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The power of horror in Rwanda
Fifteen years ago, efforts at genocide killed about 800,000 Rwandans. Now that tragedy is providing the government with a cover for repression.
Kenneth Roth
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During a gruesome three months in 1994, about 800,000 Rwandans were murdered as part of a calculated effort by a group of Hutu extremists to eradicate the country's Tutsi population.
The genocide ended only with the military victory of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, a rebel group founded by Rwandan exiles who ousted the Hutu extremists. The front's austere and savvy commander, Paul Kagame, now serves as Rwanda's president.
In the 15 years since the extremist government was ousted, Rwanda has become an island of stability in a volatile region. The economy is booming, the distinction between Hutu and Tutsi is officially downplayed, and ethnic and political violence has been largely eradicated. Kigali, the capital of a country that likes to portray itself as the Switzerland of Africa, is orderly and manicured.
But Rwanda has a long way to go. Despite the facade of occasional elections, the government essentially runs a one-party state. And ironically, it is the genocide that has provided the government with a cover for repression. Under the guise of preventing another genocide, the government displays a marked intolerance of the most basic forms of dissent.
There is no meaningful opposition. The press is cowed. Nongovernmental organizations are under attack. When parliamentary elections held last September produced a whopping 92% victory for Kagame's ruling party, evidence collected by the European Union and Rwandan monitors suggested that the government actually inflated the percentage of opposition votes so as to avoid the appearance of an embarrassing Soviet-style acclamation.
One tool of repression has been the gacaca courts -- informal tribunals run without trained lawyers or judges -- which the government established at the community level to try alleged perpetrators of the genocide. The original impetus was understandable: Rwandan prisons were overpopulated with tens of thousands of alleged genocidaires and no prospect of the country's regular courts trying them within any reasonable time. The gacaca courts provided a quick, if informal, way to resolve these cases. In theory, members of the community would know who had or had not been involved in the genocide, but in reality the lack of involvement by legal professionals has left the proceedings open to manipulation.
Today, 15 years after the genocide, people are still coming forward and accusing their neighbors of complicity in it, suggesting that gacaca has morphed into a forum for settling personal vendettas or silencing dissident voices. The prospect of suddenly being accused of past participation in the genocide, with little legal recourse against concocted charges, is enough to make most people keep their heads down in the political arena.
The government says it will close the gacaca courts in June. But the government has another tool of control -- the crime of "genocide ideology." Formally adopted last year, the law outlawing "genocide ideology" is written so broadly that it can encompass even the most innocuous comments. As many Rwandans have discovered, disagreeing with the government or making unpopular statements can easily be portrayed as genocide ideology, punishable by sentences of 10 to 25 years. That leaves little political space for dissent.
Pressing the government to amend these repressive laws and practices is not easy, as I discovered in recent meetings with senior officials from the prime minister on down. They are understandably sensitive about political invective that can lead to renewed ethnic slaughter, but the public faces the very real danger that any political criticism of the government will be construed as fomenting genocide.
Western governments, guilt-ridden at not having stopped the genocide and impressed by Rwanda's stability and economic growth, have been all too willing to close their eyes to this repressive sleight of hand.
But Kagame's strategy is shortsighted and dangerous. He claims to be building a society in which citizens are only Rwandans, not Tutsi or Hutu, but his repression of civil society means that avenues to forge alternative bonds among people are limited. That makes it more likely that in moments of tension Rwandans will resort to their ethnic identity, as so often happens in repressive societies.
The challenge for world leaders 15 years after Rwanda's genocide is to overcome guilt and look beyond the enforced peace to convince Kagame and his government to build the foundation for more organic, lasting stability.
The best way to prevent another genocide is to insist that Kagame stop manipulating the last one.
Source URL: https://www.hrw.org/news/2009/04/11/power-horror-rwanda


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Sledgehammer Games co-founder Glen Schofield is leaving Activision
Schofield said he's moving on to other things at the end of December.
Sledgehammer Games co-founder Glen Schofield, who left the studio in February of this year to take on "new executive duties" at Activision, has announced that he will be leaving the company entirely at the end of December. Schofield said on Twitter that he's first going to take a break, and then he'll find something new to do.
I've had a great run here at Activision; 3 COD's- MW3, AW and WWll- that I'm proud of. I feel it's time to try something new tho. I'll be leaving Activision end of Dec. and taking some time off to relax. Then off to something else exciting.Thank u Activision for everything!December 10, 2018
Schofield was very positive about his near-decade-long stint with Activision, telling Gamespot that he has "nothing but good things to say" about his time with the company. And while he didn't offer any hints as to what he might get up to next, it sounds like he plans on staying in the games business.
"After nine years of CoD (which I love), I just think I need a change," he said. "I seriously am going to take my time finding my next gig. Make sure it's exactly what I want to do. I still have a couple good games in me."
