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The pandemic has altered the way we live and work for ever and forced industries to interact with consumers online wherever possible. That has brought companies into contact with their own digital futures far sooner than they imagined — and hastened change for lawyers too.
The initial impact was associated with lockdowns, working from home and video conferencing via websites such as Zoom. But the pandemic also accelerated at an unprecedented pace the use of online technologies in industries and sectors as varied as healthcare, retail and beauty.
Where their corporate clients are going already, lawyers are finally set to follow.
In April, Microsoft said it had witnessed "two years' worth of digital transformation in two months."
In sectors such as groceries, the pandemic has hastened the adoption of online shopping; in medicine, it shifted face-to-face consultations to remote appointments.
Meals on wheels: the pandemic pushed the groceries sector further online © Getty Images
Wolfgang Münchau, Financial Times European commentator, recently dubbed Covid-19 the "end of the analogue era", to explain the shift from technology as a support function to the use of, say, mobile phones as producers of real-time data.
Digital revolutions come in waves, and until now professionals such as lawyers and accountants have been largely immune to drastic change. Those groups deal mainly in knowledge rather than products, according to author David Moschella, and that focus — and healthy profit margins — has in many cases protected them from being forced to overhaul their business models entirely.
The incursion of machine learning and AI into legal departments puts lawyers in the foothills of profound change
Unlike goods and services, such as taxi hailing or retail, the legal industry has so far escaped serious disruption. But the incursion of machine learning and artificial intelligence into legal departments puts lawyers in the "foothills" of profound change, says author and government adviser Richard Susskind, who has spent some 40 years writing about the impact of technology on professions including the law.
The big digital shift that took place between 2006 and 2016 concerned moving from ownership models to sharing and streaming, cloud-based computing and the development of apps using location services such as taxi-hailing service Uber and food delivery services online. But the current phase is more drastic, according to Mr Moschella, and will have a more radical effect on the business of law.
"The first two waves [of disruptive innovation] haven't been strong enough to reshape the professions, but we think the third most likely will," he said in a 2017 report. Since then the Big Four accountancy firms have triggered a growing commoditisation of legal services using technology, and law firms have been forced to engage with clients using software and technology, in a shake-up of traditional ways of working.
"The first 60 years of legal technology [were] devoted to automation rather than transformation — using technology to streamline and improve the way you already work. It is not about changing, it's about grafting technology on to traditional legal practice," says Professor Susskind.
"If you look at other sectors, what we're seeing is something different, where technology fundamentally changes the nature of the service . . . there you would be talking less about the transformation of lawyers and more about the transformation of their business models."
We're a traditional lot and cultural change — which is so important if we want our lawyers to adopt the use of innovative tech — is exceptionally difficult
Robert Shooter, head of technology, Fieldfisher
A plethora of legal technology companies has emerged, many of which use an element of machine learning or artificial intelligence to make lawyers' lives easier. Those include Ravel Law, which predicts outcomes based on case law, contract analysis specialists such as Kira Systems to speed up due diligence, and Virtual Pricing Director, which helps price deals using algorithms.
Yet plenty of barriers remain to the technological disruption of law. In its most recent annual law firm report, PwC found that the adoption of digital and emerging technologies had advanced again, with a greater proportion of top firms establishing "some form of mobile apps, automated document production, data visualisation, AI, and smart contracts".
If law firms don't change culturally, our clients will go elsewhere
Robert Shooter
However, it also found that "other emerging technologies remain less mature, with approximately 40 to 50 per cent of firms still only at research stage with robotic process automation (RPA), big data and predictive analytics and blockchain".
Robert Shooter, head of technology at London-based law firm Fieldfisher, says: "We're a traditional lot and cultural change — which is so important if we want our lawyers to adopt the use of innovative tech — is exceptionally difficult. People like doing things the way they've been doing them for generations."
Yet he is hopeful about change: "Our clients are squeezing margins, demanding faster turnround times, and greater use of innovation. If law firms don't change culturally, our clients will go elsewhere."
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Joel Guevara is a professional boxer with his career statistics so far coming in at three wins, two losses and one draw. Guevara fights in the welterweight division and in this exclusive interview tells us about his career, and how he was just recently dropped from the undercard of Wilder vs. Ortiz.
WV: How did you get into boxing?
I'm from Los Encuentros, Nicaragua and I always liked boxing when I was a kid. I came to the USA at twenty years of age when I married my wife. When I came here, at first it was very hard for me and I looked for a gym to get rid of stress.
WV: What was your amateur career like, and who did you fight? What are your stats?
I wanted to have lots of amateur fights and have lots of experience, but my age wouldn't allow this. I was getting to an age where I needed to go ahead and go pro before it was too late. So that's why I only had thirty amateur fights, however I would have liked to have lots more. As an amateur, it felt difficult to get into the swing of things at first, but then I liked getting the experience under my belt. My toughest opponent as an amateur was David Craddock whom I fought in Ohio. I only had thirty amateur fights and I finished with twenty-four wins and six losses.
WV: Who is your toughest opponent so far in professional boxing?
My toughest opponent as a pro has been Amonte Eberhardt, it was a very tough fight for me.
WV: What happened to you being on the undercard of the Wilder vs. Ortiz fight? Did you have to pull out? Had you been in training? What does it feel like for a boxer to train, and then not get a fight?
I have been training for a fight March 10th in Toledo, Ohio against Angelo Snow. I've been training for a month and have to get down to 147 pounds, but I was offered to fight on the Wilder undercard as a last-minute thing, but in the end, they decided it would only be four rounds and I didn't want to pay what I needed to go on short notice. I have a full-time job at Marriott, and I am married and have two kids.
