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Thedocumattarian
Break intro documentaries by making documentaries.
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"Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional." – Chili Davis
I want to make my own documentary films. It took me thirty eight years, two continents, two divorces, nine jobs, two startups and losing a fifteen year career as a publisher to figure that out, and after five years it's still very much a work in progress. It's a complicated story that I tell to encourage others not to quit…this is the short version.
"…and what do you want to be when you grow up little boy?"
I really like to bounce – my body less so…
I hated visiting Santa as a kid, because I knew that question was coming…I'd always felt the pressure to find 'a good stable career' being sired as I was from parents born under siege in Britain during world war two, who were raised in the era of a 'job for life' – they are roughly equivalent of what Americans call the 'baby boomer' generation. However, I never knew what that career could or even should be, let alone how one went about finding out. It never occurred to me that it was even remotely possible to invent one through sheer bloody-mindedness. If I could speak to that young version of myself, the one piece of advice I'd tell him would be to: "Listen to yourself more & everyone else less."
I knew what I wished could be true: I was a dreamer and a racing addict; MotoGP and F1 filled my head. I wanted to do something like; race bikes and cars or be an international adventurer like Indiana Jones (yeah I know he's not real) and somehow stamp my name on the world…I wanted excitement, I wanted to be challenged & test myself against the universe.
Ayrton Senna driving for McLaren at the 1988 Canadian Grand Prix. Paul Lannuier from Sussex, NJ, USA Licensed under Creative Commons 2.0 world!
Well that's how my Lego adventures would normally pan out…however I was also smart enough by say, five of six years of age to know that dreams like those generally don't come true for regular people like you and me.
For instance, I figured out very quickly that anyone that wants to be a racer needs first to have parents that also have petrol in their veins, because becoming a race driver of any kind costs a bomb; just Google what Anthony Hamilton, father of Lewis, did to enable his sons stellar career. Although my parents were not drowning in cash my sister and I had an amazingly rich childhood, however, it was far from being the type of childhood that was able to afford an extravagance like a racing go-kart or a motorbike. It wasn't just the finances that weren't there, it was the willpower; neither of my parents had any of the same interests as me.
Discovering that dreams are just that for most of us while still very young had a profound effect on me: I have always felt that a fate of complete boredom awaited me no matter what I did, so cynical and pragmatic was I about my prospects of doing anything that might be remotely enjoyable for a living. 'Going to work' gives most people no more satisfaction then paying the bills from week to week and this is true for all but a few lucky people. In my experience dreams were mainly there for those that can afford their upkeep and so, when I was asked at age seven "what I wanted to be when I grew up" I was completely stumped, and I mean monumentally crushed under the weight of not knowing, it was like having an existential crisis before I could even spell it.
What did I want to be?
What followed next academically was the expected rudderless boredom. I was so jealous of friends that had a handle on their future, they were so direct and focused on what they needed to do to get there. I on the other hand always felt like I was rowing a small boat across the Atlantic without a compass and if I'm honest I've never really felt like a 'grown up' in any traditional sense, highlighted by my endless affinity for inflatable bouncy castles. I cruised through school in an almost terminal state of yawning before continuing to be bored studying Physics, Design and Communications at A-Level, dumping them all and chasing Audio Engineering which was way less boring, but which was also way too expensive for me to take very far.
This is why I joined the workplace aged 16, getting a weekend job at McDonald's Leicester Square while still studying. When I left school at 18, I spent the next 5 years in retail selling clothes, electronics & cell phones – an experience which sucked so bad I still to this day cannot listen to Christmas music. However, very unexpectedly in 1999 I got a job at a technical publisher selling ad space and met my first mentor who saw endless potential in me and is really one of the biggest reasons I have the gumption to even attempt what I'm trying to do. I started in ad sales, took over the content generation and started creating my own ideas, it was a magical time that ended abruptly with me replacing him when they pulled the plug on the UK operation.
I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2003, tasked with setting up a new US version of the operation within the existing infrastructure. The next decade would see me spin out our operation into a co-founded company with my US boss, develop several new titles, get into government consulting, create partnerships with 30 R&D entities and I was even flown to Beijing in 2011 to lecture at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Microelectronics Institute to a room full of students that were already far more qualified then I was at half my age. I genuinely thought I'd found 'it' – my career and maybe even my "American dream" – but I hadn't. Our company folded in 2013 and after another year trying to start up a new concept in the same space I realized the truth; my career was obsolete and so was the 15 years I'd invested in it.
Standing outside the Institute of Microelectronics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing 2011.
That's how I came to be jobless and with no career direction again at 38, so I took the first opportunity that came my way. An offer to try and create my next job in a startup, by also creating a crowdfunding campaign to launch their first product. Any good crowdfunding campaign needs a video and so I learned to edit video and in doing so finally had an answer to the question asked 31 years before – I knew what I wanted to be; Sir. David Attenborough. Well, not literally of course, but I loved producing that video so much I realized it wasn't 'work' as I'd ever known it before, although the hours were pretty long and punishing – I'd loved every second of it and so I was only mildly annoyed when the position I'd been offered evaporated after the interest in their technology failed to match expectations, but I didn't care: I'd answered the question! Now all I had to do was figure out how to break into film, but before I did that I needed some experience – so I became a freelance videographer and learned on the job…
For four years I focused on making tons of content for other people learning as I went. I learnt the camera, how to coach presenters and even host video myself. I built shows, sets, test rigs. I figured out sound, color correction and just about everything needed to be self reliant and after three years I finally felt I was in a position to take a stab at making documentaries so I collaborated with one of my biggest clients to create my first called VETSGROW about veteran suicide & PTSD set to the backdrop of teaching a Vietnam veteran to grow medical cannabis at home. It was the first completed documentary series that was my own creation, from start to finish it was a solo production, I filmed every minute, wrote every line of script and threw all the limited resources I had into making it – and I have plans to make many, many more…
So if you find yourself made obsolete by your career, your life or for any other reason…don't quit, don't give up and wave the flag of surrender…because it might just be the thing that lets you find out what you want to be when you grow up…
…and to me that's priceless.
All Motorcycle photography courtesy of Thomas K. Sorensen (thanks buddy)
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Die Burg Semdach ist eine abgegangene Burg nahe dem Flurbereich "Burgstall" einen Kilometer nordöstlich von Boll an der Markungsgrenze zu Stetten, beide heutige Stadtteile von Hechingen im Zollernalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg.

Semdach ist die Wüstung eines vor 1428 abgegangenen Dorfes. Von der nicht mehr lokalisierbaren Burganlage ist nichts erhalten.

Literatur
 Günter Schmitt: Burgen, Schlösser und Ruinen im Zollernalbkreis. Herausgegeben vom Landratsamt Zollernalbkreis, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7995-0186-6, S. 350.

