The family wheeled Grandma out on the lawn, in her wheelchair, where the activities for her 100th birthday were taking place. Grandma couldn't speak very well, but she could write notes when she needed to communicate. After a short time out on the lawn, Grandma started leaning off to the right, so some family members grabbed her, straightened her up, and stuffed pillows on her right.
A short time later, she started leaning off to her left, so again the family grabbed her and stuffed pillows on her left. Soon she started leaning forward, so the family members again grabbed her, then tied a pillowcase around her waist to hold her up.
A nephew who arrived late came running up to Grandma and said, "Hi Grandma, you're looking good! How are they treating you?"


Daniel Clark - Sean Cameron, my favorite character on Degrassi!
2018 SXSW Opening Night Film - A Quiet Place courtesy of Paramount Pictures.
Cutting deals for directors as dissimilar as James Cameron (Avatar) and Steve McQueen (Shame) "is not as different as you'd think," says Swofford.
Gilah, who is based in Johannesburg, is home-schooled, but hopes to do her post-secondary studies in music performance in America or Germany.
An Emmy nominee for last year's Golden Globes, Adelson insists the lawsuit over TV rights to the awards show hasn't distracted her from the next edition.
State Like Sleep, directed and written by Meredith Danluck. Produced by Eddie Vaisman, Julia Lebedev, Angel Lopez. (USA) - World Premiere.
Christensen's April visit to Rio de Janeiro wasn't just to celebrate the world premiere of her studio's mega-blockbuster Fast Five.


Nestled in close proximity to the picturesque Victorian State Forest, there is abundant wildlife, resident and visiting, such as native birds, kangaroos, wombats, some friendly goats and cows.
The house has a romantic wrap around veranda with stunning garden views, also boasting a large sparkling swimming pool with views of Mt Buffalo. There is plenty of room for families to play on the spacious lawns or enjoy a game of pool on the billiard table in main house.
Large French doors open up to the north facing courtyard, enjoy a BBQ while listening to the soothing sounds of the grand water fountain or relax and cosy up next to the massive double sided fireplace.
The Grange Homestead offers a luxurious house stay for 8 guests.
Please note: external security cameras are present at this property.
Air Conditioning, Coffee Machine, Combustion Fire, Dishwasher, Fireplace, Laundry, Linen, Pool Table, Swimming Pool, Wi-Fi.


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Troye Sivan is a South African-born Australian singer, songwriter, actor, and YouTube personality. After gaining popularity as a singer on YouTube and in Australian talent competitions, Sivan signed with EMI Australia, a Universal Music Australia label, in 2013 and released his debut extended-play, TRXYE (2014), which peaked at number 5 on the U.S. Billboard 200. Its lead single, "Happy Little Pill", reached number 10 on Australian music charts. In 2015, he released his second extended play Wild followed by his debut studio album Blue Neighbourhood, whose lead single "Youth" became Sivan's first single to enter the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at number 23.
The New York Times, in a Sunday Arts & Leisure cover story, observed: "Troye Sivan Is a New Kind of Pop Star: Here, Queer and Used to It The 22-year-old singer is climbing the charts while demonstrating how his sexual orientation is both a part of his art and besides the point." Pitchfork noted, "his latest single, 'Bloom,' is all about living in the delicious present. A gentle, rolling beat and strips of electric guitar cut through airy synth pads…Vocally, Sivan's as open and earnest as he's ever sounded." Noisey said, "Sivan has re-announced himself as a Pop heavyweight, and one who is not here to make any compromises at that." NYLON declared, "It's Troye Sivan's year. If this past January's 'My My My!' single cemented him as a budding gay icon, his latest release, 'Bloom,' is his grand flowering."
Date Nov 8
Start time 7:30pm

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text:
// Copyright (c) 2010 Satoshi Nakamoto
// Copyright (c) 2009-2014 The Bitcoin Core developers
// Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
// file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.

#include "chainparams.h"

#include "random.h"
#include "util.h"
#include "utilstrencodings.h"

#include <assert.h>

#include <boost/assign/list_of.hpp>

using namespace std;

struct SeedSpec6 {
    uint8_t addr[16];
    uint16_t port;
};

#include "chainparamsseeds.h"

/**
 * Main network
 */

//! Convert the pnSeeds6 array into usable address objects.
static void convertSeed6(std::vector<CAddress> &vSeedsOut, const SeedSpec6 *data, unsigned int count)
{
    // It'll only connect to one or two seed nodes because once it connects,
    // it'll get a pile of addresses with newer timestamps.
    // Seed nodes are given a random 'last seen time' of between one and two
    // weeks ago.
    const int64_t nOneWeek = 7*24*60*60;
    for (unsigned int i = 0; i < count; i++)
    {
        struct in6_addr ip;
        memcpy(&ip, data[i].addr, sizeof(ip));
        CAddress addr(CService(ip, data[i].port));
        addr.nTime = GetTime() - GetRand(nOneWeek) - nOneWeek;
        vSeedsOut.push_back(addr);
    }
}

/**
 * What makes a good checkpoint block?
 * + Is surrounded by blocks with reasonable timestamps
 *   (no blocks before with a timestamp after, none after with
 *    timestamp before)
 * + Contains no strange transactions
 */
static Checkpoints::MapCheckpoints mapCheckpoints =
        boost::assign::map_list_of
        ( 0, uint256S("0x000004c2fc5fffb810dccc197d603690099a68305232e552d96ccbe8e2c52b75"))
        ( 10000, uint256S("0x0000000d0ad0fcd14d0642755a1ebdabc418dba2bbbb6c9d48f9f5304dd99dff"))
        ( 25000, uint256S("0x00000008a54b0d3e8bcd84b131253009422104de8ecc16ac9fe53fa1a39c2fe4"))
        ;
static const Checkpoints::CCheckpointData data = {
        &mapCheckpoints,
        1436994107,
        25044,
        2880
   };

static Checkpoints::MapCheckpoints mapCheckpointsTestnet =
        boost::assign::map_list_of
        ( 0, uint256S("0x000004c2fc5fffb810dccc197d603690099a68305232e552d96ccbe8e2c52b75"))
        ( 10000, uint256S("0x0000000d0ad0fcd14d0642755a1ebdabc418dba2bbbb6c9d48f9f5304dd99dff"))
        ( 25000, uint256S("0x00000008a54b0d3e8bcd84b131253009422104de8ecc16ac9fe53fa1a39c2fe4"))
        ;
static const Checkpoints::CCheckpointData dataTestnet = {
        &mapCheckpointsTestnet,
        1436994107,
        25044,
        2880
    };

static Checkpoints::MapCheckpoints mapCheckpointsRegtest =
        boost::assign::map_list_of
        ( 0, uint256S("0f9188f13cb7b2c71f2a335e3a4fc328bf5beb436012afca590b1a11466e2206"))
        ;
static const Checkpoints::CCheckpointData dataRegtest = {
        &mapCheckpointsRegtest,
        0,
        0,
        0
    };

class CMainParams : public CChainParams {
public:
    CMainParams() {
        strNetworkID = "main";
        /**
         * The message start string is designed to be unlikely to occur in normal data.
         * The characters are rarely used upper ASCII, not valid as UTF-8, and produce
         * a large 4-byte int at any alignment.
         */
        pchMessageStart[0] = 0x01;
        pchMessageStart[1] = 0x02;
        pchMessageStart[2] = 0x03;
        pchMessageStart[3] = 0x04;
        vAlertPubKey = ParseHex("0450a15957f7e05910a9ca54fd84a0b555a3563561f3ecbdb6f844f752917f8a8d0041d579022044bb9398dbb7babec4601444fc60870826f3f15afae074213bf4");
        nDefaultPort = 65525;
        bnProofOfWorkLimit = ~uint256(0) >> 20;
        nSubsidyHalvingInterval = 100000;

        nEnforceBlockUpgradeMajority = 51;
        nRejectBlockOutdatedMajority = 75;
        nToCheckBlockUpgradeMajority = 100;
        nMinerThreads = 0;
		nTargetTimespan = 3 * 60; // 3 minutes
		nTargetSpacing = 60; // 30 seconds

