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Hello world! – M.D.A.O.D.S – Market Drayton Amdrams Skip to content Home Diary Membership Info Gallery Little Voices JTW Home Diary Membership Info Gallery Little Voices JTW Hello world! March 19, 2018 graham Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing! Leave a Reply You must be logged in to post a comment. MDAODS Presents: Cinderella Market Drayton Amateur Operatics and Dramatics Society (Amdrams) 6 days ago Rehearsals are well underway for our next production : The Vicar of Dibley Christmas: The Second Coming. Get your tickets now! 🎭🎟 www.festivaldraytoncentre.com/whatson/liveevents/liveeventsFeature.php?THE-VICAR-OF-DIBLEY---MD-A... ... See MoreSee Less Photo View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email Market Drayton Amateur Operatics and Dramatics Society (Amdrams) 1 week ago September newsletter is now out! Check your email inboxes, and don't forget to check the junk box! ... See MoreSee Less View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email Market Drayton Amateur Operatics and Dramatics Society (Amdrams) 1 week ago Photo View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email Market Drayton Amateur Operatics and Dramatics Society (Amdrams) updated their profile picture. 2 weeks ago Market Drayton Amateur Operatics and Dramatics Society (Amdrams) ... See MoreSee Less Photo View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email Market Drayton Amateur Operatics and Dramatics Society (Amdrams) 2 weeks ago On Sunday night, a group of our members and friends went to watch Calender Girls performed by Get Your Wigle On in Shrewsbury. Wow, what can we say!? A fantastic show - well deserving of the standing ovation. Well done to every single person involved - cast and crew. We laughed and we cried! It's good to support other local amateur societies 💜! Thank you to Kat George for organising the trip. ... See MoreSee Less Photo View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email Copyright M.D.A.O.D.S. 2018. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress | WEN Associate by WEN Themes | negative |
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London As Venice
© Robert Graves and Didier Madoc-Jones, aerial photograph Jason Hawkes
Like a modern day Canaletto, this disturbing yet strangely peaceful aerial view of a flooded Thames was inspired by shots of New Orleans submerged under the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina. Curious to know how London would appear under similar conditions, Graves and Madoc-Jones transposed projection of a 7.2 metre flooded river on to their digital 3D model of London and aligned with a photograph of the Thames shot by Jason Hawkes. 7.2 metres is the level at which flood waters would breach the Thames Barrier. The low light of the photograph creates an evocative sense of dimension to the view, forming the impression that we are looking at a partially submerged stage-set.
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Piccadilly Circus Water Lilies
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At the heart of London’s theatre land, Piccadilly Circus is synonymous with bustle, noise and traffic. How would the famous junction appear in a future flooded London, after its iconic façades are re-clad with lotus-like solar panels and the spot is invaded by energy harnessing windmills? After photographing Piccadilly Circus from the elevated vantage point of Lilywhite’s department store, Graves and Madoc-Jones visually enhanced the appearance of Eros. In reality, its architectural environment dwarfs the 19th century sculpture just as its iconic status is hi-jacked by the surrounding digital advertising. By enlarging the scale of the solar panels and manicuring the urban landscape, the artists playfully imagine a dynamic new setting for the winged messenger.
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Notting Hill Carnival
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Like a Richard Hamilton photo-collage, Notting Hill Carnival is a visual composite of 20 separate images. A chance discovery of a shot of a young woman applying sun cream (shown at bottom left of the image) catalysed the idea of transforming and uniting London’s carnival audience in blue sunblock. Like the Australian public health advice to ‘Slip Slap Slop’, perhaps a similar Government campaign to protect ourselves from sun damage is not too far in the future?
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Camel Guards Parade
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With the arc of the London Eye on the horizon, Camel Guards Parade represents the famous military and ceremonial parade ground in Whitehall in a new guise. Amid a dusty haze of heat and sand, camels have replaced horses for the Queen’s own household guard.
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Glacial Thames
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Glacial Thames and Skating at Tower Bridge are inspired by the historical tradition of frost fairs in London that were regularly staged on the frozen surface of the Thames as early as 1684 up to the early 1800’s. Re-considered amid the current debate of the deceleration of the Gulf Stream, which would drastically lower temperatures in London, Glacial Thames counteracts the romance of a frozen Thames by acknowledging that this immense tidal river would in fact become a slushy, filthy slick of ice. Viewed from HMS Belfast, Graves and Madoc-Jones took a series of photographs across the river and digitally stitched them together to link views of the Tower of London, London Bridge and City Hall within a fictional late summer setting. The build-up of packed ice and an incapacitated river militates against the idealized notion of a city magically transformed by a dramatic drop in temperature.
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Skating at Tower Bridge
© Robert Graves and Didier Madoc-Jones, aerial photograph by Jason Hawkes
Skating at Tower Bridge takes a bird’s-eye view of the frozen surface surrounding the landmark bridge. Tiny human forms skate beneath it, casting extraordinarily long shadows, yet appear as inconsequential as pinheads or iron filings.
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Parliament Square Paddy Fields
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A new global economy demands that we become more self-sufficient as former food sources become less reliable and shipping food around the world becomes unsustainable. Austerity encourages us to ‘grow your own’ – even 10 Downing Street and the White House have allotments now. Self-sufficiency also challenges the value of power formerly invested in symbolic sites of political power. In Parliament Square Paddy Fields Graves and Madoc-Jones take a quintessential tourist view of Big Ben and re-present it as a watery landscape inspired an environmental project in East Asia during which Europeans were taught to plant rice. The final image invites us to imagine how the population of central London could re-appropriate the land on their doorstep. Replacing the statues of Churchill, Lloyd George and Disraeli are urban farmers harvesting iridescent green shoots amid the London smog.
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Hyde Park Palm Oil
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Self-sufficient London by definition questions the value of power in new contexts. Amid the fronds and leaves of tropical palm trees in Hyde Park Palm Oil, the Mayfair Hilton Hotel looms up, dominating its humid environment in an area which houses an established community of Middle Eastern Londoners. Hailed as the revolutionary eco-fuel, palm oil, the true subject of Hyde Park Palm Oil, confronts us with the realisation that this resource and its increasingly elevated significance to Western oil-based economies, poses a potential threat to the planet.
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Buckingham Palace Shanty
© Robert Graves and Didier Madoc-Jones, aerial photograph by Jason Hawkes
Day-to-day life in London takes advantage of new and formerly, inaccessible, spaces. Graves and Madoc Jones explored ideas and images that convey daily life in a transformed London, where the relationship between private and public space is re-evaluated.
The artists were influenced by Tuca Vieira’s stunning photography of shanty towns in Brazil where rich and poor live alongside each other. Sprawling favelas develop around luxury flats, which stand like beacons, each one a separate oasis with private swimming pools on their balconies.
In 2010 Graves and Madoc-Jones worked on a housing project in Kariobangi, Kenya. They were struck by the inexhaustible ways that each owner customized and humanised their patch of land. Aerial views of shanty towns in Africa revealed unexpected visual beauty as by necessity, the conurbations of an urban community grow organically around areas of commerce or food sources.
Inspired by the ingenuity of the Kenyan shanty homes, Graves and Madoc-Jones modeled up a sample of 90 homes of which multiple versions were digitally positioned on to an aerial view of Buckingham Palace. Individual details were added, from wisps of cooking smoke to a myriad of different coloured roofs. The final image depicts 20 million separate shanty dwellings emphasizing how many separate families occupy the space. They live on top of each other right up to the perimeter of the Palace that floats in a private enclave of land that exists to house one family.
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Trafalgar Square Shanty
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The key influence for Trafalgar Square Shanty was Norman Parkinson’s 1949 photograph of two models standing in the portico of the National Gallery (Wenda Rogerson and B. Goalen, Vogue). Looking out to Nelson’s Column, the photograph idealises the Square, a spot which today has been over-developed as a giant traffic island. Contemporary photographs taken by Graves and Madoc-Jones of street life in Kenya and covered souks in Morocco also influenced their image. Typically the front of each dwelling are the focus of trade and commerce, everything has its use and value. In Marrakech, trade, business and human activity continue through day and night under the semi-covered shades of the souk. Back in London, Graves and Madoc-Jones photographed Trafalgar Square looking south towards Nelson’s Column and used this image to create a model of an imaginary shanty town. Sunlight slices through the partially shaded interior that bustles with life. Amid this ‘new establishment’ Nelson’s Column assumes a secondary, almost inconsequential significance.
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The Gherkin
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Continuing the theme of Living in London, Graves and Madoc-Jones accumulated images of life in the high-rise tenement blocks of Hong Kong and Sao Paulo. Of these, most striking were the distinctive structures of framed windows, behind which were the signs and minutiae of life that individualized the otherwise uniform setting – clothes hung up to dry and curtains billowing in the breeze. The Gherkin presents an unusual perspective on 30 St Mary Axe in the City of London, the building designed by Foster and Partners on the site of the old Baltic Exchange. Resisting the urge to photograph its iconic bullet form, the artists focused on the textural surface and patina of its façade that they altered in colour. Honing in on the faceted surface and grid pattern of the façade reveals an absorbing layer of depth that reflects glimpses of surrounding buildings. Like Gulliver peering into the miniature lives of the Lilliputians, we search out the intimate details of human life inside.
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The Mall – Royal Power
© Robert Graves and Didier Madoc-Jones
Like every major world city, London embodies and perpetuates different forms of power, from economic, financial to historical. For this theme, Graves and Madoc-Jones explored specific facets of power, from the ceremonial symbolism of the Royal Family, to the tangible power generated by, and located on the Thames.
In The Mall – Royal Power the flagpoles that line the road leading up to Buckingham Palace are substituted with sentries of windmills – a moment where new power replaces the frippery of royal symbolism. All is not lost however as each windmill is decorated with the standard royal crest, mimicking those found on the flagpoles on the Mall. As security controls restricted normal photography on the Mall, the artists took a series of furtive shots and stitched them together to re-create the fictional processional route.
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Thames Tidal Power
The bold composition of Thames Tidal Power was inspired by a photograph of fishing huts perched above the waters of the Gironde in France by French aerial photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand. a striking image of graphic quality and dramatic contrast between light and dark. Combined with separate research into water turbines in Canada and New York, Graves and Madoc-Jones created an image that encapsulated the immense tidal power of the Thames. Using Jason Hawkes’ photograph of the Thames Barrier as a foundation, they dotted a series of tidal turbines around the Barrier, to create a striking uniform pattern. Focusing attention on the force of the river is a clear reminder of the tides that once literally powered London via Bankside and Battersea.
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Kew Nuclear Power Station
© Robert Graves and Didier Madoc-Jones, aerial photograph by Jason Hawkes
In a neat finale to the exploration of power, this thematic group concludes with Kew Nuclear Power Station, a subject that addresses current debates considering the resumption of nuclear power. Where London’s power stations once produced clouds of steam over London, a new generation of nuclear power stations, like Sizewell B in Suffolk, would leave no visual trace on the landscape other than their own distinctive forms. In a perfect marriage of middle-class suburbia and industrial architecture, Graves and Madoc-Jones inserted an image of Sizewell B to an aerial view of Kew Gardens, over which hangs a pall of invented steam. The formal aspect of the power station’s domed structure mirrors the curved form of Kew’s famous 19th century glasshouse, while any quasi-religious connotations associated with the form of the power station are replaced by the recognizable nuclear symbol emblazoned on its façade. Glowing with a natural, almost ethereal, light, Kew Nuclear Power Station is a provocatively unsettling, but compelling image of 21st century London power.
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St Paul’s Monkeys
© Robert Graves and Didier Madoc-Jones
The view from the Stone Gallery at the base of Sir Christopher Wren’s great dome provides a view over a changed world. Tate Modern, the great cultural landmark of London, once linked to St Paul’s Cathedral and City Of London by the Millennium Bridge is now cut off by the flooded river Thames.
Climate change brings with it shifts in eco systems. Some long established species become extinct whilst new and unusual specimens gain a foothold.
The St Paul’s Monkeys are relaxed. They perch on this ancient and venerable building that emerged following the Fire of London, withstanding the blitz and the development of the high rise city around it.
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Whitehall Tornado
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Trafalgar Square represents iconic London and is a gathering place for tourists and Londoners alike. Every major celebration in the capital takes place in this public space. A warming climate causes more extreme and unpredictable weather. Whitehall Tornado hits at the heart of the establishment and throws the status quo into chaos.
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Cronulla fullback Ben Barba is hoping fans of the eight Sydney-based NRL teams now eliminated from this year's competition can embrace the final remaining Sydney club in contention when Cronulla host North Queensland at Allianz Stadium this Friday night.
Penrith's semi-final loss to Canberra ensured the nation's capital along with Townsville and Melbourne were the remaining sides along with Cronulla and Barba hopes for a strong Sydney crowd to be Cronulla's 18th man on Friday.
"Hopefully Allianz is packed with black, white and blue on Friday. They're sort of our 18th man," Barba said this week.
"Considering too we're the only Sydney team left in the competition is pretty special so hopefully everyone gets behind us here and supports the Sharks and really gets behind us."
Sharks players are hoping for a different experience to when their season was ended by the Cowboys in a 39-0 landslide in Townsville in last year's finals series.
The ledger is one apiece since then with Cronulla's 13-10 home win in Round 14 squaring up their 20-14 Round 1 loss in Townsville.
"You take the good things out of when you meet them and try and reflect on what you did to contain them," Barba said.
"We'll have our videos and such during the week and see what we did good and see what we can't do and hopefully get it right on Friday.
"We can definitely take some confidence out of what we did here (at Southern Cross Group Stadium in Round 14); it was probably one of our better performances during the year.
"We seem to do it against the really good sides here, we played Melbourne Storm here earlier in the year and did a really good job on them (a 14-6 win in Round 4). If we play anything like we did during the year against the Cowboys I'm sure we'll be going all right."
Much has been made of Barba's return to form at fullback in 2016, and despite a quiet few weeks in his team's mini slump he remains one of his team's key threats. He credited hard work and happiness off the field for results on it.
"It's been really enjoyable. I could say it was easy but look, it was tough during some times over the last few years," Barba said.
"But I'm really glad I've stuck through it and I've worked hard with the people here at the football club, the coaches, the trainers, the physios, the players.
"I'm trying to get the little things right and I think it's really helped me this year and allowed me to enjoy my football again and not worry about what's going on outside of football and it's allowed me to do what I did."
His efforts this year also drew praise from Sharks back-rower Wade Graham.
"When he's on he's one of the best players in the NRL," Graham told NRL.com.
"He's got everything; he's got the speed and the skill out the back of those shapes to really make or break those shapes.
"He's been outstanding for us this year and it's a credit to himself, he really knuckled down and worked hard and set some personal goals that he's been striving hard to reach and the benefits have shown on the field."
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Many will play, one will rise.
Choose your commander for this unique multiplayer Magic format. New cards offer new play options, and experience counters will make your commander grow in power during the course of each game. Two-color decks allow for surprising synergies and opportunities to devastate your foes.
The set will feature five two-color—enemy pair—100-card Commander decks, along with 55 new Magic cards legal in Eternal formats (Vintage and Legacy), but not legal in Standard, Block Constructed, or Modern. Each deck will contain fifteen new cards.
Cards from Magic: The Gathering—Commander (2015) will be featured and distributed with a new event offering on Magic Online—the Legendary Cube! For more on the Legendary Cube, see the announcement also posted today.
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Three-Letter Abbreviation: C15
Twitter Hashtag: #MTGC15
MSRP: $34.99 (per deck) *Applies to U.S. Only
Languages: English, Japanese, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Chinese Simplified
Initial Concept and Game Design: Dan Emmons (lead), Kelly Digges, Ethan Fleischer, James Hata, and Chris Tulach
Final Game Design & Development: Ben Hayes (lead), Kelly Digges, Mark Globus, Shawn Main, and James Sooy, with contributions from Matt Tabak | positive |
IOWA CITY — An Iowa City delegation traveled to Koksijde, Belgium, last month to hand deliver a bid to host a 2016 World Cup of cyclocross race next September.
The group hopes to leverage Iowa City’s annual Jingle Cross race, which is being held this Friday to Sunday at the Johnson County Fairgrounds, to show the area is suitable. In its 12th year, Jingle Cross has grown into one of North America’s largest and most challenging cyclocross events, known for its steep hill dubbed Mount Krumpit, organizers said.
“We went as a group to show them we are ready in Iowa City to host a World Cup of cyclocross,” said John Meehan, founder of Jingle Cross in 2004.
Meehan joined City Manager Tom Markus and Josh Schamberger, president of the Iowa City/Coralville Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, in presenting the bid to Union Cycliste Internationale Off Road Chief Peter Van den Abeele and his council before the Koksijde World Cup race Nov. 22.
UCI is the world governing body for professional cycling recognized by the International Olympic Committee. UCI organizes Tour de France and several World Cup races each year, among other events, and has been expanding outside Europe.
In September, Las Vegas hosted the first World Cup ever held outside of Europe.
Cyclocross courses typically are 1.5- to 2-mile loops over paved, dirt and sand surfaces, through woods, over obstacles and up and down hills. Races last 45 minutes to an hour.
A UCI official will attend Jingle Cross this weekend to inspect the course as a final site visit, Schamberger said. A decision is expected in January, he said.
Jingle Cross has grown from a few dozen riders to a three-day event with 63 amateur and professional races, 2,600 participants and sponsors including Carousel Volkswagen, Scheels and Musco Lighting. The free event includes cycling vendors, music, microbrewed beer, food and other drinks.
If the World Cup bid is successful, the men’s and women’s World Cup races would be held Sept. 24 and be broadcast internationally on Telenet, Schamberger said. The Jingle Cross, annually held around Thanksgiving, would be moved to Sept. 22 and 23 to coincide with the World Cup, he said.
“These are the Super Bowls of the sport, the absolute best of the best,” Schamberger said.
Other cities are also bidding for the event, but Meehan and Schamberger said the hand delivery and the renown of the course makes Iowa City a strong contender.
“I am fully confident we are going to win the bid,” Meehan said. “Many riders think it is deserving. They see it as a challenge to pro riders; the course is that difficult.”
Schamberger said the area would be expected to cover some costs in the range of $35,000 to $50,000 for moving equipment and hosting UCI officials, among other expenses. However, he said the event would more than recoup the costs and draw 15,000 to 20,000 people to the area.
“It is a unique opportunity to show off our community,” Schamberger said. “There is a positive economic impact of being a World Cup site.”
Markus deferred questions about the event to Schamberger, but said tax money was not used to pay for his travel. | positive |
In what may be a first for a Supreme Court nominee, U.S. Circuit Judge Neil Gorsuch lamented comments President Donald Trump has made in recent days impugning the federal judge who blocked his executive order suspending all refugee resettlement and barring travel from several predominantly Muslim countries.
Gorsuch, whom Trump last week named to fill the seat of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, said during a visit with Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) on Wednesday that the president’s attacks on U.S. District Judge James Robart, who sits in Seattle, are “demoralizing” and “disheartening,” according to CNN.
The senator, who is also a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee that will vet and hold hearings on Gorsuch, pointed out that the nominee specifically used those words in characterizing Trump’s outbursts on Twitter.
“I believe he has an obligation to make his views known more explicit and unequivocally to the American people,” Blumenthal said of Gorsuch in a call with reporters, according to The Wall Street Journal.
CNN separately confirmed that Ron Bonjean, one of the White House staffers who is ushering Gorsuch through the confirmation process in the Senate, said Gorsuch expressed his dismay over a tweet Trump sent out over the weekend calling Robart a “so-called judge.”
Trump’s criticism of Robart and his veiled swipes early Wednesday at the appellate judges weighing the legality of his travel ban have drawn the ire of Democrats and court watchers who are closely following the legal showdown over the president’s executive order.
During remarks at a police chiefs’ conference Wednesday, Trump touted his nomination of Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, but suggested that he’d be watching closely how those he appoints rule on issues relating to public safety.
“The first step in restoring public safety is affirming our confidence in the men and women charged with upholding our laws,” Trump said. “And I’m going to add justices, judges in that category.”
Trump also seemed to cast doubt on how the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, which on Tuesday considered his travel ban order, would rule in the high-stakes legal controversy over his most controversial executive order to date.
“And I don’t ever want to call a court biased, so I won’t call it biased,” he said. “And we haven’t had a decision yet. But courts seem to be so political, and it would be so great for our justice system if they would be able to ... do what’s right. And that has to do with the security of our country, which is so important.”
In response to this and other statements Trump has made on social media about the judiciary, a group of 50 members of Congress introduced a resolution Wednesday condemning his attacks.
Independent of how a court rules, the resolution read, “it is inappropriate for sitting presidents, or other government officials, to engage in ad hominem attacks against a judge, or otherwise place political pressure designed to undermine the independence of that judge, or to erode trust in the entire court system.”
It is unclear how Trump will respond to Gorsuch’s dismay over his judicial tantrums, or whether the White House coordinated this response by the highly respected judge.
But it is possible those who are walking the Supreme Court nominee through the process may be looking for ways to build comity with Democratic senators, like New York’s Chuck Schumer, who still harbor doubts about whether they’ll agree to hold an up-or-down vote for his confirmation.
“He is clearly a smart and capable man who loves being a judge,” Schumer, the Senate minority leader, told reporters after meeting with Gorsuch on Tuesday. “But his nomination comes at a perilous time in the relationship between the executive and the judicial branches.”
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz) said he didn’t think Gorsuch’s consternation about Trump’s comments was pre-mediated. “It does show his independence. I don’t think it was calculated on his part,” Flake said.
Many Democrats still haven’t forgotten how Senate Republicans mistreated Merrick Garland, the appeals judge President Barack Obama nominated for the Scalia seat. His nomination died last month without any action in Congress.
Joe Manchin of West Virginia, the sole Democrat to vote for the confirmation of his colleague Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to be attorney general, was asked if the “disheartening” comment helped him as he considered whether Gosuch would be independent. | positive |
Michelle McQuigge, The Canadian Press
Canada's seniors have edged out the number of children under the age of 15, according to the latest population figures that experts say contain further evidence of a long-projected shift in the country's demographic makeup.
The latest round of data released by Statistics Canada on Tuesday show seniors made up 16.1 per cent of Canada's population as of July 1, 2015, compared to 16.0 per cent for children between the ages of 0 and 14.
The figures show a fundamental shift in Canada's composition and signal that the time to confront looming challenges is at hand, said Amanda Grenier, director of McMaster University's Gilbrea Centre for Studies in Aging.
Grenier said Canadian policy-makers need to emulate policy-makers around the world by reconsidering "how to organize society" to cater to the needs of an aging population.
"We haven't necessarily had the national debates we should be having around aging," Grenier said in a telephone interview. "That could be on dementia, that could be on care, that could be on cities. We have a bit of catching up to do as a country."
StatCan said the latest figures were driven by a trend that took root in 2011 and has continued to accelerate -- the aging of the baby boomers, or Canadians born between 1946 and 1965.
The agency said the population growth rate for Canadians over the age of 65 was 3.5 per cent, nearly quadrupling the national average of 0.9 per cent.
Baby boomers now account for 30 per cent of the senior demographic, the agency said.
Demographer David Foot said the latest figures still represent the early days of a trend that is likely to persist for at least a decade. StatCan seems to agree, projecting that Canadians over the age of 65 will make up a fifth of the national population by 2024.
Foot said the most serious implication of this shift, namely an increased toll on Canada's health care system, won't be felt for some time.
"They're still fairly young seniors. They're in their late 60s," Foot said of the boomers. "Many of them are still working and paying taxes."
Grenier said urban planners would also be wise to begin adapting their techniques and marshalling their resources to accommodate the needs of a population that tends to be less mobile than their younger counterparts.
Western University social demography professor Don Kerr said the economic implications of an aging population are also being powerfully illustrated in countries across Europe and Asia, many of which he said have a significantly higher proportion of senior citizens than Canada currently does.
He cited Japan as an example of a nation that has had to grapple with a dwindling labour force and higher national debt levels influenced at least in part by its shifting demographic makeup.
"Any effort to plan ahead and ensure that we have time to accommodate it, that's wise public policy," Kerr said of Canada's fledgling shift.
The aging of the Canadian population has also begun to make itself felt in provincial figures in recent years, with Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador all reporting that deaths have begun to outpace births.
This aligns with StatCan's latest data, which found that Atlantic Canada had a higher proportion of Canadians over the age of 65. Seniors comprised 19 per cent of New Brunswick's population, making it the most aged province in the country. The most youthful region was Nunavut where just 3.7 per cent of the population are currently senior citizens.
While Canada's year-over-year population growth was the highest among G7 countries, StatCan said the 0.9-per-cent increase was the smallest of its kind since 1998-99.
The slower pace was caused primarily by a drop in international migration growth, which slipped from 0.7 per cent in 2013-14 to 0.5 per cent this year.
The agency said 86 per cent of Canada's 35,851,800 residents were located in Ontario, Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia. | positive |
One brand’s strategy to crush its competition has unfortunately taken a dark turn. Rather than relying on traditional advertising techniques, Reese’s Puffs has resorted to all-out intimidation and is doxxing anyone who eats competitor’s cereals on the back of its boxes.
Wow. This is definitely a bold new strategy from Reese’s Puffs.
According to a statement from Reese’s Puffs, any person who eats another type of cereal will have their photo, full name, and home address printed on the back of a Reese’s Puffs cereal box. Apparently, whether you commit a large offense like buying an entire box of Raisin Bran or a small offense like eating a single bowl of Froot Loops, Reese’s Puffs is ready to leak your private information in order to teach you a lesson.
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With a strategy like this, people should definitely think twice the next time they go to the cereal aisle.
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I’ve been wanting to use long grass on some bases for a while, but I didn’t like any of the products I found specifically made for this purpose. I was about to give in and buy some of the expensive long grass products when I stumbled upon a method using old paint brush bristles as long grass and decided I should give it a go. The results turned out great, so I wanted to share the method I used with you all.
There are a couple of reasons why I like this method of making long grass over products specifically designed for this purpose. Using this method you can make the grass any color you want. You can also make the grass longer than all of the grasses I saw designed for this purpose; you could easily make it over the head of a Space Marine if you wanted to. The brush bristles I used are also quite durable and stands up well to the rigors of wargaming. The last aspect of this method of making long grass that I know most hobbyists will appreciate–this method is incredibly inexpensive, I had almost everything I needed already sitting around my hobby room and the things I didn’t have already cost less than $5.
The models you will see in my example photos are Waldgeist from Malifaux and the bases are Blasted Wetlands resin bases from Secret Weapon Miniatures.
The supplies you will need for this project:
Painted model and base you are putting long grass onto –Similar to using flock for short grass on bases, this is the final step to completing your model and should be done after the base and model have been painted so that you don’t mess up the grass.
–Similar to using flock for short grass on bases, this is the final step to completing your model and should be done after the base and model have been painted so that you don’t mess up the grass. Large cheap natural bristle flat paint brushes– You can find these at any craft or hardware store, I grabbed mine at Michael’s.
You can find these at any craft or hardware store, I grabbed mine at Michael’s. Paint– I told you that you get to color your grass however you want! You can even do some crazy purple grass for some weird alien world if you want. You’ll need a couple of shades of paint in the spectrum you want your grass to be so that you have some variation in tone.
I told you that you get to color your grass however you want! You can even do some crazy purple grass for some weird alien world if you want. You’ll need a couple of shades of paint in the spectrum you want your grass to be so that you have some variation in tone. Tweezers– I recommend 1 pair of regular tweezers and 2 pairs of reverse tweezers. The regular tweezers are handy for tweaking the final positioning of your grass. If you don’t know what reverse tweezers are, I’ll show you in a moment.
I recommend 1 pair of regular tweezers and 2 pairs of reverse tweezers. The regular tweezers are handy for tweaking the final positioning of your grass. If you don’t know what reverse tweezers are, I’ll show you in a moment. Hobby knife
Scissors
Super glue– Thin or thick works well for this.
Thin or thick works well for this. PVA glue–Plain old white glue; the same stuff you use to put sand or flock onto a base.
For those of you who are visual learners, these are the kind of cheap brushes I mentioned above. I got them in a three pack for less than three dollars. The important thing is natural fibers because then the color in them isn’t perfectly uniform which gives you a more realistic look to your grass, and you can easily stain the natural bristles to match whatever spectrum you want. These are what I mean by reverse tweezers; reverse tweezers vary from regular tweezers in that you squeeze them to open them. They are really great for holding onto something while you are working on other things.
Now we being! Get some paint on the bristles. You can work some inside the brush to the inner bristles with an older brush which is reaching the end of its useful life that you used for painting minis. Brush off the excess paint from the large brush onto a paper towel like you are drybrushing, this will keep the bristles from sticking together but stain the bristle to the color you want. You can do this multiple times with multiple colors until you get the hue you want. Separate some bristles and hold them with your reverse tweezers. Bend the bristles down away from brush so that you can cut them off the brush without cutting bristles you don’t want to cut yet.
Use your scissors to cut off the bristles you’re holding in the reverse tweezers. Twist the bristles together slightly into a bundle around where the bottom of the length you want your long grass to be. If you have too many bristles, you can separate out some of the bristles (it’s handy to use your second pair of reverse tweezers to hold onto the second bundle while you work on the first). Drop a dab of super glue on the middle of the bristle bundle around where you want the bottom of the grass length to be. Make sure the glue soaks into the bristles through the full thickness of the bundle at that point and all the way around it there. Leave your glued grass bundle still gripped in your reverse tweezers off to the side to dry while you work on another grass bundle. If you are doing a whole army with this basing or making a field of grass, getting into an assembly line type groove helps this go faster.
Once the glue on your bundle is dry, cut through middle of dried glue ball with your hobby knife. Now your long grass tuft is ready to add to a base! You can use the cut off portion of the bundle as another tuft, you just have to trim the loose ends to be less even so as to look more natural.
Now it’s time to glue your tufts to base! I recommend letting a small puddle of glue sit out for a bit to get a little tacky. Take your grass tuft, dip it into your puddle of glue, and then put your tuft onto the base. You can use super glue for this, but it can frost up on the base and the bristles. Add as many tufts to your base as you need! In this marsh I only wanted a few, but you could use this method to make an entire grassy field. Once the glue has dried you are done! For bases with soil basing you can mound up some sand or texture paint around the base of your grass tuft if you want or even add a little flock around it.
In this picture you can see what the base looks like once it’s finished. After the glue on the grass dried, I added a few layers of water effects to the base. I really like how the grass looks growing out of the swamp water.
Enjoy your new-found superpower to control plants! I hope this tutorial helps you out!
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McLaren-Honda F1 driver Fernando Alonso is upset that only some teams and drivers are getting early experience with Pirelli's 2017 tires.
This week, championship contenders Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton of constructors' champion Mercedes are heading to Barcelona, where they will try next year's tires fitted to a Mercedes test mule based on the 2015 car.
The other two teams helping Pirelli with its 2017 testing are Ferrari and Red Bull.
Other drivers, including Alonso, are not getting the same opportunity, even though McLaren-Honda said at the time that it actually preferred to sit out the Pirelli running.
However, the Spanish newspaper AS claims that McLaren-Honda was never considered an option for the Pirelli running, given Honda's engine problems from last year.
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Music retailers need to focus their attention away from pre-recorded CDs and fully concentrate on online distribution, according to Gartner.
Gartner urged the music industry to move away from relying on pre-recorded CDs as a revenue generator before next Christmas.
It said that while the music industry’s reliance on CDs worked well from 1985 to its revenue peak at the turn of the century, CD sales were now dropping rapidly in markets worldwide and would never again regain market share.
The transition from physical retail CDs to online distribution was already in motion, with evidence that retailers were reducing the floor space dedicated to CDs.
Also, the uptake of broadband, Wi-Fi connections, netbooks and mobile phones worldwide offered different possibilities when it came to marketing, promotion and distribution.
Mark McGuire, research vice president at Gartner, said that by propping up the CD business, rather than fully investing in online distribution, the music industry had neither stamped out piracy or recreated old successful business models.
He said: “Music labels should instead emphasise ‘digital first’, making all new releases and catalogue issues via digital services and moving CD to an on-demand publishing mode.”
Gartner recommended that retailers could eliminate the cost of CDs by applying a new burn-on-demand model. This means that labels would no longer need to anticipate demand and could reduce shipping costs.
Online songs and albums would also take advantage of social networking and mobile music services, which were increasingly used as awareness and promotional tools. | positive |
5 Best Skunk Odor Removers in 2022 [Detailed Reviews] DIY Pest Control Ants Bed Bugs Bees Birds Centipedes Chipmunks Fleas Flies Gophers Groundhogs Mites Moles Mosquitoes Moths Possums Raccoons Roaches Rodents Skunks Snakes Spiders Squirrels Stink bugs Termites Ticks Wasps Wildlife Other pests Pest Guides Ant Guides Bed Bug Guides Bee Guides Cockroach Guides Chipmunks Guides Chemicals Flea Guides Mosquito Guides Mouse & Rat Guides Skunk Guides Termite Guides Ultrasonic Pest Repellers Exterminator Guides About Contact Privacy Policy Terms of Use Affiliate Disclosure Pest Control Companies Find Local Exterminator Home » Skunks » Best Skunk Odor Remover in 2022: Expert Reviews Skunks Best Skunk Odor Remover in 2022: Expert Reviews Nicholas Martin 2022-07-21 0 🧪 Learn more about our product testing process. 💵 We may receive a small commission. 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Top 5 Best Skunk Odor Removers: Choose the Right One for You Van Den Heuvels R86 Industrial Odor Eliminator Nature’s Miracle Skunk Odor Remover Odor Neutralizing Formula Skunk-Off Liquid Soaker Zero Odor Multi-Purpose Household Odor Eliminator Skunk-Off Pet Shampoo Below, I’ve rounded up five of the most effective skunk odor removers. I’ve tested them all, therefore, my reviews are 100% experience-based and reliable. Don’t forget to read the instructions prior to using any skunk smell slayer. Follow them religiously if you want the solution to work. In case your fluffy friend got sprayed by a little stinky beast in the face, consult your vet immediately. 1. Van Den Heuvel’s R86 Industrial Odor Eliminator: My Top Pick R86 Industrial All-Out Odor Eliminator, Removes... Check price on Amazon Specifications: Item Weight: 2.93 Pounds Item Dimensions LxWxH: 5.8 x 3.1 x 7.8 inches Non-toxic Biodegradable Water Soluble This is an environmentally-friendly skunk odor neutralizer created for industrial purposes. It’s non-toxic, so it’s absolutely safe for your family and domestic animals. It contains salt and various oils to soak up and cover up smells instead of totally eradicating them. The product is proven highly effective in getting skunk smell out of house. Furthermore, this odor eliminator is excellent at tackling other stubborn odors: stinky laundry, cat pee, oil-based paint, reeked eBay clothes you were unlucky to lay your hands on, and many others. So if you’ve already tried vinegar, deodorizing sprays, sanitizing sprays (and nothing has worked), this awesome product might be exactly what you need. It’s definitely worth trying! Pros: Cons: deals with various types of smells; exceptionally easy to use and really works; smells like freshness; acts faster than other skunk smell eradicators; non-toxic, eco-friendly, and safe for your loved ones. covers up the skunk smell and wears it off instead of totally removing it. 2. Nature’s Miracle: Best Liquid Skunk Odor Eliminator Nature’s Miracle Skunk Odor Remover Odor... Check price on Amazon Specifications: Safe To Use Around Children & Pets Style: Original Item Volume: 32 fl oz Item Weight: 2.2 Pounds Item Dimensions LxWxH: 3.38 x 3.38 x 9.19 inches Has your fluffy family member been sprayed by a skunk? Try this awesome solution. This is the best skunk odor remover for dogs. This skunk odor eliminator stands out among many others because it is not a fragrance cover-up. It will totally remove all skunk odor from your pet. In addition to this, it will help you get rid of skunk odor from clothing, various fabrics, as well as an array of other contaminated areas. So if you’ve already tried a variety of homemade skunk smell eradicating solutions, but the smell still lingers, give this miracle of a skunk odor remover a try. It may not make your dog smell like roses and sunshine instantly, but it’s very effective. Bear in mind that washing your pet with a top-level de-skunk shampoo is necessary prior to applying this product. Pros: Cons: very effective, especially on pets with short hair; a breeze to use; excellent at removing skunk odor from various surfaces; can be safely utilized around kids and domestic animals; couldn’t be easier to use. you will have to use it in combination with a good de-skunk shampoo. 3. Skunk-Off Liquid Soaker: Excellent Skunk Spray Remover Skunk Off Skunk Odor Eliminator Pet Spray (32oz) -... Check price on Amazon Specifications: Safe To Use Around Children & Pets Item Form: Spray Item Volume: 32 fl oz Item Weight: 2 Pounds Item Dimensions LxWxH: 10.3 x 3.5 x 3.5 inches Are you on the prowl for a great skunk shampoo for dogs? Wondering how to get skunk smell out of the house? Get two of the 32Oz bottles of Skunk-Off Liquid Soaker. This product is great at eliminating skunk funk in a short time. But don’t forget to use it with a heavy application for maximum efficiency. Wet your pet’s fur thoroughly and rub the stuff in for it to get down onto the skin and i.e. work at its best. What’s important is that the product removes both the smell and the pain related to being skunked. So if you live in an area with skunks, I recommend having a bottle of this skunk spray neutralizer on hand as a precaution. When you or your pet gets skunked, you want something immediately. And this stuff really works! Keep in mind that if you’re sensitive to strong fragrances, you may want to consider an alternative solution. Pros: Cons: top-notch skunk odor eliminator for pets; chemical-free and i.e. safe to utilize around pets and kids; works almost instantly; good at removing skunk smell from clothes; works on multiple areas. masks odor instead of removing it. 4. Zero Odor Multi-Purpose Household Odor Eliminator: Works Like a Charm Zero Odor – Multi-Purpose Odor Eliminator -... Check price on Amazon Specifications: Safe To Use Around Children & Pets Item Form: Spray Item Volume: 16 oz Item Weight: 1.09 Pounds Item Dimensions LxWxH: 11 x 1.75 x 4 inches This spray removes odors of all kinds in your kitchen, bathroom, basement, etc. And if you’re looking for the best way to get rid of skunk smell, this spray will offer a very reliable solution. So if you live in the area where skunks are very common(or if your cats occasionally miss the litter box), give this product a try. This stuff is a godsend. And it’s made in the USA. Pros: Cons: this product is an excellent versatile odor slayer; eradicates odors instead of covering them up; chemical- and allergen-free; a breeze to apply and use; the spray has zero fragrance, it just gets rid of odors. there’s a faint lingering bleach smell if you use it on fabric. But it’s not critical unless you’re highly sensitive to smells. 5. Thornell Skunk-Off Pet Shampoo: Best Pet Shampoo That Works Fabulously Sale Skunk Off Pet Shampoo – Ready to Use Skunk Odor... Check price on Amazon Specifications: Safe To Use Around Children & Pets Not an Enzyme Not a Mask Item Volume: 8 oz Item Dimensions LxWxH: 6.8 x 2 x 2 inches Tomato juice and all that homemade jazz may be effective to a certain extent, of course. But if you really want to get rid of the stinky skunk smell fast, I recommend purchasing one of the skunk odor removers reviewed in my post and a reliable de-skunk shampoo, such as Skunk-Off. The thing is, if your fluffy friend gets skunked, they will rub the odor onto every expensive surface in your house. Therefore, buying the aforementioned products in advance will definitely save you thousands of dollars in carpet and furniture replacement. With regard to the Skunk-Off shampoo, it works great, leaving a pleasant fragrance on your previously skunked fluffy family member. Make sure you apply it prior to getting your dog wet. On an additional plus side, the shampoo doesn’t cost a fortune. So make sure you keep a bottle of the stuff on hand for when you suddenly (and desperately) need it. Pros: Cons: helps you quickly banish tenacious odors; smells fresh and minty; doesn’t irritate sensitive skin or damage coats; non-toxic formula, which means it’s absolutely safe to use; removes stinkiness instead of masking it. may cause minor eye irritation, so make sure you rinse it with water thoroughly. Useful Tips on Removing Skunk Odor Ever experienced a whiff of fresh skunk spray? That horribly overwhelming odor can linger for up to almost a month. So if you want to banish it in the most effective way, you’re going to have to act as quickly as possible. A lot of people will recommend homemade remedies, tomato juice being among them. However, it doesn’t work as effectively as certain retail products created specifically to eradicate skunk smell. Here are a few of de-skunking recommendations for you: Act as fast as you can when it comes to removing the skunk odor from yourself, your car, your pet, and other surfaces. The longer you wait, the harder the removal becomes. Do everything in your power to prevent the smell from getting into the house: apply skunk odor remedies outside if possible – otherwise, you may end up living in a stinky home for weeks. The fabric holds skunk smell for long periods of time, so if your clothes have been heavily skunked, discarding them may be the best solution. Don’t forget to wash properly with hot water after applying any skunk odor remover. Related Post: Best Skunk Repellent Products Reviewed: Are They Effective? Skunk Odor Remover: Spray or Shampoo? Your best choice is to avoid the situation when your fluffy pal gets sprayed by a little stinky culprit. However, if you (or your fluffy friend) are already dealing with skunks and their stinkiness, you should take action without a moment of hesitation. First, put on your old clothes and rubber gloves. Second, apply skunk spray on your dog’s coat and rinse the affected areas a few times with a good de-skunk shampoo. After that, bathe the whole dog to achieve the maximum de-skunking effect. So if you’re asking yourself which solution is best – spray or shampoo – the answer is both. And don’t forget to follow my de-skunking tips above. There’s a wide variety of anti-skunk products available on the market. In this post, I’ve reviewed some of the best solutions. Among them, you will definitely find the one that suits your needs. Banishing Skunk Odor: Answering Your FAQ How Long Does Skunk Odor Last? According to the research, a skunk’s stinky odor lasts up to three weeks if left untreated. Remember that the longer you wait to treat it, the more challenging the task will be. So don’t hesitate to purchase the best skunk odor remover for you in advance and act immediately when you (or your curious pet) experience that unfortunate encounter with a skunk. Related Post: Best Skunk Traps Reviewed How Long It Takes to Get Skunk Smell out of the House? The answer to this question is pretty much the same. It takes from two to three weeks to get skunk odor out of your dwelling. And wasted time is your worst enemy in this case. So make sure you always have a reliable skunk odor remover handy – just in case speedy action is needed. The remedies you choose to fight the smell also matter. How to Remove Skunk Smell From Humans? Here’s a step-by-step guide on what to do if you’ve been hit by a skunk’s stink bomb: Skunks spray only when provoked. Prevention is way better than cure in this case, so avoid bothering an agitated skunk when you see one and just leave the creature alone as fast as you can. If the stinky encounter with a little critter has already taken place (and if a human victim has been sprayed in the face), help them flush their eyes with cool water for a few minutes. It’s best to address the stinky issue outside, of course; however, one must get inside in order to take a bath. Just make sure the victim doesn’t touch anything and heads directly to the bathroom. The victim can take a tomato juice bath, of course, but it won’t help at all. The best option is to use a store-bought skunk odor remover. Just make sure that it’s safe to use on humans before you hand one to the skunk’s victim. Take another bath, repeat the procedure with the ready-to-use skunk odor eliminator, then wait until the odor fades away naturally. Does Tomato Juice Really Get Rid of Skunk Smell? If you’ve ever been spray-bombarded by a skunk, you may consider any homemade remedy you Google up first. A lot of people online may recommend bathing in tomato juice (or even beer) to neutralize skunk odor. However, despite the popularity of this ‘remedy’, it simply doesn’t work. So if you want to eliminate skunk smell fast, opt for the best skunk smell remover from my list published above. Make the Right Choice & Be Persistent Have you failed to avoid a skunk attack? Perhaps, your friendly pup has made a stinky attempt to hang out with a skunk? No worries. This isn’t the end of the world. The odor can be eradicated. Now that you’ve read my post, you know how to save yourself and your fluffy friends from that putrid, noxious, and stubborn skunk smell you’re left to deal with. Keep in mind that it’s unlikely that any skunk odor remover will fully remove the smell the first time. You may have to use it several times for the lingering skunk smell to completely fade away. Just make sure your reaction to the situation is as quick as possible. Needless to say that having a reliable skunk odor remover on hand is always the best strategy. So, what about you? Have you ever experienced a skunk odor problem? What has caused it? What’s your favorite skunk smell solution? Does it eliminate skunk odor immediately? If not, how many times do you have to apply it for the smell to go away completely? Share your experience in the comment section below to get the conversation going. Your two cents matter. References: Sprayed by a Skunk (Margaret C. Brittingham, PH.D. PennState Extension): https://extension.psu.edu/sprayed-by-a-skunk Removing Skunk Odor (University of Nebraska – Lincoln Extension, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources): https://wildlife.unl.edu/pdfs/removing-skunk-odor.pdf Dealing With Skunks and Odor Abatement (Rebecca McPeake Associate Professor University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture): https://www.uaex.edu/publications/pdf/FSA-9101.pdf Contents 1 Top 5 Best Skunk Odor Removers: Choose the Right One for You 1.1 1. Van Den Heuvel’s R86 Industrial Odor Eliminator: My Top Pick 1.2 2. Nature’s Miracle: Best Liquid Skunk Odor Eliminator 1.3 3. Skunk-Off Liquid Soaker: Excellent Skunk Spray Remover 1.4 4. Zero Odor Multi-Purpose Household Odor Eliminator: Works Like a Charm 1.5 5. Thornell Skunk-Off Pet Shampoo: Best Pet Shampoo That Works Fabulously 2 Useful Tips on Removing Skunk Odor 3 Skunk Odor Remover: Spray or Shampoo? 4 Banishing Skunk Odor: Answering Your FAQ 4.1 How Long Does Skunk Odor Last? 4.2 How Long It Takes to Get Skunk Smell out of the House? 4.3 How to Remove Skunk Smell From Humans? 4.4 Does Tomato Juice Really Get Rid of Skunk Smell? 5 Make the Right Choice & Be Persistent 5.0.1 References: Why You Should Trust Pest Control Hacks? We know that pests are nasty neighbors, and it can take months to eliminate them without the right approach. Our experts use their own experience to compile articles and guides that are introductory and informative. Our authors’ opinions are independent and based on the results of practical testing of pest control tools. We do not notify manufacturers of testing of their products and do not receive payment from them for posting their items. 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View Photo Gallery: The mere presence of Josh McDaniels (right) made Patriots Coach Bill Belichick smile — yes, smile — in practice this week. (Winslow Townson | Associated Press)
Not that there was anything wrong with the New England Patriots’ decision to immediately hire Josh McDaniels when he hit the open market, but it’s the kind of move guaranteed to draw the NFL rules-makers’ scrutiny in the offseason.
