Alex Jones is the center of a great Jewish book burning, in a way which would make Nazi envious.
Just flip a switch and your entire historical collection of work vanishes. Gone forever.
Amazon alone could erase much of human intellectual thought if it so desired.
History itself can now be wiped off the face of the Earth by a handful of individuals.
As this highly lucent blogger professionally points out, the answer to Internet censorship is not to build your own website, that Mastercard, Paypal and the now, thanks to Obama, the UN-controlled Internet Domain Registrar can shut down everything you have spent years building.
Jones was pushed back into the spotlight when Facebook, Apple, YouTube and Spotify all colluded to simultaneously ban Alex Jones from their platforms. Just like that, the entire social media presence, he had spent years building, the social media presence that his business largely depended on, was taken away overnight.
This case and the de-platforming of other right-wing content creators and authors from a variety of social media utilities and payment processors has sparked a national conversation about the rights of corporations and the rights of individuals to access the public square of the 21st century.
You can watch my video where I outline my more extended thoughts on this issue. I'll link it below. In that video, I make the argument that simply saying that the free market will solve everything is not sufficient.
In today's censorship climate it is simply impossible to build free market alternatives to Big Tech platforms and have them be financially viable.
For example, take a look at Free Serve, MakerSupport, or GoyFundMe. All three were free market crown funding alternatives that attempted to break Big Tech stranglehold on the crowd funding market. They did what the conservatives like National Review told them to. They built their own and what happened. They were deplatformed by their card processing company. Making them unable to process payments, effectively shutting down their service. It's the same thing that happened to BitChute recently as well.
"Well, start your own website and collect payments there", people will say.
Sure, you could do that, until Mastercard, yes Mastercard, comes in and cuts off your account.
Build you own website is no longer sufficient.
At the rate things are going, anyone to the right of President Trump is going to have to build their own domain registrar, build their own web server, payment processor, and financial institutions, simply to express their political viewpoints online.
The fact is that Google, Facebook and Twitter all have effective monopolies on different segments of Internet communications.
YouTube is a defacto video sharing monopoly.
Twitter is a defacto microblogging monopoly.
And Facebook is a social network monopoly.
Their market share is so large that they absolutely constitute monopolies. And when they begin censoring people based upon the content of their political speech, as they already have done, that constitutes a grave threat to the American free discourse.
Anyone paying attention can tell you this is happening. And the rational is pretty transparent. Big Tech wants to make sure 2016, the populist election of Donald Trump and triumph of alternative media over legacy media, can never happen again. That's why the censorship is ratcheting up ahead of the 2018 mid-terms and 2020 presidential elections.
Before we get into the Marco-Jones confrontation, let's establish the fact that Marco Rubio may be a Judeo-loving communist liar, parading as a Republican. Marco is so bad, I refuse to even call him a RINO.
From his own mouth, Marco shows his true political colors when he says that the Obama administration did nothing wrong when SPYING on the Trump campaign for the Hillary campaign. No Watergate to see here, so let's MOVEON.org.
Again, from his own mouth. Marco says that his parents escaped Cuba after Castro came to power. This is entirely misleading and backwards. The truth is that his grandparents brought his mother to America in 1956, 4 years before Castro came to power.
I vote for C) because Marco's mother went back to Castro's Cuba 4 times where there was plenty of communist corruption and no economic opportunity at all, but Baptista's capitalism was certainly long gone.
Sure, his mother came to America after Castro's dictatorship, but certainly not because she had any problems with Castro.
The Marco family are Communists and that makes Marco Rubio a Liar!
All this is to show that Alex Jones has Marco's number, and that is why Jones confounded Marco outside the Senatorial offices.
The confrontation at the Senatorial offices was very revealing of the type of mouse Marco is.
Marco feigned total ignorance of who Alex Jones was.
Seriously do I have a First Amendment? Because they are lying about me and trying to deplatform me. 26 companies working in concert, violating the Sherman anti-trust act. Now Senator Warner and Senator Wyden have said there are thousands of sites worst than Alex Jones. So, we're becoming like Cuba, we're becoming like Vietnam, we're becoming like China. So regardless what people think about me or the straw men, should I have a First Amendment, or should these companies be able to violate the whole safe harbor act and all that and ban conservatives enmass.
I don't know anything about your site.
Yeh, I support the First Amendment. I just asked questions about it.
Yeh I know, it was only about China. Are you aware of the deplatforming going on?
My broader concern is that, ah, what we are trying to do is preventing foreign interference in our elections. That technology could be used by authoritarian governments to argue we want you to do the same thing against people that are in our country operating. For example, for them, misinformation would be something like truth. For them, sowing instability would be supporting Democracy.
He's not answering. The Republicans are acting like it's not happening. Thank goodness Trump is.
Oh, there's no purge of conservatives? No shadow banning of members of Congress?
Now, Marco could be a seriously ignorant Senator concerning the guy at the center of this media censorship firestorm, or Marco could be LYING. Since we have already established the fact that Marco as a proven LIAR, then I choose that he is Lying.
Now, if he had not known Alex Jones before, while all the reporters were saying they knew him, an open-minded Senator should want to dig deep for the truth and would have heard him out. But no, Marco Rubio is not one to be swayed by facts likely to change his narrative.
America dodged a bullet by not electing this Jewish puppet who cares more for Israel and communists in his home Cuba and China than for the United States.