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Semdach, Burg
Bauwerk in Hechingen
Abgegangenes Bauwerk im Zollernalbkreis
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Anarcho-pacifism
Anarcho-pacifism (also pacifist anarchism or anarchist pacifism) is a tendency within anarchism that rejects the use of violence in the struggle for social change, the abolition of capitalism and the state.[1][2] The main early influences were the thought of Henry David Thoreau[2] and Leo Tolstoy while later the ideas of Mahatma Gandhi gained importance.[1][2] Pacifist anarchism "appeared mostly in the Netherlands, Britain, and the United States, before and after the Second World War and has continued since then in the anarchist involvement in the protests against nuclear armament.".[3]
2 Thought
3 Ideological variance
4 Criticism
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Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an important early influence in individualist anarchist thought in the United States and Europe. Thoreau's essay "Civil Disobedience" (Resistance to Civil Government) was named as an influence by Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Martin Buber and Leo Tolstoy due to its advocacy of nonviolent resistance.[2] According to the Peace Pledge Union of Britain, it was also the main precedent for anarcho-pacifism.[2] Thoreau himself did not subscribe to pacifism, and did not reject the use of armed revolt. He demonstrated this with his unqualified support for John Brown and other violent abolitionists,[4] writing of Brown that "The question is not about the weapon, but the spirit in which you use it."[5]
In the 1840s, the American abolitionist and advocate of nonresistance Henry Clarke Wright and his English follower Joseph Barker rejected the idea of governments and advocated a form of pacifist individualist anarchism.[6] At some point anarcho-pacifism had as its main proponent Christian anarchism. The Tolstoyan movement in Russia was the first large-scale anarcho-pacifist movement.
Violence has always been controversial in anarchism. While many anarchists embraced violent propaganda of the deed during the nineteenth century, anarcho-pacifists directly opposed violence as a means for change. Tolstoy argued that anarchism must be nonviolent since it is, by definition, opposition to coercion and force, and that since the state is inherently violent, meaningful pacifism must likewise be anarchistic. Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis was also instrumental in establishing the pacifist trend within the anarchist movement.[7] In France anti-militarism appeared strongly in individualist anarchist circles, as Émile Armand co-founded "Ligue Antimilitariste" in December 1902 with fellow anarchists Georges Yvetot, Henri Beylie, Paraf-Javal, Albert Libertad and Émile Janvion. The Ligue antimilitariste was to become the French section of the Association internationale antimilitariste (AIA) founded in Amsterdam in 1904.[8]
Dorothy Day, American Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist
Bart de Ligt, influential Dutch anarcho-pacifist writer of the theoretical work The Conquest of Violence
Tolstoy's philosophy was cited as a major inspiration by Mohandas Gandhi, an Indian independence leader and pacifist who self-identified as an anarchist. "Gandhi's ideas were popularised in the West in books such as Richard Gregg's The Power of Nonviolence (1935), and Bart de Ligt's The Conquest of Violence (1937). The latter is particularly important for anarchists since, as one himself, de Ligt specifically addressed those who lust for revolution. 'The more violence, the less revolution,' he declared. He also linked Gandhian principled nonviolence with the pragmatic nonviolent direct action of the syndicalists. (The General Strike is an expression of total noncooperation by workers, though it should be added that most syndicalists believed that the revolution should be defended by armed workers.)"[9] The Conquest of Violence alludes to Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread.[10]
As a global movement, anarchist pacifism emerged shortly before World War II in the Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States and was a strong presence in the subsequent campaigns for nuclear disarmament. The American writer Dwight Macdonald endorsed anarcho-pacifist views in the 1940s and used his journal politics to promote these ideas.[11] For Andrew Cornell "Many young anarchists of this period departed from previous generations both by embracing pacifism and by devoting more energy to promoting avant-garde culture, preparing the ground for the Beat Generation in the process. The editors of the anarchist journal Retort, for instance, produced a volume of writings by WWII draft resistors imprisoned at Danbury, Connecticut, while regularly publishing the poetry and prose of writers such as Kenneth Rexroth and Norman Mailer. From the 1940s to the 1960s, then, the radical pacifist movement in the United States harbored both social democrats and anarchists, at a time when the anarchist movement itself seemed on its last legs."[12] A leading British anarcho-pacifist was Alex Comfort who considered himself "an aggressive anti-militarist," and he believed that pacifism rested "solely upon the historical theory of anarchism."[13][14] He was an active member of CND.
Among the works on anarchism by Comfort is Peace and Disobedience (1946), one of many pamphlets he wrote for Peace News and the Peace Pledge Union, and Authority and Delinquency in the Modern State (1950).[13] He exchanged public correspondence with George Orwell defending pacifism in the open letter/poem "Letter to an American Visitor" under the pseudonym "Obadiah Hornbrooke."[15]
In the 1950s and 1960s, anarcho-pacifism "began to gel, tough-minded anarchists adding to the mixture their critique of the state, and tender-minded pacifists their critique of violence".[2] Within the context of the emergence of the New Left and the Civil Rights Movement, "several themes, theories, actions, all distinctly libertarian, began to come to the fore and were given intellectual expression by the American anarcho-pacifist, Paul Goodman."[2]
Other notable anarcho-pacifist historical figures include Ammon Hennacy, Dorothy Day and, for a brief period between 1939 and 1940, Jean-Paul Sartre.[16] Dorothy Day, (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist, social activist and devout Catholic convert; she advocated the Catholic economic theory of distributism. She was also considered to be an anarchist,[17][18][19] and did not hesitate to use the term.[20] In the 1930s, Day worked closely with fellow activist Peter Maurin to establish the Catholic Worker movement, a nonviolent, pacifist movement that continues to combine direct aid for the poor and homeless with nonviolent direct action on their behalf. The cause for Day's canonization is open in the Catholic Church. Ammon Hennacy (July 24, 1893 – January 14, 1970) was an American pacifist, Christian anarchist, vegetarian, social activist, member of the Catholic Worker Movement and a Wobbly. He established the "Joe Hill House of Hospitality" in Salt Lake City, Utah and practiced tax resistance. Charles-Auguste Bontemps was a prolific author mainly in the anarchist, freethinking, pacifist and naturist press of the time.[21] His view on anarchism was based around his concept of "Social Individualism" on which he wrote extensively.[21] He defended an anarchist perspective which consisted on "a collectivism of things and an individualism of persons."[22] Gérard de Lacaze-Duthiers was a French writer, art critic, pacifist and anarchist. Lacaze-Duthiers, an art critic for the Symbolist review journal La Plume, was influenced by Oscar Wilde, Nietzsche and Max Stirner. His (1906) L'Ideal Humain de l'Art helped found the 'Artistocracy' movement - a movement advocating life in the service of art.[23] His ideal was an anti-elitist aestheticism: "All men should be artists".[24] Jean-René Saulière (also René Saulière) (Bordeaux, September 6, 1911- January 2, 1999) was a French anarcho-pacifist, individualist anarchist[25] and freethought writer and militant who went under the pseudonym André Arru.[26][27][28] During the late 1950s he establishes inside the Fédération des Libres Penseurs des Bouches du Rhône, the Group Francisco Ferrer[29] and in 1959 he joins the Union des Pacifistes de France (Union of Pacifists of France).[29] From 1968 to 1982, Arru alongside the members of the Group Francisco Ferrer publishes La Libre Pensée des Bouches du Rhône.
Movement for a New Society (MNS), a national network of feminist radical pacifist collectives that existed from 1971 to 1988",[30] is sometimes identified as anarchist, [31] although they did not identify themselves as such.[32] For Andrew Cornell "MNS popularized consensus decision-making, introduced the spokescouncil method of organization to activists in the United States, and was a leading advocate of a variety of practices—communal living, unlearning oppressive behavior, creating co-operatively owned businesses—that are now often subsumed under the rubric of "prefigurative politics."[30] MNS leader George Lakey stated that, "The anarchists claim me but I'm always a little surprised when they do because I'm fond of social democracy as it's been developed in Norway." (Lakey has supported electoral politics, including the re-election of Barack Obama as U.S. president)[33]
Thought[edit]
From "An Anarchist FAQ": "the attraction of pacifism to anarchists is clear. Violence is authoritarian and coercive, and so its use does contradict anarchist principles... (Errico) Malatesta is even more explicit when he wrote that the "main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations".[34]
Anarcho-pacifists tend to see the state as 'organised violence' and so they see that "it would therefore seem logical that anarchists should reject all violence".[2] Anarcho-pacifism criticizes the separation between means and ends. "Means... must not merely be consistent with ends; this principle, though preferable to 'the end justifies the means', is based on a misleading dichotomy. Means are ends, never merely instrumental but also always expressive of values; means are end-creating or ends-in-the making".[2]
An anarcho-pacifist critique of capitalism was provided by Bart de Ligt in his The Conquest of Violence. An Anarchist FAQ reports how "all anarchists would agree with de Ligt on, to use the name of one of his book's chapters, "the absurdity of bourgeois pacifism." For de Ligt, and all anarchists, violence is inherent in the capitalist system and any attempt to make capitalism pacifistic is doomed to failure. This is because, on the one hand, war is often just economic competition carried out by other means. Nations often go to war when they face an economic crisis, what they cannot gain in economic struggle they attempt to get by conflict. On the other hand, "violence is indispensable in modern society... [because] without it the ruling class would be completely unable to maintain its privileged position with regard to the exploited masses in each country. The army is used first and foremost to hold down the workers... when they become discontented." [Bart de Ligt, Op. Cit., p. 62] As long as the state and capitalism exist, violence is inevitable and so, for anarcho-pacifists, the consistent pacifist must be an anarchist just as the consistent anarchist must be a pacifist".[34]
A main component of anarcho-pacifist strategy is civil disobedience as advocated by the early anarchist thinker Henry David Thoreau in the essay of the same name from 1849 (although Thoreau strongly supported the gun rights and self-defense).[2] Leo Tolstoy was influenced by it and he saw that a "great weapon for undermining (rather than overthrowing) the state was the refusal by individuals to cooperate with it and obey its immoral demands".[2] Also the concepts of passive and active resistance have relevance as they were developed later by Mohandas Gandhi.[2]
For anarchist historian George Woodcock "the modern pacifist anarchists,...have tended to concentrate their attention largely on the creation of libertarian communities -- particularly farming communities -- within present society, as a kind of peaceful version of the propaganda by deed. They divide, however, over the question of action.".[1] Anarcho-pacifists can even accept "the principle of resistance and even revolutionary action (nonviolent revolution), provided it does not incur violence, which they see as a form of power and therefore nonanarchist in nature. This change in attitude has led the pacifist anarchists to veer toward the anarcho-syndicalists, since the latter's concept of the general strike as the great revolutionary weapon made an appeal to those pacifists who accepted the need for fundamental social change but did not wish to compromise their ideal by the use of negative (i.e., violent) means."[1]
