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The Summer 2018 Comment Challenge is about to begin! This annual challenge is hosted by Lonna @ FLYLēF and Alicia @ A Kernel of Nonsense and runs June through August. For those not familiar, the Comment Challenge is designed to help bloggers connect with one another and hopefully form some meaningful friendships. Each month, your hosts pair you with another book blogger and you're encouraged to comment on each other's blogs all month long. Details for this challenge are below. We welcome both past participants and new ones to join us for this fun summer challenge!
- The Summer 2018 Comment Challenge takes place June through August
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June 27th, 2012
Low carb, high protein diets linked to women's heart disease
Women who regularly cut back on carbohydrates and eat high amounts of protein are at increased risk of heart disease, concludes a study published Tuesday in the British Medical Journal.
To gauge the impact of the popular Atkins-style diets on women's hearts, researchers in Greece turned to a food survey completed by more than 43,000 women in Sweden. The women, who were between 30 and 49 years old, recorded the frequency and quantities of food they ate over six months in 1991 and 1992.
Using the survey, researchers calculated which women were eating the least amount of carbohydrates and the most amount of protein. The women were then followed for 15 years on average to see who became diagnosed with cardiovascular disease. The women's food habits were not tracked long-term but did provide researchers a snapshot in time.
The study found regularly eating just 20 fewer grams of carbohydrates and 5 more grams of protein a day increased the long-term risk of cardiovascular disease in women by 5%. That's roughly the amount of carbohydrates in a small roll of whole grain bread and the amount of protein in one boiled egg.
Several large studies have had somewhat different conclusions.
In a statement, Atkins Nutritionals Inc. said the diet tested in the study was not the Atkins diet, and that the women in the study ate more carbohydrates and less protein than prescribed in the Atkins diet. The company said, "Studies done to date measuring the Atkins Diets' effect on heart health have shown diminished risk."
Nutrition experts who did not work on the study said its findings were in no way definitive.
"It's provocative," said Dr. Laurence Sperling, director of the Center for Heart Disease Prevention at Emory School of Medicine in Atlanta. "Yes, in this study there's an association, but you need to be careful about taking that information and walking away with it and changing how you eat for the rest of your life."
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The EPA, Navajo Nation, other federal agencies, and organization will be having a meeting on April 16-17 in order to address the uranium contamination on the Navajo Nation.
During the fifth annual workshop for the Navajo Nation's uranium contamination, the attending agencies, organizations, and members will be discussing the cleanup progress of the area since its 5-year plan first kicked off. The meeting will also discuss the next five-year plan. The contaminated areas are in three states, which is about the size of West Virginia.
The EPA, Department of Energy, Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Indian Health Service, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission are the federal agencies that will be attending the workshop. The event will kick off at 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday, April 16 at the Gallup Inn in Gallup, NM.
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It's that time of year when you look your lover in the eyes, feel that stirring in your stomach, and hear you inner voice ask: "Is this the best I can do?"
Please, I don't mean to sound, well, mean.
It's just that in these days that champion immediacy and disposability, somehow interpersonal relations have become just another commodity.
Having mused on these thoughts in the shower, my inbox was kissed with an e-mail that told me 1 in 10 relationships among 35- to 55-year-olds will end on or before Valentine's Day.
It seems that 62 percent of women will do the dumping, while a mere 55 percent of men will rise from the couch (or not) to put their relationships to the sword.
According to a survey, that is.
Could this be because February 14 puts our love lives into sharp relief? Could it be because restaurants and florists take this opportunity to gouge pockets within an inch of tearing trouser legs?
Perhaps it's both.
This utterly mesmerizing survey reveals that men are becoming more adept at online dating. Indeed, one in four won't leave the couch to find love. It also reveals that men just don't want to spend the moula to hula anymore.
Of those surveyed, 96 percent said they wouldn't spend anywhere near $1,000 in order to find their perfect match.
How very chill-infused men have become.
Indeed, this survey suggested that a mere 65 percent of men want to be in a relationship at all, in contrast to 76 percent of women.
My eyes still being blurry from the week's pressure, it took me awhile to realize who had sponsored this survey.
It was only when I read one conclusion -- that men are twice as likely to prefer an Eastern European accent than are women -- that I focused on the sponsor as being AnastasiaDate.com.
The site offers a heady promise: "The World's Most Beautiful Women."
This made me wonder whether the sentence was incomplete, the full version being "The World's Most Beautiful Women From Murmansk."
The general tenor of the site gives the impression that its target market is somewhat skewed. And then there's the idea that this is "your fastest way to a stack of replies."
I assume this is somewhat similar to having a binder full of women.
Still, the survey was performed by the grave-faced diggers at Harris Interactive, so I have to assume that its methodology was sound.
Of course, the boon that this appears to give to online dating is obvious. Business will surely be booming this week. Even the most couch-bound can -- at least theoretically -- find some information about whom they might ultimately meet in person.
They can make their sedentary judgments before agreeing to meet anyone at all. This, of course, assumes that this anyone looks like their pictures and has a vague interest in telling the truth.
The saddest part, though, as relationships flourish or crumble this week, is that respondents' biggest complaint is that it's far too difficult to meet people in person.
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Using the object cache with SharePoint Online
This article explains the difference between using the object cache in SharePoint Server 2013 on-premises and SharePoint Online.
There is significant negative impact of relying on the object cache in SharePoint Online deployment. Any dependency on object cache in SharePoint Online will reduce the reliability of your page.
How the SharePoint Online and SharePoint Server 2013 object cache works
When SharePoint Server 2013 is hosted on-premises, the customer has private front-end web servers that host the object cache. This means the cache is dedicated to one customer and is only limited by how much memory is available and allocated to the object cache. Because only one customer is served in the on-premises scenario, the front-end web servers typically have users making requests to the same sites over and over. This means that the cache gets full quickly and remains full of the list query results and SharePoint objects that your users are requesting regularly.
As a result, the second time a user visits a page, the page load time improves. After a minimum of four loads of the same page, the page is cached on all of the front-end web servers.
In contrast, in SharePoint Online there are many more servers but also many more sites. Each user may connect to a different front-end web server that doesn't have the cache populated. Or, perhaps the cache does get populated for a server, but the next user to that front-end web server requests a page from a different site. Or, even if the next user requests the same page as on their previous visit, they are load-balanced to a different front-end web server that doesn't have that page in its cache. In this last case, caching doesn't help the users at all.
In the following figure, each dot represents a page that a user is requesting and where it cached. Different colors represent different customers making shared use of the SaaS infrastructure.
As you can see from the diagram, the chances of any given user hitting a server with the cached version of their page are slim. Also, due to the large throughput and fact that the servers are shared between many sites, the cache doesn't last long since there is only so much space for caching available.
