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As civil liberties erode, Canada must not allow COVID-19 outbreak to infect the rule of law | CBC News Loaded
As civil liberties erode, Canada must not allow COVID-19 outbreak to infect the rule of law
Government measures to contain COVID-19 raise legitimate legal questions about how much the state can infringe on the civil liberties of Canadians in the name of protecting them, write Joseph Arvay and David Wu.
Government can suppress civil liberties in the name of protecting them, but how far will it go?
Joseph Arvay, David Wu · for CBC News Opinion · Posted: Mar 26, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: March 26, 2020
Measures taken by the federal, provincial and municipal governments to try and stop COVID-19 from spreading have some asking where the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms stands in light of this pandemic. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)
This column is an opinion by Joseph Arvay QC and David Wu, lawyers at Arvay Finlay LLP in Vancouver and Victoria, B.C. For more information about CBC's Opinion section, please see the FAQ.
When the lock-downs started occurring in Wuhan and other cities in Hubei, China, quarantining more than 50 million people, many observers in Western countries thought it impossible for such Draconian measures to be implemented in the democratic West.
Only an authoritarian government could implement such liberty-infringing measures, right?
Yet the premier of Nova Scotia announced strict legal measures Sunday to enforce isolation and social distancing, measures that include fines and even potential imprisonment. He said, "a failure to follow public guidelines to limit the spread of COVID-19 puts our civil liberties at risk."
That statement might have struck some as counter-intuitive or something of an oxymoron. We usually see our civil liberties as being a bulwark against state action that seeks to deprive us of our rights and freedoms, such as the right to liberty, and the freedoms to assemble in public places and associate with our friends, families and colleagues. And yet here was a provincial premier claiming that these new laws — laws that would do just that — are in effect civil libertarian measures.
Similar measures to counter COVID-19's transmission are now in place or expected at all levels of government in Canada: federal, provincial, territorial, and municipal.
Provinces, cities crack down on social distancing rules
Provincial and local governments are cracking down on people who are not following social distancing or quarantine rules to try to prevent further spread of COVID-19. 1:59
This raises legitimate legal questions – how far can the state go to erode our civil liberties in the name of protecting them? And where does the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which applies to federal, provincial and municipal laws, stand in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic?
A declaration of a local, provincial, or federal emergency does not in and of itself suspend the operation of the Charter. Our fundamental Charter rights currently remain in place, and all laws and government actions aimed at tackling the pandemic still need to be compliant with the Charter.
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We have no doubt that the measures taken so far by governments – from orders in some provinces to close all non-essential businesses, to the bylaw amendments in some cities to increase fines to up to $50,000 for breaches of emergency orders – are compliant with the Charter, because none of our rights and freedoms are absolute. All can be infringed by laws that "are demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society."
These various measures would strike most people as proportionate to achieve the pressing and compelling state objectives of protecting our citizens from a deadly virus. Rights and liberties must sometimes make way in the pursuit of other legitimate societal objectives, like public health.
And such rights and liberties can themselves sometimes be in conflict (for example, one's right to liberty and association versus another's right to life and security of the person in the current pandemic).
'Enough is enough,' Trudeau toughens talk on isolation
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau toughened his language around self-isolation and social distancing while considering implementing the Emergencies Act. 1:58
How much further might the government go?
There is now much talk of social unrest. Scuffles have broken out in grocery stores that ran short of items, and on March 19 the London Daily Telegraph reported that, "Food retailers have warned that riots and civil disobedience could break out within weeks if production is unable to keep up with demand." Meanwhile, gun and ammunition sales in Canada are rising significantly.
Desperate people sometimes take desperate measures. If the COVID-19 pandemic worsens and poses an even greater threat to our society, we can expect government measures increasingly to infringe on our civil liberties if needed to deal with unrest.
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Is a total lock-down in our future? Unrestricted state spying or surveillance? Suspension of habeas corpus? Martial law?
It seems safe to say that Canadians are in uncharted territory, and that includes our governments.
Ontario closes all non-essential services to slow COVID-19 spread
Ontario Premier Doug Ford ordered all non-essential stores and services to close at the end of Tuesday, to slow the spread of COVID-19. 1:51
Undoubtedly the state will be accused by some of doing too much, and by others of doing too little. Both sides could potentially rely on the Charter to bolster their position.
But the reality is that the Charter will not hamstring unprecedented government measures that are designed to tackle an unprecedented crisis, as long as such measures can be justified.
What the Charter mandates is proportionality and balance. Particular care needs to be taken not to worsen the already precarious situation of our homeless, prisoners, those seeking refugee status, sex workers, drug addicts and other vulnerable and marginalized communities.
These are, no doubt, very fearful times. But what we hope is not in the cards is a government invoking the "Notwithstanding clause" in section 33 of the Charter. That would mean that there are no restrictions on those governments that decide to enact laws that abolish our legal rights and fundamental freedoms.
That, in our opinion, would be an unnecessary overreaction and a dangerous one.
Let's not give the COVID-19 virus that power. It is causing enough havoc; let it not infect the rule of law.
This column is part of CBC's Opinion section. For more information about this section, please read our FAQ.
Joseph Arvay
Joseph Arvay QC is a lawyer at Arvay Finlay LLP in Vancouver and Victoria, B.C.
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Some number of years ago I noted the collecting community about the unscrupulous making/reproducing FAKE 16s Waltham brotherhood disks for 16s Waltham movement switching and thus creating FAKE rarities. Check for "fiddling" (scratch) marks around the disks from prying and dials that do not match the logo!
I see some of these showing up lately on auctions sites and eBay. If I were a newbie Ball watch collector, I'd be nervous so BEWARE!
This has been a MAJOR concern of mine also for sometime.
I have been warned also BUT there is Absolutely NO way to know for certain because whoever is doing it picking those from known Brotherhood runs to convert these watches.
I have been also warned that certain brotherhood combinations did not exist in certain jewel counts.
But there is no LIST or accurate documentation for us to know what to avoid!
What do I do? I am very interested in putting together a set of all those Wallie Balls from the Brotherhood Series.
Buy VIRGINS or from VIRGIN sources--one the money boys get ahold of this stuff--WATCH OUT!
And, it just isn't the 16 sizes with the disks & dials; it is all of the dial switches with 18s Hamilton movements.
I used to know what dial was acceptable for what 18s Hamilton grade and period. That info is mostly lost to me now, but it's there to re-learn.
But yea, I used to see that kind of careless or intentional switching all the time, with nary a comment about it. I'd always rather have a dial chip in a 932 than a wrong dial. Actually, I'm still looking for an undicked-with version of that grade.


