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Q: PHP Math fail (hexadecimal) Im trying to do a php multiplication of two 32bit long hexadecimal valuey with PHP and it seems it is messing up this calculation, the same happens if i multiplicate it as decimal value.
The calculation is as example:
0xB5365D09 * 0xDEBC252C
Converting to decimal before with hexdec doesnt change anything.
The expected result should be 0x9DAA52EA21664A8C but PHPs result is  0x9DAA52EA21664800
Example:
<?php
$res = 0xB5365D09 * 0xDEBC252C;
echo dechex(intval($res));
?>

What i am doing wrong here?
PHP8.2 running on debian, 64bit AMD.

A: So, for others to find the answer:
Someone stated in the comments to my question, that the result is above the PHP_MAX_INT limit. So when PHP handle it as a FLOAT, there will be some precision of the result lost. I got it to work using bcmath. In my case, i didnt do math with the result any further so i grabbed some piece of code from here, and made a simple function which does what i need. Here you can see a minimum-example:
function bcmul_hex($h1, $h2) {
    $dec = bcmul($h1, $h2);
    $hex = '';
    do {
        $last = bcmod($dec, 16);
        $hex = dechex($last).$hex;
        $dec = bcdiv(bcsub($dec, $last), 16);
    } while($dec>0);
    return $hex;
}

echo bcmul_hex(0xB5365D09, 0xDEBC252C);

Here is a live example.

A: If you're trying to perform a mathematical operation on a hexadecimal value in PHP, you can use the hexdec function to convert the hexadecimal value to a decimal value, perform the operation, and then use the dechex function to convert the result back to a hexadecimal value.
Here's an example:
   <?php

$hex1 = "B5365D09";
$hex2 = "DEBC252C";

// Convert hexadecimal values to decimal
$dec1 = hexdec($hex1);
$dec2 = hexdec($hex2);

// Perform multiplication operation
$result = $dec1 * $dec2;

// Convert result back to hexadecimal
$hex_result = dechex($result);

// Print result
echo "Result: $hex_result\n";

This code will output the result of the multiplication as a hexadecimal value.

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Recently, I met a friend of mine at a local restaurant. We met early around 4:30 in the afternoon to just get together have an appetizer and get caught up on our lives.
A little before 6:00 the waiter kept pacing back and forth with a scowl on his face…he was visually upset and giving us dirty looks. I asked him if there was anything wrong and he said "How long are you two gonna be here?" It dawned on me that he wanted to turn over the table…we obviously weren't spending that much money and he was irritated.
So we immediately paid the bill and left. I've been stewing over this situation for days. I hate complaining about anything but this guy was not only rude but he was scary…I will never go back to this restaurant.
Do you think I should call the owner or manager and let them know how we were treated?
I definitely think you should call the owner or manager of the restaurant. The waiter should have never made you feel uncomfortable. That is unacceptable. I do understand that waiters and waitresses work mostly for tips and they want to turn the tables over as quickly as they can to make money but giving you dirty looks and saying "how long are you gonna be here" is clearly out of line.
I'm sure the manager would want to know about your unpleasant dining experience. This is probably the kind of employee he would not want representing his restaurant so he has every right to be informed.
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There are currently nine universities in Wales which have the authority to award academic degrees. Welsh universities have the power to award degrees at all levels: undergraduate, Education in Wales is controlled by the Welsh Government under the terms of the Government of Wales Act 2006. The minister responsible for higher education is the Minister for Education & Skills, currently Huw Lewis AM of the Labour Party. University status in Wales and throughout the United Kingdom today is conferred by the Privy Council which takes advice from the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education.[1][2]
In the 2013-14 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, three Welsh universities are among the top 400 worldwide: Cardiff University (at 201 - 225), Aberystwyth University (at 301 - 350), and Bangor University (at 301 - 350). [3] The 2013 Academic Ranking of World Universities only ranks one Welsh university amongst its top 400 - Cardiff University at 101 - 150. [4]
All Welsh universities are public universities and funded by the Welsh Government (through its Higher Education Funding Council for Wales) and financial support is provided for Welsh-domiciled students by the Student Finance Wales. Students ordinarily resident in Wales or the European Union do not pay tuition fees for their first undergraduate degree, but tuition fees are charged for those from the rest of the United Kingdom. All students are required to pay tuition fees for postgraduate education (e.g. MSc, PhD), except in certain priority areas funded by the Welsh Government, or if another source of funding can be found (e.g. research council studentship for a PhD).
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Welsh Name
Students Attending
Endowment (£'000)
University of South Wales Prifysgol De Cymru 100px 2013 Cardiff, Newport and Rhondda Cynon Taff 33,584[5] 1,399 [6] Formed by the merger of University of Wales, Newport (1841) and Glamorgan University (1913) in 2013
Cardiff University Prifysgol Caerdydd 100px 1883 Cardiff 30,010 27,470[7] Founded as the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire and merged in 1988 with the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology, and with University of Wales College of Medicine in 2004
Swansea University Prifysgol Abertawe 100px 1920 Swansea 18,935 8,571[8] Founded as the University College, Swansea
Bangor University Prifysgol Bangor 100px 1884 Gwynedd 17,745 6,099 [9] Founded as the University College of North Wales
Aberystwyth University Prifysgol Aberystwyth 100px 1872 Ceredigion 13,735 41,662 [10] Founded as the University College Wales
Cardiff Metropolitan University Prifysgol Fetropolitan Caerdydd 100px 1865 Cardiff 11,170 - [11] Formed as Cardiff Metropolitan University in 2011. Founded as the South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education in 1976. Founded as the Cardiff School of Art & Design in 1865.
University of Wales, Trinity Saint David Prifysgol Cymru, Y Drindod Dewi Sant 100px 1822 Cardiff, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, London and Swansea 14,535 8,349 [12][13] Formed in 2010 by the merger of University of Wales, Lampeter (1822), Trinity University College (1848) and Swansea Metropolitan University (1992)
Glyndŵr University Prifysgol Glyndŵr 100px 1887 Wrexham 7,730 18[14] Founded in as the Wrexham School of Science and Art
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama Coleg Brenhinol Cerdd a Drama Cymru 100px 1949 Cardiff 660 1,046 [15] Founded as the Cardiff College of Music
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University of Wales, Trinity St. David attendance data comprises combined students of UoW, Lampeter, Trinity University College, and Swansea Metropolitan.
University of South Wales attendance data compromises combined students of Glamorgan and UoW Newport.
^ "The Privy Council, Standard Note: SN/PC/3708" (PDF). The Privy Council. 5 July 2005. pp. 5–6. Retrieved 2014-05-05.
^ "A brief guide to QAA's involvement in degree-awarding powers and university title". Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education. Retrieved 2010-07-06.
^ http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2013-14/world-ranking/region/europe
^ http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings-2013/UK.html
^ "Table 0a - All students by institution, mode of study, level of study, gender and domicile 2008/2009" (MICROSOFT EXCEL SPREADSHEET). Higher Education Statistics Agency. Retrieved 2010-11-24.
^ "Financial Statements for the Year to 31 July 2013" (PDF). University of South Wales. p. 21. Retrieved 2014-02-18.
^ "Financial Statements for the Year to 31 July 2013" (PDF). Cardiff University. p. 14. Retrieved 2014-02-18.
^ "Financial Statements for the Year to 31 July 2013" (PDF). Swansea University. p. 33. Retrieved 2014-05-05.
^ "Financial Statements for the Year to 31 July 2013" (PDF). Bangor University. p. 17. Retrieved 2014-05-05.
^ "Financial Statements for the Year to 31 July 2013" (PDF). Aberystwyth University. p. 23. Retrieved 2014-05-05.
^ "Financial Statements for the Year to 31 July 2013" (PDF). Cardiff Metropolitan University. p. 20. Retrieved 2014-05-05.
^ "Financial Statements for the Year to 31 July 2013" (PDF). University of Wales, Trinity Saint David. p. 20. Retrieved 2014-05-05.
^ "Financial Statements for the Year to 31 July 2013" (PDF). Swansea Metropolitan University. Retrieved 2014-05-05.
^ "Financial Statements for the Year to 31 July 2013" (PDF). Glyndŵr University. p. 26. Retrieved 2014-05-05.
^ "Financial Statements for the Year to 31 July 2013" (PDF). Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama Limited. p. 26. Retrieved 2014-05-05.
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The complete answer to the tumbling and/or mixing need for whole meat products such as poultry, ham stop- and silversides, pork loins, minced products of meat, fish, vegetables, salads etc. The range and versatility is nearly unlimited.
GBT 300 works with standards skips/trolleys and manages 200 kg of product each work cycle, vacuum grade up to ca 50 percent. (For higher grade of vacuum reinforced trolleys can be used.) Note that the whole space nearly 200 l above the skip together with the skip volume 200 l are the tumbling/mixing volume for the products. That means that the skip can be loaded to its maximum, 200 kg. A very important fact! When 200 kg per work cycle is stated we refer to hams/red meat.
Product with less specific weights may need more space.
On the digital display you can easily program start time, vacuum on and off and interval running. When time is out, the tumbler with trolley stops in exact position. One press on the button for "down" and the trolley goes down and can be pulled out. GBT 300 is ready to be reloaded.
GBT 300 is very easy to hold in a high hygienic standard and has very moderate requirements on maintenance. Hints: Tumbling hams 600 – 800 kg per day Spicing chicken parts then only a couple minutes is needed, which gives a capacity of 2000 kg per hour.


