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Posts Tagged 'choice'
"There's no idea in economics more beautiful than Arrow's impossibility theorem"*…
Tim Harford unpack's Kenneth Arrow's Impossibility Theorem (which feels a bit like a socio-economic "Monty Hall Problem") and considers it's implications…
… if any group of voters gets to decide one thing, that group gets to decide everything, and we prove that any group of decisive voters can be pared down until there's only one person in it. That person is the dictator. Our perfect constitution is in tatters.
That's Arrow's impossibility theorem. But what does it really tell us? One lesson is to abandon the search for a perfect voting system. Another is to question his requirements for a good constitution, and to look for alternatives. For example, we could have a system that allows people to register the strength of their feeling. What about the person who has a mild preference for profiteroles over ice cream but who loathes cheese? In Arrow's constitution there's no room for strong or weak desires, only for a ranking of outcomes. Maybe that's the problem.
Arrow's impossibility theorem is usually described as being about the flaws in voting systems. But there's a deeper lesson under its surface. Voting systems are supposed to reveal what societies really want. But can a society really want anything coherent at all? Arrow's theorem drives a stake through the heart of the very idea. People might have coherent preferences, but societies cannot…
On choice, law, and the paradox at the heart of voting: "Arrow's Impossibility Theorem," from @TimHarford in @WhyInteresting. Eminently worth reading in full.
* Tim Harford
As we contemplate collective choice, we might send grateful birthday greetings to the man who "wrote the book" on perspective, Leon Battista Alberti; he was born on this date in 1404. The archetypical Renaissance humanist polymath, Alberti was an author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, cartographer, and cryptographer. He collaborated with Toscanelli on the maps used by Columbus on his first voyage, and he published the the first book on cryptography that contained a frequency table.
But he is surely best remembered as the author of the first general treatise– Della Pictura (1434)– on the the laws of perspective, which built on and extended Brunelleschi's work to describe the approach and technique that established the science of projective geometry… and fueled the progress of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Greek- and Arabic-influenced formalism of the High Middle Ages to the more naturalistic (and Latinate) styles of Renaissance.
from Della Pictura
Tagged with Alberti, art, art history, Brunelleschi, choice, Christopher Columbus, cryptography, decision making, Della Pictura, economics, elections, geometry, High Middle Ages, history, Humanism, Kenneth Arrow, painting, perspective, Renaissance, social choice, social choice theory, Toscanelli, voting, voting systems
"No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother"*…
If you're in possession of a uterus, at some point in your life you've likely gotten the message that having children isn't a choice—it's your duty. For well over a century, doctors, psychologists, and politicians have engaged in intense public campaigns to persuade American women to bear children, publicly exalting motherhood and warning of personal, and societal, peril if they don't comply.
There's a word for this: pronatalism, the promotion of baby-making for a nation's social, political, and economic purposes…
The techniques that have been used to pressure American women to keep breeding are even more shocking than you might think– proselytizing, pseudoscience, and shaming–all committed in the name of turning women into mothers: "A Brief History of Bullying Women to Have Babies."
* Margaret Sanger
As we cherish choice, we might send healing birthday greetings to Helen Brooke Taussig; she was born on this date in 1898. The founder of pediatric cardiology, Dr. Taussig pioneered the use of X-rays and fluoroscopy to identify heart defects in newborns; then in 1944, with surgeon Alfred Blalock, she developed a surgical procedure for treating blue baby syndrome. In the 1960s, Taussig was a leader in the identification of Thalidomide (a fertility drug) as a cause of birth defects, and an effective campaigner for its banning.
Though she chose never to marry nor have children herself, Taussig was responsible for advances that have saved millions of children's lives.
Tagged with blue baby syndrome, choice, history, medicine, pediatric cardiology, pronatalism, sociology, Taussig, Thalidomide, women's rights
I choose… me!
People in Western countries drown in choice. Want a T-shirt? Thousands of alternatives await you. Want some toothpaste? Sit down, we could be here a while. Many people see these options as a good thing – they're a sign of our independence, our freedom, our mastery over our own destinies. But these apparent positives have a dark side.
