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Published in Thinking Design
·Oct 6, 2020
Dark Patterns Are Changing How the Law Understands Technology
I'm sure you've been here before: you get an email, and it's a newsletter you don't remember signing up for, about a product you don't remember subscribing to updates about. You say, "hmm, well, I'll just unsubscribe." You scroll down to the bottom of the email, find the unsubscribe button, and you get sent to a website where you click through a few pages that say 'are you sure you want to unsubscribe?…Are you sure?…Are you really, really sure?" Since you're really, really sure, you click a button and boom: Done. Unsubscribed. But then the next week the newsletter or product reappears in your inbox. Didn't you unsubscribe? …
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Published in Data & Society: Points
Dark Patterns and Design Policy
UX designers cannot translate tech regulation on their own
By Caroline Sinders, design researcher and artist
In 2019, ProPublica reported that Turbo Tax suppressed its free version, tricking people into paying to file their taxes. That same year, Princeton University launched a project that discovered over a thousand different instances of similar "tricks" that were implemented across e-commerce websites. These are what Designer Harry Brignull calls "dark patterns," a term he created in 2010 to describe design choices and characteristics that trick users into making decisions they normally wouldn't make. Dark patterns can be purposeful or accidental, though it's often hard to determine the intent behind them. For example, is it an intentional dark pattern to suppress privacy when social networks bury their security settings, or are designers and engineers not sure where to place the appropriate buttons for users to find? Is it intentional that marketplaces like Amazon have price confusion, or again, is it accidental bad design? …
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How UX Design Creates Trust
Design researcher, Caroline Sinders, shares her findings around the role that UX design plays in creating trust and how to enforce these principles.
Illustration: Justin Cheong.
I'm a design researcher studying trust patterns in design. Building on research around trust and our own findings from user interviews and surveys, my team is studying communications and apps that engender or weaponize trust in technology. Trust is complex — it's contextual, contractual, and cultural — and everyone has a slightly different definition. Understanding trust is key to creating ethical, well-designed technology that works for the common good. Read on to learn more about trust patterns in design, and if you're a designer, take our survey and contribute to the research!
Let's talk about trust
"What do you think of when you hear the word 'trust' and how do you define 'trust'?" …
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An Incomplete (but growing) History of Harassment Campaigns since 2003
What I have here is a form of open research, it's in progress, and still being researched from an ethnographic standpoint. It's incomplete but I wanted to publish it to show progress. Please check back for frequent updates (per example, I am still adding in things for 2017). If you would like to contribute, feel free to submit here (this link will only be open for two weeks).
I think there's never been a better time to talk about, and recount, the history of online harassment campaigns. …
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Current Reading List (of papers) on Online Harassment and Machine Learning
Honestly, just some links and titles of what Angelina Fabbro and I've been reading and are trying to read in the next few months.
Equality of Opportunity in Supervised Learning
Supervised Machine Learning: A Review of Classification Techniques
Slash(dot) and Burn: Distributed Moderation in a Large Online Conversation Space
Changing Names in Online News Comments at the New York Times
Defining Hate Speech
Ex Machina: Personal Attacks Seen at Scale
The AI Now Report: The Social and Economic Implications of Artificial Intelligence Technologies in the Near-Term
Understanding Harmful Speech Online
User-Generated Censorship: Manipulating The Maps Of Social Media
A Longitudinal Measurement Study of 4chan's Politically Incorrect Forum and Its Effect on the…
Some (Exciting) News
It's a weird thing to write: when you've left your first dream job (IBM Watson) for a dream opportunity (a residency with BuzzFeed and Eyebeam) and now….you're tacking on another dream job, how many dreams can you dream? Apparently, quite a few. I'm incredibly excited to announce starting in April I will be a researcher and designer specifically for online harassment at Wikimedia. And, I'll be working specifically with a team using machine learning. Does this…sound familiar? It sounds eerily like my fellowship proposal, doesn't it? ;)
Okay, it's not a weird thing to write, it's an extremely amazing, fantastic, and humbling opportunity. What I had proposed to research at BuzzFeed and Eyebeam, using machine learning to study, analyze and potentially mitigate online harassment is being put into actuality, and into practicality. It's going to be realized and manifested on a large scale, at Wikimedia, for Wikipedia. …
Toxicity and Tone Are Not The Same Thing: analyzing the new Google API on toxicity, PerspectiveAPI.
Google's Jigsaw group today launched Perspective API, their api to create better conversations but their first roll out, their first machine learning model is to help deem or rate conversations as 'toxic' or not. I'm flattening what the API could do, but Google describes it as, "…The API uses machine learning models to score the perceived impact a comment might have on a conversation. Developers and publishers can use this score to give realtime feedback to commenters or help moderators do their job, or allow readers to more easily find relevant information, as illustrated in two experiments below..." Effectively, can you alleviate moderators work flow when looking at traumatic content and also can you help surface good content. The first is easier to do, and spaces like the Coral Project are creating products and software to mitigate harassment in commenting sections, and they are doing it well. …
#tfw your side hustle becomes your main gig
I found out on August 15th I won a fellowship with BuzzFeed and Eyebeam as an Open Lab Fellow and an Eyebeam project resident. What does that mean? The founder of BuzzFeed, Jonah Peretti, used to work at Eyebeam and run their R&D arm; he also ran a fellowship there called the "Open Labs." In 2005 or 2006, Peretti left Eyebeam to start BuzzFeed and the Open Lab disappeared. Two years ago, it was restarted at BuzzFeed and Eyebeam was brought on to guide it's facilitation. Eyebeam gets to pick one fellow from that group, and I am that fellow. On the Eyebeam side, I am considered a Project Resident, i.e. …
On #AINow: Beyond Transparency, what is design and ethics in algorithms and artificial intelligence?
Are we giving AI engineers and creators the right tools to be ethical and create ethical products, algorithms, and software?
Last Friday, at NYU's Skirball Center, the White House hosted a symposium on Artificial Intelligence, ethics, health, and machine learning. Led by Kate Crawford, a prinicipal researcher at Microsoft Research, and Meredith Whittaker, lead for Google Open Source Research Group. The day time events (invitation only) consisted of lightening talks from researchers at IBM Watson, Microsoft, policy makers, lawyers, artists and data visualizers such as Jer Thorp (blprnt). It was an incredibly diverse crowd, from careers to gender to race, and was something that the organizers had intended and carefully curated for the event itself. To create and germinate better discussions around AI, and to make better artificial intelligence, the group better be diverse, and AINow beyond succeeded with that. The day broke off into whiteboarding and post it note session and culminated into two later sessions open to the public, featuring White House tech liaisons to the head of Google Deepmind and well known academics as well as Intel's Genevieve Bell. But the provocations throughout the day seemed to be: what do ethics in big data and algorithms mean? …
Twitter Removing the "@'s" in Tweets
Today twitter announced they would be removing @s from their Tweets, so mentioning a person will take up less space. If a user wants to share the tweet with their followers, they simply have to retweet their own tweet. From Twitter's own blog post: "These changes will allow for richer public conversations that are easier to follow on Twitter, and ensure people can attach extra elements, media, and content to Tweets without sacrificing the characters they have to share their view." Mainly @ people will autopopulate their name and up to 50 people can be added, from what I have inferred, from people a user is following AND media added to the tweet (URLs, images, gifs,etc) will not count as additionally characters. So tweeting is still just 140 characters, but you can now "do more" with it. …
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Oh well! Back to reality. Sailing will have to wait. The next best thing to sailing is signing a new account.
Today's article involves selling on price. This is an obstacle we all come in contact with and it irks small business owners. "Doesn't anybody care about value today?" Order taking is easy. Selling value is an acquired skill.
They are also entitled to buy cheap.
Repeat. People care about value. When they want to care about value and they pay whatever they so choose for a service based on their interpretation.
Pots & Pans. Once upon a time my in-laws picked up a new set of pots and pans. They were….inexpensive. When Pat and Shirley got home, they read the small print which said (honest): "Don't put on high heat. If the bottom gets too hot, and falls off, throw the pot away." True story. They bought cheap. They returned the pots.
Morale. We all know that the least expensive route is not always the wise route to take. Many, if not most times we go "cheap," there is some back-tracking involved…a mulligan…a do-over…or some form of regret.
As I left my house I realized that a Quick Check Store just around the corner had sugar, although I would have to pay more for it. I made the decision to head for the "expensive" sugar for two reasons. Fast and easy was worth more to me than a longer ride for the less expensive bag. Morale. Often times the more expensive item will save you time in the long run and a lot less hassle.
Sure people buy "cheap" and other people appreciate value attached to a higher priced product or service. The secret is to clearly let the buyer know what they are buying. And for your own mental health, you must know that there are people with all kinds of purchasing agendas.
Message: Your target market is out there. Make the effort to find the people who appreciate fast, easy…and right…and who are willing to pay a higher price for a set of pots as long as they don't fall apart.


