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Dec 4, 2012 #821
billc Grandmaster
somewhere near Lake Michigan
New photo of Zimmerman after the fight...
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/12/03/Photo-of-George-Zimmerman-Shows-Bloody-Nose-on-Night-of-Trayvon-Martin-Shooting
arnisador Sr. Grandmaster
Martial Talk Alumni
That'll surely help his case--if verified.
Carol Crazy like a...
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ABC News is reporting that a black and white version of the photo has been up on a web site dedicated to Mr. Zimmerman's defense. If that is indeed the case, then the photo is not new, or a surprise to the parties involved, what's new is rhe public release of the image in color.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlin...-lawyers-say-bloody-nose-photo-creates-doubt/
Some are suspicious as to why only the black and white photo was released to the defense...
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/12/04/to-what-lengths-did-someone-go-to-scapegoat-george-zimmerman/
The “new” photo of George Zimmerman raises some very disturbing issues. Take a look at the black and white version of the photo, which the Florida prosecutor gave to the defense as part of the discovery process shortly after his altercation with Trayvon Martin.
Other than color, what else is missing from this photo?
Can you tell how old George Zimmerman is? To me, he looks like he could be any age from 20 to more than 50. But the graininess and lack of visible hair on the top of his head suggest that he is an older man.
The lack of color in the photo obscures Zimmerman’s race as well. As a friend of mine pointed out to me, the man in that photo is brighter in complexion than the man is in reality. The black and white photo renders Zimmerman a pale white. The whites of his eyes and his facial skin are nearly the same tone. The contrast makes his face emerge harshly from the shadows behind him.
The man in the photo above looks somewhat menacing. The misshapen nose suggests a history of brawls, the color having been drained away, taking with it the reds and purples indicating a fresh wound from a very recent attack. The vacant look in his eyes suggests no remorse for the killing of a young man, which the man in the photo had done moments before the photo was taken.
“This man might be a thug.” That’s the nonverbal message of the photo above.
Now, look again at the color photo. This is the unaltered photo, from which the grainy, black and white version was manufactured.
Seen in color, the “thug” who might be, becomes a wounded young man. Shock and fear ring his eyes. There may be small wounds or acne on his forehead. Blood drips from his nose and his lip appears to be busted open. His nose appears to be freshly broken. Instead of being a white ghoul emerging from shadows, he is a wounded man sitting in a car after a life-changing, possibly life-destroying, event has happened. The ghoul has flesh and blood after all. He bleeds.
From that color photo, taken in color at high resolution by law enforcement officers moments after the altercation, someone manufactured the grainy black and white photo and made the decision to hand that version, but not the full color version, over to Zimmerman’s defense. Who did that? Who manufactured that photo? How did they manufacture it? Why did they manufacture it?
Mar 12, 2013 #825
Well, we have updates...Martin's girlfriend is alleged to have comitted perjury that will effect her appearing in court...and Martin apparently was a fan of MMA...
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/03/why_florida_persists_in_the_zimmerman_prosecution.html
The witnesses to the February 2012 shooting of 17 year-old Trayvon Martin are proving even more troublesome than the angels. The state's case took a hit last week when Witness #8, Martin's alleged 16-year-old sweetheart "Dee Dee," was caught in falsehoods so flagrant that even the Trayvon-friendly Orlando Sentinel noticed them. Conceded the headline, "Lawyer: State's main witness in George Zimmerman murder case lied."
An hour after the shooting, Witness #6 told the Sanford Police Department (SPD) that he saw a "black man in a black hoodie on top of either a white guy. . . or an Hispanic guy in a red sweater on the ground yelling out help." According to #6, the black man on top was "throwing down blows on the guy MMA [mixed martial arts] style."
"The person calling for help would be the person underneath, you think?" asked the SPD officer.
"Yes, that was the one getting beat up," said Witness #6. "He was the one with the red sweater on."
As a side note, soon after the shooting, bloggers uncovered ample evidence in Martin's social media accounts of his keen interest in MMA style fighting. The media have ignored that too.
Here is what she committed perjury about...
http://pjmedia.com/blog/witness-in-trayvon-martin-case-lied-will-it-even-go-to-trial/
The key prosecution witness in the second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman has allegedly been caught in a significant lie:
Trayvon Martin’s girlfriend, the state’s most important witness in the George Zimmerman murder case, was caught in a lie, it was revealed Tuesday.
It was not the first piece of misinformation tied to her, but it was the most damaging to date and left prosecutors in a very awkward position.
They had to publicly acknowledge that their star witness had lied under oath and had to answer questions about what they intend to do about it.
Reporters asked: Will you charge the 19-year-old Miami woman with perjury?
The state’s lead prosecutor, Bernie de la Rionda, gave an ambiguous answer: “You can all read the law and make your own decision.”
The 19-year-old woman — who had originally claimed to be just sixteen at the time of the shooting, when she was in fact two years older — was caught in a second lie. She had told prosecutors that she was in the hospital during Trayvon Martin’s funeral, a claim that investigators for the defense now claim is false.
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Isn't it fascinating how initially the mainstream media jumped all over this story, yet as the state's case against Zimmerman continues to fall apart they continue to distance themselves from it?
When they thought it was a "white," guy shooting an unarmed teenager because of racist motives...they could barely keep the drool in their mouths...
And then...he was a "hispanic," white guy...and the teen had some trouble in his past and may have initiated the attack...and their little hearts broke...
zDom Senior Master
I am ashamed of our national media. For them to pursue their agenda (anti-gun and hate mongering between races) and skew stories so far from the truth is despicable.
This isn't a Democrat / Republican issue. This is an "American people deserve the TRUTH from news to inform their world-view" issue.
May 28, 2013 #829
Well, with the pre-trial motions happening we are starting to get a better picture of the real Trayvon Martin...the one the press tried to suppress...
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/05/new_evidence_shows_trayvons_life_unraveling.html
As his social media accounts show, Martin was a student of mixed martial arts. The fight followed the MMA format. A day later, he would tell a friend that his opponent "got mo hits cause in da 1[SUP]st[/SUP] round he had me on da ground nd I couldn't do ntn." As his girlfriend complained, Martin was "always" fighting. He was also something of a sadist. His opponent, after all, did not bleed enough. Why might this be relevant?
Martin was not the innocent little boy that the media relentlessly and corruptly portrayed him to be. At the time of his death, he was five feet, eleven inches and weighed 158 pounds. To put this in perspective, legendary boxer Tommy "The Hitman" Hearns was six feet, one inch and 145 pounds when he first won the world welterweight title as a twenty-one-year-old.
Before leaving for Orlando on February 21, 2012, Martin had already missed 53 days of school that year and been suspended three times, most recently for possessing drug paraphernalia, the time before that for getting caught with women's jewelry and a burglary tool. Why might this be relevant?
On January 6, 2012, Martin got into trouble at school again. When asked why, he told a friend, "Caus I was watcn a fight nd a teacher say I hit em." Said the friend, "Idk how u be getting in trouble an sh**." By this time, Martin's mother had thrown him out of the house for "fightn," and he had moved in with his aunt and uncle.
The multiple texts about "weed" and the photos of marijuana plants confirmed his interests in drugs -- a friend called him "weedhead" -- but the new photos pointed to an even more dangerous new hobby -- namely, guns. Indeed, one of the photos of Martin's showed a hand, likely Martin's own, on a pistol.
This doesn't mean he should have been killed, but it does show that the shooting may well have been justified at the time it happened...
I didn't know about the MMA angle. I wonder if he was a student as we think of it here, or just watched the fights and mimicked them, like kids with pro wrestling.
More on the pre-trial supression of evidence...
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/05/trayvon_george_and_the_homeless_man.html
On Zimmerman's defence of a homeless man beaten by police...
Although Ware suffered a concussion, and there was video evidence of Collison's action, no action was taken against Collison for nearly a month. Upset at the lack of media attention, Zimmerman and his wife Shellie printed fliers demanding that the community "hold accountable" officers responsible for any misconduct.
They then drove the fliers around to area churches and passed them out on a Sunday morning. Later, at a public meeting in January 2011, Zimmerman took the floor and said, "I would just like to state that the law is written in black and white. It should not and cannot be enforced in the gray for those that are in the thin blue line."
This meeting was recorded on video. As a result of the publicity, Police Chief Brian Tooley, whom Zimmerman blasted for his "illegal cover-up and corruption," was forced to resign.
Ironically, perhaps, Zimmerman headlined his fliers with a famous quote from Anglo-Irish statesman Edmund Burke: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." He would have been better off quoting another Anglo-Irishman, Oscar Wilde: "No good deed goes unpunished."
The local NAACP, with whom Zimmerman worked on the Sherman Ware case, instinctively turned its back on him as soon as he was accused of racist profiling in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. On March 26, a month after the shooting, George's older brother Robert sent an impassioned letter to local NAACP head Turner Clayton asking him to "call off the dogs. Period. Publicly and swiftly."
On Martin and his proclivity for fighting...
O'Mara countered by saying that Martin not only attended fights, but that he also recorded them on video, including "one where two buddies of his are beating up a homeless guy." The video recorded a crime. The State of Florida had had this video in possession for months and took no follow-up action. As O'Mara made clear at the most recent hearing, the State had concealed critical evidence all along. He even produced a whistleblower from the state attorney's office to hammer home his point.
Jun 9, 2013 #832
Here is a question...does anyone want to start a seperate thread for the Zimmerman trial...or do you want to keep trial coverage under this thread. I suggest this only because this thread is so large already, and the pre-trial stuff is starting to come out and it is fresh material?
As to more pre-trial stuff...scream analysis...who screamed and the experts...
http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/0...called-absurd-ridiculous-and-imaginary-stuff/
Even based merely on their relative training and experience the defense expert witnesses appear to vastly outclass those brought forward by the State. For example:
State Expert #1, Tom Owens: A one-man audio forensics operation whose highest academic degree is a BA in History, who has no formal academic training in speech recognition or speaker identification, whose standards for analysis are self-written and in any case subject to self-violation in order to ensure a “finding”, who uses as his primary speech analysis tool a computerized “biometric” system in which he has a substantial financial stake, and which in any case he has used for less than two years and tested about as an expert witness only once before.
State Expert #2, Dr. Alan Reich, PhD: A long-retired college professor with an avocational interest in speech recognition and identification who manages to hear words and phrases in audio recordings that cannot be heard by world-leading experts in the field, much less by layman.
Compare and contrast with the defense expert witnesses:
Defense Expert #1, Dr. Hirotaka Nakasone, PhD: A senior scientist with a 17-year career with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, currently the Head of the Bureau’s Voice Recognition Program, and the Head of the international working group establishing the first formal scientific standards for speech recognition and speaker identification.
Defense Expert #2, Dr. J.P. (Peter) French, PhD: Dr. French earned his PhD in the analyses of recorded conversations, he is the Director of J.P. French Associates, the United Kingdom’s longest established independent forensic laboratory specializing in the analysis of speech, audio, and language with 6 full-time scientific staff, and a Professor in the Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York.
Defense Expert #3, Dr. George Doddington, PhD: Dr. Doddington conducted his doctoral thesis on speaker recognition, and since 1970 he has been leading the development and evaluation of speech recognition and speaker identification technologies and methodologies at a wide variety of top-level institutions, including Texas Instruments, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Security Agency (NSA), and currently at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST). Interestingly, he was deeply involved in the development of the voice recognition technology used in the F-16 fighter aircraft.
[h=3]“It’s pretty much axiomatic in the community that you can’t compare screaming with speech.”[/h]When asked whether a sample recording of someone shouting or screaming would create particular challenges to forensic audio analysis, Dr. French was adamant that they would. In fact, he said it would be impossible to compare a normal speaking voice to a scream made in distress, or vice versa.
French: “When people shout, we have to realize that shouting is not simply speaking made louder, people have got completely different vocal settings when we shout than when we speak. It is very difficult, if someone is genuinely shouting rather than just speaking with a raised voice, to do a comparison.”
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Q: Javascript get serialize form variables in javascript I have a form which I'm submitting through javascript serialize().
Below form works fine but what i want if <select name="comboForm"> seleted value is 0 then in JS script it should read that and if value of <select name="comboForm"> is === 0 then it will alert() something else and if value is >== 1 then alert() something else as below. Actually i do not know how to do this in the below script.
Please help. Thanks
success :  function(data){
   if (data[comboForm] === 0) {
   alert('Please select the item from list.');
   }else{
   alert('Item added successfuly to your cart.');
   }
}

