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THE COLORADO SUPREME COURT put some noses out of joint when it ruled unanimously this month that the University of Colorado's campus gun ban violated a 2003 state law that entitles residents with permits to carry concealed weapons.
One of those noses belonged to Abraham Nowels, a University of Colorado student who wrote to the Denver Post: "We're in the middle of midterms right now, and I can't think of anything I'd rather be focusing on than which of my fellow over-stressed, binge-drinking peers is carrying a concealed weapon into class with me." The Post agreed, pleading in an editorial for "legislators with enough gumption" to change the state's concealed-carry law and "give colleges the power they need to keep students safe."
To those with an emotional bias against guns, it goes without saying that more guns in private hands invariably mean more crime and violence. If the number of people carrying firearms on campus rises, then of course that campus is less safe: What could be more obvious?
But it isn't obvious at all.
While the University of Colorado spent much of the past decade resisting the state's concealed-carry law, Colorado State University complied with it. If the gun controllers are right, Colorado State should have seen a surge in crime, while its gun-banning sister institution should have been an Eden of security and lawfulness. That's not what happened. As Clayton E. Cramer and David Burnett write in a new monograph for the Cato Institute, "crime at the University of Colorado has risen 35 percent since 2004, while crime at Colorado State University has dropped 60 percent in the same time frame."
Something similar happened after the US Supreme Court's 2008 Heller decision striking down the longstanding gun ban in Washington, DC. The city's mayor predicted in dismay that "more handguns in the District of Columbia will only lead to more handgun violence," yet crime in the nation's capital plunged. Murder nose-dived to its lowest rate in half a century, falling from 186 in 2008 to 144 in 2009 to 132 in 2010 to 108 in 2011 -- a far greater decline, as economist John Lott points out, than in the rest of the country, or in cities of comparable size.
To be sure, correlation doesn't prove causation. But the experience of Colorado and DC should come as no surprise. There is by now so much evidence that higher rates of gun ownership lead to lower rates of crime that it isn't hard to fathom why fewer and fewer Americans want to ban handguns.ording to Gallup, just 26 percent of the public now thinks the private possession of handguns should be illegal -- down from 60 percent half a century ago. Roughly 1 of every 4 Americans reports keeping a gun to protect themselves or their homes. Having a gun makes many people -- for good reason -- feel safer.
How often firearms are used defensively is a much-debated question in American criminology. Respected studies over the years have come up with estimates that range widely, from more than 100,000 defensive gun uses annually to as many as 2.5 million. Whatever the number is, it clearly isn't trivial. An enormous amount of death, bloodshed, and suffering is prevented in this country by ordinary citizens with firearms.
That doesn't mean terrible things can't sometimes happen when a gun is used for protection. Trayvon Martin, an Orlando teen, was shot dead last month by a Florida man who claims he was acting in self-defense. Yet the teen carried nothing more deadly than a bag of candy, and police told the gunman -- a Neighborhood Watch patrol member -- not to follow him.
Such tragic tales inevitably draw the spotlight. Far more common, but far less likely to be played up, are cases where guns are used to scare off, resist, or thwart a genuinely dangerous criminal. For their Cato paper, Cramer and Burnett assembled nearly 5,000 news stories reported by the media between 2003 and 2011. Their catalogue includes instances of armed customers preventing a store from being robbed, of victims fighting off would-be rapists, of senior citizens defending against a home invader, of attempted carjackings foiled because the driver had a gun -- even of self-defense against deadly animals.
Of course, most defensive gun uses never make the news at all. As Cramer and Burnett observe, "Man Scares Away Burglar, No Shots Fired," is not a very compelling headline.
But with or without headlines, millions of Americans grasp instinctively that guns make us safer. For when honest citizens carry weapons, criminals are less likely to attack -- and those who do are more likely to fail.


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By Mike Mount
A hypersonic aircraft launched by the Air Force Tuesday spiraled out of control and was destroyed before it could reach its goal of speeding to 4,600 mph, Pentagon officials said Wednesday.
The third test of the X-51A Waverider was launched Tuesday off the California coast from a B-52 modified bomber aircraft and was to fly for 300 seconds, reaching hypersonic speeds of Mach 6, but only flew for 16 seconds, according to the Air Force.
Officials said a problem with a tail fin caused the missile-like vehicle to fly out of control before the main engine could be ignited, leading researchers to destroy it early.
"A fault was identified with one of the cruiser control fins. Once the X-51 separated from the rocket booster, approximately 15 seconds later, the cruiser was not able to maintain control due to the faulty control fin and was lost," said a statement issued by the Air Force.
It's unclear what, if any, information was gleaned from the test. According to the statement, "Program officials will now begin the process of working through a rigorous evaluation to determine the exact cause of all factors at play."
The Air Force plans to go public with details of the failed test in a few weeks, after researchers are able to analyze the data from the flight.
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"It is unfortunate that a problem with this subsystem caused a termination before we could light the Scramjet engine," said Charlie Brink, X-51A Program Manager for Air Force Research Laboratory. "All our data showed we had created the right conditions for engine ignition and we were very hopeful to meet our test objectives."
The Air Force had four X-51A Waveriders and has tested three. Officials said they do not yet know when or if the fourth Waverider will be tested.
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold two public hearings on the proposed updates to the national air quality standards for fine particle pollution (PM2.5). A federal court ruling required EPA to update the standards based on best available science. The proposed updates, which meet that requirement, build on steps already taken by EPA to reduce pollution in communities across the country.
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Indefinite recess called in Anthony trial
ORLANDO (AP) - The judge in the Florida murder trial of Casey Anthony unexpectedly called an indefinite recess Friday morning so the defense could take depositions of witnesses the prosecution plans to call during its rebuttal case.
Judge Belvin Perry allowed the recess just before the jury was about to be called into the courtroom. Lead defense attorney Jose Baez said the state had failed to disclose all the information a computer expert and forensic anthropologist planned to testify to.
Baez wanted the evidence and witnesses to be excluded, but Perry only gave him the option of taking their depositions.
"Your honor, I will stay here and do the work, and stay here as long as it takes," Baez said.
Anthony is charged with first-degree murder in the 2008 death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. If convicted of that charge, she could face the death penalty.
The witnesses are on the prosecution's rebuttal list to challenge testimony offered by witnesses during the case presented by the defense, which rested Thursday. The state planned to call a handful of witnesses and rest again Friday evening.
Judge Perry said today that he'd planned to give attorneys Saturday to work on their closing arguments, but in lieu of the impromptu break for emergency depositions, would now hold court throughout the weekend, including Sunday. He warned the attorneys to not be wasting time with the late arguments.
"You can take as much time as you want, but we have jurors back there." Perry said. The judge also said he hoped "this is a real problem and not an imaginary problem."
While the defense rested Thursday, experts said defense attorneys may have left lingering questions and failed to deliver on promises they made at the outset to explain how the toddler died.
Casey Anthony did not take the stand and the defense did not present concrete evidence that Caylee wasn't killed, but accidentally drowned.
Her attorneys also never produced any witnesses bolstering the claim made in opening statements that Anthony had acted without apparent remorse in the weeks after her daughter's death because she had been molested by her father as a child, resulting in emotional problems.
"If you do not at least present facts to support that argument, the jury is going to think you have no credibility," said Tim Jansen, a former federal prosecutor and criminal defense attorney in Tallahassee. "When you promise the jury something and don't deliver it you severely handicaps your clients' case and you undermine your credibility with that jury."
Instead, their 13-day case primarily focused on poking holes in the prosecution's contention that Anthony killed Caylee in June 2008 by covering her mouth with duct tape. Prosecutors said the woman dumped Caylee's body in the woods near her parents' home and then resumed her life of partying and shopping.
The prosecutors' case relied on circumstantial and forensic evidence, and it did have holes. They had no witnesses who saw the killing or saw Casey Anthony with her daughter's body. And there was no certain proof that the child suffocated.
