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Mauro Zárate announced his return to near full fitness and form with a stunning goal as Watford’s Under-23 side made it three wins out of four with a 4-2 victory over Burnley.
Playing in the number 10 role behind two strikers, Zárate had plenty of support in the stands in the shape of South American teammates Miguel Britos and Roberto Pereyra, and they were all sat right behind the goal of the game just past the half-hour mark.
Collecting a cross-field pass from Ashley Charles, Zárate cut in from the left onto his favoured right foot and bent a strike from the edge of the box past the full-length dive of Burnley keeper Aiden Stone and into the far corner.
It was a goal of the highest class and would have been duly noted by two members of Marco Silva’s backroom staff who were present to see the Argentine play for 83 minutes, his longest run-out since his knee injury.
The eyes of the coaching staff would also have been on Marvin Zeegelaar, who played for 70 minutes at left wing-back, the Dutch deadline day signing impressing in particular when he came inside with a couple of eye-catching pirouettes.
It was Zárate's strike, however, that caused jaws to drop, an effort that drew Watford level after Khius Metz had scrambled Burnley ahead after 12 minutes. The Hornets then got their noses in front and stayed there with two goals inside a minute just before half-time.
Jerome Sinclair, who played up top alongside Michael Folivi, was brought down for a penalty and got up to dispatch the spot-kick himself. The Burnley keeper guessed right but Sinclair’s effort had too much pace and power.
Sinclair then created the second with the type of high pressing Silva loves from his front-men. His speed and commitment caught keeper Stone on the hop, leading to a chance for Folivi which he rammed in after jinking inside a couple of desperate challenges.
Watford were on the back-foot for most of the second-half and had to absorb plenty of pressure, particularly from corners. They stood firm for the most part until Harry Flowers headed in from a free-kick with 15 to go.
At 3-2, a grandstand finish was on the cards and the Golden Boys had to show plenty of character to withstand everything the Clarets could throw at them, only gaining that vital breathing space with the last kick of the game when Dion Pereira latched on to a through pass from fellow substitute David Sesay to rifle the fourth into the far corner.
The wild celebrations at the game-clinching goal spoke volumes for just how hard the young Watford side had to work for the three Professional Development League points and said a lot about the spirit in the group.
HORNETS | Gartside (GK); Mukena, Rowan, Mason; Eleftheriou (C), Charles, Stewart, Zeegalaar (Sesay, 70); Zárate (Pereira, 83); Sinclair, Folivi (Bradbury, 83).
Subs not used | Lacy (GK), Williams.
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The BMP-3 is a Soviet and Russian infantry fighting vehicle, successor to the BMP-1 and BMP-2. The abbreviation BMP stands for Boevaya Mashina Pehoty (Боевая Машина Пехоты, literally "Infantry Combat Vehicle").[3][4][5]
Production history [ edit ]
The design of the BMP-3 or Obyekt 688M can be traced back to the Obyekt 685 light tank prototype with an 2A48-1 100 mm gun from 1975.[6] The prototype did not enter series production, but the chassis, with a new engine, was used for the next-generation infantry combat vehicle Obyekt 688[7] from A. Blagonravov's design bureau. The Ob. 688's original weapon configuration consisting of an externally mounted Shipunov 2A42 30 mm autocannon, a 7.62mm PKT machine gun and twin Konkurs ATGM launcher was rejected; instead the new 2K23 armament system was selected. The resulting BMP-3 was developed in the early 1980s and entered service with the Soviet Army officially in 1987. It was shown for the first time in public during the 1990 Victory Day parade and was given the NATO code IFV M1990/1.[8]
The BMP-3 is designed and produced by the Kurganmashzavod ("Kurgan Machine Building Plant") some variants however are built by the Rubtsovsk Machine Building Plant (RMZ), for example the BRM-3K.[9]
In May 2015, the Russian Defense Ministry signed a three-year contract to receive "hundreds" of BMP-3 vehicles to maintain its armored vehicle force until its replacement, the Kurganets-25, completes research and development. In the process of the BMP's serial production, the vehicle's design underwent 1,500 amendments.[10]
In the Army-2017 show, the Russian Defence Ministry signed a contract covering the first deliveries of an unspecified number of BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) fitted with the Bumerang-BM turret.[11]
Operational history [ edit ]
First Chechen War [ edit ]
The BMP-3 saw action with the Russian forces during the First Chechen War.
Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen [ edit ]
The BMP-3 also saw military use with Emirati forces during the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen, where it is currently deployed.[12]
Design [ edit ]
Weaponry and optics [ edit ]
The BMP-3 is one of the most heavily armed infantry combat vehicles in service, original version of BMP-3 has a turret fitted with a low-velocity 2A70 100 mm rifled gun, which can fire conventional shells or 9M117 Bastion ATGMs (AT-10 Stabber). 40 100mm-rounds and 8 ATGMs are carried. A 2A72 30 mm dual feed autocannon with 500 (300 HEI and 200 APT) rounds and a rate of fire of 350 to 400 RPM, and a 7.62mm PKT machine gun with 2,000 rounds, all mounted coaxially in the turret. The main gun elevates from −5° to +60°.[13] There are also two 7.62mm PKT bow machine guns, again with 2,000 rounds each. The BMP-3 is capable of engaging targets out to 5,000–6,000 meters with its ATGM weapon system 9K116-3 "Basnya". With conventional ammunition, such as the HE-Frag shell 3OF32, the 2A70 gun has a range of 4,000 meters.
BMP-3 of the UAE with "Namut" thermal sight
According to the manufacturer's web-site, all weapons can be fired from the halt, on the move, and afloat with the same effectiveness. The ability to hit targets on the move with missiles was successfully demonstrated during competitive evaluations in the UAE in 1991.[14]
The turret is fitted with the 2K23 system, which consists of an autoloader with 22 rounds (the remaining 18 rounds are stored in the hull), a 1V539 ballistic computer, a cross-wind sensor, a 2E52-2 stabilising system, a 1D16-3 laser range finder, a 1K13-2 gunner's sight/guidance device, a PPB-1 gunner's sight and an OU-5-1 IR searchlight. Optional autoloader for ATGM missiles is also available. The commander has a combined optical sight 1PZ-10, a day/night vision device TKN-3MB and an IR searchlight OU-3GA2.[6] Since 2005, the BMP-3 can be fitted with a new fire control system from the "Peleng" Joint Stock Company from Belarus. This consists of a SOZH-M gunner's main sight with an integrated laser range-finder and missile-guidance channel, a Vesna-K targeting system with thermal imaging camera and automatic target tracker AST-B, an armament stabilisation system, a ballistic computer with data input sensors and a PL-1 IR laser projector.[15][16][17] Since 2017, the BMP-3 is fitted with a new fire control system from the "Vologda Optical-Mechanical Plant" from Russia. This consists of a Sodema two-plane stabilized gunner's main sight with an integrated laser range-finder and missile-guidance channel plus a SOZH-M thermal imaging camera.[18]
Standard equipment includes five firing ports with associated vision blocks, an R-173 tranceiver, an R-173P receiver, a GO-27 radiation and chemical agent detector, an FVU filtration system, an automatic fire extinguisher and six 902V "Tucha-2" 81 mm smoke grenade launchers.
BMP-3M is equipped with Bakhcha-U turret, which has similar weapons to the original BMP-3 turret but with a new dual-channel FLIR gunner's sight, commander's panoramic thermal imaging device, vertical-storage conveyor, new autoloader, and a new sighting system. It also has a stronger armor on the turret, and two-axis stabilisation.[8][4]
The turret of the BMP-3 has been fitted to the Patria Armoured Modular Vehicle.[19][20][21]
In August 2017, a BMP-3M was presented with a new ATGM remote weapon station fitted on the standard turret carrying two 9M120 Ataka (AT-9 Spiral-2) missiles.[22]
In June 2018, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that BMP-3s would be fitted with the AU-220M combat module equipped with a 57 mm cannon. The module can carry 80 rounds and fire 80 rounds per minute including high-explosive, fragmentation, armor-piercing and guided munitions with a maximum range of 14.5 km (9.0 mi).[23][24]
Mobility [ edit ]
The vehicle has an unconventional layout. The engine is in the back of the vehicle to the right (unlike most other IFVs, which have the engine located forward in the hull). As a result, the driver is seated forward in the hull (in the center) together with two infantrymen (one on each side of the driver). The vehicle has a double bottom and the engine is located under the floor of the vehicle (troops enter/leave the vehicle over the engine).[25] The remaining five infantrymen are seated aft of the two-man turret.[6]
Early models were powered by a 450 hp engine UTD-29, but most BMP-3s are now equipped with the 500 hp UTD-29M version. The engine was developed at the Transmash Diesel Engine Plant in Barnaul.[6] The BMP-3 has a range of 600 km, an altitude of operation of up to 3,000 m and it is transportable by train, truck, sea, and air. The BMP-3 engine is a diesel four-stroke, liquid-cooled design. The transmission is a four-speed hydromechanical power unit, with power takeoff to its water jets. The suspension is independent, with a torsion bar and six hydraulic shock absorbers. Steering is by gear differential with hydrostatic drive. The track adjusting mechanism is remotely controlled from the driver's station, with tension force indication. The water-jet propulsion unit is single-stage, axial, auger-type.[26]
Countermeasures [ edit ]
The hull and turret are made of a high-strength aluminum alloy, with the front of the hull being provided with an extra steel plate welded over it plus spaced armor from the trim vane. The turret is also provided with a thick steel spaced armour shield over its frontal arc. Over the frontal arc, the vehicle is protected against 30 mm gun rounds at a range of 200 m.[27] In addition to "hard" protection, the BMP-3's self-sealing fuel tank is located in front of the driver, directly behind the front armour plating. It is specially constructed to act as armour, effective against shaped charge warheads as well as any auto-cannon shells that managed to go through the front armour.
The BMP-3 can create a smoke screen by injecting fuel into the exhaust manifolds.[28][29] A chemical agent detector, an FVU filtration system, an automatic fire extinguisher and six 902V "Tucha-2" 81 mm smoke grenade launchers are standard.
At least two distinct sets of explosive reactive armour kit are currently available, giving the BMP-3 protection from less advanced rocket propelled grenades. One of them is the Kaktus ERA kit, which has a unique design that creates minimal acoustic and kinetic backlash to the armour behind it upon detonation, thus ensuring that the occupants will not be harmed by shockwaves from the ERA block. The ERA blocks will completely disintegrate after detonation. According to Kurganmashzavod, the BMP-3 may also be fitted with additional side armor tiles, which can resist .50 caliber armour-piercing ammunition perpendicularly at close ranges. They give the BMP-3 added side protection from autocannon fire as well.
The BMP-3 also has the ability to carry a Shtora-1 electro-optical jammer that disrupts semiautomatic command to line of sight (SACLOS) antitank guided missiles, laser rangefinders and target designators. Shtora is a soft-kill, or passive-countermeasure system.
Standard weight of the vehicle is 18.7 tonnes. If additional armour overlay (metal sheet of armour and Kaktus ERA) is installed, weight will reach to 22.2 tonnes. The body covered from the sides and the top. In such kit, it is protected against 12.7 mm machine gun rounds in the range of 100–200 m.[27]
Variants [ edit ]
Russian Federation [ edit ]
BMP-3 – Basic version, as described. [30]
– Basic version, as described. BMP-3M – KBP and Kurganmashzavod have upgraded the vehicle with a new engines and turret with a new ATGM system 9K116-3 Basnya. The upgraded vehicle is called the BMP-3M and the new turret includes a new automatic fire control system with ballistic computer, new SOZH gunner's sight with laser rangefinder and an ATGM guidance channel, thermal imager, TKN-AI commander's vision device with laser illuminator and new ammunition loading system for ATGM. [31] [32] The BMP-3M is also able to fire various ammunition types, including new 100 mm laser-guided projectiles, new 100 mm HE-FRAG (high explosive fragmentation) rounds and new 30 mm APDS (armour piercing discarding sabot) rounds. Its additional auxiliary armour shields are effective against 12.7 mm armour-piercing rounds from a range of 50 m. Explosive reactive armour is available as an option. The new uprated engine is the UTD-32, which is rated at 660 hp. [33] There are actually several different M models, some fitted with additional armour, "Arena-E" or "Shtora-1" active protection systems, air conditioner etc. [34]
– KBP and Kurganmashzavod have upgraded the vehicle with a new engines and turret with a new ATGM system 9K116-3 Basnya. The upgraded vehicle is called the BMP-3M and the new turret includes a new automatic fire control system with ballistic computer, new SOZH gunner's sight with laser rangefinder and an ATGM guidance channel, thermal imager, TKN-AI commander's vision device with laser illuminator and new ammunition loading system for ATGM. The BMP-3M is also able to fire various ammunition types, including new 100 mm laser-guided projectiles, new 100 mm HE-FRAG (high explosive fragmentation) rounds and new 30 mm APDS (armour piercing discarding sabot) rounds. Its additional auxiliary armour shields are effective against 12.7 mm armour-piercing rounds from a range of 50 m. Explosive reactive armour is available as an option. The new uprated engine is the UTD-32, which is rated at 660 hp. There are actually several different M models, some fitted with additional armour, "Arena-E" or "Shtora-1" active protection systems, air conditioner etc. BMP-3M Ataka – BMP-3M version with a two men turret armed with 30 mm 2A72 autocannon, and 9M120-1 Ataka ATGM. [35]
– BMP-3M version with a two men turret armed with 30 mm 2A72 autocannon, and 9M120-1 Ataka ATGM. BMMP ( bojevaya mashina morskoj pekhoti ) – Version for naval infantry, fitted with the turret of the BMP-2.
( ) – Version for naval infantry, fitted with the turret of the BMP-2. BMP-3K ( komandnyi ) – Tactical command variant, includes additional radio R-173, an intercom for seven users, an AB-R28 independent portable power unit, a navigation device TNA-4-6 and the "Ainet" air burst round detonation system. The BMP-3K lacks the bow machine guns and has its whip antennas mounted on the rear hull. Crew: 3+3. [36]
( ) – Tactical command variant, includes additional radio R-173, an intercom for seven users, an AB-R28 independent portable power unit, a navigation device TNA-4-6 and the "Ainet" air burst round detonation system. The BMP-3K lacks the bow machine guns and has its whip antennas mounted on the rear hull. Crew: 3+3. BMP-3F – Specially designed for operations at sea, with improved seaworthiness and buoyancy, capability to move afloat at sea state 3 and fire with the required accuracy at sea state 2. Compared to the basic model, the vehicle design features changes increasing floatability and vehicle stability: the self-entrenching equipment is omitted, a lightweight anti-surge vane and an air intake tube are introduced; the BMP-3F turret is also protected by anti-surge vanes. Water jet propellers develop a speed of 10 km/h when afloat. The BMP-3F design allows the vehicle to come ashore under rough sea conditions and to tow the same-type vehicle. A new main sight, the SOZH, which has an integrated laser range finder and an ATGM guidance channel, is installed. This version can endure continuous amphibious operation for seven hours with the running engine. [37]
– Specially designed for operations at sea, with improved seaworthiness and buoyancy, capability to move afloat at sea state 3 and fire with the required accuracy at sea state 2. Compared to the basic model, the vehicle design features changes increasing floatability and vehicle stability: the self-entrenching equipment is omitted, a lightweight anti-surge vane and an air intake tube are introduced; the BMP-3F turret is also protected by anti-surge vanes. Water jet propellers develop a speed of 10 km/h when afloat. The BMP-3F design allows the vehicle to come ashore under rough sea conditions and to tow the same-type vehicle. A new main sight, the SOZH, which has an integrated laser range finder and an ATGM guidance channel, is installed. This version can endure continuous amphibious operation for seven hours with the running engine. BT-3F – Amphibious version based on BMP-3F with the original turret replaced by a smaller remote weapon station with either 7.62, 12.7 or 14.5mm machine gun. It can accommodate a crew commander, driver, gunner, and 14 troops, and can use optional ERA armor. [38] [39]
– Amphibious version based on BMP-3F with the original turret replaced by a smaller remote weapon station with either 7.62, 12.7 or 14.5mm machine gun. It can accommodate a crew commander, driver, gunner, and 14 troops, and can use optional ERA armor. BRM-3K "Rys" (Ob.501) ( boyevaya razvedivatel'naya mashina ) – Surveillance and reconnaissance variant with 1PN71 thermal sight (3.7x/11x, 3 km range), 1PN61 active-pulse night vision device ( 3 km range), 1RL-133-1 ("TALL MIKE") I-band surveillance radar (3 km man, 12 km vehicle), 1V520 computer and a TNA-4-6 navigation system. The armament consists of the stabilized 30 mm autocannon 2A72 (600 rounds) and a coaxial 7.62 mm machine gun (2,000 rounds) or AU-220M Baikal remote weapon station with 57 mm BM-57 autocannon. [40] [41] Combat weight: 19 t, crew: 6. [42] In 1993 started quantity production of BRM-3K vehicles. [43] [44]
( ) – Surveillance and reconnaissance variant with 1PN71 thermal sight (3.7x/11x, 3 km range), 1PN61 active-pulse night vision device ( 3 km range), 1RL-133-1 ("TALL MIKE") I-band surveillance radar (3 km man, 12 km vehicle), 1V520 computer and a TNA-4-6 navigation system. The armament consists of the stabilized 30 mm autocannon 2A72 (600 rounds) and a coaxial 7.62 mm machine gun (2,000 rounds) or AU-220M Baikal remote weapon station with 57 mm BM-57 autocannon. Combat weight: 19 t, crew: 6. In 1993 started quantity production of BRM-3K vehicles. BMP-3 Dragoon – New IFV version with an unmanned turret which can be armed with a variety of combat modules, including standard BMP-3's Bakhcha-U turret with a 2A70 100 mm cannon, a 2A72 30 mm autocannon and a PKTM 7.62 mm machinegun, the AU-220M Baikal remote weapon station module with a 57 mm BM-57 gun and a module with a 125 mm 2A82-1M tank gun, the new 816 h.p. turbocharged UTD-32T engine and powerplant moved to the front, and a hydraulic ramp fitted to the rear. It is reported that its trials were finished in October 2017.[45][46]
BREM-L "Beglianka" of the Russian army
BREM-L "Beglianka" (Ob.691) (bronirovannaya remontno-evakuatsionnaya mashina) – Armoured recovery vehicle with five-tonne crane and 20/40 metric tonne capacity winch.[47][48][49]
9P157-2 "Khrizantema-S" – Anti-tank version with Khrizantema (AT-15) system with radar and laser guidance. The 9P157-2 carries two 9M123 missiles on launch rails, which are extended from a stowed position; the radar is also stowed during transit. The missiles are re-loaded automatically from an internal magazine with 15 rounds (missiles are stored and transported in sealed canisters) and can also accept munitions manually loaded from outside the vehicle. The manufacturer claims that three 9P157-2 tank destroyers are able to engage 14 attacking tanks and destroy at least sixty percent of the attacking force. The dual guidance system ensures protection against electronic countermeasures and operation in all climatic conditions, day or night. NBC protection is provided for the crew (gunner and driver) of each 9P157-2 in addition to full armour protection equivalent to the standard BMP-3 chassis and entrenching equipment. [50] The 9M123 missile itself is supersonic, flying at an average speed of 400 m/s (Mach 1.2) and a range of between 400 and 6,000 meters. [51] Entered service in 2005. [52] More than 10 sets of new anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) complexes "Khrizantema-S" on the crawler, which replaced the complexes "Shturm", entered the artillery units of the Southern Military District, based in Ingushetia, in November 2012. [53] Khrizantema vehicles are fielded with artillery units. [54]
– Anti-tank version with Khrizantema (AT-15) system with radar and laser guidance. The 9P157-2 carries two 9M123 missiles on launch rails, which are extended from a stowed position; the radar is also stowed during transit. The missiles are re-loaded automatically from an internal magazine with 15 rounds (missiles are stored and transported in sealed canisters) and can also accept munitions manually loaded from outside the vehicle. The manufacturer claims that three 9P157-2 tank destroyers are able to engage 14 attacking tanks and destroy at least sixty percent of the attacking force. The dual guidance system ensures protection against electronic countermeasures and operation in all climatic conditions, day or night. NBC protection is provided for the crew (gunner and driver) of each 9P157-2 in addition to full armour protection equivalent to the standard BMP-3 chassis and entrenching equipment. The 9M123 missile itself is supersonic, flying at an average speed of 400 m/s (Mach 1.2) and a range of between 400 and 6,000 meters. Entered service in 2005. More than 10 sets of new anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) complexes "Khrizantema-S" on the crawler, which replaced the complexes "Shturm", entered the artillery units of the Southern Military District, based in Ingushetia, in November 2012. Khrizantema vehicles are fielded with artillery units. 9P163M-1 "Kornet-T" – Anti-tank version with Kornet (AT-14) missile system. Some sources call it the 9P162 . The Kornet is similar in function to the Khrizantema missile system. The 9P163M-1 carries two 9M133 missiles on launch rails, which are extended from a stowed position during transit. Missiles are re-loaded automatically by the tank destroyer from an internal magazine with 16 rounds (missiles are stored and transported in sealed canisters). [55] Nuclear, biological and chemical protection is provided for the two crew members (gunner and driver) in addition to full armour protection equivalent to the standard BMP-3 chassis. The guidance system of the 9P163M-1 allows two missiles to be fired at once, the missiles operating on different guidance (laser) channels. The first Kornet-T missile carriers were delivered in 2003 to replace the Shturm-S, and the first batch of 20 vehicles entered service in 2012. The Kornet-T is used by motorized units. [56]
– Anti-tank version with Kornet (AT-14) missile system. Some sources call it the . The Kornet is similar in function to the Khrizantema missile system. The 9P163M-1 carries two 9M133 missiles on launch rails, which are extended from a stowed position during transit. Missiles are re-loaded automatically by the tank destroyer from an internal magazine with 16 rounds (missiles are stored and transported in sealed canisters). Nuclear, biological and chemical protection is provided for the two crew members (gunner and driver) in addition to full armour protection equivalent to the standard BMP-3 chassis. The guidance system of the 9P163M-1 allows two missiles to be fired at once, the missiles operating on different guidance (laser) channels. The first Kornet-T missile carriers were delivered in 2003 to replace the Shturm-S, and the first batch of 20 vehicles entered service in 2012. The Kornet-T is used by motorized units. 2S18 "Pat-S" (Ob.697) – Self-propelled version of the 152 mm howitzer 2A61 "Pat-B". This was only a prototype, further development led to the 2S31. [57]
– Self-propelled version of the 152 mm howitzer 2A61 "Pat-B". This was only a prototype, further development led to the 2S31. DZM "Vostorg-2" ( dorozhno-zemlerojnaya mashina ) – Combat engineer vehicle with a dozerblade and excavating bucket. Prototype.
( ) – Combat engineer vehicle with a dozerblade and excavating bucket. Prototype. UR-07 ( ustanovka razminirovaniya ) – Mine clearing system. The UR-07 might replace the UR-77 "Meteorit". It has the same chassis as the BMP-3 but a bigger steel hull with two launch ramps in the rear. The ramps are used to fire rockets towing hose-type mine-clearing line charges to clear mine fields. [58]
( ) – Mine clearing system. The UR-07 might replace the UR-77 "Meteorit". It has the same chassis as the BMP-3 but a bigger steel hull with two launch ramps in the rear. The ramps are used to fire rockets towing hose-type mine-clearing line charges to clear mine fields. UNSh (Ob.699) ( unifitsirovannyj shassi ) – Basic chassis for specialised variants. [59]
( ) – Basic chassis for specialised variants. KhTM ( khodovoj trenazhor ) – Driver trainer.
( ) – Driver trainer. Hermes or TKB-841 – Air-defence vehicle with high-velocity missiles and radar system. Prototype. [60]
or – Air-defence vehicle with high-velocity missiles and radar system. Prototype. 2S25 Sprut-SD – Tank destroyer with 2A75 tank gun based on BMP-3 chassis.
– Tank destroyer with 2A75 tank gun based on BMP-3 chassis. 2S25M Sprut-SDM1 – Modernized version of 2S25 Sprut-SD with 2A75M cannon and new fire-control system. [61]
– Modernized version of 2S25 Sprut-SD with 2A75M cannon and new fire-control system. 2S31 Vena – Self-propelled mortar carrier equipped with a 120 mm mortar based on BMP-3 chassis. It entered production in 1996 and service in 2010.[62][63][64]
2S38 BMP-3 Derivatsiya-PVO
Operators [ edit ]
Current operators [ edit ]
A row of Emirati BMP-3 armoured vehicles during a parade
Potential operators [ edit ]
Saudi Arabia – Application for 950. [82]
Saudi Arabia – Application for 950. Philippines – The Philippine Marine Corps is also interested for the BMP-3F.[104]
Failed bids [ edit ]
See also [ edit ]
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Why India is Apple’s new love iPhone sales in India grew 56 per cent last year -- at a time when the company saw it's first-ever sales decline globally, in over a decade. Little wonder then that Apple CEO Tim Cook has his eyes set on the country.
Apple patents hybrid wired/wireless headphones Technology giant Apple has filed a new patent application for a wireless hybrid headphone system.
The Indian government has reportedly rejected smartphone giant Apple 's request to sell refurbished iPhones in India. According to a report in Bloomberg, "The US company's application has been turned down." The report quotes telecommunications ministry officials.Apple had sought permission from the government to import pre-owned iPhones for sale in India. In a written reply to Rajya Sabha telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said, "An application from Apple regarding import of certified pre-owned iPhones for sale in India and manufacturing certified pre-owned iPhones for sale in India has been received in the ministry of environment and forests."The decision is said to have involved several ministries as well as the Prime Minister's Office. Earlier this month, the Department of Electronics and Information Technology had told the environment ministry and the director general of Foreign Trade that it does not support the import of second-hand consumer products as they contribute to electronic waste being dumped in India.A previous application by Apple was also rejected by the environment ministry on grounds that this would add to the local e-waste burden as the phones would be close to end of life. Android smartphone makers in the country too are said to be putting pressure on the government to reject Apple's application. According to them Apple's plan to sell 'used iPhones' in India will negate government's Make in India programme.Mobile and Communications Council of India had written a directly to the government opposing Apple's application. The group's members include the largest phone brands In India like Micromax, Intex and Samsung.Sudhir Hasija, chairman of Karbonn Mobiles , had said, " Make in India could turn into Dump in India."Recently, Apple has also sent an application for approval to the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) for setting up retail outlets in India.For this, a government panel has recommended exempting the iPhone and iPad maker from mandatory local sourcing norms. This would pave the way for the company to open single-bits brand retail stores in the country.As per the foreign direct investment (FDI) norms, the government may relax the mandatory local sourcing norms for entities undertaking single-brand retailing of products having state-of-the-art and cutting edge technology and where local sourcing is not possible.
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Named after famed race car driver of the 1930s, Louis Chiron, and already being termed as the hypercar of the century, the all-new Bugatti Chiron is already stirring up quite a storm with reports of having the most amazing and out-of-this-world engine and model stats. This marks the end of the reign of Bugatti Veyron – one of the greatest sports cars the world has ever seen.
With a W-shape, 16-cylinder quad-turbo engine which will produce a whopping 1,100KW of power and 1500Nm of torque, the Bugatti Chiron is expected to go from 0-62 mph (0 to 100 km/h) in just 2 seconds, with a horsepower ranging near to 1,500 and a top speed of 288 mph (463.4 km/h), making it 20 mph faster than the Veyron Super Sport. This, apart from making the Bugatti Chiron the fastest car in existence, also represents the technical ambition of the former Chairman of the VW Board, Ferdinand Piech. Ferdinand was the man responsible for giving the Bugatti Veyron the go-ahead.
The Chiron is also expected to include cylinder deactivation, electronically actuated turbochargers (for non-existent turbo-lag), a combined 16.8L/100km consumption cycle and a speedometer that goes all the way up to 500 km/h. It is expected to make its first appearance at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show.
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Sustainable Development Minister Cathy Cox was quick to point out the year isn't over, meaning the province has until the end of the fiscal year in March to ramp up its public awareness spending.
The news comes after the government boasted to the Free Press in July its zebra mussel program was a "four-fold increase over what was budgeted in 2015 by the NDP, when $168,000 was set aside to address zebra mussels." Actually, the former Selinger government spent $450,000 in 2015/16 on the program, and a spokesman for the government confirmed almost $100,000 of that went to advertising.
A freedom of information request filed by the Free Press revealed the only dollars spent on advertising since the election has been a $38,000 radio ad campaign and $1,000 in print ads. As part of its $700,000 budget for the zebra mussel-fighting program, $130,000 was supposed to be allocated for public awareness.
The Pallister government missed the boat in its information war against zebra mussels by leaving more than $90,000 of its advertising unspent during the height of the boating season, the Free Press has learned.
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The Pallister government missed the boat in its information war against zebra mussels by leaving more than $90,000 of its advertising unspent during the height of the boating season, the Free Press has learned.
A freedom of information request filed by the Free Press revealed the only dollars spent on advertising since the election has been a $38,000 radio ad campaign and $1,000 in print ads. As part of its $700,000 budget for the zebra mussel-fighting program, $130,000 was supposed to be allocated for public awareness.
MANITOBA CONSERVATION AND WATER STEWARDSHIP A thick coating of Zebra mussels on a sampler (trap) removed from Gimli Harbour last year.
The news comes after the government boasted to the Free Press in July its zebra mussel program was a "four-fold increase over what was budgeted in 2015 by the NDP, when $168,000 was set aside to address zebra mussels." Actually, the former Selinger government spent $450,000 in 2015/16 on the program, and a spokesman for the government confirmed almost $100,000 of that went to advertising.
Sustainable Development Minister Cathy Cox was quick to point out the year isn't over, meaning the province has until the end of the fiscal year in March to ramp up its public awareness spending.
"Obviously there is a period of time next year that we will be able to spend, but we are results focused. So we are looking at increasing communications in different ways," Cox said Wednesday.
She boasted that literature is being handed out to people when they come into provincial parks and social media have been used heavily to spread the word.
"I think we've done a really good job with the social media. The younger generation doesn't read a lot of print. And I have tweeted on my own site the importance of 'Clean, drain, dry and dispose,'" Cox said, quoting the message being sent to boaters to prevent their spread. "Perhaps there are other options we can look at."
The invasive species was first reported in Lake Winnipeg in 2013. It was later found in the Red River in June 2015 and in Cedar Lake the following October.
Earlier this month, the Free Press reported an invasion of the molluscs at Island Beach — a cottage development just north of Beaconia Beach. Residents in the area reported thousands were washing up on the shoreline. Zebra mussels are a barnacle-like shellfish that are usually smaller than an 2.5 centimetres in length.
Cox admits they were late starting their prevention program, which only began in early July when five decontamination units were placed at key points in Lake Winnipeg and Red River. It was a delay she attributed to her government being sworn in in May following its victory in the April 19 provincial election.
"We are going to be out there very early, full tilt (next year). We are going to make sure we are out there when the boats get on the water and people are fishing," Cox said.
Biologist Eva Pip from the University of Winnipeg said the war on zebra mussels has already been lost in Manitoba and decontamination efforts are futile. She said the government's efforts should focus on education and awareness.
Pip said she was shocked when she visited Lake Winnipeg last month for research and found many people using the lake had no idea what a zebra mussel was or looked like.
"We have to be in the schools, we have to have a lot of community advertising, newspapers, more TV exposure, social media," she said. "Even those mobile washing stations, they get only a small fracture. So if we have the public themselves doing the policing, then you multiply the effectiveness of your program. We are beyond the stage where we should be spending the money on eradicating them locally because that is fruitless."
Not controlling the spread of zebra mussels into other lakes could cost the province billions, Pip said. The mussels can damage hydro infrastructure, hurt property values and interfere with communities that have drinking water around the Lake Winnipeg basin.
"It is a huge domino effect," she said.
The provincial government was unable to provide a breakdown of what has been spent so far of the $700,000 budgeted to combat zebra mussels.
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A breakdown given in July explained the lion’s share of the money, about $500,000, was budgeted for decontamination units, while the remaining funds were for public awareness ($130,000), monitoring and research ($30,000) and enforcement ($25,000).
A three-page email from government spokesman Kalen Qually noted launch signs have been distributed throughout the regions of the province, staff have been distributing information, 500 posters were given to vendors who sell fishing and other licences, and six print ads were placed, along with public presentations.
Rob Altemeyer, the NDP critic for sustainable development, laughed at the idea the government would do any public awareness campaigns this late in the season. He defended his government's $100,000 spent on advertising, arguing it was money well spent.
"I don't know how many Manitobans you'd have to survey to find out there isn't a lot of boating happening once winter comes," said the MLA for Wolseley. "The experts I talked to agree that public education is the best tool now that the zebra mussels are here. We have to prevent them from reaching any additional watersheds."
Altemeyer's government famously spent $500,000 in 2014 on a failed plan to use potash to sterilize four key harbours — Gimli Harbour, Boundary Creek Marina/Winnipeg Beach Harbour and Balsam Bay Harbour. After the potash mission was initially declared a success, zebra mussels were rediscovered and have since spread.
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WASHINGTON — Despite all the threats Israel sees surrounding it, for the delegates assembled Sunday in the packed Washington Convention Center housing the 2013 AIPAC Policy Conference, Iran’s attempt to procure a nuclear weapon still loomed largest.
At the conference, which takes place just weeks before President Barack Obama sets off to Israel for the first foreign trip of his second term, there seemed to be an unspoken understanding that 2013 will be a decisive year for Israel’s security, with dangers lurking north, south and east.
At the opening plenary session of the conference, two leading former US foreign policy officials spoke of their mutual, desired outcome for the Iranian nuclear standoff — prevention — yet offered two distinct views on how to reach it.
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Ambassador Dennis Ross, a former Mideast envoy in the Clinton Administration and previously Obama’s top adviser on Iran in the National Security Council, advocated a P5+1 negotiation strategy aimed at a final offer to Iran on uranium enrichment. “It’s time to go to an endgame,” Ross said Sunday morning. The weakness inherent in a step-by-step negotiation strategy, Ross argued, is that “Iranians have been playing the rope-a-dope strategy.”
Rather, offering an endgame proposal that would be theoretically satisfactory to both Iran and the West allows the P5+1 to call the Iranians on their bluff, Ross argued. “If you’re denying an excuse [for refusing an agreement], and the Iranians don’t respond, then maybe the position of the P5+1 has to be […] alright, we are beginning to lose patience.”
Ross’s counterpart, Elliott Abrams, was decidedly less optimistic about the prospect of recent negotiations yielding a positive outcome. “I worry about what I see in the papers,” said Abrams, a former deputy national security adviser to George W. Bush. “It appears to me we are negotiating with ourselves. We see no concessions with Iran.”
While sanctions have effectively sent the Iranians’ economy spiraling, Abrams maintained that “the goal of sanctions is to prevent them from getting closer to a nuclear weapons capability, and we are failing to do that.”
The questions over the Iranian nuclear threat come at a time in United States political discourse when policymakers face complex political and ideological fights over the future of Washington’s foreign policy.
While pro-Israel advocates have welcomed Obama’s consistent reiterations that he would prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, many vociferously criticized the president for nominating Chuck Hagel, a foreign policy “realist” who has previously advocated against war with Iran, for secretary of defense.
Additionally, while leading policymakers in Washington believe that an Iran with a nuclear weapon would present a national security threat to the United States, a growing number of dissenting, isolationist-leaning members of Congress (both Republican and Democrat) have argued that America’s economic condition poses a greater threat to national security than does any outside danger. A war with Iran, these members reason, would not only be wrong-headed, but it would waste billions of dollars and divert American attention from focusing on the recovery at home.
With these contradictory factors pushing and pulling at each other on Capitol Hill, can anyone conclude with full confidence that 2013 will be a decisive year with Iran?
Many leading voices on the issue, including both Ross and Abrams themselves, have previously stated that 2013 will indeed find either the US or Israel attacking Iran military, should diplomacy fail. Other Middle East experts, however, are not so sure.
“The notion that they are somehow inexorably drawing towards military action is wrongheaded,” said Aaron David Miller, a former adviser on Middle East issues to six secretaries of state between 1988 and 2003, in an interview. “This will be the year of no decision.”
This is due to three key factors, Miller argues: Israel’s awareness of the risks of a strike, Iran’s own determination to avoid a military strike, and Obama’s wariness of potential complications arising from war with Iran.
Miller argued: “Even though I suspect Obama is prepared to act because he does not want to be the first US president to preside over Iran crossing the nuclear threshold, that decision will be a long one.” When combined with Israel’s reticence and Iran’s “Tom and Jerry game” on negotiations, “These three self-reinforcing realities [… ] will combine to make much of 2013 a year of indecision when it comes to the question of peace or war.”
Taken together, the question of whether the moment of truth with Iran is near, and if it can be avoided, may remain open for now. Still, for the thousands of delegates who showed up at Capitol Hill’s doorstep for this year’s Policy Conference — Democrats, Republicans, and Independents alike — the end goal was, as always, unanimous: prevention is the only option.
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All it took was two words. Two simple words from Dick Cheney -- two words we're used to seeing in a completely different context -- settled a question I had been ambivalent about since Barack Obama was elected president last month. The question was, "Should Democrats go after Bush administration officials for the extra-legal activity of the last eight years?" Thanks to Cheney, I think that the Justice Department should investigate the criminal activities of, at the very least, the soon-to-be (but not soon enough) ex-vice president relating to the U.S. practice of torturing prisoners.
What were the two words? "I do." ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl interviewed Cheney on Monday and, at one point, asked him:
"[O]ne of those tactics, of course, widely reported was waterboarding. And that seems to be a tactic we no longer use. Even that you think was appropriate?"
To which Cheney replied: "I do."
Earlier in the interview, Karl asked Cheney,
"Did you authorize the tactics that were used against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?"
and Cheney replied:
"I was aware of the program, certainly, and involved in helping get the process cleared, as the agency in effect came in and wanted to know what they could and couldn't do. And they talked to me, as well as others, to explain what they wanted to do. And I supported it."
(Keith Olbermann pointed out on Countdown last night that Cheney lied when he made that statement, since he and Bush first authorized the tactics used against Mohammed, and then the CIA came back looking for confirmation of the legality of the practices. Olbermann cited the bipartisan senate report on the abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib on this point.)
In other words, the sitting vice president of the United States of America went on national television and admitted to millions of viewers that he was a war criminal.
Think I'm exaggerating? I'm not. Waterboarding has been established in international law as a form of torture that is unlawful. After World War II, American prosecutors cited waterboarding as a war crime committed by Japanese officers. They used different names, like the "water cure" and "water torture," but the practice was essentially the same.
Cheney denies that the U.S. tortured prisoners during the Bush years, but his denial is weak, since he is admitting to putting into place practices that have nearly universally been considered to be torture.
Let's be clear what we are talking about here: As Evan Wallach, a judge in the U.S. Court of International Trade who teaches the law of war at Brooklyn Law School and New York Law School, and a former JAG officer, wrote in the Washington Post in November 2007:
"The media usually characterize the practice as "simulated drowning." That's incorrect. To be effective, waterboarding is usually real drowning that simulates death."
In another article by Wallach, he describes the practice in more detail, using testimony by American military personnel who experienced waterboarding. It is chilling to read, so disturbing that I have chosen not to reproduce the passages here. If you want to read it for yourself, click on the link and do so. Let's just say that the practice is more than just unpleasant; it results in the victim experiencing actual drowning.
As angry as I was (and continue to be) about the blatant disregard for the constitution and the rule of law showed by Bush and his administration, I was always hesitant over whether going after them would do more harm than good. When the Democrats won control of Congress in November 2006, there were calls by many on the left for the party to bring impeachment charges against Bush, Cheney and others. Rep. Dennis Kucinich did, in fact, introduce impeachment resolutions against Bush and Cheney, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did not allow the resolutions to move forward in the chamber.
After living through the ridiculous and baseless impeachment charges brought by the Republicans against Bill Clinton, I am leery of Congress using the impeachment hammer inappropriately. I also felt like such action would turn the truly abhorrent actions of the Bush administration into a political circus, having the effect of giving Bush and his cronies cover for their shocking behavior. "See, the Democrats are trying to score political points." And since, with 49 Republicans in the senate, it was highly unlikely any convictions would be secured, impeachment attempts would have handed Bush and the others exonerations, making it look like they had not committed any wrongful acts.
So I opposed bringing impeachment charges against anyone in the Bush administration. But the idea of Obama's Justice Department examining possible criminal charges against them raised different issues. In 2009, when Obama takes over, the country will be facing an array of difficult problems, including the worst economic downturn since World War II and wars in two countries, not to mention potentially explosvie situations in Asia from the Middle East to Pakistan. Remember, all it takes is 41 Republican senators to filibuster and kill any legislation. Addressing these problems will require Obama to gain at least some support from the Republicans. The question becomes: Do we want the new administration fighting the battles of the last president or working full-time on the problems facing the country today? Related to that, do the Democrats want to drive the Republicans into defense mode, leading to obstruction, or is it time to try and forge a more civil relationship so that Obama can get his programs through Congress?
But at the same time, I was troubled at the precedent that would be set by allowing government officials to flout the law and not be held responsible for their illegal actions. The message should be sent at all times that nobody is above the law. Say what you want about corruption in Illinois, but no shortage of the state's recent governors have found themselves behind bars (or, possibly, in Rod Blagojevich's case, on his way). Something seemed wrong -- and weak -- to me about letting Bush spend eight years taking actions that struck at the heart of American democracy, and then not holding his administration responsible for its actions. What kind of message would that send?
I was torn. And then Dick Cheney uttered those two simple words: "I do." And the scales tipped. Here's the thing: If members of the Bush administration would have at least acted like they might have done something wrong, a truth-and-reconciliation-type Congressional commission like the one currently under consideration could have found out what happened, and we could have learned our lesson and moved on. At least maybe. But if Cheney is going to go on national television and endorse torture, I feel like he has tied the hands of the country. How can we change our image, both to the rest of the world and to our own citizens, if we allow a sitting vice president to confess to supporting a policy of torture and do nothing about it?
No, Cheney has tipped the scale. I would hope that he has now forced the hand of Obama's choice for Attorney General, Eric Holder (yes, it will be Holder, the GOP whines about Marc Rich and Elian Gonzalez are acts of pathetic grandstanding that should go nowhere). I think Holder now has to investigate, in some fashion, allegations of criminal activity by members of the Bush administration, at the very least relating to torture. And he should do so, even if Bush pardons some or all of the actors involved.
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Kenya run up a record score against Zimbabwe to reach an all-time high in the World Rugby Rankings on a weekend when Africa’s RWC 2019 qualification process kicked off with a convincing win for Morocco.
Kenya produced a superb second-half performance to overpower Zimbabwe 61-15 in Harare and begin their Africa Cup Division 1A campaign in fine style.
Leading 24-15 at half-time, the Simbas piled on 37 unanswered points after the break to register their biggest ever win over Zimbabwe and their first in Harare for six years.
With 1.35 rating points awarded to Kenya, the Simbas move up two places - above Belgium and Germany - to 24th in the World Rugby Rankings. They are now just over two tenths behind Spain.
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The Simbas were rampant against Zimbabwe and got the scoring underway as early as the fourth minute when Tony Onyango dotted down and Darwin Mukidza added the conversion.
Two minutes later, Zimbabwe clawed three points back through the boot of Lenience Tambwera but David Ambunya stretched the Simbas’ lead out to 12-3, touching down after incessant pressure and slick handling from the Kenyan backs.
Once again Zimbabwe responded, through Boyd Rouse, but further converted tries from Ambunya and Dennis Muhanji put the Simbas in a commanding position at 24-10.
Zimbabwe crossed for an unconverted try just before the interval but they were unable to sustain their challenge in the second half as Kenya cruised to their biggest away win since registering an 80-9 victory over Botswana in August 2003.
Mukidza extended the Simbas’ lead with a penalty after the restart and when Tony Owuor scored for Kenya, there was seemingly no way back for the hosts who trailed 32-15 at this point.
Muhanji bagged his brace before converted tries from second-half replacement Dan Sikuta and scrum-half Edwin Achayo moved the Simbas past the half-century mark.
Further tries from Sikuta and Max Adaka rounded off the result, Kenya's first win in the Zimbabwean capital since a 23-18 triumph over the Sables in July 2010.
“We were out for the win, the team smelt victory and got it in the end after a great all round team performance,” said assistant coach Dominique Habimana.
This weekend Kenya will take on Namibia in Windhoek. Namibia kicked off their campaign on 2 July with a 40-31 win over Uganda.
Zimbabwe fall two places in the rankings to 33rd as a result of their loss, with Switzerland and Moldova the beneficiaries.
BIG WIN FOR MOROCCO
The road to Japan got underway for African nations on Sunday as the RWC 2019 qualifiers began at the COC Stadium in Casablanca, Morocco.
And it was Morocco who took the early initiative in the Africa Cup Division 1C round-robin competition with a convincing 68-3 win over Mauritius. The result did not affect either side's ranking due to the 30-place difference between Morocco, in 56th, and Mauritius in 86th.
Nigeria provide the next opposition for Mauritius, at the same venue on Wednesday, before the Division 1C action concludes with Saturday’s decisive game between Morocco and Nigeria.
Following the tournament, the winner will be promoted to Division 1B in 2017 and continue to challenge as part of the RWC 2019 qualifiers.
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SEATTLE -- In 2012, the co-owner of Club El Reventon in Georgetown sold his share of the club to his partner for only $1 weeks before the club was declared a chronic public nuisance for ongoing brawls, gang conflicts and sexual assaults and then sued by its landlord for nearly $19,000 in unpaid rent, taxes and utilities, according to the Seattle Police Department.
That same co-owner moved on to own and manage Citrus in South Lake Union, which was just itself declared a chronic public nuisance for ongoing brawls and shootings and a lack of cooperation with police.
Now, Daniel Yarbrough is attempting to take over ownership of the University District's Fusion Ultra Lounge, where he has also spent time as a manager, a tenure the Seattle Police Department states has been plagued with the same problems as Club El Reventon and Citrus before it.
In response, the Seattle Police Department has sent two letters to the Washington State Liquor Control Board asking the Board not to grant a new liquor license to Yarbrough.
"Yarbrough's current management of Fusion and tumultuous history in nightclub ownership raises significant concerns for the City of Seattle," Assistant Chief Michael Sanford writes in a March 4 letter. "As such, the City of Seattle does not believe that Yarbrough is fit to possess, hold, control o manage a liquor license."
According to police, officers have been called to Fusion, located at Northeast 45th Street and Eighth Avenue Northeast more than 30 times in the past year for events ranging from traffic-stopping, 50-person brawls, to shooting, to security staff pulling a gun on a drunk patron.
In a Feb. 28 letter to the Liquor Control Board, Community Police Team Officer Loren Street writes things at Fusion are so bad two officers usually spend most of the Friday and Saturday night shift outside the club. And, backup officers are still often called to deal with unruly crowds, Street writes.
Sanford agrees in his letter to the Board.
"Due to its high call volume and potential for danger, Seattle Police has mandated that four officers and a sergeant monitor Fusion every Friday and Saturday night," he writes. "Additionally, all patrol officers have been instructed to supplement police efforts at closing time. Despite this, issues at the club persist."
In addition to being a drain on police resources, one of the biggest concerns laid out in the letters from Sanford and Street is the seeming lack of desire from Yarbrough and his staff to work with police and the community to fix the problems.
According to Sanford's letter, before being granted a liquor license for Club El Reventon Yarbrough told the Liquor Control Board his goal was to provide a safe, controllable business and would be open to input from the community. Less than a year later, the club was declared a chronic public nuisance.
Street tells the Board he has established a good report with owners and staff at businesses throughout the University District during his time with the Community Police Team. The exception is Yarbrough and Fusion Ultra Lounge.
In his letter, Street writes Fusion's owners, manager and staff all have a clear disinterest in forming a relationship with police despite meetings and frequent 911 calls.
"This attitude, coupled with an increase in violence and lack of cooperation with police, has made Fusion a dangerous venue," Street writes.
Sanford points to two incidents to illustrate that point.
According to his letter, instead of waiting to speak with police following a report of shots fired outside the club, Fusion staff closed up and left before officers could talk to them. In addition, security staff was unable to provide details to police following a 30-person brawl inside the club, Sanford writes in his letter.
In his application for a new liquor license, Yarbrough plans to change Fusion's name to Library Sports Grill. Despite the name change, police believe it will continue on as a night club.
"There is little proof that Library Sports Grill will be different from Fusion in anyway but name," Sanford writes to the Board.
Street closes his letter stating his belief that if Yarbrough is allowed to take over ownership of Fusion, the situation at the club will only worsen.
The Liquor Control Board is currently reviewing the city's objections to Yarbrough's application.
Regardless, it's possible Fusion Ultra Lounge could soon join Citrus and Club El Reventon in Yarbrough's history of chronic public nuisances, according to police.
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I just watched, for the first time in over 20 years, the third season blooper reel from Star Trek The Next Generation. It’s going to be included on the Blu-Ray disc, and I get to see it before it’s released to offer any notes or concerns that will be politely ignored.
It’s very, very funny. By the third season, we were all a very close-knit family on the set, and when we messed up, we laughed about it and reset the scene.
Well, everyone, that is, but me. In this reel, when I screw up, I get angry at myself. I try to laugh, but it’s clear that I am frustrated beyond belief. I say, “I am so sorry,” but without any of the 10th Doctor’s charm. My frustration and embarrassment is palpable.
When I watched this just now, I viscerally remembered being that awkward 15 and then 16 year-old kid, with the awful helmet hair, the uncomfortable grey spacesuit with the embarrassing muscle suit underneath it, and almost crippling desire to be the kind of cool I was never going to be. I remembered how, when I was on the bridge spouting nothing but technobabble (which was a large percentage of what Wesley got to do in Season 3, so much so that it lead to my asking to be written off the show), it was so hard to remember because it didn’t mean anything, and that was frustrating on a number of levels. I wanted to be an actor. I wanted to perform a character, and most of what I remember doing that season was plotting courses and saying “Aye, sir.” In the blissful, arrogant ignorance of being a teenager, it never occurred to me that there were eight regular cast members, and everyone except the Holy Trinity of Picard, Riker and Data had their turn spouting technobabble and saying “Aye, sir.” I was the only one who was too young and foolish to understand. I was the only one who was too young and foolish to attempt to understand.
Wesley (and I) did get to do some really great things in Season 3: The Bonding is fantastic and Ron Moore wrote a couple of magnificent scenes for Wesley in that episode, Evolution was pretty awesome (and I got to work a lot with Whoopi, which was as totally cool as you’d expect it to be, and got real character growth from writer Michael Piller), and Yesterday’s Enterprise remains one of my favourite episodes of all time. But, like youth being wasted on the young, most of what made that season awesome was wasted on me.
