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FastSpin is cool and all, but it doesn't hardly use any of the new P2 features. Cordic, LUT(shared or not), streamer (for other than HUBexec if it even does that fully or at all), smart pins, and so on. These are the things Chip wants to prove out before making the big choice.
Fastspin certainly uses hubexec, and the cordic (for multiply, divide, sqrt). For other P2 features it's trivial to add Spin functions with inline assembly:
PUB log(x) : r
qlog x
getqx r
endasm
Adding a library of builtin functions like this would certainly be easier than creating a whole new interpreter.
Similarly, PropGCC intrinsics also provide builtin (not via function calls) access to P1 instructions, and the same could be done for P2 for the rare cases where function calls cannot do something.
Let's face it: for testing P2 functionality PASM, Fastspin, or C would all suffice. We don't *need* Spin2 to use the P2, or to tape it out; the interpreter isn't in ROM so it can be done later. Dave Hein is absolutely correct about that.
Chip is really attached to Spin2 and wants to get it done. I can understand that (writing interpreters and languages can be fun!) but I hope he leaves any major language changes for later. Indeed, one of the great things about not having the interpreter in ROM is that Spin2 can continue to evolve and improve.
Ramon wrote: »
I mostly say this because FastSpin has been around for ages but I've never heard of anyone using it. However, I frequently hear people say we need Spin for P2 ASAP. That suggests to me that people don't view FastSpin as a *real* implementation of Spin.
Does that means that we already have a spin1-like implementation for P2 v19?
FastSpin? I cannot find any link to the interpreter. A search at the forum only gives a code for FGPA v16.
The latest version is at https://github.com/totalspectrum/spin2cpp/releases. It compiles a superset of Spin1 (there are some Spin2 features) to P1 or P2 v18. I can update it to v19 if there's interest, but so far nobody but me (and maybe David Betz) seems to be using it for P2.
We don't need it, but Chip does, and he's the one that has to commit a large amount of money from his company to make it.
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David, Eric, thanks for the info.
I will try FastSpin v18 as I think maybe I will not miss any new feature between v18 and v19.
I think that an added big plus of fastspin is that I will be able to learn more faster how to program PASM by looking at the PASM code generated from Spin, than if I start directly with P2 PASM. Or maybe not, if Spin code is converted to some kind of hubexec LLM code then I will not understand anything.
I don't think Chip "needs" it. I think he "wants" it. Which is totally fair, it's his company and his project. I just hope he recognizes how much we all really want silicon ASAP, and how much time there will be after the silicon tapes out to polish and improve Spin2.
In P2 code executing from hub looks just like code executing from COG -- there's no need for LMM or anything fancy like that. It's one of the nice features of P2 that we're all looking forward to!
I think that an added big plus of fastspin is that I will be able to learn more faster how to program PASM by looking at the PASM code generated from Spin, than if I start directly with P2 PASM.
IIRC Eric has added source code as comments to the ASM out ? - so yes, this should be a great way to learn PASM.
Of course, once you have such nice tight documents and an understanding of what code is produced, you tend to need ASM less
It is a good idea for Embedded developers to have both HLL and resulting code views.
jmg wrote:
Of course, once you have such nice tight documents and an understanding of what code is produced, you tend to need ASM less.
Less, maybe, but not never. I would contend that there are tightly-crafted assembly routines that could never have been the result of compilation from a HLL and, moreover, that a compiler could not produce more efficient coding, regardless of optimization. I would also contend that the unique architecture of the Prop makes this even more probable than on most other processors.
Yup, which is why I did say less and not never... It is also why I advocate for in-line ASM support, that fastspin already has
From above...
An outcome may be that such a HLL, is used as a High Level Assembler, and separate ASM files are used less and less.
Absolutely. But none of that quoted "[asm code]\n" Smile for each line that GCC requires. It has to be easy to type and look like real assembly code, complete with column alignment.
I certainly agree with that. I have no idea why the GCC inline code syntax is so ugly.
I think that is the combined product of 'Multiple targets', & 'easiest' pressures.
They just feed-straight-thru the ASM lines, to the following Assembler pass, with almost no IQ. That also impacts name-space handling too...
Better design is to include an Assembler parser, so between asm..endasm, can be much smarter.
Of course, that gets target specific, and so is avoided by GCC...
I think you are right Phil. I'm no compiler expert but it seems to me that modern compiler and optimizer technology does a brilliant job of producing small and speedy code. So much so that writing in assembler does not gain you much.
But that is for, shall we say, "normal" source code and normal everyday instructions. Historically compilers have fallen down when it comes to weird instruction sets and architectures. It just gets too complicated to deal with. At least that is my feeling based on examples like the Intel i860 and the Itanium. In such cases the problem of achieving optimum performance was shunted from the hardware to the compilers. The compilers did not deliver.
Given the thousands of instructions in the P2 I imagine that a typical compiler would only ever use a few percent of them. There will be a lot of scope for hand crafting PASM.
C is alive on the P2! I just posted an update to the Can't wait for PropGCC on the P2? . It is still far from complete, but I have several sample C programs that run on the P2 FPGA. I've even got some SD file I/O working. The SD SPI driver is written in C, so it is very slow. Eventually I want to create a P2 assembly version of the driver to get the highest speed. Or maybe the driver can stay in C, but use the SPI functionality in the Smart pins to speed it up. The nice thing about C is that one can link pure C and pure assembly object files together to get the best of both worlds. It would be nice if Spin2 could generate compatible object files so they could be linked together as well. Of course this can be done using spin2cpp. I'm not sure how it will work with Spin2 code that is compiled to bytecode. I suppose a separate Spin cog and a mailbox would be the easiest solution.
Eventually I want p2gcc C code to be integrated to PASM in the same way that Spin code integrates to PASM. I think the way to do this is to create a superset of C that allows for a DAT section. The DAT section would contain pure PASM code. This would be contained in a file with something like a .pc extension for PASM-C. A pre-processor would separate the .pc file into separate .c and .spin2 files. The pre-processor would provide hooks in the C code to access the data in the Spin2 file so C would have exactly the same connection that Spin has. At least that's the best approach I've come up with at this point. I can't see any technical reasons why a PC program can't be as tightly coupled to the P2 as a Spin2 program will be.
C is alive on the P2! I just posted an update to the Can't wait for PropGCC on the P2? . It is still far from complete, but I have several sample C programs that run on the P2 FPGA.
... The nice thing about C is that one can link pure C and pure assembly object files together to get the best of both worlds. It would be nice if Spin2 could generate compatible object files so they could be linked together as well. Of course this can be done using spin2cpp. I'm not sure how it will work with Spin2 code that is compiled to bytecode. I suppose a separate Spin cog and a mailbox would be the easiest solution.
The most basic interface would be array declared at an absolute address in both flows.
A bit more flexible is PUBLIC and EXTRN type declarations via the linker.
Even if Spin2 came short of 'generate compatible object files', maybe you could have your link read some Spin2 MAP file to extract a Varname:Address pair ?
Seems that should be minimal interim work for you/Chip ?
Eventually I want p2gcc C code to be integrated to PASM in the same way that Spin code integrates to PASM. I think the way to do this is to create a superset of C that allows for a DAT section. The DAT section would contain pure PASM code. This would be contained in a file with something like a .pc extension for PASM-C. A pre-processor would separate the .pc file into separate .c and .spin2 files. The pre-processor would provide hooks in the C code to access the data in the Spin2 file so C would have exactly the same connection that Spin has. At least that the best approach I come up with at this point. I can't see any technical reasons why a PC program can't be as tightly coupled to the P2 as a Spin2 program will be.
I'm not entirely following this.
I think you have C/PASM/Linking working, so this is less a need than a plan ?
DAT sections and pre-processors that spawn yet more files, and file extensions, sounds less than ideal.