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Mefloquine may cause serious mental health problems. Tell your doctor if you have or have ever had depression, anxiety, psychosis (difficulty thinking clearly, understanding reality, and communicating and behaving appropriately), schizophrenia (an illness that causes disturbed or unusual thinking, loss of interest in life, and strong or inappropriate emotions) or other mental health disorders. Also tell your doctor immediately if you develop the following symptoms while taking this medication: anxiety, feelings of mistrust towards others, hallucinations (seeing things or hearing voices that do not exist), depression, thoughts of suicide or harming yourself, restlessness, confusion, difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep, or unusual behavior. These symptoms may occur at any time while you are taking mefloquine and can last for months to years after the medication is stopped.
These symptoms of nervous system changes or mental health problems may be more difficult to note in young children. Watch your child carefully and contact their doctor right away if you find any changes in behavior or health.
Keep all appointments with your doctor, eye doctor, and the laboratory. Your doctor may order certain lab tests and periodic eye examinations to check your body's response to mefloquine.
Your doctor or pharmacist will give you the manufacturer's patient information sheet (Medication Guide) when you begin treatment with mefloquine and each time you refill your prescription. Read the information carefully and ask your doctor or pharmacist if you have any questions. You can also visit the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) website (http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/ucm085729.htm) or the manufacturer's website to obtain the Medication Guide.
Talk to your doctor about the risks of taking mefloquine.
Mefloquine comes as a tablet to take by mouth. Always take mefloquine with food (preferably your main meal) and at least 8 ounces (240 milliliters) of water. If you are taking mefloquine to prevent malaria, you will probably take it once a week (on the same day each week). You will begin treatment 1 to 3 weeks before you travel to an area where malaria is common and should continue treatment for 4 weeks after you return from the area. If you are taking mefloquine to treat malaria, your doctor will tell you exactly how often you should take it. Children may take smaller but more frequent doses of mefloquine. Follow the directions on your prescription label carefully, and ask your doctor or pharmacist to explain any part you do not understand. Take mefloquine exactly as directed. Do not take more or less of it or take it more often than prescribed by your doctor.
The tablets may be swallowed whole or crushed and mixed with water, milk, or other beverage.
If you are taking mefloquine to treat malaria, you may vomit soon after you take the medication. If you vomit less than 30 minutes after you take mefloquine, you should take another full dose of mefloquine. If you vomit 30 to 60 minutes after you take mefloquine, you should take another half dose of mefloquine. If you vomit again after taking the extra dose, call your doctor.
tell your doctor and pharmacist if you are allergic to mefloquine, quinidine (Quinadex), quinine (Qualaquin), any other medications, or any of the ingredients in mefloquine tablets.
tell your doctor and pharmacist what prescription and nonprescription medications, vitamins, nutritional supplements, and herbal products you are taking. Be sure to mention any of the following: anticoagulants ('blood thinners'); antidepressants such as amitriptyline (Elavil), amoxapine (Asendin), clomipramine (Anafranil), desipramine (Norpramin), doxepin (Adapin, Sinequan), imipramine (Tofranil), nortriptyline (Aventyl, Pamelor), protriptyline (Vivactil), and trimipramine (Surmontil); antihistamines; calcium channel blockers such as amlodipine (Norvasc), diltiazem (Cardizem, Dilacor, Tiazac), felodipine (Plendil), isradipine (DynaCirc), nicardipine (Cardene), nifedipine (Adalat, Procardia), nimodipine (Nimotop), nisoldipine (Sular), and verapamil (Calan, Isoptin, Verelan); beta blockers such as atenolol (Tenormin), labetalol (Normodyne), metoprolol (Lopressor, Toprol XL), nadolol (Corgard), and propranolol (Inderal); chloroquine (Aralen); medication for diabetes, mental illness, seizures and upset stomach; medications for seizures such as carbamazepine (Tegretol), phenobarbital (Luminal), phenytoin (Dilantin), or valproic acid (Depakene); and rifampin (Rifadin, Rimactane, in Rifamate, in Rifater). Also tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are taking the following medications or have stopped taking them within the past 15 weeks: halofantrine (Halfan; no longer available in the United States) or ketoconazole (Nizoral). Your doctor may need to change the doses of your medications or monitor you carefully for side effects.
tell your doctor if you have or have ever had any of the conditions mentioned in the IMPORTANT WARNING section or any of the following: a prolonged QT interval (a rare heart problem that may cause irregular heartbeat, fainting, or sudden death), anemia (a lower than normal number of red blood cells), or eye, liver or heart disease.
tell your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant, or are breast-feeding. You should use birth control while you are taking mefloquine and for 3 months after you stop taking it. If you become pregnant while taking mefloquine, call your doctor.
you should know that mefloquine may make you drowsy and dizzy. These symptoms may continue for a while after you stop taking mefloquine. Do not drive a car or operate machinery until you know how this medication affects you.
you should know that mefloquine decreases your risk of becoming infected with malaria but does not guarantee that you will not become infected. You still need to protect yourself from mosquito bites by wearing long sleeves and long pants and using mosquito repellant and a bed net while you are in an area where malaria is common.
you should know that the first symptoms of malaria are fever, chills, muscle pain, and headaches. If you are taking mefloquine to prevent malaria, call your doctor immediately if you develop any of these symptoms. Be sure to tell your doctor that you may have been exposed to malaria.
you should plan what to do in case you experience serious side effects from mefloquine and have to stop taking the medication, especially if you are not near a doctor or pharmacy. You will have to get another medication to protect you from malaria. If no other medication is available, you will have to leave the area where malaria is common, and then get another medication to protect you from malaria.
if you are taking mefloquine to treat malaria, your symptoms should improve within 48 to 72 hours after you finish your treatment. Call your doctor if your symptoms do not improve after this time.
do not have any vaccinations (shots) without talking to your doctor. Your doctor may want you to finish all of your vaccinations 3 days before you start taking mefloquine.
Mefloquine may cause other side effects. You may continue to experience side effects for some time after you take your last dose. Call your doctor if you have any unusual problems while taking this medication.


Home » Women's Malignancies Branch » Christina M. Annunziata, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Annunziata established mechanisms underlying NF-kappaB molecular signal transduction in ovarian cancer. Her genomic profiling and functional screens identified both downstream targets and upstream regulators of this pathway, defining subgroups of patients whose cancers depend on NF-kappaB, and opening up possibilities for novel therapies to treat ovarian cancer.
Her clinical trials emphasize collection of patient samples to better understand both predictive and pharmacodynamic markers of treatment response.
The NF-kB family of gene transcription factors is expressed in many tissue types, but has been studied most extensively in the context of the immune system and related cancers. Aberrant NF-kB signaling also has been identified in tumors of epithelial origin including breast, colon, lung and ovarian carcinomas. A systematic approach discovered IKKe, a cellular enzyme involved in triggering NF-kB signaling, as an oncogene in breast cancer. Recent work suggested the importance of these proteins in the propagation of ovarian cancer, but the significance and the mechanism of NF-kB signaling in ovarian cancer are unknown.
Our clinical focus in ovarian cancer inspired me to explore the NF-kB pathway in this malignancy at a scientific level. The stimulus for NF-kB signaling in cancer cells may be intrinsic or extrinsic to the cell. In certain cases, the cells may acquire individual genetic abnormalities of NF-kB regulators, thereby providing an intrinsic mechanism of cell-autonomous NF-kB activity. This type of mechanism was identified in breast cancer, lymphoma and myeloma. A second mechanism of NF-kB activation in ovarian cancer could be provided by signals from cells in the environment surrounding the tumor. Inflammatory proteins, growth factors, and adhesion molecules have been associated with NF-kB activation in several tissue types. Our lab has begun to define and characterize the molecular mechanisms and the biological relevance of NF-kB activity in ovarian cancer. We propose that NF-kB signaling defines a subset of ovarian cancer susceptible to therapeutic targeting of this pathway. Specific interruption of the pathway will isolate NF-kB as a mechanism for the growth and survival of ovarian cancer cells.
Our initial experiments identified a subset of ovarian cancer cell lines that are dependent on NF-kB signaling for growth and survival. A detailed understanding of the individual NF-kB components involved in ovarian cancer will identify patients who may benefit from NF-kB blockade, and provide specific guidance to the development of future therapeutic agents or combinations. Our laboratory interest is to develop rational combinations of targeted therapies for ovarian malignancies. Combination therapy has been a mainstay of cancer treatment. Therapy targeted at sequential points in a biochemical pathway critical for cell survival has the potential to effectively eliminate the cancer cell. We employ novel high-throughput screening techniques to identify critical interactions with the NF-kB pathway that are important for the growth and survival of ovarian cancers.
View Dr. Annunziata's PubMed Summary.
Frequent engagement of the classical and alternative NF-kappaB pathways by diverse genetic abnormalities in multiple myeloma.
Annunziata CM, Davis RE, Demchenko Y, Bellamy W, Gabrea A, Zhan F, Lenz G, Hanamura I, Wright G, Xiao W, Dave S, Hurt EM, Tan B, Zhao H, Stephens O, Santra M, Williams DR, Dang L, Barlogie B, Shaughnessy JD, Kuehl WM, Staudt LM.
Nuclear factor kappaB transcription factors are coexpressed and convey a poor outcome in ovarian cancer.
Annunziata CM, Stavnes HT, Kleinberg L, Berner A, Hernandez LF, Birrer MJ, Steinberg SM, Davidson B, Kohn EC.
Activation of NF-kappaB signaling by inhibitor of NF-kappaB kinase beta increases aggressiveness of ovarian cancer.
Hernandez L, Hsu SC, Davidson B, Birrer MJ, Kohn EC, Annunziata CM.
IKK-e coordinates invasion and metastasis of ovarian cancer.
Hsu S, Kim M, Hernandez L, Grajales V, Noonan A, Anver M, Davidson B, Annunziata CM.
Pathway-specific engineered mouse allograft models functionally recapitulate human serous epithelial ovarian cancer.
Szabova L, Bupp S, Kamal M, Householder DB, Hernandez L, Schlomer JJ, Baran ML, Yi M, Stephens RM, Annunziata CM, Martin PL, Van Dyke TA, Ohler ZW, Difilippantonio S.
Dr. Annunziata is a graduate of Georgetown University Medical School where she also completed graduate school and residency training in internal medicine. She came to NCI for medical oncology training in the Medical Oncology Branch. Dr. Annunziata joined the laboratory of Dr. Louis Staudt in the Metabolism Branch to investigate NF-kappaB signaling in multiple myeloma. She returned to the Medical Oncology Branch to extend her study of these molecular pathways in the ovarian cancer model, and she maintains her clinical focus in the translational clinical studies of ovarian cancer. Dr. Annunziata now directs clinical operations for the Women's Malignancies Branch. Dr. Annunziata holds board certification for the practice of medical oncology. Dr. Annunziata is a participating member in the Gynecologic Oncology Group, the American Association for Cancer Research, the American Society for Clinical Oncology, and the Society of Gynecologic Oncology. She serves as course director for the Women's Malignancies Lecture Series in the Women's Malignancies Branch, and Associate Editor for the international journal, BMC Cancer.


