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There was always 4 parts to rolling out ethereum: Frontier (v1), homestead (v2), metropolis (v3) and Serenity(v4) currently we are about 1-3 months from metropolis
occasionally i would send them a small amount of BTC if they signed up to poloniex so that they could lend( the minimum is 0.01BTC) and form that i would explain that once they hit 10,000 satoshis or 0.00010000BTC which should take a few days they can then buy GNT, REP or GNO and it is effectively free
I would send them X eth, take them to shapeshift and make them convert 1/10th of there eth to Golem(GNT), Gnosis(GNT) and Augur(REP)
I would make them email the UTC keystore to themselves incase there laptop dies or gets stolen etc and make sure they will never forget the password
I would get them to go to myetherwallet.com make a password and save the file(UTC keystore)
This is my first post so lets see how it turns out, ive introduced a solid 100 people to Ethereum over the past 3 months and ive been tweaking an email that i would send to them but it goes something like this:
this guy explains the roadmap of ethereum pretty well
switching from Proof of work(POW) to Proof of Stake(POS) is what will make ethereum go up the most in price
https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/118/whats-the-difference-between-proof-of-stake-and-proof-of-work
these people explain it much better then i can
but basically in POW you use electricity as proof that you are contributing to the network in order to get rewarded
with POS instead of wasting power you will "stake" your coins for example you wont spend your ether for several months and will need to have internet and a few other things that has not been publicly released yet and in turn you will receive rewards effectively giving you interest for saving which is why i think alot of money will flow into the buy ether leading up to that, e.g if i was running a silk road and it costs me 10 ether to run the website in gas, if i buy 10,000 eth and stake i will make 10 per day for free, allowing me to run a website on ethereum for free
www.myetherwallet.com - this is how you can access your wallet
www.shapeshift.io - an easy to use currency exchange
www.poloniex.com - this is the biggest crytpo to crypto exchange
www.coinbase.com - this is one of the biggest $$ to crytpo exchanges that offer btc and eth
note i dont use coinbase but this seems to be the largest in terms of countries allowed to signup
www.etherscan.io - is what they call an 'ethereum block explorer'
you can search for your address and track it in real time as a read only wallet
https://etherscan.io/charts - has lots of charts that are updated daily (0:00 UTC time) the main ones i look at are:
transaction history chart - this shows the total number of transactions over the last 24 hours
address growth chart - this shows a total number of addresses that have been used at least once on the Ethereum network
ether historical prices - this shows the price of ethereum since it was created
ethereum network hashrate - this shows the total amount of power used to secure the network - 1 top of the range graphics card mining ethereum will get about 0.03 GH/s
Etherum GasLimit History - when you send a transaction it costs about 21,000 gas, each block(~17.7seconds) currently has a max of ~6,700,000 gas that can be used
Ethereum Average GasPrice - this shows how much one gas unit costs - currently this is about 0.00000002 ether so when you send a transaction it would cost 21,000 x 0.00000002
total daily gasused - this shows the total amount of gas spent over 24 hours which is a good indicator of the network growing
there are other charts on that page but they are the ones i usually look at but if you have any questions about other charts ask me and i will answer them
What is Golem?
https://golem.network/
What is Augur?
https://augur.net/
What is Gnosis?
https://gnosis.pm/
these should all contain a video that you can watch as well as point you to forums etc to find out more, again if your unsure about anything hit me up and i will answer what ever you want
reddit channels
https://www.reddit.com/r/Augur+Golem+TheDao+digix+ethereum+ethtrader+gnosisPM+reptrader+slockit/new/
https://www.reddit.com/r/bitcoin+btc/new/
https://ethstats.net/ - this shows the state of the network for the last 25 blocks or so
if you listen to podcasts
the ether review
state change
big props to Arthur Falls
if you go back to the first few podcasts on 'the ether review' they should explain most things pretty simply
http://www.weekinethereum.com/ - this gives you a summary of the last 7 days that has happened in the world of ethereum
down the bottom of the blog post it has a list of ICO sales, ICO stands for Initial Coin Offering similiar to a company doing an IPO or going public, its worth doing alot of research before you send any eth to them, golem augur and gnosis all released the tokens in the same way by doing an ICO. I am not following any particular ICO's at the moment but im sure there will be some more in the future that will be very good
some other coins that are built on ethereum that i have missed or i just have a small amount of include:
www.digix.io
https://mysterium.network/
singulartv
humaniq
taas
again ive probably missed stuff out so if you have any questions let me know and ill try fill in the blanks but this should keep you going for the a while | positive |
The decision by the Federal Bureau of Investigation not to recommend a criminal prosecution of Hillary Clinton for her violation of classified government information while serving as secretary of state has become more controversial than ever in recent days with the release of details about the agency’s investigation. While last week’s pre-Labor Day weekend document dump by the FBI won’t change the fact that Clinton will escape prosecution, it has given the Democratic nominee’s opponents ample new ammunition in their fight to cast Clinton as untrustworthy.
“People who have nothing to hide don’t smash phones with hammers,” Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told a crowd in North Carolina Tuesday night. “People who have nothing to hide don’t bleach their emails.” He added, “Nobody takes all the risks Hillary Clinton took unless they’re trying to cover up massive, massive crimes.”
Related: Hillary Lied, Withheld Evidence, Traded Power for Money, and Could Be President
Trump was referring to two of the revelations in the FBI files: that a Clinton aide physically destroyed at least two old Blackberry devices of 13 that the former secretary of state had used during her tenure and that Clinton staffers had a technology expert use a program called “BleachBit” to erase copies of her emails from their own computers and make them unrecoverable.
In a radio interview on Tuesday, Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan fed the emerging narrative that the FBI was somehow trying to shield Clinton by releasing the documents related to the email investigation on the Friday before a holiday weekend.
“I can’t believe that they would do what is such a patently political move,” he complained. “It makes them look like political operatives instead of law enforcement officers.”
The FBI release does not actually change the larger contours of the Clinton email saga: She improperly used a private email server to communicate while serving as secretary of state, and despite her claims to the contrary, classified information related to national security was transmitted via that system.
Related: The Weasel in Hillary Clinton: Why That May Not Be a Bad Thing
But the documents offer a more granular look at how Clinton and her staff handled sensitive information. More importantly, they show their cavalier attitude toward the preservation of evidence that they were legally bound to protect.
Most damning is the revelation that in March of 2015, after the House Select Committee on Benghazi issued a protection order that required Clinton and her staff to preserve all the emails that were sent and received by Clinton on the personal server, a computer technician working for the former secretary of state knowingly erased and then “scrubbed” an archive of her emails to make them unrecoverable.
The email archive had already been isolated and examined by Clinton’s staff pursuant to a request from the Department of State that she turn over any and all communications related to official business conducted during her tenure there. A similar request went out to three other former secretaries of state at the same time.
Related: Clinton’s Email Mess Hands a Lifeline to the Floundering Trump Campaign
The FBI documents offer surprising revelations about how Clinton and her attorneys handled the email archive, which ultimately turned out to contain hundreds of sensitive and classified messages.
It was already well known that Clinton decided that she would not surrender the entire archive to the State Department. Instead, she had personal attorneys review the emails to determine which constituted federal records and which were purely personal in nature. This resulted in the destruction of tens of thousands of messages that were identified as personal before they could be independently assessed by the State Department.
One archive of Clinton’s emails, now known to have contained a large number of classified messages, was transferred to a laptop computer that was kept at the personal residence of one of her attorneys. It was also transferred to a thumb drive that was provided to another of Clinton’s lawyers.
The email archive laptop and the thumb drive are now unaccounted for, as are eight Blackberries and two of five iPads that Clinton used to access her email account.
Related: Most Forecasters Predict a Win for Clinton, Except for Two
Most remarkably, the process of transferring the emails to the laptop involved a Clinton staffer moving all of the emails to a personal Gmail account. Ironically, the FBI documents make specific note of the fact that Clinton, at one point in 2011, appears to have sent an email with the subject line “Google email hacking and woeful state of civilian technology” after State Department employees had their personal email accounts hacked.
Again, none of these revelations seem likely to change the ultimate determination by the Justice Department that Clinton should not be prosecuted for mishandling classified information. But that doesn’t mean that Trump and his surrogates on the GOP side of the aisle are going to let the issue fade away. | positive |
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Detroit-area cancer doctor gets 45 years in prison for fraud
DETROIT — Calling the scheme “horrific,” a judge sentenced a Detroit-area cancer doctor to 45 years in prison Friday for collecting millions from insurance companies while poisoning more than 500 patients through needless treatments that wrecked their health.
U.S. District Judge Paul Borman this week heard stories of brittle bones and fried organs as patients chillingly described the effects of excessive chemotherapy at the hands of Dr. Farid Fata.
Fata “shut down whatever compassion he had as a doctor and switched it to making money,” Borman said.
Moments earlier, the judge called it a “huge, horrific series of criminal acts.”
Fata, 50, offered no excuses before getting his punishment. Stone-faced all week in court, he repeatedly broke down in loud sobs as he begged for mercy Friday.
“I misused my talents, yes, and permitted this sin to enter me because of power and greed,” Fata said. “My quest for power is self-destructive.”
He said his patients knocked on his door for “compassionate care” but “I failed, yes, I failed.”
Fata pleaded guilty last year to fraud, money laundering and conspiracy. He didn’t strike a deal with prosecutors, so Borman needed much of the week to hear details about treatments. Patients and relatives hired a bus to get to court to watch.
“He preyed on our trust, our exhaustion, our fears,” said Ellen Piligian, whose late father, a doctor, was administered powerful drugs he didn’t need for a tumor in his shoulder.
Federal prosecutor Catherine Dick had asked for a 175-year prison sentence, while Fata sought 25 years.
“It is not mob justice. It is appropriate for this crime,” Dick told the judge, referring to the extraordinary request.
Outside court, many former patients, dressed in yellow in solidarity, were disappointed with the punishment.
“Prosecutors did a fantastic job — and he got 45 years. It’s a lifetime sentence for the rest of us,” said Monica Flagg, 53, who was treated for cancer before doctors examining a broken leg found she had no cancer. “What about all the grave markers out there that all the victims’ families have to look at?”
Defense attorney Christopher Andreoff described Fata, a native of Lebanon, as a broken man without family after his wife and children left the U.S. while the case was pending.
“But his family is still alive,” said Liz Lupo, who held a picture of her late mother, Marianne Lupo, outside the courthouse. “I lost my only family.”
The sentence, she said, is “not justice at all.”
The government identified 553 victims, along with insurance companies. Medicare and insurers paid at least $17 million.
Fata will get credit for about two years served in custody since his arrest in 2013. His stay in the federal prison system also could be shortened with good behavior.
His clinic, Michigan Hematology Oncology, had seven offices in the Detroit area and a related business that performed tests to look for cancer. Testifying for the government, two experts from Harvard medical school said they were troubled after looking at a small portion of patient files.
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meta-toradex-demos.git - Toradex BSP layer, recipes for the demo images index : meta-toradex-demos.git dunfell-5.x.y jethro jethro-next kirkstone-6.x.y master morty morty-next rocko rocko-next thud thud-next zeus Toradex BSP layer, recipes for the demo images Marcel Ziswiler summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff log msg author committer range diff options context: 12345678910152025303540 space: includeignore mode: unifiedssdiffstat only author Max Krummenacher <[email protected]> 2019-05-15 18:48:19 +0200 committer Max Krummenacher <[email protected]> 2019-05-22 10:04:19 +0200 commit 9700c50edb21900c4fdbf84ead8d5c8e0a88733d (patch) tree 39772efcbac473a1ec3e2d95b949559943eee5f1 parent 573918b6a7ebdb4d375511bf15bdc0cc6f725517 (diff) images: drop angstrom specific variables Signed-off-by: Max Krummenacher <[email protected]> Diffstat -rw-r--r-- recipes-images/images/console-tdx-image.bb 3 -rw-r--r-- recipes-images/images/lxde-image.bb 3 -rw-r--r-- recipes-images/images/lxqt-image.bb 3 -rw-r--r-- recipes-images/images/qt5-x11-image.bb 3 4 files changed, 4 insertions, 8 deletions diff --git a/recipes-images/images/console-tdx-image.bb b/recipes-images/images/console-tdx-image.bb index 78e3641..1abd539 100644 --- a/recipes-images/images/console-tdx-image.bb +++ b/recipes-images/images/console-tdx-image.bb @@ -28,8 +28,7 @@ IMAGE_LINGUAS = "en-us" #IMAGE_LINGUAS = "de-de fr-fr en-gb en-us pt-br es-es kn-in ml-in ta-in" #ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND += 'install_linguas; ' -DISTRO_UPDATE_ALTERNATIVES ??= "" -ROOTFS_PKGMANAGE_PKGS ?= '${@oe.utils.conditional("ONLINE_PACKAGE_MANAGEMENT", "none", "", "${ROOTFS_PKGMANAGE} ${DISTRO_UPDATE_ALTERNATIVES}", d)}' +ROOTFS_PKGMANAGE_PKGS ?= '${@oe.utils.conditional("ONLINE_PACKAGE_MANAGEMENT", "none", "", "${ROOTFS_PKGMANAGE}", d)}' CONMANPKGS ?= "connman connman-plugin-loopback connman-plugin-ethernet connman-plugin-wifi connman-client" diff --git a/recipes-images/images/lxde-image.bb b/recipes-images/images/lxde-image.bb index 840d650..44121d9 100644 --- a/recipes-images/images/lxde-image.bb +++ b/recipes-images/images/lxde-image.bb @@ -28,8 +28,7 @@ IMAGE_LINGUAS = "en-us" #IMAGE_LINGUAS = "de-de fr-fr en-gb en-us pt-br es-es kn-in ml-in ta-in" #ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND += 'install_linguas; ' -DISTRO_UPDATE_ALTERNATIVES ??= "" -ROOTFS_PKGMANAGE_PKGS ?= '${@oe.utils.conditional("ONLINE_PACKAGE_MANAGEMENT", "none", "", "${ROOTFS_PKGMANAGE} ${DISTRO_UPDATE_ALTERNATIVES}", d)}' +ROOTFS_PKGMANAGE_PKGS ?= '${@oe.utils.conditional("ONLINE_PACKAGE_MANAGEMENT", "none", "", "${ROOTFS_PKGMANAGE}", d)}' CONMANPKGS ?= "connman connman-client connman-gnome" diff --git a/recipes-images/images/lxqt-image.bb b/recipes-images/images/lxqt-image.bb index 14c6873..157d96e 100644 --- a/recipes-images/images/lxqt-image.bb +++ b/recipes-images/images/lxqt-image.bb @@ -30,8 +30,7 @@ IMAGE_LINGUAS = "en-us" #IMAGE_LINGUAS = "de-de fr-fr en-gb en-us pt-br es-es kn-in ml-in ta-in" #ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND += 'install_linguas; ' -DISTRO_UPDATE_ALTERNATIVES ??= "" -ROOTFS_PKGMANAGE_PKGS ?= '${@oe.utils.conditional("ONLINE_PACKAGE_MANAGEMENT", "none", "", "${ROOTFS_PKGMANAGE} ${DISTRO_UPDATE_ALTERNATIVES}", d)}' +ROOTFS_PKGMANAGE_PKGS ?= '${@oe.utils.conditional("ONLINE_PACKAGE_MANAGEMENT", "none", "", "${ROOTFS_PKGMANAGE}", d)}' # for a more complete configuration tool consider replacing lxqt-connman-applet # with cmst at the price of a bigger footprint diff --git a/recipes-images/images/qt5-x11-image.bb b/recipes-images/images/qt5-x11-image.bb index b0d9ce5..acd9bba 100644 --- a/recipes-images/images/qt5-x11-image.bb +++ b/recipes-images/images/qt5-x11-image.bb @@ -35,8 +35,7 @@ IMAGE_LINGUAS = "en-us" #IMAGE_LINGUAS = "de-de fr-fr en-gb en-us pt-br es-es kn-in ml-in ta-in" #ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND += 'install_linguas; ' -DISTRO_UPDATE_ALTERNATIVES ??= "" -ROOTFS_PKGMANAGE_PKGS ?= '${@oe.utils.conditional("ONLINE_PACKAGE_MANAGEMENT", "none", "", "${ROOTFS_PKGMANAGE} ${DISTRO_UPDATE_ALTERNATIVES}", d)}' +ROOTFS_PKGMANAGE_PKGS ?= '${@oe.utils.conditional("ONLINE_PACKAGE_MANAGEMENT", "none", "", "${ROOTFS_PKGMANAGE}", d)}' CONMANPKGS ?= "connman connman-plugin-loopback connman-plugin-ethernet connman-plugin-wifi connman-client" generated by cgit v1.2.3 (git 2.0.4) at 2022-09-24 16:07:29 +0000 | negative |
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Orange French Macarons – Fail-Proof Recipe
Orange French macarons are a delicacy on their own. Often filled with orange curd, marmalade, and buttercreams that almost melts in the mouth. My full proof macaron recipe is simple, easy and effortless that will have you making macarons over and over again successfully.
Orange French Macarons are a big treat all year round. If you love Orange and macarons then you will adore these tasty combinations with lots of variations. The flavor options are endless.
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Orange French Macarons with orange buttercream,
or Orange French macarons with orange curd and Swiss meringue buttercream which you see below in these images.
Orange French macarons with orange ganache
and of course, in fall you must try – orange French macarons with Pumpkin spice buttercream.
These orange french macarons are filled with Swiss meringue buttercream and orange curd. Personally, my favorite is lemon curd.
The shells can be flavored with either vanilla, orange, lemon or even pumpkin spice.
20 Tips for Perfect Macarons
Now I have already written a long post 20 Tips to Perfect Macarons
20 Tips to Perfect French Macarons with a No-Fail Macaron Recipe Macarons can be tricky but I have a full-proof macaron recipe with 20 must know simple, easy and effortless tips to follow which will make sure you get the perfect macarons every single time whether you are a novice or seasoned baker. Use my basic recipe to explore lots more variations of your own.
You can find all my macarons recipes here. These are just a few to show you.
Recipe – Orange French Macarons (Save/Pin)
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Ingredients
Egg white – 110 grams (approx 3 large egg whites)
Cream of tartar – 1/8 tsp (optional)
Fine white sugar – 50 grams
Powdered sugar/ confectioners sugar / icing sugar – 200 grams (1 cup)
Almond meal – 100 grams (1 cup)
Orange zest – 1/2 tsp
Orange extract – 1/2 tsp
Note: You can add the orange zest either into the batter or as a garnish sprinkled on top of the piped shells.
Orange color gel – few drops
Filling and Frosting
2 Cups – Swiss meringue buttercream – you will need less than half of this recipe.
1/2 Cup – Orange curd – recipe here or
1/2 Cup – Lemon curd – you will need half this recipe.
Method
Whip egg whites
Place the egg whites in a grease-free mixer bowl with whisk attachment – start whisking on medium speed.
Add cream of tartar.
After a few seconds start adding the fine white sugar a little at a time.
Once all the sugar has been added – whisk on medium-high for another minute or so until stiff peaks.
Add zest, food color and extract.
Prepare dry ingredients
Ensure the almond meal is super fine. If necessary pulse in the food processor a few times.
Sieve the powder sugar and Almond meal at least twice to remove any coarse nuts.
Macronage
Next, add the dry mixture all at once.
You need to fold the mixture until you have what is called a dropping consistency or a thick cake batter consistency.
Which means when you hold a little batter in your spoon and drop it back into the bowl it should drop smoothly not forcefully.
Pipe
Next place the batter into a piping bag with a large round tip.
Pipe similar size macarons on to a parchment paper using a template.
The best way to pipe is to squeeze until you have a good mound then swirl the tip to one side. But don’t’ worry if you don’t get it. Just take the tip of your finger and tap the points down.
Tap the baking sheet on the counter a couple times so all the air pockets will rise to the top and release. That way you won’t have big holes in your macarons.
Let the macarons rest in a cool dry place for about 20 minutes so the tops will get crusted. In places, with high humidity, this can take up to 30 minutes. This will give you a good dry shell on top.
While the macarons are drying – preheat the oven to 150 C/300 F.
Bake/Cool
Bake these for 15 to 18 minutes depending on your oven. The tops will look set and the bottom should not be wet.
The top shell should be shiny and the bottom crusty (also called macaron feet).
Let cool on the parchment for a while then take them off and let cool completely.
Fill/Store
Once cool, fill with your favorite filling.
Macarons must be stored in the fridge and are best eaten one or two days later.
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Orange French Macarons Full Proof Recipe Orange French macarons are a delicacy on their own. Often filled with orange curd, marmalade, and buttercreams that almost melts in the mouth. My fail proof macaron recipe is simple, easy and effortless that will have you making macarons over and over again successfully. 5 from 13 votes Print Pin Adjust Servings Here: 30 Macarons Calories: 71 kcal Author: Veena Azmanov Prep Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 15 mins Total Time: 40 mins Ingredients Macaron Ingredients 110 grams Egg white approx 3 large egg whites
1/8 tsp Cream of tartar optional
50 grams Fine white sugar
200 grams Powder sugar/ confectioners sugar / icing sugar
100 grams Almond meal
1/2 tsp Orange zest Note: You can add the orange zest either into the batter or as a garnish sprinkled on top of the piped shells
1/2 tsp Orange extract
Orange color gel few drops Filling and Frosting Swiss meringue buttercream - you will need less than half of this recipe.
Orange curd - coming soon
Lemon curd - you will need half this recipe Instructions Bake Macarons Whip egg whites Place the egg whites in a grease-free mixer bowl with whisk attachment - start whisking on medium speed.
Add Cream of Tartar
After a few seconds start adding the fine white sugar a little at a time.
Once all the sugar has been added - whisk on medium-high for another minute or so until stiff peaks.
Add zest, food color and extract. Prepare dry ingredients Ensure the almond meal is super fine. If necessary pulse in the food processor a few times.
Sieve the powder sugar and Almond meal at least twice to remove any coarse nuts Macronage Next, add the dry mixture all at once.
You need to fold the mixture until you have what is called a dropping consistency or a thick cake batter consistency. Which means when you hold a little batter in your spoon and drop it back into the bowl it should drop smoothly not forcefully. Pipe Next place the batter into a piping bag with a large round tip
Pipe similar size Macarons on to a parchment paper using a template.
The best way to pipe is to squeeze until you have a good mound then swirl the tip to one side. But don't' worry if you don't get it. Just take the tip of your finger and tap the points down.
Tap the baking sheet on the counter a couple times so all the air pockets will rise to the top and release. That way you won't have big holes in your macarons.
Let the macarons rest in a cool dry place for about 20 minutes so the tops will get crusted. In places, with high humidity, this can take up to 30 minutes. This will give you a good dry shell on top.
While the macarons are drying - preheat the oven to 150 C/300 F Bake / Cool Bake these for 15 to 18 minutes depending on your oven. The tops will look set and the bottom should not be wet.
The top shell should be shiny and the bottom crusty (also called macaron feet).
Let cool on the parchment for a while then take them off and let cool completely. Fill / Store Once cool, fill with your favorite filling.
Macarons must be stored in the fridge and are best eaten one or two days later Detailed Video on YouTube - Subscribe for more videos Nutrition Information Serving: 18 g | Calories: 71 kcal | Carbohydrates: 9.8 g | Protein: 1 g | Fat: 3.4 g | Saturated Fat: 1.2 g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2.1 g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0 g | Trans Fat: 0.1 g | Cholesterol: 4 mg | Sodium: 6 mg | Potassium: 0 mg | Fiber: 0.3 g | Sugar: 9.2 g | Vitamin A: 0 % | Vitamin C: 0 % | Calcium: 0 % | Iron: 0 % The nutrition information and metric conversion are calculated automatically. I cannot guarantee its accuracy. If this data is important to you please verify with your trusted nutrition calculator. Thank you Tried this recipe? Mention @veenaazmanov or tag #veenaazmanov
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s nuclear crisis escalated to its worst level since a massive earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima plant more than two years ago, with the country’s nuclear watchdog saying it feared more storage tanks were leaking contaminated water.
The U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Wednesday it viewed the situation at Fukushima “seriously” and was ready to help if called upon, while nearby China said it was “shocked” to hear contaminated water was still leaking from the plant, and urged Japan to provide information “in a timely, thorough and accurate way”.
“We hope the Japanese side can earnestly take effective steps to put an end to the negative impact of the after-effects of the Fukushima nuclear accident,” China’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement faxed to Reuters in Beijing.
Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga called the situation “deplorable”, and the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) said it feared the disaster - the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl a quarter of a century earlier - was “in some respects” beyond the plant operator’s ability to cope.
The plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co, or Tepco, has been criticized for its failure to prepare for the disaster and has since been accused of covering up the extent of the problems at the plant. After months of denial, Tepco recently admitted the plant was leaking contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean from trenches between the reactor buildings and the shoreline.
It said on Tuesday that contaminated water with dangerously high levels of radiation was leaking from a storage tank - the most serious problem in a series of recent mishaps, including power outages, contaminated workers and other leaks.
The NRA said it was worried about leakage from other similar tanks that were built hastily to store water washed over melted reactors at the station to keep them cool. Water in the latest leak is so contaminated that a person standing close to it for an hour would receive five times the annual recommended limit for nuclear workers.
A spokesman for the NRA said the agency plans to upgrade the severity of the crisis from a Level 1 “anomaly” to a Level 3 “serious incident” on an international scale for radiological releases. An upgrade would be the first time Japan has issued a warning on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES) since the three reactor meltdowns at Fukushima in March 2011. Explosions then led to a loss of power and cooling, triggering a maximum INES Level 7 at the plant.
An aerial view shows Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)'s tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and its contaminated water storage tanks (bottom) in Fukushima, in this photo taken by Kyodo August 20, 2013. REUTERS/Kyodo
“HAUNTED HOUSE”
NRA Chairman Shunichi Tanaka likened the stricken nuclear plant to a house of horrors at an amusement park. “I don’t know if describing it this way is appropriate, but it’s like a haunted house and, as I’ve said, mishaps keep happening one after the other,” he told reporters. “We have to look into how we can reduce the risks and how to prevent it from becoming a fatal or serious incident.”
He said the NRA would consult with the IAEA about whether it was appropriate to assign a rating to the leakage at the plant.
“Japanese authorities continue to provide the Agency with information on the situation at the plant, and Agency experts are following the issue closely,” Gill Tudor, spokesperson at the Vienna-based IAEA, said in an e-mailed statement.
“The IAEA views this matter seriously and remains ready to provide assistance on request.”
Each one-step INES increase represents a 10-fold increase in severity, according to a factsheet on the IAEA website. (www.iaea.org/) A Level 3 rating is assigned when there is exposure of more than 10 times the limit for workers, according to the factsheet.
In an emailed comment, Andrew Sherry, director of the Dalton Nuclear Institute at the University of Manchester, said: “Though serious, this leak is a long way from the Level 7 incident we were facing in 2011. The approach taken by Tepco to drain the tank, pump leaked water to temporary storage, and protect the drainage of contaminated water to ground water, is entirely sensible.”
“This incident highlights the need for an inspection program for these many hundreds of storage tanks, and the need to consider replacing bolted or sealed storage tanks, which were relatively quick to build, with a more robust welded design.”
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South Korea’s Asiana Airlines Inc said it would cancel charter flights between Seoul and Fukushima city in October due to public concerns over the radioactive water leaks.
The city, around 60 kms (37 miles) from the nuclear facility and with a population of some 284,000, is a popular destination for golfers and tourists visiting nearby local hot springs and lakes. | positive |
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For those politicians in Washington and their supporters who think engaging the Syrian army with a “kinetic action” akin to Libya’s “no fly zones” is all it will take to oust the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, consider the latest assessment from America’s top commanding officer.
On Thursday Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey told a Senate committee that the Obama administration is considering the use of military force in Syria. … Gen. Dempsey warned “the decision to use force is … no less than an act of war,” adding that the U.S. “must anticipate and be prepared for the unintended consequences of our action. … Deeper involvement is hard to avoid.” Before going over the options, Dempsey reiterated his non-committal stance: “The decision over whether to introduce military force is a political one that our Nation entrusts to its civilian leaders. I also understand that you deserve my best military advice on how military force could be used in order to decide whether it should be used.”
Translation: We’re looking at another long-term quagmire similar to Afghanistan and Iraq, or worse.
This will not be merely sorties being flown over Syria. It will involve large-scale troop movements. We know this as evidenced by the statements of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and that’s why we’re not the only ones putting boots on the ground. Last week Russia staged massive full combat readiness exercises involving some 160,000 troops, naval ships, fighter planes and strategic bombers in preparation for the possibility of a U.S. led attack on Syria, and just a few weeks ago it was announced that the Syrians have been armed with weapons never before seen in the middle east.
Russian President Vladimir Putin may have sat on the sidelines while the United States took control of other mid east nations over the last decade, but all indications suggest he won’t be sitting idly by should the United States go to war in Syria.
It would not be an overreaction to suggest that a military engagement in Syria could engulf the U.S. and Russia in World War III, something that numerous analysts and contrarian thinkers have suggested would be the end result of our current global economic and political tensions.
World War III will occur in the next five years. That means the Middle East will blow up. New regimes there will be less Western-friendly. The West has also figured out it can’t contain China, which is rising rapidly and will have more military and naval power in Southeast Asia. The only way for the West to contain China is to control the oil tap in the Middle East. Dr. Marc Faber via SGT Report [January 12, 2012]
When our supposed global economic recovery is revealed to be nothing but smoke and mirrors, and tens of millions more Americans lose their jobs and the ability to put food on their tables, and they subsequently take to the streets to loot what they can, there will be few options left. One such option that democidal governments have always kept in their back pockets is to start a war and divert attention away from the real problems facing their countries to manufactured enemies. It’s a tried and tested technique that has been used by conquerors and psychopaths for centuries, and they’re prepared to use it again when the situation calls for it.
The threats posed by Syria have not only been manufactured, but are being actively fueled by this administration in an effort to sway the sentiment of the American people.
President Bush had weapons of mass destruction. The strategy worked so well that President Obama, less than a decade later, is using the exact same excuse for our need to involve hundreds of thousands of American lives in another mid east country – one that we had a hand in destabilizing from the get-go.
In his book and documentary, strategic relocation specialist Joel Skousen warns of the coming war involving Russia, China and the United States.
What we’re seeing now are the open stages of that war. It may still be “cold,” but you can be assured that the people in charge, along with their partners in the multi-billion dollar military industrial complex and financing cartels, are not only willing to start a war, they’re very much planning on this very outcome.
World War III has already begun, and those in power intend to send us, our children and our grandchildren to do their bidding. | positive |
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Prime cookout and outdoor eating season is almost upon us. Be ready to feed almost anyone at your table with this selection of vegan mains from the Recipe Finder.
[Meatless mains and sides to toss on the grill]
Tacos With Tofu Chorizo and Potatoes, pictured above. We frequently recommend this DIY vegan chorizo because it’s that good.
(Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post)
Vita’s Barbecue Tofu. Works best with extra-firm tofu; you can make it a few days in advance.
(Deb Lindsey /For The Washington Post)
Portobello Mushrooms With Tuscan Kale and Sweet Potato. The tidy package makes it conveniently portable; we bet you could par-bake these and then finish them off on a grill.
(Deb Lindsey/For The Washington Post)
Black Bean Tortas With Chipotle Mayo. A mix of creamy refried black beans and with chipotle-spiked vegan mayonnaise.
(Goran Kosanovic/For The Washington Post)
Vegan Chili Mac. Tote along a tub of this to spoon atop grilled portobellos or vegan hot dogs.
(Deb Lindsey /For The Washington Post)
Walnut Tacos. Easy to assemble and make vegan by using nondairy yogurt or sour cream.
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Hearts of Palm and Artichoke Cakes. They look like crabcakes, don’t they? | positive |
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AUCKLAND: Most of New Zealand phoned emergency services when Dan Carter went down with his groin injury, but Colin Slade's former teacher believes there is no need for a nation to panic.
Not only does Stephen Dods think that Slade could turn out to be better than Carter, he is even prepared to commit possibly the most heretical act in Kiwi culture: suggest the nation's most famous crock will not even get back in the All Blacks side.
Colin Slade against Canada during New Zealand's final pool game on Sunday. Credit:Getty Images
Dods, the head of sport at Christchurch Boys High, New Zealand's fly-half factory, coached both Carter and Slade. He is getting the signature of every boy and master on the school flag and will present it to Slade ahead of this weekend's quarter-final. This is no time for doubt.
"Once Colin is settled into a team and a pattern, he's a very intelligent player, almost a perfectionist," he said. "He likes things to be just the way they should be and until they are sorted he can be hesitant. But once he feels part of the system, he never has a bad game. His only bad performances ever are at the start of his tenure. | positive |
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Scientists using instruments aboard the Curiosity rover on Mars have found carbon-containing compounds in rock samples and methane in the planet's atmosphere
The carbon compounds are the first definitive organics detected on the Martian surface, scientists said on Tuesday
The rover also found spurts of methane gas in the atmosphere, a chemical that on Earth is strongly tied to life. Additional studies, which may be beyond the rover's capabilities, are needed to determine if either phenomenon was produced by past or present life on Mars or if they stem from geochemical processes.
"We have had a major discovery. We have found organics on Mars," Curiosity lead scientist John Grotzinger, with the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., said during a webcast news conference at a science meeting in San Francisco.
"The probability of any of these things being sources [from life] … we just have to respect that it is a possibility," he added.
Curiosity picked up hints of organics in its earliest chemical analysis of rocks in Gale Crater, a 154-kilometre wide impact basin where the rover made a sky-crane landing in August 2012.
Last week, scientists published research showing the crater was once filled with water, with sediments building up over time to form five-kilometre high Mount Sharp, which rises from the basin's floor.
Mysterious methane
The presence of methane in the Martian atmosphere has been reported and seemingly refuted before. Earth-based observatories reported seeing large "plumes" of methane in 2003 but, following its arrival in 2012, Curiosity turned up nothing.