What about in-line ASM, done the way Eric shows above ?
Okay, that was a little over the top, perhaps, but you know what I mean ... right?
The C language syntax is non-extensible, but C can be extended through function calls. For very simple functions, the compiler will convert them to inline code, which in some cases can result in a single PASM instruction being issued. On the P1 PropGCC understands how to use the basic arithmetic and logic instructions of the Prop. For the non-ALU type of instructions a built-in function can be defined. Thus there are built in functions for clkset, cogid, cognew, coginit, locknew, lockset, lockclk, waitcnt, waitvid, etc. In many cases these built-in functions generate a single PASM instruction. The registers INA, OUTA, DIRA, CTRA, etc. are also defined, so a C program can access these registers directly. These are all native features of the Prop that C can access. So PropGCC may be more tightly coupled to the Prop than you might think.
The thing that is missing in PropGCC is the tight coupling to PASM that Spin has. There are ways to do it with the current implementation of PropGCC, but I've always had difficulty using it. And if I have trouble with it I can't imagine how a novice could deal with it. So that's why I'm proposing the PC extension to PropGCC. A test.pc program would include both C code and a DAT section containing PASM code, just like a Spin file contains both Spin and PASM. test.pc would be pre-processed into separate files containing the C and PASM parts, and these files would be compiled by the appropriate tools and then linked together. The programmer doesn't need to know the details of how this happens, all he needs to know is that he can write C and PASM code together in the same file, and it magically gets compiled into a binary.
The pre-processing of such a file is fairly straightforward, and some day when I have a chance I'll give it a try. If it works that would be great. If it doesn't, then I've only wasted a day or two. Either way, I think it's worth pursuing.
@jmg, inline assembly is effective if only a few lines are required. PropGCC supports it, and it's a good feature. However, it is a bit clumsy to use it when writing a hundred or more lines of assembly. It also doesn't look very good either. People are used to the Spin/PASM method for coding, and I find it to be an extremely powerful feature and easy to use. I think it would be interesting to see if this method could be use with C as well.
@jmg, inline assembly is effective if only a few lines are required. PropGCC supports it, and it's a good feature. However, it is a bit clumsy to use it when writing a hundred or more lines of assembly.
The example above is not clumsy, to me ?
Why is it limited to "only a few lines" ?
It also doesn't look very good either.
- but it is simply ASM source code, so looks identical - or do you mean the terrible GCC in-line ASM, which is not the example I've given at all.
People are used to the Spin/PASM method for coding, and I find it to be an extremely powerful feature and easy to use.
I think it would be interesting to see if this method could be use with C as well.
So you propose instead of asm .. endasm which is clear in intent, you prefer to use DAT to mean Start_Assembler_Section ?
Not that clear to a new user, is it ?
If you split the source file with a pre-processor, how does the user resolve the error messages from the downstream Compiler and ASM ?
How does a Debugger source-step ?
All that line-information is lost. Sounds a very long way from "easy to use" to me.
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I may have missed it... will we able to use a pointer to a method as a parameter?
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Your proposal to allow DAT PASM sections of code within C files, just like SPIN files sounds great to me. Seems this is the missing link to have C programs work with PASM. I do hope you are successful getting this working. It might even convince me to do more C programming
While you are trying this, maybe you could think about whether the file could have SPIN within it to ??? ie really a spin file with a C-Section. This way we could have the best of all worlds. Obviously the Spin compiler would need to be called to compile that spin (and maybe pasm) section.
JonnyMac wrote: »
Yes, this is one of the planned features of Spin2, after some discussions about the syntax it went sadly quiet.
I personally miss this feature since a long time, it would really complete Spin for me.
But I am, and will be just a un-significant minor dent in sales of Parallax products.
I agree, fastspin inline asm looks much better than PropGCC's. That could be incorporated into PC files, which would then be converted to PropGCC's format during the conversion step. Why is a DAT section needed then? I think it would be needed so that PASM code could be written that would be loaded into another cog. Maybe there are things that can be done in PASM that can't be done with inline ASM. I don't know, I haven't looked into it that thoroughly. Or maybe the difference is just in the syntax. If asm...endasm is used within a C function it is just inline code, but if it is used outside of a function it is PASM code. Maybe it would look something like this
int log(int x)
ABC = 3
DEF = 4
enter   mov     addr1, ptra
mov     addr2, ptrb
parm1   long    0
addr1   long    0
fit     $1f0
static int stack[100];
int startup(int parm)
int cognum;
parm1 = parm;
cognum = cognew(&enter, stack);
return cognum;
Keeping track of line numbers after the file is split is tricky. GCC manages to know the original line numbers after a header file is included. I'm sure a similar method could be used. I thought about that issue when I was working on Taz C. My plan was to use a PRAGMA to indicate the original file name and line numbers to the later stages. Now a source level debugger -- that would be nice. The debugger used with GCC is GDB, which is really ugly. Maybe somebody can put a pretty GUI face on it so that it's usable by mere mortals like me.
The debugger used with GCC is GDB, which is really ugly. Maybe somebody can put a pretty GUI face on it so that it's usable by mere mortals like me.
They did. It's called DDD. https://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/
There are others:
https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/GDB Front Ends
I wonder if the debug interrupt in P2 has everything required to work with GDB. This is another reason why there should be a GCC effort going on now before the design is cast in silicon.
Yes. I'm working on that now.
It's taken me a week to fully re-understand and update the Spin calling convention. That sounds stupid, I know, but my problem is that there are so many slightly-better ways to code something in PASM that it can drive you crazy. I think I'm at the end of this part, but it's been dizzying.
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NOT WORTHLESS
I plan on using it a lot (like on the P1)
Mind you, I will also use C
Depends on what I am doing
I was being facetious about suggesting new features for Spin. Most of my suggestions have been proposed before, and shot down. So it's kind of pointless to propose them again. Anyhow, at this point I'm hoping that your work on Spin2 is almost done and the chip can go into synthesis soon.
Spin2 still needs more work. I hope to have it breathing soon.
I realize a lot of people think it is worthless, but it's a path that lets me prove a lot of the chip, so that I'll have the confidence needed to make those expenditures, which are huge. I'm just not knowledgable enough about C++ to go down that road, at first.
I'm with Bill: Spin is not worthless. I just finished a 6K line (Spin & PASM) app for a customer who is thrilled -- and after a month of testing, NO BUGS. I will eventually learn to write C as effortlessly as I write Spin; I like knowing I can be productive and having a language that is tied right to the architecture and no "workarounds" are required.
Bill Henning wrote: »
There is a place for PASM, SPIN2 and C (and Blockly).
I am more of an assembler programmer than high level. However, almost all of my P1 programs are a mix of SPIN & PASM. I do PASM where necessary, and SPIN otherwise.
With past micros, I haven't been able to use HLL because of what I have been doing. I have used multiple micros since the 80's to simplify the programming aspect. The P1 architecture has enabled me to use a HLL, and since SPIN is quite simple and easy, it's a no-brainer.
I suspect I will venture into C more on the P2 as well as SPIN & PASM. Might even try Bockly for may grandkids (8th on the way, 8 and under)
Worthless??? Hardly! Spin is easily the best RAD (rapid application development) language for the Propeller. It's simple and quick to write a Spin program to do almost anything, and it's the perfect glue for holding PASM modules together, when you need PASM for the heavy lifting. Once you've mastered Spin's very short learning curve, it's off to the races from a productivity standpoint.
When I bought my first prop, I actually had two spin programs running first... flash leds/pins and then sending serial using FullDuplexSerial. And that was in the first hour or two! Pasm followed later to flash leds/pins.
And with SPIN2 being so much faster, plus the additional P2 clock and instructions each being 2x faster, it will fit in even better!!!