For all of these reasons, relying on users getting cached objects is not an effective way to ensure a quality user experience and page load times in SharePoint Online.
If we can't rely on the object cache to improve performance in SharePoint Online, what do we use instead?
Since you shouldn't rely on caching in SharePoint Online, you should evaluate alternative design approaches for SharePoint customizations that use the object cache. This means using approaches for performance issues, which do not rely on the object caching in order to produce good results for users. This is described in some of the other articles in this series and includes:
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March 26th, 2013
Cold sores linked to cognitive decline
The virus causing your cold sore may put you at risk for something more insidious: Lower cognitive abilities.
In a study of 1,625 people, researchers at Columbia University measured specific antibodies to common infectious agents in each person's blood, and using this information, created an "infectious burden index." Participants higher on the infectious burden index were more likely to have worse cognition, or cognitive abilities.
The study, published Monday in the journal Neurology, further suggests a link between cognitive decline and herpesviridae viral infections in particular, which previous studies have also linked to Alzheimer's disease and risk of stroke, an accompanying editorial notes. Herpesviridae is a family of viruses including HSV-1 or herpes simplex virus-1, which causes cold sores and can cause genital herpes, and HSV-2, which commonly causes genital herpes.
For the study, researchers tracked participants for eight years, giving them tests to measure cognition each year, but found no link between decline in abilities and viral infections over that period. The associated decline occurred before the study even began; the participants infectious burden index score did not make that person more or less likely to experience cognitive decline over the course of the study.
Only physical activity significantly reduced the association between infectious burden and cognitive decline, researchers found.
A study starting with younger participants - this study's average was 69 years old - and over a longer period may reveal more about how the decline progresses over time, says Dr. Mira Katan, the lead study author.
"While this association needs to be further studied, the results could lead to ways to identify people at risk of cognitive impairment and eventually lower that risk," said Katan in a statement.
"For example, exercise and childhood vaccinations against viruses could decrease the risk for memory problems later in life."
"This is a fascinating area which certainly deserves a treatment trial," says Dr. Timo Strandberg, author of the editorial, from the Department of Medicine, geriatric clinic, at the University of Helsinki (Finland) and University Hospital in Helsinki. "We are currently planning one... just remember what a paradigm change there was in ulcer disease in the 1980s. Of course this could have great potential if proved to be right. Nevertheless, old age AD (Alzheimer's disease) is a multifactorial geriatric syndrome (in my opinion), so several factors are contributing at the individual level."
However, said Dr. William Schaffner, chairman of the preventive medicine department at Vanderbilt University's School of Medicine, "They cannot impute causal associations, these are just interesting phenomenon."
"My concerns are, who are these people who are drawn into these studies? Because they're not a representative population," says Schaffner, who was not involved in the research. "They of course have had a dropout rate, so I'm just very cautious about what we can conclude from this association."
But Schaffner says he finds the study "intriguing and provocative" He says, "The more we pick at this and find infectious disease antecedents for chronic illness, the more provocative it is, because it opens up more doors for prevention."
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You may have noticed that we are fans of newly relauched Victoria's Secret Sport's sport bras. Case in point: Both Jenna Dewan Tatum and Shakira are on SELF covers sporting (pun intended) the super-flattering and supportive Angel.
Lily Aldridge, who rocked the new Incredible style bra -- great for max support -- and Lindsay Ellingson (donning our beloved Angel bra) celebrated the launch of Victoria's Secret Sport's new colors and duds yesterday in NYC.
As if their fitspirational bods weren't enough of a sell (those are some seriously toned abs), we also got a chance to meet Lily and the VS Sport team and take a peek at the gear in person.
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- I have recovered from the disease of Alcoholism. I believe there is only one person really,.. everybody. And that peace of mind is everything. -So treat your neighbor as you would treat yourself, because your neighbor IS yourself. I think most of recovery is what I would call common sense, but that learning to be ordinary is a true gift very few people acquire. My ambition is to accept everything unflinchingly, with compassion, and therefore be intrinsically comfortable in my own skin, no matter what. I am comfortable being uncomfortable and am willing to go to any lengths to improve my life. I believe the Big Book was divinely inspired, and is extraordinarily powerful. Unfortunately AA's best kept secret a lot of the time. (In my opinion). I just try to do what works, no matter what it is.
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Refining fire behavior modeling
Research by USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station biometrician Bernie Parresol takes center stage in a special issue of the journal Forest Ecology and Management due out in June. Parresol is lead author of two of the five articlesand co-author of two morein an issue that focuses on methods that incorporate fine-scale data into the tools Southeastern forest managers use to assess wildfire potential and plan mitigation treatments.
Most fire behavior analyses rely on sparse plot inventories and data from satellites, and often do not address the complexity found at the ground level where managers operate. Parresol and fellow researchers demonstrated a statistical approach that can incorporate hundreds to thousands of fuel observations into models that managers can easily use to prioritize areas to treat to reduce the wildfire hazard.
Fire is an important part of forest ecosystems in the southeastern United States, especially in the Coastal Plain. European settlers cleared most of the native longleaf pine forests of the region; industry later planted many of the same acres in loblolly pine plantations. Meanwhile, fire suppression policies broke the cycle of frequent low-intensity fires in the remaining natural forests, causing the buildup of fuels that leads to wildfires.
Over the last decades, southeastern land managers added prescribed fire to other forest treatments to reduce wildland fires, promote forest restoration, and improve wildlife habitat. Because of budget constraints and public concerns about fire and smoke, managers need to prioritize the areas where they will use prescribed fire. To do this, they use wildfire hazard assessments such as LANDFIRE and the Southern Wildfire Risk Assessment (SWRA), both of which use satellite images and other supporting data to represent fuels across a landscape. Although these tools work well enough at the state and regional levels, they don't offer enough detail to land managers trying to decide which of their hundreds or thousands of acres should be burned first.
The special issue of Forest Ecology and Management focuses on a study conducted on the 200,000-acre Savannah River Site as representative of an actively managed forest landscape in the Southeast. Researchers used studies on the site to assess wildland fuels, potential fire behavior and treatments to reduce fire hazard. In his first article, Parresol and fellow researchers develop equations to describe fuel loads for both dead and alive materials on the site based on vegetation type, stand age, recent fire history and other aspects. These equations were then used to create custom landscape models based on the actual data from the site, then compared with results from LANDFIRE and SWRA to assess the effectiveness of those tools.
"Taken together, the research reported in these articles shows that fine scale measurements repeated over time can be put into a manageable framework and reduced to create dynamic fire behavior models useful to managers," says Parresol. "They can also be used to help address scientific questions and to evaluate the effect of management conditions."
