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Bayou Classic Gets Bigger, Richer
Black Issuescmaadmin (EDU)
Go-it-alone strategy puts more than a little sugar in Grambling's and Southern's bowls
By Scott Dyer
NEW ORLEANS — The annual Bayou Classic football game between Louisiana's two major historically Black universities has built a reputation over the past 26 years as the biggest Black happening in America.
Each year on the weekend after Thanksgiving, thousands swamp this city's French Quarter for the annual game between arch rivals Southern University and Grambling State University.
And in recent years, the Bayou Classic weekend has expanded to include events like the Battle of the Bands. On the eve before the game, the school's two marching bands stage their own competition in which they take turns strutting their musical prowess on genres that range from traditional marching music to jazz and even rap.
Other events include a massive job fair, beauty pageant featuring contestants from the two schools and concerts that this year featured Gladys Knight, the Ohio Players and others.
In all, the Bayou Classic is estimated to have a $50 million economic impact for the city of New Orleans on a weekend that otherwise might be the slowest of the year in terms of tourism. By contrast, the economic impact of the NCAA's Football Div. I-A Sugar Bowl on the city is approximately $135 million, according to Greg Blackwell, the Sugar Bowl's director of communications. Of course, that takes place on New Year's Day. And when the city hosted the National Football League's Super Bowl Championship in 1990, the economic impact on the Big Easy was $237.7 million, according to the report Superdome's 15-Year Impact on Louisiana, 1975-1990, authored by Dr. Timothy P. Ryan of the University of New Orleans. The Super Bowl, however, is a two-week event where the teams involved, the press and the fans arrive in town as much as 14 days before the actual contest.
Despite the financial boost to the city, fans from both schools have complained for years about price gouging by hotels during the big weekend.
Designated as one of New Orleans "special events," the Bayou Classic is placed in the same category as the Sugar Bowl and Mardi Gras and the Super Bowl, which has been hosted by New Orleans a record eight times, as far as the hospitality industry is concerned.
That translates into dramatic price hikes for lodging that weekend.
For example, Raymond Downs, Southern University vice chancellor for student affairs, noted that his hotel room cost $89 on Thanksgiving night, but soared to $159 per night when the Bayou Classic weekend officially began the following day.
The high prices have prompted the Southern University Board of Supervisors to threaten on several occasions to look into the possibility of moving the Bayou Classic to other locations like Houston or Atlanta. But officials from both schools conceded that a change of venue would alter the flavor of the event.
For their part, Southern and Grambling have tried to hold the line on ticket prices for the big game, which fills the Louisiana Superdome every year. Tickets prices currently range from $15 to $30, and officials want to keep them that way to assure access for all fans, regardless of their economic background.
''You got some bowl games that don't pay the amount of the money that we get off of this," says Ralph Slaughter, the Southern University system vice president for administration and management. The gate alone generated $1.6 million this year, Slaughter said.
At the Sugar Bowl, ticket prices range from $85 to $125, according to Blackwell.
The Bayou Classic also has some astronomical expenses. Slaughter said, noting that the rental of the Superdome with security-related expenses totaled nearly $350,000 this year.
But even after the cost of lodging and meals for the two football teams, each school figures to receive a net about $600,000 apiece from ticket sales alone. Teams that partipate in the Sugar Bowl will receive a total payout of $11-$13million from all activities surrounding the game, Blackwell says.
Southern University plans to use at least $100,000 of that money for scholarships, with the remainder going to the athletic program where is supports not only the football team, but also other sports. And a portion of the revenues are being set aside to expand the stadium on Southern University's campus and to build an adjacent parking garage.
Grambling State President Steve Favors said a major portion of his school's revenues will go for non-athletic scholarships, which the school desperately needs for its dwindling out-of-state student population. Nearly half of Grambling's student body has traditionally come from outside Louisiana, but the percentage of out-of-state students has plummeted to 40 percent over the past four years due to pressure by the Louisiana Legislature to raise out-of-state tuition to the regional average. As a result, out-of-state students currently pay about twice as much in out-of-state fees as they pay in regular tuition.
Southern University also has seen a decrease in out-of-state tuition as a result of the fee hikes, with its percentage of out-of-state students dropping from about 23 percent to about 15 percent in the past four years.
Favors says that in addition to generating money for scholarships, the nationally televised Bayou Classic serves as an ''super recruiting tool. … The Bayou Classic is aired across the country, prospective students have an opportunity to see the game and we have an opportunity to advertise."
The Bayou Classic is Grambling's biggest payday of the year for the athletic program, but it also represents a "rallying point for the African American community," Favors says.
In the past year, the two schools have begun to look at other ways to generate revenues from the game, Slaughter says.
In negotiating a new television contract with NBC this year, the schools took a new innovative approach that they hope will bolster television revenues from the game. Instead of selling the television rights to the game as they have in past years, the schools negotiated a new agreement in which they purchased a time from NBC for the game and then used a consultant to sell commercials.
Both schools were looking for a new approach, since they only cleared about $50,000 in television revenues from last year's Bayou Classic, Slaughter says. Under the new three-year contract, the schools expect to clear at least $100,000 each in television revenues, and there's a chance the revenues could go much higher.
Slaughter adds that 30-second commercials for this years Bayou Classic sold for $25,000, and noted that some television analysts believe that future ads could sell as high as $40,000 apiece.
The key, Slaughter says, is to get accurate ratings for the game that has become known as the biggest black happening in America. Slaughter said there's some concern that the ratings may be skewed because relatively few African American homes are surveyed.
''We're concerned that the ratings are not representative of what the true picture is," Slaughter says.
Contributing to the ratings this year was one of the most exciting games in recent history. Grambling ran up a 31-10 halftime lead, only to have Southern roar back to win by a final score of 37-31.
Besides television revenues, the two historically Black universities are trying to increase corporate sponsorships. This year alone, the schools recruited 11 new corporate sponsors — AT&T, the U. S. Marines, Delta Airlines, Cover Girl, the U.S. Army, Shell Oil, the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Pontiac, L'eggs, Coors, and Tampax. They join previous sponsors DaimlerChrysler, Coca-Cola, Bellsouth, and American Airlines in paying from $50,000 to $300,000 to help sponsor the game.
In addition, Slaughter says State Farm pays $500,000 per year for the 'title sponsorship' — in effect, to have the game known the State Farm Bayou Classic.
Myron Lawson, an Alexandria-based State Farm agent who currently serves as chairman of the Southern University Board of Supervisors, says he's proud to see his company get involved in the Bayou Classic.
''It gives State Farm a chance to show that it is concerned about the entire community — you couldn't have gotten major corporations to invest in something like this years ago," Lawson says.
Grambing's Favors said while the Bayou Classic has made major strides this year in recruiting new corporate sponsors, there is still plenty of untapped potential in that area.
"For the sponsors, it is an attachment to Black America, and Black America looks very closely to see which companies support Black colleges and these types of events," Favors says.
Slaughter saysthe corporate sponsorships were especially important this year because the provided the money need to ''buy" the television time from NBC for the Bayou Classic. The school's had to put a minimum of $500,000 for the television time, he adds.
Meanwhile, Slaughter said the schools are looking at other ways to cash in on the Bayou Classic. For instance, the game had its own Internet Web site this year where fans could watch the game live on their computers.
''There's some potential for extra revenue there, too, because you can sell merchandise on the Web and people can buy advertising," Slaughter says.


These vegan Golden Turmeric Blondies make for the ultimate anti-inflammatory treat! They're made with Further Food Turmeric Tonic ,which contains a whole slew of health-boosting herbs, spices, and adaptogens including cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, black pepper, ginger, boswellia, and schisandra berry.
If you're going to have a treat, you might as well make it an anti-inflammatory one! Especially when that means adding delicious spices. Turmeric is one of the most potent (and clinically proven) natural anti-inflammatory foods that you can consume due to it containing curcumin, a potent antioxidant. The black pepper in the Turmeric Tonic contains piperine, which enhances the bioavailability of the curcumin in turmeric, allowing your body to absorb more of it's antioxidant power than if you consumed turmeric alone.
These blondies are low in sugar and free of refined sugar (minus the chocolate chunks), sweetened with just banana and a touch of honey. When incorporating so many delicious and flavorful spices into baked goods, you generally don't have to use as much sweetener since spices naturally enhance the flavor!
I used both whole wheat and oat flours in this recipe which are naturally high in fiber, minimizing blood sugar spikes and promoting satiety.
Avocado oil is a great substitution for butter in this recipe. It is high in healthy, unsaturated fatty acids that keep your brain working at tip top shape. Turmeric is another great ingredient to add, especially the Daily Turmeric Tonic. Not only does it contain Turmeric, but it also has anti-inflammatory spices like cinnamon and cloves along with adaptogens like boswellia. Turmeric is great for reducing inflammation, both internal and topically.
In a medium sized bowl, mix together whole wheat flour, oat flour, baking powder, salt, and Further Food Turmeric Tonic until combined. Set aside.
In a small bowl, mash banana with a fork until smooth. Add vanilla extract, unsweetened nut milk of choice, honey, and avocado oil to the mashed banana and mix until smooth.
Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix until combined. Add in as many dark chocolate chunks as desired.
Lightly grease an 8.5″ X 4.5″ loaf pan and pour batter into pan, distributing evenly.
Bake for 15-22 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean from the center. Enjoy!
Preheat oven to 350°F In a medium sized bowl, mix together whole wheat flour, oat flour, baking powder, salt, and Further Food Turmeric Tonic until combined. Set aside. In a small bowl, mash banana with a fork until smooth. Add vanilla extract, unsweetened nut milk of choice, honey, and avocado oil to the mashed banana and mix until smooth. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix until combined. Add in as many dark chocolate chunks as desired. Lightly grease an 8.5″ X 4.5″ loaf pan and pour batter into pan, distributing evenly. Bake for 15-22 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean from the center. Enjoy!


