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Governor signs campus gun bill
Measure expands places where concealed weapons will be allowed in Arkansas
John Lyon Arkansas News Bureau jlyon@arkansasnews.com
LITTLE ROCK — Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Wednesday signed into law a bill allowing Arkansans to obtain permits to carry concealed handguns at state colleges, airports, polling places, athletic events, most state offices and the state Capitol.
Also Wednesday, the leader of the state Senate said he has a bill that proposes changes to the new law.
Hutchinson announced in a morning news conference at the Capitol that he had signed House Bill 1249 by Rep. Charlie Collins moments earlier.
"I am convinced that the public will be more safe. We will have more safety in our institutions and our public spaces," Hutchinson said.
HB 1249 initially sought to require state colleges and universities to allow faculty and staff who have concealed-carry permits to carry guns on campus. Hutchinson said Wednesday that after the bill was introduced, "I said we have to have an enhanced training capacity there (as) an element to it. That was ultimately negotiated and agreed to."
The law creates a second level of concealed-carry permit. Nothing will change regarding regular permits, but a person who completes eight hours of additional training will be able to obtain an enhanced permit allowing him or her to carry guns into several places where they currently are banned.
The law also allows an enhanced permit holder to carry a gun at a bar, church or private college unless signs are posted announcing that guns are prohibited.
The law takes effect Sept. 1, but the enhanced permits are not expected to be available until January. The Arkansas State Police will develop the additional training, which will be given by concealed-carry instructors around the state.
Four of the eight hours of additional training can be waived if a person has completed the regular training for a concealed-carry permit within the past 10 years.
The law will not allow guns to be carried into courtrooms, K-12 public schools, public prekindergarten programs or facilities of the state Department of Correction, the state Department of Community Correction or a building on a college campus where a grievance or disciplinary hearing is being held.
Joining Hutchinson at Wednesday's news conference were Collins, several other legislators who supported the bill, and Chris Cox, executive director of the National Rifle Association's Institute for Legislative Action.
Collins said he believes the law will deter mass shootings on college campuses and said he approved of the changes that were made to his bill in the Senate.
"I think with the governor's leadership, what we've created here is a model which many other states will over time adopt, and hence we won't just be saving lives in Arkansas, we'll be helping people all over the country," he said.
Cox said the bill is "a logical step toward recognizing that people who go through this process and law-abiding people can be trusted, and arbitrary lines that are drawn don't all of a sudden make someone a bad person."
A 2013 law, also sponsored by Collins, allowed college faculty and staff to carry concealed handguns on campus if they had concealed-carry permits, but a provision in the law allowed the schools to opt out, and every school did so. The presidents of the University of Arkansas System and the Arkansas State University System testified against HB 1249 in committee.
UA System spokesman Nate Hinkle said Wednesday, "Our position has always been that we believe a decision such as this that involves the safety our our students is best left to our board of trustees, which has voted continuously to disallow concealed handguns on our campuses at the advice of our law enforcement officials."
State Rep. Greg Leding, D-Fayetteville, whose district includes the University of Arkansas' flagship campus, said the bill signed Wednesday is "far worse" than the original version of HB 1249 because of, among other things, the provision allowing guns at athletic events.
"Sometimes people have a little bit to drink before they go to the game," he said. "I just think it's a really dumb idea to introduce loaded weapons into that situation."
Senate President Pro Tem. Jonathan Dismang, R-Searcy, said Wednesday he has a bill, Senate Bill 724, that would exempt the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and the Arkansas State Hospital from the law and would remove the notice-posting requirement for private colleges.
Hutchinson and Collins said they are open to considering modifications to the law.


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College & university graduates earn 33% more than non-graduates.
** U.S. Dept of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
*** U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. (2011). Digest of Education Statistics, 2010 (NCES 2011-015), Table 188 and Chapter 2 .
Earnings for high school graduates are stagnant at approximately $30,000/yr.
Earnings for non-graduates are currently less than they were in 1970.
80% of high school drop-outs make less than $30,000/yr.
Across North America, a student drops out of school every 16 seconds.
There are numerous reasons for students dropping out, but many of them do so because they are not being academically successful.
Many of them are illiterate.
38% of the children of dropouts live below the poverty line. 14,000,000 children in the U.S.A. and 1.5 million in Canada.
60% of foster children never graduate from high school.
65% of unwed mothers are functionally illiterate.
Illiterate adults more frequently raise illiterate offspring creating a cycle of intergenerational illiteracy.
It costs $20,000 to send a student to post-secondary education, or 4 times that much to keep an illiterate behind bars.
Illiterate individuals have significantly shorter life expectancy. While alive they also use more health care (if it is covered by government health plans).
Non-white North American students start behind in Kindergarten and the achievement gap widens throughout school.
Non-white immigrant students achieve as well or better than native born white Canadians.
Illiterate workers are less trainable, have more accidents, cause more breakdowns and use more sick days than their literate peers.
50+ % of engineering doctoral degrees and 34% of those in the hard sciences, (Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Engineering) during this past decade were awarded to Indian and Asian students.
10 years ago, they stayed here to work, now they are returning home to compete against us.
Until now even when manufacturing went south and east, we could power the economy with innovation. We are quickly losing that advantage and are in danger relying even more heavily on exports of our natural resources to maintain our economy.
Hundreds of thousands of skilled jobs remain unfilled due to lack of suitably trained candidates.
We know how to solve the problem. We have known for almost forty-five years.
We have never had the political will to implement the science that the research has provided in Project Follow Through.
Consumer ignorance: Parents, teachers and students cannot discern effective programs from ineffective ones.
Push back against change: Current stakeholders (unions, colleges of education) do not want programs which will clearly demonstrate progress, or the lack of it.
Enhanced accountability: Effective programs can track progress and enhance accountability at all levels.
If you want to learn more about solving the illiteracy problem, read my blog articles on teaching reading as a start. I will add more articles to cover other basic literacy skills each week.


