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Media Setting Up Iran as New 'Threat' That Must Be Confronted
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By Janine Jackson
Once again the Washington Post (5/14/19) presents the United States as "drifting toward war" — this time with Iran.
We're Drifting Toward War With Iran. Trumps Needs to Take a Diplomatic Way Out
The Washington Post editorial's headline (5/14/19) had the US "drifting" toward war with Iran—another example, as analyst Nima Shirazi quipped, of the "world's superpower somehow having no agency over its own imperialism."
If we can still call things "surreal," that would describe watching corporate media do the same things they did in the run-up to the Iraq War, things they later disavowed: the credulous repetition of administration claims about the supposed threat; the reliance, for interpretation of "intelligence," on officials with well known records for manipulating intelligence; the stenographic reporting of 'troubling' actions by the enemy state, that later have to be walked back.
A May 13 New York Times piece led with the statement that Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan had "presented an updated military plan that envisions sending as many as 120,000 troops to the Middle East should Iran attack American forces or accelerate work on nuclear weapons, administration officials said." As researcher Derek Davison reminds, in a piece for LobeLog (5/14/19), there is, as the Times has acknowledged on other occasions, no evidence that Iran is working on nuclear weapons, at whatever pace.
Later, the piece says:
Some senior American officials said the plans, even at a very preliminary stage, show how dangerous the threat from Iran has become. Others, who are urging a diplomatic resolution to the current tensions, said it amounts to a scare tactic to warn Iran against new aggressions.
So that's both sides; Iran is a dangerous threat or it needs to be prevented from "new aggressions," though the piece doesn't name any previous ones. Indeed, the Times quotes and leaves unremarked the claim from a National Security Council spokesperson that "the president has been clear, the United States does not seek military conflict with Iran…. However, Iran's default option for 40 years has been violence" — a frankly mind-boggling statement that surely warranted more than frictionless transmission.
At the very end of the article, Davison reports, the Times throws in that National Security Advisor John Bolton has been pushing for war on Iran since the George W. Bush administration, and has already asked the Pentagon to plan for a military strike at least once, before these new supposed "troubling" moves from the country.
But by that point, readers may have concluded that Iran is an emboldened rogue state, threatening the US and pursuing nuclear weapons—and the revelation that Bolton is trying to drum up a war with them might sound less unreasonable.
Janine Jackson is FAIR's program director and producer/host of FAIR's syndicated weekly radio show CounterSpin.
FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
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MIND MELD: Which Predictions Did Golden Age Science Fiction Get Right & Wrong?
Posted on January 30, 2008 by John DeNardo in Mind Meld // 4 Comments
Although science fiction fans know better, the general populace likes to think of sf as being written with the express purpose of predicting the future. So we posed the following question to a bunch of people in the since fiction community:
Science fiction is often accused of being The Great Predictor. Which predictions did Golden Age science fiction get right? Which ones were way off the mark?
James Gunn, Emeritus Professor of English at K.U., has published a dozen novels and half a dozen collections of stories, and has edited a dozen and a half books. His best-known novels are The Immortals, The Dreamers, The Listeners, Kampus, and The Joy Makers. The Immortals was filmed as The Immortal and became a TV series. He published The Science of Science-Fiction Writing in 2002 and edited Speculations on Speculation: Theories of Science Fiction in 2005. He has been president of the Science Fiction Writers of America and the Science Fiction Research Association. His most recent publications are Gift from the Stars and the reprint edition of The Listeners, both available from BenBella Books. In 2007 he was named a Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master by SFWA.
Science fiction has included a lot of speculations that look like predictions, and some of them have come to pass, most spectacularly spaceships and atomic power and bombs, but prediction is a side effect of creating plausible scenarios about future change, not its intent. SF has been more important as a means of persuading readers to think about issues and the ways in which they might develop and how that might affect the human condition. As Isaac Asimov said in 1973, "We live in a science-fiction world, a world very much like the one we were writing about in 1939." It is a world that might well have been significantly different if science-fiction writers had not imagined it in detail. More specifically, to quote Isaac again, "Science-fiction writers and readers didn't put a man on the moon all by themselves, but they created a climate in which the goal of putting a man on the moon became acceptable." The same process is at work on other potential changes, in which, as John Campbell put it, futures are tested for human habitability. Or, as he went on, science-fiction is a way of practicing in a no-practice area. Some changes, like a parachute jump, have to be perfect the first time.
James Wallace Harris
James Wallace Harris is a life-long science fiction fan. With Olivier Travers, he created SciFan.com in 1999 and he programmed the database system. Since the early days of the web, James has maintained The Classics of Science Fiction, which was based on his article from the fanzine Lan's Lantern back in the 1980s. He quit SciFan to study fiction writing and he attended the Clarion West Writer's Workshop in 2002. He now practices blog writing at Auxiliary Memory. James has been happily married for thirty years to his wife Susan. He works as a programmer and sys admin but dreams about space exploration and writing a SF 2.0 novel.
Science fiction's greatest success at prediction was its greatest failure. From Jules Verne through Robert Heinlein prepared the world for human exploration of space. Even ancient Greeks imagined life on other worlds and throughout the centuries rare minds wrote about fantastic voyages to distant spheres. It was the Golden Age SF writers that spread the meme across the globe so even the average American family drinking their java and reading their Colliers knew it was going to happen. Science fiction inspired the engineers that formed NASA who built the Saturn V and Apollo 11. All those crazy Buck Rogers nuts were vindicated on July 20, 1969.
Rocket travel was pulp fiction philosophy. The colonization of Mars was seen as inevitable as the Mayflower coming to America. Then twelve mighty Americans walked on the Moon and the dream died. Those pulp fiction Platos lacked the vision to see that 99.99 percent of Earthlings didn't want to pay for the fever dreams of the .01 percent. John W. Campbell's disciples never imagined that the common homo sap just did not want to build cities in space.
I have tortured my mind for years to understand why my fellow citizens lacked the deep passion we science fiction fans feel for space exploration. My conclusion is science fiction failed to understand sex – the genetic low level programming to date, mate, marry and procreate. Even Robert A. Heinlein never noticed the urge to get laid is greater than the drive to blast off into the ether. Greed can trump humping but there are no El Dorados in space. People spend taxes on security, and although all our genetics eggs are in basket Earth, no Prudential Messiah has sold humanity the racial life insurance policy of colonizing Mars. SF 2.0 needs to revision space travel.
John C. Wright
John C. Wright is the author of The Golden Age Trilogy, The War of the Dreaming, Chronicles of Chaos and the upcoming Null-A Continuum, the authorized sequel of A.E. van Vogt's World of Null-A books. His short fiction has appeared in Year's Best SF 3, The Night Lands, Best Short Novels 2004, The Year's Best Science Fiction #21, Breach The Hull, and No Longer Dreams.
The key to this question is to interpret what is meant by the "Golden Age." Rather than straining my brain for the answer, I will simply pull up a convenient list of the top ten science fiction books of all time as compiled by Jim Baen.
Now, your list or mine might differ, but our lists will not have any greater weight of judgment behind them than the one drawn up by one of the most famous and longstanding editors in the field. Let us look at the books and see which predictions came true, shall we?
Let us list the books and their predictions:
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
Prediction: Time traveling engineer travels back to the Dark Ages, outsmarting King Arthur, and introducing firearms and telegrams, which reverses the decline and fall of civilization.
Verdict: Um. I don't think that ever happened, but, depending on how time travel works, I support it could have happened in a multiple parallel universe that we are unaware of.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Prediction: Mysterious superscientist invents an ironclad submersible.
Verdict: Bingo! We have a winner! Submarines and polar expeditions! We also all remember when Robur the Conqueror, aboard The Terror attempted to fight Captain Nemo in his powerful ironclad Nautilus off the coast of Norway, but they were parted by the Maelstrom. Agents of the British crown and American treasury department are still seeking the secret of the rotary engine, and the other miraculous devices created by these scientific geniuses. Okay, okay, obviously the events did not happen, but the scientific predictions were utterly sound.
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Prediction: Mysterious superscientist visits AD 802701, and finds out that modern civilization will decline and fall. Aristocrats will evolve into helpless food animals. Workingmen will evolve into cannibal troglodytes.
Verdict: Not only did this prediction not come true, it will never come true. The Nexxial Timesweepers of the Fourth Era of time travel are carefully uncreating any time travelers before they come into existence, to eliminate the possibility of time travel ever coming to pass.
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Prediction: A galactic empire is guided through its decline and fall by a mysterious superscientist who develops a predictive model of history.
Verdict: We do not even have flying cars yet, much less Galactic Empires. The idea for the science of Psychohistory is innately ridiculous. The closest thing we have to a predictive model of human large-scale behavior is a science called economics, and economics teaches us that wealth-creation is maximized when the five-year plans, ten-year plans, and (one must assume) the thousand-year 'Seldon Plans' are ignored and free men and free markets are best left to muddle through on their own.
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
Prediction: Atomic war causes the decline and fall of the modern world into a new dark age.
Verdict: This did not happen, thank God! Full-scale "Total War" with atomic weapons does not seem to be in the military plans of any world power at the moment.
Dune by Frank Herbert
Prediction: A different galactic empire is guided into its decline and fall by a mysterious superhuman messiah.
Verdict: Swords and spaceships, eh? Don't hold your breath waiting for the marines to switch from fully automatic firearms to poisoned knives. Dude, forget about the flying car. Where is my geriatric spice?
Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague deCamp
Prediction: A different time traveler attempts to prevent the decline and fall of a non-galactic empire by introducing double-entry bookkeeping into Gothic-era Rome.
Verdict: This one was also cleaned up by the Nexxial timesweepers. Agent Ravel merely chronoported into the continuum behind Martin Padway and shot him in the head. Done. Paradox averted. Time stream saved.
Against the Fall of Night by Arthur C. Clarke
Prediction: The 10-billion-year-old metropolis of Diaspar is humanity's last home. The Galactic Empire apparently declined and fell. One lone boy decides to investigate and rediscover star travel, to end the long Dark Ages of Diaspar.
Verdict: 10 Billion years old? Um…. We're still waiting on this one. Please note that Alvin does not have mysterious mind-powers, but the people of Lys do. He is only sort of a messiah figure.
Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert A. Heinlein
Prediction: Slave boy escapes from captors with the help of a mysterious superspy.
Verdict: While we don't have interstellar travel yet, the idea is chillingly accurate. Before World War II, slavery was wiped out, and it seemed, forever. But there are areas in the world where it is re-emerging, and for reasons not hard to guess.
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Prediction: A different superhuman messiah mocks organized religion and organizes orgies instead.
Verdict: Dead accurate. All the enormities and absurdities of the postchristian sexual revolution Heinlein predicted in his book have come to pass, and our civilization is declining and falling due to these things. And there is life on Mars, and the Martians have mystical mind-powers and talk to angels. Whatever, dude.
TO SUM UP: We science fiction writers could not make an accurate prediction to save our lives. We can not predict our way out of a wet paper bag. We write stories about galactic empires, dark ages, mysterious superscientists, super-messiahs, and mind-powers We are not trying to make predictions.
The future is merely the setting for our stories. We are not as accurate in our settings as writers of Westerns or Regency romances are in their settings.
Adam Roberts was born two-thirds of the way through the last century; he presently lives a little way west of London, England, with a beautiful wife and two small children. He is a writer with a day-job (professor at Royal Holloway, University of London). The first of these two employments has resulted in eight published sf novels, the most recent being Splinter (Solaris 2007) and Land of the Headless (Victor Gollancz 2007). The second of these has occasioned such critical studies as The Palgrave History of Science Fiction (2006).
I'm less interested, with a question like this, in specific items of hardware and gadgetry predicted correctly or otherwise: robots, jetpacks, rolling walkways instead of highways, all that. These are all toys: diverting, but not essential, to the future. I'm more interested in larger trends, in the way SF writers carry their social, systemic or ideological biases into the future, and so get it wrong. So, for example, the default position for Golden Age SF was that space will be explored and exploited by private enterprise and individual initiative. Heinlein's Rocket Ship Galileo (1947) the first rocket to the moon is built with private money; but the truth is that nations, not private companies, have funded space exploration. No sign of that changing in the near future. This bias in favour of improbably far-reaching individual application, and distrust of the nation-state, is immanent in the legacy of SF, although it mismatches the world.
Overpopulation is another example: Harry Harrison, in Make Room! Make Room! (1966) predicted crippling overpopulation by 1999; Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar (1968) predicted the same thing by 2010. The first prediction was wrong, and the second will be. Malthus, it turns out, was in error: a greater population does (as he argued) put more pressure on resources, but that doesn't result in inevitable humanitarian disaster becase the increased population also supplies a greater supply of people to come up with ingenious solutions to the problem with resources. Here's a prophesy of my own (what Age of Science Fiction are we in, now? Bronze, is it?): overpopulation will never, globally speaking, be a catastrophic problem for humanity