According to an ESPN report, it will. NFL officials will discuss whether a rule is needed that would prevent coaches from changing franchises during the season.
The hiring of McDaniels, who was freed from his job as offensive coordinator when the St. Louis Rams fired their staff, is expected to be working from press-box level tonight when the Patriots play the Denver Broncos in an AFC divisional-round game. He is expected to be named offensive coordinator when the Patriots’ season ends and Bill O’Brien departs to become head coach at Penn State.
The Patriots’ move raised eyebrows because of the identity of that divisional-round opponent. He drafted a number of Broncos players, including Tim Tebow and Demaryius Thomas, when he was that team’s head coach. He spent the 2011 season with the Rams after being fired in 2010 and the Rams just happen to have faced five teams that are playing in the divisional round.
Again, not that there’s anything wrong with what the Patriots did, but it seems like a good idea to discuss whether that’s a loophole that should be closed. If the Patriots win and keep advancing, it’s going to seem like an even better idea. | positive |
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When the Braves opened Spring Training in 2010, they welcomed rising prospect Craig Kimbrel and Jonny Venters, a left-handed pitcher who had remained in relative obscurity while spending the previous six seasons within the Atlanta organization.
With Spring Training fast approaching, MLB.com will take a look at a different aspect of this year's Braves squad each day this week. Today's topic: Who might surprise?
With Spring Training fast approaching, MLB.com will take a look at a different aspect of this year's Braves squad each day this week. Today's topic: Who might surprise?
When the Braves opened Spring Training in 2010, they welcomed rising prospect Craig Kimbrel and Jonny Venters, a left-handed pitcher who had remained in relative obscurity while spending the previous six seasons within the Atlanta organization.
By the end of the 2010 season, Venters and Kimbrel were key pieces within a bullpen that helped Bobby Cox reach the playoffs during the final season of his Hall of Fame managerial career. One year later, these two relievers were part of a dominant bullpen trio that included Eric O'Flaherty, who had been relatively unknown until the Braves claimed him off waivers and brought him to camp in 2009.
• Who might surprise for each club in 2017?
Given the success he had during his first full professional season last year, A.J. Minter will not be coming to his first big league Spring Training this year as an unknown underdog candidate. And if he lives up to his tremendous potential he could surprise many by giving the Braves reason to debate whether he should make an immediate leap from Double-A to the Majors, even though he worked a moderated schedule while returning from Tommy John surgery last year.
"We're going to turn him loose and there will not be any restrictions," Braves president of baseball operations John Hart said. "He's an impressive young man. We've certainly liked what we have seen from him."
The Braves will have more experienced relievers in camp to satisfy the expectation Minter will spend at least a little more time in the Minors. But at the same time, they plan to keep an open mind while providing as many opportunities as possible to this southpaw, who posted a 1.30 ERA and limited opponents to a .149 batting average while logging 34 2/3 innings during his first pro season last year.
Minter registered 47 strikeouts and issued 11 walks as he faced a total of 134 batters while pitching for Class A Rome, Class A Advanced Carolina and Double-A Mississippi in 2016. He surrendered five hits over the 16 scoreless innings totaled at the Class A levels and then allowed just one run over the first 15 innings he worked for Mississippi. Four of the five runs he surrendered over the entirety of the season were tallied against him during an Aug. 24 game against Biloxi.
Had Minter not undergone Tommy John surgery during the early portion of his final season with Texas A&M, there's a strong possibility he would have been taken with one of the first 30 picks in the 2015 MLB Draft. The setback affected his stock enough to allow the Braves to gladly take him with the 75th overall selection, their fifth pick of the Draft.
Minter had at least three days of rest between every appearance last year. So at this stage of his career, it would be beneficial for him to get additional time in the Minors. But he'll have a chance during Spring Training to turn some heads and show why he's the best relief prospect the Braves have had since Kimbrel.
Mark Bowman has covered the Braves for MLB.com since 2001. | positive |
Fans of the seminal '90s HBO sketch comedy series Mr. Show With Bob and David, which ran for 30 episodes between 1995 and 1998, have likely spent the weekend devouring Netflix's new W/ Bob & David, which offers a rough Mr. Show update for the 2010s.
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The Bob and David of the title (Odenkirk and Cross, respectively) have enjoyed massive success elsewhere since Mr. Show went off the air, and the series' many side players and co-stars have also moved on to huge alt-comedy careers. But there's always been something a little magic about Mr. Show, and even if the cast only reunited on Netflix for four episodes and a behind-the-scenes documentary, it's terrific to have this sort of anarchic comedic spirit back on TV.
The best Mr. Show episodes functioned simultaneously as series of individual sketches that also told larger stories when laid end to end, with characters carrying over from one sketch to another and providing a throughline for the episode as a whole. It's a monstrously difficult thing to do, and if W/ Bob and David has lost a step, it's in this regard (though the season finale manages this trick incredibly skillfully, so not all is lost).
But the individual sketches themselves are things of beauty, running the gamut from old-school setups with one big joke that's repeated in a variety of ways right on up to those that make fun of current trends and pop culture. (Both YouTube vloggers and reality shows are allotted their fair share of snark.)
Sketch comedy, by its very nature, is hit-or-miss, and even if W/ Bob & David boasts a higher batting average than most other sketch shows, simply diving in with its first (and weakest) episode might not be the best course of action. Here, then, is one sketch from each episode worth checking out.
Episode 1: Poker buddies make resolutions
The idea: A bunch of poker buddies discuss what they want to do with their lives, and their plans are mostly ridiculous (become a blockbuster filmmaker; start a cellphone company). But the one resolution everybody's sure won't pan out is one man's decision to stop eating red meat.
Why it's so good: One major reason to pick this sketch is that it's freely available on YouTube, so you can get a taste of W/ Bob & David without necessarily having a Netflix subscription. But it also provides a good glimpse at how the show's episodes are structured. Almost every other sketch in the premiere spins out of this one, which means it might not be full of punchlines, but it contains some great setups you might not even realize are there. It's a great introduction to how W/ Bob & David's sketches work both as individual pieces of comedy and parts of a greater whole.
Best performer: Acclaimed standup comedian and podcaster Paul F. Tompkins makes for a great straight man as he grows increasingly frustrated by how nobody thinks he can give up red meat.
Watch it: The sketch starts five minutes and 30 seconds in. Or you can just watch it above.
Episode 2: Good cop/bad cop
The idea: A criminal is brought in for questioning by two cops, played by Cross and Odenkirk. Over the course of the interrogation, it becomes clear that neither really wants to think of himself as the bad cop — and they kind of hate each other.
Why it's so good: Cross and Odenkirk are great writers and spotters of comedic talent. They're also terrific scene partners, and any time a sketch primarily boils down to the two of them having fun with each other (or another of their longtime collaborators), it's great. But what's also funny about this sketch is the way it builds in both gags and ferocity. The gaps between either cop being in the room to interrogate the criminal grow shorter and shorter, and they both grow angrier and angrier, until things spiral out of control. It's one of the best sketches filmed in front of the show's live studio audience, rather than pretaped beforehand.
Best performer: Odenkirk is now an official Emmy nominee for his acting on Better Call Saul, and in this sketch he shows off just how great he is at wringing every single laugh out of any given line.
Watch it: It starts at seven minutes and 40 seconds.
Episode 3: A man possesses the world's weirdest superpower
The idea: Cross plays a self-described douchebag who is willing to call just about any woman he knows something incredibly horrible. Of course, each time he does this, he learns that the woman is standing right behind him, in true sitcom fashion. Things get weirder from there.
Why it's so good: Odenkirk and Cross excel at singling out the absurd situations we take for granted on other TV shows and reducing them to their wildest implications. That's definitely the case here, as Cross's character's seeming ability to conjure people out of thin air shifts the gag from "this guy is kind of an asshole" to "this guy has superpowers the government would find very interesting." The best comedy sketches tell miniature stories with beginnings, middles, and ends, and this is one of the most successful in W/ Bob & David's run.
Best performer: Cross's slow-building realization of his ability is a perfect parody of every superhero who's realized how much power he now has. His greatest skill as an actor is making the ridiculous seem completely ordinary, and he uses that skill to its utmost here.
Watch it: It starts at 24 minutes and 10 seconds in.
Episode 4: A little boy went to heaven
The idea: A little boy who's written a memoir of his visit to heaven appears on a morning talk show with his parents to discuss the book and his sojourn in the afterlife. You will see the joke in this one coming from a mile away. It won't stop you from laughing at it.
Why it's so good: Escalation is a key facet of comedy. Jokes need to keep topping each other, so we laugh harder and harder as more and more arrive. That's in full effect here, as the sketch plays with its silliest ideas, taking them to their logical conclusions and beyond as everybody involved in the talk show (including the parents!) turns on the little boy who just wants to spread Jesus's message of love and goodwill to everybody on Earth. Plus, it all ties into the episode's final scene, which culminates in the season's biggest laugh.
Best performer: As the little boy, Rowan Smyth has the difficult task of playing the sketch's simultaneous straight man and punchline. He pulls it off with aplomb.
Watch it: It starts at 15 minutes and 20 seconds in.
If you're a megafan, don't skip the behind-the-scenes documentary
It's a surprisingly entertaining and loving tribute to everything Odenkirk and Cross have built, and it's also the most forthright examination of their comedic evolutions between Mr. Show and right now. It's well worth a watch.
W/ Bob & David's first season is available to stream on Netflix. | positive |
Elizabeth Warren is still mad as hell at the Wall Street takeover of the next White House. But she’s also a little mad at herself.
That Facebook excoriation of hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson? She shouldn’t have done it, the senator said in an interview Wednesday afternoon. Afterward, she called Tilson to tell him so.
“I think I took it too far,” Warren said.
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After we spoke, she removed the post, which called Tilson “thrilled by Donald Trump’s economic team of Wall Street insiders,” and warned that, “The next four years are going to be a bonanza for the Whitney Tilsons of the world.”
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The problem was, Tilson isn’t that kind of guy. While he is relieved Trump isn’t putting lunatics in charge of the financial system, Tilson is a vehement critic of the president-elect, and a huge fan of the senator.
Warren sees that now.
“There are many things I agree with Whitney on, and I wish my tone had been less heated,” she said.
Heated it was. The whole thing began when Tilson was quoted in a Dec. 1 Bloomberg News story on how Trump was stacking his administration with the brand of bankers and fat cats the candidate had decried on the stump. Trump had “conned” voters, Tilson said, and Tilson took some pleasure — “glee,” he said — in voters’ anger at that.
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But you didn’t have to read very far into the article to learn that Tilson wasn’t just another shameless rich guy celebrating a president-elect sticking it to little people foolish enough to take him at his word.
In addition to being a big Warren supporter, Tilson donated $40,000 to Hillary Clinton’s campaign this cycle, and is a fan of Dodd-Frank, the legislation designed to protect us from another big bank meltdown.
“I worry about Wall Street returning to being a casino,” Tilson said near the end of the Bloomberg story.
If you didn’t get that far, Tilson came out looking like a callous jerk — exactly the kind of callous jerk whom Warren has made a career of standing up to.
The senator wasn’t aware Tilson was a supporter, and on board with her ideas, when she wrote the post, she said. And she said she still objects to Tilson saying he felt “glee” at Trump’s betrayal. To be fair, though, she wasn’t the only one who missed the nuance of his position. A couple ofstories written off the Bloomberg interview omitted Tilson’s views on the finance industry, making it seem like he was happy about what Trump was doing and had no regard for voters who were duped.
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“I was sort of quoted out of context,” Tilson said in an interview. “I don’t fault her at all for misunderstanding what I was saying.”
It’s an epidemic these days, people making judgments without fully understanding their targets, rushing to social media before reading to the ends of stories or even getting beyond the headlines. But it made Warren look awful — especially since she stood by her post even after Tilson and his wife, a former law student of Warren’s, reached out to explain who they were and how they really felt.
“I agree with the point she was making,” Tilson said. “But using me as an example was incorrect.”
A New York Times columnist picked up on the rupture this week, and Warren’s critics — eager to defuse the rhetorical potency that has made her a political force — pounced, condemning her for popping off without cause.
Warren is brilliant, and devastatingly eloquent, in defense of the ordinary people battered by the deal-makers on Wall Street. She is fearless, saying things too few politicians are willing to utter. She took the fight to Trump during the presidential race, her Twitter burns besting the bully on his home turf.
That voice is even more vital now, with precious few on Capitol Hill willing to truly stand up to the president-elect. Warren’s Facebook post squandered some of her valuable capital, giving her critics grounds to suggest, with not a little sexism, and plenty of glee, that Warren rants for ranting’s sake.
The episode invites comparisons to Trump himself, the hot-headed master of knee-jerk reactions. That is something Warren must avoid at all costs.
But we all make mistakes. Unlike her chief adversary, Warren is willing to admit it.
Globe columnist Yvonne Abraham can be reached at yvonne.abraham@globe.com . Follow her on Twitter @GlobeAbraham | positive |
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Emory Center for Health in Aging | Lab Land Follow Us! Neuro Heart Cancer Immunology About the Blog Feedback Tracing the start of COVID-19 in GA At a time when COVID-19 appears to be receding in much of Georgia, it’s worth revisiting the start of the pandemic in early 2020. Emory virologist Anne Piantadosi and colleagues have a paper in Viral Evolution on the earliest SARS-CoV-2 genetic sequences detected in Georgia. Analyzing relationships between those virus sequences and samples from other states and countries can give us an idea about where the first COVID-19 infections in Georgia came from. We can draw Read more Reddit as window into opioid withdrawal strategies Drug abuse researchers are using the social media site Reddit as a window into the experiences of people living with opioid addiction. Abeed Sarker in Emory's Department of Biomedical Informatics has a paper in Clinical Toxicology focusing on the phenomenon of “precipitated withdrawal,” in collaboration with emergency medicine specialists from Penn, Rutgers and Mt Sinai. Precipitated withdrawal is a more intense form of withdrawal that can occur when someone who was using opioids starts medication-assisted treatment Read more CROI: HIV cure report and ongoing research The big news out of CROI (Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections) was a report of a third person being cured of HIV infection, this time using umbilical cord blood for a hematopoetic stem cell transplant. Emory’s Carlos del Rio gave a nice overview of the achievement for NPR this morning. As del Rio explains, the field of HIV cure research took off over the last decade after Timothy Brown, known as “the Berlin patient,” Read more ••• Emory Center for Health in Aging Visioning for the future of aging and health Ted Johnson, MD, says the United States is not prepared to meet the care needs of the next wave of aging older adults. “The statistics nationally show that by the year 2030, the demographics of every U.S. state will be similar to that of Florida today. Another way of looking at that: the number of people age 65 and older in the state of Georgia will increase 100 percent by 2020. We’re facing a tremendous aging wave, and we don’t know how we’re going to meet the needs of that group.” Ted Johnson, MD Johnson is leading the Emory Center for Health in Aging, a program that addresses health care issues affecting the rapidly growing senior population in the United States through research, clinical care, community outreach and education. Johnson also serves as director of the Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, and is associate director and Atlanta site director for the Birmingham/Atlanta VA Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center. Johnson says he is committed to a new vision of aging. His agenda for reaching that vision: Target conditions associated with disability common in seniors: We need to target specific disease processes–Alzheimer’s, urinary incontinence, obesity, congestive heart failure–and develop breakthrough treatments and better predictive models so that we can understand what it is that makes people with these chronic conditions get out of control and currently, end up in nursing homes. Build livable communities: We need to build communities that will sustain people as they age, and that means livable and walkable communities, with public transportation and access to stores and food. We need urban planning, as well as rural planning. Aging people shouldn’t lose their ability to live independently because they can no longer drive a car. Read more Posted on April 27, 2010 by admin in Uncategorized Leave a comment caregivers disability elderly elderly health care Emory Center for Health in Aging Emory Department of Medicine Emory School of Medicine General Health geriatrics gerontology livable communities seniors Ted Johnson Search Updates by Email Enter your email address: Delivered by FeedBurner Latest Posts Tracing the start of COVID-19 in GA Reddit as window into opioid withdrawal strategies CROI: HIV cure report and ongoing research Flowing toward potential CV therapeutic Experience w/ partner refocuses brain response to oxytocin Emory Blogs Advancing Your Health Daily Pulse Emory Nursing Now eScienceCommons Rollins Student Ambassadors Related Links Emory Healthcare Emory University https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/14/health/conjoined-twins-separation-surgery/index.html Woodruff Health Sciences Center Meta Log in Entries feed Comments feed WordPress.org Follow Us! Follow Us! Follow Us! | negative |
Hello! I’m Oliver Tiu, a player new to the Pro Tour scene who qualified for the 2016 World Championships by being the first-ever Constructed Master. Going into my first Pro Tour (PT Battle for Zendikar) I had modest aspirations for the year. My sole goal, which seemed like a stretch at the time, was merely to achieve Gold player status. I reached the necessary threshold in Pro Tour Shadows over Innistrad, and then I figured I would start traveling to Grand Prixs and make a run at Platinum status. I felt like I was favored to reach it, but if I simply ended up as a Gold player during my rookie year I wouldn’t be terribly upset. Fortunately, the victories kept on coming, and I found myself with Platinum status before the upcoming Pro Tour! As a result, I had a single lofty objective for Pro Tour Eldritch Moon; to do well enough to qualify for Worlds either from Pro Points at-large or through being the Constructed Master. Thanks to a great team and fortunate matchups, I got there and found myself qualified for the most prestigious Magic tournament during my rookie year. Simply put, I was stoked for Worlds and what professional Magic had in store for me in the future.
Right after the Pro Tour, I approached Ondrej Strasky and asked him to test with me for the tournament, since he has had previous Worlds experience along with being an excellent player.
Going into Worlds, I knew the biggest edge to be gained was in Modern. It will be perceived as the least important format by most of the competitors, since it was the format with the least number of rounds. Therefore, I assumed many players will go with ‘safe’ decks such as Jund or Abzan. Normally, I like playing Affinity in Modern tournaments, because I believe it is the most powerful deck in Modern. However, many of the worlds players knew that myself and a few others (such as Mike Sigrist) had a preference for Affinity, so they would have the necessary number of sideboard cards to be favored against it. So, I ruled out that option and thought Dredge might be a good choice for the expected metagame. I tried it out, and was unimpressed. The final nail in the coffin was it doing superbly well in an SCG open, putting it on everyone’s radar. I tried thinking of other ways to fight Abzan from an unexpected angle, when I remembered that my friend Thien Nguyen had done very well with a unique RG Scapeshift deck. I had him ship me the list, and I immediately started 5-0ing league after league on Magic Online, crushing many GBx decks in the process.
The one glaring issue with the deck was its weakness to Modern’s quickest decks, such as Infect and Suicide Zoo. After much deliberation, myself and Ondrej decided that people will avoid these decks due to their unfavorable matchups vs the GBx decks. It was pretty clear that the numerous positive aspects of the deck greatly outweighed the negative ones, so we locked in on the deck fairly quickly. Then, one week prior to Worlds in Grand Prix Indianapolis, disaster struck. A couple of relatively similar Valakut-based decks top 8ed the tournament, which could lead to players being prepared with very effective sideboard cards, such as Leyline of Sanctity or Blood Moon. Thankfully, the lists that did top 8 featured a Through the Breach focused plan, rather than a Scapeshift-based one. This means that they perform worse against Abzan, due to Through the Breach being inherently poor against both Thoughtseize and Path to Exile. Ondrej and I were both hoping people will test these lists, and quickly dismiss them for their consistency problems. Quite luckily, this ended up being exactly the case and a vast majority of players completely ignored Valakut hate in their sideboards.
Titan Shift – Oliver Tiu
We then transitioned to testing for what is likely the most difficult Standard format in recent memory, both to play and build decks in. Early on, Ondrej told me he was likely locked into Bant Company, since it was quite clearly the best deck in the format. I was more reluctant to join the enemy, since I didn’t feel like the deck was unbeatable and I despised playing Bant mirrors. I tested a variety of non-Bant decks, such as GB, Jund Emerge, and Temur Emerge. I found GB to be borderline unplayable, since I felt like it didn’t have a single favorable matchup and a handful of unwinnable ones. Jund Emerge felt like it was trying to do too many things at once, and the deck lacked the crucial synergy between its control/midrange elements and its emerge package. Temur Emerge was compelling, but didn’t feel powerful enough to justify playing it over the Bant menace. To say I was discouraged at this point would be an understatement.
The Star City Games Invitational that took place a couple of weeks before the Pro Tour was the light at the end of the tunnel. Michael Majors top 8ed on the back of a ‘turbo Emrakul’ deck that looked like an improved Temur Emerge deck. I wasted no time and started testing it nonstop to see if it was the savior it appeared to be. After playing countless games against Ondrej and my friend Avi on Bant, I became convinced that it was a favorable matchup for Turbo Emrakul. It was also beating the other decks I expected to see in the field, such as GB, Temur, Crush, and Jund so I locked it in. Ondrej was skeptical, but eventually came to the right decision of submitting the exact 150 that I decided on.
Temur Emerge – Oliver Tiu
When the tournament finally came, I found myself to be in what has to be one of the most stacked draft pods ever in competitive Magic, even for the Worlds field. It consisted of myself, LSV, Reid, Sam, Marcio, Joel, Shota, and Lukas. I consider myself a weak Limited player, especially compared to players of this caliber, so I would be ecstatic to emerge from this pod with a 2-1 record. I read the signals well, and ended up with a solid GW deck splashing Altered Ego. I normally don’t like GW in this format, but my deck featured some great removal such as 2 Faith Unbroken and 2 Clear Shot. After beating Reid Duke equipped with a very good RU deck, I was feeling optimistic about my chances. The possibility of winning this insane pod actually crossed my mind once or twice. These dreams were abruptly crushed by the Draft Master Marcio, who used his inferior deck but superior play to quickly dispatch me in two games. Things started to look bleak when I was destroyed by Shota in the next round. Thankfully, I’ve had plenty of experience of coming back from rocky starts this year, most of which came from Pro Tours where I did poorly in the first draft.
I rebounded thanks to a lot of luck in Constructed, beating LSV and Yuuya. I then fell to what ended up being my kryptonite throughout the tournament, Shota Yasooka. I proceeded to play a match I’ll never forget against Steve Rubin. We split the first two games, which both ended up being uneventful. Then during game three I found myself on the draw, with a five card hand that included a grand total of zero lands. However if I could draw 2 lands in a row, then the draw had a fighting chance. I figured the risk was worth it, and kept the hand hoping I could get lucky and end the day with a positive record. I was then blessed with back to back lands, which made my draw actually playable. Steve played the game very aggressively with multiple Den Protectors in Goblin Piker mode, which is a reasonable strategy against an opponent who mulliganed to five. I eventually was able to stabilize at 5 life and the game went on for an extended time. Since we both had been playing for such a long time against the best in the world, tournament fatigue began to affect both of us. After some misplays from my side, we found ourselves in turns. As turn approached, I could no longer win the game, so the main priority was to have the result be a draw. I developed a plan for this, but made an obscenely embarrassing error in executing the plan and found myself in a position to just die instead of having the draw. But the unthinkable happened. Steve must’ve been in the mindset that the match was going be a draw, so with lethal on board he extended his hand and said “yep, it’s a draw.” I was simply speechless. Somehow I didn’t get punished for my egregious error, and was in a much better position going into day 2 than I would’ve been otherwise. I viewed this miracle as a sign that lady luck was on my side this weekend.
Going into day two, I was really hoping to be able to 3-0, since I was very confident in being able to 3-1 with our sick Modern tech. This appeared to be a real possibility after I drafted another good WG deck, including many rares such as Descend upon the Sinful and Bygone Bishop. I started 2-0, beating Brad Nelson who also had a very good deck thanks to some poor draws on his end. I then found myself up against Shota, who was 2-0 against me at this point. I was determined to get my revenge, and I was liking my chances after seeing his decklist. He was on RU, which is one of the best archetypes in this draft format, but his iteration of it appeared to be on the lower end in terms of power level. But, he is still one of the best Magic players ever, so anything could happen. I then was very convincingly outplayed for the second time this tournament, and then left the venue in a daze reflecting on how I let that match get away from me.
I was still live for top 4, but needed to go undefeated in Modern. Thanks to fortunate pairings and the deck living up to expectations, exactly this happened. I played some very close games, but everything had broke my way. When it dawned on me that I had just top 4ed worlds, I was speechless yet again. I had done the unthinkable my rookie year. It was the most amazing Magic accomplishment I’ve ever done, but I was still determined on being the champion.
Unfortunately, this did not happen thanks to some loose play on my end and good play from Marcio’s side. In hindsight, I wish I had just decided to play Bant, since Temur had some consistency issues due to its reliance on self mill cards and possibility to be flooded with expensive Eldrazi. But I was still very satisfied with my performance and exceeded my wildest expectations going into the tournament. Now, I’m more driven than ever to qualify for Worlds again and try to improve on this result. | positive |
Drilling for oil and gas has always been a risky business. The world’s precious hydrocarbon resources are rarely found in convenient locations; overcoming technical, political and environmental challenges is part of the job.
But last week Christophe de Margerie, chief executive of French oil giant Total, broke ranks. When it came to the Arctic Ocean, he declared, the risk of a spill was simply too high .
While many of his peers clearly disagree with his assessment that drilling for oil should not proceed, few would dispute the unique risks of the fragile region. For the environment and the companies involved, a spill in the Arctic could be catastrophic.
In the Alaskan Arctic, where Royal Dutch Shell began drilling offshore last month, temperatures drop to minus 20 degrees celsius in summer. Gale force winds move giant ice floes – Shell’s drilling rig has already had to get out of the way of one block bigger than Manhattan. And in winter, when daylight lasts barely a few hours, sea ice forms, makes the region inaccessible.
“The drilling conditions facing oil companies operating in the Arctic are some of the most challenging on Earth,” Greenpeace argues. “The hostile weather, freezing conditions and remote location present unprecedented challenges for dealing with a spill.”
Vicky Wyatt, a campaigner with the group, says the lack of infrastructure and the winter advance of sea ice could make cleaning up almost impossible. “If you can’t cap a leak in time before the Arctic winter, the well will continue flowing until the ice melts again and you can get to it,” she says.
The oil could become frozen underneath individual ice floes – floating hundreds of miles away over the course of the winter before being released into the ocean in the spring.
From a reputational point of view, there could be no worse place to spill the black stuff. “You have a very stark image there with the white of the Arctic ice,” says Dr Mark McClelland of risk consultants Maplecroft. “It would be devastating. It would be as bad, if not worse, as the reputational damage that BP experienced in the Gulf of Mexico.”
Yet despite the risks, most of the world’s biggest oil companies are eyeing the Arctic. Shell has faced numerous setbacks and delays but is pressing ahead off Alaska; US giant ExxonMobil has signed an exploration deal for the Russian Arctic with Rosneft, as have Italy’s Eni and Norway’s Statoil.
Statoil is also working in the Norwegian Arctic and is partnering Cairn Energy off Greenland. And future Arctic exploration is seen as the implicit long-term goal of BP’s declared interest in Russia.
The reason: the sheer volumes of oil and gas that are thought to be there. The US Geological Survey estimates that the Arctic may hold 90bn barrels of oil – almost three times annual global consumption and some 13pc of the world’s undiscovered oil reserves. There may also be 1,669 trillion cubic feet of natural gas – 30pc of global undiscovered reserves. And the vast majority of it lies offshore.
As production in easier-to-access areas declines, oil companies are turning to new, more challenging frontiers. Meanwhile, melting sea ice is making the Arctic more accessible.
In the US, questions remain over political tolerance for drilling. “You have had some senior Democrat senators requesting that the Arctic is removed from the interior department’s leasing programme over the next five years,” McClelland says. But most of the governments in the Arctic region are eyeing the potential riches, with Canada, Greenland, Norway and Russia seen as key growth areas.
Meeting the high standards required to drill in the Arctic does not come cheaply. Shell has so far spent $4.5bn without even gaining permission to drill into oil-bearing rocks. “It needs very high oil price to make it sustainable – at least $90-$100 a barrel,” McClelland explains. With infrastructure almost non-existent, development costs are also huge.
The challenges of the Arctic mean the region is likely to remain the province of the supermajors, Stuart Joyner of Investec says. “You need a lot of capital, the balance sheet to withstand things going wrong and the expertise of running great big multi-billion barrel projects,” he says.
Meaningful production is unlikely to emerge until well into the next decade at the earliest. But, Joyner says, the challenges will eventually be overcome. “I think you will get commercial production from there in quite large volumes – in the US, potentially in Greenland, and certainly in Norway and Russia. Technology is moving on all the time and the industry is becoming more capable. It is within the competencies of the industry to get to a position where we can get commercial discoveries.” | positive |
According to the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), braille has long been the most popular way for visually impaired people to read and write, yet in the world of packaging and labelling, braille is still surprisingly rare. It’s a problem all over Europe that can leave blind and partially sighted individuals to face a world of indistinguishable merchandise, having to rely on others to ensure they’re picking up the right product in the supermarket.
In pharmaceuticals at least, braille is increasingly common. On 30 October 2005, Council Directive 2004/27/EC – Article 56(a) came into effect, meaning the 25 member states of the European Union were required to ensure all pharmaceutical packaging, whether over-the-counter or provided through health services, had to include braille on the box indicating the name and the strength of the medicine. Each state was given 5 years to ensure national legislation was in place. Producers are also required to ensure that further information is made available on request.
But for commercial products, the responsibility lies with the manufacturer, who in most cases chooses not to include braille at all. and it’s something that designer Alexandra Burling felt needed addressing.
‘Color Me Blind’ was Burling’s graduation project from Stockholm, Sweden’s Forsbergs School of graphic design and advertisement, and has garnered attention over its unique approach to the design of products that many view as everyday essentials, but to some highlight the disparity between the full sighted and visually impaired in the packaging sector.
A different kind of experience
“I wanted to make something that actually had a meaning behind it, not just something for my graduation,” says Burling, “I thought about how for graphic design, the main sense that you need to experience is sight, so thought ‘what happens if you remove that sense?’. Then I realised that there is already a group of people living with the problem.”
For Color Me Blind, Burling sought to create aesthetically appealing packaging for the visually impaired, focusing on three everyday items; a cereal box, a milk carton, and a tin of crushed tomatoes. The design went beyond the simple inclusion of a braille label however, with all three products featuring an enhanced amount of information, including ingredients, country of origin, and best-before dates. Dynamic patterns were also included to help a sightless person instantly recognise the item they are handling.
The Invisible Exhibition is an international art project that has held events in several cities around the world since 2007, hoping to demonstrate to fully-sighted people what life is like without what many feel is their most vital sense. Fortunately for Burling, at the time of her project, the Invisible Exhibition had recently opened up in her native Sweden, giving her the opportunity to interview the blind tour guides working on the event.
“After going to the exhibition I started realising that there is a real need for this. When doing my interviews I told the guides that I had the idea of packaging design specifically for blind people, and they said that it’s such a huge problem… I quickly realised that this area is very important. Food is critical for survival – and it’s not just about knowing what the product is in your hand, but also a matter of independence; going to the shop and buying your own food without the need for assistance,” she explains.
It’s a particularly pertinent point in Sweden, where unlike in many other European countries, the vast majority of supermarkets do not allow guide dogs inside their stores, meaning individuals have to rely on the help of others, or be accompanied by an aide on grocery trips.
Problems posed by everyday essentials
As to why Burling specifically chose cereals, tinned tomatoes and milk, she explains that these specific items all pose significant problems for visually impaired people. “I started out looking at products that cause problems because they resemble each other. The can of crushed tomatoes were just because there’s so many different cans. The milk carton could carry so many other things, like yoghurt, or the sour milk we have in Sweden. And with cornflakes, because it’s inside a box already, you don’t really know what’s inside.”
But the problems aren’t limited to the kind of product chosen. Specific sub-categories, such as skimmed, semi-skimmed and whole-fat milk, are even trickier to identify. This is particularly relevant when you consider potential food allergies, or diet choices such as vegetarianism or veganism. “I asked a blind woman which fat milk she preferred and she said if she could just get home with a carton of milk at all then she’ll be happy. She said she doesn’t have the privilege of asking herself which one she prefers,” comments Burling.
And for the additional information found on each packet, Burling wanted the textured patterns to represent the product inside. “I used the patterns in place of colour. You pick up the product and know what it is. On the milk carton, in the middle it has two straight lines, and that’s to indicate that its medium fat milk. Another problem is that you don’t always know where the opening is, so I made special symbols to highlight where you’re supposed to open it.”
