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The Peripheral by William Gibson
By Doug Merrill in Cyberpunk, Doug, Dystopia, England, Fabulous Ones, Science Fiction
Like the protagonist of Neuromancer, William Gibson is an artiste of the slightly funny deal. In The Peripheral the first slightly funny deal is between some people in England who hire some other folks in a small-town part of Appalachia in the US. The English contingent wants the people across the pond to fly a drone, ostensibly in a game, and keep other paparazzi drones away from a window high up on a London tower. They've contracted Burton, a partly disabled veteran of an unspecified American war, to do the remote flying. It's close enough to what he did during wartime to take advantage of the skills that remain even after the government took back the haptic enhancements they had given him. But Burton has things to do besides swatting drones in a game, so he lets his sister Flynne take a shift or two and thinks his employers will be none the wiser. She's at least as good with the drone as he is, and it's all done remotely, what can go wrong?
Meanwhile, Wilf Netherton is a publicist with a problem. Daedra West, a performance artist who is his current client and not incidentally a former lover, is about to cause an incident by parafoiling into a mid-ocean meeting wearing nothing but a lot of brand-new tattoos. That will upset the sponsors who include puritanical Saudis. That reaction is likely to be mild compared with what her counterparts at the meeting might do: eat her right up, as they have done to more than one person who recently attempted contact. That won't be the worst of it, says Rainey, Wilf's partner on the project. "She's a death cookie, Wilf, for the next week or so. Anyone so much as steals a kiss goes into anaphylactic shock. Something with her thumbnails, too, but we're less clear on that." (p. 6) What can go right?
The opening chapters are unforgiving, alternating between the two settings and giving readers little in the way of description and a lot in the way of terms particular to each. Gibson shows what his characters experience and has them talk like regular people of the worlds that they inhabit who know that everyone they talk with shares the same context. What gradually emerges (although the text on the cover spells much of this out) is that Burton and Flynne are in the near future, living in a poor county in the hills where much of the economy runs on drug manufacturing, while Wilf and Daedra are about seventy years further into the future on the other side of interlocking disasters — pandemics (The Peripheral was published in 2014), climate crises, social breakdown — that are collectively called "the jackpot." Those disasters kill a large share of humanity, but the survivors have mastered advanced technologies such as nanotech assembly, carbon sequestration, personalized medicine, full-brain telepresence, and more.
Gibson implies that Wilf's London is not home to the latest technology by having the book's central conceit come from China and being as mysterious to the characters as to readers: Advanced computation has worked out ways to contact alternative pasts to the characters' present, known in the book as "stubs." Once contacted, the possibilities from that past branch off and lead to different futures, thus preserving causality at the future end. It's all a bit handwavy, as it must be, but it works within the book because the limitations feel real, and Gibson keeps the rules consistent once he establishes them. Information can pass between times, but not physical objects. The stubs are largely playthings of some of the ultra-rich kleptocrats who run Wilf's post-jackpot world. (Their power is so entrenched that they are simply called "the klepts," and everyone knows what they are like.)
The deal with Burton and Flynne gets slightly funny when Flynne sees something she shouldn't — a crime involving Daedra's sister — and the pretense that the London she's flying in is just a game falls apart. Soon competing klepts are taking an interest in the stub that Flynne calls reality. Nor are the pre-jackpot people content to be mere pawns in games played by the future. Soon past and future are as entangled as any pair of quantum particles.
Some novels, especially science fiction novels, have intriguing ideas that the author spends much of the book working out. Other novels have characters whose lives fascinate readers, while still others portray worlds different from the one that readers know, settings that feel real and immersive, worth visiting for that reason alone. The Peripheral offers all three in service to a story that's propulsive and comes to a satisfying conclusion. Despite Gibson's spare style in this book, I could clearly picture the scenes where the novel's events play out, from the initial confrontation on the great garbage spiral in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, through the county boss' pseudo-plantation compound, to the greenways and cosplay areas of further-future London. At first, I had a little difficulty keeping track of the various people in the main characters' lives, but that's because they, especially Flynne, have the numerous connections and long histories of real relationships. There are friends, and friends' cousins, and cousins' friends and they've all known each other since forever so they don't explain things as they talk to each other. The investment pays off later in the book when readers know why characters are doing things, cheering when they care for each other and hurting along with them when bad things happen. Because even if they happen to objectively bad people, the characters knew them when they were all just kids, and regret what became of them.
Gibson has famously opined that the future is already here, it just isn't evenly distributed, and parts of The Peripheral show that he is on the early distribution for important aspects of the late 2010s.
"How many [lawyers] us that?" [asked Flynne]
"Enough to buy all the chili dogs from Jimmy's, noon and night," [said Janice]. "They preorder, send drones to pick 'em up. Danny went to Commercial Kitchen Warehouse for new chili pots." Danny was the man who ran Jimmy's, a grandnephew of the actual Jimmy, who [Flynne's] mother remembered from when she was little. "He wanted to put his price up, but Burton had Tommy tell him not to. So I think you're subsidizing the chili dogs, kinda."
"So's not to put the town off Coldiron [a company future London founded in the stub]. They already think it's about Leon. Conspiracy theory's that he won a lot more in that lottery than the state let on."
"No sense in that."
"Conspiracy theory's got to be simple. Sense doesn't come into it. People are more scared of how complicated shit actually is than they ever are about whatever's supposed to be behind the conspiracy."
"What's the theory?"
"Not that firmed up, yet." (pp. 328–29)
"[Daedra] has herself tattooed," [Wilf] said. "But it's more complicated than that."
"Like with rings and things?" [asked Flynne].
"No. The tattoos aren't the product. She herself is the product. Her life."
"What they used to call reality shows?"
"I don't know. Why did they stop calling them that?"
"Because it got to be all there is, except Ciencia Loca and anime, and those Brazilian serials. Old-fashioned, to call it that."
He stopped, reading something she couldn't see. "Yes. She's descended from that, in a sense. Reality television. It merged with politics. Then with performance art."
They walked on. "I think that already happened, back home." (p. 347)
The Peripheral is also full of terrific moments of people acting in the funny ways that they do. Conner is one of Burton's oldest friends, a friendship that survived the military service that came a lot closer to killing Conner than it did Burton. At home, Conner is a damaged survivor, taking out his anger in inappropriate places. In the future, telepresence lets him inhabit a body that's whole and in great shape; he also gets to try more exotic things as well. Clovis is a special agent, part of the group that London has instructed to help Flynne and company.
Flynne went over to [Conner]. "What were you in, up there? Mason says you're training."
Kind of like a washing machine, inertial propulsion. Big-ass fly-wheels inside."
"Washing machine?"
"About three hundred pounds. Big red cube. I'd just learned to balance it on one corner, then rotate, when they made me come back."
"What's it for?"
"Fuck if I know. Wouldn't want to meet one in a dark alley." He lowered his voice. "Macon's high on a government stimulant. Like builders' best, but minus the jitters. None of that dys-fucking-functional kind of paranoia."
"Not like your own super-functional kind?"
[Conner] looked from her to Macon. "Won't give me any," he said.
"Doctor's orders," Macon said. "And anyway they engineered every last thing out of it that people do drugs for. Except staying awake."
"You quit being so whiny-assed special," Clovis advised Conner … "like every other butt-hurt Haptic Recon pussy it's been my misfortune to meet, and maybe I'll get you a nice cup of coffee."
Conner looked up at her like he'd discovered a kindred spirit.
The deals remain slightly funny until the very end, though they have long since stopped being laughing matters. And in that end, the characters get what they need, if not necessarily what they deserve.
Laura's review, written when The Peripheral was more newly published, is here.
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Writer, editor, translator, project manager, reformed bookseller. Currently based in Berlin, following stints in Moscow, Tbilisi, Munich, Washington, Warsaw, Budapest and Atlanta. Also blogs at A Fistful of Euros, though less frequently than here these days.
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Following up on Dynamite's recent announcement of the Women of Dynamite line of busts based on the artwork of legendary illustrator Art Adams (which debuts with Red Sonja next month), we now get to see the Vampirella bust schedule to be released in February.
This piece is being produced by The Brewing Factory and sculptor Jason Smith as a limited edition poly-resin bust with cast-metal details and a base measuring 3″ by 5.5″. Packaged in a four-color display box, each of these highly-detailed busts celebrates one of the industry's finest artists.
The Women of Dynamite limited edition Vampirella bust will be solicited in the December 2016 Previews catalog and slated for release in February 2017, priced at $89.99.