From his narrative in this confrontation, you know his "Republican" vote will be to keep all government regulation off the Democrat Internet giant monopolies in the hands of the Democrat Party as shown in the hour-long Google Democrat fan-boy TGIF meeting where they conspired to double-down in throwing the next election, as they thought they had thrown it last time.


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PUP's Art History Class Takes a Field Trip
April 1, 2015 by Tommy Winfrey
A college class consisting of prisoners going on a field trip inside the prison is almost impossible to imagine, but Patten University at San Quentin's Art History class did just that.
Thanks to the generosity of the artists housed inside San Quentin, students were able to view artwork first hand in the prison's art studio.
Kara Urion, Program Director for the Prison University Program, arranged for the class to take the field trip. "I think to be able to utilize the visual analysis skills they learned in class on their peers' artwork is important," said Urion.
The Art History class, led by instructors Mathew Culler, Elizabeth Eager and Grace Harpster, hopes to teach students to "gain a familiarity with the major movements, artists and events in the history of western art since the Renaissance," according to their syllabus.
The art studio in San Quentin used to be named "Arts-in-Corrections," but the program was shelved by the state in 2010 after budget cuts. The art studio was kept open after losing state funding due to work of the nonprofit William James Association.
Recently, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has once again started to fund art programs within prisons by distributing funds to nonprofits such as the William James Association.
Inside the art studio at San Quentin prisoners paint, draw, block print, build dioramas and make music.
"The art was pretty amazing. There was one block print that jumped out at me. I was blown away," said prisoner Eddie Herena after viewing the artwork in the art studio.
One of the art projects that students analyzed in the art studio is a mural that is being constructed and will eventually be mounted on one of the walls in a dining hall at San Quentin.
"We looked at the mural and discussed perspective while comparing different styles that the artists used to create it," said Herena, adding, "We also talked about what the artists were trying to say with their work."
"I was happy to see that our instructor was able to view some of the high-quality art being produced at San Quentin," said student Carlos Flores.
"All of my teachers know what they're talking about. I enjoy listening to them teach because they bring their passion into the conversation," said Herena.
"Arts-in-Corrections was the perfect place for our art history class to discuss how being in the presence of an artwork alters our perception of its meaning," Harpster said. "Material, scale, display context, technique — this all matters in a work of art, whether produced in the 19th century or present-day San Quentin."
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Justice for All. While instances of discrimination towards individuals of various backgrounds have dwindled, discrimination continues to threaten equality within the judicial system. Instances of bias include, but are not limited to, bias towards an individual's gender, race and ethnicity, and sexual orientation. Through the creation of task forces, states have made strides toward eliminating bias in their court system through accomplishments such as increased access to justice, improvement in jury pool representation, promoting diversity in court appointments, providing adequate interpreter services, conducting educational programs, encouraging diversity in law enforcement, and promoting the availability of legal representation for the poor.
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Joan C. Williams, Marina Multhaup, Su Li, and Rachel Korn. You Can't Change What You Can't See: Interrupting Racial & Gender Bias in the Legal Profession.
State by State Guide to Laws That Prohibit Discrimination Against Transgender People. (2010). National Center for Lesbian Rights. This publication is a guide to those state laws that expressly prohibit discrimination based on transgender status, gender, identity, or gender expression.
Judges' Bench Guide on the LGBTQ Community and the Law. (2017). This Bench Guide, for the Washington State Supreme Courts Gender and Justice Commission, is designed to serve as an introduction for jurists and legal practitioners to some of the issues affecting LGBTQ people the most.
Deborah Smith. Women and Girls in the Justice System. (2017). Both the juvenile-justice and adult-criminal-justice systems were developed with men and boys in mind. While girls and women are a smaller percentage of the justice system population, they have different histories and needs that must be addressed.
Blake P. Kavanagh. Trends: Close Up - Women on the Bench. (2017). For the past ten years, the National Center for State Courts has tracked the number of female justices serving in the state courts of last resort. Our data track 53 courts because we include the D.C. Court of Appeals, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, and the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. The most noticeable trend in the past ten years has been the steady increase in the number of courts of last resort whose number of female justices equals or exceeds 50 percent of the court's total membership.
Kate Berry. Building a Diverse Bench: A Guide for Judicial Nominating Commissioners. (2016). The Brennan Center for Justice's new resource for judicial nominating commissioners recommending concrete steps to help increase diversity in our state courts.
The Gavel Gap. (2016). Who Sits in Judgement on State Courts? This full report, authored by Tracey E. George and Albert H. Yoon from The Gavel Gap, analyzes data on the demographics of state court judges in all 50 states. They found troubling differences between the race and gender composition of the courts and the communities they serve.
Gender Fairness in the Courts
INL Guide to Gender in the Criminal Justice System. (2016). This guide to gender in the criminal justice system offers technical guidance associated with promoting the effective participation of women in the criminal justice system and improving capacity within the criminal justice system to promote and safeguard the rights of women in partner countries.
Lynn Hecht Schafran and Norma Juliet Wikler. Gender Fairness in the Courts: Action in the New Millennium. (2001). National Judicial Education Program, A project of NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund in cooperation with the National Association of Women Judges. This implementation strategy manual discusses: key components to achieve and secure gender fairness in the courts, strengthening gender bias task forces and implementation standing committees as vehicles for reform, and integrating gender fairness concerns into court planning and reform initiatives.
