I read a lot of futurism these days. It fascinates me.
But if you absorb enough of the stuff, you start to expect everything you've known and loved about human civilization to disappear—and soon.
I've reached that point. It's hard to believe the world of 20 or 30 years from now (if I'm lucky enough to be around) is going to be something I want to see.
I am no Paul Atreides. I've been wrong before, and I hope I'm wrong about this. Science fiction authors have been overestimating the pace of human change since H.G. Wells. Why should I be any different?
To convince myself that technological advance might not be about to end civilization, I'm reviewing some of my greatest failures of prognostication.
1) I failed to predict the collapse of the Soviet Union.
I was only 13 years old at the time, but it still feels like a major oversight. My first experience with failure.
2) I believed Krispy Kreme would be a bigger deal by now.
Don't get me wrong, Krispy Kreme is a big deal. But the chain had thoroughly mastered the manipulation of human thought and biology by at least the 1960s, so I felt sure it would expand into defense applications or direct mind control. Possibly even religion?
3) I failed to predict the return to cities.
I live in the city. There have always been people here.
I do not like people.
4) I failed to predict more than six Fast & Furious sequels.
The Fast and the Furious appeared in 2001. It was profitable and popular. Based on a complex set of variables I won't go into, I predicted exactly six more additions to the franchise.
And yet here we are in 2017 with the seventh sequel about to be released, for a total of eight movies in the franchise, and it likely won't stop there.
Clearly, I cannot see the future.
5) Holograms still aren't a thing.
Admit it, you thought holograms were going to be a big deal by now (assuming you are 30 or older). So did I.
I can't say for sure they won't still become so, but even if it happens, I was WAY off on the timeline.
Still no human structures of any kind up there.
Which isn't to say we haven't left a lot of crap. We have; 413,100 lbs. of it to be precise.
The only artificial things on the moon are the remains of a bunch of rockets, retroreflectors, flags, and personal items left by astronauts.
C'est la vie. I once considered the possibility that I would personally get to the moon by 2017, even if just as a tourist. Score me a big fat F for that one.
7) I believed a movie would be made from the screenplay I wrote in 2007.
It was the first screenplay I'd ever written. My first real piece of fiction.
It was brilliant. No one had ever seen anything like it before. I had pretty much reinvented the horror/fantasy film, maybe even the medium of film itself.
Then I let people read it. After four readers vomited and one self-immolated, I had to concede the writing might not be good.
There was a period in my life—undergrad college I think—when I was fairly obsessed with this film. I remember naming it when asked to name my favorite movie. Dune had been my favorite novel as well, so maybe I just transferred what I knew of one into the other.
Around this time—the early years of the mass-popular internet—Dune started showing up on people's "worst sci-fi movies of all time" and even just "worst movies of all time" lists. It stung.
I know it's not a good movie. It's a mess, and the effects have aged particularly poorly.
But some part of me still loves it. I haven't watched it in a long time, but I think I was able to see the movie that Lynch meant to make instead of the one he did. There is still a lot of beauty there. I think.
9) I did not become a martial arts master.
I think something like 50 percent all guys in their teens and 20s believe this at some point, so maybe I can be excused for this one.
10) I thought Facebook was a niche fad.
In 2007, I asked a co-worker of mine why she wasn't on Myspace. She said she was on something called Facebook, only accessible to people who were in college or still had a .edu email address.
In response, I made the following noise: Pffft.
I will try to remember all of these terrible failures of prediction whenever a bad case of future shock overcomes me.
The next time I feel positive that biotech-modified humans will rule the world in 2037, I will remind myself that people still eat potato chips (first appearance: 1817).
Enjoy your very normal week.


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This lovely Italianate listed villa is being converted to a wedding venue. After careful consultation with the planners, it was agreed that the new function room, capable of seating up to 150 guests, could be concealed within the existing stable block courtyard to the rear.
In removing a small part of the listed structure and enclosing the remainder of the courtyard by providing a new roof with exposed rafters and a tapered rooflight, the impact of this contemporary extension is minimised. Direct links back to the existing large kitchen, sensitive relocation of the existing stable floor externally and parking within the sunken garden will make this a unique private venue, ideally located at the 'Gateway to Wales' by the Severn Bridge. This project was completed in Spring 2017.
We chose Downs Merrifield as architects because having worked with them on a previous project we believed their creative style in terms of design solutions would be perfect for our project at St Tewdrics House. Their creative design solutions and relaxed approach to resolving any issues really benefited this project. Working with Downs Merrifield is a true partnership, they are with you all the way through the many "ups" and the few "downs", which will inevitably happen on such a technically challenging job.


