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Two years after becoming law, Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank bill, also known as the Cardin-Lugar Amendment, will finally come into effect. The Amendment, hailed as a transformative step towards establishing transparency in developing countries by groups such as the State Department, Oxfam and Jubilee USA, requires that companies listed on the American stock exchange involved in extractive industries "disclose payments they make at the country and project level to the United States and foreign governments." Over 1,000 companies involved in oil, gas, and mining will be covered under this bill, including an estimated 90% of internationally operating oil companies. Senator Ben Cardin (R-MD), for whom the Amendment is partially named, has billed it as a necessary step to end the abuse of power rampant in developing countries with significant oil, mineral, and natural gas deposits. Cardin has stated that the implementation of the Amendment will allow the European Union to adopt complementary measures.
Given the positive response the Amendment received within the governmental and non-profit spheres and the gravity of the situation in many resource-rich developing countries, one wonders why the Securities and Exchange Commission issued the final rules for the implementation of the Cardin-Lugar Amendment 16 months behind schedule. Even more distressing is the fact that Oxfam felt compelled to file suit against the SEC after the Commission missed its original April 2011 deadlines for issuing rules. Unfortunately, the agency that is entrusted with the responsibility of reviewing the companies' reports and investigating any discrepancies is the very agency that has delayed the implementation of the Cardin-Lugar Amendment.
This failure raises the question of whether or not the SEC is capable of overseeing such crucial legislation. Questions about the agency's competency have been rampant since the Bernie Madoff scandal was brought to light. Though Congress and the Project on Government Oversight have called for the SEC to implement reforms to reduce errors and outright corruption in the agency, there has yet to be significant, systematic reform in the agency. The Project on Government Oversight reported that two years after the Senate released a statement calling for reforms, the SEC had made no progress on 27 of the 52 reforms recommended by the Inspector General. It has become ever more obvious that the SEC is unable to fulfill its role as an adversarial regulator; unfortunately, this incompetency means that the importance of the Cardin-Lugar Amendment has been squandered on an agency that cannot fulfill its mandate.
While the Cardin-Lugar Amendment has the potential to reduce corruption in both resource-rich countries and powerful international corporations, without an enthusiastic and competent regulatory body enforcing its tenets it will represent nothing more than the formalization of good intentions.
Hilary Matfess is an Institute for Policy Studies intern and a Johns Hopkins University student.


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I often wonder about fate and where the twisted path of life takes us. Are our thoughts, dreams and desires connected to what happens in life?
Last week I received an UNEXPECTED email that started me wondering along these lines.
Now to set the scene I will take you back to 2010 when we travelled around Australia in our faithful old camper van, Matilda. Of all the States we visited Western Australia was my favourite and I often wondered if I would ever visit it again. It is so far away, almost 4,000 kilometres from the Goldcoast to Perth. But WA lives in my memory and occasionally I would dream of revisiting it.
It is an amazing place. An immense, mostly uninhabited landscape, raw and wild the red rugged ranges pitted with deep canyons.
The road winds along the coast with the azure blue Indian Ocean beating against the shore.
I will never forget the image of the land awash with colour during spring as the wild flowers carpeted the land.
The sun setting over the ocean when the world seems to be on fire.
During the year spent travelling we couch surfed with a number of people (to see some of the places we stayed put couch surfing in the search box) and made new friends.
Now out of the blue, unexpectedly, one of the couch surf hosts has e-mailed us to see if we would be able to house sit for her from April to June 2014. She lives in Geraldton WESTERN AUSTRALIA…
Of course the answer is YES.
Now is that Fate? Did my thinking and dreaming of, one day, revisiting WA make the stars align to present this opportunity?
We are also going to New Zealand, February and March, to visit family…
So suddenly from not really having any plans for 2014 we have the first 6 months planned.
The "Weekly Photo Challenge" this week is UNEXPECTED. and this made me think how random and unexpected things and happenings can shape what you do and where you go.

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PETALUMA, Calif. — A Northern California company is recalling more than 8.7 million pounds of beef products because it processed diseased and unhealthy animals without a full federal inspection, federal officials said.
That's just over a year's worth of meat products processed by Rancho Feeding Corp., which has been under scrutiny by the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service. The agency said that without full inspection, the recalled products are unfit for human consumption.
The products were processed from Jan. 1, 2013, through Jan. 7, 2014, and shipped to distribution centers and retail stores in California, Florida, Illinois and Texas. They include beef carcasses, oxtail, liver, cheeks, tripe, tongue and veal bones.
Last month the company recalled more than 40,000 pounds of meat products produced on Jan. 8 that also didn't undergo a full inspection.
The problems were discovered as part of an ongoing investigation, the FSIS said.
A call to the company went unanswered.
There have been no reports of illnesses. An FSIS spokesman said because some of the products could still be frozen and in storage, a Class I recall was issued because the meat product could cause serious, adverse health consequences.
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Improved Standard Continuation
November 8, 2011
We recently examined an improved second stage for John Pollard's p−1 factoring algorithm. In today's exercise we will look at the similar second stage for the elliptic curve factoring algorithm, an optimization known as the improved standard continuation. We will be following Algorithm 7.4.4 in the book Prime Numbers: A Computational Perspective by Richard Crandall and Carl Pomerance.