No excuses for packaging providers
In the UK, the RNIB has named the Co-Op supermarket as a good example of a retailer using braille on its products to provide basic information to its customers, but the vast majority of goods in the UK and elsewhere in Europe are sorely lacking any sort of provision for blind persons.
A trap that retailers need to be careful of falling into is using braille to demonstrate to their customers that they cater to all people, but not using it appropriately or usefully. “For instance in the mall or outside shops, you’ll see the sign by the entrance with the name and their opening hours. Underneath you’ll see it written in braille. The problem is it’s very hard for a blind person to walk up and find that sign,” explains Burling.” A person I interviewed said it was an ignorant way of trying to show that you care about blind people, but it’s really only to show people with sight that they care, rather than actually helping anyone. If you can’t find the sign what’s the point?”
“I’d say the first step to be more inclusive is with food, because it’s such an important thing. I definitely think that other packaging should be designed for the visually impaired. There are even new ways of printing that are very effective and they don’t cost too much, so there’s no excuse.”
The lack of provision for blind and partially sighted people in the packaging sector is incredibly poor, and leaves many feeling forgotten. It’s a market that the vast majority of packaging providers overlook, but with over 2 million people living with a form of sight loss in the UK alone, it’s a frankly irresponsible attitude to ignore them. | positive |
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Defense Minister Panos Kammenos and military chiefs on Wednesday flew by a military helicopter over the eastern Aegean Imia islets, the site of a military standoff with Turkey in 1996, to drop wreaths in memory of three Hellenic Navy officers who died when their helicopter crashed during a reconnaissance mission in the area.
The move prompted a reaction from Ankara as Turkish F16 fighter jets flew over the uninhabited rocky formations as well as the small islet of Kalolimnos.
On Sunday, a Turkish gunboat called into Greek waters and around Imia, and on Tuesday Turkish and Greek fighter jets engaged in three mock dog fights southeast of Chios in the eastern Aegean.
Ankara has upped the ante since Greece’s Supreme Court refused Turkey’s extradition request for eight Turkish servicemen, who are accused of participating in the failed coup attempt in the neighboring country in July. | positive |
Headlines in Israel claim miracles are protecting the Jews during the Gaza Strip ground war, with one headline proclaiming that Hamas terrorists are complaining about God changing the direction of rockets in mid-air.
In a related report by The Inquisitr, Hamas leader are worth millions of dollars and critics claim they have been skimming money from donations. The issue of donations also came up in regards to the support provided to the Gaza Strip by Israel since the Hamas tunnels were built with cement provided by the government.
As the Gaza ground war has heated up, there has also been a surge of anti-Israel demonstrations which have turned into chaos where looting and car burning has taken place. The war in Gaza has caused some to question whether Israel has the right to defend itselfand its citizens, with Hamas clearly answering “no” to that question.
United States Secretary of State John Kerry publicly supported “Israel’s right to defend itself against rockets that are continuing to come in” but when Kerry was caught talking on an open mic he was heard complaining, “It’s a hell of a pinpoint operation — hell of a pinpoint operation. We’ve got to get over there. We ought to go tonight. I think it’s crazy to be sitting around.”
If you go by the headlines of local newspapers in Israel, the Jews under attack by Hamas rockets have another hidden defense: God himself. The Jewish Telegraph opens with a quote from David Ben Gurion, who once said, “In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.” The article claims that even the Hamas have become frustrated with Israel’s miracles:
“[T]he Talmud Yerushalmi tells us that in no way are we to depend on miracles. It argues that we must not desist from our obligations and must not wait for miraculous intervention from the Supernatural. How perfectly relevant are both of these views today. We witness hourly miracles. As one of the terrorists from Gaza was reported to say when asked why they couldn’t aim their rockets more effectively: ‘We do aim them, but their God changes their path in mid-air.’ Amen! And when our God is not busy doing that, He is ensuring that the high-tech brain power of our ‘start-up nation’ is working overtime to produce yet another Iron Dome battery to help protect our cities and us.”
The theme of miracles protecting Israel during the Gaza war is not limited to this newspaper. Another news source called Arutz Sheva reported earlier in the month the importance of miracles to the Jewish people:
“The Jewish nation’s existence for six millennia is a miracle. There is no single Jewish life without a miracle. Miracle is an essential part of our belief; it is a gem of Jewish folklore. It is a source of our hope in the dark, and it is a gift of our dreams. And we know why – because these miracles are true.”
As evidence for these miracles, the writers related the story of how a Jewish woman gave birth to triplet boys in the time frame when the three Israeli boys were killed near the beginning of this Gaza conflict.
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Just as the Dubai heat started to get unbearable one morning in June Liam Fox swept into the air conditioned comfort of the five-star Shangri-La hotel.
Inside he was whisked up to the 41st floor – which enjoys panoramic views of the city – but the defence secretary wasn't there to enjoy the view. He was there for a crucial legal meeting.
In the hotel Fox was reunited with Adam Werritty, a close personal friend of his for at least 14 years, and three Dubai-based businessmen, including British private equity boss Harvey Boulter.
The meeting, which had been organised by Werritty, who has handed out business cards embossed with a logo of the House of Commons portcullis that describe him as "an advisor to RT Hon Dr Fox MP", was to demonstrate new technology that might allow troops to call home without fear of the calls being intercepted by the enemy.
But there was a second item on the agenda: a highly contentious legal battle. The MoD's last partnership with Boulter had turned from a potentially life-saving new weapon in the fight against the MRSA superbug into a legal headache.
The MoD's innovation unit had teamed up with Boulter's Porton Capital to commercially produce technology called Acolyte that is claimed to drastically cut the time it takes to identify MRSA infections.
At first it was a major success and the pair sold it to US Post-it note conglomerate 3M in £41m deal. But 3M later claimed the technology failed US tests and refused to pay the full amount.
Boulter was furious. He wanted to fight 3M all the way, but to do that he needed the might of HM's government. The 41-year-old businessman, who spends most of his life on a boat sailing the Gulf, spent weeks trying to get someone in government to listen. He didn't have much luck until someone introduced him to Adam Werritty.
Werritty, 34, flew to Dubai to meet Boulter and discuss his concerns in April. When he got back to London, Werritty emailed Boulter saying: "Very good meeting with you in Dubai. Thanks for passing along the below along with the e-info on the two issues [Acolyte; and the phone call encryption system] we discussed. Please leave this with me to push along as discussed."
A month later Werritty emailed Boulter again to say he had passed on Boulter's concerns to Fox's special advisers, and said: "I'd hope they'd want to make an issue out of this."
Fast forward to June, when Fox was on a morale-boosting visit to the troops in Afghanistan and stopped off in Dubai for a few days on the way home.
When he landed in Dubai he met Werritty. The MoD says Werritty just happened to be there at the same time and insists he was not part of Fox's official entourage.
Fox chose not to stay in the British embassy but at The Address, a new high-end hotel, which the MoD has not granted security clearance.
Early on the morning of Friday 17 June – a religious day in the Emirates – Werritty emailed Boulter: "Morning Harvey. He'd [Fox] prefer to have it here [at the Shangri-La]. Let's meet on the 41st floor lounge."
The meeting between the five men was a pleasant and jolly affair, but the disputed conversation turned toxic the next day.
In the early hours of the following morning Boulter fired off an email to 3M lawyers. "I had a 45-minute meeting with Dr Liam Fox, the British defence minister, on our current favourite topic … As a result of my meeting [with Fox] today you ought to know that David Cameron's cabinet might very shortly be discussing the rather embarrassing situation of George's [George Buckley, 3M's chief executive] knighthood." [See footnote.]
Boulter suggested that a settlement "at a headline of $30m+ will allow MoD to internally save face".
When 3M failed to reply, Boulter followed up the first email with a second sent in the early hours of Sunday morning. "I need to tell something to Dr Fox's office on Sunday night," he said. "I don't really want to give a 'radio silence' message as he is secretary of defence and will not expect that. I am trying to manage all of the dynamics carefully."
This led to 3M immediately suing Boulter for "blackmail" and calling on Fox to explain exactly what he said in the meeting and whether or not he gave Boulter the go-ahead to send the late-night email.
At first Fox fought back strongly denying that the Acolyte technology was ever discussed. "Dr Fox met with Mr Boulter to discuss an entirely different matter," the MoD said. "At no point did he enter into any discussion about this legal case, nor was there any mention of anyone's knighthood."
But the Guardian tracked down both of the other businessmen present at the meeting, who confirmed that they heard the MRSA case discussed and Fox retracted his previous denial.
"During their meeting Mr Boulter disclosed his involvement in a legal case as a matter of propriety," the MoD said. "But Dr Fox did not enter into a discussion about this in any respect and at no point raised or discussed the issue of a knighthood."
However, one of the witnesses said Boulter informed Fox of the progress of the 3M legal battle, to which the defence secretary is said to have replied: "I'm sure you're handling this [the case] in the best way possible." Fox's spokesman did not respond to requests to confirm or deny the statement, and 3M is still preparing to call Fox as a witness if the blackmail case reaches court.
The highly irregular Dubai meeting has cast a spotlight on Werritty, who has operated in Fox's shadow for at least 14 years.
The Guardian understands that the pair first met while Werritty, who is from St Andrews, Scotland, was at university in the 1990s.
Although it is unclear how they first met, it is likely to have been through Werritty's degree in public policy at Edinburgh. Soon after Werritty graduated with a 2:2, he got a job at PPP, the healthcare company.
Soon after Fox founded the Atlantic Bridge charity, which was designed to promote the "special relationship" between the UK and the US, he asked Werritty to run the charity as executive director. The charity was backed by the American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec) and the hedge fund millionaire Michael Hintze.
The funding of the charity, which was supported by senior Tories and patronised by Lady Thatcher, allowed Werritty and Fox to frequently travel to events in America. In one instance Fox flew back from Washington to the UK in Hintze's private jet, the register of members' interests shows. It has been suggested that Werritty was also present on the jet.
While in London, Werritty ran the day-to-day operations of the charity from room 341 in the MPs' block at Portcullis House, which was provided to Fox at taxpayers' expense while he was in opposition until last year. Staff in the building still remember Werritty, who stands taller than Fox and has a receding hairline.
Werritty worked for the Atlantic Bridge until last summer when the regulator demanded that its "current activities must cease immediately" because "the activities of the charity have not furthered any of its other charitable purposes in any way".
The charity was finally dissolved last Friday after its remaining trustees – Fox had already resigned from the board – decided to close it down rather than address the Charity Commission's concerns.
Official records show Werritty collected £90,000 in salary from the charity between 2007 and 2010.
But it appears that running Fox's charity was not political enough for Werritty, a policy-obsessed nerd according to acquaintances.
Werritty attached himself to Fox as a self-styled adviser and took an active interest in Fox's work as shadow health secretary and shadow defence secretary.
He was on the board of a health consultancy company while Fox was leading the Tories on health. According to Companies House filings, Werritty owned 11.5% of UK Health Group and Fox owned 2.3%.
By the time Fox had moved on to become shadow defence minister, Werritty had become involved in a firm called Securities Futures, which describes its principal activities as being "promoting a better understanding of asymmetric 'security' risks that the UK faces and publishing work that encourages a better informed debate on these important issues".
When Fox entered government, Werritty appeared to want to go with him. But instead of getting a job in the civil service or for the Conservative party he knocked up his own business cards embossed with the House of Commons Portcullis logo and just happened to appear at Fox's side in Dubai and Sri Lanka.
• This article was amended on 10 and 14 October 2011. The original said Werritty stands "a couple of foot taller than Fox". This has been corrected. This article was also amended to append the following clarification: In the story above, reporting the background to a legal dispute between an investment company, Porton Capital and US conglomerate, 3m, we quote an email from Harvey Boulter, Porton's chief executive, to William Brewer, a lawyer acting for 3m: "As a result of my meeting [with Fox] today you ought to know that David Cameron's cabinet might very shortly be discussing the rather embarrassing situation of George's [George Buckley, 3M's chief executive] knighthood." Boulter has contacted us and asked us to state that the meeting at which Buckley's knighthood was discussed was not the one with Fox but was at another meeting he had that day connected to the dispute. | positive |
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The tiny town of Bokoshe, Okla., population 500, has had enough of the pollution that residents blame on power plants and fracking waste. Now, these citizens have filed a class-action suit against the companies they think are responsible.
In 2010, Bokoshe citizens were alarmed to find a coal ash dump site near their town was discharging toxic chemicals into their groundwater and likely emitting particles of arsenic, lead and mercury into their air they breathe.
Fast forward to November 2013, when Oklahoma's News 6 uncovered that fracking wastewater also had been discharged at Bokoshe, in quantities of "hundreds of millions of gallons."
Though the Environmental Protection Agency halted disposal of the fracking wastewater in 2009, residents tell the station it has reached their drinking water and negatively impacted their health, enough to warrant a class-action suit over the pollution.
The suit specifically seeks redress from nearly 50 companies accused of having "generated, transported, disposed, released, or permitted the escape of hazardous and nonhazardous waste."
Over 105 pages, the suit traces fracking wastewater to a plethora of oil and gas wells in Oklahoma and throughout Arkansas. The suit also notes the pit into which wastewater was dumped was not lined to create a barrier that would have "prevent[ed] communication of the waste and the groundwater."
And that's just the fracking wastewater.
In 2011, ABC News investigated the ash dumping in Bokoshe and found at least 14 residents in the neighborhood of 20 homes closest to the dump site had cancer. While the company that owns the dump, "Making Money Having Fun LLC," told ABC it would comply with any new government rules, the Environmental Protection Agency has since backed off declaring coal ash a hazardous waste, which would have resulted in stricter regulations.
Speaking to a blog devoted to documenting locals' reactions to the fly ash dumping problem in Bokoshe, resident Sue Hudson said that trucks take 80 trips past her house every day, loaded with hazardous waste and headed for the dump.
"Fly ash is blowing [from the trucks] on the way in and on the way out," she said, adding that her garden has since stopped growing. Now, she says, what little food grows in the garden is covered in so much toxic dust "you wouldn't want to eat it anyway." | positive |
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A few days ago Glenn Beck claimed that his vocal cords were paralyzed and he was unable to speak. He then delivered a ten minute sermon with cue cards on the need to end the division in America and to come together with love. This was just one day after he called Michelle Obama a monster.
Beck has been plagued in the past by a variety of health problems including hemorrhoids, blindness, nerve damage in his hands and feet, and of course, paranoid schizophrenia. So it was not surprising to hear about his latest medical tribulations. There seems to be one whenever he needs to boost his media quotient.
From News Corpse, The Acclaimed Ebook:
Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Community’s Assault On Truth
But yesterday, apparently, his voice was miraculously back and in fine form. All the better for him to declare that he was in possession of earth-shattering news that will “rock” the country. Let me allow Beck to explain it himself (video below):
“This country is, I believe, going to be rocked in the next 24 hours with some things that are going on in Washington and beyond that we found out about yesterday. And we will be telling you in great detail in the next 24 hours. […] You are going to witness things in American history that has never been witnessed before. We have a whistle-blower on something. […] My people have seen one document. One. This one document would take down pretty much the whole power structure. Pretty much everything. […] It will take down the GOP. It will take down the Democrats. It will take down many members of congress. It will take all of them down.”
Are you scared yet? Beck insisted that this information was so damaging that his source was in fear for his life. Beck also said, contradicting his voiceless condemnation of divisiveness, that this will divide the nation. That’s a curious assertion, because if it is going to take down Democrats and Republicans, who is there left to divide?
Well, it has already been more than 24 hours since Beck promised to unleash his explosive dialogue. He has completed his broadcast today with no mention of the power structure’s take down. This can only mean one thing…
Apparently the power structure has taken down Beck. Someone has obviously gotten to him. Maybe his paralyzed vocal cords were a warning. What other explanation could there be for his not making even a single reference to his shocking announcement yesterday? If there were any hope that Beck is still acting of his own accord, he could easily have said that circumstances required him to delay the disclosure, or that he is conducting further investigation. He could even have said that his source turned out to be wrong. But to go completely silent on the matter after yesterday’s impassioned proclamation is just too much to dismiss cavalierly.
It’s safe to assume that his source has been terminated and now Beck is racked with fear for himself and/or his family and has decided to clam up. Or perhaps he is being watched by a shadowy figure just out of camera view. It could be the agents of Agenda 21, or the Common Core conspirators, or the UN’s gun confiscation squad, or even the {gasp} IRS. For now, whatever he planned to reveal will remain a mystery for such time as Beck’s safety has been compromised.
But fear not. Beck’s infamous bravery (see his confrontation with frightful professional wrestlers) and devotion to country will propel him to find a way out of this nightmare and he will fulfill the mission for which God has selected him. After all, he has seen “the finger of God,”
Just stay tuned to his radio program, subscribe to his Internet videocast, buy his books, and send him any spare change you find in the sofa cushions. That’s surely the best way to help him now in his hour of need. | positive |
Louisville Institute Announces 2021 Pastoral Study Project Grant Recipients - Louisville Institute Louisville Institute Search Menu Search About About the Louisville Institute Our Staff Advisory Board Contact Us News Discontinued Grant Programs Programs Grants Fellowships Our Impact Awards Interviews Publications FAQ FAQ How to Apply Grant Budget Guide Contact Log In / Sign Up Apply Louisville Institute Announces 2021 Pastoral Study Project Grant Recipients The Louisville Institute is excited to announce 30 Pastoral Study Project (PSP) grants awarded for 2021. The PSP grant offers … Keri Liechty December 16, 2020 The Louisville Institute is excited to announce 30 Pastoral Study Project (PSP) grants awarded for 2021. The PSP grant offers pastoral leaders the gift of time and the resources to investigate issues related to Christian ministry and leadership, North American religious practices and institutions, or major challenges facing wider, contemporary society. These grants of up to $15,000 are awarded to pastors and pastoral leaders to pursue a pressing and significant question for the life of faith. Click below for the full announcement: 2021 Pastoral Study Grant Recipients Continue reading » Be a Spark Our impact is broad & deep. Explore Our Projects Newsletter Contact Us Privacy Policy Publications Interviews Links 502-992-5432 1044 Alta Vista Road Louisville, KY 40205 | negative |
Banking giant Citigroup has sealed a $7 billion deal with the Justice Department over its "egregious misconduct" of selling toxic mortgage-based securities, which contributed to the financial crisis.
The agreement, which ends a federal investigation, includes a $4 billion penalty to the Justice Department, which the Department describes as the largest of its kind, $2.5 billion for relief to struggling homeowners, and $500 million to state attorneys general and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
"The settlement includes an agreed upon statement of facts that describes how Citigroup made representations to RMBS investors about the quality of the mortgage loans it securitized and sold to investors," a statement from the Justice Department reads. "Contrary to those representations, Citigroup securitized and sold RMBS with underlying mortgage loans that it knew had material defects."
"Despite the fact that Citigroup learned of serious and widespread defects among the increasingly risky loans they were scrutinizing, the bank and its employees concealed these defects," Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said in a statement.
"The bank’s misconduct was egregious," Holder Jr. stated.
"As a result of their assurances that toxic financial products were sound, Citigroup was able to expand its market share and increase profits," he said
“Today’s actions again confirm the indefensible double standard of justice DOJ established of treating Wall Street’s biggest, richest, most politically connected banks more favorably than anyone else."
—Dennis Kelleher, Better MarketsCitigroup was also the recipient of $45 billion in government bailout funds from TARP, though the Congressional Oversight Panel found that adding up all the various bailout funds the bank received brings the total to $476.2 billion in cash and guarantees. That makes it the bank to receive the biggest amount of federal bailout money.
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JPMorgan Chase made a similar settlement with the DOJ in November with its fine totaling $13 billion. Following that deal, critics charged that it was no real deterrent for bad behavior by banks because it included no criminal sanctions for individuals; further, the bank could end up ultimately pushing some of the fine onto U.S. taxpayers.
Yet the Citigroup deal is even worse for the public than the JPMorgan Chase deal, Wall Street watchdog organization Better Markets stated Monday, adding that it fails to achieve any real accountability.
"DOJ brags about and wants everyone to focus on the $7 billion settlement dollar amount, but that amount is meaningless without disclosure of the key information about how many hundreds of billions of dollars Citigroup made, how many tens of billions investors lost, how many billions in bonuses were pocketed, which executives were involved and what positions they now have with the bank," Better Markets President and CEO Dennis Kelleher said in a statement.
“Citigroup, the Wall Street bank that received the largest amount of Federal bailouts to prevent its bankruptcy in 2008 (almost $500 billion), was a conveyor belt for toxic securities throughout the world and is now being handed another big bailout by the government: a sweetheart immunity deal and ongoing concealment of how its executives, officers and staff defrauded the American people and almost caused a second Great Depression," Kelleher continued.
“Today’s actions again confirm the indefensible double standard of justice DOJ established of treating Wall Street’s biggest, richest, most politically connected banks more favorably than anyone else," he added.
The Citigroup deal, the New York Times' DealBook reports, "also sets the stage for negotiations between the Justice Department and Bank of America, which had essentially been on hold while Citigroup worked out an agreement."
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The Battle For The Internet's Next Round: Internet Slowdown Day
from the time-to-speak-up dept
A whole bunch of startups and activist groups are taking part today in Internet Slowdown Day -- showing just what kind of internet we might be facing if the FCC caves in to the pressures of the big broadband access providers, allowing them to set up tollbooths on the internet, pick winners and losers, and generally limit the ability of innovative new startups to face an even playing field online. It would enable the big broadband players to double charge service providers, limit upstarts and competition, and generally make the overall internet a lot less dynamic and innovative. For these reasons and more, we're quite concerned with where the FCC is heading, and are joining in today's protests -- we hope you will too. If you missed them, you can read our comments to the FCC on this matter, and you still have a few more days (until the 15th) to file your own.Later today, we'll also be posting a blockbuster "everything you need to know about net neutrality but were afraid to ask" post, and will likely have a few more posts on the topic as well... Stay tuned...
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Community enablers | socialreporters About Community enablers DTlater DTYE Explorations PPChange Menu socialreporters Explorations of social action and social media Community enablers Leave a comment (2) Go to comments We are carrying out an exploration into what are the skills, roles and approaches of community enablers, and how can they use the new digital tech tools for network building and neighbourhood change. As I explain in this first post: I’m using the term “community enabler” to cover people who may call themselves community organisers, builders, mobilisers, development workers, or network weavers. I hope people will find that acceptable as a neutral term, at least for now. As I wrote here, in a post for the People Powered Change exploration, there are many different models for neighbourhood change. The initial supporters are Community Matters – who are particularly interested in helping people understand the different models – and the Media4ME project. As I’ve outlined in this editable Google doc, the process will be: Initial research into the community enablers. Identifying and develop some main talking points An event on May 10 Further research and discussion online, and other meetings Leading to a report on community enablers, advice on using social media as part of neighbourhood change, and a kit for social reporters. Blog posts are collected in the the Community Enablers category Leave a comment ? 2 Comments. Lorna Prescott June 15, 2012 at 5:32 pm Hi David Apologies for my delay in responding to this. I wish I had been able to make it to your event on 10 May. It looks as though it was a really great collaborative step in this exploration. I am very, very keen to be involved in research and discussion (online and face to face) around community enablers. I think it would be incredibly useful to produce a report on community enablers linking their practice and favoured tools to a participation typology as well as specifically considering how online working is part of the mix. I too am really interested in Tessy Britton’s participatory paradigms (I did start to compare and contrast them with other participation and citizen typologies but ran out of brain power. Perhaps I could try again for the purposes of this work). Only this week I met with Steve Iafrati from the University of Wolverhampton who has offered to carry out some research in Dudley, where I work, looking for evidence for growth in Tessy’s creative, collaborative participation in our communities, exploring it and locating it in the current (national and local) policy context. Clearly looking at community enabling in relation to creative, collaborative participation would have a strong link to what we’re looking at. I also hoped there might be a link to the possibility of an update of your excellent Guide to Participation. We still use the guide in our training and support in Dudley, and your ladder of participation underpins our multi-agency, borough wide empowering approach to engaging communities. One of the the really useful things about your guide is it’s consideration of who holds power in engagement processes, and discussing that in training I’ve delivered has been really great – they have enjoyed those conversations and said in evaluation how useful that discussion was. It would be just wonderful if this work around community enablers could offer something for people in all sorts of different contexts, groups, communities and organisations to locate themselves (and power dynamics) and be signposted to useful tools (online and offline) to make the changes they seek. It could be a really useful bridge-builder too. I often bring together people from varied fields of work and different organisations and groups – seeing approaches to community enabling and considering why people do the things they do might help to develop understanding between the array of people we support through networking and training. In terms of taking this forward I would love to be part of a group working on it. I’d hope that Eileen Conn, Mark Parker and others from the session on 10 May would be interested. Perhaps Tessy and Laura from Social Spaces could be involved. I’d also like to ask Diane Simms from Kirklees Council, who is doing great work bridging online and offline in the creative collaborative space ( see Shared Spaces: http://www.communitykirklees.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Shared-Spaces-booklet.pdf). There is so much that I think we could usefully develop around this, which will be of great practical use. I’m incredibly excited as it is bringing together a number of strands of thinking and activity for me, including an exploration of the changing roles, skills and support needed in this new world, which I tried to start discussions on here: http://oursociety.org.uk/group/our-society-a-guide/forum/topics/changing-roles-and-skills-and-support-needed. I also love Eileen Conn’s thinking and we are exploring new ways to occupy and work in the space of possibilities in Dudley – again work on community enablers would greatly assist this. What next? A dedicated online space to pull things in and share our travel diaries as we embark on this exploration? David Wilcox June 17, 2012 at 5:54 pm H Lorna – thanks for such an incredibly encouraging comment! 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There are currently no solutions for enabling direct face-to-face interaction between virtual reality (VR) users wearing head-mounted displays (HMDs). The main challenge is that the headset obstructs a significant portion of a user’s face, preventing effective facial capture with traditional techniques. To advance virtual reality as a next- generation communication platform, we develop a novel HMD that enables 3D facial performance-driven animation in real-time. Our wearable system uses ultra-thin flexible electronic materials that are mounted on the foam liner of the headset to measure surface strain signals corresponding to upper face expressions. These strain signals are combined with a head-mounted RGB-D camera to enhance the tracking in the mouth region and to account for inaccurate HMD placement. To map the input signals to a 3D face model, we perform a single-instance offline training session for each person. For reusable and accurate online operation, we propose a short calibration step to readjust the Gaussian mixture distribution of the mapping before each use. The resulting animations are visually on par with cutting-edge depth sensor-driven facial performance capture systems and hence, are suitable for social interactions in virtual worlds. | positive |
The consequences of American non-intervention in Syria have, in some ways, been as bad as the consequences of American intervention in Iraq, though fewer American lives and dollars have been expended. Yet the realist in Obama has no regrets. Goldberg does future historians a valuable service by setting out in detail the president’s reasoning.
The president dragged his feet on Syria for three reasons. First, having been elected partly on the strength of his opposition to the Iraq War, he was and remains in principle reluctant to deploy U.S. troops (though not U.S. drones). In 2009, he felt the Pentagon had “jammed” him into approving a troop surge in Afghanistan; four years later, he felt he was being jammed again. Second, he misread the Arab Spring, initially equating protesters in Tunisia and Tahrir Square with Rosa Parks and the “patriots of Boston.”
Third, Obama regretted succumbing to pressure from his own advisers as well as from European allies to intervene in Libya in 2011. When similar pressures were brought to bear on him over the red line he himself had drawn regarding the use of chemical weapons in Syria, Obama revolted. On August 30, 2013—after consulting only Denis McDonough, his chief of staff—he decided to call off planned air strikes against the Syrian government, telling McDonough of his “long-standing resentment: He was tired of watching Washington unthinkingly drift toward war in Muslim countries.”
The president’s rationalizations of his U-turn need not detain us (“Assad would place civilians as ‘human shields’ around obvious targets … U.S. missiles would not be fired at chemical-weapons depots, for fear of sending plumes of poison into the air,” and so forth). The point is that if those arguments had been any good, there would have been no need to circumvent his own cabinet and advisers.
Susan Rice was “shocked.” When he found out that evening, Kerry told a friend: “I just got fucked over.” Even Vice President Joe Biden was on the other side of the argument (“big nations don’t bluff”). The usually loyal Gideon Rose, the editor of Foreign Affairs, thought it was a mistake. So did the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan. So did the king of Jordan. And so, of course, did Hillary Clinton.
When she later made public her criticism of Obama’s handling of Syria, Obama became “rip-shit angry,” according to a senior adviser. It was at this time that the White House went demotic with the facile slogan: “Don’t do stupid shit.” According to Ben Rhodes, Obama’s deputy national-security adviser for strategic communication, “the questions we were asking in the White House were ‘Who exactly is in the stupid-shit caucus? Who is pro–stupid shit?’”
This, then, was The Moment: Obama’s decision not to carry out his threat against Bashar al-Assad was, we are told, the defining moment of his presidency. “I’m very proud of this moment,” he tells Goldberg. “The overwhelming weight of conventional wisdom and the machinery of our national-security apparatus had gone fairly far. The perception was that my credibility was at stake, that America’s credibility was at stake. And so for me to press the pause button at that moment, I knew, would cost me politically. And the fact that I was able to pull back from the immediate pressures and think through in my own mind what was in America’s interest … was as tough a decision as I’ve made.” | positive |
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Score 8 out of 10 Have you ever thought to yourself, “I wish there were more Mario levels. But I also wish they were much harder, much easier, or made by toddlers??” No? You’ve never thought that? Shame. ‘Cause here’s Mario Maker 2. This game sparked its own internet sub-culture when it came out on Wii U… and they’re still at it. It’s a game that combines creativity and craftsmanship with infuriating nightmare concoctions that only the most demonic Furby could come up with. In short, it’s a microcosm of the internet. And it has just received its last major update, driving it once more into the mainstream. But can you play it if you’re visually impaired? About me and my play style: I have albinism. My visual acuity fluctuates between 20/100 and 20/500 depending on if I’m wearing contacts and how tired I am. I have color vision, but no depth perception. I also deal with eye strain if I have to focus too precisely for too long. The biggest upside about Mario Maker 2 is its flexibility. It has a mode or level for nearly everyone, as long as you relatively like Mario. There is a single-player story mode, a course builder, community speed-run events, and – of course – endless levels created by other players. The game allows you to play levels in different styles, meaning different generations of Mario games. You can play levels that look like New Super Mario Bros. or levels that look like the original Super Mario Bros. In the single-player campaign, the game forces you to play across the different styles, but if you’re playing other people’s levels, you can choose what style you want to play in. Unique to Mario Maker’s story mode is the ability to utilize elements of the course builder in the pre-built levels. Is a platform too high? You can make one to help you get up there. Do you need a power-up to get through a section? You can give yourself one! Flexibility is the single best part of the game. You can make your experience whatever you want it to be. This review is going to be a little different than a normal review, precisely because of this flexibility. There are truly terrible levels, but it wouldn’t be fair to grade the game based on the worst levels that users created. I’m going to be grading based on the best levels available to address each accessibility need, but know that these levels may take a bit of hunting to find. Visual Characteristics 7/10 (Contrast, Lighting, Tracking, Clutter) The visuals of this game are generally crisp, colorful, and distinctive. However, this game has a LOT of different elements. There are a wide array of different enemies, tons of power-ups, a multitude of backgrounds, as well as different styles and themes. In other words, a lot of stuff can be an obstacle, and some aspects are more difficult to see than others. That’s what makes the game such a sandbox, but conversely, it does make it a little more difficult to learn the game. I wouldn’t take this middling score as a bad thing at all, but it should give you an idea that this game might require more homework and effort to learn. I usually try to pitch my reviews to people who want to pick up and play the game right out of the box. There are gamers who spend countless hours memorizing menus and sound effects, and are thus able to play visual games with much less vision or none at all. I am not one of those people, and I still find this game enjoyable. However, there are more items in the game to learn about than Mario Kart, for instance. The wonderful thing about Mario Maker is that you can select the courses you want to play. The New Super Mario Bros. and Mario 3D World styles have excellent contrast and lighting. The tracking is usually simple because of the colorful, HD graphics, though some levels can be very busy. You can select your character, which may help with tracking. It would be nice to have an option to slow down the speed of the game, but given the competitive aspects of the game, I doubt that would ever be added in. Nintendo has stated there won’t be any major new updates, but I would like to see them tweak the UI to make it more obvious which button is highlighted. Different buttons have different selected animations. Some get a solid border, some get little corner caps, and others get overall highlighted. It’s not consistent, and it can make it really difficult to track where your cursor is to select various options. Accessibility Features 7.5/10 There aren’t many accessibility features to mention here. You can change your character among Mario, Luigi, Toadette, and Blue Toad, which may be helpful. There are many built-in tutorial-style functions. There are extensive Q&As, power-up descriptions, descriptions of the specific attributes of each style of game, as well as a very thorough (and somewhat dull) tutorial for the course builder. These are optional components that you have to specifically look for, but they are there for you. Other features I’d like to see would be a variable zoom option within the courses. You can use the system zoom on the menus, and I very much recommend that because the menus can be quite confusing. It would be nice for them to patch in an option for larger text. I’d like to see text to speech options for the menus as well. I’d also like to see an option to turn off sound effects and music independently. Creators can add a selection of music and sound effects to their courses, and it can get a little over-the-top at times. There aren’t any sound options that I have found. As a note, the game does autosave, unlike Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe. Assist Modes 10/10 I’m judging my score for this based on two aspects. In the story mode, you can add in power-ups and extra blocks, which I consider to be something of an assist mode, even if it isn’t categorized as such. If you lose all your lives on a course, you can also “call Luigi” to come finish the course for you. You still get the coin bonus for completing the course, but it is marked with a green L flag instead of a red M flag. You can then replay the course later if you’d like. Second, in the course world, you can select easy levels. If you select easy levels, you’re going to have to sort through a lot of inexpertly-crafted levels, but if you play with your search terms, you can find levels that suit your style. The option to add in blocks and power-ups is really innovative, and fits the theme of Mario Maker. It encourages you to learn the new mechanics, but it doesn’t require them. That’s really the goal of any assist mode, for me. It doesn’t address competitive gameplay, but I think that’s understandable. It gives you help to learn the mechanics in the story mode so that you can apply those skills to whatever levels you choose in Course World. Non Visual Cues 9/10 Holy snap, are there ever a ton of nonvisual cues in this game. Whether or not those nonvisual cues are in a course is up to the creator, and most creators aren’t thinking about the visually impaired experience. However, the potential is definitely there. Again, it’s a matter of sifting through the endless levels available and finding ones you like. The story mode courses are a mix of more traditional courses and courses that teach you about specific mechanics that are available in Mario Maker, and the nonvisual cues in these courses are very typical of other Mario games. Decent Fonts 8.5/10 The font itself is fantastic. It’s a bold, sans-serif font that is easy on the eyes. But it could be bigger. I always say that, but this time I say it with a little more bite than usual. This text is smaller than most Nintendo games I’ve seen recently. There’s more text and more information to convey in the menus and user interface. You can use the system zoom, though, because all of the text is held in the menus. Occasionally, creators will spell things using blocks or other elements, but if you don’t like that, you can skip to a different level. Necessity of Text 4/10 (The higher the rating, the less necessary the text is) The text is pretty necessary in Mario Maker because it helps you figure out what type of level you’re about to play. The menus are not entirely intuitive, either. However, this probably isn’t a game-breaking problem. I’m going to hazard a guess that if you’ve got the visual acuity to handle tracking Mario and Goombas, you can probably handle reading the menus as long as you use the system zoom. That said, it may limit the length of your play sessions, so be aware. Handheld Play 9/10 I struggle with grading this category because if you are interested in creating courses, handheld mode is the essential method. Trying to navigate all of the menus to create a course without the touchscreen is frustrating to say the least. That said, because Mario Maker has more of a variety of enemies, power-ups, and just stuff on the screen in general, I would warn you before playing it in handheld mode. This is going to be heavily dependent upon your vision, but there are a multitude of different items you will encounter, and more than most games, the small screen can be a detriment. But that’s not a problem exclusive to handheld mode. That’s just something to know about Mario Maker. Level of Precision Required 8/10 This is still Mario. The hit boxes are still very small. There are still times you swear you weren’t in the way of the spikes, but you die anyway. That said, you can replay the levels as many times as you want, and you can choose levels that don’t require as much precision. And the availability of extra power-ups, coupled with Luigi’s help in story mode make story mode very friendly to beginners. Controls and Depth Perception 9/10 The controls and physics of Mario feel a lot better to me in Mario Maker than they did in Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe. Mario isn’t as slippy. I do find the depth perception a bit difficult, particularly in 3D World style. Overall, though, the controls feel fair. Misc. What seems like a lifetime ago, I reviewed Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe. I included a note for folks who only want to purchase one game or the other. After looking at them both in more depth, I still agree with the recommendations I gave in that review. SMBU is probably more friendly for people who haven’t played a Mario game before. There are easier levels in Mario Maker, but it’s not the easiest thing in the world to find them. I prefer the controls in Mario Maker, but SMBU has Peachette and Nabbit, which are better overall assist modes. I can’t give a universal recommendation of one over the other because they have different tradeoffs that will affect people differently. Mario Maker courses do tend to be more cluttered than the average traditional Mario course. I highly recommend checking out some Mario Maker streamers before you buy the game so you can get a sense of what I’m talking about. If you need some recommendations, my favorite Mario Maker streamer is DGR Dave. You can find him on YouTube and Twitch. He’s very family friendly. I’ll also note that Mario Maker has online play that suffers from connection issues. You can play with other people, trying to be the first to the goal, but the connection is frequently laggy. This lag affects everyone, but likely will be worse for folks who already struggle to see the gameplay. Not to mention that having multiple players on screen can add clutter and create very difficult obstacles. If you’re interested in this mode, I would again encourage you to check out some streamers before you buy. Recommendation for visual skills needed for enjoyment This really depends on what you want to do in the game. If you want to be able to boot up a few courses that are easier than typical Mario levels because you can’t see traditional Mario levels well enough to beat them, I think you could get away with up to 20/800 vision or so. You might need a sighted buddy for the menus. If you’re looking to be able to play a good variety of courses, I’d probably recommend up to 20/600. If you’re looking to become the next internet-famous level creator, you’re probably going to want more like 20/400 because the course creator is really only fun in handheld mode. Overall, I recommend this game for anyone who has ever enjoyed a platforming game or is up for some wackiness. 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Based on a remarkable true story, "Dunkirk” tells of an unprecedented civilian rescue of British soldiers trapped on a French beach. Rated 4 stars out of 4.
Something curious happens to time in Christopher Nolan’s movies. On screen, it twists and dances and coils enticingly; off screen, it vanishes. His magnificent new film, “Dunkirk,” seems to be over in a flash — you disappear inside of it and it changes you, as all great movies do.
Based on a remarkable story from World War II, “Dunkirk” unfolds on land, on the sea and in the air. The land is a vast beach in Dunkirk, France, in May 1940, where hundreds of thousands of British soldiers are trapped — the English Channel on one side, enemy forces on the other. The sea is that choppy, green-gray Channel, where a small wooden yacht named Moonstone, manned by a middle-aged father (Mark Rylance) and his teenage son (Tom Glynn-Carney), is one of hundreds of nonmilitary vessels summoned by the British government in a vast, unprecedented evacuation mission. And the air is above the Channel, where an RAF Spitfire pilot (Tom Hardy) battles the Luftwaffe planes — despite a shot-out gas gauge.
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Movie Review ★★★★ ‘‘Dunkirk,” with Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, James D’Arcy, Barry Keoghan, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy. Written and directed by Christopher Nolan. 106 minutes. Rated PG-13 for intense war experience and some language. Several theaters.