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Cisco is considering joining a handful of companies, including Google and Microsoft, that have defined a specification for 25Gbps and 50Gbps Ethernet for data centers requiring greater than 10/40Gbps.
The companies, which also include Arista Networks, Broadcom and Mellanox, have formed the 25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium to promote standardization of the 25/50G Ethernet speeds and product development. The consortium is open to any interested company or organization, the companies said.
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Cisco plans to join once it completes review of the application process.
"Cisco is reviewing the Consortium's Adopter Agreement, and plans to join as a member after the review is complete," a company spokesperson stated in an e-mail to Network World.
The consortium has received applications or interest from another five to 10 companies since its introduction last week, says Anshul Sadana, senior vice president of Customer Engineering at Arista.
Participants in the 25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium will develop technologies in accordance with the consortium's 25/50G specification. Products developed to it are intended to scale network bandwidth to cloud server and storage endpoints, where workloads are expected to surpass the capacity of 10/40G Ethernet links deployed today.
Products compliant with the consortium specifications are also expected to lower the cost per gigabit and power consumption of these links.
"It's the sweet spot of the lowest price per gigabit," says Sadana.
The companies say they formed the consortium to support an industry standard, interoperable Ethernet specification for those speeds between a server NIC and a top-of-rack switch. The IEEE is not involved in the consortium or its 25/50G specification, having standardized 10G and 40/100G, and beginning work on 400G Ethernet.
The companies say the motivation for founding the consortium is to immediately set an industry standard definition of the 25G and 50G Ethernet physical layer (PHY) and media access control (MAC) layer behavior, including virtual lane alignment, autonegotiation, and forward error correction characteristics; and to enable the swift rollout of 25G and 50G Ethernet compliant implementations over the next 12 to 18 months through the participation of multiple semiconductor, networking equipment and interconnect vendors.
IEEE standards can take years to develop. Four hundred gigabit Ethernet isn't expected until 2017 even though work began on it last year. It took 12 years for 10G Ethernet to unseat Gigabit Ethernet as the predominant Ethernet networking technology in the data center; and the 40/100G 802.3ba standard was ratified in 2010, almost four years after the formation of a 100G High Speed Study Group that eventually acquiesced to demands to also include 40G.
"We can't simply wait for that to happen," Sadana says, who adds that an IEEE Call For Information (CFI) on 25/50G last March did not generate enough interest. He adds that 25/50G products will be backward and forward compatible with 10, 40/100, and 400G Ethernet products because they use the same IEEE 802.3 frame format.
IEEE did not comment by press time. Cisco says another CFI is planned for the next IEEE plenary meeting July 13-18.
"Cisco believes that 25G Ethernet needs to be standardized and that IEEE is the right forum for standardization," the spokesperson says in the e-mail. "In the past Cisco has worked through IEEE with other industry leaders to standardize 1GbE, 10GbE, 40GbE, and 100GbE. Many other industry players, including some from the Consortium, are active participants in the preparations for the upcoming meeting and will state public support for the IEEE 25G standardization effort. Cisco also agrees with the 25G Ethernet Consortium on the value of promoting standardization and improving Ethernet Interfaces."
The consortium's specification prescribes a single twinax copper wire lane 25Gbps Ethernet and dual-lane 50Gbps Ethernet link protocol. The specification is being made available royalty-free by the consortium members to any data center vendor or consumer who joins the consortium.
The cost and power reduction per gigabit are due to the lower number of lanes – 40G uses four 10G lanes – 25/50G requires. Twenty-five gigabit products will not cost 2.5 times that of 10G, and 50G will cost less than 5x 10G, Sadana says.
The average selling price of a 10G fixed top-of-rack switch port in the first quarter was about $270, according to Dell'Oro Group. Dell'Oro believes 25G Ethernet will be a hot seller in the data center and may disrupt 40G's penetration as a server access technology.
"Most 100G is just four lanes of 25G," the market research firm states in its Q1 Ethernet switch market share report. "Thus, in supporting 100G, many components can be easily split to 25G. This could lead 25G to drive a better cost curve than 40G. If this occurs, despite not being a standard, 25G would likely spread beyond Microsoft," which Dell'Oro says confirmed plans in Q1 to use 25G in its data center.
It may spread to Cisco product development as well, Dell'Oro posits. Cisco and Arista are suppliers of top-of-rack switches to Microsoft data centers, which have the second largest installed base of servers.
"While each data center is likely competitively bid, if we assume that Microsoft does not choose a white box supplier, two major data center suppliers like Arista and Cisco will have 25G switches," the firm states. "In this scenario, these vendors would have an interest in selling their solutions beyond Microsoft in order to better leverage their investment in 25G."
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Chocolate and pumpkin is not the most intuitive combination, but something magical happens when you combine the two in this riff on pumpkin pie. This pie is not aggressively chocolaty, but if you're looking for something new this Thanksgiving, try adding a swirl of subtle cocoa flavor to your pumpkin pie routine.
This recipe was inspired by one from Ken Haedrich's book Pie.
Recipe Facts
- One half recipe Easy Pie Dough, shaped and chilled in a pie plate
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 4 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
- 12 ounces cream cheese
- 14 ounces granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs, room temperature
- 8 ounces pumpkin or butternut squash puree
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
- pinch of salt
Adjust oven rack to lower middle position and preheat oven to 425°F. When oven is ready, line chilled pie shell with foil or parchment paper and fill with weights (I reuse dried beans for this), and bake on the lowest rack of the oven for 15 minutes. Remove weights and liner, turn pie, and bake until the bottom crust is a golden brown (or slightly lighter, if you prefer that style), about 10 minutes. Remove pie shell from oven and allow to cool completely.
Place the butter in a small, microwave safe bowl and microwave for 30 seconds, until the butter is melted. Add the chocolate to the bowl and microwave for 30 seconds, stop and stir the chocolate, and then return the mixture to the microwave for another 30 seconds. Continue to do this, stirring each time, until the mixture is completely melted, smooth, and shiny. Set aside.
Adjust oven rack to lower middle position and preheat oven to 350°F. In a large bowl using an electric mixer, cream the cream cheese on medium speed. Add the sugar and cream until smooth and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, and mix well after each addition. Lower the mixer speed and blend in the pumpkin, spices, vanilla, and salt until the mixture is evenly combined.
Pour half of the mixture into the baked pie shell (reserve the other half of the mixture in the bowl) and place in the oven for 10 minutes to help it partially set. Add the chocolate mixture to the remaining pumpkin mixture and stir until it is homogenous. After ten minutes, remove the pie from the oven and allow it to cool for 10 minutes. Then, pour the chocolate mixture over the top slowly and gently. Drag a spatula through the filling, scooping upward to create a swirled, marbled effect. Return the pie to the oven and bake for 35 - 40 minutes, until the filling has set completely and puffs a bit at the edges. Allow the pie to cool completely (during which time it will deflate a bit). It may be stored in the fridge for up to two days (highly recommend no more than one for best flavor).
