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Fukushima Radiation Release is Worse than You Have Been Told – What You Can Do to Protect Yourself
by Steve Hickey, PhD; Atsuo Yanagisawa, MD, PhD; Andrew W. Saul, PhD; Gert E. Schuitemaker, PhD; Damien Downing, MD
(OMNS May 14, 2012) People have been misinformed about the tragedy at Fukushima and its consequences. There is a continuing cover up, the reactors have not been stabilized, and radiation continues to be released. The Japanese College of Intravenous Therapy (JCIT) has recently released a video for people wishing to learn more about how to protect themselves from contamination by taking large doses of vitamin C.
Part 1 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbm_MH3nSdM
Part 2 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4cyzts3lMo
Part 3 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYiRo2Oucfo
Part 4 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Ie8FuuYJw
All four parts of the video are also available here http://firstlaw.wordpress.com/. Readers may link to, embed in their webpages, and make copies of the video for free distribution.
Japanese Government Minimizes Danger; Ignores Vitamin C
In the fall of 2011, JCIT presented a study that Fukushima workers had abnormality gene expression, which may be avoided using dietary antioxidants, especially vitamin C. The data was presented in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea. The JCIT sent letters to the government urging the government to tell the people how they may protect themselves from radiation. To date, the recommendation has been ignored by Japanese government and TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company).
Linus Pauling gained the Nobel Peace Prize in part based on his calculations of the number of deaths from nuclear weapons fallout.[1] He was supported by physicist and father of the Soviet bomb Andrei Sakharov, who also later received the Nobel Prize for peace.[2] These and other scientists estimated that there would be an extra 10,000 deaths worldwide for each megaton nuclear test in the atmosphere. A nuclear reactor can contain much more radioactive material than a nuclear weapon. Fukushima had six reactors, plus stored additional radioactive material and nuclear waste.
How Radiation Damages Cells
Ionizing radiation acts to damage living tissue by forming free radicals. Essentially, electrons are ripped from molecules. Removing an electron from an atom or molecule turns it into an ion, hence the term ionizing radiation. X-rays, gamma rays, alpha- and beta-radiation are all ionizing.
Most of the damage occurs from ionizing radiation generating free radicals in water, as water molecules are by far the most abundant in the body. While avoiding unnecessary exposure to ionizing radiation is clearly preferable, people affected by Fukushima do not have the luxury of avoiding contamination.
Antioxidants: Free-Radical Scavengers
Free-radical scavengers, as the name suggests, mop up the damaging radicals produced by radiation. The more common term for free radical scavenger is antioxidant. Antioxidants replace the electrons stripped from molecules by ionizing radiation. Antioxidants have long been used in the treatment of radiation poisoning.[3-7] Most of the harm from ionizing radiation occurs from free radical damage which may be quenched by the free electrons antioxidants provide. Fortunately, safe antioxidants are widely available as nutritional supplements. Vitamin C is the prime example.
Why Vitamin C?
Vitamin C is of particular importance and should be included at high intakes for anyone trying to minimize radiation poisoning. High dose vitamin C provides continual antioxidant flow through the body. It is absorbed from the gut and helps to replenish the other antioxidants. When it is used up, it is excreted in the urine. Importantly, it can chelate, or grab onto, radioactive heavy metal atoms and help eliminate them from the body. Large dynamic flow doses of vitamin C (about 3,000 mg, taken 4 times a day for a total of 12,000 mg) would exemplify antioxidant treatment. Higher doses have been used by Dr. Atsuo Yanagisawa and colleagues. [8,9]
Shortly after the disaster, Dr. Damien Downing described how supplements can help protect against radioactive fallout.[10] OMNS issued an update on the response to Fukushima in Japan.[11] Recently, Dr. Gert Schuitemaker has provided a review of vitamin C as a radio-protectant for Fukushima contamination.[12]
Persons living in the areas affected by radioactive contamination can take antioxidant supplements, especially high doses of vitamin C, to counteract the negative consequences of long-term low dose radiation exposure, as well as to protect the health of coming generations.[12,13] People who have a possible internal or external radiation exposure should take antioxidant supplements to maintain an optimal antioxidant reserve. Because of the enormous size and oceanic spread of Fukushima contamination, this literally applies to everyone.
"The International Society for Orthomolecular Medicine is pleased to have participated in the making of this important DVD on the protective effects of intravenous vitamin C on radiation exposure from the Fukushima nuclear plant in March 2011. We are in full support of the valuable work of Dr. Yanagisawa and his colleagues, and we very much appreciate the commitment of Mr. Daisuke Shibata, who has made it possible for the free distribution of the video around the world. May this orthomolecular message raise awareness and foster improvement in the treatment of radiation exposure." Steven Carter Director, International Society for Orthomolecular Medicine
1. The Nobel Foundation (1962) The Nobel Peace Prize 1962, Linus Pauling Biography, http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1962/pauling-bio.html.
2. Sakharov A. (1975) The Nobel Peace Prize 1975, Andrei Sakharov, Autobiography, http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1975/sakharov-autobio.html.
3. Brown SL, Kolozsvary A, Liu J, et al: Antioxidant diet supplementation starting 24 hours after exposure reduces radiation lethality. Radiat Res, 2010; 173: 462-468.
4. Zueva NA, Metelitsa LA, Kovalenko AN, et al: Immunomodulating effect of berlithione in clean-up workers of the Chernobyl nuclear plant accident [Article in Russian]. Lik Sprava, 2002; (1): 24-26.
5. Yamamoto T, Kinoshita M et al. Pretreatment with ascorbic acid prevents lethal gastrointestinal syndrome in mice receiving a massive amount of radiation. J Radiat Res (Tokyo) 2010; 51(2):145-56
6. Gaby A. Intravenous Nutrient Therapy: the "Myers' Cocktail". Alt Med Rev 2002; 7(5):389:403
7. Narra VR, Howell RW, Sastry KS, Rao DV. Vitamin C as a radioprotector against iodine-131 in vivo. J Nucl Med 1993; 34(4):637-40
8. Yanagisawa A. Orthomolecular approaches against radiation exposure. Presentation Orthomolecular Medicine Today Conference. Toronto 2011 http://www.doctoryourself.com/Radiation_VitC.pptx.pdf )
9. Green MH, Lowe JE et al. Effect of diet and vitamin C on DNA strand breakage in freshly-isolated human white blood cells. Mutat Res 1994; 316(2):91-102
10. Downing D. (2011) Radioactive Fallout: Can Nutritional Supplements Help?, A Personal Viewpoint, OMNS, May 10, http://www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v07n04.shtml.
11. OMNS (2012) Vitamin C Prevents Radiation Damage, Nutritional Medicine in Japan, Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, February 1. http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v08n06.shtml
12. Schuitemaker GE. Vitamin C as protection against radiation exposure. J Orthomolecular Med 2011, 26: 3; 141-145. [Also in Dutch: Schuitemaker G.E. Radioactiviteit in Japan: Orthomoleculair antwoord. Ortho 2011:3, June. http://www.ortho.nl ]
13. Yanagisawa A, Uwabu M, Burkson BE, Weeks BS, Hunninghake R, Hickey S, Levy T, (2011) Environmental radioactivity and health. Official JCIT Statement, March 29. http://media.iv-therapy.jp/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Statement.pdf
Nutritional Medicine is Orthomolecular Medicine
Orthomolecular medicine uses safe, effective nutritional therapy to fight illness. For more information: http://www.orthomolecular.org
To locate an orthomolecular physician near you: http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v06n09.shtml
The peer-reviewed Orthomolecular Medicine News Service is a non-profit and non-commercial informational resource.
Editorial Review Board:
Ian Brighthope, M.D. (Australia)
Ralph K. Campbell, M.D. (USA)
Carolyn Dean, M.D., N.D. (USA)
Damien Downing, M.D. (United Kingdom)
Dean Elledge, D.D.S., M.S. (USA)
Michael Ellis, M.D. (Australia)
Martin P. Gallagher, M.D., D.C. (USA)
Michael Gonzalez, D.Sc., Ph.D. (Puerto Rico)
William B. Grant, Ph.D. (USA)
Steve Hickey, Ph.D. (United Kingdom)
James A. Jackson, Ph.D. (USA)
Michael Janson, M.D. (USA)
Robert E. Jenkins, D.C. (USA)
Bo H. Jonsson, M.D., Ph.D. (Sweden)
Thomas Levy, M.D., J.D. (USA)
Stuart Lindsey, Pharm.D. (USA)
Jorge R. Miranda-Massari, Pharm.D. (Puerto Rico)
Karin Munsterhjelm-Ahumada, M.D. (Finland)
Erik Paterson, M.D. (Canada)
W. Todd Penberthy, Ph.D. (USA)
Gert E. Schuitemaker, Ph.D. (Netherlands)
Robert G. Smith, Ph.D. (USA)
Jagan Nathan Vamanan, M.D. (India)
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13 Responses to "Fukushima Radiation Release is Worse than You Have Been Told – What You Can Do to Protect Yourself"
Here's a Dirty little secret that is apparently suppressed and needs airtime. What happens to the toxics?
The vaporized Japanese radioactive isotopes have rained down on the Pacific Ocean foodchain. These radioactive isotopes are incorporated into plankton and krill biomass, and must eventually concentrate in the tissues of cold water predators such as wild Alaskan Salmon.
tyranny exposed says:
12,000 mg of vitamin C daily? Jeez.
What form of Vit C? Is one form better, more bio-available than another?
WRAY EDWARDS says:
General Omar Bradley:
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
Pahl Dixon says:
The best thing that I have found, and am using, for personal protection from radioactive particle contamination is Biosuperfood bio-algae concentrates, which saved people at Chernobyl from sickness and death. This organic pollution-free product successfully reversed the cancer trend in Russian livestock and essentially saved the USSR's animal husbandry industries. Please see fallout-protection.blogspot.com for information and links.
Never thought of vit C but have been using Moringa and adding black walnut hull and thyme to my diet as they are also high in iodine and the moringa help remove radiation. I get these from the herb farm I am doing an internship at and the moringa has really made me feel better.
ChrisYAHanWatcher4YAH says:
Since the Rothschild "cAH Ba'al," [assemblies of WAR Shipper of Ba'al,] Bought UP; the World's Largest Weather Dissemination Network service around 3-4 WEEKS Post Fukoshima, The TRUE: RAD DATA absent manipulations, prior to publications, has been virtually Impossible to Locate, AS carefully crafted by the Global Elitist Zion-Nazi Kult.
Gary Ford, M.Sc. says:
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Even my correction above had an error:
Read "Glutathione", NOT "Glutahione"!
Corrections for above: Read as "Glutahione" NOT "Glutathion",
and always, too, Glutathione "Peroxidase", not "Peroxide".
I read a declassified US Military Study from the min-1950s
which I found in 1971, in the then new Simon Fraser University
Library, Burnaby, B.C., Canada. It revealed numerous trials of
radio-protective chemicals. The best and safest method was a
stiff dose of N-Acetyl-Cysteine, given lab animals, but only if
some 15-18 hours before LD50 Level X-irradiation, which doubled
the size of the X-ray dose required to Kill some 50% of the
Test Animals.
This was an insufficient difference to Army Dreamers, who wanted
a more effective magic elixir to protect its troops from imagined
multiple use of tactical, small, battlefield-sized, atomic bombs.
The lead-time was required for cells throughout the test animal's
body to create Glutathion (GSH) from NAC. Note that GSH taken
orally is less effective, as it has some difficulties at the blood
brain – and at other – junctures, although it can be protective of
liver and blood.
Keep in Mind that GSH functions BEST as a cellular antioxidant
in the presence of fully operative Glutathione Proxidase, an
Enzyme which assists in docking Dangerous Peroxide Radicals
safely with Glutathione. Unfortunately the large Mercury (Hg)
Burden many of us have from Amalgam Dental Fillings, Vaccines
and Other Sources, can impair the function of the cellular
enzyme Glutathione Peroxide, but we should note that the partial
mercury Hg antidote Seleno-L-Methionine, even in small doses,
can restore much activity to cellular Glutathione Peroxidase.
Furthermore, Oxidized Glutathione can be REGENERATED in the face
of a strong cellular presence of ascorbic acid (Vit C) or its safe
non-acidic salts, such as Potassium or Calcium Ascorbate.
Obummer jacked up the safe levels the next day! Arne Gunder at fairewinds give an update on everything nukes! He IS a leading authority on Nuclear energy.
http://fairewinds.org/
Also Alexander Higgins has a blog about this. I don't really know his credentials, but he seems to be fairly accurate and reliable researcher.
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.c.....ma-127821/
I was reading earlier that a scientist in Japan is saying there could be another one (big) soon. I've been folling the earthquake on intellicast. They've had to many to count of 5.0 or higher. As the awake people all ready know, Reactor 4 has a pool suspended 100 feet up full of rods. The reactor is heavily damaged structurely speaking. If it drops it could also set off the other 2 reactors that are still intact. Most people are not aware of the fact that there are 6 reactors in Fukushima.
Stay safe and may God be with you all.
Be safe, Karen.