These three stories, taking place in their own time (the evacuation on the beach takes days; the flight, a mere hour) yet interwoven, each feel like an entire world; you watch realizing that you’re not breathing.
Two young soldiers on the beach, desperate to get onto a hospital boat, grab a stretcher and race through the endless crowds waiting on the mole (a long wooden pier); we don’t know their names or their stories, but we race with them. A shellshocked soldier (Cillian Murphy) stranded at sea, picked up by the father and son, panics upon realizing that they are headed back into war — “I’m not going back,” he says, his eyes mirrors of horror, and you see the hell of combat that “Dunkirk” doesn’t show us.
And, in one quiet nod of approval between the father and son — and in Rylance’s beautifully subtle portrayal of quiet, determined decency — you see the essence of this story: These young men fought, and these scores of regular Brits climbed into boats to go retrieve them, because it was, simply, the right thing to do.
“Dunkirk” succeeds spectacularly both emotionally and visually. (See it in large format if you possibly can; I saw it in IMAX, at Pacific Science Center, and am still reeling. “Dunkirk” is screening in a variety of formats; check tickets.dunkirkmovie.com for a listing of local theaters showing it in 70mm and IMAX.) That chilly sea looks endless from the seat of that Spitfire; the lines of men on the beach appear impossibly long; that boat seems tiny amid the waves. Remarkable action sequences unfurl, particularly a breathtaking late scene in which flames from a sinking ship engulf the sea.
But it’s the quiet moments that linger with you after this film, and the aching sense of home — both as something we yearn for, and something that takes care of us — that pervades it. “Dunkirk” is not a story of triumph, but one of living to fight another day, with a little help from our friends. “All we did was survive,” says a quiet soldier, near the end. For now, he’s told, “that’s enough.” | positive |
RIAA Trashes Its Legacy As A 1st Amendment Supporter By Cheering On Global Internet Censorship
from the crapping-on-your-legacy dept
It appears that many people don't remember this, but the RIAA used to be a major force in protecting free speech and the First Amendment. It had many good reasons to do so, after all, since free speech is very important to all of the artists that the RIAA's labels work with. Artistic expression -- especially in the musical realm -- has frequently come under attack by politicians and, for decades, the RIAA was actually a really important player in standing up for the First Amendment. See, for example, this 1992 article in the LA Times from then RIAA President Jason Berman, in which he lists out all the ways that the RIAA has been fighting censorship. Yes, these are all specific in protecting musicians, but they were some really important First Amendment arguments to be made in these areas:
In 1990, the RIAA kept lyric labeling legislation off the books in 22 states by implementing a state government relations program that became the RIAA's second-highest-funded program, dedicated a full-time RIAA executive, consumed more than 80% of the association's public relations efforts, mobilized grass-roots campaigns involving local retailers, artists, legislators and consumers and brought expert witnesses to testify before state legislatures.
Again in 1991, the efforts of the RIAA's state government relations program defeated similar legislation in more than a dozen states.
This year, the program has been broadened by recruiting local legislative councils in 14 states resulting in defeated measures in New York, West Virginia, Arizona, Illinois and Missouri while the battle continues in Massachusetts, Louisiana and Michigan.
Throughout all of this activity, we've been a key player in opposing a federal bill creating third-party liability for sexual violence alleged to have been caused by music and other forms of entertainment.
We are a founding member and the principal funder for Rock the Vote, the music industry grass-roots organization aimed at defeating censorship and promoting participation by young people in the democratic process.
We formed the Coalition Against Lyric Legislation, an organization comprising more than 60 groups rallying to fight freedom of expression.
In addition to our amicus brief on behalf of 2 Live Crew, which raised the key issues leading to their exoneration in the 11th Circuit appeal, we contributed to the cost of the defense in the case, and have also committed legal and financial assistance to retailers in Nebraska and Florida.
Finally, we are proud to stand with the Washington Music Industry Coalition to seek a judicial declaratory ruling that the recently enacted erotic music statute is unconstitutional and should be stricken from the books.
And that's just one article -- the first I found via a quick Google search. If you were interested in these issues in the 1980s, the RIAA was very involved in protecting the First Amendment.
So it's fairly ridiculous (if entirely expected) that the modern RIAA is destroying that historic legacy of protecting free speech by now cheering on global internet censorship. As we've discussed, Canada recently launched a horrific attack on free speech, by saying that it can issue injunctions blocking entire sites globally on mere accusations of infringement. Let's repeat that: the Canadian court is saying that, even before a trial has determined if there is actual infringement, it can order sites (in this case Google) to block entire websites (not just pages involved in the infringement) -- and that it can do so globally. As we pointed out, this precedent is horrifying. What will happen when China demands all stories about Tiananmen Square be blocked globally? Or what happens when Saudi Arabia or Iran demands that pages supporting democratic reforms or LGBTQ rights must be taken down globally?
And yet, rather than condemn an overly broad ruling that will lead to global censorship, the RIAA sullied its own historical legacy and cheered on this global censorship ruling, claiming that it was "a win."
Canadian Supreme Court decision “a win for fans, creators & the legitimate online marketplace,” more from @RIAA on landmark ruling pic.twitter.com/uQ4P7FZ2GS — RIAA (@RIAA) June 28, 2017
And, yes, it doesn't take a genius to figure out why the RIAA is so wishy-washy on free speech. Those earlier issues involved protecting musicians. Now, with the internet, it wants to stomp out free speech on the off chance that some of it might infringe copyrights and make RIAA members' business models somewhat trickier. But that's sad. A principled organization should stand up for what's right -- and not what's politically expedient. And, really, this ruling will almost certainly come back to bite the RIAA as well. Not only will it lead to new, helpful, innovative platforms facing global censorship, is it that hard to believe that some countries may try to censor RIAA-connected artists, using this ruling as precedent?
These days, the bosses at the RIAA have got so much "piracy-on-the brain" that they seem completely unable to (1) stick to a principled position on the First Amendment or (2) see how cheering on global censorship might come back to bite them as well.
Filed Under: censorship, copyright, first amendment, free speech, internet, legacy
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Press Release – David Rankin
For immediate release 18 July 2012 Ngapuhi Leader Critical Of “Greedy” Water Claim Outspoken Ngapuhi leader David Rankin has criticised the claimants in the current Waitangi Tribunal water claim for acting out of what he labels “pure greed.” …For immediate release
18 July 2012
Ngapuhi Leader Critical Of “Greedy” Water Claim
Outspoken Ngapuhi leader David Rankin has criticised the claimants in the current Waitangi Tribunal water claim for acting out of what he labels “pure greed.”
“These claimants need to be honest. What they are after is a slice of the pie. This is not about culture, it is all about profit and personal gains,” says Mr. Rankin. He points to the Sealord fisheries settlement 20 years ago, and says “after two decades, the vast majority of Maori have not seen a single fish. It is only the elite few manipulating the masses who get to enjoy the money that flows from these settlements”.
In the case of the current claim over rivers, Mr. Rankin points the finger at Maanu Paul and Annette Sykes. “These two,” he says, “are silent when one of our children is bashed, silent when one of our children is raped, silent when one of our children is murdered. But put some cash before their eyes, and they jump up and down pretending to be concerned about Maori rights. It’s disgraceful.”
Mr Rankin said that the claimants obviously put cash before culture. “Traditionally, we all shared the water in rivers. There was never any sense of ownership, only a link of identity. That’s why there is the phrase: Ko wai ahau?”
Mr. Rankin also questions the mandates of Maanu Paul and Annette Sykes. “What rights do they have to speak on our behalf?” he asks. “What is their whakapapa, and who do they really represent? These are self-appointed leaders – known among Maori to be “Claytons Leaders”, that is, the leaders when you don’t want a leader.”
Mr. Rankin predicts that the claim will not achieve any benefits for Maori, and wants to know if Annette Sykes and Maanu Paul have spent any of their own money on the claim, and if not, could the huge cost have better been spent on Maori youth.
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There was a time when only scientists used computers. Now systems that are thousands of times more powerful are available to nearly everyone. Bio-technology could follow the same course. However, if you want to tackle genetic testing, synthetic biology, etc then you’re going to need some serious hardware. Electrophoresis, polymerase chain reactions, fluorescent spectrometry – these are all really basic techniques but they still require specialized machines that can cost thousands of dollars. Luckily, that may be about to change. We’ve seen several projects to make cheap and even open hardware versions of lab devices – helping biotech become more do-it-yourself. While at the Open Source Summit I had the chance to talk with some of the forces behind these projects, as well as with the DIY enthusiasts that hope to one day use them. We may be approaching the age of the personal biology lab but there are some major hurdles still in the way.
It’s been more than a year since we covered DIYbio.org, the online website where many would be bio-tech hobbyists share information. DIYbio is just the most prominent face on a much larger trend – the growing interest among amateurs and citizen scientists to perform modern biology experiments. Whether you want to isolate some genes, engineer new form’s of brewer’s yeast, or track diseases, there may be a place for you in the DIY biology movement.
If you have a lab. Unlike amateur astronomy or amateur programming, amateur bio-technology needs a lot of equipment and supplies. To that end, certain members of the community have worked tirelessly to provide cheap, simple, and hackable versions of lab necessities. Once they become widely available these devices could also have an impact outside amateur science. What works for DIY hobbyists will help high school education, and could be leveraged for third world medicine as well.
The Hardware
We’ve already covered one amateur biology hardware project: the Pearl Gel Box – an open hardware electrophoresis gel box from Pearl Biotech. The plans for that box have been online for months now. You can build your own or purchase it for about $500 (or less than half that as a kit). According to Tito Jakowski (one of the creators of the device) they’ve sold “dozens”.
Jakowski and Josh Perfetto are developing another open hardware lab tool: a polymerase chain reaction thermocycler. A PCR is basically a DNA amplifier – making many copies of segments of DNA for use in the lab. Open PCR is going to cost less than $400, maybe one tenth the price of modern PCRs. It’s built using off the shelf parts (including an Arduino board) and some laser cut pieces for the frame. Jaksowski and Perfetto made it easily hackable so that users can add in their own features or upgrade it as desired. There have been 14 pre-orders so far, and the first kits will be shipped “in a few months.”
Otyp, a group interested in bringing biotech into education, has designed their own open hardware PCR. They’ll be looking to lease this equipment (along with other supplies and education packages) to high schools for about $600 a class with 24 students per class. According to James Peyer (one of the founders of Otyp) these leases will be available starting with the upcoming 2010-2011 school year. Here’s a video that describes Otyp a little more.
PCR may also be able to fit in your pocket. Lava Amp is a handheld PCR device under development by Guido Nunez-Mujica, Joseph Jackson (Open Science Summit organizer) and collaborators brought together by a SciFoo conference. It is due to come out sometime in the first quarter of 2011, and has a target price of $400. While it may find use in DIY biology labs, Lava Amp is aimed towards bringing PCR to hard to reach areas around the world, where it may serve as a valuable lab tool in the efforts to fight disease. Jackson tells me that Nunez-Mujica was at TED Global this week, and that as they secure more interest and funding they will be able to move quickly towards their desired launch date. Here’s Nunez-Mujica presenting the device in a video from February:
So it looks like gel electrophoresis and PCR are going to be available to you on the (relatively) cheap. What’s next? Well, there are already some other neat open hardware projects out there. MudWatt from KeegoTech is a microbial fuel cell – a device that generates low levels of electricity from microbes interacting with soil. The Spiker Box, from Backyard Brains, lets you use a cockroach leg to explore neurophysiology. Here’s a video of that:
According to Mac Cowell from DIYbio.org, there’s a lot of interest in the DIY biology community to continue developing new open versions of lab equipment. These projects have varying amounts of support and we could see spectrofluorometers, microfliuidic systems, and centrifuges in the near term. But there’s another aspect to hardware that might be coming along in the same time period: automation. As was discussed during the DIY biology panel at the Open Science Summit, it’s only a matter of time before someone starts adapting non-bio open hardware into the bio-lab. For example, MakerBot’s 3D printer could be used to handle heated liquids. Essentially, open hardware from the ‘Make Culture’ could be used to bring robots into the DIY bio lab. That may help hobbyist biologists not only perform modern bio experiments, but to do so quickly and without tedium. Cowell himself if working on a webcam microscope that can pan across samples through a mobile phone interface.
I should perform a big reality check here, however, and point out how basic these lab instruments really are. We’ve had the majority of these technologies for decades. Putting them in the hands of DIY biologists isn’t going to turn them into MIT. Also, most of these projects are still in the beginning phase of their development. Selling a few dozen kits isn’t going to reshape an industry. Even if we enable a million amateur biologists with these kinds of lab tools (is that even possible?) there would be a wide range of modern biology that would be outside of their capabilities.
Problems with Wetware and DNA
That’s because hardware is just one part of the modern biology equation. As Mac Cowell and James Peyer both pointed out to me, hardware might be the easiest of the hurdles to clear on the path to bringing biotech to the masses. We know how to build machines, how to strip them down or optimize them to make them cheaper. But labs also need wetware – those reagents and biochemical components that are required to perform experiments. Polymerases, ligases, etc are hard to produce in an amateur environment and have to be bought from companies. This costs a pretty good amount of money, and the wetware is typically consumed during a project. Otyp’s classroom education package costs about $300 even if you have your own hardware – this price covers just the necessary wetware, biological samples and educational materials. And the Otyp lab experiment is extremely basic. As they put it, the lab is the modern biology equivalent of printing “Hello, World!”. The DIY community is going to need to find a way to cover wetware costs or find new means of supplying them if it wants to enjoy long term vitality and growth.
Hardware and wetware, however, might be easy to acquire compared to actual biological samples. Sure, many DIY biology projects probably don’t need anything strange and exciting. You can test your own cells from spit, you can take bacterial samples from the environment, and Cowell told me about a really cool bio-experiment that just requires some squid and a refrigerator (you get glowing tentacles!). But if you really want to do advanced biotech, as some amateur biologists are interested in, you’ll need DNA samples from hard to obtain micro-organisms. The BioBrick standard (and the MIT Registry of Standard Biological Parts) has gone a long way towards making DNA hacking-friendly, but MIT does NOT send those materials out to just anyone. While you may be able to build the hardware and buy the wetware, getting your hands on the most interesting biotechnology materials is going to be difficult if not outright impossible. That’s not going to change in the foreseeable future because it depends more on politics than on science. Many people worry (rightfully so) about biosecurity. What guarantees do we have that a DIY bio-hacker is going to follow all the necessary protocols for handling possibly dangerous substances?
Are Community Labs the Solution?
Well, the guys at DIYbio and many others have been working tirelessly to make sure the DIY community follows stringent guidelines of safety. The Open Science Summit had a big panel discussion about biosecurity. My take away from that panel was this: DIY hobbyists are actually much more interested and dedicated to safety than anyone gives them credit for, but there is still more that regulatory agencies want from them, and the two groups are working together to solve this. No matter what intentions the community has, however, the idea of people performing biotech research on their own (even at a low level and just for fun) doesn’t sit well with many in power. It often doesn’t sit well with me. DIY biologists are generally a responsible bunch, but DIY biology does have the potential to be dangerous.
What can we do about that? Well, we could ask amateur biologists to get together and form their own labs, complete with insurance and documented adherence to safety regulations, just like any professional group. That’s an idea that’s already springing up all around the world. ‘Community labs’, like Biocurious in the San Francisco Bay Area, are working towards providing a space where amateur biologists can get together and pool resources in order to perform safe and interesting science. These community biolabs are probably going to follow the hackerspace model with monthly member fees, group education, and a mixture of private and community wide projects. Here’s a video about Biocurious that was played at the Open Science Summit:
Biocurious is an interesting example of the community lab concept because it has been very successful in some of its efforts but is still working on establishing itself. Tito Jakowski (Open PCR, Pearl Gel Box), Jeff Perfutto (Open PCR) and Joseph Jackson (Lava Amp, Open Science Summit) are all associated with the lab. While BioCurious started in a garage, it is now between homes. The founder, Eri Gentry, is looking to get the group into a real commercial space complete with liability insurance. Gentry and the rest of her crew are a great example of how the DIY community lab is a legit enterprise capable of performing good science. They’re also all very fun people, as you can see in the video above.
If you’re interested in joining the DIY biology global community, finding and joining a local community lab is probably the best way to get involved. They generally provide space, equipment, education, and social interactions that the amateur biologist desperately needs.
These labs, however, need money to form. Biocurious is trying to raise $30,000 to help them secure their new space and equip it. Even if you’re not ready to go join a lab, you can support the DIY community by donating to their cause. In fact, the majority of projects I’ve mentioned above are looking for financial help. Some have links to where you can directly fund them via the web, others you’d have to contact:
These groups continue to work towards bringing the modern biology lab to the masses, but it’s the public interest in biotechnology that really fuels the DIY biology community. As people learn more about the power and promise of new biotech the interest in tinkering with bio projects increases. However, it’s unclear what meaningful change amateur biologists will bring to the world. With simple hardware, basic wetware, and very restricted DNA samples there are limits to what you can do. That’s unlikely to change even if DIY biology becomes very popular and widely practiced. What then, can amateur biologists hope to accomplish?
We have to remember that for decades high school biology education was stuck in the 1960s. Most of us simply have never had the opportunity to isolate DNA, replicate it, play with it in a lab. DIY biology can be education. We also need to remember that people all over the world could benefit from cheaper and wider access to labs to help with epidemiology and healthcare. DIY biology can be humanitarian. Finally, we can’t forget that growing a base of researchers, even just amateurs who tinker, are capable of making some (albeit usually small) meaningful contributions to a field. DIY biology could crowd-source science. For whatever that will be worth. Once we make the hardware, wetware, and DNA widely available, the amateur biology lab could form a valuable supplement to the modern industrial approach to biotechnology.
And one day, when biotechnology really takes off, DIY biology could become a true research partner for industry. When we can engineer cells the way we engineer computers, individuals working at home or in community labs could make their own important advancements. Just like amateur computer programmers do now. If we build the biotechnology, and make the modern biotechnology lab accessible, citizen science will arise. Parts of the lab are already here, more is on its way. Get involved now and things could arrive much faster. | positive |
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The long-term drought that is unlocking disaster aid for 40 percent of America's most fertile hillocks and valleys has turned central Georgia into what Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Kathleen Merrigan called in July "the toughest place in the country."
So on those rare afternoons when dark clouds stack up against the heat-seared horizon, farmer Eddie Green allows himself a smile.
"That's what I like to see," says Mr. Green, who farms 500 acres of mostly corn and cotton in Dooly County. "At least someone has a shot at getting some rain."
His rain dreams are more altruistic than selfish, as he no longer depends on the rain to irrigate his crops. The epiphany came last year.
"It was the hottest, driest summer I'd ever seen," he says, standing amid impressive rows of flowering cotton, "and I had the biggest, most profitable crop I'd ever had."
Instead of just praying for rain, which former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue famously did during the north Georgia drought of 2007, Green has joined a growing number of Peach State farmers to consider a once-unimaginable tactic to deal with the drought: full irrigation.
Thirty years ago, 95 percent of Georgia farmland was "dry," or nonirrigated. Since 2007, when the current dry weather pattern established itself, Georgia farmers added irrigation to half a million acres, an increase of one-third. Green himself has gone from 50 percent irrigated in 2007 to nearly 100 percent today, largely in response to the drought – and as insurance against what some fear could be a longer-term pattern of hotter weather.
"The drought motivates everything I do at this point," says Green, who has his own wells.
So far his efforts have paid off, putting him in the not entirely welcome position of profiting from a national hardship – the worst US drought since 1956. He isn't alone. Dooly County as a whole increased the value of its row crop production from $100 million in 2010 to $140 million in 2011, perhaps the drought's apex.
Paradoxically, if you have water, there may be no better time to be a farmer. US net farm income last year reached a record $98 billion, and with commodity prices still high and rising, that record could be challenged this year, even with drought-lowered yields.
But irrigating to slake the soil's thirst puts attempts to achieve drought resistance on a collision course with growing concerns, even in the humid Southeast, about water allocation and depletion of the aquifers, adding more uncertainty for America's agricultural juggernaut.
"Once those irrigation pumps get turned on, it reduces the surface flow in river valleys and tributaries. And once people start establishing those connections, it becomes a legal battle," says Brian Fuchs, a climatologist with the University of Nebraska's National Drought Mitigation Center in Lincoln. "That's the danger of seeing that shift to irrigation – it's not an infinite resource. At some point the water table will respond."
The US Geological Survey has found central Georgia suffering from long-term ground water depletion similar to that experienced by the Ogallala aquifer beneath Texas and the High Plains aquifer beneath Nebraska and Kansas.
Currently, the vegetable meccas of California's Central Valley and the grain capitals of the High Plains account for half of all ground water depletion in the United States, according to a 2012 study by the University of Texas. Consequently, within 30 years, "the nation's food supply may be vulnerable to rapid ground water depletion from irrigated agriculture," the study concludes.
"What's going to be left for us to drink?" inquires Johnny Bartlett, selling Hardy Farms boiled peanuts at a shack in Montezuma, Ga.
History has taught farmers some hard lessons. After the Dust Bowl years, hardier hybrids caught on, and seed manufacturers continue to market new, drought-resistant varieties. Tax and other state incentives have encouraged "conservation tilling," which spares topsoil and saves water by using cover crops to protect the earth and ease evaporation.
For centuries, "dry land" farming has been the norm in the usually verdant and rain-soaked South, and remains so in large parts of the drought-stricken Midwest. But in this current manifestation of short- and long-term drought, irrigation has moved from a supplemental boost that evens out annual yields, making the enterprise more predictable, to a necessary crutch.
"If you believe that food and fiber are integral components of our national defense in terms of adequate supply to the people of this country, then I think the investment in irrigation and conservation efforts is a good thing," says Chuck Ellis, Dooly County's longtime agricultural extension agent.
The need exists beyond the parched South.
Compared with the South's sandy, drier soils – "Believe it or not, we're always about 10 days from a drought," one Georgia farmer says – the loamy earth of the Midwestern Corn Belt is far less susceptible to dry weather, able to hold onto rainfall for much longer.
But given corn's thirsty demands, a record-sized planting tied to attractive $8-per-bushel prices, and hot, dry conditions across the Midwest, the simmering drought is now causing major crop failure, higher feed prices for ranchers, and an onslaught of disaster politics. In Missouri, which the most current US Drought Monitor says is enduring the most extreme drought, Gov. Jay Nixon signed off on $5 million in emergency funds in late July that farmers can apply for to dig new wells to serve parched plots.
Missouri is not the only place where water politics is heating up. In Arkansas, limits on water usage are already cropping up as some chicken farmers are being asked to stop using municipal water systems because public wells and reservoirs can't keep up with demand as the drought wears on.
Even in Alabama, the second-wettest US state, the legislature passed a major tax incentive bill in July to encourage farmers to invest in well drilling, pumps, and irrigators.
Alabama has barely 200,000 acres under irrigation, far fewer than its neighbors Georgia and Mississippi. But despite being blessed with high average rainfall, Alabama farmers, too, are beginning to hedge their bets against a potentially drier future.
"Farmers ... are realizing that if they want to be sustainable and continue to farm, they're going to have to have a reliable source of water," says Sam Fowler, director of the Alabama Water Resources Research Institute at the University of Alabama, Huntsville.
Congress, for its part, is focusing on the short-term effects of the drought, potentially to the detriment of long-term planning. Before its August break, lawmakers wrestled over whether to scrap the 2012 farm bill – which includes an end to direct payments to farmers in exchange for broader insurance coverage – in favor of a one-year emergency extension of the current bill to deal with the drought damage.
While the extension would include billions in emergency aid, House Republicans are insisting that the aid be paid for by eliminating billions worth of funding for conservation and water management programs.
"We recognize farmers need aid in this emergency drought situation, [but] sacrificing the very programs that help mitigate the impacts of drought and other disasters is extremely shortsighted," Gene Schmidt, president of the National Association of Conservation Districts, complained.
Drought is part of the natural state, and it's far from clear whether the dry conditions will persist. In fact, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Prediction Center is expecting a Pacific El Niño to develop, which could restore moisture this year to some of the most drought-stricken regions.
Yet some climatologists see the current drought as part of a larger global pattern toward higher evaporation rates that will continue to force farmers even in wet parts of the US to compete more assiduously for ground water.
"These changes will probably result in reduced soil moisture for crops, increased demands on ground water resources, and greater competition among water users in the arid western United States," writes Oregon State University resource economist John Antle in a recent paper titled "Agriculture and the Food System: Adaptation to Climate Change."
That tension is already being felt in Georgia, which is locked in a decades-long legal battle with Alabama and Florida over the flows of the Chattahoochee and Flint river systems. So far, while acknowledging that aquifer levels are as much as 40 feet below normal, Georgia's environmental permitting agencies have continued to approve well-drilling permits for farms.
Farmers say flow metering shows they are using a fraction of the water that critics contend. But in Apalachicola, Fla., where water levels are at record lows thanks to low flows coming out of Georgia, activists say that farmers – or, more succinctly, farm policies – are partly to blame.
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"Droughts are naturally occurring events; but the way the water is being managed in Georgia, the droughts are much deeper and last for more extended periods," says Dan Tonsmiere of the Apalachicola Riverkeepers. "Everybody on the river says, 'I'm only using this much. I'm not affecting the river.' But it's the cumulative impacts that have dropped the flows in the spring and early summer on the Apalachicola during drought times by 30 and 40 percent."
"The reality is that we can do so much better," Mr. Tonsmiere adds. "What farmers are seeing now is that the drawdowns can affect the farmer next door. I think that helps to get us to a place where we understand the situation better and understand that there has to be limits, all of which can help build the political will to share the water." | positive |
(CNN) -- Arkansas game officials hope testing scheduled to begin Monday will solve the mystery of why up to 5,000 birds fell from the sky just before midnight New Year's Eve.
The birds -- most of which were dead -- were red-winged blackbirds and starlings, and they were found within a one-mile area of Beebe, about 40 miles northeast of Little Rock, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said. Birds fell over about a one-mile area, the commission said in a statement.
As of Saturday, between 4,000 and 5,000 birds had been found dead, said Keith Stephens with the commission.
"Shortly after I arrived, there were still birds falling from the sky," said commission wildlife officer Robby King in the statement. He said he collected about 65 dead birds.
The commission said it flew over the area to gauge the scope of the event, and no birds were found outside of the initial one-mile area.
Karen Rowe, an ornithologist for the commission, said the incident is not that unusual and is often caused by a lightning strike or high-altitude hail.
A strong storm system moved through the state earlier in the day Friday.
"It's important to understand that a sick bird can't fly. So whatever happened to these birds happened very quickly," Rowe told CNN Radio on Sunday.
"Something must have caused these birds to flush out of the trees at night, where they're normally just roosting and staying in the treetops ... and then something got them out of the air and caused their death and then they fell to earth," Rowe added.
Officials also speculated that fireworks shot by New Year's revelers in the area might have caused severe stress in the birds. Rowe said Sunday there was evidence that large fireworks may have played a role.
"Initial examinations of a few of the dead birds showed trauma. Whether or not this trauma was from the force of hitting the ground when they fell or from something that contacted them in the air, we don't know," Rowe said.
The dead birds will be sent for testing to labs at the Arkansas Livestock and Poultry Commission and the National Wildlife Health Center in Wisconsin.
The necropsies will begin Monday, Stephens said, and the findings should be available sometime this week.
The city of Beebe has hired U.S. Environmental Services to begin the cleanup and dispose of the dead birds, the commission said. The firm's workers will go door-to-door and pick up birds still in yards and on rooftops.
CNN's Tina Burnside and Shelby Lin Erdman contributed to this report. | positive |
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Imagine a stadium full of screaming fans.
Zoom in on the contestants. They're sweating from the intensity of the competition. What could it be? Boxing? MMA? Basketball? Tennis? American ninja warrior?
Nope.
It's electronic sports, also known as eSports, and the “athletes” are headset-wearing, energy-drink-guzzling, smart-drug-popping gamers.
And this sport is booming.
Top eSports tournaments now draw audiences that rival the biggest traditional sporting events, and live streams online routinely attract more than 100,000 viewers. Companies like Coke, Nissan and Red Bull sponsor tournaments, and last year alone, over 205 million people watched or played eSports.
As a matter of fact, today's eSports tournaments rival practically any big sporting event. The League of Legends Championship sold out Staples Center in 2013, then sold out the 40,000-seat World Cup Stadium in Seoul a year later while drawing an online audience of 27 million — more than the TV viewership for the final round of the Masters. Videos of these online gaming sports has more YouTube followers than news, movies and education combined.
There's money in this too. Check out the graphic below from ESPN:
ESPN.com illustration
But eSports isn't just online fun and money. There are some serious health risks involved with this sport. There's drugs. There's drug testing. There is the potential physiological effects of having your senses constantly bombarded by blue light, blue tooth and Wi-Fi.
So, in today's podcast, were going to take a deep dive into the crazy world of eSports. My guest today is Zach Burks, founder of a nootropic and smart drug company called NuSups. Zach started his career serving the USA in the Army, then moved to business with the knowledge he gained, and now specializes in enhancing mental and physical performance in gamers.
In today's episode, you're going to discover:
-How the exploding world of eSports works behind the scenes…
-The physical fitness demands of playing eSports…
-The health and sleep implications of the constant exposure to Wi-Fi, bluelight, Bluetooth and the other electronic assailants eSports athletes face…
-The “under-the-radar” kind of smart drugs or supplements these athletes are using…
-The difference between supplements used as stimulants and supplements used for calming effects…
-How drug testing in eSports works…
-The best smart drug and nootropic stacks being used in gaming…
-And much more!
Resources from this episode:
–Zach's website NuSups (use discount code is “brainyben1” for 10% and free shipping on any order)
–The movie “Gamer”
-Ben's liver cleansing stack: MPX100 + glutathione + n-acetylcysteine + chlorella + Alphabrain
–Blue light blocking glasses
-Notes from Zach's recommended stacks (all available from NuSups – use discount code is “brainyben1” for 10% and free shipping on any order)
Every stack needs 1 Choline Source, and 1 Synaptic Booster, at minimum! (real hardcore stackers like to include fish oils, and other vitamins as a requirement, but this isn't necessary for a basic stack). Listed below are some common nootropics/smart drugs and their category + effect.
Synaptic Boosters:
Piracetam –
Increased Memory
Improved Learning
Greater Focus
Heightened Sensory Function
Reduced Anxiety/Depression
Improved Vasodilation
Reduced Brain Trauma
Aniracetam –
Improved Memory
Increased Learning Ability
Improved Cognitive Processing
Heightened Reflexes
Heightened Perception
Reduced Anxiety
Reduced Depression
Oxiracetam –
Increase in Memory
Enhanced Learning Ability
Better Sensory Perception
Advance Technical Thinking
Improved Focus
Noopept –
Powerful Racetam
Boosts Acetylcholine production
The best Nootropic for creating and recalling memories, and learning.
Increases Neuron Growth
Neuroprotective – helps restore damaged parts of the brain
Phenlypiracetam –
Helps consolidate memory
Facilitates learning processes
Enhances Alertness & Focus
Improves Physical Performance
Improves Mood
Pramairacetam –
Overall Improved Cognition
Higher Sensory Perception
Improved Working/Long-Term Memory
Increased Learning
Enhanced Focus
Advanced Logical/Technical Thinking
Unlocked Areas of Thought
Adrafinil –
Improved short term memory
Improved attention and concentration
Enhanced clarity of thought
Normalization of sleep patterns
Less mental fatigue
Higher quality of self-awareness
Raised levels of optimism and enthusiasm for day to day life
Freedom from depression
Alpha GPC –
Increased learning
Improved memory
Heightened sensory perception
Increased focus
Improved motor skills
Pyritinol –
Improved memory
Faster Reaction time
Promotes Dopamine growth
Increased learning
Improved problem-solving skills
Enhanced sensory perception
ALCAR –
Powerful Anti-Oxidant
Boosts Acetylcholine production
Increases Learning, Mood, Clarity of Thought
Neuroprotective
Cognitive protectants below…
Centrophenoxine –
Choline Source
Fights Brain decline
Increases Learning, Mood, Clarity of Thought
Neuroprotective and boost Neuroplasticity
One of the safest supplements we sell
Citicoline –
Powerful Choline Source
Boosts Acetylcholine production
Increases Learning, Mood, and Clear Thoughts
Neuroprotective/Fights Brain Decline
L-Theanine –
Natural Nootropic
Boosts Alpha Brain waves
Boosts Neurotransmitters
Alleviates anxiety and stress
Neuroprotective/Fights Brain Decline
Noopept –
Powerful Racetam
Boosts Acetylcholine production
The best Nootropic for creating and recalling memories, and learning
Increases Neuron Growth
Neuroprotective – helps restore damaged parts of the brain
Piracetam –
Increased Memory
Improved Learning
Greater Focus
Heightened Sensory Function
Reduced Anxiety/Depression
Improved Vasodilation
Reduced Brain Trauma
Phenibut –
Anxiety reduction
Relaxation
Sleep induction
Reduced stress
Improved mood
Pyritinol –
Improved memory
Faster Reaction time
Promotes Dopamine growth
Increased learning
Improved problem-solving skills
Enhanced sensory perception
Choline sources
Alpha GPC –
Increased learning
Improved memory
Heightened sensory perception
Increased focus
Improved motor skills
ALCAR –
Powerful Anti-Oxidant
Boosts Acetylcholine production
Increases Learning, Mood, Clarity of Thought
Neuroprotective
A few example stacks with some average results listed below. Feel free to use this stack is you'd like the results listed.
Busy Mode:
20mg x Noopept
200mg x Phenylpiracetam
1gram x ALCAR
250mg x Adrafinil
This stack is something you will DEFINITELY feel. I call this the busy mode stack for one reason. The combination of Racetams and Adrafinil allow for complete focus as well as potential time dilation effects. You could tweak the amount of Adrafinil or Phenylpiracetam if this stack is too much for you: just lower the amounts by 50mgs.
Capital C(reativity) stack:
500mg x Aniracetam
150mg x Phenylpiracetam
300mg x Pyritinol
20mg x Noopept
150mg x L-Theanine
This stack is great for any artist or creative person who needs an extra boost for a project. This stack honestly bothers me sometimes because what happens to me is that I'll have 5 to 7 songs get stuck in my head a day: songs I haven't heard in years! Now obviously, this is highly personal and won't happen to everyone. But it's just a nice little way to explain the creative boost you'll get.
Do you have questions, comments or feedback about the exploding world of eSports, or anything else Zach and I discussed in this episode? Leave your thoughts below and either Zach or I will reply.
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[See also: Brainwashing in Academe: The Resident Assistant’s Tale, by Athena Kerry]
The late, great paleoconservative columnist Sam Francis called conservatism “the movement that doesn’t move.” He was wrong. The Establishment conservative movement moves backwards—shamelessly, unrepentantly, and proclaiming each new defeat a glorious victory.
And, perhaps uniquely in the history of political movements, this Conservatism Inc. has created a youth movement that is less militant, less dedicated, and less idealistic than its elderly apparatchiks. Rather than wanting to change the world, these young “rightists” are more interested in clambering to the top of already existing movement that has utterly failed in any of its stated intentions, careful to dissent from the zeitgeist only with the leave of their masters.
The house-training of American youth in general, and of its self-described “conservative” element in particular, was reflected in the latest report on “The American Freshman” from the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI). [National Norms 2011, PDF]
This report led to predictable MSM headlines gloating about the increasing liberalism of American college students. But it did also show that students see college primarily as a means to achieving better jobs. Despite a slight increase in activism, reflecting the rise of the Occupy Movement, there is no return to 1960s Leftist student radicalism.
The most dramatic change: college students’ ever increasing march towards what the campus Left calls “tolerance”:
An incredible 71.3 percent of students favored same-sex marriage, a 6.4 percentage point increase over two years.
A majority (42.1%) support admission preferences for “disadvantaged” students, up from 37.4% in 2009.
This survey question was poorly worded, making no distinctions between types of “disadvantage” (e.g., race vs. class). Still, it’s reasonable to conclude that most of the increase in support refers to race-based affirmative action. The response represents an all time high since the question was first asked in 1981.
The question on immigration was even more poorly worded, asking whether “undocumented students should be denied access to public education.” In contrast, the DREAM Act debate focuses only on whether illegal aliens should get the in-state discount when out of-state Americans do not. Unsurprisingly, a plurality were opposed to the statement, 47.2% vs., 43%. (Note, however, that this was still quite close—see below).
Support for pro-choice policies is also growing, with an increase from 58% in 2009 to 60.7% in 2011.
The HERI survey does find that there is no dramatic change in the proportions of students defining themselves as liberal or conservative. But the definition of a student “conservative” is shifting the Left. Self-identified conservatives were weak on all kinds of cultural issues:
Fully 42.8% of conservative college students favored same sex marriage, compared to 88.3% of liberals.
Some 37.4% of conservatives favored legal abortion, vs. 79.4% of liberals.
39% of “conservatives” support access to public education for illegals, compared to 70.4% of liberals.
On each of these core issues for conservatives, well over a third of self-described student “Rightists” are in fact Left—a fact that even the Left has noticed. [CPAC 2012: The ‘Surprisingly Progressive’ Edition By Tara Kutz, Campusprogress.org, February 13, 2012]
It is critical to note that much of this can be attributed to relentless social pressure. The campus Left may not believe in immersion when it comes to teaching students the English language, but they enthusiastically practice it when it comes to plunging students into intensive training, starting on day one, about what they are and are not allowed to talk about.
This training includes forcing whites to admit they are racist, separating and shaming students who oppose progressive sexual values, or outright banning discussion on certain topics. No dissent or exceptions are permissible. Accept the entire package—or be labeled a sexist, homophobe, racist, or all of the above.
Campus conservatives are literally frightened—very understandably—of what will descend on them if they dissent. Retaliation has included expulsions, [Teaching Student Expelled, FoxNews.com, May 11, 2005] bricks [At UNC, student protesters crash Tom Tancredo's party] and death threats at anti-illegal immigration events, or an outright push to eliminate religious or conservative groups on campuses altogether.
Conversely, of course, radicalized ethnic and sexual minorities are supported by an ever-growing number of “resource centers,” special programs, grade inflation, and entire departments that essentially function as set asides for unskilled minorities.
Young conservatives internalize this propaganda. They know instinctively when to duck.
Thus, Mark Luluan, a College Republican leader at Cal State East Bay asserts smugly, “My time is spent more on fiscal issues. Over the past four years, we haven’t really dealt with traditional socially conservative issues. Students are more concerned about getting a job after graduation.” At San Jose University, CR head Mark Williams [Email him] notes, “I think the conservatives in our club are not as focused on social issues. We’re not really for or against same-sex marriage.” [Liberalism spreading among college freshmen, survey finds, by Matt Krupnick, Inside Bay Area January 25, 2012]
Generally, the national conservative youth groups eschew controversy by limiting themselves to economic wonkery. Groups like the CRNC and Young America’s Foundation encourage students to talk about the debt and wax nostalgic about a President who died before today’s freshmen even entered high school.
There is of course, one notable exception to the trend of milquetoast conservatives: the dramatic rise of the libertarian movement on campus. The largest and most active campus organization in the country is Young Americans for Liberty, which claims hundreds of chapters performing activism such as “Visualize the Debt” and hosts well attended venues for Dr. Ron Paul, Dr. Tom Woods, and other libertarian speakers.
Unfortunately, YAL barely touches immigration issues, and when it does, it is on the other side. There are immigration patriots in this group, but they are silent.