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Q: Java method parameter gives compilation error "Unexpected bound" Out of these 2 methods inspect1 shows compilation error "Unexpected bound" and inspect2 works fine, why ?
public <U> void inspect1(List<U extends Number> u){
    System.out.println("T: " + t.getClass().getName());
    System.out.println("U: " + u.getClass().getName());
}

public <U> void inspect2(List<? extends Number> u){
    System.out.println("T: " + t.getClass().getName());
    System.out.println("U: " + u.getClass().getName());
}

A: To make it work, this should be defined in the generic type method signature saying that U can be any type that is a subclass of Number:
public <U extends Number> void inspect1(List<U> u) {
    // body
}

Also, note in the second method, the parameter U is never used and should be as below. This says that any list of a subclass of Number is accepted. No generic parameter U is involved.
public void inspect2(List<? extends Number> u) {
    // body
}

Is there going to be any difference between these 2 methods (inspect1 and inspect2) you have provided in the answer, or they are going to work exactly the same?

They practically do the same since you cannot extend Number and the only types extending this class are (hope I got them all):

*

*Double, Float, Short, Integer and Long

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But not every storm brings such a sense of peace and tranquility. Indecisive Tropical Storm Debby is pounding most of Florida with torrential rain, high winds, tornadoes and lightning right now. And our Bicycle Adventure has been in the thick of some intense weather. The Sunshine State hasn't lived up to its name here in the final week of the Adventure's East Coast ride.
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Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph ♂
LL.D. 18.4.1888.
Born 12.6.1851 at Penkhull, Staffs. [Staffordshire] eldest son of Oliver Lodge, merchant, Wolstanton and Grace Heath.
Studied Royal College of Science and University College, London.
Professor of Physics, University College, Liverpool 1881-1900. Principal, Birmingham University 1900-1919 (retired). [University professor, physicist, inventor]
[Identified electromagnetic radiation and was involved in the development of patents for radio].
Modern views of electricity. (London: Macmillan, 1889)
The immortality of the soul. (Boston: Ball Publishing Co., 1908)
Died 22.8.1940.
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Q: Function does not work when I call it in an other function import Data.List (sort,nub,(\\),transpose,genericLength)
import Data.String (lines,unlines)

type Row a    = [a]
type Matrix a = [Row a]
type Digit    = Char

digits :: [Digit]
digits = ['1'..'9']

blank :: Digit -> Bool
blank d = d == ' '

-- 1.
group :: [a] -> [[a]]
group = groupBy 3

groupBy :: Int -> [a] -> [[a]]
groupBy _ [] = []
groupBy n xs = let (ys, zs) = splitAt n xs
               in  ys : groupBy n zs

-- 2.
intersperse :: a -> [a] -> [a]
intersperse x y = x : [ x | ys <- y, x <- [ys, x]]

-- 3.
showRow :: String -> String
showRow xs = intersperse "|" (groupBy 3 xs)

Error Message Below
Tutorial9.hs:35:14: error:
    • Couldn't match type '[Char]' with 'Char'
      Expected type: String
        Actual type: [[Char]]
    • In the expression: intersperse "|" (groupBy 3 xs)
      In an equation for 'showRow':
          showRow xs = intersperse "|" (groupBy 3 xs)
   |
35 | showRow xs = intersperse "|" (groupBy 3 xs)
   |

       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The group function works well, but doesn't seem to work when I call it in showRow. Why?

A: The intersperse :: a -> [a] -> [a]** will return a [String] not a String, since groupBy 3 xs will return [String] and the separator is a String. You can make use of concat to concatenate the strings together:
showRow :: String -> String
showRow xs = concat (intersperse "|" (groupBy 3 xs))
or you can make use of intercalate :: [a] -> [[a]] -> [a], which does this already:
import Data.List(intercalate)

showRow :: String -> String
showRow xs = intercalate "|" (groupBy 3 xs)