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The combination use of Cyramza (ramucirumab) plus docetaxel showed improvements in objective response rate (ORR) and a positive trend in overall survival (OS) among patients with advanced bladder cancer, according to additional results from the phase 3 RANGE trial.
BY Brielle Urciuoli
OS did not reach statistical significance; however, Lilly, the drug's manufacturer, previously announced that the trial met its primary endpoint of investigator-assessed progression-free survival (PFS).
Of note, the RANGE study is currently the only one to demonstrate superior PFS compared to chemotherapy in a post-platinum chemotherapy setting in this patient population, and it is the first to show the benefit of targeting angiogenesis in bladder cancer, according to a Lilly press release.
The trial examined the efficacy of the combination in patients with locally advanced or unresectable metastatic bladder cancer who progressed on a platinum-based chemotherapy. The researchers randomized 530 participants to receive either Cyramza plus docetaxel or placebo plus docetaxel.
Most patients had poor prognoses, with 61 percent having two or more adverse prognostic risk factors at baseline, meaning that patients had a condition or health situation that made them more susceptible to cancer recurrence.
Although OS did not meet statistical significance, patients on the trial still experienced benefit from the combination. In fact, there was a 1.3-month improvement in OS and the ORR nearly doubled (24.5 percent vs. 14 percent) compared with placebo.
After a year on the trial, 11.9 percent of patients on the combination regimen were without progression, compared to 4.5 percent for those on docetaxel alone. Even better, complete response rates were three times that of the placebo group (4.2 percent vs. 1.4 percent).
Side effects for each arm of the clinical trial were not drastically different, with 16 percent on the combination regimen experiencing anemia compared with 24 percent on docetaxel alone. That included grade 3 or higher anemia (3 percent and 11 percent, respectively), as well.
The most common reason why patients on the trial stopped treatment was disease progression. This happened in 209 patients in the Cyramza/docetaxel arm and 229 patients in the placebo arm.
"People with advanced urothelial carcinoma who experience disease progression urgently need treatment options that can control the disease – to help stop or slow the cancer from growing and spreading," said Levi Garraway, M.D., Ph.D., senior vice president of global development and medical affairs at Lilly Oncology, said in the release.
"Although this study didn't reach statistical significance for overall survival, we are encouraged by the totality of the RANGE results and look forward to reviewing the data with internal and external experts to determine next steps."
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Tormead School
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Head: Mrs Christina Foord
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An independent school for girls aged from 4 to 18.
Boarding: No
Local authority: Surrey
Pupils: 730; sixth formers: 84
Religion: Christian Inter-denominational
Fees: £8,385 - £15,915 pa
Open days: September and October
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What The Good Schools Guide says..
One of the high fliers in Surrey (and way beyond). Pupils do not feel unduly under pressure academically ('not as pushy as other schools,' said a parent), and any worries about exams are sensitively handled by the school. Less confident girls benefit from the caring and positive ethos; girls leave the school with self-confidence, good social skills and a dash of worldliness. The sixth formers have their own department (revered and envied by the younger girls), no uniform, and recently refurbished lair complete with…
What the school says...
Tormead is one of the country's leading independent girls schools located in Guildford, Surrey. We are very proud of our school and its ethos of encouraging each individual pupil to develop her talents to the full in a happy, caring and supportive environment. Our academic expectations are high, and we value our students' impressive record of examination successes and university places. ...Read more
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Since 2010, Christina Foord BA MPhil PGCE (40s), previously deputy head and head of boarding at St Catherine's, Bramley. Prior to this she taught English and history in a number of schools including The Queen's School, Chester. She takes a keen interest in music and sport of all sorts and is eager to provide her girls with opportunities to showcase their talents. Known throughout the school as being 'up for a challenge', she recently abseiled down the tower of Guildford Cathedral in aid of charity. Married, with two senior-school aged children and two dogs. Staff remark in admiration that she's ready to get 'stuck in' and when the new climbing wall was inaugurated, she was one of the first to scale it.
Academic matters
One of the high flyers in Surrey (and way beyond). Excellent academic results across a wide range of subjects – 2018 GCSE results were 79 per cent at A*-A/9-7; A level results 83 per cent A*-B and 58 per cent A*/A. 'Does really well even by less academic students,' said a parent. Plenty of scope for choice in languages at GCSE and A levels including Spanish, German and Greek.
Ten GCSEs is the norm. Refreshing to see that risk-talking is also encouraged – pupils who are keen to pursue a subject which may not be their academic forte are still encouraged to follow their dreams. No undue academic pressure ('not as pushy as other schools,' said a parent), and any worries about exams are sensitively handled by the school. Pupils are marked for effort as well as attainment, so the less academic still get plenty of credit for trying hard and 'you feel on top of how your daughter is really doing,' said a parent. Has 'embraced digital technology' with every teacher Apple qualified.
In the pre-prep, literacy and numeracy are taught in the mornings, when the little ones are fresh. Core English, maths, science and ICT, plus French from year 2 and Latin from year 5. Girls are gradually prepped for the entrance exam to the senior school, although everyone is keen to stress the lack of pressure – pupils included.
Much focus on thinking skills, learning attitudes, and encouraging the girls to take risks, both academically and physically, in the junior school. Ethos geared toward helping them to have confidence in their work and in their lives. Much effort to create a culture of thinking outside the box, exemplified in the Out of the Box Project in which pupils invent a 360 degree art project or answer questions such as 'what's inside Paddington bear's suitcase?' or 'what's Leonardo's next invention?
SEN provision recently upgraded from peripatetic support to a full-blown department, including a full-time member of staff in the junior school, offering not only dyslexia support but also study skills, maths clinics and acknowledgement of different learning styles. 'Brilliant,' say pupils, 'Extremely good at helping you out,' and no stigma here for anyone having extra help. Personal attention pays off. Pupils with dyslexia credit their teachers with helping them flourish – dyslexic pupils have achieved A*s and served as head girl.
Games, options, the arts
A school known for its gymnasts ('we're hot on gymnastics here,' said one pupil, proudly); specialist gymnasts' training hall with sprung floor. All sport is played keenly and to a high standard – including hockey, netball, rounders, swimming and tennis. New system of 'development squads' for the keen but less naturally able. Increased number of fixtures for the B and C teams after parental complaints that the A teams were stealing the show. From pre-prep upwards, games and gymnastics weekly with specialist teachers, with swimming added in year 3.
It's a small campus, but on-site facilities are supplemented by use of formidable local ones, such as the Surrey Sports Park at the University of Surrey – the school has an agreement that lets the hockey team use it as their home pitch, allowing the introduction of junior hockey; other sports include spinning, zumba, a climbing wall and squash. Tennis is on two on-site all-weather courts. Sporting success at county level and nationally, especially in swimming, gymnastics, biathlon and sports acrobatics.
Music mandatory until year 9, enthusiastic participation afterwards. Some 275 individual music lessons a week, plus two senior school orchestras, a jazz band (which tours Europe biennially), numerous ensembles and choirs. A programme of events throughout the year, including lunch time concerts and the inter-house music competition in which every girl takes part. The performing arts centre provides a modern and vibrant venue, with a proscenium stage and professional lighting and sound. LAMDA speech and drama awards are popular. Art is exceptionally strong here – wonderful examples are on display around the school and new art suite recently opened.
Much buzz around other extracurriculars, including additional sporting, language, film, art and craft activities, plus fencing, movie club, cake decorating, origami and debating (another school success story). Students regularly achieve recognition in DofE Award (multiple gold awards achieved each year), the Wings of Hope Achievement Awards, and others. School is one of only a handful nationally to have been awarded Star status by the British Schools Exploring Society. Past sixth form destinations have included Vietnam and Zambia, with plans for Ecuador and Galapagos and a partnership in Nepal.
