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"""
Utility code for the Django example consumer and server.
"""

from urlparse import urljoin

from django.db import connection
from django.template.context import RequestContext
from django.template import loader
from django import http
from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse as reverseURL

from django.conf import settings

from openid.store.filestore import FileOpenIDStore
from openid.store import sqlstore
from openid.yadis.constants import YADIS_CONTENT_TYPE

def getOpenIDStore(filestore_path, table_prefix):
    """
    Returns an OpenID association store object based on the database
    engine chosen for this Django application.

    * If no database engine is chosen, a filesystem-based store will
      be used whose path is filestore_path.

    * If a database engine is chosen, a store object for that database
      type will be returned.

    * If the chosen engine is not supported by the OpenID library,
      raise ImproperlyConfigured.

    * If a database store is used, this will create the tables
      necessary to use it.  The table names will be prefixed with
      table_prefix.  DO NOT use the same table prefix for both an
      OpenID consumer and an OpenID server in the same database.

    The result of this function should be passed to the Consumer
    constructor as the store parameter.
    """

    db_engine = settings.DATABASES['default']['ENGINE']
    if not db_engine:
        return FileOpenIDStore(filestore_path)

    # get the suffix
    db_engine = db_engine.split('.')[-1]

    # Possible side-effect: create a database connection if one isn't
    # already open.
    connection.cursor()

    # Create table names to specify for SQL-backed stores.
    tablenames = {
        'associations_table': table_prefix + 'openid_associations',
        'nonces_table': table_prefix + 'openid_nonces',
        }

    types = {
        'postgresql': sqlstore.PostgreSQLStore,
        'postgresql_psycopg2': sqlstore.PostgreSQLStore,
        'mysql': sqlstore.MySQLStore,
        'sqlite3': sqlstore.SQLiteStore,
        }

    try:
        s = types[db_engine](connection.connection,
                                            **tablenames)
    except KeyError:
        raise ImproperlyConfigured, \
              "Database engine %s not supported by OpenID library" % \
              (db_engine,)

    try:
        s.createTables()
    except (SystemExit, KeyboardInterrupt, MemoryError), e:
        raise
    except:
        # XXX This is not the Right Way to do this, but because the
        # underlying database implementation might differ in behavior
        # at this point, we can't reliably catch the right
        # exception(s) here.  Ideally, the SQL store in the OpenID
        # library would catch exceptions that it expects and fail
        # silently, but that could be bad, too.  More ideally, the SQL
        # store would not attempt to create tables it knows already
        # exists.
        pass

    return s

def getViewURL(req, view_name_or_obj, args=None, kwargs=None):
    relative_url = reverseURL(view_name_or_obj, args=args, kwargs=kwargs)
    full_path = req.META.get('SCRIPT_NAME', '') + relative_url
    return urljoin(getBaseURL(req), full_path)

def getBaseURL(req):
    """
    Given a Django web request object, returns the OpenID 'trust root'
    for that request; namely, the absolute URL to the site root which
    is serving the Django request.  The trust root will include the
    proper scheme and authority.  It will lack a port if the port is
    standard (80, 443).
    """
    name = req.META['HTTP_HOST']
    try:
        name = name[:name.index(':')]
    except:
        pass

    try:
        port = int(req.META['SERVER_PORT'])
    except:
        port = 80

    proto = req.META['SERVER_PROTOCOL']

    if 'HTTPS' in proto:
        proto = 'https'
    else:
        proto = 'http'

    if port in [80, 443] or not port:
        port = ''
    else:
        port = ':%s' % (port,)

    url = "%s://%s%s/" % (proto, name, port)
    return url

def normalDict(request_data):
    """
    Converts a django request MutliValueDict (e.g., request.GET,
    request.POST) into a standard python dict whose values are the
    first value from each of the MultiValueDict's value lists.  This
    avoids the OpenID library's refusal to deal with dicts whose
    values are lists, because in OpenID, each key in the query arg set
    can have at most one value.
    """
    return dict((k, v[0]) for k, v in request_data.iteritems())