Form
<form name="comboboxForm" method="post" id="item_form" action="singleitem.php">

<select name="comboForm">
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   <option value="2">DEF</option>
   <option value="3">GHI</option>
</select>

<input name="quantity" type="text" value="1" id="number" />

<input type="submit" class="myFormSubmitD btn-style-2 mg-left-5" value="ADD TO CART">

</form>

A: Just fetch the select element based in it's name and check the value:
if ($('[name="comboForm"]').val() == "0") {
    alert('Something');
} else {
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Q: Is it proper to use "broke" in "Broke his feelings"?
My colleague broke his feelings. (English Syntax and Argumentation,
  Bas Aarts)

Aarts says this sentence is abnormal, because of the selectional restrictions: 'feelings' is abstract and not proper for the object of 'broke.' I can understand what he is saying. But is the case so strange enough to be selected by Aarts? We can say 'The death of his wife broke him completely.' Then why can't we say like the example?

A: From Google Books:

hurt my feelings 370,000 hits
broke my heart 122,000 hits
broke his spirit 65,300 hits
broke my feelings 1 hit

That single instance is actually the reported speech of a child, in a book with the equally "ungrammatical" title Nice on My Feelings (there are no relevant instances of broke his feelings).
So one justification for Aarts saying "this sentence is abnormal" is simply the fact that people don't say it. As regards the "selectional restrictions" justification, I would put it like this:
Your (real or metaphorical) heart is something that can be seen as whole and functional, so it can be "broken". Equally, with your spirit, it's a reference to your vivacity/determination - which can also be "broken", so it doesn't function properly any more. But feelings are always there (in fact you'd probably have more of them if someone broke your heart); they're not sufficiently organised or functional to be described as "broken", no matter what happens to them.

A: I believe "break" is used metaphorically in "broken heart" and "broken man", and these metaphors have long since become fixed in language.  We're used to hearing them so much we don't even think of them as metaphors.
So why not "broken feelings"?  I believe it's simply a historical accident.  It's plausible to me that the collocation "broken feelings" could have become just as common as "a broken heart", even though it never did.  In other words, I don't believe there is any real analysis to make of it.
I could be wrong, of course.  But it's hard to say--we can't re-run history and see what different words and collocations we end up with, so it's not the sort of thing we can experiment with and determine empirically.  It's just a matter of what makes sense--and what makes sense to me is that it's a simple accident.

A: I do not recall ever hearing a fluent English speaker say "broke his feelings".
It is a common idiom to say that someone "broke his/her heart". Typically this is said if a wife or girlfriend or husband or boyfriend terminates a relationship. It is also commonly said if someone close to a person disappoints him in some extreme way, like "When he learned that his son had become a thief and a killer, it broke his heart."
It is also common to say that someone "hurt his feelings". This is used for a disappointment or offense on a much smaller scale than "broke his heart". Like, "When she didn't show up for their first date, it hurt his feelings." "When he learned that his son had failed a history test, it hurt his feelings."
I don't know any logical reason why we say "broke his heart" but not "hurt his heart", and "hurt his feelings" but not "broke his feelings". But that's the nature of idioms. Some phrases just come to be commonly accepted, and others ... don't.
Regarding 25 million hits for "break * feelings": I checked out the first two pages and didn't see any that were "break his feelings" or "break her feelings". Rather, there were many other words in between, like "When she broke up with him, it hurt his feelings". Finding such a high number for that pair of words doesn't surprise me at all: People routinely talk their feelings when someone breaks up with them.