What's more, prosecution began its rebuttal case late Thursday by continuing to walk through the door opened Wednesday by the defense when it allowed parts of a note Casey Anthony's father left during a failed suicide attempt to come in. The note included George Anthony asking questions about the death of his granddaughter. Several members of the jury were glued to their monitors as the prosecutor projected the letter for them to read.
"She (Caylee) was found so close to home. Why?" George Anthony wrote at one point in the letter to his family in January 2009.
The defense said in its opening statement that Caylee drowned and that George Anthony, a former police officer, helped cover up the death by making it look like a homicide and dumping the body near their home, where it was found by a meter reader six months later. George Anthony has vehemently denied any involvement in Caylee's death, the disposal of her body or molesting his daughter.
Florida A&M law professor Karin Moore said she was "confused" throughout the case by the defense's approach.
"The defense could have attacked George Anthony weeks ago on cross-examination during the state's case, but waited until late in the trial," she said. "I think they waited too long to ask the big questions and got themselves in trouble."
The defense's final witnesses Thursday included Krystal Holloway, a woman who claims she had an affair with George Anthony that began after Caylee disappeared. She said he told her in November 2008 that Caylee's death was "an accident that snowballed out of control." George Anthony has denied having an affair with her but admitted visiting her home on several occasions.
They also recalled George Anthony to ask if he had supplied duct tape he used to put up posters of his granddaughter when she was missing. He said he couldn't remember.
Baez also asked him if he buried his pets after their deaths in plastic bags wrapped with duct tape. Anthony said he had on some occasions. Prosecutors have said Caylee's body was disposed of in a similar manner. Under prosecution questioning, he said he had never thrown their carcasses in a swamp.
The prosecution began its rebuttal case with photographs of clothing taken at the Anthony home. Court was adjourned for the day later in the afternoon, with prosecutors set to continue today.


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In professional cycling, field sprinting often comes down to timing. If a rider begins his sprint too early, he fades before the line; but if he starts his sprint too late, the finish lines comes before he's hit his top speed. At the end of Monday's 70-mile stage two of the Amgen Tour of California, the field sprint provided a textbook-perfect example of just how crucial timing can be as Britain's Team Sky Procycling timed its lead-out to perfection, delivering Ben Swift the stage victory and the first yellow jersey as the overall leader of the eight-day event.
After the cancellation of Sunday's Stage 1, the ATOC's 144 riders awoke Monday morning to find that Sunday's slush had frozen to leave a frosty patina over most surfaces—most notably on the roads. The icy surfaces, coupled with conditions over Donner Pass that were iffy at best, led the ATOC's organizers to once again alter the event's planned route. As a result, the start of the stage two was moved from 10:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. and from Squaw Valley to Nevada City, an easy choice considering the historic Gold Rush town hosted the start to stage one of last year's race. The riders would now cover 61 miles from Nevada City to Sacramento before completing three laps of the finishing circuit around the state capitol.
Attacks came early as several of the race's smaller teams fought to place riders in the what would likely be the day's only serious breakaway. Jamey Driscoll of Jamis-Sutter Home, Lazlo Bedrogi of Team Type 1-Sanofi Aventus, and Timon Seubert of Team NetApp were the first three riders able to establish any sort of meaningful gap to the peloton. They were soon joined by Bissell's Ben Jacques-Maynes and the break of the day was set. Cooperating smoothly, the foursome rode to a maximum gap of five minutes before the peloton's heads of state began working to reclaim them. Timing the catch perfectly, the bunch swallowed the foursome's final survivor just as the race entered downtown Sacramento.
But in a race that has constantly tested the patience of the race organization, heavy showers erupted as the riders began the first of the three finishing circuits, just as teams with sprinters began surging to assert themselves at the front of the fast-moving peloton. Saxo Bank, Garmin-Cervelo, and HTC-High Road dominated these early circuits in an attempt to set up their respective sprinters for the win. But it was Sky and Ben Swift who came through in the end, capitalizing on their competition's premature tactics to hit the front of the peloton with a little more than a mile left. "We had a plan to hit the front of the circuit with one lap to go," said Swift. "It was a pretty long circuit and you needed to ride fast. We were able to come over the top and take control on the final lap. You need to ride together, and everyone did the job 100 percent."
Without fresh teammates, HTC-Highroad's Matthew Goss and Garmin-Cervelo's Thor Hushovd were helpless against Sky's lead-out train. Goss launched his sprint a bit early, only to be upstaged by Spidertech's Kevin Lacombe who streaked up the right side of the road trying to pull off the upset. But Swift was not to be defeated; he rode clear of the competition and had time to raise his arms in victory while Peter Sagan of Liquigas-Cannondale and Goss threw their bikes over the line to take second and third on the day, respectively.
Thanks to his efforts, Swift took both the Amgen Leader Jersey and the Herbalife Sprint Jersey, while Sagan claimed the white jersey as Rabobank Best Young Rider. For his efforts in establishing the day's major breakaway, Jamey Driscoll wears the jersey as the Amgen Breakaway from Cancer Most Courageous Rider.
Since getting hooked on pro cycling while watching Lance Armstrong win the 1993 U.S. Pro Championship in Philadelphia, longtime Bicycling contributor Whit Yost has raced on Belgian cobbles, helped build a European pro team, and piloted that team from Malaysia to Mont Ventoux as an assistant director sportif. These days, he lives with his wife and son in Pennsylvania, spending his days serving as an assistant middle school principal and his nights playing Dungeons & Dragons.


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By Jane Regan/Somerville Neighborhood News
Somerville is poised to take a step forward in the war on rats with the deployment of a new weapon: rat "birth control," Wicked Local/Somerville reported.
But the pilot usage of the "chemosterilant" known as "ContraPest" cannot begin until the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gives its manufacturer – Flagstaff-based research and development firm SenesTech – the green light.
"They have a team in the field right now," said Goran Smiljic, Superintendent of Inspectional Services, referring to SenesTech, at a meeting of the Rodent Issues Special Committee of the Board of Aldermen on June 4. Smiljic added that researchers could be setting out the locked bait boxes as soon as "less than a week."
As of June 9, however, SenesTech did not have EPA permission to use ContraPest in Somerville. The product has not yet been approved for commercial use in this country.
Dr. Loretta Mayer, co-founder of SenesTech and one of its inventors, said her company expects EPA approval soon and has already had "informal talks" with the agency, which is expecting the request.
"They know it's coming," she said in a May 30 interview.
Until it gets full approval – expected in the fall, according to the company – ContraPest can only be used under "pilot" programs, with an "Experimental Use Permit" from the EPA. The company had such a permit for a $1 million dollar government-funded pilot in New York City subway trash rooms.
Somerville went after SenesTech "not only to address the issue here using every effective means available but also to lead the way for fellow cities," Somerville Director of Communications Denise Taylor wrote in a May 27 email.
"Somerville came to us," Mayer confirmed. "Somerville wanted to be green and wanted to be cutting edge."
"We were third or forth on their list" of possible pilot sites, Smiljic noted. "They saw our data and they were amazed. They told us that we are the only city in the United States that has such data on rodents and rodent calls."
Somerville has been tracking rodent complaint calls for years, and has mapped out the geography and frequency. The data collection convinced SenesTech to do one of its pilots in Somerville, Smiljic said. Chicago officials hope their city will also become a pilot site.
Somerville will pay SenesTech about $215,000 for the ContraPest program.
SenesTech has filed for a patent on ContraPest and hopes to develop other "chemosterilant" products, according to a 2013 company presentation. The firm expects to generate revenues of $10 million in 2014 and up to $50 million a year later by licensing its products.
ContraPest has been successful in other trials. In New York, over half the rats exposed to the bait slurped the semi-solid mixture, which contains a product that makes rats' whiskers glow under certain light.
"Analysis of the whiskers indicated that 51% of the captured population had consumed the bait and 58% done so multiple times," SenesTech said in a recent report. "Population monitoring results, as designed, were incomplete due to setbacks that occurred during the experiment. Where population data was available however, a reduction of 43% was observed."