Guidelines for Gender Neutral Courtroom Procedures. (2004). The Texas Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism. Contains information on recognizing gender bias, how gender bias is manifested in the courtroom, suggested ways to avoid gender bias, and responsibility for eliminating gender bias in the courtroom (see page 9).
Handbook on Gender Equality in the Courts: A Guide for All New Mexico Courts. (October 2000). State Bar of New Mexico Committee on Women in the Legal Profession and the New Mexico Supreme Court. The combined work of the NM Committee and Supreme Court has produced this guidebook which provides information on identifying gender bias in the courtroom, examples of such prejudice, and suggestions for improving conditions in gender conditions in courtrooms.
Achieving Fairness through Bias Free Behavior. (May 2009). Pennsylvania Interbranch Commission for Gender, Race, and Ethnic Fairness. An informational pocket guide for the courts on promoting non-prejudiced language and behavior by encouraging readers to recognize bias, take important steps to avoid bias, use bias-free language and deal with bias in courtrooms properly and professionally.
Moore, Marla S. Ten Years Later, Did We Make a Difference?: A Review of Gender and Justice in the Courts: A Report to the Supreme Court of Georgia. (2000). This Court Executive Development Program report looks at the recommendations which have been implemented by the 1989 Supreme Court Commission on Gender Bias in the Judicial System.
Washington State Supreme Court Gender and Justice Commission: Promoting Gender Equality in the Justice System. In 1987 the Washington State Legislature mandated the Office of the Administrator for the Courts initiate measures to prevent gender and minority bias in the state court system. The Washington State Supreme Court established two task forces to conduct this work: the Gender and Justice Task Force and the Minority and Justice Task Force.
Video: Women and the Judiciary. (March 2010). C-SPAN At the 2010 midyear meeting of the National Association of Women Judges (NAWJ), United States Supreme Court Justices Ginsburg and Sotomayor, and Lady Hale of Richmond were honored. The honorees spoke about their experiences as judges, the role women have assumed in the legal profession, and the operation of the high court in Britain and the U.S.
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COSCA Position Paper on Racial and Ethnic Fairness. (December 2001). In December of 2001, the Conference of State Court Administrators (COSCA) issued a position paper on the State Courts' responsibility to address issues of racial and ethnic fairness. The COSCA position paper outlines strategies and goals for the judiciary to confront the issue of race and ethnic bias. The sub-topics of this resource guide reflect most of the priority areas outlined in the COSCA position paper.
Eliminating the Barriers and Opening the Doors. (January 2001). Michigan Bar Journal. This article explains the actions of the State Bar of Michigan in conjunction with the Michigan Supreme Court Citizen's Commission to Improve the Courts to decrease the racial discrimination and bias found in the state's judicial system.
Kang, Jerry. Implicit Bias: A Primer for Courts. (2012). This primer was produced as part of the National Campaign to Ensure the Racial and Ethnic Fairness of America's State Courts.
Martin, William E. and Thompson, Peter M. Judicial Toleration of Racial Bias: Introduction. (Winter 2002). University of Dayton School of Law website. Excerpts taken from "Judicial Tolerance of Racial Bias in the Minnesota Justice System." 25 Hamline Law Review. Website contains information concerning race, racism and the law. Includes links to other sites containing similar information.
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Malia Reddick, Michael J. Nelson, and Rachel Paine Caufield. Racial and Gender Diversity on State Courts: An AJS Study. (Summer 2009).
Systematic Inequality: How America's Structural Racism Helped Create the Black-White Wealth Gap. (February 2018). The Center for American Progress.
The Challenge of Peremptory Challenges - Discussion on Race and Jury Selection. Washington State Supreme Court Gender and Justice Commission.
Jawando, Michele L. and Billy Corriher. More Money, More Problems Fleeting Victories for Diversity on the Bench. (October 2015). Center for American Progress. This report examined contested state supreme court elections from 2000-2015, finding that while white judges are re-elected 90 percent of the time, black and Latino judges are re-elected at rate of just 80 and 67 percent, respectively.
Answering the Call for a More Diverse Judiciary. (June 2005). Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Provides a review of state judicial selection models and their impact on diversity.
Willert, Sheryl J., Antoinette M. Davis. Building a Diverse Court: A Guide to Recruitment and Retention. (September 2002). Washington Supreme Court, Washington State Minority and Justice Commission. This guide includes a discussion of why diversity in the court system is a worthwhile goal, how to assess the diversity in your own court, and how to implement initiatives that have proven effective in increasing diversity.
Colorado Judicial Branch Equal Opportunity and Diversity Plan 2002. (February 2002). Colorado Supreme Court. This plan spells out methods of Colorado's Judicial Branch for providing diversity and equal employment opportunity, including the statement of policy, duties and responsibilities of members, communication of the judicial branch equal employment program, and program components.
Diversifying the Bench Guidebook: How to Become a Judicial Officer. (March 2011). The Washington State Minority and Justice Commission. This guidebook is intended for attorneys contemplating a judicial career. It contains information on qualifications, rules and regulations, and the processes involved in seeking an appointment and in running for election to a judicial position. The guidebook also contains insight gathered from a number of judges addressing questions attorneys considering a judicial career often ask.
Diversity Best Practices Guide. (March 2006). National Association for Legal Career Professionals. The NALP has created this guide to assist legal employers to implement diversity strategies and initiatives. The Guide is organized into four topics: (1) leadership, (2) retention, culture and inclusion, (3) professional development, and (4) recruitment.
Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Master Plan. (May 2014). Judiciary of the State of New Jersey. This comprehensive guide includes information on the equal opportunity and affirmative action plan of the New Jersey Courts
Torres-Spelliscy, Ciara, Monique Chase, and Emma Greenman. Improving Judicial Diversity. (2010). New York, NY: Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. This study looks at a sample of ten states and examines the success of states with an appointment system of judicial selection and presents a picture of diversity in state courts. Also featured in the study are responses from interviews with members of state judicial nominating commissions regarding how diversity is taken into consideration during the judicial nomination process.
Resolution Six of the CCJ Access to and Fairness in the Courts Committee. (January 2009). The Access to Justice Committee of the Conference of Chief Justices adopted resolution six on January 28, 2009. Its purpose is to foster racial and ethnic diversity among law clerks in the state and federal courts. Judges may use a free video conferencing system called "Law School Connect" to interview candidates for judicial clerkships. Law School Connect is available at a number of law schools around the country.
Casey, Pamela M., et al. Helping Courts Address Implicit Bias: Resources for Education. (2012.) NCSC, with funding from the Open Society Institute, documented the development and implementation of pilot educational programs on the topic of implicit racial bias in three participating states between 2009-2012. These materials are no longer current, and NCSC is exploring new funding to provide updated educational materials to the court community.
Immaculate perception. Professor Jerry Kang, TEDxSanDiego. (2013.) Professor Kang discusses how our assumption of "immaculate perception" is disproved by a number of tests measuring implicit bias.
Unconscious Bias and Judicial Decisionmaking. Professor Vivian Hamilton, William & Mary Law School. (2017.) Professor Hamilton reviews existing studies of implicit bias in judicial decisions.
Emotional Judges and Unlucky Juveniles. Ozkan Eren and Naci Mocan (2016). The authors analyzed juvenile court decisions between 1996 and 2012 and compared them to the effects of emotional shocks associated with unexpected outcomes of football games played by a prominent college team in the state. The study found unexpected losses increased disposition lengths.
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Houser, Mark. A Jury of Peers?. (July 2014). Pittsburgh Tribune Review. This article delves into the actions of Allegheny County judicial system's attempts to improve the lack of diversity in jury selections, through the discussion of the issue of blacks missing from panels, problems with the system, potential of abandoning "randomness," and examines juries and society.
County to Address Jury Diversity. (February 2003). Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. This article explains the plans of the Allegheny County justice system to start new programs which will improve the involvement and participation of minorities, largely underrepresented in the current system, in area's judicial process.
Gender Bias in Jury Selection. (2001). Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The Final Report of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Committee on Racial and Gender Bias in the Justice System includes a Chapter on gender bias in jury selection; See Chapter 3. The text presents the Committee's investigation into the barriers faced by residents of Pennsylvania, specifically women, when serving on juries in the state; these barriers include access to appropriate childcare, travel accommodations, economic impacts, and the psychological effects of a jury experience.
Holdeman, Rosa. Hispanic Representation in Jury Panels of the Superior Court of California, County of Orange is Unknown.(2009). This report aimed to verify the representation of Hispanics in Superior Court of Orange County jury panels. The results support the recommendation that the court should consider changing its current practice of not tracking the race and ethnicity of summoned jurors.
Racial and Ethnic Bias in Jury Selection. (2001). Pennsylvania Unified Judicial System. Chapter 2 of this report examines racial and ethnic bias in jury selection.
Ronald Randall, James A. Wood, and Robert G. Martin. Racial Representativeness of Juries: An Analysis of Source List and Administrative Effects on the Jury Pool.
Herman, Madelynn. Achieving Fairness Through Bias Free Behavior: A Pocket Guide for the Courts. (April 2005). This pocket guide provides information on recognizing bias, how bias is manifested in the courtroom, eliminating bias, ensuring bias-free communication and behavior, demonstrating respect, neutrality and fairness, institutionalizing fairness, codes of conduct and bias, court or disciplinary cases involving bias, and resources.
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If you are interested in a career in law enforcement with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service there are different options available. You can choose to be a special agent, a wildlife inspector, or a Refuge law enforcement officer. All positions require a college education and weeks of formal training.
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It's these details that make the Greenhouse successful: the original concept is fantastic, but the realisation is consistently strong throughout.
The form of the building is difficult to discern, and essentially consists of a wedge filling the gap made available by two shards of Fed Square. But you get a good juxtaposition of the greenery against the metal walls hugging it, in turn propped against the chaotic background of Flinders Street. The barn-like main interior space is bathed in light at one end, facing the street; up top, it'd be baking on a hot day but wonderful from dusk onwards. It's clear that Fed Square works superbly as a platform for these kind of interventions.
Visiting on a sunny morning in early November, there were only a few people kicking around, but by lunchtime it was pleasingly busy, with a great mix of people ensured by Federation Square (a space that really works for Melbourne now). The City's Rob Adams also deserves credit for fast-tracking it through the approvals processes.
A simple newspaper-format publication explains in more detail, as does the website - which is a little bereft of many images. With that in mind, all my photos of the Greenhouse are collected in a set at Flickr.
The Greenhouse is installed at Federation Square until end-January 2009.
Incidentally, also to be seen at Fed Square this summer are these fantastic Dali-esque melted skateboards.


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I feel bad for the sheep and the frog.
I may think about it.
New OC Genesis! Welcome to the family! I'm so happy that the hair turned out better than I expected.