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To install opam via homebrew on Mountain Lion, the incantation is now `brew install opam --without-aspcud'.  To avoid other users coming across this, I've edited the opam wiki  to add this line and also the RWO install wiki .
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    var now_index = current_index - 1;
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A: Try:
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Stephanie Stradley's Texans season preview Q&A with Rivers McCown
By Stephanie Stradley, Special Contributor
Published 11:37 am CDT, Wednesday, September 4, 2019
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Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson (4) looks to pass the ball during the first quarter of an NFL football game at NRG Stadium, Saturday, August 17, 2019.
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Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson (4) looks to pass the ball during the first quarter of an NFL football game at NRG Stadium,
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This Texans season preview is with Rivers McCown (@riversmccown). A Houston- based football writer, Rivers wrote the Houston Texans chapter the Football Outsiders Almanac this year, has an engaging Twitter feed, and if you are interested in Texans football, has his own site, riversmccown.com, where he shares writing that doesn't go in other places.
The thing I enjoy about his writing is what I like in a lot of writing: Share your observations and opinions. Share your reasoning supporting those views. Maybe you don't always agree, but at a minimum it is food for thought.
I enjoy talking about football with people and having the opportunity to share those conversations with other people. When you watch a game knowing more about the people playing it and things to look for, it makes it much more interesting.
Our conversation:
Q: This preseason, you wrote the Football Outsiders Almanac's Texans chapter. The 2019 offseason has been um, eventful since then. What was the general view of the team going into the season from a FOA perspective and how might the events of the offseason and last weekend change that?
A: The general view that FOA 2019 took of the Texans was that they were bound to regress a bit because they played a harder schedule. Subjectively, I believe that the Texans are in an even worse spot than that because when they tend to play good quarterbacks, their DVOA (Defense-adjusted Value Over Average) splits tend to be a lot worse than usual.
Nick Foles, who I would say is good but not in anybody's top-10 list, lit them up last season. And when the Texans give up 22 or more points in a game, they lose. They're 4-32 under Bill O'Brien when they do that.
I can already see the angry Twitter comments to this but I don't think the view on them has changed much in light of the moves. If you want to take a positive from it, I think they've definitely increased their offensive floor between Laremy Tunsil, Duke Johnson, and Kenny Stills. The injuries that made passing harder in the late weeks last season no longer exist, but if they were to re-occur, the Texans have legitimate cover.
But in losing Jadeveon Clowney, they've removed an awful lot of their defensive versatility from last year. I think Whitney Mercilus can produce more than he did last year, now that he's been given a role he can actually play well in the defense. Mercilus is not Clowney.
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Q: Speaking of versatility, they are also replacing a lot of CB/S Kareem Jackson defensive snaps. I wonder how that secondary will hold up with the quarterbacks they will be facing, no Clowney as a part of the pass rush, and the offseason moves they made and didn't make. Last year, the Texans plan seemed to be to have their defense save them, keep them in the game, and if it couldn't, they were in trouble.
A: Romeo Crennel is a zone-heavy coordinator, and a lot of the defense is built with that philosophy in mind. They target corners with a lot of ability to read in front of them and react. They want your quarterback to have to dink and dunk up and down the field every series. But we saw how that went with Andrew Luck last season, and now we're going to see how it goes against (gulp) Drew Brees, Matt Ryan, Cam Newton, Jameis Winston in a Bruce Arians offense, Tom Brady, Philip Rivers, and Pat Mahomes. The Texans have got to be thanking every deity they can that Luck retired, because I hadn't talked to one person that was convinced they had a way to stop him.
And yes, a lot of Crennel's best schemes last year were built on Clowney in the middle, Jackson in the middle. Bringing pressure from safeties in dime looks. Overload blitzes. He's very creative when he wants to be.
FOA tidbit: The Texans allowed only 3.3 yards per pass when they blitzed a defensive back. I don't think Crennel is by any means a bad coordinator, but I do think you're asking a lot of him to make this defense into a great force again with these ingredients.
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Q: OK, let's mix up the grim Q&As with some not so grim things. What are some positive trends for the Texans in the FOA info?
A: Three positive things for the Texans! Let's go:
1. Led by DJ Reader, the run defense had one of the 10 best seasons by DVOA in modern NFL history in 2018. Brennan Scarlett is a fair replacement for Clowney against the run, and depending on where they line Justin Reid up I think he can do some mitigation on losing Jackson.
2. Because in FOA's past research, run defense DVOA tends to correlate strongly with not falling off a cliff, FOA loves Houston's defense still. If you want to look only at the objective numbers, they have the best projection in the NFL pending an update on the Clowney trade. That doesn't necessarily mean we think they will be the best defense -- it does mean that we think they have the best chance to have a good defense.
3. In replacing Matt Kalil's projected production with Tunsil, the Texans have a massive upgrade. Kalil's last full season with the Panthers had him allowing 4.5 sacks and blowing 29 blocks. That's before his latest injury, and his preseason form was not exactly inspiring. Tunsil allowed two sacks and 12 blown blocks last season.
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Q: Hey, and special teams was actually a positive for the team last year! So that's four things. One of the Football Outsiders' Basic tenets is, "Offense is more consistent from year to year than defense, and offensive performance is easier to project than defensive performance. Special teams is less consistent than either." But for years and years, the Texans special teams was consistently terrible. Last year was the first good year in the Bill O'Brien era, and likely has a lot to do with an experienced coach like Brad Seely taking over that unit last year and having input on who was on it. What were the biggest factors in the Texans special teams improvement from literally one of the worst in the NFL for almost a decade to 5th in DVOA last year?
A: I believe it was just a bigger focus from above on making sure to acquire players that profiled as good special teamers. Buddy Howell and A.J. Moore both primarily played teams and were excellent. They signed Johnson Bademosi. The Texans went ahead and waived Tyler Ervin to get a better pure returner in DeAndre Carter. They drafted Peter Kalambayi.
Houston spent a lot of their attention during the dark Joe Marciano years on spending their picks on high-upside players -- I think focusing more on safe-floor special teamers played out very well for them.
The interesting thing to me is that I don't think Houston has a kicker that they have a ton of confidence in. (As measured by how many punts in opposing territory they had.) I don't think they were confident in Trevor Daniel, which is why we watched a training camp punting battle. What if they happen to get better at these positions?
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Q: Speaking of getting better, I think part of the fan frustration of last year was being told that the playbook was going to be more focused to the strengths of Deshaun Watson, fans expecting more of the exciting offense of the previous year, and then devolving into run, run, pass. Some of that came from quirks of the 2018 season: Watson coming off of his ACL injury and still being fairly new to the league. The offensive line looking bad right away and doing musical chairs due to injury. Watson getting hit early and often and recovering from lung injuries. And then the non-Hopkins wide receiver corps getting sidelined for weeks at a time. Sometimes it felt like the run calls were in there to just reduce the number of chances for the defense to hit Watson. This year Watson has a whole offseason but the offensive line and running backs are being retooled on the fly. Your thoughts on this subject? Can the offense survive through the learning curve of rookie offensive linemen, try hard linemen and adding LT Laremy Tunsil? What sorts of play calls would you like to see more or less of in the upcoming year based on the data from previous years and NFL trends in general?