Ideological variance[edit]
While anarcho-pacifism is most commonly associated with religious anarchism such as Tolstoyan Christian anarchism and Buddhist anarchism, irreligious or even anti-religious tendencies have emerged such as the French individualist anarchist anarcho-pacifist tendency exemplified by authors and activists such as Charles-Auguste Bontemps, André Arru and Gérard de Lacaze-Duthiers which aligned itself with atheism and freethought. The anarcho-punk band Crass polemicised a variant of anarcho-pacifism whilst at the same time explicitly rejecting all religions, especially the symbols of 'establishment' Christian theology.[35] Opposition to the use of violence has not prohibited anarcho-pacifists from accepting the principle of resistance or even revolutionary action provided it does not result in violence; in fact it was their approval of such forms of opposition to power that lead anarcho-pacifists to endorse the anarcho-syndicalist concept of the general strike as the great revolutionary weapon.[7] Later anarcho-pacifists have also come to endorse to non-violent strategy of dual power, as championed by Mutualism.
Peter Gelderloos criticizes the idea that nonviolence is the only way to fight for a better world. According to Gelderloos, pacifism as an ideology serves the interests of the state and is hopelessly caught up psychologically with the control schema of patriarchy and white supremacy.[36] The influential publishing collective CrimethInc. notes that "violence" and "nonviolence" are politicized terms that are used inconsistently in discourse, depending on whether or not a writer seeks to legitimize the actor in question. They argue that "[i]t's not strategic [for anarchists] to focus on delegitimizing each other's efforts rather than coordinating to act together where we overlap". For this reason, both CrimethInc. and Gelderloos advocate for diversity of tactics.[37]
Anarchism and violence
Anti-war movements
^ a b c d George Woodcock. Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements (1962)
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Resisting the Nation State, the pacifist and anarchist tradition" by Geoffrey Ostergaard
^ Woodstock, George (1962). Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements. Finally, somewhat aside from the curve that runs from anarchist individualism to anarcho-syndicalism, we come to Tolstoyanism and to pacifist anarchism that appeared, mostly in Holland, Britain, and the United states, before and after the Second World War and which has continued since then in the deep in the anarchist involvement in the protests against nuclear armament.
^ James Mark Shields, "Thoreau's Lengthening Shadow: Pacifism and the Legacy of 'Civil Disobedience'"' Bucknell University website
^ Michael Meyer "Thoreau's Rescue of John Brown from History" Studies in the American Renaissance (1980), pp. 301-316
^ Brock, Peter, Pacifism in Europe to 1914, Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1972, ISBN 0691046085 (p. 395-6).
^ a b Woodcock, George (2004). Anarchism: a History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements. Peterborough: Broadview Press. ISBN 1-55111-629-4.
^ Miller, Paul B. (14 March 2002). From Revolutionaries to Citizens: Antimilitarism in France, 1870–1914. Duke University Press. p. 38. ISBN 0-8223-8058-7. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
^ Resisting the Nation State. The pacifist and anarchist tradition by Geoffrey Ostergaard
^ "Anarchism and the Movement for a New Society: Direct Action and Prefigurative Community in the 1970s and 80s" by Andrew Cornell Archived 18 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine
^ Wald, Alan M. The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left From the 1930s to the 1980s. UNC Press Books, 1987 ISBN 0807841692, (p. 210).
^ Andrew Cornell. "Anarchism and the Movement for a New Society: Direct Action and Prefigurative Community in the 1970s and 80s." Archived 18 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine Perspectives 2009. Institute for Anarchist Studies *David Graeber. "THE REBIRTH OF ANARCHISM IN NORTH AMERICA, 1957-2007". HAOL, No. 21 (Invierno, 2010), 123-131
^ a b Rayner, Claire (28 March 2000). "News: Obituaries: Alex Comfort". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 23 August 2008.
^ For discussions of Comfort's political views, see Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism (1992) by Peter Marshall, and Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow (2006) by David Goodway.
^ Complete Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell volume II, pg. 294-303
^ Taylor, John, "Abandoning Pacifism: The Case of Sartre", Journal of European Studies, Vol. 89, 1993
^ Day, Dorothy. On Pilgrimage - May 1974 Archived 7 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine, "There was no time to answer the one great disagreement which was in their minds--how can you reconcile your Faith in the monolithic, authoritarian Church which seems so far from Jesus who "had no place to lay his head," and who said "sell what you have and give to the poor,"--with your anarchism? Because I have been behind bars in police stations, houses of detention, jails and prison farms, whatsoever they are called, eleven times, and have refused to pay Federal income taxes and have never voted, they accept me as an anarchist. And I in turn, can see Christ in them even though they deny Him, because they are giving themselves to working for a better social order for the wretched of the earth."
^ Anarchist FAQ - A.3.7 Are there religious anarchists? Archived 23 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine, "Tolstoy's ideas had a strong influence on Gandhi, who inspired his fellow country people to use non-violent resistance to kick Britain out of India. Moreover, Gandhi's vision of a free India as a federation of peasant communes is similar to Tolstoy's anarchist vision of a free society (although we must stress that Gandhi was not an anarchist). The Catholic Worker Movement in the United States was also heavily influenced by Tolstoy (and Proudhon), as was Dorothy Day a staunch Christian pacifist and anarchist who founded it in 1933."
^ Reid, Stuart (2008-09-08) Day by the Pool, The American Conservative
^ Day, Dorothy.On Pilgrimage - February 1974 Archived 6 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine, "The blurb on the back of the book Small Is Beautiful lists fellow spokesmen for the ideas expressed, including "Alex Comfort, Paul Goodman and Murray Bookchin. It is the tradition we might call anarchism." We ourselves have never hesitated to use the word."
^ a b "Charles-Auguste Bontemps" at Ephemeride Anarchiste
^ "BONTEMPS Auguste, Charles, Marcel dit « Charles-Auguste » ; « CHAB » ; « MINXIT »" at Dictionnaire International des Militants Anarchistes
^ Peterson, Joseph (August 1, 2010). Gérard De Lacaze-Duthiers, Charles Péguy, and Edward Carpenter: An Examination of Neo-Romantic Radicalism Before the Great War (M.A. thesis). Clemson University. pp. 8, 15–30.
^ Lacaze-Duthiers, L'Ideal Humain de l'Art, pp.57-8.
^ Guerin, Cedric. "Pensée et action des anarchistes en France: 1950-1970" (PDF). Public Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 31 August 2013.
^ "ARRU, André (SAULIÈRE Jean, René, Gaston dit)" at Dictionnaire des Militants Anarchistes
^ ""André Arru (aka Jean-René Sauliere)" at "The Anarchist Encyclopedia: A Gallery of Saints & Sinners"". Recollectionbooks.com. Archived from the original on 14 June 2012. Retrieved 2012-09-29.
^ "Courte biographie (1ère partie)". Raforum.info. 27 August 1948. Archived from the original on 1 January 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
^ a b ""Courte biographie (2ème partie)"". Archived from the original on 1 January 2014. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
^ a b Andrew Cornell. [" "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 18 May 2013. Retrieved 8 July 2013. CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link) "Anarchism and the Movement for a New Society: Direct Action and Prefigurative Community in the 1970s and 80s."] Perspectives 2009. Institute for Anarchist Studies
^ David Graeber. "THE REBIRTH OF ANARCHISM IN NORTH AMERICA, 1957-2007". HAOL, No. 21 (Invierno, 2010), 123-131
^ 1.	Julie Cristol and T. L. Hill, "Review of Oppose and Propose! by Andrew Cornell" Theory in Action, Vol. 4, No.4, October 2011
^ Ian Sinclair "Interview with George Lakey" ZNet, August 7, 2012
^ a b "2A.3 What types of anarchism are there?"". Archived from the original on 6 July 2013. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
^ Aitch, Iain (19 October 2007). "'Why should we accept any less than a better way of doing things?'". Guardian Unlimited Arts. London: The Guardian. Archived from the original on 24 July 2008. Retrieved 2007-12-26.
^ Gelderloos, Peter (2007). How Nonviolence Protects the State. Cambridge, MA: South End Press. p. 128. ISBN 9780896087729.
^ Crimethinc Ex Workers' Collective "The Illegitimacy of Violence, the Violence of Legitimacy"
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If you are a fan of the new series this new box set from Big Finish is for you. It centers on the planet New Earth and the inhabitants that we have met in the David Tennant story. If you want to know more about what goes on on New Earth you can order the box set at the Big Finish website and start listening.
Devon Pryce has lived all his life in the high rises of New New York. A child of the Elevator Guild, he now receives a new calling - from a cat.
Senator Hame is trying to rebuild society, to make it stronger for future generations, but there are those who would stand in her way.
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Trees are dying of unnatural causes. Sapling Vale, a cutting of the noble Jabe of the Forest of Cheem, will help Devon investigate the threat to her people.
So too will an alien, an old friend of New Earth... a time traveller known as the Doctor!
Devon's work takes him into the skies of New Earth and the great floating city of New Caelum.
Here, a new energy project is exploited by alien powers, and a terrible catastrophe looms. Helped once again by the Doctor, Devon calls on the Bird People of Nest City, as well as the great Solar Bears on their Ice Clouds to stop disaster.
But can the people of the skies put aside their rivalries long enough to make a difference?
Senator Hame is summoned to New Cairo by the spiritual leader of Catkind: the Most Exalted High Persian - a personage of great power and wisdom - to report on her investigations.
Here, the camel-like Dromedans still worship Catkind, in the shadows of vast Octahedrons and temples of light. But Hame and Devon have uncovered a conspiracy that threatens the future of everyone on the planet.
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Out this month is the fourth volume of The Third Doctor Adventures starring Katy Manning as Jo Grant and Tim Treloar. The highlights of this release is adventures featuring the Cybermen and the Meddling Monk. You can order this release from the Big Finish website.
The Doctor and Jo land on Port Anvil – a bleak, abandoned mining colony on the remote planet Burnt Salt. A huge armoured crate has recently arrived in the almost derelict Spacehub. No-one knows who it's for. No-one knows what it contains.
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Out now from Big Finish is the third part of the 5th Doctor trilogy of stories featuring his original TARDIS crew. This time the story takes place on a spaceship and of course there is danger on board. You can buy this release from the Big Finish website.
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Out today is the last 12th Doctor comic book until the range wide reboot later this year. This issue wraps up the Weeping Angel story line as The Doctor, Bill and Nardole race to save the universe.
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The weeping angels descend on the Doctor, but his companions, old and new, have a few tricks up their sleeves to help him out!
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BBC Worldwide has announced that Tom Bakers debut season will be be released in a Blu Ray box set with some new extras along with the extras that were on the original DVD releases. The highlight of this set will be that the quality will be better and the VHS released The Tom Baker Years will be included on this set. No date for a North American release yet as this set will be see its Region 2 release June 11th.
Along With Robot, The Ark in Space, The Sontaran Experiment, Genesis of the Daleks and Revenge of the Cybermen the box set will include these extras.
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class ClassEnrollment < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :course_class
  belongs_to :enrollment