A: Also, an interesting aspect in "My colleague broke his feelings" is that HE did it to HIMSELF. If the correct form is eg "break one's heart", I still can't break it to myself, but something must break it to me. Similarly, I suppose, we can't say "I broke my spirit" but have to say that "something broke my spirit" etc. Am I right?

A: Although "broke his feelings" is just as logical than "hurt his feelings" or "broke his heart" it is simply non-idiomatic.


Threat or opportunity? Opinions on the digitalization of the sports industry differ widely, but one thing is certain to everyone: sitting out is not an option. One year after its launch, ISPO Digitize has established itself as a companion through digitalization for retailers and sports companies. The platform demonstrated this, too, at ISPO Munich 2019.
The ASB GlassFloor was one of the eye-catchers of the ISPO Digitize Area at ISPO Munich.
"Does the sports industry oversleep the process of digitalization?", "Retailers lag behind in digitalization" - many of the news about the digital transformation in the sports business have negative connotations.
At the same time, there is enthusiastic talk about young start-ups who are allegedly turning the sports market upside down with their innovative digital products. And the sporting goods giants Adidas and Nike as well as the big US technology companies Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple will be the winners anyway.
Digitalization is such a large and abstract term - where should a sports retailer or medium-sized sports entrepreneur start?
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The most radical possibility: Invest massively in the latest technology, hire expensive digital strategists, overthrow your business model, separate yourself from analog employees and structures, rely on influencer marketing and open offices in Beijing, New York and London.
The radical cut can work, but it probably won't. Especially not if you have to give up your brand identity.
Again, this approach is not automatically doomed to failure if you have a solid customer base that is loyal to you. However, the statistics show that the situation for analogue retailers is getting tighter every year.
The exaggerated presentation of options one and two suggest that neither blind actionism nor shock inflexibility will help to meet the challenges of digitalization. But sports retailers and the sports industry should definitely take action to explore their possibilities. "Not to think digitally is not an option," said Stefan Herzog, Secretary General of the Association of German Sports Retailers (VDS).
This is exactly where ISPO Digitize comes in. ISPO's latest service has set itself the task to accompany sports retailers, entrepreneurs and the sports industry during the digital transformation. At all levels, from beginners to digital professionals.
ISPO Digitize illustrates the digital possibilities in an unpretentious way. The area in the new Hall C6 at ISPO Munich 2019 was received with great interest by the trade visitors because it enabled them to experience abstract terms and thus reduced fear of contact.
eSports for example. This mass phenomenon celebrated its premiere in 2019, one year before the 50th birthday of ISPO Munich. Not with the aim of turning the sports fair into a gaming convention, but with the aim of getting to know two worlds that so far have had few points of intersection, but sometimes the same target group.
And nowhere at the entire ISPO Munich one could see so many amazed faces as on the interactive hall floor ASB GlassFloor.
"We are very happy that ISPO Digitize is so well received", said Tobias Gröber, Director of the ISPO Group. "The demand is getting bigger and bigger and I'm sure that we will be able to increase the numbers at the ISPO Digitize Summit on July 3rd and 4th, 2019."
Those who followed the keynotes on the ISPO Academy stage were bound to notice: The speakers by no means spoke out unreservedly in favor of the digital transformation, but offered a differentiated view. "Digitalization does not mean hanging as many iPads as possible in the store," emphasized Philipp Beck from atelier 522 in his lecture "The Future of Stationary Retail".
Already at the first ISPO Digitize Summit, futurologist Prof. Bernd Thomsen explained in a remarkable keynote speech: "Don't forget: Digitalization is only one of maybe 25 assets of the future".
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"In many places there is simply a lack of personnel skills for implementing new technologies," explained Prof. Dr. Karl-Peter Fischer from the University of Applied Management. "In addition, many analog errors are uncovered by the digitalization. Many don't even know who their target group is, what their needs are and what the customer journey should be like."
The scientific, standardized questionnaire ensures that the VDS Digital Fitness Check provides dealers with valuable information without having to invest huge sums in a management consultancy.
Tony Hawk, too, brought free insights and exciting anecdotes to the visitors of ISPO Munich. The skate legend from California gave the keynote speech at the ISPO Digitize Pioneers Night in front of hundreds of listeners. "I've always welcomed new technologies with open arms," said the superstar, "you need to know what moves people out there and adjust to it."
When Tony Hawk's financial situation was no longer satisfactory in 1999, he was neither blinded by actionism nor shocked by rigidity. Instead, he chose Option 3, combining the best of the analog and digital worlds and bringing his own video game on the market.
In the ISPO.com interview he looked back: "I worked very closely with the developers and at the same time, of course, I continued to skate."


