthusiasts. Some researchers have even had dinosaurs stolen right out from under them, finding their carefully-excavated quarries turned to shambles littered with cigarette butts, booze bottles, and broken bones. There are legitimate dealers who abide by laws on collecting, importing, and selling fossils, but you’ll always find questionable specimens from China, Brazil, Morocco, and other locations if you visit a fossil or mineral show. What’s on display is only the tip of the iceberg. The real action at places like the annual Tuscon Gem and Mineral Show is behind closed doors in private hotel rooms, where sellers save their fanciest—and most illicit—deals for customers they feel they can trust. Countries around the world have passed laws that make it difficult to sell dinosaurs and other fossils legally, but dealers keep finding new ways around the laws, and the black market thrives. Even dealers who keep their noses clean almost never contribute anything to science—they treat fossils as petrified postage stamps to be hoarded, traded, and sold off. Whoever had collected the Tarbosaurus had stripped away almost everything of scientific importance about the animal: how the bones were scattered in the rock where they were found, what preparations were used to clean and reassemble the skeleton, what other fossils were in the same or nearby layers. But paleontologists were certain that the dinosaur came from the Cretaceous rock of Mongolia. This is the only place in the world where Tarbosaurus skeletons are found in great numbers, and the dinosaur’s off-white bones were the same color as other dinosaur remains found in the Gobi Desert. There was no reasonable doubt that the Tarbosaurus had been stolen. China and Mongolia strictly regulate who is allowed to launch dinosaur expeditions and collect fossils and where those specimens must be reposited. There was no legal route by which the dinosaur could have ended up in a New York City auction. Days before it was set to be sold, paleontologists and the president of Mongolia objected to the auction. Paleontologist Mark Norell of the American Museum of Natural History, who has worked extensively in Mongolia, pointed out that the dinosaur must be an illicit specimen from the Gobi Desert. According to Mongolian heritage laws, any recovered bones must ultimately rest within an approved Mongolian institution. (The AMNH itself made an international faux pas when it auctioned off a Mongolian dinosaur egg in 1924.) Heritage Auctions pooh-poohed the concerns and affirmed that the auction house trusted the dealer it was working with. Greg Rohan, president of Heritage Auctions, steadfastly defended the auction, whining that it was too close to the date of the auction to do anything about the complaints of the Mongolian government and concerned researchers. Lawyers working in concert with the Mongolian government entered the kerfuffle and demanded that the auction be halted until the provenance of the skeleton could be settled. The auction went ahead as scheduled. In the middle of the bidding, a lawyer announced that he had on the phone a judge who had issued an order against the sale. Even this last-minute tactic didn’t stop the bidding. The final price of the Tarbosaurus was just over $1 million. Fortunately, the unknown buyer couldn’t simply walk off with the dinosaur. Investigations continued, now with the begrudging assistance of Heritage Auctions, and Norell and other paleontologists confirmed that the tyrannosaur must have been uncovered in Mongolia. More than that, what was billed as a nearly complete individual animal turned out to be made of several different dinosaurs. (Surprise, surprise, the smuggler wasn’t honest about his wares. Many dinosaurs that appear at auction houses are not as complete or well-preserved as they might appear to the untrained eye.) The investigation revealed that the origin of the bones had been obscured by shipping them from Great Britain to the United States labeled as assorted reptile fossils. By June 22, Prokopi was identified as the dealer, and the skeleton had been seized by the United States government. Though it is still bound by red tape, the dinosaur soon may be returned home to Mongolia. Tarbosaurus Bataar. Andreas Meyer/Hemera/Thinkstock. Sadly, the other dinosaur fossils in the same auction were sold off without much attention. Still, inspired by the controversy, paleontologist Paul Barrett of the Natural History Museum in London halted the auction of a Tarbosaurus leg at Christie’s that was scheduled for about the same time. Barrett had noticed the leg in the window of the South Kensington auction house and contacted Christie’s, which informed the owner that the specimen was questionable. The lot was pulled from sale, and, Barrett says, is presumably still with its U.K. owner. Such simple actions may help deter illegal and illicit fossil sales. “I’d say it’s just a case of staying vigilant, helping auction houses know about the legality of the specimens they handle, and in some cases attempting to persuade owners of their responsibilities,” Barrett told me. Private owners may not even know where their prize came from, how it was collected, or whether any laws were broken in the process. Repatriation, however, is hard to enforce. Unless there’s some kind of illegal activity, such as a customs violation, Barrett said, where an illicit fossil ends up depends on the whim of the owners. Prokopi wasn’t so lucky. His defense crumbled as it became clear through early court proceedings that he had tried to hide the dinosaur by lying about what kind of bones he had and claiming the fossils were found and collected legally in England. Customs violations were the smuggler’s undoing. Following his guilty plea, details about Prokopi’s dealings have started to trickle out. The Tampa Bay Times characterized him as a passionate Indiana Jones who followed his dream. What the sympathetic reporter didn’t understand, though, was that Prokopi actively undermined legitimate paleontology. He fueled a black market that robs specimens from science and the public alike. We can’t learn anything from a Tarbosaurus that stands in a millionaire’s mansion. And contrary to what you might expect, relatively abundant dinosaurs like Tarbosaurus are important exactly because so many have been found. By comparing multiple specimens, even cutting up fossil bones to get a look at the microstructure of bone or drilling geochemical samples from them, researchers can get a better idea of how dinosaurs grew up, how they varied as individuals, and other intricate details about dinosaur biology. Dinosaur bones are not just static objects to be left on the shelf. The more individuals of a species we have, the better we can reconstruct how they lived and accurately portray the evolution and biology of these animals, whether in museum displays or movies. Dinosaurs that make their way to the auction block are often showpieces, sold without information. The geologic context of a dinosaur—which is destroyed by fossil thieves and smugglers—allows paleontologists to properly identify the age of the animal, and the position of the bones in death can illustrate how it died or what happened to the body after death. As paleontologist Jack Horner put it in his book Dinosaur Lives, “A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.” The international market for unusual fossil specimens damages science in other ways as well. Some sellers create forgeries and chimeras. The croc-snouted dinosaur Irritator got its name because a fossil dealer glued extraneous bones to the dinosaur’s skull to make it look more complete than it was. Paleontologists were able to catch that fake, but researchers can be fooled by fancy fossils with murky backstories, as in the case of a fossil cheetah skull described in a PNAS paper that was retracted last year. The skull was artificially enhanced, and the lack of locality data meant that no one could be sure where it fit in the big picture of cat evolution. Even the venerable National Geographic gave undue attention to a faked fossil. (I should mention that I blog about paleontology for the magazine’s Phenomena website.) In the fall of 1999, the magazine heralded “Archaeoraptor” as a significant evolutionary stage in the evolution of birds from dinosaurs. The animal seemed to exhibit a mixture of traits from early birds and their dinosaur predecessors, fitting within the pattern of authentic feathered dinosaurs that were just beginning to be described in the peer-reviewed literature. But the origins and identity of “Archaeoraptor” were shady from the start. The fossil had been purchased for $80,000 from a commercial dealer at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show and was supposed to go to the tiny Dinosaur Museum in Blanding, Utah, run by artists Stephen and Sylvia Czerkas. They reached out to professional paleontologist Phil Currie, who contacted National Geographic to suggest a story. It quickly became clear that the fossil had been illegally exported from China. Even worse, further preparation of the slab and CT scans by fossil imaging expert Tim Rowe suggested that “Archaeoraptor” was a composite of at least two different fossils. The Czerkases denied that their prize could be a fake, going so far as to submit manuscripts about the fossil to Nature and Science to legitimize the find, but the journals wouldn’t touch the hot fossil. National Geographic went ahead with its publication and press conference. Shortly after, paleontologist Xu Xing, an expert on feathered dinosaurs, confirmed that “Archaeoraptor” was pieced together from different animals, later identified as including the nonavian dinosaur Microraptor and the early bird Yanornis. A few months later, after an internal investigation, National Geographic recanted and admitted that “Archaeoraptor” was a fraud. The magazine’s confession was admirable, but the hype around the controversial chimera gave ammunition to creationists and those who stubbornly insist that birds cannot be dinosaurs. Authentic, well-studied fossils have confirmed over and over again that birds are just one kind of dinosaur, but fundamentalists still trot out “Archaeoraptor” to insist that the scientific community cannot be trusted. Black market fossils can hurt science in an unfortunate array of ways. No one benefits from the sale of fossils except the dealer. The bylaws of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology hold its members to a professional standard: “The barter, sale, or purchase of scientifically significant vertebrate fossils is not condoned, unless it brings them into or keeps them within a public trust.” Even then, many professional paleontologists feel unsettled by high-profile sales that inspire unethical collectors to obtain and sell off important fossils. The controversial, overhyped fossil primate fossil Darwinius—known to the public as “Ida” and presented at the time as The Link to our primate ancestry—was sold to the Natural History Museum in Oslo, Norway for a reported $750,000. Prehistoric primate expert Elwyn Simons and other paleontologists explained in Nature that “such objectionable pricing and publicity can only increase the difficulty of scientific collecting by encouraging the commercial exploitation of sites and the disappearance of fossils into private collections … We strongly believe the fossils should not have any commercial value.” Natural History Museum engineer Martin Kirkby examines an animatronic Tarbosaurus dinosaur model for a 2011 exhibition in London, England Photograph by Oli Scarff/Getty Images I understand the urge to have a dinosaur to call your own. I’ve got one myself: a skull of the long-necked, stout Jurassic sauropod Apatosaurus. But mine is a cast, which I found at the estate sale of the late Utah paleontologist James Madsen, Jr. Such alternatives let dinosaur fans have a piece of prehistory without depriving science. Indeed, reconstruction exports like Robert Gaston create and sell beautiful, lightweight casts of scientifically accurate dinosaur skeletons that are easier to mount and less expensive than real fossils.* Museums rely on casts for their own displays, after all, and museum-quality reproductions should satisfy the need of anyone who loves dinosaurs and the science of paleontology. When I initially objected to the Tarbosaurus auction back in May, many readers responded that museums should fend for themselves. This argument ignores the perilous state of many museums and fundamentally misunderstands how modern paleontology is done. What is happening to the home of the $8 million T. rex named Sue is a sad example of why museums can’t, and shouldn’t, pay through the nose for questionable dinosaurs. Sue had a twisted backstory of her own, with commercial paleontologists from the Black Hills Institute, landowner Maurice Williams, and even the federal government disputing ownership. Ultimately, after drawn-out legal disputes, Williams was granted ownership of the dinosaur, and he put it up for auction before Sotheby’s auction house. With the help of deals made with Disney, McDonald’s, and other sources, Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History acquired the dinosaur. As the institution recently made clear, though, they’re no longer in any state to purchase fossils. The Field Museum is so strapped for cash that administrators are threatening to scrap various branches of scientific research. They plan to save the museum by cutting its heart out—a museum is not really a museum without responsibly-kept collections and an active research program. Under such circumstances, even major research institutions like the Field can’t possibly compete with rich private buyers. More than that, trying to outbid wealthy buyers for improperly-collected specimens would be a stupid move for any self-respecting institution, especially since $1 million would allow a museum’s paleontology crew to spend several seasons finding and collecting new dinosaurs. Even when private collectors act in good faith, looted dinosaurs can still cause headaches for researchers. In 2009, University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno and colleagues described Raptorex kriegsteini, which appeared to be a tiny prototype of the famous Tyrannosaurus rex body plan. They based the description on a skeleton purchased from a dealer by private collector Henry Kriegstein. When Kriegstein approached Sereno about identifying the fossil, Sereno realized that the new dinosaur species had been illegally collected and would have to be returned to China. Kriegstein agreed, and in exchange, Sereno named the dinosaur after Kriegstein’s parents. Through this arrangement, Raptorex was brought into the scientific literature and public trust, and was sent to a museum in Inner Mongolia, China. The fate of Raptorex sounds like a happy ending, but a subsequent analysis of the same dinosaur highlighted how problematic commercially-collected specimens are. Museum of the Rockies paleontologist Denver Fowler and colleagues suspect that the skeleton of Raptorex is actually a juvenile Tarbosaurus. Anecdotal evidence and the scant amount of geologic information suggest that the dinosaur came from Mongolia rather than China. If we don’t know where fossils came from, how can we return fossils to their home countries, much less understand what the fossils mean? Cases such as Prokopi’s, the illegal activities of commercial fossil hunter Nathan Murphy, and the legal tangles around “Tinker” the Tyrannosaurus underscore the shady nature of commercial collecting. And during a time when many museums are financially squeezed, the insistence of commercial collectors that they’d really like to sell specimens to research institutions where the fossils will be properly conserved and used to communicate science to the public—they really do claim this is their goal—is disingenuous. Rather than assisting science, commercial collectors are robbing everyone of specimens by making them accessible only to those with deep pockets. Commercial collectors could do the right thing by working with professional paleontologists to responsibly excavate fossils for public institutions, with a small finder’s fee and rights to produce casts going to the commercial dealer. Of course, this would require private landowners and commercial collectors to stop seeing dollar signs made out of dinosaur bones. After the sale of Sue, Ida, and other high-profile fossils, researchers will continue to struggle against those who seek to turn petrifactions into profit. Commercial collectors argue that, if they don’t act, many fossils may be destroyed due to erosion. And it’s true that there are not enough professional paleontologists to excavate every dinosaur that starts peeking out of the ground. But it would be better to let a Triceratops skull fall to pieces than have that specimen mangled by amateurs who ignore basic scientific data collection and then try to sell that skull to private buyers, hiding it away from researchers and fueling a market that makes significant specimens inaccessible. There is an opportunity cost to digging up one dinosaur and not another, but it’s better to lose a few in the process of rigorous science than to wind up with a jumble of dinosaurs of questionable provenance. Correction, Jan. 9, 2012: This article originally misstated the first name of dinosaur reconstruction expert Robert Gaston. (Return to the corrected sentence.)
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$500 fine for red-light 'California stops' excessive? Jerry Hill says the punishment should be halved This officer was ticketing red-light violators at Market and Third streets in San Francisco last August. This officer was ticketing red-light violators at Market and Third streets in San Francisco last August. Photo: Liz Hafalia, The Chronicle Photo: Liz Hafalia, The Chronicle Image 1 of / 3 Caption Close $500 fine for red-light 'California stops' excessive? 1 / 3 Back to Gallery A San Mateo state senator is renewing his effort to have the $500 fine for "California stop" red-light violations reduced to a sum that low-income people can afford. Sen. Jerry Hill thinks the current punishment for the slow, rolling right-hand turns doesn't fit the crime. He introduced legislation last week that would cut the fine in half. In California, a red-light violation costs a driver about $500, by far the highest fine in the nation, according to the traffic-watch site TheNewspaper.com. The fine is a whopping $540 in Hill's district in San Mateo County. In most states, it's around $100. "Many people are making $3,000 a month, $2,500 and when you take taxes, their net take-home pay, this is over a fourth of what they take home," Hill told ABC 7. In 2014, Redflex Traffic System, which administers the red-light camera ticketing program for the city of San Mateo, issued 4,462 tickets worth $2.4 million, according to TheNewspaper. Sixty-three percent of these tickets went to drivers who made "California stops," also known as "Hollywood stops." The exorbitant fine can make drivers reluctant to make even legal right-hand turns at red-light camera intersections, causing traffic to back up behind them. Would you trust a camera to recognize that you came to full stop before turning? This isn't the first time Hill has tackled the fine in the Legislature. A bill authored as an assemblyman passed in 2010, but then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed it, arguing a reduced fine would send the wrong message to drivers about traffic safety. State Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, took a cut at the issue in 2013, writing a bill to prohibit use of the camera tickets merely to raise revenue, and to make it easier to fight them in court. But Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed it. "There are accuracy issues, privacy issues and due process issues with these tickets," Simitian told the Chronicle's Kevin Fagan. "The trouble is that more and more cities depend on this for revenue." Simitian does not advocate that red-light cameras should be eliminated, saying they do have a safety value. "I just don't think the current system gives the public a fair shake," he said. The state Department of Finance estimated in 2014 that red-light cameras bring in more than $80 million annually to the state and $50 million to cities and counties.
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Vowing that his successor won’t be able to reverse his actions, President Obama on Tuesday used executive authority to permanently ban new offshore drilling in federally owned waters off the Atlantic coast and in the Arctic Ocean. Mr. Obama used authority in a section of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, a 1953 law, to ban the drilling. The law includes a provision that allows a president to put certain waters off-limits to oil and gas production. The presidential authority was used in conjunction with similar actions by Canada, which also moved to prohibit drilling in its own Arctic waters. The U.S. move will ban drilling in the vast majority of American waters in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas, in addition to areas off the Atlantic coast stretching from New England to Virginia. “These actions, and Canada’s parallel actions, protect a sensitive and unique ecosystem that is unlike any other region on Earth,” Mr. Obama said in a statement. “They reflect the scientific assessment that, even with the high safety standards that both our countries have put in place, the risks of an oil spill in this region are significant and our ability to clean up from a spill in the region’s harsh conditions is limited.” Mr. Obama said drilling in the areas is simply not economical, though some critics say otherwise. White House officials also made clear that they believe Mr. Trump, who assumes power Jan. 20, cannot reverse the action. The 1953 law, they said, gives a president authority to ban drilling in areas but contains no provisions giving a president power to reopen them. “No president has ever acted to reverse an indefinite withdrawal, and we believe there is a strong legal basis that these withdrawals … will go forward and will stand the test of time,” a senior Obama administration official told reporters on a conference call Tuesday afternoon. “There is no authority for subsequent presidents to un-withdraw.” No president has ever tried to reverse his predecessor’s offshore drilling bans, setting up a historic legal case if Mr. Trump chooses to try to reopen the areas. Sen. Edward J. Markey, Massachusetts Democrat, left little doubt that the action was carried out with the Trump administration in mind. “We know that in the Trump administration, there will be a Big Oil bull’s-eye on our coastlines for offshore drilling,” Mr. Markey said. “As President-elect Trump nominates fossil fuel allies to his Cabinet, President Obama has instead put the interests of millions of Americans ahead of those of Big Oil with these permanent protections. We must not allow the Trump administration to open our waters off of New England to dangerous offshore oil and gas drilling.” Expecting a Trump administration much friendlier to oil and gas interests, environmental activists have been urging the administration to take action before Mr. Trump assumes office. The National Resources Defense Council said Mr. Obama “has an unprecedented opportunity to rack up important environmental gains.” “And with President-elect Donald Trump — who calls climate change a hoax and plans to dramatically expand fracking, coal mining and oil drilling — taking office in January, these last days are more critical than ever,” the group said. The American Petroleum Institute is urging Mr. Trump to rescind Mr. Obama’s actions, saying there is no such thing as a permanent ban on drilling. API official Erik Milito said Mr. Obama’s move “ignores congressional intent, our national security and vital good-paying job opportunities for our shipyards, unions and businesses of all types across the country.” “Our national security depends on our ability to produce oil and natural gas here in the United States,” Mr. Milito said. “This proposal would take us in the wrong direction just as we have become world leader in production and refining of oil and natural gas and in reduction of carbon emissions. Blocking offshore exploration weakens our national security, destroys good-paying jobs and could make energy less affordable for consumers.” House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop, Utah Republican, called Mr. Obama’s executive action “naive and unprecedented.” “This is not a moral calling; it’s an abuse of power,” Mr. Bishop said. “Scratch below the facade of pragmatism, and it is nothing more than ideological chest-thumping from the president for the far left.” Rep. Jeff Duncan, South Carolina Republican and a member of the House Natural Resources Committee, said Mr. Obama’s action “is a vain attempt to salvage a personal legacy for himself.” He said the legal provision is “vague and untested.” “A permanent ban is clearly not the scope of power provided by law, nor is it in the interest of the United States,” Mr. Duncan said. “However, I am not shocked at his willingness to put his political legacy before his country. Instead of listening to rebuke after rebuke of his policies in successive elections, he would rather act like a king. Governors in South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia have all agreed energy exploration off the coast would be a blessing to our states, and yet he ignores the will of the American people.” Mr. Duncan said there is a “strong likelihood” that Congress or the courts will strike down Mr. Obama’s executive action, “just like his plans for executive amnesty, unconstitutional recess appointments and illegally transferring terrorists [detained at Guantanamo Bay] to U.S. soil.” By using the 12(a) provision of the 1953 law to ban drilling in U.S. territorial waters, legal challenges are almost certain. But activists say a court case could take years to resolve. California Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, last week also asked Mr. Obama to ban drilling in the Pacific Ocean off the state’s coast. “Millions of people around the world will be grateful to President Obama for permanently protecting much of the Arctic and the Atlantic coasts from catastrophic oil exploration and development,” Greenpeace spokesman Travis Nichols said in a statement. Lucas Frances of the Arctic Energy Center, a group funded by oil and gas interests, said its research shows that about three-quarters of Native-group respondents in Alaska support offshore energy. “If reports are true, and taken with last week’s news that sales of Beaufort Sea and North Slope leases generated $18 million, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that the Obama administration is playing politics with the future of Alaska,” he said. Jacqueline Savitz, senior vice president of the environmental group Oceana, said the move by Mr. Obama would be “a smart business decision, based on science and facts.” “This decision would help to protect existing lucrative coastal tourism and fishing businesses from offshore drilling, which promises smaller, short-lived returns and threatens coastal livelihoods,” she said. “East Coast communities and businesses that depend on a healthy ocean would finally be able to rest assured that they will be spared from the worst impacts of dirty and dangerous offshore drilling.” Copyright © 2019 The Washington Times, LLC. Click here for reprint permission.
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China, perhaps more than any other country, faces many important and difficult population challenges: reproductive health and reproductive rights, rural-urban migration and reform of the hukou system, and imbalances in the sex ratio at birth. And two deeply connected population issues, the rapid aging of the population, on the one hand, and the low birth rate and the family planning policy on the other, are of great significance to China's future development. China's population is aging as rapidly as anywhere in the world and its low birth rate means it faces a significant population decline in the not too distant future. In part, China's population will age because people are living longer, an important dimension of China's great progress. But the country's low birth rate is the most important reason for population aging, leading to a very top-heavy age structure with many elderly, fewer workers, and even fewer children. The low birth rate and population aging mean China faces two important economic challenges. The first is maintaining economic growth and poverty reduction, while the second is ensuring economic security for hundreds of millions of elderly. Since the beginning of economic reform in 1978, changes in age structure have been very favorable in China. Because of the decline in the birth rate, only partly a consequence of the family planning policy, the number of children in China has decreased and the proportion of the population that is of working age increased. This led to a demographic dividend in China that provided an important boost to efforts to increase economic growth. Experts disagree about the size of the demographic dividend, but scholar Wang Feng and I believe that it added about 1.3 percentage points to economic growth between 1978 and 2000, smaller than some have argued, but still an enormous effect. China's first demographic dividend is coming to an end as the size of working age population is peaking and will soon begin a rapid decline. Over the next 40 years, China's support ratio, the effective number of producers per effective consumer, will decline by about 0.4 percent per year. As compared with the dividend phase, this changing age structure of the population could lead to a downward swing in economic growth of 1.7 percentage points per year. That would be a very serious development and a great setback to China's efforts to join the ranks of high-income countries. A second demographic dividend could be the answer to China's economic growth challenge, but it is far from automatic. First, as countries' birth rates decline they substitute child quality for child quantity. People around the world are having fewer children but they are spending more on each child. In particular, they are spending more on health and education for children. Countries end up with fewer workers, but workers who are healthier, more educated, and more productive. China's recent emphasis on improved human capital investment is an important step toward realizing this second demographic dividend. Realizing the second dividend also requires an increase in wealth and investment. If the elderly are to be self-sufficient in old age, they will need to save more while they are working. By ensuring that China is well-endowed with both human capital and physical capital, a strong second demographic dividend is well within reach. But three additional steps are necessary if China is to meet its population challenges. First, China needs to retool its approach to capital accumulation. High rates of saving and investment have been critical to fueling economic development, but wealth accumulated by State-owned enterprises and in sovereign wealth funds is not creating economic security for China's elderly. China needs to refocus its efforts on building strong and successful pension funds that can meet the dual goals of supporting both economic development and economic security for the elderly. China doesn't need to save more. If anything saving rates are too high. But China needs to save in a different way. Second, China needs to make better use of its older work force. Labor income peaks at a very young age in China and drops sharply at a much younger age than in other countries in Asia, including South Korea, Japan, India, and Indonesia. Life expectancy is rising in China and older adults are much healthier than in the past. Extending the years spent in employment, lifelong learning, and better employment opportunities for older workers will contribute to stronger economic growth and better economic security for the elderly. Third, China needs to reconsider its family planning policy. The low birth rate is leading to accelerated population aging making it more difficult to sustain economic growth and to meet major population challenges. The author is a professor of economics at the University of Hawaii, senior fellow at the East-West Center, and co-author of Population Aging and the Generational Economy. (China Daily 07/10/2012 page9)
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Popular over-the-counter remedies, approved by Health Canada as "safe and effective," may be supported by little to no scientific evidence that the products work, an investigation by CBC's Marketplace reveals. Canadians spend $2.4 billion a year on natural health products.While some products may have clinical trials or other scientific evidence to support their claims, many do not require any scientific proof, and there's little way for consumers to tell the difference. "It's frustrating that the government standards are not protecting the public the way they should be," Dr. Matthew Stanbrook, deputy editor of the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ), told Marketplace co-host Erica Johnson. "If you want to sell a natural health product and you don't want to do the science to prove that it works, then don't claim that it works," Dr. Matthew Stanbrook told Marketplace co-host Erica Johnson. (CBC) This is "lending the veneer of approval to something that really hasn't demonstrated the science." To test how little evidence is required to get Health Canada to license a product, Marketplace created a children's remedy, applied for approval and received a licence. Manufacturers need a Health Canada licence number in order to sell their natural health product. Once a product is licensed, manufacturers can claim it is approved as "safe and effective." The investigation found that even a remedy making serious health claims — such as the ability to reduce children's fever — can acquire a licence with no scientific evidence. Process is 'a joke' Pharmaceutical drugs require years of clinical research before they are approved for sale. But Health Canada allows natural health product manufacturers to make similar health claims based on traditional medicine or homeopathic use, instead of scientific evidence. Licensed natural products have an eight-digit Natural Product Number (NPN) or Homeopathic Medicine Number (DIN-HM) on the label, which may give consumers peace of mind knowing the product has been authorized and approved for sale. Last year, Health Canada licensed almost 10,000 natural health products, including herbal remedies, traditional medicines and homeopathic products. Many natural products are sold in drugstores alongside pharmaceutical options. Natural health and homeopathic products are often stocked alongside over-the-counter medications and make similar claims, making it difficult for consumers to tell which are backed by scientific evidence and which are not. (CBC) Marketplace created a children's fever and pain remedy called Nighton, which claimed to provide "effective relief from fever, pain, and inflammation" for children and infants. There is a growing market in natural children's treatments. In 2008, Health Canada advised that over-the-counter cough and cold pharmaceutical products should not be given to children under the age of six, leading to a boom in natural alternatives as parents look for options on drugstore shelves. To get a licence, Marketplace submitted an application in May, 2014, to Health Canada, and included photocopied pages from A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by Dr. John Henry Clarke, a 1902 homeopathic reference book of ingredients, as evidence for its effectiveness. In October, Health Canada approved the application for Nighton. (The product remains licensed, but was never manufactured or offered for sale.) Stanbrook, who is also an assistant professor of medicine and health policy at the University of Toronto, says that Health Canada's licensing of Nighton "really makes a joke of the regulatory process." It's particularly concerning, he says, when products don't live up to their claims. For instance, in the case of Nighton, ineffective treatment for fever can lead to seizures in children. Licensing products provides 'choices' Health Canada has been regulating natural health products since 2004 under what is now called the Natural and Non-prescription Health Products Directorate, as a way to monitor the safety of products on the market. The agency declined to be interviewed by Marketplace about Nighton and how the agency approves natural health products. By email, Health Canada responded that licensing these products is about giving consumers more choice. "Canadians want a range of treatment choices available to them for conditions they can manage themselves," wrote Health Canada spokesperson Eric Morrissette. To get a Health Canada licence for a children's fever remedy, Marketplace submitted photocopied pages from a 1902 homeopathic reference book of ingredients as evidence for its effectiveness. (CBC) "Health Canada supports these choices in its licensing decisions by applying standards of evidence appropriate to the product type. "In the case of your application for a homeopathic medicine number, the appropriate evidence was provided for this type of product, so the application was approved." Some natural health products do require additional clinical evidence in order to get approval, such as products that aren't based on homeopathic or traditional use. Approvals face criticism In an editorial in the CMAJ in 2011, Stanbrook wrote that Health Canada licensing of natural health products "has created a loophole through which manufacturers can sell a product with implied health benefits without having to obtain the supporting scientific evidence that would be needed if it were sold as a drug." There should be one standard of approval for products if a manufacturer wants to make a health claim on packaging, Stanbrook says, "If you want to sell a natural health product and you don't want to do the science to prove that it works, then don't claim that it works." Existing regulations allow products "to be marketed with ... poorly documented health benefits and little or no safety data," he wrote. And many companies "seem all too willing to convey misinformation about the ostensible benefits of natural or other nondrug products." Health Canada has faced similar criticism from public health advocates in recent months over its licensing of nosodes, which are treatments that some homeopaths sell as vaccine alternatives. There is no evidence that nosodes provide immunity against disease. In the fall of 2014, Marketplace investigated homeopathic practitioners selling homeopathic nosodes as an alternative to conventional vaccines. The investigation found that some practitioners downplayed the dangers of disease, while saying that nosodes were 95 per cent effective against diseases including measles and whooping cough. Health Canada has licensed nosodes but says they are not approved as "a substitute for conventional vaccines."
