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Badger Dairy Club (BDC) creates opportunities for the membership to engage in activities and experiences within the college, community and the ever progressing dairy industry. As you navigate among this site, notice the accomplishments and activities that BDC members do each year. We are very thankful for the strong support from many alumni, faculty, friends and family.
If you want to contact us directly, click here to find telephone numbers and email addresses.
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Purpose of Badger Dairy Club:
To provide opportunities for fellowship, friendship, service and to grow socially
To provide an opportunity to enhance the educational experience
To promote dairy cattle, products and the dairy industry
To learn of occupation opportunities
To make available the opportunity to make professional connections
The Badger Dairy Club (BDC) is one of the largest student organizations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. BDC participates in a number of different activities throughout the school year that allow members to network within the dairy industry, while emphasizing professionalism, developing future leaders and fostering club camaraderie.
Because World Dairy Expo takes place in our backyard, we have the unique opportunity to be intricately involved in the event. Our members work behind the scenes before, during, and after the show. World Dairy Expo is also the site of one of our largest fundraisers, the BDC Cheese Stand, which serves up thousands of grilled cheese sandwiches each year.
BDC also sponsors the always exciting Badger Invitational Sale. Our biannual sale, features cattle from some of Wisconsin and the Midwest's prominent registered Holstein Breeders.
BDC also serves as a workforce for many service activities, including the FFA Dairy Judging Contest, 4-H Dairy Quiz Bowl, and the Midwest National Spring Show Youth Showmanship contests.
The Badger Dairy Club meets on the third Wednesday of every month in 212 Animal Sciences at 7 p.m. Our club dues are $20 for four year members and $10 for Short Course students. For more information about our club or how to join, please feel free to contact us. We look forward to hearing from you!
— First day of class | Tuesday, January 22
— ADSA | Friday, January 25 – Sunday, January 27
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— Farm & Industry Short Course Graduation | Saturday, March 16
— BDC Senior Trip | Saturday, March 16 – Thursday, March 21
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— May Meeting
— Graduation | Saturday, May 11
For a quick response, feel free to contact the President, Michael Moede, directly at mmoede2@wisc.edu. Contact information for all BDC officers is located here.
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Entrepreneurs' Relief (ER) - are you an employee?
ER has been available since 2008 and the general rules are well known. The basic idea of the relief is that for qualifying disposals Capital Gains Tax will only be charged at 10% on gains of up to £10 million.
In the context of a shareholder in a company ER is available on a disposal of shares where throughout the period of one year ending with the date of disposal:
the company is the individual's personal trading company and is either a trading company or the holding company of a trading group, and
the individual is an officer or employee of the company or one or more companies which are members of the trading group.
A personal company is where the individual owns at least 5% of the ordinary share capital representing at least 5% of the voting rights.
HMRC guidance states that in determining whether an individual is an officer or employee of the company depends on whether that person has an employment or holds an office.There are no specific requirements regarding the working hours or level of remuneration. The condition is simply that the individual should be an officer or employee.
In a recent Tribunal case an individual's claim for ER was denied by HMRC on the basis that they were not an employee at the date the shares had been disposed of. She had previously been an employee and had been on the payroll but was removed from the payroll prior to a sale to a third party. However, she continued to carry out the same duties as before and her argument was that her salary was effectively paid to her husband who continued as a director in the company.
The Tribunal accepted that the motivation for removing her from the payroll was to keep her out of sight of the potential purchaser because of their sensitivity to the employment of spouses of senior executives. They further accepted that her salary had been paid to her husband and allowed the claim. In this case then, a successful outcome but the issue of ensuring there is evidence of employment appears to be an area HMRC may want to verify.
As this is such a valuable relief overall attention to detail is vital. contact us for further advice on this area if you have any concerns.
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Worried about overstaying their "welcome" in Clan Grimward territory, the expeditionary forces made haste to leave and returned to the City-State of Newhope.
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Q: ImportError: No module named copy_reg pickle I'm trying to unpickle an object stored as a blob in a MySQL database. I've manually generated and stored the pickled object in the database, but when I try to unpickle the object, I get the following rather cryptic exception:
ImportError: No module named copy_reg
Any ideas as to why this happens?
Method of Reproduction
Note: Must do step 1 on a Windows PC and steps 3 and 4 on a Linux PC.
1) On a Windows PC:
file = open("test.txt", "w")
thing = {'a': 1, 'b':2}
cPickle.dump(thing, file)

2) Manually insert contents of text.txt into blob field of MySQL database running on linux
3) In Python running on a linux machine, fetch the contents of column from MySQL
4) Assuming that you put the contents of the blob column into a variable called data, try this:
cPickle.loads(rawString)

A: just an interactive python session to show that you don't need any particular code to have this problem:
do something like this on a windows machine
Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pickle, re
>>> empty_string = re.compile("^$")
>>> pickle.dump([empty_string,1,1.23,'abc'], file('m:/mario/test-b.dump','wb'))
>>> pickle.dump([empty_string,1,1.23,'abc'], file('m:/mario/test-t.dump','wt'))
>>>

and then try to retrieve the data from a linux box
Python 2.6.2 (release26-maint, Apr 19 2009, 01:56:41)
[GCC 4.3.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pickle
>>> pickle.load(file('/home/mario/.gvfs/transfer on 192.168.0.4/mario/test-b.dump'))
/usr/lib/python2.6/pickle.py:1124: DeprecationWarning: The sre module is deprecated, please import re.
  __import__(module)
[<_sre.SRE_Pattern object at 0xb7d42420>, 1, 1.23, 'abc']
>>> pickle.load(file('/home/mario/.gvfs/transfer on 192.168.0.4/mario/test-t.dump'))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/pickle.py", line 1370, in load
    return Unpickler(file).load()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/pickle.py", line 858, in load
    dispatch[key](self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/pickle.py", line 1090, in load_global
    klass = self.find_class(module, name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/pickle.py", line 1124, in find_class
    __import__(module)
ImportError: No module named sre
>>>

the error message can be even more confusing if you are just pickling base types.  this is what I get with the list [12, 1.2, '']:
ValueError: insecure string pickle

A: It seems this might be caused by my method of exporting the pickled object.
This bug report seens to suggest that my issue can be resolved by exporting to a file writen in binary mode. I'm going to give this a go now and see if this solves my issue.
UPDATE: This works. The solution is to make sure you export your pickled object to a file open in binary mode, even if you are using the default protocol 0 (commonly referred to as being "text")
Correct code based on orignal example in question:
file = open("test.txt", 'wb')
thing = {'a': 1, 'b':2}
cPickle.dump(thing, file)

A: As mentioned in the other answer use
dos2unix originalPickle.file outputPickle.file

OR use the tr command like below (removes carriage returns and ctrl-z)
  tr -d '\15\32' < originalPickle.file > outputPickle.file

OR use awk (gawk or nawk if its old versions)
  awk '{ sub("\r$", ""); print }' originalPickle.file > outputPickle.file

OR if you can recreate a pickle file in linux, use that.