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NBC's Richard Engel is a very lucky man.
The network's "Chief Foreign Correspondent" was released earlier this week, five days after being taken captive while covering the civil war in Syria. Engel and the rest of his crew were freed on Monday when their captors (part of a faction loyal to Syrian President Bashir al-Assad) were stopped at a checkpoint manned by anti-regime forces. At least two of the kidnappers were killed when a firefight ensured and the NBC cerw managed to escape. Members of the rebel group that ended the abduction helped Engel and his colleagues reach safety in Turkey on Tuesday.
In an interview that aired on his network, Engel said the NBC team was not tortured during their days in captivity, but they were subjected to mock executions. That strikes us as a bit odd; a number of journalists have died inside Syria and Assad's thugs would have little problem with torturing a western news crew before executing them and disposing of their bodies. But Engel and the other NBC journalists lived long enough to escape when the opportunity presented itself.
So why were Mr. Engel and his crew allowed to survive? The first possibility is that the kidnappers realized they had nabbed a really big media fish, one that was worth more alive than dead. Engel has been covering the Middle East for more than a decade, and speaks fluent Arabic. Without the language barrier that confronts many western journalists, perhaps Engel convinced the kidnappers to let them live, in exchange for a potential ransom from NBC, or the "goodwill" that would come from eventually releasing them.
Still, that scenario is a bit of a stretch. The Assad government has murdered 44,000 of its citizens over the past 18 months, and their public image went in the toilet a long time ago. Somehow, the Damascus government doesn't seem overly concerned with the subtleties of public relations, and that same trait extends to the pro-Assad group that nabbed Mr. Engel.
In reality, there is probably a much more simple--and direct--explanation for Engel's survival. The Assad government planned to use the NBC crew to send a message, warning western reporters to stay out of Syria. Perhaps there would have been a show trial in Damascus, or some rougher treatment before their release. While Engel and his colleagues deserve credit for making the best of a bad situation, their relatively long survival (before escape) suggests their captors had no plans for a quick execution.
Unfortunately, the next foreign reporter to be captured inside Syria may not be as fortunate. As we've noted in previous posts, the conflict in Syria is growing more savage by the day. There are growing concerns about Assad's massive arsenal of chemical and biological weapons, and their potential employment against rebel forces. The regime has also begun using SCUD missiles and shorter-range (but more accurate) SS-21s against its foes. Obviously, a surface-to-surfaced missile isn't exactly the weapon of choice against rebel forces, which don't mass in large concentrations or operate from fixed facilities, like conventional forces.
But on the other hand, a SCUD or SS-21 is an ideal weapon for delivering a chemical warhead against populated areas where the rebels operate and find refuge. So far, there have been no confirmed reports of missile strikes against insurgent forces using chemical weapons, but opposition groups claim the Assad regime has used chemical weapons several times in recent weeks. However, these reports are no better than second-hand and they have not been confirmed by any western intelligence organization, or media outlet.
Which brings us back to Mr. Engel and his competitors. If Assad is planning to unleash chemical weapons against his people, the last thing he wants is a western media crew to document the mass casualties, or falling victim themselves, if they happen to be in the affected area. So, why not grab a high-profile western journalist and use that unfortunately individual (or crew) to send a not-so-subtle message to the rest of the press. Engel was clearly the chosen medium, until the plan was interrupted by rebel forces at that checkpoint.
We're guessing that Mr. Assad's goons are shadowing other western reporters, in a search for their next kidnap victims. And with the survival of the Assad government at stake--and a CW offensive in the offing--the next abduction will occur sooner, rather than later. And we will likely see a much different outcome.
ADDENDUM: Damascus may have other reasons for chasing reporters out of the war zone (and other areas). It was reported today that Syria is serving as a trans-shipment point for the Russian-made S-300 air defense system en route to Iran. Officially, Moscow has refused to sell the state-of-the-art equipment to Tehran, but Fox News reported today that the S-300 is being shipped to Iran through Syria. In exchange, the Iranians will continue to provide the guns, ammunition and support that Damascus needs to continue the war with the rebels.
While Russia has sold the advanced3 SA-17 SAM system to Syria in the past, Moscow reportedly canceled an S-300 delivery to Assad's forces earlier this year. Other reports suggest that Croatia is transferring its older SA-10 equipment to Iran through Syria, with the blessings of Moscow. The SA-10 represents of the "first generation" of the system, which has evolved into the more advanced SA-20/S-300 variants.
Croatia never deployed the SA-10 operationally, and the radars, missiles and other equipment were kept in covered storage for years. The condition of the Croatian SA-10s is unknown, but they could be restored to operational service with Russian assistance. Deployment of the SA-10 in Iran would present serious challenges to potential air attacks by the U.S. or Israel. Transferring the surplus gear from Croatia (through Damascus) creates a degree of deniability for Russia, which never allowed a direct transfer of the S-300 from its production lines, to Iran.
If the Croatian SA-10s are being flown to Iran, the most likely trans-shipment point is Damascus International Airport or military airfields in that area. Clearly, there are plenty of people in Syria, Iran, Russia and Croatia who don't want western reporters ("embedded" with rebel forces) to provide more video proof of these flights.
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
3 comments:
- Old NFO said...
Excellent analysis... And your rationale makes sense. I was wondering 'why' they were still alive. It's not like they haven't killed others (Daniel Pearl comes to mind).
- Lynn said...
If my memory serves me correctly, Croatia never had a complete SA-10 system. All they had was some canisters that they showed a parade, which in turn, sent everyone into a tizzy.
- James said...
Merry Christmas all! Perhaps even Engel would agree this time.
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Is Windows 7 Actually Faster Than Ubuntu 10.04?: While Linux has long been talked about as being a faster operating system than Microsoft Windows, in 2010 is this still the case? It seems every time we deliver new benchmarks of the EXT4 file-system it's actually getting slower, recent Linux kernel releases have not been delivering any major performance enhancements for desktop users, the open-source Linux graphics drivers are still no match to the proprietary drivers, and "bloated and huge" is how Linus Torvalds described the Linux kernel last year. This is all while Windows 7 was released last year, which many view as Microsoft's best operating system release to date. Even after using it a fair amount the past few months in preparation for this about-to-be-shared work, it is actually not too bad and is a huge improvement over Windows Vista, but is it really faster than Ubuntu Linux? We have used six uniquely different systems and ran Microsoft Windows 7 Professional x64 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS x86_64 on each of them with a set of 55 tests (actually, more than 165 if considering that each test is usually run at least three times for accuracy) per installation.