  has_paper_trail

  REGISTERED = I18n.translate("activerecord.attributes.class_enrollment.situations.registered")
  APPROVED = I18n.translate("activerecord.attributes.class_enrollment.situations.aproved")
  DISAPPROVED = I18n.translate("activerecord.attributes.class_enrollment.situations.disapproved")
  SITUATIONS = [REGISTERED, APPROVED, DISAPPROVED]

  validates :enrollment, :presence => true
  validates :course_class, :presence => true
  validates :course_class_id, :uniqueness => {:scope => :enrollment_id}
  validates :situation, :presence => true, :inclusion => {:in => SITUATIONS}
  validate :grade_for_situation
  validate :disapproved_by_absence_for_situation
  validate :check_multiple_class_enrollment_allowed

  after_save :notify_student_and_advisor

  default_scope {joins(:enrollment => :student).order('students.name').readonly(false)}

  def check_multiple_class_enrollment_allowed
    return if not self.course_class
      other_enrollments = ClassEnrollment.
          joins(:course_class => {:course => :course_type}).
          includes(:course_class => {:course => :course_type}).
          where(CourseType.arel_table[:allow_multiple_classes].eq(false)).
          where(:enrollment_id => self.enrollment_id).
          where(ClassEnrollment.arel_table[:situation].not_eq(DISAPPROVED)).
          where(Course.arel_table[:id].eq( self.course_class.course_id)).
          group(:enrollment_id).
          having("count(course_id) > 1")

      unless other_enrollments.empty?
        self.errors.add(:course_class, :multiple_class_enrollments_not_allowed)
      end
    end

  def to_label
    "#{self.enrollment.student.name} - #{self.course_class.name_with_class}"
  end

  def attendance_to_label
    unless self.disapproved_by_absence.nil? || self.situation == I18n.t("activerecord.attributes.class_enrollment.situations.registered")
      self.disapproved_by_absence ? I18n.t("pdf_content.course_class.summary.attendance_false") : I18n.t("pdf_content.course_class.summary.attendance_true")
    end
  end

  def grade_filled?
    !grade.nil?
  end

  def course_has_grade
    if self.try(:course_class).try(:course).try(:course_type).nil?
      true
    else
      self.course_class.course.course_type.has_score
    end
  end

  def grade=(new_grade)
    if new_grade.is_a?(String) && !new_grade.blank?
      split = new_grade.split(/[,.]/)
      #convert the float to grade integer
      #ex: if new_grade is 9.0, it will be converted to 90
      new_grade = split[0].to_i*10 + split[1].to_i
    end
    super(new_grade)
  end

  def grade_to_view
    grade.nil? ? nil : (grade/10.0)
  end

  def should_send_email_to_professor?
    (!self.id.nil?) and
    (
      self.grade_changed? or
      self.situation_changed? or
      self.disapproved_by_absence_changed?
    )
  end