A: Also, simply running dos2unix (under linux) over the (windows-created) pickle file solved the problem for me. (Haven't tried the open mode 'wb' thing.)
Dan

A: Another thing going on here is that you don't seem to have closed the file after dumping the pickle to it.   the error reported here can sometimes be caused (whether on a windows machine or otherwise) by not closing the file.

A: my issue:
with open('model.pkl', 'rb') as f:
    subsection_struct_model = pickle.load(f)

when i get the model.pkl from windows run this code in my mac,this issue is comming
solve:
dos2unix model.pkl

is ok!

A: This happen because in Windows, new line symbol is stored as "\r\n", and that in Linux is "\n",so what you should do is to read the pickle file line by line, replace "\r\n" with "\n", and write it back to the file.
Unlike the dos2unix approach will skip binary file, this also works well for binary pickle file.
Code is simple:
#run this code on Linux platform

DIR="your/dir/to/file"

pickle.load(open(DIR,"rb"))
# ImportError: No module named copy_reg pickle

a=open(DIR,"rb").readlines() #read pickle file line by line

a=map(lambda x:x.replace("\r\n","\n"),a) # replace \r\n with \n

with open(DIR,"wb") as j: #write back to file in binary mode
    for i in a:
        j.write(i)
pickle.load(open(DIR,"rb"))
#Now it works well

Also, you can use normal write mode, just change "wb" to "w" and "rb" to "e".

A: I ran into this problem, because of git changing the
line endings on windows.
I solved the problem by adding a .gitattributes file to my repo:
# Pickle files (for testing) should always have UNIX line endings.
*.pkl text eol=lf

See also https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/135

A: The pickle load may not be looking in the same location as your python script. Sometimes the directory changes on the basis of your application. Just before you load the pickle, print a os.getcwd() to work out a solution.

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Черепаховий — порода середніх за розмірами кролів м'ясо-шкуркового напряму.

Біологічні характеристики
Величина черепахових кролів середня, але конституція у них міцна, будова тіла — пропорційна. Дорослі кролики досягають маси 4,5 кілограма. Самки черепахових кролів готові до спаровування через 4,5-5 місяців, самці трохи пізніше — через 6 місяців. Після спарювання, через 30 діб відбувається пологи, і з'являються кроленята в кількості 8-9 штук. Матусі черепахових кроликів дуже турботливі і у них велика молочність. Вони врівноважені, мають багато молока, що позитивно впливає на збереження кроленят. Тому кроленята виростають і зберігаються практично всі і швидко набирають у вазі. До того ж, кролики черепахової породи не вибагливі в годівлі та утриманні.

Хутро
Розведення цієї породи націлено на отримання в першу чергу високоякісних шкурок, а потім вже м'яса. У черепахового кролика оригінальний колір хутра — жовто-червоний. Через нього і отримала свою назву порода.

З шкурок черепахових кроликів шиють хутряні вироби високої якості, які мають відмінний натуральний вигляд. Все це набагато підняло цінову планку на хутро кролів цієї породи.

Джерела
 Фірсова Н. М., Волколупова В. А., Пінчук В. А. Розведення кролів і нутрій у присадибному господарстві. — К.: Урожай, 1989.

М'ясо-шкуркові породи кролів

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Dwight Brady
Photo courtesy of Dwight Brady TAKING A VOTE—With contract negotiation mediations entering its second month, NMU-AAUP now are holding a strike authorization vote to decide whether or not they are able to go on strike.
Dreyma Beronja & Justin Van't Hof, News Editor, Editor-in-Chief
NMU-AAUP met Thursday evening to discuss the possibility of going on strike. The strike authorization vote was the topic of discussion during the regularly scheduled meeting as part of the ongoing contract negotiation mediation.
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In the most recent article on NMU-AAUP's webpage addressing President Erickson's clarification email on public statements about contract negotiations, AAUP addressed several actions that have been made during the mediation process that according to AAUP falls under unfair labor practices.
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Brady said that going on strike is not something they wish to do but are exploring as an option after the Oakland University faculty union went on strike for unfair labor practices.
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Q: R: create new matrix with outcomes from mathematical operations within another matrix through loops I am trying to generate a function that conducts various mathematical operations within a matrix and stores the outcomes of these operations in a new matrix with similar dimensions.
Here's an example matrix (a lot of silly computations in it to get sufficient variability in the data)
test<-matrix(1:290,nrow=10,ncol=29) ; colnames(test)<-1979+seq(1,29)
rownames(test)<-c("a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h","i","j")
test[,4]<-rep(8)
test[7,]<-seq(1,29)
test[c(3,5,9),]<-test[c(3,5,9),] * 1/2
test[,c(4,6,8,9,10,15,16,18)]<-test[,c(4,6,8,9,10,15,16,18)]*1/3

I want for instance to be able to calculate the difference between the value in (a,1999) and the average of the 3 values before (a, 1999). This needs to be flexible and for every rowname (firm) and every column (year).
The code I am trying to build looks something like this (I guess):
for(year in 1:29)
  for (k in 1:10)
      qw<-matrix((test[k, year] + 1/3*(- test[k, year-1] - test[k,year -2] - test[k, year-3])), nrow=10, ncol=29)

When I run it, this code generates a matrix but the value in that matrix is always the one for the last calculation (i.e. 20 in my example) while every matrix value should be stored in qw.
Any suggestions on how I can achieve this (maybe via an apply function)?
Thanks in advance

A: You are creating a matrix qw in every iteration. Each new matrix overwrites the previous one. Here's how to do what I think you would like to do, altough I didn't know how you want to handle the first 3 years.
qw <- matrix(nrow=10, ncol=29)
colnames(qw)<-1979+seq(1,29)
rownames(qw)<-c("a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h","i","j")
for(year in 4:29){
  for (k in 1:10){
    qw[k, year] <- (test[k, year] + 1/3*(- test[k, year-1] - test[k,year -2] - test[k, year-3]))
  }
}
qw