Background and atmosphere
Founded in 1905, the school has made do in the past with a hodge-podge of classrooms and Hogwarts-style corridors tacked onto the original Victorian building ('Frankenstein's building,' quips Foord), but ambitious modernisation and expansion has seen, inter alia, numerous and well-equipped science labs (sciences very strong here), plus a dedicated sixth form physics room with a white board, computers, etc. An impressive art department and design and technology room. The library is new with sixth form area and resources accessible from home. Increasing uptake of the early morning breakfast club, which starts at 7:50am. IT provision good, with plenty of computers and internet connections.
The sixth formers have their own department (revered and envied by the younger girls), no uniform, and recently refurbished lair complete with kitchen facilities, groovy furniture and a clock designed by the DT teacher. Sixth form girls love their freedom and compliment the school on letting them organise charity events, discos, etc themselves. They are visibly proud of their achievements in maths and science and comment on how much extra time teachers spend to help students understand the material. Popular socials with local boys' schools – RGS, Lanesborough, Cranmore.
Nursery-aged girls have their own little domain, bursting with age-appropriate playthings and charming examples of artwork. They also have a dedicated playground apart from the hustle-bustle of the older children. Older pupils are encouraged to spend time with the younger ones, and they do, creating a nice atmosphere of community between the nursery and the rest of the school. Classrooms for the older junior pupils boast small library collections and projects cover the walls, into the stairwells and beyond. Art rooms and computer labs well kitted out and obviously well-used. Art lovingly displayed about the premises. Absolute discipline on the playground (the whistle blew and the children literally stopped in their tracks). World maps prominently displayed and highlighting a different country each week; geography a big part of the culture.
Pastoral care, well-being and discipline
Various problem-solving options start with the form tutor and a trained counsellor is on hand. System of 'aunts' whereby every new girl has another girl assigned to her to help through the first few weeks. Full-time staff member for university counselling and professional development, keen to refocus pupils not only on university entrance but also 'what they will be like when they're 35 and beyond.' 'Oxbridge teas' to link past and present pupils, higher education evening for lower sixth, even support for SAT tests for those pupils considering university in the US.
Pastoral care programme unanimously praised by parents as superb, for some the deciding factor in choosing the school. 'My daughter comes off the bus happy all the time. Nothing seems to overwhelm her,' said one parent. Another noted, 'Mine doesn't compare herself to others, but she used to in her old school. Academics used to be very hard, now she just takes it in her stride.' Less confident girls benefit from the caring and positive ethos; girls leave the school with self-confidence, good social skills and a dash of worldliness. 'Good at taking the timid and shy and making them blossom,' said a junior school parent. In addition to emphasising girls' independence and strengths, the junior school has a very proactive policy on creating a positive atmosphere and combating bullying in any form. It works this magic by focusing on the small things, whether it's a pencil case or an unkind comment, because for girls of this age, 'that's their reality'.
Parents 'have no hesitation' in getting in touch with the school. Any issues are dealt with promptly. PSHE lessons start in the junior school and extend, by the time they reach the sixth form, to discussions about substance abuse, personal safety, relationships and childcare. Assembly an important beginning to the school day, emphasis on care, respect and highlighting the six 'core values' of the school, which cover topics such as respect, academic excellence, a varied curriculum, and bringing out the best in the girls in preparation for life beyond school. Tough line on all transgressions – drugs possession a cause for instant expulsion, similar stance on persistent smoking or misbehaviour. Both pupils and parents say bullying is confronted openly and with great success.
Pupils and parents
Pupils are bubbly and enthusiastic, self-confident and friendly. They appreciate their all-girl campus ('You can come to school ugly!') and have a strong sense of their good fortune in being there. Neatly dressed in blue blazers, no ties but occasional personalised uniform in evidence. Happy chatter in the hallways between classes.
Parents' association has a co-chair for the junior school and the senior school. Parents mostly English or foreign nationals raised in the area, with a mixture of backgrounds – old girls, professionals, London-bound commuters, first-time buyers. Excellent bus service extends all the way to Esher and Haslemere (and beyond). Old girls include comedian Sandy Toksvig and Claudia Parsons, the first woman to circumnavigate the world by car.
Junior school selective at 4 (by a 'party' where girls are observed by staff members) and at 7 by maths, English and reasoning tests.
Senior school entrance exam at 11, with pupils selected for academic potential (reasoning, maths and English), extracurricular interests and current school reference. No interview. Some 25 to 30 per cent from state schools. Sixth form entrance requirements include eight GCSEs, 9-5, with at least five at grade 7 or above.
The vast majority of the junior girls sit the entrance exam for the senior school and 85 per cent go on there, many with scholarships (including seven to the Elite Athletes programme in 2018). About sixty per cent stay on to sixth form. Three medics in 2018; Nottingham, Birmingham, Kings College London and Newcastle popular destinations.
Parents remark on the 'good value' represented by the school. At 11+, academic, music, sport and art scholarships, worth 10 per cent of tuition fees. For sixth form, academic, music, and art scholarships, plus internal sport scholarships are available. Full bursaries available at 11+ and 16+ on a case-by-case basis.
A nurturing, buzzy school with a tradition of high academic standards that is not content to rest on its laurels. New facilities bringing it in line with its aspirations. Opportunities for pupils to find their niche, whether in art, sport, drama or music, while still encouraging experimentation and maintaining an all-round approach.
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Tormead is academically selective and its students do very well in public examinations, but the school is particularly proud of the achievements of its dyslexic students, many of whom achieve high examination honours. Two such former students recently obtained Oxbridge firsts. Dyslexic students in both Junior and Senior school are taught in mainstream timetabled lessons, but are also supported by a team of specialist SEN teachers who meet them for weekly sessions. There is some flexibility in offering tailored programmes for students with other special needs such as moderate auditory or visual impairment, diabetes, epilepsy and cystic fibrosis.
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damage to habitats for stream life.
Waikato Regional Council calculates stock density in the seven major water catchment zones in the Waikato region. This helps us determine how stock pressure is affecting water quality in different parts of the region. For example, river water quality monitoring shows that water quality for ecological health is poorer in the Hauraki, Waipa, Lower Waikato and Middle Waikato water catchment zones, where stock density is highest.
technological advances lead to more intensive farming systems.
Waikato Regional Council monitors stock density to find out where livestock farming is likely to have the most effect on soil and water quality in the region. We recognise that the level of effects on the environment will also depend on local soil type, farm management systems and proximity to sensitive ecosystems. The stock density indicator helps us to target education and policy responses to protect soil and water quality in the areas where livestock farming is most intensive.
The highest stocking densities are in the Hauraki, Waipa, Lower Waikato and Middle Waikato water catchment zones. River water quality monitoring shows that water quality for ecological health(external link) is poorer in these zones than it is in the less developed parts of the Region.
In these zones, approximately 25 percent of farms are in the highest stock density class (greater than 24.5 stock units/ha or 3.5 cows/ha, most likely to be highly intensive dairy farms).
The lowest stock densities are in the Lake Taupo, Upper Waikato, West Coast and Coromandel water catchment zones. Water quality for ecological health is better in these zones than in more intensively developed parts of the Region.
In these zones, approximately 44 percent of farms are in the lowest stock density class (less than 10.5 stock units/ha, most likely to be sheep farms).