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Loneliness Key to the Making of Serial Killers
"Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters" a book by Peter Vronsky recently published by Penguin Berkley Books, describing the history of serial homicide from ancient to modern times, reports that loneliness is the most frequent reported characteristic among serial killers and children who grow up to become serial killers.
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"Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters" a book by Peter Vronsky recently published by Penguin Berkley Books, looks at the culture and psychology of serial murder throughout history. In a chapter describing recent research done into the childhood of serial killers, Vronsky reports that the most common trait mentioned is loneliness. While certain warning signs such as bullying, bedwetting, animal cruelty and arson have been noted in the childhood histories of serial killers, loneliness and rejection by peers is the most common denominator. (See: http://www.petervronsky.com )
Loneliness works both ways, according to Vronsky. Some as children are inherently shy and withdrawn. Others, however, are rejected by their playmates or siblings, who already as children detect something menacing or repelling in them. Isolated and lonely, these children can develop and dwell on fantasies of power and revenge as a means of overcoming their rejection. Some of these lonely children succeed in their quest for redemption and power by becoming successful politicians, performers, artists or corporate CEOs. Others, with less talent or skill find their quest for revenge and power fulfilled through acts of homicide and rape.
The danger with loneliness, writes Vronsky, is that the incipient serial killer has the time and space to dwell on these homicidal fantasies of revenge, power and dominance and finds comfort in these thoughts. At some critical point in their life, either as children or adolescents, these individuals take their fantasy on a "test run" into the world of reality. These test runs can consist of things like window peeping while armed, lightly stabbing a playmate with a pencil, burglary, killing an animal, stealing an item of female clothing, or some other non-homicidal transgression. If the child successfully escapes being detected in this act and finds the commission of the act satisfying or sexually exciting, it could be a matter of time before the "test runs" become full-blown acts of homicide.
The dividing line between the lonely child as serial killer instead of corporate CEO, happens long before the first homicide. It occurs somewhere in the "test run" when some children, once they take their fantasy into reality are repulsed or have a negative experience as the consequence of their act. These children no longer find comfort in their violent fantasies and either those fantasies fade and are replaced by other more constructive ideas or the children sink into deeper despair. Other children, however, who find that the realization of their fantasy was a rewarding experience, become addicted to refining and improving the experience. It could be weeks, months or years before they realize their fantasy in an actual murder, but many inevitably do. Serial killers are made long before they commit their first murder.
Vronsky explores the mystery of how children are both made and born as serial killers looking at the complex combination of genetic and environmental factors identified and argued over by psychopathologists today. "Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters" is a 430-page book covering the historical, cultural, psychological and investigative aspects of serial homicide and includes a chapter on the childhood histories of some of the most notorious serial killers.
Peter Vronsky is currently completing his doctorate in history at the University of Toronto and is a former international investigative documentary producer.
For more information or to contact the author: http://www.petervronsky.com
Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters
Peter Vronsky
New York: Berkley Publishing Group, 2004.
432 Pages, Illustrated

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ESA appoints Stanley Pierre-Louis as CEO amid rumours of a 'toxic environment'
Vikki Blake 15th May 2019	Business
The Entertainment Software Association has appointed acting CEO Stanley Pierre-Louis permanently into the post.
Pierre-Louis moved temporarily into the position last year when then-ESA president and CEO, Michael Gallagher, stepped down.
Pierre-Louis' appointment comes in the wake of a damning Variety report that details a "toxic environment rife with internal politics, witch hunts and in-fighting" that has seen half of the association's leadership quit – either by choice or after being fired – and a survey of member companies depicting "waning faith in the organisation and its efforts". An internal survey obtained by Variety also indicated "a lack of trust by the general public of the game industry".
It appears that Gallagher's split with the ESA came after board members conducted one-on-one interviews with members of his staff at the association's Washington, D.C. HQ. According to Variety, most employees would only speak to the outlet under conditions of anonymity and over the course of the investigation, the ESA "checked phone records of employees and fired one seemingly without cause, later offering a settlement in exchange for his silence".
Staff reported concerns about Gallagher's management style. According to University of California-Irvine professor Constance Steinkuehler, Gallagher offered unsolicited management advice at GDC 2017, reportedly saying: "He said he really learned about how to maximize your workplace [at his previous jobs]. One thing he said was that if you had not burned people out in three years you probably haven't been working them hard enough. Another was that pitting people against each other competitively was a way to really get the most of them."