A: I think Deshaun Watson is a magic eraser for bad offensive lines. People love to complain about how many sacks he took. They probably don't remember that when Tom Savage was back there in 2017, the Jaguars ruined his life.
The rhetoric about the number of sacks Watson takes is, I think, an interesting subject that fans tend to simplify a bit too much. Watson is able to evade a lot of sacks, Watson is able to run himself into sacks trying to buy time for his preferred plays. I saw real improvement from him last season as far as subtle pocket movements and am optimistic about his ability to overcome later in the down and create on his own.
O'Brien really seemed to leave play-action and read-option out of Houston's playbook in 2018. I think that was a big mistake because so much of what makes Watson great is his ability to take the easy things a defense gives you in those areas. If they have to commit to spying Watson, they're a man down. Houston's best offensive game of the season came when they had Miami on the ropes on Thursday Night Football and they struck them down with deep play-action passes to Will Fuller and Hopkins over and over again. The bonkers stats Watson put up in 2017 were bound to come down, but I felt a lot of that was on O'Brien's play selection.
I think the biggest concern about the offensive linemen — new or otherwise — is actually on how they'll do in the running game. That's where O'Brien wants to focus his attention.
Last year's playbook was extremely zone-heavy and their linemen just didn't play well on combo blocks. Nick Martin, in particular, struggled with that. O'Brien loves to bring tight ends across the formation to pick up guys and I think that might make Darren Fells a very popular player on early downs this season. Now you're adding rookies to the mix. Tytus Howard had some ghastly preseason tape in the run game as far as getting to the second level and finding nothing.
If the Texans can run as well as O'Brien wants them to, everything is easy. Everything was often not easy last year. I don't think the line is improved enough to make that calculus any easier without involving Watson more in the run game. If you're being super optimistic, maybe Howard and Scharping develop quickly and get there in midseason.
Please thank Rivers for sharing this conversation.
I will leave you with this thought going into the season. Lots of people will be telling you how you should feel about the Houston Texans and any number of things. And the thing about that is that people feel as they do — positive, negative and indifferent — for any number of reasons.
You are entitled to your feelings and when people are telling you how you should feel about stuff, check your wallet and ask yourself why are they trying to dictate how you feel.
And if your feelings aren't working for you, ask yourself why about that, too, and see what you can do about it.
Congratulations to you. It's finally football season. Hope it is a good one for you and your favorite teams.
If you have any questions or comments about anything Texans, feel free to reach out on Twitter (@StephStradley).
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By Larry Keane
Voters in Iowa and Oregon made their voices heard at the ballot box on election day with vastly different outcomes.
One state reaffirmed its support for the Second Amendment while the other imposed crippling gun control laws on law-abiding citizens.
Iowa's "Freedom Amendment"
Voters in the Hawkeye state approved a ballot measure to add state-level Second Amendment guarantees to the Iowa Constitution, protecting gun rights from possible future questionable gun restrictions. After garnering more than 65 percent of the vote, Iowans left little doubt that they believe in the Second Amendment.
The approved ballot measure means the state's constitution will be amended to add: "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. The sovereign state of Iowa affirms and recognizes this right to be a fundamental individual right. Any and all restrictions of this right shall be subject to strict scrutiny."
The amendment also inscribed the right to keep and bear arms as, "a fundamental individual right," and requires any restrictions on gun rights to survive "strict scrutiny," the highest legal hurdle for state legislation to clear.
On election night, supporters of Ballot Measure 1, or "the Freedom Amendment" as it was called, praised the final outcome. "This is an historic day for freedom, civil rights and for the Hawkeye state," remarked Iowa Firearms Coalition President David Funk. "The right to self defense is here to stay in Iowa and we are grateful for the thousands of Iowans who took the time out of their days to cast a vote in favor of liberty."
Iowa had been one of only six remaining states that lacked specific state constitution Second Amendment protections. Now, only five are left: California, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey and New York.
Oregon Votes The Other Way
It took much longer for votes to be counted in the Pacific Northwest and in the end, voters in Oregon went in the opposite direction, approving a strict gun ballot measure that could "virtually eliminate" the firearm industry. Ballot Measure 114 was approved by a hair, 50.7 percent to 49.3 percent, a difference of less than 26,000 votes. It will become law on December 8, just three weeks from now.
Ballot Measure 114 expands background check requirements on all firearm transfers, including private transfers, instituting a statewide universal background check. The measure also requires gun owners to pay extra fees, enroll in hands-on firearm training and creates a system of finger printing and data collection. It also requires Oregonians to obtain a permit to purchase a gun, a costly and timely process even before they can pass an FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) verification. Lastly, the measure limits ammunition magazine capacity to only holding 10 rounds.
The law will do little to address criminals who don't follow the law anyways and misuse firearms to commit acts of violence. Law enforcement officials are already suggesting they won't enforce it. Local media reported that multiple county sheriffs across Oregon have suggested the law will be overturned on constitutional grounds.
"If you believe that this measure is going to cut the school shootings down, or cut the gun violence down, you're sadly mistaken," Union County Sheriff Cody Bowen told Fox News. "But what has proven [to work] time and time again is… supporting your law enforcement, responsible gun ownership, teaching our children at a younger age respect for human life. That's what we need to fall back on."
Jefferson County Sheriff Jason Pollack put it bluntly, saying, "The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office will not enforce Measure 114." Some estimates say the measure will cost local governments $30 million per year in processing expenses.
The measure's approval has led to a firearm sales boom proponents of gun control will not be happy about. Oregon State Police reported background checks for firearm purchases soared from averaging 850 a day before the election to more than 4,000 per day since. That trend aligns with NSSF data showing increased interest in firearm ownership in Oregon over the past few years. Since 2020, more than 1 million Oregonians have passed an FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check (NICS) verification to buy a firearm, according to NSSF data.
Ballot measures in Oregon typically take 30 days to be fully enacted into law. For the time being legal challenges are already moving with the hope that courts will agree the measure is unconstitutional.
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It'll likely debut sometime next year.
The next-generation BMW 2 Series Active Tourer isn't the most exciting BMW coming down the pipe. It's a boxy family hauler better suited for cruising around town instead of tackling the Nurburgring, though it has shown promise at the famous track. A new video has again captured the 2 Series AT out testing, though it's still covered in camouflage. However, the video does capture the car's surprisingly spunky exhaust note.
It's not a grand chorus of combustion from eight or twelve cylinders, though it is a throaty, raspy buzz one wouldn't normally expect from such a vehicle. But don't let the noise fool you. BMW is expected to use the family of engines it offers in the 1 Series, which means we'll see the 2 Series AT receive three-cylinder turbocharged gasoline and diesel engines. There should also be a plug-in hybrid offered as well, though it'll arrive later.
Gallery: 2021 BMW 2 Series Active Tourer new spy photos
