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My Encounter with Colin Ferguson; America's First True Spree Killer
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I was pretty freaked out when my friend Krissie threaded the needle for me when she said, "Remember when Colin Ferguson freaked out in the Union ?", referring to the College Union at Nassau Community College. I needed a clue to start me but she remembered a lot and when placed in context I had a pretty good recall of the situation, probably because it went on for awhile.
The guy was not all that unfamiliar and I remember seeing him hanging out in the College Union building right about my last semester before moving on in the very early 90's.
Ferguson was alone in the crowd in a lot of ways. For one thing he was conspicuous. He was always sort of leering at people; looking right through you and just really creeped me out. That I remembered right away
This was the first time that I had thought a lot about it. It wasn't always apparent to me it was the same Ferguson I had known. Part was the common nature of the last name. As I recall him he was somewhat thinner than when he appeared on TV after the crimes and didn't carry himself with any confidence.
Who Colin Ferguson Is and Why You Should Care
Coiln Ferguson defends himself by harassing his victims.
Ferguson pulled off a 'reverse racism' motivated killing spree on a commuter train on New York's Long Island Rail Road way back in 1993. He was an early perpetrator of a Spree Shooting, a term which seems to have been introduced to the popular lexicon by his specific crimes.
He chose December 7 to act, so at least the day was already tarnished and he didn't blemish a new date on the calendar. 25 people were injured, some would never fully recover and six died.
The passengers who tackled him when his high capacity clips ran out displayed acts of bravery not seen again until the Uncommon Valor we saw everywhere on 9-11. They rushed a well-armed man in the depths of a blood orgy. I would probably not have had the guts. They were remarkably restrained as he squirmed and lay pinned, alternately apologizing and denying, all the while pleading for mercy.
Watching this unfold on my TV when I saw him and noted the name there was some recognition this might be the same guy. Certainly the Ferguson I had encountered was a mean spirited guy who glared at people and had been part of every bad incident of a divisive nature on campus the last year i was there.
But then there were things that made me doubt it could be the same person. For one thing you just don't think you would ever know a spree killer despite statistics that suggest otherwise. I guess the other side of the coin is 'Spree killers live in the real world and therefore will simply know people one of whom may well be you.' I also suppose Nassau County New York, next to the outer borough's of New York City, is something of a curve breaking statistical anomaly. You're gonna know a lot more people just from living in a concentrated population center. Its not Saginaw, Michigan. It's almost part of New York City. For reference; you can drive from the most eastern part of Nassau County to the New York City line in maybe 25 minutes (if its not rush hour).
He was described as being a lot older than I had been aware he was. Like 10 years older. He was about 30 when i encountered him. I had assumed he was no older than 21 based on his being in junior college.
Describing him as 6 feet tall was another confusing detail. I'm not sure if its Ferguson's observably bad posture or if they simply made a mistake measuring him. In most pictures he's far shorter than the cops and lawyers around him. So there was some doubt and no internet yet to check it out. Not to mention the whole thing was horrible and you just wouldn't want to ruminate on it. Who wants to think about that too deeply? Like most people I turned away in horror.
An Early Conspiracy Theorist
Colin Ferguson was a man whose entire worldview seems to be wrapped up in a complex Conspiracy Theory view of racism. He seems to have embraced it so deeply he became repulsive and isolated. I dont recall anyone ever saying they were his friend. Usually when there would be a horrible crime the people who knew the perpetrator would be stunned and surprised and you'd hear "Quiet guy, kept to himself. Last thing you'd expect him to do." Instead this was a guy everyone could tell had his fuse lit and a screw loose.
Sadly the investigation into Ferguson didn't extend that deeply into his personal life, so we don't know a great deal about what he was reading or listening to to enhance his anger. The police would have been probably derided for wasting resources and I don't think the FBI ever bothered to profile him.
Who could blame them really? Here they had a criminal caught by the people he was victimizing. There were hundreds of witnesses. He was such an aberration no one was able to seriously believe that there was any value in doing a criminal profile. Conspiracy Theories were mostly confined to the movies. There were no Moon Landing Deniers and no Internet.
At the moment he went to trial Ferguson was guilty as sin and people just rightly wanted him thrown into the darkest hole New York has, if not executed. There was no need to delve into motivations when he was so damn guilty with so many witnesses.
The racism he saw was often real. He was reacting to a real thing. It was the warped way he dealt with adversity and injustice that puts him on a bad path.
Ferguson's misinterpretation of reality seemed unique. Most people rise to the occasion or at least weather the storm. Not Ferguson. He didn't just go write a great song or throw himself into his studies to try to overcome the real forces that really do stand against black people as well as women and other minorities. He didnt make a sign and go to a protest. He didnt write his congressman. He resorted to violence.
I think he developed a sort of "Hate Filter" or prism which he viewed all things through.
Maybe when he found out he wasn't quite up to college intellectually he started blaming people through a Reverse Racist 'logic' rather than just study more and get some extra help? He did have some had some true things to validate his feelings. He completely misinterprets them, but the racism he saw wasn't a delusion, just the way he processed it. Unlike everyone else Ferguson overtly and violently acted on his delusion in a way that's similar to the Conspiracy Theorists so common now.
Then when Ferguson started acting as his own lawyer the old saying "If your opponent is destroying themselves do nothing" came to be the prosecution's motto. Who can blame them? Especially 8 years before 9-11 and the explosion of conspiracy theories.
He's probably a sociopath and was definitely deeply angry about his lot in life, which was rough but not awful. Somewhere after the correct decision to get an education every other instinct is wrong. In fact if not for his own actions life for Colin Ferguson may have been okay.
I'm No Expert, but—
Some of the decisions Ferguson made seem to show good planning and decent judgement.
First off, had Ferguson stuck to his life plan of getting an education to broaden his mind and possibilities he'd probably have been just fine. That didn't happen though.
Instead he decided to do something awful. It's possible he had hopes of sparking a race war. So he's a bit of a charisma-less Manson-like as far as goals.
The point is he sometimes made logical plans. If anything he impeded his ability to see things in a broad enough way to be a decent student. He had an obsession on nonsense that didn't make very happy.
Maybe not everyone can get out of college with all A's but he probably could have pulled off a junior college degree and by now be in the middle rung of a career somewhere planning his retirement. There are people as dumb who do get by. Ferguson's problem is he's pathologically hateful.
I'm not a shrink or any kind of doctor. I dont have to be. Colin Ferguson is a textbook case of insanity and hatred. You dont have to be a rocket scientist to point at the moon anymore than you need to be a doctor to know Ferguson suffers from a malignant personality disorder of some kind. Its my personal belief he can form a knowing criminal intent.
My opinion is that Ferguson is a very stupid man who likely scalded himself in the shower every morning by mistake. He was purposeful however, showing some capacity for logical forethought and made some relatively rational decisions in some aspects of his life.
His failed relocation to California was not insane, it was bad luck and his own personality that doomed that effort. It wasn't ill conceived, he was trying to better himself.
While living in Long Beach he acquired the gun allegedly because he was afraid. This is also rational as Long Beach and Compton are apparently Hell Hole Ghetto's according to actual statistics as well as every rap song ever written.
He was also purposeful in his methodical planning and highly effective in enacting his Hate Crime.
An Early Spree Shooter with a Conspiracist Outlook
As an early spree shooter he was the guy who ushered the nation on its first few
Ferguson used a 9mm automatic ruger like the one shown here. He purchased it in California for $300. The extender clip in this weapon increased the number of victims.
steps down a trail of tears that leads from Merillon Avenue in New Hyde Park to Columbine, to Aurora, to an Amish School outside York, Pennsylvania, to a mall in Arizona and earlier this week to another mall in Seattle and is now weaving past the Sandy Hook School in Newtown Connecticut. It's a six chambered highway to nowhere that America is still stuck on nearly 20 years later.
Many are motivated by conspiracies and all are due to easy access to guns and often military technology too.
America decided to learn nothing from Ferguson or his crimes. The Conspiracist Mindsets become prevalent….as have Spree Killings.
Ferguson cultivated a willfully ignorant view of the world that revolved around Reverse Racism. Reverse Racism is a technical term of art used by Sociologists to specifically refer to minorities who hate white people in a way as completely misguided and ridiculous as Old School 'original racism'.
'Racism', technically, is a specific term of art for British and Spanish Colonial whites hatred of the non white races. These seem largely rooted in the 15th through 17th century Era of European Expansion and mercantilism in general.
At this point it should be pointed out that technically, Colin Ferguson is not African American. He was born in Kingston, Jamaica in January of 1958. He was 11 years older than a typical college seniors.
At the end of the day a reverse racist is just a different kind of Racist.
Universal Condemnation
Every major credible representative of the black community, including the Rev Jesse Jackson and the Rev Al Sharpton denounced Ferguson immediately and repeatedly. In layman's terms Colin Ferguson was just a violent dangerous jerk. He had his own carefully thought out reasons for his spree of murders. He was able to articulate it to a degree. Fortunately, no one endorsed it.
In a rare moment of national unity the nature of his ideas and actions spurred a condemnatory reaction across the country.
New York's Rev Al Sharpton (left) was quick to condemn Ferguson's actions
The condemnation ran across the racial spectrum that may have created an environment of heightened tolerance rather than the race war Ferguson was hoping for.
To be clear, Colin Ferguson was equally despised by members of all races even before his crimes. He was a creepy guy.
A Fool for a Client-In His Own Defense
The judge was in a tough spot with Ferguson. He wasn't quite sane, but he wasn't legally crazy. When he demanded to act as his own lawyer forbidding him to do so would have shown the judge was somewhat unsure of Ferguson's capacity and no one wanted him getting off with insanity. So the un-thinkable happened, a brutal, dumb but not legally insane man got to act as his own lawyer.
When I saw this on TV I was captivated by the level of grandiose deluison Ferguson was displaying as he revictimized the surviving witnesses.
At this point, it should be noted, he had fired William Kunstler and Ron Kuby, two highly regarded lawyers, who were representing him for free. William Kunstler had a reputation par excellence in the upper echelons of New York State and even national legal community. This was a shockingly stupid thing to do.