Season 3 and part of Season 4 are really tough for me to watch, because I regret being such a tool back then. I wish I could go back in time and tell that kid to relax and enjoy what was a pretty awesome job, but I know that he wouldn’t listen to me any more than he’d have listened to anyone else. He was a confused, weird, awkward nerd trying so hard to be an adult, and failing spectacularly.
I wish I could go back in time and have a talk with that kid, but I learned something important from Star Trek when Picard told Riker: “There are many parts of my youth that I’m not proud of… there were loose threads… untidy parts of me that I would like to remove. But when I pulled on one of those threads… it had unraveled the tapestry of my life.”
I will continue to simultaneously feel ashamed of myself, embarrassed by myself, but compassionate towards myself. That kid was doing the best that he could, and I’ll keep trying to accept that. Maybe one day, I’ll even make peace with it.
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Selling To The Fortune 500, Government, And Other Lovecraftian Horrors Hiya guys! Patrick (patio11) here. You asked to get emails from me about making and selling software. Last time we talked about SaaS pricing, focusing on people paying in the tens to hundreds of dollars range. Today, we're going to talk about bigger fish. A lot of folks have asked me about selling software to Big Freaking Enterprises. Big Freaking Enterprises are utterly price insensitive at price points you are contemplating (all amounts below $500 a month sound like rounding error), and having a few BFE clients grants you social proof to help sell other BFEs and smaller customers, as well. Nobody ever got fired for picking IBM, but if nobody at IBM got fired for picking you, then you must be good enough for Dr. Smith's office, right? I was under a common engineer misapprehension that BFE sales requires playing golf, inviting clients to steak dinners, and having budgets beyond to reach of small businesses. This is not 100% true: you can hack the BFE procurement process to your advantage. Let's dig into how. Understanding The B2B Purchasing Cycle So You Can Exploit It Most folks reading this have seen one-half of the B2B purchasing cycle at their day jobs: they fill out a form or ask a manager for X (a copy of MSOffice, a new computer, etc), and six weeks later X arrives. You may have wondered whether the intervening six weeks required dark rituals of eldritch power. Nope, but don't tell Purchasing, as they treasure their reputations. Here's the typical workflow for a big business buying something "fairly small," i.e. below six figures. Feel free to skip this section if you're aware of it already -- there's meatier stuff below. 1. A User Needs Something. An internal user (i.e. low-ranking peon) discovers they need something. They ask for it. 2. Purchasing Agent Looks For Solutions Either that user or a person in the Purchasing Department identifies something to fit the need. They'll usually do this the exact way normal customers would: by Googling, sometimes assisted by an internal list of Vendors We've Worked With Before And Not Had To Sue To Get Delivery. 3. Purchasing Agent Sends Out Questions The person in charge of the purchase will ask a few businesses whether their product fits the needs identified on their paperwork (again, quite possibly written by a different person). This stage will often literally involve a spreadsheet with identified requirements listed on it. (Note how that matches up very well with those obnoxious checkbox charts you've seen on your competitors' websites? That is right, they know how this game is played.) Expect the overwhelming majority of these questions to be stupidly obvious and answered on the website, which the Purchasing Agent has not perused in its entirety because it is much easier to have you fill in the spreadsheet than to do it themselves. 4. Purchasing Agent Requests Quotes Businesses which replied with a spreadsheet containing almost all checks are asked for a formal quote. These are simply written attestations that Product X is available at price Y, with no shenanigans going on. (There are plenty of shenanigans going on, but this forces disclosure of the most obvious shenanigans, or at least the Purchasing Department thinks so.) In most cases for small purchases (again, less than six figures), the Purchasing Agent will only bother asking for one quote. 5. Purchasing Department Generates a Purchase Order (PO) The Purchasing Department will then create a Purchase Order (PO), which is a paper document saying "We accept your quote for Product X at Price Y, and request delivery, with payment to be made after delivery according to the following terms and conditions which we'll probably violate anyhow." 6a. Business Delivers The Product You know this part, right? You deliver your product to the internal user named on the documents, who may be shocked to receive it after only six short weeks. Their Purchasing Agent may not have told them the status of their request. 6b. (Approximately Contemporaneously) Business Invoices Accounts Payable You send an invoice (a formal demand for payment) to the Accounts Payable department at the business, which may or may not be the same as the Purchasing Department, depending on the peculiarities of your customer's org chart. 7. Accounts Payable Pays The Business Accounts Payable will then pay the business in the manner specified on the invoice. No, actually, they will ignore your instructions (especially about payment timeframes), and send a check to an address picked randomly from the set of them printed on the invoice. (Make sure you give them one easy, obvious option for where to send the checks, and that that mailbox is monitored for discrete envelopes containing paper worth potentially tens of thousands of dollars. You can get a check reissued but it will be extra pain and take another several weeks.) The Easiest Hack Around The Purchasing Process All internal users hate the purchasing process because it inhibits their ability to get work done. Successful Enterprise sales is about finding an internal champion who really wants your product like they want oxygen, and then allying with that person against their own employer. One of the easiest ways to do this is allowing them to exercise any loophole their Purchasing Department provides. Because the whole rigamarole costs several hundred dollars in employee salary to approve any PO, most internal Purchasing Departments have a few enumerated exceptions. One is an upper limit on expenses a worker or low-level manager can approve on their own authority without ceremony, generally by putting them on a corporate credit card. This limit is customarily $500 or $1,000. The greatest hack the software industry came up with in the last twenty years is monthly billing, because it lets you sell a four-figure product for $499 a month, evading the internal purchasing controls which hamper your users from getting their work done. This is why substantially every SaaS business should have a plan priced between $250 and $499 a month, because corporate employees will expense it on the card. It is not their money so it doesn't matter whether it is $99, $250, or $4999 a month, as all those figures are literally rounding error to this customer, which is why they don't bother controlling for purchases that small. Accordingly, you should price to the high end of that range. Some businesses do not have a corporate card available and will request to pay by PO all of the time. Your policy should be we are happy to take POs if you pre-pay for a year (optionally with a minimum plan level specified), which gets you out of the business of chasing two-figure POs every month, something which you urgently do not want. Your customer will be pleased with this, because they hate the work *they* have to do to get POs approved, Dealing With The "You're Not Big Enough" Objection You may be dealing with a larger transaction than the $500 exemption or with a more conservative business than the typical megacorp. (For example, hospitals and school systems are often very strict. Hospitals actually have money, so it is worth putting up with their layers of protective horsepuckey to get at it. As someone who sold to teachers for six years let me strongly suggest pounding your own hand with a hammer prior to selling to school districts. It is less painful and approximately as lucrative.) One obstacle to making these sales at Stage 2/Stage 3 is that customers really want to see social proof, because they have the get-fired-if-this-doesn't-work-out worry. A typical phrase you will hear from customers at this point is "We don't want to be your biggest client." There are a variety of ways you can smooth over this objection, which I have stolen flagrantly from my friend Jason Cohen at WPEngine. The best way is to contrast the level of service you can offer with that the competition can offer. You will always win this comparison if you phrase it correctly, regardless of whether e.g. the competition offers phone support and you do not. The magic words are "I appreciate that you'd feel safer going with Brand Name X, and Brand Name X will indeed have someone around to answer your phone call at 2 AM. Unfortunately, they won't be able to do anything for you. Their only job is getting you off the phone before you can speak to someone capable of resolving your problem, because those people cost money. And you know what happens if you call at 2 PM? You get the same guy." "On the other hand, when you send us an email, you may have to wait a few hours, but you'll get your response from me, every single time, and I will do my best to fix your problem. I built this product from the ground up and I am fanatical about taking care of you because you'd be my biggest customer, and if I don't take care of you, the business is over." This is part of the magic founder advantage, by the way. Customers hate speaking to salespeople: they're pushy and poorly informed. Customers love talking to founders: they're transparently passionate about the product and always, always have an answer at their fingertips or know how to get one. You can press your founder advantage such that even "We'd love to do that but for X, Y, and Z it isn't feasible right now" sounds like a better response than "Oh, sure, we do that like we do everything. So how much can I put you down for?" will from your competition. Bootstrapping Social Proof For Targeting Enterprises I built Appointment Reminder as a one-man band (prior to selling it). A particularly nationally renowned hospital included Appointment Reminder in the list of twelve companies it sent out spreadsheets to about a project it needed appointment reminders for. (Why'd they include AR? Because I rank #1 on Google for Appointment Reminder, and "If you're good enough for Google..." Seriously, direct quote.) The particular project this hospital was engaging on did not have a six figure budget. (It is NDAed, but let's call it a $10k sale. It isn't, but it could be.) As a result, the sales teams for my competitors (smelling a non-motivational commission) perfunctorily sent back their standard data sheets and didn't persue the sale aggressively. $10k is not a hugely motivational amount of money for me (believe me, I never, ever thought I'd be saying that) but I really, really wanted this hospital as an anchor client for Appointment Reminder. I wanted to be able to use their logo on my website and use that social proof as a wedge into the (large and extraordinarily lucrative) healthcare market. So I crazily overdelivered on the questions and concerns the user at the hospital had. You can crush arbitrarily large/sophisticated competition on small deals that are uneconomical for them to pursue with the goal of expanding into the core of the business. Clayton Christensen calls this "disruptive innovation." I personally like to think of the old line about how to eat an elephant: in small bites, starting at its vulnerable underbelly. Twelve companies, with my competitors ranging from 10-man boutique consultancies to Fortune 500 companies, were asked whether their products would work for the hospital's needs. They sent perfunctory emails with just the generic attached data sheet. I sent 2,000 word emails with paragraphs starting with "*Multi-user account isolation: yes*" and continuing with 200 words explaining exactly why that mattered for the particular hospital. (Copywriting tip #1: if you're ever talking to someone, use their name and their employer's name. Use it just a little more than you would think would be natural. Straight out of How To Win Friends and Influence People, still works as good as ever.) All of my emails suggested CCing to the internal team. The hospital wanted a follow-up phone call with Appointment Reminder and the main competitor that survived the feature-grid comparison. If you're familiar with my market you can probably guess who they are, but suffice it to say they have 8 figures of sales a year and conservatively 100 man years in their software for every one I have in mine. I should lose on any comparison with them every single time. Their sales rep answered the questions on the call perfunctorily and superficially, and then went back to his more important leads. When the hospital asked for the phone call with me, I remembered the name of the nurse doing the purchasing (we'll call her Jill), and thanked her for the email back-and-forth, then introduced myself as (again) "in charge of the product." She asked questions. I told her, every time, "I can go as deep into detail as this as you require, but I think XXXXX is about what your hospital cares about. Would you like to hear more?" When she got to questions which were actually hard, I said "I don't have a good answer for you right this minute, but I will follow-up with you over email with the specifics." Immediately after the phone call, I sent her an email (again, requesting a CC to the internal team) covering every question asked on the call, with a callout on the top that paragraphs 3, 7, and 9 were the ones I had promised to follow-up on. Amusingly, in the phone call, Jill asked "I have to ask, is this product your baby? I mean, are you the only one there?" I said "Well, short answer: yes." I then cribbed liberally from Jason and said "It's a one-man company and, while I might have employees in the future, at present I don't. I wrote the product myself, answer all the questions myself, and do all the support myself. And, like you can imagine, I take very good care of my baby." The hospital had an internal meeting with ten attendees to decide which product to go forward with. Every person other than Jill understood the meeting as "Deciding between Appointment Reminder and whatever that other company is", because their inboxes had had two emails with extensive commentary from Patrick at Appointment Reminder and a PDF filed forwarded from "some guy" which every doctor had promised to read some day when there were no lives to be saved. The lead doctor wanted to go with the 8,000 lb gorilla. Jill relayed the baby story, with a strong personal recommendation. And that's how I outcompeted my biggest competitor and won an enterprise sale as a single guy running his business from Japan. If you're curious as to who the hospital is, keep an eye on the Appointment Reminder home page, as in only a few more short months I should be able to mention them publicly. I won't lie to you: doing Enterprise sales is long, hard work. I've probably invested 25 hours into pushing paperwork on this one over six months, and there have been another dozen stories which started like this one and then ended at the select-down prior to the in-depth phone calls. But hey, sale made and beachhead established in an extraordinarily lucrative market segment with huge barriers to entry. Interestingly, after you have a beachhead, broadening it is a hundred times easier. In addition to the next "But you're so small" objection being answerable with "I'm good enough for $NAMEDROP_LIKE_A_PRO but if you're still concerned...", it turns out that the hospital was using the service with several partner hospitals, all of some reputation. I essentially picked up eight customer logos for the "price" of one. Customers Sometimes Want To Opt-In To Enterprise Pricing. Let Them. Your pipeline is to high-touch sales as your funnel is to low-touch sales via your website. That's how I've always seen at it, coming from a low-touch background. Sales guys see it as something like "You become aware that a hundred prospective customers exist. You winnow your list down to 20 of them who are qualified leads, the ones with the best prospect of purchasing your product. You call them and get meaningful interaction with 10 decisionmakers. You get three product demos. One of them converts into a sale, and you get a commission check." You will eventually want to get past the point where all sales comes from one of the founders doing a time-intensive song and dance yourself. This desire eventually results in the dreaded Defined, Repeatable Sales Process. You can hack your way around needing to have one of those (and/or a sales team), though. These strategies also transition perfectly well to doing Enterprise sales "for real." Your self-service low-touch software/SaaS product, for example, can serve as a source of extraordinarily qualified sales leads for a higher level of offering. For example, a big company happily using the $250 a month plan could, quite possibly, be happy to upgrade to a $5,000 a month contract if you offered them the right incentive. (Twenty times as much, you ask? No, transitioning from "pocket lint" to pennies. Stop thinking like a human. Think like a corporation. Corporations are like humans whose smallest increment of currency is the largest paycheck you've ever received.) How would you segment folks who need a higher offering? In many cases, they'll self-segment by asking you questions, such as "Does the software have auditing capabilities? There are three easy answers to this question: No, it doesn't. Sorry.
No, it doesn't, but we can build that for you.
Yes, it does. We just have to do the X and the Y and the Z and, bam, auditing. Smack yourself if you ever say any one of these answers. Auditing is one of several Enterprise pricing trigger words. (See also: "compliance", "administrator", "permissions", "firewall", "multi-lingual", "contract", "SLA", etc), If you sincerely care about auditing, you have more money than God. Accordingly, the right answer is some variation of "We make auditing available to our Enterprise customers. When would you like to have a call about your needs?" You then close that sale at an unpublished enterprise price point, which will probably be thousands of dollars a month. This is important: Enterprise pricing is discontinuous with normal pricing. If the $250 a month plan entitles you to 500 foozles and an Enterprise needs 5,000 foozles, that costs thousands or tens thousands of dollars per month. If an Enterprise only needs 500 foozles, that costs thousands or tens of thousands of dollars per month. If an Enterprise only needs 50 foozles, that costs thousands or tens of thousands of dollars per month. This is partially justified by the amount of pain you're signing up for by doing an Enterprise sales process, but is mostly just pure, naked price discrimination. Enterprises are not price conscious*. Don't attempt to sell them based on your price. (* For prices customarily contemplated by software companies.) I meet a lot of developers who learn about pricing primarily through reading other people's SaaS pricing pages. Like we discussed in the email on SaaS pricing, even if the pricing page doesn't explicitly say it, there is *probably* an option to pay an arbitrarily high amount for any SaaS you have ever heard of. I know of companies who have policies against doing this sort of thing (37signals famously does, for example) but there are many successful SaaS companies who have a magic lever available to make your experience of them totally disconnected from their standard offering. The existence of that lever is not often disclosed. Here's an example I know won't rub anyone wrong: Github has Enterprise pricing available, and the magic segmenting feature is "behind your firewall." Did you know you can trivially pay five or six figures a year for a Github account? Quick, guess, where does Github make more money: all of their $7 a month personal accounts put together or their largest single Enterprise customer? I know which one I'm betting on. Scaling Your Sales Pipeline Up Sometimes customers won't come out and tell you "Hey, I'm price insensitive, please charge me 20 times as much." They can often demonstrate it through behavior, though. For example, let's say you hypothetically wanted to get people to talk to you about their auditing requirements. You could put Call Us copy on your pricing page. Many of your customers (because they know how the game is played) will correctly read that to mean "We have Enterprise service available and it is, as you would expect, expensive." Where else can you collect that lead, without requring ongoing involvement from the founding team? Have you considered asking for it in your application? For example, just drop a setting in the Account Settings menu. "Auditing: turn on". If someone clicks it, display a message saying "Your plan level doesn't include auditing but we'll be in touch. Click here if you don't want to hear from us." If they don't click that link, fire yourself an email saying "Bob Smith ([email protected]) was interested in: Auditing." Then follow up with Bob personally. You just turned 5 minutes of engineer time into the start of a repeatable pipeline for getting six-figure deals. Good on you. (If you're discomfit by that idea, you can write microcopy which you'll be more comfortable with, like "Auditing: click here to schedule a phone call about Auditing with our sales team." But that's extra work and, believe me, you care more about the difference than your customers do. This is not their first rodeo -- as an Enterprise, they have institutional experience of dealing with Enterprise sales thousands of times.) Another method: send your customers a sequence of emails, often called "drip marketing", with a mixture beginning with straight-up education as to how to use the software to solve their problems. Gradually, you can transition the emails from less education and more selling on the benefits available of transitioning to your Enterprise model. (If you want to be really sophisticated, send this only to folks whose accounts suggest possible enterprise-ness about them. Myself, I'd be inclined to suggest e.g. "A one-month email course on getting the most out of X" to everyone at signup, making sure the typical customer would enjoy the first few emails, and then giving everyone a one-click opt-out if the Enterprise sales material doesn't ring their bell.) You can pitch the benefits of your Enterprise services, such as e.g. dedicated support staff or a Service Level Agreement or what have you. Your happy internal customer might recognize the benfits of upgrading to these or (the same for your purposes) be required to take advantage of them by internal rules, and accordingly those emails might spark fruitful conversations with your sales teams. Not sure what I mean by "internal rules"? Consider a Pricing Department which, having been burned on a software purchase before, has a bullet-point "All software purchases must include one year of maintenance with a minimum service level guarantee of tier two support being available within 6 hours." You know what that means from your perspective? "This Purchasing Department will reject any PO for the $250 a month plan and require that our customer upgrade to the $5,000 a month plan, if it is communicated to us that the $250 plan does not come with an SLA." This strongly adding the following line-item to quotes: "Support: Email support on a best-effort basis. No SLA purchased; available separately. price: (included)" That line will virtually never torpedo a purchase, but will sometimes result in 20x-ing the purchase price. Still another method: You've got a dashboard with everyone who signed up in the last day on it, right? (RIGHT?) If someone with an email address ending with e.g. boeing.com signs up, make sure they get a hand-written letter from the founder or project manager offering to talk about their concerns. (I see no particular reason why you can't give everyone who signs up the same letter, but I'd devote more of my concentration to making sure a conversation actually happened if a customer was from boeing.com versus a generic gmail address.) Anyone Can Do Enterprise Sales One of the most common objections I hear from folks thinking about moving upmarket into the enterprise is that they're not cut out to be Sales Guys. Guys, believe me, I used to play World of Warcraft and still often stare at my own shoes while talking. Nobody is less qualified to be a Sales Guy than me. It is a skill, though, like any other. Try it. Fail a few times. You'll get better at it, eventually. I had maybe a 5% hit rate when I started out doing sales on Appointment Reminder, if that. It is 20% now, which (when you multiply by the formidable budgets of companies in the space) works out to be quite a bit of money. As my father always counselled me with regards to dating advice: "Don't come up with reasons for them being out of your league. Make them come up with them. Someday, someone -- perhaps someone surprising -- will say Yes." (n.b. Equally good advice in the original context.) Until next time. Regards, Patrick McKenzie P.S. I always appreciate getting email from you about what you'd like to hear about next.
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ilvl 77 off a white mob in a shrine
Jewelers: 82
Fuse Used: 133
Chromatics Used: 262
Since this chest has no requirements, I decided to aim for 3 pairs of 2 colors in each row.
The Trinity:
ilvl 77 off a white mob in a shrineJewelers: 82Fuse Used: 133Chromatics Used: 262Since this chest has no requirements, I decided to aim for 3 pairs of 2 colors in each row.The Trinity: IGN: CopyCatDan
WTB trophy items Last edited by danieldirt on Oct 15, 2013, 1:57:05 AM Posted by danieldirt
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GOOD LUCK.
GORLAK SMASH WORDS!!
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The Greatest Plate Vest Of All Time! http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/293910
So store. so item. http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/136100 Posted by enshin
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there is no god. IGN: Arlianth
Check out my LA build: 1782214 Posted by Nephalim
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only keysus
black keysus. GORLAK SMASH WORDS!!
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The Greatest Plate Vest Of All Time! http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/293910
So store. so item. http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/136100 Posted by enshin
on Alpha Member on Quote this Post
" Kirielis been done
idc, this is going into my trophy case idc, this is going into my trophy case IGN: CopyCatDan
WTB trophy items Posted by danieldirt
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That's awesome Dan ... wish I had enough fusings to pull off a project like this :) BLAMT! Posted by Zelpo
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 9:00AM
This is an email interview with Viktor Klang, Director of Engineering at Typesafe, on the Scala Futures model & Akka, both topics on which is he is immensely passionate and knowledgeable.
How do you structure your application? That’s the question I explored in the article Beyond Threads And Callbacks. An option I did not talk about, mostly because of my own ignorance, is a powerful stack you may not be all that familiar with: Scala and Akka.
To remedy my oversight is our acting tour guide, Typesafe’s Viktor Klang, long time Scala hacker and Java enterprise systems architect. Viktor was very patient in answering my questions and was enthusiastic about sharing his knowledge. He’s a guy who definitely knows what he is talking about.
I’ve implemented several Actor systems along with the messaging infrastructure, threading, async IO, service orchestration, failover, etc, so I’m innately skeptical about frameworks that remove control from the programmer at the cost of latency.
So at the end of the interview am I ready to drink the koolaid? Not quite, but I’ll have a cup of coffee with the idea.
I came to think of Scala + Akka as a kind of a IaaS for your process architecture. Toss in Play for the web framework and you have a slick stack, with far more out of the box power than Go, Node, or plaino jaino Java.
The build or buy decision is surprisingly similar to every other infrastructure decision you make. Should you use a cloud or build your own? It’s the same sort of calculation you need to go through when deciding on your process architecture. While at the extremes you lose functionality and flexibility, but since they’ve already thought of most everything you would need to think about, with examples, and support, you gain a tremendous amount too. Traditionally, however, processes architecture has been entirely ad-hoc. That may be changing.
Now, let’s start the interview with Viktor...
HS: What is an Actor?
So let’s start from the very beginning! An Actor in the Actor Model is comprised by 3 distinct pieces:
A behavior
An address
A mailbox
The Address is the thing you send messages to, they are then put into the Mailbox and the Behavior is applied to the messages in the mailbox—one at a time. Since only one message is processed at a time, you can view an Actor as an island of consistency, connected to other actors via their Addresses and by sending and receiving messages from them.
There are 3 core operations that an Actor needs to support in order for it to qualify as an Actor.
CREATE—an Actor has to be able to create new Actors SEND—an Actor needs to be able to send messages to Actors BECOME—an Actor needs to be able to change its behavior for the next message
Since what you send messages to is an Address, there is an indirection which allows the Mailbox and Behavior to live essentially anywhere, as long as the message can get routed there. This is also referred to as Location Transparency.
HS: How does Akka implement the Actor model?
Like the Actor model but requests are served by a designated pool configured on a per-actor basis. This allows for fine-grained control over execution provisioning and a means of bulkheading parts of your application from other parts of the application. Akka also allows to configure the mailbox implementation on a per-actor basis, which means that some actors might need a bounded one, some might want a priority-based one, some might want a deduplicating one, or fine-tuning things like overflow protection with head-dropping vs. tail-dropping etc.
Comparing with Threads, Akka Actors are extremely light-weight, clocking in at around 500b per instance, allowing for running many millions of actors on a commodity machine. Like Erlang Processes, Akka Actors are location transparent which means that it is possible to scale out to multiple machines without changing the way the code is written.
Akka Actors do not block on a thread when not having anything to process, which allows for high throughput at low latency as wake-up lag for threads can be avoided. It is also possible to configure the number of messages to process before handing back the thread to the pool, it is also possible to specify a time slice which will allow for the actor to keep processing new messages as long as it hasn’t run out of its time slice before handing back the thread to the pool.
This allows to tune for fairness or for throughput. Akka Actors will not be preempted when a higher-priority message arrives, but it is possible to have multiple actors sharing the same mailbox, which can mitigate this if required.
Inspired by Process Linking from Erlang, Akka Actors form a strict hierarchy, where actors created by an actor from a child-parent relationship where the parent is responsible for handling the failure of the children by issuing directives on how to deal with the different types of failure that can occur, or choose to escalate the problem to its parent. This has the benefit of creating the same kind of self-healing capabilities exhibited by Erlang. It is also possible for an Akka Actor to observe when another Actor will not be available anymore, and handle that accordingly.
HS: Can you give an example of how Process Linking works in practice?
Actor A receives message B, which entails a potentially risky operation C (could be contacting an external server or do a computation that might blow up) instead of doing that work itself, it may spawn a new actor and let that actor do this risky operation. If that operation fails, then the exception is propagated to A (being the "parent") who can decide to restart the failed actor to retry, or perhaps log that it failed. No matter if it fails or not, A has not been at risk, as the dangerous operation was delegated and managed. In the case of a more serious error that A cannot manage, A would escalate that error to its parent who might then act upon it instead.
HS: Can you go into some more detail about bulkheading, why is it important and how it's accomplished in Akka?
The Bulkhead Stability Pattern is from EIP by Nygard. It's about gaining stability by compartmentalization, just like bulkheads for a boat.
Bulkheading of Threads in Akka is accomplished by assigning different thread pools to different segments of your actor hierarchy, which means that if one thread pool is overloaded by either high load, DoS attempt or a logic error creating an infinite loop for instance, other parts of the application can proceed since their Threads cannot be "infected" by the failing thread pool.
HS: Tail-dropping?
When it comes to dealing with asynchronous message passing systems one needs to decide what contention management policies one should use. Back-pressure is one policy, dropping messages is another, and if you decide to drop messages, which ones do you drop. Usually this is something that needs to be decided on a "per service" basis, either you drop the oldest (the one at the front of the queue, i.e. front-dropping) or the newest (tail-dropping). Sometimes one wants to have a priority queue so that the important messages end up at the front of the queue.
HS: What about these abilities helps programmers develop better/faster/robuster systems?
In any system, when load grows to surpass the processing capability, one must decide how to deal with the situation. With configurable mailbox implementations you as the developer can decide how to deal with this problem on a case-by-case basis, exploiting business knowledge and constraints to make sure that performance and scalability is not compromised to get the robustness (which is more than likely the case for a one-size-fits-all solution like backpressure).
HS: How does the location transparency work?
Each Akka Actor is identified by an ActorRef which is similar to Erlang PIDs, a level of indirection between the instance of the Actor and the senders. So senders only ever interact with ActorRefs which allows the underlying Actor instance to live anywhere (in the world potentially).
HS: Is there latency involved in schedule an Akka thread to execute?
When an Actor doesn't have any messages it is not scheduled for execution, and when it gets a message it will attempt to schedule itself with the thread pool if it hasn't already done so. The latency is completely up to the implementation of the Thread Pool used, and this is also configurable and extensible/user replaceable. By default Akka uses a state-of-the-art implementation of a thread pool without any single point of contention.
HS: Given you can configure the number of messages to process before handing back the thread to the pool, that makes it a sort of run to completion model and the CPU time isn't bounded?
Exactly.
HS: Can it be interrupted?
No, but as soon as one message is done, it will check if it still has time left, and if so it will pick the next message.
HS: Can you ensure some sort of fair scheduling so some work items can make some progress?
That is up to the ThreadPool implementation and the OS Scheduler, fortunately the user can affect both.
HS: When multiple Actors share the same mailbox, if some actor has the CPU, it won't give up the CPU for the higher priority message to be executed? How does this work on multiple CPUs?
If you have 10 Actors sharing a single priority mailbox and a thread pool of 10 Threads,
there is more opportunity for an actor to be done to pick up the high-priority work than if it's a single actor that is currently processing a slow and low priority message. So it's not a watertight solution, but it improves the processing of high-prio messages under that circumstance.
By placing requirements on priority of messages increases lock contention and sacrifices throughput for latency.
HS: How do Actors know where to start in a distributed fabric?
That is done by configuration so that one can change the production infrastructure without having to rebuild the application, or run the same application on multiple, different infrastructures without building customized distributions.
HS: How do Actors know how to replicate and handle failover?
Also in configuration.
HS: How do you name Actors?
When you create an Akka Actor you specify its name, and the address of the actor is a URI of its place in the hierarchy.
Example: "akka.tcp://[email protected]:port/user/yourActorsParentsName/yourActorsName"
HS: How do you find Actors?
There are a couple of different ways depending on the use-case/situation, either you get the ActorRef (every Akka Actor is referred to by its ActorRef, this is equivalent to Address in the Actor Model) injected via the constructor of the Actor, or you get it in a message or as the sender of a message. If you need to do look ups of Actors there are 2 different ways, 1 is to create an ActorSelection, which can be described as query of the hierarchy, to which you can send messages and all actors matching the query will get it. Or you can use "actorFor" which lets you look up a specific actor using its full URI.
HS: How do you know what an Actor can do?
You don't. Well, unless you define such a protocol, which is trivial.
HS: Why is indirection an important capability?
The indirection is important because it clearly separates the location of the behavior from the location of the sender. An indirection that can even be rebound at runtime, migrating actors from one physical node to another without impacting the Address itself.
HS: How does you not have contention on you thread pools?
Every Thread in that pool has its own task-queue, and there is no shared queue. Tasks are randomly distributed to the work-queues and when a Thread doesn't have any tasks it will randomly work steal from other Threads. Having no single point of contention allows for much greater scalability.
HS: Could you please give a brief intro into Scala and why it's so wonderful?
Sure!
I come from a C them C++ then Java background and discovered Scala back in 2007.
For me Scala is about focusing on the business-end of the programming and removing repetition & "ritual" code.
Scala is a unifier of object orientation and functional programming, as well as it is trying to minimize specialized constructs in the language and instead giving powerful & flexible constructs for library authors to ad functionality with.
I personally enjoy that Scala is expression oriented rather than statement oriented, which simplifies code by avoiding a lot of mutable state which tend to easy turn into an Italian pasta dish.
A statement doesn't "return"/"produce" a result (you could say that it returns void), but instead it "side-effects" by writing to memory locations that it knows about, whereas an expression is a piece of code that "returns"/"produces" a value.
So all in all Scala lets me write less code, with less moving parts making it cheaper to maintain and a joy to write. A great combination in my book!
And not to forget that it allows me to use all good Java libraries out there, and even be consumed by Java (Akka can be used by both Scala and Java as an example).
HS: How do Scala futures fit into the scheme of things?
Alright. So I was a co-author of the SIP-14 proposal that was included in Scala 2.10. So the following explanations and discussions will center around that.
A Future is a read-handle for a single value that may be available at some point in time. Once the value is available it cannot and will not be changed.
A Promise is a write-handle for a single value that should be set at some point in time. Once the value is available it cannot and will not be changed.
The value of a Future/Promise may either be a result or an exception.
(You can get the corresponding Future from a Promise (by calling the future()-method on Promise) but not vice versa)
The strength of this model is that it allows you to program as if you already have the result, and the logic is applied when the result is available, effectively creating a data-flow style of programming, a model which easily can take advantage of concurrent evaluation.
When you program with Futures you need to have an ExecutionContext which will be responsible for executing the logic asychronously, for all intents and purposes this is equivalent to a thread pool.
As an example in Scala:
import scala.concurrent.{ Future, ExecutionContext }
import ExecutionContext.Implicits.global // imports into scope the global default execution context
// lets first define a method that adds two Future[Int]s
// This method uses a Scala for-expression, but it is only sugar for:
// f1.flatMap(left => f2.map(right => left + right))
// it asynchronously and non-blockingly adds the result of future1 to the result of future2
def add(f1: Future[Int], f2: Future[Int]): Future[Int] = for(result1 <- f1; result2 <- f2) yield result1 + result2
// Then lets define a method that produces random integers
def randomInteger() = 4 // Determined by fair dice roll
val future1 = Future(randomInteger()) //Internally creates a Promise[Int] and returns its Future[Int] immediately and calls "randomInteger()" asynchronously and completes the promise with the result which is then accessible from its Future.
val future2 = Future(randomInteger()) // same as above
val future3 = add(future1, future2)
None of the code above is blocking any thread, and the code is declarative and doesn't prescribe _how_ the code will be executed. The ExecutionContext can be switched without changing any of the logic.
So what happens if the value is exceptional?
val future3 = add(Future(throw new BadThingsHappenedException), Future(randomInteger()))
Then the exceptional completion of future1 will be propagated to future3.
So lets say we know a way to recover from BadThingsHappenedExceptions, let's use the recover method:
val future1a = Future(throw new BadThingsHappenedException)
val future1b = future1a recover { case e: BadThingsHappenedException => randomInteger() }
val future2 = Future(randomInteger())
val future3 = add(future1b, future2)
So here we first create future1a, which will be completed exceptionally with a BadThingsHappenedException,
then we call the "recover" method on future1a, and provide a (partial) function literal that can convert BadThingsHappenedExceptions to an Int by calling our amazing randomInteger() method, the result of "recover" is a new future, which we call future1b.
So here we can observe that futures are only completed once, and the way to transform the results or exceptions of a future is to create a new Future which will hold the result of the transformation.
So from a less contrived example standpoint, we can do things like:
val future1 = Future(callSomeWebService) recover { case _: ConnectException => callSomeBackupWebService() }
val future2 = Future(callSomeOtherWebService) recover { case _: ConnectException => callSomeOtherBackupWebService() }
val future3 = for(firstResult <- future1; secondResult <- future2) yield combineResults(firstResult, secondResult)
future3 map { result => convertToHttpResponse(result) }
recover { case _ => HttpResponse(400) } // underscore means "anything"
foreach { response => sendResponseToClient(response) }
So what we do here is that we asynchronously call a couple of web services, and if any of them fail with a ConnectException we try to call some backup webservice, then we combine the results of those web-service responses into some intermediate result, then we convert that result into some HttpResponse, if there has been any exceptional things happened this far, we'll recover to a HttpResponse which will have a 400-status and as the very last step we send our HttpResponse to some client that requested it.
So in our code we never wait for anything, what we do is to declare what we want to happen when/if we have a result, and there is a clear flow of data.
HS: Is a Future a scalar or can it have structure (arrays, maps, stucts, etc)?
It is a single memory slot that can only be written once. So what you write to it should be a value (i.e. immutable) but can be a struct, a Map or what have you.
HS: How do you implement more interesting state machines where results from one state are used in another? I think that's what I have a problem with a lot of times. I would prefer to go to clear error state where errors handled, for example. In the linkedin example they parallelize three separate calls and have a bit of error handling code somewhere that doesn't seem to know where the error came from or why, which makes crafting specific error response difficult.
I understand what you mean, but I view it differently. With Futures you deal with the failure where you can, just as you deal with exceptions in Java where you can. This may or may not be in the method that produces the exception, or in the caller, or in the callers caller or otherwise.
You could view Futures (with exceptional results) as an on-heap version of exception handling (in contrast to plain ex
Exception handling which is on stack, meaning that any thread can choose to deal with the exception and not only the thread that causes it).
HS: A lot of the never wait for anything seems normal to me in C++. Send a message. All IO is async. Replies comes back. Gets dropped into the right actor queue.
I hear you! A lot of the good things we learned from C/C++ still applies, i.e. async IO is more resource efficient than blocking IO etc.
HS: The actor state machine makes sense of what to do. Thread contexts are correct. In your example there's no shared state, which is the simplest situation, but when shared state is involved it's not so clean, especially when many of these are bits of code are execution simultaneously.
Of course, but it depends on what one means by shared state. Something that I find useful is "what would I do if the actors were people and they'd be in different locations?"
Sharing state (immutable values) via message-passing is perfectly natural and in reality mimics how we as humans share knowledge (we don't flip each others neurons directly :) )
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The Trust for Governors Island (The Trust) has announced its 2014 public season. Visitors to Governors Island will enjoy 30 new acres of extraordinary park that open for the first time. Additionally this season, visitors will enjoy more arts, cultural, recreational and educational programs than ever before. Governors Island opens to the public on Saturday, May 24 and will be open every day through September 28.
“We want every New Yorker to feel like they are personally invited to enjoy the 2014 season on Governors Island,” said Leslie Koch, President of The Trust for Governors Island. “Governors Island is the shared place for art and play for the entire City.”
The new 30 acres of park that will open for the first time on May 24 is designed by acclaimed landscape architecture firm West 8. The new park includes Liggett Terrace, a sunny, six-acre plaza with seasonal plantings, seating, and public art; Hammock Grove, a sunny ten-acre space that is home to more than 1,500 new trees, play areas and 50 red hammocks; and the Play Lawn, 14 acres for play and relaxation that includes two natural turf ball fields sized for adult softball and Little League baseball. The new park also features site-specific art by artists Mark Handforth and Susan Philipsz. These pieces are a part of Art Commissions GI, the Island’s public art commissioning program.
Visitors to the Island will see the next phase of park, the Hills, under construction. Made of recycled fill materials, the Hills will rise 25 to 80 feet above the Island, and the summit of the tallest Hill will provide visitors with a 360-degree panoramic view of the Harbor. The Hills will be complete in 2015.
In addition to the new park, the entire Historic District will be open to the public, as will much of the promenade around the Island. The promenade will be open from just south of the new ball fields through the Historic District over to Yankee Pier. The promenade will be closed on the eastern side of the Island south of Yankee Pier to just south of the ball fields due to ongoing construction.
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It’s really hard being a customer these days. If there isn't enough for me, there must be a problem. If things don’t go exactly to plan or mistakes happen, well that just won’t do. What about ME?!?! Apologies? That's not good enough.
Lost Abbey made some mistakes. You can read about the whole story here along with what I believe is a sincere apology. Mistakes were made, people were inconvenienced, and time was wasted. In the Instagram comments you’ll find a variety of sad tales and angry threatening messages.
What I find the most fascinating about this whole ordeal is the reaction people are having. What if you got shitty service at a restaurant? Would you keep going back the next day and trying again? At a certain point you have to ask yourself “what the fuck is wrong with me?” How many of these people screaming their heads off about how unfair it is will be back next year? Every single one of them without question.
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A $1.5 billion plan to create an all-season tourist destination at Hemlock Resort in the Fraser Valley has been approved by the B.C. government.
The resort, north of Chilliwack, was bought in 2006 by the Langley-based Berezan Group, and the new five-phase plan is based on a collaboration between the developer, the province and the local Sts'ailes Band.
The plan will see the resort's footprint increase from 350 hectares to 6000, and will see an additional 20,000 bed units and 23 lifts added over 60 years.
The plan also includes waterfront development on Harrison Lake, to include a marina and a First Nations-themed village.
Phase 1 will cost $500 million and an estimated 1,153 full-time jobs will be created.
Berezan Group and the Sts'ailes Band will implement a forestry licensing plan that will maintain resource management of the area as the resort is developed.
The mountain resort was one of many in B.C. that suffered from a lack of snow last year, and was forced to cancel the ski season in February.
The 2013/14 season was also badly affected, only saved by a late dump of snow that allowed it to open in January 2014.
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The Justice Department is looking into whether a deal between Google, the Author's Guild and the Association of American Publishers represents a potential antitrust case.
As reported by The New York Times, Justice Department attorneys have been chatting over the past few weeks with Google and other parties involved in the Google Book Search settlement, which gave Google the right to scan copyrighted books for online use and potential sale in exchange for, among other concessions, creating a nonprofit Book Rights Registry to handle digital rights issues.
The questioning of Google, the Author's Guild and the Association of American Publishers, however, does not necessarily mean that the Justice Department will attempt to scuttle the deal over antitrust issues.
No public comment has been forthcoming from Google or the Justice Department over the matter, which is still ongoing.
Earlier in April 2009, a nonprofit watchdog group called on the Department of Justice to investigate Google's plan to scan "orphan books" into a database of digital text. "Orphan" books are out-of-print volumes that remain under copyright, but whose rights-holders cannot be found.
An advocate for Consumer Watchdog, John Simpson, wrote a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder asking for government intervention in Google's settlement with the Author's Guild and the Association of American Publishers, arguing that it should have been reviewed to see if it met "the interests of consumers."
Critics of the deal argued that Google had effectively been given a monopoly over digitized books by preventing Microsoft, Yahoo or other competitors from offering better deals to authors in the future. The settlement stated that Google would have the same terms in negotiating as any future competitor.
"The proposed settlement protects Google from such potentially damaging exposure, but provides no protection for others," Simpson argued in his letter. "This effectively is a barrier for competitors to enter the digital book business."
Google's entrance into the digitized-book arena, which has become increasingly competitive, has been much publicized. In March 2009, the search-engine giant paired with Sony to announce that its free public-domain eBooks would be available for the Sony Reader. It marked the first time that Google's scanned books were available for an eReader in an ePub format.
By doing so, Sony increased the library of books available on its eReader to 600,000, eclipsing the 245,000 volumes on offer through Amazon's much-publicized Kindle library.
In May 2008, despite having digitized 750,000 books and indexed 80 million journal articles, Microsoft shut down its Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects due to construction and maintenance costs, leaving Google to run relatively unopposed in the online digital library space.
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The NHL's ad campaign for this year's playoffs is brilliant in so many ways: First, it's cheap: Recycle some old footage, add a song -- only one surprisingly effective song needed -- and a tagline, and you have an instant tear-jerker for most NHL fans. (Every time I see the Mario Lemieux one, I suddenly get a few allergens in the eyes thanks to where I was and who I was with when that goal happened.)
Second, it's ready-made to go viral, and perhaps best of all, it's the inspiration for what will be countless ax-grinding imitations and truly hilarious various parodies. Make no mistake, even if the NHL doesn't endorse videos making fun of Kerry Fraser or poor Patrick Stefan (minus points for not being a playoff event), the fact signature moments from league history are being spread and replicated is good for the NHL. It's educating a new generation of fans on the history that makes this league so damn addictive.
History ... "history" ... say, that reminds me. You know what clip absolutely has to be included in this campaign? Of course you do. It's the goal that started the league's only true uninterrupted "dynasty" of the last three decades. It's a goal that helped define a franchise. A goal scored by a player who so embodied that franchise, he has the team's annual fan-vote MVP award named after him.
At 7:11 of OT on the afternoon of May 24, 1980, history was made. What if Nystrom didn't beat his man?
If you need any more evidence, ask yourself this: With apologies to Uwe Krupp, how many times has a competitive Stanley Cup been won with an overtime goal?
And if we really want to get into what-ifs, we could extend the campaign forever: Two years later, the only team in NHL history to win 19 consecutive playoff series would never have accomplished that feat if John Tonelli hadn't tied it up 2-2 (assist: Coliseum ice) with just 2:21 left in regulation in the decisive opening-round Game 5 against the Penguins. Tonelli being Tonelli, he then won it on a Herculean effort in OT after first being hauled down on a breakaway. Without those heroics, the Cup streak stops at a very Penguins- or Oilers-like two in a row. No dynasty.
What if Tonelli didn't get up? [Video of each after the jump.]
Tonelli Ties it up against the Penguins with 2:21 left in Game 5
Tonelli Wins it in OT
This is not just one more Isles fan digging up the increasingly ancient past; no, this is one of the league's greater moments from the past 30 years. It belongs in this playoff ad campaign, and teenage Western Conference fans whose home broadcast teams pan up to all those white, orange and blue banners -- during their lone visit to the Coliseum every other year -- deserve to know why, and how, those banners got there.
It's not just Islanders nostalgia; it's part of the league's glorious mystique which, some days, is the best asset it has.
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In "American Hustle,", Amy Adams and Jennifer Lawrence play the mistress and the wife, respectively, of a con man played by Christian Bale. That keeps the two actresses apart for much of the film, but they do share one incredible moment together.
At a press conference for "American Hustle" in New York on Sunday, Adams opened up about the scene, which finds her in a bathroom with Lawrence's character, and ends with an aggressive kiss.
"Well, I feel like Jennifer really made that contribution. I came up with the idea, but she executed it in a way that felt driven purely from character," Adams explained of the kiss, which happens at a key juncture in the film's plot (and is perpetrated by Lawrence's character).
It wasn't the kiss itself, however, that had Adams bragging about her steamy on–screen action, but rather the feelings behind the lip-lock. "It didn’t just feel like a moment where two girls are going to kiss onscreen -- it felt emotional," she said. "And the laugh [Lawrence] gives after? That was genius."
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Colonel Sanders is graciously received at the United Nations by the current president of the General Assembly
Last week we got sent a press release about a KFC publicity stunt at the UN, and shrugged it off because we're not corporate tools who reblog each and every publicity stunt (unless it involves American Apparel). But what makes this one interesting is that the stunt has deeply embarrassed UN security, who allowed a guy dressed like Colonel Sanders into restricted areas of the UN without security clearance. The guy even got a photo op with current president of the United Nations General Assembly, Libya’s Dr. Ali A. Treki!
A publicist for KFC tells us "the Colonel and a photographer were able to talk their way into the UN building to talk to officials about the request that Grilled Nation 'earn a seat' as the 193rd UN member state." Acceptance by the international community is long overdue! How long can the UN keep sitting on its hands?
Security is "still trying to find out exactly what happened," says Michele Montas, spokeswoman for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. "It should not have happened—that I will stress, and very strongly. There was some lapse in security and the individual in question... was, on the initiative of one security guard, taken... into the UN." Perhaps a little free chicken greased the right palm?
But despite the photo-op, Treki's spokesman insists, "There was no meeting. No appointment scheduled with the actor impersonating Colonel Sanders . . . there was a brief encounter with the president of the General Assembly." And Treki only shook the Colonel's hand because "he's a very polite man." (Which could apply to Treki or Colonel sanders.)
Perhaps the best part of this fiasco is that the spokeswoman for the United Nations Secretary General has been reduced to acknowledging the Grilled Nation's letter demanding UN membership, telling the National Post of Canada, "That letter is absolutely void to us; it has no meaning whatsoever. The UN cannot be involved in a commercial venture. Period. This is being touched upon by our legal department." Good to see they're keeping busy over there!
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How to Cook
The following cooking instructions are for 1 or 2 Baked Potatoes. For smaller quantities reduce the cooking time accordingly. For best results cook from frozen. DO NOT overcook!
MICROWAVE
Remove from carton and place your McCain Ready Baked Jackets in the microwave oven. Cook on full power. Allow to stand for 2 minutes before serving. Ensure potato is piping hot throughout before eating.
Cat B/650W Cat D/750W Cat E/850W 1 Baked Potato 5 mins 10 secs 5 mins 4 mins 30 secs 2 Baked Potatoes 8 mins 10 secs 7 mins 40 secs 7 mins
Leave to stand for 2 minutes.
PLEASE TAKE CARE: AFTER COOKING THE POTATO WILL BE VERY HOT!
Please note: all microwave ovens vary – you may need to adjust cooking times to suit your own model.
Do not leave microwave oven unattended while cooking.
Do not use this product after the best before date.
OVEN
Preheat the oven to 220°C / 430°F / Gas Mark 7.
For fan assisted ovens that’s 210°C / 425°F.
Place your McCain Ready Baked Jackets onto a baking tray and pop them into the middle of the oven. Bake for 45 – 55 minutes, until they’re lovely and crisp.
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To all BPB readers who produce DnB and dubstep, our friends at BHK Samples are giving away unlimited free copies of their superb BHK Selections sample library until April 11th! Read on to get more info about the product and to claim your free copy in this BPB exclusive freebie offer.
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Contents
BHK Selections features a set of royalty free samples and loops which have been selected from the following commercial BHK Samples products:
D’n’B Rough Connections Vol.1
D’n’B Rough Connections Vol.2
D’n’B Rough Connections Vol.3
D’n’B Rough Connections Vol.4
Special Edition 1st Drum’n’Bass
Special Edition 2nd Drum’n’Bass
Special Edition 3rd Dubstep
Special Edition 4th Drumstep
LEDM DNB
BHK Fidget
UK Mash Up
HEAVY ReFill
NI Massive Dubstep
Abandon FM8 D’n’B Bass
A.R.A.M
Essentials vol.1, 2 & 3
Neuro Funk Breaks
Premium Drumz
Snare 1960 – 63
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(CBS/AP) The wife of Army Sgt. Robert Bales, who is accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians in a shooting rampage that has frayed ties between the U.S. and Afghanistan, called the portrait of her husband painted by his alleged deeds "out of character."
In a written statement obtained by The News Tribune in Tacoma, Karilyn Bales said: "Our family has little information beyond what we read and see in the media. What has been reported is completely out of character of the man I know and admire. Please respect me when I cannot say I cannot shed any light on what happened that night, so please don't ask."
This is not the first time Bales' family has described the incident as shocking and not consistent with what they know about the 11-year military veteran. In an earlier statement released by Bales' defense team, his family said they only know him "as a devoted husband, father and dedicated member of the armed services."
Karliyn Bales also said in her statement that the March 11 incident was a "terrible and heartbreaking tragedy" that has made her family "profoundly sad."
"We extend our condolences to all the people of the Panjawai district, our hearts go out to all of them, especially the parents, brothers, sisters and grandparents of the children who perished," Bales said in the statement.
Charges expected this week in Afghan killings
New revelations about Sgt. Robert Bales' past
Sgt. Bales' past put under microscope
In a separate development Monday evening, Sgt. Bales' attorney told CBS News' Peter Van Sant that Bales has no memory of the allged attack.
Bales' friends and former colleagues have said they remember Bales as a man of honor.
"Bales is an extremely professional NCO," Capt. Chris Alexander, who served with Bales and has known him for years, told CBS News. "No job too menial or too dangerous, and he would always get it done, and get it done very well."
Bales joined the Army shortly after September 11, 2001. He was already 27 years old at the time.
Family friend Steve Berling says Bales "felt that he needed something bigger in his heart and his mind and in his soul, (and) that's why he went in the military."
"Something terribly terrible has happened to him," neighbor Stuart Ness said. "And I think anybody in the military who's been in combat certainly understands the kind of stress these guys have been going through."
Sgt. Bales, meanwhile, met for the first time with his attorney Monday at the Fort Leavenworth, Kan., military prison where he is being held in solitary confinement.
CBS News has learned that Sgt. Bales is to be charged in those killings this week.
Observers expect a long legal process and a court-martial is likely, reports CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker.
CBS News correspondent Peter Van Sant reports that his lawyer's goal is to make sure that Robert Bales does not get the death penalty. Under the military system, conviction on these charges would bring the death penalty, and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has said it is definitely on the table in this prosecution.
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Illustration by Jonathon Rosen
The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science
How our brains fool us on climate, creationism, and the vaccine-autism link.