Unlike rodenticides, which can take up to two weeks to kill, the chemicals in ContraPest – which will be deployed in locked boxes – break down in the rat's body within minutes, meaning that even if another animal eats the rat, the other animal will not be effected. The amount of VCD that will be in the bait will be tiny compared to the body mass of other mammals, and therefore even if bait is somehow extracted from the box, it will not be harmful.
"A 150 lb. person would have to ingest 2 gallons of the product every day for 15 days to be possibly affected," Senestech reports on its website.
"Our product is much lower risk than second generation rodenticides, that are so dangerous, the cause 15,000 children a year in the US to be poisoned and many more thousands of pets poisoned," a company spokesperson added in a May 30 email.
Rat poisons also kill wild animals. California officials have counted 25 species that have been known to die by directly or indirectly consuming rat poison. That state voted to ban on the sale of certain rat poisons to consumers beginning on July 1.


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All week, the nation has watched firsthand how far-reaching the effects of Hurricane Sandy have been. Stephen Michael Price, a producer who works with ELLE, took photos of the devastation in the Rockaways. The historic boardwalk is now stripped to its foundations, a large section of it washed away. In order to support the residents of the Rockaways and surrounding areas, here is a list of ways you can help.
Shop: Retailers are turning out donation programs in droves, offering to give portions of their sales to support relief funds so you can shop for a cause.
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Donate Cash: According to FEMA and The American Red Cross, the best way to help is through monetary contributions to organizations trained to help with disaster. For more information on donating, go to Fema.gov.
The Red Cross has deployed emergency response trucks loaded with boxed lunches, water and mental health workers, and is also setting up mobile kitchens throughout New York equipped to prepare tens of thousands more meals. Follow @redcrossny for truck locations, and donate online, via telephone (1-800-733-2767), or by texting "REDCROSS" to 90999 to send a $10 donation.
Also consider the Food Bank for New York City, who is dispatching a fleet of food trucks to soup kitchens and pantries across the city. Because of its wholesale purchasing power and distribution model, a financial gift here can provide double the goods of a traditional food drive.
The Salvation Army is serving those impacted by Sandy with food, clean-up kits, and emotional care. Donate by phone (1-800-725-2769), online, or text "STORM" to 80888 to give $10.
The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City is also dispersing 100 percent of funds donated to support both immediate aid and long-term relief and restoration efforts.
Volunteer: If you're in New York, consider giving your time as well as your cash. To be most effective, contact an established organization. Find opportunities near you through the HandsOn Network and New York Cares.
Give Blood: Sandy forced approximately 360 Red Cross blood drives to cancel, and many more will be forced to shutter in the wake of the damage, resulting in a substantial shortfall. Find out where you can give blood through the Red Cross and New York Blood Center emergency drives.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Irate fans of Justin Bieber and boy band One Direction took to social media on Thursday to voice their outrage after being snubbed by the Grammys for a chance to win the biggest honors in the music industry.
Indie-pop band fun and rapper Frank Ocean led the 2013 nominations, tying with The Black Keys, Mumford & Sons, Jay-Z and Kanye West for six nods. But The Recording Academy overlooked some of the year's biggest and most commercially successful artists in Wednesday's nominations.
While Bieber, 18, who won three American Music Awards in November, stayed quiet on his omission, his manager Scooter Braun took to Twitter.
"Grammy board u blew it on this one. the hardest thing to do is transition, keep the train moving. The kid delivered. Huge successful album, sold out tour, and won people over. ... This time he deserved to be recognized," Braun posted in a series of tweets.
Many of Bieber's 31 million Twitter fans quickly followed suit, with hashtags such as #BieberForGrammys trending on the micro-blogging service.
The Canadian singer, who has never won a Grammy, in June released album "Believe," showcasing a more grown-up image. The album, which produced top 10 hits "Boyfriend" and "As Long As You Love Me," has sold more than 1.1 million copies.
British boy band One Direction was also left empty-handed despite their debut album "Up All Night" having topped the Billboard 200 album chart.
The quintet has performed sold-out shows across the world and won three MTV video music awards earlier this year.
The Grammy Awards are voted on by members of The Recording Academy and recognize achievement in 81 categories.
Lady Gaga, rapper Nicki Minaj and Korea's Psy also failed to snag any nominations.
While Gaga hasn't released new music this year, focusing on her global tour, Minaj released "Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded," which topped the Billboard 200 chart and spawned singles such as "Starships."
Psy may have YouTube's most watched video ever with "Gangnam Style," - over 897 million views - but he missed out on becoming the first Korean artist to receive a Grammy nod.
The Grammy Awards will be handed out at a live performance show and ceremony on February 10 in Los Angeles.
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"It's infuriating," he said, waving my fraudulent boarding pass to indicate the mass of waiting passengers, the humming X-ray machines, the piles of unloaded computers and cell phones on the conveyor belts, the uniformed T.S.A. officers instructing people to remove their shoes and take loose change from their pockets. "We're spending billions upon billions of dollars doing this—and it is almost entirely pointless. Not only is it not done right, but even if it was done right it would be the wrong thing to do."
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Brancusi, Constantin bränkyo͞o´zē, Rom. brän´ko͞osh [key], 1876–1957, Romanian sculptor. Brancusi is considered one of the foremost of modern artists. In 1904 he went to Paris, where he worked under Mercié. He declined Rodin's invitation to work in his studio. Because of his radical, economic style, his abstract sculptures, The Kiss (1908), Sleeping Muse (1910), and the portrait of Mlle Pogany (1923; Musée d'Art moderne, Paris) were the subjects of much controversy. He altered his technique from modeling to carving c.1910. In 1927 Brancusi won a lawsuit against the U.S. customs authorities who attempted to value his sculpture as raw metal. The suit led to legal changes permitting the importation of abstract art free of duty. Brancusi's work is notable for its extreme simplification of form, its organic and frequently symbolic character, and its consummate craftsmanship. He had a profound understanding of materials, working primarily in metal, stone, and wood. Bird in Space (1919; Mus. of Modern Art, New York City) is a characteristic work. Others are in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, and in the museums of Chicago, Cleveland, and Philadelphia.
See catalogs by S. Geist (1969, 1975); biographies by I. Jianu (1963), R. Varia (1986), and E. Shanes (1989); studies by S. Geist (1968) and A. T. Spear (1969).
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Nancy Pelosi Partied With JFK 50 Years Ago
Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's inauguration. How did you celebrate? Nancy Pelosi, for one, posted a photo of her with Kennedy at an inaugural ball on January 20, 1961. It's the one on the left, duh.
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(CNN) -- New 800 meters world champion Caster Semenya has arrived back in South Africa to fresh controversy over levels of testosterone in her body three times higher than normal for women.
Semenya shows off her gold medal after returning to South Africa as the world 800m champion.
Semenya, who is facing tests on her gender by international athletics body the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), provided samples before the World Championships in Berlin which showed the high levels, Press Association Sport has revealed.
Higher-than-normal levels can occur naturally but the 18-year-old will now be subject to detailed scrutiny to decide whether that really is the case in this instance.
The new development did not dent the enthusiasm with which Semenya was welcomed after touching down in Johannesburg with her South African team-mates on Tuesday morning.
Crowds throng as Semenya returns home
Thousands of supporters crammed the airport waving placards, singing, dancing and hoping to catch a glimpse of the teenager.
Leonard Chuene, president of Athletics South Africa, called for the matter over her gender to be laid to rest.
He told reporters: "We have not once, as ASA, doubted her. It's very simple: She's a girl. We took this child to Poland to the junior championship under the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).
"Why was there no story about it? She was accepted there. No-one said anything there because she did not do anything special.
Caster Semenya's return in pictures »
"She is the same girl. No-one asked why did we take her. She went to Mauritius and ran well, suddenly everyone noticed her. You say we didn't do much to protect her. What did you want us to do?
"As ASA we didn't have any of this information (on her gender) that people wanted us to protest about. When you go to dope testing, you go with a woman and she can see you are a woman.
