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Deaths, Films
Max Von Sydow, Star of HANNAH AND HER SISTERS, Has Died
The legendary Max Von Sydow has died at the age of 90. He influence of cinema is incalculable. He starred in some of cinema's greatest works. He inspired Woody Allen and the pair worked together once, memorably in 1986's Hannah And Her Sisters. Von Sydow's work with Ingmar Bergman are some of the finest films […]
10 Things About, Films
VIDEO: 10 Things About Mighty Aphrodite – Trivia, Cast, Locations, More
Our latest video essay looks at 1995's Mighty Aphrodite. It's a quiet little gem, with a sweet story, and one powerhouse performance. How well do you know it? Our video covers: 1. The one act play he wrote in 1995 2. The terrible TV movie of his breakup with Mia Farrow 3. His first time […]
Actors, Films
START TO FINISH, New Woody Allen Book By Eric Lax, Out Now
A new Woody Allen book is out now. Called Start to Finish: Woody Allen and the Art of Moviemaking, it is written by Eric Lax, who has been covering Allen since 1971, and has written three books about Allen to date. You can get the new book on Amazon US or Amazon UK. The new […]
Actors, Films, Interviews, Video Of the Week
VOTW: Film 95 Barry Norman Interview With Woody Allen
July 2, 2017 1 Comment
Tributes are pouring in for Barry Norman, the much loved and respected British film critic and TV host, who passed away. Norman was a mainstay on British TV for many decades, and a big fan if Allen's. Our video of the week is a full episode of Norman's show – Film 95 – devoted to […]
10 Things About, Actors, Films
10 Things About Husbands And Wives – Trivia, Music, Cast and More
We continue our video series with Husbands And Wives, a pivotal film in Allen's career. His last film with Farrow, it marked the end of Allen's most acclaimed era, and an argument could be made that he was never the same filmmaker again. Find out more about 1. The end of a relationship 2. Mia […]
VIDEO: 10 Things About ALICE – Trivia, Locations, Casting And More
Alice was Woody Allen's 19th film, and a big showcase for Mia Farrow. It is a feel good film with some great cinema magic, yet remains one of Allen's most obscure. Our latest video essay looks at this quietly lovely film. We dig into: 1. The song that taps into the Chinatown vibe 2. The […]
Actors, Deaths, Films, News Bits
Feb News Bits: Irwin Corey, Frank Pellegrino, Shah Rukh Khan, Dev Patel and More
News Bits! Our round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. This is the 100th edition! Holy crap. We've been doing this a long time! Irwin Corey has passed away. The world's oldest comedian, and commonly known as "the world's foremost authority" since the late 40s, and a hugely loved stand-up. He dabbled in […]
Actors, Films, Products
Crimes And Misdemeanors, Alice, Shadows And Fog UK Blu-Ray Set For April
Arrow Academy in the UK recently acquired the rights to 19 early Woody Allen films, and have collected them into lovely new Blu-Ray box sets and standalone discs. We now have release dates for the three final films in the series. Crimes And Misdemeanors, Alice and Shadows And Fog are all available on 3rd April. […]
Actors, Deaths, Films
Carrie Fisher 1956-2016 – Her Role In Woody Allen's Hannah And Her Sisters
Like the rest of the planet, we are so sad to hear about the death of Carrie Fisher. She suffered a heart attack days ago, and was in hospital ever since. There are a million tributes on the internet, and they don't seem to be enough to capture how much we all loved her. There's […]
5 Films (and a TV Show), Actors, Films
5 Films And A TV Show To Watch After Alice
5 Films (And A TV Show)… A series where we recommend films referenced, inspired, influenced or generally like a certain Woody Allen film, from his first to his latest. All picks are subjective – let the arguments begin! Allen has said himself that Alice is the humorous flip side to Another Woman. Our titular heroine […]
5 Films and TV Show To Watch After Another Woman
5 Films (And A TV Show)… A series where we recommend films referenced, inspired, influenced or generally like a certain Woody Allen film, from his first to his latest. All picks are subjective – let the arguments begin! Another Woman was the first time Allen handed over the lead of a film over to someone […]
VIDEO: 10 Things About Broadway Danny Rose – Trivia, Locations, Cameos, Music And More
We are continuing our video series, looking back at every Woody Allen film. We reach our 12th, Broadway Danny Rose, and that killer run of 80s films that feature Mia Farrow. For us, it has all the hallmarks of a perfect Allen film. But how well do you know it? We dig into: Allen's manager […]
Video: 10 Things About A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy – Trivia, Locations, Music And More
Our latest video takes a look at Woody Allen's 1982 film A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy. It is the start of an unbelievable decade for Allen, the start of ten films for a new studio, and eleven with Mia Farrow. But how well do you know it? Our new video explores 1. The play Allen […]
Actors, Films, News Bits, Television
Aug News Bits 1: Hugh Grant, Joy Behar, Ellen Garrison, Mike Coulter, Star Trek and more
News Bits! Our twice monthly round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. This is the 94th edition! Hugh Grant is out promoting Florence Foster Jenkins, the new film starring Manhattan's Meryl Streep. The film is directed by Stephen Frears, and Grant compared it to his Small Time Crooks director. He spoke to Variety. […]
Films, Products
Zelig Blu-Ray Out Now
Zelig is the latest Woody Allen film to come to Blu-Ray. The limited edition of just 3000 copies comes from Twilight Time, where you can purchase the new edition. It is the first time the film has been made available on Blu-Ray anywhere in the world. Here's the box art, and inlay art is above. […]
5 Films And A TV Show To Watch After The Purple Rose Of Cairo
5 Films (And A TV Show)… A new series where we recommend films referenced, inspired, influenced or generally like a certain Woody Allen film, from his first to his latest. All picks are subjective – let the arguments begin! The Purple Rose Of Cairo is the middle of a purple patch for Woody Allen. One […]
Films, Music, Music Of Woody Allen Films
Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered – Hannah And Her Sisters – Music Of Woody Allen Films
Music Of Woody Allen Films – an irregular feature about the musical compositions that have helped to make Allen's films sing. Hannah And Her Sisters is one of Allen's most beloved films – and it celebrates 30 years this year. However, it doesn't seem like there is one particular song that characterises the film. But […]
Woody Allen Talks Hilary Clinton, Donald Trump, Julie Gayet And More On French TV, Radio
Lots and lots of news coming out for Café Society in the days leading up to its world premiere on 11th May. All eyes are on the Cannes Film Festival, Allen has been in France doing interviews. The new interview from France TV. We can't embed the video, but you can watch it on their […]
Actors, Events, Films
Olivia Wilde To Direct Hannah And Her Sisters Live Read
Live reads are becoming all the rage. It's an opportunity for actors to pay tribute to a classic film, and perform classic roles. The New York Times and Film Independent have announced their latest – and it's Woody Allen's Hannah And Her Sisters, directed by Olivia Wilde. Hannah And Her Sisters, released in 1986, is […]
Actors, Films, Music, Music Of Woody Allen Films
Chameleon Days – Zelig – Music Of Woody Allen Films
Music Of Woody Allen Films – an irregular feature about the musical compositions that have helped to make Allen's films sing. Zelig was one of Woody Allen's longest and most ambitious productions. The faux documentary about a man who would physically change to fit in, it took us through the 20s with Allen and Mia […]
I'd fix Ted up with Helen Dubin, but they'd probably get into an argument over penis envy; the poor guy suffers from it so.
— Manhattan Murder Mystery


Q & A with Brian Williams - June 19, 2003.
Interview Conducted By Nigel "Tallman" Myers.
Note: This interview was conducted prior to Brian's appointment as Assistant Coach of the National Senior Team.
What really happened on November 19 th 1989? Trinidad & Tobago needed just a draw at home in order to book its first appearance at the World Cup finals, but instead lost out on that golden opportunity. There has been never ending speculation since that day as to what went wrong. Was it a mistake to travel all the way from the camp at Forest Reserve to Port-of-Spain on game day? Was it over confidence? Was it a lack of commitment? Give us your thoughts.
Obviously after November 19th 1989, we were in a better position to identify what went wrong, all our mistakes, and what we did and did not do. Yes, we would admit that there were some mistakes which I call oversights, or the occasion rose above the rest. What I am saying is that our entire World Cup campaign was spent at the camp in Forest Reserve. For all our home games we traveled from Forest Reserve and it was not a problem. Why I am saying it was an oversight and the occasion rose above the rest is that no one was expecting on the day of the match for people to flock the camp site in huge numbers. People formed human barriers on the highways, people literally blocked the road wherever they knew the team bus was passing and it seems to me that this created some sort of mental pressure on the players. I don't think it was anything like over confidence but we were all confident of the task ahead. Yes, there were concerns about doing things differently but we decided that we would continue doing the things that we usually did because those were the reasons why we were successful until that time. Which mean, and I would always say that the occasion rose above the rest and obviously we can admit that we made some mistakes. To me psychologically there were some problems, it's difficult for me to identify them but our key players never seemed to get off on that day and this was a major concern to the team. Sometimes things do happen for a reason and the team being very much spiritually inclined, we all have to say JAH KNOWS BEST. In the future, I do hope in all aspects that we learn from our mistakes.
Someone made an interesting comment that we did not even receive a yellow card in that game. In my eyes, it suggests that we did not play with any aggression. Was it a case of nerves or was the situation just overwhelming?