Tip # 1: Get a spray tan 3-4 days before the wedding day.
It gave me a bridal glow!
Tip # 2: Wear a button down shirt when you are getting ready so your hair and makeup don't get messed up when you go to put your wedding dress on.
Button down shirt getting ready is a must!
Tip # 3: Apply waterproof mascara over your other mascara so when you cry your makeup doesn't run.
Tip # 4: Buy the lip gloss your makeup artist uses so you can reapply before pictures.
Tip # 5: Don't wash your hair the day of the wedding. Most stylists recommend you wash your hair the day before.
Tip #6: Carry extra bobby pins in your purse. That way you can quickly fix your hair and get right back to the party.
Tip # 7: Don't forget to put on deodorant! Your nerves will make you sweat a little more than normal, don't be a smelly bride!
I knew I had applied deodorant after I showered in the morning, but when we got in the limo, I freaked and said "oh my gosh, I don't remember if I put deodorant on after I put my dress on!" Luckily Mandy (Matt's sister and a bridesmaid) said "I have some!" So of course I put it on in the limo, while driving to the church. I think 3 other bridesmaids applied as well; Laughing the whole time!!


Milk is one of the things that a lot of people enjoy drinking and adding to their food and beverages. However, a lot of people are unaware that they have lactose intolerance or a sensitivity to lactose and they suffer for it. The need for dairy milk alternatives is on the rise; thankfully, there are a host of options that are just as delicious and may even prove to be healthier.
Lactose intolerance is the body's inability to produce lactase which is the enzyme created by the small intestine to breakdown the natural sugar commonly found in dairy products that's called lactose. Lactose intolerance can have a variety of symptoms ranging from bloating to diarrhea, all of these making it painful and uncomfortable. There are manycauses for lactose intolerance to happen. It may be due to genetics or it may be a symptom of other underlying health issues.
On the other hand, milk allergy is an allergy towards the proteins found in milk which can trigger a variety of allergic reactions such as hives, difficulty in breathing, and swelling of the mouth or lips. This is more common in children and a lot of them outgrow the allergy towards milk as they grow old as well. As with any food allergy, it is better to err on the side of caution to prevent more critical allergic reactions, such as anaphylactic shock, from happening.
Studies show that about 65% of the human population has a reduced ability to digest lactose; anotherstudy shows that about 3% of children below the age of 3 suffer from milk allergy. Because of the high numbers related to lactose intolerance and milk allergy, it is imperative for dairy milk substitutes to be available as a healthier and better alternative to this beverage that is widely used by a lot of people.
Because there is a need for the existence of dairy milk substitutes, the growing availability of these dairy milk alternatives is a welcome change for those suffering from lactose intolerance and milk allergy.
Coconut Milk- the milk derived from coconuts is one of the creamiest milk substitutes that you can enjoy that can be used in your beverages and in food recipes.It is a good source of Vitamin D, Vitamin B12, and potassium. It has no carbohydrates so it's a good option for those looking to reduce their carbohydrate intake. It is also a great option for those who would like a gluten-free dairy milk alternative but it may not be the best for those who would like to get some of their protein needs from milk as it only contains a gram of protein per cup.
Coconut milk is creamy, delectable, and nutritious.
Rice Milk - this dairy milk alternative is made from water and milled white or brown rice. It is naturally sweet and it is also the most hypoallergenic dairy milk alternative making it a great choice for those suffering from gluten intolerance and would like to have agluten-free alternative or to those who suffer from nut allergies. Rice milk goes well with smoothie and dessert recipes and it can also be enjoyed on its own. The down side of rice milk is that it contains high levels of carbohydrates and it is also high in calories so it may not be the best option for those who are looking to cut down on their caloric intake or to those whose diet already consists a lot of carbs. It is, however, a great option for those who may need a neutral-flavored milk alternative especially if it comes fortified with calcium and other vitamins.
Almond Milk- almond milk is derived from whole almonds and water, and it is a slightly sweet and light-textured milk. The nutty flavor that goes with the milk makes it a great alternative for dairy creamer or milk for beverages such as tea and coffee. It has about a third of the calories found in dairy milk and it can also provide about 50% of your daily required value of Vitamin E. However, almond milk is not known for having protein, minerals, and fatty acids because it is made up mostly of water so going for vitamin-fortified almond milk may be the best option for you if this will be your milk of choice.
Soy Milk- soy milk is one of the most popular dairy milk alternatives because its nutritional content is the one most similar to cow's milk. It has about 8-10 grams of protein per cup which is close to the amount you can find in cow's milk. It also contains half the calories and fat that you would normally get from a cup of cow's milk. Soy milk is also commonly fortified with calcium, riboflavin, and a variety of vitamins and it is commonly available in a variety of flavors such as unsweetened, chocolate, and vanilla. However, it is not recommended for those who suffer from FODMAP intolerance or for those who have soy allergies.
Hemp Milk- this milk is created using the hulled seeds of the hemp plant,cannabis sativa, which is of the same family as marijuana. However, it only contains trace amounts of the chemical tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) which is responsible for the mind-altering properties of marijuana making their relation moot in discussing the pros and cons of hemp milk. This dairy milk alternative is another great option for those with gluten and nut sensitivities, and it is usually used as an alternative for skim milk because of its light texture and its mildly sweet and nutty flavor. Hemp also contains the same amount of fat as cow's milk but with half of the calories. It is also a good source of protein and essential amino acids, as well as omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. The flavor of hemp milk may take some getting used to but its overall nutritional content is not something that can be easily ignored especially since omega 3 and omega 6 cannot be made by our bodies and can only be had through food.
Oat Milk- this dairy milk alternative is made with the mixture of oats and water and it may be the easiest to do in the comfort of your own home. However, commercial oat milk may be a better option as most of them come fortified with extra vitamins and minerals to go with the incredibly high levels of total fiber and beta-glucan that can be derived from oat milk. It does have higher levels of carbohydrates compared to cow's milk but it has about half of its fat content. It is also a great alternative for those who have gluten-intolerance and vegans who are looking for a healthy and easy-to-access dairy milk alternative.
As more and more people become more aware of lactose intolerance and with those who would like to be more proactive in finding solutions for their milk allergies, the growing availability of milk alternatives is a wonderful thing. With the number of alternatives available which can be mixed and matched to suit your preference and needs, the wariness that comes with lactose intolerance and milk allergies is starting to become a thing of the past.
Knowing that you have healthier options is always a great thing but knowing that these options are also just as delicious as your regular cow's milk makes having these options even more enjoyable. Having these options makes the creating a healthier version of the food that you would normally enjoy with dairy milk even more exciting and satisfying because you know that your body and your taste buds are enjoying every single delicious bite of your food.