Mike Brotherton
Mike Brotherton is the author of the hard science fiction novels Spider Star (2008) and Star Dragon (2003), the latter being a finalist for the Campbell award. He's also a professor of astronomy at the University of Wyoming, Clarion West graduate, and founder of the Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop for Writers (www.launchpadworkshop.org). He blogs at www.mikebrotherton.com.
There's a t-shirt that Threadless.com offered a few years ago that says: "they lied to us — this was supposed to be the future — where is my jetpack, where is my robotic companion, where is my dinner in pill form, where is my hydrogen fueled automobile, where is my nuclear-powered levitating house, where is my cure for this disease"
I'll take a slightly different list of Golden Age SF predictions: ray guns, robots, flying cars, jet packs, nuclear powered everything, and world government. Although the military does use lasers as weapons, as well as microwave emitting devices, the concept of a hand-held ray gun seems to be a bust. Robots have been around in one form or another, and will get closer and closer to humanoid forms in coming years, so I think this one is going to be valid. Flying cars and jet packs have been developed, but haven't been practical from an economic or safety perspective to date, so I'll call that one a push. Nuclear power works and could be ubiquitous, but lost the propaganda war. We could see more of it in the near future if the oil supplies dwindle as some are predicting. World government? I think we're farther away from that than we were in the 1950s despite the end of the Cold War, so that has to be a bust for now and the foreseeable future.
On the whole, I think the spirit of the Golden Age was right. Science and technology have made great strides and people living today have a much higher quality of life than ever before.
What was the biggest omission? Computers and related information technology. The following quotes are from the business section of The Kansas City Star, Jan 17, 1995:
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
– Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949.
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
– Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.
"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won?t last out the year."
– The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957.
The novels of Robert Heinlein and many other writers well past the Golden Age continued to have their space adventurers working out calculations on slide rules, and Asimov's computers were giant, isolated thinkers. No doubt about it, missing the technology trajectory of computers was the biggest goof of the Golden Age.
Sue Lange
Sue Lange's We, Robots published in March 2007 by Aqueduct Press, deals with the SF prediction du jour: the Singularity. Her first book, Tritcheon Hash, was published in 2003. She has a few short stories published here and there as well.
Obvious things like Moonmen and Martians come to mind immediately. Totally wrong about them. In fact, I think anything about aliens is off the mark at this point. FTL travel is the limiting factor, which is another thing sf seems to have gotten wrong. The assumption was we'd be able to overcome that problem, but it doesn't look like it. Fermi's Paradox also comes into play. This is something today's sf writers are starting to come around on. Twenty or thirty years ago, everyone assumed that someday we'd meet aliens. Not everyone agrees with that anymore. Lots of people feel Fermi has a point.
Flying cars and the ubiquitous videophone could maybe be included in the list of bad predictions, but maybe not. I think the jury is out on such things. First of all, flying cars are impractical now because we can't even handle regular on-the-ground traffic very well. Driving on a road is fairly easy for even the most brain-dead amongst us, but I doubt we'd be good at taking traffic to the air. But just because flying cars haven't been invented yet, or should I say, mass produced yet (I'm quite sure somebody's got something somewhere in their back yard), doesn't mean they won't be someday. It all depends on the market. Same with videophones. We have the technology, but no one seems to be jumping on it. Is it because they're too expensive or because people don't want it? I think people are starting to come around to the idea, but who knows if it will ever really take. There's a lot to be said for not being seen as you make that call to Rush Limbaugh.
Time travel will probably not be happening.
I think where golden age sf really falls off the mark is with its predictions of cultural change. Mostly because there were no predictions. Society was going to go on forever as it was. There would be no civil rights movement, women would never become independent of men, people would always get behind a war, technological progress would continue unhindered by protests from the masses. Whoops that one might be right.
Where did it do right? Spaceflight. Communications. World peace. (Not yet, but with so many people working on it, it's got to happen, right?) Subcutaneous birth control.
Things that were missed: The rampant use of text messaging rather than actual voice communication, a cultural phenomenon.
Andrew Wheeler has been a publishing professional for nearly twenty years. He spent sixteen years as an editor for various bookclubs (most notably, working for the Science Fiction Book Club the entire time), ending as a Senior Editor. He is currently a Marketing Manager for John Wiley & Sons.
Just to be contrary, I have to start my answer by questioning the premise: I've always firmly believed that the point of SF is not to predict the future, but to tell stories – and those stories are always mostly about their own times. Explicit predictions often tend to be advocacy or horrifying object lessons, to show the readers what they might get if they follow the right or wrong path. Predictions that end up being correct are often pure luck, or are just smart extrapolation of well-known human behavior into new situations. (Witness Heinlein's kids in Space Cadet – one talking quickly to his parents on his mobile phone, while another notes, smugly, that he packed his phone away so he can't hear it ring. That's a prediction, of a sort, but it's mostly a moment of character interaction, and what makes is predictive today is what made it true in 1948 when Heinlein wrote it.)
But that's not what you wanted, I suppose, so let me think…Golden Age SF must have gotten something right, mustn't it? Maybe if I think long enough, something will come to mind…
I could fudge the question by talking about my personal Golden Age – which was twelve, as Terry Carr sagely noted – but I'll be honest and talk about the accepted Golden Age, that broad swath of history from Hugo Gernsback to John W. Campbell. (And that's a wide range of styles and stories, indeed.)
Gernsbackian SF didn't get much "right," because it wasn't trying to describe the future – it was trying to excite and motivate the next generation of engineers and scientists. The point wasn't to show what could happen, but to give a sense of the possibilities and wonders of science. And so there was a parade of brilliant, reclusive scientists working on monumental discoveries in secret, aided only by their beautiful daughters. And when those daughters were threatened by oxygen-breathing, bipedal aliens who spoke English and apparently wanted nubile Earth-maidens for either sex or meat (neither of which made much sense), the uber-competent young scientist was there to save the damsels in distress.
All of that, of course, was nothing like science or history – then or at any time in the history of the human race. And the coruscating rays of purple force, the planet-busting bombs, and all the other accouterments of mad-scientist-hood were similarly wrong as prediction, but just fine as pulp fiction.
Campbellian SF was somewhat better, with realistic organizations (the Foundation is a quite believable bureaucracy) and a solid grasp on how humans interact (like the labor action in Heinlein's "The Roads Must Roll" – the roads themselves are ridiculous, but what happens to and on them is very plausible). But even the explicit Future Histories, drawn from what their authors swore were iron laws of history – like Heinlein's, or like Blish's spindizzies – were completely wrong. (We haven't left the earth to the dogs, like Simak's City, either.)
The few "correct" predictions tend to be minor and beside the point, for all that SF triumphalists crow about "A Logic Named Joe." Some writers were good at predicting the texture of the future, like Heinlein (and, later, John Brunner), but even that was never the point. (There's also a point to be made here about Philip K. Dick, who's a little late to be "Golden Age," and whose stories often feel like the real 21st century, even though all of the details are completely different.)
So, all in all, my answer to the question of what Golden Age SF got right and wrong is…that's not really the question to ask, unless by "right and wrong" we mean not predictions but imagination.
Fred Kiesche
Fred Kiesche has been reading science fiction since the early 1960's. He has a collection of over 8,000 books at home, at least half of which is science fiction and fantasy and the rest are made up of books on science, history and other non-fiction subjects. He is an avid amateur astronomer, devoted husband and father, and is seemingly perpetually underemployed since 9/11/01. He blathers on this and other subjects at TexasBestGrok.
First, what is the Golden Age of SF? I've never liked to pin it to a specific period, preferring the answer that Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov and others have used (e.g., "The golden age of SF is twelve" or "The golden age of SF is fourteen", etc.). I know I get that golden age feeling every time I find a new author that excites me.
Second, who says that SF is the Great Predictor? Names! I need names! I never agreed with that. About the most specific prediction that I saw was that a Major Armstrong would be the first man to step on the Moon in 1964. The author ("Philip St. John", one of the many pseudonyms used by Lester del Rey, in the book Rocket Jockey) got the last name right, the date wrong, the rank wrong…
I'd rather talk about what science fiction, golden or otherwise, is good for. I think SF is good for education, enthusiasm, and inoculation. To explain…
Science fiction educates and enthuses. Spider Robinson claims to know of ten astronauts that got started because they read a book called Rocket Ship Galileo by Robert A. Heinlein (maybe you've heard of him?). Some would argue that he had an impact on the space program well beyond those ten folks. Me, personally, I got interested in a lot of science due to stories such as Sir Arthur C. Clarke's Saturn Rising (which led me into amateur astronomy). Collections such as the one edited by Isaac Asimov, Where Do We Go From Here? led to reading non-fiction on chemistry, biology and more.
As for inoculation, harken back to the 1970's. Perpetually on the best seller lists and perpetually found in yard sales and garage sales was Future Shock by Alvin Toffler. The future was coming! The future was scary! Things were changing faster and faster! I read the book and shrugged my shoulders. I had read much stranger stuff in SF. My mother asked me once about cloning. I gave her an answer and she was surprised by how nonchalant I was. SF has inoculated me against the surprises of the future.
2001 wasn't a bit like 2001: A Space Odyssey. No manned voyages to Jupiter, cities on the Moon, etc. Am I disappointed that we don't have manned spaceships to Jupiter? Instead we've had multiple probes to Jupiter returning data and wonderful shots like this one. Maybe, but I appreciate how SF has given me a sense of wonder that allows me to love shots that the one in the link.
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4 Comments on MIND MELD: Which Predictions Did Golden Age Science Fiction Get Right & Wrong?
Jeannine // January 30, 2008 at 9:18 pm //
There are videophones! Get a webcam, a mic, and Skype. What's more, it's free!
Dale Pontius // February 1, 2008 at 3:20 pm //
Try "A Logic Named Joe" by Murray Leinster. In the year 1946, he practically nailed the personal computer and the internet, as well as some of the problems with both. This page explains it pretty well: http://www.troynovant.com/Franson/Leinster/Logic-Named-Joe.html
John // February 1, 2008 at 3:54 pm //
Thanks, Dale.
Also: "A Logic named Joe" can be read for free thanks to the Baen Free Library.
Jim Harris // February 3, 2008 at 7:40 pm //
Looks like we don't give Science Fiction much credit for prediction. I never expected SF to accurately predict the future. I always appreciated SF for it's vague warnings. Earth Abides does a nice job of letting me know what life on Earth might be like if a ot of people suddenly died off. I never expected it to come true. The whole point of it is for us to avoid such a future. Ditto for all those stories about atomic destruction. "Bears Discover Fire" is a great story but I don't think Bisson was predicting Bears would discover fire. However it is entertaining to think about the next species to discover fire – like why haven't we found chimps roasting small animals over a camp fire? Has anyone every given them some matches or let them eat steak well done?
SF is like Einstein's thought experiments, but they don't have to be about predicting real aspects of reality. Fredric Brown's Martian's Go Home is a wonderful thought experiment about visiting aliens who love terrible practical jokes.
SF doesn't predict a future, but a lot of possible fun futures. David Brin's Uplift series imagines talking chimps and dolphins. I like that idea. That would be a nice future to live in.
I think the best thing SF does is predict futures that 12 year old kids want to live in. Sure we're disappointed when we haven't found those futures by age 56, but that doesn't mean we didn't love them as kids during our Golden Ages.
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What's the long-term impact of the EU's carbon market crisis?
The European Union's new plan to shore up its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) following a plunge in carbon prices underscores just how volatile – and vulnerable – the carbon emissions trading market has become.
Battered by global economic uncertainty, an overuse of allowances and political polarization, the ETS will probably remain in limbo until at least September. That's when the EU's climate change commission next meets.
The question, however, is whether any lasting damage has been done to the carbon emissions trading market. "It's very difficult to be sure," said Rebecca Henderson, professor at Harvard University and co-director of the Business and Environment Initiative at the university's business school.
One possible consequence, according to Henderson, is governments and corporations becoming more aware of the dangers of mismanaging carbon allowances and permits -- which could force a rethinking and eventual restructuring of these markets.
Photo of coal power plant smoke stacks by V.J. Matthew via Shutterstock.
But all this news doesn't mean carbon emissions trading is going away – or even scaring off investors.
In the United States, with its noticeable lack of government regulations on carbon emissions, energy-related carbon emissions have dropped significantly over the past five years.
That data is due in part to the growing number of U.S. companies investing in green technologies – and understanding the benefits those technologies have on their bottom line.
Henderson said that a wide variety of firms have discovered that reducing carbon emissions and reducing their energy use has an immediate payback. "And I think that understanding is becoming more widely diffuse," she said.
For now, however, the deepening economic crises in Europe and election-year politics in the U.S. are probably taking their toll on the implementation of carbon trading.