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(CNN) -- The number of cholera deaths in Zimbabwe continues to increase, a World Health Organization spokesman said Monday. Cholera victims lie in a hospital ward in Harare, Zimbabwe, last week. more photos » As of Sunday, the outbreak had killed 1,564 people, and 29,131 cases had been reported, Gregory Hartl told CNN. These figures represent increases from numbers released Thursday that showed 1,518 deaths and 26,497 cases. The World Health Organization says the outbreak has affected all of the country's 10 provinces and has spread to neighboring South Africa. It is "closely linked to the lack of safe drinking water, poor sanitation, declining health infrastructure and reduced numbers of health care staff reporting to work." The organization also says factors "include the commencement of the rainy season and the movement of people within the country, and possibly across borders, during the Christmas season." Health experts have warned that the water-borne disease could infect more than 60,000 people unless its spread is halted. Long wracked by political and economic turmoil, Zimbabwe is facing its worst economic and humanitarian crisis since its independence from Great Britain 28 years ago. There is an acute shortage of all essentials such as cash, fuel, medical drugs, electricity and food. President Robert Mugabe blames the crisis on sanctions imposed by the West on grounds that he is disregarding human rights. But Mugabe's critics attribute the crisis to his economic policies. The charity Save the Children recently issued a report saying some of Zimbabwe's children are "wasting away" amid the turmoil. Five million Zimbabweans -- out of a population of about 12 million -- need food aid now, the report said. The group is appealing for 18,000 tons of food for next month. All About Zimbabwe • Cholera • United Nations
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Colorado State University researchers have exposed a sad irony to the seemingly healthy choice of bicycling to work: While cyclists are reaping the benefits of exercise, they may be increasing their exposure to harmful air pollution. CSU air quality researchers John Volckens and Jennifer Peel have published the first set of results from their multi-year Fort Collins Commuter Study. They recruited 45 non-smoking, healthy Fort Collins commuters to wear monitoring and GPS tracking equipment that measured their air pollution exposure as they commuted by bicycle and car between work and home within the city. “We wanted to ask practical questions that would empower people to make choices to reduce their exposure,” said Volckens, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Center for Energy Development and Health in the CSU Energy Institute. Peel is an associate professor in the Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences. Varying levels of exposure The researchers asked two questions: If you cycle or drive to work, how does your air pollution exposure change? Also, if you had a choice of route – the direct, busy one, or the less busy, longer one – could you change your exposure to pollution? They found that exposures vary by pollutant. Drivers got the highest exposure to carbon monoxide and gaseous pollutants, whereas cyclists got higher exposure to particulate matter like black carbon. They also found that both cyclists and drivers taking an alternative route, away from major roadways, can lower their exposure to pollutants by 20 percent to 30 percent. Great! They thought. But alas – the alternative routes almost always take longer, so in some cases, the benefits of decreased exposure could be offset by longer time on the road. “That was disappointing,” Volckens said. What’s more, cyclists, because they’re breathing harder, inhale about three times as much pollution as people breathing normally – likely increasing the exposure experienced while cycling. Car-centric built environment The results seem to suggest that the built environment strongly affects how people are exposed to air pollution, the researchers said. While putting bicycle lanes on roads is a great way to promote exercise, that alone ignores the exposure problem. After all, the traditional built environment is and always has been centered around cars – the source of about a third to half the country’s air pollution problem, depending on the region, Volckens said. More to learn There’s more to study, such as analyzing data from off-road bike paths, like the Spring Creek Trail. Hopefully those routes do offer some protection since they’re farther from major roadways. Phase II of the study will also look at health indicators of the commuters. Peel emphasized that the likely health benefits of cycling, overall, may still outweigh the risks. “But we simply do not have enough information to inform this decision – particularly regarding the adverse health effects due to the air pollution exposure. The next phase of our study may help to fill that gap.” “Our results can be put in a larger context of what others have already observed – that choosing different commute routes can have a significant effect on one’s exposure to pollution – yet sometimes, those choices are limited,” Peel added. What’s more, Volckens said, there are things communities can do in the long run that can offset these air pollution exposure levels, though they might seem radical. One way would be establishing electric-only routes – think bikers and non-fossil-fuel-burning electric cars happily sharing the roads.
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. . . Check out this video preview of The Card Game of Oz from Tom Vasel of The Dice Tower: And here's another video preview of the game from UndeadViking! Hundreds of unique and gorgeously illustrated cards. The idea is pretty basic: A storyline is laid out before you. It is your job, as Author of your own Oz story, to populate it with characters. Each character's vitality is worth so many points to the story. At the end of the game, the Author whose characters have the greatest total vitality wins the game. Sounds simple enough? But it can't be that easy. It isn't. In The Card Game of Oz, you're sharing your storyline with other Authors. There may even be multiple storylines at once. Characters come and go from various locations, each having a different effect on the story. The locations themselves might even change right out from under the feet of your characters. Characters might be unexpectedly shifted around. Objects and other characters can affect the story. Not to mention Effects, Events, and Spells that can change everything in a blink of an eye. - Jim O'Connor, Orion's Bell Check out the rules for The Card Game of Oz here. You can Print and Play The Card Game of Oz now to try it out! You can watch this How to Play video from Grey Elephant Gaming. You can watch this Live Play video from Grey Elephant Gaming. We sent out a number of preview copies of The Card Game of OZ and the reviews and comments are starting to come in. The Card Game of OZ has received the Father Geek Seal of Approval! Orion's Bell has been working on The Card Game of Oz for years, as you can see from the gorgeous presentation on the game. With your support, we can build on the time, money, and energy we've invested in this game and help cover a portion of the production costs to make The Card Game of Oz a reality. You, our KickStarter Backers, will make The Card Game of Oz a reality, and we really want to show our appreciation. We want to give you something special and we found a couple of things! If we're successful, Backers who pledge $40 or more will receive two awesome bonuses: The Ultimate Author! Now, if we get far enough into later releases, this card may eventually show up as standard card. However, this version of the card has a unique image made just for this KickStarter and it has a special "KS" set icon! I hope you'll all enjoy it! Jim O'Connor, Orion's Bell The other awesome bonus we have is a sneak peek at Set 2:The Marvelous Land of Oz. Pledge $40 or more and you will also receive a pack of 10 cards from Set 2 to mix in with your Set 1 cards before anyone else! This sneak peek set will include 4 new Characters (2 of them "Prime") plus 6 new strange Events and Effects (including 2 Spells that are just plain evil.) Sneak Peek Cards for Backers at the "Founder of OZ" Pledge Level and Higher How can you expand your support for The Card Game of Oz (and get more cool stuff?) Add-ons of course :) Click here for a preview of the Illustrated Card Game of Oz edition of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. If we are lucky enough to inspire hundreds of backers to support THE CARD GAME OF OZ we may be able to surpass our original goal. The more backers we attract, the more stretch goals we can achieve, so please, share the Kickstarter link for THE CARD GAME OF OZ with all of your friends on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and any other blog or social network you're on. The Springboard Seal of Quality is your assurance that a new game project is worth your time and attention. All titles approved for Springboard campaigns are vetted by the game professionals at Game Salute. During this comprehensive evaluation process, Game Salute play tests the game to make certain it is solid and fun, and examines all aspects of production plans to verify that you are getting the highest quality for your pledge dollars. Thanks to partnerships we have arranged in key locations around the globe, we are able to offer greatly reduced shipping costs to most international destinations. Backers in Canada, Mexico, EU, UK, and Australia need to add only $10 to their pledges to cover International Shipping. Backers in the USA receive Free Shipping. Backers in any other area, please add $30 for International Shipping. THE CARD GAME OF OZ will be available locally all around the world through friendly local game stores that participate in the Game Salute Select Stores. You can use GameStoreLocator.com to find a Game Salute Select Store near you. If your favorite store is not on our Select Stores list, be sure to ask them to sign up today at GameSalute.com/SelectStoreSignUp Springboard Local Support You can pledge through this campaign AND support your local store. Simply select your favorite local store when you complete your delivery survey and your pledge will benefit the store just as if you purchased the game through the store. You can check out the details here. We have special Bonus Bundles available for local stores. These bundles provide retailer pricing, free shipping with minimum order, complimentary demo copies, and more. Contact James Takenaka at [email protected] or 1-800-459-5516 to pre-order your Card Game of Oz now. We are pleased to offer access to our game designers and creative team for podcast, blog, newspaper, or television interviews. Team members can also be present for conventions and event appearances with a timely invitation and appropriate travel and lodging expense allowances. Please contact David MacKenzie at [email protected] to discuss any of these media support opportunities. Game Design and Development: James C. O'Connor Art Direction: James C. O'Connor & Dann May Artists: Dann May, Yoann Boissonnet, Banu Andaru, Elizabeth Arnold, Verónica Atanacio, Alan Bayudan, Swendly Benilia, Carl Beu, Lee Blair, Del Bovoric, Eva Cajnko, Cina Canady, Crystal Carpenter, Verónica Casas, Carmen Martinez Ceballos, Maxime Desmettre, Meredith Dillman, Elysia S. Dinolfo, Oleg Djimbinov, Ersin Ertűrk, Anna Fehr, Felix Eddy, Victor Fetsch, Luke Finlayson, Frank Franco III, Mark Girondi, Ryan Godshalk, Christine Griffin, Geoffrey Grisso, Michael Gullbrandson, Hinoraito, Dawn Holliday, Pierre Internoscia, Nathan James, Juha Järvinen, Jacob Johnson, Erin Kelso, Danny Kuang, John Larriva, Alan Lathwell, Kim Lerchbacher, Sonya Lindsay, Magnozz, Michelle Maiden, Sarah Markley, Todd Mathews, Kelly McClellan, Kate McCredie, Susan McKivergan, Roberto Melo, Nicolas Michel, Nathaniel Milljour, Kirstin Mills, Gerald Minor, Telli Narcizo, Elisa Navacchi, James C. O'Connor, Santiago Olivera, Egil Paulsen, Anne Pogoda, Mark Rehkopf, Kaitlin Reid, Marissa Rivera, Loraine Sammy, Cynthia Sheppard, Daniel Silberberg, Patrycja Stanczyk, Monika Szewczyk, Kaveh Taherian, Laura Taylor, Bill Thompson, Agnieszka Topolska, Rachelle Traut, Scott Turk, Tim van Gendt, Jeremy Vickery, Tom Waterhouse, Stina Wiik, Joanna Wolska, Marcin Woś, Maja Wrzosek, Celia Yost, Gracjana Zielińska. Graphic Design: James C. O'Connor & Cody Jones Executive Producer: Dan Yarrington Associate Producer: Jeremy Anderson Design Studio: Orion's Bell Publisher: Game Salute Special Thanks to: Marc I. Jacobs, James W. O’Connor, Eleanor R. O’Connor, “Dresden”, L. Frank Baum, and All of Our Dedicated Play Testers. We will update the project FAQ below as you send in your questions. For the $500 Honored Citizen of Oz level, here are the submission guidelines: *Submission Conditions: • Honored Citizens may not be fictional characters nor public figures. • Honored Citizens may be human, animal, doll, or plush. (Dolls and plush may not represent copyrighted properties such as Mickey Mouse, Barbie, Sponge Bob, etc.) • Humans’ names must include a first and last name. A middle intial may also be included. No “Nicknames”. • Honored Citizens who have passed away will have the keyword “Historic”, while living and toy honorees will have the keyword “Minor”. • Card type will be designated as “Character”, with a Green background and Emerald City icon, with Gold (Good) borders and the “OZ” monogram in the text field as shown in the actual game card pictured above. • Honored Citizen illustrations and resulting cards will remain the copyright of Orion’s Bell. • Orion’s Bell retains the right to reject submissions deemed inappropriate. • Orion’s Bell shall make all final decisions regarding text, numbers, layout, and illustrations on cards. • Other conditions may arise as each submission is individually reviewed. ** If you have any other questions about Honored Citizen submissions, please contact us through the links provided on this page before making your pledge.
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The arrest today of the head of the Egyptian Press Syndicate and two colleagues is an alarming setback for freedom of expression and the most brazen attack on the media the country witnessed in decades, said Amnesty International. The arrest of key media figures at the Press Syndicate signals a dangerous escalation of the Egyptian authorities’ draconian clampdown on freedom of expression Magdalena Mughrabi Share this Twitter Facebook Email Yahia Galash, head of Press Syndicate and senior board members Khaled Elbalshy and Gamal Abd el-Reheem were summoned for questioning on 29 May by the public prosecution. After 13 hours of questioning, the three men were charged with ‘harbouring suspects against whom an arrest warrant has been issued’ and ‘publishing false news, which threatens public peace, related to their arrest’. The prosecution ordered that the three men be put in custody, with bail set at 10,000 Egyptian pounds (USD$1,123), which they have refused to pay. “The arrest of key media figures at the Press Syndicate signals a dangerous escalation of the Egyptian authorities’ draconian clampdown on freedom of expression and demonstrates the extreme measures the authorities are prepared to take in order to tighten their iron grip on power,” said Magdalena Mughrabi, interim Deputy Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Amnesty International. The storming of the Press Syndicate earlier this month was unprecedented. It is the most brazen attack on the media the country has seen in decades Magdalena Mughrabi Share this Twitter Facebook Email Successive Egyptian governments have attempted to control the media and impose restrictions on journalists but on 1 May up to 40 heavily armed members of the National Security agency stormed the Press Syndicate for the first time since it was established in 1941. They attacked journalists, beating security guards and detained two journalists Amro Badr and Mahmoud Al-Saqqa. They are being held in Tora prison and have been charged with forming an illegal group with the aim of overthrowing the government, inciting protests and publishing false news, and belonging to the April 6 Movement, a leading youth group that was instrumental in organizing protests in 2011. Days later on 4 May, thousands of journalists gathered outside the Syndicate to make a series of demands, including calling for the dismissal of Minister of Interior Magdy Abdel Ghaffar, the release of detained and imprisoned journalists, as well as demanding further measures to strengthen the protection of journalists. “By prosecuting senior members of the Press Syndicate the authorities are clearly attempting to punish them for speaking out against the government and to send a strong message to intimidate all journalists into silence. The authorities must immediately order their release and drop the charges against them,” said Magdalena Mughrabi. The authorities must also drop charges against the two journalists who were detained at the Press Syndicate and investigate the circumstances of the raid Magdalena Mughrabi Share this Twitter Facebook Email Under Egyptian law, permission from the Public Prosecutor is required in order to search the Press Syndicate premises and any search must be carried out in the presence of the head of the Syndicate or other senior management. “The storming of the Press Syndicate earlier this month was unprecedented. It is the most brazen attack on the media the country has seen in decades. The Egyptian authorities appear to be prepared to breach their own laws in their chilling attempt to crush all signs of dissent,” said Magdalena Mughrabi. “The authorities must also drop charges against the two journalists who were detained at the Press Syndicate and investigate the circumstances of the raid.” At least 20 journalists are currently behind bars in Egypt imprisoned carrying out their legitimate journalistic work, according to the Egyptian Press Syndicate.
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Written by Charlie Jane Anders I’m basically a total hypocrite. I go on these fire-breathing rants all the time at io9.com about the lack of good villains in pop culture. I’ve typed the phrase “an adventure story is usually only as good as its villain” so many times, my fingers cramp up when I even think about them. But when it came time to write my novel All the Birds in the Sky, I wanted it to feel like a grand epic… but I didn’t want there to be a villain, at all. I guess part of this was because I wanted All the Birds in the Sky to be a relationship story as well as a wild adventure. When I set out to tell the story of a witch named Patricia and a mad scientist named Laurence, I really the action to be driven by stuff that happened between the two of them. The first few drafts had more “bad guy” action for them to react to, but it kept getting in the way of the emotional realness. And the more the two of them were making choices that pushed the story forward, the more real it felt to me. I needed this to be a book about the meeting of those two worlds—Patricia’s mysticism and love of nature, and Laurence’s scientific mastery and cool gadgets. All of the energy, all the most interesting stuff, seemed to come from the two of them running up against each other in different ways over the course of the book. So instead of Patricia having her own personal Voldemort, an evil witch who keeps trying to take over the world—something I really tried to make work in the second or third draft—I kept moving in the direction of Patricia struggling with her own mistakes, and her own personal demons. And likewise, I kept toying with the idea of Laurence having a rival, or a fellow science genius that he was trying to outwit—and for a long time, there were actual aliens who wanted to invade the Earth, as a running subplot for Laurence. But Laurence was most interesting when he was dealing with his own self-imposed pressure, and the demands of his friends. That still left me with Theodolphus, the evil guidance counselor who torments Laurence and Patricia in middle school. But Theodolphus took on such a life of his own, and evolved into something so much bigger than just a “villain,” that he kind of needed to stay. Plus we all knew at least one authority figure like that in middle school. Part of revising a book is paring back all the “ooo shiny” ideas so you can get to what the book is actually about, of course. And the more I worked on this, the more it seemed like this would be a book with no villains. There would still be terrible, reprehensible acts—but they would be committed by our heroes, and their friends, with the best intentions. Just like how I started out intending to stick to my principles and include real proper villainy, but wound up becoming a total hypocrite. Preorder All the Birds in the Sky today: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Books-a-Million | iBooks | Indiebound | Powell’s Follow Charlie Jane Anders on Twitter at @charliejane, on Facebook, and on Tumblr.
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Most photographs in Pakistan depict something awful or its immediate aftermath: suicide bombings, a horrible earthquake, even more horrible floods, unimaginable grief. The Spanish photographer Diego Ibarra Sánchez, who made Pakistan his home for five years, saw something different amid all the tragedy: hope. His latest project, called “Resilience, Pakistan,” is the culmination of small moments from his time there, until he left in 2014 after visa problems and intimidation by the country’s main spy agency. Mr. Ibarra divided this work into two categories: “Nightmare,” for the kind of images one expects from Pakistan, and “Hope,” for less frequently seen images of daily life, like a taxi driver in his car at night, young men playing pool, even a model at a fashion show. “I started realizing that whatever happened, Pakistanis keep moving forward,” Mr. Ibarra said. “They don’t lose their hope, they don’t stop moving to the future. I thought it was my duty to show more, to show more than the terrorism, the nightmare, that there is hope for the future.” Mr. Ibarra, 33, left Barcelona for Pakistan in 2009 almost on a whim. He won a photo contest for taking pictures at a mall, bought a secondhand lens with his winnings, went on a brief trip to Pakistan and then packed up his belongings to move there six months later. He started working on “Resilience” almost immediately, but didn’t realize how his photographs knit together until 2010. Everywhere, he looked for hope. He started a workshop to teach survivors of acid attacks to take pictures, and he constantly reminded himself of how Pakistanis would rush to give him anything — biscuits, curry, tea — even when they had little of their own. Many of his photographs are moody, even dark, with shafts of light that highlight a man walking, or sitting in a jail cell. Photo “I’m always searching for this ray of light,” Mr. Ibarra said. “You know, after the storm, this ray of light that illuminates everything. This is what I’m trying to use, to explain, that no matter the nightmare there is hope.” He walked the streets without security to take photographs, and after five years on the project, he said that the story remained unfinished and that he couldn’t pick a favorite image. “Each picture has its own moment, its own soul,” Mr. Ibarra said. “For me, each picture is some kind of gift.” Some have a dramatic story behind them. In one, young men are silhouetted at night by fires raging after a Taliban attack on NATO supply trucks heading for Afghanistan. No one was killed in the blaze near the tribal agencies, but Mr. Ibarra, who didn’t have a permit to be there, had to flee when agents from the country’s main intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, showed up in the early-morning hours. There are also photographs of small acts of protest: a man nervously watching a movie in the Swat Valley, even though the Taliban loathe cinema. Pakistan can be a maddening place to be a foreign journalist, as much of one’s effort goes toward figuring out how to work despite efforts by the government and the ISI to control stories and news events. It is a country where journalists are constantly followed, where they can be kicked out for seemingly innocuous reasons, where the daily grind of shaking someone from ISI can range between humorous and scary. Photo No one gets away unscathed: Mr. Ibarra started working with the New York Times Pakistan bureau chief Declan Walsh in 2012. Agents started following them. Shortly before Mr. Walsh was expelled in May 2013, Mr. Ibarra’s home was broken into in the middle of the night, and his mobile phone was taken from his jeans pocket, he said. After that, he said, every day there was a car in front of his home, waiting to follow him. When Mr. Ibarra applied for a visa extension, he had problems. In the beginning of 2014, agents visited his home and inexplicably took his television, a traditional Pakistani set, a blanket and some water taps, Mr. Ibarra recalled. He decided it was time to go. Mr. Ibarra then moved to Beirut, Lebanon, where he finished working on “Resilience,” a project he felt he couldn’t show while still living in Pakistan. The photographs are now visible on Mr. Ibarra’s website, and he is shopping for a publisher. When asked about plans to return to Pakistan, a place he considered home, Mr. Ibarra initially said he wasn’t entirely certain. “I’m not sure,” he said. “In a way, I would like to be back in Pakistan. I think there’s no finished story. You can always keep shooting, you can always keep adding, you can always spend more time.” Then Mr. Ibarra thought about the idea a bit longer: “Of course, why not?” he said. Follow @diegoibarra_s and @nytimesphoto on Twitter. Lens is also on Facebook.
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Although Narcissus himself might not have been able to step away from his reflection in the mirror to get to the office, when it comes to leadership, a moderate amount of narcissism can go a long way. So says a new study published in the journal Personnel Psychology. According to University of Illinois psychology professor and study leader Emily Grijalva, narcissists have an exaggerated sense of their own self-importance, an exaggerated need for others' admiration and a lack of empathy. "They can be preoccupied with thoughts and fantasies of their enormous success, power, attractiveness and intelligence," Grijalva said. "They are addicted to others' admiration. And in the long term, they're not very good at maintaining positive, interpersonal relationships with others." Many previous studies have focused on narcissism's relationship with leadership effectiveness, but Grijalva said these results were "relatively inconsistent," with different studies showing "a significant relationship," but, "just in opposite directions." Because the data were conflicting, Grijalva and her team set out to determine exactly how narcissism is tied to leadership, analyzing the results of previous studies that examined narcissism's relationship with both leadership emergence and leadership effectiveness. They found that although narcissists are more likely to emerge as group leaders, after a certain point, too much narcissism is likely to undermine a person's effectiveness as a leader. "Narcissists tend to be extraverted, and that is leading to the positive relationship between narcissism and leader emergence," Grijalva said. "But you have to keep in mind that although narcissists are likely to emerge as the group leader, over time, the more negative aspects of narcissism tend to emerge." She said that these negative characteristics include "being exploitative, arrogant and even tyrannical," adding that these attributes "aren't really prototypical of effective leadership." Study co-author Peter Harms, a professor of management in the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska, said those with moderate levels of narcissism have achieved "a nice balance between having sufficient levels of self-confidence, but do not manifest the negative, antisocial aspects of narcissism that involve putting others down to feel good about themselves." These new findings could have interesting applications for the business world; according to Grijalva, in the future, personality tests that measure narcissism "need to be interpreted differently for leadership selection or development." "These results could really shift the focus of the discussion, because instead of asking whether or not narcissists make good leaders, we are asking how much narcissism it takes to be the ideal leader," Grijalva said. "We confirmed that narcissism is neither fully beneficial nor harmful, but it's really best in moderation." Grijalva said that her research will continue to focus on narcissism, but will break the complicated trait down even further to focus on its positive and negative subcategories, while looking at particular leader-employee interpersonal relationships. "It would be interesting to try to determine what kinds of employees can work well with a narcissistic leader, because some employees seem to be able to maintain their levels of satisfaction even when they are working with someone who is difficult," Grijalva said. "There might be a trade-off between narcissistic leaders' needing a subordinate who is confident enough to earn the leader's respect, but also deferential enough to show the leader unwavering admiration."