So glad to see that you did it!
what collar are their eyes?
Mine is a drowning women...Interesting. What killed you?
A slice of toast killed me! ???
Scarlet+Evelyn Fusion. I have yet to draw both characters as I haven't got a reference for either but I will soon.
Are you only supposed to draw one? Or one OC with each version?


Took this a couple days ago … kinda puts me in mind of my favourite artist, Bev Doolittle and her famous "Pintos" painting. The big difference is that I took this shot in 2 seconds and she probably spent two YEARS getting her Pintos just right. Guess that's why she makes $10,000 a painting … and I don't.


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Garcia Marquez, Gabriel.
One Hundred Years of Solitude.
1970. New York: Harper & Row, 1970.
8vo, (8), 422 pp. Original green cloth, dust-jacket (1st state). A little musty and dusty, dust-jacket edge wear and a small tear on the back cover. Generally a good copy as issued but not fine. Ink signature at front "Nancy Gail Schwarz".
§ First edition of the book in English (first published in Argentina in 1967), first state of the dust-jacket. "One Hundred Years of Solitude chronicles the life of Macondo, a fictional town based in part of Garcia Marquez's hometown of Aracataca, Columbia, and seven generations of the founding family, the Buendias. He creates a complex world with characters and events that display the full range of human experience. For the reader, the pleasure of the novel derives from its fast-paced narrative, humor, vivid characters, and fantasy elements. In this 'magic realism', the author combines imaginative flights of fancy with social realism to give us images of levitating priests, flying carpets, a four-year-long rainstorm, and a young woman ascending to heaven while folding sheets" (NYPL Books of the Century 31)." Item #124877
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Northern Eurasia accommodates a variety of hydrological conditions and water bodies. Regions with an abundant moisture supply border on areas with poor water resources such as, for example, the Caucasus mountains and semi-deserts of the Caspian plain or mountains and deserts of Central Asia. Rivers, which are among the world's largest (the Yenisey, Ob, Lena, and Volga) drain the continent; the largest lakes, the Caspian and the Aral, and the deepest in the world (Lake Baikal), which accounts for 20 per cent of the world fresh water resources, are located here. Nowhere in the world do wetlands cover such an enormous area as on the West Siberian plain and nowhere in the world does the development of water resources take place in such an enormous permafrost area as in Eastern Siberia. Another unique aspect is the development of the vast internal drainage basin of the Caspian and Aral Seas. The lack of connection or a weak link to the World Ocean makes aquatic ecosystems extremely vulnerable to human impact. One of the world's most dramatic examples of critical human-induced changes is the modern condition of the Aral Sea. At the same time, due to the remoteness of many regions, especially in the north and in the east, many water bodies remain in their natural state.
Typical of Northern Eurasia is a water regime with powerful spring floods and low winter and summer water levels which develop because of the northern location of the region and continentality of its climate. Because of these factors, river discharge averaged across Northern Eurasia is lower than the world average.
Regular hydrological observations began in Northern Eurasia in the 18th century and by the beginning of the 20-th century a relatively dense hydrological network had been established. This chapter builds on hydrological research conducted by many academic institutions in the former Soviet Union (FSU). It discusses aspects of water balance, the hydrology of the largest rivers and lakes, briefly discusses wetlands and artificial reservoirs, and addresses the issue of human effects on water regimes and quality. Note that data given in the tables and figures may differ depending on averaging periods and methods of measurement and estimation.


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Q: Regular Expression to find hidden fields in html I am looking for a regular expression to find all input fields of type hidden in html output. Anyone know an expression to do such?

A: I agree that the link Radomir suggest is correct that HTML should not be parsed with regular expressions. However, I do not agree that nothing meaningful can be gleaned from their use together. And the ensuing rant is totally counter-productive.
To correct Robert's RegEx:
<([^<]*)type=('|")hidden('|")>[^<]*(/>|</.+?>)

A: I know you asked for regular expression, but download Html Agility Pack and do the following:
var inputs = htmlDoc.DocumentNode.Descendants("input");
foreach (var input in inputs)
{
   if( input.Attributes["type"].Value == "hidden" )
   // do something
}

You can also use xpath with html agility pack.

A: Regular expressions are generally the wrong tool for the job when trying to search or manipulate HTML or XML; a parsing library would likely be a much cleaner and easier solution.
That said, if you're just looking through a big file and accuracy isn't critical, you can probably do reasonably well with something like <input[^>]*type="?hidden"?.


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READ THIS FIRST!!! This story, like all of the other stories written by us, is a fictional parody, we write these fictitious stories for fun and because we can. The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that parodies involving famous people are perfectly and totally legal under the United States Constitution (ruling occurred as a result of the case "Hustler Magazine, Inc et al vs. Jerry Falwell" in 1988).
Basically what we are saying THIS IS FICTON, it is not true, didn't happened and there's a good chance it won't ever happen!
A Chance To Be Crushed
by Kristi (Kristi_aka@hotmail.com) and Frederick "Dice" Casden (diceandkristifiles@yahoo.com)
Backstage during the February 23, 2015 episode of RAW, Lana, wearing a gray business jacket and matching short skirt is casually going through her social media accounts when something causes her to raise an eyebrow, "Give... Truth... a chance?" The Ravishing Russian presses her lips together and manages to suppress the urge to laugh out loud. Reading the trending topic again, Lana smirks, "This will be amusing..."Lana says as she starts to make her towards the catering area where she finds R-Truth, wearing a maroon shirt and black pants, is grabbing an apple. Narrowing her eyes, Lana approaches the former United States Champion from behind, "Ain't it typical of a whining American like yourself to beg the internet nerds to get a underserved opportunity..."