"We are an organisation that looks forward and thinks about how we best benefit industry," Pierre-Louis told GI.biz in response to the allegations. "What I see here are people excited about working for our industry, who are focused on the challenges ahead and can meet that challenge through their great skill and expertise in what they do.
"Our members strive to have the best workplaces possible to create the best work possible, and that's what you see in the products they release, the ecosystems they build, and the devices they make," he added, reflecting on recent reports that detail toxicity in the workplace, crunch culture, and misogyny. "The specifics of our member companies and their employees really rests with them. But what we know of our industry and our member companies is that they are very focused on creating dynamic workplaces so their teams can produce a high quality of work."
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Next Bandai Namco sees sales and profits exceed projections
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Q: Using the pigeon principle I was given the next question:
I need to prove that any subset with $25$ elements of the set $\{1,2,....150\}$, contain  least $4$ elements, $x$, $y$, $z$, $t$ such that $x+y=z+t$.
Now my idea is to use the pigeon principle and set the pigeons to be the number of the possible pairings and the 'cages' to be the number of the possible sums of two elements from the set $\{1,2,....,150\}$
But I feel as if I'm missing something out and I'm not so sure about my answer.
I'd like to hear your thoughts on this, thank you very much!

A: Your idea is fine.
We have ${25\choose2}=300$ pigeons and as the sums can only range from $1+2=3$ to $149+150=299$, there are only $297$ cages. Hence there are two different pigeons $\{x,y\}$ and $\{z,t\}$ in the same cage, i.e., $x+y=z+t$. Note that the pairs cannot overlap as for example $y=z$ would imply $x=t$ contradicting the distinctiveness of the pigeons.

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Social media users learned last year that Facebook's Chief Operating Officer Mark Zuckerberg had managed to delete his own messages sent through the Messenger app, something that no one else could do.
Facebook users were clearly unimpressed with this and made it perfectly clear that they wanted that very same function made available to them on their personal and business accounts. Finally, Zuckerberg came through.
Before Zuckerberg rolled out the new change in Facebook Messenger, pressing down on a message allowed a user to delete it only from his or her own mailbox. The recipient still had received that message and it remained on Facebook's servers.
According to Gizmodo, TechCrunch learned that Zuckerberg was able to go back in time to 2010 and unsend messages from his threads that were in his Messenger app and received by various people, both employees and non-employees.
Facebook announced Tuesday that the new unsend option is now available to Android and iOS users by simply tapping a message that needs to be deleted and then select "remove for everyone" within 10 minutes of sending the message.
A representative for Facebook confirmed to Gizmodo that messages deleted with this method eventually will be removed from Facebook's servers permanently, but would be preserved for a brief period of time in the event someone needs to report abuse or stalking.
Facebook had previously allowed not just Zuckerberg but also other executives to utilize this feature. It has taken 10 months for the company to make this option available to everyone using an Android and iOS. Some users reported a "remove for you" option, which removes a message from the sender's view but leaves it active with everyone else in the chat.
The secret message feature within Messenger does allow users to delete messages, but it is only applicable to individual conversations. Of course, if a message recipient takes a screenshot of a message received, none of these features will matter any.
Needless to say, there were quite a few skeptics commenting on social media. Jeff Costas doubted the effectiveness of this new Facebook Messenger feature.
"I can guarantee you it's still going to be sitting out there on the Facebook server – basically all of your 'deletes' will help FB known which messages they can hold over your head as leverage," Costas tweeted.
Twitter user Chan Walling wanted it "easier to mass delete items or group posts." Others suggested disgruntled users simply delete their Facebook accounts.


We met with Alex Murphy, DCLG, Roy Fishwick, Cleveland Steel and Tubes and Tim Yates, BRE on 15th July to flag up our concerns that CE marking was a potential barrier to reuse. DCLG administer the Construction Products Regulations. We also met with BSI who have tabled our document.
Early on in our Innovate UK project, we identified CE marking as a potential barrier to reuse more generally, so we prepared a discussion piece on this, which we posted out for comment. The overwhelming response was that clarification was required, so we discussed this with Tim Yates at the BRE, who kindly suggested we should meet up with DCLG, who noted our concerns.
Clearly, structural steel that was manufactured before the introduction of the Construction Products Regulation (CPR) will not be CE-Marked and is likely to have been manufactured to a (now withdrawn) national product standard.
Decoated surplus steel pipeline. Image credit: Cleveland Steel and Tubes Ltd.
