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Reading: Police identify 19-year-old killed in a day of gun violence across Wilmington
DNTV > Blog > News > Breaking > Police identify 19-year-old killed in a day of gun violence across Wilmington
Police identify 19-year-old killed in a day of gun violence across Wilmington
George Shea Published 09/13/2020 8 Views
Gun violence took over the city of Wilmington Saturday and while there are many questions as to why the uptick in gun violence and what the city is doing about it, many of our questions are not being answered.
WILMINGTON (DE): After three people were injured in gun violence earlier Saturday, a 19-year-old man was the latest victim to Wilmington's gun violence.
Police say the latest victim was shot and killed in the 200 block of South Harrison Street around 7:00 p.m.
The victim, originally not identified died after arriving at a local hospital, police say. He was identified Sunday morning as 19-year-old Taquan Davis.
This brings the first gun violence death since September 9, 2020 when three people died.
Earlier Saturday, three people were shot in a matter of three hours. Two of those victims are in stable condition, the other in critical condition.
It's unknown if the three shooting incidents are related and Wilmington Police will not collaborate on the shooting investigations.
Delaware Newsline reached out to Wilmington Police asking for comment from Chief Robert Tracey but have not heard back.
Anyone with information about this incident is encouraged to contact Detective Mackenzie Kirlin at (302) 576-3653. You can also provide information to Delaware Crime Stoppers at 1-800-TIP-3333 or delawarecrimestoppers.org.
The Wilmington Police Department Victim Services Unit is available to provide support, information and referrals to those who are victims of crime, and can be reached at (302) 576-3622. Additionally, the WPD Youth Response Unit is available to provide free counseling and services to children and their families who have been exposed to potentially traumatizing events, and can be reached at (302) 576-3183.
George Shea 09/13/2020

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package main

import (
	"code.google.com/p/go.net/context"
	"encoding/json"
	"strings"

	log "github.com/golang/glog"
	"github.com/myodc/go-micro/client"
	"github.com/myodc/go-micro/cmd"
	"github.com/myodc/go-micro/errors"
	"github.com/myodc/go-micro/server"
	api "github.com/myodc/micro/api/proto"
	hello "github.com/myodc/micro/examples/greeter/server/proto/hello"
)

type Say struct{}

func (s *Say) Hello(ctx context.Context, req *api.Request, rsp *api.Response) error {
	log.Info("Received Say.Hello API request")

	name, ok := req.Get["name"]
	if !ok || len(name.Values) == 0 {
		return errors.BadRequest("go.micro.api.greeter", "Name cannot be blank")
	}

	request := client.NewRequest("go.micro.srv.greeter", "Say.Hello", &hello.Request{
		Name: strings.Join(name.Values, " "),
	})

	response := &hello.Response{}

	if err := client.Call(ctx, request, response); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	rsp.StatusCode = 200
	b, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]string{
		"message": response.Msg,
	})
	rsp.Body = string(b)

	return nil
}

func main() {
	// optionally setup command line usage
	cmd.Init()

	// Initialise Server
	server.Init(
		server.Name("go.micro.api.greeter"),
	)

	// Register Handlers
	server.Handle(
		server.NewHandler(
			new(Say),
		),
	)

	// Run server
	if err := server.Run(); err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Ghosted #2
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Patrick Brennan
Writer: Joshua Williamson
Artist: Goran Sudzuka
Colorist: Miroslav Mrva
Letterer: Rus Wooton
Review by Patrick Brennan
Sometimes a comic's tone and feel is so distinctive that you can actually hear a soundtrack to it in your head as you're reading it. In Ghosted's case it would definitely be "Green Onions" by Booker T. and the MG's mixed with a Halloween Spooky Noises cassette tape. That probably sounds silly but it's true and the so it goes for the series as a whole. What sounded like a bit of a stretch at first (Oceans 11 meets Ghostbusters) is gelling together wonderfully, blending elements of both horror and heist genres into an addictive and fun hybrid.
Picking up from its debut last month, we find Jackson T. Winters and his "ragtag" team of investigators entering the notorious Trask Mansion for the first time. After a quick history lesson regarding the grounds and its dark and bloody history, the group sets to work finding the ghost they've been sent there to steal. As believers and doubters begin to butt heads, one thing becomes clear: they are not alone in the house.
Goran Sudzuka's art was certainly a highlight in its first outing last month and remains so in issue #2. The pages have a classic pulp feel, harkening back to the art found in EC Comics' horror books, but also maintain a firm sense of the modern world. Miroslav Mrva's colors complement this aesthetic perfectly, giving the scenes a great dark and moody atmosphere.
In terms of writing, Joshua Williamson continues to perfectly walk the tricky tightrope of paying homage to the two genre's conventions without sounding too heavy-handed or stereotypical. The dialogue is brisk and clever, and Ghosted never feels like it's in danger of losing its sense of humor. It'll be interesting to see what Williamson has in store for us next issue now that some of the more supernatural elements are beginning to enter the story.
Buy this book. If you are a fan of either one of the genres that have been smashed together in this series, you'll love Ghosted. It's fun, unique, beautiful to look at, and promises some good old-fashioned scares on the horizon.
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I had just gone to post a letter but when I saw this, I rushed back immediately to get my camera, knowing once the sun came through, this would disappear. Ephemeral indeed.
These pictures aren't great as I only had my phone on me as I walked past a random house on a random street in Berlin earlier today.
Some of the best and some of the worst in humanity expressed by events that took place in this building.
Walls everywhere have so many stories to tell. I'm glad these were given a voice.
All things orange in Budapest, Berlin, Bordeaux and Barcelona!
This truly felt like a reward! At the end of a very busy summer and after a looong day of travelling I had finally made: I was in Greece, I was on holiday!
This was day one and after a bit of a walk along the beach, I was sitting in a little taverna, sipping a cool drink and looking out across the bay. Sun, heat, the Med – I could feel the stress and tension starting to drop off as I eased into holiday mood.


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Q: MathProg recursive function I'm facing trouble in counting linked nodes in Mathprog while trying to solve a quite-big TSP problem:
let's say I have
set C  := 0..645;  #  a set of nodes
set A  := {i in  C, j in  C: i!=j};  # a set of edges

a distance function d(c1,c2)
var a{(i,j) in A}, binary;  # binary variables that mean "go through edge i-j"
minimize walk: sum{(i,j) in A} d[i,j] * a[i,j];  # an objective function

and some other conditions
subject to get_out {i in C}: sum{(i,j) in A} a[i,j] = 1;
subject to get_in  {j in C}: sum{(i,j) in A} a[i,j] = 1;

Making all possible cuts to solve the circuit requires the powerset and some other stuff but on more than 20 nodes the problem is too greedy and I can't get a solution.
So I thought I would constrain the solver to concatenate all a[i,j] imposing
 a[i,j], a[j,k], a[k,w], ..., a[z,i] =1 with i!= {j,k,w,...,z} and j!={k,w,...,z} and ...

which is the same as
 check(a[i,C]) {
   while C is empty
     take j: a[i,j]=1;
     check( a[j,{C diff {i}}] )
 }

which may not lead to a solution but is quite frustrating not to be able to implement such a simple thing... is there a way to implement such pseudo-code in mathprog (gmpl)?

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Thecidellinidae is a family of brachiopods belonging to the order Thecideida.

Genera

Genera:
 Bifolium Elliott, 1948
 Bosquetella Smirnova, 1969
 Diraphora Bell, 1941

References

Brachiopods

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Prince William is looking for nominees to the $1 million Earthshot prize
LONDON (AP), -- Prince William, Britain's Prince of Wales, appealed to innovators from around the globe to submit nominations to his Earthshot Prize competition. This prize is aimed at finding innovative ways to combat climate change.
Emre Öğüt
William and The Royal Foundation, his charity, created the prize in 2020, inspired by President John F. Kennedy's 1962 "Moonshot" speech, which challenged Americans to reach the moon by the end the decade.
This prize is the most prestigious and will be awarded annually to five winners each year until 2030. Each winner will be awarded a grant worth 1 million pounds ($1.4million) to help them develop and scale their ideas.
The foundation stated that this year's prizes will be awarded to projects that target "tipping points" issues, where there are significant opportunities to bring about positive changes over the next few decades. These include personal transport, agriculture that restores nature, buildings that minimize pollution and energy consumption, and initiatives that prolong the lives of clothing, food, and plastic products.
William stated that he was excited to see the solutions the prize will champion in the coming year. "We are determined to go even further in 2022 by seeking more nominations from all corners of the globe, so that we can spotlight and scale the best ideas and innovations that will put the planet on a sustainable track and protect it for future generations."
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Le château de l'abbaye Saint-Aubert est un château situé sur la commune d'Avesnes-le-Sec dans le département du Nord.