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ansergis.com
Welcome to the home page of AnserGIS AB
Current and Previous Projects
Norway : Big Country, Big Data!
Modelling Norwegian Landscape Change – Big Landscape, Big Data!
We are helping the Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute to better understand why, and just as importantly where, the landscape is likely to change due to decline in the number of farmers.
We are using Multiple Linear Regression, Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) and Logistic Regression to model the relationship between the propensity for a farm to be abandoned and farm production statistics and landscape context. Each method provides a different insight into the data accross the range of scales from national to individual farms.
The sheer size of Norway, combined with diversity in landscapes and some tremendously detailed data mean this is a technological as well as analytical challenge involving hundreds of thousands of logit regressions, and GWR accross hundreds of aggregate data points – precisley the kind of challenge we love!
Paper using Mutli-Linear and Geographically Weighted Regression to investigate the drivers of farm land abandonment trends in Norway.
Sang, N., Dramstad, W., Bryn, A., 2014, Regionality in Norwegian farmland abandonment: Inferences from production data, Applied Geography, Volume 55, December 2014, Pages 238–247.
This work was undertaken in collaboration with the Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute.
Visual Perception Computing
Visual Topology
Forming part of his PhD thesis, Neil identified the role of topology in visibility analysis and of horizon graphs in Landscape perception (see left). This inlcuded development of a data structure to model occluding horizons using pointers, implemented in Borland Delphi on Quad-Edge Delaunay Triangulations.
In parallel to this work, a web survey was implemented to investigate the perceptual salience of the horizon graph. It was designed to have as simple a user interface as possible for respondents, and automatically collated results in a database. The survey is now closed, but you can try it out here http://www.odelandskap.se/intro.aspx.
A summary was presented to GIS Research UK 2012, the abstract for which can be found here.
This work was carried out under the auspices of the Macaulay Institute (now part of the James Hutton Institute) in collaboration with Professor Chris Gold at the University of Glamorgan. It was funded by the Scottish Executive.
National Scottish Soil Information System 20km Grid (Copy Right James Hutton Institute)
Spatial Sampling Optimisation
OISIN is an ArcObjects extension for ArcGIS which allowed soil scientists to select sub-samples from their database based on multiple criterion, using R-Stats and an intuitive MS Excel interface.
The project was to take new samples for comparison with data collected 10-15 years previously in order to assess how national stocks had changed, and allow investigation of the natural and human-riven processes behind that change. However resources were only available to revisit about 20-25% of the original sites. OISIN allows soil scientists to set general parameters as to which variables are of interest and their relative importance. It then selects subsamples which meet these criterion. The problem is complicated by the fact that achieving a good sample for one variable may entail a less well fitted sample for another, thus no one solution is "correct". Rather than give a "black box" single output sample set, OISIN selects the best options and provides a simple graphical output to allow scientists to examine them. More Details.
This work was carried out under the auspices of the Macaulay Institute (now part of the James Hutton Institute). It was funded by the Scottish Executive.
Postal Survey for Public Awareness Campaign Impact Assessment
The Ythan Estuary, Scotland. (Copy Right Colin Smith)
The Ythan Project was an EU Life Environment scheme to address the problem of Nitrate pollution in the River Ythan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
The estuary of the Ythan is an internationally recognised wild life reserve, which was under threat from algal bloom due to high nitrate levels in the water.
The contract ran over three years and involved running four postal surveys, first to establish awareness of the problem in different population sectors, and later to assess the degree of impact the project had on awareness of the problem and opinion on possible solutions. This included sample design, distribution, analysis and summary of results in reports and publicity material.
The sampling design for the survey was complex as it needed to cover a diverse population as well as relevant spatial factors (such as any differences that might arise between those living at the source of the river and those at the estuary.) The solution developed is detailed in a paper in the International Journal of Land Use Policy. The project itself was shortlisted as one of the best EU Life Environment Projects, in part due being able quantitatively prove its impact.
This project was undertaken under the auspices of the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute. It was funded by the European Commission.
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How N.Y.C.'s Broadway Gave Its Name to an L.A. Street
Lost L.A.
By Nathan Masters
Broadway was still known as Fort Street when this photograph, looking south down the unpaved road from north of Temple, was taken in 1885. Courtesy of the Photo Collection - Los Angeles Public Library.
Why does downtown Los Angeles' grid include a street with such a distinctively New York name? Broadway may be one of L.A.'s oldest streets -- laid out by surveyor Edward O. C. Ord in 1849 -- but until 1890, Angelenos knew it only as Fort Street.
Problems with pronunciation provided the impetus for the name change. By the late 1880s, Los Angeles was home to a growing, influential minority of German immigrants -- a group whose native tongue lacked the "th" sound used in so many English words. Confusion reigned as Angelenos with German accents pronounced two intersecting streets, Fort and Fourth, identically. Even when pronounced by native English speakers, the difference was hard to discern over the city's primitive telephone lines.
Fort Street was then transitioning from residential street into retail district, and such confusion threatened to retard its development. In early 1890, a group of residents and merchants along Fort Street -- led by printer Fred Lind Alles, originally of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania but then a resident of Fort and Fourth -- petitioned the city for a name change.
When E.O.C. Ord platted out Los Angeles' streets in 1849, he named one after an adobe fort (seen on the right) named Fort Moore. Detail of Ord's 1849 plan, courtesy of the Map Collection - Los Angeles Public Library.
Circa 1860 view of Fort Street from Poundcake Hill. Courtesy of the USC Libraries - California Historical Society Collection
Sentiment almost sank the proposition; Fort Street's name referred to Fort Moore, a hilltop battlement built during the Mexican-American War that historic-minded Angelenos (including the leadership of the Los Angeles Times) didn't want to forget.
But when a consensus eventually formed to rename Fort Street, the question became: to what? Los Angeles needed a name that would project its hopes for the future of Fort Street, which was only then emerging as a retail corridor. One suggestion was Market Street. But as Alles recalled decades later, "I felt we shouldn't copy San Francisco."
Turning away from its northern rival, Alles and his allies instead looked to the east. New York was then, as now, the nation's most populous city. But in 1890 its population of 1.5 million dwarfed Los Angeles' 50,000. For an upstart city like Los Angeles, which had just emerged from a turbulent real estate boom and bust cycle, there was no shame in purloining one of New York's most distinctive street names.
Broadway -- the Anglicized version of a Dutch name (Brede Weg) for the road that meanders through Manhattan and the Bronx, tracing an old Indian footpath -- seemed a natural choice. Just two years earlier, the city had widened Fort Street's sidewalks by five feet on each side, creating a broad, 85-foot avenue. (Many other American cities also borrowed the name -- including San Francisco.)
On Feb. 17, 1890, the matter came before the city council, which gave its unanimous approval. Two days later, when Mayor Henry Hazard signed the ordinance, Fort Street passed into historical oblivion, and Los Angeles began to sound just a little more like New York.
Special thanks to fellow KCET.org contributor Ed Fuentes for suggesting this topic.
Fort Street is visible in the center of this photograph, taken circa 1868. Courtesy of the USC Libraries - California Historical Society Collection.
Detail of an 1873 lithograph showing Fort Street dead-ending at Ninth. Courtesy of the USC Libraries - California Historical Society Collection.
Circa 1889 view of Fort Street looking north from Second. Courtesy of the USC Libraries - California Historical Society Collection.
1886 view of Fort Street, looking north from Third. Courtesy of the Photo Collection - Los Angeles Public Library.
By the late 1870s, Fort Street had become Los Angeles' most fashionable residential street. Pictured here is the house of lawyer Henry O'Melveny at Fort and Second. Courtesy of the Photo Collection - Los Angeles Public Library.
In 1888, Los Angeles' new city hall opened on the east side of Fort Street between Second and Third. Courtesy of the USC Libraries - California Historical Society Collection.
Printer Fred Alles, pictured here in 1903, petitioned the city council to change Fort Street's name to Broadway. Photo courtesy of the USC Libraries - California Historical Society Collection.
In 1896, Arthur Letts opened The Broadway Department Store at the former intersection of Fort and Fourth, and the Broadway name had become localized. Courtesy of the USC Libraries - California Historical Society Collection.
Composite photo of present-day Broadway in New York and Los Angeles that appears when sharing this photo on social media by Flickr users Jacob-uptown (left) and Kent Kanouse (right). Used under the same Creative Commons License.
Lawrence Lipton and Venice, California's Claim to Beat Fame
Lawrence Lipton's book "The Holy Barbarians" was a celebration and canonization of the "Venice West" scene. It also became the biggest hit of his career, around which he revolved on for much of his life.
By Hadley Meares
Broadsides Reveal L.A.'s Once-Booming Hispanic Vaudeville Scene
There was a time that Los Angeles powered a lively Hispanic vaudeville scene, and its legacy still lives on in many performers today.
By Afroxander
Pacifico Dance Company: Sharing the Love of Traditional Mexican Dance Around the World
Traditional Mexican dances (aka baile folklórico) are the forte of the Pacifico Dance Company, and they've helped train hundreds, performing in venues around the country and the world.


