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Vision, Mission, and Guiding Principles
Autism Facts
What is ABA
The Siouxland Impact
Pier Learning Center
Autism Support Program
Social Smarts Groups
BCBA
PARA PROFESSIONAL
Intake Packet
You can make a tax-deductable contribution to The Pier Center for Autism through PayPal.
Jeremiah Gray
Jeremiah has a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Bellevue University. He joined the Pier Center for Autism in April 2017 following an 18 year career in Human Resource Management. Jeremiah also has extensive knowledge of finance, sales, performance management, recruiting, and marketing . He's excited to be able to support the clinic, the staff, and the clients, any way that he can.
Miranda Smalley
Director of Clinical Programming
Miranda has a master's degree in Educational Psychology with an emphasis in Behavior Analysis from West Virginia University. She started her career at the clinic as a board certified behavior analyst in 2016 and was promoted to Clinical Director of the Pier Center for Autism in July 2018. She is a former graduate supervisor at the Intensive Autism Service Delivery Clinic and teaching assistant at an alternative elementary education program in Morgantown, West Virginia. Her expertise lies in the implementation of function-based interventions to reduce challenging behavior as well as teaching early acquisition skills, activities of daily living, and social skills. Miranda is excited to continue her journey working with children with autism.
Maddy Harman
Director of Clinical Research
Maddy has a master's degree in Experimental Psychology with an emphasis in Behavior Analysis from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. She is a former behavior consultant and clinical supervisor at Autism Intervention Milwaukee and a graduate supervisor and lead therapist at the Tiger Center for Applied Behavior Analysis Services in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her training and experiences encompass early intervention with young children, skill acquisition, and the reduction of severe challenging behavior. Maddy has a continued passion for extending research within the field of ABA and leads multiple research projects within the clinic each year. Maddy joined the Pier Center as a Board Certified Behavior Analyst in August 2018 and was promoted to Director of Clinical Research in September of 2022.
Erin Nuetzman
Erin joined our team at the Pier Center in September 2020. She graduated from Augustana University in 2018 with a Bachelor of Arts in Biology and Religion. Erin had 3 years of experience in ABA with adolescents with autism and severe challenging behavior prior to her employment at the Pier Center. She recently finished her Master of Arts in Applied Behavior Analysis and passed the BCBA exam. Erin loves ABA because she gets to help kids reach their full potential!
Natasha Weltz
Natasha graduated from Buena Vista University in 2014 with her degree in elementary education with endorsements in reading and special education. She worked at Irving Elementary for 3 years as a reading interventionist then transferred to North Middle and worked as a para-educator in the School within a School classroom. Natasha joined the Pier Center in January 2015. As a behavior technician she excels in data collection, protocol implementation and assisting her clients in achieving their goals.
Alex Quinlain
Alex graduated from Morningside College with a Bachelor of Arts in English. He formerly worked at an alternative school in South Sioux City, NE as a para-educator. He has a passion for working with people of all ages and spends his free time playing with his dogs and toddler.
Cheyanne Dean
Cheyanne has a bachelor's degree in English from Morningside College. She joined the Pier Center in April 2019 after working as a para-educator for three years in the Sioux City Schools. Cheyanne found her passion for working with children with autism in her amazing relationship with her primary student. She is excited to build new relationships in supporting other children with autism. Cheyanne plans to further her education in an autism related field.
Maddie Neal
Maddie graduated from Briar Cliff University in May of 2019 with a bachelor's degree in Psychology. During her last semester of college, she volunteered in the applied behavior analysis clinic at BCU, where she discovered her passion for working with children with autism. Maddie joined the Pier Center in November of 2019 and is currently pursuing a master's degree in applied behavior analysis and is accruing her practicum hours at the Pier Center for Autism.
Hailey Grell
Hailey has a Bachelor's degree in Psychology with a minor in Sociology from Iowa State University. She joined the Pier Center in June 2020 after working the previous two years as a nanny for a child with unique developmental challenges. She's always had a passion for working with children and is excited to share and build her skills supporting clients at the Pier Center. Hailey is currently pursuing a master's degree in applied behavior analysis and is accruing her practicum hours at the Pier Center for Autism.
Breanna Fethkenher
Breanna joined us in August 2020 and has a Bachelor's degree in Social work, a minor in Sociology and has a specialization in Child Welfare that she received from the University of South Dakota. Through Breanna's college career she has also taken courses in Human Development and Family Studies. Breanna has always had a passion for helping people and adores working with children. Breanna is excited to get to explore the world of autism and learn more about children on the spectrum.
James graduated from Briar Cliff University with a double major in Psychology and Behavioral Science and joined us in June 2021. He volunteered at Briar Cliff's pro-bono behavior analysis clinic for two years. There he discovered a passion for working with children and enjoyed being a part of their research team. He's excited to continue that work here at the Pier Center and eventually plans to continue his education within the field of Behavioral Science and Psychology later down the road.
Amber Obenauer
Amber graduated from Morningside College with a Bachelor of Arts in counseling psychology. During her senior year at Morningside, Amber interned at the Pier Center and began working full time in June 2021. She is very excited to learn and grow more as a behavioral technician, and Amber plans on furthering her education in ABA as she gains experience and makes new relationships at the Pier Center.
Melody Tompkins
Melody graduated from University of South Dakota in 2013 with a Bachelor of Science in Social Work. She formerly worked at Crittenton Center in the HOPES Program. She has a passion for working with children with autism. Melody is excited to learn more about children on the spectrum. Melody started at the Pier Center in October 2021. Children with autism hold a special place in Melody's heart.
Shana McKie
Shana has a bachelor's degree in Developmental Psychology and Counseling Psychology from Morningside University. She joined the Pier Center in December 2021 and has always had a passion for working with children. She is excited to further her education and knowledge of children on the spectrum while working at the Pier Center. Her goal is to make a difference in children's lives while maintaining her purpose in life. Shana is grateful for this opportunity to excel and work with an amazing team!
Vanessa Marquez
Vanessa has a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Iowa State University. She joined the Pier Center in April 2022. She is excited to work with the kids and watch them grow and improve in their daily tasks.
Tim Walsh
Tim joined the Pier Center in May 2022. Tim graduated the University of South Dakota with a bachelor's degree in Anthropology. Tim has been working with a variety of children for several years and is excited to work with children on the spectrum.
Noelle Rasmussen
Noelle graduated from Morningside University with a Bachelor of Arts in counseling psychology. She has always had a passion for working with individuals with autism. She joined the Pier Center in May of 2022 and is excited to continue to learn and grow within this career. Noelle plans to continue her education to gain a Masters degree in therapy where she hopes to further help those with needs.
Sarah Kach
Sarah has a bachelor's degree in Psychology and a minor in Business Administration from Briar Cliff University. She joined the Pier Center in May of 2022. She is excited to further her knowledge about children on the spectrum. She has always had a passion for helping others and is excited to work with each child at the Pier Center! Her goal is to improve each child's daily living. Sarah is excited to start her career as a Behavior Technician and is grateful for the opportunity to work with the children and the amazing staff!
Elizabeth Mendoza
Elizabeth graduated from Briar Cliff University in May of 2022 with a bachelor's degree in Psychology and Behaviors Analysis. She was excited to be able to be a part of the ABA Clinic at Briar Cliff for two years. She found a passion for working with children with autism. Elizabeth wants to be able to grow her knowledge about ABA and use it to help families in the community.
Kallee Kiertzner
Kallee has a bachelor's degree in Social and Criminal Justice from the University of Arizona Global Campus. She joined the Pier Center in October 2022 and is thrilled to learn more about working with children and lending a helping hand. She is excited to continue learning through experience and applying her abilities to the world of ABA. Kallee is so amazed by how much she has already learned and how she will continue to grow as a person through an amazing career.
Ivan Rojas
Ivan has a bachelor's degree from Briar Cliff University with a major in Criminal Justice and minors in Psychology and Sociology. He joined the Pier Center for Autism in December 2022 after working for 5 years as a Field Investigator for the Department of Defense. He previously worked at Catholic Charities and interned at the Sanford Community Center and is looking forward to returning to working a career dedicated to helping those in need.
Social Skills Team
Jan Turbes
Jan is an Autism and Challenging Behavior Specialist within the tri-state area with immense experience in the areas of assessment and treatment of challenging behavior. Jan works part-time with the Pier Center to support a variety of needs for our clients including challenging behavior and social skills. With over a decade of experience in the fields of behavior analysis and autism, Jan remains one of our biggest advocates for the advancement and continued training of our staff. In addition, Jan was one of the original board members for the Pier Center for Autism.
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Boy, 3, dies after being hit by falling tree
By Marissa Calligeros
January 28, 2013 — 11.04pm
A three-year-old boy who was hit by a falling gum tree while watching floodwaters in Brisbane's north on Monday has died in hospital.
The toddler's death takes the number of people killed in Queensland's unfolding flood disaster to four.
The young boy was standing with his father, brother and pregnant 34-year-old mother watching water rise from the Kedron Brook bikeway at Gordon Park when the large tree fell on them about 8.30am on Monday.
The toddler, who suffered severe head injuries, died on Monday night at the Royal Children's Hospital.*
His mother remains in a critical condition in the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital with severe head injuries and several broken bones.
One man who saw the drama unfold said the woman's husband emerged from the tree branches holding his two young sons.
''The little boy had a head injury,'' he told media at the scene.
Tim Burke also witnessed the tree fall.
''The ground was so wet the large tree's just fallen on top of them,'' he said.
An off-duty firefighter, who happened to be at the scene, retrieved a chainsaw to help rescue the expectant mother.
Firefighter Adrian Skene said rescue crews used the chainsaw and inflatable bags to free the woman.
''We had a female who was pinned quite severely under the tree,'' Mr Skene said.
''We utilised that chainsaw and our bag lifting devices and managed to release the female after a somewhat complex extrication.
''She was just, as you would be, startled and certainly in pain. She had some quite serious injuries.''
Police will prepare a report for the coroner.
Mr Skene warned other residents to steer clear of large gum trees.
''They have a shallow root base and with all the water around they're falling all over Brisbane and all over the southeast,'' he said.
''Certainly don't shelter under trees and stay away from the rivers.''
There have been three other fatal incidents across southern Queensland as the remnants of ex-tropical cyclone Oswald batter the region.
A motorcyclist's body was pulled from the Oxley Creek, south of Brisbane, on Monday more than 12 hours after he was swept from his bike at Greenbank in Logan.
An 81-year-old man's body was pulled from the water at Burnett Heads in Bundaberg after he fell from his yacht on Sunday.
And a 27-year-old man, who is believed to have been disabled, died after he tried to cross flooded Widgee Creek in a car with his mother and step-father near Gympie.
It's understood the man's step-father was rescued shortly after the car was swamped, but his mother was forced to cling to tree for more than four hours before she could be saved.
*Correction: Police earlier reported the boy died at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital.
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Ahead of the main event in September, the Lake of Stars (LoS) will be holding events in Mzuzu and Lilongwe later this month to officially launch the 2015 festival.
Lulu to perform both at the launch this month and the festival in September.
Both events will feature an eclectic mix of acoustic music and poetry. Another Lake of Stars launch event will follow in Blantyre in May.
Taking place on Friday 24 April from 6pm-10pm at the Coffee Den in the heart of the city, the Mzuzu line up includes recent MUMA award winner Danny Kalima aka Sirius and Body, Mind & Soul.
According to a statement, the event coincides with a visit to Mzuzu University by LoS founder Will Jameson.
Jameson has been invited to deliver a guest lecture to the university's Tourism and Hospitality students on the value and potential of event tourism.
The Lilongwe launch will happen a day later on Saturday 25 April on the stunning first floor roof top Afroma Terrace Bar of Malawi's only five star hotel, the President Walmont Hotel.
The launch in the capital city will see established favourites Lulu and Q Malewezi performing at the event alongside up-and-coming artist Menes La Plume and contemporary dancer Tron.
"The event will run from 4.00pm-7.30pm so that guests can enjoy the sunset over the city while taking in music and poetry in the smart new surroundings of the terrace," reads part of the statement.
For Lilongwe fans, the event should be the perfect warm up show for the "LaughGate" stand up comedy night featuring Daliso Chaponda which will be taking place next door at the Bingu International Conference Centre later the same night, organized by Malewezi's Qoncept Creative and Laughrica Productions.
This year's LoS is slated for 25-27 September at the Sunbird Nkopola Lodge in the lakeshore district of Mangochi.
The next batch of the 2015 festival tickets will go on sale to coincide with the launch events.
Three day 'Early Bird' festival tickets will be available to purchase for a limited time period only, offering festival goers the chance to purchase a ticket for a discounted rate of K22,000, a saving of over K10,000 on full price three day tickets.
The current lineup for the festival includes Gwamba, Lulu, Danny Kalima, Menes La Plume and George Kalukusha plus international talent from 2014 UK Mercury Prize award winners Young Fathers and Nigerian artist Ric Hassani, with more acts expected to be announced throughout the next months.
An application process is currently open for up-and-coming talent wanting to apply to be part of the festival, which according to the organisers has already attracted many submissions from across the country.
The closing date to be considered is April 24. Those interested in applying should visit the Lake of Stars website and follow the instructions listed on there.


