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Mary Doogan sees herself like the driver of the getaway car in an armed robbery.
This retired midwife, demurely dressed in a coral cardigan and smart court shoes, is the least likely of criminals, and it is sad that she carries even a hint of guilt about her 'crime'.
After all, it was committed only in her own eyes (and God's, she would say) and was a matter of conscience.
'I don't believe any midwife should be put in that position. It goes against why I went into midwifery in the first place.
'My role was to bring life into the world. My patients were the woman and the baby. I have always felt a professional duty to both.
'The thing that I could never get my head around was how you had to watch the words you used,' she adds.
'You'd never say 'baby' while with a woman who had chosen a termination. You'd talk about her 'pregnancy' or her 'labour'.
Pointedly, Mary doesn't use the word 'foetus' once during our interview.
It was in 2014, after a gruelling six-year battle that had taken Mary, now 63, and a fellow midwife, Connie Wood, all the way to the Supreme Court in London that they finally lost their case.
The judgment effectively decreed that while midwives can opt out of 'frontline' abortion work, those in senior positions — like Mary and Connie — still have to supervise.
That Mary is a woman who lives by her beliefs is clear from the moment you enter her neat home on a quiet cul-de-sac in Glasgow.
She's at pains to point out that her anti-abortion stance isn't a Catholic quirk, though.
Warm, funny and worldly, Mary started her career delivering babies, often in slum conditions, all over Glasgow.
In the Eighties she worked for five years in a hospital in Saudi Arabia, and she has volunteered with the nuns of Mother Teresa's order in India.
She has never married, although had life gone in a different direction, she would have liked a family of her own.
She never wanted to be anything other than a midwife: 'It's a vocation, not a job,' she says firmly.
'It was becoming more difficult,' she says. 'The squeeze on resources meant fewer staff, so more pressure.
'When the buzzer goes, you don't know what is coming in. At one point I transferred to a Parentcraft position (teaching new mothers how to care for their babies) to try to avoid the termination issue.
It was a growing cause of anxiety for her.
'Even in a supervisory role, ultimately that patient is your responsibility. And if there are more inexperienced staff — as there are these days — then you may be required to step in.
At first, her managers seemed a bit baffled by her request, then the lawyers got involved.
'When the managers came back and said that we had to supervise, no exemptions, I was floored — absolutely stunned,' Mary says.
She says she was warned that she would face disciplinary action if she didn't comply and participate in abortions when needed.
More lawyers were consulted, culminating in the Edinburgh court case where three judges found in Mary and her colleague Connie Wood's favour.
When the decision was overturned in the Supreme Court two years later, both women were devastated.
For Mary there was also the realisation her career was over.
In fact, she hadn't worked since 2010 because of the acute stress brought on by the legal wrangles.
She developed a debilitating condition called angioedema, which causes hives and a painful swelling of the skin.
Mary has now carved a new life in voluntary work. She counsels women who have had abortions they regret, while neighbours know they can always call on her for help with their babies.
She continues to take an interest in her profession but finds herself at odds with its hierarchy.
In 2016, Professor Cathy Warwick, then chief executive of the Royal College of Midwives, declared that abortion should be 'part' of the job of the modern midwife.
The 'rights and wrongs' of abortion should not be a consideration, Professor Warwick said, and backed a bid to axe any time limit on them.
She is keen to stress that 'the women I cared for would never ever have known my views on abortion.
'I would never have judged them on their own choices either. I've got people close to me who went down that road and I'd go out of my way to support them — the person, not the action,' she says. Was it worth the sacrifice, I wonder?
What a tragedy it is that this compassionate and experienced woman's determination to uphold her principles led to the NHS losing her when it is currently suffering a 3,500 shortfall in midwife numbers.
Does she feel any guilt about quitting? 'I would never have chosen this way to end my career,' she admits. 'But how can you go against your conscience?


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An Autonomous System (AS) is a group of IP networks run by one or more network operators with a single clearly defined routing policy. When exchanging exterior routing information, each AS is identified by a unique number. Exterior routing protocols such as BGP, described in RFC 1771, "A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)", are used to exchange routing information between Autonomous Systems. An AS will normally use some interior gateway protocol to exchange routing information on its internal networks.
In order to help decrease global routing complexity, a new AS Number should be used only if a new external routing policy is required, see RFC 1930.
A network must be multihomed in order to qualify for an AS Number. When requesting an AS Number the routing policy of the Autonomous System must be provided. The new unique routing policy should be defined in RPSL language, as used in the RIPE Database.
The experiment for which the organisation receives numbering resources must be documented. This may be in the form of a current IETF Experimental RFC (see RFC 2026, Section 4.2.1 or an "experiment proposal" detailing the resources required and the activities to be carried out. A single AS Number will be assigned. If more than one AS Number is required for the experiment, this should be indicated and explained in the request.
The experiment proposal must be made public (e.g. published on a website), upon registration of the resources by the RIPE NCC. When the experiment is concluded the results must be published free of charge and free from disclosure constraints.
The resources will be issued on a temporary basis for a period of one year. Renewal of the resources' registration is possible on receipt of a new request that details any continuation of the experiment during the extended period.
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Kazakh Authorities Shut Down Opposition Newspaper, Again
May 05, 2005 18:29 GMT
Almaty, 5 May 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Kazakh authorities today ordered the closure of a popular opposition newspaper. The Information Ministry gave no reason for ordering the closure of "Respublika" newspaper.
Galina Dyrdina, deputy editor in chief of the newspaper, criticized the government's action.
"We believe that this order, these actions of the Information Ministry are absolutely illegal and we will appeal these actions in court. We will definitely lodge an appeal," Dyrdina said.
It's not the first time "Respublika" has been closed down. Its operations have been shut down and revived under different names several times in the past few years.
"Respublika" has faced numerous lawsuits from government agencies and its offices and reporters have suffered through various attacks.
Last month, "Respublika's" editor in chief, Irina Petrushova, was briefly detained in Russia at the request of Kazakh police for alleged tax evasion and breaking Kazakh citizenship laws.
Petrushova has been living in self-imposed exile in Russia since 2002, when threats against her life and her newspaper led her to flee Kazakhstan.


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L'observatoire volcanologique d'Hawaï, en anglais , abrégé en , est un observatoire volcanologique assurant la surveillance et l'étude des cinq volcans actifs d'Hawaï, dans l'océan Pacifique, à savoir le Haleakalā, le Hualālai, le Kīlauea, le Mauna Loa et le Lōʻihi. Il dépend de l'Institut d'études géologiques des États-Unis (USGS). Ses locaux sont situés au sommet du Kīlauea, non loin du rebord de sa caldeira.

Infrastructures

Les locaux de l'observatoire se trouvent sur l'île d'Hawaï, dans le parc national des volcans d'Hawaï et le district de Kaʻū du comté d'Hawaï, au sommet du Kīlauea, sur l'Uwēkahuna, à  mètres d'altitude. Les bâtiments surplombent la caldeira sommitale et notamment le Halemaʻumaʻu, son cratère actif. Ils jouxtent le Jaggar Museum qui occupe les anciens locaux de l'observatoire.

L'ensemble est accessible par la route via la Hawaii Route 11 puis la  ou bien à pied en empruntant soit le  venant du centre des visiteurs du parc national distant de quatre kilomètres, soit un court sentier de  de longueur démarrant de la Hawaii Route 11. L'observatoire volcanologique et le Jaggar Museum marquent la limite de la zone interdite d'accès du sommet du volcan, le secteur s'étendant au sud-ouest étant soumis à un risque volcanique élevé.