The court proceedings were just the worst. Ferguson referred to himself in the third person in a way that came off as a sort of "Royal Plural". Witnesses were given pretty wide latitude to respond because he was pointlessly harassing them and burying himself legally. He was just really stupid and a terrible liar. He also loved the attention.
To say Ferguson mocked his victims is an understatement. He basically continued to be despicable and exhibit deep race hate and Conspiracy Theory Obsession.
Ferguson actively defended himself in a courtroom spectacle that would have been the story of the decade had OJ Simpson not stolen Ferguson's thunder by committing the Crime of the Century. (Note-My Theory- OJ= Guilty AND Framed). It was televised live and was an early courtroom TV experiment that ran collateral to the Simpson Case fiasco.
the Late William Kunstler
As the easy to find video of the court proceedings show his demeanor and beliefs were sort of like those of a Jamaican Alex Jones on very bad acid.
Sometimes it was so crazy it seemed like he had to be faking it. Or he was just a truly inspired paranoid guy who decided to 'get them first". Was he acting? I couldn't tell. even when he claimed (unconvincingly) on live TV that the CIA had implanted a chip in his brain among other things.
Maybe he's listening to and misinterpreting someone like a Farrakhan? Having bad reaction to Hate-Listening to Rush Limbaugh may have been involved, that show was around already. Sadly, we'll never know. There was not a lot of talk about motivation at the trial. He had done what he had done. No one cared why.
Among other things Ferguson was woefully unsuccessful in academic pursuits at Adelphi, a local college where people were completely freaked out by him. Not
The College Union Building where i encountered Colin Ferguson
much more than a long walk away at Nassau Community College, where he later enrolled, he sought to insinuate himself into several different crews. All rejected him.
I think his intolerance was a real turnoff to members of all races. He was over focused on race and overwhelmingly negative by all published and personally related accounts, so there's no surprise he was plain old unlikable. After they got to know him these crews as well as all others shunned and avoided Ferguson for the same reasons everyone else did. He was a dimwitted mean abrasive delusional guy.
Incarcerated until 5,000 years after the second coming (okay actually 315 years) I would assume a guy like Ferguson is most likely forcibly medicated.
Whatever they are doing to him he has never apologized, which is something you may actually have gotten from a truly insane person with remorse capacity were they to be medicated. I can't see him ever being able to be among the General Population.
A Memorable Display of Anger
This was a standout experience because of the display of a protracted level of sustained anger. It was not a very long time unless you are watching someone freakout.
It was probably somewhere between 3 and 4 minutes tops because no one really had time to react. He seemed like he was a problem best left alone as he was always stomping away not really breaking his stride. That said he covered a lot of the same ground twice. It was only a little scary when he came back up the stairs to the third floor for a briefer second foray.
Third floor Stairway in the College Union Building
Many of his remarks were addressed at no one in particular. This may have been why it went on so long. There was no real targeting of anyone specific. He was on a verbal rant about perceived unfairness. It took a little longer than you might think for people to get unnerved.
It was a little like a really pissed off baseball manager getting his money's worth after getting thrown out of the game. He may never have stopped walking. That aspect stands out to me. Also noteworthy is that he simply obeyed without much resistance when a campus security guard told him to leave or be detained. He kept yelling stuff but stomped out.
Probably evidence of some sort of OCD-like thing that speaks to his later methods. Physical manifestation of overwhelming frustration is something you see in someone whose adopted a hateful worldview. It was an aggressive form of pacing which had the self-perpetuating aspect of 'where do you go from losing it?' if you don't actually follow through and leave.
Although his police description says he was 6 feet tall his posture made him seem smaller. Most pictures show him slouching, its hard to tell.
The Colin Ferguson I encountered seemed more like 5-10. Then again just looking at video's inclined just slightly forward at times as he walks around. In my recollection from school it sometimes looked like an invisible string is pulling him as his focus seemed elsewhere.
He had and still apparently does have an unusual posture and gait. His shoulders aren't squared, he had an intensity. It was a bit like the way some people play Shakespeare's Richard III but without the underlying intensity of evil genius, just overt anger.
The tantrum, which is what it was, had began over the refusal of an unreasonable request. Ferguson tried to submit an opinion piece to the school paper, which is how people know it's him. Based on what we've seen it easy to guess a hundred reasons why the faculty adviser for the school paper told him his opinions weren't going to make it into print.
At this point everyone who I have subsequently spoken to it about confirmed he lost it on an administrator who had the unenviable task of driving home that his hate screed or whatever would not be published.
He snapped and started his little episode by storming out of the faculty member's College Union Office, pausing the door to shout some more. I was on the same (third) floor of the Union building as he walked down the hall yelling and gesturing at people shouting angry blameful remarks I either couldn't follow or can't recall. He was shouting and ranting real good though.
He had a pretty odd gait. He was doing some manic pacing of sorts going between floors and blowing out people verbally here and there. He had a lot of blame for his fellow African Americans and everyone he encountered. My friend Krissie is a blonde white girl and we recalled he made some hateful statements specific to that. He viewed things through race exclusively I guess. People were simply tuning him out as best they could and he got a lot of "geez buddy chill out" comments in his wake that he simply didn't react to. He was spineless in the sense he only made eye contact until he began yelling. When speaking he seemed to only look down or away. He was enthralled in his performance and basically called out the world for not living up to his warped standards.
Maybe he was prone to 'taking it on the road' with a kind of frantic pacing when he freaked. It fits the methodology of his attack and may have foreshadowed how he decided to attack about 20 to 25 months later. He was impersonal and having what I can only call an 'anger orgasm'. He was not ever going to be a remote sniper, he was too taken with himself not to get instant feedback on his actions.
He was only taking in enough visual feedback as he needed to made his remarks and negotiate the hallway and stairs. He was dressed neat but uptight with his top shirt button buttoned. This was slightly more fashionable in the early 1990's but still a poor and unpopular fashion statement. His rant is largely forgotten and was a rambling mess at the time anyway. When talking to specific people his constantly gazing elsewhere was more unsettling than anything else. He had a bad too tight haircut and a small, ironically somewhat Hitler-like mustache. As I recall it he seemed somewhat slighter of build than when he later appeared in court. He had an earth tone brown jacket and slacks. He was wearing loafers. He had a sweater over his shirt and dressed in a way that could be described as collegiate. Most people looked like late teens in early 80's would. Converse, a swatch,a pre-ironic Rolling Stones or Ramones t-shirt, etc. Everyone had crazy 80's hair. Not Ferguson. He was distinctively, neatly dressed by comparison. He was the kind of person who tucked in a polo shirt.
Most specifically unsettling is he has unique irises of his eyes. He is of a relatively light complexion with skin not quite brown and his eyes were a coppery gold kind of hazel. I have seen it in other people before and since but it seems to be pretty rare. I clearly remember the look in his eyes. They were not so much glaring as reflective to light and were not a window to his soul. This was a willingly impulsive angry guy who lacked both self-control and the courage of his convictions. Perhaps he was just an angry depressive. Low self-worth seems obvious now looking back and might have been a part of how he developed his world view.
Colin Ferguson changed American society by virtue of his hate crime. Sensationalistic "wall to wall" Cable News coverage was in its infancy but let everyone in America and the world in on Ferguson's deeds. His threshold level of sanity is more or less the watermark for competency, so his capacity will always be somewhat questionable by definition.
He will never see the light of day and is being punished, not reformed. Everyone seems to be in accord on how things worked out for Ferguson. No one would change a thing. He is treated with far greater humanity than he showed his victims. There's no campaign to mitigate his treatment or free him and he is not revered or seen as a martyr by anyone. Ferguson is largely forgotten and will die a prisoner. He's notable only for his evil deeds. No one empathizes with his motives at all.
The outrage over his crime sparked passage of a National Assault Weapons Ban that lasted 10 years (1994-2004) and probably should have been made permanent. Long Island nurse Carolyn McCarthy unseated the fool who represented Mineola in the House of Representatives handily when he inexplicably voted against that Ban as though nothing had ever happened in his district to justify it. She remains there to this day, a rare Long Island Democrat who is a constant crusader for sensible gun laws.
His only contribution to society is to the English Language and it's an ugly one at that. We now have the term "Spree Killer", which was popularized by his actions.
Rep Carolyn McCarthy (D) NY
This seems to be because "Serial Killer" didn't fit and "Mass Murderer" was too all-encompassing.
The term Spree Killer has become all too familiar ever since.
Ferguson is distinct from most other Spree Killers in the sense that he seems to have intended to survive his crime. He had reason to think he might get away with it. There were almost no cell phones out there in 1993, even in New York. It was a longshot he would get away with it, but not a delusion. With a better plan he might have eluded capture for awhile.
This also speaks to his sanity. Most Spree Killers Cheat the Hangman by taking their own lives before being brought to justice. Ferguson was not suicidal in his endeavor. He valued his own life. He knew what he was taking from these people. He has never tried to take his own life in prison either.
He's a quintessential Hate Crime perpetrator and a textbook example of a man with an unjustifiable, conspiracist grudge against society.
His Behavior in Prison
He's been described as 'A problem from day one." He still has the same issues. He hates white folks, cops of all race and obsesses on dates that bring pain to mind.
I'll say it in so many words, he's an asshole.
To this end in 2011 he was charged with crimes as a prisoner for trying to stoke a prison riot on the anniversary of 9-11. They may have added to his 315 years sentence or simply have taken away some privileges in jail. So maybe I was wrong about them forcibly medicating him. Or he's found a way to subvert it. Or there's not enough pills in the world to Un-Crazy his mind anymore. Lets face it, he has a tendency for violence at his core.
Should He Have Been Executed?
Colin Ferguson always has been and always will be a dumb but probably not legally incompetent violent idiot who, thankfully, will never walk free. He's also a highly debatable case regarding the Death Penalty.
The best (and maybe only) case Against Execution would be "He's so close to having diminished capacity we, as a society, should be better than killing him."
1993- cuffed and not looking 6 feet tall