Ideally, what you will be taking with you on your Scafell Pike walk are the items which will prevent you getting into trouble – or help you to get out of it.
It's essential that anyone deciding to climb Scafell Pike has all the appropriate clothing and equipment.
Regular walkers will probably already have most, if not all, of the necessary equipment; but for those with less experience, the recommendations below will provide a useful guide.
The two most important factors to consider when choosing equipment are COMFORT and SAFETY.
Good quality, comfortable clothing and footwear will significantly increase your enjoyment of the walk up Scafell Pike, and contribute a great deal to making the challenge easier.
Taking the appropriate safety equipment with you will help avoid getting into difficulties in the first place, as well as making it easier to get out of trouble if misfortune does strike.
The summit of Scafell Pike is very rough terrain; a mass of boulders and crevices where, with the wrong footwear, a twisted ankle is a real threat; so good quality walking boots are essential, even in perfect sunny weather.
General comfort – when trying on boots, walk around in them enough to be sure no part of the boot rubs or pinches. Even the slightest discomfort felt in the shop will be magnified many times over after ten miles in the hills!
Ankle Support – the boot needs to be high enough that it covers most, if not all, of the ankle joint. This will provide the protection needed to avoid a painful twist if you accidentally misplace your footing.
Sturdy Sole – the sole of the boot needs to be thick enough that you can't feel small rocks and so on as you walk over them, and it's also important that the sole has a good rugged grip.
For these reasons, although you can certainly buy walking boots online, it is strongly recommended that you visit a specialist shop with trained staff who can assist and advise you.
Another key factor in making your Scafell Pike walk enjoyable is your choice of clothing.
Comfort – don't wear anything which can rub or chafe, and definitely not jeans (which are terrible for chafing, and become horribly heavy and clinging if they get wet, which can quickly lead to hypothermia). Socks are very important of course, and it is well worth paying a little extra for really good quality.
Temperature Regulation – even if you set off in t-shirt weather, there could easily be a bitter wind-chill at the summit. Several thin layers are therefore always the best option, wearing one or two layers to begin with (depending on weather and time of year), and with a spare layer in your rucksack.
Weather Protection – your two key enemies are wind-chill and rain. So good quality, breathable waterproof jacket and trousers are a must. In fine weather with a good forecast, take lightweight waterproofs which can be packed in your rucksack without taking up too much space. In less clement weather, a more robust jacket will provide far superior protection from the elements.
You're going to need a rucksack to carry things with you up Scafell Pike. When choosing a rucksack, it's important that it's big enough to carry all your essentials, and for this reason we recommend a minimum capacity of 25 litres. The other important thing is that it's comfortable to wear! So if at all possible, try it on before you buy it, and fill it with around the same weight and volume that you'll be carrying up Scafell Pike. We suggest that you either purchase from a shop, or buy it in advance of your trip in case you need to return it.
These bags are robust, and built for comfort, and is an ideal purchase if you are looking for something that will last. It's not the biggest rucksack on the market, but is probably fine taking the essentials up Scafell Pike.
The 'Freeflow' product name refers to the back system that reduces contact between the bag and your back, allowing for a nice flow of air.
The Ultrasport bag is a bit of a more budget friendly option and might suit a novice hiker who doesn't want to invest a lot initially. It has an array of features such as a rain cover and loops to hold your trekking poles. This model starts at 25 litres, but you can also choose up to 60.
This bag is ideal for specialist hikers, who needs to carry a lot of camera kit up the mountain. It doesn't leave a lot of room for much else, so is perhaps recommended for hikers embarking on easier routes, and probably with other people who have large backpacks for other essentials.
Read the detailed specification on Amazon.
Here are some further walking equipment essentials that we suggest you'll need for your climb.
You'll need an Ordnance Survey 'Explorer' Map of the Scafell Pike area. These maps are at a scale of 1:25000, which offers far more detail than the 'Landranger' maps with their 1:50000 scale.
It's available on Amazon. Click here to get one.
You'll also need a good quality compass, and most important of all, you need to know how to use them! There are many sources of training in map and compass use, and it's important to both learn and practise before you set out to climb Scafell Pike.
Click here to see the Silva Field Compass on Amazon.
Light and compact First Aid Kits containing all the essentials you will need are easily available both online and in outdoor shops.
This particular first aid kit is well reviewed, offering ice packs, eye wash and an emergency blanket. Covering all occasions.
Perhaps overlooked by some. A small, lightweight whistle takes no space at all, and can make all the difference should you be unlucky enough to need to summon help.
Used by lots of hikers, and is rated highly, and certainly is classed as an 'essential'.
While these are certainly not classed as essentials, they might suit technology enthusiasts, and might enhance your climb. Of course, it goes without saying that you shouldn't rely on technology for navigation, and you should fully equip yourself with a good map (mentioned above), and compass (again, mentioned above).
From our research, this handheld GPS looks to have a broad feature set, and great durability, using GPS and Russian 'GLONASS' (or 'Globalnaya navigatsionnaya sputnikovaya sistema'!) satellites to pinpoint your location accurately and quickly.
It also supports paperless GeoCaching. While we feel this might detract from the fun of finding and uncovering the actual cache (perhaps), the point of GeoCaching is to have fun exploring, and this makes it quicker and easier to do so.
You can also download an Ordnance Survey map to the device, and a free download voucher is included with your purchase.
Having a mobile with you makes sense as it enables you to call for help in an emergency, or just to let family and friends know if you are simply running a little over-schedule. However, on no account should you ever rely on a mobile phone for navigating or even making calls while on Scafell Pike (or any other mountain, for that matter!)! Their GPS accuracy is often unreliable, the phone signal might be non existent; and if you drop and break the phone, if it's battery runs out, or it gets soaked by rain – then you're in trouble. Take one with you, but DON'T rely on it.
As with any physical activity, climbing Scafell Pike is going to burn a lot of calories. So you'll need food (high energy snacks as well as sandwiches) to maintain energy levels, as well as plenty to drink to keep you properly hydrated. Some people just take water, whilst others prefer one of the many Sports Energy Drinks available. Whatever you choose, the most important thing is to take plenty of it.


