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Sometimes I just want to tell lawmakers to shut up and host a hackathon.
You can almost see it: Legislators, business leaders and consumers huddled over laptops, not one in a suit, coffee cups everywhere.
Their task: Make a law regulating new technology that makes sense. The condition: It can't be an amended version of some tired law.
It's a stupid fantasy. I know that. Technology moves fast, for good reason. Policy moves slow, also — sometimes?—for good reason. I don't envy anyone who has to make such mismatched forces work together.
But when booming transportation services hold their umpteenth survival rally at City Hall (see this story about today's Lyft event) and the world's most advanced electric automaker faces legislation that would shut it out of one of the country's greenest states (that's this story about Tesla daring to dodge the dealer system), you start to lose your patience.
Things are getting weird. Let's figure this out.
One of the more fascinating consequences of this tech policy clash is how closely the companies caught in the middle begin to resemble social causes, complete with rallies, protests and appeals to universal philosophies.
It's awkward, but it's working.
"With your help, we'll continue to empower a movement that demonstrates how community can solve the greatest challenges of our time," read an email inviting Lyft users to a Seattle community meeting last August, four months after the company launched here and one week before the Seattle City Council was set to discuss the fate of ride sharing.
Since then I've seen a half-dozen other emails from the company looking to enlist me in its fight. And just recently, letters urging new thinking ahead of Friday's Seattle City Council vote have gathered the support of various Seattle tech and industry leaders.
Lyft has figured out that the best way to lobby legislators is through the public, which says a lot about the public. Catching a cheap front-seat ride with a couple taps is a Cool New Thing. And in the age of at-your-service smartphones, people have little patience for laws that threaten their ability to do Cool New Things. Plus, the values of the sharing economy are an easy sell.
But nobody wants this to go on. Businesses need to be businesses, not causes. And customers want to be customers, not activists.
It's not fair for one set of companies to be burdened by regulation—or protected, depending on your perspective—when another set of companies isn't. In that sense, taxi drivers are right to gripe against ride sharing companies like Lyft, UberX and Sidecar. And vice-versa.
But the solution isn't to write the new players into the rules of an old game. It's to anticipate what the game is becoming and write laws that help all the players. Above all, the consumers.
I'm no policy wonk. That just seems like common sense.
Hope came last week in the form of a bill introduced to the Washington state legislature. After months of government head scratching and local proposals that get mixed consumer reviews, at best, legislators are recognizing a need to take a step back.
"The legislature finds that Washingtonians are early adopters of technology and have come to rely on services provided by mobile application-based personal transportation services," reads the bill, which would rethink the regulatory framework around transportation services.
But even when it means well, policy is SLOW. If the bill manages to pass as written and work as planned, it would revise regulations by the end of 2015. That's an eternity in techland. Does catching up need to take two whole years? What happens in the meantime?
With Tesla the issue seems more clear cut. What? Tesla can't open new stores in Washington because it sells directly to consumers? Come on. No.
"Tesla's embrace of a direct, open competition sales approach is exactly what we say we want from old style, traditional industries to survive—innovation, creativity and an entrepreneurial spirit," Rep. Reuven Carlyle told GeekWire in response to two proposals that would stunt Tesla's growing presence in the state.
I suppose at the end of the day, the future is inevitable. If Tesla and ride sharing companies are all they say they are, then the world is going to accommodate them and that's that.
The only question is how much nonsense we'll have to put up with in the meantime.
We can write our legislators. We can say our piece.
There's no reason to put up with any more.


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Mumbai: In an extremely rare case, a 29- year-old man, who had sought cure for infertility, was found to have non-functioning female reproductive organs including the uterus.
Doctors at the government-run JJ Hospital operated on him last month and removed the unwanted organs.
The condition is so rare that so far only 200 such cases have been found, said Dr Venkat Gite, head of the urology department at the hospital.
The surgery was carried out on June 26 under Gite's supervision.
"We removed a non-functional womb (uterus), fallopian tubes, cervix and partial vagina from his body. His recovery is good," Dr Gite said.
"As per my information, so far only 200 such cases have been found. This condition is called Persistent Mullerian Duct Syndrome," he said.
"The body scan showed that the patient's testes were still in the abdomen. There is a surgical solution for this.
But when we started the operation, we found a uterus-like structure inside," Gite said.
"MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scan showed that he also had parts of other female reproductive organs such as fallopian tubes, cervix and vagina," Gite said.
Though the surgery was a success, the man would not be able to have children as he suffers from azoospermia, where the semen contains no sperm, the doctor said.
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Advances in Behavioral Finance
Richard H. Thaler
Russell Sage Foundation, 1993
Library of Congress HG4515.15.A38 1993 | Dewey Decimal 332.6019
Modern financial markets offer the real world's best approximation to the idealized price auction market envisioned in economic theory. Nevertheless, as the increasingly exquisite and detailed financial data demonstrate, financial markets often fail to behave as they should if trading were truly dominated by the fully rational investors that populate financial theories. These markets anomalies have spawned a new approach to finance, one which as editor Richard Thaler puts it, "entertains the possibility that some agents in the economy behave less than fully rationally some of the time." Advances in Behavioral Finance collects together twenty-one recent articles that illustrate the power of this approach. These papers demonstrate how specific departures from fully rational decision making by individual market agents can provide explanations of otherwise puzzling market phenomena. To take several examples, Werner De Bondt and Thaler find an explanation for superior price performance of firms with poor recent earnings histories in the tendencies of investors to overreact to recent information. Richard Roll traces the negative effects of corporate takeovers on the stock prices of the acquiring firms to the overconfidence of managers, who fail to recognize the contributions of chance to their past successes. Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny show how the difficulty of establishing a reliable reputation for correctly assessing the value of long term capital projects can lead investment analysis, and hence corporate managers, to focus myopically on short term returns. As a testing ground for assessing the empirical accuracy of behavioral theories, the successful studies in this landmark collection reach beyond the world of finance to suggest, very powerfully, the importance of pursuing behavioral approaches to other areas of economic life. Advances in Behavioral Finance is a solid beachhead for behavioral work in the financial arena and a clear promise of wider application for behavioral economics in the future.
Advances in Bistatic Radar
Nicholas J. Willis
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2007
Library of Congress TK6592.B57A38 2007 | Dewey Decimal 621.3848
Advances in Bistatic Radar updates and extends bistatic and multistatic radar developments since the publication of Willis' Bistatic Radar in 1991. New and recently declassified military applications are documented, civil applications are detailed including commercial and scientific systems and leading radar engineers provide expertise to each of these applications. Advances in Bistatic Radar consists of two major sections: Bistatic/Multistatic Radar Systems and Bistatic Clutter and Signal Processing. Starting with a history update, the first section documents the early and now declassified military AN/FPS-23 Fluttar DEW-Line Gap-filler, and high frequency (HF) bistatic radars developed for missile attack warning. It then documents the recently developed passive bistatic and multistatic radars exploiting commercial broadcast transmitters for military and civilian air surveillance. Next, the section documents scientific bistatic radar systems for planetary exploration, which have exploited data link transmitters over the last forty years; ionospheric measurements, again exploiting commercial broadcast transmitters; and 3-D wind field measurements using a bistatic receiver hitchhiking off doppler weather radars. This last application has been commercialized. The second section starts by documenting the full, unclassified bistatic clutter scattering coefficient data base, along with the theory and analysis supporting its development. The section then details two major clutter-related developments, spotlight bistatic synthetic aperture radar (SAR), which can now generate high resolution images using bistatic autofocus and related techniques; and adaptive moving target indication (MTI), which allows cancellation of nonstationary clutter generated by moving (i.e. airborne) platforms through the use of bistatic space-time adaptive processing (STAP).