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package com.nearme.base.cache.local;

import java.util.Map;
import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

/**
 * ClassName:LocalCacheMapMonitor

 * Function: 本地的内存使用监控,当内存达到指定值时将会对本地缓存进行清理

 *
 * @author   80036381
 * @version
 * @since    Ver 1.1
 * @Date	 2012-1-27  下午03:55:08
 */
public class LocalCacheMapMonitor implements Runnable {
	private final ConcurrentHashMap<String, LocalCacheMap<String, CacheObject>> monitorMap;
	private long minFreeMemory;
	private final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(LocalCacheMapMonitor.class);

	/**
	 * 每5秒钟进行一次扫描
	 */
	private static final long SLEEP_TIME = 5000;

	private static LocalCacheMapMonitor instance;

	private LocalCacheMapMonitor(long minFreeMemory) {
		setMinFreeMemory(minFreeMemory);
		this.monitorMap = new ConcurrentHashMap<String, LocalCacheMap<String, CacheObject>>();

		initThread();
	}

	/**
	 * 获取LocalMapMonitor的实例
	 * @param
	 * @return
	 */
	public synchronized static LocalCacheMapMonitor getInstance(long minFreeMemory) {
		if(null == instance) {
			instance = new LocalCacheMapMonitor(minFreeMemory);
		}

		return instance;
	}

	/**
	 * 是否包含指定名称的cache map
	 * @param
	 * @return
	 */
	public boolean contains(String cacheMapName) {
		return this.monitorMap.containsKey(cacheMapName);
	}

	/**
	 * 将指定名称的cache map添加到监控中
	 * Function Description here
	 * @param
	 * @return
	 */
	public void addCacheMap(String cacheMapName, LocalCacheMap<String, CacheObject> cacheMap) {
		//将需要处理的cache map放入监控map中
		this.monitorMap.putIfAbsent(cacheMapName, cacheMap);
	}

	public void run() {
		while(true) {
			//检测是否需要清理
			if(needClear()) {
				int totalRemoveCount = 0;
				//进行清理工作
				for(LocalCacheMap<String, CacheObject> cacheMap : monitorMap.values()) {
					totalRemoveCount += clearExpireCache(cacheMap);
				}

				if(totalRemoveCount > 0) {
					logger.info("本次共清理过期缓存个数:" + totalRemoveCount);
				} else {
					//需要清理时无过期元素
					logger.warn("无可清理的缓存,请检查缓存设置是否正确.");
				}
			}

			try {
				Thread.sleep(SLEEP_TIME);
			} catch (InterruptedException e) {
			}
		}
	}

	/**
	 * 是否需要清理cache
	 * @param
	 * @return
	 */
	private boolean needClear() {
		//没有监控的则直接返回
		if(monitorMap.size() == 0) {
			return false;
		}

//		long max = memoryUsage.getMax();
//		long used = memoryUsage.getUsed();
		long free = Runtime.getRuntime().freeMemory();

		if(minFreeMemory > free) {
			logger.warn("最小可用内存设置:" + minFreeMemory + ",当前可用内存:" + free + ",准备清理缓存.");
			return true;
		} else {
			return false;
		}
	}

	/**
	 * 清理cache map中过期的值
	 * @param
	 * @return 清理的过期值个数
	 */
	private int clearExpireCache(LocalCacheMap<String, CacheObject> cacheMap) {
		Map<String, CacheObject> map = cacheMap.cloneMap();
		int removeCount = 0;	//移除元素的个数
		for(String key : map.keySet()) {
			CacheObject co = map.get(key);
			if(co.isCacheExpire()) {
				cacheMap.remove(key);
				removeCount++;
			}
		}

		map.clear();
		map = null;

		return removeCount;
	}

	/**
	 * 监控线程初始化
	 * @param
	 * @return
	 */
	private void initThread() {
		Thread monitorThread = new Thread(this);
		monitorThread.setName(this.getClass().getSimpleName() + monitorThread.getId());
		//设置为后台运行
		monitorThread.setDaemon(true);
		//设置为低优先级
		monitorThread.setPriority(4);
		//开始执行现场
		monitorThread.start();
	}

	private void setMinFreeMemory(long minFreeMemory) {
		this.minFreeMemory = minFreeMemory;
	}
}

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CHOWAN NEWS
Aiken Promoted to Head Athletic Trainer
Academics, Alumni & Friends, Student Life, Campus Ministry, Uncategorized
Rouson Memorial Lecture features Dr. Jonathan "Jay" C. Augustine
On February 1, Rev. Dr. Jonathan "Jay" Augustine was theMore
Academics, Alumni & Friends, Uncategorized, Campus Ministry
Futrell/Ruffin Community Service Award presented to Rev. Dr. James Shearn Award during Rouson Memorial Lecture
On February 1, 2023, Rev. Dr. James W. Shearn wasMore
Jul 2, 2019 by Staff Reports
The Chowan Athletic Department announced the promotion of Michelle Aiken, DAT to Head Athletic Trainer.
Michelle enters her fourth season with the Blue and White after spending her first three years as an Assistant Athletic Trainer. Aiken provides coverage for men's soccer, men's and women's swimming, and softball.
Last year, Aiken received her Doctorate of Athletic Training from Temple University. She also has a masters' degree in Kinesiology from Temple in 2016. Michelle attended Erskine College to obtain her bachelors' degree in Athletic Training.
Prior to joining the staff at Chowan, Aiken worked as a part-time athletic trainer for campus recreation and completed a clinical rotation at the Temple University athletic training room. In that capacity, she evaluated and diagnosed student-athlete injuries and supervised rehabilitation while covering men's and women's club rugby, men's club wrestling, men's club volleyball, and men's ice hockey. Aiken also served as a teaching assistant for anatomy and physiology labs.
As an undergraduate student at Erskine College, Aiken worked directly with the Flying Fleet athletic programs, specifically, with the women's soccer team. During her junior year, Aiken completed an intensive rotation with Presbyterian College and worked primarily with the football team.
In January of 2014, Aiken completed an externship, which was a part of her undergraduate coursework, with Blue Ridge Orthopedics of Anderson. There, she shadowed orthopedic doctors and physical therapists and observed orthopedic out-patient surgeries.
Aiken is a NATABOC certified athletic trainer and is licensed in the state of North Carolina. She is a member of the National Athletic Trainers' Association.
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Rodman in the Hall: Why Not?
When you think about it, Dennis Rodman's induction into the Hall of Fame is a pretty big upset. This was one of the most radical cats ever to play in the NBA, a guy with a risque lifestyle and a schedule all his own (he once left the scene of the NBA Finals, on an off-day, and headed to Vegas).
I like this call, though. I've always thought if you do one thing better than anyone else, in your time, you deserve strong consideration. It's why Bert Blyleven belongs; threw the most textbook curveball anyone had ever seen. It's why I voted for Bill Mazeroski, for his legendary glove work around second base, and why I'll vote for Omar Vizquel.
Rodman was absolutely the best rebounder in the game, and for a guy who seemed to have no discipline whatsoever, his fundamentals were straight-up textbook. Not only that, he consistently did it for winning teams. Very early in his career, while still in Detroit, he took a make-or-break shot against the Lakers — and missed badly — in the Finals. He definitely got the message, all but eliminating the notion of scoring from his approach to the game. Whether you liked him or not, this guy made a huge difference in every game he played, down deep in the trenches.
Just one question: If nobody's holding Rodman's persona against him, how is Don Nelson not in the Hall? It can't have anything to do with basketball. He was a clutch player for the Boston Celtics (who retired his No. 19), and he has more NBA wins than any coach in history. It has to be personal, over Nelson's habit of back-stabbing people (behind the scenes) for his personal gain. Nellie's out and Rodman's in? That's weird. And we'll never know the details, for the Hall of Fame's voting body should be known as the Den of Cowardice. Nobody knows who votes, and nobody's accountable for a lame vote, a pathetic omission or a grudge.