In R, it is usually a bad idea to use loops, since there are much more efficient functions. Here is the R way of doing this, using the package zoo.
require(zoo)
qw <- matrix(nrow=10, ncol=29)
colnames(qw)<-1979+seq(1,29)
rownames(qw)<-c("a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h","i","j")
qw[,4:29] <- test[,4:29]-t(head(rollmean(t(test), 3),-1))
qw


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Tag: General Alexander Prokopchuk
Secret war centers on SWIFT after George Bush Sr. is executed
Since the death of Nazi Fourth Reich Fuhrer George Bush Sr., the battle for control of the world's financial system, and thus of the process of deciding humanity's future, is now centering on control of the SWIFT international interbank electronic transfer system.
A final battle is taking place between the 13 bloodlines which have traditionally controlled the planet, and the meritocratic Gnostic Illuminati who control the U.S. military-industrial complex, multiple sources agree. The battle is heading for a climax of sorts now that George Bush Senior has been "executed," as confirmed by both Pentagon and CIA sources.
Here is what a CIA source had to say:
"I have been told by two sources that G.H.W. Scherff (Bush) was actually indicted on September 10, 2018 for crimes against humanity, child trafficking, sedition, and treason. He allegedly plea-bargained a deal with the military tribunal hearing his case, to be executed/suicided to keep his legacy intact for his family and the sheeple. Trump signed the death order. So was it a clone that was executed, since we also have intel that he died in June (another clone). I think Bush/Scherff actually died in January 1992, choking on sushi and then finished off by Barbara Bush with a poisoned cloth (as seen in the video posted last week). Military tribunals are set to begin on January 2, 2019."
Pentagon sources, for their part, said U.S. President Donald "Trump was careful not give Bush 41 a state funeral, as this executed criminal was denied a horse and caisson like Reagan got."
"To the victor belong the spoils, for Trump picked former Bush Attorney General Bill Parr as his next AG and he chose 'the day that will live in infamy,' December 7th [the Pearl Harbor anniversary] to do it," the Pentagon source added.
The CIA source also wondered if Barr made "a deal to avoid military tribunals and then be 'McCained'? (the term being used lately for execution/suicide). Maybe he flipped like Senator Lindsey Graham?"
The death of Bush, the former U.S. Ambassador to China whose brother handed over U.S. military secrets to that country (as did Hillary and Bill Clinton), means that the U.S. and China are also heading to a showdown as bloodline families seek Chinese protection, according to secret society sources.
Pentagon sources say the arrest of Chinese conglomerate Huawei's Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou "is aimed to …


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Development Congress
Wednesday, 18th July 2007, HEIDELBERG, Germany
Werner Schaub, President of International Association of Arts [IAA]/Europa, Chairman Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste [igbk], Berlin, Germany
Prof. Dr. Doug Boughton, World Vice President of InSEA, Northern Illinois University, USA
Prof. Dr. Angelika Plank, President of InSEA Europe, Kunstuniversität Linz, Austria
From 9:30am to 10am
Keynote Address 1
Prof. Dr. Rachel Mason, Roehampton-University, London
Presentations and discussions on:
A - New Forms of art education / art-related didactic/teaching concepts
B - Art education and school development,
B - Art education and university
C - Open-mindedness of schools, out of school art education,
C - museum pedagogy, social aspects of art education
D - Forms of art and media receptiveness
E - Information and communication technologies in art educational
E - processes
From 1pm to 2:30pm
Conference European Council of InSEA
Chair: Prof. Dr. Angelika Plank, President of InSEA Europe, Kunstuniversität Linz, Austria
From 2:30pm to 3pm
Roger M. Buergel, Director of documenta12, Kassel/Germany, Austria
Presentations and discussions of the above topics
From 6pm
Art performance Gabriele Oßwald, Wolfgang Sautermeister, Mannheim, Germany
Walk (sturdy shoes will be needed!) over the Heidelberger philosopher way to the Heidelberger art association alternative bus-transfer to the Heidelberger art association is possible
Evening reception at Heidelberger art association (Heidelberger Kunstverein) Welcome and introduction into the running exhibition by the director Johan Holten
Thursday, 19th July 2007, KARLSRUHE, Germany
Departure congress venue
Bus-transfer Heidelberg > Karlsruhe
From 10am to 10:15am
Prof. Dr. Liesel Hermes, Rector University of Education Karlsruhe
From 10:15am to 10:45am
Keynote-Address 3
Prof. Dr. em. Bazon Brock University Wuppertal, Germany
From 11am to 13pm
From 13pm to 2:30pm
From 4pm to 6pm
Visit to the Centre for Arts and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM) with guided tours
BBQ at New Mensa
Friday, 20th July 2007, HEIDELBERG, Germany
Prof. Dr. Kerry Freedman, Northern Illinois University, USA
Prof. Dr. Marie-Luise Lange, University Dresden, Germany
Closing discussion and farewell by:
Prof. Dr. Doug Boughton, World Vice President of InSEA, Northern Illinois University, USA and


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Джебель-Бу-Хедма (), або Бухедма () — біосферний резерват і національний парк в Тунісі.

Фізико-географічна характеристика
Національний парк розташований в 85 км на схід від Гафси, в 100 км від Макнессі. Середземне море знаходиться в 45 км на схід від резервату. Парк розташований в південно-східній частині Сахарського Атласу і являє собою субтропічний степ. Висота над рівнем моря коливається від 90 до 840 метрів.

У базі даних всесвітньої мережі біосферних резерватів зазначені наступні координати заповідника:  — . Згідно з концепцією зонування резерватів загальна площа території, яка становить 169,88 км² (при площі національного парку 164,88 км²), розділена на три основні зони: ядро — 88,14 км², буферна зона — 42,74 км² і зона співпраці — 39,0 км²

Флора і фауна
Хоча рослинний світ Бухедми в цілому є типовим для Тунісу і являє собою середземноморський біом з напівпосушливими лісами і степами, він знаменитий реліктової саваною, якої більше в Тунісі не залишилося.

На території резервату виростають 485 видів рослин. Рослинний світ представлений саваною з Acacia raddiana, Cenchrus ciliaris, Digitaria nodosa, Aristida plumosa, Aristida obtusa, Artemisia herba alba, степами Rhanterium suaveolens, Arthrophytum scoparium, Gymnocarpus decander і Stipa tenacissima.