Advances in Body-Centric Wireless Communication: Applications and state-of-the-art
Qammer H. Abbasi
Body centric wireless networking and communications is an emerging 4G technology for short (1-5 m) and very short (below 1 m) range communications systems, used to connect devices worn on (or in) the body, or between two people in close proximity. It has great potential for applications in healthcare delivery, entertainment, surveillance, and emergency services. This book brings together contributions from a multidisciplinary team of researchers in the field of wireless and mobile communications, signal processing and medical measurements to present the underlying theory, implementation challenges and applications of this exciting new technology.
Advances in Cognition, Education, and Deafness
David S. Martin
Library of Congress HV2430.A38 1991 | Dewey Decimal 371.912
The Second International Symposium on Cognition, Education, and Deafness in 1989 broadened and deepened the scope of investigation initiated at the first conference held five years earlier. Advances in Cognition, Education, and Deafness provides the results in a single integrated volume. The 39 scholars from 14 nations who attended offered consistent progress from the first symposium and new areas of research, especially in the study of applications in education and the new field of neuro-anatomical dimensions of cognition and deafness.
This important book has been organized under six major themes: Cognitive Assessment; Language and Cognition; Cognitive Development; Neuroscientific Issues; Cognitive Processes; and Cognitive Intervention Programs. This useful study also features programs designed to facilitate the learning of deaf individuals in cognitive realms, and questions about methodological problems facing researchers in deafness.
Advances in Cognition, Education, and Deafness also synthesizes this wealth of data with the added value of the objective perspective of a cognitive psychologist not directly involved in the field of deafness. Teachers, students, scholars, and researchers will consider this an indispensable reference for years to come.
Advances in Cognitive Systems
Samia Nefti
Library of Congress BF311.A317 2010 | Dewey Decimal 153
This book has been inspired by the portfolio of recent scientific outputs from a range of European and national research initiatives in cognitive science. It presents an overview of recent developments in cognition research and unites the various emerging research strands within a single text as a reference point for progress in the subject. It also provides guidance for new researchers on the breadth of the field and the interconnections between the various research strands identified here.
Advances in Command, Control and Communication Systems
C.J. Harris
Library of Congress UB212.A35 1987 | Dewey Decimal 621.380413
This book describes some of the developments in Command, Control and Communication (C3) systems. The topics cover the design of large real-time man-machine systems, which are now a vital area of intensive scientific and financial investment. C3 systems are for complex resource management and planning, and although this has a predominantly military connotation, similar systems are now developing in civil sector applications, public utilities and banking.
Advances in Communications Satellite Systems: Proceedings of The 36th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC-2018)
Ifiok Otung
The International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC) is one of the most influential technical conferences in the field. The 36th edition was held in October 2018 in Niagara Falls, Canada. These proceedings present a broad spectrum of space communications topics from the conference, from the evolution of GEO from traditional area coverage to Ultra High Throughput Satellites (UHTS), the growing number of mega constellations expected to enter service in the next decade, navigation applications such as vehicle autonomy, wideband data backhaul from scientific and remote sensing payloads in LEO, and the extension of the 5G network to near earth, lunar and deep space environments in support of human exploration.
The International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC) is the oldest and one of the most influential technical conferences in the field. The 37th edition was held from 29th October - 1st November 2019 in Okinawa, Japan. These proceedings present a broad spectrum of space communications contributions from the conference, with highlights including high speed optical communications and feeder links, advanced digital payloads, broadband satellite communication architectures and applications.
Advances in Educational Interpreting
Elizabeth A. Winston
In this follow up to Educational Interpreting: How It Can Succeed, published in 2004, Elizabeth A. Winston and Stephen B. Fitzmaurice present research about the current state of educational interpreting in both K-12 and post-secondary settings. This volume brings together experts in the field, including Deaf and hearing educational interpreters, interpreter researchers, interpreter educators, and Deaf consumers of educational interpreting services. The contributors explore impacts and potential outcomes for students placed in interpreted education settings, and address such topics as interpreter skills, cultural needs, and emergent signers.
Winston and Fitzmaurice argue massive systemic paradigm shifts in interpreted educations are as needed now as they were when the first volume was published, and that these changes require the collaborative efforts of everyone on the educational team, including: administrators, general education teachers, teachers of the deaf, interpreters, and counselors. The contributors to this volume address research-based challenges and make recommendations for how interpreting practitioners, and all members of the educational team, can enact meaningful changes in their work towards becoming part of a more comprehensive solution to deaf education.
Advances in High Voltage Engineering
A. Haddad
Library of Congress TK153.A38 2004 | Dewey Decimal 621.31913
It is several years since any book has attempted to cover the range of issues in high voltage research and development. The area continues to be full of challenge and scope and this book focuses on developments in experimental methods, theory, modelling and HV technology through the past decade. The coverage includes advances in basic understanding and capability, for instance in earthing, numerical analysis, optical methods, the physics of air breakdown and partial discharge. It also addresses technological developments in key areas such as SF6 insulation systems, polymeric insulators and power cables, ZnO surge arrestors, and pulsed power. The unique blend of reputable contributors and comprehensive subject coverage makes this book an ideal reference source for engineers and researchers in the field for many years to come.
Advances in High-Power Fiber and Diode Laser Engineering
Ivan Divliansky
Advances in High-Power Fiber and Diode Laser Engineering provides an overview of recent research trends in fiber and diode lasers and laser systems engineering. In recent years, many new fiber designs and fiber laser system strategies have emerged, targeting the mitigation of different problems which occur when standard optical fibers are used for making high-power lasers. Simultaneously, a lot of attention has been put to increasing the brightness and the output power of laser diodes. Both of these major laser development directions continue to advance at a rapid pace with the sole purpose of achieving higher power while having excellent beam quality.
Advances in Legume Science
R. J. Summerfield and A. H. Bunting
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2001
Library of Congress SB317.L43I57 1978 | Dewey Decimal 633.3
An invaluable reference, reviewing research into commercial legume crops throughout the world. Topics covered include: diversity, adapatation and yield; nitrogen metabolism and plant nutrition; biochemistry and nutritional factors; pests, diseases, resistance and breeding; fodder, forage and cover legumes.
Advances in Legume Systematics Part 8: Legumes of Economic Importance
B. Pickersgill and J. M. Lock
Papers from the Kew International Legume Conference in 1992 dealing with cultivated legumes, their origins and relationships. Pulse crops, forage crops and fuelwood crops are all discussed.
Advances in Legume Systematics Part 5. The Nitrogen Factor
J. L. Sprent and D. McKey
Collection of 16 papers addressing various aspects of the nitrogen economy of legumes, including nodulation and its evolution, the phytochemistry, costs and benefits of nitrogen compounds, and the relationship between legumes and their predators.