        const char* pszTimestamp = "San Francisco plaza evacuated after suspicious package is found";
        CMutableTransaction txNew;
        txNew.vin.resize(1);
        txNew.vout.resize(1);
        txNew.vin[0].scriptSig = CScript() << 486604799 << CScriptNum(4) << vector<unsigned char>((const unsigned char*)pszTimestamp, (const unsigned char*)pszTimestamp + strlen(pszTimestamp));
        txNew.vout[0].nValue = 1 * COIN;
        txNew.vout[0].scriptPubKey = CScript() << ParseHex("04678afdb0fe5548271967f1a67130b7105cd6a828e03909a67962e0ea1f61deb649f6bc3f4cef38c4f35504e51ec112de5c384df7ba0b8d578a4c702b6bf11d5f") << OP_CHECKSIG;
        genesis.vtx.push_back(txNew);
        genesis.hashPrevBlock.SetNull();
        genesis.hashMerkleRoot = genesis.BuildMerkleTree();
        genesis.nVersion = 1;
        genesis.nTime    = 1375548985;
        genesis.nBits    = 0x1e0fffff;
        genesis.nNonce   = 1083599;

        hashGenesisBlock = genesis.GetHash();
        assert(hashGenesisBlock == uint256S("0x000004aa8e535bedb2186a3c1c2f3b119e70c2f61286b15ec98a81021c3a4a0c"));
        assert(genesis.hashMerkleRoot == uint256S("0x36a192e90f70131a884fe541a1e8a5643a28ba4cb24cbb2924bd0ee483f7f484"));

        vSeeds.push_back(CDNSSeedData("proto.uno", "proto.uno"));
        vSeeds.push_back(CDNSSeedData("23skidoo.info", "23skidoo.info"));

        base58Prefixes[PUBKEY_ADDRESS] = std::vector<unsigned char>(1,68);
        base58Prefixes[SCRIPT_ADDRESS] = std::vector<unsigned char>(1,30);
        base58Prefixes[SECRET_KEY] =     std::vector<unsigned char>(1,239);
        base58Prefixes[EXT_PUBLIC_KEY] = boost::assign::list_of(0x04)(0x88)(0xB2)(0x1E).convert_to_container<std::vector<unsigned char> >();
        base58Prefixes[EXT_SECRET_KEY] = boost::assign::list_of(0x04)(0x88)(0xAD)(0xE4).convert_to_container<std::vector<unsigned char> >();

        convertSeed6(vFixedSeeds, pnSeed6_main, ARRAYLEN(pnSeed6_main));

        fRequireRPCPassword = true;
        fMiningRequiresPeers = true;
        fDefaultCheckMemPool = false;
        fAllowMinDifficultyBlocks = false;
        fRequireStandard = true;
        fMineBlocksOnDemand = false;
        fSkipProofOfWorkCheck = false;
        fTestnetToBeDeprecatedFieldRPC = false;
    }

    const Checkpoints::CCheckpointData& Checkpoints() const
    {
        return data;
    }
};
static CMainParams mainParams;

/**
 * Testnet (v3)
 */
class CTestNetParams : public CMainParams {
public:
    CTestNetParams() {

        strNetworkID = "test";
        pchMessageStart[0] = 0x01;
        pchMessageStart[1] = 0x02;
        pchMessageStart[2] = 0x03;
        pchMessageStart[3] = 0x04;
        vAlertPubKey = ParseHex("0450a15957f7e05910a9ca54fd84a0b555a3563561f3ecbdb6f844f752917f8a8d0041d579022044bb9398dbb7babec4601444fc60870826f3f15afae074213bf4");
        nDefaultPort = 65525;

        nEnforceBlockUpgradeMajority = 51;
        nRejectBlockOutdatedMajority = 75;
        nToCheckBlockUpgradeMajority = 100;
        nMinerThreads = 0;
		nTargetTimespan = 3 * 60; // 3 minutes
		nTargetSpacing = 60; // 30 seconds

        //! Modify the testnet genesis block so the timestamp is valid for a later start.
        genesis.nTime = 1375548985;
        genesis.nNonce = 1083599;
        hashGenesisBlock = genesis.GetHash();
        assert(hashGenesisBlock == uint256S("0x000004aa8e535bedb2186a3c1c2f3b119e70c2f61286b15ec98a81021c3a4a0c"));

        vFixedSeeds.clear();
        vSeeds.clear();
        vSeeds.push_back(CDNSSeedData("23skidoo.info", "23skidoo.info"));
        vSeeds.push_back(CDNSSeedData("testnet.prototanium.info", "testnet.prototanium.info"));

        base58Prefixes[PUBKEY_ADDRESS] = std::vector<unsigned char>(1,68);
        base58Prefixes[SCRIPT_ADDRESS] = std::vector<unsigned char>(1,30);
        base58Prefixes[SECRET_KEY] =     std::vector<unsigned char>(1,239);
        base58Prefixes[EXT_PUBLIC_KEY] = boost::assign::list_of(0x04)(0x35)(0x86)(0xCE).convert_to_container<std::vector<unsigned char> >();
        base58Prefixes[EXT_SECRET_KEY] = boost::assign::list_of(0x04)(0x35)(0x82)(0x93).convert_to_container<std::vector<unsigned char> >();

        convertSeed6(vFixedSeeds, pnSeed6_test, ARRAYLEN(pnSeed6_test));

        fRequireRPCPassword = true;
        fMiningRequiresPeers = true;
        fDefaultCheckMemPool = false;
        fAllowMinDifficultyBlocks = true;
        fRequireStandard = false;
        fMineBlocksOnDemand = false;
        fTestnetToBeDeprecatedFieldRPC = true;
    }
    const Checkpoints::CCheckpointData& Checkpoints() const
    {
        return dataTestnet;
    }
};
static CTestNetParams testNetParams;

/**
 * Regression test
 */
class CRegTestParams : public CTestNetParams {
public:
    CRegTestParams() {
        strNetworkID = "regtest";
        pchMessageStart[0] = 0x04;
        pchMessageStart[1] = 0x03;
        pchMessageStart[2] = 0x02;
        pchMessageStart[3] = 0x01;
        nSubsidyHalvingInterval = 150;
        nEnforceBlockUpgradeMajority = 750;
        nRejectBlockOutdatedMajority = 950;
        nToCheckBlockUpgradeMajority = 1000;
        nMinerThreads = 1;
		nTargetTimespan = 3 * 60; // 3 minutes
		nTargetSpacing = 60; // 30 seconds
        bnProofOfWorkLimit = ~uint256(0) >> 1;
        genesis.nTime = 1375548985;
        genesis.nBits = 0x207fffff;
        genesis.nNonce = 1;
        hashGenesisBlock = genesis.GetHash();
        nDefaultPort = 18444;
        assert(hashGenesisBlock == uint256S("0x3868bcc735f32cdd9b42971cdee7bc620c50fada5e3ac5fdfd35630aaf2eb64e"));

        vFixedSeeds.clear(); //! Regtest mode doesn't have any fixed seeds.
        vSeeds.clear();  //! Regtest mode doesn't have any DNS seeds.

        base58Prefixes[PUBKEY_ADDRESS] = std::vector<unsigned char>(1,0);
        base58Prefixes[SCRIPT_ADDRESS] = std::vector<unsigned char>(1,5);
        base58Prefixes[SECRET_KEY] =     std::vector<unsigned char>(1,128);

        fRequireRPCPassword = false;
        fMiningRequiresPeers = false;
        fDefaultCheckMemPool = true;
        fAllowMinDifficultyBlocks = true;
        fRequireStandard = false;
        fMineBlocksOnDemand = true;
        fTestnetToBeDeprecatedFieldRPC = false;
    }
    const Checkpoints::CCheckpointData& Checkpoints() const
    {
        return dataRegtest;
    }
};
static CRegTestParams regTestParams;

/**
 * Unit test
 */
class CUnitTestParams : public CMainParams, public CModifiableParams {
public:
    CUnitTestParams() {
        strNetworkID = "unittest";
        nDefaultPort = 18444;
        vFixedSeeds.clear(); //! Unit test mode doesn't have any fixed seeds.
        vSeeds.clear();  //! Unit test mode doesn't have any DNS seeds.