Chris Mooney Blocked Unblock Follow Following Jun 18, 2013
By Chris Mooney
“A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.” So wrote the celebrated Stanford University psychologist Leon Festinger, in a passage that might have been referring to climate change denial—the persistent rejection, on the part of so many Americans today, of what we know about global warming and its human causes. But it was too early for that—this was the 1950s—and Festinger was actually describing a famous case study in psychology.
Festinger and several of his colleagues had infiltrated the Seekers, a small Chicago-area cult whose members thought they were communicating with aliens—including one, “Sananda,” who they believed was the astral incarnation of Jesus Christ. The group was led by Dorothy Martin, a Dianetics devotee who transcribed the interstellar messages through automatic writing.
Through her, the aliens had given the precise date of an Earth-rending cataclysm: December 21, 1954. Some of Martin’s followers quit their jobs and sold their property, expecting to be rescued by a flying saucer when the continent split asunder and a new sea swallowed much of the United States. The disciples even went so far as to remove brassieres and rip zippers out of their trousers—the metal, they believed, would pose a danger on the spacecraft.
Festinger and his team were with the cult when the prophecy failed. First, the “boys upstairs” (as the aliens were sometimes called) did not show up and rescue the Seekers. Then December 21 arrived without incident. It was the moment Festinger had been waiting for: How would people so emotionally invested in a belief system react, now that it had been soundly refuted?
At first, the group struggled for an explanation. But then rationalization set in. A new message arrived, announcing that they’d all been spared at the last minute. Festinger summarized the extraterrestrials’ new pronouncement: “The little group, sitting all night long, had spread so much light that God had saved the world from destruction.” Their willingness to believe in the prophecy had saved Earth from the prophecy!
From that day forward, the Seekers, previously shy of the press and indifferent toward evangelizing, began to proselytize. “Their sense of urgency was enormous,” wrote Festinger. The devastation of all they had believed had made them even more certain of their beliefs.
IN THE ANNALS OF DENIAL, it doesn’t get much more extreme than the Seekers. They lost their jobs, the press mocked them, and there were efforts to keep them away from impressionable young minds. But while Martin’s space cult might lie at the far end of the spectrum of human self-delusion, there’s plenty to go around. And since Festinger’s day, an array of new discoveries in psychology and neuroscience has further demonstrated how our preexisting beliefs, far more than any new facts, can skew our thoughts and even color what we consider our most dispassionate and logical conclusions. This tendency toward so-called “motivated reasoning” helps explain why we find groups so polarized over matters where the evidence is so unequivocal: climate change, vaccines, “death panels,” the birthplace and religion of the president (PDF), and much else. It would seem that expecting people to be convinced by the facts flies in the face of, you know, the facts.
The theory of motivated reasoning builds on a key insight of modern neuroscience (PDF): Reasoning is actually suffused with emotion (or what researchers often call “affect”). Not only are the two inseparable, but our positive or negative feelings about people, things, and ideas arise much more rapidly than our conscious thoughts, in a matter of milliseconds—fast enough to detect with an EEG device, but long before we’re aware of it. That shouldn’t be surprising: Evolution required us to react very quickly to stimuli in our environment. It’s a “basic human survival skill,” explains political scientist Arthur Lupia of the University of Michigan. We push threatening information away; we pull friendly information close. We apply fight-or-flight reflexes not only to predators, but to data itself.
We apply fight-or-flight reflexes not only to predators, but to data itself.
Consider a person who has heard about a scientific discovery that deeply challenges her belief in divine creation—a new hominid, say, that confirms our evolutionary origins. What happens next, explains political scientist Charles Taber of Stony Brook University, is a subconscious negative response to the new information—and that response, in turn, guides the type of memories and associations formed in the conscious mind. “They retrieve thoughts that are consistent with their previous beliefs,” says Taber, “and that will lead them to build an argument and challenge what they’re hearing.”
In other words, when we think we’re reasoning, we may instead be rationalizing. Or to use an analogy offered by University of Virginia psychologist Jonathan Haidt: We may think we’re being scientists, but we’re actually being lawyers (PDF). Our “reasoning” is a means to a predetermined end—winning our “case”—and is shot through with biases. They include “confirmation bias,” in which we give greater heed to evidence and arguments that bolster our beliefs, and “disconfirmation bias,” in which we expend disproportionate energy trying to debunk or refute views and arguments that we find uncongenial.
That’s a lot of jargon, but we all understand these mechanisms when it comes to interpersonal relationships. If I don’t want to believe that my spouse is being unfaithful, or that my child is a bully, I can go to great lengths to explain away behavior that seems obvious to everybody else—everybody who isn’t too emotionally invested to accept it, anyway. That’s not to suggest that we aren’t also motivated to perceive the world accurately—we are. Or that we never change our minds—we do. It’s just that we have other important goals besides accuracy—including identity affirmation and protecting one’s sense of self—and often those make us highly resistant to changing our beliefs when the facts say we should.
Scientific evidence is highly susceptible to misinterpretation. Giving ideologues scientific data that’s relevant to their beliefs is like unleashing them in the motivated-reasoning equivalent of a candy store.
MODERN SCIENCE ORIGINATED from an attempt to weed out such subjective lapses—what that great 17th century theorist of the scientific method, Francis Bacon, dubbed the “idols of the mind.” Even if individual researchers are prone to falling in love with their own theories, the broader processes of peer review and institutionalized skepticism are designed to ensure that, eventually, the best ideas prevail.
Our individual responses to the conclusions that science reaches, however, are quite another matter. Ironically, in part because researchers employ so much nuance and strive to disclose all remaining sources of uncertainty, scientific evidence is highly susceptible to selective reading and misinterpretation. Giving ideologues or partisans scientific data that’s relevant to their beliefs is like unleashing them in the motivated-reasoning equivalent of a candy store.
Sure enough, a large number of psychological studies have shown that people respond to scientific or technical evidence in ways that justify their preexisting beliefs. In a classic 1979 experiment (PDF), pro- and anti-death penalty advocates were exposed to descriptions of two fake scientific studies: one supporting and one undermining the notion that capital punishment deters violent crime and, in particular, murder. They were also shown detailed methodological critiques of the fake studies—and in a scientific sense, neither study was stronger than the other. Yet in each case, advocates more heavily criticized the study whose conclusions disagreed with their own, while describing the study that was more ideologically congenial as more “convincing.”
Since then, similar results have been found for how people respond to “evidence” about affirmative action, gun control, the accuracy of gay stereotypes, and much else. Even when study subjects are explicitly instructed to be unbiased and even-handed about the evidence, they often fail.
And it’s not just that people twist or selectively read scientific evidence to support their preexisting views. According to research by Yale Law School professor Dan Kahan and his colleagues, people’s deep-seated views about morality, and about the way society should be ordered, strongly predict whom they consider to be a legitimate scientific expert in the first place—and thus where they consider “scientific consensus” to lie on contested issues.
In Kahan’s research (PDF), individuals are classified, based on their cultural values, as either “individualists” or “communitarians,” and as either “hierarchical” or “egalitarian” in outlook. (Somewhat oversimplifying, you can think of hierarchical individualists as akin to conservative Republicans, and egalitarian communitarians as liberal Democrats.) In one study, subjects in the different groups were asked to help a close friend determine the risks associated with climate change, sequestering nuclear waste, or concealed carry laws: “The friend tells you that he or she is planning to read a book about the issue but would like to get your opinion on whether the author seems like a knowledgeable and trustworthy expert.” A subject was then presented with the résumé of a fake expert “depicted as a member of the National Academy of Sciences who had earned a Ph.D. in a pertinent field from one elite university and who was now on the faculty of another.” The subject was then shown a book excerpt by that “expert,” in which the risk of the issue at hand was portrayed as high or low, well-founded or speculative. The results were stark: When the scientist’s position stated that global warming is real and human-caused, for instance, only 23 percent of hierarchical individualists agreed the person was a “trustworthy and knowledgeable expert.” Yet 88 percent of egalitarian communitarians accepted the same scientist’s expertise. Similar divides were observed on whether nuclear waste can be safely stored underground and whether letting people carry guns deters crime. (The alliances did not always hold. In another study (PDF), hierarchs and communitarians were in favor of laws that would compel the mentally ill to accept treatment, whereas individualists and egalitarians were opposed.)
Head-on attempts to persuade can sometimes trigger a backfire effect, where people not only fail to change their minds when confronted with the facts—they may hold their wrong views more tenaciously than ever.
In other words, people rejected the validity of a scientific source because its conclusion contradicted their deeply held views—and thus the relative risks inherent in each scenario. A hierarchal individualist finds it difficult to believe that the things he prizes (commerce, industry, a man’s freedom to possess a gun to defend his family) (PDF) could lead to outcomes deleterious to society. Whereas egalitarian communitarians tend to think that the free market causes harm, that patriarchal families mess up kids, and that people can’t handle their guns. The study subjects weren’t “anti-science”—not in their own minds, anyway. It’s just that “science” was whatever they wanted it to be. “We’ve come to a misadventure, a bad situation where diverse citizens, who rely on diverse systems of cultural certification, are in conflict,” says Kahan.
And that undercuts the standard notion that the way to persuade people is via evidence and argument. In fact, head-on attempts to persuade can sometimes trigger a backfire effect, where people not only fail to change their minds when confronted with the facts—they may hold their wrong views more tenaciously than ever.
Take, for instance, the question of whether Saddam Hussein possessed hidden weapons of mass destruction just before the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. When political scientists Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler showed subjects fake newspaper articles (PDF) in which this was first suggested (in a 2004 quote from President Bush) and then refuted (with the findings of the Bush-commissioned Iraq Survey Group report, which found no evidence of active WMD programs in pre-invasion Iraq), they found that conservatives were more likely than before to believe the claim. (The researchers also tested how liberals responded when shown that Bush did not actually “ban” embryonic stem-cell research. Liberals weren’t particularly amenable to persuasion, either, but no backfire effect was observed.)
Another study gives some inkling of what may be going through people’s minds when they resist persuasion. Northwestern University sociologist Monica Prasad and her colleagues wanted to test whether they could dislodge the notion that Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda were secretly collaborating among those most likely to believe it—Republican partisans from highly GOP-friendly counties. So the researchers set up a study (PDF) in which they discussed the topic with some of these Republicans in person. They would cite the findings of the 9/11 Commission, as well as a statement in which George W. Bush himself denied his administration had “said the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated between Saddam and Al Qaeda.”
One study showed that not even Bush’s own words could change the minds of Bush voters who believed there was an Iraq-Al Qaeda link.
As it turned out, not even Bush’s own words could change the minds of these Bush voters—just 1 of the 49 partisans who originally believed the Iraq-Al Qaeda claim changed his or her mind. Far more common was resisting the correction in a variety of ways, either by coming up with counterarguments or by simply being unmovable:
Interviewer: [T]he September 11 Commission found no link between Saddam and 9/11, and this is what President Bush said. Do you have any comments on either of those?
Respondent: Well, I bet they say that the Commission didn’t have any proof of it but I guess we still can have our opinions and feel that way even though they say that.
The same types of responses are already being documented on divisive topics facing the current administration. Take the “Ground Zero mosque.” Using information from the political myth-busting site FactCheck.org, a team at Ohio State presented subjects (PDF) with a detailed rebuttal to the claim that “Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Imam backing the proposed Islamic cultural center and mosque, is a terrorist-sympathizer.” Yet among those who were aware of the rumor and believed it, fewer than a third changed their minds.
A key question—and one that’s difficult to answer—is how “irrational” all this is. On the one hand, it doesn’t make sense to discard an entire belief system, built up over a lifetime, because of some new snippet of information. “It is quite possible to say, ‘I reached this pro-capital-punishment decision based on real information that I arrived at over my life,’” explains Stanford social psychologist Jon Krosnick. Indeed, there’s a sense in which science denial could be considered keenly “rational.” In certain conservative communities, explains Yale’s Kahan, “People who say, ‘I think there’s something to climate change,’ that’s going to mark them out as a certain kind of person, and their life is going to go less well.”
This may help explain a curious pattern Nyhan and his colleagues found when they tried to test the fallacy (PDF) that President Obama is a Muslim. When a nonwhite researcher was administering their study, research subjects were amenable to changing their minds about the president’s religion and updating incorrect views. But when only white researchers were present, GOP survey subjects in particular were more likely to believe the Obama Muslim myth than before. The subjects were using “social desirabililty” to tailor their beliefs (or stated beliefs, anyway) to whoever was listening.
A predictor of whether you accept the science of global warming? Whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat.
Which leads us to the media. When people grow polarized over a body of evidence, or a resolvable matter of fact, the cause may be some form of biased reasoning, but they could also be receiving skewed information to begin with—or a complicated combination of both. In the Ground Zero mosque case, for instance, a follow-up study (PDF) showed that survey respondents who watched Fox News were more likely to believe the Rauf rumor and three related ones—and they believed them more strongly than non-Fox watchers.
Okay, so people gravitate toward information that confirms what they believe, and they select sources that deliver it. Same as it ever was, right? Maybe, but the problem is arguably growing more acute, given the way we now consume information—through the Facebook links of friends, or tweets that lack nuance or context, or “narrowcast” and often highly ideological media that have relatively small, like-minded audiences. Those basic human survival skills of ours, says Michigan’s Arthur Lupia, are “not well-adapted to our information age.”
IF YOU WANTED TO SHOW how and why fact is ditched in favor of motivated reasoning, you could find no better test case than climate change. After all, it’s an issue where you have highly technical information on one hand and very strong beliefs on the other. And sure enough, one key predictor of whether you accept the science of global warming is whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat. The two groups have been growing more divided in their views about the topic, even as the science becomes more unequivocal.
So perhaps it should come as no surprise that more education doesn’t budge Republican views. On the contrary: In a 2008 Pew survey, for instance, only 19 percent of college-educated Republicans agreed that the planet is warming due to human actions, versus 31 percent of non-college educated Republicans. In other words, a higher education correlated with an increased likelihood of denying the science on the issue. Meanwhile, among Democrats and independents, more education correlated with greater acceptance of the science.
Other studies have shown a similar effect: Republicans who think they understand the global warming issue best are least concerned about it; and among Republicans and those with higher levels of distrust of science in general, learning more about the issue doesn’t increase one’s concern about it. What’s going on here? Well, according to Charles Taber and Milton Lodge of Stony Brook, one insidious aspect of motivated reasoning is that political sophisticates are prone to be more biased than those who know less about the issues. “People who have a dislike of some policy—for example, abortion—if they’re unsophisticated they can just reject it out of hand,” says Lodge. “But if they’re sophisticated, they can go one step further and start coming up with counterarguments.” These individuals are just as emotionally driven and biased as the rest of us, but they’re able to generate more and better reasons to explain why they’re right—and so their minds become harder to change.
That may be why the selectively quoted emails of Climategate were so quickly and easily seized upon by partisans as evidence of scandal. Cherry-picking is precisely the sort of behavior you would expect motivated reasoners to engage in to bolster their views—and whatever you may think about Climategate, the emails were a rich trove of new information upon which to impose one’s ideology.
Climategate had a substantial impact on public opinion, according to Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication. It contributed to an overall drop in public concern about climate change and a significant loss of trust in scientists. But—as we should expect by now—these declines were concentrated among particular groups of Americans: Republicans, conservatives, and those with “individualistic” values. Liberals and those with “egalitarian” values didn’t lose much trust in climate science or scientists at all. “In some ways, Climategate was like a Rorschach test,” Leiserowitz says, “with different groups interpreting ambiguous facts in very different ways.”
Is there a case study of science denial that largely occupies the political left? Yes: the claim that childhood vaccines are causing an epidemic of autism.
So is there a case study of science denial that largely occupies the political left? Yes: the claim that childhood vaccines are causing an epidemic of autism. Its most famous proponents are an environmentalist (Robert F. Kennedy Jr.) and numerous Hollywood celebrities (most notably Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey). The Huffington Post gives a very large megaphone to denialists. And Seth Mnookin, author of the new book The Panic Virus, notes that if you want to find vaccine deniers, all you need to do is go hang out at Whole Foods.
Vaccine denial has all the hallmarks of a belief system that’s not amenable to refutation. Over the past decade, the assertion that childhood vaccines are driving autism rates has been undermined by multiple epidemiological studies—as well as the simple fact that autism rates continue to rise, even though the alleged offending agent in vaccines (a mercury-based preservative called thimerosal) has long since been removed.
Yet the true believers persist—critiquing each new study that challenges their views, and even rallying to the defense of vaccine-autism researcher Andrew Wakefield, after his 1998 Lancet paper—which originated the current vaccine scare—was retracted and he subsequently lost his license (PDF) to practice medicine. But then, why should we be surprised? Vaccine deniers created their own partisan media, such as the website Age of Autism, that instantly blast out critiques and counterarguments whenever any new development casts further doubt on anti-vaccine views.
It all raises the question: Do left and right differ in any meaningful way when it comes to biases in processing information, or are we all equally susceptible?
There are some clear differences. Science denial today is considerably more prominent on the political right—once you survey climate and related environmental issues, anti-evolutionism, attacks on reproductive health science by the Christian right, and stem-cell and biomedical matters. More tellingly, anti-vaccine positions are virtually nonexistent among Democratic officeholders today—whereas anti-climate-science views are becoming monolithic among Republican elected officials.
Some researchers have suggested that there are psychological differences between the left and the right that might impact responses to new information—that conservatives are more rigid and authoritarian, and liberals more tolerant of ambiguity. Psychologist John Jost of New York University has further argued that conservatives are “system justifiers”: They engage in motivated reasoning to defend the status quo.
We all have blinders in some situations. The question then becomes: What can be done to counteract human nature?
This is a contested area, however, because as soon as one tries to psychoanalyze inherent political differences, a battery of counterarguments emerges: What about dogmatic and militant communists? What about how the parties have differed through history? After all, the most canonical case of ideologically driven science denial is probably the rejection of genetics in the Soviet Union, where researchers disagreeing with the anti-Mendelian scientist (and Stalin stooge) Trofim Lysenko were executed, and genetics itself was denounced as a “bourgeois” science and officially banned.
The upshot: All we can currently bank on is the fact that we all have blinders in some situations. The question then becomes: What can be done to counteract human nature itself?
GIVEN THE POWER OF our prior beliefs to skew how we respond to new information, one thing is becoming clear: If you want someone to accept new evidence, make sure to present it to them in a context that doesn’t trigger a defensive, emotional reaction.
This theory is gaining traction in part because of Kahan’s work at Yale. In one study, he and his colleagues packaged the basic science of climate change into fake newspaper articles bearing two very different headlines—”Scientific Panel Recommends Anti-Pollution Solution to Global Warming” and “Scientific Panel Recommends Nuclear Solution to Global Warming”—and then tested how citizens with different values responded. Sure enough, the latter framing made hierarchical individualists much more open to accepting the fact that humans are causing global warming. Kahan infers that the effect occurred because the science had been written into an alternative narrative that appealed to their pro-industry worldview.
You can follow the logic to its conclusion: Conservatives are more likely to embrace climate science if it comes to them via a business or religious leader, who can set the issue in the context of different values than those from which environmentalists or scientists often argue. Doing so is, effectively, to signal a détente in what Kahan has called a “culture war of fact.” In other words, paradoxically, you don’t lead with the facts in order to convince. You lead with the values—so as to give the facts a fighting chance.
This story first appeared in Mother Jones magazine.
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A UNESCO study from July 2016 says that India has the largest number of adolescent school dropouts in the world; a total of 47 million students do not progress to upper secondary school. This study also adds that “a key obstacle to achieving the agreed target is persistent disparities in education participation linked to sex, location and wealth.”
So, the fact that children who live in the coastal town of Surathkal, Mangalore often drop out of school due to lack of financial resources, and coercion on their parents’ part to help out with household chores, is not surprising.
In order to reverse this trend, a group of 10 engineering students from NIT Karnataka have started conducting free evening classes on the beach for children of fishermen who live in settlements close to their campus.
The beach schooling project was initiated at Incident, which is NIT-K’s annual cultural fest. I-Care, a social initiative by the Incident team, roped in underprivileged students from preschool to pre-university, in the backyard of the Sadashiva temple, to teach them academic subjects.
The students launched the pilot project a couple of years ago but it wasn’t very successful so they relaunched it this year on October 15, Dr. Abdul Kalam’s birthday.
One of the student volunteers, Kaushik R Udupi, told Times of India, “Since volunteers left Surathkal after completing their course (a couple of years ago), the classroom for children project fell through. During a visit to the Sadashiva temple, a student pursuing PU course urged NIT-K students to continue the programme. Volunteers signed up to revive the programme.”
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The new-age beach gurukul is immensely popular among the students because of the way it seamlessly blends education with extracurricular activities. Apart from learning core subjects like maths, science and English, the students are encouraged to participate in and learn from various activities like stargazing, football, kabaddi, sand art, cycling, etc.
Two children studying in the beach school have represented the district in hockey tournaments. And a family of four has started attending classes, inspired by a child in their household who was enrolled in the programme. According to a press release, a student in Class 4, named Akkamahadevi, now helps out her sister who is in Class 7, with math problems.
As of now, the classes are conducted in the open air; lessons in grammar are read aloud accompanied by the sounds of temple bells ringing and waves crashing. But one of the volunteers, Vishal S, told Times of India that they will construct a hut on the beach for evening school if more volunteers join them.
If you want to help sponsor the construction of huts on the beach for this program, write to: [email protected]
To volunteer, contact Vishal S: 9900162142
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How Much Philosophy in the Philosophy of Science?
Anke Bu ter 0 1 Ramiro Glauer 0 1 Holger Lyre 0 1 0 R. Glauer H. Lyre Institut fu r Philosophie, Universita t Magdeburg , 39104 Magdeburg , Germany 1 A. Bu ter (&) Institut fu r Philosophie, Universita t Hannover , 30167 Hannover , Germany This supplement serves a double purpose. It presents, on the one hand, a selection of papers devoted to the title question ''How much philosophy in the philosophy of science?''. On the other hand, it signalizes the newly established cooperation between the German Society for the Philosophy of Science (GWP: Gesellschaft fur Wissenschaftsphilosophie) and the Journal for General Philosophy of Science (cf. U. Krohs, H. Pulte and G. Schiemann, Journal for General Philosophy of Science 44:1-2, 2013). The GWP was founded in Hannover in 2011 and had its inaugural conference in March 2013 [for a report on the ''GWP.2013'' by H. Lyre see EPSA Newsletter 2 (1) 2013]. The society was launched for several reasons. Albeit the German community of philosophers of science is quite large (roughly, between 40 and 50 full professors of philosophy of science), it is at the same time a rather distributed and dispersed community. This has to do with the university landscape in Germany, which is dispersed rather than being focused on a few main universities and centers. Hence, one idea was to foster the interconnections between the members of the German philosophy of science community on all levels of the academic system. This is particularly important for young researchers like PhD students and young postdocs. Also, the GWP seeks to maintain fruitful and professional relations to all national and international societies in the field of philosophy of science. A further motivation for founding the GWP is indicated by our special issue title itself. Over the last decades, philosophy of science has evolved into a number of autonomous subdisciplines, the disciplinary standards of which derive much more from the respective - scientific disciplines on which they focus rather than from any core of common methodological, epistemological or metaphysical principles. As one of the consequences, philosophers of science quite often must make efforts to motivate and even to legitimize their discipline both within their own broader philosophy community and with respect to the various special sciences. In this context, the GWP will help to provide focused institutional support for the academic and scientific interests of philosophers of science. Finally, of course, the title question is of eminent interest for philosophy of science itself. For many, the development into a number of autonomous philosophy of science subdisciplines seems to fulfill the dream of philosophy as approaching finally the firm course of science, to quote from the GWP.2013 announcement. However, the legitimate question arises as to how much philosophy there is in recent philosophy of science. How strongly has philosophy of science moved towards science and, perhaps, away from the philosophical tradition? How is this move to be valued? What are its consequences for the scientific relevance of the work that philosophers of science do? What are its consequences for philosophy of science as a unified and recognizable discipline? And in which direction should philosophy of science move in the near future? The following selection of five papers in this special issue addresses these questions from various angles and perspectives. Rather than pursuing a common take on the title question, the papers present a number of exemplary connections between philosophy, philosophy of science, and science that show that the different fields are permeable in many ways and in many directions. For instance, science interacts with ontology (Friebe); methodological considerations of one field can be drawn on for clarifications of another, completely disparate field (Mantzavinos); and particularities of explanations in one discipline can shed light on general philosophical questions (Manafu), as can specific problems of certain research fields (Hillerbrand). Here comes an overview of each contribution. In Categoricalism versus Dispositionalism: a Case Study in Metametaphysics, Cord Friebe engages in some meta-metaphysical reflections on the metaphysical status of Humean and Anti-Humean ontologies. He argues that both constitute considerably substantive claims concerning ontology and that neither can be read off contemporary physical theories and thereby fathoms the relation between scientific theory and ontology, the latter being more deeply entrenched in philosophy than the standard Quinean take on Humean categoricalism would have it. Rafaela Hillerbrands Climate Simulations. Uncertain Projections for an Uncertain World argues that the considerable uncertainties in climate modeling are impossible to quantify, due to the role of tacit knowledge as well as the necessity to draw on many different models in order to generate policy-relevant knowledge. While based on methodological issues of a specific research field, this argument has implications for dealing with uncertainty and complexity in other disciplines, too. Moreover, it demonstrates the relevance of philosophical considerations for policy-making by suggesting a revision of the current IPCC process based on its conclusion. In How much Philosophy in the Philosophy of Chemistry, Alexandru Manafu argues that the philosophy of chemistry is replete with philosophical questions. For one, there are questions that come up specifically in the context of chemistry. For another, chemistry provides an ideal case study for questions of reduction and emergence. There are many received procedures for measuring chemical entities and properties and therefore they are better candidates for an investigation of reduction and emergence than are the comparatively less easily investigable entities and properties of, say, psychology. According to Chrysostomos Mantzavinos Text Interpretation as a Scientific Activity, there is a strong parallel between text interpretation and the formation and testing of scientific hypotheses. In both cases, hypotheses are formed on the basis of empirical evidence, reasons are given for their support, and they are subsequently tested on the available material. Thus, scientific methods are applied to objects that lie outside the classical domain of philosophy of science which makes them amenable to considerations from philosophy of science. This is an example for the broader philosophical significance of the field. Last but not least, the position paper of Marie I. Kaiser, Maria Kronfeldner, and Robert Meunier provides an exploration of the general issue of Interdisciplinarity in Philosophy of Science. By distinguishing between and reflecting upon different forms of interdisciplinarity, they generate a foundation for discussions of the status of the disciplinefor example regarding questions of the methodological unity of philosophy of science or its possible connections to the sciences. The selection of these papers gives but a small sample of the diverse interrelations between philosophy, philosophy of science, and science and a likewise small sample of the perspectives that can be taken on these interactions. It is a starting point for a continued investigation of philosophy of science and its place among academic fields. The special issue is completed by a sixth paper that presents a survey-based overview and quantitative analysis of German philosophy of science for the period from 1992 to 2012. Paper and survey have been provided by the group of Gerhard Schurz and his coworkers Matthias Unterhuber and Alexander Gebharter from the Du sseldorf Center of Logic and Philosophy of Science (DCLPS).
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In an opinion piece for Vice Impact, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) discusses what he believes America actually needs to become "great": High-quality higher education delivered to citizens for free.
What would help is "not spending tens of billions more on weapons systems or providing trillions in tax breaks for the rich," he writes. "It is having a well-educated population that can compete in the global economy, and making it possible that every American, regardless of income, has the opportunity to get the education they need to thrive."
However, he writes, "we are moving further and further away from that goal," thanks to the high cost of college.
More than 44 million Americans have taken out student loans to pay for school, with their debt totaling $1.4 trillion. The average debt for 20-year-olds is $22,135. For 30-year-olds, it's $34,033.
And while wages aren't rising much, the cost of tuition is. That could explain why the number of loan defaults has reached a new high.
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The magazine’s advice feature, “The Playboy Advisor,” encouraged men to ask questions on all manner of topics, from the best liquor to stock at home to bedroom advice to adjusting to civilian life. Troops found Playboy a useful tool in figuring out their roles in the consumer-oriented landscape they were now able to join because of the mobility and income their military service provided them.
Image The “Playboy Club” in Chu Lai, Vietnam, in 1969. Credit The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University
The content moved beyond lifestyle and entertainment as the editorial mission of the magazine evolved. By the 1960s, Playboy included hard-hitting features on important social, cultural and political issues confronting the United States, often written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, government and military leaders and top literary figures. The magazine took on topics like feminism, abortion, gay rights, race, economic issues, the counterculture movement and mass incarceration — something soldiers couldn’t get from Stars and Stripes. It offered exhaustive interviews with everyone from Malcolm X to the American Nazi leader George Lincoln Rockwell, exposing young G.I.s to arguments and ideas about race and African-American equality they might not have been introduced to in their hometowns. Service in Vietnam put many soldiers in direct contact with diverse races and cultures, and Playboy presented them new ideas and arguments regarding those social and cultural issues.
As early as 1965, Playboy began running articles about the Vietnam War, with an editorial position that expressed reservations about the escalating conflict. The editors were smart about it, of course: Their stance may have been critical of the president, the administration, the military leaders and the strategy, but they made sure the contributors made every effort to stay supportive of the soldiers. In 1967, troops read the liberal economist John Kenneth Galbraith arguing that “no part of the original justification” for the war “remains intact,” as he dismantled the idea of monolithic Communism and other Cold War justifications for war. But that was different from attacking the troops themselves. In 1971, the journalist David Halberstam wrote in an article for Playboy that “we admired their bravery and their idealism, their courage and dedication in the face of endless problems. We believed that they represented the best of American society.” Troops in Vietnam could turn to Playboy for coverage of their own war without fearing criticism of themselves.
Playboy was also useful as a forum for the men engaged in the fighting. The publication was unique in its number of interactive features. Soldiers wrote into sections like “Dear Playboy” for advice and with reactions to articles. But those correspondents also freely described their wartime experiences and concerns. They often described what they saw as unfair treatment by the military, discussed their difficulty in transitioning back to civilian society or thanked the magazine for helping them through their time in-country. In 1973, one soldier, R. K. Redini of Chicago, wrote to Playboy about his return home. “One of the things that made my Vietnam tour endurable was seeing Playboy every month,” he said. “It sure helped all of us forget our problems — for a little while, anyway. I thank you not only for myself but also for the thousands of other guys who find a lot of pleasure in your magazine.”
In “The Playboy Forum,” another reader-response section, many wrote in addressing specific aspects of Hefner’s lengthy editorial series “The Playboy Philosophy,” including drugs, race and homosexuality in the military. The forum format allowed those who served in Vietnam to reach out not just to other soldiers, but also to the public, providing them a safe space to voice their opinions and criticisms of their service. “Traditionally, a soldier with a gripe is advised by friends to tell it to the chaplain, take it to the inspector general or write to his congressman,” a soldier wrote. “Now, probably because of letters about military injustice in The Playboy Forum, another court of last resort has been added to the list.”
Playboy magazine’s significance to the soldiers in Vietnam spread far beyond the foldout Playmate. Troops appropriated the magazine’s bunny mascot and the company’s logo, painting it on planes, helicopters and tanks. They incorporated the logo into patches and “playboy” into call signs and unit nicknames. Adopting the symbol of Playboy was a small rebellion to the conformity of military life and a testament to the impact of the magazine on soldiers’ lives and morale.
And the magazine returned the favor. Long after the war ended, it funded documentaries on the war, Agent Orange research and post-traumatic stress disorder studies. It is a commitment that testifies to this enduring relationship between the publication and the soldier, and reveals how the magazine is a surprising legacy of one of America’s longest wars.
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Named 'the ENDURAsphere', GSR billed its orb as a 'sort of gated eco-commune for one ... It has Generation 5 Kevlar padding and a plastic-alloy skin that allows the occupant to withstand any impact.'
'All materials and effluent are processed for reuse in the occupant's ENDURAsphere, or for trade or exchange with another.'
It's unknown whether any of the members of press in attendance twigged that there is in fact no such company as Global Security Response, and that the ENDURAsphere was part of an elaborate hoax.
The event was the work of The Yes Men, a situationist group of political activists. The duo are best known for masquerading as spokesmen for large corporations in order to raise awareness of social and political issues, while lampooning the worst excesses of corporations.
• The Yes Men Fix The World, review
Sporting a fake moustache and claiming to be GSR spokesman 'Archibald Schumpeter', the Yes Men's Andy Bichlbaum told the press conference: "I'm really excited to be talking with you today about ways that nations that suffer terrorism can respond to terrorism in forceful but intelligent ways from within the defense and security paradigm that we're used to."
"But unfortunately, such responses have not generally been very intelligent. In fact, it's been pretty much all stupid, all the time, every since 9/11."
'Schumpeter' then highlighted how military responses to terror have generaly been counterproductive, leading to further attacks - and finally unveiled the ridiculous ENDURAsphere as an alternatice, 'guaranteed to work against terrorism'.
In a statement on the Yes Men website Bichlbaum said: "This hoax was about highlighting that there really is no solution to terrorism within the defense and security paradigm. Military 'solutions' backfire badly."
"Any 'solution' to terrorism that doesn't take colonial history into account is bound to fail completely. From the parcelling of the Middle East after WWI to the invasion of Iraq by the US, there are reasons things are as they are."
The press conference was arranged with the help of Greek MEP Stelios Kouloglou and German MEP Martin Sonneborn as part of a Charlie Hebdo commemoration. The Yes Men described it as 'the first action of its sort to take place within the European Parliament.'
Speaking to press after the event, MEP Kouloglou said: "Bombing is a recruiting tool for ISIS. If we want to undermine terrorists, we need to end the war in Syria, welcome Middle Eastern refugees, and marginalize extremists by establishing better relationships with moderate forces in Islam. We also need to better integrate the youth of our most disadvantaged communities."
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Liverpool have taken their summer spending over £100 million by outmaneuvering Chelsea and agreeing a deal for Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
The England midfielder was undergoing a Liverpool medical at the national squad’s training base at St George’s Park on Wednesday night ahead of a £35m move to Anfield. He earlier rejected the chance to join the Premier League champions.
His move to Merseyside will end a Liverpool chase for his signature which began six years ago, when Oxlade-Chamberlain was still at Southampton.
Liverpool’s ex-captain Steven Gerrard and vice-captain Jamie Carragher met Oxlade-Chamberlain and his father Mark at Melwood in 2011 in an effort to convince him to move north. Instead, he chose Arsenal, who he joined for £15m that summer.
Now Jurgen Klopp’s scouting team has been aided by glowing references from Liverpool’s current senior players, skipper Jordan Henderson and midfielder Adam Lallana among those who urged their club manager to bring their international team-mate to Anfield. Both have testified to Oxlade-Chamberlain’s quality and the dynamism he can bring to Klopp’s side.
Klopp also recalls how impressive Oxlade-Chamberlain was for Arsenal against his Borussia Dortmund team in the 2014 Champions League.
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Crossposted from the Raleigh News & Observer.
This week, the Concerned Women for America of NC – a conservative group with a history of anti-Muslim incitement – briefed North Carolina’s legislature on the phantom threat that Islamic laws and customs (commonly referred to as “sharia”) pose to the American legal system. This briefing came on the heels of House Bill 695, a ban on foreign law that was approved by the House last month.
Although the ban is packaged as an effort to protect the rights of North Carolinians from all foreign laws, it is fueled by a fringe anti-Muslim movement bent on demonizing the Islamic faith. But HB 695 is more than just an attack on the Muslim community. It will also create a series of damaging, unintended consequences for North Carolinians of all faiths.
The foreign law ban before the Senate purports to stop the state’s courts from applying foreign law in family law proceedings if doing so violates constitutional rights.
Sounds harmless, right? It’s not.
For decades, American courts have applied foreign law so long as it does not violate U.S. public policy. International business disputes end up in our courts all the time. Americans who marry abroad or adopt children overseas rely on our courts to recognize these relationships. Courts follow this rule because it helps Americans – it makes international relationships, both business and personal, easier.
The respect that our courts show for foreign law is not a one-sided affair; we want other countries to respect the judgments of our courts as well. In an increasingly interconnected world, the advantages of the current system cannot be overstated.
This system has worked well for decades, and supporters of the ban have not pointed to a single case where foreign law has been used to violate the constitutional rights of North Carolinians. But the proposed law would upend this carefully calibrated approach.
As detailed in a new study by the Brennan Center for Justice and the Center for American Progress, these types of laws actually go beyond requiring that our courts respect state and federal constitutions (which they are required to do anyway), in ways that are likely to create genuine problems.
HB 695 bans North Carolina courts from applying “any component of a [foreign] legal system” that violates U.S. or state constitutional rights. In other words, it tells courts to reject any law or judgment from a country that does not protect rights in the same way we do. This would mean that a North Carolina court faced with a run of the mill case – such as whether to recognize a prenuptial agreement from France – would have to evaluate whether the French legal system complies with the federal and North Carolina constitutions. Courts shouldn’t be concerned with passing judgment on a foreign system as a whole, but rather with deciding the case before them.
The issue only gets more complicated when you throw religion into the mix. Take marriages performed in accordance with an individual’s religious beliefs. Should a North Carolina court asked to recognize a Jewish or Muslim marriage pass judgment on the entire faith? Wouldn’t that involve courts in the types of religious matters that we generally require them to avoid?
Of course, courts must – and do – consider whether a religious marriage demonstrates certain basic characteristics: for example, whether both husband and wife freely consented to the marriage, and whether the legal documentation is in order. But asking them to do more is opening the door to myriad problems.
The law would cast a cloud of uncertainty over the personal lives of North Carolinians who have family relationships overseas. The implications of a court not recognizing a foreign marriage can be enormous: a person could lose lower tax rates, immigration benefits for a foreign spouse and the ability to make life-and-death decisions on behalf of a spouse in medical emergencies. If a divorce is not recognized, a person wouldn’t be able to remarry. Rights to marital assets, alimony and child custody would also be in jeopardy.
The effort to ban foreign law is motivated by an imagined threat, but it creates a host of very real problems. That’s why Florida recently rejected an attempt to pass a similar law and the governor of Missouri vetoed one. North Carolina should follow suit and reject this harmful and unnecessary bill.
Faiza Patel is co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice. Amos Toh is a Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice.
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Report by Morgan Stanley says general election likely in 2018, and Labour winning could damage valuations of UK companies
The prospect of Jeremy Corbyn becoming prime minister is a more serious threat to British business than Brexit, the investment bank Morgan Stanley has warned.
Morgan Stanley told investors that another general election towards the end of 2018 was likely once Theresa May’s government realised it could not secure the Brexit deal it wants and the Conservative party began to fall apart, opening the door to Labour taking power.
The nationalisation of key industries, higher taxes and a shift in spending priorities towards low-income households under Corbyn’s leadership could damage valuations of UK companies, the US bank warned.
“The UK is in the midst of a double whammy of uncertainty in the shape of Brexit and a fragile domestic political situation. Taken together, these two factors – which are interrelated to some degree – cast a long shadow over the policy backdrop and economic outlook of the UK,” the report from Morgan Stanley’s European equity team read.
“For the UK market, domestic politics may be perceived as a bigger risk than Brexit,” the bank told clients.
“From a UK investor perspective, we believe that the domestic political situation is at least as significant as Brexit, given the fragile state of the current government and the perceived risks of an incoming Labour administration that could potentially embark on a radical change in policy direction.
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“Against this backdrop, even if we see good progress in the Brexit negotiations, the scope for UK sensitive assets to rally may be muted, unless we also see an improvement in the government’s position in opinion polls.”
Morgan Stanley said British utility companies, especially water and power companies, were most at risk from a Labour government, but also warned postal services, telecommunications and travel companies could be affected.
Higher taxes and an increase in corporation tax to 26% might damage British financial services, Morgan Stanley warned.
“Spending priorities... shift in favour of low-income households and the public sector and away from outsourcers and defence companies,” the report continued. “Higher low-end wage growth could also impact service-oriented companies with low margins, such as retailers.”
Morgan Stanley warned of the UK’s fragile political situation, saying: “For much of the past 30 years and more, a change of government ultimately had a relatively limited impact on the UK equity market, as policy settings didn’t change too dramatically. However, this may not be the case if we see a Labour government take power under its current leadership, given its very different policy approach.
“It is certainly plausible that the Labour party could ultimately moderate some of its more radical policy ideas; the alternative could be the most significant political shift in the UK since the end of the 1970s.”
In forecasts for bad scenarios for UK stocks, Morgan Stanley highlighted the prospect of the Brexit process unravelling.
“If the UK and EU find insufficient grounds for compromise and/or we see a change in the domestic political backdrop in the UK which leads to a new prime minister (possibly from either party). Fresh uncertainty around a trade agreement starts to cloud the economic outlook in the Euro area in addition to the greater woes envisaged for the UK,” the report said.
“Even though the UK economic news flow hasn’t been as bad as some feared, the UK equity market has underperformed materially over the past year. Its relative valuation is now down to its lowest level since the height of the TMT [technology, media and telecoms] bubble.
“Given this depressed backdrop, it is quite plausible that we see a relief bounce in some UK assets if and when the Brexit negotiations move on to the next stage. However, we think it unlikely that any such move would be particularly long-lasting, given that uncertainty levels look set to remain elevated for much of the next year or more.”
A Labour spokesperson said: “The next Labour government will provide the major boost to investment that business groups like the CBI and the FSB have been calling for, protect 95% of people from any tax rises and ensure our public services work for people not profiteers.
“The banks and hedge funds will not be allowed to bring our economy to its knees again. Labour will put an end to the rigged economy that benefits only the super rich, to build a society that works for the many not the few.”
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Leonard Cohen penned a poignant final letter to his dying muse Marianne Ihlen, a longtime friend of hers revealed on Canadian radio.
Ihlen, whom Cohen wrote about in So Long, Marianne and Bird on a Wire, died in Norway on 29th July, aged 81.
Cohen met her on the Greek island Hydra in the 1960s and they became lovers. So Long, Marianne appeared on his 1967 album Songs of Leonard Cohen.
Her close friend Jan Christian Mollestad got in touch with Cohen to tell him Ihlen was dying.
“It took only two hours and in came this beautiful letter from Leonard to Marianne. We brought it to her the next day and she was fully conscious and she was so happy that he had already written something for her,” Mollestad said.
Mollestad, a documentary maker, read Cohen’s letter to her before she died. “It said well Marianne it’s come to this time when we are really so old and our bodies are falling apart and I think I will follow you very soon. Know that I am so close behind you that if you stretch out your hand, I think you can reach mine.
“And you know that I’ve always loved you for your beauty and your wisdom, but I don’t need to say anything more about that because you know all about that. But now, I just want to wish you a very good journey. Goodbye old friend. Endless love, see you down the road.”
Mollestad told CBC that when he read the line “stretch out your hand,” Ihlen stretched out her hand. “Only two days later she lost consciousness and slipped into death. I wrote a letter back to Leonard saying in her final moments I hummed Bird on a Wire because that was the song she felt closest to. And then I kissed her on the head and left the room, and said “so long, Marianne.”
Leonard Cohen’s Facebook page also marked Ihlen’s death.
“The death last week of Marianne Ihlen, the woman immortalised in So Long, Marianne, has evoked an overwhelming response from those who knew Marianne well, those who knew her only as Leonard Cohen’s muse, and even those who previously didn’t know there was a real Marianne,” a post said.
Ihlen’s funeral was held in Oslo on Friday.
Guardian Service
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A billionaire Chicago family that has donated and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for President Obama got a deal from the federal government to avoid paying all of a $460 million settlement it agreed to in the 2001 failure of a Chicago-area bank it owned, while 1,400 former depositors are still owed more than $10 million in lost savings.
And now, 11 years later, the prospect that any of the depositors will get their money back is bleak.
The Pritzker family, which made its fortune in hotels and manufacturing, agreed to a $460 million settlement offer in December 2001 to avoid sanctions and civil lawsuits in the failure of Superior Bank in Hinsdale, Ill.
But after paying $316 million of the interest-free debt, the family quietly struck a deal with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) in June 2011 to discount the balance in return for paying off the debt early.
“We have been stiffed again,” said Fran Sweet, 67, a depositor still owed $70,000. “It is a lot to lose. We are not wealthy people. We are white-collar and blue-collar workers who saved this money, [or] thought we saved this money.”
John W. Courtney, 67-year-old Vietnam veteran and construction worker still owed $50,000, said, “I worked hard for the money. [The Pritzkers] signed an agreement that got them off the hook, and now they are backpedaling. A deal is a deal. Who gave the FDIC the right to discount the note?”
Ms. Sweet and Mr. Courtney are among 1,400 depositors still owed $10.3 million at the end of March, records show. The FDIC Insurance Fund is still out $296 million after paying off Superior’s insured depositors. It is highly unlikely the remaining depositors or the FDIC will receive much more money since nearly all of the settlement funds have been paid out, according to records and interviews.
“The depositors got nicked coming, going and after the fact,” said Clinton Krislov, a lawyer who represents depositors whose accounts exceeded the $100,000 covered by FDIC insurance. “The depositors have gotten all they will from the Pritzkers.”
The Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), which regulates federal savings associations, closed Superior and its 18 branch offices on July 27, 2001. The bank failed, the OTS said, because of its aggressive strategy of making high-risk subprime loans to borrowers with troubled credit histories.
At the time, OTS said the bank “suffered from poor lending practices, improper record keeping and accounting, and ineffective board and management supervision.”
Joint partnership
Superior was purchased in 1988 for $42.5 million by a partnership involving the Pritzkers and New York real estate investor Alvin Dworman. The partnership operated through Coast-to-Coast Financial Corp., a holding company.
It was one of the first banks in the 1990s to turn to subprime loans, which target high-risk borrowers at higher interest rates. Recipients of those loans often have delinquency or default histories, bankruptcies or limited debt experience, and eventually begin defaulting on their mortgages.
The dramatic rise in those defaults and foreclosures, banking and government analysts said, eventually led to the housing crash and resulting financial crisis a decade later.
Despite the bank’s failure, the Pritzkers have continued to make money — 11 of the heirs are billionaires, according to Forbes magazine. One of those heirs, Penny Pritzker, was the national finance chairwoman of Mr. Obama’s 2008 presidential race and has “bundled,” or collected, between $100,000 and $200,000 for his current campaign.
In 2009, Mr. Obama named her to the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board to help solve the nation’s financial crisis. Mrs. Pritzker and her husband, Dr. Bryan Traubert, have donated more than $133,000 directly to Mr. Obama’s political campaigns, election records show, and they and other family members have helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions for him over the years.
Mrs. Pritzker, whose fortune has been estimated by Forbes at $1.7 billion, is now founder, chairman and chief executive officer of PSP Capital Partners.
Mrs. Pritzker took over as chairwoman of Superior in 1991, serving in that position until 1994, when she stepped down for a seat on the board of directors at Coast-to-Coast Financial.
Despite Superior’s failure, the Pritzkers have begun to invest in banks again. In 2010, the Pritzker Family Foundations LLC (PFF), of which Mrs. Pritzker is president, invested $503,000 in Community Bancorp, which later became Cadence Bancorp. Cadence raised $1 billion from investors.
In April 2011, Cadence — with financial guarantees from the federal government — bought from the FDIC substantially all the assets of a failed bank in Birmingham, Ala., ironically also named Superior Bank. The Alabama bank, which is not related to the Pritzker’s earlier defunct bank in Illinois, was the largest bank failure of 2011.
‘Investment vehicle’
Susan Anderson, spokeswoman for Mrs. Pritzker, said PFF is owned by a consortium of nonprofit charitable 501(c)3 tax-exempt organizations headed by Pritzker family members. She said the Cadence investment was intended to help the organizations award grants, primarily in the areas of education, science, health, art and culture.
Ms. Anderson described PFF’s investment in Cadence as “minuscule,” with no decision-making authority. She also said Mrs. Pritzker had “no knowledge of, nor was she involved in” the Superior settlement agreement that led to the early payment to the FDIC, saying it was handled by trustees for the Pritzker family.
She also said that when Mrs. Pritzker was Superior’s chairwoman, the bank achieved high ratings from the OTS, adding that she was never accused of any wrongdoing.
But OTS records show the agency identified “concerns” with Superior’s mortgage-banking operations as early as July 1993 and reported in June 1994 that its continued investments in subprime mortgage pools exposed the institution to a “somewhat greater risk than normal.”
In a February 2002 report, the General Accounting Office — since renamed the Government Accountability Office — noted that Superior’s management began to focus on its subprime lending business in 1993 by acquiring Alliance Funding Co., from which the bank adopted a business strategy that included the targeting of borrowers nationwide “with risky credit profiles, such as high debt ratios and credit histories that included past delinquencies.”
In 2008, Mrs. Pritzker’s attorney, Kevin Poorman, told The Washington Times that while his client had stepped down as Superior’s chairwoman in 1994, she wrote a letter on May 31, 2001, as a Coast-to-Coast board member urging the bank to make an expanded push into subprime loans in an effort to save itself.
“Your resolve and dedication is a primary reason for the past successes of the bank and will once again restore Superior’s leadership position in subprime lending,” she wrote.
The bank was shut down 57 days later.
Critics have cited that letter as evidence of Mrs. Pritzker’s continuing stewardship of the bank and her advocacy for a subprime lending practice that Mr. Obama has criticized. During a campaign speech in July 2008 in Pennsylvania, Mr. Obama said the nation’s mortgage crisis “has to do with the fact that people got suckered into loans they could not pay” — adding that the banks and financial institutions that made the loans were “making money hand over fist,” but knew that many of the deals were “just too good to be true.”
Played no role
White House spokesman Eric Schultz declined to comment on the Pritzkers’ dealings with the FDIC, referring inquiries to Ben LaBolt, spokesman for the Obama campaign. Mr. LaBolt also declined to comment, but a campaign official who asked not to be named said the campaign played no role in the decision to give the Pritzkers a discount.
The $460 million settlement agreement called for the Pritzkers to pay $100 million upfront and the balance over the next 15 years in annual payments of $24 million. The Pritzkers also were not required to pay interest on a $360 million promissory note. As the receiver, the FDIC collected the money and made payments to the depositors and the FDIC Insurance Fund.
Records show the Pritzkers still owed the federal government $144 million in June 2011 as they negotiated a payoff deal. The FDIC and Ms. Anderson cited confidentiality in refusing to disclose the amount of the discount or how much the Pritzkers paid to settle the debt.
FDIC spokesman David Barr said only that the agency considered the debt paid in full.
Since 2001, the government has paid $43.7 million to Superior depositors whose accounts exceeded the $100,000 covered by FDIC insurance — about 81 percent of the $53.9 million they had in uninsured deposits the day the bank was shut down. As of March 31, records show, the FDIC had $12.9 million in its Superior receivership account, but owed $375 million to the FDIC Insurance Fund, the uninsured depositors and other creditors.