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As you have seen in the image that presides over this article, the Echo Show 5 is a speaker with a screen. We met with a 5-inch panel and HD resolution that opens a new world of possibilities and that differentiate it from the rest of its brothers. He even has a front camera for video calls.
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At this conference and employment fair IT KONEKT at the Master Hall of the Novi Sad Fair, ComData presented its software solutions for different sectors of the economy, the opportunity for employment and various forms of attending professional practice and training.
The theme of the lecture is a review of the role of artificial intelligence in the new industrial revolution.
New achievements in connecting artificial intelligence and other modern technologies will be presented; future trends and examples with a focus on technologies that can be applied in logistics, 3D printing, and online sales.
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I Love Cloth Dolls and Cloth Crafts.: "Waiting for Inspiration"
I have been away for a trip to Mackay Qld to visit my Dad in hospital. hopefully not the last time I see Him before He passes.
I had the great pleasure to meet one of my blog followers Elizabeth while in Mackay. it was so very nice to meet Her in person, keep up the good craft Elizabeth..
So I am home now and waiting for inspiration to come...I know if I keep myself busy I can not dwell on the situation.
What inspires Me? well looking at all the lovely things people are making and all the gorgeous fabrics out there in Blogland.
I love Teapots and Teacups so I am thinking about that at the moment...what to make...what to make.
we are in the middle of school holidays at the moment and so my time is MINE again and I should be able to spend a good amount of time in the sewing room.
just waiting for inspiration to come.
I will keep you all updated on the progress of my week.
Sorry to hear about your dad! I can understand how you feel!!
The inspiration will come soon and will help you in this moments!!!
I know too well how tough these times are but you will come through it and your creativity will keep you occupied - looking forward to seeing what you make.
Hi Amanda, it was so nice to meet you , to see another like minded crafter and blogger, having known them thru this medium is a thrill.
It makes the world seem so small, and you feel so close to some one when next you see them in their blog, dont you think?
I was just thinking about inspiration too, and have found a good article , which I will be blogging about, which may help us all.
Keep up your lovely work, it all enhances your life.