Hearing Jones' opinion hit the members of the beleaguered defense like an anvil.
"This is the first time I'm hearing it," cornerback Orlando Scandrick said. "I mean, he's the general manager of this team, and if that's the way he feels, he's entitled to his opinion. It's my job to go out there and play and do what I'm coached to do and take the field and do the best I can with my teammates.
Two weeks left. Two games left. Two chances remain for the Cowboys to win the NFC East and make the playoffs to salvage something of their season.
If you are looking for reasons why the Cowboys keep coming to work and remain hopeful after a season full of shameful performances, those are it.
Defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin admits it's a struggle trying to move players to different positions and coach them on the fly, but he says he has no choice. He remains positive and hopes that will translate to the players.
When the Cowboys were giving up a ton of yards earlier in the season, they could at least point to the ability to force turnovers as a saving grace.
The Cowboys have 26 takeaways and are tied for third in turnover margin at plus-11. But they have only five over the past five games and just one the past two games.
Now, they are not stopping anybody and aren't turning the ball over, either. That is most evident in back-to-back losses the past two weeks to the Chicago Bears and Green Bay when backup quarterbacks Josh McCown and Matt Flynn looked like Hall of Famers against the defense.
"We can't get off the field on third down, and in situational football, we have no awareness," Carr said. "Too many times we let the quarterback get off on us and have big games with 400-plus yards. Too many games we can't hold up on our side and give up too many points while the offense is scoring 30 points, and we still can't win ballgames. That's why it's frustrating, but at the same time, we still have a chance.
That is the attitude of everybody in the locker room. But there is also no hiding the frustration and exasperation of a defense that is at its breaking point.
Defensive tackle Jason Hatcher said this season has typified his entire career with the Cowboys, which has included one playoff win and frequent disappointment.
Galloway: What were these Cowboys thinking?


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Books: Readings
In the following excerpts from Spock on Spock: A Memoir of Growing Up With the Century, by Benjamin Spock and his wife Mary Morgan, the author of Baby and Child Care recalls his aims in writing the influential guide:
After I had been in practice for only five years, an editor fromDoubleday came to ask me to write a book for parents. I was completely unknown, but a publisher in New York inquiring around among professors of pediatrics might have stumbled on me as a doctor who had psychological as well as pediatric training. Immediately, I told Doubleday that I didn't know enough. ...
Doubleday went away, and another five years went by before an editor from Pocket Books came, who told me, "The book we want doesn't really have to be very good, because we are only going to charge a quarter and can sell 10,000 copies a year easily!"
Putting it that way, though he was really only joking, made it easier for me to accept. First of all, 10,000 copies a year meant reaching a lot of people. That appealed to the do-gooder in me. And his saying that it didn't have to be very good--this relieved me of the need to be perfect in my advice. ...
Interviewers often ask me to state my "theories" of child raising. I never set out to impose any such grand design on the parents of the world. In fact, it grew increasingly clear to me as I continued to practice that there were so many experts--with the best of intentions--telling parents what to do that parents' most widespread problem was their own uncertainty, a guilty feeling of "Maybe I don't know enough ... maybe I need to read another book!"
Less secure parents begin to think that only professionals know the answers. They don't dare trust their own judgment or stand firm. ...
This reliance on distant experts was fostered by the increasing mobility of young families and the fragmentation of the extended family. The awe-inspiring expert took the place of the reassuring grandmother.
Yet another factor that seriously shook sensitive parents was the new, oversimplified notion that when there were behavior disturbances in children, it was always the result of parents' mistakes in handling them. This idea didn't exist in earlier centuries but was propagated in the first three decades of this one by those who were mobilizing up support for the mental-hygiene and child-guidance-clinic movements. ...
My purpose was not to advocate a theory, but primarily to tell parents what children are like, including descriptions of their unconscious drives. This was a big change from earlier manuals, with their stern dictums. I was just trying to show confidence in parents and reassure them whenever possible.
I certainly never advocated a permissive philosophy. I have always believed that parents should respect their children but also ask for respect from them, too. It was certainly not my principal aim to give them a whole bookful of "do's" and "don't's."
Pantheon Books, 201 East 50th St., New York, N.Y. 10022; 282 pp., $19.95 cloth.
Bob Keeshan, creator of the popular television character Captain Kangaroo, describes the importance of his audience's point of view in the following excerpts from Growing Up Happy: Captain Kangaroo Tells Yesterday's Children How To Nurture Their Own:
I had an instinct about undistracted, focused attention and its connection to a child's development. On "Captain Kangaroo," I wanted to try to use the camera in such a way that the child would get the message, "I think you are important. You are my sole concern right now."
I remembered my "Howdy Doody" days, chasing Bob Smith across the set with a seltzer bottle while the Peanut Gallery of children screamed in delight. Occasionally, I would catch a glimpse of the television monitor to see a shot of those laughing children.
"What about the real audience," I thought, "the children at home? What must they be thinking, watching all those laughing children? 'What are they laughing at? What am I missing?"' I did not want a Peanut Gallery or anyone else to interrupt the relationship between the show's characters and the child at home.
"I want to be talking to one child at home," I told our director, Peter Birch, as we were preparing the pilot. "I want the relationship to be uninterrupted, and I want things to be visually presented from the child's point of view. The children should never be excluded from what I am doing and should never have the feeling of being4part of an 'audience."' ...
That first morning, on Oct. 3, 1955, the camera showed some doors, made to look like a jigsaw puzzle, with "Captain Kangaroo" written across the front. ... The now-familiar theme played as the doors parted to reveal the Captain, in baggy blue jacket with huge pockets, dancing to his desk to hang up the keys to the Treasure House. ...
(The name for the show had come serendipitously, as an afterthought. After I saw the marvelous jacket that had been designed for me, the enormous pockets called out "kangaroo." We were looking for a name that alliterated, and so Captain Kangaroo was born.) ...
I made a rabbit out of napkins and showed the child at home how to play boat by using two chairs ("Ask your mother or father first") and three pieces of cloth, two for sails and one for our flag. We ran a safety film on traffic lights, and a lemur and a kinkajou ran about the set. ...
I also did something I still do on almost every program today: I read a book, The Happy Lion. All of these activities were familiar to me as a parent of young children, and many of them brought me back to the sort of imaginative activities I had enjoyed as a child in my Forest Hills [N.Y.] backyard.
Doubleday, 666 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10103; 230 pp., $17.95 cloth.