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Frank Trelawny Arthur Ashton-Gwatkin CB CMG (14 April 1889 – 30 January 1976) was a British diplomat and Foreign Office official. He was a significant influence on the British foreign policy in the Far East in the early 20th century. He also published a number of novels and other works under the pseudonym John Paris.
Ashton-Gwatkin was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1915 he married Nancy Violet Butler (d. 1953), of Melbourne, Australia.
After several years in the Consular Service in East Asia, where he acquired a good knowledge of Japanese, Ashton-Gwatkin joined the Far Eastern Department of the Foreign Office in 1919, transferring to the Diplomatic Service in 1921. In 1929, he was sent to the Soviet Union to work at the British Embassy in Moscow, but returned after a year to be secretary of the Anglo-Soviet Debt Committee under Lord Goschen.
He participated in several international conferences, including the Imperial Economic Conference in Ottawa in 1932 and the World Economic Conference in London the following year. As a result of his interest in economic affairs, he was instrumental in establishing the Economic Relations Section in the Foreign Office, focused on co-ordinating British diplomatic and economic policies, becoming its first head in 1934. In the late summer of 1938, he served as Chief of Staff on the Runciman Mission to Czechoslovakia and was a member of the British delegation at the subsequent Munich Conference.
During the 1930s, Ashton-Gwatkin was a staunch advocate of the policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany. Although he later revised his views, Ashton-Gwatkin's political outlook at that time is encapsulated by his expressed hope - in the immediate aftermath of the Munich Agreement in 1938 - of "an Anglo-German policy of economic co-operation" flourishing within a German-dominated East Central Europe.
Ashton-Gwatkin's literary work, published under the name of John Paris, reflected his period of residence in Japan and included the novels Kimono (1921), Sayonara (1924), Banzai! (1925),The Island beyond Japan (1929), Matsu (1932) and a collection of verses A Japanese Don Juan and other Poems (1926). The novels were noted for their realistic portrayal of life in East Asia. Previously, whilst an undergraduate at Oxford, he was awarded the 1909 Newdigate Prize for a poem entitled Michelangelo.
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Edmund Burke asks a key question of political theory: quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (how is one to be defended against the very guardians who have been appointed to guard us?) (1756)
From: A Vindication of Natural Society (Edmund Burke)
By: Edmund Burke
Theme: The State
In a youthful essay, which may or may not be satirical, Burke criticizes all forms of government intervention, or what he calls "artificial society":
I have defended Natural Religion against a Confederacy of Atheists and Divines. I now plead for Natural Society against Politicians, and for Natural Reason against all three. When the World is in a fitter Temper than it is at present to hear Truth, or when I shall be more indifferent about its Temper; my Thoughts may become more publick. In the mean time, let them repose in my own Bosom, and in the Bosoms of such Men as are fit to be initiated in the sober Mysteries of Truth and Reason. My Antagonists have already done as much as I could desire. Parties in Religion and Politics make sufficient Discoveries concerning each other, to give a sober Man a proper Caution against them all. The Monarchic, Aristocratical, and Popular Partizans have been jointly laying their Axes to the Root of all Government, and have in their Turns proved each other absurd and inconvenient. In vain you tell me that Artificial Government is good, but that I fall out only with the Abuse. The Thing! the Thing itself is the Abuse!
After so fair an Examen, wherein nothing has been exaggerated; no Fact produced which cannot be proved, and none which has been produced in any wise forced or strained, while thousands have, for Brevity, been omitted; after so candid a Discussion in all respects; what Slave so passive, what Bigot so blind, what Enthusiast so headlong, what Politician so hardened, as to stand up in Defence of a System calculated for a Curse to Mankind? a Curse under which they smart and groan to this Hour, without thoroughly knowing the Nature of the Disease, and wanting Understanding or Courage to apply the Remedy.
I need not excuse myself to your Lordship, nor, I think, to any honest Man, for the Zeal I have shewn in this Cause; for it is an honest Zeal, and in a good Cause. I have defended Natural Religion against a Confederacy of Atheists and Divines. I now plead for Natural Society against Politicians, and for Natural Reason against all three. When the World is in a fitter Temper than it is at present to hear Truth, or when I shall be more indifferent about its Temper; my Thoughts may become more publick. In the mean time, let them repose in my own Bosom, and in the Bosoms of such Men as are fit to be initiated in the sober Mysteries of Truth and Reason. My Antagonists have already done as much as I could desire. Parties in Religion and Politics make sufficient Discoveries concerning each other, to give a sober Man a proper Caution against them all. The Monarchic, Aristocratical, and Popular Partizans have been jointly laying their Axes to the Root of all Government, and have in their Turns proved each other absurd and inconvenient. In vain you tell me that Artificial Government is good, but that I fall out only with the Abuse. The Thing! the Thing itself is the Abuse! Observe, my Lord, I pray you, that grand Error upon which all artificial legislative Power is founded. It was observed, that Men had ungovernable Passions, which made it necessary to guard against the Violence they might offer to each other. They appointed Governors over them for this Reason; but a worse and more perplexing Difficulty arises, how to be defended against the Governors? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? In vain they change from a single Person to a few. These few have the Passions of the one, and they unite to strengthen themselves, and to secure the Gratification of their lawless Passions at the Expence of the general Good. In vain do we fly to the Many. The Case is worse; their Passions are less under the Government of Reason, they are augmented by the Contagion, and defended against all Attacks by their Multitude.
There is a debate among scholars on whether or not Burke wrote this as a serious piece of political theory or as a satire. If the former, then it is youthful piece which is far more radical in its implications than his later writings. If the latter, then one can dismiss the content of the essay as an amusing attempt to push questioning of the legitimacy of the state too far. Whether or not it was intended as satire, Burke, perhaps unwittingly, asks a very pertinent question in this quotation: who is to guard us from the mistakes or worse of those whose task it is to guard us? Or, in the Latin, Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?