Schofield co-founded Sledgehammer in 2009 with Michael Condrey. The studio co-developed Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 with Infinity Ward and then took the lead on Advanced Warfare and WWII. His credits extend back to the early '90s on games like The Simpsons: Bartman Meets Radioactive Man, The Ren and Stimpy Show: Space Cadet Adventures, Barbie Game Girl, and Gex: Enter the Gecko; prior to founding Sledgehammer, he was the general manager at EA's Visceral Games, where he headed up development (also with Condrey) of the outstanding survival-horror game Dead Space.
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* Ratings appear low but that isn't important. We actually use the entire scale 0-100 in our attributes, so you will get a wider range of outputs.
* Giants/Monsters will appear to be overrated due to their Kayfabe strength/unstoppable nature.
* View an 80 the way 2K naturally treats the 100 rating. So if a wrestler is over a 65, he is doing something right in the wrestling business.
* Don't get into, " How is ____ 3 points higher than ____." Look at tiers. If two wrestlers are within 3-4 points of eachother, that really isn't that much of a differential since we are in fact using the entire scale.
* Don't JUST look at the Overall rating. Remember, wrestlers are rated based on their skillset. So to blindly look at the OVR and not look at the individual attributes wouldn't due each wrestler justice.
*Enjoy the work. We put a lot of hours into this. This is just the first wave. All WWE wrestlers are included. Including Mae Young, WWE UK, and NXT. If someone is missing, please let us know.
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We borrowed heavily from The Fire Pro Wrestling series when editing our wrestlers. Each wrestler has been assigned a style that gives him/her a floor/ceiling to certain skills and attributes.
For example, if a wrestler is considered a GIANT, automatically he will be very low in all agility/flying based skills.
If a wrestler is based in Lucha, he wouldn't be proficient in power moves.
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I was wondering dc, did you do an attribute project for wwe 2k16?
That is definitely great news. I didn't look at the attributes yet. Are there any new ones? Or distinction as to the type of wrestler they are? I see there is a "squash rate" slider but no idea what that is or how it applies or knows who to apply to.


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"Let's take Trump at word," you say? What? When as of March 3, 2019, in 773 days the President had made 9014 "false or misleading claims ?"
Well, yes. We all tell lies, or at least fibs, from time-to-time, don't we? And the President is entitled to his. Some might argue that he is not entitled to such a large number, especially since, by title at least, he is President of the United States. Others might argue that he does not act in office like any of his predecessors, and thus not does not really deserve the title of "President." Also, by the popular vote total, he lost the election. But by that peculiar provision of the U.S. Constitution, which is indeed the product of what used to be called the Peculiar Institution, that is the Electoral College, he is the President, at least in name. And so. Let's for once give him the benefit of the doubt.
And let's then say, as the premise of this column that everything that is going on in terms of investigations of the President is one big "Hoax" and one big "Witch-hunt." By "hoax" presumably he means that there's nothing to see there. That it's all made up. And by "witch-hunt" presumably he means that his opponents are going after him not because of anything he's done that's criminal (or at least dicey for someone who holds the office of the President) but because of who he is and what he stands for.
The last time we had a true political witch hunt in this country was during the McCarthy Era when tens of thousands of people had their lives materially changed --- for the worse --- because of their beliefs (left-wing of one sort or another), not because of anything they did. Trump surely doesn't know this history and thus doesn't know that he is completely mis-using the term. But again, for the sake of the argument for this column that is way beside the point. He has given the term his own meaning and his followers, as well as the Propaganda Channel(as dissected by The New Yorker's Jane Mayer and discussed in this space last week), have stayed right with him. In fact, the role of Fox has been critical in maintaining Trump in the Presidency.
Witch Fever: Ah yes, Trump's sort of witch.
But OK, Mr. Trump. Let's say that there is no truth in any of the charges, indictments, guilty-pleas, and criminal convictions which have been brought against you (for you it is just charges, indirectly so far) and members of your administration and campaign team. We would just love to know how you would intend to go about handling the following items, showing the U.S. people and indeed the world, just how false they all are. The list is not exhaustive, because we don't want to exhaust you.
II. The evidence, from Mike Cohen and potentially others (like Felix Sater and Alan Weisselberg) that you were negotiating for a Trump Tower Moscow deal during the Presidential Campaign and even a bit after it, when you were telling the U.S. electorate that you had "no business with Russia." There are surely explanations as to why those are in the "Hoax/Witch-hunt" category, no?
III. As best as we can make out, according to the Internal Revenue Service, "under audit" is no impediment to releasing one's tax returns. Surely you have nothing to hide in them, do you? So if that's the case, why not just go ahead and release them? And why, if every other President and Presidential candidate in the modern era has released theirs, and surely you do have nothing to hide in them, why would it be playing into the "hoax" for you to release yours?