Organisation administrative et personnel
L'observatoire volcanologique d'Hawaï est considéré comme un organisme de recherche américain faisant partie du Volcano Hazards Program sous la tutelle de l'agence gouvernementale américaine de l'Institut d'études géologiques des États-Unis (USGS) rattaché au département de l'Intérieur des États-Unis. Il dispose d'un directeur, de scientifiques et de volontaires, généralement des étudiants.

Champs d'action

Le principal sujet d'étude de l'observatoire est la volcanologie auquel se rattache la sismologie, la géochimie des gaz et la géodésie. Le volcanisme d'Hawaï défini le terrain d'étude qui inclut l'ensemble de l'archipel en se concentrant sur les cinq volcans actifs : le Haleakalā sur Maui, le Hualālai, le Kīlauea et le Mauna Loa sur l'île d'Hawaï et le Lōʻihi au large de cette dernière île, sous la surface de l'océan Pacifique.

Trois axes majeurs d'action sont définis : les relevés et mesures, la recherche scientifique et la communication auprès du public, des autorités, des médias et du milieu scolaire et étudiant.

Histoire

L'observatoire volcanologique d'Hawaï est créé en  sous l'impulsion de deux hommes : Thomas Jaggar, un professeur de géologie américain travaillant au Massachusetts Institute of Technology, et Lorrin Thurston, un juriste et homme d'affaires hawaïen. La première infrastructure se compose uniquement d'un sismographe dans un local adjacent au Volcano House, un hôtel situé sur le rebord nord-est de la caldeira du Kīlauea. L'organisme est initialement rattaché au Massachusetts Institute of Technology, puis au National Weather Service en 1919 avant de passer sous le contrôle de l'Institut d'études géologiques des États-Unis depuis 1924 avec une période sous la direction du parc national des volcans d'Hawaï de 1935 à 1947. Dans les années 1940, l'observatoire déménage dans une construction située à  en retrait du rebord de la caldeira. En 1948, il s'installe sur son site actuel dans l'ancien centre des visiteurs du parc national construit en 1927 sur l'Uwēkahuna, le rebord le plus élevé de la caldeira, au nord-ouest de celle-ci. Des agrandissements jouxtant les anciens locaux permettent de libérer ceux-ci en 1986. Ils sont depuis retournés aux mains du parc national et occupés par le Jaggar Museum, nommé en l'honneur du fondateur de l'observatoire et consacré à la volcanologie.

Thomas Jaggar, fondateur de l'observatoire, en est le premier directeur pendant 28 ans, soit jusqu'en 1940. Sous sa direction, le réseau de sismographes s'étend à l'aide de sismologues qui adaptent et améliorent les appareils, dont un portatif qui est mis au point afin d'effectuer des mesures dans des endroits reculés. La surveillance du Kīlauea passe ainsi essentiellement par l'enregistrement des vibrations du sol, les techniques de mesure de la température de la lave n'étant pas encore au point et les données ne permettant pas d'être exploitées correctement. En 1922 sont entrepris quatre forages à l'intérieur et aux abords de la caldeira. Le personnel adapte ainsi un bus équipé de deux roues. Leur habileté technique se concrétise aussi par la construction d'un véhicule amphibie pour l'exploration des régions côtières. Jaggar entreprend aussi la construction d'une route jusqu'au sommet du Mauna Loa ; elle ne sera jamais complètement opérationnelle mais elle s'avérera indispensable jusqu'à ce que l'hélicoptère la concurrence. Outre ces infrastructures et la recherche, le travail du personnel de l'observatoire passe aussi par la prévention et notamment la construction de digues. Les premières sont édifiées lors des éruptions de 1935 et 1942 du Mauna Loa et un projet est à l'étude pour la construction de tels barrages permanents. Cette protection des populations s'oriente aussi vers les tsunamis : en 1933, l'avertissement qu'ils émettent avant l'arrivée des vagues constitue le premier succès d'alerte aux tsunamis. L'œuvre de Jaggar perdure après son départ à la retraite et sa mort en 1953 : l'observatoire volcanologique d'Hawaï a ainsi contribué à une meilleure compréhension des phénomènes volcaniques en général et en particulier ceux des volcans effusifs.

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Annexes

Articles connexes
 Observatoire volcanologique
 Observatoire volcanologique d'Alaska
 Thomas Jaggar
 Jaggar Museum

Liens externes

Hawai
United States Geological Survey
Science à Hawaï
Bâtiment dans le parc national des volcans d'Hawaï
Architecture rustique du National Park Service dans le parc national des volcans d'Hawaï
Kīlauea
Organisme fondé en 1912

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Q: How to implement an Iterator that will be an equivalent of a nested loop in Java I have the following generator in Python:
    def iterator(min,max,step,min2,max2,step2):
        for x in range(min,max,step):
            for y in range(min2, max2, step2):
                result = foo(x, y)
                yield result

And I would like to implement an Iterator in Java that behaves somewhat like the previous generator. I have tried to use two internal iterators, but it does not work.
How can I fix it?
    public class Generator implements Iterator<Integer> {
        private Iterator<Integer> xIterator;
        private Iterator<Integer> yIterator;

        public Generator(int max1, int max2, int min1, int min2, int step1, int step2) {
            xIterator = range(min1, max1, step1).iterator();
            yIterator = range(min2, max2, step2).iterator();
        }

        @Override
        public Integer next() {
            while (xIterator.hasNext()) {
                xval = xIterator.next()
                while(yIterator.hasNext()) {
                    yval = yIterator.next()
                    return foo(xval, yval)
                }
            }
        }

        public static int[] range(int min, int max, int step) {
            return IntStream.range(min, max / step + 1).map(x -> x * step).toArray();
        }
    }

A: In Python, after a yield statement, the next call to the Generator continues after that yield statement - which is within the inner loop.
In Java, after the return, the next call to next() will continue outside of the while loops, so the first thing it does is always to check xIterator.hasNext(), and if this is true, increment xval. I think this might be the main misunderstanding.
It also seems that the range function doesn't do what it is supposed to do. Maybe check Java: Equivalent of Python's range(int, int)? - some of the answers there include the step argument as well.
The code you posted will also not compile, for several reasons:

*

*next() doesn't always return a value. If no (further) elements exist, it should throw a NoSuchElementException.

*hasNext() is not implemented, and this could actually be quite hard with this approach.

*xval and yval are not declared.

A: An Iterator in Java is a special object, a mean of iteration, that allows to retrieve elements sequentially one by one from a particular source.
There are two method that are mandatory to implement while creating a custom iterator: hasNext() (returns true if the next element exists) and next() (retrieves the next element).
You didn't provide your class with implementation of hasNext() without that your code will not compile.
And there's a logical flaw in the next() method, it will not compile because you didn't provide the return statement or throws clause that will get executed when control cant enter the loop. But more important you don't need loops and any conditional logic inside this method, it has to be covered by the hasNext() which normally has to be invoked before next(). If the client code doesn't respect it, method next() might produce an exception. You might add if (hasNext()) at the very beginning of the next() method to issue a particular exception with your custom message.
Method  iterator() is accessible with arrays. You can use it with classes that implement Iterable interface, like collections, and you also can invoke iterator() on a stream. So you can reimplement your method range() like that:
IntStream.iterate(min, i -> i < max, i -> i + step).iterator();