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Change of CEO likely to further delay reconstruction works
By Our Reporter The present coalition government of Nepali Congress and the Maoist Centre has once again proved that they are little bothered about the plights of the people. They are interested more to take revenge against the CPN-UML, the main opposition party that has been trying to foil their …
Nepal's flag carrier to take delivery of Chinese-made planes
KATHMANDU, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) — The Nepal Airline Corporation (NAC), the national flag carrier of Nepal, said on Sunday that a four-member team departed for China to bring two of the four Chinese-made aircraft on order. As per an agreement signed between Nepal's flag carrier and Chinese supplier – AVIC …
How far is the government friendly with China?
By Our Reporter Bimalendra Nidhi, deputy prime minister and home minister is of the view that Nepal should enhance relations with India by discouraging relations with Nepal's northern neighbour China. Time and again, he has advised PM PushpakamalDahal saying that there is no need to look towards the north. This …
3rd Bangladesh Expo kicks off
By Our Reporter With a view to further enhancing the existing excellent trade and business relations between Bangladesh and Nepal and to introduce and familiarize the Nepalese entrepreneurs and consumers to the wide variety of products that are Bangladesh, the Bangladesh Embassy has organizing a five-day single country trade fair, …
"Agreed to disagree"
By Our Reporter Prime Minister Pushpakamal Dahal has said that the constitution amendment bill was tabled after the meeting with UML chair KP Oli. As per the agreement the amendment bill was tabled on 8 January, said Dahal. He however clarified that Oli had agreed to disagree the bill. Dahal …
Gushing grievances within Indian armed services
By Chiran Jung Thapa Recent string of incidents involving uniformed personnel have roiled the Indian armed services. Several uniformed personnel have taken to social media to expose the excesses, inadequacies and transgressions in their respective services. It all began after Constable TejBahadurYadav from Border Security Force, (BSF) stationed in the …
The holiday episode
By PR Pradhan In spite of the government efforts to overshadow the contribution of King Prithivi Narayan Shah the Great, the entire nation observed his birth anniversary on 11 January with great fanfare. In spite of pressures from RPP leaders and also NC and UML leaders, the government headed by …
As Nepali politics in its exclusionary travails of impudent organizational gains continues to breach national unity resulting in precarious national divisions bordering structural collapse, it seems it takes none less than a king to resort to building bridges for the nation's sake. Amidst undercurrents of controversy whether former king Gyanendra …
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By Prabasi Nepali Neighbours India India has long been a source of inspiration for many Nepalese, and its government right since its independence the fountainhead of guidance for most Nepalese leaders. Unfortunately, for many uninspired countrymen who have not seen the light, it has remained the "Mughlan (since the time …