Recall from our previous exercises that the first stage of the elliptic curve algorithm ends with a point Q that fails to find a factor. In the second stage we want to calculate elliptic multiples of Q: 2Q, 4Q, 6Q, and so on. Recall also that the p−1 method uses a strength reduction technique to replace exponentiation with multiplication. The improved standard continuation uses a similar technique to reduce elliptic multiplication, which is slow, to two modular multiplications plus an occasional elliptic addition. Here is the algorithm as given by Crandall and Pomerance:
S1 = doubleh(Q)
S2 = doubleh(S1)
for (d ∈ [1,D]) { // this loop computes Sd = [2d]Q
if (d > 2) Sd = addh(Sd−1, S1, Sd−2)
βd = X(Sd) Z(Sd) (mod n)
g = 1
B = B1 − 1 // B is odd
T = [B − 2D]Q // via Algorithm 7.2.7
R = B[Q] // via Algorithm 7.2.7
for (r = B; r < B2; r = r + 2D) {
α = X(R) Z(R) mod n
for (prime q ∈ [r + 2, r + 2D]) { // loop over primes
δ = (q − r) / 2 // distance to next prime
g = g((X[R] − X(Sδ))(Z(R) + Z(Sδ)) − α + βδ) mod n
(R, T) = (addh(R, SD, T), R)
g = gcd(g, n)
if (1 < g < n) return g // found a nontrivial factor of n
In the notation of Crandall and Pomerance, B1 is the first-stage bound and B2 is the second-stage bound. D is a parameter that mediates a time-space trade-off, with a larger D taking more space but running faster; the memory required is about 3D n-sized integers. Q, R and T are points on the elliptic curve; the coordinates of point P are X(P) and Z(P). S[1 .. D] is an array of elliptic points, and β[1 .. D] stores the products of the X and Z coordinates of the elliptic points in S.
The S array corresponds to the array that we used in the second stage of the p−1 algorithm, and is built at runtime in a similar way in the first loop (on d) of the algorithm given above. Then the primes from B1 to B2 are processed in segments of size 2D, with r the base value of each segment and R the corresponding elliptic point. At each prime in the segment the difference to the base of the segment is calculated, then the stored values of Sδ and βδ are used to update the product g. When all the primes have been calculated, a single gcd is calculated; if it is nontrivial, it is reported, otherwise the curve has failed to find a factor and a different curve must be tried.
The long formula that updates g takes the place of the elliptic multiplications of the first stage, in a very clever way. If you have available points R and S[1 .. D], the elliptic multiplication [s]Q = [r + δ]Q = O can be tested by checking whether the cross product Xr Zδ − Xδ Zr has a nontrivial gcd with n; simple algebra can reduce the work of computing the cross product even further with the formula shown in the algorithm.
Thus, by storing precomputed values of Xδ, Zδ and the product Xδ Zδ, it is possible to loop through the primes from B1 to B2 with only two modular multiplications per prime, plus a single elliptical addition for each segment.
Your task is to write a function to compute factors using the improved standard continuation of the elliptic curve factorization method. When you are finished, you are welcome to read or run a suggested solution, or to post your own solution or discuss the exercise in the comments below.


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Since we started this blog, in November 2009, we posted some excellent Passover recipes. Here, to help you find them all, we bring you the links. To help you with more recipes that only require very short and easy preparations, we will post (tomorrow) a video of the incomparable Lévana preparing three easy dishes to be enjoyed anytime during the eight days of Pessach or any other time of the year. Our recipes feature both gebrochs and non-gebrochs recipes to fit every taste, every need.
Pamela Reiss' offers us her superb Turkey Pineapple Meatballs. Eran Elhalal, owner/Chef at the celebrated non-kosher Saro Bistro in Manhattan's Lower East Side presents us a succulent Pesach Almond-Pistachio Cake, that serves 12.
Chef Laura Frankel, of legendary Shallots fame and now head of Wolfgang Puck's kosher division treats to her Chocolate Mousse with Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Poached Halibut in Olive Oil and Parsley Sauce with Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
Check out Chicken & Vegetable Croquettes and Stuffed Portabellini Mushrooms, you can't help but love them!
Fish lovers… Chef David Kolotkin's Passover Chilean Sea Bass will completely seduce your palate!
For brisket recipes look at Passover Brisket Recipe or Chef Emeril Lagasse's Passover Brisket.
If you want a twist on the traditional brisket, check out Lévana's award winning, oft reprinted Passover Brisket Recipe.
Chef Jeff Nathan, shares a recipe from his cookbook Adventures In Jewish Cooking, Veal Chops Milanese with Tomato Salad and Arugula.
My co-blogger SYR regales us with her mom's superb Drum Cookies…
One of my daughter in law's makes this Rolled Chicken…
And this year, so far we've posted Geila Hocherman's recipes (Cinnamon chicken tajine with prunes and apricots, Mina and Pignoli Cookies or her French Macaroons, Onion Stuffed Knaidlach and Miso Glazed Black Cod) and her food and wine pairing videos with Costas Mouzouras from Gotham Wines and Liquors. Check them out, we know you'll love them as much as we did! And don't forget that you can eat healthy, good food like Bonnie Gilger's Matzo Stuffed Chicken Cutlets.
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Rescued horses now up for adoption
Horses that once had been left to starve at a Dunnellon rescue facility are now ready for new homes.
Nine neglected horses taken by Marion County Animal Services from Guardian Angels Horse Rescue are up for adoption after more than three months of receiving the medical and nutritional attention they were denied at their former home.
The horses were as much as 300 pounds underweight, Animal Services reported. Their hooves and teeth were in neglect, and some had painful skin problems.
Of the 13 horses originally confiscated by Marion County, three had to be euthanized, making it one of the worst horse neglect cases in recent memory.
One of the 10 remaining horses has already been adopted, Marion County spokeswoman Elaine McClain said.