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Q: Rmarkdown - blogdown: how to show yaml-generated table of contents when using anchor link to top of page I have this front matter on an Rmd page, with an anchor "top" after it:
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title: "Runnymede"
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    toc: true
    toc_depth: 1
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So when I click a 'back to top' link further down the page, the table of contents is not seen as it is still above where the anchor is on the page. Is there a way to anchor above the table of contents? Thank you.

A: Sorry, just found the answer to this: R markdown anchor at the top of document
Exact answer is slightly different though:

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*An anchor link can work with any ID

*ID for table of contents is TOC (in above case)

*so markdown for a link to go back to top of page and see the table of contents is [Back to top](#TOC)

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'Playmobil: The Movie' Gets New Trailer
Posted by Maddie Michalik | Jul 23, 2019 | Movies & TV | 0
The official U.S. trailer is out for Playmobil: The Movie.
Based on the iconic toys, Playmobil: The Movie is directed by Disney Animation vet Lino DiSalvo from a screenplay by Blaise Hemingway, Greg Erb, and Jason Oremland. The voice talent includes Daniel Radcliffe, Meghan Trainor, Kenan Thompson, Adam Lambert, Jim Gaffigan, Anya Taylor Joy, and Gabriel Bateman.
The new trailer introduces secret agent Rex Dasher (Radcliffe) as he partners with smooth-talking food truck driver Del (Gaffigan) and Marla (Taylor-Joy), a smart, savvy civilian with her own secret agenda, to rescue citizens from different lands as they vanish into thin air. The previously released international trailer showed that a young boy Charlie (Bateman), Marla's brother, was one of the Playmobil figures to unexpectedly disappear. It's up to his older sister to bring him home as the trio goes on a journey across new worlds to gather clues for their rescue mission.
The film features a score by Heitor Pereira (Despicable Me trilogy, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, The Smurfs movies, Minions) and four original songs, co-written by producer, musician, and songwriter Anne Preven.
STXfilms partnered with ON Animation Studios to release the film stateside. Playmobil: The Movie will be out in theaters in the U.S. on Aug. 30.
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Maddie Michalik is the managing editor at leading toy industry trade magazine The Toy Book, providing retailers, manufacturers, and licensors with information on the latest in toy news. She also manages all content for The Toy Book's website and weekly newsletter Toy Report, keeping retailers and manufacturers up-to-date on all news, trends, new products, and happenings within the industry. She also assists with creating digital and social content content for The Toy Insider, the leading consumer holiday gift guide and toy review and news website and The Pop Insider, a place where superfans can fuel their fandoms. As a professional toy reviewer and an industry expert, she reports on toy trends and hot products. She has been featured in various regional outlets in the U.S. and Canada. Follow her on Twitter @maddiemichalik.

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Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna was accepted into every Ivy League school! Plus: Stories on survivor's guilt, zines, and art by teens.
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Underage Gambling: "Not 18 Yet? No Bet."
LOTTERY IS NOT CHILD'S PLAY!
New Jersey State Lottery Law was written after voters approved amending the New Jersey Constitution to allow for the establishment of the New Jersey Lottery. One of the provisions written into the law set an age restriction on lottery play in the State.
"No ticket or share shall be sold to any persons under the age of 18, but this shall not be deemed to prohibit the purchase of a ticket or share for the purpose of making a gift by a person 18 years of age or older to a person less than that age. Any licensee who knowingly sells or offers to sell a lottery ticket or share to any person under the age of 18 is a disorderly person."
Must be 18 or older to buy a Lottery ticket. Please Play Responsibly.
Don't involve your underage children in your Lottery and other gaming activities.
Set a Responsible Play example for your children.
It's the Law. Must be 18 or older to buy a lottery ticket.


Ricky Martin, Sterling K. Brown, Kate McKinnon, Tituss Burgess, Kristen Bell and Kenan Thompson perform onstage during the 70th Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on Sept. 17, 2018 in Los Angeles.
Most of you may have seen the big opening number at the Emmys last night. A skit, coupled with singing and dancing, where stars of every color proclaimed "We solved it!" in reference to the diversity problem in broadcast television.
Somewhere down the line, someone clearly realized there were no Latin stars in this number and managed to squeeze in Ricky Martin.
The end result: In a five-minute, 49-second skit, Martin was on camera for all of 25 seconds. He says, "This song is way too white," before leading the group in a mini-conga line to a Latin-ized version of the song.
It's 2018, we are in the middle of Hispanic Heritage Month, and Hollywood is still figuring out how to work the token Latino into -- of all things -- the diversity number.
At some point in the creative stage of this number, someone must have said, "Oops! We're talking diversity and we don't have the biggest minority in the country represented! What do to?" Bring in Ricky Martin and add those congas and trumpets we always use to scream "Latino in the house!" to spice things up.
This could have been a little bit amusing had there actually been a Latin presence at the Emmys. But out of 25 categories, Latins were nominated in only three (and, very sadly, our favorite Latin-helmed series, Amazon's Mozart in the Jungle, starring Gael Garcia Bernal, was canceled earlier this year). Worst still, out of five Latin nominees, three of them -- Ricky Martin, Edgar Ramirez and Penélope Cruz -- were up for their participation in a single project, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. John Leguizamo, meanwhile, was up for supporting actor in a limited series or movie in Waco and Antonio Banderas for lead actor in a limited series or movie for Genius: Picasso.
And that was it. The most populous minority in the country was reduced to approximately 90 seconds of air time precisely when "diversity" is the hot-button topic of the nation.
So did the Emmys "solve" the diversity issue? No. But they did succeed in obliterating Latin representation from the equation.


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Spartan Health Sciences University is a private, for-profit medical school located in Vieux Fort, St. Lucia, in the Caribbean. Spartan confers upon its graduates the Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree. Spartan graduates can practice medicine in 46 US states.

History
Spartan was established in Saint Lucia on January 7, 1980, as St. Lucia Health Sciences University. The first campus was located in Castries, the capital city. In November 1983, the school was renamed Spartan Health Sciences University and relocated to Vieux Fort.

In 1989, Spartan University started to participate in the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program under Title IV. They continued their participation until 1997. Almost two thirds of their student body received these loans. Due to a high default rate and inability to provide sufficient documentation during US Department of Education review of financial assistance at the school, the school was ordered to repay several hundred thousand dollars back to the program.

In 1997, it was temporarily delisted from the World Directory of Medical Schools after the St. Lucia government  awkwardly denied knowledge of the existence of the school. Relationships between the government and the school have since improved, and today some of their graduates intern in the St. Lucia Ministry of Health.

The school started a nursing program in 2012, which by 2017 had graduated two classes of St. Lucian nurses.

Curriculum
The MD program at Spartan is a ten-trimester course of study that consists of three trimester per calendar year. trimesters 1-5 are completed at the Saint Lucia campus; semesters 6-10 consist of 80 weeks of clinical study that are completed at teaching hospitals approved by the university.

Spartan also has a school of nursing. The nursing program was chartered by The Government of St Lucia and is licensed the University. It is also accredited by the Monitoring Committee appointed by the Government of St. Lucia to ensure that standards are comparable to those set by the Liaison Committee of Medical Education as required by the Department of Education in the United States. A school of veterinary medicine was opened on January 14, 2015, and was developed in collaboration with Techmedics Inc.

Accreditation
Spartan Health Sciences University is chartered and licensed in Saint Lucia. The university was listed in the FAIMER International Medical Education Directory (IMED) and in the Avicenna Directory for medicine (both now discontinued)  The school is listed in the World Directory of Medical Schools In 2013, Spartan was granted provisional accreditation by the Caribbean Accreditation Authority for Education in Medicine and other Health Professions (CAAMP-HP). The program was placed on probation from 2019-2022 by CAAMP-HP., as they were "unable to grant
a further extension of provisional accreditation, having exhausted the maximum period allowed for this category of accreditation".

Licensure outside the United States
In the United Kingdom, the General Medical Council has listed Spartan as an institution whose graduates (who started their course of study on or before December 31, 2008) are ineligible for licensure.