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Michael Brull about Chomsky and Australia - East Timor
From Australian Public-owned broadcaster ABC:
The boring truth about Chomsky: he does not support Pol Pot
Michael Brull
One does not have to agree with Chomsky to recognise his enormous influence and prestige throughout the world.
Virtually every political essay Chomsky has written since the '60s has included harsh attacks on the New York Times. Yet one could read in the NYT that:
Judged in terms of the power, range, novelty and influence of his thought, Noam Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive.
Similarly, the Guardian noted that:
Chomsky ranks with Marx, Shakespeare and the Bible as one of the 10 most-quoted sources in the humanities - and is the only writer among them still alive.
After he was banned from visiting the country, liberal Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz editorialised that other than Israel:
It is hard to imagine any country that would not feel honoured to be visited by Chomsky.
Ha'aretz went on to call the ban "harmful folly", noting that:
"One does not have to be an ardent supporter of Chomsky in order to agree with his view that Israel is behaving like South Africa in the 1960s"
Keith Windschuttle – no admirer of Chomsky – notes that Chomsky "is today the doyen of the American and much of the world's intellectual left".
Chomsky began his life as a public intellectual with his trenchant essay, The Responsibility of Intellectuals. The most left-wing story permissible in mainstream political discourse in America is that because of overflowing benevolence, the US fought a war in Vietnam to protect its people from communist tyranny. However, because of some variety of blunders, it was unable to achieve this lofty goal, and perhaps committed some cruelties along the way.
Chomsky raised a different issue: that the US had no right to invade a country on the other side of the planet to install its own preferred puppet government, in defiance of the wishes of that country's population. In the leading journal of the American liberal intelligentsia, Chomsky basically accused America's liberal intelligentsia of moral bankruptcy.
In Chomsky's typical fashion, it was written in calm, rational manner, carefully documented, and was deeply revealing. It was politically courageous, and undoubtedly alienated the sober, serious-minded people who edit such journals, and who restrict themselves to the question of how countries like ours can most effectively crush resistance to American imperialism. The millions killed in the war, and the devastation of Cambodia and Laos were not considered moral questions, but tactical ones: American righteousness was presumed by right-thinking intellectuals.
Chomsky raised the fundamental moral question, and so, soon became unwelcome in mainstream American media. This exclusion from the Western media makes his continuing influence all the more remarkable.
As Chomsky is prevented from presenting his views, and refuses on principle to sue for defamation, it is easy to fabricate horrible charges against him, which have lingered for decades, despite easy refutation. As long ago as 1985, Christopher Hitchens went through the dull task of exposing the tedious and scurrilous lies that one finds circulating about Chomsky. The favourites of Chomsky's critics - who rarely show any sign of having read any of Chomsky's work - are that he ignored, downplayed or celebrated the atrocities of Pol Pot. The other is that he supported Robert Faurisson's Holocaust denial (the truth is simply that he supported the freedom of speech of a Holocaust denier).
The basic facts of the Cambodia issue are these: In June 1977, Chomsky and Edward Herman published a study in the Nation, in which they reviewed how scholarship and the mainstream media treated different reports of atrocities in Cambodia. One of the books they reviewed was in French, by Francois Ponchaud. They wrote that his "book is serious and worth reading, as distinct from much of the commentary it has elicited. He gives a grisly account of what refugees have reported to him about the barbarity of their treatment at the hands of the Khmer Rouge". However, they did find it was flawed in many ways. They go on to critique a review of this book by Jean Lacouture, which Lacouture agreed was full of errors. Lacouture response in the New York Review of Books included considerable praise of Chomsky:
Noam Chomsky's corrections have caused me great distress. By pointing out serious errors in citation, he calls into question not only my respect for texts and the truth, but also the cause I was trying to defend. ... I fully understand the concerns of Noam Chomsky, whose honesty and sense of freedom I admire immensely, in criticizing, with his admirable sense of exactitude, the accusations directed at the Cambodian regime.
Ponchaud, in the preface to the American version of the book (translated into English), wrote about the Lacouture review:
With the responsible attitude and precision of thought that are so characteristic of him, Noam Chomsky then embarked on a polemical exchange with Robert Silvers, Editor of the NYR, and with Jean Lacouture, leading to the publication by the latter of a rectification of his initial account.
It was dated September 20, 1977. The British version of the book - amazingly, contained a very different preface, dated for the same day. It began:
Even before this book was translated it was sharply criticised by Mr Noam Chomsky and Mr Gareth Porter. These two "experts" on Asia claim that I am mistakenly trying to convince people that Cambodia was drowned in a sea of blood after the departure of the last American diplomats. They say there have been no massacres, and they lay the blame for the tragedy of the Khmer people on the American bombings. They accuse me of being insufficiently critical in my approach to the refugees' accounts. For them, refugees are not a valid source…
Perhaps Ponchaud believed that the British version would escape their notice.
Let us consider the general tenor of Australian recapitulations of this. Robert Manne - in a 1979 essay for Quadrant, reprinted in Left, Right, Left, explained that Chomsky was part of a "campaign" to deny atrocities were taking place in Cambodia, instead atrocity stories could be explained "as deliberate fabrications of a corrupt and mendacious press in the service of the established order". To prove that Chomsky and Hermans' critique of Ponchaud's book was specious, Manne quoted from the British preface above, saying it "could not be bettered". Sadly, "the former supporters of Pol Pot" won't be "deflated by the fact that concerning their estimation of him and his odious regime they were wholly, shamefully and ludicrously wrong. Pol Pot has passed; Noam Chomsky, I fear, persisteth". In a 1982 follow-up essay, Manne again endorsed the preface which attacked Chomsky as "mild and utterly reasonable", expressing confusion as to why Chomsky and others regarded Ponchaud's attack in that preface as outrageous. Manne went on to claim that Chomsky does not "place any responsibility for mass murder on the ruling clique or cadres of the Cambodian Communist Party". Instead, "sole responsibility" for "the present suffering of the Cambodian people" belonged to the US. Remarkably, Manne wrote this in an article including Chomsky and Herman's comment: "a grisly account of what refugees have reported to him about the barbarity of their treatment at the hands of the Khmer Rouge". Internal consistency would undoubtedly have made the attack on Chomsky more difficult.
Though these polemics against Chomsky have been going on for decades, the intellectual and moral level of them has remained at about the standard set by Manne. Windschuttle, for example, explained that:
In 1975, Chomsky was the most prestigious and persistent Western apologist for the Pol Pot regime.
Presumably, he had the work above in mind: Windschuttle was presumably untroubled by the perhaps trivial fact that Chomsky didn't write anything on the subject until 1977. Funnily enough, Robert Manne later advanced the thesis – without any relevant quote – that Windschuttle was a "Pol Pot enthusiast". With good reason, Windschuttle regarded this as an outrageous slur.
Ben Naparstek, current editor of The Monthly, has also explained that "After Cambodia fell to the Khmer Rouge in 1975," Chomsky's "hatred of American foreign policy led him to write sympathetically about Pol Pot". Perhaps the most revealing thing about Australia's intelligentsia is how unremarkable such a casual remark is considered.
One might suggest that Chomsky's denunciation of much of the Western intelligentsia was never going to make him friends with, for example, what Miranda Devine has called "the vanity publication of a Melbourne property developer".
The latest issue of the Monthly carries an article by Nick Dyrenfurth on Chomsky. Characteristic of his style, Dyrenfurth wrote an article in 2009 with Dr Philip Mendes in which they claimed that an Australian call for an academic boycott on Israel "was directed at the victims of terror". That is, those who called for a boycott supported terrorism against the Israelis civilians blown up inside Israel.