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Which procedure is used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie people's intelligence scores?
a. standardization
b. validation
c. heritability estimates
d. factor analysis
Managers who want to foster creativity in the workplace should try to increase the ________ of their employees.
a. convergent thinking
b. factor analysis
c. intrinsic motivation
d. emotional intelligence
When Phoebe strongly disagrees with her sister's opinion, she effectively controls her own anger and responds with empathy to her sister's frustration regarding their dispute. Her behavior best illustrates
a. factor analysis.
b. analytic intelligence.
c. divergent thinking.
d. emotional intelligence.
The widely used American revision of Alfred Binet's original intelligence test was developed by
a. Charles Spearman.
b. Howard Gardner.
c. Lewis Terman.
d. Robert Sternberg.
A 9-year-old who responded to the original Stanford-Binet with the proficiency of an average 12-year-old was said to have an IQ of
b. 115.
c. 125.
d. 133.
A test designed to assess whether newly graduated medical students should be granted the legal right to practice medicine would most likely be considered a(n) ________ test.
a. g-factor
b. aptitude
c. factor analysis
d. achievement
Before publishing her test of musical aptitude, Professor Reed first administered the test to a representative sample of people. This was most clearly necessary for test
a. standardization.
b. reliability.
c. heritability.
d. validity.
When retested on the WAIS, people's second scores generally match their first scores quite closely. This indicates that the test has a high degree of
a. reliability.
b. content validity.
d. predictive validity.
If course exams assess a student's mastery of a representative sample of course material, they are said to
a. be reliable.
b. have content validity.
c. be standardized.
d. have predictive validity.
Comparing the academic performance of those whose scores are extremely low on intelligence tests with those whose scores are extremely high is an effective way to highlight the tests'
b. heritability.
c. reliability.
Comparing the intelligence test scores among people from distinctly different age cohorts requires
b. cross-sectional studies.
c. heritability estimates.
d. longitudinal studes.
Intelligence test scores are LEAST similar for
a. nontwin siblings reared together.
b. fraternal twins reared together.
c. identical twins reared together.
d. identical twins reared apart.
With his concern for "mental orthopedics," Alfred Binet would have been most enthusiastic about
a. eugenics.
b. factor analysis.
c. Head Start programs.
d. the normal curve.
Increasing years of schooling over the last half century have most likely contributed to
a. stereotype threat.
b. the Flynn effect.
c. the normal curve.
d. savant syndrome.
Stereotype threat is most likely to depress female students' performance on a difficult ________ test and to depress male students' performance on a difficult ________ test.
a. math problem-solving; verbal fluency
b. verbal fluency; math problem-solving
c. spatial abilities; athletic abilities
d. athletic abilities; spatial abilities
Although diagnosed with autism and hardly able to speak coherently, 18-year-old Andrew can produce intricate and detailed drawings of scenes he has viewed only once. Andrew illustrates a condition known as
a. g factor.
b. Down syndrome.
c. emotional intelligence.
Superior performance on the WAIS is most likely to be indicative of
a. Sternberg's concept of analytical intelligence.
b. Gardner's concept of athletic intelligence.
c. Thurstone's concept of social intelligence.
d. Salovey and Mayer's concept of emotional intelligence.
University students who focus on the interest and challenge of their schoolwork rather than on simply meeting deadlines and securing good grades are especially likely to demonstrate
a. emotional intelligence.
b. creativity.
d. convergent thinking.
To learn whether intelligence is related to information-processing speed, researchers have tested participants to determine how long it takes them to
a. copy the letters of the alphabet.
b. calculate intelligence quotients.
c. count from 1 to 10.
d. perceive briefly present visual images.
The first modern test of intelligence was developed in
a. Germany.
b. Britain.
c. France.
d. Italy.
A 6-year-old who responded to the original Stanford-Binet with the proficiency typical of an average 9-year-old was said to have a mental age of
b. 9.
c. 66.
A high school counselor gave Amy a test designed to predict whether she could learn to become a successful architect. Amy most likely took a(n) ________ test.
a. aptitude
b. g factor
c. emotional intelligence
A score on the WAIS that is higher than all but 2 percent of all scores earns an intelligence score of
a. 115.
Some hereditarians have been fearful that higher twentieth-century birth rates among those with lower intelligence scores would shove average intelligence scores progressively downward. This fear has been most directly alleviated by the discovery of
a. the normal curve.
b. the g factor.
d. the Flynn effect.
Mary's bathroom scale always overstates people's actual weight by exactly six pounds. The scale has ________ reliability and ________ validity.
a. low; high
b. high; low
c. low; low
d. high; high
University grades are used to assess the ________ of the SAT.
a. heritability
b. reliability
c. standardization
d. predictive validity
The extent to which differences in intelligence among a group of people are attributable to genetic factors is known as the ______ of intelligence.
a. normal curve
c. predictive validity
d. heritability
Girls are likely to outperform boys in a
a. spelling bee.
b. math problem-solving test.
c. computer-programming contest.
d. chess tournament.
Compared with North American students, Asian students perform
a. better on math aptitude and achievements tests and they spend less time studying.
b. no better on math aptitude and achievements tests and they spend less time studying.
c. better on math aptitude and achievements tests and they spend more time studying.
d. no better on math aptitude and achievements tests and they spend more time studying.
Women have been found to score lower on math tests when they are tested alongside men. This best illustrates the impact of
a. the Flynn effect.
b. intrinsic motivation.
d. stereotype threat.

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Mathieu Joseph, född 9 februari 1997, är en kanadensisk professionell ishockeyforward som spelar för Ottawa Senators i NHL.