"When you are born, you can see whether you are a boy or girl. You don't test children in the lab to confirm."
It is understood the IAAF have been monitoring Semenya for some time following incredible improvements in her performances in the last 12 months culminating in her gold medal victory in Berlin.
The IAAF had asked the South Africans to withdraw her before the race but news of the gender test leaked out by accident because a fax was sent to the wrong person.


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The Milwaukee Brewers continue to outclass the rest of the National League Central — particularly that sullen goop currently residing in last place — but they're not resting on their laurels and ignoring their diehards. The Brewers truly care about their fans' well-being and longterm health, and to show it, today at Miller Park they're offering free rectal exams.
From 7:00 am to 3:00 pm at Miller Park, the free, private, confidential screenings will take place in a mobile clinic vehicle near the TGI Friday's restaurant in the northeast corner of the ball park. No appointment is necessary. All participants who complete the screening will receive a voucher good for two tickets to a future Milwaukee Brewers home game.
So wait ... a rectal exam AND we get two free tickets? Win-win! When's the next flight to Milwaukee?


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CHICAGO (AP) _ Illinois' health insurance marketplace is now allowing gay and lesbian couples to enroll for private coverage.
Now that same-sex marriage is legal in the state, Get Covered Illinois announced it will open up special enrollment periods for gay couples.
Married same-sex couples and their children can enroll as a family and may qualify for financial help.
Illinois' gay marriage law took effect Sunday, though some cities have already allowed same-sex marriage ceremonies.
The Affordable Care Act requires insurance companies to offer the same coverage to people in same-sex marriages as they do to opposite-sex spouses.
Under the law, marriage is a qualifying life event that makes people eligible for a special enrollment period. The period lasts two months in the state's marketplace and one month under an employer's marketplace plan.


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Points of interest in Bristol include the 14th-century church of St. Mary Redcliffe, known for its fine architecture; a 14th-century cathedral (rebuilt 1868–88) with a Norman chapter house and gateway; the Merchant Venturers' Almshouses; University Tower; and some notable examples of Regency architecture. The Clifton suspension bridge, spanning the Avon and the scenic Avon Gorge, connects Bristol with Leighwoods. Bristol has a famous university.
Bristol has been a trading center since the 12th cent. First chartered as a city in 1155, it became a separate county by order of Edward III in 1373, the first provincial town to receive this honor, and it remains a ceremonial county under the Lieutenancies Act. During the reign of Edward III the manufacture of woolen cloth was developed. The cloth was exported chiefly to Ireland, Spain, and Portugal. From Bristol the explorers John Cabot and his son Sebastian (to whom there is a monument on Brandon Hill) sailed to Newfoundland and America. In the 18th cent. Bristol was active in the colonial triangular trade: English goods went to Africa; African slaves to the West Indies; and West Indian sugar, rum, and tobacco to Bristol. The Great Western (1838), one of the first transatlantic steamships, and the Great Britain (1845) the first ocean steamship with a screw propeller, were launched from Bristol.
The port declined during the late 18th and early 19th cent. because of competition from Liverpool, the end of slave trading, and the decline of the West Indian trade. It revived in the mid-19th cent. The city was heavily damaged during World War II. The poets Thomas Chatterton and Robert Southey were born there.
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Mike Nadel: Are Cub fans more hopeful or fretful?
The state of the Cubs and an NBA referee accused of fixing games were among the subjects explored this week in my blog, The Baldest Truth.
Here are some excerpts. Read more at www.thebaldesttruth.com.
Hope or Fret?
During the team's day off Monday, Cubbie fans undoubtedly were hard at work doing what they do best: fretting and hoping.
Lou Piniella's guys just went 7-3 on their post-All-Star-break homestand (hope!), but they managed only eight hits and two runs in losing their last two games to a non-championship-caliber Arizona team (fret!).
Here's one man's look at the Cubs going into this week's series in St. Louis.
Starting rotation: Led by Carlos Zambrano and Ted Lilly, this group has been very sharp, and the off day will afford each of the five an extra day of rest. The Cubs have a huge advantage over most teams they play, including the Cardinals.
Bullpen: The relief corps had a lot to do with the Cubs' outstanding run these last seven weeks but struggled near the end of the homestand. Piniella has pledged to give overworked Carlos Marmol a "nice little breather." And the return of closer Ryan Dempster from injury should help every reliever assume a more comfortable role. Still, I understand if the fretters worry about a return to the bad old days of April and May.
Lineup: The Cubs lost three of five while Derrek Lee served his suspension for fighting, leading Piniella to talk about what happens when "you lose the No. 3 hitter in your lineup and you've gotten a couple other guys who've gone cold." Sound familiar, Dusty Baker? The Cubs absolutely need a healthy Lee down the stretch.
Kerry Wood: He supposedly pitched spectacularly in a rehabilitation assignment and he'll be headed to Peoria this week to step up his rehab. Do any two words ignite emotions in both the hopers and the fretters more than "Kerry" and "Wood"?
In summary ...
The hopers are saying: "Don't worry. Be happy. We lost two of three to Arizona, but we didn't lose any ground to Milwaukee!"
The fretters counter: "Yeah, but the Brewers lost two of three at home to San Francisco and we still didn't gain any ground. I'm not happy. And I'm worried."
Ref Riffraff
It's only one referee in only one league in only one sport -- so far, anyway -- and I'm a big keep-things-in-perspective guy. Nevertheless, I cannot shake the horrible feeling I've had in my gut ever since I heard about the gambling allegations against former NBA ref Tim Donaghy.
The FBI is investigating Donaghy for betting on games, including those he refereed. Quoting an anonymous source, AP said the ref had a gambling problem and was approached by "low-level mob associates."
The worst thing about this situation is the guilt by association other officials in all sports will face. I mean, if the mob can influence a well-paid NBA ref, what about officials in pro and college football and college basketball who aren't paid nearly as much?
If there's a game-changing call against your team, especially if it affects the final point spread, won't you now wonder if the official was on the take?
Such thinking isn't fair, but it's human.
On the other hand, perhaps these revelations will spur the ruling bodies of all pro and major-college sports to create and/or improve undercover operations to ensure such horrid breaches never can happen again.
For many of us, the best thing about sports is the idea that any team can beat any other on any given day by playing well enough. If that ever stops being the case because games are fixed by the very people who are supposed to be enforcing fair play, then it's all just pro wrestling and jai alai.
Big Series!
Circle Aug. 20 to 22 on your calendars, White Sox fans.
That's when the Kansas City Royals come into town ... and fourth place could be on the line!
Lou-isms of the Week
The latest gems from Lou Piniella:
"One of the positives today: I thought Stevie Ire threw well." (Yeah, and lefty reliever Scott Eyre didn't do badly, either.)
Asked if he was surprised newly called-up rookie Jake Fox was waiting for him in his office, Piniella said: "Yes, and I'll tell you why. Because I wasn't expecting it."
"(Jacque Jones) had three hits, didn't he? Four? I don't remember. I remember three of the four. That's not bad for me."
Mike Nadel is the Chicago sports columnist for GateHouse News Service.


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The restaurant world has its own set of untouchables—figures whose legacies are so large that we jokingly refer to them as the Illuminati. But 2016 threatened the idea that these chefs, despite their wild success, can soar into the sunset unscathed. Thomas Keller's invincibility shield was rendered useless as Per Se's stars vanished. David Chang's midas touch was questioned as Nishi drew mixed reviews. There are moments when the Food Gods may fumble, and appear to us mortal. Even so, it would be foolish to let temporary missteps from the Establishment blind us to the strong crop of newcomers in New York.
After all, there was a lot to celebrate. French food continued its triumphant return in 2016, and while the competition was fierce, it was one Parisian import's flawless execution of rotisserie chicken that made us feel like we wandering the streets of Montmartre once again. A new player in Chelsea Market cemented the food hall's status for destination Mexican food, this time focusing on the seaside traditions of Baja. A talented chef without a home made a comeback at his new Indian restaurant Paowalla, where he introduced us to the joys Goan breads and snacks. And just when you thought you had seen every variety of ramen, the arrival of a new Japanese import redefined the slurping experience with its startling isolation booths.
