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Invasion of the Infinite Realm 9
The brilliant researcher – and self-declared atheist and conservative – Heather Mac Donald writes:
Another academic year, another fattening of campus diversity bureaucracies. Most worrisomely, the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields are now prime targets for administrative diversity encroachment, with the commercial tech sector rapidly following suit.
The pursuit of discovery and understanding in the Infinite Realm of the mind is a venture in liberation. It does not matter there whether your body is strong or weak, what color your skin is, or what you feel. You hunger for nothing but knowledge. No other appetites – alimentary, sexual, hubristic – vex you there.
To enter it, you turn to the study of science, technology, engineering, mathematics. The study of the humanities will not get you through the door.
There are people – most perhaps – who do not want to leave bodily hungers, emotion, the self and its desires behind. If they visit the Infinite Realm at all, it is to view it from the deck of a cruise ship of the Studies Line, named Women Studies, Black Studies, Latino Studies, Diversity Studies, Gender Studies, Protest Studies, Oppression Studies, Peace Studies, Studies Without Borders.
And the glimpse they have of the Infinite Realm disturbs them. They see who goes in. For whom the door opens. The privileged.
And look – they are almost all men, too many of them white. You can tell they are unfeeling. They do not cast a compassionate glance at the tourist crowds leaning on the rails of the Studies ships, victims of exclusion oppression, yearning to be let in.
Oh, that unassailable citadel! Oh, that locked door! However many voyagers on the Studies ships were to batter it, it would not yield.
But the will of so many people, documented and undocumented, must not be frustrated. If more women and "people of color" are not admitted in equal numbers to the white men, then the Infinite Realm must be changed. It can still be called the realm of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, but it must become a place where your body, your color, your sex, and above all your feelings matter. It must be feminized, diversified, gendered. It must become a temple where the new gods Diversity, Inclusion, Compassion preside.
The most significant new diversity sinecure has been established at the University of California, Los Angeles, where the engineering school just minted its first associate dean of diversity and inclusion. The purpose of this new position is to encourage engineering faculty to hire more females and underrepresented minorities, reports the Daily Bruin, UCLA's student newspaper. "One of my jobs," the new dean, Scott Brandenberg, told the paper, is "to avoid implicit bias in the hiring process."
The new engineering-diversity deanship supplements the work of UCLA's lavishly paid, campus-wide Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Jerry Kang, whose 2016 salary was $444,000. Kang, one of the most influential proponents of the "implicit-bias" concept, already exerts enormous pressure throughout the university to hire for "diversity". Even before his vice chancellorship was created, any UCLA professor hoping for the top rank of tenure had to write a "contributions to diversity" essay detailing his efforts to rectify any racial and gender imbalances in his department.
The addition of a localized diversity bureaucrat within the engineering school can only increase the focus on gender and race in hiring and admissions decisions. (Brandenberg, of course, expresses fealty to California's beleaguered ban on racial and gender preferences in government. But it would be naive to think that the ubiquitous mandate to increase "diversity" does not inevitably tip the scale in favor of alleged victim groups.)
No evidence exists that implicit bias is a factor in the engineering school's gender and racial composition. Its percentage of female undergraduate and graduate students – about one quarter – matches the national percentage reported by the American Society for Engineering Education. I asked the school's spokesman, Amy Akmal, if UCLA Engineering was aware of any examples of the most qualified candidate being overlooked or rejected in a hiring search because of implicit bias; she ignored this fundamental question. (She also ignored a question about the new dean's salary.)
Every science department in the country relentlessly strives to improve its national ranking through hiring the most prestigious researchers. It would be deeply contrary to their interests to reject a superior candidate because of gender or race. And given the pools of federal and private science funding available on the basis of gender and race, hiring managers have added incentive to favor "diverse" applicants. Contrary to the idea that females are being discriminated against in hiring, Wendy Williams and Stephen Ceci found that female applicants for STEM tenure-track positions enjoyed a two-to-one advantage over similarly qualified males in paired resume experiments.
The director of UCLA's Women in Engineering program trotted out the usual role model argument for gender-and race-conscious decision-making. Audrey Pool O'Neal told the Daily Bruin that she never saw anyone who looked like her (black and female) when she was an undergraduate and graduate student. "When I do teach classes, the female students let me know how much they appreciate seeing a woman in front of their classroom," O'Neal said.
Why not appreciate seeing the best-trained scholar in front of your classroom? Any female who thinks that she needs a female in front of her in order to learn as much as she can, or to envision a career in a particular field, has declared herself a follower rather than a pioneer – and a follower based on a characteristic irrelevant to intellectual achievement. If it were really the case that a role model of the same gender is important to moving ahead, it would be impossible to alter the gender balance of a field, assuming such a mission to be worthwhile, which – absent a finding of actual discrimination – it is not. Marie Curie did not need female role models to investigate radioactivity; she was motivated by a passion to understand the world. That should be reason enough to plunge headlong into the search for knowledge.
The Columbia University Medical Center has just pledged $50 million to diversify its faculty and student body, reports the Wall Street Journal, part of a new $100 million diversity drive across the entire university. Never mind that Columbia University has already fruitlessly spent $85 million since 2005 toward the same end. Never mind that there is a huge gap between the MCAT scores of blacks and whites, which will affect the quality of subsequent hiring pools. Columbia's vice provost for faculty diversity and inclusion regurgitates another classic of diversity boilerplate to justify this enormous waste of funds. "The reality is that you can't really achieve excellence without diversity. It requires diverse thought to solve complex problems," says vice provost Dennis Mitchell.
Mitchell's statement is ludicrous on multiple fronts.Aside from the fact that the one thing never sought in the academic diversity hustle is "diverse thought", do Mitchell and his compatriots in the diversity industry believe that females and underrepresented minorities solve analytical problems differently from males, whites, and Asians? A core plank of left-wing academic thought is that gender and race are "socially constructed". Why then would females and underrepresented minorities think differently if their alleged differences are simply a result of oppressive social categories?
Columbia's science departments do not have 50/50 parity between males and females, which, according to Mitchell, keeps them from achieving "excellence". Since 1903, Columbia faculty members have won 78 Nobel Prizes in the sciences and economics. The recipients were overwhelmingly male (and white and Asian); somehow, they managed to do groundbreaking work in science despite the relatively non-diverse composition of their departments.
The only thing that the academic diversity racket achieves is to bid up the salaries of plausibly qualified candidates, and redistribute those candidates to universities that can muster the most resources for diversity poaching. The dean of UCLA Engineering, Jayathi Murthy, laments that of the 900 females admitted to the undergraduate engineering program in 2016, only about 240 accepted the offer. "There are (about) 660 women there that are going somewhere else and the question is . . . is there an opportunity for us to do something differently," she told the Daily Bruin.
Presumably, those 660 non-matriculants are getting engineering degrees at other institutions. If the goal (a dubious one) is to increase the number of female engineers overall, then it doesn't matter where they graduate from. But every college wants its own set of "diverse" students and faculty, though one institution's gain is another's presumed loss.
The pressure to take irrelevant characteristics like race and sex into account in academic science is dangerous enough. But Silicon Valley continues to remake itself in the image of the campus diversity bureaucracy. Dell Technologies announced in September a new "chief diversity and inclusion officer" position. Per the usual administrator shuffle, the occupant of this new position, Brian Reaves, previously served as head of diversity and inclusion for software company SAP. Reaves will engage the company's "leaders" in "candid conversations about the role of gender and diversity in the workplace," said Dell chief customer officer Karen Quintos in a press statement. "Candid" means: you are free to confess your white cis-male privilege. "Candid" does not mean questioning Dell's diversity assumptions, as this summer's firing of computer engineer James Damore from Google made terrifyingly clear to any other potential heretics. …
Official scientific organizations have all turned obsessively to the diversity agenda. Any academic scientist who wants to move up in administration – or apply for grants, leave, or access to the conference circuit – must be on a crusade against his fellow scientists' microaggressions and implicit bias. This is good news for the diversity industry, but bad news for America's scientific competitiveness.
So why are scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians laughing?
Because, fortunately, university faculties of the STEM fields are not the Infinite Realm itself. Nor are the campuses of the Silicon Valley technology giants.
Funny that. The army of diversity administrators grows and grows. More and more STEM faculties in more and more universities appoint more and more diversity officers. But the frustration remains. Because that castle, which the people on the Studies cruises were told was the Infinite Realm, and which has been commandeered by the diversity police, and now has a day care annex, a free clinic, a gym, a safe place with coloring-in books and stuffed animal toys, a diner, unisex bathrooms, and 50 offices for diversity administrators (none for scientists, technologists, engineers or mathematicians), was not the real thing.
