Media Edit Winter 2018: A Lot of Brooklyn 99 and Smash Bros. Ultimate!
Hi Everyone! Now that it's the end of January and my exams are almost over, it's about time for me to share what I've been watching. I managed to get through quite a lot over the Christmas holidays so without further ado... Anime I'd been a little behind in terms of watching any anime, but… Continue reading Media Edit Winter 2018: A Lot of Brooklyn 99 and Smash Bros. Ultimate!


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Yellow Crane in the Rain
personal reflections, meditations, and dreams
Tag: slavery
Book Review: Iola Leroy, by Frances E.W. Harper
Frances E.W. Harper's Iola Leroy is a portrait of slavery and its aftermath in mid-19th century America. It focuses on two protagonists of mixed race, the mother and daughter Marie and Iola Leroy, to illustrate the absurdity of American slavery: One moment, the two light-skinned women are paragons of gentility – with Iola going so far as to defend slavery at her Northern girls' school – the next moment, they are slaves.
Covering the Civil War and emancipation, Iola Leroy is an inspiring story of liberation. As Harper narrates, "The lost cause went down in blood and tears, and on the brows of a ransomed people God poured the chrism of a new era, and they stood a race newly anointed with freedom." (p. 138)
As one of Harper's characters recounts:
'When de war war ober an' de sogers war still stopping' yere, I made pies an' cakes, sole em to de sogers, an' jist made money han' ober fist. An' I kep' on a workin' an' a savin' till my ole man got back from de war wid his wages and his bounty money. I felt right set up an' mighty big wen we counted all dat money. We had neber seen so much money in our lives befo', let alone hab it fer ourselbes. An' I sez, "John, you take dis money an' git a nice place wid it."'
(In fact, Aunt Linda and husband John do manage to buy a plot of land from some friendly Jews.) (pp. 154-155)
A third observer is "delighted at the thrift and industry" well in evidence in the postbellum South, as its people taste their first draft of freedom. (p. 153)
However, even as the freedmen adapt to liberty with manifest "thrift and industry," Harper's more elite protagonists remain convinced of their need for shepherding. At a meeting of self-appointed black leaders, described in the chapter called "Friends in Council," one speaker laments "'the fearful grinding and friction which comes in the course of an adjustment of the new machinery of freedom in the old ruts of slavery.'" (p. 255) Another poetizes, "'Oh, children of the tropics, / Amid our pain and wrong / Have you no other mission / Than music, dance, and song? / When through the weary ages / Our dripping tears still fall, / Is this a time to dally / With pleasure's silken thrall?'" (pp. 251-252) Discussing the possibility of freedmen emigration, yet another speaker warns against "'emptying on the shores of Africa a horde of ignorant, poverty-stricken people.'" (pp. 246-247) More than one participant at the meeting voices alarm at the freedmen's susceptibility to drink, an ironic echo of the argument against black enfranchisement then being made by the unreconstructed.
Naturally, these intellectuals see themselves as the rectifiers of their people's supposed defects. "'I do not think,'" says one, "'that we can begin too early to teach our boys to be manly and self-respecting, and our girls to be useful and self-reliant.'" Iola agrees: "'We must instill into our young people that the true strength of a race means purity in women and uprightness in men.'" (pp. 253-254) Another concerned person characterizes this civilizing we as "'a union of women with the warmest hearts and clearest brains to help in the moral education of the race.'" (p. 254) This note of paternalism (or maternalism) is sounded with breathtaking self-confidence and presumption, in ways that harken (again, ironically) to the old paternalism of the planters.
It is the opinion of the reviewer that the new birth of freedom in the mid-19th century, which affected not only America but also such places as Russia (where serfs were emancipated in 1861), inspired great panic on the part of the elite. On the one hand, deposed masters such as the gentry of the American South contrived to recover their position. On the other hand, intellectuals, often the same people who had welcomed servile emancipation, now regarded the newly liberated masses (or newly enfranchised masses like Irish immigrants) as unfit for self-rule. They either looked the other way when the aristos returned to power or, more adventurously, sought to take the aristos' places under the guise of enlightened (or even revolutionary) leadership.
Iola Leroy is a case study of this latter approach. Civil War liberation epic that it is, Harper's novel actually becomes rather preoccupied with the reimposition of hierarchy; it is more representative of the thermidorian reaction of the postbellum Reconstruction or Gilded Age years, when new elites sought to supplant old. The book was published in 1892. Significantly, one of its characters, during the above-mentioned friendly council, takes stock of the recent years' broken chains in a somewhat dispirited way (""Millions of slaves and serfs have been liberated during this century, but not even in semi-barbaric Russia, heathen Japan, or Catholic Spain has slavery been abolished through such a fearful conflict as it was in the United States.'") before turning his attention to alcohol ("'The liquor traffic still sends its floods of ruin and shame to the habitations of men.'"), implying that the freedman remains in a degraded state, from which only a redoubled effort, no doubt by those with the warmest hearts and clearest brains, can redeem him (for as yet "'no political party has been found with enough moral power and numerical strength to stay the tide of death.'"). (p. 250) The reader will have noted that ordinary freedmen are shown by Harper to speak in dialect, while their aspiring redeemers orate in formal English, as though the author were suggesting almost-organic differences between them, justifying the need for guidance.
Even before the friendly council, Harper's heroine aspires to fill the need. She hopes, in plain language, to become a teacher, but she spreads her enthusiasm a bit thick:
'To be,' continued Iola, 'the leader of a race to higher planes of thought and action, to teach men clearer views of life and duty, and to inspire their souls with loftier aims, is a far greater privilege than it is to open the gates of material prosperity and fill every home with sensuous enjoyment.' (p. 219)
In fact, Iola feels well qualified for the role. "'I should be very glad to have an opportunity to teach,' said Iola. 'I used to be a great favorite among the colored children on my father's plantation.'" (p. 145)
Thus does yesterday's mistress become today's missionary, retaining her seat at the head of her constituency, with the relation of superior to subordinate preserved.
Author Harry MillerPosted on January 10, 2021 January 10, 2021 Categories ReviewsTags African-American literature, American Civil War, American history, American literature, book review, elitism, emancipation, equality, Frances E.W. Harper, freedom, Gilded Age, hierarchy, intellectuals, Iola Leroy, mixed race, nineteenth century history, reaction, Reconstruction, slaveryLeave a comment on Book Review: Iola Leroy, by Frances E.W. Harper
Book Review: Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave, by William Grimes
This book makes it clear, for anyone who needed to be convinced in the early 1800s, that slavery was cruel and violent, for Mr Grimes is repeatedly beaten, mostly for offences he didn't commit, as his word is routinely disbelieved by his oppressors. It also proves that slavery was a poor way to maintain the purity of the races, were that an object, because Grimes himself was born of a slave mother and a white father.
A few other things stand out. First, whenever wages are mentioned, they often seem to have been higher in the unfree South than in the free North — but then again, it is unclear how much Grimes's masters deduct for letting him out to work for wages. After escaping to the North, it seems that Grimes is scrambling to work for less money — but then again, he is able to amass a four-figure savings. Second, although he changes masters at least ten times while a slave, the white people involved usually ask his approval for each transaction; I can't recall if he ever withholds it. On one occasion, he asks to be sold, and his master is offended and angry but complies. Third, after reaching the North, Grimes seems constantly to be in court, to claim wages, to clear himself of libel, and otherwise to gain redress against people who misuse him. The litigiousness of life in Connecticut, and Grimes's ability to avail himself of the courts, is striking.
The writing is pithy. In a preamble addressed "To the Public," Grimes asserts that "The condition of the slave…is painful and unfortunate and will excite the sympathy of all who have any." (29) Toward the end, Grimes attempts to deal with slavery in the abstract, starting with the question of comfort in bondage vs. desperation in freedom: "To say that a man is better off in one situation than another, if in the one he is better clothed and better fed, and has less care than in the other, is false. It is true, if you regard him as a brute, as destitute of the feeling of human nature." (101) A few lines later, his position becomes ambiguous: He advises slaves against escaping, for the danger and for the apprehension of recapture (Grimes was finally relieved of the latter, when his last master manumitted him in exchange for most of his accumulated money and property); but he then states that, in spite of being "cheated, insulted, abused, and injured" in the North, he has been able to "get along here as well as anyone who is poor and in a situation to be imposed on." (101-102)