The new 2 Series AT will ride on BMW's UKL front- and all-wheel-drive platform, which has been in use since 2014, the Active Tourer's first year. BMW is tweaking the model's proportions to help give it a sportier stance. Small changes, like moving the side mirrors to the door, enhance the styling. Camouflage covers the car, though it doesn't hide a massive grille. Instead, it looks smaller than M3/M4's controversial face.
Photos of inside the car have shown a reworked and updated interior, though felt covers hid most of it. However, it does appear the next-gen model will receive a digital instrument cluster alongside the infotainment screen. The center console also featured a new look, though the photos indicated that it was far from production-ready. We expect BMW to reveal the new 2 Series Active Tourer sometime next year, with it going on sale as a 2022 model before the end of next year.
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Red Sox's Joely Rodriguez: Signed by Red Sox
Rodriguez (shoulder) signed a one-year contract with the Red Sox on Wednesday.
Rodriguez will head to Boston after spending the 2022 campaign with the Mets, posting a 4.47 ERA and 1.35 WHIP with 57 strikeouts over 50.1 innings in 55 appearances. The 31-year-old sustained a shoulder injury in the postseason, the severity of which has yet to be disclosed, though he seems likely to be ready to go for spring training in February. Rodriguez will provide the Red Sox with another left-handed arm out of the bullpen. Based on his performance in 2023, the team has a club option to retain him for an additional season.
Mets' Joely Rodriguez: Out with shoulder injury
Rodriguez was removed from the Mets' wild-card roster due to a shoulder injury, Tim Britton of The Athletic reports.
The exact nature and severity of Rodriguez's injury are not yet clear, but the issue is evidently bad enough that he won't be able to pitch for at least this series as well as the NLDS, should the Mets advance. Taijuan Walker was added to the roster in his place.
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Mets' Joely Rodriguez: Moves past neck issue
Rodriguez (neck) was used in relief in Friday's 6-3 loss to the Marlins, retiring one of the five batters he faced while allowing two earned runs on two hits and two walks.
Though he wasn't sharp Friday, Rodriguez at least appears to have moved past the stiff neck that kept him unavailable for a few games early last week. Rodriguez takes a 5.31 ERA and 1.60 WHIP for the season into Monday's series opener with the Cubs.
Mets' Joely Rodriguez: Dealing with neck stiffness
Rodriguez was unavailable for Tuesday's loss to the Pirates due to neck stiffness, Tim Healey of Newsday reports.
It's unclear when the neck issue first surfaced, but the left-hander last pitched Saturday versus Washington and delivered a scoreless frame. The Mets are likely to consider a stint on the injured list for Rodriguez ahead of Wednesday's doubleheader.
Mets' Joely Rodriguez: Notches fifth hold
Rodriguez retired the only batter he faced on one pitch Sunday, recording his fifth hold of the season in a win over the Rockies.
With two outs and two on in the eighth inning and the Mets nursing a 2-0 lead, Rodriguez was brought in to face Ryan McMahon and got him to line out to third base. Three of the lefty's last five appearances have lasted less than one inning, but his 3.86 ERA, 1.00 WHIP and 18:7 K:BB through 14 innings on the year give him some deep-league fantasy value in formats that score holds.
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Mets' Joely Rodriguez: Picks up first hold
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Rodriguez retired the only batter he faced to record his first hold of the season in Thursday's win over the Giants.
After Carlos Carrasco gave up a two-out solo shot to Mike Yastrzemski in the eighth inning and got the hook, Rodriguez came in with the Mets ahead 5-2 and got Brandon Belt to pop out to end the frame. Rodriguez has been used in a situational role this season, working less than one full inning in three of his six appearances, and the journeyman southpaw's 9.64 ERA through 4.2 innings seems mostly a product of bad luck considering his 1.07 WHIP and 7:2 K:BB.
Mets' Joely Rodriguez: Dealt to Mets
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The Mets acquired Rodriguez from the Yankees on Sunday in exchange for Miguel Castro, Joel Sherman of the New York Post reports.
The swap of relievers gives the Mets a much-needed lefty option, as Rodriguez becomes the only southpaw that's tentatively in the Mets' projected Opening Day bullpen. Rodriguez is expected to slot into the middle relief/setup ranks for the Mets after he accrued a 4.66 ERA, 1.53 WHIP and 47:18 K:BB in 46.1 innings with the Yankees last season to go with one save and 13 holds.
Yankees' Joely Rodriguez: Back in action Thursday
Rodriguez (neck) retired both of the batters he faced Thursday in the Yankees' 5-3 loss to the Phillies in Grapefruit League play.
Rodriguez was making just his second appearance of the spring after he was idle for nearly a week due to a sore neck. The Yankees kept Rodriguez out in part because he had shown diminished velocity in his March 24 outing, but his fastball was touching 93 miles per hour Thursday, per Bryan Hoch of MLB.com. That's only one tick below his average velocity from the 2021 season, so Rodriguez is seemingly healthy and ready to go for Opening Day.
Yankees' Joely Rodriguez: Dealing with neck issue
Rodriguez is receiving treatment for a pinched nerve in his neck Saturday, Bryan Hoch of MLB.com reports.
Although Rodriguez will face a slight delay in his spring schedule due to his neck injury, he's slated to throw live batting practice Monday. It's not yet clear whether the issue will force him to miss the start of the regular season, but it's encouraging that he'll be able to throw shortly after receiving treatment.
Yankees' Joely Rodriguez: Re-signs with Yankees
Rodriguez agreed to a one-year, $2 million contract with the Yankees on Wednesday, Joel Sherman of the New York Post reports.
The Yankees paid the left-hander's $500,000 buyout earlier in the week rather than exercise his $3 million club option for 2022, so the team ended up retaining him at a savings of $500,000. Rodriguez appeared in 21 games after being sent to New York from Texas and posted a 2.84 ERA, 1.42 WHIP and 30:12 K:BB over 19 innings with the Yankees.
Joely Rodriguez: Club option declined
Rodriguez's $3 million team option for 2022 was declined by the Yankees on Sunday.
Rodriguez made a career-high 52 relief appearances in 2021 and will receive a $500,000 buyout from the Yankees as he prepares for free agency. The southpaw recorded a 4.66 ERA and 1.53 WHIP in 46.1 innings with the Rangers and Yankees last year.
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Yankees' Joely Rodriguez: Notches hold against former club
Rodriguez earned a hold against the Rangers on Monday by retiring one batter (via strikeout) after allowing one hit.
The southpaw was summoned in the eighth inning with a runner at first base and two outs. He allowed an infield single to Nathaniel Lowe but struck out Nick Solak to end the threat. Rodriguez has 14 holds on the campaign, with four coming as a member of the Yankees. He has been a solid addition to New York's bullpen since coming over from Texas in late July, posting a 2.30 ERA, 1.21 WHIP and 15:5 K:BB across 15.2 innings.
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Yankees' Joely Rodriguez: Collects first win with new team
Rodriguez (2-3) earned the win Sunday versus Miami by retiring the only batter he faced.
Clay Holmes put a runner on with two outs in the seventh inning, but Rodriguez was able to get a groundout to end the frame. The 29-year-old was in line for the win when the Yankees rallied for the lead in the top of the eighth. This was Rodriguez's first appearance since he was acquired from the Rangers in the Joey Gallo trade. Through 27.2 innings this year, the southpaw has a 5.86 ERA, 1.59 WHIP and 30:12 K:BB. While he logged nine holds in 31 appearances with the Rangers, he figures to see more of a middle-innings role with the Yankees.
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Yankees' Joely Rodriguez: Dealt to Yankees
Rodriguez will be traded from the Rangers to the Yankees, Bryan Hoch of MLB.com reports. Joey Gallo will also be dealt to the Yankees, while the Rangers will acquire Ezequiel Duran, Trevor Hauver, Josh Smith and Glenn Otto.
The Yankees acquired Clay Holmes earlier in the week in an effort to bolster their bullpen. Rodriguez will now further reinforce their pitching depth and provide another lefty for manager Aaron Boone to utilize. Rodriguez will look to improve his results with his new club, as he's struggled to a 5.93 ERA and 1.61 WHIP across 27.1 innings to this point in the campaign.
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Q: How to correctly get gulp.src globs from a variable? Given the following Gulp setup
const { src, dest } = require('gulp');
var zip = require('gulp-zip');