Truth is, the Infinite Realm is abstract. No matter who you are, of what tribe or caste or clan or breed or birth, if you can think you can enter. For the Infinite Realm is in your own head or else it does not exist for you at all. And no diversity officer, or law, or politically correct opinion, or Antifa riot, or grant from George Soros, can make any difference to that immutable fact.
Posted under education, liberty, Race, Sex by Jillian Becker on Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Tagged with Brian Reaves, Dennis Mitchell, diversity, George Soros, Heather Mac Donald, James Damore, Jayathi Murthy, Jerry Kang, Karen Quintos, Scott Brandenberg
The obsessed 1
The Left is obsessed with what it considers the disadvantaged conditions of being non-white and/or non-male.
Envy consumes it. It contrives remedies that will have no effect on the realities of race and sex, such as victimizing people who are white and/or male.
Recently, the search-engine company Google dismissed one of its most skilled and highly qualified engineers, James Damore, because he wrote and published a memo pointing out that there are differences between men and women that cannot be changed by company policy.
Steven Crowder energetically endorses the memo and rebukes the company.
Posted under Leftism by Jillian Becker on Saturday, August 12, 2017
Tagged with Chad Hurley, Danielle Brown, David Drummond, Google, James Damore, John Doerr, John Giannandrea, Omid Kordestani, Sergey Brin, Sridhar Ramaswamy, Steven Crowder, Sundar Pichai, Susan Wojcicki
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Diversity in conformity 3
… or conformity in diversity.
This is an extract from Google's Ideological Echo Chamber:How bias clouds our thinking about diversity and inclusion, by James Damore, July 2017:
I hope it's clear that I'm not saying that diversity is bad, that Google or society is 100% fair, that we shouldn't try to correct for existing biases, or that minorities have the same experience of those in the majority. My larger point is that we have an intolerance for ideas and evidence that don't fit a certain ideology. I'm also not saying that we should restrict people to certain gender roles; I'm advocating for quite the opposite: treat people as individuals, not as just another member of their group (tribalism).
It is, as the extract shows, an intelligent discussion of the ideas with which it is engaging. The author's conclusions, of which the extract is a part, seem to us to be straightforward common sense.
The complete text may be found here.
James Damore was an employee of Google. His memo criticizes Google's insistence that all its employees hold unquestioningly a certain set of opinions – all of them ideas of the Left – having to do with "diversity and inclusion".
A set of opinions requiring unanimous unquestioning acceptance, is an orthodoxy.
Damore challenged the orthodoxy.
But orthodoxies by definition do not allow criticism.
A challenge to an orthodoxy is blasphemous and heretical.
With the publication of his criticism, Damore became a blasphemous heretic.
So, of course, he was fired.
Is it a wise policy for a commercial company to require religious conformity of its employees? Would it harm the business if some employees held different opinions?
The company directors' answer to those questions is plainly "yes".
What is delightful about this story is that the Google executives want conformity of opinion on the desirability of diversity.
Could a connoisseur of irony find a better collector's piece than that?
Well, yes, actually. There are some at least as good – in the universities:
Interviewed by Professor Jordan Peterson, James Damore said:
Google is run like a religious cult. Conform and carry out the rituals, and you'll be rewarded and praised; ask any uncomfortable questions or offend the wrong people, and the threats and public shaming will be swift and ruthless. The religion in this case is a kind of intersectional feminism, its central tenets are Diversity and Inclusion, its demonic enemy is Bias, and its purifying rituals include humiliating forms of "training" that resemble Maoist struggle sessions.
This might sound crazy to a lot of your readers, but college students should understand, since it's a similar culture.
Posted under Leftism by Jillian Becker on Thursday, August 10, 2017
Tagged with Google, James Damore, Othodoxy, Professor Jordan Peterson


Hello Everyone and welcome to Episode 49 of the Crafternoon Treats Crochet and Yarn podcast. Here is the link to Episode 49: Want it, NEED it!!
Last weekend I went over to Huddersfield for the biannual Stylecraft bloggers meet up. It was great to be in the company of many illustrious bloggers!
Not only did we get to meet up on the Friday evening and have dinner together and catch up, we also had most of the Saturday at the Stylecraft mill meeting and squishing lots of lovely new yarn.
I can't talk about this one much yet, not until 5th March.
Find out more about the other Stylecraft bloggers here.
I've been thinking about my own impact on the environment recently, but its not that straightforward to know whether you are doing the right thing or not… and that applies to using yarns as much as it does to planning a new kitchen!
In the afternoon of our Stylecraft get-together, Juliet Barnard treated us to a short workshop on how to make Dorset buttons. Mine was a bit wonky but they are really easy to do and I definitely want to make more. Particularly to save Dorset button making from becoming an extinct craft!
Perfect Dorset button made by Sandra of Cherry Heart – isn't her scissor keeper lovely?
I've called them MIPS as I was inspired by the first podcast of the year by Joanna of the Stitching the High Notes podcast.
Not many, I have to be honest. But here are the new patterns that came out this week that I LOVE!!!
The first has been set up by my friend Helen Kurtz, who is one of the other Stylecraft blogstars.
Her JustGiving page is now live and her blog shows all the lovely prizes. Please do think about donating £2 to enter. Its very good odds as there are so many prizes (much better than a lottery!) and your donation will benefit research into heart problems as its going to go to the British Heart Foundation.
Here is that link to ENTER THE RAFFLE!!!!
The deadline for triangles is April 20th. Any size or weight yarn. They are suggesting these patterns but any will do. The Ackworth part of the event is on 4th May but it takes place all weekend.
Sockalong (starts Sept but date to be announced). A joint CAL with other podcasts! All about crochet socks.
Some brief Etsy shop news and when to expect more Kitchen hellmas vlogs!
What is the picture shown at the top of this page? A blanket? Is there a pattern? It is lovely.
Sorry – just seen that you did put a link – thank you!!!
Exciting things to come! Please could you give the links to the other Stylecraft Bloggers, it would be nice to see what they are all up to. Thank you.


A year ago today we stopped for a while at Maruia Falls. A vantage point from above foreshortens the view. The brief hike down to the river reveals how wide the falls are. In fact Maruia was the widest waterfall we saw in New Zealand on either of our two trips.
Surprisingly, this impressive waterfall has existed only since 1929. We wouldn't have seen it at all but for the fact that the coastal road north from Christchurch to Blenheim was still blocked near Kaikoura due to an earthquake-caused landslide. That forced us to drive hours out of our way to reach Blenheim in preparation for the ferry back to the North Island the next day.
Surprisingly, indeed. I did not know they were so young.
The information connected to one of the photos in the link you provided suggests that the falls might still be enlarging, since they've gone from one meter high to ten meters. It's interesting to ponder the ways that nature herself changes nature. Every now and then i think about the most recent Mississippi/Atchafalaya flood, and wonder if I'll live to see the Mississippi finally overwhelm the constraints that have been placed on its flow.
I like the broad sweep of water. Tall waterfalls are impressive, but this is equally pleasing.
I've seen nature documentaries that point out how Niagara Falls is gradually working its way upstream. Maruia is the first waterfall I'm aware of that has undergone an increase in height, and over so short a period, at that.
I've heard it said (or else I just made it up) that there's a name for human construction to control the Mississippi: folly.
You have better hearing than I do.
Wow, is that ever pretty!
A search for Montana waterfalls Montucky will bring up some of the falls in the rather limited area in which I wander (about 2,000 square miles). None are really what would be considered spectacular.
I did that search. Looks like your part of the state has plenty of scenic falls, even if not spectacular. I wouldn't mind seeing some of them.
I think you would enjoy that. A lot of hiking would be involved.
It's a beautiful spot. I don't think I've ever seen such a specific date for a waterfall! It would be fun to have a plaque "Niagara, est. 9982 BC. Your estimated time to arrival in Buffalo 20,082 A.D." There are some man-made efforts to stabilize the Falls a bit, since it's so expensive to drag all those hotels upriver. But the Falls that Charles Dickens saw in 1842 were hundreds of feet downriver of the ones we see now, and of course, we're only seeing 25-40% of the water flow that Dickens saw, since so much is diverted for electricity.