IV. On that famous "Trump Tower meeting." We don't yet know whether or not you knew about for sure (although surely, if Don Jr. didn't report on it to you that would likely be the only time something significant happened at a meeting involving either your business and that campaign where he didn't report to you), but why would it be "hoaxy," again if there is nothing to hide (like breaking the law by working with a foreign power in re an election --- let's just not use that loaded term "collusion"), just to satisfy everyone who wants to know just what went on in it --- given that of course noting illegal, potentially illegal, or unethical took place.
V. As for the payoffs to Karen McDougal and Stephanie Clifford, again one wonders why it is "hoaxy" to look into them and to try to find out if you had any direct connection with them (like those checks to Mike Cohen seem to indicate that you did). It would seem that if you didn't know anything about them and that Mike Cohen did the deeds on his own, you would want to establish that. Again, why would doing so be playing into a "hoax," when there are those checks sitting out there?
VI. According to a variety of witnesses, you sub-borned perjury to Michael Cohen. If there is substantiated evidence that you indeed did that --- which surely you could contradict, no? --- why would bringing it forward constitute a hoax?
VII. Violations of campaign finance laws. See the Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels cases. Again, either you did or you didn't. And yes, if you didn't and could prove it despite those checks, that one could be defined as a hoax.
VIII. And then we get to the tax fraud (understating your assets/income), bank fraud (overstating your assets, see Deutsche Bank, and oops, they will shortly be turning over records to several different agencies), and insurance fraud (overstating the value of property lost) --- all according to Cohen at least, and he does claim to have documentation --- assuming that none of those matters lead to you, one could guess that all those charges amount to a hoax, that is if you conclusively prove them all false (in spite of the documentation that Cohen claims to have --- and has delivered to a variety of authorities).
IX. Money-laundering. Again, see Deutsche Bank, which has already paid $630 million in fines for laundering Russian money from various sources. They have been your principal bank for quite some time -- that is since the US banks stopped lending to you following the Atlantic City bankruptcies --- and again they are turning over records. Depending upon what those records show on a possible relationship between you and money laundering (which, you may or may not know, is illegal), the whole thing could be defined as a "hoax" --- or not. Money laundering - washing money in a washing machine. Not exactly the kind that Trump's bank, Deutsche Bank, was fined for doing.
X. And then we come to "The Dossier." You know, the one that your good buddy at Fox"News", Sean Hannity, keeps hammering away on as the product of a Clinton Plot (when actually the initial funding to Christopher Steele came from a Republican source. Clinton picked it up only when you won the nomination and the "Never-Trump" campaign came to an end, temporarily). The New Yorker's Jane Mayer, yes the same Jane Mayer who just wrote the big expose about the almost incestuous relationship you have with Fox"News"(you must love her, no?), just about a year ago wrote an extensive column that showed that a lot of what Steele came up with did have a basis in fact. If it didn't, then its use would surely be a hoax. And if that were the case, surely you could, by chapter and verse, prove it to be one.
Well, Mr. President, as I said in the introduction to this list (which actually could have been a lot longer): "We would just love to know how you would intend to go about handling the following items, showing the U.S. people and indeed the world, just how false they all are. The list is not exhaustive, because we don't want to exhaust you."
And so, taking you and Rudy and Jay (Sekulow, who used to be a front for the Christian Right) at your word, if it's all a "hoax and a witch-hunt," surely it would be piece of cake for you to prove that. Would it not?


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Age of Reason () — песня группы Black Sabbath с альбома 13 выпущена как четвёртый сингл с альбома 19 апреля 2014 года.

Сингл был выпущен компанией Secret 7" на 7-дюймовой виниловой пластинке в двух редакциях общим количеством 107 экземпляров.

Первая редакция выпущена общим тиражом 100 экземпляров. Каждый сингл имеет своё уникальное оформление, которое рисовалось художниками разных стран мира. Деньги с продаж этой пластинки шли в благотворительную организацию War Child.

Вторая редакция так же выпущена на 7-дюймовой виниловой пластинке в количестве 7 экземпляров. Все экземпляры номерные, каждый из них подписан Батлером, Айомми и Осборном.

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The Relation of Drug Addiction to Industry
By T. S. Blair
Journal of Industrial Hygeine, Vol. 1 (October, 1919), 284-96. Copyright 1919,
American Medical Association; reprinted by special permission.
Among industrial workers I believe drug tippling to be as common as among other employed people, but, so far as I can ascertain, and I have made rather wide special inquiry along this line, drug addiction is not at all common among the better class of industrial workers. The better the enforcement of law, the less tippling with drugs exists, for the tippler will not go the same length to obtain drugs irregularly as will the addict. With adequate laws definitely enforced, drug tippling could be all but eliminated; and with the laws as they are, the executives of manufacturing plants could suppress drug tippling in their communities to a very great extent. Stop drug tippling in a community by arresting the right people-usually a few peddlers, one or two degenerate doctors, and perhaps a crooked druggist-and the making of new drug addicts would soon come to an end. There are communities where this has been done in which drug addiction has almost disappeared. There remain, of course, a few confirmed addicts and some aged and infirm people who seem to be unable to break the habit.