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Broncos want improved tackling, but a healthy team, after camp
2012 Denver Broncos players are in Sports Authority Field in Denver, CO. Saturday, August 4, 2012. Hyoung Chang, The Denver Post
By Jeff Legwold | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: August 5, 2012 at 8:49 a.m. | UPDATED: April 28, 2016 at 10:51 p.m.
On one of the last plays of a sun-swept scrimmage attended by more than 41,000 fans Saturday, the biggest quandary of the Broncos' preseason played out in 3-D.
Backup tight end Anthony Miller caught a swing pass from rookie quarterback Brock Osweiler. The pass was high, Miller looking back toward Osweiler, when cornerback Syd'Quan Thompson did what defensive players are supposed to do: He closed on the play as quickly as he could and tackled the bigger player low.
Miller got up limping and might have to miss some practice time.
"At the end of the day you'd like them to go high, but it's the first live scrimmage and they are trying get them down," said coach John Fox.
The Broncos would like to get through the next four weeks with as few injuries as possible. They'd also like to improve their tackling, get everyone comfortable with new playbooks on both sides of the ball and be the physical team the players so often talk about becoming.
"The most important thing is to be ready for Pittsburgh," Fox said. "That's what you're pointing to. We'll get the work done, but it's important everybody remembers what we're trying to accomplish."
The Broncos open the season Sept. 9 against the Steelers. Before that game, they must navigate more practices and four preseason games. They likely will need good fortune and good sense too.
"We'll always try to be smart about what we do," Fox said. "You just try to have everyone ready."
Fox broke up a scuffle in practice last week, reminding defensive end Jason Hunter that "those guys are his teammates."
The Broncos already have lost wide receiver D'Andre Goodwin to an injury — he cleared waivers and was placed on injured reserve last week — and running back Mario Fannin suffered what is expected to be a season-ending left Achilles tendon injury in Saturday's scrimmage.
Safety Quinton Carter has had surgery for a knee injury. Last summer, the Broncos lost defensive tackle Ty Warren during training camp. At the 2010 camp, they lost pass rusher Elvis Dumervil for the season and two running backs, Knowshon Moreno and Correll Buckhalter, for several weeks because of injuries.
"You don't want to have injuries," Dumervil said. "But I got hurt in a drill I've done a million times. It's a physical game. You want to be ready for the season."
Wide receiver Demaryius Thomas (Achilles tendon) and offensive tackle Ryan Clady (knee) suffered the most serious injuries of their careers in offseason workouts, and the Broncos lost one of their undrafted rookies for the season just before camp opened. Eric Page, who was expected to compete for a job as a kick returner, suffered a knee injury and was released by the Broncos.
"It's why as a player, you always want the preseason over with," said 11-time Pro Bowl cornerback Champ Bailey. "You always want to just do the work, get through it and play the season. You want everybody as healthy as they can be to start the year."
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Scientists Reunite Old Acquaintances to Control Unwelcome 'Guests'
What do you do with an unruly guest who refuses to behave? In Florida, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) researchers invited a new guest to the party; one with a very special appetite.
The Brazilian peppertree (Schinus terebinthifolia) is a member of the plant family that includes poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac. The plant, a native of South America, has taken root in Florida and infested more than 700,000 acres of southern and central regions of the state, including nature reserves, military bases, and ranches. The weed is also in parts of California, Texas, and Hawaii.
Brazilian peppertree with ripe red berries. (Greg Wheeler, D4385-1)
"Worldwide, the Brazilian pepper tree is one of the most aggressive species," said Greg Wheeler, a research entomologist at the ARS Invasive Plant Research Laboratory (IPRL) in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
According to Wheeler, the plant has achieved success as an invader due to a lack of natural predators in this country. In its natural habitat, about 140 species of insect feed on the Brazilian peppertree. "Without insects eating it, the weed has prolific reproduction. It outcompetes others by producing toxic substances that prevent neighboring plants from germinating," he said.
Brazilian peppertree with fruit in various stages of maturity. They start green and end up red. (Greg Wheeler, D4386-2)
With that in mind, Wheeler led an IRPL project to find just the right insect to introduce into Brazilian peppertree thickets. Wheeler's team ultimately found the perfect specimen – Brazilian peppertree thrips (Pseudophilothrips ichini).
"After more than 10 years of study in our quarantine lab, the thrips was found to be safe and was released during the summer of 2019," he said. Until the release of this first biological control agent against the Brazilian peppertree, pesticides were the only means of controlling the weed.
Thrips, Pseudophilothrips ichini, is a biological control agent of Brazilian peppertree. (Greg Wheeler, D4382-1)
This type of thrips, not to be confused with any of the other 6,000 or so varieties of thrips, feeds exclusively on Brazilian peppertree and is no danger to other plants. "Our goal was to find a specialist that would be a safe and effective control agent for release against this invasive weed," Wheeler said.
Thrips are small sap-sucking insects that weaken Brazilian peppertree plants. When they feed on the plants, they kill the growing tips, which reduces the ability of the plant to grow and reproduce. Though effective in controlling spread, thrips alone will not eradicate the plant.
A biological control agent of Brazilian peppertree, thrips, Pseudophilothrips ichini. Distorted leaves are caused by insect feeding. (Greg Wheeler, D4383-1)
"There will always be some of the weed present," Wheeler said, "but by restoring the relationship between insects and weeds, we can control invasive species with sustainable and cost-effect methods."
Brazilian pepper tree control is just the latest successful IPRL program. In 60 years, the IPRL has developed and introduced 26 biological control agents that have completely or substantially controlled 10 targeted weeds, including the air potato vine, giant salvinia, melaleuca, and water hyacinth.
A biological control agent of Brazilian peppertree, Thrips, Pseudophilothrips ichini. Larvae are orange and occasionally form aggregations as seen here. (Greg Wheeler, D4384-1)
According to IPRL research leader Phil Tipping, developing a new pesticide costs more than $286 million, takes 11-12 years, frequently produces collateral damage and weed resistance, requires large markets, and returns $3 to $6.50 for every $1 invested. Conversely, researching biological controls – such as Brazilian peppertree thrips – usually costs about $5 million per weed, takes as few as 5 years, is specific to the targeted weed, is environmentally friendly, and returns $16 -$35 for every $1 invested. — By Scott Elliott, ARS Office of Communications.


The family that took in Nikolas Cruz following the death of his mother last year believes the alleged Florida school shooter was within his rights to own a gun, but were unsure of how many firearms he brought into their home when he moved in.
James and Kimberly Snead thought their son's friend Cruz, 19, may have brought with him about five or six guns when he came to live with them in November.
Cruz was told he must have a gun safe before moving in with the Sneads, but the family wasn't opposed to his owning whatever guns he wanted.
"I knew he had hunting rifles... I knew he had [an] assault rifle, but I knew he used it out hunting," James Snead said. "It's his right to own a gun."
Cruz had been living with the Sneads for about three months when he allegedly used an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle to kill 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the deadliest school shooting in Florida's history.
"The Nik we knew was not the Nik that everybody else seemed to know," James Snead said.
The couple believed Cruz to be depressed over the death of his mother, but said there were no other signs of trouble.
The Florida Department of Children and Families noted in a 2016 report that Cruz suffered from depression, ADHD and autism.
Broward County sheriff deputies were called to the home of Cruz's mother 39 times between 2011 and 2016. Several of those calls were allegedly due to Cruz's violent outbursts.
James Snead said he thought there was only one key to the safe where he made Cruz keep his weapons.
He told CBS that he now believes there were two keys and Cruz had the other.
"We feel heartfelt sorrow for the families involved," James Snead said. "As far as being responsible, feeling responsibility, you know, we worked that out and there was nothing different we would have done."
Meanwhile, at least 100 students and staff who survived the shooting will travel to the Florida capital Tuesday to advocate gun control and school safety.
"I really think they are going to hear us out," Chris Grady, 19, told the Chicago Tribune.
Grady is among the dozens of teens and their supporters who will rally Wednesday in hopes of speaking with lawmakers about what can be done to evoke change.
"I'm not gonna let my daughter's death go in vain," Andrew Pollack, whose 18-year-old daughter, Meadow Pollack, was killed in last week's shooting, told WSVN-TV. "I promised all these kids that I've been talking to that they're gonna to go school and they're gonna be safe, and we're gonna have a movement."
Florida Gov. Rick Scott will hold meetings Tuesday with law enforcement, school officials, teachers and mental health professionals about protecting children in schools and preventing those struggling with mental illness from acquiring guns.
The gatherings will be broadcast on a livestream.
"I have spent the last week in Parkland talking to members of the community, students and families of the victims who are suffering following this horrific shooting," Scott said in a statement. "While there are only three weeks left of the legislative session, we must make changes to keep students safe. A tragedy like what occurred in Broward County must never happen again and swift action is needed now... this is an urgent matter that we must address quickly."