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With the release of Minecraft on the Gear VR earlier this year, Oculus and John Carmack showed their understanding of what gamers want. You don’t always have to create something groundbreaking or revolutionary – sometimes adapting the most popular game on the planet for all ages is the right move and it’s already paying off in a big way. Currently, on the Gear VR, you can play Minecraft one of two ways. You can either play it in a virtual theater mode, similar to how you watch movies in the Gear VR Netflix app. The game will run on a big screen in front of you, while you’re sitting on a virtual couch. It’s a neat way to emulate the console experience of the game, but is mostly targeting people that have trouble stomaching standard Minecraft in VR due to motion sickness. Then you can also zoom into the world itself and play the game with full motion tracking support of your head movements. Look around you in full 360 degree immersion and experience what John Carmack refers to as “the best thing” on either Oculus platform. Now, thanks to the folks at Virtuix Omni, you can take that immersion even further. Using their treadmill device, you can sync your phone and the Gear VR to provide full movement tracking. You can hold a gamepad in your hand to control all of your inputs like jumping, browsing the inventory, and actually building things, but physically move your legs and feet to walk around the world. “This VR version of Minecraft developed by Oculus / John Carmack is surprisingly one of the most immersive experiences we’ve had in VR so far,” Jan Goetgeluk, CEO of Virtuix, told me via email. “And it works out-of-the-box with the Omni for natural movement without motion sickness (no tweaks are needed thanks to the Omni’s built-in Bluetooth gamepad emulation). Minecraft has more than 100 million registered users and more than 1 million players at any given time, so we believe this popular game has the potential to become one of the first killer apps for VR.” You can read our thoughts on the latest model of the Virtuix Omni from GDC 2016 here. Virtuix recently raised nearly $5 million from over 1,000 private investors and VR enthusiasts in their Regulation A financing round. Tagged with: bluetooth, funding, gear vr, Minecraft, oculus, Omni, samsung, Virtuix
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Streaming service Ustream has suspended the use of the third-party DRM tool Vobile after the system automatically shut down a broadcast of a popular science fiction awards ceremony on Sunday night. Viewers tuning in to Neil Gaiman's acceptance speech during the annual Hugo Awards were confronted with the message "Worldcon banned due to copyright infringement" — the ban was triggered by clips of the British drama Doctor Who, for which Gaiman had written a script. As io9 points out, not only did the Hugo Awards have explicit permission to broadcast the clips, but they would also likely be covered by fair use provisions in US copyright law. Writing in a post published on the official Ustream blog yesterday, CEO Brad Hunstable admitted that "our editorial team and content monitors almost immediately noticed a flood of livid Twitter messages about the ban and attempted to restore the broadcast," but noted that "we were not able to lift the ban before the broadcast ended." Users have expressed disbelief that Ustream was unable to override the DRM tool, raising questions about Vobile's use on other sites. According Hunstable, "users of our paid, ad-free Pro Broadcasting service are automatically white listed to avoid situations like this," a thought that is unlikely to console fans forced to miss the ceremony.
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TNT is making summer plans with the network today announcing airdates for the fourth season premiere of their hit sci-fi series “Falling Skies,” as well as premiere dates for their new series “The Last Ship” and “Legends.” They’ve also debuted video previews of all three shows, and you can check them out in the players below! “For the past three summers, TNT has had great creative and commercial success with ‘Falling Skies,’ which has inspired us to continue to program for fans of sci-fi and action,” said Michael Wright, president, head of programming for TNT, TBS and Turner Classic Movies (TCM). “This year, we’re going to launch ‘The Last Ship’ and ‘Legends,’ two expertly crafted shows that bring the storytelling scope and thrill-ride excitement of our favorite summer movies to series television. With their great writing, expansive casts and outstanding production quality, these are really fun, smart and addictive shows.” TNT’s summer action series will kick off Sunday, June 22, at 9 p.m. (ET/PT) with the premiere of “The Last Ship,” from executive producer Michael Bay (Transformers). Eric Dane (Grey’s Anatomy) and Rhona Mitra (“Strike Back”) star in the series about a Navy vessel that may be humanity’s last hope in the wake of a worldwide catastrophe. The fourth season premiere of “Falling Skies,” from Amblin Television and executive producer Steven Spielberg, will follow “The Last Ship” at 10 p.m. (ET/PT). Noah Wyle stars in the highly rated drama about the struggle against a deadly force of alien invaders. In August, TNT then premieres the new drama “Legends,” from “Homeland” executive producers Howard Gordon and Alexander Cary and Fringe co-executive producer David Wilcox. Set to premiere Wednesday, Aug. 20, at 9 p.m. (ET/PT), “Legends” stars Sean Bean (“Game of Thrones,” “The Lord of the Rings”) as a deep-undercover FBI agent who may be losing his grip on reality. TNT’s summer slate will also include new seasons of the hit series “Major Crimes,” “Rizzoli & Isles,” “Perception” and “Franklin & Bash”; new episodes of “Dallas”; and the launch of Stephen Bochco’s new crime drama “Murder in the First”. Premiere dates for those series will be announced later.
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In a head-to-head matchup, Hillary Clinton earned 44 percent of the vote to Donald Trump's 38 percent. | AP Photo Clinton's lead over Trump grows in Fox News poll Hillary Clinton opened up a 6-point lead over Donald Trump in the latest Fox News poll released Wednesday evening, continuing a string of recent surveys showing the presumptive Democratic nominee out in front of her Republican rival. In a head-to-head matchup, Clinton earned 44 percent to Trump's 38 percent, while 7 percent volunteered that they would vote for someone else, 5 percent said they would not vote and 5 percent said they did not know who they would choose. Story Continued Below In the previous Fox News survey conducted earlier in June, Clinton's lead was only 3 points, 42 percent to 39 percent. But apart from a Quinnipiac University national poll released earlier Wednesday that showed him behind by only 2 points, Trump has trailed by similar margins in other recent surveys, including a f5-point deficit in the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll and a more pronounced 12-point gulf in the ABC News/Washington Post poll, which the Manhattan businessman derided as "dirty" because the sample included 10 percent more Democrats than Republicans. Matched against Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson in the latest Fox survey, Clinton earned 41 percent, Trump took 36 percent, while the former governor of New Mexico drew 10 percent, all roughly at the same levels of support as the Fox News poll conducted earlier in June. Neither major party candidate inspired much confidence from voters, as 48 percent said they were confident that Clinton would do right by the United States and 51 percent said they did not think so. Even fewer people, 42 percent, said they were confident in Trump's decision-making for the country, while 58 percent indicated a lack of confidence to some degree. Asked a series of questions about personal characteristics, 45 percent said Clinton is someone who cares about people like them, while 51 percent disagreed with that sentiment, about the same as when the question was last asked in May. But for Trump, 35 percent in June said they saw empathy from him, down from 42 percent in May. Neither candidate is seen as trustworthy, while Trump is seen as more hot-headed and obnoxious than Clinton, who is seen as more sensible, experienced and intelligent. The poll was conducted June 26-28, surveying a random national sample of 1,017 registered voters via landlines and cellphones. The overall margin of error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.
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The Council of State, in a ruling issued on Monday, found that a ministerial decision allowing shops to open on Sunday in three specific regions in Greece was unconstitutional. The measure had been introduced as a pilot scheme on July 7, 2014 by the then development minister; it was then suspended pending the court’s final ruling, after it was challenged as unconstitutional by trade associations and unions. In its ruling on Monday, the Council of State plenum granted the associations’ request that the ministerial order be revoked as unconstitutional. The court found that the laws, issued in 2013 and 2014, were contrary to the 1909 law establishing Sunday as a day of rest for all shops and businesses, with the exception of specific categories such as recreational establishments, restaurants, tavernas, cake shops, coffee shops and shops selling goods for tourists. The new laws allowed the development minister to ordain three areas to be treated as tourist areas, where the optional Sunday opening of retail outlets would be allowed on a pilot basis for one year, without the need for any decision by regional authorities. (source: ana-mpa)
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US Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has dismissed the idea that the American people do not see her honest and trustworthy to take the White House, insisting that they “should and do trust” her. “I have every confidence that during the course of this campaign, people will know who will fight for them when they need them, and that’s the person who I am and what I will do if I am president,” Clinton said during her first national TV interview as a 2016 presidential candidate. She blamed the “barrage of attacks that are largely fomented by and coming from the right” for fueling a perception of untrustworthiness among the majority of voters in the United States. Clinton claimed that she faced “the same kind of onslaught” in her two New York Senate campaigns and her confirmation as secretary of state. And that is why a majority of Americans say they do not see her as honest and trustworthy, Clinton told CNN.
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The Italian government's borrowing cost has risen as fears grow over political uncertainty in Rome. The yield on Italian 10-year bonds rose from 6.37% to a euro-era high of 6.67%. It is feared that Italy, the eurozone's third biggest economy, could become the next victim of the debt crisis. PM Silvio Berlusconi faces a crunch vote on public finance on Tuesday. Mr Berlusconi denied on Facebook reports that he was about to resign. Stock markets across Europe bounced up on the chance of the Italian premier's departure but returned to negative territory at Monday's close. In London, the FTSE 100 ended down 0.3%, France's Cac 40 fell 0.6%, and in Frankfurt the Dax index closed down 0.6%. But on Wall Street, the Dow Jones bucked the trend, closing up 0.71% at 12,068.4. Concerns over Italy are overshadowing developments in Greece, where Prime Minister George Papandreou has agreed to stand down. Mr Papandreou sealed a deal with the opposition to form a new coalition government to approve an EU-IMF bailout package. Once the vote has been passed, it will open the way for Greece to receive the next 8bn euro tranche of bailout loans. The deal was welcomed by investors, with the main Athens bourse up 1.4%, lifted by the banking sector. Shares in Alpha Bank were up 6.8% while Hellenic Postbank rose 8.9%. 'Beginning of the end' If you want to see Italy on the road to ruin, there's no shortage of signposts Read Robert's blog in full Hewitt: Berlusconi on the rack The markets are viewing Italy's ability to repay its debt as increasingly doubtful. The spread between Italian and German 10-year government bond yields widened to 488 basis points in early trading, its widest level since 1995. The yield on Italian one-year bonds also jumped to 6.3% from 5.5% on Friday, though it later fell back to 6.1%. By comparison, the yield on German one-year bonds is 0.26%. It comes as data on Monday showed the European Central Bank (ECB) more than doubled its purchases of government bonds in the first week of Mario Draghi's presidency. Purchases totalled 9.52bn euros, compared with the previous week's 4bn euros and was the most the bank has spent since mid-September. Richard Hunter, head of equities at Hargreaves Lansdown stockbrokers in London, said the worries over Italy were not so much about the economy but about the state of the political situation. "This may be the beginning of the end for Berlusconi," he told the BBC. "We're talking about a completely different animal when it comes to Italy [compared with Greece]. Crisis jargon buster Use the dropdown for easy-to-understand explanations of key financial terms: AAA-rating AAA-rating The best credit rating that can be given to a borrower's debts, indicating that the risk of borrowing defaulting is minuscule. "Greece is responsible for 2% of [the eurozone's] GDP whereas Italy is the third biggest economy behind Germany and France." Pressure is growing on Mr Berlusconi ahead of Tuesday's vote on the budget. Euro discussions Eurozone finance ministers met in Brussels on Monday. After their meeting they called on the new government of Greece to approve in writing the terms of the international bailout in exchange for the release of the next tranche of funds. On Tuesday, finance ministers from the full EU will meet. However, the BBC's Europe correspondent, Chris Morris, understands there will be no agreement on details of the expanded European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) bailout fund. Leaders have agreed in principle to boost the EFSF from its current 440bn euros (£375bn) to 1 trillion euros, in order to tackle debt problems in Italy and Spain. Last week, world leaders from the G20 countries agreed to boost the resources available to the IMF, but gave no detail on plans for the eurozone. Meanwhile, representatives from the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) - the so-called troika - were in Lisbon on Monday for their latest evaluation of how Portugal is implementing its bailout package.
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Outgoing Rush frustrated by athletes' recognition Updated Sorry, this video has expired Video: Geoffrey Rush bows out as Australian of the Year (ABC News) Outgoing Australian of the Year Geoffrey Rush has expressed frustration that high achievers in the performing arts do not get the same recognition in Australia as those in sport. The Oscar-winning actor has delivered his valedictory speech in Canberra ahead of this year's winners being announced at a concert outside Parliament House. In his speech, Rush said a newspaper article at the end of last year described him as being pushed off the stage by Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke. "He is the undisputed captain of 2012, end quote," Rush said. "I'm sure he is and I'm genuinely in awe of his historic achievement, but I do hope that one day a graduate from the Newtown High School of Performing Arts or the Empire Theatre youth program will challenge this automatic presumption in our psyche." Rush said he was often asked what it meant to be an Australian. He told of how he gained a sense of Australia's multi-dimensional character while travelling on a train to Melbourne before dropping into the mix of people in Flinders Street. He said he did not talk with the other commuters, but they had much in common. "We are all texting someone else who is not on that train," he said. "Now I stand here with incomprehensible disbelief that I was at this luncheon exactly 12 months ago." During his time as Australian of the Year, Rush visited schools and institutions throughout Australia, as well as Brisbane's Ekka show, where he sheared sheep, dodged prize bulls and drank beer with legendary barflies. "It seems we talked with, at and to everybody everywhere on the vast shopfloor of Australia. It was amazing," he said. Rush said perhaps the greatest moment was a visit to the National Centre for Indigenous Excellence in a resurrected schoolhouse in Redfern, Sydney. "In the bus on the way there we had passed a giant billboard featuring the towering beautiful faces of my colleagues Jessica Mauboy and Deborah Mailman advertising The Sapphires, just about to open," he said. "Our host Jason Glanville said simply 'this place endeavours and strives to stimulate a positive image for my people'. "He said, 'you can change perceptions in a flash, you know'. I now knew what he meant." ABC/AAP Topics: australia-day, arts-and-entertainment, awards-and-prizes, actor, australia First posted
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Please enable Javascript to watch this video Huntington Beach police were seeking potential additional victims of a former Disneyland employee who has been accused of attempting to trade theme park tickets in exchange for sex with a minor, the Orange County District Attorney's Office said Monday. Darreck Michael Enciso, 27, was charged with one felony count of attempted lewd act upon a child, one felony count of contacting a child with intent to commit a specified sex crime and one felony count of meeting a minor with the intent to engage in lewd conduct, a news release from the DA's office stated. The charges, filed Monday, stemmed from an incident that began on July 1 when Enciso allegedly posted an ad on Craigslist seeking a woman willing to participate in sex acts in exchange for Disneyland tickets, according to the release. Deputy DA Bobby Taghavi described the ad as "graphic." “The ad on Craigslist was pretty graphic and specific as to the sex acts part," he told KTLA. Enciso was then accused of communicating with an undercover officer from the Huntington Beach Police Department -- whom he thought was a 14-year-old girl -- regarding the sex-for-tickets proposition, officials with the DA's office said. The pair agreed to meet up at a location on Beach Boulevard in Huntington Beach, the release stated. Eight days later, Enciso allegedly showed up at the pre-arranged location with condoms and Disneyland tickets, according to the release. The suspect, who is accused of working for Disneyland at the time of the incidents, also allegedly posted similar ads on Craigslist. Anyone who may have been a victim is asked to call Supervising District Attorney Investigator Mark Gutierrez at 714-347-8794, or Huntington Beach police Detective Angela Bennett at 714-536-5960. If convicted on the charges, Enciso faces a maximum sentence of four years and eight months in state prison, and would be registered for life as a sex offender, the DA's office said. He was scheduled to be arraigned in Santa Ana on Monday, but he did not enter a plea and the arraignment was continued. Disneyland released a statement following his arrest, telling KTLA that, “He was immediately relieved of his duties as a dishwasher." Please enable Javascript to watch this video
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This post is adapted from a term paper I wrote for my course on Parallel Processing at San José State University. My comparison with C is definitely very limited in scope—a more fair comparison would need consideration of many other libraries besides pthreads . However, this treatment would have taken much more time than I had in the semester. In any case, my hope is that it is enlightening nonetheless. In 2009, Google released the first open-source version of their new compiled programming language Go. Go’s new and unusual approach to facilitating parallel programming aims to make it much simpler to use than most other languages, including C. This post will examine and compare different aspects of Go’s and C’s approach to, and ability to facilitate, parallel programming, including: ease of use, compile time, performance and efficiency, fine-grained control, and proneness to bugs such as deadlocks and race conditions. Introduction Google has created a new compiled programming language called Go. It was invented in 2007 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson, and first released as open source in 2009 (Pike, n.d.; Golang.org, n.d.). Their main goal was to design a language that would make life easier for software engineers (Pike, n.d.). Go aims to be as easy to use as a scripting language, but as fast as a compiled language (Golang.org, n.d.). It features automatic memory management (garbage collection), type safety, a built-in suite of developer tools, and most importantly, its built-in concurrency primitives. Go takes a new and unusual approach to concurrency which makes it much simpler to use than C. The traditional approach to safe multithreading, as in C, is to use synchronization primitives, such as semaphores, locks, and condition variables. Go uses a different model, inspired by the formal language Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP);1 the mantra of Go’s memory model is: “Do not communicate by sharing memory; instead, share memory by communicating” (Gerrand, 2010). This paper will compare different aspects of C and Go’s approach to, and ability to facilitate, parallel programming, including: ease of use, compile time, performance and efficiency, fine-grained control, and proneness to bugs such as deadlocks and race conditions. There are several C libraries which facilitate multithreaded programming, and since comparing C’s approach with all libraries would be infeasible, this paper will only discuss the approach with the POSIX Threads (or pthreads) library, since it represents and showcases the most traditional and standard approach to managing multithreaded applications. Overview of Go In order to fully understand Go’s approach to concurrency, it is necessary to cover some of the fundamentals of the language. Go includes a few built-in primitives: slices, maps, and channels. The latter is specifically designed to facilitate concurrency through Go’s shared memory model via goroutines. Goroutines The basic thread of execution in Go is called a goroutine, so named because the Go team felt the existing terms (threads, coroutines, processes, etc.) convey inaccurate connotations (Golang.org, n.d.). Goroutines have a simpler model. They are simply functions executing in the same address space. According to Golang.org’s document “Effective Go,” [They are] lightweight, costing little more than the allocation of stack space. And the stacks start small, so they are cheap, and grow by allocating (and freeing) heap storage as required. Goroutines are multiplexed onto multiple OS threads so if one should block, such as while waiting for I/O, others continue to run. Their design hides many of the complexities of thread creation and management (Golang.org, n.d.). The traditional approach to thread management can indeed be cumbersome. For example, in C with pthreads, to create a handful of threads which execute in parallel, the programmer has to do something like this: int i , * ret , * args ; pthread_t thd_handle [ NUM_THREADS ]; for ( i = 0 ; i < NUM_THREADS ; i ++ ) { pthread_create ( & thd_handle [ i ], NULL , SomeFunction , ( void * ) args ); } for ( i = 0 ; i < NUM_THREADS ; i ++ ) { pthread_join ( thd_handle [ i ], ( void ** ) & ret ); // do something with ret } The programmer must explicitly store all threads in a variable, and then wait for each individual thread to exit, doing something with its return value after each successful termination. Also, because pthreads must take untyped (void) parameters, the data may have to be casted to and from its actual type multiple times, while making sure pointers are dereferenced appropriately–giving us such unwieldy code as (void**)&ret . Go’s approach is much simpler. To launch a goroutine, the programmer simply puts the keyword go in front of a function call. For example, go list.Sort() will launch a goroutine which sorts list concurrently, without waiting for it to finish. In this trivial example, though, we don’t see how to handle return values or shared data synchronization. In order for goroutines to communicate, Go makes use of primitives called channels. Channels Go’s approach to concurrency is designed to avoid explicit synchronization by the programmer, which can be difficult to manage. Traditionally, synchronization of data occurs through the use of primitives such as semaphores, locks, and condition variables. Typically, the programmer must protect shared data and critical code blocks from hazards by using something like a mutex variable with a condition variable. For example, with the pthreads library in C, to synchronize a multithreaded program that fits the producer–consumer model,2 one first has to set up a synchronized data structure which encapsulates both the payload and its synchronization locks: typedef struct { pthread_mutex_t mutex ; pthread_cond_t cv ; int data ; } flag ; flag ourFlag = { PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER , PTHREAD_COND_INITIALIZER , 0 }; Then, any time the programmer wishes to perform operations on the data, and then have an independent thread wait for changes to that data before proceeding, it is necessary to explicitly lock the variable, perform the operations, and signal the condition to allow the waiting threads to execute. int main () { ... // create worker threads ... pthread_mutex_lock ( & ourFlag . mutex ); ourFlag . data = someValue ; pthread_cond_broadcast ( & ourFlag . cv ); pthread_mutex_unlock ( & ourFlag . mutex ); ... } Similarly, within the worker thread, one must wait on the mutex lock, then wait on the condition variable before doing something with the changed data. void * workerThread ( void * args ) { ... pthread_mutex_lock ( & ourFlag . mutex ); pthread_cond_wait ( & ourFlag . cv , & ourFlag . mutex ); // do something with ourFlag.data pthread_mutex_unlock ( & ourFlag . mutex ); ... } In order to avoid data hazards and/or race conditions, access to the data must be explicitly managed by the programmer by bundling the synchronization primitives with the payload, and then acquiring and releasing locks and signaling to the other threads when they may continue. The use of semaphores can make this a bit simpler, but they are limited when dealing with multiple consumer threads, so condition variables are the best general solution (Akhter & Roberts, 2006, p. 132). The explicit management required by this approach is exactly the kind of manual tracking that Go was designed to avoid. Go takes a different approach to the problem of thread communication and synchronization through the use of built-in primitives called channels. A channel is defined by the Go Language Specification as a primitive which “provides a mechanism for two concurrently executing functions to synchronize execution and communicate by passing a value of a specified element type” (Golang.org, n.d.). They work in a manner analogous to Unix pipes—data values are written to them (sent) and read from them (received) in a first-in, first-out (FIFO) manner. In fact, the document “Effective Go” says that they “can... be seen as a type-safe generalization of Unix pipes” (Gerrand, 2010). The typical flow of a multithreaded program in Go involves setting up communication channels, and then passing these channels to all goroutines which need to communicate. Worker goroutines send processed data to the channel, and goroutines which need to wait on work done by others will do so by receiving from this channel. func WorkerGoroutine ( data [] int , c chan int ) { for d := range data { result := SomeOperation ( d ) c <- result } close ( c ) } func main () { var data [] int = // some data var c chan int = make ( chan int , BUF_SIZE ) go WorkerGoroutine ( data , c ) // blocks until there is data to receive from c and stops when c // has been closed for result := range c { // do something with result } } As the reader can see, there is no need to set up any explicit data synchronization. Channels are inherently hazard safe, and blocking and signaling are done automatically. The above example used buffered channels. Channels can either be buffered or not, depending on their use case. An unbuffered channel c would be declared like so (without a second parameter): c := make(chan int) Sending on an unbuffered channel will block until the receiver receives the value, whereas sending on a buffered channel will only block if the buffer is full, and receives will block only if the buffer is empty. One use of this is to limit throughput. The document “Effective Go” includes an example in which one can use channels like semaphores to limit the number of simultaneous goroutines that handle requests (Golang.org, n.d.). var sem = make ( chan int , MaxOutstanding ) func init () { for i := 0 ; i < MaxOutstanding ; i ++ { // initialize semaphore with one value sem <- 1 } } func Serve ( queue chan * Request ) { // handle the requests as they come for req := range queue { // Wait for active queue to drain. <- sem go func ( req * Request ) { process ( req ) // Done; enable next request to run. sem <- 1 }( req ) } } The Go team does, however, acknowledge that the approach with channels is not a universal solution. The Go team says that “This approach can be taken too far. Reference counts may be best done by putting a mutex around an integer variable, for instance” (Gerrand, 2010). Channels are ultimately a high level solution, and sometimes lower-level solutions are needed. For this purpose, the Go standard library does include packages with lower-level synchronization primitives, such as the sync package, which includes mutex types and condition types (Golang.org, n.d.). See section Fine-grained control for more detail. Memory model From the previous examples, one can understand the difference in approach. With the traditional approach to synchronization in C, the memory model can be very cumbersome. Much of the hazard safety is left as the responsibility of the programmer, who must explicitly restrict access to shared data by communicating to other threads, via synchronization primitives, when the data is being used and when the data is free. Go makes this easier for the programmer with a simpler shared memory model. Data is never actively shared between separate threads of communication—it is just passed around in channels. Thus, data races cannot happen, by design, when the data are passed between channels. The document “Effective Go” explains that One way to think about this model is to consider a typical single-threaded program running on one CPU. It has no need for synchronization primitives. Now run another such instance; it too needs no synchronization. Now let those two communicate; if the communication is the synchronizer, there’s still no need for other synchronization (Gerrand, 2010). This is why the Go team has reduced the model to a slogan: “Do not communicate by sharing memory; instead, share memory by communicating.”3 Proneness to deadlocks and race conditions Although Go takes a very different approach to concurrency than C, it is ultimately a lower level language, and thus it can be easy to write code which does not behave as expected. While Go’s concurrency primitives can make it easier to avoid data hazards, they are not a panacea—the programmer does still have to be mindful of race conditions. A simple example In C, without explicitly locking critical code, data races are very likely to happen. As a simple example, consider a multithreaded program which increments a shared integer variable a set number of times.4 void * sum ( void * ret ) { for ( int i = 0 ; i < 1000000 ; i ++ ) { ( * (( int * ) ret )) ++ ; } } If, say, 4 threads were running the sum function concurrently, then by the time all threads have finished, the value in the ret variable would not be 4 million. It would, in fact, be a different number every time the program was run. One could easily construct a Go program with analogous behavior. func sum ( ret * int , done chan int ) { for i := 0 ; i < 1000000 ; i ++ { * ret ++ } done <- 1 } So the question that remains is: how easy is it to avoid race conditions like this? Avoiding race conditions As we have seen, in C, to avoid race conditions, one could use a mutex variable to protect any shared data. To fix the example C code above, one could lock just before incrementing the shared variable, and then unlock just after. void * sum ( void * ret ) { for ( int i = 0 ; i < 1000000 ; i ++ ) { pthread_mutex_lock ( & mutex ); ( * (( int * ) ret )) ++ ; pthread_mutex_unlock ( & mutex ); } } Similarly, for analogous Go code, one could use a buffered channel of size 1 to restrict access to the sum variable to one goroutine at a time.5 func sum ( sumChan chan int , done chan int ) { for i := 0 ; i < 1000000 ; i ++ { // sumChan has a buffer of size 1, so receiving blocks if there // is another goroutine currently incrementing the sum cur := <- sumChan cur ++ sumChan <- cur } done <- 1 } In this simple case, the solutions are not terribly different. However, as we can gather from the previous Go code examples, channels can be very flexible in their usage. Where C needs distinct synchronization primitives, such as mutex variables, condition variables, and semaphores, to handle all of the different use cases, Go’s channels can be used: as a hazard-safe conduit to share actual data; to signal when a goroutine is finished; and as a way to limit the throughput of the program. In other words, good solutions exist in both languages, but Go’s channels provide a much more effortless way to design programs which are safe from race conditions. Detecting race conditions No matter how skilled a programmer is, race conditions will inevitably arise. Therefore, tools to help the programmer detect race conditions are necessary. Various tools exist which analyze a C