Рідкісні види тварин: Addax nasomaculatus, Struthio camelus australis і Gazella dama mhorr

Взаємодія з людиною
У 1977 році був утворений біосферний резерват, а в 1980 році значна його територія стала національним парком. У 1995 році резерват став частиною мережі ROSELT, яка займається моніторингом регіону Сахари і Сахеля.З 2001 року частина території знаходиться в списку особливо важливих місць міжнародної організації з захисту птахів. На території резервату заснований екологічний музей.

За даними 1999 року на території резервату проживало близько 1400 чоловік. Основні проблеми, з якими зіткнувся резерват, є опустелювання і ерозія ґрунтів. Саме в цьому напрямку ведуться основні дослідження, які зокрема пов'язані з відновленням природного чагарнику, зокрема Acacia raddiana.

На території парку зустрічаються сліди перебування доісторичних людей, періоду неоліту. У більш сучасних будівлях, датованими кінцем XIX століття які є притулком для караванів, розташовується адміністрація резервату.

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Rob joined Fisher German as a Graduate Surveyor in the Chester rural team, having recently completed an MSc in Rural Estate Management at the Royal Agricultural University. Prior to that he worked for a large residential landlord based in central London and the Midlands, working in their sales and valuation team. Having grown up in the Cheshire countryside, pursuing a career in Rural surveying allowed him to return to his home county.
Outside of work, Rob enjoys rugby, cricket, skiing, and all types of field sports, basically anything that gets him outside!
As a graduate, I was impressed with the programme especially the mock APC that FG offer. I like the size of the company and the people I had met before I accepted the job all seemed very friendly and welcoming.


The Shoelace (2016) has been nominated for an award at the Charleston International Film Festival! The Shoelace is a short film (3 minutes) that I created as a visual retelling of the 1984 Charles Bukowski poem of the same title.
I first read "The Shoelace" when I was 14. At that age it was jarring to hear such an authentic adult voice – Bukowski's writing lit me alive with pleasure. This is my attempt to bring an old poem to life in a new media – one that is fit for YouTubers.
The car won't start, the toilet chain is broken, and a toothache has been killing him for days, it's never ending. Then there's that moment when it all comes crashing down. And that moment begins and ends with the snap of a shoelace.
The Shoelace will be available on Vimeo in early December. In the meantime read the original poem: "The Shoelace. And if you're near Charleston, please drop by the Charleston Music Hall on Friday, November 4th @ 7pm for the live screening.


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Here's why you should visit Oman on your next vacation
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Rocky mountains that look much like the humps on the camels that tread this sandy terrain line the inland borders of Oman. Beaches of fine golden sand and lovely blue…
Desert animals with brilliant adaptations and where to find them
Deserts are undoubtedly one of the harshest environments on earth but even in these barren wastelands life has continued to thrive. Creatures of the desert have developed freakishly weird adaptations…
The Season of Roses in Al Jabal Al Akhdar
The season of roses is one of the most anticipated seasons by the natives of Oman. This is the season that thousands of cultivated Damask roses blossom and will be…
Monuments and Memorials
The Armed Forces Museum
Military vehicles and mean machines with mounted guns! Don't be terrified by the things you see here. Visit the Armed Forces Museum to have a look on the prized possessions…
Muscat Attractions
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Featuring a stunning mix of historical antiquity and a host of modern skyscrapers, the thriving port city of Muscat is an intriguing place to discover. The Royal Opera House Considered…
Oman's Valleys of Wellness
With a coastal region that stretches out more than three thousand kilometres, this country is a significant place, particularly in comparison to its Middle Eastern neighbours. History Centre Eastern folklore…


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E-Sports Gamer Named To Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People List
Tyler "Ninja" Blevins, 27, Tweeted Out The News On Wednesday
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The gaming world continues to reach new heights. As E-Sports continue to grow, many gamers are beginning to gain worldwide fame. This was proven this week, as one of video games' biggest stars, Ninja, was named to Time's list of 100 most influential people.
Insanely honored and speechless to be on the @TIME magazine top 100 most influential people in the world. https://t.co/TkBCye8BJ9 love to @TeamJuJu
— Ninja (@Ninja) April 17, 2019
Ninja, who streams playing video games on both Twitch and YouTube, made the announcement on his twitter page. After saying he was honored to have made the list, Ninja, whose real name is Tyler Blevins, gave a special thanks to the person that nominate him, NFL player, Juju Smith-Schuster.
An honor to write @Ninja's @TIME 100 piece on being one of the 100 most influential people today! A true GOAT! https://t.co/3dwxsvCzOF
— JuJu Smith-Schuster (@TeamJuJu) April 17, 2019
Speaking about Ninja, Smith-Schuster said, "I play in the NFL, so you'd think I wouldn't be star-struck much, but last March, when I -- along with Drake and Travis Scott -- got in a Fortnite game with Ninja for the first time, I was at a complete loss for words." While many fans were shocked at the news, they were quick to defend Ninja's influence.
no shock there!! Congratulations @Ninja!! Your my favorite @Twitch Streamer!! @ESPN_Esports @TIME https://t.co/6TCTsv0M9o
— TheGamingNerd (@ItsGamingNerd) April 18, 2019
FACTS!! Congrats on the TIME's list, Tyler!
— Muaaz (@mws) April 18, 2019
Got to definitely respect his hard work and effort. I mean his Red Bull cans are all over my school now to so -- pic.twitter.com/NS9q5bSjBF
— Meelad Matoso (@Meelad_Matoso) April 18, 2019
Whether you like it or not, it appears E-Sports is here to stay. As the popularity of video games continues to grow, many gamers will follow in the path of Tyler "Ninja" Blevins. Just like athletes, musicians, or any other celebrity with influence, Ninja is inspiring the future of his industry.
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Women think U.S. would be better off with more women in office - CBS News poll
By Jennifer De Pinto
Updated on: January 19, 2018 / 11:33 PM / CBS News
Women's march polls
Most women say it's very important for more women to be elected to political office, and a majority think the country would be better off if that happened. Still, partisanship drives views on this.
Fifty-four percent of women say it's very important to them personally that more women are elected to office, compared to 39 percent of men who say that. Still, most men do say it's at least somewhat important. Majorities of both younger and older women think it's very or somewhat important to have more women in political office.
Nearly six in 10 women think the country would be better off if more women held office. Most men, however, don't think things would change much, though more than a third of men think things would improve.
Partisanship trumps gender on these measures. Three-quarters of women Democrats say it's very important to elect more women, a figure that drops to just about one in five among Republican women. Democratic women are also far more likely than Republican women to believe the country would improve with more women in political office.
A year into Donald Trump's presidency, most women (who are more likely to identify as Democrats, than Republicans) disapprove of his job performance. Half feel his policies have mostly hurt women.
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Republican women, however, are far more supportive of President Trump. Eight in 10 approve of the job he is doing, and while few say they have been directly helped by his policies, most don't feel hurt by them either.
This poll was conducted by telephone January 13-16, 2018 among a random sample of 1,225 adults nationwide. Data collection was conducted on behalf of CBS News by SSRS of Glen Mills, PA. Phone numbers were dialed from samples of both standard land-line and cell phones.
The poll employed a random digit dial methodology. For the landline sample, a respondent was randomly selected from all adults in the household. For the cell sample, interviews were conducted with the person who answered the phone.
Interviews were conducted in English and Spanish using live interviewers. The data have been weighted to reflect U.S. Census figures on demographic variables.
The error due to sampling for results based on the entire sample could be plus or minus three percentage points. The error for subgroups may be higher and is available by request. The margin of error includes the effects of standard weighting procedures which enlarge sampling error slightly.
This poll release conforms to the Standards of Disclosure of the National Council on Public Polls.
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First published on January 19, 2018 / 6:30 PM