The integrity of the family seems to fare as badly in freedom as under slavery, for Grimes mentions that his wife joined the gold rush in California, leaving him in Connecticut.
Author Harry MillerPosted on November 17, 2019 Categories Reviews, UncategorizedTags American history, book review, history, slavery, William GrimesLeave a comment on Book Review: Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave, by William Grimes
Book Review: The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead
This book is very powerfully and economically written, with poignant understatement sufficing very well. As is known, its main conceit is to take the underground railroad literally, as a subterranean locomotive, as it conveys the runaway Cora through a variety of states of freedom, each with hopes, mysteries, and dangers and each stressing a usually sinister aspect of race relations, involving, to name two examples, medical experimentation and violent segregation.
One splendid sentence is a line of dialogue: "Sometimes a useful delusion is better than a useless truth" (p. 285). A few lines later, America is named as the grandest delusion of all, hopefully a useful one; and since the ending of the story doesn't involve total genocide, perhaps it might count as a (very relatively) hopeful one.
Author Harry MillerPosted on September 10, 2018 September 10, 2018 Categories Reviews, UncategorizedTags book review, Colson Whitehead, historical fiction, race relations, slavery, The Underground RailroadLeave a comment on Book Review: The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead
Book Review: The Mighty Revolution, by Charles Lewis Wagandt
My purpose in reading this book was to learn more about the revolution of popular opinion against slavery that took place before and during the Civil War. The abolition of slavery by the adoption of a new state constitution in Maryland would count as a critical example of this shifting in opinion, presumably an inspiring one.
The Mighty Revolution certainly provides many of the facts attendant to this shift, but the presentation of them falls somewhat short of inspiring. Wagandt's focus is the political realm of electoral hustings, factions, and patronage. The idealism is largely left out. There is more information here about schemes to capture the comptroller's office than there are meditations on the meaning of freedom. Of course, idealism often depends upon pragmatism for its advancement, and The Mighty Revolution offers a detailed illustration of how ideas become reality in this country. We Americans should probably be grateful that we are able to alter our destiny by means of backroom deals and ambiguously-worded ballot initiatives, without recourse to the guillotine.
The narrative of The Mighty Revolution hinges upon three turning points. The latter two are elections: the November 4, 1863 election for state legislature and other offices that was marred by army interference; and the October 12-13, 1864 vote on the new constitution, abolishing slavery, that carried only after soldiers' absentee votes were counted. Again, it's not a very rousing story. The fact that the emancipationist effort succeeded in the 1863 election in part because of the lack of a secret ballot (the emancipationist party ballots were yellow, permitting the army to discard others) does not exactly inspire one to plan an additional Thanksgiving dinner — although it does say a lot about the commitment of the boys in blue.
The earlier and perhaps most important turning point is the April 20, 1863 mass meeting of the Union League at the Maryland Institute in Baltimore, which does indeed herald the popular shift against slavery. "Never before in the war," Wagandt writes, "had emancipation sentiments been advanced at a public meeting." (p. 99) The Union League was "a civilian organization of obscure origins" that swelled as the war progressed. By 1863,
the Union Leagues extended their spheres of operations into the political arena….Preservation of the nation involved the fierce debate over slavery, a debate which found no sympathy in the conservative leadership of the Union Party [Maryland's version of the Republican Party]. This created a need for some organized expression of aims among those who wished to move with, rather than against, the revolutionary times….Then there were politicians within the organization who tried to capitalize upon the League to further their ambitions." (pp. 97-98)
The balance of Wagandt's narrative describes the machinations of these ambitious politicians. As they "capitalized" upon the emancipationist sentiment of the League, they crystalized it and made it a reality. Such is the ugly beauty of our system.
Both in Maryland's Civil War history and in Wagandt's recounting of it, the focus on pragmatism over idealism affords only scattered suggestions that the white Marylander's hatred of slavery translated into affection or even sympathy for the slave. In the early 1864 debate in the Maryland General Assembly that led to the constitutional convention, Henry S. Stockbridge, citing a letter from a former slave-owner's son, asserted that abolition should be pursued because "it is right. Right between man and man – right before God." (p. 194) A subsequent newspaper editorial called slavery "a great moral wrong, injurious to both master and slave." (p. 203) A delegate to the constitutional convention named Frederick Schley voted in favor of the abolition article for reasons of "patriotism, justice, and humanity," as well as for Maryland "honor" and popular "welfare." (p. 225) Often it seems that Wagandt may be glossing over Marylanders' anti-slavery arguments, perhaps in the belief that they are obvious and well-known, and perhaps because he's more interested in the political maneuverings anyway.
For the most part, as emerges in these pages, the rationale behind Marylanders' overthrow of slavery is couched in terms of class warfare and political jealousy. At their April 20, 1863 meeting, Union League members denounced slavery as "an instrument in the hands of traitors to build an oligarchy…on the ruins of republican liberty;" and they resolved "That the safety and interest of…Maryland, and especially of her white laboring people, require that Slavery should cease to be recognized by the law of Maryland." (p. 99)
This refrain, that abolition was advanced as something that was good for certain white people, rings constantly throughout the book. No egalitarian sentiments are shown here to have been expressed, except in one ironic case: Radical candidates from Allegany County in the vote on the constitutional convention on April 6, 1864 were said to have been "the real friends of the colored people" – by their opponents, and they subsequently spent much energy to deny the slander. (p. 217)
Still, for all the denial of common humanity that seems to have been necessary for its success, the overthrow of slavery was a success, and thus The Mighty Revolution should be counted as a valuable case study of the working reality of freedom.
Author Harry MillerPosted on June 4, 2018 June 2, 2018 Categories Reviews, UncategorizedTags abolition, book review, Charles Lewis Wagandt, Civil War, democracy, emancipation, history, idealism, Maryland, politics, pragmatism, slavery, The Mighty RevolutionLeave a comment on Book Review: The Mighty Revolution, by Charles Lewis Wagandt
State versus Gentry in Late Ming Dynasty China, 1572-1644
State versus Gentry in Early Qing Dynasty China, 1644-1699
The Gongyang Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals
Southern Rain: A Novel of Seventeenth-Century China
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Traveling and Living Abroad
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Person in custody commits self-harm at Lo Wu Correctional Institution
Correctional officers at Lo Wu Correctional Institution found a person in custody with a wound on her wrist and suspected her of causing self-harm early this morning (March 24).
At about 2.44am, the on-duty officer discovered that the 36-year-old female person in custody was awake and acting peculiarly inside the dormitory. Upon enquiry, the officer found a wound on her left wrist and suspected that the person in custody had cut herself earlier with a plastic ruler. The officer gave her counselling while summoning reinforcements at the same time.
Upon arrival of the reinforcements, she was sent to the centre's hospital for medical examination and treatment. She was subsequently transferred to a public hospital for further observation. A clinical psychologist will follow up the case.
A spokesman for the Correctional Services Department said, "The department uses all possible measures to prevent people in its custody from attempting suicide or self-harm. These measures include administrative arrangements, the improvement of institution facilities, staff training and first aid services."
The person in custody was convicted for the offence of trafficking in a dangerous drug.
Ends/Monday, March 24, 2014


