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Air Force Football
Takeaways: Air Force cruises to a blowout win over New Mexico
The Falcons rode Brad Roberts' hot hand to a 38-10 victory over the Lobos.
By HyanRaines@HyanRaines Oct 4, 2021, 6:46pm PDT
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It's safe to say that Air Force's loss to Utah State is firmly in the rearview mirror. The Falcons have rattled off a pair of big-time wins to jump out to a 4-1 record on the year. This time, Air Force went on the road to Dreamstyle Stadium with big dreams of leveling out their conference record against the Lobos of New Mexico.
Level out their record the Falcons did, and they did it in style. This contest finished with a 38-10 scoreline that was never close and felt even more dominant in real-time.
Haaziq Daniels and the Falcons got out to a fast start when the quarterback punched in a 1-yard touchdown to cap off a 78-yard drive. Anthony Rodriguez stretched the lead to 10-0 with a 30-yard field goal within the first minute of the second quarter, and Air Force never looked back.
Brad Roberts and Dane Kinamon blew the scoring wide open with two more touchdowns before halftime. Roberts proved to be the Falcons' motor for the day, churning out 142 yards on his 29 attempts. Kinamon's touchdown, on the other hand, was his crucial play of the day, in addition to 21 yards on the ground.
DeAndre Hughes added another rushing touchdown in the third quarter to stretch the margin all the way to 31-0 before Terry Wilson finally connected with Trae Hall on a 21-yard touchdown pass. Brad Roberts answered right away in the fourth quarter, and the Lobos punched a 49-yard field goal through the uprights for the final 38-10 margin.
Riding the hot hand
The beauty of a triple-option offense is that Air Force can roll with whatever is working. This week, Brad Roberts was working like no other Falcon on the field. Haaziq Daniels turned to his tailback a total of 29 times for 142 yards on the ground. Roberts added a pair of touchdowns to bring his season total to four. His rushing total puts him high atop the team total again for the year, cementing him as the most important cog in this well-oiled machine outside of Haaziq Daniels himself.
That said, DeAndre Hughes had himself a day too. He put together 89 yards on just 10 attempts with a massive 53-yard touchdown scamper. Haaziq Daniels turned in a quieter day with 30 yards and a score, but it didn't matter as the Falcons rolled to a big win.
Bowling on the horizon
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How many wins do you need for a bowl game? Six. How many wins does Air Force have already? Four. The Falcons have eclipsed their total from last season with seven games left on the slate. All Air Force needs to do is pull out another pair of victories with bottom-feeding teams like UNLV and Colorado State (1-8 combined record) still to come.
We can't forget that Air Force still has a neutral-site game against Army that could decide the Commander-in-Chief's trophy for the second year in a row. This is a Black Knights squad that just suffered its first defeat to a Ball State squad that has struggled throughout the year. The next three weeks could be very telling in how the C.I.C. race will shake out.
Special teams specialty
The best special teams performance is one that you don't need. Air Force did its job again, keeping punter Charles Bein on the sideline for all but one kick. When called upon, Bein booted a 42-yard punt inside the New Mexico 20. He matched the Lobos' total of punts inside the 20 despite having one-quarter the number of attempts.
As for the kicking game, Anthony Rodriguez hit one of his two field-goal tries from 30 yards. He nailed all of his extra-point tries, too, en route to Air Force's final margin of victory.
The Falcons are headed home for a Blue-out game against the unbeaten Wyoming Cowboys. However, those wins have come against Montana State, NIU, Ball State, and UConn — not exactly a strong resume. Kickoff is slated for 7 p.m. ET and the game will be televised on the CBS Sports Network.


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The annual Google I/O developer conference opens with an hours-long keynote full of announcements, previews, and hints. With the upcoming version of Android, codenamed Android L, it feels like Google is finally getting the idea that your smartphone is the hub of your digital life and probably the most important piece of tech you own. Here's the important stuff they talked about this year that might actually make your life better in the near future.
If you use two-factor authentication (and you should) you're probably already used to pulling out your phone when you want to log into something. Android L will take it a step further; if your Chromebook senses your phone is close via Bluetooth, you'll be able to log into your Chromebook without a password.
Screenshot of Android Auto via Google's I/O keynote stream.
With Android Auto, your phone can become the brains and guts of your car navigation/entertainment system. Rather than cramming a soon-to-be obsolete computer system into your dash, Google's basically taking a page from the Chromecast book and pushing the interface—Google Maps navigation, voice controls, Google Play Music—from your phone to your car's entertainment center thingy. And you'll be able to control it with your existing steering wheel controls. This is a smart move because it means ten years down the road (and five new phones later) your car will still have the latest software.
Of course, you'll probably have to buy a new car with Android Auto compatibility to take advantage of this; everyone else will always have car mounts. It's also possible we'll be able to buy aftermarket adapters to add Android Auto to cars that don't have it, but that's just speculation at this point.
Most of the staff at the Wirecutter aren't ready to buy a smartwatch yet, according to an impromptu watercooler poll, but Google really, really wants you to buy one. Everyone on stage for the entire show was wearing one; we saw everything from the Moto 360 to new LG and Samsung watches to the Pebble.
Google announced Android Wear earlier this year and spent some time during the keynote demonstrating it. It integrates very well with Android, as you'd expect. Notifications show up automatically on your smartwatch, and the integration will only get better with the next version of Android.
…card integration means seamless notification and controls between smartwatch and smartphone.
You'll be able to control the smartwatch with its touchscreen and by using the "Okay, Google" voice command currently used with Google Glass. Its card integration means seamless notifications and controls between smartwatch and smartphone.
Screenshot via Google's I/O keynote stream.
In fact, Google demoed some pretty neat applications straight from a smartwatch, including displaying a recipe while cooking, ordering a pizza, or calling a driver from Lyft. The recipe option in particular seemed useful, so that you don't have to refer back to your smartphone or computer to get to the next step of cooking, though there's probably not much gained in ordering a pizza from your wrist rather than your phone. Where these apps are going to prove super useful is in displaying glanceable information that you can digest easily—one of the apps we liked with the Pebble showed when the next bus was coming. Simple, small chunks of data that can be dealt with easily are perfect for watches.
We don't yet now how useful these smartwatches will be when not paired to your phone or how long their batteries will really last (LG and Samsung claim all day). Two Android Wear watches, the LG G Watch and the Samsung Gear Life, are available for preorder on Google Play, while the Motorola Moto 360, which has a round face and (frankly) looks better than either, won't be out until sometime later this year.
Everyone who went to I/O received a smartwatch, so expect to see some preliminary reviews really soon. Here's The Verge's take on Android Wear, and here's Greenbot's impressions. Android Wear doesn't seem fully baked yet, but it has potential once the next version of Android comes out.
Android Wear won't work with all phones, just those with Android 4.3 or higher and Bluetooth Low Energy support. If you're dead set on getting one of these right away, go to g.co/WearCheck on your phone to see if it's compatible. But really, you should wait.
Speaking of the next version of Android, here's what we know. It's coming this fall, and for now it's known as Android L. It'll probably get a dessert-themed codename before it comes out. Most of what we've seen so far is an emphasis on a new design aesthetic, one with more visual touch feedback, transitional animations, and an overarching cardlike (but not flat) design that's called Material Design. The L release will also include a new notifications pane that features more ways to deal with notifications directly without launching their respective apps. This will tie in with Android Wear's ability to do the same thing from your watch.
There's also better integration with wearables. If your phone detects via Bluetooth that you're wearing your smartwatch, it won't prompt you for an unlock PIN. Some Android phones, like the Moto X, already have this feature, but it looks like it'll be baked into the next version of Android.
Other under-the-hood improvements include a better built-in 3D graphics engine, a new runtime (with 64-bit support), better battery optimization, and more ways for apps to share data with each other on your phone. Basically, you can expect a prettier, smoother, faster experience that lasts longer between charges. Android L won't be out until the fall, but a developer preview is available on some Nexus devices.