Not getting yellow cards in the game was not the issue. The real issue is that the team did not perform to its fullest potential. Everything was comfortable amongst the players but for some reason we did not perform as we were expected too, and this is the burning question even today among the players and the people of Trinidad and Tobago. Maybe some psychic or psychologist might be able to provide the answer to those questions.
You were cited as one (if not the only) player that gave his all that day. How do you rate your performance in that game?
Rating my performance is always difficult for me to do. I always leave it up to the people. Every time I go on the football pitch I play for the people, I play for Trinidad & Tobago. As a sportsman, I always try to give my best. On that day, I knew how important that game was because it's a footballer's dream to play at the highest level (the World Cup) and also for Trinidad & Tobago to advance to the World Cup.
Do you still reflect on that game and wonder what could have been?
Oh how wonderful that would have been. Obviously, that game has been painted permanently in our minds. If we had won that game, today we might have been all better off in many different aspects of our lives. But as I say, JAH KNOWS BEST.
What moments do you savor the most from your football career?
Uniting Trinidad & Tobago and our relationship with the young people of our nation, especially the school children.
How did it feel for your playing days to come to an end due to being banned for testing positive for marijuana? Do you see it as a blot on your career?
During that time, I was contemplating on retiring from competitive football. Yes, being banned confirmed my decision but I never saw it as a blot on my career. I am a Naturalist, I am a Rastaman, with no apologies. I served Trinidad and Tobago football with great pride, honesty and sincerity. I have no regrets.
Since November 19th 1989, the football fortunes of the United States and Trinidad & Tobago have gone in opposite directions. In the case of the former, it has gone from strength to strength, whilst in the case of the latter, it has gone steadily downhill. We have more players playing professionally in foreign leagues but the national game has suffered. Why do think this is the case?
After November 19th 1989 it seems to me that the TTFF had no continuation plan. We were all focused on qualifying for the World Cup and did not have a contingency plan in the event of not fulfilling that task. We were left in no man's land. I always say it is important for the TTFF to have a proper plan and structure that would be able to take our football from point A to point B. Unless we have those things in place, we would always be recounting various problems. It is sad to know that the standard of football that Trinidad & Tobago was playing in the late 80s early 90s have deteriorated so tremendously. In the wake of revitalizing football in T&T I do hope that the TTFF would recognize all of their mistakes, forget personalities and work in the best interest of football in Trinidad & Tobago.
Recently we have had a string of poor results against Caribbean teams who we used to trounce on a regular basis. Does this indicate that those teams have gotten better or does it indicate that we have regressed?
As we all can recognize, the football gap in the world today has narrowed tremendously. Due to modern technology, there is no secret in the game today , but definitely our football as regressed a lot.
Our most successful coaches (Everald "Gally" Cummings and Bertille St. Clair) have been local coaches. Why do we feel that we have to look abroad when our locals have demonstrated that they are up to the task?
This is a question that the TTFF would have to answer. It is probably symptomatic of the old saying, "local ting nah good, foreign better". But they should remember that the times when the Trinidad & Tobago teams performed at its best were under local coaches.
Do you have any aspirations to be part of the national setup at any level?
I always do. I have spent all of my life in football. Football has given me the majority of the things that I have achieved in life thus so far and now it is time for me to give back something to the game. Trinidad & Tobago football is always close to my heart and I'm very much optimistic that one day we will do well. What I did not achieve as a player I would like to achieve as a coach.
As a former national player, were you supportive of the strike that was carried out by the national team earlier this year or did you think that it was a bad idea?
I don't have all the details and reasons for the strike but due to my past experience as a player in Trinidad and Tobago the players don't have a voice and this is not right. All over the world in leading footballing nations there are players associations and in T&T there is none. The TTFF must be mature enough to accept an association of its kind; too long players are treated with disrespect when they are the main ingredient in the game. I as a coach now always work in the best interest of the players but the players also have to recognize that they have a responsibility too. So if the strike was bona-fide and in the interest of the players then I would say that I supported the strike.


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NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden May Be a Ron Paul Supporter (and Libertarian?)
J.D. Tuccille | 6.9.2013 7:29 PM
(The Guardian)
Edward Snowden, NSA whistleblower, former CIA worker and more-recent employee of defense contractor, Booz Allen, may also have contributed money to Ron Paul's presidential campaign during the 2012 election season. We know from the reports in the Guardian and from Booz Allen, itelf, that he worked most recently in Hawaii, and OpenSecrets lists an Edward Snowden of Waipahu, Hawaii, making a $250 donation to then-Rep. Ron Paul on May 6, 2012. An Edward Snowden of Columbia, Maryland, made a contribution to the Ron Paul campaign in the same amount two months earlier.
OpenSecrets
Snowden also told the Guardian that "I voted for a third party" on the presidential line in 2008, rather than either of the major party candidates, though he doesn't say which party he supported. He held out hope for Obama, but that was dashed as the new president continued and expanded the surveillance state.
It's not certain, though it seems likely, that at least the Waipahu Edward Snowden is the same one who exposed far-reaching NSA surveillance. Whistleblower Snowden also worked for Dell, identified as the employer of the Maryland-based Ron Paul supporter. A disgust with intrusive government that continues to relentlessly expand its effort to monitor people's communications and worries that "they are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them" isn't proof of explicitly libertarian sympathies, but it certainly indicates somebody with similar concerns. A couple of checks cut to the Ron Paul campaign make a similar case.
NEXT: Opposition to Snooping Unites Liberals and Libertarians
J.D. Tuccille is a contributing editor at Reason.
NSA Edward Snowden Ron Paul
Show Comments (174)
June.9.2013 at 7:40 pm
Looks like he's a libertarian, so the JournoLists have their talking point now.
Who knows, he might even be a Reason reader! If by some chance you're reading these threads Mr. Snowden, thank you, and keep your head down.
hmmm… who hasn't been posting lately? 😉
Sevo
Pretty sure it's not MNG.
Safe bet:
MNG= PhD
Snowden= no HS diploma or GED.
SIV| 6.9.13 @ 7:57PM |#
Uh, MNG = (claimed) PhD; /= PhD.
SeaCaptain(Yokeltarian)
Snowden was making more than most PhDs…
I really hope he isn't sarcasmic. I'd sure miss all the Daily Mail links!
My employer doesn't pay me for my work, so I do the Daily Fails on their tab. No way I'd do it on my own time.
VG Zaytsev
June.9.2013 at 11:21 pm
John's some kind of government contractor, isn't he?
Virginian
Lawyer, not a tech guy.
Californian?
Gbob
Considering the expected lifespan of Mr. Snowden, perhaps we should claim Shrike is Snowden's alias. After the bootlicker gets a drone strike through his window he'll consider the possibility that his messiah has feet of clay.
"After the bootlicker gets a drone strike through his window he'll consider the possibility that his messiah has feet of clay."
No he won't. He'll claim is was better than a Bush drone.
PALEACRITA
It was me. I stopped spamming the comments, cleaned up my life, got a Bachelors in Espionage, and went to work for the NSA. When I saw the crazy shit that they were doing, I remembered why I became a Reason reader in the first place.
Thanks commentariat, and remember with honor!
Eduard van Haalen
"Will Senator Rand Paul distance himself from the traitor who donated to his father's campaign? Film at 11."-MSM
Some call me Tim?
Don't kid yourself, the MSM isn't paying Rand Paul that much mind.
PapayaSF
The MSM, and the left in general, is not about to suddenly call leakers "traitors." They aren't stupid, and know they are in a bind here.
Via Instapundit: Yes we scan
Yeah. There are loads of liberals who are not pleased with Obama because of exactly things like this. Of course they voted for him anyway, because republicans are racist and hate women or something. But the defend Obama at all costs crew is not the entire left.
Words are wind. They voted for him. That's all that matters.
Not when you are talking about what people might be writing or saying about him now.
BoscoH
Fucking Reason better not be giving my metadata away!
They're selling it.
yonemoto
+10 internets
I guess Edward is not me, despite my having a WAIPAHU MAILING ADDRESS.
Actually, I bet he lives in my parent's neighborhood. Most of Waipahu is an ex-filipino slum (it used to be the japanese slum before that). My parents live in the newfangled complex that sprung up around a golf course in the last 10 years.
yonemoto| 6.9.13 @ 9:56PM |#
We're on to you, yonemoto!
/s/ Obama
mr lizard
Sheesh I guess the NSA work paid well. I was only able to cough up 25 bucks for Ron last election.
Guardian article said $200k. That in and of itself pisses me off.
You're surprised you can make bank by sucking government cock?
Gotta mention, if the guy self-identifys (or gets identified) as libertarian, there is going to be some SERIOUS cognitive dissonance among lefties claiming to favor civil liberties.
Regardless of the legal fallout, the cultural issues are going to be interesting to watch.
We should get a nice new hate on libertarians from the progtards. Michael Lind is probably warming up at his keyboard right now.
MJGreen
Is that the euphemism these days?
They're already claiming that he isn't "really" a civil libertarian, since supporting Ron Paul means he's an evil neo-confederate who was just out to "get" the country's first black President.
You're seeing that? Where?
crashland
Believing in civil liberties and holding the rights protected by the constitution as sacred is pre-911 thinking. What good is being able to communicate with your friends without the government trawling your data if your dead?