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Category Archives: Human Rights
Favorite of the West: Niger as Police State
Niger, a poverty-stricken nation perched on the southern belt of the Sahara, is rapidly being transformed into one of the world's most strategic security hubs…."This place is a nest of spies," said one contractor … "Below the radar, it's become a key country for the West." A surge in financial assistance from European nations seeking to stem the flow of African migrants has made Niger the world's largest per capita recipient of European Union aid…Western military forces operate from at least nine bases in Niger, government officials said…. The U.S. is finishing a large air base in Agadez, while the Central Intelligence Agency has begun flying armed drones from an airstrip outside the northern town of Dirkou, Nigerien officials said.
U.S. and European policy makers praise the government as a good partner that has welcomed foreign military personnel and slashed the migrant flow by almost 90% from 2015 highs. …Locals, nongovernmental organizations and opposition activists say the government is using international backing to neutralize dissent and embezzle millions of dollars in aid, charges the government denies. The opposition—backed by rights group Amnesty International—says President Mahamadou Idriss Issoufou, in power since 2011, is arbitrarily jailing activists and spending Western aid on bolstering his elite Presidential Guard…
Swaths of the nation's centuries-old transportation economy—the movement of people and goods from West Africa through the Sahara—has essentially been criminalized by the EU crackdown on migration. Some of the desert-dwelling Tuareg people, who have transported goods for centuries, are now smuggling weapons, men and money for cash-rich jihadist insurgencies. Migrants are dying in the desert in failed attempts to find new routes.
"The West is pleased because Niger's government is a willing partner,but as Niger's security chief, Mohammed Bazoum, says "We have become a hinge country, a geostrategic hub, but it is a disaster for us. We are known as a land of terrorism and migrant traffic."
Across Niger's western border with Mali, jihadist groups including Islamic State and al Qaeda franchises control stretches of territory around the northern city of Gao. Along the southern frontier with Nigeria, a rejuvenated Boko Haram is mounting intensifying attacks against security forces, including around the city of Diffa, where the U.S. has dozens of troops stationed. To the north lies Libya, which has become a hotbed of instability, weapons and radicalization.
The European Development Fund last year awarded $1 billion to Niger through 2020, and unusually for a country governance watchdogs deem chronically corrupt, 75% is now infused directly into the Nigerien budget instead of through nongovernmental organizations.The money funds hundreds of off-road vehicles, motorcycles and satellite phones for Nigerien security forces as well as new infrastructure and technology along the borders and countrywide development programs.
In Niamey's central Plateau district, tall black screens block the soaring new U.S. Embassy headquarters, which will be one of the largest in West Africa. Saudi Arabia has broken ground on its own huge mission, while buildings belonging to EU agencies occupy whole city blocks. Hotels and conference centers are rising in tandem, reconfiguring the economic and political landscape of a nation ranked the world's second-poorest behind the Central African Republic.
The government says the building boom is creating jobs. Locals say it has stoked runaway inflation and priced them out of their neighborhoods. In the past year, the cost of a kilogram of rice has risen 29%, sending shock waves through homes where the average wage is $2.66 a day.
"The cost to live here rises with each new European coming," lamented Abdulraham Mamoudou, repairing his motor scooter on a dusty corner near the expanding U.S. Embassy compound.
A similar pattern is playing out further north in the smuggling hub of Agadez, where the EU-coordinated migration crackdown has transformed a boomtown into a simmering bust. The city's jails are bursting with men who have been convicted of smuggling. Vast depots on the town's outskirts house hundreds of trucks confiscated by authorities…"This place is now for the Americans and French," said Sadiq, a former migrant smuggler who evaded arrest and is now unemployed. "They took our livelihood and don't give us anything in return."
Excerpts from 'A Nest of Spies': Niger's Deserts Become Front Line of Fight Against Jihadis, Wall Street Journal, Sept. 12, 2018
This entry was posted in corruption/Illegal markets, covert action, Espionage, geoeconomics, Human Rights, Markets, War and tagged Boko Haram Nigeria, CIA drones Dirkou Niger, CIA Mali, drone base Agadez Niger, Europe via Libya, Libya, Libya civil war, migrant flows Niger, Niamey Niger, Niger Air Base 201, Niger economy, police state Niger, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) Niger on September 25, 2018 by Stoa.
Female Genital Mutilation: the first prosecution
Somalia's Attorney General Ahmed Ali Dahir announced the country's first ever prosecution in July 2018 against female genital mutilation (FGM) following the death of a 10-year-old girl, a government adviser said…[T]he girl, Deeqa, who suffered severe bleeding after her mother took her to a traditional cutter. …Deeqa's death prompted campaigners to renew calls for Somalia to pass a law on FGM, which affects 98% of women in the east African country – the highest rate in the world, according to UN data.
Somalia's constitution prohibits FGM, but efforts to pass legislation to punish offenders have been stalled by parliamentarians afraid of losing votes.Global campaigners against FGM, which affects around 200 million girls and women worldwide, welcomed the news. Many girls in Somalia undergo the most extreme form of the ancient ritual in which external genitalia are removed and the vaginal opening is sewn up.
Deeqa was taken by her mother to a traditional circumciser on July 14, 2018 in central Somalia's Galmudug state and died in hospital two days later. Her father was quoted by international media as defending the practice, saying he believed his daughter was "taken by Allah".
Excepts from First prosecution for female genital mutilation in Somalia, Reuters, July 26, 2018
This entry was posted in Human Rights and tagged female, female genital mutilation, female genital mutilation (FGM), infibulation on August 30, 2018 by Stoa.
The Game-Changers: oil, gas and geothermal
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has decided to degazette parts of two UNESCO World Heritage Sites to allow for oil drilling. Environmentalists have reacted sharply to the decision to open up Virunga and Salonga national parks – a move that is likely to jeopardise a regional treaty on the protection of Africa's most biodiverse wildlife habitat and the endangered mountain gorilla…The two national parks are home to mountain gorillas, bonobos and other rare species. Salonga covers 33 350 km2 (3,350,000 ha)of the Congo Basin, the world's second largest rainforest, and contains bonobos, forest elephants, dwarf chimpanzees and Congo peacocks….
On 7 April, 2018, a council of ministers from the DRC, Rwanda and Uganda agreed to ratify the Treaty on the Greater Virunga Transboundary Collaboration (GVTC) on Wildlife Conservation and Tourism Development. The inaugural ministerial meeting set the deadline for September 2018 to finalise the national processes needed to ratify the treaty.
The Virunga National Park (790,000 ha, 7 900 km2)is part of the 13 800 km2 (1 3800 00 ha) Greater Virunga Landscape, which straddles the eastern DRC, north-western Rwanda and south-western Uganda. The area boasts three UNESCO World Heritage Sites – Virunga, Rwenzori Mountains National Park and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. It also boasts a Ramsar Site (Lake George and Lake Edward) and a Man and Biosphere Reserve (in Queen Elizabeth National Park). It is the most species-rich landscape in the Albertine Rift – home to more vertebrate species and more endemic and endangered species than any other region in Africa.
According to the Greater Virunga Landscape 2016 annual report, the number of elephant carcasses recorded in 2016 was half the yearly average for the preceding five years. The report also mentions a high rate of prosecution and seizures. It cites a case study on Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park where 282 suspects involved in poaching were prosecuted, with over 230 sentenced….The GVTC has also helped to ease tensions between the countries by providing a platform where their military forces can collaborate in a transparent way. ..
Armed groups have reportedly killed more than 130 rangers in the park since 1996. Militias often kill animals such as elephants, hippos and buffaloes in the park for both meat and ivory. Wildlife products are then trafficked from the DRC through Uganda or Rwanda. The profits fund the armed groups' operations.
Over 80% of the Greater Virunga Landscape is covered by oil concessions and this makes it a target for state resource exploitation purely for economic gain.
2015: Until recently, in GVL, extraction of highly valued minerals such as gold and coltan, were largely artisanal. The recent discovery of oil, gas and geothermal potential, however, is a game-changer. Countries are now moving ahead in the exploration and production of oil and gas, which if not properly managed, is likely to result in major negative environmental (and social) changes. Extractive industries are managed under each GVL partner state policy guidelines and legislation. Concessions for these industries cover the whole of the GVL, including the World Heritage Sites as well as national protected areas . Since 2006, Uganda discovered commercial quantities of oil in the Albertine Graben and production in Murchison will begin within the next few years. The effect of the extractive industries, similar to and contributing to that of the increase in urbanization is the increased demand for bush meat, timber and fuel wood from the GVL.
Excertps from Duncan E Omondi Gumba, DRC prioritises oil over conservation, ISS Africa, July 11, 2018//GREATER VIRUNGA LANDSCAPE
ANNUAL CONSERVATION STATUS REPORT 2015
This entry was posted in biodiversity, corruption/Illegal markets, endangered species, Environment, Human Rights, indigenous peoples, lawbreakers, Markets, property rights, trade-environment and tagged artisanal mining DR Congo, biodiversity and human rights, coercive conservation, Congo basin, Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, ecotourism, endangered species, extractive industries, Greater Virunga Transboundary Collaboration (GVTC) on Wildlife Conservation and Tourism Development, Salonga National Park, UNESCO, UNESCO World Heritage, Virunga National Park Congo, world heritage sites on July 11, 2018 by Stoa.
The De-humanization of a Whole Nation
Rebels and government troops in Congo committed atrocities including mass rape, cannibalism and dismembering civilians, according to testimony published by a team of UN human rights experts who said the world must pay heed.
The team investigating conflict in the Kasai region of Democratic Republic of Congo told the UN Human Rights Council they suspected all sides were guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Their detailed 126-page report catalogued gruesome attacks committed in the conflict, which erupted in late 2016, involving Kamuina Nsapu and Bana Mura militias and Congo's armed forces, the FARDC.