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Bulls brace for Raptors and season's biggest game
Bulls come up big and win in Toronto
Posted on Apr 11
It was clearly written for the Bulls on the board as soon as you walked into the locker room before Sunday's potential playoff playin game with the Toronto Raptors.
"How bad do we want it?"
It might have needed an adverb, but the message was clear.
Joakim Noah got it, and everyone followed along for a 104-88 domination in which the Bulls led by double figures the entire second half and by 25 with seven minutes left, the Bulls best win in the season's biggest game.
"I knew it was a really important game," Noah was saying, his foot resting in a bucket of ice while the hot fever of the win resonated in a raucous locker room around him. "I was really focused. I wanted to go out there and impose my will as much as I could, be aggressive offensively and defensively. I wanted to make sure our team played harder than their team."
Derrick Rose, who had a team high 26 points, seven assists and just one turnover, is the Bulls best player.
Noah is the MVP and leader.
Yes, finally, ponytail and all, the Bulls have a leader.
Need it, and he will come.
The Bulls now are 39-41, one game ahead of the Raptors for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference, and winners of eight of their last 12. That came after 10 consecutive losses with Noah out with plantar fasciitis.
"(Noah's) a guy always energetic, always yelling, talking," said Rose. "He's giving all his energy when he's out there and you want to do the same when you see him do that stuff.
"He was telling people (Sunday) there was no need to play around, on the layup line no bs-ing, making sure everyone goes hard," said Rose. "In the locker room, on the bus. He was focused the whole time."
And biggest of all, Noah took the Raptors' heart away. And win the hearts of his teammates, who even were cheering for him as he came into the locker room after the game.
Yes, he's a keeper.
The Raptors are down with Chris Bosh out for the rest of the regular season and Antoine Wright out.
"If you take Derrick Rose off their team and take out Joakim Noah, are they a playoff team?" whined Jarrett Jack. "Nothing against the others guys…"
Yes, in the end the Raptors had nothing.
Still, they were home and the crowd was engaged and energized.
This one could have gotten away quickly, and the Bulls aren't exactly fast starters.
But Noah took command right away.
He dove on a pick and roll to open the Bulls scoring, hit Taj Gibson with a hi-low pass for a slam dunk, Gibson back from a mini slump and going hard to the glass, and rattled in a jumper, even calling for the ball.
"I'm playing with confidence and feel like being able to knock down a few jumpers keeps the defense honest and helps our team because hitting shots makes my driving opportunities better and I'm able to make plays for other people," Noah said.
This was the guy a year ago who wouldn't even look at the basket when he got the ball.
The Bulls broke from a 16-16 tie with a pair of Noah free throws, a Gibson jumper and then slam on another Noah pass, a 10-2 run that gave the Bulls a 28-23 lead after one.
Noah had six points, four rebounds and three assists and by halftime 10 points, 10 rebounds and six assists on the way to 18 points, 19 rebounds and a career high equaling seven assists.
Look that up in the phrase dictionary for "Coming up big."
"I was really excited about the game," Noah acknowledged. "My mom was here. She flew out. I did not even know she was coming. It was good to have her in the crowd."
I've seen Noah's mom, the former Miss Sweden, and she may be the most enthusiastic fan I've ever seen, and certainly a loyal mom. She cheers for everything Noah does, whether it's a pass, a free throw, a rebound or retying his ponytail.
"I knew whoever won this game would have a better chance of making the playoffs," said Noah. "It feels good we're in that position right now. And we've just got to keep it up."
With a burst out of the locker room after halftime with a 13-4 run as Rose began to exert his will, the home crowd began booing loudly and chanting slogans which suggested the Raptors were enjoying Popsicles.
You could see the Raptors giving up and Bosh perhaps watching somewhere thinking, "Chicago? New York? Miami?"
It was the season's biggest game because the Bulls and Raptors were tied, but Toronto retains the tiebreaker. That means they still could make the playoffs over the Bulls. The Bulls magic number is now two, which means if the Bulls beat the Celtics Tuesday and Bobcats Wednesday or the Raptors lose to the Pistons Monday and Knicks Wednesday the Bulls are in. Or if each team splits. If the Raptors split and the Bulls lose both the Raptors are in. If the Bulls split and the Raptors win both, Toronto is in.
The odds finally favor the Bulls, but losses to the Bucks without Andrew Bogut and in New Jersey suggest nothing is sure with this Bulls team.
"I think we've been a team like this all season," Noah said. "We can beat the best teams and lose to the worst teams. With us it's a question of a mindset and coming ready to play. No denying, this was really an important game.
"What's good is we have Boston coming up," Noah went on, the first player reporters went to as the hoots and laugher were loud around him. "That's an easy game to get up for. Playing in front of 2,000 in New Jersey is a little different situation. We understand what's at stake. We (now) control our own destiny."
Yes, there was plenty of noise as Noah spoke, but it was less the celebration of achievement than the character of this Bulls team, for good and bad.
They don't get that upset, and maybe you'd like them to more after a loss. But this is who they are, and they did demonstrate they can get up for a big game.
"I try to keep the guys as focused as possible," Noah said, the din rising. We're a close group. It's always like this in the locker room… when we win."
Noah did pause a bit, and while there isn't wild celebrating after a loss, there are no dirges playing, either.
After Sunday's win, the players were chiding Rose, who was shyly blushing, over an inside joke they had going with the kid since practice Saturday. And it was egalitarian. Chris Richard chimed in loudly. Flip Murray, dour with outsiders, happily went around telling others what had happened. Stars and reserves are equal. Players dissolved into laugher. It usually isn't that funny once you hear about it. But it is the camaraderie of guys on teams, and it's been this way through ups and down with this group.
Though it also was something of a relief to have something tangible to enjoy.
Especially for Rose, who'd been laboring some under the weight of having to do so much and be so perfect while Noah recovered and worked his way up in minutes. Noah's limitations were lifted after Friday's loss in New Jersey, and Rose breathed a sigh of relief.
He'd committed seven turnovers in that game, and Sunday had just one, that coming with 4:19 left and the game long over with Patrick O'Bryant and Marcus Banks in the game for Toronto.
"It's been crazy (the last few days) thinking about a lot of stuff," said Rose. "Yesterday was great for me, away from home, not worried. I laid down and looked at TV all day. (I got that turnover) toward the end of the game. I was so mad. The ref told me he missed (the call, allowing a turnover). So as long as he knew, it was fine."
Rose's scoring was essential, really the one/two punch with Noah that made the difference. The defense still plays off Noah, so those jumpers are open. No one still believes that spinning tornado will do in.
Rose gets the defensive attention because he is the scorer and teams generally challenge anyone else on the Bulls to beat them.
The Bulls got a nice all around game with six players in double figures, including big contributions from Flip Murray and Hakim Warrick with 10 each off the bench.
The Bulls outrebounded Toronto 49-41 and had a nice 26 assists on 42 baskets and just 10 turnovers.
Rose had an agenda. He doesn't usually come out shooting, but he was armed and ready Sunday and had an unusually high nine shots up in the first quarter.
"Attack," said Rose of his game plan. "Play like it's the last game. Go to the hole early. Some of my shots were going in and out, but I knew the majority would go in. I know if I attack the whole game, people get open and everyone else plays aggressive. The guys on me were closing out kind of sloppy, so I was taking it. Their big man were not stepping out on the elbow shots and I was taking them."
Yes, the Raptors are an awful defensive team, scattered and uncommitted. Still, you have to make the shots and plays, and the Bulls did.
They got out on the break in the second quarter and Murray even showed off some with one of those Jordanesque switch hand layins. The Raptors did get within 47-44, but Rose hit a jumper, Noah beat his man downcourt again and pushed in a Murray miss, letting out a scream, and Warrick closed the half with a slam dunk on a great Luol Deng find as the Bulls pulled away to a 58-48 margin.
Then came that boomlet to open the third. The Raptors tried a zone, which always gets the Bulls shooting jumpers as they rarely adjust well. It was then Rose took over and, effectively, ended the game.
It was an appropriate, "Get out of my way" moment.
Down 73-54 and the crowd in unison apparently calling for Lou (Amundson), the Raptors got a pair of free throws and a three from Jose Calderon and were only trailing 74-63.
Enough of that, figured Rose.
He cupped the ball with his right hand and finished a tough drive for a score, the Raptors missed a three and getting Andrea Bargnani in a switch, Rose went left and up for another layup, shredding what serves as the Raptors interior. Rose then was fouled and made both free throws.
"They were better than us, obviously," said Raptors coach Jay Triano.
And when Noah backed up and made a 17 footer, the Bulls were back ahead 84-65 after three quarters and the Bulls were thinking green thoughts with the Celtics next.
"We've still got a long way to go," said Bulls coach Vinny Del Negro, who was hopping around and using so much English as every shot went up I think he got a call from Dancing with the Stars. "We've got to refocus and get our energy back for Tuesday. "Every game is a playoff game for us. This is one step in the right direction, but there still are a lot of things to handle. We've put ourselves in this situation. Now, we've got to handle it."
They showed at least once they do want it. Badly.
Tags: andrew bogut, chris bosh, chris richard, derrick rose, flip murray, hakim warrick, joakim noah, luol deng, taj gibson, vinny del negro