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The underwater section will be up to 10 metres beneath the sea surface, and contain 21 double rooms adjacent to a dive centre and a bar. Each room has been designed to 'integrate with the underwater world as closely as possible'.
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Interfaith Dialogue ( 4 Jul 2018, NewAgeIslam.Com)
Peaceful Coexistence Is Not a Denial of One's Religion, or Downplaying Its Importance
By Paul Hedges
Leaving aside the almost unimaginable spectacle of parents taking, even training, their children to die for their ideology, the recent attacks in Surabaya raise the issue of conflict between religious communities.
While few Muslims identify with these terrorists, it may nevertheless leave the impression that it is simply the exacerbation of an essential enmity between Christians and Muslims.
Such a thesis would accord with Samuel Huntington's well-known "Clash of Civilisations" argument, which posited that civilisational boundaries, often marked by religious identities, would define the coming world order.
To exemplify this type of thesis, especially that conflict between religions is prevalent, one may look beyond events in Indonesia, which play into a wider militant neo-jihadi assault on Christianity, to clashes between: Jews and Muslims in Israel-Palestine; Buddhists and Muslims in Thailand, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka; Hindus and Christians and Muslims in India; or, many other examples including intra-religious violence, for instance between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland.
The list of events where we see violence across inter-religious lines in both contemporary and global history seems almost endless.
However, history suggests that this may not be the whole story, indeed peaceful and positive inter-religious relations may be the norm rather than the exception.
The well-known Constitution of Medina alongside the agreement from Prophet Muhammad with the monks of St Catherine's Monastery are signs that peaceful and harmonious inter-religious relations were endorsed by the founder of Islam.
His battles were not fought against other religions, but against those who had attacked and oppressed the young Islamic community.
We could equally show other examples from history, which would include the Buddha going on missions to prevent war during his life, or Francis of Assisi setting out on a peace-building mission during the height of the crusades to speak with the Muslim leader Salahuddin Ayubi, better known in the West as Saladin.
Critics may object, though, that despite high profile or even foundational initiatives for peace that the real history of religion is one of conflict and intolerance. The facts, they may say, speak more loudly than the ideals of peace and non-violence.
Yet here, I suggest, we see in the lived experience of communities at the grassroots, the real evidence that inter-religious relations need not be one of conflict but can be about harmonious coexistence.
If one looks to places today where we see fault lines between the religions, we can also see evidence of a history of inter-communal harmony.
For centuries, Christians and Muslims in parts of Indonesia have shared common shrines and pilgrimage sites, some of which still exist. While little known today, this is not an exception.
If one traverses South Eastern Europe, in places such as Macedonia, one will find shrines, mosques, and churches that form sacred loci again for both Christians and Muslims.
In Northern India, meanwhile, there are also shrines and sites of pilgrimage as well as holy men who have been revered by Sikhs, Hindus, and Muslims.
Again, in Sri Lanka, shrines that honour both Hindu deities and have Buddhist significance are not unknown.
Indeed, across the globe where we find inter-religious communities which have lived together across the centuries we find similar things: A sharing and accommodation of religious sites in local communities.
Outside of this we also find patterns of reciprocation and lived cooperation.
In traditional Indonesian society, Christians and Muslims would have exchanged gifts and also partaken in work alongside the other community: Christians would have helped build mosques, and Muslims would have helped build churches.
In places such as Morocco, Muslims have been the traditional keepers of Jewish graves, while at the end of Ramadan Jews used to prepare the food for Eid-al-Fitr.
Such reciprocity and inter-religious harmony has been patterned in similar ways in many places. Indeed, we may even see it as typical.
For the ordinary followers of religions living alongside those of other religions has, in most parts of the world, for most of history, simply been the norm.
Samuel Huntington suggested that "Islam has bloody borders", while European Christians fought what are called the "wars of religion" and brought their religious traditions with colonial invasion and often at gunpoint to the rest of the world.
However, what we speak of here are the expansion of empires and the machinations of rulers.
It is not surprising that the edges of imperial territories show the signs of war and conflict of religion as part of cultural, ethnic, economic, and expansionist policies.
However, religion also spread at times through trade, books, and gentler flows of peoples across the globe.
Here, perhaps we see the real history of inter-religious relations. A history that is not conflictual and violent, but one marked by sharing, cooperation, reciprocity, and accommodation as people live out their religious identities in relation to people with other religious identities.
In such a context, finding areas of common space and agreement is more normal than conflict.
Indeed, as noted, this has precedent in the foundational ideas and key leaders of many religious traditions who stressed cooperation and peace over war and conflict.
Certainly, this is not to say that left to themselves religions will live in peace. They contain traditions and trends to both conflict and coexistence.
We have no reason, though, to see the former as more normal or defining than the latter.
Indeed, this ambivalent nature of the sacred, as American historian Professor Scott Appleby has termed it, means that religious leaders, devotees, and others concerned with social harmony and positive inter-religious relations have a duty to ensure that the elements favouring coexistence and harmony are promoted and extolled.
Peaceful coexistence is not a denial of one's religion, nor downplaying its importance, but learning from its vital sources for life in the twenty-first century.
Source: todayonline.com/commentary/religion-and-conflict-myth-inevitable-collision
URL: http://www.newageislam.com/interfaith-dialogue/paul-hedges/peaceful-coexistence-is-not-a-denial-of-one's-religion,-or-downplaying-its-importance/d/115734