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Corbyn's road map to a communist Britain
The Labour leader's inner circle have detailed plans to turn the UK into a hardline socialist state which ruthlessly suppresses its opponents
Giles Udy
Jeremy Corbyn (second left) and Andrew Murray (right) in 2003 at a press conference for the "Stop The War" coalition (© Chris Young/PA Archive/PA Images)
When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 it seemed that communism, as a force in politics, was finally dead. The ideas that had inspired radicals around the world had lost their shine. As Marxism seemed discredited, market economies prospered. Only an older generation of greying revolutionaries remained to tend the faltering flame of world revolution. While they continued to squabble over minutiae of revolutionary history, the world moved on. By the turn of the millennium British students, once the vanguard of radicalism, were decried for their political apathy.
The 2001 9/11 terrorist attacks ended that. Fear took over from complacency. As the 2003 Iraq war loomed, the fractious British Left, in a rare moment of unity, formed the Stop the War Coalition and brought a million people out on the streets. Few of the unwitting participants knew that the march's organisers' ultimate goal was the overthrow of parliamentary democracy; none could have guessed that, 15 years later, the movement's first two leaders, the British Communist Party member Andrew Murray and left-wing activist Jeremy Corbyn, would be within reach of forming the first communist government in British history, Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party, Murray appointed as his "Special Adviser".
The crash of 2007 shook Western confidence still further. Left-wing commentators such as Guardian journalist Seumas Milne, an old communist comrade of Murray's, openly voiced nostalgia for the "huge social benefits" enjoyed under Soviet communism in the USSR and Eastern Bloc. Milne is now Corbyn's Director of Strategy and Communications.
In 1920 Lenin urged British communists to enter the Labour Party to subvert it from within. In 1936, Trotsky told his followers to do the same, but successive generations of Labour leaders resisted this "entryism", most famously in Neil Kinnock's 1980s campaign against the Trotskyite group Militant. Two young members of a group which tried to thwart Kinnock's campaign were Corbyn and Jon Lansman, later the founder of Momentum. That failure, reinforced by Tony Blair's New Labour reforms, convinced many leftists that the only option left was bring the government down by extra-parliamentary action. This was the context when John McDonnell, now Corbyn's Shadow Chancellor, made his call for "insurrection", a general strike and street protests in 2013.
The following year, after reforms in Labour's membership and leadership election rules, almost a century after Lenin's call, entryism was made possible for just £3. It is no surprise that among those expelled in the 1980s and '90s are some who have now rejoined the Labour Party and others who have committed their own left-wing groups and parties to campaign for a Corbyn victory. One, Matt Wrack, is now chair of McDonnell's Labour Representation Committee group.
While, to an onlooker, the upheavals within Labour today seem little more than party political infighting, what has been happening cannot really be understood without reference to the Marxist worldview which drives it.
The Left's success has been to trumpet its socialism without being very specific about what it means. As Alexander Solzhenitsyn once remarked, many see socialism only as "a sort of hazy shimmering concept of something good, something noble" but understand little of it beyond that.
By contrast, for Marxists such those around Corbyn and McDonnell, socialism has a very specific meaning. Marx viewed history as a continuous series of conflicts between classes. Out of each conflict, a new class arises, which in turn gives birth to a third class and the process begins again. Marx predicted that the final conflict would be between capitalists and the working class which, as capitalism collapsed, would eventually rise up and seize power in a "dictatorship of the proletariat".
When McDonnell told a gathering of supporters, "I am a Marxist. This is a classic crisis of the economy — a classic capitalist crisis. I have been waiting for this for a generation", it was this that he was referring to. His praise for students "kicking the shit out of Millbank" (the Tory HQ) as being the "best of our movement" raised eyebrows too but, once again, such sentiments are logical for a Marxist. Marx and Engels defended the use of violence in pursuit of the revolution. Engels wrote that "nothing can be achieved without violence" while Marx declared that "only revolutionary terrorism" could "shorten the bloody birth throes of the new society".
During the revolution all the "means of production" (factories, etc), transport, finance and the property of the ruling class would be taken into state ownership or "socialised". Socialism, therefore, can mean both the process of that takeover and its end result. Marxists believe that only when socialism is complete can full communism, a classless, moneyless utopia, come into being.
As political labels to describe followers of Marx, "socialist", "democratic socialist", and "communist" are virtually interchangeable. Herein lies another potential misunderstanding: Marxist "democratic socialism" is very different from "social democracy", the system adopted by Scandinavian countries (and New Labour) which allows the market economy but imposes controls upon it to ensure it benefits all in society. A Corbyn "democratic socialist" government would not turn Britain into another Sweden.
To get a detailed picture of what a communist Britain would look like we do not need to plough though all 50 volumes of Marx's Collected Works. The Communist Party of Britain (CPB) has published its own 25,000-word programme, Britain's Road to Socialism, which goes into considerable detail about the revolution that is to come.
The CPB lays claim to be the direct political successor of the Soviet-financed Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), which was established in 1920, and adopted its new name in 1988 after the CPGB leadership began to abandon its traditional loyalty to the Soviet Union and the legacy of Stalin. Given that it had just 734 members in 2017 and gained only 1,229 votes in the 2015 general election, it is reasonable to ask why its manifesto should be taken seriously. The reason is simple: Jeremy Corbyn, since his election as leader of the Labour Party, has brought a number of former CPB members and other Marxists into his inner team. While the Left fights constantly about the merits or otherwise of Trotsky, Mao and Stalin, there is broad agreement about the theories of Marx and Lenin, and it is that consensus that Britain's Road to Socialism reflects.
The most important of these individuals who are now on Corbyn's inner team are Andrew Murray and Seumas Milne. Both Murray and Milne, together with another old comrade, Steve Howell, whom Milne brought in as Deputy Communications Director in February 2017, were originally members of Straight Left, a pro-Soviet faction within the CPGB, disparagingly referred ever since to as "tankies" because of their support for the Soviet invasions of Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan. Straight Left presented itself as a Labour organisation but in fact it was a front which gave a route for communists to clandestinely influence the Labour Party and turn it to the left. One contemporary critic observed that "honesty and ideological openness are not its greatest assets".
Murray is said to have left the CPB for Labour in December 2016. In April 2017 Corbyn appointed him to head Labour's general election strategy. The CPB had just announced that for the first time in its history it would not field any candidates and would instead support Labour. After the election Murray returned to his full-time job as Chief of Staff at the Unite union, which had provided almost half (£4.5million) of Labour's election fund, in time to head off a centrist takeover of the union which might have threatened that funding in the future. In February 2018, Murray was back in Labour again, this time in a permanent role as Corbyn's "Special Political Adviser" consulting on strategy and vetting senior appointments. Soon afterwards, Murray's former wife, Susan Mitchie, still a leading member of the CPB, announced that the CPB would now be working "full tilt" to get Corbyn elected.
"Does anyone seriously think Andrew Murray has changed his politics in the slightest?" asked one former comrade in a communist chatroom. The insistence by both Corbyn and McDonnell that Murray is now a "democratic socialist" is disingenuous: communists might easily describe themselves as such. Although Murray was a party member for more than 30 years, sat on its executive, had been on the advisory board of its theoretical journal Communist Review and was eminent enough to be the party's choice to give the annual oration at Marx's graveside in Highgate Cemetery, his departure provoked none of the vitriol that would be customary after the defection of so prominent a figure in the dystopian world of hard-left politics where backbiting, splits and factions abound.
Murray also continues to write for the Morning Star, the CPB newspaper, so clearly he has not been blacklisted. The editorial position of the paper, which Corbyn, a long-time Morning Star columnist, calls "the most precious and only voice we have in the daily media" follows the CPB platform — the replacement of the capitalist system by socialism in order that a "fully communist form of society" might result. If either Murray or Corbyn took exception to that goal they would not write for it.
In a debate in 2017 I confronted shadow minister Chris Williamson with the accusation that Labour had been captured by the CPB and its allies and that its ultimate aim was a communist revolution that was virtually indistinguishable from the CPB's. I asked him to deny it. Williamson, whose copy of the Morning Star lay on the table in front of him, simply replied that the current system was "broken" and didn't work, adding, "Are you saying you want to keep it?", before insisting that the thousands who had joined Labour had done so because they "wanted change" and that was what Labour would give them.
I took that as a "no".
Trotsky once told his followers, "We hate or despise our enemies, according to their deserts; we deceive according to circumstances (and) play a double game with the enemies of the proletariat."
In April 2018, John McDonnell, a self-confessed follower of both Trotsky and Lenin, tried to calm fears in the City of London by assuring them that there was no hard-left "shadow manifesto", no radical agenda that it was keeping secret until a Corbyn government took office. It is not known if McDonnell does have his own "shadow manifesto" but Labour's ally, the CPB, certainly does — Britain's Road to Socialism. Andrew Murray is believed to have had a hand in writing its 2011 edition (from which all quotes in this article are taken) while he was still a leading member of the CPB.
Britain's Road to Socialism presents, in its own words, "an analysis of capitalism and imperialism in its current form", explains how a "revolutionary transformation" might be achieved and "what a socialist and communist society in Britain might look like". Capitalism, it declares, has taken "the planet and its peoples towards the edge of the abyss" and "must be overthrown". Only "state power in the hands of the working class can save humanity".
As the model form of government, it is the Soviet Union, it believes, which showed that "socialist state power, planning and public ownership could transform society in the interests of the mass of the population". The gulag and Great Terror, passed over briefly as "distortions", are put down to "the struggle to survive and to build socialism in the face of powerful external as well as internal enemies" whose political descendants now use those distortions in a "world-wide campaign of lies aimed at the concept of socialism".
The manifesto anticipates three distinct stages in the "revolutionary process". The first stage, a "substantial and sustained shift to the left in the labour movement", is where the Left would see its position today.