Google's Chromebooks are getting some cool new features too, including the ability to run Android apps. We don't know when that will happen—or which apps will be available—but when it does, touchscreens will become an important feature for Chromebooks. Google demonstrated Evernote and Flipboard running in tablet mode on a Chromebook, and it also showed Vine running vertically (the same way it does on your phone screen), accessing the Chromebook's built-in webcam.
With the upcoming Android L software, you'll also be able to log into your Chromebook without entering a password if your Android phone is nearby. You'll see much tighter integration with Android as well, including call, text, and low battery notifications from your smartphone. Chrome OS already has basic support for Google Now, but Google showed off some additional cards that will be available in a future update.
Google plans to release a single set of APIs and an Android app to help combine data from multiple health devices. If that sounds familiar, it probably should: the Google Fit platform sounds a lot like HealthKit and the Health app that Apple announced earlier this month. It looks like a lot of companies are signed on to the Google Fit Platform, including fitness tracker makers Withings, Nike, Basis, and Polar.
Play Store content is featured ahead of everything else on Android TV currently.
Google also announced and demonstrated Android TV, a software platform that will be available as an external box or built into future TVs. Many of the features will look familiar if you've seen Amazon's Fire TV; both use voice control and include some gaming. Android TV functions like other media streamers, like Apple TV or Roku, and it does not require a device to stream from like the Chromecast does. It includes full Google Cast support, so it has all the push streaming features of a Chromecast. You can control Android TV with a phone (or even an Android Wear watch) but traditional remotes or controllers work too.
Unlike other streaming services (but similar to the failed Google TV platform), Android TV offers an overlay feature for live TV, letting you select apps while still watching content. It will be available in standalone boxes from multiple companies (so far, Asus and Razer have been announced) and integrated into future TVs from Sony, Sharp, and others. Even if Android TV falls short of Roku, it will probably make a good replacement for the (usually terrible) apps built into most TVs today.
How good Android TV is depends on how provider-agnostic it is. Roku succeeds where Amazon and others fail by not pushing one provider over another, letting the users decide which apps and channels they want to use. If Google pushes its own Play Store over Netflix and Hulu, it likely will face the same issues Amazon has with Fire TV. Engadget noticed a "slight bias toward Play Store products" during their hands-on, but that might just be the early software. Android TV should be available starting this fall. We don't know yet what the price will be.
You'll also be able to cast your whole screen to the Chromecast or Android TV, or you can use Google Cast to turn your TV into an expensive, power-consuming picture frame for your Android photos or Google+ albums. App support keeps growing and Google is working to make Google Cast easier to implement in apps, so hopefully more popular streaming apps will come to Google Cast soon. Amazon Instant Video and Spotify are still notably missing. But if you have an Android device, you can't get Amazon Instant Video on it anyway.
Google says that only ten percent of the people in the world have smartphones, and it wants to change that. So it's launching the Android One initiative to get decent Android phones that cost under $100 to people in the developing world. Google will design the phones and outsource manufacturing to local phone makers. Basically, they want more Moto-E-type phones.
This probably won't impact the lives of many people reading this, but it may be the most important thing to come out of this year's I/O. Of course, like everything Google does, it's not entirely altruistic—plenty of people are making low-cost cell phones for emerging markets. Google knows that more Android phones means more Android users means more eyeballs for ads. Still, the One initiative will at least set minimum hardware specs, include the Play Store and automatic app updates, and come without bloatware, unlike a lot of cheap Android phones sold today in those areas.
Half-jokes about the relentless pace of consumerism aside, a lot of the things Google demoed at I/O look legitimately useful. That doesn't mean you should get an Android Wear watch or an Android TV just yet (or ever), but we'll be keeping an eye out; they could be great.


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This is my code it displays the search bar and pagination at the middle. I would like them to be at the right. any ideas? Here is a picture:

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A: I can't import your bower components but i can give you some idea of how things should be arranged.
The basic idea is that you need to place all of your 3 components and also the table in their appropriate boxes. And this boxes are separated in groups. Start simple in a separate file - fake static data.. After you have the bare bones css+html working, then you simply place it inside php and do rendering with real dynamic data..
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No rule, and I'm no designer; just my own sense of humor. The largest words require no head tilting, and the smaller ones don't matter much.


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When it comes to smartwatches, Samsung has had its foot on the gas pedal all through the last year. After launching the Galaxy Gear last September, the company pushed out three more watches in April and another in July. And next month, we're going to get our first taste of the Gear S. Confused? Let Gizmag lend a hand, as we compare all six Samsung Gear watches.
For each category in this comparison, you'll see two rows of watches – ordered exactly as they are in the list above. If you lose track, just scroll back up here for a quick refresher.
Apart from the Android Wear-running Gear Live and the Gear Fit (which runs a barebones real-time OS), all of our watches run Samsung's Tizen platform for wearables. Though it launched with a weak app selection, I've been impressed with its steady growth since then.
The Galaxy Gear is the rare mobile device that was updated with a completely different operating system. The watch launched running a custom version of Android, but it now runs Tizen as well.
Android Wear has the better voice control, as it puts the speed and versatility of Google Now on your wrist. Samsung is teasing "enhanced S Voice" for the Gear S, though, so we're eager to find out what that means.
Like just about every other smartwatch you can buy, all of these watches deliver smartphone alerts to your wrist. You can also choose which phone apps will send notifications to your watch.
The dimensions above measure each watch's main body – including the bezel, but not including the band.
The Android Wear-running Gear Live is the thinnest, but, having spent quality time with the first five of these watches, I don't think the Live necessary feels much thinner.
Since the Gear Fit is more of a fitness tracker than full-fledged smartwatch, it's much narrower than the rest.
The Gear Fit is also the lightest, though I don't think any of the first five watches feel particularly heavy on the wrist.
Samsung didn't list the Gear S' weight in its initial press materials. Based on my hands-on time with it (along with its larger screen), I'd say it's the heaviest in this bunch – but not so heavy that it gives you anything to worry about.
All but the original Galaxy Gear let you swap out their default bands for a different style.
In the case of the Gear 2, Neo and Live, you can use any standard 22 mm band. You can swap bands on the Gear S, but not with standard bands.
All but the Gear Fit are sold in multiple colors.You can still customize it, though, by buying a different-colored replacement band.
The Gear S is a groundbreaking device, as you can pop in a SIM card and get 3G data without the help of your phone. If smartwatches are eventually going to replace our smartphones, then the Gear S is a step in that direction.
For the Galaxy Gear, Gear 2, Neo and Fit, you'll need to pair your watch with a recent Samsung Galaxy phone.
The Gear S doesn't work independently, but can pair with a phone over either Bluetooth or the Internet.
As the only Android Wear watch in this bunch, the Gear Live plays nicely with any Android phone running 4.3 or higher.
The Gear Fit isn't officially supported on non-Samsung phones, but if you install the Gear Fit Manager app on any Android phone (also running 4.3+), it will work. You'll just be missing a few features, like weather and fitness data syncing.
If you're an iPhone owner, then none of these watches will work with your handset (though you could use the 3G-enabled Gear S alongside of it).
We don't yet know whether the Gear S will have an always-on display, but none of the previous Tizen-running Gears do. Only the Android Wear-running Gear Live leaves some kind of watch face showing at all times.
In addition to its 3G capabilities, this is likely to be the Gear S' killer feature. I was a fan of the Gear Fit's curved screen, but it was hard to get too excited about such a limited device. The much bigger curved display on the Gear S could make it one of the most intriguing smartwatches yet.
The Gear S also gives you much more real estate than any of the other watches here.
That can have its advantages, but, when it comes to wearables, bigger isn't always going to be better. Typically, the more smartphone-like a wearable becomes, the less jewelry-like it becomes.
The Gear S also looks a bit sharper than the other watches.
We've seen Samsung experiment with home buttons on the side of the watch, as well as under the screen. Android Wear uses an onscreen gesture for home, so there's only a power button on the side of the Gear Live.