We have investigated, with advice from steel certification experts, the requirements of the relevant harmonised standards for hot rolled structural steel products and fabricated steel structures (EN 10025 and EN 1090). Our conclusion is that under EN 1090-2 reclaimed structural steels do not need to be to the relevant product standard; in this case EN 10025-1, as long as their properties are specified. However, this view appears to be subject to interpretation of the relevant clauses in the relevant standards.
Obtain a more definitive interpretation of the standards concerning reclaimed structural steel (it is noted that both EN 1090 parts 1 and 2 are currently being redrafted).
Include a relevant clause(s) in the standards and the CPR that specifically address the requirements for reclaimed structural steel so that this option is proactively encouraged in line with the EU's circular economy strategy.
The deadline for the receipt of comments is 1st August therefore we will include a summary of these comments in the final deliverables for the Innovate UK steel reuse projects.
For further information about the Reusable Buildings Network and to get involved, contact Simon Corbey at simon@asbp.org.uk.


Axis Of Oversteer: ALMS: BMW qualifies 1-2 at Road America.
ALMS: BMW qualifies 1-2 at Road America.
In a year that has been short of good news for BMW, the team must be overjoyed with their first and second place qualifying positions at Road America today. Cherry on top, both RLR M3's were under the Road America GT2 lap record set by Ferrari in the past.
Joey Hand and Dirk Muller will be starting ahead of the Long/Bergmeister championship leading Porsche GT3 RSR, which this week end received 25 kg of extra ballast from IMSA and the two Corvette ZR1. Dunlop must have come up with some very special rubber for this week end.
In case you missed qualifying streaming live on SpeedTV.com, take a look at the clip from the webcast. No wonder people hate racing on broadcast tv, usually you can't see anything, the commentary is bland and boring, whenever something is about to happen, there is a commercial. Webcast like this are, in my opinion, the future of motorsport broadcasting. Not only would web delivery allow for any commercials to be placed without interrupting the race but a multi channel transmission similar to what is already available through various pay services in Europe for Formula 1 could be easily implemented.
I wonder how many of us would be willing to pay for such a service if it was well thought out and reliable? Sign me up. Until then, we'll have to watch the race on SpeedTV Sunday at 3PM et.
Provisional Grid for the "Time Warner Cable Road Race Showcase featuring the American Le Mans Series (rolls right off your toungue, doesn't it?
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In the timely and terrific "Blindspotting," screenwriters, stars and best friends Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal explore the dual nature of perceptions, how someone can look at a person or a situation and see something entirely different than what someone else sees.
That is an important of-the-moment theme that plays out everyday in the ever-more-popular and gentrifying Oakland, where the film is set and where Diggs and Casal grew up. But the topic extends well beyond the city's boundaries. It's evident every day, as Americans confront blind spots in dealing with race, immigration — and each other.
By honing in on Oakland and showing how thorny this phenomenon can be, "Blindspotting" — one of the best films of 2018 — has taken the pulse of a nation that is often at odds with itself.
From "Blindspotting's" opening moments, in which we hear a mad symphonic rush of sounds — conversations, cars, music — capturing the dynamic streets and scenes of Oakland past and present — it becomes clear we're in for a creative and compelling journey by two men who know their subject matter.
The comedy-drama, which wowed viewers as the opening night selection at the Sundance Film Festival this year, bucks genre categorization, making what might have been a traditional bromance about two buds realizing their lives are changing and upending it into an unpredictable, ambitious tale that uses music, comedy, drama and sudden outbursts of violence to explore what life is authentically like here.
In the characters of Collin and Miles, Diggs and Casal have created three-dimensional Oaklanders confronting different realities and uncertain futures. Collin (Diggs) is on parole after being released from Santa Rita Jail and works with Miles at a moving company. He's living in a halfway house and has three days left before he clears parole. What happened to land him in prison is revealed later in the film.
The hot-head Miles (Casal) lives with his girlfriend Ashley (Jasmine Cephas Jones) and gripes constantly about hipsters taking over his city. Collin's greatest challenge is not to get wrapped up into the trouble that Miles gets into. Miles doesn't entirely understand Collin's reality.
Meanwhile, Collin remains attracted to his, let's-keep-this-at-a-distance ex-girlfriend Val (Janina Gavankar), who works with him.
One night when Collin is stopped at a red light in the moving van, he witnesses a cop (Ethan Embergy) shooting to death a black man. It's an image that haunts him in the days ahead. It's also a storyline that gets stitched together not always so seamlessly yet is resolved in one of the film's most dramatic moments. It's also a high point for Diggs — who won a Tony for "Hamilton" — in this incredible performance.
Both of these characters occasionally tell their story with clarity and honesty through hip-hop and spoken-word exchanges. In interplay between both actors; there's a natural ebb and flow to the performances that make both actors worthy of awards consideration.
