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"Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph." Haile Selassie
University of Oklahoma for Two Decades Submitted False Data for U.S. News and World Report College Rankings
If anyone thinks the University of Oklahoma is the only higher education institution doing this, I have a bridge to sell you:
(CNN) The company that makes the annual Best Colleges rankings said that the University of Oklahoma gave "inflated" data on its alumni giving rates for two decades.
U.S. News and World Report, which produces the coveted Best Colleges said Oklahoma would be listed as unranked in its 2019 edition because of the false data, which stretched back to 1999.
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For the 2019 Best Colleges rankings, the university originally said its two-year alumni giving rate was 14% but later informed U.S. News that the correct number is 9.7%, the magazine said.
The false data affected Oklahoma's placement in the national universities, best value schools, top public schools, best colleges for veterans and A-plus schools for B students rankings and lists, U.S. News said.
The rankings are based largely on data provided by the universities, such as graduation rates, class sizes and standardized test scores of students. Alumni giving rates make up 5% of the rankings formula because "giving measures student satisfaction and post-graduate engagement," U.S. News writes in its methodology.
The trouble has always been that there is no good audit mechanism for ascertaining the honesty of the data submitted by these colleges and universities. Combine that lack of oversight with a tremendous competitive pressure for the schools to submit data that makes them look good and you have a recipe for fudging the numbers.
I went through a similar thing when I tried to get information to support the employment claims of my alma mater, Indiana University School of Law at Indianapolis (now, unfortunately, called the "McKinney School of Law"). I wrote about it on this blog 10 years ago:
Part of the rankings of law schools is based on employment numbers of graduates, both the average salary and the level of employment. Law schools have for years gone back and forth competing to see who can phony the employment numbers the most. If you want a good laugh, go to a practicing attorney and tell the attorney what the law school is claiming regarding first year salaries and unemployment figures.
My alma mater? Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis claims in their 2007 report that over 96% of graduates have a full-time job within 9 months and the average salary for a first year attorney in Indianapolis makes an average of $75,000 a year. Wow. That sounds pretty good.
You have lies, damn lies, and then you have the employment statistics provided by law schools. Unfortunately too many people read those numbers and believe them rather than talk to actual practicing attorneys about what the job market is really like. Those law students borrow tons of money, sometimes in six digits, only to graduate finding jobs that pay $35,000 a year, that is assuming the new lawyer is lucky enough to even find a job. Law school debt is non-dischargeable in bankruptcy so the graduate is going to have that noose of debt around his or her neck for quite some time.
Several years ago, I asked for open records requests from IU-Indy regarding the data used to back up the employment numbers claimed by the school. IU refused to provide the documents - surveys of attorneys - claiming they are confidential. The objection was over broad...all the school had to do was redact the confidential information on the document.
Unfortunately, there is no audit of the data used by law schools to arrive at their employment numbers. The American Bar Association and U.S. News & World Report simply accept the phony numbers as valid. Any law school not playing the game of submitting inflated employment numbers is destined to see their school fall in the rankings.
The law school employment statistics are based on surveys sent to graduates 9 months after leaving law school school. I remember during my attempt to get redacted versions of those surveys several years ago that a university official said that when graduates don't return their survey, Indiana University estimates the former students' salary for the report. Not had that confirmed by others. How the university uses the surveys to develop the stats submitted to the ABA is a closely guarded secret.
Since I wrote the above piece in 2009, the ABA has changed the way law school employment data has been reported. One change is that more employment categories have been created in an attempt to clarify the actual value of a J.D. in securing employment. Formerly, law schools were claiming credit for graduates who were working non-legal jobs for which the J.D. was of no help. This included law school graduates working retail and at fast food establishments.
In preparing this story, I also looked at the 2018 Indiana University at Indianapolis Law School employment report. In it I do not see the average salaries of recent law school graduates listed anymore. Not sure if that is reported elsewhere. If the posting of these fake average salaries has ceased, then that would certainly be a positive development. Law schools have been years lying to prospective students about the employment prospects and salaries they can expect upon graduation.
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Thanks for continuing your blog Paul. Gary Welsh is smiling down on us. We shall overcome!
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Larry Wayne Fryman, age 57, of Millersburg, died on Sunday, January 13, 2019 at the University of Kentucky Medical Center. He was born in Bourbon County on February 9, 1961, the son of the late William Emerson "Buster" and Alleen Robinson Fryman.
Larry worked in security at Color Point Nursery and was a veteran of the U.S. Army and National Guard. He was a member and former Post Commander of American Legion Post 257 in Millersburg, former deputy with the Bourbon County Sherriff's Department and member of the Fraternal Order of Police.
Survivors include his wife, Kimberly Jefferson Fryman and son, Jason Wayne Fryman, Stepson, Alex Clark and Stepdaughter, Regina Barker. Also surviving are his grandchildren, Jason Fryman, Baylee Fryman, Larry Fryman; sisters, Donna Fryman (Van) Stone, Lisa Fryman Morris; and step grandchildren, Larae Williamson, Andrea Willoughby and Mariah Barker.
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Ali von Paris is a Daily Record VIP!
Ali von Paris, founder of Route One Apparel and PR client of Devaney & Associates, was honored last night by the Daily Record at their 2017 VIP List event. Here's what the Daily Record had to say about Ali:
"The closing of a business in College Park led to the opening of a business career for Ali von Paris.
Seven years ago, the then-University of Maryland business student lost her job at the Thirsty Turtle when the sometimes rowdy bar was shut down. Out of work and unsure how she would afford to finish her schooling — or even pay her rent — von Paris designed a T-shirt honoring the Thirsty Turtle and ended up selling more than 600 in a few weeks.
That success inspired her to launch Route One Apparel, a Hunt Valley-based business that makes and sells apparel and merchandise that celebrate Maryland pride. From an initial launch of 1,000 Maryland flag bikinis, Route One Apparel now offers more than 1,500 items, everything from "Girls Love Bad Boh's" T-shirts and bowties featuring the Baltimore Ravens colors, to Maryland flag crab magnets and baby onesies featuring the slogan "Ravens & Bohs & Crabs & O's."
The Maryland-born von Paris, now 27, is a state booster in other ways. Her business has helped raise funds for the Maryland chapter of the Susan G. Komen Foundation and for the families of two fallen Harford County sheriff's deputies, among other local groups.
During the 2015 riots in Baltimore, she released a line of T-shirts with the message, "#BeMore," and donated the proceeds to needy city residents.
"I like to think that my company helps to foster good will within our communities by allowing people to show how much they love being from Maryland or living in Maryland," von Paris said."
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Q: Jquery $(window).load() not working on Chrome, Opera and Safari I would like to explain my situation.
I am writing a website and one of the webpage is using the google map.
The web site is a cms website and it is using ektron
So, I have to use ektron google map coz it provides some features that the customers want.
Ektron is simply using google map and use ajax to combine with its own logic.
I dun know the details but whenever I tried to change the properties of that ektron map, I need to click search or zoom in or zoom out or move the map.
Only after I do that, the properties changed are effected. If not, they don't.
So, I think of the shortcut and programatically cick the search button of ektron map.
Then again, I am adding the control programatically to a panel.
I can't write document.ready coz I found out that works before the map is loaded.
So, I wrote this code to make the map works.
<script type="text/javascript">
    $(window).load(function () {
        $("#__GetAddr").click();
    });
</script>

It works. __GetAddr is the search button ID and I click it after everything loads.
But the problem started when I use it with chrome.
I found out that $(window).load() is not working in chrome, safari and opera.
I googled it for a while but can't find any solid answer.
Is there any clear alternative way for that to work in those 3 browsers while it still works for IE7,8,9 and Firefox.
Thanks a lot.
Hi all, I have a solution.
I dun think it's the best solution. but it works.
<script type="text/javascript">
    if (navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer") {
        $(window).load(function () { $("#__GetAddr").click(); });
    }
    else {
        window.addEventListener('load', function () { $("#__GetAddr").click();                  }, false);
    }
</script>

I would appreciate to have a better one. :P

A: <script type="text/javascript">
    if (navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer") {
        $(window).load(function () { $("#__GetAddr").click(); });
    } else {
        window.addEventListener('load', function () { $("#__GetAddr").click();                  }, false);
    }
</script>

A: Did you even try document ready for it?
$(document).ready(function() {
    $("#__GetAddr").click();
});

A: It's not nice, but you could use a timeout if you detect that the browser is not Chrome. However I would really try to get some notification from the map itself, once it is loaded.