And that is how you can fix your iterator:
public class Generator implements Iterator<Integer> {
    private final Iterator<Integer> xIterator;
    private final Iterator<Integer> yIterator;

    public Generator(int minX, int minY, int maxX, int maxY, int stepX, int stepY) {
        this.xIterator = range(minX, maxX, stepX);
        this.yIterator = range(minY, maxY, stepY);
    }

    public static Iterator<Integer> range(int min, int max, int step) {
        return IntStream.iterate(min, i -> i < max, i -> i + step).iterator();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean hasNext() {
        return xIterator.hasNext() && yIterator.hasNext();
    }

    @Override
    public Integer next() {
        return foo(xIterator.next(), yIterator.next());
    }
}

But my suggestion is to favor efficiency and simplicity over conciseness. Because all the values that iterator produces can be easily calculated on the fly, there's no need to occupy memory by allocating them in advance.
Instead, you can maintain two variables curX and curY. This solution is simple and also gives more control over your iterator because you're not delegating the process of iteration. As a consequence of this, you can implement a reset() feature (which is not possible which previous solution, Iterator becomes useless when it reaches the end of the source of data).
public class Generator implements Iterator<Integer> {
    private final int minX;
    private final int minY;
    private final int maxX;
    private final int maxY;
    private final int stepX;
    private final int stepY;

    private int curX;
    private int curY;

    public Generator(int minX, int minY, int maxX, int maxY, int stepX, int stepY) {
        this.minX = minX;
        this.minY = minY;
        this.maxX = maxX;
        this.maxY = maxY;
        this.stepX = stepX;
        this.stepY = stepY;
        this.curX = minX;
        this.curY = minY;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean hasNext() {
        return curX < maxX && curY < maxY;
    }

    @Override
    public Integer next() {
        int result = foo(curX, curY);
        curX += stepX;
        curY += stepY;
        return result;
    }

    public void reset() { // reset the iterator to the initial coordinates
        this.curX = minX;
        this.curY = minY;
    }
}

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Let me begin by stating that I am not the most objective of critics when it comes to architect Russell Buchanan's new glass pavilion at the Dallas Arboretum. Since my arrival here some five years ago, Buchanan has become one of my dearest friends.
That being said, exceptional works of modern public architecture are relatively few and far between in this city, and when one appears, the prospect of writing about it is too appealing to forego. So you are cautioned to take what you read here under advisement and, in any case, I encourage you to make your own visit as soon as possible and come to your own judgment.
I do believe you will find it worth your while, whatever you think of the architecture, for Buchanan's $3.3 million pavilion frames one of the city's most dramatic vistas. From its enviable position on the southern side of the arboretum, it looks out across the colorfully gridded rows of a 3.5 acre edible display garden, over a newly formed "lagoon" that collects storm water, and beyond to White Rock Lake and the woozy Dallas skyline shimmering in the distance.
You can enjoy this view from meandering pathways, from a sun-shaded gazebo and trellises, or from within the pavilion itself, a pristine glass box with crystal-clear, floor-to-ceiling windows of low-iron glass. Above, a roof of warm wooden slats conceals recessed lighting, and angles up like the wings of an airplane on the exterior of the structure, creating a broad overhang that shields a generous patio from the sun and the elements.
The Test Pavilion at Dallas Arboretum on Friday, Nov. 3, 2017, in Dallas.
A cyclist is seen on the path at White Rock Lake as the sun sets in the background on Friday, Nov. 3, 2017, in Dallas. The photos was shot from the garden near the Test Pavilion at Dallas Arboretum.
At their heart are a quadrant of "potager" (from the French, so pronounced pot-a-zhay) working gardens, planted with seasonally changing fruits, vegetables, herbs and flowers that present the great bounty afforded by the Texas landscape. The objective is educational: to instruct Dallasites about nutrition and healthy eating, and advocate for a garden-to-table cuisine that is environmentally and economically sensitive.
Those lessons are especially aimed at the city's schoolchildren; more than 100,000 students visit the arboretum on field trips annually, a number that should only increase.
The kitchen inside the Test Pavilion at Dallas Arboretum on Friday, Nov. 3, 2017, in Dallas.
A view of the garden from the Test Pavilion at Dallas Arboretum on Friday, Nov. 3, 2017, in Dallas.
The lagoon near the Test Pavilion at Dallas Arboretum on Friday, Nov. 3, 2017, in Dallas.
To accommodate this demand, the 3,700-square-foot pavilion is equipped with a professional demonstration kitchen, the kind you might see on the Food Network, manned by a celebrity (or would-be celebrity) chef. Should Mario Batali or Bobby Flay happen to arrive, there is a production studio tucked into the rear of the building, from which events can be broadcast on local or national television.
Buchanan has wisely placed this kitchen within an envelope of beige Lueders stone, a box within the box of the pavilion. Large sliding doors can close this kitchen off from public view when it is not in use, transforming the pavilion into a large multifunctional space.
All of which suggests the not-so-secret ulterior motive of this space; beyond its educational purpose, the ATP is quite clearly an endeavor designed with an eye on the arboretum's revenues. With its views, it will no doubt become one of the city's premier wedding locations. So too will it be ideal for corporate events and the arboretum's own fund-raising efforts.
So be it. Every nonprofit needs to find a way to goose its finances and to pay for the programs the public enjoys (but doesn't fund with tax dollars). If advanced architecture can be the conduit for making that happen, all the better, though too often such building projects seem mainly to only create more financial demands than they solve.
That should not be the case here. Indeed, Buchanan's admirable simplicity is a reminder, at a time when formalistic self-indulgences are a commonplace in public and private architecture, that sometimes, and even usually, a simple box is the most efficient, effective and aesthetically appealing solution to a design problem.
And there is more good news, as well. Buchanan's pavilion will soon be accessible to patrons arriving by foot and by bicycle. The institution, which has been mocked for years as the "Carboretum," will finally be getting sidewalks and bike lanes along its Garland Road frontage, a development that is long overdue.
Sometimes, everything blooms at once.
A seating area near the test kitchen building at the new Tasteful Place edible garden at the Dallas Arboretum on Sept. 26, 2017 in Dallas.
The Dallas skyline and White Rock Lake are seen from the new Tasteful Place edible garden at the Dallas Arboretum.
The Dallas skyline is seen in the distance over White Rock Lake from a Tasteful Place vegetable garden at the Dallas Arboretum.
The new Tasteful Place edible garden at the Dallas Arboretum overlooks White Rock Lake and the Dallas skyline.