Krishna Savani from Columbia University has found that when Americans think about the concept of choice, they're less concerned about the public good and less empathic towards disadvantaged people. His work supports the idea that endless arrays of choice focus our attention on individual control and, by doing so, they send a message that people's fates are their own concerns. Their lives are not the business of the state or public institutions, and if they fail, it is their own fault. With choices at hand, Americans are more likely to choose themselves.
Savani's experiments and their results make for pretty bracing reading. Still, he notes, not all cultures react the same way. And as for Americans,
… Savani points out that the US is one of the world's most charitable countries. He writes, "If Americans believe that they are choosing to help other people out of their free will, or if they can affirm their selves through making choices for other people, they may be even more charitable." The problem lies more with "choice for choice's sake."
Read the whole story in Discover.
As we resolve to simplify, we might recall that it was on this date in 1718 that London lawyer, writer, and inventor, James Puckle patented a multi-shot gun mounted on a stand capable of firing up to nine rounds per minute– the first machine gun.
Puckle's innovation was as formative in the realm of intellectual property as it was in the martial arena: Quoth to the Patent Office of the United Kingdom,"In the reign of Queen Anne of Great Britain, the law officers of the Crown established as a condition of patent that the inventor must in writing describe the invention and the manner in which it works." Puckle's machine gun patent was among the first to provide such a description.
source and larger view, with transcription
Tagged with charity, choice, Columbia University, decisions, economic psychology, economics, empathy, history of intellectual property, history of patents, history of the machine gun, history of war, intellectual property, James Puckle, Krishna Savani, Machine gun, Patents, Psychology of choice, psychology of decision, public good, social psychology

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Al Gore III Arrested for Drug Possession
Kim Priestap July 4, 2007 Al Gore 78 Comments
Perhaps former Vice President Al Gore should stop worrying about everyone else's carbon footprint and help his son beat his drug problem.
Former Vice President Al Gore's son, Albert Gore III, was arrested early Wednesday morning in Orange County, California on suspicion of possessing marijuana and prescription drugs, the Orange County Sheriff's Department told CNN.
Gore, 24, was allegedly driving a Toyota Prius at 100 mph on the San Diego Freeway at 2:15 a.m. when a police officer pulled him over. The officer reported that he smelled marijuana and a search of the car yielded less than an ounce of the drug. The prescription drugs Valium, Xanax, Vicodin, and Adderall were in the car as well, police reported.
"He does not have a prescription for any of those drugs," Jim Amormino of the Sheriff's Department told The Associated Press.
Gore was booked into a Santa Ana jail under a $20,000 bond, the Sheriff's Department said.
I feel bad for him. His dad is out there "saving the world" from global warming while his son keeps trying to get his attention.
Gore III completed a substance abuse program in 2004 after he was charged with possession of marijuana in Maryland after police observed him driving without his headlights on.
He was ticketed for reckless driving by North Carolina police in August 2000 when he was clocked going 94 mph in a 55 mph zone. Military police arrested him for drunk driving near a military base in Virginia in September 2002.
(Jay Tea adds: I'm gonna bite the bullet here and agree with nogo. (Yes, it's even more painful than you can imagine.) The only thing newsworthy here is that a Prius will break triple digits. Unless and until Al 3 becomes a public figure in his own right, he should be left alone.)
Nearly 600 U.S. Troops Reenlist in Baghdad on Independence Day
The face of evil
Experts: No link between hurricanes and global warming
Is Hillary Clinton the Dead Candidate Walking?
Al Gore boosts sales of Xanax, Zoloft and Prozac
Kim Priestap
Wife. Mom. First and Second Amendment enthusiast. Gun owner. I train often. ***** He can't even run his own life, I'll be damned if he'll run mine.


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New UWO chancellor: Collaboration strengthens university, communities we serve
Andrew J. Leavitt
When the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh thrives, Oshkosh and this region thrive. And, of course, it works the other way, too. The relationship reflects a healthy interdependence that I noticed even before I arrived in Oshkosh.
My first official day on the job is (Monday, Nov. 3). I cannot tell you how thrilled I am to begin this role. My wife Karen will be joining me here in the year ahead, and she is equally excited. We already feel a part of this community. So many people have made us feel welcome and connected.