Most of the watches offer IP67 water resistance, meaning they can sit in 1 m (3.3 ft) of water for 30 minutes, and come out as good as new. The Galaxy Gear is the lone holdout, with an IP55 rating (which is more like splash protection).
The Gear S is the only watch in this bunch to offer built-in GPS. Samsung is also partnering with Nokia to bring the company's Here navigation service to the Gear S.
Though the Gear Live doesn't have any GPS hardware onboard, it does display Google Maps navigation alerts from your phone. None of the other watches do that.
I wonder if Samsung is moving away from cameras in its watches, as the new flagship, the Gear S, doesn't have one. The Gear Live didn't have a camera either, but that was to be expected: Android Wear isn't currently designed for cameras.
The missing camera is also the primary difference between the Gear 2 Neo and the more expensive Gear 2.
All of these watches will at least get you through a full day. In my testing on the first five watches, I find the above estimates (courtesy of Samsung) to be fairly sound.
Any self-respecting smartwatch is going to let you track your steps, and all of these fit that bill. They can all serve as 24-hour pedometers, tracking your steps in the background, as well as logging individual workouts.
All but the original Galaxy Gear add a little extra health awareness, with their built-in pulse monitors.
The Gear 2 and Neo have built-in IR blasters, so you can use them as universal remotes for your TV, cable box or even air conditioner.
Samsung's WatchOn remote app, bundled with the Gear 2 and Neo, is a bit too barebones for our taste. But there's a great third-party replacement called Smart IR Remote that fills those gaps.
With its larger screen, Samsung is throwing in an onscreen keyboard for the Gear S.
Though the Gear 2, Neo and Galaxy Gear don't have virtual keyboards baked in by default, you can download the excellent Fleksy Messenger app to rap out text messages – with surprising accuracy.
The Gear Live is the only watch in this bunch that has a quad core processor. But I'd take that with a few grains of salt, as its Android Wear software demands a different degree of processing power. The other watches also have fast and smooth UIs, with only the Galaxy Gear clocking in a bit slower.
512 MB appears to be the order of the day for smartwatch RAM.
Likewise, apparently 4 GB is the target number for Samsung smartwatch storage. Since nearly every app you can download is only going to take up a few megabytes of memory (if that), this should be more than you'll ever need.
Here you can see just how aggressive Samsung has been in this budding smartwatch space. Six months after the Galaxy Gear landed, we saw three more watches. Three months after that, the Android Wear model dropped. And just over a month from now, we'll have yet another Samsung watch.
We can't blame Samsung for pushing this hard, but you'll also want to go into this knowing that, even if you buy the latest model, it might be dethroned just a few months later.
The Gear S is the most expensive in this group, retailing for between US$300-400 full retail (it varies by carrier, and can also be bought subsidized with a contract or installment plan). The Gear Live, Gear 2 and Neo all fall in the $200-300 range, while the Gear Fit and (currently on clearance) Galaxy Gear dip below that.
If you want to cast your net wider, you can check out our Smartwatch Comparison Guide.


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Royal Hobart Hospital Waiting Lists Figures Fudged?
Royal Hobart Hospital on the mend with cut to surgery wait lists
ELECTIVE surgery waiting lists at the Royal Hobart Hospital have been dramatically reduced since the start of the year, new figures reveal.
The latest Health and Human Services Department statistics show the number of patients waiting for elective surgery at the state's major hospital had fallen by 20.7 per cent since January — from 3064 to 2431.
But the average waiting time for surgery at the RHH rose slightly from 45 days to 47 days.
RHH surgical services group manager Adrianne Belchamber yesterday praised the efforts of hospital staff and said the focus on reducing surgery waiting lists would continue across all procedures in the new year.
"Staff at the RHH have worked hard to achieve this significant reduction in the elective surgery waiting list," Ms Belchamber said.
"These gains have been supported by implementing efficient systems as well as having state and national targets in place, which give staff a clear goal to work towards achieving.
"Next year we will continue our focus of reducing the number of patients waiting the longest for elective surgery, as well as the most urgent cases."
Health Minister Michelle O'Byrne said the Royal Hobart Hospital waiting-list improvement was a result of hard work throughout the state organisation.
"The Tasmanian Health Organisation has been systematically reviewing its list, along with targeting long-wait patients, resulting in a more effective management of elective surgery patients," Ms O'Byrne said.
"Importantly, admissions from the wait list — that is the number of patients being treated and therefore removed from the list — increased at all four of the state's public hospitals.
"This is an important indicator because it shows that our hospitals are working harder and more efficiently to get more people their surgery."
Ms O'Byrne said progress was being made in Tasmanian hospitals despite a growth in demand.
But Opposition health spokesman Jeremy Rockliff said the extent of patients waiting for surgery would not be known until the lists of people waiting to be assessed by a surgeon were also regularly disclosed.
"We shouldn't forget that thousands more patients are being kept on hidden waiting lists," Mr Rockliff said.
He said that across the state, elective surgery waiting lists had grown since before the last state election.
Sourced from The Mercury
Well this is news to me! as I've been on a "Waiting List" since 2008 and still no news as to if or when I'll ever have the surgery. As is the case the Government just want a good PR stunt to make us think that things are progressing along when really there's most likely multiple so called "Lists" that the one that looks the best is the one the public are told about… 😐
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What The Shape of Water, Get Out's Wins Mean for the Future of the Oscars
With horror and fantasy films winning major awards, what can we expect from the Oscars going forward?
By Marty Sliva
Updated: 7 Mar 2018 2:49 am
Posted: 6 Mar 2018 4:18 am
As Guillermo del Toro and the cast and crew of The Shape of Water
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took the stage after their Best Picture win at the 90th Academy Awards, I couldn't help but feel like we were witnessing a turning point for the Oscars. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that we'll look back on last night's show as a mold for how the Oscars progress going forward in terms of genre films being represented in the major award categories.
The 90th Academy Awards seemed to speak to folks like me (and I presume a lot of you) who have felt like horror, fantasy, and science fiction films generally get overlooked during Hollywood's big night. Honestly, in 2018, it's harder to find someone who isn't caught up on Game of Thrones or the Marvel Cinematic Universe films than it is to find someone who is. So it makes perfect sense that these giant pillars of popular culture are rewarded when they're excellent.
Guillermo del Toro is known in our ecosystem as the director of Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth, and Hideo Kojima's close friend/co-star of Death Stranding. So how cool was it to see him take the stage not only for Best Director, but for Best Picture for a dark fantasy love story between a mute woman and an amphibious man? Aside from The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King in 2003, it feels like anything even remotely having to do with the world of magic (Logan, Harry Potter, the recent Apes trilogy) is glossed over for major awards at the Oscars. That fact made this year's show even more impressive, given the success of both Shape of Water as well as Get Out.
Get Out joined a crew of only five other horror films to ever be nominated for Best Picture.
Get Out joined a crew of only five other horror films to ever be nominated for Best Picture, the others being The Exorcist, Jaws (I know, some of you call it a "suspense-thriller," but the point still stands), Silence of the Lambs, The Sixth Sense, and Black Swan. Of those, Exorcist and Lambs were the two that won major awards. And while it didn't win Best Picture, Jordan Peele's win for Best Original Screenplay was not only historically important, but also a pivotal moment for the genre as a whole. The fact that it was mentioned in the same breath as historical dramas like Darkest Hour and slow-burn character studies like Phantom Thread shows that the Academy is looking forward into the future, as opposed to having their eyes transfixed on the past.
While we're talking about underrepresented genres that got their time to shine at this year's Oscars, we have to mention Roger Deakins. One of the greatest cinematographers of all time, he finally took home his award after 14 nominations for his work on Blade Runner: 2049, despite being nominated in the past for phenomenal films like The Shawshank Redemption, Fargo, and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Seeing IGN's pick for Best Movie of 2017 get recognition at the Academy Awards was absolutely a great moment.