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Dies ist der Code für die Übungen der Stuttgarter Test-Tage 2017 (http://www.jugs.org/tt2017)

### Szenario

#### Das System Under Test
* Test einer in der Entwicklung befindlichen Straßenlaterne
* Kern der Straßenlaterne soll ein Raspberry Pi sein
* Es existiert bisher keine Hardware, die Software ist bereits in Entwicklung und soll getestet werden

#### Die Testbox

* Für den Test wird ein externer Raspberry Pi herangezogen: Die "Testbox"
* Auf der Testbox sollen tests für die Funktionalität der Straßenlaterne (SUT) laufen: Black-Box Test!
* Die Testbox ist über die GPIOs mit dem SUT verbunden
    * Die Testbox simuliert einen Helligkeitssensor
    * Die Testbox liest das Lichtsignal vom SUT ein

### Aufbau

![Aufbau](./doc/aufbau.png)

#### Schematisch

![Aufbau_schematisch](./doc/aufbau_schematisch.png)

### Die Übung

* Vorbereitet sind Tests in einem Java (Maven) Projekt zu finden unter ./testbox/java
   * mit Eclipse erstellt, .classpath und .project sind enthalten!
* In ```src/main/java/testbox/streetlight/testcases``` befinden sich drei Testfälle für die unten beschriebenen Sequenzen:
    * GPIO_GPIO
    * MQTT_GPIO
    * MQTT_MQTT
* In der Übung sollen:
  1. Die Entwicklungsumgebung "lauffähig" gemacht werden
  1. Die Testsequenzen verstanden werden
  1. **Der vierte Testfall GPIO_MQTT geschrieben werden.**
  1. Möglicherweise weitere Testfälle geschrieben werden (z.B. Sicherheitsapekte abprüfen?)

### Die Testsequenzen

##### GPIO_GPIO
![SequenzGPIO_GPIO](./doc/iot_test_gpio_gpio.png)

##### MQTT_GPIO
![SequenzMQTT_GPIO](./doc/iot_test_msg_gpio.png)

##### MQTT_MQTT
![SequenzMQTT_MQTT](./doc/iot_test_msg_msg.png)

##### GPIO_MQTT
![SequenzGPIO_MQTT](./doc/iot_test_gpio_msg.png)

### Die Tests laufen lassen

* Start der Tests über das Ausführen der Klasse ```testbox.TestRunner```
  * Vom PC aus können nur Tests ausgeführt werden, die keine GPIOs verwenden. Das wird von dem Testrunner automatisch erkannt.
* Das starten der Tests mit GPIOs geht nur direkt auf der Testbox
  * **Achtung: Da wir nur eine testbox haben, bitte in Absprache ausführen!**
  * Zum hochladen der Testsuite gibt es in der pom.xml ein Profil "autodeploy"
    * In der pom muss evtl. die property ```testbox.url``` angepasst werden
    * Es muss folgender Befehl ausgeführt werden (auch intern z.B. über Eclipse/IntelliJ möglich)
      * ```mvn package assembly:single -Pautodeploy```
      * Hier wird ein jar erstellt mit allen dependencies, dieses jar auf die testbox hochgeladen und dann die Tests ausgeführt.