There has been something very dynamic happening in this city and region. Residents, businesses and organizations are increasingly proud of UW Oshkosh's remarkable growth and its expanding prominence as a beacon for quality education, sustainability and community collaboration. The community also feels a part of UW Oshkosh. People admire the ways we share the knowledge, expertise and talent of the thousands of people who study, research, create, work and live here with our business, nonprofit and educational neighbors. Conversely, these partners enjoy the opportunity to share their wisdom and resources with the University community.
UW Oshkosh, Oshkosh and the New North region are "on the map" like never before. We should continue to be proud of our interconnectedness and united focus on the challenges that face us. It is a part of our distinctiveness. We must continue to work together to protect and enhance this relationship. UW System President Ray Cross, the Board of Regents, the campus community and the people of our region have entrusted me with helping in the effort. Be they manufacturers eager to rally around our new engineering technology program or K-12 music and math teachers anxious to connect their students with our outstanding faculty, in my role as chancellor of UW Oshkosh I promise to include as many allies as possible to help this institution fulfill its mission.
The role of Chancellor is emblematic of collaboration. We have a long tradition of working together to help nourish and share UW Oshkosh's educational, cultural, environmental and economic strengths with the community. When our University is faced with challenges, from fiscal constraints to program-development hurdles, we work together and blaze a new trail.
Our shared success is evident in years of new and strengthened local alliances. We have rallied around cutting-edge entrepreneurial and innovative initiatives. Our revitalized downtown hotel and convention center, our array of renewable-energy biodigesters deployed on campus and area farms large and small and our new partnership in the Greater Oshkosh Economic Development Corporation (GO-EDC) — each one is a result of our shared, catalytic, collaborative spirit and drive. This can even be seen in the recent cooperation between the Oshkosh Police Department and University Police as they investigated crimes near campus and apprehended one of the perpetrators.
I have already had several opportunities to meet and share ideas with community leaders. Those meetings on and off campus will continue. My door will remain open. I am letting all of our friends and neighbors know that my first priority — and the leading goal in my first 100 days as Chancellor — is to deeply engage our campus community, its governance leaders, our alumni and an expanding list of partners in conversations. I want to know what we are doing well. I want to know what opportunities to improve and initiatives to explore we should bring into focus. Leading is listening.
I hope you will join me in expressing our tremendous gratitude to Interim Chancellor Petra Roter for her dedication in that role during our leadership transition. Roter, our administrators and our campus governance leaders have been excellent stewards of UW Oshkosh, all while serving as ambassadors for and symbols of the powerful University-community connection. They balance their campus leadership duties with their commitments to local schools, nonprofits and other organizations.
I am confident that the good people of Oshkosh, the New North region and the state will continue to learn from and work alongside our campus community members. In pledging to do the same, we will, together, further enrich the quality of life of the people who proudly call northeastern Wisconsin home.
Andrew J. Leavitt is the 11th Chancellor the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.
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With over 50,000 followers on Twitter and often acting as a stand-in for the Labour front bench in the media, Aaron Bastani has become an influential voice in British politics. He's the co-founder of Novara Media, where he is also a senior editor and contributor. In 2017, The Guardian reported that Novara had '200 contributing writers, 700 supporters and 10,000 committed viewers and listeners', while Bastani claimed its Facebook content reached three million people during the last general election.
Since the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour's leader, Bastani has also become a frequent pundit in the mainstream media, with appearances on the BBC's Daily Politics and This Week , Sky News, Channel 4 and others. While many see him as a fresh new commentator on the left, he has been criticised for, among other things, airing various conspiracy theories about the novichok attack in Salisbury and calling the British Legion's annual poppy appeal 'white supremacist'.
In 2019, Bastani will have a book published by Verso, titled Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto. He's in a strong position to replicate the success of books by Owen Jones, Laurie Penny and other left-wing commentators. His credibility both as a commentator and writer is heavily bolstered by his impressive-seeming academic credentials. Verso's website states that he 'holds a PhD from the New Political Communication Unit, University of London, examining social movements in the digital environment which fail to correspond to the traditional logic of collective action', and his doctorate has often been cited in his media appearances and articles, as can be seen at The Guardian, The London Review of Books, appearances at academic institutions and on panel discussions, and in Novara Media's bio of him.