Yes, I saw a television documentary that pointed out that the flow over Niagara Falls is much less now than it historically was, given the diversion for electric generation.
I'm sorry for your tiresome detour, but what a reward! I like both of these images but the first one just makes me want to relax and gaze.
Yes, in terms of picturesqueness, the detour was worth it. We almost had to take an even longer detour that would have added more hours. The night before we left, a wildfire along the route burned right up to the road, which was temporarily closed. When we drove by the next morning, fire crews were still out by the side of the highway finishing up their work, and we still saw smoke rising in some places.
That can be a bit harrowing, can't it?
I have arrived (unwittingly) at a preserve minutes after a burn crew has left, and found heat still rising on either side of the trail, smoke still curling up from the ashes. Knowing in your head that this is a good thing and was planned carefully is at odds with what your instincts are saying ~"OMG there's been a FIRE!!!" That gut reaction I have interests me. And of course, I don't know that the fire you almost encountered was a prescribed fire or not. I suspect it wasn't.
The pictures at that link should trigger the gut reaction you mentioned.
You're welcome. I hope you get there one of these days.


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Economy|Raft of Data Suggests Growth Is Slowing
Raft of Data Suggests Growth Is Slowing
A gauge of United States business investment plans fell for a second straight month in September, pointing to a sharp slowdown in economic growth and casting more doubt on whether the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates this year.
Other data on Tuesday showed that consumer confidence slipped in October in the face of worries over a recent moderation in job growth and its potential impact on income. Housing, however, remained the bright spot, and home prices accelerated in August. That should improve household wealth, which has been buffeted by a strong dollar, weak global demand, spending cuts in the energy sector and efforts by businesses to reduce an inventory glut.
The continued weakness in business spending, together with the slowdown in hiring, could make it difficult for the Fed to lift its short-term interest rate from near zero in December, as many economists expect. The Fed's central bank policy-setting committee started a two-day meeting on Tuesday.
"The drift of data suggests that the first time the Fed will raise rates will be in the spring," said Steve Blitz, chief economist at ITG Investment Research.
Nondefense capital goods orders excluding aircraft, a closely watched proxy for business spending plans, slipped 0.3 percent last month after a downwardly revised 1.6 percent decline in August, the Commerce Department said.
These so-called core capital goods were previously reported to have dropped 0.8 percent in August. The data was the latest dour news for manufacturing, which has borne the brunt of the strengthening dollar, energy sector investment cuts and the inventory correction.
Data ranging from trade to retail sales and industrial production have all suggested a significant loss of momentum in the third quarter.
Housing continues to outperform the economy. A second report on Tuesday showed the Standard & Poor's Case-Shiller composite index of home prices in 20 metropolitan areas increased 5.1 percent in August from a year ago after rising 4.9 percent in July.
According to a Reuters survey of economists, gross domestic product most likely expanded at a 1.6 percent annual rate in the third quarter, slowing from a brisk 3.9 percent pace in the second quarter. The government will publish its advance third-quarter G.D.P. estimate on Thursday.
A 2.9 percent decline in transportation equipment spending helped to weigh down overall orders for durable goods — items ranging from toasters to aircraft that are meant to last three years or more — which fell 1.2 percent last month.
Durable goods inventories fell 0.3 percent, the largest drop since May 2013, while unfilled orders declined 0.6 percent.
In a separate report, the Conference Board said its consumer sentiment index fell to 97.6 this month from a reading of 102.6 in September. Consumers were less optimistic about the labor market, and the share of those anticipating more jobs in the months ahead slipped.
The proportion of consumers expecting their incomes to increase dropped, and the number who expected a drop in their income rose. The downbeat assessment of the labor market follows a step down in job growth in August and September.
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Most office workers have spent the majority of the past 18 months working from home. Now that all social distancing restrictions have been lifted, a lot of employees are heading back into the office.
This isn't the case for all of us though, with a number of leading businesses formally adopting hybrid working models, giving up office space, or extending their work from home order.
Working from home has been positive in a lot of ways for us. Not only are many of us more productive, but it also offers us the opportunity for a better work-life balance, which is something we don't want to part with as restrictions are lifted.
Work staycations are becoming more popular
While much of the time we've spent working from home has been under lockdown restrictions, we've had periods of relaxed restrictions that have allowed us to go shopping, to bars, and stay in hotels.
As of December 2020, a Huawei survey found that 10% of UK workers had taken a 'work staycation' – a holiday away from home in which they still worked. The change of scenery is enough to refresh our minds during the working day, with the opportunity to explore a new area after logging off.
With lockdown restrictions preventing many of us from seeing loved ones, a lot of people took the opportunity to visit family members or friends living in other parts of the UK, working from their home for a week or so.
Alice, a 24-year-old marketer from Newcastle, said: "I've been to visit my sister a few times in Norwich over the past few months as restrictions have started to lift. It's been an amazing opportunity to spend time with her because I don't see her very often. Thanks to working from home, I've been able to do this more frequently without having to take a lot of time off work."
People are ditching big cities
As well as a rise in work staycations, research has shown many of us are leaving the big cities to move to more rural, scenic, and affordable locations. A TalkTalk survey found that two in five office workers have moved or considered moving during the pandemic, with many leaving convenient city locations for smaller market towns thanks to more flexible working.
This is offering us a great opportunity to reside in more picturesque locations that may be further away from our offices but are still commutable. For those whose employers are offering full-time home-working, the possibilities are endless.
The rise of the digital nomads
Some of us are going even further afield in our quest to find a new working from home destination. Digital nomadism, where people travel to a new country while working remotely for a company in their homeland, is on the rise, and the UK ranks highly in the list of best countries for being a digital nomad. In early 2021, the number of long-term stays booked through Airbnb increased from 14% of all bookings to 24%. What's more, 11% of its customers booking long-term stays say they are living a nomadic lifestyle.
In response to our global wanderlust, countries around the world, including Greece, Germany, Mexico, Barbados, Thailand, and Italy, have launched digital nomad visas. Some digital nomads are using standard tourist visas because their employment isn't tied to their new country, but these new visas offer longer stays and specific allowances for remote working.
Nestpick created a ranking of the best cities for digital nomads and the 'work from anywhere' generation to live in, with Australia's Melbourne topping the list. The ranking included the cost of living, infrastructure, freedom and laws, weather, and access to medical care.
Moving to a sunny climate for a few months – or potentially longer – and working on a beach or in an otherwise picturesque location is the dream for many of us. We know, though, that it's not viable for all of us.
For those of us with children, we can't drop everything and dash off to a sunnier climate. What's more, going full digital nomad is the most expensive of these options, meaning it's limited to people in especially strong financial positions. If you're young with the financial means to jet off to a new country to fulfil your digital nomad dreams, we say go for it!
If you have family dotted around the UK and young children, why not take them on a trip to visit their relatives for a week or so? Getting away from your own four walls will help to stimulate you and your children mentally. This can reinvigorate you even while working, so you don't have to take time off work to enjoy a vacation with family.
Even if you don't have children, this offers a great opportunity to spend time with loved ones without worrying about eating away your annual leave. Even a longer stay with a couple of days off work can do you the world of good – research shows that short breaks away from work can be better for our mental health than longer breaks with a "big" holiday. Mini-breaks give you a chance to pack light – a smaller case complete with light clothing and a little washbag will do perfectly!
The shift to home-working that was sped up by the pandemic has created a new generation of floating workers. Whether we're taking a work staycation for a week or we're swapping the UK for a sunnier climate, we're making the most of the opportunities afforded by working from home.
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Chloë Grace Moretz: Her Style Timeline
The actress reflects on Justin Bieber's career, sleepovers with Blake Lively, and her take on Titanic. Plus, take a peek at her behind-the-scenes video.
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2006: at the Premiere of Charlotte's Web in Los Angeles
"Oh, my dear Lord. I literally was a baby. Hiiiii. I look so kind. I want to give myself a little hug. I want to go see myself. Good outfit, Mom."
2008: With Jennifer Lawrence at a Poker House Screening in Los Angeles
"She held my hand here when we went up onstage. She was so sweet. I was like her little sister. We were really close. I loved her. I want to say she's the same girl I met when she was 15. I admire that."
2005: With Ryan Reynolds at a Party for The Amityville Horror in Hollywood
"I didn't know he was so hot. He was always practically nude in the scenes; he was running around with no shirt. Girls were always like, 'Oh, how cute is he?' And I was like, 'I don't know.' But now I look back, and I'm like, Daayy-uumm."