That about sums up the gist of a lot of the comments I've scanned from both "conservatives" and "liberals." Only freaks and traitors really care about civil liberties and have you seen the average Ron Paul supporter? Bunch of weirdos. Maybe their reactions will help to yank the "liberal" mask from the fascist, progressive face.
I can understand a gut negative reaction to leakers, but isn't everybody employed by the feds supposed to be protecting and defending the constitution? Isn't that what the job of POTUS is supposed to be? Snowden isn't the traitor, the pieces of shit waving their hands and calling the governments actions legal, those are the traitors. The elected officials who knew about this and didn't tell us about it, they are traitors. I'd really like to know the specific names of congress members who were briefed on these things and the dates of those briefings.
Maybe their reactions will help to yank the "liberal" mask from the fascist, progressive face.
That's been the one redeeming thing in the time since the election — watching the mask slip.
The proggies have really been going nuts for the last few months, justifying anything and everything, and calling for all kinds of restrictions and crack downs.
There's a mask?
crashland| 6.9.13 @ 8:02PM |#
'Better read than dead'
1950s; wrong.
Ooops:
'Better RED than dead'
Teaching Student
So much for "Live Free or Die" then huh?
Yeah, especially when the guy objected to it on his license plate and got busted.
Hell, I work in Recreation and I swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution.
Teaching Student| 6.9.13 @ 9:31PM |#
Yeah, but you might have meant it!
Paleoconservative
The views of the left toward these companies show its hypocrisy. These have been lobbying congress for more mass immigration to lower the cost of workers, and instead of treating them like robber barons trying to buy our political process, they are treated as authoritative sources who have no other motives whatsoever. Why would these companies want to mess up that relationship by refusing to do what the NSA says?
Paleoconservative| 6.9.13 @ 8:05PM |#
"The views of the left toward these companies show its hypocrisy…,."
Oops, wrong thread. That was supposed to be a comment on the other article about the tech companies who gave the NSA the information.
Telecommunications companies hire a lot of unskilled immigrants? And shouldn't that be massiveImmigration?
KDN
Oh, loads. The IBEW loves them some wetback. In fact, Verizon just released a plan to forego the purchase of replacement cherry pickers and pole trucks in favor of teams of Guatemalans with pickaxes forming human ladders.
Hong Kong is where China uses the Triad gangs to scare pro-democracy Hong Kongers into emigrating elsewhere.
This guy isn't too bright and is overly paranoid.
I would've gone with Ecuador based on them shielding Assange.
Whether you think what he did is worthwhile/legit/treason/whatever — I think the supposed treatment of Manning justifies any level of paranoia for anyone planning to leak something.
I know of I was going to, all anyone would know about me is a public key.
Maybe there's a benefit to being known. Can't be disappeared as easily…
Lyle| 6.9.13 @ 8:05PM |#
Cite, please.
affenkopf
This. Given that they had tens of thousands at a recent commemoration of Tiananmen Square the triads would have a lot of work to do.
Well, for one I've been to Hong Kong and talked to people. I was told face to face by some Hong Kong attorneys that this is what has happened to some people. Specifically there was a radio host who was scared out of Hong Kong and moved to Canada.
I also happened to be there when they had their annual Tiananmen protest. Yeah, Hong Kong, has freedom of speech and people are allowed to protest. I saw a guy waving a Taiwanese flag which is kind of a big deal on the mainland. So what though? Hong Kong is ultimately controlled by the PRC and they will go after whomever they want to.
You people are ignorant and stupid if you think Hong Kong is a safe place for someone to be who is anti-authoritarian.
I was wondering where would be the best place, myself. Iceland, maybe? They gave asylum to Bobby Fischer, and aren't seen as a security threat.
Don Mynack
From the Guardian article on Snowden:
"Yes, I could be rendered by the CIA. I could have people come after me. Or any of the third-party partners. They work closely with a number of other nations. Or they could pay off the Triads. Any of their agents or assets," he said.
"We have got a CIA station just up the road ? the consulate here in Hong Kong ? and I am sure they are going to be busy for the next week. And that is a concern I will live with for the rest of my life, however long that happens to be."
Seems he knows something about both the Triads, and the sham "diplomatic" U.S. consulate nearby. Seems he chose his location for a specific reason, one that he is not revealing at this time.
James Fallows who knows something about China seems to agree with me on Hong Kong being a bad place to be.
I don't really agree with a lot of what Fallows has to say, but he's right to think Hong Kong is not a good place to be for someone like this guy.
http://www.theatlantic.com/pol…..ng/276692/
Good for Snowden. He should even be given asylum in Canada as a contientious (sp?) objector.
I vaguely remember the CO status anti-war citizens were given during the dreadfully useless Vietnam War. Right-wingers were saying "USA – love it or leave it". Well now Snowden is doing just that.
Palin's Buttplug| 6.9.13 @ 8:10PM |#
Yeah, since Obozo is a right-winger, right dipshit?
Please stop responding to it like it's saying something worth thinking about.
Obama is considered right-wing by silly progressives.
Besides the WOT stuff there is his private insurance market-based health care plan, his friendliness with Silicon Valley and Wall Street, his free trade positions, his pro-fracking, pro-nuke, pro-drilling energy policies, his tax cuts for small business, and so on.
Stuff you guys don't hear about on Fox News and this site.
Are you a liberal or do you just sympathize with them?
I am an old-fashioned classic liberal. Socially extremely liberal, pro-markets, pro-free trade, anti-tariff, pro-immigration, and a hardcore secularist.
You will hate me no doubt.
Join the crowd here.
"I am an old-fashioned classic liberal."
You're a lying sack of shit.
Shreek: "Hey, look over THERE!"
Go fuck your daddy, dipshit.
Just to be clear, dipshit, I can't remember ever watching Fox News, and to be honest, it's been many (how many? dunno) years since I watched TV news at all.
So, dipshit, go fuck your daddy.
Spoonman.
Well, I watched Fox News on election day for the glorious salty ham tears.
hotsy totsy
He has a libertarian look to him.
Looks white to me.
Doesn't exactly prove he's libertarian just because he supported Paul. I supported Paul, but you guys would never in a million years consider me libertarian. There are many reasons people supported Paul, for many, he was the anti-war candidate. This seems to be a pattern here, some figure is considered "libertarian" because of what they said about the drug war or something, until they come out and say how idiotic they think libertarianism is. And then there are those "Reason-Rupe polls" that say that 19% of people are "libertarian" because they agree with some vague statement like "the government should stay out of economic and personal matters." The simple fact is that libertarianism ain't all that popular.
The LP Purity Test is admittedly very difficult. I scored 94/100 yet failed anyway.
You can't just work to make government smaller – a Pure LPer wants to eviscerate it totally. Unless it is the abortion surveillance state of course. Then LPers are "split" on abortion to appease their GOP rulers.
So what do the LPers believe in? A "theft surveillance state?" A "murder surveillance state?" A "fraud surveillance state?"
Why are you talking to it like its opinions are worth anything?
It's stinking up the thread with its urine soaked trousers.
PC here is clearly new, and not familiar with shreek's assbaggery.
"The LP Purity Test is admittedly very difficult…"
Yeah, dipshit. You fail as it requires someone with a nodding acquaintance with the concepts of reality and truth. Plus the medical requirement of a brain-cell.
Generic Stranger
This is hilarious. Shriek is commiserating with a racist asshole over not being a libertarian.
Well, I guess it's appropriate, given they're both neo-facists.
Fascism is a form of Conservatism (assuming you meant that instead of "facist").
Fascism is a form of socialism. Whether it's conservative or not depends on what your current political system is.
This. Facism creates a command economy while keeping the illusion of property rights in place. As such, it's basically socialism lite.
*fascism.
"Fascism is a form of Conservatism"
Cite missing, dipshit.
Definition of fascism
[mass noun]
an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
(in general use) extreme right-wing, authoritarian, or intolerant views or practices: this is yet another example of health fascism in action
The term Fascism was first used of the totalitarian right-wing nationalist regime of Mussolini in Italy (1922?43); the regimes of the Nazis in Germany and Franco in Spain were also Fascist. Fascism tends to include a belief in the supremacy of one national or ethnic group, a contempt for democracy, an insistence on obedience to a powerful leader, and a strong demagogic approach
http://oxforddictionaries.com/…..sm?view=uk
From the Fascist Manifesto:
The quick enactment of a law of the state that sanctions an eight-hour workday for all workers;
A minimum wage;
The participation of workers' representatives in the functions of industry commissions;
To show the same confidence in the labor unions (that prove to be technically and morally worthy) as is given to industry executives or public servants;
Reorganisation of the railways and the transport sector;
Revision of the draft law on invalidity insurance;
Reduction of the retirement age from 65 to 55.
A strong progressive tax on capital (envisaging a "partial expropriation" of concentrated wealth);
The seizure of all the possessions of the religious congregations and the abolition of all the bishoprics, which constitute an enormous liability on the Nation and on the privileges of the poor;
Quite the right wing political movement, Shrike! Plus, my citation is way better since it actually quotes the Fascist Manifesto, instead of a secondary source.
But Hitler quickly banned labor unions and collective bargaining. I am referring to actual fascism – not some American adoption of it that never came to fruition.
How is the Fascist manifesto "an American adoption?" And, fwiw, the Nazis did not claim to be Fascist.