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Meatless Monday: Indian man killed after mob suspected him of eating beef
by Peg Fong | Posted on October 5, 2015 October 4, 2015
A horrific lynching of a man accused by a mob of killing a cow is shining international attention on what is now a political issue in India: eating beef.
Mohammed Akhlaq was set upon in his house and dragged and murdered after mob of angry villagers in Uttar Pradesh heard a rumour that he had been eating beef.
Despite Akhlaq's claims that the meat in his house was mutton, the crowd ransacked his house and pulled out meat from his fridge. Akhlaq's son Danish was also set upon by the crowd and severely injured.
Vandana Rana, whose brother is one of the accused killers, said she had seen on television footage of Kashmiris slaughtering cows on Bakri-Eid on social media sites like Whatsapp.
"The videos are from Kashmir, from Muzzafarnagar, basically from Mohammedan areas, where cows are being killed.
Rana told Scroll that she has heard that the government is considering making cow slaughter a crime punishable with death, a move she said she supports.
"The cow is our national animal, our mother.
She is defending her brother Vishal Rana, one of ten people authorities say were part of the mob that dragged Ahklaq out and beat him to death.
Rana said her brother was not in the village that night but that she could understand the anger of the mob.
She claimed that a group of young men, who were drinking at night, saw Akhlaq dumping the remains of a calf along the village's periphery. Once an announcement was made from the temple that a cow had been slaughtered, even though Akhlaq was not named, people spontaneously headed for his home, she said.
"Everyone is focusing on the man's death but no one is paying attention to the wrong that took place," she said. "Something wrong took place, that's why the crowds got upset."
She believes Akhlaq is guilty and accused the Muslim man of not understanding how his Hindu neighbours would react.
"Muslims have been living with us for 70 years. We have never harmed them," Rana said. "Why did they cut up a cow? They should have at least considered that they are living in a Hindu neighbourhood and that the Hindus would not tolerate this.
The Guardian newspaper reported that Akhlaq and his son, who is fighting for his life in the hospital, were beaten to death with bricks.
India's minister of culture Mahesh Sharma arrived in the village after the village to console the victim's family.
In most of India, most of the time, killing cows is illegal, but possessing or eating beef is not. A sample of meat found in the Akhlaq's home has been sent for forensic examination, said local magistrate Rajesh Kumar Yadav, the bureaucrat with responsibility for Bishara. "
The investigation is going on. The police is there, covering all angles and dangers. Relations in the village are being normalised and everybody is doing a great effort for this," said Yadav.
Yet deep tensions and fear remain. When Sharma gathered the villagers in the yard of the temple and called for communal harmony and mutual respect, the reaction was respectful but quietly hostile.
"We handed over our children to the police. But, minister sir, that does not mean you can play with our feelings. We know it was beef that was eaten," said Jagdish Sisodia, a village elder.
h/t: Scroll, PRI , Guardian
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Peter John Roussel Luff FRSA FRGS (born 14 September 1946), is a British  campaigner and activist.  He has been active in a number of non-governmental organisations with varying goals.  He was a Director of the Royal Commonwealth Society  from 1997 to 2001, Director and Vice Chair of The European Movement UK, The International European Movement from 1986 to 1995, and Assistant Director of Amnesty International UK (1974–1978).