WV: Who are we likely to see you facing this year?
I don't know any details for upcoming events, but I hope to fight Shyngyskhan Tazhibay since I couldn't beforehand. I am hoping that happens in April. I don't have any upcoming fights scheduled yet, I will have to just keep training until one comes up.
WV: What fights are you looking forward to this year? And who are your favorite boxers?
My favorite boxer was Sergio Maravilla Martinez. I have always liked him. I don't have a current favorite, since Martinez isn't fighting.
I'm a humble person I don't believe in a lot of talk. I like to keep myself to myself. I've always wanted to get to the level in boxing where I could help other people who don't have much. Because I know how that feels. I hope someday that can happen and I will be able to help others. But only God knows what will happen in my future.


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Illinois State Representative Charlie Meier (R-Okawville) was recently inducted into the Illinois 4-H Foundation Hall of Fame. The 4-H Foundation presented the award to Rep. Meier on Ag Day at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield on Wednesday, August 15.
"I am honored and very much appreciate the recognition from 4-H," said Rep. Meier. "As a farmer I recognize the important role 4-H has in educating our next generation in a variety of skillsets." I am proud to support 4-H and will continue to help inspire our youth."
Illinois 4-H Hall of Fame inductees have a track record of exemplary service to 4-H or outstanding career and community achievement and were nominated by either county University of Illinois Extension staff or by the Illinois 4-H Foundation Board.
According to the Illinois 4-H Foundation, "Charlie represents 4-H in everything he does. He uses his head, heart, hands and health daily and his only goal is to make our county and world a better place. As busy as Charlie is he continues to make the time to bond with the youth of Washington County during fair season while manning the food stand for the livestock shows/auction and still remains active with the Washington County Federation. Charlie is responsible for the County Wide 4-H Pork Chop Fundraiser which is responsible for paying the enrollment fees for all traditional 4-H club members – thereby benefiting all 4-Hers in the county."
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Q: difference between django-allauth process='connect/login' here in the docs there is an optional parameter process which can take either login or connect.
using process='login' it works properly and creates new user if there isn't any, while process='connect' does nothing.(I was expecting it to login just if there is a user ..). but i have no idea on, how that works..
I have a loginForm and SignUpForm where both have the social login/signup option, and I don't want it to create account when it's clicked on social icon on LoginForm.
how can i perform this. (sorry if messed up things..:)

A: The difference is in the whether or not the user wants to create a whole new account through the social account or simply add a new social account to an existing account, with process="login" pertaining to the former and process="connect" the latter.
Example Scenarios:
For example, a new user wants to sign up using google, and then proceed creating a new account: process="login". The default "login.html" template in django-allauth does exactly this so that new users can immediately sign-up/log-in with a social account.
The other situation is when an existing user decides they also want to be able to login with "Google" or "Microsoft" then process="connect" . Typically this functionality to connect a new social account is found in the settings page for a logged in account.

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The Heart of Taoism 5, The State Religion
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The fifth episode in a series looking at Taoism looks at how during the Tang period it was elevated to the state religion.
Over the centuries Taoism, like other religions, has risen and fallen with the patronage of the state, and the changing fortunes of empires.
This episode looks at this history, and how Taoism was finally adopted as the State Religion, and Lao Tze was recognized as an ancestor of the Emperor, during the early Tang Dynasty.
The film therefore covers a very long period, and introduces some people who were significant for its ascendency, before its fall from grace at the end of the Tang era.
How it has survived despite its ups and downs in mainly thanks to its dedicated practitioners who were willing to continue with its practice, even when it was no longer in favour.
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Art of Faith, Buddhism
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I Kwan the Mnong Child
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The Heart of Taoism 7, The Way to Keep Fit
The Heart of Taoism 6, A Great Beauty Without Form
The Heart of Taoism 4, Weapons of War
The Heart of Taoism 3, Governing Without Action
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Can You Handle the Truth About Vaccines?
By: Cliff Kincaid
Accuracy in Media
NBC accuses Republicans of accepting bad "science" on vaccines, while Fox News fires back, accusing liberals of spreading bad "science" on vaccines. Each side is trying to score partisan political points. The message from both sides is that vaccines are completely safe. But that message is absolutely and demonstrably false.
As I noted in a recent column, the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program exists to compensate victims of vaccines. The latest Statistics Report shows nearly 4,000 claims were awarded financial damages.
Why do both sides of this "debate" pretend that vaccine-related injuries do not occur? Why not just report the facts? It doesn't take a lot of work to dig them out.
Barbara Loe Fisher of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) tells me that she has given more than 100 interviews in the last two weeks on the subject of the measles outbreak, but that the media simply will NOT report on the existence of this federal program and the implications for the subject of vaccine safety.
"Vaccines are the only pharmaceutical products that government mandates and completely indemnifies," she notes. She is referring to federal legislation that takes legal responsibility for their actions away from the companies making the vaccines.
"I've been talking about it in every interview I do and I have been bringing it up. But whenever I talk about liability protection for the companies—that this is the only pharmaceutical product that is mandated by government and indemnified by government—they [the media] don't want to talk about it," she said.
Observers believe the glaring omission reflects the power of pharmaceutical companies or their advertising agencies in the major media. It is in the interest of these companies to make pariahs out of those favoring vaccine choice by playing down—or even suppressing—questions about vaccine safety.