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The Alarming Truth About the Fed's Rate Hike
After holding off on an interest rate hike pre-election to help Clinton, Yellen finally pulled the trigger on Wednesday…
For the first time in a year, the Federal Reserve raised the federal funds rate a quarter of a percentage point to 0.50%.
The stock market game didn't like the news. The Dow Jones closed down 118 points for the day.
And predictably, market "experts" drew all the wrong conclusions from the Fed's move.
The Fed's Revelation
The rate hike wasn't a surprise. Everyone with a pulse knew it was 100% priced in beforehand.
But what did shock and unnerve assorted "analysts" were the Fed's rate projection talking points for 2017.
CNBC noted:
Now, a plurality of the Fed's rate-setting committee believes the central bank will raise rates three times next year, compared with two hikes expected in the batch of projections released in September.
The possibility of accelerated interest rate increases caused the dollar to soar against all major currencies. (The higher interest rate that can be earned from the dollar increases its demand and value.)
And it caused gold to take it on the chin, hitting a 9-month low. (The dollar is more attractive in times of rising rates as it's an interest-bearing asset, as opposed to gold.)
But let's unpack this…
The negative market reaction happened because the Fed indicated it anticipated raising rates three times in 2017 instead of its previous statement of two.
Well, after the Fed raised interest rates for the first time in a decade in December 2015, Fed politicians projected four hikes for 2016. But there was only one. Not even close.
Knowing this, who in their right mind would pay attention to such forward "guidance" for next year, or any year for that matter?
To be fair, maybe last year's ridiculously bad Fed projection was just an outlier.
Yeah, not so much…
Useless Advice
To see how misleading the Fed's interest rate hike projections have been in recent years, have a look at the chart below.
As you can see, projected interest rate hikes compared to actual rate hikes differ drastically.
I don't know what's worse… the Fed's forward guidance track record or the people who actually trade on that guidance.
Yet there I was on Wednesday night watching a Harvard-educated "analyst" on Fox News telling "Special Report" anchor Brett Baier that the most important thing investors needed to be concerned with was the Fed's plan to raise rates three times in 2017.
That's utterly worthless advice.
Hold on. I am being kind.
That's moronic advice.
The data clearly shows that the Fed doesn't do what is says it's going to do.
Look, does anyone not sniffing bath salts believe the Fed is going to continue raising rates on schedule if the U.S. stock market craters… or if Europe implodes… or if China's credit bubble bursts?
There are countless Fed "variables" it will use to justify altering its plan… as it has in years past.
The bottom line is the only thing of value we learned from the Fed this week is they raised rates on Wednesday.
What it does in 2017 has no relation to its stated projections, just as was the case in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016.
Worrying about the implications of the Fed's rate hike timetable is a time-sucking charade designed to bleed you dry. The Fed and the media are never on your side.
Focus on the only truth you know, and that is the price action of all markets.
Let the price action dictate your actions, your buys and sells. That's what winners do.
Please send me your comments to coveluncensored@agorafinancial.com. Let me know what you think of today's issue.
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I needed to fill up a minimum Amazon order for free shipping, and so threw in this SF/detective novel that Amazon recommended, probably on the Pratchett connection (he contributes a blurb: "Ingenious -- I'll watch Jasper Fforde nervously.") The idea of being able to enter the alternate universe of a book, and affect the plot, is a cute one. I think Woody Allen was first here, with his story about Emma Bovary (The Kugelmass Episode ), where if I recall correctly, the protagonist ends up trapped in a Spanish textbook being chased by an irregular verb.
I wish Mr Fforde were really as clever as he thinks he is, never mind as funny as Woody Allen. Although I did laugh at a character named Braxton Hicks, I did not find the name Jack Schitt to be witty. Thursday Next, the female detective, is sympathetic, but awfully lucky, and awfully tough. At various points Fforde just drops the plot, solving a problem by ignoring it or by a particularly silly transition. My worry is that he thinks he is being so clever with gene-spliced dodos wandering around (to what end?) and all his literary references that he will make no effort to tighten up the story. Otherwise I would be tempted to get the next one, because I was absorbed by the book and wanted it to be good. But when I look at his smug website, I doubt the writing ever improves.
Nic wrote: Have you read The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver? Best one for me in ages. It's the story of a bible-thumping missionary who takes his family to the Congo to 'save' the locals. His family consist of his wife and four girls and the story is told alternatively through the eyes of these 5. You might think that this might come across as 'tricksey', but she pulls it off. Hearing the tale through the thoughts of women of different ages works, as it enables one to piece together different - sometimes conflicting - accounts of their life in the jungle. It's a good tale, but also hugely illuminating on politics, religion, life, conditions and culture of equatorial Africa. It calls into question the western desire to 'improve the poor devils lives' and shows us up as a bunch of Parent (to their)-child, control freaks. It might be a tad uncomfortable, with it's parallels for Afganistan and Iraq, for the average citizen of the US of A to ingest, but I'm more than confident you don't qualify on this score! In any case, us Brits have little to crow about on the colonial front!!


[NORTH CAROLINA-SMU MEN] North Carolina needed its third shootout win in three games -- an NCAA record -- to beat SMU and return to the Men's College Cup for the third year in a row.
Carolina claimed a 4-2 shootout win over the Mustangs after their game ended in a 1-1 tie to punched its ticket for Santa Barbara, Calif., where it will face top-seed Louisville in Friday's semifinals.
On SMU's first attempt, Josue Soto's shot deflected off the crossbar and UNC keeper Scott Goodwin stopped Leone Cruz on the Mustangs' third shot.
Dec. 3 in Chapel Hill, N.C.
North Carolina 1 SMU 1 (North Carolina wins 4-2 on penalties). Goals: Urso 5 (Martinez) 10; Ivo 10 (Derschang) 5.
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SMU -- C.Hill, Kalis, Cruz, Still, Nelson, Barnes, Soto, Ivo, Osorio, Derschang, Castillo. Subs: Hickey, Corrado, deAlmeida, B.Hill, Rockwell.


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getreal
· postcrastinator
So the "Guardian Angel" fireman won the $1m prize, the bra lady came in second, and the toy cars teacher came in third.
Lots of weeping and sentimental video clips of family members saying how much they loved their parent, and supportive spouses. The host was just asking for more feedback after watching each emotional clip and I thought that was all milked a bit too much.
The Guardian Angel (both the name and the design) was shown on this TiVO forum to have been previously invented and patented many decades ago, but since nothing was done about it, it was apparently up for grabs. I wonder if the fireman was a descendant of the original creator of the name and design? They claimed to have been working on it for about 16 years, although his original presentation was a crayon drawing on an easel pad, along with a video clip of a Xmas tree catching fire and burning.
Each of the three finalists got opportunities (not an actual contract) to present their pitches to interested companies in those fields. First Alert congratulated the fireman, Maidenform offered to fly the bra lady and her family to their offices in NY, and a toy company offered to fly the teacher and his family to Toronto to discuss his toy cars.
Congrats to each of them. This season went by pretty quickly, or else I must've missed some episodes, as it seemed that they were still auditioning hopefuls just a week or two ago, and suddenly had the finalists and the decision.
Last season I seem to recall that the show had a different format whereby four finalists were followed for several weeks as they went to industrial design firms to actually build prototypes, and then went to graphic design agencies to come up with packaging, and finally to ad agencies to come up with 30-second commercials for their product before a winner was selected. And I've already forgotten who won and for what product.
I guess we'll see if these products actually hit the market.
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DancnDude
· Thrice as nice
The winning idea was a good idea, but still needs to be proven.....and affordable for the average person. Nobody's gonna buy it if it costs too much.
And the cougar thing was just bizarre and unnecessary. This could have easily been a half-hour.
Knives of Ice
i have no idea how anyone could have watched that season finale LIVE. man, what a horrible finale so much wasted time.
this show could be amazing, but it is so flawed. having to pick a finalist from each city is really stupid considering there could be 3-4 better inventions in each city than others.
newsposter
· Poster of News
i just ff'd thru the recap parts..i can remember what happened like less than 2 months ago.
it's ABC so everyone must cry. how uncomfortable all the pauses are.
oh well hopefully therapy buddy or bladder buddy will win next near
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Neenahboy
· Statistical outlier
newsposter said:
If that steak cooking guy can increase the power of the machine, I see no reason why he can't win in a landslide next year.
Mikeyis4dcats
the best invention I saw the whole season was the SWAT door opener.
the Guardian Angel won on sentimentality.
danterner
· Not it!
Neenahboy said:
In my opinion, he could easily have progressed by saying something like: "Unlike many other people, I came here today not with a posterboard and an unproven idea but with a working prototype. I know 40 minutes to cook a steak is ridiculous. But you've now seen that the idea works. By becoming a finalist I'll have the opportunity to look at ways to improve my design and increase the power of the machine, to improve the cooking time."
Also, he never should have waivered and said it would cook it "not medium rare... just rare." It did, in fact, come out medium rare as intended. He lost faith in his product.
Finally, George Foreman should have recused himself from judging it. It's a product that, if successful, would compete with his George Foreman Grill. Instead, it became one of the few products he actually gave a "no" to.
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· cowboy, yee-ha
My guess is that the guardian angel would have to retail for upwards of $100, remember it needs a pressurized tank to send the water to the top of the tree. A little due diligence at preventing a fire once a year at Christmas time is a lot cheaper and will surely limit sales.
The wrap dispenser earlier in the season has been on the market for at least 40 years, I remember my parents having one in the '50's And the guys who "invented" it this season got one of the $50,000 checks.
The American Inventor producers apparently spent much more time rounding up advertisers for the mini-series than they did researching the "inventions"
Thank goodness for the fast forward button.
danterner said:
Yeah, I thought it was hilarious that Foreman decided to give this a "no" after all the previous things he decided to green light. You do have a point that the guy did a poor job at defending himself. They also decided to edit his presentation in the most childish way possible, which I thought was pretty low.
Rkkeller
I was very disappointed in the invention choices for the final this season and
doubt I will watch in the future, if its even on again.
I would not buy any of the top three products.
Rkkeller Aug 7, 2007