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The neurocognition of linguistic conflict resolution: evidence from brain oscillations, ERPs, and source modelling
Mohr, Sibylle (2012) The neurocognition of linguistic conflict resolution: evidence from brain oscillations, ERPs, and source modelling. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.
The ability to express thought in language, to communicate, and to rapidly
understand who did what to whom is a highly complex cognitive skill and ultimately the cognitive trait that defines us as being human. For the most part, language comprehension runs very smoothly and people perform it extremely quickly and efficiently. One might think this is nothing exceptional, were it not for the fact that everyday speech contains plenty of ambiguities, speech errors, and otherwise conflicting or interfering information. Similar to any other cognitive system, the language system is fitted out with mechanisms that detect conflicts and trigger compensating adjustments
'on-the-fly' in order to make sense of what has been said. Inevitably, language comprehension requires a combination of automatic and controlled processes and, depending on the context, we engage in both to varying degrees. Historically, linguistic conflict resolution has been investigated regarding to what extent linguistic modules such as 'syntax' and 'semantics' contribute to the process. In this thesis I take a step away from the traditional approach towards the question how the mechanisms underlying linguistic conflict resolution fit into domain-general cognition. It has been shown that
controlled processing reliably results in activation of large-scale networks throughout the cortex. Importantly, neuroimaging studies have shown that the crucial brain region that enables us to flexibly make adjustments is the prefrontal cortex (PFC). In this thesis I present four case studies that investigated brain oscillations (as recorded in the EEG and MEG signal) in the time-frequency- (TFR), amplitude-time- (ERP), and source domain to determine how the language system relates to general executive functions. The materials employed structures that are amongst the most well-studied in psycholinguistic research: locally ambiguous garden-path sentences (e.g. "The nurse examined by the doctor was not on duty"), gender-agreement mismatches in anaphora and cataphora (e.g."The king left London after reminding himself/herself about the letter"/ "After reminding himself/herself about the letter, the king left London."), and syntactically complex garden-path sentences ("The receptionist realized that the nurse examined by the doctor was not on duty.").The results in this thesis support the notion that there is indeed a connection between the language system and general executive functions during linguistic conflict resolution. Still, there are also situations where specialized 'modules' perform conflict resolution in a highly automatised fashion, particularly when contextual information sufficiently cues future input. However, as soon as increased uncertainty comes into play
or capacity limits are reached, the brain appears to rely on extremely flexible mechanisms in prefrontal cortex regions.
Linguistic conflict resolution, syntactic garden-path sentences, anaphora, cataphora, Prefrontal Cortex, large-scale networks, oscillations, automatic processing, controlled processing, EEG, MEG
Garrod, Prof. Simon C. and Kessler, Dr. Klaus
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DR. MED. F. SAITMACHER
"Sozialhygienische Betrachtung zu einer
routinemässigen Zirkumzision männlicher Säuglinge"
Das Deutsche Gesundheitswesen Jahrgang 15 Heft 23 Pages 1217-1220 (1960)
Routine Infant Male Circumcision
From the Standpoint of Community Health and Welfare
Translation: R. Stuart
(Introduction : Schoeberlein says "Keil states only 1% and Koester 0.5% to 1%, without giving any references for these figures"on p 376 (28))
Extract from Saitmacher on p.1218
Keil states the frequency of phimosis is 1%. This figure may be correct for extreme cases. However, if one takes into consideration cases where the foreskin could not be retracted without difficulty or pain, it appears too low. We found among our 229 youths that 20 had these problems. This corresponds to a frequency of 8.7%. Among a further 64 examined cases we observed a long extension of the foreskin, which however could be retracted more or less without difficulty (27.6%).
Discussing hygiene: "We must conclude that in 33.2% of the examined cases the preputial area was incredibly unclean" The reasons given were "shyness", "laziness" and that "It was completely unknown to some of the examined boys that the foreskin could be retracted."
. . . R.S. Only 8.7% of these boys had a phimosis. Therefore, it appears, an unawareness of the possibility of retracting the foreskin, is not limited to young men with genital disabilities.