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package com.griddynamics.jagger.dbapi.provider;

import com.griddynamics.jagger.dbapi.dto.MetricNameDto;
import com.griddynamics.jagger.dbapi.dto.TaskDataDto;
import com.griddynamics.jagger.dbapi.util.DataProcessingUtil;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

import javax.persistence.EntityManager;
import javax.persistence.PersistenceContext;
import javax.persistence.PersistenceException;
import java.math.BigInteger;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;

@Component
public class ValidatorNamesProvider implements MetricNameProvider {

    private Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ValidatorNamesProvider.class);

    private EntityManager entityManager;

    @PersistenceContext
    public void setEntityManager(EntityManager entityManager) {
        this.entityManager = entityManager;
    }

    @Override
    public Set<MetricNameDto> getMetricNames(List<TaskDataDto> tests) {
        Set<Long> taskIds = new HashSet<>();
        Set<String> sessionIds = new HashSet<>();
        for (TaskDataDto tdd : tests) {
            taskIds.addAll(tdd.getIds());
            sessionIds.addAll(tdd.getSessionIds());
        }

        long temp = System.currentTimeMillis();

        Set<MetricNameDto> validators = getValidatorsNamesNewModel(tests);
        if (validators == null) { // some exception occured

            List<Object[]> validatorNames = entityManager.createNativeQuery(
                    "SELECT v.validator, selected.taskdataID FROM ValidationResultEntity v JOIN " +
                            "(" +
                            "  SELECT wd.workloaddataID, td.taskdataID FROM " +
                            "    ( " +
                            "      SELECT wd.id AS workloaddataID, wd.taskId, wd.sessionId FROM WorkloadData wd WHERE wd.sessionId IN (:sessionIds)" +
                            "    ) AS wd JOIN   " +
                            "    ( " +
                            "      SELECT td.id AS taskdataID, td.taskId, td.sessionId FROM TaskData td WHERE td.id IN (:taskIds)" +
                            "    ) AS td ON wd.taskId=td.taskId AND wd.sessionId=td.sessionId" +
                            ") AS selected ON v.workloadData_id=selected.workloaddataID")
                    .setParameter("taskIds", taskIds)
                    .setParameter("sessionIds", sessionIds)
                    .getResultList();
            log.debug("{} ms spent for fetching {} validators", System.currentTimeMillis() - temp, validatorNames.size());

            validators = new HashSet<>(validatorNames.size());

            for (Object[] name : validatorNames) {
                if (name == null || name[0] == null) continue;
                for (TaskDataDto td : tests) {
                    if (td.getIds().contains(((BigInteger) name[1]).longValue())) {
                        MetricNameDto metric = new MetricNameDto();
                        metric.setTest(td);
                        metric.setMetricName((String) name[0]);
                        metric.setOrigin(MetricNameDto.Origin.VALIDATOR);
                        validators.add(metric);
                        break;
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        return validators;
    }

    public Set<MetricNameDto> getValidatorsNamesNewModel(List<TaskDataDto> tests) {
        try {
            Set<Long> taskIds = new HashSet<>();
            Set<String> sessionIds = new HashSet<>();
            for (TaskDataDto tdd : tests) {
                taskIds.addAll(tdd.getIds());
                sessionIds.addAll(tdd.getSessionIds());
            }

            long temp = System.currentTimeMillis();