We've really been racking our brains. — Prof. John Moores
Now, according to a paper published Tuesday in the journal Science, scientists say there is a faint hint of methane — about one part per billion — near the Gale Crater.
The strange thing is, that reading unexpectedly jumped, at least once, to almost 10 times that amount. The methane levels then returned to normal.
"We've really been racking our brains," about the jump, said Prof. John Moores of York University in Toronto, one of the team members that co-authored the study. "What does it all mean?"
Curiosity sends back data about once a month, Moores said. Over the last two years, the readings were providing a clearer picture of the Martian atmosphere and its methane content — until one set revealed a spike to about seven parts per billion.
Leading theories
The leading theories about why the level spiked have some significant problems, Moores told CBC News.
Prof. John Moores of York University was on the team that co-authored the methane study. (Submitted by John Moores) A carbon-rich meteorite might have struck the surface near Curiosity, and that carbon could have broken down into methane. But there are no fresh craters in the neighbourhood.
Methane could also be created by a chemical interaction with the Martian surface, but lab work suggests this is "not very likely."
The methane could also be produced underground and occasionally vented to the surface.
"That makes you wonder why it happened at that time," said Moores. "But we certainly can't rule it out.
"Maybe there's something about the atmosphere on Mars we don't understand and this is our hint."
Methane can be produced geologically, though on Earth it is also made by a class of bacteria known as methanogens. Its presence on Mars could be a sign of life.
But, if so, that does not necessarily mean there is life on Mars now, Moores said. Today's methane could be left over from biological activity that took place billions of years ago, when the Red Planet is thought to have been more hospitable. Or it could be purely geological.
"It's a bit of a puzzle," Moores said. | positive |
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Driver Of The Day Shanghai 2009 By Rainmaster, April 19, 2009 in F1 Discussions Start new topic Prev 1 2 3 Next Page 2 of 3 Recommended Posts HandyNZL 1 HandyNZL 1 F1 Ace Senior Members 1 5,147 posts Gender:Male Location:Up the road from Puke track, NZL Report post Posted April 20, 2009 I have no opinion. I was strangely underwhelmed by that race. Just thought you all should know that. Cheers - that has made my day. Keep up the good work ! Webber said the conditions were just on the edge. And even I can tell Malaysia was worse (bolts of lightning, hello?) but so much rain spraying around made it seem just as bad in China. But if safety defender Webber said it was fine to race I believe him. Agree. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites HandyNZL 1 HandyNZL 1 F1 Ace Senior Members 1 5,147 posts Gender:Male Location:Up the road from Puke track, NZL Report post Posted April 20, 2009 My DOD vote is definately not going to Button as he didn't try and overtake to get his gold medal and ensure he got another win, because that is what all true champions should do....so says my mate Bernie! So there! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Insider 0 Insider 0 Old Rocker Pit Crew 0 2,746 posts Gender:Male Location:UK Interests:F1 and loud rock music. I support West Ham United and sing for my supper. Report post Posted April 20, 2009 My DOD vote is definately not going to Button as he didn't try and overtake to get his gold medal and ensure he got another win, because that is what all true champions should do....so says my mate Bernie! So there! Didn't try and overtake or was persuaded by circumstances not to? BGP carry few parts to a race and don't have a spare car yet. More importantly, he didn't have the pace and kamikaze driving wasn't the order of the day either. I didn't see your fellow colonial chasing his mate too hard either! And, 'definitely' has got two 'i's' in it, you dumb kiwi Share this post Link to post Share on other sites HandyNZL 1 HandyNZL 1 F1 Ace Senior Members 1 5,147 posts Gender:Male Location:Up the road from Puke track, NZL Report post Posted April 20, 2009 Didn't try and overtake or was persuaded by circumstances not to? BGP carry few parts to a race and don't have a spare car yet. More importantly, he didn't have the pace and kamikaze driving wasn't the order of the day either. I didn't see your fellow colonial chasing his mate too hard either! And, 'definitely' has got two 'i's' in it, you dumb kiwi Hey look - my mate Bernie said this is the way to go - win at all costs! We must make our stand with him...not against!!!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Insider 0 Insider 0 Old Rocker Pit Crew 0 2,746 posts Gender:Male Location:UK Interests:F1 and loud rock music. I support West Ham United and sing for my supper. Report post Posted April 20, 2009 Hey look - my mate Bernie said this is the way to go - win at all costs! We must make our stand with him...not against!!!!! Bollocks to Bernie! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites HandyNZL 1 HandyNZL 1 F1 Ace Senior Members 1 5,147 posts Gender:Male Location:Up the road from Puke track, NZL Report post Posted April 20, 2009 Bollocks to Bernie! I'm telling on you! Expect an invitation to the WMSC to be arriving in your inbox soon, for bringing F1 into disrepute!!! Bernie will not be impressed!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites UrKo 0 UrKo 0 F1 Ace Senior Members 0 1,864 posts Gender:Male Location:Slovenia Report post Posted April 20, 2009 Should be Vettel but i give my vote to Webber...but of course a deserved win for vettel..no doubt about that....just wish reno wouldnt call alonso to pit so early ....but overall great race... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites HandyNZL 1 HandyNZL 1 F1 Ace Senior Members 1 5,147 posts Gender:Male Location:Up the road from Puke track, NZL Report post Posted April 20, 2009 Lot of people putting the love out to Webber.....wonder if he's blushing? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites The Rumble Strip 0 The Rumble Strip 0 F1 Ace Senior Members 0 1,976 posts Report post Posted April 20, 2009 Credit to Buemi and Sutil as well but mistakes ultimately took my vote away from them. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Kay 0 Kay 0 F1 Ace Senior Members 0 4,429 posts Gender:Not Telling Report post Posted April 20, 2009 The day has to go to Vettel. I firmly believe Webber will have his day. The motivation to come back from his broken leg and shoulder injury despite the impact it would had had on his fitness will surely be enough to carry him to a win once he is back to 100% which won't be far enough. Yesterday wasn't his though, but it will make it sweeter. These 'new' guys (new to the front; not F1) seem to be highly entertaining. Maybe I'm biased, but the press conference was brilliant and it's nice to see drivers up there who can congratulate each other and clearly every result means something to them. Even the new guy to F1 is showing well. I'm enjoying the old hats having to fight their way to the points, F1 hasn't lost any credibility, but an interest in seeing how they deal with the situation. Role reversal and these greats don't appear to be smelling of roses. It's a good reminder that actually the way we 'league' drivers has more to do with their cars and opportunities than the talent themselves. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites TF109ftw 0 TF109ftw 0 Test Driver Junior Members 0 40 posts Report post Posted April 20, 2009 Kubica anyday! he showed how getting out of a trulli train is done! but yeahh.. vettel obviously gets dod Share this post Link to post Share on other sites F1 FANatic 1 F1 FANatic 1 Back Seat Driver Members 1 1,490 posts Location:Floating Through Space Report post Posted April 20, 2009 Kubica anyday! he showed how getting out of a trulli train is done! but yeahh.. vettel obviously gets dod HAHAHAHAHA Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Medilloni 6 Medilloni 6 F1 Ace Senior Members 6 2,128 posts Gender:Male Report post Posted April 20, 2009 Kubica anyday! he showed how getting out of a trulli train is done! but yeahh.. vettel obviously gets dod Indeed, he almost got DOD for me too, but that would have been for the driver that best modified his nose to look like his nose. DOD Vettel, the top 3 are all genuine good blokes, post race banter was a real change for the better . How refreshing Share this post Link to post Share on other sites freaky2 1 freaky2 1 Elemental de Rayo Senior Members 1 2,291 posts Gender:Female Location:Sunny Spain Report post Posted April 20, 2009 Indeed, he almost got DOD for me too, but that would have been for the driver that best modified his nose to look like his nose. DOD Vettel, the top 3 are all genuine good blokes, post race banter was a real change for the better . How refreshing I thought that too!! And yes, I was actually angry I had to listen to Spanish guys translating, so I devoured the detailed transcription. All fun Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Insider 0 Insider 0 Old Rocker Pit Crew 0 2,746 posts Gender:Male Location:UK Interests:F1 and loud rock music. I support West Ham United and sing for my supper. Report post Posted April 20, 2009 Indeed, he almost got DOD for me too, but that would have been for the driver that best modified his nose to look like his nose. DOD Vettel, the top 3 are all genuine good blokes, post race banter was a real change for the better . How refreshing Copy that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites monza gorilla 1 monza gorilla 1 The Pants from Northants Senior Members 1 6,728 posts Gender:Male Location:52�23'52.86"N 0�43'28.92"W Interests:Adnams Broadside. Fullers ESB. Report post Posted April 20, 2009 Ditto. (Not Beth) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites mikathegreat2 2 mikathegreat2 2 King Of All Men Senior Members 2 5,175 posts Gender:Male Location:Lucan, Ireland Interests:.. Report post Posted April 20, 2009 Vettel, & I can't blame you for not making a poll George, cos Vettel will walk away with the award! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Piotr 0 Piotr 0 F1 Ace Senior Members 0 1,542 posts Gender:Male Location:Delaware, USA Interests:Sailing, hiking, reading. Report post Posted April 22, 2009 Kubica, for not killing Theissen outright and NOT declaring a vendetta against the whole BMW designer team... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites aussief1 4 aussief1 4 F1 Ace Senior Members 4 3,921 posts Location:Queensland, Australia Report post Posted April 22, 2009 Vettel takes my vote for DOD class act all round today. I was hoping that it might have been some sort of full blown poetic justice that Vettel was taken out of the race by Buemi. Handing Mark the win that Vettel cost him at Fuji, but it wasn't to be, and hats off to Vettel, he was better than Mark on the day and deserved the win. I feel that a win is just around the corner for Mark, he is well past the apex anyway!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites freaky2 1 freaky2 1 Elemental de Rayo Senior Members 1 2,291 posts Gender:Female Location:Sunny Spain Report post Posted April 22, 2009 Vettel takes my vote for DOD class act all round today. I was hoping that it might have been some sort of full blown poetic justice that Vettel was taken out of the race by Buemi. Handing Mark the win that Vettel cost him at Fuji, but it wasn't to be, and hats off to Vettel, he was better than Mark on the day and deserved the win. I feel that a win is just around the corner for Mark, he is well past the apex anyway!!! I thought of the same moment obviously, but it would be quite the poetic INjustice because in the end they proved it wasn't Vettel's fault. But I thought something along the lines of: "I doubt Vettel will be lashing out against newbies though..." (Well, Webber's comment is funny but only after some time has passed...) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites aussief1 4 aussief1 4 F1 Ace Senior Members 4 3,921 posts Location:Queensland, Australia Report post Posted April 22, 2009 I thought of the same moment obviously, but it would be quite the poetic INjustice because in the end they proved it wasn't Vettel's fault. But I thought something along the lines of: "I doubt Vettel will be lashing out against newbies though..." (Well, Webber's comment is funny but only after some time has passed...) I still feel that the incident in Fuji was Vettels fault, but thats my opinion. Needless to say that was in the past, and everyone has got over that, especially both Mark and Seb. What a great pairing they are proving to be. Onwards and upwards Share this post Link to post Share on other sites The Rumble Strip 0 The Rumble Strip 0 F1 Ace Senior Members 0 1,976 posts Report post Posted April 22, 2009 Well said. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites elgo 1 elgo 1 Reckless Driver Senior Members 1 1,624 posts Gender:Not Telling Location:Spain Report post Posted April 22, 2009 Tbh I prefer DOD this way,without the poll. This way people reason what they vote,and not just vote their favourite driver and then stay quiet. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Rainmaster 7 Rainmaster 7 F1 Ace Senior Members 7 7,621 posts Gender:Male Location:The Ning Nang Nong Report post Posted April 22, 2009 See? My lazy-ness has so many advantages. Been trying to tell people that for years. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Quiet One 15 Quiet One 15 The balding avenger Senior Members 15 11,453 posts Gender:Male Location:Argentina Report post Posted April 22, 2009 See? My lazy-ness has so many advantages. Been trying to tell people that for years. 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We’re one day away from Super Tuesday, and the polls show Trump as the clear favorite.
Tomorrow, Republican voters from 13 states will go out and decide who they want as their Presidential nominee. The states taking part in Super Tuesday are: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia and Wyoming.
A new national poll conducted by CNN/ORC, released today, 29th February, shows Trump holding an overwhelming 33 point lead, holding 49% of the vote, with his closest competitor being Rubio at 16%.
In Virginia, a poll conducted by Roanoke College has Trump at 38%, a 23 point lead over second place Ted Cruz, who is trailing at 15%.
In Texas, Cruz’s home state, a new poll by the Emerson College Polling Society has Trump and Cruz fighting head to head, with Cruz coming out with a 1 point lead.
A poll conducted by Trafalgar Group in Georgia has Trump at 38.6%, with Rubio at 23.5% fighting with Cruz at 20.7% for second place.
A Massachusetts poll conducted by Suffolk University has Donald Trump in first at 42.6%, with Cruz and Rubio fighting for 2nd at 17% and 19.8% each.
In Alabama and Oklahoma, a poll by the Monmouth University Polling Institute shows Trump in first place, at 42% in Alabama and 35% in Oklahoma, with Cruz and Rubio trailing behind in second and third.
The Castleton Polling Institute held a poll in Vermont, which puts Trump in the lead with 32.4%, and Marco Rubio in second at 16.9%.
All in all, the poll results seem to put Trump in a comfortable first place, with an expected victory on Super Tuesday.
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the License for the specific language governing permissions and +* limitations under the License. +*/ + --> + +<resources xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" + xmlns:xliff="urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:document:1.2"> + <string name="application_name" msgid="5181331383435256801">"Launcher3"</string> + <string name="home" msgid="7658288663002113681">"Home"</string> + <string name="uid_name" msgid="7820867637514617527">"Android Core Apps"</string> + <string name="folder_name" msgid="7371454440695724752"></string> + <string name="activity_not_found" msgid="8071924732094499514">"App isn\'t installed."</string> + <string name="activity_not_available" msgid="7456344436509528827">"App isn\'t available"</string> + <string name="safemode_shortcut_error" msgid="9160126848219158407">"Downloaded app disabled in Safe mode"</string> + <string name="safemode_widget_error" msgid="4863470563535682004">"Widgets disabled in Safe mode"</string> + <string name="widgets_tab_label" 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NDP calls for nursing home COVID-19 outbreaks to be publicly posted - Teresa Armstrong, MPP for London-Fanshawe Home COVID-19 information Tenant Rights Webinar About Contact Latest news Service and assistance Our Community Issues Pledge to End Racism Home and Long Term Care Menu Teresa Armstrong MPP, London-Fanshawe Government of Ontario Home COVID-19 information COVID-19 updates NDP calls for nursing hom... NDP calls for nursing home COVID-19 outbreaks to be publicly posted Published on April 23, 2020 QUEEN’S PARK — The Official Opposition wants a list of long-term care facilities and other congregate care settings experiencing outbreaks of COVID-19 to be posted publicly online. The Official Opposition’s call comes after at least 31 deaths were confirmed at a Pickering long-term care facility that was reporting only four deaths just days ago. “This is a scary time for families with loved ones in long-term care. They have a right to truthful information,” said Ontario NDP Long Term Care critic Teresa Armstrong. “Residents and their families have a right to make informed decisions. An accurate, up-to-date public list is an effective way to give the public the information they need to keep their families safe from COVID-19.” Ontario’s iPHIS data reporting system has been consistently wrong, underreporting the number of deaths in long-term care by about 100 people, at last count. Both the former Liberal and current Conservative governments have been warned that iPHIS is inaccurate, but have ignored the warnings for years. Stay in the loop Issues About Contact us Queen's Park Room 159 Main Legislative Building Toronto, ON M7A 1A5 Phone: 416-325-1872 Fax: 416-325-1912 Email: [email protected] Community Office 155 Clarke Road London, ON N5W 5C9 Phone: 519-668-1104 Fax: 519-668-1941 Email: [email protected] Community Office Hours Monday- 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Tuesday- 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Wednesday- By Appointment Only Thursday- 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Friday- 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Accessibility Accessibilité | negative |
English Defence League in street battles with police in Woolwich and mosques attacked in apparent acts of revenge
Scores of supporters of the English Defence League threw bottles at police and chanted anti-Muslim slogans in Woolwich hours after the murder of one man and the shooting of his two suspected assailants.
About 100 men, including some wearing balaclavas printed with "EDL", engaged in running battles with police for less than an hour.
A police commander said officers cited section 60 of the Public Order Act, which allowed them to stop and search individuals within a specific area without evidence of a crime being committed.
EDL leader Tommy Robinson said: "They're chopping our soldiers' heads off. This is Islam. That's what we've seen today. They've cut off one of our army's heads off on the streets of London.
"Our next generation are being taught through schools that Islam is a religion of peace. It's not. It never has been. What you saw today is Islam. Everyone's had enough. There has to be a reaction, for the government to listen, for the police to listen, to understand how angry this British public are."
The men congregated near Woolwich Arsenal station with flags bearing the cross of St George after plans for a protest were circulated on social media. Hundreds of police including riot police were stationed around Woolwich.
The first clashed began just after ten before the men were pursued and blocked in at a pub close to a local mosque.
Elsewhere, two men were arrested after separate attacks on mosques. A 43-year-old man is in custody on suspicion of attempted arson after reportedly walking into a mosque with a knife in Braintree, Essex. The secretary of the mosque, Sikander Saleemy, told Channel 4 News he felt it was a "revenge attack".
He added: "The police said it's too early to try and link it to what happened in Woolwich, but those of us who were here feel that it was some sort of revenge attack. It was clear from the man's behaviour.
"We absolutely condemn what happened in Woolwich, but it had nothing to do with us. It was an appalling act of terror – but it wasn't Islamic in any way. I wish it wasn't described like that, because sadly people will now start to blame Muslims."
Meanwhile, police in Kent were called to reports of criminal damage at a mosque in Canterbury Street, Gillingham, at 8.40pm. A spokesman said a man was in custody on suspicion of racially aggravated criminal damage. | positive |
DURHAM — An intoxicated University of New Hampshire student was rescued early Friday morning after she became stuck in waist deep mud near Oyster River High School, marking the second such incident in the town in as many weeks.
Assistant Fire Chief Jason Cleary said rescue officials were called at about 3:30 a.m. by a neighbor near the swampy area of Coe Drive who heard screams for help coming from a nearby wooded area.
Police officers, who arrived first on scene, almost immediately established voice contact with 19-year-old Christina Nichols, of Beverly, Mass., who was stuck in a swampy embankment about 100 yards from Coe Drive, Deputy Police Chief Rene Kelley said.
A few minutes later, fire officials climbed down the embankment into 8-foot-high marsh grass and rescued the woman using water rescue suits and search and rescue ropes.
Nichols was conscious and alert when she was rescued and she was able to walk away, but Cleary said she was suffering from possible hypothermia. She was cared for on scene by McGregor Memorial EMS personnel and was transported to Wentworth-Douglass Hospital.
Cleary said he was unsure exactly why Nichols walked into the embankment, but added that the area is very dark at night and she indicated that she became lost trying to find her way back to campus.
"It was definitely off the beaten path," Cleary said. "I don't know how you would get that far into it unless you got turned around or you weren't sure where you were to begin with."
Kelley said Nichols was released from Wentworth-Douglass early Friday morning and was then charged with internal possession of alcohol by a minor.
This is the second time town rescue officials have performed water rescues for underaged intoxicated university students since students returned to campus at the end of August.
On Aug. 29, move-in weekend, police responded to a call from 19-year-old Isaiah Martin, who was stuck in a marsh near Young Drive.
Kelley said Martin called emergency dispatch at about 3:45 a.m. while he was stuck in the marsh and said he did not know where he was located, prompting dispatchers to use the GPS on Martin's cell phone to find his location.
"He was unable to give us a plausible explanation as to how he ended up there," Kelley said. "He indicated he had no memory of how he arrived there, he just recalls waking up in the marsh. He was obviously panic stricken and contacted 911."
Kelley said Martin, who is also a UNH football player, was "heavily intoxicated" when police helped him out of the marsh.
"This is alarming," Kelley said. "Here are two young people, both underaged and both extremely intoxicated, who find themselves in very potentially life-threatening situations. That's exactly why we emphasize heavy enforcement of alcohol violations and expend the resources to try to combat it."
Like Nichols, Martin was also charged with internal possession of alcohol. | positive |
A study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows that a new test for prostate cancer is better at detecting aggressive cancer than PSA. The new test, which has undergone trial in 58,818 men, discovers aggressive cancer earlier and reduces the number of false positive tests and unnecessary biopsies. The results are published in the scientific journal The Lancet Oncology.
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer among men worldwide, with over 1.2 million diagnosed in 2012. In number of men diagnosed with prostate cancer increases and within 20 years over 2 million men are estimated to be diagnosed yearly. Currently, PSA is used to diagnose prostate cancer, but the procedure has long been controversial.
"PSA can't distinguish between aggressive and benign cancer," says principal investigator Henrik Grönberg, MD, PhD, Professor of Cancer Epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet. "Today, men who don't have cancer or who have a form of cancer that doesn't need treating must go through an unnecessary, painful and sometimes dangerous course of treatment. On top of this, PSA misses many aggressive cancers. We therefore decided to develop a more precise test that could potentially replace PSA."
The new so-called STHLM3 test is a blood test that analyzes a combination of six protein markers, over 200 genetic markers and clinical data (age, family history and previous prostate biopsies). The test has been developed by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in collaboration with Thermo Fisher Scientific, which provided the protein and genetic marker assays used in the clinical study.
The study, which is presented in The Lancet Oncology, included 58,818 men from Stockholm aged 50 to 69 and was conducted between 2012 and 2014. The STHLM3 test and PSA were performed on all participants and then compared. The results show that the STHLM3 test reduced the number of biopsies by 30 per cent without compromising patient safety. In addition, the STHLM3 test found aggressive cancers in men with low PSA values (1-3 ng/ml) -- cancers that are currently going undetected.
"This is indeed promising results. If we can introduce a more accurate way of testing for prostate cancer, we'll spare patients unnecessary suffering and save resources for society," says Professor Grönberg. "The STHLM3 tests will be available in Sweden in March 2016 and we will now start validating it in other countries and ethnic groups"
The study was financed by the Stockholm County Council. Professor Grönberg is a researcher at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Karolinska Institutet. | positive |
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EDINBURGH (Reuters) - The number of early applicants to British universities from other European Union countries has dropped by 9 percent year-on-year following Britain’s vote to leave the EU, official data showed.
The figures may be an early sign that the vote has deterred EU nationals from coming to study in Britain, where universities have warned that Brexit could endanger funding and access to research projects, making it harder to attract quality staff.
A first batch of data on courses starting in September 2017 showed that the number of applicants from other EU countries had dropped by 620 compared with figures for September 2016 entry, to 6,240.
The data, from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS), covered courses requiring early applications, which are medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine at any British university, and any course at Oxford or Cambridge.
UCAS will publish full data on all applications for 2017 university entry in February.
In September, Oxford came top of the widely respected Times Higher Education global university league table for the first time, but its vice-chancellor warned that Brexit could damage its long-term prospects. | positive |
The field of artificial intelligence may not be able to create a robotic vacuum cleaner that never knocks over a vase, at least not within a couple of years, but intelligent machines will increasingly replace knowledge workers in the near future, a group of AI experts predicted.
An AI machine that can learn the same way humans do, and has the equivalent processing power of a human brain, is still a few years off, the experts said. But AI programs that can reliably assist with medical diagnosis and offer sound investing advice are on the near horizon, said Andrew McAfee, co-founder of the Initiative on the Digital Economy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
For decades, Luddites have mistakenly predicted that automation will create large unemployment problems, but those predictions may finally come true as AI matures in the next few years, McAfee said Monday during a discussion on the future of AI at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C.
Innovative companies will increasingly combine human knowledge with AI knowledge to refine results, McAfee said. “What smart companies are doing is buttressing a few brains with a ton of processing power and data,” he said. “The economic consequences of that are going to be profound and are going to come sooner than a lot of us think.”
Rote work will be replaced by machines
Many knowledge workers today get paid to do things that computers will soon be able to do, McAfee predicted. “I don’t think a lot of employers are going to be willing to pay a lot of people for what they’re currently doing,” he said.
Software has already replaced human payroll processors, and AI will increasingly move up the skill ladder to replace U.S. middle-class workers, he said. He used the field of financial advising as an example.
It’s a “bad joke” that humans almost exclusively produce financial advice today, he said. “There’s no way a human can keep on top of all possible financial instruments, analyze their performance in any rigorous way, and assemble them in a portfolio that makes sense for where you are in your life.”
But AI still has many limitations, with AI scientists still not able to “solve the problem of common sense, of endowing a computer with the knowledge that every 5-year-old has,” said Paul Cohen, program manager in the Information Innovation Office at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and founding director of the University of Arizona School of Information’s science, technology and arts program.
There is, however, a class of problems where AI will do “magnificent things,” by pulling information out of huge data sets to make increasingly specific distinctions, he added. IBM’s recent decision to focus its Watson AI computer on medical diagnostics is a potential “game changer,” he said.
Matching data to profiles
“Medical diagnosis is about making finer and finer distinctions,” he said. “Online marketing is about making finer and finer distinctions. If you think about it, much of the technology humans interact with is about putting you in a particular bucket.”
McAfee agreed with Cohen about the potential of AI for medical diagnosis. “I have a very good primary care physician, but there’s no possible way he can stay on top of all the relevant medical knowledge he would have to read,” he said. “Human computers are amazing, but they have lots of glitches. They have all kinds of flaws and biases.”
AI machines are still a ways off from equalling the processing power of the human brain, but that’s largely a problem with hardware resources, said Peter Bock, an emeritus professor of engineering at George Washington University. Scientists should be able to build an AI device that matches the processing power of a human brain within 12 years, he predicted.
That AI device would then take several years to learn the information it needs to function like a human brain, just as a child needs years to develop, he said.
One audience member asked the AI experts if the technology will ever replace computer programmers.
If scientists are eventually able to build an AI machine that has the processing power of a human brain, that machine “could become a programmer,” Bock said. “She might become an actress. Why not? They can be anything they want.”
DARPA now has a project that focuses on using software to assemble code, by pulling from code that someone has already written, Cohen said. Many programmers today focus more on assembling code from resources such as StackOverflow.com, instead of re-creating code that already exists, he said, and DARPA has automated that process.
Humans still have to tell the assembling program what they want the final code to do, he noted.
At some point, an AI program may be able to write code, but that’s still years off, McAfee said. In order to deny that could never happen, “you’d have to believe there’s something ineffable about the human brain, that there’s some kind of spark of a soul or something that could never be understood,” he said. “I don’t believe that.”
There are things humans can still do, however, that have “proved really, really resistant to understanding, let alone automation,” McAfee added. “I think of programming as long-form creative work. I’ve never seen a long-form creative output from a machine that is anything except a joke or mishmash.” | positive |
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Solar cells based on perovskite crystals have made unparalleled advances in performance in the past decade, but most research on these devices has neglected the question of how stable they might be outdoors for long periods of time. Now two research groups have come up with different ways to improve perovskite solar cell stability, findings detailed in two papers in the journal Science.
One approach added rubidium cations to perovskite. "We believe this may help to relax lattice strain, resulting in a more defect-free overall crystal," says Michael Saliba, lead author of that study and a solar cell researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.
The resulting devices reached conversion efficiencies of up to 21.6 percent. In addition, "[W]e measure some of the highest open-circuit voltages for any recorded solar cell material, meaning that we are very close [to] the thermodynamical limit," Saliba says. The open-circuit voltage is the maximum voltage available from a solar cell.
In addition, these devices also maintained 95 percent of their performance even at 85 degrees C and full illumination after 500 hours. "Up until now, perovskite solar cells were rather an academic subject, since the stability was never compatible with industrial testing," Saliba says. "There is very little data at elevated temperature."
The other approach developed a fluorinated polymer coating "that can readily solve two of the most severe degradation pathways that affect the long-term performance of perovskite solar cells — namely, ultraviolet light-induced degradation and moisture-induced degradation," says Gianmarco Griffini, co-lead author of that study and a materials engineer at Milan Polytechnic in Italy.
Griffini and his colleagues experimented with organometal halide perovskite solar cells, which have demonstrated high conversion efficiency but do not tolerate ultraviolet light or water. They created the coating on the devices using a light-based curing technique that only required a few seconds and can be carried out at room temperature.
The water-repellant coating protects the solar cells from water and luminescent pigments inside the coating convert ultraviolet light to visible light to simultaneously prevent degradation and enhance performance. All in all, the cells demonstrated conversion efficiencies that reached nearly 19 percent under standard illumination.
Most previous studies reported stability tests lasting only hours or days, "which are most of the times carried out in a controlled environment — typically an inert atmosphere, such as nitrogen or argon," Griffini says. In contrast, Griffini and his team found that coated devices retained nearly their full performance even after more than six months of humidity and ultraviolet irradiation tests in the lab, as well as three months of outdoor tests under a variety of temperatures and weather conditions.
"We demonstrated that one single coating material can in fact stabilize perovskite solar cells in continuous outdoor operations," Griffini says. "Our work represents a clear milestone."
Correction: Gianmarco Griffini's affiliation is Milan Polytechnic and not Turin Polytechnic as originally published. | positive |
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Marvin the Manhunter
Hey, everybody! Fun update that I’m sure most readers will enjoy, I’m no longer writing about suggestions on a biweekly basis! Instead, they’re gonna be EVERY week! Yaaaaaay! This is happening because I have a backlog of over, like, 50 suggestions, and at the rate I’m going, it would be 2017 by the time I take care of all of them. Plus, most of them are from a month ago, so… yeah. I’ve gotta deliver on promises. Except any promises I made about actually having a consistent schedule, because fuck that noise.
Anyways, let’s get to work. This week’s character was suggested by u/irregularcog over on reddit, because where else would my suggestions come from? Also, gonna go ahead and say hello to any fans of the Best Friends Zaibatsu reading this, because that’s mostly who this article is for. Your days of being fed misinformation about DC characters are over! Break free from your shackles! Maybe make the Best Friends themselves read these! You are all freeeeeeee nooooooooow
Martian Manhunter is a really fun character, and one that people are actually probably familiar with at least in passing thanks to the phenomenal Justice League cartoon from the DCAU’s heyday. However, most fans actually don’t know all that much about him, as a big part of his appeal on the show was that he was mysterious and, well, alien. Plus, you know, he was a cool guy. If you’ve never seen the JL show, and are a Marvel fan who has seen Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes (which is fucking awesome! everybody give it a shot!), think of him as Space Black Panther.
But of course, that couldn’t be farther away from who he really is, so let’s ruin that mysterious facade with knowledge, shall we? Without further ado, let’s fake an education in comics.
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SCENARIO: I should probably refine these parts of the articles, but fuck that. Anyways, Martian Manhunter has actually been getting another boost in public awareness recently, what with his solo series being pretty good, his getting a new secret origin (we’ll discuss that later), and his being a recurring character on Supergirl. So, of course, a lot of people are going to pretend to know what they’re talking about with him, which is a shame for their dignity, because I will teach you to destroy them. You will be forged into a spearhead thrust into the heart of… some nebulous antagonistic force, I guess. Or not, I’m not a cop.
But you know who is a cop? Martian Manhunter. You know who people are going to dismiss as a B-List Superman knock-off for years now? Martian Manhunter. You know who’s a way more complex and interesting character than that? Martian. Fucking. Manhunter. Much like last week, where I discussed the differences between Moon Knight and Batman, this week is gonna have a slight focus on Martian Manhunter and Superman.
Oh, and uh, pretend I did the whole “some asshole said wrong things to you and you correct them” bit here. Saves us all some time until I can come up with a better thing.
Step One: Oh Boy Apostrophes
I’m as unenthusiastic about most of New 52 as the next guy, but damn, is that a great panel or what?
Anyways, get ready for some really bad alien names. Martian Manhunter, better known among his people as J’onn J’onzz (which is kind of pronounced the same way a guy drunk off his ass would say John Jones, because creativity was hard in the fifties), was born to M’yrnn and Sha’Sheen, alongside his twin. Twins are, apparently, a huge deal on Mars, so they were treated accordingly. J’onn, being the hero of our story, got named, well, J’onn J’onzz, which means “Light to the Light”, because of course it does. Meanwhile, J’onzz’ twin brother got screwed, being born without Martian telepathy, and was named Ma’alefa’ak, which means “Darkness in the Heart”, because of course it fucking does. Seriously, that’s almost as blatant as Scar’s real name in Lion King translating to garbage, while Mufasa translated to king. Imagine I had twins, and I named one Jesus McSavior, and the other one was born disabled, so I named him Chth’Rhakh, He of the Many Mouths, He who is Devourer, He who is the Singer of the End Song. Shit’s whack, yo.
Things went pretty well for J’onn. He joined the Manhunters, which are basically Martian police. I have no idea why the Martian police would have a police force that includes a term for a species that doesn’t exist on Mars, but what the hell. Also, I’d like to point out that a Martian coming to Earth and taking the name Martian Manhunter for his superhero name is the equivalent of a human coming to, let’s say Mars, and naming himself Human Cop.
…That actually sounds like a great comic.
Getting back on track, J’onn got married to a “lady” named M’yri’ah and had a family. Remember kids, if you need to come up with like, 30 alien names by lunch, just take existing names and nouns or adjectives, and fuck em up with apostrophes and spelling errors like crazy. No one will notice until it’s too late. Meanwhile, while J’onn was having fun doing Space Law and Order, Ma’alefa’ak The Clearly Evil was engineering a super virus that he called H’ronmeer’s Curse, because it turns out living without a huge portion of what makes your species unique does not create well-adjusted individuals. The virus, being incredibly fucking evil, responded to Martian telepathy, tuning in to the Martian’s biologically programmed fear of fire, reading through those instinctual memories, and then using them to cause the host body to spontaneously combust. This resulted in what was basically the genocide of the Martian people, which makes a lot more sense than the whole Kryptonite thing, because it was basically a version of the Holocaust that worked like the flu. This, understandably, drove J’onn kind of insane, because literally everyone he had ever known and loved was dead. In some versions of his backstory, he remained alone on Mars for centuries, meticulously digging graves for and burying every single dead Martian. That’s at least a couple million graves.