Another interesting thing to keep an eye on going forward is how well these genre movies age in comparison to some of the other films that've won Best Picture over the past two decades. I have to believe that down the road, more people will be talking about The Shape of Water and Get Out than folks are currently discussing Crash or The King's Speech.
It feels like the Oscars are finally catching up to the Emmys in terms of genre representation.
So what does this mean going forward? It feels like the Oscars are finally catching up to the Emmys in terms of genre representation. Shows like Lost, Game of Thrones, and Handmaid's Tale have been winning the highest accolades television has to offer, so it's about time their film equivalents are rewarded in the same way.
I think it's a safe bet that next year's awards are going to continue this trend of genre representation at the Oscars. 10 years ago, The Dark Knight was nominated for 8 awards, but completely snubbed for Writing, Directing, and Best Picture. In the decade since, no superhero movie has gotten a Best Picture nomination, despite the fact that the genre has absolutely blown up. Flash forward to 2019, and I'd be shocked if Ryan Coogler and the Black Panther crew weren't nominated for a handful of awards, and I wouldn't be surprised to see them take the stage for winning a few of them. Considering the giant leap genre films made at the Oscars in 2018, it feels like a big enough wall was torn down that we will all be saying "Wakanda Forever" in celebrating a superhero movie being awarded Hollywood's highest honors at the 91st Academy Awards.
Marty Sliva is a Executive Editor at IGN. A girl he was dating once stepped on his PlayStation 4, and now he no longer owns PT. But don't worry, they broke up. Follow him on Twitter @McBiggitty.
Release DateDecember 1, 2017
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Leadership 2017 Links
The latest from the NDP's federal leadership campaign. (As always, see the reference page for general information.)
- Mylene Crete reports on Alexandre Boulerice's endorsement of Peter Julian - which offers another important piece of evidence that the party's contingent of Quebec MPs and organizers sees Julian as a viable candidate to succeed in the province.
- Cory Collins talks to Niki Ashton about the need to build Canada's progressive social movement as one of the NDP's key priorities. And in the process, Ashton answers some of the foreign policy questions which Yves Engler still wants included in the party's debates.
- Meanwhile, Eleanor Davidson interviews Ibrahim Bruno El-Khoury about his outsider perspective on the state of Canadian democracy.
- Elliot Ferguson reports on Charlie Angus' rallying for pay equity (among other elements of fair employment). Guy Caron participated in OCAP's debate on a basic income - and his side seems to have moved opinions in its favour. Jagmeet Singh introduced legislation to better protect temp agency workers in Ontario. Ashton stopped into Alberta (including Red Deer) on her Economic Justice tour. And Julian has been encouraging supporters to work on helping British Columbia's NDP win the ongoing provincial election.
- Finally, Engler also wonders whether there should be more bold ideas being discussed in the NDP's campaign - though I'd hardly share his view that the Cons' example of being offensively extreme for its own sake is one worth following.
Labels: alexandre boulerice, basic income, charlie angus, guy caron, ibrahim bruno el-khoury, jagmeet singh, labour, leadership 2017, niki ashton, pay equity, peter julian, yves engler
Assorted content for your long weekend reading.
- Cole Stangler interviews Raquel Garrido about the political critique behind Jean-Luc Melenchon's emerging presidential campaign - and it sounds equally applicable in Canada:
One of the reasons why the current regime is lacking consent in French society is because the process for electing officials allows them to behave inconsistently with their campaign promises. The main cultural characteristic of the current political class is impunity. They do whatever they want because they are absolutely unaccountable.
That culture of impunity starts with the president himself. We're the only self-identified democratic country where you have one man who has such concentrated power — elections of hundreds and hundreds of people in different institutions and he actually decides what the parliament will be talking about, the parliamentary agenda. The president behaves in such an unaccountable fashion that it actually spreads like a cascade across the entire political class.
Most elected officials in France today lack legitimacy, are elected with very low turnouts. There's a deep sense of disgust among citizens with this political class. That creates chaos and instability.
There are other big themes of the campaign — wealth redistribution and social justice — which are classic proposals in a situation of great inequality. Then you have climate change and protecting the only ecosystem which allows life for human beings. But before we address those issues, we need to gain the power to actually have an impact.
- And in a prime example of Canada's culture of impunity, Chantal Hebert writes about the Trudeau Libs' cynical political choices around marijuana legalization - and how those fit with Trudeau's repudiated promise of electoral reform.
- Jon Stone reports on UK Labour's plans to ensure that public money doesn't subsidize bad corporate behaviour (including a refusal to recognize collective bargaining). And Larry Bartels studies (PDF) the gap between the policies which would result from an accurate representation of U.S. citizens' preferences, and those which are in fact seen due to the influence of wealth in politics.
- Sara Mojtehedzadeh writes about the Ontario miners who were used as guinea pigs for untested - and ultimately harmful - powders intended to serve as substitutes for reasonable health and safety precautions.
- Finally, Henry Farrell examines the circumstances in which economists have - and haven't - been able to move the needle on public policy. And George Monbiot discusses Kate Raworth's doughnut model as a means of conceptualizing the desirability and sustainability of our economic choices.
Labels: accountability, chantal hebert, corporatism, economy, france, george monbiot, health and safety, inequality, jean-luc melenchon, labour, marijuana, pierre trudeau
Kyoto Skies - Homesick
On redundancies
Scott Sinclair offers a useful summary of the latest sop to the anti-regulation lobby in the form of the new Canadian Free Trade Agreement (PDF). And as usual, there's a fundamental problem with any deal which deems public policy to be presumptively invalid to the extent it affects actual or potential corporate profits.
But I'd think it's particularly worth watching what will happen among the provinces who have already agreed to worse deals.
Unlike the New West Partnership Trade Agreement (formerly known as the TILMA), the CFTA does back up the usual spin about harmonizing rather than gutting regulations with processes which might actually encourage provinces to reconcile conflicting rules. And as noted by Sinclair, it avoids the trap of turning trade challenges into corporate windfalls.
With the CFTA in place, it would thus seem that all of the even arguably valid purposes behind the NWPTA have now been addressed at a national level - without some of the most glaring flaws.
So with that in mind, we should ask: is there any purpose to keeping the NWPTA around other than to give corporations multiple ways to attack policymaking at the provincial level? And if not, then isn't it about time to terminate the NWPTA?
Labels: agreement on internal trade, cfta, free trade agreements, mythical trade barriers, nwpta, scott sinclair, tilma
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.
- Jordan Brennan and Kaylie Tiessen write that it's long past time to set a level of federal revenue sufficient to support the social programs Canadians want:
In the decades since [corporate-driven] reforms were undertaken, Canada experienced a significant deterioration in its macroeconomic performance: business investment has worsened and the rate of job creation and GDP growth have both decelerated. If there is no solid economic evidence to suggest that budgetary and tax reform succeeded in elevating investment levels or increasing the rate of economic growth, how are we to understand the commitment to balanced budgets and shrinking government?
The answer is, unsurprisingly, political. The Canadian welfare state grew out of the wreckage of the Great Depression. In the early postwar decades many of the federal programs that Canadians enjoy were created. As a share of GDP, budgetary revenue grew from 10 per cent in 1939 to 20 per cent by 1974 — an effective doubling of the size of the federal government during a period of exceptionally strong economic growth.
Today, after decades of proportional reductions in revenue and spending, the federal aspects of the welfare state have been significantly diminished. The political program of undoing the New Deal model of governance has largely succeeded in Canada, at least at the federal level.
But here's the problem: cutting taxes or reducing spending will not facilitate reconciliation with Canada's indigenous peoples, who experience a vast funding shortfall when it comes to infrastructure, education and health care. It will do nothing to make housing more affordable in Vancouver, nor will it expedite the transition to a low-carbon economy in Alberta. A balanced budget will not ease gridlock in the GTA, nor will it provide the health care resources Atlantic Canadians require to cope with an aging population.
Perhaps that's why, after decades of the "smaller government is better" mantra, Canadians have opened themselves up to the utility of deficit financing. The next step would be to extend the conversation into the domain of taxation, to determine what level is required to solve some of Canada's most pressing policy challenges.