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By Christopher Taylor at 11/24/2008 10:33:00 am
Mating pair of the ground beetle Leptoferonia hatchi (Harpalinae, Pterostichini). Photo by Kipling Will.
It is well-known that beetles are one of the most diverse groups of animals in existence, and include more described species than any other "order" of organisms (though as we make further inroads into the remaining reservoir of undescribed species, I fully expect mites and Hymenoptera to give beetles a good run for their money). Within the beetles, one of the largest and best-known families, with over 30,000 described species*, are the ground beetles of the Carabidae. By way of comparison, this is a similar number of species to the entire collection of terrestrial vertebrates.
*Tree of Life says 30,000; Wikipedia says 40,000. In the absence of any other authority, I'll go with Tree of Life.
Carabids have been one of the best-studied group of beetles because they are relatively large, often very colourful, and some species (notably the tiger beetles of the Cicindelinae) are often highly visible. Carabids are mostly active predators, generally feeding on any small invertebrate unfortunate enough to cross their path. The phylogeny of carabids is poorly resolved (Beutel et al., 2008), but one large clade that is generally recognised on morphological grounds (if not necessarily on molecular grounds - Maddison et al., 1999) is the Carabidae Conjunctae which, because I've got a thing against taxon names with more than one word in them, I'm just going to call Conjunctae from here on in*. The Conjunctae include three subfamilies (in the broad sense) of carabids, the Broscinae, Harpalinae and Psydrinae (Roig-Juñent & Cicchino, 2001), though Roig-Juñent & Cicchino (2001) indicated that "Psydrinae" was para/polyphyletic with regard to the other two subfamilies, and other sources such as the Carabidae of the World database divide each group among a number of smaller subfamilies. Conjunctae are united by (and get their name from) their conjunct mesocoxae - the plates of the sternum (the underside of the thorax) are expanded to enclose the mesocoxae (the basalmost segments of the second pair of legs). Roig-Juñent & Cicchino (2001) identified a few other features that might unite the Conjunctae, such as the presence of an elytral plica (a distinct indentation at the back end of the elytra), but as those authors didn't include a great many non-Conjunctae carabids in their analysis I'm not sure how certain those features are to be apomorphic.
*I think I can argue that this is fairly standard taxonomic practice. Quite a lot of taxon names are technically plural adjectives used as singular nouns. Plant family names, for instance, are explicitly required to be.
Mormolyce phyllodes, a somewhat different-looking ground beetle (Harpalinae, Lebiini) from South Asia. Photo by Sarefo.
The Conjunctae are one of the largest clades of carabids, but that is primarily due to the inclusion of the Harpalinae, which alone account for more than half of carabid species. Many Conjunctae (particularly many Harpalinae sensu lato) produce noxious defensive secretions when threatened, and members of the harpaline or near-harpaline tribe Brachinini are the infamous bombadier beetles, which are able to mix their defensive secretions to form an explosive mixture. The Harpalinae also include the Harpalini, which are unusual in having abandoned the carnivorous habits of their ancestors and turned to a life of seed-eating.
And just as an example of some of the unexpected things that sometimes turn up when I search online for stuff to use in these posts - it appears that Rita Skeeter might have belonged to the Conjunctae.
Beutel, R. G., I. Ribera & O. R. P. Bininda-Emonds. 2008. A genus-level supertree of Adephaga (Coleoptera). Organisms Diversity & Evolution 7 (4): 255-269.
Maddison, D. R., M. D. Baker & K. A. Ober. 1999. Phylogeny of carabid beetles as inferred from 18S ribosomal DNA (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Systematic Entomology 24: 103-138.
Roig-Juñent, S., & A. C. Cicchino. 2001. Chaltenia patagonica, new genus and species belonging to Chalteniina, a new subtribe of Zolini (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Canadian Entomologist 133: 651-670.
Labels: Adephaga, Coleoptera, Holometabola, Insecta, Pterygota
While some authors consider tiger beetles to be subordinate to the family Carabidae, there is by no means universal or even majority agreement with such position. As a clade, they are undoubtedly monophyletic, and their exclusion from the Carabidae does not result in paraphyly for the latter, so the question of whether they represent a distinct family or a subfamily of Carabidae is largely subjective based on the rank importance given to their distinguishing characteristics. They are closely related to be sure, but in my mind their unique life history and highly derived larval morphology tip the balance in favor of familial status - a view shared by many North American workers (Terry Erwin being a notable exception).
Christopher Taylor 24 November 2008 at 14:45
Personally, I've seen very few recent references that maintain a separate Cicindelidae. Not, I'll admit, that I've really been looking. I will quibble with...
their exclusion from the Carabidae does not result in paraphyly for the latter
...because there really doesn't seem to be support either way on this one. Surprisingly few studies have been done on caraboid phylogeny as a whole, it seems - most studies have focused on specific genera or tribes. The molecular phylogeny paper I linked to in the references (Maddison et al., 1999) actually found Cicindelinae in a quite derived position within Carabidae, within the sister-group to Harpalinae + Brachinini, but I'm sure you'll not be surprised to hear that even the authors of the paper didn't really buy their results in that regard, and forcing Cicindelidae outside Carabidae did not result in a significantly different level of support. A more recent study of carabid phylogeny pretty much eliminated the tiger beetles from consideration from the start because they dicked with the analysis.
Unique features of tiger beetles wouldn't actually be informative when it comes to phylogeny, because they don't say anything about the position of tiger beetles relative to anything else. You need shared characters between taxa to establish that.
Andreas Johansson 24 November 2008 at 21:42
Quite a lot of taxon names are technically plural adjectives used as singular nouns. Plant family names, for instance, are explicitly required to be.
I was somewhat surprised to find from some googling that "Asteraceae" indeed seems to be more commonly treated as singular ("Asteraceae is") than plural ("Asteraceae are").
The ICBN itself, however, uses plural agreement, eg. "the Papilionaceae ... are" from Art. 18.5.
I am, admittedly, not very familiar with the Old World literature; however, North American authors overwhelmingly treat tigers as a separate family. Recent examples include the current U.S. catalogue (Freitag 1999), Pearson and Vogler's 2001 book on evolution, ecology, and diversity, and the very recent U.S. field guide (Peason et al. 2006), as well as numerous smaller works. A quick perusal of recent issues of the journal CICINDELA also shows similar majority support for familial status by authors from North America as well as other parts of the world.
I'm not saying this means there is a consensus, only that support for subfamilial status is nowhere close to majority.
My last statement regarding tiger synapomorphies was intended to emhasize their grade significance rather than being supportive of carabid monophyly. Regarding the latter, it'll take much stronger molecular data than what currently exist to convince me that the phylogenetic intuitions provided by morphology are misleading.
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With the risk of saying too much from our unpublished data on the BToL project, it's unambiguous from several nuclear protein-coding genes (the largest molecular dataset yet) that the Cicindelinae are nested well within the remaining Carabidae, with strong statistical support.
Drat. Next you're going to tell me beetles are nested well within the muscoid clade!
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The project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), is exploring life in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from a new perspective by looking at the extent to which citizens there actually knew about the Stasi, the secret police. This differs from most current academic discourse on the matter which focuses on the agency's knowledge about citizens and their methods of information gathering.
Following Germany's defeat in 1945, the country was geographically divided between the four Allied forces: the Soviet Union, Great Britain, France, and the United States, the occupied zones of the latter three uniting to become the Federal Republic of Germany. The North-East area occupied by the Soviet Union included Leipzig, Dresden, Rostock and parts of Berlin and was made into the GDR socialist state with a centralised planned economy throughout the Cold War before the collapse of the Berlin Wall and thus the GDR in 1989. The population is described as having lived in fear of the official state security service, the Stasi, whose employees in 1989 totalled more than 90,000. It has been regarded as one of the most effective and extensive intelligence and secret police agencies which primarily spied on the East German population through an immense network of informers to overcome any opposition expressed by the public.
The project is being led by Dr Anselma Gallinat, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Newcastle University, who is working alongside a large team interested in memory studies including Dr Joanne Sayner, Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Heritage Studies at Newcastle University, and Prof Sara Jones from the University of Birmingham. The project is also being run in cooperation with the Federal Agency for Civic Education in Bonn and a local branch of the Federal Agency for Stasi-files in Magdeburg. Through this inter-university and inter-disciplinary approach, the subject can be analysed from different perspectives with varying theoretical approaches; Dr Sayner has expertise in antifascism in the GDR while Prof Jones has extensive knowledge of literary studies. Furthermore, Dr Gallinat has a biographical link as she grew up in the GDR; she has research expertise regarding sociocultural changes, identities and narratives in eastern Germany following the fall of the GDR.
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The project will analyse how information was shared within social networks, including the workplace and religious settings; the role of the Church in the collapse of the GDR in 1989 is something that Dr Gallinat's father, who provided the impetus for this project, believes to be particularly underestimated.