To tie all these loose ends together, we present to you New York's best new restaurants of 2016.
Written by Justin Bolois (@justinbolois), Chris Schonberger (@cschonberger), Regan Hofmann (@regan_hofmann), Foster Kamer (@weareyourfek), and Jamie Feldmar (@jfeldmar).


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Posts Tagged 'python'
pytest development reorganization, adopt pytest month!
Today I went live with shifting pytest development to be more community driven. During a discussion at FOSDEM 2015 a significant subset of pytest contributors decided to create two organisations at github and bitbucket and shift core pytest and several plugins to them, on the initial suggestion of Anatoly Bubenkoff. See the new pytest contribution page for details. The teams currently have a dozen members and we are looking forward to integrate more contributors which all get full access and commit rights to all repositories, can push to the website and release to pypi.
Also at FOSDEM 2015, core pytest contributor Brianna Laugher suggested and started the Adopt pytest month initiative which will bring together pytest contributors, users and Open Source projects interested to use pytest in their project. Many pytest contributors and practioners will participate which means you get excellent support for bringing your testing efforts up to speed with pytest.
The pytest team is also working towards a pytest-2.7 release, take a peak at the current changelog. If you like to get something in, now is a good time to submit a pull request. Or, if you are working with a company you may contract merlinux which in turns contracts contributors to quickly resolve any issues you might have or organises in-house training or consulting. Apart from the direct benefit for your company it's also a good way to support a sustained and ever-improving testing infrastructure commons for Python (pytest, tox, devpi projects in particular).
Written by holger krekel
February 27, 2015 at 2:56 pm
Posted in metaprogramming
pytest-2.4.0: new fixture features, many bug fixes
- new yield-style fixtures pytest.yield_fixture, allowing to use existing with-style context managers in fixture functions.
- improved pdb support: import pdb ; pdb.set_trace() now works without requiring prior disabling of stdout/stderr capturing. Also the --pdb options works now on collection and internal errors and we introduced a new experimental hook for IDEs/plugins to intercept debugging: pytest_exception_interact(node, call, report).
- shorter monkeypatch variant to allow specifying an import path as a target, for example: monkeypatch.setattr("requests.get", myfunc)
- better unittest/nose compatibility: all teardown methods are now only called if the corresponding setup method succeeded.
- integrate tab-completion on command line options if you have argcomplete configured.
- allow boolean expression directly with skipif/xfail if a "reason" is also specified.
- a new hook pytest_load_initial_conftests allows plugins like pytest-django to influence the environment before conftest files import django.
- reporting: color the last line red or green depending if failures/errors occured or everything passed.
The documentation has been updated to accomodate the changes, see http://pytest.org
To install or upgrade pytest:
pip install -U pytest # or easy_install -U pytest
Many thanks to all who helped, including Floris Bruynooghe, Brianna Laugher, Andreas Pelme, Anthon van der Neut, Anatoly Bubenkoff, Vladimir Keleshev, Mathieu Agopian, Ronny Pfannschmidt, Christian Theunert and many others.
may nice fixtures and passing tests be with you,
holger krekel
Changes between 2.3.5 and 2.4
known incompatibilities:
- if calling –genscript from python2.7 or above, you only get a standalone script which works on python2.7 or above. Use Python2.6 to also get a python2.5 compatible version.
- all xunit-style teardown methods (nose-style, pytest-style, unittest-style) will not be called if the corresponding setup method failed, see issue322 below.
- the pytest_plugin_unregister hook wasn't ever properly called and there is no known implementation of the hook – so it got removed.
- pytest.fixture-decorated functions cannot be generators (i.e. use yield) anymore. This change might be reversed in 2.4.1 if it causes unforeseen real-life issues. However, you can always write and return an inner function/generator and change the fixture consumer to iterate over the returned generator. This change was done in lieu of the new pytest.yield_fixture decorator, see below.
new features:
experimentally introduce a new pytest.yield_fixture decorator which accepts exactly the same parameters as pytest.fixture but mandates a yield statement instead of a return statement from fixture functions. This allows direct integration with "with-style" context managers in fixture functions and generally avoids registering of finalization callbacks in favour of treating the "after-yield" as teardown code. Thanks Andreas Pelme, Vladimir Keleshev, Floris Bruynooghe, Ronny Pfannschmidt and many others for discussions.
allow boolean expression directly with skipif/xfail if a "reason" is also specified. Rework skipping documentation to recommend "condition as booleans" because it prevents surprises when importing markers between modules. Specifying conditions as strings will remain fully supported.
reporting: color the last line red or green depending if failures/errors occured or everything passed. thanks Christian Theunert.
make "import pdb ; pdb.set_trace()" work natively wrt capturing (no "-s" needed anymore), making pytest.set_trace() a mere shortcut.
fix issue181: –pdb now also works on collect errors (and on internal errors) . This was implemented by a slight internal refactoring and the introduction of a new hook pytest_exception_interact hook (see next item).
fix issue341: introduce new experimental hook for IDEs/terminals to intercept debugging: pytest_exception_interact(node, call, report).
new monkeypatch.setattr() variant to provide a shorter invocation for patching out classes/functions from modules:
monkeypatch.setattr("requests.get", myfunc)
will replace the "get" function of the "requests" module with myfunc.
fix issue322: tearDownClass is not run if setUpClass failed. Thanks Mathieu Agopian for the initial fix. Also make all of pytest/nose finalizer mimick the same generic behaviour: if a setupX exists and fails, don't run teardownX. This internally introduces a new method "node.addfinalizer()" helper which can only be called during the setup phase of a node.
simplify pytest.mark.parametrize() signature: allow to pass a CSV-separated string to specify argnames. For example: pytest.mark.parametrize("input,expected", [(1,2), (2,3)]) works as well as the previous: pytest.mark.parametrize(("input", "expected"), ...).
add support for setUpModule/tearDownModule detection, thanks Brian Okken.
integrate tab-completion on options through use of "argcomplete". Thanks Anthon van der Neut for the PR.
change option names to be hyphen-separated long options but keep the old spelling backward compatible. py.test -h will only show the hyphenated version, for example "–collect-only" but "–collectonly" will remain valid as well (for backward-compat reasons). Many thanks to Anthon van der Neut for the implementation and to Hynek Schlawack for pushing us.
fix issue 308 – allow to mark/xfail/skip individual parameter sets when parametrizing. Thanks Brianna Laugher.
call new experimental pytest_load_initial_conftests hook to allow 3rd party plugins to do something before a conftest is loaded.
Bug fixes:
- fix issue358 – capturing options are now parsed more properly by using a new parser.parse_known_args method.
- pytest now uses argparse instead of optparse (thanks Anthon) which means that "argparse" is added as a dependency if installing into python2.6 environments or below.
- fix issue333: fix a case of bad unittest/pytest hook interaction.
- PR27: correctly handle nose.SkipTest during collection. Thanks Antonio Cuni, Ronny Pfannschmidt.
- fix issue355: junitxml puts name="pytest" attribute to testsuite tag.
- fix issue336: autouse fixture in plugins should work again.
- fix issue279: improve object comparisons on assertion failure for standard datatypes and recognise collections.abc. Thanks to Brianna Laugher and Mathieu Agopian.
- fix issue317: assertion rewriter support for the is_package method
- fix issue335: document py.code.ExceptionInfo() object returned from pytest.raises(), thanks Mathieu Agopian.
- remove implicit distribute_setup support from setup.py.
- fix issue305: ignore any problems when writing pyc files.
- SO-17664702: call fixture finalizers even if the fixture function partially failed (finalizers would not always be called before)
- fix issue320 – fix class scope for fixtures when mixed with module-level functions. Thanks Anatloy Bubenkoff.