- Lizanne Foster highlights how any promise of future benefits from the B.C. Libs is limited to the province's wealthy few, while Douglas Todd notes that there's broad public agreement with that expectation. And Martyn Brown offers a simple but vital formula to ensure change from Christy Clark's corrupt corporatism at the polls.
- Meanwhile, William Yardley traces British Columbia's path from being ahead of the curve on climate change to clinging to fossil fuels. And Aurora Tejeida writes that there's been no followup at all on promises to protect the environment from inevitable oil spills.
- Sara Mojtehedzadeh reports on a push for Ontario to follow Iceland's lead in ensuring employer transparency to further the cause of pay equity. And Forum Research finds massive public support in the province for a $15 minimum wage - contrasted against not a single group polled which stands opposed to the possibility.
- Finally, Taylor Bendig questions the Wall government's choice to throw STC under the bus without any apparent planning or analysis.
Labels: b.c. libs, brad wall, budget, christy clark, climate change, corporatism, corruption, environmental defence, fossil fuels, jordan brennan, kaylie tiessen, labour, minimum wage, pay equity, revenue, sask party, stc
Here, expanding on this post about New Brunswick's failed attempt to become a corporate tax haven - and why Brad Wall's attempt at a similar scheme for Saskatchewan is similarly doomed.
For further reading...
- Again, the outline of Shawn Graham's scheme to win over corporations as a tax haven is found in Daniel McHardle's report. And CBC reported on the eventual demand from the New Brunswick Business Council to reverse the cuts (which, like Wall's, seem to have been purely the product of government ideology rather than any meaningful analysis or consultation).
- Statistics Canada has provincial GDP numbers here (CANSIM table 379-0030), showing New Brunswick's stagnation after Graham's 2009 announcement. And Heide Pearson reported on New Brunswick's population drop in the most recent census.
- Finally, Alex MacPherson's report on multi-million-dollar payments to CEOs in Saskatchewan's slumping resource sectors offers yet another example of how the people at the top never seem to sacrifice when everybody else is told to pitch in.
Labels: brad wall, budget, columns, corporatism, fair taxes, new brunswick, revenue, sask party, shawn graham
- Dani Rodrik argues that it's too late to try to compensate the people being deliberately left behind by trade deals - and that instead, we need to make sure their interests are actually taken into account in how trade is structured:
Today's consensus concerning the need to compensate globalization's losers presumes that the winners are motivated by enlightened self-interest – that they believe buy-in from the losers is essential to maintain economic openness. Trump's presidency has revealed an alternative perspective: globalization, at least as currently construed, tilts the balance of political power toward those with the skills and assets to benefit from openness, undermining whatever organized influence the losers might have had in the first place. Inchoate discontent about globalization, Trump has shown, can easily be channeled to serve an altogether different agenda, more in line with elites' interests.
The politics of compensation is always subject to a problem that economists call "time inconsistency." Before a new policy – say, a trade agreement – is adopted, beneficiaries have an incentive to promise compensation. Once the policy is in place, they have little interest in following through, either because reversal is costly all around or because the underlying balance of power shifts toward them.
The time for compensation has come and gone. Even if compensation was a viable approach two decades ago, it no longer serves as a practical response to globalization's adverse effects. To bring the losers along, we will need to consider changing the rules of globalization itself.
- David Cay Johnston looks at the public records available about Donald Trump's wealth to highlight how he and his fellow .01%ers have been benefiting financially at the expense of most Americans.
- Rachael Pells points out how U.K. funding intended to help poorer students is in fact being used to paper over general funding shortages - resulting in cuts to exactly the schools which most need support.
- Bill Curry exposes the Trudeau Libs' secrecy when it comes to reports on airport privatization in the name of protecting Credit Suisse as a potential profiteer. And Geoff Leo reports on the Sask Party's repeated concealment of documents about the Global Transportation Hub scandal to cover up for CP.
- Finally, CBC reports that the privacy of mere citizens isn't so much a concern, as evidence by Eric Olauson's apparently-unquestioned demand to do a "background check" on people who dared to e-mail him a comment about the budget.
Labels: access to information, corporatism, dani rodrik, donald trump, education, eric olauson, free trade agreements, gth, inequality, privacy, privatization, sask party, secrecy
Clingy cats.
- Daniel Munro highlights how Uber and other service apps manipulate their workers. And The New York Times' editorial board warns about the false promises of the gig economy:
In reality, there is no utopia at companies like Uber, Lyft, Instacart and Handy, whose workers are often manipulated into working long hours for low wages while continually chasing the next ride or task. These companies have discovered they can harness advances in software and behavioral sciences to old-fashioned worker exploitation, according to a growing body of evidence, because employees lack the basic protections of American law.
Gig economy workers tend to be poorer and are more likely to be minorities than the population at large, a survey by the Pew Research Center found last year. Compared with the population as a whole, almost twice as many of them earned under $30,000 a year, and 40 percent were black or Hispanic, compared with 27 percent of all American adults. Most said the money they earned from online platforms was essential or important to their families.
Since workers for most gig economy companies are considered independent contractors, not employees, they do not qualify for basic protections like overtime pay and minimum wages...
...Over time even bigger companies like Uber, many of which lose money and rely on investors to keep pouring in billions of dollars of capital, might find that it pays to treat workers better and even make some of them employees.
But so far, experience with these companies shows that without the legal protections and ethical norms that once were widely accepted, workers will find the economy of the future an even more inhospitable place.
- Meanwhile, Daniel Tencer reports on Canada's stagnant wage levels (even as raw job numbers increase). And Clare Hennig reports on Andrew Cash's work to ensure reasonable protection for contract workers.
- Manasi Deshpande studies the effect of taking welfare benefits away from low-income youth, and finds that it results in the people affected (and their families) being far worse off.
- Rhys Kesselman points out that a capital gains tax on housing prices would go a long way toward reining in Canada's worrisome urban housing bubble.
- Mike Hager exposes the millions of dollars the Christy Clark B.C. Libs have vacuumed up through case-for-access events. And Tammy Robert posts about the similar cash-for-access problem in Saskatchewan.
- Barry Saxifrage writes about the alarming increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. And James Munson reports on new research showing that Canada is lagging behind other developed countries in decoupling economic development from carbon pollution.
- Finally, Michael Harris rightly tears into Justin Trudeau for choosing to become Donald Trump North on Syria and other issues.
Labels: andrew cash, brad wall, christy clark, climate change, donald trump, fund-raising, housing, justin trudeau, labour, michael harris, precarity, social programs, syria, wages
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.
- Katha Pollitt reviews Matthew Desmond's Evicted, and identifies the problem that profiteers have a vested interest in perpetuating poverty:
What if the dominant discourse on poverty is just wrong? What if the problem isn't that poor people have bad morals – that they're lazy and impulsive and irresponsible and have no family values – or that they lack the skills and smarts to fit in with our shiny 21st-century economy? What if the problem is that poverty is profitable? These are the questions at the heart of Evicted, Matthew Desmond's extraordinary ethnographic study of tenants in low-income housing in the deindustrialised middle-sized city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
You might not think that there is a lot of money to be extracted from a dilapidated trailer park or a black neighbourhood of "sagging duplexes, fading murals, 24-hour daycares". But you would be wrong. Tobin Charney makes $400,000 a year out of his 131 trailers, some of which are little better than hovels. Sherrena Tarver, a former schoolteacher who is one of the only black female landlords in the city, makes enough in rents on her numerous properties – some presentable, others squalid – to holiday in Jamaica and attend conferences on real estate.
Desmond lays out the crucial role housing plays in creating and reinforcing white privilege. In Milwaukee, one of the most segregated cities in the US, all black people suffer from housing discrimination and all white people benefit at least a little from the racial dividend – a landlord who will rent to them but not to black people, for instance, or offer them a nicer apartment. Black people have the worst housing in the worst neighbourhoods – the great fear of the trailer-park people, who are all white, is that they will end up on the black side of town. Eviction hits black women hardest of all, and the bleak benches of housing courts, which deal with disputes between landlords and tenants, are full of black women and their children: "If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighbourhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out."