With similar honesty Dyrenfurth sets out Chomsky's views and why they are terrible. Dyrenfurth gets even the most basic facts wrong (for example, attributing a quote to one essay which was actually written in a separate private letter). It is full of innuendos, such as speaking of "many Western leftists" who admire Trotsky, and describing Chomsky as Trotsky's "lineal successor", despite Chomsky's longstanding and well-known contempt for Lenin and Trotsky. Chomsky is also charged with the crime of meeting with Hezbollah (and allegedly issuing uncited praise for them: perhaps properly outrageous praise will be fabricated for the next attack). Unmentioned is the fact that Chomsky also met with Walid Jumblat, who at the time was fiercely anti-Hezbollah (Jumblat's politics swing wildly).
Perhaps one way of explaining the fury Chomsky evokes from the mildly progressive to the reactionary right, is his guiding moral philosophy. Chomsky applies the same moral standards to all atrocities and repression, but he focuses primarily on those for which his country is responsible, because he has the most power to stop them. In 1979, Herman and Chomsky published a two-volume study, The Political Economy of Human Rights. Their major case studies were East Timor and Cambodia. They documented at length that the media ignored evidence of atrocities committed by the West and its client states, whilst expressing enormous outrage at crimes of official enemies, fabricating evidence as needed to prove wrongdoing.
This is considered outrageous, because the respectable Western intelligentsia regards it as morally courageous and important to devote all their attention to denouncing the crimes of official enemies, and even fabricating evidence when needed for such purposes. At the same time, it is their duty to ignore or downplay crimes for which we are responsible, or share responsibility.
Almost 30 years later, Robert Manne wrote critically that:
The willingness of the Australian anticommunist camp to support, in one way or another, one of the great political crimes of the 20th century, the Indonesian mass murder of 1965-6, where approximately as many died as in the Armenian genocide of 1915 or in the Rwanda genocide of 1994 - has never before been discussed by anyone associated with the anticommunist camp. As readers of this exchange will see, Australian anticommunists supported one of the great crimes of the 20th century in a variety of ways - by turning a blind eye to the horror of what had occurred; by openly applauding the consequence of the crime; by failing to discuss the atrocity in an appropriate moral register; by supporting in words and deeds those who helped unleash the mass murder; by denying publicly that these people had been involved, and so on.
Anyone who reads Chomsky would find this very familiar: he has been writing about this for decades. Chomsky also was one of the leading campaigners against Indonesia's brutal occupation of East Timor, which resulted in the deaths of up to 183,000 people. This was almost a third of the population. The slaughter was given crucial military and diplomatic support by Australia and the US, among others.
One of Australia's leading experts on East Timor, Clinton Fernandes, reviewed Robert Manne's record on the issue whilst editor of Quadrant from 1989-1997. Having read "every issue of Quadrant during" these eight years, Fernandes commented on the "paucity of East Timorese voices": instead, space was extended to "a Perth lawyer and poet", Hal Colebatch, who had spent a few days in East Timor nearly 20 years before. Reviewing the handful of articles that addressed the issue, Fernandes concluded that:
Mr Manne railed against crimes that he had no ability to stop, while largely ignoring a privileged opportunity to struggle against crimes in which his government was complicit. This is morally comparable to a Soviet commissar denouncing racism in the USA while saying little about the USSR's support for tyranny in Eastern Europe. Perhaps the comparison is unfair... to the commissar, who had reason to fear for his physical wellbeing in a way that a Western intellectual did not.
This is contrasted with Chomsky's "prodigious and widely-read" speeches and publications "on this topic".
Naparstek, for the record, has claimed in 2008 that "by some accounts" the invasion and occupation "killed more than 100,000 civilians". Naparstek's remark was generally considered uninteresting and trivial, because grossly underestimating and casting doubt on the mass slaughter in East Timor isn't considered significant. Indeed, it was no obstacle to Naparstek becoming editor of the Monthly a few months later.
The lesson is instructive. Chomsky has consistently struggled against atrocities committed by his country and state terrorism by client states for decades. Chomsky has said that "the intellectual tradition is one of servility to power". It is this tradition which Chomsky has denounced repeatedly since his first essay about the Vietnam War. The herd of independent minds has not appreciated his exposure of their loyal service to Western power. However, there are some people who honour the work of a brave dissident and brilliant scholar. Surveying Chomsky's critics cannot begin to do justice to the sheer scope of Chomsky's activism, or the penetrating brilliance of his scholarship and his insight into international politics, Western democracy and the media.
It can simply suggest that Australia should give his writings a fairer hearing than they have received thus far from much of Australia's intelligentsia. Chomsky richly deserves the Sydney Peace Prize. Once again, I salute them for their excellent choice.
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Dog sledding is a sport that lots of people are aware of, but few people know how it works.
There are several do's and don't's of dog mushing that you should learn before you head out on the trails with a team.
We've put together this list so that you can be prepared before setting out on a dog sled tour.
Dog sledding will take you into some pretty extreme climates. It's important to pack accordingly. Wearing the right clothes is essential to having a great dog mushing experience.
Start with your standard snow-wear. Warm clothes, multiple pairs of socks, good snow boots, etc. Then take it up a level.
Do some research on higher-end sledding gear. You want to be in Arctic coveralls and coats, as well as specialty boots. It's very important that you take your clothing very seriously.
The group of sled dogs you will be mushing is called a "team." Like any team, there are different roles to be filled by different types of dogs. Knowing your dogs well enough to assign the right roles is very important.
There are lead dogs, which are usually chosen for their intelligence, as they will need to be the lead navigators through tough trails. Swing dogs help the leads and the dogs they are in front of to turn.
Team dogs are chosen for their strength as they provide most of the power to the group. Lastly, wheel dogs are the dogs closest to you in the sled. They are chosen for their calmness, as being that close to a sled and making quick decisions can cause anxiety in some dogs.
When assembling a dog sled team, it is vital to know which dog is best suited for each role. If you choose wisely, you will have a much better sledding experience.
Beyond just dressing appropriately, there are some other essentials that you need to remember to pack with you on your tour.
Toiletries, towels, and snacks are important to pack, just like any trip. Be sure to bring water bottles to ensure that you and your dogs stay well hydrated on the trails. A sub-zero sleeping bag and a flashlight are also essential to make sure you have the safest camping experience when you stop to rest.
Your dog sled team also has to be adequately clothed before you set out on the trails. Each dog will wear a set of booties that will help to protect their feet from the elements while retaining the traction needed to run through the snow.
Sled dogs were made to run, this is what they were born to do. You don't need to worry about them feeling forced to do this or anything like that. They love it out there on the trails.
One of the reasons dog mushing is so great is that both you and your dog sled team will be having the time of your lives doing it. You just make sure everyone has fun.
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Female Psychology — to be successful with women, you must learn how a woman thinks. A Balance of Communication I mentioned a balance of communication earlier — that this is a key thing in relationships and certainly in relationships with Jewish girls.
Aim for a real relationship. Do you depend on Him to meet your needs of love and security?
Now is not the time to decide! From love comes self-control.
My advice and tips below apply to both Israeli girls and non-Israeli Jewish girls. Please try again later. I DO have a bunch of Israeli friends though both guys and girlsand so I have a very good idea of what they are like. There are two main options here for online dating sites.
My general rule for the early stages of dating, which seems to work fairly well, is not to communicate too much. If we are not able to resolve a complaint, you may submit it through the EU online dispute resolution platform at http: But actually it's not as big or complicated as it sounds.
Online Dating You can definitely meet Jewish girls online actually you can meet Israeli girls online too. You can create a profile on JDate for free, but you cannot message anyone until you get a paid membership.
Hope all that info helps. A comparable level of Jewish observance. You see, different people communicate more or less frequently.
If the social, emotional, spiritual dimensions are missing or lacking, you are out of balance. Every guy deserves to have good, healthy relationships with the ladies.