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Implementing multi-factor authentication (MFA), is a growing trend. The MFA industry is expected to grow to $13.59B by 2022.
When it comes to the retail industry, MFA has unique challenges—like meeting strict compliance requirements, managing multiple locations (locally or globally) and protecting employee and customer information. You also need to keep up with the speed of business and can't be slowed down by time intensive steps. Because of these factors, it's important to think about how to effectively apply and manage MFA across multiple devices and locations, and determine which MFA types will work best for your needs.
Managing MFA
Technologies like Intel® Authenticate—available on devices with 8th Gen Intel® vPro™ Technology—simplify MFA scaling for flexibility to create and deploy custom MFA policies that enforce user identity protection. IT administrators can mix/match identification factors for different users and provide varying levels of access across the corporate domain, network, VPN and more. Intel Authenticate provides a simple self-service enrollment tool for end users to quickly get started, eliminating calls to IT.
Enabling True "Hardware" Authentication
Lenovo recommends MFA grounded in hardware which is harder for hackers and malicious code to snoop and capture password data because it's deep in the silicon, isolated from the OS/applications.
There are several ways to authenticate users and ensure credentials are stored at the hardware level. Intel Authenticate can set up different combinations of the following:
- Facial Recognition: Infrared (IR) cameras are more secure than regular cameras. ThinkPad Glance utilizes face/eye/gaze-tracking to automatically lock a device if user isn't present.
- Fingerprints: Lenovo Match on Chip Fingerprint Reader (MoC FPR) stores biometric credentials on a separate chip, making it almost impossible to hack.
- PIN: Short PIN codes can be used alongside other authentication factors as part of an MFA solution.
- Consider the following as supplementary MFA factors:
- Phone Proximity pairs smartphones with PCs via Bluetooth and securely uses phone proximity as authentication factor.
- Location-based services to determine if user is in an expected location.
To update your access management strategy, modern devices will support and scale hardware-based MFA with the convenience of solutions like Windows Hello.


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Azerbaijan ATV, 27 August 2008
Adnan Oktar: TURKEY IS A GENUINE MODEL COUNTRY FOR THE ISLAMIC WORLD. IN OTHER WORDS, IT EXCELLENTLY UNDERSTANDS AND IMPLEMENTS TURKISH NATIONALISM, EXCELLENTLY UNDERSTANDS AND IMPLEMENTS ISLAM, AND ALSO POSSESSES THE TYPE OF STRUCTURE THAT INTERNALIZES SECULARISM. But all Islamic countries agree that it is the country that best practices and lives by Islam. Turkey is punctilious when it comes to cleanliness, understanding, life style and piety. This may be a legacy from the Ottoman Empire, the influence of Ottoman scholars. Allah produces this in the most excellent way, which is why I think Turkey is the country best suited to the leadership of the Turkish-Islamic world.
Indonesia Antara News Agency, 16 September 2008Adnan Oktar: The conception of Islam set out and applied by Turkeyis an excellent model for Europe. Europe regards Turkey as very excellent and useful in that area, it also considers the way Islam is lived as ideal for the world. This has already produced a complete solution to the question.
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The Presidency of Religious Affairs of Turkey will support Chinese Muslims
Presidency of Religious Affairs of Turkey paid an official visit to Beijing, capital city of China and signed a protocol with Vang Cuoan, China's President of Religious Affairs Institution, involving the topics as religious training, faith services, religious publication and hajj. According to the protocol, the Muslims living in China are now allowed to send their children to Turkey to attend religious vocational high schools, divinity faculties as well as study for master degree and doctorate. The Presidency of Religious Affairs of Turkey will cover all expenses as the protocol reads. 50 thousand imams (the religious leaders of the mosques) working at 40 thousand mosques in China can also be sent to Turkey to receive in-service trainings.


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Space Posters
There is nothing that provokes the thoughts of a human than the wonder that is space. The intricate design and shapes that the constellations of stars and the planets build will definitely leave you with a feeling of amazement. This has led to the development of the space programs by most of the countries as well as the creation of observatories to conduct studies and take photos of the space. Most people dream of having the opportunity to travel to space and get a first hand experience but sadly you either has to be an astronaut or have access to a very good telescope.
Space - the awe of infinity
For the space enthusiasts, they can acquire posters to decorate their rooms in their homes. A poster of space will fit perfectly in your bedroom where you can use it to complement this interest. Such a poster will add a sense of calmness and peace as you can escape into thought as you stare at the marvel that it will certainly bring to you.
Canvas print, art print and framed art
A poster as well as framed art and an art print of space can also be hung in your living room or your corridors to liven up the colours and also give you and your visitors something to stare about instead of the rather monotonous colours that you have in your house. You will be offered a wide variety of the space posters, canvas prints, framed art and art prints in our online shop that will surely impress you whether or not you are an enthusiast.


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"This app is ingenious" – Cult of Mac
"Way too fun" – Geekazine
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"Simple to use and often hilarious… with great production value" – Appolicious/Yahoo
"Completely unique app… effortless to create… interesting and enjoyable" – Apple'N'Apps
"Has the potential for lots of hilarity and fun. May it live long and prosper." – Examiner.com
"Shatoetry boldly goes where no app has gone before" – IGN & Mashable
"It will keep you amused and connected with your friends" – MacNewsWorld
"Shatoetry combines the addictive nature of magnet poetry with the convenience of a smart phone app… Playing alone is fun, but it could be a really cool party game, too. All of these qualities make the app well worth the price to download." – Nerdist
"Once you download it you'll say to yourself, 'Of course! This app is brilliant!'" – Crave Online
"Totally different than anything else you've ever seen." – William Shatner
I am pleased to present to you my official app.
I created it to invite you to collaborate with me – through Shatoetry.
Shatoetry lets you arrange words to compose sentences, statements, phrases, messages… and hear me perform them for you.
That's right: You author it, and I'll recite it.
And what do we call that? A Shatism, of course.
You can save the Shatisms you create, send them to your friends by email, and share them through social media.
You can team up with other Shatoetists through GameCenter and co-create with your friends online. Or pass it around the room to take turns Shatoetizing with that person next to you.
Some people like to use it to compose poetry and haiku… but the more common and practical creations are simple sentences, phrases, word juxtapositions… even individual words sent in my voice as messages, comments, and communications to friends can be really fun.
You've heard my spoken-word performances. But until now, you've only ever heard what I wanted to say. This one-of-a-kind app makes it truly interactive for everyone. It's a way for you to express your thoughts and your ideas, using my voice.
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In my experience, people who love quality raw denim also tend to love their footwear. Browse any denim forum and you will find a footwear section, browse any footwear section and you will see a host of familiar names, Whites, Viberg, Red Wings, Chippewa, Thorogood and WESCO to name but a few.