Stage two would follow the election of a left-wing government to Downing Street and would entail widespread nationalisation "in all major sectors" of industry and commerce. The list of targets is long and includes the financial sector, gas, electricity, water, oil, railways, buses, road haulage and air travel, construction, engineering, armaments, land and property, shipping and chemicals. Landed estates, luxury tourist establishments and "second homes" would also be brought under "public ownership". Prospects for financial recompense for wealthy stock and property owners don't look good. Compensation, if paid, would be "primarily to pension funds and small investors and on the basis of proven need". (My italics.)
Financial, property and advertising services would be "limited" and their "socially useful functions transferred to public bodies". Nationalising the advertising industry could open the way for a state propaganda office, and measures that would be taken to "decisively break the grip of monopoly conglomerates on the capitalist mass media" would curb resistance from the press. State funding for political parties would be banned and corporate donations would need to be cleared by a workers' ballot, which would permit the unions to block Conservative Party funding.
The programme would be financed by increased tax rates on higher rates of income, an annual wealth tax, a "Robin Hood" tax on City financial transactions, an increase in the rate of corporation tax, windfall taxes, and the closure of all tax havens under British jurisdiction (including the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man). Council tax would be replaced by local income, wealth, land and property taxes.
Echoing Jeremy Corbyn's own past comments (which he has tried to downplay), the monarchy would be replaced by a "democratically elected and accountable" head of state. The House of Lords would be abolished and the Church of England would be disestablished. Leading Corbyn supporter Ken Loach, who has made three films for Labour, goes further: his "Left Unity" manifesto calls for all the assets of the royal family and CofE to be confiscated.
Turning to the subject of "Defeating Counter-Revolution", the CPB anticipates that, by means of "covert and overt counter-revolutionary activities", there will be "a significant fightback by socialism's enemies". International capitalism is expected to launch "economic and financial sabotage" in the form of "an investment strike, the flight of capital, an attack on Britain's currency, trade sanctions and a boycott of government bills and bonds".
This is a threat that Labour is reported to be taking seriously. John McDonnell told the 2017 Labour conference that he anticipated a possible run on the pound and his team had been "war-gaming" to counter what might happen "when or if they come for us". Britain's Road to Socialism proposes the imposition of controls on the movement of capital, and the use of "requisite powers to control and liquidate British-owned economic and financial assets abroad".
Nationalisation will be used defensively too: "There may be tactical value in prioritising the public ownership of sectors or enterprises according to the economic or political threat that they pose to the left government and socialist revolution." Left Unity proposes the confiscation of any company "including the giant supermarket companies" which attempts to destabilise a left government or transfer assets and other essential services overseas. Tesco and Sainsbury's should take note.
As is now beginning to dawn on many of Labour's Remain supporters, the hard Left is fundamentally pro-Brexit. Its deep hostility towards the EU is based upon a Marxist assessment of it as a "neoliberal capitalist alliance". The CPB anticipates EU sabotage too and, once in government, would ensure Britain's swift withdrawal from the EU. Robert Griffiths, the CPB's general secretary, was chair of "Left Leave" ("Lexit") in the 2017 referendum.
The Left has long looked upon the police and security services as enemies. Before Corbyn's election propelled the hard Left from obscurity, both Andrew Fisher, his policy adviser, and McDonnell had called for the disbandment of MI5 and the disarming of the police. In spite of signing an open letter and being photographed with a flyer which made these demands, McDonnell now denies that this is his position.
In a recent interview, Momentum founder Jon Lansman voiced fears of a British repetition of the overthrow of Chile's socialist president Salvador Allende in 1973. These are echoed in Britain's Road to Socialism. The "example of Chile", it says, shows "the willingness of the US and British ruling classes to destroy long-established parliamentary democracy in defence of imperialist interests", and this underlines the necessity of "replacing reactionary personnel in top state positions". Accordingly, leading members of the police, the secret services, armed forces, the judiciary and civil and diplomatic services will be purged and replaced by "supporters of the revolutionary process". For those remaining, "civic education programmes" — political indoctrination — will "break down oppressive and reactionary ideas and practices".
As it progresses, Britain's Road to Socialism becomes increasingly paranoid. "Enormous confrontations will signify that the revolutionary process has entered its third, most crucial stage", it declares. The British ruling class and its allies, are prepared to be "utterly ruthless" and to use "every weapon at its disposal against the revolutionary movement and the left government". It may resort not just to economic sabotage but to the use of "military force, anti-democratic subversion, military dictatorship, state torture and death squads". "Private armies might form under the direction of ex-military chiefs, supported by big business leaders and sections of the mass media." The idea of the editor of the Daily Mail taking to the streets with a Kalashnikov sounds like one of Monty Python's now classic spoofs of the 1970s' Left but this is no joke. Some of those now around the leader of the Labour Party have entertained these thoughts.
In response, a left government "will use all the official and popular forces at its disposal to crush each and every attempt at military subversion, rebellion or invasion". A new paramilitary force — "the state's corps of military reservists" — would gradually replace the army. Linked with "large workplaces and local working-class communities", its recruitment, education and administration would be overseen by the trade union movement, an echo of the political commissars attached to all Soviet military units. In the 1920s, British communists tried to form an underground British Red Army. A century later, that dream would be realised.
Given its hostility towards America and Nato, the Left, unsurprisingly, believes that US and Nato military bases in Britain "might become centres of intrigue and subversion". All foreign military bases in Britain would therefore be swiftly closed and Britain would withdraw from Nato. "The subservient alliance with US imperialism would have to cease immediately."
Instead, a left government would strengthen relations with "communist, left-wing, progressive, anti-imperialist and non-aligned governments abroad (who) may be in a position to extend diplomatic, political and economic assistance". As the hard Left seems to entertain fewer scruples about the human rights record of regimes opposed to America or Israel (during the period Corbyn broadcast for Iran's Press TV, the country hanged more than 1,300 people ), we might well see closer ties with countries such as Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea (praised in the past by Andrew Murray), Iran and Russia.
At no point is there any question of the revolutionary Left's presumed right to overthrow the existing order and impose its own socialist system. Indeed, it claims it represents "the interests of the working class and the whole population" — an intriguing conflation given that the Monster Raving Loony Party gained three times the votes of the CPB in the 2015 general election and the fact that all the far-left parties combined scored just 0.02 per cent of all the votes cast. But the arrogance is pure Lenin: the revolutionary elite must take power because the people do not know what is good for them. When the Left says it opposes rule by tiny elites, it exempts itself.
Finally, we are assured that the "dictatorship of the proletariat" will "displace the present unelected rule — or dictatorship — of a tiny capitalist class" and full communism will evolve. As "the danger of internal counter-revolution recedes, the role of the state as the coercive force used by one class to suppress another also diminishes". History has shown time and again that socialism cannot exist without a police state to enforce it, and here lies a clear admission of that: the socialist state will be a "coercive" force and it will be used for suppression.
Socialists may start with the best of motives but their conviction that they alone have the keys to utopia sooner or later extinguishes their humanity towards any who think otherwise. George Bernard Shaw, Fabian Society leader and Labour's most famous pre-war socialist, praised the Soviet secret police for their executions ("weeding of the garden") and proposed that, in a socialist Britain, "compulsory social service on pain of death" would be introduced in order to render "resistance injurious" — in other words, labour camps. "Revolutionaries who take the law into their own hands", writes Boris Pasternak in Doctor Zhivago, "are horrifying because they are like machines that have got out of control, like runaway trains."
"For the sake of humanity, the future is communism," Britain's Road to Socialism concludes. Many, if they knew what it entailed, would have nothing to do with it.
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Late-Night Gets Stuck on Christie's Traffic Jam
By Christine Burroni
Published Jan 9, 2014 at 9:36 AM | Updated at 11:48 AM PST on Jan 9, 2014
On "The Colbert Report," Stephen Colbert riffed on the "biblical" traffic jam in New Jersey.
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert had plenty of laughs Wednesday at the expense of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie over the traffic jam scandal that has threatened his possible 2016 presidential ambitions.
The late-night comics responded after e-mails showed a top aide to the Republican governor punished a Democratic town mayor with gridlock on the world's busiest road bridge after the mayor refused to endorse Christie.
"The Daily Show's" Jon Stewart, a New Jersey native, played clips from Christie saying in a statement that he was misled by an aide and questioned why Christie did not apologize directly (Update: Christie apologized to the people of New Jersey during a Thursday press conference).
Epic Public Apologies: "I Am Not a Bully"
Stewart joked that the bus Christie claimed to have been thrown under by his staff was "stuck in traffic."
Stewart also acted as the late-night show's "New Jersey correspondent." He mocked how elaborate and obvious the communication of Christie's staff was by email over the decision to punish the mayor of Fort Lee.
Stewart said the e-conversation should have been carried out like dialog in New Jersey mob movies, such as: "Hey, ya took care of that thing?" and "Yeah, I took care of that thing, our good friend Lee is gonna be backed up."
N.J. Gov. Christie: I Was "Misled" by Aide on Bridge Fiasco
Over on "The Colbert Report," Stephen Colbert referred to Christie as the "president of the United States of New Jersey." The late-night host poked fun at the "biblical" traffic delays that "were only slightly longer than normal."
"Lane closures were meant to make life hell as payback to the mayor of Fort Lee, New Jersey, for not endorsing Christie for re-election. No word yet what the rest of New Jersey is payback for," Colbert joked.
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Oh my! Two cupcake posts in a row! Makes me hungry...haha. Anyway I can't believe this year is almost over. This is my last Cupcake Sunday post for this year, and what an awesome year it has been. I have learned in so many ways that you really never know where a year can take you. I have been on so many different paths and who knew they would lead me here to the Jersey shore. I also have lots of posts in mind for the upcoming year. Of course my next post will be my list of New Year's Resolutions. I already started one, which is to lose some weight, and I've already lost 11 lbs! I'm really excited about that. On another note my birthday is in a few days too! I'm soooooo excited!
I hope everyone has a safe New Year. I will be back on the 2nd! See you soon!