What are the social costs of eviction? It puts incredible stress on families. It prevents people from saving the comparatively small sums that would let them stabilise their situation. They are always starting over from scratch, losing their possessions in the chaos of removal, or putting them in storage and losing them when they can't pay the fees. An eviction on your record makes the next apartment harder to get. Eviction damages children, who are always changing schools, giving up friends and toys and pets – and living with the exhaustion and depression of their parents. We watch Jori go from a sweet, protective older brother to an angry, sullen boy subject to violent outbursts who is falling way behind in school.
Eviction makes it hard to keep up with the many appointments required by the courts and the byzantine welfare system: several characters have their benefits cut because notices are sent to the wrong address. Eviction destroys communities: when people move frequently, they don't form the social bonds and pride in place that encourage them to care for their block and look out for their neighbours.
- Christina Starmans, Mark Sheskin and Paul Bloom examine the relationship between fairness and inequality, and find that people's more intuitions are aimed more toward the former than the latter.
- Frank Fear discusses how "progressive neoliberalism" is undermining the progressive movement by opening up even more space for neoliberal management theories to dominate politics. And Jared Bernstein argues that we'll achieve better policy results by directly providing for the outcomes we want, rather than hoping for market mechanisms or other complex structures to achieve them indirectly.
- Meanwhile, Tyler Cowen points out that trade over long distances as a proportion of total trade hasn't changed over the past three decades - meaning that the growing dominance of capital in that time can't be explained solely by globalization as a value-neutral principle.
- Finally, Steve Lambert reports on Wab Kinew's entry into the Manitoba NDP's leadership race.
Labels: globalization, housing, inequality, manitoba ndp, neoliberalism, poverty, trade, wab kinew
- Abi Wilkinson writes about the importance of making social benefits universal in order to reflect a sense of shared interests and purpose:
Universal aspects of the welfare state tend to be thought of as the fruit of common endeavour. The NHS tops the list of things that make people in this country proud to be British, ahead of the royal family and armed forces. The suggestion that some patients should be charged for hospital visits is likely to make most shudder. Such a reform is widely understood as contrary to everything the NHS is about. Once you've introduced a universal provision, it is politically difficult to remove it. Voters are fiercely protective of the entitlements that come to be understood as basic rights.
Means-tested benefits, on the other hand, are seen more as a form of charity. As such, it's frequently argued that they should go only to the "deserving poor". The specific definition of "deserving" is a subject of constant public debate. Those further towards the left of the political spectrum are more likely to argue that income level is the only relevant factor. Those on the right tend to see welfare as a tool to control the behaviour of recipients and often insist on additional moral tests. This is the logic that drives the benefit sanctions regime, and the recent cut to child tax credits for families with more than two children.
It's true that money spent on middle-class kids' dinners could theoretically be directed at poorer pupils in more targeted ways, but that misses the point. Maximising cost-effectiveness isn't what universality is about. Children who receive free school meals report being bullied and stigmatised, and many families who are entitled to claim them avoid doing so for this reason. Others earn just above the £16,190 income threshold but still struggle with the cost of food. Families with an income below the threshold are excluded if a parent works more than 16 hours per week. In some cases, children go hungry not for financial reasons but because of parental neglect. Providing a hot meal to every child ensures that nobody falls through the net.
There's a solid, practical argument for Labour's proposal, but focusing only on direct outcomes fails to capture the true challenge facing the party. The welfare reforms introduced under New Labour were largely means-tested. For this reason, the Conservatives have found it easy to roll back much of the progress that was made. The most resilient aspects of our welfare state are the universal provisions which were introduced decades ago.
Of course the problems with our education system won't be solved with a single policy, but this could represent a symbolic turning point. Expanding universal provisions could be at the centre of a genuinely exciting vision for the future of the country. More radical options, such as a universal basic income, have also been discussed, but there are all kinds of possibilities. To convince disillusioned voters it has something to offer, Labour needs to be brave and think big. Fiddling with numbers on a spreadsheet won't cut it.
- Meanwhile, Henry Mintzberg comments on the dangers of trying to run government like a business.
- Jordon Cooper discusses how important public institutions and vulnerable people are bearing the brunt of Brad Wall's cutbacks, even as corporations are handed goodies with no prospect of any public benefit. And Murray Mandryk highlights how this year's extreme austerity budget has made clear that the Saskatchewan Party's supposed concern for people with disabilities has proven illusory.
- CBC reports on new research showing the strong effect of rent subsidies on the well-being of lower-income citizens of Waterloo. But Shawn Jeffords notes that the Ontario Libs and Cons shot down an NDP attempt to ensure that rent is more affordable.
- Finally, Adnan Al-Daini writes that even the dirtiest government Donald Trump can think to administer won't stop the spread of clean energy around the globe. And on that front, Natasha Geiling reports on the imminent end of new coal power in Europe.
Labels: adnan al-daini, austerity, brad wall, climate change, coal, corporatism, housing, jordon cooper, murray mandryk, ontario, renewable energy, sask party, social programs, universality
The latest from the federal NDP's leadership campaign...
- Marie-Danielle Smith reports that Jagmeet Singh is laying the groundwork to join the race. And Steve Paikin offers his take as to what that might mean for the current candidates - while also raising the (seemingly unlikely) prospect that Thomas Mulcair might join the fray.
- Meanwhile, Eleanor Davidson reports on the much lower-profile entry of Ibrahim Bruno El-Khoury. And anybody looking for some background on El-Khoury's view of the NDP can find it on the site set up when he was seeking the party's nomination in Papineau.
- Cory Collins interviews Guy Caron about both his basic income proposal, and the political strategy needed to win power to implement it. Charlie Angus writes about the need to question CEO perks (and the public policies that facilitate them) in order to ensure fairness for workers. James Kelly talks to Niki Ashton about her work to build a Bernie Sanders-like movement in Canada. And Ian Capstick's On the Road podcast features conversations with the MPs in the race about their experiences in school.
- Finally, Ed Broadbent highlights the need for the NDP to set the political agenda no matter who emerges as leader, while Kristy Kirkup interviews Broadbent about his take at the Progress Summit. Kenneth Dewar discusses what he sees as tension between strong principles and a path to power - though he doesn't provide much evidence that one is actually a barrier to the other. And Thomas Woodley wonders whether an amicable leadership campaign will allow NDP members to test which candidates can best challenge Justin Trudeau's political skills and policy choices.
Labels: activism, basic income, charlie angus, ed broadbent, guy caron, ian capstick, ibrahim bruno el-khoury, jagmeet singh, labour, leadership 2017, ndp, niki ashton, thomas mulcair


Chris Leslie has called for the petition to revoke Article 50 to be moved to the House of Commons after fewer than six Conservative MPs turned up to debate a petition of six million.
The MP for the Independent Group said a petition of such magnitude should not simply be "nodded through", as is customary in Westminster Hall, but moved in front of the Prime Minister and senior cabinet ministers who "need to hear the voices of the people".
The petition, demanding Article 50 be revoked, is the most popular since the e-petitions site launched.
It was debated in Westminster Hall chamber yesterday alongside two other petitions, one demanding a new referendum and another urging MPs to "honour the referendum result", which has amassed more than 170,000 signatures.
The government has said it will not revoke Article 50 and it is working to deliver a deal that "ensures the UK leaves the EU".
During the debate Tory MP Julian Lewis pressed for the UK to leave without a deal and to go onto World Trade Organisation terms.
But Labour's Catherine McKinnell, along with several members of the Independent Group, moved to get the message of the six million-strong petition heard.
She said: "No petition has received the number of signatures this petition has", and while it "doesn't replace our normal democratic processes" we ought to be "very grateful that they have their means to make their voices heard.
Another MP for the Independent Group, Heidi Allen, used her contribution to call for a public vote on Brexit, saying it would be "healing" for the nation.