The nine remaining horses have been ridden in the past, McClain said. Three additional horses from other rescues are also up for adoption.
For a complete description of the animals, visit the Animal Services website at Marioncountyfl.org/animalservices.htm.
The next step is to make sure the horses that have already had a bad experiences aren't neglected again.
"Our officers go out to do a farm check before the horses arrive at the property," McClain said.
When evaluating a prospective home, Animal Service workers first evaluate how current livestock are faring there.
Then inspectors take stock of the property's facilities — barns, fences, other shelters — and availability of hay and feed.
Inspectors also make sure other animals living on the property are licensed.
Guardian Angels Horse Rescue is forbidden by the court to own, possess or care for horses. That was part of its agreement to give up the animals.
It cost the county $4,487.58 to care for the seized horses between September and early November, McClain said. Those are the most recent statistics available.
In September, when Animal Services took possession of the horses, Guardian Angels president Tabatha Quijano told the Star-Banner her organization owed about $32,000 and could not afford to provide the horses with some of the veterinary treatment they needed.
McClain said the number of horse and livestock neglect cases is on the rise, mostly likely because of the tough economic times.
In 2011, the county took 99 animals. During 2012, that increased to 115. McClain said those were the only two years for which the county had livestock data.
"What a lot of people don't realize is that the cost of owning a horse is more than the original investment," McClain said. "It's a large financial and time investment."
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The Simpsons area complete at Universal Orlando
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ORLANDO - Walking into Universal Orlando's new themed area is a bit surreal. First, you hear familiar music. Then you spot the sign: "Greetings from SPRINGFIELD U.S.A."
And then you get a faint whiff of doughnuts.
The hometown from the animated TV series "The Simpsons" has been brought to life in a theme park.
The full Springfield experience opened to the public in the park in August. Universal has slowly been adding to the area for years, building it around "The Simpsons" ride that opened in 2008. With a new ride - the Kang and Kodos Twirl 'n' Hurl - and a food court that includes Moe's Tavern, the show's beloved watering hole, the area is now complete. Other attractions found in both the show and the park include the Krustyland carnival area and the Kwik-E-Mart, a convenience store on TV and a gift shop at Universal.
Park designers worked with the show's creators and writers to build a richly detailed environment where visitors can spend hours eating and snapping selfies in front of a statue of Chief Wiggum and his police car.
The goal: to make people feel like they were stepping into the cartoon.
"We call it 'authentic fiction,'" said Ric Florell, Universal's senior vice president and general manager of resort revenue operations.
While most of the details in Springfield mirror the TV show, there are a few tweaked concepts.
Slideshow: A look at Universal Orlando's Springfield USA
Take the Twirl 'n' Hurl, for instance. It's based on the two aliens on the show, and riders experience a spinning saucer movement while different Simpsons characters crack jokes. It's a pretty calm ride, appropriate for all but the smallest of children.
"There's been no actual hurling, yet," laughed Mike West, executive producer at Universal Creative.
There's also a new kiosk where visitors can have their photo taken on a replica of the Simpsons' family sofa.
And while the bold colors, funny signs in the queue of the Twirl 'n' Hurl, and brash Krusty the Clown character meet-and-greets are fun, the most impressive part is the food. Universal executives said that food is almost another character in the show, and it was a natural to showcase that while telling the Simpsons story in the park.
"There's a lot of food in the TV episodes," said Florell. "We had to decide, what's iconic?"
Steven Jayson, executive chef at Universal Parks and Resorts, said that it took the better part of a year to create 28 new dishes for the area. All of the menu items can only be found in Springfield, and everything is made from scratch in Universal's kitchens, he added.
Not unexpectedly, given Homer Simpson's diet on the show, health consciousness hasn't exactly arrived in Springfield (although there is a nod to Lisa Simpson's love of salads in "Lisa's Teahouse of Horror," a self-serve area where folks can grab hummus, greens and pretzels). The food is mostly concentrated in one building, called Fast Food Boulevard, and the mall-like storefronts are based on restaurants from the show.
There's the Krusty Burger, named after the cigar-smoking clown. It's a basic burger, save for the "special sauce" and gooey cheese. For a larger burger, there's the Clogger Burger, which involves two patties and bacon. Or a self-explanatory Chicken and Waffle Sandwich.
Bumblebee Man's Taco Truck is new, and sells an unexpected option: Korean beef tacos.
All of the food is either named after something on the show or something that Bart Simpson could conceivably say in a snarky tone: Chicken Thumbs. Heat Lamp Dog. Meat Liker's Pizza.
One of Homer Simpson's favorite things - doughnuts - are available in two sizes: regular and huge. A kiosk called Lard Lad Donuts (and several other places within Springfield) sells the supersize, pink-frosted doughnuts in boxes. People sometimes use them as birthday cakes, Universal executives say.
Visitors of all ages can quaff a non-alcoholic treat called a Flaming Moe, which is a citrus-vanilla tasting concoction that bubbles and smokes.
But one of the most popular offerings is the beer.
Duff Beer, the mainstay of Homer Simpson's diet, can be found at two locations in the middle of Springfield. One is the Duff Gardens outdoor bar, which overlooks a lagoon and what will eventually be Diagon Alley, part of an upcoming Harry Potter expansion.
The other is Moe's Tavern, a popular spot for photos.
There are three kinds of Duff Beer - Duff, Duff Light and Duff Dry (which is a dark beer) - all brewed locally.
On a recent day, visitors were lined up at Moe's Tavern and Duff Gardens at 11 a.m., waiting for both to open so they could taste the suds.
As Homer once said on the show, "Ah, good ol' trustworthy beer. My love for you will never die."