Han har tidigare spelat på NHL-nivå för Tampa Bay Lightning och på lägre nivåer för Syracuse Crunch i American Hockey League (AHL) och Saint John Sea Dogs i Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec (LHJMQ).

Joseph draftades i fjärde rundan i 2015 års draft av Tampa Bay Lightning som 120:e spelare totalt.

Privatliv
Han är äldre bror till ishockeybacken Pierre-Olivier Joseph, som spelar för Pittsburgh Penguins i NHL.

Statistik
LHMJAA = Ligue de Hockey Métropolitaine Junior AA | LHEQ = Ligue de Hockey d'Excellence du Québec

Internationellt

Referenser

Externa länkar
Mathieu Joseph NHL Statistics – Hockey-Reference.com
Mathieu Joseph hockey statistics and profile at hockeydb.com

Män
Födda 1997
Levande personer
Idrottare från Québec
Kanadensiska ishockeyspelare
Kanadensiska idrottare under 2000-talet
Spelare i Saint John Sea Dogs
Spelare valda i NHL Entry Draft 2015
Spelare valda av Tampa Bay Lightning i NHL Entry Draft
Spelare i Syracuse Crunch
Spelare i Tampa Bay Lightning
Stanley Cup-mästare 2020
Stanley Cup-mästare 2021
Spelare i Ottawa Senators
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Eland (formerly Eland Junction) is a village in Shawano County, Wisconsin, in the United States. The population was 202 at the 2010 census.

History
Eland was originally called Eland Junction, and under the latter name was platted by the railroad in 1888. It was named after the eland, a type of African antelope.

Geography
Eland is located at  (44.870191, -89.214786).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all of it land.

Demographics

2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 202 people, 86 households, and 58 families living in the village. The population density was . There were 93 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 92.1% White, 4.5% Native American, 2.5% from other races, and 1.0% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.5% of the population.

There were 86 households, of which 20.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.7% were married couples living together, 5.8% had a female householder with no husband present, 7.0% had a male householder with no wife present, and 32.6% were non-families. 25.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.35 and the average family size was 2.79.

The median age in the village was 46.8 years. 16.8% of residents were under the age of 18; 12% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 17.9% were from 25 to 44; 33.7% were from 45 to 64; and 19.8% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the village was 51.5% male and 48.5% female.

2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 251 people, 93 households, and 66 families living in the village. The population density was 113.0 people per square mile (43.7/km2). There were 96 housing units at an average density of 43.2 per square mile (16.7/km2). The racial makeup of the village was 92.03% White, 5.18% Native American, 1.20% from other races, and 1.59% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.20% of the population.

There were 93 households, out of which 37.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.8% were married couples living together, 9.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.0% were non-families. 23.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.70 and the average family size was 3.18.

In the village, the population was spread out, with 33.1% under the age of 18, 3.6% from 18 to 24, 31.9% from 25 to 44, 18.7% from 45 to 64, and 12.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 105.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 104.9 males.

The median income for a household in the village was $37,917, and the median income for a family was $41,607. Males had a median income of $26,750 versus $23,125 for females. The per capita income for the village was $15,909. About 10.4% of families and 7.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2.1% of those under the age of eighteen and 16.7% of those 65 or over.

Notable people
Roger Breske, business owner and politician
Thomas J. Mahon, jurist and politician

References

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Q: boost scoped_lock vs plain lock/unlock I'm going to use boost::mutex from boost/thread/mutex.hpp.
There are several ways to lock/unlock mutex: with scoped_lock, unique_lock, lock_guard, mutex's member functions ::lock() and ::unlock() and nonmember functions lock() and unlock().
I noticed, that boost::scoped_mutex is one of the most popular ways of using mutex. Why is it preferable to member functions ::lock() and ::unlock()?
Particularly, why should I use
{
  boost::scoped_lock lock(mutex)
  // ...
  // read/output sharing memory.
  // ...
}

rather than
mutex.lock()
// ...
// read/output sharing memory.
// ...
mutex.unlock()

is scoped_lock better just because of some style-coding point of view or is ::lock()/::unlock() not "thread safe enough"?

A: you can use
std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(mutex);
if don't want to use boost library.

A:
Why is it preferable to member functions ::lock() and ::unlock()?

For the same reason why the RAII idiom became popular in general (this is just one of its countless instances): because you can be sure you don' leave the current scope without unlocking the mutex.
Notice, that this is not just about forgetting to call unlock(): an exception may occur while your mutex is locked, and your call to unlock() may never be reached, even though you do not have any return statement between your call to lock() and your call to unlock().
m.lock() // m is a mutex
// ...
foo(); // If this throws, your mutex won't get unlocked
// ...
m.unlock()

In this case, the destructor of your scoped_lock guard will be invoked during stack unwinding, making sure the associated mutex always gets released.
{
    boost::scoped_lock lock(m); // m is a mutex
    // ...
    foo(); // If this throws, your RAII wrapper will unlock the mutex
    // ...
}

Moreover, in many situations this will improve your code's readability, in that you won't have to add a call to unlock() before every return statement.

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By LizLovesBooks | January 29, 2016 - 6:58 am | January 29, 2016 Blog Tour, Latest Blog
Very happy to take part in this blog tour today for a beautiful looking (and sounding) book, for my stop I asked if the author would contribute to my ongoing "Why We Write" feature. She has written me a lovely piece and I hope you enjoy it.
Why We Write – Emily Hauser
One of the main reasons why I write is a very specific one: to get people excited about the classical world. I'm passionate about the ancient Greek and Roman past – I'm a scholar and researcher of Classics and have been studying it for over fifteen years – and I love using my expertise on the people and places of antiquity to bring them alive to modern readers. For me, fiction is one of the greatest tools available to us for bringing the myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome alive, and so to connect to the real, living people of the past. Fiction allows us to re-imagine and rebuild the ruined walls of Troy, but most of all, to put the people back into it – to imagine their hopes and fears, their dreams, the people they loved, the journeys they made. That, for me, is the peculiar magic of writing about the past: it is possible through fiction both to bring history alive, and, at the same time, to remind us that we are not, in the end, that different from people who lived thousands of years ago.
Which brings me to the second reason I write: to put women back into the picture of history. So often – and I could name any period, from ancient Greece to medieval France to revolutionary America – women have been lost from the historical record: both because they were not deemed worthy of mention, and because they themselves, often kept illiterate and uneducated, were unable to write, and so to record their thoughts and experiences. As a researcher into the lives of women in ancient Greece and Rome, I want to bring the female experience to the fore. I want to show that historical women's experiences and women's lives are just as important as those of the men whose stories have come down to us. In the case of For the Most Beautiful, that meant recovering the tales of two captive women during the Trojan War – Briseis, princess of Pedasus, and Krisayis, daughter of the Trojan High Priest – and telling their side of the story, with all its passion and destructiveness, revenge, love, and betrayal; stories just as powerful and worth telling as that of the rage of Achilles. One of the most rewarding things about this endeavour has been discovering just how vibrant and rich these women's stories are, and how much there is to tell when you see the world through their eyes.
And finally, which I think might be one of the most common reasons for writing (but no less important for it) – I write simply to give readers that joy of picking up a book and losing themselves in another world, which I myself love to do. To provide another story, another time, through which to think about the things that most concern us: whether they're love or war, grief, friendship, or death. It's my belief that stories – and what else are myths and legends but stories? – are one of the most powerful road-maps towards understanding ourselves.
And if that's not a good reason to write, I don't know what is.
Three thousand years ago a war took place that gave birth to legends – to Achilles, the greatest of the Greeks, and Hector, prince of Troy. It was a war that shook the very foundations of the world. But what if there was more to this epic conflict? What if there was another, hidden tale of the Trojan War?
Now is the time for the women of Troy to tell their story.
Thrillingly imagined and startlingly original, For the Most Beautiful reveals the true story of true for the first time. The story of Krisayis, daughter of the Trojans' High Priest, and of Briseis, princess of Pedasus, who fight to determine the fate of a city and its people in this ancient time of mischievous gods and mythic heroes.
In this novel full of passion and revenge, loyalty and betrayal, bravery and sacrifice, Emily Hauser breathes exhilarating new life into one of the greatest legends of all – in a tale that has waited millennia to be told.
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December 21, 1798 The Fate of Clothing Shipped to Colonel Strong Samuel Hodgdon Henry Glen Hodgdon wonders why the clothing sent to Colonel Strong in September 1797 did not reach him until August 1798, much of it in damaged condition.
June 2, 1791 Opinion on Warham Strong Joseph Howell Joseph Nourse Howell could not say if Strong was a member of Colonel Wi[ttet]'s regiment, but he noted Strong was of good character and deserving of a commission by Connecticut.
June 21, 1791 Letter from Mr S. Strong to Colonel Samuel Hodgdon asking for job providing packhorses from Kentucky S. Strong Samuel Hodgdon Strong is making application for the position of providing pack horses from Kentucky. He asks that he be given the job over others who may apply and he says he would give much satisfaction if given the job.
July 20, 1793 Colonel Strong's Movements Alarm Indians; Logistics & Personnel of Legion Henry Knox Anthony Wayne The peace commissioners are alarmed by Col. Strong's movements so they must be halted immediately. Various logistical and personnel matters are discussed.
October 2, 1801 Be Nice to Lieutenant Strong James Wilkinson Samuel Vance This letter is handed to you by Lieutenant Strong, who travels with his mother up the Ohio. Please afford them every attention they might need. The party going with Strong is to be immediately remanded to this place, in the same craft. Please also send every man belonging to the Corps in this quarter.
May 18, 1799 Encloses Communications; Requests Opinion about Garrisons in Detroit James McHenry Alexander Hamilton Encloses communications with Major Bradley, Colonel Hamtramck and Colonel Strong. Refers to nearby Indian chiefs. Requests opinion on garrisons at Detroit with men and non-commissioned officers.
August 7, 1799 Letter from the Accountant of the War Department William Simmons David Strong Simmons directs Strong to close his account by making the necessary remittance to the Treasurer.
May 31, 1799 Letter from the Accountant of the War Department William Simmons Cornelius Lyman Simmons directs Lyman to provide Col. Strong's authorization for enlistments.
July 27, 1793 Delay in Transmitting Dr. Strong's Receipt Joseph Howell Caleb Swan Being transmitted is an abstract of warrants drawn by the Secretary of War in continuation to July 27th. It is hoped that Swan will have sent the receipt for the sum remitted by Doctor Strong since it's delay has caused Howell great inconvenience.
November 28, 1796 Pay of Henry Saunders a soldier in the 2nd Regiment William Simmons James McHenry Simmons certifies that $24 is due Henry Saunders, a soldier in the 2nd Regiment, being his pay from May through October 1796, he having received a furlough to visit his friends from Lieutenant Colonel David Strong.
April 29, 1800 Request for Information Regarding Double Rations William Simmons William North Simmons requested to be informed on what steps were taken regarding the issue of double rations received by Col. Strong and Maj. Briell so that charges of the overdrawn rations could be deducted from the accounts by the Pay Master General.
May 22, 1793 Report from Fort Washington near Cincinnati John Harris Samuel Hodgdon Reports that Commander in Chief of Army has arrived, encamped below the town, waiting further orders. Very busy forwarding forage to the outposts. Makes mention of Doctor Brown in Kentucky. Asks for a ticket from the Federal City lottery. Colonel Sargent is constantly gardening. No recent news regarding Indians.
March 27, 1800 Procuring Clothing for John Strong Philip Church Samuel Hodgdon Enclosed is a paper signed by Captain Nicholls certifying one suit of clothes due to John Gold and a Power of Attorney from Gold to John Strong. Church wants to know how to procure clothing for Strong who is an orderly to Major General Hamilton.
May 2, 1796 Pay, Subsistence, & Forage of Surgeon's Mate Joseph Strong William Simmons James McHenry Simmons certifies that $100.30 is due Joseph Strong, Surgeon's Mate, being his pay, subsistence, and forage from January through April 1796.
January 27, 1801 Consulting Dr. Weems on Charges Made by Dr. Bullus William Simmons Doctor Weems Simmons requests Dr. Weems' assistance in evaluating the validity of Dr. Bullus' charges. Dr. Strong was also consulted, but Doctors Strong and Bullus are involved in trade, and thus his opinion may not be entirely impartial. As Dr. Bullus is requesting an advance, Dr. Weems' opinion will determine the amount which can reasonably be allowed Dr. Bullus.
February 15, 1799 Citation Only Alexander Hamilton David Strong Cited in Strong to Hamilton, 05/07/1799.
December 5, 1800 Resignation of the Secretary of the Treasury, Etc. Isaac Craig Samuel Hodgdon Major Craig laments the destruction of the War Office by fire and the resignation of the Secretary of the Treasury.
May 21, 1796 Pay of Joseph Strong, Assistant Hospital Storekeeper William Simmons James McHenry Simmons certifies that $168 is due Joseph Strong for his extra services rendered as an assistant hospital storekeeper from Nov. 12, 1793 to July 24, 1794.