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Does gender equality suffer when women get menstrual leave?
Written by The Conversation Contributor
There's nothing like a whiff of taboo to make news media outlets and social media erupt with vitriolic debate. Mention menstruation in popular culture and – just like sex-related topics – it proves to be irresistible "click-bait".
But for those of us interested in gender equality, the real issue is whether this is helping or hindering the feminist cause.
The latest mention of menstruation to hit the mainstream comes from the United Kingdom, where a not-for-profit organisation called Coexist has introduced a "period policy".
It offers female employees the option of taking leave from work if they are suffering from menstrual pain, or dysmenorrhea.
International sportswear company Nike introduced similar menstrual leave for employees in 2007. Around the world, leave is available to women suffering menstrual pain in China, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia and Japan.
But such open acknowledgement of menstruation and its impact upon the female body is rare in western countries.
Coexist's period policy has provoked some wonderful satire and divided public opinion as to whether this constitutes "playing the girly card".
My feelings about the move are mixed. This policy could be seen either as a positive recognition of the realities of everyday life as a menstruating woman, or as a regressive return to the dark days when women were discriminated against on the basis of biology.
In this sense, the debate around period policies or menstrual leave references the wider history of feminist thought and the battle for women's rights.
Late 19th century doctors were in furious agreement that menstruation rendered girls and women less capable than men.
Many agreed with Harvard medical professor Edward Clarke that this "monthly sickness" meant females were not mentally or physically fit for public roles such as paid employment or university study. Biology was used as an excuse to lock women out of the public sphere.
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This history explains the 20th century movement for equality feminism: the claim that women are exactly the same as men.
The curious things that women's bodies can do, such as menstruate, lactate and bear children, were downplayed in an effort to minimise any sense of female incapacity. Sex education books for girls from the mid-20th century insisted that menstruation "doesn't make you any 'different' than you are on any other day".
These days opinions on menstruation are divided. Some, like menstruation educators Red School, want to recognise and celebrate female cycles.
Some "menstrual activists" look for ways for women to reclaim control of their cycles, through such steps as the use of re-usable menstrual products.
Others want to get rid of menstruation altogether through the use of hormonal treatments, arguing that it is linked to heightened risks of breast, endometrial and ovarian cancers (an unproven claim).
The problem with deciding whether menstrual leave is a good idea is that women's experiences of menstruation are as varied as our fingerprints. Research is contradictory, claiming variously that half of New Zealand women, 84 per cent of Italian women or 90 per cent of Iranian women experience some form of dysmenorrhea.
Enshrining menstrual leave as a normal part of organisational policy creates the impression that all women experience period pain so crippling that ordinary work functioning is impossible.
But menstrual experiences are not uniform. Some women feel like sex during their periods, some don't. Some feel creative and stimulated, some would rather avoid social interaction. Some feel like going for a 10km run and some would rather curl up on the couch with a block of chocolate.
I'd rather not instigate a workplace policy that mandates a particular way of experiencing menstruation: that it necessarily requires time off work and a retreat from the world.
Instead, I'd rather teach girls and women to pay attention to their unique experience of menstruation, to listen to how it makes them think, feel and act.
That may require some adjustment to their lives at different times of the month (when sick leave is always an option).
That may mean explaining to people around them that they feel grumpy when PMS strikes.
But let's not create a blanket expectation that all women are crippled by periods or we risk a return to the bad old days when a woman's intelligence was thought to drip out of her body along with her uterus lining.
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Q: Do a pairwise comparison of each element in two sets and return a top 3 ranklist Given two sets, how do I perform a pairwise comparison of each element in one set with each element of the other set.
I would like to get top 3 results for each element in the initial set.\
Is there a faster way to solve the task. I am looking for a more pythonic way of doing the task.
set1 = set([str(item) for item in range(100)])   # Pls. note originally set contains strings
set2 = set([str(item) for item in range(50,150)]) # set([str(item) for item in range(50,100)])