Advances in Legume Systematics Part 7. Phylogeny
M. D. Crisp and J. J. Doyal
A collection of seventeen papers discussing the phylogeny of various legume groups. The first paper attempts a cladistic analysis of the whole family, and is followed by two dealing with molecular aspects of phylogeny. The remainder survey the phylogeny of various tribes and genera.
Advances in Mathematical Methods for Electromagnetics
Kazuya Kobayashi
This book covers recent achievements in the area of advanced analytical and associated numerical methods as applied to various problems arising in all branches of electromagnetics. The unifying theme is the application of advanced or novel mathematical techniques to produce analytical solutions or effective analytical-numerical methods for computational electromagnetics addressing more general problems.
Advances in Modal Logic, Volume 1
Edited by Marcus Kracht, Maarten de Rijke, Heinrich Wansing, and Michael Zakhary
CSLI, 1998
Library of Congress BC199.M6A38 1998 | Dewey Decimal 160
Modal logic originated in philosophy as the logic of necessity and possibility. Nowadays it has reached a high level of mathematical sophistication and found many applications in a variety of disciplines, including theoretical and applied computer science, artificial intelligence, the foundations of mathematics, and natural language syntax and semantics. This volume represents the proceedings of the first international workshop on Advances in Modal Logic, held in Berlin, Germany, October 8-10, 1996. It offers an up-to-date perspective on the field, with contributions covering its proof theory, its applications in knowledge representation, computing and mathematics, as well as its theoretical underpinnings. "This collection is a useful resource for anyone working in modal logic. It contains both interesting surveys and cutting-edge technical results" --Edwin D. Mares The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, March 2002
Advances in Planar Filters Design
Jiasheng Hong
Microwave filters are the basic building blocks of communication systems. These filters, having reliable and scalable filter topologies with and without tunable properties, are capable of controlling different frequency bands as well as their fractional bandwidth to meet different system needs. There have been significant advances in the synthesis and physical realisation of microwave filter networks, and the design and applications for communication systems.
Advances in Power System Modelling, Control and Stability Analysis
Federico Milano
Power systems are becoming increasingly complex as well as flexible, able to integrate distributed renewable generation, EV, and additional loads. This expanded and updated second edition covers the technologies needed to operate modern power grids.
Advances in Power System Modelling, Control and Stability Analysis captures the variety of new methodologies and technologies that are changing the way modern electric power systems are modelled, simulated and operated.
Advances in Teaching Sign Language Interpreters
Cynthia B. Roy
Library of Congress HV2402.A38 2005 | Dewey Decimal 419.70802
Picking up where Innovative Practices in Teaching Sign Language Interpreters left off, this new collection presents the best new interpreter teaching techniques proven in action by the eminent contributors assembled here. In the first chapter, Dennis Cokely discusses revising curricula in the new century based upon experiences at Northeastern University. Jeffrey E. Davis delineates how to teach observation techniques to interpreters, while Elizabeth Winston and Christine Monikowski suggest how discourse mapping can be considered the Global Positioning System of translation.
In other chapters, Laurie Swabey proposes ways to handle the challenge of referring expressions for interpreting students, and Melanie Metzger describes how to learn and recognize what interpreters do in interaction. Jemina Napier contributes information on training interpreting students to identify omission potential. Robert G. Lee explains how to make the interpreting process come alive in the classroom. Mieke Van Herreweghe discusses turn-taking and turn-yielding in meetings with Deaf and hearing participants in her contribution. Anna-Lena Nilsson defines "false friends," or how contextually incorrect use of facial expressions with certain signs in Swedish Sign Language can be detrimental influences on interpreters. The final chapter by Kyra Pollitt and Claire Haddon recommends retraining interpreters in the art of telephone interpreting, completing Advances in Teaching Sign Language Interpreters as the new authoritative volume in this vital communication profession.
Advances in Telemedicine for Health Monitoring: Technologies, design and applications
Tarik A. Rashid
Advances in telemedicine technologies have offered clinicians greater levels of real-time guidance and technical assistance for diagnoses, monitoring, operations or interventions from colleagues based in remote locations. The topic includes the use of videoconferencing, mentorship during surgical procedures, or machine-to-machine communication to process data from one location by programmes running in another.
Advances in the Analysis of Spanish Exclamatives
Ignacio Bosque
Library of Congress PC4395.A35 2017 | Dewey Decimal 465
Advances in the Analysis of Spanish Exclamatives is the first book entirely devoted to Spanish exclamatives, a special sentence type often overlooked by contemporary linguists and neglected in standard grammatical descriptions. The seven essays in this volume, each by a leading specialist on the topic, scrutinize the syntax—as well as the semantic and pragmatic aspects—of exclamations on theoretical grounds.
The book begins by summarizing, commenting on, and evaluating previous descriptive and theoretical contributions on Spanish exclamatives. This introductory overview also contains a detailed classification of Spanish exclamative grammatical types, along with an analysis of their main properties. Special attention is devoted in the book throughoutto the syntactic structures displayed by exclamative patterns; the differences between exclamations and other speech acts (specifically questions and imperatives); the peculiar semantic denotation of exclamative words and their relationship to quantifiers denoting high degree; the semantics of adjectives and adverbs expressing extreme evaluation; the form and interpretation of negated and embedded exclamatives; the properties of optative utterances; and the different ways in which expressive contents are related to unexpected reactions of the speaker, as well as possible knowledge shared by interlocutors.
This groundbreaking volume provides a complete and accurate picture of Spanish exclamation by integrating its numerous component parts.
Advances in the Economics of Aging
Edited by David A. Wise
Library of Congress HQ1064.U5A6318 1996 | Dewey Decimal 305.26
This volume presents innovative research on issues of importance to the well-being of older persons: labor market behavior, health care, housing and living arrangements, and saving and wealth.
Specific topics include the effect of labor market rigidities on the employment of older workers; the effect on retirement of the availability of continuation coverage benefits; and the influence of the prospective payment system (PPS) on rising Medicare costs. Also considered are the effects of health and wealth on living arrangement decisions; the incentive effects of employer-provided pension plans; the degree of substitution between 401(k) plans and other employer-provided retirement saving arrangements; and the extent to which housing wealth determines how much the elderly save and consume.
Two final studies use simulations that describe the implications of stylized economic models of behavior among the elderly. This timely volume will be of interest to anyone concerned with the economics of aging.
Advances in the Zoology of Tapeworms, 1950-1970
Robert A. Wardle
Advances In The Zoology of Tapeworms, 1950-1970 was first published in 1974. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
This volume is a sequel to the comprehensive study by Professors Robert A. Wardle and James A. McLeod, The Zoology of Tapeworms, published by the University of Minnesota Press in 1952. The new book is based on research and publications which have become available since the earlier volume was published.
While much of the information in the earlier book was devoted to the identification, description, and classification of families, genera, and species, research efforts in the last two decades have been focused in new directions. Although some researchers have been engaged in revising the original classification in the light of new findings, others have been exploring specificity, serology, and genetics, and have undertaken studies of host-parasite relationships, pathogenesis, and therapeutics in the treatment of tapeworm infestation. These investigations have been facilitated by laboratory techniques which were not available for earlier studies.