2009: With Joseph Gordon-Levitt in (500) Days of Summer
"He's so cute. I had the biggest crush on him. This was my first big break, before Kick-Ass, and everyone started to notice me. I'm a huge fan of this movie. I still look at it and I'm like, Oh, yeah, one of my favorite movies is (500) Days of Summer. And then I forget I was in it."
2011: at the Premiere of Justin Bieber: Never Say Never in Los Angeles
"I wish he had more of a family to guide him. It makes me sad, honestly. I hate seeing people's careers fall apart, especially when they're doing it to themselves. Because this business will eat you alive if you don't have people looking out for you."
2010: With Nicolas Cage at the Premiere of Kick-Ass in Hollywood
"People say a lot of stuff about him, but I really enjoy him. He's great in the movie, too. It's one of the best roles he's done in a long time. I loved this Betsey Johnson dress. We bought it. We would try to talk to the people and get them to let me wear their clothing, and they'd be like, 'No.'"
2011: With Blake Lively in Hick
"I love her. She's a sweet girl. I slept over at her house several times. We would stay up all night and cook. We haven't really seen each other [lately], but she used to send me cupcakes every birthday. She's a little homemaker. We were doing the movie, and she was like, 'Guess who I'm emailing right now? Martha Stewart. She's giving me her secret recipes.'"
2012: at a Halloween Party in London
"I was Helena Bonham Carter [as] Bellatrix Lestrange. When I saw her, I was like, 'I am you right now,' and she was like, 'That's so cool.' Obviously I took a little bit of a liberty and did some weirder stuff, but she's like, 'I love it.' The hair is so good."
2013: With Alec Baldwin in 30 RoCk
"30 Rock was, like, my favorite thing to do because I was with Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin. I love [Alec]. I just saw him recently. He came to my show The Library in New York. People say some stuff about him, so much stuff. He's a really good guy, he's a brilliant actor, and that's all that matters to me."
2013: With Ansel Elgort at a Party for Her Birthday and Teen Vogue's Tenth Anniversary in New York City
"I had such a good time, and Ansel came by. We don't really see each other a lot."
2014: With Keira Knightley at the Laggies Premiere in Park City
"We hadn't seen each other in, like, five months, so we were like, 'Oh, my God! Hi, how are you?' She looks so pretty."
2014: With Jamie Blackley in If I Stay
"Titanic. I always do this thing on skateboards with my friends, where I'm like, 'Jack! Jack!' He's like, 'Oh, Rose, don't ever let go!' So Jamie and I did it onscreen. It's in the movie."
2014: at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala in New York City
"It was cool. Kind of crazy. I'll never have a prom, technically, because I'm homeschooled. [Events] like the Met Ball are like my prom, because you have to dress up; I get to take the pictures and look all pretty for a night."
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Documenting Social Justice Protests #1: The Visual Impact of "Creative Cultural Resistance"
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By Regina Austin
Direct action protest in the pursuit of social justice seems to be making a comeback. "Direct action" is loosely defined as the use of immediately effective acts, such as demonstrations or boycotts, aimed at an established authority or powerful institution, for the purpose of achieving a political, economic, or social end. According to activist trainer Daniel Hunter, citizens turn to direct action when they are locked out of official channels and institutions. Instead of presuming that power is amassed at the top and flows down to the people, direct action proceeds from the premise that that power flows upward by consent of the people. Among other things, direct action reduces the legitimacy and credibility of state actors by showing that they are undemocratic and unhelpful.
If protest assumes that power is based on people, it follows that the more people that are involved, the more power they have. Media is important for getting the word out and building a movement. "Creative cultural resistance," a term activist trainer and puppeteer Nadine Bloch prefers to "arts of protest," attracts media attention. With the proliferation of digital visual technology, the protesters can be the media and expand the impact of their activism beyond what was possible in the analog days of the 1960s and 1970s.
However, as the capture of documentary video footage and photographic images and their dissemination on social media have become an inevitable part of grassroots activism, uncertainties about their efficacy and ethics grow. Consider the questions raised by Sam Gregory, Program Director of WITNESS, in an essay in Sensible Politics: The Visual Culture of Nongovernmental Activism: "[H]ow do we ensure that images generate more than compassion fatigue in viewers and contribute to meaningful action"? How can we "make sure that the footage that circulates helps facilitate voice, action and change rather than enabling apathy, or worse, social control, public humiliation, and state repression"?
Sam Gregory and Sensible Politics editor Meg McLagan challenge activist media makers who document protests to produce work that is authentic, "reaches its target audiences," and "fits the needs of activists." At the same time, the media makers should act ethically in creating, editing, and distributing their work, with due regard for the possibility that remixing and audience reception might undercut their intent to respect and protect those who confront injustice with direct action.
These concerns should not be foreign to public interest lawyers who are deeply engaged in struggles for social justice. Impact litigation and law reform efforts are bolstered by campaigns that carry a visual wallop, particularly through the use of social media. In some situations, taking up a camera, a cellphone, or an audio recorder in the context of a protest is an act of civil disobedience, a/k/a justified law breaking. Lawyers are called upon to protect the rights of activists and protestors both to use visual technology and media as protest tools and to resist their deployment by the state and private actors as instruments of repression and surveillance. It would surely not hurt for lawyers to know a little something about the arsenal of tactics protesters can use to advance their causes visually.
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In October 2013, the Penn Program on Documentaries and the Law held a Visual Legal Advocacy Roundtable on the subject of "Preparing to Protest: Direct Action, the Arts of Protest and Media Impact." Speakers included direct action trainers, activist media makers, communications scholars, and lawyers. In the audience were members of groups and organizations that employ direct action in their quest for law-related social change as well as public interest lawyers. The topics considered were: (1) proven techniques for maximizing the visual impact of social justice protests; (2) the obligation of activist media makers to produce work that is authentic and effective, while preserving the safety, privacy, anonymity, and autonomy of protesters; and (3) the concrete role lawyers play in assisting and protecting activists with regard to visual technology and media.
Video of the Roundtable presentations, edited by Adam Brody, is now available on the website of the Penn Program on Documentaries & the Law and on YouTube. The talks are liberally illustrated with images. The admonition "Show, Don't Tell" is hardly a cliché when the subject is documenting social justice protests.
Roundtable Participation by Harvey Finkle
If you are interested in ideas for tactics that are more visually impactful than the marches or candlelight vigils that are so ubiquitous on the 11 o'clock news, I urge you to see and listen to Daniel Hunter on "Direct Action and Activism: Lessons Learned Through Casino Free Philadelphia," Nadine Bloch on "Creative Cultural Resistance: Diverse Approaches to Art and Activism" and Che Gossett on his direct action hero Kiyoshi Kuromiya. During the lunch break, Roundtable participants made their own protest signs. You can see the results in a short video made by two former PhillyCam interns, Ian Abell and Nick Dagostino.
In a subsequent post, I will consider the contributions of several Roundtable speakers who address the strategic or tactical use of protest imagery in a world where material struggles are fought in part on a cultural terrain and the significance of social interactions to the effective and ethical use of visual technology in the context of political activism. In a concluding post, I will introduce the talks of three lawyers who facilitate or moderate the interaction between political activism and visual technology in very different ways.
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The Early Edition: June 8, 2020 Curated summary of up-to-the-minute national security developments at home and abroad.
by Nat O'Connell and Siven Watt
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Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and abroad. Here's today's news.
President Trump said yesterday that he had ordered National Guard troops to start the process of withdrawing from Washington, D.C. "now that everything is under perfect control," retreating after a week of criticism, including from within the military establishment, over his threat to militarize the government's response to nationwide protests about racism and police brutality sparked by the in-custody killing of an unarmed black man, George Floyd. Announcing his order in a Twitter post, Trump warned that the guardsmen could return: "They will be going home, but can quickly return, if needed. Far fewer protesters showed up last night than anticipated!" Lara Jakes and Helene Cooper report for the New York Times.
A majority of Minneapolis City Council has pledged to dismantle and rebuild the local police department, a day after the mayor refused to support the measure. Nine of the 13 councillors said a "new model of public safety" would be created after members last week discussed ways to overhaul the department, including creating a new public safety operation from the ground up. They said they also were looking to take action through "the police union contract, city ordinances, disciplinary oversight and shifting funds away from the department." Derek Hawkins, Katie Mettler and Perry Stein report for Washington Post.