A: You're using jQuery version 3.1.0 and the load event is deprecated for use since jQuery version 1.8. The load event is removed from jQuery 3.0. Instead, you can use on method and bind the JavaScript load event:
$(window).on('load', function () {
      $("#__GetAddr").click();
 });

A: You could try what Google recommends in their Maps API documentation -- putting an onload event in the body tag. This should work for every browser:
<body onload="ready()">

Then, declare the ready() function below in a script tag:
<script type="text/javascript">
function ready() {
  $("#__GetAddr").click();
}
</script>

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There are two types of repairs when it comes to automobiles, those that are mostly cosmetic and don't affect how well the vehicle drives, and those that are structural or mechanical and must be dealt with immediately. Here at Heritage FIAT Owings Mills, we see a lot of the latter type of repair in our service department since people rely on their FIAT 500 models actually being able to operate, but we'd like to stress that it's also important not to put off those cosmetic repairs, either. Sometimes a mole hill can make its way to mountain incredibly quickly.
Cosmetic damage is inconvenient, obviously, but door dings, minor scratches, aging wheels and spiderweb cracks in the windshield don't keep a car from operating on a day-to-day basis. For this reason, a lot of drivers in and around Owings Mills, MD tend to ignore these repairs as a means of avoiding spending money on them for as long as possible.
Of course, these sorts of damages make your vehicle look rather tacky, to say nothing of how those problems can compound if not addressed. A scratch, for example, can expose your vehicle to rust if ignored for too long, while a spiderweb crack can very quickly go from a tiny spot in the corner of your windshield to a lightning bolt crack that stretches the expanse of the entire pane of glass.
Baltimore FIAT drivers should not hesitate to use the Heritage FIAT Owings Mills service department for anything, including these minor cosmetic repairs. If you care about maintaining the integrity of your vehicle and keeping it looking as good as the day you bought it, this sort of maintenance is just as important as an oil change or tire rotation.


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indian government's stance on cryptocurrencies
RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das says Crypto a "Serious Concern"
At the Business Standard's BFSI summit the RBI governor expressed "serious concern" over cryptocurrencies and their threats to India's Macroeconomy and financial stability. This has been a long-held stance by the Reserve Bank of India and Mr. Das's views were just repeating RBI's concerns. He also questioned the levels of crypto adoption in India. He was quoted saying, "The number of investors I have is that I'm not so sure about the numbers which are being quoted."
From 2013 onwards the RBI has held a stance against crypto and had a negative view on them. The RBI went as far as issuing a circular discouraging the use of cryptocurrencies and banning banks from providing any related services in 2018. Even though this was overturned by the apex court in March 2020, RBI still has very tight rules and regulations on cryptocurrencies.
There are many reasons why the RBI and crypto skeptics have expressed distrust of virtual currency.One of the major reasons is cryptocurrencies history with security breaches. For example the hundreds of thousands of bitcoin stolen from Mt Gox causing it to close it's shutters.
Another major reason is the cryptocurrencies extreme volatility. They are subjected to a range of factors like geopolitical developments,spikes in adoption of cryptocurrencies and regulation changes.
Finally the RBI fears crypto's anonymity, as the identities of traders are concealed which poses a serious threat to financial institutions monitoring money flow and laundering.
Banning of Cryptocurrencies Unlikely as MPs, Industry Experts and Associations informed Parliament Express Strong Views in Parliament
In the first ever meeting on cryptocurrencies by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance on Monday, Members of Parliament, Industry experts and associations informed the committee that crypto can't be banned and the next step should be to find ways to regulate them.
The panel led by Jayant Sinha discussed the current state of crypto in India. As of now there is a cloud of uncertainty over crypto in India but the panel meeting in Parliament has given the general public an idea where things are headed on this matter.
It has been made clear that cryptocurrencies will be regulated, however it is still a question of how it will be regulated. The panel discussed who will regulate cryptocurrencies. The experts felt that the body that regulates crypto should be appointed by the government and ideas of RBI regulating crypto was also suggested.
A bill on cryptocurrencies also doesn't seem far away as in the meeting, it has been discussed that the Government is looking to introduce a new crypto bill in the first week of the winter session of Parliament. The government had previously had planned to introduce a crypto bill during the union budget but has since scrapped it as a new bill was being drawn up (for the first week of winter session as mentioned earlier). This bill will focus on providing greater protection to investors.
The panel also discussed the matter of advertisement. Cryptocurrencies have been promoted as a way to make quick money by exchange platforms and the Parliament believed that these parliaments lacked transparency and were over promising.
Finally, the Reserve Bank of India is still not convinced over the matter of Cryptocurrencies, expressing skepticism towards the numbers presented by exchange platforms and continues to voice it's opinion on cryptocurrencies' threat to India's macroeconomy.
Prime Minister Warns Nation's Youth to Be Cautious with Cryptos
Prime Minister Narendra Modion Thursday, November 19th, expressed strong concerns and warnings against the use of cryptocurrencies, at the Sydney Dialogue, a forum hosted by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. This comes as the central government intends to regulate and restrict the liberty of cryptocurrencies in India.
At the forum, the PM stated, when asked about cryptocurrencies, "It is important that all democratic nations work together on this and ensure it does not end up in the wrong hands, which can spoil our youths."
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Man Busted with Meth and Weed Tells Cops to "Suck It"
Martin J. Hulst has strong feelings about the police. He also knows how to use his legal rights to good effect.
Two police officers chased Hulst, 29, through the streets of Fargo, N.D., in late January after trying to stop him for a drug violation. When they caught up to him, Hulst has just two words for them: "Suck it."
Unfortunately, this colorful soul now faces 20 years in prison over some weed and meth. Hulst was arrested and charged with two counts of paraphernalia possession, one count of marijuana possession, and one count of refusal to halt.
Up to 20 years in jail
He was also charged with possession of methamphetamine with intent to deliver. Since it was at least the third time he was charged with meth distribution, he could be sentenced to as many as 20 years.
Hulst had multiple previous convictions, both misdemeanors and felonies, for drug possession and fleeing police.
Cops caught him as he was running from them near downtown Fargo. Shortly after midnight Jan. 29, the officers tried to pull Hulst over.
He initially refused to stop his car, then stopped and fled on foot. The officers left their car and gave chase. They caught Hulst when he slipped on ice.
Two other suspects got away
There were two other suspects who fled the scene, police said, including a man and a woman. Police didn't say whether they had identified the two.
When they searched Hulst, cops found more than 17 grams of weed (between half an ounce and five eighths) in his jacket pocket. They found more than 18 grams of a white crystalline substance in his minivan, along with two pipes, a scale, and $858 in cash.
Hulst was booked into the Cass County Jail on bail.
Now, we're the last people to promote the making, sale, or use of meth. Few drugs can do as much damage to users; you could lose your teeth, your clear skin, your job, your house, and your family – not to mention every ounce of respect you ever earned.
Incarcerating small-time dealers is ineffective
But throwing small-time dealers into jail serves no purpose. People like Hulst would probably benefit more from court-ordered treatment than incarceration. More importantly, he wasn't armed and didn't hurt anyone directly.
Naturally the first priority is cannabis reform. Possession of small amounts of weed and paraphernalia shouldn't lead to arrest or a criminal record.
But it's important to remember that we're still incarcerating huge numbers of low-level dealers and cultivators over a drug that is now legal in four states and has never killed anyone.
All that said, you have to give Hulst some credit for his witty retort. If you're going to go down, you might as well go down in style.
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Cowboys Finalize Trade For DT Eli Ankou
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FRISCO, Texas – It might not be splashy, but the Cowboys confirmed one more bit of roster shuffling ahead of Tuesday's trade deadline.
Speaking to 105.3 FM The Fan on Monday morning, Cowboys chief operating officer Stephen Jones confirmed a minor deal to improve the depth along the defensive line.
"We're bringing in a defensive tackle from Houston to shore up the defensive line right there," Jones said.
Jones is referring to a deal that was first publicized on Friday, but wasn't official until now. The Cowboys acquired veteran defensive tackle Eli Ankou from the Texans, though the deal was pending a COVID-19 test. The team has not disclosed the terms of the deal, but reports indicate that they sent a seventh-round pick to Houston as compensation.
This decision clearly seems to be about firming a weak spot, especially after the Cowboys' decision to release Dontari Poe last week.
Ankou has been in the league since 2017, spending time with Jacksonville, Cleveland and Indianapolis in addition to Houston. He spent training camp with Cleveland this season and was waived prior to the start of the regular season. Since then, he spent a month with the Colts before being claimed off waivers by the Texans.
All told, Ankou has appeared in 20 NFL games for three different clubs, registering 26 tackles and three sacks.
Plenty have questioned why the Cowboys would trade a draft pick for a player who has been subject to waivers twice this season. For a team that is startlingly thin at defensive tackle, though, a seventh-round pick might have been a worthwhile price to avoid paying for Ankou's services.
As far as any bigger moves, Jones didn't rule it out completely. But with the trade deadline just one day away, he seemed to suggest that the Cowboys are more interested in seeing how the young players on their roster can develop.
"I think we're basically in a mode that if something came to us that made a lot of sense, then we'd certainly look at it," Jones said. "I don't know that we're aggressively out here right now either trying to get somebody or move somebody. What we want to do right now is play some of these young guys that we have, give them the reps that they need, see what we have as we move through the season here."
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As a school we aim to support all our students in ways that are engaging and effective. One project we run for some of our Year 8 students is the 'Motivation Group'. This programme is designed to develop students resilience, teamwork and co-operation, skills which they can then transfer into both classroom and life situations.
Each student in the group has a Year 12 buddy mentor who they meet regularly to discuss any issues and concerns they may have and in turn will benefit from the mentor's support and perspective. Then, every half herm, they come together as a group for sessions run by inspirational outside speakers. These have included Ian Rose (Paralympic Judo Athlete) who launched the group in October, Anthony Clark (world class badminton player) and Mike Mullen who gave a motivational talk and ran practical BMX sessions. The group also went to Tallington Lakes at Easter, in icy conditions, to take part in wall climbing and raft building. Now, this may all sound like a whole lot of fun, and it is, but it also gives students a chance to learn skills and gain experiences which will last a lifetime.
The culmination of the project is a 3 day camping trip to Birchover in Derbyshire. This year the group were also joined by a group of Year 9s who were keen to build upon the skills they developed last year as part of the Motivation Group. They proved themselves to be excellent leaders – encouraging the younger students to push themselves further and supporting them with the activities.
The Derbyshire weather was sunny but cold with the occasional vicious hailstorm but none of that stopped the students. It is a great credit to them that they took part in all the activities that were put before them. The groups worked together to climb rocks, scramble gorges, paddle kayaks and descend into caves.
Staff and students had a great time and having seen how brilliantly last year's students have come on, we have high hopes for this years group. Thank you to Mr McCauley, Mr Smith, Miss Marshall, Mr Hammad, Miss Orrock, Mr Slack and Mr Sleightholm for making sure the trip ran smoothly.