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"Immoral," "Stupid," and "Counterproductive": National Security Experts Slam Trump's "Muslim Ban"
"At the moment we need them most, we're telling these people, 'Get screwed.'"
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Despite a decade of working to help America in Iraq, Hameed Khalid Darweesh was welcomed to the United States with handcuffs. Darweesh had received a special immigrant visa on January 20 for his work as a contractor, engineer, and interpreter for the Army's 101st Airborne Division in Baghdad and Mosul. But when he arrived at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport on Friday night, he was among the refugees detained upon arrival in the wake of President Donald Trump's latest executive order.
On Friday afternoon, Trump banned refugees from Syria indefinitely, suspended all refugee resettlement to the United States for 120 days, denied entry to citizens of seven predominantly Muslim nations (Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Syria, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen), and reduced the number of refugees to be resettled this year by more than half. After nearly 19 hours of detention and a lawsuit filed on his behalf, Darweesh was released on Saturday. Countless others remain stuck in limbo.
While Trump's executive order claims to be in the interest of "protecting the nation," experts in national security and counterterrorism who spoke with Mother Jones argue that it poses potentially disastrous immediate and long-term security threats to the nation and US personnel overseas.
"At the exact moment we need them most, we're telling these people, 'Get screwed.'"
"Not only is it immoral and stupid, it's also counterproductive," says Patrick Skinner, a former CIA counterterrorism case officer who now works at the Soufan Group, a security consulting firm. "We've got military, intelligence, and diplomatic personnel on the ground right now in Syria, Libya, and Iraq who are working side by side with the people, embedded in combat, and training and advising. At no time in the US's history have we depended more on local—and I mean local—partnerships for counterterrorism. We need people in Al Bab, Syria; we depend on people in a certain part of eastern Mosul, Iraq; in Cert, Libya. At the exact moment we need them most, we're telling these people, 'Get screwed.'"
Kirk W. Johnson, who spent a year on the reconstruction in Fallujah in Iraq with the US Agency for International Development (USAID), echoes Skinner's fears: "This will have immediate national security implications, in that we are not going to be able to recruit people to help us right now, and people are not going to step forward to help us in any future wars if this is our stance."
The US-led war on ISIS is but one front in a constellation of fights against extremist groups that could be hampered by Trump's decision. "The US is officially banning people in these countries at the same time we're trying to build up local support to fight ISIS," Skinner says. "It takes a long time to build trust with these people. This is like the Abu Ghraib thing. You have to start over, say, 'Okay, starting now, trust me.' How many times can you get away with that?" It also sends a message that groups like the so-called Islamic State can exploit. Elizabeth Goitein, the codirector of the Brennan Center's Liberty & National Security Program, says, "The message this projects is that America sees Muslims as a threat—not specific actors who are intent on committing terrorist acts. The message that America really is at war with Islam will be ISIS's best friend."
BuzzFeed reporters Mike Giglio and Munzer Al-Awad spoke with five current or former ISIS fighters who cited Trump's divisiveness as a factor that will weaken America. They added that his rhetoric against Muslims will help them reinforce their narrative that America and the West are fighting not just terrorism, but Islam itself. "Trump will shorten the time it takes for us to achieve our goals," said one.
Meanwhile, the very allies who have operated alongside US personnel in war zones for years—contractors and translators like Darweesh—are once again being abandoned. For the past decade, Johnson has been leading an effort to resettle Iraqi allies, many of whom, he says, face torture, kidnapping, and death after collaborating with American soldiers. It all started in 2006 when he heard from an Iraqi USAID colleague who'd been identified by a militia. The militia left a severed pig's head on his door step, along with a message saying that it would be his head next. Despite his years of helping the United States, the US government offered no help, and he had to flee the country with his wife.
"We are not going to be able to recruit people to help us right now. And people are not going to step forward to help us in any future wars if this is our stance."
Johnson discovered that there was no mechanism in place to help US allies like his colleague, and he began a personal crusade to change that. Since then, through legislation and a special immigrant visa platform, Johnson's efforts have helped thousands reach the United States, but the process is cumbersome, long, and often too late for the people who need it most. Johnson speaks of interpreters "who were having legs shot off, cut off, their wives raped, their children abducted." Some of his colleagues were even killed. And though Johnson has been critical of the process for years, now he's in the "awkward position" of defending it, because it was at least better than shutting those allies out as a matter of policy.
Skinner, Johnson, and Goitein all point out that the executive order reads as if whoever wrote it had no understanding of, or done any work with, US refugee admissions programs. Indeed, a senior Department of Homeland Security official reportedly told NBC News that career State Department and DHS officials had no input in the order, saying, "Nobody has any idea what is going on." Johnson says, "It reads as though 9/11 happened yesterday, and that 9/11 was carried out by refugees, which it wasn't, and it creates a series of policy prescriptions to solve a problem that doesn't exist, as if the stringent measures that have been put in place over the past 15 years to screen refugees don't exist."
Johnson, exasperated at the thought of US allies being turned away by the very country they spent years helping, adds, "These people who are directly and immediately impacted by this have done more to help our country than just about every breathing American has—especially the president. Shame is not a strong enough word for today. This is a disgraceful moment."
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A bit of magic to share at Christmas – never forget your dreams!
My food ran out days ago and there's no prospect of rescue up here at the top of the world. I try to put up my tent, but the arctic wind bludgeons and tears at the fabric. My compass is gone, my GPS is behaving strangely and the whiteout obliterates the stars. I no longer know which direction to walk in. The next time I fall, I stay there, slumped in the snow, ready to give in to sleep at last.
I drift, watching flurries of snow dart past my goggles. The snowstorm cancels out any differences in the landscape. When my eyes close it's darker, but that's the only difference, it seems, between being awake or asleep.
A very moving story to make us think on this important day.
'Hmm. Date of birth?' The captain studied Stan.
Stan grinned and gave the thumbs up to his mate, Ernest Sharp who stood, behind him. He turned and marched as best he could to the other side of the room to the serveant.


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Alfred Diamant (September 25, 1917 – May 11, 2012) was an Austrian-born American political scientist. His main contribution was in the field of comparative politics and comparative public administration. He was a member of the Comparative Administration Group (CAG) and a co-chairperson of the Council for European Studies based at Columbia University. According to Peter Alexis Gourevitch, Diamant was both "on the Executive Committee of the Council for European Studies (based in New York) and the Interuniversity Center for European Studies in Montreal". Diamant's areas of expertise were "Comparative Western European Politics and Social Policy". Together with his colleague, James Christoph, he "established Indiana University as a major site of the study of European culture, society and politics". John D. Martz called the works of Maurice Duvergier, Sigmund Neumann and Diamant that focus on the study of political parties "Western European-oriented classics". D.B. Robertson saw Diamant as "a gifted and humane scholar".

Early life
Diamant was born in Vienna, Austria, and came to the United States as a young man when the fascists gained power in Germany and Austria. During WWII, he served in the U.S. army. He was married to Ann Diamant.

Diamant wrote his M.A. thesis on "Prototypes of Austro-German Fascism" at Indiana University in 1948. By that time, it was already clear to him that he wanted to teach and do research at a university.

Democratic commitment

His focus on the anti-democratic developments in pre-WWII Europe is apparent in a number of large studies and minor contributions that he wrote since the 1950s. Diamant analyzed the role of Conservative political catholicism in Austria and its contribution to the rise of the clerical fascist Dollfuss regime. He also focused on the strengths and failures of the left in (above all) Austria and Germany that preceded their defeat by fascism. Such works were motivated by a desire to enlighten people concerning the root causes and to prevent a return of what had occurred, no matter whether it might reappear in the form of a tragedy or as a farce. He was convinced that the repeat of mistakes, the return of the same was not inevitable. Instead of pessimism (which would have been understandable), a democratic optimism prevailed.

At the same time, Diamant also took a stand back home in the U.S., with regard to U.S. affairs. Like other open-minded, nonconformist intellectuals, he was opposed to witchhunts of the type practiced by Senator Joseph McCarthy. As early as 1950, he took a stand when he reviewed the book "Character Assassination" by Jerome Davis that had just appeared. Another article published in the 1950s in The Western Political Quarterly also reflects his democratic commitment, arguing in favor of improved local government. Similarly, he defended the right of Vietnam war opponents to dissent in an article jointly written with two colleagues and published in the New York Times in 1965.

Critical study of Max Weber's institutional frameworks
In the 1960s, Diamant focused increasingly on the critical study of institutional frameworks and thus, above all, on bureaucracy. Max Weber, the conservative he initially looked at without much sympathy, was now critically received and his writings were adapted to fit the needs of a democratic societal project. (In similar fashion, progressives have been open to the reception of Clausewitz since the 1960s.) An essay by Diamant titled The Bureaucratic Model: Max Weber Rejected, Rediscovered, Reformed, reveals this critical yet decisive reception of Weber. The author of "The American Bureaucracy", Richard J. Stillman, calls it an "insightful piece". Dwight Waldo thinks it is important to direct the reader's attention to it. As Waldo notes, it is in this essay that Diamant "reviews the vast array" of scholarly publications on bureaucracy respectively bureaucracies while at the same time "carefully and penetratingly examin[ing] what Weber wrote on, and relating to, bureaucracy". Diamant "evaluates, relates, and classifies; and ends up by setting forth proposals 'for the comparative analysis of bureaucracies; using the Weberian ideal-type'" – as he had modified it.