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Q: Find sum of one column based on consecutive values of another column in data.table I have a data.table like the following:
    dput(DT)
structure(list(ID = c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L), Job = structure(c(6L, 7L, 8L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 6L, 7L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 4L), .Label = c("f1", "f2", "f3", "f4", "f5", "h1", "h2", "h3"), class = "factor"), Duration = c(2L, 3L, 4L, 4L, 3L, 2L, 1L, 0L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 4L, 0L), Outsourced = structure(c(1L,2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 1L), .Label = c("N","Y"), class = "factor")), .Names = c("ID", "Job", "Duration", "Outsourced"), row.names = c(NA, -14L), class = c("data.table", "data.frame"), .internal.selfref = <pointer: 0x103003178>)

which gives
         ID      Job     Duration Outsourced
 1:       1       h1        2          N
 2:       1       h2        3          Y
 3:       1       h3        4          Y
 4:       1       f1        4          Y
 5:       1       f2        3          N
 6:       1       f3        2          N
 7:       1       f4        1          N
 8:       1       f5        0          N
 9:       2       h1        2          N
10:       2       h2        3          Y
11:       2       f1        4          Y
12:       2       f2        5          N
13:       2       f3        4          N
14:       2       f4        0          N

I want to have the sum of Duration, for all jobs that have consecutive "Y" in the Outsourced column. Moreover, if activities belong to different ID, they shouldn't be counted as consecutive. One ID may have more than one set of consecutive "Y" jobs.
So for this example, the correct answer would be something like
        ID V1
1:       1 11
2:       2  7

Currently, I use rle to find running lengths of "Y" in the outsourced column, and then I try with ifs to do the rest, but I think this can be done more elegantly...
Thank you

A: Following @docendo discimus suggestion from above, I managed to get what I wanted by adding a "unique" statement:
DT[, NewCol := sum(Duration), by = list(ID, rleid(Outsourced))][Outsourced == "N", NewCol := NA]
DT[!is.na(NewCol), unique(NewCol), ID]

EDIT: To cover cases that include many sets of Outsourced activities with the same duration, the second statement should be changed to:
DT[!is.na(NewCol), sum(rle(NewCol)$values), ID]