In his first feature film, director Carlos Lopez Estrada has made a vibrant film, one popping with ideas and ideals as it presents a vivid and complicated Oakland. Estrada displays assuredness and energy in key hip-hop-inspired scenes.
"Blindspotting" follows on the heels of "Sorry to Bother You," another bold, fresh Oakland movie. And while they stylistically quite different, they share a bond beside the fact that they showcase Oakland, — they're two of the most creative and alive pieces of filmmaking of 2018.


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Did Facebook Ban President Trump's Campaign From Advertising?
It removed certain posts for violating community standards but did not ban the campaign from purchasing ads.
A viral Facebook post claimed that the social media platform "is banning Trump from advertising for president." The post has been shared 368,000 times and viewed nearly 11 million times since it was initially shared on August 9, with 2 million views occurring in the last 24 hours alone.
The timing of the post is important: It was shared three days after a pro-Trump super PAC—not the Trump campaign itself—was banned from advertising on Facebook after "repeated sharing of content determined by third-party fact-checkers to be false." Reuters noted that one such piece of content from the PAC, the Committee to Defend the President, was an ad that falsely claimed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden made racist remarks in 1985. Another ad from the PAC targeted Latino Americans, claiming without evidence on July 31 that Biden promised to pick an African American running mate, "Not a Latino." The Committee to Defend the President lost advertising privileges for a minimum of 90 days, starting on August 10.
The Trump campaign itself had a series of specific posts and ads removed from Facebook in June because they violated community standards. The ads featured an inverted red triangle, a symbol used by the Nazis to mark political prisoners in concentration camps, and did not provide any context or explanation about the symbol. The Trump campaign responded to criticism by claiming the triangle was just "an emoji" and that it was used by Antifa, whom the ads in question were about. However, while certain posts were removed, the Trump campaign was not banned from advertising, and Facebook's ad library shows that advertisements from the Trump campaign, the GOP, the National Republican Senate Committee, and other organizations that support the president's re-election bid are still widespread on the website. Trump's campaign spent $3.4 million on Facebook from August 17 to August 23 alone.
While one pro-Trump PAC's repeated falsehoods got it banned from advertising on Facebook, it is incorrect to say that Trump or his campaign have been similarly censored by the social media website. Trump and his allies continue to post on the platform and purchase advertisements on the website.
This fact check is available at IFCN's 2020 U.S. Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here, for more.
Photograph by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images.
Wow! Facebook is really choosing sides and trying to cover for antifa. They never asked a presidential campaign for the context of the symbol and instead just banned the ad?? Did they at least put it back up when the context was made clear?
Third party "fact checker" yeah whatever. These "fact checkers" are worse than the parties. They often do not even seem to know what a fact is.
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STEPHEN R. SADY, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Portland, OR, Attorney for Petitioner.
DWIGHT C. HOLTON, United States Attorney, RONALD K. SILVER, Assistant United States Attorney, Portland, OR, Attorneys for Respondent.
Petitioner, an inmate at the Satellite Camp Prison ("SCP"), Sheridan, Oregon at the time of filing, brings this habeas corpus action pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241. He alleges he was wrongfully denied credit for 8 1/2 months participation in the Residential Drug Abuse Treatment Program ("RDAP") after disciplinary action was reversed and expunged; he was wrongfully required to repeat RDAP or be designated withdrawn/fail despite disciplinary action being reversed and expunged; and his early release incentive eligibility was wrongfully rescinded. (#1, at 3.) Petitioner asks the Court to require the BOP to (1) immediately credit him for completion of RDAP as of April 30, 2010; (2) restore early release eligibility; (3) credit him for days of imprisonment beyond the early release date toward community corrections time; (4) immediately release him; (5) correct all records to reflect he completed RDAP; and (6) reimburse him for unpaid incentive/job substitution pay of $40. ( Id. at 29.) Because this Court lacks jurisdiction to review individualized RDAP determinations, and Petitioner has not otherwise shown protected rights were violated, the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (#1) is DENIED.
In 18 U.S.C. §§ 3621- 3625, Congress vested the BOP with broad authority to manage the imprisonment of a convicted person, and specified "[t]he Bureau shall make available appropriate substance abuse treatment for each prisoner the Bureau determines has a treatable condition of substance addiction or abuse." 18 U.S.C. § 3621(b). Congress articulated a specific statutory mandate for residential substance abuse treatment programs for "eligible prisoners," defined as one who is "(i) determined by the Bureau of Prisons to have a substance abuse problem, and (ii) willing to participate in a residential substance abuse treatment program[.]" 18 U.S.C. § 3621(e)(5)(B). In § 3625 Congress specified that the provisions for judicial review under §§ 701-706 of the Administrative Procedures Act ("APA") "do not apply to the making of any determinations, decision, or order" under § 3621.