R-Truth turns around instantly after hearing Lana's comments, "Undeserved? Sister, I've been doing what I do around the WWE for a long time, it's time I got a chance..."
Lana smirks, "Maybe you should actually try winning to earn an opportunity... much like how Rusev does... but that would be expecting too much from a typical American..."
"People want me to get a chance, and it was trending world wide..." R-Truth says.
"Shut up..." Lana says firmly, "A little hash-tag trending online doesn't mean you deserve an opportunity for a championship... however... I might give you a chance... to be crushed..." Lana says as she steps forward and firmly grabs R-Truth's crotch before slowly licking her top lip.
"Ahh.." R-Truth's reply doesn't escape his mouth as Lana gives his crotch a squeeze.
"And I do not take no as an answer from an American..." Lana says with her eyes narrowed as she looks at R-Truth.
"Shit... alright.... ahhh..." R-Truth's reply gets cut off as Lana gain squeezes his crotch.
"Good..." Lana says with a sly smirk.
A short time later in Lana and Rusev's private dressing room, a completely nude Lana is on her knees in front of R-Truth and is smoothly stroking his long hard Black American cock, "You are certainly big... for an American..." Lana says as she strokes R-Truth's shaft.
"Ahhh... mmmm..." R-Truth moans as Lana moves her right hand back and forth on his cock before she parts her lips and takes his tool into her mouth.
"Ohhhh mmmm..." Lana moans as she wraps her gorgeous lips around R-Truth's large tool and begins to bob her head on his shaft.
"Ahhhh mmmmm awww..." R-Truth groans as the gorgeous Anti-American Diva bobs her head on at a steady pace on his rock hard black dick.
"Mmmmm... mmmmm..." Lana moans as she places her hands on R-Truth's muscular waist as she easily sucks and slurps on his dick.
"Awww... ahhhhh mmmm..." R-Truth moans as Lana slaps her tongue against the bottom side of his dick as she takes his shaft deeper into her mouth.
"Ohhhhh... mmmm... mmmmm..." Lana drools on R-Truth's large black pole as she steadily sucks his cock.
"Ahhhh awww... ahhhh..." R-Truth groans as Lana sucks and slurps on his cock as she easily swallows every inch of his tool.
"Mmmmm... mmmmm..." Lana moans on R-Truth's large black cock as the head of his dick presses against the back of her throat.
"Ahhhh mmmm...ahhhh..." R-Truth moans as The Ravishing Russian holds his cock within her soothing mouth while slapping her tongue against the bottom side of his shaft.
"Ohhhhh mmmmm..." Lana moans as she slobbers on R-Truth's large black dick as she keeps it fully within her mouth.
"Awww... ahhh... ahhhhh..." R-Truth groans as Lana keeps her lips pressed on his shaft as she tilts her head from side to side to grind them on his tool.
"Mmmmmm... ohhhhh...." Lana moans as she keeps her head lowered on R-Truth's shaft for several long moments before she lifts her head up from it. The Ravishing Russian then rises up to her feet and moves to sit on the dressing room's couch where she spreads her legs, "Come here American... and earn your chance...." Lana says as she motions towards her smoothly shaven cunt.
"Yeah I'm gonna get that chance..." R-Truth says as he moves to crouch between Lana's legs and he places his hands on her gorgeous thighs before leaning his head forward to lap his tongue against her pussy.
"Mmmmmm ohhhhh..." Lana groans and licks her teeth as the black American stud guides his tongue up and down against her twat.
"Mmmmmm mmmm..." R-Truth moans as he laps up Lana's moist pussy as she places a hand on his head.
"Ohhhh yes... mmmm eat that pussy you stupid... hunky American... mmmm..." Lana moans as she moves on the couch and pushes her pussy against R-Truth's talented tongue.
"Mmmmm...." R-Truth moans as he laps up Lana's sweet pussy juices before he moves his tongue against her sensitive clit.
"Ohhhh ahh mmmm..." Lana gasps with desire as R-Truth bats her nub around with his tongue.
"Mmmmm... mmmm..." R-Truth groans as he flicks his tongue against Lana's clit, causing her to squirm on the dressing room couch.
"Ohhhhh ahhhh mmm ohhhhh fuck me you stupid American... fuck me with your big... black... American cock..." Lana groans with desire as R-Truth moves his tongues around her clit.
"Shit I'm not passing up on that chance..." R-Truth says as he lifts his head up from Lana's twat and rises up to where he can guide his cock into her tight snatch.
"Ohhhhh mmm ahhh..." Lana groans as R-Truth invades his dick with his big black American cock before he starts to thrust his shaft in and out of her twat.
"Awww ahhhh fuck..." R-Truth moans as he holds Lana's legs apart as moves his hips to propel his large tool in and out of Lana's Russian pussy.
"Mmmmm ahhhh ohhhh... mmmm..." Lana bites her bottom her lip as R-Truth drives his cock deeply into her pussy with each one of his thrusts as she leans against the couch's back rest.
"Ahhhh ahhh mmmmm..." R-Truth moans as he watches Lana's tits bounce as while he rams his cock repeatedly into her twat.