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Whatever industry you are in, whatever business you are into, your customers and would-be customers will always be one of your most valuable stakeholders. How well you treat them will always have an impact on your business.
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Members of the K.I.D.S. basketball team get together with their friendly rivals, members of the Home Depot and American Carpet South team.
It was another win in the books for Kids in Disability Sports at the recent annual basketball game against a combined team of Home Depot & American Carpet South. K.I.D.S. won by a score of 54-50. Special thanks to Jerry Serra of Home Depot, Ed Camp of American Carpet South and their amazing staff and crew for an awesome night of friendly competition, friendship and gifts for each of the athletes. Camp presented K.I.D.S. with a donation of $7,500.
Left: Members of the K.I.D.S. basketball team get together with their friendly rivals, members of the Home Depot and American Carpet South team.


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Fredrikson & Byron is the First Private Law Firm to Receive the Sam Dalton Capital Defense Advocacy Award
Fredrikson & Byron has been recognized by the Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (LACDL) as a recipient of the 2018 Sam Dalton Capital Defense Advocacy Award for the firm's pro bono work relating to four death penalty cases in Louisiana. Fredrikson & Byron is the first private law firm to receive this award. Honorees will be recognized at the Justice Albert Tate, Jr. Banquet on Friday, December 7, 2018, at the Bourbon Orleans in New Orleans.
The Sam Dalton Capital Defense Advocacy Award was established by the Loyola Death Penalty Resource Center in 1994 and was named after attorney Sam Dalton, who dedicated his six-decade career to opposing the death penalty and representing people who cannot afford to hire an attorney.
Fredrikson's legal team members are too numerous to name, but have included Leslie Anderson, Edward Cassidy, Clint Cutler, Lousene Hoppe, Steve Kaplan, John Koneck, Cari Martell, Kevin Riach and Pam Wandzel.
"I nominated Fredrikson & Byron because so many of its attorneys and staff have given so much to their clients on Louisiana's Death Row. The decades of their commitment are awe-inspiring. They don't just tinker with Louisiana's machinery of death, their work actually helps reform the system," said Gary Clements, Executive Director, Capital Post-Conviction Center of Louisiana.
"Fredrikson & Byron is proud that, for more than 30 years, our lawyers and staff have volunteered pro bono legal services to clients on death row," said John Koneck, President of Fredrikson & Byron. "Our goal is to ensure that our clients have their cases thoroughly investigated and fairly reviewed. Where a sentence of death is given, it is imperative that all evidence and mitigating circumstances be brought forward and considered to ensure justice. We are honored to be recognized by the LACDL for this work."
Fredrikson & Byron is a 275-attorney law firm based in Minneapolis, with offices in Bismarck, Des Moines, Fargo, St. Paul, Saltillo, Mexico, and Shanghai, China. Fredrikson & Byron has a reputation as the firm "where law and business meet". Our attorneys bring business acumen and entrepreneurial thinking to work with clients, and operate as business advisors and strategic partners, as well as legal counselors. More information about the firm is available at www.fredlaw.com. Follow us on LinkedIn and on Twitter @FredriksonLaw.
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At Harrington Moving & Storage we value our community and try to give back to it in every way possible. For example, our moving trucks delivered hundreds of our costumers' donated furniture to families in need. The venture is only one of the various philanthropic ventures we have initiated and we work hard to stay involved year round.
All of us at Harrington Moving & Storage place a huge emphasis on both family and community. We realize there is a lot of will to help - but not a lot of action. As a result, we strive to initiate various charity drives and many people in the community have had furniture delivered to their houses with no extra charge. As a result of our services and client donations, many families can now sit around their tables and have a normal meal. If you wish to donate furniture or other goods please fill up the donation form. All donations must be in excellent condition. With just a few clicks of a button you could change someone's life and living conditions.


The Jules Horowitz Reactor (JHR) is a material testing research reactor under construction at CEA-Cadarache (France). One of the computer codes employed in the safety analysis of this reactor is the thermal-hydraulic system code CATHARE. The physical models implemented in CATHARE have been developed and optimized for commercial Light Water Reactors which significantly differ from JHR in terms of both core geometry and operational conditions. In view of this, it is crucial to carefully assess the capabilities of CATHARE with respect to the JHR characteristics. The current thesis aims at improving the physical correlations used in CATHARE for JHR modeling. The work is based on the SULTAN-JHR experiments in narrow rectangular channels, that were carried out at CEA-Grenoble in order to investigate the thermal-hydraulics of the JHR core channels. The first part of the study is related to the assessment of the correlations for single-phase friction coefficients and for single-phase forced convection heat transfer. A more comprehensive modeling of single-phase flow in CATHARE is proposed by including a laminar-turbulent transition region. In addition, it is found that the turbulent heat transfer coefficient may be significantly under-estimated by standard correlations (e.g. Dittus-Boelter correlation) at high Reynolds numbers. Thus, new ad-hoc correlations were developed from the SULTAN-JHR data by making use of a best-fitting procedure. In the second part, the CATHARE two-phase heat transfer modeling is revised. Several correlations have been tested against the SULTAN-JHR experiments. The results show that the simplified Forster-Greif correlation may accurately predict the heat transfer in JHR-type channels under fully developed boiling conditions. Such a relationship is then added in CATHARE.


Goodwill Industries of Southern Arizona's GoodGuides youth mentoring program seeks to partner supportive adults with at-risk youth, to help young people form healthy relationships, boost self-confidence, earn better grades and make better life choices. The program is currently recruiting adult mentors for youth ages 12 to 17 in Tucson.
GoodGuides is now providing school-based mentoring to students at Pistor Middle School, Utterback Middle School, Morgan Maxwell K-8 and Valencia Middle School. Mentors would volunteer once or twice per week for between one and two hours per day. Youth and adults participate in activities like career exploration and confidence-building, and cover topics such as bullying.
The program provides both one-on-one mentoring and group mentoring opportunities, and is funded entirely by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the Arizona Rise Partnership.
For more information, call 520-623-5174 x1137, email KCrooks@GoodwillTucson.org or visit GoodwillSouthernAZ.org/GoodGuides-Youth-Mentoring. See ad, page 8.


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Nomadic Seeds
RESEARCH TEXTS
الحسانية
PhosFATE research group
PhosFATE is an artistic research project by Pekka Niskanen and Mohamed Sleiman Labat funded by Finnish Kone foundation and several other foundations. The project follows the multi-layered story of phosphate in the Baltic region as well as in the Sahrawi refugee camps in the Hamada Desert, southwest Algeria. In the project they film, discuss and research about the different aspects of phosphate. They created an experimental small scale family garden in Helsinki paralleling the family garden phenomena in the desert. The artists use the garden as a meeting point to develop research questions and topics.
Pekka Niskanen is a Helsinki and Paris based media artist, filmmaker, researcher, and a Doctor of Fine Arts. He has been exhibiting since 1990 in museums, galleries and film festivals around Europe, North America and Asia. His dissertation in University of the Arts Helsinki is titled Art in the Construction of Identity Politics (2014). He has curated exhibitions in Finland and abroad. Niskanen has worked as a director of several community art film and video projects.
Sleiman Labat is a visual artist and a poet from the Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria. He was born and raised in these camps. In 2016, after graduating from Batna University with a degree in English literature, Sleiman Labat went back to his community. Sleiman Labat has built a multipurpose community and artist studio space Motif Art Studio in Samara camp. The studio itself is built from discarded materials that Sleiman Labat has collected.
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Q: How is it possible for a Mutex to be constructed at compile time? It is now possible to compile the following code:
use std::sync::Mutex;

static GUARD: Mutex<()> = Mutex::new();

I am trying to understand how this is possible.
My understanding of const functionality in Rust is that there is a subset of the language that is available to you at compile time. The classic example being that 1+1 can be calculated at compile time, so why wait until runtime to pay the cost of the addition. Accepting this, then if you have a function like
const fn two() -> u32 {
   1+1
}

and it is called somewhere, then again the compiler should do this up front, inline the value and save the function call. The subset of const-callable code is growing over time, but there is obviously a hard limit on this of any operations requiring runtime input.
A Mutex strikes me as something requiring runtime input. It relies on operating system specific system calls to allow synchronisation to occur between threads. Although the compiler knows which OS it is targeting, I don't see how this initialisation can happen at compile time without requiring something at runtime at all.