var pkgDist = 'packages/';

function pkg(done) {
    src(['./**', '!node_modules/**', '!vendor/**', '!.gitignore', '!*.json', '!*.lock'], {base: '..'})
        .pipe(zip('archive.zip'))
        .pipe(dest(pkgDist))
    done();
};

exports.pkg = pkg;

how can I modify it in order to get src globs from a variable, i.e. pkgSrc, something like this:
[...]

var pkgSrc = <what to put here?>;

[...]

    src(pkgSrc)

[...]

I've tried to use this var pkgSrc = " ['./**', '!node_modules/**', '!vendor/**', '!.gitignore', '!*.json', '!*.lock'], {base: '..'} "; but it doesn't work.

If it's easier, I'm also open to solutions that result into this src([pkgSrc], {base: '..'})

A: You can go with just:
var pkgSrc = ['./**', '!node_modules/**', '!vendor/**', '!.gitignore', '!*.json', '!*.lock']

gulp.src first argument can be a string or an array, so now it is an array above.
The second argument is an object of options.  Include the options sepearately: {base: '..'}  so
src(pkgSrc, {base: '..'})


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Q: Stormpath OAuth access token on cookie I'm working on integrating OAuth 2.0 token management via Stormpath into my application. Currently I'm storing the access token in a cookie by building a cookie like so:
public Cookie buildAuthCookie(OauthGrantAuthenticationResult ogar){
    Cookie authCookie = new Cookie("authCookie", ogar.getAccessTokenString());
    authCookie.setSecure(true);
    authCookie.setHttpOnly(true);
    return authCookie;
}

and attaching it to my response like so:
response.addCookie(buildAuthCookie(ogar));

Is the only thing I need to attach to the cookie from the OAuthGrantAuthenticationResult the access-token or is there something else I need to add? The documentation I've been reading (http://docs.stormpath.com/guides/token-management/) seems to have the client passing the token-type as well but is that something I need to pass to the client in a cookie?

A: The result form the Stormpath API does provide the token_type attribute, defined as Bearer, as that's the expected default from an OAuth endpoint.  The idea is to inform the client how the token should be used to authenticate future requests, the default strategy being as an HTTP header Authorization: Bearer <token>, where <token>is the compact token string that you got from getAccessTokenString()
But in your case you're going to store it in a cookie, and the browser will send it back in a Cookie header, nice and simple :) so there's no need for the client to know much else about the token.  However you should set the expiration time of the cookie to be the same as the expiration time of the token, so that the browser will automatically purge the token when it is no longer valid.
You're also doing the right thing by making this a secure, http only cookie that can't be stolen by malicious JavaScript, so this approach looks pretty good to me.