Personal life
He was born in Brussels on 14 September 1946, educated at Eltham College and Swansea University where he graduated in politics and international relations. In 2013, he completed a master's degree in The Study of Religions at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

Career
His first post was with the Voluntary Committee on Overseas Aid and Development and subsequently as a Counselor with the UK Immigrants Advisory Service. He was appointed Assistant Director of Amnesty International UK in 1974, where he directed several country campaigns and organised the first UK Trades Union Human Rights conference. With John Cleese, he originated and produced 'A Poke in the Eye' and 'The Mermaids Frolics', the first two shows in The Secret Policeman's Ball (1979) comedy series.

In 2002, he co-produced, with Caroline Warner, another comedy revue – 'Peter Cook: a Posthumorous Tribute' for The Peter Cook Foundation with a cast including David Frost, Terry Jones, Dilly Keane, Clive Anderson, Angus Deayton, David Baddiel, Josie Lawrence, Bonnie Langford and Mark Watson.

He was an assistant producer on the series Prisoners of Conscience at the BBC (1979–1981). Until 2001, Peter Luff was Director of the Royal Commonwealth Society, a pan-Commonwealth non-governmental organisation, supported by a worldwide membership, working to inform and educate people in all 54 member states about the work and importance of the Commonwealth.

He has written three books: The Simple Guide to Maastricht, The Reform of the United Nations with Georges Berthoin and A Brilliant Conspiracy – a study of the European federal agenda and a pamphlet.

Peter Luff is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts & Manufacturers and the Royal Geographical Society; a member of the Royal Institute for International Affairs and is a former Trustee of Responding to Conflict and the European Multicultural Foundation.