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David French
French, David, 1954-
Lloyd George, David, 1863-1945
Coalition governments -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain
The popular image of the First World War is dominated by two misconceptions. The first holds that the war was an exercise in futility in which incompetent upper class generals callously sacrificed an entire generation of young men to no good purpose. The second holds that the debate about British strategic policy during the First World War was a gladiatorial contest between 'brass hats' (generals), and 'frock coats' (politicians). Historians, denied access for too long to the; contemporary records of the private deliberations of policy-makers, had been forced to follow both interpretations. David French challenges this orthodoxy and suggests that the policy-makers were united in trying to relate strategic policy to a carefully considered set of war aims. His challenging; conclusion is that the policy-makers never lost sight of their goal, which was to ensure that Britain fought the war at an acceptable cost and emerged from it with its security enhanced against both its enemies and its allies
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— серія японських ранобе, написана Руї Цукійо та проілюстрована Рейя. З липня 2018 року до жовтня 2021 року вона виходила онлайн на створеному користувачами вебсайті для публікації романів Shōsetsuka ni Narō. Пізніше його придбала Kadokawa Shoten, яка публікувала серію з лютого 2019 року у Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko.

Адаптація манґи з ілюстраціями Хамао Сумераґі була серіалізована онлайн через вебсайт Kadokawa Shoten Young Ace Up із січня 2019 року. І ранобе, і манґа були ліцензовані в Північній Америці . Адаптація у форматі аніме-телесеріалу від  і Studio Palette транслювалася з жовтня по грудень 2021 року.

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Головний герой — старий, який прожив своє життя як найкращий у світі вбивця. Через похилий вік він остаточно вирішив піти на пенсію. Однак літак, на якому він був, зазнав диверсії, і навіть його навички найвидатнішого вбивці не змогли врятувати його. Коли він помер, його розбудила богиня, яка хотіла перевтілити його у світ меча і магії, тому що їй потрібен набір його навичок, щоб запобігти знищенню цього світу від рук Героя. Прийнявши це прохання, головний герой прокидається як Люго Туаха Де і клянеться нарешті прожити повноцінне життя, використовуючи свої навички, щоб врятувати світ.

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 Другий син Кіана та Есрі, Люго є спадкоємцем дому Туаха Де, якого батько навчив що мистецтву медицини, то і мистецтву вбивства. Його старший брат помер. Богиня доручила йому вбити Героя після того, як той переможе Володаря Демонів, оскільки пророцтво показало, що Герой, п'яний від влади, сам знищить світ після перемоги над Володарем Демонів.

 Подруга дитинства Люго, двоюрідна сестра, а також його кохана. Діа вперше зустріла Люго, коли стала його вчителькою магії. Вона є одною із наймогутніших магічок у своєму королівстві (Свойґель) і стає ще могутнішою за допомогою Люго та його всебічного знання сучасного світу. Коли регіон Віконе охоплює громадянська війна, батько Діа просить Люго відвезти Діа в безпечне місце, в регіон Туаха Де, де її всиновлюють під виглядом молодшої сестри Люго.

 Помічниця Люго у вбивствах, Тарте — маг, врятована Лугом, яка віддає всю себе своєму рятівнику. На перший погляд вона виглядає як прекрасна покоївка Люго. Тарте вправно володіє списом. Вона також бере участь у допитах полонених. Хоча вона усвідомлює, що Люго врятував їй життя лише заради її високого магічного таланту, Тарте вирішує присвятити все своє життя тому, щоб бути його найбільш відданим інструментом, аж до закоханості у Люго.

 Прийомна сестра Люго, Маха, є ще одним магом, яку врятували підступи Люго, хоча в той час він був відомий під псевдонімом Ілліґ Балор. Вона працює генеральним директором косметичного бренду Люго, поки сам Люго відсутній. Її роль у групі вбивць Луга полягає у зборі інформації, матеріально-технічній підтримці та допиті в'язнів. Подібно до Тарте, вона розуміє, що Люго врятував їй життя лише тому, що вона могла була корисною в його місії, але попри це вона відчуває до нього більші почуття, аніж вдячність.

 Батько Люго, як барон він є нинішнім головою дому Туаха Де. Люблячий батько, він пишається тим, що його син засвоїв стільки його вчень, особливо у випадку, коли його син порушив сімейне правило, щоб допомогти своїй коханій, подібно до того, як сам Кіан вчинив зі своєю другою половинкою.

 Мати Люго, дворянка з дому Віконе, колір її сріблястого волосся успадкував і Люго. Спочатку вона була проти виховання Люго як вбивці дому Туаха Де, але чоловік переконав її, пообіцявши, що з усіх сил захистить Люго. Есрі любить дражнити свого сина і часто бере участь з ним у кулінарних змаганнях після того, як навчила його готувати та зрештою виявила, що він особливо вправний у кулінарному мистецтві.

 Сутність із потойбіччя, яка пропонує вбивці шанс відродитися в іншому світі зі збереженими спогадами, але з умовою вбити Героя цього світу до того часу, коли вбивці виповниться 18 років. Пізніше виявилося, що вона підлегла іншій, сильнішій сутності. Згідно з наказами цієї сутності, їй було доручено знайти відповідного вчителя для легендарного Героя світу, і коли прийде час, вона знайде когось, щоб убити цього героя.

 Легендарний вбивця, якого вбила його ж організація та переродився як Люго Туаха Де Богинею, щоб виконати місію. Перед смертю йому дали псевдонім «Аллен Сміт».