Mayor Bill De Blasio announced yesterday that New York City would end its curfew immediately, a day earlier than planned. The curfew, the city's first since World War II, was initially introduced last week as mass protests expanded. But yesterday De Blasio noted that the demonstrations had become peaceful, and admitted that the N.Y.P.D. had occasionally overstepped its duty in policing the protests. At least two officers have been suspended due to violent misconduct toward protesters in the city. Last Friday, De Blasio said that he would cut the city's police funding and divert the money to youth and social services. Austin Horn reports for NPR.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) yesterday marched alongside protestors in the D.C. region. Romney said that he was taking part in the demonstration "to make sure that people understand that black lives matter." The senator later shared a photo of himself at the protest with the caption "Black Lives Matter," becoming one of the most well-known G.O.P. figures to do so. Paul LeBlanc and Ted Barrett report for CNN.
Over 470 former diplomats and military leaders have criticized Trump over his plans to use the U.S. military to quash nationwide protests, warning American democracy was at risk. "As former American ambassadors, generals and admirals, and senior federal officials, we are alarmed by calls from the President and some political leaders for the use of U.S. military personnel to end legitimate protests in cities and towns across America," the former officials said in a statement posted on Just Security's website. "We are concerned about the use of U.S. military assets to intimidate and break up peaceful protestors in Washington, D.C.," they wrote, pointing to recent incidents that went on last week outside the White House. Ambassador Douglas A. Silliman, Ambassador Deborah A. McCarthy and Thomas Countryman reporting.
A broad new police reform bill being drafted by House and Senate Democrats would ban chokeholds, limit "qualified immunity" for police officers, establish a national misconduct registry, halt the use of no-knock warrants in drug cases and make lynching a federal crime among other considerable changes, according to an outline being passed round on Capitol Hill. The Justice in Policing Act of 2020 is supported on the House side by Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, and Judiciary Chair Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), and Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) on the Senate side. John Bresnahan reports for POLITICO.
Colin Powell, secretary of state in the George Bush administration, became the latest high-ranking former official to censure Trump for threatening to use the military to deal with the domestic protests. "We have a constitution and we have to follow that constitution, and the president has drifted away from it," Powell, a former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters. The president faced growing condemnation from former U.S. military chiefs over the weekend over his handling of mass protests and his threats to deploy troops into American cities following the death of George Floyd. Kadhim Shubber reports for the Financial Times.
Trump told his advisors at one point last week he wanted to send 10,000 troops to the Washington D.C. area to help crack down on protests there and across the country, according to a senior U.S. official. The version of Trump's demand during a heated Oval Office discussion last Monday shows how close the president may have come to following through on his threat to deploy active duty troops in U.S. cities, despite opposition from Pentagon leadership. Reuters reporting.
Attorney General William Barr has disputed the account, saying Trump never made such demands. "The president never asked or suggested that we needed to deploy regular troops at that point," Barr said in an interview with CBS' "Face the Nation" yesterday. "It's been done from time to time in our history. We try to avoid it, and I'm happy that we were able to avoid it on this occasion." Aubree Eliza Weaver reports for POLITICO.
One person was shot and wounded and another person was arrested last night in Seattle after a man with a gun drove a vehicle through a crowd of protesters, the police said. Reuters reporting.
The New York Times yesterday announced the resignation of its editorial page editor, James Bennet, four days after publishing a controversial opinion piece from Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) that called for military intervention in the protests. Richard Luscombe reports for The Guardian.
Almost 30 independent experts appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council are urging the United States to reform its criminal justice system amid a recent spate of killings of African Americans, including at the hands of the police. In a statement issued Friday, they called for American authorities to "address systemic racism and racial bias," and "to conduct independent investigations into cases of excessive use of force by police officers." The U.N. News Centre reporting.
The U.S. Marines announced Friday that they would be taking down all public displays of the Confederate flag. "Current events are a stark reminder that it is not enough for us to remove symbols that cause division — rather, we also must strive to eliminate division itself," the commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. David H. Berger, said in a statement last week. The Marine Corps issued guidance Saturday on the removal of public displays of the Confederate battle flag. J. Edward Moreno reports for the Hill.
Tens of thousands of protesters assembled in cities around the world, often in defiance of coronavirus-related restrictions on mass gatherings, in solidarity with U.S. demonstrations calling for changes to the justice system after the death of George Floyd. Demonstrations were held in Berlin, Paris, London and other areas over the weekend. Ruth Bender and David Winning report for the Wall Street Journal.
Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic and nationwide protests "endangers U.S. national security," Jonathan Tepperman writes in a piece for Foreign Policy.
Live updates on the protests available at CNN, the New York Times, and the Washington Post.
There are now more than 1.94 million coronavirus infections in the United States and at least 110,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data. Worldwide, over 7 million people have contracted the virus, with more than 403,000 deaths. Henrik Pettersson and Byron Manley report for CNN.
New York plans to reopen its city today, with an expected 400,000 workers returning to their jobs, a move that not so long ago seemed inconceivable due to the city being one of the world's coronavirus epicenters. With new Covid-19 infections in New York at approximately 500 per day – half as many from just a few weeks ago – construction sites, manufacturing companies and retail stores are preparing to open for business today, and have in place a number of health and safety measures to help minimize the risk of virus numbers increasing. J. David Goodman reports for the New York Times.
Some U.S. states have reported a rise in coronavirus cases – California, Utah, Arizona, North Carolina, Florida, Arkansas and Texas – since restrictions have been eased, according to Johns Hopkins University who tabulate a five-day moving average. "It's a very mixed picture … In some places we have made amazing progress, and there are other places where I remain very concerned about what's going on," said Wafaa El-Sadr, an infectious-disease specialist and epidemiologist at Columbia University, adding, "If you take out the impact of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and so on, you'd have a much more worrisome picture of what's happening in the U.S.." Tala Ansari and Brianna Abbott report for the Wall Street Journal.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro threatened Friday to pull the country from the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) due to "ideological bias" and the W.H.O.'s suspension of clinic trials of the touted Covid-19 vaccine hydroxychloroquine. "I'm telling you right now, the United States left the W.H.O., and we're studying that, in the future. Either the W.H.O. works without ideological bias, or we leave, too," Bolsonaro said to reporters. AFP reporting.
The Brazilian government stopped publishing data on the country's total number of coronavirus cases and deaths Friday, removing all data from an official website. The site was temporarily taken offline and returned on Saturday showing numbers only from the last 24 hours, and was followed by Bolsonaro tweeting that 24-hour totals will allow his government to "follow the reality of the country at this moment." The move has attracted criticism; "The authoritarian, insensitive, inhuman and unethical attempt to make those killed by Covid-19 invisible will not succeed. We and Brazilian society will not forget them, nor the tragedy that befalls the nation," said Alberto Beltrame, president of Brazil's national council of state health secretaries. Zack Budryk reports for the Hill.
New Zealand lifted all coronavirus restrictions today after its final patient affected by the virus was given the all clear, the country's Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern said in a televised press conference. Although border controls will remain in place, social distancing measures and restrictions on public gatherings are no longer needed, Ardern said. "We are confident we have eliminated transmission of the virus in New Zealand for now [after Kiwis had] united in unprecedented ways to crush the virus." AFP reporting.
Chinese officials have further defended the nation's response to the coronavirus in a lengthy report released yesterday, which states the country "wasted no time" in sharing important information with the W.H.O., including the virus' genome sequence. The report follows an investigation by the Associated Press that reported the Chinese government waited for at least a week before releasing the genetic map of the virus, which resulted in delays in identifying the virus in a third country. The AP report has been refuted and criticized by Chinese officials, with National Health Commission Chair Ma Xiaowei saying "it seriously goes against the facts … The Chinese government did not delay or cover up anything … Instead, we have immediately reported virus data and relevant information about the epidemic to the international community and made an important contribution to the prevention and control of the epidemic around the world." AP reporting.
Britain will from today require all those entering the country from abroad to quarantine for two weeks. The measures will apply to U.K. citizens and foreign visitors and have been condemned by the aviation sector for inflicting further detriment on the hotel and airline industries. British Airways, EasyJet and Ryanair have launched a joint legal action against the government for what they called a "disproportionate and unfair" move. AFP reporting.
A map and analysis of all confirmed cases of the virus in the U.S. is available at the New York Times.
U.S. and worldwide maps tracking the spread of the pandemic are available at the Washington Post.
Latest updates on the pandemic at The Guardian and NBC News.