Simply put, the evidence and history show that the vaccine makers have been given total liability protection for injuries and deaths caused by government-mandated vaccines. Vaccine safety is not "settled science," as we have been hearing repeatedly in the media. To the contrary, for purposes of the law, vaccines are considered sometimes unsafe, even deadly.
The "Vaccine injury table" associated with the legislation includes a list of the injuries, disabilities, illnesses, conditions, and deaths resulting from the administration of such vaccines.
But why is it so difficult for the media to report on the existence of these health problems?
The vaccines that are covered include:
diptheria and tetanus vaccines
pertussis vaccines
measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines
polio vaccines
hepatitis A vaccines
hepatitis B vaccines
Haemophilus influenza type b polysaccharide conjugate vaccines
varicella vaccines
rotavirus vaccines
pneumococcal conjugate vaccines
seasonal influenza vaccines
human papillomavirus vaccines
meningococcal vaccines
As I reported in my column, the one exception to this drumbeat of misleading and inaccurate coverage about "vaccine safety" is on the local level, where correspondent Michael Chen of ABC 10 News in San Diego, California noted a case of a boy who suffered serious injuries, including fever, seizures, nervous tics and autism, as a result of two vaccines. The mother, almost in tears as she described what happened to her son, was paid $55,000 in damages through the federal program. But the damage award didn't cover the autism diagnosis. She said she wished she had more thoroughly researched the safety of vaccines.
The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program grew out of the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. Fisher explains what happened: "The companies threatened Congress that they were going to leave the people without any childhood vaccines if they did not get liability protection. The companies wanted this liability protection and it was mainly for losses at that time for DPT and oral polio vaccine. MMR (Measles, Mumps, and Rubella) vaccine at that point was a relatively new combination vaccine."
The DPT vaccine had been associated with brain inflammation and brain damage, while polio paralysis can be caused by the vaccine.
Fisher explains what the federal protection means for the companies: "Nobody who makes or profits from the sale of the vaccine, nobody who regulates the vaccine, who promotes the vaccine, who votes to mandate the vaccine—nobody is accountable or liable in a civil court of law in front of a jury of our peers when we get hurt because we've been told we have to take it, or when the vaccine fails to work."
The compensation program, with total liability protection for injuries and deaths caused by government-mandated vaccines, was upheld by the Supreme Court in a 2011 case in which vaccines were acknowledged to be "unavoidably unsafe."
My column actually underestimated the total financial damages paid through the program. The figure is actually $2.8 billion to the victims or the families of victims themselves.
Liberal and conservative media are trying to make political points over who's right and wrong about vaccine safety. But Fisher says people who support her group and vaccine choice come from across the political spectrum and include Democrats, Republicans, libertarians, and independents. In the media, however, each side is trying to smear the other side, as if there is a partisan divide.
The coverage has led to cases of strange bedfellows, such as the George Soros-funded blog Think Progress running a story praising Megyn Kelly of Fox News under the headline, "Megyn Kelly Speaks Up For Mandatory Vaccination On Fox: 'Some Things Do Require Big Brother.'"
Indeed, Kelly defended mandatory vaccines, saying, "…some things do require some involvement of Big Brother."
What she and many others in the media have consistently ignored is the role of Big Brother in shielding the companies making the vaccines from the side effects of their products.
As I asked in my column: If there are no problems associated with vaccines, then why did Congress pass the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, which created a national Vaccine Injury Compensation Program?
The media on the left and right have no answer to this question. So they pretend there is no debate or dispute over the safety of vaccines. They simply point fingers about one side or the other being guilty of ignoring what they pretend is settled science.
The only thing "settled" about the science is that while vaccines work for a large majority of people, they can also cause serious health problems, even death, for some.
The commentators who ignore the truth are either lying or so utterly ignorant that they should not be in a position of offering "news" on a national basis. Whatever the case, the public is being denied the facts about decisions affecting the lives of their children. Fortunately, the public can go to sites like www.aim.org and the National Vaccine Information Center for information that is being denied to them.
A troubling aspect of the current debate is how people in the media act like experts on subjects that they know so little about. They seem to think that by huffing and puffing and sounding authoritative, they will be taken seriously. They have large staffs which seem incapable of making phone calls or doing elementary research.
If news organizations on the left and right can't even dig out the facts in life-and-death matters involving children, then what can they be trusted to report accurately on?
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Media Bias Rears Ugly Head in Vaccine Controversy
The media think they have discovered another issue to beat Republicans over the heads with—vaccines. But the media have no credibility on this, or any other major health issue. They do have, and often demonstrate, a partisan political bias on such controversial matters.
"Vaccination debate flares in GOP presidential race, alarming medical experts," states The Washington Post in horror.
It's yet another attempt to portray Republicans as "anti-science." This follows the "climate change denier" mantra used against conservatives and Republicans for supporting pro-growth economic policies.
In the measles case, NBC news is attacking Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky for "giving credence" to an idea—"disputed by the majority of the scientific community"—that "vaccination can lead to mental disabilities."
That's interesting. As we reported back in 2006, NBC was aggressively covering the mercury-autism link involving vaccines. That was because Bob Wright, Vice Chairman and Executive Officer of GE and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NBC Universal, had a grandson who was autistic.
Going further back in time, consider a program on the link between vaccines and mental problems which was aired by NBC in 1994 and featured Katie Couric as a co-host.
If there are no problems associated with vaccines, then why did Congress pass the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, which created a national Vaccine Injury Compensation Program?