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Allen Chi encourages individuals of all ages and skill levels to learn how to play chess online with Chesscademy!
Playing chess is an excellent way to exercise your mind. Whether you're young or old, chess can keep your brain active and healthy. Learning how to play the game can prove extremely beneficial for your cognitive abilities and mental strength. But where do you turn if you've never played chess before but wish to learn (without worry or stress)? Chesscademy has you covered!
If you select "yes," you will be redirected to the beginner's path. This particular path begins with a video. The video, appropriately titled "Getting Started," walks viewers through the basics of the website. Essentially, Chesscademy offers a variety of lesson plans called "paths." Each path consists of a list of tasks, which include interactive practice games, videos, reading material, and more. Users check off each task as it is completed, giving even the least experienced beginner a feeling of accomplishment as they take on the endeavor of learning this challenging — and fun! — game. The beginner's path starts with the fundamental basics of chess.
If you select "no," you will be redirected to a quick game against Chesscademy's all-knowing computer. The result of your match will tailor a learning plan/path appropriate for your skill level. Like the beginner option, this path will offer a variety of games, videos, reading material, and more in order to up your game. Although Chesscademy was initially created to benefit the novice players and newcomers of the game, it has since developed into a worthy resource for helping self-proclaimed experts polish their skills.
Whether you've never played a game of chess before, or you've defeated hundreds of opponents, Chesscademy is an excellent resource for fine-tuning your approach to chess! As an avid chess player and gaming enthusiast, Allen Chi recommends this site to all!
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import java.util.concurrent.Future;