A: On modern operating systems, mutexes are not special OS-level objects - they're just memory regions accessed by atomic operations (which are CPU instructions) in a way that guarentees exclusive access.
The only time that the OS enters the picture is when dealing with waiting. Threads trying to access a locked mutex need to tell the OS to block and schedule other tasks, and threads releasing a mutex may need to tell the OS to wake up the waiting threads.
So for initializing a mutex, the OS doesn't need to be involved. You don't even need atomic operations, as the initializer has exclusive access.
For Linux, this is done through the futex system call. The two basic operations of it are to atomically check a memory address and wait, or to wake up any other threads waiting on a memory address - neither of which involve a file descriptor or any other OS-level object.

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Algeria President Abdelaziz Bouteflika will resign
After weeks of protest, Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika will resign, according to state-run newspaper APS. He is expected to step down before his term expires on April 28, ONAreports citing CNN.
A communiqué from the president's office said Bouteflika would take several "important measures to ensure the continuity of the functioning of the State institutions during the period of transition," APS reports.
Demonstrators have been calling for the 82-year-old to relinquish power for weeks. Bouteflika, who came to power two decades ago, is widely believed to be incapacitated by illness; critics say he has left the reins of Africa's biggest country in the hands of a civilian-military elite.
Algerians first took to the streets in mass protests against the upcoming presidential elections, in which Bouteflika initially planned to run. The government announced on March 11 that Bouteflika would no longer seek a fifth term in office and that the April 18 elections would be postponed.
The resignation announcement comes nearly a week after the Algeria's army chief called for Bouteflika to step down. He cited a provision in the constitution stating that if the president's health prevents him from carrying out his function, the presidential office must be declared vacant.
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In some countries, baby elephants born into captivity are given steel manacles attached to their legs so they don't wonder far. At the other end the chain is attached to a stake driven deep into the ground. From the beginning of their lives these baby elephants learn that they are not strong enough to pull the stake out of the ground and the length of the chain is the full extent of their freedom.
As the elephant grows older and bigger, the chain is replaced with a thick rope that reinforces the idea that the elephant cannot pull free from the stake. Over time, the thick rope is replaced with a thinner rope and the thick stake is replaced with a small tent stake. Even though the elephant, now fully grown, could easily pull the stake from the ground, the elephant never attempts to escape.
Now, as a fully grown adult elephant, the elephant believes he is not strong enough to pull or break it's tie from the stake. Because he knows escape is impossible, he never tries. As soon as the elephant feels the tug of the rope, he stops. And so a fully grown adult elephant is very easily confined, with no fences or barriers; with nothing except a thin rope it could easily snap, attached to a small stake it could easily pull out of the ground.
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Ali spoke to many other journalists, but he and Cosell seemed inseparable: teasing and challenging each other, and mock-sparring in suits and ties. Ali often threatened to strip off Cosell's toupee du jour, and in their jokey back-and-forth, each man said the other would have been nothing without him.
Was Muhammad Ali at Howard Cosell's funeral?
Billy Crystal remembers sitting next to Muhammad Ali at Howard Cosell's funeral, he recalls some of the hilarious remarks Ali made that day to make a somber day a bit brighter.
Cosell was widely attributed with saying the famous phrase "the Bronx is burning". Cosell is credited with saying this during Game 2 of the 1977 World Series, which took place in Yankee Stadium on October 12, 1977.
When did Howard Cosell meet Muhammad Ali?
They had first met in 1962, when Cosell had interviewed Ali in New York for a sports roundup show he was hosting.
Ali was a brash, young black boxing champ from Louisville, Kentucky, and Cosell was a Jewish sports reporter from Brooklyn — but the two formed an unlikely friendship. For over 30 years, they played their roles to perfection — Cosell as the pompous commentator, and Ali had just the needle to puncture that pomposity.
Was Ali Frazier friends?
Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier shared sport's greatest ever rivalry which lasted for decades after their trilogy, but bitter foes made peace before death. On a spring day in 1970, reigning heavyweight champion of the world Joe Frazier gave former heavyweight champion of the world Muhammad Ali a ride in his car.
Bill Clinton, Billy Crystal and Bryant Gumbel delivered eulogies for Muhammad Ali at a 15,000-seat sports arena in his hometown, Louisville today.
Who said he could go all the way?
Berman is well known for his various catchphrases and player nicknames. His mid-play prediction of a touchdown run as "He could…go…all…the… way!" is perhaps his most famous phrase, and one of the first he adopted. It was featured on the Jock Rock, Volume 2 compilation album.
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Meredith died on December 5, 2010, at St. Vincent Regional Medical Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico after suffering a brain hemorrhage. He was 72 years old.
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Greg Cosell is an NFL analyst and a senior producer at NFL Films. He is the nephew of late broadcaster Howard Cosell. Cosell is highly regarded by NFL insiders for his football knowledge. Born in Queens, New York, Cosell attended Amherst College where he played basketball.
Without a doubt, one of the highlights of the service was the heartfelt eulogy by Billy Crystal, his longtime friend. Crystal mixed humorous recollections about their time together with laudatory words about Ali's contributions to sports and society.
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Ever since Common said, "I Used to Love H.E.R." back in '94, hip-hop has been rife with records using romantic relationships as symbolic of larger concerns (see: Twista's For One Night and Freeway's Baby Back (The Block)). On his latest record, Jay-Z talks about victory as if it were a woman; in his pursuit, he must deal with the possibilities of defeat and short-lived successes. In the end, however, Hova snatches it up and creates a child… its name is History. Contributing to the song's epic feel is none other than Kanye West, who utilizes some classic samples and G.O.O.D. Music artist Tony Williams. Jazzed about Barack Obama's election, the vibe of the record is simple: "victory is finally ours." History is set to be included on Jay-Z's Def Jam finale, The Blueprint 3, which currently has no set release date.
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That was not the end of the encounters, however, as Daryl made very clear: "I don't remember the date, but once I was confronted with a large insectoid which said, 'I want you to devote your whole life to me!' I didn't understand and asked what that meant. I don't remember what the creature said, but I replied emphatically, 'No, I won't!' This evidently didn't go over very well.
As I read Daryl's words, I couldn't fail to remember how – at the height of the Men in Black encounters in the early 1950s – Albert Bender found his Bridgeport, Connecticut home filled with overpowering odors of brimstone and sulfur. What goes around clearly comes around, it seems. An elf-like thing controlling Daryl's every movement, what appear to have been alien abduction-type incidents long before the Betty and Barney Hill incident of 1961, and a strange and sinister Woman in Black: add all of those issues together and we see just how bizarre the UFO phenomenon can really be.