Michael Chen of ABC 10 News in San Diego reports on one mother whose son suffered a very serious vaccine reaction and was diagnosed with autism, and later Tourette syndrome, obsessive-compulsive disorder and mitochondrial dysfunction. She was awarded $55,000 in damages. Chen reported that since 1988, 15,684 injury and death claims related to vaccines have been submitted to the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, and that among those, nearly 4,000 cases received compensation from a federal fund.
Nearly $2 billion dollars has been paid out to vaccine victims for their injuries.
But in response to New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie supporting parental choice in vaccines, CNN ran a story saying he had sidestepped "vaccine science."
The Washington Post reported in 2008 that candidate Barack Obama had said, "We've seen just a skyrocketing autism rate. Some people are suspicious that it's connected to the vaccines. This person included. The science right now is inconclusive, but we have to research it."
The phrase "This person included" was apparently a reference to someone in the audience.
Now Obama acts as if all the science is settled. It is total hypocrisy.
But the science is not settled. In regard to the measles outbreak, Barbara Loe Fisher of the National Vaccine Information Center points out that "there were 644 cases of measles reported in America in 2014, even though 95% of children entering kindergarten have gotten two doses of MMR vaccine, which is also true for 92% of school children ages 13 to 17 years." She also notes that "less than one percent of children under age three are completely unvaccinated and 92% of them have gotten one or more MMR shots. In some states, the MMR vaccination rate is approaching 100 percent."
"From January 1 to January 30, 2015, 102 people from 14 states were reported to have measles," the CDC reports.
Fisher notes that the "measles virus has not been eradicated from the U.S., just like measles has not been eradicated from any other country and emerging scientific evidence suggests it never will be—no matter how many doses of MMR vaccine are mandated for every man, woman and child in the world."
Could it be possible that the shots aren't working? What about the fact that millions of Americans took flu shots that don't work? Did you miss this ABC News story: "Flu vaccine may not be effective for this year's strains, CDC says."
Dr. Anne Schuchat, assistant surgeon general and director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, was quoted by CNN as saying, "this is not a problem with the measles vaccine not working. This is a problem of the measles vaccine not being used."
So why are vaccinated people getting measles? The CDC admits that 12 percent of those with measles associated with Disneyland were vaccinated. What's more, some of the measles cases may be vaccine reactions. The fact is that the CDC just doesn't know why or what is happening.
CNN, which is now trying to act "scientific" on the subject of vaccine safety, ran a January 15 column, "The climate is ruined. So can civilization even survive?" It was another effort to scare people over so-called global warming, or climate change.
Here, too, Republicans have been portrayed as "anti-science" for opposing scare mongering over the climate, based on junk science.
In this case, the editor's note said the author, David Ray Griffin, "is emeritus professor of philosophy of religion at Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University. His most recent book is Unprecedented: Can Civilization Survive the CO2 Crisis? The views expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author."
That sounds impressive.
Yet, his previous book was, The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11. It argues that Flight 77, a Boeing 757 which was seen by dozens of people crashing into the Pentagon, was actually a missile or small aircraft.
He has no explanation for passenger Barbara Olson's call to her husband, Ted Olson, in the Justice Department, alerting him to the fact that the flight had been hijacked, other than to suggest that they were both part of a secret plan to conceal the truth and that it is not clear "what became of Barbara Olson."
Griffin is an advocate of global government that he calls "global democracy" as the solution to the world's problems.
According to the acknowledgements section of his new book, the "seed" for the book was a series of lectures he gave at the invitation of Zhihe Wang and Meijun Fan of the Communist Chinese Institute for Postmodern Development. Their specialty is "ecological Marxism."
Not surprisingly, the book, Organic Marxism: An Alternative to Capitalism and Ecological Catastrophe, receives Griffin's endorsement.
In a hastily added postscript to his own book, Griffin seems ecstatic that President Obama and Chinese leader Xi Jinping recently made an "executive agreement" about limiting carbon emissions. He says this "undercuts what had become the Republicans' main argument for doing nothing about climate change…"
Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK), senior member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, is not impressed by the deal. He calls it "a non-binding charade" that benefits China.
Griffin calls the GOP "the party of denial"—a charge the media will increasingly use as the presidential campaign moves forward.
The Republicans ought to be getting used to this charge by now.
But using a 9/11 truther to attack Republicans? Don't the media have any decency?
Will Republicans stand up to the media attack? Or will they wilt in the face of dubious "science" promoted by reporters with no credibility?
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Obama, Hitler, And Exploding The Biggest Lie In History
By: Bill Flax
Forbes (published with permission)
"The line between fascism and Fabian socialism is very thin. Fabian socialism is the dream. Fascism is Fabian socialism plus the inevitable dictator." John T. Flynn
Numerous commentators have raised alarming comparisons between America's recent economic foibles and Argentina's fall "from breadbasket to basket case." The U.S. pursues a similar path with her economy increasingly ensnared under the growing nexus of government control. Resources are redistributed for vote-buying welfare schemes, patronage style earmarks, and graft by unelected bureaucrats, quid pro quo with unions, issue groups and legions of lobbyists.
In Argentina, everyone acknowledges that fascism, state capitalism, corporatism – whatever – reflects very leftwing ideology. Eva Peron remains a liberal icon. President Obama's Fabian policies (Keynesian economics) promise similar ends. His proposed infrastructure bank is just the latest gyration of corporatism. Why then are fascists consistently portrayed as conservatives?