        fRequireRPCPassword = false;
        fMiningRequiresPeers = false;
        fDefaultCheckMemPool = true;
        fAllowMinDifficultyBlocks = false;
        fMineBlocksOnDemand = true;
    }

    const Checkpoints::CCheckpointData& Checkpoints() const
    {
        // UnitTest share the same checkpoints as MAIN
        return data;
    }

    //! Published setters to allow changing values in unit test cases
    virtual void setSubsidyHalvingInterval(int anSubsidyHalvingInterval)  { nSubsidyHalvingInterval=anSubsidyHalvingInterval; }
    virtual void setEnforceBlockUpgradeMajority(int anEnforceBlockUpgradeMajority)  { nEnforceBlockUpgradeMajority=anEnforceBlockUpgradeMajority; }
    virtual void setRejectBlockOutdatedMajority(int anRejectBlockOutdatedMajority)  { nRejectBlockOutdatedMajority=anRejectBlockOutdatedMajority; }
    virtual void setToCheckBlockUpgradeMajority(int anToCheckBlockUpgradeMajority)  { nToCheckBlockUpgradeMajority=anToCheckBlockUpgradeMajority; }
    virtual void setDefaultCheckMemPool(bool afDefaultCheckMemPool)  { fDefaultCheckMemPool=afDefaultCheckMemPool; }
    virtual void setAllowMinDifficultyBlocks(bool afAllowMinDifficultyBlocks) {  fAllowMinDifficultyBlocks=afAllowMinDifficultyBlocks; }
    virtual void setSkipProofOfWorkCheck(bool afSkipProofOfWorkCheck) { fSkipProofOfWorkCheck = afSkipProofOfWorkCheck; }
};
static CUnitTestParams unitTestParams;

static CChainParams *pCurrentParams = 0;

CModifiableParams *ModifiableParams()
{
   assert(pCurrentParams);
   assert(pCurrentParams==&unitTestParams);
   return (CModifiableParams*)&unitTestParams;
}

const CChainParams &Params() {
    assert(pCurrentParams);
    return *pCurrentParams;
}

CChainParams &Params(CBaseChainParams::Network network) {
    switch (network) {
        case CBaseChainParams::MAIN:
            return mainParams;
        case CBaseChainParams::TESTNET:
            return testNetParams;
        case CBaseChainParams::REGTEST:
            return regTestParams;
        case CBaseChainParams::UNITTEST:
            return unitTestParams;
        default:
            assert(false && "Unimplemented network");
            return mainParams;
    }
}

void SelectParams(CBaseChainParams::Network network) {
    SelectBaseParams(network);
    pCurrentParams = &Params(network);
}

bool SelectParamsFromCommandLine()
{
    CBaseChainParams::Network network = NetworkIdFromCommandLine();
    if (network == CBaseChainParams::MAX_NETWORK_TYPES)
        return false;

    SelectParams(network);
    return true;
}

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The rainy season, the Autumn Gallery of 2010 shows all the green plants we've added to the garden and the flower beds that we hope will look fantastic in Summer of next year!
We moved into the Penny Lane Development Trust not so long ago and we've decided to push the environmental project. We've begun to plant small trees, plants and lay out the fountain for what will be the Octopus' Garden.