import javax.validation.constraints.Min;
import javax.validation.constraints.NotNull;

import org.apache.apex.malhar.lib.state.BucketedState;
import org.apache.apex.malhar.lib.state.TimeSlicedBucketedState;

import com.google.common.util.concurrent.Futures;

import com.datatorrent.api.Context;
import com.datatorrent.api.annotation.OperatorAnnotation;
import com.datatorrent.netlet.util.Slice;

/**
 * This implementation of {@link AbstractManagedStateImpl} lets the client to specify the time for each key.
 * The value of time is used to derive the time-bucket of a key.
 *
 * @since 3.4.0
 */
@OperatorAnnotation(checkpointableWithinAppWindow = false)
public class ManagedTimeStateImpl extends AbstractManagedStateImpl implements TimeSlicedBucketedState
{
  public ManagedTimeStateImpl()
  {
    this.numBuckets = 1;
  }

  @Override
  public void put(long bucketId, long time, @NotNull Slice key, @NotNull Slice value)
  {
    long timeBucket = timeBucketAssigner.getTimeBucket(time);
    putInBucket(bucketId, timeBucket, key, value);
  }

  @Override
  public Slice getSync(long bucketId, @NotNull Slice key)
  {
    return getValueFromBucketSync(bucketId, -1, key);
  }

  @Override
  public Slice getSync(long bucketId, long time, @NotNull Slice key)
  {
    long timeBucket = timeBucketAssigner.getTimeBucket(time);
    if (timeBucket == -1) {
      //time is expired so no point in looking further.
      return BucketedState.EXPIRED;
    }
    return getValueFromBucketSync(bucketId, timeBucket, key);
  }

  @Override
  public Future<Slice> getAsync(long bucketId, Slice key)
  {
    return getValueFromBucketAsync(bucketId, -1, key);
  }

  @Override
  public Future<Slice> getAsync(long bucketId, long time, Slice key)
  {
    long timeBucket = timeBucketAssigner.getTimeBucket(time);
    if (timeBucket == -1) {
      //time is expired so no point in looking further.
      return Futures.immediateFuture(BucketedState.EXPIRED);
    }
    return getValueFromBucketAsync(bucketId, timeBucket, key);
  }

  @Min(1)
  @Override
  public long getNumBuckets()
  {
    return numBuckets;
  }

  @Override
  public void setup(Context.OperatorContext context)
  {
    super.setup(context);
  }

  /**
   * Sets the number of buckets.
   *
   * @param numBuckets number of buckets
   */
  public void setNumBuckets(int numBuckets)
  {
    this.numBuckets = numBuckets;
  }

}

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Essays Familial Conflicts in King Lear
Familial Conflicts in King Lear
In King Lear, the main themes are clearly illustrated through the family setting. The play reveals King Lear's and Gloucester's dysfunctional families which are both characterized by conflicts and misunderstandings. In King Lear's royal family, the conflict reaches its peak when King's daughters Regan and Goneril betray him. He says that they have uncovered their father's manhood. In Gloucester's family, Edmund's role resembles that of Regan and Goneril who were disloyal to their fathers.
The first incidence of conflict in King Lear's family rises when King Lear is testing her daughters' love to him. He had decided that he would give the largest part of his kingdom to the daughter who loves him best. He takes them under a test where Goneril and Regan pretended to love him. However, when the king asks Cordelia what she could do win the richest part of his kingdom, she replies,"Nothing my lord" (1.1.72). This disappoints the king. King Lear continues to insist her to speak for herself but Cordelia refuses to take part in the contest. This act leads her father to disown her after which he divides his kingdom between Regan and Goneril. Led by their thirst for power, they pretend to love their father. Their main aim is to get his property and then dispose of him. Ironically, Cordelia who is loyal to her father is rejected for not taking part in a foolish contest.
Later, Goneril and Regan start mistreating King Lear. Conflict erupts when Lear strikes Gorrell's steward, Goneril complains,"By day and night, he wrongs me". Goneril feels offended and opt to send him to her sister Regan whom she says will give similar treatment to his father (1.3.5-7).This statement significantly contributes to the theme of loyalty. Goneril is not loyal to her father. This is despite the fact that she had received a substantial part of his property. She even reaches to an extent of referring him as,"an idle old man" (1.3.18). From this statement, it can be noted that young people are undermining the old. Goneril confirms that her sister Regan will give her father the same kind of treatment because they both view their father as a pesky old man. They undermine him because of his age. This reflects the general view of the young people in the society who views the old people as useless beings. For instance, Goneril tells Oswald to ignore Lear and his entourage.
Later, the conflict stirs up when Goneril scolds on her father for his behavior. Lear, in turn, calls Goneril a monster and discourages her husband not to have children with her (1.4. 193).Lear becomes very angry for being told that he is old and reverend but not wise.
When Lear and his two daughters Regan and Goneril meet at Gloucester's house, they do not manage to settle down their differences. In fact, the conflict intensifies and the two daughters threaten to kill their father. Gloucester advises Lear to flee for his dear life. At this point, Lear's daughters reveal their disloyalty to their father.
Conflict is also evident in Gloucester's family. The conflict is between Edmund, his brother, and father. The main source of conflict is Edmund who is considered as an"illegitimate" son. The reason being thatEdmund was conceived outside the marriage. This leads Gloucester to prefer the other son to the one who was bored outside the wedlock. He says that he is an embarrassment to him (1.1.2). This contributes to the theme of the family. In most families, children are the main source of conflict. Children who are born within the marriage are favored. This brings tension and conflicts in many marriages. This attitude cultivates an ill will in Edmund towards his father.
Lead by his jealous towards his brother Edgar, Edmund plans a trick against his brother. Edmund claims that Edgar was planning to murder his father and had persuaded him to participate but he refused. Edmund continues to convince his father that he had escaped with injuries for refusing to participate in the murder and uses an evidence of a breeding arm which he had inflicted himself. The main theme indicated by this scene is the theme of jealous. Edmund is jealous towards his brother because of a good relationship existing between him and his father. This further displays the theme of thirst for power. Edmund wants to be his father's heir but his brother was a major obstacle. This leads him to a suggestion to plan a skullduggery. His target is to overpower his brother Edgar. After realizing what had happened, Edgar hid and later decided to disguise himself as a beggar (1.2.40). This is again ironical because Edgar was loyal to his father. It is ironical that the king is forced to believe that the innocent is guilty.