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Espanola cop accused of kissing underage girl - real story is who let him use the police exit?
Police Officer Orlando Cordova
From KOB-TV.com - By: Chris Ramirez, KOB Eyewitness News 4; KOB.com Staff - An Espanola Police Department officer assigned to Espanola Valley High School as a resource officer is accused of kissing an underage student. On Friday, Orlando Cordova was at the Santa Fe District Courthouse to face a judge about the allegations. The judge upheld a protective order that forces Cordova to stay away from the girl. KOB Eyewitness News attempted to get reaction from Cordova as he left the courthouse. But, it appeared he was allowed special access for a quick exit through a door provided law enforcement. This happened despite a judge order for Cordova to turn in his badge. Santa Fe County Sheriff Robert Garcia said Cordova should never have been allowed through the exit. "That whole area is a secure area and that door is monitored and controlled by deputies at the front," he said. "The deputy who let him out had no business doing what he did. Again, I have concerns. No one should be coming in or out of that secure area unless they are bringing in inmates." Inmates are held in cells right next to the door. Garcia noticed an unauthorized female officer from a different jurisdiction pushing buttons on the door to let Cordova out. "I can guarantee you, this will not happen again. I can honestly tell you people have questions to answer and we'll get to the bottom of it," he said. Read more
Assessor's association with state senator under FBI scrutiny
Assessor Karen Montoya
From NMPolitics.net - By Heath Haussamen - The FBI is apparently asking questions "about Bernalillo County Assessor Karen Montoya and her association with state Sen. Tim Eichenberg, a consultant whose work includes helping people protest tax assessments set by Montoya's office," the Albuquerque Journal is reporting. From the newspaper: "Montoya herself said an FBI agent visited her office this week hoping to talk to her, but she was unavailable. The agent left his card, with a request for Montoya to call him after Tuesday's primary election, in which Montoya is a candidate for the Public Regulation Commission." Montoya was quoted by the Journal as saying there is "nothing that could be investigated" because she's done nothing wrong. Eichenberg was quoted as saying he doesn't get preferential treatment from Montoya's office and hadn't heard from the FBI. Eichenberg is up for re-election this year but has no contested primary on Tuesday. Montoya is in a hotly contested three-way primary race for the District 1 PRC seat. Read more
There are websites dedicated to how bad some Wal-Mart Shoppers look. Most on those websites are not pretty. But a friend emailed me this Wal-Mart shopper. Pretty dang good!
From MSN.com - Georgia's lottery players are the biggest suckers in the nation, according to Bloomberg Rankings, buying nearly $5 billion of the $50 billion a year in tickets for U.S. state-run games that have the worst odds of any form of legal gambling. Players in Georgia, whose per capita income is about 10% below the U.S. average, are doing the most damage to their personal finances. According to the Sucker Index created by Bloomberg Rankings, Georgia residents spent the second-highest chunk of their income on the lottery, which funds college scholarships and prekindergarten. Local governments use lotteries to help pay for education, environmental protection and other programs. In the past fiscal year, sales rose for 26 of the 43 states that have games, helping to close budget gaps caused by declines in tax revenue and federal aid. The pot comes disproportionately from lower-income residents, according to a Journal of Behavioral Decision Making study. Read more
Austin Trout
Las Cruces native son, Austin "No Doubt" Trout gave veteran Delvin Rodriguez a boxing lesson in Carson, California last night. In doing so Trout won a unanimous decision. After twelve rounds he improved his unblemished record to 25-0 while retaining his WBA Junior Middleweight title. Immediately after the fight Trout called on upstart Saul "Canelo" Alvarez the undefeated redhead from Mexico to agree to a fight that would pit the two unbeaten champions against one another.
When questioned by Showtime interviewers through an interpreter after Trout issued the challenge, Alvarez was cautious while not ruling out the possibility of a showdown. Alvarez was scheduled to fight middleweight Paul Williams in September. Tragcally, Williams was paralyzed from the waist down in a recent motorcycle accident.
Louie Burke
Austin Trout already has scored a victory over an Alvarez. He defeated Saul's older brother Rigoberto, last year.
Trained by fellow native Las Crucen Louie Burke, Trout is a Mayfield High School graduate. The champion chooses to live and train in his native New Mexico between fights. Before turning pro, Trout was an accomplished amateur. With fast hands and exceptional defensive skills he presents major problems for any opponent. Trout is hard to hit and a very effective ring tactician. He is not the sort of opponent that most boxer's "handlers" want to meet.Whether Alvarez chooses to accept the Trout challenge remains an open question. If he accepts the challenge the fight figures to be the biggest payday of Trout's career.
Heavy Polar Ice Delays Arctic Drilling, Obama Blocks Extension of Drilling
NewsNM note (Spence) - This week the U.S. employment numbers revealed a grim jobs picture. This story below is several days old. It is unlikely to ever be reported anywhere except on Fox News because it simply does not serve the climate change/global warming narrative of the majority of media outlets. Plus, news "producers" at NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, and CNN realize this news item would help voters understand the White House is actively blocking the extension of high paying jobs and also thwarting domestic oil production on federal land. New Mexicans should recognize the president has the support of Jeff Bingaman, Tom Udall, Martin Heinrich, and Ben Ray Lujan on these policies.
PHY-ORG - The heaviest polar ice in more than a decade could postpone the start of offshore oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean until the beginning of August, a delay of up to two weeks, Shell Alaska officials said. Unveiling a newly refurbished ice-class rig that is poised to begin drilling two exploratory wells this summer in the Beaufort Sea, Shell executives said Friday that the unusually robust sea ice would further narrow what already is a tight window for operations. The company's $4-billion program is designed to measure the extent of what could be the United States' most important new inventory of oil and gas. Shell has pledged to end its first season of exploratory drilling by Oct. 31 in the Beaufort Sea and 38 days earlier in the more remote Chukchi Sea to remain within the relatively ice-free summer season.
Meeting with reporters and Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, on board the Kulluk drilling rig in the Seattle shipyards, Shell's vice president for Alaska operations, Pete Slaiby, said the company had given up on its controversial attempt to win permission from the federal government to extend Chukchi drilling through October as well. Read full story here: News New Mexico