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Q: C++ functions taking values, where they should be taking references I'm just learning c++, and coming from c, some function calls I'm seeing in the book confuse me:
char a;
cin.get(a);

In C, this couldn't possibly work, if you did that, there would be no way to get the output, because you are passing by value, and not by reference, why does this work in c++? Is referencing and dereferncing made implicit (the compiler knows that cin.get needs a pointer, so it is referenced)?

A: Reference types work like that (pass by reference, instead of passing by value). It is similar to passing a pointer (pass by pointer) in C, but with a nicer syntax and more safety (compile-time checks). The implementation passes by pointer internally.

A: C++
This would work in C++ because the function signature for get() is probably this:
void get(char& a); // pass-by-reference

The & symbol after char denotes to the compiler than when you pass in a char value, it should pass in a reference to the char rather than making a copy of it.
What this essentially means is that any changes made within get() will be reflected in the value of a outside the method.
If the function signature for get() was this:
void get(char a); // pass-by-value

then a would be passed by value, which means a copy of a is made before being passed into the method as a parameter.  Any changes to a would then only be local the method, and lost when the method returns.
C
The reason why this wouldn't work in C is because C only has pass-by-value.  The only way to emulate pass-by-reference behaviour in C is to pass its pointer by value, and then de-reference the pointer value (thus accessing the same memory location) when modifying the value within the method:
void get(char* a)
{
    *a = 'g';
}

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    char a = 'f';
    get(&a);
    printf("%c\n", a);

    return 0;
}

Running this program will output:
g

A: C++ allows pass by reference (note the &, which signifies that a reference is used):
void foo(char& bar) {
    bar = 42;
}

int main() {
    char a;
    foo(a);
    // a == 42 here
}

A: This is why some C++ programmers don't like to use references like that.
It looks like a function arguement - you have no clue from the syntax whether 'a' is modified or not.
Prefer passing const references (when you have a large object and a copy would be expensive) and returning references or best of all passing pointers.

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Teaching your dog a chin-rest behavior is useful for training shy, overly excited, or reactive dogs. It is also helpful building cooperation during medical procedures (vaccinations, medication administration, and eye and ear care), and grooming.
Are you looking for a fun training exercise this spring? Teaching your dog to go around an object, such as a cone, is a useful skill and the foundation for many dog sports. Learn how to teach your dog to go around an object in this video and give it a try! If you don't have a cone, buckets, stools, or a waste basket make a great substitute!
Targeting, where an animal touches an object with her nose or paw, is not just a useful behavior for dogs—it can be a very useful and fun behavior for cats, too! A target can be used to lead a cat to a particular spot (such as an exam table), can help shelter cats become more friendly and adoptable, and can serve as the foundation for many tricks—such as jumping through a hoop, spinning, or rolling over. Watch target training in action in this video, and learn more about cat training in Karen Pryor Academy's Train Your Cat course!
Strategic treat placement is a key part of dog training, yet it is often overlooked. The placement of reinforcement during and after a behavior can make a difference as to the dog's understanding of the behavior you are trying to teach. Where do you want the dog to be positioned to set up for the next rep? If you want to set the dog up to repeat an action, for example settle on a mat, toss the treat away from the mat after you click so that the dog moves off and has the opportunity to return to the mat. Watch in this video as KPA faculty member Laurie Luck uses strategic treat placement off the mat to reset the labrador puppy for the opportunity to repeat the behavior!
Cues should always be clear and consistent. However, cues do allow for some flexibility and can be transferred. Are two cues too similar, so similar that your dog confuses them (for example, "stretch" and "fetch")? Do you need to deliver a cue from a distance? Do you want the versatility that is possible when your dog knows a variety of cues? In all of these instances, knowing how to transfer a cue accurately is important.
Watch as Karen Pryor Academy faculty member Laura Monaco Torelli demonstrates how to transfer a cue!
Teaching your dog to settle on a mat is very useful—for both practical and safety reasons. Dogs need a safe place to settle down. When you teach your dog to settle on a portable mat, your dog has a safe place to settle anywhere! You can send your dog to his mat while you are cooking, eating dinner, or even while you are out on the town. Your dog always has a safe place to lie by your side.
Teaching your dog a chin rest is useful for building cooperation during medical, such as vaccinations, administration of medications, and eye and ear care. Watch as Karen Pryor faculty member Laura Monaco Torelli uses a chin rest behavior for an ear exam!
Constant barking is stressful for shelter dogs, staff, and visitors. A small shift in routine management can reduce the noise level to zero. Watch as Karen Pryor Academy faculty member Steve Benjamin makes this shelter a bark-free zone by clicking for quiet!
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Trick or treat? You've already met this year's greatest monster and our greatest fear. We're all afraid of the world in which we exist, and sometimes, we don't even understand why.
At one point, the world felt like it plateaued, at least to me. I felt like the world was making very slow progress, but progress, nonetheless.
It seemed as though the world was becoming a more tolerant, understanding and loving place. Although the world would never become gentle or fair in its methods, it was still spinning.
Except, nothing much has changed at all.
We rid the world of one enemy and along comes another. The next in line will always be waiting in the wings, ready to face the world's soldiers. It's hard to pinpoint an exact evil when there are so many in the world. There are far too many callous offerings to blame just one.
Take this year's ascension of ISIS. What once seemed a distant and exaggerated peril has become a real and grotesque threat to our nations. ISIS has indulged in a litany of crimes, rooted in horror and intimidation in its deadliest form.
The organization encourages the enslavement of women, and women are forced to endure the cold violence of sexual crimes.
ISIS has abused its self-assigned authority in the name of fear and control, and the murders of British and American hostages have plagued the pages of the media.
While researching for a blog on the NATO Summit, I realized how much of the world spun in secrecy and the dire need for cotton wool padding to protect ourselves. We're far from a world of quiet, peaceful coexistence.
It's not only the globalized threats of nuclear weaponry and terrorism that grasp on the fear of the human race; it's the world itself, at its very core.
The world is nonsensical and it gives few explanations. We say the world is a beautiful place, and on the surface, it is exactly that: majestic scenery, the animal kingdom and a world walked by those who no longer suffer prejudice.
A world where slavery was abolished is not the same world that enabled it. A world where gay couples can marry is not the same world where homosexuality had to be masked in shame. The world has come far, but as I've always said, it gives as much as it takes.
For the last month, all I've heard about is loss. There has been a surplus of premature deaths, pivotal pains and sunless days. Is it because I'm getting older? Someone told me once that the older you get, the more loss you see.
Yet, I'm 24. And, it's not my loss that I'm seeing; it's always someone else's -- although, that could change in the bat of an eyelid. How does the world decide who deserves pain and who doesn't?
It's just the luck of the draw. Luck doesn't discriminate; it doesn't choose the players of the game or the game that gets played. It throws the dice and acts on chance.
This year's monster hiding under your bed? It's reality. It's the world in its ugliest form. It takes as much as it can, and gives as much as it chooses. Not even the luckiest of us can escape the harsh brutality of fate or the grisly truths of broken humans in the age of distorted extremism.
Most of us fear loss of our loved ones, our livelihoods and ourselves. During our lifetimes, we are faced with tremendous grief and isolation; yet, we somehow claw our way out of the dark.
Humans are compelled to feel strength. We feel pain daily, but we survive. That's why we need hope in the world. We need hope that humanity can overcome its flaws, its desperation and its darkness. We need to believe we will make it, despite the revulsion the world releases.
We have to hold on to the ideal that humans can stop destroying each other and everything else. We have miles to go, but we can make the monsters we fear retreat into themselves.
We still glow when the world tries to extinguish the light. It's like a burning match fighting the chill of the autumn wind and, against all odds, stays lit. When the black shadows of the night hide in the corners of the room, and when darkness draws in, we create our own safety.


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Doesn't work with iOS 11 but does what it says on the tin. It lets subscribers watch tv on their phone, pc, smart tv etc. with just a broadband connection. Naturally it isn't free, nothing is.
I really don't see the point in this app. 10 minute preview to 4 or 5 Irish channels and then you have to pay for a subscription. Not even the fake 5 star reviews can bring the rating for this app up. It's a piece sh1t.