“The uninsured depositors will get pennies,” said Bert Ely, a banking consultant who heads Ely & Co., an Alexandria financial-institutions and monetary-policy consulting firm. He said there was not enough money left to make the depositors and the FDIC whole, adding that of the remaining $12.9 million, the first $1.8 million would go to pay administrative costs and the remaining $11.1 would be split — 97 percent to the FDIC and 3 percent to the depositors.
The Pritzker’s half-million-dollar Cadence investment has drawn fire from the uninsured depositors and their attorney.
“Clearly, people who run a bank into the drink should not get another bank until the depositors are paid,” said Mr. Krislov. “Owners of a failed bank should not be approved for future bank ownership while former depositors remain unpaid.”
In a letter, Ms. Sweet told the FDIC it should “prohibit the Pritzker family from investing in FDIC-insured banks until former Superior depositors are made whole.” She said she was “outraged” the family was “once again trying to make an opportunistic play off of the federally insured banking system.”
Mr. Courtney said the Pritzkers getting back into banking was “a kick in the teeth” to depositors like him who are still waiting to get their money. He also said he was annoyed that every time he gets a payment check from the FDIC, the agency charges him $25 for handling. “It is just another kick in the ass.”
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When I became vegan on January 16, 2013, I never realized what all I was giving up. Although I do not regret going vegan and will be one for the rest of my life, there are some things that are annoying and overrated with making this life decision. Making this life change was one of the hardest choices of my life, but I did not know that the biggest struggle would be other people. Yes, I do miss the simplicity of going through a drive through and getting a meal without having to special order it. However, the largest issue I find myself running into, same as with many other vegans, is the fact that you feel degraded by others who seem to treat you as an outcast. Here are some of the things I miss since becoming vegan:
1. People will ask you constantly about your protein intake.
Usually when I someone finds out I am vegan, one of the very first questions I get asked is if I get enough protein. Long story short, there is protein in everything. Beans, grains, legumes, and nuts have more protein, so they are easy ways to get that balance. I eat now without feeling bloated, and I get the right about of protein needed per day instead of eating more than needed.
2. People will quiz you about what you eat.
Don't get me wrong... I love being able to enlighten people about the alternatives to eating animal products. However, sometimes these questions are asked in more of a forced way, such as, "How do you not eat meat?" or "Does vegan food even taste good?" If you ask a vegan, or anyone with different from the norm of eating habits, what one eats, you will likely get an answer, but try your best to seem as if they are doing something wrong.
3. People will make jokes.
I get it, really, I do. There are jokes, such as "How do you know if someone is a vegan? They will tell you!"... besides the fact that the subject agreement is wrong with that statement (haha), the reason you can usually tell if someone is a vegan is because food gets brought up into discussion. However, picking jokes at one's eating habits really does get tiring after a while.
4. You will likely feel responsible to look a certain way.
Of course, we all have the social pressures of how we are "supposed" to look. However, those pressures are much more intense when people assume that vegans can only eat fruits and vegetables (since most do). Vegans can eat anything that does not contain animal products; meaning chips, potatoes, even some candy is fair game. Not every vegan is going to look like one is in shape to go to the Olympics, and the pressure to look that way is uncalled for.
5. You will get questions when you go out to eat and will more than likely be asked if you can eat anything.
Eating at the same places I did before going vegan isn't the difficult part. Taking off the cheese and/or meat from a dish seems simple, but one is usually asked additional questions, such as "Are you sure?," which can come off in more of a negative way than intended. Also, people try to be considerate by asking where you eat, but it makes you into more of a spectacle instead of someone who eats differently than average. Unless it's an all meat restaurant, vegans are used to adapting.
6. You will be made up to be a big deal.
I have been vegan for a while now, and no, it's not the first thing I bring up a conversation, despite popular belief. However, when the vegan can is opened, there seems to be no way of shutting it. Questions, comments, reactions, stares . . . it's almost as if you are a rare animal in a cage at a zoo. As much as I understand that people want to ask questions because it is interesting to them, I do wish it was more common to be vegan, or even vegetarian for that matter, because then I could feel more normal.
7. You will miss being oblivious to the reality.
The reality of why many vegans are vegan is flabbergasting. Despite the health and environmental benefits, animals' lives are finally respected. However, what comes with that is the problem of knowing what you used to be ignorant to. Without getting into too much detail, ignorance is bliss. But, I do not regret being vegan and learning about what truly happens to the innocent animals that are taken advance of everyday, no matter the difficultly that comes along with the knowledge.
Becoming vegan is one of the most rewarding things I have ever done. Don't get confused by this and assume that I don't like being vegan. It's one of my favorite things about me, although the comments can be overwhelming.
If you become vegan, know that you will have to grow a tough skin.
If you are vegan, I'm sure you can relate to this to your life.
And if you aren't vegan, I hope this article helps you realize the impact you can easily have even if you are trying to be helpful.
Here are some websites to help you either along your vegan journey or simply to educate yourself more with why vegans take the leap to veganism:
www.peta.org
https://www.vegansociety.com/
http://vegankit.com/be/
http://www.vegan.com/how/
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The following is one of my favorite running stats on the stock market:
Over the years I’ve noticed that whenever these types of long-term numbers are presented there tend to be two extreme responses:
See, put your money in stocks, close your eyes and you’ll be fine in a couple decades. Who has a twenty year time horizon? How many people have the patience to wait that long?
There is some truth in each of these statements, but as with most things the historical data is never black or white, but a shade of gray. The future is uncertain, so investors should always think in terms of probabilities, never guarantees. What this data tells me is that the longer your time horizon, the higher your probability of seeing a gain in the stock market.
Does this mean that you’re guaranteed to earn a certain level of returns in stocks if you hold them for a specfied time frame? No.
Will these same results be guaranteed to repeat themselves in the future? No.
Has anyone figured out a better way of compounding your money in stocks beyond increasing your holding period? Not many.
Are there investors out there who actually have twenty year time horizons? Absolutely — Millennials just starting out in their career, middle-aged workers playing catch-up with their retirement savings and even retirees who will likely have 2-3 more decades to invest during their retirement years. The difference in each case comes down to how much each of these investors should hold in stocks and what their needs are in the meantime.
I like to think that every single retirement contribution has it’s own twenty or thirty year time horizon.
The usual caveats apply here — these numbers are before inflation, taxes or costs are taken into account (although one of the biggest benefits about a longer holding period is that you can reduce the impact of trading costs and taxes on your portfolio). With that disclaimer out of the way, here are a few more interesting long-term stock market stats I found while computing these numbers:
The worst total return over a 20 year period was 54%. But the worst 30 year total return was 854%.
The standard deviation of annual returns over 20 and 30 year time frames has been remarkably low — just 1.3% and 2.8%, respectively. The volatility in returns has historically fallen off a cliff as you extend the time horizon in the market.
Volatility in the stock market during the 1930s was insane. Not only did the market drop more than 80% during the Great Depression, but during that period there were two separate quarters that saw stocks rise in excess of 80%.
In contrast to the large losses seen in 1930s, the bull market of the 1980s and 1990s produced an amazing run of gains for long-term investors. If you would have invested at any point between 1973 and 1985 you would have earned anywhere from 12-18% per year over the following twenty years.
Annual returns are all over the place and rarely do investors experience average performance in any given year as you can see from this graph:
Further Reading:
What Constitutes Long-Term in the Stock Market?
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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend star and creator Rachel Bloom has co-written a song for The CW's upcoming musical crossover between The Flash and Supergirl, BuzzFeed News can exclusively reveal.
Bloom told BuzzFeed News in a statement that as soon as she heard the two series were doing a musical crossover, she e-mailed The CW president Mark Pedowitz, who connected her with the shows' executive producers Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg. "I immediately offered them my services," Bloom wrote. "As soon as they picked one of my song ideas, I hopped on the phone with my old Robot Chicken boss Tom Root and we brainstormed and, based on that brainstorm, I wrote up the song ‘Super Friend.’ I am so excited to contribute more to the upward trend that is musicals in television and film. Music can be one of the most amazing and efficient forms of storytelling and character development. Also, it was really fun to write a comedy song for two superheroes.”
“Super Friend" will be performed by Grant Gustin and Melissa Benoist in "Duet," The Flash portion of the two-episode crossover, airing March 21 (the musical action kicks off at the end of Supergirl's March 20 episode). Jesse L. Martin, Victor Garber, Carlos Valdes, Jeremy Jordan, and John Barrowman will also be singing in the episode, which will include Glee alum Darren Criss as Music Meister, aka the musical's big bad.
The episode will also feature an original song written by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (La La Land, Dear Evan Hansen) called “Runnin’ Home to You” that Gustin will perform.
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Hon. James M. Flaherty Minister of Finance Dear Minister Flaherty: Saw your recent letter warning Queen’s Park against illegal tax hikes. Kind of you to b.c.c. (blind copy) us while blindsiding Charles Sousa, your provincial counterpart. You addressed the treasurer, but it’s clear your hit-and-write tactics were aimed at all Ontario voters.
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Unsolicited advice, even unsolicited snarls, are always welcome. Thought I’d reciprocate. Perhaps we too can become pen pals. Your latest letter takes federal-provincial pugilism to a new level of aggression — lecturing and hectoring Sousa by telling him what he already knows: That he cannot create a regional GTA sales tax, a tax he has neither imposed nor proposed. You set up a straw man for our tax man, then burn it at the stake.
When the smoke clears, you grudgingly acknowledge Sousa has every legal right to raise the HST on a provincewide basis to help bankroll transit construction and infrastructure. In your next breath, you huff and puff about the perils of raising that tax from 13 to 14 per cent. Ahem, let’s go back in time to 2001-02, when you reigned as Ontario’s mighty treasurer: What was the combined federal-provincial rate? Oh, right — an unforgivable 15 per cent. You presided over a sales tax higher than the one you now deem unbearable. (True, as federal finance minister you carried out Stephen Harper’s opportunistic 2006 campaign promise to cut the old Tory GST from 7 per cent to 5 — a plan derided by economists for launching you on a track of perennial deficits.) Now fast forward to your latest finger wagging. At the very time civic leaders are trying to bridge the gap between right and left, muting political gridlock in order to address traffic gridlock, you toss a hand grenade.
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“We did not lower the GST to have it taken away from Ontarians by the Wynne government with a new sales tax hike,” you thundered. Sousa replied to your broadside by seeking a meeting. Your response? Not even the courtesy of a reply. Just a couple of televised retorts and rants declaring that you won’t deign to meet Sousa until he first forswears his right to raise revenues dedicated to transit. “If the government of Ontario can’t make that commitment, then I won’t meet with them,” you taunted. Churlish diktats and puerile preconditions are poor form. I don’t recall you berating Manitoba for its April plan to hike its sales tax by one point, or Nova Scotia when it raised the HST. And I haven’t heard you offer more federal funding, beyond your paltry 4 per cent share of the billions required for transit. How to explain your gratuitous, righteous, anti-Ontario rhetoric? It’s a muscle reflex. You have never broken the habit of putting down the province you represent in Ottawa. A year ago, the PM had to rein you in for running down Ontario’s finances. In 2008 you recklessly advised investors, “The last place you will go is the province of Ontario.” And you’re working for the people of Ontario? Thankfully, your bluster doesn’t reach beyond Parliament Hill and the gridlocked roadways of your Whitby-Oshawa riding. When you bizarrely tried to browbeat the big banks into raising their mortgage rates from a bargain-basement 2.99 per cent last March, they breezily ignored you (five-year rates didn’t budge for months). Rather than make yourself more irrelevant, why not make common cause with the province on transit, given that you represent many of the same people? The train is leaving the station, and you are going in the wrong direction: Janet Ecker, Ontario’s one-time Progressive Conservative treasurer (who took over from you in 2002), sits on the Metrolinx board and backs its recommendation for an HST hike allocated to transit and roads. John Tory, who defeated you for the provincial PC leadership in 2004, also argues that “dedicated” revenues are needed now. Ontario’s Chamber of Commerce is also onside. So too is Toronto’s board of trade, which reacted to your provocative letter by seeking a meeting. You still haven’t made time for them — or us. Instead, you align yourself with a raving Rob Ford in the mayor’s hour of need, feeding your shared addiction to cracking provincial heads. You cast yourself as a fearless tax fighter. But in the one area where you could truly help Ontario taxpayers — giving them equal treatment under your antiquated equalization program, which siphons $11 billion a year from this province to the rest of Canada — you continue to suck and blow and siphon at the same time. Last week, your erstwhile soul mates at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation complained that “Ontario taxpayers are getting the short end of the stick.” But not a word from our fiery finance minister. Why do all these appeals for a fair hearing keep falling on deaf ears? Stop dictating letters. Start taking meetings. Don’t just hector — help us! Respectfully, A GTA taxpayer and commuter Martin Regg Cohn’s provincial affairs column appears Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. [email protected] , twitter.com/reggcohn.
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U.S. public radio network NPR will establish a bureau in Seoul and launch it next year, the station announced this week.
“We are delighted to announce the opening of a bureau in Seoul,” Christopher Turpin, NPR’s acting senior vice president of news, said. ”This continues the tradition of NPR’s international coverage that goes beyond the headlines to bring strong voices and well told stories to our listeners at home, providing the necessary context to understand how world events affect our daily lives.”
Elise Hu was appointed as the Seoul bureau chief, and will oversee multiple countries in northeast Asia, including Japan.
“Hu, who covers the intersection of technology and culture for NPR’s on-air, online and multimedia platforms, will take on a new role as NPR’s Seoul reporter,” the station said.
NPR is a non-profit membership media organization network that produces and distributes news and cultural programming to various radio platforms nationwide in the U.S.
Hu expressed her excitement for the job, mentioning a recent “daydreaming contest” held in Gwanghuamun, central Seoul.
“We’re planting the NPR flag on an action-packed peninsula!” she wrote on her blog. “Can you imagine the culture stories? This is the place where they just hosted a competition to see who could zone out the longest. That is gold.”
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The World Health Organization in 2001 defined probiotics as "live micro-organisms which, when administered in adequate amounts, confer a health benefit on the host" [1] and are able to prevent or improve some disease conditions. Consumption of probiotics is associated with a range of health benefits including stimulation of the immune system, protection against diarrheal diseases, nosocomial and respiratory tract infections, lowering of cholesterol, attenuation of overt immuno inflammatory disorders and anticancer effects [2, 3]. Most Probiotic microorganisms belong to the genera Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium; however, other bacteria and some yeast may also possess probiotic properties. Lactobacilli are usually described as Gram-positive, non-spore-forming and non-flagelated rods or cocobacilli, aerotolerant, fastidious, acid-tolerant, and strictly fermentative. A recent study revealed that the probiotic Bacillus coagulans MTCC 5856 in combination with an aqueous extract of cinnamon has strong synergetic effects on phagocytosis and on regulation of cholesterol and blood sugar levels and also confirmed that the combination reduced intestinal damage in mouse model of colitis [4].
The commercial interest in functional foods containing probiotics strains has consistently increased due to the awareness of the benefits for gut health and disease prevention and therapy [5]. Some probiotics have been shown in preliminary research to possibly treat various forms of gastroenteritis [6]. It is important to note that health benefits provided by probiotics are strain specific, and not species or genus-specific. Therefore, it should be noted that no probiotic strain will provide all proposed benefits, not even strains of the same species, and not all strains of the same species will be effective against defined health conditions [7–10]. The results of genotypic sequencing indicated that the B. coagulans MTCC 5856, the probiotic strain under study, showed more than 99 % similarity with B. coagulans ATCC 31284 (1048/1050; differed in only 2 of 1050 base pairs), B. coagulans ATCC 7050 (1049/1050; differed in only 1 of 1050 base pairs) and B. coagulans NBRC 3887 (1049/1050; differed in only 1 of 1050 base pairs). Thus, B. coagulans MTCC 5856 shared more than 99 % 16S rDNA sequence homology with B. coagulans NBRC 3887, B. coagulans ATCC 31284 and B. coagulans ATCC 7050 but differed in few base pairs (Majeed et al. Unpublished data). This was an indication that different strains of the same species may have different phenotypic and genotypic profile. Therefore, the evaluation of B. coagulans MTCC 5856 efficacy in IBS patients is essential.
Probiotic bacteria B. coagulans MTCC 5856 has been in the market as a dietary ingredient for nearly two decades, under the trade name LactoSpore®. B. coagulans MTCC 5856 is a room temperature stable, lactose free and non-GMO probiotic preparation with GRAS status. The strain MTCC 5856 has the ability to withstand high heat and has been included in functional baked foods [11]. Recent study suggested that the B. coagulans MTCC 5856 did not alter either genetically or phenotypically and was found to be consistent over multiple years of commercial production [12]. However, the safety of B. coagulans MTCC 5856 has not been adequately established in diarrhea predominant IBS patients. Thus, the current double-blind, placebo-controlled, multi-centered, two arm study was conducted to evaluate B. coagulans MTCC 5856 safety and efficacy as dietary supplement in patients receiving standard care of treatment for diarrhea predominant IBS patients.
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Image copyright PA Image caption Campaigners have been struggling to get their message across in the early stages
American generals like to talk about "preparing the battlefield". And so it has been with the EU referendum campaign.
There have already been eight weeks of skirmishes but Friday is the curtain-raiser on the official EU referendum campaign.
That still leaves a longer period before voting than a general election. And the campaign is unlikely to catch fire until May when other polls are out of the way - mayoral/local contests and elections for the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and Northern Ireland Assembly. (For more on those elections, see our guide.)
What the opening rounds of the referendum campaign have been about so far is testing lines and arguments and trying to embed a narrative in the minds of the voters. The lesson of the Scottish referendum was "don't leave it until the final weeks".
This initial period has only confirmed what many continental Europeans regard as "Britain's eternal ambiguity towards Europe".
One French paper opined a couple of years back that "the British have only ever been interested in the single market and the rest of the European project leaves them indifferent".
It is not entirely true, but many of the initial debates revolve around a cost-benefit analysis; how much do we put in and what do we get out.
One commentator described it as a "bean-counting" referendum. You certainly don't hear much about the vision of the European project.
It is clear that the Remain campaign believes its strongest card is the economy and risk.
David Cameron has warned of an "economic shock" from leaving the EU. All kinds of figures have been used to forecast the hit to UK living standards - perhaps by as much as 10%, suggests one European research institute.
Image copyright PA Image caption David Cameron has warned of an economic shock from Brexit
The Remain side points out that when Boris Johnson declared for the Leave campaign the pound had one of its steepest falls since October 2009. Already uncertainty has knocked 0.3% off growth forecasts.
At risk, they argue, is not just sterling but foreign investment and the UK's balance of payments. And the UK will have to renegotiate more than 100 international trade and investment agreements.
So on to the Remain stage are summoned various business titans, American bankers, European business organisations and some of the heads of mighty European companies. All with the same message: "risk".
And this week the IMF, one of the heavier guns, has warned of "severe regional and global damage" - a risk not just to the UK but the world economy. The pulpit of the White House will shortly be deployed with a similar message.
Project fear
The Leave campaign responds to all this as "project fear".
Initially Leavers were repeatedly asked what life would be like after a British exit from the EU.
After flirting with the Swiss, Norwegian or Canadian model they, too, now talk more about risk.
For them the real risk is staying in an unreformed EU that they depict as the slow-growth region of the world economy.
Image copyright EPA Image caption Boris Johnson has generated much publicity for the Leave campaign
Dr Gerard Lyons, chief economic adviser to Mayor Boris Johnson, says: "The economies that will succeed need to be flexible, adaptable and control their own destiny."
Leave campaigners concede there might be some short-term pain but in the longer run they predict benefits from being outside the EU.
Yes, trade agreements would have to be renegotiated, but who wouldn't want to trade with the world's fifth largest economy?
The business community, they argue, is not of one mind and the IMF misjudged the impact of austerity on Greece.
Many of the claims, counter-claims and warnings from both sides are hard to assess.
For example, it was asserted that "leaving the EU would mean deep funding cuts for the NHS". Not long after, another group argued that leaving could free up funds that could be injected into the health service.
In the campaign so far what is rarely referred to is the deal that David Cameron returned with from Brussels in February. "Red cards", "emergency brakes" and release from "ever closer union" scarcely get a mention.
EU reform deal: What Cameron wanted and what he got
EU deal: What will it mean for Cameron at home and abroad?
The Leave campaign has decided to base its pitch on the ideal of control, of regaining control of the British economy, of borders (although the UK is not in Schengen) and of sovereignty.
It is an appeal to the gut, and the heart. The Remain campaign understands that passion as much as facts will determine the outcome.
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Sir John Major has warned of the possibility of emotion trumping reality
The former Prime Minister Sir John Major said: "The underlying mantra of the Out campaign is - and I use their words - 'I want my country back'. It is an emotional appeal but a bogus one. If emotion trumps over reality, we will lose power, prestige, security and some of our future well-being."
On Tuesday this week the former Foreign Secretary David Miliband called on those arguing for Britain to remain in the EU not to "cede passion or patriotism to the other side".
The chairman of the think tank Open Europe, Lord Leach of Fairford, said: "Voters are little better informed about what the future might look like inside or outside the EU. Brexit will not be an economic disaster and it will not be a utopia. There are tough choices involved in Brexit - nothing comes for free. Withdrawal from the EU is likely to result in an initial economic cost but Britain can prosper if it takes a liberal approach to trade, immigration and regulation post-Brexit."
And here's the problem. So much of this for the voters will be difficult to quantify and to weigh the risks and opportunities.
Image copyright AP Image caption David Miliband said the Remain campaign must be as passionate as its opponents
Mujtaba Rahman, from the Eurasia group, says: "If Cameron's team is not able to win the economic argument - something they have been heavily focused on over the last eight weeks - they are unlikely to win the vote."
Some people tell me they expect a sterling moment when a poll triggers a further slide in the currency or a wobble on the financial markets - a development that could influence the vote.
But the Leave campaign also waits on events - a possible deepening of the European refugee crisis; a further bruising of the reputation of the prime minister; or the suspicion of elites that has been a feature of recent European polls.
The Remain campaign believes that ultimately voters won't take risks with the economy; they'll stick with the status quo. The Leave campaign believes it can sell the promise of a UK free from EU control.
Significant effort is going into establishing facts and debunking myths. But passion will be a factor in the outcome of a referendum which must judge the future.
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Can’t … stop … playing.
Photo by Antonio Guillem/Shutterstock
Summoners War (sic) is not a good video game. I should know; I play the free-to-play title from Com2uS daily, mindlessly clicking through repetitive scenarios for hours on end. I do this in spite of knowing that the game is irredeemable. I can offer no justifications for this behavior because I don’t think there are any. The game is tedious. It’s derivative. It’s dumb. It lacks substance. It’s uncreative. It’s a cynical machine designed to trick fools into parting with their hard-earned money. No one should ever play it. So why the heck can’t I stop playing this thing?
If you’re a gaming snob, like I am, then you already know that the sort of “game” you can get for free on a tablet or a smartphone is hardly even worthy of the name. The “gameplay” consists of poking dumbly at a tiny screen. The “story” is forgettable to the point that I can barely bring an outline of it to mind. If it stands out, it is for being even more packed with tedious minutiae than your average MMORPG. If gaining competency through the accumulation of useless knowledge is your bag, then there are certainly enough tiny, boring, mundane, verging-on-incomprehensible details to master as you advance in Summoners War.
If you’ve never heard of it, don’t worry—unlike more popular freemium titles such as Clash of Clans or Plants vs. Zombies 2, no one else has either. But the basic outline will seem familiar if you’ve ever played Pokémon: Collect monsters, help them grow stronger, fight them against others. It’s not exactly breaking new ground.
Perhaps part of the appeal—though I don’t exactly mean appeal, per se, I think I really mean potential for compulsion-forming—is that there’s a built-in measure of automation in the game, allowing one to play it all the time. You can grind scenarios and level-up evolution fodder at work. You can farm for high-level runes or awakening materials while doing the dishes (sort of—be sure to have a dry towel at hand for wiping off your touch screen finger). You can even write an article for Slate while farming the Hall of Light for a rare inugami secret dungeon. In fact, you can do just about everything you normally do in a distracted, mediocre, half-aware way, all while obsessively replaying whichever level it is that you’re currently grinding. Do this for enough hours (or days, or even weeks in some cases), and you’ll eventually earn a reward. This will briefly satisfy you, and then you’ll forget about it completely in your hunt for the next absolutely useless must have thing you need for your advancement.
[Totally Unavoidable Interruption]
During the writing of this piece, the author actually did find the rare secret dungeon for a light inugami. It was therefore incumbent on the author to cease all non-SW activity for the duration of the hourlong secret dungeon period, in order to accumulate the 40 summoning pieces necessary to summon this important monster.
[Interruption Ends]
Anyone who’s taken an intro-level psych course will be familiar with the concept of intermittent reinforcement, whereby a reward for the desired behavior is given … occasionally. I’m no psychologist (just a former psych major), but I have a dim memory of cocaine-addicted rats endlessly pressing disconnected levers and ultimately starving to death. That image keeps surfacing as I write about the experience of participating in free-downloadable gaming. There are ancient levers in our brains, and once these have been activated they will channel our behavior in certain predictable directions. Even knowing what a cynical trap I’m in, I find myself still looking forward to bragging about the secret dungeon I found to my friend Drew next time I see him. I know Drew has already spent hundreds of dollars on the game and that there are countless other people like him who have been convinced that $30, $50, or $100 at a time was not too much to spend for a package that would increase their chances of summoning a rare and powerful monster. This isn’t just a harmless diversion for semi-unsuspecting fools like yours truly—it’s big business, and the way it works is quite insidious. Although you can play for free, indefinitely, and get quite far along, the temptation to spend money for an upgrade is repeatedly dangled in front of you. And while all of the content can be accessed, the highest echelons of player-vs.-player combat are practically unattainable for free-to-play customers.
Thus far, my frugality has kept me from wasting my money in the same cavalier way I’ve been wasting my time. But you, gentle reader, may not be so lucky. I must therefore encourage you, in the strongest possible terms, not to start playing Summoners War or any of the other games of its ilk. It’s too late for me, but perhaps my cautionary tale will help you save yourself.
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Large, solid barriers have been installed on the London and Westminster Bridges, along with temporary installations in the capital in St. James’s Park and Buckingham Palace.
Germany
In Frankfurt, where the streets radiating from the city’s main train station were closed for the Bahnhofsviertel night street festival last week, the authorities took no chances. They added 3-ton concrete barriers, mindful of the attacks in Europe, most notably a truck assault that killed 15 people last year at a Christmas market in Berlin.
Over the past year, said Thomas Feda, the head of tourism for the city of Frankfurt, the threat posed by vehicles has led to the creation of a new industry. Security companies are trying to help cities develop more effective ways to protect their residents, while also preserving access for emergency vehicles.
Each city and region develops its own security measures. Although little has changed in everyday life for Germans, concrete barriers have become commonplace at festivals and gatherings from Düsseldorf to Berlin. That includes the Museum Embankment Festival in Frankfurt this weekend and the “Fan Mile” in Berlin, stretching from the Brandenburg Gate to the Tiergarten, for a German Cup soccer match.
The authorities in Munich have added security measures for Oktoberfest, requiring that all delivery trucks entering the festival grounds register in advance and leave the premises by 9 a.m., at which point visitors will be allowed to enter. In previous years the beer tents opened to the public at 8 a.m.
France
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A Few Good Men is a play by Aaron Sorkin, first produced on Broadway by David Brown in 1989. It tells the story of military lawyers at a court-martial who uncover a high-level conspiracy in the course of defending their clients, two United States Marines accused of murder.
It opened on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre in New York on November 15, 1989, in a production directed by Don Scardino, with Tom Hulce as LTJG Kaffee, Megan Gallagher as LCDR Joanne Galloway and Stephen Lang as Col Jessep. Michael O'Hare replaced Lang as Jessep later in the run.
Sorkin adapted his work into a screenplay for a 1992 film directed by Rob Reiner, produced by Brown and starring Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, and Demi Moore. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and the Golden Globe for Best Screenplay.
Summary [ edit ]
A Few Good Men- Aaron Sorkin Author of- Aaron Sorkin
The play takes place after the death of US Marine Private Santiago as the result from an ill-advised informal punishment labelled a "Code Red" at a US naval base in Guantánamo Bay. Private Downey and Lance Corporal Dawson are the two Marines put on trial for the murder of Santiago. The two men are assigned a lawyer, US Navy Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee. Kaffee is an unmotivated lawyer who goes into his cases looking for a plea bargain and the shortest sentence. It seems to be following that exact path until US Navy Lieutenant Commander Jo Galloway makes an appearance in Guantanamo Bay. Kaffee and Galloway do not see eye to eye as she believes this is a serious case of misconduct while Kaffee can not be bothered with it. He even goes as far as trying to drop the case. The two men are being put on trial because Santiago had reported he had seen a guard illegally fire his gun at night while off the base. This was Santiago's way out as he up to that point had been a lackluster Marine and had fallen behind too much. It seemed to be a clear-cut case of two men trying to cover up a mistake and eliminate a loose end. After Galloway finally got to Kaffee they spend much of the play prodding information from both men as they will not give information without a clear question. This all leads up to the climax as Kaffee finally has all the information he needs and goes for the two head men at the camp in Col. Jessep and Kendrick. Kaffee puts Jessep in a corner while implying that Santiago did not have to be moved if Jessep had given the order to not touch him as all his men listen to him. Finally, Jessep explodes with rage and yells "You can't handle the truth!" This leaves the courtroom stunned and Jessep being charged with the murder of Private Santiago and escorted out of the courtroom. But this was not the end as Dawson and Downey were found not guilty of murder but were dishonorably discharged for conduct unbecoming a Marine.
Characters [ edit ]
LTJG Daniel A. Kaffee - The main lawyer who will defend both Dawson and Downey. He starts as a plea-bargain happy lawyer and with a little help from Joanne Galloway, he develops into a lawyer who is willing to fight for his clients.
Pfc. Louden Downey - one of the two men accused of the murder of Santiago. He is the quiet member of the two soldiers and lets Cpl. Dawson do the talking for him.
LCDR Joanne Galloway - a hardworking and determined lawyer who finds and brings light to the murder case.
Capt. Isaac Whitaker - the commanding officer in Washington. He sends Galloway to Guantanamo Bay.
Lt. Jack Ross - the lawyer who oversees prosecuting Dawson and Downey.
Capt. Matthew A. Markinson - worked with Jessep and suggested moving Santiago.
Lt. Col. Nathan R. Jessep - the commanding officer in Guantanamo Bay. He ordered the murder of Private Santiago.
LCpl. Harold W. Dawson - one of the two men accused of the murder of Private Santiago.
1Lt Jonathan James Kendrick - Santiago's platoon commander.
Play [ edit ]
Sorkin got the idea for the play from a phone conversation with his sister Deborah, who had graduated from Boston University Law School and was serving a three-year stint with the Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps.[1] She was going to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to defend a group of Marines who had come close to killing a fellow Marine in a hazing ordered by a superior officer. Sorkin took that information and wrote much of his story on cocktail napkins while bartending at the Palace Theatre on Broadway.[2]
Several former Navy JAG lawyers have been proposed as the model for the character of Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee, USN, JAG Corps. These include Donald Marcari, David Iglesias, and Walter Bansley III.[3][4] The court martial was Macari's first big court case.[5] However, in a statement released by his spokeswoman, Sorkin said, "The character of Dan Kaffee in A Few Good Men is entirely fictional and was not inspired by any particular individual."[6]
Once Sorkin completed a draft, his theatrical agent sent it to producer David Brown who wanted the film rights. Sorkin sold Brown the rights, getting Brown to agree to also produce A Few Good Men as a play.[7]
Premieres [ edit ]
A Few Good Men had its world premiere at the Heritage Repertory Theatre at the University of Virginia's Department of Drama on September 19, 1989.[8] It then transferred to the Kennedy Center.[7][9]
The original Broadway stage production opened at the Music Box Theatre in New York on November 15, 1989, in a production directed by Don Scardino, designed by Ben Edwards, and with music by John Gromada. It starred Tom Hulce as LTJG Kaffee; Megan Gallagher as LCDR JoAnne Galloway; Clark Gregg as Lt. Jack Ross; Stephen Lang as Col Jessep, and Robert Hogan as Capt. Matthew A. Markinson. Replacement actors included Timothy Busfield and Bradley Whitford as Lt. Jack Ross (understudy for Kaffee),[10] Perry King, Michael O'Hare, and Ron Perlman as Jessep, and Pamela Blair as Galloway. Joshua Malina also appeared. Malina went on to reprise his role in the movie adaption.
The production ran for 497 performances.
Other performances [ edit ]
A Spanish-language production titled Hombres de Honor opened on January 10, 1991, at the Ferré Performing Arts Center in Puerto Rico, starring Cordelia González and Rafo Muñiz, directed by Pablo Cabrera.[11]
A national touring company performed through 1992 with Michael O'Keefe as LTJG Kaffee, Alyson Reed as LCDR Galloway, and Paul Winfield as the judge.
In January 1993 A Few Good Men had its premiere in German language at the Volkstheater, Vienna, Austria (translation: Gunther Baumann, director: Erhard Pauer, Daniel Kaffee: Alfons Haider). In the following years this production went on tour and was shown all over Germany, Switzerland and Austria (German title: Eine Frage der Ehre/A Question of Honor).
A revival of the play starring Rob Lowe in the role of LTJG Kaffee, Suranne Jones as LCDR Galloway and John Barrowman as Capt Ross, opened at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, in late August 2005 for preview showings followed by a three-month run in early September 2005. The stage show was directed by David Esbjornson.
In 2006, the Hudson Shakespeare Company of New Jersey staged a production as part of their second stage for modern shows. The tour was presented in city courtrooms, directed by Jon Ciccarelli and featured notable NYC actors such as Jon Crefeld as LTJG Kaffee and Charles J. Roby as Col. Jessup.
Jensen Ackles appeared as LTJG Kaffee alongside Lou Diamond Phillips as Col Jessep in a production of the play at the Casa Mañana Theatre, in Fort Worth, Texas, June 5–10, 2007.
It has also been performed in London, Oxford and Portsmouth by amateur groups.
A Hungarian production of the play was performed at Madách Szinház, Budapest. It was directed by Imre Kerényi, starring Sándor Czvetkó, Éva Kerekes and Gábor Koncz.
By the Book Theatre produced the play November 25, 2014 to December 6, 2014 at the McManus Studio Theatre, London, Ontario. The production won 4 Brickenden Awards including Outstanding Drama.
June 30, 2016 marked the opening of the Warehouse Studio Theatre production at The Noho Arts Center under the direction of Tony Pauletto and starring K. C. Clyde as Kaffee alongside Dennis LaValle as Jessup and Sarah Klein as Galloway.
In March 2016, NBC announced its intent to broadcast a live television production of A Few Good Men, starring Alec Baldwin as Col. Jessup, in the second quarter of 2018, with a teleplay adapted by Sorkin from his original script. The broadcast would be executive produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, and patterned upon NBC's ongoing series of live Broadway musicals.[12][13] However, NBC has yet to announce an airdate. Variety reported that the availability of Sorkin, Zadan, and Meron may have had an impact, noting that Sorkin had to represent his 2017 film Molly's Game during awards season, while Zadan and Meron (who have produced all of NBC's live musicals) were committed to other projects (such as Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert in 2018, and an upcoming production of Hair in 2019) being produced by NBC in lieu of Bye Bye Birdie, which has been delayed multiple times in order to accommodate Jennifer Lopez's other projects.[14]
Awards and nominations [ edit ]
The Broadway production earned Megan Gallagher a 1990 Theatre World Award and a Best Actor nomination for Tom Hulce at the 44th Tony Awards.[15]
Source material and legacy [ edit ]
The play is based on events that took place at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in July 1986, though various details were changed for dramatic purposes. Members of Rifle Security Company, Windward Side, 2nd Platoon believed that one of their number, Pfc. William Alvarado, was a malingerer and had informed about a Marine firing across the border into Cuba.[3] In a retaliatory hazing (called a "Code Red"), ten Marines seized Alvarado, blindfolded him, stuffed a rag in his mouth, beat him and shaved his head.[3] Alvarado was seriously injured, but did not die.[3] Of the ten Marines, seven accepted other than honorable discharges as part of a plea bargain, but three, including David Cox, refused to accept the plea bargain and went to court.[3] Cox was defended by Don Macari. Cox was found not guilty of aggravated battery, but guilty of the misdemeanor charge of simple assault. He was sentenced to time already served in the brig, and returned to active duty.[3]
Cox was honorably discharged from the Marines in 1989. When he saw the film version of A Few Good Men, he was upset at the liberties taken with the event, most notably that the Marines in the case were dishonorably discharged, and considered suing the filmmakers. Cox disappeared in 1994. He was found murdered, along a riverbank near Medfield, Massachusetts.[3]
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The camera is one of the most important features of a smartphone, particularly at the high end. As we see other areas of mobile hardware are starting to plateau, there's still a lot of space for the already great cameras of today to improve. In years past we've seen a push towards higher resolution sensors alongside new-fangled technologies like three-axis OIS, phase detection autofocus and laser-assisted autofocus. But this year, Samsung, one of the strongest phone makers in the area of digital imaging, might stop chasing megapixels and focus on other areas. The rumor mill suggests that the Samsung Galaxy S7 will include a main camera with "only" a 12-megapixel sensor, the lowest resolution in a Samsung flagship since 2012's Galaxy S3. But to focus on resolution alone is to miss the big picture. There are some good reasons for Samsung to go with fewer pixels — here's why and how they might do it in 2016.
We can't say for sure that the GS7 won't use BRITECELL, but there's a strong case against it. Back in November at its 2015 Investor Forum, Samsung showed off BRITECELL, its latest image sensor tech for smartphones. BRITECELL is designed to cram ever tinier pixels onto image sensors without sacrificing low-light capabilities. Traditionally, smaller pixels mean less surface area for soaking up photons, and thus poorer low-light performance. BRITECELL sensors reportedly measure in at just 1.0μm, down from the 1.12μm pixels of the Galaxy S6's Sony IMX240 sensor, with resolutions of up to 20 megapixels. BRITECELL sensors at 1.0μm have low-light capabilities comparable to a traditional RGB sensor with 1.12μm pixels, according to Samsung's slides. But if the reports of a 12-megapixel sensor in the Galaxy S7 are true, it would appear Samsung is taking a more traditional path to improving low-light performance. That's not to say the sensor definitely isn't a BRITECELL unit, but if Samsung was using this technology, it would probably go for a higher resolution part. (Otherwise a 12-megapixel BRITECELL sensor with the low-light capabilities of a regular 1.12μm-pixel sensor might actually be a downgrade compared to the GS6.) Instead, a good parallel for what we might find in the Galaxy S7 is the sensor from the Nexus 6P and 5X, Sony's IMX377. This 12-megapixel part boasts larger, 1.55μm pixels, which is why the 6P and 5X can get away with taking decent low-light shots even without optical stabilization. A similar (and, by high-end Android standards, comparatively low) camera resolution in the Galaxy S7 might suggest a focus on low light performance, especially if it's paired with optical stabilization and the rumored f/1.7 lens. To put it simply: When you're taking in more light through a wider aperture, and soaking up more of that light on larger pixels, your low-light pics are going to look better.
Samsung's cameras don't need to get any better in daylight — low light is where high-end phones will differentiate themselves in 2016.
Samsung's phone cameras don't need to get any better in daylight — they already perform spectacularly well in well-lit conditions. Low light is where phones will differentiate themselves in the high-end market of 2016. So perhaps it's worth taking a small hit to your display resolution if it means you're able to take the best photos in the dark.
So why develop BRITECELL if your flagship phone isn't going to use it? Well, Samsung is a huge conglomerate, and its imaging arm also makes sensors for firms which compete with its mobile division in the smartphone world. Samsung's smartphone arm — like any phone maker — is also free to choose the best components from any vendor. This is why we've seen Galaxy flagships use CPUs from Qualcomm, not Samsung, and image sensors from Sony, not Samsung, in previous years.
Samsung will use whatever internal hardware makes sense — whether it's a Samsung part or not.
For this reason it's also short-sighted to think that BRITECELL (or any other Samsung technology) exists just to be used in the next Galaxy S or Galaxy Note. Samsung debuted its homegrown ISOCELL technology in the Galaxy S5, but most of its successors eschewed this in favor of Sony's rival IMX240. Having in-house options for sensors and processors means Samsung can be vertically integrated where it makes sense, but product considerations will always come first. The bottom line? If the rumors are to be believed, we can expect the Galaxy S7 to blow its predecessors out of the water in low-light photography. A 12-megapixel sensor, probably with much larger pixels than the GS6 or Note 5, combined with a bright f/1.7 lens and optical stabilization, could turn out to be one of the best smartphone cameras of 2016. And just because BRITECELL exists, doesn't mean it's coming to the next Galaxy flagship. But as always, nothing's final until it's announced, boxed up and put on store shelves. We'll know more when the Galaxy S7 lands, likely at Mobile World Congress this February.
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Claim: Pope Francis once said “Women are naturally unfit for political office.”
FALSE
Example: [Collected via e-mail, March 2013]
Did Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, really once say this? Did Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, really once say this? “Women are naturally unfit for political office. Both the natural order and facts show us that the political being par excellence is male; the Scripture shows us that woman has always been the helper of man who thinks and does, but nothing more.”
Origins: This quote about Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s stating that “Women are naturally unfit for political office” was circulated in the immediate aftermath of his selection as pope in March 2013 and was supposedly voiced by him in 2007 in reference to Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s successful candidacy for the presidency of Argentina that year. However, no documentation or reference for this quote antedating March 2013 has been found other than a single source of dubious veracity, as noted in an article denouncing the statement as an “urban legend” on Foros Perú:
I’m an acid critic of the Catholic Church, but I alway try to maintain objectivity. I’m an acid critic of the Catholic Church, but I alway try to maintain objectivity. So I searched for a reliable source for the quote attributed to the new Pope Francis I, supposedly made when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires. But apparently it is just a malicious invention. Jorge Mario Bergoglio has not yet served his first 24 hours as pope and the far left is already using the dirty propaganda tactic of lying, attributing to him a specific false statement supposedly made when he was archbishop of Buenos Aires in 2007, even though there was no trace of the quote on the Internet prior to yesterday. These false statements about Monsignor Bergoglio saying that “women are naturally unfit for political office” were posted on Yahoo Answers by an Argentinean using the handle “Bumper Crop.” This user posted what seemed to be an official report from the Argentinean news agency Telam but included no source link. A thorough Google search shows that before March 13, 2013, there was no other trace of such a statement on the Internet, except in the Yahoo Answers forum. If the Argentinean media had published an official report from the Telam news agency documenting the openly misogynistic statement of an archbishop, leftist Argentine media, forums, blogs, etc., Would have echoed it and prompted a scandal. But there is no documentation for the alleged statement, no sign of it before the hoax began spreading widely yesterday. In fact, the website of the Telam news agency includes no evidence of such statements. Despite the lack of evidence, a Mexican atheist organization spread these false statements on Facebook last night, reaching 18,000 followers in 13 hours and achieving nearly 11,000 shares. The dissemination of this hoax was furthered today when the Costa Rican daily newspaper El Pais published the hoax quotation without documentation, skipping the most basic of journalistic ethics and saying only that it was “a wire report from the Argentinean state news agency, Telam,” which had been circulated on the Internet.
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At 34 years of age, David Ortiz has just become the all time hits leader at the DH position.
With a double in the second inning off of Seattle Mariners’ starter Aaron Harang, Ortiz has passed Harold Baines on the list. This is just another positive feat in what could be a career year for the storied Red Sox’s slugger. Ortiz is hitting an impressive .330/.411/.621 with 18 homers and 62 RBIs on the season, and has already been worth 2.7 WAR, despite not making his season debut until April 20th with a heel injury.
This is just another milestone in an impressive career for Ortiz. He became the all time home run leader for the DH position in 2009 and has held the position down firmly. Ortiz also ranks 7th all time in RBIs (1388) for Designated Hitters over an impressive career that has spanned nearly 17 years, and he isn’t slowing down. Over his career, he’s been a .287/.381/.550 hitter with 419 career homers. His best season was, arguably, 2007 when he hit .332/.445/.621 with 35 homers and 117 RBIs. While Ortiz has played first base in his career, he was never a very good fielder. He has made a career out of hitting and is the prime example for what a DH should be.
Here is the video of his achievement- http://wapc.mlb.com/play/?c_id=bos&content_id=28788941&partnerId=as_mlb_20130711_9677314
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Khmer Rouge's 'chief ideologue', foreign minister and head of state face charges of crimes against humanity [Reuters]
A top Khmer Rouge leader on trial at Cambodia's war crimes court has been confronted with dramatic footage in which he defends the regime's bloody purges and calls the victims "traitors".
Prosecutors told the court on Tuesday that the clip from the 2009 documentary "Enemies of the People" showed the 1970s movement had a policy of killing enemies and those it regarded as disloyal.
Nuon Chea, known as "Brother Number Two" and seen as the regime's chief ideologue, showed no emotion as the short clip of him was shown on the second day of opening statements in the trial at the UN-backed court in Phnom Penh.
"If these traitors were alive, the Khmers as a people would have been finished so I dare to suggest our decision was the right one," Nuon Chea tells a Cambodian journalist in the clip.
"If we had shown mercy to the people, the nation would have been lost."
Also on trial are Ieng Sary, the regime's former foreign minister, and Khieu Samphan, a former head of state. Like Nuon, Ieng, 86, and Khieu, 80, avow innocence.
But Andrew Cayley, the prosecutor, said the trio could not solely blame Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge's late leader, for the atrocities perpetrated by the regime. Up to two million people are estimated to have been killed between 1975 and the Khmer Rouge's removal from power by a Vietnamese invasion in 1979.
"To this day, Nuon Chea insists that the people they murdered... were all enemies or traitors," Cayley said of the mass executions.
“The accused cannot credibly claim they did not know and had no control over the crimes that occurred'' when the group ruled what they called Democratic Kampuchea, he said.
Still-traumatised nation
Nuon Chea said the accusations against him were false.
"Whatever has been indicated in the opening statements is not true. My position in the revolution was to serve the interest of the nation and the people," he said.
The long-awaited case, the tribunal's second and most important, is seen as vital to healing wounds in the still-traumatised nation.
Missing from the courtroom is a fourth accused Khmer Rouge leader, Ieng Thirith, dubbed the regime's "First Lady" and the only female leader to be charged by the court. Ieng was ruled unfit for trial last week because she has dementia.
Led by "Brother Number One" Pol Pot, who died in 1998, the Khmer Rouge emptied cities, abolished money and religion and wiped out nearly a quarter of Cambodia's population in a bid to create an agrarian utopia.
Owing to fears that not all of the accused, who are in their 80s and suffer from various medical ailments, will live to see a verdict, the court recently split their complex case into a series of smaller trials.
The UN-backed tribunal, which was established in 2006, has tried just one case, convicting Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, the former head of the regime's notorious S-21 prison, last July and sentencing him to 35 years in prison for war crimes, crimes against humanity and other offenses.
Cayley said Duch would be a key witness in the case against Nuon Chea and his co-defendants.
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For a list of every task sorted by certain requirements, see Achievements/All achievements.
The Karamja Achievements is the first set of Achievements, released with the launch of Old School RuneScape on 22 February 2013. It is one of eleven achievement sets in Old School RuneScape. Pirate Jackie the Fruit is the task master. She is located near the Brimhaven Agility Arena.
Contents show]
Easy
Skills Needed 15 Agility 40 Mining
Quests required None
*Please note - If the table is not highlighting green when clicked, please click the reset button*
Rewards
Medium
Skills Needed 30 Agility 50 Woodcutting 16 Cooking 65 Fishing (boostable) 27 Farming 41 Hunter 40 Mining
Rewards
Hard
Skills Needed 44 Runecrafting 53 Cooking (boostable) 40 Smithing (boostable) 34 Woodcutting 50 Strength 53 Agility 50 Thieving 52 Mining 42 Ranged 100 Combat 50 Slayer
Rewards
Karamja gloves 3 Unlimited teleports to the underground portion of the Shilo Village mine
1 Antique lamp worth 10,000 experience in any skill above 40
Access to the underground portion of the Shilo Village mine
Elite
Skills Needed 91 Runecrafting 72 Farming 87 Herblore
Quests required None
Rewards
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As networks bask in higher ratings and elevated ad rates thanks to the deluge of coverage devoted to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, media observers and business news veterans warn that outlets are doing serious long-term damage to their credibility.
In February, CBS chairman Les Moonves celebrated at a conference how Trump’s role in the presidential race was helping CBS line its pockets with political ad money, saying, “It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.” He added, "I've never seen anything like this, and this going to be a very good year for us. Sorry. It's a terrible thing to say. But, bring it on, Donald. Keep going."
Meanwhile, CNN’s obsessive Trump coverage has reportedly led to complaints from network employees. But according to The Huffington Post, network president Jeff Zucker has waved off concerns, telling employees that there had been “too much handwringing” about how the media and CNN had handled Trump.
While Trump may be making news executives happy right now, many media observers and business news veterans tell Media Matters that outlets are dropping the ball with their Trump coverage.
According to David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times investigative reporter who has written several pieces critical of Trump in recent months, “News organizations do lasting damage to their long-term credibility by covering the presidential campaign on Trump’s terms rather than from the perspective of the public interest.”
He added, “There is a rich record to be mined, but only a few people are digging and most of those are highly focused on this specific gem, not the whole. It’s the duty of journalists to collect the many loose threads of Trump’s life and weave them into the fabric of narrative that gives meaning for readers, listeners and viewers.”
David Zurawik, Baltimore Sun media reporter, also said the open-ended coverage with little or no fact-checking or editorial judgment is dangerous for news outlets.
“When [viewers] start to sense or believe it is a kind of game, that the cable channels aren’t really covering this as news and it is really about other reasons, people can get cynical and have long memories about that,” he said. “It is especially dangerous for CNN, who is doing well and getting ratings but doing it indiscriminately. And being the cable channel with the most credibility to lose, they are long term the ones who could be hurt worse by this. This is a dangerous game for them.”
Michael Hiltzik, a Los Angeles Times media columnist, called Moonves’ comments “devastating” for CBS.
“In terms of its position as a carrier of the public interest, it is a concession that it doesn’t have the public interest in mind," Hiltzik said.
He later said, “The cable networks have already lost credibility because they have had so much difficulty in dealing with Trump’s approach, they have been very bad at challenging his misstatements, his lies, giving the audience the proper context.”
The New York Times on Monday called the coverage “a struggle” for networks, adding, “the television news industry is wrestling with how to balance fairness, credibility and the temptations of sky-high ratings as it prepares for a presidential matchup like none other.”
And they are not alone in that view.
“The rules of journalism still apply. It has to be credible and offer the proper context,” said Jeremy Smerd, editor of Crains New York and a former politics reporter. “That is something news outlets have to be worried about in terms of credibility. When they start buying into the talking points of the Trump campaign it undermines their credibility.”