In the world of denim and work wear, boots are big business and the perfect accessory to have poking out of the end of your jeans.
Boots and jeans simply look good together, and Maine St of Jakarta, Indonesia are crafting some of the most stunning boots that you've probably never heard of. Their footwear is handmade using top grade materials from world famous tanneries like Horween, and their styles vary from chunky work boots with a thick Vibram Christy wedge sole, to delicate brogues made from full top cuts of leather, with the brogue detailing punched by hand.
Maine St are growing. Their styles show a brand searching for an identity, clearly with craftsmen more than capable of setting their skills to produce what the customer desires. Owner, Randy Irwan, is a man eager to show his customers what he and his brand can do.
The brand's Facebook page shows images of the boots being handcrafted and sewn and how Irwan is a perfectionist. If something he designs ends up looking like, in his words, "just a normal boot", it is disregarded immediately. His singular vision is to create footwear that impresses.
Diving into the detail, Maine St use a goodyear welt for durability on their wide variety of leathers, including smooth dress, oiled pull up, rough out and pebbled. The choice is as wide and varied as their range. From a country who already boast internationally marketed and recognised brands such as Sagara and BNV, Maine St have the ambition to take on the big boys of quality footwear, their new ranges are designed and made with a firmly "international" flavour.
Particular attention should be paid to their Charly Boot, which if adorned by a Viberg or Whites label would be gaining significant attention across style forums.
Maine St are, in my opinion, one of the finest quality brands coming out of the emerging markets in South East Asia. Their skills and materials will ensure that any buyer from Europe or North America will find that they have purchased high quality, hard wearing, hand made work boots. All for a price which pales at the side of the traditional big boys. Maine St are another brand to keep a watchful eye on.


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ACLU Wants Veterans Group Out of Calif. War Memorial Cross Case
The American Civil Liberties Union on Friday told a federal court that a veterans organization which erected the Mt. Soledad memorial cross in California should be removed from legal talks over how to modify the symbol paying homage to fallen soldiers so that it doesn't violate the Constitution.
Larry A. Burns, U.S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of California at San Diego, said at Friday's hearing that he was inclined to allow the Mount Soledad Memorial Association to continue to intervene as a party in the case, The Associated Press reported.
The judge added he will issue his ruling soon on the ACLU's request to remove the association from negotiations between the union and the Department of Justice over modifying the disputed cross built on a San Diego mountain top.
Early last year, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the cross is unconstitutional, but that it could be modified to pass constitutional muster.
David Loy of the ACLU in San Diego told the court on Friday that the veterans organization maintains the memorial but does not own it, and therefore it has no right to decide how the cross can be modified.
However, the association's lawyer, Jeff Mateer, argued that the veterans group erected the 29-foot cross in 1954 and has contractual rights to decide the future of the memorial.
The ACLU filed suit in 2006 on behalf of Jewish War Veterans of the USA and some residents of San Diego against the cross display. After the U.S. Court of Appeals' 2011 ruling that the cross was unconstitutional, Liberty Institute appealed in 2012 and the U.S. Solicitor General joined the appeal in defense of the cross.
The memorial includes a Latin cross and six concentric walls holding black granite plaques engraved with the names and photos of war veterans. Standing in La Jolla, Calif., it was originally dedicated as a Korean War Veterans Memorial but now also honors U.S. veterans of World War I and World War II.
In the January 2011 ruling, Justice M. Margaret McKeown wrote, "By claiming to honor all service members with a symbol that is intrinsically connected to a particular religion, the government sends an implicit message to nonadherents that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community, and an accompanying message to adherents that they are insiders, favored members of the political community."
McKeown added that this does not mean that the memorial "could not be modified to pass constitutional muster nor does it mean that no cross can be part of this veterans' memorial. We take no position on those issues."
Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Joe Infranco called the ruling a tragedy. "It's tragic that the court chose a twisted and tired interpretation of the First Amendment over the common-sense idea that the families of fallen American troops should be allowed to honor these heroes as they choose," he said following the ruling.


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Wondering if your marriage will last? According to new research, the closest thing to a crystal ball is your gut. A new study published in Science finds your true, gut-level feelings to be the best predictors of marital bliss.
Researchers from Florida State University surveyed 135 newlywed couples every six months for four years to determine how their feelings influence the future of their marriage. They found that the feelings couples were able to verbalize were virtually unrelated to any changes in the marriage over time. But their more automatic, unconscious gut feelings—whether positive or negative—were a better predictor of future happiness. "Even if people are not aware of them, gut-level feelings guide attention and behavior," explains study author Jim McNulty, PhD, professor of psychology at Florida State University.
To dig up those gut-level feelings, researchers put the participants through a timed reaction test to measure their automatic responses. Those who responded more quickly to positive words alongside photos of their partner remained happier over the four years compared to people who took longer to respond.
As to how that guided behavior can equal more happiness: "It appears positive gut-level feelings help people attend to the positive aspects of their relationship and stay engaged," Dr. McNulty explains.
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Harboring negative gut-level feelings doesn't automatically make you doomed for divorce—just be sure not to bottle them up once you discover them. "Research suggests that direct communication is the most adaptive for a relationship," says Dr. McNulty, "so I would imagine it would be constructive to address them directly."
And the same logic applies even if you're not a newlywed, he says. Tapping into those feelings long into your relationship can be just as beneficial; if you've got a negative feeling in your gut, uncovering it may help zero in on a solvable problem, while rediscovering those warm and fuzzy feelings could even strengthen what you already know to be a happy relationship. The key to figuring unearthing those hidden instincts is yet to be set in stone But McNulty suggests "to attend your most immediate feelings upon seeing your partner." Just don't blame us if you get caught staring.
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"Fuck Bitches Get Leid," the Sleazy Frat Emails of Snapchat's CEO
Evan Spiegel, the boyish cofounder and CEO of Snapchat, is dying to be taken seriously. He rejected Mark Zuckerberg, opines like Steve Jobs, and hobnobs with media titans. But Spiegel's undergrad emails—when he began his path to Snapchat—show a different Evan. Did Steve Jobs ever joke about peeing on girls?
During his time at Stanford, Spiegel (now 23 years old) was a prominent brother of the university's Kappa Sigma chapter—a fraternity with a fraught record, temporarily kicked off campus for violating the school's "Controlled Substances and Alcohol Policy." The house was also a tiny tech incubator, and brought together the three boys whose fratty bond would eventually lead to the creation of Snapchat (after one was betrayed and screwed out of the deal, of course). Emails obtained by Valleywag show a slightly younger Spiegel shifting seamlessly from entrepreneur to a guy trying very hard to get girls so drunk, they might have sex with his friends. Who needs Y Combinator when you've got a stripper pole, your dad's swanky house in L.A., and some cocaine?