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By Rob Atkinson and Adams Nager · February 24, 2016 · No comments
The Demography of Innovation in the United States: Who Innovates and How Do They Succeed?
Behind every technological innovation is an individual or a team of individuals responsible for the hard scientific or engineering work. And behind each of them is an education and a set of experiences that impart the requisite knowledge, expertise, and opportunity. These scientists and engineers drive technological progress by creating innovative new products and services that raise incomes and improve quality of life for everyone.
But who are these individuals? How old are they? Were they born in the United States or abroad? Are they male or female? What are their races and ethnicities? What kind of education do they have?
To find out, ITIF surveyed more than 900 people who have made meaningful, marketable contributions to technology-intensive industries as award-winning innovators and international patent applicants. We learned that the demographics of U.S. innovation are different from the demographics of the country as a whole, and also from the demographics of college-educated Americans—even those with Ph.Ds. in science or engineering.
The study finds that immigrants comprise a large and vital component of U.S. innovation, with more than one-third of U.S. innovators (35.5 percent) born outside the United States. Alarmingly, women
The Leaky STEM Pipeline Can't Be Patched with Higher Wages
By Adams Nager on April 29, 2015 · No comments
Even with the economic recovery, recent graduates have it rough. Unemployment among young people remains high and wages remain depressed. Frequently, graduates accept low-wage positions that do not utilize their degrees.
However, one group of recent graduates—those in STEM fields—has it easier than their peers. For these graduates with degrees in fields such as computer science and engineering, high-paying jobs are plentiful. Eighty-one percent of STEM grads hold jobs closely related to their degrees, compared to 72.5 percent among all graduates. Median starting salaries for computer science and engineering are estimated at around $67,300 and $64,400 respectively, 80 percent higher than starting salaries for humanities and liberal arts majors. Moreover, most sectors of today's economy rely on STEM skills, so graduates have a plethora of career paths to choose from. In addition, compensation is high because companies face an acute shortage of qualified STEM workers.
Economics 101 tells us that the laws of supply and demand should fix this problem as high wages motivate more students to pursue computer and engineering degrees. Instead, exactly the opposite has occurred. We currently have fewer computer science graduates than we did
Want a world-class workforce? Invest in education
By Adams Nager on September 15, 2014 · 1 Comment
Sometimes statistics just make sense. For instance, the revelation that spending more on education is correlated with a more highly educated workforce is hardly a surprise. To be sure correlation is not causation, but as more states look to cut corners on education spending, it is important to remember the relationship between spending and results.
Using the 2014 State New Economy Index's workforce education score (a weighted score of the educational attainment of the workforce), there is a significant positive correlation of 0.46 between the education levels of a state's workforce and the state's current spending on education per student.
Of course, with a simple correlation it is impossible to attribute any directional causality. Part of the correlation could derive from higher incomes earned by a more educated workforce. Much of education spending comes from property taxes, so wealthy areas where land is more valuable tend to have higher education spending. For instance, education spending is highest in Northeastern states, led by New York ($19,552), where schools spent over three times as much per student as in Utah ($6,206). Resource rich Alaska and Wyoming also spent heavily, though
Debunking the myth of a STEM surplus
By Adams Nager on July 22, 2014 · 6 Comments
A new data release by the Census Bureau which claims that only 26 percent of STEM workers end up in STEM fields has seemingly strengthened arguments that America does not face a STEM-worker shortage. The surprising statistic has generated coverage from major news sources (including the USA Today and the Washington Post) which have pounced on the new data as evidence that there is no need to encourage students to study science, technology, engineering, and math. The data, however, is highly misleading and skews the reality of demand for and scarcity of a highly skilled math and engineering workforce.
First, let's start with the definition of STEM graduates. To the Census Bureau, that means not just individuals with a degree in computers, math, statistics, engineering, biology, or the physical sciences (what the average person thinks of when they STEM) but also psychology and social sciences like economics and anthropology.
While psychology and social sciences graduates do technically study science in the respect that academic research in these fields attempt to rigorously and empirically tests hypotheses using the scientific method, these fields are a far cry from what readers imagine
Universities are Innovation Engines: New Evidence
By Ben Miller on October 23, 2013 · 1 Comment
University spinoffs more innovative, more successful than comparable firms
A new working paper by Swedish economist Andreas Stephan asks whether startups that were born as spinoffs from public universities are more innovative than similar, non-spinoff firms. Using a 2004 survey of East-German firms, Stephan compares the innovativeness of firms as measured by their patent applications and the originality of their patents. Even compared to firms of a similar age, industry, and location, the paper finds that university spinoffs do a better job of innovating.
The obvious lesson here for economic policy is that universities are studying useful things, and that we should have policies that encourage their transition from academic papers to real-world businesses. Business incubation has been on the U.S. national agenda for decades—since at least the passing of the 1980 Bayh-Dole Act—but there is much more that we can do.
For instance, Stephan finds that spinoff firms were more successful due to their collaboration, their proximity to universities, and their ability to get public research grant funding. All three of these traits are easy to translate into policy. Stephan also notes that even those firms that were
Phone Phreaks, STEM Freaks, and STEM Education
By Rob Atkinson on April 1, 2013 · 1 Comment
I have just finished a fascinating book about the history of phone hacking from the 1950s to the 1980s, Exploding the Phone by Phil Lapsley. The phone system was one of the first communications networks in America, and as such, just like today, it attracted its share of amateur hobbiests who wanted to understand how it worked, including finding out how to make free long distance calls, conferences calls and the like. While Apple founder Steve Wosniack may have been the first to create a "blue box" using digital instead of analogue technology (a blue box is the term for an electronic box made to mimic sounds on the phone system in order to trick the phone network into doing what the user wanted) he was hardly the first young person to "hack" the phone system. It turns out that a whole network of folks—what became known as Phone Phreaks emerged, and many became loosely tied into a network that compared notes on best practices. Some were high school students bored with school and fascinated with telephony, others college students also bored with classes. Several of the most prominent were
Yes Virginia, We Do Have a Need for More STEM Workers
By Rob Atkinson on February 10, 2013 · 3 Comments
It appears that Congress may actually take up the issue of immigration reform and with it the issue of high-skill immigration. And toward that end Senators Hatch (R-UT), Klobuchar (D-MN), Rubio (R-FL) and Coons (D-DE) have taken the lead on the Immigration Innovation Act of 2013 (known as I-squared) which would make it easier for foreign science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) students and workers to come and stay in America, while at the same time raising increased funds from the U.S. high-tech industry to support programs to help train Americans in STEM skills.
And not surprisingly this common sense and needed legislative proposal has provoked the usual opposition from the some on the left. Take Ross Eisenbrey's recent New York Times op-ed, "America's Genius Glut." Eisenbrey, of the liberal Economic Policy Institute, argues that I-squared is not needed, because, he claims: 1) America's technology leadership is not endangered; 2) We aren't turning away foreign students, or forcing them to leave once they've graduated.; and most importantly 3) there is no labor shortage in high-tech occupations. Let me address these fallacies of each of these arguments.
America's technology leadership
Punishing Hard Work: Entrance to Specialty STEM High Schools Should be Based on Merit
By Rob Atkinson on October 29, 2012 · 4 Comments
One of the best Kurt Vonnegut short stories is "Harrison Bergeron," which pictured a dystopian future in which social equality was achieved by handicapping the more intelligent, athletic, beautiful, or capable members of society. Ballerinas had to wear lead weights, and the most intellectually gifted had to wear headphones that played distracting noises every thirty seconds, carry three hundred pounds of weight strapped to their bodies, and wear distorting eyeglasses designed to give them headaches. It was only then that true equality could be achieved. Just like the Handicapper General in Vonnegut's story, whose duty it was to impose handicaps so that no one would feel inferior to anyone else. Is America going down this same road? As my colleague Stephen Ezell and I argued in our new book Innovation Economics: The Race for Global Advantage, America has "developed a perverse egalitarianism and anti-elitism that bodes ill, for it means that efforts to enable excellence—whether it's private toll lanes or high schools for those gifted in math and science—are branded as antidemocratic and elitist."
Math and science education is critical for our nation's future. As we noted in our
Laid-Back Higher Ed
By Rob Atkinson on May 22, 2012 · No comments
More often than is warranted, Washington embraces consensus positions based on the view "we all know this to be true." One of these is "well, while K-12 education is a mess, we all know that American higher education is the best." There is increasing evidence the last half of this consensus view is not true.
The latest evidence of this is an article in today's Washington Post that relies on data from the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) showing today's college students spend about 40 percent less time studying than they did a half century ago. While everyone focuses on getting 6 years olds to spend every waking moment doing homework and giving up summer vacations so they can go to school (a great idea if we want to rob children of childhood), we are going in the opposite direction when it comes to college.
As I wrote in a blog on Huffington Post, "The Failure of American Higher Education," American higher education is no longer adequately educating students – not just on STEM as we have written about, but on the broad capabilities of being
My Free Unauthorized Use, Trespass, Conversion and Misappropriation Summer Vacation: Don't Worry It's Not Stealing
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My wife and I are in the saving money mode since unfortunately our son is likely to go to some pricey liberal arts college next year and sock us with a huge bill. But we don't want to give up on our summer vacation. After all we deserve to have fun too. So after reading The New York Times op-ed by law professor Stuart P. Green entitled "When Stealing Isn't Stealing" I came up with an idea, that if I say so myself, is brilliant. I will have a vacation based on unauthorized use, trespass, conversion and misappropriation, since according to Green, it's no longer stealing when I use non-rival, intangible goods (e.g., when I download movies, video games, software, books, music, etc., without paying for them). It's unauthorized use, trespass, conversion and misappropriation.
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"Futari" is the fourth film in the "Futari" series.
The series, which began as an irregular series around 2008, is about two people, the basis of a relationship.
It's an experiment in expressing various scenes. And the two are not limited to humans.
Sometimes it is expressed metaphorically with symbolic structures.
The meaning of the iconography of the "landscape with two people" and the sense of matiere through "layering,
It is my hope that the audience will connect to the feelings for humanity that are inherent in each of them.
This work "ver.4" is a scene of an old married couple, "two people who have cuddled up over the years and are fading away".
In other words, it is a scene of an old married couple.
In 2010, a year before the creation of this work, Fujimoto's parents moved to Okinawa when it became difficult for them to live in their hometown.
In the midst of balancing her parents' care, her creative work, and her own personal life, Fujimoto was able to
Fujimoto's feelings about "old age" were also an inspiration for this work.
In the process of making the work, I made a full-scale line drawing, like a Japanese painting drawing, and then made a tracing of the line drawing in a different way from the painting.
Create on paper. Then I plan the layered composition of the colors to be painted over, but not necessarily
I don't care about the inherent colors of the motif, but I will make a choice of colors that I feel are good from a pictorial perspective.
Once the plan is decided to some extent, both in terms of lines and color, the line drawing on tracing paper is placed on the panel.
After transcribing, we started to make the main picture.
Both sides of the panels used are pasted on both sides. The whole surface of the screen, sides, and back are painted on the ground. The same color as the screen background color is applied to the sides
It has been painted over. In the screen, after the prep work by priming and grinding to break up the wood grain.
More than 20 layers of paint are applied as a depiction, both partial and solid.
Then, the grinding is repeated with water-resistant sandpaper while spraying with water until the finished screen is found.
A string is attached to the back of the work so that pins and hooks can be hooked on the wall side when installing.
It is designed to be It's a smooth matier, so it can be wiped clean with a dishcloth, etc.
By layering and grinding acrylic paints, the painting surface itself is painted (personally, I call it "layering").
The process of layering is the same as in "Layers of Color", a non-target free painting.
Its matière and coloration are consistent.
One of the characteristics of painting is to make the most of its "multilayered magic".
A scene that can only exist with paint on a support. The creation of paintings as physical crystals.
In 1999, I found a way of doing "layering" which was in line with my desire to create, and I have been doing it since then.
Since then, I have been using this 'layering' to explore the possibilities of painting."
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Last week the Government Accountability Office issued a report concerning limited water supply in the West in the context of oil shale.
Background --In January 2007 BLM granted 5 research, development and demonstration (RD&D) 10-year oil shale leases to 3 companies within Colorado's Piceance Basin. These first round lessees were granted the ability to expand the 160-acre leases to 5,120- acre commercial development leases after conversion from the RD&D status to commercial development. In October Department of Interior nominated 2 companies for second round RD&D leases which are `160-acre parcels that can be expanded to 640 acres if they meet criteria set by Department of Interior. They are ExxonMobil and Natural Soda Holdings (and in Utah, AuraSource).
Presumably, the first round lessees are continuing to conduct research to determine whether the resource can be extracted in a commercially viable process. Specific information as to the amount of water that would be required to develop the resource commercially remains unavailable.
CWF is very concerned about the cumulative adverse impacts to wildlife in the Piceance Basin as key wildlife habitat continues to shrink in the face of extensive gas leases, coupled with oil shale leases.
GAO Report -- GAO reported, "There are insufficient data to understand baseline conditions of water resources in the oil shale regions of Colorado and Utah and that additional research is needed...." As companies work to develop technologies, in its report, the GAO noted, "Federal agencies also said they seldom coordinate water-related research among themselves or with state agencies that regulate water." Critical questions about water needed to produce commercially viable quantities of the resource must be answered.