He later added, “News outlets need to do more than be his amplification, they need to be his filter, Donald Trump continually changes his message and it is hard to know what he really means.”
“It almost completely erases the distinction between news value and entertainment values,” said Ed Wasserman, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. “The news media adopting him as an asset and as a crowd pleaser and as a magnet for audience hits. It confers stature on him and wins him supporters with the coverage he is getting, credibility and a seriousness about him as a candidate when there is nothing in his record that satisfies that.”
He added, “This is going to go down as one of the historic [press] failures, on a par with the run up to the Iraq War. The press has not bothered with him as a serious candidate.”
Rick Edmonds, a media business analyst for The Poynter Institute, said the presidential campaign “is more like a reality show than the pundit class would like to admit. Some of the errors like broadcasting so many of his rallies live and settling for phone interviews were a product of that.”
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Pregnancy rates and abortions are both the lowest they’ve ever been since the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics began keeping track, according to a new federal report published today.
Statisticians analyzed the latest available data on rates of pregnancy, abortion and fetal loss (miscarriages) from 2010 to get a better picture of reproductive trends.
The new report found that in 2010, both the pregnancy rate and abortion rate fell to record lows since 1976. Miscarriages and abortions also evened out; of the pregnancies in 2010, 65% resulted in live births, 17% were miscarried and 18% ended in abortion.
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“Much has been written about the birth rate, and much about the abortion rate, but a lot are shown separately,” says report co-author Sally Curtin, a statistician with the National Center for Health Statistics. Analyzing the numbers together helps put them in context.
MORE: Abortions In The U.S. Continue To Decline
“If we put abortions in context, you can see that in a given year, the numbers of abortions, which is 1.1 million, is about the same as fetal loss,” Curtin says. “It used to be very different, if you look back; the number of abortions in 1976 was almost twice that.”
Compared to 1990, when these numbers were last tracked, pregnancy rates were lower for women under age 30—especially for teens 14 and under, who saw a 67% reduction. Teenagers 15-19 had a 50% reduction in pregnancy rates. But women 30 and over saw a rise in birth rates, and women 40 and over saw a 70% increase (although the actual numbers for them were much lower than the other groups.) Racial gaps also narrowed between black, Hispanic and white women.
MORE: The Teen Birth Rate Is At An All-Time Low
The study wasn’t designed to determine cause, so the authors won’t speculate on reasons for the drops. Still, it’s helpful to observe the downward trends in most of the numbers. “The beauty of the report really is that it presents a comprehensive picture of fertility,” Curtin says.
Write to Mandy Oaklander at [email protected].
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OCZ Storage Solutions will showcase a new range of SSD drives at Computex 2015. The all new series, from the Toshiba Group owned company, are to be called the OCZ Trion 100 range. These 2.5-inch/7mm drives will become OCZ's new value-oriented SSD range aimed at users seeking to upgrade their SATA-6Gb/s desktop or laptop systems.
Key performance components of the OCZ Trion 100 drives include Toshiba's Alishan SSD controller and its premium A19 TLC (triple-level cell) flash memory technology. Available later this summer, the series is touted as one that will "deliver a superior balance of performance, reliability, and value". Example performance statistics from the new Trion 100 drives include figures demonstrating up to 550MB/s of bandwidth and up to 91,000 random read IOPS.
TLC NAND is generally considered less durable than MLC (multi-level cell) NAND but is the most affordable variety of this type of memory. With a good firmware and controller configuration it can still provide the basis of a fast and reliable SSD, giving several years of service. Thus these OCZ Trion 100 drives could be some of the most competitive entry-level SSDs yet produced.
OCZ won't just be showing off entry level flash products at Computex. The firm is also exhibiting its upcoming Z-Drive 6300 NVM Express (NVMe) Add-In-Card (AIC) for enterprise customers. A new member of the Z-Drive series, this 6300 model will offer transfer speeds approaching 3GB/s and up to 700,000 IOPS with capacities up to 6.4TB. The already available Z-Drive 6000 will be on demonstration too.
OCZ's complete portfolio will be on display at booth #J0224 at the Taipei World Trade Center Nangang Exhibition Hall. At this time we don't have a release date for the Trion 100 range except 'later this summer'. Hopefully we will find out the pricing before release, perhaps as early as next week at Computex.
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An Astonishing Colorist Laura Martin By Jennifer M. Contino
March 1, 2006
Award-winning colorist (and Sequential Tart 's Art Director) Laura Martin sat down with us to answer a few quick questions about her upcoming plans for world domination — both in and out of comics.
Sequential Tart: You're working on, among other things, one of the highest profile comics that Marvel currently puts out, Astonishing X-Men . As someone who, generally, likes to be kind of a private person, how does it feel to be working on something like this that has everyone talking, voicing opinions, and, probably, asking you a million questions at conventions, in email, and through other sources?
Laura Martin: I'm loving it! I admit that I don't read a lot of the press, except for the letters in the back of the book, but every once in a while a review will catch my eye and I blush at the praise — not just for me but for Joss and John and for the characters. The truth is, I just love this book, and would pick it up even if I wasn't working on it, which is high praise indeed as I don't read much superhero stuff anymore. So all the buzz over it is well deserved, in my oh-so-very humble opinion. Me? I'm just happy to be here!
I don't mind answering questions about the work I do. Since I don't hang out on messageboards as much as I used to, and I've cut down my convention attendance — I don't get sought out that much. Which is nice, because then I can take the time to chat with the few people who do seek me out. :)
ST: When you work on several different projects at one time — as you're usually spending your days, nights, and every other waking moment doing, how do you differentiate the pallette between them? What factors determine your color style for each book?
LM: Overall, I'll adjust my palette a certain way depending on the story. Take a look at the three Cassaday books I'm on — I Am Legion is a grim thriller set in World War II; Planetary is a modern-day detective tale with supernatural overtones; and Astonishing X-Men is a straight-up superhero story. So each book has a specific overall palette, even though it's the same artist on all three books. I wouldn't use X-Men Yellow in a WWII setting, for instance, nor would I use such an earthy palette in X-Men .
Beyond that, I try to differentiate each scene by its color scheme. I like it when each scene is noticeably different from other scenes in the book. You'll notice that especially in Ultimates, where we're spanning numerous locations, from the Triskelion to characters' homes to the streets of New York ... each location has its own palette, but it still corresponds with the story and mood.
ST: Have you ever colored a project straight from pencils — like some comics are being created now? If so, how is that different than working with inks? If not, is it something you'd like to attempt in the future?
LM: I colored some Ultimate Fantastic Four colors over pencils; on the first two or three, I had a hard time, but I eventually got the hang of it. The approach is looser, sketchier; I use the pencil or hard brush tool to create deliberate strokes, and don't even touch the gradient tool, which is what I use quite often in my regular work. It does require a lot more attention to detail and therefore a lot more time. When it comes out right, it's totally fun; when it doesn't, it's excruciatingly frustrating.
The Serenity miniseries was also colored over pencils, but that was an odd situation — Will Conrad drew the pages as if they were going to be inked. For instance, rather than creating different values of shading with the pencil, which I could have then tinted, he crosshatched all of his shadow areas. All I had to do was darken the pencils, and suddenly it looked like it had been inked. I was caught in a conundrum: do I darken the pencils and color it "straight" (as if it were inked), or do I obliterate most of Will's work and create my own shadows to make it look "painted"? Eventually the deadline dictated what I did. I really think it was my least successful project, ever, and a big part of me wishes I could go back and take the other path. Especially since I loved the TV show Firefly so much.
Would I do another project like this? I really don't know. I think I'd have to powwow with the artist first to see how he or she is approaching the art, and hopefully share my own ideas and approaches. Digitally painting a book should be a collaborative effort all the way, even more so than with standard coloring.
ST: As someone who probably gets offers on a daily basis to color one series or another, what factors — aside from the payment of course — influence whether or not you really want to take on another assignment?
LM: The biggest factor is time. I'm notoriously bad about overextending myself; as you mentioned before, it seems like I'm always working. So I have to take great care in predicting whether my schedule can handle the extra work. Especially since I'm in school now, and homework has to take priority on occasion. Sure, the art and the story have their influences, but by and large it's the time factor that will make or break my decision.
ST: If one of our readers is thinking about possibly coloring comics as a career, where would you direct him or her to learn more about this and to find help that would let them make an educated decision whether to pursue the career or not? What do you think are some of the best resources to help in cases like that?
LM: Probably the best primer for a beginning colorist is Mark Chiarello's The DC Comics Guide to Coloring and Lettering Comics . (2004, Watson-Guptill Publications) It's a great handbook for everything from color theory to troubleshooting strategies. It assumes a general basic knowledge of Photoshop, which any colorist student should already have, although the steps are clearly described even for a beginner Photoshopper.
Another great resource is GuruEFX's How to Color for Comics (2004, Antarctic Press) series. The series goes into greater detail about technique and style. This should be within reach of any new colorist's Wacom tablet.
Beyond that ... there are tons of discussions on Gutterzombie.com about all sorts of specific issues, plus critiques and feedback from some of the industry's best and most prolific colorists. There are also discussions about the less savory side of coloring, such as the heinous deadlines, the constantly-shifting page rates, questionable contracts and shady publishers. When it comes to actually making a living in this industry, that's your best bet for a "street education".
ST: How, in just the time you've been a colorist professionally, do you think the industry has changed the most?
LM: I've noticed two major and interrelated changes: One, there wasn't much manga available in comic stores in 1995; now it's paying the rent in many stores. As a result, female fans — particularly of the teen and tween variety — have also increased exponentially. Girls don't come to the conventions just to accompany their boyfriends; now it's the boyfriend who gets dragged along in the fangirl's wake. It's good to see girls in comics stores, although I don't know if they're even looking at the American books ...
Those are huge changes, but the biggest change by far has been the Internet. In 1995, the Internet existed, but modems were too slow to handle large graphics. The consumer-level broadband modem provided a delivery system capable of publishing comics on the web. Online comics grew into their own category. Fans could interact more directly with their favorite creators and publishers. Reviews could be published the day the comic hit the stands. Dozens of comics journalism sites cropped up. Books could be ordered from online distributors or directly from the publisher. Excitement or apathy about a particular project could spread quickly and could make or break that book's future. People have access to books that aren't available in the U.S. — including manga. The impact on the market is HUGE.
ST: When you think about the future, is coloring comics something you think you'd be happy doing until you "retire" or do you have dreams of doing something else — either in comics or another field?
LM: There are so many things that I want to do that I can't even list them all here! Every time my interest gets piqued, I start dreaming about launching myself off in a different direction. In fact, I'm going back to college, contemplating a major in visual effects or animation. I do know that I'd like to do more digital painting on my own, maybe expand into illustration or matte paintings (backdrops for film) ... maybe learn how to make maquettes ... who knows where this will lead me?
So what I'm trying to say is, I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. :)
But I always come back to comics. I like my career; it's been extremely good to me. I would have a very hard time giving this up, and will probably keep one foot in coloring as long as I can — and as long as my pencilers and editors want me!
ST: Where can our readers see more of your work?
LM: Before you ask: No, I don't have a gallery website. The closest thing I have is my Livejournal Scrapbook which contains some portfolio pieces, as well as personal and school projects. In print: Keep an eye out for Astonishing X-Men , The Ultimates , and Planetary ; also, the English version of I Am Legion Vol. 2 should be hitting the racks any time now! And if you just want to chat about colors, stop by Gutterzombie. I'm there at least once per day. See you on the Intarwub!
Laura Martin Scrapbook A place where you can see some of Laura's portfolio pieces.
Gutterzombie A place where colorists and those interested in that field hang out and chat about the industry.
The DC Comics Guide To Coloring and Lettering Comics An excellent source for budding colorists to learn more about the field.
GuruEFX's How To Color For Comics Another fine resource for those interested in coloring comics.
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At least 21 people including some students were killed when a passenger bus fell 50 feet off a bridge in Odisha’s Angul district this morning. While 14 were killed on the spot, 7 others died in the nearby hospital. Another 30 have been admitted to hospitals in nearby Angul town and Cuttack. Among the injured, at least 15 are stated to be serious.
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Maharaja, a passenger bus was on its way to Athmallik in Angul district from Boudh district when the driver reportedly lost balance and swerved the vehicle off the bridge on old Manitri bridge. The bus had another 40-odd km left to reach its destination. An eyewitness, Arun Behera, said the driver was talking over phone when a kid riding a bicycle suddenly came from the opposite side. “The driver suddenly took a left turn and broke off the bridge railings,” said Behera.
Loud wailing rented the air as soon as the 10-year-old bus smashed against rocks and pebbles lying below the bridge. District collector Anil Samal said the bus has been completely damaged in the accident. “All the passengers have been taken out of the vehicle,” he said. “Arrangements are being made to shift the injured ones to Angul and other hospitals,” said Samal, adding that all the injured are being treated for free.
Chief minister Naveen Patnaik announced ex-gratia assistance of Rs 2 lakh for the next of the kin of the deceased while Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan expressed their condeolence over Twitter. The prime minister said. “Bus accident in Odisha’s Angul district is heart-rending. My thoughts & prayers are with the bereaved families & injured.
Transport minister Ramesh Majhi asked Angul regional transport officer to investigate the cause of accident and submit report by this evening. Among the dead are 4 school students of Boudh. So far identity of 5 deceased have been known.
This is the second bus tragedy this year in Odisha. In April this year, 27 members of a jatra troupe were killed when a bus carrying it plunged down to a 300-feet gorge in Deogarh disrict during evening hours. While some of the passengers of the bus alleged the driver was drunk and had picked a fight with the owner hours before the accident, transport department officials said the vehicle did not have a fitness certificate for last 3 years.
Odisha has the highest road accident rate among all the states. National Crime Records Bureau statistics say 4,303 people died in road accident last year while 4299 persons died due to same in 2014. In 2013, 4,062 persons died in road accidents. Since 2009, Odisha is losing more than 3,500 lives in road accidents every year. State Crime Records Bureau officials said 50 per cent of accidents occurred on national highways, 25 per cent on state highways and the rest 25 per cent on the remaining roads. The major share of the road victims are pedestrians, cyclists and two-wheeler vehicles.
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Concerned over rising road accidents, the Supreme Court Committee (SCC) on road safety has asked the State Government to install speed limiters in the commercial vehicles. The state transport department has meanwhile identified 144 black spots identified on different roads including both National and State Highways to prevent road mishaps. Of the 144 black spots, 64 have been located on State Highways followed by 52 on National Highways .
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"That's what makes Donald Trump more dangerous than any person out there," MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said on his show a week after Trump's tweet. "He will bring up stuff that nobody else will bring up."
While other GOP candidates indicated they wouldn't make Bill Clinton's sexual improprieties an issue in the campaign — Hillary's Democratic rival Bernie Sanders has said the same — Trump was making it plain he would.
" If Hillary thinks she can unleash her husband, with his terrible record of women abuse, while playing the women's card on me, she's wrong!" Donald Trump tweeted at the end of December. He was referring, of course, to his potential Democratic rival for the presidency, Hillary Clinton, and her husband, Bill.
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"If Hillary thinks she can unleash her husband, with his terrible record of women abuse, while playing the women's card on me, she's wrong!" Donald Trump tweeted at the end of December. He was referring, of course, to his potential Democratic rival for the presidency, Hillary Clinton, and her husband, Bill.
While other GOP candidates indicated they wouldn't make Bill Clinton's sexual improprieties an issue in the campaign — Hillary's Democratic rival Bernie Sanders has said the same — Trump was making it plain he would.
"That's what makes Donald Trump more dangerous than any person out there," MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said on his show a week after Trump's tweet. "He will bring up stuff that nobody else will bring up."
And Scarborough had a specific figure from Bill Clinton's past in mind.
"People in the know always talk about Jeffrey Epstein."
Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein is a financier and political donor. He is also a convicted sex offender who is the subject of ongoing litigation from at least a dozen of his then-underage victims.
Flight logs show Bill Clinton traveled at least 10 times on Epstein's private jet, dubbed the "Lolita Express" by tabloids, and he is widely reported to have visited Little St. James, Epstein's private island in the US Virgin Islands. That's where, according to attorneys for Epstein's victims, many of the worst crimes against minors were committed by Epstein and friends who traveled there with him.
In a 2011 interview with her attorneys, Virginia Roberts, one of the teenagers preyed upon by Epstein, said he had told her he had "compromising" information on Bill Clinton and that the former president "owes me a favor."
Yet despite Bill Clinton's ties to Epstein and Trump's stated willingness to make Clinton's sexual past an issue in the campaign, Trump will almost certainly avoid bringing up Epstein's name. Because in addition to haunting Bill Clinton's past, Epstein also haunts Trump's.
* * *
Trump's attorney Alan Garten told VICE News last week that the presidential candidate had "no relationship" with Epstein, and only knew him because Epstein was a member of Mar-A-Lago, Trump's private club and residence in Palm Beach.
"A lot of people hung out there, including Jeffrey Epstein," Garten said. "That is the only connection."
But according to someone with intimate knowledge of the situation, Trump and Epstein appeared to have a somewhat stronger connection.
"I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,'' Trump told New York magazine in a 2002 profile of Epstein written three years before Epstein began to be investigated. "He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life."
When asked about a subpoena served to Trump in 2009, Garten said it "never happened." The subpoena called for Trump to give a deposition in a case against Epstein; Garten's denial baffled Brad Edwards, one of Virginia Roberts' attorneys.
"There is no debate over what happened," Edwards told VICE news. "I served Mr. Trump with a subpoena for deposition in 2009. He talked to me voluntarily, and consequently we withdrew the subpoena in light of his voluntarily providing information…. I can't imagine there being any dispute of any of this."
Edwards also said that it is "obvious" Trump himself was not involved in any of Epstein's illicit activity.
Three days after denying the subpoena, Garten emailed VICE News.
"Brad [Edwards] called me to let me know that you had reached out to him," Garten said. "I looked back at my records and saw that Mr. Trump was subpoenaed."
In 2000, both Trump and Epstein reportedly attended a small party hosted by media magnate Conrad Black, who in 2007 was convicted and served time in prison for fraud and obstruction of justice (the fraud charges were overturned on appeal). Black is currently an enthusiastic supporter of Trump's presidential bid.
Mark Epstein, Jeffrey's brother, testified in 2009 that Trump flew on Jeffrey's private jet at least once. Meanwhile, message pads [see below] from Epstein's Palm Beach mansion that were seized by investigators and obtained by VICE News indicate that Trump called Epstein twice in November of 2004.
Two pages of Epstein's phone messages from November 2004
Garten said Trump had never been to Epstein's home. But a 2002 story in Vanity Fair listed Trump as one of a small group of mega-rich businessmen, including newspaper publisher Mort Zuckerman and Revlon chairman Ronald Perelman, who periodically dined with Epstein at his Palm Beach estate. And a 2003 story in New York reported that Trump had dined at Epstein's Upper East Side home, a nine-story building that is reportedly the largest private residence in Manhattan.
That dinner, for 30 people, was also attended by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, businessman and philanthropist Les Wexner, former British Cabinet minister Peter Mandelson, and Bill Clinton aide Doug Band.
"The dialogues are so engaging," Epstein told the magazine at the time, "that serving even the most extraordinary food sometimes seems inappropriate."
* * *
Roberts and a number of Epstein's other victims are seeking to overturn a 2007 US Justice Department non-prosecution agreement with Epstein that capped financial damages against him. Epstein allegedly unsuccessfully sought to block his victims from going to court, but the case, Jane Does vs. United States of America, is currently being heard in a Palm Beach courthouse.
In the late 1990s, Roberts was recruited to perform a massage for Epstein while working as a $9-per-hour locker room attendant at Mar-A-Lago. Roberts' father also worked at Mar-A-Lago, which is located about 3 miles away from Epstein's estate, as a maintenance manager.
Roberts, who is now 32 and runs an anti sex trafficking organization in Colorado, has alleged in sworn depositions and remarks to the press that Epstein turned her into a "sex slave" and pimped her out to various friends, including England's Prince Andrew. Over the years, the passengers on Epstein's jet, she said, included "a whole bunch of other girls, sometimes famous people, sometimes some politicians."
Roberts' account is corroborated by a number of Epstein's other victims, by lawyers in the case interviewed by VICE News, and by court documents, including the deposition of Juan Alessi, Epstein's former gardener and then majordomo, who was one of the prosecution's key witnesses.
In his deposition, Alessi — he did not respond to VICE News' request for comment — said that Epstein made clear to him that he was never to ask any of the girls who came to the estate for proof of their age, so that everyone would have plausible deniability if any problems with law enforcement later emerged.
Roberts was originally recruited for Epstein by Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's then live-in girlfriend and the daughter of disgraced British newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell. She is accused by a number of Epstein's victims — their accounts are supported in court records and by other witnesses — of being among Epstein's procurers of underage girls.
After three years of abuse, Roberts fled in 2002, at age 19. Last year, she filed a lawsuit against Maxwell, alleging that she was behind a smear campaign seeking to tarnish Roberts' reputation. The lawsuit is ongoing. Roberts did not respond to requests for comment.
During this same period, Epstein and Maxwell were repeat guests at Mar-A-Lago. In 2000, they hung out there with Prince Andrew, who arrived for vacation on Trump's private plane. That same year, the Palm Beach Post reported that Trump, Epstein, Prince Andrew, and Maxwell were all at a tennis tournament/celebrity event at Mar-A-Lago.
Garten told VICE News that Trump had no relationship with Maxwell aside from the fact that she periodically turned up at Mar-A-Lago. The 1997 photograph below, of Trump and Maxwell "out on the town," was taken in New York City.
Photo via Getty Images
In 2010, Epstein pled the Fifth when asked by a lawyer representing one of Epstein's victims about his relationship with Trump:
Q: Have you ever had a personal relationship with Donald Trump?A. What do you mean by "personal relationship," sir?Q. Have you socialized with him?A. Yes, sir.Q. Yes?A. Yes, sir.Q. Have you ever socialized with Donald Trump in the presence of females under the age of 18?A: Though I'd like to answer that question, at least today I'm going to have to assert my Fifth, Sixth, and 14th Amendment rights, sir.
Epstein did not respond to a request for comment.
* * *
During its investigation, the FBI obtained a copy of Epstein's private 194-page phone book. Lawyers for one of Epstein's victims told VICE News it was stolen by a household employee sometime around 2004.
A copy we obtained includes investigators' margin notes pointing to key witnesses against Epstein as well as handwritten notes identifying dozens of then-underage girls, as well as their phone numbers.
Among people listed in the phone book were well-known political figures such as Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia, Tony Blair, former Utah governor and Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, Senator Edward Kennedy, and Henry Kissinger. Also listed were major political contributors like David Koch and Pepe Fanjul.
All those names were listed alphabetically at the front of Epstein's telephone book, along with the names of Trump's former wife, Ivana, his daughter Ivanka, and his brother, Robert.
Epstein created a number of other odd categories, including one called "Jeffrey." There were dozens of names in the Jeffrey category, including Ehud Barak, Alan Dershowitz, then–Senator John Kerry, former senator and lobbyist George Mitchell, powerhouse DC lobbyist Thomas Quinn, and David Rockefeller.
Trump was also listed in this section. Under his name were 14 phone numbers, including emergency numbers, car numbers, and numbers to Trump's security guard and houseman.
* * *
The state of Florida began investigating Epstein in 2005; the FBI began its own probe the following year. Investigators amassed a mountain of evidence against Epstein, but in the end the Department of Justice agreed to a bizarre deal not to prosecute him.
On September 27, 2007 — a few weeks before the New York Post reported that Epstein was banned from Mar-A-Lago — Epstein acknowledged guilt in "knowingly and willfully conspiring with others known and unknown to… persuade, induce, or entice minor females to engage in prostitution."
The terms of the agreement, which was secret at the time and was drafted by Epstein's own lawyers, have never been fully disclosed, but an attorney with direct knowledge of the case told VICE News that it capped damages against Epstein — reportedly worth about $2 billion — to between $50,000 and $150,000, depending on what year he had abused the girl. The agreement also barred victims from seeking any future financial redress.
Roy Black, Epstein's lawyer, did not respond to a request for comment.
When asked why he believed Epstein received such a light sentence, Sky William Roberts, Virginia's father, told VICE News. "Because he's a billionaire. You're not a billionaire and neither am I; if we did what he did we'd be in prison."
In 2008, Epstein was sentenced to 18 months for his crimes by the state of Florida. He "could have been charged with multiple federal counts of sexual exploitation of minors, resulting in much harsher penalties," the Palm Beach Daily News reported in 2010 when Epstein was finishing up his prison stay. He served in a segregated, vacant wing of the county stockade. Epstein, the newspaper said, "was let out on work release six days a week for up to 16 hours a day."
Maxwell fled the United States on the eve of her deposition and never testified in Epstein's case. In fact, several of the Jane Doe lawyers, who spoke off the record because the case is ongoing, said that every key person investigators wanted to interview — especially those with potential knowledge of what took place on St. James Island — eluded subpoenas on technical grounds.
There was one exception: Donald Trump.
* * *
Edwards, the lawyer for Roberts and about 10 other Jane Does, said that after he served Trump with the subpoena in 2009, Trump immediately contacted him.
"During the conversation, Mr. Trump was open and forthright," Edwards said. "I cannot discuss the substance of the conversation. But I will say that it was obvious to me that he was in no way involved in any untoward activity."
It appears that Trump cut ties to Epstein a few weeks after the non-prosecution agreement was reached. On October 15, 2007, the New York Post reported that Mar-A-Lago had barred Epstein because he hit on a masseuse at the club. Epstein denied to the the Post that he had been banned. One of the Jane Doe attorneys told VICE News a slightly different account, saying that he had been told Trump broke ties with Epstein after Epstein tried to pick up the underage daughter of a Mar-A-Lago club member.
Garten said he was not aware of the Post story or the incident.
Virginia Roberts and at least a dozen of Epstein's other victims refused to accept the terms agreed to by the US government, and hired attorneys to seek additional damages. One of the more intriguing allegations made by Roberts in an affidavit last year is that Epstein "trafficked me for sexual purposes to many other powerful men, including politicians and powerful business executives."
She says that Epstein made her tell him about the sexual encounters she had with these men. The reason, in her estimation, was "so that he could potentially blackmail them."
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In the near future, Americans who own or want guns likely will be subject to rafts of new questions from social scientists, medical researchers and law enforcement officials intent to discover just what guns they own, why they own them and what they intend to use them for — not to mention where and how they keep them.
They will also likely have more researchers poring over such issues as whether childhood education programs against gun violence actually work; whether there actually is any relationship between violence in the media and in real life; and whether the safety plans that were drawn up by schools, colleges and communities in the wake of highly publicized mass shootings actually are effective.
Those and many other gun-related questions are the thrust of a new social science research agenda that the Obama administration hopes will keep the push for gun control alive for years to come.
The research agenda is intended to produce mammoth amounts of raw data on American gun owners, users and their circumstances, meaning that violence resulting from firearms use will be studied for “its causes, approaches to interventions that could prevent it, and strategies to minimize its health burden.”
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This includes, for example, such things as “the potential health risks and benefits (e.g., suicide rates, personal protection) of having a firearm in the home under a variety of circumstances (including storage practices) and settings.”
The agenda, which aims to sidestep Second Amendment political and constitutional issues of gun ownership through its public health focus, was released earlier this month in a 124-page report titled, “Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearms Related Violence.” It was sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) with financial support from private foundations.
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The major impetus came from the White House, which mandated the study as one among 23 executive actions President Obama ordered last January, just weeks after the December 14, 2012, massacre of 20 schoolchildren and six teachers and staffers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., by disturbed killer Adam Lanza, who subsequently committed suicide.
The horror of the crime, and the mental state of Lanza, contributed to the perspective on the sweeping design of the study, as well as its urgency. According to the chairperson of the group, Alan Leshner, its goal is to encourage “productive, useful answers” to some of the most divisive questions in American politics within the next three to five years -- more or less within the next major political cycle.
Moreover, it is intended to be value-neutral: “We are fact people,” said Leshner, a psychologist who is CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and former head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. “I’m a basic scientist,” he added. “I was asked to chair because I’m neutral.”
So far, the study has drawn plaudits from liberal sponsoring foundations, and a cautious level of support from the National Rifle Association, which took part, according to NRA Director of Research and Information John Frazer, “because some of the research that is already out there is due for an update.”
Among other things, the NRA argued, the steep drop in American violent crime —about a 46 percent decline between 1994 and 2011— deserves study in the context of the spread of “right-to carry” laws permitting citizens to bear firearms in public.
The NRA would also like to see more research work on the deterrent effect of firearms on crime, and the benefits of firearm ownership, including “socialization into lawful gun use.”
Other groups argued for more monitoring of international efforts to reduce gun violence, the study of best “state and international policy approaches to gun safety technology,” and the extent to which childhood education programs actually reduce firearm violence among children at an early age or later in life.
The research study has also drawn skeptics, who wonder whether the amount of data that the CDC study suggests collecting might not amount to a gun registry—opposed by many on Second Amendment grounds -- by backdoor means. That is something Leshner emphatically denies.
Others have a skeptical attitude. “There is nothing in there directly about a gun registry, but there is obviously plenty that could be used toward that end if one wanted to,” says Ted Bromund, an arms trade expert at the conservative Heritage Foundation. “I don’t see how one can regret the lack of a single database on gun owners, as the study does, without seeing the possibility of making the case that we need a national gun registry.”
Bromund also pointed to references in the study document to “gender-based violence” as indications that research might intersect with the terms of the controversial U.N.-sponsored international Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), which opened for signature on June 7, and which the Obama administration has declared it will sign, though congressional ratification is far less likely.
The research area of optimal conditions for firearms storage and safety, Bromund points out, also “could tie in fairly easily to the ATT.”
Given the spectrum of concerns that it covers, the report represents something of a rocket-propelled event for American social science. It was mostly hammered out in a few days of closed-door sessions last April by a select group of 14 academics and public health experts, assisted by eight staffers from the National Research Council and Institutes of Medicine.
The secret sessions were preceded by a single “town hall” day for public input, which Leshner says was “successful in getting the views of as diverse a group as one would want.”
The hammering out of the priority document was followed by a “couple of weeks of back-and-forth,” in Leshner’s phrase, among the committee members and staffers. Most research outlines of similar ambition can take months or even years of committee study before they appear.
The crash schedule and high-speed publication was intended to break through what Leshner described to Fox News as a 17-year congressional ban on such CDC research, but it was also clearly intended to promote near-term action by “people who want answers in a systematic, rapid way.”
Much will depend on whether the money flows to make sure that the high-priority research actually gets under way. In hailing the study, the CDC told Fox News that it “does not currently have dedicated funding to conduct this research.” For its part, the Obama administration has called for Congress to approve $10 million to get the research ball rolling. Whether that will happen is open to question.
That may leave private foundations -- a number of which have prominently supported gun control research efforts in the past -- to carry the burden -- which in turn may affect which priorities get satisfied first.
George Russell is editor-at-large of Fox News and can be found on Twitter @GeorgeRussell
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That sexual gratification can make or break a technology is a truism as old as paleolithic paint. And no emergent technology has more sexual potential than virtual reality headsets like the Oculus Rift and HTV Vive, which promise immersive experiences and are already being passed around the San Fernando Valley. But, even as we brace for too much of a good thing, a handful of psychiatrists are considering ways that VR technology might stop something awful. They believe that VR has tremendous potential as both a diagnostic and therapeutic tool.
They want to find child abusers.
But before scientists can bring the full brunt of virtual reality to bear on forensic psychiatry, they need to answer this question: How powerful is this technology and what is the source of that power? The latest research suggests that VR derives its emotional and sensory power by simulating the sense of presence, what Peter Fromberger, an expert on virtual reality psychotherapy and forensic psychiatry at the University of Göttingen in Germany, describes as “the feeling to be physically in the virtual world.”
“VR seems to be able to enhance the realism and sexual attractiveness of virtual avatars,” Fromberger says. In a recent article in PLOS One, Fromberger and his colleagues had 45 men — 20 androphilic males (sexually attracted to men) and 25 gynephilic males (sexually attracted to women) view nude, adult avatars of both sexes under three conditions: on a computer screen, with the Oculus Rift DK1, or with the Oculus Rift plus a controller, allowing the men to interact by moving the models.
The subjects interacted with the objects of their interest reflexively and naturally. And that’s no small thing. Until that study came out, the assumption that VR would create meaningful sexual experiences was just that, an assumption.
“To the best of our knowledge,” he says, “until now, there existed no empirical evidence for our intrinsic assumption that VR can provide ecologically valid environments for people suffering from sexual deviancy.”
Dominique Trottier, a clinical psychologist at the Université du Québec en Outaouais, says that scholars like Fromberger have helped “establish the validity of the procedure,” and suggest that it’s time to talk application.
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Trottier has been studying sexual deviancy through VR since 2006; as it is with Fromberger, her goal is to ultimately reverse engineer the present study, working back from behavior to diagnose motivation, thinking about how interactions predict dispositions. From there, the thinking goes, potential child abusers can use virtual environments to work through and treat their mental disorder.
“One of the best strategies to protect children from becoming a victim is to reliably assess the dangerousness of potential delinquents as well as to successfully treat them,” Fromberger explains. By creating a believable world, he hopes to monitor child abusers in incredibly realistic virtual risk situations — situations where no one will actually be at risk of harm.
How do you test if someone is at risk of abusing children, or, alternatively, no longer at risk of recidivism? Self-reports are unreliable because child abusers tend to be less than forthcoming. Between the 1950s and 1980s, Trottier says, assessments were performed with “real pictures that came from police arresting people with that type of material.” It was, as she points out, “questionable ethically and legally.” More recent methods involve playing audio recordings of sexually stimulating narrated scripts, but Trottier says that it remains possible to fake a lack of arousal. What’s harder to do, as she showed in an eye-tracking experiment, is to not look at virtual avatars. This is a task men have failed at even while trying to keep themselves from having erections.
Combining sexual interest with a feeling of presence, says Trottier, creates an environment that cognitively stimulates sexual offenders. “We can put offenders in situations that we wouldn’t want to in real life, and are able to identify faulty cognition and address that,” she says. It is a training process through repetition, she says, redoing the same situation over and over again so that those who want to get better can “train to make better decisions, or to identify sooner that he is in a risky situation.” She acknowledges VR’s potential as a tool of abuse — the internet has made child pornography easier to access for men like Jared Fogle — but the tool is powerful when used correctly.
Fromberger pictures a future where VR is applied to a host of sexual problems. Project ViRAC – Virtual Environments for the Risk Assessment of Child Abusers — has already tested VR with offenders, he points out. “VR provides the possibility to confront high dangerous criminal offenders with risk situations without endangering others,” he says, which would presumably include rape as well as child abuse. On the non-criminal side, the technology could also offer new training opportunities to eliminate the sense of a lack of control over ejaculation.
But that’s a ways off. The sexual researcher community has been slow to go virtual — the Kinsey institute doesn’t use the tech at all — so there are more theories than defensible conclusions.
“At the moment, these are only ideas, and there is a lack of empirical evidence for the usability of VR in this context. Our paper shows that it can work, but it does not show that it also works with forensic inpatients. That is the next step we have to take.”
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To save energy, the European directives from the Eco-design of Energy Using Products (2005/32/CE) have recommended the replacement of incandescent lamps by more economic devices such as Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs). However, the emission spectrum of these devices is enriched in blue radiations, known to be potentially dangerous to the retina. Recent studies showed that light exposure contributes to the onset of early stages of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Here, we investigate, in albinos and pigmented rats, the effects of different exposure protocols. Twenty-four hours exposure at high luminance was compared to a cyclic (dark/light) exposure at domestic levels for 1 week and 1 month, using different LEDs (Cold-white, blue and green), as well as fluorocompact bulbs and fluorescent tubes. The data suggest that the blue component of the white-LED may cause retinal toxicity at occupational domestic illuminance and not only in extreme experimental conditions, as previously reported. It is important to note that the current regulations and standards have been established on the basis of acute light exposure and do not take into account the effects of repeated exposure.
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Hold on to your tinfoil hats, folks. Naturopathic physicians, who rely on the so-called "healing power of nature," want to go mainstream and they’re accusing their opposition of libel and slander. This time, the opposition comes in the form of a lone former naturopathic physician fed up with the legitimizing of naturopathic medicine. And her supporter base is growing.
Having received her doctorate in naturopathic medicine at Bastyr University, among the most influential schools of naturopathy in North America, Britt Marie Hermes practiced as a Naturopathic Doctor (ND) for three years. Her world came crashing down when she realized she’d been duped, having spent thousands of hours “speaking, learning, and practicing fake medicine.”
“I went into naturopathy thinking it was the medicine of the future,” she says. She soon learned she was wrong.
Hermes, who is now pursuing a master’s degree in biomedicine, is devoted to exposing and fighting against pseudoscience masquerading as real medicine. She documents truths about naturopathy via her Naturopathic Diaries blog, speaks out to media, contributes to the highly respected Science Based Medicine blog and on May 21st started a petition calling on U.S. policy makers and states to block naturopathic licensure, scope of practice expansion and inclusion in federal and state healthcare programs.
The leading ND organization in the U.S., the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP) has recently pushed for licensing in all 50 states by 2025 (they are currently licensed in 17 states), and to receive Medicare reimbursements and perform more hands-on patient care. Hermes’ hackles are raised, as they should be.
“Naturopaths are not trained similar to physicians, nurse practitioners, or physician assistants,” reads the petition Hermes authored, which has garnered nearly 4,000 signatures and counting. “Naturopaths are trained in a hodgepodge of antiquated methods, mystical theories, and bare-bone fundamentals of medicine.”
“I was scared. I was very angry. And I was so sad,” Hermes tells me of quitting her naturopathic medicine practice after finding out that Ukrain, the imported medicine made from a flowering herb that her boss was administering to cancer patients, was not FDA-approved. “Patients trusted us. They were very sick, desperate for a cure, and paying thousands of dollars.”
Here's one problem with naturopathic doctors. The words “doctor,” “physician” and “medicine” carry trust. They bring to mind someone highly-skilled, someone who will use the best, most-evidence based tools available to keep us healthy and to treat us when we’re sick. But naturopathy isn’t medicine and NDs are not nearly as qualified as medical doctors, or even physician assistants according to Hermes.
I won’t go into details on the myriad follies of naturopathy and naturopathic medicine as they have been thoroughly documented by highly-respected experts and critics of alternative medicine like Dr. David Gorski and Dr. Steven Novella. Among the most damning is the requirement that all NDs be trained in the use of homeopathy, a pseudoscience based in magical thinking and concoctions with infinitesimal amounts of so-called active ingredient.
On May 26th, five days after Hermes launched her petition, the AANP feebly retaliated. The subject line of an email sent to all AANP membership: “AANP Needs Your Help - Stop Britt's Change.org Petition.”
“We need your help to stop this petition,” reads the email. It continues:
This petition violates these [Change.org] policies:
Breaks the law - this is defamatory and libelous content
Impersonates others; Britt Marie Hermes is not from the United States
Terms of service - does not abide by the law or respect the rights of others
AANP is grasping at straws here. Hermes, who is originally from California and was born and raised in the United States, lives in Germany with her husband but is still an American citizen. And Hermes isn’t backing down. “[AANP seems] threatened, and don't have a grip on reality in their reasoning for reporting the petition,” she says. She stands by the citations in her petition. “It is definitely not defamatory or libelous.” Though the email voices AANP's hope that Change.org will respond to the reports of policy violations "in a timely manner," Hermes' petition remains published and continues to gain signatures.
Presumably because AANP realized that its own reasoning to remove the petition wasn’t sound, the organization’s Executive Director Ryan Cliche moved on to the next tactic, starting a counter-petition a day after sending the email. “[W]e are confident that your due diligence will quickly uncover the truth behind the ‘Naturopaths are not doctors’ petition,” reads the retaliatory document.
“I take their interpretation as yet another example of them not understanding how the scientific process works,” says Hermes. “It is built on criticism, and given what they are asking in their political agenda, they deserve to be highly scrutinized.”
AANP's counter-petition urges U.S. policy makers to “Recognize Licensed Naturopathic Physicians for the Safe and Effective Care They Provide.”
Safe and effective? Therein lies the fatal flaw in federal and state governments recognizing naturopathic doctors. The naturopathic medicine standard of care is woefully inadequate. The standard is not safe. It’s not effective. Yet Cliche’s petition cites the NIH National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) and its “recognition of naturopathy” as a legitimate discipline to support the effort to become licensed in all 50 states.
This exemplifies what is wrong with the NCCIH and any government recognition of the profession. It allows naturopathic doctors to prance around saying, “See? We’re credible. The NIH says so.” With all due respect to the NIH, there should be no NCCIH (formerly known as NCCAM). As Dr. Gorski writes, the fundamental problem with NCCIH is that “it is charged with studying treatment modalities that are inherently unscientific, being as they are based on prescientific or demonstrably incorrect understandings of human physiology and disease.”
Recognition by NCCIH lends no credence to AANP’s cause, though unsuspecting patients and even aspiring NDs may not realize it. The words “complementary” and “integrative” say it all. Legitimate medicine is based on evidence and science. There is no integration within a gold standard, no complementing it with anything more than wishful thinking.
“I wish a blog like this existed before I made the mistake of attending Bastyr,” says Hermes. “I receive many emails from students who tell me that after reading Naturopathic Diaries, they are no longer considering a career as an ND. I consider these stories to be a success. If I can help a student not make the same mistakes I made, I feel good about my work.”
A future in which all 50 states allow licensure and expanded scope of practice for such a dangerous, ineffective profession runs contrary to what we should expect of our government’s scientific and medical authorities. It will provide an air of authority that the letters ND don’t deserve.
Take this sample question from the 2013 study guide for the Naturopathic Physicians Licensing Examination Board (NPLEX), which describes a phone call from a frantic mother of a child with a loud barking cough, gasping for breath. Part 2 of the question asks, “Which of the following homeopathic preparations would best address his clinical presentation?”
Let's stop right there (though you can read Hermes' analysis here). No frantic parent of a sick or injured child should call an ND, and no real physician worthy of the title “doctor” would advise homeopathy. Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t the hypothetical mother’s fault. The blame falls on a system that allows a mother to believe she should call an ND or a naturopath in the first place. This is the failure of a system in which the National Institutes of Health recognize naturopathy for any more than what it is -- dangerous quackery.
I asked Britt Hermes what she hopes the outcome of her petition will be:
“I want to aggregate a showing of support that naturopaths should not be recognized as 'primary care physicians' or doctors of anything that might be construed as medical physicians. They should not be able to use these titles: doctor or physician. The public deserves accurate terminology of medical practitioners. Naturopaths have warped the definitions of these terms in order to convince lawmakers they are highly-trained. Before I blew the whistle, so to speak, very little was known about how the education and training worked.”
Support for Hermes’ message is growing. As the AANP flails in reaction to her petition, it seems that their house was made of cards.
Kavin Senapathy is a science communicator and mom of two living in Madison, Wisconsin. Follow her on Facebook and Twitter.
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The mysterious death of the man who investigated Argentina’s worst terrorist attack could been induced suicide, says former prosecutor
Alberto Nisman, who investigated Argentina’s worst terrorist attack before he was found dead in his home last year, may have been forced to kill himself, a prosecutor who was formerly in charge of his case has said.
Viviana Fein, who in December was removed from the investigation into Nisman’s mysterious death, had said before that it was likely suicide.
But in an interview with local radio station La Red, she acknowledged for the first time that it was possible he was “induced” to kill himself.
Spies, cover-ups and the mysterious death of an Argentinian prosecutor Read more
Fein said that Nisman had several back-and-forth calls with “six or seven people”, including the country’s former spy chief, Antonio Stiuso, and then-army chief Cesar Milani on 18 January 2015. The body of Nisman, who led the probe of the 1994 AMIA Jewish center bombing in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people, was discovered on that day in his apartment with a gunshot wound to the head.
“I find it suggestive and noteworthy that personalities of this calibre were on the same day of his death talking uninterruptedly,” Fein said.
Nisman had been scheduled to appear in Congress the next day to present allegations that then president, Cristina Fernandez, orchestrated a secret deal to cover up the alleged role of Iranian officials in the attack. Fernandez denied the allegations and judges threw out the case.
Nearly 18 months after Nisman’s death, authorities have yet to determine whether he took his own life or was killed by someone else.
Conspiracy theories have flourished around the case. While some people including his family believe Nisman killed himself because he felt his claims against the former president lacked proof, others say he was murdered because he was a threat to the Argentine and Iranian governments.
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Turnbull joked his new All Blacks tie had a whiff of a bit of lemon and Steinlager about it.
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull made good on his rugby wager with John Key.
Turnbull debuted his black and white All Blacks tie during question time in the Australian parliament across the ditch on Monday, after losing a Rugby World Cup final bet with New Zealand Prime Minister John Key.
"I've offered him (Key) a bet on the cricket but he doesn't think the odds are good enough on that," Turnbull said.
LAWRENCE SMITH The trans-tasman Rugby World Cup final went beyond the sports teams.
"It's a nice tie, apart from its circumstance. I am sure there are no apple stains on it at all.
"However, I have detected a bit of lemon and Steinlager which just goes to show you have to be careful when you're getting the beer out of the chilly bin."
Turnbull had said it would be "cool" to see John Key wearing a gold tie in honour of a Wallabies win.
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But after Australia's defeat on Turnbull, responding to a Twitter follower who asked if he intended honouring the bet, said: "I am afraid it does bro".
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc said on Tuesday said it was dropping copy protection from songs sold on the Internet and debuted its slimmest 17-inch laptop yet, but with no dramatic products or master pitchman Steve Jobs, the company’s final Macworld performance disappointed Wall Street.
Philip Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide product marketing at Apple Inc, speaks about the Apple program "Faces" at the Macworld Convention and Expo 2009 in San Francisco, January 6, 2009. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith
Apple shares slid 0.7 percent, lagging by far the Nasdaq’s 1.7 percent gain, reflecting frustration over the lack of news from the trade conference that had previously introduced the iPhone to the world.
“There were some innovative products, but no true blockbusters,” said Robert Francello, head of equity trading for Apex Capital hedge fund in San Francisco. “People were bullish going into it, and now they’re kind of taking money off the table.”
Apple said its iTunes music store, which has sold 6 billion songs thus far, will offer its 10-million-song library free of digital rights management — or copy-protection — by the end of the quarter, for between 69 cents and $1.29 a song.
Songs will also be available straight to iPhones over the air, instead of through a computer.
The company decided not use Macworld to launch any major new product, as it had in past years, when it introduced such industry-changing devices as the iPhone.
In years past, the company’s Macworld product launches had produced so much buzz that they managed to overshadow events at the far larger Consumer Electronics Show. The 2009 CES show kicks off this week in Las Vegas.
Tuesday’s event produced few surprises. Apple announced a $2,799 17-inch laptop that is the company’s lightest and slimmest ever, as well as tweaks to software for home movies and photographs.
The event culminated with singer Tony Bennett crooning “The Best is Yet to Come” and “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” in a farewell of sorts to Apple, which will no longer attend the cultural event thronged annually by Mac-faithful.
Jobs, a fixture at past events, was nowhere in sight, despite some hopes for a cameo. Last month, the company said its chief executive and salesman extraordinaire would not deliver the Macworld address. That raised fresh concerns about the cancer survivor’s health and signaled to many Apple-watchers that the company had no plans to launch a major product at Macworld.
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One question for Special Counsel Robert Mueller, what does this have to do with the 2016 Presidential Election? I think he’s fishing in a pond with no ripples.
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Mueller is expanding his Russian probe into President Trump’s civilian life, possibly 10 years ago. This is uncalled for!
If Mueller goes there with Trump, then the Clinton Foundation should be included as well as John Podesta’s ties to the Russians. Let’s keep going, we could then investigate all of Congress for their closed door dealings to line their pockets and business interests. Once you go there, let’s go there.
Personally, I don’t think he should go that far with investigating. President Trump was a civilian and a businessman and has nothing to do with him being President. Just a witch hunt and is getting way out of hand.
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The president told the New York Times on Wednesday that any digging into matters beyond Russia would be out of bounds. Trump’s businesses have involved Russians for years, making the boundaries fuzzy so Special Counsel Robert Mueller appears to be taking a wide-angle approach to his two-month-old probe. FBI investigators and others are looking at Russian purchases of apartments in Trump buildings, Trump’s involvement in a controversial SoHo development in New York with Russian associates, the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow and Trump’s sale of a Florida mansion to a Russian oligarch in 2008, the person said. The investigation also has absorbed a money-laundering probe begun by federal prosecutors in New York into Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort. John Dowd, one of Trump’s lawyers, said on Thursday that he was unaware of the inquiry into Trump’s businesses by the two-months-old investigation and considered it beyond the scope of what Special Counsel Robert Mueller should be examining. “Those transactions are in my view well beyond the mandate of the Special counsel; are unrelated to the election of 2016 or any alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia and most importantly, are well beyond any Statute of Limitation imposed by the United States Code,” he wrote in an email.
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Seems to me that they are looking into everything else because they didn’t find any Russian collusion. This all should be beyond the scope of the original investigation. When will someone put a stop to this?
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A lot of us think Mueller is out to discredit the President. Mueller is best friends with disgraced James Comey, and he is a Hillary supporter. He hired lawyers (wasting our tax dollars) that are Clinton donors which mean he probably will be biased. Think he should be fired along with all the lawyers.
Trump was a global businessman with all kinds of investments who cares he was a private citizen, so this is a witch hunt. He should be investigating Barack Obama and Clintons, especially Hillary, but that would take guts, see none here.
What Trump did in regards to Russia as a private citizen is none of their business. If they are going after Trump as a threat to our corrupted system they will fail and fail big. Russia is not a threat but these politicians are and Clinton is at the head of the class.
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The Democratic National Committee laid out a detailed timeline Saturday of what happened when Senator Bernie Sanders’s campaign aides gained access to and copied Hillary Clinton’s proprietary voter data during a technological glitch, revealing new details to explain why it had blocked Mr. Sanders’s team from seeing its own data.
The timeline was posted on Medium by the party committee’s chief executive, Amy Dacey, as the Sanders campaign continued to argue that it had been treated unfairly. The campaign took the extraordinary step of suing the party committee to regain its access to the voter file. Late Friday night, the party agreed to restore the campaign’s access.
During Saturday night’s debate, Mr. Sanders repeated his complaint that the punishment was unfair, but he also apologized to Mrs. Clinton. His campaign also said Saturday that it had suspended two aides over the matter. It had earlier fired its national data director.
At issue is a Democratic Party voter list to which both campaigns have access. Each campaign can add its own data, such as which voters it believes are likely to vote for its candidate, helping officials target their outreach. One campaign is not supposed to see another’s data, but for a few hours on Wednesday, a firewall between the campaigns was dropped while NGP VAN, the vendor that controls the 50-state voter file for the party committee, was adjusting a patch on the system.