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The Crested Butte mayoral race is on until December 19. Ballots will be mailed to town voters starting November 27. Voters get to choose between former Town Council members Chris Ladoulis and Jim Schmidt, who topped the four-man race for mayor on November 7.
The official election day is December 19. All ballots must be returned to the town clerk by then, and will be counted after 7 p.m.
The Crested Butte News and KBUT radio are teaming up to hold a mayoral forum on Thursday, December 7 at 6:30 p.m. at the Mallardi Theatre at Second and Elk. We anticipate it will last about an hour and be broadcast live on KBUT.
We are asking that people send in questions that will be asked of the two remaining candidates. We ask that the questions set up differences between the candidates. After the regular election, we know both candidates see affordable housing as something that needs to be addressed. Both want the town to be more "green" and both want a permanent solution to the Mt. Emmons mine situation. What else do you want to know from these two leaders?
So please send potential questions for the mayoral candidates to either editorial@crestedbuttenews.com or chad@kbut.org.
The forum will be on the stage of the Mountain Theatre holiday production, so that should add an element of interest. People are welcome to attend and the theatre's bar will be open. That too could add to the "interestingness." See you there or email us a question.


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These pan-fried, flavorful Brussels sprouts are an adaptation of a dish that I had at ilili, a contemporary Lebanese restaurant in Manhattan. The walnuts make it extra special. Any time I can add walnuts to a recipe I do because they are a great source of Omega 3's. So incredibly good for you I like to serve this dish with a side of vegan sour cream because the fig jam is a tad sweet, but it works. I had the sour cream left over from my noodle kugel adventures this week…prepping for Rosh Hashana. More to come on that this weekend!
Chop the walnuts and place on a baking sheet lined with tin foil. Toast for 5 to 7 minutes.
Slice the grapes in half.
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Serve with vegan sour cream on the side. Great hot or at room temperature. Enjoy!
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After Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma threatened to sever ties with the BJP over the passage of Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, in parliament, Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga, another BJP partner in the northeast, has expressed his dissatisfaction.
The proposed law that gives citizenship to non-Muslims from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan was passed by Lok Sabha on Tuesday amid vigorous dissent by several opposition parties, including the Congress and the Left Front. Most parties from the northeast, even those that were allies of the BJP, have also strongly opposed Bill, saying it is "against the fundamental aspects of the Indian constitution".
A day-long shutdown was held against the Bill across the northeast yesterday, in which five people were injured. Assam has been witnessing protests since the NDA government said it was going ahead with the controversial bill and Asom Gana Parishad, a regional ally of the BJP, exited the ruling coalition in Assam.
Zoramthanga and his party Mizo National Front (MNF) have opposed the Bill. He even supported yesterday's northeast bandh called by the North East Students' Organisation. He said the Bill is against the principle of secularism and would have adverse affect in the northeast.
Earlier, the all powerful Young Mizo Association (YMA), Mizoram's largest civil society organisation, had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Rajnath Singh, informing them of its strong opposition to the Bill.
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Today at a high school in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA: 100 students heard Emma, Matthis and Robin Long present We Are Not Your Soldiers. 2-3 classes came, brought by their teachers. The school is extremely diverse: white, Latino, Black and Asian. Some of the students are already doing projects about military recruiting. One of the students researched, and found that this high school is the most heavily recruited from school in the Bay Area. Other students were already working on a "counter-propaganda" campaign within the school against military recruitment using posters.
Emma Kaplan, Youth & Student Coordinator for World Can't Wait spoke, then Matthis Chiroux and Robin Long (both Iraq War resisters) spoke. Then they showed the Wikileaks "Collateral Murder" video. One young woman started crying, saying her dad was in the military and she wanted to join but now she didn't want to. Matthis had asked a question and this young woman raised her hand and said, "My dad was probably in a helicopter like that killing children. Maybe he had to do that to survive. Maybe if he was a stronger person and refused to do those things maybe he would have been killed." Others pointed out that the soldiers in the video didn't have to kill people to survive in that helicopter – it was obviously not in self-defense. A number of students actually said they changed their minds after hearing from Emma, Matthis and Robin about joining the military.
Robin Long, another Iraq veteran against the war who recently spent a year in prison for refusing to fight in Iraq joined in, saying a few things about his experience – going to Canada, getting deported, getting court martialed. It made a big impression the students and the teachers. When they were brainstorming about things that the students could do, some people raised questions about whether there would be repercussions- would they get in trouble? Other people pointed out that Robin Long had been in prison for a year and this put the potential repercussions the students might face into perspective. A lot of students wanted to get involved… this is controversial at the school since not all the teachers/administrators are against the war. In the course of the event, some of the students left the room and came back with a Marine recruiting poster from elsewhere in the school. They took it in front of the room and ripped it apart, demonstrating how they felt about the whole enterprise in a really dramatic way. The rest of the students were transfixed, but one of the teachers said you can't just do that. So the other students responded in support of the action, arguing that the teachers should also support students taking this kind of righteous action.
Matthis asked students if the Wikileaks footage looked like a combat zone – they answered "no" of course. He talked about being trained to shoot people dressed as civilians, revealing this whole murderous outlook towards the people of the Middle East pervades the military and the war as a whole. One of the students said "here, if you murder someone you get 25-life but these soldiers are getting away with it over there." Matthis said these soldiers are committing war crimes and he doesn't want to be thanked as a "hero" for committing war crimes. Then he introduced Robin Long as a real war hero, someone who has been through a lot, and deserves to be thanked more than anyone. He talked about being in the military as a form of torture. They break you down to build you back up. Then they try to buy you. But no amount of money can make this torture worth it. It feels like being a slave. What do they charge you with if you try to commit suicide? Destruction of property; as if they literally own you. When he burned the U.S. flag in Washington, DC this past March 20th, he said the flag is a symbol of slavery.
Many of the students had friends who were already in the military. One young woman said her friend was scared because a rape happened on her base. Another said his friend in the air force told him he was in the military because, "I need to kill people." She responded, "You'll be killing children," and he came back with, "they deserve to die because they attacked us on 9/11."
When Emma asked the students what they thought caused the war, a number of students said imperialism. This is definitely because at least one of their teachers has made a positive impact on them. She uses "A People's History of the United States" in her classes and also talks about the present day wars. Another example of the power and importance of courageous truth-telling teachers.
Afterwards, organizers read through a stack of surveys the students completed. There is a lot of hope and desire for something much better than the choices of poverty, prison or military that this generation is offered, and much to be inspired by in the sentiments these youth expressed. One wrote, "People need to quit complaining about the economy and stop their government from killing people."
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LaserOrigami Uses a Laser Cutter to Create 3D Objects Faster than 3D Printers
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It's widely assumed that 3D printing represents the next frontier in fabricating objects of all types, but researchers at Germany's Hasso Plattner Institute have come up with a novel way of creating 3D objects out of 2D pieces of plastic using a laser cutter. LaserOrigami is a remarkable new fabrication technique that is faster than most 3D printers. Instead of using joints, LaserOrigami can create complex 3D objects by folding, bending and stretching plastic with extreme precision, eliminating the need for pieces to be manually assembled.
To create a 3D object, LaserOrigami makes precise cuts in some places, and in others it uses defocused lasers to heat up certain parts of the plastic until they become pliable, bending under the force of gravity. Using a defocused laser enables the machine to administer heat across a larger area, heating it up just enough that it bends into a new shape. The cutting and bending is all done in one swift process, and when the process is complete, the new object is fully assembled and ready to use.
The Hasso Plattner Institute has released images that show three different (but very similar) iPhone cases — one made by a 3D printer, one made by a traditional laser cutter that required some assembly, and one made by LaserOrigami. The 3D-printed version took about four hours to produce, whereas the LaserOrigami case took just three minutes to make, and it required no assembly. Some of the other objects made by LaserOrigami include a pen holder, a business card holder, and our favorite, a small plant holder (pictured at top).
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3 thoughts on "LaserOrigami Uses a Laser Cutter to Create 3D Objects Faster than 3D Printers"
Wow i love that they are using such a large piece of plastic to cut such a small thing. Gotta love the wasted rest of the plastic. Still doesn't compare to 3D printers with almost zero waste. Speed from 3D printers will come in time.
CardiffJeff March 2, 2013 at 5:37 am
Brilliant concept for terrestrial use. I know 3D printers and such like are being considered for planetary exploration but this method of fabrication, being dependant on gravity, would be useless in space.
Oğuz Bal March 1, 2013 at 7:42 pm
sorry but, they didn't something new. They just have 3d laser printer and many hours to spend to find out a new technique. but cong. for idea.
LaserOrigami plantholder
It's widely assumed that 3D printing represents the next frontier in fabricating objects of all types, but researchers at Germany's Hasso Plattner Institute have come up with a novel way of creating 3D objects out of 2D pieces of plastic using a laser cutter. LaserOrigami is a remarkable new fabrication technique that is faster than most 3D printers. Instead of using joints, LaserOrigami can create complex 3D objects by folding, bending and stretching plastic with extreme precision, eliminating the need for pieces to be manually assembled.
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Why There Are Probably No "True" Hexaquarks That Are Stable In An Unbound State
A "true" hexaquark is a hadron with no substructure with all quarks bound directly to each other via gluons. This is theoretically much easier to realize in forms that according to theory should be extremely unstable than in a stable form.
A deuteron, in contrast, is not a "true" hexaquark, it is a "hadron molecule" made up of two hadrons (a proton and a neutron), with the quarks within the proton and neutron, respectively, bound directly to each other via gluons, and the nucleons themselves, bound to each other through nuclear binding forces mediated by mesons, mostly pions and additionally far fewer kaons and other mesons (often virtual), in a "spillover" of the strong force between quarks in a hadron. (The term "hadron molecule" is something of a "false friend" in terms of terminology, as it is more analogous to an atomic nucleus than what chemists call a molecule.)
We can observe in a deuteron interactions indicative of clustering within its nucleus of a proton and a neutron that are separate structures, rather than of one unitary composite particle made of six quarks.
One of the challenges of QCD experimenters is two distinguish between "true" tetraquarks, pentaquarks, and hexaquarks that are truly quarks bound directly to each other by gluons, and "exotic" hadron "molecules" that are bound to each other either in the manner of protons and neutrons being bound to each other in a nucleus, or via electromagnetism in the manner of the forces that bind atoms to each other.
Distinguishing the three different ways that system of more than three quarks can be bound to each other is subtle and tricky because both "true" tetra-, penta-, hexa-quarks, and hadron molecules bound by mesons to each other with the same valence quark content, are both (1) very short lived, (2) few in number because they have to be created artificially in collider type contexts, and (3) have similar decay products but with different frequencies, polarities and kinematics.
It also doesn't help that the math necessary to predict what the decay products of each scenario looks like is cumbersome and never accurate to much more than the percent level since the underlying physical constants like the strong force coupling constant isn't know very precisely.
But of all the other possible hexaquarks how many are stable?