See also
 Medical school
 International medical graduate
 List of medical schools in the Caribbean

References

External links

Universities and colleges in Saint Lucia
Medical schools in the Caribbean
Vieux Fort, Saint Lucia
Educational institutions established in 1980
1980 establishments in Saint Lucia

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Fauci: Pandemic causing 'historic decimation' among Latinx community
Some are concerned over whether a vaccine will be distributed fairly
by: Alexandra Limon
Posted: Sep 30, 2020 / 04:30 PM CDT / Updated: Sep 30, 2020 / 04:32 PM CDT
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Latinxs are experiencing higher rates of hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 than white Americans and some now worry about the fair distribution of a vaccine.
Statistics show Hispanic Americans are three times as likely to be infected and twice as likely to die from the coronavirus than white Americans.
"What we're seeing is historic decimation among the Hispanic community by this virus," said Dr. Peter Jay Hotez with Baylor University.
Dr. Anthony Fauci is especially concerned about the deaths of Hispanic people under the age of 21 from the virus.
"The numbers are striking, there's 45% of the deaths of those individuals were among Latinx," he said.
Hispanics may be hit harder because so many hold essential jobs and there are fewer medical resources, hospitals and doctors in largely lower income communities of color.
Dr. Robert Rodriguez of the University of California San Francisco believes there are solutions, such as establishing "a registry of physicians who could quickly mobilize to help communities in need."
California Congresswoman Nanette Barragan and Texas Congressman Joaquin Castro worry about Hispanics being left behind in the race to develop treatments and a vaccine.
"I continue to have a concern about access to these clinical trials," Barragan said.
Castro said he hopes "we're not going to have a situation with the vaccine where the wealthiest Americans are the ones that get it first."
Dr. Fauci said the U.S. has contracts to purchase enough doses for all Americans but it will be important to distribute information in Spanish to educate and build trust while also ensuring the vaccine is affordable.
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President-elect Biden announces picks for science team as security tightens ahead of inauguration
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) -- Saturday, President-elect Joe Biden introduced his picks for his White House science team.
"I'm honored to announce the team that is answering the call to serve," Biden said.
by Austin Kellerman, Nexstar Media Wire / Jan 16, 2021
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — As part of President-elect Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan unveiled this week, most Americans will receive a $1,400 stimulus checks.
Though it's not the $2,000 many people hoped for, the new direct payment equals the $2,000 figure when combined with $600 stimulus checks that went out earlier this month.


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Mohammed Diallo (22 mei 1983) is een Ivoriaans voetballer, spelend bij het Zwitserse FC Chiasso. Hij speelde eerder bij Beveren en FC Sion. Zijn positie is middenvelder.

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A list of the Top 50 Prog Albums from 1990-2015 featuring Dream Theater, Porcupine Tree, Spock's Beard, Tool, Opeth and more.
All lists of Top Prog albums are dominated by bands from the 70's like Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd and King Crimson and rightfully so as those are the originals and and some of the best albums ever made. There has also been incredible music made since those bands stopped making music by a host of newer bands. These "modern Prog" bands are often left off best of lists and not recognized. So we decided to make a list of the Top 50 Prog albums of the Modern Prog era, the last 25 years 1990-2015.
During that span, bands like Dream Theater, Porcupine Tree, Spock's Beard, Opeth and others took the groundwork laid by those pioneering bands of the 70's and infused heavier guitars, modern instrumentation, and even longer songs. It was also an era with more Supergroups such as Transatlantic, Flying Colors and Liquid Tension Experiment. The unifying force in all those bands…Mike Portnoy, who appears an astonishing 13 times on this list between his work with those bands, Neal Morse and Dream Theater.
While this list is certain to generate some disagreements and discussion, it was meant more as a chance to recognize the great bands that have been carrying the torch of Prog over the last 25 years. These are all great albums. Hopefully the next 25 years are just as great.


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The speed and ubiquity of technological innovation is having massive impacts across all sectors, and the U.S. military is no exception. From ground sensors to satellites, software is the fabric that enables modern planning, weapons, and logistics systems to function. But these advancements are not without their challenges.
As former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis put it, "Our military remains capable, but our competitive edge has eroded in every domain of warfare—air, land, sea, space, and cyber. The combination of rapidly changing technology, the negative impact on military readiness resulting from the longest continuous period of combat in our Nation's history, and a prolonged period of unpredictable and insufficient funding, created an overstretched and under-resourced military."
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While successfully integrating new technologies and adapting them to ever-changing mission demands remains a challenge for the Department of Defense (DoD), open frameworks are emerging as a powerful solution. As opposed to traditional, "closed" systems, this new, modular and horizontal approach makes adding, upgrading, and swapping components easier, providing missions with immensely more flexibility, speed, and agility.
In traditional, closed architectures, the services that support mission applications are tightly connected, both with each other and to the underlying technologies themselves, making it challenging for missions to quickly remove unnecessary components and replace them with new and more relevant ones.
With approaches that promote loose coupling and modularization, the underlying technologies are abstracted from the services, enabling independent parties to create different components that can all evolve at different rates.This allows missions to employ services and applications in a "plug-and-play" fashion and leverage the most powerful new technologies.
Another limitation of traditional systems is that, because of their reliance on proprietary or highly customized interfaces, adding in new technologies and reusing capabilities across different mission areas is difficult. Open application programming interfaces (APIs), on the other hand, enable organizations to bring in any technology or application.
Lastly, in traditional systems, the concept of operations (CONOPS), business logic, and data models were all hardwired in, and could only support the program of record. Open frameworks allow organizations to orchestrate mission workflows across the enterprise. Because all of the components within the framework are abstracted from the framework itself, they can be easily extended to new mission threads. The idea behind this horizontal, enterprise view is as the mission evolves, the framework evolves with it.
The ultimate success of open frameworks, though, depends not only on these technical principles but also on the right combination of mission experts, software architects, and users. With productive and consistent collaboration between these three groups throughout the entire process — from creating a common vision to continuous prototyping — defense organizations will be able to build more adaptive frameworks that better accommodate rapid technology insertion and intelligently service the mission at hand.
Read the technical notes to learn more about this topic.
This content is made possible by Booz Allen Hamilton; it is not written by and does not necessarily reflect the views of Defense One's editorial staff.


1st up for the day.
I thought the Greek freak would have squeaked out a victory but he totally beat down the useless Frog.
Alright going to try a cooky play tonight.
First parlay of the year!
Awful misreads all around. Oh well.
And the dumb tall oaf decides to set shave and win 2-1.
Up 5-3 in the first set and loses the tie breaker. Classic Tennis.
This is a fun thread to follow. If I were you, I'd be in a rubber room in about 2 days. How do you do it?
I've been sports betting for about 5 years now. I probably became a degen in the last two though. It has its ups and downs but I have actually done really well with it. I can only do my research and place my bets. People that get emotional will lose all their money, so I have to learned to keep my cool.
I've been able to withdraw around 12k from bookmaker and betdsi over the years. Usually checks from 1000-2500. I've never had a problem depositing. Also withdrew about 1500 from bodog ( when it was bodog) and never had issues. You should be okay.
You paid no taxes? I have most of my money in bookmaker. They have bitcoin withdrawals up to 25k. Bovada allows 9.5k in bitcoins.
I have never done a check, always bitcoins if I do it. The market is a bit too volatile at the moment to pull money into bitcoin. I might try a significantly more stable crypto.
edit: 50K a week, 100K a month.
That type of volume would surely get the IRS snooping around.
Yeah, I paid no taxes. But yeah, that type of volume would for sure get them snooping around.
Good to know. Thanks mate.
Bankroll is falling faster than the Titanic and it's only day 4!
I'm a glutton for punishment and the night sessions surprisingly is where I have made most of my dough this season. Don't fail me now!
TB Lightning Puck Line $100 to win $170.
Winning 2/3 from the night session is not bad.
I didn't post it in time but I do have a tennis game live atm.
Paire and Anderson over 22.5 games. -120 ~ $240 to win $200.
Canberra/Melbourne o 9.5 runs. -125 ~ $125 to win $100.
The Ukrainian goddess gives us the early morning sweep!


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My own journey with developing who I was as a person starting 16 years ago. I watched Tony Robbins on TV, then I did a workshop with him. I remember walking out of his seminar thinking OMG there is a whole other world out there and so much of me that has not been discovered. I was excited, and that was the start of my journey, I was off! I hope I can join you on yours. I have always wanted to be the best version of myself and that meant looking at the parts of me that I didn't want to own because without accepting them as they were, I knew I wouldn't be a whole person.
Making changes in life is easy – the difficult part is actually making the decision to change. When that has been done, then the rest just flows.
Personal development is the conscious choice to improve one's life to become a better person and to grow as an individual. It's taking steps to better yourself, such as learning new skills and overcoming negative habits.
There are many aspects of a person's life such as in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (see below). We start off at the bottom of the pyramid with our basic needs such as food and water, followed by security and safety, then we keep going up the pyramid. Why do some people go through life being happy and content getting all their needs met while others struggle to get their basic needs met? This depends on the environment to which we belong. The environment is either growing and thriving or it's on shutdown and survival. Our environment is our family – are they encouraging and loving or angry and unsupportive? Our friends – are they positive and caring or are they into addictive behaviours and put us down? I think you get the picture. Other parts of our environment are the workplace, where we live, what we think about being healthy, is what we eat and drink going to benefit our bodies.
Our environment is either healthy for us at a mental, emotional, physical or spiritual level, or it's not and it's up to yourself to be aware of what is not working for you, and what doesn't serve you.
Work out how do I actually reach the top of the pyramid to live a happy and fulfilled life that I consciously create?