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Maintaining the status quo is an increasingly difficult job. A more informed global public now means that selling war, lying in the media and justifying crony capitalism is met with understandable disdain.
This is a problem for the establishment and the propagandists who work on its behalf.
For propaganda to work, you need people to forget about the last fabrication and quickly move on to the next lie. But what if events begin to overtake official narratives? What if the centre really isn't holding? What if most people increasingly know that they are being duped? What if we are entering into a period that can be now described as The Quickening?
Writer and retired businessman, Mark Brooks, met up with Renegade Inc. to discuss these ideas.
Very slowly, all at once
For Brooks, The Quickening refers to a process that describes the impending economic disaster, a metaphor for which is an always occurring avalanche attributable to a last snowflake:
"Well I suppose it's summed up best", says Brooks, "by the old joke of how did you go bankrupt? And the answer is very slowly then all at once. So something like the 2008 financial crash, for example, appeared to come out of the blue. But of course the things that led up to that were going on for a long time."
The irony of the situation is not lost on Brooks:
"Of course most people going to work, busy with their own lives, just see what's happening on the surface. So they see that the final bit of it. But actually, if you look at what's happening now – financially, politically and also morally – I would argue this system is collapsing", he says.
It's the factors that underpin the system that Brooks is concerned with:
"I question everything. I used to read and comment at the FT – and I'd be reading something else that wouldn't gel with this at all so I would respond and say, "Well how about this? There was a lot of people there who felt similar to the way that I felt but if you pop your head above the parapet the mainstream just comes in and says, "This is rubbish."
Inconvenient truths
Brooks rejects the conspiracy theorist epithet that the above argument implies:
"There's stuff that the government doesn't want you to know about. There's more than one person involved in not wanting you to know about it therefore it's a conspiracy. They're not going to say to you, "Oh we want to start a war in Vietnam," so what we'll do is we'll just tell this guy on the boat that he's been fired at and the captain will say, "Well there's nobody here." They're not going to say, "We did that." They're not going to say, "We set up a false flag."
In order to emphasize his point further, Brooks also highlighted a recently leaked OPCW report. The said report written by an OPCW engineer contradicted the chemical watchdog's official findings in relation to an alleged April 2018 chemical weapons incident in Douma, Syria. The leaked report which Brooks says exposes the "glaring holes" in the OPCWs official line raises questions about political pressure applied by the US, UK and France on the UN body. In Brook's view, this does not amount to a conspiracy theory but is about the intention of the establishment to prevent inconvenient truths emerging in the public domain.
Brook's work, in other words, frequently focuses on the kinds of gaps between the official narrative and the reality on the ground. This is no better exemplified than the Iraq-WMD debacle:
"We had Iraq and people said this whole thing about weapons of mass destruction is rubbish. People knew it was rubbish….The journalists look at a situation like Iraq and they call it a mistake. But I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever that Blair knew [and] Bush knew [that there were no weapons of mass destruction]. And if they had released those phone calls that the inquiry refused to release we would find out that they knew. Which is why they closed down the weapons inspectors inquiry", says Brooks.
The writer and former businessman highlights the pathology that underlies this kind of behaviour:
"Wars don't happen overnight. They're carefully planned. That was planned months, probably years, in advance. So it was inconvenient when the weapons inspectors came along and said, 'No, I'm sorry there are no weapons of mass destruction' but they did it anyway."
The said pathology has its basis in the neocon strategic foreign policy of Full Spectrum Dominance defined by the US Department of Defense as "the cumulative effect of [US] dominance in the air, land, maritime, and space domains and information environment, which includes cyberspace, that permits the conduct of joint operations without effective opposition or prohibitive interference."
The FSD policy discourse was laid out in the Project For The New American Century launched in 1997 by William Kristol, editor of the neoconservative magazine, The Weekly Standard, owned by Rupert Murdoch. Its aim, as outlined in its founding statement, is about shaping the world for the next hundred years according to the interests and values of American free market capitalism.
The logical corollary to the notion of Full Spectrum Dominance, that aligns with Brook's The Quickening thesis, is the concept of eternal war:
"Forever war", says Brooks, "suits the weapons manufacturers, it suits the banks, it suits the neo conservatives who have a very blinkered approach. They want a unipolar situation. This is where politics and economics come together."
Brooks continued:
"If you look at monetary system, money is created from nothing and it's created as credit, as debt. Consequently, because it's debt we have to keep printing more to pay the debt but the people at the bottom of the pyramid are soaked. They can't borrow any more. So it's a huge Ponzi scheme. Now sooner or later it's going to collapse. Alongside that, you've got a military industrial complex which, you know, they get paid per bomb. You have to have a demand for bombs so you have a war and that's what's going on."
Brooks also acknowledges that the media play a crucial role in helping sustain this unholy alliance:
"The way I look at it, there's three sections of [journalists], says Brooks – "there's young rookies who don't really know what's going on, then you've got people who are scared and you've got people who are bought and you've got people who are ideologues. The thing that keeps it stuck in place is that your average person does not want to believe that their government can be that evil…Nobody wants to believe their political leaders are liars."
However, Brooks believes that technology which enables people to access alternative forms of information that reject the establishment narrative implicit to full spectrum dominance, is leading to change.
Ultimately, political and monetary capital rely on trust. When that trust breaks down so does the credibility of an establishment and, with it, an entire house of cards built on foundations of sand sustained by a narrative of deceptions and lies.
"The day you look at your £10 note and you think that's not worth anything, is the day that it collapses. It's all built on trust, on confidence. When that confidence erodes the system starts to wobble. So it's wobbling monetarily, it's wobbling because America can't get its own way", says Brooks, who further illustrates his point with reference to Iran:
"John Bolton wants a war on Iran – there's no secret about this. If you watch the guy's speeches he says things at the end of conferences like, 'I'm sure this time next year we'll all be in Tehran celebrating.' He wanted a war in Iraq, he wanted a war in Libya. There's never been a war that he hasn't wanted. This is the guy who dodged the draft because he didn't want to die in a Southeast Asian paddy field, who's very happy to send other young men and women to go off and do the killing and the dying. The hypocrisy and the lies in the system is rampant", says Brooks.
Shifting consciousness