This is an area of active investigation that is in its infancy. Almost all possible cases are unknown. We are still struggling to determine the underlying structure and nature of lots of X, Y, Z resonances, with most such resonances having multiple plausible explanations. Some of them may be hexaquarks, most of them are probably not. Lots of hexaquark resonances that are naively possible given what we known about QCD at a qualitative level, have never been observed.
We are very confident that in high energy physics interactions simple two valence quark mesons and three valence quark baryons are vastly more likely to be produced than hadrons with more valence quarks than three, although honestly, we're not entirely sure why that is the case beyond some vague heuristic arguments.
We are less confident, but still quite confident, that there are no "true" tetraquarks, pentaquarks or hexaquarks that are stable in an unbound state. The reasoning for this is a mix of the state of what we have studied and observed and our theoretical understanding of the Standard Model. An outline of the reasons for this runs roughly as follows.
If there were, there would be lots of them (because stable particles accumulate). And, we haven't observed them. So, unless they only interact very weakly with everything else (in which case they could make up dark matter), they probably don't exist.
There is certainly no way would could miss large numbers of charged stable "true" hexaquarks given experiments that have been conducted to date, which are highly sensitive to even tiny electrically charged particles, so they would have to be electromagnetically neutral.
This mass would have to show up as missing traverse momentum in collider experiment, since that is what stable exotic, neutral hadrons with few interactions with other matter should look like in a collider because they wouldn't leave decay products and would leave electromagnetic traces within distance from the collision to the collider's instruments which are located by design to catch only quickly decaying hadrons and leptons. And, we haven't seen that in any statistically significant frequency yet.
This mass range isn't one particularly favored for dark matter or for being unobservable in dark matter detection experiments.
A dineutron made up to two neutrons bound by nuclear forces mediated by mesons was first definitively observed in 2012 (see also here) and, as predicted, is was much less stable than a free neutron, decaying in about 10-22 seconds rather than about 881 seconds for a free neutron. It seems unlikely that a "true" hexaquark with the same valence quarks would be more stable, although one would have to do the calculation (or prove the hypothesis by definitively observing an unstable one of that type, or definitely disprove that hypothesis by definitively observing one was that was stable or metastable) to be sure.
Also, there are no known substances in which strange, charm, or bottom quarks hadrons are stable (due to weak force decay), and there are no cases observed in which top quarks even hadronize (they decay via the weak force faster than the strong force can form a hadron made of them in the vast majority of cases, even though it is theoretically possible in an extreme rare case for an extremely brief time).
So, for a stable hadron with more than three valence quarks, we'd need one make up entirely of up quarks and down quarks as valence quarks that are, in sum, electromagnetically neutral, which confines them to a fairy narrow mass range of approximately 2 GeV/c2 plus or minus a fraction of a GeV, and that is a mass range that existing collider experiments have been able to study quite exhaustively.
The other way that you might get a stable "true" hexaquark is in a bound structure that is stable in the same way that a bound neutron is stable, by being bound into a larger structure. This would probably take the interior of a neutron star to create, in which gravitational attraction and Fermi contact force pressure would make up for not quite sufficient standard model binding forces. But, of course, we can't directly observe the interiors of neutron stars and can't externally observe them with sufficient precision to notice the difference yet (although we are improving on that front). Dineutrons (but not "true" hexaquarks) have also been theoretically predicted to exist in at least one isotype of Terbium atoms, although this has not been observed experimentally.
Also, since anything that contains a quark and anti-quark of the same type is prone to annihilation in a short time frame (all forms of quarkonium have short mean lifetimes), that combination of quarks shouldn't be possible in a stable hadron with more than four valence quarks.
Considering all of those limitations, the spectrum of stable "true" hexaquarks, which are stable in an unbound state, if there are any, should be confined to structures with exactly four up quarks and exactly two down quarks (or with exactly four anti-up quarks and exactly two anti-down quarks). This isn't exactly one possibility and it anti-particle, because there are different combinations of spin states that are possible (there are fifteen possible distinguishable spin states for these hexaquarks matched by fifteen possible anti-hexaquark states by my calculation in the ground state, plus theoretically infinitely many unstable excited states). But, the possibilities are still very limited and the mass range of the possible stable "true" hexaquarks is very narrow making it a target that it pretty easy to rule out experimentally.
It is also possible (and indeed likely) that if we run the numbers that this qualitatively possible set of stable "true" hexaquarks aren't actually stable in fact once one does the QCD calculations necessary to determine its properties.
Why is it likely that an allowed stable "true" hexaquark by other measures would not be stable?
A free neutron, which has proportionately the same mix of quarks, is not stable (and is only stable when bound in an atomic nucleus dynamically), although it comes close, and generally speaking, adding more valence quarks to the mix appears to make a hadron less stable rather than more stable.
In particular, a neutron doesn't have to have both of its down quarks in the same spin state, while the hypothetical hexaquark that might be stable would have to have at least some down quarks in the same spin state (two, three or four of them); the up quarks could have mixed spin states which would theoretically be more stable, or the same spin states, which would theoretically be less stable, and hadrons with identical quarks in the same spin state tend to be less stable than those that do not have that property.
Simple Ω baryons with three valence strange quarks, some of which are in same spin state, are an exception to this rule and are more stable than some other particles with mixed spin states with a mean lifetime of about 8*10-11, but are still unstable. A Δ+2 baryon and Δ-1 baryon, made up of three up quarks and three down quarks respectively, are also extremely unstable with mean lifetimes on the order of 10-24 seconds.
Of the fifteen possible spin states of a hypothetical four down quark and two up quark spin states, the most stable ought to be the one with two down quarks in each possible spin state and one quark quark in each possible spin state, while the other fourteen possible configurations ought to be at least somewhat less stable by comparison. And anti-hexaquarks ought to be just as stable as their ordinary matter counterparts, so you'd only need to examine one possible maximally stable undetected hexaquark state (which should also be the lightest of the fifteen possible hexaquark states) to see if a stable "true" hexaquark that has not yet been detected was possible theoretically within the range of precision in QCD calculations at this point in time.
Another theoretical consideration is that there is no obvious reason that a hexaquark, of the only kind that might be stable considering the factors addressed above, couldn't decay into a pair of neutrons, or into a proton and a Δ-1 baryon (made of three valence down quarks). So, the hexaquark would have to be lighter than the sum of the masses of its possible decay products with the same quark content, to be stable. But, generally, the more "stuff" a hadron had to overcome to hold itself together, the more massive a hadron is relative to its quark content. So, it seems unlikely that this structure would be lighter than the combined mass of its possible decay products, and hence it is more likely that it would be unstable.
Furthermore, this hexaquark would have to have some means of balancing out the tendency of down quarks to decay to up quarks that is shown in free neutrons, as in the case of a bound neutron, something that is not obviously present in this structure.
In sum, there are very good reasons to expect that there are no "true" hexaquarks that are stable in an unbound state, although there might be extraordinary bound states, such as those arising in the cores of neutron stars, where they might be able to exist in stable form.
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Concert Review: Norah Jones at the Riverside Theater (Milwaukee, WI)
Norah Jones (Brooklyn, NY), Cory Chisel and The Wandering Sons (Appleton, WI)
Riverside Theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Typically when an acclaimed artist is touring behind a fifth album, most fans attend the show, humor the new songs, and wait patiently for the prominent hits of years past. But what happens when that fifth album is Little Broken Hearts, and it just happens to be fantastic? Have longtime fans caught on to the present day gem?
Norah Jones brought her Little Broken Hearts tour to Milwaukee's Riverside Theater Monday night and the near-capacity crowd appeared to be made up heavily of longtime fans. Many couples in their thirties, forties, and fifties were in attendance, and I strained to find some fifth album bandwagon fans like myself. As Jones played, a number of concertgoers would clap when she began a favorite of theirs, and you could get a pretty good sense of what people had come there hoping to to hear.
Very early in her set, Jones delved into a group of four continuous songs off of Little Broken Hearts. Prior to playing them, she announced the next songs were going to be off her new album. The crowd offered up some clapping, but by no means an energetic reception. Jones then strung together "Little Broken Hearts," "She's 22," "Say Goodbye," and "Take it Back." "She's 22" is one of my favorites off of the new album, and Jones delivered a simple, but mesmerizing rendition, standing front and center, gently strumming her guitar. It was the highlight of the first set of new songs, all of which seemed to lack crowd enthusiasm. And that seemed to affect the energy Jones brought to the songs.
From there Jones broke the set up a bit with the upbeat single off of 2009's The Fall "Chasing Pirates," and a cover of Grateful Dead's "It Must Have Been the Roses," stating her touring band were big fans of the Dead. Jones then went into "Black," her groovy, rhythm beat offering to the Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi 2011 collaborative album Rome. Jones explained this was how she first met Danger Mouse who would then go on to produce Little Broken Hearts. "Black" was a fun tune that should have livened up the seated crowd, but it seemed most fans were holding in their reactions until they heard an early Norah Jones megahit.
When the band left the stage for a few songs, and Jones sat down at the piano, she finally got some well-deserved cheering. Jones showcased her piano playing talent on "Nearness of You." Members of the crowd began applauding her during the gorgeous piano solo portion of the song, and Jones joked after that she was afraid it was going to throw her off, which of course it didn't. "Don't Know Why" received an arousing reception, and Jones rendition of the soothing, jazzy hit still sounded fresh after all these years.
"Miriam" is another Little Broken Hearts highlight and it was nice to see the crowd get more behind this one. The band had returned out on stage, and the group gave a soaring, borderline epic, rendition of the dark tale of unfaithfulness. Jones helmed the performance behind her piano, bringing to life the quiet intensity that drives the track.
"After the Fall" and bouncy, lead single "Happy Pills" solidly rounded out the songs of Little Broken Hearts for the night. Even though it was a healthy offering from the new album, I would have liked to have heard "4 Broken Hearts" or "Travelin' On" as I feel they are two of the strongest on the record.
Towards the close of the night, "Stuck," a late album, slow cooker off of The Fall, almost stole the show for me. Jones, back on guitar, flushed out the rock-driven tune with her full band, everyone hitting stride together. The band's lead guitarist, Jason Roberts, shredded the track's bridging guitar solo beautifully, making it a lively standout of the night.
Jones did not disappoint during the encore, rolling out acoustic versions of monster hits, "Sunrise" and "Come Away With Me." After the first few chords of "Come Away With Me" a noticeable gasp could be heard from the crowd, illustrating the magic that the title song from her 2002 breakout album still encompasses.
Show openers, Cory Chisel and The Wandering Sons, brought a simple, yet beautiful set to what was a homecoming crowd for Chisel. "I've lived in Wisconsin for 22 years and this is my very first time playing the Riverside Theater" he announced to the crowd early on in the night. The Riverside, with its beauty and large capacity, serves as sort of the cathedral of Milwaukee's live music scene; I could understand the feat of playing there, even as an opening act. Chisel along with the sole, current "Wandering Son," Adriel Denae lulled songs of yearning from their recent release Old Believers. Chisel stuck with the acoustic guitar and Denae dabbed behind the keyboard as the two came together in stripped, but impassioned performances of "I've Been Accused" and "Over Jordan," as well as a cover of Tom Wait's "Rosie."
Even though I wish the Little Broken Hearts tour did have a few more Broken Hearts included on it, I do feel Jones played a well-rounded set that strived to make all of her increasing diverse fans happy. I definitely felt I was in the minority Monday night as a Norah Jones fan that didn't start listening until the fourth and fifth album, but I know I'm not the only one. And then again, who is still making new fans with a fifth album? The same artist that makes you still gasp at a song you know is coming up next; the one and only, Norah Jones.
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