program’s runtime to aid the detection of race conditions. A common tool is Valgrind, which includes the race detector Helgrind (Valgrind.org, n.d.). The Go tool chain comes packaged with a race detector, which is built on the ThreadSanitizer race detector for C/C++ (Vyukov & Gerrand, n.d.). To run the race detector on a Go program, one can simply use the -race option when compiling (e.g. go run -race mysrc.go ). Similarly, gcc comes bundled with ThreadSanitizer, so to run the race detector on a C program, one would simply compile with the -fsanitize=thread and -fPIE options and then link to -fsanitize=thread -pie (Code.google.com, n.d.). Therefore, the options for helping detect race conditions are similar for both C and Go. Deadlocks Deadlocks are one of the trickiest bugs to remediate. Often, they are transient and very difficult to trace (especially in a large project). Deadlocks take care to avoid in both C and Go. Mechanisms and methodologies exist in both languages to aid in avoiding deadlocks. Data segmentation/replication If it is possible, replicating the shared resource for each thread will eliminate deadlocks, because no locking mechanism is needed for synchronization (Akhter & Roberts, 2006, p. 178). For example, in C, if the shared resource is an array, then replication can be done with the memcpy function. Although, if the data set is not small, replicating can consume too much memory. Therefore, if the concurrent operations are independent from each other, it is better to segment the shared data, rather than replicate it. In Go, segmentation can be done easily with its built-in slice type. Go’s slice type is similar to Python’s slice type. Slices are references to an underlying array, and they provide operators which make it easy to segment that array. For example, one can “reslice” a slice with the bracket operator. If arr is a slice variable, then arr[:len(arr)/2] will return a slice which can access the first half of arr ’s elements.6 Thus, if sum is a function which returns the sum of every element of an integer slice, then arr := [] int { 7 , 2 , 8 , - 9 , 4 , 0 } partSums := make ( chan int ) go sum ( a [: len ( a ) / 2 ], partSums ) go sum ( a [ len ( a ) / 2 :], partSums ) x , y := <- partSums , <- partSums fmt . Println ( x + y ) will launch two goroutines which sum the first and second half of arr , respectively, and receive both partial sums from the partSums channel. Then, these two partial sums are added together to yield the correct sum of all the elements in arr—in this case, 12. Segmenting the data like this avoids the need for any communication between the two goroutines, as well as the need to replicate any data (since slices are simply references). A similar functionality could be achieved in C, although the segmentation would have to be done manually; the sum function, for instance, might need to take parameters for the beginning and ending indices of which elements in the shared array to sum. In both languages, if data segmentation is possible, this is a good way to avoid deadlocks. It obviates the need to use any kind of synchronization locks. Try and back off However, when locks are unavoidable, there exist methodologies in both C and Go to help avoid deadlocking. When using mutex variables to guard critical code sections, one approach is to instruct a thread to release any resources it currently holds if locking another resource results in failure (Akhter & Roberts, 2006, p. 180). In C, this can be done with the pthread function pthread_mutex_trylock .7 while ( true ) { pthread_mutex_lock ( & mutex1 ); if ( pthread_mutex_trylock ( & mutex2 ) == 0 ) { break ; } pthread_mutex_unlock ( & mutex2 ); } In Go, however, if mutex variables absolutely must be used, this approach may not work, as mutex behavior is more strict than in C’s pthread library. In Go, there is no analogous “trylock” function on its mutex type; furthermore, it is a runtime error if the Unlock function is called on a mutex which is already unlocked,(Golang.org, n.d.) so greater care must be given to restrict the ordering of lock and unlock operations. Go’s select statement However, in a typical Go program where channels suffice for synchronization, a different approach may be used to avoid deadlocking on channel blocks. In Go, the select statement is analogous to a switch statement for channels. Essentially, the cases will try to execute a given operation on a channel, and if that operation would block, then it tries a different case. select { case a := <- ch1 : // use a case b := <- ch2 : // use b default : // receiving from both a and b would block } Here, if the program can receive from the channel ch1 , then it assigns the received value to the variable a , and a can be used within the code below the case statement. Similarly, if the program can receive from ch2 , it assigns the received value to the variable b , which can be used in the code following the case statement. If both ch1 and ch2 are ready, the program picks one case at random. If neither are ready, the code in the default case is run. Therefore, a tactic analogous to the “try and back off” method can be used.8 OuterLoop : for { a := <- ch1 select { case b := <- ch2 : break OuterLoop default : ch1 <- a // wait } } // use a and b Given how flexible channels are in general, there are, of course, many more ways one can use the select statement to avoid deadlocks. For example, in his article “Go Concurrency Patterns: Timing out, moving on,” Andrew Gerrand describes how one could implement a simple timeout operation with channels (Gerrand, n.d.). timeout := make ( chan bool , 1 ) go func () { time . Sleep ( 1 * time . Second ) timeout <- true }() select { case <- ch : // a read from ch has occurred case <- timeout : // the read from ch has timed out } In the above code, a “timeout” channel is created, and an anonymous function is launched in a goroutine which sends a value to the timeout channel after one second. In the select statement that follows, the main goroutine is blocked until one of the select cases can happen. If it takes too long to receive from ch (i.e., if the operation takes too long), then the select statement receives from the timeout channel and the program continues. Fine-grained control As we have seen, Go is intended to be somewhere in between the level of a scripting language and that of a lower-level language, like C. It is not surprising, then, to learn that C provides a finer level of control over the behavior of the program’s threads than Go does. However, Go does include some reflective functions which provide some finer-grained control over the execution of the program, if so needed. Ultimately, though, the memory models of Go and C are anything but isomorphic, so the comparison between each language’s runtime may not be apt. Thread attributes in C In C with pthreads , there are a few standard thread attributes which can be set when threads are created. These attributes include: its detached or joinable state; scheduling inheritance, policies, parameters, and contention scopes, and stack size (Barney, n.d.). As an example, if the programmer knows that a thread will never need to join with another, they can set the thread’s attributes such that it will always be detached, and thus, not joinable with any thread, for the duration of its execution. pthread_t thread ; pthread_attr_t attr ; pthread_attr_init ( & attr ); pthread_attr_setdetachstate ( & attr , PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED ); pthread_create ( & thread , & attr , SomeFunction , args ); Similarly, one can set the scheduling policy of a thread with attributes. There are three scheduling types in pthreads: SCHED_FIFO (first-in, first-out), SCHED_RR (round robin), or SCHED_OTHER ,(Barney, n.d.)-attributes which can be set in a similar manner. pthread_attr_init ( & attr ); pthread_attr_setschedpolicy ( & attr , SCHED_FIFO ); This example would set the execution policy of any threads created with the attr variable to run in a FIFO order. Similar mechanisms exist for all the other attributes. Some local implementations of pthreads include a pthread_setaffinity_np function, which allows the programmer to specify which processor/core they would like the thread to run on (Barney, n.d.). Fine-grained control in Go As this author has previously discussed, the memory model in Go is much different. Go does not run traditional threads—it runs goroutines. This memory model is designed to be much more lightweight and easier to use than the traditional approach; thus, many of the fine-grained details are abstracted away from the programmer. However, because these details are not always avoidable, Go does provide some packages which allow access to lower-level synchronization primitives and runtime scheduling. For example, the sync package provides more traditional synchronization primitives, such as mutex and condition variables, as well as the WaitGroup type, which allows the programmer to explicitly wait on a set of goroutines to finish. The subpackage sync/atomic provides even lower-level functions which assist in implementation of synchronization algorithms by providing various operations which are guaranteed to be atomic (Golang.org, n.d.). The runtime package provides functions which interact with Go’s runtime directly. Some example functions include: runtime.Gosched() , which yields the current goroutine, allowing others to run; runtime.LockOSThread() , which locks a goroutine to whichever OS thread it happens to be running on; and various reflective functions which report runtime information, such as runtime.Stack() , which prints stack trace information (Golang.org, n.d.). Go does not provide mechanisms to control thread attributes as seen in section Fine-grained control, however, because goroutines operate on a higher level than threads. As discussed in section Goroutines, goroutines are managed dynamically and multiplexed onto multiple OS threads, so providing lower-level control mechanisms than those shown above is not really feasible. Most of the time, this works out in the programmer’s favor, as they do not have to manage as much manually, but these control mechanisms can be missed if the application calls for them. Performance For the most part, the comparisons here are not directly related to each language’s ability to facilitate parallel programs, but performance is nonetheless an important factor when deciding which language to implement an application with. Compilation time One of the major reasons why Google decided to write a new compiled language was because the compile times of their large C++ code bases grew to be a significant engineering problem (Pike, n.d.). Rob Pike discusses this problem in the document “Go at Google” (Pike, n.d.). C and C++ use preprocessor directives to manage dependencies, which does not scale well for very large projects. Typically, a C/C++ header file will use #ifndef guards to protect against errors when multiple source files #include the same library. If a dependency is included multiple times, after the first compilation, the contents are disregarded, but the compiler still opens and scans the whole file. As an example, Pike noted that for one large project at Google in 2007, a code base of 4.2 MB expanded to over 8 GB when delivered to the compiler because of all the repeated dependencies (Pike, n.d.). For this reason, it was impractical to build large projects on a single machine, so Google had to design a large distributed compilation system. With an early version of this distributed system, the binary took 45 minutes to compile. At the time of this writing, Pike’s document says the same 2007 binary takes 27 minutes to compile today. Pike says that “the origin myth for Go states that it was during one of those 45 minute builds that Go was conceived” (Pike, n.d.). The Go compiler was based on an approach that the Plan 9 team designed to remedy the repeated dependency problems described above.9 Essentially, how it works is it builds a dependency graph from the source files themselves by reading all of the import statements from every file, and then compiling the lowest-level dependencies first by compiling every source file in topologically sorted order. Note that this implies that there are no cycles in the dependency graph—it was decided to make circular dependencies illegal (Pike, n.d.). When the compiler progresses in its traversal of the sorted dependency graph, if the file being built includes a file which has already been compiled, it only reads that dependency’s object file, not its source code. Pike notes that this design “has the important effect that when the compiler executes an import clause, it opens exactly one file, the object file identified by the string in the import clause…in effect, the compiler writes the header file when the Go source file is compiled” (Pike, n.d.).10 In addition to this, the language itself was designed with efficient compile time in mind. Its compact grammar and regular syntax makes it much easier to parse (Pike, n.d.). For instance, requiring opening braces to be kept on the same line as its function declaration allowed semicolon insertion to happen without the need for lookahead (Golang.org, n.d.). Go does not have inheritance; instead, it relies on a simple interface system, which greatly simplifies the underlying type system, and the structure of Go programs (Golang.org, n.d.). When testing the results of this design on a large binary, Google recorded a speedup of about 40x (Pike, n.d.). During one of Google’s Tech Talks in 2009, Rob Pike gave a demonstration of how fast the Go compiler was. On Pike’s single-core laptop, building the entire Go source tree, which he estimated at about 120,000–130,000 lines and included “regular expressions, flags, concurrency primitives, the runtime, [and] the garbage collector…” took about 8 seconds (Pike, 2009). Today, the standard library comes in at over 400,000 lines of code, and on this author’s laptop with a 4-core Intel i3-3110M CPU, compile time averages around 8 seconds on a cold cache. It is clear that for large projects, the compile time of Go wins over C/C++. Raw performance Unsurprisingly, typical performance of a Go program is much faster than most scripting languages and slightly slower than most other lower-level languages, like C. In the Computer Language Benchmarks Game, a web site which hosts programming language benchmarks, in their “Ten Tiny Examples,” Go comes in at the same order of magnitude of relative performance of Java, Scala, Haskell, and OCaml (Gouy, n.d.). These were slightly slower than C++, Ada, C, and Fortran, but much faster than PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, and Hack. It is worth mentioning, however, that the site does disclaim that language comparison benchmarks are not representative of real-world performance; they warn not to jump to conclusions based on these tests because “programming languages are compared against each other as though their designers intended them to be used for the exact same purpose – that just isn’t so” (Gouy, n.d.). In 2011, Robert Hundt, one of Google’s own software engineers, published a paper entitled “Loop Recognition in C++/Java/Go/Scala” which compared performances of those languages with a particular loop recognition algorithm (Hundt, 2011). Hundt found that the Go implementation described in the paper fell behind all other languages considered by a significant margin. However, Russ Cox, from the Go team, wrote an article that examined the paper, and found that the reason for the slow performance was mostly because of the naïveté of the implementation (Cox, 2013). Cox took the paper as an opportunity to showcase the Go performance profiler. After some analysis and a few minor tweaks to the code published in the paper, the program improved from 25.2 seconds and 1302MB of memory to 2.29 seconds and 351MB of memory—a speedup of 11x. Cox also noticed some inefficiencies in the C++ implementation and fixed those as well so that a new comparison would be fair. It was found that Go performed slightly slower than C++—as expected. Cox concluded that “benchmarks are only as good as the programs they measure” and that Go can be competitive with C++ (and by extension, all other compiled languages, depending on the application) when care is taken to avoid generating excess garbage (Cox, 2013). These are, of course, only two examples of performance measurement, but in general, it is expected that Go, in its current state, will follow this pattern—being much faster than scripting languages, but slightly behind most other compiled languages. This is not surprising, given that Go is such a new language. Being a modern compiled language, it will be much faster than any interpreted language, but the compiler has not had the decades of optimizations that, say, the C compiler has had. In addition, as discussed in section Compilation time, because one of the primary goals of the language was to compile fast, it does not necessarily spend as much time passing the code through optimizers. According to a question on the Go FAQ, “one of Go’s design goals is to approach the performance of C for comparable programs” while being much easier to use (Golang.org, n.d.). The same question concludes that, while there is certainly room for improvement in the compiler, standard library implementations, and the garbage collector, Go can be competitive for many applications. Conclusion Go is an exciting new language which introduces many interesting features which make many aspects of programming much easier, particularly in implementing parallel programs. Go makes use of a simple memory model with goroutines to automatically manage multiple threads of execution, which can be much easier than the manual approach that is required in C. Through the use of channels, Go makes inter-process communication much simpler than traditional mechanisms. Both Go and C are equally prone to deadlocks and race conditions, and both come with comparable tools and techniques to help debug these issues. Since Go is designed to be simpler, it is not possible to reach quite the level of control over threads that C can achieve, so if such control is necessary, C may be better suited. For very large projects, Go compiles faster than C and C++ by an order of magnitude, while actual program performance will typically fall slightly behind C/C++. The goal of Go was to approach the performance of C and to make software engineering much simpler; given the analysis in this paper, it appears the Go team has achieved that goal remarkably well. There are many other interesting features and idioms in Go which are outside the scope of this paper. To learn more, the official web site provides excellent and thorough documentation of the language, and the Go Blog has many in-depth articles that cover: the inner-workings of Go, idiomatic practices, and how to use the included tool suite. Many large companies have started adopting Go, including: BBC Worldwide, Bitbucket, GitHub, Canonical, Heroku, SoundCloud, and Docker, among others (go-wiki, n.d.). References
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In dense, urban centers around the world, many people live and work in dim and narrow streets surrounded by tall buildings that block sunlight. And as the global population continues to rise and buildings are jammed closer together, the darkness will only spread. To alleviate the problem, Egyptian researchers have developed a corrugated, translucent panel that redirects sunlight onto narrow streets and alleyways. The panel is mounted on rooftops and hung over the edge at an angle, where it spreads sunlight onto the street below. The researchers describe their design in a paper published today in Energy Express, a supplement of The Optical Society's (OSA) open-access journal Optics Express. "We expect the device to provide illumination to perform everyday tasks, and improve the quality of light and health conditions in dark areas," said Amr Safwat, a professor of electronics and communications engineering at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt. These dimly lit areas specifically include narrow streets in developing countries, but Safwat said the new panel could be used in any country as a greener, cheaper, and more pleasant alternative to fluorescent and other artificial light. While other commercially available window-like devices can redirect light, they are designed for shade and redirecting glare or for brightening a room -- not a narrow street. So the researchers decided to create their own design. They wanted a simple way to redistribute natural light without the need for a tracking device that follows the rising and setting sun. What they came up with is a panel made of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), the same acrylic plastic of which Plexiglas is made. The bottom of the panel is smooth while the top is covered in ridges that are based on a sine wave, the mathematical function that describes everything from light to pendulums. The researchers used computer simulations to find the size and shape of the grooves that distribute the most amount of sunlight in a wide range of sun positions all year round, whether it's high or low in the sky. A sine-wave pattern is also easy to manufacture. Using simulations of sunlight shining on an alleyway, the researchers found that their panels increased illumination by 200 percent and 400 percent in autumn and winter, respectively, when sunlight is most limited. They also tested a small prototype over a 0.4-meter-by-0.4-meter shaft that is 1.2-meters deep and found that it lit up the area as designed. The next step, Safwat said, will be to build a full-scale model 10 times bigger to validate their calculations and to test it in a real alleyway. The team then plans to market and commercialize the panel. He estimates that a one-square-meter panel and a frame will cost between $70 and $100. And that may be a small price to pay for the benefits of sunlight. The lack of sun in urban areas doesn't just make life gloomy; it can be harmful to your health, Safwat said. "Research has shown that lack of natural lighting can cause severe physiological problems," such as serious mood changes, excessive sleeping, loss of energy and depression, Safwat said. He also noted that using sunlight to illuminate historical places -- such as ancient alleyways in Egypt -- also helps preserve the authenticity of the site, maintaining its cultural value and historical significance. This work was funded by the Science and Technology Development Fund of Egypt.
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(Left: William III of Orange, who made the migration of Jewish Capitalism from Amsterdam to Britain possible.) Capitalism is Usury. Its defining belief is ‘return on investment’. This is an extension of the ‘time value’ of money, which is the central tenet of modern economics. Capitalism is unthinkable without banking and banking is institutionalized Usury. Usury is Plutocracy. Compound interest makes it unavoidable that the very richest own everything in generations. And this is indeed what happened: Capitalism is one huge global monopoly. All the major banks own each other and most Transnationals plus a huge chunk of land. This juggernaut was built with the plunder of Usury. We have all seen that Rothschild was worth 50 billion in 1850. At 5% per year, this fortune would now be a trillion, at 8% per year Rothschild would now be worth hundreds of trillions. This is why it has been said that ‘compound interest is the strongest force in the Universe’. This is Usurious Usurpation. The Rise of Capitalism Modern Capitalism was first clearly visible in the Dutch Republic, where Italian Banking, expelled Iberian Jews, the Reformation, naval power and the acquisition of huge trade fortunes came together in the Amsterdam Empire, which would outshine its much bigger Spanish, British and even French competitors until the mid seventeenth century. Everything that defines modern Capitalism was either invented or came to fruition in Amsterdam. The first Stock Exchange, Multinationals (the East Indies Company, which would rule over Indonesia with unrestrained Corporatocracy for centuries), and most importantly, a Central Bank, the ‘Amsterdamsche Wisselbank’. And of course a huge pile of money, that would be the envy of Europe even long after its ‘glory’ had subsided. Amsterdam also saw the first bubble: the Tulip mania, 1637. This typical banker device, blowing bubbles with easy credit and then popping them by calling in loans, would haunt Western economies for centuries to come. The Dutch Republic resulted from a Calvinist rebellion against Catholic Spain. Calvin is considered by many to have been Jewish. He openly defended Usury. This was in an era that the Medieval era of Usury prohibition was in terminal decline. Calvinist thought was also infected by the typically Jewish notion that wealth is a sign of God’s favor. Notwithstanding Usury prohibition, Jewish Usury had been a huge issue throughout the Middle Ages and it does not require a great leap of the imagination to see that Capitalism is in fact the modern equivalent of what was once known as Jewish Usury. Jewish fortunes and their methods played a large part in Amsterdam. Their ships would also dominate the growing slave trade on America. They had come from Spain, after being expelled in 1492. Holland was known at the time for its ‘tolerance’. Amsterdam was the first great star of high finance. Opulence acquired through trade became Capital, looking for returns. And here we see that Capitalism is about finance, not production or consumption. Finance rules over producers, workers, consumers, farmers, crafstmen and industrialists alike. They lend to those they control or want to control and withhold credit to those for whom they have no purpose. Usury gives them their take of any venture. By keeping money scarce, they keep labor cheap. This is how money rules. Moving on to Britain Amsterdam peaked in 1648, when the peace of Westphalia ended both the 80 year war for independence with Spain and the 30 year war in Germany. But after the peak comes the decline and already in the fifties problems began to mount when Cromwell landed a blow on Dutch naval supremacy with the Acts of Navigation. The Jews had been expelled from Britain in 1290. This was a few decades after the Magna Carta, which clearly points at Jewish Usury as a huge problem at the time. Cromwell, who was a calvinist Puritan, negotiated extensively with Amsterdam Jews about resettlement. He probably was a tool of Jewish/Amsterdam finance to begin with. Resettlement came with the promise of making London a better Amsterdam. And while British merchants (and many others too) were against the readmittance of the Jews, Cromwell went ahead anyway. The Puritans were optimistic and naive and thought they could ‘redeem’ the Jews. But while Jewish Capital indeed pushed Britain’s Empire to unprecedented heights, there was no redemption: by the end of the 19th century the British Aristocracy had been entirely Judaized. While Cromwell, as a tool of Amsterdam Imperialism, ultimately failed, the Jews did not relent and they had a second shot at London with the Glorious Revolution, when William III of Orange, Stadtholder of Holland, became William III of Britain and the Dutch Republic and England were united in a personal union. He repaid his financial backers by chartering the Bank of England in 1694 and this was the official entry of Capitalism in Britain. It came with the end of sovereign money and the ascent of Gold: until then the British economy had been financed with Talley Sticks, simple pieces of wood issued by the King. British partners in the Bank paid for their shares with them, but the first thing the Bank did was take them out of circulation. The Bank of England is only the eigth bank in history and is the second oldest to survive today. The United States The real history of the United States is not about the War of Independence and the Constitution. It’s about banking. The United States did not revolt over ‘taxes without representation’. According to Benjamin Franklin the real reason for the War of Independence was that Whitehall forced scarce money through Britain’s Gold Standard on the Colonies, who had thrived with their own Colonial Scrip. A depression was the inevitable result. Only a few years after nominal independence, Hamilton’s first Bank of the United States brought Capitalism to the United States. It was closed in 1800, but in 1816, in the aftermath of the war with Britain, a second Bank of the United States (a privately owned corporation) was opened with a 20 year charter. The heroic President Andrew Jackson did not renew this charter and miraculously survived an attempt on his life. His last words, ‘I killed the Bank’ still ring triumphantly through the ages. Unfortunately, he failed to replace it with a decent monetary system and the country was plunged in a depression because of a tanking money supply. This left the Whigs, Abraham Lincoln prominently among them, plenty of scope to campaign for a new ‘National’ Bank, which came in the aftermath of the Civil War. In 1913 the Federal Reserve Bank was founded. This privately owned corporation is owned by primarily Jewish ‘member banks’. The presidents of the Federal Reserve are always Jewish and by far most of its board members are too. It’s no secret Wall Street is run by the Jews and is now the global standard bearer of Jewish Usury with derivatives being the scam du jour. Of course there are Americans in Wall Street too, just as there are Englishmen in the City or Germans in Deutsche Bank, but whereas these nationalities compete amongst each other, the Jews are strong in all nations and this gives them supremacy. Equally true is that the Jewish many gain nothing from the banking prowess of their ‘elites’. They may have some privileges, but on the other hand they’re also easily duped into nasty affairs or sacrificed like the pawns we all are. But considering the above history of Capitalism and Jewish Usury, it is very hard to avoid the conclusion that they are the same thing. Conclusion YHVH emphatically orders the Jews several times to conquer the world with Usury in Deutoronomy, for instance: “15:6 For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.” Pivotal documents from the medieval era squarely point at Jewish Usury. We have already mentioned the Magna Carta, but there is also for instance the Quran: ‘That they (the Jews) took usury, though they were forbidden; and that they devoured men’s substance wrongfully;- we have prepared for those among them who reject faith a grievous punishment.’ (sura 4.161) Capitalism and its ‘return on investment’ is clearly the successor of medieval Jewish Usury. It arose during the destruction of medieval Usury prohibition. Its typical devices, Usury, Banking, the Stock Exchange, asset bubbles, Transnationals, all were already present in Amsterdam. It was this force that migrated to Britain and the US. It was in these three financial Empires that Captitalism showed its unrestrained imperialist designs. Already the poor lose up to 50% of their income to Usury, mostly passed on by producers in prices. The middle classes are somewhat better off, but they are being decapitated everywhere. Usury only benefits the richest 10%, while most of the money ends up with the ‘fabulously’ wealthy. The enslavement is total: most people work the first two and half days of the week to pay off the bank. Even if they have no debts. And we face not only enslavement, but extinction. Mass immigration, combined with the demographic catastrophy caused by the trinity of feminism, the not-so-gay lobby, and sexual ‘liberation’, is now threatening to actually destroy the white race. Whites are expected to be a minority all over the West in 2050/2060 and irrelevant by the end of the century. Capitalism is the core of the Jewish Question. All their other depravities, including Zionism and (Cultural) Marxism were built and financed from the Capitalist powerbase. The Jewish Question can only be reasonably resolved by reforming money and ending its rule through Usury. Related: Is Anti Usury Activism Antisemitic? Babylon = Usury! We want Interest-Free Money! 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You know that sound that pugs make when they're excited? Well, I missed the delivery yesterday and today I was watching the window like a hawk, making my disturbing excited pug sounds. I had the COD cheque in hand when the poor man started up the walk. I pounded up the stair and took his pen to sign before he even knew what was happening. I raced back inside (quietly to keep my sleeping partner from waking up lest he be a zombie when he gets to work at 3am) and almost started opening the box before I remembered I should take pictures. Of course my phone was nowhere to be found. I finally figured out where it was and I started opening the box. Now, I might have figured out where the order came from (ThinkGeek) because my santa warned me there would be a COD charge and I knew that ThinkGeek does COD charges and has zombie stuff. I maybe, kinda, sorta looked on the site a little bit to see what it might have been (and also figured out the price range from the COD charge <_<). I honestly said probably about fifteen times last night "I hope my Santa got me one of those zombie mugs." I drink coffee like I would die without it (let's be honest, I probably would - have you ever tried to quit drinking coffee? It's HELL.) I was not disapointed! There was a zombie coffee mug in there! Wait, what's in the white box? It's kinda heavy... Another zombie mug, in the other gender! I might even share it with my partner (but we'll see how I feel when I could have two kick ass mugs of coffee at the same time. Double tap the zombie-sleep away!). There was another box inside too. BOOK ENDS! I mentioned that I like zombie fiction and if they wanted to get me a book they should probably ask because I have loads already. WELL, let me tell you, if I can find room on a shelf for book ends, they're going on ASAP, or as is more realistic, they're going to become a "floor shelf" for my spare room where I'll keep all my zombie books! I am so excited and I cannot thank you enough Santa. You're AMAZING and so thoughtful. I'm going to make a pot of coffee right now!