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What Is The Number One Killer Of People Ages 5 to 29?
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What is the ninth leading cause of death overall globally? (Photo: Getty Images)
It is the leading cause of death among children and young adults around the world. It is the ninth leading cause of death overall globally. It resulted in about 1.35 million people dying in 2016 alone. It will probably become the seventh leading killer worldwide by 2030.
If you are currently a member of Generation Z, this is what you are at greatest risk of dying from: road traffic injuries. That's because according to the 2018 Global Status on Road Safety from the World Health Organization (WHO), such injuries constitute the number one killer of those who are five to 29 years old. That's why Bloomberg Philanthropies started its Initiative for Global Road Safety to address the road safety problem.
Unless you are Aquaman or live in a very remote location, you probably regularly deal with road traffic in some way. Even if you are five years old and don't have a real car or a driver's license yet (by the way, you shouldn't have either), you still have to worry about this major global problem. Pedestrians, bicyclists and motorcyclists comprise over half of all traffic-related deaths. Breaking it down further, 26% of all road traffic deaths were pedestrians and cyclists, 28% were drivers of two- or three-wheeled vehicles, 29% were car occupants, and 17% were "unidentified road users." Add to the deaths, the up to 50 million who survive road traffic accidents but suffer injuries each year.
Although getting run over by a pig or a cow is probably no picnic, the rise in road traffic injuries is certainly connected to the rise in automobile and other individual motorized vehicle usage around the world. Contrary to what you may see on the Flintstones, cars really have only been around for less than a century-and-a-half. But the growth in the number of motorized vehicles over a relatively short period of time has been remarkable. As the World Health Organization (WHO) indicates, in just a three-year period, 2010 to 2013, the number of registered vehicles around the world increased by 16%. It can be challenging to measure the total number of motorized vehicles since many vehicles may go unregistered and that's not counting the DeLoreans that are time traveling. But there are estimates that over 1.2 billion cars are out there.
The trouble is the rise and spread of such vehicles have been so rapid that many of the existing surrounding systems haven't been able to keep pace. Or in many cases, the wrong systems were in place in the first place. This is true all around the world, but especially in many low- and middle-income countries. To address these systems, Bloomberg Philanthropies' Initiative for Global Road Safety first looked at what may be contributing to these problems and how best to address them. This included collecting and analyzing lots of data on road safety. As Kelly Henning, MD, who leads the Bloomberg Philanthropies' Public Health program, explained, "Down to the city level, all the work that we do is data driven. This meant increasing the surveillance that is occurring and the strength of data."
Sarah Whitehead of Vital Strategies, an implementing partner of the Initiative, added, "In many places, there isn't a data use culture. There are many gaps in data, and some like the police may tightly hold the relevant data. It is important to get higher quality data."
When he was Mayor of New York City Mayor, billionaire philanthropist Mike Bloomberg oversaw many... [+] road safety changes. (Photo: Courtesy of Bloomberg Philanthropies)
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Former New York City Mayor and founder of Bloomberg Philanthropies Mike Bloomberg said, "Over the last decade, we've invested $259 million to implement solutions that are proven to prevent road deaths and injuries such as wearing helmets and seat-belts, reducing speeding and drinking and driving, redesigning city streets, and advocating for safer vehicles." Bloomberg Philanthropies and their partners have been focusing on the following five categories of interventions to try to curb road traffic injuries:
1. Changing driving and riding behaviors.
These interventions aim to reduce the behaviors that make driving for everyone, including those not driving, far more risky. One is driving while impaired. Traditionally, the most common culprit has been alcohol. If you don't understand how alcohol may affect your thinking, your reasoning, your reaction times, your muscle coordination and thus your driving ability, put down your beer and your driver's license and step away from the car. You don't even have to be anywhere near the legal limits of blood alcohol levels to have problems driving. As the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) relays, 2017 saw 1,837 people killed where drivers had blood alcohol levels that were below the legal limit (that is, between 0.01 to 0.07 g/dL).
There is no question that alcohol-impaired driving remains a major problem. Just take a look at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for some stark statistics for the U.S. alone: "Every day, 29 people in the United States die in motor vehicle crashes that involve an alcohol-impaired driver. This is one death every 50 minutes. The annual cost of alcohol-related crashes totals more than $44 billion." Certainly, alcohol is not the only thing that can cloud your mind. With marijuana use increasing, driving while under the influence of marijuana is certainly a growing concern, pun intended. Then there are opioids. A study of two-vehicle crashes published in JAMA Network Open found that drivers who had tested positive for prescription opioids were 2.18 times more likely to have initiated the car crash.
Another risky behavior is not wearing seat belts. A seat belt is potentially more comfortable to wear (and safer) than a tight thong or a pair of skinny pants. Yet, according to the NHTSA, nearly ten percent of Americans (or 27.5 million people) still don't wear their seat belts. This despite the findings that buckling up can prevent fatal injuries by 45% to 65%
A third example of a risky behavior is speed. Not the movie or the drug (although you should not take speed or watch the movie and drive), but driving fast. Per the NHTSA, driving over the posted speed limits contributed to 26% of all traffic deaths in the U.S. in 2017.
A final example is not wearing a helmet while riding a motorcycle. Without a helmet, the only thing that's protecting your head is your hair, which no matter how big it is will not be enough to prevent fatal head injuries.
2. Improving infrastructure.
These interventions recognize the fact that streets, sidewalks, and everything around them form complex systems that can either protect people or put them at risk, depending on how they are designed. For example, narrowing streets and the turning radii around corners can prevent cars from speeding and widening sidewalks and adding safer crosswalks can give pedestrians more protection. Changes that have occurred under the Bloomberg Initiative have included constructing a 300-meter pedestrian walkway close to a school in Accra, Ghana, and nearly doubling the total extent of safe bike lanes and establishing the first slow-speed zone (with raised pedestrian crossings and curb extensions) in Fortaleza, Brazil. If you want to see other ways that roads, sidewalks, and the spaces around both can be designed to facilitate safety, take a look at the Global Street Design Guide, written by the Global Designing Cities Initiative (GDCI) and the National Association of City Transportation (NACTO). Skye Duncan, Director of the GDCI, walked through a lot of the different ways that design principles are being implemented in different cities around the world and explained how the "behaviors of both drivers and pedestrians are affected greatly by the design around them." Duncan added, "The guide can serve as a blueprint to help undo the design that has occurred in many locations. This will help protect people and make locations much more accessible to everyone."
Bloomberg is a believer in such design changes. When he was Mayor of New York City, between 2007 and 2013, his administration's Department of Transportation redesigned 137 street corridors and 113 intersections, which helped create 180 more acres of safe space for cyclists and pedestrians. Janette Sadik-Khan, who is currently the Permanent Chair of the GDCI Initiative, a principal at Bloomberg Associates, and an author of the book Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution, had helped implement a number of road safety design initiatives when she had run New York City Department of Transportation in Mayor Bloomberg's administration. It is probably no coincidence that traffic deaths in New York City fell by 45% from 2001 to 2017 and that traffic fatalities fell by 34% where the Department of Transportation had made major engineering changes. Sadik-Khan explained that "there shouldn't be an auto-centric approach to designing streets. Streets and sidewalks are also about moving people."
3. Adding and augmenting sustainable urban support.
Robert Frost once spoke of taking the road less traveled by and how that made all the difference. He probably wasn't talking about road safety, but fewer cars traveling on the road will naturally lead to a lower risk of accidents. Therefore, part of the work of the Bloomberg Initiative has been trying to further develop alternatives to cars and motorbikes. This includes augmenting mass transit systems, bike routes, and walking infrastructures.
4. Establishing more rigorous vehicle standards.
Around the world, cars can be like clothes, varying substantially in design and in some cases leaving you really exposed. While there are established safety standard in countries like the U.S., Japan, and Germany, many low- and middle-income countries may have little or no regulatory standards for vehicles. The Bloomberg Initiative has been pushing for greater safety standard in a number of different cities. For example, in Accra, Ghana, efforts helped remove over 200 defective motorbikes from the road.
5. Strengthening policies and regulations.
Henning said that "There is a need for the right policies and regulations, as well as strong police enforcement as people have to understand the consequences of behavior. Governments need to buy into road safety and have the political will to reduce fatalities." Examples of changes that have occurred under the Bloomberg Initiative are new provisions in Shanghai, China, on seat-belt use for all vehicle occupants, child restraint-use and helmet use, greater enforcement of helmet use and red light laws in Accra, Ghana, and training of city officials and traffic police in road safety practices in Mumbai, India.
A big part of the Bloomberg Initiative has been bringing more attention to this global killer. If you were to ask people what is the leading cause of death among children and young adults around the world, you may get other answers, ranging from drugs to Thanos. That's why Vital Strategies has been putting together campaigns to increase awareness such as this video on speeding for Bangkok, Thailand:
And this video on drunk driving for São Paulo, Brazil:
Pretty powerful stuff, even if you don't understand Portuguese.
Yes, road traffic injuries are a leading killer. But as Bloomberg said, "The good news is we know the interventions that could prevent many of them." In other words, the roads to reducing deaths are there. We just have to take them.
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Common-law marriage is one of those terms that everybody has heard of, but few folks truly understand. Felony in the international locations with widespread legislation is defined as a hideous crime. Both parties have to be of authorized age to be married legally. Moreover, some people could also be compensated for additional time, but this sum could also be far decrease than the quantity that they're legally entitled to. In this case, discovering a superb unpaid additional time lawyer is an ideal answer.
three. In case you and your vital other declare yourselves as "married" to friends and family, then chances are you'll as effectively be married, as a result of the courts will recognize the testimony of others when you ever get divorced. These are only a few of the most typical violations of staff' rights in the US – from lack of overtime pay to miscalculation of employee status, these may even have an enormous impact on the lives of workers and their families.