  private
  def grade_for_situation
    if course_has_grade
      unless self.grade.blank?
        self.errors.add(:grade, I18n.translate("activerecord.errors.models.class_enrollment.grade_gt_100")) if self.grade > 100
        self.errors.add(:grade, I18n.translate("activerecord.errors.models.class_enrollment.grade_lt_0")) if self.grade < 0
      end
      case self.situation
        when I18n.translate("activerecord.attributes.class_enrollment.situations.registered")
          self.errors.add(:grade, I18n.translate("activerecord.errors.models.class_enrollment.grade_for_situation_registered")) unless self.grade.blank?
        when I18n.translate("activerecord.attributes.class_enrollment.situations.aproved")
          self.errors.add(:grade, I18n.translate("activerecord.errors.models.class_enrollment.grade_for_situation_aproved")) if (self.grade.blank? || self.grade < 60)
        when I18n.translate("activerecord.attributes.class_enrollment.situations.disapproved")
          self.errors.add(:grade, I18n.translate("activerecord.errors.models.class_enrollment.grade_for_situation_disapproved")) if (self.grade.blank? || self.grade >= 60)
      end
    else
      self.errors.add(:grade, I18n.translate("activerecord.errors.models.class_enrollment.grade_filled_for_course_without_score")) unless self.grade.blank?
    end
    self.errors.blank?
  end

  def disapproved_by_absence_for_situation
    case self.situation
      when I18n.translate("activerecord.attributes.class_enrollment.situations.registered")
        self.errors.add(:disapproved_by_absence, I18n.translate("activerecord.errors.models.class_enrollment.disapproved_by_absence_for_situation_registered")) if self.disapproved_by_absence
      when I18n.translate("activerecord.attributes.class_enrollment.situations.aproved")
        self.errors.add(:disapproved_by_absence, I18n.translate("activerecord.errors.models.class_enrollment.disapproved_by_absence_for_situation_aproved")) if self.disapproved_by_absence
    end
    self.errors.blank?
  end

  def notify_student_and_advisor
    return if grade.nil? or !(grade_changed? or situation_changed? or disapproved_by_absence_changed?)
    info = {
        :name => enrollment.student.name,
        :course => course_class.label_with_course,
        :situation => situation,
        :grade => grade_to_view,
        :absence => ((attendance_to_label == "I") ? I18n.t('active_scaffold.true') : I18n.t('active_scaffold.false'))
    }
    message_to_student = {
        :to => enrollment.student.email,
        :subject => I18n.t('notifications.class_enrollment.email_to_student.subject', info),
        :body => I18n.t('notifications.class_enrollment.email_to_student.body', info)
    }
    emails = [message_to_student]
    enrollment.advisements.each do |advisement|
      professor_info = info.merge(:advisor_name => advisement.professor.name)
      emails << message_to_advisor = {
          :to => advisement.professor.email,
          :subject => I18n.t('notifications.class_enrollment.email_to_advisor.subject', professor_info),
          :body => I18n.t('notifications.class_enrollment.email_to_advisor.body', professor_info)
      }
    end
    Notifier.send_emails(notifications: emails)
  end

end

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More than two million major cyberattacks hit globally last year
By Sead Fadilpašić 2019-07-10T12:00:28Z
Attacks cost organisations more than $45 billion.
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Last year saw more than two million major cyberattacks strike businesses across the world.
The latest figures by the Internet Society's Online Trust Alliance claim that these assaults cost organisations more than $45 billion in losses globally.
As usual, the most popular type of attack was email credential theft, followed by cryptojacking (malware which mines cryptocurrency on the victim machine, without the victim knowing).
The report argues that hackers are getting more sophisticated and harder to counter, but also adds that many attacks could have been prevented with proper cybersecurity solutions set up.
Jeff Wilbur, technical director of the alliance, said the report's estimates are conservative because many attacks are not reported.
"The financial impact of cybercrime is up significantly and cyber criminals are becoming more skilled at profiting from their attacks," Wilbur said.
Ransomware had cost $8 billion, a 60 per cent increase in cost, despite this type of attack dropping 20 per cent in the number of attacks.
Phishing, or business email compromise (BEC) resulted in $1.3 billion in losses.
Wilbur said that in some instances, the attackers are very skilful. However, in the majority, hackers are counting on someone on the receiving end not being careful enough, clicking on a link or downloading a malicious attachment.
"The way they get in continues to be relatively constant," he said.
"You hear about super-sophisticated attacks and for the most part they are not that sophisticated. For the most part they could have been prevented."
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Nielsen says all children in Border Patrol custody have received medical screenings
By Geneva Sands and Kate Sullivan, CNN
(CNN) — All children in US Border Patrol custody have received medical screenings and apprehended children will now be assessed more thoroughly, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced Wednesday in a statement on the death of an 8-year-old Guatemalan boy in Border Patrol custody.
"This tragedy, the death of a child in government custody is deeply concerning and heartbreaking," Nielsen wrote in the statement. "In the last 24 hours, I have ... directed a series of additional actions to care for those who enter our custody."
The Guatemalan boy died late on Christmas Eve in the custody of US Customs and Border Protection, according to the agency. Earlier this month, a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl died hours after she had been taken into Border Patrol custody, the Department of Homeland Security said.
"Moving forward, all children will receive a more thorough hands on assessment at the earliest possible time post apprehension -- whether or not the accompanying adult has asked for one," Nielsen writes in the statement.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi announced Wednesday that Congress will investigate border deaths of children and said Democrats want the Homeland Security Department's inspector general to investigate the death of the 8-year-old boy.
"Democrats call on Homeland Security's Inspector General to immediately open an investigation" into the death of Felipe Alonzo-Gomez, the California Democrat said in a statement. "The Congress will also investigate this tragedy and the heartbreaking death of Jakelin Amei Rosmery Caal Maquin, to seek justice and ensure that no other child is left to such a fate."
Earlier Wednesday, Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan told CBS News that the inspector general is already investigating.
"With any death in custody we report immediately to our office of professional responsibility and the DHS inspector general," McAleenan said. "Both of those independent investigative arms have responded and already interviewed the father, and they'll be pursuing an investigation into the circumstances around this tragic event."
Nielsen reiterated on the record what a Homeland Security Department official had told reporters on background earlier Wednesday -- that six migrants, none of whom were children, died in the custody of Customs and Border Protection during fiscal year 2018. She noted it had been more than 10 years since a child has died in the agency's custody.
"I have personally engaged with the Centers for Disease Control to request that their experts investigate the uptick in sick children crossing our borders and identify additional steps hospitals along the border should be undertaking to prepare for and to treat these children," Nielsen wrote in the statement.
The statement said Nielsen has asked the Department of Defense to provide medical professionals in addition to the "1500 "medically trained agents and officers on duty across the border."
It also said the Coast Guard will look at Customs and Border Protection's medical program to see if it can recommend any improvements.
Nielsen's statement focused on the large numbers of families coming across the border illegally, noting the trend has become "starker" in December. She cited increased numbers of people who are ill, saying, "It is now clear that migrants, particularly children, are increasingly facing medical challenges and harboring illness caused by their long and dangerous journey."
Nielsen wrote that she has asked Mexico to look into the causes of illnesses on its side of the border and to assist those in shelters "as needed."
On the issue of releasing migrant families into the US, Nielsen says they cannot be held longer than 21 days and are "almost always released" into the US. Further, she reiterates the border stations were never intended as "longer-term" holding facilities.
While she did not provide details, Nielsen also said in the statement that she will travel to the border "later this week to see first-hand the medical screenings and conditions at Border Patrol stations."
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Q: Why Can't We (Directly) Simulate Data From a Semi-Parametric Distribution? I was reading this paper over here (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1536867X1201200407). In the first paragraph on the second page, the authors write the following line:
"Furthermore, despite the Cox model (Cox 1972) being the most commonly used method of
survival analysis, it is not possible to simulate from a semiparametric model."
I was trying to understand this point - why is it not possible to simulate (data) from a semiparametric model?
After thinking about this question for a while, here is a possible answer I came up with. The "Probability Integral Transform" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_integral_transform) allows us to simulate data from any probability distribution, assuming that we can simulate data from a Uniform Probability Distribution (I think another way to interpret this statement is : "points that were randomly sampled from any Cumulative Probability Distribution will be Uniformly Distributed" ). However, in a semiparametric model (i.e. a "semiparametric probability distribution") - some aspect of the model remains unspecified : this means that the "Probability Integral Transform" is inapplicable to a semiparametric model and results in there being no "straightforward" (i.e. direct) way to simulate data from a semiparametric model.
Is my reasoning correct?
Thanks!