While each campaign could theoretically look at the others’ data, only the Sanders campaign did so, according to NGP VAN. The Sanders campaign initially said a low-level staff member had been involved. It later emerged that the campaign’s national data director, Josh Uretsky, had obtained information from the Clinton team. Mr. Uretsky was fired.
Three other aides to the Sanders team were seen on audit logs making more than 25 targeted searches of Mrs. Clinton’s data pertaining to early-voting states.
The party then denied the Sanders campaign access to the voter file, including its own data, a move campaign officials described as an overreaction.
Ms. Dacey’s post included details that appeared to contradict the Sanders team’s early claims that it had not retained any of the information it looked at. Mr. Uretsky had also asserted that the only reason anyone from the Sanders campaign looked at Mrs. Clinton’s data was to establish proof of a data breach, not to peek into the Clinton campaign. But according to Ms. Dacey’s account, one of the people who looked at Mrs. Clinton’s data tried to delete records to remove traces of what he had done.
“The information obtained so far shows that the D.N.C.’s concern to have a full, thorough inquiry was fully justified,” Ms. Dacey wrote. “As confirmed by the Sanders campaign in the account given the D.N.C. Friday evening, one of the employees of the campaign involved in the misconduct tried to delete the notes they made recording their accessing of Clinton campaign data to hide his activities.”
Ms. Dacey added, “NGP VAN found that campaign staff on the Sanders campaign, including the campaign’s national data director, had accessed proprietary information about which voters were being targeted by the Clinton campaign — and in doing so violated their agreements with the D.N.C.”
She continued, “These staffers then saved this information in their personal folders on the system, and over the course of the next day, we learned that at least one staffer appeared to have generated reports and exported them from the system.”
Ms. Dacey said that her team had asked Mr. Sanders’s campaign for more information on what had happened and for details of disciplinary actions it might take.
She said the Sanders campaign had delayed providing additional documentation and information until late Friday evening. Once it did, the D.N.C. restored the campaign’s access to its own voter file, “as was always our intention and as we had advised well before they sued the committee,” she said.
The D.N.C. has also asked NGP VAN to investigate how the breach happened.
In Democratic Debate, Hillary Clinton’s Focus Is on G.O.P. Hillary Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders put aside the hard feelings over the breach of her voter data, while they and Martin O’Malley had heated exchanges on foreign policy and corporate America.
Bernie Sanders Falls Behind in a Race Centered on Security After the terrorist attacks in Paris and California, Mr. Sanders’s progressive political message seems lost in a fog of fear.
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Apple Bows To Chinese Censorship Demands
from the tibet-or-not-tibet dept
It isn't news that Apple's app store is a garden with some mighty high, awfully arbitrary walls. Whether Apple is rejecting developer's apps on the grounds of profanity or subject matter, the fact is that the reasoning for these takedowns is a thinly veiled form of what I call "Apple morality". Swearing is bad for kids, or kids shouldn't have access to games about war. Definitely no nudity. These, business practices or not, are all moral claims. We might disagree with their version of morality, but that's what it is.
Which is why I'd be curious to hear Apple's reasoning for taking down an app in China that allowed users to read books about Tibet. The company claimed that they did so because that content is illegal in China, of course.
The app, "jingdian shucheng", offered access to ten books via the iPhone and iPad. Mr Hao said he believed three titles by Wang Lixiong, a political writer and activist, had prompted the ban, according to The Financial Times. Mr Wang is a prominent critic of Chinese policy in Tibet.
Concern over Apple’s weakness in the booming Chinese smartphone market has been seen by investors as a potential problem for its continued growth. It has been a major cause of a share price slump in recent months that has forced Mr Cook to repeatedly defend his strategy. The firm has been repeatedly rumoured to be developing a cheaper iPhone designed to court Chinese consumers but it has not yet revealed its plans.
Here's the problem: if you're going to take a moral stance in the rest of the world, you need to take one in China as well. Bowing to pressures to censor speech in China would not square with any flavor of morality. On the other hand, were Apple to stick to their "it's illegal" reason for taking the app down, then they need to come out and explain the other examples of takedowns above, since those areillegal. It seems to me that Apple wants to apply their "Apple morality" everywhere...until a dollar is introduced.In other words, rather than try to push the Chinese to stop censoring, as others have, Apple is selling their convictions down the Huang He river in favor of money. Nice going, guys.
Filed Under: censorship, china, free speech
Companies: apple
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This is a guest post written by Anonymous.
[Note: Among the many things conservative radio broadcaster Paul Harvey was known for was his essay “If I were the Devil,” versions of which you can see here. This piece is a rebuttal to Harvey’s essay.]
…
If I were the Prince of Darkness I would want to engulf the world in the darkness of ignorance; I would use this ignorance to cause divisiveness among men, and my success would give me control of every nation in the world.
First, I would invent religion. Not just one religion, but many religions, and I would delude the followers of each into believing that theirs was the “one true faith.” In so doing, I would promote an attitude among mankind that the followers of religions other than their own must do so only through ignorance or the primitiveness of their culture. And I would promote an attitude among them all that those who refuse to accept any religion are delusional, arrogant, or evil;
I would have families indoctrinate their children into their particular religion prior to an age at which the children could understand or question the concepts of that religion. I would know that children are trusting of their parents and very few will ever consider that their parents could possibly be wrong about a topic of such consequence;
I would have everyone believing that anything they ever experienced that might be beyond their personal understanding must be rooted in supernatural causes;
With the cunning of a fox, I would make them believe that I was the Creator of mankind, the earth and the entire universe. I would have them believe that their achievements could only happen under my guiding hand, and that any tragedy that befell them happened at my will for reasons beyond their capability or need to understand;
I would convince some of them that failure to worship and love me would result in their having an eternal punishment following the end of their already wretched earthly lives;
If religion were not fully sufficient to cause divisiveness between men, I would teach them to weave flags and create borders between lands, and I’d give those born within each border a feeling that they are more deserving of the resources within their own borders than those who aren’t;
I would fool some of them into including religious symbols or oaths into their currency and nationalistic pledges in such a way that any who took offense would be seen as unpatriotic.
My closest disciples would work to pass laws subjugating all men who reside within certain borders to live according to the religion most prevalently followed within those borders;
I would convince humanity that men who lived in earlier times were inherently wiser and more pure of heart;
If some of the people began to study, unlock and understand the realities of nature I would have them branded as blasphemers; If these blasphemers attempted to educate others about the true nature of the universe, I would have my disciples fight tooth and nail to stop them;
If I were the devil I would make men believe that they are superior to women; that work performed by a woman is not worthy of the same pay as that performed by a man; and that laws should be passed to deny women from controlling their part in reproduction;
I would make humans think that they are my favorite form of life and that other animals need not be treated with respect or compassion;
I would make euthanasia a crime so that I could enjoy watching the terminally ill writhe in agony or spend their final days in a drug-induced stupor;
I would persuade people that sexuality comes solely from personal choice, and that those who are not heterosexual are sinners not entitled to the rights of other citizens.
I would infiltrate the wealthiest of corporations and instill in their leaders the idea that they and only they are entitled to live in comfort and I’d tell them that those who labor on their behalf are not worthy of pay or benefits that would enable them to live without having to worry about having to choose between paying the electric bill or the water bill, or between buying groceries or buying school supplies;
I might even pose as a professional essayist and get paid to read my propaganda to millions of radio listeners in a neighborly, persuasive voice.
If I were the devil I would do all of these things and more because I would take delight in the immeasurable suffering caused by ignorance and intolerance.
But I’m not the devil, nor do I believe in the existence of such a hideous being, any more than I believe in the existence of gods, unicorns, leprechauns or dragons.
… and that’s the rest of the story. Good day!
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As a devout Mormon who is also an out gay man, I occasionally get letters from people looking for insight, validation, or a simple sounding board. So I wasn’t surprised when, a few days ago — in the wake of some unfortunate remarks made at my faith’s semi-annual conference — I received a letter from a friend of a friend. She was distraught and wanted someone to listen to her as she wrestled with feelings that had no other outlet.
It’s truly a blessing to receive letters like this. I take them seriously and do my best to respond with both care and haste; it’s a fine line.
It was a long letter, as these sorts of things go, so I decided to reply inline.
I share the letter with you, with permission, in hopes that it might prove useful for others …
JS: Christian, you probably don’t remember me — we’ve met a few times at events and symposia — but I’ve had these thoughts rattling around my head, lately, and I finally pounded them out on my computer.
DCH: Of course I remember you!
JS: You seem more willing to discuss these things than most people I know, so I was wondering if you could give me your thoughts… on this hot button topic!
DCH: I love that you thought of me. I’ve tried very hard to be someone that was easy to approach when folks had questions. It’s hard work! So I’ll reply as best I can — and be as up-front as possible. And you, in turn, are welcome to follow up with more questions!
JS: I just need to sort out my thoughts on this issue. My religious leaders continuously remind me that marriage should only be between a man and a woman.
DCH: They’re my leaders too. I’m an active and faithful Latter-day Saint … I served a full time mission in Québec, Canada … and I currently have 4.5 callings in my ward (including Elders Quorum instructor).
JS: Yet there are some of Heavenly Father’s children who have same-gender attraction. I can’t put judgment on these people!
DCH: As a gay man, I appreciate this.
JS: NO-ONE would CHOOSE to put themselves through the heart-wrenching trials that are faced by those with same gender attraction. I can’t come to the conclusion that being gay is a choice. They are children of our Heavenly Father, who were born with certain attributes and tendencies exactly the way everyone else is.
DCH: I think you’re close, here, but I’m not entirely comfortable with the first sentence.
Let’s face it: the difficulty of a trial is not a good gage as to whether folks would choose it. My mother, for example, chose to start smoking at 16 — she’s now dying of emphysema. She probably did not choose the consequences, but she certainly made choices that locked her into certain outcomes.
Regardless, being gay is most certainly not a choice. There is significant research in this area and scientists agree that homosexuality is most certainly biologic in origin. Just like being straight. Or being left-handed. Or blue-eyed.
JS: Here is where the dilemma lies; should these people have to live a life alone without the closest of relationships? Telling them that they cannot marry is saying that they should only have shallow, brief relationships. Not stable lifelong ones. OUCH!!! If you take religion out of the picture all together, then it is obvious what is better for society in general. Everyone knows this. Solid households, stable relationships, this is what our society NEEDS, yet we tell people that they are not allowed, because they desire to have this relationship with someone of the same gender. So we would prefer them to go from partner to partner? How is this better?
I guess there is the school of thought that same-gender attraction is sin and should not be acted upon. OUCH again! Heavenly Father gave us ALL sexual urges, yet for some it is sin?
DCH: This is mostly rhetorical, so I’ll just nod my head in agreement.
JS: One thing that I can agree with whole-heartedly is that sexual relationships should be reserved for marriage. The end. It is better spiritually and socially. But that just brings us back to the beginning. You told gay people that they can’t get married!
DCH: Amen!
JS: No-one wants to know what is going on in the bedroom of married couples, no-one mandates what is right and wrong there. Unless you’re gay. Why is no-one all riled up that there are heterosexual couples who have intercourse outside the bounds of marriage? Isn’t this more disturbing than gay people wishing to have sex with-in the bounds of marriage? Isn’t it more disturbing that less and less people don’t want to get married at all? That children are being born without families intact; families that are needed for emotional and financial support?
DCH: Again, this is mostly rhetorical, so I’ll just nod my head in agreement.
JS: I think if we put more energy into making families happen instead of making sure they don’t, that our society would be headed in a better direction.
DCH: My thoughts, exactly.
JS: Once upon a time my very same religion told us not to marry outside our race, yet I am sealed for eternity to someone of a different race. What changed?
DCH: We changed.
JS: So now what?
DCH: So, first and foremost: this is obviously something you’ve thought about and have strong feelings about … if you want to put a little effort into the mix, I’d encourage you to “like” the Facebook page for Mormons Building Bridges. They’re a group of faithful Latter-day Saints, just like you. They’ll share ideas and give encouragement, and a couple times a year they’ll have opportunities for members to roll up their sleeves:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/mormonsbuildingbridges/
1) Our Leaders are Imperfect.
Our leaders are imperfect — not just in the day-to-day stuff, where they sometimes lose their temper — but in the big stuff, too. We’ve been reminded of this time and again throughout the 200 years the Church has been around. But we often forget it because pretending that out leaders are perfect or some other silliness is comforting — it means we have to think and do less. But my testimony doesn’t rely on our leaders being perfect. It resides in the quiet whisperings of the Spirit that we’re doing the Lord’s work.
2) “Sustain” & “Obey” are not Synonyms
So what do we do when they’re wrong? Doesn’t sustaining our leaders mean agreeing with them? No. A lot of people think that “sustain” and “obey” are synonyms. They aren’t. “Sustain” actually, literally, means to “hold up from beneath”. It hasmore meanings than that, of course. But that’s its literal meaning. One of my favorite associations for the term is “sustenance” — it’s about feeding and keeping something alive! Sustaining is much less about obeying and much more about hoping the person we’re sustaining succeeds in their calling — and helping them to do so! It’s about helping our bishops, our choir directors, and our apostles magnify their calling. Even when — especially when — they’re wrong. You have to figure out how to do that, of course, and that’s okay: we’re meant to work out our own salvation — “with fear and trembling before the Lord”.
3) This isn’t Happening in a Vacuum
Where does all of this come from and why do our leaders not see that they’re wrong? Well we’re all a little afraid of things that are different. That bumper sticker that says “no one’s born a bigot” is wrong. We’re all born a little bigoted. We don’t like things that are different. It’s part of our genetic make-up that served us well for 100s of millions of years. The great thing is that we’re not just genetic creatures — we’re also cultural creatures — and children of heavenly parents who want more from us than what our genes dictate.
Our leaders are all by-products of an era that specifically targeted homosexuals. You see, for much of the world, homo-sociality is the norm. Homo-sociality is what you have in countries where mixing of the sexes doesn’t happen all that often outside of marriage. And just 100 years ago, the US was no exception. So when America went to war in in 1917, it drafted young men who were used to holding hands and being physically close — intimate, even — with other men. In the trenches, this homo-sociality became sexual and sexually transmitted diseases flourished — to the horror of military command. It’s been said that they vowed never to let that happen. And they didn’t. Whether it was official or not might be debated, but the evidence is clear: by the outbreak of WWII — just 20 years later — the military was home to a savage anti-homosexual furor.*
Our leaders grew up in that era — some served and others were the children of men who served. The vitriole spread, and America became downright homophobic.
So if you grew up thinking that gays were monsters — barely human; given over to the most perverse behaviors — how much effort would it take for you to ask God if everything you thought on the subject was wrong? Especially when the gays you saw on TV and in the media looked just like the boogeymen your parents and drill sergeants told you about?
It might take decades. It might never happen.
And since change in the Church requires unanimity among the Brethren, one or two hold-outs make a huge difference.
4) So What Do We Do?
We live out loud … we become the best we can be. We love our gay children and neighbors. We earnestly fight for normalization outside of the Church. And then … well, then, by their fruits you shall know them: gays will be great parents and earnest spouses, great politicians and leaders of industry. They’ll also be muggers and used car salesmen. And the Brethren won’t be able to testify to anything but that gays are just humans who happen to love differently.
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Pope Innocent X, painted by Diego Velazquez circa 1650
As the plume of white smoke emerged from the Sistine Chapel chimney at 7:06pm on 13 March 2013, the intense speculation which had surrounded the election of Pope Benedict XVI’s successor drew to a spectacular close.
Greeted by an immediate, deafening cheer of exaltation from the crowd gathered in St. Peter’s Square, the few wisps of vapour spiralling into the sky signalled that after two days of voting, a new pontiff – Pope Francis – had been chosen. But in this age of instant communication and media hype, that little puff of white smoke is also a reminder of the intense, arcane secrecy with which modern conclaves are surrounded. Barring this most primitive of signals, no communication passes in or out of the Vatican while the Sacred College of Cardinals is locked in its deliberations and onlookers can only guess at what goes on behind those carefully-guarded doors.
Given the speed with which Popes Francis and Benedict XVI were elected, however, it is at least clear that the sober, grey-haired cardinals of the twenty-first century approach the task of choosing St. Peter’s heir calmly, piously, and reasonably. But papal elections have not always been so sober; nor have they always been so swift. In fact, for much of the Church’s history, conclaves have been glorified playground squabbles, only much longer-lasting, much more unpleasant, and much more corrupt as ten of the most dramatic – and surprising – conclaves of all time show:
1. The Never-Ending Story (1268-1271)
Although voting had first been used to choose a new pope in 1061, papal elections during the Central Middle Ages were certainly not the secret affairs that they were later to become. Housed in luxurious fashion, cardinals were free to come and go as they pleased. It was very civilised, but it certainly wasn’t efficient, and provided no incentive for bickering factions to reach a decision. After the death of Clement IV in 1271, this created the conditions for the longest papal election in history. Locked in bitter squabbles, the cardinals argued and squabbled for almost three years without choosing a pontiff. Indeed, it lasted so long that three of the twenty cardinal-electors died while it was going on. The poor people of Viterbo – where the papal court then resided – grew so frustrated with the deadlock that they eventually locked the cardinals into the Palazzo dei Papi and gave them only bread and water until they picked a new pope. Legend also has it that the roof of the palace was also removed, but one way or another, the Viterbesi’s actions gave rise to the word ‘conclave’ (meaning ‘with keys’ – i.e. locked in) and provided the newly-elected Pope Gregory X with the motivation to draw up the laws which were to provide the basis of the modern conclave.
2. Extra Homines (1280-81)
Unfortunately, Gregory X’s good intentions took a while to come to fruition, and for the rest of the thirteenth century, papal elections remained fairly chaotic. Medieval cardinals were simply too wily to be shut in without a struggle, and in the election of 1280, the most ambitious of their number were dashing in and out of the Palazzo dei Papi in Viterbo with such eagerness for political horse-trading that it became all but impossible to reach a decision. Eventually, the Viterbesi intervened once again, and violently ejected Cardinal Matteo Orsini and his kinsman Cardinal Giordano Orsini for “impeding” the election.
3. The Accidental Pope (1334)
For the majority of the fourteenth century, the papacy was resident in Avignon, where it was to acquire a dreadful reputation for moral dissipation and worldly corruption. It was in Provence, however, that the cardinals also became too cunning for their own good. When they gathered to elect a successor to Pope John XXII in 1334, they all decided to follow the usual practice of voting for a total no-hoper in the first ballot to see which way the political winds were blowing. Unwittingly, however, all but one of the cardinals picked the same no-hoper. The least likely candidate of all, Cardinal Jacques Fournier was accidentally elected Pope Benedict XII.
4. Crazy Compromise (1378)
Finally restored to Rome after more than sixty years in Avignon, the College of Cardinals was under pressure from the Roman people to choose a solidly Italian pope when they gathered for the election of 1378. Unfortunately, they were every bit as divided as ever before, and negotiations dragged on almost interminably. In desperation, someone suggested an obscure, but apparently pious archbishop named Bartolommeo Prignano as a compromise candidate. Although he wasn’t a cardinal, and was all but unknown, the exhausted cardinals agreed, and Prignano ascended the papal throne as Pope Urban VI. It was, however, a ghastly mistake. Urban turned out to be a violently unhinged lunatic with a massive persecution complex. Within months, he began locking cardinals up in the Castel Sant’ Angelo and torturing them for his own amusement. His behaviour split the Church in two and catalysed the Great Schism. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he was the last non-cardinal to be elected pope.
5. The Scrummage (1458)
By the mid-fifteenth century, the Church had recovered from the traumas of the Schism and the rules governing conclave seemed to have become firmly established. But, as the papal election of 1458, the ambitions – and tempers – of cardinals had not been moderated at all. After the death of Callixtus III, Cardinal d’Estouteville was determined to seize the papal tiara for himself. Holding secret meetings in the latrines, he tried to bribe and intimidate his colleagues into voting for him. Things, however, did not quite go to plan. Very quickly, the learned Cardinal Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini began to emerge as the front-runner. D’Estouteville was furious. After the final ballot, cardinals were given the opportunity to change their votes if they wished, and within minutes, Piccolomini was only one vote short of victory. As Cardinal Prospero Colonna stood up to change his vote in Piccolomini’s favour, d’Estouteville finally lost his rag. Running across the chapel, he and one of his supporters grabbed hold of Colonna and tried desperately to drag him out of the room. A brawl erupted. And in the midst of it all, Piccolomini was chosen as Pope Pius II.
6. A Buyer’s Market (1492)
Cardinal d’Estouteville’s conniving ways were just a taste of things to come. As the power and wealth of the papacy grew, cardinals lusted after the papal tiara with ever greater fervour, and elections rapidly became dominated by rampant simony. None, however, was worse than the conclave of 1492. The ferociously ambitious and worldly Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia would stop at nothing in his quest to become the next pope, and was reputed to have offered four mule-loads of silver and benefices worth over 10,000 ducats a year to Ascanio Sforza alone. Rome was said to have been awash with Borgia money while the election was going on. But, from Borgia’s perspective, it was all worth it: he was duly chosen as Pope Alexander VI.
7. King Philip Votes (1590)
One of the most obvious features of all conclaves is that voting is restricted to members of the Sacred College of Cardinals. But in 1590, this all changed. In its dual capacity as an elective monarchy and a European power, the Church was unusually sensitive to outside pressures at moments of transition, and since it was to every Catholic king’s advantage that a pope should be well disposed towards his realm, each naturally did his utmost to ensure that his preferred candidate got the job. Previously, kings had simply given cash to their top man in Rome to spend as they thought appropriate, but in 1590, King Philip II of Spain went one step further. Having set his eyes on the French throne, he actually wanted to control the votes directly, and as the most powerful man in Europe, he thought he had the clout to do just that. Just before the conclave met, his ambassador circulated two lists of ‘recommendations’ amongst the cardinals. The first contained the names of the seven cardinals Philip would accept as pope; the second detailed the thirty cardinals that he wished to veto. Suitably cowed, the College did as it was bid, and from this point until 1903, the right of royal veto (ius exclusivae) was exercised by most Catholic monarchs when they saw fit.
8. The Brothers Grim (1644)
The election which followed the death of the notoriously nepotistic Pope Urban VIII should have been a foregone conclusion. Urban had appointed three of his close relatives to the College of Cardinals, two of whom – the brothers Francesco and Antonio Barberini – were widely perceived to have both the wealth and the ambition to force the conclave to do their bidding. But the Barberini boys had more money than wit, and instead of presenting a united front in the hope of gaining a quick election, they actually split the conclave. An ugly bout of fraternal bickering ensured, with playground insults and mountainous bribes being hurled across the floor during ballots. It was only after nearly bankrupting each other than they settled on Giovanni Battista Pamphilii (who would become Pope Innocent X) as a compromise candidate.
9. The Flying Squad and the Only Honest Man (1655)
After the debacle of 1644, the Barberini brothers were determined not to make the same mistake again, and at the 1655 election, had strengthened their hand immeasurably. But after years of nepotism, the College of Cardinals was worn out, and a group of reform-minded cardinals known as the squadrone volante (‘flying squad’) had begun to form in opposition to the Barberini bloc. The only obstacle to reforming the Curia was, however, the apparent paucity of candidates untainted by corruption. All of the obvious papabili were pretty murky types. In desperation, Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni exclaimed: “we need an honest man!” To everyone’s amazement, the squadrone’s unofficial leader, Decio Azzolino, then pointed to the unsuspecting Fabio Chigi and exclaimed “If you want an honest man, there stands one.” No-one seems to have noticed Chigi before, and when it proved impossible to find any honest alternative, he was duly elected as Alexander VII.
10. Election in Exile (1799-1800)
By virtue of the fact that Napoleon’s invasion of Italy had forced the Curia to flee Rome and take refuge in Venice, the conclave of 1799 was the last papal election to be held outside of Rome. It was also the last papal election to be held in chaotic circumstances. To begin with, the political turmoil sweeping across Europe meant that there were only thirty-four cardinals present, the lowest number since 1534. Then, this motley little bunch of exiled cardinals was locked out of St. Mark’s Basilica when they refused to accept the Austrian Emperor’s preferred candidate. And even after they had finally settled on a compromise choice – Barnaba Luigi Chiaramonti – some of the cardinals were still grumbling about the new Pope Pius VII’s previous, shocking claim that good Christians could also be good democrats. That Pius VII had to be crowned with a papier-mâché tiara in a tiny little church was a fitting end to the conclave.
Alexander Lee is an Associate Fellow at the University of Warwick. His book, The Ugly Renaissance will be published by Hutchinson in September.
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Update, July 30th: The lab has issued a new version of the VMM viewer, and the links to the download in this article have been updated accordingly.
A reminder that as recently announced by Linden Lab (and as I reported here), automated migration of Direct Delivery items on the Marketplace to the Viewer- Managed Marketplace capability commences on Thursday, July 23rd, 2015.
All Marketplace merchants will receive an e-mail at the start of the migration process, and another when it has completed. In addition, those with 5,000+ listings will receive an e-mail related to the scheduling of their store migration.
Operations will run from 21:00 SLT through to 09:00 SLT on weekdays, starting on Thursday July 23rd, and will continue in this manner until all stores on the Marketplace have been migrated. Merchants will not be able to modify their stores while their items are being migrated, but sales of items that are not in the process of being migrated will continue.
Note that Magic Box items will not be migrated during this process; they will require a manual migration, and no date has yet been given as to when support for Magic Boxes will discontinue.
The Viewer-Managed Marketplace ideally requires a viewer updated to support VMM in order to make managing items easier. At the time of writing, viewers supporting VMM are:
Linden Lab VMM release candidate viewer, version 3.8.2.303891
Black Dragon 2.4.4+
UKanDo 3.7.9. Beta (not the main release and dated June 10th)
Cool Viewer 1.26.14.0+ (managed via Inventory, no dedicated Marketplace Listings floater)
Note that if you are a Merchant using a viewer that does not have VMM support, once your store has been migrated, you will have an additional folder in your inventory display called Marketplace Listings.
This is the controlling folder for VMM, and should not be deleted, or have contents deleted or moved (it will be hidden in the majority of viewer with VMM support).
While it is possible to use this folder to continue to add new VMM items to your Marketplace store (providing you create the required folder structure, etc.), as Whirly Fizzle notes on the VMM migration forum thread, this is not a recommended approach given that it might lead to mistakes or confusion.
It had been indicated that VMM migration would not commence until after the viewer code had been promoted to release status. As such, the sudden announcement of the start of migration ahead of such a promotion has caused understandable consternation with TPV developers and merchants, prompting the Commerce Team to comment:
As many of you noticed, we did shorten the time line to get Merchants migrated to VMM. This is due primarily to the need to get Merchants off of Xstreet, as it was down for a weekend in early July, forcing us to accelerate our dates.
Those who are concerned about the migration process should refer to the migration forum thread, linked-to above. I also have a high-level overview of VMM (written when the project viewer first appeared), including a look at manual migration.
The Lab’s own resources on VMM can be found here:
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When he was elected president of the Philippines in July 2016, President Rodridgo Duterte promised to negotiate peace agreements with the major insurgent groups that have destabilised much of the country for decades.
His government announced it would commence peace talks with the representatives of the National Democratic Front, the umbrella organisation that represents both the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the New People’s Army. Duterte also committed himself to a peace agreement with the Philippines’ largest insurgent group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
At the time, these seemed like breakthroughs in the making. But the early optimism has dissolved, and the peace talks have stalled. While the government does seem genuinely willing to negotiate, the president seems to be been prioritising another one of his election campaign promises: eradicating crime and drugs.
This notorious “war on drugs” has been extraordinarily bloody, and criticised by human rights organisations and foreign governments alike. Nonetheless, it is supported by a majority of the population.
The popular narrative of the effects of drugs – in particular, shabu, or methamphetamine – seems to be exaggerated. Shabu use, urban legend says, results in not just theft and robbery, but paedophilia and arson; horror stories abound of addicts slaughtering entire families. The president himself has been quoted likening shabu addicts to “the living walking dead … of no use to society anymore”.
This rhetoric normalises a culture of impunity for the police and vigilantes, many of whom resort to extreme violence. Many innocent people have been targeted, both intentionally and unintentionally; journalists, police, politicians and other critics have been threatened, intimidated, fired or arrested for alleged links with drugs. Yet during my own research, many Filipinos told me they feel safer and that crime seems to have gone down.
The “war on drugs” may seem distinct from longer-running security issues, but it isn’t. The crackdown is contributing to a culture of unchecked violence, which is increasingly accepted as a necessary measure. If this normalisation continues, lasting peace will never be achieved.
Getting it wrong
For all its conciliatory talk, the government is still using tough tactics to deal with violent insurgents. So far, they have not paid off.
In May 2017, the military launched an operation to apprehend Isnilon Hapilon, the leader of the Abu Sayyaf Group, a faction of bandits designated as a terrorist organisation. But when the army swooped in, Hapilon was protected by scores of armed men who quickly took strategic positions throughout Marawi City. Instead of capturing Hapilon, the military raid seemed to kick-start the group’s unanticipated plan to seize the city.
Duterte was on a state visit to Russia at the time. The operation unravelled, and martial law was declared not just in Marawi, but on the entire island of Mindanao. The government has claimed it had intelligence about the group’s plans, but has issued contradictory statements on the rationale behind the siege, citing both jihadism and the drug trade.
Reports state that a few hundred jihadists managed to hold onto several neighbourhoods in defiance of government troops; they held off the military with improvised explosive devices, a sophisticated network of underground tunnels, and snipers placed in strategic locations across the city. This is a remarkable change in tactics for the Philippines’ insurgents, and clearly echoes recent urban battles in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.
The ongoing Marawi City crisis has scotched the government’s ceasefire with the New People’s Army. The deal was ultimately breached by both sides; in response, the Communist Party’s central command ordered increased operations in other parts of the country.
Generation gap
This decision is partly grounded in history. Communists still harbour bitter memories of the last period of martial law, imposed by dictator Ferdinand Marcos. True, the post-Marcos 1987 Constitution has more checks and balances in place than its predecessor, but martial law in Mindanao has already been extended to December 31, and may yet be extended to the entire country.
But outside the insurgent movements, many Filipinos see martial law as a necessary means with which to solve various problems in Mindanao. Aside from the insurgency, the region is home to many powerful families and clans with private armies and large weapon caches – something exemplified in the Marawi Crisis, where small groups of “terrorists” enjoy access to remarkably advanced weapons.
The problem is that martial law has hardly been a storming success. The government’s airstrikes have caused both civilian casualties and immense material destruction. The armed forces have attempted to secure the area around Marawi City, but it seems likely that Hapilon and the Maute leadership have escaped. Nor has the army managed to prevent new fighters from entering Marawi City; on the contrary, the Maute Group and Abu Sayyaf seem to have no problem recruiting ever more members.
Other groups are having problems, too. The Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s leadership has expressed concerns over its lack of control over the younger generation; the disconnect between what the Communist Party leadership says and what the New People’s Army is actually doing could mean that the Communists have lost control of their armed affiliate.
The success of any peace process is measured not only by what agreement ultimately gets signed. What will matter is whether it can be implemented, and the extent to which it addresses both the roots and consequences of the conflict. Only then will any further violence be avoided, and permanently. The prospect of any such peace in the Philippines remains slim. To quote Duterte himself, “There will be no peace for a generation.”
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We stopped in a bookstore yesterday because Dylan and his lima-bean-sized bladder urgently needed a restroom. On our way back to the stall, he marveled, “Look at all those copies of Harry Potter and the Daily Hello’s.”
It turns out there’s a new Harry Potter book out–did you know this? By now, much to the chagrin of Harold Bloom and A. S. Byatt, the billion-selling boy wizard heptology is as beloved in high-culture circles as it is at summer camps and on school buses. Even the notoriously cranky Michiko Kakutani has called the 4,000-page Levicorpus corpus a “monumental spell-binding epic.”
In the vein of last month’s appreciation of Ingmar Bergman, schlockmeister, I’d like to take a minute to celebrate Harry Potter not as bildungsroman, modern mythology, political allegory, or cultural phenomenon. Instead, I read the Harry Potter books as enormously sophisticated Scooby-Doo mysteries.
Structurally, these aren’t fantasy novels at all. They’re fair-play mysteries in wizard’s clothing–novels with not just plots and characters and setpieces, but “solutions” as well. J. K. Rowling is justly praised for her elaborate and meticulous world-building, but I’m convinced that a lot of that endless detail is just there for standard detective-novel purposes: to distract, to confound, to envelop the real “clues” in a Cloak of Invisibility.
There’s a long tradition in American children’s literature of letting your young readers play along with the detectives, racing them toward a solution: think The Westing Game or Encyclopedia Brown. But Rowling seems to draw more from the Agatha Christie tradition: a multiplicity of colorful “suspects,” many with hidden agendas; red herrings galore; and a final drawing-room exposition-fest in which Hercule Dumbledore explains How It Was Done.
Just as in a murder mystery, the guilty party is always the least likely suspect. In the first four books (belated spoilers): Quirrell, not Snape, is after the Sorcerer’s Stone. Ginny, not Draco, has unlocked the Chamber of Secrets. Ron’s pet rat, not Sirius Black, betrayed Harry’s parents (an unlikely-suspect twist to rival The Murder of Roger Ackroyd or And Then There Were None). The phony Mad-Eye Moody, not Karkaroff, is gaming the Triwizard Tournament.
Some of these reveals even involve the Hogwarts equivalent of a Scooby-Doo rubber mask coming off the crotchety caretaker: Quirrell’s turban, Pettigrew’s Animagus disguise, Barty Crouch, Jr.’s Polyjuice Potion. “Like, zoiks, Hermione–it was Old Man Milligrew all along!”
And Rowling does play fair–there are always clues hiding in plain sight, ones that even we mere Muggles could figure out, with a little ingenuity. Why is Barty Crouch’s name on the Marauder’s Map? What’s an anagram of “Tom Marvolo Riddle”? Who gave Neville that book about Gilly-weed? To Potter initiates, these convoluted-sounding questions are clues as obvious as the footprints under the window, the bloody knife and ripped bell-cord in the village squire’s study, the maid’s scream.
The later books deviate a bit more from the murder-mystery template, but there are still plenty of puzzles tossed to the reader–where did we see the locket and the diadem before? Who are “R.A.B.” and the Half-Blood Prince? What did Dumbledore’s cryptic dying words mean? Why does the barkeep have a goat? Even in the final book, with Harry and company already knee-deep, for once, in a classic heroes’ quest, looking for magical MacGuffins called “Horcruxes,” Rowling can’t resist tossing them a new mystery to sniff out, about the “Deathly Hallows” in Dumbledore’s past.
In the Deathly Hallows epilogue (more spoilers!) we never learn what grown-up Harry, Ron, and Hermione do for a living. I think that’s because they drive around Britain in a van solving mysteries. Each adventure ends with some Voldemort type ranting at the trio in noseless fury, “And I would have got away with it–if it weren’t for you pesky kids!”
I bet Rowling’s first post-Harry Potter book–talk about a hard act to follow–will be a classic mystery of some kind. I don’t know if it’ll be a hard-boiled gumshoe case, a true-crime police procedural, a classic manor-house throwback, or what, but it’ll be a mystery novel. She’s been writing them all along, after all. It’s just that no one’s noticed.
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Life is gradient descent
Rohan Kshirsagar Blocked Unblock Follow Following Jan 24, 2017
How machine learning and optimization theory can change your perspective
A grassy continuous non-convex function. Credit to C Rand
Recently, I’ve been learning about Gradient Descent. It’s a really beautiful algorithm that helps find the optimal solution to a function, and forms the foundations of how we train intelligent systems today. It’s based off a very simple idea — rather than figuring out the best solution to a problem immediately, it guesses an initial solution and steps it in a direction that’s closer to a better solution. The algorithm is to repeat this procedure, until the solution is good enough.
My theory is that this is the way we humans work. We all follow some form of gradient descent, both passively and actively, when living our lives. Understanding this framework of gradient descent explicitly can help with improving the set up of your goals, speeding up progress on those goals, understanding other people, and seeing the bigger picture. The objective of this post is two fold: 1) To view life through the lens of gradient descent and 2) To view gradient descent through the lens of life. Throughout the post, I will provide examples that use this terminology precisely. Let’s begin by understanding gradient descent.
For the mathematically inclined
If you want to minimize the equation x² (whose derivative is 2x), and your guess for the solution is 3, then you can take a baby step (.1) in the direction opposite of the gradient at x=3, which is -6. So the next guess might be 2.4, the next one 1.8, the next 1.5… until finally we reach zero. This is drastically simplifying the use of gradient descent because we can solve for the solution directly in this case, but bear with me for now.
For the visually inclined
Imagine a marble at the rim of a large bowl. This is the first guess of a solution. It starts far from the bottom center of the bowl, but it eventually gets there by rolling there, bit by bit. Instead of teleporting instantaneously from the rim to the bottom, it takes a gradual path, following the path of least resistance.
How standard supervised machine learning works
In machine learning, this method is used to iterate a solution towards the minimal cost using labeled data. For example, if we want the classifier to predict whether an image has a cat or not, we’d provide it with a labeled set of images that do and don’t have cats. To carry out one iteration of gradient descent, the classifier at it’s current state will be used to classify all the images, use the predictions and the labels to compute the cost, and then compute the gradient to figure out how to shift the classifier weights to predict more images correctly. You can view this process as figuring out where the classifier is on the hill and rolling it a bit in the right direction.
In life’s gradient descent, we are these marbles in a multitude of different hills. These hills vary across different emotions and measures, such as happiness, wealth, love, status, craft, etc. Let’s call these functions. In each of these functions, we are sitting somewhere on a hillside trying to get to the valley or the peak (let’s call this optima). As long as we have a measurable cost/reward function, and some relevant data that we can supervise, we have a good basis for practicing gradient descent.
Leo wants to be a better striker in soccer.
Leo’s reward function is determined by things like the number of goals he scores, the minutes he plays, the teams he scores them against, and the trophies he wins. Currently he’s scoring about 10 to 15 goals a season, but he thinks he could hit 25 to 30 with a solid improvement. He drills for 2 hours longer a day than everyone else on the team and takes penalties for an hour every Sunday. This brings his goal count to 18 the next year. After looking at his goal count, he sees that almost none of his goals are coming from headers on crosses. This sets the direction for his progress. He does all sorts of calf raises and box jump work outs. His aggression in the box increases. All these changes culminate into a 22 goal season.
In parallel, Leo also has a cost function he’s trying to minimize — injuries. Any injury would be a gigantic setback towards any of his reward functions. On a daily basis with his trainer, he analyzes his body for any pains, stresses, inflexibilities and assuages them. At any point in time, Leo is evaluating a set of different fitness functions and meanwhile assessing the fitness functions themselves. Maybe his objective of being a better striker should change to attacking midfielder. That way he can maximize goals for his team.
The key ingredients to Leo’s gradient descent algorithm are functions that can measured (number of goals in a season or days out on injury), data that contributes towards or detracts from the function (headers, key passes, strains, fractures, etc), and baby steps in his routines after having analyzed the data.
Batch vs Stochastic Gradient Descent
Let’s jump back to machine learning for a sec. In my image classification example, we compute the predictions for all of the images, and used the results of all of those to iterate our solution. This is actually a specific variant of gradient descent called batch gradient descent. We could just as well take a single image (randomly picked), predict, compute the cost, and iterate our classifier in the right direction. This is called stochastic gradient descent; it basically says that we might step in the wrong direction once in a while, but on average, we’ll step in the right direction. Stochastic gradient descent is cheap to compute, but can be noisy. How does this translate to life?
View each day as a sample and our actions as the features for each sample. By looking at our actions with respect to our goals, we can see how we’ve erred and adjust our behaviors. This is actually ingrained in our culture in the form of New Years Resolutions. However, humans suck at this. We don’t keep track of our goals. We have notoriously terrible memories — we’re not computers. We heavily overweight the most recent samples. We heavily overweight the most emotional samples. Kahneman and Frederickson, proved this in dozens of studies, coining this the peak-end rule.
Okay, you say, batch gradient descent doesn’t work. Why not use stochastic gradient descent? We can observe our behaviors on a daily basis, and adjust towards our goals. We humans are busy and lazy. If we had enough will power to monitor and change our behaviors on a daily basis, then we’d probably be at the optimal solution to all our goals. This reminds me a joke that Todd Barry told. He described a TV special about a wardrobe organization strategy that involved meticulously arranging the direction of the hangers based on what you wear — and he thought, anyone who manages to keep that habit is already the most organized person in the world.
Fortunately, machine learning researchers and practitioners have already come up with a solution to this issue. We can combine the best of both worlds using mini-batch gradient descent. Analyzing your errors on a weekly or biweekly basis is a good balance between human psychology and changing directions toward a local optima. In addition, we have computers to help record each sample uniformly. Most successful weightlifters keep a journal logging every single one of their lifts and meals. Data-driven companies are ubiquitous these days. Fitbits, smartphones, smart-scales are all useful tools in helping compute the gradient.
Gradient descent is putting the blinders on
Bob chillin at a local optima
The pursuit of a goal can blind us in two ways. First, when taking baby steps in the ‘right’ direction, we might not see that going in the ‘wrong’ direction for a bit or starting from somewhere else could help us get to a better solution. In the diagram to the left we can see that if the stick figure, Bob, moved to the left he’d get to a more optimal valley.
Be wary that gradient descent is a local optimizer
We have many different fitness functions, or hills, in our lives. Traversing any of these hills can blind us to all the other hills out there! Imagine Leo the soccer player, scoring goals in machine-gun rapid fire in his local 12 year old league. As long as he keeps honing his skills there, he won’t be improving his skills in a more challenging and diverse soccer environment, such as Europe. Leo needs to move to a hill with a much deeper valley.
Moreover, the function that we’re looking at might not even be the right one. These functions change through passive or active means. This happens all the time growing up. Remember when you measured yourself by how many Pokemon cards you had or how expensive your shoes were? Those were probably not the right function to measure yourself by.
This can help you understand people
Two people who live under the same roof, work in the same position, or look identical, can be traversing completely different functions. Bob and Alice could be two cashiers and Bob is measuring himself by how many smiles he receives from his customers and Alice is measuring herself through the rate of customers she gets through per hour.
When thinking deeply about someone, try not to assess them by their base traits (job, wealth, intelligence, etc) but rather by the hills they traverse, the valleys and peaks they hike towards, and their process for selecting these hills.
Speeding up your progress (or hiking faster)
In gradient descent, the learning rate affects how much change we enact to get closer to the local optimum. Once we’ve figured out the right direction, the learning rate is how far we jump in that direction.
This is why so many self-help guides advise taking baby steps. Baby steps imply a small learning rate. Baby steps decrease your chances of failing in your endeavor. If our learning rate is too high, we might actually diverge from the optimum solution. Essentially, drastic changes can move you away from the optimum. You can see what that looks like below:
An example of a high learning rate is attempting a black diamond in your first attempt at snowboarding. This increases the chances of injury, repeated failure, possibly leading to demotivation. Perhaps the optimal learning rate is a green or blue hill, providing ample learning opportunities without as much risk of diverging from your goal.
Key takeaways
In any goal-oriented situation, this framework of gradient descent bubbles up useful insights. You can ask yourself useful questions such as: Am I at a local minimum right now? What’s my batch size (1 week or 1 year)? Is there somewhere else that has a more optimal solution? Can I tweak my learning rate to be a little faster? Am I following the steepest path towards my objective? Is my cost function the one I really want?
People that are good at setting up these functions and learning rates can move along to more complicated learning techniques, by adapting learning rates on the fly, or restarting from many random positions in your function to get closer to the global optimum. Why do so many people advocate travel? It makes finding new functions to traverse and find better solutions to existing functions using the idea of random-restarts.
The world’s top companies are experts at adapting these functions, measuring a ton of data, and setting directions to better solutions. Agile software development is a methodology heavily connected to the idea of gradient descent — start with a solution as soon as possible, measure and iterate as frequently as possible.
Real life gradient descent is more possible than ever before
Today, there’s an entire market dedicated to the Internet Of Things (IoT). Wearables to measure your movement, pillows for your sleep, and water bottles to measure how much you drink. All the activity on your phone and laptops is tracked in a plethora of ways. Analyzing this rich time-series data crafts a more precise compass for gradient descent.
If you didn’t learn anything towards self-improvement — I hope you learned a thing or two about gradient descent and machine learning. If you didn’t learn a thing about machine learning, then I hope you learned something about forming goals and progressing towards them. In my next post, I will speak more concretely in setting up these goals in the form of small measurable habits.
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Residents of the Falkland Islands voted almost unanimously to stay under British rule in a referendum aimed at winning global sympathy as Argentina intensifies its sovereignty claim.
The official count on Monday showed 99.8 percent of islanders voted in favour of remaining a British Overseas Territory in the two-day poll, which was rejected by Argentina as a meaningless publicity stunt. There only three "no" votes out of about 1,500 cast.
"Surely this must be the strongest message we can get out to the world," said Roger Edwards, one of the Falklands' assembly's eight elected members.
"That we are content, that we wish to retain the status quo ... with the right to determine our own future and not become a colony of Argentina."
Pro-British feeling is running high in the barren and blustery islands that lie off the tip of Patagonia, at the southern end of South America. Turnout was 92 percent among the 1,649 Falklands-born and long-term residents registered to vote.
Three decades after hundreds died when Argentina and Britain went to war over the far-flung South Atlantic archipelago, islanders have been perturbed by Argentina's increasingly vocal claim over the Malvinas - as the islands are called in Spanish.
Local politicians hope the resounding "yes" vote will help them lobby support abroad, for example in the United States, which has a neutral position on the sovereignty issue.
"We're never going to change Argentina's claim and point of view, but I believe there are an awful lot of countries out there that are sitting on the fence ... this is going to show them quite clearly what the people think," Edwards said.
The mood was festive as islanders lined up in the cold to vote in the low-key island capital of Stanley, some wearing novelty outfits made from the red, white and blue British Union Jack flag.
"We are British and that's the way we want to stay," said Barry Nielsen, who wore a Union Jack hat to cast his ballot at the town hall polling station in Stanley, where most of the roughly 2,500 islanders live.
Argentina's president, Cristina Fernandez, has piled pressure on Britain to negotiate the sovereignty of the islands, something London refuses to do unless the islanders request talks.
Most Latin American countries and many other developing nations have voiced support for Argentina, which has stepped up its demands since London-listed companies started drilling for oil and natural gas off the Falklands' craggy coastline.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague said the referendum clearly showed the islanders wanted to remain a British overseas territory.
"All countries should accept the results of this referendum and support the Falkland Islanders as they continue to develop their home and their economy," he said in a statement.
"We have always been clear that we believe in the rights of the Falklands people to determine their own futures and to decide on the path they wish to take. It is only right that, in the 21st century, these rights are respected."
However, officials in Buenos Aires questioned the referendum's legitimacy. They say the sovereignty dispute must be resolved between Britain and Argentina and cite U.N. resolutions calling on London to sit down for talks.
"This (referendum) is a ploy that has no legal value," said Alicia Castro, Argentina's ambassador to London.
"Negotiations are in the islanders' best interest. We don't want to deny them their identity. They're British, we respect their identity and their way of life and that they want to continue to be British. But the territory they occupy is not British," she told an Argentine radio station.
Argentina has claimed the islands since 1833, saying it inherited them from the Spanish on independence and that Britain expelled an Argentine population.
The 1982 war, which killed about 650 Argentines and 255 Britons and ended when Argentina surrendered, is widely remembered in Argentina as a humiliating mistake by the discredited and brutal dictatorship in power at the time.
But most Argentines think the islands rightfully belong to the South American country and they remain a potent national symbol that unites political foes.
Falkland islanders, who are enjoying an economic boom thanks partly to the sale of oil and natural gas exploration licences, say they do not expect Monday's result to sway Argentina.
"Argentina's stance on the Falklands will stay the same," said Stanley resident Craig Paice, wearing a T-shirt bearing the slogan "Our Islands, Our Decision" as he waited to vote on Monday.
"But hopefully the world will now listen and know the people of the Falkland Islands have a voice."
Reuters
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According to Michael First of the DSM-5 working committee[1] the focus of a relational disorder, in contrast to other DSM-IV disorders, "is on the relationship rather than on any one individual in the relationship".[2]
Relational disorders involve two or more individuals and a disordered "juncture", whereas typical Axis I psychopathology describes a disorder at the individual level. An additional criterion for a relational disorder is that the disorder cannot be due solely to a problem in one member of the relationship, but requires pathological interaction from each of the individuals involved in the relationship.[2]
For example, if a parent is withdrawn from one child but not another, the dysfunction could be attributed to a relational disorder. In contrast, if a parent is withdrawn from both children, the dysfunction may be more appropriately attributable to a disorder at the individual level.[3]
First states that "relational disorders share many elements in common with other disorders: there are distinctive features for classification; they can cause clinically significant impairment; there are recognizable clinical courses and patterns of comorbidity; they respond to specific treatments; and they can be prevented with early interventions. Specific tasks in a proposed research agenda: develop assessment modules; determine the clinical utility of relational disorders; determine the role of relational disorders in the etiology and maintenance of individual disorders; and consider aspects of relational disorders that might be modulated by individual disorders."[2]
The proposed new diagnosis defines a relational disorder as "persistent and painful patterns of feelings, behaviors, and perceptions" among two or more people in an important personal relationship, such a husband and wife, or a parent and children.[4]
According to psychiatrist Darrel Regier, MD, some psychiatrists and other therapists involved in couples and marital counseling have recommended that the new diagnosis be considered for possible incorporation into the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV).[4]
History [ edit ]
The idea of a psychology of relational disorders is far from new. According to Adam Blatner, MD,[5] some of the early psychoanalysts alluded to it more or less directly, and the history of marital couple therapy began with a few pioneers in 1930s. J.L. Moreno, the inventor of psychodrama and a major pioneer of group psychotherapy and social psychology, noted the idea that relationships could be "sick" even if the people involved were otherwise "healthy," and even vice versa: Otherwise "sick" people could find themselves in a mutually supportive and "healthy" relationship.[5]
Moreno's ideas may have influenced some of the pioneers of family therapy, but also there were developments in general science, namely, cybernetic theory, developed in the mid-1940s, and noting the nature of circularity and feedback in complex systems. By the 1950s, the idea that relationships themselves could be problematic became quite apparent. So, diagnostically, in the sense not of naming a disease or disorder, but just helping people think through what was really going on, the idea of relational disorder was nothing new.[5]
Kinds [ edit ]
The majority of research on relational disorders concerns three relationship systems: adult children and their parents, minor children and their parents, and the marital relationship. There is also an increasing body of research on problems in dyadic gay relationships and on problematic sibling relationships.[6]
Marital [ edit ]
Marital disorders are divided into "Marital Conflict Disorder Without Violence" and "Marital Abuse Disorder (Marital Conflict Disorder With Violence)."[7] Couples with marital disorders sometimes come to clinical attention because the couple recognize long-standing dissatisfaction with their marriage and come to the clinician on their own initiative or are referred by a health care professional. Secondly, there is serious violence in the marriage which is "usually the husband battering the wife".[8] In these cases the emergency room or a legal authority often is the first to notify the clinician.