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The hot-hitting Washington Nationals return to Nationals Park tomorrow to kick off an 11-game homestand that should feature plenty of fireworks, starting with the world champion Philadelphia Phillies and ending Memorial Day weekend with the "Battle of the Beltways" against the Baltimore Orioles.
As he did last season, the Oriole Bird will spend the weekend in DC for the Baltimore series, and this year will kick off its visit with a battle against Nationals mascot Screech at DC's ESPN Zone. On Friday, May 22, from 4:00 to 5:00pm, Screech and the Oriole Bird will take each other on in basketball, horse racing, air hockey, arm wrestling, and an egg race, with a trophy presentation to follow.
The two mascots will then head to Nationals Park for the series opener. No word yet on whether The Bird will be seeking revenge against Teddy Roosevelt for last season's grudge match defeat.


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Scrum Burndown in Trac
Notice: This plugin is unmaintained and available for adoption.
A plugin to enable burndown chart capabilities, a common part of Scrum and other agile development methodologies.
This plugin is now integrated with the TimingAndEstimationPlugin.
Current Version: 01.04.10 -- attachment:TracBurndown-01.04.10-py2.3.egg
Note that version 01.04.10 and later should work with python 2.4. The egg file just says py2.3 because that's what I had installed on the computer that built it. Note to the note: But you will have to manually fix up the EGG-INFO, otherwise python will ignore that egg!!
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I'm interested to know how many people are using this plugin. If a lot of people are using it or at least evaluating it, I will be able to justify spending more time on it to my boss. If you download it, please increment this counter: 55
Also, feel free to drop me an e-mail if you've got any questions that aren't answered here and aren't really ticketable.
Installation Instructions
Installing this plugin is a four-step process.
- Install the TimingAndEstimationPlugin
- Install the egg
- Create a cron/pycron job to run a daily/hourly/however-often-you-want-to-update-the-burndown-ly python script
- Assign permissions
Installing the egg
Install just like you would any other Trac plugin. Drop the egg into your plugins or site-packages folder and then try to access Trac in your browser. You will get an error message saying that the database needs to be upgraded and telling you to use the trac-admin command to do it. (I think it's something like 'trac-admin YourProjectName.db upgrade'). Perform the upgrade.
Pycron/cron job
Download the this file: attachment:burndown_job.py and place it into a directory where you can run it with python. For example,
Set up a job to run the burndown_job.py script once a day. I personally am using Windows, so I used pycron. Here is an example pycron tab file to run the job at noon on weekdays: attachment:crontab.txt
This job totals up all the remaining time for given milestones and components and saves the information into the trac burndown table so that the plugin can use it to draw charts. Per suggestions from the user community, this job can now be run multiple times per day. If the given day already has a burndown entry, an UPDATE will be performed instead of an INSERT.
Assign Permissions
Assign permissions to users for 'BURNDOWN_VIEW' and 'BURNDOWN_ADMIN' The BURNDOWN_ADMIN permission gives users access to the 'Start Milestone' and 'Milestone Complete' buttons.
Using the plugin
At the beginning of a sprint, after the tickets have been inputted and estimated in Trac an admin user should click the 'Start Milestone' plugin. This inputs a datetime integer into the milestone table to indicate when the milestone was started. The daily burndown_job.py script will only record hours_remaining entries for milestones that have started, but have not been completed. It should be fairly obvious, then, that an admin user should click the 'Milestone Complete' button at the end of the milestone to prevent the burndown_job from continuing to collect data.
You can view different burndown charts, selectable by milestone and component by choosing from the dropdowns and clicking the 'Show Burndown Chart' button.
In order for this to work, it is imperative that developers keep the 'Estimated Hours' and 'Total Hours' fields accurate and up-to-date on the tickets they are working. The 'Total Hours' field itself should never be manually edited, but rather, it can be changed by inputting positive and negative values into the 'Hours to Add' field.
Bugs/Feature Requests
Existing bugs and feature requests for ScrumBurndownPlugin are here.
If you have any issues, create a new ticket.
Download the distributable Python egg here.
Download the pycron/cron job here.
Download an example pycron crontab.txt file here.
Related Plugins
- This plugin relies on the TimingAndEstimationPlugin
- Future plans for this plugin will make use of the WebAdmin plugin
You can check out ScrumBurndownPlugin from here using Subversion, or browse the source with Trac.
Recent Changes
- 16778 by rjollos on 2017-08-26 04:31:01
TracBurndown 2.0.0dev: Fix incorrect types for milestone timestamp columns
Fixes #13257.
- 13150 by rjollos on 2013-05-16 23:38:18
Fixes #11089:
- Fixed incorrect
package_dataspecification (regression from [13076]).
- Renamed
admin_burndown.htmlin order to better ensure that we'll meet the requirements that template names are unique.
- Changed
setup.pyto point to the trac-hacks site.
Thanks to Jun Omae (jun66j5) for these fixes.
- Fixed incorrect
- 13148 by rjollos on 2013-05-15 23:40:27
- Removed Trac pre-0.11 compatibility code.
- Changed module names to follow Trac naming conventions.
- Updated source file headers and added where missing.
Note: If you enabled the plugin through the web admin, or by providing the full module name, you'll need to re-enable the plugin or edit the
burndown.burndown_admin_milestones.burndownmilestonesadminpanel = enabled burndown.burndown.burndowncomponent = enabled
burndown.admin.burndownadminpanel = enabled burndown.burndown.burndownmodule = enabled(more)
Author: sambloomquist
- The link to add 'integer' doesn't appear to add integer custom type, am I missing something?? (2006/08/24)
Answer: Removed the 'integer' type requirement because the patch for it is gone. Using text seems to work fine and is simpler. I may add some of the validation brought by the integer type back into the plugin at a future date.