for item in set1:
  max = [-1,-1,-1]
  for stuff in set2:
    val = magicComp(item,stuff)
    if val > max[0]:
        max[2] = max[1]
        max[1] = max[0]
        max[0] = val
    elif val > max[1]:
        max[2] = max[1]
        max[1] = val
    elif val > max[2]:
        max[2] = val

A: Your answer's not bad, it's better than sorting the array on each iteration, but it's still O(N^2).
Since you know the array indices that you want, you can use the quickselect algorithm to find indices 0,1,2 based on the magicComp function in O(log n) time.   This'll reduce your run-time to O(n*log n)
Based on the code in that link, your code would look something like:
results = {}
ls2 = list(set2)
for el in set1:
    results[el] = [select(ls2, ii) for ii in [0,1,2]]

A: If we want to be really pythonic, something like
from functools import partial

most_valueable = {
    item1: sorted(set2, key=partial(magicComp, item1), reverse=True)[0:3]
    for item1 in set1
}

should do the trick. This is still O(n² ln n), however, since we need to re-sort the second set for every item.

A: Ehmmm, faster way. Your original version is of time complexity O(3n) for each inner iteration.
Below is faster with time complexity O(nlg3).
from queue import PriorityQueue

q = PriorityQueue(maxsize=3)
for item in set1:
    map(q.put, (-1 * magicComp(item,stuff) for stuff in set2))
    max = []
    while not q.empty():
        max.append(-1 * q.get())