Idiot, the Fascist Manifest was WRITTEN by Benito Mussolini. This is actual fascism, as in the type of fascism that Benito Mussolini created. This is the actual type of Fascism that was adopted by Italian Fascists before Nazi Germany was even a glint in Hitler's eye.
Try to keep up.
"But Hitler quickly banned labor unions and collective bargaining"
You really are an ignoramus, aren't you? Did you also read how Hitler distributed pelf to the various factions (including "labor") as need required? Read here:
"The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy"
http://www.amazon.com/Wages-De…..estruction
Re: Palin's Buttwipe,
But Hitler quickly banned labor unions and collective bargaining.
So did Stalin. What's your point, shriek?
Actual Fascism is what Mussolini did, not Nazism.
"Fascism tends to include a belief in the supremacy of one national or ethnic group, a contempt for democracy, an insistence on obedience to a powerful leader, and a strong demagogic approach"
And that is right-wing as opposed to, oh, Stalin exactly how?
Hell, how is that right-wing compared to Barack Obama?
Fascism tends to include a belief in the supremacy of one national or ethnic group
See Obama's bizarre desire to start some sort of trade war with China and his hatred of those damn Rethuglican bitter clingers.
a contempt for democracy
His hatred of OBSTRUCTIONIST HOUSE REPUBLICANS! is a pretty good example of contempt for Democracy and the rule of law.
an insistence on obedience to a powerful leader
A self-evident fact that anyone who has ever dealt with an Obama Zombie can attest to.
and a strong demagogic approach
"HOPE AND CHANGE!"
-crowd cheers-
Or just see how he bristles at any suggestion of public oversight of his panopticon state.
Buttwipe, just so I could have the frame of reference within which the good people that wrote that definition you provided on Fascism think, I looked at their definition of Socialism, and I was almost given the description of Paradise itself:
a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
No reference to the "left-wing" qualifier as a way to distinguish it from their definition of Fascism. No, socialism is universal and good. Clearly you searched and researched for that very definition that would confirm your bias, even if that definition was, with little doubt, dishonest.
The only difference between fascism and socialism is the role of nationalism in the governing mythos. Fascism claims to speak for and enhance the nation while socialism claims to have an international, non nationalist orientation. However the socialism converges with fascism in actual practice, despite the theoretical distinction.
If by right wing you mean nationalistic and authoritarian, then Fascism is right wing. It is also quite socialistic. Right wing means different things in different places and times.
Fascism is whatever the individual hates. For some, it is conservatism, for others socialism. My beliefs bear little resemblance to those of Italian Fascism during the thirties, but it is a convenient snarl word. Some libertarian see any system that does not have open borders and no government to be "fascist." My beliefs are close to those of Jefforsonian liberals and traditional American conservatives, but it is much easier to argue with the ghost of an Italian dictator.
Actually, Fascism is the system created by Mussolini in Italy.
The simple fact is that libertarianism ain't all that popular.
Neither is racist anti-black bigotry, American. But that never stopped you.
This guy is American? What'd he say this time?
What did I say that proves I'm a "racist anti-black bigot" to you? Not saying I'm not, just wondering.
Yep, he's a white, 18-35 year old male….and most likely comments here.
JeremyR
Even if he is, isn't it kind of creepy pointing this out?
I had a snow den up in the Catskills but then Hurricane Sandy happened and Christie confiscated it.
Sanjuro Tsubaki
I think he's a fan of Toshiro Mifune and teen vampire fiction. What do you think?
deified
This poor bastard is going to suffer from an "accident" soon.
Do you think Obama chuckles maniacally when he strikes someone's name from the "kill list"? Because I'm assuming he does.
I wonder if he setup a dead man's switch. I suppose it does no good if they don't know you have it, and it's probably tricky to have it hosted somewhere (paying for the hosting and such).
Which also brings up the point, though, that if you do have a switch setup, and cause too much trouble, eventually it becomes worthwhile just to get him out of the way and take scandal when the switch trips.
SweatingGin| 6.9.13 @ 9:09PM |#
In one of the other threads on the issue, there was a quote saying he had not released all the data he has,
So if there isn't a dead-man's switch, he's hinting there might be.
Yea, true. Seems like you need the threat of it to be effective — like the doomsday device in Dr. strangelove.
CatoTheElder
"Anybody in the positions of access with the the technical capabilities that I had could, you know, suck out secrets and pass them on the open market to Russia. You know, they always have an open door, as we do. I had access, you know, to the full rosters of everybody at the CIA, of everyone working at the NSA, the higher intelligence community, undercover assets all over the world, the locations of every station we have, what their missions are and so forth.
"If I had just wanted to harm the US, you could shut down the surveillance system in an afternoon, but that's not my intention."
Probably he has an app out their that he has to log in to every week or so.
It's called Biden. Oh, wait, you were talking about Snowden.
alan_s
"This poor bastard is going to suffer from an 'accident' soon."
That might be one of the reasons he made a public appearance. Gonna be harder to just make him disappear now.
"Eye Of The Beholder" is on the speakers right now. Oh my sweet friend Irony.
WomSom
Encrypt everything! Phone calls, emails, hard drives, everything!
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Talkin' yer book, anonbot?
Soon it will be revealed that Anonbot works for the NSA.
Warrren
Well, it's not me.
Caleb Turberville
I await the new episode of 24 where Jack Bauer tries to intimidate Snowden by shooting him in the knee and yelling "WHAT IS YOUR PRIMARY OBJECTIVE?!"
ThorEastwood
I'd honestly be shocked if he wasn't libertarian. He's unconventional, bright, suspicious of power, and works in the tech industry.
I bet he plays violent, misogynistic first-person shooters as well. He fits the libertarian psychological profile to a T.
And I bet he forces hobos and orphans to eat foie gras.
Foie gras purchased at the new Wal-Mart that came to town, outcompeting the local mom-&-pops which were forced to turn into brick-and-mortal bookstores, which sold Ayn Rand and Henry Hazlitt, until Amazon, which doesn't have to pay taxes, forced them out of business!
Brick and mortal? I prefer to shop with Milo Morai.
Broseph of Invention
If he's libertarian, then how do you explain the girlfriend?
Honest answer. Not pretending I'm any less shallow than the ladies either.
$200k a year will draw some pussy.
UCrawford
I will say this…while I agree that what the NSA was doing is wrong, and while I agree that it needs to stop, and while agree with his purported motives, this guy just added an extra layer of scrutiny to every libertarian holding a security clearance (and there are a lot of us) from here on out. The clearance process is arbitrary as it is, and now those libertarians are going to have to be a lot more quiet about their beliefs if they don't want to be viewed with suspicion or want access to higher level programs.
While some might say that this is not really much of a loss, having libertarians working on programs that shouldn't exist, it's worth keeping in mind that many of these libertarians eventually work their way into positions where they can (and do) eventually change things for the better. This guy's admission gives them an excuse to exclude us from having influence within the system simply by our affiliation with the libertarian ideology.
He should have taken this to Congress…not the press. Amash, or Rand Paul, or Wyden. By going outside, he jeopardizes libertarians' ability to gain knowledge of these programs and to combat them from within…and now he ties libertarians to people like Aldrich Ames and Robert Hansen in the liberal narrative. I realize many here won't agree with me about this, but that's how I see it.
Agree with his sentiment…but how he handled it was all wrong. And what's more, I suspect he would have received protection as a whistleblower had he taken it to Sens. Paul or Wyden. Now the government can, correctly, label him as a malcontent and undercut his views and treat him as a criminal, within the bounds of the law.
UCrawford| 6.9.13 @ 9:50PM |#
…"I suspect he would have received protection as a whistleblower had he taken it to Sens. Paul or Wyden"
Yeah, that way the lefties could just claim it was some "invention" of those silly people.
There is no one who knows the "right" way of putting this info out there, but coming from the Guardian isn't too bad.
I like The Guardian (despite their leftiness) and think Glenn Greenwald is great…but that still doesn't change my main point that it now gives Obama (or whatever big government asshole who follows him) an opening to declare *any* libertarian an enemy and to exclude us from the hi level stuff.
The libertarians who work on these projects may not be able to stop them…but we're better off having some influence within the system than none. And we have influence now. To be honest, I meet more libertarians in the military and in contracting than I ever have in the civilian world.
Obama has been treating libertarians (and the military, and contractors) as enemies for years now.
Sure…but he also hasn't been able to pull clearances from them simply because he doesn't like them. This creates a plausible reason to treat libertarians with clearances as a potential threat.
UCrawford,
I'm sorry, but your fear is irrelevant.
The NSA/DIA/CIA/FBI/IRS nexus has become a praetorian guard, an organization that can destroy anyone who seriously threatens their power or their livelihoods.
Do your really think a Rand Paul with access to these documents could stop them?
Only the widest dissemination could create a scenario where these organizations could be called into account.
The fact is that while you are waiting to get into that position of power where you can dial one little aspect down from 11 to 10 for a time, this unholy alliance of control freaks gets more powerful, more deeply embadded and less accountable.
The way he's handling it is far better than what you propose. What you propose would end with him taking a dirt nap with no one the wiser.
I suspected you'd be one of those who disagreed with me, Tarran, being one of "those" anarchists. 🙂
I will say that I work in this field now, interacting with people from some of those agencies you mentioned above, and the mindset of all of the people you're talking about is nowhere close to that unified.