The good news is that Gibson has set a December 15 on-sale date for the Dark Fire, the latest incarnation of the Robot Guitar. The bad news is that they will be produced in a limited run of 2,000 and will only be sold at 400 stores worldwide, with each store getting 5 guitars. I guess that's still slightly better odds than, say, the 1,987 Ibanez RG550MXX guitars produced a few years ago (I have one in Roadflare Red, woo!!!) but it's still not a lot. So as of today you have 12 days to be very, very good so Santa will call in a few favours for you on the 15th. Failing that, get a blanket and thermos and be prepared to camp outside your local guitar store overnight like a Star Wars fan on opening weekend.
Gibson Guitar announced today the limited availability of the Gibson Dark Fire guitar. Embracing the spirit of innovation and technical advancement that inspired the original Gibson Digital guitar in 2006 and Robot guitar in 2007, Gibson's Dark Fire guitar is poised to change the music industry overnight.
The world's most technically advanced guitar will rock the music industry to its core and will soon become the most sought after musical instrument of its time.
Gibson's flowerpot inlay graces the headstock of the Dark Fire as seen on other classic Gibson models such as the Byrdland and the 1911 F4 Mandolin. In addition to traditional touches, Gibson developed an entirely new look that required many changes in the manufacturing process.
The Dark Fire has a nitrocellulose finish created especially for this exclusive 1st run. The mahogany back and neck of the Dark Fire are given a satin finish, while the headstock face is sprayed with a gloss finish. The Dark Fire's chambered mahogany body helps deliver an optimum combination of tone, balance and weight." The result is a comfortable, lightweight guitar that is acoustically louder, with increased sustain and resonance.
Taking much of its inspiration from the 2008 Les Paul, this instrument features a super fast and comfortable ergonomic neck shape with asymmetrical carving and with Perfect SetupTM. This is made possible by a computerized PLEK system, a computer controlled device scans and dresses a guitar under actual playing conditions, strung and tuned to pitch.
The tune-o-matic piezo bridge has been redesigned. It is much sleeker and the bridge now locks to the studs with new technology and works better. The nut is made of a new high tech material which includes Teflon (allowing for the tuning action to be smoother and faster [without breaking strings] and has a higher density than bone.
The bridge lock and the new frictionless faux bone nut insure maximum tone and sustain. The locking tuners insure that tuning and string tension are maintained during lots of hard playing.
The instrument will feel like butter in your hand even after 4 or 5 hours into a gig.
The Gibson Dark Fire combines two of the most popular pickups, the P90h in the neck position and a Burstbucker 3 in the bridge position. Both are capped with new carbon fiber-like pickup covers, designed to match the Dark Fire's finish. There are 6 low noise relay switches giving you more than 20 separate combination of pickup coils leading to an incredible variety of tonal possibilities.
The resulting pickup combinations are directed through optimized traditional volume and tone controls and then through a studio grade 4 band parametric equalizer/preamplifier. This awesome Chameleon Tone Technology is a pure analog signal path preserving the authenticity of instruments tone while giving unimagined tonal possibilities.
The Gibson Dark Fire gives you the ability to adjust and blend the acoustic sound from the piezo bridge pickup with the sound from the guitar's traditional pickups using a revolutionary rotary potentiometer which is part of the pickup toggle selector. Twisting the toggle head blends the piezo acoustic sound from 0% acoustic sound [100% traditional pickups] to 100% acoustic sound [no traditional pickups].
The piezo bridge pickup consists of six individual piezo pickups, one for each saddle/string, which can be brought out as individual audio channels.
The key to controlling the new functions of the Dark Fire is the Master Control Knob (MCK), which incorporates a sophisticated, full color matrix display (mini TV screen). The Dark Fire's new MCK also controls the ability to change pickups, coils, EQ settings and tunings allowing the ability to adjust all quickly and simultaneously even several times during the same song.
There are 8 tone guitar settings that cover the most popular guitar, and 18 different guitar tunings. In addition, there are 24 user defined guitar setting. All can be accessed with a quick use of the MCK.
The redesigned power head tuners on the Dark Fire are radically faster and significantly smaller, compared to the original Robot Guitar tuners. You can access any preset tuning in less than one second, so you can change tunings in the middle of a song.
The powerhead tuners are lighter than traditional tuners. The tuners can be used either by hand or automatically without the need to engage them. The battery uses new technology that results in exceptionally long life and light weight.
The Robot II comes with a small box about the size of a pack of playing cards that acts as a high quality studio preamp and a full interface to a computer using a firewire port. We call it a Robot Interface Pack [or RIP for short]. RIP can be used live, in real time.
With a headphone out, you can carry RIP in you guitar case and set up your playing environment anywhere with or without your computer. The RIP's front panel carries a single 1/4-inch stereo input for the Dark Fire, a 1/8-inch headphone out with level control and a pilot light, which changes from dim blue to bright blue when the Dark Fire input is detected.
The rear panel carries two balanced 1/4-inch line outs, a FireWire connector to link to your amplifier or sound system and a hex connector that carries the analog outputs of each string, which can drive Roland or Axon guitar-to-MIDI converters.
To make full use of your laptop or computer, Dark Fire comes with two of the most powerful and popular software packages being sold today; Native Instruments' Guitar Rig 3 (recognized as the industry's most flexible amp and effects simulation software), and Ableton Live 7 Gibson Studio Edition (a multipurpose recording environment for everything from songwriting, to demos, to full-blown productions).
Both companies have collaborated with Gibson to ensure you can install all the software wand be using it in minutes (on any contemporary Microsoft or Apple operating system) and be harnessing the enormous music-making power of these studio tools. By working with the software developers, Gibson has fined tuned the software specifically for Dark Fire and included simple and powerful templates.
The combination of Dark Fire's on board Chameleon Tone Technology and the software tools, dozens of effects and emulations puts a truckload of sound and thousands of dollars of capability in the hands of the player simply and easily.
Gibson is setting up a Dark Fire community site to allow the lucky owners of this exceptional guitar to share tips, get new information, and discuss how to best use this state of the art instrument.
One amazing capability that comes with the guitar is software that allows you to use your computer to change user presets and store them. Users can then publish their personal favorite preset designs.
Gibson Guitar is already developing a range of audio equipment designed specifically to work with the new Dark Fire, some of which is already scheduled for release in early 2009, including a small transmitter module designed to work with Bluetooth wireless technology, allowing you the ability to connect wirelessly to your computer or laptop.
The world's 1st run limited edition Gibson Dark Fire guitar will go on sale on December 15, 2008 at 400 dealers throughout the world. Each store will be limited to carrying only 5 of the sought after guitars and no guitar can be sold before 5pm on Monday, December 15, 2008. Once the guitars are sold out they will not be reproduced.
This highly collectible guitar will be available in the Dark Fire finish only. To find the list of exclusive Gibson Dark Fire guitar dealers go to www.gibson.com/darkfire.


MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – The Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce's (MBACC) nine-month leadership program, Leadership Grand Strand, is now accepting applications for Class XXXVII. The upcoming program, sponsored by the MBACC, will commence in August 2016 and run through May 2017. The purpose of Leadership Grand Strand is to develop a corps of informed, committed and qualified individuals capable of providing dynamic leadership for the Grand Strand area.
Applications, which require three letters of reference, must be typed and are due by June 30, 2016. Applications are available online at LeadershipGrandStrand.com. Tuition is $999 per person.


Are Apple Planning Laptops with Built-In Video Cameras?
MobileMag has news of what could be a move by Apple to build Laptops with Built-In Video Cameras.
This advertisment for a Hand writing expert over at Apple must be giving Apple fans who want a Tablet some hope.
'Are you passionate about providing handwriting solutions to end customers? Do you strongly believe that using a stylus and a tablet is the way to interact with computers?
So it turns out that the rumors were false, and there was no widescreen iBooks released, but they were updated, and WhatLaptop has some information on them.


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Adolf El Assal | 2019 | Egypte
The Opening Film is sold out, but we would love to invite you to dance with us after the screening (around 21.45) on our Dabke Night. Sawah will also be screened on friday, tickets still available.
Samir's (Karim Kassem) dream to take part in a prestigious DJ championship in Brussels is shattered to pieces when his flight is redirected to Luxembourg because of a major strike in Belgium. The real adventures begins when he loses all his papers and gets mistaken for a refugee. The colourful film shows DJ Skaarab's adventures and new encounters on the way to recover his identity.
Director Adolf El Assal who was born in Egypt and raised in Luxembourg, wanted to share his personal experience: "While growing up, I was part of a very multi-cultural and cosmopolitan society. I always wanted to tell a story of a protagonist who lands by mistake in Luxembourg, just as my parents did."
The film took five years to complete. With this drama comedy film, the director wants to show a different side of Luxembourg that many people do not know about.
Adolf El Assal will be present to introduce the film and answer all of your questions after the screening.
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Our friends of Dreaming of Syria will provide Dabke Music before and after the film with a dance workshop. Party guaranteed!
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I'm an award-winning Radio Producer with over 30 years of production experience making programmes for BBC radio including Radio 2, Radio 3, Radio 4, Radio 4 Extra and Radio 5 Live. My programmes range from DJ shows to quizzes, from live concerts to radio dramas, from documentary series to experimental features. I have worked as a sound recordist and mixer in TV and radio, a reporter, producer and executive producer for BBC local and network radio and was an instructor in the BBC's former Radio Training Unit.
After leaving the BBC, I founded my own independent radio production company Soundscape Productions which is now 21 years old and has made over a hundred programmes for the BBC and other broadcasters. We are continually being commissioned to produce programmes and I have also pitched student's ideas which have resulted in them being commissioned to make their documentaries for BBC Radio 4.
I joined the University as a part-time member of staff in 2002 so I could continue to produce radio programmes alongside my teaching. For the past 8 years, I have been Programme Leader on the MA Radio degree which is firmly embedded in professional practice through Spark and our links with broadcasters.
I am a board member of RIG (Radio Independents Group) the trade body that looks after the interests of independent producers and a Trustee of the Charles Parker Archive Trust. For the past eight years, I have organised the annual celebration of the radio feature – past, present and future, The Charles Parker Day, and co ordinated the annual Charles Parker Prize for the Best Student Radio Feature which is presented at the conference.
I am Programme Leader for MA Radio and teach documentary, feature and radio drama production at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
My research interests lie in the development of creative production techniques within feature and radio drama production – aspects of which are reflected in my own BBC commissions.
Rediscovering the Imagination: A Practical Exploration into Teaching Audio Drama. (2014) Audio Drama Seminar - Histories, Aesthetics, Practices, University of Copenhagen, 19-20 August 2014.
Radio is Dead: Long Live Radio (2013) Radio – The Resilient Medium Conference, University of Sunderland, London, September 11-13.
The Fight Game: the Radio Ballad fights back. (2013) Charles Parker Day, University of Salford, 22 March 2013.
Editing the Radio Ballads. (2008) Charles Parker Day, Bournemouth University, 4 April 2008.
Then-Now: turning a single minute into half an hour! (2007) Charles Parker Day, Bournemouth University, 7 April 2006.