            List<Object[]> validatorNames = entityManager.createNativeQuery(
                    "SELECT v.validator, selected.taskdataID, v.displayName FROM ValidationResultEntity v JOIN " +
                            "(" +
                            "  SELECT wd.workloaddataID, td.taskdataID FROM " +
                            "    ( " +
                            "      SELECT wd.id AS workloaddataID, wd.taskId, wd.sessionId FROM WorkloadData wd WHERE wd.sessionId IN (:sessionIds)" +
                            "    ) AS wd JOIN   " +
                            "    ( " +
                            "      SELECT td.id AS taskdataID, td.taskId, td.sessionId FROM TaskData td WHERE td.id IN (:taskIds)" +
                            "    ) AS td ON wd.taskId=td.taskId AND wd.sessionId=td.sessionId" +
                            ") AS selected ON v.workloadData_id=selected.workloaddataID")
                    .setParameter("taskIds", taskIds)
                    .setParameter("sessionIds", sessionIds)
                    .getResultList();
            log.debug("{} ms spent for fetching {} validators", System.currentTimeMillis() - temp, validatorNames.size());

            if (validatorNames.isEmpty()) {
                return Collections.emptySet();
            }
            Set<MetricNameDto> validators = new HashSet<>(validatorNames.size());

            for (Object[] name : validatorNames) {
                if (name == null || name[0] == null) continue;
                for (TaskDataDto td : tests) {
                    if (td.getIds().contains(((BigInteger) name[1]).longValue())) {
                        MetricNameDto metric = new MetricNameDto();
                        metric.setTest(td);
                        metric.setMetricName((String) name[0]);
                        metric.setMetricDisplayName((String) name[2]);
                        metric.setOrigin(MetricNameDto.Origin.VALIDATOR);
                        validators.add(metric);
                        break;
                    }
                }
            }

            return validators;
        } catch (PersistenceException e) {
            log.debug("Could not fetch validators names from new model of ValidationResultEntity: {}", DataProcessingUtil.getMessageFromLastCause(e));
            return null;
        }
    }

}


Hala Wardé, the architect commissioned to design the private, non-profit Beirut Museum of Art (BeMA), has been dismissed. The French-Lebanese architect, who played a key role in building Jean Nouvel's Louvre Abu Dhabi, won an architectural competition to build the new space in 2016 but was ousted by the museum's board on 11 September.
On 19 November, in a lecture at the French Embassy in Beirut, Wardé briefly mentioned her dismissal, saying that "the unexpected and violent decision to stop this project, in spite of all attempts to renew the dialogue, and the support from the profession voiced by Jad Tabet, the chairman of the Architects' Order. Unfortunately, no one seems to understand that the very first work of art in a museum is its architecture". She also fears that the project organisers might choose "copycat models built elsewhere, like so many of the buildings that have invaded the city".
Much like Jean Nouvel, Wardé is an advocate of "contextualism" in architecture. For BeMa, she designed a multicultural hub, including a park, an amphitheatre and a library, a 120m "campanile" tower or lighthouse made of stacked 12m x 12m cubes in glazed bricks. Presented anonymously, the design submitted by her studio HW Architecture was chosen by a jury chaired by Peter Palumbo, ex-chairman of the Pritzker Price, and included Rem Koolhaas, Richard Rogers, Julia Peyton-Jones, Hans Ulrich Obrist (Zaha Hadid was on the jury until her death in 2015). Amale Andraos, the dean of the architecture department at New York's Columbia University who is tipped as a possible replacement for Wardé, received a special mention.
The museum was initiated in 2014 by Rita Nammour and Sandra Abou Nader, the directors of Apeal, a non-profit organisation that promotes Lebanese art. At first due to open in 2020, the museum stands on Damascus Road, or "Green Line", a former dividing line of the Lebanese civil war. The land, which is currently being used as a car park and faces the city's National Museum, was donated by the Jesuits from Saint Joseph University. The plan received public support after the Lebanese culture ministry agreed to lend its art collection. After Wardé's appointment, Apeal raised more than $20m towards the overall budget, which had increased to $50m from an initial estimated amount of $35-45m.
Difficulties began when the museum asked HW Architecture to work pro bono. Wardé agreed to provide her design and personal time for free, but insisted that production costs were covered, and that her collaborators and contributors were paid. To mediate, Tabet was called in by BeMA, reaching an agreement with the studio over a limited fee for the production team. But, in August, all ties were abruptly cut. Wardé received a message cancelling her project from Maher Mikati, the vice president of the board and the son of the former prime minister Najib Mikati. Wardé says she received no explanation and no reply when she suggested a meeting to discuss the matter.
According to the museum's board, the decision to dismiss Wardé was taken unanimously because of "irreconcilable differences that developed in spite of two years of negotiations", which had halted the project. BeMA is now due to open in 2023. The board says that all jury members were informed of the change and a full explanation was given to Wardé, which she continues to deny. However, the board members declined to disclose the cause of the disagreement on the basis of a non-disclosure clause.
The museum also wants to keep its estimated budget confidential, but confirms that $40m had been planned for the construction of Warde's project in 2016. It is not expecting any difficulties with the funding that has already been raised, and plans to "stay in line with budgetary and fundraising goals towards the opening".
The museum says that, "although it will be built on a site owned by Beirut's Université Saint-Joseph" and display the Culture Ministry's contemporary collection, the initiative is "private and independent". The collection on loan features around 2,300 artworks, by more than 400 Lebanese artists. The museum says that "much of it was stored for decades in challenging conditions and requires restoration, which BeMA has begun to provide".
The board insists that the future museum is still conceived as a "cultural hub highlighting art from Lebanon and the diaspora" as well as "hosting cultural and educational programs," which have already started.
UPDATE: This article was updated on 28 November to include comment from the museum's board.


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Баррикада — село в Исилькульском районе Омской области. Административный центр Баррикадского сельского поселения.

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Основано в 1928 г. как коммуна. С 1932 г. организован колхоз «Баррикада».