A: A stronger statement is true. It's not possible to simulate from any model! Simulations must draw from a distribution, and a model is a set of distributions.
In order to simulate from a distribution in a model, that distribution must be specified. In a parametric model, this can be immediately accomplished by specifying parameter values. However in a semiparametric or nonparametric model, this is more challenging since an "infinite dimensional parameter" must be specified. In the case of a Cox model, the baseline hazard $\lambda: \mathbb{R}^+ \to \mathbb{R}^+$ must be specified.
In the article you mention, the authors are concerned with specifying a value of $\lambda$ which is realistic. Their remark is due to the completely unspecified nature of $\lambda$ not giving any clues for how to specify it.

A: The point is that the Cox "model" is written simply as:
$$ \log \lambda(t|X=x) = \log \lambda_0(t) + x^T\beta  $$
where $\lambda_0(t)$ is the baseline hazard function. It's like an intercept term in a linear model, except that it's an ancillary parameter. The Cox model only estimates the $\beta$s but ignores the effect of time past the point that you can rank the failures and organize subjects in the analysis into a risk set.
Presented with a particular dataset, I can come up with an estimate of that baseline hazard function, but technically this is the Cox model "plus something else". And you're right, once you have that baseline hazard function (or a suitable estimate thereof) you can begin to simulate failure times using the methods you describe. Having a general expression of the survivor function is equivalent to having a general expression of the CDF because $S(t) = 1-F(t)$. Conversely, if you don't know the baseline hazard function, you have no idea what the survival curve looks like, and you consequently don't know the CDF nor how to simulate from it using PIT.

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Tyler Simms, who served as an assistant at Brown the last four years, has been named men's basketball coach at Clark.
Simms, a 2008 graduate of Trinity, replaces Paul Phillips, who retired at the end of the 2018-19 campaign after guiding the Cougars for 21 seasons.
Simms, who brings 10 years of coaching experience to Clark, will join the department in June.
"Clark is a truly special institution with its academic excellence, community involvement and basketball program that holds a rich history of national success," Simms said. "It is with great excitement and enthusiasm that I look forward to being part of the Clark community and getting to know our student-athletes."
Prior to Brown, Simms served as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for Trinity for two years. Simms spent the 2008-09 season as an assistant at Wilbraham & Monson Academy and was a graduate assistant at Mercyhurst from 2009-11.
He was director of basketball operations at Siena from 2011-13.
This season, Simms helped the Bears set a single-season program record for wins with 20.
"We are very excited to have Tyler joining our staff as the next men's basketball coach," Clark director of athletics Trish Cronin said. "His coaching experience stood out in our nationwide search and his commitment to player and personal development will certainly take the men's basketball program to the next level."


In Psalm 23, when David uses the metaphor of shepherd to describe the Lord, he is using an image that occurs more than 500 times in the Bible to describe the nature of God; the image also helps us understand how God relates to us, His children.
*The Lord (our shepherd) is personal. In the opening phrase of the psalm, David writes, "The Lord is my shepherd." This personal, individual language used by David in regard to God as shepherd was unique because the people of Israel normally associated the Lord's shepherding activity with His leadership over Israel as a whole community. David held on to the Lord as hisshepherd just as the shepherd was holding on to him. David had a deep, intimate, personal relationship with a personal God. An image conjured up from this psalm's opening verse is a shepherd drawing a little lamb close to his chest, offering the lamb comfort and safety.
God's unmatched authority as shepherd is highlighted in this passage. We must never forget that the shepherd who draws us close to himself by his grace is also the shepherd who has all power and authority. Intimacy with the Good Shepherd must be held together with reverence and awe in the presence of the Shepherd.
David knew the sufficiency of God in his life. He had learned to trust in the faithfulness of the Shepherd to the extent that he could say: "When I have the Lord, I have everything!"
"Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me..."
We have all walked through dark seasons in life, times when we have been in a deep valley. What a comfort to know God's abiding presence in such challenging situations! The intimate relationship that David had cultivated with God sustained him during the valley days of life.
As we continue to journey through these summer days together as a church, let's remember to spend personal time with the Good Shepherd, bow in reverence in His holy presence, and radically trust in His miraculous provision and protection. With Him we lack nothing!