This meant, of course, that it was the perfect time for some scientist to beam him to Earth, stealing him away from his home to do menial bullshit.
Due to being, you know, completely fucking bonkers, Manhunter formed a psychic bond with the scientist, who then understood every memory in Manhunter’s life. Sensing how traumatized J’onn was, the scientist used his own mind to fabricate a completely bullshit history inspired by fifties sic-fi serials and Edgar Rice Burrows, which is hands down my favorite retcon to explain shitty Golden Age backstories ever. Seriously, learning that and then learning J’onn’s true history is pretty cool.
Anywho, seeing J’onn shape shift a couple minutes later caused the scientist to have a heart attack, which was later retconned, but who cares, because that’s hilarious. Immediately after kind of accidentally murdering a guy, J’onn decides to be a champion of Earth, because, well, Mars is pretty dead you guys. He has an interesting take on the superhero role though, often using his shapeshifting abilities to save lives from behind the scenes, working as a human on the police force or undercover as a criminal in a gang. He still flies around as a big ol green guy every now and then though. He is also a founding member of the original Justice League of America, which is pretty big fucking deal, but no, by all means, everyone keep sidelining him in favor of Cyborg, he’s waaaaaaaaay cooler than an alien being with a distinct personality and powerset.
Every now and then J’onn disappears fully into his role as a human, usually taking the name John Jones (duh), but he usually adheres to his Martian heritage when not in hiding. He goes through a lot of adventures with the JLA, attempting to overcome his inherent fear of fire all the while, as well as being pretty much one of the greatest heroes of all time in terms of success rate. He was of course rewarded for his efforts by being murdered by the Secret Society of Supervillains a few decades later.
To be fair though, he did come back during Blackest Night/Brightest Day, but that’s an event that I’ll talk about more when I get to a Lantern character.
Oh, also he fucking loves Oreos. Like, the way a crackhead loves crack. It’s pretty endearing.
Step Two: New 52, New Origin
After being shafted pretty hard for the first few years of comic books after the New 52 reboot, J’onn eventually kind of rose back to prominence. He got a really great series as a result of DCYou (ugh, that is the worst name), in which we got a ton of expansion on Martian lore. Plus, Mr. Biscuits.
For the uninitiated, Mr. Biscuits is like Poochy if he were good, but we can get to that a bit later.
Manhunter’s solo series is, well, it’s amazing. I have nothing bad to say about it. But it also is partially responsible for something that I… have issues with. In a bid to, supposedly, give Martian Manhunter a more distinct origin story from Superman’s, it turned out that J’onn was actually a poet chosen by a coalition of Martian scientists to act as the conscience for a temporary fusion of all of Mars’ most powerful warriors and most brilliant thinkers. So basically he’s a sick-ass Voltron now. However, Ma’alefa’ak murdered most of the scientist in order to permanently fuse and empower the Manhunter through the apparently valid method of ANCIENT MARTIAN BLOOD SACRIFICE.
Just… I don’t even know where to begin. I fucking LOVE the concept of ANCIENT MARTIAN BLOOD SACRIFICE, because hell yeah, that’s metal, but it feels so incredibly unnecessary. Sure, J’onn and Clark always had a bit of a similarity between their losses, but J’onn’s was always distinct. He was a man(hunter) grown when he lost his world, and he spent centuries grappling with the consequences. To be fair though, Martians still end up dying, since the embodiment of Martian nature (yeah, this book is bonkers) is less than thrilled by ANCIENT MARTIAN BLOOD SACRIFICE and kind of just turns the planet off, followed by shooting J’onn through time and space until he ends up on Earth. Idunno, it’s a better explanation for his powers than “that’s just how Martians work man”. Plus, I love typing the phrase ANCIENT MARTIAN BLOOD SACRIFICE.
I would go into more, but frankly, I will not spoil any more of that book than I already have. Everyone go pick it up, it’s fucking amazing.
Step Three: Of Krypton and Mars
Ok, here we go. So a loooooooot of people just see MM as a sort of clone of Superman, and to be fair, they are undeniably similar. However, I would argue that their similarities are outweighed by their differences, and that they act more as interesting counterparts than clones. Both have lost their homes, both are strangers in a strange land (Man, Stranger in a Strange Land is such a good book), both are just ridiculously overpowered. But they are undeniably different. Superman is, to put it as briefly as possible (I have a full rant version of the point I’m about to make, it’ll come up someday), is humanity. He is apart from us, he isn’t even one of us on a biological level, but he represents us. Superman is humanity, all sails to the wind, all hands working together. He is unity.
Meanwhile, we have J’onn. J’onn is, and always has been different. Unlike Superman, he doesn’t naturally look like a human being. He has a harder time adjusting to our culture, because he operates on an entirely different plane than almost any human being on the planet. How could we hope to even begin to understand him? It’s like a gorilla and a human. They can communicate, they can interact, but one is fundamentally lesser than the other on a mental level. J’onn is processing information that we aren’t even aware of, his mind is constantly sifting through data, and that’s while he’s limiting himself to avoid reading an innocent mind without consent, because that’s super rude guys. No matter how much he changes his form to blend in, no matter how close his bonds with humanity, he will never be one of us. Superman lost his home as an infant, he grew up on Earth, knowing what he had lost, but never truly knowing the pain of that loss. J’onn can look up at where his home is, he can fly there and wander it’s barren plains, he can stumble through the ruins of Mars, but he will never, never have it back. He will never escape that pain. The faces of his family, of his people, will haunt him for an eternity and beyond, and that loneliness will eat away at him until the day he dies. He is a modern Holocaust survivor, he has been subjected to loss and pain that most would never understand, and that even fewer would be able to talk him through.
Oh, and most of the Martian survivors that have turned up over the years have been total assholes. Plus, MM could beat the shit out of Superman, that’s just a fact. He has super strength, concussive energy blasts, shape shifting, density control, telepathy, telekinesis, flight… as long as he can avoid getting set on fire, he’s gonna be just fine.
On the one hand, you have the champion of Earth, humanity’s will and unity manifest. On the other, you have the soul of a dead people, watching us from the stars, unable to decide between two homes, between past and future.
Also, MM is green. I mean, come on, how different could you get.
Step Four: Last of the Last Sons
So we’ve already established that MM is really, really important to DC and the Justice League. But for some reason, it seems like he’s been phased out of the main DCU. He’s gone from being, let’s face it, one of the best characters in comics, to one of the best characters in the DCAU (you teared up during the JL christmas episode with him, don’t lie to me), to… nothing, and slowly back again. Ever since he got ousted from the JL in the New 52 reboot in favor of Cyborg (a choice I will never, ever understand), he’s been on a bit of a downward slope with his representation outside of comic books. He got shafted out of the DC movies, being replaced by Cyborg yet again (seriously, who cares?!), he’s barely in any animated features, and when he was still on the table for the DCCU, he was supposedly going to be reduced to a cheap Hulk knock off. In all fairness, he’s having a little bit of an upswing with his appearances on Supergirl, and he was a fun DLC character in Injustice.
But to go from a founding member of the Justice League, arguably the biggest superhero team of all time, to a character that barely anyone knows anymore? That’s unforgivable. I mean, I can understand why you would pick him to get rid of if you had to replace someone on the Justice League, but that doesn’t mean I agree with it. Like, at all. I get it, he’s the least prominent of the seven, and even Aquaman is a household name thanks to people thinking he’s dumb and lame, but this is like getting rid of Ant Man in favor of, idunno, Wonder Man? No, Cyborg is better than that. Look, it’s just nonsensical, is what I’m saying. It’s not like the JL needed more tech help, Batman pretty much has that covered. Or hell, why not just keep both on the team? Make it an 8 person group. Boom, everybody’s happy, except probably not because this is comic books we’re talking about, there’s always gonna be anger.
In Conclusion
Martian Manhunter is important, and he deserves better. That’s all I have left to say on the matter, beyond the fact that Chocos are probably better than Oreos, and they would be an amazing marketing opportunity if MM ever got his movie. I don’t know about you guys, but I would buy Martian Oreos.
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The unilateral move by the California Independent System Operator, or ISO, came at the end of a chaotic week in which energy prices spiraled out of control and the world's seventh-largest economy was threatened by blackouts. Originally meant to have a small role in the state's deregulated market, the ISO, which guarantees electricity reliability, has lately found itself buying as much as one-third of the power consumed daily. In order to do so, the ISO has paid ever-higher prices for last-minute power purchases. On Monday, it spent $5 million. By Friday, the figure had climbed to $81 million. Generators, which already had 30% of the state's power plants down for repairs after running them hard all summer, offered progressively less power to a computerized day-ahead market run by a state-sanctioned auction. They held back thousands of megawatts, offering the juice to the ISO only if prices got high enough. That put the ISO in the position of having to beg and haggle for power, despite the fact that actual demand wasn't anything extraordinary. "My people were making phone deals -- 10 to 15 an hour -- when I needed them running the grid," said Terry Winter, ISO chief executive. "We had a gun to our head." In the end, the ISO took the rogue action of abandoning its "hard price cap" of $250. It did so without advance approval of its governing board, Gov. Gray Davis or even the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, to which the ISO reports. Nevertheless, the four-member commission concurred with the move, at least temporarily, noting the "extraordinary circumstances occurring in California." The energy commission is expected to issue on Wednesday an important order on what is to be done with the California problem. Mr. Winter said he got tired of waiting around as politicians and bureaucrats debated a fix for California's broken energy market, which saw prices soar to record levels even before last week and which has put the state's main utilities at risk of eventual insolvency. "I wanted some accountability for these outrageous costs," Mr. Winter said. Gov. Davis, who has come under fire from consumer groups for the sharply rising energy costs, immediately lambasted the ISO for what he called an "outrageous assault" on consumers. Gov. Davis, who favors a $100 price cap -- a level that generators say is below their operating costs -- threatened to "dismantle" the ISO in retaliation. Generators and traders, on the other hand, said that by freeing up prices, the ISO is actually doing what is necessary to make sure the market works. They argue a better match of supply and demand should eventually bring down prices. "Price caps distort the market," says Kenneth Lay, chairman of Enron Corp., the nation's largest energy trader. Even if that is the case, relief may not come quickly. A cold snap is increasing electrical demand throughout much of the West, soaking up juice that otherwise could be available to California. What's more, the price of natural gas -- the fuel for many power plants -- has shot up to unprecedented highs recently. Natural-gas prices, at $2 to $3 per million British thermal units a year ago, are now trading on the spot market at around $40 to $60, by far the highest level in the country. The ISO action, though, should give the organization some breathing room. By promising generators they can offer energy at more than $250 per megawatt hour and not have their bids rejected outright, the ISO saw the amount of juice offered on Friday jump from nearly zero to 3,000 megawatts, giving it the biggest cushion it had all week. Some of the offers came in below $250. 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Giveaway, Excerpt, Trailer: Coop by Giulia Lagomarsino Skip to main content Musings of an Independent Artist Search Search This Blog Giveaway, Excerpt, Trailer: Coop by Giulia Lagomarsino Get link Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Other Apps Coop Giulia Lagomarsino (Reed Security, #22) Publication date: April 13th 2020 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance Coop Becky is life. She’s the sunshine that lights up my world. But for some reason, I just can’t seem to fully commit. Everything in my head is screwing with me, and if I don’t figure it out soon, I’ll lose her. And to make matters worse, my sweet angel of a daughter has turned into a rebellious seventeen year old that is doing everything in her power to kill me. Something’s gotta give or I’m going to lose everything I’ve fought for in my life. Becky Coop has always been a mystery, but he was my mystery. Now, though, I can’t take any more. I want him, but I want all of him. If he can’t let me in, I can’t stick around. I need the whole man, not just the pieces he’s willing to give me. But even if I get him, can I hold onto him? He’s the one thing I want most in this world, but I have a feeling that things aren’t going to go my way. Goodreads / Amazon — EXCERPT: “You want to do what?” Storm asked. “We’re going to scare the shit out of Kayla.” “And why would we do that?” Tacoman asked. “Because she’s breaking the fucking rules, and one of these times, it’s not going to turn out so well for her.” Storm shoved his gun in his holster and then strapped on his knife. Tacocheese was putting on his vest. “I’m still not seeing what you hope to accomplish,” Storm grumbled. “Hey, Thunders, when you have kids, you’ll understand.” “Kids? Ha, never gonna happen. Troublemakers, all of them.” “Exactly. The plan is, we’ll surround the house and then storm in, scaring the shit out of Kayla and whoever she’s with.” “You want us to storm someone’s house?” Tacoman shook his head. “Not happening. You’re gonna get us all arrested.” “We have Sean on speed dial. It’ll be fine.” “No, I’m pretty sure we’re all gonna end up in jail.” I glared at Tachocheese. “Are you a man or a pussy?” “A man?” “If this was your kid, sneaking out of the house at all hours, showing up at someone else’s house, someone you have no fucking clue about, wouldn’t you do anything you could to make sure that she thought twice about ever doing something so stupid again?” “I don’t know. I think I’d let it play out and see what she’s up to.” “And that’s the difference between us. I’m not leaving my kid in a potentially dangerous situation that could get her killed. What if she’s with a rapist right now and doesn’t even know it? They hide in plain sight, hunting the weak.” “But Kayla’s not weak,” Storm pointed out. “Doesn’t matter. She’s inexperienced. Anyone can see that and they will use it against her.” “I still think this is fucking ridiculous,” he grumbled as he strapped on the last of his gear. “Rob, come in,” I said over coms. “I read you loud and clear.” “Send me the address. We’re heading out.” “Copy that.” We headed for the SUV and climbed in. I was driving because I was pissed and needed control over something right now. It was a short drive into town. I parked a block away from the address and hurried down the street, sticking to the shadows. “Alright, Storm, you head for the back door. Tacocheese, you’ve got the garage door. I’ll take the front. I want all the information we can before we enter. If you see the target in trouble, we move in right away.” “Just for the record, I don’t think Kayla would like being called a target,” Storm said. I slapped him upside the head, ignoring his scowl. “Let’s move out.” I made my way through the bushes to the front door, peeking inside the windows as I went. I was just about to get in position when I saw her move through the house, laughing at some asshole that was trying to grab at her. I saw red. “Target acquired. Everyone in position.” I tested the front door, checking to see if it was locked. It was. At least I knew she was trying to remain safe indoors. “Copy that,” Storm said. “Ready to storm this nice suburban house.” “Yeah,” Tacocheese grumbled. “I’m ready for jail.” “Move out.” I kicked at the door twice and then gave a final boot to the door and watched it swing wide open, banging against the wall. I saw the look of shock on Kayla’s face as I moved into the living room and cleared the area. The asshole moved in front of her, trying to protect her. Wrong fucking move. “Down on your knees,” I shouted, pointing my gun at him. I knew that Tony Tacos and Storm were clearing the rest of the house, so I kept my gun trained on this asshole. He slowly moved to his knees, but my girl stood tall, refusing to get down. Obviously, she knew who I was. She would recognize the gear anywhere. “Kayla, baby, get down. Just do as he says.” “No,” she said defiantly. I walked forward slowly and placed my boot right over the fucker’s fingers, slowly lowering the weight of my body on top of his hand. He screamed in agony, but I remained staring at Kayla. “Still want to stay standing?” I asked her. “You’re being an asshole,” she shouted. “An asshole,” I repeated, lifting my boot just enough to kick the fucker in the side. He tipped over, holding his side and gasping for air. Kayla stared at me incredulously. “What are you doing? You’re gonna get thrown in jail!” “Kayla,” the fucker whimpered. “Just do as he says.” I waited for her to listen, but my defiant little girl just wouldn’t do it. I quickly snatched him off the floor and held him against my body, my arm wrapped around his throat. Tony Tacos and Storm entered the room, both with wide eyes. “Oh shit,” Tacos grumbled. “We’re so going to jail.” “Should I call Cap?” Storm asked. “He would do the same fucking thing if it was Caitlin,” Tony answered. “Just…don’t kill him,” Storm said, narrowing his eyes at me. I grinned maniacally. “I’ll take that into consideration.” I turned to the kid, whispering in his ear. “Have you ever felt the sting of a really sharp blade against your neck?” He shook his head wildly. “That’s a shame. It’s really a very…exciting feeling. Let me show you.” I pulled out my knife and slid it ever so slowly against his neck, not actually putting him in any danger. I was quite good with a knife and there was no chance that I would accidentally nick him. “Doesn’t it make you feel alive?” He shook his head slightly. “Dad, would you stop fucking with him?” Kayla said in exasperation. “Dad? This is your dad?” the fucker shouted. “Nice to meet you. You can call me Mr. Cooper.” Author Bio: I'm a stay at home mom that loves to read. Some of my favorite titles are Pride and Prejudice, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Horatio Hornblower. I started writing when I was trying to come up with suggestions on ways I could help bring in some extra money. I came up with the idea that I could donate plasma because you could earn an extra $500/month. My husband responded with, "No. Find something else. Write a blog. Write a book." I didn't think I had anything to share on blog that a thousand other mothers hadn't already thought of. I decided to take his challenge seriously and sat down to write my first book, Jack. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed writing. From there, the stories continued to flow and I haven't been able to stop. I hope my readers enjoy my books as much as I enjoy writing them. Between reading, writing, and taking care of three small kids, my days are quite full. 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Trying Recipes from Queer Eye – Butternut Squash Soup – Hudson Valley Dog Mom Skip to content Hudson Valley Dog Mom Bits and Bobs and My Dog Menu YouTube Videos Other Writing Contact Me Cooking Trying Recipes from Queer Eye – Butternut Squash Soup Posted by hudsonvalleydogmom on August 14, 2019 August 14, 2019 Queer Eye is literally the best show ever made; those boys are so fucking cute, and make me laugh and cry and believe that there’s good stuff in this life, and I want to nominate my mom and be best friends with JVN, because we could have the most gorg friendship moment of all time; seriously take me ice skating JONATHAN! I’m a super fan, as I’m writing this my t-shirt is French tucked into my pajama pants, and you better believeee I’m wearing a JVN approved skincare routine. But we’re here to talk about my second favorite thing, FOOD. Antoni always talks about how food can bring anyone together, so PLZ let these recipes bring me and the FAB 5 together like ASAP. The kitchen moment on each episode is maybe a close second to any scene with JVN, Antoni’s broad shoulders, his leather jackets, the fresh ingredients, I’m drooling over ALL of it. ANTONI PLEASE COME OUT WITH A COOKBOOK. I decided to try and recreate some of his recipes in my kitchen, even though I’m a little struggs to func in the cooking department…but here goes nothing! First up, Antoni’s Butternut Squash Soup – this soup was featured in season four’s final episode, when Matt prepared his farm to table dinner in the cutest barn ever with the cutest twinkle lights ever, with the cutest confidence ever. So, here’s what I did. I chopped and cubed 2 butternut squash, rough chopped 1 onion, rough chopped 2 stalks of celery, and laid them all out on a baking sheet, drizzled with EVOO, and sprinkled with salt&pepper, then I laid 4 sprigs of rosemary-Christmas-smelling-realness over top and baked at 400 degrees for about 45-50 minutes. Next, I took all my beautiful roasted veggies and put them in a soup pot, I removed the sprigs of rosemary and then added chicken broth to make the veggies a stew-like consistency, I let the veggies sit in their self-care-chicken-broth-bath until the broth turned orange in color, then poured the whole mix into a blender, I started with the lowest setting and worked my way up to high, then paused to add in one tiny container of heavy cream, returned to the pan and heated through. LET ME TELL YOU, this soup is serving creamy-dreamy-fall-realness and is absolutely FAB 5 approved. It was buttery, I didn’t use any butter, does butter come from butternut squash…just kidding! But, is butter a carb? Anywayyy, this recipe was absolutely amaze, also worth noting that Antoni did use garlic for his veggie roast, I chose not to as I wanted a little bit of a sweeter taste, also feel like you could totally use more veggies if you wanted to, maybe a little sweet potato, maybe some gorg carrots, and so easy to make vegan by swapping chicken broth for veggie broth and subbing in your fav milk/cream alt instead of heavy cream (I’m looking at you @yellowbearbaker)! 10/10 would recommend. Share this: Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Like this: Like Loading... antonibutternut squashfab 5fall recipejvnnetflixqueer eyerecipe Post navigation Previous Post It’s All Happening! 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Excerpt: 'The Hidden Brain'
The Hidden Brain
By Shankar Vedantam
Hardcover, 288 pages
Spiegel & Grau
List price: $26.00
The Siren's Call
Disasters and the Lure of Conformity
We have seen how unconscious bias plays a role in simple decisions such as whether to give a waitress an extra-large tip, or to buy a stock with a complicated ticker code. We have seen the effects of the hidden brain in professional settings and in the minds of young children. The remaining chapters of this book each focus on an important issue and examine the effects of unconscious bias in that domain. Subsequent chapters will examine the automatic biases of suicide terrorists, the role of unconscious racism in death penalty sentencing and in presidential elections, and the effects of bias on moral decision-making. This chapter focuses on the role of the hidden brain during disasters.
The Belle Isle bridge in Detroit was not designed with a psychology experiment in mind. But on an August night some years ago, it became a laboratory for the study of human nature. Being on a bridge is in some respects like being in an elevator or on a passenger plane. It's an experience so familiar that we barely register it as an experience at all. But when things go wrong, a bridge can quickly turn into something very different: a confined space where large numbers of people are surrounded by total strangers.
The nineteen cantilevered arches of the Belle Isle bridge span 2,356 feet. Two lanes of traffic run in each direction between Detroit and its favorite public park, the island of Belle Isle. Thirty feet below the cars, the currents of the Detroit River run swiftly toward Lake Erie. On a clear day with no traffic, a car going thirty-five miles an hour can cross the bridge in forty-five seconds. But such speed is inconceivable on summer nights, when traffic clogs the bridge in both directions. Hundreds of cars can be jammed together, inches separating one bumper from the next. Although most people don't think about it, the fact is from the moment they drive onto the bridge until the moment they get off, they are trapped.
The third Friday night in August 1995 was a typical summer night. Countless young people from Detroit came over the bridge to Belle Isle. Cars cruised around a portion of the island known as the strip. People rolled down their windows and drove slowly; the idea was to watch and be watched. Loud music blared from the cars. It was late. Midnight came and went. Somewhere in the crowd, a thirty-three year-old woman took a drag on a marijuana joint. Deletha Word was four feet eleven inches tall and weighed one hundred fifteen pounds. She had a dog by her side. Deletha was chatting with someone she had met at Belle Isle that evening. What were they talking about? Perhaps just the minutiae of everyday life. Deletha, who was known to her family as Lisa, worked at a grocery store. She was finishing a marketing degree, after which she hoped to pursue a career in fashion. She had a thirteen-year-old daughter.
A young man materialized from the darkness. A suitor. Martell Welch was six foot one and weighed nearly three hundred pounds, a former high school football player. As Deletha's acquaintance would later recount, the petite woman wasn't interested. But the nineteen year-old was insistent. He reached out and touched Deletha. She pulled back. Martell pressed forward. Words rang out. As he made himself more unpleasant—and more intimidating—Deletha could think of only one way to extricate herself. She jumped into her station wagon and drove off—her hurry so great that she forgot to take her dog. She headed for the bridge. By now, she was thoroughly rattled. When she looked into her rearview mirror, she saw that the hulk had jumped into his car and was coming after her. Deletha stepped on the gas, desperate to get some distance from her pursuer before they reached the bottleneck of the bridge.
Twenty-three-year-old Tiffany Alexander had been at a small gathering at a friend's place that evening. Detroit in August can be hot and sticky, and someone suggested a drive. Tiffany grabbed her cellphone and climbed into the back of a GMC Jimmy. There were two men and another woman in the car. The friends drove to Belle Isle and started a leisurely cruise around the island. They were about three-quarters of the way around when Tiffany, who was sitting behind the driver, saw something out of the corner of her eye. A Plymouth Reliant station wagon shot by. It was going fast, maybe twice the twenty-five-miles-per-hour speed limit. A moment later, another car whizzed past. It was a Chevy Monte Carlo.
By the time Tiffany and her friends reached the bridge, the car chase was over. Deletha and Martell had been brought to a stop by the traffic on the bridge; Martell had caught up with Deletha and had pulled up to her rear bumper. In her panic, Deletha threw the station wagon into reverse, and backed right into the Monte Carlo. There was a jarring bump. Before Deletha could move, Martell jumped out and raced over to the station wagon. There were three other young men in the car with Martell, and they got out, too. As the SUV Tiffany was in pulled alongside the two stationary cars, she saw a large man reach through the window of the Plymouth station wagon and grab hold of a small woman. Martell hauled Deletha up and out. Yanking her partially through the window, he flexed his fingers into a fist and hit her. Martell pinned her against the window frame, and pounded on her like a jackhammer. At the sight of the violence, Tiffany involuntarily slouched down in her seat. She couldn't see Deletha's face, but she could see Martell clearly. Deletha's body hung halfway out the window. Punch! . . . Punch! . . . Punch! . . . The young woman's body shuddered with the blows—Tiffany could not believe it was happening in plain view. Slowly Tiffany's car pulled away from the scene. All the way across the jammed bridge and for a good half mile afterward, Tiffany and her friends talked about the altercation. What could have prompted such violence? What would happen to the woman? Tiffany felt shaken up. She worried about the woman. But it never occurred to her to call the police on her cellphone. Dozens of people, after all, were at the scene—surely someone else would intervene. Behind Tiffany, other cars stopped around the station wagon and the Monte Carlo. Bystanders formed concentric circles of shock and horror. Martell's assault continued. His three friends—and a gaping crowd—looked on, and did nothing to stop him. Twenty-one-year-old Lehjuan Jones saw the football player drag the woman out of her car, strip off her pants, and swear that he was going to kill her. Three car lengths behind the Monte Carlo, a forty-year-old Detroit bus driver named Harvey Mayberry saw a young woman being dragged along the bridge by a young man. Another bystander, twenty-three-year-old Michael Sandford, saw Martell seize Deletha's hair in his fist. The woman struggled, her arms and legs flailing as Martell spun her around like a rag doll. Deletha was trying to find something to hold on to. Harvey Mayberry, the bus driver, saw Martell slam Deletha's head down onto the hood of his car while screaming about the damage the fender bender had inflicted on his vehicle. Blood covered Deletha's face. People watched, openmouthed. Harvey Mayberry felt paralyzed—it wasn't just Martell he was afraid of; he was afraid of the three young men who were with Martell. Raymont McGore, a dockworker who had come upon the scene, also felt paralyzed. If just one other person had stepped forward to help Deletha, the dockworker felt he might have jumped in, too. But no one in the growing circle of bystanders did anything. Martell hoisted Deletha into the air and proffered the naked woman to the crowd.
'Does anybody want some of this bitch?' he screamed. 'Because she has to pay for my car.'
Martell flung Deletha down onto the bridge and kicked her. She lay there, helpless, and the crowd gaped. Martell retrieved a tire iron and began to smash Deletha's station wagon; his friends helped him damage her car. All Deletha wanted was to get away. She woozily crossed over to the other side of the bridge, stumbling past stopped cars and wide-eyed occupants. Dozens of people watched her go, a disoriented woman who had obviously just suffered a grievous assault. No one intervened. Meanwhile, Tiffany Alexander and her three friends came by a police squad car about half a mile after the bridge. They pulled over to see if someone had reported the incident. The cop told them a report had just come in and that police would respond. The friends decided to turn around and see for themselves. Bridge traffic on the way back was clogged. Tiffany's car inched along. Then, up ahead and on the right, beyond a concrete barrier that separated traffic from the sidewalk, Tiffany saw a lone figure walking along the edge of the bridge. Some estimates suggest that from the time the assault began, nearly half an hour had elapsed. Tiffany was close enough to see that Deletha Word was a brown-skinned woman and that her hair was askew. Tiffany and her friends did not get out of their car. The woman stumbled along. Investigators later concluded, from the trail of blood Deletha left behind, that she walked one hundred seventy feet from the scene of the fender bender. When Deletha drew level with Tiffany's SUV, she looked over her shoulder. It was like a scene from a horror movie: Martell was coming after her again. He was now carrying the tire iron. Deprived of escape and surrounded by dozens of gawking witnesses who seemed frozen in their cars, Deletha did the only thing possible. She climbed the outer rail of the bridge. Between forty and a hundred people saw what was happening: a lone woman, helpless and terrified, clinging to a rail, perilously hanging thirty feet above the surging currents of the Detroit River. Tiffany's heart was in her mouth. But none of the bystanders lifted a finger.
'You can't go out that way,' Martell taunted. He took another step toward Deletha. He raised the tire iron. He was only six feet away. Deletha looked at Martell and the gaping crowd. The dark water beneath her was terrifying; she did not know how to swim. But between the swirling river and the indifferent strangers on the bridge, she preferred her chances with drowning. She let go of the railing and plummeted from sight. The crowd gasped. It would have taken less than one and a half seconds for her to hit the water. Within a moment, the current had her in its grip. How long did she thrash in terror? It could have been minutes, or much longer. When her drowned body was finally recovered the following day, it had been in the water for nine hours. The corpse was missing a leg. Somewhere along a ten-mile journey downriver, a boat propeller had severed Deletha's right leg at the hip.
In the days that followed, outrage grew over the incident. It turned out that Tiffany Alexander was not alone in failing to use her cellphone to immediately call for help. For an incident that lasted as long as thirty minutes and had dozens of eyewitnesses, hardly anyone alerted police. Officers were nowhere close to the scene when Deletha jumped off the bridge. Martell even made it home safely that night. He was arrested only the next day after detectives spotted a Chevy Monte Carlo on his street with a hockey mask hanging from the rearview mirror—a description that matched eyewitness reports. Prosecutors matched bloodstains on the hood of the Monte Carlo to Deletha Word. Because people were unable to comprehend how so many bystanders could have idly stood by as a fellow human was killed, the story line quickly became exaggerated. The crowd supposedly egged Martell on. Bystanders allegedly laughed at Deletha's plight. Detroiters such as Tiffany Alexander and Harvey Mayberry came to be seen as heartless. In The Des Moines Register, columnist Donald Kaul damned the whole city: 'Detroit makes people crazy.' Criticism flooded in from as far away as Europe and Asia. Police had a difficult time finding people to testify in court against Martell, because anyone who came forward was immediately asked the most obvious question: Why didn't you do anything to help?
For years after the incident, Tiffany Alexander asked herself the same question. And she wasn't alone. Why did Harvey Mayberry, Lehjuan Jones, Raymont McGore, and Michael Sandford not stand up to Martell Welch, when each believed in his heart that it was the right thing to do? Is it possible that everyone on the bridge that night was a callous coward? When asked, each person came up with a reason they had not acted. 'There was nothing I could do, being a woman and him being a big man,' Alexander said, but she knew it wasn't true. Even if people had been afraid to physically intervene, what would it have taken to call the police right away? And even if people had been afraid to intervene on their own, surely they could have confronted Martell as a group? Did Deletha Word have the misfortune of spending her final moments surrounded by a uniquely callous selection of humanity? One piece of evidence suggested otherwise: The bystanders were stricken with guilt afterward. On learning that Deletha was the mother of a thirteen-year-old girl, Tiffany's anguish caused her to burst into action. She decided to step forward, identify Martell from a police lineup, and testify against him in court. Yes, she told police, she had seen the assault begin and had seen it end. After Deletha had plunged to her death, the four friends in Tiffany's car had driven a little farther on the bridge, pulled a U-turn, and passed Martell's car again. Deletha's assailant was on his way home. He was so close that Tiffany could see him mopping perspiration from his brow with a towel. No one else in Tiffany's car wanted to have anything to do with the trial and the adverse publicity. But Tiffany stuck to her decision, even though it meant harassment whenever she left her house. She started wearing a wig to keep people from recognizing her as one of the coldhearted bystanders on the Belle Isle bridge.
What do you think happened on the bridge that night? From the outrage that followed, you would think Deletha had been surrounded by the only people in the world who would not help a victim in distress. Everyone else swore they would have come to her aid. Children in schools told reporters they would not have sat idly by. The right course of action was obvious: Step forward, do something, think for yourself. If Tiffany Alexander, Harvey Mayberry, Lehjuan Jones, Raymont McGore, and Michael Sandford had not been eyewitnesses to a horror but victims themselves, surely they would have expected others to use their heads a little better.
This was my own view of the tragedy when I first heard about it as a reporter. It was not until I started learning about the hidden brain that I realized there was an entirely different way to think about what had happened. The more I learned, the more I came to see that Mayberry, Sandford, McGore, Jones, and Alexander did not really have insight into their own behavior. My research into the tragedy of the Belle Isle bridge led me—unexpectedly—to a beautiful September morning in New York in 2001.
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Turnout was expected to be low for Tuesday's Los Angeles County elections. And there were no surprises on Election Day.
Unofficial figures released early Wednesday put the turnout figure at 11.29 percent.
Of the 593,233 ballots tallied as of early Wednesday, 239,853 -- or roughly 40 percent -- were vote-by-mail, while the rest were cast at the polls, according to the county Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk's office. It was unclear how many late, provisional and questioned ballots still need to be counted, and how they would effect the final turnout figure.
The election included a quarter-cent sales tax measure to combat homelessness, a successful re-election run by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and local council and mayoral races in more than two dozen municipalities. Activity at the polls marked a dramatic change from November, when Los Angeles County turnout was at 69 percent of registered voters.
That figure was still below the state average of 75.27 percent for the Nov. 8 presidential election, which included 17 state ballot propositions.
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An investigation of the California egg producer's facilities revealed birds locked in cramped, overcrowded cages in which they could not fully spread their wings. Decaying corpses lay in cages next to live birds laying eggs for human consumption. Photo by The HSUS
Eight years after voters approved the landmark ballot initiative, and two years after the law took effect, a law enforcement agency today brought criminal charges against a California egg producer, Hohberg Poultry Ranch, in southern California, with 39 counts of violating Prop 2 and 16 other counts of violating the state anti-cruelty code. Specifically, the case was brought by the San Bernardino District Attorney Michael Ramos, who has a unit devoted exclusively to animal cruelty crimes.