Worse, another libertarian group, Students for Liberty, forthrightly supports exterminating the American identity. It defends capitalism precisely on the grounds that it undermines conservatism and traditional values. Its campus coordinators enthusiastically champion the usual “civil rights” causes and are particularly obsessed with championing gay groups. They invite immigrants like Reason Magazine columnist Shikha Dalmia (email her) to punish us for letting her come here by lecturing their mostly white audiences on why their ideology requires more immigrants.
Needless to say, Students For Liberty avoids Politically Incorrect causes that may technically fall under the cause of “liberty.” A column posted on its website about an affirmative action bake sale by the College Republicans says the real root of racism is “statism.” [Don’t Just Bake, Strike the Root!, by James Padilioni, Jr., September 27, 2011] There’s even a defense of critical race theory, and needless to say, no mention of official multiculturalism and its reliance on state support. [The Law Perverted: A Libertarian Approach to Black History Month, February 1, 2012 by James Padilioni, Jr.]
Movements that supposedly champion the radical libertarian economist Murray Rothbard might want to look at what he actually said on the subject.
Nonwhites, with the possible exception of Asians, have nothing to gain from limited government. If “liberty” is defined as cutting welfare and lowering taxes, it would objectively hurt most minorities. A return to “constitutional government” would lead to the wholesale destruction of the black middle class created by government employment and racial preferences that are a result of deliberate government intervention. It would devastate minority employment in universities. It would mean a reversal of the systematic government transfer of income. It would lead to a stratified society that would predictably divide along the usual racial lines.
Furthermore, leftists are, in some sense, correct when they point out that limited government and Constitutional order are products of a white society and “white privilege” that emphasizes private action more than egalitarian outcome. True conservatives might even accept this, but draw different policy conclusions.
As a lonely Youth for Ron Paul supporter of Indian descent commented, after she proclaimed herself a libertarian, people asked her “You’re a woman and you’re not white and you’re not a racist or a bigot, so why are you a libertarian?”
Why indeed?
Libertarians like Rothbard recognized this problem, which is why he wrote a free society requires an ideological defense of inequality in order to stay that away. In Rothbard’s words describing “Big Government Libertarians,” "scratch an egalitarian, and you find a statist”. But the student libertarian movements remain deliberately ignorant about these consequences of their proposed policies.
If, as a college student, you knew about Ron Paul before 2006, you were probably the Right of the Right. A student just now learning about Ron Paul is probably because of a noninterventionist foreign policy, civil liberties, and the Drug War. These are good reasons. (Even Congressman Tom Tancredo has come out in favor of marijuana legalization.) But on campus, this does not mean actually confronting any of the Left wing establishment that controls university resources, funding, and curriculum.
“Liberty” is increasingly defined as activist social progressivism mixed with quiet and ineffective advocacy for tax cuts. There is no danger in championing any of these positions. It is the illusion of dissent and the reality of conformity
The Cultural Marxist Left that controls the campus has no illusions about its dependence on government coercion. They are brazenly frank about their ends. And, absent opposition, they will achieve them, regardless of libertarians trying to make friends at Occupy protests or antiwar rallies.
Of course, the Establishment Conservative movement is worried about even illusory libertarian dissent—it might leads people to stop voting for such titans of liberty as Newt Gingrich. So it engages with libertarians and tries to keep them on the plantation. (This courtesy is not extended to the actual Right, which is hunted down relentlessly.)
As a result, much of the growth of the libertarian movement can be laid at the door of the Establishment Conservative movement—as no one, including conservatives themselves, knows what they stand for anymore. After all, if “conservatism” consists merely of rhetoric of limited government and economism, because no other issues are tolerated, why shouldn’t the more idealistic and intelligent students just become libertarians? Such remnants of social conservatism that do exist among the young conservatives are dependent on the petty celebrities that the Establishment movement promotes.
The ultimate irony: even as the entire right of center movement has gambled everything on limited government abstractions and economism, college students have, according to the HERI survey, become even more economically socialist than they are culturally liberal:
Among 18-29 year olds in general, a plurality favors socialism (47% to 43%).
A small plurality among the young actually has a more unfavorable than favorable opinion towards capitalism (47% to 46%).
A full 60.5% of all the students surveyed favor a national health care plan.
(Note that, even with the full might of university indoctrination behind the multicultural Left and the serious consequences faced by students who dissent on “racist” subjects, opposition to public education for illegals and opposition to affirmative action are both stronger than opposition to Obamacare. VDARE.com’s Kevin Carter noted exactly the same pattern in a 2007 poll of students).
Cultural conservatism may have been repressed in academe— but free market fundamentalism is also doomed to fail. Mass immigration—the Viagra of the State—will kill it as ever-increasing numbers of minorities are unable to compete at a group level in a capitalist system and turn to racial solidarity to extract more wealth transfers.
It’s sobering to realize how easily the Establishment Right has internalized what their enemies said about them and surrendered in battles they hadn’t even begun to fight . The Establishment movement will fundraise off the occasional right wing outbreak, but as a whole it remains focused spreading the message of tax cuts for millionaires. And Libertarians prefer to believe that the problem does not even exist and that the enemy is to the Right.
Unofficially, there is a real campus Right. Its host environment is so hostile, however, that it’s practically invisible to an untrained eye. It is detectable only in innumerable acts of quiet dissent. Laughing at parody-defying multicultural silliness, and avoiding infected departments and professors are but three of the real Right’s survival skills.
Immigration patriots can take heart that this real Right is stronger than it appears. But its members need protection from economic and social punishment if they step forward. Unfortunately, that protection must come from beyond the college campus. It will require a political champion emerging from the wreckage of the American conservative movement.
The Beltway games of the official movement may be amusing, but the future does not belong to them. It belongs to unrestrained Cultural Marxist Left—or to a Right Opposition with real resources that will no longer play by anyone’s rules.
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Updated at 3:30 p.m. Monday
Portland International Airport was packed Sunday with hundreds demonstrating against the executive order banning immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries signed by President Donald Trump last week.
Port of Portland officials say approximately 600 turned out, eclipsing the previous day's 100 to 150 demonstrators.
The presence of a four-man counter-protest at times turned tense as demonstrators from both camps clashed. One of the counter-demonstrators was assaulted just after 5 p.m., Port of Portland spokesman Steve Johnson said.
Grant Chisholm, 39 of Portland told The Oregonian/Oregonlive that he was at the airport with three other members of the group Bible Believers for a counter-protest when a Trump opponent hit him in the head three times with something metallic. Chisholm dropped and drifted in and out of unconsciousness, he said, while vomiting as other protesters kicked him in the head.
"They almost killed me tonight," Chisholm said.
A thee-minute video posted on a Facebook site called "Women for Trump Movement" shows a man falling to the ground inside the terminal after another man punches him in the head. People immediately circle the man on the ground and appear to keep the shouting crowd at bay. Police eventually arrive to control the throng. The man stirs and raises his hand for help as some people chant: "Peaceful protest."
Another video sent to The Oregonian/OregonLive shows the counter-protesters surrounded in a mutual shout-off at one point outside the airport terminal when at least two of the counter-protesters take down a demonstrator by the hair.
The demonstration began at the Southwest Airlines kiosk at the terminal at 2 p.m., where about 300 people gathered. It was one of several such gatherings throughout the country protesting the president's executive order.
After a few minutes of chanting, they exited to a "free speech zone" just outside the terminal at the passenger drop-off area.
Airport personnel diverted traffic for an hour while protesters chanted outside the terminal. Rabbi Joseph Wolf of Havorah Shalom was among the crowd.
When he heard Trump signed the executive order, Wolf said he "got a pit in my stomach."
"It hurt. Every hour this week it was something -- but this was like a knife," he said.
We're at Portland International Airport for the second day of the #nobanpdx protest against Donald Trump's executive order on immigration. Posted by The Oregonian on Sunday, January 29, 2017
What made it worse, Wolf said, was the timing of the administration's decree. Trump signed the executive order on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
"It's hard for me to talk about it without tears. It's personal," he said.
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, Rep. Suzanne Bonamici and Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler gave short speeches, with mixed results.
Those gathered cheered for Merkley and Bonamici, who pledged to fight Trump on the ban as well as the confirmation of Betsy DeVos as education secretary. But when Wheeler took the bullhorn to pledge a commitment to keep Portland a sanctuary city, he was immediately shouted down by members of the crowd.
Portland's Resistance member Luis-Enrique Marquez started to chant "you lie" as Wheeler spoke. Marquez told The Oregonian/OregonLive that it was disingenuous for the mayor to speak in support of protesters when a week earlier he had given Portland police the go-ahead to break up Inauguration Day demonstrations.
"Mayor Wheeler will not let us out in the streets without a $3,000 permit -- the same thing he's out here with us for," Marquez said.
Shortly afterward, a series of shouting matches broke out between the four men staging the counter-protest and a group of anti-Trump demonstrators.
The men said they were there to offer a different viewpoint, claiming they were concerned about Syrian refugees entering the country and accusing the anti-Trump demonstrators of embracing terrorists.
The counter-demonstration followed the group of hundreds inside, later taking refuge on a balcony as the two groups attempted to out-shout each other near the Made in Oregon store.
After about an hour, the counter-protesters moved on as the larger crowd made its way through the airport. Security agents blocked off concourses A, B and C as the march moved on.
The throng moved through the airport in a loop, eventually making its way to baggage claim. Once there, demonstrators spilled into the street and temporarily blocked traffic.
That was at about 5 p.m.
Soon after, a scuffle broke out between the four counter-protesters and anti-Trump demonstrators, which resulted in the assault of Chisholm.
Chisholm said he's been to many protests to preach and has been hurt before. He said one man in particular became aggressive, asking to fight. Chisholm said police in riot gear swarmed the area to pull the protesters apart. Portland police spokesman Pete Simpson confirmed that the agency assisted in crowd control, using an FN 303 riot gun after the assault.
Police put Chisholm in an ambulance for Legacy Emannuel Medical Center. He was released about two hours later. He said he suffered a concussion but is fine.
Port officials are collecting information on the incident. There were no arrests, Johnson said.
The interruption didn't faze those gathered -- a crowd approximately 200 strong kept chanting just outside the United Airlines kiosk at the terminal before heading back for another tour of the airport.
The protest ended just before 6 p.m. as Portland Resistance leader Gregory McKelvey addressed the crowd, suggesting demonstrators walk to the MAX station in a group.
Reporter Lynne Terry contributed to this story.
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Too big to fail, and only getting bigger January 7, 2016 Posted by Guest Blogger
Even since the global financial crisis, the five largest U.S. banks have managed to grab hold of more of the financial sector than ever before - increasing their assets by over 150 percent in just the past 8 years. Photo: Alamy http://bit.ly/1ZOcWXI
Seven years after the start of the financial crisis and the biggest U.S. banks are bigger than ever (and growing).
Stephanie Fontana is former Research Intern at Oxfam America.
I’ve been learning a lot about the U.S. financial sector recently and was surprised to realize that the five largest U.S. banks – JP Morgan Chase Bank, Bank of America, Citibank, Wells Fargo Bank, and US Bank – control nearly half of all assets in the U.S. banking sector. For those who have been working in this field for some time, this news may not be surprising. But what is perhaps most distressing is that this trend was not stopped – or even really slowed – by the financial crisis, and the five biggest banks continue to grab hold of a larger and larger share of total banking assets over time.
The U.S. banking sector is enormous, holding $15.8 trillion in assets – 26 percent of the total for U.S. multinational enterprises across all industries. A small number of massive banks dominate this powerful industry with the five largest banks collectively holding $6.9 trillion in assets – 44 percent of total U.S. bank assets as of the end of September.
Since 1992, the total assets held by the five largest U.S. banks has increased by nearly fifteen times! Back then, the five largest banks held just 10 percent of the banking industry total. Today, JP Morgan alone holds over 12 percent of the industry total, a greater share than the five biggest banks put together in 1992.
Even in the midst of the global financial crisis, the largest U.S. banks managed to increase their hold on total bank industry assets. The assets held by the five largest banks in 2007 – $4.6 trillion – increased by more than 150 percent over the past 8 years. These five banks went from holding 35 percent of industry assets in 2007 to 44 percent today.
As these big banks accumulate more and more money, the vast majority of Americans have been stuck with the same median wage since 1999. Citing the 2014 wage report by the Social Security Administration (SSA), David Cay Johnston points out that pre-tax incomes for 90 percent of taxpayers were the same in real terms in 2013 as they were in 1966. So, as economic conditions remain stagnant for most Americans, the largest U.S. banks continue to hold an ever increasing amount of assets.
These trends are troubling in the context of rapidly rising economic inequality. Worldwide, the top 1% of people own more wealth than everyone else combined. Inequality is staggering within the U.S. as well. According to a report released last month by the Institute for Policy Studies, the richest 20 Americans own more wealth than the bottom half of Americans. For the top 20, this wealth averages to $36 billion per person, but for the bottom half, it is just $4,575 each. The authors of the IPS report think that these numbers are even underestimating the levels of inequality as more and more wealthy individuals and institutions hide their assets using offshore tax havens and legal trusts.
As resources become highly concentrated in the hands of fewer and fewer individuals and institutions, the imbalance threatens economic, political, and social inclusion. These massive banks use their wealth to wield significant political and economic power in the U.S., in the countries where they operate, and in the international arena.
For example, bank lobbyists worked hard to dilute the strength and prevent the successful implementation of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, one of the most significant financial regulatory reforms since the Great Depression. In explaining “How Wall Street Defanged Dodd Frank,” Gary Rivlin found that in 2012 the five main consumer protection groups had 20 lobbyists supporting financial reform while the five main finance industry groups sent over 400 lobbyists to Capitol Hill to delay, dilute, and dismantle the reforms. With the financial industry spending more than $1 billion to prevent reform, only about 40 percent of Dodd-Frank’s 400 or so provisions were finalized a full three years after its adoption.
Big bank lobbying efforts have also contributed to the sharp rise in the concentration of banking assets – a rise which stems from regulatory changes favoring the financial sector in the 1980s. Large banks exerted their political power to push for less regulation of the financial sector, and this period saw the removal of regulations preventing banking activity across state lines and requiring the separation of deposit-taking, insurance, and investment banking in different legal entities, among many others. The changes led to unprecedented consolidation of the financial sector with single institutions operating across the industry to provide household and commercial banking, insurance, and investment services. Over this period of deregulation, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) data show that the number of commercial banks and savings institutions in the U.S. dropped by 64 percent from 17,901 in 1984 to 6,509 in 2014. At the same time, the value of industry assets increased by over 400 percent.
This trend is rapid and troubling. As financial reform advocates continue to fight for greater consumer protections and reversal of this trend, more voices are needed. Add yours. | positive |
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The Irish authorities have conducted a series of raids on fishing vessels in ports around the country as part of an investigation into the use of undocumented migrant workers.
The Irish police, the Gardai, declined to comment on the operation, saying it was not yet complete. But it is understood from local sources that officers from its immigration unit, together with the Irish navy, the Workplace Relations Commission and the Office of the Revenue Commissioners targeted trawlers in Castletownbere, in County Cork, and Howth in Dublin on Wednesday. They moved on to other key fishing ports on Thursday.
The Guardian understands the operation was undertaken as part of the Santa Marta project – the initiative led by the pope to tackle human trafficking and modern-day slavery. The project has made the exploitation of migrants in the global fishing sector one of its priorities. Local media reported that the raid teams were focusing on the routes used by Asian and African migrant fishermen to enter Ireland.
An emergency taskforce was set up by the Irish government last year to tackle the illegal employment of Asian and African migrants in its fleet. The government said in February it would issue up to 500 specially created work permits for fishermen from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) after allegations that they were being exploited as cheap labour.
Senior figures in the industry had predicted that at least 1,000 work permits would be needed to ensure the protection of all non-EEA fishermen working in the Irish fleet. Only some 160 permits had been applied for by the scheme’s deadline.
Sources said the operation this week was also aimed at checking whether the permit scheme was working. The fishermen’s union, the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), welcomed the police checks, saying its own port visits in recent months suggested some boat owners were still using undocumented labour and refusing to apply for permits for their workers.
The permit scheme requires owners to register, provide a solicitor-backed contract to workers, and pay the legal minimum wage. ITF’s Ireland coordinator, Ken Fleming, said strong enforcement action was needed “to end the widespread abuse of vulnerable fishers by unscrupulous employers”.
Several Filipino workers have used the scheme to regularise their position after years of working in the state illegally. They told us how happy they were to be properly documented and free to visit their families back home and return to work.
However, migrant support groups expressed concern that the raids were focused on immigration breaches rather than labour exploitation. The Migrant Rights Centre Ireland said it has been contacted by several fishermen who had been put on notice to report to immigration authorities following the raids. “No one asked them about their employment conditions or checked for human trafficking. They are targeting those we most need to help rather than unscrupulous owners,” said Gráinne O’Toole, an MRCI coordinator. | positive |
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - An Oregon woman who groped another passenger during a flight from Las Vegas to Portland has been sentenced to eight months of home detention.
The Oregonian/OregonLive reports that 27-year-old Heidi McKinney of Banks declined to make a statement during Monday's sentencing at the federal courthouse in Portland. She pleaded guilty earlier this year to assault with intent to commit a felony.
McKinney was arrested May 8, 2016, after the Alaska Airlines flight landed at Portland International Airport. The 19-year-old victim told authorities she had been touched on the breast and genitals without consent by another female passenger.
In addition to home detention, McKinney was sentenced to three years on probation.
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Heidi McKinney had been charged with abusive sexual contact, but pleaded guilty in March to assault with the intent to commit a felony.
Federal prosecutors asked a judge to sentence McKinney to mandatory drug and alcohol counseling and monitoring and order her to pay $3,000 in restitution.
Shortly after taking a plea deal, McKinney was found unconscious and intoxicated at a local bar, according to court documents. She eventually completed an inpatient treatment program in mid-June.
The investigation began on May 8, 2016 when a 19-year-old woman boarded a flight in Las Vegas to come back home to Portland.
The flight was nearly full, with only two open seats being the middle and window seats in the victim's row. After nearly every passenger was seated, the victim heard two women board the aircraft. The women were described as being "rowdy."
McKinney, according to court documents, took her seat in the victim's row and placed her hands on the female passenger's chest "allowing her hands to linger there uncomfortably."
After taking her seat, McKinney attempted to have small talk with the seated passenger and was asking personal questions that the victim did not want to answer.
The small talk consisted of insulting the victim's perceived economic status and McKinney bragging about her own purported wealth. McKinney even took several photos of the victim during which McKinney placed her arm around the victim, according to court documents.
"As the plane took off, things got worse," court documents state.
The harassment continued. McKinney pressured the victim to drink liquor that she had smuggled onto the plane. When the victim refused, McKinney held the small bottle up to the victim's face and then threw it on the victim's lap.
The verbal abuse turned physical when McKinney started licking the victim's ear, grabbing her hands and attempting to place them on McKinney's breasts and placing her hands on the victim's crotch three separate times, according to court documents.
The physical abuse culminated with McKinney "climbing on top of the victim and telling the victim that she wanted to [redacted]," according to court documents.
When the victim pushed McKinney off, McKinney cursed at her and called her "poor." The flight crew eventually moved the woman away from McKinney.
"McKinney's aggressive criminal behavior is both shocking and abhorrent," federal prosecutors wrote in court documents.
The victim remains "deeply traumatized" by the unprovoked aggression and will suffer the effects for the rest of her life, according to prosecutors.
"Viewed in isolation, McKinney's criminal behavior is certainly deserving of incarceration – and the United States would likely have sought a significant jail sentence under most circumstances…. McKinney history of alcohol and substance abuse should serve as mitigating factors in the Court's fashioning of a sentence." | positive |
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Nvidia says it has a solution for healthcare’s data problems WELCOME TO The HEALTHCARE REPORT Newsletter | Member Login | Signup NEWS Featured News Trending News EVENTS Upcoming Conferences Past Conferences Live Webinars On-Demand Webinars COMPANIES C-Suite On Deck Thought Leaders Guest Contributors RESOURCES Articles Videos Whitepapers Infographics Webinar Home > News > Trending news > Nvidia says it has a solution for healthcare’s data problems Nvidia says it has a solution for healthcare’s data problems MedCity News | January 16, 2020 Healthcare leaders wouldn’t stop talking about one topic at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference: artificial intelligence. At Boston Consulting Group’s annual look-ahead for 2020, audience members rated digital, analytics and innovation as the top strategic priority for healthcare companies, even above pricing, access and M&A. But healthcare companies face a unique challenge in that patient data is tied up in disparate health record systems, and subject to more stringent privacy laws. Chipmaker Nvidia best known for its work powering the graphics seen in video games touted a new solution on Thursday. The company already has an existing line of technology products for imaging and genomics, called Nvidia Clara. In December, Nvidia unveiled a new application development framework that would allow researchers and drugmakers to collaborate without sharing patient data. Spotlight Molina Healthcare Engages Teens to Improve Health Molina works with teens in communities across the country to improve their health. Other News HEALTH TECHNOLOGY Software Identifies Unreported Mental Health Issues in Teens Advanced Metrics | August 26, 2022 Advanced Metrics and Samaritan Counseling Center today announced the release of QUALO Behavioral Health, a cloud-based software designed to proactively screen teens for mental and emotional wellbeing. "An easy to implement mental health screening strategy gives schools a targeted opportunity to engage and empower students who need connected to community resources because they are struggling with feelings of depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts." Steve Schedler, Samaritan Counseling QUALO Behavioral Health software revolutionizes teen mental health screening by innovatively simplifying the entire screening process. The software guides youth through industry standard screening tools to understand their current emotional wellbeing. Mental health professionals are immediately provided with data supporting an "at-risk" or "not at risk" identification and are guided through an intentional follow-up process. "With the mental health crisis facing teens today, we knew it was critical to develop a software that supports teen's mental well-being and normalizes conversations about mental health. We designed this software so schools can implement it independently or through collaboration with an outside agency. Either way, the platform will support students, inform administrators, and enhance any mental health strategy a school is implementing." Steven Herr PhD, Advanced Metrics Advanced Metrics is a Software as a Service company dedicated to improving the health of individuals and communities through science informed software and human centered data analysis. Advanced Metrics designed QUALO, a comprehensive web-based solution, to empower human service organizations to deliver services that generate quality life outcomes. TeenHope is a student mental and emotional wellbeing education and screening program in Lancaster, PA. TeenHope is supported by Samaritan Counseling Center, which provides professional counseling, consultation and education for individuals, couples, businesses, and clergy. Read More HEALTHTECH SECURITY Health Alliance Improves Outcomes and Reduces Costs Using CareSignal’s Deviceless Remote Patient Monitoring CareSignal, Health Alliance | June 27, 2022 Health AllianceTM, the health plan of Illinois-based Carle Health, is leading the way for rising-risk populations by launching a remote patient monitoring program powered by CareSignal. This program is part of Hally® health, the member-facing telehealth app Health Alliance uses to give its members access to tools and resources for their well-being. The partnership between Health Alliance and CareSignal aims to reduce readmissions, reduce spending, and improve members’ experience while increasing health literacy and empowering members to better self-manage their chronic conditions. The partnership is serving shared Medicare and Commercial populations and is expanding to Carle Health’s Accountable Care Organization. CareSignal’s scalable remote patient monitoring technology sends evidence-based questions directly via phone call or text message to the member. Questions focus on the member’s health status and encourage adherence to their health management plan through reporting of symptoms and daily habits while monitoring changes in risk status. Indications of worsening symptoms can trigger real-time alerts to allow for intervention, including proactive health coaching and escalation of care. Health Alliance is currently prioritizing Chronic Obstructive Respiratory Disease congestive heart failure, hypertension, asthma, and post-discharge care, and is hoping to add additional populations. Health Alliance is also bolstering its care coordination team with CareSignal’s virtual care navigators enabling them to manage a larger member population without needing additional staff. VCNs are the first to intervene with members before escalating to the Health Alliance care coordination team and/or primary care physician. By handling routine review, education and scheduling tasks when needed, the VCNs enable the Health Alliance care coordination team to work at the top of their license. The program provides increased support for members without increased touch points from providers. “Our team selected CareSignal as the best fit for our Health Alliance remote patient monitoring strategy due to its clinically validated pathways, ability to scale, and ease of use for our members. We believe by adding remote patient monitoring to our population health services, we will improve quality of care and health outcomes, expand access to care management, reduce disparities in health outcomes, enhance the member experience, and reduce hospitalizations, ED visits, and readmission rates.” Margie Zeglen, MBA, FACHE, Vice President of Population Health at Health Alliance and Carle Health “The expansion of this relationship is a result of the clinical and strategic vision that Carle and Health Alliance teammates bring to our partnership,” said Blake Marggraff, CEO of CareSignal, a Lightbeam Company. “Given the ongoing, nationwide staffing challenges that healthcare organizations face, the CareSignal team is particularly proud to be able to support Health Alliance with both the technology and clinical resources required for success. I look forward to serving even more individuals’ clinical needs while simultaneously serving a terrific client-partner.” About Health Alliance Based in Champaign, IL, Health Alliance operates in Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, and Washington with additional licenses in Nebraska and Missouri. Health Alliance is part of Carle Health, an integrated system of healthcare services, which includes a five-hospital system as multi-specialty physician groups, as well as Carle Illinois College of Medicine and the Stephens Family Clinical Research Institute. In Illinois, Health Alliance offers employer group plans, individual plans, Medicare plans, State of Illinois Employee plans, and State of Illinois Retiree plans through Total Retiree Advantage Illinois. In Iowa, Health Alliance offers employer group plans and Medicare plans. In Washington, we offer Medicare plans and public individual plans. And in Indiana and Ohio, Health Alliance offers Medicare plans. About CareSignal – a Lightbeam Health Solutions Company CareSignal offers Deviceless Remote Patient Monitoring® which is specifically designed for value-based care by leveraging real-time, self-reported patient data and artificial intelligence to produce long-term patient engagement while identifying clinically actionable moments for proactive care delivery. Together, Lightbeam and CareSignal align best-in-class population health capabilities with proven remote engagement and monitoring solutions serving more than 42 million patient lives across the United States. Lightbeam’s vision is to shine a light on health data using analytics, and to provide the insight and capabilities healthcare clients need to ensure patients receive the right care at the right time. Learn more about solutions specific to your organization and population by visiting our website or trying a self-guided demo. Read More HEALTH TECHNOLOGY Leading ACOs are Choosing Innovaccer’s ACO REACH Solution Suite to Improve Population Health and Advance Health Equity Innovaccer Inc., | August 05, 2022 Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company, announced the expansion of its Solution Suite for ACO REACH participants. With its ACO REACH Solution Suite, Innovaccer has taken its entire portfolio of solutions that several leading ACOs across the country use, to help New Entrant ACOs and High Needs Population ACOs accelerate their transformation and advance health equity. Since the initial launch of the ACO REACH Solution Suite in April, Innovaccer has rapidly expanded its client base to include new entrants such as UpStream, Florence Health, and many more organizations that are accelerating their transformation to value-based care. These organizations are leveraging Innovaccer’s end-to-end technology platform to build a unified data foundation, develop population health management strategies, and better engage physicians and patients. For example, UpStream chose Innovaccer as their technology partner to get a 360-degree patient view that provides actionable insights at the point of care to help improve outcomes, employ advanced analytics to assess and predict health risks to help keep patients out of the hospital, and use clinically contextual patient engagement throughout the care continuum to help improve chronic care management and the overall patient experience. “Traditionally, many practices don’t have the experience or resources to take on the financial risks associated with value-based care models, especially for older, higher-risk populations,” said Lucas Sahm, chief information officer at UpStream. “UpStream is deeply rooted in data, which makes partnering with Innovaccer a logical step for us because we speak the same language and have the same goal: to connect, curate, and make better use of healthcare data to improve patient outcomes, improve the patient experience, while also improving financial outcomes for providers.” Innovaccer’s ACO REACH Solution Suite brings technology and services together to help providers jump-start and excel at this new value-based model: the Innovaccer Health Cloud’s Data Activation Platform, Innovaccer’s industry-leading population health management solution, Innovaccer’s world-class population health analytics; and Innovaccer’s comprehensive SDoH solution for identifying, understanding, and mitigating social determinants—an absolute essential for supporting health equity, access to care, and community health. “Through ACO REACH, the CMS is paving the way for provider organizations to advance health equity through value-based care. To succeed with this new program, they need the right people, processes, and technologies to help develop, implement, and optimize their shared savings strategies. As a technology-enabled service, our enhanced ACO REACH Solutions Suite enables providers to identify and address SDoH factors, reach vulnerable populations with remote patient monitoring, identify relevant care gaps and utilization trends, predict obstacles, and assist providers and patients in optimizing outcomes. We’ve strived to include everything a provider could need in a technology-enabled solution to succeed as a REACH ACO.” Abhinav Shashank, cofounder and CEO at Innovaccer Innovaccer has a proven history of helping health organizations succeed under risk-bearing, value-based care models. Reach out to an Innovaccer representative today to get a demo of the Innovaccer® Health Cloud’s Data Activation Platform or to find out how we are helping provider partners like you with the tools they need to reach underserved patients, identify and address SDoH, and progress in the movement toward health equity. For more information, please visit https://innovaccer.com/accelerators/aco-reach. About Innovaccer Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company, is dedicated to accelerating innovation in healthcare. The Innovaccer® Health Cloud unifies patient data across systems and care settings, and empowers healthcare organizations to develop scalable, modern applications that improve clinical, financial, and operational outcomes. Innovaccer’s solutions have been deployed across more than 1,600 care settings in the U.S., enabling more than 96,000 providers to transform care delivery and work collaboratively with payers and life sciences companies. 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The transaction is being led by Paul Hepper, Nick Owens, Lucas Scholl, Rob Crampton and Gabby Struckell of the Harris Williams Healthcare & Life Sciences Group. “Investor interest in outsourced pharma commercialization services is driven by complex therapies becoming an increasing portion of new drug launches, declining access to physicians, and the increasing importance of directly reaching patient populations. Differentiated platforms such as The CM Group are benefiting disproportionally from these trends,” said Paul Hepper, a managing director at Harris Williams. “The combination of OPEN Health and The CM Group brings together two best-in-class commercialization businesses, with stellar reputations in the industry and an exciting opportunity to service leading pharmaceutical companies globally,” said Nick Owens, a director at Harris Williams. “Harris Williams was a phenomenal partner and exceeded our expectations throughout the transaction. The team’s knowledge of the sector and extensive buyer relationships led to an optimal outcome. We look forward to the next phase of growth with the OPEN Health and Astorg teams and are excited about building a global leader in pharma commercialization,” Daniel Leonard, CEO of The CM Group Grounded in science—and powered by the patient voice—The CM Group is an integrated healthcare agency of innovative and imaginative subject-matter experts dedicated to providing scientific and commercialization strategies and services to the life sciences industry. NaviMed is a Washington, D.C.-based private capital firm with over $400 million of assets under management, focused exclusively on the healthcare industry. NaviMed invests in fast-growing lower-middle market healthcare businesses that it believes are poised to benefit from the reform and technology innovation reshaping the healthcare industry. The firm focuses on healthcare services, healthcare IT, hospital products and pharmaceutical services businesses. NaviMed targets profitable private companies with up to $10 million of EBITDA and double-digit revenue growth. NaviMed’s senior investment team has a track record of value creation spanning, in the aggregate, dozens of investments and more than $11 billion of enterprise value created over the course of their combined careers. OPEN Health brings together deep scientific knowledge, global understanding, and broad specialist expertise to support its clients in improving health outcomes and patient wellbeing. OPEN Health is united as one flexible organization, harnessing the power of the collective to solve complex challenges. Astorg is a European private equity firm with over €17 billion of assets under management. Astorg works with entrepreneurs and management teams to acquire market leading global companies headquartered in Europe or the U.S., providing them with the strategic guidance, governance and capital they need to achieve their growth plans. Enjoying a distinct entrepreneurial culture, a long-term shareholder perspective and a lean decision-making body, Astorg has valuable industry expertise in healthcare, software, technology, business services and technology-based industrial companies. Astorg has offices in London; Paris; New York; Frankfurt, Germany; Milan; and Luxembourg. Harris Williams, an investment bank specializing in M&A advisory services, advocates for sellers and buyers of companies worldwide through critical milestones and provides thoughtful advice during the lives of their businesses. By collaborating as one firm across Industry Groups and geographies, the firm helps its clients achieve outcomes that support their objectives and strategically create value. Harris Williams is committed to execution excellence and to building enduring, valued relationships that are based on mutual trust. Harris Williams is a subsidiary of the PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. The Harris Williams HCLS Group has experience across a broad range of sectors, including healthcare providers; payors and payor services; outsourced pharmaceutical services; medical device supply chain; healthcare IT; and pharmacy. Harris Williams LLC is a registered broker-dealer and member of FINRA and SIPC. Harris Williams & Co. Ltd is a private limited company incorporated under English law with its registered office at 8th Floor, 20 Farringdon Street, London EC4A 4AB, UK, registered with the Registrar of Companies for England and Wales (registration number 07078852). Harris Williams & Co. Ltd is authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Harris Williams & Co. Corporate Finance Advisors GmbH is registered in the commercial register of the local court of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, under HRB 107540. The registered address is Bockenheimer Landstrasse 33-35, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Geschäftsführer/Directors: Jeffery H. Perkins, Paul Poggi.Harris Williams is a trade name under which Harris Williams LLC, Harris Williams & Co. Ltd and Harris Williams & Co. Corporate Finance Advisors GmbH conduct business. Read More HEALTH TECHNOLOGY Software Identifies Unreported Mental Health Issues in Teens Advanced Metrics | August 26, 2022 Advanced Metrics and Samaritan Counseling Center today announced the release of QUALO Behavioral Health, a cloud-based software designed to proactively screen teens for mental and emotional wellbeing. "An easy to implement mental health screening strategy gives schools a targeted opportunity to engage and empower students who need connected to community resources because they are struggling with feelings of depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts." Steve Schedler, Samaritan Counseling QUALO Behavioral Health software revolutionizes teen mental health screening by innovatively simplifying the entire screening process. The software guides youth through industry standard screening tools to understand their current emotional wellbeing. Mental health professionals are immediately provided with data supporting an "at-risk" or "not at risk" identification and are guided through an intentional follow-up process. "With the mental health crisis facing teens today, we knew it was critical to develop a software that supports teen's mental well-being and normalizes conversations about mental health. We designed this software so schools can implement it independently or through collaboration with an outside agency. Either way, the platform will support students, inform administrators, and enhance any mental health strategy a school is implementing." Steven Herr PhD, Advanced Metrics Advanced Metrics is a Software as a Service company dedicated to improving the health of individuals and communities through science informed software and human centered data analysis. Advanced Metrics designed QUALO, a comprehensive web-based solution, to empower human service organizations to deliver services that generate quality life outcomes. TeenHope is a student mental and emotional wellbeing education and screening program in Lancaster, PA. TeenHope is supported by Samaritan Counseling Center, which provides professional counseling, consultation and education for individuals, couples, businesses, and clergy. Read More HEALTHTECH SECURITY Health Alliance Improves Outcomes and Reduces Costs Using CareSignal’s Deviceless Remote Patient Monitoring CareSignal, Health Alliance | June 27, 2022 Health AllianceTM, the health plan of Illinois-based Carle Health, is leading the way for rising-risk populations by launching a remote patient monitoring program powered by CareSignal. This program is part of Hally® health, the member-facing telehealth app Health Alliance uses to give its members access to tools and resources for their well-being. The partnership between Health Alliance and CareSignal aims to reduce readmissions, reduce spending, and improve members’ experience while increasing health literacy and empowering members to better self-manage their chronic conditions. The partnership is serving shared Medicare and Commercial populations and is expanding to Carle Health’s Accountable Care Organization. CareSignal’s scalable remote patient monitoring technology sends evidence-based questions directly via phone call or text message to the member. Questions focus on the member’s health status and encourage adherence to their health management plan through reporting of symptoms and daily habits while monitoring changes in risk status. Indications of worsening symptoms can trigger real-time alerts to allow for intervention, including proactive health coaching and escalation of care. Health Alliance is currently prioritizing Chronic Obstructive Respiratory Disease congestive heart failure, hypertension, asthma, and post-discharge care, and is hoping to add additional populations. Health Alliance is also bolstering its care coordination team with CareSignal’s virtual care navigators enabling them to manage a larger member population without needing additional staff. VCNs are the first to intervene with members before escalating to the Health Alliance care coordination team and/or primary care physician. By handling routine review, education and scheduling tasks when needed, the VCNs enable the Health Alliance care coordination team to work at the top of their license. The program provides increased support for members without increased touch points from providers. “Our team selected CareSignal as the best fit for our Health Alliance remote patient monitoring strategy due to its clinically validated pathways, ability to scale, and ease of use for our members. We believe by adding remote patient monitoring to our population health services, we will improve quality of care and health outcomes, expand access to care management, reduce disparities in health outcomes, enhance the member experience, and reduce hospitalizations, ED visits, and readmission rates.” Margie Zeglen, MBA, FACHE, Vice President