Industries have this matter largely in their own hands. The authorities will cooperate in any town where they are definitely asked to do so and are backed up by public sentiment without political flavor. But where there is timidity, a shutting of eyes to actual conditions and to the people responsible, where no one will appear willingly at hearings to testify to what he knows, where somebody has to be "protected," where professional reformers of no experience with addicts and their devious ways are placed in chame, and where the whole plan leaks out before arrests are made -in these communities little can be done. It is a business, legal and police matter, just the same as an epidemic of petty larceny in a community.
There are addicts who seem to keep in good condition for many years. Yesterday I examined one such and could find no symptoms of note. He is a man 53 years of age, holds a responsible position, is highly respected-in short, a man of refinement and education and possessed of many virtues. He looks well, works hard and has no disease except a slight prostatitis. Yet this gentleman takes 25 grains of morphine daily and has done so for fourteen years. He has taken as high as 40 grains in a day and is in a state of marked nervous trepidation if he reduces below 15 grains a day. Such cases, and there are many of them, baffle the theorists who essay to account for drug addiction on the basis of some disease complex. Yet such cases bear out my contention that drug tippling may never become drug addiction in some people, in fact in many people. When I say these people do not become drug addicts, I mean in the commonly accepted sense. Their peculiar form of addiction seems to be necessary to maintain their normal efficiency; and they display not the slightest desire to stop taking opiates.
I never knew how many individuals of this type there are until after the law made it necessary to report them to this bureau. Almost invariably they are people of importance in their communities, some of them executives in banking, business or industry. The dosage taken by them varies widely, some take as little as one-half grain of morphine a day. These people differ from the drug tippler, for the tippler takes the drug intermittently.
The worst class of drug-takers are not found in the industries at all, so the industrial world does not have to meet the situation in its more serious phases. The industrial worker, if he becomes one of the degenerate type of addicts, does not remain an industrial worker; he is physically unable to work and would not be tolerated by his fellows if he tried to do so. The average industrial worker despises the "dope" and promptly reports any such discovered. Labor unions rarely tolerate the confirmed drug-taker, and he loses his union card. Yet a degree of prophylaxis in an industrial organization is advisable. Morale should be kept up in every way and the idea disseminated that it is not manly to tipple with "dope." The "Treat'em Rough" idea as regards peddlers of drugs will make this cowardly class keep away from the works. Good housing, prompt attention to illness and disability, sanitary surroundings, a minimum of night work, reasonable regulations regarding the use of alcoholic liquors, and an interest in the men and their families, will go a long way to prevent drug tippling.
Having discussed the problem in general, we will now consider a survey of some of the industries. This survey is not based wholly on our own observations, since numerous industrial physicians have furnished us with data, some to be credited to them and some already embraced in what has preceded.
Drifting labor-the casual workman and the gangs collected to meet industrial emergencies-must first be noted, for there is a great incidence of addiction and drug tippling among this class. This is not true of foreigners, for there is no great amount of narcotic-using among the races from Europe most employed in industry. The physicians of Europe employ narcotics most sparingly, and the European laborer, in consequence, seldom is a drug addict. But the class of native Americans who drift, many of them men who have left regular occupations on account of their babits, are deplorably given to the use of alcohol and narcotics.
The American negro is, seerpingly, a willing addict. This is especially the case in the South and in the slum districts of northern cities, as well as among domestic servants and hotel employees; but many of the industrial workers of this race become addicts, drift from place to place, and often have police records. Some of the negro labor camps in the South simply breed addicts. They are deplorable places, as I can testify from observation. The men work about four days in the week and "celebrate" the rest of the time, usually by taking a trip to another camp, where high carnival is held-carnival which involves the use of considerable cocaine or other narcotics when they can be obtained. The supply is usually irregular, and hence there is more of drug debauchery than of regular addiction; but the participants become regular addicts if they leave the camp and take up city residence.
Gang labor at seaports is notoriously given to drug addiction. Baltimore and New Orleans are especially bad in this respect, for there are many vessels putting in at these places from South American ports, mostly tramp steamers, and their crews have a good opportunity to bring in opiates. The large vessels have better crews under better discipline, and there is less drug traffic from such vessels. The internal revenue agents keep this traffic down in large measure but are unable wholly to suppress it. Negroes are also employed largely at these ports-a fact which accounts for many of the bad conditions. I was told at Baltimore that probably much of the narcotic supply smuggled in there comes from Brazil. At New Orleans the geography is such as to make smuggling from small vessels very easy. Then, too, the Mississippi traffic is extensive, and I noted a preponderance of negroes on many of the boats, even up as far as St. Louis, where negro labor is employed largely along the waterfront.