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It's unclear whether what had been touted as one of the world's largest-ever initial public offerings will ever take place.
Saudi Arabia is considering shelving a plan to list state-owned oil company Saudi Aramco in New York, London or any other international exchange as it instead ponders an offer by a Chinese investor to acquire a stake in the world's largest energy company, according to multiple news reports.
The Financial Times, citing people familiar with the IPO preparations, first reported Friday that talks over a private sale to foreign governments including China and other investors have picked up steam in recent weeks.
The plan to sell 5% of the company's shares on international markets has been spearheaded by 32-year-old Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, the heir apparent to the Saudi throne who has outlined a multipronged plan to wean the kingdom off its dependence on oil revenues.
The Wall Street Journal reported the company is also considering conducting a two-stage IPO, with a listing on Riyadh's Tadawful exchange in 2019 and an international listing a year later. The Saudis had long been planing the IPO for 2018, with New York and London the leading candidates.
The Journal reported that people familiar with the matter said nothing had been decided and that the international IPO might still move forward. Saudi officials have estimated an IPO, if it did proceed, could be as large as $100 billion, with proceeds set to plump up the country's sovereign-wealth fund.
A spokesman for the company told the Journal that that the IPO process "remains on track" but that a "range of options, for the public listing of Saudi Aramco, continue to be held under active review."
News reports regarding the outlook for the IPO temporarily weighed on oil futures UK:LCOZ7 US:CLZ7 during Friday's trading session, analysts said, on concerns that a decision not to list the company would rob Riyadh of an incentive to keep upward pressure on oil prices. Weakness was short-lived, however, as a private share sale would provide the same incentive to keep oil prices up, analysts said.
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It's no secret that we love the work of Jane Jacobs, whose birthday coincides with our founding. To celebrate, we have joined forces with Jane's Walk to offer citizen-led walking tours for community-based city building in Stockton.
For 2018, our goal is to lead 9 walks beginning in the month of March in 3 different neighborhoods, kicking off the first walk on March 3rd in the Little Manila Historic District in beautiful downtown Stockton. On our walk, we will observe and study Jane's 10 Big Ideas in action (go to http://bit.ly/janeswalk17 to learn more).
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It's often said that children learn languages more easily than adults, but is that really the case? Do children have a special advantage, or can adults learn languages just as well as children?
Some academics say that childhood is the critical period for language learning. Is there any truth in this idea, or is it just that children go about language learning in the right way?
I'd like to share the exact techniques that children learn languages — and as you'll see adults can use these techniques too, though sometimes in a different way to children. After reading this article, I think you'll be ready to agree that the idea that "children are better language learners" is just an excuse adult learners make to avoid language learning.
So, let's take a look at how children learn languages, and the five reasons they are so good at language learning.
You could say that children have an advantage from the start, because they start learning a language without even deciding to. They'll most likely be having lessons at school, or their parents will be teaching them. This means that they'll be having regular contact with the target language. If they're learning it at home, they may well also be surrounded by family speaking the language, as well as an abundance of reading and listening resources. In this case, the language is around them all the time, free of charge.
This immersion, and the feeling of "not even deciding to learn" is something you can recreate! It is said so often that you don't need to be abroad to immerse yourself in a language, but that's because it's true (more on this later)!
Children learning a language at home do have an advantage, for reasons such as the sheer immersion they're experiencing. But I would argue that a child learning a language at school isn't necessarily a great learning opportunity.
Out of all the children that learn, say, French at school, there aren't many that are going to just 'absorb' the language like many adults claim they are magically capable of. I learned French at school, as part of a club that taught me for a couple of years. By the time I reached high school, I hardly remembered a thing! Often adults see children as some kind of magic sponges, but that simply isn't always the case. It's important to note that although children get the opportunity to learn languages at school, in most cases this isn't what makes them fluent.
However, one method that schools do right is teaching through fun. Using songs and rhymes, children discover new vocabulary, and pick it up naturally because they're enjoying themselves.
This doesn't mean I'm suggesting you add 'Frere Jacques' and the like into your learning routines – but it shows that having fun makes language learning a much more natural process! And you can learn a language with songs) if you want to.
But if you like the structure of learning a language at school, then there are ways you can introduce this on a daily basis. By creating aims every month, and small specific deadlines weekly to meet these aims, you can build on the skills you want to develop, and improve at the pace that suits you, while making sure that you're practising regularly. If you make manageable little challenges in different areas, you'll be making progress across the board. This means you won't be able to build up the huge goal of simply 'fluency' and overwhelm yourself!
Small but challenging steps to take could include having an online language lesson on a site like italki, chatting with people on apps such as HelloTalk, or even just asking for stamps in a post office when you visit that country.
Children embrace the challenge of learning in a different way to adults. In fact, they don't see it as a challenge at all. They take it in their stride – because they often don't notice it's happening!
According to linguistic professor Stephen Krashen, there is a difference between language learning and language acquisition. Language learning, a process I'm sure you're familiar with, is the conscious process of learning about a language. This includes those dreaded grammar rules, and is the process you would have used in classes at school.
Acquisition however, is how you gradually know the language better and better, through processes like speaking.
This is subconscious, and comes as a result of interaction in your target language.
A student at university may go on their third year abroad in Spain, for example, and come back with a high level of fluency in Spanish. This could well be without having any idea what the preterite or imperfect tense is, although they use them with ease.
Acquisition is something that children are good at – they've only recently acquired their first language after all (and they did fine with that), so why would they go about learning grammar rules for their second language?
But there's no reason for adults not to take this approach too. As Benny Lewis advocates, one of the best ways to learn a language is to speak it from day one.
If grammar seems impossible to you, you may well be focusing on it more than you need to. Yes, of course grammar is important, as many of us would love to reach a standard that could mean we're mistaken for a native. But if it's demotivating to you then switch up your language learning routine!
My advice is to acquire, and then learn. Speak, make mistakes, then learn the grammar rules that explain those mistakes. The rules will make far more sense, and you'll spend far less time trying to decipher them.
As an adult, most learning has to be a conscious process. More effort is required, but you'll get more out of it! You're in control, and can do what works for you to reach your goal, whether it is near native-level fluency, or just being able to hold a conversation with a native speaker. Therefore, being an adult learner has more perks – you can choose to do things that mean you have fun learning, and this will mean you pick up things 'naturally' like a child can!
There are studies that prove children are especially skilled at learning phonemes, the distinct sounds that form a language, compared to adults. Research by Ann Fathman in 1975 found that six to ten year olds had the most advantage in this respect (read more here). Learning a foreign language from a young age can mean that it takes less effort to end up sounding like a native. But this doesn't mean you can't.
Adults can be at least as good – it just might take a little longer. There are people like Benny that have learned their first foreign language fluently as an adult, and speak it to an incredible standard (along with lots of other languages!). These people aren't superhuman, but through speaking as much as possible (along with other methods), they are as great as phonemes as any child could be, or better.