of Population Health at Health Alliance and Carle Health “The expansion of this relationship is a result of the clinical and strategic vision that Carle and Health Alliance teammates bring to our partnership,” said Blake Marggraff, CEO of CareSignal, a Lightbeam Company. “Given the ongoing, nationwide staffing challenges that healthcare organizations face, the CareSignal team is particularly proud to be able to support Health Alliance with both the technology and clinical resources required for success. I look forward to serving even more individuals’ clinical needs while simultaneously serving a terrific client-partner.” About Health Alliance Based in Champaign, IL, Health Alliance operates in Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, and Washington with additional licenses in Nebraska and Missouri. Health Alliance is part of Carle Health, an integrated system of healthcare services, which includes a five-hospital system as multi-specialty physician groups, as well as Carle Illinois College of Medicine and the Stephens Family Clinical Research Institute. In Illinois, Health Alliance offers employer group plans, individual plans, Medicare plans, State of Illinois Employee plans, and State of Illinois Retiree plans through Total Retiree Advantage Illinois. In Iowa, Health Alliance offers employer group plans and Medicare plans. In Washington, we offer Medicare plans and public individual plans. And in Indiana and Ohio, Health Alliance offers Medicare plans. About CareSignal – a Lightbeam Health Solutions Company CareSignal offers Deviceless Remote Patient Monitoring® which is specifically designed for value-based care by leveraging real-time, self-reported patient data and artificial intelligence to produce long-term patient engagement while identifying clinically actionable moments for proactive care delivery. Together, Lightbeam and CareSignal align best-in-class population health capabilities with proven remote engagement and monitoring solutions serving more than 42 million patient lives across the United States. Lightbeam’s vision is to shine a light on health data using analytics, and to provide the insight and capabilities healthcare clients need to ensure patients receive the right care at the right time. Learn more about solutions specific to your organization and population by visiting our website or trying a self-guided demo. Read More HEALTH TECHNOLOGY Leading ACOs are Choosing Innovaccer’s ACO REACH Solution Suite to Improve Population Health and Advance Health Equity Innovaccer Inc., | August 05, 2022 Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company, announced the expansion of its Solution Suite for ACO REACH participants. With its ACO REACH Solution Suite, Innovaccer has taken its entire portfolio of solutions that several leading ACOs across the country use, to help New Entrant ACOs and High Needs Population ACOs accelerate their transformation and advance health equity. Since the initial launch of the ACO REACH Solution Suite in April, Innovaccer has rapidly expanded its client base to include new entrants such as UpStream, Florence Health, and many more organizations that are accelerating their transformation to value-based care. These organizations are leveraging Innovaccer’s end-to-end technology platform to build a unified data foundation, develop population health management strategies, and better engage physicians and patients. For example, UpStream chose Innovaccer as their technology partner to get a 360-degree patient view that provides actionable insights at the point of care to help improve outcomes, employ advanced analytics to assess and predict health risks to help keep patients out of the hospital, and use clinically contextual patient engagement throughout the care continuum to help improve chronic care management and the overall patient experience. “Traditionally, many practices don’t have the experience or resources to take on the financial risks associated with value-based care models, especially for older, higher-risk populations,” said Lucas Sahm, chief information officer at UpStream. “UpStream is deeply rooted in data, which makes partnering with Innovaccer a logical step for us because we speak the same language and have the same goal: to connect, curate, and make better use of healthcare data to improve patient outcomes, improve the patient experience, while also improving financial outcomes for providers.” Innovaccer’s ACO REACH Solution Suite brings technology and services together to help providers jump-start and excel at this new value-based model: the Innovaccer Health Cloud’s Data Activation Platform, Innovaccer’s industry-leading population health management solution, Innovaccer’s world-class population health analytics; and Innovaccer’s comprehensive SDoH solution for identifying, understanding, and mitigating social determinants—an absolute essential for supporting health equity, access to care, and community health. “Through ACO REACH, the CMS is paving the way for provider organizations to advance health equity through value-based care. To succeed with this new program, they need the right people, processes, and technologies to help develop, implement, and optimize their shared savings strategies. As a technology-enabled service, our enhanced ACO REACH Solutions Suite enables providers to identify and address SDoH factors, reach vulnerable populations with remote patient monitoring, identify relevant care gaps and utilization trends, predict obstacles, and assist providers and patients in optimizing outcomes. We’ve strived to include everything a provider could need in a technology-enabled solution to succeed as a REACH ACO.” Abhinav Shashank, cofounder and CEO at Innovaccer Innovaccer has a proven history of helping health organizations succeed under risk-bearing, value-based care models. Reach out to an Innovaccer representative today to get a demo of the Innovaccer® Health Cloud’s Data Activation Platform or to find out how we are helping provider partners like you with the tools they need to reach underserved patients, identify and address SDoH, and progress in the movement toward health equity. For more information, please visit https://innovaccer.com/accelerators/aco-reach. About Innovaccer Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company, is dedicated to accelerating innovation in healthcare. The Innovaccer® Health Cloud unifies patient data across systems and care settings, and empowers healthcare organizations to develop scalable, modern applications that improve clinical, financial, and operational outcomes. Innovaccer’s solutions have been deployed across more than 1,600 care settings in the U.S., enabling more than 96,000 providers to transform care delivery and work collaboratively with payers and life sciences companies. Innovaccer has helped its customers unify health records for more than 39 million people and generate over $1B in cumulative cost savings. Innovaccer is the #1 rated Data and Analytics Platform by KLAS, and the #1 rated population health technology platform by Black Book. Read More HEALTH TECHNOLOGY Harris Williams Advises The CM Group on its Pending Sale to OPEN Health Harris Williams | August 01, 2022 Harris Williams, a global investment bank specializing in M&A advisory services, announces it is advising The CM Group, a portfolio company of NaviMed Capital (NaviMed), on its pending sale to OPEN Health, a portfolio company of Astorg. The CM Group is a leading medical communications platform offering a set of integrated solutions to the U.S. domestic biotech and pharma industries. The transaction is being led by Paul Hepper, Nick Owens, Lucas Scholl, Rob Crampton and Gabby Struckell of the Harris Williams Healthcare & Life Sciences Group. “Investor interest in outsourced pharma commercialization services is driven by complex therapies becoming an increasing portion of new drug launches, declining access to physicians, and the increasing importance of directly reaching patient populations. Differentiated platforms such as The CM Group are benefiting disproportionally from these trends,” said Paul Hepper, a managing director at Harris Williams. “The combination of OPEN Health and The CM Group brings together two best-in-class commercialization businesses, with stellar reputations in the industry and an exciting opportunity to service leading pharmaceutical companies globally,” said Nick Owens, a director at Harris Williams. “Harris Williams was a phenomenal partner and exceeded our expectations throughout the transaction. The team’s knowledge of the sector and extensive buyer relationships led to an optimal outcome. We look forward to the next phase of growth with the OPEN Health and Astorg teams and are excited about building a global leader in pharma commercialization,” Daniel Leonard, CEO of The CM Group Grounded in science—and powered by the patient voice—The CM Group is an integrated healthcare agency of innovative and imaginative subject-matter experts dedicated to providing scientific and commercialization strategies and services to the life sciences industry. NaviMed is a Washington, D.C.-based private capital firm with over $400 million of assets under management, focused exclusively on the healthcare industry. NaviMed invests in fast-growing lower-middle market healthcare businesses that it believes are poised to benefit from the reform and technology innovation reshaping the healthcare industry. The firm focuses on healthcare services, healthcare IT, hospital products and pharmaceutical services businesses. NaviMed targets profitable private companies with up to $10 million of EBITDA and double-digit revenue growth. NaviMed’s senior investment team has a track record of value creation spanning, in the aggregate, dozens of investments and more than $11 billion of enterprise value created over the course of their combined careers. OPEN Health brings together deep scientific knowledge, global understanding, and broad specialist expertise to support its clients in improving health outcomes and patient wellbeing. OPEN Health is united as one flexible organization, harnessing the power of the collective to solve complex challenges. Astorg is a European private equity firm with over €17 billion of assets under management. Astorg works with entrepreneurs and management teams to acquire market leading global companies headquartered in Europe or the U.S., providing them with the strategic guidance, governance and capital they need to achieve their growth plans. Enjoying a distinct entrepreneurial culture, a long-term shareholder perspective and a lean decision-making body, Astorg has valuable industry expertise in healthcare, software, technology, business services and technology-based industrial companies. Astorg has offices in London; Paris; New York; Frankfurt, Germany; Milan; and Luxembourg. Harris Williams, an investment bank specializing in M&A advisory services, advocates for sellers and buyers of companies worldwide through critical milestones and provides thoughtful advice during the lives of their businesses. By collaborating as one firm across Industry Groups and geographies, the firm helps its clients achieve outcomes that support their objectives and strategically create value. Harris Williams is committed to execution excellence and to building enduring, valued relationships that are based on mutual trust. Harris Williams is a subsidiary of the PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. The Harris Williams HCLS Group has experience across a broad range of sectors, including healthcare providers; payors and payor services; outsourced pharmaceutical services; medical device supply chain; healthcare IT; and pharmacy. Harris Williams LLC is a registered broker-dealer and member of FINRA and SIPC. Harris Williams & Co. Ltd is a private limited company incorporated under English law with its registered office at 8th Floor, 20 Farringdon Street, London EC4A 4AB, UK, registered with the Registrar of Companies for England and Wales (registration number 07078852). Harris Williams & Co. Ltd is authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Harris Williams & Co. Corporate Finance Advisors GmbH is registered in the commercial register of the local court of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, under HRB 107540. The registered address is Bockenheimer Landstrasse 33-35, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Geschäftsführer/Directors: Jeffery H. Perkins, Paul Poggi.Harris Williams is a trade name under which Harris Williams LLC, Harris Williams & Co. Ltd and Harris Williams & Co. Corporate Finance Advisors GmbH conduct business. Read More More Trending news Spotlight Molina Healthcare Engages Teens to Improve Health Molina works with teens in communities across the country to improve their health. 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About | mathbabe mathbabe Exploring and venting about quantitative issues Home About HCSSiM 2012 Cool math books Contact About Leave a comment Go to comments Cathy O’Neil lives in New York City. She hopes to someday have a better answer to the question, “what can a non-academic mathematician do that makes the world a better place?” If you want to talk to Cathy directly email her at cathy.oneil at gmail dot com. Share this: Twitter Facebook Email Print Reddit Like this: Like Loading... Comments (168) Trackbacks (14) Leave a comment Trackback Philip Jacob June 14, 2011 at 10:18 am Reply Good luck Cathy! As with everything you do, I’m sure this blog will help others, inform and entertain. LikeLiked by 3 people Aaron June 16, 2011 at 9:03 am Reply This is how you post a comment. LikeLike Japheth Wood June 23, 2011 at 11:04 pm Reply You are a righteous math babe and now a blogger to boot. Keep up the good work! LikeLike Ben Blum-Smith June 26, 2011 at 4:30 pm Reply Here by recommendation of Japheth; thanks for the thoughtful conversation about hedge fund culture. Looking forward to reading more. (Japheth, was the Ani DiFranco reference intended? I didn’t know you had it in you!) LikeLike Japheth Wood June 26, 2011 at 5:39 pm Reply Hey Ben, Unintentional, but I do feel righteous about it. Thanks for pointing it out! Japheth LikeLike Carla Gentry CSPO (@data_nerd) October 21, 2011 at 1:13 pm Reply Nice to see another female mathematician out there! Great post! @Data_Nerd LikeLike Judy Walker January 28, 2012 at 5:49 pm Reply Hi Cathy! Sara Billey just publicized your blog at the Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics. I didn’t know about it before but I’m looking forward to getting caught up on it. I still have your PhD thesis sitting on my bookshelf by the way…. –Judy LikeLike Paul Boisvert February 7, 2012 at 1:00 pm Reply Hi, Cathy, Great blog! I’m a Comm. College math teacher in suburban Chicago, typical bald white male, and your take on issues of women in math fully dovetails with my own experience. I thought I’d just give you a couple additional perspectives, if you’re interested. In my classes, I have students write a “math autobiography” at the start, telling me their past experiences in math. The single most common trope is that of women saying “I loved math up until ___ grade”, with 5,6, or 7 most often in the blank, though sometimes up to 8 or 9, “when Mr. X, my new teacher, refused to answer our questions or help us, thought we were dumb, but passed us anyway.” Of course, the sequential nature of math means these students are now unable to understand or catch up in later grades, and rapidly come to hate math, with good reason. A single bad (usually male) teacher has much more effect in math than in, say, English or history. The real locus of effective educational change in this country in math and in all aspects of critical thinking has to be at the K-12 level, where intellectual skills are as likely to be dulled as honed by allowing opportunity for real creativity and enthusiasm. Secondly, you are rightly suspect of the “nature” side of the nature vs. nurture argument–but, in my opinion, not strongly enough. Evolutionary biology is a side-interest of mine, and particulalry the political misuses of bad science involving “biological superiority” claims. I first got into this several decades ago via the book “The IQ Controversy”, which I highly recommend. It showed that claims that minorities (largely blacks) had hereditarily lower IQ’s were both empirically false (unsubstantiated by properly controlled scientific evidence, or, worse, involving outright fraud) and conceptually incoherent. Ever since, I carefully follow similar claims about other inherent biological superiority, including, of course, that of men in math, to see if the same critique applies–and it simply always does. You could be quite confident of being right in simply saying that any such claims are almost certain to involve data that have not been adequately controlled for, and to never give them any credence in advance. Your point about the null hypothesis is thus extremely apt–but, frankly, there is virtually no real (adequately controlled) evidence at all even challenging the null hypothesis. The main reason for this is simply that culture is a far more pervasive and uncontrollable influence than virtually any scientists allow. Even a two-year old has had over ten-thousand hours of absorbing cultural data non-stop every waking moment–for Summers to claim his kids demonstrate any of his claims just shows that he doesn’t understand controlled scientific experiments. It is virtually impossible to do an adequately controlled scientific experiment in any realm that involves culture in any way–which is every important realm! In The IQ Controversy, Noam Chomsky makes a different point, which is worth considering as well–it wouldn’t matter if math (though he refers to IQ) skills WERE completely hereditary or biological, if we established a just society. Swimming “skills” are fairly biological, but no one finds it problematic–because society does not use swimming ability as an unjust criteria to differentially reward or oppress people. Average group differentials in swimming ability lead to no general unhappiness, and don’t prevent any individual from deploying their particular skills as they wish–we need to establish the same sort of society regarding all intellectual skills. If fewer (or more!) women then display math skills, so what, even if they are biologically based, as long as all who have them can develop them to the extent they wish. Finally, your take on the collaborative nature of math is slowly becoming more common practice, at least in my classes. I let students do hands-on review problem sets before tests, and they can work together. Women have always been more likely to do so in pairs and small groups, for obviousl cultural reasons, but nowadays my male students take advantage of that almost as much, as opposed to “lone wolf” types struggling through it themselves. At least, this is true up through 1st Semester Calculus, which has lots of pharmacy, pre-med, and other non-math, non-engineering students in it who will never take Calc 2, and which is about 50-50 male/female. It’s true that Calc 2 reverts to more traditional form genderwise, but even there the trend is towards more women, and more males who work in collaborative fashion. It is still true there, though. that I occasionally have women who wish to work “alone”, not out of anti-social tendencies, but just because they really, really like the “challenge” and satisfaction of getting it on their own–a feeling I am extremly familiar with… 🙂 At any rate, keep up the truly excellent work–your blog is now, along with NC and a few others, a highlight of my net surfing! Best regards, –Paul Boisvert Oakton Community College LikeLike Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe February 7, 2012 at 1:07 pm Reply Thanks for your wonderful and thoughtful comments. I’m tempted to make this another post, what do you think? Cathy LikeLike macdundas March 13, 2014 at 11:48 pm Reply Hi Paul. You might find the series of videos at this link challenges some of your assumptions: reddit.com/r/TheRedPill/comments/1vuho8/the_documentary_that_made_scandinavians_cut_all/ Malcolm LikeLike John Dorgan May 8, 2016 at 11:10 am Reply Paul While I generally agree with your comments, there is one fairly significant factual problem. Turns out, the Marine Corps DOES in fact use swimming skills as a selection criteria and for reasons no one fully understands, many minority groups underperform in quantitative metrics. I suggest juggling skills might make a good replacement in your argument. 🙂 LikeLike Paul September 12, 2016 at 10:13 pm Reply John, one likely reason minorities tend to underperform in swimming is that swimming is expensive. Poverty tends to be higher among minority groups. Affluent people can afford to pay swimming memberships. Poor people cannot, and therefore do not have the opportunity to practice swimming. Thus, I’d expect to see under representation of minorities at high levels of swimming competition, and that is what I observe. Further, I’d expect the same at all levels of achievement in swimming. Juggling, however, only requires a few balls and the ability to concentrate well. 🙂 LikeLike Kokuanani February 25, 2012 at 3:35 pm Reply Just discovered your blog, Cathy, and love it. I note that you teach at a “math camp” in the summer. Even though one of my prior, brief “careers” was teaching 7th & 8th grade English, my real love is math. [I was a math major in college until “chased out” by disparaging comments about women in the field. This was the late 60s.] I’m currently assisting a 3rd grade teacher in our local school, in particular working with the slowest learners on mastering their “math facts.” Two questions for you: can you suggest books, materials, web sites, etc. that provide guidance to folks like me who are attempting to tutor in this area? Obviously I use the teacher’s materials, but I’m interested in what else might be out there. Second: I’ve always thought that someone should establish a Tutor For America program to recruit and train folks to work in public schools. I’m thinking about having folks tutor on a small scale [an hour or two per day/ a day or two per week], nothing like the larger commitment that’s required by TFA. I’m particularly mindful of this because of the larger number of folks who will be retiring and looking for some way to contribute. I would emphasize the “train” part of that equation, since I have a number of misgivings about Teach for America, the main one being their apparent belief that “we can just throw a bunch of ‘bright’ kids into the schools and they’ll provide more for the students than the current crop of ‘crappy’ teachers.” Anecdotally, a friend whose daughter is just getting her degree from Tulane in elementary education reported to me that the parishes around New Orleans have fired their “regular” teachers and brought in TFA people, because they can save so much money in doing so. Obviously no job there for this young person who desperately wants to teach. And, re the discussion re Harvard grads above, doubt that Harvard is pushing its folks to enter teaching as a “meaningful” career. [My MAT is from there.] LikeLike Cristina May 4, 2012 at 9:07 am Reply You might find the JUMP program helpful. There is a lot to say about this wonderful and very successful program but you can find it all on their website. http://jumpmath1.org/ LikeLike Patrick Lu September 28, 2012 at 1:52 pm Reply Teaching kids “math facts” might help them pass the grade, but it definitely won’t help a student develop their passion for math; in fact it might make students dislike math or not realize their passion for it. Here’s a post I wrote on this subject. http://patricklublog.wordpress.com/2012/09/23/i-dont-need-her-love-ive-got-math/ LikeLike Frank Miata February 29, 2012 at 1:28 pm Reply Thanks for the update on the Met panel. I saved $25 and got your insights on the panel too. I am depressed by your conclusions about the market smarts of those guys, minus Soros, Also, LARRY SUMMERS, no. How lame is that? Obama hasn’t a clue. Now I’m really bumed out. Still, I like your hard edge approach to these guys…. LikeLike Jeff March 27, 2012 at 1:56 pm Reply I like the URL! Keep it going! 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Love and kisses, reno on whose show, Money Talks, at Dixon Place Mondays @ 7:30 pm you will be this coming Monday, 5/7 dixonplace.org 212 219-0736 LikeLike c&jtrout May 5, 2012 at 12:36 am Reply i am a partialy disabled 58 yr old out of work 2 years now . when i was growing up dad always said its a good idea to have more than one trade . i have 3 . certified and current in all . auto mechanic . cabinet maker . shop floor fabrication welder . the auto field is dying because of lack of interest for experienced workers . the government stepped in 1996 and made all the manufactures standardize the diagnostic software . the cabinet making is dead because of the economic crash in the housing and building trades . and people no longer care if the whole cabinet is made out of wood .( just the doors and facing stiles ) . the fab welder trade is dead because most of the heavy equipment and machinery is made over seas and shipped here . i would like to know if the OWS movement is gaining traction . as more skilled blue collar trades poeple find a common ground here ? LikeLike Steven Bernstein May 5, 2012 at 10:23 pm Reply Hi Cathy. I just wanted to say thank you. I watched you on Frontline just now and really appreciate your honesty and frank talk. It is important for people to understand how the choices of the past 30 years led up to the financial crisis. You broke it down well. Best of luck to you! LikeLike Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe May 6, 2012 at 7:23 am Reply Thanks! Cathy LikeLike amusingpoet May 6, 2012 at 1:57 pm Reply Cathy, Just watched you on Frontline and I so appreciate everything you are doing. I feel a great sense of hope, especially due to the insider working groups you mentioned. I teach part-time at UMD and I am sending a link to your interview to my classes. I consider it a must-watch video. If I needed any more assignments, I’d turn it into one! LikeLike Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe May 10, 2012 at 6:42 am Reply Thanks! LikeLike Some Guy May 8, 2012 at 5:16 pm Reply Just watched the Jan 18 Frontline interview and wanted to say hi. I’m a quant of sorts and until now a despiser of OWS. You actually know what you’re talking about. Wow. You say we can reform banking, just as we did in the great depression. It seems to me every reform has to be reformed. How about if we just let it go wild? No government intervention whatever. Let it bleed. Let banks fail and investors get burned. Disband the SEC and Federal Reserve. Too Libertarian? LikeLike Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe August 7, 2012 at 6:36 am Reply Let’s do it! For like a day. Then let’s get some people with balls and handcuffs in place. LikeLike UncleMookie May 15, 2012 at 7:39 am Reply I am oddly compelled to chime in another “Wow” after seeing the Frontline interview – oddly, because I don’t feel (dare I say it?) “smart enough” to even participate beyond lurking within your blogsphere!!! As one of those “people persons” who graduated from a fairly un-glam state college in CA with a fuzzy studies degree, landing work in corporate education, I had the opportunity to work with CapitalOne Financial between ’00-’02. I got my share of eye-rolling from better educated peers, but frankly I didn’t “get” what these smug, highly-recruited whizkids were actually DOING until years later. I’ve been intimidated by math all of my life, but adore mixing it up with intelligent, opinionated folks like those flocking to this site. The attraction/repulsion tickles me to no end and frankly, you simply rock it. You have a new follower in me. While I’m overwhelmingly challenged with much of the content, I certainly feel your intelligent and spiritual underpinnings and that comfort and inspires me. LikeLike Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe August 7, 2012 at 6:37 am Reply Thanks, Uncle Mookie! LikeLike Rembot May 15, 2012 at 10:00 am Reply This is the place to say how much I love your blog? Because god, I love your blog. Like, almost as much as I love math. (And I love me some math.) Keep up the great work, superstar. You make my world a better place. LikeLike Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe May 15, 2012 at 10:32 am Reply WOOHOOO!!! LikeLike Dale Richards May 15, 2012 at 11:51 am Reply Hi Cathy, I’m just gonna ask if you’re okay with advertisements on your site? 🙂 Cheers, Dale LikeLike Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe May 15, 2012 at 11:52 am Reply no way! LikeLike citizenreno May 16, 2012 at 8:50 pm Reply Dunno how my Jamie Dimon comment got posted twice – apologies. Reno LikeLike JoanDelilah May 18, 2012 at 12:15 pm Reply OK, Cathy, here’s your love-note: I fucking LOVE you!! Email me? joandelilah@my-domain-name.com I have some thoughts I’d like to share 🙂 LikeLike LotusJones May 24, 2012 at 9:54 am Reply Hello Cathy, After listening to the extended video of your Frontline interview I knew your blog was going to be goldmine. A couple of years before the crash I resolved to get smart about the financial world, but at the end of my WSJ and The Financial Times subscriptions I realized my mental runway was not long enough for most of what was being discussed to land. Hopefully after reading everything posted on your blog I’ll be a bit smarter and be able to sort the wheat from the chaff. OWS has a 1/2 hour show on WBAI everyday. A show devoted to the work of your working group would give the program a nice shot in the arm. I’m going to recommend that the Program Director contact you and you can take it from there. As understanding increases, opportunities for exploitation diminish. The work you are doing is proof that generosity is truly the mother of all virtues. LikeLike Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe May 24, 2012 at 10:03 am Reply Cool, sounds great! Cathy LikeLike Lou Puls (@MonkeeRench) May 24, 2012 at 12:42 pm Reply SOME GUY wrote: “You say we can reform banking, just as we did in the great depression. It seems to me every reform has to be reformed. How about if we just let it go wild? No government intervention whatever. Let it bleed. Let banks fail and investors get burned. Disband the SEC and Federal Reserve. Too Libertarian?” Meant to be my reply to the above, sorry for my indefinitiveness: Umm, that would be very much like once again allowing any “patent” medicine back on the market, no matter how poisonous, then letting “the market” decide which ones should be outlawed after some level of death is reached. Only with financial chaos, the level of deaths may be far higher! LikeLike g andexler June 3, 2012 at 5:46 pm Reply I just watched your interview on Frontline. thanks.. g LikeLike berseliusx June 8, 2012 at 1:19 pm Reply No need to post this. I’m wondering if you can suggest a good place to look for jobs outside of academia for mathematicians. Pretty much everything I know is all geared towards MathJobs + academic positions. LikeLike Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe August 7, 2012 at 6:38 am Reply I found a job on LinkedIn. LikeLike Nat Lewis June 12, 2012 at 12:33 pm Reply I just read the wonderful article (and very helpful comment thread for) “Math contests kind of suck”. I teach 8th grade algebra in Silicon Valley. I’m in the awkward position of needing to teach to the Math Olympiads for my regular (not honors) algebra students. Do you have any suggestions for going about that or sources that might talk about it? Thank you very much! LikeLike karen June 20, 2012 at 11:05 am Reply This is a love note. LOVE YOU LikeLike Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe August 7, 2012 at 6:39 am Reply Love you more. LikeLike Clark Thornton June 28, 2012 at 12:21 am Reply How does one become a mathbabe? I’m a guy, so I guess it would be mathdude. Clearly, you have to be very smart, which I’m not, although I’m studying calculus as a hobby. What next, analysis? Abstract algebra? Number theory? Am I dreaming? I am just a “B” math student, but I love integration by parts. LikeLike Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe June 28, 2012 at 6:25 am Reply It’s an internal decision. You are one if you decide you are one. Cathy LikeLike Ernie July 7, 2012 at 4:12 pm Reply Hi, Cathy. I recently left a long post for you, and it included a link to http://www.washingtonpost.com/5-misconceptions-about-the-financial-crisis-and-its-aftermath/2012/06/15/gJQAoK2EfV_story_2.html Washington Post, Allan Sloan Friday June 15, 2012: “Taking Stock Five Years After the Meltdown” As a result of your interview for Frontline, and your sharing the OWS group responsible for reviewing Volker, I countered with the Hoenig Rule as espoused by Allan Sloan. If your group is supportive of Hoenig, I’d be willing to help OWS in some volunteer fashion to get Hoenig enacted. Hope this post doesn’t get lost! Thanks – Ernie LikeLike formlecerveau July 9, 2012 at 9:09 am Reply Greetings Cathy, I’m quite excited to finally get set-up here.Your performance on PBS hit like lightning or a hungry bullfrog’s tongue ; you appeared healthy,keen,hefty,hibernian and alluring.First thought was “Gotta find more”! Your guests and contributors seem erudite and well-versed on current topics. Certain to be interested ,hope to enjoin and help. A certain type of human warmth circulate quickly and affects all – feel you have that brand of radiating. I Love You Too ~ John LikeLike Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe July 9, 2012 at 11:39 am Reply Ummm… thanks, but I’m not sure whether “hibernian” is a compliment. LikeLike formlecerveau July 9, 2012 at 7:55 pm Reply Maybe,depends if you can pay your bar-tab ? Meant as a friendly adjective , not as perjorative. LikeLike formlecerveau July 10, 2012 at 5:34 pm Reply Dear Cathy , yesterday I attempted reading the “Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform And Consumer Protection Act” with little success at understanding and zero knowledge what will protect the consumer.My question : Are there any clear defined strategies from the Senate Banking Committee,”Occupy” – etc. , the financial industry or anywhere to realistically lessen the “bite” you and many others maintain causes harm to economies , global- wide ? Wish to say how highly I esteem you and others on your great altitude in the math and business worlds. L.U.B. You ~ John LikeLike barryrsmith July 12, 2012 at 5:13 pm Reply Hello Cathy: I teach at a small liberal arts college (~1700 students) with a successful and (relatively) sizable mathematical sciences department (my department has ~7-8% of all students). This includes majors in mathematics (including ed.), cs, and actuarial science. Most of our majors are in actuarial science, because a recently deceased faculty member spent decades building a quality program with word-of-mouth eventually bringing us more and better students. All of our actuarial students must pass exams before graduation and 100% of our graduates complete paid internships and land actuarial jobs immediately out of college. I am a new faculty member, and I dream of continuing this growth and success. I am intrigued by data science — you have already posted about things someone should know to be a data scientist and about your indecision about whether there should be such programs. If you think it worthwhile, I would love a refinement of these ideas in a post about 1) some sort of clarification of the definition of “data science”, and how it is different, if at all, from business analytics, etc., or 2) what you think an undergraduate degree should entail at a minimum. I would hope that mandatory internship(s) would allow students to be introduced to actual big useful data, but perhaps companies are too concerned with security to let a summer intern have at it? It sounds like there are too many skills required of a seasoned professional to fit into a reasonably-sized major. But I wonder if there is some underlying list of fundamentals you can think of that could constitute a feasible and coherent program that would lead to success in a graduate program or immediate work in data science. Also, is there or do you think there will be, like in actuarial science, some credentialing program that will allow people a structured path to continue down while developing more of the necessary skills after graduation? Thank you for your consideration. P.S. I’m also a number theorist. Go number theory! LikeLike Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe August 7, 2012 at 6:41 am Reply I think the Carnegie Mellon statistics department is a model. LikeLike Theodore Rossi July 14, 2012 at 7:12 am Reply Dear Cathy, I recently saw your interview on Frontline. I was very much impressed with your analysis and with your oh-so-true comments. I am also sympathetic to your desire to ‘clarify’ – to break things down and demystifiy all the jagon and idle talk that passes itself off as serious yet which is, frankly, evidence of poor thinking – if any at all. And this poor thinking that is masked in seriousness is evidence, moreover, that the culture is in a dire place. Much more to say, but, for the meantime, bravo. Théo in Paris LikeLike Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe July 14, 2012 at 7:28 am Reply Theo, thank you! Cathy LikeLike Vince Gay July 15, 2012 at 1:56 pm Reply Hi Cathy. I’m a fellow Karaoke fan who also discovered you on Frontline. It goes without saying that TED is flawed, since you would be a major TED star if it wasn’t. I’d be interested in your reaction to two TED talks: One talk argues for greater focus on statistics in the teaching of pre-college math. I must say I’m appalled at how few people have the most basic understanding of statistics. The other talk is about the dangers of hyper-specialization in the liberal arts. Lack of hyper-specialization strikes me as one of your strengths: For example, you seem able to hold mathematical AND ethical considerations in your mind at the same time. I believe this has been outlawed in several states. I hope I get to thoughts on these topics. Until then, have fun at math camp. LikeLike Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe July 16, 2012 at 7:00 am Reply Vince, Thanks! I’ll take a look soon. Best, Cathy LikeLike Matthew Goldman, MCNY Programs Intern July 23, 2012 at 4:44 pm Reply Cathy, and others on this blog articulating your passions for American economic discourse, you might be very interested in attending a program taking place tomorrow Tuesday 7/24 at 6:30p at Museum of the City of New York. Cornell University professor Louis Hyman is author of the new book, “Borrow: The American Way of Debt,” which examines how the rise of consumer borrowing in the 1920s, just before the Great Depression, altered our culture and economy. Tomorrow evening, Professor Hyman will explore New York’s role as a center of this financial innovation, which allowed lending to grow more and more profitable, but in turn, displaced funds available for business borrowing—a reconfiguration that set our economy on an unsustainable course. He will offer an historical perspective on the temptation to live beyond one’s means; and offer suggestions for change moving forward. Reception to follow. Reservations required. $6 Museum members; $8 students/seniors; $12 adults. Museum of the City of New York is located at 1220 Fifth Avenue, corner of 103rd St, in Manhattan. LikeLike Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe July 25, 2012 at 6:35 am Reply Sorry, I had to give my own panel last night! LikeLike Carlos Miguel August 2, 2012 at 2:20 pm Reply Thanks Cathy Great blog and posts. I am also looking into the JUMP program/website that you also mention for my kid. Regards Carlos LikeLike limitstomaths August 4, 2012 at 10:24 am Reply The connection between Wall Street, academia and mathematics is complex. One element of that connection may well be a foundational error in mathematics (that has not been rooted out by academia, so you could say that it is supported by academia), which could possibly bring the most natural explanation of some of Wall Street’s chief idiosyncrasies. The foundational error is detailed in my preprint introduced at http://limitstomaths.com . The connection may simply be that an error in foundation may permit errors (including biases, and high cartel like behaviors) everywhere else to manifest more straightforwardly. The intriguing message for the future, however, is that all systems involving the globalization of a coherent pressure — just like the boiling of water, leading to the infinite phase transition from liquid to gas phase in a finite global volume — have, evidently, a characteristic of self-transformation. There is definitely something here, and since this seems right up your alley at the intersection of mathematics and the real world, I would love to have you investigate and comment! : ) LikeLike charles monneron August 7, 2012 at 3:39 am Reply The “Le Monde” article you extracted lead me to think that you can read french. As I came across that piece of news http://www.liberation.fr/depeches/2012/08/06/deux-jeunes-mathematiciennes-francaises-recompensees-par-le-prix-poincare-2012_838048 , I thought you would find it cool. This is as “hard math” as you can get, and two women – is it politically correct to say “babe” ? – laureate. Even more interesting is the fact that they are not outsiders, but well-connected insiders. Maybe one day “mathbabe” will attract the reaction “so what ?”