- you can specify "-q" or "-qq" to get different levels of "quieter" reporting (thanks Katarzyna Jachim)
- fix issue300 – Fix order of conftest loading when starting py.test in a subdirectory.
- fix issue323 – sorting of many module-scoped arg parametrizations
- make sessionfinish hooks execute with the same cwd-context as at session start (helps fix plugin behaviour which write output files with relative path such as pytest-cov)
- fix issue316 – properly reference collection hooks in docs
- fix issue 306 – cleanup of -k/-m options to only match markers/test names/keywords respectively. Thanks Wouter van Ackooy.
- improved doctest counting for doctests in python modules — files without any doctest items will not show up anymore and doctest examples are counted as separate test items. thanks Danilo Bellini.
- fix issue245 by depending on the released py-1.4.14 which fixes py.io.dupfile to work with files with no mode. Thanks Jason R. Coombs.
- fix junitxml generation when test output contains control characters, addressing issue267, thanks Jaap Broekhuizen
- fix issue338: honor –tb style for setup/teardown errors as well. Thanks Maho.
- fix issue307 – use yaml.safe_load in example, thanks Mark Eichin.
- better parametrize error messages, thanks Brianna Laugher
- pytest_terminal_summary(terminalreporter) hooks can now use ".section(title)" and ".line(msg)" methods to print extra information at the end of a test run.
Written by holger krekel
October 1, 2013 at 9:40 am
Posted in metaprogramming
PEP438 is live: speed up python package installs now!
My "speed up pypi installs" PEP438 has been accepted and transition phase 1 is live: as a package maintainer you can speed up the installation for your packages for all your users now, with the click of a button: Login to https://pypi.python.org and then go to urls for each of your packages, and specify that all release files are hosted from pypi.python.org. Or add explicit download urls with an MD5. Tools such as pip or easy_install will thus avoid any slow crawling of third party sites.
Many thanks to Carl Meyer who helped me write the PEP, and Donald Stufft for implementing most of it, and Richard Jones who accepted it today! And thanks also to the distutils-sig discussion participants, in particular Phillip Eby and Marc-Andre Lemburg.
Written by holger krekel
May 19, 2013 at 7:49 am
Posted in metaprogramming
Packaging, testing, pypi and my Pycon Russia adventures
Besides the good feedback and discussions around my talk, i just had a great few days. It was my first time to Russia and i saw and learned a lot. One unexpected event was going to a russian Sauna with Amir Salihefendic, Russel Keith-Magee and Anton, a main conference organizer. Between going into the Sauna we had glasses of nice irish Whiskey or walked outside to the snowy freezing cold. Afterwards some of us went to the conference party and had good (despite being somewhat drunken) discussions with people from Yandex, the biggest russian search engine and several russian devs. All very friendly, competent and funny. The party lasted until 5:30am – with my fellow english-speaking talkers Armin Ronacher, David Cramer (a weekend in Russia) and me being among the very last.
The next days evening saw Amir, David, Armin and two russian guys visiting an Irish pub past midnight. It turned out there is no such thing as a "russian pub", the concept of "pub" was imported in the last decade mostly in the form of english or irish ones. And it seems IT/Python guys can meet everywhere on the planet and have a good time 🙂
Going back to content, i felt particularly inspired by Jeff Lindsay's talk on Autosustainable services. He described how he tries to provide several small web services, and how to organize cost sharing by its users. As services need resources, it's a different issue than Open Cource collaboration which does not require such to exist.
I heart several good sentences from my fellow talkers, for example one from Russel Keith-Magee describing a dillema of open source communities: "There are many people who can say 'No' but few who can say 'Yes' to something". Amir Salihefendic desribed how the "Redis" database solved many problems for him, and some interesting concrete usages of "bitmaps" in his current endeavours like bitmapist.cohort. And of course Armin Ronacher and David Cramer also gave good talks related to their experience, Advanced Flask patterns and scalable web services respectively. With Armin i also had a good private discussion about the issue of code-signing and verification. We drafted what we think could work for Python packaging (more separately). With David, i discussed workflow commands for python packaging as he offered some good thoughts on the matter.
Around the whole conference we were warmly cared for by Yulia's company it-people.ru who overtook the physical organisation, and by Anton and his friends who organized the program. Maria Kalinina in particular had cared for the keynote speakers and many other aspects of the conference, and without her, i wouldn't have made it. Anton drove us to the Asian European geographic border, and Yulia to the skyscraper of Ekaterinburg, overlooking the third largest city in Russia. Russel and me also took the opportunity to walk around Ekaterinburg, looking at Lenin sculptures, buildings made of ice, frozen lakes, and the many shops and noises in the city.
Lastly i went to the university with Russel to talk for two hours to students about "How Open Source can help your career" and we had a lively discussion with them and the lecturer who invited us. I offered my own background and stated that the very best people in the IT world are today collaborating through open-source. It's a totally dominant model for excellence. (Which doesn't mean there are not some good proprietary projects, they are just fewer i'd say).
So i can join the many russian participants who thought Pycon Russia was a very good conference. It's of course mostly interesting for people speaking russian, as only seven talks were in english. For my part, the intense time i had with both the russian hosts and developers and the english talkers was verymuch worth it – i think there might be a few new collaborations coming from it. More on that in later blog posts hopefully 🙂
Two days ago i left Ekaterinburg and felt a bit sad because of the many contacts i made, which almost felt like the beginning of friendships.
Written by holger krekel
March 1, 2013 at 12:38 pm
Posted in metaprogramming
Tagged with ekaterinburg, metaprogramming, pycon, python, russia
metaprogramming in Python: What CPython, PyPy, Pyramid, pytest and politics have in common …
Metaprogramming in Python too often revolves around metaclasses, which are just a narrow application of the "meta" idea and not a great one at that. Metaprogramming more generally deals with reasoning about program code, about taking a "meta" stance on it. A metaprogram takes a program as input, often just partial programs like functions or classes. Here are a few applications of metaprogramming:
- CPython is a metaprogram written in C. It takes Python program code as input and interprets it, so that it runs at a higher level than C.
- PyPy is a metaprogramm written in Python. It takes RPython program code as input and generates a C-level metaprogram (the PyPy interpreter) which itself interprets Python programs and takes another meta stance by generating Assembler pieces for parts of the interpreation execution. If you like, PyPy is a metaprogram generating metaprograms whereas CPython and typical compilers like GCC are "just" a metaprogram.
- Pyramid is a metaprogram that takes view, model definitions and http-handling code as input and executes them, thereby raising code on a higher level to implement the "Pyramid application" language.
- pytest is a metaprogram written in Python, taking test, fixture and plugin functions as input and executing them in a certain manner, thereby implementing a testing language.
- metaclasses: in Python they allow to intercept class creation and introspect methods and attributes, amending their behaviour. Because metaclass-code usually executes at import time, it often uses global state for implementing non-trivial meta aspects.
Apart from these concrete examples, language compilers, testing tools and web frameworks all have metaprogramming aspects. Creating big or small "higher" level or domain-specific languages within Python is as a typical example of metaprogramming. Python is actually a great language for metaprogramming although it could be better.
In future blog posts i plan to talk about some good metaprogramming practise, particularly:
- keep the layers/levels separate by good naming and API design
- define a concise "language" for the programs you take as input
- avoid creating global state in your metaprograms (and elsewhere)
which can easily happen with meta-classes executing at import time
Lastly, i see metaprogramming at work not only when coding in a computer language. Discussing the legal framing for executing programs on the internet is some kind of metaprogramming, especially if you consider licensing and laws as human-interpreted code which affects how programs can be written, constructed and executed. In reverse, web applications increasingly affect how we interact with each other other, thereby implementing rules formerly dealt with in the arena of politics. Therefore, metaprogramming and politics are fundamentally connected topics.
have metafun, i. e. take fun stuff as input to generate more of it 🙂 holger
Written by holger krekel
November 22, 2012 at 3:04 pm
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Bridges, Calvin Blackman, 1889–1938, American geneticist, b. Schuyler Falls, N.Y., grad. Columbia (B.S., 1912; Ph.D., 1916). In his research he collaborated with T. H. Morgan, A. H. Sturtevant, and H. J. Muller, the group that developed many of the concepts of modern genetics through their study of the fruit fly, Drosophila. He continued with the Morgan group as a research associate of the Carnegie Institution in Washington from 1919. His contributions to modern genetics include the proof of the chromosome theory of heredity, formulation of the theory of genic balance, and the detailed study of giant salivary chromosomes in relation to the positions of genes. He was coauthor of The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity (1915).