Gang labor along the Mexican border is less of a problem, for the Mexican has an assortment of strong alcoholic beverages which make mere opiates superfluous to him. Yet he is keen for an easy profit, and I learned at Tia Juana, near San Diego, Cal., as well as at other border towns, notably Juarez opposite El Paso, Texas, that smuggling of narcotics is profitable. I was in California during one of the I. W. W. disturbances, and learned that this group of men is partly recruited from workmen who became industrial outcasts from indulgence in alcohol and narcotics.
New York and Boston harbors are under such close surveillance that it is not probable that great quantities of narcotics come in undiscovered; but along the Maine coast there are so many places where small vessels can put in undetected that there is plenty of opportunity for smuggling. The Bay of Fundy offers splendid opportunity for the smuggler from Canada, since small vessels come and go under very slight supervision, and the fisheries employ thousands of men of the drifter class. They live in camps and move on after the season is over. Yet at Eastport I was informed that if such traffic exists it is not noted locally, for the typical population of New England is not of the sort given largely to drug addiction. Inquiry among some of the industries in New England revealed very little of a narcotic problem.
We get, however, great quantities of narcotics through smuggling from Canada, probably principally from the lake traffic, through Detroit, Buffalo, Chicago and Cleveland. My own observation in these cities has been too casual to justify expression of opinion, except to say that in all of them there is considerable drug addiction among floating industrial forces. So far as I know, however, there has been no intensive study of the problem in these cities.
We need special treaties with Canada and Mexico designed to suppress the traffic in narcotics which, if reports are correct, has grown to rather large proportions.
There is always a danger that the floating labor gangs will corrupt the regular forces. Some of this was noted during the pressure of war production, when labor was hard to procure and few questions were asked. We heard of instances in Pennsylvania, but the trouble was promptly corrected. There was also similar trouble reported in Connecticut, though I do not know the facts. There are drug peddlers among floating labor, and these men must be carefully watched.
With reference to war conditions, the chief physician of a large electrical manufacturing company in Pennsylvania writes:
"Last summer, during the unusual labor conditions, when almost anyone applying was able to find work of some sort, I believe two or three addicts were emploved whose babit was afterward discovered and which made them ill-fitted for their work, and they were discharged."
In reference to the usual routine in that extensive establishment, the same physician writes as follows:
"All employees are examined before engagement, but this examination is directly chiefly at major defects which would concern a man's placement in industry. For instance, the eyes are tested, inquiry made as to lung troubles and wherever necessary examination made for these; the heart is examined; also examination is made for the presence of hernia and any other defects which may concern the man's occupation directly. in regard to drug addicts, no direct inquiries are made and it is quite possible that some addicts are employed who do not show contracted pupil, characteristic skin or other signs which would readily call attention to their condition. I doubt very much if many confirmed addicts have been employed here, and we have no reports coming to us in the works, or in either the hospital administration or welfare work, of any case of the sort."
Yet this report comes from a city where addiction has been found to be more than ordinarily common. Doubtless drug tipplers would pass the examination, or at least some of them would; but it is altogether likely that most drug tipplers employed regularly in so well-ordered a plant would cease the use of the drug. It does not seem to me necessary for an industrial plant to set out a drag-net for minor disabilities or minor addictions.
The drifters who go out with circus labor gangs, carnivals, amusement park attractions, etc., have given us considerable trouble. Gangs of strike-breakers, men employed on large outside construction work, the extra forces engaged in loading and unloading vessels during the war, etc., are reported to have had an unusual number of drug addicts among them.
Where definite statistics have been collected, "transportation workers" have figured considerably. But when one realizes that "transportation" covers a multitude of workers, there need be no alarm felt. Transportation companies employ a great number of drifters at times and a large proportion of employees are only laborers. Then, too, every jitney driver, hotel bus driver, elevator operator, chauffeur, ferry boatman, etc., is engaged in transportation.
When one inquires as regards engine drivers, conductors, other train employees, dispatchers, motormen, etc., there is little evidence of drug addiction among the personnel. The chief medical examiner for one of our large trunk-line railroads writes:
"In our railroad relations we have come in contact with very few, if any, cases of this character [addiction], for, as a matter of fact, all employees entering our service are required to undergo physical examination by one of the company medical examiners, and those in whom drug addiction is suspected are declined employment. Furthermore, railroad employees, particularly those engaged in train service, are periodically examined, and the reaular hours of employment and nature of the work naturally precludes a tendency to the development of the drug habit."
Some ten years ago, when making studies in the sanitation of public carriers, I encountered no complaints regarding drug addiction among the workers. As regards the train operating forces of transportation companies, we have had no complaints whatever come to this bureau.