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Spot the two valve stems? One valve inflates the high pressure chamber that fills the rim well, while the other inflates the low pressure outer chamber. Two Chambers? Markus Hachmeyer, Schwalbe's Senior Product Manager, had a busy time checking tire pressures between runs and ripping laps himself. What's Inside? Schwalbe sponsored French enduro racer Nico Lau was with us, trying the new system for the first time. He seemed pretty confident on it. Schwalbe's marketing guy Michael Kull has spent a serious amount of time on the system, and has overseen testing with some of Schwalbe's top sponsored riders. Expect to see some World Cup downhillers riding the dual chamber system this season. On the Trail Normally you'd think twice about ripping into a berm with 17 psi in your tire, but with the stability of a two chamber system and a wide rim, you really didn't think twice. And Nico Lau is FAST - he's going to have a big year in 2014. Pinkbike's take: We've still not seen what's going on inside Schwalbe's dual chamber tires, but we'd guess that it works like two tubeless systems rather than a tube inside a tubeless tire. The high pressure inner chamber would therefore be contained by a bulbous rim strip. Until the official launch, we don't know, but what we do know is that we were able to run insanely low pressures on some pretty gnarly trails without flatting. And it wasn't just us - Schwalbe sponsored pro and two-time Trans-Provence winner Nico Lau was riding with us and, despite taking some super rowdy lines at speeds most of us couldn't dream of, he didn't flat in two days of shuttling. At the moment Schwalbe is aiming this technology at the gravity disciplines of downhill and enduro, but they are already talking about the advantages it could have across all off-road cycling, including XC racing and cyclocross. If you're riding a bike off-road, lowering the pressure works, but the compromise has always been pinch flats, damage to rims, a lack of tire stability and burping of tubeless systems. With two chambers Schwalbe and Syntace seem on the way to solving those problems and allowing the advantages of greater traction - braking, cornering and drive - to shine through. - Andy Waterman Tire manufacturer Schwalbe has teamed up with German component maker Syntace to produce a double chamber tire system that is said to increase traction while decreasing the risk of punctures. Historically it's a claim that's been too good to be true, but in two days of testing with Switch-Backs.com around Malaga in Southern Spain, we were unable to cause a flat that would end a race run. Precise details are still to be released, but here is what we know so far...Schwalbe and Syntace are pooling their know-how to develop what could be a revolutionary idea for mountain bikers. With a double chamber system, it will be possible to ride with very low air pressures and, consequently, to improve tire performance enormously. Initially, Schwalbe and Syntace had the same idea independently of each other. Now, the two companies have decided to join forces and further develop the system together.Why go to the trouble of creating a two chamber design? “With low air pressure, off-road tire performance improves - the tires can adapt better to the terrain and react far more sensitively,'' Schwalbe told us. ''They roll more easily over uneven ground and provide more grip and control. But one can hardly risk riding on standard MTB tires with less than 1.5 bar, because the risk of pinch flats is simply too great with the current trend towards wide rims, the performance of tires with low air pressure is considerably better and less spongy. The risk of pinch flats, however, remains the same.” And this is where the double chamber system looks to leap ahead of standard technology that we're all used to seeing. “The solution is a double chamber system,'' they explained to us. ''There is a further air chamber inside the visible tire. This inner chamber is filled with high air pressure and effectively prevents the tire hitting the edge of the rim. At the same time, the inner system secures the tire on the rim and prevents burping, a loss of air of the tubeless system in the case of low pressure. Depending on the situation, the air pressure in the outer chamber can now be reduced down to 1bar without running any risk.''So, what exactly does this double chamber system look like? Despite the intentionally vague description by Schwalbe, we're not quite sure yet, and we were kept pretty much in the dark before the first ride as to what we were even there for. That there were two valves into the rim was obvious, but beyond that... What we were told is that it isn't the kind of system many downhill teams use with a tube inside a sealed tubeless system that acts as a back up if the tube pinches; we were told it was about performance, about tuning the spring curve of the tire; we were told that when Michael Kull, Schwalbe's marketing and race support guy, tested the system for a week on the Canary Island of La Palma's notoriously rocky, high impact trails, he was unable to puncture.When will it be available? We'll find out during the 2014 Eurobike trade show, during which we'll be able to present precise information regarding design and prices. Schwalbe says that they will be responsible for the production and marketing of the system, and it is expected to be compatible with conventional tires and rims while weighing less than 200 grams.Schwalbe is making some big claims of the new dual chamber system, and it's obvious that they've been quite happy with its performance during the development phase. They told us that all of the testers involved have been thrilled about the possibilities that the design presents:• With 14.5 psi / 1bar, the tire grip is gigantic. The contact surface is very large and the tires seldom, if ever, slide on loose ground. Even on the roughest terrain, the tires literally stick to the ground.• The tire is the most sensitive cushioning element on the bike. The extra cushioning and traction in the case of low air pressure lead to much better control over the bike and allow distinctly higher speeds.• And all this without the risk of pinch flats. Dented rims are also a thing of the past. Consequently, much lighter tires can be used even for the toughest conditions. What is more, the additional air chamber has excellent emergency running characteristics.This last week Schwalbe pulled together something more like an informal gathering of the bike press than a full on product launch: there were no powerpoint presentations, no goodie bags and no thumb drives loaded with product imagery - just good old fashioned shuttling on some of Europe's best winter trails.We started riding on day one with 1.9 bar in our tires front and rear. That's 27.5 psi, so about what I would expect to inflate a tubeless tire to for a day of shuttling. The first couple of runs were fun, the tires felt good and no-one flatted, despite the rock-strewn track we were riding. After two runs the Schwalbe engineers dropped the pressure to 1.2 bar front, 1.4 bar rear, which works out as 17 and 20 psi. Chances are, you'd never run that low of pressure on purpose in a traditional system, even with the thickest casings you could find - the tire would roll from side to side, and the risk of pinching or burping would be too great. With Schwalbe's new system, it didn't feel particularly strange, and in fact the first place I really noticed it was under heavy braking - the extra traction you gain when the tire is able to spread wide across the trail and doesn't skip over bumps meant rethinking the braking points I'd worked out on my first two runs.Through flat corners the lower pressure felt good, but pushing through sandy ruts felt strange - the tire felt like it wanted to catch the edge more than it did at a higher pressure. It's safe to say, though, that having flown in from a particularly wet British winter, dry, sandy ruts aren't something I've ridden much recently, so this could well be something you'd work around.So, were there any troubles during the two days we spent riding the double chamber system? On my third run on the lower pressure, I hit a rock really hard and felt the rear suspension bottom in a way you'd normally associate with a pinch flat. I pumped through the next couple of compressions and was surprised to find the tire holding pressure. At the bottom of the trail, I gave the rear tire the thumb test and found it considerably harder than the front - something had happened when I hit the rock, but the tire hadn't flatted, and if anything, it had gained pressure. I pushed the Schwalbe representatives over lunch to find out what had happened but they remained tight-lipped. On day two, Markus Hachmeyer, Schwalbe's Senior Product Manager, told me that the inner chamber had been incorrectly seated and the impact had forced air from that high pressure chamber into the low pressure main chamber. If this was a race run, I'd have been pretty happy to finish with an extra 10 psi more in my tire at the finish line rather than a flat thanks to an impact like that. This also shows that, just like with a standard tube or tubeless layout, proper setup is key.Despite a distinct lack of details, it seems the system provides many of the benefits of a lower volume tire - more stability at low pressures, more small bump compliance thanks to the lower pressure - with the advantages of a larger volume tire, like the reduced risk of a pinch flat and a broader contact patch. Even if you do flat the outer chamber, the inner chamber, which occupies a much smaller volume that a traditional inner tube, will retain high pressure and allow the rider to finish their run with the tire firmly secured to the rim.
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The 1556 Shaanxi earthquake or Huaxian earthquake (simplified Chinese: 华县大地震; traditional Chinese: 華縣大地震; pinyin: Huáxiàn Dàdìzhèn) or Jiajing earthquake (Chinese: 嘉靖大地震; pinyin: Jiājìng Dàdìzhèn) was the deadliest earthquake in recorded history, killing approximately 830,000 people.[3] It occurred on the morning of 23 January 1556 in Shaanxi, during the Ming Dynasty. More than 97 counties in the provinces of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Gansu, Hebei, Shandong, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu and Anhui were affected. Buildings were damaged slightly in the cities of Beijing, Chengdu and Shanghai.[4] An 840-kilometre-wide (520 mi) area was destroyed,[5] and in some counties as much as 60% of the population was killed.[6] Most of the population in the area at the time lived in yaodongs, artificial caves in loess cliffs, many of which collapsed with catastrophic loss of life. Geography [ edit ] The Shaanxi earthquake's epicenter was in the Wei River Valley in Shaanxi Province, near Huaxian (now Huazhou District of Weinan), Weinan and Huayin. In Huaxian, every single building and home was demolished, killing more than half the residents of the city, with a death toll estimated in the hundreds of thousands. The situation in Weinan and Huayin was similar. In certain areas, 20-metre (66 ft) deep crevices opened in the earth. Destruction and death were everywhere, affecting places as far as 500 kilometres (310 mi) from the epicenter. The earthquake also triggered landslides, which contributed to the massive death toll.[7] The rupture occurred during the reign of the Jiajing Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, in the Chinese historical record, this earthquake is often referred to as the Jiajing Great earthquake.[8] Modern estimates, based on geological data, give the earthquake a magnitude of approximately 8 on the moment magnitude scale or XI on the Mercalli scale, though more recent discoveries have shown that it was 7.9.[1] While it was the deadliest earthquake and the third deadliest natural disaster in history, there have been earthquakes with considerably higher magnitudes. Following the earthquake, aftershocks continued several times a month for half a year.[9] In the annals of China it was described in this manner: In the winter of 1556, an earthquake catastrophe occurred in the Shaanxi and Shanxi Provinces. In our Hua County, various misfortunes took place. Mountains and rivers changed places and roads were destroyed. In some places, the ground suddenly rose up and formed new hills, or it sank abruptly and became new valleys. In other areas, a stream burst out in an instant, or the ground broke and new gullies appeared. Huts, official houses, temples and city walls collapsed all of a sudden.[10] The earthquake damaged many of the Forest of Stone steles badly. Of the 114 Kaicheng Stone Classics, 40 were broken in the earthquake.[11] The scholar Qin Keda lived through the earthquake and recorded details. One conclusion he drew was that "at the very beginning of an earthquake, people indoors should not go out immediately. Just crouch down and wait. Even if the nest has collapsed, some eggs may remain intact."[12] The shaking reduced the height of the Small Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an by three levels.[13] Loess caves [ edit ] Millions of people at the time lived in artificial loess caves on high cliffs in the area of the Loess Plateau. Loess is the silty soil that windstorms have deposited on the plateau over the ages. The soft loess clay formed over thousands of years due to wind blowing silt into the area from the Gobi Desert. Loess is a highly erosion-prone soil that is susceptible to the forces of wind and water.[14][better source needed] The Loess Plateau and its dusty soil cover almost all of Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces and parts of others. Much of the population lived in dwellings called yaodongs in these cliffs. This was the major contributing factor to the very high death toll. The earthquake collapsed many caves and caused landslides, which destroyed many more.[14][better source needed] Cost [ edit ] The cost of damage done by the earthquake is almost impossible to measure in modern terms. The death toll, however, has been traditionally given as 820,000 to 830,000.[1] The accompanying property damage would have been incalculable – an entire region of inner China had been destroyed and an estimated 60% of the region’s population died.[14][better source needed] Foreign reaction [ edit ] The Portuguese Dominican friar Gaspar da Cruz, who visited Guangzhou later in 1556, heard about the earthquake, and later reported about it in the last chapter of his book, A Treatise of China (1569). He viewed the earthquake as a possible punishment for people's sins, and the Great Comet of 1556 as, possibly, the sign of this calamity (as well as perhaps the sign of the birth of the Antichrist).[15] See also [ edit ] References [ edit ] Further reading [ edit ]
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The EarthThe film is set in the future, but not a postapocalyptic one as far as Earth is concerned. Rather, Mr. Hood was interested in the concept of a “beautiful Earth,” as he called it: he wanted audiences to look at the planet and understand why aliens would covet its resources. “This was a dream of mine, to be able to look down and feel not only that I’m up in space but my planet is beautiful, rather than dystopian and miserable with everything falling to bits,” he said. He asked Mr. Butler and the visual effects crew to enhance the planet’s look ever so slightly to give this shot an even greater sense of wonder. The blue of the ocean grew bluer, and the sunlight reflecting on the water was heightened. “The movie has a lot of dark moments,” Mr. Hood said, “and it felt like we needed some moments of joy.”
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Ohio’s prison department said it would increase the amount of two death penalty drugs it uses in executions after reviewing a case in which a condemned inmate was seen convulsing and gasping for breath for some time after being injected. Dennis McGuire, 53, who admitting raping and killing a pregnant woman, was executed in January with a sedative-painkiller combination never before used in the United States, where lethal injection is the preferred method of execution. The execution witnessed by reporters and McGuire’s adult children took about 25 minutes to complete, amid reports that he gasped for an unusually long 15 minutes while clenching his fists and that his stomach had churned up and down visibly. The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC) said on Monday its use of a two-drug combination of the sedative midazolam and the pain killer hydromorphone to execute McGuire had been within constitutional bounds and that his movements had been consistent with the drug effects and other factors. The DRC said it would increase the midazolam from 10 mg to 50 mg and the hydromorphone from 40 to 50 mg, saying there was “no reason not to increase the dosage levels to reaffirm that the drugs will, without doubt, cause profound general anesthetic and ventilatory depressant effects”. “The massive doses of drugs given to McGuire rendered him unconscious before any of the irregular bodily movements were observed. There is no evidence that McGuire experienced any pain, distress, or anxiety,” the DRC added in a statement. McGuire’s children have sued Ohio, alleging the state violated his constitutional right for protection against cruel and unusual punishment. Ohio and other states that have the death penalty have increasingly been forced to seek alternate drugs and sources of drugs for executions as pharmaceutical companies have raised objections to their products being used in capital punishment. Executions have gone forward in Missouri, Texas, and Oklahoma despite appeals raising concerns over the drugs. Ohio turned to the two drugs after a shortage of its primary execution drug, the fast-acting barbiturate pentobarbital. Ohio Governor John Kasich in February delayed the next scheduled execution until November to give the state prison department time to complete a review of McGuire’s execution. Gregory Lott, 52, had been scheduled to die on March 19 by a lethal injection of the same combination used on McGuire. (Reporting by Eric M. Johnson in Seattle; Editing by Gareth Jones) nL2N0NL094
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Pictures and details of a stripped-back ultra-compact desktop computer from Intel have hit the web. Packing a Core i3 or Core i5 processor socket on a 10cm-by-10cm board, the hand-sized Intel Next Unit of Computing (NUC) doesn't feature a touchscreen nor a keyboard, although it is one of the smallest complete x86-compatible computers on the market. It's more like an Apple TV in terms of form factor, it's smaller than Mini-ITX boards and yet larger than the credit card-sized Raspberry Pi. The NUC is destined for kiosks and digital signs, rather than mass sale to the schoolchildren targeted by the UK-designed Pi, but it could find a corner under tellies or in classrooms. According to Fred Birang, a senior product marketing engineer at Intel, in an interview with Just Press Start, the gear will hit the market in the second half of the year. The NUC has two SO-DIMM laptop memory slots, and two mini PCIe headers allowing the motherboard to be expanded. There are a series of sockets for Thunderbolt, HDMI and USB 3.0. Naturally it needs a heatsink and fan assembly. Anyone who has used or seen a development board or played with Mini-ITX kit will be forgiven for their bemusement at the ripple of excitement caused by this hunk of silicon. Powered by the Sandy Bridge i5 chip with an Intel HD 3000 GPU, the NUC is still going to be a whole load more powerful than the ARM-compatible 700MHz Broadcom SoC in the Raspberry Pi - and will support the gigantic Microsoft Windows platform. Consequently it's going to chug a lot more energy and be more expensive. The price is not yet decided, but the smart boxes are likely to cost significantly more than the $35 Raspberry Pi. Birang said the price wouldn't be in the "hundreds or thousands" and blog Extreme Tech suggested a $100 price tag. But then, the Pi is not for profit, and Intel obviously wants to make money off their boxes. ®
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The Barack Obama reelection campaign began its operation on April 4th, 2011, nineteen months before voters decide to send him back for a second term or send him back to Chicago. In the 570 days between that day and now, Obama and the DNC have raised and spent several hundred million dollars. Obama passed his 100th fundraising event months ago. In that time, Republicans held more than 20 debates, primaries or caucuses in all 50 states as well as in American territories. Both parties held their national conventions. The two campaigns fought in four national debates, finishing on Day 567 of the Obama campaign. Finally, on Day 568, Barack Obama got around to telling us what he plans to do with a second term in office. This may sound like a joke, but it’s not – at least not intentionally a joke. Team Obama had never laid out a second-term agenda during the campaign, other than vague references to programs they had promised for the first term but had never bothered to address: comprehensive immigration reform as well as a continuance of preferred initiatives already begun in the last four years, such as expanded education funding. Instead, Obama and his team have worked tirelessly for the first 566 days of their campaign to delegitimize their opposition. While Republicans mulled their choice of nominee, Team Obama attacked all of them as George Bush retreads and/or extremists. After Mitt Romney wrapped up the nomination in late April of this year around Day 385 of their campaign, Obama and his team spent all summer painting Romney as a vampire capitalist and a potential felon rather than offering their own vision for the future to voters. Rumors swirled on the last day of the Democratic convention -- Day 521 -- that Obama might roll out a formal agenda for a second term in his speech. Campaign communications chair David Axelrod and deputy chair Stephanie Cutter both told the media that Obama would at least propose entitlement reform in his acceptance speech. Not only did Obama barely even mention the topic, the campaign never followed through with a proposal for release. On Day 548, the presidential debate series began in Denver, Colorado. Instead of offering a plan of his own, Obama tried attacking the 60-page plan Romney had rolled out months earlier during the Republican primaries. He did the same at the second debate on Day 561 at the townhall debate at Hofstra University in New York. By this time, the media had begun to wonder when Obama would bother to make a case for himself, as the delegitimization strategy had clearly backfired in Denver. After the Hofstra debate failed to dent Romney’s momentum, Time Magazine’s Mark Halperin warned that Obama’s failure to provide a second-term agenda could prove fatal to his reelection hopes. “If there’s an undercurrent here that could really hurt him,” Halperin told Joe Scarborough, it’s that “he didn’t lay out a second term agenda.” Even after that debate, Obama talked about binders and Big Bird rather than offering his own plan, sticking to the delegitimization strategy. In the final debate on Day 567 in Boca Raton, Florida, Obama tried again to keep the focus on Romney’s foreign-policy agenda rather than his own, offering snide remarks about “horses and bayonets” in order to belittle Romney and make his ideas seem irrelevant. How well did that work? The very next morning – Day 568 of the campaign, with only 14 days left to go before the election – Obama finally released a 20-page pamphlet purporting to outline a second term agenda, filled mainly with pictures and a collection of campaign sound bites. Most of the document sounds and looks familiar, because they offer what Obama promised in a first term: • Promising to reform the corporate tax code while closing “loopholes” and stop companies from shipping jobs overseas while rewarding them for bringing jobs to the US • More worker training • Investing in wind, solar, nuclear, and clean coal while demanding higher gas mileage from vehicles • Tax breaks for hiring workers • Hiring another 100,000 teachers • Continuing to roll out ObamaCare Obama’s new proposal has two glossy pages (mostly dedicated to a picture of a senior citizen) on “Protecting Retirement Security,” which talks about Medicare and Social Security without ever mentioning the need to reform either, or the $100 trillion or more in unfunded liabilities in both programs. Even hisconvention speech went farther than this “agenda” does. “Yes, we will reform and strengthen Medicare for the long haul,” Obama said on September 6th, “but we’ll do it by reducing the cost of health care, not by asking seniors to pay thousands of dollars more.” The newly released 20-page pamphlet doesn’t mention the word “reform” once in this section. It does go on at length about what Obama won’t do to solve the problems of Medicare and Social Security (“Oppose efforts to gamble Social Security on the stock market,” “Stop proposals to turn Medicare into a voucher program”). These sound a lot like Obama in debates – attempting to talk about everyone else’s plans in order to distract attention from the fact that he has none of his own. Small wonder, then, that no one found themselves terribly impressed with the product of 568 days of waiting. “There’s not anything significantly new in here,” CNN’s Jessica Yellin reported later Tuesday morning. “It’s all just compiled in a nice booklet now. You can still critique it,” Yellin continued, “for lacking details, such as – will he pursue immigration reform, what specifically would his tax reform plan look like?” Don’t expect to find answers to any of the above. Obama’s plan offers the same tax reform promises of his 2008 campaign. On immigration reform – which Obama promised in 2008 to pursue in his first year as President – Obama’s agenda offers not even a single mention. Perhaps that’s why Obama refused to speak to the Des Moines Register editorial board on the record the next day (which he later reversed), but lined up interviews with hard-hitting news organizations like The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and MTV. It took Barack Obama 568 days to offer next to nothing as a case for giving him a second term. It should take voters a lot less than 14 days to refuse it to him.
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Starting tomorrow and then throughout the week, BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe will air his new interview with Jay-Z. According to NME, Jay revealed to Lowe that he had already started working on the Magna Carta Holy Grail tracks "Holy Grail" (featuring Justin Timberlake) and "Oceans" (featuring Frank Ocean) around the time he was working on Watch the Throne with Kanye West. Jay said he and Kanye agreed that after they did the album together, they'd start working on their new solo albums. Jay made those two tracks and played them for Kanye, which instigated a four-day argument about if they should've been on WTT or held for MCHG: "[There were] no lyrics on 'Holy Grail' and I recorded 'Oceans' and I played those records for Kanye. And he was like, 'No those have to go on Watch the Throne,' so we spent four days arguing about those records and I was explaining to him why it wasn't right for this project and I had a whole idea for making this album called Magna Carta... Holy Grail [part of] the name came after." Jay also explained that the arguing was civil. "Four days literally arguing... not like fighting. Well, there was some pushing at one point but not between us, just everyone else got a little excited." Here's their video for "Otis":
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of Castile (daughter of ) which secured a vital alliance for the Algarve. Information: Capital: Silvas Currency: Ouros Head of State: King Afonso XIII, de Bourgogne ----------------------------------- Thinking of continuing and making colonial maps of the Algarve... we'll see. Also Afonso IV is a real person... well he wasn't king: Information:Capital: SilvasCurrency: OurosHead of State: King Afonso XIII, de Bourgogne-----------------------------------Thinking of continuing and making colonial maps of the Algarve... we'll see.Also Afonso IV is a real person... well he wasn't king: Afonso After the death of Afonso III of Portugal and the Algarve, his two sons: Dinis (Denis I "Lavrador" of Portugal) and Afonso (Afonso IV "Poeta" of the Algarves) succeeded his Kingdoms. The realm was split between the de jure lands, apart from the barony of Portalegra which was rightfully inherited by Afonso IV of the Algarve.Afonso IV marriedSurviving till the present day, via what appears to be divine intervention, we see the nation in all its glory.
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Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign event at Truckee Meadows Community College, in Reno, Nev., Aug. 25. (Carolyn Kaster/AP) Hillary Clinton's campaign is launching a new, two-week, back-to-school effort to energize and register college students in the final stretch before Election Day. In the fall, as students head back to campuses, the campaign plans a push to launch new or reengage existing chapters of Students for Hillary, in an effort to mobilize young voters at about 280 college campuses across the country. It is part of an overall goal of registering more than 3 million new voters this election. Millennial voters are poised to be as large a voting block as baby boomers in coming elections, and younger voters have increasingly become an important part of the Democratic Party’s base. Clinton is intensifying efforts to reach those voters in a year in which polls show that many younger voters are turning away from both major party candidates and are leaning toward third-party options in higher numbers. Clinton also leads Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump by wide margins among voters under 30. [Pro-Clinton groups launch new ads targeted at female millennials] Student organizers will launch regular phone banks, voter registration drives and voter outreach efforts on their campuses. The efforts will be reinforced by celebrity surrogates and campaign staffers who will participate in voter registration drives and round tables as well as a social media engagement campaign. Last week, the campaign also announced that it would launch a voter registration and mobilization effort at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. In the Democratic primary, Clinton lost the support of millennials to her rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) by a wide margin. [For millennial voters, the Clinton vs. Trump choice ‘feels like a joke’] After the primary, her campaign hired several Sanders staffers, including Sanders’s National Director of Student Organizing and New Hampshire Campus Director Kunoor Ojha, who joined Clinton's millennial outreach team. Clinton's millennial outreach effort is lead by Anne Hubert, a former senior vice president at Viacom, and the campaign also brought on Sarah Audelo, the former political director at Rock the Vote, and Amnesty International alumna Jamira Burley. A former Democratic National Convention staffer, Christopher Huntley, also recently joined the campaign as director of millennial media.