Ramos has a proud record of pathbreaking enforcement of animal cruelty laws. In fact, he may be responsible for the most famous prosecution of animal cruelty ever. In 2008, Ramos brought charges against slaughterhouse employees after HSUS investigators documented cattle being dragged by chains and pushed by bulldozers into the kill area. Their prosecution of key parties, along with the HSUS investigation, led to the largest meat recall in American history – more than 143 million pounds. It also led to President Obama barring downer cows in the American food supply.
Now, more than eight years after that case, the San Bernardino district attorney has conducted the first enforcement action under the terms of Prop 2 – which voters approved just months after our Hallmark/Westland investigation cast doubt on the credibility of humane assurances offered up by the meat industry. Prop 2 was the landmark measure that banned extreme confinement of veal calves, breeding sows, and laying hens. Its passage led to a re-examination of the way hens are raised in the United States, triggering a national movement that has resulted in more than 200 of the nation’s biggest food sellers – from McDonald’s to Walmart to IHOP – pledging over time to sell only eggs from hens free of cages. In Massachusetts, voters in November approved a ballot measure, with a 78 percent “yes” vote, to ban cage confinement production in the state and to forbid by 2022 the sale of eggs that come from farms that confine animals in cages.
It all started in California with Prop 2, and that electoral outcome reverberated throughout the agribusiness industry, legislatures, and the corporate food sector. But on the ground, it’s been frustrating to see egg producers flout the standards. As I wrote in 2009, both sides were clear during the Prop 2 debate that the outcome of the measure’s passage would be a cage-free egg industry. But some egg producers changed their tune after the election, claiming they could still keep their birds in cramped cages. Their litigation efforts failed time and again, but they eventually got the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) to promulgate regulations unrelated to Prop 2 that attempted to allow cage confinement, albeit with larger space requirements. The problem for them is that the egg producers must comply both with the CDFA rules and the higher standard of Prop 2. In this case, the evidence is clear that the defendant was confining hens in a manner that is nowhere near compliant with Prop 2. Other egg producers are keeping birds in larger cages, but The HSUS and other proponents of Prop 2 were quite clear that these cages also violate Prop 2. In fact, the agriculture industry long argued that Prop 2 was a de facto cage-free requirement, and new outlets covering Prop 2 did the same.
Ramos’s announcement of charges today should reverberate throughout the California egg industry. And it’s my hope it causes all farmers in the state to get all of the birds out of cages, which would both meet Prop 2’s standards as well as meet market demands.
Indeed, that’s the way things are moving, especially so because so many major food retailers have publicly pledged to move toward cage-free. There’s also been something of a building boom for cage-free in the state, and that includes one major Arizona producer who has committed to building cage-free facilities for as many as 10 million birds in the Central Valley of California.
With the marketplace moving so decisively toward cage-free, there’s really no debate about the future of egg production in California or any other state. Today’s action reminds egg companies that the law must speak, and with a unit of the San Bernardino District Attorney’s office devoted exclusively to animal cruelty crimes, that’s exactly what happened today. | positive |
Beelzebub (Japanese: べるぜバブ, Hepburn: Beruzebabu) is a Japanese manga series about a first year student at a school for juvenile delinquents, written and illustrated by Ryūhei Tamura. Beelzebub was first published in 2008 as a one-shot by Tamura in issue 37-38 of Weekly Shōnen Jump, subsequently winning the fourth Gold Future Cup.[3] The manga was then serialized in the same magazine, from its 13th issue in 2009 to its 13th issue in 2014, then in Shōnen Jump Next!! as Beelzebub Another (べるぜバブ 番外編, Beruzebabu Bangai Hen), from its 2nd issue in 2014 to its 1st issue in 2015.[4]
The Pierrot+ studio produced an OVA of Beelzebub, which was broadcast during the Jump Super Anime Tour in October 2010.[5][6] This was followed by an anime television series which aired in Japan between January 9, 2011 and March 25, 2012.[7]
Plot [ edit ]
The story follows Tatsumi Oga. He is a first year student at a school for juvenile delinquents called Ishiyama High. The story starts with Oga telling his best friend, Takayuki Furuichi, the strange story of how he found a baby. One day while doing 'laundry' by the river, he saw a man floating downstream. Oga pulled him to shore but the man split in half, revealing a baby boy inside. This baby turned out to be the son of the great demon king, and Oga has been chosen as the one to raise him, along with the baby's maid, Hilda. The manga follows Oga's life as he tries to raise the child while enrolled at Ishiyama High.
In the early chapters, he attempts to 'pass on' Beel to other students at Ishiyama, thinking that if he can find someone stronger and more evil than himself, the baby will attach himself to that person instead. He decides to try to pass the baby on to the Touhoushinki, Ishiyama High's strongest four students. Oga meets and fights Hajime Kanzaki, the first member of the Touhoushinki and the one who is closest to dominating the school; however, Oga defeats Kanzaki, which causes Beel to find him even more appealing.
Later, Oga then discovers a peculiar symbol etched on the back of his right hand. Hilda explains that it is the fly king's seal, more commonly known as the Zebul spell, and serves as the family crest of the royal family. The appearance of the seal means that he has officially made a contract with Beel. She also explains that the more evil the bearer of the seal is, the more complex the design of the seal will become. Oga attempts to prevent the seal from growing by avoiding fights with other students, but gives up when Himekawa, the second member of the Touhoushinki, captures Hilda and Furuichi. Oga then infiltrates Himekawa's base to rescue them and defeats him by using the Zebul blast for the first time. The consequences of using the seal's power cause the crest to stretch across his arm. Hilda comments after looking at the crest that the amount of energy it used would have driven a normal human mad.
While visiting the park, Oga then meets a girl named Aoi and her brother, Kouta. Oga asks her immediately to go out with him, which causes a misunderstanding that stays within Aoi's heart. Oga tells Beel to fight Kouta, possibly as a joke, but Kouta accepts the challenge and easily pushes Beel off a bench. This event sparks a rivalry between the two babies. It is later revealed that Aoi, who was in disguise the whole time, is in fact Aoi Kunieda, then, the leader of the Red Tails and another member of the Touhoushinki.
Aoi, who was then away from school during the earlier events of the manga, has returned to Ishiyama High to defeat Oga in order to prevent him from causing any more trouble within the school. When they encounter each other in battle, she realizes that she has already met Oga in the park, but he doesn't recognize her. After he dodges her attacks twice, he notices Beel's interest in Aoi and asks her to become Beel's mother. Although he means for her to replace him as a parent, his request causes another misunderstanding similar to the one in the park. The fight is postponed, and Hilda soon arrives to give Beel his milk. The MK5 make their debut in the story, only to be defeated in a five panel pattern which appears again later in the story. After the fight, Beel senses something which turns out to be the last of the Toushinki, Tojo. Oga, however, does not notice.
Aoi sees Oga and Hilda's fight with the MK5, and believes the rumors that they are husband and wife. She is challenged by Hilda to a fight so she can test her ability, but the fight ends quickly with Hilda deciding that Aoi isn't on the same level as Oga. At the same time, Oga is confronted by Chiaki and Nene. Two female students tell Aoi that Oga injured the two of them, which later turns out to be MK5.
Aoi fights Oga to avenge her two classmates, while Oga assumes that she wants to accept the role of becoming Beel's parent. At the same time, Nene wakes up in the infirmary and goes to warn Aoi of MK5's trap, which turns out to be Miwa's scheme. MK5, however, prevents anyone from interrupting Aoi and Oga's fight. Nene is about to get shot, but Natsume appears and fights with MK5 to allow Nene to tell Aoi. She was unfortunately too late, as Aoi seems to have defeated Oga, and she comes just in time for Miwa and Ikari to take over.
Oga suddenly gets back up and defeats Ikari and Miwa with ease. It is then shown that Furuichi and Hilda have been watching the whole time. Oga, Furuichi, Hilda and baby Beel go to the beach in search of Tojo to hand baby Beel over to him, not knowing that this is a plot set up by Kanzaki and Himekawa, who want Tojo and Oga to crush each other. Aoi goes to the beach as well to warn Oga of Tojo's strength. Oga and the gang have troubles searching for Tojo and are sent on a wild goose chase. Oga decides to write a letter of challenge to Tojo and have Aoi pass it to him. Aoi attempts to tear it up, but one of Tojo's henchmen finds it. They are supposed to meet between the two rocks at 5 PM. Oga is confronted by the MK5 once again, but quickly defeats them and arrives late. Tojo has left after crushing several motorcycle gangs, which inspires Oga to find Tojo. Later, baby Beel starts feeling sick and it appears that he's come down with a cold. However, Oga's tattoo mysteriously vanishes, and later that night Beel disappears. Hilda kicks Oga out of the house and leaves to find help in the demon world. Oga goes off to find Beel, but runs into Tojou, who, as it turns out, has Beel on his back. After a scuffle, Tojo comes out as the victor, and asks Oga to challenge him again sometime. Once Oga gets home, he is in a surprise to find Hilda there waiting for him, with a strange demon doctor known as Dr. Furucas, and his assistant, Lamia. Furucas reveals that the cold is actually Beel's way of coping with a rise of his power, by keeping the energy within himself, and that he cut off the link between him and Oga to protect him. Lamia then injects Oga with a drug that allows him to re-establish the connection with Beel. Oga then goes to confront Tojo with the aid of the three other Tohoshinki. Once he makes it to Tojo, Beel returns to normal and goes back to Oga. Tojo and Oga then have one final duel in which Oga is victorious, but baby Beel's influx of power causes him to destroy Ishiyama.
Due to their school being destroyed, the students of Ishiyama can only go to their sister school, Saint Ishiyama. Initially, they are constantly looked down on, but after a volleyball match against the Six Knights, the negative views towards them stop. During the volleyball match, Oga's demonic power is displayed due to a fight with someone who had a grudge on him, though it is covered up by the Saint Ishiyama president who claimed that it is just a trick. The president turned out to be a demon himself.
A new teacher soon arrives to replace the one teaching the Ishiyama group, knocking out both Oga and Tojo on the same day before carrying them to the classroom. The teacher, Zenjiro Saotome, later appears when Oga, Hilda and Aoi are attacked by Hecadoth, and puts up a fight against the demon. Later, Naga and Graphel, the other two demons who came to the world in search of Oga, appear before Saotome, but Saotome uses his Spellmaster spell to attack them. After realizing that he is a Spellmaster who is too powerful for them to win against, Naga uses a teleporting jewel to take the three demons back to Demon World. After that, Saotome, the spellmaster, although having Oga refuse, ends up training him. After successfully powering up, Oga confronts the demons and defeats them. He later battles with other human-demon contractors and is brutally defeated before eventually gaining more strength and defeating the strongest contractor. The last chapter displays him returning from an adventure to the demon world with another baby on his shoulder.
Media [ edit ]
Manga [ edit ]
The manga series Beelzebub is written and illustrated by Ryūhei Tamura. The first chapter of the manga was published in February 2009 in an issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump shōnen manga magazine, and the succeeding chapters were serialized weekly until its conclusion in February 2014. The first tankōbon volume was released by Shueisha on July 2, 2009;[8] as of May 1, 2015, twenty-eight volumes have been released.[9]
Anime [ edit ]
An anime adaptation has been produced by Pierrot Plus. An original video animation was shown during the Jump Super Anime Tour between October 23 and November 21, 2010. The TV anime premiered on January 9, 2011 on Yomiuri TV and other NNS stations and ended on March 25, 2012.[10] The series' cast included Katsuyuki Konishi as Oga, Miyuki Sawashiro, Shizuka Itou, Aki Toyosaki, Tomokazu Seki, and Takahiro Mizushima. Crunchyroll simulcasted the series in North America and Europe two hours after airing.[11] However, some episodes were postponed and rescheduled following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.[12] The series ended on March 25, 2012 with a total of 60 episodes.[10] The series airs with English subtitles on Animax Asia in Southeast Asia, although it is edited to cover Baby Beel's nudity with a diaper.[13][14] The show has now been picked up for U.S. home video release by Discotek Media.[15]
Music [ edit ]
Opening themes
"Praise☆ The Boss Appears! Beelzebub" ( アッパレ☆番長参上!べるぜバブ , Appare☆ Banchō Sanchō! Beruzebabu ) by Hiroaki Takeuchi (OVA)
by Hiroaki Takeuchi (OVA) "DaDaDa" ( だだだ ) by Group Tamashii (Eps 1-10), and used in the final episode (Eps 60) ending
by Group Tamashii (Eps 1-10), and used in the final episode (Eps 60) ending "The First Goodbye" ( 始まるのは, サヨナラ , Hajimaru no wa, Sayonara ) by On/Off (Eps 11-23)
by On/Off (Eps 11-23) "Hey!!!" by Flow (Eps 24-35)
"Baby U" by MBLAQ (Eps 36-48)
"Only You -My Bonds With You-" ( Only you -キミとのキヅナ- , Only you -Kimito no Kizuna) by Lc5 (Eps 49-60)
Ending themes
Video games [ edit ]
Oga appears as a playable character, assisted by Baby Beel, in the Jump crossover fighting game J-Stars Victory VS. | positive |
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When I was much younger, maybe in my teens, I adopted “go with the flow” as a motto and as a way of life. For me it didn’t mean just following others or not having any idea what I wanted to do. It meant not having too clear a plan, for example going to the train station knowing that there would be a train reasonably soon, rather than going with a particular itinerary in mind. Or walking around in the right area of town trusting that I would find the place I needed to find, rather than having the location clearly mapped out in my mind.
This may have led to me spending too much time waiting at train stations, or asking perfect strangers for directions more frequently than may be respectable. Less kind observers may also have taken my “go with the flow” attitude for a rationalisation of a certain lack of personal organisation or an overly intellectual excuse for a poor sense of direction. But it did insure me against getting too stressed if stuff didn’t go to plan. (Not having a specific itinerary in mind happened to be particularly useful when I became a user of English trains, rather than Swiss ones.)
Speaking of rationalisations and over-intellectualising things, it’s fair to say that “going with the flow” has pretty much the purest intellectual and philosophical ancestry of any useful concept. Ever since Thales of Miletus, one of the first Greek philosophers, thought that water was the primal substance and Pythagoras believed that souls flow from one incarnation to the next, ideas of flux were in philosophical play. But it was Heraclitus of Ephesus who declared that everything flows. And in a way this idea that beyond our reality, where things seem hard and fast and where we assume a certain amount of stability, there is a world in flow, flux, change, and motion is perhaps the original philosophical stance. It is even possible that Heraclitus taught that if everything is in flux then we – our selves – are also impermanent. We only have fragments of his teachings preserved in the writings of later philosophers, often out of context, misquoted or misunderstood. But his tendency to compare the flux of everything to the flow of a river is clear. He says people can’t step into the same river twice. And when this is quoted, there sometimes is a suggestion that those who step into the river aren’t the same either on the two occasions. If we allow for Heraclitus’ concept of “psyche” to stand for a kind of concept of self, it is clear that Heraclitus regarded it as something we could never fully get a grasp of ourselves.
Heraclitus is credited with this original vision of the fleeting world. But what consequences does flux have for our lives? What does it mean for the way we are, that everything, even our own selves are in flux? Perhaps surprisingly the real masters of flux for me, because they aim to address some of these questions, are the Stoics. It was probably the founder of that philosophical school, Zeno of Citium, who declared that a happy life was one that “flowed smoothly.” (And by the way, while we’re talking about Ancient Greek or “Western” philosophy, Thales’ and Heraclitus’ hometowns of Miletus and Ephesus were in an area called Asia Minor, today Turkey, whereas Zeno’s hometown of Citium is in today’s Cyprus, so far East that it’s more or less equidistant between London and Mumbai.)
The word the Stoics used for the “smooth flow” of life is “eurhoia,” a term that is also used in ancient Greek for water that flows clearly without obstacles, and for speech that flows well with a coherent argument. But what does it mean for a life to flow smoothly? It means arranging our life in such a way that the flow of the self moves with the flow of everything else. For the Stoics the flow of everything was not just a random movement of atoms in a chaotic universe but it was a pre-determined course of events guided by fate. Occasionally they metaphorically describe Zeus, the chief of the Greek gods, as the personification of that destiny, at other times it is a divine sequence of cause and effect, represented by the goddess Heimarmene, or just the nature of things. Bringing our own actions, but also our emotions, into line with that natural flow of things that happen in the world, is key to the good life and virtuous life.
One Stoic philosopher compares the human condition guided by destiny to the situation of a dog pulling a cart. The dog’s master will make the dog pull the cart from A to B. The dog may take the attitude that it doesn’t want to pull the cart from A to B. It may try going elsewhere, or it may try to shake off the cart. Then it will be beaten by the master all the way from A to B. It will be an unpleasant experience but the outcome will be that the dog pulls the cart from A to B. Or it can willingly get on with the task and get from A to B without being beaten, a smooth journey. That sounds a bit unfriendly, but there are other ways of putting it. Here’s Diogenes Laertius, the third century biographer of Greek philosophers summarising the teachings of the Stoic, Chrysippus:
“Again, ‘to live according to virtue’ is equivalent to living according to the experience of events which occur by nature, as Chrysippus says […]. For our natures are parts of the nature of the universe. Therefore, the goal becomes ‘to live consistently with nature,’ i.e., according to one’s own nature and that of the universe, doing nothing which is forbidden by the common law, which is right reason, penetrating all things, being the same as Zeus, who is the leader of the administration of things. And this itself is the virtue of the happy man and a smooth flow of life, whenever all things are done according to the harmony of the daimon in each of us with the will of the administrator of the universe.”
The aspect of this that seems most modern about this is the idea of living in accordance with one’s own nature. “The daimon within us” is not a demon, but the kind of minor divinity of the self who can aim to get along with Zeus, the controller of the universe. And this idea of being true to oneself – living in line with our own nature – is expressed in other, practical ways. Cicero, summarising the teachings of the Stoics for the Romans, gives an example (also alluding to the use of “eurhoia” in rhetorics as smoothly flowing speech which would have been important for him, the master orator) :
If anything at all is fitting, then nothing is more fitting than a smooth flow of life as a whole and of individual actions; and you cannot preserve this if you neglect your own nature and imitate that of other people. For just as we should employ the style of speech that is familiar to us to avoid being quite justifiably ridiculed like certain people who drop in Greek words all over the place, so too we should not admit any inconsistency into our actions and our general way of life…
None of this means that we should lazily submit to the thought that it’s just our fate to have certain things happen to us, or it’s just our nature that we are a certain way. The dog still has to pull the cart. It is doing hard work – happily – to get where the master wants it to go. And the inner “daimon” is managing the flow of the self, as a microcosm of the flow of the universe managed by Zeus. That self isn’t fixed. It is in movement. It just flows more smoothly and pleasantly when it goes with the flow of overall destiny.
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Unless No Child Left Behind becomes material to the election, scientifically based research and its siblings (SBR) will remain the most important issue in federal education policy the Presidential candidates have yet to discuss. The reasons why SBR is an obscure talking point in debate over the tertiary topic of program evaluation on the second level campaign issue of public education are easy to state: • Compared to gas prices, the economy, Iraq, Afghanistan and terrorism, education is not among the average American voter’s top priorities. Other things being equal, the candidates’ views on program evaluation don’t influence many voters. As a result, both consider the economy and foreign affairs the decisive arenas, and education a low-cost opportunity to satisfy their bas. Democrats may understand how moving education front and center will tend to divide their party, and Republicans have not grasped that potential. • To the extent public schools are an issue, the easiest strategy for substantive debate is to stick with the holy trinity of school accountability, funding levels and vouchers. Democrat Obama argues that NCLB’s accountability regime is unreasonable, more money is required, and that vouchers are incompatible with public education. Republican McCain takes the opposing view. To suggest some creativity and independence, each candidate has added the traditional billion dollar barrel of pet projects. Candidates and campaigns managers are comfortable with this set piece engagement, because it leaves them to do what they know how to do. • If a candidate were to consider adding a new argument to the education policy troika, the subject of program evaluation seems too hard to explain in a sound bite. It is a testament to the subject’s arcane nature that the Obama campaign has not tied McCain’s strong support for NCLB to the mismanagement of SBR in Reading First and Supplementary Education Services in its efforts to cast the Republican candidate as Bush III. Even in the campaign’s for a for education policy wonks, evaluation has been a very minor topic. As matters now stand, it’s not likely that either candidate will make their position on SBR a matter of record – voluntarily or under duress. Let me offer a scenario where one might. It is a stretch, even far fetched, but based on three fact-based analyses. • As best I can tell from my own research, four states bordering on the Great Lakes are likely to be the election’s crucial battlegrounds: Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Given the patterns of state-by-state outcomes that emerge from the hundreds of Presidential election simulations I’ve run on the various websites (for example) studying the subject, some combination of these will prove necessary for either side to win the election. • The Boston Globe’s interactive electoral college analysis suggests that holding all other factors constant, if African American voters split their vote as they did in 2004, Obama needs a 20 percent increase in African American turnout to win. If, at or above that increase in turn out, McCain can win 5 percent more African American voters than Bush did in 2004, the Senator from Arizona will be President. • This year’s Pew poll on public education reported several relevant findings: Unlike white voters and the population as a whole, African-American and Latino voters were likely to place education in their list of top concerns. Democrats are split roughly evenly between those who think NCLB has helped, hurt, or had no effect/don’t know on public schools. African–American and Latino voters are more likely to think NCLB helped. The combination suggests that education is an important topic to an important voting block Senator Obama would normally count on in a crucial set of states, and that his position on NCLB might make him vulnerable to Senator McCain. Voters who believe that education is important, and that NCLB has improved matters, are not going to be interested in weakening the law’s accountability provision – however they might feel about spending levels. And many African Americans, especially in urban areas, express strong support for vouchers. Assuming NCLB offers McCain a better chance of winning some combination of Great Lakes states, the challenge is convincing African-American and Latino voters that school accountability is important enough to depart from their historic tendencies. To date, the Democratic Party has done a very good job leading this element of its voting base to believe that the interests of their children align with the interests of both the teachers union and the bureaucratic apparatus that operates school systems. Now the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association have vowed to end NCLB. Their intent has been stated very clearly clear. Their motivation - opposition to NCLB accountability regime - has been obscured to maintain the old alignment. And while their endorsement of Obama does not mean he endorses everything they might want, it will be virtually impossible for a Democratic President negotiating with a Democratic Congress to protect NCLB’s accountability provisions. Support for NCLB’s strict accountability regime offers McCain a wedge issue because the effect has been to send resources to African American and Lationo students most in need of additional support while it puts an ineffective structure controlled by teachers unions and bureaucracies in a harsh spotlight. Could NCLB move enough African-American and Latino voters from their Democratic tendencies to swing enough Great Lakes states to McCain? On the one hand, I don’t know. On the other, if the election were held today, statistics suggest McCain is likely to lose these states. I see no downside that would discourage McCain from making the effort. Finally, for many African-American and Latino families – indeed for most Americans – there are few things more important to stability and security that the quality of their children’s public education. These two groups may be more aware of its importance because education has been their principal route to success and acceptance. Were Senator McCain to adopt this strategy, Senator Obama has only one substantive response. Arguing that NCLB accountability requires higher levels of funding is not much an argument against high standards and strict accountability. Especially in the case of African Americans, the kinds of voters likely to be swayed by McCain are not likely to feel great opposition to vouchers. That leaves the claim that the private sector is not offering public school students a better education, it is simply taking the revenue in return for worthless products, and pocketing large profits - and that’s the Republicans’ real intent. The theme of McCain as the third term of a Bush Administration will be extended to education. And this brings us to the most important issue in federal education policy Presidential candidates haven’t discussed. The Obama campaign will associate MCain with the Administration’s neglect of SBR and the effect of that neglect measured by changes in student performance. And that brings us back the options discussed in previous weeks. The first candidate to propose to implement NCLB’s program evaluation provisions based on mandatory experimental or quasi-experimental designs, and publication in an accessible repository has the advantage. If McCain goes first he demonstrates a commitment to accountability for private providers no less than for public schools. This denies Obama his one substantive counter to an NCLB gambit to win the Great Lakes states. If Obama goes first, he can paint McCain’s approach to NCLB as a Trojan horse for the private exploitation of pubic education, blunt its force and very probably preempt its implementation. The scenario is pretty far fetched, but it suggests two things: • There is no downside for either side to adopt the my preferred approach to SBR, and some potential to deny the other side potential advantages. • The interests of African-American and Latino families in public education differ substantially from those of the teacher’s unions and other organizations that control public school systems. Consequently, the Democratic party and Democratic candidates are happy for education to remain remain a second tier topic. By not recognizing the importance of education to African Americans and Latinos, and failing to exploit the split to the fullest, Republicans have missed out on an important opportunity to develop a multicultural base. The opinions expressed in edbizbuzz are strictly those of the author(s) and do not reflect the opinions or endorsement of Editorial Projects in Education, or any of its publications. 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Islamabad: The election of Narendra Modi has sent shivers through many among India’s 150-million strong Muslim community, but neighbouring Pakistan is cautiously hopeful for a thaw in the long-fraught ties.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is himself a centre-right leader, has hailed Modi’s “impressive victory" which saw the hardliner gain an outright majority in Parliament for the first time in 30 years.
Sharif has cited his working relationship with Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India’s last prime minister with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as a reason for optimism, according to diplomatic sources.
It was during Sharif’s second term in 1999 that Vajpayee rode a bus to Lahore to sign a peace accord, raising the prospect for normalization between the two-nuclear armed neighbours that have fought three wars.
Three months later, the countries embarked on the Kargil conflict in Kashmir—though Sharif has blamed his then-army chief general Pervez Musharraf, who went on to overthrow him in a coup, for provoking the fighting without his knowledge.
Strong mandate
With both leaders currently enjoying a strong mandate—Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) won a big majority in elections last year—members of Parliament and experts believe that the stalled peace process could get a fresh impetus.
Sherry Rehman, a member of Parliament for the opposition Pakistan People’s Party and former ambassador to the US, told AFP “The blockbuster numbers should give Modi the parliamentary muscle and confidence to work with Pakistan for stability in the region.
“If his policies are driven by economy, then Pakistan would find it easier to do business with Modi’s India, but the ball is in India’s court."
Key issues confronting the relationship remain the disputed Kashmir region, as well as Islamist militancy inside India, which New Delhi frequently accuses Pakistan of backing.
Bilateral ties have only slightly recovered from the rock bottom that they had hit after the 2008 Mumbai attacks in which 166 people were killed by Pakistani gunmen.
For its part, Pakistan accuses India of funding a long-running insurgency in its south-western Baluchistan province.
Simbal Khan, a former Pakistan fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, said the unpopularity of the outgoing Congress party had hindered its ability to thaw ties, despite its more secular and liberal outlook.
“There is a general feeling that coming from a right-of-centre platform and riding on this wave of popularity, any overtures or steps taken to mend relations or to take the subcontinent out of old constructs is more likely to happen under Modi’s rule than Congress’," she said.
Khan cited as an encouraging example the warming of ties between Pakistan’s Punjab province, which is governed by Sharif’s brother Shahbaz Sharif, and the Shiromani Akali Dal party, a BJP ally which rules Punjab.
The analyst said she was hopeful that Sharif may soon grant “most favoured nation" status to India and open land borders in an effort to kick-start trade that would particularly benefit Pakistan’s stuttering economy.
Sharif, a pro-business industrialist, is widely seen as being in favour of such a move, though reports have suggested that opposition by the all-powerful army has so far prevented him—and could conceivably block future attempts.
Tainted past
Badar Alam, editor of Pakistan’s Herald magazine, said Modi too would come under pressure from within his party if he were to push too hard for peace.
“Right-wing Hindu nationalists have always opposed normalizing ties with Pakistan, and a leader representing them will both be well placed to take the initiative vis-a-vis Pakistan and under pressure from his own supporters to not do so.
“Will Modi, as PM, be able to lead his electorate rather than be led by it?" he said.
While Pakistan’s civilian leaders and business community are in favour of closer ties, many ordinary people revile Modi, who is tainted by communal riots in Gujarat 12 years ago that killed 1,000 people, mostly Muslims.
His campaign manifesto included pledges for a more muscular foreign policy, vowing a rethink of India’s “no-first strike nuclear policy" and a hard line on Kashmir.
Such rhetoric had raised concern among some observers that another Mumbai-style attack planned on Pakistani soil could push the countries into an all-out war.
But according to Mushahid Hussain, chairman of Pakistan’s senate defence committee, some of the rhetoric could be simply an election strategy, and the two countries’ nuclear capabilities would prevent such an outcome.
“There are two sides to Modi—a dark side based on bigotry and violence against Muslims, and a positive side on development. If he is willing to bid goodbye to the politics of hate, then there are grounds for optimism," he said. AFP | positive |
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My Chemical Romance wrote the song 'Vampire Money' as a reaction to the 'Twilight' movies.
The 'Na Na Na' rockers were asked to contribute a song for the vampire film franchise's 'New Moon' soundtrack, but frontman Gerard Way said despite being offered huge sums of money, the group refused because they had "moved on".
He told NME magazine: "That's why the song 'Vampire Money' is on our new album, because there's a lot of people chasing that money. 'Twilight?' A lot of people around us were like, 'please, for the love of God, do this movie.' But we'd moved on."
Gerard also said the group are not impressed with the current vogue for vampires and a gothic look - which My Chemical Romance adopted for their 2006 album 'The Black Parade' - and they have moved on in their mission to "polarise" and "irritate".
He added: "Originally, what we did was take goth and put it with punk and turn it into something dangerous and sexy. Back then nobody in the normal punk world was wearing black clothes and eyeliner. We did it because we had one mission, to polarise, to irritate, to contaminate.
"But then that image gets romanticised and then it gets commoditised."
My Chemical Romance's new album 'Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys' is released on November 22. | positive |
1960 live album by Bob Newhart
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The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart is a 1960 live album by comedian Bob Newhart. Recorded at the Tidelands Club in Houston, Texas, the debut album by Newhart was number one on the Billboard pop album chart and won Album of the Year at the 1961 Grammy Awards, where Newhart was named Best New Artist. It was the first comedy album to win Album of the Year and the only time a comedian had won Best New Artist.
Newhart wanted the title to be The Most Celebrated New Comedian Since Attila the Hun, but Warner Bros. executives created the album's title and Newhart had to settle for his idea as a subtitle.[3]
The album was a 2006 entry into the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry.[4] On release, the album debuted atop the Billboard 200, staying at number one for 14 weeks, and on the chart for two years, selling over 600,000 copies near release. Eventually the album went on to be the 20th best-selling album of all time on the Billboard charts.[5]
In popular culture [ edit ]
The album that Pete Campbell listens to in Mad Men Season 1, Episode 4, "New Amsterdam".
In the pilot episode of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Joel Maisel performs routines from the album at a cafe, passing them off as his own work. This is anachronistic, as the episode is set in 1958, two years before the album was released.
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Year Chart Position 1961 Billboard Pop Albums (Billboard 200) (mono)[ citation needed ] 1
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Oak Lawn resident Piotr Niton on June 29 filed an 11-count federal lawsuit against Oak Lawn police officers and the village of Oak Lawn charging excessive force and other civil rights violations.
The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court, on behalf of Niton and his two minor daughters, alleges, among other things, that police used excessive force against him during an arrest on July 27, 2013. He also cites “a ‘code of silence’ in the Oak Lawn Police Department, by which officers fail to report misconduct committed by other officers.”
Oak Lawn Police Chief Michael Murray had no comment on the lawsuit. A representative said last week that the chief never comments on ongoing litigation.
Oak Lawn Village Manager Larry Deetjen also said the village does not comment on litigation. “Suffice to say, our Oak Lawn police do an outstanding job for our community and are well-trained and respectful of our laws and all citizens’’ Deetjen said in a statement. “Their job is never easy nor uncomplicated in an ever-changing and dynamic society. The Village will vigorously defend itself and the laws they are sworn to uphold.”
Niton’s attorney, David P. Sterba, of Palos Heights-based Walsh, Fewkes & Sterba, P.C , said, “My client’s constitutional rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as well as Section 1983 of the U.S. Code, have been violated by this shocking police misconduct, pursuant to what is clearly a policy and practice of the Village of Oak Lawn by its Police Department. We look forward to the day when a federal jury sends a clear and unambiguous message to the Village of Oak Lawn – stop this outrageous and lawless behavior by your police officers.”
Niton is seeking unspecified monetary damages, attorney fees, costs and punitive damages. The complaint also seeks compensatory damages for his two daughters.
According to Niton’s complaint, shortly after midnight on July 27, 2013, he was asleep on his living room couch, and his two young daughters were in their bedrooms when he was “awakened by loud and persistent banging on his front door.”
He said in the suit that when he opened the door, two uniformed Oak Lawn police officers on his front porch shouted commands at him, questioning him about a hit-and-run accident that occurred earlier that evening, and demanding that he come outside to show them his van. Niton told the officers he had not been driving, and would not leave his home but offered to open his garage door from inside his house to let them inspect his van.
The complaint states that officer Timothy Thomas then “forced his way into Niton’s home and violently shoved Niton backwards” onto the floor, landed on top of him and struck him with his fists and his knees. Officer James Mitchell also allegedly repeatedly and violently struck Niton with his knees. The case also alleges that Thomas and Mitchell beat Niton with steel batons before handcuffing him and leading him out the door.
According to the complaint, Niton’s daughters heard the beating from their bedrooms and the older girl witnessed it.
Niton was arrested and charged with two felony counts of aggravated battery to a police officer, resisting a peace officer and other offenses. A judge found no probable cause and dismissed all counts against Niton at a preliminary hearing on Aug. 21, 2013, but he was later indicted on two felony counts of aggravated battery to a police officer and two counts of resisting a peace officer.
According to a press release, in February 2015, after a four-day trial, a Cook County jury found Niton not guilty of all counts.
A different man was later determined by the police to be the actual driver of the van involved in the hit-and-run crash.