The Skills Gap Awards aim to help engineering high-fliers find 'safe havens' in academia. Ellie Zolfagharifard reports.
Top-level engineers and scientists who lose their jobs in the economic downturn could be offered work in academic research by a new government-backed scheme.
Research Councils UK (RCUK) has launched its Skills Gap Awards to recruit highly qualified people into research and technology-transfer posts throughout the country.
With support from government and businesses, RCUK will provide funding of up to £5m over six months to help ensure the UK remains a global research leader.
Universities and research councils have traditionally harboured some of the brightest talent in the country and in the current economic climate they could provide a safe haven for skilled individuals with a background in industry, said Skills Gap's organisers.
The main objective of the project is to ensure that appointments are made rapidly. Decisions are expected to be made within four weeks with interim project funds to be awarded through the Medical Research Council (MRC). The MRC funds will provide initial project support and facilities while appointees seek grant funding from industry partners.
As part of its strategic skills drive, the Biological Science Research Council is backing the initiative and will advance funding for a further 20 four-year studentships in the areas of ageing research, bioprocessing, bioenergy and environmental change. Also, the Economic and Social Research Council will provide 30 studentships.
Confusion surrounded the role, if any, of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), however. Although a statement from the Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) said the EPSRC would be involved in Skills Gap, the organisation itself could not confirm its participation or what form it would take.
More permanent efforts to encourage a two-way movement between individuals working in the private sector and those in the academic sector will begin next year through proposed people-exchange programmes, said the DIUS.
Lord Drayson, science and innovation minister, said future university-business collaboration would be vital in ensuring the UK's position as a leading knowledge economy.
'Many businesses and industries in the UK employ first-rate scientists,' he said. 'In the current economic downturn, some highly qualified people may face uncertain futures so we need to give them all the opportunities we can to stay working in our research base or in wider science-based roles. These initiatives are an important part of that effort.


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Q: ast_sockaddr_resolve: getaddrinfo(): Name or service not known I have got this error:
ast_sockaddr_resolve:
Getaddrinfo("df7jal23ls0d.invalid", "(null)", ...): Name or service not known

In Asterisk PBX.
All registration process with asterisk is successfully done. After that when I hit the call button of my application it shows the above error.
Here are my logs:
  -- Executing [7008@default:1] Dial("SIP/7005-00000006", "SIP/7008,,H") in new stack
  == Using SIP RTP CoS mark 5
[Feb  6 19:43:51] ERROR[5802][C-00000005]: netsock2.c:305 ast_sockaddr_resolve: getaddrinfo("df7jal23ls0d.invalid", "(null)", ...): Name or service not known
[Feb  6 19:43:51] WARNING[5802][C-00000005]: chan_sip.c:16609 __set_address_from _contact: Invalid host name in Contact: (can't resolve in DNS) : 'df7jal23ls0d.invalid'
    -- Called SIP/7008
    -- SIP/7008-00000007 is ringing
    -- Got SIP response 603 "Failed to get local SDP" back from 192.168.0.26:566     17
    -- SIP/7008-00000007 is busy
  == Everyone is busy/congested at this time (1:1/0/0)
    -- Auto fallthrough, channel 'SIP/7005-00000006' status is 'BUSY'
[Feb  6 19:43:54] WARNING[5800][C-00000005]: chan_sip.c:24848 handle_response: R     emote host can't match request ACK to call '07791e5d190b43915aca104937588c4e@192     .168.0.17:5060'. Giving up.
suhani-pbx*CLI>  netsock2.c:305 ast_sockaddr_resolve:      getaddrinfo("df7jal23ls0d.invalid", "(null)", ...): Name or service not known
No such command ' netsock2.c:305 ast_sockaddr_resolve:      getaddrinfo("df7jal23ls0d.invalid", "(null)", ...): Name or service not known' (type 'core show help netsock2.c:305 ast_sockaddr_resolve:' for other possible commands)

[root@suhani-pbx ~]#  netsock2.c:305 ast_sockaddr_resolve:      getaddrinfo("df7jal23ls0d.invalid", "(null)", ...): Name or service not known
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
[root@suhani-pbx ~]#  netsock2.c:305 ast_sockaddr_resolve:      getaddrinfo("df7jal23ls0d.invalid", "(null)", ...): Name or service not known
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
[root@suhani-pbx ~]#  netsock2.c:305 ast_sockaddr_resolve:      getaddrinfo("df7jal23ls0d.invalid", "(null)", ...): Name or service not known
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('

A: That mean you incorrectly setuped your server.
Server should have correct resolvable dns name OR have be record in /etc/hosts pointing your name to ip.

A: The problem is caused by the end user sending a malformed sip packet.