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'The Eternals' CCXP Footage May Have Revealed Marvel's First Openly Gay Hero
According to an alleged description of the footage debuted at CCXP 2019, a male character is depicted to have been married to another guy and have children in the movie.
AceShowbiz - Marvel's first gay superhero may have been revealed in "The Eternals" footage which was debuted at CCXP 2019 last weekend. Now, a new description of the footage has surfaced online via Box Office Theory, revealing which superhero is gay in the movie.
According to the description, [SPOILER ALERT!] Phastos, who is portrayed by Brian Tyree Henry, is the character who is married to another man and has children. "We see Phastos, with civil costumes, in the company of two childrens (sic) and another guy, holding hands," the description reads.
The rest of the description matches up with what others described in the footage, but it's the first time the details about Phastos are revealed. Previously, it was believed that Ikaris was the gay character, but the CCXP footage debunked this fan theory as it's revealed that Richard Madden's character is in a relationship with Sersi (Gemma Chan).
It has also been reported that the movie sets up a potential love triangle between Ikaris, Sersi and Kit Harington's Black Knight. This particular report, however, was based on drafts of the script that may have changed during production, so the love triangle storyline should be taken with a grain of salt.
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The north part of the island (the red area) is in Maryland while the south end of the island is in Virginia; there is a fence that separates these two sides of the island. That red area in Maryland is Assateague Island National Seashore. This is a National Park Service area, and there is a herd of wild horses living there that is managed by the National Park Service. These are what I have been referring to as the wild horses of Assateague Island. This is confusing as there are other horses living on the south part of Assateague Island. This area is the Chinoteague National Wildlife Refuge. This is where the well-known "Chincoteague Ponies" are from. These horses are owned and managed by the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Department; they are on the Chincoteague NWR through an agreement with the US Fish and Wildlife Service. These are not the horses I have been referring to as the wild horses of Assateague Island. The wild horses of Assateague Island National Seashore are managed exclusively with PZP while those of the Chincoteague NWR are managed through removals.
The National Park Service took ownership of the first of the wild horses in 1968. There were 28 horses in the population at that time. Through the 1970's and 1980's, the population grew a lot; there were over 120 horses on the island by 1985. This same year, the National Park Service released a management plan to address the growing wild horse population and the effect that the population was having on the National Seashore's ecological conditions. The plan recommended that the wild horse population not exceed 150 to reduce the herd's grazing effects. The plan also allowed researchers to come in and determine how fertility control could be used to control the wild horse population's growth rate. By 1987, the wild horse population had grown to nearly 160. Starting the next year, and continuing until 1993, forty-six mares were treated with PZP; this was the time when researchers were trying to determine if they could safely manage the wild horses with PZP.
By 1994, the National Park Service concluded that PZP was safe and that it could be used to manage the wild horse population, of which there were 166 horses. A new management plan was developed that year. The plan first called for a stop in the population's growth rate. It then had a goal of bringing the population to 150 horses and then to 120 horses. It required that this all happen without removing any horses; this was to all happen by treating the horses with PZP. In 1994, every untreated female that was at least 2 years old was given a primer dose of PZP. The plan had specific guidance in describing which horses would continue to be treated with PZP and how this would happen. From 1995 to 1998, all females were treated at ages 2, 3, and 4. After that, they were not treated anymore until they had three living offspring or a second generation existed. At this time, they would be treated each year until they died. Thus, each mare was given the opportunity to have genetic representation in the population. Once she was represented, she was not allowed to reproduce again. From 1998 to 1999, each mare was allowed to have two offspring before being treated forever. Starting in 2000, each mare was allowed to have one offspring before being treated forever.
In 2006, a Population and Habitat Viability Assessment was completed by the Conservation Breeding Specialist Group in cooperation with the National Park Service and other stakeholders. This assessment concluded that if the wild horse population was at 80 to 100 horses, the resource potential of Assateague Island could be balanced with a genetically sustainable population of horses. A new management plan was developed to meet new goals found in the assessment. The exclusive use of PZP to manage the population was an alternative analyzed as was the use of removals to manage the population. Other alternatives consisted of a combination of gathers and the use of PZP. Due to public commenting and consideration of possible impacts and challenges, the use of removals was not included in the final plan. In February 2009, the final plan came out; and it again mandates that the wild horses be managed exclusively with PZP. (Please click here for more information on this latest planning process.) Thus, the wild horses of Assateague Island will continue to be managed about like it has been since 1994, when the original management plan was developed.
Given the length of time PZP has been used there, and the number of studies resulting from this, Assateague Island National Seashore is perhaps the most well known area where PZP has been used to manage wild horses. PZP has been, and continues to be, used in other areas as well. Next time I will write about the history of PZP and the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range; and I will eventually summarize its use in other areas.
What great information you are providing. It must really take a lot of research time. I do hope you know how much it is appreciated.
It's fantastic that the Assateague Island herd is controlled without the roundups. I actually have some hope that the "gathers" for our mustangs may end some day!
Would you mind posting some photos of the horses?
Matt, Thanks for posting this information on the Assateague Island ponies and the PZP program. I only wish the western wild horses were given as much consideration and care as those on Assateague–both the NPS Assateague and the Chincoteague herds.
I have a Chincoteague pony I purchased in 2007. The firemen do return some of the foal crop to the island every summer in the form of a "buy back". The foals they select to return are auctioned off; the top bidder gets to name the foal and have their picture taken with him. This year's top price for a "buy back" was $13,000! The NPS Assateague ponies have a program called Foster Horse Program where for a small amount of money you can "adopt" a pony and get a picture of the pony and info about it. They also had a "name the foal" on Ebay and the top bidder got to name the new foals. All good ideas that make the public part of the process. Again I believe that the BLM has a lot of catching up to do!
This is all wonderful information Matt. I am wondering though how in a much larger area where there are so many more horses how it would work. Just wondering and pondering it.
I have a question: In wolf populations, when there are scarce resources, the pack limits who will breed, and it's usually the alpha female, thus insuring the best traits are passed on to the pack.
If the PZP program on Asseteague allows that every mare will have one live foal, and the populations are reduced to a point where there is no real demand on the resources, so the rate of survival for all is higher with less having to "prove" themselves, wouldn't that interfere with the herds natural selection process and possibly create a scenario where inferior genes are passed onto the herd.