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June 2007Park Picks
Devils River
Clear spring water and amazing scenery make "roughing it" worth the effort.
"This may be the only place on the planet where nothing has changed in my lifetime," says Jim Finnegan, indicating a mile of river frontage in Devils River State Natural Area. He should know; Finnegan grew up on these 20,000-odd acres, where his great-grandfather established a sheep ranch in 1883.
Running south more than 40 miles to empty into Lake Amistad, Devils River gets 80 percent of its water from springs, several gushing from park property. The spring water and the site's remote location, in the vastness of southwest Texas between Sonora and Del Rio, help make it one of the state's cleanest rivers. It's only impounded at its lower end, and that, along with deep pools, wide shallows, impressive rapids and sheer good looks, attracts canoe and kayak aficionados. The Devils River is not for the casual paddler, though. A typical trip is 45 miles long over several Class III rapids, and the wind along part of the journey is sometimes strong enough to blow boats upstream.
"This is not a float trip," as Devils River Outfitter's Gerald Bailey says. "You have to work to get down river." A rough limestone bed, limited take-out areas, shuttle drives of up to five hours, and no medical care within 70 miles — without a doubt, running this river takes guts. The rewards, though, include miles of pale blue water shot through with sunlight, rugged cliffs punctuated by caves, shady pecan and oak groves, and more unspoiled scenery and solitude than most of us have experienced in a lifetime — not to mention some of the finest catch-and-release fishing for smallmouth bass around.
For $10, park staff will shuttle groups to put in for a down-river paddle between 8 and 9 a.m. There's also a riverside camping area for those who start some 15 miles upstream at Baker's Crossing Campground. The next public take-out after the park is Rough Canyon Marina and Recreation Area on Lake Amistad, 32 miles downriver, although Bailey can arrange take-out on private lands along the river to make for a 3-day river trip. Those without arrangements are duly warned: Trespassing is not taken lightly in these parts.
For those not up to that much adventure, Bailey offers two days of catch-and-release fishing based in a cabin at the park's far edge, providing transportation, meals, gear and everything but the bedroll. In addition, the park has a 12-mile hike-and-bike trail, primitive camping, a group barracks that sleeps 10, and a group dining hall with a reasonably well-equipped commercial kitchen (check with staff for particulars). Finnegan, now a park staff member, and park superintendent Rick Thompson give tours of the river, park archaeological sites and Dolan Falls. Arranged in advance, these last about two hours and are $10 per person.
By land, the only access is via 22-mile-long, unpaved Dolan Creek Road. The turn-off is on Highway 277 near Loma Alta, between Del Rio and Sonora. High clearance and sturdy tires are recommended. No open fires and no pets allowed. Bring everything you'll need, including drinking water, and plan to take out all your trash.
For more information on Devils River State Natural Area, call (830) 395-2133 or visit <www.tpwd.state.tx.us/devilsriver>; Rough Canyon Recreation Area: (512) 775-8779; Devils River Outfitters: (830) 395-2266.


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Randolph-Macon Picks Up 9-0 Shutouts Over Men's and Women's Tennis Teams, Sunday Afternoon
EMORY, Va. - It was a tough outing for the men's (1-11, 0-6 ODAC) and women's (3-8, 0-5 ODAC) tennis teams. Both squads hosted ODAC rival, Randolph-Macon on Sunday Afternoon. The Yellow Jackets shut out the Wasps, 9-0, on both sides.
Men's Doubles
The number one and three duos took tough, 8-1, losses. Two doubles, went down, 8-0.
Women's Doubles
The top two seeds for the women lost by the same score, which was 8-1. Kala Curtis (Locust Grove, Va.) and Kelsey Holt (Staffordsville, Va.) were able to pick up two games, but fell, 8-2.
Both the one and two seeds struggled to start off singles play. Both lost, 6-0, 6-0. At three singles, senior Liam Davidson (Newport News, Va.) took a 6-0, 6-1 loss. Cooper Garrett (Gate City, Va.) played strong at four singles, but went down, 6-3, 6-4. At five singles, Andrew McClung (Roanoke, Va.) lost 6-0, 6-1, while Taylor Hines (Jonesville, Va.) fell 6-1, 6-0.
One and two singles wered downed, 6-0, 6-0. Tessa Johnston (High Point, N.C.) was defeated, 6-0, 6-2, at three singles. At four singles, Kaitlyn Sheaves (Staunton, Va.) played her way to a 6-3, 6-4 loss. Five and six singles was lost, 7-5, 6-0, and, 6-3, 6-0, respectively.
The Wasps are on the road at Guilford on April 14th for another ODAC Matchup.


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Kevin Harvick started sixth and finished 13th.
The No. 4 Mobil 1 Ford Fusion raced up to the second position by lap 14.
Crew chief Rodney Childers called the Mobil 1 Ford to pit road under green-flag conditions on lap 23 for four tires and fuel.
The green-flag pit stop proved to be a strategy move to better position the No. 4 team for the start of the second stage.
Started second and finished 16th.
Harvick stayed out under caution on lap 34 in the second position.
The No. 4 Mobil 1 Ford raced to the lead on lap 42.
Harvick surrendered the lead on lap 47 to pit under green-flag conditions for four tires and fuel and came out in the 16thposition.
After teams came to pit road at the end of the stage, Harvick and the No. 4 team claimed the lead.
Started first and finished second.
Harvick surrendered the lead on lap 73 when he came to pit road for four tires and fuel and dropped to 14th.
The No. 4 team reclaimed the lead on lap 83 and held it until lap 91 when he was passed by Martin Truex Jr.
The following lap, Harvick came to pit road from the second position for four fresh tires and fuel.
The No. 4 team rejoined the field in the fifth position and raced up to second by the checkered flag.
This was Harvick's 12th top-five and 13th top-10 finish of 2018.
Harvick earned his sixth top-five and ninth top-10 in 18 career Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series starts at Sonoma.
Harvick led three times for 35 laps to increase his laps-led total at Sonoma to 95.
Truex won the Save Mart 350k to score his 18th career Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series victory, his third of the season and his second at Sonoma. His margin of victory over second-place Harvick was 10.513 seconds.
This is the second time Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) has placed all four of its drivers in the top-10 in a single race, with Harvick finishing second, Clint Bowyer in third, Kurt Busch fifth and Aric Almirola eighth. The last time was March 11 at ISM Raceway near Phoenix. This is the best collectivefinish for SHR since its inception in 2009.
Rodney Childers said on the pit box that the 78 team snookered everyone with their strategy. What was your thought when you heard that?


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An announcement has been made by Philip Hammond, the UK Government's Defence Secretary, that the country is set to create a new cyber defence force with the MoD recruiting hundreds of reserve computer experts from different disciplines to operate in conjunction with the armed forces in what has been dubbed the "Joint Cyber Reserve Unit".
The unit's purpose is to protect the country from online attacks and for the country to be able to launch its own cyber strikes. This is the first time that any country has been open about having the ability to strike at other countries' IT infrastructures.
IT security company McAfee believes that these developments are the right steps for the country to be taking as cyber threats become similar in effect to physical threats. The explosion of connectivity in the country means that cyber attacks could render significant damage at the foundations of the country's infrastructure.
However, McAfee believes that protecting against such threats is not something for the Government and its new reserve unit alone.
Doctor of Military Science and Director of Cyber Security at Stonesoft, Jarno Limnell has a lot of experience in national cyber-defence. Jarno has advised the EU, NATO and the Finnish Defence Forces on the issues of cyber security defence. He believes that the announcement from Philip Hammond is part of the need for the UK to be able to convince its cyber-enemies that it has the capability to defend itself and launch its own attacks. These offence capabilities are an important part of the whole scenario since, according to Jarno, any future wars will involve cyber activities of some kind.
Jarno Limnell continued that whilst the announcement should come as no surprise now, it will be seen as completely normal in the future. He told us: "Within the next couple of years the world will experience an increasing number of intentionally executed and demonstrated cyber-attacks resulting in militaristic and economic damage but also loss of civilian life. With ever-heightened awareness amongst the general public of the threats the UK is beginning to face, not just from other states but also rogue-factions, the development of offensive cyber-weapons will become fiercer and publicly more acceptable".
Entrepreneur and founder of IT defence company, Evgeniy Kaspersky has long called for nations to take some action to adequately defend themselves against international cyber attacks and expresses some surprise that the UK considers that offence is the best way of defending itself. He believes that the adoption of such a posture runs the real risk of starting a cyber arms race with other countries also adopting a position of offence.
Senior Security Researcher at Kaspersky Lab, David Emm explained: "A cyber offence escalation would increase the risk of the technologies involved ending up in the wrong hands – to be manipulated for malevolent ends. Unlike traditional weapons, tools used in cyberwarfare are very easy to clone and reprogram by adversaries to be used in sustained strikes.
"It's imperative for countries to understand the possible consequences – the specific dangers and potential damage – of cyberwar before developing offensive cyberweapons. The only effective way to counter this trend is for governments to work together towards the establishment of a cyber arms limitation agreement to prevent the continued escalation of cyberattacks".
IT security analysis company, LogRhythm shares the misgivings of Kaspersky, and cautions the UK Government to "know thy enemy" before launching into any form of conflict. The company believes that the consequences on diplomatic and international relations could be disastrous. This is especially the case if mistakes are made on the origin or nature of attacks and the assumed perpetrators and presumed enemies turn out to be nothing of the sort, a mistake that is easy to make in the complexities of cyber space.
LogRhythm's Ross Brewer told us: "Before launching any pre-emptive strike, government organisations must make sure that they have all of the facts in hand – something that can only be achieved by truly understanding every single piece of activity across their networks. To gain this level of visibility, proactive, continuous monitoring of all IT networks must be in place to ensure that any intrusion or anomaly can be detected before the problem snowballs".
The skills gap in the UK private sector for IT security specialists of the right level is a significant problem which the introduction of the reserve unit could either exacerbate or resolve, depending on how it's handled. FireMon believes that this is something that the MoD needs to address as part of its recruitment plan.
According to Ruby Khaira of FireMon, "The real issue, as I see it, is being able to find enough computer experts to build an effective force, with a distinct shortage of security personnel within the private sector, this could be a very real problem. The MoD therefore will likely need to have a robust training plan in place to train those they hire for the cyber defence force, and will then need to offer a good enough package to keep those security professionals from moving to the private sector".
It isn't just about the usual approach to cyber-security which is to take IT professionals and train them in security. IT and Defence specialist Thales believes in a more holistic approach to security which combines multiple skills in IT and industry to create a professional who has a much broader understanding of the risks faced by critical infrastructure, the very risks that national cyber defence teams are most likely to face.
Thales' Director of Cyber Security, Peter Armstrong told us: "By re-skilling its existing force in cyber security, the Ministry of Defence has addressed the blurring of the lines between physical and virtual defence which has become prevalent over the past decade. With the advent of cyber espionage and attacks which threaten national critical infrastructure, the need for a holistic approach to national security is long overdue. It's great to see the Ministry of Defence taking its share of responsibility for this alongside its traditional physical defence remit".