The screenshots below are cropped but otherwise unedited, except for phone numbers and the names of some Stanford alumni, which have been redacted at their request.
"Hope at least six girls sucked your dicks last night."
Fwd: Stripper Pole
Remember how we captured memories before Snapchat?
"Have some girl put your large kappa sigma dick down her throat."
"sigma nu decided to stop being gay"
"Papa Spiegel is liable for underage drinking, he's cool with it but probably not a good idea to take handles to the face." This same elder Spiegel lent his home to the Snapchat team as an improvised office during its early days.
Nothing like a fun Sally Hemmings theme for a party.
"Bobby is really high now." That would be Bobby Murphy, the co-founder who didn't get kicked out of the company.
In the midst of all this, here's a professional email from Spiegel, without any talk of sucked dicks or blacking out, as he looks for help with FutureFreshman. This endeavor would soon fail, turn into Picaboo, and transform into the mega-valued Snapchat of today.
And then, back to talking about shooting "lazers at fat girls."
What "gaytitties" means is anyone's guess, but "Dean Julie" is Julie Lythcott-Haims, who at the time served as associate vice provost for undergraduate education and dean of freshmen and undergraduate advising. Snapchat has long shared a close, almost affectionate relationship with Stanford.
Maybe you can chalk this up to youthful indiscretion—but you can't discard it as such. Silicon Valley worships youthfulness, adores the scofflaw, the pirate, the reckless kid. Investors and Valley pundits seek out boys like Spiegel, "where's my bong?" emails and all, on the assumption that the same lightning that zapped Zuckerberg will continue to strike, and strike, and strike. But if the bazillions swirling around tech companies and their boy-king founders is going to continue to flow, we need to remind ourselves who exactly these kids are. And maybe, upon reflection, maybe, offering billions of dollars to children is not always prudent.
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"You know what protects your hearing better than a silencer? Ear plugs."
— Americans for a Responsible Solution, in a tweet, March 13
Congress is preparing to debate the so-called Hearing Protection Act, which would streamline the purchase of suppressors for firearms. To buy a suppressor, more popularly known as a silencer, one must meet a number of requirements that result in a nine-month approval process (including submitting fingerprints and a photograph) and a $200 tax stamp. (A silencer generally costs hundreds of dollars, and can easily top $1,000.) The legislation would make buying a suppressor as easy as buying a firearm (with an instant background check), and do away with the tax stamp and federal registration.
We obviously take no position on whether this proposed law would be good or bad, but we were curious about this pair of tweets. Americans for a Responsible Solution (ARS), in its tweet, further noted that the law "would make it easier for active shooters to inflict serious harm on our communities without being detected by trained law enforcement professionals."
FACT: Silencers do not protect your hearing. pic.twitter.com/EXe8e4VgmY— Robyn Thomas (@RobynGLC) March 13, 2017
What's the impact of a suppressor on firearm noise? Does it actually make the firearm quiet or is that simply something you see in the movies?
The Facts
The Environmental Protection Agency developed the noise-reduction rating (NRR), which explains how much a product might reduce noise in decibels. The decibel scale is logarithmic, rather than linear, so a difference of a few decibels is important.
Of course, different ear protection has different ratings. We found that the range for ear plugs ranged from 22 to 33 NRR, over-the-ear muffs between 22 and 31 NRR and suppressors were also in 30 NRR range, although some may go higher.
(In all likelihood, the level of noise reduction is overestimated, especially for ear plugs because tests are done in a laboratory setting and people using them often do not achieve the proper fit. 3M advises cutting the NRR by more than half to reflect this problem, so 29 NRR would translate to 11 NRR.)
Katie Peters, a spokeswoman for ARS, supplied an article that stated: "The average suppression level, according to independent tests done on a variety of commercially available suppressors, is around 30 dB, which is around the same reduction level of typical ear protection gear often used when firing guns."
If that's the case, we're not sure why the group would say that ear plugs protect hearing "better" than suppressors." It seems the answer is that they are about the same, give or take two or three decibels. And if that's the case, ARS is especially wrong to claim that legislation to make it easier to buy such devices "does nothing to protect hearing."
Peters acknowledged that gun enthusiasts recommend that even with suppressors, other hearing protection is necessary. Hearing damage begins to occur at about 85 decibels, about the sound of a hairdryer.
This gets us to the other issue — whether a suppressor makes it "quiet," as Gillibrand tweeted, and harder for law enforcement officials to detect, as she and ARS suggested.
A 30-decibel reduction in theory means an AR-15 rifle would have a noise equivalent of 132 decibels. That is considered equivalent to a gunshot or a jackhammer. A .22-caliber pistol would be 116 decibels, which is louder than a 100-watt car stereo. In all likelihood, the noise level is actually higher.
So what are opponents of the law talking about?
"We aren't necessarily talking about being out in the middle of the woods deer hunting where it is extremely quiet. Instead, gun crimes often occur in cities and in other very noisy places," said Marc Brumer, a Gillibrand spokesman. "The shots would be heard by law enforcement or witnesses at the gun's typical decibel level, but they often cannot be heard when a silencer is added. There are many sounds in cities that are far louder than a gunshot masked by a silencer."
A nightclub, he noted, has a sound level of 155 decibels, while a subway is 102 decibels. (Actually, while sound levels as high as 155 decibels have been detected in night clubs, that's not an average and would be very damaging to a person's hearing.)
"Relative to their normal decibel level, particularly in those urban environments where gun crime often occurs, I outlined in previous email, silencers make guns impossible to hear over many common sounds and therefore 'quiet,' " Brumer said.
But gun experts say that noises are not equal. "While these items/instruments/environments may be louder or as loud as firearms, none carry with them the easily recognizable sonic pulse of a gunshot," said Bob Owens, editor of Bearing Arms, which advocates for expanded gun rights.
Peters pointed to a 2013 article in The Washington Post that said the ShotSpotter detection system may have trouble detecting shots fired from a silencer. But ShotSpotter says that information is out of date.
"In regard to gun silencers, it is more accurate to call them suppressors, as they suppress the impulsive sound of gunfire, not wholly eliminate it," said Ralph Clark, the chief executive of ShotSpotter. "We have successfully if not inadvertently detected confirmed suppressed gunfire within our existing deployments. Although we have not formally tested the theoretical impact to our system, we intend to do some targeted testing in the near future. We believe we will have various options ranging from increasing our sensor array density to developing software/firmware to address the detection of suppressed gunfire if it were to become a widespread issue."
Brumer also pointed to a video in which a firearms enthusiast exclaimed how "very quiet" a .22-caliber rifle was with a silencer.