The extent to which public consciousness has shifted to levels sufficient enough to bring down a existing system predicated on hypocrisy and lies, is unclear. But, as Brooks says, "when it goes it will go very quickly. It's unsustainable. When you've got a monetary system that requires constant debt to keep going and you've got a political system that requires constant war in order to keep itself in place, it has to collapse and it will collapse. Rome collapsed. The Soviet Union collapsed. And psychologically they all collapse in the same way."
"There's this huge denial and the politicians do crazier and crazier things. Media like The Guardian are in denial over Syria, they're in denial over Julian Assange and they blindly accept that Assad has gassed his people. The Syrian Arab army are on the verge of ridding al-Qaeda and all the other alphabet terrorist groups that we have there – they're on the verge of a major victory. The only thing that can stop that is a massive intervention from the Americans. So I'm Assad and I'm sitting there one day and I think, I'm on the verge of this victory. I know. I'll gas my own people. I don't need to do that but I'll gas them anyway because that way the Americans will bomb us and that'll be great. The media don't think, they don't challenge, they won't tell the truth."
The nature of the reality of war is a case in point. Young people denied mental health treatment, who are barely able to function, have killed themselves shortly before being deployed to Iraq. "We've got John Bolton who dodged Vietnam before confessing that he didn't want to die in a Southeast Asian paddy field. Bill Kristol and other neocons are gung ho for war and these draft dodgers are sending kids off to go through that", says Brooks.
God given right
This kind of 'chicken hawk' autocratic mentality is often justified by the powerful on the premise that they have a god given right to act in this way on the basis of what they perceive to be the 'greater good'. Brooks argues that it is the media who are mainly responsible for this state of affairs because they perpetuate a fabrication:
"The responsibility of what used to be called the Fourth Estate, is to speak truth to power. "
"The Guardian's idea of speaking truth to power is speaking truth to Putin, regurgitating what the government says to Putin but that's not the power they need to be challenging, they need to be challenging their own governments", says Brooks.
The writer pin-points the reasons why the media has lost it's way:
"I think CNN is bought and paid for. The Times is bought and paid for – it regurgitates whatever Murdoch wants. The Guardian was a busted flush when they wouldn't print Pilger anymore. John Pilger is unwanted at The Guardian. They won't touch him. Now he's a real journalist in the sense of the definition of the Fourth Estate – he speaks truth to power, he speaks truth to his own side. So they won't print him because they know he's going to question the Syria narrative, he's going to question what they're saying about Russia, Iraq, wherever the West is meddling he's going to question it."
Brooks adds:
"I think only partially tongue in cheek – they work for MI5 & MI6. They never question anything that emanates from our security services… I mean these are spies, they are paid to lie about stuff but our newspapers present it in such a way as you're supposed to believe Russian spies lie and our spies tell the truth. Right."
Brooks sees hope for the future in the form of the gilets jaunes (yellow vests) movement:
"That's fantastic. And it would be even more fantastic if the BBC or our media covered it. But that is fantastic because they're not all the same political persuasion. They're different ages. You've got kids. There's different cultures, there's different nationalities involved. You've got the old people who can't go on the marches so they camp on the roundabouts. So yeah. It's fantastic. I mean there's a list of things that they've said this is what they want but essentially this is a backlash and it's not surprising that it's happened in France. I can remember Paris in 68 when the students came out and said, 'No, Vietnam is wrong.' And I think there is a spiritual awakening because this is people saying, 'No we're not going to take this lying down.'
The said awakening embodies an understanding of the systemic, structural issues at play – a feature, for example, that Marxist economics professor, Richard Wolff acknowledged –is often missing in a country like the United States.
Doubling down
However, at the point at which fundamental awakenings do gather pace, is correspondingly, the point at which the establishment tends to double down. In the view of Brooks, this takes the form of an increase in the use of control mechanisms:
"So we see in France at the moment, the police are more brutal. There are a lot of people that have lost limbs and eyes and been very severely damaged. We don't see that on the news but that's happening. People want the truth. People are sick of being lied to", says Brooks.
The writer and former businessman likens capitalism to a disease:
"As Richard Wolff says, it's a systemic thing where you've got a monetary system that's geared for the banks and for corporates. That's what we might call capitalism. Then you've got a military-industrial complex that needs war. Then you've got the third leg of the stool – politicians who are bought by one and two. Then a media that is complicit with all three of them. You could call that crony capitalism, you could just call it capitalism. That is the thing that's going to collapse."
The Emperors New Clothes
Brooks predicts that the said collapse will morph into something else akin to the story of The Emperors New Clothes – a narrative that ultimately draws parallels with Brook's The Quickening concept:
"There's a dynamic involved here", says Brooks. "In that story, everybody in the crowd knew that the emperor was naked but it took a little boy or little girl – I can't remember which – to say, 'Why has he got no clothes on?' After the initial attempt to hush it down, everybody went, 'Yeah, he's got no clothes on'. So I think it happens at the crowd level but also at the level of the individual. Eventually, it becomes something called common knowledge, i.e I know that you know that I know."
Given that the logical extension of such a notion is the recognition that in order to address the problem you first have to identify the factors that cause it, "The Quickening", says Brooks, "is a piece about hope."
"Having identified the problem", says Brooks, "we can sit down and we can say, 'Right. Okay. How do we want this to be? How do we want to conduct our foreign relations? How do we want to do our banking?' There has to be a period where we sit down as a society and say, 'What do we want.' At that point though the people – the powers that be – to use that old cliché – are going to have a very strong idea of how they want it to be. They don't want you having an opinion that's different because when you're sitting at the top of the pyramid and you control governments, the finances and what the population thinks about some guy in Libya, you're not just going to give that up."
In other words, in Brook's view, power is never given it's always taken.
The problem in relation to who takes power for the next cycle after the dust has settled following the collapse of the existing system, stems from the current democratic deficit, which as Brooks acknowledges, is "driven by a hidden agenda":
No truth in lies
"You can't have a conversation about the truth when all you're dealing with is lies", says Brooks. The writer points to the example of the treatment meted out to Julian Assange:
"There is a majority of the people in this country who if they were aware of it and engaged with it would be absolutely appalled by what the government is doing to Julian Assange. They've locked him up in Belmarsh prison – our Guantanamo Bay – which is full of murderers, rapists and terrorists. They've denied him medical attention. You've got the newspaper saying, 'We'll send him to Sweden, ship the problem over there.'