They didn't swear a blood oath to Obama…they swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and the lawful orders of the President. Many of them take the Constitution part of it very seriously (myself included).
I'm sure that's true. But many of them don't take it very seriously. Or they report to someone who doesn't. Or they see bad things happen and don't do anything, in which case it doesn't matter.
I don't know your level of experience with the military or contracting or the intelligence community, but I've seen the exact opposite in my own experience there (over a decade).. Most of the people I work with take their oath to uphold the Constitution very seriously…and will actively speak up or fight when they feel what they see is wrong.
At one of the jobs I worked on, we scuttled a request from DHS that we felt had serious potential to come into conflict with the law and Constitutional restrictions…several of the leaders in the office threatened to quit over it. Once we brought our concerns to DHS's attention, the request was quickly dropped and never brought up again (probably because DHS hadn't really thought through the problems before making their inquiries).
If there is a libertarian purge doesn't this mean they'll some of their best and brightest people?
I don't know about that, but I do know that they'll lose an important perspective in a culture prone to groupthink.
Nobody is going to believe the narrative that he is comparable to Ames and Hanssen, because it's so manifestly absurd on its face.
What about its absurdity disqualifies it from working? 99% of Obama's rationalizations for Obamacare were absurd…people still bought in and it passed. His rationale for assassinating al-Awlaki's kid was absurd. People bought it.
Libertarians are insane and want to destroy America and make it look bad, as evidenced by this libertarian exposing top secret information and fleeing to China. They did/do the same thing with non-Soviet communists who wanted clearances. Or people married to foreign nationals from allied countries. Or people who look a little too irresponsible with money. They can easily make up an excuse to pull access off of this, and sell it with an absurd comparison. Obama *thrives* on absurd explanations.
Hell, they were pulling security clearances from people under Bush by fabricating mental instability in employees less than a decade ago…to get rid of people who disagreed with policy. That seemed absurd at the time too when people claimed that's what was happening, that it was too absurd for the Bush administration to even attempt it…but it was what they did, and it worked.
That one is new to me. Got a link? It makes no sense to me because a security clearance is not a right or entitlement. Can't they just pull it and not say why?
I can't find the original story I was thinking of, but this one touches on it. Accusing whistleblowers with security clearances of psychological instability was one of the Bush administration's tactics to silence and discredit them.
And no, you can't just arbitrarily pull someone's clearance…there has to be a reason for it. It's designed that way to prevent political pressure from dictating the outcome of intelligence analysis through coercive means.
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General Butt Naked
While some might say that this is not really much of a loss, having libertarians working on programs that shouldn't exist, it's worth keeping in mind that many of these libertarians eventually work their way into positions where they can (and do) eventually change things for the better.
Like what? Not do their jobs? If you listen to the guy's interview he implies that he tried to change the culture and didn't get anywhere.
As for trusting a congressman with your life, I don't know whether to be appalled or amused at the naivety of such a laughable proposition.
He was a computer technician, not a project manager. I'm talking about the libertarians who actually end up in management positions…which some do.
And he was at Booz Allen for three months. So I don't know where you got the idea that he was somehow acting out of an ability to change things at his job.
"…inability to change things at his job."
I don't know why that quadruple posted…sorry.
Did I just have a flashback?
I got the idea from the interview.
But over time that awareness of wrongdoing sort of builds up and you feel compelled to talk about. And the more you talk about the more you're ignored. The more you're told its not a problem until eventually you realize that these things need to be determined by the public and not by somebody who was simply hired by the government.
I'd really like to hear more about how a libertarian can attain a high position in the national security apparatus, do nothing that compromises his beliefs and, at the same time, reduce the purview and funding of his department (that is, without shifting those thing to another department).
I didn't say that you do nothing that compromises your beliefs in government work. Sorry, but so long as there's a government there are always going to be instances in which you're going to have to make choices that go against what you'd prefer to see happen. I'm saying that they're in a position to work against the more egregious abuses from within.
And undercutting abuses from within happens all the time, through normal channels. After all, it was the military JAG heads who were the strongest voices against Bush's military tribunals sham…operating from within the system. It was the Secretary of Defense who pushed the issue of removing DADT, before they were mandated to do so by the courts, when Obama could have cared less about it. It was dissent from the generals that eventually pushed out Donald Rumsfeld during his disastrous stint as SECDEF. It was the Supreme Court that shot down most of the abuses of detainees that Bush tried to legitimize in the courts.
Libertarians can pretend all they want that they're too good to be part of something as coercive and "anti-freedom" as the government…but only by being part of it are you actually going to have a voice in it. Absent involvement, we'll always be dismissed as a bunch of lazy fringe contrarians.
johnl
Interesting second thoughts UCrawford. Or should I say Snowden?
Nooge.
It's not really important, but…they were paying this guy $200k a year? Fuck. I know physicians who don't clear nearly that much. He did well for someone without an overpriced degree.
Yup…you get paid well in salary as a contractor if you have a high level clearance and IT certifications to work on classified systems. The downside of contracting is that you have zero job security because you're an at-will employee. Once the contract expires or is up for rebid, you're looking for another job, possibly in another country, where the job security is just as bad.
Dude, outside the federal government EVERYBODY is an at-will employee. I have job security because I am good at my job.
Yes, but in the contracting sector the loss of your job has only to do with your specific contract and not much at all to do with how well your company is doing.
You don't really have much control over the success or failure of your position in contracting. It's sometimes that way in the real private sector, but not to the same degree. I do agree, though, that both have inherently more risk than being a government employee.
Tulpa (LAOL-VA)
Oh great. This ought to make getting a security clearance even more fun given my RP donations in 08 and 12.
I see a cavity search in your future.
I was just thinking this. Damn, I hope my TWIC card goes through.
I need one of those fucking things too.
Audit time? Glad I don't have to deal with a security clearance.
Tulpa (LAOL-VA)| 6.9.13 @ 9:50PM |#
"Oh great…."
Don't worry Tulpa. You always say the magic 'I love government' words.
Even though your mouth will be full they will understand you.
Gotta slurp at that government cock harder, Tulpa.
Here ya go.
"The only friend I had was Snowden and I didn't know him."
Well, at least it's the government running the surveillance program instead of Google. At least I can feel safe knowing that even if the government is watching, nobody has a fucking clue what they're doing.
In honor of Mr. Snowden: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki36tXIZZsk
For some reason, I like to drive fast to this song. Makes me feel like I'm in a Micheal Mann film.
"Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?"
I certainly got the impression, just from watching the interview, that he was probably a libertarian, or at least leaned that way. Regardless, hats off to him. That's one courageous move on his part.
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McLaren's Most Extreme Road Car Yet: The Senna
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British sports- and supercar manufacturer McLaren has announced what it dubs its "most extreme road car yet", and in doing so has departed from tradition by bestowing it with a name rather than a bunch of letters and numbers. So, no surprises for guessing that they didn't name it after the English commuter town in which the company is based (for no one in their right mind would surely call a supercar "Woking"), or that they came up instead with the moniker of the former McLaren pilot who many say was the greatest Formula 1 driver of all – that of the late Ayrton Senna.
A road-legal but highly track-focussed machine that's conventionally powered by a twin-turbocharged petrol V8, the McLaren Senna is clearly a development of the company's recently announced 720S supercar. For the Senna, with full carbon-fibre monocoque and chassis, it's been further slimmed down to a smidgeon under 1,200kg – and given that its engine has been massaged to produce 798bhp and a staggering 800Nm, this means an incredible power-to-weight ratio of more than 660 horses per tonne. Further contributing to the track orientation are the RaceActive Chassis Control hydraulic suspension and what McLaren claims to be the most advanced brakes it's ever fitted to a road car.
With so much advanced aero fitted to the Senna, its form is less beautiful than it is brutally, functionally aggressive. The uncompromising beast is certainly attention grabbing, though, not least for the optional glass apertures in the lower sections of the dihedral doors, through which its occupants' legs can be viewed, doubtless shaking violently.
There's no point in trying to order a Senna, however: all 500 in the limited-edition run have already been snapped up.
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SunLife's annual stop-loss report shows more of the same –high-cost claims continue to trend upward. Over the four-year study period of 2014-2017, the number of members with claims totaling at least $1 million increased by 87%. High-cost injectable drugs, such as those used in cancer treatments, are clearly a driver. The report noted that total paid charges of injectables associated with $1 million plus claims increased 80%.
To understand what's behind those trend numbers, take a look at the list of individual high-cost claims. At the top is an individual with a metabolic/immunity disorder (who is under age 40) with an annual treatment cost of $6.7 million. Believe it or not, I found this number surprisingly low. I've seen claims more than three times this amount.
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Interspecific Competition is Prevalent and Stabilizes Plant Production in a Brackish Marsh Facing Sea Level RiseDOI: info:10.1007/s12237-021-01043-9Springer
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Existing land uses constrain climate change mitigation potential of forest restoration in IndiaDOI: info:10.1111/conl.12867Wiley
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Joint effects of climate, tree size, and year on annual tree growth derived from tree-ring records of ten globally distributed forestsDOI: info:10.1111/gcb.15934Wiley
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Salinity has little effect on photosynthetic and respiratory responses to seasonal temperature changes in black mangrove () seedlingsDOI: info:10.1093/treephys/tpaa107v. 41No. 1Oxford University Press103–118
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Evidence of spatial genetic structure in a snow leopard population from Gansu, ChinaDOI: info:10.1038/s41437-021-00483-0SpringerNature
Atzeni, Luciano, Cushman, Samuel A., Wang, Jun, Riordan, Philip, Shi, Kun, and Bauman, David. 2021. "Evidence of spatial genetic structure in a snow leopard population from Gansu, China." Heredity, London; England: SpringerNature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-021-00483-0.