. Not yet there, but progressing. LikeLike Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe August 7, 2012 at 6:43 am Reply Exciting, thanks! LikeLike Hilary Wainwright August 22, 2012 at 1:14 pm Reply Hi there Cathy! just discovered your blog via Ruth Milkman who interviewed you recently and was mega enthusiastic. I liked what i read a lot eg about the ‘Bailout’ book by Neil B. I ‘m from London, and co-edit a spicey magazine call ‘Red Peppper’ (www.redpepper.org.uk) I wondered if you’d like to write a piece about ‘Bailout’ for the magazine to get it – and your blog – a wider readership in the UK? i’M IN nyc TIL sAT am. So could meet for a quick coffee or meet on Skype.. wot do you think? ciao Hilary (Wainwright) LikeLike Andrew Jackson September 11, 2012 at 3:56 am Reply Hi, I am Andrew Jackson, a financial writer. Today I came across your site (http://mathbabe.org ) and enjoyed reading some of your articles. I just want to know do you allow guest posts? I would like to write for your blog on some relevant topics that is still to cover on your blog. I will make sure that my articles will be completely original to serve the quality. I do believe your readers will enjoy reading it. It will be a thrilling experience for me if my article finds a place in your blog. Please let me know about your decision. With best regards, Andrew Jackson LikeLike supercruncher September 13, 2012 at 9:35 pm Reply loved ur post on three letter agency and mathematicians. I happen to know someone who did some consulting in that space, via an organisation that was aquired…not sure if they see problems any different from, other math problems.. LikeLike Liam McDermott September 16, 2012 at 12:19 pm Reply Hi Cathy…I just got done reading your article “Economist don’t understand the Financial System” an I thoroughly enjoyed it. My name is Liam McDermott and I used to be an institutional Eurodollar and Energy broker. I also dealt in market data. I have been off the street for a number of years, but I have recently written an original economic theory based on placing serial numbers onto electronic dollars. I have been having difficulty getting it out there because of my lack of academic credentials. You seem to be someone who is more open minded, so I wanted to share it with you to see what you think. If you enjoy it and would like to contact me my email is liamalan@gmail.com. Thx! Serial Number Transparency If American’s vote to force Congress to assign individual serial numbers to electronic dollars, the global economy will undergo a renaissance. All private and business bank accounts retain the exact same amount of cash, but by placing individual serial numbers on these electronic dollars they become “real” in the same sense that paper ones are. Trillions of “derivative dollars” currently present on large investment banks Off Balance Sheet books become worthless because they are derived and by definition, not real. The remaining pool of money is clean, reliable and transparent. Since this new pool of money is much smaller, the value of each individual dollar is greatly increased. In order to protect the purity of this new pool of money, the Federal Reserve will no longer be able to arbitrarily create money. The majority of Americans would be outraged to learn that the Federal Reserve Bank is actually a private corporation, owned and operated by twenty one, MOSTLY FOREIGN banks. These banks currently use the Fed to create cash for themselves while paying interest to themselves. The Fed operates cloaked in secrecy, with total autonomy, creating money with no oversight from the Federal Government. Serial numbers would make the 7.7 trillion dollars the Fed fabricated out of thin air for their 2008 bailout disappear, restoring the value of the dollar to its pre-crash levels. Serial numbers wrest control of the American Dollar from the clutches of unregulated foreigners and places it back in the hands of the American people whom it is supposed to represent. When banks need more cash they would now petition Congress. Bankers would present their case for a cash auction and it would be put to a vote. Banks would now pay interest to the government for their cash, lessening the burden of the American Taxpayer. The economy will be well served by having a static amount of cash to represent the goods and services it has the ability to produce. As the capacity of the economy grows, more money would be injected into the system by Congress reflecting an increase. Banks’ secret electronic trading platforms now would be replaced by open outcry trading pits, effectively ending backroom market manipulation. A system of three main pits where brokers openly trade equities, debt and commodities would be outfitted with cameras broadcasting real time, worldwide for free. This will ensure all market participants equal access to information. Imagine the world’s greatest reality show that everyone can bet on from home. Politician’s campaign dollars serial numbers will make all of their allegiances instantly visible. Regardless of where on the political spectrum they lie, every American has a right to know what his candidate is going to do once elected. A politician’s true agenda is shaped in the interests of their contributors, not their constituency. Democracy is muddled into a sham when it lacks this transparency. Serial numbers will cripple the finances of terrorist and criminal organizations by stopping electronic black money flows. Any illegal activity would become an all cash business. While this would not end crime, it would destroy enterprise criminal corruption, while at the same time making money real for honest people who really work for their money. This new form of naked capitalism will insure pure liquidity through pure transparency. Regulation will come about organically, based on the simple fact that everyone can see what everyone else is doing. Serial numbers enable the American economy to work the way it was intended, honestly, transparently and with equal access to information. The American Dollar is based on accountability whether it is on a computer server, or printed on a bill in your wallet. No institution should have the power to create, manipulate and devalue the dollar bill for which millions of people have put in an honest day’s work. A true American, capitalist democracy demands its financial, political and criminal framework to be illuminated by serial numbers. LikeLike Robert J York February 27, 2013 at 10:47 am Reply Liam, your ideas sound sound enough; however, if as you state the system is perhaps rigged to manipulate macro monetary policy, then in a practical, tangible view it may be highly implausible that the system will ever voluntarily stop doing it without a violent and protracted revolution. What’s your ideas on this issue? LikeLike jeremiah757 September 22, 2012 at 7:12 pm Reply Say, you’re a math babe. Are you familiar with Per Bak’s sandpile theory? Do you think that steadily adding $40 billion per month to the Fed’s balance sheet could lead to a catastrophe, in the mathematical sense? LikeLike Amanda September 29, 2012 at 5:52 am Reply I watched the Frontline video on Wall Street parts 1-4 and all of the interviews. I am sure to revisit. I am just highly impressed with your decision to make a vocational modification…Wow. All of the interviews were some of the best expose I’ve seen on this historical period. I felt the bubble pressure and did not put faith in some fund manager I did not know and took action. I’d rather use my money than crap out on the Wall Street casino table. Thank u. After all, isn’t gambling really for those who can afford the loss? LikeLike Shecky R October 7, 2012 at 7:31 am Reply Hi Cathy I was hoping to ‘interview’ you (via email) for my “Math-frolic” blog (see 10/6/12 posting), only to discover I can’t find email contact info for you. Please contact me if it is possible to send you a set of questions for possible response. LikeLike papicek October 7, 2012 at 2:42 pm Reply So I get maybe 25% of everything you write (my strength lies in the CS end of things), always worth a visit here. Thanks for the time & effort. Be well. LikeLike N October 16, 2012 at 9:39 am Reply Hi Cathy, wondering if you had seen this? Stop and Frisk recorded: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7rWtDMPaRD8 Turned my stomach. hat tip ginandtacos.com LikeLike Otto November 9, 2012 at 9:32 pm Reply Hey Cathy! I’m Ottp. Oops. I spelled my name wrong. DELETE. Hmmm… typing DELETE does not delete. Anyway, I’m just checking things out although I really haven’t read much yet. See you for pancakes! LikeLike Michelle Blackmore November 14, 2012 at 12:42 am Reply Hello Admin, I am Michelle, a financial writer. I write on various finance related topics. I came across your site “http://mathbabe.org” while browsing through the Internet to find a suitable website for writing articles. It is highly resourceful with rich and quality contents, and has a vivid presentation. I would be highly privileged if you allow me to write for your website. The article will be completely free of charge and all I want is just a back link for my site. I assure you that it will be an absolutely unique and relevant content so that it proves useful for your readers. I hope you consider this proposal and shall wait for your reply. Thanks & Regards, Michelle Blackmore Email: blackmore.michelle@gmail.com LikeLike Danny 4rm Accounting December 2, 2012 at 6:12 pm Reply Hi. I just my completed studying for my undergraduate degree in accounting but I’m very interested in anything involving math and computers. I learnt computer programming and a great deal of calculus on my own,and I’d like to learn as much as I can about data science too. I think your blog will be useful to me in this regard. Thanks. LikeLike Jon Claerbout December 20, 2012 at 1:59 pm Reply You ask for topic suggestions for your blog. Here’s an idea I came up with but did not adequately pursue. A potential solution to the expanding Medicare/medicaid problem. http://sep.stanford.edu/sep/jon/medicare.html LikeLike shopper big time January 2, 2013 at 8:21 am Reply a non academic mathematician can make the world a better place by not participating in all data mining horse rubbish used for tracking, over marketing, and coerce preloading people to shop shop and shop some more LikeLike nancy jamison January 14, 2013 at 10:10 am Reply so so right/ do not BUY it POLLUTES China. LikeLike http://tinyurl.com/joinbogg34173 January 13, 2013 at 1:13 pm Reply “About � mathbabe” actually causes me think a tiny bit extra. I really enjoyed every individual section of it. Regards ,Bennie LikeLike nancy jamison January 14, 2013 at 10:08 am Reply Love is a mathematical wonder that keeps growing into infinite energy of caring,giving,joy,intelligence,logic,righteousness,justice and FAIR. LikeLike nancy jamison January 17, 2013 at 9:47 am Reply iF YOU ARE SINCERE IN WANTING TO CHANGE THE WORLD FOR THE BETTER Nancy Jamison , I DO HAVE SOLUTIONS. I AM AN INVENTOR AND DESIGNER IN MANY,MANY AREAS, SOCIAL INVENTIONS ARE FAIR FOODS.ORG OR SEATS OF CONSCIOUSNESS, socboston.org., I COULD USE HELP IN AREAS OF PHYSICS,MEDICAL NEEDS,BUSINESS TO MAKE MONEY TO FINANCE CHANGE. WE NEED TO BUILD A DIFFERENT,CARING BUSINESS WORLD.THE OLD WILL DIE ON IT’S OWN.WE ARE OVERDUE.I APOLOGIZE FOR MY SELF CENTERED GENERATION ONE MORE TIME,SHAME ON US.I AM 62,A SIXTIES,SEVENS,EIGHTS,NINES,TENS,TO NOW.I HAVE SEEN TO MUCH SELFISHNESS IN AMERICA.WE ARE SO ABUNDANT,HOW COULD WE HAVE LET OUR WORLD DOWN. I BELIEVE IF WE FACE THIS FACT WE COULD TURN IT AROUND. LETS GET BUSY EVERYONE,PLEASE DON’T WAIT TO LATE. LikeLike Emeka February 15, 2013 at 5:08 am Reply I just listened to the Econ Talk podcast with Ross Roberts. A lot of your comments rings true to me as a former Wealth Manager. At the time I left the business (wealth management) in 2009 I had so much mistrust for all the info we were receiving and been asked to sell to unsuspecting customers. Am currently based in Abuja, Nigeria having lived and work in Southern California for 15 years. LikeLike Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe February 15, 2013 at 6:19 am Reply Welcome! LikeLike Michael Nirschl (@mikeinertia) February 24, 2013 at 9:44 am Reply Great mission statement “what can a non-academic mathematician do that makes the world a better place?”, good to know there is more of us. Looking forward to follow your journey LikeLike Liam McDermott February 27, 2013 at 11:04 am Reply Thank you for your response Robert. The beautiful thin about America is that it is a democracy. We all have the power to change the system in non-violent means. I am currently making a documentary on my theory and money creation. It is my hope that once people are made aware of the situation, we will be able to garner the political will to change the system. I used to work in institutional trading on Wall Street. I have pitched this idea to many people over there and gotten an overwhelmingly positive response. If I can convince the people on Main street to agree with me as well, all we have to do is vote people into power that agree with our position. Take care. LikeLike cypherdoc March 4, 2013 at 3:26 pm Reply If you folks are interested in monetary freedom, look into Bitcoin. For the first time, The People can be in charge of their own money. Enjoyed the interview on EconTalk as well. Very impressive. LikeLike Hamletxx May 22, 2013 at 12:52 pm Reply Non academic mathematician! Interesting to know. And of course it’s a very nice blog. LikeLike moosesnsquirrels May 30, 2013 at 7:32 am Reply Hey, Cathy! Check this post about DSGE models out; I’d love to get your comments. I’ll share mine as a reply. LikeLike thepollywellguy July 15, 2013 at 1:05 pm Reply Cathy, You fit a very odd niche in the world – woman interested in math and blogging about it. That’s awesome. Cheers. LikeLike Higby August 5, 2013 at 9:40 am Reply Have u seen this? Everyone wants in …. Big Data is COOL! http://www.altiused.com/press/press-releases/harrisburg-university-partners-with-altius-education-to-offer-two-big-data LikeLike Nancy Jamison August 5, 2013 at 10:08 am Reply tell becky come home run fairfoods i live her,are you back? LikeLike Brandon Marlowe September 17, 2013 at 11:29 pm Reply Heard about you on NPR on Santa Monica, CA today. How do I get a hard copy of the new book? LikeLike Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe September 18, 2013 at 6:43 am Reply Send me your address by email (my email’s on my About page). Cathy LikeLike Richard Orodwich October 23, 2013 at 7:56 am Reply On Being a Data Skeptic Before reading this book, I would have classified myself as a skeptical cynic on the subject of data. But now I think I am a data heretic. Although this book points out important factors to consider when working with data, if taken in its entirety the recommendations could be summed up in one conclusion “trust no data”. Considering the fact that data is not facts and adding to this the non-transparent manipulations and assumptions we apply to data, it remains surprising that we can derive any semblance of reality from data. Data and data analysis is story telling. We tell stories with data. In my experiences most of the data story telling is fictional, something I refer to as “datatainment”. Much of what is being written about the subject of data such as big data and data science is a story and also fictional. It reminds me of the liar’s paradox; “this sentence is false”. What is the truth? The most important factor to consider when working with data is do you trust those who are presenting the story about the data. Are those involved in selecting and manipulating the data trustworthy? Look at the history of these people; their experiences and their motivations. Is the story they are telling with data trustworthy? Is it fiction or fact? Do they substantiate their arguments or are they bloviating. Are they transparent about what the data means, what assumptions were made and the way their models manipulate the data? Of course once you consider the factors outlined in the book and these factors you too may become a data heretic. LikeLike Anthony FJ Garner (@AnthonyFJGarner) November 18, 2013 at 3:58 am Reply I love your article on correlated trades: the past three or four years have been a disaster for trend following partly for exactly this reason. http://tradersplace.net/forum/thread/279/back-test-to-the-future/view_2515/ LikeLike PaMar December 13, 2013 at 3:22 am Reply Hi Cathy… you probably know already, but to be on the safe side I will post this anyway. There is a news community (modeled after Hacker News) dedicated to Data Science: http://www.datatau.com/?from=@ LikeLike Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe December 13, 2013 at 6:13 am Reply I hadn’t heard, thanks! LikeLike Ralph Braskett December 25, 2013 at 2:10 pm Reply Cathy: your insight in the WNYC article about NYC neighborhoods & how almost rich people feel when comparing themselves to others. So in NYC, everybody with incomes under 200,000 is Middle Class if they live in the up&coming neighborhoods + most of Manhattan? LikeLike Rich February 4, 2014 at 11:30 am Reply Cathy, I love your Doing Data Science book; I’m using it to teach my teenage son some tools. Not to nit pick; but I think there is a type on Page 108 in the “Thought Experiment” section; The entire sentence from “represent each image” to “between 0 and 255” is repeated twice. Keep up the good work. RIch LikeLike Thomas Ball February 9, 2014 at 12:59 pm Reply Is this blog on your radar…Disinformation Visualization? https://visualisingadvocacy.org/blog/disinformation-visualization-how-lie-datavis?utm_content=bufferbb002&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer LikeLike Bernadine August 6, 2014 at 3:03 pm Reply Hey cathy, in my school letter it came that I’m going into common core math 8 is that the proper level for a 8th grade student ? LikeLike film korean online August 6, 2014 at 5:14 pm Reply Wonderful blog! Do you have any tips and hints for aspiring writers? I’m hoping to start my own site soon but I’m a little lost on everything. Would you suggest starting with a free platform like WordPress or go for a paid option? There are so many choices out there that I’m completely confused .. Any tips? Appreciate it! LikeLike Bernadine August 7, 2014 at 6:17 pm Reply Does anyone know what does MMPM score mean? I really need this answer within today LikeLike Basia Yoffe November 13, 2014 at 4:11 pm Reply The Weavers wrote this song to honor your “marble columns’ theory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzTT5fXquTo LikeLike alex December 1, 2014 at 8:09 pm Reply the following reviews a book that suggests the emphasis on standardized tests is hurtful for education. perhaps not too surprising http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/nov/20/myth-chinese-super-schools/ LikeLike Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe December 2, 2014 at 9:07 am Reply This is super, thank so much! On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 8:09 PM, mathbabe wrote: > LikeLike soulsoldseparately January 26, 2015 at 2:48 pm Reply I just purchased “Doing Data Science”, which I began to read while drinking a latte in Barnes & Noble. I was quite riveted, and I had to buy it. LikeLike Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe January 26, 2015 at 2:50 pm Reply Thanks! LikeLike soulsoldseparately January 26, 2015 at 2:53 pm Reply Cathy, I have a B.A. in Math, but am many years removed from formal education. For the past 15 years I’ve been in the IT dept of an accounting firm. I initially did programming in Lotus Notes, which is basically extinct, although someone may yet discover a Lotus Notes programmer trapped in amber… I am hyperintrigued (I made that up) by Data Science, and am considering applying to a Data Science Boot Camp, although the one I have in mind charges $14,000. Do you have any opinions about the cost vs. benefit of such programs? Kind Regards, Dan LikeLike Iñaki Viggers July 19, 2017 at 11:25 pm Reply $14,000 for a boot camp is a scam. For a bit more you might cover the costs of a masters degree at a decent university (excluding the fancy ones). Also, if you have Weapons of Math Destruction, check out page 64 talking about the four-day boot camp that costs $16,000. LikeLike Elsa Schaefer January 30, 2015 at 8:44 am Reply Thanks for your talk at JMM – loved your spirit and point of view about data journalism and can’t wait to read the book that you are writing on the topic! LikeLike enjoyquestions February 18, 2015 at 3:48 pm Reply I liked your insight on the Tax Foundation. You may also be interested to know that your blog is one of the top Google search results for “tax foundation bias.” LikeLike Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe February 18, 2015 at 4:02 pm Reply Hey, cool! LikeLike Destroyer of Exoplanets March 11, 2015 at 5:24 pm Reply You’re so (much) smart(er than me). You make me want to learn the maths and data sciences but that isn’t going to happen so keep up the wise words. Also, you should ditch Felix and start your own podcast. LikeLike Nancy Jamison March 11, 2015 at 5:30 pm Reply call me i miss you thanks for high test LikeLike Ralph Braskett March 11, 2015 at 8:56 pm Reply Read the book ‘The Fourth Turning’ and the book prior–‘Generations, the history of America’s future from 1630 to 2076’ , which lays the cylical nature of our generations since colonial times with a modest projection of the future–lots of data & description. Fourth Turning has much more description & prescription of our current situation. LikeLike alex March 11, 2015 at 11:53 pm Reply https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/can-we-end-end-college-already “When Bill Gates, or Barack Obama, or Dave Brat, or even Kevin Carey educates their children via MOOCs or some other brand of un-college, I will be impressed, and also dead, because I will have expired from shock.” LikeLike travellingactuary April 19, 2015 at 9:30 pm Reply Just wondered if you were aware of some of the other ‘babes’ out there – http://www.watoday.com.au/world/science-babe-takedown-of-food-babe-causes-online-stir-20150419-1mojvx.html LikeLike Brandon July 1, 2015 at 4:43 pm Reply Hi – I want to make a comment regarding your insurance scores blog, I thought it was great! – It says comments are closed, why? Was this on purpose? Id love to post there and add my two cents to the subject. LikeLike Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe July 1, 2015 at 4:45 pm Reply Yeah, sorry, I time posts out with respect to comments. Otherwise people go on endlessly sometimes. What did you want to say? 🙂 LikeLike Brandon July 1, 2015 at 5:41 pm Reply This has been a pet peeve of mind for a while. It just came back up because I’m in the process of purchasing a home, and my home insurance quotes have been all over the place. About 8 years ago I found a report about insurance scores written by an analyst at progressive insurance. The report admitted that the insurance scores, although they were good predictors of if someone would file a claim(not have an accident/there is a difference) that there was some overlap with the other factors ie if you lived in an area with high claims, maybe that area also has lower credit scores, so in many cases it is possible to get dinged twice. This is why I liked your statement about “price discrimination”, which is a marketing technique taught to me in school. Make no mistake these techniques are not so much to provide pricing relative to the risk (which is what is told to us consumers and why we go along), but as to create complex pricing strategies to maximize revenue. The more factors you come up with the more potential you have for revenue. The only way around this is to end the information asymmetry. We should have legislators mandate that insurers must share their “prime rate”; their best rate for each product so consumers can have a way to easily gauge weather they are ok with the extra risk premium they are being quoted. Just as there is a prime rate for bank loan rates. But this is where insurance companies want us, in the dark with little power. LikeLike Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe July 1, 2015 at 6:22 pm Reply Fuck yes. LikeLike slger July 12, 2015 at 12:30 pm Reply I like Slate Money panels, especially Cathy’s observations and questioning. Regarding the Occam Razor approach on technical glitches and complexity of software, empirical evidence suggests one more level of simplicity. Vandals are cutting the wires. Whatever their reasons, this is happening, really, I can attest. February 25 2015 Northern Arizona 5 hour outage http://www.prescottaz.com/m/Articles.aspx?ArticleID=142238 and other attacks over the past year http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/06/30/california-internet-outage/29521335/ In the AZ attack, commerce and support services halted. Most Local cell and land calls did not go through. Banks locked their doors. 911 was flaky. The national rural Code Red emergency notification system could not send messages. An observer might find this outage an excellent test case on disruption and citizen reactions. Bad weather or an extended outage could have caused fatalities. It was scary. What was learned? A single company, CenturyLink, serves all Northern AZ. with no redundancy. Vandalism was easy enough in the desert. There are no citizen protection groups for this type of disruption versus, for example, wildfires. For me, personally, the local taxi drivers with their redundant dispatch services and demographic knowledge offer the most immediate and reliable information. We should all be asking about vulnerability of our physical infrastructure and share the answers. LikeLike Ralph Braskett July 12, 2015 at 2:46 pm Reply valid point; our electricity grid is rife with problems like this; I have no general solution except harden the infrastructure of both electricity grid and telephone providers need backup of their grids. LikeLike PaMar October 11, 2015 at 3:11 pm Reply In case someone else’s hasn’t sent this to you already – possible consequences of a government-mandate “Citizen score” (as apparently is being done in China). (Author is a British SciFi author) http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/10/it-could-be-worse.html LikeLike nancy jamison October 11, 2015 at 3:19 pm Reply All you smart people whine way to much about everything.Truth from using to much electric to I.D.’s and data,data.data,material things you have killed a world.America should be feeding the world instead.Maybe Love could solve all the problems you whine about. try it. LikeLike Joseph Saint Pierre October 13, 2015 at 3:05 am Reply Hello. I discovered your blog last week and I spent a long time reading some very interesting things on data science, especially place of mathematics. Since 1988 my work in university is related to statistical packages and I often argue against the idea that software replace mathematical formation. During the nineties there was the data mining and more recently the big data but mathematics are still very useful. Your blog, your talks and your books are helpful to defend mathematics. Thank you very much. Joseph Saint Pierre http://mapdata.science/~stpierre/ LikeLike Juan Ortiz September 10, 2016 at 12:41 pm Reply She found her way through the maze of life and now she blossoms. Every pedal of her being is a realization of her life’s work. Leaving a legacy as her contribution to humanity. – Thanks Cathy, from all of us. LikeLike Scott Harmon September 13, 2016 at 5:06 pm Reply Hey there. Heard you on Doug McIntyre’s radio program this morning and thought I’d check out what was happening here. I don’t have too much time to peruse the content during the work day but I’ll be back. Thanks. LikeLike Robert Dobos September 23, 2016 at 12:29 pm Reply I enjoyed listening to you on Ralph Nader Radio recently. I’m a retired secondary mathematics teacher. Just one comment, ‘Figures don’t lie, but liars figure’. LikeLike Bob Siegel October 5, 2016 at 9:24 am Reply Great appearance on Econtalk!! LikeLike krishnan chittur October 9, 2016 at 10:30 am Reply Fascinating econtalk conversation with Russ Roberts! … Far too often, people simply do not stop to think about “regression” or “analytics” – We are watching the progression of “data analytics” to “higher education” where companies are peddling their software/algorithms that can “predict” who will remain and graduate (which in turn is used by administrators to come up with ideas to improve “retention” and “graduation” without worrying about the core issue of learning and actual education) – You are indeed right about how universities spend way too much time worrying about US News than about education – Indeed, if you look at what I call the “tuition code” – it is incredibly regressive with the poor (financial and educational) paying for the rich (financial and educational) – Much as I like better/smarter students in my classes, I am embarassed at how poorly we are treating students who are not quite ready for college and not helping them in ways that may work/known to work LikeLike Alfred Posey November 18, 2016 at 10:33 pm Reply Just finished Weapons of Math Destruction and found it very readable and informative. I’d like to read more on the subject. Al LikeLike Frank Casey March 25, 2017 at 1:47 am Reply I miss spending Saturday mornings with you. Are you on any new podcasts? LikeLike Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe March 25, 2017 at 6:47 am Reply No, sorry! But I do write for Bloomberg now. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/contributors/ATFPV0aLyJM/catherine-h-oneil LikeLike Iñaki Viggers July 19, 2017 at 11:32 pm Reply Hello Cathy and Happy Birthday, which I believe was last week, In your excellent book Weapons of Math Destruction you mention software such as PredPol. Have you or anybody compiled any list of such databases/software programs for those interested in viewing the algorithms? Thank you. LikeLike The Curious Scribbler September 3, 2017 at 8:40 pm Reply Thank you, Cathy, for unpacking the black box. LikeLike Ting-yi Lin November 1, 2017 at 9:07 pm Reply I live in Taiwan. I just finished reading your book, weapons of math destruction’ Chinese version. I just want to let you know that I learned a lot from your book. You have done a great job letting the world knows the possible dangers of math weapons. Thank you. Ting-yi Lin LikeLike Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe November 2, 2017 at 6:09 am Reply Wonderful! Thanks for writing. Cathy LikeLike Sydni Engle April 4, 2018 at 4:02 pm Reply I just started your book Weapons of Math Destruction and I am in love. I am an aspiring mathmetician interested in modeling, but also very passionate about the social problems in the world. You insire me!! LikeLiked by 1 person Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe April 4, 2018 at 4:03 pm Reply thanks! LikeLike johnh October 10, 2018 at 3:54 pm Reply Hi Cathy. Can you recommend book for teaching myself calculus. For the time being, I would like to steer clear of heavy analytic geometry, and stick with the pure calc (concepts, process, some application). Btw, I had calculus in high school and college (first year) 30 years ago but never used it since and have forgotten it all! Starting over again, just for fun! thanks! LikeLike Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe October 10, 2018 at 3:59 pm Reply Khan Academy? It’s online and free. LikeLike johnh October 11, 2018 at 6:31 pm Reply I will start there (although I do like a book to noodle in a supine position)!! Thanks! John LikeLike darrennicholls November 28, 2018 at 5:51 pm Reply Hi Cathy, I just finished Weapons of Math Destruction in two intense reading periods because of the compelling writing. I was especially fascinated with how prescient you were about the effects of social media on US elections as was clearly seen in the 2016 election. Facebook still needs to answer for it’s part in allowing all the Russian ads that favored Trump. I graduated with a math degree up here in Alberta Canada over ten years ago but haven’t really used it since I’ve been teaching English abroad mostly. I’m now considering getting into a master’s program at the University of Alberta in data science. However I’d like to work afterwards for either non profits that are trying to improve society or in the service of animal conservation in the world. If you have any recommendations or suggestions it would be greatly appreciated. Looking forward to your next book! LikeLike Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe November 28, 2018 at 5:58 pm Reply Good luck!! LikeLike حلا نصرالله January 23, 2019 at 4:13 pm Reply Your book left a great impact on my master studies. you are the best! ❤ ❤ LikeLiked by 1 person Jeff February 13, 2019 at 9:16 pm Reply Thought you might enjoy this…https://ieg.worldbankgroup.org/blog/collateral-damage-pitfalls-quantitative-measures-success?fbrefresh&fbclid=IwAR3K3L_O-7figBVhH0rJ4UZtc8aRjmlOtw2ar9aMW0eKXlxCOaN-NHov-AI LikeLike Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe February 14, 2019 at 9:03 am Reply Yes I do, thank you Jeff! LikeLike Nancy Jamison February 14, 2019 at 10:15 am Reply A friend of mine,Nancy Jamison, took the reality of mathematical facts and determined by numbers that she would be able to deliver $100,000,000 in help to the poor with $10,000,000.00 cost in twenty years,and has by developement of fair foods. LikeLike Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe February 14, 2019 at 10:34 am It’s true. LikeLike Raza Usman July 29, 2019 at 6:33 pm Reply Holy c**p check out your bio. Hope you have contributed some 23&me dna or something similar… Very unfair to the rest of us… LikeLike MamaPhi April 8, 2021 at 6:43 am Reply Would be interested in those snps. One can potentially be smart but have blocked detox channels, exposure to heavy metals and or mycotoxins. Hair Analysis and organic acid test can go a long way to helping us understand our personal “proper nutrition”. Optimize what you have. LikeLike Craig from Cambridge April 17, 2020 at 3:49 pm Reply Hi Cathy – I’ve become a huge fan of yours since reading ‘WMD’ over the winter. My friend who’s an epidemiologist has been very negative about the IHME model (https://covid19science.blogspot.com/2020/04/a-letter-to-ihme.html) I searched your site for references to IHME, and didn’t find any so I’m assuming this hasn’t crossed your radar yet. If I’m not mistake, his critique is right up your alley. This is a ‘machine learning’ type approach that eschews fundamentals of epidemiology and just uses a bunch of open-loop highly unreliable fitting tools. I won’t presume to explain this further, I’m sure you will come to your own (far more accurate) conclusions far more quickly than I could summarize it for you. I hope you find this relevant. Even if you don’t I think what you are doing is great. Keep fighting the good fight, sister! LikeLike MamaPhi April 8, 2021 at 6:52 am Reply Oh the power of hindsight! Bahamas was COVID free by May of last year and rather than follow common sense and open up to other COVID free nations it took poor advice from “experts” and opened up to a US COVID rampage ! Stupid is as stupid does. LikeLike mark neill August 11, 2020 at 9:13 pm Reply Cathy , there was an article from Australia on a spike of indigenous children being taken into government care. It found was found later that the government department was using an off the shelf risk assessment algorithm from the US , and had little to do with conditions in Australia. LikeLike Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe August 12, 2020 at 6:57 am Reply thanks mark, can you send me a link? LikeLike mark neill August 12, 2020 at 10:52 am Reply https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-10/queensland-discriminatory-tool-indigenous-child-protection/12434784?utm_source=abc_news&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_content=mail&utm_campaign=abc_news LikeLike Christian Wilkie (@WilkieChristian) August 28, 2020 at 2:39 pm Reply Hey Cathy – I started listening to the audiobook version of “Weapons of Math Destruction” and it’s been really interesting so far. Not sure if you’re aware but your book is assigned reading for one of my classes at Georgia Tech – “CS-8803-O10 – AI, Ethics, and Society” https://omscs.gatech.edu/cs-8803-o10-ai-ethics-and-society As a side note – I found it funny that you were a quant on a futures team, I actually started a new software job recently at a big bank in the futures group, not as a quant though. Looking forward to listening to the rest of your book and learning from your unique perspective. LikeLike Jeramie Huber October 6, 2020 at 4:21 pm Reply Kathy, Hello my name is Jeramie Huber. I’m from the Midwest and 33yrs of age. I have a background in Construction (Carpentry). I Love Mathematics, Physical Fitness, and Family. I have Multiple proofs for Mathematical Hypothesis. I beleive you would have interest in these after seeing your videos on Algorithms. I’m reaching out to you sense your familiar with the mathematical world. I could really use some help with making the mathematical world aware of these Proofs; It’s of use and doesn’t exist. Feel free to contact me by email or phone at: 219-781-4972 If there are any other questions feel free to ask. Love, Respect, Peace and Patience. Jeramie Huber 10/05/2020 LikeLike PoliSci Mathemagician April 7, 2021 at 8:13 am Reply You are my superhero—–I wish (desperately) there was a way to excise Elumen and the idea that ‘measurement’ of SLOs (pushing a 70% attainment rate) is just a pernicious falsehood to my college administration—-but alas, like Rhee, they have attended some ‘conference’ where the ‘data scientists’ have created algorithms and packaged them in a nice box so as to ensure the information produced can be easily digested by folks who left the classroom YEARS ago (assuming they were ever in one, to begin with). Thanks, Cathy—-you have validated even my rudimentary statistical skills and reassured me that, in fact, I am not crazy and the inability of those in the “head shed” simply fail to recognize grade inflation will be the ‘hedge’ they will actually witness. Three years to retirement and counting——- LikeLike Jim Hamilton September 7, 2021 at 9:53 pm Reply You’re the smartest person in the room, especially related to CDS and many derivatives. I have a math problem. I created a formula for BTC cost to mine one, proof of work, and I consider this to be intrinsic value of one bitcoin. There is a huge flaw in the Bitcoin system. If the value intrinsic of BTC is based on the power of miners, the Compute, then what if the market price drops in tandem with instrisic value based on people stopping mining it? Is there a downward spiral crash to near zero dollars? I’d like the opinion of a doctorate in math. Thanks!!! Jim LikeLike Jim Hamilton September 7, 2021 at 10:06 pm Reply IDK. If we could trade texts, can you text me at 513 484 8719. LikeLike Genica Robbins May 20, 2022 at 12:18 pm Reply Hi Cathy. I just wanted to let you know that I really appreciate you being out there and starting conversations about Shame. I’m a psychologist who’s not intending to write a book, but if I were to, I would want to do it on shame, because I feel that it’s the most psychologically damaging thing going right now. Just know that your message is appreciated. LikeLike Raza Usman June 30, 2022 at 8:21 am Reply We are trying to replicate flawed “intelligent” systems namely us. The machines are performing as planned. What is required is an ontology that is not based on humanity but then it would be alien to our being. LikeLike Anon August 20, 2022 at 1:14 am Reply Has this website been hacked? clicking on the yellow-red pic of the “weapons of Math destruction” book, one gets a Canadian cannabis site. 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GETTY Virat Kohli starred for India with the bat but he was outshone by Lendl Simmons' heroics
Virat Kohli's unbeaten 89 had led the home side to an imposing 192 as India plundered the three West Indies seamers for 129 runs. And although Chris Gayle fell in only the second over, half-centuries from Johnson Charles and an unbeaten Lendl Simmons saw West Indies get into the World T20 final with two balls to spare.
England's T20 squad Thu, March 10, 2016 Express Sport brings you England's T20 squad Play slideshow IDI via Getty Images 1 of 14 Eoin Morgan (Middlesex) (capt)
But to see Kohli playing the full array of attacking shots that could have come straight out of any 1950s batting manual. You don't have to start fast - just finish fast A new opening partnership for India saw Shikhar Dhawan dropped and local lad Ajinkya Rahane take to the field with Rohit Sharma in Mumbai. But the pair struggled to get India off the to flier they so badly wanted to get the crowd up and never let the West Indies into the game. Only two runs came off the first over from Andre Russell and while consecutive sixes in the fifth over meant India managed 55/0 from the powerplay, they found themselves tied down in the middle overs. Badree, Bravo and Brathwaite tightened the screws and India couldn't clear or even that often find the boundary rope to get the score bouncing along.
But they crucially didn't lose wickets and that proved crucial. Rahane proved the perfect foil for Kohli and though Dhawan's replacement was dismissed with 27 balls to go, MS Dhoni came in. The ultimate finisher Those last 27 balls went for 64 runs and Dhoni only got 15 of them. India are no longer the kings of spin In a country where even the glass turns and bounces, you'd think India would have quality spin bowling coming out of their ears. And on paper they do. R Ashwin's box of tricks is seemingly bottomless while Ravi Jadeja provides a unique brand of skiddy slow-left-arm bowling.
But neither shone against the West Indies powerful top-order and when push came to shove, it was Kohli's golden arm which did the trick to get rid of Johnson Charles. Jasprit Bumrah is a terrific discovery in the seam-bowling department but any spinner who fancies himself in India colours should see April's IPL as a chance to stake a claim to a place, especially in the context of the inevitable inquest into the side's failure to reach the final. Chris Gayle is human but there is more to the West Indies The safe money at the the halfway stage said that India would win if they got rid of Chris Gayle early, and if they didn't 192 might well not be enough. There are few grounds big enough to restrain the huge Jamaican as England found out in their first game of the tournament when he hit an unbeaten hundred. But Bumrah undid him with a fast inswinging yorker that got past Gayle's enormous blade to leave him walking back for only five. The little things will still win you games Lendl Simmons wasn't even in the squad for the tournament but Andre Fletcher's injury meant he was brought into the squad on Monday as cover. | positive |
Uruguay is set to become the first country in the world to legalize the sale of marijuana at a market price of US$1 a gram. The bill is expected to pass through the senate in November, bringing the $40 million industry under state control.
The legislation was passed through the lower house earlier this year in August and backed by President Jose Mujica’s government. The measure is part of an initiative to combat the illegal drugs trade in Latin America and curtail cartel violence, which has decimated parts of the region.
Lawmakers have agreed at an initial price of $1 per gram of the drug, a price that aims to compete with the illegal market value, which currently stands at around $1.40 for a gram.
National Drug Board chief Jose Calzada told Uruguayan newspaper El Pais that bringing the industry under state control “will provide a safe place to buy, a good quality product and moreover will sell at a standard price.”
He assured that one gram is enough for “one large joint and three slimmer ones,” stating the first legal marijuana crop should hit the market in the middle of 2014.
The legislation stipulates a number of conditions that will govern the sale of the drug. Uruguayan citizens will be required to register in a private database to be able to purchase marijuana and will be restricted to 40 grams each per month.
Moreover, citizens will legally be allowed to cultivate six marijuana plants per head or band together and organize a club of up to 45 members with the possibility of growing 99 plants.
The Uruguayan state will also offer advice to marijuana users on the drug’s consumption.
“As well as smoking marijuana in a cigarette, you can also vaporize it - which is much less harmful - or consume it in food like brownies,” said Calzada.
There are still a number of details to finalize in the Uruguayan bill to legalize marijuana. At present no money has been allocated to finance the new director for the Institute for the Regulation and Control of Cannabis.
The initiative has also hit upon opposition politicians who released a poll over the summer that claimed that 60 per cent of the country’s population was against the idea.
The National Drug Board estimates that there are around 120,000 marijuana users in Uruguay from a population of 3.3 million. Consumer groups estimate that the figure as higher, putting the number of users at around 200,000.
The board has also calculated that about 20 hectares will be needed in order to satisfy demand. As part of the initiative, the Uruguayan government will give licenses to private businesses, which will be allowed to cultivate on state-controlled land.
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Tee Box Champion 74/145 Playing Handicap N/S Scorecard Yards | Meters Tiburon Golf Club - Black Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Out 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 In Total Champion 74/145 344 386 346 184 366 459 146 315 531 3077 172 328 404 201 369 512 379 425 487 3277 6354 Back 71.1/140 324 360 335 165 329 440 123 311 495 2882 159 310 371 172 344 473 350 390 463 3032 5914 Tiburon 69.7/133 314 334 297 154 311 425 112 258 382 2587 143 278 347 144 337 463 338 353 452 2855 5442 Middle 68.2/119 294 320 258 124 284 398 94 240 436 2448 124 269 321 123 239 423 327 340 405 2571 5019 HCP Men 9 1 3 17 8 11 15 13 5 14 4 10 18 16 12 2 6 8 Par 4 4 4 3 4 5 3 4 5 36 3 4 4 3 4 5 4 4 5 36 72 Forward 68.7/122 271 280 207 92 253 372 78 226 412 2191 101 218 303 89 265 332 290 295 378 2271 4462 HCP Women 3 1 15 17 11 9 13 7 5 16 2 10 18 12 6 4 14 8 Par 4 4 4 3 4 5 3 4 5 36 3 4 4 3 4 5 4 4 5 36 72 Incorrect scorecard? Community Club member 1 Followers 5 Golfers who played here 11 Reviews 4.7 based on 3 reviews Fabulous 2 Very good 1 Good 0 Average 0 Poor 0 Hello, what do you think about this course? Your rating Raul Gabellini Hcp 12.4 Golf Club Grand-Ducal Fabulous 22 July Greg Norman’s design 0 David Theoret Hcp 10 Very good March 23, 2020 I lived in Fort Myers, FL for a few years and had the opportunity to play the Tiburón Golf Club on several occasions. There were several memorable holes; the finishing holes on each side and the first hole on the Gold Course, a reachable par five. Mo... Read more 0 See all 3 reviews Albums Cover pictures (6) May 18, 2017 Cover pictures (6) May 18, 2017 Nearby hotels See all 20 0.1 km The Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort, Naples Naples (Florida) Book now 3 km The Fairways Inn of Naples Naples (Florida) Book now 0.1 km The Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort, Naples Naples (Florida) Book now 3 km The Fairways Inn of Naples Naples (Florida) Book now 4 km Inn at Pelican Bay Naples (Florida) Book now 4 km Hampton Inn Naples - I-75 Naples (Florida) Book now See all 20 Nearby courses See all 50 0.1 km Tiburón Golf Club - Gold Course Naples, United States 4.0 • Very good • 1 Review 6 played here Book now Already played this course? Yes No 2 km Pelican Marsh Golf Club Naples, United States Your rating 1 played here Book now Already played this course? Yes No 0.1 km Tiburón Golf Club - Gold Course Naples, United States 4.0 • Very good • 1 Review 6 played here Book now Already played this course? 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Hillary Clinton often says she wants to help families struggling to pay for child care and other expenses that come with raising kids. Now she’s presenting a plan designed to do just that.
Clinton’s proposal would not fulfill her lofty, high-profile promise to set a hard limit on what families pay for child care. But the new plan would get part of the way toward that goal, giving millions of families significant financial relief along the way.
The initiative, which Clinton will formally unveil Tuesday, is pretty straightforward. She would double the size of the child tax credit, an existing break for both low- and middle-income families, for children 4 years old and younger. Then she wants to tweak the tax credit’s design, so that it provides more relief to some of the poorest families in America.
The initiative is part of a broader agenda to update America’s social welfare state, in order to accommodate a profound change in society over the last few decades ― the mass entry of women into the workforce, and resulting disruption to traditional childrearing arrangements.
Clinton has called for a suite of policies, including federally backed pre-kindergarten programs and paid family leave, and said she would limit child care expenses to 10 percent of family income. That would be no small thing, since the average cost of child care in the U.S. is now around $9,600 per year, according to a recent report from the New America Foundation.
Clinton’s expansion of the child tax credit would increase its maximum value from $1,000 to $2,000 per child. On its own, that’s not enough to hit the 10 percent goal for many families. Although the Clinton campaign has said she will introduce additional initiatives, it’s becoming clear that the 10 percent cap is not a concrete objective, as she has suggested previously, but an aspiration.
Even so, Clinton’s tax proposal represents a substantial new investment in families with children ― one that will, like other tax breaks Clinton has proposed, provide major benefits to everybody except the wealthy. That’s because the child tax credit is mostly refundable, meaning that families too poor to owe any income tax can claim the credit and receive a check from the government for its value. Clinton’s plan would actually make it even more valuable to the poorest families, by increasing its value at very low incomes.
This is pretty much the opposite of the approach that Donald Trump has taken with his tax policy in general, and his child care proposals in particular. Over the summer, Trump proposed a new tax deduction for child care expenses. But deductions are worth a lot more to people in higher income tax brackets ― and worth nothing at all to people too poor to pay income taxes.
Trump’s child care plan also includes a subsidy for low-income families, but it would be worth a maximum of $1,200 per family, regardless of the number of children.
Figuring out who would benefit more from each candidate’s proposals right now is basically impossible, since the Trump campaign has changed its tax plan several times, and Clinton is just now releasing details of her proposal. There’s bound to be a lot of variation, depending on individual household circumstances. But given the available information, it’s likely that Clinton’s would ultimately provide greater tax relief to less affluent families, while Trump’s would provide greater relief to more affluent ones.
Clinton’s plan would also cost a lot less than Trump’s and would fit within an overall budget that, according to an assessment by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, has nearly enough new revenue to offset the cost of new initiatives. The same assessment found that Trump’s agenda, including his child care tax cut, would add $5.2 trillion to the federal debt over the coming decade.
The child tax credit gets relatively little attention, even in Washington. But policy experts who focus on children think it’s a critical tool for fighting poverty, because even modest amounts of money can make a big difference for low-income Americans ― and because research has shown that assistance for very young children can have profound effects on their future health and intellectual and emotional development.
“If you’re trying to maximize the effect of where you put your dollars, it’s poor young kids, because it’s such a critical stage of brain development,” said Chuck Marr, director of federal tax policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. ”It’s a moment of great vulnerability, but also great opportunity.”
Clinton’s proposal has a lot in common with Democratic proposals circulating on Capitol Hill, including bills from Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado, and Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut. But the child tax credit also has a long history of bipartisan support.
It dates back to bipartisan legislation that President Bill Clinton signed, and it has undergone expansion and extension several times, under President George W. Bush and most recently President Barack Obama ― who, late last year, signed a bill making recent expansions of the tax credit permanent. | positive |
Boss of suspended bank in 'suicide' leap from head office as customers queue on pavement below
Death: The body of Chung Ku-haeng is taken from outside the Jeil II bank
The chief executive of a South Korean savings bank jumped to his death today in an apparent suicide after the company was suspended in an illegal dealings probe.
Chung Ku-haeng hit the pavement near the head office's of Jeil 2 Savings Bank in Seoul, South Korea, as dozens of customers queued at an entrance waiting to withdraw cash.
'It was so frightening,' said Lee Mee-sook, a witness at the scene. 'I didn't know at the time it was the bank chief.'
Chung Ku-haeng's covered body was carried away by police in front of the shocked customers.
'It is true that he jumped to his death," the officer said, adding the scene had been sealed off. Television footage showed investigators covering Jeong's body with a piece of white cloth.
The apparent suicide followed a raid by prosecutors, police and bank regulators of seven savings banks including Jeil, in connection with possible irregularities by their executives and major shareholders.
'We are focusing on confiscating materials on excessive loan extensions, improper lending to shareholders and unhealthy loans, which the banks were accused of issuing,' an unnamed investigator said.
Prosecutors who raided the bank seized accounting books, transaction statements and computer hard disks, it is said.
Financial regulators at the weekend suspended the seven banks for six months because of their poor financial condition caused by reckless investment in risky property projects.
So far this year 16 savings banks have been suspended for inadequate liquidity after the financing of soured real-estate projects.
The suspensions have left the sector reeling from falling financial credibility as its asset quality deteriorates.
Financial district: Seven banks in South Korea, pictured, have been suspended after probes were launched into reckless investment in risky property projects
The crisis has caused thousands of customers to converge on banks' head offices and branches of the lenders hoping to withdraw their money.
National deposit insurance covers customers for only up to 50 million won (£27,400) in principal and interest, leaving many depositors at the risk of losing their investments if any of the banks go into receivership.
A combined 595 billion won in deposits had been withdrawn from 91 savings banks between Monday and Friday, according to the regulatory Financial Supervisory Service.
The pace of withdrawals slowed sharply since the start of business on Monday but Friday was the fifth straight day of customers lining up to get their money back.