Following introductory chapters on the recent expansion of tapeworm research and the phylogeny of tapeworms, the authors devote a chapter each to 21 orders of tapeworms. The material is based on a survey of the literature including more than 2,000 papers on tapeworm zoology published since 1950. Chapters on laboratory propagation and on therapeutics complete the text, and there is an extensive list of references. Many drawings illustrate the text.
Advances in Titicaca Basin Archaeology–III
Edited by Alexei Vranich, Elizabeth A. Klarich and Charles Stanish
Library of Congress F3319.1.T57A38 2012 | Dewey Decimal 984.12
The focus of this volume is the northern Titicaca Basin, an area once belonging to the quarter of the Inka Empire called Collasuyu. The original settlers around the lake had to adapt to living at more than 12,000 feet, but as this volume shows so well, this high-altitude environment supported a very long developmental sequence.
Advances in Unmanned Marine Vehicles
G.N. Roberts
Library of Congress TC1662.A35 2006 | Dewey Decimal 629.046
Unmanned marine vehicles (UMVs) is a collective term used to describe autonomous underwater vehicles, remotely operated vehicles, semi-submersibles, and unmanned surface craft. Considerable interest has been shown in UMVs by the military, civilian and scientific communities due to their ability to undertake designated missions whilst either operating autonomously and/or on co-operation with other types of vehicle. Increasing importance is also being placed on the design and development of such vehicles as they are capable of providing cost effective solutions to a number of littoral, coastal and offshore problems. This book draws attention to the advanced technology which is evolving to meet the challenges being posed in this exciting and growing field of study.
Religion and Political Tolerance in America: Advances in the State of the Art
Paul Djupe
Temple University Press, 2015
Library of Congress BL2525.R4612 2015 | Dewey Decimal 322.10973
Religious institutions are often engaged in influencing the beliefs and values that individuals hold. But religious groups can also challenge how people think about democracy, including the extension of equal rights and liberties regardless of viewpoint, or what is commonly called political tolerance.
The essays in Religion and Political Tolerance in America seek to understand how these elements interrelate. The editor and contributors to this important volume present new and innovative research that wrestles with the fundamental question of the place of religion in democratic society. They address topics ranging from religious contributions to social identity to the political tolerance that religious elites (clergy) hold and advocate to others, and how religion shapes responses to intolerance.
The conclusion, by Ted Jelen, emphasizes that religion's take on political tolerance is nuanced and that they are not incompatible; religion can sometimes enhance the tolerance of ordinary citizens.
Sea Turtles of the Eastern Pacific: Advances in Research and Conservation
Edited by Jeffrey A. Seminoff and Bryan P. Wallace; Foreword by Peter C. H. Pritchard
University of Arizona Press, 2012
Library of Congress QL666.C536S44 2012 | Dewey Decimal 597.92809164
Sea turtles are flagship species for the world's oceans. They traverse international boundaries during their migrations, serve as vehicles for marine nutrients to terrestrial habitats, and embody the often tenuous relationship between human action and ecosystem health. The East Pacific Ocean is home to some of the most dynamic marine ecosystems, and the most unique sea turtles. Marine biodiversity within this massive ocean region abounds in mangrove estuaries, seagrass pastures, coral reefs, the open ocean, and many other habitats, with sea turtles often the most conspicuous species present. The distinctive traits of the Eastern Pacific have resulted in the smallest leatherbacks, a singular morph of the green turtle, dark and steeply domed olive ridleys, and the most cryptic hawksbills on the planet. Only now are we beginning to understand how these varieties have evolved.
However, the oceanographic conditions that make this an epicenter of sea turtle activity also promote massive artisanal and industrial fishing efforts that, coupled with illegal harvesting of eggs and turtles, have led to declines of several turtle populations in the region. The essays and stories in Sea Turtles of the Eastern Pacific describe for the first time the history of this exploitation, as well as recent sea turtle conservation initiatives and scientific research in the region. The first third of the book considers the biology of the turtles, focusing on general overviews of current ecological management challenges facing the turtles' survival. The second third treats issues of marine policy related to turtle conservation. In conclusion, the book offers six compelling stories of conservation success. By the end, readers will have gained a in-depth view not only of these magnificent creatures, but also the people involved in research and conservation efforts in one of the most remarkable regions of our planet.
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Can HPV be transmitted non sexually?
How easily are genital warts transmitted?
Can HPV genital warts be transmitted when there is no outbreak?
Are genital warts contagious for life?
Will I have genital warts forever?
Should I worry about genital warts?
How can I boost my immune system to fight genital warts?
How long before genital warts appear?
Does everyone exposed to genital warts get it?
You can become infected with HPV without having sex. HPV is not transmitted through bodily fluids such as semen or saliva, but through skin-to-skin contact. This happens most easily through sexual contact, such as vaginal, anal and oral sex.
Genital warts are more contagious, or more easily spread, than other warts. They are spread by skin-to-skin contact. They may spread to other nearby parts of the body and they may be passed from person to person by sexual activity. The warts are usually first seen 1 to 6 months after you have been infected with HPV.
Know that HPV can spread to partners during sex, even if there are no warts. Tell any sexual partners about the warts before having sex.
Yes, genital warts and the virus that causes them are both highly contagious. There isn't a cure for HPV. Once you have the virus, you're always infectious. Even if you don't have symptoms like genital warts, or you have the warts treated and removed, you can still infect another person with HPV and genital warts.
Although HPV isn't curable in all cases, genital warts are treatable. You can also go extended periods of time without an outbreak, but it may not be possible to get rid of the warts forever. That's because genital warts are only a symptom of HPV, which may become a chronic, lifelong infection for some.
Most people decide to treat them because of the symptoms or because of how the warts look. But if you don't have symptoms and are not worried about how the warts look, you can wait and see if the warts go away. If you do decide to treat genital warts, talk to your doctor about the best treatment for you.
The HPV vaccine is a good way to boost your immune system to fight HPV. People who are vaccinated are less likely to get genital warts, cervical cancer, and several other cancers caused by HPV.
If you have symptoms, they will probably occur 2 to 3 months after infection. But you can have symptoms from 3 weeks to many years after infection. Visible genital warts appear only during active infection. But it is possible to spread the virus even if you can't see the warts.
Does everyone exposed to HPV 6 and 11 get warts? No. Warts can appear after a person is infected, or you can have none at all, as the body's immune system fights the virus.
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Saving The Soviets: The Art Media Loses Its Mind In Moscow
May 18, 2017 May 18, 2017 / William Newton
Much of the city of Moscow, as you are probably aware, was scarred with hideous buildings during the Soviet era. Films such as "The Bourne Supremacy" show the bleakness of 20th century Muscovite residential architecture in a way that brings home why we won the Cold War. Because honestly, who would *want* to live in these sorts of places? As it turns out, a number of Muscovites do, but not for the same reasons that architectural experts want them to stay right where they are.
Over the past few weeks, the art press has been wailing and gnashing its teeth over plans by Moscow's mayor to demolish a large number of low-rise, Soviet-era apartment buildings. The reaction has been predictable, for those who follow the arts. "Moscow's architectural heritage threatened by development plan" screams Apollo Magazine. The Art Newspaper had the gall to compare the proposed demolition of these buildings, which were built in the aftermath of a murderous land grab, to that very land grab itself. "Describe [sic] by many residents as a property grab akin to the forced collectivisation of property under Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, the demolition plan has proven so unpopular that thousands turned up for a demonstration against it in Moscow on Sunday 14 May carrying signs with slogans like 'My house is my castle'."