Historique

En 1788, les moines de l'abbaye Saint-Aubert de Cambrai, sous la prélature de Jean-François-Marie-Joseph Ysebrant de Lendonck, ont fait bâtir le château actuel sur des terres appartenant à l'abbaye. Les plans seraient d'Ange-Jacques Gabriel ou d'Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart.

Le château est vendu comme bien national sous la Révolution. À l'aide d'un prête nom, le comte François Marie Joseph de Frahan en devient le propriétaire. Il est vendu par ses descendants à Pierre Joseph Danjou en 1853, puis à Nicolas Meriaux en 1884.

En 1887, Marie-Adélaide Verkinder, épouse du député Ernest Déjardin, acquiert le château. Il passe à sa fille et son gendre, l'ambassadeur Pierre Lefèvre-Pontalis.

Durant la Première Guerre mondiale, le château devient l'État-major du Jagdgeschwader 1 et le baron Manfred von Richthofen y réside.

Le château, ses douves et ses ponts font l'objet d'un classement au titre des monuments historiques depuis le , tandis que les bâtiments des communs, le bâtiment ancien situé en bordure du chemin numéro 4, les façades et les toitures de la tour-pigeonnier et du pavillon situé dans le parc et le mur d'enceinte avec ses portails font l'objet d'une inscription au titre des monuments historiques depuis cette même date.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Liens internes
 Liste des châteaux du Nord
 Liste des monuments historiques du Nord

Saint-Aubert
Monument historique dans le département du Nord
Monument historique classé en 1983
Monument historique inscrit en 1983
Château monument historique (France)