The Conservative Government likes to ignore the informed will of the people. Shameful!
A petition that can be signed as many times as you have emails and where you don't have to live in or be a citizen of to sign? Hmm can't see a problem there..
In actual fact, we can tell if a person is resident in the UK (or has the right to sign). Signatures that come from non-UK citizens are not counted. Neither are multiple votes from the same person using different emails. We have code that specifically addresses these issues, and if any signature is in doubt after that procedure, it is also discounted. Please do not be drawn into social media speculation about the validity of the signature numbers.
Name, Postcode, Email, IP, UA all need to be unique, so dont get too excited by your thinking this is trivial for the average muppet to con.
Correct, but there's even more at play behind the scenes. We cross-check against the voters roll for one. No system is infallible, and I can't go into too many details for obvious reasons, but you can rest assured that the number of signatures reflected on this poll is accurate.
It's also easy to fake in a general election. The important thing is that the current system has made it extremely difficult for bots to vote. And that's the most important thing, because a bot can make all the difference. Individuals on the other hand… Even if an individual could game the system, each vote would be very time consuming to make any difference. Imagine if you had to set up a fake email account for each fake postcode and fake name, and then the system asks you to go into each email account to verify your vote. How many extra votes would you do? 5? 10? 20? I would be surprised if any crook went over 50! And then, how many determined crook would fake 50 votes? 10 crooks? 100 crooks? I doubt whether there would be many more than 100-200 crooks contributing as many as 20-30 votes, so no more than 0.1% of 6 million?
For the record, with the current system set up the way it is, the numbers are almost certainly accurate. And certainly more accurate than a general election where votes are counted by hand and where accidents do happen (as a student I worked as a poll clerk and noticed that on at least one occasion, someone tried to vote after I had ticked that person's name off. I suspect it was some confusion over postal votes etc. I can't recall what the likely explanation was. But the system isn't perfect. The important thing is to minimise error and stop the bots!
There will always be some double counters. Being a techie I can tell you that it is not so easy to build something that creates new emails on the fly, goes to the petition, signs the petition, opens up the email that gets sent and clicks on the email to enable the vote to be counted. Given this the vast majority of the 6,000,000 plus votes on the petition are a pretty good indication of sentiment. Maybe as much as 1% is fraudulent but not much more and maybe even less. Hence I do not regard this, as a techie who does this sort of stuff, as a problem at all.
Wrong on all counts, the first box is Resident of or British citizen, you have to give post code , and after checking through ER and/or passport records you have to click on the confirmatory email before your signature is accepted. Please at the very least do some homework before slavering this crap.
What is a point of having a system allowing for petitions when the Govt can brush them all aside (this isn't the first instance, just the largest).
Precisely! The difference lay in the fact that we can all see for ourselves, the contempt MP's have for the voters once their election numbers are safely in.
Other less obvious routes of addressing concerns to the government are lost in the double-dealing technobabble that they like to use to pretend they are doing something with the matter in question, while the reality is, it is already in the dustbin and forgotten – Like the WASPI protest for example, where even the BBC seem to have been instructed to ignore the issue in totality.
Maybe petitions are ultimately useless, but it does serve to expose the Parliamentarians for what they are, utterly disinterested in any matter that does not offer direct advantages for themselves first.
So, we have a referendum with 2 campaign groups, who have both broken electoral rules and been 'generous' with their version of the truth. These sorts of shenanigans go on every time we have an election, the parties call them 'manifestos'. Ultimately, you look at both sides of the argument, whether you believe either side or not and you cast your vote. You have to have proof of your ID, your age and your address in order to vote legally. The polling stations add up all the votes and the majority number wins. In 2016, 17.4 million people voted to leave. 52% of the vote. The largest turnout of voters in decades. Now we have a petition with 6 million plus signatories. Where's the proof of their ID, their age and their addresses? These politicians are quick to jump on the 'we need another vote' bandwagon because of an online petition and the simple fact is, they DO NOT WANT TO LEAVE and to ignore 17.4 million people but pay attention to 6 million online votes, they should be ashamed of themselves.
It may have escaped your attention but the calls for the confirmatory referendum pre-dated the Rescind Article 50 petition, additionally, the two lines seek different goals and are united in the dislike of being railroaded by an obligation to honour the public, when everyone knows that if it didn't suit the government as in the case of the 6 million they would have simply ignored it.
Pretending the government is honouring anything is disingenuous. They cannot honour it because that would dishonour an earlier legal agreement namely the GFA. It is an impossible situation the government has got itself into and whatever the outcome, one solemn pledge will have to be broken.
The discord in Parliament is – Which one will it be?
Sorry but your point is moot, as in mainland UK we do not require proof of ID when we vote, so I suspect that you have never voted here. Parliamentary petitions do in fact validate signatories of it, read the later comments of the feed.
Parliament are clearly unwilling or unable to reach a majority decision. This MUST be given back to the people to decide.
This is a disgrace,TTHE WHOLE BREXIT LEAVE CAMPAIGNED WITH THE FAMOUS 50 million pounds a day for the NHS,the whole campaign was run on lies and disinformation. Therefore in effect the whole referendum is invalid and we do not have to leave the EU,unless of course you care to run a fair referendum for once in your lives, and think of the people for once,instead of your selves all the time. from a disefranchised british citizen.
So the petition to leave attracted 170,000 signatures and the one to remain , 6,000,000. And they were treated the same way? Nonsense.
What awful liars – there was no talk of WTO terms in 2016, there were endless lies/manipulation/propaganda and nobody knew anything about the EU, WTO or anything else (I fear the politicians still don't know much – where do recruit people like this?!!!) This government is so immoral it is truly sickening and to know that they don't give a fig about half the population (or more) is unspeakably depressing. With politicians like these, the worst and most violent elements in society are being encouraged – the country is going down the drain and these politicians have engineered the disaster.
I am a British pensioner, with 18 years of military service, now living in Spain and who still has NO VOTE in the UK, in spite of an election promise. This is, and has been, my only chance to vote on Brexit. Dismissing this petition and not presenting it before the Commons is a disgrace.
I voted in the European Communities membership referendum which took place on Thursday 5 June 1975, and voters approved continued EC/EEC membership by 67% to 33% on a national turnout of 64%. That was an overwhelming mandate with over 2/3 (two thirds) in favour of remain.
I will lose my EU citizenship and my health care if Britain leaves the UK. I have health insurance, but I know that many pensioners are depending on receiving the health care etc we get as EU citizens. The government cannot allow us to crash out of the EU. Article 50 must be revoked.
David Baxter, all i hear is a whinging pensioner thinking of nothing but themselves wether or not you served in the forces is not relevant but i respect you for your duty to the country but why should you get a vote on leaving the EU when you have already turned your back on your country. Try thinking of the greater good and not just your own little bubble.
How has David Baxter turned his back on his country? He served 18 years for the country and now lives in Spain, which is perfectly legitimate as, today, we are still part of the EU. It could be argued that the 300,000 British people residing in Spain have saved our torn and ravaged NHS from the expenditure of their healthcare.
That 300,000 people could possibly become homeless and have to return to a country they can't afford to live in is not just Mr Baxter's 'own little bubble'. And then to have to return to a UK, which is already talking about doing away with what Gove describes as the stringent and crippling regulations regarding the safety of pharmaceuticals and food items/animal welfare. It is a very big bubble indeed that is very worried about all of this.
If all you are hearing is whinging pensioners maybe you should start having conversations with the young people of our country, whose lives are about to become straight-jacketed in some sort of dictatorial nightmare, where illegal electoral systems have become the norm. Let's revoke Article 50 before it's too late.
Leaving the EU is NOT the will of the people and, never has been! The referendum was a fluke win that could never be repeated, not even on the 24th June 2016. Many voted to remove Cameron. Millions regretted their decision to vote leave. Therefor that 4% majority had evaporated overnight. But 'democracy' ruled. The actual people of the UK need to be heard. Here are 6 million crying out to end this chaos. Hear them!