What's most telling amidst all of the histrionic reporting on this story is the fact that almost none of the reports provide any images of the buildings proposed for demolition. There are plenty of photographs of protestors, in the half-dozen or so articles from the art world that I've read on this story. The media always likes covering protesters (apart from pro-life protesters, of course.) For the most part however, not one image of these apparently precious apartment blocks appears anywhere in the reporting itself.
Why is this the case? Surely, buildings of such architectural significance ought to be shown by the art media to the international reading public? How else do they expect the outside world to develop a collective sense of concern, and galvanize support for the preservation of these important structures? In the interest of their cause, then, I present to you one of these architectural wonders, which is currently slated for demolition:
Now, if I was arguing this case in court, at this point I'd probably say something to the effect of, "res ipsa loquitor." This particular gem was one of the first low-rise blocks built under Khrushchev, a figure not exactly known for his innate sense of good taste. If this building was located in the U.S., I'd expect there to be a strip mall across the street with a cracked parking lot, a gas station, a Chinese takeout place, and a nail/threading salon, along with several boarded-up shop windows bearing "For Lease" signs.
There's a further wrinkle to this story, beyond the perhaps inescapable conclusion that the art press has lost its collective mind, and that is a consideration of what the residents of these buildings themselves want to see happen. They know, and freely admit, that these structures are ugly, dangerous places, which are always falling to pieces and in need of constant repair. The only thing pleasant about them is the fact that they are mostly low-rise apartment blocks, rather than high-rises. Older Muscovites, in particular, do not want to live in high-rise apartments, particularly ones that are built to (questionable) Russian standards, and that's fair enough.
When you drill down into the reporting, it turns out that what the inhabitants of these apartments are really concerned about is not architectural preservation, or the alleged glories of socialist style. Rather, these people are worried that they will not receive new apartments which will be better than the ones that they currently live in. For the majority of these apartment dwellers, their concerns are focused on money and square footage, not celebrating the supposed brilliance of Soviet-era design.
Among the cognoscenti of the art world however, the demolition of these buildings – which of course, they themselves do not have to live in – would wipe away large swathes of the kind of hideous, leftist architecture which they and their predecessors have promoted and fetishized in our cities for nearly a century. For those focused on the preservation of these sad reminders of the evils of socialism run amok, such oppressive structures represent the good that leftism can do, when it ignores conventional ideas of both beauty and individuality. It is as if Captain Picard would have been better off remaining in the Collective as Locutus of Borg.
Having seen but one specific example of the hundreds of Soviet apartment blocks slated for demolition, I'd certainly be willing to consider whether Moscow's urban renewal plan is going too far. Perhaps there is some work of significant architectural beauty that is going to be torn down, which my readers could share with the rest of us in the comments section of this post. Yet given the reticence of the art press to provide even one example of such a structure to date, I'll be very much surprised if you can find any.
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Shadows of Adam
Shadows of Adam is a unique take on a classic genre - a retro JRPG built for the modern era.
Tucked away from the outside world by the impenetrable haze of the Misty Woods, the village of Adam has mostly lived in peace since the days of the Wraith War. The dark power that fueled that war has vanished, but darkness is descending once more and Adam's legendary hero, Orazio, is no more.
10 years ago he left without explanation and never returned, leaving his son and adopted daughter to wrestle with the dark secret he left behind—a secret that must now be revealed if the children hope to save both Adam and their departed father, though its revelation could unhinge the world.
Shadows of Adam is a creative, humorous and exciting take on the 16-bit JRPG era, but with its own twists and style for the modern day gamer. Fast-paced battles, gorgeous graphics, an awesome soundtrack and the convenience to save anywhere you like make it tough to resist! Whether playing on the TV or in handheld mode, the game's glorious pixels will immerse you in the adventure and its memorable scenes.
• Compelling Character Driven Story: Shadows of Adam's story is one with a deep narrative and an interesting plot. The story revolves around 4 main characters: Asrael, Kellan, Curtis and Talon.
• A Strategic AP Management Battle System: AP is restored between each round of battle automatically and through defeating enemies. This allows a unique attrition system that encourages skill use and fast combat.
• Beautiful Visuals: Shadows of Adam features beautifully modernized visuals inspired by classic JRPGs of the '90s.
• Original Soundtrack With Over 44 Tracks: An original soundtrack by Tyler Mire that's inspired by music from the genre's greatest games. This soundtrack includes unique themes for each area and character and has an emphasis on strong melodies and an emotional connection.
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UPMC Makes U.S. News & World Report's Honor Roll of America's 'Best Hospitals' for 17th Time
UPMC is recognized on the national stage once again for its clinical expertise, earning 12th position on the annual US News & World Report Honor Roll of America's "Best Hospitals," moving up from 13th place in last year's rankings.
"We are extremely pleased to be on the Honor Roll for the 17th year," said Leslie C. Davis, senior vice president of UPMC, and executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Health Services Division. "What a fine testament year after year for our physicians, nurses and other clinical specialists and support teams who dedicate their work every day to providing this level of care for our patients and their families."
US News & World Report analyzed approximately 5,000 hospitals nationwide based on a variety of factors, including hospital volume, patient safety, outcomes, and reputation for delivering high-quality care. The 2016-17 Honor Roll recognizes the 20 hospitals that earned the most points across 16 specialty areas included in the analysis. The Honor Roll is ranked from No. 1 to No. 20, based on earned points.
Nationally, UPMC is ranked for excellence in 15 of the 16 specialty areas, and is among the top 10 hospitals in four specialties: ear, nose and throat; gastroenterology and GI surgery; pulmonology; and rheumatology.
"In addition to our clinical excellence and patient care expertise across the board, we have a close affiliation with one of the best medical schools in the country, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, to advance our scientific research that leads to clinical innovation in many specialties," said Steven Shapiro, MD, executive vice president and chief medical and scientific officer at UPMC and president of the Health Services Division. "We are proud of that collaborative work."
UPMC's inclusion on the Honor Roll comes weeks after US News & World Report named its 2016 Honor
Roll of America's Best Children's Hospitals, recognizing Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC as No. 7 in the country, up from No. 8 last year. This is the 7th year that Children's made the Honor Roll, ranking in 9 of 10 pediatrics specialty areas covered.
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The Little Mermaid Review
As a kid, I always remember The Little Mermaid being one of my favorite Disney cartoons. It had just about everything a kid like me could want in a movie. The animation is great, characters a lot of fun, and the story an all around fantastic experience.
The Little Mermaid takes place in the underwater kingdom of what I presume to be Atlantis, where a young, rebellious mermaid named Ariel (Jodi Benson) is preoccupied with human life on land. One day Ariel swims to the ocean surface, where she immediately falls in love with a prince named Eric (Christopher Daniel Barnes). Since falling in love with a human is something her father King Triton (Kenneth Mars) strictly prohibits, Ariel is forced to make a deal with a witch named Ursula (Pat Carroll) in order to become a human. Now it is up to Ariel to get the prince to fall in love with her in just three days, or else she will reap the consequences of her dangerous deal with Ursula.