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Watch: In the video above, photographer Lynsey Addario talks about photographing the assignment “The Changing Face of Saudi Women.” You may have heard of Lynsey Addario. She’s the author of It’s What I Do, a bestselling memoir about her life as a photojournalist. And she’s no stranger to working in difficult circumstances—having covered revolution, war, migration, and human rights issues for the better part of 20 years. For 12 years now, Addario has spent time working in Saudi Arabia. The country holds a special place in her heart, but that doesn’t make it an easy society for a visual journalist to navigate. “Every time I go there, I go there with a sort of sense of dread of how difficult it will be to photograph and how impenetrable the place is,” Addario says in the video above. “And then I find myself there and having fun and meeting these incredible women.” View Images Sisters relax as their children play on the slopes of the desert outside Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. Photograph by Lynsey Addario These women are the focus of the February 2016 National Geographic magazine story “The Changing Face of Saudi Women.” The feature reveals multifaceted female lives in a nation that the story’s author, Cynthia Gorney, calls “the most profoundly gender-segregated nation on Earth.” Addario’s images peer into the active lives of these women, highlighting the search for a way to be “truly modern and truly Saudi.” “I want people to learn—to have a better sense of what Saudi women’s lives are,” says Addario. “I hope people walk away with a different perspective.” See more of Lynsey Addario’s photos from the February 2016 National Geographic magaine story “The Changing Face of Saudi Women.”
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The All-Star Break is approaching, but the Atlanta Braves have already completed half of their 2017 schedule. A sweep of the Oakland Athletics on Sunday punctuated the 81-game marker which saw the club post a 40-41 record over the season’s first three months. With Freddie Freeman on the mend and apparently on his way back as the Braves’ new third baseman, the team embarks on a grueling stretch of games that could determine both the fate of their season and their strategy for July’s non-waiver trade deadline. Here are some notes and trends at the halfway point (81 games): Following the Oakland series, Atlanta’s record without Freddie Freeman is 24-20. The Braves were 16-21 when Freeman went on the disabled list. The team’s 40-41 record is substantially improved from 2016, which was 28-53 at this point. Atlanta is 7.5 games behind Washington in the NL East and 6.5 games out of the second wild card. Would you believe the Braves and Chicago Cubs (41-41) are separated by a mere half-game in the wild-card race? The Braves are 12-10 in one-run games, the third best mark in the National League. Atlanta’s record in 205 games under manager Brian Snitker is 99-106 (since May 17, 2016). Some statistical trends through 81 games: Atlanta’s rotation owns a 4.80 ERA, which ranks 11th in the NL and 24th in MLB. The Braves were 5-8 in Bartolo Colon’s 13 starts, though it may have felt otherwise. Starters not named Colon have combined for a 4.28 ERA (402 innings) this season. That 4.28 ERA minus-Colon would rank ninth best in MLB, but unfortunately it doesn’t work that way. Braves relievers have combined for a 3.98 ERA, which is fourth among NL teams and ninth in MLB. Closer Jim Johnson is tied for second in MLB with six blown saves. Atlanta is 3-3 in those games, however. The Braves have committed 53 errors, fourth most in the NL and seventh most in MLB. A staggering 27 of those errors came in the month of May. Those 53 errors have contributed to 41 unearned runs, the most in the NL and third most in MLB. Atlanta’s offense ranks fifth in the NL with a .263 batting average, but ninth in the league with 370 runs scored. “Business is about to pick up…” Based on strength of schedule, the Braves have played the easiest schedule in MLB thus far according to ESPN’s Relative Power Index. The Nationals have played the next easiest, by the way. That aside, there will be nothing pleasant about the 19 games ahead for Atlanta. About that stretch of games, which begins with a brief two-game set against the Astros on Tuesday at SunTrust Park: #Braves next 19 games Astros (56-27, .675) Nats (48-34, .585) D-backs (52-31, .627 – play twice) Cubs (41-41, .500) Dodgers (55-29, .655) — Grant McAuley (@grantmcauley) July 3, 2017 A few more stats and trends heading into this meat grinder of a schedule: The five teams Atlanta will play are a combined 252-162 (.608 winning percentage). The Braves will square off against the clubs with the best record in the NL and AL (Dodgers and Astros), three division leaders (Dodgers, Astros and Nationals), four would-be playoff teams (Dodgers, Astros, Nationals and Diamondbacks) and the defending World Champion Cubs. The Braves are 8-9 versus Division Leaders this season (Nationals, Brewers and Astros). Atlanta is just 11-10 against the three worst teams in the NL (Giants, Padres and Phillies). For better or worse, the Braves will gain clarity about their season over these next six series. If Atlanta makes it through with a .500 or better mark, then the club could look to add a piece or two at the trade deadline. Conversely, if this stretch of games does not go well, the Braves may field some offers from contenders on a few of their veteran players. Either way, it’s fair to say general manager John Coppolella will likely be conducting business on or before the trade deadline. Braves have a brand new All-Star representative… Congratulations to Braves center fielder Ender Inciarte, who was named the All-Star team for the first time in his career. With the injury to Freddie Freeman, Inciarte will likely be Atlanta’s lone representative in Miami next week. In addition to his gold glove exploits, Inciarte has been making his fair share of contributions at the plate. He has collected 210 hits over the past calendar year, a total good for second most (Colorado’s Charlie Blackmon has 212) in all of Major League Baseball. Inciarte batted .316 and posted a 5.2 fWAR (FanGraphs wins above replacement) over that stretch. That is the best total among all regular NL outfielders. The Cubs’ Kris Bryant owns a 6.9 fWAR over that time, but has played just 77 of his 154 games in the outfield during that 365 day sample. Freeman on rehab assignment, could return this week… Braves first baseman turned third baseman Freddie Freeman spent the past week ramping up his work in the cage and joined Triple-A Gwinnett for a rehab assignment over the weekend. He had just two plate appearances on Saturday thanks to rain in Charlotte. Freeman finished 0-for-1 with a walk and a strikeout and handled his only chance in the field at third base cleanly. After taking Sunday off, Freeman will play three consecutive games with Gwinnett before being reevaluated on Wednesday. If all goes according to plan, Freeman could be activated from the disabled list in time for Thursday’s series opener against the Nationals in Washington. He has been out since May 18 after suffering a fractured left wrist. The initial timetable called for Freeman to miss 8-10 weeks, with an expected return on or around August 1. Amazingly, he is at least two full weeks ahead of schedule. Sean Rodriguez sees his first game action… In what has been a surprising development for all the right reasons, Braves infielder Sean Rodriguez appears to be well ahead of schedule in his return from a shoulder injury. It was initially feared that he could miss the entire 2017 season, but Rodriguez has increased baseball activities throughout June and traveled to Orlando to join the club’s Gulf Coast League affiliate over the weekend. He underwent shoulder surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff in his left shoulder in February, the result of a frightening automobile accident for the Rodriguez family. With both he and his loved ones on the mend, it appears that Rodriguez could be ready to make his Braves debut sooner than later. He played second base and went 1-for-3 with the GCL team on Saturday, his first action this season. He followed that up with a start at shortstop on Monday, finishing 0-for-2 at the plate. Atlanta signed the versatile Rodriguez to a two-year, $11.5 million contract over the winter in hopes that he would strengthen the club at all four infield spots and contribute in the outfield as well. Rodriguez appeared at seven position and set numerous career-highs in 2016 while with the Pirates, batting .270/.349/.510 with 18 home runs and 56 RBI in 300 at-bats. An early return for Rodriguez would be yet another boost for the Braves in the second half. Highly-touted Kevin Maitan makes long-awaited debut… This is a late entry and one that does not directly affect the big club, but 17-year-old super prospect Kevin Maitan made his professional debut with the GCL Braves on Monday. After signing a $4.25 million deal with Atlanta as the top available international player on the market in 2016, the Venezuela native made his debut exactly one year and one day later. Maitan finished his first game 1-for-1 with a walk while serving as the designated hitter. A shortstop by trade, he had been slowed by a minor hamstring issue which delayed his debut by a week or so. The switch-hitting Maitan could reach Danville this season and be primed for full-season ball by the age of 18 next season. Grant McAuley covers the Braves and MLB for 92-9 The Game. You can subscribe to the “Around The Big Leagues” podcast on iTunes, SoundCloud and Stitcher. Follow Grant on Twitter.
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There is more to the CIA's online release of unclassified documents than meets the eye, security expert Dmitry Efimov told Sputnik. On Wednesday the CIA published roughly 930,000 documents online, totaling more than 1 million pages, which had previously only been accessible on computers at the National Archives in Maryland. The database, which is searchable via the CIA Records Search Tool (CREST), contains information from the 1940s to the 1990s, including reports from the Korean War and the Vietnam War. The CIA had planned to publish the documents at the end of 2017, but finished the work ahead of schedule. The agency began the project following a Freedom of Information Act injunction launched in 2014 by Muckrock, a non-profit news organization. "Access to this historically significant collection is no longer limited by geography. The American public can access these documents from the comfort of their homes," Joseph Lambert, CIA Director of Information Management, said. However, not everybody is convinced that the documents in the CREST database are genuine. Security expert Dmitry Efimov, a member of Moscow Council's Advisory Committee on Security, told Radio Sputnik that he suspects many of the files are fakes. "I think this was published on the personal orders of CIA Director Brennan, a famous neocon who is leaving along with Obama and who is probably using this opportunity to create a new stream of misinformation," Efimov said. "Particularly since there is no such thing as the whole truth, there is the truth which is present in the CIA's real documents, which of course exist, but I think that a lot of work has been done to falsify a huge number of documents in this batch and change the relationship to the Vietnam War, for example." Commenting on the release, CIA spokesperson Heather Fritz Horniak insisted that the documents, which appear redacted, are genuine and were not released on a selective basis. "None of this is cherry-picked," Horniak said. "It's the full history. It's good and bads." However, Efimov claims that the release is an attempt by the CIA to rewrite history in order to assist its political ambitions. "The main objective of the US is the spread of liberal American democracy around the world despite the objections of the receiving country. It is in this respect that history will change, there will be new documents which don't have sources. But the presence of a large number of hidden sources in certain documents on a specific topic says that here (in the declassified CIA documents) someone has edited the past very well." © AP Photo / Carolyn Kaster CIA Shows 'No Single Piece of Evidence' of Russia's Alleged Involvement in US Election Among CREST's revelations is that the CIA carried out research on topics like UFO's, telepathy and psychic phenomena. For example, the Stargate Project, which ran from 1978 to 1995 and was intended to investigate psychic phenomena, even interviewed Israeli celebrity psychic Uri Geller in the 1980s to see if his supposed paranormal abilities could be of use in military and domestic intelligence applications. This kind of disclosure is a way to distract attention from political topics, Efimov said. "Disclosure of the 'Stargate' CIA program is a wonderful theme, a great way to divert the consciousness of American society away from real problems. Just imagine how you can use that topic on CNN, in order to bring it to the attention of all American housewives. I don't exclude the possibility that some more fine papers will appear, some kind of reports about something, which predicted something, we will get the names of some new American prophets. That is, the construction of a mythical American history that will distract the attention of Americans," Efimov said.
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The Pierre-sur-Haute military radio station is a 30-hectare (74-acre) site used for French military communications. It is in the Sauvain and Job communes, with the boundary between the Rhône-Alpes and Auvergne regions passing through the site. A civilian radio relay has also been built at this location by the telecommunications company Télédiffusion de France.[1] History [ edit ] The optical telegraph station in 1913. In 1913, a semaphore telegraph (French: télégraphe Chappe) was built where the military radio station is now. At the time, it was a small stone building, with the semaphore on top.[1] In 1961, during the Cold War, NATO asked the French Army to build the station as part of the 82-node transmission network in Europe known as the ACE High system.[2] In this network, the Pierre-sur-Haute station, or FLYZ, was a relay between the Lachens (FNIZ) station to the south and the Mont-Août (FADZ) station to the north.[3] The NATO radio station was using American-made tropospheric scatter equipment to relay voice and telegraph signals on a network stretching from Turkey to the Arctic Polar Circle in Norway.[2] The French Air Force took control of the station in 1974.[1] In the late 1980s, the system was gradually replaced by a combination of national defense systems and some NATO-owned subsystems.[2] The large parabolic antennas, known locally as Mickey's ears, were replaced with the current two-antenna setup in 1991.[1] Role [ edit ] The Pierre-sur-Haute station is controlled by the French Air Force and is a subsidiary of the Lyon – Mont Verdun Air Base, 80 km (50 mi) from the station. It is one of the four radio stations along France's north-south axis, in constant communication with the three others: Lacaune, Henrichemont and the Rochefort air base.[4] The station is mainly used for transmissions relating to the command of operational units. If French nuclear weapons (force de dissuasion) were used, the fire order might pass through this relay.[1] The station has been part of the Commandement Air des Systèmes de Surveillance d’Information et de Communications (Air Command of Surveillance, Information and Communication Systems) since its creation on 1 June 1994; from 1 January 2006, it has been run by the Direction Interarmées des Réseaux d'Infrastructure et des Systèmes d'Information (Joint Direction of Infrastructure Networks and Information Systems).[4] The station is under the command of a major.[1][5] About 20 personnel are on-site, including electricians, mechanics, and cooks.[1] Infrastructure [ edit ] Concrete towers housing the military radio equipment at Pierre-sur-Haute The station is situated on a 30-hectare site between the communes of Sauvain and Job, positioned over the border between the two departments of Loire and Puy-de-Dôme. The perimeter is surrounded by a high barrier of wood and metal. Military staff and employees arrive via road or tracked vehicles. This road is closed to the public.[1] Buildings [ edit ] The radio station, photographed in February 2009 There are three towers at the site. The tallest one is a 55-metre-high civilian telecommunication tower, owned by Télédiffusion de France.[6] The telecommunication tower is topped by a radome and contains a mode S air traffic control radar beacon system owned by the Directorate General for Civil Aviation. The radar has been in operation since 18 August 2009[7][8] but has experienced malfunctions due to heavy snowfall in the area.[9] The two remaining concrete towers are owned by the military. The 30-metre-high structures[10] have been used since 1991 for radio transmission and reception. These are built to withstand the blast of a nuclear explosion.[1] Some buildings are used as garages and living quarters, complete with kitchen, dining room and bedrooms. They are linked together by tunnels, 400 metres in total length, so as to avoid walking through thick snow in winter when moving from one building to the other.[1] Underground facilities [ edit ] The most important part of the site is the underground part, used for transmissions dispatch: at a speed of 2 Mb/s, communications from the towers are analysed, then redirected to be transmitted.[1] This part of the facility is supplied with chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear defences. It defends against electromagnetic pulses using a Faraday cage. Positively pressured rooms help prevent contaminants from entering the facility. The facility has independent water and power supplies.[1] Controversy over Wikipedia article [ edit ] In April 2013, the French-language Wikipedia article Station hertzienne militaire de Pierre-sur-Haute attracted attention from the French interior intelligence agency DCRI. The agency attempted to have the article about the facility removed from the French-language Wikipedia. After a request for deletion in March 2013, the Wikimedia Foundation had asked the DCRI which parts of the article were causing a problem, noting that the article closely reflected information in a 2004 documentary made by Télévision Loire 7, a French local television station, which is freely available online and had been made with the cooperation of the French Air Force.[11][12] The DCRI refused to give these details, and repeated its demand for deletion of the article. The DCRI then pressured Rémi Mathis, a volunteer administrator of the French-language Wikipedia, and president of Wikimedia France, into deleting the article.[11][13] The article was promptly restored by another Wikipedia contributor living in Switzerland.[14][15] As a result of the controversy, the article temporarily became the most read page on the French Wikipedia,[16] with more than 120,000 page views during the weekend of 6/7 April 2013,[17] and is now translated to many languages. For his role in the controversy, Mathis was named Wikipedian of the Year by Jimmy Wales at Wikimania 2013.[18] References [ edit ] Coordinates:
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Photo credit: Diversityinc.com Detectives have revealed that a group of men wearing masks stormed a hotel lobby near the Galleria and made off with the ATM. The authorities have revealed that seven to 10 men entered the Houston Marriott West Loop just before 3 a.m. Tuesday. According to the investigators, the men threatened the hotel security guard and a cleaning lady after making their way in the building. It turns out that the robbers had an easy time since the ATM was not bolted down. The detectives revealed that the men made their way to the back of the lobby, tipped over the ATM, and carried it out the front door. A report released by police indicated that the suspects threw the ATM in the back of a Dodge Magnum and took off in a second Dodge Magnum and a Chevy Impala. The incident left no one hurt since at the time of the robbery, no guests were at the lobby. Detectives have surveillance video of the incident but are not releasing it at this time. The police have also warned that if you have an ATM at your business, make sure it's bolted down, and make sure it's far away from the front doors of the premise. Source: http://abc13.com/at-least-7-masked-men-storm-hotel-lobby-and-steal-atm/2771895/
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March 6, 2015 Inside a former bowling alley in Pittsburgh, the future of environmental protection could be taking flight. It’s 3.5 pounds of technology and it’s whipping around a vacant floor above a robotics lab. “We can fly up to 40 miles an hour,” says Dick Zhang, the founder and CEO of Identified Technologies, a startup making drones for use in the oil and gas industry. Zhang is showing off what he’s calling the ‘Boomerang’—basically a tiny, four-propeller helicopter programmed to return to a docking station. It’s rigged with several devices tucked inside a small carbon fiber body. It’s got a camera, an ‘optical flow’ sensor—the same technology a computer mouse uses to track its movement—and an ultrasound sensor. “The ultrasound is basically a proximity sensor—'I'm close to the ground—I’m not close to the ground,'" Zhang says. Zhang has already leased several units to oil and gas companies in the Marcellus Shale region. Right now, they’re using the flying bots to map and survey their sites. The drones could also be outfitted with other sensors—ones that could detect plumes of harmful chemicals seeping out of oil and gas operations. That represents a growth opportunity, Zhang says. “There’s a huge opportunity to get into methane detection,” Zhang says. CHECKING FOR LEAKS With new rules anticipated from the EPA to keep methane leaks at a minimum, the oil and gas industry may need to become better at checking for leaks. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas and the main component of natural gas. It’s also a highly flammable commodity, so companies spend a lot of time trying to prevent its release. Right now pipeline companies look for leaks with handheld devices either on the ground or in helicopters. But these are expensive and time consuming. Zhang thinks drones like his could take over some of this work, “and hopefully one day be able to prevent pipeline explosions.” Scientists who have been trying to resolve an ongoing debate about how much gas is leaking out of oil and gas operations could also stand to benefit from drones. “I think there's tremendous potential to use unmanned vehicles to monitor wellpads to identify the few percent of operations where leaks are pretty high to the atmosphere,” says Rob Jackson, an environmental scientist from Stanford who is studying air and water impacts of the oil and gas boom. Jackson says the primary users for drones would be companies themselves. But he also sees a potential for scientists and regulators to monitor wellpads and other oil and gas infrastructure. FLIGHT DELAYS Despite the high hopes, drones aren’t yet ready for prime time in the field. It’s difficult to get FAA permission to fly them. They’re also fighting a stigma from their original use, as weapons used by the military. “Right now people think drone—they think missile coming out of it,” says Pei Zhang (no relation to Dick Zhang), an electrical and computer engineer at Carnegie Mellon University. Pei Zhang thinks public attitudes could change. He’s studying how to use drones in hard-to-reach and dangerous places—like a leaky nuclear reactor or in a burning building. He thinks they’re well-suited to looking for potential problems for oil and gas. “They don’t get tired, and they don’t get forgetful, and they’re always paying attention,” Pei Zhang says. Oil and gas companies have already started using drones, like BP's operations in the Arctic. But there’s a potential for more deployment, says Maryanna Saenko, an analyst with Lux Research. “In the oil and gas market you have an enormous amount of existing infrastructure spread out over a massive landmass,” Saenko says. “We’re talking about millions of miles of pipelines, offshore oil rigs, onshore drilling facilities.” Saenko says the market for oil and gas drones could top $247 million a year in 2025. “And we foresee it only growing past that,” she says. WHO OWNS THE DATA? This could yield much more data than companies currently report. This could raise interesting questions about what happens with all this new data. “How much data can we really require these companies to give the EPA?” says Saenko. “And will the EPA be able to deal with this data in an effective way?” The question will likely have to wait on an answer. The FAA’s recently proposed regulations limit the range of flights by mandating operators be in the ‘line of sight’ of their drones. Advocates for drone use say if those regulations were loosened, by allowing for 'line-of-sight' to include video monitoring of drones, for instance, it could help oil and gas companies keep a better watch on their operations. Saenko says the concerns that drones could pose a safety risk or violate privacy would be minimal because oil and gas infrastructure is usually in sparsely or unpopulated areas. “We’re not talking about flying drones in the middle of a city,” says Saenko. “It would be silly if it didn’t happen. There’s a lot more benefits to using drones to do inspection than there are potential pitfalls.” Photo of drone: Reid R. Frazier. Video production by Reid R. Frazier and Kathy Zhao.
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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon addresses journalists in Kiev Thomson Reuters United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday he should be replaced by a woman. It is "high time" a woman lead the multinational organization, he said. The South Korean statesman was speaking at an event in Los Angeles and responded to a question about a potential female successor, the Associated Press reported. "We have many distinguished and eminent women leaders in national governments or other organizations or even business communities, political communities, and cultural and every aspect of our life," Ban told the Associated Press Thursday, the day after. "There's no reason why not in the United Nations." "[There are] many distinguished, motivated women leaders who can really change this world, who can actively engage with the other leaders of the world," he added. Ban also argued his successor should be able to represent minorities and the underserved, according to the AP. He is serving his second five-year term and is set to be replaced at the end of the year. The process involves a vote among the U.N. Security Council— the permanent members include the United States, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and China, with 10 rotating, non-permanent member states — whereby a candidate is recommended to the General Assembly. The group of 193 states comprising the General Assembly will then vote on the proposed candidate. Five of the eleven finalists are women. The female candidates are UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova of Bulgaria, former Moldovan Foreign Minister Natalia Gherman, former Executive-General of the U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change and Costa Rican Christina Figueres, Foreign Minister of Argentina Susana Malcorra and former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark. While Ban does not technically have any say in who will fill the role, he made it clear he was pulling for a female successor. "That's my humble suggestion," he told the AP. The U.N., established in the wake of World War II in 1945, has had eight secretaries-general in its more than 70 years of existence — all of them have been men.
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Chelsea midfielder Izzy Brown is discussing a permanent £8.5million move to Huddersfield Town. The 20-year-old had an impressive season on loan at the John Smith's Stadium under David Wagner and is keen to continue progressing during their debut Premier League season. Brown, an England U20 international, scored five goals last season and Huddersfield hope a deal can be concluded alongside the £10m signing of Aaron Mooy from Manchester City. Izzy Brown was a regular for Huddersfield last season and the Terriers want to keep him Huddersfield had a £7.2million bid for Tom Ince rejected by Championship side Derby Huddersfield had a £7.2m bid rejected by Derby County for Tom Ince last week and are among the number clubs showing interest in signing Manchester City's Patrick Roberts though he is likely to go elsewhere should City decide to sell. The Terriers were promoted to the Premier League via the playoffs, beating Reading on penalties in the final at Wembley. Another Chelsea youngster, 18-year-old attacking midfielder Mason Mount is poised to join Vitesse Arnhem on loan while Bertrand Traore is expected to conclude his £16m move to Lyon this week.