Former national security adviser John Bolton plans to publish in June "a scathing memoir" – titled "The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir" – about his time in the White House. Bolton is planning to publish even if the White House does not give publication approval, people familiar with the situation have said. Josh Dawsey and Tom Hamburger report for the Washington Post.
The U.S.'s plan to allow online voting in the 2020 general election – amid growing fears over coronavirus – could enable new opportunities for hacking the voting process. Online state voter registration systems were one of the main targets of Russian hackers in 2016, and has been deemed by the Department of Homeland Security as "high risk." David E. Sanger, Nicole Perlroth and Matthew Rosenberg report for the New York Times.
The Department of Justice (D.O.J.) is continuing its criminal case against Bijan Rafiekian, the former business partner of Michael Flynn, President Trump's former national security adviser, after prosecutors yesterday filed a brief with the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond. Josh Gerstein reports for POLITICO.
Social media companies and other online platforms should "ignore Trump's Twitter tantrum executive order … and not cede their private responsibility to reduce harm," write Ellen P. Goodman and Ambassador (ret.) Karen Kornbluh for Just Security, providing some useful policy suggestions for Congress.
The U.S. military has conducted its first air raids against the Taliban in Afghanistan since an agreed ceasefire ended over a week ago. "These were the 1st US airstrikes against (the Taliban) since the start of the Eid ceasefire … We reiterate: All sides must reduce violence to allow the peace process to take hold," Col. Sonny Leggett, spokesperson for U.S. forces in Afghanistan wrote. Al Jazeera reporting.
Afghan officials have denounced the Iranian police after a video was released that shows police officers shooting at a car carrying Afghan refugees which caused the car to set ablaze, killing three and injuring four others. Al Jazeera reporting.
The families of U.S. military troops and personnel injured or killed in Afghanistan have accused two U.S. contractors of paying protection money – $1.7 billion – to the Taliban, resulting in a lawsuit filed last year being amended Friday. Jessica Donati reports for the Wall Street Journal.
Iran has stockpiled enriched uranium at almost eight times the limit set in the 2015 nuclear deal, the International Atomic Energy Agency (I.A.E.A.) confirmed Friday, expressing "serious concern that, for over four months, Iran has denied access to the Agency … to two locations." AFP reporting.
Iran's parliament has approved the final seven members of the new government, completing the 22-member government of Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi. "My cabinet is now complete with today's vote. This is vital in implementing our program and delivering on our commitments to our people – who are waiting for actions, not words," al-Kadhimi said in a Twitter post on Saturday. Al Jazeera reporting.
U.S. Ambassador Kelly Craft said Friday that a draft U.N. Security Council resolution indefinitely extending the arms embargo against Iran has been shared with Russia, the U.K., France, Germany and Estonia. AP reporting.
Libya's Government of National Accord (G.N.A.) has regained control over the key town of Bani Walid in the country's northwest from the forces of renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar. Saturday's development came one day after the U.N.-backed government captured the city of Tarhuna, Haftar's last stronghold in northwestern Libya, which was used as the main launching platform against the capital, Tripoli. Al Jazeera reporting.
Haftar on Saturday proposed a ceasefire and a process to end the civil war. The announcement was unlikely to bring an immediate halt to the fighting, but it offered new evidence of the decisive influence of Turkey, on the other side of Libya's war, whose intervention in favor of the U.N.-supported government in Tripoli has stymied Russia's ambitions and shifted the course of the conflict. Declan Walsh reports for the New York Times.
Turkey may extend its cooperation with the G.N.A. with new accords on energy and construction once the country's conflict is over, presidential spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin was quoted as saying yesterday. After talks with Serraj in Ankara on Thursday, President Tayyip Erdogan pledged to boost Turkey's support for the G.N.A. to clinch recent military gains against Haftar's eastern-based Libyan National Army (L.N.A.), which has waged a 14-month assault against the G.N.A. in Tripoli. Turkey has equipped Libya's internationally recognized government with military support after signing a cooperation deal last year. Reuters reporting.
German lawmakers and government officials have voiced concern at reports that President Trump plans to cut the number of U.S. troops stationed in Germany, amid fears it could weaken a key pillar of N.A.T.O. defense in the region. Following Trump's decision, which would slash the number of U.S. military personnel by 9,500 from the current 34,500 permanently assigned in Germany, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas described Berlin's relationship with the United States as "complicated." American allies, including the mayor of Grafenwoehr, whose Bavarian town has been home to U.S. service members for more than 70 years, over the weekend also slammed Trump's troop decision. Angela Cullen and Arne Delfs report for Bloomberg.
Several thousand Israelis protested on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to extend sovereignty over portions of the occupied West Bank, de-facto annexation of land that the Palestinians seek for a state. The demonstration was arranged by left-wing groups and did not seem to be the beginning of a popular mass movement. Roughly half of Israelis support annexation, according to a recent opinion poll. Reuters reporting.
Nat O'Connell
Former Associate News Editor at Just Security and Senior Legal Fellow at JUSTICE, a law reform and human rights organization based in the UK. Follow her on Twitter (@oconnellnat).
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Early Edition: January 26, 2023
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Regal FC Barcelona stays atop the Spanish League standings with a 19-4 record. Real Madrid is second at 18-5 and Power Electronics Valencia third at 15-8 after winning 14 of its last 16 games. Real Madrid downed DKV Joventut 78-60 in the Spanish capital on Saturday. Ante Tomic and Sergio Llull paced the winners with 13 points apiece. Regal FCB registered a 69-66 road loss against Baloncesto Fuenlabrada - its first defeat in 2011. Caja Laboral topped CAI Zaragoza 79-61 in Vitoria on Sunday behind 30 points from Mirza Teletovic. Power Electronics Valencia had to battle hard to edge difficult Blancos de Rueda Valladolid 68-64 at home on Sunday with 14 points from Nando De Colo. Cajasol improved to 13-10 by downing CB Granada 82-63 in Seville on Sunday. Txemi Urtasun led Cajasol with 14 points. Jaycee Carroll had 21 points to lead Gran Canaria 2014 to a 67-76 road win against Menorca Basquet. Asefa Estudiantes moved up to 12-11 by beating Unicaja 78-69 in Madrid on Sunday. Nik Caner-Medley led the way for Estu with 19 points and 15 rebounds. In other games, Bizkaia Bilbao Basket edged Lagun Aro GBC 92-86 in overtime.


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A letter to exclude your child from visiting mosques and Islamic studies
By STOP THE IZLAMISATION OF OUR NATION·WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2016
This letter was written from the perspective of a non Christian who does not object to Christianity and other religions being taught in a school except islam.
Send it to your child's school as it is or use it to adapt your own letter.
To the Headteacher of .........................................................................
We are sending this letter to you as we wish for our child, ........................... of Class ........................ to no longer be taught anything in relation to the Islam religion. We have many reasons for this, which we will list below including viable alternatives we are happy for them to be taught.
The main reason for our decision is we are a family of pragmatic agnostics, of the view that there is no proof of either the existence or nonexistence of any deity, but since any deity that may exist appears unconcerned for the universe or the welfare of its inhabitants, the question is largely pointless. The teaching of any religion is in direct conflict with our views, however as we live in a Christian country we do lean more towards theism than atheism and participate in religious events such as Christmas and Easter, and as Christianity is strongly linked to the culture of Australia we as proud nationals do not object to our child being taught the importance of these. It is for these same reasons we are not happy with our child being taught "one other world faith", however we have been happy to accept the benefits to our child in terms of developing understanding, tolerance and morality.
We are of the opinion that the Islam religion does not teach understanding, does not teach tolerance and does not teach morality and therefore is not something we want our child to be studying, in any capacity. Islam does not teach understanding when the Quran has at least 3 dozen verses telling Muslims to fight against non-Muslims and about 500 that speak of their place in Hell. An example of this would be Quran (22:19-21) - "But as for those who disbelieve, garments of fire will be cut out for them; boiling fluid will be poured down on their heads; Whereby that which is in their bellies, and their skins too, will be melted; And for them are hooked rods of iron" or even Quran (4:56) - "Those who disbelieve Our revelations, We shall expose them to the Fire. As often as their skins are consumed We shall exchange them for fresh skins that they may taste the torment Lo! Allah is ever Mighty, Wise". This isnt teaching understanding. I could also quote passages from within the Quran that actually encourage spousal abuse, or to kill homosexuals, needless to say they are not very tolerant and in some cases highly offensive.