Diamant emphasized that Weber "associated bureaucracy with a legal-rational authority system". This was what made it modern and what constituted its essence. Ideally, a bureaucratic (or administrative) apparatus (or institution) had to be rational in order to function well. It also was tied to the rule of law (as opposed to absolutist or dictatorial arbitrary suspension of such rule of law). Ideally, this made its functioning dependable and foreseeable. Both qualities, rationality and rule of law, made bureaucracy a modern phenomenon. And its authority – the fact that it was accepted by the population – depended on both traits. There was nothing specifically Prussian about either rationality or rule of law. If the specific Prussian way of applying rationality and rule of law was deficient (or if, somewhat later, the bureaucratic rationality of the fascists who organized the holocaust was horrible, just like the Nuremberg laws () were horrible), this did not mean that the ideals had to be discarded as meaningful guideposts. Instead, they had to be filled, again and again, in given historical situations, with a material content that reflected both humane values and the concrete needs of the citizens.

Diamant was not necessarily a Weberian scholar. Referring to Weber's ideal-type of bureaucracy, E. N. Suleiman observes, "Some saw in his model a rigid, Prussian-inspired influence that had but a tangential relationship to reality". Suleiman points specifically to Diamant, who did view Weber as a functional academic, whose writings on the workings of bureaucracies served the interests of the Wilhelminian authoritarian nation-state. Insofar Weber's model was "a Prussian inspired model" just like Weber himself was a nationalist and per se anti-democratic. He represented and aided the status quo.

But regardless of one's social and political position regarding this status quo, how could one ignore his penetrating insights in the way bureaucracies function and regarding the (positive and negative) purposes they can serve? What mattered was to reflect his insights in the light of new, added knowledge and in the interest not of a Leviathan of the Prusso-German type, but in the interest of a democratically constituted society. As far as the charge is concerned that Weber's ideal-type was abstract and thus meaningless, Diamant knew full-well that science operates with abstractions. This certainly could not be held against the German scholar. Therefore, it is not surprising that "Diamant makes a valiant effort to defend and 'resurrect' Weber from the telling criticisms of scholars like Presthus, Beck and Berger. Weber, he notes, was not so naive as to believe that his ideal-constructs had unqualified correspondence" in what we like to refer to as the real world. What mattered, according to Diamant, was to modify, adapt, or surpass Weber's constructs. It is well known that in the 20th century, several sociologists and political scientists "have sought to construct typologies that are closer approximations of the mixes or dualities existing in the real world. The [CAG] was prominent in this field".

As a member of this group, Diamant shared its basic orientation but did not see the need to discard Weber's bureaucracy model entirely. There was too much in it that was still pertinent.

Comparative studies of bureaucratic systems

Robert H. Jackson states that "since World War II a new approach to the study of public administration ... developed". Comparative strategies of research were developed and this meant that "administrative behavior and practices [were] analyzed in widely different societies and cultures". Diamant, a key member of the CAG, was part of this innovation of the discipline. "Among scholars who have contribute to the comparative studies of bureaucratic systems ... Monroe Berger, Alfred Diamant, Ferrel Heady, Robert Presthus and Michael Crozier" are singled out as particularly noteworthy by Pardeep Sahni and Etakula Vayunandan. Diamant's grasp of European political cultures and his knowledge of American paradigms made a comparative orientation plausible. Waldo called his discussion of "The Relevance of Comparative Politics to the Study of Comparative Administration" an excellent methodological contribution. Empirical comparative studies are a thorough approach if one wants to understand the specific traits of fascist or Stalinist bureaucracy. They could also serve to elucidate the positive and negative traits of French public administration, as a state bureaucracy subjected to dual political control. How did it work, in comparison to U.S. public administration? The focus on France mattered, for another reason, as well. France was practically a sister republic of the U.S., with a long republican and progressive tradition. It was another "common law country". In his critique of Austrian conservatism, Diamant had "defined … European political Catholicism as a reaction of both clerics and laymen to the challenges of the French Revolution respectively the modern (liberal) state of the 19th century that was based on it. This 'anti-modernist' attitude manifests itself on different levels – on the level of ideas, by way of the formation of a distinct 'Catholic philosophy' and 'culture', on the socio-economic level by way of the development of a 'Catholic social doctrine', on the political level by way of the organization of Catholic movements and parties". This is how G. Stimmer sums it up. France was in many ways an antipode of Austria. It was more modern, having been at the forefront of the industrial revolution, on the European continent, together with Belgium. Although Catholic, it was anti-clerical. Conservative forces were not almost constantly overwhelming Republicans. On top of it, it had a long administrative tradition anchored in Republicanism, though older roots of its  ('legal framework pertaining to public administration'), in the Royal Council of the , existed. Diamant was especially interested in French developments that took place in the course of the first term of President Mitterrand.

It is noteworthy, however, that Diamant did not idealize the situation in France. It is true that it was more liberal than Austria had been. It had a strong administrative tradition, and the French republic regulated the civil service by way of a body of laws pertaining to the country's administration. If we would suppose, however, that in France, administrators can provide some "impetus for major reform". We are mistaken, as Aberbach et al. have not failed to point out. They quote Diamant, "The French experience would indicate that, in fact, during periods of political indecision, the grand corps do not really govern the country, they simply continue routine operations, maintain the status quo, and protect their own interest". Diamant regrets that these administrators "could not carry through radical innovations". Civil servants of the people should act efficiently and determinedly, in the interest of the people.

Studies of developing nations

As far as administrative science research was focused on developing countries, it became increasingly comparative in orientation, as H. G. Steiffert noted. Steiffert mentions Diamant as one of the noteworthy theoretical contributors to the debate in the 1960s.

In the 1960s, it was above all the CAG that was focused on Development Studies, especially after it had received a substantial grant from the Ford Foundation in 1962 that was to facilitate research on "methods for improving public administration in developing countries". Among the noteworthy members of the CAG, Fred Riggs stands out. He had joined the faculty of the Government Department at Indiana University in 1956. In 1960, he was elected chair of the CAG, a position he held until 1971.

This was the period when "the CAG became a forum for intellectuals attempting to understand in a systematic [way] why administrative practices in non-Western countries diverged so widely from what were thought to be good and universal principles".

As a member of the Comparative Administration Group, based at Indiana University like Riggs, Diamant applied himself to Third World Studies. He chose a bureaucratic systems approach which Rodman describes as "less abstract and more obviously relevant" to its chosen purpose than the "input-output system approach" was as a "conceptual framework". Several publications of Diamant that tackled methodological questions appeared in the 1960s. Schrader called Diamant's Models of Bureaucracy and Development "an important, relevant work".

At least one of Diamant's studies focused on racism in South Africa at the time. The apartheid regime was confronted by a liberation movement (Nelson Mandela's African National Congress) that was branded as terrorist by various governments. Change was necessary. Racism was unacceptable to Diamant who had suffered fascist racism. The study was supported by a subdivision of the European Commission.

Administrative democratic institutions

Sahni and Vayunandan stated, "The rise of the modern welfare state has expanded the scope of public administration. It has widened to the extent that now very few aspects of an individual's life remain unaffected by public administration. This stands true for all societies, socialist, capitalist, and so on". They also quote W.B.Donham who said, "If our civilization fails, it will be mainly because of a breakdown of administration". The recognition of the objective necessity of administrating public matters (in Latin: ) does not imply indifference to what form that administration should take. Important matters include: what form of administration best serves democracy, how the people can affect the system to make it serve their needs, and how the people can ensure that administration is resilient.

Diamant was convinced that if bureaucracies were unavoidable, at least they should not work against us or limit civil rights and the freedom of citizens unnecessarily; on the contrary, they should better our lot. And above all, they should be democratically controlled. How they could be controlled in the best way by the people and its elected servants was a problem that could be handled in a more rational way if empirical evidence of the pros and cons of actually employed models of political oversight was scrutinized in a comparative manner. Apparently, speaking of public institutions, efficiency, coordination, responsibility, oversight and (democratic) political control matter in democratic contexts.