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Reps probes alleged diversion of $35m GEM fund
The House of Representatives has mandated its joint committees on Finance, Industry, Commerce and Aids, Loans and Debt Management to probe the N97 billion Growth and Employment (GEM) Project.
The joint committees is also to determine the number of beneficiaries for far, the extent of involvement of consultants, inflow received and disbursement made since commencement, as well as all other related issues and report back to the House within four weeks for further legislative action.
The members of the lower chamber also directed the Federal government to halt the planned movement of $35m out of the GEM project account to fund any other fraudulent small and medium enterprise investment project.
Growth and Employment (GEM) Project is an employment project conceptualized by the Federal Government under the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment.
The project was meant to create jobs and increase non-oil growth through the empowerment of 4000 SME'S across the country in specific high-potential value chain sectors of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), light manufacturing and agro processing, entertainment industry, hospitality and tourism, construction and real estate.
The lawmakers have however directed immediate discontinuation of any processes towards the consideration or approval of the new restructuring proposal for the creation of the fraudulent SME Investment Fund.
Consequently, the House has directed the Ministers of Finance, Industry, Trade and Investment, the GEM Project Coordinator and the World Bank to maintain the status quo ante as was conceptualized and approved by the National Assembly
The decision of the House followed the adoption of a motion by Mark Gbilah (APC, Benue), who noted the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, was allegedly involved in the manipulation of the implementation of the project leading to its planned restructuring.
According to the lawmaker, the implementation of the GEM project is predicated on funding from the World Bank and the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID).
DFID was expected to provide a grant of £90m to be strictly managed by it while the World Bank will also provide a concessionary loan of $160m to be domiciled in a CBN Project account under the oversight of the Minister of Finance, he added.
In addition, a Project Steering Committee to be chaired by the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment was to be responsible for the management of the Project implementation.
He said: "The Federal Government's borrowing of the funds from the World Bank was approved by the National Assembly in 2013 with the proviso that the Project be run from June 2013 to September 2018 based on the indicated Project deliverables.
"It is alarming that only three months into his appointment and barely one year to the expected end of the project with only 800 beneficiaries out of the 4000 initially proposed, the new GEM Project Coordinator (alleged to be one of the two employees of African Capital Alliance a Private Equity firm owned by the current Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment engaged by the Minister on this Project and paid up to N4.9m a month instead of a capable Civil Servant in the Ministry) has initiated the restructuring of the entire project.
"He is requesting for the release of the allegedly outstanding sum of $35m from the Federal Ministry of Finance for the creation of a parallel SME Investment Fund to be managed by an independent private company to be registered with the CAC that will dispense between $250,000 to $2m each to only 23 unidentified companies without government oversight or involvement.
"In clear violation of the initially approved scope and without an approval for virement by the National Assembly or recourse to the Project Steering Committee, the GEM Project Coordinator has gone ahead to advertise for a Fund Manager in the Daily Trust of 28th August, 2016.
"The GEM Project Coordinator has also concluded plans with the World Bank (whose representative arrives in Nigeria on Wednesday 1st November, 2017) and the Ministry of Finance who have either been misled or are in collusion with the GEM Project team to proceed with the consideration and possible approval of the restructuring plan on Friday 3rd November, 2017 in total disregard to due process."
He said the Department of State Security's (DSS) advice to the Minister of Finance after investigating petitions against the GEM Project Coordinator to halt any disbursement of funds under this questionable restructuring plan was disregarded.
The motion was unanimously adopted after it was put to a voice vote while the joint Committee was given four weeks to carry out its investigation and report back for further legislative action.
Reps probes plot to divert $35m GEM fund
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Tags: GEM fund, Reps
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Lawrence After Arabia: ★★...
Lawrence After Arabia: ★★★★ from WhatsOnStage
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lawrence after arabia at hampstead theatre review
SARAH CROMPTON, WHATSONSTAGE
'At Hampstead Theatre, not long after Hare's The Moderate Soprano reminded us of the idealistic foundation of Glyndebourne, Brenton's Lawrence After Arabia turns the pages of the past to mark T.E. Lawrence's passionate advocacy of the Arabian cause – and make the point that in carving up the Middle East for its own ends, Britain laid the foundations of the region's current problems. And so of its own.'
'It is written with a rare and engaging affection for its participants. In the programme essay, Brenton recalls the photograph of Lawrence on the wall of his primary school – a visionary hero whose image has never left him.'
'We first meet Lawrence when he is in crisis, running away from the celebrity that he has provoked thanks to his part in the successful Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire. It is 1922 and he has enlisted in the RAF under the assumed name of John Ross. As news of this begins to percolate, it causes a scandal for the British establishment. "You can't have an officer and a gentlemen cleaning lavatories," harumphs William Chubb's marvellously stiff-upper- lipped Field Marshall Allenby, Lawrence's former commander.'
'Lawrence (sensitively played by Jack Laskey) is seeking to reinvent himself, and takes refuge in the home of George Bernard Shaw (Jeff Rawle, very funny) and his loving wife Charlotte, who also carries a torch for the younger man. Geraldine James luminously suggests the depth of Charlotte's care for both men, creating a sense of a woman trying to make herself a meaningful life in small acts of kindness.'
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A lovely simple, vintage Spun Silver Brooch in the shape of a leaf. The back of the brooch has a c-clasp and is marked H S 800, short for 800 silver, or 80% silver. The brooch measures roughly 1.5 inch long, by 1.25 inch wide. This simple, but elegant brooch would look nice on a jacket or a scarf.
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System-on-module
Integrating CANopen protocol stack
Emtas (Germany) offers projects that show how to integrate the company's CANopen protocol stack into the Zynq-based CPU module on Bora. Bora is a system-on-module by Dave Embedded Systems.
The SOM offers three 140 pins (Photo: Dave)
BORA IS A DUAL CORTEX-A9 AND FPGA CPU SYSTEM-ON-MODULE, based on the Xilinx "Zynq" XC7Z010 / XC7Z020 application processor. The solution includes both a CPU and an FPGA, avoiding complexities on the carrier PCB. The module offers up to 1 GiB DDR3 SDRAM, Flash NOR and Flash NAND on board, Artix-7 FPGA integrated on chip, and FPGA banks with a range of PSU input options (from 1,2 V to 3,3 V). It includes a dual CAN controller, Gigabit Ethernet LAN and an additional GMII/MII interface, two USB OTG, two UART, two I²C, and two SPI ports. At 85 mm x 50 mm it has a small form factor and an industrial operating temperature range of -40 °C to +85 °C.
Bora enables designers to create rugged products suitable for harsh mechanical and thermal environments. Thanks to the integration between the ARM-based processing system and the on-chip programmable logic, designers can add various peripherals or create custom accelerators that extend system performance and better match specific application requirements. The system-on-module is designed and manufactured according to Dave Embedded Systems Ultra Line specifications. It is suitable for high-end applications such as medical instrumentation, advanced communication systems, critical real-time operations, and safety applications.
The Bora Embedded Linux Kit (Belk) extends the module with peripherals and connectors. After unboxing, it can be used to evaluate the provided CANopen demo. The CANopen project implements the CiA 401 profile and allows communication with the Linux kernel. Belk provides all necessary components required to set up a developing environment for configuring the system (PS and PL) at a hardware level, building the first-stage bootloader (FSBL), building the second stage bootloader (U-Boot), building and running Linux operating system on Bora-based systems, and building Linux applications that will run on the target.
Emtas' CANopen protocol stack is a software library that provides communication services according to the CANopen communication profile CiA 301 V 4.2. It is already prepared for the upcoming Version V 5.0 CANopen FD. The stack is developed in ANSI-C and it is MISRA-conform. CANopen-conform devices can be developed or extended with the protocol stack.
Dave Embedded Systems, headquartered in Italy, has been in the embedded modules business since 1998. It focused on designing and manufacturing miniaturized embedded systems solutions. The company provides CPU modules solutions and system-on-modules.
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Africa, Aid, Asia-Pacific, Biodiversity, Crime & Justice, Economy & Trade, Environment, Featured, Global Governance, Headlines, IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse, Natural Resources, TerraViva United Nations, Trade & Investment
A New Forensic Weapon to Track Illegal Ivory Trade
By Thalif Deen	Reprint | | Print | |En español
Protected from external dangers, an elephant family roams peacefully in the Mikumi National Park in Tanzania. Credit: UN Photo/B Wolff
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 25 2015 (IPS) - The wildlife trade monitoring network, TRAFFIC, is deploying a new forensic weapon – DNA testing – to track illegal ivory products responsible for the slaughter of hundreds of endangered elephants in Asia and Africa.
Widely used in criminal cases, forensic DNA examination (Deoxyribonucleic acid) can help identify whether the elephant tusk is from Asia or Africa.
"The ability to use DNA and other forensic expertise provides great support to law enforcement." -- Adisorn Noochdumrong
Asked whether this is a first, Dr Richard Thomas, global communications coordinator at the UK-based TRAFFIC, told IPS: "It's the first time I'm aware of when it's been used to test ivory items for sale to prove their (illegal) provenance."
However, he added, it's worth noting that at the March 2013 meeting of CITES (the 1975 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species), State Parties to the Convention were instructed that forensic information should routinely be gathered from all large-scale seizures of ivory (500kg).
Hence this is also an important demonstration of one technique that can be employed in the fight against the illegal trade in endangered species, he said.
The current project is a collaborative effort between Thailand's Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) and TRAFFIC, to battle the widespread illegal trade of ivory in Thailand.
Asked whether African countries have similar projects in collaboration with TRAFFIC, Dr. Thomas told IPS, "Not currently, although the scope of DNA and stable isotope analysis of ivory are being examined by others as means to determine the geographic origin of ivory within Africa."
He also pointed out that any wildlife product, by definition, is associated with life and therefore open for DNA examination.
"So, in theory it could be a very widely employed technique in addressing wildlife trafficking."
According to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the Sri Lankan and Sumatran elephants are on a list of endangered species, along with the black rhino, mountain gorilla, Bengal tiger, the blue whale and the green turtle, among others.
WWF says the global illicit wildlife trade is estimated at over 10 billion dollars annually and is controlled by criminal networks.
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Specifically on the ivory trade, Dr Thomas told IPS, "We're very wary about speculating over black market prices – in part, because they're black market and therefore unverifiable, but more because of anecdotal evidence that high prices quoted in the media can lead to interest from the criminal fraternity in getting involved in trafficking."
In a report released here, TRAFFIC said 160 items of small ivory products legally acquired by researchers, primarily from retail outlets in Bangkok, were subjected to DNA analysis at the DNP's Wildlife Forensics Crime Unit (WIFOS Laboratory).
The aim of the exercise was to determine whether the ivory products were made from African elephant or Asian elephant tusks.
The African elephant Loxodonta africana is found in 37 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, and the Asian elephant Elephas maximas is found in Thailand and 12 other Asian countries.
The study also said forensic results show that African elephant ivory accounted for a majority of the items tested.
"Whilst the relatively small number of samples cannot be considered as representative of the entire ivory market in Thailand, it indicates that African elephant ivory is prominently represented in the retail outlets in Bangkok," it noted.
This capability supports the enforcement component of Thailand's revised National Ivory Action Plan (NIAP) submitted to CITES in September 2014.
The plan was developed to control ivory trade in Thailand and strengthen measures to prevent illegal international trade and includes a strong focus on law enforcement and regulation, including the execution of a robust ivory registration system, according to the report.
"The ability to use DNA and other forensic expertise provides great support to law enforcement," said Adisorn Noochdumrong, acting deputy director general of DNP.
"We are deeply concerned by these findings which come just at the moment a nationwide ivory product registration exercise is being conducted pursuant to recently enacted legislation to strengthen ivory trade controls in Thailand," he added.
The report said the Thai government last month passed new legislation to regulate and control the possession and trade of ivory that can be shown to have come from domesticated Asian Elephants in Thailand.
With the passing of the Elephant Ivory Act B.E. 2558 (2015), anyone in possession of ivory – whether as personal effects or for commercial purposes – must register all items in their possession with the DNP from Jan. 22 until Apr. 21, 2015.
Penalties for failing to do so could result in up to three years imprisonment and/or a maximum fine of Thai Baht 6 million (nearly 200,000 dollars).
"We remind anyone registering possession of raw ivory or ivory products under Thailand's new laws that African Elephant ivory is strictly prohibited and ineligible for sale in Thailand," said Noochdumrong.
Edited by Kitty Stapp
The writer can be contacted at thalifdeen@aol.com
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
Elephant Poaching
illicit wildlife trade


Last September President Obama cited his drone program in Yemen as a successful model of US anti-terrorism strategy. He said that he would employ the Yemen model in his effort to "degrade and ultimately destroy" ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
But just a week ago, the government in Yemen fell to a Shiite militia movement thought to be friendly to Iran. The US embassy in Yemen's capitol was forced to evacuate personnel and shut down operations.
If Yemen is any kind of model, it is a model of how badly US interventionism has failed.
In 2011 the US turned against Yemen's longtime dictator, Saleh, and supported a coup that resulted in another, even more US-friendly leader taking over in a "color revolution." The new leader, Hadi, took over in 2012 and soon became a strong supporter of the US drone program in his country against al-Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula.
But last week Hadi was forced to flee from office in the coup. The media reports that the US has lost some of its intelligence capability in Yemen, which is making it more difficult to continue the drone strikes. Nevertheless, the White House said last week that its drone program would continue as before, despite the disintegration of the Yemeni government.
And the drone strikes have continued. Last Monday, in the first US strike after the coup, a 12 year old boy was killed in what is sickeningly called "collateral damage." Two alleged "al-Qaeda militants" were also killed. On Saturday yet another drone strike killed three more suspected militants.
Read the rest via The Failed 'Yemen Model' by Ron Paul — Antiwar.com.