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Gold Medalist McKayla Maroney Sues Over Hush Money to Shield Pervert
The Shadow League December 21, 2017
When power is confronted with its own maleficence by society at large, it will inevitably leverage its advantage to prevent retribution for abusive action. This phenomenon happens in all institutions in which money, fame or influence reacts to defend itself. Oftentimes, that power is leveraged in the form of financial pressure.
McKayla Maroney was one of Americas darlings as a Gold Medal winner during the 2012 London Summer Olympics. She was also the recipient of a large payoff extending from a settlement issued by USA Gymnastics to prevent the public from being made aware of the abuse she suffered at the hands of convicted child pornographer and former team doctor Lawrence G. Nassar.
This news came out in a lawsuit filed Wednesday by Maroney against the United States Olympic Committee, USA Gymnastics and Michigan State, where Nassar was employed, according to The Wall Street Journal. In the lawsuit, Maroney claims she was forced to sign a non-disparagement clause and confidentiality provision that has a $100,000 penalty if violated.
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U.S. Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney filed a lawsuit saying @USAGym tried to silence her while allegations mounted against team doctor Larry Nassar. She is one of many former gymnasts that have accused this doctor of sexual abuse. https://t.co/XbqbNJQOmZ
USA Gymnastics said: Contrary to reports, the concept of confidentiality was initiated by McKaylas attorney, not USA Gymnastics. USA Gymnastics cannot speak to the mediation process, which is confidential and privileged under California law. The process culminated in a settlement agreement that included a mutual nondisclosure clause and a mutual nondisparagement clause.
But Maroneys attorney John Manly begs to differ. He called the confidentiality agreement an immoral and illegal attempt to silence a victim of child sexual abuse in exchange for a financial settlement.
McKayla was and is in rough shape, he said. She needs help, therapy, she cant work, for periods she couldnt even get out of bed. She was desperate for the financial support and needed to move on.
The Olympic Committee, which reiterated that it was not a part of the settlement, said, We are heartbroken that this abuse occurred, proud of the brave victims that have come forward and grateful that our criminal justice system has ensured that Nassar will never be able to harm another young woman.
Maroney is one of dozens of former gymnasts who have accused Nassar of molesting them under the guise of medical treatment. In November, the former team physician pleaded guilty to molestation charges and has already been sentenced to 60 years for child pornography. He will be sentenced in January on molestation charges.
Among those who have come forward have been gold medalists Gabby Douglas and Aly Raisman. From a birds eye view, we have three massive institutions that are scrambling to distance themselves from a pervert that used them as cover to shield himself from scrutiny and law enforcement to hide his dirty deeds.
These children and young ladies, who have achieved so much and won the adoration of millions, were likely hesitant to come forward, like hundreds of thousands of other victims of sex abuse, sexual assault, molestation and sexual harassment. Imagine what it's like for your average American girl struggling with the knowledge that she was used for the gratification of a powerful pervert in a victim-blaming, misogynist society that more than likely will blame her for his actions?
Yeah, tell me more about how much they deserved it or shouldnt have placed themselves in that position. Yeah, tell me more about that, but just dont do it face-to-face. You might get thumped in your optics.
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The peoples of mars are varied in their customs and their use/understanding of technology. Despite their differences, however, all native Martians are oviparous, and live for 500 to 1000 years; further, natives of Mars share the same language, obsession with honor and a murderous hatred for cultures other than their own.
Primarily urban, dominate the population of most cities- to the exclusion of all others in many places, such as Uton and Xardz. Red Martians have an ancient and complex culture; once their cities ruled Mars, but in these latter days, the Red Martins rarely even rule themselves, neing more often than not in thrall to one of the so called God Kings or other external power. Red Martians are literate and familiar with all forms of Martian technology, including the operation of airships.
Green Martians live in a meritocracy of violence. The strong rule, the weak serve and cower. Green Martins are pastoralists and follow their herds, living either in the open desert or dwelling within a ruined city as chance may allow. Green Martins have four arms and may, at first level attack three times in two rounds. Green Martians are said to delight in creulty, but this appears to be cultural than integral to their character,,as notably compassionate exceptions exist. As rule, Green Martians are illiterate and disinterestd in technology beyond small arms and the occasional peice of ancient artillery. Given their ability to survive where most others would perish, Green Martians are by far the most populous race on mars.
The descendants of beasts long ago uplifted to full sentience by eldritch martian science. The typical wild Martians will possess a (usually hirsute) humanoid body and the head of a beast. Wild Martians are a varied lot and special abilities and class availability should be on a case by case basis.
Classes (Fantastic Heroes and Whitchery).
Ranger; Fighter; Thief; Rifleman; Sky Lord (Rocketeer); Psychic; Savant; Wild Brute; Warlock; The Endless.
AC (ascending)= 10+1/2 level+ Dex Bonus.
Class choices, I think, may be subject to change. The typical Martian warrior is not the same as a standard Fighter or any of the subclasses either.


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using System;
using System.Diagnostics.Contracts;
using System.Linq;
using Microsoft.IdentityModel.Claims;
using Thinktecture.IdentityModel.Claims;

namespace Thinktecture.IdentityModel.Extensions
{
    public static partial class IClaimsPrincipalExtensions
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Retrieves the value of a claim.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="principal">The principal.</param>
        /// <param name="claimType">Type of the claim.</param>
        /// <returns>The value</returns>
        public static string GetClaimValue(this IClaimsPrincipal principal, string claimType)
        {
            Contract.Requires(principal != null);
            Contract.Requires(principal.Identities != null);
            Contract.Requires(!String.IsNullOrEmpty(claimType));
            Contract.Ensures(Contract.Result<string>() != null);

            string value = null;
            foreach (var identity in principal.Identities)
            {
                if (identity.TryGetClaimValue(claimType, out value))
                {
                    return value;
                }
            }

            throw new ClaimNotFoundException(claimType);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Retrieves the value of a claim.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="principal">The principal.</param>
        /// <param name="claimType">Type of the claim.</param>
        /// <param name="issuer">The issuer.</param>
        /// <returns>The value</returns>
        public static string GetClaimValue(this IClaimsPrincipal principal, string claimType, string issuer)
        {
            Contract.Requires(principal != null);
            Contract.Requires(principal.Identities != null);
            Contract.Requires(!String.IsNullOrEmpty(claimType));
            Contract.Ensures(Contract.Result<string>() != null);

            string value = null;
            foreach (var identity in principal.Identities)
            {
                if (identity.TryGetClaimValue(claimType, issuer, out value))
                {
                    return value;
                }
            }

            throw new ClaimNotFoundException(claimType);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Tries to retrieve the value of a claim.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="principal">The principal.</param>
        /// <param name="claimType">Type of the claim.</param>
        /// <param name="claimValue">The claim value.</param>
        /// <returns>The value</returns>
        public static bool TryGetClaimValue(this IClaimsPrincipal principal, string claimType, out string claimValue)
        {
            Contract.Requires(principal != null);
            Contract.Requires(principal.Identities != null);
            Contract.Requires(!String.IsNullOrEmpty(claimType));

            claimValue = null;
            Claim claim = principal.FindClaims(claimType).FirstOrDefault();

            if (claim != null)
            {
                claimValue = claim.Value;
                return true;
            }

            return false;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Tries to retrieve the value of a claim.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="principal">The principal.</param>
        /// <param name="claimType">Type of the claim.</param>
        /// <param name="issuer">The issuer.</param>
        /// <param name="claimValue">The claim value.</param>
        /// <returns>The value</returns>
        public static bool TryGetClaimValue(this IClaimsPrincipal principal, string claimType, string issuer, out string claimValue)
        {
            Contract.Requires(principal != null);
            Contract.Requires(principal.Identities != null);
            Contract.Requires(!String.IsNullOrEmpty(claimType));
            Contract.Requires(!String.IsNullOrEmpty(issuer));

            claimValue = null;
            Claim claim = principal.FindClaims(claimType, issuer).FirstOrDefault();

            if (claim != null)
            {
                claimValue = claim.Value;
                return true;
            }