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Glass, who lives in Massachusetts and won the National Book Award for fiction in 2002 for "Three Junes," manages a deft juggling act, with people and their stories, present and past, all in play at the same time.
Kit and Sandy have been married for more than a decade when they have twins, now 10 years old. Kit, who teaches art history with a specialty in Inuit art, has been unemployed for a while. He takes care of the kids and the house while Sandy works as a design landscaper. Kit is quietly running out of hope and Sandy is noisily running out of patience. He must leave, seek information about his father and attempt to get to the bottom of his paralysis.
At Sandy's insistence, Kit embarks on a drive-about, wending his way from their home in New Jersey to his adopted father's place in Vermont. Jasper operates a sporting goods shop and gives skiing lessons. He has a team of sled dogs and is certified to rescue hikers and skiers lost or injured in the mountains. In other words, he's competent and resourceful. And, as a bonus to this novel, he's smart and insightful.
Jasper's ex-wife, Daphne, is Kit's mother. Kit hopes that Jasper will know more about his father than Daphne will reveal. Daphne, a talented cello player who, because of the unplanned pregnancy, ditches her dream to play with a city orchestra and teaches music. She leaves Jasper to marry the principal at her school when Kit is in his late teens.
Though Daphne made Jasper promise never to reveal what he knew about Kit's father, he does eventually put Kit in touch with Lucinda, his father's mother. Lucinda and Zeke, a Vermont senator, had three children. Their son Malachy was gay and died of AIDS 20 years earlier. And Malachy, known as Mal, was the man who fathered Kit.
Glass moves the story from Vermont, with its icy roads and fierce snowstorms, to Provincetown where a hurricane bears down. She sets scenes in New Jersey and New York City, in barns and bedrooms and beaches and lakefronts at midnight. The details, fine and carefully wrought as silk threads, interweave to create something not unlike the cashmere blanket Daphne gives one of her Provincetown hosts. Fenno nursed Mal as he succumbed to AIDS. The musical score, Mozart's "A Little Night Music," is woven into the blanket. "I just love the idea of wrapping oneself in music on a cold night," says Daphne. And family, like cashmere, can — at certain remarkable moments — embrace with a warmth and gentleness that sustains life. These moments are certainly Glass's most triumphant renderings.
Jasper, with his moral dilemmas — should he tell Kit what Daphne asked him not to tell? — and his goodness, functions as the warm and loving heart of this story. Ironic, because Jasper's "ticker," as he calls it, is not what it used to be. Though many likable and complex characters might claim this leading role, Jasper emerges as the most beautifully revealed. It's no surprise that Kit, in the end, comes to understand the steadfast fathering Jasper offers.
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Nearly 1,900 Jaguars received diplomas or certificates this year, which Superintendent/President Dr. Melinda Nish said was amongst the largest in the College's history.
PHOTO: Presenter Sylvia Felan Gonzales handing student Manuel Gonzalez his degree during the Southwestern College Commencement Ceremony on June 3, 2014
Nish called the commencement a milestone for the graduates, and said she was proud of the hard work they had all shown.
"Over the last several weeks, I have listened to awe-inspiring stories of students overcoming personal obstacles and celebrating success on their way to today," she said. "Many of you have found your calling here. I encourage you all to continue seeking the paths that will allow you to realize your dreams and I encourage you to be bold in your future endeavors."
Vice President of Academic Affairs Kathy Tyner said the graduating class had made the faculty proud, both in their academics and outside the classroom.
PHOTO: Graduates sit together for the last time as Southwestern College students at the 2014 Commencement Ceremony.
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Governing Board President Terri Valladolid said "congratulations" and "good luck" in five different languages, and recounted tales of how Southwestern College has changed many students for the better.
"Throughout my time on the board I have seen students transformed," Valladolid said. "Over and over again I have heard stories about how students said they didn't believe in themselves before starting here. Those same students said that if it hadn't been for the caring faculty who took interest in them, a counselor who spent extra time mapping out their academic plans, or staff members who gave them a smile or a hug when they needed it the most, they would not have graduated."
PHOTO: Graduates watch fellow students walk across the stage to receive their degrees. More than 625 students took the walk.
The two honorary degree recipients, Dr. Irv Silverstein and William Virchis, spoke to the students about the importance of education, that they should always surround themselves with people who will motivate them to be their best and that no matter what your background, higher education is achievable.
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The hacked emails from the East Anglia Climate Centre in the UK have not been a big issue in New Zealand. At least for most people and for most news media. There are, of course, ideological motivated people who wish to promote the issue as a scandal. Who wish to attack our current understanding of climate science and climate change. Or who just have an anti-science attitude in general and attack the integrity of scientists as part of their nature.
A few bloggers have tried to mobilise on this issue (see for example NIWA, Climategate and Evasive Fallacious Answers, The scientific community and self-criticism, Climate scientists caught lying, Climategate – How the scientific community is responding, WarmingGate, New Zealand not warming? and I confess I now believe in manmade Global Warming). And, as Peter Griffin pointed out recently, "The comment sections of some blogs have become particularly grubby places to congregate" (see Climategate brought out the worst in us).
Even the ACT party is trying to get in on the act (Auckland Public Meeting: Climategate, NIWA and the ETS).