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Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin, National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy, Pelican Books, October 2018
Liberals, the populist right & the politics of imperialism
By Tony Norfield (Posted Dec 29, 2018)
Originally published: Economics of Imperialism on December 19, 2018 (more by Economics of Imperialism) |
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How to respond to the rise of national populism? The phenomenon is evident not only in Trump's U.S. but throughout Europe, as shown in this book's comprehensive review of changes in mass opinion. The book also attempts to provide a solution to the problem, one that will defend democracy, but in doing so it inadvertently highlights the bankruptcy of the liberal outlook. They detail how, over the past two decades and more, new political forces have undermined support for the traditional political parties in the West, and especially for the social democratic parties of western Europe. Yet their 'solution' is to make concessions to reactionary views in order to 'engage with' the concerns people express in opinion polls. Like many liberal commentators, on the face of it they will have no truck with racism. But they seem to be fine with the nationalist mentality and an anti-immigration stance, and they persistently raise the question of ethnicity in national politics.
The book's real value is in documenting how pervasive are reactionary opinions in the West. They show how the success of Trump, et al, cannot be put down to 'angry old white men', who will all die soon anyway, or simply to those who have lost out economically with 'globalisation', and who may then be attracted to a left-wing party's plans for economic reform. The political problem in the West is far deeper, and more depressing. As they put it: 'people who support national populism are not merely protesting: they are choosing to endorse views that appeal to them' (p 39).
Four D national populism
Eatwell and Goodwin organise their work along the lines of what they call the Four Ds. This is how the 'elitist nature of liberal democracy has promoted distrust of politicians and institutions', how 'immigration and hyper ethnic change are cultivating strong fears about the possible destruction of the national group's historic identity and established ways of life', how 'neoliberal globalised economics has stoked strong feelings of what psychologists call relative deprivation as a result of rising inequalities of income and wealth in the west and a loss of faith in a better future', and finally, the 'weakening bonds between the traditional mainstream parties and the people, or what we refer to as de-alignment' (pp xxi-xxiii).
If you are already finding your blood beginning to boil with a phrase like 'immigration and hyper ethnic change', then I recommend taking a few deep breaths because things get worse. Worse because of the reality they describe, not because the authors are closet racists hiding behind academic language–although in some of the things they write, they will come close to readers interpreting them that way. Towards the end of the book, they sum up the argument as follows:
The 'Four Ds' have left large numbers of people in the West instinctively receptive to the claims being made by national populism: that politicians do not listen to them, even treat them with contempt, that immigrants and ethnic minorities benefit at the expense of 'natives', and that hyper ethnic change and in particular Islam pose a new and major threat to the national group, its culture and way of life. (p 272)
I will deal with these D issues a little later, but first it is worth covering some of the characteristics of voters that the authors set out. In the end, these are the decisive people in a democracy.
Having paid a lot of attention to the social dimensions of voting, they note that the unemployed and those very dependent on welfare payments tend to vote less than average, that the youth vote also tends to be below par and that, at least in the past, white workers without degrees were under-represented in samples taken of popular opinion, which helped lead to the poll surprises of Trump and Brexit. In their view, it is the 'middle educated' who are most open to national populism–those who are not uneducated, but who do not have university degrees.
This middle group also tends to feel more vulnerable than others, being above the unemployed but below the middle class economically. In the UK, it was the group focused upon in the Conservative Party's term 'just-about-managing families'. However, this is not to say that better off workers did not vote for Trump or Brexit, or for populist causes in general, or that support only came from white (male) workers. They show that national populism also gets significant, if usually minority support from younger people, women and ethnic minorities.
One reason is that the national populists also address welfare issues. This helps undercut the traditional capitalist state-dependent approaches to national politics of more left-wing parties and groups. For example, the leader of the conservative, populist Sweden Democrats argued that 'The election is a choice between mass immigration and welfare. You choose' (p71).
Immigration, racism and nationalism
The authors are clear about their perspectives, which should help readers also to clarify what they think about these issues. Take the question of racism. I raise this question, because, when the authors do talk about racism, they appear to cross the line into endorsing what a United Nations Convention would call 'racial discrimination'.(1) The UN defines such discrimination as being on the basis of 'race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin' and, in discussing popular political views, the authors write:
We do not think that the term 'racism' should be applied solely because people seek to retain the broad parameters of the ethnic base of a country and its national identity, even though this can involve discriminating against outside groups (p 75).
Unless the word 'broad' somehow lets them off, 'retaining the broad parameters of the ethnic base of a country' would indeed be racial discrimination according to the UN!
Are they only describing how such views exist, rather than endorsing or advocating them? I found the focus on ethnicity to be a strange one for these UK academics to spend much time on since, in the Brexit debate, for example, it was clear that race and ethnicity had little or nothing to do with the anti-EU case. Instead, popular views were much more concerned about competition in the jobs market from low wage, white East European workers–the 'Polish plumber'. Of course, the coverage in this book is not just of the UK, and not just of Brexit. But the authors are not just describing how there is opposition to other ethnic groups. While they do not explicitly share these concerns themselves, they go out of their way to say that these are valid. For example:
Too often the left view this immigration angst solely as a byproduct of objective economic grievances when it is in fact a legitimate concern in its own right and … is rooted in broader subjective worries about loss and relative deprivation. (p 222)
and, on popular anxiety about immigration and ethnic change:
While many of these fears are exaggerated–especially in the case of Muslims, who as a group are often damned for the sins of a very small minority of Islamists–we need to appreciate how people feel. Given ongoing immigration and rapidly rising rates of ethnic, cultural and religious change, it seems to us unlikely that these anxieties will fade.
It is important to try to engage with their concerns, particularly for those on the centre-left who, to avoid further losses, will need to make short-term concessions. Meeting the demand for tighter borders or modifying the type of immigration…is compatible with progressive politics. (pp 281-2)
Basing their stand on the evidence from numerous opinion polls, they can correctly dismiss as mistaken the views of the established political parties and of the left that if workers can be given 'more jobs, more growth and less austerity, then their support will return'. Yet that leads them to argue that policies should be adopted to address and deal with 'people's concerns about immigration and rapid ethnic change' (p 261).
If the authors escape the charge of endorsing racism, they still remain guilty of accepting and working within a framework of nationalistic politics. The irony running throughout this book is that they have set up national populism as a political challenge to liberal democracy and then have taken on board the concerns of the national populists.
Imperial politics
The authors do not ignore capitalism in their analysis, or the wider political trends. They cover quite a lot of ground in a summary historical review of how capitalism has developed, the different forms of politics that emerged in the West that helped to endorse the system in the eyes of the population, and of earlier forms of populism. They also note the different phases of immigration into the U.S. and the UK over the past hundred years or so, and the more recent trends in a wide range of European countries.
I was pleasantly surprised to find some brief mentions of the term 'social imperialism', describing how capitalist parties and governments in the late 19th and early 20th century countered the appeal of socialism and attracted support from workers by 'a combination of welfare measures to help poorer people, such as the introduction of old-age pensions, and the celebration of national greatness and expanding Empire' (p 228). But this remained only part of their historical review and did not seem to have much implication for their discussion of more contemporary trends.
It would have been more consistent for them to spell out how masses of people in the richer countries remain wedded to the social imperialist outlook. Welfare provision by governments in rich countries has grown far beyond what it was in the early 20th century, and it has been a key pillar of what is effectively a 'social contract' between the national working class and the capitalist state. In other words, workers will remain loyal to the capitalist system and the national state, including support in wars, as long as the state provides some basic economic security.
That deal has now been undermined by two important developments. Firstly, the growth of the global market, aside from its dysfunction and destructive tendencies, has also shown for capitalist business that there are cheaper ways to get things produced than depending upon welfare-supported workers in the richer countries. Employment conditions have been undermined by outsourcing, supply chains and worse labour contracts, with only some privileged areas remaining relatively unscathed, in high level engineering, technology and some other monopolistic sectors. Secondly, more stagnant economies over the past decade or so have thrown into sharper relief the accumulation of debts, and state spending deficits in particular. Accentuated by problems of an ageing population in many countries and capitalist pandemics like obesity, welfare provision is under pressure.
But these developments have not led the mass of people in richer countries to realise that the game is up and capitalism no longer works for them. Instead, they have turned towards reactionary politics. This can hardly be much of a surprise, since, as the authors themselves note, there have been longstanding racist and nationalist opinions. Liberal views were often more supported by the social strata that were made comfortable by the system, while the remainder kept relatively quiet as long as things were ticking over for them. Now that the capitalist markets supported by the working class have come back to bite them, they have spoken out.
This is the relevant background to the authors' focus on 'hyper ethnic change'. The popular reaction to a rapid influx of immigrants seen over the past few decades, and especially in the past 10-20 years (after 2004 in the case of the EU, following the accession of several new Eastern European members), reflects concern by the 'native' masses about their social and economic welfare. They don't stop for a moment to consider the many fires that their governments have started in and the destruction they have brought upon countries in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, nor of the collapse of living standards in many East European countries when they were incorporated into the western capitalist markets.
Culture and privilege