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Chris Hadfield Back Home: 20 Of His Amazing Photos Of Our World
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BAIKONUR - Canadian star astronaut Chris Hadfield landed safely back on earth early on Tuesday morning after a six-month expedition on the International Space Station (ISS) that brought the space age into the Internet era with unmatched aplomb.
He arrived at the Kazakh space base in a Russian Soyuz-TMA capsule with his NASA and RosCosmos counterparts, who he had been on board with since December 19 2012. Emerging from the capsule, the man who became an internet phenomenon and made space cool again gave a thumbs up, writes the Toronto Star daily.
Hadfield's return marks the end of an era for the Canadian space program: it will now be at least three years before another Canadian visits the ISS, reports the Canadian Press. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said of the space star: "The tireless and unique efforts by Mr. Hadfield to educate Canada and the world about the final frontier ... are nothing short of inspirational and have helped rekindle the dreams and excitement of becoming an astronaut."
He has posted videos, photos, and tweeted, but much of what Commander Hadfield did in space didn't make headlines -- he worked on more than 130 experiments. From examining changes to bone density in zero gravity, and how magnetic particles can dampen vibrations, to nutrition, Hadfield is helping us understand space better, says CNET News.
Narrowing down the amazing photos to just 20 is no easy feat, but we gave it a go! Here are 20 of Chris "the coolest guy in space" Hadfield's incredible photos.
All photos taken from Chris Hadfield's Facebook Page
The Indian authorities' decision to hide factual reports on the land subsidence in Joshimath only furthers a sense of paranoia.
Cracked road in Joshimath
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Rohan Banerjee*
MUMBAI — Midway through the movie Don't Look Up (2021), the outspoken PhD candidate Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) is bundled into a car, a bag over her head. The White House, we are told, wants her "off the grid". She is taken to a warehouse – the sort of place where CIA and FBI agents seem to spend an inordinate amount of time in Hollywood movies – and charged with violating national security secrets.
The Hobson's choice offered to her is to either face prosecution or suspend "all public media appearances and incendiary language relating to Comet Dibiasky", an interstellar object on a collision course with earth. Exasperated, she acquiesces to the gag order.
Don't Look Upis a satirical take on the collective apathy towards climate change; only, the slow burn of fossil fuel is replaced by the more imminent threat of a comet crashing into our planet. As a couple of scientists try to warn humanity about its potential extinction, they discover a media, an administration, and indeed, a society that is not just unwilling to face the truth but would even deny it.
This premise and the caricatured characters border on the farcical, with plot devices designed to produce absurd scenarios that would be inconceivable in the real world we inhabit. After all, would any government dealing with a natural disaster, issue an edict prohibiting researchers and scientists from talking about the event? Surely not. Right?
On January 11, the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), one of the centers of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), issued a preliminary report on the land subsidence issue occurring in Joshimath, the mountainside city in the Himalayas.
The word 'subsidence' entered the public lexicon at the turn of the year as disturbing images of cracked roads and tilted buildings began to emanate from Joshimath.
Soon the news headlines were dominated by accounts of buildings being demolished and families being evacuated to relief centres in the peak of winter, as the ground began sinking – quite literally – below the feet of the alarmed residents of this hill town.
A rapid subsidence event
Predictably, there has been considerable debate surrounding the cause of the subsidence. While expert agencies are continuing to investigate the factors that could have triggered this crisis, media reports have cited unplanned construction and over-population as potential reasons.
In particular, Joshimath residents have sought to blame the tunnelling done by an NTPC Ltd. project (the Tapovan Vishnugad Hydro Power Project) in the area – a claim vehemently denied by NTPC. Whatever the cause, what is not in debate is the fact of land subsidence occurring in Joshimath. It was this very fact that was highlighted by the preliminary report issued by the NRSC on January 11.
According to Indian media articles, the NRSC report suggested that Joshimath underwent slow subsidence (land sinking of around 9 cm) between April to November 2022 but there was a "rapid subsidence event" (land sinking of close to 5 cm) over a span of 12 days in December 2022–January 2023. Now, if you are of the assiduous sort and feel compelled to read the NRSC report yourself, there is some bad news. The report is no longer available on the NRSC website.
The disappearance of report have (rightly) attracted a lot of criticism.
Media outlets have quoted an Uttarakhand cabinet minister as saying that the report had created panic in Joshimath and that he had spoken to the director, ISRO-NRSC and asked if the report was their "official take". The director had informed him that the report would be updated; instead, it was removed. Presumably, the preliminary report based on satellite images prepared by an agency which (according to its website) has the mandate to generate and provide information for disaster mitigation, relief and management, does not qualify as an "official take."
While this intriguing case of the disappearing NRSC report was playing out, India's National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) issued an Office Memorandum on January 13 directing as many as a dozen technical/research bodies to stop interacting with the media or sharing data on social media regarding the ground subsidence in Joshimath. The rationale cited for this instruction was that such activities by experts/scientists were creating confusion among the people.
\u201cGovt Institutions are told not to share Joshimath data with the media. @moliticsindia cartoon. #Joshimathcrisis\u201d
— Satish Acharya (@Satish Acharya) 1673872838
Streisand effect in the East
There can be no doubt that tackling panic and confusion, especially when perpetuated by misinformation, is a crucial part of disaster management efforts. But using that as grounds to issue gag orders is problematic for a number of reasons.
Firstly, if the COVID-19 experience taught us anything it was that the absence of facts and information about a crisis is what most fuels panic amongst the public. Given free rein, the human mind is adept at running wild and imagining dreadful scenarios, which can sometimes be far-removed and far worse than reality. Therefore, hard, scientific facts, when available, are eminently preferable to the anxious speculations of a harried people.
A regrettable tendency to stifle and conceal.
Second, as many regimes over many decades have discovered, banning something is the surest way of putting it in the limelight – the notorious Streisand effect. The disappearance of the NRSC report and the NDMA directive have (rightly) attracted a lot of criticism and, ironically, triggered deeper concerns about the extent and prevalence of land subsidence. This has all ended up being an avoidable and unnecessary distraction from the on-ground relief and rehabilitation work being undertaken in Joshimath.
And thirdly, in times of adversity, trust and transparency should form the guiding principles for engagement between the authorities and the public. Instead, causing scientific papers to be pulled from the public domain and restraining experts from expressing their views only serves to add to the sense of foreboding and paranoia. Such actions speak to the regrettable tendency to stifle and conceal, rather than focusing on the need to inform and educate.
As per latest reports, multiple technical teams have been asked to submit their reports on the disaster-affected areas of Joshimath, in the coming days. One hopes the findings and observations of these reports will find their way into the public domain and generate healthy discourse on solutions and mitigation measures that can aid the impacted regions. At a time when the ground beneath their feet appears to be shifting, the availability of credible facts and information is all the more necessary to fortify the people of Joshimath.