Of course, we have been preoccupied here with attacks on NIWA scientists by the ACT party, the Climate Science Coalition, the Climate Conversation Group, conspiracy theorist Ian Wishart, and climate change deniers in the blogosphere. Obviously taking advantage of the climate gate email scandal they made serious attacks on the integrity of these scientists. However, this has also more or less fizzled out as NIWA released information to show the attacks were false.
Conspiracy theories
Of course this doesn't stop some people. These conspiracy theorists who are presented the emails as evidence of a global conspiracy. They got the bit between their teeth. Believed their own propaganda and started to assert that the Copenhagen meeting would be canceled. That this is the end of the global warming story! The gobal warming conspiracy!
This short video by potholer puts the whole email scandal into context.
It investigates the two most used examples of "fraud" from these emails – the ones talking about "using a trick to hide the decline" an it being a "travesty that we can't explain the cooling." The examples that the denier alarmists (conspiracy theorists) have been concentrating on. The ones that have them frothing at the mouth. Poholer pours the cold water of reality over them.
It's worth watching.
YouTube – 6. Climate Change — Those hacked e-mails.
Thanks to Pharyngula: Febrile nitwits and the hacked climate change emails
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Five years ago Jon Hanson and Michael McCann wrote and published the following post about Joseph Kony as part of a series on the the situational source of evil. In light of the attention Kony is now getting (see Youtube video, "Kony 2012," here or at bottom of this post), we thought it might be worth posting again.
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In Parts I, II, and III of his recent posts on the Situational Sources of Evil, Phil Zimbardo makes the case that we too readily attribute to an evil person or group what should be, at least in part, attributed to situation. This was a key lesson of Milgram's obedience experiments as well as Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment. And that lesson, unfortunately, seems similarly evident in far too many real-world atrocities.
There are numerous reasons, some of which those earlier posts highlighted, why the situationist lesson is an unpopular one. This post suggests another.
Think for a moment about the sort of evil that is so grotesquely apparent right now in The Sudan and Uganda, both of which are in the midst of civil wars–wars that have featured indescribably horrific acts, such as villages ravaged by soldiers who chop off limbs of children. Perhaps most harrowingly, the "evil-doers" are often children themselves, many of whom are kidnapped and then conscripted into bands of mutilating marauders.
Joseph Kony's Lord Resistance Army, for example, is comprised mainly of abducted children who roam northern Uganda, where "many families have lost a child through abduction, or their village . . . [have been] attacked and destroyed, families burned out and/or killed, and harvests destroyed by . . . . the Lord's Resistance Army."
The plight of Ochola John, pictured below, exemplifies an all-too-common story: his hands, lips, nose, and ears were cut off by members of the Lord Resistance Army. It is a difficult image to take in (note, we opted against many other more graphic photos).
Such atrocities have led many in Uganda to question how children could become evil incarnate:
We don't understand how Kony could have a child soldier slash a fellow child abductee with a machete or make a group of children bite their agemate with their bare teeth till he bleeds to death.
In searching for answers, some have turned to situationist factors:
It is easy to assume that the person who commits such an atrocity is deranged or even inhuman. Sometimes it is the case. But not always. It is possible for a normal individual to commit an abnormal, sick act just because of the situation s/he finds him/herself in, and the training s/he is exposed to.
How could this happen? Zimbardo's ten-factor list suggests some of situationist grease that no doubt lubricates the wheels of evil. Kony's methods and ideology are extreme, to be sure, but they are familiar: saving his country from evil by building a theocracy.
In that way, dispositionism can give way to a weak form of situationism, but only up to a point — a tendency that has elsewhere been called selective situationism or naive situationism. Kony's evil disposition is the "situation" influencing the impressionable young boys. In the end, we place evil almost exclusively in one or a small number of actors — usually human, but sometimes supernatural. No doubt, Kony is immensely blameworthy, so much so that we, the authors, can scarcely bring ourselves even to suggest that the horrors might have multiple origins, beyond the gruesome actions of the most salient actors involved.
By locating evil ultimately in a person or group, we avoid a disconcerting possibility that there is more to the situation beyond the bad individuals. When evil comes packaged within a few human bodies, it is rendered more tractable, identifiable, and perhaps, in a way, less threatening — very "them," and very "other." Such a conception undermines the unsettling possibility that, because of the situation, there may be more "evil actors" behind those that we currently face. Get rid of the bad apples, we imagine, and the rest of the batch will be fine. Perhaps more important, it permits us to ignore the possibility that the barrel may be contaminating. We need not confront any apprehensions that our systems are unjust, the groups we identify with are contributing to or benefitting from that injustice, or that we individually play some causal role in it.
Joseph Kony is said to have abducted 20,000 kids in the last 20 years. But he has done so with minimal resistance from Uganda's government, and with virtually no intervention from foreign powers.
Is there any line at which we non-salient bystanders of the world, including Americans, begin to bear some share of responsibility for suffering such as that endured by Ochola John? Maybe the answer is "no," as most of us apparetly presume. But maybe it is "yes," and maybe that line has already been crossed.
We are not making a foreign policy recommendation here. We are simply highlighting a form of blindness that we suspect influences all policy. That is, dispositionism (and motivated attributions generally) helps us push that line of responsibility toward, if not all the way to, the vanishing point — even if it does little to reduce the atrocities themselves. Dispositionism helps us to see the apple, or perhaps the tree, and to miss the orchard and the forest and, perhaps, ourselves.