Sometimes it seems impossible to understand what someone is saying, even if you know most of the words you're hearing when they're written on a page. A lot of the time the language is faster than you're used to, and all the words seem to come out as one – how can we possibly work out the words we've just heard, let alone understand them?
The way to be great at differentiating and imitating the sounds in a language is to expose yourself to the target language as much as possible.
Don't mistake this for me telling you to travel overseas – you don't have to be in a different country to immerse yourself in the target language. Of course it's great to be surrounded by the language all the time, and realise the cultural context of the language you're learning (as well as have a great holiday!). But immersing yourself is easy to do at home. You can constantly be exposed to foreign sounds through lots of listening material, such as YouTube videos, podcasts, radio, and music.
Even if children do have a headstart in picking up phonemes, as an adult you can reach a standard of speaking at least as good as theirs through as much language exposure as possible, in whatever fun way you decide to do.
What's more, it's not just children that have strengths in language learning. Research in the 1980's by Catherine Snow and Marian Hoefnagel-Hӧhle showed that due to developed cognitive ability, adults can have the upperhand in different aspects of language learning; this study in particular showing that the older learners outperformed children on pronunciation, including spontaneous tasks and imitation.
Adults are also more likely to be able to learn particular structures in a language quickly, which is shown by Fathman's research, which I mentioned above. We're great at establishing patterns in a language, enabling us to learn much more effectively – which provides yet another advantage! Adults also know more of the English language, making it easier to recognise cognates (foreign words that look like and mean the same thing in your language, for example, 'education' is 'educación' in Spanish) meaning we are further along than children vocab-wise before we even begin.
Professor Stephen Krashen has developed the 'monitor' hypothesis, which hugely resonates with me. This is the idea that when adults learn (rather than acquire) a language, any information learnt acts as a 'monitor', which means that after you have thought about what you are going to say in your target language, you use pre-existing knowledge to check that there are no errors in your planned speech. Then, after speaking you may correct yourself further.
A successful user of the monitor doesn't overuse it. They will only make minor corrections when speaking, in order to interrupt the flow of a conversation as little as possible.
Of course, conveniently, adults tend to be over-users of their inner monitor!
We worry about sounding stupid, and this can stop us from getting ourselves out there and practising. Children, however, don't seem fazed at all. How is this fair?!
Language learning is different to learning other skills – it requires a lot of confidence in order to develop. For example, if you start learning to play the guitar, you aren't expected to be performing to crowds straight away. But with a language, you need to be 'performing' all the time if you want to improve. This can be incredibly difficult, especially if you are shy, but pushing yourself out of your comfort zone, (even just a little bit at a time) will leave you with an enormous sense of achievement.
When I went to France last summer, I kept chickening out when I had an opportunity to practise speaking. My family knew I had been learning French for a while, so I was scared to say anything that was less than perfect.
Then, in a post office I gathered the courage to just ask for some stamps, to send some postcards to England. I only said a sentence or two to the man behind the counter – but realising that we understood each other felt great!
It's small interactions like this that drive me to carry on learning. The thrill of being understood in another language is second to none.
I've found that the longer you leave it to start talking, the more pressure there is to get it right. This is especially if people know you've been learning for a while. Don't be disheartened if you feel that your accent isn't good enough, or worry that you won't sound as good as you're expected to – especially if it prevents you from speaking. The priority is to speak lots, however good or bad you think you sound. Furthermore, if you start talking as soon as you're learning, and you eliminate this problem; people will be impressed however good or bad you sound at first! There's no expectation if you speak from day one, so you can make as many mistakes as you like. The pressure is off, and you'll make lots of progress which will grow your confidence.
As a child, often your parents or your school are in control of your learning. This means that children don't have a chance to opt out like adults might do.
Some children may even have to be bilingual to even understand both their parents, if they are living in a multilingual home. This creates the drive needed to become fluent in that language.
Thus you need to create that drive.
A child doesn't see fluency as a far-away goal – they don't even see it as a goal. Focusing too much on the end result can be discouraging; and as adults who learn more consciously, we are more aware of the prospect of fluency, and often as a result find the idea of reaching that goal rather intimidating.
Learning exactly like a child will never be the answer. But we can take lessons from them in order to be better learners ourselves. If we can't help finding language learning daunting, then we need to find ways to be motivated and continue to work to reach our goal.
If you're struggling with motivation, do what scares you. Like I said before, the thrill of speaking another language is everything, and if this is something you find daunting, challenge yourself! Doing something that scares you creates drive, as you realise what you're capable of.
The more you do something that scares you, the easier it becomes. For example, If you speak as much as you can, before you know it you won't be scared – and you will have made so much progress! This is why Benny's speak-from-day-one approach works so well. Having a go speaking early on will set you up for great achievement in language learning. Challenging yourself often, even in small ways, will make you a far more confident and motivated language learner. You'll progress faster, and that will lead to even more motivation!
Reaching fluency will be up there with your biggest achievements – however old you are.
Georgia will be studying French, Spanish and Russian after her A Levels, and hopes to pick up other new languages after university.
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YC-backed Stoic is a journaling app with a focus on understanding your feelings
Anthony Ha	@anthonyha / 2 years
The process of using the Stoic journaling app is simple: You open the app in the morning and the evening, when you'll be prompted to answer a couple of questions and perform a few simple exercises.
For example, this evening the app asked me to rate my current level of fulfillment and to identify what made me smile today, while also pointing me to guided exercises like journaling and breathing.
Stoic is part of the current batch of startups at Y Combinator (it's taking the stage today at Demo Day). Founder Maciej Lobodzinski told me that his goal is to help users understand the different factors influencing their mental and emotional state.
"The core of the app is: We have this insight and we see what influences your mood and what you feel," Lobodzinski said. He suggested that this is very different from the "super transactional" idea embedded in my other mental health and wellness apps, where "you pay for my app and you feel better." In his view, "You should feel how you feel. It's okay, how you feel, but you should know why you are feeling this way."
So once there are a couple of weeks of data in the app, you should be able to look back and see how you were feeling on a certain day, and if there were activities that made you feel more or less fulfilled. Over time, Lobodzinski hopes to add more insights about "what influenced you, why you feel this way, why you are productive."
As the name implies, Stoic is inspired by Lobodzinski's interest in classical Stoic philosophy (he's not the first to suggest that the approach has direct applications in the tech industry), and the app even includes quotes from Stoic philosophers.
"It's an extremely practical framework," he said. "When I talk to users, there are entrepreneurs, investors, traders — people who found out about the app because they were looking for how to deal with their stress …
If you are stressed with your everyday life and you can get the advice of the emperor of Rome, who dealt with much more serious things, it's amazing how much better you can feel after that."
At the same time, users have the option to receive quotes from different schools of thought — not just Stoicism but also Buddhism, Taoism and Catholicism. For some users, their app experience won't be explicitly focused on Stoicism, but Lobodzinski said that even then, it forms the "spine" of the app's approach.
The basic app is free, but Stoic charges $27.99 per year for a premium version that includes iCloud syncing and additional content.
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$aData[0] = array ( 14400, 'Item1' );
$aData[1] = array ( 14400, 'Item4' );
$aData[2] = array ( 14401, 'Item2' );
$aData[3] = array ( 14402, 'Item4' );
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$aData[5] = array ( 14402, 'Item9' );