In addition to Thomas and Mitchell, others named as defendants in the pending federal lawsuit are Oak Lawn Police Sgt. David Winston, other unnamed Oak Lawn police officers and the Village of Oak Lawn. The suit alleges use of excessive force; false arrest; false imprisonment; conspiracy; malicious prosecution; failure to intervene; intentional infliction of emotional distress and other charges.
Niton, who had spinal surgery after the incident, states in the complaint that he suffered “pain and injury, as well as emotional distress.” | positive |
The Noodlebowl Comedy Show with Tim Ross, Ed Bailey & Solomon - Radical Indian Stand Up Comedian, Writer & Social Vigilante, Krish Mohan Skip to content Radical Indian Stand Up Comedian, Writer & Social Vigilante, Krish Mohan Socially Conscious Stand Up Comedy, Videos & Podcasts! Menu Home Calendar Tickets Donate Patreon Venmo CashApp Email List Videos Subscribe To Rokfin Stand Up Fork Full of Noodles Road Reflections The Dispatch Sketch Comedy Improv Podcasts Fork Full Of Noodles Podcast Taboo Table Talk The Dispatch Albums Politely Angry Empathy On Sale Approaching Happiness Height Of My Existence E.P. How Not To Fit In Get Krushed Exclamation Point Segways, Race & Love Stories & Writing Merch Press HomeShow Details & PromotionsThe Noodlebowl Comedy Show with Tim Ross, Ed Bailey & Solomon The Noodlebowl Comedy Show with Tim Ross, Ed Bailey & Solomon 03/29/2013 The Noodlebowl Comedy Show continues it’s reign at James Street Gastropub and Speakeasy on April 11, 2013. This month’s show features Tim Ross, Ed Bailey & Solomon. Tim’s a very funny guy with quiet possibly the best beard in the city of Pittsburgh. Ed & Solomon are up & comers who’ve been around the scene for a while. I’m excited to have these guys on the show and the keep it going at James Street! Check out the event on Facebook and we’ll see you at the show! Share on Social Media twitter facebook email Follow us on Social Media twitter facebook instagram youtube Share with a friend or an enemy Email Tweet WhatsApp More Print Like this: Like Loading... Tags:Noodle Bowl Comedy Show, Shows Related Posts Opening For Lee Camp This Summer! Chicago, Detroit, NYC, Montreal and more! FEATURING at the Funny Stop Comedy Club with Traci Kannan Hambones Showcase-Date Change About The Author Krish Mohan Krish Mohan is a socially conscious, Indian standup comedian and writer who regularly tours the country. He performs at small theaters, bars, comedy clubs, colleges, DIY and house venues. With his quirky attitude, charming personality, and intelligent humor, Krish captivates and engages audiences of all backgrounds, tackling hot button topics like race, religion, war, immigration, while adding an optimistic, philosophical & sociological twist! Like Krish on Facebook Like Krish on Facebook Follow Krish on Twitter I can't tell you the amount of times all its taken is one person saying one nice thing to thing to me to snap me ou… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 day ago I understand this feeling. For about a decade I gave up parts of who I was to make sure that I was always focused o… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 6 days ago Follow @KrishMohanHaha Listen To On Bandcamp Politely Angry by Radical Comedian Krish Mohan Listen On Spotify Search The Site For A Topic Recent Posts Fork Full Of Noodles with Krish Mohan #253-55 – How China & The US Are Tied Together 02/08/2022 Fork Full Of Noodles With Krish Mohan #255 – Is China Socialist Or Capitalist? 01/31/2022 Road Reflections #230 – How Cops Use Racial Profiling To Deny Racism 01/28/2022 Road Reflections #229 – Supporting Strikebreakers Widens The Wealth Gap 01/26/2022 Fork Full Of Noodles with Krish Mohan #254 – Debunking Western Media’s Propaganda About China’s Socialist Construction 01/25/2022 Fork Full Of Noodles with Krish Mohan #253 – Imperialism & Ego Got In The Way Of China’s Socialist Construction 01/19/2022 Tickets To Virtual Shows! TICKETS TO THE CITIZEN REVOLUTION Sell tickets online with Ticketleap Upcoming Events No upcoming events Subscribe via Email Email Address Subscribe © 2022 Radical Indian Stand Up Comedian, Writer & Social Vigilante, Krish Mohan | WordPress Theme by Superb WordPress Themes Back to Top ↑ Follow us on Social Media twitter facebook instagram youtube Loading Comments... You must be logged in to post a comment. %d bloggers like this: | negative |
Though Walt Disney first opened his first theme park, Disneyland, on July 17, 1955, the park will start celebrating its Diamond Celebration on Sunday, February 21, with a televised special on ABC. The Wonderful World of Disney: Disneyland 60 will celebrate 60 years of the “Happiest Place on Earth” with special musical performances and star appearances that might make viewers forget that the special is a thinly-veiled marketing campaign for tourism.
Hosted by Dancing With the Stars‘ Derek Hough, Disneyland 60 will feature many stars ready to party. Hough himself will sing and dance to the song, “Step in Time” from the musical film, Mary Poppins. Legendary actor and dancer Dick Van Dyke, who appeared in the film as Bert the chimney sweep, is scheduled to make an appearance during the number as well.
“I can’t believe it’s 60 years,” Dick Van Dyke told ABC News about Disneyland’s birthday. “You know, I went there when it first opened with my kids — who are now, like, in their 60s!”
Hough will also be doing a dance number with fellow Dancing With the Stars dancer, Witney Carson. Other performances include Idina Menzel singing her iconic song from the animated film, Frozen, “Let it Go,” Fall Out Boys will perform “I Wanna Be Like You” from The Jungle Book, Little Big Town will sing “Steve McQueen” in Cars Land (of course), Pentatonix will sing “Be Our Guest” from Beauty and the Beast during the parade portion of the show and The Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, will perform “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” from Fantasia.
Disneyland 60 will hold festivities in both the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood and various locations at the Disneyland Resort will be highlighted as well. Actor Josh Gad will show some of the more hidden spots in Disneyland like Walt Disney’s private apartment housed above the fire department building on Main Street, the Disneyland Dream Suite located in New Orleans Square, the Tiki Juice Bar in Adventureland and others.
Just to spice things up a bit, Disneyland 60 will also sample two of the main celebratory shows currently performing now in the parks: The “Paint the Night” parade down Main Street and “World of Color-Celebrate! The Wonderful World of Walt Disney” water show in California Adventure Park.
The special won’t only celebrate the park’s past but also it’s future as Harrison Ford will show the extensive plans for the new Star Wars-themed areas coming to both Disneyland and Disneyworld.
Other guests making appearances include Jessica Alba, Kelsea Ballerini, Jason Bateman, Kristen Bell, Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell, Sabrina Carpenter, Sofia Carson, Priyanka Chopra, Viola Davis, Hilary Duff, Fall Out Boy, Kermit the Frog, Ginnifer Goodwin, Nolan Gould, Neil Patrick Harris, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sarah Hyland, Jessie J, Elton John, Tori Kelly, Jimmy Kimmel, Little Big Town, Dame Helen Mirren, Ne-Yo, Lupita Nyong’o, Pentatonix, Pink, Alfonso Ribeiro, John Stamos, Eric Stonestreet, Kiefer Sutherland, Kerry Washington, Ariel Winter, Zendaya, and Maddie Ziegler.
Tickets were just $1 each on Disneyland’s opening day in 1955. Today, ticket prices are $99 for a single day. However, today’s prices include most of the attractions. Back in the ’50s, guests needed separate tickets for the attractions. Some were more expensive than others and were divided into three and then later, five sections. “A” ticket attractions were the least expensive and usually, the least thrill-seeking. An “E” ticket allowed access into the theme park’s more coveted attractions.
Of the park’s 20 attractions that were available to guests on opening day, 13 of them still operate on a regular basis including King Arthur’s Carousel which was featured in 2013’s Saving Mr. Banks which starred Tom Hanks playing the role of Walt Disney. In that particular scene, Walt was trying to show Miss Travers, the author of Mary Poppins, just how magical a place Disneyland was. While she was a tough skeptic, most others disagree. Many families regard a visit to Disneyland as a requirement of childhood.
It is fitting that ABC is hosting Disneyland 60 as the network had a large role in promoting the park before it opened. The TV series Disneyland aired in October of 1954 and each week, Walt Disney would tempt audiences with insights on the various attractions being built for their future enjoyment.
Disneyland 60 will are on Sunday, February 21, at 7:00 p.m. on ABC.
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Public Service Commission President Twinkle Cavanaugh, a vocal supporter of coal interests in Alabama, received a total of $88,902 in 2012 that can be traced directly to either coal mining companies or political action committees funded primarily by Alabama coal companies, according to an examination of state campaign finance records by AL.com.
That represents roughly 25 percent of the overall contributions to her successful 2012 campaign for president of the Public Service Commission.
This week, Cavanaugh dismissed the notion that donations from the coal industry had influenced her perspective, instead suggesting that her position had attracted support from the industry.
“As a candidate and a commissioner, I promised to fight attempts by Barack Obama’s rogue Environmental Protection Agency to cripple Alabama’s coal industry and the 5,000 good paying jobs it directly provides,” read a statement from Cavanaugh. “It is no surprise that my efforts to fight extremist environmental mandates and protect coal workers’ jobs have earned me their support.”
Cavanaugh’s campaign war chest dwarfs that of fellow PSC commissioner Terry Dunn, whose call for formal hearings on gas and power rates was rejected by Cavanaugh and newly appointed commissioner Jeremy Oden.
Oden, who was appointed in December to fill the PSC seat Cavanaugh vacated when she won the presidency in November, has yet to receive any campaign donations related to his PSC seat. A former state representative from Eva, Oden received donations from an array of political action committees during his last reelection campaign for his District 11 seat in 2010.
Dunn received just one campaign donation from a political action committee during his 2010 campaign for PSC. That was a $10,000 donation from the Alabama chapter of the Action Committee for Rural Electrification, which advocates on behalf of rural electric co-op customers. His 2010 general election campaign cost about $13,000. Cavanaugh’s 2012 campaign cost $398,200.
Cavanaugh has not hidden her support for Alabama's coal industry since taking office. An open letter on the Public Service Commission website is titled "Environmental extremists push for formal hearings to kill coal jobs and increase utility rates."
The same letter said that the enemies of coal want an opportunity to use "their fancy San Francisco environmental lawyers and junk science hucksters to make what amounts to a legal, judicial case against coal production within our borders." Read the letter here.
She has also used a similar argument as the rationale behind her refusal to hold formal hearings looking into natural gas rates in Alabama.
Reporting by AL.com has shown that the customers of Alabama’s two largest gas utilities, Alagasco and Mobile Gas, pay more than twice as much for gas as customers of regulated gas utilities in Biloxi, Jackson, and other Mississippi cities.
Asked during a recent interview with AL.com to explain how a hearing on the gas rates charged by Mobile Gas could be used to attack the coal industry, Cavanaugh said that “environmentalists will hijack the process.”
Cavanaugh has received about $79,000 from political action committees funded entirely or primarily by the Drummond Company, the largest coal mining company in Alabama.
In addition, Cavanaugh received corporate donations of $1,000 or more from a number of Alabama businesses associated with coal mining including Best Coal Inc., Cedar Lake Mining, RJR Mining Co., Black Warrior Minerals, Birmingham Coal and Coke, Reed Minerals, and Warrior Investment Co.
In news releases and public remarks, Cavanaugh has tied coal production in the state to low utility rates, though most of the coal used at Alabama’s coal-fired power plants comes from Wyoming and other states, or from Colombia.
The importance of coal to the state’s electricity supply has been declining.
While coal was used to generate about 77 percent of the electricity produced by Alabama Power in 1999, that percentage has now fallen below 50 percent, according to recent reports, due largely to the increased use of natural gas.
With most of the coal used by Alabama Power mined outside of Alabama, a great deal of the coal produced in the state by the Drummond Company is now shipped overseas, headed to 16 different countries. Alabama ranks third in the nation for coal exports, according to a 2012 news release from Gov. Robert Bentley.
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CONTROVERSIAL politician Pauline Hanson says men are the real victims of Australia's domestic violence scourge and many women make "frivolous" abuse claims over simple things - like criticism of their clothes.
One anti-domestic violence campaigner was so appalled at the One Nation Queensland senate candidate's comments that she invited Ms Hanson to spend time on the frontline of the epidemic.
Speaking to ARM Newsdesk at a media event in Brisbane on Friday, Ms Hanson said "27 men a week" were killing themselves because of domestic violence.
"We need a full overview of the child support system and the family law courts to find the answers (because) you know some (women) are going out there and claiming domestic violence because they're told 'I don't like the colour of your dress'," Ms Hanson said.
"They (women) are making frivolous complaints and it's time that our court system (is looked at) - especially for men who are the subject of domestic violence themselves.
"Men have nowhere to go - (domestic violence against males) is very widely spread.
"I want to sit down with these (male-focused) organisations, these groups, and give them a voice, because they feel like they're not being heard."
Last year, at least 79 Australian women were killed as a result of domestic violence and already this year's toll is sitting on 32 deaths.
Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety data shows one in six women is physically abused by their current or former partner and one in four women suffers emotional abuse.
The ANROWS' data reveals one in 19 men experience intimate partner violence and one in seven men are the victims of emotional abuse.
Diane Mangan, who runs Queensland's domestic violence hotline, said Ms Hanson's comments were inflammatory and could cause some victims to put off seeking help.
"I don't even want to answer this as it has not got any merit," The DVConnect manager said.
"It's a danger - does she not realise that seven women were (allegedly) murdered just recently in Queensland.
"What is she saying to their families - what is she saying to all of the women out there who are living in fear?
"These statements are highly irresponsible and they are dangerous.
"We expect much more (from public figures).
"A lot of women are already wavering about whether what they are experiencing is serious enough, when it most definitely is."
Ms Mangan invited Ms Hanson to visit DVConnect's office to get a better understanding of the issue.
"I would want her most definitely to come and visit our service," Ms Mangan said.
*For 24-hour support, phone Queensland's DVConnect on 1800 811 811 or MensLine on 1800 600 636, NSW's Domestic Violence Line on 1800 656 463 or the national hotline 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732).
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The Hybrid « Ottawa Golf Blog Home Reviews Golf Courses Apparel Golf Belts Advertising Rideau View Golf Club SeeMore Putters About News PGA Tour Golf Canada PGA Tour Canada Hilton Head Contact us Select Here 2013 TaylorMade R1 Driver (1) belt (1) Brockville (1) Brockville CC (1) Dustin Johnson (1) golf (3) golf contest (1) golf course (2) golfers (2) hilton head golf (1) Hockley Valley Golf (1) Hockley Valley Resort (1) Ontario Golf (2) PGA Tour (1) pro golfers (1) R1 (1) Royal Ottawa Golf Club Charity Classic (1) Snowsuit Fund (1) Sumi-G (1) taylormade r1 driver (1) TaylorMade13 (1) The Masters (1) twitter (1) Ottawa Golf Blog Father of 3, golf writer, full-time mail carrier, part-time Rideauview Turf Team Home Awesomeness Kikkor Cabot Links Featured The Masters Ryder Cup Category III Feb 12, 2005 Home » The Hybrid The Hybrid By Ottawa Golf Blog Posted at 2/12/2005 09:29:00 AM No comments Golf Digest is saying it's the most important club in golf. Sh*&%^%t I don't even have one, am I missing out. Even tour players are using them. My father-in-law has been using one(Taylor Made) for awhile now and I see the results first hand.(I think it might even be his favorite club). Check out a great article at Golf Digest where they separate hybrids into two categories wood-like and iron-like. Not sold quite yet will have to pry the club out of my father-in-laws hands next time we play. About Ottawa Golf Blog Father of 3, #golf writer, full-time mail carrier, part-time @RideauViewGolf Turf Team #PJ20 fan, golfing nomad. View all posts by: Ottawa Golf Blog 0 comments: Post a Comment Connect with Us Popular Posts Recent Posts Popular Posts Srixon Golf Buys Cleveland Golf Ottawa Golf Contact/ Advertise Info. 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WWE Elite 82, WrestleMania Elites, Top Picks 2021 Up for Pre-Order on Ringside Collectibles – Wrestling Figure News Skip to content Search for: Search Close Close Menu Wrestling Figure News WWE Elite, AEW Unrivaled, New Japan Action Figure News Home WWE AEW New Japan Lucha Libre Retros Super 7 Comic Con Figure 4 Photography Custom Corner Twitter Instagram Menu Search Menu Back to Top Pre-Orders WWE WWE Elite 82, WrestleMania Elites, Top Picks 2021 Up for Pre-Order on Ringside Collectibles by Wrestling DeLorean October 2, 2020 October 2, 2020 Leave a Comment on WWE Elite 82, WrestleMania Elites, Top Picks 2021 Up for Pre-Order on Ringside Collectibles Another round of pre-orders have hit Ringside Collectibles, highlighted by Mattel’s WWE Elite 82 series. Elite 82 features the debut Elite of Keith Lee ($29.99), who is also the chase variant of the wave; early 1990s era Jerry “The King” Lawler ($29.99); the return of John Morrison ($26.99) to the Elite line; Alexa Bliss ($29.99) with the first WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship belt; Finn Balor ($26.99); and Tampa Bay Buccaneers tight end Rob Gronkowski ($29.99). The set retails for $169.99 and is slated to ship in early December. Neither the chase variant Keith Lee nor the Collector’s Edition figure of Davey Boy Smith in British Bulldogs tag team attire, with bulldog Matilda, are up yet for pre-order. The WrestleMania 37 Elite set is also now up for pre-order, priced at $109.99 for the set, with an early December ship date. The set includes Goldberg with the first WWE Universal Championship in blue ($27.99); Shawn Michaels in WrestleMania 9 attire ($27.99); Chyna in WrestleMania X-7 attire ($27.99); and Edge in his WrestleMania 22 hardcore match gear from his battle with Mick Foley ($27.99). Buy all four to build Road Warriors (or AOP) manager Paul Ellering, who comes with Rocco the dummy. Finally, the WWE Top Picks basic series of 2021 is up for pre-order, priced at $59.99 and slated to ship in late October. The set includes John Cena, The Rock, Braun Strowman and Roman Reigns. Individual figures are priced at $15.99. Renders of that set have not yet been shared. WWE Elite 82: WrestleMania 37 Elite: Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window) Like this: Like Loading... Related Tags: Featured Pre-Orders WWE WWE Elite Published by Wrestling DeLorean View all posts by Wrestling DeLorean Personal website Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here... Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Email (required) (Address never made public) Name (required) Website You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change ) Cancel Connecting to %s Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Δ Post navigation Previous Entry Jeff Hardy Ultimate Edition Figure Fan Vote Open Now Next Entry Rumor Roundup: Royal Rumble Elites; WrestleMania 12 Warrior; Elite 83, 84 & 85 Lineups Wrestling Figure News WWE Elite, AEW Unrivaled, New Japan Action Figure News Twitter Instagram Home WWE AEW New Japan Lucha Libre Retros Super 7 Comic Con Figure 4 Photography Custom Corner Blog at WordPress.com. Follow Following Wrestling Figure News Join 279 other followers Sign me up Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now. Wrestling Figure News Customize Follow Following Sign up Log in Copy shortlink Report this content View post in Reader Manage subscriptions Collapse this bar Loading Comments... Write a Comment... Email (Required) Name (Required) Website %d bloggers like this: | negative |
IN MOST parts of the British economy, £100m ($166m) is a useful sum of money—enough to build half a dozen schools or even buy a couple of decent strikers in the English Premier League. It would not, however, make much of a dent in the British government’s £100 billion budget deficit. And £100m is all that Labour’s latest bout of business-bashing—a pledge to put the top rate of income tax from 45% back up to 50%—will probably bring in. The hit to Britain’s prospects as a place to do business is likely to be many times that sum.
This is not, however, primarily about economics. The 50% rate is a political sop, thrown to Labour’s electoral base by Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, to make up for the austerity measures that he has also, rather more vaguely, promised, many of which will hit poorer Britons. But it goes deeper than that. Ed Miliband, Labour’s leader, is moving his party to the left (see article). Unlike Tony Blair, who courted business relentlessly, Mr Miliband has decided to wallop unpopular industries. In recent months he has promised to freeze household energy prices, confiscate undeveloped land from house-builders, break up retail banks and launch state-funded competitors.
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This lurch may be a matter of personal conviction for the “Red Ed” of the tabloids. But it is also an electoral gamble—that by bashing business he will energise the Labour base, and the infuriated working classes will carry him to victory over David Cameron’s unloved and elitist Conservatives. The electoral arithmetic gives Mr Miliband a good chance of succeeding, not least because the right-wing vote has been split by the insurgent UK Independence Party.
But the gamble may not pay off. The Tories will fight the election on Labour’s weak point—economic competence. No party has won an election while trailing on both the economy and leadership, as Labour now is. Picking a fight with business over top tax rates will not strengthen Mr Miliband’s hand, when his economic credibility is already in doubt. Even if taxing the rich generally goes down well, increasing taxes on the 1% of taxpayers who already provide 30% of income-tax revenue is not obviously as fair as Mr Balls claims it is.
Above all, there is a good chance that voters will realise the harm that all this could do. Although some of the problems that Mr Miliband wants to tackle—such as Britain’s self-defeating culture of short-termism—are real, his headline policies look neither prudent nor practical. Freezing energy prices and confiscating builders’ land would reduce investment in those industries when Britain needs more power stations and houses, not fewer. Mr Miliband’s views on the financial sector have already contributed to a fall in the share prices of state-backed banks, thus reducing the potential returns to taxpayers from selling them. And the proposed tax rise risks deterring investors at a time when confidence in Britain’s recovery remains more fragile than the Tories like to admit.
Some Scandinavian countries have got away with tax rates of over 50%. But Britain would be at a disadvantage compared with bits of America (39.6% federal tax, with state taxes on top), Ireland (41%), Germany (45%) and even France (45% for most wealthy people; the infamous 75% rate kicks in only on salaries above €1m). And in financial services—where, whether Mr Miliband likes it or not, Britain’s competitive advantage lies—the country’s main competitors are Singapore, Hong Kong and Dubai, with income-tax rates of 20%, 17% and zero respectively. Although another 5p in the pound may not drive many Britons to move their families from the Home Counties to the Gulf’s arid shores, it will encourage foreigners who might have brought their brains and money to Britain to go elsewhere instead, and the country will be poorer for it.
Taking victory as red
To be fair, Mr Miliband has some better business policies—notably his proposals to boost apprenticeships and house-building. Having refused, so far, to match Tory promises of a referendum on Britain’s EU membership, Labour is also resisting the right’s harmful fantasies about Britain’s bright future outside the union. But the general direction is worrying.
François Hollande came to power in France as a business-bashing president. After nearly two years of entrepreneurial emigration and economic stagnation, he has just performed an abrupt U-turn: business is once more welcome at the Elysée and the 75% tax rate has been softened. Mr Miliband should change course | positive |
Zebra crayfish
The zebra crayfish, a new species discovered in Alabama tributaries of the Locust Fork. (Courtesy Guenter Schuster)
Alabama already had more documented species of crayfish living in its waters than any other state, but that lead was padded this week as two biologists announced the discovery of a new species called Cambarus clairitae, or the zebra crayfish, which so far has been found only in two small streams north of Birmingham.
Guenter Schuster and Christopher Taylor's discovery of the new species was published this week in the peer-reviewed, international scientific journal Zootaxa, which specializes in animal classification.
Schuster said he and Taylor first discovered the crayfish in 2011 during a survey of Gurley Creek, off Highway 79 near the Jefferson-Blount County line, and it was fairly obvious that they had found something new.
"The thing that struck us right off the bat is it was a large crayfish and the coloration was quite unusual with the dark banding," Schuster said.
The zebra crayfish is a new discovered in small tributaries of the Locust Fork north of Birmingham, as described in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Zootaxa. The discovery was published by biologists Guenter Schuster and Christopher Taylor. (Courtesy Guenter Schuster)
The credit for the name zebra crayfish goes to Taylor's son, who was impressed with the banding on the crayfish's tail.
Gurley Creek feeds into the Locust Fork, one of two primary tributaries of the Black Warrior River. Schuster said he has been able to collect samples of the crayfish five or six times since 2011, all in Gurley Creek or another small Locust Fork tributary.
Schuster and Taylor also found previously collected samples that had not been recognized as a new species in collections at the University of Alabama and the Mississippi Museum of Natural History. Both of those were collected in the same Locust Fork tributaries.
Schuster, based in Kentucky, and Taylor, from Illinois, have been studying Alabama crayfish for several years. The pair authored a 2004 book about crayfish in Kentucky, but Schuster said Alabama has nearly twice as many crayfish species as the Bluegrass State.
"Alabama is like the Holy Grail of crayfishes," Schuster said. "For aquatic biodiversity, Alabama really has no competition. It has the richest freshwater fauna in the country. The only state that's even close is Tennessee."
Of the roughly 400 known species of crayfish, Schuster said 96 can be found in Alabama, compared to 54 in Kentucky, and around 90 for Tennessee.
The zebra crayfish is the third new species Schuster and Taylor have described in Alabama, and there are three more potential discoveries that are being peer-reviewed before publication. One of those is a new dwarf crayfish species found in the Black Warrior River floodplain in 2014.
Schuster and Taylor eventually plan to publish a book about Alabama crayfish, but for now there remains a lot of work to be done.
"The number [of crayfish species] I feel confident is going to increase," Schuster said. "It almost seems like every time we go out, we get new surprises." | positive |
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The ability to manage our time efficiently is of great importance for happiness in our lives. Success in this critical area will allow us to enjoy the pleasures that life offers, will help us to manage stress and is a big step for our mental relaxation and calm.
Conversely, if we do not learn the basic principles of time management, the setting of objectives and priorities, we risk being caught up by the waves and storms of life that affect us too often.
Good time management is not easy. Not all people have the gift of proper organization. Many people have a wealth of activities and obligations. They feel they are oppressed by the many jobs that have to do with respect to the family, home or their profession. Easily, without the skills and education one can be caught in a vicious cycle of time disruption and priorities with extremely negative consequences.
Despite the importance to manage time efficiently, educational systems at all levels give very little education to young people. This is a paradox if someone considers that the management of time is an essential component of success in all business sectors.
Importance and benefits of good time management
The time is our life. The more we are able to plan our time efficiently, the more we will be able to enjoy our lives.
We need to be careful from the pressures arising from the ceaseless flow of things we need to do during working hours which are increasing and are intolerable by the additional requirements that currently exist in personal and family life. All this creates excessive stress and removes the psychological calm that we all need so much today.
Does this mean that we are doomed to be overcome by the mass of commitments and work to be done, and having psychological suffering and physical impact on our health?
The answer is no. If we do not have the inherent gift of good organization of time in order to manage the countless obligations flooding continuously, it is possible with a methodical effort to learn to apply some basic principles that will help us to manage our time better.
The benefits of such a successful effort are not limited to the psychological calm and personal satisfaction but also lead to a better physical health. So let us look at how best to approach the issue of proper and efficient use of our time.
Planning activities and the need to say NO
Initially we must never forget that the planning and design of our activities for each day, gives us a large degree of control of our time. We must recognize what is important for us to come first in our list.
It is necessary to have the strength to say NO for new commitments or proposals that will take us time and are not within our objectives. We must also teach our selves to politely say no to various social, or family-friendly events, activities, dinners that are likely to charge more our already overloaded schedule.
Let us not forget also that such activities are certainly good but we must not allow them to deprive our sleep, rest and relaxation, which are priority in our lives today.
The setting of priorities
The placement of priorities is an essential prerequisite to the successful management of our time. It is very important to recognize what activities are not so essential to us and to remove them from our list.
Here we must be very strict in our choices. Removal from our schedule obligations that are not crucial for us, frees our time for rest and relaxation or for other things more important.
Delegation of work
It is good to continually look if we can, given that this is possible, to give others to do the work we have. The art of delegation can offer more to people with managerial positions who are usually overburdened by obligations.
We need to be careful when doing work that we consider important to do it right from the beginning because experience shows that we may need more time to do the corrections afterwards.
Partial implementation
Another technique that can help us is the partial implementation of work that is long, difficult or we do not like, but we need to do. We can, for example, every day, systematically to devote ten minutes on a difficult work. Gradually we will be able to finish the job with out understanding it.
Self-monitoring and self-control
We should constantly monitor where and how we spend our time. We ourselves are good to look at how we allocate our time every day. If necessary, for a few days we can write on a paper all our activities and next to each activity how much time we spend on it.
Then we can examine our activities and the use of our time. We must look for what we can remove or how we can change some of our activities to protect our time.
Sleep, rest, holidays, nutrition
Remember the great significance of the abundant and good sleep, healthy eating, rest and vacation for your effectiveness. The sleep will help you relax and be more concentrated, to finish the work in less time and produce a better quality job.
If you feel stressed, then take one-day leave. Do something you like, relax. This will help you organize and manage your time better when you come back. | positive |
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BRASILIA, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Environmentalist Marina Silva unveiled her campaign platform for Brazil’s Oct. 5 presidential election on Friday, boosted by government data that showed the economy had fallen into a recession in the first half of this year.
Following are her main policy proposals aimed at restoring business confidence and investment in Brazil and putting the country on a path to sustainable growth:
ECONOMY
Return to the basic tripod of policies that gave Brazil financial stability a decade and a half ago: fiscal discipline, inflation targeting and a floating exchange rate, ending central bank intervention that has overvalued the real currency.
The inflation target remains 4.5 percent. Fiscal savings should be enough to control inflation but will be achieved without contingency measures. End “creative” accounting to square government accounts.
Central bank autonomy must be established in a law that lays down the rules on how board members are chosen and removed.
Create an independent Fiscal Responsibility Council to oversee government accounts.
TAXES
No increases. Lower Brazil’s heavy tax burden and simplify the complex tax system, especially for companies, reducing indirect taxes that hit revenues. Abolish taxes on investment. Speed up the return of export tax credits. Reform inter-state taxes.
ENERGY
Expand the role of electricity in Brazil’s energy matrix. Increase the use of renewable sources of energy, especially solar, wind, biomass, geothermal and second-generation biofuels. Reduce the consumption of fossil fuels.
Silva held up environmental licenses for hydroelectric dams while serving as a minister a decade ago, but she now says they are a fundamental source of energy for Brazil.
TRANSPORT
Deepen the state’s reliance on partnerships with private companies and concessions to build infrastructure needed to remove logistical bottlenecks at ports and airports. More focus on railways and river transport.
INDUSTRY
Less protection for Brazilian industry’s domestic market to spur higher productivity and innovation. Tax breaks aimed at raising production rather than consumption.
FOREIGN POLICY
Adopt a positive agenda to revitalize relations with the United States including expanded Brazil-U.S. trade.
TRADE
Negotiate trade agreements with the world’s large economic groups, such as the European Union and the United States, with or without the South American trade bloc Mercosur. Push Mercosur to draw closer to the Pacific trade bloc. Foster competition with foreign companies to make Brazilian firms more efficient.
AGRICULTURE
Expand agricultural production through increases in productivity instead of advancing into the rainforest. Streamline four ministries dealing with agricultural matters. Promote low-carbon agriculture. (Reporting by Anthony Boadle; Editing by Paul Simao) | positive |
Ahhhh, you’ve got to love the French paradox. France is notorious for fattening, artery-clogging food, yet has some of the lowest cancer and heart attack rates in the world, primarily due to a substance named resveratrol, naturally found in pomegranates, grapes, and incidentally, red wine.
Just a few months back, a group of scientists at the University of Wisconsin discovered that by adding small amounts of resveratrol to the diet of mice, the creatures’ aging process would slow and their hearts would remain healthy, even when constantly exposed to high-fat food.
So with this in mind, another group of researchers from the Houston-based Rice University decided that creating a cancer and heart-disease-fighting beer would be a great idea. Boy, as far as I’m concerned, this is the idea of the century. Unfortunately for beer lovers, who may have seen this as an opportunity to indulge in regular drunken stupors, only half a glass of the stuff each day will be needed to get the substance’s beneficial effects.
Let’s just hope that when it comes out, which–if it happens–should be in about five years, “resveratrol beer” will taste better than all those light beers out there. Knock on wood.
[Via Tristan Péloquin [French]] | positive |
Black holes, quasars and active galaxies
The disk of dust and gas accreting around a 300 million solar-mass black hole in NGC 7052.
Black holes are objects so dense, and with so much mass, that even light cannot escape their gravity.
The existence of black holes has been theorised for more than 200 years. It is impossible to observe them directly, and astronomers had no way to test their theories until Hubble arrived.
The high resolution of Hubble made it possible to see the effects of the gravitational attraction of some of these objects on their surroundings. Hubble has also proved that super massive black holes are most likely present at the centres of most, if not all, large galaxies. This has important implications for the theories of galaxy formation and evolution.
Black holes exist in different sizes. Stellar black holes, which are around the mass of our Sun, form when very large stars explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The star's core collapses as the outer layers are blown away, leaving a small but extremely dense ball.
Supermassive black holes, many millions of times the mass of our Sun, are of more mysterious origin, and are found at the centre of galaxies. It is in the study of super massive black holes that Hubble has made its biggest contribution.
Black holes and the quasar connection
Quasar PG 0052+251 and its host galaxy.
Before Hubble, quasars were considered to be isolated star-like objects of a mysterious nature. Hubble has observed several quasars and found that they all reside at galactic centres. Today most scientists believe that super massive black holes at the galactic centres are the "engines" that power the quasars.
Prior to the launch of Hubble a handful of black hole candidates had been studied but the limitations of ground based astronomy were such that irrefutable evidence for their existence could not be obtained. Black holes themselves, by definition, cannot be observed, since no light can escape from them.
However, astronomers can study the effects of black holes on their surroundings. These include powerful jets of electrons that travel huge distances, many thousands of light years from the centres of the galaxies.
A stream of electrons ejected from the centre of galaxy M 87.
Matter falling towards a black hole can also be seen emitting bright light and if the speed of this falling matter can be measured, it is possible to determine the mass of the black hole itself. This is not an easy task and it requires the extraordinary capabilities of Hubble to carry out these sophisticated measurements.