There are other examples of that tendency of allowing our attributions toward salient (and often despicable) individuals to eclipse any possibility of a more complex, far-reaching causal story. Our criminal justice system is partially built upon it. Consider, also, the widespread response to Susan Sontag's infamous New Yorker essay, in which she described the of 9/11 terrorism not as
a "cowardly" attack on "civilization" or "liberty" or "humanity" or "the free world" but an attack on the world's self-proclaimed super-power, undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions. . . . And if the word "cowardly" is to be used, it might be more aptly applied to those who kill from beyond the range of retaliation, high in the sky, than to those willing to die themselves in order to kill others. In the matter of courage (a morally neutral virtue): whatever may be said of the perpetrators of Tuesday's slaughter, they were not cowards.
Regardless of the veracity of Sontag's claims, many Americans did not want to hear such a non-affirming interpretation in the wake of the terror. She not only implicated American policies but suggested that perhaps the attackers were not as "beneath us" as many had portrayed.
As one of us summarized in another article (with Situationist contributors Adam Benforado and David Yosifon), many conservative commentators responded to Sontag and her claims with predictable rage and disgust (while most moderates and liberals took cover in the safety of silence).
Charles Krauthammer called Sontag "morally obtuse," while Andrew Sullivan labeled her "deranged."John Podhoretz claimed that she exemplified the "hate-America crowd," that out-group of Americans who are "dripping with contempt for the nation's politics, its leaders, its economic system and for their foolish fellow citizens." And Rod Dreher really drove home the point saying that he wanted"to walk barefoot on broken glass across the Brooklyn Bridge, up to that despicable woman's apartment, grab her by the neck, drag her down to ground zero and force her to say that to the firefighters."
We see ourselves as "just," and don't like being "implicated" by clear injustice, a discomfort that is often assuaged by looking for the Evil Actor. But when evil continues, even after the evil individuals have been stopped, perhaps we glimpse one reason why, as George Santayana famously put it, "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
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Related Situationist posts:
- RADIOLAB on the Situation of Badness
- Jonestown (The Situation of Evil) Revisited
- Pinker on the Changing Situation of Violence
- Jim Sidanius "Terror, Intergroup Violence, and the Law,
- Steven Pinker Speaks at Harvard Law School
- Another Century of Genocide?,
- The Situation of Violence,
- The Neuro-Situation of Violence and Empathy,
- My Lai Massacre
- Situational Sources of the Holocaust
- Lessons Learned from the Abu Ghraib Horrors,
- The Bush Frame: Us vs. Them; Good vs. Evil; Intentions vs. Consequences,
- Why Torture? Because It Feels Good (at least to "Us"),
- 25 Million Years of Us vs. Them, and
- New Study Looks at the Roots of Empathy,
One series of posts was devoted to the situational sources of war.
- Part I and Part II of the series included portions of an article co-authored by Daniel Kahneman and Jonathan Renshon, titled "Why Hawks Win."
- Part III reproduced an op-ed written by Situationist friend Dan Gilbert on July 24, 2006.
- Part IV and Part V in the series contained the two halves of an essay written by Situationist Contributor, Jon Hanson within the week following 9/11.
- Part VI contains an op-ed written by Situationist Contributor John Jost on October 1, 2001, "Legitimate Responses to Illegitimate Acts," which gives special emphasis to the role of system justification.
- Part VII includes a video entitled "Resisting the Drums of War." The film was created and narrated by psychologist Roy J. Eidelson, Executive Director of the Solomon Asch Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
To review a larger sample of posts on the causes and consequences of human conflict, click here.


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Philip Maddocks: New ad will portray Romney as extraordinary man of the people
Mitt Romney's campaign is stepping up its effort to make the candidate more appealing to the average voter, saying it will release a new television ad next week in which Mr. Romney seamlessly dispatches chess grandmasters, puzzles over unsolved physics problems, and translates passages of Homer's "Odyssey" - all while performing mundane chores such as quieting a stranger's baby, shopping at a supermarket, and repairing an espresso maker at a coffee shop.
The 60-second ad - titled "An Extraordinary Man of the People" - is Mr. Romney's most aggressive effort to date to reassure voters that he cares about the poor and middle class even if they can't begin to imagine what it is like to be him.
"The goal is to connect with voters who are anxious about the state of the economy and are looking for someone just like them only much better," said Kevin Madden, a senior campaign adviser.
The ad will feature Jonathan Goldsmith, of "Most Interesting Man In the World" fame, speaking directly to the camera and describing Mr. Romney as "even more interesting than Dos Equis."
"I don't always vote, my friend, but when I do, I vote for Mitt Romney," Mr. Goldsmith concludes.
The spot, which includes a sometimes rambling voiceover from actor Clint Eastwood, shows Mr. Romney casually playing three chess matches simultaneously while racing through a New York Times crossword puzzle. And at another juncture, the camera zooms in on the candidate as he pores over math equations having to do with a controlled fusion project while adroitly maneuvering his right thumb and forefinger to fix a youngster's broken cellphone.
"What we need is for voters to see Mitt in a relaxed environment – at least a relaxed environment for him – just being his extraordinary self," said Eric Fehrnstrom, a senior adviser to Mr. Romney. "They'll see he is one of them except that he is far superior."
Aides to Mr. Romney admit they are taking a risk, politically, by portraying the candidate in such grand terms, but the bigger danger, they say, is trying to play down the presidential hopeful into something he isn't.
"Do you think the ordinary voter cares that Superman is faster than a speeding bullet and they aren't? Neither do we and neither should Mitt," said Mr. Fehrnstrom.
"The aim isn't to connect with average voters but with their fear of how far up $%^ creek this country would be if they were in charge," said one adviser to the campaign. "When they realize that, they'll see that Mitt Romney is a much better choice than they will ever be."