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"It is not what we do that determines who we are, rather who we are determines what we do." How does this quote explain "character integrity?" According to vs. 2, where does wisdom come from? How is wisdom related to character integrity?
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New Zealanders are more likely to have a total and permanent disability claim turned down than other types of insurance – but claims are still accepted at much higher rates than across the Tasman.
Tuesday, October 18th 2016, 6:00AM 1 Comment
by Susan Edmunds
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An inquiry by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has found that some Australian life insurance companies were declining up to 37 per cent of total and permanent disability claims.
Insurance companies said the situation was different in New Zealand.
Graeme Edwards, of AIA, said 96% of his company's claims had been accepted so far this year, although more TPD claims were declined than some other types of policies. The rate of decline could run to 10% to 15% at most, he said.
"We do see lower volumes of total and permanent disability (TPD) claims and the decline rate for TPD can be higher as the definition is a high test to meet. Essentially the client will need to prove they neither can, nor ever will be, able to work in their own or any occupation, depending on which they chose for their policy," Edwards said.
"Monthly disability products will also have an 'own' or 'any' occupation definition, but total and permanent are not requirements under the wording... With TPD you are not only looking at just the now, but also into the future, and many disabilities can be managed with the right treatment and rehabilitation."
Sean Butler, of Fidelity Life, said the Australian situation seemed extraordinary.
"I can't speak for the other providers but Fidelity Life pays around 97% of all claims, with only a small portion of the remaining 3% being for non-disclosure, the rest for not meeting the claim criteria - claiming for something not covered in the policy. My sense is that the other providers would be up in this region as well."
Former AIA boss David Whyte, said, in Australia, many super funds and platforms would carry death and TPD cover as part of employees' compulsory super contributions. "It follows that there is a far greater presence of TPD cover in Australia per head of population. Claims incidence here would be lower and so would declinatures."
Former chief executive of the Financial Services Council Peter Neilson said there were no formal records kept of decline rates.
"One industry executive told me that TPD is almost 'living death' - you are alive but totally dependent on the support of others. I would always recommend someone should take out much wider income protection cover than a TPD policy alone as they are only for almost total loss of bodily functions. TPD claims are for very rare but totally devastating events and are unlikely to cover most circumstances when someone is unable to earn an income. "
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On 25 October 2016 at 3:59 pm Steve Wright said:
TPD claims, which are based not only on the medical condition suffered but also inability to work ever again (either at all, in any occupation or in 'own' occupation),is, by it's nature more complex than life, trauma cover and more influenced by motivation. Why should we be surprised there are more declines?
It is incorrect however, to think TPD only pays benefits in cases of 'living death'. Good TPD policies could pay for relatively less serious medical conditions, such as losing a thumb and a couple of fingers which results in an inability to perform work duties. Good TPD policies could also pay benefits for loss of use of two limbs even if this does not impact on ability to work. I expect the person who now needs to drive their wheel chair under their desk at work appreciates that!
It is also a mistake to think TPD is less valuable as a result of higher claims declines. Never being able to work again is a massive financial risk, bigger even that death in some cases. Effective cover for the full financial costs of permanent disability demands a level of TPD (in addition to any income protection).
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Atlantic's Williams picks Florida
BY ANDREAS BUTLER
Local high school girls basketball phenom Ronni Williams will play at the University of Florida in Gainesville next season. Williams picked the Gators over Florida State and Georgia.
Atlantic High's Ronni Williams (center) dons a Florida Gators cap when she announces her decision. Williams is flanked by cousin and assistant football coach William Bartee (left), her coach George Butts (right) and her parents Rodney (standing left) and Sherri Williams (standing right). Teammates and friends are in the background. (ANDREAS BUTLER/DAYTONA TIMES)
"It's where I want to go and spend the next four years of my life. They were all great programs and it wasn't about basketball. When I went to Florida, I just felt it," Williams remarked.
The announcement was made at a pep rally in the school's gymnasium on Nov. 9.
"I saw her six years ago in middle school and then she came here four years ago. It's been an honor and a pleasure coaching her. It's a special day. Ronni deserves it. She has put Atlantic on the map nationally. We have never had a player of this caliber," commented George, Butts Atlantic 's head coach.
Top recruit
Williams is the biggest female recruit out of Volusia County since DeLand's Bridgett Gordon and since Mainland's Vince Carter in 1995.
Williams also had offers from defending national champion Baylor, Tennessee and several of the nations other top programs.
The Atlantic High School 6-2 senior forward/guard is the top girl's basketball recruit in Florida and 13th in the nation.
"God is good. Without him, I couldn't do any of this. It also took determination, hard work and staying focused," added Williams.
She also is an ESPN Rise All-American and is expected to make it as a McDonald's All-American this season.
Last season Williams averaged 20.5 points, 11 rebounds, 3.3 assists, 2.9 steals and 2.7 blocks per game for the Sharks.
Next goal: State title
Williams now will concentrate on her senior season. With her, the Sharks are poised for a shot at a state title. They are two years removed from a Final Four appearance.
"She had attention since she first started playing when she was small. Now that the recruiting process is over, I think that she will get back to playing like she is capable. I think the process kind of took away from her game," commented Rodney Williams, her father.
"I am ready to settle down with my team, stay focused and go out there and get it done," added Williams.
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Cameron "Squirt" Hadley threw for 95 yards and ran for 89 yards with a touchdown as Mainland beat Orlando Olympia 25-15. It was the fifth straight win for the Buccaneers. Stephen Bostick ran for 101 yards with a score for Mainland.
New Smyrna Beach beat Spruce Creek 41-14. The Barracudas finish the regular season unbeaten for the first time since 1999. Marcus Johnson threw for 224 yards with two scores and James Clark had 176 receiving yards with two touchdowns for NSB. The Hawks got a Collin Olsen rushing score and Shane Peludat threw a touchdown pass to Michael Colubiale.
Alex Bell threw for 174 yards with two touchdowns and ran for 105 with two scores as Atlantic rallied past Matanzas 30-20. Steven Tucker ran for 200 yards with three scores for Matanzas.
Joe Boden's 89 yard-kickoff return touchdown with 1:06 remaining lifted Father Lopez over Taylor 22-16. Boden also threw for 172 yards and ran for a score for the Green Wave.
T. J. Hearn ran for 232 yards with a score and had an interception return touchdown for the Taylor Wildcats.
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Mainland (7-3) at Lakeland Lake Gibson (10-0): The Buccaneers travel to face the unbeaten Braves. Mainland's defense is stingy but will the offense produce enough for a win?
Winter Haven (9-1) at New Smyrna (9-0): The Blue Devils are a tough matchup for the Barracudas. NSB must be at its best to advance.
Sanford Seminole (6-4) at DeLand (6-4): A good matchup for the Bulldogs at home. DeLand must limit mistakes to move on.
Winter Garden Foundation Academy (8-3) at Warner (9-1): The host Eagles are better than the Lions and should be focused enough to advance to the next round.
Atlantic (8-2) at Tampa Robinson (9-1): The Sharks have a long and tough road trip to face the Knights. Atlantic too must limit mistakes.
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How to Stream Shows and Movies on Your Dorm Room TV
Impress your roomies by streaming a series or film to your dorm TV
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AirPlay/iOS: Swipe down to reveal Control Panel. Select Screen Mirroring > [Apple TV device]. Tap Stop Mirroring to stop casting.
Chromecast: Install the Google Home app. When playing compatible media, select the cast icon in the upper-right corner.
You can stream or mirror content from your smartphone, tablet, or computer onto a TV. This solution is cheap and easy to set up and allows you to watch streaming content without the need for a set-top box or over-the-air (OTA) antenna. Here's how to stream movies and TV on a dorm room TV.
Stream and Mirror With Apple AirPlay
AirPlay is a technology developed by Apple that allows iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch) to stream media and mirror their displays on an Apple TV.
An Apple TV is a small device that connects to a TV set using an HDMI cable. It essentially turns a regular TV into a smart TV, with apps for streaming services, video games, and iTunes music.
Here's how to set it up:
On your iOS device, swipe down from the upper-right corner of the screen to open the Control Panel.
In older versions of iOS, swipe up from the bottom of the screen.
Tap the Screen Mirroring button.
Select the Apple TV.
To stop mirroring, open the Control Panel and tap Stop Mirroring, which replaces the Screen Mirroring button when the feature is active.
Mirror and Stream With Chromecast
Like the Apple TV, the Google Chromecast is a small device that brings smart TV functionality to any TV with an HDMI cable port. Chromecast features a variety of built-in apps for streaming media from services like Netflix and YouTube. It can be used to stream and mirror content from a range of devices. Some smart TVs have Chromecast technology built-in and don't require the purchase of a separate Chromecast hardware device.
After installing the Google Home app on your iOS device, a small cast icon appears in the upper-right corner of the screen when media from a compatible app can be streamed to a Chromecast-connected TV. Popular apps that support this functionality include Netflix, YouTube, Vimeo, and Hulu.
Android smartphones and tablets can mirror the entire screen on a Chromecast-connected TV set.
On your Android device, open the Google Home app.
Tap on the menu icon, which looks like three horizontal lines, then select Cast Screen.
The Chromecast should show up on a list of compatible devices. Select it to begin mirroring your device.
The entire contents of a web browser's tab can be mirrored on your TV using the Google Chrome browser. This is great for when viewing video or images that are embedded on a website.
Open Google Chrome and select the three dots in the upper-right corner.
Select Cast.
The Chromecast that's connected to the TV should appear in a list of connected devices. Select it to mirror the current browser tab.
Important Rules for Streaming and Mirroring
Specific instructions for mirroring and streaming vary depending on the devices used. Here are some important tips that apply to all scenarios:
Make sure all the devices, including the smart TV if being used, are connected to the same Wi-Fi internet connection if you plan to do wireless streaming or mirroring.
Some devices may require Bluetooth to be enabled for streaming or mirroring to work. It's best to leave Bluetooth turned on.
When streaming or mirroring, plug the charging cable into your smartphone, tablet, or computer as the process can take up battery power.
If mirroring, turn off notifications on your device as these pop up on the TV while watching a movie or TV episode.
Tips for Streaming and Mirroring TV in a Dorm
Dormitory staff should be able to provide you with detailed instructions on your dorm's particular TV setup, including the password for the Wi-Fi connection.
Suppose multiple students use the same dorm room TV on a regular basis for streaming TV or cable. In that case, it may be a good idea to discuss who pays for which subscription services. The last thing you want is for multiple people to pay for the same channel or streaming service. If you can get everyone in your dorm to agree to chip in a dollar or two a month, you could get a cheaper TV or cable service than you would have otherwise.
Watch Media on a Dorm Room Smart TV
A smart TV is a television set with enhanced functionality. Some smart TVs may have a small selection of apps, such as Netflix and YouTube, which are installed on the TV and can be used for streaming online video when connected to the internet. Advanced smart TVs may have a larger selection of apps, voice controls, and an option for streaming media from other devices.
Some of the terms smart TVs use to signify wireless streaming or mirroring include Miracast, Screen Mirroring, Display Mirroring, SmartShare, and AllShare Cast.
If your smart TV has apps such as Netflix installed on it, log in to your Netflix account directly on the TV without using a smart device or computer.
iOS devices such as the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad may need a special app to mirror or stream media to a smart TV. For example, streaming to a Samsung smart TV requires the Mirror for Samsung TV iOS app. Smart TVs usually inform users of which apps, if any, are required for streaming media once the TV is turned on.
Windows 10 and 8 PCs can mirror to a smart TV by pressing the Project button in the Notification Center of the desktop.
Wireless streaming and mirroring from an Android smartphone or tablet varies by device. A quick way to check if the option is available is to open the Notification pane, select Quick Connect, then select Scan for nearby devices. If the device can stream or mirror, the smart TV should show up in a list of available devices.
Mirror Your Device With an HDMI Cable
One of the simplest ways to mirror a smartphone, tablet, or computer is to connect it directly to a TV set using an HDMI cable. Compatible cables are available for iOS and Android devices in addition to Windows and Mac computers.
An HDMI cable requires you to connect one end to your device and the other to one of the TV's HDMI ports. As soon as the physical connection is made, the mirroring should begin automatically.
Popular Streaming Alternatives
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