The program the BOP created to satisfy this mandate is the Residential Drug Abuse Program ("RDAP").
Inapplicability of the Administrative Procedures Act The provisions of sections 554 and 555 and 701 through 706 of title 5, United States Code, do not apply to the making of any determination, decision, or order under this subchapter.
In 1994, Congress enacted the Violent Crime Control Law Enforcement Act of 1994 ("VCCLEA"), which amended 18 U.S.C. § 3621 to include an early release incentive for inmates convicted of non-violent offenses who successfully complete RDAP. 18 U.S.C. § 3621(e)(2). The early release incentive is awarded at the discretion of the BOP.
(A) Generally. Any prisoner who, in the judgment of the Director of the [BOP], has successfully completed a program of residential substance abuse treatment provided under paragraph (1) of this subsection, shall remain in the custody of the [BOP] under such conditions as the Bureau deems appropriate.
(B) Period of Custody. The period a prisoner convicted of a nonviolent offense remains in custody after successfully completing a treatment program may be reduced by the [BOP], but such reduction may not be more than one year from the term the prisoner must otherwise serve."
The BOP's implementing regulations for drug treatment programs are found at 28 C.F.R. §§ 550.50-550.57 (2009), with §§ 550.53-550.55 specific to RDAP. Section 550.53(g) addresses expulsion from RDAP. Section 550.57 addresses inmate appeals.
28 C.F.R. § 550.53(g). Expulsion from RDAP.
(1) Inmates may be removed from the program by the Drug Abuse Program Coordinator because of disruptive behavior related to the program or unsatisfactory progress in treatment.
(2) Ordinarily, inmates must be given at least one formal warning before removal from RDAP. A formal warning is not necessary when the documented lack of compliance with program standards is of such magnitude that an inmate's continued presence would create an immediate and ongoing problem for staff and other inmates.
28 C.F.R. § 550.57. Inmate Appeals.
Inmates may seek formal review of complaints regarding the operation of the drug abuse treatment program by using administrative remedy procedures in 28 CFR part 542.
The BOP's internal agency guidelines for the various drug abuse programs are found in Chapter Two (2) of Program Statement P5330.11 (3/16/2009). Section 2.5 is specific to RDAP.
How an inmate leaves a RDAP is based on the inmate's behavior.
(d) Intervention and § 550.53(g). Expulsion from RDAP.
— Meet with the inmate to discuss his or her behavior or lack of progress.
— Assign the treatment intervention(s) chosen to reduce or eliminate the behavior, or to improve progress.
— Warn the inmate of the consequences of failure to alter his/her behavior.
— Properly document in PDS the meeting and treatment intervention(s) assigned.
— Properly document in PDS changes to the inmate's treatment plan, and ensure that both staff and the inmate sign the amended treatment plan.
— When appropriate, require the inmate to discuss his or her targeted behavior in the community.
In the event repeated treatment interventions are required in response to inappropriate behaviors or unsatisfactory progress the treatment team will meet to decide if the inmate will be removed from the program.
II. Background of the case.
As a threshold matter, the Court must determine whether it has jurisdiction to consider the claims Petitioner set forth in his petition. See Wallace v. Christiansen, 802 F.2d 1539, 1542 (9th Cir. 1986) (jurisdiction must be addressed and answered before the merits may be reached). To the extent Petitioner is challenging individualized determinations related to RDAP, including his expulsion — reinstatement — withdrawal/fail designations, the Court lacks jurisdiction to consider the claims. Reeb v. Thomas, 636 F.3d 1224, 1227-28 (9th Cir. 2011).
To the extent Petitioner asserts a due process claim challenging the BOP's administrative remedy process and response to his grievances, he fails to state a claim upon which relief may be granted. Under 28 U.S.C. § 2241(c)(3), habeas relief is available only if an inmate "is in custody in violation of the Constitution or laws or treaties of the United States." BOP regulations give inmates the right to "seek formal review of complaints regarding the operation of the drug abuse treatment program by using the administrative remedy procedures in 28 C.F.R. part 542." 28 C.F.R. § 550.57. Petitioner does not allege he was denied his right to seek formal review, and the record shows Petitioner fully exhausted his right to formal review when he presented his complaints regarding the conduct violations and expulsion from RDAP to every level of the BOP's administrative remedy program. The fact Petitioner's grievances were not resolved to his satisfaction does not constitute a violation of federal law. Therefore, Petitioner is not entitled to relief.