But the firearm in the video is not a high-powered weapon; it has been supplied with subsonic ammunition that is even advertised as requiring no hearing protection. ("Great for backyard plinking and introducing youth to the shooting sports.") It would not be considered a semiautomatic weapon and in fact in the video the firearms enthusiast, Dan Abraham, says "now it won't cycle, so you have to cycle it on your own." That's certainly a very different situation than a standard AR-15 round, which can only to be reduced to 132 decibels with a suppressor.
Suppressors, by diffusing the noise of a weapon, may make it more difficult to locate the source of a sound, which is why they often are used by military snipers.
The Violence Policy Center, which opposes the proposed law, can point to only a handful of examples of silencers being used in violent crimes, including a case in Milwaukee last year in which undercover FBI agents sold a silencer to a man said to be planning a mass attack. "The data indicates that use of silenced firearms in crime is a rare occurrence, and is a minor problem," says a 2007 study cited by the Violence Policy Center. But that could also be the case because silencers are so time-consuming to obtain.
Brumer emphasized that Gillibrand was only following the lead of law enforcement officials in opposing the bill. New York bans suppressors, and that would continue even if the bill became law, but she has expressed concern about suppressors being illegally trafficked into the state.
The Pinocchio Test
We can understand the irritation of gun-control advocates about legislation with a benign-sounding name such as the Hearing Protection Act. Clearly the main impact of the measure would be to loosen restrictions on the purchase of suppressors that have been in place for decades. It would be better called the Paperwork Reduction Act, especially because the use of suppressors does not mitigate the need for hearing protection.
But that title does not give opponents the liberty to stretch the facts.
It's debatable that ear plugs protect ears better than a suppressor — and meanwhile, no self-respecting gun owner would use an AR-15 rifle without ear protection, even if he or she had a suppressor. Certainly the two in combination would provide better ear protection than one type alone, especially because the NRR of earplugs in regular use is probably overstated. So ARS's tweet is rather misleading.
In the meantime, although the popular name of this accessory is a silencer, foes of the law such as Gillibrand should not use misleading terms such as "quiet" to describe the sound made by a high-powered weapon with a suppressor attached. We wavered between Two and Three Pinocchios, but finally tipped to Three. There is little that's quiet about a firearm with a silencer, unless one also thinks a jackhammer is quiet.
Three Pinocchios
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What is Truth? It's something we all claim to seek in our words, thoughts, and deeds. Those who choose to live a lie are found out; either now or in the judgment. So, what did the fifth prefect (AD 26–36) of the Roman province of Judaea, Pontius Pilate, mean when he asked this very question? The entire encounter he had with the Lord Jesus Christ was documented in John's Gospel. Christ, responding to Pilate's question: "So you are a king?" says, in summary, that He was born into the world for this very purpose — to bear witness to the truth; everyone who is of the truth hears His voice. Where upon:
Pilate said to him, "What is truth?"
After he had said this, he went back outside to the Jews and told them, "I find no guilt in him."
John 18:38 English Standard Version (ESV)
Theologian John Calvin comments on this abrupt conversation Pilate had with the Lord:
What is truth? …Though we are all aware of our ignorance, yet there are few who are willing to confess it; and the consequence is, that the greater part of men reject the true doctrine. Afterwards, the Lord, who is the Teacher of the humble, blinds the proud, and thus inflicts on them the punishment which they deserve. From the same pride arises such disdain, that they do not choose to submit to learn, because all lay claim to sagacity and acuteness of mind. Truth is believed to be a common thing; but God declares, on the contrary, that it far exceeds the capacity of the human understanding.
…That Pilate spoke in mockery is evident from this circumstance, that he immediately goes out. In short, he is angry with Christ for boasting that he brings forward the truth, which formerly lay hidden in darkness. Yet this indignation of Pilate shows that wicked men never reject the doctrine of the Gospel so spitefully as not to be somewhat moved by its efficacy; for, though Pilate did not proceed so far as to become humble and teachable, yet he is constrained to feel some inward compunction.
Expositor Alexander MacLaren gave a sermon on this same interchange:
How little Pilate knew that he was standing at the very crisis of his fate! A yielding to the impression that was slightly touching his heart and conscience, and he, too, might have 'heard' Christ's voice. But he was not 'of the truth,' though he might have been if he had willed, and so the words were wind to him, and he brushed aside all the mist, as he thought it, with the light question, which summed up a Roman man of the world's indifference to ideas, and belief in solid facts like legions and swords. 'What is truth?' may be the cry of a seeking soul, or the sneer of a confirmed sceptic, or the shrug of indifference of the 'practical man.'
It was the last in Pilate's case, as is shown by his not waiting for an answer, but ending the conversation with it as a last shot. It meant, too, that he felt quite certain that this man, with his high-strained, unpractical talk about a kingdom resting on such a filmy nothing, was absolutely harmless.
Therefore, the only just thing for him to have done was to have gone out to the impatient crowd and said so, and flatly refused to do the dirty work of the priests for them, by killing an innocent man. But he was too cowardly for that, and, no doubt, thought that the murder of one poor Jew was a small price to pay for popularity with his troublesome subjects.
Still, like all weak men, he was not easy in his conscience, and made a futile attempt to get the right thing done, and yet not to suffer for doing it…
Preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon had also discussed the conversation between kings:
Our Lord, having explained His meaning, confessed that He was a King. This is that to which Paul refers when he says, "The Lord Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession." He did not draw back and say, "I am no King." Pilate might have delivered Him, then. But He spoke boldly concerning His blessed, mysterious and wonderful Kingdom and, therefore, it was not possible that He should be set free. This, indeed, was His accusation written over His Cross, "This is Jesus, the King of the Jews." Poor Pilate, he did not understand our Lord, even as the men of this world understand not the kingdom of Christ. He said to Him, "What is truth?" and without waiting for a reply he went out to the Jews.
Ah, Brothers and Sisters, let us never deny that Jesus is a King—but we shall deny it if we do not live according to His bidding. Oh, you that claim to be Christ's but do not live according to Christ's Laws, you practically deny that He is King! I dread the men who say, "We believe and therefore we are saved," and then do not live in holiness—for these divide our Lord's offices setting up His priesthood and denying His kingship! Half a Christ is no Christ—a Christ who is a priest but never a king is not the Christ of God!
Oh Brethren, live as those who feel that every word of Jesus is Law and that you must do what He bids you, as He bids you and because He bids you—and so let all men know that unto you Jesus is both Lord and God.
Though each commentator points out something different in the encounter, each one observes that Pilate refuses to know the truth. Consider that earlier in the Lord's ministry to His disciples, when Thomas asked Him the way He was going:
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14:6 (ESV)
You who have ears to hear, believe in Him and know the truth.
Alistair Begg: "No Place for Truth," Ligonier Ministries


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