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Realization of a "Lockable" molecular switch via pH- and redox-modulated cyclization
Richmond, C. J., Parenty, A. D. C., Song, Y. -F., Cooke, G. and Cronin, L. (2008) Realization of a "Lockable" molecular switch via pH- and redox-modulated cyclization. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 130(39), pp. 13059-13065. (doi: 10.1021/ja803338m)
A switchable organic system involving four distinct states that can be interconverted by use of both pH and redox chemistry as control parameters has been developed. The key molecules involved in this system are the phenanthridine-based heterocycles 1 -isobutyl-1,2,3,12b-tetrahydroimidazo[1,2-f]phenanthridine (TIP) and 5-[2-(isobutylamino)ethyl]phenanthridinium (AEP). These two states are interchangeable via pH control, and in addition they can also be further manipulated by oxidation or reduction to convert them to their "pH-inert" forms: 1-isobutyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-imidazo[1,2-f]phenanthridinium (DIP) and 5-[2-(isobutylamino)ethyl]-5,6-dihydrophenanthridine (AEDP), respectively. UV and H-1 NMR experiments carried out in a biphasic dichloromethane (DCM)/water solution were used for in situ structure determination. The results showed that the pH-modulated cyclization and phase-transfer process between the TIP and AEP states was essentially quantitative and repeatable without any significant loss in activity and that reduction or oxidation could be used to lock out these states against such acid-base-induced changes.
CHEMISTRY COMPONENTS CYCLIZATION DEVICES ELECTRON-TRANSFER IN-SITU ION LOGIC GATES MACHINE MOLECULE MOLECULES NMR ONE-POT OXIDATION PARAMETERS PH REDOX redox chemistry REDUCTION STATE Structure SWITCH SYSTEM SYSTEMS WIRES
Cooke, Professor Graeme and Parenty, Mr Alexis and Richmond, Mr Craig and Song, Dr Yufei and Cronin, Professor Lee
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Did Ben Affleck Pass On Directing 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens'?
Did Ben Affleck pass on directing Star Wars: The Force Awakens to become Batman for Warner Bros. DC Universe? It seems like he might have. Affleck was on HBO's Any Given Wednesday to discuss deflategate, but before that, Affleck spoke to host Bill Simmons about the trajectory of his career and its many ups and downs.
While discussing the different career options he had before him once Gone Baby Gone and The Town were directorial successes, Affleck insinuated that Star Wars: The Force Awakens was a project he passed on to go down another avenue. The actor-director said he had a lot of choices to make, and so many decisions were at his feet. If he chose one direction over another, his path could've been completely different in terms of his career.
Are you relieved or bummed out he said no? https://t.co/LN84ZXN3BW
— Birth.Movies.Death. (@bmoviesd) June 24, 2016
Simmons asked that whether or not he had been up to direct Star Wars: The Force Awakens before its ultimate director J.J. Abrams took the position, and to that Affleck coyly responded with a simple statement.
"Well I wouldn't be able to say. It wouldn't be polite to talk about the jobs you turned down. But I did have a lot of offers."
He didn't exactly deny that he was approached to direct Star Wars: The Force Awakens. This isn't the first time fans are hearing Ben Affleck's name attached to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, either. Back in 2012, there were rumors that Affleck was poised to lead off the saga; but, back then, the actor brushed it off with a few jokes.
"I'd be too busy worrying about how the action figures would look for each character to direct the actual movie. I'd be like, 'Oh, we'll just reshoot the movie with the action figures.' It's very exciting that they're going to make more, I have to say. There might be purists who are opposed to it, who knows…but I think it's a very cool thing and I'm excited to go see the movie."
Even though Abrams' name was just starting to generate buzz for the new Star Wars job, Affleck expressed great faith in seeing how the director might tackle the franchise after single-handedly rebooting the Star Trek franchise. As it turns out, Affleck's instincts about J.J. "killing it" were on point.
"J.J. would kill it. J.J. would crush it. He's spectacular, but he would be great at anything. There are a lot of good directors out there. Naturally I would be inclined to get somebody who's great at telling stories. You'll never be able to recapture the story that was the initial three, because it's just so legendary and iconic. I don't know, I'm glad I don't have that job. It's a tough decision to make."
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If Affleck would've said "yes" to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, there's a 99.9 percent possibility that he wouldn't have been able to play the role of the caped crusader in Batman v. Superman, Justice League, and now his own solo Batman film. Before Ben's name was announced, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jon Hamm, and Josh Brolin were in serious contention for the role.
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When the Conversation Turns to Hatred
By Al Martinez , December 19, 2013 07:30 AM
Parties aren't always fun, even during the Christmas season. Sometimes late in the evening, when only a few remain, the conversation can become both serious and revealing. It was that way for us last Saturday night.
Among the few who remained, one was an African American woman whom I will call Miriam whose academic credits in the field of education are legendary. Articulate and profound in many ways, she could converse with wit and knowledge, but was quieter this night when she recalled an incident at a girls' camp during her early teens.
"One of the girls suggested a race to a rock just up the road," she remembered. "Then she said, 'Last one to the rock is a n-----.' " Out came the N-word.
Just hearing the term plunged Miriam into a state of catatonic shock. "My feet froze and my mind said, 'Did she really say that?' " Shocked and hurt, she fled to her cabin and sat alone trying to overcome the unintended insult. Apologies did little to ease her emotional pain. Years later, it still hurts.
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America's school yards are too often places of mental bullying, where grade school thugs set out to embarrass and shame their victims. It isn't always a case of ethnic division. According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, during the 2010-2011 school year, nearly 22 percent of Hispanic students, ages 12 to 18, reported being bullied at school. Some of it, I believe, comes from the humiliating invective hurled like knives at immigrants by American-born Latinos. More on that in another blog.
Schools and private anti-hate organizations are zeroing in on the problem, but behavior patterns often instilled at home by racist parents aren't easy to overcome. I was in high school when a good friend, a white fellow student named Pat, invited me to his birthday party that was to include a hay ride.
I responded with an enthusiastic yes. The next day, Pat sought me out again with tears in his eyes to say I couldn't come. The explanation? "My father doesn't like Mexicans." Like Miriam, I was dumbstruck. Others may have labeled me with slurs, but not Pat. He had been a friend, a good friend. I just said OK and walked away. He was my friend no longer.
Both Miriam and I are years past those humiliations. But you know something? They never go away. Even if you're 84.
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This is the error message but control alt delete doesn't restart it. I cannot access my files. I have a desktop with xp on it. How can I retrieve my laptop files in vista with a desktop using xp? I sure hope it can be done. The vista program seems to have many problems.
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To be able to find out which state the hard drive is in, you will need a Windows Vista CD or DVD to be able to boot into the system, and try to get the Repair Console to perform these two commands: FIXBOOT and FIXMBR ... this is your only hope. If this does not fix it, then your hard drive is in state 1... In which case the only possible way to get your files back is by sending the hard drive to a professional recovery service.
Is it possible to do the slave master thing to access the files on the laptop? I was told that if I go on microsoft it will tell me how to sert this up. I thought this was the site to get that instruction. I tried last night but there were so many selections I could not figure out which selection would provide the info.
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Northeast Nigeria attack claimed at least 110 lives: UN
Northeast Nigeria attack claimed at least 110 lives: UN /node/1770126/world
The weekend attack on a village in Nigeria blamed on the Boko Haram militant group left at least 110 dead. (AFP)
https://arab.news/4bcvr
The massacre took place on Saturday in the village of Koshobe near the city of Maiduguri
"At least 110 civilians were ruthlessly killed and many others were wounded in this attack," Kallon said
ABUJA: A weekend attack on a village in northeast Nigeria blamed on the Boko Haram militant group left at least 110 dead, the UN humanitarian coordinator in the country said Sunday.
"At least 110 civilians were ruthlessly killed and many others were wounded in this attack," Edward Kallon said in a statement after initial tolls indicated 43 and then at least 70 dead from Saturday's massacre by suspected Boko Haram fighters.
"The incident is the most violent direct attack against innocent civilians this year," Kallon said, adding: "I call for the perpetrators of this heinous and senseless act to be brought to justice."
The bloodletting took place in the village of Koshobe near the main city of Maiduguri, with assailants targeting farmers on rice fields.
Borno Governor Babaganan Umara Zulum attended the burial Sunday in the nearby village of Zabarmari of 43 bodies recovered on Saturday, saying the toll could rise after search operations resumed.
The assailants tied up the agricultural workers and slit their throats, according to a pro-government anti-extremist militia.
The victims were among labourers from Sokoto state in northwestern Nigeria, roughly 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) away, who had travelled to the northeast to find work, it said.
Six were wounded in the attack and eight remained missing as of Saturday.
Kallon, citing "reports that several women may have been kidnapped", called for their immediate release and return to safety.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari condemned the attack, saying: "The entire country has been wounded by these senseless killings."
The attack took place as voters went to the polls in long-delayed local elections in Borno State.
The polls had been repeatedly postponed because of an increase in attacks by Boko Haram and a rival dissident faction, ISWAP.
The two groups have been blamed for increasing attacks on loggers, farmers and fishermen whom they accuse of spying for the army and pro-government militias.
Topics: Nigeria Boko Haram
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US gun lobby NRA declares bankruptcy, plans to incorporate in Texas /node/1793506/world
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NRA execs are facing charges of illegally diverting funds for lavish personal trips and other questionable expenditures
New York Attorney General Letitia James said she would not allow the NRA to "evade accountability" or oversight
AUSTIN, Texas: The National Rifle Association announced Friday it has filed for bankruptcy protection and will seek to incorporate the nation's most politically influential gun-rights group in Texas instead of New York.
The coronavirus pandemic has also upended the NRA, which last year laid off dozens of employees. The group canceled its national convention and scuttled fundraising. The NRA's bankruptcy filing listed between $100 million and $500 million in assets and between $100 million and $500 million in liabilities. Still, the NRA claimed in announcing the move that the organization was "in its strongest financial condition in years."
The NRA filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in federal court in Dallas and said it planned to incorporate in Texas, where records show it formed a limited liability corporation, Sea Girt LLC, in November 2020. Sea Girt LLC made a separate bankruptcy filing Friday, listing fewer than $100,000 in liabilities.
In its filing, the NRA said its longtime leader, Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, made the decision to file for bankruptcy protection in consultation with a "special litigation committee" comprised of three NRA officials that was formed in September to oversee its legal strategies. The NRA board voted Jan. 7 to clarify LaPierre's employment agreement, giving him the power to "reorganize or restructure the affairs" of the organization.
National Rifle Association executive Wayne LaPierre and other officials of the gun lobby are facing charges of diverting the gun lobby's money for lavish personal expenses. (AFP file photo)
"The move will enable long-term, sustainable growth and ensure the NRA's continued success as the nation's leading advocate for constitutional freedom – free from the toxic political environment of New York," the NRA said in a statement.
A message seeking comment was left with a Dallas lawyer who made the bankruptcy filings on behalf of the NRA and Sea Girt LLC.
Shortly after the announcement, New York Attorney General Letitia James said she would not allow the NRA to "evade accountability" or oversight. Her office's lawsuit last year highlighted misspending and self-dealing claims that have roiled the NRA and LaPierre in recent years— from hair and makeup for his wife to a $17 million post-employment contract for himself.
"The NRA's claimed financial status has finally met its moral status: bankrupt," James said.
The gun-rights group boasts about 5 million members. Though headquartered in Virginia, the NRA was chartered as a nonprofit in New York in 1871 and is incorporated in the state. Going forward, the NRA said a committee will study opportunities to relocate segments of its operations to Texas and elsewhere.
The NRA's largest creditor, owed $1.2 million, is Ackerman McQueen, which is the group's former advertising agency that was behind the now-shuttered NRA TV service. The NRA sued the Oklahoma-based company in 2019, alleging it was being overbilled and said in Friday's bankruptcy filing that the debt it is owed is disputed. The lawsuit is pending. A message seeking comment was left with Ackerman McQueen.
In the New York lawsuit, Ackerman McQueen was accused of aiding lavish spending by LaPierre and other NRA executives by picking up the tab and then sending a lump sum bill to the organization for "out-of-pocket expenses."
"No financial filing can ever shroud the moral bankruptcy of Wayne LaPierre and his wife and their lap dogs on the NRA board," said Bill Powers, an Ackerman McQueen spokesperson and former public affairs director for the NRA.
Court records also show more than $960,000 owed to Membership Marketing Partners LLC, a firm that lists its headquarters at the same address as the NRA. Another $200,000 is owed to Speedway Motorsports, the North Carolina-based company that owns and operates NASCAR tracks, according to the records.
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott quickly welcomed the news, tweeting: "Welcome to Texas — a state that safeguards the 2nd Amendment." The NRA said it has more than 400,000 members in Texas and plans to hold its annual convention in Houston later this year.
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Q: Undisplaying the permission screen for each user. (Case: Using API don't support Service Account authentication) We publish an app that use OAuth 2.0 API access on Google Apps Marketplace. It got reviewed by Google and they said our app is invalid because it shows permission screen when a user first runs the app. (The app will be removed from the Google Apps Marketplace if our app is not fixed within 30 days) To solve this issue, we have some problems.