Determinants of community compositional change are equally affected by global changeDOI: info:10.1111/ele.13824Wiley
Avolio, Meghan L., Komatsu, Kimberly J., Collins, Scott L., Grman, Emily, Koerner, Sally E., Tredennick, Andrew T., Wilcox, Kevin R., Baer, Sara, Boughton, Elizabeth H., Britton, Andrea J., Foster, Bryan, Gough, Laura, Hovenden, Mark, Isbell, Forest, Jentsch, Anke, Johnson, David S., Knapp, Alan K., Kreyling, Juergen, Langley, J. Adam, Lortie, Christopher, McCulley, Rebecca L., McLaren, Jennie R., Reich, Peter B., Seabloom, Eric W., Smith, Melinda D. et al. 2021. "Determinants of community compositional change are equally affected by global change." Ecology Letters, Hoboken; New Jersey: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13824.
Identifying and predicting occurrence and abundance of a vocal animal species based on individually specific callsDOI: info:10.1002/ecs2.3685v. 12No. 8Wiley
Bailey, H., Fandel, A. D., Silva, K., Gryzb, E., McDonald, E., Hoover, A. L., Ogburn, M. B., and Rice, A. N. 2021. "Identifying and predicting occurrence and abundance of a vocal animal species based on individually specific calls." Ecosphere, 12, (8), Hoboken; New Jersey: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3685.
Stable Isotopes Suggest Limited Role of Wetland Macrophyte Production Supporting Aquatic Food Webs Across a Mangrove-Salt Marsh EcotoneDOI: info:10.1007/s12237-021-00895-5Springer
Baker, Ronald, Abrantes, Katya, and Feller, Ilka C. 2021. "Stable Isotopes Suggest Limited Role of Wetland Macrophyte Production Supporting Aquatic Food Webs Across a Mangrove-Salt Marsh Ecotone." Estuaries and Coasts, New York; NY: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-021-00895-5.
Keywords: NMNH; NH-SMS; SERC
Environmental associations of cownose ray (Rhinoptera bonasus) seasonal presence along the US Atlantic CoastDOI: info:10.1002/ecs2.3743v. 12No. 9Wiley
Bangley, Charles W., Edwards, Michelle L., Mueller, Claire, Fisher, Robert A., Aguilar, Robert, Heggie, Keira, Richie, Kimberly, Ahr, Bonnie J., and Ogburn, Matthew B. 2021. "Environmental associations of cownose ray (Rhinoptera bonasus) seasonal presence along the US Atlantic Coast." Ecosphere, 12, (9), Hoboken; New Jersey: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3743.
Keywords: SERC; NZP
Limited plasticity in thermally tolerant ectotherm populations: evidence for a trade-offDOI: info:10.1098/rspb.2021.0765v. 288No. 1958The Royal Society
Barley, Jordanna M., Cheng, Brian S., Sasaki, Matthew, Gignoux-Wolfsohn, Sarah, Hays, Cynthia G., Putnam, Alysha B., Sheth, Seema, Villeneuve, Andrew R., and Kelly, Morgan. 2021. "Limited plasticity in thermally tolerant ectotherm populations: evidence for a trade-off." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288, (1958), London; England: The Royal Society. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0765.
1 degrees C warming increases spatial competition frequency and complexity in Antarctic marine macrofaunaDOI: info:10.1038/s42003-021-01742-wv. 4No. 1Nature Research208–208
Barnes, David K. A., Ashton, Gail V., Morley, Simon A., and Peck, Lloyd S. 2021. "1 degrees C warming increases spatial competition frequency and complexity in Antarctic marine macrofauna." Communications Biology, 208–208. 4, (1), Berlin; Germany: Nature Research. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01742-w.
The success of the Montreal Protocol in mitigating interactive effects of stratospheric ozone depletion and climate change on the environmentDOI: info:10.1111/gcb.15841Wiley
Barnes, Paul W., Bornman, Janet F., Pandey, Krishna K., Bernhard, Germar H., Bais, Alkiviadis F., Neale, Rachel E., Robson, Thomas Matthew, Neale, Patrick J., Williamson, Craig E., Zepp, Richard G., Madronich, Sasha, Wilson, Stephen R., Andrady, Anthony L., Heikkila, Anu M., and Robinson, Sharon A. 2021. "The success of the Montreal Protocol in mitigating interactive effects of stratospheric ozone depletion and climate change on the environment." Global Change Biology, Hoboken; New Jersey: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15841.
Global assessment of innovative solutions to tackle marine litterDOI: info:10.1038/s41893-021-00726-2v. 4No. 6Nature Research516–524
Bellou, Nikoleta, Gambardella, Chiara, Karantzalos, Konstantinos, Monteiro, Joao Gama, Canning-Clode, Joao, Kemna, Stephanie, Arrieta-Giron, Camilo A., and Lemmen, Carsten. 2021. "Global assessment of innovative solutions to tackle marine litter." Nature Sustainability, 516–524. 4, (6), Berlin; Germany: Nature Research. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00726-2.
Evaluating pole cutting survival and growth for riparian forest restoration during invasion by polyphagous shot hole borerDOI: info:10.1111/rec.13578Wiley
Bennett, Shelley K., Lambert, Adam M., Carey, Sean P., and Braman, Charles A. 2021. "Evaluating pole cutting survival and growth for riparian forest restoration during invasion by polyphagous shot hole borer." Restoration Ecology, Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.13578.
The Role of Sea-Urchins in Marine Forests From Azores, Webbnesia, and Cabo Verde: Human Pressures, Climate-Change Effects and Restoration OpportunitiesDOI: info:10.3389/fmars.2021.649873v. 8Frontiers Media SA
Bernal-Ibanez, Alejandro, Cacabelos, Eva, Melo, Ricardo, and Gestoso, Ignacio. 2021. "The Role of Sea-Urchins in Marine Forests From Azores, Webbnesia, and Cabo Verde: Human Pressures, Climate-Change Effects and Restoration Opportunities." Frontiers in Marine Science, 8, Lausanne; Switzerland: Frontiers Media SA. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.649873.
The collapse of marine forests: drastic reduction in populations of the family Sargassaceae in Madeira Island (NE Atlantic)DOI: info:10.1007/s10113-021-01801-2v. 21No. 3Springer Heidelberg
Bernal-Ibanez, Alejandro, Gestoso, Ignacio, Wirtz, Peter, Kaufmann, Manfred, Serrao, Ester A., Canning-Clode, Joao, and Cacabelos, Eva. 2021. "The collapse of marine forests: drastic reduction in populations of the family Sargassaceae in Madeira Island (NE Atlantic)." Regional Environmental Change, 21, (3), Heidelberg; Germany: Springer Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-021-01801-2.
Fluctuating selection and global change: a synthesis and review on disentangling the roles of climate amplitude, predictability and noveltyDOI: info:10.1098/rspb.2021.0727v. 288No. 1957The Royal Society
Bitter, M. C., Wong, J. M., Dam, H. G., Donelan, S. C., Kenkel, C. D., Komoroske, L. M., Nickols, K. J., Rivest, E. B., Salinas, S., Burgess, S. C., and Lotterhos, K. E. 2021. "Fluctuating selection and global change: a synthesis and review on disentangling the roles of climate amplitude, predictability and novelty." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288, (1957), London; England: The Royal Society. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0727.
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Despite record cereal crop this year, some countries will struggle - UN agency
FAO - May 17, 2007
Although global cereal production is expected to reach record levels this year, at least 33 countries are forecast to face serious difficulties, largely because of conflict, economic struggles or bad weather, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported today.
The latest issue of the FAO Crop Prospects and Food Situation report, released at the agency's headquarters in Rome, found that cereal production is on track to reach 2,095 million tons, a jump of 4.8 per cent on the figures from last year. The bulk of the increase is tipped to be in maize production.
Demand and prices are on the rise, according to the report, driven by the fast-growing biofuels industry and by stocks hitting their lowest level in more than 20 years.
FAO warned that this could hurt some States classified as low-income food deficit countries, which will now face higher bills for the import of cereals. Several of these nations, include Morocco and Zimbabwe, are also expecting reduced harvests this year.
Emergency assistance will be needed in 33 countries, the report predicts, with the majority of the affected nations in Africa. Millions of Zimbabweans are expected to face food shortages as the country's economic crisis deepens and inflation continues to skyrocket, while the recent flare-up of conflict in southern Somalia has led to so much displacement that crop production is almost certain to drop sharply around the capital Mogadishu.
Outside Africa, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is a cause for concern, with economic constraints and floods jeopardizing the food supply situation for millions of people. A combination of drought and floods in Bolivia during the main cropping season has left large numbers of vulnerable farmers in the Andean nation as well.
The "countries in crisis requiring external assistance" are: Burundi, the Central African Republic (CAR), Chad, the Republic of Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, the DPRK, Iraq, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste and Bolivia.


I support Lisa Gillmor … she is a dedicated mom, a good person and I even used to call her my friend; I was even looking forward to Mayor Lisa … but Lisa has changed — Big Time.