*Rohan Banerjee is a lawyer in Mumbai.
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Caroline Lang was born in 1839.1 She was the daughter of Arthur Lang and Sarah Tickell.1 She died in 1839.1
[S5083] Julian Lang, "re: Lang Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger LUNDY (101053), 12 January 2011. Hereinafter cited as "re: Lang Family."
Lt.-Col. Monty Lang1
Lt.-Col. Monty Lang was born in 1842.1 He was the son of Arthur Lang and Sarah Tickell.1 He died in 1919.1
He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Bengal Cavalry.1
James Lang1
James Lang was born in 1843.1 He was the son of Arthur Lang and Sarah Tickell.1 He died in 1923.1
Louisa Lang1
Louisa Lang was born in 1845.1 She was the daughter of Arthur Lang and Sarah Tickell.1 She died in 1906.1
Edward Lang1
Edward Lang was born in 1849.1 He was the son of Arthur Lang and Sarah Tickell.1 He died in 1880.1
Ellen Lang1
Ellen Lang was born in 1853.1 She was the daughter of Arthur Lang and Sarah Tickell.1 She died in 1929.1
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Estelle Ruby Alderson was born on 17 July 1908 at Alexandria, EgyptG.1 She married Colonel Eustace Vaughan Lang, son of Colonel Eustace Arthur Lang and Amy Kathleen Dobbs, on 17 September 1931 at Burwash, Sussex, EnglandG.1 She died on 20 December 2002 at age 94 at Colchester, Essex, EnglandG.1
From 17 September 1931, her married name became Lang.1
Children of Estelle Ruby Alderson and Colonel Eustace Vaughan Lang
David Lang1 b. 30 Jun 1936, d. 25 Apr 1975
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Julian Charles Vaughan Lang was born on 26 April 1940 at Southborough, Kent, EnglandG.1 He is the son of Colonel Eustace Vaughan Lang and Estelle Ruby Alderson.1 He married Penelope Susan Boyle, daughter of Marshal RAF Sir Dermot Boyle and Una Carey, on 20 March 1971 at Boldre, Hampshire, EnglandG.1
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Penelope Susan Boyle was born on 25 September 1946.1 She is the daughter of Marshal RAF Sir Dermot Boyle and Una Carey.1,2 She married Julian Charles Vaughan Lang, son of Colonel Eustace Vaughan Lang and Estelle Ruby Alderson, on 20 March 1971 at Boldre, Hampshire, EnglandG.1
From 20 March 1971, her married name became Lang.1
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Marshal RAF Sir Dermot Boyle was born on 2 October 1904.2 He married Una Carey in 1931.2 He died on 5 May 1993 at age 88.2
He was educated at St. Columba's College, Dublin, County Dublin, IrelandG.2 He was awarded the Air Force Cross (A.F.C.) on 8 June 1939.2 He was appointed Commander, Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.) on 1 January 1945.2 He was appointed Companion, Order of the Bath (C.B.) on 1 January 1946.2 He was awarded the Croix de Guerre on 11 June 1947 Belgian.2 He was appointed Knight Commander, Order of the British Empire (K.B.E.) on 1 January 1953.2 He was appointed Knight Commander, Royal Victorian Order (K.C.V.O.) on 16 July 1953.2 He was Chief of the Air Staff between 1956 and 1959.2 He was appointed Knight Commander, Order of the Bath (K.C.B.) on 1 January 1957.2 He gained the rank of Marshal of the Royal Air Force.1
Children of Marshal RAF Sir Dermot Boyle and Una Carey
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European sales 2014 January – September Premium midsized and compact SUV segment
Sales of premium midsized SUVs are up 6% or more than 12.000 units on the first three quarters of 2013, thanks to the introduction of two all-new models from Porsche and BMW.
The Audi Q5 holds on to the first place it claimed in the second quarter, but the recently refreshed Volvo XC60 continues to stay close, even outselling its German rival in September. I don't think the XC60 will be able to pull a rabbit out of its had and finish in the segment's first place for the first time ever, but reclaiming the second place it already held in 2009 and 2010 would be almost just as impressive considering the increased competition since.
The Range Rover Evoque led the segment in the first quarter of the year, but has fallen behind since, being outsold by the recently updated BMW X3 in the second and third quarter, although it remains firmly in third place. 2014 is going to be the third year in a row where the Evoque finishes on the third step of the podium of the premium compact SUV segment.
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European sales 2014 first half Premium midsized and compact SUV segment
August 16, 2014 by Bart Demandt Leave a Comment
Premium midsized SUV's were just as popular in the first half of this year as they were in the same period last year. However, that doesn't mean the ranking is stable as well. While the BMW X3 had the segment crown in 2012 and 2013, the Range Rover Evoque was the number one seller in the first quarter of 2014, leaving the X3 down in fourth position. But in the second quarter, the Audi Q5 was the best seller, while the Evoque was pushed down into fourth spot, behind the X3 again. Surprisingly, the X3 was back on top of the segment again in June, for the first time since September 2013.
The only consistent seller this year is the Volvo XC60, up a cool 34% on last year and second place in both the first and second quarter of the year. It is less than 650 sales behind the year-to-date leader Q5, giving the already six year old model, although recently updated, a shot at the segment crown by the end of the year. [Read more…]
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European sales 2014-Q1 Premium midsized and compact SUV segment
May 13, 2014 by Bart Demandt Leave a Comment
Sales of premium midsized SUVs in Europe have continued their steady decline in the first three months of 2014, down another 6% after sales already declined 3% over the full year 2013. Major changes in the ranking, as the top 4 is completely shuffled.
The Range Rover Evoque has surprisingly moved up from third place in 2013 to take the segment lead in the first quarter of 2014, despite completely flat sales, down just 3 units on the same period last year.
A 40% increase in sales thanks to a model update has helped the Volvo XC60 propel itself from a distant fourth place straight into the number two spot, less than 300 units from the pole position.
As a result, the Audi Q5 is pushed down one spot, as the model suffers from a 9% decline in sales. But that is not as bad the BMW X3, the instigator of the segment and the leader of the segment in 2012 by a large margin and also in 2013, is down 19% and has fallen to fourth position. [Read more…]
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European sales 2013 Premium midsized and compact SUV segment
February 4, 2014 by Bart Demandt Leave a Comment
The premium midsized SUV segment in Europe as a whole is relatively stable: down 3%, which is slightly more than the downward trend of the total market. No changes in the lead (yet), but the top three have moved closer towards each other, as the BMW X3 is down 15%. It will be facelifted this year in order to stabilize the decline in sales. Because of the X3's downfall, the Audi Q5 and Range Rover Evoque have the segment leadership within arm's reach. Both sell slightly more in 2013 compared to the year before.
Just off the podium is the Volvo XC60, which has been facelifted halfway through the year, and as a result sales were up every month since July, and full year sales are virtually flat. [Read more…]
European sales Jan-Sep 2013 Premium midsized and compact SUV segment
November 4, 2013 by Bart Demandt Leave a Comment
The premium midsized SUV segment in Europe remains stable in 2013, also in the models ranking.
BMW X3 shows the biggest decline, but remains the leader of the segment, although Audi Q5 is getting close, followed closely by the highly successful Range Rover Evoque. Volvo XC60 loses some ground, but is still way ahead of Mercedes-Benz GLK. Mercedes clearly have made a misjudgment giving it a square, rugged look compared to the sleek, rounded exteriors of X3 and especially Q5, as GLK is selling at half the volume of its German competitors.
The increased interest in Land Rover Freelander must be a result of steep discounts, as the second generation wasn't exactly state-of-the-art at its introduction in 2006. The long overdue new generation won't come until the end of 2014, though. It is heavily dependent on the British market, taking 68% of its European sales in the first three quarters of the year. [Read more…]