This full-color report presents jasper artifacts that are quite similar to paleolithic artifacts in Europe. The site was tested which produced artifacts that easily date to the Pleistocene era in Virginia. These artifacts were manufactured by the blade and core technology. This site is classified as a hunter/gatherer occupation on the Shenandoah River. Its most important artifact is a transverse recloir which has two matches from other sites on the river.
This book is a full-color study of pre-Clovis stone artifacts from Virginia. With the 22K-year date of the Cinmar bipoint in Virginia, there is ample evidence of artifact classes that are older than Clovis in Virginia. Over 50 tool types are illustrated and discussed. Artifact single-site collections are documented. The book argues the differences between Holocene biface technology with the blade and core technology of the Pleistocene era. The requirements for identifying Pleistocene artifacts are presented, such as platforms, remaining cortex, and invasive retouch. They are presented in a tool model. Major stones, namely jasper, are discussed as a lithic determinism. The east coast distribution is presented for various tool types. Additionally, as a major focus, cross-Atlantic flake/blade identical tools from Europe are illustrated with Middle Atlantic artifacts. Artifact ergonomics, such as right-left handed tools, hypothetical tool center, are argued. Structural and functional axes are shown and described on how to identify them as tools. Overall, this book presents an initiating view of the archaeology needed to study Pleistocene era artifacts on the American East Coast.


Robin Hood and Letters to Juliet come out. No, I'm not expecting cinematic greatness from either, but as I am a fan of Matthew MacFadyen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and laughably bad historical movies, in the former case, and Amanda Seyfried, Gael Garcia Bernal, silly Taylor Swift songs, and Italy, in the latter case, I am looking forward to both of these.
The Demon's Covenant, the second book in Sarah Rees Brennan's Demon's Lexicon trilogy, is released.
The third album of songs from Glee comes out.
Google I/O 2010 ends, so we'll hopefully have an Android-as-hotspot announcement by then.


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FIRST North Carolina FIRST Robotics Competition State Championship
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2019-04-06 14:30:002019-04-06 22:00:00America/New_YorkFIRST North Carolina FIRST Robotics Competition State ChampionshipThirty-two high school robotics teams from across North Carolina will come together to compete in the FIRST Robotics Competition State Championship. Playing the game Destination Deep Space, robots built in 6 weeks will score points in a fast-paced, action-filled game! Winners will advance to the FIRST Championship in Houston in April. 56 Main Street, Buies Creek, NC 27506
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Thirty-two high school robotics teams from across North Carolina will come together to compete in the FIRST Robotics Competition State Championship. Playing the game Destination Deep Space, robots built in 6 weeks will score points in a fast-paced, action-filled game! Winners will advance to the FIRST Championship in Houston in April.


Did you know that when eating out at a restaurant… alot of times you can order good choices that might not be on the menu?
Usually most places will have some type of chicken or fish dish with a carb & vegetables.
Say you see a dish with chicken and pasta with some type of sauce. Or you see a fish dish, but it's breaded and/or fried and the side is a baked potato with cheese and broccoli. Or you see a chicken dish with vegetables and they've been cooked in oil.
And, what if those are your best choices off the whole menu. Which one do you eat? Which one is the healthiet?
This is what I do when I see choices like that. Usually places that have choices like that… can also make the same combinations, but can prepare them a little healthier if you ask.
So what do you ask for? You always want to try to get your chicken or fish grilled or steamed, with no breading.
You can also get baked if it's not baked in butter or any fatty sauce. Try to stay away from sauces if you can or get it on the side if you want, so you at least you have control over how much you eat.
For the baked potato you would want to get it plain with no cheese, sour cream, or butter. You can still have the broccoli on it, but ask if the broccoli can be steamed.
Anytime that there are choices of pasta, potato, fish, chicken or vegetables… you can always ask for everything plain with no sauce or butter and ask if they can steam or grill things rather than fry.
You'll be surprised how often they can accommodate you if you just ask. Then you don't have to be afraid of going out to dinner anymore!
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, immediately reiterated their opposition to holding hearings. In that sense, they are giving Garland, the chief judge of the second-most-powerful court in the land, exactly as much consideration they would give if Obama had nominated Michael Moore.
In his introduction of Garland, Obama quoted past praise for the nominee by Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, the longest-serving Republican on the Judiciary Committee. Hatch supported Garland's nomination to the circuit court two decades ago. He has since said that Garland would be a "consensus nominee" to the high court and that there's "no question" he would be confirmed. Just last week, Hatch predicted Obama wouldn't nominate Garland, because he's too moderate.
Obama had done just the opposite: He picked an old white guy whose centrist views do not excite the Democratic base – an olive branch to conservatives in (vain) hopes that they would relax their lock-step objections. In the process, he antagonized allies on the left, raising the possibility that Democrats won't get a political benefit from the standoff, and that Obama still won't get his nominee confirmed.
It was a perfect-like morning in the Rose Garden – the saucer magnolia trees in full bloom, and the tulips pushing up. Obama spoke righteously about how he "set aside short-term expediency and narrow politics" in hopes of getting above the "squabbling" of the news cycle.
"At a time when norms and customs of political rhetoric and courtesy and comity are so often treated like they are disposable, this is precisely the time when we should play it straight" with the court, he said.
That's as it should be, and if Garland were on the court, he would no doubt be a force for consensus. But right now he, and Obama, must contend with Senate Republicans who are unmoved and liberal activists who are uninspired.
The White House assembled the usual suspects for its Garland rollout. Walking into the White House on Wednesday, I saw Democratic strategists Donna Brazile and Stephanie Cutter and liberal activist Nan Aron. On my way out, I saw Planned Parenthood chief Cecile Richards. In the Rose Garden were Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee and several House liberals.
The crowd was quiet for most of the announcement. When Garland finished, they rose, gradually, and applauded politely. Toward the back, one invitee looked at another and gave a shrug that captured the reaction: Whatever.