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COVER STORY STRUCTURES (9/24/2001) Most Surrounding Buildings Safe By Nadine M. Post IMPACT ZONE About 10 nearby buildings have structural damage that is severe. (Photo by Michael Goodman for ENR) I n the mountain of wreckage that was the 12-million-sq-ft World Trade Center, hundreds from the construction industry have been working in shifts around the clock since the Sept. 11 plane attacks on the 110-story twin towers. They are fighting a multiheaded monster never before encountered. Contractors have been mobilizing to move an estimated 1.2 million tons of rubble and debris, which could take six months to a year to untangle and remove. Engineers have been "on-call" to help them design supports for heavy equipment. Other engineers have been designing a tieback system for the complex's slurry wall foundation, now partly packed with twisted steel from the towers. And even more have been combing surrounding buildings to assess damage done by the collapse of the towers. While an army of construction industry forces was mobilizing around "Ground Zero" in lower Manhattan, experts around the country were also mobilizing to learn lessons about the disaster and possibly to reconsider codes and standards relating to the design and construction of tall buildings. Beyond that, the attack on the WTC has triggered a national debate on whether the twin towers should be replaced in kind, replaced with something taller or whether the site should be left as a memorial to the dead–a number which could top 5,000. Additionally, there is much heated discussion over the future of the skyscraper as a building form. As of Sept. 18, most of the 50 or so buildings closest to the impact zone immediately surrounding the complex have cosmetic damage, but only 10 or so have structural damage. "Some of that is severe, but none of the buildings damaged is currently in danger of collapse," says Daniel Cuoco, a managing principal of LZA-Thornton Tomasetti, the New York City engineer leading the structural engineering operations, including damage assessment surveys, for the New York City Dept. of Design and Construction. Cuoco adds that "no building outside the WTC has collapsed," contrary to news reports. This includes One Liberty Plaza and the Hotel Millennium Hilton, both across the street from the WTC. MAPPED OUT Efforts focused on damage assessments in and around complex. The roster of collapsed or partly collapsed buildings includes the south tower, called Two WTC, which came down at 10 a.m. on Sept. 11; the north tower, One WTC, which crashed down at 10:29 a.m.; the 47-story Seven WTC, which collapsed in the evening, presumably as a result of fire caused by the towers' collapsing. Three WTC, most recently a Marriott Hotel, is mostly down and burned. Four, Five and Six WTC are standing but ruined. A structural damage assessment survey of 406 buildings several blocks in each direction outside the immediate impact zone has found 382 buildings are fine, 20 have some damage and need a closer look and five are unsafe. The effort was completed Sept. 18 by some 60 engineers organized by the Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEAoNY) at the request of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani (R). Plans are forming for a relief commission to oversee reconstruction, and city officials clearly intend it to be a major vehicle for recovery. Reports indicate the City Council might amend the City Charter to give the commission extraordinary powers to redo and rebuild. Outside the 16-acre complex, there have also been no reports of foundation damage, says George Tamaro, an engineer with Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers, which is leading the city's foundation engineering operation. Tamaro was involved in the original construction of the foundation while working for the WTC's original owner-developer, the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey. Tamaro says there are no foundations in imminent danger of collapse even within the WTC complex, though he cautions, "We have to go through a verification program." With that said, all eyes are on the 7.5-acre reinforced concrete slurry wall foundation–a giant bathtub in which the towers sat. The fear is that superstructure steel, which compressed as it collapsed into the basement levels, undermined the bathtub's reinforced concrete floor diaphragms that hold up the slurry walls. The approximately 1,000 x 500-ft basement has six levels of slabs to support 65-ft-deep perimeter walls socketed a minimum of 2 ft into rock. The integrity of the excavation depends on all four slurry walls being intact, says Tamaro. Currently, those could be supported by remaining structure or by the debris from the towers. "Where the debris is standing and there is no sound structure," it is necessary to resupport the wall with tieback structures, he says. The first priority is the west wall, closest to the Hudson River. Engineers are developing three ways of resupporting the foundation walls, if necessary. Rock anchors figure into the picture in all three cases. "We probably should replicate the original design, which worked then," says Tamaro, referring to the temporary rock anchors that supported the wall until the floor slabs were in place, during the original construction. The system had six levels of rock anchors, each using up to twenty-one 1�2-in. strands of steel, which were installed at an angle in a 6-in.-dia hole drilled through the wall. At the top, the anchors were 100 ft long. 90 WEST STREET Some buildings nearby do have serious damage. ( Photo by Michael Goodman for ENR) Tamaro's first choice is to find a "good platform" inside the bathtub–an intact floor slab or stable debris–for a tieback machine to install new tiebacks. Another choice would be to locate a crane on the street outside the perimeter of the foundation box with a set of flexible leads hanging over the wall to install the anchors from the inside. Engineers suspect there are some areas of the foundation floor slabs that are in very good shape. But all have probably been breached in the tower areas. There may be small holes in the diaphragms that can be bridged. At press time, engineers had only been able to enter the concourse level, just below grade, under the northeast corner of the site, and walk in about 50 ft to assess the condition inside and under Five WTC. "The floors are in place and we believe intact," says engineer David Cacoilo, also of Mueser Rutledge. The foundations of the burned-out Five WTC are still there, he adds. "The northeast corner of the complex is more stable than any place on site," says Cacoilo. Still, "huge beams and columns [from the towers], much like projectiles, penetrated the concourse, which is the roof of the subway tunnel." Mueser Rutledge has organized itself into task teams to provide support to the contractors and authorities during the rescue and recovery effort, says Tamaro. Each task force is assigned to a group–one for the transit authority, one for Battery Park City, one for the contractors and one for the port authority. Above ground at and around Ground Zero, LZA/Thornton-Tomasetti's team, expanded by SEAoNY engineers, is doing "engineering on the fly," as Cuoco describes it. The engineers have switched from three, eight-hour shifts to two, 12-hour shifts. There are about 26 engineers during each shift. "There are lots of grillage designs" to support the up-to-300-ton cranes that contractors are positioning for debris removal. All things considered, things have been going "pretty well," says Cuoco. But there have been moments. One came on Sept. 17, when the engineers got a report that a 60-ft-tall section of tower cladding and structural tube that had fallen from the 80th floor of the south tower, was moving. It was soon pulled out of the ground with a cable attached to a backhoe. HOTEL MILLENNIUM HILTON Collapse reports on news casts were unfounded. (Photo by Richard Rodriguez) Cuoco says that the top portion of the south tower, above the floor of impact, toppled to the east during the Sept. 11 debacle. The balance of the tower fell to the northwest, he says. The north tower came down "pretty much vertically," says Cuoco (ENR 9/17 p. 10). Reports that the plaza is bouncing somewhat are true, he says, but "one would expect that considering the large pieces of steel and other debris over that area of the plaza." For the 406 damage assessments, a SEAoNY team used a database provided by the city's Dept. of Finance, which had been compiled for use in an earthquake preparedness study. Each engineer received a checklist for each building, which contained an address, lot and block number. Engineers made a rapid engineering evaluation of each building to determine those that required further attention. "It was a collective effort," says Guy Nordenson, a professor of architecture and engineering at Princeton University. With so many authorities involved, it is taking time to get organized. Leslie E. Robertson Associates, the consultant to the port authority on the World Trade Center, is working directly under the agency as well as participating in the SEAoNY effort. "We have pointed out concerns" about the nine-story Five WTC, says Saw-Teen See, LERA's managing partner. Its columns are supported on transfer girders that span the subway. "There's a lot of rubble and added weight," she says. "The girders may be overloaded at and below street level." LERA has turned over hundreds of drawings of the complex to the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the city's Office of Emergency Management. "We even gave them plumbing drawings," says See. Though the pace is expected to slow down somewhat, Cuoco, who himself has been working 16-hour days, says the structural engineers' involvement will likely last for a while: "This will be going on for months." CLICK HERE FOR PAST COVER STORIES AND FEATURES © 2001 Engineering News-Record Site Sponsors
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“Since January of 2016 — the period in which the anti-Trump ‘resistance’ movement formed — Americans are fifty-one times more likely to be killed by a radical Islamic terrorist, and thirteen times more likely to be killed by a left-wing terrorist, than by a right-wing terrorist. That’s 51:1, and 13:1, respectively.” So writes the “Cowboy Historian,” a scholar who maintains a blog and has tallied up the recent violence in a piece that lays waste to the narrative that “Trump’s election electrified racists, misogynists, and bigots, and represents no less than the return of Jim Crow America, or worse.” “My point here is not to claim that violent attacks by Trump supporters haven’t occurred, or to conflate the attacks of left-wing terrorists with all Democrats,” the historian writes. “Rather, my point is to illustrate the hate-filled narrative that undergirds the anti-Trump resistance.” In an interview with The College Fix, the historian (who asked for anonymity because he does not have tenure), said the claim that Trump inspired a wave of right-wing violence in the last 18 months is a lie. “What I am showing is that, on the one hand, Islamic terrorism continues to be the No. 1 threat, but a growing threat is left-wing terrorism,” he said. In his blog post, he highlights not only the attacks against Trump supporters, but also various attacks associated with the Black Lives Matter and Black Power movements over the last 18 months, combining them under one “left-wing” category. He argues that while left-leaning organizations mislabel certain attacks when calculating hate-crime statistics (mostly notably the New America think tank), when one combines anti-Trump attacks with those associated with anti-white attacks, the comparisons show which ideologies are truly the most dangerous. Nevertheless, his findings still largely mirror that of New America: “Should you still prefer the New America classification system, which appears to downplay the role of left-wing ideology, then the statistics are 51:1 (jihadist terrorism vs. right wing terrorism) and 11:1 (black nationalist/separatist/supremacist terrorism vs. right wing terrorism), and 2:1 (left-wing terrorism vs. right-wing terrorism),” he writes. So what does it all mean? “I began forecasting a rise in left-wing violence just after the election, when regressive leftists so crassly started publicizing false Fascist/Nazi allegations, physically attacking conservatives on college and university campuses, and justifying violence against Trump and his supporters — all with very little pushback,” the historian writes. “Unfortunately, I was right. Violence has started to snowball. Barring a change in course, we are headed for some type of wider civil conflict. Deep down, everyone knows it.” Read his full blog post. MORE: Prof DEBUNKS study claiming right-wing extremists in U.S. more deadly than Islamic terrorists Like The College Fix on Facebook / Follow us on Twitter Like The College Fix on Facebook / Follow us on Twitter
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Elite: Dangerous has been somewhat of a talking point in virtual reality (VR) circles of late. Originally built to encompass Oculus Rift head-mounted displays (HMDs) as part of its entourage of modern technical prowess, a change in Oculus VR’s SDK left Frontier Developments out in the cold. Though still assuring that the title will make realign with the Oculus Rift at some point, in the meantime the tide has turned and Elite: Dangerous will be offering compatibility with the HTC Vive HMD in the coming months. Elite: Dangerous has always been a compelling experience in VR, and on HTC Vive it’s no different. Although the development kit hardware in no way compares to the consumer version of the Oculus Rift, the lower resolution and discomfort of the HMD do not impede the enjoyment of the experience. A seated experience, as the demo version of the videogame was solely concentrated on cockpit-based combat, the HTC Vive HMD is used in exactly the same way as the Oculus Rift; without motion controllers. Instead, Frontier Developments chose to showcase Elite: Dangerous in a comfy chair with HOTAS. The HTC Vive preview was limited to training missions only, however a decent variety of scenarios was made available to VRFocus. A single heavily armoured vessel and an ally to help take him out, slow moving carrier ships benefiting from faster, lightweight ships offering suppressing fire, a wave-orientated battle wherein each enemy disposed of leads to another band of more aggressive fighters. Furthermore, each of these scenarios offered different weaponry to the player, showcasing the machine gun, rail gun, rockets and lock-on artillery. Within each remit the player must use a different tactic. Going up against fast-moving craft in a head-to-head battle will never end well, despite the fact that their shields deplete very quickly. Swift manoeuvring is required to get the best of them, whilst slower moving ships can easily be caught from behind unaware, giving you time to secure a lock-on. Relying solely on brute force in this preview build is not an option, though further into the videogame it may well be possible to obtain a ship and weaponry that allows you to do just that. Unlike the most direct competition to Elite: Dangerous, CCP Games’ EVE: Valkyrie, lock-on rockets are not commanded by your viewpoint. The lock-on has a small radius from the direct front of your ship, and so while being able to look around a large spectrum outside the windows of your ship increases immersion greatly, it has little effect on gameplay. Elite: Dangerous is not a lightning-fast arcade style space combat videogame, it’s a tactical assault that demands shrewd judgement from the player. One significant benefit that Elite: Dangerous has over much of the VR playing field at present is that a full videogame already exists. Elite: Dangerous will launch its VR compatibility into an existing videogame universe, immediately offering those who already own the title a new opportunity and those coming to it purely from a VR perspective a huge expanse of gameplay to explore. Elite: Dangerous has already set the videogame world on fire once, and with VR it has the potential to do it once again.
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Natalia Viri Para oferecer preços mais baixos sem colocar a mão no próprio bolso, o Grupo Pão de Açúcar (GPA) sacou uma arma poderosa mas até então subestimada: a inteligência de mercado sobre os hábitos de consumo dos quase 12 milhões de membros de seus programas de fidelidade, o Pão de Açúcar Mais e o Clube Extra. Lançado há um mês, o aplicativo 'Meu Desconto' oferece promoções personalizadas para quem está cadastrado nos dois programas. A cada 15 dias, o cliente recebe ofertas sob medida, que levam em conta o que ele já consumiu e o que pode vir a consumir, dado seu perfil de compra. Para ter acesso ao preço promocional, ele precisa apenas ativar a oferta no aplicativo e fornecer seu CPF ao passar no caixa. Nos primeiros 30 dias, o app teve 1,4 milhão de downloads, e 400 mil novos clientes se cadastraram nos programas de fidelidade, um aumento de 3,2% na base. A verdadeira inovação, no entanto, está na outra ponta da cadeia. Nem R$1 dos descontos, que começam em 20% e chegam a mais de 50%, sai do bolso do GPA. Todos os descontos são inseridos no sistema e bancados pelos fornecedores. A moeda de troca do Pão de Açúcar era um tesouro que estava enterrado debaixo de uma camada de algoritmos: o grupo abriu para a indústria toda a base de dados de seus programas de fidelidade. Os fornecedores têm acesso ao perfil de quem consome (e de quem ignora) seus produtos, e podem fazer ofertas 'nichadas'. A identidade do consumidor é preservada. De acordo com o GPA, trata-se de um ganha-ganha: o grupo melhora sua margem bruta e tráfego, e o fornecedor aumenta a assertividade de seu produto. “A indústria consegue entrar e verificar o cliente que ela quer impactar: os mais fiéis ou menos fiéis, os abandonadores..." diz Renato Camargo, gerente de programas de fidelidade do GPA. "Ele pode fazer um desconto só para quem compra a categoria mas não compra seu produto, por exemplo. Ou para quem compra o produto de menor valor da marca e poderia subir para uma categoria mais premium. A oferta vai direto para esse cliente, sem passar pelo GPA.” No modelo tradicional, quando decide dar desconto em algum produto, o fornecedor tem que abrir mão da margem em contratos que envolvem volumes expressivos negociados direto com o supermercado. Com o novo sistema, ele pode decidir 'promocionar' para, por exemplo, apenas 100 mil pessoas. Quando uma pessoa ativa e compra com o preço da oferta, é só este desconto que impacta sua linha de custo. “O varejo não pode se dar ao luxo de investir numa promoção sem saber qual é o retorno. Com a nossa plataforma, o fornecedor consegue ver quase em tempo real o que está acontecendo, quanto [a promoção] está rendendo e qual o real interesse por cada oferta. Como o investimento é mais assertivo, dá pra fazer promoções mais relevantes para o consumidor”, diz Camargo. A iniciativa vem num momento em que o GPA precisa fortalecer sua bandeira mais premium, o Pão de Açúcar, que acabou negligenciada nos últimos anos com o avanço do atacarejo e das lojas de bairro. Num segundo trimestre de bons resultados para o grupo, o Pão foi o destaque negativo, com o faturamento em queda de 1%, e a direção já sinalizou que vai focar na bandeira, reformando suas 15-20 maiores lojas nos próximos trimestres. (O Pão tem 185 lojas.)Além dos descontos, a ideia do aplicativo é melhorar a experiência de compra. Em breve, os apps devem ganhar funções que mostram o mapa das lojas, apontando onde fica cada produto e categoria, e uma ‘fila virtual’ em que o cliente pode agendar a hora que quer passar no caixa para evitar as filas.O app muda também a equação das estratégias promocionais que fizeram com que a bandeira Extra retomasse o fôlego nos últimos trimestres, após anos comendo poeira do Carrefour.Um dos pilares da revitalização do negócio de hipermercados foi a promoção ‘1, 2, 3 passos da economia’, com descontos de 20% na compra da primeira unidade, 50% na segunda e a terceira de graça -- que se provou acertada, mas à custa de rentabilidade.O custo dos descontos era normalmente dividido entre o Extra e o fornecedor, numa conta em que o volume de vendas compensa a perda de margem. Agora, o GPA está usando o app como uma ferramenta para rever sua agressividade promocional e melhorar a relação com os fornecedores.Segundo Camargo, a demanda do 'Meu Desconto' por clientes do Extra vem surpreendendo. Nos primeiros dias após o lançamento, a maior parte dos downloads acontecia por clientes do Pão de Açúcar -- de mais alta renda e, portanto, mais habituados aos apps e a programas de fidelidade.Conforme as ofertas foram circulando, via campanhas publicitárias e no boca a boca, a balança se inverteu, e cerca de 65% dos downloads agora são feitos por clientes do Clube Extra.No Extra, o clube de fidelidade é mais recente, apenas de 2013, e soma cerca de 7 milhões de clientes. Já o ‘Cliente Mais’ do Pão de Açúcar foi lançado há 17 anos, quando programas de fidelização eram quase exclusividade das companhias áreas, e hoje tem mais de 4 milhões de usuários.O desenvolvimento do aplicativo e do sistema levou cerca de seis meses. A ideia do 'Meu Desconto', nascida no Brasil, já foi apresentada na França e em breve deve ser replicada por outras empresas controladas pelo Casino.E quando a concorrência decidir replicar? "Estamos na frente, voltando a ter aquela pegada de inovação que pautava o GPA. É a evolução do varejo: no mundo da informação, não dá mais para ter aquele 'black box' com o fornecedor como era nos anos 80." Siga o Brazil Journal no Instagram e assine nossa newsletter aqui embaixo.
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Even reality television has its limits, and the BBC—that vaunted public trust—may have found them last week, after advertising for contestants for “Britain’s Hardest Grafter.” The five-part series, which is set to air on BBC2, will pit 25 underpaid young people against each other to win the equivalent of a year’s living wage—roughly £15,500—in a competition that the British press and angry viewers have already called “Hunger Games-style,” “degrading and exploitative,” and “poverty porn.” The show has contestants performing different kinds of blue-collar work to prove they’re the most productive grafter. (That’s British slang for “hard worker.”) It’s an entertainment concept that’s difficult to defend (though BBC’s PR team is certainly trying, calling it a “serious social experiment” investigating “just how hard people in the low-wage economy work”). Asking poor people to “prove themselves” by laboring in a faux-factory is creepy and dystopian and, yes, kind of reminiscent of The Hunger Games or the bleak futuristic TV show “Black Mirror.” The production company’s description of the show—“At the end of each episode, those who have produced the least will be eliminated”—is both a perfect distillation of capitalism and a nightmarish vision of the future. Over 20,000 people have signed an online petition asking the BBC to scrap the show. Yet I’m inclined to be a little charitable toward the BBC’s straightforward exploitation right now, if only because on this side of the pond the reality-TV industry has just presented American viewers with something far, far worse. That would be “The Briefcase,” which began its six-episode run on CBS last Wednesday as the most-watched series of the night. Created by the venal mind behind NBC’s “The Biggest Loser,” the would-be inspirational show offers struggling families the opportunity to change their lives—only to manipulate them into feeling guilty about it. In each episode, producers arrive at the home of two couples in the lower-middle class, who think they have signed up to appear in a documentary about money, with a briefcase containing $101,000. “Oh my god, smell it,” one woman says to her husband, pressing the cash against her forehead. Only after they’ve had the chance to imagine what they can do with this windfall—cover medical bills, pay for IVF treatment, repay loans—they hear the catch: They have 72 hours to decide whether to keep all the money, keep part of the money, or give it all away to another family that’s just as needy. There is a lot of crying.
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One of the best things about true competition in cord cutting is watching the services fight for you. In the past you may have felt like the cable company could care less if you signed up or not. Now watching these services fight for your dollars is a rather rewarding feeling. All of the services have been directly going after each other recently and none more so than Sling TV. Now even Sling TV is once again turning up the fire by directly comparing its price point to its competitors’. It will be interesting to see how Hulu, DIRECTV NOW, and PlayStation Vue respond as it becomes more apparent than ever that Sling TV has different strategy from the others. For now it seems like Sling TV has decided to be the perfect add-on to cord cutters who have an antenna. As other services are rushing to add locals Sling TV has decided to offer to come and install an antenna in or on your house. The question now is how effective will this be. Even with Sling TV’s huge lead in subscribers services such as DIRECTV NOW have been reporting strong subscriber growth with over 500,000 new subscribers. While many Americans live in areas that have easy access to over-the-air TV tens of millions of Americans live in areas that have difficulty getting over-the-air TV. So it is possible that both plans could be successful. But for now Sling TV’s decision to make locals a low priority stands out in comparison to all other live TV streaming services. So what do you think? Is Sling TV making the right move by trying to be different with a lower price point? Or do you think DIRECTV NOW, Hulu, and PlayStation Vue are on the right path? Leave us a comment and let us know what you think. Please follow us on Facebook and Twitter for more news, tips, and reviews. Need cord cutting tech support? Join our new Cord Cutting Tech Support Facebook Group for help.
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Photo In a report it issued last week about the widespread abuse of detainees in China’s criminal justice system, Human Rights Watch interviewed dozens of people who claimed to have been mistreated and tortured while in police custody. Nearly all of them were given anonymity so they could speak to investigators without fear of retribution from the Chinese authorities. But one witness in the report stood out: Stuart Foster, an American sociology professor who spent nearly eight months in a southern Chinese detention center after he was arrested on theft charges in 2013. The testimony provided by Mr. Foster was notable, not only because he allowed his name to be used, but also because he is one of the few foreigners to have witnessed conditions inside China’s pretrial detention centers, a shadowy world characterized by filth, hunger, violence and forced labor. He and his fellow inmates at the Baiyun Detention Center in Guangzhou, he said, spent their waking hours assembling Christmas lights for export. In an interview last week, Mr. Foster said he wanted the world to know about the mistreatment that ordinary Chinese endure after they are arrested by the police but before they are formally charged or tried in court. Mr. Foster, who later confessed to stealing money from an American colleague at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, said he shared a bare concrete cell with upward of 30 people. There were no beds, let alone bedding, and each cell was run by sadistic inmates, anointed by the guards, who terrorized detainees with frequent beatings. “It was a living nightmare,” said Mr. Foster, 50, speaking from his home in South Carolina, where he is writing a book about his experience. After his conviction for theft, he was sentenced to time served and deported. “I’m amazed such a world exists, but I’m equally amazed they allowed me to witness it.” In China, most foreigners accused of crimes are kept in segregated facilities where the conditions, while unpleasant, are far better than those that hold Chinese citizens. Mr. Foster says he is unsure why he was placed in the B Cell Block at Baiyun, home to about 5,000 inmates who had been arrested on a variety of charges, including shoplifting, illicit drug use and fraud. Some of his fellow inmates, he said, insisted they had no idea why they had been arrested. “From Day 1, you were forced to work, no matter what your crime was or whether or not you were innocent,” Mr. Foster said. None of the inmates, he added, were paid for their toil. At Baiyun Detention Center, the guards handed over day-to-day control to the hardened men Mr. Foster described as “the regime,” inmates who were in charge of setting quotas for Christmas light assembly — and for enforcing their own whims through random and gratuitous brutality. Those who were slow putting together the twinkling icicles ubiquitous in American suburbia, he said, would be kicked, karate chopped and occasionally whipped with the braided strands of wires. Other times, the violence was prompted for flubbing the recitation of prison rules, for complaining about abuse to guards or for no discernible reason. “A few times I was kicked, only because I was kneeling down and facing the wall with everyone else, and because my head was shaved, they couldn’t see that I was a foreigner,” Mr. Foster said. “When they saw who I was, they would immediately apologize.” Mr. Foster recalled inmates disappearing into solitary confinement or chained to the floor for days without food or access to the toilet. “You could hear them screaming,” he said. During their months in detention, inmates were denied access to visitors, even their own lawyers. Mr. Foster’s description of life inside Baiyun dovetails with the accounts of other detainees who were interviewed by Human Rights Watch. The abuse continues despite a number of recent regulations that seek to address problems in China’s pretrial detention centers, which are run by the Ministry of Public Security. In 2009, the ministry introduced measures that include surveillance cameras in detainees’ living quarters, alarm bells in cells that can alert guards to abuse and an explicit ban on the use of so-called cell bosses to manage inmates. The new rules were put in place after a farmer in Yunnan Province was fatally beaten in custody. Officials initially said the man had died during a game of hide-and-seek, a claim that met with widespread public skepticism. Since 2011, according to the state news media, independent “special supervisors” have been making surprise visits to 70 percent of the nation’s pretrial detention centers in an effort to reduce the mistreatment of detainees. Mr. Foster and other recent detainees, however, say they saw little evidence of such changes. “We might see a guard come by once or twice a day,” Mr. Foster said, “but sometimes you wouldn’t see them for four or five days.”