Most importantly, marital violence "is a major risk factor for serious injury and even death and women in violent marriages are at much greater risk of being seriously injured or killed" (National Advisory Council on Violence Against Women 2000).[9] The authors of this study add that "There is current considerable controversy over whether male-to-female marital violence is best regarded as a reflection of male psychopathology and control or whether there is an empirical base and clinical utility for conceptualizing these patterns as relational."[9]
Recommendations for clinicians making a diagnosis of "Marital Relational Disorder" should include the assessment of actual or "potential" male violence as regularly as they assess the potential for suicide in depressed patients. Further, "clinicians should not relax their vigilance after a battered wife leaves her husband, because some data suggest that the period immediately following a marital separation is the period of greatest risk for the women.
Many men will stalk and batter their wives in an effort to get them to return or punish them for leaving. Initial assessments of the potential for violence in a marriage can be supplemented by standardized interviews and questionnaires, which have been reliable and valid aids in exploring marital violence more systematically."[9]
The authors conclude with what they call "very recent information"[10] on the course of violent marriages which suggests that "over time a husband's battering may abate somewhat, but perhaps because he has successfully intimidated his wife."
The risk of violence remains strong in a marriage in which it has been a feature in the past. Thus, treatment is essential here; the clinician cannot just wait and watch.[10] The most urgent clinical priority is the protection of the wife because she is the one most frequently at risk, and clinicians must be aware that supporting assertiveness by a battered wife may lead to more beatings or even death.[10]
In some cases, men are abuse victims of their wives; there is not exclusively male-on-female physical violence, although this is more common than female-on-male violence.
Parent–child abuse [ edit ]
Research on parent–child abuse bears similarities to that on marital violence, with the defining characteristic of the disorder being physical aggression by a parent toward a child. The disorder is frequently concealed by parent and child, but may come to the attention of the clinician in several ways, from emergency room medical staff to reports from child protection services.[10]
Some features of abusive parent–child relationships that serve as a starting point for classification include: (a) the parent is physically aggressive with a child, often producing physical injury, (b) parent–child interaction is coercive, and parents are quick to react to provocations with aggressive responses, and children often reciprocate aggression, (c) parents do not respond effectively to positive or prosocial behavior in the child, (d) parents do not engage in discussion about emotions, (e) parent engages in deficient play behavior, ignores the child, rarely initiates play, and does little teaching, (f) children are insecurely attached and, where mothers have a history of physical abuse, show distinctive patterns of disorganized attachment, and (g) parents relationship shows coercive marital interaction patterns.[11]
Defining the relational aspects of these disorders can have important consequences. For example, in the case of early appearing feeding disorders, attention to relational problems may help delineate different types of clinical problems within an otherwise broad category. In the case of conduct disorder, the relational problems may be so central to the maintenance, if not the etiology, of the disorder that effective treatment may be impossible without recognizing and delineating it.[11]
See also [ edit ]
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A former chief of Nato has launched a powerful attack on hardline Brexiters, accusing them of seeking to use Britain’s armed forces as a bargaining chip to secure a future trade deal with the EU.
George Robertson, the Labour peer who was secretary-general of the western military alliance between 1999 and 2004, said it was vital that the UK continued to be part of a strong European defensive shield, whatever the outcome of the talks on trade.
Robertson, who fears that missteps in dealing with Russia, above all, could have potentially catastrophic results, told the Observer: “There is no doubt, from discussions I have had with some of the Brexiters, that they want to use the British military as part of a bargaining tool. [But] we don’t stop being part of Europe, part of the neighbourhood, or remote from our allies, and certainly not remote from the threat.
“If there is going to be a European capability, then it needs Britain. It can’t be done by the other European countries on their own.”
Facebook Twitter Pinterest George Robertson said he thought article 50 letter was ‘clumsily put together’ Photograph: David M. Benett/Getty Images
Russian divisions numbering tens of thousands have amassed just across the EU’s eastern-most border in recent months.
The UK is among a select number of EU member states, alongside the US, deploying hundreds of troops, as well as aircraft and armour, to eastern Europe as part of the biggest build-up of Nato forces in the region since the cold war.
The former Nato chief, who was also defence secretary in Tony Blair’s first administration, spoke out after the prime minister, Theresa May, was accused of threatening the EU with weakened cooperation on security matters in her letter notifying the EU of the UK’s intention to leave.
May wrote that the UK wanted “to agree with the European Union a deep and special partnership that takes in both economic and security cooperation”. The letter then added: “If, however, we leave the European Union without an agreement, the default position is that we would have to trade on World Trade Organisation terms. In security terms, a failure to reach agreement would mean our cooperation in the fight against crime and terrorism would be weakened.”
The link between security and economic cooperation was made 11 times in the six-page letter, and an article penned by the prime minister and published in newspapers in seven countries reasserted the connection. In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, she wrote: “This partnership should contain economic as well as security policy cooperation because this is in the interests of the UK, Germany, the EU and the whole world.”
In Brussels, the comments drew a furious response. The European parliament’s Brexit coordinator, Guy Verhofstadt, said it was a “big mistake … to start with launching threats to each other”.
François Fillon, the conservative French presidential election candidate, warned that “Mrs May should not be setting conditions in security matters – we should not get into that sort of blackmail.”
Robertson said he could only assume the letter was “clumsily put together” and “not properly read before it was sent”. He added: “If this is a threat, it is an empty threat.
Brexit Britain’s Nato strategy is fatally flawed | Martin Kettle Read more
“The way this government is going about this negotiation is filled with carelessness, which is really regrettable. This is just another indication of the carelessness with which they handle what is going to be a very, very sensitive negotiation. It looks like a clumsy threat.
“The fact is, we will be needed. The problem will be that [after Brexit] we won’t be in when the missions are decided on, we won’t be there when the details are considered, and we won’t be there when the exit strategies are developed.”
The British government rushed to reassure the European council’s president, Donald Tusk, in the wake of the row, insisting that it had not intended to make a threat.
On Friday, on a visit to Nato in Brussels, the foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, said: “It is not some bargaining chip in any negotiations that may be taking place elsewhere in this capital. We make an unconditional commitment to the defence and security of Europe.”
However, the defence secretary, Sir Michael Fallon, insisted that the UK and the EU would both be weaker if they did not agree a Brexit deal on fighting organised crime and terrorism.
“If there is no deal on that, we are all weaker … because that is a joint effort to tackle organised crime and terrorism,” Fallon said.
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A healthy copycat version of the Great American Cookie Company’s signature cookie. Two tender chocolate chip cookies with light and fluffy buttercream frosting between.
I’m reaching way back into my childhood for this recipe. I used to LOVE the double doozie cookies from The Great American Cookie Company. Every time we went to the mall and walked past that glass display case, my mouth would start watering. I loved those things! My mother didn’t let me indulge too often, but when she did . . . ! So good! Even into my adulthood, I would sometimes have one (every several years) just for nostalgia sake.
My husband is the one who inspired the idea for this recipe. I had made the Chocolate Moisties (from the Trim Healthy Mama Cookbook ) and he was dreaming about using them for a “cookie sandwich.” I did make a double doozie with those cookies, using my Healthy Coconut Oil Chocolate Frosting. (See my Facebook post about those cookies).
While those were delicious, I knew I wanted to try it with a more traditional vanilla type of frosting. I figured the perfect cookie for that would be my Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe! I mixed up a simple buttercream frosting, and came up with a double doozie that tastes amazingly like the original Double Doozie cookie!
I am so pleased to have re-created one of my favorite child-hood favorites! Now I can have them more often – and not even feel guilty!
This recipe only makes 2 Double Doozie Cookies, but feel free to double or triple the frosting recipe if you want to make more than 2 at a time. (If you make a full batch of the Chocolate Chip Cookies you should have plenty of cookies.)
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Print Recipe 5 from 1 vote Double Doozie Cookies {THM-S, Sugar Free, Low Carb} Ingredients 4 Favorite Low Carb Chocolate Chip Cookies For the Frosting 2 Tablespoons Softened Butter
2 Teaspoons Gentle Sweet
1 Teaspoon Vanilla
1 Tablespoon Hydrolyzed Collagen Instructions In a small mixing bowl, mix all ingredients with a hand mixer until fluffy.
Spread half of the frosting on two cookies, and top with the remaining cookies. Notes This makes 2 Double Doozie cookies. I would only eat 1 as a serving.
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amazingxkcd Profile Blog Joined September 2010 GRAND OLD AMERICA 15736 Posts Last Edited: 2018-04-08 04:55:23 #1 Ninjas in Pyjamas vs Fnatic The Legendary Series
MLG X Games Aspen Semi-Finals
With MLG over and the winner crowned, we take the time to look back at what could possibly be an early contender for the best series of 2015. After a tumultuous group stage, the two Swedish teams were once again pitted against each other. This time, however, the tables were turned. The once dominant Ninjas in Pyjamas came in as the underdogs, and Fnatic came in as the favourites.
If you haven't watched the series yet, please do so as the following analysis is a series-specific performance overview. It looks at how each player performed throughout the series, and what went wrong, or right, for each team.
+ Show Spoiler [NiP vs Fnatic VODs] + Map 1 - Cache
Map 2 - Inferno
Map 3 - Mirage
Fnatic
Robin “flusha” Rönnquist - The Shield
Known for his incredible game sense, flusha came under fire in the latter half of 2014 as accusations of aimlocking were directed towards him. While nothing has come to light proving his guilt, flusha himself has taken to social media to respond to the claims, stating how it has negatively affected his motivation and performance. Usually a strong contender for being one of the most consistent members of Fnatic, his own admission rings true throughout the series as he was one of the weakest links for Fnatic and a key factor in allowing NiP freedom to stampede through their defenses. In most scenarios, flusha simply failed to connect his shots to get key kills that would have allowed Fnatic to stabilize and regain their composure.
Usually seen as the defensive counterpart to JW’s hyper aggression on their Counter-Terrorist side, flusha’s goal is to simply contain what JW let past, whether it be a trickle or a flood. A key round that showcases how it all fell apart was the fifth round of Inferno, where JW was rushed down on arch by a marauding NiP force. Instead of putting a stop to their rampage, flusha was distracted by a single member of NiP while Maikelele snuck behind him in library and got a knife kill for the eco round win.
On the Terrorist side, flusha continues to complement JW by playing towards the opposite bomb site. Rather than being the last line of offense to support JW, he instead lurks, picking off any rotating CTs and allowing JW an incredible amount of space to work with. On Inferno and Cache, it was flusha who punished friberg’s curiosity at the B bombsite, preventing NiP from gaining any information about the whereabouts of his teammates and their plans. While his Terrorist side was somewhat strong, it was unfortunately the many blunders on his CT side that left Fnatic bleeding too many rounds to NiP.
Jesper “JW” Wecksell - The Sword
Regarded as one of the strongest AWPers in 2014, JW had a lot to prove coming into MLG to reinforce his pedigree as a force to be reckoned with. The aggressive AWPer is a dynamic force with deadly accuracy, capable of destroying opponents on his CT side and causing enemies to fear the very threat of his presence. Similar to Maikelele, JW lives and dies by his aim. While some AWPers flourish by simply holding an angle and netting the team a kill or two, JW will either go big, or go home. Unfortunately for him, he went home, simply because his shots missed a few too many times.
While JW’s success or failure would create a problem for most other teams, Fnatic has created a situation where they do not rely solely on their AWPer. Of course, any game where JW fails to perform may be an uphill battle, but Fnatic often pulls it out in the end. The question then becomes, why did Fnatic end up losing this series? It comes back to flusha, as the duo complement each other so well that when both fail to perform, the team crumbles. Regardless, it was an incredibly close series, but that was mainly due to the next few players on the list.
Olof “olofmeister” Kajbjer - The Soldier
While JW and flusha are a dynamic duo, the ex-LGB teammates, olofmeister and KRiMZ, make a deadly combination themselves. An all-around strong player, olofmeister wears various hats on Fnatic, electing to AWP or rifle as needed and switching between lurker and entry fragger on the fly. olofmeister acts as clay in pronax’s hands, being used to fatal efficiency. On the CT side, olofmeister was instrumental towards shutting down all of NiP’s attempts at A on Mirage. Fnatic devised a cunning triangle of death in which JW would hold from jungle, olofmeister defended from CT spawn, and KRiMZ would roam between connector and stairs. This meant that although NiP were able to secure the bombsite and plant the bomb, they had an incredibly difficult time holding off the incoming retake as the triple threat would decimate anyone who tried to defend the site. olofmeister also managed to prevent Xizt’s one-versus-three clutch, which would have caused a huge swing in momentum and perhaps allowed NiP an even better Terrorist half.
While his performance on Mirage was admirable, olofmeister made some critical errors on Inferno that allowed NiP to snag an amazing T side against one of the world’s greatest CT Inferno teams. Combined with the weaknesses of flusha and JW, it created a huge hole in their A defense, allowing NiP to exploit it with great arch control and providing the Ninjas an option to fake back towards B when needed. olofmeister needs to step up his game in his next appearance. Although he ended the tournament as the team’s second-best fragger, his performance was far from perfect throughout the series.
Fnatic had too many underperforming players
Markus “pronax” Wallsten - The Kingmaker
The in-game leader for Fnatic, pronax has risen to become one of the great minds of Global Offensive. He is a player that can be relied on to not only adapt mid-game, but also to prepare specifically for a team and counter their strategies. First and foremost, pronax is a bloodhound. On the CT side, he exists solely to feed information to the other players on the team and to lift them up and make them stars. More than once, pronax pushed his luck by aggressively gathering information. Key examples include him pushing squeaky or A main on Cache or rushing through apartments on Inferno and Mirage to sniff out information there. This allows for an immense early game advantage throughout each round as the remaining CTs can adjust their game plan accordingly and prepare for any executes.
This tactic paved the way for the incredible triple kill on Cache by KRiMZ during the 23rd round. With pronax taking over A main, it allowed KRiMZ to stealthily push into vents and quickly snipe off Xizt, duel with f0rest, then drop down and backstab a distracted GeT_RiGhT as Fnatic knew the Ninjas were not at A. Aside from being the brilliant mind behind his stars, pronax himself pulled off some extremely clutch rounds that brought his team back into the fold. In what was one of the greatest clutch situations of MLG Aspen, pronax managed to salvage a chaotic A take by somehow securing three one-versus-ones with the NiP players. After losing three teammates to Xizt, pronax managed to pick him off before GeT_RiGhT rounded the corner to the site. pronax pivoted and killed the Swedish legend at truck before deftly turning back to graveyard, where a confused friberg met his demise. However, there is something to be said about his snap decisions when it comes to strategies. Right after that round he immediately called for a rush through banana, running straight into the crosshairs of friberg and halting their momentum.
With everything on the line, instead of playing out a different strategy or taking it slow, he called for the exact same strategy with a small tweak: rather than throwing a molotov into the porch area at B, he landed it at the cart instead, exactly where friberg plays. This alteration forced friberg to jump in front of sandbags where he was instantly flashed, allowing the Fnatic players to pick him off without losing a single player. This adjustment, along with his clutch plays, allowed Fnatic to stay in the game and remain as competitive as they were, bringing the series to a third map.
Freddy “KRiMZ” Johansson - The Giant
While this overview has been quite negative in regards to most of the Fnatic squad thus far, that is simply because most of the praise for this nail-biting series is reserved for this single player. KRiMZ was by far the standout player for Fnatic throughout the entire series. Topping the scoreboard on every map, KRiMZ was playing far above the level of any other Fnatic player on the team.
It was night and day. While JW and flusha let NiP plough through their setup at arch side on Inferno, KRiMZ slammed the door shut at B, denying any Ninjas entrance to the site. On Mirage, KRiMZ proved to be a stellar player once again, holding down the most crucial position on the map, connector, and getting a quad-kill on NiP when they attempted an almost-successful A execute on their first gun round.
Of course, he isn’t just great at holding sites. On Cache, KRiMZ played an invaluable role in keeping Fnatic in the game, grabbing some magnificent entry kills onto B against the near-indomitable friberg and f0rest. He provided Fnatic with opportunities to stay in the game and helped keep the series neck-and-neck. While his performance was brilliant, the frustration was clear on KRiMZ's face as each map bore on. On Inferno, he ran straight down alternate middle and attempted to take a fight with a P250 against Xizt on patio with no help from his teammates. Unfortunately for KRiMZ, his efforts alone could not keep Fnatic in the game, and they fell disappointingly short on Mirage after an anti-eco gave NiP the momentum to shut down any notion Fnatic had of a possible win at MLG. Known for his incredible game sense, flusha came under fire in the latter half of 2014 as accusations of aimlocking were directed towards him. While nothing has come to light proving his guilt, flusha himself has taken to social media to respond to the claims, stating how it has negatively affected his motivation and performance. Usually a strong contender for being one of the most consistent members of Fnatic, his own admission rings true throughout the series as he was one of the weakest links for Fnatic and a key factor in allowing NiP freedom to stampede through their defenses. In most scenarios, flusha simply failed to connect his shots to get key kills that would have allowed Fnatic to stabilize and regain their composure.Usually seen as the defensive counterpart to JW’s hyper aggression on their Counter-Terrorist side, flusha’s goal is to simply contain what JW let past, whether it be a trickle or a flood. A key round that showcases how it all fell apart was the fifth round of Inferno, where JW was rushed down on arch by a marauding NiP force. Instead of putting a stop to their rampage, flusha was distracted by a single member of NiP while Maikelele snuck behind him in library and got a knife kill for the eco round win.On the Terrorist side, flusha continues to complement JW by playing towards the opposite bomb site. Rather than being the last line of offense to support JW, he instead lurks, picking off any rotating CTs and allowing JW an incredible amount of space to work with. On Inferno and Cache, it was flusha who punished friberg’s curiosity at the B bombsite, preventing NiP from gaining any information about the whereabouts of his teammates and their plans. While his Terrorist side was somewhat strong, it was unfortunately the many blunders on his CT side that left Fnatic bleeding too many rounds to NiP.Regarded as one of the strongest AWPers in 2014, JW had a lot to prove coming into MLG to reinforce his pedigree as a force to be reckoned with. The aggressive AWPer is a dynamic force with deadly accuracy, capable of destroying opponents on his CT side and causing enemies to fear the very threat of his presence. Similar to Maikelele, JW lives and dies by his aim. While some AWPers flourish by simply holding an angle and netting the team a kill or two, JW will either go big, or go home. Unfortunately for him, he went home, simply because his shots missed a few too many times.While JW’s success or failure would create a problem for most other teams, Fnatic has created a situation where they do not rely solely on their AWPer. Of course, any game where JW fails to perform may be an uphill battle, but Fnatic often pulls it out in the end. The question then becomes, why did Fnatic end up losing this series? It comes back to flusha, as the duo complement each other so well that when both fail to perform, the team crumbles. Regardless, it was an incredibly close series, but that was mainly due to the next few players on the list.While JW and flusha are a dynamic duo, the ex-LGB teammates, olofmeister and KRiMZ, make a deadly combination themselves. An all-around strong player, olofmeister wears various hats on Fnatic, electing to AWP or rifle as needed and switching between lurker and entry fragger on the fly. olofmeister acts as clay in pronax’s hands, being used to fatal efficiency. On the CT side, olofmeister was instrumental towards shutting down all of NiP’s attempts at A on Mirage. Fnatic devised a cunning triangle of death in which JW would hold from jungle, olofmeister defended from CT spawn, and KRiMZ would roam between connector and stairs. This meant that although NiP were able to secure the bombsite and plant the bomb, they had an incredibly difficult time holding off the incoming retake as the triple threat would decimate anyone who tried to defend the site. olofmeister also managed to prevent Xizt’s one-versus-three clutch, which would have caused a huge swing in momentum and perhaps allowed NiP an even better Terrorist half.While his performance on Mirage was admirable, olofmeister made some critical errors on Inferno that allowed NiP to snag an amazing T side against one of the world’s greatest CT Inferno teams. Combined with the weaknesses of flusha and JW, it created a huge hole in their A defense, allowing NiP to exploit it with great arch control and providing the Ninjas an option to fake back towards B when needed. olofmeister needs to step up his game in his next appearance. Although he ended the tournament as the team’s second-best fragger, his performance was far from perfect throughout the series.The in-game leader for Fnatic, pronax has risen to become one of the great minds of Global Offensive. He is a player that can be relied on to not only adapt mid-game, but also to prepare specifically for a team and counter their strategies. First and foremost, pronax is a bloodhound. On the CT side, he exists solely to feed information to the other players on the team and to lift them up and make them stars. More than once, pronax pushed his luck by aggressively gathering information. Key examples include him pushing squeaky or A main on Cache or rushing through apartments on Inferno and Mirage to sniff out information there. This allows for an immense early game advantage throughout each round as the remaining CTs can adjust their game plan accordingly and prepare for any executes.This tactic paved the way for the incredible triple kill on Cache by KRiMZ during the 23rd round. With pronax taking over A main, it allowed KRiMZ to stealthily push into vents and quickly snipe off Xizt, duel with f0rest, then drop down and backstab a distracted GeT_RiGhT as Fnatic knew the Ninjas were not at A. Aside from being the brilliant mind behind his stars, pronax himself pulled off some extremely clutch rounds that brought his team back into the fold. In what was one of the greatest clutch situations of MLG Aspen, pronax managed to salvage a chaotic A take by somehow securing three one-versus-ones with the NiP players. After losing three teammates to Xizt, pronax managed to pick him off before GeT_RiGhT rounded the corner to the site. pronax pivoted and killed the Swedish legend at truck before deftly turning back to graveyard, where a confused friberg met his demise. However, there is something to be said about his snap decisions when it comes to strategies. Right after that round he immediately called for a rush through banana, running straight into the crosshairs of friberg and halting their momentum.With everything on the line, instead of playing out a different strategy or taking it slow, he called for the exact same strategy with a small tweak: rather than throwing a molotov into the porch area at B, he landed it at the cart instead, exactly where friberg plays. This alteration forced friberg to jump in front of sandbags where he was instantly flashed, allowing the Fnatic players to pick him off without losing a single player. This adjustment, along with his clutch plays, allowed Fnatic to stay in the game and remain as competitive as they were, bringing the series to a third map.While this overview has been quite negative in regards to most of the Fnatic squad thus far, that is simply because most of the praise for this nail-biting series is reserved for this single player. KRiMZ was by far the standout player for Fnatic throughout the entire series. Topping the scoreboard on every map, KRiMZ was playing far above the level of any other Fnatic player on the team.It was night and day. While JW and flusha let NiP plough through their setup at arch side on Inferno, KRiMZ slammed the door shut at B, denying any Ninjas entrance to the site. On Mirage, KRiMZ proved to be a stellar player once again, holding down the most crucial position on the map, connector, and getting a quad-kill on NiP when they attempted an almost-successful A execute on their first gun round.Of course, he isn’t just great at holding sites. On Cache, KRiMZ played an invaluable role in keeping Fnatic in the game, grabbing some magnificent entry kills onto B against the near-indomitable friberg and f0rest. He provided Fnatic with opportunities to stay in the game and helped keep the series neck-and-neck. While his performance was brilliant, the frustration was clear on KRiMZ's face as each map bore on. On Inferno, he ran straight down alternate middle and attempted to take a fight with a P250 against Xizt on patio with no help from his teammates. Unfortunately for KRiMZ, his efforts alone could not keep Fnatic in the game, and they fell disappointingly short on Mirage after an anti-eco gave NiP the momentum to shut down any notion Fnatic had of a possible win at MLG.
Ninjas in Pyjamas
Mikail “Maikelele” Bill - The Streaker
The newest addition to Ninjas in Pyjamas, Maikelele proved his worth at Dreamhack Winter with his exceptional AWPing on Terrorist halves. Going into MLG, expectations were high for Maikelele to perform on a level similar to what he displayed at the recent major. Following the trend of some of the strongest AWPers, Maikelele is as streaky as they come. Being able to hold down A site on Mirage allowed NiP to get the crucial rounds they needed to take the final map. For Cache, his constant switch between bombsites kept Fnatic on their toes as he searched for the opening frag. Indeed, it was Maikelele that secured a fantastic falling no-scope onto pronax on the B site of Cache, securing an important round for NiP’s CT half.
However, as with other streaky snipers, he has some pitfalls. On Inferno, Maikelele was the weakest link on their CT half. His poor AWP play at arch allowed Fnatic to open up the entire A site. This proved fatal for them as they barely lost Inferno 14-16. While Maikelele underperformed overall, his addition to the team has still been a net positive for the team. His chemistry with GeT_RiGhT in particular has amassed them some incredible clutches. For example, they had successful two-versus-three retakes on both sites of Mirage, which ultimately propelled NiP to the grand finals.
Richard “Xizt” Landström - The Strategist
With the departure of Robin “Fifflaren” Johansson and the recent addition of Maikelele, Xizt remains the sole in-game leader of NiP and has managed the team excellently while contributing key frags in certain matches himself. The in-game leader has stepped up to the plate in a considerable fashion and has taken this improved NiP squad to great heights.
Through the use of a flexible play style, Xizt has allowed each player on NiP the freedom to execute their own moves, while still having control on the overarching strategy round by round. This was shown multiple times throughout Cache and Inferno, where a potential misstep by a NiP player could have caused the entire round to crumble. Thanks to Xizt, those rounds were salvaged with the use of a key pop flash or a fast rotation.
Xizt and his squad walk a fine line as usual. What makes this team strong is the trust shared between the players and the ability for certain members to step up when a teammate is underperforming. However, while it was enough to beat Fnatic, they subsequently fell prey to LDLC for a second time. It begs the question: will NiP, as a whole, ever perform up to par simultaneously to secure a championship once more, or will there always be a hole for teams to take advantage of? The answer is one Xizt cannot provide alone.
GeT_RiGhT and Maikelele make a deadly combination
Adam “friberg” Friberg - The Tower
Known as a strong entry fragger, friberg was more valuable on the CT side as the sole defender of the B site on Cache and Inferno. He played a crucial role on both maps as he essentially shut off any rushes towards B. His presence forced Fnatic to attempt to take mid control in order to force rotations, gain new angles onto B, and focus their efforts on A. One of his greatest strengths in holding the B sites of various maps is his patience and familiarity with his surroundings. Because he is frequently left alone on the site, friberg has devised a handful of devious flashes that have proven to be absolutely devastating against oncoming enemies, and that is what allows him to take down incoming Terrorists and stall for time with incredible consistency.
Hailed as the “King of Banana,” friberg lived up to the name on Inferno by once again destroying all of Fnatic’s attempts at entering the site, even going as far as securing the top of banana every round, a tactic that NiP often strays away from. It proved to be effective as it lured Fnatic into running straight into a meat grinder consisting of a single Famas and a flashbang, crushing any momentum they gained from the previous round. Unfortunately, friberg did show some flaws in his play. While a stalwart defender of sites, he often struggled when he got impatient and abandoned his post, pushing into enemy territory. There he usually met his demise and allowed Fnatic a rare chance to take control of the site, and sometimes the round. While he will rarely be a player that will net an ace, friberg plays an incredibly important role in NiP’s roster. Having the ability to lock down an entire site and possessing great awareness when ripping one open, friberg remains a key player in NiP’s success.
Patrik “f0rest” Lindberg - The Wanderer
Often regarded as second to GeT_RiGhT, f0rest put up an incredible showing in the series against Fnatic. Criticized for underperforming in online matches and during the latter half of 2014, f0rest picked up his game considerably with some brilliant plays throughout the series. Starting on Cache, f0rest played off his teammate GeT_RiGhT as both were responsible for their dominant mid control which, along with the strength of friberg at B, led to a fantastic start on Cache. f0rest continued to excel on Inferno, where he posted up in and around apartments and slayed anyone who dared to set foot on his balcony.
However, while his CT side was strong, what truly brought f0rest above and beyond in this series were his entry frags on the Terrorist side. On multiple occasions, f0rest atoned for friberg’s slack, demolishing olofmeister at apartments on Inferno while gathering more kills into the A site. His clever maneuvering around arch on another round allowed him to take out both flusha and olofmeister and secure control of the area. f0rest’s kills were some of the most crucial of the game, affording NiP a good amount of T rounds on Inferno.
Christopher “GeT_RiGhT” Alesund - The Janitor
The clutch maestro, GeT_RiGhT was absolutely on point in this series. While each member of the team had some strong individual plays that highlighted their importance to the team, almost all of his highlights were incredibly clutch rounds that decided the fate of the match. At A site on Cache during an eco round on their Terrorist side, GeT_RiGhT found himself at quad with an AWP with the score tied at 13-13 and NiP on the ropes. After a quick kill on olofmeister on highway, he missed a shot onto flusha. GeT_RiGhT, however, did not immediately run to quad, but instead waited for KRiMZ to change his position from e-box as he moved closer to the site. GeT_RiGhT then smartly jumped to quad and posted up on the right side of the box, allowing Xizt to bait KRiMZ into revealing himself to GeT_RiGhT’s crosshairs and securing the kill. This forced flusha out into the open, where he was finished off with GeT_RiGhT’s Tec-9. GeT_RiGhT’s ability to remain calm under these tight conditions is what brings the legend a level above the rest, and it is what allows NiP to edge out wins against some of the world’s best teams.
An amazing lurker, GeT_RiGhT acts as the cleaner for the team, neatly sweeping away the messes left behind by f0rest and friberg. GeT_RiGhT has proven time and time again that he possesses an incredible game sense to bully his opponents into one-versus-one situations. Another key factor of his success at Aspen is his fantastic chemistry with the new AWPer, Maikelele. This proved instrumental during the 25th round of Mirage as Maikelele dealt fatal shots to the scrambling Fnatic members, bringing the retake to a two-versus-three with GeT_RiGhT rotating from B. Able to play off one another, Maikelele confidently strode across the site knowing full well that the angle from jungle was being watched by his teammate, allowing him to deftly jump onto firebox and pick off JW to secure the round. Although there is room for improvement, GeT_RiGhT and his team should feel incredibly proud for what they accomplished at MLG Aspen. With some of the strongest performances this team has seen, 2015 should prove to be an amazing year for Ninjas in Pyjamas.
The newest addition to Ninjas in Pyjamas, Maikelele proved his worth at Dreamhack Winter with his exceptional AWPing on Terrorist halves. Going into MLG, expectations were high for Maikelele to perform on a level similar to what he displayed at the recent major. Following the trend of some of the strongest AWPers, Maikelele is as streaky as they come. Being able to hold down A site on Mirage allowed NiP to get the crucial rounds they needed to take the final map. For Cache, his constant switch between bombsites kept Fnatic on their toes as he searched for the opening frag. Indeed, it was Maikelele that secured a fantastic falling no-scope onto pronax on the B site of Cache, securing an important round for NiP’s CT half.However, as with other streaky snipers, he has some pitfalls. On Inferno, Maikelele was the weakest link on their CT half. His poor AWP play at arch allowed Fnatic to open up the entire A site. This proved fatal for them as they barely lost Inferno 14-16. While Maikelele underperformed overall, his addition to the team has still been a net positive for the team. His chemistry with GeT_RiGhT in particular has amassed them some incredible clutches. For example, they had successful two-versus-three retakes on both sites of Mirage, which ultimately propelled NiP to the grand finals.With the departure ofRobin “Fifflaren” Johansson and the recent addition of Maikelele, Xizt remains the sole in-game leader of NiP and has managed the team excellently while contributing key frags in certain matches himself. The in-game leader has stepped up to the plate in a considerable fashion and has taken this improved NiP squad to great heights.Through the use of a flexible play style, Xizt has allowed each player on NiP the freedom to execute their own moves, while still having control on the overarching strategy round by round. This was shown multiple times throughout Cache and Inferno, where a potential misstep by a NiP player could have caused the entire round to crumble. Thanks to Xizt, those rounds were salvaged with the use of a key pop flash or a fast rotation.Xizt and his squad walk a fine line as usual. What makes this team strong is the trust shared between the players and the ability for certain members to step up when a teammate is underperforming. However, while it was enough to beat Fnatic, they subsequently fell prey to LDLC for a second time. It begs the question: will NiP, as a whole, ever perform up to par simultaneously to secure a championship once more, or will there always be a hole for teams to take advantage of? The answer is one Xizt cannot provide alone.Known as a strong entry fragger, friberg was more valuable on the CT side as the sole defender of the B site on Cache and Inferno. He played a crucial role on both maps as he essentially shut off any rushes towards B. His presence forced Fnatic to attempt to take mid control in order to force rotations, gain new angles onto B, and focus their efforts on A. One of his greatest strengths in holding the B sites of various maps is his patience and familiarity with his surroundings. Because he is frequently left alone on the site, friberg has devised a handful of devious flashes that have proven to be absolutely devastating against oncoming enemies, and that is what allows him to take down incoming Terrorists and stall for time with incredible consistency.Hailed as the “King of Banana,” friberg lived up to the name on Inferno by once again destroying all of Fnatic’s attempts at entering the site, even going as far as securing the top of banana every round, a tactic that NiP often strays away from. It proved to be effective as it lured Fnatic into running straight into a meat grinder consisting of a single Famas and a flashbang, crushing any momentum they gained from the previous round. Unfortunately, friberg did show some flaws in his play. While a stalwart defender of sites, he often struggled when he got impatient and abandoned his post, pushing into enemy territory. There he usually met his demise and allowed Fnatic a rare chance to take control of the site, and sometimes the round. While he will rarely be a player that will net an ace, friberg plays an incredibly important role in NiP’s roster. Having the ability to lock down an entire site and possessing great awareness when ripping one open, friberg remains a key player in NiP’s success.Often regarded as second to GeT_RiGhT, f0rest put up an incredible showing in the series against Fnatic. Criticized for underperforming in online matches and during the latter half of 2014, f0rest picked up his game considerably with some brilliant plays throughout the series. Starting on Cache, f0rest played off his teammate GeT_RiGhT as both were responsible for their dominant mid control which, along with the strength of friberg at B, led to a fantastic start on Cache. f0rest continued to excel on Inferno, where he posted up in and around apartments and slayed anyone who dared to set foot on his balcony.However, while his CT side was strong, what truly brought f0rest above and beyond in this series were his entry frags on the Terrorist side. On multiple occasions, f0rest atoned for friberg’s slack, demolishing olofmeister at apartments on Inferno while gathering more kills into the A site. His clever maneuvering around arch on another round allowed him to take out both flusha and olofmeister and secure control of the area. f0rest’s kills were some of the most crucial of the game, affording NiP a good amount of T rounds on Inferno.The clutch maestro, GeT_RiGhT was absolutely on point in this series. While each member of the team had some strong individual plays that highlighted their importance to the team, almost all of his highlights were incredibly clutch rounds that decided the fate of the match. At A site on Cache during an eco round on their Terrorist side, GeT_RiGhT found himself at quad with an AWP with the score tied at 13-13 and NiP on the ropes. After a quick kill on olofmeister on highway, he missed a shot onto flusha. GeT_RiGhT, however, did not immediately run to quad, but instead waited for KRiMZ to change his position from e-box as he moved closer to the site. GeT_RiGhT then smartly jumped to quad and posted up on the right side of the box, allowing Xizt to bait KRiMZ into revealing himself to GeT_RiGhT’s crosshairs and securing the kill. This forced flusha out into the open, where he was finished off with GeT_RiGhT’s Tec-9. GeT_RiGhT’s ability to remain calm under these tight conditions is what brings the legend a level above the rest, and it is what allows NiP to edge out wins against some of the world’s best teams.An amazing lurker, GeT_RiGhT acts as the cleaner for the team, neatly sweeping away the messes left behind by f0rest and friberg. GeT_RiGhT has proven time and time again that he possesses an incredible game sense to bully his opponents into one-versus-one situations. Another key factor of his success at Aspen is his fantastic chemistry with the new AWPer, Maikelele. This proved instrumental during the 25th round of Mirage as Maikelele dealt fatal shots to the scrambling Fnatic members, bringing the retake to a two-versus-three with GeT_RiGhT rotating from B. Able to play off one another, Maikelele confidently strode across the site knowing full well that the angle from jungle was being watched by his teammate, allowing him to deftly jump onto firebox and pick off JW to secure the round. Although there is room for improvement, GeT_RiGhT and his team should feel incredibly proud for what they accomplished at MLG Aspen. With some of the strongest performances this team has seen, 2015 should prove to be an amazing year for Ninjas in Pyjamas. With MLG over and the winner crowned, we take the time to look back at what could possibly be an early contender for the best series of 2015. After a tumultuous group stage, the two Swedish teams were once again pitted against each other. This time, however, the tables were turned. The once dominantNinjas in Pyjamas came in as the underdogs, andFnatic came in as the favourites.If you haven't watched the series yet, please do so as the following analysis is a series-specific performance overview. It looks at how each player performed throughout the series, and what went wrong, or right, for each team.
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Antiquities ministry reiterates calls for international community to intervene after reports of new attack on ancient city of Dur Sharrukin
The Iraqi antiquities ministry has acknowledged reports of a new attack by Islamic State militants on an ancient Assyrian city north-east of Mosul, reiterated calls for the international community to intervene and condemned the jihadi group for “erasing the history of humanity”.
There have been reports that Isis bulldozed landmarks in the ancient city of Dur Sharrukin, now called Khorsabad. The ministry said it was in keeping with the militant group’s “criminal ideology and persistence in destroying and stealing Iraq’s antiquities”.
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Dur Sharrukin is a former capital of the Assyrian empire in Nineveh that dates back to the 8th century BC.
“The hand of terrorism insists upon erasing the history of humanity by erasing the heritage of the land of the two rivers amid the shock and astonishment of the world,” the ministry said in a statement.
“We have warned previously and warn now that these gangs with their sick, takfiri ideology will continue to destroy and steal artefacts as long as there is no strong deterrent, and we still await a strong international stand to stop the crimes of Daesh that are targeting the memory of humanity,” it added, referring to the militant group by its Arabic acronym.
Last week Isis bulldozed the ancient city of Nimrud, also near Mosul, which the militant group conquered in a lightning advance last summer.
The previous week the group released a video of its fighters toppling and smashing ancient Assyrian statues in Mosul museum and destroying a winged bull near the ancient Nergal gate to Nineveh.
Over the weekend the group attacked the 2,000-year-old fortress city of Hatra.
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On Sunday Iraq’s tourism and antiquities minister, Adel Shirshab, called for air strikes by the US-led coalition to protect the country’s heritage.
“Our airspace is not in our hands. It’s in their hands,” Shirshab told reporters, according to Reuters. “I am calling on the international community and coalition to activate its air strikes and target terrorism wherever it exists.”
Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, described the sites’ desecration as a “war crime”. His spokesman said on Sunday: “The secretary general urgently calls on the international community to swiftly put a stop to such heinous terrorist activity and to counter the illicit traffic in cultural artefacts.”
Eleanor Robson, professor of ancient Near Eastern history at University College London, who has done extensive archaeological work in Iraq and returned last week from a trip to the country’s south, said air strikes were unlikely to succeed in protecting the monuments, and the focus instead ought to be on retaking the province of Nineveh.
She said that initially guards posted on the major sites by the antiquities ministry had continued to do their job after the Isis takeover, but the group then beheaded the Nineveh sites’ chief of security in October, and at any rate the guards were equipped to tackle looters rather than “crazed fanatics with machine guns”. “In the short term I think we have to just sit it out,” she said.
Robson said Isis was persisting with the destruction of artefacts because it was a “propaganda winner” that elicited strong reactions, but she said ignoring the issue may also lead to an escalation in the destruction.
She said Isis could not erase the millennia of history below the ancient ruins – archaeological layers that the group could not get to. But she said she was particularly worried about the damage in Hatra, which is built of stone and is well preserved, with no archaeological layers beneath it.
She said the other major site under threat from the militants was Ashur, a Unesco world heritage site on the banks of the Tigris not far from Mosul, named after the chief god of the Assyrian pantheon.
Separately, a force led by Shia militias and backed by the Iraqi army and Sunni tribal fighters has scored modest gains in an offensive against the Isis stronghold of Tikrit, south of Mosul. The pro-government fighters took control of Bouajil and Dawr, two areas on the approach to Saddam Hussein’s home town and thought to be key Isis-held territories.
Isis vandals want to turn the clocks back to ‘year zero’
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Isis fighters removing the border between Syria and Iraq. Photograph: Medyan Dairieh/Zuma Press
Taking bulldozers and sledgehammers to irreplaceable Assyrian antiquities is not just another way for Isis to attract attention or a PR novelty after its beheading and immolation videos.
Destroying some of the world’s greatest archaeological and cultural treasures is something that flows from a fanatically purist interpretation of Sunni Islam as first laid down in 7th-century Arabia and revived more than a millennium later.
Early Islam defined itself against the age of jahiliyyah (ignorance) that preceded the prophet Mohammad, who smashed idols in the name of monotheism, as, before him, did the Jewish patriarch Abraham – hence the Old Testament ban on “graven images”. Both religions promoted iconoclasm in the service of one God. Christians, who saw Jesus as the incarnation of God, were more relaxed about his portrayal.
Islam evolved until the Wahhabi movement, founded by Muhammad ibn Abdel Wahab in the 18th century, aimed to purify the faith by returning Muslims to what he believed were its original principles as typified by al Salaf al Salih (the pious forebears). He rejected what he saw as pagan accretions introduced by bid’a (innovation) and shirk (idolatry or polytheism), which detracts from the absolute transcendence of God.
Abdel Wahab also revived interest in the works of the 13th-century scholar Ibn Taymiyyah, who came to be seen as the mentor of the Salafi-jihadi world view, and the doctrine of takfir – permitting the killing of anyone deemed to be an apostate.
The influence of Wahhabism meant that 90% of Islamic monuments, holy places, tombs and mausoleums in the Arabian peninsula were destroyed on the grounds that they were “polytheistic”. In 1924, Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud occupied Mecca and destroyed the grave of Khadijah, the prophet Muhammad’s wife, and that of his uncle, Abu Talib. In Medina, he demolished the mausoleum over the graves of the prophet Muhammad’s descendants, including that of his daughter, Fatimah.
Strikingly, the Isis department responsible for destroying antiquities is called the committee for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice – the same name as the official Saudi body charged with enforcing morality.
Isis not only rejects religious shrines of any sort and condemns Iraq’s majority Shia Muslims as heretics, but takes a “year zero” attitude to the areas it controls. This explains its readiness to eliminate any traces of pre-Islamic Assyria.
The assault on Iraq’s ancient heritages has been compared to the Taliban’s destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan in 2001. Yet the damage wreaked by Isis, not just on ancient monuments but also on rival Muslim places of worship, has been far more extensive. Last July, it destroyed the tomb of the prophet Jonah in Mosul. Isis has also attacked Shia places of worship and last year gave Mosul’s Christians an ultimatum to convert to Islam, pay a religious levy or face death by the sword. It has also targeted the Yazidi minority in the Sinjar mountains west of Mosul.
The rise of Isis has even generated fears for the fate of splendid Roman ruins in Libya, where Sufi shrines have been vandalised.
Ian Black
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It’s hard to read faces, but voices are even harder to gauge. Timothy J. McVeigh, the anti-government extremist who killed 168 people in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, had a calm, almost reassuringly matter-of-fact way of speaking. He could have been a building inspector, a driving instructor or a Persian Gulf war veteran, which, of course, he was, having earned a Bronze Star before he went completely off his head.
“See, with these tapes, I feel very free in talking ’cause I know you’re using the information appropriately,” McVeigh told a journalist in a prison interview. “Here, I’m just letting it all come out.” The reporter, Lou Michel, co-author of “American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing,” shared 45 hours of those taped prison interviews to MSNBC.
“The McVeigh Tapes: Confessions of an American Terrorist,” which will be shown on Monday, the 15th anniversary of the bombing, comes at a time when right-wing militia groups are on the rise, or at least more audible, and heightened anti-government talk is heating up anti-anti-government fervor. McVeigh’s descent into violence is presented as much as a cautionary tale as a commemoration.
“Nine years after his execution we are left worrying that Timothy McVeigh’s voice from the grave echoes in a new rising tide of American anti-government extremism,” is how the MSNBC commentator Rachel Maddow, who narrates the film, puts it in her introduction.
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But strangely, this film, which claims to be the first ever to present McVeigh in his own words, blunts its impact by relying on stagy computer graphics, and even an actor whose looks are digitally altered, to re-enact McVeigh’s movements. Scenes of this domestic terrorist in shackles during a prison interview or lighting a fuse inside a rented Ryder truck look neither real nor completely fake, but certainly cheesy: a violent video game with McVeigh as a methodical, murderous avatar.
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Obama shakes hands with Cuba's Raul Castro
CLOSE Nelson Mandela's memorial service Tuesday brought together -- briefly -- the leaders of two long-estranged countries: The United States and Cuba.
President Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro (Photo11: Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images)
Nelson Mandela's memorial service Tuesday brought together — briefly — the leaders of two long-estranged countries: the United States and Cuba.
President Obama shook hands with Cuban President Raúl Castro during the service at which both spoke.
The United States and Cuba have not had diplomatic relations since the communist revolution led by Castro's brother Fidel more than 50 years ago.
This appears to have been only the second U.S.-Cuban leader handshake in the last five decades. Back in 2000, Fidel Castro shook the hand of then-President Bill Clinton.
The Castro handshake was not planned, said Ben Rhodes, Obama's deputy national security adviser for strategic communications. The president greeted many of the world leaders who gathered for the Mandela service.
Obama only "exchanged greetings" with Castro and the other leaders, Rhodes said, adding that "what the day was about was Nelson Mandela."
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Fidel Castro backed Mandela's anti-apartheid efforts, and Mandela often expressed his admiration of Castro. Fidel Castro visited South Africa for a conference in 1998, years after Mandela's release from prison and election as president.
During Mandela's memorial service in Johannesburg, South Africa,, Obama could be seen chatting with a variety of world leaders, including Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai.
"Mandela showed us the power of action," Obama said in his remarks at the stadium, "of taking risks on behalf of our ideals."
In his speech, Raúl Castro called Mandela "the ultimate symbol of dignity and unwavering dedication to the revolutionary struggle, to freedom and justice, a prophet of unity, peace and reconciliation."
At a 2009 conference, Obama shook hands with another prominent anti-American critic, then-Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez.
From the Associated Press:
"Obama was greeting a line of world leaders and heads of state attending the memorial in Johannesburg. He also shook hands with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who has clashed with Obama over alleged National Security Agency spying.
"The U.S. and Cuba have recently taken small steps toward rapprochement, raising hopes the two nations could be on the verge of a breakthrough in relations. But skeptics caution that the two countries have shown signs of a thaw in the past, only to fall back into old recriminations."
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In the wake of the shocking announcement from the Raiders and Chargers that the teams currently are pursuing a joint stadium plan in Carson, California, some additional information is trickling out.
Per the same league source who told PFT in October that the NFL intends to return to L.A. within 12-24 months, a shared stadium by the Chargers and Raiders means that one of the teams likely would move to the NFC.
The current thinking is that the Raiders would be the most likely of the two to leave for the NFC West. The question then becomes which of the NFC West teams would move to the AFC West.
The Seahawks belonged to the AFC West from 1977 through 2001, but the early rumor/expectation is that the Rams or Cardinals would change conferences, with the Seahawks and 49ers staying put.
Of course, this all hinges on the Chargers-Raiders alliance securing the ability to move to Carson over the Rams, who apparently want to move to Inglewood.
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I have received an interesting list of three books from my Secret Santa.
Kitchen Confidential, Insider's Secrets - Anthony Bourdain
The Miniaturist - Jessie Burton (this sounds like it will be a very interesting read, not really read much set before world war one apart from Shakespeare so this should be an interesting read with a possibly amazing story)
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
I haven't read any of them before and the only author I knew of was Anthony Bourdain and he is an amazing and wonderful person who is truly one of the most honest and brutal writers and tv personalities and his world he creates within his shows like Parts Unknown are places I dream of one day visiting in his footsteps and I mentioned that he would be the person I would want to have a meal with out of anyone, dead or alive, just look at his meal with Obama and you'll see the simplicity and comfort his program provides. I love the fact I'm finally being able to explore his writings for the first time and thankyou!
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A Closer Look: Scaling Analogies With Powers of Ten
It’s not easy to imagine dividing something into ten pieces nine different times.
In order to make the difference in size scales more comprehensible, we can expand the size of the original object to something with which we are familiar. Let’s look at physicist Richard Feynman’s example of expanding a hydrogen atom to the size of an apple.
To make this calculation easier, we round off to the nearest power of ten. Feynman knew that an atom is a few angstroms (10-10 meters) wide. Let’s round off to 10 angstroms = 10-9 meters. An apple is about 10 centimeters (or 10-1 meters) wide. In order to make the hydrogen atom as large as the apple, we have to make it ten times bigger a total of eight times. In other words, we must expand it by a factor of 108:
The size of hydrogen atom (10-9 m) multiplied by the expansion factor (108) equals the size of an apple (10-1 m)
or:
10-9 m x 108 = 10-1 m
An easy trick when multiplying powers of ten is to simply add their exponents (the power to which ten is raised). In the above example, this shortcut gives us
10-9 m x 108 = 10(-9 + 8) m = 10-1 m
To rescale the size of the apple, so that we may compare it to our expanded hydrogen atom, we multiply the size of the apple by the same expansion factor:
The size of an apple (10-1) multiplied by the expansion factor (108) equals the size of earth (107 m or 10,000 km)
or:
10-1 m x 108 = 10(-1 + 8) = 107 m (or 10,000 km)
The diameter of the earth is approximately 12,000 km, so this is a good estimate.
Thus, if you expand a hydrogen atom to the size of an apple, the apple would expand to the size of the Earth. Having a student visualize the difference in scale between an apple and the Earth is more expressive than simply stating that an apple is 108 times bigger than an atom. This is the power of these kinds of analogies.
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A graphic every editor should tape to her laptop
Bill Kovarik, professor of communications at Radford University in Virginia, found that the four U.S. newspapers with the largest circulation—The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The New York Times and the Washington Post—published 1,770 stories on climate change last year. That was about 10 percent higher than in 2011. But it was 11 percent below what the four papers published on the topic in 2010. And it was still far from what could be considered adequate.
The best of the lot was The New York Times:
Glenn Kramon, assistant managing editor of the Times attributed last year's uptick in the paper's coverage to the fruition of a 4-year-old effort to group top reporters on a separate environment desk. The paper has six reporters in the cluster, plus others covering the subject from other desks, as well as several editors—in particular the environment editor, Sandy Keenan – who all are "very comfortable" with the topic, he said.
Ironically, just a few days after Kramon was quoted in the matter in January, the Times dumped its environment desk and eliminated the position of environment editor and deputy environment editor, and reassigned all the staffers on the environment team to other desks. The paper's assistant managing editor said the move would not reduce coverage of climate change.