Brooks concludes:
"Essentially what's going on is he's upset the American government telling the truth about their war crimes. That's the beginning, the middle and the end of what's going on here. I agree with what Pilger says about him that he is a journalist who – in fact, you don't even need to call him a journalist – he's a human being who has made a personal stance and he has said, 'This should not be happening. It's happening because nobody knows about it and the only way to stop it is to actually publish it and be transparent about it.' So he's doing mankind a great service."
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The New Build House of Cards
When bosses of house building companies receive hundred million pound bonuses to perform a basic commercial role you know something has gone badly wrong with our economics and also with our governance. When they can't provide quality products or decent customer service you also realize that something has gone badly wrong with their business model.
Government subsidies like 'Help to Buy' have gone straight from the bank accounts of home buyers into the pockets of homebuilders whilst keeping house prices artificially high. Designer and CEO of Open Systems Lab, Alistair Parvin and engineer and home buyer, Paul Smith joined with Renegade Inc. to help people navigate this new build house financial racket.
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Help towards chaos
Paul Smith is a 'Help to Buy' new build home owner. His terrible experiences at the hands of developers are indicative of the kind of problems encountered by many other UK home owners:
"Right from day one, we've had everything from the usual snags through to larger, major defects", says Smith. I have a chimney that appears to have mortar falling out of it that sits conveniently over my neighbor's back door. It has never once been structurally investigated up close. I also have [significant] drainage problems, subsided pipes underneath my floors and drains that are violating building regulations in both the front and the rear gardens."
Smith says that the issues he faces are compounded by similar problems experienced by his neighbours, resulting in everything from cupboard doors and toilet seats falling off, up to more serious problems such as the lack of working drainage. In relation to the latter, Smith and his family have had to abandon the house. "It's been a mental, physical and financial hell", exclaims Smith, who adds:
"I've had to fight this with legal teams. I've had to uncover and use my engineering background to determine that what appears to be a mundane problem, actually goes a lot deeper. This is like an onion, peeling layers upon layers of problems to find more problems.
How can I be living in a house without building regulations or building controls agreeing that the house is build worthy or fit for habitation? I don't know how that can happen.
The notion that members of the public who use government subsidies to buy a home only to learn subsequently that the said homes are unfit for human habitation, is a major scandal. Smith raised the above issues with the house builder but ultimately his concerns were met with deaf ears:
"In the beginning they were cooperative. They were appearing to be supportive. But as you find the more deep rooted problems and look deeper and deeper, they tend to step away and don't want to get involved.
Their preferred 'solution' is a quick fix:
"They want to walk away from the problem as fast as possible, as cheaply as possible without any recourse and without anybody else finding out", claims Smith.
Plausible deniability
The reluctance on the part of house builders to accept blame for faults and to push problems down the line raises the question of liability:
"I believe it's in their best interests not to publicly admit there is a problem...Plausible deniability comes to mind"
"If you're unwilling or you decide that you're not going to agree that there is a problem then you can plausibly deny that you need to fix the problem",
Smith's predicament is more widespread than perhaps is generally acknowledged:
"I know that there are substantial amounts of people just within my immediate vicinity that are unhappy with their house and the way that the developer has handled the situation. And that is purely just on my doorstep. I also talk to a variety of different people on Twitter. I can see that the problem is huge. And this is not one particular developer, it's across the board", says Smith.
Architect and CEO, Alistair Parvin, commented on the problems Smith and others face within a wider socioeconomic and political context. The mutually-beneficial relationship between house builders and developers presents its own set of conflicts that appear to work against the notion of the construction of good quality homes:
"We have a public and political misunderstanding of what these [house building and property] companies do. A lot of that is rooted in the fact that we call them house builders despite it not being their business model", claims Parvin.
A more apt term for them is contracts management companies in as much as their role is to maximize their profits.
Building good quality housing is not concomitant to a neoliberal business model predicated on maximizing profits. Thus the former is regarded as an inconvenience.
Parvin explains:
"Their business (trade) model - the role for what they are employed to enact - is to buy land and sell it for more than they bought it for. If they have to build a house in order to sell it, they're selling it to the mortgage market. If they have to build a house that's an inconvenience, what they can do is capture the land value uplift - brought about by planning permission or new infrastructure or whatever it might be, or just rising house prices - and then just sell it on without even building any homes."
This "optimum outcome" is one of the features of an high inflationary housing and land price bubble which is at odds with the needs of society beset by huge swaths of homelessness - one of the contradictions inherent to neoliberal capitalism previously referred to. The 'assets' thus accrued are, as Parvin suggests, tantamount to a "form of wealth that comes at a huge cost on businesses; the cost literally on all of us which is the rising rents and our mortgage payments going up."
Human and social costs
Then there are the human and social costs which people like Paul Smith are bearing the brunt of:
"[Rather than having to move my family in the middle of the night]...I would [as an engineer], much rather be spending my time doing constructive things", says Smith, who adds, "I don't feel that me snagging a house that should have been built properly in the first place is constructive."
Smith adds:
"Why am I in a position where I have no building regulations and why is my house not signed off as habitable by my local authority a year down the line?"
Parvin interjected by emphasizing the insurance angle:
"No insurance company is just going to say, 'Oh you got problem, here's the money' It's not that easy. Fundamentally, if that system is working properly you should be able to say, 'Oh here's a defect, here's your money' and then when that becomes chronic there should then be pushback on the house builders. But clearly, something in that system is not working correctly", says Parvin.
Unlocking land values and capital lift
Could it be the case that the warranty is another instrument to enable the unlocking of land values to thus allow capital uplift? This could explain the lack of building regulations. Paul Smith believes that warranty is being used in place of building regulations "in a lot of cases." How do my neighbours have completion certificates eight months after they moved in? That shouldn't happen", claims Smith.
Perhaps even more pertinently, why is the government allowing this to happen?
Alistair Parvin adds some insights by relating the question back to the issue of land price inflation. Parvin rhetorically asks:
"What usually happens to a government if there's inflation going on? It's considered to be a governmental failure that needs to be reined in - usually by some means of taxation. Land is this weird exception where we don't do that. We started counting it as growth", says Parvin, who adds:
"Now not only did that happen but then... so you have this situation where... coming up to the 1990s and through the 1990s governments had this dilemma which is do we rein this inflation in or do we let it continue but try and sort of tax some back and redistribute it. Guess which option they went for? So most developed countries in the world run on this model called the developer contribution system. You might have heard of 'affordable housing' or 'Section 106' and things like that."
"But one of the problems of this", says Parvin, "is that essentially puts local and national governments in a position of creating a land speculation market which nobody really asked for. The speculators didn't ask for it and actually the people working in government didn't really asked for either. But nevertheless, it created a situation whereby we have become dependent on these companies. And there is also a certain level of intellectual capture going on."
Here, Parvin returns to the contradictory nature of neoliberal capitalism:
"One of the great ironies of the system is the difference between if a house builder made their money by building houses and selling them they would build as many as they could as quickly as they could. As we all know, and as the Letwin review superbly articulated, that's not how it works because there are land speculators. What they do is they build and trickle them onto the markets to make sure they keep prices high.
They will never build the quantity or the quality of homes that Britain needs because it's not in their business model to do that. And yet we're locked into this dependency on that model to do the very thing that it doesn't want to do.
Parvin continues:
"And that goes into our language of the use of the term, house builder because as house building supply gets thinner and thinner and we can't build enough houses, ministers say, 'Oh right, we need more houses. Who builds more houses? The house builders. So let's give them more subsidies'. And so we get trapped consuming the same poison thinking it's medicine."
Dealing with the devil - the insider outsider dichotomy
The prevailing orthodoxy described is sponsored by two parties - the government and the electorate. In this sense, "it's one of the few topics in which we are genuinely all in together", says Parvin. The reason why a deal with the devil exists of a kind that prevents the emergence of a genuine property-owning democracy, is because the prevailing orthodoxy reflects the classic insider-outsider dichotomy.
Alistair Parvin explains what this means:
"Basically the people on the inside never want to change anything and the people on the outside don't have enough power to change anything. Now that's actually what's interesting, is that's changing, we're seeing this massive generational shift. So actually throughout the 1990s/2000s everybody, not just the Daily Mail but even the BBC, would report on rising house prices as a 'boom'. Around 2013 that began to switch and there was this massive shift in public opinion to the point that now even the Daily Mail will talk about house price inflation as a bad thing."
"And what happened is actually it wasn't that suddenly a whole load of people woke up and realized, 'Hold on a minute this is killing us all. Nobody benefits from this on the long run. It's just the private sector tax on our lives.' No, what happened is the baby boomers realized they couldn't help their kids and so there was this generational inside outsider problem that was happening."
But alongside this realization, are the various causal myths relating to immigrants and overpopulation. Parvin acknowledges that the issues are more complex than that:
"I very much have a strong affinity with the notion that land values could replace most taxes. The economist, Henry George advocated a land value tax - the one thing that privately every single person agrees with and yet everybody says will never happen."
"We have", says Parvin, "a kind of transition problem related to the inflated value of land primarily driven by debt which represents more than half of the UK's net wealth".
Parvin outlines the complexity of a situation that everybody appears to be locked into:
"Even if a very progressive government got into power tomorrow, they'll be faced with a dilemma - an all moves lose situation. They know they can't allow land prices to keep inflating forever because society and the economy will break. But equally, nobody wants to be the party that causes half of the value of the UK's wealth to be wiped off our balance sheet overnight ...We have to look for smarter solutions."
Parvin adds:
"Most governments in recent years have had to play this weird double handed game where on the one hand they have to make announcements that look like they want to alleviate the housing crisis. But in fact most of the main policies being introduced were actively designed to do the opposite, to keep land prices high. 'Help to Buy' is the most obvious example of that. So when it kicked in in 2013 you can see house prices [and profits] started to kick off again."
The ghost in the machine
The economic abstractions described of a kind in which Churchill envisaged land markets as the mother of all monopolies, bring to the fore questions relating to the nature of the real economy, who benefits from its rigging, who the real wealth creators inside the machine are and what the economy is based on?
"We're told the economy works on the basis that wealth is primarily created by businesses investing in jobs and the businesses that make things. But if you actually look at the UK economy that's a relatively small part of it. We have a significant service economy.
"But primarily the main driver of land has been effectively allowing the private capture of land value uplift"
The problems are systemic. Perceived victims of house builders are more pertinently victims of financialization because they are deemed to be an obstruction to debt vehicles which are needed to drive Q1, Q2 profits. In other words, individuals like Paul Smith who speak out, are seen as an inconvenience.
The more people like Smith expose things, the more they get pushed back:
"I've had everything from being told not to go to residential meetings through to letters that are designed to scare me. I'm not going to be scared by them", says a defiant Smith.
End of the road?
According to Alistair Parvin, people inside the house building industry are aware that they are running into a dead end. They understand more than government policymakers how the system works and are clear that the generation of huge profits and bonuses are entirely driven by government subsidy and that the money was entirely "Help to Buy".
"They know that this model can't go on forever because", says Parvin, "eventually you run out of stuff to mine... You can pursue things like class action lawsuits etc but I actually think maybe a more interesting way to approach this is begin to say, 'Well if everybody is beginning to realize that this is a system that's running into a dead end, can we begin to design a different land and housing system that is investable; that is scalable; that can exist alongside the existing one as a kind of lifeboat.'
Parvin continued:
"We've started to explore ideas around this. We published a paper called, 'Affordable Land'. You can go find it at www.opensystemslab.io/affordableland, where we've set out one particular idea which is essentially inventing a new form of home ownership. But I'm sure there's many others. I think that's probably a more productive way. Let us collectively, as a nation, begin to transition ourselves into a new house building and land economy."