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$aData[1] = array ( 14401, 'Item4' );
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Whereas the 2nd one could be a string or an array.
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Trump's Massive Mendacity: How Fox News and the Right Gutted the Truth for 'The Donald'
Mr. Mendacity
Source: AlterNet
Author:Paul Rosenberg
With Donald Trump's ascension as the GOP's presidential nominee, we've clearly entered a new stage, and as usual this election cycle, it's happening much more rapidly and in ways that have caught media and political elites by surprise. But how we got here and what lies ahead share much more in common than most are willing to admit, most pointedly, the extent to which the media and the GOP have created the Trump candidacy—despite all their professions of dismay—by decades of devaluing objective reality.
A classic book on this subject is Mark Hertsgaard's On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency. In an early passage about the GOP's role in the abandonment of reality, he wrote:
Leslie Janka, a deputy White House press secretary, who resigned in protest after the administration excluded the press from the Grenada invasion, went so far as to say, "The whole thing was PR. This was a PR outfit that became President and took over the country. And to the degree then which the Constitution forced them to do things like make a budget, run a foreign policy and all that, they sort of did. But their first, last and overarching activity was public relations.
As for the media's role, Hertsgaard interviewed more than 150 journalists and news executives, most of whom "rejected the idea that Ronald Reagan had gotten a free ride from U.S. news organizations," he noted, "But this self-absolution by members of the press was contradicted by none other than the Reagan men themselves…. 'I think a lot of the Teflon came because the press was holding back,' said [Reagan's Director of Communications] David Gergen. 'I don't think they wanted to go after him that toughly.'"
The book presents wide-ranging evidence of precisely how this came about. A classic example was Reagan's Star Wars missile defense program, which he claimed would render nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete," an example of "politics as theater taken beyond the absurd…. Had Reagan bothered to ask he would have found that not one of his senior advisers shared his simple minded faith that SDI would protect American people and cities from nuclear ruin. Reagan's dream of a leakproof nuclear umbrella was a fantasy, and all the King's men knew it." Yet, to this very day, the media has never accurately reported how utterly impossible the Star Wars promise was.
But that was three decades ago. In the years since—from the imaginary Whitewater scandal during the Clinton Administration to Iraq's imaginary WMDs during Bush—the GOP and the media together have created the perfect environment for Trump, a man for whom "everything is negotiable" applies quite literally to the very notion of objective reality itself.
Some in the media understand that something is wrong. Last December, PolitiFact noted that, "In considering our annual Lie of the Year, we found our only real contenders were Trump's — his various statements also led our Readers' Poll. But it was hard to single one out from the others. So we have rolled them into one big trophy" and thus awarded is "2015 Lie of the Year" to "the campaign misstatements of Donald Trump."
And Factcheck.org's year-end roundup reached a similar conclusion, designating Trump "King of Whoppers," as it explained:
It's been a banner year for political whoppers — and for one teller of tall tales in particular: Donald Trump.
In the 12 years of FactCheck.org's existence, we've never seen his match.
He stands out not only for the sheer number of his factually false claims, but also for his brazen refusals to admit error when proven wrong….
In past years, we've not singled out a single claim or a single person, and have left it to readers to judge which whoppers they consider most egregious.
But this year the evidence is overwhelming and, in our judgment, conclusive. So, for the first time, we confer the title "King of Whoppers."
More recently, in late March, the Washington Post's fact check editor, Glenn Kessler, collected all of Trumps "four Pinocchio" lies in one place, expressing a similar sentiment:
There's never been a presidential candidate like Donald Trump — someone so cavalier about the facts and so unwilling to ever admit error, even in the face of overwhelming evidence. At last count, 67 percent (26 of 39) of our rulings of his statements turned out to be Four Pinocchios, our worst rating. By contrast, most politicians tend to earn Four Pinocchios 10 to 20 percent of the time. (Moreover, most of the remaining ratings for Trump are Three Pinocchios.)
As a reader service, here's a running list of our Four Pinocchio rulings. Since Trump never takes anything back — and often repeats the same false claims — voters are likely to hear these time and again during the campaign season.
The problem with all this recognition of Trump's mendacity is just how little difference it seems to make—and how clueless the press itself remains regarding what to do about it. They seem to understand little or nothing about how the situation came about over time, what they are doing wrong right now, or what they ought to be trying to achieve going forward.
Trying to knock down Trump's lies one at a time is a fool's errand. It's like trying to cut the head off of the hydra; for every lie you chop down, two new ones take its place. You have to step back and grasp the full magnitude of his lying, how he kneads together a whole multitude of lies into a single narrative, one which he then quickly casts off the moment it becomes advantageous to abandon it in favor of something else—possibly even the exact opposite of what he had been arguing the moment before.
Perhaps the best way to understand him is simply as a salesman. There are no objective facts where he comes from, just selling points. And the only thing he's really ever selling is himself. Whatever dream or desire you may have, he is the answer to what you want. As I argued back in December, he does not lie so much as bullshit, in the sense of H.G. Frankfurt's book "On Bullshit":
[B]ullshitters seek to convey a certain impression of themselves without being concerned about whether anything at all is true. They quietly change the rules governing their end of the conversation so that claims about truth and falsity are irrelevant.
That doesn't mean he doesn't lie, however. He's simply indifferent to whether what he says is true or not. Which is why he lies so easily and excessively, even without concern if the lie has already been publicly debunked. The ideal bullshitter could pass a lie-detector test no matter what he said, which seems to capture Trump perfectly. It can help, of course, to recognize his lies. But it's much more useful to recognize what he's trying to accomplish with them—or with the sprinkling of truths he freely intermingles with them. First, he's trying to free himself of any possible accountability to anyone else: If facts themselves are negotiable, no one can call him to account for lying; he is free to define reality in any way that suits him. Second, the ultimate purpose of freeing himself, and defining reality as he wishes, is to establish dominance over everyone else: He is interested in power, pure and simple. Some examples can help to clarify both of these goals.
When it comes to freeing himself of accountability, it's useful to think of some of Trump's common verbal tropes, such as "hearing" that Obama wants to confiscate guns, or to admit 200,000 Syrian refugees, or making vague claims about sourcing advice, praise or even resentful admiration from "experts" or "really smart people"—for example, falsely claiming that "Many of the great scholars say that anchor babies are not covered" by the 14th Amendment, or his widely reported, but nonexistent investigative team he sent to Hawaii to research Obama's birth certificate. "I have people that have been studying it and they cannot believe what they're finding," Trump told Today Show's Meredith Vieira on April 7, 2011. On April 25 he told CNN's Anderson Cooper that "somebody" he refused to identify told him "it's not there and it doesn't exist." Two days later, Obama released his long-form birth certificate, and we never heard of Trump's "investigation" again. Why? Because it never existed. It was all bullshit, from top to bottom. But it was always phrased in a way to free Trump of ever having to prove anything. The flip side of Trump's imaginary experts and investigators is his habit of saying "nobody knows" about things that actually are well known — such as whether our nuclear arsenal works (it does), or who Syrian refugees are, perhaps even ISIS! (actually we do), or where Obama was before his public life, expanding on his trademarked birtherism. "He grew up and nobody knew him. You know? …. Nobody knows who he his until later in his life. It's very strange," Trump said. "The people that went to school with him, they never saw him, they don't know who he is. It's crazy." Except, they do. From grade school through college. It's Trump who is crazy—100 percent wrong about everything.
Similarly, Trump likes to say that various good or bad things "never happened before," such as his winning 66 of 67 counties in the Florida primary (Bush and Gore both swept the state in 2000), or having GDP growth under zero (which has happened 42 times since WWII). No doubt he has "experts" who research these things for him, too!
Trump's entire existence is one of ceaseless exaggeration, which appears repeatedly in these sorts of statements, often overshadowed by other considerations—the fact checks above focus on the 14th Amendment, or the nuclear arsenal, rather than on Trump's imaginary "great scholars" or who Trump was talking about when he said, "They don't know if it works." Cogent—if mistaken—arguments could be made on any of these subjects, based on genuine, specifically cited expert testimony, for example, or specific individuals who could credibly contradict Obama's life story, or a list of past county-level election results. But Trump is not even remotely interested in making such arguments. He holds them in contempt. However, he is interested in having people take him seriously, because if they all laugh, he can never gain power—which is why we ought to be paying attention to his routine reliance on wild overgeneralizations and hyperbolic, anonymously sourced claims and accusations that go along with them. They represent the soft underbelly of all his extravagant lying. Just imagine an 8-year-old saying these same sorts of things. You'd immediately spot him as a bullshitter, regardless the specifics he was talking about.
Trump's interest in being taken seriously is only a means to an end, of course. And that end is power, pure and simple. Trump's politics may have morphed dramatically over time, but his interest in power has not. The core of what he's up to is a struggle for personal power, and all his lies, all his bullshitting are most fundamentally explicable when viewed in terms of who he's going after and why. Focusing on the lies themselves, rather the purpose that Trump is pursuing, will only generate longer and longer lists of things that Trump and his supporters will ignore. If they can ignore 30 things, then why not 300? Or 3,000? But if you look to what his game is, then you've got a chance to get a foothold in confronting him in terms of that very same game.