            return false;
        }
    }
}

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Email from Arnie in Colorado Springs: Hi Dr. Shurtz, So now there is HEIF (High Efficiency Image File Format) from Apple. How does this compare to JPEG & GIF? And can one go from one format to another without a lot of hassle? What do you think of HEIF? Understand this format will save space for iOS users, but may have compatibly problems. Great show with lots of good info. Thanks, Arnie, Colorado Springs, CO
Tech Talk Responds: The High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) uses video compression technology called HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) that was designed by the Motion Picture Experts Group. HEIF is the technique to compress individual frames that comprise an HEVC video. HEIF is a natural to support Apple�s Live Pic mode. It can also easily replace animated GIFs. In addition, the image quality is superior to JPG and GIF.
HEIF uses some similar methods as JPEG, but goes a step further. JPEG breaks an image up into blocks, each of which is compressed with a clever combination of trigonometry and matrix mathematics. One way HEIF improves on JPEG is by comparing those blocks. If one block is similar to another, HEIF records just the difference, which requires less storage space. In effect, for example, HEIF could tell a computer, "just put some blue sky here like we already have.
You don�t have to worry about converting HEIF images because the Apple OS will convert it automatically to JPG when you export the picture. You will simply be able to store about twice as many pictures on the iPhone and use less iCloud space for backup.
Email from Al: Hello Tech Talk. I use Outlook as my mail tool on a Dell desktop running Windows 7 Home Premium. The E-mail downloaded into Outlook comes from my Microsoft Outlook.com account. Recently, images in some E-mails will not display.� One sees only an empty box with a red X.� This problem occurs for most E-mails but not all.� Some display all images just fine.� Some E-Mails display some images but not all.� Some E-mails display none. I�ve done some research that indicates there�s a problem in some Outlook file but that the problem can only be fixed by going into the registry.� I�m very reluctant to tinker in the registry. Can you advise as to what the problem is and how I can safely fix it? Thanks in advance and thanks for your interesting Saturday radio show. Al
Tech Talk Responds: I would check your security settings first. Internet Explorer has a security setting that, when enabled, prevents Outlook from displaying images with a secure URL. Image URLs starting with "http" will display, not URLs that start with "https". To change the setting in Internet Explorer:
Go to Tools > Internet Options.
Scroll down to the Security settings list, then uncheck the "Do not save encrypted pages to disk" option.
Before the changes take effect, it may sometimes be necessary to clear the cache in Internet Explorer and close Outlook (File > Exit to close fully). After relaunching Outlook, send yourself another email with an image that did not display previously.
If that did not work, Outlook itself can be configured to block images for security reasons. Assuming you have Outlook 2010, do the following:
Click the File > Options.
Click Trust Center.
Click the Trust Center Settings button.
Uncheck the box next to the "Don't download pictures automatically in HTML e-mail messages or RSS items" option.
Changing the registry is only required if the configuration for image storage is pointed to the wrong subdirectory. It is most likely to be your security settings. If the security setting do not solve the problem. You can check the registry image storage issue. Microsoft has created a tool that will check and modify your registry automatically. Before you use this tool, make certain to set a restore point on the OS, so that you can revert back to the old registry settings. Here is the link to that tool: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2638687/pictures-cannot-be-displayed-and-are-shown-as-red-x-in-outlook. This would be your last resort.
Email form Jim Barlett: Hey Doc. Would you explain again how you use TRACERT to find the node hops? Where do you write �TRACERT�? It does not work if it is placed in front of the URL in the search line. Thanks, Jim
Tech Talk Responds: I discussed on the last show. TRACERT is a command line prompt and needs to use the DOS command line. To get to the command line, type �cmd� into the Start Button search field. Then click on Command Prompt (Desktop App). When the Command Prompt Window opens, type: TRACERT website address. The web address is not preceded by http. If you want to see all of the TRACERT options, just type TRACERT without a web address. This is a fun way to understand how the Internet actually works.
Email from Tung in Ohio: Dear Tech Talk. I have a problem with the sound coming from my HDTV when I am listening to DVD movies. The dialogue is too quiet compared to the sound effects and other noises. I can hardly understand what they are saying. If I turn up the volume to hear dialogue, everything else is too loud. How can I fix it. Love the podcast. I am currently using the stereo output from my TV. Tung in Ohio.
Tech Talk Responds: Audio and speaker configurations are labeled by the number of different channels of audio present in the source. Headphones, regular TV sets, and systems with a pair of speakers (and no subwoofer) are referred to as 2.0 channel audio. The number before the decimal represents the number of full frequency range channels�so, regular front speakers, rear speakers, and so on. The number after the decimal represents the number of specialized, low frequency channels�output to subwoofers. So, if you add a single subwoofer to 2.0 channel audio, it becomes 2.1 channel audio. Add in rear surround speakers and a center channel front speaker, and it becomes 5.1.
Your are watching TV with the simple 2.0 channel speakers built into the TV and maybe a 2.0 channel soundbar with a subwoofer added in for good measure to boost it up to 2.1. When you watch media encoded with 5.1 or greater channel audio (which is pretty much any DVD) on a 2.x setup, it falls on the TV to perform a task known as �downmixing� to blend the channels together and re-balance sounds so that the 5.1 configuration sounds normal coming from a 2.0 system.
Your TV may be down mixing improperly. Organizations like Dolby publish ratios that provide the ideal down mixing configuration. Many cheaper TV sets just smash the channels together and push them out the speakers with little to no adjustment. That�s a perfect recipe for way-too-loud action and way-too-soft dialogue.
If your Blu-ray player, for example, thinks that it�s hooked up to a 5.1 channel audio system, then it�s going to put out all 5.1 channels and you�ll be at the mercy of whatever your TV does with that output. If your DVD player has the option to specify that the audio output is 2.0, then the player and not the TV can handle the down mix. That is your best option.
You can also reduce the difference between the high and low volumes by adjusting the dynamic range. Your DVD player may have an audio option labeled as �Dynamic Range Compression�, �Dynamic Range Control�, �DRC�, �Night Mode.� This option instructs the device to compress the range of volume in the audio track of the displayed video such that the highest and lowest points are closer together. This makes the booms not as loud and the whispers not as quiet.
Werner Hans Peter Vogels is the chief technology officer and Vice President of Amazon.com in charge of driving technology innovation within the company. Vogels has broad internal and external responsibilities.
Vogels was born on 3 October 1958 in Ermelo, Netherlands.
After his military service in the Royal Netherlands Navy, Vogels studied radiology (diagnostics and therapy). In 1985, he was hired by the Netherlands Cancer Institute.
In 1985 he enrolled in The Hague University of Applied Sciences and received a BS in Computer Science in 1989. He then pursued a career in computer science research.
In 1991, Vogels was hired a senior researcher at INESC in Porto, Portugal, working on distributed systems support for factory floor automation.
In 1994, he was hired as a research scientist at the Computer Science Department of Cornell University, conducting research in scalable reliable enterprise systems.
He is the author of many conference and journal articles, mainly on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing systems
In 1997, he co-founded Reliable Network Solutions, Inc. The company possessed US patents on computer network resource monitoring and multicast protocols. He served as VP and CTO from 1999 through 2002.
In 2003, Vogels received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands. His advisors were Henri Bal and Andy Tanenbaum.
His thesis: Scalable Cluster Technologies for Mission Critical Enterprise Computing.
He joined Amazon in September 2004 as the director of systems research. He was named CTO in January 2005 and VP in March of that year.
Vogels maintains a blog focusing on "building scalable and robust distributed systems", which he started in 2001 while a scientist at Cornell.
Vogels described the deep technical nature of Amazon's infrastructure work in a paper about Amazon's Dynamo, the storage engine for the Amazon Shopping Cart.
He is generally regarded as one of the world's top experts on ultra-scalable systems and he uses his weblog to educate the community about issues such as eventual consistency.
Vogels was one of the architects behind Amazon's approach to cloud computing, the Amazon Web Services (AWS). In 2008, he was continuously on the road promoting cloud computing and AWS.
In 2008, he was Information Week�s CIO/CTO of the Year.
In 2010, 2011, and 2012, he was TechTarget Top 10 Cloud Computing Leader
In 2014, ExecRank ranked Vogels as the #1 Chief Technology Officer.
Vogels is married to Annet Vogels, a former musician with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra. They have two daughters.
Vogels blog: http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/
Bitcoin is soaring trading up 13.01% at $2,576 a coin. The cryuptocurrency continues to rally as traders look ahead to the August 1 decision on whether or not bitcoin will be split in two.
Thursday's gain has the cryptocurrency up 40% from its July 17 low of $1,852. That's the day bitcoin tumbled 20% amid renewed fears it would be split in two.
The recent rally has bitcoin within 16% of its all time high near $3,000 set on June 12.
According to The New York Times, If Beijing has its way, the future of artificial intelligence will be made in China. The country laid out a development plan on Thursday to become the world leader in A.I. by 2030, aiming to surpass its rivals technologically and build a domestic industry worth almost $150 billion.
China will be investing heavily to ensure its companies, government and military leap to the front of the pack in a technology many think will one day form the basis of computing.
The plan comes with China preparing a multibillion-dollar national investment initiative to support "moonshot" projects, start-ups and academic research in A.I.
This may be a bigger threat that nuclear weapons. The first country to reach The Singularity, when computers are smarter than people, will be unstoppable according the futurist ?Ray Kurzweil. We need to pay attention!
Elon Musk has made it clear that he is concerned about the extreme advancements being made in artificial intelligence (AI) research.
Ultimately, he fears that AI will, one day, overtake humanity.
In December 2015, Musk took his first major action, and announced the formation of OpenAI, a non-profit AI research company that hopes to advance digital intelligence in a way that will benefit humanity as a whole.
Just a few weeks ago, details leaked asserting that Musk is backing a brain-computer interface venture that was founded in order to allow humans to keep up with the advancements made in machine intelligence.
The company, called Neuralink, was still in the earliest stages of development.
Neuralink is a brain-machine interface development company. They want to create cutting-edge BMIs.
Doing this will support the growth of the company while also providing a perfect vehicle for putting their innovations to use.
First they are planning bring something to market that helps with certain severe brain injuries (stroke, cancer lesion, congenital) in about four years.�
Musk thinks the technology is 8 to 10 years away for use by individuals with no disability.
Musk believes that the development of AI could spell the end of the human race.
It would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn�t compete, and would be superseded.
Being able to systematically and intelligently work with our neural code is the most consequential and pressing opportunity in the world today.
These advancements could allow us to merge with machines, they could also allow us to literally program (or reprogram) our neural code, which would allow us to transform ourselves in ways that we can�t even imagine.
AlphaBay, a Dark Web marketplace for illegal drugs and other underground goods, has been shut down.
One of the site�s operators, a Canadian citizen named Alexandre Cazes, was arrested while he was in Thailand. He was later found dead in his cell due to an apparent suitcide.
AlphaBay was largely considered the largest and most lucrative underground marketplace on the Dark Web.
AlphaBay rose in prominence after the shutdown of the Silk Road in 2013 and arrest of its operator, Ross Ulbricht.
Cazes, who was arrested by Thailand authorities on July 5th, the same day AlphaBay went down.
Members of the high-technology crime division of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are currently searching Cazes� apartment in Trois-Rivi�res, Quebec, and have claimed at least some of the site�s servers, opening the possibility that other AlphaBay operators may be swept up in the investigation pending what the cybercrime unit is able to recover.
In addition to drugs, AlphaBay made a significant chunk of its revenue enabling the sale of stolen credit card numbers, as well as firearms.
The company apparently made anywhere between $600,000 and $800,000 a day.
According to an Ars Technica article, Verizon recently began experimenting with throttling of video traffic.
The remarkable part of this story is not that a wireless ISP would throttle video traffic, but rather that Verizon's own Go90 video platform is also affected by the throttling.
Verizon Wireless customers this week noticed that Netflix's speed test tool appears to be capped at 10Mbps, raising fears that the carrier is throttling video streaming on its mobile network.
Verizon acknowledged using a new video optimization system but said it is part of a temporary test and that it did not affect the actual quality of video.
The video optimization appears to apply both to unlimited and limited mobile plans.
But some YouTube users are reporting degraded video, saying that using a VPN service can bypass the Verizon throttling.
If even Verizon can get on board with throttling without paid prioritization, why is Comcast so scared of the new laws that are about to go into effect banning it?
Someone in North Carolina is offering up what is described as a restored 1989 FBI "surveillance" van, complete with listening equipment, LCD monitors, and two DVD players, apparently.
The Dodge Ram 350 van has low mileage (23,500 miles to be exact), one careful previous owner, double-locking doors, and its own toilet for long stakeouts.
The seller, who looks legit and has dozens of good customers reviews, claims that while the van has recently been restored since leaving the bureau and being sold at government auction, the vehicle was in fact "used for FEDERAL DRUG INVESTIGATION and still has surveillance tapes inside with notebooks." It includes other options:
Rear AC/heat controls
The ability to kill the engine from the back of the van
On-board propane tanks
An intercom
A number of electrical sockets
Two extra on-board batteries
The seller is also offering to throw in manuals for all of the on-board surveillance equipment and full documentation to show that the van is legit � something that will no doubt come in handy should the local police inquire as to why you're driving around in a windowless van packed with stuff that resembles surveillance equipment.
The current bid for the truck is $11,100, with 27 people having already made offers.
In December 2016, attackers hacked a power transmission company in Ukraine and cut electricity to tens of thousands of customers for an hour around midnight.
Researchers who examined the malicious code say it's a modular toolkit composed of multiple components that have the ability to launch automated assaults against industrial control systems managing the electric grid.
The toolkit doesn't exploit software vulnerabilities to do its dirty tricks�the way most malware does�but instead relies on exploiting four communication protocols or standards that are used with industrial control systems in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, according to the researchers. This means the attackers could use the same toolkit to target systems in these regions, and may already have done so.
The 2016 attack on Ukraine's power grid, which struck December 17 at a substation outside the capital city Kiev, was believed to be a test for refining attacks on critical infrastructure around the world.
It is directly applicable to every site in Europe, most of the Middle East and most of Asia. The US uses a different communication protocol known as DNP3 (Distributed Network Protocol 3), but this doesn't make it immune to the same kind of assault.
With a little tweaking, the same toolkit would also work against parts of the grid in the US.
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William Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington (12 April 1856 – 19 April 1937), known between 1895 and 1931 as Sir Martin Conway, was an English art critic, politician, cartographer and mountaineer, who made expeditions in Europe as well as in South America and Asia.