The testimony included boys forced to rape their mothers, little girls told witchcraft would allow them to catch bullets, and women forced to choose gang-rape or death. "One victim told us in May 2017 she saw a group of Kamuina Nsapu militia, some sporting female genitals (clitorises and vaginas) as medals," the report said. "Some witnesses recalled seeing people cutting up, cooking and eating human flesh, including penises cut from men who were still alive and from corpses, especially FARDC and drinking human blood."
Lead investigator Bacre Waly Ndiaye told the Council in one incident, at least 186 men and boys from a single village were beheaded by Kamuina Nsapu, many of whose members were children forced to fight, unarmed or wielding sticks and were convinced magic made them invulnerable. Many child soldiers were killed when FARDC soldiers machine-gunned them indiscriminately, he said. "The bodies were often buried in mass graves or were sometimes piled in trucks by soldiers to be buried elsewhere." There were initially thought to be about 86 mass graves, but after investigating the team suspects there may be hundreds, he said.
Excerpts from DR Congo war atrocities, Reuters, July 4, 2018
Rape in Congo
This entry was posted in civilian casualties, Human Rights, War and tagged Bana Mura Congo, cannibalism Congo, children use in war, children use in war Congol, Congo atrocities, Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, Kamuina Nsapu Congo, Kasai Congo rebellion, mass graves Congo, rape as a weapon of war, rape Congo on July 4, 2018 by Stoa.
How the World Looks Like in 10000 Air Strikes
Amnesty International researchers visited 42 Coalition air strike sites across the ruined city of Raqqa, Syria and interviewed 112 civilian residents who had survived the carnage and lost loved ones. The accounts detailed in the report, 'War of annihilation': Devastating Toll on Civilians, Raqqa – Syria, leave gaping holes in the Coalition's insistence that their forces did enough to minimize civilian harm….
"IS's brutal four-year rule in Raqqa was rife with war crimes. But the violations of IS, including the use of civilians as human shields, do not relieve the Coalition of their obligations to take all feasible precautions to minimize harm to civilians. What levelled the city and killed and injured so many civilians was the US-led Coalition's repeated use of explosive weapons in populated areas where they knew civilians were trapped. Even precision weapons are only as precise as their choice of targets."
Shortly before the military campaign, US Defence Secretary James Mattis promised a "war of annihilation" against IS. From 6 June to 17 October 2017, the US-led Coalition operation to oust IS from its so-called "capital" Raqqa killed and injured thousands of civilians and destroyed much of the city….Residents were trapped as fighting raged in Raqqa's streets between IS militants and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters, supported by the Coalition's relentless air and artillery strikes. IS mined the escape routes and shot at civilians trying to flee. Hundreds of civilians were killed: some in their homes; some in the very places where they had sought refuge; and others as they tried to flee.
US, British and French Coalition forces carried out tens of thousands of air strikes and US forces admitted to firing 30,000 artillery rounds during the offensive on Raqqa. US forces were responsible for more than 90% of the air strikes…
Amnesty International is urging Coalition members to investigate impartially and thoroughly allegations of violations and civilian casualties, and to publicly acknowledge the scale and gravity of the loss of civilian lives and destruction of civilian property in Raqqa…They must disclose the findings of their investigations, as well as key information about the strikes necessary for assessing their compliance with international humanitarian law. They must review the procedures by which they decide the credibility of civilian casualty allegations and they must ensure justice and reparation for victims of violations. They also have a responsibility to assist with gruelling demining and reconstruction work under way in Raqqa in a more meaningful way than at present.
Excerpts Syria: Raqqa in ruins and civilians devastated after US-led 'war of annihilation', Amnesty International, June 5, 2018
This entry was posted in civilian casualties, Human Rights, War and tagged humanitarian law, Islamic state in Iraq and Syria, law of war, Raqqa Syria, Syria civil war, Syria civilian casualties, Syria intervention on June 26, 2018 by Stoa.
How to Break the Rules without Breaking the Law
In 2009, coalition casualties in Afghanistan had as much as doubled in the space of a year. Civilian casualties climbed to 2412. It was 2009. Coalition forces had been there since 2001 with no end and, to this point, no real campaign plan in sight…
Chris Masters, who was the only journalist to have been embedded with Australian special forces soldiers (SASR) in Afghanistan, believes a desensitisation occurred within the forces that allegedly allowed a "kill count mentality to develop"…SASR's sabre squadrons are the tips of a trident of land, air and water operators, with the "wateries" an elite within an elite. And like their US counterparts, the Navy SEALs, unquestionable ability can come tinged with arrogance. In SASR, their rock-star persona did not sit easily with everyone when modesty was supposed to be a core value…
The most prominent allegation is traced to an assault on a compound codenamed Whiskey 108 at Kakarak in Oruzgan on Easter Sunday 2009…As shooting erupted, one operator remembers thinking: "I am going to die today." Instead, methodically, they closed in on the remaining enemy, killing them one by one. At this time Australian weapons were again heard firing and soldiers entering the compound saw something hurled from a window. It was an older man with a prosthetic leg, shot and now lying dead. The prosthetic leg was souvenired and returned to Perth to be fashioned into a drinking vessel. What troubled a range of witnesses was not so much the killing of the men, who whether armed or unarmed were considered Taliban. It was more that the grim task of pulling the trigger had been pushed onto a "rookie". As one operator told me: "If s— needs to be done, do it yourself."
In rotations to come, the concept of blooding became well known. What became more disturbing was a suspicion the practise was not only about a first kill but also executing prisoners. ..What was not thought through was how many of the "blooded rookies" would be haunted well into the future by what was done…Soldiers began to refer to some of their members having gone "up the Congo", into the moral wilderness of novelist Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Numerous witnesses have spoken of one SASR team posting a kill board on their door. The patrol commander was heard talking about needing more kills and subsequently of the goal being met….
As the mission wore on, further alleged breaches of the rules of armed conflict began to emerge, conspicuously contained to Special Forces and most particularly to SASR. The "Who Dares Wins" ethos of the regiment encourages the testing of boundaries. As they often tell themselves, "you break the rules but not the law".
Exceprts from Chris Masters, Australia's ugly turn in Afghanistan, Sydney Morning Herald, June 8, 2018
This entry was posted in civilian casualties, covert action, Human Rights, War and tagged Afghanistan, Afghanistan civilian casualties, Afghanistan torture, Australian special forces soldiers (SASR), bugsplats, going up Congo Afghanistan, Heart of Darkness., the concept of blooding Afghanistan on June 19, 2018 by Stoa.
An Unforgettable Type of Pollution
May 2018: The environmental damage around the site of two Royal Dutch Shell oil spills in Nigeria a decade ago has worsened significantly after years of delay to cleanup efforts, according to a report that the oil giant has been accused of trying to shield from public view. The spills from a ruptured Shell pipeline spewed thousands of barrels of oil over parts of the Bodo fishing community in the crude-rich Niger Delta. Although the company in 2015 reached an out-of-court settlement with the local community, admitting to liability and agreeing to pay £55 million, or around $80 million at the time, in compensation, controversy around the case has remained.
A United Nations body, in a 2011 report, found extensive environmental damage around Bodo. Four years later, an assessment to prepare the cleanup found soil contamination had worsened while cleanup efforts languished and illegal refining and oil theft added to pollution in the area, according to an academic paper published last month. That has left the community facing potentially toxic pollution and "catastrophic" damage to the environment, the paper said. The 2015 analysis was commissioned by the Bodo Mediation Initiative, a consortium established to oversee the cleanup in the area. Shell is a member of the group along with local stakeholders.
At least one of the authors urged the findings to be widely distributed because they pointed to significant health risks to the local community. Kay Holtzmann, the cleanup project's former director, said in a letter reviewed by the Journal that Shell had denied him permission to publish the study's results in a scientific journal.
But the academic paper* said the site survey contained new facts. The average surface soil contamination in Bodo had tripled since the original U.N. probe,the paper said. Out of 32 samples taken from the top two inches of soil in the area around Bodo, only one was within Nigeria's legally acceptable limit for oil contamination, the paper added.
Excerpts from Pollution Worsens Around Shell Oil Spills in Nigeria, Wall Street Journal, May 26, 2018.
*Sediment Hydrocarbons in Former Mangrove Areas, Southern Ogoniland, Eastern Niger Delta, Nigeria, Apr. 2018
This entry was posted in Environment, hazardous waste, Human Rights, indigenous peoples, lawbreakers, public health, water resources and tagged Bodo Mediation Initiative (BMI), Bongo oil spill Nigeria, bush refineries Nigeria, illegal refineries Nigeria, lawsuits against Shell, nigeria delta, oil pollution Nigeria clean-up, oil pollution Nigeria Delta, Royal Dutch Shell and Nigeria, Shell oil pollution Nigeria on May 31, 2018 by Stoa.
The Unquenchable Thirst
Most of the drinking water consumed in Beijing has travelled 1,432km (895 miles), roughly the distance from New York to Orlando, Florida. Its journey begins in a remote and hilly part of central China at the Danjiangkou reservoir, on the bottom of which lies the drowned city of Junzhou. The water gushes north by canal and pipeline, crosses the Yellow river by burrowing under it, and arrives, 15 days later, in the water-treatment plants of Beijing. Two-thirds of the city's tap water and a third of its total supply now comes from Danjiangkou.
This winter and spring, the reservoir was the capital's lifeline. No rain or snow fell in Beijing between October 23rd 2017 and March 17th 2018—by far the longest drought on record. Yet the city suffered no supply disruptions, unlike Shanxi province to the west, where local governments rationed water. The central government is exultant, since the project which irrigates Beijing was built at vast cost and against some opposition.