The City of Santa Clara is now a real mess and needs a NEW Mayor who really knows what it's like to live with our high-priced housing, traffic, over-building and meet the challenges of living in Santa Clara. I've heard some people say he's too young and has no experience … FYI, he's the exact same age Gary Gillmor was when he became Mayor and Becker has the passion to listen, learn and build a cohesive team — he doesn't have the baggage of developers, lobbyists, special interests or real estate.
He is out walking, he's listening to everyone's point-of-view, and he doesn't pretend he already knows everything — a real breath of fresh air. For Santa Clara to thrive again, and regain its regional credibility, it will take a fresh team … NOT a clique … Anthony will build the team that Santa Clara needs. He has been bullied, lived with diversity and is ready to address & overcome these issues and more on many levels.


A eulogy and remembrance of one of UL's best-loved faculty, and Acadiana's most influential artist.
Art is healing, bringing beauty and personal expression into our lives. When I was a student of fine art at UL, I was first diagnosed with breast cancer. Elemore Morgan, Jr. had cancer, as did another student in our class. The three of us were talking when Elemore got very serious and said, "Do you get the feeling we're at a cancer support group?" He really caught us off guard and we all laughed. Actually, it was a very natural and powerful support system built into our lives. His comment was a realization of that for all of us. The other student died of cancer and I had a recurrence, but Elemore Morgan, Jr. died of complications from heart surgery. He over came his cancer. What an example of living he gave to the world!
His treatment of choice was a macrobiotic diet. It may not have been his only treatment, but it worked. It's not easy to refuse rice and gravy, but he was disciplined. Art class was different when he was absent. He commanded our attention; never demanded it. He was inspired by our work with his wonder and keen sense of observation. He remembered and respected you, the person, as he taught. He reminded me of Orville Redenbacher with his white hair and patches on the elbows of his jacket. From the depth of his being, he was an artist no matter how he dressed.
My studies were interrupted because of complications. Having to quit school, even for health reasons, made me feel like a failure. When I told him goodbye, Elemore apologized to me for anything the university might have done to my creative aspirations. I laughed again. People who study art already have talent and knowledge. He was hoping my formal training had not affected that. He said, "You know what you like; so go do it." I was never so comforted and shocked at the same time. He knew there was no failure. I simply had other things to do for now. My training as a visual artist has been very helpful to me as a healing artist and Elemore was a big part of that. All art is inspired - even the healing arts. We begin the work then it takes on a life of its own with inspiration from beyond.
He saw what many never see: the extraordinary aspects and beauty of ordinary life. I gave him a copy of my CD, which he accepted graciously. When I bought a catalog from him at one of his art shows and asked him to sign it. He thanked me for the CD and said one day he would get a CD player. He was humble yet brilliant, inspired but down to earth, talented and present for others. He loved the Cajuns so much he chose to live with us. He embraced and documented us with his camera, explored our earth and sky in his painting and drawings and he cultivated art like rice in the fields. He lives in the legacy of his work and in the hearts of those he touched with his kindness, love and integrity. He simply observed, loved and interpreted us. At his Cajun Wake someone asked me if one of the outbuildings was his studio. I said no, pointed to the field near his home and said, "That was his studio." It was fertile and tilled and ready like a blank canvas. Those fields surrounding the Morgan home are like Monet's Giverny, where he lived, loved and expressed fully!


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What is Magnesium Stearate?
June 6,2022
The spread of the novel coronavirus is taking a direct hit on the operations of airlines in Asia. About 500,000 flights taking off and landing in mainland China have been canceled since January, according to aviation information company Cerium. Tourists and business trips have plummeted. On the booking website, there are a large number of air tickets for local routes with a price reduction of nearly 90% compared with the original price and only tens of yuan for a one-way trip.
In February, China's aviation industry recorded its largest single-month loss of 24.59 billion yuan, of which airlines lost 20.96 billion yuan.
Data from the Civil Aviation Administration of China showed that in February, the number of passengers traveling by air fell 84.5% year-on-year to 8.34 million.
The stagnation of the Asian aviation industry has brought volatility to magnesium stearate.
Magnesium stearate is a salt formed when stearate molecules combine with magnesium ions.
Stearates come from stearic acid which is a long-chain saturated fat found in:
milk and dairy products
Stearic acid is the only long-chain saturated fat that doesn't raise cholesterol levels, experts say.
Salt forms the coating you see on medicines and vitamins in powder form. Magnesium stearate may stick to your hands and feel greasy when touched. Many manufacturers of processed foods, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals also add magnesium stearate to their products.
What is magnesium stearate used for?
Drugs. The company calls magnesium stearate a "fluid agent." Its main job is to prevent the ingredients in the capsule from sticking together. It also creates a barrier between drugs and the machines that make them. The powder improves the consistency and quality of drug capsules.
Another function of the powder is to slow the absorption and breakdown of the drug. That way, your body absorbs them in the right areas of your gut. Without magnesium stearate, it is difficult to predict the effectiveness, quality, and consistency of drugs.
Cosmetics. Magnesium stearate is a useful ingredient in many cosmetics. It can be used as filler, anti-caking agent, colorant, and so on. Here, it's a low-hazard product, but there are limited data.
What does magnesium stearate do to your body?
Magnesium stearate is usually safe to eat, but too much can have a laxative effect. In large quantities, it irritates the mucus lining of the intestine. This can cause bowel movements or diarrhea.
Immune function. The powder may impair your immune T cell function. Research into this effect is still in its early stages.
Nutrient and drug absorption. There are concerns that magnesium stearate may prevent the body from absorbing nutrients the way it should. One study found that tablets containing magnesium stearate dissolved longer than tablets without magnesium stearate.
Other studies have found that how long magnesium stearate is dissolved does not affect the drug's effectiveness. It also does not change the dissolution of tablets or the effectiveness of supplements or drugs.
Biofilms. There are also concerns that magnesium stearate can lead to the formation of harmful biofilms in the digestive system. Biofilms occur when groups of bacteria form a protective barrier. These claims come from the fact that soap contains magnesium stearate and forms a scum film. But your gut wall, unlike your bathroom wall or door, doesn't have the same scum film.
What is the source of magnesium stearate?
Stearic acid comes from animal or plant sources.
Vegetarian sources of magnesium stearate include palm oil, coconut oil, and vegetable oil.
PURE LAB VITAMINS uses "plant-based" as a source of magnesium stearate.
Is magnesium stearate from a vegetable source safe?
In general, vegetable magnesium stearate is safe to use and eat. But if you take too much of it, studies show it has a laxative effect.
What is stearic acid?
Stearic acid is a saturated fatty acid found in many foods, including animal and plant fats and oils. Cocoa and flaxseed are examples of foods that contain high levels of stearic acid.
What effect does stearic acid have on the body?
Stearic acid can be found in foods such as chicken, eggs, cheese, chocolate, walnuts, salmon, and coconut oil. Stearic acid acts as a lubricant for filling capsules when dry powder ingredients have problems such as density, viscosity, and fluidity under pressure.
According to NCBI, stearic acid lowers LDL cholesterol compared to other saturated fatty acids. It may also slightly lower the ratio of total cholesterol to HDL cholesterol compared to other fatty acids.
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The price is influenced by many factors including the supply and demand in the market, industry trends, economic activity, market sentiment, and unexpected events.
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The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic not only had a significant impact on public health, it also severely affected one of the linchpins of the global economy – the tourism industry. As many countries introduced curfews and travel restrictions to contain the spread of the virus, travel across the world significantly declined from early 2020 onwards. The financial repercussions of the coronavirus have already begun to manifest themselves within the tourism industry. In 2020, global revenue from the travel and tourism industry was estimated to drop from a forecasted 711.94 billion U.S. dollars to 568.6 billion U.S. dollars, representing a decrease of over 20 percent. The region predicted to see the highest decline in revenue was Europe, decreasing from 211.97 billion U.S. dollars in 2019 to roughly 124 billion U.S. dollars in 2020.
The downturn in tourism has caused the recession, and the weakening of the economy has also affected the market demand for magnesium stearate. Recently, however, the demand for magnesium stearate has increased, so contact us for the latest news on magnesium stearate.
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My God, it's full of Games!
It's easier than ever to run Windows games on Linux... here are easy ways to do it with Wine.
Linux has always been able to run Windows apps using Wine with varying degrees of success, but it often required reading lots of web pages and trying lots of workarounds. But package managers like Winetricks and PlayOnLinux are changing that; they make installing games really easy. Dan will show how easy it is to install and run games on Linux using Wine and Winetricks, and show how to contribute a new game script to Winetricks.
Deploying OpenStack is a non-trivial effort. This talk will outline how Chef is used to automate deploying OpenStack to your infrastructure and then be able to deploy with Chef to the virtual private servers on that infrastructure.