Conway was occupied on several university positions and from 1918 to 1931 was a representative of the combined English universities as a conservative member in the House of Commons.

In 1872 he took up mountain climbing and went on expeditions to Spitsbergen from 1896 to 1897 and the Bolivian Andes in 1898. He is an author of books on art and exploration, which include Mountain Memories (1920), ′'Art Treasures of Soviet Russia (1925), and Giorgione as a Landscape Painter (1929).

Background and education
Conway was born at Rochester, England, on 12 April 1856, the son of Reverend William Conway, who later became rector of St. Margaret's, Westminster. He was the youngest of three children having two older sisters, Elizabeth Ann (1852-1916) and Martha (1854-1938). He was educated at Repton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied mathematics and became a close friend of Karl Pearson. He became interested in woodcuts, engraving and early printed books; his History of the Woodcutters of the Netherlands in the Fifteenth Century was published in 1884.

Mountaineering
Conway was a member of the Alpine Club, of which he was president from 1902 to 1904.

In 1892, in the course of an exploring and mountaineering expedition undertaken under the auspices of the Royal Society, the Royal Geographical Society and the British Association, he made an ascent of a subsidiary summit of Baltoro Kangri, claiming a world altitude record with a height of 23,000 ft (7,010 m). However, subsequent measurements have revised his height to 22,322 ft (6,804 m). In 1896–97 he explored the interior of Spitsbergen, and the following year he explored and surveyed the Bolivian Andes, climbing "Sorata" (known today as Ancohuma, 21,086 ft / 6,427 m) and Illimani (21,122 ft / 6,438 m). He also attempted Aconcagua (22,831 ft / 6,959 m) stopping short of the summit by 50-ft and explored Tierra del Fuego making an attempt on Sarmiento. At the Paris exhibition of 1900 he received the gold medal for mountain surveys, and the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1905.

He served as President of the Alpine Club for 1902–04 and became the first president of The Alpine Ski Club at its inaugural meeting in 1908.

In 1924, Conway evaluated evidence from the 1924 British Mountaineering Expedition and believed George Mallory and Andrew Irvine had climbed Mt. Everest.

Academic career

From 1884 to 1887 Conway was Professor of Art at University College, Liverpool; and from 1901 to 1904 he was Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge University. He was knighted in 1895 for his efforts in mapping 5,180 square km of the Karakoram Range in the Himalayas three years earlier.

In 1889 he published a book concerning his research on Albrecht Dürer. He was assisted in this by the polymath Lina Eckenstein who was the sister of a fellow mountaineer.

Conway was the first Director-General of the Imperial War Museum and a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery from 1922 to 1937. His photograph collection formed the basis of the Conway Library at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. He was also responsible for the restoration of Allington Castle.

Political career
Conway had been involved in politics for some time, consorting with both major parties allegedly in pursuit of a knighthood and a barony; he received both. He was mentioned as a possible Liberal candidate for Wolverhampton South in early 1900, but withdrew his candidature 'owing to domestic circumstances'. He was elected Unionist Member of Parliament for the Combined English Universities in 1918, serving until 1931, when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Conway of Allington, of Allington in the County of Kent, in the Dissolution Honours.

He died in London on 19 April 1937. The title became extinct on his death.

Works

Scholarly works
 History of the Woodcutters of the Netherlands in the Fifteenth Century, 1884
 Early Flemish Artists, 1887
 The Literary Remains of Albrecht Dürer, 1889
 The Dawn of Art in the Ancient World, 1891, dealing with Chaldean, Assyrian and Egyptian art
 Early Tuscan Art, 1902
 The Crowd in Peace and War, 1915
 Art Treasures of Soviet Russia, 1925
 Giorgione as a Landscape Painter, 1929

Mountaineering and travel works
 Climbing and Exploration in the Karakoram-Himalayas, 1894
 The Alps from End to End, 1895
 The First Crossing of Spitsbergen, 1897
 The Bolivian Andes, 1901
 Aconcagua and Tierra Del Fuego: A Book of Climbing, Travel and Exploration, 1902
 Early Dutch and English Voyages to Spitsbergen in the Seventeenth Century, 1904
 No Man's Land, a History of Spitsbergen from its discovery in 1596 to the beginning of the Scientific Exploration of the Country, 1906
 Mountain Memories, 1920
  "Palestine and Morocco", 1923

Autobiography

  Episodes in a Varied Life, 1932
  The Sport of Collecting'', 1914

References

External links

 William Martin Conway and Egyptian Excavations

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B-52 conducts long-range training with Colombian forces
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Barksdale Airmen participate in EUCOM exercise
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B-52s demonstrate strategic reach
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