The South-to-North Water Diversion Project—to give the structure its proper name—is the most expensive infrastructure enterprise in the world. It is the largest transfer of water between river basins in history, and China's main response to its worst environmental threat, which is (despite all the pollution) lack of water.
The route between Beijing and Danjiangkou, which lies on a tributary of the Yangzi, opened in 2014. An eastern route opened in 2013 using the ancient Grand Canal between Hangzhou and the capital. (Jaw-dropping hydrological achievements are a feature of Chinese history.) A third link is planned on the Tibetan plateau, but since that area is prone to earthquakes and landslides, it has been postponed indefinitely…
Downstream from Danjiangkou, pollution has proved intractable. By diverting water from the Yangzi, the project has made the river more sluggish. It has become less able to wash away contaminants and unable to sustain wetlands, which act as sponges and reduce flooding. To compensate for water taken from their rivers, local governments are also building dams wherever they can to divert it back again. Shaanxi province, for example, is damming the Han river to transfer water to its depleted river Wei….Worst of all, the project diverts not only water but money and attention from China's real water problem: waste and pollution.
Excerpts from Water: Massive Diversiion, Economist, Apr. 7, 2018
This entry was posted in agriculture, biodiversity, climate change, Environment, Human Rights, indigenous peoples, Markets, public health, water resources and tagged clean drinking water, dams, South-to-North Water Diversion Project China, transboundary river basins, transboundary water management, waste of water, water canals, water diversion China, water pollution, water transfers on May 30, 2018 by Stoa.
Who Controls Peoples' Data?
The McKinsey Global Institute estimates that cross-border flows of goods, services and data added 10 per cent to global gross domestic product in the decade to 2015, with data providing a third of that increase. That share of the contribution seems likely to rise: conventional trade has slowed sharply, while digital flows have surged. Yet as the whole economy becomes more information-intensive — even heavy industries such as oil and gas are becoming data-driven — the cost of blocking those flows increases…
Yet that is precisely what is happening. Governments have sharply increased "data localisation" measures requiring information to be held in servers inside individual countries. The European Centre for International Political Economy, a think-tank, calculates that in the decade to 2016, the number of significant data localisation measures in the world's large economies nearly tripled from 31 to 84.
Even in advanced economies, exporting data on individuals is heavily restricted because of privacy concerns, which have been highlighted by the Facebook/ Cambridge Analytica scandal. Many EU countries have curbs on moving personal data even to other member states. Studies for the Global Commission on Internet Governance, an independent research project, estimates that current constraints — such as restrictions on moving data on banking, gambling and tax records — reduces EU GDP by half a per cent.
In China, the champion data localiser, restrictions are even more severe. As well as long-established controls over technology transfer and state surveillance of the population, such measures form part of its interventionist " Made in China 2025 " industrial strategy, designed to make it a world leader in tech-heavy sectors such as artificial intelligence and robotics.
China's Great Firewall has long blocked most foreign web applications, and a cyber security law passed in 2016 also imposed rules against exporting personal information, forcing companies including Apple and LinkedIn to hold information on Chinese users on local servers. Beijing has also given itself a variety of powers to block the export of "important data" on grounds of reducing vaguely defined economic, scientific or technological risks to national security or the public interest. "The likelihood that any company operating in China will find itself in a legal blind spot where it can freely transfer commercial or business data outside the country is less than 1 per cent," says ECIPE director Hosuk Lee-Makiyama….
Other emerging markets, such as Russia, India, Indonesia and Vietnam, are also leading data localisers. Russia has blocked LinkedIn from operating there after it refused to transfer data on Russian users to local servers.
Business organisations including the US Chamber of Commerce want rules to restrain what they call "digital protectionism". But data trade experts point to a serious hole in global governance, with a coherent approach prevented by different philosophies between the big trading powers. Susan Aaronson, a trade academic at George Washington University in Washington, DC, says: "There are currently three powers — the EU, the US and China — in the process of creating separate data realms."
The most obvious way to protect international flows of data is in trade deals — whether multilateral, regional or bilateral. Yet only the World Trade Organization laws governing data flows predate the internet and have not been thoroughly tested through litigation. It recently recruited Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma to front an ecommerce initiative, but officials involved admit it is unlikely to produce anything concrete for a long time. In any case, Prof Aaronson says: "While data has traditionally been addressed in trade deals as an ecommerce issue, it goes far wider than that."
The internet has always been regarded by pioneers and campaigners as a decentralised, self-regulating community. Activists have tended to regard government intervention with suspicion, except for its role in protecting personal data, and many are wary of legislation to enable data flows. "While we support the approach of preventing data localisation, we need to balance that against other rights such as data protection, cyber security and consumer rights," says Jeremy Malcolm, senior global policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a campaign for internet freedom…
Europe has traditionally had a very different philosophy towards data and privacy than the US. In Germany, for instance, public opinion tends to support strict privacy laws — usually attributed to lingering memories of surveillance by the Stasi secret police in East Germany. The EU's new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which comes into force on May 25, 2018 imposes a long list of requirements on companies processing personal data on pain of fines that could total as much as 4 per cent of annual turnover….But trade experts warn that the GDPR is very cautiously written, with a blanket exemption for measures claiming to protect privacy. Mr Lee-Makiyama says: "The EU text will essentially provide no meaningful restriction on countries wanting to practice data localisation."
Against this political backdrop, the prospects for broad and binding international rules on data flow are dim. …In the battle for dominance over setting rules for commerce, the EU and US often adopt contrasting approaches. While the US often tries to export its product standards in trade diplomacy, the EU tends to write rules for itself and let the gravity of its huge market pull other economies into its regulatory orbit. Businesses faced with multiple regulatory regimes will tend to work to the highest standard, known widely as the "Brussels effect". Companies such as Facebook have promised to follow GDPR throughout their global operations as the price of operating in Europe.
Excerpts from Data protectionism: the growing menace to global business, Financial Times, May 13, 2018
This entry was posted in Espionage, geoeconomics, Globalization, Human Rights, Markets and tagged big data, data localization requirements, data mining, data science, Edward Snowden, German data centers, iceland data centers, internet and national security, internet and US interests, internet balkanization, internet companies, internet decentralization, internet enclosure, internet fingerprint, internet freedom, internet monopolies, National Security Agency (NSA) on May 15, 2018 by Stoa.
Fleas in the Barn, they are- for Joseph Kabila et al.
Inongo is the provincial capital of the Mai-Ndombe Province, a 13-million-hectare area located some 650 km northeast of Kinshasa, Demoractic Republic of Conglo, DRC.
The forests of Mai-Ndombe… are rich in rare and precious woods (red wood, black wood, blue wood, tola, kambala, lifake, among others). It is also home to about 7,500 bonobos, an endangered primate…The forests constitute a vital platform providing livelihoods for some 73,000 indigenous individuals, mostly Batwa (Pygmies), who live here alongside the province's 1.8 million population, many of whom with no secure land rights. Recent studies also have revealed that the province – and indeed the forests – boasts significant reserves of diamond of precious metals nickel, copper, oil and coal, and vast quantities of uranium lying deep inside the Lake Mai-Ndombe.
In an effort to save these precious forests, the World Bank in 2016 approved DRC's REDD+ programmes aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and fight forest's deforestation and degradation, which it would fund to the tune of 90 million dollars annually. The projects, which are currently estimated at 20, have since transformed the Mai-Ndombe Province into a testing ground for international climate schemes. And as part of the projects, indigenous and other local people caring for the forests and depending on them for their livelihoods were supposed to be rewarded for their efforts.
However, Marine Gauthier, a Paris-based expert who authored a report on the sorry state of the Mai-Ndombe forest, seems to have found serious flaws in these ambitious programmes. The report, released a few days before the International Day of Forests on March 21, 2018 by the Rights and Resources' Initiative (RRI)), cited weak recognition of communities' land rights, and recommended that key prerequisites should be addressed before any other REDD+ funds are invested. In the interim, it said, REDD+ investments should be put on hold…..
Under the DRC's 2014 Forest Code, indigenous people and local communities have the legal right to own forest covering an area of up to 50,000 hectares.Thirteen communities in the territories of Mushie and Bolobo in the Mai-Ndombe province have since asked for formal title of a total of 65,308 hectares of land, reports said, adding that only 300 hectares have been legally recognised for each community – a total of only 3,900 hectares.
Pretoria-based Donnenfeld added: "My guess is that the government is more interested in selling these resources to multinationals than it in seeing it benefit the community….Gauthier pointed out that…"REDD+ opens the door to more land-grabbing by external stakeholders appealed…. Local communities' land rights should be recognised through existing legal possibilities such as local community forest concessions so that they can keep protecting the forest, hence achieving REDD+ objectives."
Excerpts from Issa Sikiti da SilvaReprint, DR Congo's Mai-Ndombe Forest 'Savaged' As Landless Communities Struggle, IPS, Apr. 17, 2018
In the meantime the country is ravaged by internal violence
This entry was posted in civilian casualties, Environment, Human Rights, indigenous peoples, Markets, power elite, War and tagged China and Congo, Congo minierals, Congo rainforest, Congo uranium, corruption Congo, MONUSCO, nited Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on April 19, 2018 by Stoa.