The main protagonist of Ariel is one that people either seem to love or hate. Some argue that her character is inquisitive and interesting, others argue she is just a whiny child with no development throughout the plot. While I do agree that she was flawed, I still seemed to enjoy her character. I thought she was kind, adventurous, and inquisitive of the world around her. She isn't the strongest written Disney princess, but she is engaging enough with proper support.
And just about all the side characters in The Little Mermaid were exceedingly entertaining. Scuttle, a goofy seagull voiced by Buddy Hackett, was one of these entertaining characters. His expressions, mannerisms, and sense of humor are all a lot of fun to watch. One scene in particular, where he mistakes common items like a fork for a comb, always manages to get me laughing.
Ursula, the antagonist of The Little Mermaid, was another greatly written character. She has to be one of the most devious and meddling Disney villains I've ever seen. I noticed very quickly that she gets a lot more screen time than your typical Disney villain, and rightfully so. Her diabolical plan and sheer energy makes her my favorite character in the film.
The Little Mermaid's animation is of usual Disney quality, very fluent and visually appealing to watch. The backgrounds are all beautifully hand drawn, and the color palette chosen for the film was impeccable. This is a film that you could really get lost in just how nice everything looks.
The one minor issue I take with The Little Mermaid is the pacing of the third act, as it has always seemed hastily rushed. How quickly the film wraps all of its loose ends up is somewhat off-putting. I definitely think they could've let things play out a little more and given an even better ending to an already amazing story.
In all honesty, I love this film just as much now as I did when I was a kid. The Little Mermaid has all the great features that you'd expect from a highly regarded Disney flick. The animation is some of the best that Disney has to offer, the characters are nicely written, and the music (especially the song "Under the Sea") is exceptionally enjoyable. I watched it as a kid, and I'm definitely going to continue watching it as an adult.
The Verdict: A-
-Zachary Flint
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Jay Alba says:
Fair point about the ending. I haven't seen the movie since I was a kid, but I imagine that I'd find a lot of problems that I missed the first time around. Also, I totally agree with your description of Ariel's character. She definitely isn't the best Disney princess, she could definitely be seen as whiny teenager, but considering that the plot hinges on her falling in love with some guy she doesn't know, I cut her some slack.
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September 15, 2019 September 15, 2019 Larry The GMAstros / Baseball / MLB
It is the homestretch of the MLB season, and Astros fans are eager and seemingly worried about how many things can impact the team's chances in the postseason. In part one, we discussed what is really important right now for the Astros for the postseason. As a review, those factors were:
The health and effectiveness of Verlander, Cole, and Greinke — Importance rank: 10
The health of the starters including Correa and Gurriel — Importance rank: 8
Luck; the randomness of the MLB postseason — Importance rank: 10
As a follow-up, here are four more factors that may be important for Astros fans to care about. The last three factors in this posting tend to be discussed a lot but are not as important as the three in part one. If an issue does not make either of these lists, it is unlikely to materially impact the Astros chances in the postseason; do not be distracted by it. Now, let's dig into the remaining factors that may impact the Astros this postseason.
The new factor: the ability to get hits with RISP
Importance rank: 6
Honestly, I am surprised I left this off the original framework for this article. Typically, I have assumed this factor is basically another aspect of luck and would correct itself. The Astros have an historically epic ability to get on base and to create run-scoring opportunities (wRC+ of 125 — second among all MLB seasons since 1900). They do not have an historically epic run-scoring total (third in the league this year — good but not epic). The table below shows this situation in more detail:
The Astros are best in Creating Runs (see Baseball Reference's definition of this statistic), OPS, and wRC+. Yet the Astros are third in actual runs scored per game.
Some of this is due poor baserunning: the Astros are the fifth worst team in baserunning by some advanced metrics in Fangraphs.
The other very interesting factor is the relatively poor performance of the Astros' batting with runners in scoring position. Let's compare the Astros across the season and in RISP (Runners in Scoring Position) situations. We can compare the Astros to the league average and against the top offenses.
In this table, we see the Astros' dominance as a top offense overall. Notice that their OPS only marginally increases, and their wRC+ drops in RISP situations. In comparison, the league in general improves with RISP significantly more. The best offenses in MLB are even better. Across all the metrics, the Astros' percentage is the worst of the other top teams. So why do the Astros drop off relatively in these situations? Their BABIP (Batting Average of Balls In Play) also drops, which is also unusual. This BABIP drop indicates that the Astros are not making standard contact in these situations or they are unlucky. I choose to believe it is luck. If it is, then it is nothing to worry about and it may correct itself. However, let's see if there are any players on the team that are the most affected by this BABIP with RISP phenomenon. The sample size can get small here, so one needs to be careful to assess whether the data is statistically significant.
There are a few players that seem to have the biggest gaps between their full season performance and RISP performance.
Bregman: This one is shocking. Bregman's OPS with RISP is 91% of his OPS across the season. His wRC+ is even worse at 80%. Are teams pitching around him? His walk rate is essentially the same. His BABIP with RISP is an inexplicably low 0.220. He has been tremendously unlucky with RISP. Look for this to get better in the last few weeks of the season; this would help the team's performance.
Chirinos: He, too, is dragged down by an unusually low BABIP with RISP. He may get better.
Marisnick: The sample size is getting small for Marisnick. Marisnick seems to be getting good hit quality. Perhaps he is trying too hard for the big hit.
Reddick: Reddick's strikeout rate rises from 11.6% in all situations or 11.1% in non-RISP situations to 13.4% with RISP. This is a large increase and explains the difference in performance. Perhaps he is trying too hard and swinging at pitches he would otherwise take.
These four players have a worse performance without RISP. However, two players the Astros traded have an even larger drop: Kemp and White. In fact, if these two are factored out, the team OPS RISP percent goes from 102% to 103% and the wRC+ RISP percent goes from 98% to 101%. The relative team RISP performance improves without Kemp and White and this factors into why they were ultimately traded.
So, what does all of this mean for the postseason Astros?
Expect the team to be better than the team has been all year.
Expect Bregman to be better than he has been.
Expect a pinch hitter will be deployed for players like Chirinos, Reddick, and Marisnick in a critical situation. Look for Diaz and Alvarez (in a non-DH game) to pinch hit.
How important is this issue? Usually when the Astros have struggled to score in a game, they have not hit well with RISP. They have rarely failed to get RISP. I still believe that luck drives most of this issue and that it will not slow the Astros down in the postseason.
The health and timing of returns for key members of the bullpen including Pressly, Peacock, and possibly McHugh
This issue will likely cause the most debate because it seems to be affecting team performance currently. As a reminder, in part one we stated that the Big 3 (Verlander, Cole, and Greinke) could pitch 105–120 innings of a projected total of a maximum of 171 postseason innings. They could, but I don't think they will. I don't think they will need to. To facilitate that, the bullpen needs to be at full strength — or does it? Pressly and Peacock are making steps to an imminent return to the Astros. The recent Astros bullpen performance may make one think that Pressly, Peacock, and McHugh are critical to their success in the postseason. Critical is too strong a word, and here is why.
The following table projects the postseason pitching staff with Pressly and Peacock in it. This staff projects to have a postseason ERA of 2.93 when the postseason innings are allocated.
What if Pressly and Peacock suffer a setback and are not available for the postseason?