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*Our app uses OpenID Connect to make users login.

*Our app also uses Spreadsheet API and Calendar Resource API (OAuth 2.0 Web Application Flow)

So our questions related above is the followings:
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Although our app uses OpenID Connect for login, using OpenID Connect forces our app to show the permission screen. Doesn't it meet the best practice below of Google Apps Marketplace?
https://developers.google.com/apps-marketplace/practices#5_use_one-click_single_sign-on
We followed the OpenID Connect document provided by Google:
https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2Login

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Since Spreadsheet API and Calendar Resource API don't currently support the authentication method using Service Account with OAuth 2.0, we chose to use the method of Web Application Flow. Our app get the token when users login, but Google said to us that it fails to meet their SSO requirements. To solve the issue, we are thinking to change our app to authorize AFTER login within the app instead (use Web Application Flow method as it is). Does the way meet the SSO requirements? In other words, is it OK to show permission screen if after login?
We will applicate if anyone can tell us good solution to solve these problems.
Thanks,

A: If you register your scopes in the Google Apps Marketplace configuration screen, and then only request those scopes in the OpenID Connect flow, then the permissions screen should be automatically skipped. Please ensure the scopes match between these two locations.

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Step free access to platform 1 (southbound) only via car park. Footbridge with steps between platforms.