The disk around the black hole at the centre of galaxy NGC 7052.
Hubble observations have been fundamental in the study of the jets and discs of matter around a number of black holes. Accurate measurements of the masses have been possible for the first time. Hubble has found black holes 3 billion times as massive as our Sun at the centre of some galaxies. While this might have been expected, Hubble has surprised everyone by providing strong evidence that black holes exist at the centres of all large galaxies and even small galaxies. Hubble also managed not only to observe the jets created by black holes but also the glowing discs of material surrounding a supermassive black hole.
Furthermore, it appears that larger galaxies are the hosts of larger black holes. There must be some mechanism that links the formation of the galaxy to that of its black hole and vice versa. This has profound implications for theories of galaxy formation and evolution and is an ongoing area of research in astronomy.
One big question which remains is why most galaxies in our cosmic neighbourhood, including the Milky Way, appear to have a dormant black hole which is not funnelling in large amounts of matter at present.
"Hubble provided strong evidence that all galaxies contain black holes millions or billions of times heavier than our sun. This has quite dramatically changed our view of galaxies. I am convinced that Hubble over the next ten years will find that black holes play a much more important role in the formation and evolution of galaxies than we believe today. Who knows, it may even influence our picture of the whole structure of the Universe...?" Duccio Macchetto
ESA astronomer, Head of the Science Policies Division, STScI
A unifying model
Today most astronomers believe that quasars, radio galaxies and the centres of so-called active galaxies just are different views of more or less the same phenomenon: a black hole with energetic jets beaming out from two sides. When the beam is directed towards us we see the bright lighthouse of a quasar. When the orientation of the system is different we observe it as an active galaxy or a radio galaxy. This ‘unified model’ has gained considerable support through a number of Hubble observational programs. The simplistic early ideas have however been replaced by a more complex view of this phenomenon – a view that will continue to evolve in the years to come.
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Note how little coverage Ron Paul got this weekend, even though he racked up 27.7% of the vote in Iowa, just shy of Michele Bachmann's 28.6%
From the Sunday political shows to major news websites to the weekend editions of the evening news, Paul was woefully underrepresented.
Bachmann, of course, was ubiquitous, but there seemed to be little demand for Paul, who has certainly given freely of his time in the past (CSPAN has noted that he almost always says yes when asked to appear on their air).
So, why ignore Paul?
Because he doesn't fit the media narrative. He's anti-war and pro-small government, a combination that essentially consigns him to a third party - much like New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is socially liberal but fiscally moderate.
Heavily influenced by each other, media outlets have sidelined Paul and embraced Bachmann, though there is little evidence that either have a real chance to win the presidency. This does a disservice to the public and avoids a fantastic story: Paul's ideas have a sizable constituency inside the Republican party, a constituency that may not find a home in November of 2012.
Who, it might be interesting to know, do Paul's supporters plan to vote for, if Paul isn't ultimately on the ballot? And what makes them stand loyally by Paul, despite the fact that his chances at the nomination are slim?
One of the great, unexplored issues of this election cycle may be intra-party discontent - how many Republicans want to bring the troops home, for example? - but, so far, the media has done a poor job of covering this dissension.
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Bee Well Pediatrics - Nosebleed (Epistaxis) Home About Us Medical Services New Patients Resources Contact Us Insurances BWP Patient Registration Consent to Treat Review of Privacy Practices Request for Medical Records ImmTrac Registry Form TB Questionnair BWP Endocrine Patient Registration n New Patient Registration Consent to Treat Notice of Privacy Patient Handouts Memorial Hermann Downtown Hospital Directory Memorial Hermann Hospital Downtown Map Texas Children's Hospital Directory Texas Children's Hospital Map Lab Locations - LabCorp Lab Locations - Quest Recommended Books Nosebleed (Epistaxis) Memorial Hermann Downtown Hospital Directory Memorial Hermann Hospital Downtown Map Texas Children's Hospital Directory Texas Children’s Hospital Map Dr. Lara Varisco Leonhardt, MD What causes nosebleeds? Nosebleeds are usually caused by dryness of the nasal lining and the normal rubbing and picking that all children do when their noses are blocked or itchy. Vigorous nose blowing can also cause bleeding. Children who have nasal allergies are more likely to have nosebleeds because they rub and blow their noses more. Being hit in the nose or other injuries may also cause nosebleeds. Nosebleeds are very common throughout childhood. How can I help stop the bleeding? Have your child sit up, lean forward, and spit out any blood. Have a basin available so he can spit out any blood that drains into his throat. Swallowed blood is irritating to the stomach. Don't be surprised if it is vomited up. Have your child blow his nose to free any large clots. Then tightly pinch the soft part of the lower nose between your thumb and forefinger for 10 minutes. (If your child is old enough, teach him how and where to hold his own nose.) Have your child breathe through his mouth. Don't release the pressure until 10 minutes are up. If the bleeding continues, you may not be pressing on the right spot. If bleeding continues, insert a gauze covered with decongestant nosedrops (for example, Neo-Synephrine) or petroleum jelly (Vaseline) into the nostril. Squeeze again for 10 minutes. Leave the gauze in for another 10 minutes before you remove it. Common mistakes in treating nosebleed A cold washcloth applied to the forehead, bridge of the nose, back of the neck, or under the upper lip does not help stop nosebleeds. Pressing on the bony part of the nose does not help stop nosebleeds. How can I help prevent nosebleeds? A small amount of petroleum jelly applied twice a day to the center wall inside the nose (the septum) often helps relieve dryness and irritation. Increasing the humidity in the room at night by using a humidifier may also be helpful. Get your child into the habit of putting 2 or 3 drops of warm water in each nostril before blowing a stuffy nose. Avoid aspirin. One aspirin can increase the tendency of the body to bleed easily for up to a week and can make nosebleeds last much longer. If your child has nasal allergies, treating allergic symptoms with antihistamines will help break the itching-bleeding cycle. Do not allow anyone to smoke around children. When should I call my child's healthcare provider? Call IMMEDIATELY if: The bleeding does not stop after 20 minutes of direct pressure on the nose. Call during office hours if: Nosebleeds are a frequent problem even after petroleum jelly and humidification are used. You have other concern Pediatric services are available to all children; office visit fees can be billed to medical insurance or paid in cash. A sliding schedule of fees for uninsured children is available. Contact us now for more information. The information contained in this website is to provide information of a general nature about the practice and pediatric medical conditions. Neither Dr. Leonhardt nor Bee Well Pediatrics, P.A. is engaged in rendering medical advice or recommendations. You should always consult your doctor for advice. Home About Us Medical Services New Patients Resources Contact Us | negative |
The White Sox finally pulled the trigger on a deal sending Jake Peavy to Boston in a three team trade that also included Central division rival Detroit. Boston sent prospects J.B. Wendelken, Francellus Montas, and Cleuluis Rondon to the White Sox and top shortstop prospect Jose Iglesias to the Tigers. The Tigers sent out Avisail Garcia to the White Sox and Bryan Villareal to the Red Sox in the deal.
Avisail Garcia, the centerpiece of the deal for the White Sox, is expected to report to Triple-A Charlotte as the White Sox do not have space for him to get everyday at-bats. However, if I were the White Sox, I would make room soon as Garcia has been tough to ignore. With a slash line of .382/.414/.549 Garcia has been tearing it up for the Toledo Mudhens, Detorit’s Triple-A affiliate, and general manager, Rick Hahn, has been quoted as saying Garcia is a five tool player.
Montas and Wendelken, both twenty years old and pitching out of Single-A Greensville this year are solid, but not great pitching prospects. Montas was ranked as Boston’s 22nd overall prospect this past season and is said to have a power fastball that can touch triple digits and miss bats. Another thing I like about Montas is his 10.1 K/9 ratio and the fact that he is a starter. Wendelken is a reliever who is not as overbearing as Montas but also has more control in the fact that he has a 2.8 BB/9. I normally don’t like trading for other teams relief pitching prospects but it’s never bad to have more arms. Rondon was with short season A ball, and doesn’t seem like he’ll be anything special.
However, with every Sox column I write, there needs to be some pessimism. When this broke on twitter, it seemed as though the White Sox were receiving Iglesias and I was rejoicing. I thought that this would mean we could move Ramriez and let Iglesias start, with no pressure to succeed right away. However, when I found out that we had instead acquired another outfielder, I was thoroughly disappointed. Six of the White Sox top twenty prospects are outfielders according to mlb.com and the roster is full of them with Jordan Danks, who was already waiting in the wings and DeWayne Wise rehabbing.
Another thing that baffles me is that this move allowed Detroit, our divisional rival, to get better. The Tigers by far had the worst infield defense in the MLB with Fielder, Cabrera, and Peralta manning three-fourths of the diamond, but with arguably the best defensive shortstop prospect in the majors, this strengthens at least part of their defense. Not to mention that if his bat pans out, he will be a monster.
Ending on a happy note, I feel like the Sox did the best they could and got a solid return, but I wish they could prioritize acquiring some corner infield help along with catching, while not helping out division rivals at the same time. You can’t have it all I guess. Well, here’s to me writing another trade recap about Alex Rios in less than twenty four hours! | positive |
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Meshell Ndegeocello Honors Simone's 'Sovereign Soul'
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On her latest album, Pour Une Âme Souveraine, singer and bassist Meshell Ndegeocello performs the songs of Nina Simone. The French title is a nod to the fact that Simone spent the later years of her life in France, but it's also Ndegeocello's way of honoring her idol.
"It means 'for a sovereign soul,' " Ndegeocello tells NPR's Melissa Block. "She was one of the people, but I felt she was like royalty."
In Ndegeocello's eyes, Simone is more than just a great artist — she's a fascinating historical character whose personal struggles deeply informed her music.
"She had a complicated life full of pain and disappointment," Ndegeocello says. "If you read her book, it's just sadness after sadness after sadness, disappointment after disappointment, and expectations that could not be fulfilled in her lifetime in terms of civil rights. She found out music was a dirty business. A lot of her disenchantment was from bad record deals, and it seems like Nina Simone just questioned why the world was the way it was."
The album opens with "Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a song Simone recorded in 1964. While Simone's original performance has a sense of urgency, Ndegeocello sounds more relaxed, almost nonchalant. It shows that, while she may revere Simone deeply, the two differ greatly in personality.
"Yeah, I guess I'm less apologetic, and hers seems more of a pleading to be understood," she says. "I think secretly I've realized after my time on the planet that I have no control over what people feel about me or need from me, so I just have a more laid-back approach in my apologies."
Later on the album, Ndegeocello offers her take on "Four Women." It tells the story of four black women who, although they come from different backgrounds, share a common history of pain and hardship.
"There's no hierarchy in suffering," Ndegeocello says. "I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?"
Each song interpreted on Pour Une Âme Souveraine seems to have been chosen to convey a different message. But the album as a whole, Ndegeocello says, has a focused purpose: reminding the world how important Nina Simone was as an artist, and as a human.
"It was important to pick songs that she had written," she says, "because the hope for me is to get more people interested in her, check out her catalog and sort of revive it, and also use her story and learn from her story." | positive |
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Investors: Oversight Is Needed For Bitcoin To Become Mainstream
Bitcoin's growth was built on the idea it was a currency of the people, unattached to any central bank or regulating authority. But a major theft has put that vision to a tough test.
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Let's return to the saga of bitcoin, the digital currency. Yesterday, "Newsweek" announced that it uncovered bitcoins founding father - but the man they named - Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto - denied it. Just last week, the bitcoin world was rocked by a half billion dollar bank robbery.
This all might seem like the plot of a thriller that would at least delight a tech savvy audience. Though, NPR's Steve Henn reports that many Silicon Valley investors believe bitcoin is on the verge of breaking into the main stream, all it needs is a little government oversight.
STEVE HENN, BYLINE: If you put all the drama aside for a second, there actually is something to bitcoin. This digital currency allows people to exchange money directly online - without involving a bank or a credit card company - or any fees.
That simple fact has attracted the attention of some of the most successful venture capitalist on the planet. They're betting bitcoin could be the basis of a new, more efficient form of electronic commerce. But they say its time for this crazy-crypto currency to shed its freewheeling libertarian past and embrace regulation.
JEREMY LIEW: We really have a relatively small number of people in the bitcoin ecosystem today. And for it to really reach its full potential, it really needs to be much, much more widely accepted.
HENN: Jeremy Liew is a VC who's investing in a half dozen bit-coin-based businesses. He envisions a future where bitcoin is as widely used as Amex.
LIEW: For that to happen, then the general public has to have trust in bitcoin. You know, a lot of that trust can come from, you know, government oversight, government regulations.
HENN: But government regulation isn't what many of bitcoins early advocates signed up for. They saw a peer-to-peer payment network that let people deal directly with each other - safely and cut out banks and regulators.
ROGER VER: People can send or receive these bit-coins with anyone anywhere on the planet and they don't have to ask for permission from any bank, or corporation or government for that matter.
HENN: Roger Ver is an ardent bitcoin advocate an early adopter. He's a prolific investor in bitcoin-based businesses and a libertarian. Ver's horrified by the push to regulate bitcoin businesses in the U.S.
VER: Yeah. I think that sort of thing is my biggest fear in my to day life. All the rules and regulations the government makes are impossible for any one person to understand or abide by, there's just too many of them.
HENN: U.S. banks are required to reports suspicious transactions - to quote, "know their customers" - and to take steps to stop money laundering.
Roger Ver is more focused on privacy. One of Ver's most successful investments is in a business that helps people create bitcoin wallets without giving up any personal information. It's not entirely clear if a businesses like that is abiding by U.S. laws or not.
VER: Lots and lots of my bitcoin friends, they've literally left the country because the regulations and rules are just too burdensome in the U.S. And, you know, I've left the country myself as well.
HENN: Roger Ver in the Caribbean. But not every bitcoin business is heading off shore.
BRIAN ARMSTRONG: This is Brian Armstrong. I'm the CEO and co-founder of Coinbase.
HENN: Coinbase is trying to make using bitcoin easy. It's based in San Francisco and is scrupulous about following U.S. financial laws.
ARMSTRONG: You know, we have certain obligations to know our customers and collect personally identifiable information. So Coinbase is not, you know, anonymously in any way, really.
HENN: The company is working with auditors to release financial statements. They're reaching out to state bank regulators and Feds at Treasury and the Secret Service, to explain the currency and how they do business.
Armstrong's goal isn't to over turn the U.S. banking system or undermine regulators - his goal is to integrate bitcoin into the mainstream.
ARMSTRONG: The vast majority of transactions in the economy are for perfectly legal goods and services and they're not from people who are politically oppressed or anything like that.
HENN: If government oversight is going to help Americans get comfortable with the idea of actually using a crypto-currency, Armstrong is all for it.
Steve Henn, NPR News, Silicon Valley.
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English to Bangla Meaning of blind - bdword.com Go To Android App Home Read Text Vocabulary Games Words Everyday Bangla to English Dictionary Favorite Words Word Search History Blogs Contact English to Bangla Meaning :: blind Blind : অন্ধ Pronunciation: Add to Favorite: Bangla Academy Ovidhan : Bangla Academy Ovidhan (↓) adjective : অন্ধ, কানা, গুপ্ত, দৃষ্টিশক্তিহীন, অস্পষ্ট, অন্ধকার, বিচারবুদ্ধিহীন, অচক্ষু, কাণা, নিভৃত, উদ্দেশ্যহীন, বিচারহীন, অদূরদর্শী, বেপরোয়া, গোঁড়া, গোঁয়ার, একমুখো, চোরা verb : অন্ধ করা, কানা করা, চক্ষু বান্ধান, অন্ধকার করা, অস্পষ্ট করা, লুকাইয়া রাখা, প্রতারিত করা, ফাঁকি দেত্তয়া noun : খড়খড়ি, জানালার খড়খড়ি, পাখি, ঠুলি, আবরণ, যদ্দ্বারা কিছু গোপন করা হয় Details : অযৌক্তিক Details (↓) adjective : অন্ধ, কানা, গুপ্ত, দৃষ্টিশক্তিহীন, অস্পষ্ট, অন্ধকার, বিচারবুদ্ধিহীন, অচক্ষু, কাণা, নিভৃত, উদ্দেশ্যহীন, বিচারহীন, অদূরদর্শী, বেপরোয়া, গোঁড়া, গোঁয়ার, একমুখো, চোরা verb : অন্ধ করা, কানা করা, চক্ষু বান্ধান, অন্ধকার করা, অস্পষ্ট করা, লুকাইয়া রাখা, প্রতারিত করা, ফাঁকি দেত্তয়া noun : খড়খড়ি, জানালার খড়খড়ি, পাখি, ঠুলি, আবরণ, যদ্দ্বারা কিছু গোপন করা হয় Details : অযৌক্তিক Blind :: অন্ধ Blinded :: অন্ধ Blinder :: চোখের ঠুলি Blinders :: অন্ধ Blindest :: অন্ধ Blinding :: দৃষ্টি আচ্ছন্নকারী Blindly :: অন্ধভাবে Blindness :: অন্ধত্ব Blinds :: খড়খড়ি Similar Words (↓) Blind :: অন্ধ Blinded :: অন্ধ Blinder :: চোখের ঠুলি Blinders :: অন্ধ Blindest :: অন্ধ Blinding :: দৃষ্টি আচ্ছন্নকারী Blindly :: অন্ধভাবে Blindness :: অন্ধত্ব Blinds :: খড়খড়ি ← Blimey blindfold → Other Refferences : The Definition Dictionary.com Merriam Webster Wikipedia Share This Meaning : Show English Meaning (↑) Noun(1) people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group(2) a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters(3) a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight(4) something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity Verb(1) render unable to see(2) make blind by putting the eyes out(3) make dim by comparison or conceal Adjective(1) unable to see(2) unable or unwilling to perceive or understand(3) not based on reason or evidence Show English Meaning (↓) Noun(1) people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group(2) a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters(3) a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight(4) something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity Verb(1) render unable to see(2) make blind by putting the eyes out(3) make dim by comparison or conceal Adjective(1) unable to see(2) unable or unwilling to perceive or understand(3) not based on reason or evidence Show Examples (↑) (1) However, don't let these minor things blind you to the fact that The Big Book of Busts is actually an extremely important addition to any serious chess library.(2) Science journal Nature chose 50 science articles from both Encyclopedia Britanica and gave peer reviewers a blind test to find mistakes.(3) Are his destructive escapades nothing more than random luck and blind chance?(4) This was all very friendly, fun and instructive, and we bought a small bottle of balsamic vinegar (the one we liked best in the blind test) to take home.(5) It was this military system that Braille adapted for the blind .(6) One day I'm sitting in a duck blind in backwoods Louisiana.(7) Glazed doors, provided that the panes are rectangular, can be reduced by removing one tier of panes; blind doors can be cut down at will.(8) Our government and politicians are blind and deaf on this issue.(9) In other research some experienced wine drinkers in a blind test were unable to tell a red from a white.(10) You watch the sun come up on a cold winter morning hunkered down in a hunting blind or pray to God you don't fall in the river at midnight when you're running your trotline.(11) Reports have suggested that only a small proportion of those who claimed to suffer from wheat intolerance showed any symptoms in blind tests.(12) Papa and Mama Aven use their quiet bookstore as a blind for smuggling diamonds.(13) Anna watched as the plane flew over and through all the clouds in the sky before pulling the blind back over the window.(14) When scientists criticize these ideas, they often start talking about blind tests and repeatability and so forth.(15) ├ö├ç├┐Ruse├ö├ç├û applies to that which is contrived as a blind for one's real intentions or for the truth.(16) With modern machinery and the will to do it, many of the blind bends on this road would be eradicated quickly. Show Examples (↓) (1) However, don't let these minor things blind you to the fact that The Big Book of Busts is actually an extremely important addition to any serious chess library.(2) Science journal Nature chose 50 science articles from both Encyclopedia Britanica and gave peer reviewers a blind test to find mistakes.(3) Are his destructive escapades nothing more than random luck and blind chance?(4) This was all very friendly, fun and instructive, and we bought a small bottle of balsamic vinegar (the one we liked best in the blind test) to take home.(5) It was this military system that Braille adapted for the blind .(6) One day I'm sitting in a duck blind in backwoods Louisiana.(7) Glazed doors, provided that the panes are rectangular, can be reduced by removing one tier of panes; blind doors can be cut down at will.(8) Our government and politicians are blind and deaf on this issue.(9) In other research some experienced wine drinkers in a blind test were unable to tell a red from a white.(10) You watch the sun come up on a cold winter morning hunkered down in a hunting blind or pray to God you don't fall in the river at midnight when you're running your trotline.(11) Reports have suggested that only a small proportion of those who claimed to suffer from wheat intolerance showed any symptoms in blind tests.(12) Papa and Mama Aven use their quiet bookstore as a blind for smuggling diamonds.(13) Anna watched as the plane flew over and through all the clouds in the sky before pulling the blind back over the window.(14) When scientists criticize these ideas, they often start talking about blind tests and repeatability and so forth.(15) ├ö├ç├┐Ruse├ö├ç├û applies to that which is contrived as a blind for one's real intentions or for the truth.(16) With modern machinery and the will to do it, many of the blind bends on this road would be eradicated quickly. Related Words (1) love is blind :: ভালবাসা অন্ধ (2) blind date :: অন্ধ তারিখ (3) blind man :: অন্ধ ব্যাক্তি (4) color-blind :: বর্ণান্ধ (5) colour-blind :: বর্ণান্ধ (6) big blind :: বড় অন্ধ (7) the blind :: অন্ধ (8) blind alley :: কানাগলি (9) blind love :: অন্ধ প্রেম (10) blind faith :: অন্ধ বিশ্বাস Related Words (↓) (1) love is blind :: ভালবাসা অন্ধ (2) blind date :: অন্ধ তারিখ (3) blind man :: অন্ধ ব্যাক্তি (4) color-blind :: বর্ণান্ধ (5) colour-blind :: বর্ণান্ধ (6) big blind :: বড় অন্ধ (7) the blind :: অন্ধ (8) blind alley :: কানাগলি (9) blind love :: অন্ধ প্রেম (10) blind faith :: অন্ধ বিশ্বাস Synonyms Adjective 1. sightless :: দৃষ্টিহীন 2. imperceptive :: imperceptive 3. unmindful of :: সম্বন্ধে অনবধান 4. uncritical :: সমালোচনাকর নহে এমন 5. impetuous :: বেগবান 6. unreasoning :: যুক্তিহীন Noun 8. shade :: ছায়া 9. deception :: প্রতারণা 10. subterfuge :: এড়ানর কৌশল 11. screen :: পর্দা Verb 12. make blind :: অন্ধ করতে 13. deprive of judgment :: বিচারের বঞ্চিত 14. overawe :: বশীভূত করা 15. dim :: অস্পষ্ট Synonyms (↓) Adjective 1. sightless :: দৃষ্টিহীন 2. imperceptive :: imperceptive 3. unmindful of :: সম্বন্ধে অনবধান 4. uncritical :: সমালোচনাকর নহে এমন 5. impetuous :: বেগবান 6. unreasoning :: যুক্তিহীন Noun 8. shade :: ছায়া 9. deception :: প্রতারণা 10. subterfuge :: এড়ানর কৌশল 11. screen :: পর্দা Verb 12. make blind :: অন্ধ করতে 13. deprive of judgment :: বিচারের বঞ্চিত 14. overawe :: বশীভূত করা 15. dim :: অস্পষ্ট Different Forms blind, blinded, blinder, blinders, blindest, blinding, blindly, blindness, blinds Different Forms (↓) blind, blinded, blinder, blinders, blindest, blinding, blindly, blindness, blinds Word Example from TV Shows The best way to learn proper English is to read news report, and watch news on TV. Watching TV shows is a great way to learn casual English, slang words, understand culture reference and humor. If you have already watched these shows then you may recall the words used in the following dialogs. I'm BLIND! See? I can't see anything! Vikings Season 1, Episode 9 If you demand BLIND allegiance, Game of Thrones Season 7, Episode 2 I think you're BLIND and deaf now. Money Heist Season 3, Episode 4 he can often be BLIND to the enemies at his side. Game of Thrones Season 1, Episode 10 She turned a BLIND eye to her brother's sins. Game of Thrones Season 6, Episode 6 Word Example from TV Shows (↓) The best way to learn proper English is to read news report, and watch news on TV. Watching TV shows is a great way to learn casual English, slang words, understand culture reference and humor. If you have already watched these shows then you may recall the words used in the following dialogs. I'm BLIND! See? I can't see anything! Vikings Season 1, Episode 9 If you demand BLIND allegiance, Game of Thrones Season 7, Episode 2 I think you're BLIND and deaf now. Money Heist Season 3, Episode 4 he can often be BLIND to the enemies at his side. Game of Thrones Season 1, Episode 10 She turned a BLIND eye to her brother's sins. Game of Thrones Season 6, Episode 6 English to Bangla Dictionary: blind Meaning and definitions of blind, translation in Bangla language for blind with similar and opposite words. Also find spoken pronunciation of blind in Bangla and in English language. Tags for the entry 'blind' What blind means in Bangla, blind meaning in Bangla, blind definition, examples and pronunciation of blind in Bangla language. English to Bangla Dictionary: blind (↓) Meaning and definitions of blind, translation in Bangla language for blind with similar and opposite words. Also find spoken pronunciation of blind in Bangla and in English language. 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Wow. If you’ve been waiting for the war on women to backfire against Republicans, allow me to introduce you to Alison Grimes, the Democrat running against Senator Mitch McConnell for a Kentucky Senate seat.
Be prepared to watch one of the best campaign videos ever made, and I’ve worked on a few of them. Granted, this is long format for the web, and that allows more time, but this is still a prize worthy campaign video.
Watch here:
Alison Grimes begins speaking in a soft, but authoritative voice, “Hi, I’m Alison Grimes and I’m running to represent Kentucky in the United States Senate. We’re kicking off the campaign next week and I you to be the first to know about it. Now I’m here in this dining room because you could say that it all started right here two years ago, only made this TV ad. ”
Roll clip of an old ad of Grimes with both of her Grandmothers.
“I loved making that ad. I got to introduce Kentucky to two of the strongest women I’ve never known and there was a chance to talk about something I firmly believe in, that the government should either help or get out of the way.”
Sweet smile.
“That’s a lesson a certain Kentucky Senator has never learned. What many people don’t know as that my grandmother Thelma who was sitting here on my left died just a few months after we made that commercial. She was 92 years old and would have been so proud to see this day.”
“It’s really for her and for people just like her all across Kentucky I’m running for Senate. People who don’t come for much, but who work hard every day making Kentucky a better place for all of us. My grandmother knew that if you wanted to get something done you don’t stand in the way, you stand by your principles, but you also figure out where you can agree and how we can come together.”
“But that’s not happening in Washington today and Senator McConnell is the biggest part of the problem. He’s wasted decades blocking legislation that would have helped Kentucky and our country. And over the last few years he’s done it for the worst possible reason — out of spite.”
Oh. She went there.
“I don’t always agree with the president, but that doesn’t mean we can’t put the good of our people ahead of the bad that comes from acting petty and small.”
Petty and small, indeed. Nicely played, Ms Grimes. “Together we can change that next Tuesday July 30th.”
Here comes the power punch right to the gut, “Now this part’s for you Senator. Your campaign wants to play silly games about where I am and where I stand.”
Wait for it…. Okay, “Well I’m right here in Kentucky, Senator, where I’ll be holding you accountable for voting to double Medicare premiums on Kentucky seniors, including our retired coal miners, for being against requiring the Department of Defense to buy equipment that’s made in America first, for failing to stand up for women when you voted against the Paycheck Fairness Act, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, and the Violence Against Women Act, and for opposing raising the minimum wage over and over again while you became a multimillionaire in public office.”
Game on, McConnell.
And Alison is so charming whilst delivering her death blows. Such a sweet smile. She’s perfect for Kentucky: A southern lady, taking on a corrupt, greedy, mean old man.
Now for the warning shot, “We’ll have this debate Senator, and as you’ve probably already seen I don’t scare easy.”
Then Grandma comes to sit next to Alison, banging her laptop down on the dining room table, and says ,”And neither do I, Senator! What rhymes with Mitch? It’s time to switch. Let’s get started honey. This one’s for Thelma.”
Yup. The ladies are fighting back, and when they invoke their Grandmothers, well, Senator McConnell has no idea what he’s messing with. Alison Grimes is McConnell’s worst nightmare. She’s a Southern lady, invoking the strong Southern matriarch as her guide. She’s soft-voiced but steely-spined. She is referencing character and principle, neither of which McConnell will want to discuss. And she’s not afraid of him. Not one bit.
Also, we all know what rhymes with Mitch and it’s not just switch or ditch, but it does describe him perfectly.
The more McConnell attacks Alison in personal ways, as is his modus operandi (he can’t talk about his record, for heaven’s sake), the uglier he’s going to look to Kentuckians because Alison is such a lady. He can’t fight Alison the way he would have fought Ashley Judd, as Alison is already well known and popular as the current Secretary of State. She’s a beloved local while he’s a DC insider, and she knows how to fight the patriarch like only a Southern woman can.
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uLisp Zero
uLisp Zero is a pared-down version of uLisp, capable of running in 8 Kbytes of program memory with 1 Kbyte of RAM. It is intended as a starting point for anyone wanting to develop their own dialect of Lisp, design another Lisp-like language, or just understand how a Lisp interpreter works.
It's similar to the first version of uLisp I got working, but takes advantage of the bug fixes and improvements from the latest version of uLisp.
Because it doesn't contain any platform-specific features the same code will run on either Arduino ATmega platforms or Energia MSP430 platforms.
You program uLisp Zero in the same way as uLisp, just by typing commands in the Arduino/Energia Serial Monitor; see Using uLisp.
I'd welcome suggestions for improving uLisp Zero, in particular: polishing the C code, making it more platform-independent, and solving the compiler warnings on the MSP430 and ARM platforms. Post comments on the uLisp Forum in the uLisp Zero category.
Download
Download the latest version of uLisp Zero here:
uLisp Zero Version 1.1 - 18th May 2017
or get it from GitHub at https://github.com/technoblogy/ulisp-zero.
Requirements
Program memory: At least 8 Kbytes.
RAM: At least 1 Kbytes.
Adjust the value of WORKSPACESIZE to suit the amount of RAM you have available; the default setting is suitable for 2 Kbytes.
Specification
Types: symbols and lists.
Symbols: Up to three characters, a-z and 0-9.
Functions and symbols: nil, t, lambda, quote, defun, defvar, setq, if, not, null, cons, atom, listp, consp, symbolp, eq car, cdr, eval, globals, locals
Garbage collection.
Platforms
I've tested uLisp Zero 1.1 on the following platforms:
Platform IDE Cells Benchmark Notes Arduino Uno (ATmega328) Arduino 320 N/A Not enough memory to run the benchmark. Arduino Mega 2560 (ATmega2560) Arduino 1280 162 sec ATmega1284 Arduino 2880 162 sec MSP430F5529 LaunchPad Energia 1280 100 sec MSP430FR5969 LaunchPad Energia 3072 188 sec * Using FRAM for the workspace; see below. MSP430FR5994 LaunchPad Energia 1024 147 sec * Using FRAM for the workspace; see below. Arduino Zero (ARM Cortex M0+) Arduino 2048 35 sec Adafruit Feather M0 (ARM Cortex M0) Arduino 2048 35 sec Problem with serial port; see below. Arduino Due (ARM Cortex M3) Arduino 8000 25 sec Requires Arduino IDE 1.8.1 or later. Arduino MKRZero (ARM Cortex M0+) Arduino 3072 35 sec
Cells gives the recommended value for the WORKSPACESIZE constant, giving the number of Lisp cells of storage available.
Benchmark gives the time taken to run the Hofstadter Q sequence benchmark.
Notes
* On the MSP430FR5969 and MSP430FR5994 you can use the FRAM for the workspace by defining:
object Workspace[WORKSPACESIZE] __attribute__((section(".text"))) WORDALIGNED;
On the Adafruit Feather M0 there an unresolved problem that the serial port hangs if you attempt to paste a long listing into the serial monitor; this doesn't happen with any of the other platforms.
Examples
Here are some example programs that uLisp Zero can evaluate:
Interleave two lists
Interleaves two lists of the same length.
(defun int (one two) (if (null one) nil (cons (car one) (cons (car two) (int (cdr one) (cdr two))))))
For example:
> (int '(a b c) '(d e f)) (a d b e c f)
Last item of a list
Returns the last item of a list.
(defun end (lst) (if (null (cdr lst)) (car lst) (end (cdr lst))))
For example:
> (end '(a b c d)) d
Append two lists
Joins two lists into a single list:
(defun app (one two) (if (null (cdr one)) (cons (car one) two) (cons (car one) (app (cdr one) two))))
For example:
> (app '(a b c) '(d e f g)) (a b c d e f g)
Reverse a list
Reverses a list. Uses app from the previous example:
(defun rev (lst) (if (null (cdr lst)) lst (app (rev (cdr lst)) (cons (car lst) nil))))
For example:
> (rev '(a b c d e f)) (f e d c b a)
Longest Common Subsequence
To prove that uLisp Zero can calculate something non-trivial, here is a routine to find the Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) of two lists; in other words, the longest sequence of elements that occur in the same order in both lists.
For example, the LCS of (1 2 3 5 6 8 9) and (2 3 4 6 7 8) is (2 3 6 8).
First we define a routine lgr that returns nil if the first list is not longer than the second list:
(defun lgr (a b) (if (null b) a (lgr (cdr a) (cdr b))))
For example:
> (lgr '(a b c) '(a b c)) nil > (lgr '(a b c d) '(a b c)) (d)
Then we define lon that uses this to return the longer of two lists:
(defun lon (a b) (if (lgr a b) a b))
For example:
> (lon '(a b c d) '(a b c)) (a b c d)
Finally, here's the definition of lcs:
(defun lcs (a b) (if (null a) nil (if (null b) nil (if (eq (car a) (car b)) (cons (car a) (lcs (cdr a) (cdr b))) (lon (lcs a (cdr b)) (lcs (cdr a) b))))))
For example:
> (lcs '(1 2 3 5 6 8 9) '(2 3 4 6 7 8)) (2 3 6 8)
The algorithm works as follows:
If the two lists have the same first element, the LCS is this followed by the LCS of the lists with the first element removed.