Privileges enjoyed by the mass of people in the rich countries are being taken away, so they blame Mexican or East European workers, Chinese and Asian goods, and they wrap that up in moans about the threat to their 'way of life' and culture, especially from the Muslim community. As the authors put it, using apologetic brackets to distance themselves: 'most national populists see the quest for lower immigration and slower ethnic change as an attempt to stem the dwindling size of their group, to advance its interests and (in their eyes) avoid the destruction of their culture and identity' (p 162). Let us consider this culture question for a moment.
I do not know whether any of the myriads of opinion polls cited by the authors have ever asked the question of whether Muslims, or other groups considered unwelcome in these polls, are believed to have a stronger sense of community than the anti-immigration respondent. The 'native' reaction is to a different group, whether that distinction is made visible by them using a different language, religion or something else. But it raises the question of what they are really protesting about.
'Native' working class culture has been disintegrating for the past 40 years or more in many western countries. Even before, it was nothing to brag about, and the latest decline has nothing to do with immigration, 'hyper' or otherwise. The protracted crises of the 1970s and 1980s dealt a blow to many traditional industries and forms of employment that were the centre of settled working class communities, from mining to manufacturing, from steel making to shipyards and transport, and the hollowing out of jobs in many areas. There have also been changes in technology and work practices, a reduction of trade union membership and the creation of many new service sector jobs less covered by trade unions. These and other, more recent developments, sometimes labelled the 'gig economy', did not come from immigration. Popular sentiment has nevertheless found immigration as something to focus on, since it was never far from a nationalistic and sometimes racist mindset in any case.
What is it about 'culture and identity' that popular sentiment wishes to save from 'destruction'? The population has done little or nothing done to combat the capitalist market trends that have undermined them, and instead it has been absorbed by mass consumer culture. It is only now, when the economic foundations of an acceptable life are being taken away, that the pro-imperialist working class protests. It fights back by demanding that the capitalist state cuts or stops immigration. The authors say that even if more 'jobs and growth' were created then 'tensions over perceived differences in culture and values will remain' (p 152). But that is because a large section of the working class has chosen to try and defend itself by relying on 'their' state to take action against foreigners. The truth is that it is in no position to hold up anything in its own culture worthy of respect.
Political climate
This book gives a systematic overview of contemporary political opinion, especially that underlying the support for national populism. It helps to clarify the depth of the political problems faced by those who do not like what is going on, but the solutions offered by the authors end up endorsing the concerns of the reactionary populists! When the capitalist system is pissing down on everyone from a great height, they join in the argument about the distribution of umbrellas and raincoats, and wonder if immigrants should be given any if that risks the 'native' workers going without.
↩ The United Nations International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination in 1966, of which Article 1 of the Convention defines racial discrimination as: '… any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life'.
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About Tony Norfield
Tony Norfield, based in London, has academic training in economics and mathematics. He worked for 8 years as an economic consultant, and for close to 20 years in bank dealing rooms in the City, latterly as Executive Director in charge of analysing global FX markets for a major European bank. He is author of The City: London & the Global Power of Finance, Verso.
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Police in Dayton, in the midwestern U.S. state of Ohio, say a gunman has killed nine people and wounded dozens of others.
Dayton police said Sunday on its Twitter account: "We had officers in the immediate vicinity when this shooting began and were able to respond and put an end to it quickly."
Police say the gunman, whose identity has not been released, is dead. The Associated Press quoted Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley saying he had been wearing body armor and carrying extra magazines for his weapon.
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Foreign Service Stereotypes
Conrad Turner
When I was in college, I longed to travel and get paid to do it. So I asked a family friend—a British businessman—for career advice, adding that I'd never work for the government, that I didn't want to give up being "me." His response: "It's entirely possible to be your own [person] in the Foreign Service. I personally know American diplomats who have succeeded at that." Today I'd say that to represent the people of your country—especially as a public diplomat—you must let the best of yourself shine through.
I make a point of asking PD students—many of them aspiring diplomats—about other negative stereotypes they may have heard about this career. Some are surprising; others have an element of truth. Like all stereotypes, they are misleading, and you buy into them at the risk of missing out.
Here's my take on just a few:
Diplomats are stuffy. Yeah, some are. But don't hold it against us; many are just introverts. Some are just really, really smart and operate on another plane. On the other hand, we've got all kinds. I'm casual and a little quirky. More importantly, some of the finest diplomats I've known—many went on to become hifalutin senior officials—are really friendly people.
The Foreign Service is too white and male. Well, I sure am. But if you are afraid to sign up because of who you are, please take a critical look at your logic. This is a system that is falling over itself to get you to apply. Once you're in, you'll find a lot of people rooting for you to do well. We need you to help represent all of America.
Diplomats went to Ivy League schools. Some did, but the Foreign Service is mainly people who graduated from everywhere else. Their secret? They applied and got in. Get over the Ivy League thing. No one cares where you went to school.
Diplomats don't have integrity and will do anything to get ahead. Wrong. As in other organizations, we have ambitious human beings, complete with flaws. But we signed up for public service, and we are continually trained and evaluated based in part on our readiness to take the high road. Compared with the private sector, this is a collegial crowd.
Diplomacy is only about helping the U.S. at the expense of other countries. No. It's about finding common ground, win-win, preventing and ending conflict, building and helping allies, and being open to working with people who oppose or don't like us. All those good things. That said, power politics are a real thing. Believe me, when it comes to keeping you safe, you'll want us out there fighting hard.
It's all about cocktail parties and receptions. Uh, I've had to go to a few of those. It's called "showing the flag," and many of us can't wait to leave. I'm short and get neck pain from looking up at foreign ambassadors. But I've generated more ideas and programs and have made more contacts at these galas than I can count. Bottom line: you don't always have to go, unless (ahem) the boss or a colleague is hosting it.
You're part of the system. Yes, but every American is part of the "system." The difference is that public servants are out there trying to make it work better. If not us, then who?
Change is impossible. Define change. We're changing things all the time.
The ultimate goal is to become an ambassador. Go for it, if you think you can. The odds are against you. A far more reasonable goal is to do good, do well, and have fun.
It's about who you know. Yes, that's a factor once you're in, especially for getting assignments. If you do want to become an ambassador one day, it can help to work for someone "destined" to be very senior. Sometimes that even works. But do the math: it usually doesn't. The best strategy is to do what you love, be very good at it, and work well with others. You'll realize decades later you've lived an adventure.
You can't get promoted as fast. True. Sorry about that. Consider it a blessing. Private-sector office politics can be awful. The old-fashioned stability still found in Foreign Service is underrated, although you'll have to change countries every two-three years. Also, while the pay is higher at senior levels, the best jobs are at mid-career, where some people like to linger.
The pay sucks. We get what they give us, file state and federal taxes, and sit in cattle class. The system is transparent, however, with built-in incentives to meet organizational demands. This isn't a bad gig, and attrition is low: for most of us, the predictability compares well to the slings and arrows of private-sector misfortune. As for me, I learned hard languages, took hard-to-fill jobs, and earned more money.
Men have to wear a suit. Ugh, it's true. Especially to meetings. If it were up to me we'd all be in jeans. For years, after my morning meetings I couldn't wait to shed the straitjacket and noose—and got away with it because I was the PD/press guy. Outside the embassy it's somehow more "American" to be less formal, so that's how I've tried to be.
You can't speak truth to power. Yes and no. There's a right time and place and way for most things, and there's not one kind of boss. Many expect you to speak up. I once kicked a two-star general under the table to get him to stop talking at a press conference. I privately gave honest feedback to an ambassador after a TV interview, who then humiliated me at a staff meeting but then wrote me a stellar evaluation. And yeah, I've often kept my trap shut because I knew opening it wouldn't do any good. Sounds kind of like life, doesn't it?
I'll have to represent my country 24/7 and always be on my best behavior. What's your point?
It's dangerous overseas. That, by the way, is what a lot of foreigners think about the United States. Sure, there are risks. We have people whose job it is to help you and others stay safe. They are very, very good at it and are getting better. My advice is to ignore the headlines and do your own research.
I'll get sick. You bet. But not everywhere or all the time. And you can't escape all the ailments that might have hit you at home. It's nice, though, having a clinic in the embassy building with walk-in hours.
I'll have to leave my family behind. This is a tough one. Think of it this way: American families tend to be mobile. You'll just be mobile across international borders. But it's true: I've felt guilty about not being there for my parents. My sisters have stepped up, and I am forever grateful. The good part is that family and friends have been proud of me and supportive.
My kids will grow up moving from country to country, without a single place they can call "home." It's more complex than that, but yeah, they won't have that particular form of stability. This life isn't for everyone. All I can say is that for everything you give up to serve your country overseas, you gain many, many other things—like friends all over the world.
So in the end, stereotypes be damned: Our Foreign Service is full of real people with the travel bug who get a kick out of being part of something bigger.
That's an anti-stereotype you can buy into.
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Planning Commission Recommends Moving Forward with OR Zoning Amendment, But NOT as Written by Wawa!
Video recorded Wednesday, April 10, 2019, at the Newtown Township BOS Public Meeting
Peggy Driscoll, Vice Chair, of the Newtown Township Planning Commission (PC) presented a synopsis of the Commission's recommendation regarding the revised draft amendment to the Office Research (OR Definition) zoning ordinance presented by representatives of Wawa.
Bottom line: The Commission recommended that the Supervisors consider moving forward to amend the JMZO Definition zoning ordinance to add a new use (E‐25, Motor Vehicle Fueling Center), but not as written by Wawa.
PC Synopsis of April 2, 2019, Meeting