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The Wrong Fires
This Ain't Your Usual Horse Race
How The "Cuties" Outrage Followed The Gamergate Playbook
Debunking Headlines About 'Child Sex Trafficking Busts'
In the Fog of Fire
Flames from the LNU Lightning Complex fires jump Butts Canyon Rd. on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020, as firefighters work to contain the blaze in unincorporated Lake County.
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DAVID KARPF If you want to know who's going to win, who's going to lose, what matters isn't what advertising is going on the air. What matters is how many ballots are going to get invalidated.
BOB GARFIELD Business as usual campaign coverage papers over this election's defining crisis. From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media, I'm Bob Garfield. Also on the show, there's no missing the hysteria in the news and on social media about the epidemic in child sex trafficking. But there is no such epidemic.
Almost always, in the actual details of these stories, you can find clues that this is not the international sex trafficking ring that you have been promised in the headline.
BOB GARFIELD And the GamerGate playbook is the template for a coordinated attack on Netflix and an independent film on its platform.
KATE KNIBBS Opponents of Cuties have framed the conversation so that you either have to be pro child pornography, which no one reasonable is, or anti-Cuties. That was a master stroke.
BOB GARFIELD It's all coming up after this.
BOB GARFIELD From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media. Brooke Gladstone is out this week, I'm Bob Garfield. With six weeks till Election Day - let's do the numbers.
[CLIP]
NEWS REPORT This new poll out today shows Trump and Biden tied in the battleground state of Florida. [END CLIP]
NEWS REPORT Since March. Joe Biden has held at least 83 virtual fundraisers. [END CLIP]
NEWS REPORT The Trump campaign tells Politico it knocked on over one million doors in the past week alone. Joe Biden's campaign says it knocked on zero doors. [END CLIP]
NEWS REPORT A new CBS News battleground tracker poll shows the president trailing Biden in Minnesota: 50 percent to 41 percent. [END CLIP]
NEWS REPORT Between Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris. They hosted four virtual fundraisers on Monday, bringing in around ten and a half million dollars combined. [END CLIP]
BOB GARFIELD It all sounds so normal - to a fault. The latest manifestation of the media's normalizing of Donald Trump. Till now, that meant bending over backwards in deference to the stature of his office and the voters will to depict, for example, his most mundane acts in the soft light of presidential grandeur.
TRUMP Ryan died as he lived a warrior and a hero, battling against terrorism and securing our nation. [END CLIP]
VAN JONES He became president of the United States. In that moment,.
REPORTER What changed last night?
VAN JONES I think Donald Trump became president of the United States. I think this was actually a big moment. [END CLIP]
BOB GARFIELD Worse still, discussing his most aberrant acts and statements as if they were legitimate policy issues. And then there's editing out distractingly outrageous or dishonest or inarticulate rhetoric lest they drown out the supposed real news. But what if the very process of covering the 2020 election were creating a Potemkin village of normalcy in which the very nuts and bolts of political reporting have the effect of diluting the most crucial truth at the most crucial time? George Washington University media and public affairs professor Dave Karpf is watching ruefully as the press engages in business as usual.
DAVID KARPF There's a way that you cover elections in September and October. It assumes that the campaign is happening in normal times, and it's a focus on what the latest polls tell us. It's a focus on what states are the candidates visiting. How is their doorknocking going? What are the campaigns telling us based on their internals? What's the latest thing that happened at a rally?
BOB GARFIELD Those kinds of stories you mentioned, they're not unilluminating necessarily. I mean, if you're interested in the ebb and flow of political fortunes, they do matter. Do they not?
DAVID KARPF They matter, but they matter less in 2020 than they do in a 2016 or 2012. There was a moment from 2012 a reporter shouting out to Mitt Romney.
REPORTER Governor Romney, do you feel that your gaffes have overshadowed your foreign trip? [END CLIP]
DAVID KARPF Was the news of the day? Today, we have those similar stories. You know, there can be a story about whether or not Joe Biden, like, flubbed some line in a recent speech. But again, at issue here is those things only matter if they are being transmitted to an electorate that is all going to be able to vote. And since we also have this storyline about how not just the Trump campaign, but the entire administrative state, it seems, is being leveraged in order to make our elections less free and less fair.
SENATOR Do you believe, as the attorney general, the United States, that mail in voting will lead to massive voter fraud?
BARR I think there's a high risk that it will. [END CLIP]
PRESIDENT OBAMA Those in power who are doing there done this to discourage people from voting by closing polling locations and targeting minorities and students with restrictive I.D. laws. [END CLIP]
DAVID KARPF That seems like a much more central story. What matters isn't what advertising is going on the air. What matters is how many ballots are going to get invalidated.
BOB GARFIELD We're living in bizarro world and treating it as ordinary world and therefore abdicating our journalistic responsibility. Is that a fair characterization of your schpilkas?
DAVID KARPF That's pretty fair. I mean, back in 2016, the journalists, Salena Zito, coined the phrase that Donald Trump's voters take him seriously, but not literally. And reporters take him literally, but not seriously. And then over the past four years, we all learned that you have to take him both seriously and literally. And the challenge for reporters now and for their assignment editors is Trump is going out and giving speeches where he says.
TRUMP The only way we're going to lose this election is if the election is rigged. Remember that. It's the only way we're going to lose this election. [END CLIP]
DAVID KARPF Roger Stone saying that they should just seize all of the ballots from the state of Nevada.
ROGER STONE We can prove voter fraud in the absentees right now. Send federal marshals to the Clark County Board of Elections, Mr. President. It's all there.
DAVID KARPF It's hard to take that literally because it's so out of the boundaries of how we're used to covering campaigns. And it doesn't line up well with the latest story that we also want to hear about. You know, what does Gallup or Rasmussen and say about who's leading in Florida or in Pennsylvania or another swing state? So that means that if you're talking about the latest polling numbers out of Florida, you also need to note the recent court case that is going to strip something like 700000 Florida citizens of their right to vote.
BOB GARFIELD You're referring to the case where the former felons who had been stripped of the right to vote had the voters restore it, but then the Republicans stayed. Officials created a de facto poll tax. They had to pay back fees and fines and so forth in order to be eligible. A court upheld that administrative ruling.
DAVID KARPF Yeah, that's pretty crucial there. You also need to talk about how there are active questions about whether or not all ballots will be counted. While we're gonna cover some fundraising numbers, we're undercover cover some polling changes, you also need to be covering things like foreign election interference. You know, news is covering it they're just not incorporating that into their normal election coverage. So they need to cover that. They need to cover the postal service. They need to cover the legal challenges that are happening in swing state after swing state, where Republican elected officials mostly are trying to make it harder for people to vote amidst COVID. The state of Texas, which isn't usually a swing state but is looking swingier, they've decided that if you're older than 65, you can vote by mail and if you're younger than 65, since younger people tend to vote Democrat, that you can't vote by mail without much stronger excuses. That's an extraordinary and odd decision. And the outcome of the election in Texas is going to hinge more on whether or not everyone is able to equally cast a ballot than on what the latest ad strategy from either the candidates is.
BOB GARFIELD There is this logic trap that the media have been ensnared in for decades. The political right has claimed a left-wing bias in the press and now comes Trump and by merely reporting the facts. The press is accused of "Aha!" providing the smoking gun of their bias. Not only of bias, but of being an enemy of the people. How much of this routine coverage do you attribute to the media just trying to seem like a neutral observer of political events by sticking to business as usual.
DAVID KARPF Marty Baron from The Washington Post said early in the Trump administration that Trump says that he's at war with us. We're not at war, we're at work. On one level, I get it and that's a clever phrasing. At another level, if someone declares war on you, then you are at war with them. Trump has been actively at war with the media for four years now, probably five. And I don't think the American media has been equipped because we have no context for reporters and media organizations being actively at war with the administration because the administration has decided to be at war with them. Because the administration has decided that they're such good villains for it. The toolbox of responding to that, you know, they've had to develop it as they go because we don't really have a toolbox. But I think it does require understanding that Trump is going to cast CNN as the villain no matter what CNN does. So CNN can try to do their job well, but CNN also needs to focus on, OK. If he's going to treat us as villains, we need to also defend ourselves as CNN.
BOB GARFIELD What about the electorate? What about the news consumers? What responsibility is in our hands?
DAVID KARPF I don't really center a lot of responsibility on news consumers. I think people should be careful about their information sources. Misinformation is only growing and Facebook and others have not been doing a great job of handling it. So, you should be careful about what information you're consuming and what information you're sharing. But beyond that, I really would center agency on news organizations and their editorial decisions. I understand the impulse to say, hey, there's a new raft of pulls out - tell me about the polls. There's something almost heartwarming and comforting about following the horse race in 2020, as though it was 2018 or 2016 or any normal-er times. I don't want to blame any news consumer who would like an ounce of normalcy in 2020. That means that the responsibility is, in fact, on the media. It's on journalists. It's on their editors to make sure that they are contextualizing the normal reporting campaign beat with all of the other things that are going on in this election that are abnormal and probably have a much larger impact on the outcome.
BOB GARFIELD Dave, thank you.
DAVID KARPF Thanks a lot.
BOB GARFIELD Dave Karpf is a professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University.
Coming up, the Netflix movie Cuties is denounced as child pornography,.
LAURA INGRAHAM But what's also shocking was the media's just blatant defense of the film. Of course, they always protect anything bordering on pornography. [END CIP]
BOB GARFIELD Nope. This is On the Media.