Industrial democracy

Diamant also turned to the question of industrial democracy. His study revealed a critical impetus. The analytic stance and the detachment may have made his critical observations even more effective. Discussing the German model which allowed trade-union representatives to sit on the board of corporations in the name of joint decision-making or co-determination (''), P. Bachrach and A. Botwinick observed that Diamant provided a "thorough and perceptive study". Diamant "concluded that the achievements of co-determination so far are more nearly system-maintaining than system-transforming in character".

Diamant's theoretical emphasis on political development

Diamant hoped for improvements on political systems which existed. In his view, change that corresponded to the felt needs of the population was inherently positive. This progressive bend of mind was basically inscribed in his theory of political development. Omar Guerrero sums up Diamant's position by pointing out the specific quality that characterizes a process that the latter would describe as political development: political development is above all "creating conditions, within an institutional framework, that are suitable to the solution of a wide field of social problems". Guerrero further describes Diamant's position in this way: "A political system is engaged in a process of development if it can increase its capacity to attain successfully and continually new social goals and the creation of new types of organization. Such political development that leads to new institutional frameworks which allow the population to address social grievances in a new way is currently characteristic of a number of societies in South America. Keith R. Legg termed Diamant's approach that "view[ed] political development … as 'a generic process of successfully sustaining new demands, goals and organizations in a flexible manner'" as being "most useful".

Tradition and innovation

Diamant's view that political institutions, despite their relative inertia, are not static but caught between the force of their traditions and pressures for innovation, and that for this very reason they reveal both their quality as historical result  (historical result) and as a  (historical process) is perhaps the most significant feature of his critical approach that modified Weber's comprehension of bureaucracies in contemporary society. This premise is at the root of his arguments in favor of improvement, innovation and development.

Later life

Diamant was described by a colleague as having "a belief that our country and our world can be more just and more decent" than they actually are. In this respect, he was very much like Ann Diamant, a feminist who strongly believed in social justice.

Diamant died in Bloomington, aged 94.

Major scholarly publications (A selection)

Book publications

Diamant, Alfred. Austrian Catholics and the First Republic. Democracy, Capitalism and the Social Order, 1918–1934. Princeton, N.J. (Princeton University Press) 1960
Diamant, Alfred. L'cattolici austriaci e la prima Repubblica, 1918–1934. Transl. by D. Fogu and A. Pozzan. Roma (Edizioni 5 Lune) 1964
Diamant, Alfred. Die österreichischen Katholiken und die Erste Republik. Vienna [Austria] (Verlag der Wiener Volksbuchhandlung) 1960
Diamant, Alfred. Political Development: Approaches to Theory and Strategy. Washington, D.C.; Bloomington, Ind. (American Society for Public Administration / International Development Research Center, Indiana University) 1963
Diamant, Alfred. Bureaucracy in Developmental Movement Regimes: A Bureaucratic Model for Developing Societies. Bloomington, Ind. (CAG; American Society for Public Administration / International Development Research Center, Indiana University) 1964
Diamant, Alfred. Race Attitudes in South Africa. Historical, Experimental and Psychological Studies. Brussels (Commission of the European Communities) 1965
Diamant, Alfred. The Temporal Dimension in Models of Administration and Organization. Bloomington, Ind. (American Society for Public Administration) 1966
Diamant, Alfred. European Models of Bureaucracy and Development (Comparative Administration Group; Occasional papers.) Bloomington, Ind. (Haverford College) 1966
Diamant, Alfred, Modellbetrachtung der Entwicklungsverwaltung. (Transl by Hans Jecht). Baden-Baden (Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft) 1967 (= Politik und Verwaltung, 4)
Diamant, Alfred. Democracy in Western Europe, n.p.(American Political Science Association) 1982, microfiche

Scholarly articles published in books and journals (a selection)

 Diamant, Alfred. "The French Administrative System," in: William J. Siffin, ed., Toward The Comparative Study of Public Administrations. Bloomington (Indiana University, Dept. of Government) 1957
Diamant, Alfred. "A Case Study of Administrative Autonomy: Controls and Tensions in French Administration", in: Political Studies, vol. 6, no.2, June 1958, pp. 147–166
Diamant, Alfred. The Bureaucratic Model: Max Weber Rejected, Rediscovered, Reformed, in: Ferrel Heady, Sybil L. Stokes (eds.), Papers in Comparative Public Administration. Ann Arbor, Mich. (Institute of Public Administration) 1962 [Also in: Papers in Comparative Public Administrative Sciences (American Political Science Association), No. 1, 1962, pp. 59–96]
Diamant, Alfred, "The Temporal Dimension in Models of Administration and Organization," CAG Occasional Papers, Bloomington, Indiana (April 1966)
Diamant, Alfred, "The Nature of Political Development," in: Jason L. Finkle and Richard W. Gable (eds.), Political Development and Social Change. New York (Wiley ) 1966 (2nd ed. 1971)
Diamant, Alfred, "Political Development: Approaches to Theory and Strategy", in: John D. Montgomery and William J. Siffin, Approaches to Development: Politics, Administration and Change, New York (McGraw-Hill) 1966, pp. 15–48
Diamant, Alfred, "Innovation in Bureaucratic Institutions", in: Public Administration Review, Vol. XXVII, No. 1, March 1967, pp. 77–87
Diamant, Alfred. "Tradition and Innovation in French Administration", in: Comparative Political Studies, 1 (1968), pp. 251–274
Alfred Diamant, "Bureaucracy in Development Movement Regimes", in: Fred W. Riggs (ed.), Frontiers of Development Administration. Durham, NC (Duke U.Press) 1970
Diamant, Alfred. "European Bureaucratic Elites: Rising or Declining?" in: History of European Ideas, vol. 11 no.1, Jan. 1989, pp. 545–558
Diamant, Alfred. "First Principles Preparatory to Constitutional Code", in: History of European Ideas, vol.12, no. 5, Jan. 1990, pp. 694–695
Diamant, Alfred. "Comparative Politics: The Myth of the Eternal Return", in: PS: Political Science and Politics, vol. 23, no. 4, Dec. 1990, pp. 598–600
Diamant, Alfred. "From 'Holocaust' to 'Rational Choice': Generational Change in Political Science", in: Perspectives on Political Science, vol.24, no.3, June 1995, pp. 147–150

Book Reviews (a selection)

Alfred Diamant. "Bureaucracy and Public Policy in Neocorporatist Settings - Some European Lessons: […]", in: Comparative Politics, vol. 14, no. 1, Oct. 1981, pp. 101–124
Alfred Diamant. "[Review of] Small States in World Markets: Industrial Policy in Europe [by Peter J. Katzenstein, Ithaca (Cornell University Press) 1993]", in: The American Political Science Review, vol. 80, no. 3 September 1986, pp. 1049–1050
Alfred Diamant. "[Review of] Parteien in der Krise? In- und auslaendische Perspektiven [ed. by Peter Haungs; Eckhard Jesse (collab.). Cologne (Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik) 1987]", in: German Studies Review, vol. 11, no. 3, Oct.1988, pp. 538–539
Alfred Diamant. "[Review of] Krisenzonen einer Demokratie: Gewalt, Streik und Konfliktunterdrueckung in Österreich seit 1918 [by Gerhard Botz. Frankfurt (Campus-Verlag) 1987]", in: German Studies Review, vol. 12, no. 2, May 1989, pp. 393–394
Alfred Diamant. "[Review of] Coca Colonization und Kalter Krieg: Die Kulturmission der USA in Öesterreich nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg [by Reinhold Wagnleitner, Vienna (Verlag fuer Gesellschaftskritik) 1991]", in: The American Historical Review, vol. 97, no. 3, June 1992, pp. 959–960
Alfred Diamant. "[Review of] Red Vienna: Experiment in Working Class Culture 1919-1934 [by Helmut Gruber. New York (Oxford University Press) 1991]", in: The American Historical Review, vol. 98, no. 1, Feb.1993, pp. 201–202
Alfred Diamant. "There is Nobody Here But Us Marginals: Mattei Dogan and Robert Pahre, Creative Marginality: Innovation at the Intersection of the Social Sciences", in: Journal of Policy History, vol. 5, no.2, April 1993, pp. 285–290 [review of: Mattei Dogan and Robert Pahre. Creative Marginality: Innovation at the Intersection of the Social Sciences (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1990]

References

External links
 Wallace T. MacCaffrey / Alfred Diamant / Marcel M. Gutwirth, "Right of Dissent," in: The New York Times, Nov. 17, 1965
 Alfred Diamant, "Unwarranted Criticism of Japan," in: The New York Times, May 1, 1994
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De 100 meter rugslag mannen op de wereldkampioenschappen zwemmen 2011 vond plaats op 25 juli, series en halve finales, en 26 juli  2011, finale. Omdat het zwembad waarin de wedstrijd gehouden werd 50 meter lang is, bestond de race uit twee baantjes. Na afloop van de series kwalificeerden de zestien snelste zwemmers zich voor de halve finales, de snelste acht uit de halve finales gingen door naar de finale. Regerend wereldkampioen was Junya Koga uit Japan.