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Here's the President Each 2016 Candidate Is Most Similar To
August 12, 2015by Yahoo Small Business
It's a popular strategy for any presidential candidate: compare yourself—and your opponents—to past commanders in chief. For Republicans, this means constantly identifying with Ronald Reagan. For Democrats, it's all about avoiding overlap with Jimmy Carter. It may be nothing more than a gimmick, but the compare game lets candidates win points in debates, add style to stump speeches and pounce on unsuspecting opponents.
But what if we went a step beyond the rhetorical? What does the data say about 2016 candidates and their presidential equivalents? To match up candidates with past presidents, InsideGov turned to OnTheIssues.org, which scores politicians across dozens of issues, from abortion to health care to military spending.
InsideGov normalized OnTheIssues' numbers into four categories, each on a scale of -10 (liberal) to +10 (conservative). The categories included:
Individual rights (abortion, women & minorities, marriage, religion, environment, voter rights)
Domestic issues (crime, guns, health care, school vouchers, energy, drugs)
Economic issues (stimulus, taxes, immigration, Social Security)
Defense and international issues (trade, military, foreign relations, role abroad)
Candidates and presidents were each categorized into buckets based on how well their scores matched across all four categories. In the end, the following pairings emerged.
*Note that the comparisons here are based exclusively on the issues, not on more intangible factors like temperament, leadership style or communication talents. Additionally, OnTheIssues provides data only from Harry S. Truman forward, so the comparisons will focus on presidents from the past 70 years.
Hillary Clinton = Barack Obama
The GOP candidates love to compare Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama, and the data backs them up. Clinton is nearly as liberal as Obama on economic issues, and a tad more liberal on individual rights.
The two diverge slightly on domestic issues (Clinton leans more liberal) and defense (Clinton is more of a hawk), but beyond that, they're a close fit. It's no wonder Clinton's campaign seems to be embracing Obama. The numbers don't lie.
Lincoln Chafee = Bill Clinton
You might guess that Bill's best comparison would be Hillary. Instead, Bill's closest match is little-known Lincoln Chafee.
Chafee famously jumped the aisle after serving as a moderate Republican for years, and he's turned himself into a classic Clinton Democrat. Chafee comes down most liberal on social issues, like abortion and same-sex marriage. At the same time, he supports a more robust military.
The latest polls suggest Chafee will barely make any headway in 2016, but the data says the old Clinton loyalists should give him a second look.
Jim Webb = John F. Kennedy
The former Marine is the picture of a moderate Democrat, scoring no lower than -5 in any one sub-category. The best historical equivalent? John F. Kennedy. The two men score almost identically across every category, only deviating slightly on military and international matters. Surprisingly, it's Webb—the former military man—who leans just a bit further to the left on defense.
Chris Christie = Dwight D. Eisenhower
Strictly based on ideology and issues, you might call Dwight D. Eisenhower "the conservative JFK"—a Republican president who nonetheless held moderate positions across most categories.
The easy comparison here is Christie, whose moderate views on individual rights and social issues make him one of the most balanced candidates in the race. To top it all off, both men trend noticeably more conservative in just one category: the economy.
Jeb Bush = Gerald Ford
When Jeb Bush says he's his own man—and not an echo of his brother—he's right, at least as far as the issues go. Jeb diverges from George most obviously on two fronts: the economy and the military. No doubt the Iraq War and 2008 financial collapse have factored into Jeb's evolving ideology.
The closest historical comparison here is Gerald Ford, a president who sought to ease tensions with the USSR and move the country along from Vietnam. Naturally, the historical context is much different, but the two men's ideological mindsets are quite similar.
Donald Trump = Ronald Reagan
Here, we expose the biggest problem with our comparison methodology. No sane political observer would call Donald Trump the modern-day Reagan, but that's because the two men differ so drastically on the intangibles. It's scathing versus sympathetic; divisive against unifying.
But here's the thing: on the issues, Trump and Reagan are quite similar. Both men favor stricter punishment on crime and oppose universal health care. Each rates somewhat moderately on economic issues (though they diverge on the specifics). And finally, each individual has a skill for unifying a hodgepodge of diverse supporters.
Mike Huckabee = George W. Bush
If George W. Bush wrote the script for compassionate conservatism, Mike Huckabee is directing the movie. Across almost every issue, Huckabee has taken a similar tack: support the conservative viewpoint, but frequently invoke the teachings of a higher, loving power.
While both men have strong convictions in individual areas (see: abortion), neither comes out as especially conservative in any one overall category—making for a close match.
Mismatches
Too ideologically extreme: Bernie Sanders, Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum
Bernie Sanders would likely be America's most liberal president in history, while Ted Cruz and Rick Santorum would probably set the record for most conservative. This is why none of the three are ultimately viable in the general election.
Too unconventional: Rand Paul, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina
Both Rand Paul and Ben Carson lean slightly left on international issues but hold strongly conservative opinions across several other matters. These libertarian-influenced platforms aren't new, but they don't translate to electoral victories—which is why neither has a good past-president equivalent.
Finally, Carly Fiorina stands out for her moderate views on women's issues and voter rights. As a candidate who leans right across most other issues, she offers a unique—and unmatched—perspective.
Close, but Not Quite
Scott Walker = George W. Bush?
Scott Walker comes close to Bush, with an economically conservative mindset paired with a somewhat hawkish approach to foreign policy. But the comparison breaks down once you look at Walker's extremely conservative views on all domestic issues, from crime to health care to the environment.
In fact, Walker's consistently conservative bent on domestic issues is unprecedented among all modern presidents.
Marco Rubio = Ronald Reagan?
Marco Rubio would love nothing more than to be labeled the next Reagan, and in fairness, he has a decent case. He's arguably the most charming candidate in the field, and he has a knack for answering complicated questions in simple terms. His ideological leanings also rise and fall with The Gipper—a little more conservative on health care and defense, a little less on individual rights and the economy.
The problem is that Rubio is simply much more conservative, overall, than the GOP's favorite modern president. That said, this may all be intentional. Rubio knows the GOP of 2015 is simply more conservative than the 1980 version. If Rubio wants to appeal to today's Republican base, this might be as close to the true Reagan as he can get.
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A 45-year old woman was killed in a knife attack in a parking lot outside a nursery school in Halmstad on Wednesday afternoon.
The woman's former partner has been detained on suspicion of murder or manslaughter. The alleged attacker was seen leaving the scene in a dark BMW. Shortly afterwards the car was seen driving at high speed northbound up the E6 motorway.
Police arrested the 47-year old man just north of Falkenberg, 40 kilometres from the scene, around half an hour after the attack. The arrest was undramatic, officers said.
The alarm was raised at 5:20 pm in the Andersberg residential area.
Witnesses said that the attacker and victim were sitting in the parked car when the woman either fell out our tried to drag herself out of the car door. She fell straight to the ground.
"The witnesses believe that this might have been preceded by some kind of struggle inside the car," said Inspector Lars Hamrén of Halmstad police.
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Deze superfamilie bevat in Europa bekende families en geslachten zoals de spreeuwen, vliegenvangers, tapuiten,  lijsters en waterspreeuwen.