"Ohhhh mmmm yes... mmmmm fuck me you big... black... ohhh ahhh...." Lana groans lustfully as the former United States Champion hammers her cunt.
"Awwww ahhhh mmmmm..." R-Truth lick his lips as he pumps the full length of his cock into Lana's pussy, not at all caring that she has been the voice of anti-American propaganda on WWE television for nearly a year.
"Ohhhh mmmmm yes... ohhhh mmmmm fuck ahhhh..." Lana moans lustfully with desire as she watches R-Truth's large meaty black cock going in and out of her tight and wet pussy.
"Awwww ahhhh... ahhhh...' R-Truth moans as repeatedly plunges his cock balls deep into Lana's snatch.
"Ahhhhh ohhhh ahhh ohhhh..." Lana licks her lips as R-Truth slams every inch of his cock into her snatch for several more moments before he pulls out of her. The blond haired Ravishing Russian narrows her eyes but smirks as R-Truth forces her to turn around to kneel on the couch. After placing her hands on the back rest of the couch, Lana looks over her left shoulder as R-Truth guides his black American dick between her ass cheeks and into her asshole.
"Ohhhhhhh ahhhhh fuck... ahhhh..." Lana groans as her asshole is invaded by R-Truth's large meat pole while he grabs her ass cheeks to hold them apart as he begins to pump his tool in and out of her anal passage.
"Ahhhh awwww ahhhh..." R-Truth moans as he keeps Lana's rear cheeks separated as he drives his took further into her asshole.
"Ohhhhhh mmmm ahhhh ohhhh!" Lana grits her teeth as R-Truth plows his cock deeply into her asshole, causing her to rock on her knees.
"Ahhhh... awww...." R-Truth moans as he rams his dick deeper into the Ravishing Russian's backside which soon results in his large black balls colliding with her backside.
"Mmmmmm ohhhh ohhhhh fuck me... fuck me with that big... black... American cock!" Lana screams with passion as she is butt-fucked by the Superstar who got #GiveTruthAChance trending world wide.
"Ahhhh... ahhhh mmmmm..." R-Truth moans as he squeezes Lana's ass cheeks while he drives his dick repeatedly into the depths of her anal cavity.
"Ohhhh mmmmm... ahhhhh ohhh..." Lana moans as sweat drips off of her super-model like body while R-Truth pounds her ass with firm and deep thrusts.
"Awww... ahhhh mmmm ahhhh..." R-Truth groans as he slams his dick balls deep into Lana's asshole as she pushes back against him.
"Ohhhh mmmm ohhhh you stupid.... hung... American... ohhh..." Lana cries out with desire as R-Truth hammers her asshole with sharp and brisk thrusts.
"Ahhhh awww mmmm ahhhh..." R-Truth licks his teeth as he slams his large black cock several more times into Lana's asshole before pulling out.
"Mmmm sit down... ohhh you stupid American..." Lana says as after the head of R-Truth's tool leaves her ass.
"Can't wait to see what chance I now get..." R-Truth says with a grin as he proceeds to sit down on the couch.
"Shut up..." Lana snaps as she proceeds to straddle R-Truth's lap with her back towards him and she proceeds to lower her pussy down onto his big black tool.
"Mmmmmm..." R-Truth groans as he places his hands on Lana's hips as she begins to bounce on his cock as she leans back against his chest.
"Ohhhhh ahhh mmmmm..." Lana licks her lips and cups her firm tits with both hands as she rises and drips on R-Truth's big black cock.
"Ahhhhh mmmmm..." R-Truth moans as Lana grinds her twat down on his cock as he starts to thrust it up into her tight Russian pussy.
"Awwww ohhhh mmmm yes... ohhhh..." Lana moans as she rides R-Truth's big black dick, bouncing and rocking on his shaft at an eager pace.
"Ahhhh ahhh mmmmm..." R-Truth groans as Lana's gorgeous ass smacks down against his waist as she rides his dick.
"Ohhhh mmmm ahhh ohhhhh...." Lana licks her lips and tilts her blond haired head back as she rises up and down at a swift pace on R-Truth's cock.
"Awwwww shit... mmmmm ahhhh..." R-Truth moans as he begins to thrust his cock upward into Lana's pussy, causing her to bounce harder on his dick.
"Ohhhhh ohhh mmmmm ahhh ohhh..." Lana gasps whorishly as she continues to rise and drop on R-Truth's vertically thrusting shaft.
"Ahhhh yeah ahhhh mmmm..." R-Truth groans as Lana grins her cunt on his dick each time she drops fully on his shaft while he rams it up into her pussy.
"Ohhhhh ahhhh mmmm ahhhhh ohhhh..." Lana licks her lips as her pussy starts to tighten around R-Truth's large meat pole.
"Ahhhh yeah ahhhh mmmm..." R-Truth groans as the Ravishing Russian eagerly grinds her pussy on his large dick as he keeps driving it up into her.
"Ohhhh ahhh mmmmmm ahhhh ohhhhh ohhhhhh!" Lana moans lustfully as she starts to cum on R-Truth's large black dick.
"Ahhhh shit... ahhhh..." R-Truth grunts while he continues to drive his now throbbing cock up into Lana's pussy as her juices flow over his shaft.
"Ohhhh ahhh mmmm ahhh..." Lana groans as she grinds her pussy down onto R-Truth's shaft before he starts to lift her up off of his dick. The Ravishing Russian escapes from R-Truth's grasp and moves to kneel between his legs on the dressing room floor and grabs the black dick that brought her to a climax and beings to stroke it briskly.