Ballynoe Hill Loop 1.1mi – ST CATHERINES A.C.
This is a great hill training loop. The road is newly surfaced and provides a challenging hill as you come up past St Catherines GAA pitch. This loop is repeated 4 time as part of the annual Ballynoe 5 mile road race in April.


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Q: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'tkinter' The aforementioned error showed up when I tried to use the Turtle class. I was following a tutorial where it's used to pop up a window in the screen. The code is simple:
from turtle import Turtle, Screen
jabba = Turtle()
print(jabba)

my_screen = Screen()
print(my_screen.canvheight)
my_screen.exitonclick()

But in the terminal it says:
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'tkinter'

I'm on Ubuntu 20.04 using PyCharm professional IDE.

A: Installing python3-tk solved it:
sudo apt-get install python3-tk

A: Run this command on terminal
sudo apt-get install python-tk


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And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy [it] for ten's sake.


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Anderson Gears Up For First Season As Head Coach
Nick Bello, Sports Editor|November 6, 2019
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There's a lot to love about beginnings. Everything feels fresh and new, enough to make you jump out of bed at the crack of dawn with enthusiastic energy. Another positive is that you can't dwell on the past
Wednesday night's home opener for the St. John's Men's Basketball team marks the beginning of the Mike Anderson era in Queens as the 21st head coach in program history will look to start the 2019-20 campaign on a high note against Mercer University. Although this would be a new and exciting experience for some, Anderson seemed to be calm on Tuesday afternoon while speaking to the media, as if it is just another day at the office.
"I'm looking forwad to it," Anderson said in a calm yet cheerful demeanor. "I'm looking forward to our guys going out and hopefully playing at a level that our fans can appreciate and enjoy."
Anderson's demeanor is most likely due to the fact that this isn't his first rodeo as he heads into season number 18 of his head coaching career. His career has taken him to the University of Alabama Birmingham, the University of Missouri and the University of Arkansas, where he has made it to the NCAA Tournament nine times.
Another factor is that his team showed a lot of promise in last week's exhibition game against Queens College at Carnesecca Arena, which resulted in a resounding 94-59 win over the Knights.
"Our guys played hard," Anderson said reflecting on last Wednesday. "We didn't execute all the time, I think we gotta get better in that department, being more efficient. Guys came off the bench and gave us some quality minutes and that's what I'm looking for."
Looking back on last week's exhibition game, there was a lot to like. The Red Storm forced 22 turnovers while shooting nearly 50 percent from the field. L.J. Figueroa and Mustapha Heron led the Red Storm with a combined 59 points, which is something the duo is going to have to produce on a nightly basis in order for the Red Storm to have success this season.
One of the brightest spots for the Red Storm was the help they received from the bench as Anderson made a flury of substitutions throughout the game. Sophomore Marcellus Earlington scored more than half of the team's bench points, dropping 12 points while shooting 45 percent from the field.
"We have an honest system where guys go out and leave everything on the floor," Anderson said. "I want our guys to go out and have fun and do the things we've been working on in practice each and every day. Create havoc, create turnovers, but we want to take care of the basketball. I think that's the biggest thing and not let people get comfortable, especially in Carnesecca Arena, Madison Square Garden, wherever it is."
Wednesday night's matchup is the first between Mercer and St. John's. Although this is the first time the two teams will meet, Anderson and his team don't expect to take their unfamiliar opponenets lightly. "Mercer is going to come in here and throw a punch, and we got to be able to throw our own punch," Anderson said.
Like St. John's, Mercer is also in the midst of a new coaching era as Greg Gary was named the Bears head coach in March. Gary previously served under Matt Painter at Purdue University, helping the Boilermakers to seven NCAA Tournaments and two Big Ten regular season titles.
"[They have a] new coach so that means they have new energy on their basketball team," Anderson said. "Of course you've seen the success that Purdue has had, so I'm sure they'll do some of those things … hard-nosed defense, motion offense, multiple guys that can score, very versatile."
Although Mercer isn't neccesarily a big opponent in comparison to the other matchups on the Red Storm's schedule, Anderson understands the importance of Wednesday night, as well as every other game on the schedule.
"I always think every game is a big game, no matter who we play," Anderson said. "The next big game on our schedule obviously is Mercer."
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New Line-up shakes things up for St. John's versus Fordham, 83-69
St. John's Falls to Kansas, 95-75, in First Ever Basketball Game at UBS Arena
Welcome to Queens, Storr and King
St. John's Narrowly Takes Down Fairleigh Dickinson, 87-74
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St. John's Defeats Gritty St. Peter's Team in 91-70 Victory


The Blue Wave Blog! | Blue Wave Classroom: Enslow Spring 2010 Paperbacks Press Release!
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ, JANUARY 11, 2010—Enslow Publishers is pleased to announce the expansion of its paperback line this spring. Character education, animals, and racing (BMX, dirt bike, snowmobile and speedboats where kids compete) are the topics included in this expansion.
"Enslow Publishers is committed to keeping up with new book formats. We are hearing from our customers that paperbacks are becoming more common in school libraries and as classroom collections, so publishing some of our books in paperback seems like a natural progression. Our objective is to make our educational products available to teachers, librarians, and students, in the format that provides students with the most opportunity to learn. Paperbacks can help stretch tight budgets, too," says Mark Enslow.
Enslow Publishers' mission has been to provide quality nonfiction series for young readers. Since 1976, our primary principles are that readers and librarians be able to trust our products and that these books satisfy their needs.