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Ukraine: UA:PBC submits Eurovision 2023 security questionnaire and proposes venues to the EBU
Photo: EBU / Andres Putting
Yesterday we learned that Spain definitely won't host Eurovision 2023 and that the U.K. is, according to Spain's TV boss, the first alternative if Ukraine pulls out.
But today Ukraine's state broadcaster has dropped a fresh press release that makes it clear it still has every intention to host. We are reprinting their press statement in full below.
Ukraine: UA:PBC submits Eurovision 2023 security questionnaire to the EBU
UA:PBC statement in full
On 14 June the Official Kick-off Meeting of the organizers from Ukraine with the Reference Group, partners of the Eurovision Song Contest and the core team from the EBU. At this meeting the contest representatives and the EBU considered the presentation of guarantees and preparatory measures, in particular the security questionnaire, potential locations for the contest hosting prepared by the team of UA: PBC together with the government of Ukraine.
"All safety and security related measures have to be prepared and implemented in close cooperation with the national authorities. So we held consultations with the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (National Police, State Emergency Service, National Guard) and the Ministry of Defense. Their experts together with security and risk assessment units of UA: PBC prepared common vision of the security situation and measures to be taken for the hosting of Eurovision next year. We thank the state authorities for their involvement and prompt preparation," said Head of the Managing Board of UA: PBC Mykola Chernotytskyi.
The working group of UA: PBC together with state and local authorities are considering several options of hosting the event in three different regions of Ukraine.
"Yesterday we submitted a presentation of the questionnaire for the hosting of Eurovision in Ukraine to the European Broadcasting Union. Within a very short timeframe, the governmental team managed to provide thorough and comprehensive answers. Everybody worked in a very efficient and coordinated manner – from the public broadcaster and security authorities to the Prime Minister who assured with a letter that all the obligations that we have assumed will be fulfilled. We gave detailed answers regarding security questions and other organisation nuances, proposed several venues. I believe that we should have exhaustive, clear and honest answers to questions – that is what we did. We understand that in the current circumstances both we and the EBU face a challenge of organising Eurovision in Ukraine. But we have accepted this challenge and, I am sure, we will surprise everyone," said Minister of Culture and Information Policy Oleksandr Tkachenko.
In addition, on 10 June the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine established the Organizational Committee for preparation and execution of the Eurovision Song Contest in Ukraine in 2023.
As a reminder, after the victory of "Kalush Orchestra" at Eurovision 2022 in Turin Ukraine gained the right to host the Song Contest next year. UA: PBC as a member of the European Broadcasting Union ensures the selection and participation of a representative of Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest, is an official broadcaster of the contest, and organizes the contest the following year in case of Ukraine's victory.
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XOOD
NO! if they hosted somehow it will be used as a propaganda outlet, and it will further solid th claim about eurovision being only political.
Ugnius
Want Eurovision to be hosted safely ? Tell your goverments to send as many weapons as possible NOW. They can end this war, they only lack weapons
oh I see the first fandom meltdown for the next season has already begun LOL
Anything being built for hosting would be nuked by Russia. They should rather host it in Poland with Ukraine's team working with the Polish one. Most likely scenerio will still be UK hosting with Graham Norton.
I fully support Ukraine during this time. However, I cannot support them hosting the contest next year. It's not right to have 13 million citizens classified as refugees, whilst hosting such a large entertainment event. Please look after your people and your infrastructure first.
Leafar
i'm sorry but are they out are their minds ?? I understand that they really want to do this but there is a WAR what are they thinking about gosh…
Jacob Teglbjærg
Reply to Leafar
What was Europe thinking about when they voted for them? Putin hasnt stopped the war and Ukraine is still destroyer by bombs. How stupid was the audience to think it would do Ukraine a favor to win?
Reply to Jacob Teglbjærg
History tells us that winning doesn't necessarily mean hosting the following edition. What's your suggestion? Only vote for those countries who are able to host?
Sorry San Marino and Iceland, Jacob just effectively prohibited you from ever winning.
Dear fellow Europeans, you voted out of pity for Ukraine. Now watch and feel sorry for what you did. First selling a trophy to buy weapons (instead of helping millions of refugees who lost their homes and had to leave Ukraine), now insisting to spend millions (with foreign help I'm sure, since they couldn't even afford the 2017 contest), instead of, once again, helping their people and start renovating their country (for which they expect other richer countries to help and give money). On top of everything, they want to put in risk thousands of people from other countries. I… Read more »
GKWHO
Another political eurovision awaits us. And guess what… Ukraine will probably win the eurovision next year again!
Fast Food Music Lover
Reply to GKWHO
That would be iconic. We haven't had a back-to-back winning country in awhile now.
Jercel11
Yes, quite a few people have said it's very possible the scenario at the contest for the next few years is Ukraine winning with massive televote scores. Which would be terrible for the contest, as it'll give ammunition to all the "it's all political" moaners, and let's face it, no other country is going to bother making an effort if it's a done deal that Ukraine will win.
ete sech
Reply to Jercel11
And probably no one will want or be keen to hear anything about Ukraine anymore once the war's over.
Well many Ukrainians have fled their country because of the war and have migrated to other European countries. Many of those Ukrainianians that migrated are now able to vote for their country Ukraine since they are not living in Ukraine anymore. This is why we saw Ukraine win the televote by such big margin. In case you didn't know!
If you're going to ignore next year's contest, shouldn't you have started already? What do you think this article is about?
Reply to Jonas
I'm glad you already know whom Europe will vote for in 11 months. Do you have some advice for the next Euro Jackpot as well?
Reply to Nils
No, not the slightest bit. I saw it coming ever since Kalush Orchestra's participation was confirmed once and for all. But there's no way televoters will overwhelmingly vote for Ukraine again in 2023. Or at least not out of pity. People simply aren't like that. Instead, they'll rather be like 'been there, done that'. You can already tell from the decreasing donations for Ukraine. And as sad as it is: in 11 months from now, the majority will have grown tired of hearing and reading about Ukraine. Just like they have grown tired of hearing and reading about the pandemic.… Read more »
Lots of tweets (as expected) responding to this with "it's Ukraine's right to host! Let them try!" or "Eurofans are just p*ssed about Ukraine hosting because it won't be a party and they won't be able to attend" or "Ukraine needs to host at such a dark time."
My response to this is simple:
The EBU cannot ask singers to go to a warzone to compete. It's that simple.
I wonder if we could end up with a live on tape situation for 2023?
Hyunwoo
I also heard that Kira Rudik also called for Eurovision 2023 to be held in Ukraine. Do you think it's safe? I think that no, it would be better if Ukraine did not spend money on the competition, but only on restoration
Shjddkls
Reply to Hyunwoo
But hypothetically speaking hosting Eurovision should help boost their economy so if they do end up hosting I'd say they are thinking of that and keeping Ukraine in the media and sharing the culture.
Let's just give the situation some time to develop itself. In the near future we'll simply find out whether Ukraine can host or not. We don't know what lies ahead of us, and we shouldn't let speculations cloud our minds too much. Anything can happen
Reply to Vivian
But we can't wait too long. We can't say "well, let's see what the situation is in September" because by then it'll be too late for another broadcaster to take over. So even if Ukraine is set on hosting, and the EBU wants to be supportive by going along with it, the EBU has to be taking steps with another broadcaster and developing a Plan B. And soon.
I knew this would happen. They're going to be fighting to host and causing trouble. They could barely host last time and there was no war!
Colono
I am strongly supporting Ukraine for their fight in this. Hosting is their right, not UK's or Spain's. If those two want to host that bad then they should win it. Taking advantage of the situation in a country at war to want to host is kinda pathetic.
Reply to Colono
UK and Spain are much safer places as of now. You wouldn't hold Eurovision in Gotham City during The Dark Knight Rises siege of Bane, right? I understand the need of UA:PBC to show that they are technically capable, but once logistics are put over sentiments, the lives of those involved should be the biggest priority.
Reply to Colin
Just yesterday President of France, Prime Minister of Germany and Prime Minister of Italy all together went to Kyiv with a TRAIN for god's sake. Yes, at eastern part of the country, there is an ongoing war but that zone is in war for almost a decade now. Kyiv and rest of the country, especially the western part is pretty much safe. At least as safe as Tel Aviv if you want to compare countries as always..
I know that Kyiv and Lviv are much safer than the East of the country. I hope that it remains so. However, occasional shelling unfortunately do happen, and it would've been terrible if it happened during ESC in the arena. While foreign politicians travelling to the West of Ukraine is a great sign, I'd still say that it's easier to watch intel on a couple of people than on a whole venue, filled with thousands, each with their own equipment. Sure, IF ESC indeed happens in Kyiv / Lviv, and it goes well, I'll be very happy. However, at this… Read more »
Yes, and while they were in Kiev, Putin surprised them with a little air raid alert. Just like he did a few weeks ago, when someone from Brussels visited.
Esc addict
Everyone here should relax and mind their own business. You are not the Ukrainian broadcaster or the Ebu, so let the people involved do their job and stop complaining. Ebu and Ukraine are well aware of the situation and they will never put anyone at risk if there are risks let them do their job they are so much better qualified than all of you and they are not unconscious… so be patient, remember last year we had the host city very very late so there is still plenty of time. To wait during this summer there will be Eurovision… Read more »
This is awesome. Keep fighting for your right to host, Ukraine! We support you!
The Eurovision channel on Youtube has released live-on-tape performances of this year's entrants and they all look great! Maybe this is a precursor of what next year's Eurovision will be. I have no objections.
UpinSpaceFan
Reply to Fast Food Music Lover
I do, as do many others. Why the hell should Eurovision be downgraded just to spare Ukraine's national ego?
Reply to UpinSpaceFan
Based on this year's viewing figures, Eurovision did a pretty good job downgrading itself…
Pandaman
And that's why it has to go even lower?
It would be great if we had another ESC hosted in Ukraine, but not during the time of such instability. In case you missed it, the war is still going there.
The Voice of Reason
They are acting as if a war is not happening. Regardless of whether a war is happening or not, they should not host for moral reasons, but also the country has potentially many bombs and explosives and fallen debris in its cities that could be dangerous if the war wasn't going on but it is anyway and will for the next year. I don't see it ending anytime soon. It's waaaay too dangerous to send delegations and insurance is a thing too.
I don't get why Ukraine keeps insisting when it's obvious they're unable to host. EBU should stop this delusion already
Reply to ete sech
Don't you have a fumbling economy to manage, Putin?
Sesil
"Anyone who disagrees with me is a Russian puppet", embarrassing
Not wanting Ukraine to win at the time and now being realistic doesn't mean I support P*tin, be real!
Fans need to chill. Both EBU and Suspilne are aware of the situation and I'm pretty sure that plans are being made for the possibility of having to host the contest elsewhere. At the same time, the host city doesn't need to be locked until some time in August and with the developments in Ukraine being highly dynamic, it's a good idea to also keep evaluating "Plan A" on an ongoing basis. There's no need to make the decision today, but it's a good idea to keep planning for all outcomes. Let's hope for the best, I would be very… Read more »
plantse
Reply to Samo
For Real. This is just like what happened in 2021 with the scenarios for hosting Eurovision in a safe manner due to COVID and planning for any of the 4 scenarios to happen. In this case, Ukraine hosting is the Plan A and under ideal conditions it would be chosen, but of course plan B is the UK in case plan A doesn't work to plan. There's still around 2 months for things to change and evaluate if Eurovision can safely be held in Ukraine or not, and as you said THE HOST CITY DOES NOT NEED TO BE LOCKED… Read more »
Oh Ukraine, I do love you, I always have and always will. Long before this war you were my favourite country in ESC. But hosting in 2023, really? I can't see it I must say. Maybe add a clause to the 2023 rules, before anyone has officially entered stating the 2023 winner WON'T have the automatic right to host 2024, as they will give it to Ukraine. I believe this happened in JESC when it was announced Belarus would host the following year regardless of outcome. By adding the clause before any confirmed participations, no one can say they were… Read more »
Does anyone actually think that there is any place in Ukraine that could safely host? This war isn't going away any time soon and Eurovision being hosted in Ukraine would be the biggest hot spot to attack. It is not safe for singers, fans, staff, delegations, techies, etc. As soon as it is announced that Ukraine will host Putin will be putting his plans together to make it impossible to happen
Apollo1606
Reply to romeo
Well only safe place in Ukraine could be Lviv,but even that isnt 100% safe.
At this point I am fully convinced that the ukrainian authorities came directly from Delusion Land. EBU, stop this crap right now
I'm happy for Ukraine but sad for Eurovision. It's not a good thing for a wartorn country to win the competition and hold the contest. I'm actually extremely concerned about this. Even if another country like UK holds the ESC next year it will still be so so so bad for the contest. A wartorn country won the title but Eurovision song contest lost big time because of this. I have nothing against Ukraine, I loved their entry but winning this year was reallybad long-term for Eurovision. Now Måneskin is burdened with having to carry the legitimacy of this contest… Read more »
Whatever those questions were, I highly doubt the answers they gave are fully realistic. They can't try and sell this image of security while they still cry for help against Russia saying they can't hold on by themselves. What are they playing at here?
Eurovision fan
Martin is terrible executive supervisor
We're just wasting precious time. We could have already started speculations about which city in UK will host ESC and have competition among cities.
And which country is willing to send their citizens in the high risk zone, who's gonna go?! This is ridiculous.
now that i see the light
Reply to Pete
Let the people who voted for Ukraine just because they were in a war go first. Those 439 points for this song didn't come from the ghosts
Reply to now that i see the light
So you're basically saying people MUSTN'T have voted for Ukraine just because Ukraine can't host the contest right now?
Maybe this should be a new rule, too? 'Any country that gets dragged into a war is forbidden to receive any points whatsoever.'?
Ffs, honestly. It's one thing to be sore because your favourite didn't win. But maybe you should try thinking for a second before you write s*** like this.
Unless you host it in Mariupol, don't even think about it.
This is pure pig-headedness at this point and the longer the EBU allow it to go on the more embarassing it gets.
Yawn…..
Sir Stevia
Please stop. We get that you wanna host – we love and support you but this is an awful idea. Please just let the UK host.
Jesper Hjellnes
Let UK host Eurovision 2023. But with at least one Ukrainian host and interval acts showing Ukrainian culture. I'm honestly surprised EBU is apparently willing to let Ukraine host. No one knows how Ukraine will be like in May 2023, and even if the war ends before then, it will take years to build up the country again.
esc2022turin
Reply to Jesper Hjellnes
The winner hosting the next competition is literally a tradition so the EBU surely wants Ukraine to host to keep it going, but it's a matter of time until they'll understand it's not possible unfortunately
Reply to esc2022turin
There already were exceptions in the past, so I don't think the EBU will be too stubborn.
MariAkki
There's so many better ways to use your money… I get it is a matter of national pride and a symbol of hope and showing that you think the war will be over, but still! How many international people will dare to travel, even though it's declared 'safe'?
What's this insistence.. Your country is in a war , some parts of it was destroyed and still is being destroyed and you still think to host Eurovision like it's the biggest problem
Please save your money and use it to rebuild your country and use that money for the victims , and let another country to host the show and be a safe place for all the visitors. Please