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Blogging in Egypt: Virtual network, virtual oppression
By Noha Atef/CPJ Guest Blogger on May 2, 2011 11:30 AM ET
I have been blogging in various platforms since 2006, focusing on human rights conditions and police abuses in Egypt. During this time, the Egyptian regime was widely described as one of the most "liberal-moderate" and sometimes "semi-democratic" regimes in the region, but meanwhile, hundreds of young people were hijacked, jailed, fined, and intimidated. Egypt has been named by CPJ as one of the worst countries to be a blogger, and now resides on its list out today of "10 Tools of Online Oppressors."
The Egyptian regime managed to handle the punishment of the digital opposition without staining its "liberal" image. It kept quiet its oppression of online freedom, as it did with me for example: I received threats of arrest and false accusations of prostitution. My immediate and extended family got in trouble too because of what the police called "childish and reckless things" I wrote online--reports on torture committed in Egypt since 2000 and a database I developed of police abuses across the country. Plus, I was sacked from two jobs, in 2007 and 2010, and my family was told by police these were just "pinches on the ear" for me!
Actually, no legal case was filed against me and I have no proof of receiving any threats, as everything happened informally. It was a virtual oppression. However, many other people who used cyberspace to publish their views or mobilize people were physically assaulted. In one year only (2008), dozens of Egyptian bloggers were arrested. (I have been writing about bloggers who were in trouble with the authorities because of their online writing at Global Voices.)
When it came to the Internet, any critique was considered defamation, and defamation was not tolerated by the police, who would even stand against judicial orders to keep a blogger in jail. I know of one blogger who was kept in detention for two years despite being given more than eight release orders. In prison, bloggers were ill-treated; Karim Amer, the first Egyptian who was arrested for blogging, was beaten up more than once while serving his sentence.
I should mention that bloggers and activists were not the only police targets, their laptops were too. In Philip Rizk's case--and in many others--police raided his house and illegally confiscated his hardware.
Noha Atef is an Egyptian blogger and journalist who focuses on human rights, especially police abuses and freedom of expression. Her blog is TortureinEgypt.net.
As interesting in hindsight this is, it is a little oudated. There has been a revolution since not mentioned here and since then bloggers have been very outspoken and critical without harrassment.
BUT for the blogger Maikel Nabil - who is not mentioned here at all. But on World Press Freedom Day it seems vital to mention that he is the only and first blogger to be arrested after the toppling of the Mubarak regime.
He was arrested by the army in the middle of the night of Mach 28, 2011 because of blogging about atrocities of the army against peaceful protesters at Tahrir square (torture, sexual abuse).
He was sentenced in absentia and behind the backs of his uninformed lawyers in a surprise coup on April 10 to 3 years in prison - for having "offended" the army with his criticism.
Surely such gross violation of freedom of speech and press - both guaranteed in the new Egyptian Constitutional Declaration but not granted - must be made public on a day like this. This is what is currently happening in Egypt. The stories above are correct but truly not current anymore, most are two or more years old. That does not fit with the current violation against bloggers in Egypt that we must be aware of.
Nabil has been thrown into a cell with three very violent criminals threatening to injure him, has no blanket, sleeps on the bare floor and does not get out to see the sunlight. His health is deteriorating as he has blood pressure problems and no medical assistence is given to him.
To demand from the army to release the blogger Maikel Nabil from Egyptian jail a petition has been set up and the world is urgently asked to support it by signing!
Please see here:
http://jonamorem.blogspot.com/2011/04/protesting-against-unlawful-sentencing.html
Jonathan Moremi May 3, 2011 8:49:27 AM ET
Many thanks for mentioning Nabil!
Actually I deliberately mentioned other names, as many people (around the world) think that Nabil is first Egyptian blogger to be sentenced by a military court. I meant to draw an image of the atmosphere before 2011 altogether, not particularly before the revolution.
Probably nest year we will need a report to compare the status of digital freedoms before and After...
Noha Atef May 3, 2011 6:30:45 PM ET
Karim Amer
Philip Rizk
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AVALANCHE 5, MAPLE LEAFS 4 (OT)
TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS (22-8-3 – 47 Points) at
COLORADO AVALANCHE (21-8-2 – 44 Points)
COLORADO 1 1 2 1 5
Alexander Kerfoot scored for Toronto at 7:54 of the first period. Kerfoot posted his sixth goal of the season. Kerfoot also registered the secondary assist on Matthews' first goal of the game as well as the primary assist on Matthews' second goal of the game. Kerfoot has posted 18 assists this season.
Kerfoot has recorded eight points (2G, 6A) through the last three games.
Auston Matthews scored his first goal of the game at 14:17 of the first period. Matthews scored his second goal of the game at 14:50 of the first period. Matthews posted his seventh multi-goal game of the season. Matthews has registered 22 goals this season.
Nick Ritchie scored on a Toronto power play opportunity at 5:39 of the second period. Richie scored his second goal of the season.
Michael Bunting registered the primary assist on Kerfoot's goal. Bunting recorded his 13th assist of the season.
Morgan Rielly posted the primary assist on Matthews' first goal of the game. Rielly posted his 24th assist of the season.
Jake Muzzin recorded the secondary assist on Matthews' second goal of the game. Muzzin posted his ninth assist of the season.
Wayne Simmonds posted the primary assist on Ritchie's power play goal. Simmonds recorded his seventh assist of the season.
Ilya Mikheyev registered the secondary assist on Ritchie's power play goal. Mikheyev posted his first assist of the season. Mikheyev is currently on a three-game point streak where he has posted four points (3G, 1A).
Jack Campbell stopped 44-of-49 shots in tonight's overtime loss. Campbell recorded the second highest shots against total of his NHL career (49).
SHOTS ON GOAL (5-on-5 in brackets)
1st 2nd 3rd OT TOTAL
TORONTO 10 (10) 10 (9) 5 (4) 2 (0) 27 (23)
COLORADO 12 (8) 15 (12) 21 (14) 3 (0) 51 (34)
The Maple Leafs are 8-4-2 on the road this season.
Toronto's all-time record is 33-40-10-3 in 86 games against the Colorado Avalanche and 14-18-6-2 in 40 games played in Colorado.
Toronto is 11-3-2 against the Western Conference this season and 4-1-2 against the Central Division this season.
MAPLE LEAFS LEADERS
Shots 7 (Matthews)
Shot Attempts 7 (Matthews)
Faceoff Wins 18 (Kämpf)
Faceoff Win Percentage 79% (Tavares – 11 won, 3 lost)
Hits 6 (Ritchie)
Blocked Shots 4 (Muzzin)
Takeaways 3 (Matthews)
TOI 25:28 (Holl)
Power Play TOI 1:15 (Nylander, Tavares)
Shorthanded TOI 5:53 (Kämpf)
The Maple Leafs were 1-for-1 on the power play and 4-for-4 on the penalty kill tonight.
Toronto is 16-2-1 when scoring the first goal of the game.
The Maple Leafs are 13-1-1 when leading after one period and 17-0-1 when leading after two periods.
Toronto is 8-4-1 when outshot by their opponent.
The Maple Leafs are 6-2-2 in Saturday games.
The Maple Leafs are 3-3 in overtime decisions this season.
Per NHL Stats, Auston Matthews scored twice in a span of 33 seconds. It marks his 45th career multi-goal game, one shy of Alex Ovechkin (46) for the most among all players since the Maple Leafs forward entered the NHL in 2016-17.
Per NHL Stats, Auston Matthews' two goal in a span of 33 seconds were the fastest by a Maple Leafs player since Mark Arcobello on Feb. 13, 2016 (0:17).
David Kämpf earned 18 face-off wins during tonight's game, recording an NHL single-game career high.
Justin Holl recorded a season-high 25:28 in time on ice.
Jan. 11 Leafs at Vegas T-Mobile Arena 10:00 pm ET
Jan. 12 Leafs at Arizona Gila River Arena 10:00 pm ET
Jan. 15 Leafs at St. Louis Enterprise Center 7:00 pm ET
Jan. 19 Leafs at New York Rangers Madison Square Garden 7:30 pm ET
Jan. 22 Leafs at New York Islanders UBS Arena 7:00 pm ET
Jan. 26 Leafs vs. Anaheim Scotiabank Arena 7:00 pm ET
Stats reflect official NHL stats at the time of distribution.
POSTGAME QUOTES:
HEAD COACH SHELDON KEEFE
On what could have been done to secure tonight's early lead:
"Hard to say. I'm going to watch it back. There aren't many teams in the league that could keep these guys below four these days. I think it's tough, it's tough to do that, especially with a short bench today and missing three very important forwards. Three guys that will be vital for us in protecting a lead like that and
allowing us to use more of our bench. Three penalty killers as well. We had to kill four penalties today and we had one power play. Penalty kill did an outstanding job, but I take nothing but positive out of this game
tonight. I know the way you give up the lead in the third and you end up losing in overtime… We tie the game here today, it's a huge point for us, and all things considered, this team we're playing tonight is
rolling. It's a tough building to play in. It's probably the loudest building we've played in all year, so you come out of playing in front of no fans and then you're into this. The response from our group to start the
game I thought was outstanding, even though it took us a little bit to get our offence moving I just thought our guys worked, our structure was really good and even though the shot volume goes up throughout the
game, I just don't think we gave up much in terms of dangerous scoring chances when we did, Soupy was unbelievable with some of the saves he made. I thought our guys did what we asked of them today, would we liked to get two points? Absolutely. Should we have had two points? Absolutely, but that's a
very good team and to come out here on the road and get a point is huge for our group."
JACK CAMPBELL
"It was a good game. Crowd was really loud, it was fun out there and I thought our guys competed really hard. If I play up to my standard, we win that game every time."
On Toronto's penalty kill:
"Yeah, it was huge for us. The guys in front of me did a great job. We had a bunch of big blocks in the first, and in the third again, and they have a great power play over there and I just thought our guys in
front of me did the best job they could possibly do to go into overtime, big kill at the end of the game, unfortunately we didn't get the second point."
On Jack Campbell's play tonight:
"First of all, I think Soup played unbelievable tonight honestly. I mean some of the saves he made tonight, one of them is going to be save of the year honestly so I think he did everything he could. That's a really good team over there and obviously they aren't going to go away, you saw that tonight, but Soup did
everything he could. They make plays, they have some good players on their side and they kind of got the momentum going their way in the second half of the game and were able to tie it up but by no means do I think Jack Campbell didn't play up to his standard tonight cause he was unbelievable for us just like
he's been unbelievable for us all year."
On starting the road trip with a point:
"Yeah, it would have nice to get the second point but that's a really good team over there, they are going to get their chances and I think they just were able to get the momentum on their side and able to score a couple goals and kind of get that shift over there, the crowd was really into it and they forced OT. I think
the whole time we obviously expected a win and just a couple minor details that kind of slipped that they were able to capitalize on. Like I said, that's a good team over there and I think we feel really strongly
about ourselves as well. I think we did a lot of really good things but obviously were leaving a little bit disappointed not getting that second point."
ALEXANDER KERFOOT
"It is tough coming in here. We're playing in front of no fans. I don't know, the energy was high in that game, the crowd was into it. When they started pushing there in the third it was a lot of fun to be out there but I thought our start was good, all things considered. Got out to a lead, held it, the game flow kind of