Frequent Law is an American comedy-drama television sequence , which ran on USA Community from Might eleven to August 10, 2012, and stars Michael Ealy and Warren Kole as two Los Angeles Police Division detectives who can't stand one another and are ordered to see a couples therapist to remedy the state of affairs.
Everytime you purchase a home, deciding between tenancy in frequent and joint tenancy might come up when there are several people involved. Least of all within the other common regulation jurisdictions of the world reminiscent of Australia, Canada, the United States, or New Zealand. In Iran, the legal schooling has been influenced each by civil legislation and Islamic Shari'ah legislation. Neighborhood property legislation doesn't apply when an unmarried however cohabiting couple separates.
There are specific states within the US (not all of them) where frequent law marriage couples can get lots of the same privileges as historically married couples. The catch is the decide will decide if the couple is eligible for divorce underneath the common law rule and if they are going to be granted a divorce.
Common law, also known as case law, is a physique of unwritten laws based on authorized precedents established by the courts. Indian laws also adhere to the United Nations guidelines on human rights law and environmental legislation Sure worldwide trade laws , reminiscent of these on mental property , are also enforced in India.
And it will have to be done in two separate courts – property issues can be determined in the Supreme Courtroom, and points involving children will have to be resolved in Household Courtroom. Frequent regulation is often uncodified which signifies that there is no such thing as a comprehensive compilation of legal rules and some statutes.
They also did not have to worry in regards to the strict immigration laws of most countries immediately, including each the USA and the UK. A legal marriage requires plenty of paperwork and at the least a ceremony at the native Registrar.
The characteristic which greater than anything distinguishes the common regulation from other Western authorized programs is prolonged its reliance upon precedent. As a result of frequent-legislation decisions deal with everyday situations as they happen, social adjustments, innovations, and discoveries make it crucial for judges generally to look outdoors reported selections for steerage in a case of first impression (previously undetermined authorized problem).
Within the United States, determining whether the Seventh Amendment's proper to a jury trial applies (a dedication of a truth necessary to resolution of a "common legislation" claim) 34 vs. whether the issue will likely be decided by a judge (problems with what the law is, and all issues relating to fairness).
In Ontario , the Ontario Household Regulation Act specifically acknowledges frequent-legislation spouses in section 29, dealing with spousal help issues; the necessities are living together repeatedly for a minimum of three years 14 or having a toddler in common and having "cohabited in a relationship of some permanence".
Within the United States, regulation college is a postgraduate program normally lasting three years and resulting in the conferral upon graduates of the Juris Doctor (J.D.) law degree Some colleges in Louisiana concurrently award a Graduate Diploma in Civil Law (D.C.L.). To gain admission to a law faculty that is accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA), applicants should often take the Regulation Faculty Admission Take a look at (LSAT), 24 25 :33 and have an undergraduate (bachelor's) diploma in any main.
Law Marriage In The United States
Common-regulation marriage, also called sui iuris marriage, casual marriage, marriage by behavior and reputation, or marriage the truth is, is a authorized framework in a restricted number of jurisdictions the place a couple is legally considered married , without that couple having formally registered their relation as a civil or non secular marriage. The Household Law Act states that a de facto relationship can exist between two folks of different or the identical sex and that an individual might be in a de facto relationship even when legally married to a different individual or in a de facto relationship with another person.
The courtroom regarded to the contractual relationships, and held that liability would only movement as far as the person in rapid contract ("privity") with the negligent party. The UK has had a protracted historical past of unconventional marriages, together with common regulation marriages.
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In truth, you can't enter into a common regulation marriage inside the boundaries of New York State. Up to now, many frequent emblems changed over time or had been slightly modified.
Widespread law marriage is acknowledged in a number of states, and Texas happens to be one among them. It was held exclusion of the younger member of a household from property according to the rule of primogeniture doesn't create any particular circumstances entitling to a reduction at equiry, as a result of the eldest son gets solely what he is entitled to get in legislation.
A standard regulation marriage is generally outlined as one the place the state provides couple's rights and advantages of being married, even though they by no means obtained a wedding license or had any ceremony celebrating the marriage. Civil legislation was developed in Spain and Portugal and was later accepted by international locations like Japan and Russia to be able to gain financial and political energy.
That is additionally commonly finished by couples who don't wish to get married legally. At times, seemingly inconsistent or contradictory legal guidelines could be reached by two different courts when the info of the case are nearly similar or related.
In A vs. A, believing strongly within the case, we chose to first proceed solely under a typical regulation marriage explanation for motion, forsaking within the first occasion pleading non-marital causes of action, in order not to weaken the frequent regulation marriage claim.
A standard regulation energy of attorney is a document that authorizes an agent to behave on behalf of the principal in a authorized or business matter. The crux of Ms. Jennings' declare was that in an argument, Mr. Harm advised her that, "as far as he was involved, we had been married in the eyes of God", that they'd "a spiritual marriage", and "had been more married than married folks." Mr. Damage, for his part, denied ever making these statements.
Before 1938, the federal courts, like virtually all other frequent regulation courts, determined the regulation on any issue the place the relevant legislature (both the U.S. Congress or state legislature, depending on the difficulty), had not acted, by trying to courts in the identical system, that is, other federal courts, even on problems with state legislation, and even the place there was no categorical grant of authority from Congress or the Structure.
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There are a lot of people within the United States that have wonderful, fair employers – yet there are additionally those whose staff' rights are violated every yr with reference to underpayment, extra time and relaxation break violations. Edward Coke , a 17th-century Lord Chief Justice of the English Courtroom of Common Pleas and a Member of Parliament , wrote a number of legal texts that collected and integrated centuries of case law. There are a myriad of different factors that could possibly be very important in figuring out whether or not or not there is a widespread legislation marriage.
Frequent-law companions who are unable to stay collectively or seem in public together because of legal restrictions of their home nation or who've been separated for reasons past their management (for instance, civil battle or armed conflict) should qualify and ought to be included on an software.
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Boating on a lake, river, or in the ocean generally is a very enjoyable and relaxing exercise for the whole family. There are several states, New York being among them, that acknowledge widespread law marriage relationships that were established while the parties resided or sojourned elsewhere, namely in one of the aforementioned widespread legislation marriage jurisdictions.
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The Internet Infrastructure Coalition is urging the U.S. Government not to blindly follow the RIAA and MPAA's input regarding online piracy threats. The group, which represents tech firms including Google, Amazon and Verisign, warns that the future of the Internet is at stake.
Earlier this month, several copyright holder groups sent their annual "notorious markets" submissions to the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR).
The U.S. Government uses this input for the Special 301 report, an overview of threats to various copyright industries. The recommendations usually include well-known piracy sites such as The Pirate Bay, but increasingly third-party technology providers are also added to the mix.
For example, this year the MPAA and RIAA identified domain name registrars as possible piracy facilitators. In addition, several "rogue" hosting providers were mentioned, as well as CDN provider Cloudflare.
The inclusion of these technology companies is a dangerous development according to the Internet Infrastructure Coalition (I2Coalition), which counts Google, Amazon, Verisign and Dreamhost among its members.
The I2Coalition submitted a rebuttal to the USTR this week in which they outline their concerns. They warn that if the MPAA and RIAA have their way, the entire Internet could be put at risk.
"Certain submissions favor an approach to intellectual property and infringement protections that would be harmful to the Internet infrastructure marketplace, and therefore to the Internet itself, as well as the global U.S. and global economies," they write.
The main problem is that the entertainment industry groups "vilify" specific technologies instead of the marketplaces themselves, as the Special 301 process is supposed to do.
For example, MPAA's characterization of Cloudflare as a service that creates "obstacles to enforcement" as it helps pirate sites to "hide," is inappropriate according to the coalition.
"Technologies themselves cannot be bad actors. Further, a number of submissions characterize technologies and those using the technologies using unnecessarily inflammatory language."
In addition to misguided statements about technology, I2Coalition also argues that the submissions show a misinterpretation of the obligations domain name registrars have under the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA).
Ideally, the MPAA and RIAA would like domain registrars to suspend domain names that are accused of copyright infringement, but most refuse to do so without a court order. Rightfully so, according to I2Coalition.
"Both the vilification of technology, and misconstruing of the RAA have one goal in common: forcing Internet infrastructure companies to act as intermediaries in intellectual property disputes," the group writes.
"This is not the answer to intellectual property infringement, is not the purpose of the Special 301 process, and proposals to expand the use of these companies as intermediaries are misguided."
Using a page from the entertainment industry playbook, the technology companies stress that billions of dollars are at stake if the Government steers policies in the wrong direction.
"The Internet infrastructure industry generates more than $100 billion in annual revenue and is growing at a rate of nearly 20% per year.
"Creating regulatory and legal hurdles to the industry's progress will not only negatively impact the architecture and viability of the global Internet, it will also impact the overall economy, which is dependent on the continued growth of the Internet infrastructure industry."
The rebuttal and other submissions will form the basis of the U.S. Government's Special 301 Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets, which is expected to come out later this year.
I2Coalition's full submission is available here (pdf).
I2c, mpaa, RIAA, USTR
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package polardb

//Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
//you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
//You may obtain a copy of the License at
//
//http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
//
//Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
//distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
//WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
//See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
//limitations under the License.
//
// Code generated by Alibaba Cloud SDK Code Generator.
// Changes may cause incorrect behavior and will be lost if the code is regenerated.

import (
	"github.com/aliyun/alibaba-cloud-sdk-go/sdk/requests"
	"github.com/aliyun/alibaba-cloud-sdk-go/sdk/responses"
)

// DeleteDBCluster invokes the polardb.DeleteDBCluster API synchronously
func (client *Client) DeleteDBCluster(request *DeleteDBClusterRequest) (response *DeleteDBClusterResponse, err error) {
	response = CreateDeleteDBClusterResponse()
	err = client.DoAction(request, response)
	return
}

// DeleteDBClusterWithChan invokes the polardb.DeleteDBCluster API asynchronously
func (client *Client) DeleteDBClusterWithChan(request *DeleteDBClusterRequest) (<-chan *DeleteDBClusterResponse, <-chan error) {
	responseChan := make(chan *DeleteDBClusterResponse, 1)
	errChan := make(chan error, 1)
	err := client.AddAsyncTask(func() {
		defer close(responseChan)
		defer close(errChan)
		response, err := client.DeleteDBCluster(request)
		if err != nil {
			errChan <- err
		} else {
			responseChan <- response
		}
	})
	if err != nil {
		errChan <- err
		close(responseChan)
		close(errChan)
	}
	return responseChan, errChan
}

// DeleteDBClusterWithCallback invokes the polardb.DeleteDBCluster API asynchronously
func (client *Client) DeleteDBClusterWithCallback(request *DeleteDBClusterRequest, callback func(response *DeleteDBClusterResponse, err error)) <-chan int {
	result := make(chan int, 1)
	err := client.AddAsyncTask(func() {
		var response *DeleteDBClusterResponse
		var err error
		defer close(result)
		response, err = client.DeleteDBCluster(request)
		callback(response, err)
		result <- 1
	})
	if err != nil {
		defer close(result)
		callback(nil, err)
		result <- 0
	}
	return result
}

// DeleteDBClusterRequest is the request struct for api DeleteDBCluster
type DeleteDBClusterRequest struct {
	*requests.RpcRequest
	ResourceOwnerId                        requests.Integer `position:"Query" name:"ResourceOwnerId"`
	BackupRetentionPolicyOnClusterDeletion string           `position:"Query" name:"BackupRetentionPolicyOnClusterDeletion"`
	ResourceOwnerAccount                   string           `position:"Query" name:"ResourceOwnerAccount"`
	DBClusterId                            string           `position:"Query" name:"DBClusterId"`
	OwnerAccount                           string           `position:"Query" name:"OwnerAccount"`
	OwnerId                                requests.Integer `position:"Query" name:"OwnerId"`
}

// DeleteDBClusterResponse is the response struct for api DeleteDBCluster
type DeleteDBClusterResponse struct {
	*responses.BaseResponse
	RequestId string `json:"RequestId" xml:"RequestId"`
}

// CreateDeleteDBClusterRequest creates a request to invoke DeleteDBCluster API
func CreateDeleteDBClusterRequest() (request *DeleteDBClusterRequest) {
	request = &DeleteDBClusterRequest{
		RpcRequest: &requests.RpcRequest{},
	}
	request.InitWithApiInfo("polardb", "2017-08-01", "DeleteDBCluster", "polardb", "openAPI")
	request.Method = requests.POST
	return
}

// CreateDeleteDBClusterResponse creates a response to parse from DeleteDBCluster response
func CreateDeleteDBClusterResponse() (response *DeleteDBClusterResponse) {
	response = &DeleteDBClusterResponse{
		BaseResponse: &responses.BaseResponse{},
	}
	return
}


CAMDEN, NJ—Two Camden men were sentenced to prison in connection with their roles as set workers in a large-scale drug trafficking organization (DTO) that distributed cocaine base, cocaine, and/or heroin, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
Marqueis Thomas Randall, a/k/a "Marty," 23, was sentenced to 100 months in prison; Elquinzie Lewis, 23, was sentenced Sept. 29, 2015, to 48 months in prison. Randall previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Robert B. Kugler in Camden federal court to a superseding information charging him with one count of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute 28 grams or more of cocaine base and 100 grams or more of heroin, and one count of being a previously convicted felon in possession of a firearm. Lewis previously pleaded guilty before Judge Kugler to a superseding information charging him with using a communications facility to further a drug trafficking crime.
In April 2013, seven alleged members of the drug trafficking organization were charged by criminal complaint with conspiring to distribute cocaine base, cocaine, and heroin. The five remaining defendants are scheduled for trial on Jan. 11, 2016.
The organization controlled an area that includes the area of Eighth and Tulip Streets, a retail shopping plaza in the 700 block of Morgan Boulevard, and areas within the Crestbury Apartments public housing project, located in the 2500 block of South Eighth Street. The investigation into the organization involved physical surveillance, confidential informants, telephone wiretaps, controlled drug purchases, and record checks. In one recorded conversation from the wiretap, one of the alleged leaders told Lewis: "My thing is loyalty. You rolling with us, you got loyalty. You all right. You rolling with us that mean everybody you see got your back a hundred percent, like that's what I mean by loyalty. It's bigger than what's just going on." In addition to the prison term, Judge Kugler sentenced Randall to five years of supervised release and sentenced Lewis to one year of supervised release.
The charges and allegations against the remaining defendants are merely accusations, and the defendants are considered innocent unless and until proven guilty.
The government is represented by Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Erin M. Fay and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Richardson of the Camden office.
U.S. Attorney Fishman credited special agents of the FBI's South Jersey Violent Offender and Gang Task Force, Philadelphia Division, under the direction of FBI Special Agent in Charge William F. Sweeney Jr.; the Camden County Prosecutor's Office, under the direction of Prosecutor Mary Eva Colalillo; the Camden City Police Department, under the direction of Chief Scott Thomson; the N.J. State Police, under the direction of Col. Rick Fuentes; and the Camden Collaborative Crime Commission (C4), with the investigation leading to today's sentencings. He also thanked the Philadelphia Police Department, the N.J. Parole Board, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the N.J. Division of Criminal Justice, the Voorhees Police Department, the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office, the Salem County Prosecutor's Office, the Camden County Sheriff's Office, the Woodbury Police Department and the Pennsauken Police Department for their roles in the case.
This case was developed through the work of C-4. Every federal, state and local law enforcement agency and prosecutor's office responsible for combating drug trafficking, gang activity and violent crime in Camden has come together in one location to share intelligence, develop investigative strategies and support the investigative and prosecutorial efforts of its partners. C-4 has merged the individual missions of the various law enforcement agencies into a single strategic attack on drug trafficking and drug-related violent crime. Such intense coordination greatly enhances the law enforcement community's ability to correctly identify and successfully prosecute the most dangerous criminals in one of our nation's most dangerous cities.