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Matti Anttonen appointed as Permanent Secretary
Press release 225/2017
19 December 2017
In its session on 19 December 2017, the Government appointed Counsellor for Foreign Affairs Matti Anttonen to serve as Permanent Secretary in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs starting on 1 March 2018.
Counsellor for Foreign Affairs Anttonen is a Finnish diplomat with a long experience of working in the Foreign Service. He will transfer to the new position from Stockholm, where he has served as Head of Mission at the Embassy of Finland since January 2017.
During his long career, Anttonen has gained expertise specifically in matters related to the East and to trade policy. From 2013 to 2016, that is, before his post as Ambassador of Finland in Stockholm, he was Under-Secretary of State for External Economic Relations in the Ministry. In the Diplomatic Service, he has worked, for instance as the Ambassador of Finland in Moscow, Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of Finland in Washington, and Director of the Unit for Russia in the Ministry's Department for Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
"I am grateful for the trust and confidence placed in me. This post provides an excellent opportunity for me to use all the knowledge and expertise that I have gained during the past over 30 years as a diplomat. Besides, it is always nice to learn new things," Anttonen said after the appointment.
In the Foreign Ministry, the Permanent Secretary is the most senior public official, responsible for managing, developing and overseeing the activities of the Ministry and the branch of government. The Permanent Secretary is responsible for the performance management process, the quality of legislative preparation, and coordination of preparatory work by public officials in the Ministry.
"In the globalising world, the Foreign Ministry is needed both to promote Finland and Finnish actors in different parts of the globe and to produce and disseminate information relating to global trends in Finland. Finnish expertise and the strengths of Finnish society are in demand in the world. In order to meet the challenges of its tasks, the Ministry must actively improve its activities and working methods. We will succeed only in cooperation with our staff," Anttonen summarises his view of the future of the Ministry.
Inquiries: Pirjo Tulokas, Deputy Director General for Personnel, tel. +358 295 351 413. Requests for interview should be addressed to Niina Hyrsky, Counsellor for Press and Cultural Affairs, tel. +46 708 439 997.
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text: Family Matters (Punjabi) Download Body Content 1 This booklet is designed to help parents answer questions when talking to their children about drugs. The Family Matters booklet provides information about: the risks of drug and alcohol misuse; specific drugs (cannabis, ecstasy and amphetamines); tips for talking with your family about drugs; and contact details for services offering further information and help. Family Matters is available in English and 15 other languages widely spoken in NSW. Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, Croatian, English, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Macedonian, Punjabi, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese.


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In the winter of 2005, a craft that's currently in the design phase will fire up its engines on a large reservoir in eastern Washington state and try to crack 400 mph -- setting a new water speed record. The boat, the American Challenge, piloted by Russ Wicks, will be unlike any other in history. A product of computer modeling and technology borrowed from the aerospace field, the revolutionary boat will be constructed by a team using the most advanced composites and working under exacting, state-of-the-art conditions. The cost is expected to ring in at about $5 million.
Halfway around the world, at Blowering Dam in Australia, another craft, completed in 1999, is expected to take up the same challenge at about the same time. This boat, the Aussie Spirit, was designed and built by one man in his backyard shed. The cost, in comparison with the American Challenge, is chump change. This effort would seem laughable when stacked up to Wicks's if it were not for one thing. Its designer, builder and driver, Ken Warby, holds the current water speed record at 317.60 mph.
It's not an entirely friendly competition: In fact, Wicks and Warby seem to take a perverse joy in throwing verbal boat anchors at each other. "A Wile E. Coyote going for a ride on a fiberglass board," says Wicks of Warby. "He's pushed the limits of what you can do without the latest technology."
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Warby isn't as kind. "Wicks is known in boat racing as the media whore," he says. "He's not going to do anything. The design that he's got will kill him -- if he ever builds it."
The two speedsters clash even when it comes to the best water for going fast. Wicks will be running on 7 miles of smooth, flat water surrounded by a gentle and symmetrical shoreline. A world record requires a run in both directions within an hour's time. The last thing you want, he maintains, is to have odd-shaped wakes coming at you on the return run.
Warby, in contrast, likes a rippled surface. Ripples, he says, create air pockets on the hull so it's like riding on marbles. Smooth, flat water creates added drag, which according to Warby can add up to a 30-mph penalty at 300 mph.
No matter what the water conditions, 300 miles per hour is seriously dangerous -- much more so than the same speed on land, where the current record is 763 mph. Boats running at record speeds plane on a surface area the size of a teacup saucer. And that's when they're not flying totally out of the water.
Catch too much air under the bow and you flip over backward in a paroxysm of disintegration. And while you may be able to survive a land speed crash, there's no second chance on the water.
Since Warby's boat is a known quantity, Wicks's ride is the one being watched by designers around the world. It's engineered so that the impact loads pass near the craft's center of gravity. This minimizes pitching and yawing, and makes it easier to keep his ride on course.
The American Challenge will rely on computer-controlled airfoils for stability control. Gyro inputs on Challenge's attitude will be processed at 1000 times a second. This leaves Wicks with just the throttle and rudders (water and air) to contend with. As a last resort, the computer will trigger an ejection seat to launch Wicks out of harm's way. But slamming into water at 300-plus mph is like being fired out of a cannon into a brick wall.
Powering the carbon-fiber and Kevlar composite craft will be two GE J85 jet engines each producing 5000-plus pounds of thrust (about 9000-plus horsepower) with afterburner. The cockpit will be a 1-1/2-in.-thick solid carbon-fiber tub--similar to that in a Formula One car.
The cockpit is being designed using a program called Jack that was developed by UGS PLM Solutions. Jack is a biomechanically accurate virtual human that, when programmed with Wicks's body dimensions, can be seated in a virtual cockpit and used to predict reach, vision and fit requirements. Meanwhile, Wicks is wind-tunnel and water-tank testing a one-tenth scale model of his yet-to-be-built 40-ft. craft.
And Warby? We haven't heard of him doing much wind-tunnel testing lately. If the past is any indication, the master of the old school is probably doodling any last-minute design tweaks on the back of a napkin.
Ken Warby has beaten the odds. Four other water speed record seekers -- John Cobb, Lee Taylor Jr., Donald Campbell and Craig Arfons -- didn't. Anyone who could design a boat on his kitchen table in one night, singlehandedly build it and the trailer to haul it on under a tree, and then run it to a record speed of over 300 mph, either has to be tapped into the cosmos or be very lucky. Warby powered that boat -- the Spirit of Australia -- with a $65 military surplus Westinghouse J34 jet engine. That same engine modified for more power and fitted with an afterburner ("should it be needed") finds a new home in the Aussie Spirit. Output of the J34 is 3500 pounds of thrust increasing to 5000 pounds of thrust with the afterburner. The Aussie Spirit has no on-board computer and no movable airfoils other than an air rudder. Warby relies on conventional throttle and steering (and maybe a rabbit's foot?) for stability and control.


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You're reading Moby-Dick again, or for the first time, aren't you? We certainly hope so.
You're reading Moby-Dick again, or for the first time, aren't you? We certainly hope so.
What a fascinating article we've just discovered in the Times: "When whales attack: the horrific truth about Moby-Dick."