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2007 compilation album by Various artists Kiss Does... Rave Compilation album by Various artists Released 30 April 2007 Genre Electronica Length 156 : 11 (CD) (CD) 116 : 50 (USB flash drive) Label Wonderland Kiss Does... Rave is a compilation album released by the Kiss Network on 30 April 2007. It was released on both a two-CD album and on a 1GB USB flash drive – it was the first album in the UK to be released in USB format,[1] and was sold exclusively through HMV stores and on Kiss and HMV's websites.[2] Steve Parkinson, Kiss's managing director, described releasing the album on USB as "another example of Kiss being ahead of the game, knowing its audience and engaging with them in ways that will inspire and entertain".[3] The first disc of the CD version of the album comprised 19 rave tracks from the 1990s; the second disc contained 18 new rave songs from the 2000s.[4] The USB version held 26 tracks in 256kpbs WMA format.[5] NME described Kiss Does... Rave as being "the first album to draw the line between original and nu rave".[6] Track listings [ edit ] USB flash drive No. Title Artist Length 1. "Activ-8" Altern 8 4:45 2. "Go" Moby 3:24 3. "LFO" LFO 4:23 4. "Take Me Away (Pinned Up mix)" True Faith featuring Bridget Grace 6:37 5. "Far Out" Sonz of a Loop da Loop Era 4:34 6. "Bouncer" Kicks Like a Mule 5:22 7. "£20 to Get In" Shut Up and Dance 2:04 8. "We Are I.E." Lennie De Ice 4:10 9. "Bombscare" 2 Bad Mice 4:20 10. "On a Ragga Tip 2007" SL2 4:59 11. "Compnded" Edge 1 4:18 12. "DJ's Unite, Vol 1" DJ's Unite 3:33 13. "This Sound Is for the Underground" Krome & Time 5:06 14. "Gravity's Rainbow" Kicks Like a Mule 3:00 15. "Standing in the Way of Control (Soulwax Nite version)" Gossip 5:22 16. "Thou Shalt Always Kill (Knifehand Chop mix)" dan le sac vs Scroobius Pip 3:38 17. "Banquet (Boys Noize mix)" Bloc Party 6:09 18. "The Bomb (Phones Collateral Damage mix)" New Young Pony Club 4:52 19. "The Beat" Simian Mobile Disco 3:18 20. "Pop the Glock" Uffie 3:28 21. "You're Gonna Want Me" Tiga 4:32 22. "Plastic Dreams (Switch remix)" Jaydee 4:51 23. "Podium (Max Graham mix)" Trisco 6:00 24. "Work on You (original)" MSTRKRFT 6:00 25. "Jealous Girls (New Young Pony club mix)" Gossip 3:38 26. "Your Love" Friendly Fires 4:47 Total length: 116:50 References [ edit ]
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She’s Launching a Campaign to Blow the Cover Off the Cover-Up! Former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, founder of Boiling Frogs Post, is boiling mad these days and has launched a campaign to blow the cover off the cover-up of powerful criminals, including pedophiles, operating at the highest levels of the United States government. The ACLU calls her a “silenced patriot.” Edmonds started the National Security Whistleblowers movement as a result of her findings and her treatment as she tried to report criminal activity within the U.S. government. The abject failure of federal investigators, as well as the U.S. media, to cover the rest of the Hastert crimes is what upsets Edmonds today. What exactly were Hastert’s crimes and what was he indicted for? Dennis Hastert rose from wrestling and football coach at the local small-town high school in Yorkville, Illinois to become a U.S. Representative, and then Speaker of the House. His fall from grace will see him sentenced in February 2016 with what could be from months to years in prison. Edmonds, a Farsi and Turkish language speaker, was hired by the FBI to translate wiretaps and other intelligence on targeted individuals. In the course of her duties, according to Edmonds, with her Top Secret clearance, she learned of treason, blackmail of Members of Congress, bribery, and other criminal activities, including pedophilia. The information that Edmonds gleaned from the wiretaps that she was translating provides context for the White House scandal that became known as the “Valerie Plame Affair.” When Edmonds reported the content of this intelligence to her superiors, she eventually was slapped with a “State Secrets” gag order and prohibited from talking about what she learned. She skirted that gag order by placing photographs online of the targeted individuals whose conversations she had translated, thereby discovering their criminal activities. Finally, in 2009, as a result of another lawsuit on an entirely different subject, Edmonds was able to air her information publicly under oath. That deposition is here. Edmonds has written two books about her experiences, a memoir, Classified Woman, and a novel, The Lone Gladio. The renewal of Edmonds’s ire came as the former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, J. Dennis Hastert, appeared in Court defending himself against two felony accusations: one, that he withdrew cash from his bank account in a way to evade federal scrutiny and two, that he lied to investigators about the reason he was making the withdrawals. The media awkwardly reported Hastert’s clumsy situation; mentioning the indictment, even mentioning the “prior misconduct” against “Individual A,” while giving a complete pass on why “Individual A” was being paid $3.5 million by Hastert for hush money. To be fair, the problem is not only the media’s, but mainly belongs to the federal investigators. Why on earth would a federal investigator examine only half of a crime? I’m sure a regular television news viewer must be left scratching her head trying to make sense of a narrative that just doesn’t make sense. Here, Hastert gets indicted for withdrawing his own money from his own bank account in order to hide something so valuable that it’s worth millions of dollars to Hastert to hide, yet not one day does the federal investigator even inquire what that might be. The indictment merely reads, “He had been withdrawing cash in increments of less than $10,000 to evade currency transaction reporting requirements because he wanted his agreement to compensate Individual A to remain secret so as to cover up his past misconduct.” Neither the Feds nor the indictment goes any further. Now, we know that the investigators and the media could easily have gone further. The sister of one alleged Hastert victim made a post on her FaceBook page that she was pleased at the Hastert indictment because of what Hastert had done to her brother. She went on to explain the time that her brother “came out” as gay and mentioned Dennis Hastert as his first same-sex partner. Burdge claims that the Hastert “misconduct” goes far deeper than is being made public and believes that Hastert’s relationship with her brother ended after her brother left high school. In her deposition, when Dennis Hastert’s name was mentioned, Edmonds commented that the problem that she stumbled upon while translating these conversations was that illegal activities that went against the interests of the U.S. and that benefitted foreign governments and foreign entities were discussed. In her deposition, she testified that it was well known that Hastert engaged in activities in non-secure locations and was videotaped; Edmonds testified that Hastert was not the only Member of Congress who was given this treatment. What she describes is a criminal enterprise that has embedded itself inside the U.S. government, operating both overtly and covertly for the interests of foreign governments and foreign companies. According to Edmonds, this enterprise carried out blackmail of U.S. political personalities, espionage, efforts to get highly classified U.S. weapons technology, and bribery. Edmonds’s whistleblowing was investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice Inspector General (OIG), which issued a report stating that the FBI should have done a more thorough job of investigating Edmonds’s allegations. So, when Edmonds saw that Hastert had been indicted, she hoped that some of these larger issues were going to finally be investigated in public. She wanted the wrongs to be corrected. But she also had feelings of foreboding; that the case would go nowhere, that the Prosecutor would be forced to “lose” or “drop the case.” She calls it the scandal “too deep, too dark and covers too many people from both sides of the political aisle for it to ever proceed in public.” Edmonds poses several questions about the U.S. media narrative that scrupulously avoids allegations from other witnesses about Hastert’s activities. A real investigation by either the media or the Feds could have helped to expose what’s really wrong with U.S. leadership in Washington, D.C. I believe this would help us to also fundamentally change the scorched earth policies that are burning the people of the U.S. as well as people in the rest of the world. Edmonds was able to overhear the plans that Wesley Clark describes as a “policy coup” that changed the course of U.S. foreign policy. Edmonds has now launched a social network campaign to prevent Dennis Hastert’s plea deal and expose the real crimes. The United Kingdom is embroiled in a few scandals of its own along these very same lines: from the Westminster pedophile scandal to the Hillary Clinton e-mail imbroglio that seemed to implicate former President George W. Bush and former Prime Minister Tony Blair in a commitment to go to war together, the U.S. and the U.K., against Iraq. I hope Sibel Edmonds is successful and we all will get to know in full public view even a portion of what she came to know, as an FBI translator, of the unprosecuted criminals operating inside the U.S. government.
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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. The amnesty wing of the GOP has traditionally offered a false choice between legalizing millions of illegal aliens or losing the Hispanic vote. Their argument was that to be competitive with the growing numbers of Hispanic voters, Republicans had to get on board with amnesty. The numbers for that argument never made any sense. Even George W. Bush, as a wartime president who was supportive of amnesty, had only managed 40% of the Hispanic vote in his best election. And that was the strongest performance by a Republican since Reagan. Even assuming that every post-amnesty Republican candidate could get 40%, a ridiculously implausible political fantasy, that would only doom the GOP as a political party a good deal faster. Republicans who were less enthusiastic about illegal alien amnesty still usually insisted on the need for more immigration. As if a country with high unemployment among unskilled laborers needs even more unskilled laborers whose only asset is a willingness to undercut American workers by working for less. But the best way for Republicans to increase their share of Hispanic voters is by rejecting amnesty and reducing immigration. The latest Gallup numbers show that among foreign-born Hispanics, Hillary Clinton enjoys an 87% percent approval rating while Donald Trump only has a 13% approval rating. However among Hispanics born in this country, Hillary Clinton only scores a 43% approval rating while Trump rises to 29%. Those numbers are not significantly worse than Romney’s overall ratings among Hispanic voters. While Trump performs very badly with Hispanic immigrants, his numbers improve significantly among Hispanics who were born in this country. Some of them even support his anti-migration stance. If Republicans really want to increase their share of the Hispanic vote, the smart way to do it is to increase the share of native-born Hispanics within the Hispanic population. Originally the majority of Hispanics were born in America. But by the new century, foreign-born Hispanics had become the majority. The increase in foreign-born Hispanics coincided with a sharp decline in the Republican Hispanic vote which dropped from the 30s to the 20s. Bush’s 40% was a wartime aberration, but the share of foreign-born Hispanics began slowly declining again this decade. That is one reason for Obama’s open borders and the aggressive push for amnesty. Democrats know that their best bet for increasing their share of the Hispanic vote is to quickly increase the number of foreign-born Hispanics on the voter rolls. And some Republicans have been foolishly helping them. Republicans perform best with native-born Hispanic small business owners. Democrats perform best with unskilled immigrants with poor language skills and little sense of the larger country. Democrats have been trying to reshape the Hispanic population to match their political interests. Republicans however routinely champion illegal alien amnesty and increased immigration. These policies, undertaken under the pretext of increasing the Republican Hispanic vote, actually increase the share of the Hispanic population most likely to vote Democrat and least likely to vote Republican. The idea of limiting immigration to do better with Hispanic voters may seem counterintuitive. But Hispanic support for open borders and even open immigration is a talking point, not a truth. Immigration is not a priority for most Hispanic voters. The economy is. Immigration restrictions with an economic basis that are applied fairly and without prejudice would score more points than amnesty. The Hispanic voters for whom amnesty and immigration are the highest priorities are the least likely to vote for the GOP anyway. Republican “evolution” in these areas will benefit Democrats and hurt Republicans. The left has made amnesty and immigration into racial issues to distract from integration. Immigration has always been premised on integration. Republicans do better with better integrated voters. Integration means learning the language, becoming self-sufficient and moving up the economic ladder. Democrats want open borders because a flow of constant migration undermines integration. Instead of moving forward, immigrant communities remain ghettos always full of new immigrants in need of government services who never integrate, but who become comfortable with that static way of life. That’s unhealthy for them. It’s unhealthy for the country. But it’s very healthy for the Democrats. American immigration was meant to be cyclical. A wave of immigrants, like a heavy meal, takes time to digest. The entry of a million immigrants should be followed by an extended pause to allow them to integrate. Instead we take in a million immigrants the next year and then the year after that. And every single year. Immigration is a problem for the GOP. Not because immigration is bad, but because immigration without integration increases two types of problems that the left thrives on as a political movement; dependency and divisiveness. A dependent voter is easy to control. A divided society is easier to manipulate. Mass migration strains social services which increases the budgets and political power of left-wing organizations. It leads to tensions that the left volunteers to resolve by fighting bigotry. The new immigrant is speedily recruited as a client and a victim while retarding his integration. And even if he does manage to learn to stand on his own two feet, there will be four others to replace him. The country’s immigrant population tops 40 million. We need time to integrate that many people. That’s what Trump is asking for. That’s what the Democrats are fighting tooth and nail because their political interests are served through disruptive immigration rather than constructive immigration. We need an honest conversation about immigration both nationally and within the GOP. The amnesty wing of the GOP has spent far too much time peddling myths that have no basis in fact. They have offered us a menu of false choices and told us that we were doomed to destruction if we didn’t destroy ourselves. The Democrats have misconstrued the immigration debate as a racial issue. They have offered Republicans yet another false choice between racism and open borders. Both choices are false. Amnesty, on any terms, would doom the GOP. An immigration pause would make the GOP more competitive nationally and among Hispanic voters. The Democrats have spent generations laboring to reshape national demographics to suit their political ambitions. Republicans would be wise to do the same. Less immigration means more integration. And that equals more Republican voters. America has taken in 40 million immigrants. It’s time for it to begin the long process of integrating those who are here legally and expelling those who are not. And then, once we are politically and economically healthier, the time may come for us to resume immigration again.
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P uzzles, anchors, stars, and plowhorses; those are a few of the terms consultants now use when assembling a menu (which is as much an advertisement as anything else). “A star is a popular, high-profit item—in other words, an item for which customers are willing to pay a good deal more than it costs to make,” Poundstone explains. “A puzzle is high-profit but unpopular; a plowhorse is the opposite, popular yet unprofitable. Consultants try to turn puzzles into stars, nudge customers away from plowhorses, and convince everyone that the prices on the menu are more reasonable than they look.” Poundstone uses Balthazar’s menu to illustrate these ideas. 1. The Upper Right-Hand Corner That’s the prime spot where diners’ eyes automatically go first. Balthazar uses it to highlight a tasteful, expensive pile of seafood. Generally, pictures of food are powerful motivators but also menu taboos—mostly because they’re used extensively in lowbrow chains like Chili’s and Applebee’s. This illustration “is as far as a restaurant of this caliber can go, and it’s used to draw attention to two of the most expensive orders,” Poundstone says. 2. The Anchor The main role of that $115 platter—the only three-digit thing on the menu—is to make everything else near it look like a relative bargain, Poundstone says. 3. Right Next Door At a mere $70, the smaller seafood platter next to Le Balthazar seems like a deal, though there’s no sense of how much food you’re getting. It’s an indefinite comparison that also feels like an indulgence—a win-win for the restaurant. 4. In The Vicinity The restaurant’s high-profit dishes tend to cluster near the anchor. Here, it’s more seafood at prices that seem comparatively modest. 5. Columns Are Killers According to Brandon O’Dell, one of the consultants Poundstone quotes in Priceless, it’s a big mistake to list prices in a straight column. “Customers will go down and choose from the cheapest items,” he says. At least the Balthazar menu doesn’t use leader dots to connect the dish to the price; that draws the diner’s gaze right to the numbers. Consultant Gregg Rapp tells clients to “omit dollar signs, decimal points, and cents It’s not that customers can’t check prices, but most will follow whatever subtle cues are provided.” 6. The Benefit Of Boxes “A box draws attention and, usually, orders,” Poundstone says. “A really fancy box is better yet. The fromages at the bottom of the menu are probably high-profit puzzles.” 7. Menu Siberia That’s where low-margin dishes that the regulars like end up. The examples here are the easy-to-miss (and relatively inexpensive) burgers. 8. Bracketing A regular trick, it’s when the same dish comes in different sizes. Here, that’s done with steak tartare and ravioli—but because “you never know the portion size, you’re encouraged to trade up,” Poundstone says. “Usually the smaller size is perfectly adequate.”
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CMS/CERN The two experiments that discovered the Higgs boson in 2012 have sensed an intriguing — if very preliminary — whiff of a possible new elementary particle. Both collaborations announced their observations on 15 December, as they released their first significant results since a major upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) outside Geneva, Switzerland, was completed earlier this year. The results largely match a rumour that has been circulating on social media and blogs for several days: that both the CMS and ATLAS detectors at the LHC have seen an unexpected excess of pairs of photons, together carrying around 750 gigaelectronvolts (GeV) of energy, in the debris of their proton–proton collisions. This could be a tell-tale sign of a new particle — also a boson, but not necessarily similar to the Higgs — decaying into two photons of equivalent energy. If so, the particle would be about four times more massive than the next heaviest particle discovered so far, the top quark, and six times more massive than the Higgs. In their talks at CERN — the laboratory that hosts the LHC — the speakers for the two experiments took turns in surveying the results of the higher-energy, 'run 2' of experiments, which began in June and was suspended in early November. Both speakers left the results on photon pairs for the end of their talks. Intriguing bump In both cases, the statistical significances were very low. Marumi Kado of the Linear Accelerator Laboratory at the University of Paris-Sud said that his experiment, ATLAS, had detected about 40 more pairs of photons than would have been expected from the predictions of the standard model of particle physics. Jim Olsen of Princeton University in New Jersey reported that CMS saw merely ten. Neither team would have mentioned the excesses had the other experiment had not seen an almost identical hint. “It is a little intriguing,” says ATLAS spokesperson Dave Charlton of the University of Birmingham, UK. “But it can happen by coincidence.” In particle physics, statistical bumps such as this come and go all the time. If this one turns out to be a real particle, it would be “a total game-changer”, says Gian Francesco Giudice, a CERN theorist who is not a member of either ATLAS or CMS. Experimenters have spent decades validating the standard model, and the Higgs was the last missing piece in that picture. A much heavier particle would open an entire new chapter in the field, he says. “The Higgs boson pales in comparison, in terms of novelty.” CMS spokesman Tiziano Camporesi says that his team does not know what to make of the data. The bump appeared as the team was searching for an unrelated particle, called a graviton. Maxim Perelstein, a theoretical physicist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, says that although the 750 GeV boson is not one of the particles that LHC physicists have been searching for, theorists would not necessarily regard it as exotic. It could, for example, be a particle similar to the Higgs, only heavier, he says. “I would not find it a big surprise if this turns out to be real.” Supersymmetry shortfall Meanwhile, searches for particles predicted by supersymmetry, physicists' favourite extension of the standard model, continue to come up empty handed. To theoretical physicist Michael Peskin of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California, the most relevant part of the talks concerned the failure to find a supersymmetric particle called a gluino in the range of masses up to 1,600 GeV (much farther than the 1,300-GeV limit of run 1). This pushes supersymmetry closer to the point at which many physicists might give up on it, Peskin says. As for the photon pairs, Camporesi says that in 2016 the LHC should conclusively establish whether the bump was just another bump or evidence of a new particle. It will be a top priority for the next round of data taking, due to start in March, he says. “If there is an actual natural phenomenon behind these fluctuations, we will know.” Charlton agrees. “We expect about ten times as much data next year, which should help resolve this question — but quite likely throw up new ones!”
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The Indian economy is unable to shrug off the after-effects of the Narendra Modi government’s disruptive move to demonetise two key currency notes. In the April-June quarter of financial year 2018 (Q1FY18), India’s GDP grew at 5.7%—the slowest in the past three years. India lost its title as the world’s fastest-growing major economy in the January-March quarter, when GDP growth declined to 6.1%. In November 2016, in a surprise move, prime minister Modi declared two high-value notes—Rs500 and Rs 1,000—illegal tenders. This led to a severe cash crunch, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises, which suffered significantly. Ten months later, the jury is still out on whether demonetisation was successful in fulfilling many of its stated goals, the most important of which was curbing black money or cash unaccounted for. However, a recent report by India’s central bank doesn’t paint a very promising picture. Within months of demonetisation, the government introduced the goods and service tax (GST), a uniform system to replace the country’s layered taxation structure. It kicked in on July 01. In the run up to its introduction, businesses, particularly smaller ones, had found themselves struggling to adapt to this overhauling. That seems to have taken a toll on the country’s economic growth. It’s possible that the GDP numbers are even bleaker than reported—the current data doesn’t capture the informal sector, which accounts for about half of the country’s output. Here is a look at how India’s economy is gradually losing its charm:
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Sauf Haus, Dupont Circle's three-story, German-inspired beer garden, opens to the public Thursday at 4 p.m. Here are nine things to know about the 18th Street destination for pretzels, lager, foosball and oompah music. Sauf Haus's 2000-square-foot rooftop deck features a long bar and communal dining tables. Don't try to save seats. (Photo by Fritz Hahn/The Washington Post) It's going to be Oktoberfest year-round. The roomy rooftop beer garden holds 160 people over 2,000 square feet. It's lined with long, Oktoberfest-style metal benches, which came directly from Germany, and a huge bar topped with 16 taps. Every draft, sold in half-liter or one-liter mugs, comes from Germany. Speakers will blast oompah and polka music much of the time. Downstairs, the two smaller floors are inspired by rustic German taverns, with cuckoo clocks, exposed wood and a foosball table, which will be free to play. The roof will be open late. Doors open at 4 p.m. daily, and the bar will keep pouring until 2:30 a.m. on weekends, and either 11 p.m. or midnight during the week, depending on crowds and the weather. (The rooftop will be tented in the winter and spring, but open to the elements in the summer and fall. A retractable roof may be in the cards in the future.) The downstairs bars will be open similar hours, and may be open later. Judging by the name, this is a place to drink. A lot. "Sauf" isn't a German word you'd use to describe your weekend to your boss. The verb "saufen" means to drink, but in a way that implies you're not just having a quiet drink with a friend. ("Saufen wie ein Loch" means "to drink like a fish.") Sauf Haus, then, is a place to get sloshed. Those with a long memory might remember that "Sauf Haus" wasn't the new operation's original name. When the original liquor license application was submitted back in 2011, the place was going to be named "Guitar Bar," after the legendary Guitar Store that occupied the second floor of the building from 1922 to 2011. Owner Edwin Villegas, who also owns the neighboring Public Bar, eventually decided to change the name to focus on his partners' shared love of Oktoberfest and German beer. Those 16 German beers on tap are joined by 5 American craft beers in cans. Many of the German beers will be familiar from Oktoberfest, including Paulaner, Spaten and Hofbrau. There will be three different Hofbraus available, including the lager, the hefeweizen and a seasonal, such as the Oktoberfest. Overall, there's a good mix of pilsners, wheat beers, lagers and dunkels. There are plans to highlight a different specialty beer each month, such as Schofferhofer Grapefruit, a radler-style mix of wheat beer and grapefruit soda. But while having so many German beers is a cool concept, it can be a little limiting, says bar manager Pablo Brown, who also likes the German-style beers from Pennsylvania-based Troegs. "Troegs is an amazing brewery, but we're sticking to our guns and only selling German beers on tap, so we'll sell their beer in cans." Other canned craft beers will come from Sweetwater, Twin Lakes and Goose Island. There will also be cider for the gluten-free crowd. Even the cocktails will have German beer in them. The focus here is on beer rather than spirits: The bar will only sell one kind of vodka (Tito's) and one kind of gin (Bluecoat). They're making a special menu of drinks that combine beer and hard liquor, such as a special house-made vanilla vodka to add a flavorful kick to that grapefruit-flavored Schofferhofer, and a twist on the Corona margarita that involves light beer, Grand Marnier and tequila. Speaking of drinking, there's a happy hour. Running from 4 to 7 p.m. on weekdays, specials include $8 half-liters and $14 liters of any draft beer and $2 off anything else. Hungry? Try a huge pretzel! Sometime in August, Sauf Haus will roll out a menu of bratwursts, frankfurters and oysters. Until then, it's going to sell "comically large" two-pound Bavarian-style pretzels, which should be enough for a table to split. They aren't taking reservations. "We're not trying to do bottle service, like [Public Bar] next door," Brown says. "The way we see it, the roof is going to be first-come, first-served." They may take reservations for large groups in the future, but not at first. This means that arriving early will be essential, especially when the neighborhood gets crowded on Friday and Saturday nights. Still got World Cup fever? The rooftop only has three TVs, and there's a large projection screen on the second floor. Brown says that they'll show soccer matches year round, capitalizing on Germany's recent World Cup win, and there's always foosball if you want to play a game yourself. Sauf Haus, 1216 18th St. NW. 202-466-3355. www.saufhausdc.com. Opens July 24.
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There’s a chance that if you played on European servers for a game called Unreal Tournament around 1999, someone calling themselves “sjokz” ripped you apart with the purple blast of a shock rifle. The person behind that name was Eefje Depoortere, a young woman from Bruges, Belgium who had loaded up Unreal one day and never put it down. She’d eventually play at a high competitive level, competing in top tournaments on the continent. Eventually Unreal’s popularity faded; the scene fell apart. But the seed of an esports obsession had been planted. Years later, Depoortere is arguably the most famous esports personality who isn’t a player. She’s the de facto face of European League of Legends, the biggest competitive video game on the planet. As host for the game’s European league, called the League Championship Series, Depoortere takes the dual role of host and sideline reporter, a position that doesn’t really have a parallel in traditional sports. She’s like a Lesley Visser or Pam Oliver, but with some of the responsibilities of a Bob Costas thrown in for good measure. But unlike either of those NFL veterans, Depoortere represents a lot more than her professional role; she’s one of the first TV personalities for a sport that isn’t even on TV. As a serious gamer herself, Depoortere is comfortable peppering the players with tough questions about strategies and tactics. Getting there wasn’t easy. There was no linear, prescribed path for a career that didn’t exist until she made it. Depoortere juggled a series of odd jobs for years as she built her career in esports. While she waited tables, she appeared on various online talk shows about League of Legends. She eventually got a job doing interviews for the well-known European esports organization SK Gaming, and from there caught the eye of Riot Games, the League of Legends developer. The company had just moved its studios for the European LCS, and needed a host. As a serious gamer herself, Depoortere is comfortable peppering the players with tough questions about strategies and tactics. She takes meticulous notes during the matches. She’s also tasked with pulling camera shy gamers out of their shells, which she handles with grace and awkward humor. And her career doesn’t end with the broadcast. Depoortere is entirely enmeshed in the scene, boasting hundreds of thousands of followers on Facebook and Twitter. Fans make mashups of her best and funniest moments; 245,000 people have watched a video in which she explains how to pronounce her real name (good luck, English speakers) and her gaming nickname. That, by the way, is pronounced “shocks” after her favorite weapon from Unreal Tournament. In a sport where gamers’ careers don’t usually last long, Depoortere stands a chance of not just helping define the industry as it grows, but of becoming one of its most indelible stars. What’s your earliest memory of the Internet? When I was about 12 years old we got to use Altavista in history class to look up images of the French revolution, a whole new world! :-) Who are your must-follows on Twitter? My must-follows are @Moobeat, @lolesports and @FroggenLoL – between them, I get my daily fix of esports and League news (and they’re pretty entertaining too). What would you be do doing if the Internet didn’t exist? I’m having a bit of anxiety just thinking about it! Very hard to imagine because so much of my life exists on and through the Internet! Do your parents understand what you do for a living? It took them a while to fully understand, but they did once they came to see a live show—the one in Wembley arena—and saw the huge crowd and production. When I explain what I do to other people, I compare our competitive system to a football league—with weekly games that award points and at the end of a season the teams with the most points qualify for the World championships. My role in all this is doing postgame interviews with the players. Depoortere takes the dual role of host and sideline reporter, a position that doesn’t really have a parallel in traditional sports. What’s the hardest part of your job? Getting our players to open up and speak their mind in front of a camera, especially when there’s translations involved. A lot of these guys suddenly became gamers with worldwide fame and get put in front of the camera and need to open up in front of thousands of viewers and don’t necessarily understand that building up an image for themselves will benefit them in the long run. What advantages do esports have over traditional sports? I don’t really think of the two as one over the other. But if there’s one thing I think is unique about esports is that even though our players have become big stars, they’re still very close to the fans and the community and there’s a high level of interaction between them. In all your time broadcasting for the EU LCS, what moment stands out as your favorite? The warmth and excitement we’ve received from the fans when we took the EU show on the road definitely stands out, the Moscow, London, Tenerife and Paris shows immediately come to mind. On a more personal note, that moment I got to walk onto the stage of the Staples Center to talk to the crowd opening the season 3 World Championship finals, I still get goosebumps thinking about it. Twenty years from now, what’s your legacy in esports and League of Legends? I hope that in 20 years our show has evolved even more and what we are doing now as a production team is regarded as a base for even bigger productions and other huge sports productions get ideas from our shows and vice versa. I hope I am remembered as an objective sideline reporter and that I get to work behind the scenes helping to shape the shows of the future. Illustration via J. Longo
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Category Description: Campgrounds that advertise camping, irrespective of amenities provided. An unadvertised camp spot associated with another business or institution (restaurant, gas station, etc) A camping spot not linked to a business or institution irrespective of amenities or formal permissions. Private accomodations Accomodations for groups of people A place to purchase gasoline/petrol and/or diesel fuel A place to fill/purchase propane A mechanic or a parts store A place to purchase potable water A place where you can empty your black water tank Food stalls, restaurants A tourist attraction Locations for purchasing goods related to overlanding, specifically gear shops or quality supermarkets. Recommended doctors, dentists or other medical professionals. Veterinarians, supplies, or other services for overlander pets. Self-service or full-service laundry facilities. Customs checkpoints, immigration offices, etc. A permanent police/military or agricultural checkpoint. An embassy or consluate A place where you can purchase or renew insurance for your vehicle. Any office, port or place related to long-distance vehicle shipping, or ferry crossings with waits of 2 hours or more, or difficult processes. Locations that offer parking for overland vehicles for weeks or months at a time. Warnings about serious danger to personal health, safety or property, or road problems that cause delays or reroutes of two hours or more. Another place of interest to overlanders.
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