There are roughly 19 major world religions which are subdivided into a total of around 270 large religious groups and none of those concern us as parents more than Islam, especially when it's verses are apparently so open to interpretation that Australian Forces personnel could get beheaded on the streets of Australia in the name of this religion. It is our opinion that our values, culture and heritage are being slowly eroded by needlessly going over the top to accommodate Islam for fear of being called racist should you dare question it, and we now intend to stop it at source at least where our family is concerned. Needless to say some uneducated people will view our opinions and beliefs as racist, maybe our children could be taught the difference between an ideology and a race, as speaking against it is not racist in the same way speaking against Scientology is not racist. In summary, we would rather our child be taught any of these other world religions over Islam, and these are our instructions to you.
The National Curriculum clearly states Religious Studies is not compulsory to be taken by a pupil, it is only compulsory for yourselves (as a school) to provide Religious Studies. The decision on whether a child participates in these lessons is down to the parents. This is because you cannot force someone to study a faith they do not believe in or that may contradict with their own faith, and as Islam does both of these we are no longer willing to accept it being taught to our child.
So to offer final clarity on this point we do not object, despite our views and beliefs as pragmatic agnostics, to our child being taught any religion except Islam, should Islam be the subject of the lesson we would like for them to be removed from the class and to take no part.


After building the neato Host versioning described in Functional Reactive Propellor this weekend, I was able to clean up secret-project's config file significantly It's feeling close to the final version now.
At this point, the disk image it builds is almost capable of installing the target system, and will try to do so when the user tells it to. But, choosing and partitioning of the target system disk is not implemented yet, so it installs to a chroot which will fail due to lack of disk space there. So, I have not actually tested it yet.


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Charles Dance OBE to join Louis Langrée and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra on 2017 European tour
The 'Game of Thrones' actor will lend his talents to narrating Copland's extraordinary orchestral work Lincoln Portrait.
"I am thrilled to be performing this historic work with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra as part of their European tour. Past performances of the work have included speakers of high esteem, and I am delighted to be joining that list. I look forward to performing with the CSO as they make their debut performances at the Edinburgh International Festival, BBC Proms and San Sebastián's Musical Fortnight festival." – Charles Dance OBE
• British actor Charles Dance will perform alongside the orchestra at their Edinburgh, London and San Sebastián tour dates, reading the coveted role of narrator
• Dance is known for his extensive career across television, theatre and film, with recent credits including The Imitation Game, Me Before You and the 2016 Ghostbusters remake
• American composer Aaron Copland was commissioned to produce a work in celebration of an 'eminent American', choosing former president Abraham Lincoln as his subject
• Using fragments of Lincoln's speeches and letters, including the famous Gettysburg Address, Copland created a dramatic piece of orchestral music that has stood the test of time
• In 1942, at the height of World War Two, the CSO premiered the musical tribute, and have performed the work with guest narrators throughout the last century
• Visitors to Scotland's Edinburgh International Festival can hear the premiere of this piece with Charles Dance on 25th August at Usher Hall in the city's West End
• The CSO will make its BBC Proms debut on 27th August in the historic Royal Albert Hall
• In total, eleven concerts in six countries will be held, including performances in Utrecht, Antwerp, Eindhoven, Santander and San Sebastián and Paris
• Founded in 1895, the CSO is the sixth oldest orchestra in the United States, and the first to be broadcast to a national radio audience in 1921
• Boasting a rich musical history with close ties to local communities in the state of Ohio, the CSO has been a fixture in the classical music scene in Cincinnati for well over a century
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In this module you'll learn about the pelvic floor anatomy, understand the role of the pelvic floor and how yoga practices can improve function.
The anatomy and yoga therapy component is delivered by Shelly Prosko, Canadian physiotherapist, yoga therapist and pelvic health expert.
You'll then use principles of yogic education to apply the material to your own work, hear stories from people with a history of pelvic pain, and understand the support that is presently available to them in the community.
This module is delivered via online delivery to ensure practitioners in all locations can participate. You will receive notes ahead of time and followup summaries and links to support your learning.
Open to all Yoga for Pain Practitioners who have completed Yoga for Pain Foundations Level Training.
Learn about yogic models for understanding health and how you can use these to consider your pelvic pain patients' physical and psychosocial wellbeing. You also hear from world expert yoga therapist Shelly Prosko who has been integrating physiotherapy, yoga therapy and yoga for nearly 20 years.
Threaded throughout is the Yogic Education framework that helps bridge yoga and health care, while helping you to better understand the depth and breadth of your clients' needs, and how you can help.
You will have a greater understanding of the pelvic floor anatomy, what pelvic floor health can be, and what dysfunction can mean, physiologically and emotionally. We also cover yoga techniques and methods for improving pelvic floor health, and further refine your skill at using Yogic Education frameworks to work with specific groups.
Shelly is a physical therapist, yoga therapist and pilates instructor. She is a highly respected pioneer in the area of Physio Yoga Therapy, a combination of physical therapy and medical therapeutic yoga. She received her physical therapy degree at the University of Saskatchewan in 1998, medical therapeutic yoga training through Professional Yoga Therapy Institute in North Carolina, and pilates certification through Professional Health & Fitness Institute in Maryland.
Since 1998, Shelly has been integrating yoga principles and methods into her physical therapy treatments. She has worked with people who have suffered from a wide variety of musculoskeletal, neurological, cardiorespiratory, pelvic health, and persistent pain conditions while working in physical therapy clinics and long term care facilities across Canada and the United States.
Shelly's mission is to educate, inspire and empower people to create health by authentically sharing her knowledge, expertise and experience. She has presented at international yoga therapy conferences, lectured at medical college programs and instructed at numerous yoga therapy schools (including teaching medical therapeutic yoga to health care professionals at the Professional Yoga Therapy Institute). Shelly also collaborates with Neil Pearson on Life is Now Pain Care Yoga projects.
Rachael is the founder of Yoga for Pain Care Australia. She has a degree in Yogic Education from the University of Lille, France and, since 2011, has taught specialist yoga programs to people with pain and fibromyalgia. Rachael has also provided education to more than 300 health practitioners, including training more than 50 through the 2.5-day Yoga for Pain Foundations Training.
Note that this training is not an accreditation and does not authorise you to teach Yoga for Pelvic Pain.
We don't generally offer refunds if you cancel less than 28 days beforehand. Cancellations earlier than this are refunded at 50%.
Attendees must have fully completed Yoga for Pain Foundations Level Training, including implementing feedback from assignments.


Books and reading have always been among my passions. I regularly devour doorstopping novels, and my bookshelves groan under the weight of my favourite authors and series. My main tastes are in fantasy and science fiction, and graphic novels. But those are by no means the only genres that interest me; I read widely, from those genres to historical fiction, crime fiction, biographies and autobiographies, humour and satire, even the occasional chick-lit book when the only things available are on my wife's shelves. I also read a great deal of non-fiction.
In the past few years, I've begun to love not only reading books for enjoyment, but re-reading them, studying the craft of writing within them. Working out why I enjoy them, what attracts me to this character rather than that, this situation rather than the other. Writing professionally has ever been a dream of mine, which I continue to pursue, gradually, in my own time.
I also review books occasionally, when the drive strikes me. You can find my reviews on my blog.
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Q: Visual Studio 2008: temp files are visible and not removed don't know how to describe this behaviour, but recently I see that VS 2008 is creating files like vs~123.tmp etc, for files I modify. However, these files are visible in the solution. It this some kind of option I can enable or disable. Or set something so these files are not visible in the solution. It's a kind of annoying see you solution growing day by day.
I can't find anything on the inet about this.

A: finaly I found that this is caused by the virus scanner (I started to use MS Essentials as my scanner). Using MS Essentials is the cause of these file stay in my project. By excluding my project-folder to scan for viruses solves the problem.
thanks for the reply Jan

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If you would like to have an image removed, you can use the deletion links you were provided with upon uploading. You can also use the "request deletion" link: imgur.com/removalrequest.
Im trying to load an album, but it'll only load one picture at a time.
Often, throughout the day, as new images are added to the gallery, they are added in random spots in the gallery. Is there a way to make it so the gallery is updated in order as the day progresses? I will randomly find pictures that I missed/didn't see because they were placed in the middle of the gallery.
The best way to look for new images is to check the new tab rather than the hot tab. They are placed randomly because their rank is determined by view counts and votes, which could place them anywhere on the gallery initially.