Just one snippet:
"The sperm whale is no mean adversary. It is the largest predator that ever lived, and although modern sperm whales grow to only 65ft, Melville and his fellow whalers recorded whales 80 or even 100ft long. (Scientists think intensive hunting in the 19th century reduced the number of very large bull sperm whales, thereby affecting the overall size of the population, genetically. Hunting has also reduced the world population from 1.6 million to fewer than 360,000.)
Armed with a lower jaw studded with 42 teeth, it's a formidable opponent if driven to defend itself. Its tail, as broad as a house, could dash a flimsy whaleboat to smithereens, and often did. The sperm whale is also the only cetacean that can swallow a human being, and, again, has done so, albeit by accident, in the melee of a hunt. (It's not a nice way to go: its gastric juices are so acidic that sailors cut out of whales have been bleached white by the process.)"
Go read the rest!
We are Remaking Moby-Dick, again, and you are invited to be a contributor to this international multimodal experimental storytelling project. The project engages artists, writers, painters, photographers, musicians, sailors, schoolchildren and all manner of others, who are outside and in-between these designations, to contribute to our on-going narrative inspired by Melville's materially eccentric and unwieldy text. For information and inspiration about our first remaking, please look through our site (and, if you are interested in seeing the print translation of the project, please see it at Scribd and/or order from Amazon).
In this second remaking, contributors are asked to choose an expressive means most natural, or not, to their own creative practice, and like Melville, test the boundaries of story-making outside modes of conventional, narrative telling. You may write poems and fiction-pieces, perform dances, discuss passages, play music, and tell stories across media and genre forms, all based on inspiration from Melville's original text. You may even remake your remaking contribution in multiple forms (in print and on video, for example), and you may work individually or collaboratively. (We might even be able to assist you to find a teammate.) However, in this iteration of the project, unlike the first one that worked to cover the entire text, chapter-by-chapter, from epigraph to epilogue, we have a more selective approach. This time our focus is thematic, and we ask you instead to consider "women and other whitenesses" in the text and to build from there. We ask you to be inspired by the silences, pregnant pauses, compelling blankness, and powerful unvoiced presence(s) of those whom we know are there in the text, but whom we can't see, hear or touch directly. Who are the women, the other sea creatures, the elements, the agents, the materials, the objects, the forces, the environments, and beings (in/organic, non/human) in Melville's base text, and how can we voice and activate an eco-system that entangles and vitalizes them through your contributions? From poetry to painting, music to dance, sculpture to scripture, all means and modes of expression are possible for you as a remaking participant, as long as your contributions may be captured digitally (in print, video, audio, for example), so they may be published and circulated as part of our network of remaking. Our goal is create both a print version of curated selections (published as a special edition of the Pea River Journal and available for purchase) but also to develop companion texts on social media platforms and in a digital application that offers linkages, alternate readings and access to the remade materials. We strongly encourage multimedia/multimodal submissions, but are happy to accept text-based and literary submissions appropriate to print. (Project curators and co-editors, Trish Harris and Lissa Holloway-Attaway, can assist you with questions and assistance about formats for your contribution. See the "more about publishing and remaking" section below.)
We will accept your contributions through September 2016. Print and digital texts will be available in early 2017. Documentation of the process and updates on contributions and other developments will be available here at the Remaking Moby-Dick blog and via our twitter feed and social media channels. Please follow us. (We mean obsessively, like Ahab after his whale. Bring a harpoon.)
In our second experiment, Remaking Moby-Dick: women and other whitenessess, we invite you to consider a submission inspired by presence and absence, by the largeness of what is left unsaid, lurking at the margins of representation, calling us outwards and inwards, a mute and pregnant incantation for creation inspired by whiteness, and inspired, of course, by the white whale at the core of the text. We ask you to explore the depths and surfaces of Melville's Moby-Dick to help re-member (piece together) and recover the women and the others who remain outside the narrative proper, but who call us to bear witness (bear whiteness) to their untold stories. In "Chapter 42: The Whiteness of the Whale," Ishmael ponders the fearful "supernaturalism of this hue," the dreaded whiteness embodied by the whale himself, Moby-Dick. He then takes us with him on a journey of imagination, where "subtlety appeals to subtlety" as he works to recall "the peculiar apparition to the soul" the dreaded white whale brings to mind. Where is your journey of recovery, and how can it take you to dread, or away and beyond? Who or what do you want to re-member, animate, and how will it materialize?
Women have long been a discussion point for readers of the text: for some they are wholly present in the imagery of the sea and the natural world; for some they are recast as revolutionaries, in the otherly-gendered beings who resist masculine or feminine identities and co-mingle without apology for propriety or for respecting boundaries. But for others still, their presence is not so certain, or acceptable, if found only in the gaps or wounds of loss–in the bleeding breasts of the nursing whales in Chapter 87: The Grand Armada, or the once-removed memories of sailors who recall their wives and mothers set far away from the butchery and firmly held in a distant, and silent, domestic sphere. Or they are displaced and disempowered, as in the (mother) ship the Rachel who meets the Pequod in Chapter 128, begging for assistance to rescue her drowned boys lost at sea, but who is cruelly sent away by Captain Ahab, an unrepentant father. Weeping for her children, she returns again in the Epilogue, just in time to rescue another orphan, Ishmael. Small comfort for aching loss. And who are these others we have yet to see, or have only glimpsed? A master of shifting narrative perspective, Melville activates stories in objects and in the artifacts of the hunt and the voyage: the chart, the line, the dart, the monkey-rope. But do they have more to say, and would they rather speak for themselves? And what might they tell us? And what of that crew, that ethnically and racially diverse set of whalers impossibly bonded together in the maniacal pursuit of immense whiteness–and of slaughter. In Chapter 42, Ishmael claims that "whiteness is not so much a color as the visible absence of color, and at the same time the concrete of all colors." Color is but a mental construct, an illusion. All earthly hue found in nature, besides white, is a deceit, an add-on, a cover-up for the pale emptiness really at its core. What might Queequeg, the tattooed South Sea island cannibal, with the dark, purplish yellow colored-face, punctuated by black squares, have to say of this philosophical reduction? In what colored hues might he respond?
Since Melville, many artists have recaptured and remade the women in alternate materials, for example, in quilt form (Ann Wilson, 1955), and in painting (Abby Schlachter Langdon, Queequeg in Her Coffin, 1997; Aileen Callahan, The Birth of Moby-Dick, 2000-2001). Still others have given voice to the text in song and music (Laurie Anderson, 1999) and in Opera (Jake Hegge, 2010) and in the many retellings, from plays (Orson Welles, Moby-Dick Rehearsed, 1965; Patty Lynch, The Wreck of the Hesperus, 1987) to staged reading marathons, live and online (annually at the New Bedford Whaling Museum and Mystic Seaport Museum, and in 2013 at the Mixing Realities Digital Performance Festival in Karlskrona, Sweden, a part of our first Remaking Moby-Dick project). Each of these opens new possibilities for rendering and materializing absence, bringing forth new presences, new voices for the choir. We hope you will join them.
During the submission and curation process, we will document progress here on the Remaking Moby-Dick blog. We will update and maintain a Youtube and podcast channel and a Twitter feed to document works in progress and offer teasers for the final issue. Our final publication will be available in print as a special issue of the Pea River Journal and available at peariverjournal.com. Additionally we will post video and audio works on interlinked social media channels, through references and access in the print text, and via a digital application designed to provide yet another alternative for experiencing the stories.
We are looking for essays, fiction, poetry, still images, video, music, performance, games, and whatever the concept conjures or inspires. All work must be submitted through our online submission manager.
If you have questions, please contact the curators, Trish Harris and Lissa Holloway-Attaway, at email@example.com.
Perhaps if these Captains had listened to the voices of the native Inupiats the disaster could have been averted. Maybe this offers inspiration to recover lost voices in/through our Remaking Moby 2.0 project. How many other voices were silenced by the monomaniacal arrogance of another Ship's Captain?
Read more of this doomed 1871 voyage that helped mark the end of a dying industry…
Citizen Scientists work with historical data from whaling logs to explore weather and predict the future. The result a "virtual time-traveling weather satellite."
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