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Helen Krieble: The responsibilities of citizenship — "American exceptionalism relies on the energy of individuals."
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
This means that citizens are the sovereign power in the United States, and the government is accountable to us, not the other way around. Our form of government, designed to protect our rights, has been allowed to become an ever-more powerful and despotic entity. Instead of holding the government accountable for its trespasses, most citizens no longer understand our Founding documents, as our education system has failed us. They have no idea what their responsibilities are as citizens. Of those that do, most shrug their shoulders and think, "I am only one person; what can I do?"
One activist summed up the problem: "The biggest enemy I battle is people thinking they can't make a difference."
Our exceptional form of government is an endangered species. If we do not stand up for the Founding principles and re-assert the duty of citizenship, it could become extinct.
Goal #1 in the propaganda from the left is to make followers rather than leaders. This is done by instilling the view that any one of us can't make a difference. Krieble cites several examples where an individual has made a difference. Small steps by very many responsible citizens can add up. Stand up. Lead. Make a difference no matter how small in bringing back the idea of governance by the people rather than over the people. It's up to you (and me, and him, and her …).
October 31, 2015 · Filed under Education, Issues, Mind Games
PC BLM and why no solution is in sight
Colin Flaherty provides examples of Cops Fired For Telling the Truth about Black Violence.
"President Obama is proud of his support for Black Lives Matter. He calls stories of elevated black crime and violence "anecdotal" and says a history of racism in America justifies whatever Black Lives Matter says or does.
It matters to Chief Halstead.
After he was fired this month, Chief Halstead broke it down on Fox and Friends: Black Lives Matter is "a terrorist group if you can march down the streets and call for the deaths of police officers," he said, pointing to videos showing protesters chanting, "pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon" and chanting about "dead cops."
Both of those officers knew the risks to themselves their careers before speaking out about the threat of black violence and Black Lives Matter. Both knew the people they were sworn to serve needed to know what reporters and public officials most often try to ignore, deny, condone, excuse, encourage and even lie about: that black crime is wildly out of proportion.
They took the risk. They paid the price. That is what heroes do.
Why are blacks over-represented in jail populations? They are arrested, tried, and convicted more often than other racial groups. Why is that? Perhaps the reason is related to why inner city violence tends to be concentrated in black communities. But, for the left, reality doesn't matter. The presumption is 'white privilege' so blacks become a 'protected minority' – isn't protected a form of privilege? – and jails are emptied because it is obvious to the left that that is the only way to correct an injustice.
Meanwhile, crime rates go up with repeat offenders, black on white crime escalates, and denial runs rampant trying to pretend that what they eye sees isn't what is really there. Problems get worse, not better. How long will that continue? Why are lessons from history ignored?
Update: HEATHER MAC DONALD Heather Mac Donald in Testimony before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, October 19, 2015 regarding The Myth of Criminal-Justice Racism.
The most dangerous misconception about our criminal justice system is that it is pervaded by racial bias. For decades, criminologists have tried to find evidence proving that the overrepresentation of blacks in prison is due to systemic racial inequity. That effort has always come up short. In fact, racial differences in offending account for the disproportionate representation of blacks in prison. A 1994 Justice Department survey of felony cases from the country's 75 largest urban areas found that blacks actually had a lower chance of prosecution following a felony than whites. Following conviction, blacks were more likely to be sentenced to prison, however, due to their more extensive criminal histories and the gravity of their current offense.
Violent crime is currently shooting up again in cities across the country. Police officers are backing away from proactive enforcement in response to the yearlong campaign that holds that police are the greatest threat facing young black men today. Officers encounter increasing hostility and resistance when they make a lawful arrest.
Some are taking note, others look away. Same ol' story. What will it take for reality to intrude such that it can't be ignored?
October 28, 2015 · Filed under compare contrast, Justice and Law, Mind Games
Expressing an opinion if you publish?
The question is a troublesome one. One the one hand, companies like Facebook are getting sued because some page on their service offended someone. On the other hand, Facebook censors pages that offend it politically. Tom Gresham explains How Web giants wage war against guns — "Ignoring Second Amendment rights assaults the free market."
Blocking the flow of information on the Web is the newest form of book burning.
A question to be asked: When do the restrictive actions of a small handful of companies controlling much of the information on the Web become a legitimate area for review by government?
It's the ultimate irony that these attacks on legal and highly regulated commerce in firearms come just as we see government reports that over the last 20 years, murders are down by huge numbers, so-called "gun crime" is down by more than 40 percent, and accidental firearms deaths of adults and children are at an all-time low. During this same time tens of millions of Americans have become new gun owners, tens of millions of guns have been purchased, and more than 10 million people have been licensed to carry loaded guns for their own protection. More guns, less crime, to coin a phrase.
Another story is about how Police Chiefs are pushing for universal background checks. This means they want any transfer of a gun, whether a private individual sale, a gift, or an estate, will require FBI permission to proceed. Yet another story was about a study that showed that states with gun control laws had reductions in violent crimes which ignored the fact that violent crimes are decreasing in most states no matter their obsession about gun control.
It is the ongoing battle where reality doesn't matter much that is depressing. Honesty doesn't matter much in pushing these efforts, either. Gun control is one of the oldest of these issues. Human Caused Catastrophic Climate Change has been around a while. Only Black Lives Matter is another post-Kennedy issue that comes up now and again. Then there is the effort to reduce the prison population and you can see what that does in noting California's double digit increase in crime post proposition 47.
Then there's the Ole' Miss effort to re-write history by banning any flag with anything that might look like a Confederate symbol.
The price has been paid before. Why yet again? And again? Is reality, reason, and intellectual integrity that difficult to incorporate into one's base?
October 27, 2015 · Filed under Mind Games, politics
Banana Republic: respect for law perhaps biggest casualty
As IDB reports it:
Lerner was caught red-handed targeting Tea Party and other conservative groups, wrote partisan emails to prove it, then engaged in a massive cover-up effort — with a suspiciously crashed server, an oddly missing BlackBerry and plenty of excuses.
She evaded even more accountability by shielding herself with the Fifth Amendment in Congress. The consequences to her have been . .. retirement on a full pension with all her bonuses to a multimillion-dollar mansion in the deep D.C. suburbs.
As for her victims — and they were many — there is no justice. Now everyone, no matter what their political leanings, will wonder if they too are a political target by an out-of-control agency protected by the Justice Department.
Because that's the real consequence of this failure to hold Lerner accountable: A precedent has been set.
Remember the case against the Black Panthers regarding voter intimidation? But, of course, the Lerner episode is put down as just 'managerial incompetence' with Democrats railing about how much money was spent investigating IRS corruption – conducting hearings where Lerner plead the fifth.
Jazz Shaw describes the result as The Banana Republic of America.
But what if the case never even makes it into the system? If a crime is perceived by the public to have been committed but the government fails to even attempt the prosecution a new problem emerges. Kevin D. Williamson at National Review has looked over the Justice Department's decision not to pursue a case against Lois Lerner (or anyone at the IRS) and determined that we may be approaching Banana Republic status.
Then look at the Bengahzi hearings. People cheered when Clinton laughed at the efforts of an Ambassador to prevent himself from being dragged through the streets, abused, and killed. Banana Republic, indeed.
October 25, 2015 · Filed under Justice and Law, politics
Yet another target: farmers
Baylen Linnekin reports on a progressive attack front you might not have hear about. Right-to-Farm Debate Heats Up — Controversies over laws in all 50 states that protect the rights of farmers to actually farm. Keep in mind that farming is one of the most direct and concrete examples of the production of value. Farming and ranching take a renewable resource, manages it, and produces food and other goods for the public.
Right-to-Farm laws are on the books in all fifty states. They are enshrined into some state constitutions, including in Missouri, where the state constitution now guarantees, in perpetuity, "the right of farmers and ranchers to engage in farming and ranching practices" in the state.
Right-to-Farm laws like Missouri's generally serve two key purposes. First, they protect farm owners from state and local regulations that might restrict farming. …
Second, Right-to-Farm laws also protect farmers against the real specter of nuisance lawsuits. In particular, they help protect farmers against lawsuits by neighbors who—in legal parlance—come to the nuisance.
But don't Right-to-Farm laws preclude lawsuits like Himsel's? Not exactly. The fact they serve as an affirmative defense doesn't prevent (and hasn't prevented) people like Himsel from filing lawsuits against farming operations. It just makes such lawsuits far less likely to succeed than non-agricultural nuisance lawsuits.
From animal rights activists to the EPA's water grab, there is an assault on the food needed to feed the poor. Current activity may be a bit below the radar – the notice of the left's propaganda machine – right now but that may change.
The issue goes back to land use and property rights issues. Consider, for example, a subdivision built near an airport where people move in and then start complaining about the noise. Or consider Dr. Sowell's recent column about housing prices in the Bay Area and the implication of all of the vacant land near I280 between San Francisco and Palo Alto.
It's nice if you can afford it. It's suffering and death if you can't. The example of communism in Eastern Europe illustrates that. See Bruce Walker on The Ultra-Reactionary Left. Why is that history denied by the Left?
October 24, 2015 · Filed under people, politics, Resources
Protect, Defend, Toe the line, no matter the cost
You'd think it can't happen here. The authors of the fourth amendment to the Constitution said it shouldn't. Wisconsin Democrats disagree.
Even Steineke was left stunned after the votes were tallied: "As much as I hate to admit it, every member of the Democrat party in the WI Assembly voted against these reforms that would protect their constituencies from unwarranted searches and abuse from their government."
The vote to reform the John Doe laws, to protect our citizens and ensure people are safe in their own homes is not part of the Democrats agenda here in Wisconsin. Their agenda is partisan politics at their worst.
Jennifer Jacques tells the story: Wisconsin Democrats not particularly interested in protecting citizens' rights. The same story is evident in the Benghazi hearings.
Every citizen in Wisconsin, and even across the United States, needs to know that Assembly Bill 68 was crafted to ensure that no one, regardless of color, creed, or political party, would be awoken to early morning raids by paramilitary teams, held at gunpoint while their homes are ransacked and property seized, simply for engaging in a constitutional right of free speech. And every single citizen needs to be acutely aware that every Representative from the Democrat party refused to vote in favor of protecting the constitutional rights of Wisconsinites.
The agenda of the new Democratic party is not to protect citizens' rights, but instead to preserve and push their own progressive wishes. And may God have mercy on anyone who gets in their way.
The John Doe raids provide an example of just how far one party is willing to go and how solid a block they are in pursuing the assault on those that oppose them. The RICO allegations against those who question catastrophic human caused climate change provide another example. The recent 2nd Circuit attempt to under-read the Supreme Court on gun control is another.
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Perfect storm for solar
David Bergeron explaines: Why I'm Still Not a Member of the Solar Energy Industries Association even though he runs a solar oriented business in Arizona.
The more I learned about this new artificial solar industry, the more disturbing I found it to be. On-grid solar is nowhere near a break-even economic proposition. It is a very expensive and futile means of reducing CO2. Its job-creation argument is hollow in terms of opportunity cost given that there is no free lunch in the real world of economic scarcity.
Solar is a great field. Many hardworking entrepreneurs have and will continue to strive in free markets to make products that meet real needs. My own company is on a high-growth mode from niche off-grid applications; we have no rooftop business that will inevitably go through a boom/bust cycle according to political favors or a retrenchment thereof.
On-grid solar is a perfect storm for taxpayers: concentrated benefits for the industry, diffuse cost for ratepayers and taxpayers, and, yet, a strong positive public sentiment for solar created by energy Malthusians.
The fact is, when you figure out the total cost of a typical residential on-grid solar plant before subsidies, rebates, incentives and other 'crony capitalist' artifacts, the rate of return on the money spent usually exceeds the normal power bills. And that doesn't include maintenance and repair costs over the lifetime of the solar plant.
October 22, 2015 · Filed under Finance and money, Mind Games, politics, science
Biting the hand that feeds
Robert Knight reacts to the Columbus Day hate with rundown on the Rewriting of American history keeps guilt alive over slavery, segregation.
It turns out that the hated Western civilization that Columbus brought to the New World in 1492 is entirely responsible for painless dentistry, electricity, indoor plumbing, surgery, life-saving drugs, air conditioning, computers, air travel, non-stick frying pans, pogo sticks, automobiles, ever-increasing life spans, plus private property and the freedoms of religion, speech, press, assembly, voting and all the other individual rights secured by a written Constitution.