As the world struggles with setting up regulations for blockchain and cryptocurrencies, China has made major strides in blockchain application. It is one of the countries with the highest number of blockchain innovations and cryptocurrency users.
Through a government bulletin on 25th March 2019, local authorities in Jiangsu Province hinted at considering blockchain technology adoption as an option in implementing the 'Promotion of Transportation Infrastructure Development' plan. If successful, it will be one of the largest projects to implement blockchain technology around the globe. The project will see a major overhaul to freight and passenger transport network in the province to increase efficiency and also reduce pollution.
The Application of blockchain technology in China is nothing new. Actually, China has been at the forefront in championing the use of blockchain technology in mega projects. Apart from being the world leader in having the largest number of blockchain patents, cooperates as well as state agencies have adopted blockchain technology in a number of projects and they seem to be very successful.
Over recent years, we have seen Aerospace Information Co partner with Alibaba, a giant retailer, in a quest to enhance blockchain development. Also, Shenzhen adopted the use of blockchain network in its electronic subway invoicing.


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Ranking and grading every match at WWE TLC 2020
WWE TLC 2020 was a wild pay-per-view.
Divesh Merani
TLC was a great pay-per-view and every match delivered, but what was the best one?
Almost every WWE pay-per-view in 2020 has been a success.
So, that does it. A year's worth of WWE pay-per-views is finally in the books, with the last one being TLC. It may have only featured two matches based on the titular stipulation, but the show was filled with great wrestling, memorable moments, and a truly shocking ending.
There were only six matches on the main card at WWE TLC, all of which delivered spectacularly. Some of them provided good in-ring action, while the others provided moments. Either way, TLC was a very memorable affair. It might be among the greatest WWE pay-per-views of the entire year.
Every match at WWE TLC 2020 delivered
As has been the case more often than not in recent times, WWE did not put on a single bad match on pay-per-view. TLC joins some other top class efforts from the company during the ThunderDome era as a true creative success. It may have been predictable at times, but you wouldn't know it while watching in a bubble.
With all six matches on the main card offering something good, here is every match at WWE TLC 2020 graded and ranked, from worst to best.
#6 Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler vs. Asuka and Charlotte Flair (WWE Women's Tag Team Championship)
BOW DOWN ONCE AGAIN.@MsCharlotteWWE is BACK looking for WWE Women's #TagTeamChampionship gold! #WWETLC pic.twitter.com/nJSVr6vhBM
Put at the bottom of this list simply by default, Charlotte Flair's return match was pretty solid. She made for a great partner to Asuka, with that pair taking down the mighty Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler at TLC. The match kicked off with the nice surprise of The Queen's return, but it was quickly back to business.
This match did well in establishing Flair as the biggest star in the women's division, as she went through Jax and Baszler with all of her big signature moves. Asuka did a good job at complementing her in this match, but it was mainly the Charlotte Flair show.
The former Tag Team Champions' period of dominance may have dragged a bit, but it was made up for by the fire shown by Charlotte Flair. She and Asuka are now the WWE Women's Tag Team Champions, which makes for a very interesting dynamic. Asuka is now a double champion following TLC.
We missed seeing @MsCharlotteWWE doing what she does best.
(via @WWEUniverse) pic.twitter.com/BjJsaM7ouS
— WWE on FOX (@WWEonFOX) December 21, 2020
The ending sequence was pretty fun as well, with all four of them being involved in some way. This was one of the best matches Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler have ever had as a duo, with it being much better than it would have ever been had Lana remained a part of it.
WWE TLC 2020 The Hurt Business Drew McIntyre Roman Reigns


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Retailers need their stores to thrive. This can be achieved by tapping into the workforce and leveraging their associates to help transform stores into omnichannel destinations and help achieve growth.
Today, retailers are challenged by digitally empowered shoppers who instantly search Google and other shopping engines for everything they need to know about products, prices, recommendations and store locations. For these shoppers, digital shopping is quick and easy, and fulfillment gets cheaper and faster every day. With foot traffic falling in a multi-year slide and comparative store sales chronically sluggish it is not surprising that stores feel embattled. And for stores to thrive, retailers must tap into their workforce and look to leveraging their associates to help transform stores into omnichannel destinations and help achieve growth.