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CIC directs Centre to list records of all leased properties
The RTI query had brought to light that though gov has leased out properties for private and institutional use, several users are still paying minimal rentNidhi Sharma | ET Bureau | June 10, 2017, 07:37 IST
NEW DELHI: The Central Information Commission has directed the government to compile records of all properties leased out by the government, including prime properties leased out during British era.
After a Right to Information (RTI) application revealed huge losses to the exchequer due to land leases given at throwaway Pre-Independence era rates, Information Commissioner Yashovardhan Azad has given six months to the government to sift through records and make public details of all properties leased out by government of India, name of lesees, type of lease (private or institutional, tenure of lease, whether lease as expired and if the tenant is still occupying property after expiration of lease.
The information has to be put up for disclosure by November this year.
The RTI query by Deepak Juneja had brought to light that though the government has leased out properties for private and institutional use, several users are still paying minimal rent, even after expiration of lease.
Juneja's application also revealed that the government had no compiled data about its own properties. Applauding Juneja's perseverance for a national cause, Azad has said in his order, "The applicant narrated that his primary focus was to reveal information about properties leased out during the pre-independence era for 90 years or 99 years for private as well as institutional use.
It is expected that due to passage of considerable period of time, these leases would have expired by now and thus the lease/s is/are no longer functional, yet the tenants/lessee continue to occupy the premises, which are usually spread over large spaces, for measly rental amounts which have barely been revised in all these years.
Thus the lessees/occupants of the premises are residing in large properties virtually free of cost. Lack of knowledge of the number of such premises and lack of initiative of civic authorities for getting such premises vacated are leading to loss worth several crores to the government.
The query of the applicant is centred around the core issue of larger interest of the society, since public money is drained by loss of revenue with respect to these properties." During hearings, it was found that there are at least 6,000-7,000 properties given out during British era but the land owning agencies are not aware of their status.
These have been discussed even at the level of lieutenant-governor of Delhi. Now, CIC has directed all land owning agencies and ministry of urban development to segregate and tabulate all leased out properties, including those of the British era.
While Azad has sought an action taken report by August, the agencies have to make the data public in November.
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Q: Importing web to another site collection I have 2 Site collections. One site collection is for active sub-sites and the other one is for sub-sites that can be archived.
I have created a powershell scheduled task to export sub-sites from the active site collection, and import to the archive site collection. I am doing this by using these commands:
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Export-SPWeb -Identity $web -Path ($ExportPath + "\" + $web.Title + ".cmp") -IncludeVersions All -IncludeUserSecurity -NoFileCompression  -ErrorVariable ProcessError;

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Import-SPWeb -Identity $newWebUrl -Path $ImportDirectory -IncludeUserSecurity -NoFileCompression -ErrorVariable ProcessError;

A lot of times this works perfectly fine, but some timeS I get a failure on Import. The exception says this:
import-spweb the date time represented by the string is out of range
I thought that this might have something to do with the regional settings, but they are equal on both site collections.
Anybody here thas has experienced the same issue, and have some tips for me ?