One wonders where those Think Progress folks would rather live. If they pine for an undeveloped paradise in Africa, South America or Asia, why don't they pack up their bicycles and take off for the nearest cruise line or airport?
Multiculturalism's proponents seem less animated by appreciation for native cultures than hatred of America as an extension of Christianity and Western civilization. Someday, perhaps they will discover why America attracts people from all over the world.
When all that one can see, will see, is darkness, then one lives in darkness. It is such a tragedy.
October 19, 2015 · Filed under Education, Mind Games
Get a life. Think about pros and cons. Consider the context. How unusual an idea!
Jon Evans has an interesting post on a modern delemma: Is Uber The Root Of All Evil? There is a lot of nuance in the ride share business ranging from ideas about employment and workers to impacts of technology to the encrusted regulation as a means to protect business classes to matters of relativism and choice making based on evaluation of risk versus benefit.
Allow me to humbly propose that the pendulum has perhaps swung too far into backlash. Allow me to suggest that "Uber is evil / represents the worst of capitalism!" is not just wrong, but actually dangerous. Allow me to submit that perhaps Uber is the lesser of two evils.
It may be too soon to say that "the full-time job is dead," but I think it's clear that a growing fraction of workers will find themselves working a fragmented panoply of gigs and contracts, rather than pursuing a full-time career with benefits. Yes, this isn't near as stable and secure. Yes, many-to-most of these people may find themselves living in the precariat for much of their lives, barring the hoped-for eventual introduction of a basic income.
Consider the concern for Uber's "exploited" drivers today; will we be quite as concerned for them when they are no longer being exploited, because they have been replaced by self-driving cars? Somehow I doubt it.
Whenever defenders of the status quo object to a new idea on the hallowed grounds of security, you can be pretty confident that they are lying. So it is with Uber.
Does Uber knowingly violate local law in cities they enter? They sure do. Is knowingly violating the law always an evil thing to do? …No. Not if the law itself is manipulative, exploitative, and written only to benefit a small class of rentiers — which, alas, is all too often the case.
But just because Uber's evils are front, center, and spotlit, doesn't mean that they are the worst of all possible alternatives. I still counsel to ride Lyft instead, when you can. But when your choice is between Uber and the local taxi cartels, please think at least twice, hard, about which is actually the lesser evil. The answer may not be as obvious as it seems.
Think about the context? What a novel idea in this era of absolute ideologies that ban and even deny anything not in line with desires and fantasies! Note how much the propaganda machine has infiltrated the language and biased the discussion. precariat, renters, exploited, — where's Marx when you need him?
October 17, 2015 · Filed under Finance and money, Mind Games, science
What happens to heretics
It is fairly well known that many media meteorologists are a bit reserved in their views on climate alarmism. Anthony Watts is one such individual who has a popular blog on the topic. Another example has 'come out' with a book: France's top weatherman sparks storm over book questioning climate change – "Philippe Verdier, weather chief at France Télévisions, the country's state broadcaster, reportedly sent on "forced holiday" for releasing book accusing top climatologists of "taking the world hostage"
In a promotional video, Mr Verdier said: "Every night I address five million French people to talk to you about the wind, the clouds and the sun. And yet there is something important, very important that I haven't been able to tell you, because it's neither the time nor the place to do so."
He added: "We are hostage to a planetary scandal over climate change – a war machine whose aim is to keep us in fear."
His outspoken views led France 2 to take him off the air starting this Monday. "I received a letter telling me not to come. I'm in shock," he told RTL radio. "This is a direct extension of what I say in my book, namely that any contrary views must be eliminated."
Of course it is fear mongering as that is a useful tactic for all sorts of things where the evidence just doesn't quite have the desired impact. Expulsion and censorship should not cause shock, either, as the RICO allegations for "deniers" illustrates (not to mention the Steyn vs Mann lawsuit).
There is dissonance here and it is causing behavioral anomalies in the alarmist and accommodation-at-any-cost crowds.
October 16, 2015 · Filed under Mind Games, science
Income Inequality Insight
A request from a student doing research for an assignment got Patricia L. Dickson thinking: Liberals' income inequality concerns built on false premise. The conclusion should not be surprising considering where all the noise about the issue is sourced.
I now realize that the issue of income inequality is based on a false premise. A premise is a proposition upon which an argument is based or from which a conclusion is drawn. A false premise is an incorrect proposition that forms the basis of an argument – since the premise (proposition or assumption) is not correct, the conclusion drawn may be in error.
The false premise behind income inequality complaints is that income is distributed instead of earned.
In other words, employment and income is something like an entitlement such as a poverty program provides to the left. Income inequality allegations are really just about the idea that some people are cheating the system. Instead of looking to the government for their 'income' they use their own skills, education, and capabilities to get their own income and that is what is considered cheating by the left because the government has no control over what they get.
Another perspective on this is that the state of Nevada has now decided that fantasy football is gambling despite a federal court ruling. That means the state wants to control the income anyone might get by being sharp in building a fantasy football team. The battle that Uber and Lyft are fighting is also about government control over income.
A false premise is a straw man and, it seems, easy to dress up so as to disappear in the background. Building an argument based on such a foundation lacks intellectual integrity and will result in collapse when the weight of the issue gets to be too much for the straw man to bear.
October 16, 2015 · Filed under Finance and money, politics
The nature of argument
John Hinderaker provides an example of one of the differences quite evident between sides in current political arguments. A Liberal Scrapes the Bottom of the Barrel.
Liberals pursue many policies that cause people to die. They release felons from prison, or never incarcerate them in the first place; they make war on the police, causing murder rates to spike; they impede the ability of pharmaceutical companies to bring life-saving drugs to market; they drive up the cost of energy, exposing the poor to dangerous temperature extremes; they promote gun-free zones that turn innocent people into sitting ducks; they pursue weak foreign policies that cause many thousands to be killed by tyrants and terrorists.
These are just a few obvious examples. Yet conservatives don't call liberals murderers. We extend them the presumption of good faith. We debate policy, we don't assert that liberals are pro-death. But liberals are not similarly fair-minded. The latest case in point is Josh Marshall, proprietor of TPM, who tweeted:
The example provided is a Tweet from Josh Marshall that proclaims that anyone against gun control is "pro-massacre." This is right in line with anyone questioning climate change alarmism as being a science denier or nearly any of the accusations about being a racist. It is ad hominem and it cannot be excused as "both sides do it" because the pattern in its use is quite lopsided. The question is: how can you solve any social issue when up against such a lack of intellectual integrity?
October 10, 2015 · Filed under compare contrast, Mind Games
Is government on your side? For how long?
Jeffrey T. Brown says 'Gun Control' Is Actually Conservative Control and, in the process, explains a bit about the differing points of view of the role of government in society.
The casual taking of lives is a uniquely liberal phenomena. When people are trained to be victims, and that their "right" to take from others is both fair and commendable, it is only a matter of time before they take everything that belongs to another, including his life.
The fact is that liberals have already not only surrendered to servitude, they have embraced it. They have bought the lie that government is the solution, rather than the cause of nearly every problem which besets this country. They are fine with fewer rights, because they seem to think that the government they worship and depend upon would never turn on them when the money dries up or the issue becomes which priority a totalitarian regime will indulge: freebies to its supporters or its own self-preservation at the barrel of a gun. They see that same paternal government targeting their philosophical enemies, conservatives, and think that because they are politically aligned, it is perfectly fine that government targets some of its citizens. They don't understand that a time will come when such a government doesn't need liberals, either.
Gun control is purely and simply a political tool to achieve the disarmament of that portion of the populace that will not surrender to Marxists and fascists. The president wishes to politicize the deaths brought about by his culture, and that of his followers, to achieve total political domination through manipulation of the weak-minded. The left has no intention of being forever checked by those who preserve the America he has sought to overwhelm. The last breath of that America will occur when citizens can no longer forcefully resist the malfeasance of their own government. No one knows that better than a fundamentally transformative tyrant.
Of course, this view sees government as its own separate entity and that may be a question. The history and current experience with despotic regimes does tend to support the view, though.
October 5, 2015 · Filed under General, politics
Overstep. And stumble? Alarmists misstep
When someone doesn't realize a high profile is probably not a good idea, it lends credence to the hypothesis that maybe they don't know that what they are doing is not so good an idea either. The IGES RICO allegations provide An Instance of Warmist Corruption.
We have often written about the fact that the world's governments pour billions of dollars annually into the global warming project, the object of which is to increase the powers of government. And yet governments, the main parties that stand to benefit from the warmists' campaign, pretend that their money is somehow innocent, while any private entity that supports climate research is suspect.
Alarmist scientists have gone so far as to urge the Obama administration to prosecute criminally scientists who disagree with them. The premise for this proposed RICO investigation was that "corporations in the fossil fuel industry and their supporters"–i.e., scientists who don't buy the global warming hype–are deceiving the public for financial gain. This despicable effort, which we wrote about here, is led by Jagadish Shukla of George Mason University and several of his colleagues.
That inspired curiosity about Shukla's own funding. The results, while incomplete, are striking. Shukla is remarkably well paid by George Mason, for a professor. His salary is currently around $314,000 a year. But that isn't the half of it. Steve McIntyre writes that Shukla set up a "non-profit" entity, the Institute for Global Environment and Security, Inc. (IGES), to which the federal government has funneled millions of dollars. IGES operates as a slush fund for Shukla and his family; not only is Shukla on the payroll, apparently double-dipping in violation of university regulations, but his wife and daughter also draw substantial income from the "non-profit."
Generally, when you know that bringing attention to yourself might reveal problems, you avoid doing doing things that spark attention. The climate alarmists appear to be beyond this. That leads to wonder about just what blinds them so.
October 4, 2015 · Filed under Finance and money, science
A look at causes for mass murder
The NFL is crowing about an entire month without the arrest of one of its players — but games this month are dressed in pink. And then there's the NYT on 27 ways to be a modern man that David L. Burkhead fisks. From what Milo Yiannopoulos says, these ideas might be related to mass murders.
I might be a raging homo, but I still innately understand the male need to conquer, crush and win. Men need to express that dark, powerful part of themselves, or it can abruptly overflow. If it is suppressed, derided and ridiculed, it can show up without warning and with horrible consequences.
That's why I'm so distressed that heterosexual men are being told, constantly, by the media and even in schools, that what they are is bad. This, I submit, is at least in part what's driving the recent spate of shootings.
That doesn't mean masculinity is "toxic." What's toxic is society's attitudes towards men. Masculinity only becomes "toxic" when it is beaten down and suppressed and when men are told that what and who they are is defective. It becomes toxic when young boys are drugged in school because they don't conform to feminine standards of behaviour.
In a sense, what happened yesterday was also a suicide. A spectacularly melodramatic suicide from a man in pain who wanted to hurt the world that had hurt him.
Denying essential human nature — that men can be powerful and dangerous and this should be harnessed for good — is a recipe for tragedy.
Or take a look at the Boy Scout Law and see which items have been weakened or eliminated.
October 3, 2015 · Filed under Issues, Mind Games
Prosecute the deniers!
Russell Cook provides an example for comparison and contrast in methods of 'debate' when concluding that Those scientists who want to use RICO to prosecute AGW 'deniers' have a big problem. Names are listed with specific behaviors and citations. Detail is provided sufficient to make your eyes water.
At least it can be said I've never been accused of begging anyone to trust the assertions I make. Legions of pro-global warming people, including Pope Francis, President Obama, and nearly all of the mainstream media essentially beg us to trust them about the settled science, despite the existence of highly detailed climate assessments compiled by skeptic climate scientists. The egregious tragedy of this situation is that so many pro-global warming people have been blatantly misled about immoral "corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change" when no such evidence proving it exists, and when evidence is so easily found on how the accusation stems from one highly questionable source.
Begging for 'trust me' or an implicit assumption of a false reality abound on the other side of the argument. See for example Smart Grid Technology and Applications by Ekanayake et al that cites "Electric power systems throughout the world are facing radical change stimulated by the pressing need to decarbonise electricity supply" and uses a "consensus" to support its views. When alleging criminal activity, as in the RICO charges raises it to a whole 'nother level.
October 1, 2015 · Filed under compare contrast, science