In this scenario, Pressly and Peacock are replaced by Valdez and Devenski. This modified staff projects to have a postseason ERA of 3.05 when the postseason innings are allocated. This equates to two runs over the 19 projected games. How important are those two runs? It depends when they happen.
Can anyone be an effective long relief pitcher or number 4 starter?
Recently, Miley has struggled as a fourth starter for the Astros. As shown in part one, Miley will start a maximum of three postseason games, as long as Verlander, Cole, and Greinke are healthy. Those three starts are important; however, if the Astros are down in ALDS, Miley is not likely to start ALDS game 4.
Under the scenario that Miley continues to struggle, Peacock, James and/or Urquidy will be called upon more to fill that void and the Astros may utilize an opener strategy that pairs Miley with Peacock to get through five or six innings.
Even this perceived weakness may not be as critical when you compare the relative strengths of the long and short groups of the Astros staff vs. the Yankees and the Dodgers.
The Astros' fourth starter and long relief corps is on par with the Yankees. The Dodgers' long group has a significant advantage, but their closer and short group are comparatively the worst.
Overall, assessing whether Miley, Peacock, James, and Urquidy are effective may be a challenge. However, their biggest postseason rivals have similar pitching concerns.
The effectiveness of the young Astros bench members — Tucker, Diaz, Toro, Straw
The last factor that may matter in the postseason is whether the group of relatively young bench players (Tucker, Diaz, Toro, Straw) will produce in the postseason. Here is the reality: Two of these four players are not even likely to get a chance, and the playing time for the other two will be limited. I projected the playing time of the batters in the postseason, assuming the Astros play all possible 19 games.
If the postseason started today, I believe the Astros would choose to include Diaz, Marisnick, Straw, and Maldonado on the roster. I believe the Astros will have Tucker on the ALDS roster. Barring injuries, I believe these players will get very limited playing time. While it would be nice to see this group succeed, it is not likely to be critical to postseason success.
That is it. These seven factors are the issues that Astros fans should really monitor and understand as the team heads to the postseason. The team looks strong on these factors and Astros fans should not worry about other issues. If you have another factor for me to consider, contact me at @LarrytheGM on Twitter.
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The Rise of the Reichsbürger
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In this video essay, Anna Homann profiles the Reichsbürger movement, its function, narratives and effect on German politics and identity. As Anna analyses, the current salience of the Reichsbürger movement asks pressing questions about the level of threat nationalism poses at present.
Germany, 07.12.2022. News of a large-scale raid against Reichsbürger is spreading. The reason, accusation of having formed a terrorist organisation with the aim of eliminating the political order of the Federal Republic of Germany.
But who are the Reichsbürger anyway? What goals are they pursuing?
Reichsbürger describes people who deny the existence of the Federal Republic of Germany as a legitimate and sovereign state. They fundamentally reject the entire German legal system, especially rights for migrants and Jews. Instead, they want only Germans to live within the borders of the old German Empire and for the state to look after them only.
The Reichbürger movement is very heterogeneous and consists of many currents, some of which also differ greatly. There are differences, for example, on the question of which German Reich still exists, the German Empire of 1871 in the borders of 1914 or Hitler's National Socialist Third Reich in the borders of 1937. Current reporting concentrates solely on the anti-constitutional and anti-state objectives of the Reichsbürger movement. This largely ignores the fact that these movements are explicitly politicising German identity and Germanness, and at the same time want to install a racist-oriented state policy. This is all the more alarming because these movements have been gaining in popularity in recent years.
Here you can see an overview of the many different currents within the Reichsbürger movement. The report on the protection of the constitution (Verfassungsschutzbericht) estimates that there are around 21,000 members and sympathisers in 2021. It is striking that 15 of the 18 currents investigated have anti-Semitic ideology. Anti-Semitic claims and formulations frequently appear: the Holocaust is denied, the Final Solution of the Jewish Question is called for and death threats against Jewish communities & individuals are proclaimed. Reichsbürger claim that WWI was planned by the Jewish Rothschild family or that the Jewish Rothschild family is aiming for a New World Order and controls banks worldwide. Their conspiracy theories include that a Jewish-Masonic puppet government exists in Germany, that Israel and the Allies are exploiting Germany, that a rule of "National Zionism" or even a world rule of political Zionism exists.
Beyond anti-Semitism, the Reichsbürger also hold generally racist views and objectives. They believe that the migrants are taking away the German people's land, that the Germans are being alienated by the migrants, that there is spatial and cultural foreignisation and unhealthy mixing with foreign ethnic groups. They are against the admission of asylum seekers and do not want Turks, Muslims and black people on German soil.
This documents an unacceptable exclusion of Jews and foreigners: They are not supposed to be part of the population in Germany, the German state is not supposed to care for them and they are not supposed to have social and political rights in Germany.
Unlike other right-wing extremists and neo-Nazis in Germany, the territory of Germany plays a special role for the Reichsbürger when it comes to the question of inclusion/exclusion of Germans and non-Germans. The Reichsbürger pursue a geopolitical expansion of Germany, which has consequences for the population living there today.
For what would the continued existence of the German Reich mean, as the Reichsbürger claim? As an example, I would like to pick out the "Free State of Prussia" current. According to this, the borders of the 1914 empire would have to be restored. Compared to the Federal Republic of Germany today, this would be a significantly enlarged national territory.
In the case of the former German territories that now belong to Poland, they argue that it is still an occupatio bellica, i.e. a military seizure. Consequently, the Polish population living there must either take Prussian German citizenship and renounce Polish citizenship and thus become a Reichsbürger. If they do not do so, they must leave the territory of the Free State of Prussia within a period of 12 months.
The Reichsbürger represent an exemplary nationalist ideology. Nationalism politicises identity, e.g. race or ethnicity. The Reichsbürger see only the German by birth or – the not quite so extreme currents – the "German" citizen as a member of the German identity.
For the Reichsbürger, the state should only be there for this "German" population, so for one Reichsbürger current only for the Germans on the territory of the German Empire in the borders of 1914 and for the other current for the Germans on the territory of the National Socialist Third Reich in the borders of 1937.
Nationalism generally means that the state assigns rights to people exclusively on the basis of identity. In the ideology of the Reichsbürger, only those who are German by birthright or members of the German state are supposed to be holders of social and political rights.
For many years, the Reichsbürger currents were not taken seriously and the number of sympathisers was underestimated. The Covid-19 pandemic with the lockdowns and rules around masks and vaccinations gave the Reichsbürger movement enormous sympathy and popularity. The Reichsbürger rejected these coercive measures because they assumed a state whose existence they denied.
Through the leverage of the anti-Covid-19 protests, the propagandistic space for the nationalist ideas of the Reichsbürger opened up for many people critical of vaccination. Terror expert Professor Peter Neumann from King's College London explained that this movement has become much more structured and much better networked in the last two and a half years and that there are Telegram groups that bring these people together.
Another aspect to be taken seriously is the linking of the nationalist ideology of Reichsbürger with violent actions. According to the findings of the German Report on the Protection of the Constitution (Verfassungsschutzbericht2021), the number of potentially violent Reichsbürger rose to 2,100. By way of comparison, in the same period there were about 1,950 people in Germany who were classified as potentially violent "Islamist" terrorists – a group that has so far been considered much more relevant than Reichsbürger in the general political assessment. Security expert Peter Neumann also sees right-wing extremism as the greatest terrorist threat in Germany. Within this scene, the Reichsbürger are currently the most aggressive.