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Iqbal, Twombly, meet the Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act
By Carter Wood on May 11, 2011 9:23 AM
Writing at the Center for Individual Freedom, Quin Hillyer previews the upcoming Congressional debate over the Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act, seeing in the legislation an extension of the procedural restraint marked by the U.S. Supreme Court rulings in the Iqbal and Twombly rulings.
Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) of the House Judiciary Committee introduced H.R. 966 (called LARA for short) in March and the committee is expected to take up the bill early next month. The legislation seeks to reduce the number of frivolous lawsuits in federal court by amending the sanctions provisions in Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to require the court to impose sanctions who misrepresent their claims to the court. The sanction will compensate the injured parties. The bill also ends to so-called "safe harbor" provision, which now allows an attorney to escape sanctions if withdraws his complaint with 21 days after serving it.
Hillyer writes in "Beating Rattlesnakes and Bottom Feeders: Congress Fights Frivolous Lawsuits":
In two recent cases, Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly (2007) and Ashcroft v. Iqbal (2009), the Supreme Court recognized that frivolous lawsuits are problematic. Before Twombly, a case could be dismissed for "failure to state a claim" only if it were "beyond doubt" that "no set of facts" could support it. In Twombly, seven justices overturned that standard. Former Justice David Souter wrote that a valid complaint must assume facts that are not merely "conceivable" or "speculative, but actually "plausible." Otherwise, he wrote, "The threat of discovery expense will push cost-conscious defendants to settle even anemic cases before reaching those proceedings."
The Twombly and Iqbal cases set the predicate for Chairman Smith's LARA proposal, which well complements those decisions. Just as the high court ruled that what constitutes "anemic" cases must be more broadly defined so as to make it easier to dismiss such cases, so should the penalty for filing those suits in the first place actually act as a deterrent (and as relief to unfairly targeted defendants).
Earlier Point of Law on LARA with background.
And we're glad to see Quin continuing his reporting on civil justice issues in his new gig as Senior Fellow with CFIF, which he joined in April. The strength of The Washington Times' editorials on tort reform, election law, and the politicized Justice Department were largely due to Quin's insights and reporting, and it looks like he's still on the beat -- just from a base of operations in Mobile, Ala.
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House Continues Push for Reform with LARA
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Le province e le prefetture del Marocco costituiscono la suddivisione di secondo livello del Paese dopo quella delle 12 regioni.

Le province sono pari a 62 (corrispondono alle aree rurali), mentre le prefetture sono 13 (corrispondono alle maggiori aree urbane del Paese).

Di seguito è riporta la lista delle province e delle prefetture, suddivise per regione (sia con la vecchia che con la nuova suddivisione regionale).

Lista

Béni Mellal-Khénifra

Casablanca-Settat

Dakhla-Oued Ed Dahab

Drâa-Tafilalet

Fès-Meknès

Guelmim-Oued Noun

Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra

Marrakech-Safi

Rabat-Salé-Kénitra

Regione Orientale

Souss-Massa

Tangeri-Tetouan-Al Hoceima

Prima del 2015

Chaouia-Ouardigha

Doukkala-Abda

Fès-Boulemane

Gharb-Chrarda-Béni Hssen

Grande Casablanca

Guelmim-Es Semara

Laâyoune-Boujdour-Sakia El Hamra

Marrakech-Tensift-El Haouz

Meknès-Tafilalet

Oued Ed-Dahab-Lagouira

Rabat-Salé-Zemmour-Zaer

Regione Orientale

Souss-Massa-Draâ

Tadla-Azilal

Tangeri-Tétouan

Taza-Al Hoceima-Taounate

Voci correlate
Regioni del Marocco
Comuni del Marocco

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni


While the digital world has separated people physically in many ways, live entertainment can still bring them together in massive groups. Many communities around the world have found this is a good way to promote inner city areas, and it can create an economic windfall if it is done well. Giving people a reason to leave home and attend a concert, play, special event, or even just get out for a night with friends is often the reason to build a new entertainment venue downtown.
Most civic groups have found that building an entertainment venue is more than just a way to create income for the city, and they often use it as a way to promote a sense of belonging for their community. While they might have several sports teams that compete in their new arena, they also host cultural events that make less money, but they are designed to help residents feel a sense of pride in their city.