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Formula: C7H6I-
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rG° 1527. ± 13. kJ/mol IMRB Wenthold, Wierschke, et al., 1994 gas phase; Between MeCN and FCH2CH2OH
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Introducing Types and Coercion
The "Introducing Types and Coercion" Lesson is part of the full, Deep JavaScript Foundations course featured in this preview video. Here's what you'd learn in this lesson:
Kyle starts with an overview of first core foundation of JavaScript language: Types and Coercion
Transcript from the "Introducing Types and Coercion" Lesson
>> Kyle Simpson: Let's jump into JavaScript. We're gonna start with that first core foundation of the language, types and coercion. I want us to look at the primitive types in JavaScript, and right off the bat that might be a little counterintuitive to you because some of you may have heard before, JavaScript's a dynamic interpreted language, it doesn't have types, false, it absolutely has types.
[00:00:22] It absolutely has value types. If you read the spec, which I happen to have done, turns out there are built in primitive types in JavaScript. The only difference between C++ and JavaScript on the topic of types, the difference between the two is not that JavaScript doesn't have types.
[00:00:38] The real difference is what is typed. In a statically typed language which language is like C++ and Java they fall under that umbrella of statically typed. In a statically typed language we refer to a type as a description for what can go in a variable. In other words the variable itself is typed.
[00:00:59] In dynamic languages, there are still types but we don't focus on the variable, the container having a type. We focus on the value itself, having the type. So, we think about them as value types as opposed to container types. Now, people will disagree on the usage of the word type and you shouldn't call it that, whatever.
[00:01:20] That's a bunch of academic nonsense. If I open up the JavaScript spec, it says primitive types. It uses that word, so let me just give you a definition for that word, type, that we can use, a very pragmatic definition for that word type. The set of intrinsic behaviors that we can expect, given any particular value.
[00:01:42] That's it. Given the value 42, there are behaviors that we can expect. We can expect that we can do math on it. We can expect that we can add, subtract, multiply and divide that number. We can format it to have different number representations like in base 10 or base 16.
[00:02:00] We can expect to do specific things with that number. The value quote 42 on the other hand, while visually they look almost the same, that value has a different set of expectations. Those expectations are well we can access the individual characters. We can do input output with it like print it to the console or add it to a DOM element.
[00:02:24] It's the value types that matter. So we want to look at these primitive types. Natives this actually frankly a kind of confusing part of JavaScript. It's a bit of some historical baggage that we get from the language having been designed to be attractive. It's interesting that JavaScript was designed to be attractive to Java developers, but I've never met any crowd other than the Haskell folks.
[00:02:46] I've never met any crowd in all of programming that hates JavaScript more than the Java developers of the world. And I'm not making that too broadly, obviously there's plenty of people that like to write both but it seems like when I teach the most vocal opponents of JavaScript are those that come from the Java land.
[00:03:04] So interesting that natives were added as one of the ways to try to make JavaScript more palatable to Java developers to make it look more familiar. If you don't know the history of JavaScript, it's Brendan Ike went to Netscape in 1995 wanting to put schema in the browser and in the job interview they're like yeah yeah yeah come put schema in the browser.
[00:03:23] And then when he showed up they're like no no no that's crazy. We're not going to put schema in the browser. Anybody ever had that before? They tell you one thing on the job interview than on the job. [CROSSTALK]
>> Speaker 2: Job was getting hard, right?
>> Kyle Simpson: Java was getting hot and they said now, we need something a little like JavaScript, it can be right a way cuz we can't put Java in the browser.
[00:03:42] that would be crazy to put like a Java plugin in a browser. Make it look like Java then, don't make it look like scheme because that's just academic program. So there's a lot that was added to the language, affordances, if you will, to try to make it look more like that.
[00:03:59] And the truth is, JavaScript actually has a lot more in common with Scheme than it does with Java or C++.
>> Kyle Simpson: It appears on the surface syntactically to be more from the C family of programming languages because we have curly braces and semicolons, everybody's favorite syntactic affordances, right?
[00:04:19] It appears on the surface to be more like that but actually under the covers, it's way more related to scheme. More on the functional nature of JavaScript later. All right, some natives, they are confusing part how we should approach and how we shouldn't do it with them. Then everybody's dreaded topic coercion.
[00:04:41] I really wanna dig into coercion and I want you to understand more about how this is and how it works, and why it's not actually a negative of the language. Coercion is actually a very necessary part of the programming language. And I wanna give you a frame of reference or a different way of thinking about it that suggests that it's something that we actually should embrace in our code.
[00:05:06] And that will lead us into a discussion of equality which is the most common of the misunderstood parts of the types system and the coercion system. How coercion interplays with equality checks