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For a nation whose vaunted freedom was secured at the point where mass human bondage met genocidal expansion, what we are experiencing today is like a series of afterimages—the past-present that is these United States.
—Nikhil Pal Singh, Race and America's Long War, p. 122
The 1924 Immigration Act, then, had an explosive effect. On the one hand, the limits it placed on the numbers of European and Asian migrants who could enter the United States reinforced Mexico's importance as a source of cheap labor for the United States' expanding economy. On the other hand, it created an agency—the U.S. Border Patrol—that institutionalized a virulent form of nativism and concentrated its animus on Mexican migrants.
—Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, p. 124-125
I live on stolen land, and you do too. Here in San Francisco we all live on unceded Ohlone territory. After the Spaniards came along with Catholicism and cows, the local folks were mostly wiped out by overwork and disease. But not everyone died, and descendants have emerged in the past decades. California's First Peoples are working hard to undo the ignorance and cultivated amnesia that repeats the false tale of their complete genocide.
After Mexico gained its independence, the lands that the Spanish crown had allocated to the Missions to hold in trust for the "neophytes" (the new colonists that they hoped to make out of the Indians they brought into their Inquisition-shaped world), were usurped by the Californios. Bernal, De Haro, Noe, Vallejo, Peralta and many others were soon lords of tens of thousands of acres of prime California real estate. But their paradise didn't last long. The United States provoked a war in 1846 and used it to seize the northern third of Mexico, and within a couple of decades all the original Mexican ranchos had been squatted and stolen, often with legal sanction by U.S. courts.
It's remarkable how much this blatant and venal theft at the origins of American California is left out of the narratives taught children in schools. But then on second thought, it's not really so surprising. Early historians of California (and before that, historians of the United States) held strange, race-based ideas that escaped historical analysis. In one of the books I'll be discussing here, Greg Grandin's excellent The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, he makes this point:
If the study of history is the study of change, these early historians of the United States were decidedly ahistorical. Their germs were something like the physicists' Big Bang, sudden and pristine. When the Puritans landed, "their institutions were already perfected," George Bancroft, among the country's most influential historians prior to Turner, wrote. Woodrow Wilson, who studied with Turner under Adams at Johns Hopkins, argued in 1899 that early Christian settlers "were inventing nothing"; ideas that would later result in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were already fully formed upon their arrival in the New World. Americans, Wilson said, were "simply letting their race habits and instincts"–as developed in Europe–"have natural play." (p. 114)
Writing in Race and America's Long War, Nikhil Pal Singh delves deeper into the psychology of settler colonies like the United States. He reveals the very structure of thought that makes it so difficult to hold any self-awareness of the barbarism that accompanied the founding of the nation.
… in the United States, (and other settler colonies), invasion, occupation, and territorial dispossession constitute not a singular event but a structure of reasoning, feeling, even imagination… one that demands fealty and that orients attitudes toward the present and future. (p. 24-25) … The military tradition conferred by the Indian wars included practices of "extirpative war" that observed no distinction between combatants and civilians, combined with the adoption of forms of exemplary, extravagant violence said to have been learned from the savages themselves, such as scalping. Settler frameworks, in turn, consciously blurred the lines between war and policing, investing ordinary citizens with an expansive police power. (p. 26)
Dyke March on 18th Street, June 29, 2019
At the end of the second decade of the 21st century, the United States continues to flaunt its military but it is an increasingly empty and ineffective demonstration of pointless violence. Bombing multiple countries regularly, having torn up the Middle East and left whole swaths in smoking ruins, and maintaining military and spy installations in well over 100 countries around the world, you'd be hard pressed to explain why the so-called indispensable nation, the "most powerful country in the history of the world," has such a hard time getting its way these days. The protracted decline of U.S. power is staring us in the face, but politicians go on blithely proclaiming the unique goodness of the American project as though it were 1949 or even 1962 (not that it was any good then either!).
Constant rituals glorifying the military amidst crumbling infrastructure and stark social decomposition, incessantly claiming "we're #1," requires a great deal of ignorance and self-delusion. Digging deeper into the complicated past lets us trace a quite different arc than the syrupy self-congratulations that passes for history. It turns out that the United States has been on the wrong side far more often than not in its bloodthirsty, racist efforts to dominate the world. The roots of this despicable orientation are not hard to find in the very founding of the country, and have been advanced by awful, mean-spirited, politicians and their wealthy sponsors again and again.
Colin Galloway's fascinating book The Indian World of George Washington provides a nuanced and detailed look at the land-hungry speculator who became the first president of the United States. It's strange to realize that the first four years of his presidency, 1789-1793, were characterized by an active "foreign policy" that mostly involved days- and weeks-long visits from dozens of visiting dignitaries from the cultures of the southern United States, i.e. Creeks, Cherokees, Choctaws, and others. Washington knew he had to make peace with these militarily powerful civilizations that occupied most of today's deep South, because his priority at the time was to wrest control of the Ohio River valley from the Shawnee and their many allies. It also required him to continue an ongoing peace with the Iroquois confederation. His goal was to avoid facing a wider alliance of indigenous peoples who together at the time could have blocked the expansion of the United States westward (and by so doing, made Washington's investments in thousands of unceded acres in western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio worthless). Galloway is a fantastic historian of Indian North America, with many other books covering the Plains Indians, the Shawnee, and others. He recounts the ill-fated first U.S. military expedition led by General Arthur St. Clair that was wiped out by a broad alliance of Indian tribes in 1792 not far from today's Pittsburgh. In this book he unpacks the fraught relationships that Washington and his allies made and broke both before and after the Revolutionary War with various tribes of eastern North America. It helps makes sense of the longer trajectory of genocidal violence that the U.S. pursued consistently through the following century—a history that looks so bad that few have been willing to give it the central importance in national history that it deserves.
Before the Revolution, Benjamin Franklin, Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, and others had noted that while few Indians chose to become "civilized," many people went willingly to live with Indians. Indian society, said Crèvecoeur, exerted a "singular charm" on Europeans; Franklin said that people who had lived with Indians and then returned home soon "become disgusted with our way of life." Washington's policies of civilization evidently did little to change the fact that some people preferred to live with the Indians. Francis Baily, an Englishman traveling the backcountry in 1797, observed that people like this were to be found throughout Indian country, "yet you seldom hear of an Indian renouncing his mode of living or his country, and imposing upon himself the bonds and shackles of civilized society." (p. 457)… [John] Knox [Washington's Secretary of War] lamented, "it is a melancholy reflection that our modes of population have been more destructive to the Indian natives than the conduct of the conquerors of Mexico and Peru. The evidence of this is the utter extirpation of nearly all the Indians in most populous parts of the Union. A future historian may mark the causes of this destruction of the human race in sable Colours." (Galloway, p. 452)
July 2, 2019, Market and Montgomery Streets, San Francisco.
Knox's lament is profound. In another post I discussed Jill Lepore's excellent account of the war between the early New England settlers and the Indians of today's Massachusettes, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. She emphasizes that the pilgrims were determined to preserve their self-image of being more civilized than the barbaric Spanish had been in Mexico and South America. But through "extirpative war" they targeted crops, villages, women and children, and readily enslaved conquered populations. As Lepore shows, the ensuing written accounts went to great lengths to obscure these facts, in order to bolster a self-flattering narrative of bringing civilization to North America.
The common histories of the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru usually fail to emphasize the European conquerers' pioneering role in unleashing total war. Matthew Restall's fascinating revisionist history When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting That Changed History doesn't mince words.
Holocaustic levels of slaughter and enslavement of non-European peoples marked the early modern genesis of our modern world. Cortés's era was just the beginning. Over the successive centuries, between ten and twenty million Africans and indigenous Americans would be forced into slavery. Tens of millions more would be displaced and forced into servitude, would die from epidemic diseases, would suffer the tearing apart of families and the brutal exploitation of colonialism and imperial expansion. Such experiences were the political, economic, and moral platforms upon which our world was constructed. (p. 298) … the lesson of conquistador practices was that the rules no longer applied, the Spaniards let the genie of total warfare out of the bottle. (p. 317)
The unacknowledged history of the United States is that it is rooted in exactly this extreme violence, repeatedly inflicted on populations abroad and at home. Simplistic tropes about good guys and bad guys, evil empires and implacable foes, traitors and internal enemies, are all so much otherizing propaganda to bolster false claims of virtue and honor. Singh's analysis of the overlapping and necessary connection of U.S. war-making and policing says it clearly:
If there is one constant in the history of U.S. expansionism, it is this discourse of disavowal. The problem of reconciling free development and democratic consent with offensive war and long-term military occupation, however, was as knotty two centuries ago as it is now. A principal means of resolution under settler expansionism was to define the "people" who were being despoiled, overrun, or occupied as nonpersons or subpersons—racial or quasi-racial threats to be eradicated or quarantined—and to describe the process of settlement as the execution of a providential design operating, as President Andrew Jackson put it, "beyond the reach of human laws." (p. 99) … Racism is the means by which war became normalized as policing, and police action licensed war. (p. 67)