In the following article from Consortiumnews.com, Robert Parry, who broke many of the Iran-Contra stories while working for the Associated Press, argues that American news outlets are corrupt and reform is impossible. The recent revelations about the talking-head generals is just the tip of the iceberg; our only chance to get the facts that we need to keep government in check is to find new ways to get the truth out.
After prying loose 8,000 pages of Pentagon documents, the New York Times has proven what should have been obvious years ago: the Bush administration manipulated public opinion on the Iraq War, in part, by funneling propaganda through former senior military officers who served as expert analysts on TV news shows.
In 2002-03, these military analysts were ubiquitous on TV justifying the Iraq invasion, and most have remained supportive of the war in the five years since. The Times investigation showed that the analysts were being briefed by the Pentagon on what to say and had undisclosed conflicts of interest via military contracts.
None of that, of course, should come as any surprise. Where do people think generals and admirals go to work after they retire from the government?
If they play ball with the Pentagon, they get fat salaries serving on corporate boards of military contractors, or they get rich running consultancies that trade on quick access to high-ranking administration officials. If they're not team players, they're shut out.
Yet, what may be more troubling, although perhaps no more surprising, is how willingly the U.S. news media let itself be used as a propaganda conduit for the Bush administration regarding the ill-advised invasion of Iraq.
Fox News may have been the prototype of the flag-waving "news" outlet that fawned over pro-war retired military officers and mocked anti-war citizens.
But the same imbalance could be found at the major networks, like NBC where then-anchor Tom Brokaw spoke in the first person plural as he sat among a panel of retired brass on the night of the Iraq invasion – March 19, 2003 – and said: "In a few days, we're going to own that country."
The blame also goes far beyond the TV networks, to the most prestigious print publications. The New York Times famously promoted fictional stories about Iraqi aluminum tubes for building nuclear weapons, and the Washington Post editorial page remains to this day an ardent cheerleader for the war.
So, the real question is not how widespread the ethical lapses of the U.S. news media were – both in palming off self-interested ex-generals as objective observers and for failing to demonstrate even a modicum of skepticism in publishing false articles that paved the way to war.
Rather, the urgent question is what must be done if the United States is to reclaim its status as a functioning constitutional Republic in which a reasonably honest news media keeps the public adequately informed.
Having spent most of my career on the inside at places such as the Associated Press and Newsweek, it's been my view for many years that the mainstream U.S. news media can't be reformed, that it is beyond hope.
Though there are still good journalists working at major news companies – and the better news outlets do produce some useful information, like Sunday's story in the Times – the central reality is that corporate journalism is rotten at the core and won't stop spreading the rot throughout the U.S. political process.
That's why for the past dozen-plus years at Consortiumnews.com, we have called for a major public investment in honest journalism, so information can be produced that it is both professional and independent of the kinds of external pressures that have deformed today's mainstream press.
We must find new ways to tell the news.
The scope of the problem dawned on me in the late 1980s, as I watched the widespread criminality of the Iran-Contra and related scandals – ranging from money-laundering, gun-smuggling, drug-trafficking and acts of terrorism – get swept under the rug because they implicated senior U.S. officials.
During those years, I witnessed the Washington press corps – which still basked in the glory of Watergate and the Pentagon Papers – rushing headlong toward becoming little more than a propaganda funnel for the powers-that-be.
Indeed, in 1992, my first book, Fooling America, argued that the Watergate-Vietnam-era press corps was undergoing a historic transformation into a snarky conveyor of ill-considered conventional wisdom.
The book also made the case that this transformation was not accidental, nor was it driven just by corporate greed and journalistic careerism (though there was plenty of both). There also was a powerful ideological component.
From documents that I uncovered during the Iran-Contra scandal, it was clear that the motive behind this extraordinary operation was the bitterness that conservatives felt toward the mass protests against the Vietnam War and toward American journalists whose reporting supposedly had undermined the war effort.
So, Ronald Reagan's team made it a high priority to rein in troublesome journalists and to reverse the so-called "Vietnam Syndrome," the American people's revulsion over any more foreign military adventures.
The documents revealed that the domestic operation took shape in the early 1980s under the guidance of CIA Director William Casey, who even donated one of the CIA's top propagandists, Walter Raymond Jr., to manage the program from inside President Reagan's National Security Council staff.
Other factors fed into the success of this propaganda operation, especially the rise of a bright group of political intellectuals known as the neoconservatives. They proved especially adept at using McCarthyistic tactics to marginalize and silence dissent.
The crowning achievement of this decade-long effort came during the first Persian Gulf War of 1990-91. President George H.W. Bush believed that a successful U.S.-led ground offensive could finish the job of bringing the American people back from their post-Vietnam malaise.
However, after months of devastating aerial bombings, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev had persuaded Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to withdraw his troops from Kuwait with no more killing, and Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf and other front-line U.S. commanders favored the deal.
Amid the war euphoria, some American journalists who had thought a less violent solution should have been pursued – including conservative columnist Robert Novak – offered cringing self-criticisms about their mistaken doubts.
Krauthammer, who complained that Bush should have let the killing go on, that he stopped the ground war too soon, that he should have conquered Baghdad and occupied Iraq.
In my book, Fooling America, I told the story of this decline and fall of the U.S. news media, from its glory days of Watergate to its groveling days of the early 1990s. But 16 years ago, few people wanted to hear the story – or believe it.
The common view at the time was that the Washington press corps was still the aggressive watchdog of Watergate fame and, if anything, was too "liberal." Though I had a major publisher in Morrow, the book got little circulation and was trashed by key book reviewers, including one from the Washington Post.
The thought that the heroic Washington press corps was changing into something cowardly and reckless was an idea whose time had not yet come.
In the investigation of how the Pentagon used TV military analysts to sell the Iraq War – thus allowing George W. Bush to "complete the job" left unfinished by his dad – the New York Times also traced the administration's P.R. theories back to the Vietnam War and to the early days of the Reagan era.
"Many [TV military analysts] also shared with Mr. Bush's national security team a belief that pessimistic war coverage broke the nation's will to win in Vietnam, and there was a mutual resolve not to let that happen with this war," the Times reported in the article by David Barstow.
"This was a major theme, for example, with Paul E. Vallely, a Fox News analyst from 2001 to 2007. A retired Army general who had specialized in psychological warfare, Mr. Vallely co-authored a paper in 1980 that accused American news organizations of failing to defend the nation from 'enemy' propaganda during Vietnam.
'We lost the war – not because we were outfought, but because we were out Psyoped,' he wrote. He urged a radically new approach to psychological operations in future wars – taking aim not just at foreign adversaries but at domestic audiences, too.
But the danger of "MindWar," aimed by the U.S. government at the American people, is that it turns inside-out the concept of a democratic Republic in which a well-informed people exercise meaningful control over their government.
Instead, you end up with a duplicitous government using propaganda, fear and intimidation to whip the people into line. Rather than the government being the servant of the people, the people become the servant of the government.
Then, as undemocratic regimes have shown throughout history – with the voice of the people silenced – insiders get a free hand to carry out foolhardy policies and to line the pockets of their friends.
Often they were the same TV military analysts and news media pundits who were advocating for the invasion more than five years ago. Almost everyone of them has made out like bandits, many with fat stock portfolios and posh vacation homes, not to mention appreciative CEOs back at corporate central.
The "losers" should be equally apparent. Besides the fleeced American taxpayers, there have been more than 4,000 U.S. soldiers dead, another 30,000 wounded, and hundreds of thousands of dead and maimed Iraqis.
This bloody march of folly began some three decades ago when the U.S. news media began surrendering its responsibility to keep the people informed and instead opted for the easier and more lucrative role of acting as propagandists for the powerful.
The New York Times article is just further proof of that sorry reality.
Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek. His latest book, Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush, was written with two of his sons, Sam and Nat, and can be ordered at neckdeepbook.com. His two previous books,Secrecy & Privilege: The Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq and Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & 'Project Truth' are also available there. Or go to Amazon.com.
Many images posted on this blog prior to November of 2011 are no longer displayed or available. Leaving aside blame for this snafu and not pointing fingers at whomever is ultimately responsible, I note that when this blog joined Google+ the links to the online image servers were permanently disabled.
Thus, where you had previously seen a photo or image, you may now see a black box place-holder with a ! mark. Neither Blogger nor Google have officially commented on this.
To quote Mr Natural, all I can say is, "Sheeit."


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Ronald Reagan's Memorial Day remarks still resonate
By quinersdiner | May 27, 2013
By Tom Quiner
"I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is."
When Ronald Reagan spoke on Memorial Day, you know the words flowed from his heart.
He revered those brave men and women in our armed forces who sacrificed their lives in the name of freedom. Let us revisit a few of his words as we pay homage to our fallen brothers and sisters:
MAY 25TH, 1981: Today, the United States stands as a beacon of liberty and democratic strength before the community of nations. We are resolved to stand firm against those who would destroy the freedoms we cherish. We are determined to achieve an enduring peace — a peace with liberty and with honor. This determination, this resolve, is the highest tribute we can pay to the many who have fallen in the service of our Nation.
MAY 31ST, 1982: The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives remind us that freedom is not bought cheaply. It has a cost; it imposes a burden. And just as they whom we commemorate were willing to sacrifice, so too must we — in a less final, less heroic way — be willing to give of ourselves.
MAY 31ST, 1982: Our goal is peace. We can gain that peace by strengthening our alliances, by speaking candidly about the dangers before us, by assuring potential adversaries of our seriousness, by actively pursuing every chance of honest and fruitful negotiation.
MAY 31ST, 1982: I can't claim to know the words of all the national anthems in the world, but I don't know of any other that ends with a question and a challenge as ours does: Does that flag still wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? That is what we must all ask.
MAY 26TH, 1983: I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world.
MAY 26TH, 1983: We owe this freedom of choice and action to those men and women in uniform who have served this nation and its interests in time of need. In particular, we are forever indebted to those who have given their lives that we might be free.
Two take away points from President Reagan's remarks, points still relevant today. Mr. Reagan says we need to speak candidly about the dangers before us.
Are we doing that today?
President Obama bends over backwards to avoid using the words "Islamic terrorism." He boasted he had Al Quaida on the run. It's clear we don't. His administration has dissembled on the tragic deaths of four Americans in Benghazi. It seems that politics and political correctness, rather than a candid discussion of the dangers before us, are the modus operandi of this administration.
Finally, the precious gift of freedom is fragile. The current administration has systematically set out to weaken First Amendment rights.
This Memorial Day, we honor the dead who sacrificed their lives for you and me. We can truly honor them by redoubling our efforts to restore the rights that have been siphoned away in recent years.
Posted in Politics and tagged First Amendment, Memorial Day, Ronald Reagan
oarubio on May 28, 2013 at 2:33 pm
"We are resolved to stand firm against those who would destroy the freedoms we cherish." — Mr. Obama, might I remind you that we citizens remember the words of President Reagan and that we will protect the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC.


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I use drip system irrigation in part of my garden. Not the entire garden…. yet. I keep adding more and more each year though. For a climate like ours with very little rain, a drip irrigation system is perfect. I use a black drip line pipe. But I leave out the the fiddly little adaptors and drippers.
One part of the system is a soaker hose and the other part is drip irrigation. This dual system makes the best use of their well water and grows an amazing crop month-after-month, all year long.


From the Inside Looking Out - or Hidden Tiger, Bombs and Butterflies and Vultures, all in one place!
This book is a response to a number of people who asked for my ebooks in print form.
Print books, they explained, are more friendly to read in bed. They are easier to dip into. Friends can borrow them.
I confess I delayed. I felt that the ebooks of my winter trips were too short to make a print book economical. Given the cost of production I would need to charge almost full price and I have sympathy with anyone who felt short-changed if they expected over two hundred pages and found about seventy.
But with three little ebooks - that was different.
So here it is: my winter trips all bound together in one volume.
And nothing more? No - there are no added extras in here. I have simply gathered Hidden Tiger Raging Mountain, Bombs and Butterflies and Vultures Overhead and bound them together.
You can find it on amazon.co.uk here, and on amazon.com here.


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A Night in Tuscany is the first DVD released by Italian singer Andrea Bocelli of a concert which took place at the Piazza dei Cavalieri in Pisa in 1997. The concert includes duets with soprano Nuccia Focile, Italian rock star Zucchero, and English soprano Sarah Brightman.

The concert was also Bocelli's first PBS Special, part of the In the Spotlight series, designed to promote his breakthrough album, Romanza. It also marked his debut to the American audience.