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Also named Jinshan Pagoda, it is initially built in Qiliang period of Nan Dynasty and covers a history of more than 1,400 years. The pagoda is with height of 30 meters. In Tang and Song Dynasty, there were double pagodas and it was named "JianCi Pagoda", "Jian Shou Pagoda" in Song Dynasty. In 1472, Sesshu Toyo, the famous Japanese painter, loaded and visited Jinshan and painted the Map of Longyou Temple (nowadays Jinshan Temple) in the Yangtze River Heart in Tang Dynasty, where in the picture there were double pagodas in the opposite directions of South and North. The double pagodas were damaged in fire and one Pagoda was re-built in Ming dynasty and was named Cishou Pagoda. According to Buddhism habit of different countries, when a temple is built then a pagoda should also be built, especially for famous temples and mountains, there must be pagodas. This re-built pagoda was damaged again in Qing Dynasty and in the 20th year of Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty, Yinru, the abbot of Jinshan Temple at that time, made up his mind to re-build the pagoda and he appealed to the imperial court and the Empress Cixi ordered him to build on his own money-collecting. He traveled many places and tried to mendicant one by one and finally he got supporting from Liu Kunyi, the governor of ancient Jiangsu and Anhui, and with five year's efforts, he collected finally silvers of 29,600 liang (unit of weight, one liang is equal to 50g) and built the nowadays pagoda with name of Cishou Pagoda. The pagoda is smart, beautiful, tall and straight and stands on the top of Jinshan Mountain and perfectly matches the Jinshan Temple, it seems even elevate the height of Jinshan Mountain. The pagoda is made of wood with seven floors and eight sides and is equipped with spiral stairs for travelers to look into far distance. Doors are equipped in four sides of each floor and their corridors are connected. Each side has its own scenery and Travelers can walk to the top of the pagoda and once look into the distance he can see that: in the east direction there are Jiaoshan Mountain of the Yangtze River and the dangerous and solid Beigushan Mountain; in the south direction, the whole city scenery appears in eyesight as well as the mountains and peaks in layer after layer; in the west direction, there are glistening pools and powerful Yangtze River streams; and in the north direction, the ancient town Guazhou and the ancient city Yangzhou will make him relaxed and happy.
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Review of Contemporary Left Antisemitism, David Hirsh, Routledge 2017
David Hirsh, besides running the Engage website, which campaigns against the academic boycott of Israel, is a lecturer at Goldsmith's College, University of London; and his book claims to be a work of objective academic scholarship. In the penultimate chapter — entitled "Sociological method and antisemitism" — which is an odd mixture of autobiography and methodology, he writes of undertaking sociological investigations "employing methodological rigour from the traditions of ethnomethodology and discourse analysis". Yet underlying this very thin veneer of scholarly objectivity is a passionate rage which makes the book more readable than many other academic tomes and even gives it a certain entertainment value (hence the two stars on Amazon rather than the one that it really deserves). Contemporary Left Antisemitism is essentially a temper tantrum couched in sociological jargon. Continue reading "Engaged in Anger about Antisemitism"
Author FreeSpeechonIsraelPosted on 26 October 2017 Categories Definitions and accusations of antisemitism, Labour PartyTags antisemitism, BDS, Book review, EUMC definition, Fraser v UCU, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party, ZionismLeave a comment on Engaged in Anger about Antisemitism
A Socialist Approach to Free Speech
Samuel Farmer, reprinted from Jacobin by permission of the author
Following the Obama administration's historic suppression of government whistleblowers, Donald Trump's repeated attacks on the media, and controversies on college campuses nationwide, Timothy Garton Ash's Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World is well-timed.
Garton Ash offers a wide-ranging exposition on the right to self-expression and a coherent defence of free speech from an explicitly liberal point of view. Socialist theory and practice has never satisfactorily established the place of free speech in the struggle for social transformation and in a future socialist society — all the more reason to seriously grapple with the challenge posed by Garton Ash's new book.
Free Speech's Foundations
Garton Ash's analysis of free speech has two primary sources: Isaiah Berlin, who proposed that free expression is founded on empathy with and tolerance for multiple and conflicting values, and John Stuart Mill, whose defence of free speech primarily stressed its beneficial consequences instead of its intrinsic value as a right. Neither of these perspectives constitute a solid foundation for a defense of free speech. Continue reading "A Socialist Approach to Free Speech"
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Book Review – The Left's Jewish Problem: Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and Anti-Semitism
By Mark Elf who blogs at Jews sans frontieres
I suspect the book is timed to cash in on Jeremy Corbyn's rise to the leadership of the UK Labour Party as Corbyn seems something of an afterthought for its author, Dave Rich. Dave is a committed Zionist so no doubt he also wanted to play his part in undermining a left Labour leader who has a high profile in the Palestine solidarity movement.
The book has lots of Zionist staples like the Jewish right to national self-determination. There are lots of stretches of people's meaning and out of context quotes to portray Israel's opponents and even victims as being antisemitic. The holocaust is instrumentalised to justify Israel's existence without the author realising that this undermines the idea of Jews being a standard case for national self-determination which is supposed to accrue to communities with territorial contiguity and raises the idea that, instead, Jews are a special case.
Dave avoids analysis or even definitions of terms. He avoids analysis of what Zionism means to its victims. He avoids saying what it means to or for its Jewish beneficiaries except to say that this ideological choice is an integral part of their identity. He avoids details around implementation of the Zionist project and he mostly avoids the various imperial supports the project has received and without which Israel couldn't exist.
Remarkably for a book supposedly about antisemitism, Dave fails even to define that. He doesn't mention, for example, the so-called EUMC working definition which his employers at the Community Security Trust learned to love. He certainly uses parts of the definition. For example, when Israel is compared to the Nazis, this is offered by Dave as an example of antisemitism. His failure to analyse Zionism or Nazism or refer to the racism essential and common to both enables this given.
Dave's only mention of Israel's founding war on the Arabs is plain wrong. Dave claims "five Arab armies had invaded their new Jewish neighbour". Arab armies have never invaded Israel. The Zionist movement had already ethnically cleansed 300,000 Palestinians by the time Arab armies mobilised against an already expanding Israel.
He fails to consider the Eurocentrism that would allow for the Labour Party to propose in 1944 the "transfer", i.e. the ethnic cleansing, of all of Palestine's Arabs. For Dave, the labour movement was all cloth caps, trade unions and Poale Zion (now calling itself the Jewish Labour Movement, JLM). And somewhere between the old days and the rise of the new left, the youth wing of the Liberal Party, the Young Liberals, decided to call Israel out as a state not significantly different from the apartheid regime of the Republic of South Africa. Without analysing either Zionism or liberalism, Dave doesn't have to consider the glaringly illiberal tenets of the former to see how repugnant they are to the young activists of the latter.
And so to the new left whose ideas and genealogy get mangled by Dave. Where he quotes work, he doesn't seem to understand it. Abram Leon for example, is chastised by Dave, of all people, for mostly ignoring Palestine. But Leon was explaining the Jewish identity, hostility to Jews and the ahistorical nationalism of the Zionist movement. So why mention Leon? Because his book is called The Jewish Question and an idiot called Gerry Downing claims that global affairs are run by what he calls "the Jewish question". If Downing claims inspiration from Leon then, like Dave, he hasn't understood him. Contrary to Dave's claim, we do not have to read Leon to understand Downing. But the spurious linkage is made because Downing was suspended from the Labour Party during Corbyn's time as leader even though he survived Kinnock, Blair, Brown and Miliband. Continue reading "Book Review – The Left's Jewish Problem: Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and Anti-Semitism"
Author FreeSpeechonIsraelPosted on 30 October 2016 19 December 2016 Categories Labour PartyTags Blog, Book review, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour PartyLeave a comment on Book Review – The Left's Jewish Problem: Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and Anti-Semitism
Polemical intervention – or analytical contribution?
Review of The Left's Jewish Problem: Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and Anti-Semitism David Rich, London: Biteback Publishing 2016, £12.99 paperback
This review first appeared in Labour Briefing
The Left's Jewish Problem is an ideological tract and an intervention in the current battle in the Labour Party. It is designed to show "a sickness at the heart of left wing British politics… silently spreading, becoming ever more malignant" (cover blurb). That sickness is the sickness of antisemitism.
Of course there are antisemitic ideas around in Britain and it would be nonsense to assume that the left was immune. But Rich is on a mission to show antisemitism as widespread, systematic, hegemonic on the left.
As Rich is aware, there isn't much Jew-hatred of a traditional kind around on the left, There is, rather, he believes, a different kind of antisemitism, expressed as an anti-Zionism of the left, in which movements and thinkers have come to view Israel and Zionism as "a product of western colonialism rather than a liberation movement against it".
That large sections of "the left" fell out of love with Israel and came to rally around support for Palestinian rights and a Palestinian state is relatively uncontested. But why the change? For Rich, this shift couldn't be a response to events, analysis, or improved understanding. It was, rather, an ideological hijacking by the "New Left".
Rich's New Left, with Corbyn as its embodiment, is a curious construct. "As New Left superseded Old," he writes, "so identity politics replaced class politics as its primary mobilising idea… [This New Left represents] a new social class, rooted in intellectual and cultural professions, populated by public sector workers whose political agenda would come to be dominated by identity and iconoclasm."
So the movement behind Corbyn is somehow viewed as a break with all tradition, rather than a popular, deeply-rooted, left trade-union and social movement, trying to incorporate class and identity issues, in a desire to restore something of older Labour concerns: equality, social ownership, trade-union rights, anti-imperialism and more.
Rich operates with free-floating, unchanging essences. So Zionism is, was and always will be nothing but self-determination/national liberation. Who could possibly criticise that? So by definition describing Israel as a colonial-settler or apartheid society can't have any truth in it. It can only be an emotional attempt to demonise Israel. For Rich, such concepts are products of a New Left mind set: the apartheid analogy was "hardwired into left wing anti-Israel politics in Britain during its formative [anti-apartheid] years in the 1960s and 1970s."
But what if these concepts are gaining ground precisely because they make increasing sense of an emergent reality? Events have played crucial role in shifting ideas on the left in relation to Israel-Palestine – from the 1956 Suez invasion to the televised spectacle of phosphorus bombs falling on Gaza and bodies of children in the rubble.
Whatever Zionism might or might not have been originally, what has it become? Israel's colonisation of the West Bank continues unabated. Green-line Israel's discrimination against its increasingly second-class Palestinian citizens, and their physical displacement in the Negev, rolls on. What Israel is now needs to be judged by what it is doing, not by its ideological self-image. Israel's actions are what are delegitimising it, not any antisemitism of the left.
It is clearly wrong to argue that all claims of antisemitism are simply made in order to silence criticism of Israel. Allegations of antisemitism should be taken seriously and investigated swiftly. But making an allegation is not the same thing as establishing a fact. Rich is entirely oblivious to (or simply ignores) the context in which recent accusations emerged – why, for example, emotionally charged posts and tweets from the 2014 Gaza war should only be dredged up in 2016, under Corbyn's leadership. It does not take much to see the timing as contrived, rather than an innocent desire to unmask antisemitism.
Clearly, insofar as some remarks are antisemitic they need to be confronted. Conspiracy theories, e.g. that Israel founded Isis or that Jews escaped 9/11, should be dismissed out of hand. Individuals who make them should be dealt with appropriately. But appropriately means appropriately. It doesn't mean suspensions without charge, condemnation without a hearing, or leaking stories to the Jewish Chronicle or Daily Telegraph – in short, the weaponisation of antisemitism and the complete absence of due process we have witnessed in recent months. On all this Rich has nothing to say.
If Rich's book encourages us to be more precise in our language, to temper how we express our emotional outrage at the things Israel does with impunity, to be more strategic in how we build support for Palestinian rights, it may (inadvertently!) achieve something useful. But in its own terms, it must be treated as a polemical intervention rather than a serious analytical contribution to our understanding of antisemitism (or the left) today.
Richard Kuper
Richard Kuper is a co-founder and past Chair of Jews for Justice for Palestinians and a member of Holborn & St Pancras Constituency Labour Party
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Effects of the polysaccharides extracted from Ganoderma lucidum on chemotherapy-related fatigue in mice.
The weight-loaded swimming capability, tumor growth, survival time and biochemical markers of Ganoderma lucidum polysaccharides (GLPs) in a chemotherapy-related fatigue mouse model were tested in the present study. The results showed that the middle-dose GLPs(GLP-M) and the high-dose GLPs(GLP-H) could increase the exhausting swimming time, which was observed to decrease in the cisplatin control group(PCG) and the tumor control group(TCG).The GLP-M and the GLP-H had reduced serum levels of tumor necrosis factor-αand interleukin-6, which were up-regulated by cisplatin. Cisplatin and the presence of tumor significantly enhanced the malondialdehyde(MDA) content and inhibited the activity of superoxide dismutase(SOD) in the muscle. Administration of GLPs at a high dose decreased the levels of MDA and up-regulated the SOD activity. The high-dose GLPs+cisplatin group presented a decreased tendency of tumor volume and a lower tumor weight compared with PCG. Moreover, the mice in the GLP-M and GLP-H groups had longer survival times compared with the mice in the TCG and PCG.The levels of creatinine and serumblood urea nitrogen, which are up-regulated by cisplatin, were significantly reduced by GLP-M and GLP-H. Therefore, these results suggest that GLPs might improve chemotherapy-related fatigue via regulation of inflammatory responses, oxidative stress and reduction of nephrotoxicity.