28 C.F.R. part 542 details the procedures for four levels of review: informal resolution; initial filing at the institution; appeal to the Regional Office; and final appeal to the Central Office.
18 U.S.C. § 3583 governs imposition of supervised release after imprisonment; subsection (e) provides for the modification of the conditions or terms of supervised release by the sentencing court.
A petitioner must set forth his claims for relief in his petition. See Rules Governing Proceedings in the United States District Courts — Habeas Corpus Rule 1(b) and 2(c). In general, a prisoner's pro se complaint is held to a less stringent standard than one drafted by lawyers and is liberally construed by the court. Erickson v. Pardus, 551 U.S. 89, 94 (2007); Porter v. Ollison, 620 F.3d 952, 958 (9th Cir. 2010). The Court finds that even a liberal interpretation of the pro se petition does not reveal Petitioner was claiming retaliation as a result of his using the administrative remedy process.
While Petitioner contends in section "C" of the petition, titled "Fear of Retaliation", that the Sheridan camp and RDAP program "are currently managed through fear and intimidation[,]"(#1, at 6), under section "B," titled "Summary of Claim", the petition specifies: "Petitioner seeks redress from his invalid RDAP expulsion, his felonious `withdrawn' status, and the rescission of his § 3621(e) sentence reduction." (#1, at 3.) Under section "K" of the petition, titled "Legal Argument," Petitioner specified: "[t]he question is whether the law, the APA, and/or policy protects prisoners from arbitrary and capricious actions, or enables the BOP to lord abusive discretion over prisoners." (#1, at 16.) Throughout the petition Petitioner reiterates his assertions that the BOP's acts were arbitrary and capricious, and an abuse of discretion (#1, at 2, 4, 5, 16, 17, 18.) The Court thus finds that the First Amendment retaliation claim argued in the counseled brief was not set forth in the petition and is not properly before the Court. Therefore, the retaliation claim will not be considered.
Based on the foregoing, Petitioner's Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (#1) is DENIED.
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FILE In this Sept. Watt after loading a car with relief supplies to people impacted by Hurricane Harvey, in Houston. Watt is being honored by the NFL Players Association after raising more than $29 million for Hurricane Harvey relief efforts. Watt was named the NFLPA's Community MVP on Friday, Sept. 8, 2017, for his work in the days since the hurricane and flooding devastated Houston and much of southeast Texas. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP, Pool, File)
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Professional athletes kneeling to protest the Spangled Banner to draw attention to police brutality and racism has become a cultural force fueled by nonstop news coverage of President Trump public condemnation of the practice. Complaints are emerging, however. Some analysts say the press is fixated on the collision between the White House and the sports world and virtually nothing else.
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With teams in the middle of spring practices, a voluntary minicamp looms in June before the league basically shuts down for about six weeks before the start of training camp in early August. While there will still be some noteworthy moves made like the Buffalo Bills releasing Cyrus Kouandjio last week rosters for the most part are pretty well set.
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Earlier Wednesday, the NAACP called for a meeting with the NFL to discuss the fate of Kaepernick, who was born to a white woman and a black man but was adopted by a white couple. The civil rights organization's interim president, Derrick Johnson, said in a letter to the NFL's commissioner, Roger Goodell, that it's apparently "no sheer coincidence" that Kaepernick isn't on a roster.
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Amid outcry over his comments, he doubled down with a pair of tweets Saturday: "If a player wants the priviledge of making millions of dollars in the NFL, or other leagues, he or she should not be allowed to disrespect our Great American Flag (or Country) and should stand for the National Anthem. If not, YOU'RE FIRED. Find something else to do!"
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Oh, how fast they grow!
Did you think I was JUST talking about my Sisterlocks?! Gotcha! I'm and I'm not actually... I have been just so touched by how fast my kids are growing. These girls are my twins. Two-thirds of my offspring.
McKenzie here just lost her first top tooth on Friday.
While, her twin sister (the older one by 20 minutes) lost her second top tooth just the day before on Thursday.
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Make No Mistake. Edward Gallagher Will Be a Star of the Republican Presidential Campaign.
The president* is going to use him as a representative of The Troops.