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Adam Faith
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Terence "Terry" Nelhams-Wright, known as Adam Faith (23 June 1940 – 8 March 2003), was a British teen idol, singer, actor, and financial journalist. He was one of the most charted acts of the 1960s. He became the first UK artist to lodge his initial seven hits in the Top 5. He was also one of the first UK acts to record original songs regularly. […]
Music career
Faith became one of Britain's significant early pop stars. At the time, he was distinctive for his hiccupping glottal stops and exaggerated pronunciation. He did not write his own material, and much of his early success was through partnership with songwriters Les Vandyke and John Barry, whose arrangements were inspired by the pizzicato arrangements for Buddy Holly's "It Doesn't Matter Anymore".
Faith began his musical career in 1957, while working as a film cutter in London in the hope of becoming an actor, singing with and managing a skiffle group, the Worried Men. The group played in Soho coffee bars after work, and became the resident band at The 2i's Coffee Bar, where they appeared on the BBC Television live music programme Six-Five Special. The producer, Jack Good, was impressed by the singer and arranged a solo recording contract with HMV under the name Adam Faith.
His debut record "(Got a) Heartsick Feeling" and "Brother Heartache and Sister Tears", in January 1958, failed to make the charts. Good gave him a part in the stage show of Six-Five Special, along with the John Barry Seven but the show folded after four performances. His second release later that year was a cover of Jerry Lee Lewis's "High School Confidential", backed with the Burt Bacharach and Hal David penned "Country Music Holiday", but this also failed.
Faith returned to work as a film cutter at National Studios at Elstree until March 1959, when Barry invited him to audition for a BBC TV rock and roll show, Drumbeat. The producer, Stewart Morris, gave him a contract for three shows, extended to the full 22-week run. His contract with HMV had ended, and he sang one track, "I Vibrate", on a six-track EP released by the Fontana record label. Barry's manager, Eve Taylor, got him a contract with Top Rank, but his only record there, "Ah, Poor Little Baby"/"Runk Bunk" produced by Tony Hatch, failed to chart due to a lack of publicity caused by a national printing strike.
Despite the failure, Faith was becoming popular through television appearances. He became an actor by taking drama and elocution lessons, and appeared in the film Beat Girl. The script called for Faith to sing songs and as Barry was arranging Faith's recordings and live Drumbeat material, the film company asked him to write the score. This was the beginning of Barry's career in film music.
Faith's success on Drumbeat enabled another recording contract, with Parlophone. His next record in 1959, "What Do You Want?", written by Les Vandyke and produced by Barry and John Burgess, received good reviews in the NME and other papers, as well as being voted a hit on Juke Box Jury. This became his first number one hit in the UK Singles Chart, and his pronunciation of the word 'baby' as 'bay-beh' became a catchphrase.
"What Do You Want?" was the first number one hit for Parlophone, Faith the only pop act on the label.
With songs like "Poor Me" (another chart topper), "Someone Else's Baby" (a UK No. 2) and "Don't That Beat All", he established himself as a rival to Cliff Richard in British popular music. […]
In 1974, Adam Faith delivered "I Survive", a kind-of comeback album featuring Paul McCartney on four tracks.
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Birmingham's economy currently stands in excess of £120 Billion, and is growing at a higher rate than any other city in the UK. It's the UK's second city after the Capital, an accolade supported by Birmingham's key performance statistics. Birmingham has been voted the best regional city in the UK to live, with the cost of living approximately 60% lower than London. Many corporates have recognised the value and already relocated to Birmingham. The property market is growing at an exponential rate, fuelled by the influx of major corporations and the growing deficit in housing supply. Birmingham simply does not have enough residences to meet the occupier demand.
Under construction across the length and breadth of the UK, with a scheduled completion in 2026, the High-Speed Rail Network (HS2) will play a huge part in the future of Birmingham as a hotspot for investment. When the network is completed, journey times between Birmingham and London will be cut by as much as 40%. This reduction in commuting times between these two major cities, puts Swan Courtyard in a prime location for commuters wanting the affordability of Birmingham but the career opportunities of London.
Birmingham is strategically located for motorway travel with the M5, M6, M40 and M42 all interconnecting in and around the city. Three main rail stations serve Birmingham, New Street, Snow Hill and Moor Street, together providing a comprehensive network linking long distance destinations across the UK. A central location at the heart of the UK has been a key factor in Birmingham's success and appeal for investment and development. Located in between some of the UK's biggest cities such as Manchester and London means Birmingham has a wealth of excellent transport links both nationally and internationally.
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Unfortunately, his paltry salary was not enough to convince Zelda to marry him, and tired of waiting for him to make his fortune, she broke their engagement in This sudden prosperity made it possible for him and Zelda to play the roles they were so beautifully equipped for, and Ring Lardner called them the prince and princess of their generation.
When Fitzgerald was working on a novel, he would surround himself with charts outlining the F scott fitzgerald his beautiful and movements and histories of his characters. He was in debt and still struggling to remain sober, but he believed his work-in-progress showed considerable promise.
Paul to check out The Romantic Egotist. The war ended inbefore Fitzgerald was ever deployed. At the end of his life, Fitzgerald sold scripts back to Hollywood. So Fitzgerald was originally buried instead in Rockville Union Cemetery. Myrtle's husband, George Wilson, falsely concludes that the driver of the yellow car is the secret lover he suspects his wife had.
Critics who had waited nine years for the followup to The Great Gatsby had mixed opinions about the novel. Create people, not types. Make a detailed outline of your story.
The war ended inbefore Fitzgerald was ever deployed. Twice a week we compile our most fascinating features and deliver them straight to you. Inhe joined the army, leaving the university behind.
Upon his discharge he moved to New York City hoping to launch a career in advertising that would be lucrative enough to persuade Zelda to marry him.
He and Zelda moved away from each other; she continued to live in East Coast psychiatric facilities, while he lived with his lover Sheilah Graham in Hollywood.
They've all been removed to make the movie- I don't know- less smart. Scott Fitzgerald on Writingwhich was edited by Larry W. As in the previous post, we've organized the advice under our own headings and added some brief commentary. I am alone in the privacy of my faded blue room with my sick cat, the bare February branches F scott fitzgerald his beautiful and at the window, an ironic paper weight that says Business is Good, a New England conscience--developed in Minnesota--and my greatest problem: It ends with Tom physically abusing Myrtle, breaking her nose in the process, after she says Daisy's name several times, which makes him angry.
As an icon of the Jazz Age, she struggled against her traditional southern upbringing and its societal constraints to create a new, independent identity not just for herself, but for all American women.
He was hospitalized nine times at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and his friend H. Sisyphus has been sentenced by the god to, for all of eternity, push a rock up a mountain, only to see the rock tumble back down again. In the intensity with which it is imagined and in the brilliance of its expression, it is the equal of anything Fitzgerald ever wrote, and it is typical of his luck that he died of a heart attack with his novel only half-finished.
A little-known artist named Francis Cugat was commissioned to illustrate the book while Fitzgerald was in the midst of writing it. In the book was reissued under the original title The Love of The Last Tycoon, which is now agreed to have been Fitzgerald's preferred title.