In the Thirties, intellectuals smitten by progressivism considered limited, constitutional governance anachronistic. The Great Depression had apparently proven capitalism defunct. The remaining choice had narrowed between communism and fascism. Hitler was about an inch to the right of Stalin. Western intellectuals infatuated with Marxism thus associated fascism with the Right.
Later, Marxists from the Frankfurt School popularized this prevailing sentiment. Theodor Adorno in The Authoritarian Personality devised the "F" scale to demean conservatives as latent fascists. The label "fascist" has subsequently meant anyone liberals seek to ostracize or discredit.
Fascism is an amorphous ideology mobilizing an entire nation (Mussolini, Franco and Peron) or race (Hitler) for a common purpose. Leaders of industry, science, education, the arts and politics combine to shepherd society in an all encompassing quest. Hitler's premise was a pure Aryan Germany capable of dominating Europe.
While he feinted right, Hitler and Stalin were natural bedfellows. Hitler mimicked Lenin's path to totalitarian tyranny, parlaying crises into power. Nazis despised Marxists not over ideology, but because they had betrayed Germany in World War I and Nazis found it unconscionable that German communists yielded fealty to Slavs in Moscow.
The National Socialist German Workers Party staged elaborate marches with uniformed workers calling one another "comrade" while toting tools the way soldiers shoulder rifles. The bright red Nazi flag symbolized socialism in a "classless, casteless" Germany (white represents Aryanism). Fascist central planning was not egalitarian, but it divvied up economic rewards very similarly to communism: party membership and partnering with the state.
Where communists generally focused on class, Nazis fixated on race. Communists view life through the prism of a perpetual workers' revolution. National Socialists used race as a metaphor to justify their nation's engagement in an existential struggle.
As many have observed, substituting "Jews" for "capitalists" exposes strikingly similar thinking. But communists frequently hated Jews too and Hitler also abhorred capitalists, or "plutocrats" in Nazi speak. From afar, Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany each reeked of plutocratic oligarchy. Both were false utilitarian Utopias that in practice merely empowered dictators.
The National Socialist German Workers Party is only Right if you are hopelessly Left. Or, ascribe to Marxist eschatology perceiving that history marches relentlessly towards the final implementation of socialist Utopia. Marx predicted state capitalism as the last desperate redoubt against the inevitable rise of the proletariat. The Soviets thus saw Nazis as segues to communism.
Interestingly, almost everywhere Marxism triumphed: Russia, China, Cuba, Vietnam, etc., all skipped the capitalist phase Marx thought pivotal. Instead, they slid straight from pre-industrial feudal conditions into communism; which essentially entailed reversion back to feudalism supplanting the traditional aristocracy with party cronyism – before dissolving into corrupted variants of state capitalism economically similar to fascism.
As usual, Marx got it backwards.
It's also ironic that even as orthodox Marxism collapsed due to economic paralysis, cultural Marxism predicated on race, sex and identity politics thrives in "Capitalist" America. The multiculturalists substituted race where the Soviets and Maoists saw only class. America's civic crusade has become political correctness, aka cultural Marxism, preoccupied with race. Socialism wheels around again.
While political correctness as manifest in the West is very anti-Nazi and those opposing multiculturalism primarily populate the Right, it's false to confuse fascism with conservatism. Coupling negatives is not necessarily positive. Because the Nazis would likely detest something that conservatives also dislike indicates little harmony. Ohio State hates Michigan. Notre Dame does too, but Irish fans rarely root for the Buckeyes.
America's most fascistic elements are ultra leftwing organizations like La Raza or the Congressional Black Caucus. These racial nationalists seek gain not through merit, but through the attainment of government privileges. What's the difference between segregation and affirmative action? They are identical phenomena harnessing state auspices to impose racialist dogma.
The Nation of Islam and other Afrocentric movements, like the Nazis, even celebrate their own perverse racist mythology. Are Louis Farrakhan and Jeremiah Wright conservatives? Is Obama?
Racism does not exclusively plague the Right. Many American bigots manned the Left: ex-Klansman Hugo Black had an extremely left wing Supreme Court record, George Wallace was a New Deal style liberal – he just wanted welfare and social programs controlled by states. Communists always persecute minorities whenever in power.
The Nazis' anti-Semitism derived indirectly from Karl Marx, who despite Jewish ancestry was deeply anti-Semitic. Bankers and other capitalists were disproportionately Jewish. Elsewhere, Jews played prominent roles. Before falling under Hitler's sway, Mussolini's inner circle was overly Jewish. Peron was the first leader to let Jews hold public office in Argentina. Franco, a Marana, welcomed Jews back into Spain for the first time since 1492 and famously thwarted Hitler by harboring Jewish refugees.
Very little of Hitler's domestic activity was even remotely right wing. Europe views Left and Right differently, but here, free markets, limited constitutional government, family, church and tradition are the bedrocks of conservatism. The Nazis had a planned economy; eradicated federalism in favor of centralized government; considered church and family as competitors; and disavowed tradition wishing to restore Germany's pre-Christian roots.
Despite Democrats' pretensions every election, patriotism is clearly a conservative trait so Nazi foreign policy could be vaguely right wing, but how did Hitler's aggression differ from Stalin's? The peace movement evidenced liberals being duped as "useful idiots" more than pacifistic purity. Note the Left's insistence on neutrality during the Hitler/Stalin pact and their urgent switch to militarism once Germany attacked.
After assuming power, Nazis strongly advocated "law and order." Previously, they were antagonistic thugs, which mirrored the communists' ascension. The Nazis outlawed unions perceiving them as competitors for labor's loyalties, i.e. for precisely the same reason workers' paradises like Communist China and Soviet Russia disallowed unions. To Nazis, the state sustained workers' needs.