Take, for example, Trump's recent refusal to release his taxes, on the grounds that he's being audited. "I would love to give the tax returns. But I can't do it until I'm finished with the audit," he said on Meet the Press. But this claim is utterly bogus, as the IRS pointed out back in February: the IRS can't so much as comment, but there's no reason Trump needs to hold back anything. If he'd love to give his tax returns, go right ahead! Then Buzzfeed reminded everyone of another lie baked into this little charade: Trump had promised to release his taxes in 2011—and tied that promise to Obama releasing his birth certificate. Of course, Obama did release his birth certificate shortly after that, and Trump, being Trump, never did release his taxes—though he did promise to release them "at the appropriate time," another habitual Trump obfuscation.
We could go deep into the detail of how Trump is lying about releasing his taxes—in fact, I'm about to say a bit more about that. But the most important thing is to keep focused on his struggle for power: Why is he lying, rather than simply releasing his taxes, like everyone else? The two most sensible points to make are (1) he's got something to hide—very low tax rates, unsavory associations, whatever—which he thinks would be very damaging, and (2) he thinks he's better than anyone else, so he doesn't have to play by the rules. These are important points to focus on because they deal with his obsession for power.
We can see that obsession in action if we take a closer look back at that earlier episode Buzzfeed called attention to. Trump's promise then emerged as part of a series of Trump-imagined tests of strength and dominance, which he sketched out over the course of a few minutes in an interview with George Stephanopoulos, first versus NBC, then versus President Obama, and finally versus Mitt Romney. While Buzzfeed linked to a condensed presentation on The View, the full interview in context [transcript] allows us to see how Trump strings together this series of different bullshit narratives, each of which served him well in the moment, which is all he seemed to care about. He lied repeatedly—but always in the service of portraying himself in command.
Stephanopoulos first asked about Trump's plans to announce if he'd run for president, and Trump responded by chest-thumping over how distressed this was making NBC, as a way to build himself up while simultaneously explaining away his refusal to commit:
I have the number one show on NBC. The Apprentice, The Celebrity Apprentice. And they are not happy about it. And I'll be honest with you, NBC wants to renew anything I want to do. They'll do anything for me. Anything….
So, the head of NBC and all of the people at NBC are working very, very hard on me. "Donald, we'll give you anything. We'll do anything you want to do. One year, two years, three years. Please, whatever you want to do."
Not exactly. Celebrity Apprentice was NBC's fifth-rated show that season so far (#44 overall and #36 in the 18-49 demographic), and was way past its peak popularity. The initial incarnation of The Apprentice ranked 7th, 11th and 15th its first three seasons, and then dropped out of the top 30, never to return. It fell to 75th in 2006-07, after which it was replaced by Celebrity Apprentice, which ranked 48th in 2007-2008, and in the 50s the next two seasons. It was ranking modestly better in 2011, but after all Trump's pretense of magnanimity for NBC in delaying his decision, his grandstanding and taunting of President Obama helped drag the show's ratings down. At the end, it was reported:
Pulling in a rather paltry 2.9/7 share in the coveted 18-49 demo, the episode proved to be the lowest spring finale ever for The Apprentice, Celebrity or otherwise.
Next comes the tax returns-for-birth-certificate quid pro quo, sandwiched between this initial act of preening vis-à-vis NBC and another act of preening vs. Mitt Romney. Here's how Trump presented it:
Trump: … I give up a lot if I run. A thing like that, I also give up a lot of my free, private life. I have a great company. I've done a great job. Which if I run, you'll see what a great job. Because I'll do a full disclosure of finances.
(OVERTALK) [Stephanopoulos: Including your tax returns?]
Trump:We'll look at that. Maybe I'm going to do the tax returns when Obama does his birth certificate. I may tie my tax returns. I'd love to give my tax returns. I may tie my tax returns into Obama's birth certificate.
Note how Trump says two directly contradictory things, back to back. First, that he'd " love to give my tax returns," and then that he "may tie my tax returns into Obama's birth certificate." So which is it? Something he'd love to do? Or something he'll do only in exchange for something else?
It's an absurd offer on its face. Every presidential candidate in the post-Watergate era has disclosed their tax returns. It's what you do. No president had ever been asked to produce a long-form birth certificate. Trump asserts his dominance over Obama by making an absurd demand, and insisting that it be taken seriously as a normal political transaction. He even pretends he's being generous, further posturing himself as superior to Obama. For Trump, the promise of releasing his tax returns only matters as part of this mini-drama. Once the drama is finished, it's on to the next one.
After a brief interlude of preening and self-praise for building "a great company," "a strong company," "an under-levered company," with "tremendous net worth, far greater than even numbers that you've read," Trump turns to contrasting himself with Mitt Romney, after prompting from the host:
Stephanopoulos: You took on Mitt Romney, you said it [Trump's net worth] was bigger than Mitt Romney's.
Trump: Well, it's many times bigger, but that's nothing bad about him. By the way, I have respect for Mitt Romney. I don't know him, but I have respect for him. The fact that my net worth is many, many, many times greater, I'm not knocking him. You know, it comes off like it's a knock. It's not a knock. I have respect for Mitt Romney.
Of course Trump is knocking Romney! Why else make the comparison in the first place? And by claiming that he's not knocking him, Trump only twists the knife even further. That's just how he rolls. It's all about finding the right angle to attack someone, and then building layer upon layer on the original attack. Facts have no more role in the matter than they do in a schoolyard fight.
Which is why Trump really doesn't seem the least bit concerned that as part of this series of put-downs he said, "I'd love to give my tax returns," or that he proposed tying their release to Obama's birth certificate. Whatever he said yesterday—or even a minute ago—forget about it. Five years ago? You've got to be kidding! Facts are negotiable, like everything else. Power is the only thing that matters.
This is what Trump is. This is how he operates. It's why he ran the sort of primary campaign he did—a campaign characterized by a series of vicious attacks on other candidates as they appeared to pose a threat to his advancement. Facts do not matter to him—why should they? They only get in his way. They are perhaps his most persistent enemies. But facts matter enormously to the health and survival of a democratic republic. Without them, ruination is assured. There is no such thing as a post-truth republic. It's time that the press woke up from its decades-long slumber that began with Ronald Reagan. They've got a lot of lost ground to make up, before it's too late.
Paul Rosenberg is a California-based writer/activist, senior editor for Random Lengths News, and a columnist for Al Jazeera English. Follow him on Twitter at @PaulHRosenberg.
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Huppert lobbies parliament for fair deal for firefighters
MP Julian Huppert is lobbying the Government to get a fairer deal for fire-fighters after they fear planned changes to their pensions could leave them thousands of pounds worse off in their retirement.
The changes mean that if fire-fighters are unable to achieve fitness standards at the proposed increased pension age they could be sacked with no job and no pension.
Julian met representatives from the Cambridgeshire Brigade Fire Brigade Union in Westminster to listen to their concerns and promised to act in a bid to try to solve a three year dispute which has led to strikes across the country.
Fire-fighters fear that the planned proposals could lead to up to 66 per cent of their members failing fitness tests between 55 and 60 resulting in them being sacked or losing a quarter of their pensions to which they personally contribute £4,000 a year. These statistics are drawn from evidence uncovered within government's own review by Dr Tony Williams on the impact of the proposed increased pension age for frontline fire-fighters.
Julian has signed a Commons' Early Day Motion calling for the new regulations, which were presented to Parliament last month, to be annulled.
He said: "We clearly have to find a compromise here. This dispute has been running for three years and we are no further forward.
"It is unacceptable for these men and women, who put their lives at risk to rescue others in dangerous situations, and their families to face hardship in their later years because we couldn't find a better way.
"We need to look at all the options so that we can find a way to move forward and show these people the respect they deserve."
Cambridgeshire Brigade FBU Secretary, Cameron Matthews said: "The current proposals are unfair, unachievable and unworkable.
"It is a fact that we are going to get older and as government's evidence suggests the majority of people won't be able to reach the levels of fitness required of a fire-fighter. But there are no transferable non-frontline jobs which will allow them to keep their current terms and conditions. That means that if unable to meet fitness standards the majority will lose tens of thousands of pounds from their pensions at the end or be sacked just for the crime of getting older.
"Cambridgeshire fire-fighters welcome and appreciate the support from Julian in this vitally important matter, through signing EDM 454 and backing the campaign for justice and a fair deal.
"We truly hope it will encourage other Liberal Democrat MPs to now also take the real opportunity to view the overwhelming weight of evidence and support their fire-fighters against the Fire Minister's unfair, unaffordable and unachievable pension proposals."
Mr Matthews added that alternatives to Westminster government's proposals had been offered to fire-fighters in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales with a view to protecting them. As such, fire-fighters under the devolved governments had not taken strike action following receipt of these alternatives.
"Currently only English fire-fighters are in this position," added Mr Matthews. "We are perplexed as to why the Prime Minister cannot offer us these options or similar."
CONTACT: Cameron Matthews – 07824 438858