You have to laugh. This unverified on line petition to revoke Article 50 signed by goodness knows who from goodness knows where with just a tick box that you promise you're British with any old Gmail address and postcode gets so much media time. Meanwhile 17.4 million verified Brexit voters get ignored by Westminster and 87% of MP's who elected themselves on their promise to carry out the referendum result. No prizes for guessing what would have happened if the referendum went the other way. R.I.P British democracy.
Robbie, you cannot use "any old gmail address" it has to be a valid email address because you have to actively respond to an email sent to it. Not an easy thing to automate.
"from goodness knows where" Nope.
"just a tick box" Nope.
"any old gmail address and postcode" Nope.
Perhaps you should learn how these petitions work before commenting, seeing as literally everything you said about them was wrong.
Hmmm, no surprises that you are a Brexshitter! Obviously hard of thought, you have come up with an argument that if you had half a brain (and of course, were willing to use it) you would have realised that any government system would have been very well aware of this kind of scenario and would instigate measures that make falsification very hard indeed. Not only does requiring a conformation e-mail make falsification much, much harder, there is also the metadata that traces from where approximately the e-mail originated and the machine that sent it and IP address etc. All feasibly fakeable, but highly unlikely on any major scale. Some geniuses quoted that there had been signatories from North Korea, and that is so, but they omitted saying that it was only a handful, a mere 27 when I last looked, and that could easily account for UK citizens who happen to be there at this point in time. If it had been a genuine North Korean, (or anywhere else) attempt to hack the petition don't you think they'd have used far more sophisticated means that didn't reveal that they were from North Korea?
I don't believe for a minute that there was a huge amount of fraudulent signing, and if there were any genuine prospect of this occurring I would be casting my eyes westwards over the North Atlantic, or eastwards towards Russia.
If you want to have a horse to whip, then perhaps a better target would be the people who hoodwinked 17.4 million people into voting for national demise. About the only good thing to come out of a No Deal exit of the EU would be the complete break-up of the current UK. The union was never one of equals, and that is causing difficulties as this model does not fit in a post-industrial, post-colonial and post-imperial scenario. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland need to forge radically different futures of their own, and England itself needs to sort out its own internal contradictions and equalise wealth distribution and generation so that all areas benefit. This can only occur when government decides to take control of capital, and either regulate it, or exproprate it and run it itself.
The Tory government's attitude is an affront to all of us who signed the petition, particularly those of us in Scotland who have been ignored by this government.
The UK may well not be admitted to the WTO: Corina Cojocaru, who is now Moldova's economic counsellor to the WTO, and her team were denied entry visas to the U.K. last year when they wanted to discuss their future relationship with Britain. They feel deeply insulted by their treatment. This will influence their position regarding UK's admission to the WTO. Several other WTO member countries, including New Zealand and Japan have also voiced their concerns.
We are a member of the WTO in our own right, having been a founder member of GATT. All that happened is that we currently allow the EU to negotiate trade deals on our behalf. We do not have to "rejoin" the WTO, because we never left.
Jack Dunster, you are right on the mark. I am furious about how they sidelined this so easily. The Brexit Minister said the Government believed the 2016 referendum result had "settled the question" over Brexit and to "undermine what was expressed in that vote is a harmful precedent to set". What rubbish! Not only were we not informed at the time of the referendum, we were deliberately mislead. The result in favour of Brexit was only by the narrowest of margins, with a large proportion of people who did not vote at all, many of whom believed it could never happen, and didn't realise their votes would be critical in deciding. We know so much more now, about many of the irregularities that happened during the Leave campaign, and about what Brexit really means, and all its ramifications, so another vote would be a proper informed vote!
This is the petitions committee. It's job is to vet each petition and organise getting it into the House. There are 11 members, of which 5 are Tory. So why isn't your headline "all the Tory members of the committee turn up"?


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People-smuggling accused was 'in the loop' over 39 migrant deaths, jurors told
Bodies found in lorry container
A lorry driver was "in the loop" within minutes of the discovery of 39 dead migrants in the back of a trailer in Essex, a court has heard.
Christopher Kennedy, 24, is accused of being a member of a team behind the people-smuggling operation which went disastrously wrong on October 23 last year.
Prosecutor Bill Emlyn Jones asked Kennedy about a flurry of calls on burner phones after lorry driver Maurice Robinson opened the doors to haulier boss Ronan Hughes's trailer and saw 39 Vietnamese people were dead inside.
CCTV image of Maurice Robinson in Eastern Avenue, Thurrock. Vapour is seen rising from the trailer where the bodies of 39 migrants were found on October 23 2019 (Essex Police/PA)
The victims had all suffocated as the sealed container they were in was shipped from Zeebrugge in Belgium to Purfleet in Essex.
Just at the moment Robinson made the dreadful discovery, Hughes was on the phone to Kennedy, jurors heard.
Then while Robinson was relaying the news to Hughes at 1.19am, Kennedy was trying to get hold of him too, the court was told.
Exactly 46 seconds after that call ended, Hughes rang Kennedy, who was on the continent with a load of wine.
Mr Emlyn Jones said: "Bearing in mind the situation Hughes found himself in at that particular time, can you help us why it was that he felt it necessary to speak to you?"
Kennedy said: "He was phoning me back."
CCTV showing Christopher Kennedy in his cab arriving at the port of Purfleet in Essex to pick up a trailer on October 18 2019 (Essex Police/PA)
The prosecutor asked: "So it's business as usual for him, is it?
"As far as you are concerned nothing in this phone call gave you any impression something unusual, terrible, disastrous had happened?"
The defendant replied: "He was with me, yes."
Mr Emlyn Jones went on: "Seven minutes or so have passed and Hughes finds the time to give you another ring. What's this about?"
Kennedy said Hughes told him there was a "problem" with his booking to travel by boat from Zeebrugge with the wine and he should go by train instead.
The prosecutor said: "I suggest to you, Mr Kennedy, you are making this up and Mr Hughes, dealing with 39 dead unlawful migrants, is not at the time calmly carrying on with you about your load of wine and whether you are on the boat or on the train.
"You have had to dream up an excuse for this call."
Officers arriving at the scene in Purfleet, Essex, where the bodies of 39 Vietnamese migrants had been found (Essex Police/PA)
The defendant insisted he was telling the truth.
The court heard that was the last time either Kennedy or Hughes used their burner phones.
Mr Emlyn Jones suggested: "Is it that Hughes was telling you: 'There's been a crisis for God's sake, get rid of your burner phone'?"
As news of the tragedy began to spread, Kennedy texted a friend that it was Ronan Hughes's trailer.
He also told him that there "must have been too many and run out of air".
Mr Emlyn Jones said he was "absolutely spot on" in his assessment of what went wrong.
He suggested that demonstrated a clear understanding of the dangers because he was a people smuggler himself.
Kennedy denied it.
Maurice Robinson, 26, leaving Purfleet port, Essex (Essex Police/PA)
Earlier, the defendant told jurors he thought he was picking up cigarettes and not migrants from Purfleet on October 11 and 18 last year.
The first he knew of people smuggling was when Hughes asked him to help tidy up a consignment of macaroons which had been trampled in transit during the October 18 run, he said.
When he confronted Hughes, he just "shrugged it off", the defendant said.
But Mr Emlyn Jones said: "You are a member of the team, aren't you?
"That's why you signed up for that following the people smuggling. It just goes with the territory."
The defendant denied it.
The prosecutor added: "It would appear he was not in the least bothered about you knowing the truth."
Kennedy of Co Armagh, Eamonn Harrison, 23, of County Down and Valentin Calota, 37, of Birmingham, have denied plotting to people smuggle.
Harrison and alleged organiser Gheorghe Nica, 43, of Basildon, Essex, have denied 39 counts of manslaughter.
Jurors have heard that Robinson, 26, of Craigavon in Northern Ireland and Hughes, 41, Co Armagh, have admitted the manslaughters.


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