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Voorafgaand aan het toernooi waren dit het wereldrecord en het kampioenschapsrecord

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Adam?s going places
22 year old Adam Dower from Hornchurch is studying for an Extended Diploma in Sport at Barking & Dagenham College and loves participating in sport, as well as studying it. So far this year, sporty Adam has competed in five 10K runs, a half marathon and will be taking part in the London Triathlon on July 5th.
The 54 mile London to Brighton Bike Ride was Adam's first-ever cycling event, Adam says: "It was fun but difficult, especially the last 13 miles as you enter Brighton, because it gets very hilly; it was particularly hard when we went across Ditchling Beacon, but we kept going.
"My cycling partner's bike got damaged twice and we had to stop to fix it, but after fixing it the second time we carried on for the rest of the race without stopping at all."
Adam has been at the College for four years, working his way up through the levels of sports qualifications, beginning at level one when he was 18 years old. He is so keen on exercise that he has walked to college every single day since starting four years ago.
At school Adam excelled in sport and was on many teams including running, football and swimming. However, as he is learning impaired, he was only put forward for two GCSEs. He found out about Barking & Dagenham College because his school regularly took groups of their students on trips to the College and it was on the trips that he was inspired to study sport. Adam hasn't looked back since, he says: "The atmosphere and the teachers are great. I have so much fun every day and the connection with my classmates is excellent."
Adam isn't just going places with his sporting endeavours; he's also achieving things at college and is hoping to secure a triple merit grade in his Extended Diploma.
He's also managed to secure a place at London Southbank University to study sport in September. On leaving Barking & Dagenham College after four years, Adam says: "I'm a little upset, it's like leaving your family to go and live with another family, but I am excited to see what the next year will bring."
Head of Sport at the College Errol Parker says: "Adam is an outstanding learner, with excellent employability qualities, including an excellent attitude and commitment towards everything he does, both at college and within sport."


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Q: Doing A and doing B WAS or WERE unnecessary? Context: I saw a video of a man harassing a woman for disturbing him. The man walked up to the woman and angrily told her to shut up. When the woman tried to walk away from him, he started chasing her.
I wanted to say "Telling her to shut up and chasing her were a bit unnecessary." Does this sound natural to native speakers? Or should I say "telling her to shut up and chasing her was a bit unnecessary"? Or are both perfectly acceptable?

A: I would think that:

Telling her to shut up and chasing her were a bit unnecessary.

Because "telling her" and "chasing her" are two separate actions, so a plural construction is in my view better.
But a fluent speaker, particularly in casual speech, might use a singular form (was) and I doubt if anyone would really object. Using "was" subjects that telling and chasing are thought of as a single action.


Surprise, surprise…it's happening again. I'm neglecting my blog again and I have no real excuse. I'm ding many things but unfortunately writing is not one of them, maybe this post makes me feel so bad about not writing that I start immediately but somehow I doubt it.
I'm going on vacation next week and as always I hope that my writing juices are revitalized by that. I'm going to Tibet and I confident that I'm going to see many new things that spark my creativity. I'm not sure how Internet works in Tibet/China but maybe I'm able to post something from there, either writing or travel related.
I filled my iPad with books, comics and movies and updated all my writing software and made sure that the correct files are on the devise. Who knows, maybe I'll finish Down Under in the plane2 or maybe I have an awesome new idea.
As for my/our current projects. I'm a little bit stuck with Down Under. I neglected it for a couple of weeks and I lost momentum (pun intended). I hope I'll find my momentum in tibet or on Crete, that's where the second part of my journey. Just relaxing, it should be possible to find some time there.


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PhD Universities of Heidelberg & Paris-Sorbonne
Research area ancient urbanism; body and role concepts in Early Greece; decorative systems in the Roman World; hellenistic houses with special focus on Megara Hyblaia
"Habilitation" (post-doctoral qualification) in Classical Archaeology at the University of Leipzig
Binational Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology at the Universities of Heidelberg and Paris-Sorbonne
Studies of Classical Archaeology, Prehistory and Arthistory at the University of Heidelberg
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Studies of Classical Archaeology, Prehistory and Art history at the University of Heidelberg
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Savage Dog
2017, Directed by Jesse V. Johnson
Savage Dog tells the story of a disgraced former boxer in 1959 who finds himself at the mercy of a local baron who wants him to fight for money.
Indochina-1959. A lawless land controlled by criminals where Vietnamese warlords and European war criminals hold the power. The Den Dhin Chan Labour Camp is the worst prison in the land, run by a quartet of four dangerous men. It is here that a European former boxing champion, Martin Tillman (Scott Adkins), has found himself. He's survived the prison by taking part in the illegal fight game which sees wealthy criminals gambling on the outcome. With Tillman due for release – and planning on returning home – the corrupted souls who control the jail will do anything they can to keep him locked down and making money for them. But when all that Tillman holds dear is taken away in a vicious act of violence, he will be forced to walk the road of vengeance and unleash the 'savage dog' that dwells within…
Scott Adkins on playing Martin Tillman
Scott: "Martin Tillman is exiled from the U.K. because he's a member of the Irish Republican Army and he has a tattoo on his left shoulder from 1916, which is when the Irish fought back against the English. Obviously, I'm English. I'm not trying to make a statement about what I think about what happened in the past, or in the not so distant past. I just responded to the character and the script Jesse had written. It was a really interesting type of angle on this type of movie. I liked that it was a period setting. I really enjoyed the character, and this whole vengeance thing is an intriguing plot device. We've had it in many movies, but if you do it right and the audience feels for the character, then it's a great way to bring them along for the ride. My characters goes from seemingly ambiguous to "Is he a good guy or is he a bad guy?" You're not quite sure, and I do respond to characters like that quite a bit. When we meet him he's in jail somewhere in Indochina, on the outskirts of the world. It's a period in history for about five years, it was a lawless land, with a lot of Nazis who'd hightailed it to that part of the world. They were guilty of war crimes, my character included. Really, he's in purgatory in a way. He's almost putting penance on himself for the crimes he's committed in the past. He's happy to just rot away in this Far Eastern jail. That's where we meet him, and where he's given a new lease on life. Some hope is brought into his life, in the form of Isabelle, played by Juju Chan and Valentine, played by Keith David. He hopes that he can find happiness with this new adopted family. But of course it doesn't stay that way for long, and the shit hits the fan. But yes, Martin is one of these characters who doesn't say much. He plays his cards close to his chest. He's a tortured soul. I've played this type of character before, but it suits me well."
Extreme violent
Savage Dog is just like Universal Soldier: the Return and Avengement, one of Scott Adkins most violent movies. Expect extreme levels of violence
Scott is busy with using choppers, shotguns, grenades to kill people or is just strangling, kicking or beating people. So expect buckets of blood… And when Scott shoots people in their head, ofcourse you see their head explode.