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Conservation group pushes for environmental education in schools
THE South Rupununi Conservation Society (SRCS) believes that it is necessary for all Guyanese, especially children, to be taught the importance of the environment and how to protect and sustain it. "Environmental Education is so important, especially in Guyana where we have such rich and pristine biodiversity," said Neal Millar, Programme Coordinator of the SRCS.
Armed with the belief that good practices are best inculcated young, the Non-Governmental Organisation plans to develop a more holistic partnership with the Ministry of Education.
"We would like to find a way to see our environmental education curriculum, which we hope to implement to 16 schools in the Rupununi and over 1500 students by 2023, into the national (school) curriculum, Millar said during an interview with this newspaper. He noted that the SRCS is currently delivering its programmes to a few schools in the South Rupununi district. "We implement it in Kumu Primary, Shulinab Primary, Sand Creek Secondary and Shea Primary," Millar noted.
South Rupununi students participate in a hands-on learning exercise
The SRCS recently shot to international recognition, having been able to successfully establish Guyana's first Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBBA). The area was designated a "safe zone" for the endangered Red Siskin. Other groups across Guyana are also working to address the threat of extinction to other species of birds. Millar has confirmed that Guyana's "bird-caging" traditions have had some effects on the sustainability of Guyana's impressive bird population. Even though the bird-caging and trading traditions are not illegal, it is frowned upon by almost all environmentalists and conservationists. While the caging and trading of birds is a hobby for some, it is even more important to many others.
"Personally, SRCS believes that it can continue, as we know people depend on it for their livelihoods; although, we wish it would stop as we don't think any wildlife should be caged," Millar said. The programme coordinator believes that many persons can work to create alternative job opportunities, instead of relying on the bird industry. For those who refuse to do so, Millar is encouraging them to abide by the regulations and guidelines established in the 2016 Guyana Wildlife Act.
"It is not illegal to trade the birds. However, anyone who wishes to trap and trade these birds must secure a licence from the Guyana Wildlife Commission," Millar said.
He is encouraging Guyanese to "ensure that you source your birds from someone who has a permit to trade and also ensure that the bird was not trapped during the closed season."
Additionally, Millar said that persons are allowed to trap only certain species of birds during "open seasons which are designed to ensure that the populations can keep reproduced and remain at a healthy population."
"For many of the species that are caught for bird-caging such as the Towa Towa (Chestnut bellied seed finch), there are rules included in the 2016 Guyana Wildlife Act to protect them," Millar said. He lamented the fact that many of the regulations set out in the Act are not being properly observed, especially in the South Rupununi area.
"As such, we are seeing a serious decline in the number of the species and many community members frequently tell us that they are noticing the decline over the years," Millar noted.
"Recently, we have intercepted more and more instances of the Red Siskin being trapped. This is different as it is illegal to do this," he posited.
With the IBBA being successfully established, the SRCS plans to work with local communities in the South Rupununi to first assess wildlife populations and then protect those that are threatened. The organisation is also pursuing the possibility of having rangers deputised, "so that they can help enforce the laws of the 2016 Guyana Wildlife Act." Millar pointed out that "this creates jobs and will always protect our precious wildlife." Nonetheless, in light of its IBA success, the SRCS has plans to travel to other areas of Guyana to share the knowledge and experience gained from the IBBA process.
"This is to help safeguard our beautiful country…ideally, we would want to encourage persons not keep birds at all. Instead, come visit them in their natural habitat where they are wild and free," Millar advised. The Executive Committee of the SRCS comprises its President Leroy Ignacio; Vice President Angelbert Johnny; Treasurer Erin Earl; Secretary Kimmy Spencer; and Assistant Secretary-Treasurer Elian Gray.


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Ninjas Assemble in "The LEGO Ninjago Movie" Main Poster
Find the Ninja within ya in the main one-sheet art of Warner Animation Group's The LEGO Ninjago Movie, a new animated adventure in Warner's LEGO franchise.
Take a look at the poster below and watch the film in Philippine cinemas starting September 27, 2017.
In this big-screen Ninjago adventure, the battle for Ninjago City calls to action young Lloyd, aka the Green Ninja, along with his friends, who are all secret warriors and LEGO Master Builders. Led by kung fu master Wu, as wise-cracking as he is wise, they must defeat evil warlord Garmadon, the Worst Guy Ever, who also happens to be Lloyd's dad. Pitting mech against mech and father against son, the epic showdown will test this fierce but undisciplined team of modern-day ninjas who must learn to check their egos and pull together to unleash their true power.
Jackie Chan (Kung Fu Panda) stars as Master Wu; Justin Theroux (Magamind 2) is Garmadon; Dave Franco (Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising) plays Lloyd; and Olivia Munn (X-Men: Apocalypse) is Lloyd's mom, Koko. Making up the secret ninja crew, Fred Armisen (SNL) voices Cole; Abbi Jacobson (Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising) plays Nya; Kumail Nanjiani (Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates) is Jay; Michael Peña (Ant-Man) is Kai; and Zach Woods (Silicon Valley) voices Zane.
The LEGO Ninjago Movie marks the feature film directorial debut of Charlie Bean (Tron: Uprising). It is being produced by Dan Lin, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Roy Lee, who previously collaborated on the worldwide box-office phenomenon The LEGO® Movie, along with Maryann Garger ("Flushed Away"). Chris McKay, Seth Grahame-Smith, Jill Wilfert, and Keith Malone are serving as executive producers. The screenplay is by Hilary Winston & Bob Logan & Paul Fisher, story by Kevin Hageman & Dan Hageman and Hilary Winston & Bob Logan & Paul Fisher, based on LEGO Construction Toys.
The LEGO Ninjago Movie is distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.
Ninjas Assemble in "The LEGO Ninjago Movie" Main Poster Reviewed by Vida Madrona on 10:57:00 PM Rating: 5