Heavy outdoor employment does not lead to addiction. Farmers are not given to drug-taking on account of employment, but they often become addicts on account of neglected physical disability and the distance which they live from a physician. In former general practice, before the Harrison Act was in force, when called to see a person some distance in the country-it was a Pennsylvania German neighborhood-I would usually find the family had not summoned me until after the patient had been ill for several days, and, if the trouble was painful, until after free use had been made of the laudanum bottle, kept well-filled in every household. Yet there was little addiction among active farmers, although laudanum was used as a matter of course for many troubles. This was not the case among retired farmers, invalids on the farms, tenants, domestic farm help, and the much-harassed farmers' wives. Among these people there was much addiction, and our reports in this bureau, while showing less free use of narcotics in rural communities than formerly, do very positively show a per capita consumption of opiates in the small towns and villages adjacent to the farms where the drugs are secured from physicians or on prescription, very far in excess of the per capita consumption in the large cities. We cannot get separate farm statistics that are worth much for the reason that the purchases or prescriptions are secured in town; but we have an altogether out-of-proportion list of rural dwellers on our addict lists. They are mostly invalids and aged people.
In welfare work, industrial medical service, sanitation, etc., the largest industry of all, farming, is sadly neglected. These factors, not the work itself, account for a very large rural incidence of drug-taking.
Much the same must be said of lumber camps, isolated mines, and other heavy industries in rural environments. There is much drug addiction in these places based on the human element, not on the character of the work itself, for work does not breed addiction. A physician in a well-managed anthracite mining industry writes:
"I have had no mine workers as patients who could be classed as drug addicts, alcoholics excepted. I have made inquiries of my fellow practitioners in my own and surrounding towns and find that as a class anthracite coal miners and mine workers are exceptionally free from the use of morphine, opium and cocaine."
My own observation confirms this report. But it must be noted that anthracite mining is a highly developed industry, in places of considerable population and, usually, with good medical service supplied. The contract doctor, however, is not always what he ought to be; and this particular system of remuneration for medical service throws too many temptations in the way of physicians who are inclined to make a little money on the side. Some of the worst medical offenders against the narcotic laws in Pennsylvania are in towns adjacent to the coal mines. We have been obliged to take legal steps with some of them and are securing evidence against others.
I believe that conditions are worse in the bituminous industry, more especially in coke-oven towns. Bituminous mines are often in small places and the poorer grades of such coal are processed. Here there is negro labor, often a poorer grade of white labor, and the housing conditions and the general sanitation are poor. Conditions are worse in Colorado and the southern mining sections than in Pennsylvania, with, of course, an increased incidence of drug addiction. It is possible that prohibition in these latter regions turns many miners from alcohol to drugs. I was in the Colorado coal mining district during the trouble there in 1913, and I found wretched conditions in many ways. Here in Pennsylvania our trouble has been with drink, and comparatively little with narcotics.
In considering the problem of drug addiction in the more skilled lines of industry, I will quote from a number of letters received from industrial physicians. A physician in the medical department of a large optical goods manufactory writes as follows:
"I can truthfully say that during my six years' connection with this company I have seen not a single case of drug addiction.... The question is directly comparable to the venereal problem. No doubt we have our full quota of drug addicts as well as venereal diseases, but they do not under the present general policy in industry come near the medical department, for obvious reasons. This policy is in a fair way to be reversed very soon, I believe, and then we will have a different story to tell."
Another industrial physician-in the relief department of one of our largest manufacturing concerns-thinks drug addicts are little of a problem in industry, and he goes on to say:
"In the eleven years that I have been associated with this work, supervising from ten to thirty thousand men, and having all cases of a suspicious character referred to the department, I have encountered but two cases. Both were physicians, I am sorry to say, one an American and the other English.
"There may be isolated instances of drug addicts employed in the industries, but I am confident that the gravity of the situation is grossly exaggerated, and I doubt the government's figures, namely, that the per capita consumption of opium in the U. S. A. exceeds that of China. This seems to me to be a vile slander. Persons so addicted are unfit for industry, and are self-eliminated.
In the heavy industries employing skilled labor I find little evidence of addiction among the better class of workers. The chief surgeon of one of the largest steel corporations says: "We have had no trouble with the drug addicts. Through mv association with men, I recall three cases, two morphine and one cocaine. As a rule, the fellow workmen are very keen in detecting anything of this nature and report it."
As this corporation is a Pennsylvania concern, I took occasion to check up on it and found a dozen or more cases of addiction among their workers, chiefly among negroes; and, for a while, two drug peddlers were working for them. We promptly attended to these cases and stopped the two physicians, and the one drug store that were responsible for conditions. The two physicians were practising in adjoining towns, and not one of the employees retained his place for long. One peddler was sent to jail and the other absconded and has not been traced in this state. He was last reported in Cleveland, Ohio, and was duly reported to the federal authorities.
A very frank chief surgeon in another large steel industry writes:
"We have very little opportunity to accurately ascertain how much drug addiction there is in the iron and steel industries. I am inclined to think, however, it is extraordinarily small. During the past ten years, only two or three cases have come to my personal attention and they were negroes and were cocaine and heroin addicts."
The physician in charge of a large Michigan automobile factory writes:
"We have never yet had to deal with a drug addict. I don't think one could pass the employment department and get to work in the factory. If he did the foreman would detect something about him-enough to let him go without sending to the medical or welfare departments."