July 2 protest against government concentration camps.
After the Mexican War ended in 1848, returning soldiers spread out across the newly acquired western territories, attacking Mexicans who found themselves on the wrong side of the new border, and unleashing genocidal violence against Indians. Grandin shows how as external wars of conquest ended, the wars came home.
When the [Mexican] war was over, some soldiers went back east, to New England's manufacturing towns or to New York's Bowery, their war-sharpened racism working its way into local politics, labor associations, and the Free Soil movement. Others spread out into the newly conquered western land, into California and up into Oregon. They were armed with federally supplied rifles and an ample stock of bullets, ready to deal with Native Americans the way they had with Mexicans. "A war of extermination," the first U.S. Anglo governor of California predicted in 1851, "will continue to be waged between the races, until the Indian race becomes extinguished." (p. 98)
As the U.S. plunged into Civil War the slaughter of Indians continued in the West, carrying on the violent imposition of the U.S. way of life. Grandin does a great job of tracing the preference for minimal government rooted in the early 19thh century Jacksonian political coalition and shows how those ideals re-emerged in the post-Civil War era. Focused on individualism and the sanctity of property rights, freedom was usefully defined as freedom from restraint. This ideology gave license to settlers to act as judge, jury, and executioner when they defined Indian self-defense as criminal. Singh touches on this too: "By the 1830s… settler sovereignty had decisively expanded its purview, precisely by describing indigenous violence (and counterviolence) as a type of crime and in turn creating new legal narratives for settler violence. According to Lisa Ford, the shift from a discourse of war to a discourse of crime is central to the substantive erasure of native sovereignty." (p. 142)
By the 1890s, the Indian wars were over. Frederick Jackson Turner wrote his famous essay declaring the end of the frontier that decade, and according to Grandin, Turner was struggling to find a middle ground between corporate plutocracy and socialism that could define a new goal for society. Instead of stopping at the established borders, the U.S. decided to cross over them. The 1898 annexation of Hawaii and occupation of the Philippines and Puerto Rico were an aggressive expansion of U.S. territories. Daniel Immerwahl's How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States is an entertaining and critical account of the growing archipelago of U.S. territories that came to be a substantial but mostly unacknowledged portion of both U.S. land and population. (I was fascinated to learn that the first islands seized by the U.S. in the Pacific were uninhabited "guano" islands, i.e. covered in birdshit. Dense layers of guano were rich in phosphate, a prime fertilizer that helped raise yields wherever it was applied to agricultural fields.) Hawaii's monarchy was overthrown in a bloodless coup by Americans but the Philippines had been embroiled in a years-long war of independence. On the cusp of defeating the Spanish, the U.S. steamed into Manila harbor, staged a mock battle, negotiated a purchase price with Spain, and took over. Within a few months the U.S. provoked hostilities with the Philippine independence fighters, and the U.S. quickly found itself in its first southeast Asian quagmire, a war that lasted for years.
The most careful study, made by the historian Ken De Bevoise, found that in the years 1899-1903, about 775,000 Filipinos died because of the war.
"Of course, we do want military glory," wrote Mark Twain, noting the death toll, "but this is getting it by avalanche."
On July 4, 1902, Roosevelt proclaimed the Philippine War over. If De Bevoise's calculations are right, it had claimed more lives than the Civil War.
Roosevelt's announcement wasn't the first time the authorities had declared an end to the war. It wasn't even the second time. The Washington Post reminded readers that Taft had announced the "fourth and final termination of hostilities" two years earlier and that "the war has been brought to an end on six different occasions since." (Immerwahr, p. 103)
Shades of Bush's "Mission Accomplished"! But the U.S.-Philippine war not only galvanized anti-imperialists like Mark Twain. It also helped reintegrate officers and soldiers from the former Confederate states into the mission of projecting U.S. power across the Pacific. Grandin says the war of 1898 was "alchemic. It transformed the "Lost Cause" of the Confederacy—the preservation of slavery—into humanity's cause for world freedom… The South, General Gordon said, was helping to bring "the light of American civilization and the boon of Republican liberty to the oppressed islands of both oceans." (Grandin, p. 137) It was also the war where the U.S. developed water boarding, strategic hamlets, and other techniques of torture and counter-insurgency that they would employ decades later in Vietnam, and a half century after that in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Singh recounts the work of historian Alfred McCoy, who presents yet another angle on the U.S.-Philippine war:
… it functioned as a "laboratory of police modernity." Here, the development and synthesis of new methods of clandestine operations, information science, photographic identification, demographic research, intelligence gathering, and legal repression far outstripped the capacities of major metropolitan police forces. (Singh, p. 49
Plaque at Martin Luther King Jr. memorial above San Francisco's convention center.
As we see regularly in 21st century urban policing, the boundary between military action elsewhere and police action at home is increasingly blurry. Surplus Pentagon equipment is sold to U.S. police departments. Heavily armed assaults by SWAT teams are routinely carried out across the country, even in small towns where violent crime is practically unheard of. Armored vehicles and even tanks have been deployed against peaceful urban demonstrations. Police have gunned down several thousand people since the turn of the 21st century, with almost total impunity.
The rising wave of state violence, at home and abroad, is deeply connected. The enormous expansion of military spending instigated first by Reagan in the 1980s, and then continuously by every administration since then even through the end of the Cold War, leads "naturally" to more war and more police and state violence. Singh and Grandin offer complementary analyses of this, both giving Clinton a key role.
In 1994, the passage of the largest crime bill in U.S. history established the preliminary legal and institutional architecture of the massively expanded national security state, something that grew paradoxically and in spite of the end of the cold war that had supplied the entire rationale for its initial growth. Statutory provisions for the "rendition" of foreign drug traffickers and for the suspension of ancient strictures on the internal use of military resources and personnel accelerated the dissolution of moral and conceptual boundaries between practices of domestic policing and public safety and external military aggression, with effects on both sides. (Singh, p. 146)
Clinton was Reagan's greatest achievement. He carried forward the Republican agenda by combining a postindustrial fatalism—regulation wasn't possible, austerity was unavoidable, budgets had to be balanced, crime was a condition of culture, not economic policy—with a folksy postmodern optimism, offering sunny bromides touting the "politics of inclusion" that endless growth would make possible. (Grandin, p. 233-234) … Promising "to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes," Clinton signed a number of extremely punitive crime, terrorism, and immigration bills into law, which created the deportation regime that exists today. These laws closed down various routes for migrants to obtain legal status, eliminated judicial review, and required detention without bail. (p. 246)
The basic question of our time…
Today's headlines are dominated by the reality TV host-in-chief, who has few skills beyond a finely honed ability to capture the news cycle with hysterical racism. The much-promoted plans to deport thousands of people is traumatizing not only to the communities who face the raids directly, but to a large swath of the country who cannot come to grips with the simple fact that as the slogan has it, "Never Again is Now." We live in a society with thousands held in concentration camps along the border, with a growing paramilitary force of self-satisfied fascist thugs (the ICE Facebook group should be evidence enough of that), supplemented by the blind eye the FBI turns to the rise and growth of actual terrorist cells of white supremacists all over the hinterlands of the U.S. The mass murders carried out by white incels and racists, directed against women and people of color, are treated as individual cases of psychosis, while political mobilization by African Americans, Latinos, Muslims, women, and ecologists are categorized as threats to national security. All of this combines to drive many people into resigned numbness, putting all their hopes in another round of empty elections that they dream will surely reverse this descent into fascism. But the long trajectory of American history should give pause to that fantasy. The deep racism embedded in the American experience is apparently easy to bring forth, as Trump's success has shown. The long-term demographic decline of the white majority is cause for hope, but as our current era amply demonstrates, the reactionary and fearful population of white America is not going to disappear quietly.
I went to the border with Adriana in 2012 during the Obama presidency, and it was really awful already. The petty authoritarianism of ICE troops, the militarization of hundreds of miles of southern lands far from the actual border, the general polarization of the population into racist immigrant bashers and the majority who reject that, all of this was already fully developed years before Trump. It will still be with us when Trump is gone. The future is guaranteed to see huge increases in human migration: flows of refugees fleeing climate disasters and/or brutal militaristic gangs, both state-authorized and unofficial. Self-appointed guardians of white America are dying out, but it will be decades before they've finished inflicting terror and havoc on our lives. There is no room to tinker with state policies to find a middle ground between today's worsening barbarism and something new and truly liberatory, that goes well beyond our current ideas of socialism into a world where we all produce and share a common wealth together. Challenging directly the militarization of the United States, radically reducing the role of both the military and police, ending the carceral state, withdrawing from policing the world and radically shrinking the standing army and the military budget, all are frontline necessities if we want to alter the trajectory of U.S. history. Any politics that shrinks from the historic obligations of returning stolen lands, withdrawing from violent domination, extending genuine reparations to African Americans, Native Americans, and anyone who has been violated by centuries of mistreatment, is a politics of maintaining systemic injustice.
Dyke March at 18th and Valencia, June 29, 2019
Never Again is Now.
July 15th, 2019 | Tags: genocide, History, imperialism, manifest destiny, Mexican-American War, Philippines-US War, United States | Category: Book Reviews, General Musings, History, Public Space
1 comment to This Land is WHOSE Land??
Martin White
Great writing, excellent selections from obviously extremely important writers on the most basic and important of subjects.
"Socialism or Barbarism" – well, we know which one has all the entrenched power in the world.