John VanLuvanee, Esq., made comments regarding the changes he made to the revised ordinance addressing topics that were discussed earlier. Plans of the proposed Wawa were also reviewed.
Discussion points were regarding changing front yard setbacks from 150ft. to 100ft from the cartway or right‐of‐way; remove the 24‐hour use and let the request be made through the approval process; additional traffic and safety issues; continue with the Township's ordinance regarding LED lighting; and that signage should be handled through the approval process.
There was a discussion if this lot could be reconfigured differently to comply with the current setback requirements, however, this would reduce the length of the two‐way driveway and be closer to the PECO easement. Other exchanges were adding sidewalks, increasing the height of the berm to the rear of the property to provide residents better buffering from sight and sound; and architectural features.
Upon further discussion, it was requested that specifics to lighting guidelines and fuel deliveries be added to the ordinance. Applicant would like the setbacks from the cartway, but the Jointure Definition will have to agree and consider to hear conditions for Conditional Use Definition purposes.
The Commission recommended that the Supervisors consider this ordinance, not as written, and move forward.
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Digital Equipment Corporation - the Decline
After protracted negotiations, Compaq announced on January 26, 1998 that it would acquire a downsized Digital Equipment Corporation. The deal closed in June. The purchase price was $9.6 billion dollars. DEC shareholders got $30 plus one share of Compaq stock for each DEC share. This for a computer company once second only to IBM, a company that had reached annual sales of $14 billion dollars, market capitalization of $24 billion and 125,000 employees working in more than 80 countries.
Stumbles in the end that contributed to DEC's decline and fall were many. A simplistic, off-repeated story is that DEC had declined to get into the personal computer business, but this was only a small part of the problem. Circa 1985, DEC decided to compete in the arena of commercial data centers. This market traditionally belonged to International Business Machines, and to complete would require a massive increase in staff involved in sales and service. The employee population increased 26,800 in two years. Around the same time, senior management decided that the upgraded VAX system would no longer support 'open architecture', making it difficult for manufacturers of add-on components. DEC also decided that any purchase of a used DEC computer would require a fee to relicense the software that was already on the computer. Profitable short-term? Yes. Angry customers? Also yes.
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The company was also strongly committed to vertical integration, meaning that it wanted to own its manufacture of components – chips, screens, keyboards – even when buying from independent companies would cost less. Meanwhile, competition had gained ground. Sun Microsystems and Data General competed head-to-head in the mini-computer niche, DEC failed in an attempt to compete with IBM in the mainframe niche (development of the failed VAX9000 mainframe chewed through $3 billion in critically needed capital), and while DEC was focusing upward IBM, all the micro-computer companies were approaching fast from below.
DEC's crash was fast. The last year of billion-dollar profits was 1989. Total revenue continued to increase, but 1990 was only marginally profitable, and subsequent years saw losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Restructuring was rampant and continuous. People in senior management were leaving. There were hiring freezes, followed by offerings of early retirement and generous severance packages for those willing to volunteer to leave. The layoffs began in earnest in January 1991, including in Maynard. All company operations in the mill buildings shut down in 1993, the Parker Street complex soon after. Company headquarters had previously been relocated to a new building on Powdermill Road (later sold to Stratus Technologies, soon to become part of Beijing Royal School).
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President Ken Olsen, 65 years old in 1991, and the only president the company had had since its creation in 1957, was strongly against layoffs. From a May 1992 article in the New York Times: "We've lived through many recessions," he said, "This is just one more."
The company had weathered downturns before by depending on its research excellence to leapfrog the competition to a new industry supremacy. Staff were reassigned, but not let go. This time, no. In July 1992, the company's Board of Directors forced Olsen to resign. For thousands of employees, working for DEC within the empowering management system and mantra of "Do the right thing," this was a heart-wrenching event. A forum comment from one employee "I used to drive to the office in the morning, and I couldn't wait to get to work – I love my job and the company environment… The company doesn't love itself anymore. Now I drive to work in the morning and all I can think about is getting out of this company and doing something else"
Robert Palmer, who had joined the company in 1985 to run the computer chip manufacturing division, took over as president, also taking on the title of Chief Executive Officer, and later, Chairman of the Board. He was perceived as competent, but not visionary. Over six years, Palmer oversaw plant closings, staff relocations, layoffs of 60,000 employees and sale of many of the major components of the company. Downsizing cost the company close to $5 billion.
Poster for DEC's search engine, AltaVista
Even during the decline, there had been successes. Digital launched the internet search engine AltaVista in 1995. It was the most popular among many competing search engines such as Lycos, AskJeeves and Yahoo, until Google came to dominate the market after 2000. According to one source, Larry Page and Sergey Brin had approached DEC in 1997 with their Pagerank system, hoping to be acquired by Altavista, before going on to start Google.
DEC was not alone in suffering setbacks and contractions in the 1990s. IBM shrank from 405,000 employees in 1985 to 220,000 by 1994, and reduced its stock dividend by two-thirds. Data General, Wang Laboratories, Prime Computer, Lotus Development Corporation and Apollo Computer were all greater-Boston area computer companies that faded and folded or were acquired around the same time.
Was the sale inevitable? Probably not. With a different senior management, it is possible that Digital could have survived, perhaps prospered, but unlikely that it could have regained its aura as a radically innovative company attracting the best and the brightest. Instead, ex-DEC employees went on to populate the next generation of tech companies.
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Brain-Machine Interfaces – what? – when?
DARPA, US Department of Defense research arm, has for quite some time been running a Brain Machine Interface Program. This project first caught my attention when Technology Review wrote about Mind-Machine merger in May (subscription is required to read the full article).
Brain Machine Interfaces (BMI) are among my favorite subjects in the Wetware realm. The potential of BMI is incredible if it is well implemented, but it also opens a Pandora's box of interesting philosophical and even more so ethical questions.
BMIs have been around in science fiction for decades. Movies like Total Recall, Johnny Mnemonic, Strange Days and The Matrix are just a few examples. With a revolution in brain imaging technologies around 1990, brain research took a big leap forward and in the late 1990s we started seeing some implementations of BMIs, most memorably quadriplegic Jim Jatich (Wired – Technology Review) who could control a cursor on a computer screen with thought alone. Jatich later went on to use the same interface to control his so-called Freehand system, a system that stimulates and choreographs paralyzed muscles to make use of paralyzed limbs and is usually controlled using a shoulder controlled joystick. After some serious training, Jatich was able to use this combination to use his arms to use a fork and drink from a glass unassisted.
Connecting to a rat brain�s �pleasure area�, scientists have trained rats to be remote controlled. (The rat must be thinking: �Ohhh – yeah, left! Ooooh, baby � right, yeeessss, right!� ;-).
These are all very interesting projects, but I guess you're already onto some of the ethical issues: If we can control a rat this way, will it lead to technology that allows us to control people to some extent as well? Are robots with biological brains living creatures and should therefore be treated differently? To what extent can the military "integrate" its technology with a fighter pilot or a soldier to enhance his or her abilities? Can the soldier deny or is it just a "standard" part of his equipment?
The projects mentioned above are all rather crude and there is without doubt quite some time until we'll see BMIs in mainstream use. Take Jatich as an example. What is being done here is not reading his thoughts as he thinks "move the arm". What has happened is that Jatich has practiced to be able to control a certain type of brainwaves that emit electric signals. These signals are then recorded from the scalp as so-called electroencephalograms (EEGs). The state of "real" thought reading technologies is nowhere really. A correspondence on a Slashdot discussion thread on related matters put the state of this art quite nicely: �At the moment it's a massively nontrivial task to tell if monkeys are looking at black or white. Do you think a computer [�] could tell the difference between two basic thoughts?�. This is an almost two year old comment but there is no sign that it is not still fully applicable.
So, even though I would like to be able to control my computer with thought alone (think typing text or sculpting a 3D-object by merely thinking about it), it is not reasonable in the near future. BT Exact's technology timeline predicts "Thought recognition as everyday input means" in 2025, together with "Production, storage and use of antimatter" and just before our "Elimination by smart machines – [a la] Terminator" in 2030 (don't be fooled by the examples I picked, the BT Exact whitepaper is a little more serious on average).
Other factors may delay BMI development as well. People are likely to show more than a little resistance to a technology that interferes or reads input directly from the nervous system and the ethical questions will no doubt stand in the way of funding and research in the field. See how the image of nanotechnology has been affected by Bill Joy's account of the "gray goo" in "Why the future doesn't need us" and Michael Crichton's in "Prey: A Novel". According to most nanoscientists, these accounts are ridiculous – but have nevertheless spurred movements of people that want to ban nanotechnology research and has without doubt already hurt funding in the field.
And as to prove my point, Wired today runs a story indicating that DARPA's funding of the BMI program may already be in danger as a result of controversy around it and other high publicity DARPA projects.
Once again people who "know better" want to stop some scientific branch. Usually they have been proven wrong in the end, but even when they are right we are better off having done the research than making it an underground study by people with sometimes not-so-good intentions.
Question:Have you, or know of anyone, who has done research on;A human entering another humans brain/body?
Brain-machine interfaces are still far from achieving anything like what you ask for. As you see from the article, the things people are doing right now are very primitive compared to what you describe.
The closest thing might be Kevin Warwick's experiments connecting his neural system to that of his wife (see e.g. this article). Warwick claims this allows them "exchange feelings", but these are still very primitive connections.
Regarding the possibility of entering another human's body, I think you might be interested in some of the writings of Ray Kurzweil in "The Age of Spiritual Machines". Even though it is more about extending one's one brain and/or replacing with silicon chips, many of the same restrictions apply and one can easily claim that when a fully working two-way brain-machine interface has been implemented, connecting the output of one to the input of another would equal entering his/her body.