European Movement
Peter Luff was director of the European Movement between 1986 - 1992 , when he moved to become Vice-President and Deputy Secretary-General of the international European Movement in Brussels (1992-1995). He returned as Chair of the European Movement UK between 2004 and 2007 and worked during the referendum campaign as a special adviser to the Chair, Laura Sandys.

References

 http://www.climatecommunity.org
 http://www.euromove.org.uk
 http://www.euromove.org.uk/index.php?id=6620&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=1680&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=6336&cHash=16d3055a19
 https://web.archive.org/web/20080509070443/http://www.sussexineurope.org/treaty.htm

1946 births
Living people
People educated at Eltham College

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By Carol Redmore
We are, I am afraid, a disgrace to our neighborhood in Fountain of the Sun.
The first incident occurred a couple of years ago; the other two were recent. But the first set the scene
That happened a year or so ago when our granddaughter,
Amanda, and her husband and two little boys were here visiting and staying in their RV. We kept their little Morkie, Boomer. One afternoon Amanda and her sister, Jenna, who lives here in Phoenix were here visiting when here was a knock on the door. Fred had taken the three little boys for a walk, and I thought they were playing a trick on me. Many years earlier, I had done pre-school our we had 4 grandchildren; when I had to go in the bathroom, they would knock on the door and growl. I would say, "Is that the big bad wolf?" Giggling and shuffling followed, and finally I would open the door a crack and call, "Is that big bad wolf out there?'
I was so sure that Fredwas returning with the boys that I assumed they were playing a prank. "Is that the big bad wolf?" I called. No answer. No giggles. That should have been a warning. "I know that's the big badwolf!" I called. There was a sharp knock on the door. "You can't fool me!" I called, "I know who you are !" I then opened the door a crack but there were not there little boys—instead I caught a glimpse of a blue dress. Tentatively, I opened the door. There stood a stern looking woman with bright-eyed little Boomer in her arms. "I found this dog in the street!" she barked. I sputtered apologies, but she marched past me and into the living room where she confronted Amanda, Jenna—and me. "Thie little dog was loose out there!" she scolded. "You'd better watch him!" and with that she tured ad stomped out.
Fast forward to lastmonth. Our grandaon Jake, a freshman at ASU keeps his car at our house, taking it out on weekends to pursue his work detailing cars. One Saturday he was at our house cleaning the engine of his car, which he said had been running a bit rough. His instructions told him that when he ad finished and started the car, some smoke would blow out—he should then take it for a "brisk" drive. He backed out of the drive, and as he turned and stepped on the gas. He had seen that two women were walking in the road; he was careful to keep them in sight in the rearview mirror, but at the moment he stepped on the gas, a huge plume of whitish exhaust bloomed out of the back. It totally enveloped the women so that only their feet could be seen. Jake was mortified and didn't know what to do—so he just drove away, his face flaming. One of the walkng women, as you might guess, was the same woman who had arrived ina rage with Boomer in her arms.
Since then we have considred going out with sacks over our heads to disguise ourselves.
But the worst was yet to come. Butfirt an explanation. In the fall I needed to renew my driver's license ,which had been detlayed for nearly a year because of Covid. Unfortunately, I didn't know if I could renew the license as first I had to get the proper papers asserting that my vision was good enough for me to take the driver's test. I did pass the test, but was in a state of pure panic over taking the test. Actually the vision test had turned out quite well and I only drove around Freeport. I hoped to get the license and, with luck, continue driving around town, though I promised I would stop if I knew I couldn't do it safely any more.
One Monday morning we had had a quick breakfast at Birdies before writing group. The plan was that I would walk oveer to the Activities Center so that Fred could have the car to run errands. However, it grew late too quickly–"Just take the car over," Fred said; "I'll pick it up there."
Easy enough—such a short way: I just had to get ouf of the parking lot and drive that short way. Merrily, I set out. Alas, it did not go well. In fact, I didn't get out of ther parkng lot. It seems there are curbs on each side of the exit. The one on the left is not justa curb—it is a very high curb. It is too high for a car just to drive over it. I learned this to my grief.
How did I do this? Only God knows. But there was tis jolt and a grinding sound. The only sensible thing I did was to make no effort to move the car. A very nice man came over an said if he had the right jack, he could lift it off. But he did not have the right jack. A wrecker would have to be called.
Reluctantly, I walked back to the Birdies deck. There was Fred sitting in the sun, peacefully reading the paper and drinking his coffee. Startled, he looked at me. "Uh," I said, "I kind of have a problem." What problem. "Well, the car is sort of hung up on that high curb."
It was amazing how calmly he took this news. He was probably in shock. He called the wrecker but we would have to wait. "Go on to the group," he said, "thee's nothing you can do here."
I did go. The wrecker came quickly, and whle he waited, a crowd gathere to see this sight. One woman took a picture.
As it happened, the man managed to jack up the car and get it down. By some miracle, there was no damage except a small scratch at one point.
It reminded me of the story of the man stranded on a roof during a flood. He prayed to be rescued but God did not lift him off the roof. A boat ccame by but he was dedicated to his praying. It was the same with a helicopter that dangled a rope down to him and with a man who heroially swam to carry him off. The flood waters rose and soon the waters were about to cover his head, the man called out to God. "I asked you save me!" he cried, "You didn't answer—you failed me!"
"I sent you a boat, a helicopter, and a heroic swimmer. What did you expect?"
I did nt actually pray to be rescued from my unfortunate approach. But I could imagine praying for a sign to show me whethere or not I should continue driving. And God would reply, "You drove onto a concrete barrier and were stranded there. Isn't that a sufficient answer?"
I didn't actually pray to be rescued from my perch. But perhaps I should pray to have the neighbors' memories erased so that the Big Bad Wolf and the great cloud of exhaust will be gone forever. It may be a little more difficult to erase the memories of a group of people and a wrecker operator—and even if that should happen, somewhere out there is a picture on someone's camera and it has probably floated exponentially out into the Internet cloud.
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The big question about autonomous cars used to be completely open-ended: What are they?
We answered that question pretty quickly, developing five autonomous driving levels: Driver Assistance, followed by Partial, Conditional, High and ultimately Full Automation — that final futuristic, mind-of-its-own, full-blown robocar you're thinking of.
Currently, Conditional Automation is on the horizon, with some vehicles leveraging advanced sensor packages, hardware backups and safety software to take control on the road. This massive jump from Level 2 gives drivers freedom to disengage under the correct conditions — think: open freeway. But the next step, the transition from Conditional to High Automation, begins genuine autonomy.
The steering wheel and gas pedal exist for precaution and emergencies — nothing more.
From there, the need for these modules is eliminated altogether, leaving more room within the cockpit for entertainment and productivity. That's when AVs turn from scary to cool — we're talking exercise pods, mobile conference rooms and portable theaters.
This concept has expanded the conversation around autonomous cars from "what does it mean?" to "what does it mean for me?" While the timing of fully automated cars isn't clear, Gartner estimates a quarter of a billion of these vehicles will be on the road by 2020, and analysts expect OEMs to level-up fast or get left behind.
That's why we've started to ask a new question: What are the keys getting this fully automated engine started, so to speak?
Here's some possibilities:
Being able to update automotive firmware and software is critical for autonomy. Without access to the latest maps and most advanced security patches, a passenger isn't safe to disengage in the car. As drivers put their trust in manufacturers to develop future-proof vehicles, OEMs need to do more than ensure an outdated map won't send cars off the road. They need to guarantee a hacker can't find security vulnerabilities and make the car drive itself off the road.
OEMs need to eliminate cyberattacks as an option altogether. How can they make that happen? By consistently updating software to ensure security against every new hack discovered. Having the capability to do it at the drop of a hat is essential for drivers to embrace driverless cars.
5G connectivity
Bandwidth is the bed-rock of automotive connectivity, and a robust 5G network is the only way to ensure low-to-zero latency data throughput speeds. To have a seamless, and safe, experience within the car, hardware needs to react as fast — or faster — than the human reflex. Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications will rely on real-time data exchange, ensuring every car receives collision alerts the moment of and react with equal speed.
Real time on 4G network? Not likely.
What else relies on lag-less, expansive 5G? Well, providing those OTA updates that I mentioned. And ensuring cyber-attacks are identified and shut down before completion. Even something as simple as entertainment experiences need to be smooth and seamless no matter where the vehicle is. If we ever want to see the car become a real productivity pod — one with actually instant access to our Hulu account or uninterrupted video conferencing — we need 5G.
Smart city infrastructure
It's clear supporting a robust, standardized 5G network is the first step a city can take to prepare for autonomous cars. Just as traffic lights and stop signs became standard when vehicles entered the zeitgeist, vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) sensors adoption is necessary to guarantee efficient, consistent communications. Exiting a coverage zone could result in omitted map updates or failed V2V communication, putting riders at risk.
But that's not all cities should think about. 5G-boosted connectivity would allow connected roads to share information from environment to car and track traffic flow to optimize signal cycles and decongest roads via connected stoplights.
A clear monetization strategy
Without clear ROI, encouraging cities to update infrastructure and OEMs to install end-to-end cybersecurity software won't be easy. Improving the customer experience won't be reason enough for these parties to invest — especially as ride sharing rises and car ownership declines. What might hit home is that monetizing connected car data could be a $33 billion opportunity by 2025. OEMs and cities alike are seeing it's time to think outside of the box and inside of the cloud when it comes to making money.
This vehicle-commerce — or v-commerce — model would allow OEMs to leverage in-car data for research studies, helping them see what users like and hate, and make rapid updates. It could even help them deliver relevant, targeted ads via the car's infotainment system.
The same goes for cities: Understanding traffic flow can lead to optimized display times for advertisements and increased leisure time for citizens, as well as better understanding of where/how people are interacting with their environment.
So when can we expect Level 5 autonomy?
The benefits of these factors are clear, but does that mean we're close to full autonomy?
Global progress is being made towards driverless cars — an algorithm from MIT allows lane switching with near-human intuition, Stanford developed sensors allowing cars to see hidden objects around corners — something human drivers can't do — and driverless test modules are on the road in Texas, Belgium, Israel and dozens more regions. The biggest driver, ride-hailing services, might begin piloting driverless services in 2019 and 5G is expected to boom by 2025. But ubiquity is still a decade or two out.
Innovation doesn't wait for permission, but it might have to wait for infrastructure.
— Stephen L. Surhigh is Vice President and General Manager of Automotive Cloud Services for Harman International. With more than 30 years of operations, sales and management consulting experience, he leads business development for Harman's Automotive Cloud Services business unit that focuses on data exchange between vehicles and the cloud.
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Every brand has a story to tell. Your product or service, logo colors, mission statement (or lack thereof), social media presence, and even the way you answer the phone tells the world who you are. It's a story that is constantly evolving and each interaction with your crowd is a turn of the page. Good marketing is about wrangling your brand story and telling it in a way that turns strangers into loyal fans.