Otherwise try ignoring the first element of each list in turn. The LCS is the one that gives the longest result.
Hofstadter Q sequence
This is one of several recursive sequences described in Douglas Hofstadter's book "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid", and was included in the uLisp Benchmarks.
Since uLisp Zero doesn't have numbers, this version of the benchmark uses the length of the lists to denote the numbers. I use "x"s, but you could use any list of symbols.
First we define an add function; this is the same as the append function, app, defined above:
(defun add (one two) (if (null (cdr one)) (cons (car one) two) (cons (car one) (add (cdr one) two))))
For example, to add 2 and 3:
> (add '(x x) '(x x x)) (x x x x x)
Next we need an equivalent subtract function, sub. This is the same as the lgr function defined above (negative numbers aren't supported!):
(defun sub (a b) (if (null b) a (sub (cdr a) (cdr b)))) For example:
> (sub '(x x x x) '(x x)) (x x)
The following function returns t if its argument is less than or equal to 2, and nil otherwise:
(defun le2 (n) (null (cdr (cdr n))))
For example:
> (le2 '(x x)) t
Finally, here's the definition of q:
(defun q (n) (if (le2 n) '(x) (add (q (sub n (q (cdr n)))) (q (sub n (q (cdr (cdr n))))))))
On an Arduino Mega 2560 (q 21) takes 162 secs to return the answer 12:
> (q '(x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x)) (x x x x x x x x x x x x)
Here are all the examples in a single file: uLisp Zero examples. | positive |
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Suitcase and World: Istabul. Yeni Camii. Pages Home About This Blog Responsible Travel Attributions Saturday, May 10, 2008 Istabul. Yeni Camii. I t's only in a city with Istanbul's long history that can you call a monument that is nearly 500 years old, the "New Mosque"! That's how Yeni Camii ("Yen-ee Jahm-ee") translates from Turkish into English. History The construction of the mosque was begun by Valide Safiye, Queen Mother of Mehmet III, in 1597. After Mehmet III died, the building of the mosque dragged on for over 40 years due to water seepage, funding problems, embezzlement, and the death of the sultan, which temporarily shut down operations completely. Six sultans later, Turhan Hatice, Queen Mother of Sultan Mehmet IV, took up the work and finished it in 1663. Located on the Golden Horn, at the southern end of the Galata Bridge, Lei and I visited Yeni Camii late this afternoon. It's architectural style reminded me of the Blue Mosque but on more modest scale. An elegant fountain for ablutions stands in large courtyard of the mosque. Beautiful blue Iznik tiles line both exterior and interior walls. When you enter the mosque, the first thing that grabs your attention is the stunning domed ceiling. Then the rest of the interior holds you in rapt awe as you try and take in all the sights. Yeni Camii is a working mosque so out of respect, we entered with our heads covered, shoes off and if we had to talk, we did so at whisper level. Above all, we were mindful to not enter spaces where people were praying. We would return to Yeni Camii on our return visit to Istanbul. On that occasion, we had spent the entire day shopping the Grand Bazaar and in wandering around, somehow found ourselves back at the Spice Bazaar.....where of course, we indulged in one last round of lokum. Exiting the Spice Bazaar, we wanted to sit down and rest for a few minutes before continuing on. 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Good Monday, fans! What a crazy, crazy weekend in “All in WDW Land”!
First, we had the Favorite WDW Attraction poll come to an epic conclusion when the web site hit an all-time record of 1,142 page-views yesterday. THANKS for your support, everyone! You ROCK!
When it comes to non-Disney excitement, our son arrived for a long-awaited ‘Spring Break’ visit from medical school. The Final Four still has the city alight with sirens, bus convoys, concerts, and tourists garbed in orange, red, yellow, and blue. And, we threw a very small, informal “dinner party” yesterday.
Yikes! I’m exhausted. How am I gonna work today? Despite all of this, I thought I would start the week off with …
… some food!
Another trip to visit the Epcot “Food” & Garden Festival isn’t all that far away for us, but it isn’t close enough that Mrs. All in WDW and I didn’t find ourselves craving some Disney cuisine.
As we prepared for yesterday’s party, I pored through the web site’s archives of pictures, posts, and videos, and I dug out the All in WDW 2012 Food & Wine Top 25. We chose this little dish to fill the role of appetizer. Very easy to make, and very ‘Yum’!
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So then, we finally have eyes on Steam Machines at CES 2014 in Las Vegas. Unfortunately, those eyes have come away unimpressed.
Valve has announced 13 hardware partners who are making Steam Machines - PCs using a variety of different components, form factors and pricing models that are united by their use of the Steam licence for marketing, SteamOS as their default operating system and the Steam Controller as their preferred input method.
Falcon Northwest's Steam Machine. The blue colour was chosen to distract you from SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS.
Steam Machines range from iBuyPower's $499 grey-and-orange set-top box lookalike, featuring components that resemble those in PS4 and Xbox One, all the way up to Falcon Northwest's customisable Titan-powered PC tower, priced from $1799 to $6000. There really does seem to be something for everyone.
Except the most common complaint is that there is nothing anyone wants.
Steam users and PC gaming fans had been hoping that Steam Machines would pose some sort of threat not only to the duopoly of Sony and Microsoft's next-generation consoles, but also to our wallets. I think we all wanted good, cheap Steam PCs for the lounge. Instead, the cheapest Steam Machines are around the same price as an Xbox One in the States, they can't match PlayStation 4's $399, and they lack the other benefits of those systems, particularly exclusive games.
Valve also shows no appetite to play the Sony or Microsoft role. Despite making some of the best PC games in the world (not to mention sitting on the most wanted sequel in the history of first-person shooters), it will not tie any of this in to SteamOS exclusively and shows no interest in buying up third-party content. Valve isn't making its own Steam Machine, either, or subsidising the cost of the others so they can compete with home consoles.
On the surface of it, it's a strange situation. Surely it must be obvious to Valve, a company that can't make it halfway through a sentence without using the word "customer", that this isn't what people were hoping for? Surely it must be obvious that Steam users will be unimpressed by an operating system that doesn't work with 90% of the Steam library? (An option to stream gameplay from your PC to Steam Machines hasn't been implemented yet and sounds less than optimal in any case.)
I share some of this frustration - for one thing, I'd love a $399 box with next-gen specs that runs all my Steam games and fits under my TV, so it's a shame this is not that - but I also think I understand why this situation has arisen.
Alienware's Steam Machine is similar to the X51, the Windows-powered lounge PC it started selling last year.
The key to understanding Steam Machines, SteamOS and the Steam Controller is hidden in an unremarkable phrase Gabe Newell tends to use whenever he talks about them. I wasn't in Las Vegas at CES, but I read a couple of live blogs that reported him saying it again: Valve's goal with these things is to protect the openness of the PC as a gaming platform. Over the years, Valve has gone from simply evangelising the PC platform - it once flew journalists in from around the world pretty much just to tell them it was great - to actively protecting it, and what we're seeing now is just the beginning of that push.
Take SteamOS. To you and me, it's a direct interface for Steam based on Linux that currently has poor software support. To Valve, though, it's a first step in levering development, publishing, gameplay and community away from their reliance on Windows and DirectX (and to a lesser extent Mac OS), systems that cannot be relied upon in the long term.
You could suggest that this is just Valve trying to assert total control over PC gaming by removing Microsoft from the equation, but I don't think that stands up to scrutiny. Sure, Gabe could grow an evil moustache in 2025 and Steam could go to hell, leaving a lot of people in the lurch, but SteamOS is just a layer on top of Linux, which is free and open source, so surely any existing games could then be liberated to live on outside SteamOS with minor modifications. While still unhelpful, I think developers would prefer that doomsday scenario to waking up one day and discovering that Windows XP games don't work on Windows 7.
The Steam Controller, meanwhile, apart from simply being interesting - come on, you don't want to try out those weirdo haptic touchpad things? - is a rallying point for PC developers, who will benefit from a common and reliable interface.
I love the idea of crowd-sourcing the most popular control configurations for each game. HOOT.
As for Steam Machines, they are a beachhead, not an atom bomb. They are meant to sell modestly. The hardware vendors making them have presumably estimated their return and weighed the risks. They have probably decided that licensing the Steam name and whacking it on a cool bit of bespoke hardware will make them a little money. They're probably right.
One argument I see here and there is that Steam now has a chicken-and-egg problem, but I think this concern is misplaced. How do you get people to make games for SteamOS when no one's bought a Steam Machine? How do you get people to buy Steam Machines when the SteamOS catalogue is so small?
The answer is that Valve is thinking in decades, not console generations. 10 years ago, Steam had one game: Half-Life 2. Today it's the only platform that matters. SteamOS has 300 games, including Valve's own, and they will still work in 10 years' time when PS4 and Xbox One have been consigned to the attic. Like the growth of Steam itself from zero to 65 million accounts, it will be a gradual process.
It can afford to be. None of this week's Steam Machines is going to match PS4's 4.2 million sales in six weeks, but that was never the objective for anyone involved. And all of this stuff may appeal to you and me as consumers to a greater or lesser degree. For Valve, though, that's also fine. Sony and Microsoft are thinking about the next earnings report; Valve is thinking about whether PC gaming is still viable when Valve is dead.
In the meantime, we all have a few more options, which doesn't feel like a bad thing. As Valve spokesperson Anna Sweet put it in conversation with Joystiq at CES: "There are already people like you who already have a PC in their living room, and a lot of those people might run Windows and might just run Steam in Big Picture Mode, and that's a great option. A lot of people want something that's more of a direct-boot experience, so they might take the PC they already have and install SteamOS on it. That's a great option. And a lot of people want to buy a new, dedicated living room machine that's sort of a nicer form factor for putting on a shelf in your living room. We kind of want to give customers those choices and let them experience Steam the way they want to in their living room."
iBuyPower's Steam Machine is one of the more modestly priced, which is impressive when you consider that it can fly.
I do have one criticism of Valve in all of this: I don't think it has done enough to manage people's expectations. The point it has made gently - that this is about protecting the openness of the PC as a gaming platform long-term - has been too easily overshadowed by the more exciting and glamorous narrative of Valve vs. next-gen consoles. The result is a lot of people who were always going to be slightly disappointed by this week's revelations.
Part of this is our own fault, of course, but then we can hardly be blamed for seeing the world through this lens after 12 months watching two monolithic game consoles battle for supremacy, hyping themselves into a frenzy before exploding onto the market to the tune of millions of sales, the entire future of the home console market apparently hinging on their success or failure.
I am not a public relations expert, but there must have been a way for Valve to prevent people lumping its plans in with all of that. Instead, we ended up with speculative stories like Bloomberg's "PC games king seeks to dethrone Sony, Microsoft consoles", where "Doug Lombardi, a Valve spokesman, declined to comment." Just say it ain't so, Doug!
Valve's announcements were always going to lack that console shock and awe. Now the dust has settled, though, I see that as a plus. While PS4 and Xbox One battle to justify their very existence, these first steps from Valve are a reminder that PC gaming doesn't need to play the same high-stakes games as the noisy console neighbours in order to flourish.
More importantly, as SteamOS, Steam Machines and the Steam Controller gently pick up pace, it will increasingly be able to do so on its own terms. | positive |
Mark Sanford blasts "Zimbabwe" stimulus
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, whose state has the second-worst-in-the-nation 10.4 percent unemployment rate, on Wednesday compared supporters of the stimulus package to Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe.
Sanford told reporters in South Carolina that he still intends to turn down millions in stimulus cash, despite the likelihood of his state legislature accepting the cash -- and criticism by House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) that rejecting any payments would disproportionately harm African American residents.
"What you're doing is buying into the notion that if we just print some more money that we don't have, send it to different states - we'll create jobs... If that's the case why isn't Zimbabwe a rich place?"..."why isn't Zimbabwe just an incredibly prosperous place. Cause they're printing money they don't have and sending it around to their different - I don't know the towns in Zimbabwe but that same logic is being applied there with little effect."
Glenn Thrush is senior staff writer at Politico Magazine. | positive |
The Ubuntu Touch platform is still young and it's only available "officially" on a single phone, that was made available only sporadically through flash sales, but the number of apps in the store has been increasing on a constant basis, so much so that there are now more than a 1,000 apps available.
One of the main concerns for new mobile platform is the app support, which is never great. In fact, if we take a look back, we might remember that when Android was first made available it had only a handful of native apps and iOS had a huge advantage. Developer caught up and now Android has the largest app repository (albeit not the cleanest one.)
It will take a while for Ubuntu to attract most of the big companies out there and to entice them into releasing native apps, but it's already happening. Sure enough, there are quite a few important apps already available, like the famous Telegram for example, and their number is increasing each day. The 1,000 milestone was reached only a few days ago and it's already passed 1100.
Making apps for Ubuntu is easy
The main couple of reasons why developers are having an easy time developing for Ubuntu is the fact that QML is being used and that a hand SDK has been made available and it's available for everyone. The fact that you can publish an app in the store in under a minute also helps.
"Ubuntu Store has recently reached an important milestone: more than 1000 apps are available for download. This is the list of the Top 50 applications. I'm glad to see that one of my apps, Quick Memo, is in the first 10 positions. It hasn't been under active development for some months, but I promise to add some cool stuff in the next release, which hopefully should come the next month," wrote Stefano Verzegnassi on Google+.
There is an unofficial Ubuntu Store where you can see the apps, and it lists 1105 apps and scopes. | positive |
Vikings with guns. Emphasis on guns – Gunnheim development
Tuesday, 30. June 2015
Written by Petri Pekkarinen
This is the third blog post since our little announcement last week. 3/3 days so far. What a streak!
If you read the previous posts you know that we’ve been cutting down on features, putting things on hold and started to focus all our efforts on the core features of Gunnheim. So what is it then that makes or breaks the game? For the next couple of days I’ll sort out the main things that our team wants to create and deliver in Gunnheim’s gameplay. This post will cover one of the things we have lately been focusing on: shooting.
ENJOYABLE GUNPLAY
In Gunnheim you play as a viking. A viking with a gun. Starting from the very first moments of the game until the end of the last fight you are probably spending the whole time shooting. This means the gunplay has to be near perfect. Everything related to shooting has to feel good. After getting the controls right we have now been spending our days with tweaking and testing different stuff related to the shooting. The basic things are of course the guns’ rate of fire, spread, range, projectile damage, ricocheting etc. But there are also things like enemies’ reaction to getting hit, not just by how their AI reacts but also if they should slow down, be knocked back or merely be twitching in pain. That is just one of the things that make all the difference whether you can fully experience the power of your actions (in this case pulling the trigger) or not.
GORE
Every time your viking shoots out a hail of bullets from his Wolfsmiter you should feel confident that any small enemies will be instantly ripped to pieces and also the bigger ones will respect the threat. A lot of the feel behind a powerful weapon comes from a succesfull kill: blood splattering and body parts flying from the sheer force of the projectile(s). Of course any hit that doesn’t result in a dead monster should also be satisfactory. You know you’re causing damage when you see a splash of blood followed by a painful groan as the creature recovers from the hit.
Early gameplay trailers and of course the previous playable version have been very gory. But the last few days at the office have shown that Gunnheim indeed has a lot more of that coming. Our main goal is still to get the shooting itself feel receptive and enjoyable, but a messy aftermath is a real cherry on top.
FRIENDLY FIRE
Oh, friendly fire. There is a fine line whether it is loads of fun or just a pain in the ass. In our test sessions we’ve experienced plenty of both. With it’s current limited difficulty factors the game should of course be most challenging when played solo but friendly fire has somewhat balanced this. More players mean more chaos which in turn leads to accidental friendly fire deaths. Usually that also causes hilarious moments where a level nearly finished turns into an embarrassing loss. Although then you also get to punch a friend (if you’re playing locally, which you usually should.) So we have decided to keep friendly fire in game, and we have now been tweaking it to minimize frustration and maximize fun accidents (accidental knockback + bottomless pits = good stuff). Our vikings with guns will continue to be a danger to each other.
SO, WILL THERE BE DIFFERENT WEAPONS?
The final version may have several different characters and dozens of guns, but for now we’re going with one character and one weapon. It is easier to get the look and feel right without having to think about too many different variables. We already have a long list of crazy ideas for maximum mayhem, but we will gladly accept your wacky concepts for any death-dealing devices suitable for the Gunnheim heroes!
(You can still check out some of our early testing on Sniper and Grenadier from this reddit post.)
Ideas for different weapons and powerups actually deserve their own blog post. So stay tuned for tomorrow!
-Petri | positive |
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It took three years for Google to match Apple’s security permissions for personal data within apps, Hiroshi Lockheimer tells the Guardian
Why it took us so long to match Apple on privacy – a Google exec explains
New privacy features available in Google’s forthcoming Android M software update will give users of Android mobile phones and tablets more control over how their personal data is used.
Yet while Android M will finally give users the same privacy protections against rogue apps that Apple’s iOS has had for three years, Google has admitted that earlier attempts to improve these controls had failed.
M, which is expected to be released in or soon after July 2015, will allow users to pick and choose which data and services apps have access to on a case-by-case basis, when the app requests it.
Until now, the norm for Android apps has been that users either accept all the app’s permission requests at the moment of install or simply don’t install the app. The requests range from access to the internet, the microphone, camera or storage to monitoring call states or location.
‘App ops’ - built, but hidden from view
However, in 2013 Google added the ability to deny apps access to certain data and services within its Android 4.3 “Jelly Bean” operating system.
The feature, dubbed “App ops”, was hidden within Android and only accessible using third-party tools, but laid the basis for per-app permissions and was praised as a big step forward for user privacy by Electronic Frontier Foundation.
“App ops was launched somewhat out of context; we really needed to solve the whole story, not just launch App ops without moving apps from install time to run time permission requests,” said Google’s Hiroshi Lockheimer, head of Android and Chrome OS development.
App ops was short lived, seemingly only seeing the light of day due to developer in-fighting, before being removed in the Android 4.4.2 update some weeks later.
“Applications on Android, starting in 2008, were not built with the notion that certain functionality could be turned off behind their backs – that was just never the assumption for developers because that was not how the APIs were designed.”
Cyanogen OS’s App ops control panel allows users to set access to user data on an app-by-app basis. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs for the Guardian
The worry was that denying an application access to a location or microphone without telling it would cause it to break or crash. Despite this, modified versions of Android, such as Cyanogen OS, found ways of making the individual permission system similar to App ops work. Google took over two years to work out a scheme.
‘Getting things aligned took a while’
“There are a lot of players involved, from Google to developers and consumers – getting it all into alignment took a while to get right,” Lockheimer said. “We’re starting in M, because every time we have a major release we can change these things, and we were able to modify and create new application programming interfaces (API) to handle it.”
Developers do not have to use the new run-time permissions system, unless they want to use the new Android M developer tools and any further improvements going forward. Google thinks that the changes made in the capabilities in Android M will be a big enough incentive to drag all developers over to the new APIs, and therefore the permissions system.
The new permissions system also applies to Google’s own apps, which means users could block Google from knowing their location, prevent access to their address book or personal information.
“The way Android works is that there is no advantage we can give to Google’s applications, everyone operates on a level playing field,” said Lockheimer. “Android is an operating system, which Google is a third-party developer to – the Gmail app, for instance, is an app, and as such is subject to the exact same rules.”
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One of the problems with permissions requests is that users do not understand what they are being asked for and invariably just end up saying yes to any dialogue box that pops up.
Contextual decisions make people think more about privacy
“Doing permissions in context helps prevent the ‘yes’ muscle memory,” explained Lockheimer. “It helps to break down the decisions on the access that apps are asking for, such as the microphone when the user has tried to send a voice message.”
Google has also ramped up its screening of apps. Each app submitted to the Play Store is run on a virtualisation screening system, while people review some of them for things like hate speech. It’s not quite to the same degree as Apple’s app store review policy, but helps keep users safe, said Lockheimer.
The Silicon Valley firm is currently being investigated by the European Commission into its alleged abuse of its smartphone market share and the incentives it offers to bundle apps and services on Android.
Any moves to help protect user privacy, however unrelated to app bundling, will be seen as a positive step, even if it is seen as several years late by many.
• Google unveils Android ‘M’ software with focus on security and battery life | positive |
Paula Deen has been rather quiet since a June deposition exposed her use of slurs and racial discrimination; a revelation that led to a loss of all of her endorsements and her television show. On Saturday, she made her first public appearance since the big scandal as part of a cooking demonstration in Texas. When Deen walked on stage, she received a 10-minute standing ovation.
She told the crowd:
I've said all along that the one place that I would want to make my first step back out was Texas. Y'all's hearts are as big as your state.
Before that event, a survey of Georgia Republicans showed that Deen – with 73% support – was more popular than Martin Luther King Jr, who only received 59% positive reaction.
Appalled? I'd imagine so. Surprised? You absolutely shouldn't be.
When the revelation was made that Paula Deen had a past (and not-so-distant past) of racist behavior and use of racial slurs, I knew one sad fact about her career moving forward: she is going to be as popular as ever before. Sure, Deen lost endorsements and television shows, but she earned a passionate fan base. Paula Deen guaranteed that she'd always have a substantial population of fans who would support her after she was revealed as a racist. Because racism will always have a market in America.
Paula Deen is the perfect symbol of perpetuating racism in America. For some in the south, she doesn't represent bigotry as much as she represents a tribute to the past. Southern pride is indelibly linked to a racist past. I'm not saying everyone in the south does this. It's perfectly normal and prominent for southerners to celebrate their rich history without embracing its roots of slavery and racism, and I've seen people do this firsthand growing up in Mississippi. However, it's so easy to accept and recreate even the nastiest parts of the south under the guise of tradition so many hold on to so tightly. That's where Paula Deen comes in.
Deen's racism has been defended as just a woman trying to enjoy her southern roots and any accidental racism that results is just collateral damage. So while Deen lost endorsements, she gained the label as a normal gal who cooks, talks and carries herself in the southern way and is getting persecuted for embracing her tradition. Naturally, now people are rallying around her as a beacon of Southern pride as if an accent and an ability to make shrimp and grits is a prerequisite for thinking it's appropriate to dress African Americans as Aunt Jemima and make them ring a dinner bell.

After Paula Deen's racial slur soundbytes first went public, I saw countless comments along the lines of "Paula Deen is an old woman from the south. Of course she's racist" as if it's a foregone conclusion that being older than 40 and southern makes someone a bigot. This is a dangerous way of thinking about race as it excuses Deen for her actions, vilifies an entire region and allows the rest of the country to feel as though it doesn't have its own racist histories.
Paula Deen isn't a racist because she's from the south. She's a racist because she's a racist. However, whenever a story like Deen or the Alabama sororities refusal to admit African-American students makes the national news, the story usually turns to how backwards the south is or how the south is the only place in the country perpetuating the subjugation of African Americans.
Meanwhile there's a combative debate over unjust Stop and Frisk laws in New York City targeting African Americans. Chicago is shutting down schools in predominantly black neighborhoods. And in Seattle, there's outrage over the treatment of black students in the education system. By pointing to the south as the bastion of racial regression, it allows the rest of the country to pretend its issues are non-existent or, as some would say, "at least we're not the south".
Paula Deen, though, isn't a southern racist. She's an American racist. Those simply tagging her insensitivity to black culture as a symptom of her southern-ness are only enabling America's macro racism. Sure, Paula Deen's first public appearance was in Texas, where she received a standing ovation from 1,400 supporters. But don't think there aren't thousands of people in Des Moines, Portland, Phoenix or New Haven who would give Deen the same affection.
Paula Deen will have speaking engagements for the rest of her life. She'll have fans and more standing ovations. Her books will still sell and thousands of Deen-inspired biscuits will get baked. Because racism has always been a lucrative endeavor in not just the south, but across America; don't let the accent fool you. | positive |
Return to Transcripts main page CNN LARRY KING LIVE Interview With Dick Cheney, Lynne Cheney Aired May 30, 2005 - 21:00 ET THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
LARRY KING, HOST: Tonight on Memorial Day, Vice President Dick Cheney, and Lynne Cheney, a rare in depth interview at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, they're private residence. What a way for LARRY KING LIVE to start it's 20th anniversary week. The Cheney's are next on LARRY KING LIVE.
It's a great pleasure start our 20th anniversary week at the Naval Observatory in Washington D.C., on a beautiful spring morning, with the vice president of the United States, Dick Cheney. His wife will join us later. This begins our commemorative week of 20 years at CNN. This program was taped on Friday. The vice president is on his way to Colorado. He'll address the graduation of the Air Force Academy and get a little vacation time in.
I thank you very much for joining us.
DICK CHENEY, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: It's good to be with you.
KING: We go back a ways though.
D. CHENEY: We do indeed, Larry.
I was just remembering being interviewed by you at the 1980 Republican Convention.
KING: In Detroit.
D. CHENEY: Yes.
KING: On a boat.
D. CHENEY: On a boat, that's right. And radio.
KING: That's right. That was before CNN. The hours we spent, we were together in 1988 at the Republican Convention right before you went through your heart surgery.
D. CHENEY: That's exactly right. And we sat there the night before I went in and you explained to me what the procedure was all about because you'd been through it.
KING: And then the night when the president selected you to be his running mate, you were with us that night. So we have a lot to share.
Speaking of that, how is your health?
D. CHENEY: Good. No complaints. I've been very fortunate. The technology has stayed ahead of my disease. So I'm -- I get checked every 90 days very carefully. I've got a lot of good folks that look after me. But I've been fortunate that we've been able to treat it as effectively as we have.
KING: Does your defibrillator ever go off?
D. CHENEY: It never has.
KING: Never?
D. CHENEY: I've got an implantable defibrillator, basically. And if the heart rate gets too slow, it will speed it up like a pacemaker. If it goes too fast, it will give it a shock, like (INAUDIBLE)
KING: But you've -- it's never had to work?
D. CHENEY: Never gone off. So, that's...
KING: Are the doctors surprised at that?
D. CHENEY: No, not really. It's really a safety precaution more than anything else. And, obviously, if you ever need it, you'll be glad you've got it. They tell me I won't like it much if it does go off. It's kind of like getting kicked in the chest.
KING: They have it on a airplanes now.
D. CHENEY: They do. They've got these portable paddles. It's the same concept.
KING: Well, in the that vain of health, what did you make of Bob Woodward's comment recently that you're going to be a candidate for president?
D. CHENEY: Well, he didn't clear that with me in advance.
KING: Anything to that?
D. CHENEY: Well, Larry, I have to explain to everybody, I signed on for a tour with President Bush. I thought I had left government in 1993. I'd had 25 great years. And looked at running for president myself in 1994/95 and decided not to do it. Went off to private life and enjoyed that very much. Then then-Governor Bush persuaded me to sign on as his running mate five years ago, and I've been delighted that I did that. It's been a great decision. It's been a phenomenal time to be here. I love working with him.
But I've got about a little over -- a little less than four years to go now, and I'll have done eight years. By then, I'll be 98 years -- 68-years-old in 2009, when we finish the tour, and I've got other things I'd like to go do. So I have no plans to run for any other office. KING: So, if they ask you it's a no.
D. CHENEY: That's right.
KING: Were you surprised when you saw him write that?
D. CHENEY: No. It's -- people have a lot of fun speculating about it, and that's fine. I mean...
KING: Will you get involved...
D. CHENEY: I tell jokes about it, but I'm not a candidate. I not going to be.
KING: Will you get involved in the next campaign?
D. CHENEY: Oh, I might if the time's right and when it's appropriate, depending on who it is. If I'm asked to help as the sitting vice president, I would expect I'd support our nominee.
KING: Let me get to some items in the news, and later I want to discuss your whole career. It's been an extraordinary career, living here et cetera. What do you make of the Bolton extension? Now we go to June.
D. CHENEY: Well, it's -- we're here on a week break, in effect, coming up -- week-long break for the Senate. Then they'll come back. We've got the votes to confirm him. I'm convinced we will get him confirmed. There's been a lot of talk these last few days since they put together a sort of gang of 14 that negotiated an arrangement on the judges that somehow now we've entered a new era of bipartisan cooperation that lasted about 48-hours, and the Democrats filibuster Bolton. But I think we'll get him through. He's a good man. He'll do a great job at the United Nations. We got 57 votes yesterday. We just need three more and I think we'll get those when they come back.
KING: They're asking for some more information, and the question arises, why not give it?
D. CHENEY: Well, the information that they've requested basically has been made available to the chairman and ranking member of the Intelligence Committees. But there are certain types of information that's sensitive that we protect and that goes only to a particular committee, say the Intelligence Committee, or if it's really sensitive, only to the top Republican and Democrat on the committee.
There's nothing there. This material has been reviewed, the information they're asking for. I think it's just an excuse. There's nothing being hidden from them that they don't know or that members of the Senate aren't already aware of.
Senator Roberts, who's the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, got up on the floor the other day and explained that he'd been through all this material and that there's absolutely nothing there to be of concern. KING: Is there anything about Mr. Bolton, anything that's come out that gives you pause?
D. CHENEY: No. He's been confirmed four times previously. I've known him for a long time, both in private life, as well as public life. He's, I think, a superb public official. He's tough. But I can't think of sending somebody to the United Nations as our ambassador who's not tough. The U.N. is in some difficulty. They -- I think there are major questions on the minds of a great many Americans about the effectiveness of the organization, about the Oil- For-Food scandal, for example, we've seen, about their inability to deal with the Iraq situation for 12 years.
And I think the United Nations, and the president believes the United Nations badly needs to be reformed. We need a good, tough ambassador up there. Our great ambassadors in the past for the U.N. have been people like Pat Moynihan, a Democrat, Jean Kirkpatrick, a Republican.
KING: Adlai Stevenson was tough.
D. CHENEY: That's right.
KING: (INAUDIBLE) till hell freezes over.
D. CHENEY: That's right. And we need somebody like him. Somebody who will go up and not get captured by the international diplomatic crowd, if you will, but is there as America's representative to the U.N.
KING: But you don't want someone who's anti-U.N..
D. CHENEY: No.
KING: Who thinks there shouldn't be a U.N.?
D. CHENEY: Correct.
And John, I think, understands very well the value of the United Nations if we can get it to work right.
KING: Well, we're going to get up and move for a while, right? To Brooklyn, or something?
D. CHENEY: Well, apparently they need to, I guess, refurbish their building.
KING: Yes.
D. CHENEY: Yes, it's been there now, what, I guess -- well, we set it up 60 years ago this summer. So it's -- it needs sort of refurbished, if you will, not only from a physical standpoint, but in terms of how the institution functions, how it works. There are a number of proposals floating around for modifications of the Security Council and so forth.
KING: Amnesty International condemns the United States. How do you react?
D. CHENEY: I don't take them seriously?
KING: Not at all?
D. CHENEY: No. I -- frankly, I was offended by it. I think the fact of the matter is, the United States has done more to advance the cause of freedom, has liberated more people from tyranny over the course of the 20th century and up to the present day than any other nation in the history of the world. Think about what we did in World War I, World War II, throughout the Cold War. Just in this administration, we've liberated 50 million people from the Taliban in Afghanistan and from Saddam Hussein in Iraq, two terribly oppressive regimes that slaughtered hundreds of thousands of their own people. For Amnesty International to suggest that somehow the United States is a violator of human rights, I frankly just don't take them seriously.
KING: They specifically said, though, it was Guantanamo. They compared it to a gulag.
D. CHENEY: Not true. Guantanamo's been operated, I think, in a very sane and sound fashion by the U.S. military. Remember who's down there. These are people that were picked up off the battlefield in Afghanistan and other places in the global war on terror. These are individuals who have been actively involved as the enemy, if you will, trying to kill Americans. That we need to have a place where we can keep them. In a sense, when you're at war, you keep prisoners of war until the war is over with.
We've also been able to derive significant amounts of intelligence from them that helped us understand better the organization and the adversary we face and helped us gather the kind of information that makes it possible for us to defend the United States against further attacks. And what we're doing down there has, I think, been done perfectly appropriately. I think these people have been well treated, treated humanely and decently.
Occasionally there are allegations of mistreatment. But if you trace those back, in nearly every case, it turns out to come from somebody who had been inside and been released by to their home country and now are peddling lies about how they were treated.
KING: We're at the residence of the vice president on this week, start of week for me, 20th anniversary. Tomorrow, we'll be in Kennebunkport, Maine, with the Bushes; Wednesday night in New York with Bill Clinton. How are we doing so far? We'll be right back.
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KING: We're back with Vice President Dick Cheney at his residence. It's a beautiful spring morning. And again, as we said, if you just joined us, this was taped earlier for broadcast on this Memorial Day night.
Speaking of Memorial Day. Every day it seems we hear of more deaths in Iraq -- Iraqis, Americans. Does that give you pause? Did you ever say to yourself, maybe we shouldn't have?
D. CHENEY: No. I'm absolutely convinced we did the right thing in Iraq. Obviously we wanted to get it over with as quickly as possible. We regret every loss of an American in combat any place in the world. One of the difficult things about the job the president has, for example, is he has to make those decisions about when to send young Americans in harm's way. And it was necessary to do in Afghanistan and it was also necessary to do in Iraq.
But we're making major progress there. I mean we've got a new government stood up now. They had elections, free elections, really for the first time in centuries in January of this year. They're going to be writing a constitution this summer. That will lead to elections under that constitution. Later this year, there'll be a brand new government in place, duly elected under a newly written constitution by the end of the year.
At the same time, we're training Iraqis to take over the security requirements in Iraq.
KING: When do we leave?
D. CHENEY: We'll leave as soon as the task is over with. We haven't set a deadline or a date. It depends upon conditions. We have to achieve our objectives, complete the mission. And the two main requirements are, the Iraqis in a position to be able to govern themselves, and they're well on their way to doing that, and the other is able to defend themselves, and they're well on their way to doing that. They just announced that in the last day or two here, there've been stories about a major movement of some 40,000 Iraqi troops into Baghdad to focus specifically on the problem there.