turned in their favour, they gave it to us pretty good there in the latter half of the game, we were on our
heels a bit. But then we had pushed ourselves, Soupy was great all night keeping us in it and obviously it is disappointing giving up the lead and only giving up one point."
On playing on a line with Auston Matthews:
"Yeah, that's pretty self-explanatory. I think he's obviously an elite player in this league and I think that anyone who gets to play with him is lucky to play with him. You've seen it all year and we see it every day."
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"Bitcoin Is Freedom": Reflections on Bitcoin 2022
Jacob Oliver
Crypto Briefing attended Bitcoin 2022 in Miami to see what life is like among the world's most faithful Bitcoin believers.
Photo Credit: Miami Herald/JOSE A. IGLESIAS
Once every year—barring pandemic, that is—tens of thousands of Bitcoin enthusiasts descend upon the City of Miami to celebrate Bitcoin, the first true cryptocurrency and still the largest in the world by market cap. Crypto Briefing was on the ground at Bitcoin 2022 to experience the sheer weirdness of what it means to have undying faith in Bitcoin.
A Pilgrimage in the Holy Land
When Mayor Francis Suarez, a vocal Bitcoin bull and proponent of cryptocurrencies in government, unveiled the new Miami Bull statue, he said its placement would cement Miami's place as the Bitcoin capital—and therefore the future financial capital—of the United States. At once, Mayor Suarez implied Bitcoin (and cryptocurrencies, more generally) to be synonymous with both financial innovation and the way of the future. Modeled after Wall Street's famous Charging Bull statue, the Miami Bull is a technocratic nightmare of a design from somewhere between the Terminator and a Transformer, its laser eyes and golden horns daring any other metaphors for financial independence to get in its way.
Photo credit: Jacob Oliver
For the next three days, pilgrims from around the world descended on this spot to get a picture with the Bull as they attended Bitcoin 2022, the largest annual gathering of Bitcoin advocates worldwide. Despite the price of Bitcoin slowly sinking throughout the week, shirts reading "Bullish!" abounded in the crowd and captured the overall air of confidence in the world's flagship cryptocurrency.
Bitcoiners believe. For any perceived fault in them, there are a dozen other admirable qualities of Bitcoin people, chief among them being the fact that they believe in something. And when I say they believe it, I mean they believe it, the way my grandmother believed that Jesus was on his way back any day now. For Bitcoiners, distributed ledger technology is nothing short of messianic—it represents the advent not only of a new tech, but a new way of thinking about the world.
For the Abrahamic religions there is a promise of deliverance from evil; for Bitcoiners, deliverance from fiat. Fiat currency, I was told several times during our time in Miami, is not just a hoax but something much more insidious—it is a false prophet designed to lure us into a sense of complacency while value is systematically extracted from our lives by an elite ruling class. The figures within the international monetary system conspire to rule the world by devaluing its currency, which they do by seeking to extend their own control over monetary policy. If the comments section of any crypto thread is any indication, fiat money is the most egregious crime in the history of the world.
And Bitcoin is the solution to all that. If there is one belief that penetrates to the bone at the annual Bitcoin Miami conference, it is the idea that Bitcoin is here to liberate us all.
I've never been much of a believer, in spite of my vaguely Pentecostal upbringing. I know what a church looks like, though, and when I overheard one panelist tell the crowd that the only thing that would save them from the coming collapse of society was accepting Bitcoin into their hearts, I knew what I was looking at. "Just look around at what's going on in the world, it's all on the edge of falling apart," I heard a panelist say in passing. "The best thing you can do to protect yourself, to protect your family, is buy Bitcoin. Tell your grandparents, tell your parents—it's your responsibility to educate people about Bitcoin."
The tell-tale sign of the zealot is an intolerance of alternative ways of thinking, which soon manifests in exclusionary speech and behaviors. Contrasted to the Ethereum crowd, which seems generally interested in a wide variety of blockchain and cryptocurrency products, some Bitcoin aficionados can be rather exclusive in what they consider to be legitimate cryptocurrencies. These so-called "Bitcoin maximalists" (or "maxis," if you're feeling casual) are characterized by their complete and total faith in Bitcoin, and they are not afraid to express this view. Among the many entities that were vociferously booed by various audiences were: Solana, fiat money, Christine Lagarde, the concept of monetary policy, inflation, taxes, Janet Yellen, the Federal Reserve, Fantom, the IRS, SpookySwap, Ethereum, and Solana (again).
It was really something, then, when Ricardo Salinas, a Mexican businessman famously scarred by that nation's hyperinflation during the 1990s, gave a particularly evangelical talk in which, with no hint of irony, he called the fiat currency system a religion, claiming: "their religion is not tolerant, and they hate heretics." On the screen behind him displayed a trio of "devilish people," as Salinas called them—Janet Yellen, Agustín Carstens, and Christine Lagarde, all bedecked with devil horns, emblematic of the dogmatism of fiat. He quipped the Bitcoin enthusiast's favorite criticism of the Federal Reserve's balance sheets, calling all $9 trillion dollars' worth of assets that it holds "fake money." He mocked the absurdity of trusting made-up money while waving a dollar bill in his right hand: "This fraud," he said, "it's not even good for toilet paper."
Now, for just a moment I'd like to interject with a personal take, which you can take or leave as you will, but it's this: all money is made-up. It is, to use the most proper term possible, imaginary—it doesn't exist in nature, and to conceive of units of account is the product of a distinctly human imagination. If a thing has no monetary value on the basis that it's "made up," then Bitcoin's net market cap is below zero. If you don't believe me, ask anyone what their bags were worth in 2007.
Which is not to say that money isn't real—it is. But it's an invention, a technology. It's tempting to think that money has to be backed by some real commodity in the world; in ancient Mesopotamia, units of barley and wheat were measured in silver, and the U.S. embraced the gold standard until 1971. These are conventions, though, only holding water because we have near universal agreement that these things have value. It's easy to say that fiat money is backed by nothing, but in reality it's quite efficiently backed by force of law—and that's not nothing by any stretch of the imagination.
For all their talk of Bitcoin being the equivalent of ultimate freedom and salvation, it's awfully hard not to notice the fact that these people believe first and foremost in money—and that in their minds, there is no money but Bitcoin.
Other people noticed too, not least of which were the fire-and-brimstone preachers on the sidewalks outside the convention, where I had literally just been told that the only thing that would save me from the end of days was owning Bitcoin. In a scene that couldn't have been more on-the-nose if it were written for Hallmark, two old men politely foisted biblical literature into the crowd as it shuffled through the exit gates the way a huckster peddles free admission vouchers for gentlemen's club. Their placard read:
"For the love of money is the root of all evil —Timothy 6:10"
As it came my turn, I took a rather tawdry-looking single-strip comic book called "THE BEAST," from one man as he pointedly asked, "Do you know what the Bible says about money?"
"That you cannot serve two masters," I said, "for you will love one and despise the other: You cannot serve both God and money."
"That's right," he said.
"Yeah," I said, "I've read it before."
I continued on my way and flipped through the comic. It was about the Book of Revelation, in which the ultimate false prophet ascends to absolute power over the entire world through financial exploitation and outright violence. Having recently heard more than one speaker (including the aforementioned Salinas) decry the idea of central bank digital currencies—the ultimate tool of financial surveillance and censorship—I couldn't help but notice the very same paranoia in its pages:
Jack D. Chick, "THE BEAST" (Chick Publications, 1988)
It's incredible how much two groups of people can have in common and have no awareness of it. Replace "the Mark" with "CBDC" and you have the exact same apprehension about government overreach as you had 2,000 years ago. While those around me ushered in a brave new world, I heard the words of David Byrne floating freely through my head: "Same as it ever was, same as it ever was."
The strict utopianism of the Bitcoin community also warrants a modest amount of scrutiny. Words of caution came from the unlikeliest of places in the form of a fireside chat with controversial public intellectual Jordan Peterson, who seemed to count himself among the "crypto-curious" rather than the full-blown believers. Peterson, who is something of an outsider to the Bitcoin community, having only recently developed an interest in crypto, warned a packed room that the idea that a revolutionary technology would have nothing but positive effects was profoundly short-sighted. "There will be many things you did not predict," he ominously told a silent room.
But who knows? They may be right. With the likes of Janet Yellen and even Jamie Dimon apparently changing their tune on cryptocurrency, maybe the recognition of blockchain technology as the true-world changer its proponents claim it to be is right around the corner. Maybe during the next recession, Bitcoin will stay strong as other currencies falter because of its decentralized nature and lack of affiliation with any sovereign nation.
But maybe not.
Ecclesiastes says in its closing pages: "Divide your means seven ways, or even eight, for you do not know what disaster may happen on earth" (11:2). Not content to give us mere investment advice, the teacher of Ecclesiastes goes on to remind us of the fragility of our predictions, as well as of the finality of disaster when it does occur:
"Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north,
in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie."
All money carries some risk. All national currencies run the risk of collapsing, all digital assets can go to zero, and all stocks can tank just as hard as they've done in the past. The value of money is built on belief and trust, and anyone who's ever experienced a breach of those things knows just how difficult it is to restore them. None of this is intended to spread FUD all over the conference as its participants reflect on their week in Miami. It's only by way of saying that absolute certainty in anything, no matter how sure you feel about it, is always going to be dangerous.
That said, it's better to believe in something than in nothing. Bitcoin enthusiasts are believers, and with that they bring a kind of confidence that can't be replicated. If anything indicates a bullish future for what is still the world's most popular cryptocurrency, it would have to be that.
Disclosure: At the time of writing, the author of this piece owned BTC, ETH, SOL, FTM, and several other cryptocurrencies. Crypto Briefing is a media sponsor of Bitcoin 2022.
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Dating can be frustrating. Remember the time Charlotte said, "I've been dating since I was 15. I'm exhausted. Where is he?"
Well, I live in New York City and have this conversation with my single friends all the time. Where is the best place to meet a good guy, especially if you're not online dating? To find out, I decided to conduct my own personal survey; I asked my closest friends who are in happy, committed relationships where they met their partners.
To jump ahead, most of my friends met through a mutual friend. The app Hitch is definitely onto something.
Through work. My fiance was a client!
At the Top of the Standard. I ran into someone I knew who insisted I join him and his friends for one drink...my now-boyfriend was one of the friends.
Are you in a committed relationship? Where did you meet? If you're not in a relationship, are you calling your friends to set you up immediately?