Programme
 "Introduction"
 "Setting the Stage"
 "Nessun Dorma"
 "La Donna e Mobile"
 "Lamento di Federico"
 "E Luceane le Selle"
 "Interview with Andrea"
 "O Soave Fanicullia" (duet with Nuccia Focile)
 "Brindisi" (duet with Nuccia Focile)
 "Andrea and his family"
 "Torna a Surriento"
 "Santa Lucia Luntana"
 "O Sole Mio"
 "Andrea in the studio"
 "Vivo por Ella" (duet with Martha Sanchez)
 "Con Te Patiro"
 "Romanza"
 "*E Chiove"
 "Voglio Restare Cosi"
 "Caruso"
 "Il Mare Calmo Della Serra"
 "Miserere" (duet with Zucchero)
 "Time to Say Goodbye" (duet with Sarah Brightman)
 "Closing Credits"

*Arrangiamenti orchestrali del M° Paolo Raffone

Charts

Certifications

References

1998 live albums
1998 video albums
Andrea Bocelli video albums
Live video albums


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Album Reviews, Live Shows, News Like Item
LIVE AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL by The Beatles
I can't think of a band I associate less with live performance than The Beatles. That's partly because the group was long disbanded by the time I was born in the early 1980's (thus no chance of me ever seeing them live). But for the most part, it's because The Beatles so famously turned their back on touring and became the quintessential studio band. Over the years I've heard a handful of live Beatle recordings, mostly from the LIVE AT THE BBC double-album. I remember getting my hands on that set way back in my early Beatle-years and promptly tossing it aside. It's not that the band was bad in concert, it's just that live recordings from the era in which the Beatles performed live are spotty at best. So when it was announced that LIVE AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL would be coming out in conjunction with Ron Howard's Beatle documentary THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK, I bookmarked the release date but didn't hurry to get around to listening to it until recently.
LIVE AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL documents several concerts from August of 1965, near the very end of the groups touring life. Released originally in 1977, LIVE AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL has been remastered and remixed. I was pleasantly surprised at how good these recordings sound. I would say that this album is 100% absolutely the best live recordings of The Beatles I've ever heard. That said, the performances are solid but ultimately pale comparisons of their studio counterparts. It's been argued that George Martin is the so-called fifth Beatle, these recordings help make that argument in my opinion. It's not that the band is terrible live, it's just that the songs are so damn good on the studio recordings.
I may be a bit biased, as live albums really aren't my thing. The only way a live recording can move beyond the good and into the essential is when they capture the intensity of their performance and bring something new to the table. Many songs recorded live differ from their studio versions, either because of technical limitations (no string section? no problem!) or because playing the same song over and over gets boring for bands and they do something a little different. These live embellishments separate the hacks from the great artists. A decent song can become sublime when stretched out into an intense extended jam. Guitar heroics/wankery can also take a live recording to the next level. Sadly, LIVE AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL was recorded before the 1970's, arguably the heyday of the live album. Thus, The Beatles are just performing their songs as best as they can like they appear on the albums.
What LIVE AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL is missing is between-the-songs banter. The few times Lennon announces the next song with a goofy voice is a real treat. It's a shame that there isn't more of this sort of stuff on the album because it's something the studio albums don't have. What there is plenty of, however, is screaming girls. Famously one of the reasons the band quit touring, the girls are screaming on LIVE AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL. And. They. Don't. Stop. It almost feels like a parody there's so much crowd noise on the recording. Though it never goes away, the audience never really gets in the way, either. I chalk this up to an expert remastering. Ironically, those who've listened to LIVE AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL have probably heard the concert better than those who attended the show. One of the Beatles (I think it's Lennon if I recall correctly) even asks the crowd at one point, "Can you hear us?"
Overall, LIVE AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL is a fantastic musical artifact. The album is a bubble of amber perfectly preserving a fly (or Beatle) for all time. I've listened to it all the way through three times and frankly can't imagine putting it on again. I'd much rather listen to the albums. LIVE AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL is really just for completist and band scholars (such as myself) and not an essential recording. The album has made me want to see Howard's documentary, which apparently a Hulu-exclusive (which bums me out because now I have to wrangle a Hulu account in order to see it).
Tagged Classic Rock, George Harrison, George Martin, Lennon, Live Albums, LIVE AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL, Live shows, Music, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Rock, Ron Howard, The Beatles, THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK
End of September 2016 New Song Round-Up
Well, it's officially autumn! As summer fades into the distance, a middle-aged rock nerd's thoughts turn to assembling a Best of The Year list. I haven't done one since 2012, mostly because I wasn't focused enough on music throughout the year. I've slacked off a bit this month, hence a New Song Round-Up post for September. I wish I could say I was busy doing something awesome, but the sad truth is I just couldn't get myself focused enough to sit down and write anything up. Some big albums dropped in the last two weeks and I'm determined to get at least two album reviews out before October. We'll see if that pans out (don't hold your breath).
Anyway, without further ado, here are some new songs that hit the airwaves (???) and my radar this month. I'm sure I missed something, let me know what I should have paid attention to down in the comments.
The Defending Axl Rose End of September 2016 New Song Round-Up
"I Love the USA" by Weezer: You know that Best of 2016 list I mentioned above? Weezer's latest THE WHITE ALBUM is 100% a lock for a top 5 spot. I can't believe how much I disliked it upon first listen and how much it's grown on me. Seriously, if you haven't checked it out do yourself a favor and pick it up. It's great. What's not so great is this B-side, "I Love the USA." I really don't know what to make of this track, to be honest. Apparently, this song was written to commemorate a successful NASA mission to Jupiter. You really wouldn't get that from the lyrics (at least, I didn't), but luckily Rivers Cuomo was nice enough to tweet an explanation. The song starts off as a soft piano ballad before building into a super-jingoistic guitar jam. With lyrics like "fuck yeah, this place is great/God save the King/God save the King" it's easy to see how I missed the whole NASA commemoration point. This track probably would have worked better if it was ironic (maybe a scathing indictment of how messed up the country is?). The whole thing ends with a line about a missing boy who "didn't make it." What does this have to do with the Juno probe to Jupiter? I have no idea, and frankly, I don't care. Sadly, "I Love the USA" isn't the outlier in the modern Weezer canon, but instead that new album is the odd duck out (because it's good).
Am I being too hard on Weezer? Let me know, I honestly can't tell anymore.
"Hyper Dark" by Sleigh Bells: I really, really, really, really loved that first Sleigh Bells album. I had high hopes for the band but three albums in, I'm starting to lose faith. Modern bands that explode onto the scene seem to have a dismal track record for sticking around. It's not that these bands aren't talented, I think the issue is that labels don't let bands percolate long enough. Then again, The Beatles cranked out hit after hit at a breakneck pace. Maybe the problem is that most of these bands are really only capable of one good album? That's exactly one great album more than I have inside of me, so forgive me if that seems judgmental.
Anyway, this new track from Sleigh Bells, "Hyper Dark" is ushering in a fourth album JESSICA RABBIT (which comes out in November). The song starts off a bit boring but rebounds into something almost interesting. It's missing the brash brutality of TREATS, instead favoring an 80's-ish dream pop quality. I wish the guitars were a tad louder, like on the band's other new track "It's Just Us Now." That track had the bombast that made Sleigh Bells famous and got me excited about this new album. If JESSICA RABBIT strikes an equal balance between loud/fun Sleigh Bells and the quieter, more experimental stuff (like "Hyper Dark") then this might be the follow-up album I've been waiting for.
"Waste A Moment" by Kings of Leon: If you'd gone back in time and told me how lame Kings of Leon were going to become when I first heard "Red Morning Light" back in 2003, I would have laughed in your face. YOUTH AND YOUNG MANHOOD is a stone-cold classic, a truly fantastic southern fried garage rock album. "Waste A Moment" is bland vanilla pudding. I'm not sure what about this song's production is sapping it of all of its visceral energy, but this song could possibly put me to sleep. There's no passion, no urgency to this song. I think the last Kings of Leon album I gave a fuck about was 2007's BECAUSE OF THE TIMES. What happened to this band? They lost their balls and got dump trucks full of money. I don't begrudge them from making a living, and hell yes I'm super jealous they have millions of 50-year-old women swooning at their shows now, but where is the band that wrote a song about Molly's…ahem…chamber? The band has a new album, WALLS, coming out soon but just like the last two records, I'll be sitting WALLS out. The only reason I even wrote about this track is because I wanted to mention how fucking great YOUTH AND YOUNG MANHOOD is. It's great. Go listen to that, skip this song.
"Perfect Illusion" by Lady Gaga: I bet you think I'm going to trash this song, but I actually really dig it. When I saw that Lady Gaga had a new single out I decided to give it a listen mainly out of curiosity. Okay, I'll admit…I wanted to see just how bad it was. I really like THE FAME and thought that Gaga was going to be my generation's Madonna or whatever…instead she kinda became a disappointment/one trick pony whose only real talent was shocking little old ladies with meat dresses. To my surprise, Lady Gaga decided to channel Bruce Springsteen (and 90's R&B)! While it's a typical our-love-was-a-lie song, there's passion in the vocals. I honestly wouldn't have known this was a Lady Gaga song had I not known it was her. I guess I'll have to give the new album a listen (barring any sort of freaky ass album art).
"Revolution Radio" by Green Day: You know, I think I was too harsh on Green Day last month when they released their song "Bang Bang." I don't think that "Revolution Radio" is the best Green Day song of the last 10 years, but it certainly isn't terrible. And compared to "Bang Bang" it's a 10/10 masterpiece. Sure, the cherry bombs and snarling is a bit cliche (and silly coming from dudes this old), this track sounds like Green Day. Not my little sister's Green Day, but the version of the band that I remember listening to in the late 1990's. The opening reminds me of the theme song for the old Colbert Show, but that's my problem (not the song's fault). "Revolution Radio" sticks with the protest themes we've come to expect from latter-day Green Day ("legalize the truth," seriously guys?), but I can't help but wonder what a snarling party anthem from old-ass Green Day would sound like. I wouldn't mind if the band stopped being so serious and got a little fun. A little fun never hurt anyone guys.
So that's it for the new songs of September! There was a new Beach Slang single released, but the album came out today and I decided to just do a write-up of that rather than feature the track here. Like I said above, I'm sure I missed something so please tell me below!
Tagged "Hyper Dark", "I Love the USA", "Molly's Chambers" Rules, "Perfect Illusion", "Revolution Radio", "Waste A Moment", Green Day, Kings of Leon, Kings of Leon Sucks, Lady Gaga, Sleigh Bells, THE WHITE ALBUM (Weezer), Weezer, Weezer Went to Jupiter To Get More Stupider, YOUTH AND YOUNG MANHOOD
Songs & Singles, Videos
Check Out This Video For "Approximately 900 Miles" by Harrison Fjord
Arizona musicians Harrison Fjord have a couple of really great things going for them. For starters, they have one of the best pun band names this side of Ringo Deathstarr. Secondly, they make awesomely atmospheric music that falls somewhere between jazz and psychedelic rock. The band sounds like a mellow, laid back Pink Floyd. I ran across them because they gained a bit of Internet fame thanks to a super-cool music video for their track "Approximately 900 Miles." The song is a cornerstone of their most recent EP, PUSPA IN SPACE.
The band apparently shot the video high up on the Mogollon Rim, bringing a generator to power their gear. I really dig the song and respect the hell out of them for putting out such a cool, creative video in this day and age (aren't music videos all but dead?). If you enjoy indie rock that's a bit quiet and a whole lot spacey, give Harrison Fjord a listen.
And even if you aren't interested in jazzy-psych-rock from Arizona, check out this rad music video:
They don't make 'em like they used to…
Tagged "Approximately 900 Miles", Arizona, Harrison Fjord, Indie Rock, Jazz-Rock, Mogollon Rim, Pink Floyd, Psychedelia