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In 1999, I went to Minnesota to cover the inauguration of Governor Jesse Ventura and the first few weeks of his administration. The inauguration itself was enlivened by the members of Ventura's old SEAL unit under the direction of a guy named Terry (Mother) Moy, the master chief under whom they'd all trained. These were large, incredibly tough-looking humans, but they also were fully invested in the joy and hilarity of the improbable event they'd come to witness, and their feeling of fellowship was more than a little infectious and I liked them very much.
Which all came back to mind when I read this New York Times account in which other SEALs who served with the now-pardoned Edward Gallagher express their horror at what Gallagher did to deserve the punishment from which El Caudillo del Mar-A-Lago has delivered him. It's not so much Gallagher's crimes in uniform that's so shocking today; those events have been well-known for a while. Rather, what is flatly terrifying in its implications is the reaction of the other SEALS to Gallagher's pardon.
They offer the first opportunity outside the courtroom to hear directly from the men of Alpha platoon, SEAL Team 7, whose blistering testimony about their platoon chief was dismissed by President Trump when he upended the military code of justice to protect Chief Gallagher from the punishment. "The guy is freaking evil," Special Operator Miller told investigators. "The guy was toxic," Special Operator First Class Joshua Vriens, a sniper, said in a separate interview. "You could tell he was perfectly O.K. with killing anybody that was moving," Special Operator First Class Corey Scott, a medic in the platoon, told the investigators.
Video from a SEAL's helmet camera, included in the trove of materials, shows the barely conscious captive — a teenage Islamic State fighter so thin that his watch slid easily up and down his arm — being brought in to the platoon one day in May 2017. Then the helmet camera is shut off. In the video interviews with investigators, three SEALs said they saw Chief Gallagher go on to stab the sedated captive for no reason, and then hold an impromptu re-enlistment ceremony over the body, as if it were a trophy. "I was listening to it, and I was just thinking, like, this is the most disgraceful thing I've ever seen in my life," Special Operator Miller, who has since been promoted to chief, told investigators.
These are the people who served with the guy who said this about him. These are the guys from The Unit. They went through the same grueling training. They were sharpened to the same fine point, tuned to the same fighting pitch. And despite every instinct for solidarity and brotherhood that had been drummed into them, they went to the authorities because Gallagher's crimes were too black to ignore and because they were too good a group of soldiers, and too decent a group of people, to ignore them anyway. You just don't see this out in the open that often. It's akin to Ron Ridenhour's talking to the Army, and then to Seymour Hersh, about the events at My Lai, or Hugh Thompson, landing his helicopter between the Vietnamese civilians and William Calley's murderous platoon to put a halt to those events in real time.
Make no mistake. Edward Gallagher is going to be a star of the upcoming Republican presidential campaign. The president* is going to use him as a representative of The Troops, and as an antidote to his own contempt for military personnel who are as revolted by him as any decent human being would be. Gallagher is going to be the anti-Khizr Khan. He is going to appear at presidential* events. I make him even money to speak at the 2020 Republican National Convention. Edward Gallagher is going to be the symbol of the U.S. military and there's nobody in the GOP who can stop this from happening.
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From where I lounge these days, the Iowa Democratic caucuses look like a complete mess. In 2012, you recall, the year in which there was a Republican free-for-all, it took them two weeks to figure out that Rick Santorum had been a narrow winner, and Santorum was a no-hoper from jump. We should all take as a given that all caucus systems are basically flawed to the point of worthlessness. That being said, you at the moment can throw a blanket over the top four candidates in the polls. If the numbers stay remotely close to what they are, and depending on the weather over the next month, and whether or not the folks in Precinct 12 in Marshalltown are fond of the hotdish that night, they may have declared a winner in New Hampshire by the time Iowa gets its act together.
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Consequently, any judgments on the effect of Iowa on individual campaigns are worthless now, and very likely, they're going to be worthless after the caucuses are over. This is system is a disaster and, Lord, does it need changing. Right now, it's little more than a six-month venue for cute photo-op's and, it must be said, an excuse for candidates to trim their positions to suit certain, ahem, demographics that are mostly irrelevant to the Democratic Party anyway, and have been for years. With this many candidates, and with the naked hunger of the elite political press for the kind of horse-race that railbirds usually call "a cavalry charge," another tangled debacle is almost inevitable, god help us.
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Weekly To The Pathe Archives: Here's a propaganda film about the creation of the Red Army. Cameos by Lenin and Stalin. Narration by Comrade Donald Duckovich. History is so cool.
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If it wasn't one damn thing, it was another. They lived hard lives then to make us happy now.
You're all Top Commenters from where I lounge. Thanks for all the prayers and good wishes. Here's to 2020. Be well and play nice, ya bastids. Stay above the snake-line because God alone knows what await us all.
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Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.
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