Even issues revealing similarity to American conservatism could also describe Stalin, Mao and many communists. This is not to suggest liberals and fascists are indistinguishable, but a fair assessment clearly shows if any similarities appear with American politics they reside more on the Left than Right.
On many issues the Nazis align quite agreeably with liberals. The Nazis enforced strict gun control, which made their agenda possible and highlights the necessity of an armed populace.
The Nazis separated church and state to marginalize religion's influence. Hitler despised biblical morality and bourgeois (middle class) values. Crosses were ripped from the public square in favor of swastikas. Prayer in school was abolished and worship confined to churches. Church youth groups were forcibly absorbed into the Hitler Youth.
Hitler extolled public education, even banning private schools and instituting "a fundamental reconstruction of our whole national education program" controlled by Berlin. Similar to liberals' cradle to career ideal, the Nazis established state administered early childhood development programs; "The comprehension of the concept of the State must be striven for by the school as early as the beginning of understanding."
Foreshadowing Michelle Obama, "The State is to care for elevating national health." Nanny State intrusions reflect that persons are not sovereign, but belong to the state. Hitler even sought to outlaw meat after the war; blaming Germany's health problems on the capitalist (i.e. Jewish) food industry. The Nazis idealized public service and smothered private charity with public programs.
Hitler's election platform included "an expansion on a large scale of old age welfare." Nazi propaganda proclaimed, "No one shall go hungry! No one shall be cold!" Germany had universal healthcare and demanded that "the state be charged first with providing the opportunity for a livelihood." Obama would relish such a "jobs" program.
Nazi Germany was the fullest culmination of Margaret Sanger's eugenic vision. She was the founder of Planned Parenthood, which changed its name from the American Birth Control Society after the holocaust surfaced. Although Nazi eugenics clearly differed from liberals' abortion arguments today, that wasn't necessarily true for their progressive forbears.
Germany was first to enact environmentalist economic policies promoting sustainable development and regulating pollution. The Nazis bought into Rousseau's romanticized primitive man fantasies. Living "authentically" in environs unspoiled by capitalist industry was almost as cherished as pure Aryan lineage.
National Socialist economics were socialist, obviously, imposing top-down economic planning and social engineering. It was predicated on volkisch populism combining a Malthusian struggle for existence with a fetish for the "organic." Like most socialists, wealth was thought static and "the common good supersede[d] the private good" in a Darwinist search for "applied biology" to boost greater Germany.
The Nazis distrusted markets and abused property rights, even advocating "confiscation of war profits" and "nationalization of associated industries." Their platform demanded, "Communalization of the great warehouses" (department stores) and presaging modern set aside quotas on account of race or politics, "utmost consideration of all small firms in contracts with the State."
Nazi Germany progressively dominated her economy. Although many businesses were nominally private, the state determined what was produced in what quantities and at what prices. First, they unleashed massive inflation to finance their prolific spending on public works, welfare and military rearmament. They then enforced price and wage controls to mask currency debasement's harmful impact. This spawned shortages as it must, so Berlin imposed rationing. When that failed, Albert Speer assumed complete power over production schedules, distribution channels and allowable profits.
Working for personal ends instead of the collective was as criminal in Nazi Germany as Soviet Russia. Norman Thomas, quadrennial Socialist Party presidential candidate, saw the correlation clearly, "both the communist and fascist revolutions definitely abolished laissez-faire capitalism in favor of one or another kind and degree of state capitalism. . . In no way was Hitler the tool of big business. He was its lenient master. So was Mussolini except that he was weaker."
Mussolini recognized, "Fascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter's prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes' excellent little book, The End of Laissez-Faire (l926) might, so far as it goes, serve as a useful introduction to fascist economics." Keynes saw the similarities too, admitting his theories, "can be much easier adapted to the conditions of a totalitarian state than . . . a large degree of laissez-faire." Hitler built the autobahn, FDR the TVA. Propaganda notwithstanding, neither rejuvenated their economies.
FDR admired Mussolini because "the trains ran on time" and Stalin's five year plans, but was jealous of Hitler whose economic tinkering appeared more successful than the New Deal. America wasn't ready for FDR's blatantly fascist Blue Eagle business model and the Supreme Court overturned several other socialist designs. The greatest dissimilarity between FDR and fascists was he enjoyed less success transforming society because the Constitution obstructed him.
Even using Republicans as proxies, there was little remotely conservative about fascism. Hitler and Mussolini were probably to the right of our left-leaning media and education establishments, but labeling Tea Partiers as fascists doesn't indict the Right. It indicts those declaring so as radically Left.
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package io.ripc.rx.protocol.tcp;

import io.ripc.protocol.tcp.TcpConnection;
import rx.Observable;
import rx.Subscriber;
import rx.internal.reactivestreams.SubscriberAdapter;

import static rx.RxReactiveStreams.*;

/**
 * An adapter for {@link io.ripc.protocol.tcp.TcpConnection} representated as an {@link Observable}
 *
 * @param <R> The type of objects read from this connection.
 * @param <W> The type of objects written to this connection.