This is On the Media, I'm Bob Garfield. The Netflix movie Cuties is a small French coming of age film about a tween girl from a religiously conservative French Senegalese household steeped in piety and modesty, but also in turmoil over the father taking a second wife. The protagonist, Amy, is transfixed by a group of mean girls who are preparing for a dance competition with clothing and dance moves that flaunt their sexuality, even though, as we learn, they don't even really know what sex is.
[GIRLS SCREAMING]
BOB GARFIELD This is them not quite getting the function of a condom. The Cuties, as they call themselves, are asserting their fledgling maturity, showing off for older boys and craving popularity. The film is punctuated with dance scenes that get increasingly sexual, including the butt undulation move called twerking.
BOB GARFIELD That's disturbing to watch. Indeed, the film is about how hard it is to witness young girls sexualize themselves to feel relevant in the culture. That's what it's about anyway if you're not swept up in the Cuties Panic, which has ridden a wave of mainly right wing accusations that the film is child pornography and a threat to our society and our children.
NEWS REPORT Senator Ted Cruz wants the Department of Justice to investigate Netflix over the film Cuties. He wants the DOJ to examine whether Netflix or the filmmakers broke federal laws against the production and distribution of child pornography. [END CLIP]
BOB GARFIELD To Kate Knibbs, a senior writer at Wired. The brouhaha isn't a debate about art. It has all the earmarks of an incendiary and violent political harassment campaign such as we have seen before. Kate, welcome to the show.
KATE KNIBBS Thank you so much for having me.
BOB GARFIELD First of all, what do you think of the movie?
KATE KNIBBS I saw Cuties as part of an established genre. I call it the troubled girl canon. This is movies like 13, which came out in 2003. It's a really fantastic film that stars Evan Rachel Wood as a 13 year old girl who's really going through something and acting out. There's a wonderful movie by the British filmmaker Andrea Arnold called Fish Tank, which also features a young girl growing up in public housing who is obsessed with a kind of risque dance competition. So this movie didn't come out of nowhere. It's definitely in conversation with other films, but there's only a handful of them. Preteens burgeoning sexuality is not a topic that people are rushing out to make movies about necessarily because it's so delicate. And if you get it wrong, you get accused of creating child pornography. And if you get it right, you can be accused of creating child pornography depending on the circumstances, which is what we're seeing here. This is a very tricky subject, but it's also a really important subject to making art about. One of the things Cuties did so well was that it showed that someone as young as 11 is consuming really explicit content and putting the pieces together that society encourages women to be hypersexual.
BOB GARFIELD I watched the film, and it's sweet because, you know, kids trying to be adult. And it's upsetting for the very same reason. It is, as you say, just hard to watch preteens dance so explicitly and to flirt in an overtly sexual way with much older boys. And thank God in the movie being laughed off for that. None of this is titillating or designed to be titillating. It's about the scary combination of pubescence and sexual culture. Some critics, including those presumed to be on the left, questioned whether the director, my Maïmouna Doucouré a little too close to the sun.
KATE KNIBBS Some critics have brought up the cinematography and the way that it really lingers on the girls bodies and whether that was really necessary. I think that's a very legitimate conversation that we should be having. Doucouré did make the choice to make these scenes basically as upsetting as possible. You just want to run over to these girls and throw a blanket over them and hug them and tell them to go home and jump rope.
BOB GARFIELD These shots were tough, but they weren't leering. Unless you consider Netflix's as marketing. Holy hell!
KATE KNIBBS Yes. So Netflix is marketing did an enormous disservice to this film because it took shots of these girls that in context were meant to provoke disgust and alarm and made it look like a leering, exploitative film about sexy child dancers. And what on earth is worse than that?
BOB GARFIELD However, you believe that the controversy has ultimately little to do with twerking and everything to do with political opportunism torn right out of the old right playbook. How so?
KATE KNIBBS I was really reminded of GamerGate, and GamerGate was an online movement that started in 2014, and GamerGate supporters would tell you that it's about ethics and gaming journalism. The spark that lit the match that became GamerGate was a sort of very small scale controversy about a game journalist who had been in a relationship with a videogame creator. And it sort of exploded into this situation where a wide swath of women in the gaming world were getting harassed online and they were getting death threats. The Playbook's at GamerGate established for contemporary grievance politics has three main prongs.
So first is death threats, general harassment, having a wide variety of people online, swarm another person and threaten them. The second main tactic is calling for boycotts. And, you know, we've seen them use the hashtag #cancelNetflix. They would get so many people to call for a boycott that sometimes it was effective, like they would convince advertisers to pull their advertising from outlets. And then the third prong is review bombing, inundating IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes with negative reviews to taint the reputation. With Cuties, we've seen all three of those tactics used.
BOB GARFIELD And we should remember that GamerGate is what spawned the alt right. Which began with misogynist gamers, but within a couple of years had coalesced with white supremacists, Christian nationalists, violent incels. Now these days, we're in the midst of this QAnon insanity with its bizarre claims of pedophile Democrats and deep state operatives pulling the strings for all the evil befalling the country in the world. And they have latched onto this SavetheChildren hashtag, which imagines a non-existent marketplace for countless child sex slaves. How much has the QAnon cohort said this cuties panic?
KATE KNIBBS I think that QAnon acted as an accelerant here. I think there probably would have still been a scandal because of how horrible the Netflix marketing materials were, but QAnon has been very savvy in the way that it's used hashtags like SavetheChildren to amplify the message that this is a horrible film that needs to be banned.
BOB GARFIELD I want to talk about Ted Cruz, that noted critic of cancel culture, who is demanding that we all cancel Netflix. And this is because, as he bravely asserts, child porn is wrong. Quite a rebuke, I guess, for these sprawling pro-child porn community. You kind of wonder what weaponizing the obvious and the Save the Children hashtag and this panic itself is trying to accomplish. Getting back to GamerGate. You think that that nightmare offers the answer of what's really afoot here?
KATE KNIBBS Yes. So the people who were really pushing the narrative that GamerGate was about ethics in gaming journalism did something very smart. They framed the conversation so that GamerGate was the brave truth teller who was letting the world know that the media was biased. They framed the conversation so that they were on the side of the people. The biased media was the opponent. And that framework was very successful because there is a lack of trust in the media right now. They chose a target that was easy to hate. The conversation around Cuties is echoing GamerGate in the way that opponents of cuties have framed the conversation so that you either have to be pro child pornography, which no one reasonable is, or anti-Cuties, because that was a master stroke. The fact that this GamerGate self-framing has taken hold is one of the reasons why this has really blown up. It's so disingenuous and it's so unfair to the filmmaker. And it really reiterates how degraded the discourse has become that instead of having nuanced conversations about the actual contents of a movie, the conversation is just this trap for people to fall into. Like after I wrote this piece, I spent the next 24 hours getting called a pedophile by like hundreds of people online. Which I expected, but it never feels good.
BOB GARFIELD One way of looking at GamerGate is that a bunch of women resenting gamers found that secret sauce. They learned how to weaponize a hateful grievance into a powerful and sometimes violent movement. Is there any hope for an antidote for online cultural and political warfare?
KATE KNIBBS I'm a pretty optimistic person. I don't see these conversations going away unless the whole dynamics of the Internet change. However, with Cuties, I have been heartened by the way the conversation seems to be mellowing out once people have seen the movie. While I was writing about it, I was looking at Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB and reading through the really negative reviews that people have laughed as part of the review bombing tactic that I was talking about earlier. And when I started writing, the audience approval rating was three percent. And then once more people had started watching the movie. The audience approval rating went up. It made me hopeful that if people see this film, they will see that it's not child pornography. Maybe they can take that lesson with them. Remember it the next time there's a controversy like this. Like, if there's anything good that comes out of the Cuties scandal, it's that it's sort of like a crash course in media literacy. And a reminder to step back for a second and look at the thing that's being discussed rather than the voices doing the discussing.
BOB GARFIELD Kate, thank you very, very much.
BOB GARFIELD Kate Knibbs is a senior writer covering culture at Wired.com. Outrage over Cuties was just one outlet for a general swell of panic over child safety and specifically child sex trafficking. In July, the furniture company Wayfair was accused of selling missing children.
NEWS REPORT These storage cabinets on the Wayfair website have girls names. A well-known QAnon known activist noticed this and tweeted, "My spidey senses are tingling. What's with these storage cabinets? Extremely high prices, all listed with girls names and identical units selling for different amounts." The suggestion being that, actually, this was about trafficking young girls. [END CLIP]
BOB GARFIELD In August, Save the Children rallies were held across the country. Driven by such QAnon conspiracy theorists who allege that the Democratic Party is behind a slew of sex trafficking rings.
PROTESTORS Save our children! Save our children! Save our children! [END CLIP]
BOB GARFIELD But let's not put the onus solely on the paranoid fantasies of QAnon Kool-Aid drinkers. Last month, a shocking story was all over the mainstream media.
NEWS REPORT In Georgia, U.S. Marshals busted a child sex trafficking ring, saving thirty nine children. It was called Operation Not Forgotten. [END CLIP]
BOB GARFIELD NBC, Cable News, The Associated Press, The New York Times. By the time the story caught the attention of Huffington Post reporter Michael Hobbes, it recounted thirty-nine kids rescued from a trailer and nine adults arrested for sex trafficking. Such a frightful narrative got one Twitter user to exclaim, quote, "How is finding 39 missing children in a double wide trailer here in Georgia? Not the biggest news story in America." A tweet which shared one hundred fifty-nine thousand times. The answer, as Michael Hobbes figured out in no time flat, was because the story wasn't true.