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This enlightened brand then sorted through 27 charcoal grey t-shirt samples before selecting the softest one. They knew comfort was important to their crowd. Delight is one of their brand values, after all. Shouldn't every t-shirt they give out reflect this? Ditto for the tag in the back. "Does this make people feel good?" they asked themselves and opted for a t-shirt with the sizing info screen printed on the inside back neck.
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All Known Periodicals (80+)
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Illustrated London News (1842–2003)
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According to the Wellesley Index (1824–1900), Andrew Lang contributed one article to the New Quarterly Magazine in 1878:
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Interactive Parallel Computation in Support of Research in Algebra, Geometry and Number Theory January 29, 2007 - February 02, 2007
January 22, 2007 about 16 years ago
To apply for Funding you must register by:
October 29, 2006 about 16 years ago
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Organizers Ifti Burhanuddin (USC, Computer Science), James Demmel (Berkeley, Math & CS), Edray Goins (Purdue, Math), Erich Kaltofen (North Carolina SU, Math), Fernando Perez (U Colorado, Applied Math), William Stein (Chair; Washington, Math), Helena Verrill (LSU, Math), Joe Weening (CCR, Research)
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Gene Cooperman
Brian Granger
Robert Harrison
William Hart
Jason Martin
Marc Moreno-Maza
Alfred Noel
Yi Qiang
Jean-Louis Roch
Jan Verschelde
Yuzhen Xie
Workshop page at the University of Washington The goal of this workshop is to study and formulate practical parallel algorithms that support interactive mathematical research in algebra, geometry, and number theory, and to formulate strategies to encourage implementation and testing of these ideas. For more information please go to: http://sage.math.washington.edu/msri07/ Computer manufacturers have begun delivering multiprocessor machines onto desktops; indeed, this seems to be the only means for continuing the pace of cpu power growth that we have become accustomed to. At the moment, general purpose mathematical software packages rarely exploit parallelism, and this is especially true in the areas of algebra, geometry, number theory, and combinatorics. Dramatic advances in performance will only be possible if parallelism can be harnessed in ways that are transparent to users. We hope to bring together a diverse group of mathematics and computer science researchers and students to discuss algorithms, assess current prospects, and suggest ways to move forward. Talks and discussions will cover new algorithms that exploit parallelism, specific problems likely to benefit from dramatic speedups from parallelism, and strategies to encourage implementation of these ideas. FORMAT: There will be at most 3 hour long lectures a day, and will be plenty of time for interaction between participants. In addition, we will have one or two panel discussions about the current state of the art, and strategies for implementing support for parallel computation. Before the workshop the organizers will create a preliminary strategic plan for parallel computation that will focus discussion during the workshop, and which will hopefully be significantly improved during the workshop. The talks will focus on the following topics: Parallel multimodular and p-adic methods for dense, sparse and black box linear algebra over finite fields, the rational numbers and rational functions (e.g., linear system solutions, matrix multiplication, determinants and characteristic polynomials, kernels, etc.) Parallel Groebner basis techniques, parallel triangular set construction Distributed general purpose integer factorization algorithms Uni- and multivariate polynomial arithmetic on large polynomials (high degree, many terms) such as multiplication, GCD, factorization, both for exact and approximate coefficients Parallel methods for searching for rational points on curves Distributed computation of large tables (e.g., elliptic curves, modular forms, data about L-functions, number fields, etc.) Applications of parallel computation to numerical problems, e.g., in differential equations, linear algebra, etc., tend to have been more fully developed than in algebraic areas, so we will invite experts in those areas in order to hear about techniques that have been successful at attacking those problems. In sum, we aim at the following benefits for the mathematical community: (a) new techniques and algorithms to exploit parallelism, (b) exposure of areas and problems that may benefit from these ideas, (c) a strategic assessment of how best to move the state of the art forward, and (d) a significant improvement of freely available general purpose software for mathematical research. A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hotel Durant. Please mention the workshop name and reference the following code when making reservations via phone, fax or e-mail: P50000. The cut-off date for reservations is January 5, 2006. A block of rooms has been reserved at the Rose Garden Inn. Reservations may be made by calling 1-800-992-9005 OR directly on their website. Click on Corporate at the bottom of the screen and when prompted enter code MATH (this code is not case sensitive). By using this code a new calendar will appear and will show MSRI rate on all room types available. The following Group Code should be entered in the "Comment" field when booking through our Website. Group Code = CGMS36. Please note: The Original Queen room type does not have an in-room T1 connection, but we do have WIFI available in our main lobby area. The cut-off date for reservations is January 8, 2007. Funding: The funding deadline has passed. Late funding requests will be considered only if additional funds become available.
Workshop page at the University of Washington
The goal of this workshop is to study and formulate practical parallel algorithms that support interactive mathematical research in algebra, geometry, and number theory, and to formulate strategies to encourage implementation and testing of these ideas. For more information please go to: http://sage.math.washington.edu/msri07/ Computer manufacturers have begun delivering multiprocessor machines onto desktops; indeed, this seems to be the only means for continuing the pace of cpu power growth that we have become accustomed to. At the moment, general purpose mathematical software packages rarely exploit parallelism, and this is especially true in the areas of algebra, geometry, number theory, and combinatorics. Dramatic advances in performance will only be possible if parallelism can be harnessed in ways that are transparent to users. We hope to bring together a diverse group of mathematics and computer science researchers and students to discuss algorithms, assess current prospects, and suggest ways to move forward. Talks and discussions will cover new algorithms that exploit parallelism, specific problems likely to benefit from dramatic speedups from parallelism, and strategies to encourage implementation of these ideas. FORMAT: There will be at most 3 hour long lectures a day, and will be plenty of time for interaction between participants. In addition, we will have one or two panel discussions about the current state of the art, and strategies for implementing support for parallel computation. Before the workshop the organizers will create a preliminary strategic plan for parallel computation that will focus discussion during the workshop, and which will hopefully be significantly improved during the workshop. The talks will focus on the following topics:
Parallel multimodular and p-adic methods for dense, sparse and black box linear algebra over finite fields, the rational numbers and rational functions (e.g., linear system solutions, matrix multiplication, determinants and characteristic polynomials, kernels, etc.)
Parallel Groebner basis techniques, parallel triangular set construction
Distributed general purpose integer factorization algorithms
Uni- and multivariate polynomial arithmetic on large polynomials (high degree, many terms) such as multiplication, GCD, factorization, both for exact and approximate coefficients
Parallel methods for searching for rational points on curves
Distributed computation of large tables (e.g., elliptic curves, modular forms, data about L-functions, number fields, etc.)
Applications of parallel computation to numerical problems, e.g., in differential equations, linear algebra, etc., tend to have been more fully developed than in algebraic areas, so we will invite experts in those areas in order to hear about techniques that have been successful at attacking those problems. In sum, we aim at the following benefits for the mathematical community: (a) new techniques and algorithms to exploit parallelism, (b) exposure of areas and problems that may benefit from these ideas, (c) a strategic assessment of how best to move the state of the art forward, and (d) a significant improvement of freely available general purpose software for mathematical research.
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hotel Durant. Please mention the workshop name and reference the following code when making reservations via phone, fax or e-mail: P50000. The cut-off date for reservations is January 5, 2006. A block of rooms has been reserved at the Rose Garden Inn. Reservations may be made by calling 1-800-992-9005 OR directly on their website. Click on Corporate at the bottom of the screen and when prompted enter code MATH (this code is not case sensitive). By using this code a new calendar will appear and will show MSRI rate on all room types available. The following Group Code should be entered in the "Comment" field when booking through our Website. Group Code = CGMS36. Please note: The Original Queen room type does not have an in-room T1 connection, but we do have WIFI available in our main lobby area. The cut-off date for reservations is January 8, 2007. Funding: The funding deadline has passed. Late funding requests will be considered only if additional funds become available.
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Parallelism perspectives for the LinBox library
Clement Pernet
Processor oblivious parallel algorithms with provable performances: applications
Programming Models for Parallel Computing
Katherine Yelick (University of California, Berkeley; Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)
Structure and Representations of Real Reductive Lie Groups: A Computational Approach
MPMPLAPACK: The Massively Parallel Multi-Precision Linear Algebra Package
Distributed Computing using SAGE
Combinatorial Designs: constructions, algorithms and new results
Ilias Kotsireas
Component-level Parallelization of Triangular Decompositions
Parallel sparsening and simplification of systems of equations
Winfried Neun, Thomas Wolf
Interactive Parallel Supercomputing: Today: MATLAB(r) and Python coming Cutting Edge: Symbolic Parallelism with Mathematica(r) and MAPLE(r)
Alan Edelman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Science at the petascale: tools in the tool box
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You are here: Home / Knock, Knock, Knock Unlock?
Knocking on your iPhone might get a few people looking at you strangely, but when your macbook magically unlocks, that will get even more looks.
That's the concept behind the new app, Knock. You simple knock on your iPhone twice and it will unlock your Macbook using bluetooth. This is a rather strange way to unlock your device, I personally wouldn't find it useful as a couple keystrokes seems just as easy as trying to find your iPhone to knock on it.
When you use Knock you of course can still unlock your Macbook with the regular login, this is just another method. The other issue with this app could be whether or not you actually want to consistently be knocking your iPhones screen. iPhones are well built but using this method over and over may cause problems.
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Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity är ett hack-and-slash-spel för Nintendo Switch utvecklat av Omega Force, publicerat av Koei Tecmo i Japan och av Nintendo världen över. Det är uppföljaren till Hyrule Warriors (2014) och en korsning mellan Nintendos Legend of Zelda-serie och Dynasty Warriors spelstil. Historien utspelar sig innan The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild och man får följa bl.a. Zelda, Link och de andra förkämparna när de försöker förhindra att Calamity Ganon släpps lös och tar över världen.  Age of Calamity släpptes den 20 november 2020.

Gameplay
Upplägget i detta spel skiljer sig en del från föregående Hyrule Warriors, vars handling och karaktärer var ett potpurri av olika Zelda-spel. Handlingen i Age of Calamity utspelar sig 100 år innan Breath of the Wild och karaktärerna är endast tagna från detta spel, med några nya tillägg.

Spelbara karaktärer
 Link
 Zelda
 Impa
 Mipha
 Daruk
 Revali
 Urbosa
 Hestu
 Sidon
 Yunobo
 Teba
 Riju
 Master Kohga
 King Rhoam
 Great Fairies
 Monk Maz Koshia
 Terrako

Utöver dessa kan man även i vissa sekvenser styra de fyra Divine Beasts; Vah Ruta, Vah Rudania, Vah Medoh samt Vah Naboris.

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