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JAIIB PPB Unit 10 - Credit Information Companies, Fair Practices Code for Debt Collection, BCSBI
JAIIB PPB Unit 10 - Credit Information Companies, Fair Practices Code for Debt Collection, BCSBI (Year: 2019)
1. CIBIL is a composite credit bureau which contains the credit history of both commercial and consumer borrowers.
2. CIBIL provides credit history of borrowers to its members in the form of credit information reports (CIRs) to assist them in their loan appraisal process.
3. In the matter of recovery of dues, banks / NBFCs may ensure that they, as also their agents, adhere to the extant instructions on Fair Practice Code for lenders as also IBA's Code for Collection of dues and repossession of security. In case banks / NBFCs have their own code for collection of dues it should, at the minimum, incorporate all the terms of IBA's Code.
4. In particular, in regard to appointment of third party agencies for debt collection, it is essential that such agents refrain from action that could damage the integrity and reputation of the bank / NBFC and that they observe strict customer confidentiality.
5. All letters issued by recovery agents must contain the name and address of a responsible senior officer of the card issuing bank whom the customer can contact at his location.
6. Banks / NBFCs / their agents should not resort to intimidation or harassment of any kind, either verbal or physical, against any person in their debt collection efforts, including acts intended to humiliate publicly or intrude the privacy of the credit card holders' family members, referees and friends, making threatening and anonymous calls or making false and misleading representations.
7. The Banking Codes and Standards Board of India (BCSBI) was set up on 18th February 2006 as a collaborative effort of RBI and Banks, on the lines of a similar set up in UK to oversee the "Banking Code", a voluntary Code, evolved by the British Bankers Association (BBA), which is adopted by all banks in UK.
8. The proposal for setting up the BCSBI was based on the recommendation made by the Committee on Procedures and Performance Audit on Public Services (Tarapore Committee).
9. It provides valuable protection for customers on a day-to-day basis as also in the times of financial difficulty.
10. The code applies to savings deposits and current accounts, card products and services, loans and overdrafts and payment services including foreign exchange.
11. Member banks of BCSBI would put in place the following grievance redressal mechanism in their banks:
Have a Help desk / Helpline at the branch
Have a Code Compliance Officer at each Controlling office above the level of the branch
Display at each branch name and contact number of Code Compliance Officer
Display Name and address of the Banking Ombudsman.


This work simulates a market influenced by Mafia. The white agents are the storeowners; the black are the mafious and the blue represents the police ones. The patch is a simplification of the market, where the storeowners can obtain profits or not. When a mafious finds a storeowner, he tries to get money from this. When the police find a mafious, this one must pay a bribe for the police to don't be arrested. This simulation intends to find a way in wich the power of Mafia can be erased by social norms and new values in a community.
The endowment-rate slider goes from 0 to 100, and intends to simulate the market context, where 0 is an optimist prediction to the market, in wich is easy to get profits, and 100 represents a market in crisis, where is difficult to get money. This simplification is usefull to understand what happens in a market controlled by Mafia in different economic contexts.
The storeowners-thrust-in-govs-ability-to-fight-mafia slider represent the social norms included in the model; it means that the more a population believe in their government, the more it can refuse to pay mafious and live under a parallel power.
The police-power slider represent the government intervention by itself and goes from -10 to 10. In the case that the government is engaged in help the people, the slider get positive non-null values, and the police fight against Mafia. Otherwise, the police can be corrupted and act with Mafia to increase its power in the market.
The Black Wealth graph shows the monetary power of Mafia in the market during the interactions.
The Money Flow graph represents the flow of money of each agent in the model: the Mafia money, the storeowners' profits and the police's bribes.
When the storeowners pay the mafious, they lost a part of their profits, but they get the advantadge of new profits patches growing around them. When they don't pay the mafious, they lost a part of the profits, and during one tick of interaction the green patch of profits don't grow arond them. This intends to represent the motivation in wich a storeowner pays a mafious, to get advantages in the market. When a storeowner have sufficient profit, it 'reproduces', what means that new people join in the market.
The new generations are born with a endogenous probability of refusal to pay the mafious, linked in the belief that the government protection is effective.
The model way of use is simple, with easy commands in the interface.
The user will see that in a corrupted market, initially the mafia's money increase quickly, but starts to decrease by the exit of storeowners from the market (death of the turtle by loosing profits till less than 0). It means that the effect of Mafia in a market is potentially nocive, in the way that does not spur the join of new agents in this althought the advantage of preferential profits, what suggests that a market cannot develope under this kind of control.
Trying to change the signal of the police-power slider and the intensity of the storeowners-thrust-in-govs-ability-to-fight-mafia slider can show the impact of social norms in a population, and represent the importance of the joint work of government, social norms and shifts of values to fight against a parallel power.
Maybe introducing concurrence and cooperation among the storeowners could let the maket less simple and more real.
The model was constructed with simple commands, but as concatenated in a non-trivial way to represent market interactions, that can be considered relatively complex.
Wolf and Sheep Predation model; Artificial Neural Net model.
Università degli Studi di Torino. 2013.


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But Tuesday night, rumors began to swirl that Lance Armstrong, as part of his comeback to competitive cycling, would race at Cross Vegas. Having resigned myself to not racing and then feeling crummy, I suddenly decided that I had to try and race, if for no other reason than riding on the same course a couple of hours before Armstrong, not to mention a field of the best cross racers in the US. After I decided to do the race, my wife Kristen said to me, "You're smiling now," which made me realize it was the right call.
That's how I found myself in a field of 100 cycling industry folks on Wednesday night, sweat rolling down my back after my warmup laps in 90 degree heat, getting ready to ride a cross race in front of 2,000 or so spectators. (By the time the elite race started, there were nearly 10,000 fans there).
The thing about cycling is that many companies end up employing ex-pro racers. So, for instance, Mark McCormack was riding the industry race. He's a former national professional champion in road racing, and a former US cyclocross champ. In 2007, he finished 15th in the elite race at Cross Vegas.
I'm not fit to carry McCormack's cycling cleats, let alone to race against him. But there we were starting the same race. Also there were a masters national champ, and sundry other racers who could hang with the elite field.
At the gun, we immediately stretched into a long line blanketing much of the 3-kilometer grass course. There weren't a lot of technical spots on the course, but the grass was long and soft, like riding on plush carpet. It took a ton of power just to keep your speed up, as the grass would just grab your wheels and slow you down instantly.
My heart rate was immediately pegged. The race sorted itself into three or four groups, with the studs way out front, a solid group of very good racers next, and then 20 or 30 of us who were competent, if not super strong. The three laps passed in a blur of labored breathing and tightly-focused concentration – I never even noticed my ribs.
The bike performed well, especially after a last second tire switch thanks to Andrew from the very excellent Cyclocross Magazine, who gave me a much slicker rear tire to help me get through the grass with less drag.
Near the end of the last lap, I started to get to that weird spot where I started to feel better and stronger, even as my effort increased, which tells me, once again, that I could have done with a harder warm-up. I started passing some riders, and even outsprinted a couple at the line, which felt good. Given another lap, I think I could have moved up more.
McCormack won. I finished in the middle-back of the race, and felt good about it. Next up, a race against some folks more my speed, I hope, and I'm planning on making use of the knowledge I gained not only by racing way above my head, but by watching the amazing elite racers.