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Election Set to Boost Japan's Military — Honestly
By Kirk Spitzer Dec. 13, 2012
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda speaks at a Patriot missile battery deployed in Tokyo ahead of North Korea's missile launch this week. Noda is likely to lose Sunday's election, but a rare public discussion about defines could mean the military will gain.
TOKYO – A stronger military, a more assertive foreign policy and a bunch of new headaches for everybody – that's what's likely to come out of this weekend's elections in Japan. Oh, and maybe a little more honesty about Japan's peculiar brand of well-armed pacifism.
Yoshihiko Noda and the Democratic Party of Japan are certain to be swept from power in parliamentary elections on Sunday. A faltering economy and the future of nuclear power are among the main issues.
But for the first time in decades, national defense is playing a significant role in the campaign. Opposition leader Shinzo Abe, the likely next prime minister, has called for an increase in defense spending, easing constitutional restrictions on the military, and even changing the name of Japan's so-called Self Defense Forces to something that sounds, well, more like a real military.
He also wants to get tough on the neighbors, which is what a lot of voters want to hear right now.
(MORE: Japan: A Wave of Patriotism)
Chinese surveillance vessels have been patrolling in or near Japanese territorial waters around the Senkaku Islands, which China claims, almost daily since September (Japan scrambled F-15 fighter planes on Thursday when a Chinese aircraft flew into airspace over the islands). Earlier this week, North Korea test-fired a long-range missile over Japan's southern islands, in direct violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.
Opposition leader and likely next prime minister Shinzo Abe wants to boost Japan's military.
For country that has a Constitution that renounces war, Japan has a surprisingly large and well-equipped military, with 250,000 men and women and a defense budget that is sixth largest in the world. But the Constitution severely restricts how those forces can be used, and with Japan's militarist past still not forgotten, defense has been a subject most often avoided in polite company, not to mention political campaigns. Defense spending has been capped at 1 percent of GDP, and that's that.
But much of that changed with the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. More than 100,000 troops were rushed to the region to search for victims, clear rubble, and deliver aid and comfort to survivors. The popularity of the armed forces soared. Noda, the son of a Ground Self Defense Force enlisted man, became the first prime minister in the post-war era from a military family. He took office in September last year.
It's good that defense issues are being discussed in the current campaign, says Narushige Michishita, director of the Security and International Studies Program at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, in Tokyo.
(MORE: Why Japan Is Still Not Sorry Enough for World War II)
"It's involving a broad range of the population because people now are aware of what's going on – they are aware of the North Korea missile threat, they are aware of the rise of China and its consequences. They know there's a problem. But they don't know where we stand because they haven't understood the military capabilities that we have," Michishita says.
Assuming he takes office, Abe is likely to push through several reforms with little opposition. That includes establishing a National Security Council to streamline decision-making, and abolishing the requirement for a separate new law each time Japan wants to send peacekeepers abroad (Japan is a strong supporter of U.N. peacekeeping missions).
Easing the restrictions on so-called collective self-defense also seems to have wide support. The current interpretation of the Constitution forbids Japanese troops from using force unless they themselves are directly attacked. That means they would not be permitted to aid, say, American or any other friendly troops even if those troops were being attacked right next to the Japanese. Although it's unlikely Abe will be able to amend the Constitution itself, he can drop the collective-defense prohibition with a simple re-interpretation.
He's unlikely, however, to succeed in changing the name of the Self Defense Forces (to National Defense Military) or other military terminology. That's too bad, says Michishita, because much of Japan's military language is misleading. The terminology dates to the 1950s, when the Japanese government was quietly (with American encouragement) re-instituting its armed forces after the disaster of World War II.
Today, for example, Japan has a powerful navy, with modern destroyers, state-of-the art attack submarines and large, flat-deck helicopter carriers; yet it still goes by the somewhat benign "Maritime Self Defense Force." Infantry units are not known as infantry – they are called "normal" units. Artillery units are not known as artillery – they are called "special" units. Helicopter carriers are not "carriers" – they are "helicopter destroyers."
(MORE: Japan's Young and Restless Are Challenging Convention)
"We always criticize China about not being transparent, but we lie about our own armed forces," says Michishita. "These are full-fledged armed forces, but we say this is not a military force. How can civilian control in this country be effective if people don't know what they have because they being are misled? As long as we are dishonest about this, nobody will trust us."
It's also unclear if Abe will be able to achieve the rest of his agenda – or even if his election will make Japan safer or improve relations with its friends and neighbors.
Abe is known as a hard-liner and a nationalist favorite, and has already aroused the suspicions of China. In October, Abe visited Yasukuni Shrine, where 14 of Japan's worst war criminals are enshrined, along with thousands of other war dead. That enraged the Chinese, many of whom believe Japan has never really repented for its wartime conduct.
What's more, Abe has said he wants to station government workers on the Senkaku Islands to reinforce Japan's claim – the tiny islands have been uninhabited for more than 80 years and previous administrations have worked to keep it that way. Putting folks ashore is certain to provoke an unpleasant and potentially dangerous response from China.
Abe also has called for re-examining a landmark government statement in 1993 that accepted responsibility for recruiting or coercing thousands of so-called comfort women in Korea during World War II. That move would surely enrage the South Koreans, with whom the Japanese have been feuding since last summer over two tiny islands in the Sea of Japan.
All of which bring us to the Americans, who have mixed emotions about Abe. Although Abe is a strong supporter of the U.S. alliance, the American are in no hurry for a confrontation with China. The U.S. has said the Senkakus fall under the U.S.-Japan security treaty that obliges the U.S. to come to Japan's aid in case of attack, but have pointedly said they take no position on who actually owns the islands.
Abe briefly served as prime minister in 2007 and generally sought to improve relations with China. But that's different now and Americans worry that Abe fails to understand the nuances of U.S. policy, says Jeffrey Hornung, an East Asia security specialist with the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, in Honolulu.
"People say that, 'Well, last time he came in as a hawk but he moderated his views when he came into office.' But that's not the case this time. Now it's an Abe that's no-holds-barred," says Hornung.
"If he wants to take a harder stance on China, especially the Senkakus, and if his harder stance does provoke a (strong) response from China t, is he then going to look to the U.S. and say, 'Hey aren't you going to back us up?' asks Hornung. "And then if the U.S. doesn't then send an aircraft carrier or whatever Abe expects, you will see people starting to question the alliance. And that's going to cause a mess."
Still, it could be worse. Nationalist candidate Shintaro Ishihara, who sparked the Senkaku crisis by trying to buy and develop the islands when he was governor of Tokyo earlier this year, has his own military agenda: Japan, says the 80-year-old Ishihara, should do computerized testing of nuclear weapons. Ishihara, mercifully, is running a distant second.
Kirk Spitzer
Spitzer is a veteran journalist and defense correspondent, based in Tokyo. He has covered nearly every major U.S. military deployment since Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm and has made more than a dozen reporting trips to Iraq and Afghanistan.


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Tantamount to Fraud?: Exploring Non-Disclosure of Genetic Information in Life Insurance Applications as Grounds for Policy Rescission
Anya E.R. Prince
Anya E.R. Prince, Tantamount to Fraud?: Exploring Non-Disclosure of Genetic Information in Life Insurance Applications as Grounds for Policy Rescission, 26 Health Matrix 255 (2016)
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Many genetic counselors recommend that individuals secure desired insurance policies, such as life insurance, prior to undergoing predictive genetic testing. It has been argued, however, that this practice is "tantamount to fraud" and that failure to disclose genetic test results, or conspiring to secure a policy before testing, opens an individual up to legal recourse. This debate traps affected individuals in a Catch-22. If they apply for life insurance and disclose a genetic test result, they may be denied. If they apply without disclosing the information, they may have committed fraud. The consequences of life insurance fraud are significant.
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