Why is this childish? Don't children play-act at being kings all the time? But maybe that's the point; the messenger play-acts at being king insofar as he speaks the king's words in the name of the king. This reminds me of Nietzsche's criticism of Hegel's idea of power; Hegel wrote that man wants acknowledgement of his power by other men, that this basically is power. Nietzsche said this is to mistake the emblems of power for power itself, as if snatching the crown from off the king's head and clapping it on yours would mean everyone had to do as you say. It would mean that power had to ask permission from someone else, or to put it more accurately, from everyone else, in order to be power. Childish people, and there are no other kind, don't want real power but only its trappings. They turn going through the motions into the only form of motion, but it's a pointless dispersal of energy.
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There is also a parallel with the law, which used to be considered a codification of God's will, and which came to be an independent power in its own right. The law as such is just an empty word that is used to justify the implementation of certain rules, but what justifies law as such is a mystery, or just a sham.


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New, robust initiatives to bring in highly skilled troops are bringing down the attrition rate among the Air Force's elite battlefield airmen, two members of the community told reporters at the Pentagon this week.
The attrition rate for battlefield airmen has declined to roughly 70 percent, said Master Sgt. Robert Gutierrez, superintendent of standards and evaluation at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. While each of the Air Force Specialty Codes varies, the average attrition rate for the community hovered around 80 percent throughout initial selection and training just a few years ago.
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Gunnell and Gutierrez spoke Wednesday at the Pentagon during a Defense Department-hosted "lethality series."
"We're right on the edge where we can take that fight" into a higher threat environment, "with the precision that we need to do it with," Gunnell said.
The future tech could amplify just how battlefield airmen can and will fit into high-end fights with near-peer adversaries.
While the National Defense Strategy focuses on China and Russia and the re-emergence of great power competition, it also gives the Air Force specific guidance on "retaining irregular warfare [as] a core competency," Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson told Military.com in May.
Battlefield airmen "have a role to play there; the allies and partners as well," she said during a trip to Hurlburt Field, Florida.
Special operations acts as a catalyst to "expanding the competitive space; that's what [Air Force] Special Operations Command does," she said.
Gunnell said evolving technology has benefited spec ops forces, even in simpler equipment that is in high demand to conduct operations.
For example, airmen calling in airstrikes today are using equipment with vastly improved visuals and information transfer just in video feed compared with what combat controllers or Tactical Air Control Party airmen were using a decade ago.
"Kinetic strikes in which we're delivering precision munitions ... you can look at feeds, and get coordinates and use precision munitions that are delivered right on the exact spot that you want it, at the exact time that you wanted it, and with that, that is the single greatest thing that I have seen in [tandem with] coordination and practice" of training for that mission, Gunnell said.
In addition to battlefield operations -- something that has been at the forefront of the AFSOC community's training since 9/11 -- "airfield seizure and austere airfield controller are a major part of the [combat controller's] mission set," Gutierrez said.
In the wake of a resurgent Russia -- as Moscow continues to dabble in hybrid warfare techniques in eastern Ukraine -- airmen have been training to that dynamic battlefront, which actually is "the bread and butter of [that] career field," he added.
The certified FAA air traffic controllers train to go into hostile environments to "establish assault zones or airfields, while simultaneously conducting air traffic control, fire support, command and control, direct action, counter-terrorism, foreign internal defense, humanitarian assistance, and special reconnaissance," according to the Air Force.
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"It's not always seen all the time, but we are consistently training toward that mission set all the time. We will always be prepared for that," Gutierrez said.


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* [installation](https://github.com/idris-lang/Idris-dev/wiki/Installing-an-Idris-Development-version-in-a-sandbox)
* [book](https://www.manning.com/books/type-driven-development-with-idris)
* [atom plugin](https://atom.io/packages/language-idris)
* [atom ipkg](https://github.com/idris-hackers/atom-language-idris/blob/master/documentation/ipkg.md)
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sandbox

```
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cd idris
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```

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Trump At War: Decisive Actions Cure for Economy, Coronavirus
Trump Nation News March 17, 2020
PRESIDENT TRUMP'S DECISIVE ACTIONS, 15 DAYS TO SLOW THE SPREAD OF CORONAVIRUS, TODAY'S PRIMARIES…Trump, Vice President Pence, and members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force briefed reporters last night:
President Trump will always put the health of the American people first:
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President Trump and the White House Coronavirus Task Force issued new guidelines to help protect Americans:
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Three states are holding a primary on Tuesday, March 17, 2020.
Arizona, Florida, and Illinois
A combined 441 pledged delegates are awarded.
The Ohio primary has been postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak.
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Arizona Democrats will award 67 delegates.
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