Chef is an open source systems integration framework for automating the deployment of your entire infrastructure. OpenStack is a collection of open source technologies for delivering a massively scalable cloud operating system. Deploying OpenStack is a non-trivial effort, this talk will outline how Chef was used to automate deploying OpenStack Compute and Object Storage and then have the ability to deploy with Chef to the virtual private servers running on that infrastructure. Founded by Rackspace Hosting and NASA, OpenStack has grown to be a global software community of developers, technologists, researchers and corporations collaborating on a standard and massively scalable open source cloud operating system. Developed by Opscode and a vibrant open source community, Chef is being used to automate and deploy large (and small) infrastructures all over the world. Both projects are freely available under the Apache 2.0 license so that anyone can run it, build on it, or submit changes back to the projects. A number of different companies collaborated on automating OpenStack deployments, including Rackspace, Opscode and Cloudscaling. The seeds for development for this collaborative project were sown at the OpenStack Design Summit in November 2010, where over 250 attendees from all over the world came together to plan future releases. Recognizing the need to make development and deployment of OpenStack easier, we started gathering requirements and documentation to automate the process. OpenStack is now deployable with Chef and is now a supported platform for automatically deploying cloud instances with Chef.
Bringing the free desktop to the next group of users will require better design, better usability and better quality. Unity is an effort to bring that to the desktop shell, and to help lead all of Open Source towards a renaissance allowing all users to realize the advantages of having a free desktop. This talk introduces Unity with the design concepts behind it and talks about how Unity will help bring the dream of the consumer friendly free desktop forward.
As the size and performance requirements of storage systems have increased, ?le system designers have looked to new architectures to facilitate system scalability. This talk will describe a deployable and highly scalable solution to the current feature-limited selection of file storage systems. Ceph is an open source distributed file system capable of managing many petabytes of storage with ease. The architecture leverages device intelligence to provide a reliable, scalable, and high-performance ?le service in a dynamic cluster environment. Ceph's architecture consists of two main components: An object storage layer, and a distributed file system that is constructed on top of this object store. The object store provides a generic, scalable cloud storage platform (much like Amazon S3) with support for snapshots and distributed computation. The distributed file system similarly provides advanced features like per-directory granularity snapshots, and a recursive accounting feature that provides a convenient view of how much data is stored beneath any directory in the system. In addition to a standard file system interface with support in the mainline Linux kernel, we have also built interfaces to integrate directly with Hadoop and Hypertable distributed computation and database systems. A distributed block device also provides shared reliable storage for virtual machine instances in a cloud environment (much like Amazon EBS), with support in Qemu/KVM and the Linux kernel. The project is licensed under the LGPL/GPL, and aims to play nice with the larger open source cloud, data processing and storage ecosystems.
I.	A Brief Cloud Overview Cloud computing is a network-based, distributed computing environment where resources are shared to deliver on-demand applications and services that are expected to meet a certain quality of service (QOS). A.	Characteristics of a Cloud 1.	Agile – Rapidly adapt to changes 2.	Multi-Tenancy – Sharing of resources across a large pool of users 3.	Scalability – Dynamic expansion to meet user needs 4.	High-Availability – Ability to handle workloads and adapt to multiple points of failure 5.	Load Balancing – Balance workloads across virtual machines 6.	API – Ability to interact with cloud through some well-defined interface (usually via Representational State Transfer (REST)) 7.	Nice To Have – Security, metering, geographical independence, lower maintenance B.	The Hype - The Benefits of a Cloud 1.	Reduce Costs - Higher utilization, pay for what you need, faster response, automation, etc. 2.	Portability – Ability to migrate from one type of cloud to another 3.	Agility – Scale-up, scale down, live migrations, etc. 4.	Lower Maintenance – Standardization via abstraction for target operating systems, heterogeneity, etc. C. Types of Clouds •	Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) – Software-as-a-service indicates software that is offered on-demand and deployed either in a hosted model or with a subscription that typically provides new features and updates. Common examples of OSS offered by either a software company or hosting provider include Drupal, Linux, MindTouch and SugarCRM. •	Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) – Platform as a service are services offerings where the hardware and operating system have been abstracted. These services aren't free and open source but are often powered by open source frameworks. Examples of these frameworks are JBoss Network by Red Hat, SpringSource by VMware and WS02. •	Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) – IaaS is the deliver of resources in an expandable way so as to allow supply to dynamically meet demand of the user and removes the specifics of provisioning servers, software, data-center space or network equipment. The most common example of this is Amazon's Elastic Cloud (EC2). This is commonly called a public cloud. The ability to pool internal resources to provide this infrastructure from behind the firewall is often referred to as a private cloud. Open source examples of this include Eucalyptus, Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (EUC), Cloudstack and OpenStack. The ability for private and public clouds to interact is called a hybrid cloud. II. Open Source Cloud Computing Infrastructure or Open Source IaaS The type of cloud we will discuss will be the IaaS, and specifically compute clouds. When you talk about IaaS you look at taking discrete resources and pooling them in a way to allow the users of those resources to draw capacity as needed. The usual limiting factors of individual servers, compute, storage and networking are pulled from a resource pool that at least meets if not exceeds demand. A. Open Source Software to Build, Deploy and Manage a Private Cloud To discuss cloud computing you need to look at the elements that make up the cloud fabric. These resources abstract the hardware and pool computing resources to create the cloud operating system. A.	Virtualization – "The Hypervisor" The foundation for cloud computing starts at the abstraction of the hardware. The availability of open source hypervisors has made it possible to build extremely complex and customized virtualization infrastructure. Of the open source hypervisor technologies, two lend themselves to building cloud computing infrastructure. •	Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) – KVM is a virtualization technology for Linux (first released in 2006) that leverages the Linux kernel and the virtual extensions provided by Intel or AMD to provide a hypervisor. The requirement for virtualization-enabled chips precludes its use on older hypervisors. •	Xen – Xen is a more mature hypervisor (released in 2002), sponsored by Citrix and has wide adoption as a hypervisor. It is the most common and mature hypervisor. B. Cloud Operating System The ability to orchestrate virtual machines, storage and networking so as to pool resources and balance these loads •	CloudStack – CloudStack is developed by Cloud.com and was released in May 2010. The features of CloudStack are hypervisor •	Eucalyptus (Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems) – Sponsored by Eucalyptus (first released in 2008) systems formed the initial basis for Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud. It was designed to keep complete compatibility with Amazon's EC2 and S3 services. •	OpenNebula – First released in 2008 spawned from a university research project. Now supported by a services company C12G Labs. •	OpenStack – Newest kid on the block, released by Rackspace and NASA in July 2010. Large ecosystem first release in fall of 2010, Austin. •	Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud – Canonical sponsored fork of Eucalyptus but uses KVM as the preferred hypervisor. C. The Management Tools There are numerous open source tools that have been proven for usage in legacy data centers. Many of them have characteristics that lend themselves to cloud computing because of their ability to automate tasks and/or because they are network aware. We'll walk through the components that can be combined to form open source tool chains, combinations of tools that can be combined where the output of one ??? •	Provisioning and Patching o	Cobbler o	Kickstart o	OpenQRM o	Spacewalk o	Viper •	Configuration Management o	Cfengine o	Chef o	Puppet •	Orchestration – Run scripts, take data from one system and export to another o	AutomateIT o	Capistrano o	Control Tier o	Func •	Monitoring – Report and alert on the health o	Nagios o	OpenNMS o	Zabbix o	Zenoss D. Complimentary Cloud-Related Open Source Projects •	DeltaCloud – DeltaCloud is a middleware to stop and start cloud instances on various types of cloud infrastructure, DeltaCloud Aggregator offers a web UI for DeltaCloud API (emerging technology from Red Hat) •	libvirt – A toolkit to interact with virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (emerging technology from Red Hat) •	Jclouds – Abstraction of API across compute and storage clouds •	libcloud – unified interface for the cloud incubated by Apache III. Putting it all Together to Build your Open Source Cloud - The appeal of cloud computing is elasticity on-demand, agility. This part of the discussion will focus on how to combine the components mentioned above to build a cloud and then deploy target operating systems and applications in a complete private cloud. Take all the components mentioned so far and compile them to create a cloud that can provide all the elasticity, and: •	Choosing a Hypervisor - Do you have newer hardware (specifically VT enable processors) Linux expertise or a mix of older and newer hardware? •	Choosing a Cloud Orchestration Project - Choose a cloud operating system based on hypervisor and other features •	Management Tool Chains - Management tools use open source tool chains to automate the deployment of target operating systems and deploying them. Finally, time permitting, we will look at a live cloud computing management console showing the interface for monitoring. Speaker Bio: Mark Hinkle, Vice President of Community Mark is the Vice President of Community for Cloud.com where he is responsible for driving all of the community efforts around the company's open source, cloud computing software and ecosystem. Before that he was the force behind the Zenoss Core open source management projects adoption and community involvement, growing community membership to over 100,000 members. He is a co-founder of both the Open Source Management Consortium and the Desktop Linux Consortium, has served as Editor-in-Chief for both LinuxWorld Magazine and Enterprise Open Source Magazine, and authored the book, "Windows to Linux Business Desktop Migration." (Thomson, 2006) Mark has also held executive positions at a number of technology start-ups, including Earthlink, (previously MindSpring)--where he was the head of the technical support organization recognized by PC Computing and PC World as the best in the industry--Win4Lin and Emu Software.


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Svängsta IF is a Swedish football club located in Svängsta.

Background
Svängsta IF currently plays in Division 4 Blekinge which is the sixth tier of Swedish football. They play their home matches at the Marieborg in Svängsta.

The club is affiliated to Blekinge Fotbollförbund. Svängsta IF have competed in the Svenska Cupen on 2 occasions.

Season to season

Footnotes

External links
 Svängsta IF – Official website
 Svängsta IF on Facebook

Football clubs in Blekinge County