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How Your Apple Wireless Earbuds Could Double As Hearing Aids?
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Technology made it possible by making a hearing aid which could be replaced with a pair of wireless earbuds and a smartphone app.
A Swiss startup company has recently released an app for iPhone called "Fennex". This app works with Apple's $159 AirPods Wireless Earbuds.
Fennex is a hearing aid app that provides augmented hearing by turning your Apple headphones that is AirPods into a personal hearing amplifier.
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Apple always stands on the top when we talk about the new and latest technology. There is no doubt in this that you can use your Apple AirPods as a hearing aid. According to TechCrunch, the latest addition of apple to AirPods is live listening technology. This is the technology that is installed on Apple certified hearing aids from 2014. Now you must be thinking what is Live Listen Technology and how it affects hearing aids user? Don't worry we have, explained it below. Let's take a look at all of it.
Live Listen Technology
Live Listen is the most important feature included in the Apple AirPods.BY the help of this technology the user can stream the live videos from an iPhones microphone to directly in their hearing aids. Bluetooth technology is used by Live Listen to deliver clearer sound to listeners, and also helps people to receive and make phone calls and listen to music or watch videos much more easily and comfortably.
Currently, Live Listen is only available with "Made for iPhone" hearing aids". However, with the addition of Live Listen in Apple AirPods, millions of people are about to have access to this new technology.
Apple Wireless AirPods As Hearing Aids
Now the apple AirPods have installed Live Listen to technology then there is a question in the mind of lot people which is, Can they be used as the replacement for the hearing aids? The answer is no the apple AirPods cannot take the place of the traditional hearing aids. However, the Live Listen technology may help users to hear more clearly in the noise. The people with mild to severe hearing loss cannot take benefit from the Apple AirPods.
Apple Wireless AirPods Work As a Hearing Aid
Apple's AirPods are wireless headphone which connects with a simple one-tap set-up to the entire Apple ecosystem. When Apple announced the launch last year and thousands of consumers get excited about the idea of turning them into an inexpensive and powerful hearing aid.
People with normal or mild hearing loss use this Fennex app because it helps them to listen to sound smoothly. Investors are claiming to help everyday users to hear better when they need it.
Fennex relies on Apple technology for its establishment because of its high-quality sound and a dual beam-forming microphone system. AirPods are the most technologically advance and most people are using Personal Sound Amplification Product (PSAP).
This is a free app but it charges on certain features. As this app is new. Therefore, the founder of this app Mari says, the app is slated to gain features that will help reduce unwanted noise and feedback.
This app works perfectly fine with wired headphones. However, when it comes to the wireless solution with AirPods, Fennex is just at the beginning of the journey.
However, the app is still in working and providing positive feedback on specific usage. There are also two limitations for mainstream and wider adoptions.
With apple airpods, you can now access multiple features and can enhance your listening experience
Volume Boost: Amplify the sound around you
Balance: Regulate the volume of the left and right speaker
Compression: Apply sound compression to amplify or limit sounds
Sound Presents: Keep or remove high/low-pitched sounds
Equalizer: Adapt treble, mid and bass sounds too, according to your personal hearing preferences
Conversation Focus: Select among 4 different microphones
Fennex app
According to CEO Alex Mari, the company is dealing with an excessive time delay between the recorded sounds and when it's streamed out wirelessly. This latency issue of the app was showing the link between the app and the Bluetooth technology working at present. When Apple AirPods uses Fennex, there was a registration of a 130ms delay. A fraction of a second but still it is very difficult for the human brain to process."
So, it's a complementary and innovative solution that can provide some real benefit to people with some degree of hearing difficulties.
The company has also launched a 2.0 version of this mobile app.
Fennex 2.0 includes new features, such as a simplified user interface and a feature that enables or disables the "hearing correct" function based on results of the hearing test. Overall the company says the update offers "greater personalization of the hearing experience".
How to use AirPods as Hearing Aids
Open Settings on your iPhone.
select Control Center from there.
choose Customize Controls.
Click on the green + button next to Hearing to include it to your control center list.
Now you can turn on the Live Listen feature by opening control center whenever you want to To do this:
Place your AirPods into your ears.
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April 19th, 2010 @ 2:48 PM News
The Bay Citizen, the non-profit journalism 2.0 startup backed by Warren Hellman, has announced its news site will go live on May 26 with actual news.
The project is one of several non-profit journalism efforts in the Bay Area, as local author Frances Dinkelspiel wrote in the New York Times' Bay Area coverage last week.
Formerly known as the Bay Area News Project, the endeavor originally planned to leverage content and staff from public radio/TV behemoth KQED, but the station dropped out of the project early this year. The Bay Citizen then signed an agreement with the New York Times to provide content to the national paper's Bay Area coverage.
The Bay Citizen is inviting Bay Area residents to donate some dough to support community journalism. "Founding members" will be acknowledged on the project's website and will be invited to a launch reception.