Relationships are not things to be acquired and to then be forgotten about; they are just the sort of lifelong struggle Fitzgerald prescribes. Even working for an advertising company and writing short stories, Fitzgerald was unable to convince Zelda that he would give her the support she needed.
Although Fitzgerald had a clear vocation for writing novels, they never brought him enough income to maintain the opulent lifestyle he and Zelda adopted. It was choreographed by Jimmy Orrante. After an initially awkward reunion, Gatsby and Daisy begin an affair over the summer.
Existentialism presents the possibility of what Camus refers to as an absurd hero- a person who ignores the values of his society in order to live the life that he wants to live, who is a hero because he has chosen his own path and his own struggle and has followed that path in spite of what the world around him would have him do.
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Scott Fitzgerald used his writing in an attempt to make sense of the world and to share that understanding with his audience. InZelda and F.
Scott Fitzgerald stirred up one last fiasco--a disastrous and booze-fueled trip to Cuba. They had been separated. Zelda lived in Asheville's Highland Hospital, where she was. In honor of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald's birthday on September 24, let's take a closer look at some quotes from some of the Jazz Age's favorite author.
The Great Gatsby is certainly the most well known of his works, but Fitzgerald had plenty to say in this book and others on.
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Hoodies become the mainstream of apparels in almost all western countries. Tracing back the roots, the hoodies were first familiar among the European monks during the medieval period. From 1970's this apparel style got momentum after being used by several celebrities and pop stars. The target audience of hoodies are teens and a little bit of middle age group people. We on this list have collected some of the best free hoodies mockups, to help you showcase your design.
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Has America Become a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy?
October 26, 2018 TFD Government, Tyranny 0
"The poor and the underclass are growing. Racial justice and human rights are nonexistent. They have created a repressive society and we are their unwitting accomplices. Their intention to rule rests with the annihilation of consciousness. We have been lulled into a trance. They have made us indifferent to ourselves, to others. We are focused only on our own gain."—They Live, John Carpenter
We're living in two worlds, you and I.
There's the world we see (or are made to see) and then there's the one we sense (and occasionally catch a glimpse of), the latter of which is a far cry from the propaganda-driven reality manufactured by the government and its corporate sponsors, including the media.
Indeed, what most Americans perceive as life in America—privileged, progressive and free—is a far cry from reality, where economic inequality is growing, real agendas and real power are buried beneath layers of Orwellian doublespeak and corporate obfuscation, and "freedom," such that it is, is meted out in small, legalistic doses by militarized police armed to the teeth.
All is not as it seems.
"You see them on the street. You watch them on TV. You might even vote for one this fall. You think they're people just like you. You're wrong. Dead wrong."
This is the premise of John Carpenter's film They Live, which was released 30 years ago in November 1988 and remains unnervingly, chillingly appropriate for our modern age.
Best known for his horror film Halloween, which assumes that there is a form of evil so dark that it can't be killed, Carpenter's larger body of work is infused with a strong anti-authoritarian, anti-establishment, laconic bent that speaks to the filmmaker's concerns about the unraveling of our society, particularly our government.
Time and again, Carpenter portrays the government working against its own citizens, a populace out of touch with reality, technology run amok, and a future more horrific than any horror film.
In Escape from New York, Carpenter presents fascism as the future of America.
In The Thing, a remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic of the same name, Carpenter presupposes that increasingly we are all becoming dehumanized.
In Christine, the film adaptation of Stephen King's novel about a demon-possessed car, technology exhibits a will and consciousness of its own and goes on a murderous rampage.
In In the Mouth of Madness, Carpenter notes that evil grows when people lose "the ability to know the difference between reality and fantasy."
And then there is Carpenter's They Live, in which two migrant workers discover that the world is not as it seems. In fact, the population is actually being controlled and exploited by aliens working in partnership with an oligarchic elite. All the while, the populace—blissfully unaware of the real agenda at work in their lives—has been lulled into complacency, indoctrinated into compliance, bombarded with media distractions, and hypnotized by subliminal messages beamed out of television and various electronic devices, billboards and the like.
It is only when homeless drifter John Nada (played to the hilt by the late Roddy Piper) discovers a pair of doctored sunglasses—Hoffman lenses—that Nada sees what lies beneath the elite's fabricated reality: control and bondage.
When viewed through the lens of truth, the elite, who appear human until stripped of their disguises, are shown to be monsters who have enslaved the citizenry in order to prey on them.
Likewise, billboards blare out hidden, authoritative messages: a bikini-clad woman in one ad is actually ordering viewers to "MARRY AND REPRODUCE." Magazine racks scream "CONSUME" and "OBEY." A wad of dollar bills in a vendor's hand proclaims, "THIS IS YOUR GOD."
When viewed through Nada's Hoffman lenses, some of the other hidden messages being drummed into the people's subconscious include: NO INDEPENDENT THOUGHT, CONFORM, SUBMIT, STAY ASLEEP, BUY, WATCH TV, NO IMAGINATION, and DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY.
This indoctrination campaign engineered by the elite in They Live is painfully familiar to anyone who has studied the decline of American culture.
A citizenry that does not think for themselves, obeys without question, is submissive, does not challenge authority, does not think outside the box, and is content to sit back and be entertained is a citizenry that can be easily controlled.
In this way, the subtle message of They Live provides an apt analogy of our own distorted vision of life in the American police state, what philosopher Slavoj Žižek refers to as dictatorship in democracy, "the invisible order which sustains your apparent freedom."
We're being fed a series of carefully contrived fictions that bear no resemblance to reality.
The powers-that-be want us to feel threatened by forces beyond our control (terrorists, shooters, bombers).
They want us afraid and dependent on the government and its militarized armies for our safety and well-being.
They want us distrustful of each other, divided by our prejudices, and at each other's throats.
Most of all, they want us to continue to march in lockstep with their dictates.
Tune out the government's attempts to distract, divert and befuddle us and tune into what's really going on in this country, and you'll run headlong into an unmistakable, unpalatable truth: the moneyed elite who rule us view us as expendable resources to be used, abused and discarded.
In fact, a study conducted by Princeton and Northwestern University concluded that the U.S. government does not represent the majority of American citizens. Instead, the study found that the government is ruled by the rich and powerful, or the so-called "economic elite." Moreover, the researchers concluded that policies enacted by this governmental elite nearly always favor special interests and lobbying groups.
In other words, we are being ruled by an oligarchy disguised as a democracy, and arguably on our way towards fascism—a form of government where private corporate interests rule, money calls the shots, and the people are seen as mere subjects to be controlled.
Not only do you have to be rich—or beholden to the rich—to get elected these days, but getting elected is also a surefire way to get rich. As CBS News reports, "Once in office, members of Congress enjoy access to connections and information they can use to increase their wealth, in ways that are unparalleled in the private sector. And once politicians leave office, their connections allow them to profit even further."