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Sevilla coach warns against underestimating Europa League Turkish opponent
 By IANS | Published on  Wed, Oct 24 2018 20:57 IST |  100 Views
: Pablo Machín. (Photo: Twitter/@pablomachindiez).. Image Source: IANS
Seville (Spain), Oct 24 : Sevilla coach Pablo Machin warned his players on Wednesday that they should not underestimate Turkey's Akhisar, Los Hispalenses' upcoming opponent in the Spanish side's UEFA Europa League group stage.
Sevilla is set to host Akhisar on Thursday and the Turkish side has been playing poorly this year having failed to win in the Europa League group stage and only having five points in the Turkish Super Lig, reports Efe.
"They're bottom of their league and haven't got a point in the Europa League, but if we start thinking that we can win just because of who we are, we're very much mistaken," the Spanish coach said via Sevilla's official website.
Machin said Akhisar managed to defeat the famed Turkish team Galatasaray - this year's leader of the Turkish league - and so Machin felt that Sevilla needed to make use of all chances Los Hispalenses has to take an early lead.
Machin was also happy with the return of the injured players and those who have been completing their recovery process, including defenders Gabriel Mercado, Sergio Escudero and midfielder Ibrahim Amadou, assuring that midfielder Maxime Gonalons was set to rejoin the group next week.
"That will make us more competitive, although football has its paradoxes... we've had our best results when we've had the most difficulties," said Machin.
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AG Bails on Troubled Death Penalty Case
Sean Cronin
Sean Cronin | April 29, 2008 | 9:51am
Two weeks after a Lincoln County judge yanked 18th Judicial District and state prosecutors off a death penalty case, citing several ethical violations, the Office of the Colorado Attorney General has filed its own motion to withdraw from the case.
The motion gives no reasons for the request and is hastily captioned "Motion for Withdrawl." But it's a clear effort by members of the AG's Capital Crimes Unit to wash their hands of the mess. District Attorney Carol Chambers has said she'll appeal Judge Stanley Brinkley's ruling, which removed all employees of her office from the prosecution of Alejandro Perez, a state inmate accused of killing another prisoner at the Limon Correctional Facility in 2004. Previous coverage can be found here and here.
Brinkley found that prosecutors had failed to disclose conflicts of interest in the case, filed misleading court documents and adopted a dubious system of billing the state corrections agency for the entire salary of Chambers' chief deputy assigned to the case; Chambers, no stranger to controversy, takes issue with the ruling.
The AG's decision to fold up its tents and "drawl" elsewhere comes shortly after a Hugo jury declined to vote for execution for Perez co-defendant David Bueno, who was convicted of the prison slaying shortly after Brinkley put the Perez prosecution back to square one. Chambers' office is 0-2 on the prison homicide but is currently pursuing four other death penalty cases. — Alan Prendergast


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Recognizing the importance of having a policy making body separately in respect of upstream and downstream petroleum activities, the Ministry of Petroleum and Petroleum Resources Development was established under the Government Extraordinary Gazette No. 1422/22 dated 08.12.2005.
After that, The Ministry of Petroleum Industries was established under the Government Extraordinary Gazette Notification No. 1651/20 dated 30.04.2010 which was responsible only for downstream activities of the petroleum sector and upstream activities was directly steered by the then H.E. the President. However, the Ministry of Petroleum Resources Development which is currently responsible for upstream and downstream activities of petroleum sector was established by virtue of Government Extraordinary Gazette Notification No. 1933/13 dated 21.09.2015.
The demand for the fuel consumption has increased due to rapid development taking place in the country at present. Based on the cross cutting features of upstream and downstream petroleum industry among all economic development sectors, the petroleum sector has to develop in order to ensure the energy security of the country. In this endeavor, the Ministry of Petroleum Resources Development, as the policy making and the chief accounting body of the four entities namely the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation, the Ceylon Petroleum Storage Terminals Ltd, the Petroleum Resources Development Secretariat and Polipto Lanka (Pvt) Ltd plays an important role in formulation and implementation of all relevant policies, guidelines and development projects in achieving the set goals and targets while keeping its duties and responsibilities of administration and management. There are four main Divisions namely Administration, Development, Procurement and Finance being functioned within the Ministry under the heads of three Additional Secretaries to support the Secretary and the Hon. Ministers in order to ensure the efficient and effective decisions making.
To make both upstream and downstream petroleum industry the foremost contributor to the National Economic Development of Sri Lanka
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A practical handbook of medical chemistry.
THE TISSUES OF THE BODY AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF ANATOMY.
NOSOLOGY Or, A Systematic Arrangement Of Diseases, By Classes, Orders, Genera, And Species: With the Distinguishing Characters of Each, And Outlines Of The Systems Of Sauvages, Linnaeus, Vogel, Sagar, And Macbridge. Translated from the Latin.


A much earlier version of this study was delivered at a symposium on New directions in socio-ecological thinking: Legacies of Emery and Trist, Academy of Management national meetings, Philadelphia, August 2007. The authors thank Don de Guerre, Merrelyn Emery, Del Nagy, Bill Starbuck and participants in a USF Tampa Management Department faculty seminar for comments on earlier versions.
An erratum to this article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11213-013-9289-5.


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Oleksii Ihorovych Hunbin (; born 8 November 1992 in Sumy, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian archer. He represented Ukraine at the 2020 Summer Olympics in men's individual and mixed team competition. He won silver medal at the 2021 European Championships in team event.

Career
Hunbin started archery in 2010 and is now sports master of international class. He is righthanded.

Hunbin participated at the 2017 Summer Universiade in Taipei, where he reached quarterfinals in individual competition and round of 16 in both men's and mixed team competitions. That year he also participated at the World Championships in Mexico City where he was just 57th in individual competition. Two years later he achieved the same result at the 2019 Worlds.

The first international success for Hunbin came in 2018 when he together with Heorhiy Ivanytskyy and Olympic champion Viktor Ruban was third in men's team competition at the World Indoor Championships in Yankton. The Netherlands became then champions, and Australia was second. In individual competition, he was 7th. After that he also was 8th at the 2018 European Championships in Legnica, where he lost to Netherlands' Steve Wijler in quarterfinals, who later became European champion.

During the 2019 Archery World Cup, Hunbin together with Heorhiy Ivanytskyy and Sergii Makarevych won silver medals in team competition in Berlin where the 4th stage of the World Cup was held. They lost to Turkey in the final. This was the only medal for Ukraine in that season.

The 2021 European Archery Championships, which was held in Antalya, brought Hunbin his first continental medal. Together with Heorhiy Ivanytskyy and Ivan Kozhokar, he won silver medal in team competition. Ukraine lost to the Netherlands in the final. In individual competition he was 33rd.

At the Final Olympic Qualification Tournament, held in Paris, Hunbin reached semifinal and ranked 4th, thus securing an Olympic spot for Ukraine. Since he defeated his team fellow Heorhiy Ivanytskyy in the quarterfinal, he was chosen by the national team management to represent Ukraine at the 2020 Summer Olympics. At that tournament Ukraine men's team also ranked 4th, but it wasn't enough to qualify a team for Tokyo.

Hunbin finished 28th in the qualification at the 2020 Summer Olympics. In the first round he lost 4-6 to two-time World Championships medalist in team events Tarundeep Rai from India. He was nominated together with Veronika Marchenko for mixed team event, but they did not qualify for the play-off stage after ranking 18th in qualification, 6 points behind last qualified team.

Personal life
Hunbin is married. He graduated from Sumy State University. His hobbies include intellectual games, computer games, watching movies.

References

External links
 Oleksii Hunbin's profile at World Archery
 Oleksii Hunbin in Instagram

1992 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Sumy
Ukrainian male archers
Archers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic archers of Ukraine
Sumy State University alumni