The director of the department of health in an extensive rubber goods plant in Ohio writes:
"In the three and one-half years in which our department has secured a fair medical control of the industry, we have not detected any drug addicts applying for employment, nor have we found any in the industryThe percentage that are in the employ, or who have been emploved, cannot be very high because of the fairly well-developed medical control."
In the lighter industries employing skilled labor I can find little evidence of addiction. It is unskilled labor, here as elsewhere, that is the more given to addiction.


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Q: $EX = 0$ and $\textrm{MGF}(t)= \infty$ for all $t>0$ This is a Durret exercise 2.7.5:

Suppose that $X_1,X_2,\ldots$ are iid with $EX_1 = 0$ and $E[e^{tX_1}]
 = \infty$ for all $t>0$. Let $S_n = X_1+\cdots+X_n$. Prove that for all $a>0$: $$\frac{1}{n} \log P(S_n \geq na) \xrightarrow{n\to\infty}
 0.$$

I have the intuition for this exercise: $P(X\geq a)$ decays slow enough so  that the moment generating function infinite. But i don't know how to start with this. Can you someone please help?

A: Let $g\geq 0$ be a borel function, then for all $a> 0$, we have that:
\begin{align*}
E[g(X)] &= g(0) + \int_{0}^{\infty} g(t) P(X > t)dt \\
&= g(0) + \int_{0}^{\infty} g(t) P(X > t)dt \\
&= g(0) + \sum_{n\geq 0} \int_{n}^{n+1} g(t) P(X > t)dt \\
&\leq g(0) + \sum_{n\geq 0} \left(\sup_{n\leq t\leq n+1}g(t)\right) P(X>n)
\end{align*}
For $e^{\theta X}$, we get that:
$$E[e^\theta X] = 1 + \sum_{n\geq 0}e^{\theta(n+1)}P(X>n) = \infty \implies \sum_{n\geq 0} e^{\theta n} P(X>n) = \infty.$$
Let $\epsilon>0$, then we must have $P(X_n>an) > e^{-(\theta + \epsilon)n}$ infinitely often since $$\sum_{n\geq 1} e^{-\epsilon n} < \infty.$$
Therefore,
$$\limsup\limits_{n\to\infty} \frac{1}{n} \log P(X>n) \geq -(\theta + \epsilon).$$
Taking $\epsilon \to 0$ and then $\theta \to 0$ gives us that $\limsup\frac{1}{n} \log P(X>n) = 0$. This in turn gives us that $\lim\frac{1}{n} \log P(S_n>an) = 0$ for all $a\in\mathbb{R}$ by a lemma we proved in class.

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Astrophysics > Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
[Submitted on 10 Jan 2022 (v1), last revised 16 Jun 2022 (this version, v2)]
Title:Searching for dark-matter waves with PPTA and QUIJOTE pulsar polarimetry
Authors:Andrés Castillo, Jorge Martin-Camalich, Jorge Terol-Calvo, Diego Blas, Andrea Caputo, Ricardo Tanausú Génova Santos, Laura Sberna, Michael Peel, Jose Alberto Rubiño-Martín
Abstract: The polarization of photons emitted by astrophysical sources might be altered as they travel through a dark matter medium composed of ultra light axion-like particles (ALPs). In particular, the coherent oscillations of the ALP background in the galactic halo induce a periodic change on the polarization of the electromagnetic radiation emitted by local sources such as pulsars. Building up on previous works, we develop a new, more robust, analysis based on the generalised Lomb-Scargle periodogram to search for this periodic signal in the emission of the Crab supernova remnant observed by the QUIJOTE MFI instrument and 20 galactic pulsars from the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) project. We also carefully take into account the stochastic nature of the axion field, an effect often overlooked in previous works. This refined analysis leads to the strongest limits on the axion-photon coupling for a wide range of dark matter masses spanning $10^{-23}\text{ eV}\lesssim m_a\lesssim10^{-19} \text{ eV}$. Finally, we survey possible optimal targets and the potential sensitivity to axionic dark-matter in this mass range that could be achieved using pulsar polarimetry in the future.
Comments: 31 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables v2: Matches published version
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
Cite as: arXiv:2201.03422 [astro-ph.CO]
(or arXiv:2201.03422v2 [astro-ph.CO] for this version)
Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2022/06/014
From: Jorge Terol Calvo [view email]
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Exclusive: Khloé Kardashian tells HELLO! that her sister Kim will be a 'phenomenal' mother
July 01, 2013 - 19:58 BST hellomagazine.com Khloé Kardashian chats exclusively to HELLO! Online about her sister Kim adapting to motherhood, the dramatic new series of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, weight loss, fertility and more....
Khloé Kardashian Odom has told HELLO! Online that her sister Kim Kardashian, who has just become a first-time mum to baby girl North West, will be a "phenomenal mother".