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The Eternal Melody: Mendelssohn and Bonhoeffer
Blogpost for Cultivare on Patheos, January 2014.
Dutch conductor Hans Vonk once said of Beethoven: His music is the truth and nothing but the truth. It is true that where language stops music continues to speak. It is a realm where the unsayable can still be expressed. As such music is theology. Both music and theology seek to find expression to the mysteries of life, of suffering, of hope… of God. It is no wonder, therefore, that when I write theology, I have to listen to music. Music helps me to grope for that truth that is just beyond my words, to grasp that creativity beyond my own limitation.
It was in such a creative moment, as I found myself writing on the theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer while listening to Felix Mendelssohn, that it suddenly dawned on me: there is a link between these two. Analytical thought won't get you there, but the music stirred something in me and my subconscious me reached out and got hold of a remarkable connection.
Somehow Bonhoeffer suddenly reminded me of Mendelssohn. Weren't both prodigies who excelled beyond what was thought to be humanly possible? Mendelssohn performed and composed at an early age. Goethe compared him to Mozart. Bonhoeffer wrote his dissertation at the age of 21 and a second one 3 years later. They are both pieces of genius. Both died too early as well. Mendelssohn died from poor health at 38. Bonhoeffer was murdered by the nazis when he was 39. Both, while being reasonably successful, stood in the shadow of big contemporaries and only after their death did their work find the recognition it truly deserved. Mendelssohn had to deal with the likes of Berlioz, Wagner, and Liszt whose progressive music made his conservative orientation pale in comparison. Bonhoeffer placed himself consciously and willingly in the sphere of the Barthian movement, which tried to retrieve a theological tradition that starts with revelation. Only in the 50s and 60s people started to recognize how important Bonhoeffer is as a theologian (and continues to be). As composer and theologian Mendelssohn and Bonhoeffer are geniuses in their own right.
Mendelssohn, a Jew from a family converted to Christianity, reworked Luther's "A Mighty Fortress" into his "Reformation Symphony." He also set in motion the rediscovery of the music of John Sebastian Bach, who had been long forgotten, by performing the St. Matthew Passion in 1829. Mendelssohn wrote: "To think that it took an actor and a Jew's son to revive the greatest Christian music for the world!" Bonhoeffer for his part retrieved Luther's thought not only for a renewal in theology; he also applied it in defense of the German Jews, especially those who were members of the church. He thought that where the church would no longer live in unity with the Jewish Christians in their midst, it ceased to be the church of Christ.
Lastly, both were musicians. One ended up incarnating theology into his music, while the other managed to infuse his theology with the eternal melody of the Incarnate. After all, not only is music theology, theology is music just as much.
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An American Held in North Korea Begins Six Years of Hard Labor
U.S. citizen Matthew Miller during his trial at the North Korean Supreme Court in Pyongyang in this undated photo released by the state-run Korean Central News Agency on Sept. 14, 2014
KCNA/Reuters
By Elizabeth Barber
September 25, 2014 2:20 AM EDT
An American man has begun a six-year sentence of hard labor in North Korea, CNN reports.
Matthew Miller, of Bakersfield, Calif., was arrested in North Korea in April and convicted earlier this month of committing acts "hostile" to the regime.
A shaven-headed Miller has been assigned the prisoner number 107, but CNN says there are no details of where in North Korea he will serve his sentence, or the nature of the labor he will be required to perform.
The state-run Korean Central News Agency claimed that the 25-year-old tore up his tourist visa upon arrival in Pyongyang as part of a ploy to be sent to prison so that he could report on human-rights violations there. It accused him of wanting to become a "second Snowden through intentional hooliganism."
Washington, which has no diplomatic ties with Pyongyang, has unsuccessfully sought a meeting with North Korean officials to arrange the release of three Americans held in the state, including Miller.
[CNN]
Write to Elizabeth Barber at elizabeth.barber@timeasia.com.
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Breck R. Hines receiving award from MBJ Publisher Alan Turner.
As a member of the Class of 1997 at Jackson Academy, Breck Hines was chosen as Most Likely to Succeed. Needless to say, his JA classmates were spot-on with their vote.
Today, Hines is executive vice president of Duckworth Realty. The University of Mississippi graduate also co-owns and operates an ice manufacturing and sales company in Oxford.
As a principal at Duckworth Realty, Hines' responsibilities include managing acquisitions and the development arms of the business.
As a licensed real estate broker, he also represents select landlords and tenants, and has closed over $200 million in transactions in the last decade.
Hines attributes much of his success to his wife and their three children, who he says believed and trusted in him.
An active member of Christ United Methodist Church, Hines holds a third-class private pilot's license and basks in the intellectual satisfaction that comes with flying.


text:
function [acc, optimal_stats,pred,pred_train] = ...
    CBIG_LRR_fitrlinear_train_test( feat_train, feat_test, y_train, y_test, lambda, metric )

% [acc, optimal_stats,pred,pred_train] = ...
%    CBIG_LRR_fitrlinear_train_test( feat_train, feat_test, y_train, y_test, lambda, metric )
%
% Based on the specified regularization hyperparameter (lambda), this
% function trains a linear ridge regression model to predict the target
% value (y_train) from the features (feat_train) in the training set. After
% that, it applies the trained model on the test set (y_test and feat_test).
% This function is an adaptation from CBIG_LRR_train_test in CBIG_repo. It
% uses the MATLAB function `fitrlinear` for fitting the LRR. The fitrlinear
% function automatically fits a bias term from input features. Hence, there
% is no need for the user to concatenate a bias term manually.
%
% Inputs:
%   - feat_train:
%     A 2D matrix (#training subjects x #features). It is the selected
%     features of training subjects.
%
%   - feat_test:
%     A 2D matrix (#test subject x x#features). It is the selected features
%     of test subjects.
%
%   - y_train:
%     A column vector of the target measure in the training set (dim:
%     #training subjects x 1).
%
%   - y_test:
%     A column vector of the target measure in the test set (dim: #test
%     subjects x 1).
%
%   - lambda:
%     A scalar, the regularization hyperparameter.
%
%   - metric
%     A string, what is the accuracy metric that we want to optimise our
%     hyperparameter with. Can choose from
%     'corr','COD','predictive_COD','MAE_norm','MAE','MSE','MSE_norm'
%
% Written by Yanrui and CBIG under MIT license: https://github.com/ThomasYeoLab/CBIG/blob/master/LICENSE.md

if(size(y_train,2) > 1)
    error('''y_train'' should be a column vector')
end
if(size(y_test,2) > 1)
    error('''y_test'' should be a column vector')
end

metrics = {'corr','COD','predictive_COD','MAE','MAE_norm','MSE','MSE_norm'};

p = size(feat_train, 2);
rng('default')
rng(1)

%% training
Mdl = fitrlinear(feat_train',y_train,'ObservationsIn','columns', 'Lambda',lambda, 'Learner',...
    'leastsquares', 'Regularization','ridge');

%% Predicting
pred = predict(Mdl,feat_test','ObservationsIn','columns');
pred_train = predict(Mdl,feat_train','ObservationsIn','columns');

for i = 1:length(metrics)
    curr_metric = metrics{i};
    [acc, loss] = CBIG_compute_prediction_acc_and_loss(pred,y_test, curr_metric,y_train);
    optimal_stats.(curr_metric) = acc;
end

acc = optimal_stats.corr;

%% testing
fprintf('>>> Test accuracy (correlation): %f\n\n', acc);

end


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