KING: You expect it in your administration?
D. CHENEY: I do.
KING: To be removed. It's not going to be -- it's not going to be a 10-year event?
D. CHENEY: No. I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time. But I think the level of activity that we see today, from a military standpoint, I think will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency. We've had reporting in recent days, Larry, about Zarqawi, who's sort of the lead terrorist, outside terrorist, al Qaeda, head of al Qaeda for Iraq, may well have been seriously injured. We don't know. We can't confirm that. We've had reporting to that effect.
So I think we're making major progress. And, unfortunately, as I say, it does involve sending young Americans in harm's way. But America will be safer in the long run when Iraq and Afghanistan as well are no longer safe havens for terrorists or places where people can gather and plan and organize attacks against the United States.
KING: Have we ever been close to getting bin Laden?
D. CHENEY: Uh...
KING: You can tell us.
D. CHENEY: Well, we've had him on the run, I believe. We've -- clearly, we've dealt a major blow to the al Qaeda organization. We've just recently, for example, working with Pakistan, captured a man named Abu Faraj al-Libbi. He's the number-three man in the organization. He'd replaced Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who we captured a couple of years ago. We've captured or killed literally hundreds or perhaps thousands of the al Qaeda organization. I can't say that we've ever been close to bin Laden.
KING: The Israeli/Palestine situation. It's still -- apparently close, then it separates apart. Bill Clinton -- who will be with us Wednesday -- said that it's the worst. This is the hardest thing to deal with he has ever seen. Do you share that view?
D. CHENEY: It's certainly one of the most complex problems. And then the -- to Bill Clinton's credit, he spent a lot of time trying to solve this problem when he was president. He had Yasser Arafat, who was in the White House more than any other foreign leader. He really worked hard at trying to put something together, and in the end it didn't work, I think primarily because Arafat refused to say yes.
But I think we're back on track now in the sense that we've got Prime Minister Sharon in Israel has decided to withdrawal from Gaza and this summer they will take all of their people out of Gaza. Israel will no longer occupy the Gaza Strip. And then that territory will be turned back to the Palestinians. We've got a new democratically elected president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, who's been here just this last week to visit with the president and who represents the best hope, I think, from the standpoint of being able to stand up a viable entity on the Palestinian side, somebody that could be an effective interlocutor force and then can do a good job for the Palestinians people.
KING: So you're actually optimistic?
D. CHENEY: I'm more optimistic than I've been at any time in the last four years. That doesn't mean it's going to be easy. It doesn't mean it will happen overnight. But I think there's some movement here. I think we've got people of good will on both sides. And if we can get it right in Gaza, that is if the Palestinians can stand up an organization that can successfully run Gaza, and care for the needs of the Palestinian people, and also deal with the security threat to Israel, then I think we'll be able to make progress to get back on the path to the road map and the peace process that had some prospects for success.
You don't want to be pollyannish about it. President Clinton's right, this is a very, very tough nugget. These issues go back for generations.
KING: Centuries.
D. CHENEY: Absolutely. And -- but it's very important to try to get it right. It is a major source of unrest in the Middle East. And if we can get it resolved, that will be a significant event.
KING: And Sharon has a delicate balance, doesn't he? He has his right and his left.
D. CHENEY: Israel's a strong democracy. It's a very contentious issue. His government is split over the issue. He's provided, I think, remarkable leadership. He's been very strong, determined, decisive leader in going forward with this withdrawal. And, of course, he's been over to visit with us too just recently. We'll -- we're trying to support both parties in terms of encouraging them to do what needs to be done to make progress. And as I say, I think we're farther along now than we have been for a long time.
KING: We'll be right back with the vice president of the United States, Dick Cheney. Dan Rather will be with us on Thursday. Might ask about him, right after this.
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KING: We're back with Vice President Dick Cheney. As I mentioned, Dan Rather's with us on Thursday night. I'll hook it as one question -- Rather-"Newsweek"-sources-always had it. What do you make of it?
D. CHENEY: You mean the problems...
KING: Yes. What do you do with it? How do you deal with it? You're an elected official. You've also been a private official. You're a government -- you're a media person. You get someone you trust. That someone tells you something. What? What's an informed source?
D. CHENEY: Well, an informed source, of course, is a device that allows the press to get access to important information sometimes, and report it. And lots of times, it needs to be reported. But there's a -- clearly needs to be professional standards applied here, adhered to, if you will, practiced by news organizations. They have to be careful not to be taken in or not to go with a major story on a very weak source or fail to check it out or get verification of it. And we're seen examples of that, that people make mistakes from time to time. Public officials do. News organizations do as well too. But I think there's a special obligation on major news organizations, when they're dealing with what can sometimes be life-and-death matters, to get it right.
KING: Do you see it as deliberate?
D. CHENEY: I -- you know, I can't say that in terms of passing judgment on the motives of the people involved. I think, after the fact, when it's discovered, they obviously regret it. I think sometimes the pressures of the business, the competitive pressures, are enormous. You get a story and you want to go with it before somebody else beats you to the punch, so sometimes it doesn't get checked as thoroughly.
My sense of it is that the business has changed over the years, that they're used to be more careful checking of sources 30-years-ago when I was working in the White House than is true today. But the business was different then. There weren't any cable news networks. There were only three broadcast networks. There were a couple of major newspapers you had to worry about. There were deadlines, and, you know, after 6:00 at night, you'd made the deadlines for the major newspapers, and the new shows were over with, and there was sort of a lid went on, and people had time to come back and check stories before they went. Now, I think part of it's driven just by the shear competitive pressures of the business. People want to go so hard to get the story out, that they don't check as carefully as they should.
KING: Have you, on the administration side, double-checked this Koran story?
D. CHENEY: Yes, we have.
KING: Because there were stories now in the Washington Post that there was some...
D. CHENEY: Well, the main story, remember, was an allegation that somebody had flushed a Koran down the toilet. That was totally bogus. And there's been an extensive investigation now. They've checked every allegation about mistreatment of the Koran. They found that nearly all of those reports were not true, and especially the one that -- about the Koran having been flushed down the toilet. I'm told they went back to the guy who was the original source of that report, and he said, well, he didn't really see it. He'd heard about it from somebody else.
The fact of the matter is it's I think basically been a bum rap. I think our guys have dealt with the Koran with respect in nearly every case. I think a lot of these stories have been promulgated by our adversaries, that is, people who were held at Guantanamo, stories they peddled after they left Guantanamo or after they got out in order to try to discredit the United States.
KING: But you can't control the actions of everyone.
D. CHENEY: You can't.
KING: If there's some sergeant somewhere who's doing something right now, you know, what can you do?
D. CHENEY: Occasionally that happens. I can remember when I became secretary of Defense, asking Bill Crowe one day, who was then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, about the stories -- occasionally stories would show up in the press, you know, something going on in the military I didn't know anything about. I said, "What's going on, Bill." He said, "Look, Mr. Secretary," he said, "you know, this is a huge organization. We've got 3- or 4 million people involved." He said, "Imagine the worst possible thing you can think of," and he said, "you can be absolutely certain some place, somebody's doing it." And it was good advice and counsel.
But I think here, it's important to recognize that we really have been very careful in terms of treating these people with respect. And somebody -- one of the fascinating stories that happened just this week on this Koran story was Hamid Karzai was here, president of Afghanistan. Talked about the riots they had had in Jalalabad, supposedly in response to the story that appeared in "Newsweek" about flushing the Koran down the toilet. And the rioters had burned down a cultural center in Jalalabad and in the course of doing that, according to President Karzai, destroyed 400 Korans -- all over a report that one had been flushed down the toilet at Guantanamo, that was a false report.
So, we've got to keep things in perspective.
KING: Are ever -- are you concerned of enrollment being down in the recruitment in the military?
D. CHENEY: Well, we've got to work at it, obviously, and we are. I'm a great believer in the all-volunteer force.
KING: No draft.
D. CHENEY: I don't believe in the draft except under extraordinary circumstances, and we clearly haven't reached that. And the services generally are doing well. The Army's been having a bit of a problem. Of course, they're the ones most intimately involved in operations in Iraq at this stage, so we've got to go out and redouble our efforts in terms of recruiting, especially since we want to keep our standards high.
But I think -- I think we're doing very well at it. The reenlistment rates are very good. Retention's very good of the more senior people, people reenlisting. And you just have to get after it when you reach one of these periods of time when things drop of for one reason or another.
KING: What's your role? You know, you've been called "the other president," so many things. What specific duties are assigned to you?
D. CHENEY: Well, I spend a lot of time on national security matters. I begin every day with -- in the Oval Office with the president going through the normal intelligence brief, provided by the CIA, now the new national director of intelligence.
KING: Did that today?
D. CHENEY: Did that this morning. And we do it six days a week. I spend, I would guess, 30 to 40 percent of my time in the national security area -- foreign policy, defense, intelligence and so forth. That's about the same amount of time, I would guess, he spends on those subjects. And it's an area where I've worked in the past, and the president asked me to spend a fair amount of time when I signed on.
I do quite a bit of work on the Hill on the big issues.
KING: Lobbying.
D. CHENEY: Lobbying, solving problems. My real job is as the president of the Senate. If you look at the Constitution, that's the one job I'm described as having. My payroll, my salary actually comes from the Senate. And a lot of people don't...
KING: The U.S. Senate pays you?
D. CHENEY: The U.S. Senate pays me. And a lot of people don't realize it wasn't until the Eisenhower administration, you know, 150 years after the founding of the republic, that the vice president even had an office in the executive branch. You always had -- your office was on Capitol Hill. And I have offices on Capitol Hill today, both in the Senate and the House, although I spend most of my time downtown.
KING: So it's the power that's perceived?
D. CHENEY: It's perceived. And what I'm able to do is to represent the administration up there. And I don't work a lot of issues, but when the big ones come along, lots of times I'll be asked to get involved. We'll get a deadlock between the House and the Senate on -- well, right now on the highway bill, for example. So I'll get involved in that. And two years ago, it was the big tax bill where we had fundamental differences that I was asked -- in that case, the leadership asked me to come up and mediate the conflict and put together the bill. So...
KING: We'll be right back with more of the vice president, and then Lynne will join us. Don't go away.
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KING: We're back with Vice President Dick Cheney. Couple more issues, then Lynne will join us, and other things to talk about, plus his extraordinary career.
North Korea -- where's that going?
D. CHENEY: North Korea is a major problem. They claim that they have developed nuclear weapons.
KING: They tested them?
D. CHENEY: They haven't tested them, although there's speculation that they might at some point, obviously. We've been working with the Chinese, the Japanese, the South Koreans and the Russians to persuade the North Koreans to give up their aspirations for nuclear weapons, to get them to understand that they're not going to have normal relationships with the outside world, in terms of commerce, industry and trade, if they become a nuclear power. To date, you know, those talks have not produced much. We're continuing to work it very hard.
KING: You're worried about it?
D. CHENEY: I am concerned about it, partly because Kim Jong Il, who's the leader of North Korea, is -- I would describe as one of the world's more irresponsible leaders. He runs a police state. He's got one of the most heavily militarized societies in the world. The vast bulk of his population live in abject poverty and stages of malnutrition. He doesn't take care of his people at all. And he obviously wants to throw his weight around and become a nuclear power.
China can have a huge impact here, because they've got more extensive economic relationships with the North than anybody else, and a very long border with North Korea. The Chinese need to understand that it's incumbent upon them to be major players here.
KING: Do they?
D. CHENEY: I like to think so. We've certainly had a number of conversations with them about it. The fact is that if North Korea deploys nuclear weapons, it'll force other nations in the region to reconsider their positions, whether or not they need to go develop a deterrent, for example. So that in turn would raise questions about a number of the countries in that part of Asia, as to whether or not they would feel a requirement that they had to take military steps to protect themselves from a potential North Korean attack.
KING: What do we do if they do test?
D. CHENEY: Well, another step if the six-way talks don't work, obviously, would be to go to the U.N. Security Council and seek the applications of economic sanctions that would really close down the North Korean economy.
KING: Do you fear any possible attack there?
D. CHENEY: I -- it'd be extremely foolish for him to launch an attack against anybody. Fact of the matter is, South Korea is very well armed. They've got a very modern, good-sized military. The United States, obviously we've got forces deployed in South Korea. And we're committed to come to the defense of South Korea should they be attacked. I don't think there's any way North Korea can win a conflict.
The danger here is that, being as irresponsible as he has sometimes been in the past, he could serve to destabilize the region, force others to defend themselves by equipping themselves with these kinds of deadly weapons, and that's not in anybody's interest.
KING: Is it difficult, Mr. Vice President, on those occasions when you disagree with the president? No one agrees with anyone 100 percent.
D. CHENEY: Right.
KING: Is that hard -- is that the hardest part of the job?
D. CHENEY: Not really. He makes the decisions. There's no question about who's the boss. I get to offer up my views and my opinions.
KING: Do you win some, lose some? D. CHENEY: Yeah, basically, I do. And others -- he's got other people that he's got great confidence in. In the international arena, people like Steve Hadley, Condi Rice, Don Rumsfeld; domestically, people like Karl Rove, Andy Card. And we don't always all agree on anything. Once in a while we do, but he'll get a variety of opinions, and he'll decide what he wants to do.
KING: I don't mean this as a hyphenated thing, but I move now to an issue. I'm not saying you disagree with him. What is your read on stem cell research?
D. CHENEY: Well, I think there's a lot of misinformation out there about the administration's position on stem cell research. This is the first president to authorize the expenditure of federal money on stem cell research. We have nearly doubled in the last four years the amount of money that's being expended, federal money, for this purpose. We're up now I think this year to over $560 million being spent for this purpose.
What the president did do was say we won't use federal funds for the destruction of embryos in order to create stem cell lines. We're funding lines that already existed, and we're also funding adult stem cells as well as stem cells from cords, umbilical cords.
But we have not banned research on stem cells. There's a lot of that going on funded by private sources or at the state level.
KING: California with 3 billion.
D. CHENEY: California has put 3 billion into it. But we do believe that when you get into the area of destroying an embryo in order to create stem cell lines, that that raises serious ethical questions.
KING: But that would make in vitro questionable, wouldn't it?
D. CHENEY: No, it doesn't make in vitro questionable. It's what you do with the embryos that are left over from that process, and whether or not -- I think there are a lot of Americans who have legitimate concerns about having their tax dollars go for what they believe is the destruction of life, because you destroy those embryos. And that's a legitimate ethical question. The president has strong feelings about it. He's been very direct about it. He spent a lot of time on this decision before he made it.
KING: Are your feelings strong too?
D. CHENEY: I do. I basically agree with the policy. I support it.
KING: You're going to speak at the Air Force Academy.
D. CHENEY: I am.
KING: You last spoke there in 2001 before 9/11.
D. CHENEY: That's right.
KING: You're going to bring that up?
D. CHENEY: I expect I will. I haven't seen the text yet. I'm supposed to get it this afternoon. I've got speechwriters working on the speech. But it's -- when you go to one of the academies, these are remarkable young men and women, the very best that America has to offer, and especially as they're graduating after four years at the Air Force Academy, West Point, Annapolis. They're embarking upon a career of military service, and putting themselves in harm's way for the rest of us. And the patriotism and the pride, the commitment that they feel and they represent is something to behold. I love doing those service academy commencements. They're really remarkable events.
KING: But you can't make them just like wave-the-flag things, right?
D. CHENEY: No, no.
KING: These are serious, bright people.
D. CHENEY: These are serious people, and they've been spending, say, the last four years of their lives thinking about these issues and getting ready, if necessary, to defend the nation. And that's remarkable in itself. And they deserve a lot of credit and thanks for that. But they also have as good an understanding as anybody of what's at stake in the line of work they've chosen.
KING: I imagine 9/11 might come up.
D. CHENEY: I expect it might.
KING: Lynne Cheney joins us right after this. Don't go away.
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KING: We're back, and we're joined now by Lynne Cheney. Lynne is the author of many books. It shows -- says you got another one out now, or coming?
LYNNE CHENEY, WIFE OF VICE PRESIDENT DICK D. CHENEY: I'm working on two, so they'll be coming out over the next month or the next year.
KING: What's it like living in this house?
L. CHENEY: It's a great treat, and what a special privilege. It's just so beautiful. The land around the house is just so gorgeous and green this time of year. We're very fortunate.
KING: Do you feel like renters?
D. CHENEY: Sure. I mean, it's a temporary arrangement, but we've been here now over four years. Part of the beauty of it is, it's almost in downtown Washington, but the whole complex is about 75 acres. There are 12 head of deer on the place. It's like living in the -- you know, it's somewhat isolated. There's a great deal of privacy for being right off Massachusetts Avenue and Embassy Row. It's an amazing place.
KING: How many presidents have you served?
D. CHENEY: Nixon, Ford.
L. CHENEY: Reagan? Do you count Reagan?
D. CHENEY: Reagan, I was in the Congress for eight years. And then 41, and now -- so I guess five -- four that I worked for, and five that I was associated with.
KING: What's that been like for you?
L. CHENEY: Well, it's been a great adventure. I read a lot of history. I think about history a lot. And it's been a front-row seat on history. What an amazing thing to be able to -- you know, to witness our pulling out of Vietnam when Dick was in the Ford administration. The Berlin Wall coming down when Dick was in the Bush administration as secretary of defense.
KING: Touched all the bases, huh?
L. CHENEY: Yeah. You know, Desert Storm. That was an amazing time in our country's history. And then the war on terror, and the absolute amazing fact of what this country does, which is not, you know, just advance freedom for our own citizens, but advance freedom around the world. Fifty million people have been liberated in Afghanistan and Iraq. That's an amazing thing.
KING: What's been the downside for the marriage?
L. CHENEY: Well, I don't know. You know, this is a nice arrangement. Dick does work here a lot, so I get to see to see him...
D. CHENEY: (INAUDIBLE) the office.
L. CHENEY: ... get to see him more. I think there have been times in the past, you know, when he's been gone.
KING: He travels a lot.
L. CHENEY: Just gone a lot. And that's always hard on any marriage. But, you know, I spend time with military wives. The wives of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the chairmen of the various armed forces. These are women who have, you know, held families together in a way that is amazing to think of.
KING: Did you enjoy private life as much? It was much more financially rewarding.
D. CHENEY: I enjoyed private life. It was more financially rewarding. But, you know, it's very special to serve in a senior position in the government, to get to be vice president of the United States, to have the sense that you were part of that process that sort of defines our civilization by which we select our leaders; to do it twice, two national campaigns, and to win one very, very close, obviously, in 2000. And it's a -- it's just a remarkable experience. I wouldn't trade that public service for anything.
KING: He says absolutely not for anything after this.
Do you agree?
L. CHENEY: Well, you know, one of the things that he's talking about, we have spent time in private life. And I do think that there's a sense, when you're in public life, when you're in politics, to think there's nothing else. Well, we know there's something else. We had those five very nice years in Texas and enjoyed that greatly. So I look forward to that.
KING: Would you like to be first lady?
L. CHENEY: Oh, my goodness, I think we couldn't...
KING: I mean, if he said, you know, let's do it.
L. CHENEY: ... we couldn't have a better first lady than Mrs. Bush is now. Isn't she amazing?
KING: Well, but she can't be again.
L. CHENEY: Well, who knows, you know.
KING: I'm trying to see if there's a possibility...
L. CHENEY: When I think of, you know, people are thinking...
KING: He says no, but you've got all the clout.
L. CHENEY: ... of Mrs. Clinton running for president. I think Mrs. Bush ought to run for president. If we want to have a Bush dynasty, let's get Laura Bush. Has she been wonderful in these...
KING: What do you make of that?
L. CHENEY: ... last five years.
KING: Mrs. Bush versus Mrs. Clinton.
D. CHENEY: It's a great idea.
KING: Biggest turnout in American history, right?
D. CHENEY: And I think I know who would win too.
KING: Are you concerned about his health? He seems to be doing very well.
L. CHENEY: You know, we have just been so fortunate. I heard Dick say earlier that we live in an amazing time where the technology to take care of people's health has advanced so quickly. So, you know, I learned a long time ago that the best thing to do, and you know this as well as we do, is to accept what your situation is, to deal with it in as prudent a manner as you know how to and as your good doctors know how to, and then live a full and exciting life.
KING: We've dealt with the same doctors as George Washington Hospital. They...
L. CHENEY: Oh, is that right? They're very good.
KING: But are you concerned when you hear a cough or you see anything? Are you a concerned...
L. CHENEY: No, but I do nag a lot.
D. CHENEY: Yes.
KING: You do? "Don't eat that."
L. CHENEY: Now I think that it's probably good for wives to, you know, keep track of their spouses' health, good for husbands to keep track of their spouses' health too. So it's more like, will you be home in time to exercise? That's my big question.
KING: We'll be right back with the Cheneys after this. Don't go away.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK).
KING: We're back with the Cheneys at their residence. All right, Liz works for the State Department, right?
L. CHENEY: That's right.
KING: Mary's writing a book.
L. CHENEY: That's correct. Very proud of the two young women.
KING: A really tell-all kind of a theme? Is she going to get into...
L. CHENEY: Well, the parts of the book that I've seen -- you know, when you're a writer, it's always good to have an appreciative audience. So Mary has let me see some of what she's written, because she knew it would make me laugh. And she's just a very good writer, who has, you know, a fine eye for the absurdity of everyday life and of everyday political life in particular. So it will be a very good book.
KING: So many more parents in America have had to deal with what is now considered an almost everyday occurrence, of people having different opinions or sexual proclivities than other people. Was it hard for you?
D. CHENEY: When it first came up, sure. It's not anything you expect as a parent. But Mary was a remarkable young woman.
KING: Boy, is she?
D. CHENEY: And I was tremendously impressed with how she handled it, because it was difficult for her too. But, you know, we love her very much. She's an integral part of our family. Very proud of the work she did in both of our campaigns. And the book is very much a political story sort of...
KING: (INAUDIBLE).
D. CHENEY: Travels...
L. CHENEY: "Travels with my Father."
D. CHENEY: OK. I wasn't sure I was supposed to give it away.
L. CHENEY: Oh, maybe we weren't.
D. CHENEY: Talking about...
KING: Oh, we know something here.
D. CHENEY: Especially the 2000 campaign, the 2004 campaign, some of my congressional races.
KING: I'm sure she deals with her own life.
D. CHENEY: She will. But it's going to be a good book.
KING: What are the Cheneys going to do in 2009?
L. CHENEY: Oh, I have no idea. I'm sort of focused on next year right now. I'm busy writing. As I said, I'm working on two books. One is...
KING: Would you come back to -- what are you writing? What are you writing about?
L. CHENEY: Well, one book I'm writing, you will love this. This is for a more general audience. I decided in this second term that, you know, I should go back to being a professional writer. Keep up doing the children's books. That's a great second lady project. But my more general audience project is a timeline of history, of American history, because I've discovered people don't know what happened when or what came first. And it's also a wonderful way to talk about this country's expansion of freedom not only in our own borders, but, you know, for the world. How many people are free because this country...
KING: That's a great idea. Of course there's a new book out, "1776," by David McCullough.
L. CHENEY: Yes.
KING: And people say, boy, that's about the end of the war. The war went on for six more years.
L. CHENEY: And it was a -- it was a tough year. KING: The beginning of the war.
L. CHENEY: Yes, that's exactly right. And one of the things I think so important about this study of history, and David McCullough knows how to do this so well, is indicating that, you know, we didn't know how it was going to turn out.
KING: We know now.
L. CHENEY: That's right. But at the time, Washington didn't know, and it was a chancy thing. And how fortunate we are to live in freedom, how fortunate we are that things turned out as they did.
KING: Would you come back to media? You worked for CNN.
L. CHENEY: Are you offering me a job, Larry?
KING: Yes. I speak for the network. Do you want to come back?
L. CHENEY: Oh, I love that. You know, I think I'm a writer. That's what I find most satisfactory.
KING: Would you mind if she went back to media?
D. CHENEY: I've never given her advice on her career. Lynne does her own thing.
KING: Really. So if she said to you, I'm going to CNN, I'm going to be a political observer.
D. CHENEY: I'd say, great.
L. CHENEY: Why do I have to wait until 2009?
D. CHENEY: I think (INAUDIBLE) idea. No rush.
KING: What do you want to do? You want to just retire? Really?
D. CHENEY: I don't think I'll ever just retire but...
KING: Would you go back to private industry?
D. CHENEY: Oh, I don't know, at that stage. I've, you know, I've done that. And I think there -- I've got books I want to read. A lot of rivers I'd like to fish.
KING: Write?
D. CHENEY: I don't know, I might write something. I haven't given it any thought. I've never written a book.
KING: Lynne will help.
D. CHENEY: Well, Lynne and I did one together once, but she really wrote it -- about the Congress many, many years ago. But I, you know, I look forward to the change of pace and spending time with the family.
L. CHENEY: But, you know, one of the things I think our life tells you is that you never know what's around the corner. If, you know, you just work at what you're doing and do that to your fullest, and then, you don't know what's around the corner. You don't know what that next life will be like. We certainly never have.
KING: Are you hinting that you'd like him to run again?
L. CHENEY: No, I'm saying...
KING: Are you hinting that if that occurred, that occurred?
L. CHENEY: No, what I'm saying is that when Dick was at the Defense Department, who knew he would end up, you know, running a major American corporation? When we were in Texas, and he was at Halliburton, who knew he would become vice president? So, you know, I don't spend a lot of time thinking about...
KING: Anybody who predicts anything is a little nuts in a world of 9/11s, right?
L. CHENEY: Yes, that's true.
KING: What's your proudest achievement, before we leave?
D. CHENEY: I suppose that I married her.
L. CHENEY: Oh, now that's really nice, isn't it?
KING: Thank you, Cheneys.
D. CHENEY: All right, Larry.
KING: Thanks for kicking off our anniversary week.
L. CHENEY: It's great to be with you.
KING: Thank you.
Tomorrow night, the Bushes from Kennebunkport. Wednesday night, Bill Clinton. Thursday night, Dan Rather. Friday night, Barbara Walters interviews me on 20 years of CNN. And Mark Geragos' first appearance since the trial. He'll be with us next Monday.
Thanks for joining us. Stay tuned for "NEWSNIGHT."
From the vice president's house in Northwest Washington, good night.
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IT’S full steam ahead for the controversial 13-storey tower near Ormond train station with the State Government giving it the green light.
The tower, planned for North Rd, will include residential space as well as a supermarket and retail strip.
State Planning Minister Richard Wynne sought advice from an independent advisory committee in February before approving the plans, which have been opposed by neighbours including the No Ormond Sky Tower lobby group.
Group spokeswoman Vivian Shannon said residents had been left in the dark about the progress of the planning permit.
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“The committee they appointed for this whole hearing was just to appease the residents and there was absolutely no community consultation whatsoever,” Mrs Shannon said.
“Nobody said they were happy with 13 storeys ... they’ve basically disregarded all the comments from the council and the locals.”
The tower will be built directly on top of the station and has the potential to create hundreds of jobs in Ormond, Mr Wynne said.
“The location is ideally suited for new homes and businesses because it’s directly connected with public transport, employment opportunities and other community services,” he said.
“Proper planning is all about strategic decisions that cater for growth in the right areas ... the project will create jobs for residents.”
Neighbours raised concerns about the tower last year amid reports it would contain minimal car parking to encourage residents to use public transport and stand out as the only high rise in Ormond.
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SAN FRANCISCO – As the overall performance of the Philippines inches up higher, more businesses are considering the Philippines as the first-option for their software development outsourcing initiatives–and not just for call centers, reported the chief executive of a Philippines-based software development firm.
“Call centers are still our top money makers but we’re not encouraging them,” explained Exist Global, Inc. CEO Jerry Rapes at the recent “Tech Innovation” greet and meet at the Philippine Consulate here.
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Exist Global, Inc., an outsourced software development company in the North American and European market, provides architecture and design consulting, application development, independent quality assurance, application maintenance and technical support services.
“The Philippines has plenty of technical talent,” he continued. “English-proficient and amazingly collaborative individuals not just in Manila, but also in IT hubs such as Cebu, (former US Air Force Base) Clark, (former US Naval Base) Subic and Davao.”
Other least known Philippine IT-BPO hubs include Sta. Rosa City, Laguna, Bacolod, Iloilo and emerging Baguio City.
Philippine Trade Commissioner Michael Alfred Ignacio echoed Rapes’ sentiment. “The Philippines used to be known as the Dark Horse of Asia. Now, not to be in the Philippines is to make a competitive risk.”
Rapes made the numbers talk: “According to (the globalization advisory firm) Tholon, Manila displaced New Delhi, and Cebu displaced Dublin, Ireland in the 2012 Top 100 Global Outsourcing Destinations.”
“Software services outsourced to the Philippines were posted at $1.5 billion, a 50 percent growth last year. There was also a 10 percent increase in the employment of Philippine IT professionals of about 55,000. And the IT-BPO revenue was at an all-time high of $13 billion– an 18 per cent growth, employing more than 780,000 in the Philippines last year.”
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Rapes revealed that (cloud-based English literacy provider) Global English Corporation ranked the Philippines number one in the world for Business English proficiency. “Some countries turn to the Philippines to learn (Business) English. There are six direct flights from Korea to Cebu,” he added.
When language is not a barrier, negotiation is always “sweet.” Rapes declared, “Some (outsourcing provider) countries nickel and dime you. But in the Philippines, they just charge you one fee. No extras for bandwidth and other details.”
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The Philippines has an annual average of 500,000 graduates every year, Rapes reported, some 200,000 them in medical/health sciences (“for your tele-medicine and transcription needs”). An estimated 180,000 are in engineering/IT related courses (“the IT courses in the Philippines are a little different in that they are apps heavy”). Almost 120,000 are in business courses. This sets the Philippines apart for scalability. “You will find your niche and the technology you want in the Philippines,” Rapes claimed.
One admitted problem is the high churn (turnover) rate, or staff retention. Rapes said the Philippines needed more middle managers to retain growth momentum. “The churn rate is almost 75 percent a year. It drives up hiring expenses. You are in a place where you could come back from lunch with a new hire. There’s no at will employment in the Philippines, and it’s very hard to lay-off people.”
Still, Rapes said, “the Full Time Engineering (FTE) revenue or bill per year for engineers in the Philippines is from $8,000 to $9,000, compared with $40,000 in India.”
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Rapes was in the council that put together the US-Philippine Business Support and Delivery last year, to bring jobs and project to the Philippines. Among the results of this are the added benefits that the Philippine Economic Trade Zone Authority (PEZA) provides to foreign technology investors.
Aside from cutting out the bureaucratic red tape, PEZA grants foreign investors exemption from corporate income tax for four to eight years. After that expires, a five percent gross income tax can be opted instead of taxes.
Also granted are exemptions from duties on imported capital equipment, raw materials, supplies and even spare parts. Exemptions also include wharf dues and export taxes. There’s a 50 percent total cost reduction on manpower training. And permanent resident status is given to foreign investors and their immediate family members.
PEZA has reportedly 137 economic zones in the Philippines with a reputation for a four-day turn-around time for electronics. Also, it is a 24/7 “non-stop shop.” Rapes said, “It is one of the few government agencies I know where zone Director General Lilia De Lima will sign documents in front of you.” Rapes added that Subic, Clark and the Board of Investments all grant the same benefits as PEZA.
Rapes believes that the Philippines is seeing its growing share of techno-alphas for several reasons.
“Successful US-based Filipino entrepreneurs like Dado Banatao; (Exist Global, Inc. co-founder and CEO of the world’s leading cloud provider, Morphlab) Winston Damarillo; (Founder of the largest and fastest growing service provider to find care givers, Care.com) Sheila Marcelo and others have decided to come to the Philippines to share their experiences and mentor our young entrepreneurs. “
The Philippines’ IT sector can learn from being exposed to Silicon Valley, Rapessaid. “Our returning entrepreneurs have started the initiative of sharing this innovation mind set. We just need to be focused and consistent because it’s a long term initiative.”
The collaboration among government, industry and academe has been enhanced in the Philippines, creating the right ecosystem, business model, infrastructure and supply of talent. “The Philippines is currently in a perfect position to grab international recognition due to its sound business environment and performance.”
And don’t forget the fun factor. Rapes said, “We always keep our relentlessly happy psyche no matter if bad weather hits us or if projects hit a snag. I know there are hard-working engineers everywhere, but Filipinos have the most cheerful spirits of them all.”
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Update: I've started mining primecoin again using a pool. For instructions go here.
Now that most primecoin mining is presumably done on dedicated hardware, I'd like to discuss my experiences using virtual instances on EC2 and DigitalOcean during the first few days of the coin's launch.
Primecoin proposes an entirely different proof of work from bitcoin's. Bitcoin uses rounds of SHA-256 as the measure of work, whereas primecoin generates chains of prime numbers. These chains are easily verified, but difficult to find.
The initial mining implementation provided with the client was CPU only, so finding cheap processing time was a low risk way get started with this new coin.
I wrote up the steps I went through to get it going on DigitalOcean here. Apparently someone decided to automate the signup process because within a few days I had over received over 1000 referrals. DigitalOcean's referral program is quite generous, $10 per signup that spends $10.
I was contacted directly by DO regarding this matter. They let me know that I wouldn't be paid for accounts signed up illegitimately, and that DigitalOcean had no express policy for, or against, mining on their service, though that might change. This seemed fair to me, and I looked forward to hearing whether they would be changing their ToS.
Jack Clark, writing for The Register, published a piece regarding DO outages:
Virtual currency speculators shut down cloud
"We've actually never seen anything like it before," Mitch Wainer II, DigitalOcean's head of marketing, told El Reg via email. "This increase in usage was the equivalent of our normal growth that we would do in 90 days, now in 2 days. We temporarily disabled NY1 and AMS1 for only new customers. SF was always available for everyone."
I wouldn't be surprised if some folks are still mining using DO, or EC2, especially on free instances. However, to operate at scale, a miner is taking on too much risk. In essence, it is now cheaper to buy coins than to mine them this way.
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