"Awwww ahhh mmmmm..." R-Truth moans as Lana swiftly strokes his pulsating cock.
"Mmmmmm stupid... weak American... I crush you..." Lana says with a smirk as she continues to jerk off R-Truth as she leans her head forward and takes his tool into her mouth.
"Ohhhhh ahhh mmmmm..." R-Truth moans as Lana begins to bob her head on his dick at a brisk pace while she continues to stroke it.
"Mmmmm ohhhh..." Lana moans on R-Truth's heavily throbbing shaft as she sucks and slurps on his cock.
"Ahhhh awww mmmmm..." R-Truth groans as he starts to cum within Lana's mouth as she continues to bob her head on his shaft.
"Ohhhh... mmmmm.... mmmmm..." The Ravishing Russian moans as she eagerly gulps down R-Truth's thick spunk as it floods her mouth for several moments. Once R-Truth is spent, Lana lifts her head from his black dick and licks her lips as she looks up at him, "You had your chance... and you have been crushed...."
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Belief in Witchcraft Leads to Murders in Africa
By Benjamin Radford
While many Westerners think of witches and witchcraft as being relics of the Middle Ages (or relegated to modern tourist traps in Salem, Massachusetts), in many countries belief in witches is common, and black magic is considered part of everyday life.
In Africa, witch doctors are consulted not only for healing diseases, but also for placing curses on rivals (or removing curses placed by rivals). Magic (or at least the belief in magic) is used for personal, political and financial gain.
America, of course, has its own version of witch doctors: the thousands of independent fortunetellers and psychic soothsayers with hole-in-the-wall shops occasionally arrested for scamming desperate or gullible customers. (Their victims are often led to believe that a curse has been placed upon them and that it can be removed with a generous "donation.") While fortunetellers usually do only financial and emotional harm, belief in black magic has led to dozens of murders.
In Tanzania, East Africa, at least 50 albinos (people with a rare genetic disorder that leaves the skin, hair, and eyes without pigment) were murdered for their body parts last year, according to the Red Cross. An albino's arms, fingers, genitals, ears, and blood are highly prized on the black market, believed to contain magical powers. People with albinism anywhere often stand out because of their distinctive features; in a continent of dark-skinned Africans, albinos are often the subject of fear, hatred, and ridicule.
The belief and practice of using body parts for magical ritual or benefit is called muti. (Science fiction fans may recall that muti was featured in the hit South African film "District 9," in which the hero's body parts were sought after by a local warlord who believed that the limbs would give him magical powers. That horrific scene was based in fact, not the screenwriter's imagination.)
The muti murders are particularly brutal, with knives and machetes used to cut and hack off limbs, breasts, and other body parts from their screaming victims—including children. Many of the albinos were beheaded, their heads carefully collected and preserved as gruesome good luck charms or for use in rituals.
While many suspects have been arrested for carrying out the albino murders, so far the persons who commissioned the killings (or offered huge sums for human body parts) have not been arrested. Some believe that because belief in witchcraft and muti is so accepted and widespread in East Africa, police, politicians, and judges are hesitant to pursue the criminals too vigorously. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of African albinos live in fear of their lives, shunned and hated because of the color of their skin. To those who believe in science, albinism is merely a rare medical condition; to those who believe in witchcraft and magic, it is a reason to murder and mutilate the innocent.
Benjamin Radford is managing editor of the Skeptical Inquirer science magazine. His books, films, and other projects can be found on his website. His Bad Science column appears regularly on LiveScience.
Benjamin Radford
Benjamin Radford is the Bad Science columnist for Live Science. He covers pseudoscience, psychology, urban legends and the science behind "unexplained" or mysterious phenomenon. Ben has a master's degree in education and a bachelor's degree in psychology. He is deputy editor of Skeptical Inquirer science magazine and has written, edited or contributed to more than 20 books, including "Scientific Paranormal Investigation: How to Solve Unexplained Mysteries," "Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction, and Folklore" and "Investigating Ghosts: The Scientific Search for Spirits," out in fall 2017. His website is www.BenjaminRadford.com.
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One of the electrical parts in my 1971 that worked was the hazard switch.
Unfortunately, it popped out today (hazards on position) and will not go back in and lock in the off position.
I have searched and read up on the various alternatives - and read that mine is less likely to be repairable than later switches.
My question, however, is about aesthetics instead. My red lens has no writing on it. I do not see any evidence that there ever was any writing on it, but it is possible that if the writing was just paint it could have been rubbed away long ago.
I am just curious if some early Panteras (mine is 1418) had a plain red hazard switch lens with no writing on it. Luckily it looks like I can spin the lens off and put it on another switch (assuming they have the same lens design) if the car indeed came that way.
You're correct- some red hazard switches had lettering and some did not. The lenses all unscrew and can be swapped, as can the knurled retaining rings. Matter of fact, entire switches can be swapped but the switch wiring letter-codes embossed on the back varies. A few minutes work with a VOM can sort them out. That includes ones from FIAT, Alfa Romeo and other '70s Euro cars. I've seen both series of switches and both lettered and plain lenses on various years of Panteras. Many vendors carry new switches.
The early Panteras did not have lettering on the hazard switch. As you discovered, the red lens unscrews; it can be used on the later (lettered) switches.