 */
public class RxConnection<R, W> extends Observable<R> {

    private final TcpConnection<R, W> delegate;

    protected RxConnection(final TcpConnection<R, W> delegate) {
        super(new OnSubscribe<R>() {
            @Override
            public void call(Subscriber<? super R> subscriber) {
                delegate.subscribe(new SubscriberAdapter<>(subscriber));
            }
        });
        this.delegate = delegate;
    }

    /**
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    public Observable<Void> write(Observable<W> data) {
        return toObservable(delegate.write(toPublisher(data)));
    }

    public static <R, W> RxConnection<R, W> create(TcpConnection<R, W> delegate) {
        return new RxConnection<>(delegate);
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It creates a dreamy atmosphere, which makes you relax. Patchouli also works as a powerful aphrodisiac.
It can be used on the body, but can also be used very well during shamanic and esoteric rituals.


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By Staff On Jul 16, 2010
A year and a half ago I was so convinced that President Obama would be a transformational figure that I began work on book notes, and registered a domain name obamaconvergence.com, in anticipation of writing a book about the changes I guessed the Obama presidency would wrought.
I thought certain that Obama would change America's place in the world, use the failure of finance capitalism to reassert the rightful place of industrial capitalism and the role of producing value in the economy, while righting our energy policy and rationalizing health care. Eighteen months on, I have to admit to being a false prophet.
While Obama has made great strides with healthcare, the end result, I'm afraid, will prove less than useful to most American families. We see this month and last, that we have not had the courage or the depth of perspective, to rewrite our engagement in two wars which can only be described, at best, as partial failures. Our energy policy, despite the visionary appointment of Stephen Chu, as Energy Secretary still remains broken. And finally, Wall Street reform remains a dark disappointment. Far too much of our economy remains ensnared in a finance capitalism that fails to reward real innovation, real creation of value. Instead simply moving money about remains unsustainably, the engine of too much profit making in our economy. Unless we rewire the basic nature of rewards, benefits and penalties in our economy, we will fail to return to a broad-based prosperity, where productivity from the bulk of American families is properly sustained and rewarded.
And this doesn't even touch upon Obama's educational policy, which in the hands of non-educator Arne Duncan, has been disastrous. Using the carrot of federal dollars, Obama's education policy has pushed states and thousands of school districts down the policy cul-de-sacs of "transforming" schools and punishing teachers, approaches that research has proven as failures and distract powerfully from addressing real issues, many of which have proximate, research-proven, solutions.
Why this avalanche of failure and only partial success? Are American institutions too resistant to reform to be meaningfully changed. Or are Americans too disengaged, too misinformed by a media obsessed with entertainment rather than truth, maybe even too ignorant and lazy, to grasp the levers of their own future? Is this the decay that we have long been warned about, the last gasps of American hegemony, not just as a superpower, but as the "city on the hill," the shining light of democracy, freedom, and a Lockean (as opposed to Hobbesian) vision of human nature?
While history will render a final verdict, it seems our nation needs reform root and branch. We have collectively calcified an unsustainable status quo. Common sense solutions are eschewed as politically untenable. Concentrated power, especially the power of concentrated wealth, is viewed as unassailable. We have become, in part measure, a nation of cowards, afraid of the truth, afraid of the consequences of speaking truth to power. We have exalted and empowered the individual to the detriment of the common weal. Our institutions are captive to narrow interests, and we lack the focus and resolve necessary to meet our common challenges. While the nation has been resolute in the past, it is dissolute in meeting its future.
—Guerin Lee Green
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after having these (3) front brake set-ups on the car... I managed to get weight information on them... hopefully this will be helpful.
This one came from a late generation Insight... it still has the switch to move to different gears, the pics don't show it, though.
so you went from hpd to rsx-s? why did you down grade?
Huh. Is it possible to run the HPD calipers with the stock rotors? 16lbs unsprung savings over the full HPD kit. Probably not worth it, but any time I see weights it sets the gears a'whirling.
TWM Hybrid Specter knob, 50/35% tint, HPD SC #013, BC Coils w/Swift Springs, Beatrush Pillowball top mounts, Beatrush aluminum belly pan, BC/Skunk2 sts + solid washers, more to come!


Pedestrian detection, which is to identify category (pedestrian) of object and give the position information in the image, is an important and yet challenging task due to the intra-class variation of pedestrians in clothing and articulation. Previous researches mainly focus on feature extraction and sliding window, where the former aims to find robust feature representation while the latter seeks to locate the latent position. However, most of sliding windows are based on scale transformation and traverse the entire image. Therefore, it will bring computational complexity and false detection which is not necessary. To conquer the above difficulties, we propose a novel Saliency-Based Deformable Model (SBDM) method for pedestrian detection. In SBDM method we present that, besides the local features, the saliency in the image provides important constraints that are not yet well utilized. And a probabilistic framework is proposed to model the relationship between Saliency detection and the feature (Deformable Model) via a Bayesian rule to detect pedestrians in the still image.


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Fan-Ya Lin headed to Juilliard
April 16, 2013 September 8, 2015 by wsusignpost
The night before Fan-Ya Lin's audition at Weber State University, she sat down at Yu-Jane Yang's piano to play Chopin's Ballad No. 4. Yang worked with her on the piece, note by note, and before they knew it, it was after midnight.
The next day, Lin played that same piece at her audition and, to Yang's amazement, implemented every last tip from their lesson.
"I asked her how she fixed all the suggestions," said Yang, WSU's director of keyboard studies. "She said, 'Oh, after I went downstairs, I wrote down everything we had talked about in the lesson and then just went over them in my head from the beginning to the end.'"
Lin was accepted into Juilliard for her undergraduate studies, but chose to attend WSU in part because of the bond she had already formed with Yang.