Common Assignment & Research Questions: Do you have (_____) DVD?
Visit our feature film collection located across from the Reference desk on the third floor of the library. Missouri Southern students, faculty and staff may borrow up to five videos at a time for a period of seven days. They may be renewed for one additional time period if no one has requested the item.
-continuously added award winning & nominated films!
All non-fiction DVDs are filed by Library of Congress Classification call numbers on the second floor of the library with our main collection books.
1. Click on the 'Advanced Search' link in the Summon @ MSSU search box located on the library homepage.
2. If you are looking for a particular movie or a certain actor/director, you will enter that information in the available search fields. You may also search for DVDs by topic. In the example below, we are looking for any movies with James Stewart.
3. After entering your keywords in the search fields at the top of the Advanced Search screen, select 'Video Recording' in the 'Show content type' box. This will limit your search results to recordings (DVDs, VHS, Cassettes, etc.) and should remove all other content types - books, ebooks, newspapers, etc.
5. Clicking on the title opens the catalog entry page; indicating the DVD (video recording) is AVAILABLE and located in the MSSU DVD collection at the time of this search.
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TORONTO, CANADA--(Marketwired - Aug. 3, 2017) - Canadian General Investments, Limited (CGI) (TSX:CGI)(TSX:CGI.PR.D)(LSE:CGI) reports on an unaudited basis that its net asset value per share (NAV) at July 31, 2017 was $29.33, resulting in year-to-date and 12-month NAV returns, with dividends reinvested, of 6.1% and 16.2%, respectively. These compare with the 0.7% and 6.8% returns of the benchmark S&P/TSX Composite Index on a total return basis for the same periods.
The closing price for CGI's common shares at July 31, 2017 was $21.18, resulting in year-to-date and 12-month share price returns, with dividends reinvested, of 10.8% and 20.9%, respectively.