The new ad comes on the heels of a concerted effort by the Romney campaign to offer more of Mr. Romney's personal story, after Republican complaints that he has not done enough to sell or humanize himself to voters.
"Governor Romney and I both care about colonizing the moon," Newt Gingrich, who challenged Mr. Romney in the Republican primary, says in the ad. "The difference is that under his policies, poor and middle-class families will probably be sent there first."
Mr. Gingrich isn't the only presidential foe who appears in the new spot. Herman Cain is also in it, claiming that Mr. Romney "taught me everything I know about flat taxes and 9-9-9," and Texas Governor Rick Perry comes on camera to credit Mr. Romney for teaching him the value of a $10,000 bet.
President Obama's campaign, meanwhile, continued to demand specifics from Mr. Romney on a variety of topics.
In a new ad of their own, designed as a response to Mr. Romney's forthcoming spot, the president, alone on a basketball court, can be seen smoothly sinking three-point shots and effortlessly executing two-handed dunks while a voice over wonders why Mr. Romney is being so secretive about his thoughts on the Evans Gambit, or the fusing of hydrogen into helium, or Dos Equis beer.
"Mitt Romney's new ad is just more of the evasiveness that his campaign has become known for," said Lis Smith, an Obama campaign spokeswoman. "As we are fond of reciting here, from Homer, 'Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns; driven time and again off course. …"
Aides to Mr. Romney acknowledge their candidate, who has been busy prepping for his debates with the president and working on his three-point shot, has been slow to show voters his extraordinary side.
"We may not have given ourselves enough time before Nov. 6 to do this right. But that may not matter," said Mr. Fehrnstrom. "That's part of what makes our campaign so extraordinary."
Philip Maddocks writes political satire and humor for GateHouse Media and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Cross-posted from the United to End Genocide blog.
On October 22, The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald summed up the dismal state of the foreign policy debate perfectly:
That was just a wretched debate, with almost no redeeming qualities. It was substance-free, boring, and suffuse with empty platitudes. The vast majority of the most consequential foreign policy matters (along with the world's nations) were completely ignored in lieu of their same repetitive slogans on the economy.
In previous years, the debates welcomed questions from citizens. In 2008, more than 7 million Democrats and Republicans engaged with the YouTube debates. These debates allowed for citizens to not only send in video questions, but to also post written responses for discussion and for use on the CNN program. This year, citizen input was kicked to the curb, though not for a lack of trying. Greenwald notes:
Numerous foreign policy analysts, commentators and journalists published lists of foreign policy questions they wanted to hear asked and answered at this debate. Almost none was raised. In sum, it was a perfect microcosm of America's political culture.
One such group, our student-led division, STAND, hand delivered 777 letters to debate moderator Bob Schieffer requesting that he ask the candidates "How will you strengthen the United States' atrocity prevention efforts as president?"
And Act for Sudan ran a strong campaign to "ask the candidates how they propose to revamp U.S. policy on Sudan to ensure that the slaughter of innocent civilians does not continue on our watch and with tacit U.S. support?"
Instead, the candidates sparred over anticipated questions about our relationship with Israel and the Middle East, Iran's nuclear capabilities, our military capabilities, and our relationship with China. The larger question facing our nation about the U.S. role in the world and how the candidates themselves would define what is in the national security interest of the United States was almost completely ignored.
Writing for OpenDemocracy, Ruth Rosen called out Schieffer and the candidates for this failure:
What would a real national security look like? This debate never really took place. For starters, we would protect human rights and civil liberties, here and abroad. National security should be about strengthening our democracy and creating an example that billions of people around the world would like to emulate.
These are core components of what our foreign policy should look like. However we need more of an outward look – a debate about real national security should extend beyond our own borders and ask what impact our polices are having across the globe.
What we heard from both candidates was a narrow view of what is in the direct interest of the United States. That view excludes the voices of marginalized people under attack in places like Darfur, Blue Nile, and Abeyei in Sudan and South Sudan or those in places in the DR Congo or Burma. The list unfortunately goes on.
Ultimately, the fallout from this narrower vision lands on us – the citizens standing with those at greatest risk around the world. After hearing the debate, those of us who have stood for people in Darfur, in Syria, in DR Congo, and anywhere atrocities are happening know our voice is still needed. Those of us calling for greater prevention efforts, like the Atrocities Prevention Board, must redouble our efforts. And as we see a narrowing interest in the world from the candidates, we know we have a lot of work ahead of us.
Erik Leaver is the Director of Digital Strategy for United to End Genocide. He previously served as Communications Manager at the Institute for Policy Studies.


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Today's News: Our Take - Box Office: Hansel and Gretel Takes Top Spot; Movie 43 Flops
Fairy tale reboot Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters easily cruised to the top spot at the weekend box office, besting other new releases Parker and Movie 43.
The action-adventure film, which stars Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton, took in $19 million, Box Office Mojo reports.
Last weekend's No. 1 film, Mama, dropped one spot this week, coming in second with just under $13 million. Oscar frontrunner Silver Linings Playbook held steady at No. 3 with $10 million, while fellow Best Picture nominee Zero Dark Thirty dropped nearly 40 percent in its third weekend showing nationwide, earning $9.8 million.
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Parker, which stars Jason Statham, had a disappointing fifth-place opening with $7 million. Django Unchained moved up a spot from last weekend, finishing in sixth place with just over $5 million.
Movie 43, the comedy that seems to star everyone in Hollywood, bombed in its debut, coming in at No. 7 with $5 million.
Rounding out the top 10 were Gangster Squad (No. 8, $4.2 million), Broken City (No. 9, $4 million) and Les Miserables (No. 10, $3.9 million).
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