The first time Emma Harrison visited Thornbridge Hall, an immense faux-Jacobean pile in the Peak District, she was a feckless teenager on an Outward Bound course with her social worker. But then she turned her life around, made a fortune getting unemployed people back to work and … bought the place. She built a new wing, restored the Victorian fittings and put a herd of wild boar in the woods.
The night before I meet her, Harrison has had a number of performers from West End shows staging an event for charity. Several are still padding around in the kitchen, putting me in mind of the Great Gatsby, whose party guests hung about for ever, eating his food and playing his piano.
It would be easy to point out the contrast between Harrison's glamorous existence – The Sunday Times Rich List estimates her fortune as £35m – and the bleaker lives of her company's clients.
Harrison, 46, is one of the biggest shots in Britain's rapidly growing unemployment industry, one of the few sectors flourishing in these straitened times.
Figures released last week show that 2.5m people are jobless, the highest number for 14 years. Almost 1m of them are young people, a lost generation who may never wean themselves off the state. On the other side of the fence, about 30,000 people are employed in Britain's high street jobcentres, which are themselves affiliated to a myriad of state-supported bodies and private companies, including Harrison's training company, Action for Employment (A4e).
Harrison and A4e should represent the government's best hope at cracking unemployment. Since 1991 she and her thousands of trainers and tutors have taught more than 1m single mothers, redundant steelworkers and former offenders to write a CV, smarten themselves up for interviews and look their potential boss straight in the eye.
In 2008, A4e claims to have helped 20,000 people into "meaningful work". It's not clear how many thousands still have the jobs they were helped into, but several found work at A4e, jobs that are probably more secure than most: the company turnover was £128.5m last year and it has grown quickly, covering whole regions in the UK and extending itself into Australia, France, Germany, India, Israel, Poland and South Africa.
To television viewers, Harrison will be familiar for her appearance on the Channel 4 reality television show The Secret Millionaire, in which she left her palatial home to go undercover as a cleaner in Dagenham and was reduced to tears by it. She can be seen again this week in a new Channel 4 documentary, Benefit Busters, in which the cameras follow A4e staff as they place the long-term unemployed in work.
A group of single mothers in Doncaster overcome problems with drink, childcare and self-esteem to find jobs at Poundland. ("Did you see the transformation?" Harrison asks. "They're better off mentally and financially.") Less happily, a former offender from Hull finds his dream job as a landscape gardener, only to be laid off again a few weeks later.
To keep somebody on benefits costs £30,000 a year, says Harrison, who reaches this shocking figure by dividing the total cost of out-of-work benefits plus associated allowances and dividing them by the number of out-of-work claimants. "That's a bare minimum," she adds, "because there are all the other social costs associated with unemployment: ill health, vandalism and so on." The average salary is much lower: about £24,000. In other words, absurdly, the taxpayer spends more money to keep somebody idle than an employer would pay to get them working.
In this recession, professionals and young graduates are as likely as anybody to be trapped by the system's perverse horrors. If it hasn't happened to someone in your family, it will have happened to someone you know.
I tell Harrison that a close friend has just been made redundant and I've advised him to avoid the welfare state. Reinvent yourself as a freelance contractor, I said.
Not surprisingly, many people resist the disempowering, infantilising effect of "the system" for as long as they can, as the case studies below show. One of the surprising things about the unemployment figures released last week is that while unemployment has increased sharply, the number of people claiming benefits has not risen as much. Some 750,000 people are "missing", much to the consternation of the bureaucrats.
The government suspects that some non-claimants are worried about the stigma or don't know their rights, but it's just as likely that people fear being depressed by the sheer complexity of the system, in which each new state initiative is patched onto the last and nothing can be achieved without endless form-filling.
A4e has been one of the biggest contractors since the introduction of the government's so-called new deal in 1998. The idea behind this was to reduce unemployment by providing support and training, with the threat that benefits would be stopped if "reasonable" employment was refused. However, new deal results have been disappointing: in 2006, a report for the Department for Work and Pensions described the new deal for young people as ineffective, expensive and in some cases even "potentially negative", as clients were referred back repeatedly to the programme for new courses without completing the ones on which they were originally enrolled.
She has not previously spoken publicly about how she came up with A4e's vision, but she hopes that by telling me about it she will prove that it's sincere.
She was brought up in Sheffield by her father, with an older and a younger brother. Her mother kept leaving home to have affairs, then returned for brief periods. "My dad was absolutely gutted," she recalls, and so was Harrison. In her mid-teens, her mother came home with bone cancer and Harrison looked after her until she recovered and left again. Harrison started to play truant and was assigned a social worker, who helped her to get back on track. She went to university to study engineering (even though a careers adviser told her engineering was for men and if she studied it, nobody would marry her).
The business grew ever more successful but she hated to be rewarded for getting "bums on seats" – being paid to train people regardless of whether they got jobs. This was not improving lives. Training is fine, but work provides real purpose, she believed. She became demoralised and argued with her father. Distraught, she gave him six months' notice and walked away from a half-share in the business, which was then turning over £3m a year.
"We fell out for two years and I walked away from my entitlement. That's why it annoys me when people say it's just a slogan," she says.
The reason, Harrison explains, is that the government requires clients to attend new deal courses for 30 hours a week for 13 weeks or they lose their benefits. Thus tutors waste huge amounts of time chasing and checking timesheets, and clients, coerced into attendance, become demoralised. As for the chairs and computers? Contractors haven't dared to invest because until now their contracts have been too short and insecure to make it worth it.
This October the system will change significantly. Under the "flexible new deal", companies like A4e will be paid for getting people into work. They will receive 40% of their fee per head up front, the remaining 60% to be paid only once a client is in a job. (When the economy picks up, the share will rise to 80%.) Even including the successful placement fee, the amount paid will be less than before, at about £1,500 for each client.
Perhaps significantly, the exact contractual terms have not been agreed yet, weeks before kick-off, suggesting intense behind-the-scenes wrangling between the work and pensions department and the private companies which depend on it for work. In return for accepting this riskier financial arrangement, contractors will be given the security of longer tenure.
Think tanks and the relevant Commons select committee argue that the flexible new deal can't work because it's underfunded. They believe agencies such as A4e will cream off the best candidates, take the cash and neglect less promising cases.
The government says there are checks in place to prevent this. But arguably the biggest problem is that the tailored services offered under the flexible new deal are available to most people only after they've been unemployed for a year, by which time they will have become demoralised.
"I was made redundant in August 2008 and signed on. I got a part-time job in a shop, which was very different from what I was used to doing, because I had been a clothing designer.
I spent all my time toing and froing from the jobcentre. They'd told me I could work 16 hours and still claim. But they hadn't explained properly that there was a limit on how much I could earn. The rule was to work under 16 hours, so I thought as long as I worked 15 hours and 59 minutes per week, that should have been okay. But even when I worked 12 hours, on the minimum wage, they said I was earning too much money. I couldn't fathom it. It didn't make sense.
"I was laid off at Christmas. What puts me off claiming benefits? It's pretty degrading having to go into a jobcentre; they're depressing places. I went into Ashford jobcentre once. It was not a pleasant experience: before they would do anything for me they wanted me to fill out hundreds of forms on claiming benefits, which I wasn't desperately interested in doing – my focus was on getting another job.
The other part of it is pride: I've never claimed a penny in my life. I've paid my taxes all these years. For me it would be like giving up, the ultimate admission of defeat. The amount of money you get on benefits is about £65 per week, which is so low as to mean you'd still have to do some work to survive.
"When I lost my job at an Icelandic bank last year, I did think about going on the dole, but I couldn't be bothered to fill out all those forms. I knew that if I signed on I'd have to report to the jobcentre every two weeks, talking to people who had no clue about my line of work yet who were still trying to fix me up with jobs I didn't want to do.
The problem is the people at the jobcentre have never met an architect or a banker and so have no idea who they are dealing with. Thus they are still trying to match up out-of-work professionals with lower-echelon jobs. It just doesn't work – they need people who understand a wider range of jobs. Having said that, in retrospect I probably should have done it as you get your National Insurance contributions, and so it would have been quite beneficial, especially in the first few months, when I was slightly at sea.
In the end, however, I decided to use my redundancy payment to help start up my own cake company. It just seemed a much more positive approach than resigning myself to the dole, plus it left me freer to organise and plan my new business without having to worry about attending jobcentre meetings every other week.
2797 words. First published 16 August 2009. © Times Newspapers Ltd.


Frustrated by the pace of change in banking, King finally became a fintech entrepreneur himself, launching the white-label banking platform Moven.
King portrays a world where banking institutions sometimes view reality through their own "banker filter," reacting to many events as if they are competitive inroads when they are actually much different strategies. One example is Uber's introduction in early 2018 of a Visa debit card for its drivers in cooperation with Green Dot Bank's GoBank brand.


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If any of the above events occurs while receiving 0.7 mg/m2, discontinue therapy.
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