The fact that many Reichsbürger are heavily armed also contributes to this. Some Reichsbürger currents openly formulate that they also want to take military action against non-Germans. For example, death threats are made against Jews or the expulsion of non-Germans from German territory is announced by military means.
The many crises and problematic situations since the beginning of the millennium – banking crisis, national debt crisis, migration, climate crisis, energy crisis, inflation – have increasingly unsettled German society. Under these conditions, the nationalist ideology of the Reichsbürger can be a suitable option for more and more Germans. To prevent this from happening, all state and civil society means must be used to combat this inhuman nationalism.
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Bodies of two people have found on Fraser Island
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Two Japanese teenagers have been found dead in Lake McKenzie on Queensland's Fraser Island after being reported missing from a school tour.
Questions are now being asked about how the boys, both aged 16, drowned at the popular tourist destination, described as "a calm lake in the middle of an island" by the local mayor.
The pair were reported missing about 5pm on Friday, and their bodies discovered in the water at 8:20am on Saturday. "This is a tragic event, there is no doubt about that," Inspector Tony Clowes told reporters on Saturday.
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He warned there was always a risk when entering waterways, and said he did not know if the boys could swim. "Know your abilities, be aware that if you are entering water there is some inherent risk entering waterways in this country," he said.
Lake McKenzie is one of the most scenic of Fraser Island's nearly 100 lakes. Credit: AAP
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Two medals for host Russia at figure skating Worlds
Switzerland, Bern : Russia's Artur Gachinski performs his men's free programme during the European Figure Skating Championships in Bern on January 29, 2011. (AFP Photo / Yuri Kadobnov) © AFP
Rising star Artur Gachinsky earned bronze for host Russia in the men's competition at the figure skating world championships in Moscow, while fellow countrymen Tatyana Volosozhar and Maksim Trankov got silver in the pairs.
Patrick Chan claimed the men's gold after a second straight record-breaking performance.The Canadian, who produced a record score of 93.02 to win the short program on Wednesday, proved his class with the highest ever free skate score, 187.96. He finished with the total of 280.98 points, easily outdistancing second placed Takahiko Kozuka. Home favorite Gachinsky was fourth after the short program, but earned the bronze medal with a total of 241.86 points. The 17-year-old skater, who was making his world championship debut, was Russia's only representative in the men's competition. In pairs, the German duo of Alyona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy regained their world title, earning their third career gold with 217.85 total points. Volosozhar and Trankov of Russia came in second with 210.73 points, leaving the leaders after the short program, Pang Qing and Tong Jian, in third. "We wanted to show our best here – it's our first major international competition," Trankov, who paired with Volosozhar just recently, told the Associated Press. The fate of the pairs medals was decided after Tong's touched the ice coming out of their opening jump, depriving the Chinese athletes of a chance to defend their world title.
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Louis Delmas injury: Gunther Cunningham thinks Lions safety will be back soon
Delmas, 25, has been declared out for the Week 9 game against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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While Lions safety Louis Delmas has been ruled out for Sunday's game against the Jacksonville Jaguars, Lions defensive coordinator Gunther Cunningham doesn't think it'll be very long until the fourth-year safety is back on the field. Speaking with Anwar Richardson of MLive.com, Cunningham said that the difference in Delmas's mood about the injury now and his past knee injury is what's most noticeable:
"In his first injury this year, he was really moody and wouldn't talk much. The other day we had it out in our defensive meeting team room. He was laughing, which tells me a lot. It means he's going to be back soon, and the thing's healing. I'm excited for him about that."
Delmas, 25, suffered a knee injury that required minor surgery in August to repair. The injury cost the safety most of training camp and preseason, along with the first four games of the regular season before he returned in Week 6 after a bye to play against the Eagles.
However, he suffered a complication in Week 8 against the Seahawks and was forced to leave the game. A second round pick in the 2009 NFL Draft, Delmas has recorded one interception in 2012
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Sober Living for the Revolution: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge And Radical Politics
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Straight edge has persisted as a drug-free, hardcore punk subculture for 25 years. Its political legacy, however, still remains ambiguous – often associated with self-righteous macho posturing and conservative puritanism. But while certain elements of straight edge culture feed into such perception, the movement's political history is actually far more complex.
Since straight edge's origins in Washington, D.C. in the early '80s, it has been linked to radical thought and action by countless individuals, bands, and scenes worldwide. Sober Living for the Revolution traces the history of this culture from its beginnings.
Including contributions – in the form of in-depth interviews, essays, and manifestos – by numerous artists and activists connected to straight edge, from Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat/Fugazi) and Mark Andersen (Dance of Days/Positive Force DC) to Dennis Lyxzén (Refused/The (International) Noise Conspiracy) and Andy Hurley (Racetraitor/Fall Out Boy), from bands like ManLiftingBanner and Point of No Return to feminist and queer initiatives, radical collectives like CrimethInc. and Alpine Anarchist Productions to the Emancypunx project and many others.
These people have been dedicated as much to sober living as to the fight for a better world.
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Kentucky Proves to be Unkind to Austin Wayne Self
AUSTIN, TEXAS (July 8, 2016) – Austin Wayne Self's string of bad luck continued after finishing a disappointing 27th in Thursday night's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) Buckle Up In Your Truck 225 from Kentucky Speedway.
Self, making his first career NCWTS start at Kentucky Speedway, had a strong Toyota yet was unable to complete the scheduled 150-lap event, after a fierce three-wide battle on lap-45 ended with the air being taken off the nose of Self's truck, getting him loose and into the outside wall. At the time, the twenty-year old Self, who started from the twenty-third position, was battling the No.98 of Rico Abreu for the 17th spot.
After sustaining right front-side damage to his No.22 AM Technical Solutions Toyota, Self would pit for repairs. Hopeful, the crew jumped into action to access the damage all while attempting to keep Self on the lead lap. As Self exited pit road with intentions to return, it became obvious the damage sustained during the accident was more than just cosmetic. Under caution and circling the 1.5 mile newly repaved Kentucky track Self severed an oil line causing the rookie driver to bring his Toyota behind the wall for more attention.
After losing 31-laps making repairs Self was able to re-fire the engine and return to action hoping to salvage as much as possible. Limping his crippled Toyota around the track Self would eventually succumb to transmission failure while in the 27th position.
"I am disappointed with our finish tonight at Kentucky Speedway. We got into an accident on lap 45 where we severed an oil line. My entire AM Racing team worked really hard to get us back out there and gain some positions on the track."
"We had a solid run going there, picked up 8 positions. I hate that we weren't able to run the whole race and bring the AM Technical Solutions Toyota home with a good finish tonight."
Despite the lackluster finish the AM Racing team walked away with their heads held high – knowing their efforts will soon pay dividends.
"These guys don't evet quit. When things went bad they kicked into another gear and got me back out on the track when all seemed lost. Everyone takes a lot of pride in what we do. We had a great truck tonight – but our night just got spoiled due to hard racing and some bad luck."
The AM Racing team will re-gather over the next week before returning to NCWTS competition for dirt action at Eldora Speedway in the Aspen Dental Eldora Dirt Derby on Wednesday, July 20.
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