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Is Google locking up historical works?
Google provides funding to universities and researchers around the world who scan and digitize books for them. Many of these books have considerable historical significance, although Google's real goal, according to a CNN piece on the effort, is to createGoogle Inc.
By Christopher Dawson for ZDNet Education | April 28, 2008 -- 10:13 GMT (03:13 PDT) | Topic: Google
Google provides funding to universities and researchers around the world who scan and digitize books for them. Many of these books have considerable historical significance, although Google's real goal, according to a CNN piece on the effort, is to create
Google Inc.'s Book Search, a portal that will eventually lead users to all the estimated 50 million to 100 million books in the world.
The "book turners" are especially interested in preserving works that might otherwise be lost to age. One, for example, is scanning the oldest bible in Arabic typesetting known to man. While Google has a proprietary process for quickly scanning and indexing newer texts, the historical works must be individually photographed and sent to Google who complete optical character recognition, indexing, and ultimately provide the universities with electronic copies (in addition to posting copies to the Web).
However, some researchers are concerned about both copyright issues and with Google's potential ability to "own" historical works.
Book Search has the support of many publishers, authors and librarians, including Cambridge University Press and Wisdom Publications. But some publishers and authors have sued, claiming the service violates their copyrights. Google says Book Search is aboveboard because Web surfers can retrieve only snippets of copyright material through the service.
Brewster Kahle, founder and digital librarian of the Internet Archive at the Open Content Alliance, said Google may be trying to "lock up the public domain" by making proprietary copies of works whose copyrights have expired -- which includes the vast majority of the world's books.
What do you think? Will Google continue to do no evil? Better yet, how will they monetize this effort?
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