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Grayson, two other Georgia teams ranked in early Super 25 prep football poll
With high school football teams across the country finishing up their spring practices this month, a well-known media publication that provides national rankings during the prep football season has released its "way-too-early" preseason rankings.
The USA Today, which for years has published the popular Super 25 rankings, recently put out its first poll in relation to the upcoming 2018 season, and the national newspaper currently has three Georgia teams in its rankings.
Gwinnett County power Grayson leads the Peach State teams in the poll as it is ranked third in the nation coming out of spring practice.
Also, Archer, another Gwinnett team, is ranked 16th and Marietta is rated 19th.
The newspaper says Grayson has more talent than it did in 2016 when the Rams won the state crown in Georgia's largest classification in their first and only season under former Camden County, Oconee County and Prince Avenue coach Jeff Herron.
The team features several major-college prospects including senior linebacker Owen Pappoe (Auburn committ), senior defensive lineman Tru Thompson (Florida State committ) and senior offensive lineman Wayna Morris (Tennessee committ).
The Rams actually have as many as nine Division 1 prospects on their roster.
Grayson finished 10-2 last year, losing to Archer in the regular season and then eventual state champion North Gwinnett in the second round of the state playoffs.
"Grayson is loaded with high-level talent," said Will Hammock, sports editor for the Gwinnett Daily Post.
"The college recruiters are all over their top college prospects. That talent should translate to a lot of victories and state championship expectations."
The USA Today is also high on Archer and Marietta, coming out of spring.
Archer is coming off a 12-1 season in 2017 when the Tigers lost 12-7 to eventual state runner-up Colquitt County in the state quarterfinals.
Archer returns junior quarterback Carter Peevy who threw for 2,030 yards and 20 touchdowns a year ago.
The Tigers defense also returns lineman Colby Wooden and secondary members Jayln Phillips and Andrew Booth. All three are targets for the Georgia Bulldogs.
"Archer has been one of Gwinnett's most successful programs, too," Hammock said. "The Tigers lost some key players on defense, but they still have some exceptional players and college prospects on that side of the ball."
Marietta might rate as a darkhorse for the state championship in Georgia's Class 7A, but the USA Today says to keep an eye on the Blue Devils largely because the team returns junior quarterback Harrison Bailey, an elite prospect who threw for 1,885 yards in six games last year before suffering a season-ending injury.
Bailey will be protected by an offensive line that features junior transfer Jake Wray, an Ohio State committ.
The Marietta defense includes a strong returning nucleus. One of its top players is senior defensive back Jordan Ford, who is also a starting running back.
Even after losing their star quarterback, the Blue Devils finished 8-5 a year ago, making a run to the state quarterfinals before losing to eventual state champion North Gwinnett.
This season will mark the 37th year of the Super 25 poll. The rankings first appeared in 1982 shorty after the USA Today was formed.
The newspaper crowned Valdosta as its national champion in both 1984 and 1986. The Wildcats were 15-0 both seasons.
LaGrange was crowned the national champion by the publication in 1991 when it also finished 15-0.
Mater Dei (Calif.) was picked as the Super 25 national champion last year after going 15-0.
The USA Today currently ranks the IMG Academy (Fla.) No. 1 in its early preseason rankings. The school, which can recruit nationwide, was 8-0 last season and has won 37 straight games. This coming season, it will have 11 of the top 50 prospects in the 2019 class on its roster.
IMG finished last season ranked second in the Super 25.
Also worth noting, the USA Today tabbed Grayson as having one of the nation's toughest schedules this coming season.
The Rams will open the 2018 season on Aug. 25 against perennial power Tucker before facing nationally-ranked and defending New Jersey champion Bergen Catholic.
Their third game is at Marietta. The Rams also face last year's state runner-up Colquitt County on Sept. 21 and Archer on Oct. 12.
Kevin Price is a freelance writer for AllOnGeorgia with more than 20 years experience in journalism and communications.
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Padraig Harrington pulls out of next week's US PGA Championship
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Former champion Padraig Harrington has pulled out of next week's US PGA Championship.
Harrington, who lifted the Wanamaker Trophy in 2008, did not give a reason for his withdrawal but has not played competitively since the coronavirus pandemic forced golf to shut down in March.
The Ryder Cup captain wrote on his personal website: "After much deliberation, I have decided not to travel to next week's PGA Championship.
"As Covid-19 currently looks to be under control in Ireland, I am taking the prudent approach by following the guidelines and reducing the risk as much as possible by staying at home.
"I'm sure I'll be watching every shot on TV with great interest and hopefully I'll have many more years to play in the PGA Championship."
Former Open champion Francesco Molinari is also understood to have withdrawn from the year's first major at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco.
Molinari announced earlier this month that he and his family were moving from London to California, although he did say at the time his aim was to be back for the US PGA.
Lee Westwood and Eddie Pepperell have also made the decision not to travel to San Francisco, despite the late easing of quarantine restrictions for players and essential personnel.
Harrington and Molinari have been replaced in the field by Talor Gooch and Troy Merritt.
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The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt
by James Blake Wiener
Audience: University
Worshipped for over three-fifths of recorded history, Egypt's gods and goddesses are among the most fascinating of human civilization. The lives of pharaohs and commoners alike were dominated by the need to honor, worship, and pacify the huge pantheon of deities, from the benevolent to the malevolent. The richness and complexity of their mythology is reflected in countless tributes throughout Egypt, from lavish tomb paintings and imposing temple reliefs to humble household shrines.
The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt by Dr. Richard H. Wilkinson, Professor and Director of the University of Arizona Egyptian Expedition, is a handy and visually rich compendium of information on ancient Egyptian religion, mythology, and folklore from the dawn of the 'Age of the Pharaohs' until the Arab invasions in the 7th century CE. Comprehensive and authoritative, this title is indispensable to Egyptologists and lay audiences curious about the religious life of ancient Egyptians. Those already acquainted with the subject will recognize the comprehensive treatment Wilkinson provides and, for those new to ancient Egyptian religion, this volume provides an excellent introduction to the topic presented by an author who has written extensively on ancient Egyptian culture and history.
Divided into five chapters - 'Rise and Fall of the Gods,' 'Nature of the Gods,' 'Worship of the Gods,' 'Kingship and the Gods,' and 'The Catalogue of Deities' - Wilkinson deftly explores and traces the rituals of worship as well as the development of religious iconography via series of a diverse subtopics in the first four chapters. However, the heart of this publication lies in the fifth and final section, which functions as an encyclopedia of deities, albeit in miniature. Here, the reader can find detailed information well-organized by the topic and by a deity's name: 'Many Faces of the Divine,' 'Groups of Deities,' 'Male Anthropomorphic Deities,' 'Female Anthropomorphic Deities,' 'Mammalian Deities,' 'Avian Deities,' 'Reptile, Amphibian and Fish Deities,' 'Invertebrate and Insect Deities,' and 'Inanimate Deities.' Each venerated deity - I suspect that Wilkinson covers all in the known pantheon - is contextualized further through brief analyses of their place and role in mythology, religious and artistic iconography, and the manner in which they were worshipped.
Wilkinson writes:
While excellent short surveys of Egyptian deities have been produced in the past which simply list the various gods and goddesses by name according to alphabetical order, such an arrangement is problematic for many readers. This is due to the large number of diverse spellings of Egyptian deities' names, often making it difficult to locate them and impossible when a deity is known only from its representation...In this book, rather than simply utilizing an alphabetic listing, or attempting an arrangement of deitiees by their mythological roles, the many gods and goddesses included have been grouped by their appearance. This is to aid identification for the general reader and also to facilitate comparison and contrast of deities of similar types, such as leonine, bovine, or serpentine gods. (71)
Using this approach enables any reader to locate any god in the Egyptian pantheon based upon their appearance. For example, if one only knew there was a female deity in ancient Egypt who presided over the written word, but did not know her name or appearance, one could simply look in the section `Female Anthropomorphic Deities' to find Seshat, the female scribe and patroness of librarians. Deities who are known by more than one name are listed by their best known as in the case of the goddess Qebhet, daughter of Anubis, who is more widely known by the name Kebehwet.
Special note ought to be made of the over 338 illustrations, which evoke the power, mystery, and majesty of ancient Egyptian belief and spirituality throughout Wilkinson's book. At only 256 pages in length, The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt additionally contains fine sections on further reading with titles in English and German, sources for quotations, illustration credits, as well as an acknowledgement and index section. The chronology and map, located in the front of the book, are large in size and scope and thus quite useful too.
There have been many excellent books written on this subject but what sets Wilkinson's apart is his command of the subject matter, the clarity of his prose, and the power of his interpretative skills in conveying to readers what these deities meant to an ancient Egyptian. The author brings all his knowledge of the culture to bear on the subject and thus provides a reader with a complete understanding of the subject at hand. Simply the two-page section on `Many Faces of the Divine' will prove itself invaluable to any reader interested in ancient Egyptian religion.
Ancient History Encyclopedia (AHE) recommends this book to anyone interested or with a background in ancient Egypt, mythology, cultural studies, and theology. An exquisite and utilitarian reference, The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt is perfectly suited for university studies in Egyptology courses as well.
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