MICHAEL HOBBES The U.S. Marshal Service doesn't actually investigate trafficking cases. They just look for missing children. And so, this wasn't even an operation that took place on the same day. The e-mail that I got from the U.S. Marshal Service, they said this was not a raid or a sting. And they highlighted and underlined and all caps the word not. Thirty-nine kids were found, but only two of them were found in the same location. The other operations were completely separate. They took place across 15 different counties in Georgia, six additional states and over two weeks. So, this was basically a knocking on doors and making phone calls type of situation. This was not a like drop from the ceiling and rescue a bunch of kids who are chained to radiators.
BOB GARFIELD They weren't sex slaves. Who were they?
[00:25:45] MICHAEL HOBBES Well, what we often find in cases like this is most of the kids who go missing in America, unfortunately, are teen runaways. And the U.S. Marshal Service confirmed this to me. So oftentimes these cases are looking for kids who have run away from abusive homes or they have been pushed out of their homes by their parents because they're queer or trans or in some other way not acceptable to their parents. And they get pushed out onto the streets and then somebody calls the cops and the cops go looking for them. So it is a tragic story, but it's a tragic story in this sort of everyday American way that we don't bring into the headlines as much as we do,,you know, giant international sex trafficking rings.
BOB GARFIELD And sex trafficking, by the way, being defined not as the wholesale gathering of victims in a large, shadowy marketplace, but it technically, legally means what?
MICHAEL HOBBES For children, for underage kids, child sex trafficking means anyone who trades sex for anything. So, in the actual statistics, the actual decent studies that have been done on this, we believe that a huge percentage of the kids who are engaging in commercial sex are not necessarily forced by a pimp to do it. They are not recruited. They are not taken across state lines. They are doing it because they are runaways and they are homeless. And they need a place to stay or they are addicted to drugs and they sleep with their dealer. It's called survival sex. It's exactly what it sounds like. And because any commercial sex act by a child under 18 counts as trafficking, that trafficker in that case is the person who buys sex from them, which is indefensible. I'm not going to say that like that doesn't matter. But the charge of trafficking when it comes to somebody under 18 does not require a pimp. It does not require a recruiter. It does not require them to be transported across state lines. It's not this sort of shadowy, dark, underground network thing that most Americans think that it is.
BOB GARFIELD Again, you're not suggesting that we should not be concerned about them. It's just that these are pathologies within pathologies.
MICHAEL HOBBES My central argument is that we should be concerned about them because they are runaways, because they're in foster care, because they are abused. Because when you look at the actual services that are available to that population, they are bad. For a story, two years ago, I volunteered at a youth homeless shelter for three months and it's 42 mattresses on the ground of a church basement, right. It's not a great system, right. So if we're actually concerned about this problem, the real version of the problem, not the sort of shadowy version of the problem. We need places for kids to sleep. We need safe places for kids to go. Getting rid of the desperation would cut down on this problem far more than any number of trafficking raids. Trailers or not.
BOB GARFIELD So, you know, not to belabor the point, but this headline from the Associated Press. Missing children rescued in Georgia, sex trafficking bust. What should it actually have said?
MICHAEL HOBBES So really, all of these headlines should say something about. We found a bunch of endangered runaway kids or we rounded up a bunch of sex workers. Most of these sex trafficking busts. It's a way for local prosecutors and also local news organizations, frankly, to make it look like they're busting up something much larger and more exotic and more difficult to track down than they are. A lot of these, quote unquote, sex trafficking busts, they don't actually find any real sex trafficking or what most people would understand as sex trafficking. Oftentimes, these are just dressed up vice raids where they round up a bunch of sex workers and a couple of johns. And then it turns out one of the sex workers is, you know, 17 and, hey, she's underage. That means any commercial sex of an underage person counts as trafficking. So, presto, you've got yourself a trafficking raid. And so a lot of this comes from the fact that the population is not as happy with cops going after sex workers anymore. That's something that's become slightly unpalatable. And so prosecutors have changed their marketing. And so now they're calling all of the vice raids, trafficking busts.
BOB GARFIELD So you're a reporter at your desk and you get a press release from a police agency. What does the cautious reporter do to judge what is actually taking place?
MICHAEL HOBBES I've been feeling somewhat guilty all week because after my story debunking the Georgia raid came out, people were talking about like, oh, Michael Hobbs did such diligent reporting, you know, all this on the ground footwear kind of thing that he did. It took me two e-mails. I saw the press release. I e-mailed two agencies and I said, look, can you just provide me with basic numbers on this bust? And they provided me with them. And the first thing that you see in the numbers is that it's mostly foster care kids. And that of the nine people who were arrested, only one was arrested for sex trafficking. So I wasn't doing anything particularly fancy. I was just asking for basic clarification of the terms. And that's really what we don't have reporters doing, is what do you mean by trafficking? What were the circumstances under which you found these kids? Was it a raid or not? How did you find these kids? That's what people need to be doing, is just asking basic questions.
BOB GARFIELD So an action news runs out is the lead. And you're watching the show. What would you as a news consumer think about?
MICHAEL HOBBES I mean, almost always in the actual details of these stories, you can find clues that this is not the international sex trafficking ring that you have been promised in the headline. Oftentimes you have these stories - I just saw one the other day. There was like cops bust up a sex trafficking ring in I think it was Ohio. And then, you know, seventeenth paragraph of the story. They say they arrested five dudes. None of them knew each other. All of them were arrested on existing warrants. And one of the guys was picked up for possession of marijuana. This is your trafficking ring?
BOB GARFIELD OK, so let's talk about you. This is your beat. You were totally immersed in issues of missing and exploited children. Have you ever encountered the classic case about which the political right is now in a panic?
MICHAEL HOBBES You know, we have these posters in every single airport, right? These are the signs of trafficking. This is the hotline number to call. I spoke to a number of human trafficking organizations and they could not give me a single case of a child being trafficked by a stranger through an airport. Has this happened in the history of the United States? Probably. But it's not something that is happening on the scale that we all need to keep our eyes open for it. It's just totally baffling to me that we have this widespread panic about this. And yet they cannot tell me one time that this has actually happened.
BOB GARFIELD And kids do get abducted. But overwhelmingly not by strangers with nefarious intentions. Who does take children when children are taken?
MICHAEL HOBBES Well, the vast majority of children who go missing, it turns out that it's one of their parents who has kidnaped them or taken them for a short period of time as part of a custody dispute. So it's something like dad takes the kids on Friday and Sunday night, rolls around and he hasn't returned them and mom doesn't know what to do. So she calls the cops. She reports the kids missing. The cops go looking for the kids. Either dad has absconded with them completely or dad is doing it as sort of a front in a war, like to get back at her for something. This is, unfortunately, something that happens a lot in America. And it's the vast, vast, vast majority of kidnapings of children. The most recent number that we have is that sort of stereotypical, you know, taken style child abductions. There's about 115 of those a year, not one hundred fifteen thousand one hundred and fifteen. It is extremely rare for children to be abducted by strangers as almost always somebody that is already in their life.
BOB GARFIELD You pin some of the blame on police agencies who, you know, look heroic for, I would say, exaggerated headlines about who they've saved from what. You blame the media for being careless and you blame the do gooder NGO's, who you believe have exaggerated the threat in order to secure their own, let's say, funding.
MICHAEL HOBBES Yes. I mean, I have spoken to people at the human trafficking organizations. What they have told me is that they need to use this sort of stranger danger version of human trafficking to get attention to the more real versions of trafficking that are happening in the world, the more sort of prevalent sexual exploitation that children suffer. And I think that that is totally immoral. I think that it's totally cynical. And I think that there's all kinds of unintended consequences of that approach they're not taking into account. You can't just throw poison into the public consciousness willy nilly because what you end up with is QAnon. I mean, this QAnon on stuff, it's fascinating to me that, you know, it's only sort of 20 percent exaggeration on the kinds of myths that we've been getting about trafficking for 20 years now. Right. There's not actually that much of a difference between the QAnon version and the version that you can find on very mainstream anti trafficking organization websites. So I think you once you've poisoned the well for that long, then you have people that are going to come along and poison it a little bit further. And this is the escalation that we've had in anti trafficking since the Trafficking Victims Protection Act passed in 2000. It's been 20 years of this panic.
BOB GARFIELD Which gets to my final point. One of the reasons that these myths take hold is that they tie into our fears. Another is that they're just kind of a meme. They are archetypes.
MICHAEL HOBBES We love to separate things into perfect victims and perfect villains. And trafficking is perfect for that. Right, because we've got these terrible human beings who are literally buying and selling kids. There's these networks that cross state lines and country borders, et cetera. And then when you look at the actual problems that kids are facing, the kids that are actually getting into commercial sex, the way that we solve that isn't by locking up a million people. The way that we solve that isn't by, you know, cracking down and harshening sentences and getting cops do raids. It's really, really boring stuff like ending homelessness. Once you end homelessness, that reduces the need for kids that are underage to engage in commercial sex, to survive. It requires fixing the foster care system. It requires taking abuse claims seriously when it's the soccer coach. It's these things that we've known that we need to do for literally decades. We know that there's problems with homelessness. We know that there's problems of foster care. But it's kind of boring to fix those. And it costs money and it doesn't give you that sort of sense of retribution. Right, that things like, you know, cocking your shotgun and walking out on your porch and being like, I'm going to hunt down some pedophiles. It's like we're just going to prevent kids from being vulnerable to this sort of thing in the first place. So it's really the difference between the sort of retributive understanding of justice versus this equitable version of justice, which is like, well, kids shouldn't have to run away and sleep on the streets if their parents are terrible.