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What sort of mum do you think Kim is going to be?
"I think she is going to be a fabulous mum. No matter how many books you read or videos you watch, you'll never be 100 per cent prepared, but your maternal instincts kick in."
You wrote a supportive email to Kim after she was criticised for both her pregnancy style and weight gain. Did you know she was going to publish that on her blog?
"No. Kim was actually at my house earlier that day and people were being vicious to her and she was having a really hard day. After she left my house, I wrote her that email and I didn't know she was going to put it on her blog. People were tweeting me 'what a beautiful letter' and I called Kim and said 'I think your email was hacked as people know about the letter'. She said 'Oh no, it really touched me' and she just wanted to share how supportive of one another we are. It was her choice. I don't mind that it is out there, but it was really just meant for Kimberley. I was a little embarrassed that it was so mushy, but hey."
Kim has said that you're the most protective when it comes to the Kardashian sisters and their men...
"Very true (laughs). I might be the baby out of Kourtney and Kim, but you know, I am very protective and can be vicious. Be wary of me. I just, you know, I feel like I have to protect them."
You've been open about your battle to conceive and you've said that you have strangers offering you fertility advice...
"Yes they do. I understand it is sweet and they are trying to be helpful, but like I can be in the grocery store and taken aback by this conversation I am having with a complete stranger. It is so personal that I do get wierded out, but I also have to kind of step back and realise they are trying to be helpful. You know, they know the ins and outs of my life because of the show, I have to remind myself of that, too."
Viewers of the latest series of Keeping Up With the Kardashians will see how Kim's pregnancy is different to Kourtney's...
"Yeah, very different. I think that is going to be something really interesting for viewers, too. Kourtney's pregnancy was so effortless and easy, and even her labour, she pulled out her own son, which is not what you would say is normal. Then Kim's pregnancy has not been so easy, with some harder days and some great days. But I think that it is great for women to see all the different forms of pregnancy, like even with two sisters, how different they can be."
Your slimmed down figure has been attracting a lot of attention lately. Did you expect that?
"Well no, I have been on a work-out kick for about eight months now. I've been really focused on trying to lose some weight and stay healthy and fit. And you know, nothing is quick, there hasn't been anything sudden. I don't know why people have suddenly noticed - it has been about eight months of me working out and trying to get fit. I don't really understand all the commotion."
What motivated you to lose weight?
"Nothing in particular. I mean my weight has always fluctuated and I have always struggled with that, and done diets and stuff that's not long term and not a real solution. I have really just made a lifestyle change. You can eat all this junk food, but you don't realise how fast you can gain weight. It has just been something I have been slowly doing."
Your husband is basketball player Lamar Odom. Does he motivate you to get fit?
"He has loved my body in all shapes and sizes, he has never critiqued it or anything. I have a very supportive husband. I love working out with him. I thought I wouldn't have because he would be constantly fixing my form or whatever, but it is really fun. We go on hikes, we have a puppy and we take him with us. It is fun, you know, he teaches me new work-outs that I would never know. It's bonding."
What's the most dramatic thing we can expect to see in the new series?
"I mean we, there is so much, and we are still filming until August, but in the very premiere episode were filmed finding out the sex of Kim's baby, which was so incredible, then my stepbrothers are now going to be part of the series which you know is such a bonus, and no-one has ever seen that dynamic before. I think it is going to be really special and something that viewers are going to want to see. I mean there is so much, we have been filming for like five months, and I forget everything that has happened."
We will also get to see Kim's baby shower in the series, which you helped arranged along with your sister Kourtney, mum Kris Jenner and family friend Shelli Azoff...
"I was really excited for it. Planning for it was really irritating because there were so many cooks in the kitchen. Things got lost in translation and it got very irritating. Kourtney and I were like 'lets do it by ourselves because there are too many people.'"
What did you buy Kim?
"My sister wanted everyone to donate money to a children's hospital in Chicago."
Your stepbrothers Bruce and Brandon Jenner are both in the new series. How does this change the dynamics?
"When my mum married Bruce Jenner, we all lived under the same roof, all eight of us [Bruce has four children from previous relationships) before Kylie and Kendall were born. When we all got a little older, everyone went their separate ways, but with Bruce's kids, but we all have such a connection as we grew up in the same home. Bruce and Brody had a bit more of a strained relationship and recently they have been working on that, and I'm glad you really get to see that, go down that journey, with them reconnecting on the show. You really get an understanding of Bruce's children and Bruce a little more. We [the Kardashian siblings] have a really close relationship with them, which is great. We get on really well."
Has there ever been footage that you've asked not to be used or have you ever stopped filming?
"No never. We have never done that ever and I think that's why people love our show, you can tell it is authentic. We have shown some pretty crazy things, and not all things are good, you know; dark times and some of the fights are nasty, and Scott's ups and downs. We think it makes us learn and grow and better ourselves as human beings. I think that is the attraction."
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