In denouncing this blatant corruption of America's political system, former president Jimmy Carter blasted the process of getting elected—to the White House, governor's mansion, Congress or state legislatures—as "unlimited political bribery… a subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors, who want and expect, and sometimes get, favors for themselves after the election is over."
Rest assured that when and if fascism finally takes hold in America, the basic forms of government will remain: Fascism will appear to be friendly. The legislators will be in session. There will be elections, and the news media will continue to cover the entertainment and political trivia. Consent of the governed, however, will no longer apply. Actual control will have finally passed to the oligarchic elite controlling the government behind the scenes.
Clearly, we are now ruled by an oligarchic elite of governmental and corporate interests.
We have moved into "corporatism" (favored by Benito Mussolini), which is a halfway point on the road to full-blown fascism.
Corporatism is where the few moneyed interests—not elected by the citizenry—rule over the many. In this way, it is not a democracy or a republican form of government, which is what the American government was established to be. It is a top-down form of government and one which has a terrifying history typified by the developments that occurred in totalitarian regimes of the past: police states where everyone is watched and spied on, rounded up for minor infractions by government agents, placed under police control, and placed in detention (a.k.a. concentration) camps.
For the final hammer of fascism to fall, it will require the most crucial ingredient: the majority of the people will have to agree that it's not only expedient but necessary.
But why would a people agree to such an oppressive regime?
The answer is the same in every age: fear.
Fear makes people stupid.
Fear is the method most often used by politicians to increase the power of government. And, as most social commentators recognize, an atmosphere of fear permeates modern America: fear of terrorism, fear of the police, fear of our neighbors and so on.
The propaganda of fear has been used quite effectively by those who want to gain control, and it is working on the American populace.
Despite the fact that we are 17,600 times more likely to die from heart disease than from a terrorist attack; 11,000 times more likely to die from an airplane accident than from a terrorist plot involving an airplane; 1,048 times more likely to die from a car accident than a terrorist attack, and 8 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist , we have handed over control of our lives to government officials who treat us as a means to an end—the source of money and power.
As the Bearded Man in They Live warns, "They are dismantling the sleeping middle class. More and more people are becoming poor. We are their cattle. We are being bred for slavery."
In this regard, we're not so different from the oppressed citizens in They Live.
From the moment we are born until we die, we are indoctrinated into believing that those who rule us do it for our own good. The truth is far different.
Despite the truth staring us in the face, we have allowed ourselves to become fearful, controlled, pacified zombies.
We live in a perpetual state of denial, insulated from the painful reality of the American police state by wall-to-wall entertainment news and screen devices.
Most everyone keeps their heads down these days while staring zombie-like into an electronic screen, even when they're crossing the street. Families sit in restaurants with their heads down, separated by their screen devices and unaware of what's going on around them. Young people especially seem dominated by the devices they hold in their hands, oblivious to the fact that they can simply push a button, turn the thing off and walk away.
Indeed, there is no larger group activity than that connected with those who watch screens—that is, television, lap tops, personal computers, cell phones and so on. In fact, a Nielsen study reports that American screen viewing is at an all-time high. For example, the average American watches approximately 151 hours of television per month.
The question, of course, is what effect does such screen consumption have on one's mind?
Psychologically it is similar to drug addiction. Researchers found that "almost immediately after turning on the TV, subjects reported feeling more relaxed, and because this occurs so quickly and the tension returns so rapidly after the TV is turned off, people are conditioned to associate TV viewing with a lack of tension." Research also shows that regardless of the programming, viewers' brain waves slow down, thus transforming them into a more passive, nonresistant state.
Historically, television has been used by those in authority to quiet discontent and pacify disruptive people. "Faced with severe overcrowding and limited budgets for rehabilitation and counseling, more and more prison officials are using TV to keep inmates quiet," according to Newsweek.
Given that the majority of what Americans watch on television is provided through channels controlled by six mega corporations, what we watch is now controlled by a corporate elite and, if that elite needs to foster a particular viewpoint or pacify its viewers, it can do so on a large scale.
If we're watching, we're not doing.
The powers-that-be understand this. As television journalist Edward R. Murrow warned in a 1958 speech:
We are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable and complacent. We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.
This brings me back to They Live, in which the real zombies are not the aliens calling the shots but the populace who are content to remain controlled.
When all is said and done, the world of They Live is not so different from our own.
We, too, are focused only on our own pleasures, prejudices and gains. Our poor and underclasses are also growing. Racial injustice is growing. Human rights is nearly nonexistent. We too have been lulled into a trance, indifferent to others.
Oblivious to what lies ahead, we've been manipulated into believing that if we continue to consume, obey, and have faith, things will work out. But that's never been true of emerging regimes. And by the time we feel the hammer coming down upon us, it will be too late.
So where does that leave us?
The characters who populate Carpenter's films provide some insight.
Underneath their machismo, they still believe in the ideals of liberty and equal opportunity. Their beliefs place them in constant opposition with the law and the establishment, but they are nonetheless freedom fighters.
When, for example, John Nada destroys the alien hyno-transmitter in They Live, he restores hope by delivering America a wake-up call for freedom.
That's the key right there: we need to wake up.
Stop allowing yourselves to be easily distracted by pointless political spectacles and pay attention to what's really going on in the country.
The real battle for control of this nation is not being waged between Republicans and Democrats in the ballot box.
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the real battle for control of this nation is taking place on roadsides, in police cars, on witness stands, over phone lines, in government offices, in corporate offices, in public school hallways and classrooms, in parks and city council meetings, and in towns and cities across this country.
The real battle between freedom and tyranny is taking place right in front of our eyes, if we would only open them.
All the trappings of the American police state are now in plain sight.
Wake up, America.
If they live (the tyrants, the oppressors, the invaders, the overlords), it is only because "we the people" sleep.
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ABOUT JOHN W. WHITEHEAD
Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People (SelectBooks, 2015) is available online at www.amazon.com. Whitehead can be contacted at johnw@rutherford.org.
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Philip has spent a lot of time with his hands on virtualization. He knows the ins and outs of virtually everything about virtualization. Recently, Read Write Web called upon him to write a white paper on what is driving virtualization in the present wave of adopters.
We are happy to work with Read Write Web, a home of good content and thought leadership. Even when we are not published there, they often end up on the business end of my twitter feed.
While interviewing experts and organizing his rich content outline, Philip discovered that a key to a virtualization plan is to start planning for any cloud integration at the same time.
If you are virtually jumping out of your chair to learn about how to implement a good strategy for data center virtualization, check out Philip's white paper at Read Write Web.