Where can i find the list with all reddits?
I want to see pics for specific reddits for example real girls. Is there any way i can see all reddits?
There is no complete list. Those subgalleries create themselves based on subreddits. So it's likely that if there is a subreddit, there is a subgallery.
Why do the quality of images get worse?
It used to have a slide bar to adjust quality after uploading the image, but now it's gone. All the quality of JPG images are not as good as before. Do you guys change the settings? I am the kind of person that really cares about the quality of my images. I'm glad that I've found imgur, but now it makes me a little bit disappointed because the same situation happened to me once before (by another famous image uploading website). Any solutions for my concern? Thank you.
This never changed. The quality slider is still available, you just need to select "Edit" before you upload. Or, if you're in your account, select "Edit Images".
Sometimes the images are compressed if they are above 1MB in size, but again, the compression settings have not changed in over a year.
I am new to your site. I submitted three pics to the gallery. Only two show up in my "gallery profile." Why is this?
The other one may have been downvoted and removed from the gallery.
como suvo mi foto a esta pagina??
Is there any way you could replace the click-to-copy buttons with elements that hook into flash, instead of actual flash objects?
After I copy a link I usually use a keyboard shortcut of some kind, but I can't use most shortcuts when a flash element is focused.
If it's possible for the flash element to give up focus after it does the copying, that would be great too. Or even test for HTML5 clipboard APIs and just fallback to flash. Anything that doesn't break keyboard shortcuts.
Also, thanks for being an image ninja.
I realize that the bandwidth would be enormous if all gifs were animated, but could you make the gifs on the sidebar with the top comments be animated?
'nslookup' against i.imgur.com on a computer that is having the problem?
I don't know id it's a bug or not, but the colours of my votes on the sidebar are no longer visible. I hope this is only a temporary thing as it's my favorite UI feature on imgur.
How do I link my Facbook Account to existing Imgur account?
Your Facebook and Imgur accounts need to share the same email. Once they do, just click the Facebook button and it should work.
Hitting s while in my own album conflicts with Google Chrome's "search by image" hotkey feature.
In Chrome if you hover over an image, press s then right click your mouse it will search using that image. However, Imgur has it's own hotkey assigned to "s" while in my own album, preventing me from looking up information about photos/landmarks/sources/art/objects. I can't turn it off under settings and it is incredibly frustrating. I want to turn hotkeys off!
The delete button on the image view don't seem to work.
Selected a few images in my image view, pretty sure I clicked delete and not hide. But the image is not deleted, the direct link is still working. Tried on a few image and it is the same.
That is priceless! You are so blessed to have such a thoughtful and loving father.
Where are the bad comments going?
If two trolls downvote a comment it has no chance to survive.
I'm really sorry about that. It was a bug in a recent update, but everything is fixed now. Please let me know if you continue to have problems with it.
I recently made a light hearted post about downvote fairies, and have received over 130 downvotes from trolls going to my profile and downvoting everything. Yes they're 'just' internet points, but most people like getting upvoted (and so most people don't like getting downvoted). It's disheartening to be punished by trolls when you make legitimate posts to try and engage with the imgur community.
there are many websites that do not support upper case letters, so when i give a imgur link the users can't see the picture. i wish imgur would give only lower case links.
Uppercase letters are completely valid in URLs. In fact, most websites have case-sensitive URLs - including Imgur.
Allowing uppercase letters means that there are many many more filename permutations which means we won't have to extend the length of our filenames for a long time.
There are no plans to make the URLs lowercase. This is not a problem with Imgur, it's a problem with sites that ignore uppercase filenames.
I REALLY REALLY REALLY hate the new gallery format, because it doesn't make any damn sense. everything is out of order. can we PLEASE go back to the way things were a few days ago? i swear, i'm addicted to flipping through the gallery, and this new way i have to flip through old content all the time. i just want to see new stuff all the time.
I don't understand. Nothing is out of order, it's just displayed a little differently because they are broken down by days. There was no separation by days in the old version -- it was just all lumped together.
If you want to see all the new stuff, click on the "new" link and everything new from today is right there. Then if you scroll down, you get more days with stuff sorted by the newest.
As the title says. Works when I C&P into a new window, really annoying.
I´m really disappointed about this image. I am proud of being a part of Church. I am proud World has people to serve to other people (e.g. by saying "NO!" to sometimes stupid thinking or by showing there´s Somebody else- Higher than people)... It gives me a power and energy to loving and serving people such as they are.
mobile version is having issues with the gallery.
Everytime I'm in the gallery it keeps repeating the images after I scroll to the next one.
There is a caching delay of 10 seconds on images.


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Panther's Page Turners
Created by the Students at EO Smith High School
Mirage by Somaiya Daud
In a star system dominated by the brutal Vathek empire, eighteen-year-old Amani is a dreamer. She dreams of what life was like before the occupation; she dreams of writing poetry like the old-world poems she adores; she dreams of receiving a sign from Dihya that one day, she, too, will have adventure, and travel beyond her isolated moon.
But when adventure comes for Amani, it is not what she expects: she is kidnapped by the regime and taken in secret to the royal palace, where she discovers that she is nearly identical to the cruel half-Vathek Princess Maram. The princess is so hated by her conquered people that she requires a body double, someone to appear in public as Maram, ready to die in her place.
As Amani is forced into her new role, she can't help but enjoy the palace's beauty—and her time with the princess' fiancé, Idris. But the glitter of the royal court belies a world of violence and fear. If Amani ever wishes to see her family again, she must play the princess to perfection...because one wrong move could lead to her death (from Goodreads).
Fans of sci-fi blended with fantasy, this is definitely a novel you are going to want to pick up. Slow to start, Amani's kidnapping starts a succession of events that will keep you reading - and guessing - about how this tale will end! Amani was a fabulous main character. One thing I really enjoyed about her was her strength - her people, her family, and she herself were prisoners of their own planet - tortured and killed and left to basically survive on their own. Once a thriving nation, they are now second-class citizens and are no longer allowed to speak their language, celebrate their customs, or just be themselves. Throughout it all, Amani remained strong, firm in her beliefs, and holding out that there is hope for her people and that she will see her family again.
This novel has a great mix of romance, action, and suspense - and it will definitely leave you waiting in suspense for the next installment! Pick up a copy of Mirage today!
TITLE - Mirage
AUTHOR - Somaiya Daud
PUBLISHER - Flatiron Books/Macmillan
SOCIAL MEDIA - http://www.somaiyabooks.com/
Twitter @somaiyadaud
Mrs. Larkin, EO Smith School Librarian
Blog authors are students at EO Smith High School in Storrs, CT


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JMBM Partner Benjamin Reznik Honored For Fight Against Genocide
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LOS ANGELES—Benjamin M. Reznik, Chair of the Government, Land Use, Energy, and Environment (GLUEE) Department at Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP (JMBM) ) received the Global Soul award from the anti-genocide organization Jewish World Watch, for his years of involvement in the fight against genocide.
In a videotaped statement, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti congratulated Reznik for his tireless efforts to build a world without genocide.
"We've known each other in your daily work at City Hall where you are incredibly well respected and the consummate professional," said Garcetti. "But it's not just what you do in public, it's what you do behind the scenes…pursuing justice, affecting the world, heeding the lessons of the holocaust by living your values."
Reznik, who was named one of California's Top 100 Lawyers in 2017, is a land use lawyer whose practice emphasizes real estate development entitlements, zoning, and environmental issues, including frequent appearances before city planning commissions, city councils and other governmental boards and agencies on behalf of real estate development firms and various industries.
"Of all the recognition and awards I have been fortunate enough to receive throughout my career, this honor is the most meaningful," said Reznik, whose father was a holocaust survivor. "I believe that success is measured in the difference you make in people's lives, and that includes the lives of many thousands of people who are currently victims and survivors of genocide and mass atrocities."
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JMBM's government, land use, environment, and energy lawyers represent a wide range of industries, businesses, trade groups and individuals before every level of government, and in litigation. We routinely advocate for our clients' interests before the myriad of regulatory authorities, administrative agencies and elected bodies that govern business and development activities. Our negotiation expertise and lobbying experience includes representing clients seeking to locate and develop new sites, relocate, expand operations, and all related permitting and compliance.
About Jewish World Watch
Jewish World Watch (JWW) works to end genocide and mass atrocities worldwide by educating and mobilizing individuals, advocating for policy changes and funding projects to support and build resilience in conflict-affected communities.
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