Perhaps. But that has certainly not been the experience in the past.
In 1990, when the 20th anniversary of Earth Day revived that project in the wake of the publication of Bill McKibben's The End of Nature, scores of newspapers across the United States and in some foreign nations added reporters, editors, pages and sometimes entire weekly sections dedicated to environmental coverage. But over the next decade, nearly all of them retreated. Eco-coverage fell off sharply.
If you look for it, you can find plenty of climate-change coverage for the layman on the internet. Good, original reporting like that of Pulitzer prize-winning InsideClimateChange, ClimateProgress is plentiful. There are aggregators like The Daily Climate and Climate Debate Daily. Blogs like DeSmogBlog and more technically oriented sites like RealClimate also cover the field.
But most people don't get their news from those sites, even the ones with relatively high traffic. They get it from television or, in ever smaller numbers, from newspapers. Increasing coverage in those venues, by petitioning or other pressure, is a worthy project.
Two problems, however.
First, much of that coverage is tainted by 20 years of fossil-fueled lies and smears promoted by deniers and "skeptics." So it's not just a matter of increasing the coverage, but vastly improving it.
Second, given its penchant for disaster coverage of any kind, much of any increased climate change coverage can be expected to focus on news that generate despair because the impacts are so great and accelerating. As we know too well, despair creates apathy, and apathy kills activism.
Thus, pressure for increased coverage needs to be combined with pressure for solutions-based coverage. There's plenty of news to fulfill that need, but media ownership blocks much of it from getting regular attention. Making inroads against that requires ramping up action well beyond petition drives.
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Donald Trump. AP Photo/Carlos Osorio Real-estate mogul Donald Trump repeatedly blasted Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-South Carolina) on Sunday after reports emerged that the influential congressman is set to endorse Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) for president.
Trump, the Republican front-runner, pointed to Gowdy's high-profile October hearing on the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, that left four Americans dead.
"His hearings were a disaster. Everybody was looking forward to something that was going to be really productive. And he didn't win with those hearings. It was a total not-good for Republicans and for the country," Trump said Sunday morning on "Fox & Friends."
Gowdy chairs the House Republican-led Select Committee on Benghazi, which grilled former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the attack for 11 hours, much of which was broadcast live on cable news. That day was widely regarded as a political win for Clinton, the Democratic front-runner, though some critics chastised that media narrative.
But Trump was clearly unhappy with how Gowdy managed that hearing.
"I mean, beyond Republicans it was very bad for the country," he said. "So I hope he does a lot better for Marco than he did for the Benghazi hearings. Because they were not good. That was not a pretty picture."
The Rubio team announced Saturday that Gowdy would campaign with the senator in Iowa and released a statement from Gowdy that praised Rubio as a "rock-solid conservative and a strong leader we can trust." Trump said he saw a flood of people on Twitter criticizing Gowdy for the move.
"I've been seeing on Twitter many, many people extremely angry about the whole thing. Because, you know, Marco's been very strong for amnesty and very weak at the border. And a lot of people are very upset with Trey Gowdy for doing that," Trump said.
Trump retweeted a number of people criticizing Gowdy, including one person who called him a "loser" and another who said he "let Hillary get away with murder."
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So check it out… I hope you all read this, and teach your kids this, and maybe even spread the word to everyone you know. I am a current sworn police officer, and for the first time in my life I am going to take to the internet and social media to spread one simple tip… Listen to what a police officer tells you to do and everyone will be fine. All too often I have a suspect tell me, “I know my rights.” in the course of my daily business in dealing with people. Let’s face it, you may have Googled your rights, you may have read a book or a newspaper article, you may have had a friend of a friend of a friend tell you your “rights” but you do not know them. Google does not automatically turn you into an expert in law and Constitutional rights. Police officers have a hard enough job, and we do not need so called Google law experts telling us what we can or cannot do as we try and conduct our business. Here is a perfect example of what I dealt with last night as I am one of three officers responding to a domestic. The conversation went like this: Me: “Sir, please do me a favor and sit down, take a few breaths, calm down, and I’ll be right with you.”
Subject: “Are you detaining me?”
Me: “No, I am not. I have to make sense of what is going on here so just sit down, calm down, and I said I’ll be right with you.”
Subject: “Am I under arrest? If so, for what?”
Me: “No, you are not under arrest. I’m going to ask you one more time, everyone is angry and I get it. Just sit down, take a breath, calm down, and I’ll be with you in a few minutes.”
Subject: “Well if I’m not under arrest I don’t have to do what you say so I’m going in my house.”
Me: “Now, you are under arrest for failure to comply with a peace officer’s orders.” If this gentleman would have just listened to me he would not have an arrest on his record like he does now. This is the case for every police shooting that has happened in recent times. Ferguson, South Carolina, Baltimore…and most likely all the other shootings we don’t hear about. Teach your kids, and your friends, and your family…you DON’T know your rights. Just listen to a police officer’s very simple commands and 95% of the time you will go home with maybe a ticket – at most. If not a misdemeanor arrest that will probably get thrown out in court. Us police officers really don’t want to go hands on with anyone let alone escalate force on someone. You, the citizen, puts us in a position to do so. Us police officers DO NOT get out of our police car and say to ourselves, “I want to shoot this person today.” You, the citizen put us in a position to do so. Just listen to us and everyone and everything will be just fine. I promise you that.
Well that was enlightening, ok, I’m joking it wasn’t enlightening at all. Unless you take it from the perspective of the cop and how they expect – or desire – you to simply do whatever they demand. Like in the example above. Legally the ‘subject’ didn’t have to follow the officers ‘order’ because it was an unlawful one. If the subject was being detained, arrested or even investigated than he MAY have had to listen to the officer. Yet, since the officer clearly stated he was not being detained or arrested, he had no LEGAL obligation to follow his order, which isn’t an order but merely a request at that time.
Even without the hole in his example this is still horrible advice. To do whatever a cop tells you seems logical to some people, yet, the reason why isn’t as clear. The reason people advocate doing everything an officer says is because the police are known to escalate a situation to the point where they use force, sometimes deadly force, on a person. People fear being ticketed, arrested, beat up or killed by the police, and rightfully so, but instead of combating this people merely become complacent.
This is what has allowed the police state to grow to epic proportions. From regular checkpoints, stop and frisk and victimless crimes arrest the police are becoming more intrusive, aggressive and armed by the day! If you don’t believe me just spend 2 hours on this website (and feel free to check out PoliceOne.com for their perspective too). Since the police are so heavily armed, tasked with enforcing laws they don’t even know (or understand) and demand obedience the best thing to do is to FILM THE POLICE during every single encounter. I highly doubt the ‘subject’ above would have been charged with a crime had he asked those questions with a video camera rolling. So forget the rights the government claims you have, they don’t mean shit to them – cops or government – anyways, and grab your camera!
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More than a year into the implementation of a landmark deal on the Iranian nuclear program, Tehran and the European Union are holding a high-level seminar with the aim of promoting bilateral cooperation in the field of atomic energy.
The event, titled “International Nuclear Cooperation: Expectations and Responsibilities,” kicked off in Brussels on Tuesday, with senior European and Iranian officials in attendance.
Joint efforts by European Commissioner for Energy and Climate Action Miguel Arias Canete and Iranian Vice President and head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi have helped bring about the seminar.
Secretary-General of the European External Action Service, Helga Schmid, and Director-General of the European Commission’s Directorate‑General for Energy, Dominique Ristori opened the event.
“The seminar represents an important element of the growing cooperation between Iran and the EU, following Implementation Day of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA),” the European Commission said on its website.
The JCPOA was concluded between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries, comprising the US, UK, France, Russia, China plus Germany, in July 2015, and went into effect in January of the following year.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (R) and EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini hold a joint press conference during Iran and the P5+1 talks at the International Atomic Energy Agency headquarters in Vienna on January 16, 2016. (Photo by AFP)
AEOI spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi, is heading the Iranian delegation, which also comprises Foreign Ministry officials and parliamentarians.
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He read out a message by Salehi, in which the AEOI head thanked the EU for its effective and constructive role in the conclusion of the historic accord.
“Development of scientific and technical cooperation between Iran and members of the P5+1 has been one of the fruits of the agreement,” the message added.
In his own address to the conference, Kamalvandi said Tehran’s complete commitment to its contractual obligations has not been met with similar dedication on the part of the other parties to the agreement, “especially some of them.”
“It is hoped that the unbalanced approach in the execution of the contractual obligations will be corrected as soon as possible,” he added.
Despite the removal of nuclear-related sanctions against the Islamic Republic on the back of the agreement, European banks and financial institutions still largely balk at resuming cooperation with Iran, fearing punitive US measures.
Observers say the United States has prevented much post-JCPOA détente and revitalized economic cooperation between Iran and the international community, especially after the inauguration in January of US President Donald Trump.
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Masked raiders armed with machete and pool cue storm Manchester pub "Strawberry Duck"Bolt doors and tie up staff and customers to empty tillPub's CCTV cameras captured the terrifying lunchtime raid last monthOne of raiders oddly pets a sandy coloured dog while watching hostagesMen escaped with quantity of cash and are still being hunted by police A police spokesman said the two men left the pub with a quantity of cash and ran off down the canal in the direction of the city centre.CCTV footage of the robbery on at 12.40pm on February 7, has now been released in the hopes of identifying the robbers.As one of the raiders was left alone to guard the hostages he stroked a pet dog that had wandered into the downstairs barDetective Constable Alexander Day said: 'Almost four weeks has passed since the robbery and I hope that by releasing this footage it might help to identify who the two men responsible for this terrible incident are.'This is still very much an active investigation and I would like to reassure anyone who may have been concerned by the events of that day that we are committed to finding the offenders.'I would also like to pay tribute to the pub's owners and staff who managed to stay calm and reassure the customers who had been caught up in this terrifying situation.'If anybody has any information at all, no matter how little you might think it is, then please contact the police.'
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PHP7: More strict! (but only if you want it to be)
Er Galvao Abbott Blocked Unblock Follow Following Mar 18, 2015
It wasn’t easy (we knew it wouldn’t be) and certainly wasn’t pretty (we sort of knew that as well), but it’s finally official: PHP7 will come with Scalar Type Hints (STH) and an optional “strict mode”.
Background, or “Let’s talk about typing, shall we?”
PHP, as you may well know, is a dynamically[1] typed language, and it has been that way since it’s conception.
As with many PHP characteristics, this fact has been used to criticize it over and over again. What most people don’t get, though, is that there are plenty of other language examples out there which explicitly decided to use dynamic typing[2], including (but not limited to): Perl, Ruby, Javascript, Objective-C and so on.
Oddly enough, you don’t see people trashing those around, do you?
I’ve never had any issues with dynamic typing. In fact, I’ve explained many times to my students that, although one could surely argue that programming with such a language could be considerably more difficult — since you may “chaotically” change types… well, pretty much anywhere — it would be very wrong, IMNSHO[3], to state that dynamic typing leads to bad code.
As often happens with PHP detractors[4] criticism is either taken out of context, incomplete or outdated. This is not different when it comes to types.
For an example, PHP has, and had for a very long time, a number of ways of dealing with types, so even if you’re still able to change them, you can ensure a specific type is being used at a specific point (is_type() functions, [set|get]type(), and so on).
Even type hinting has been used for quite a while although, one might say, in an “incomplete” way: you can make functions/methods accept only arrays or instances of specific objects as parameters.
Game Changers, or “So, what’s new?”
There are basically three RFCs that were accepted for PHP’s next major, PHP7:
Scalar Type Hints v5[5] — (forked) RFC by Anthony Ferrara on Andrea Faulds’ original
PHP7 will come with Scalar Type Hints, namely int, float, string and bool. These will allow us to better hint on function/method parameters and return values (see the next one). Also, this won’t only apply to user-defined functions but to native functions as well.
Additionally, we’ll be able to declare a per-file strict mode, which will make PHP raise an exception (see the third RFC below) when an incoherent type is passed to functions/methods.
Return Type Declarations[6] —RFC by Levi Morrison
This will allow us to hint on return types for functions/methods, giving us better control of what is returned and an easier way to detect incoherent behavior.
Exceptions in the engine[7] — RFC by Nikita Popov
As of now using incorrect types — for the aforementioned array and object hints— will result in a (catchable) fatal error. As a result of this RFC being accepted, as of PHP7 this behaviour will result in an (Engine) Exception, making it easy to detect type hinting related problems and allowing us to react properly or even do a more graceful exit on these cases.
The Common Misconception or
“WOW! PHP WILL BE STRICTLY TYPED!!!”
NO, IT WON’T!
This is basically a step towards a more strict way of coding in PHP. Will we see more steps in that direction in the future? We don’t know and we’re OK with that for now.
What’s brilliant about the body of work represented by these RFCs is that by implementing their concepts and specially making the “strict mode” optional the choice of being more strict remains with the programmer.
This way it provides some measurement of strictness while respecting the fact that PHP is, and — AFAWK — will always be a dynamically typed language.
Don’t wanna use it? You think this sucks? Well, carry on, don’t use it. It’s simple like that.
Wrapping up, or… Wrapping up!
PHP7 will be a fantastic new major for PHP. Along with other already decided features (see Phil Sturgeon’s post[8] for more information), the introduction of STH and the optional strict mode represent exciting new possibilities for the language.
All of this combined will take PHP to a whole new level, keeping the language relevant and exciting, and showing everyone else that we’re not afraid of growing.
Long live PHP!
Footnotes and References
[1] I personally prefer “strictly” and “dynamically” rather than “strongly” and “weakly” because the latter implies that there’s something inherently wrong with dynamic typed languages.
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dynamically_typed_programming_languages
[3] In My Not So Humble Opinion
[4] Yes, they’re so common they are a “thing” now =P
[5] https://wiki.php.net/rfc/scalar_type_hints_v5
[6] https://wiki.php.net/rfc/return_types
[7] https://wiki.php.net/rfc/engine_exceptions_for_php7
[8] https://philsturgeon.uk/php/2015/03/15/php-7-feature-freeze/
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Hello!
What you'll find here is a new e-sketchbook from Indigo Montag. This one, Cheesecake and Coffee From The End Of The World (as we know it), is a collection of slightly risqué images which he produced for yet another book that (alas) isn't on the market.
But at least you can get a glance at some of the cool and sexy pictures that would have been in the work if all had gone well.
So take a peek! There's lovely girls, handsome lads, and even a lady with a thing about dragons.
This work is offered on a PWYW-basis. If you don't want to pay anything, that's fine. Just specify $0 and you will be able to download the book (without leaving, by the way, a credit card number).
But, if you do like the material, won't you considered slipping Indigo a little cash to further his career? You can come back to this page to do so, or, if you prefer, there's a link in the book itself that will take you to a site where you can tip the artist.
Thanks hugely in advance.
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A Heathrow board member has said the airport should be open 24 hours a day, and that local residents under the flightpath would soon get used to the noise.
Akbar al-Baker, representing Qatar Holdings, which owns a 20% stake in the airport, said locals enjoyed excessive freedom and made too much fuss.
Speaking to journalists from the Times and the Telegraph in Doha, Baker, the chief executive of Qatar Airways, said: "If you live under the flightpath of an airport, I assure you, over a period of time you will not even hear the aircraft passing over your house.
"The thing that is impeding Europe's growth is that airports are locked up from 11 o'clock at night to 5.30 in the morning, which is a very, very critical time for east-west transfer. People [in Qatar] are not making as much fuss about noise as they are in Europe."
He said that objections to noise, which affects more people around Heathrow than anywhere else in Europe, should be overriden. "I know people require freedom, but I think this is too excessive. Sometimes the national interest must be considered."
Heathrow moved swiftly to distance itself from Baker's views. A spokesman said: "Mr al-Baker's views are his own and do not represent the views or policy of the Heathrow board or executive committee. We recognise that adding the flights Britain needs for growth must come hand in hand with reducing aircraft noise for residents. Round-the-clock flying from London is not an option. We take the concerns of local communities very seriously and have never argued for 24-hour flying."
Local campaigners, however, expressed deep concern. John Stewart, the chairman of Heathrow Association for the Control of Aircraft Noise (Hacan), said: "He wants to bring the Qatari version of democracy into west London, where the benighted residents under the flightpath will have no voice, no say and no rights. The big worry is that this is the second-biggest shareholder in Heathrow and whatever the airport says publicly, he must have a significant influence in developing company policy."
Heathrow noise is accepted to significantly disturb 250,000 people on standard measurements, more than its rival hubs elsewhere in Europe.
Protesters from across the continent descended on Frankfurt airport on Monday to join thousands of campaigners who have been occupying a terminal for 100 weeks since a new runway was opened. Residents claim they were misled over new flightpaths created over neighbourhoods that were previously unaffected by noise.
In the interviews, Baker also defended some of his airline's controversial employment policies. Qatar Airways bans female cabin crew from getting married in the first five years of their employment. He told the Telegraph: "We used to allow this and a lot of people started to get married and then two to three months later they were pregnant so we were losing a lot of trained people that we had then to stop them flying. We had to put a stop to this. But after five years they can get married to anybody they want."
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This installment of Probability in games focuses on the concept of variance as it relates to rolling lots of dice. Rather than looking at the probability of rolling specific combinations of dice (as we did in Probability in Games 02), this article is focused on the probability of rolling dice that add up to different sums. The inspiration for this topic comes from two different sources. The first was a statement by Geoff Engelstein that more dice can mean less luck in a game [during the Dice Tower podcast on Nov12th, 2013]. And the second was an assertion by James Ernest about the long lasting advantage of rolling well early in a game [during a GenCon2012 lecture]. Lets try to shine some light on both of these observations by digging into the concept of variance.
Having players add up the numbers rolled on several dice is a common mechanism in many games. Part of what makes this mechanism interesting is that different sums often have different probabilities of being rolled. For instance, you are about twice as likely to roll a sum of 7 as you are to roll a sum of 4 on two six sided dice. Yet, a sum of 7 is over four times more likely than a sum of 4 when rolling three six sided dice. This is in contrast to rolling a single die, where every side (and every possible sum) is equally likely.
When working with two or three dice, it’s not too hard to write an exhaustive table (or graph) for the probabilities of every sum. However, this becomes tedious for larger numbers of dice. Let’s look at some graphs for the distribution of sums when rolling multiple dice. The “n=” title for each graph tells you how many dice are being rolled. Below that, the height of each bar indicates the likelihood of rolling a specific sum with that many dice.
Notice that there are a few important changes to these graphs as the numbers of dice increase. First, the central and most frequent sum of each graph moves to the right (getting larger) as more dice are added. We’ll look at calculating the mean, which is the measurement of this central and most common sum. Second, the curve gets closer and closer to the common bell shape of a normal distribution. In fact, the Central Limit Theorem provides some insight into why the sum of a bunch of random dice must always approximate this normal distribution. This is part of what makes that bell curve so common. The width and steepness of this bell can be quantified with a measurement called variance that we’ll explore in more detail below. And third, the entire curve gets wider by five extra sum possibilities per die. The measurement of this space of possible sums is called the range, and the only reason that I mention it is to help distinguish it from variance. Let’s jump right into calculating the mean and variance when rolling several six sided dice.
The mean of each graph is the average of all possible sums. This average sum is also the most common sum (the mode), and the middle most sum (the median) in a normal distribution. In terms of looking at bell curves, the mean is how far left or right on the x-axis you’ll find the highest point of the curve. To calculate this mean for a single die, we can take the weighted average of every possible sum. However, the symmetry in a bell curve provides us with a nice shortcut of averaging only the smallest and largest possible sums.
Mean(1D6): (1 * 1/6) + (2 * 1/6) + (3 * 1/6) + (4 * 1/6) + (5 * 1/6) + (6 * 1/6) = 21/6 = 3.5 Mean(1D6): (1 + 6) / 2 = 7/2 = 3.5 Mean(2D6): (2 + 12) / 2 = 7 Mean(3D6): (3 + 18) / 2 = 10.5 Mean(nD6): (n + 6*n) / 2 = n * 7/2
Now that the mean is out of the way, we can discuss variance. Variance is a measure of how spread out the values in a distribution are. In our example, a low variance means the sums that we roll will usually be very close to one another. By contrast, the variance is large when the sums that we roll are frequently distant values. The way that we calculate variance is by taking the difference between every possible sum and the mean. Then we square all of these differences and take their weighted average. This gives us an interesting measurement of how similar or different we should expect the sums of our rolls to be.
Variance(1D6): (1 - 3.5)^2 * 1/6 + (2 - 3.5)^2 * 1/6 + (3 - 3.5)^2 * 1/6 + (4 - 3.5)^2 * 1/6 + (5 - 3.5)^2 * 1/6 + (6 - 3.5)^2 * 1/6 = 70/24 = 2.91
This was a bit more involved than calculating the mean. But fortunately, variances (like means) can simply be added up to account for extra dice (this is because each random die roll is an independent event).
Variance(2D6): 70/24 + 70/24 = 140/24 = 5.83 Variance(3D6): 70/24 + 70/24 + 70/24 = 210/24 = 8.75 Variance(nD6): n * 35/12
We now have a nice way of calculating the mean and variance for the sums of any number of six sided dice. The mean is easy to see in each graph, but the variance is a bit trickier to wrap our heads around. A more natural way to think about variance is to think about the percentage of rolls that share a small range of sums. Something like, most (68%) of rolls should sum to a value between 13 and 22. But there is one step we must take between finding the variance and relating it to a percentage like this, and that is to calculate something called the standard deviation.
Think of the standard deviation as another way of measuring variance; much like the way that distance can be measured in inches, meters, and light years. The standard deviation is easy to calculate once you know the variance, it’s just the square root of the variance. Another benefit of the standard deviation is that it is in units that we can visualize in relation to our graphs. Approximately 68% of our rolls will have sums that land within one standard deviation of the mean. And about 95% of our rolls will fall within two standard deviations of the mean. These magic percentages are common to all normal distributions. Here’s a graph that shows how these standard deviations relate to the chances of different sums. The greek letter mu is used here to label the mean, and the greek letter sigma represents the standard deviation.
CC BY 2.5 – http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Standard_deviation_diagram.svg
We can now find the ranges of sums that will be most commonly rolled with any number of dice. Let’s go through the example of finding the range of sums that will account for 68% of all six die rolls. We start by calculating the mean, the variance, and the standard deviation for the sums of six dice.
Mean(6D6): 6 * 3.5 = 21 Variance(6D6): 6 * 35/12 = 17.5 StandardDeviation(6D6): SquareRoot(17.5) = 4.18
Because 68% of a normal distribution is always within one standard deviation of the mean, we now know that 68% of the time that we roll six dice, those dice will have a sum between 21 – 4.18 = 16.82, and 21 + 4.18 = 25.18. Obviously we can only roll sums that are whole numbers, so it’s 17 to 25. But remember that this is only an estimate, and that the distribution of sums for six dice are merely and approximation of the normal distribution.
It’s natural to look at this relationship between standard deviations and percentages, and wonder about the percentages that lie between each multiple of the standard deviation. For instance, you might want to calculate the percentage of rolls that sum to a value within 3 of the mean. This is a fairly complex calculation to perform by hand, but it is common enough to warrant look-up tables and calculator functions (like logarithms and various trigonometric functions). While preparing this article, I came across the following link to an online table / calculator of what are often called z-scores: http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/z_table.html. Let’s try entering the mean and standard deviation that we just calculated for the sum of six dice into this webpage. Now, we can find out the percentage of rolls that will fall above, below, between, or outside of any particular sum(s). For instance, we can find the chance of rolling six dice to sum a value within 3 of the mean by entering “Between: 18 and 24”. The area (probability) field then populates with the value 0.5267, which tells us that 52.67% (or just over half) of our rolls should fall in this range.
If you think of this conversion from mean, standard deviation, and range to a percentage as a table look-up, you might correctly guess that you can perform the look-up in reverse. Instead of looking up a percentage based on a range of sums, you can just as easily look up a range based on a desired percentage. For instance, maybe you’d like to find a range of sums that account for 30% of the rolls of six dice. To do so, change the radio button at the top of the webpage linked above, from “Area from a Value” to “Value from an Area”. Then enter the mean and standard deviation for six dice, followed by the area (which we’ve been calling the probability) of 0.3 for 30%. The radio buttons at the bottom should now allow you to calculate the following six die 30% chance rolls.
Sum < 18.8 Sum > 23.1 19.3 < Sum < 22.6
Based on the length of this post, I believe this will be a good place to end. Hopefully you are now more comfortable calculating probabilities for rolling any range of sums on any number of dice. In order to reach this point, we've had to wrap our brains around the concept of variance, and acquire some experience working with normal distributions. To keep your brain going until next time, here's the problem posed by James Ernest (see the link above):
In a dice-driven horse race where each player will roll a 6-sided die 50 times, suppose the results after turn 1 are 1 versus 6. This early in the game, with 49 rolls to go, you would hope that the game is not already tilted heavily in one player's favor.
This takes a bit of clever-ness, but see if you can use this concept of variance to figure out each players' chance of winning in this game. Please post your solutions and how you got them below, along with any questions or requests you have for this or future installments of the blog. Thanks for reading!
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Truckies want changes after another fatal truck crash on the South Eastern Freeway. Courtesy: Network Ten
SPEED limits on the South Eastern Freeway will be slashed for all trucks in the wake of the horror crash which left two people dead and two others fighting for their lives.
From September 1, the maximum speed limit for light vehicles (cars) between the Stirling interchange and the lower arrester bed will be reduced from 100km/h to 90km/h. The electronic speed signs will display these changes.
For all trucks and buses, the maximum speed limit from the Crafers Interchange until the bottom of the freeway will be 60km/h and all trucks and buses will be required to move into the left hand lane.
Police Minister Tony Piccolo made the announcement this afternoon alongside Deputy Police Commissioner Grant Stevens.
“This week I’ve had discussion with both SAPOL and officers from the Department of Planning Transport and Infrastructure in regards to how we can make our roads safer and in particular the South Eastern Freeway,” Mr Piccolo said.
“In light of those discussions I’m announcing today that, from September, we are introducing two new measures to improve road safety along that stretch of road.
“The first measure is to extend to the current conditions of 60km/h which apply to trucks with five axles or more to any truck which has a gross mass of more than 4.5 tonnes.
“Additionally we are going to extend the 90km/h speed restrictions to east of Crafers — from 100 km/h down to 90 km/h.
“We are doing so to provide a safer, calmer traffic environment and as a result reduce the risk of any fatal accidents on that stretch of road.”
Police said they will be conducting an operation to ensure motorists follow the new restrictions from next month.
Mr Piccolo’s announcement came just hours after an inquest heard the truck that killed two people in Monday’s horror freeway crash was travelling at more than 150km/h seconds before ploughing into three cars.
Deputy State Coroner Anthony Schapel on Friday began his inquest into the deaths of Thomas Spiess, 56, and Jacqueline Byrne, 41.
Mr Spiess and Ms Byrne died as a result of injuries they sustained in Monday’s horrific road crash at the base of the South Eastern Freeway.
The truck’s driver, 29, and a Hahndorf woman, 49, who was in a third car, remain in a critical condition in Royal Adelaide Hospital.
SA Police experts told Mr Schapel that the Transpacific truck, believed to be fully laden with 8000 litres of sewerage, increased in velocity from 77km/h to 151.9km/h as it travelled “out of control, lurching to the left” down the freeway.
Brevet Sergeant Peter Light, from the Major Crash investigation section, said CCTV footage of the minutes leading up to the crash showed the truck travelling the final 190 metres of the freeway before the Cross Rd intersection in just 4.5 seconds.
“As the truck comes into view (on the footage) and negotiates the bend, it appears it’s out of control, that the truck lurches to the left,” he said.
“It appears to move from side to side.”
Sgt Light told the coroner it was still being investigated whether the driver had lost control of the truck.
It is understood the driver had only been in the job for a week prior to the crash.
The incident prompted trucking company Transpacific to ground its national fleet of 2800 trucks — which halted rubbish collection in some areas of Adelaide — over safety concerns.
Yesterday Mr Spiess’ wife, Jan, expressed gratitude for emergency services staff who had helped her family during their ordeal and asked for privacy while they grieved.
The inquest is the second time Mr Schapel has investigated a death on the SE Freeway.
Six months ago, he handed down preliminary findings into the October 2010 death of John Posnakidis, 42, who was hit by a truck as he waited at a bus stop.
At that time, Mr Schapel said there was “an air of inevitability” that another driver would not use the freeway’s arrester beds and “there will be a repeat” of the incident “or worse”.
Brevet Sergeant Light said discussions with the driver’s co-worker had revealed the trucks were not originally intended to travel into the city that day.
Instead, the co-workers were to drive two trucks — one carrying 12,000L of sewerage, the other 8000L — to a depot at Heathfield.
They headed toward the city instead after discovering that the Heathfield depot was closed.
Brevet Sergeant Light tendered two DVDs of CCTV footage to the court, comprising vision from five cameras along the length of the freeway’s down-track.
The Advertiser applied for access to reproduce the footage, however Mr Schapel said he would not be releasing the images at this point in the inquest.
The first video clip shows the truck leaving the Heysen Tunnels at an estimated speed of 75.3km/h, well below the posted speed limit of 100km/h.
In the second clip, its speed has increased to 77km/h.
Brevet Sergeant Light said the third clip depicted the truck approaching the “last chance” arrester bed — at which time “you see the brake lights illuminate” briefly.
He said the truck’s estimated speed at that time was 93km/h.
In clip four the truck travels the distance between the arrester bed and the bus stop at which Mr Posnakidis died but, in the fifth clip, the nature of its driving changes.
“As the truck comes into view (on the footage) and negotiates the bend, it appears it’s out of control, that the truck lurches to the left,” Brevet Sergeant Light said.
“It appears to move from side to side.”
He said that point was 630m from the Urrbrae intersection and the truck’s estimated speed, at that moment, was 109.4km/h — the speed limit for that section was 60km/h.
The final clip shows the truck move past the toll gate and into the down-track’s left-hand slip lane, where it collides with a white car before travelling into the intersection.
“The distance from the toll gate to the (point of) impact was 350m,” Brevet Sergeant Light said.
“The truck travelled that distance in 8.5 seconds ... its estimated average speed was 148.2km/h.
“It travelled the final 190m (to the point of impact) in 4.5 seconds with an estimated speed of 151.9km/h.”
He said the white car was propelled “in a straight line” across the intersection and struck the decorative wall sculpture on the Glen Osmond Rd.
The truck continued on and collided with the passenger side of Mr Spiess’ car, which had crossed the intersection from Portrush Rd and continued along Cross Rd.
That impact caused the truck to rotate clockwise and it then “sandwiched” Ms Byrne’s car, which was waiting at the Cross Rd traffic lights.
Having heard the evidence, and knowing further investigation was to come, Mr Schapel made a preliminary recommendation.
“This court has power to make recommendations ... in an appropriate case, that power might be exercised sooner rather than later,” he said.
“If the evidence suggests (ways) to prevent a repeat of an incident, should (recommendations) be implemented that can be achieved simply or expeditiously, it would perhaps be idle for the court to sit on that knowledge.”
Mr Schapel recommended all trucks, regardless of size or number of axles, be limited to travelling at 60km/h on the freeway’s downhill track below Crafers.
He called for the low gearing section of the freeway to be extended from Crafers to the Urrbrae intersection where the crash occurred.
Mr Schapel said the State Government should make a public announcement that drivers were legally obligated to traverse that section in a low gear.
He said that, under the Australian Road Rules, that gear had to be low enough that the driver was not required to use his or her vehicle’s primary brake to slow down.
“It’s not a good idea or an optional extra to be adhered to in a perfect world — reliance on the primary brake is an offence,” he said.
“Everybody knows, or at least should know, that riding the brakes down the freeway is an intrinsically dangerous practice.”
Mr Schapel adjourned the inquest to a later date.
Mr Spiess’ wife, Jan, attended the hearing but declined to comment outside court.
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In theaters Friday, March 13
3 stars (out of 4 stars)
By now, you, every kid you know, and your kooky neighbor with all the cats, has let it go. But after 239 viewings of Frozen, even Olaf the snowman's shtick gets cold. I mean, old. So open the palace doors and rejoice! A new short film, titled Frozen Fever, will be released in theaters on March 13. (It plays before Disney's full-length Cinderella movie). Here's one fact for each minute. That would be seven in all.
PHOTOS: Stars dressed like Disney princesses
1. The ice woman cometh! Yup, Idina Menzel (Adele Dazeem jokes are sooooo March 2014) returns to voice Queen Elsa. And her personality has warmed up considerably since the days when she was taught to conceal, don't feel. Kristen Bell (Princess Anna), Jonathan Groff (Kristoff), and Josh Gad (Olaf) also reheat their vocal pipes.
2. There's time for an actual plot. Kinda. It's Anna's birthday, and Elsa wants to throw her the perfect celebration. But plans change after big sister falls under the weather.
PHOTOS: Famous film princesses
3. Hold on to your mittens: We have a brand-new song. Oscar winners Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez have composed a fresh ditty, titled "Making Today a Perfect Day." It's not quite as catchy as you-know-what, but it is bright and fun.
4. Do you want to build a snowman? No? Okay, would you rather watch dozens of snowmen wreak havoc? Every time ailing Elsa sneezes, she a-choos out a flurry of Olaf mini-mes. They're frigid, adorable and mischievous.
PHOTOS: Celebs visit Disney theme parks
5. Sinister Hans (Santino Fontana) would have lorded over a kingdom if it weren't for those meddling kids. Fear not, he's getting his comeuppance.
6. Nods to the original are cleverly dotted throughout the film, from sandwiches to Anna's bed head to Marshmallow the snow creature. And the Easter eggs are hidden in plain sight so your 2-year-old niece will notice them and be delighted.
7. It's too short! Seven minutes is such a tease. Just five more minutes would have this a perfect winter treat. The running time of Frozen never bothered us anyway.
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Perhaps it’s about injecting Hollywood glamour into New York’s classical musical world. Or maybe it’s about a local boy coming home to make good. Or maybe it’s just about getting a name in granite.
However you look at it, the world of New York high culture was given a surprise dose of glitz on Wednesday, when Lincoln Center announced that David Geffen, the entertainment mogul who has shaped cultural tastes in pop music, art and movies, will donate $100 million to renovate — and rename — Avery Fisher Hall, home of the New York Philharmonic, at Lincoln Center.
Mr. Geffen’s gift will help pay for the hall’s gut renovation, which is expected to cost more than $500 million. Although construction is not scheduled to begin until 2019, the building will become David Geffen Hall this September, with the start of the Philharmonic’s 2015-16 season.
The hall, built in 1962, has long been viewed as outdated and acoustically problematic. But raising money promised to be a challenge; the family of Avery Fisher had threatened legal action 13 years ago if the concert hall were to be rebuilt or renovated under a new name. That obstacle was overcome in November, when the Fisher family agreed to give up the naming rights with inducements including a $15 million check.
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Best D3.js courses & tutorials 2019
Mastering data visualization in D3.js by Adam Janes is will help you get started with D3.js. All the fundamental D3.js topics and features are taught. You will learn to design and build beautiful D3.js data visualizations. This D3 course will help you master D3.js advanced tools, building choropleth maps, brushes, tooltips, and layouts. You will start of by gaining an understanding of D3.js fundamental building blocks.
Using D3.js programming, you will learn to build D3.js layouts including the following D3.js charts:
Line Charts
Area Charts
Stacked Area Charts
Pie Charts
Donut Charts
Wordclouds
Choropleth Maps
Node-Link Diagrams
Tree Diagrams
Treemaps
Circle Packs
Sunburst Plots
This D3.js online tutorial will teach you what SVGs are and how they can be used with D3.js. You will learn how to properly structure D3.js code. Adding legends, tooltips, and sliders to your visualizations will become second nature to you. D3.js sample code and D3.js examples will help you learn D3.js faster. Writing scales, axes, and labels to make some basic D3.js data viz will be shown. This D3.js online training will teach you will handle user interactions by adding events. This D3.js video course will teach you how to interpret open source code from the D3 community and use it in your own projects. By the end of this D3.js programming course, you will be able to develop D3.js web apps with multiple data visualizations. This is one of the best D3.js tutorials in 2019.
Learn and Understand D3. js for Data Visualization by Luis Ramirez Jr will take you on a D3.js dive deep. You will learn the D3.js core concepts and build stunning data visualizations using D3 version 5.x. This is a comprehensive D3 video tutorial with 10 hours of video content. The D3js training will give you a basic overview of SVG. You will learn about D3.js scales. Scales help you by converting your data into values that are used to display your data. You will learn to build various graphs such as bar graphs, pie charts, scatter plots and even maps. This data viz course will teach you to add interactivity and animation to your graphs. The graphs you build will be responsive and work on any device. You will learn how to build maps and have a solid grasp over GeoJSON which powers maps. This is one of the best D3.js tutorials for beginners in 2019.
Build Data Visualizations with D3.js & Firebase by Shaun Pelling will teach you how to use D3js (v5) & Firebase (Firestore) to create dynamic SVG data visualizations. You will learn D3 and Firebase from scratch. This D3js course will teach you to create data-driven visualizations. You will learn to store and retrieve data from a real-time database, Firebase’s Firestore. Using Firestone, you will learn to update data visualizations in real-time. This D3js video tutorial conatins 3 projects to help you master D3 and Firebase.
Data Visualize Data with D3.js The Easy Way by Infinite Skills is a beginners guide to learning how to use D3js to visualize data. You will start by learning the basics of D3. This easy to follow course will show you how to use D3 to make dynamic and interactive graphics. Creating a line chart and a scatter-plot data visualization. By the time you finish this D3js course, you will have developed a solid working knowledge of D3 and be able to build your own data visualizations easily.
Best D3.js books 2019
Bestsellers
D3.js Quick Start Guide: Create amazing, interactive visualizations in the browser with JavaScript by Matthew Huntington will help you learn D3 fast. You will build interactive graphs that are viewable in any web browser using JavaScript, D3.js, and SVG. This D3 book will start at D3js basics. You will learn to build:
Scatter plot
Bar graph
Pie chart
Force-directed graph
Map
Interactive graphs
This is one of the best D3.js books for beginners in 2019.
Learn D3 4.x with downloadable code and over 140 examples
Create bar charts, scatter plots, pie charts, stacked bar charts, and force-directed graphs
Use smooth, animated transitions to show changes in your data
Introduce interactivity to help users explore your data
Create custom geographic maps with panning, zooming, labels, and tooltips
Walk through the creation of a complete visualization project, from start to finish
Explore case studies with nine accomplished designers talking about their D3-based projects
Interactive Data Visualization for the Web: An Introduction to Designing with D3 by Scott Murray will help you get started with D3.js . This book starts at the very basics, walking you through HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and SVG. You will:
Updates for D3 v4 and ES6
Reusable layouts and components
Geospatial data visualizations
Mixed-mode rendering
D3.js in Action Elijah Meeks is a practical guide that will help you create interactive graphics and data-driven applications with D3. You will start with D3.js fundamentals and move all the way to advanced D3.js features. The D3.js ebook is split into 3 parts: 1) Fundamentals, 2) Information Visualization and 3) Advanced Techniques. The book contains:
You will learn from practical D3 usecases. Every D3 feature is explained in-depth along with how to use them. Once you are done with the book, you will be able to integrate D3.js into your web applications. The book starts of with simple and easy to follow D3 examples, which increase in complexity as the book advances.This is a great D3 reference book.
Data Visualization with D3.js 4.x Cookbook by Nick Qi Zhu is full of practical D3.js recipes. This book features over 65 recipes. Data Visualization with D3.js Cookbook teaches you how to become proficient at D3.js by using ready-to-use code examples. The book tackles real-world data visualization problems and solves them with practical recipes. You will:
Solve real-world visualization problems using D3.js practical recipes
Understand D3.js fundamentals
Learn from D3.js code samples
Use pre-built D3.js chart recipes
Use D3.js for data visualization
Learn D3.js application development
Use practical tips to design effective interfaces
Learn how to create custom charts as reusable components to be integrated with existing projects
Create a powerful and high-quality analytics dashboard
Find out how to create custom maps and integrate D3 with third-party mapping libraries
Follow steps to create data-driven applications by integrating D3 with Backbone
Learn how to collaborate with Firebase for real-time data analytics
Mastering D3.js takes a comprehensive D3.js guide. You will topics and fundamentals you need to become an advanced level D3.js developer. You will:
D3.js By Example Michael Heydt
Publisher: Packt Publishing - ebooks Account
Paperback: 304 pages
D3.js By Example by Michael Heydt help you create data-driven visualizations with D3. You will learn the D3 concepts with examples and quickly create visualizations including charts, network diagrams, and maps. This book is packed with practical examples of visualizations using real-world data sets. You will:
Install and use D3.js to create HTML elements
Use development tools such as JSBIN and Chrome Developer Tools to create D3.js applications
Retrieve JSON data and use D3.js selections and data binding to create visual elements from data
Create and style graphical elements such as circles, ellipses, rectangles, lines, paths, and text using SVG
Use D3.js to turn your data into bar and scatter charts, and add margins, axes, labels, and legends
Use D3.js generators to perform the magic of creating complex visualizations from data
Add interactivity to your visualizations, including tool-tips, sorting, hover-to-highlight, and grouping and dragging of visuals
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BENGALURU: India is a bright spot for IBM . It was called out for its performance by CFO Martin Schroeter in the June and October quarters. And the financials it has filed most recently with the Registrar of Companies bears this out.IBM India's revenue rose 10.3% to $3.43 billion in 2015-16, from $3.11 billion in the previous year, riding on the robust performance of its domestic IT and export IT services businesses. The former grew 10.6% to $731 million and the latter grew 13.6% to $2.34 billion. The export business growth is better than that for most Indian IT services companies. Nasscom had estimated that the industry average growth in the year was 12.3% in constant currency.Some 133 executives in the company received a salary of Rs 1 crore or more in the year. Infosys had 49 executives with compensation of Rs 1 crore or more in the same year. IBM has some 1.3 lakh employees in India.India's standout performance has got a lot of attention because IBM's Asia-Pacific business has decelerated due to a decline in the Japan business and weaker performance in China.IBM India has four primary business segments -- hardware, software, financing, and sale of services (includes domestic IT services and export IT services). The sales from hardware and software dropped 16.4% and 4.9% respectively in 2015-16.IBM India's net profit rose 12.6% to $242 million. Operating profit increased by about 5%, from $441 million to $463 million.The company has merged three subsidiaries in India -- Bigfix Software, Telelogic India and Unica Softtech Systems India -- into Sterling Commerce Solutions India and a one-step down subsidiary IBM Business Consulting Services.IBM globally has seen its revenue decline for 18 consecutive quarters, as the company struggles to deal with the massive changes in the technology environment towards cloud and mobile. It is investing significantly in areas like analytics and cognitive computing.It has an analytics centre of excellence in Bengaluru. Last year, it launched its first public cloud data centre in Chennai as part of a $1.2 billion investment to grow its cloud footprint. A few months ago, it opened a mobile first iOS Garage in Bengaluru that's part of its network of centres in Atlanta, Cupertino and Chicago to drive digital transformation on the iOS platform.
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Ben Lynfield | The Independent
Israel is threatening to kill off a crucial West Bank economic project unless the Palestinian Authority withdraws a request to the International Criminal Court to investigate alleged Israeli crimes during last winter's Gaza war.
Shalom Kital, an aide to defence minister Ehud Barak, said today that Israel will not release a share of the radio spectrum that has long been sought by the Palestinian Authority to enable the launch of a second mobile telecommunications company unless the PA drops its efforts to put Israeli soldiers and officers in the dock over the Israeli operation.
"It's a condition. We are saying to the Palestinians that 'if you want a normal life and are trying to embark on a new way, you must stop your incitement," Mr. Kital said. "We are helping the Palestinian economy but one thing we ask them is to stop with these embarrassing charges."
As long as the Wataniya Mobile company is unable to begin its operations, communications costs are likely to remain inordinately high for Palestinian businesses and individuals. But thwarting the company benefits four unauthorized Israeli operators who make sizeable profits in the Palestinian market using infrastructure they have set up in the illegal Israeli settlements across the West Bank.
The Qatari-owned Wataniya had begun making what was planned as the second largest private investment in West Bank history - to total seven hundred million dollars. But amid frustration at more than two years of Israeli foot-dragging over the frequencies it is now warning that if forced to miss its launch date of 15 October it may close down West Bank operations and seek the return from the Palestinian Authority of its $140m licensing fee and other damages. Mr Kital said the possibility of Wataniya closing "is something the PA will have to take into consideration."
"This is sheer blackmail by the Israelis," said Nabil Shaath, the former PA foreign minister. "Israel has no business stealing the frequencies, keeping them and using them as blackmail to escape an international inquiry into its violations."
Nearly 1400 Palestinians, most of whom were not taking part in the hostilities, were killed during the Gaza war, according to the Israeli human rights group B'tselem. Fourteen Israelis died, some from Hamas rocket fire that Israel says forced it to mount its operation. A UN probe released last month found that both Israel and Hamas had committed "war crimes".
Mr Shaath said the PA would not back down over the matter."The Palestinians in Gaza suffered greatly and we are responsible for them. We are the aggrieved party. Israeli soldiers and those who gave orders should be questioned and be liable to prosecution."
The Palestinian request to the ICC dates back eight months. But Israeli concern over international legal steps has intensified since the UN commission, headed by South African judge Richard Goldstone, concluded that the Israeli military judicial system did not meet international legal standards of independence and impartiality. It called for the ICC to activate an indictment process within six months unless the country mounts its own credible investigations of its troops actions.
The Israeli stance on the frequencies marks a flouting of the efforts of the international community's Middle East envoy, Tony Blair, who last month urged that they be released and warned of harm to the local economy if Israel persisted in its refusal. Mr Kital said today that Mr Blair "is very aware" there will be no release unless the Palestinians drop their request to the ICC.
Read more at The Independent
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and NASDAQ indexes have closed at record-setting highs 130 times and made some $4 trillion in gains since President Donald Trump defeated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2016.
In 2017 alone, the three major U.S. indexes notched record closings on 93 occasions.
Off the heels of Trump’s first address to Congress in late February, the Dow breached 21,000 for the first time in its history. The index broke 19,000 for the first time Nov. 22, and also marked the beginning of a market rally that continues today. It took just 13 trading days for the Dow to break 19,000. The Dow ticked above 20,000 35 trading days ago, which also marked the second-fastest surge to a new 1,000 point milestone.
Prior to the November jump, the Dow hadn’t experienced a 1,000-point rally since 1999, when it went from 10,000 to 11,000 in just over 24 trading sessions. This rally was also the single fastest 1,000-point jump in the Dow’s history. (RELATED: US Stock Markets Hit All-Time High Tuesday Morning)
Not too far behind is the NASDAQ, as the index has set records 41 times in 2017 and 49 times since Trump defeated Clinton, LPL Financials reports. Also in the mix is the S&P 500, which has closed in record territory some 27 times in 2017 and 39 occasions since the November election.
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Today I started my day with a nice bong rip. I don’t always begin my days in such a fashion, but the sun was shining and I had a long bus ride to work so I wanted to have a pleasant journey. About halfway through my ride, two young men (17-20ish, I’d say-they all look like babies after you hit a certain age) hopped on the bus and sat down just behind me.
These boys were most definitely cannabis fans, it was blatantly obvious. Blood-shot eyes, pot-leaf images festooned all over their clothing and backpacks, one even wore a hat that said “faded” on it. As if that wasn’t enough, they were talking (very loudly) about the sheer amount of weed they had smoked just this morning.
I found myself strangely offended by these two chaps. Fundamentally, of course, I don’t think they were being cruel or insensitive and (clearly) I do not take issue with consuming cannabis. These kids were talking about how much weed they’d smoked, then went on to have an in-depth discussion about which of their friends were responsible for the various graffitti we passed along the way. The guy with the “faded” hat pointed out one such “tag” and said, “This here was done by that little white boy from down south.” Mr. Faded is, himself, a diminutive Caucasian with delusions of ebonicized street cred. When he exited the bus, I noticed he was walking like he just got off a horse because he was sagging his sweatpants down to his knees and they would have fallen off if he walked like any other bipedal mammal.
What bothered me is that this type of pot smoker, albeit influenced by their youthful ignorance, becomes the mascot of the prohibitionist, the poster-child for why marijuana should be illegal. These boys and I created an interesting contrast. We both smoked weed prior to boarding the bus and that’s about the extent of similarity. I smoked, took my shower and had breakfast. I kissed my wife and son goodbye and headed off to work. These kids got high and went off to pretend they were thugs while bragging about how much grass they smoked.
As a disclaimer, I may live in Seattle now, but I lived in California during the haydays of the Blood/Crip gangland emergence. I have seen real bangers and it bothered me that these little wannabes think sagging your sweats, spray-painting signs, and smoking weed makes you a thug.
These are the fools that make Kevin Sabet and Patrick Kennedy salivate. They are perfect exemplars of why legal weed is a bad idea. Furthermore, these people are the loudest and proudest potheads around. I don’t want to hear on a public bus how fucked up you were last night, I don’t want the uninformed out there to see your white-boy dreads and hear your “ode to my bong” poems and think that this behavior is a direct result of smoking weed.
I think professional stoners, those who get high but still positively contribute to their world, tend to be more discreet. That may be because those of us who smoked before it was legal have a Pavlovian response geared toward discretion, but I think it has more to do with not making getting high the only thing that matters. Honestly, I’d be just as put off if I was listening to these kids rave on about how much booze they had.
As a father, I don’t want my boys to follow the path of these two mental giants. If they decide when they are of age that cannabis is right for them, I’ll support that choice as long as they don’t forget that they still need to be functioning, responsible people.
We’ve been so focused on spreading word that cannabis is not dangerous and has a plethora of medical application (a cause that matters significantly) that we’ve lost sight of another front on which we need to put our best foot forward: combating the stigma that cannabis makes you a dumbass.
Weed will not make you a dumbass. I think if you’re a dumbass already and you get high, your natural proclivity toward idiocy increases. Bill Cosby, in one of his stand-up specials, was talking about cocaine and he impersonated someone who liked coke saying “it heightens your personality.” To which, Bill (as himself again) responds, “yes, but what if you’re an asshole?”
I’m reminded of some Outkast lyrics:
“Pull up your pants, ladies and gents. Please, act like you got some sense.”
I understand that I’m just bitching a bit and that a small snapshot of these two kids on a bus is hardly enough to paint them into a box and claim I know who they are. But, based of the information they provided to me (and anyone else within 20 feet) I do not believe my assessment is too far off point. I know Alcohol has been around for a long time and there are plenty of people who can use it without going all troglodyte. The same, I suppose, is true of cannabis. I just wish there were more constructive pot-enthusiasts willing to declare as such. Cannabis legalization is still in its infancy, let’s not let the morons in our ranks be the only ones with the loudspeaker.
Love cannabis, be intelligent.
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