BOB GARFIELD Michael, thank you.
MICHAEL HOBBES Yeah, that deep sigh, that deep sigh is like exactly, exactly what my entire career has been for the last year.
BOB GARFIELD Well, I feel your pain. Michael Hobbs is a senior enterprise reporter at The Huffington Post and co-host of the podcast, You're Wrong About. Mike, thanks again.
MICHAEL HOBBES Thanks for having me.
BOB GARFIELD Coming up, pouring misinformation, gasoline on a real fire. This is On the Media.
This is On the Media, I'm Bob Garfield. You may have noticed that till now in the show, we've said not a word about the biggest story of the week. The West Coast wildfires that have left wide swaths of destruction, pollution and death in their wake.
NEWS REPORT Large wildfires burning in Arizona, Montana, Nebraska, Texas, Wyoming. [END CLIP]
NEWS REPORT Since July 1st California has spent more than a half a billion dollars fighting wildfires. [END CLIP]
NEWS REPORT In northwest Oregon. Half a million people were told to evacuate as wildfires grow, nearly 30 massive and fast moving blazes are burning across the state. [END CLIP]
NEWS REPORT Colorado firefighters there are battling the state's biggest fire on record in inclement weather is not helping. [END CLIP]
BOB GARFIELD But like everything else in American society at the moment, fire coverage has dwelled less on future peril than on present fears, real or imagined. It's a story like others we've been talking about in this hour, about how basic facts and core truths are themselves set ablaze by political messaging targeted at suspicious minds. Amy Westervelt is a climate journalist and the host of the podcast Drilled. We've asked her to steer us back in the direction of plain reality. Amy, welcome to On the Media.
AMY WESTERVELT Hi, thanks. Thanks for having me.
BOB GARFIELD For starters, how does this fire season compare with previous ones?
AMY WESTERVELT So I'm a lifelong Californian. And so, you know, I've grown up with fire, but this is just unbelievable. We've sped right past three million acres, which is nearly double the last record on acres burned in a California fire season. That was in 2018 and it was about one point nine million. So, we're at like three point five million now. And the fire season is not over. You know, we've gotten used to seeing fires in November and December.
BOB GARFIELD How did these fires start and spread so quickly?
AMY WESTERVELT So these particular fires, it was a combination of some lightning strikes, a gender reveal party where apparently a firecracker was set off, which just seems ridiculous. You have years worth of, I won't even say bad forest management practices, it's mostly sort of underfunded forest management, in part because the guys that are supposed to be doing the forest management are often the ones that are spending all their money dealing with fire. We have heatwaves and drought and some changes in wind pattern. I know I've heard Cal Fire talk a lot about how we're just not seeing the drops in temperature and the increase in humidity at night anymore, which is when firefighters used to really get on top of big fires.
BOB GARFIELD We as humans, reflexively, especially in a fraught political moment such as we're enduring, look for who or what to blame. Now, one of them. And you alluded to it is the toll of a warming planet, and we'll get to more of that presently. But so much other noise and worse than just noise.
NEWS REPORT Reports and sightings of people armed with chainsaws. It's not confirmed Antifa, but suspected Antifa. And the goal was to fall telephone poles in hopes of starting further fires. [END REPORT]
NEWS REPORT The FBI and multiple law enforcement agencies have said that is untrue. [END CLIP]
NEWS REPORT We've got fires started 30 miles out in the woods. And you want to blame Boogaloo and Antifa. [END CLIP]
AMY WESTERVELT I was just reading this morning that there are self-appointed citizen militias setting up roadblocks to stop people who are trying to evacuate in many cases. And like quiz them about whether they're actually arsonists and looters, because these rumors have taken on a life of their own and spread like wildfire.
BOB GARFIELD I'll ignore that,
[AMY LAUGHS]
BOB GARFIELD I understand the necessity.
AMY WESTERVELT Yes, yes.
BOB GARFIELD But all these competing narratives, apart from giving us something to be anxious about, what are the consequences when the truth is in play?
AMY WESTERVELT There's two things. One, there's a very immediate consequence of people not knowing if they should or shouldn't evacuate and not knowing if they really are, you know, under attack from Antifa terrorists or not. That's never good. And disinformation tends to spread in natural disasters, anyway. This is just an extra layer of it on top. So there's that. And then kind of the longer term impact of, you know, folks like the president saying, oh, forget about all these other things. It's really just forest management.
TRUMP When trees fall down after a short period of time, about 18 months, it becomes very dry. They become really like a matchstick and they get up, you know, there's no more water pouring through. And they become very, very. They just explode. [END CLIP]
AMY WESTERVELT It just tends to kind of load people into this idea that there is kind of one silver bullet. Solution that it's just about opening a forest to logging or funding the Forest Service better when in reality to solve these really complicated problems, we are going to need multipronged solutions.
You mentioned the president. It's clear that severe weather and drought and warming temperatures, as you say, contributed to the ecologically normal incidents of forest fires. But Trump says.
TRUMP It'll start getting cooler. You just watch.
WADE CROWFOOT I wish science agreed with you.
TRUMP I don't think science knows, actually. [END CLIP]
BOB GARFIELD We know from COVID that science denialism is alive and well. But these days, does that sort of climate denialism really resonate with anyone?
AMY WESTERVELT It is not resonating as much as it once did. There's always kind of this one segment that is really dug in their heels. And that said, they're never going to buy this climate hoax. But the vast majority of people across the political spectrum see that this is happening and are even starting to get behind not only the need for policy fixes, but also the desire for the media to cover it appropriately. There was a new poll out just last week. I think it was a collaboration of climate science and data for progress that put out this survey. And they found that 72 percent of Americans want their like local news or cable news networks to give them information about the climate drivers of extreme weather. That included 59 or 60 percent of Republicans. So it was not something that just broke down over party lines. I think, too, like you're not seeing the fossil fuel companies push that anymore either. And that's a big indicator that it's not working.
BOB GARFIELD Well on the subject of party lines, you've also expressed worry that folks from you know, I'm pretty sure your camp are so quick to point fingers at climate change and say this explains the West Coast conflagration. End of story as being dangerous in and of itself.
AMY WESTERVELT I do. I think it's just kind of the other side of the same coin. You know, it's ignorant. It's not just climate change. It is climate change as a threat multiplier, which is the case across the board for a lot of things. It's like, you know, the reason that we're seeing so much more damage from hurricanes is both that the hurricanes are more intense and that sea level rise has happened and that we've built in zones that we know that are not going to handle this stuff. So I think there is space to have conversations about how should humans be adapting to the changing climate? What kinds of forest management policies should we be enacting? How do we start to have the conversation about managed retreat, which is like terrifying and yet completely boring term? That means basically moving people out of harm's way. All of those things are factors. And I really think anyone who talks about it as just climate change or just forest management just runs the risk of misinforming people and more importantly, kind of taken our eyes off the prize here. You know, if the goal is to minimize the impact of extreme weather on humans and minimize the impact that humans are having on those patterns, then we need to kind of tackle all these things at once.
BOB GARFIELD When people do attribute this only to global warming or ignore global warming altogether, what is the damage to the information ecosystem and the political ecosystem?
AMY WESTERVELT It just obliterates any kind of capacity for nuance. The folks that say, "oh, it's only climate," it just gives people who want to say it's nothing to do with climate talking points, you know, that, oh, these climate people are so religiously obsessed with climate policy that they are just ignoring everything else, blah, blah, blah. And then in the reverse, folks who are saying it's nothing to do with that, don't worry. I don't know. For me, the problem there is that it's quite an appealing tale. You know, I think a lot of people would like to believe that climate change is not that urgent, that it's not a crisis, that there is this very straightforward solution to these fires and that it doesn't have to do with tackling the economic system and the political system and power structures and all these other things.
BOB GARFIELD Is there a chance that this catastrophe manages somehow and excuse the expression to "Trump" the politics and let the threat be abundantly clear to everyone?
AMY WESTERVELT I think there is, although, you know, I was saying that recently and someone made the point that it didn't seem to in Australia after the horrendous bushfire season there. Although I would say to that that I don't think that the book has been written on that yet. I think that we have yet to see what the lingering political consequences of that are. And here, too, I think. I don't know. I do think that it's just a lot more difficult. And I would say especially because you've got the fires happening at the same time that you've got five hurricanes brewing off the Atlantic coast. And then the fact that all that's happening at once on top of a global pandemic, I don't know, like if I have to, as I did today, decide between the, like, pandemic mask or the smoke mask. There's something very, very wrong here. And it's not a Chinese hoax or a liberal fever dream or any of these other things that, you know, it is it's here and we're seeing it.
BOB GARFIELD Amy, thank you very much.
AMY WESTERVELT Thank you. Thanks for having me.
BOB GARFIELD Amy Westervelt is a climate journalist and host of the wonderful podcast Drilled. One final thought, as we've been hearing, human outrage is easily triggered by gothic horrors, existing mostly in our fears. Nobody wants to see children, especially our own children, come to harm. And yet our social services for homelessness and domestic abuse are scandalously underfunded. In some states, our kids are herded into classrooms and crowded hallways in the midst of a pandemic. On the border, the children of immigrants are being separated from their parents and caged. And if we're to believe a whistleblower filing from this week, some of their mothers are forced into sterilization. Meanwhile, Republican right to life politicians' fiddle while the very world we are leaving to the next generation burns and burns and burns. Panic is altogether the right reaction. Provided you're not tricked into panicking about the wrong thing.
That's it for this week's show. On the Media is produced by Alana Casanova-Burgess, Micah Loewinger Leah Feder, Jon Hanrahan, Xandra Ellin and Eloise Blandiau. We had more help from Ava Sasani. Our technical director, is Jennifer Munson. Our engineer this week was Josh Hahn On the Media is a production of WNYC Studios. Brooke Gladstone will be back next week. I'm Bob Garfield.
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