"For me, it's kind of different, because she's not just a teacher," Lin said. "She's like a mentor and more like a mother sometimes, because I don't have any relatives here in the United States."
After receiving an individualized and well-rounded education she said she would have missed out on at Juilliard, Lin will finally head to New York after graduation. There, she said, she hopes to study more music from the Romantic Period, her favorite, and her favorite composers, including Chopin and Mendelssohn.
Lin recently played at Carnegie Hall as one of the first-place winners in the American Protege International Piano and Strings Competition 2013. There she played a few contemporary pieces to perform and e-mailed the composers to inquire of their inspirations for the pieces.
"We have to learn the background, the history and (about) the composer himself," Lin said. ". . . The more you know about one piece, the more you can get connected to it. It's very personal, because every piece, I want to love them so much, because when I'm playing, I have so much to say, so I feel comfortable performing in front of so many people."
Lin said in the Lieberman piece she played, "Gargoyles," the third and fourth movement were her favorites.
"Practically speaking, a gargoyle is a water spout, so the third movement has this watery feeling," she said. ". . . For the fourth movement, gargoyles are frightful-looking creatures that scare away evil spirits . . . (It) is a battle between the evil and the good, and it's exciting to play it because I can imagine my own stories and try to portray and try to demonstrate it to the audience."
Yang said Lin has a unique ability to not only convey the emotions of the pieces she plays, but to make the members of the audience feel those emotions too.
"She will be playing, and you look into the audience, and so many people have tears streaming down their faces."
Lin said she hopes to be a concert pianist and perform around the world.
"Hopefully, with some connections I can find in New York, like engagements or agencies and also with more competition experience, I can have more engagements and play in different places."
She said one of her other biggest dreams is to compete in the Chopin International Piano Competition.
"It's kind of one of the biggest competitions in the world. I would hope I can get in and have a feel for what it's like to compete in such a big competition."
Yang said Lin is well prepared to enter this next stage in her journey.
"I'm looking forward to all the wonderful things she is able to do now."
Lin will also perform at Commencement with fellow piano performance student Zoe Lu, who has been accepted into the Manhattan School of Music's master's program in piano.
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Lexi came home after her career as a chief engineer in F1 hit a wall, with all of the associated paparazzi attention as she was involved with the team's driver at the time. The baby in the family with 3 older brothers, she's always considered herself a tomboy, and is uncomfortable with all things 'girly' as she grew up rushing about to keep up with her brothers. Now home for the first extended time in years and finding herself enjoying her remove from the racing circuit more than she thought she would and working at the family's shop: now transformed into a Christmas wonderland, she's biding her time until the new year as she waits for a new offer from a racing team to return to the life she's 'meant to have'. Oh Lexi – it is so obvious to everyone BUT you that being home, pitching in at the store, spending time with your family and friends makes you happy: happier than the job offer you received. But when a little boy appears, a teddy bear with a wonky head and his gorgeous father appear in the shop, instantly Lexi offers to 'perform surgery', fixing Bear and giving him a jaunty new scarf. Thus Lexi meets George and his father Cal: new to the village, with plenty of interested females, single and attached, watching his every move.
Cal, a successful businessman who works with classic cars moved to the village with his young son George to give him a better life with more space and fresh air out of London. Taking full responsibility and custody of George after his mother refused to be involved, Cal is hoping to give George a good life- far better than his own in foster care. Cal is both fiercely protective of George and his feelings, and slightly flummoxed by the boy's questions, interests and parricularly his instant attachment to Lexi. Not interested in allowing anyone in enough to hurt either him or the child, but somehow he just can't stop running into Lexi. Of course, her best friend's husband and her brother both work with Cal, and George has become friends with her nephew and niece, and her family has done (in typical fashion) everything they can to welcome Cal and George to town and making them feel a part of the family and community.
Cal is hard not to like – his relationship with George and his determination to keep him safe and happy is wonderful, and you can't help but appreciate his warmth and willingness to help out those he likes. Lexi, on the other hand, while a wonderfully kind and clearly welcoming person was frustrating – SO frustrating as she first couldn't see what was in front of her, then refused to let go of her fear of all the bad things that could happen if she took a chance. Oh the back and forth wore a hole in the carpet here: everyone: from her mother, her friends and even her brothers see just how well-matched she and Cal were – and if that wasn't enough, her ex Marco, F1 driver and former fiancé saw it – and it was his surprising offer and words of sense that finally made a difference.
Full of emotions – this story fairly oozed family acceptance, love and goodwill. Even when Lexi was at her most frustrating, her brother Dan's and her parents' support and acceptance, even extending to quiet reprimands and gentle nudges into the fray of confusion she was experiencing was wonderful – everyone deserves family and friends just like that. When you add in a Great Dane that can't help but be adorable even as he snores away in the warmest place possible, the Christmas festivities and the wonderful additions to the family and the holiday themed store that can't help but put you in the spirit, the story fairly flies by to a conclusion that is expected yet surprising in just how well it works for everyone.
Maxine Morrey has wanted to be a writer for as long as she can remember and wrote her first (very short) book for school when she was ten. Coming in first, she won a handful of book tokens – perfect for a bookworm!
As years went by, she continued to write, but 'normal' work often got in the way. She has written articles on a variety of subjects, as well as a book on Brighton for a Local History publisher. However, novels are what she loves writing the most. After self publishing her first novel when a contract fell through, thanks to the recession, she continued to look for opportunities.
In August 2015, she won Harper Collins/Carina UK's 'Write Christmas' competition with her romantic comedy, Winter's Fairytale.