The country's prosecution has set up a special team of investigators to probe mismanagement and allegations of corruption at the seven savings banks.
A corruption scandal at Busan Savings Bank earlier this year claimed some of Lee's closest aides as prosecutors' probe of a lobbyist's alleged illegal payoffs to top government officials expanded.
Lee's chief public affairs secretary was summoned by the prosecutors this week under graft allegations, after he tendered his resignation last week. | positive |
Races (the running kind) are a great resource for anyone looking to play with a moderately sized data set. It’s not hard to make some descriptive and pretty charts, and you can do some simple “who ran fastest?” breakdowns by various factors.
In this post, I’ll look at a race that took place recently here in Atlanta: The Hot Chocolate 15K/5K. The best parts of the results they posted is that they include split times for each third of the 15K. That means that we can do some analyses on runner pace consistency and time trends!
We’ll start with some quick visualization of the participants and the results to orient ourselves to the data, and then get into analyzing (spoiler: with clustering) runner pacing structures.
Warm Up
Let’s real quick take a look at the two pieces of demographic data that are available in the data: Age and Sex.
The amount of women racing far exceeds that of the men (5473 women vs 1833 men, almost exactly 3 times as many). The distribution of ages is about the same between the two, though.
Now, let’s see how fast the runners were. First, we’ll look at the distribution of paces for all the runners:
This kind of skew is common in race distributions (from the data I’ve seen). The right (slower) skew is always much greater than the really fast runners. This is from more open races, though. I haven’t seen what it’s like for races with time requirements for entry.
Next we’ll do a breakdown by sex:
This breakdown suffers from the relative lack of men who ran. With many fewer data points, it’s quite likely that there’s more self-selection in speed for male runners than for female runners.
Let’s get into some 2D data. We can look at the density of Age vs. Race Time as a 2D histogram:
The runner’s performance isn’t strongly related to age at all (rho = 0.121), and that’s obvious from the chart. Age and Race Time are probably irrelevant to each other, due to races being self-selected events.
Pace Yourself
The race very nicely had bib scanners set up at the 5K and 10K marks (and of course the 15K) so racers could see some rough splits of their time. Before we go any further, it needs to be mentioned that this course is HILLY. While on those hills, it was distracting to wonder if the hilliness would cause a significant impact on the pace splits for runners. Here’s an elevation map that I made with a site called Veloroutes:
In general, we might expect pace splits to remain relatively constant (on a flat course). Either that, or start to get slower as the race goes on (for runners, like me, that don’t train all that often to be consistent enough). For a really hilly course, it made sense to hypothesize that paces might degrade quite a bit, especially for the last 5K, which had the worst of the hills (really, just one long hill to huff up).
Let’s use the data to test these ideas. The first thing we want to do is get all the pace data to be comparable somehow. If person A ran each 5K split at 8 min/mile, and person B ran it at 9 min/mil, and we compared those for all 7,300 racers, the distributions of pace splits would be muddles with the magnitude of the pace.
The solution here is simple; we compare each runner to their 15K average pace. That way, if runner A had three splits of: [8.1, 7.8, 8.1], we’d take those from the average (8 min/mile) to get three splits of: [0.1, -0.2, 0.1]. Those values are comparable between runners, since they reflect a normalized shift in the runner’s performance.
Remember that negative paces mean faster than the race average. We’ll look at the splits in two ways: densities and a scatter plot. Whenever you see a “PX” value, it just means the pace for the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd 5K split. Here are the densities:
The densities show that, on average, everyone starts faster than average, then gets faster than that (on average) for the 2nd 5K, and gets much slower for the last 5K. Notice how the middle section doesn’t have much skew, but the first and third sections are skewed fast and slow, respectively. This fits in line with what I hypothesized earlier.
The first scatter plot is a detail of P1 vs P3, where some detail is added to show what the positive and negative pace values mean:
Next, let’s look at all of them together:
The first and second splits don’t look very correlated, but there is a significant correlation between the first and last splits. The faster you ran the first split, the slower you ran the last one. This is likely due to both fatigue and the nature of displaying differences from average. If one segment is much faster than average, at least one of the others must be much slower. It’s interesting that the relationship isn’t as strong for P1 and P2, or P2 and P3.
For those curious about the correlations, here’s the correlation matrix:
P1 P2 P3 P1 1.000000 -0.226036 -0.806403 P2 -0.226036 1.000000 -0.393723 P3 -0.806403 -0.393723 1.000000
K-Runners
Seeing the densities and the scatters help us to understand some of the structure of the paces overall, but it doesn’t quite help us to answer the question about what kinds of pace splits the runners had. There are several options:
Fast – Fast – Slow Fast – Slow – Fast Slow – Fast – Fast Reverse the Fast and Slow above All the same Generally getting slower Generally getting faster
Which ones are the most common? How about the least common? Answering that kind of questions means we need to find groups of common structures in the data. That sounds like clustering should be a pretty good fit for that task (and it makes nice-looking charts!). To do the clustering, I started with K-Means, with K set to 20. I set it to 20 because there are 9 scenarios that I listed above, but they could all have varying magnitudes.
The results of the clustering will be shown in two ways. One is just color-coded scatter plots. The other is a graphic of the cluster centers, where you can see how that cluster’s paces progress over the race (from left to right). The top of each cluster graphic has the number of runners that fit into that cluster. Let’s look at the centers first:
And the scatter plot of where they are (the cluster centers are to the right, with the appropriate colors):
K-Means does what it does best (makes as equal a volume groups as possible in the data) and gives us 20 different “kinds” of runners. The most common runner is pretty average, but slows down in the last third. After that, the runners start increasing their separation from their averages in various ways. Notice that many of the shapes are repeated, just with more extreme magnitudes (such as Fast-Average-Slow).
I’ve attempted to show (and since I’m colorblind, I do this for my own benefit) where each cluster shape is on the P1 vs P3 scatter plot. If a cluster doesn’t have an arrow, that means that its center is outside the inner plot’s range. I kept in zoomed in for readability.
Here’s that same kind of plot, but for when we look for only 10 clusters:
MeanShift Runners
I wanted to try out some other clustering, especially clustering that can pick the number of clusters for you. MeanShift is a good option (as it selects by density, and I want to find dense regions of runners), and it doesn’t crash like other ones that need 7000 x 7000 distance matrices (I’m using Python, so that bogs things down).
The MeanShift gave 16 clusters, only 5 of which had more than 10 members. The others are extreme outliers. The top 5 cluster centers follow:
Here are their positions in the data:
Since MeanShift works by finding high-density regions, there’s a lot of aggregation in the biggest cluster. It managed to find some clusters farther out of that dense middle, and those clusters represent runners that have more extreme splits in their paces. It’s interesting to note that the extreme behaviors don’t include a “Slow-Fast-Slow” pattern. Those patterns do show up to some extent in the K-Means clusters.
Finish Line
Now we can see how the top runners sorted out into those clusters to see if there is any particular cluster that ‘creates’ more winners. The top 200 runners were selected, and their cluster membership recorded. The following chart shows those clusters, in order of occurring the most for winners. Two numbers are given above the cluster center. The first is the percentage of the top 200 runners that ended up in the cluster. The second is the percentage of all the runners in that cluster. Higher winner percentages than all runner percentages indicate a structure that might be more likely to win.
About 86% of the winners belonged to clusters of highly consistent paces. It’s not the the extreme clusters can’t win (some do!), it’s that maintaining a fast enough average pace while it varies wildly while you run might be taxing, and be harder to produce a winner.
Cool Down
What do we know about different kinds of runners now? Mostly the same thing as was hypothesized, but now we have pictures! There are all kinds of different magnitudes and shapes of the pace structures, some more common than others. The K-Means showed us many different magnitudes for the same kind of shapes. The MeanShift did some major aggregation, leaving us with only a few distinct kinds of runners.
We saw that the top 200 runners were more likely to have highly consistent paces, but that there is room for more extreme pace structures.
Overall, the clustering proved insightful, and helped in seeing what kinds of pace structures existed. What do you think? Do you have suggestions on better ways to cluster or format the data before clustering? Let us know in the comments.
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This post was edited by Lawguy at 19:50, Mar-22-2016
I got this working. Everything works and is smooth. I've updated this based on the valuable input from the people in this thread including FrankGRE and CsabaK.
Link to files. Flash this package through Fastboot as you would any other Miui fastboot ROM.
https://mega.nz/#!jM9h3JTR!4DA8I7PxJR9taYq1toB3Ly9hS0pLHk3xqcFTAeMKS4Q This post was edited by CsabaK at 21:51, Mar-21-2016
After install, you need to manually install TWRP, GAAPS, and Superuser for root (if you want root):
use the following commands (maybe you should install minimal ADB & Fastboot):
adb shell
(you should see root@latte: / # at the beginning of the line)
mount -o rw,remount /system
cd /system
mv recovery-from-boot.p recovery-from-boot.p.bak
exit
Download TWRP from here:
http://en.miui.com/thread-203226-1-1.html
Reboot to fastboot mode and unlock bootloader:
fastboot oem unlock
Flash the new recovery:
fastboot flash recovery [drag and drop the downloaded recovery image into the console window]
fastboot reboot
At this point you switched permanently to TWRP recovery.
Download UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.46.zip from here: https://download.chainfire.eu/696/SuperSU/
and the opengapps x86_64 for Android 5.1 package from here: [size=21.546px]https://mega.nz/#!bI8VDYQL!0B2clCTjAzddKg1mqQfds6xqzCQfudKSHOhMYVuqla8
Copy these two files to the tablet, reboot to recovery and flash them.
Clear cache and reboot.
Download this buttons remapper, to remap the menu key to the app switching function.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.irishin.buttonsremapper
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Every gut instinct he had was wildly off the mark and hideously damaging to all concerned.
It seems that if you trust your gut without ever feeding your gut any facts or news or contrary opinions, if you keep your gut on a steady diet of grandiosity, ignorance, sycophants, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, those snap decisions can be ruinous.
We already know What Happened, but it feels good to hear Scott say it. His conscience was spurred by hurt feelings.
In Washington, it is rarely the geopolitical or human consequences that cause people to turn on leaders behaving immorally. The town is far more narcissistic and practical than that.
The people who should be sounding the alarm for democracy’s sake, and the sake of all the young Americans losing lives and limbs, get truly outraged only when they are played for fools and fall guys, when their own reputations are at stake.
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It was not the fake casus belli that made Colin Powell’s blood boil. What really got Powell disgusted was that W. and Dick Cheney used him, tapping into his credibility to sell their trumped-up war; that George Tenet failed to help him scrub his U.N. speech of all Cheney’s garbage; and that W. showed him the door so the more malleable Condi could have his job.
Tenet was privately worried about a war buildup not backed up by C.I.A. facts, but he only publicly sounded the alarm years later in a lucrative memoir fueled by payback, after Condi and Cheney tried to cast him as the fall guy on W.M.D.
McClellan did not realize the value of a favorite maxim — “The truth shall set you free” — until he was hung out to dry by his bosses in the Valerie Plame affair, repeating the lies Karl Rove and Scooter Libby brazenly told him about not being the leakers.
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“Clearly,” McClellan says, sounding like the breast-heaving heroine of a Victorian romance, “I had allowed myself to be deceived.” He felt “something fall out of me into the abyss.”
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And that was even before “the breaking point,” when he learned the worst about his idol — that the president who had denounced leaks about his warrantless surveillance program, who had promised to fire anyone leaking classified information about Plame, was himself the one who authorized Dick Cheney to let Scooter leak part of the top-secret National Intelligence Estimate.
“Yeah, I did,” Mr. Bush told his sap of a press secretary on Air Force One. His tone, the stunned McClellan said, was “as if discussing something no more important than a baseball score.”
He recalled the first time that he had begun to suspect that W. might be just another dissembling pol: when he overheard his boss, during his 2000 bid, ludicrously telling a supporter that he couldn’t remember, from his wild partying days, if he had tried cocaine.
“He isn’t the kind of person to flat-out lie,” McClellan said, but added, “I was witnessing Bush convincing himself to believe something that probably was not true.” He’d see a lot more of it over the next six years before Bush tearfully booted him out.
W.’s dwindling cadre hit back hard. In Stockholm, Condi — labeled “sometimes too accommodating” by the author — scoffed: “The president was very clear about the reasons for going to war.”
She’s right. He was very clear about it being because of W.M.D. Then he was very clear about it being to rid the world of a tyrant. Then he was very clear about it being to spread democracy. When that didn’t work out, he was very clear about it being that we can’t leave because we can’t leave.
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US military plans direct intervention in Syria
By Alex Lantier
24 July 2013
The Pentagon is planning a major escalation of the US-led war against Syria, involving direct US military involvement to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
In a letter to Democratic Senator Carl Levin, the head of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Gen. Martin Dempsey spelled out proposals and cost estimates for various potential US interventions in Syria. His plans include training opposition militias in Syria; missile strikes against Syrian targets; setting up a “no-fly zone” to ground or destroy Syria’s air force; seizing “buffer zones” of Syrian territory near Jordan or Turkey; and Special Forces raids to seize chemical weapons.
Pentagon plans include large-scale operations, costing at least tens of billions of dollars per year. Dempsey said Special Forces strikes would cost over $1 billion a month, and missile strikes—requiring “hundreds of aircraft, ships, submarines, and other enablers”—would cost “in the billions.”
Dempsey’s letter followed a vote last week by the US House and Senate intelligence panels to directly arm opposition forces in Syria. Until now, they had been funded and armed by US-allied oil sheikdoms such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia, and not directly by the US. This allowed Washington to cynically claim the opposition was not on its payroll, even as the CIA coordinated the flow of arms and money.
The Obama administration lobbied intensively for the votes to arm the opposition in Syria. Vice President Joe Biden, CIA Director John Brennan, and Secretary of State John Kerry all called or briefed members of Congress.
The original justification for the Syrian war—that it was a humanitarian struggle to defend a democratic uprising of the Syrian people—is so nakedly exposed that the US and its European allies barely bother to repeat it. They recklessly armed Al Qaeda-linked forces like the Al Nusra Front and promoted a “moderate” stable of CIA assets and regime turncoats, hoping to topple Assad. While the Syrian people faced an onslaught of US-backed gangs and militias, the media and bourgeois “left” praised these forces as revolutionary fighters for democracy.
This criminal policy is now in shambles. This opposition faces defeat due to its lack of popular support and the international spread of the war. In recent months, select Iranian forces and fighters from the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah helped Assad turn the tide of battle against Sunni Islamist-dominated opposition militias.
Washington’s response is to prepare for an even greater bloodbath. Powerful sections of the ruling class are pushing for a broad US war to oust Assad and forcibly assert US imperialist hegemony over the Middle East. Anthony Cordesman, an influential strategist from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), made his case for such a war in a Washington Post column yesterday titled “Syria’s Ripple Effect.”
He wrote, “If Assad succeeds in crushing the opposition or otherwise maintains control over most of Syria, Iran will have a massive new degree of influence over Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon in a polarized Middle East divided between Sunni and Shiite …This would present serious risks for Israel, weaken Jordan and Turkey, and, most important, give Iran far more influence in the Persian Gulf, an area home to 48 percent of the world’s proven oil reserves.”
Cordesman outlined a spectrum of US actions, from providing anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles to the Western-backed militias to imposing a no-fly zone to permit direct US intervention: “US officials could make clear that either the rebels will succeed with such weapons—leading to a negotiated departure of Assad’s government and the installation of a new national government—or the United States will join with allies in creating a no-fly zone.”
Cordesman’s proposal amounts to a call for the Pentagon and its allies to prepare for broad regional or even global wars with mass casualties and devastating effects on the world economy. It could involve the US in a war not only with Syria, but also with Hezbollah forces and the Assad regime’s international backers—Iran, upon which the US imposed further sanctions last week, or even Russia and China.
Layers within the US military have cautioned against a rapid, all-out war, primarily because they are not sure that they are prepared for how such a war would escalate. Thus, in his letter to Levin, Dempsey reportedly wrote: “Once we take action, we should be prepared for what comes next. Deeper involvement is hard to avoid.”
Sections of the ruling class propose to strengthen the opposition and wage a long-term proxy war in Syria to carry out a neocolonial partition of the country. Citing White House Press Secretary Jay Carney’s comment that Assad “will never rule all of Syria again,” the New York Times wrote yesterday that Washington is preparing “the long-term reality of a divided Syria,” of which Assad would only control a “rump portion.”
All these plans to escalate imperialist intervention in the Middle East reflect the crisis and breakdown of American democracy. Ten years after the disastrous and unpopular US invasion of Iraq, imperialist strategists are formulating plans for another ruinous war, with contempt for the views of the population. Fully 61 percent of the population opposes US involvement in the Syrian war, according to a recent Quinnipiac poll.
The ruling elite’s ability to press forward with plans for war underscores the deeply reactionary role of the media and the petty-bourgeois “left” in suppressing any overt expression of popular opposition. In particular, the role of pseudo-left groups like the International Socialist Organization (ISO) in the US, Die Linke in Germany, or the New Anti-capitalist Party (NPA) in France is clear. They have worked continuously to market filthy imperialist wars to left-liberal sections of the middle class as “revolutions.”
These parties have not only supported the wars in their publications, but also played a direct role in the intelligence operations necessary to organize the war. Early in the Syrian war, the NPA’s Gilbert Achcar attended a covert October 2011 conference of the CIA-backed Syrian National Council (SNC) opposition group to advise it on the mechanics of foreign intervention.
These parties have functioned as mouthpieces for various sections of the intelligence community who favor an imperialist overthrow of Assad in alliance with the Islamist opposition.
Thus, a recent article by the NPA’s main writer on Syria, Gayath Naïssé, titled “Self-organization in the Syrian people’s revolution,” praises the opposition militias that control the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, writing that “a democratic dream has been realized in Deir ez-Zor.” He enthuses that “a free electoral process “was organized for the first time in forty years” as it was described by Khadr, a member of the local council of the opposition which was elected on Sunday by the inhabitants of the “liberated’ areas.”
This is a blatant falsification of the political record of far-right, Al Qaeda-linked militias that have seized various Syrian cities with US support, imposing a reign of terror on the population. In Deir ez-Zor itself, they operate death squads that have recorded widely-publicized videos of themselves murdering inhabitants opposed to their policies. More broadly, Islamist opposition militias have become notorious for looting areas that they control—most notably destroying factories in Aleppo, in order to fund their arms purchases from the United States’ allies.
The ISO’s latest statement on Syria—a piece by Michael Karadjis first posted on the Australian pseudo-left site Links —attacks any opposition to US intervention to back the Syrian opposition. Denouncing “lazy talk of the trickle of light weapons from abroad representing some great ‘war on Syria,’” it attacks opponents of the US intervention as people “terribly frightened about the prospect of a trickle of arms reaching the rebels from the wrong people.”
The statement adds, “It is not up to socialists within imperialist countries to demand our governments not provide arms just because we understand our government’s aims are different to ours and such arming demands a political price from the rebels … If the US or other imperialist states did decide for their own reasons to provide some arms, we should also not protest against it, robotic-style.”
This passage underscores how the ISO functions as a conscious defender of imperialism and war. While acknowledging that the Syrian opposition consists of forces armed by the US government and that therefore act as its stooges, it demands that these pro-US stooges in Syria be armed to the teeth, and that no opposition to such a proxy war be organized.
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Documentation
Basic Saver
How to check if there is an internet connection ? : the WiFi is on right?, it will try to connect to the following famous fail . This is the main features of this app, When enabled, a checking alarm will run every 5 minutes ( changeable ) and check for two conditions, One : If WiFi is on and not connected to a network, Two: if connected and there is no internet connection, if it meets one of the conditions it will disable the WiFi .How to check if there is an internet connection ? : the WiFi is on right?, it will try to connect to the following famous link , this method is the best to check for internet connection and it's well known, the timeout for the connecting test is 7 Seconds, And a note to mention, If you are downloading and taking the full speed, the connecting test may
Low Strength Saver
A Secondary feature, When enabled, a checking alarm will run every 5 minutes ( changeable ), and check for the following condition : If WiFi Network Strength is less than < 30, if yes it will disable the WiFi, you can know the strength from "Show Network Details".
Lock, to enable Mods in Locked Status
Here's where the most saving part is, When enabled : Will run the Basic Saver, Low Strength Saver, and Auto Connect even when the device is locked, and when disabled : Will run the mentioned mods only in Unlocked status .
Important Note : Enabled means it will wake up the device for checking, and this will lower the "battery saving", So please don't complain about not saving a lot when you enable this mod .
Specific Auto Connect
What i personally use, When enabled, it will enable WiFi every 30 minutes ( changeable ) and connect to a specific network ( You Must set it in Network Name preference ) , if it doesn't exist, Or there is no internet connection, the WiFi will be disabled .
You can set up to 3 network names, Finding network timeout is 10 seconds, and checking for internet connection timeout is 5 seconds, the best possible delay .
*Ok, wait .. what if i have set 2 network names, and both of them exist in the same range ?, Easy question, it will try to connect on order, for example, First Network : Bla, Second Network : Blabla, if "Bla" exists and the WiFi is connected to it, it will ignore connecting to the second network, Simple thing .
Random Auto Connect
Same as the previous mod, But this one won't connect to a specific network .. nope, it will connect to the Strongest, Saved network you have in the range, the conditions apply on this too, if no saved network found to connect to, Or there is no internet connection, it will disable the WiFi, and the delay is the same ( 30 minutes - changeable ) .
Airplane Mod (Related To Auto Connect )
This Mod is related to Auto Connect, As requested from user, Sometimes the user enable Airplane mod and don't want to enable WiFi at all, So when this mod is enabled, it will disable Auto Connect Mods, and will automatically turn it on again when Airplane Mod is off .
Enable WiFi When Unlocked
Enable WiFi When Unlocked, Self explained, and needs some notes, it will only turn it on if there's an actual lock, it detects the Unlocking event, So no lock = No Event detecting, In some devices "Swipe" lock can trigger the event .
Disable WiFi When Locked
Also self explained, and same as above for the "Lock" note, And an important thing to mention, there's a delay, Sometimes the user lock his device accidentally, to prevent this, I've added a delay, after locking the device by 5 minutes, the WiFi will be disabled, this to ensure that locking wasn't "accidentally" .
Basic Timer
A Simple, Required mod, by this mod you can set a specific time to enable the WiFi, and disable it, This mod won't carry for device status if locked or not, it will follow your time orders *Yay* .
Specific Auto Connect Timer
This timer is different, it won't do anything to the WiFi, nope .. it will run the "Specific Auto Connect" Mod in specific time, and will disable it in specific time .
Random Auto Connect Timer
Same as above, but this one will run the "Random Auto Connect" .
Custom Service Delay
The Custom delay will change the Basic Saver, and Low Strength Saver mods delay ( default is 5 ) .
Custom Auto Connect Delay
Same as above, but this will effect the Auto Connect mods only .
Show Network Details
In this simple feature, you can view Connected Network Details : Name, IP (Ipv4), MAC Address, Link Speed, Frequency (API 21+), Strength .
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City of Glendale Water Quality | Glendale Water Report Filters Replacements Why Hydroviv 15 Minutes to Install Portal Login FAQ 800.676.9312 hello@hydroviv.com 800.676.9312 hello@hydroviv.com Filters Replacements Why Hydroviv 15 Minutes to Install Portal Login FAQ Up to 64% Off Sitewide | Free Shipping on Orders Over $60 Home Water Quality Reports Problems We Found in Glendale's Drinking Water Problems We Found in Glendale's Drinking Water RSS Kezia Snipe | Hydroviv Research Analyst **Updated July 2021 to include most recent water quality info For Hydroviv’s city of Glendale water quality assessment, we aggregated water quality test data from City of Glendale Water and Power, the city’s water provider, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as well as from samples that we collect and analyze. We cross reference these data with toxicity studies in scientific and medical literature, and look at upcoming regulatory changes. The water filters that we build for people who live in Glendale are optimized with these figures in mind. Source Of Glendale Drinking Water In 2016, 65% of Glendale’s water was purchased from the Metropolitan Water District, after being imported and treated from Northern California and the Colorado River. The remaining 35% comes from local groundwater sources extracted from the Verdugo and San Fernando Basins. In addition, 7% of total water used in 2016 was recycled water delivered by the Los Angeles-Glendale Water Reclamation Plant, though this water is only used for irrigation and industrial purposes. Arsenic In Glendale Drinking Water Arsenic is a toxic heavy metal that is known to cause cancer and other health issues. Unlike lead, which distributes into water from plumbing, arsenic comes from the source water itself. While the city of Glendale's water quality is in compliance with EPA water quality standards, it’s important to point out that EPA’s standard balances the toxicity against the costs of removing arsenic from drinking water. The most recent City of Glendale water report revealed that the water from the Jensen plant had average arsenic levels of 3.1 parts per billion, while the Glendale Treatment Plant had up to 1.6 parts per billion. We recommend that anyone with more than 1 part per billion take steps to remove arsenic from their water, especially if there are children in the home. Extremely High Chromium 6 Levels In Glendale Drinking Water Chromium 6 is a highly toxic metal that is not currently regulated by the EPA, and is only loosely regulated at the state level. In the most recent water quality data, the Glendale Treatment Plant averaged 5300 parts per trillion of chromium 6, with a maximum measured concentration of 6400 parts per trillion. 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A Tesla owner in Australia can thank his Model S this new year after the vehicle’s built-in collision avoidance system, in conjunction with Lane Assist, intervenes to quickly steer them away from a potential side collision with a truck. While Tesla Autopilot’s newest radar technology has been credited with preventing injuries worldwide – most recently seen predicting a collision before it happens – vehicles equipped with Tesla’s Driver Assistance components come with standard safety features that owners may not even be aware of.
Model S P90DL owner Calvin Tam from Australia sent us the following dash cam video showing his Tesla alerting him of a large commercial truck that began to veer into his lane. What’s notable is the fact that Calvin’s Model S quickly steered away from the truck while operating under Traffic-Aware Cruise Control (TACC) and was disengaged from the vehicle’s Autopilot auto-steering capability.
“I felt the pretty firm tug on the steering wheel & heard the triple chime (which sounded like the too close to an object parking chime), the truck nearly hit my rear left side”, says Calvin in speaking with Teslarati.
“This happened on my way to the office in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The exact GPS coordinates are embedded in the video. If you check the map, you’ll see that it’s a long right turn which I normally just have the TACC on, even though Autopilot can handle this particular bend.”
According to Tesla’s owners manual, vehicles equipped with Driver Assistance components consisting of front facing cameras, radar technology and ultrasonic sensors come standard with the company’s Lane Assist, Speed Assist and Collision Avoidance Assist features. These are standard safety features included outfitted with Autopilot hardware, whether it’s with or without the optional Autopilot Tech package.
Sure enough, as we dig deeper into language from the Model S owners manual, we see that the vehicle’s Lane Assist feature is designed to “provide steering interventions if Model S [or Model X] drifts into (or close to) an adjacent lane in which an object, such as a vehicle, is detected.”
Model S owners manual page 83:
In these situations, Model S automatically steers to a safer position in its driving lane. This steering is applied only when Model S is traveling between 45 and 85 mph (70 and 140 km/h) on major roadways with clearly visible lane markings. When Lane Assist applies a steering intervention, the instrument panel briefly displays a warning message.
Tesla notes that the drivers should not be relying on steering interventions to avoid collisions. “Do not rely on steering interventions to avoid side collisions. Lane Assist features are for guidance purposes only and are not intended to replace your own direct visual checks.”
Check out the video below which shows Tesla’s steering intervention taking place, though subtle, as by design, when a large truck passes in close proximity to the Model S. | positive |
Image caption Osian Rhys Edwards says his plans to move out of his parents' house have been jeopardised
A teacher says he is facing financial ruin after Vodafone insisted he pay a £15,000 bill run up after thieves stole his mobile phone in Barcelona.
Osian Rhys Edwards, 29, from Barmouth, Gwynedd, says he called the company immediately to cancel his phone.
But weeks later he was shocked to receive the huge bill, which had been racked up in just a few hours calling premium rate lines.
Vodafone said Mr Edwards had not called them for four days after the theft.
Blacklisted for credit
Mr Edwards said he fears his life will be on hold for the "next ten to 15 years" because of the bill, with plans to move out of his parents' house in jeopardy.
He said he will also be blacklisted and unable to get credit, such as a mortgage, because he has been forced to default on paying the bill.
The only option, he says, may be to take Vodafone to court.
"£15,000 is a lot of money, added to the fact my life is on hold," he said.
"Why should my life be on hold for something I was not responsible for?"
He added: "I'm facing financial ruin."
'Holding me liable'
Mr Edwards was on holiday in the Spanish city with friends early last August when they became lost one evening.
A man stopped to help them and it is then that Mr Edwards believes he became the victim of a pickpocket.
He said he contacted Vodafone immediately as he was aware Barcelona had a problem with thieves stealing phones and racking up huge phone bills.
He said he spoke to a woman at the company on the 1 August and she told him she would cancel his phone.
It only emerged later that it appears this did not happen and Mr Edwards said it was actually cancelled on 3 August.
'Reduce bill'
The bill comes despite Vodafone signing up to a UK government deal to stop shockingly high bills after a phone has been stolen.
When it was announced last December, the cap on bills was expected to be similar level to the £50 liability cap on stolen credit and debit cards.
A spokeswoman for Vodafone told The Guardian newspaper: "It is very easy for criminals to rapidly build up high charges using stolen phones, which is why we encourage customers to report phones missing as quickly as possible.
"When a customer's phone is lost or stolen, they are responsible for all the charges up to the point they contact us to report it missing.
"They, or someone on their behalf, can do this 24 hours a day, 365 days a year - either from another phone or online.
"Despite not reporting the theft of his phone for four days, we have offered to reduce Mr Edwards' outstanding charges by 25%.
"In the light of our failure to call him back when we should have done, we will increase this offer to 30%.
"We are also prepared to discuss a payment plan." | positive |
The club is delighted to confirm the signing of Stewart Downing from West Ham United for an undisclosed fee.
Downing, a product of the Boro Academy, completed his move on Thursday evening, signing a four-year contract, and is flying out to link up with Aitor Karanka's squad in Marbella.
The move represents a return home for a player who played a key role in Boro's success in the 2000s, making almost 250 appearances for the club between 2001 and 2009.
Downing departed in 2009 for £12m to Aston Villa and two years later, he joined Liverpool for a whopping £20m. He joined West Ham in 2013 for £5m and made 69 Premier League appearances for the Hammers.
The 30-year-old, who boasts 35 England caps, has made almost 500 career appearances at the highest level, and has scored 50 goals.
Boro Head Coach Aitor Karanka was delighted to complete the signing of the player and he said: "It's an amazing signing for us. He's more than just a player.
"Nobody expected him to come here, but he wants to be here, and is completely committed to the club and the team. He is a very good person and I'm excited to work with him."
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The Snowden Archive is a collection of all documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden that have subsequently been published by news media.
Welcome to the Snowden Archive!
About the Archive
The Snowden Surveillance Archive is a complete collection of all documents that former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked in June 2013 to journalists Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill, and subsequently were published by news media, such as The Guardian, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, El Mundo and The Intercept. The leaked documents and their coverage have raised significant public concerns and had a major impact on intelligence policy debates internationally over issues of freedom of expression, privacy, national security and democratic governance more broadly. The Archive also contains some documents that the U.S. Government has published which are helpful in understanding the leaked documents. The Archive does not contain any documents that have not already been published in other sources. The approximately 400 documents currently in the Archive are a small fraction of the estimated 50,000 documents Snowden turned over. Most of these will likely not be published, but as new documents are published, they will be added to the Archive.
Why did we build this Archive?
Our aim in creating this Archive is to provide a tool that would facilitate citizen and researcher access to these important documents. Indexes, document descriptions, links to original documents and to related news stories, glossary and comprehensive search features are all designed to enable a better understanding of state surveillance programs within the wider context of surveillance by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) along with its partners in the Five Eyes countries – U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Our hope is that this resource will contribute to greater appreciation of the broad scope, intimate reach and profound implications of the global surveillance infrastructures and practices that Edward Snowden’s historic document leak reveals.
Who Built the Snowden Archive?
The Archive was designed and built by George Raine, a graduate of the Master of Information program in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, with the assistance of Jillian Harkness, currently a student in this program.
Important note: The descriptions contained in this archive are the work of interested amateurs in the area of state intelligence, without detailed insight into the legal and technological issues that the documents describe. If readers identify any potential inaccuracies, they are encouraged to contact the curators, who will endeavour to improve the collection. The curators of the Archive have no special access to documents that are not already in the public domain. Redactions that occur in the documents have been performed either by government classifiers, or by the media outlets that first published the documents.
Project Partners • Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) • The Politics of Surveillance Project in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, led by Dr. Andrew Clement, a sub-project of The New Transparency: Surveillance and Social Sorting project, based at Queen's University, led by Dr. David Lyon
Supporters • Surveillance Studies Centre, Queen's University • Digital Curation Institute, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto • Centre for Freedom of Expression, Faculty of Communications and Design, Ryerson University
Watch the Launch
The official launch of the Snowden Archive, "Snowden Live: Canada and the Security State," featuring a live Q&A with Edward Snowden, took place on March 4, 2015, at Ryerson University in Toronto. The event video can be watched at cjfe.org/asksnowden.
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Pierre Boulez was also the founder and former director of the Paris based Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique and was famed for his work alongside leading experimental composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen and Olivier Messiaen. French PM Manuel Valls paid tribute to Pierre Boulez on Twitter: “Courage, innovation, creativity, this is what Pierre Boulez meant to the world of French music, of which he made a beacon of light throughout the world.” French President Francois Hollande said in a statement: “Pierre Boulez made French music shine throughout the world. As a composer and conductor, he always wanted to reflect on the ages.” Pierre Boulez had been considered one of the most influential voices in the contemporary music since the 1950s and, as a conductor, he was in demand on both sides of the Atlantic. One of his particular trademarks as a conductor was that he shunned the baton, always choosing to conduct with his hands. As a composer, Pierre Boulez’s work was noted for its difficulty, with one of his most celebrated works, Le Marteau Sans Maitre, being inspired by the complexity and lack of formal artistic structure of surrealist poetry. Born in the Loire region of France in 1925, Pierre Boulez began his musical career at the Conservatoire in Paris, one of the world’s most celebrated music schools. He graduated in 1945 and, still only 21, became musical director of the theatre company of Jean-Louis Barrault and Madeleine Renaud. During this period Pierre Boulez composed violent early pieces such as his first two piano sonatas and Livre Pour Quatuor for the string quartet. Pierre Boulez’s career as a conductor took off in the 1950s, during which time he performed with the Sudwestfunk (South-West German Radio). He also began acting as guest conductor for some of Europe’s leading orchestras and festivals. 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It's the Season of Giving! • Christi Fultz teacher resources • blog design • branding • Home Blog Holiday Ideas Decor Early Learning Literacy Math Tech Tips Archive About Hello, Christi Fultz Beauty Wellness Completely Christi Teacher Shop TeachersPayTeachers Favorite Resources Design Services Website + Logos How to Start a WordPress Blog Apparel Contact Legal Terms of Service Privacy Policy You are here: Home / freebies / It’s the Season of Giving! freebies, giveaway It’s the Season of Giving! December 9, 2012 So the weather has been anything but winter-like recently and I’m having trouble getting in the shopping mood for Christmas. I still have yet to start shopping for most of the gifts I need. I’ve been a champion at shopping for myself through (hello husband, you are giving me a new digital camera this year, surprise!). I have a feeling I will be spending those few days of winter break before Christmas in the mall with all of the other procrastinators. I am so not one of those people…. except this year. Sigh. I haven’t been totally out of gift-mode though. I’ve been sewing up a storm! Look at this super cute bib I made for my nephew. Can you tell I’m trying to redeem myself for my lack of shopping? All this talk of presents and giving reminded me of all the giveaways that are happening. I don’t know about you, but I haven’t had nearly as much time to blog-stalk as usual, so I feel like I’m missing out on so much good stuff. Here’s a round-up of some of the giveaways that caught my eye in case you’ve missed them. There’s the HUGE Top Teacher giveaway of a Nook Color HD with a bunch of teaching resources as second, third, fourth, etc. place prizes. I’m super jealous that I’m helping to sponsor this giveaway so I can’t enter. I’m totally sending you lucky vibes though! This one ends tonight, so you’ll have to hurry. Melanie (of School Girl Style) is hosting a winter classroom decor giveaway on her Creative Teaching Press blog of classroom goodies to decorate your room for the season. Third Grade Tidbits is giving away one of those awesome pencil sharpeners that are super quiet and make super sharp pencils too. The PTO just gave all of the teachers in our building one this month and I’ve been pretty impressed so far! Another third grade blogger, My Life as a Third Grade Teacher, has a pretty big giveaway to celebrate her 700 (and counting!) followers. There are tons of seasonal teaching resources up for grabs, including my Multiplication Workshop for Common Core centers. Second grade teacher, Primary Punch, is working through her12 Days of Giveaways with day 9 today. You’ll want to hurry and enter today’s and then remember to go back for days 10-12 too! Herding Kats in Kindergarten is giving away a $50 Kohl’s gift card. You know you can use that this time of the year! Making It As A Middle School teacher is hosting 12 Days of Gift-mas for the upper elementary and middle school teachers. I know there aren’t a ton of resources for the older kids out there yet, so I had to pass that on. Today is Teaching FSL’s day! Rockin’ Teacher Materials is giving away a Hear All Recorder. Those little things look so cool! And because I never seem to win giveaways, here’s one we can all win! I just updated my Facebook Fan Freebie this morning, so be sure to grab it before it’s gone! by Christi Fultz About Christi Fultz wife • mom • teacher • writer • tech obsessed • sometime crafter • beach lover | Empowering entrepreneurs through branding & website design View all posts by Christi Fultz Related Posts Rockin’ Out Freebies Need Reading Minilesson Ideas? Personalized Bunting Giveaway! Penguin Craftivity Freebie I MAKE STARTING YOUR OWN BLOG EASY… previous post: Holiday Crafts and a BIG Giveaway! next post: Cute and EASY Christmas Craft Comments Suzy Q says: December 9, 2012 at 9:57 pm Sooner or later one of you talented ladies is going to convince me I need a FB account with all these fantastic items you feature on there! tokyoshoes (at) hotmail (dot) com Christi at Ms. Fultz's Corner says: December 10, 2012 at 12:40 am I love Facebook because it's easy to share quickly without getting lost in a blog reader. 🙂 Tina Crofts says: December 9, 2012 at 11:55 pm I am loving your blog and am your newest follower. I have been reading and reading all about your classroom and you make me miss teaching in an elementary setting 🙂 If you do a 1000 follower giveaway I would love to be part of the donors! Hope you have a great Sunday night! Tina Crofts' Classroom Christi at Ms. Fultz's Corner says: December 10, 2012 at 12:41 am Thanks so much for stopping in! I'm anxiously watching those numbers tick up. I think they'll hit around my 1 year blogging anniversary too. It'll be a party! Sara says: December 10, 2012 at 1:25 am Thank you for spreading all the news about giveaways AND the freebie 🙂 Happy Holidays! Sara Miss V's Busy Bees ventrellasara@gmail.com Christi at Ms. Fultz's Corner says: December 11, 2012 at 1:15 am You too, Sara! Christi Fultz wife • mom • teacher • writer • tech obsessed • sometime crafter • beach lover | Empowering entrepreneurs through branding & website design Let’s Get Social Search Erin Condren Love Click here for your $10 discount! Follow by Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address Subscribe Instagram christifultz mama • teacher • business bestie | WordPress website design + virtual assistance for creative entrepreneurs. 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