I put my points to Bastani via email last week. He denied one point: that he had written or even known about two pseudonymous articles in The Guardian that used his initials for its name and cited his work. It is likely unprovable either way, but it's hard to see why else it isn't in his thesis: one would think two articles in the national press by one of his main case study organisations would have to be included as part of his narrative of its success in spreading its message, so the omission points the finger squarely at his being the author.
Other than that point, he refused to answer my questions. Instead, he became evasive, abusive and finally blocked me from emailing him. I've informed the university of my findings and they have acknowledged receiving them, but as they might take a long time to address while Bastani is likely to continue his high-profile punditry and publish his book, I'm presenting what I found here as a form of due diligence for the media. Even while he was accusing me of suffering from a mental disorder, Bastani repeatedly told me that he welcomed public scrutiny of his research and that he was looking forward to me publishing this article. Here it is.
But I knew he had a PhD. That's no small thing, and so I recently wondered on Twitter about the discrepancy. Almost at once, a mutual friend put me in touch with Sam Taylor. A few days earlier, he had asked Royal Holloway's library for a copy of Bastani's thesis. They didn't have it, for reasons that remain unclear: Bastani initially claimed this was because of outstanding library fines, then that it was unavailable because he might later publish a book drawing on some of the research in it. He eventually sent Sam a copy of it, after which he immediately took to social media to insult him, including recording an Instagram video in which he said 'this guy has a face like a slapped arse, glasses, balding, looks like the paradigmatic example of a technocrat, a boring moderate', adding 'there is something very strange in politics when people like that are actually the biggest paranoiac fantasist cranks out there'.
This reaction seemed like a gigantic red flag to me: people who genuinely welcome scrutiny of their research and have nothing to hide from it don't generally resort to bullying. I asked Sam if he could forward me a copy of the thesis, which he did. Bastani also offered to send it to me, although by then I already had it.
Titled Strike! Occupy! Re-Tweet! The Relationship Between Collective and Connective Action in Austerity Britain and written under his then-name Aaron Peters, Bastani completed it in March 2015 and passed his viva in September that year, with no corrections requested. While reading it, I asked Sam for advice and followed up various points he had spotted.
He observed that these two movements didn't have leaders per se but instead a core of influential activists, or 'networked individuals', including the likes of Owen Jones, who had previously worked for Labour MP John McDonnell's leadership campaign. Bastani interviewed many of these people, some of whom were by his own admission friends. Even with the acknowledgement, this seemed like a clear conflict of interest: the familiar problem of being an embedded reporter exacerbated by the natural instinct to side with those we know and like. One of his main interviewees was his friend Guy Aitchison, who he identified as a key activist and, along with journalist Laurie Penny, a prime mover in making a demonstration outside TopShop in London on 29 November 2010 happen.
Much of the thesis read less like academic research and more like the minutes of organizing demos written by a hanger-on, with excruciatingly detailed chronologies of meetings in pubs and retweets from the likes of Johann Hari. My first impression was that Bastani had conned a university into giving him a PhD for researching some demos organized by his friends, concluding from his 'fieldwork' (going on the demos with them) that – quelle surprise! – said friends were at the vanguard of a radical new way of organizing protest (largely coordinating online and tweeting hashtags).
But after discussing it with Sam and digging a little deeper, we realized it was a lot worse than that. Bastani had gone against his own caveats, misleading and omitting crucial information. He wasn't simply researching his friends' activities, and he wasn't merely a hanger-on. In fact, he was just as much of a key player in these events as the people he was 'researching', and he had gone out of his way to hide it.
This wasn't simply a hunch: there was ample proof of it. If his thesis has one key theme, it's the connections, mediated through social media, which allowed ideas to cross-pollinate between groups like the UCL Occupation and UKUncut. But Bastani was a huge part of that connective tissue, and he systematically covered it up by leaving out anything and everything that exposed his pivotal role. He did this because he knew that an observer-participant researcher can be a member of the orchestra, but they cannot be the conductor. Even if there's more than one conductor, as here. Bastani had frequently tweeted back and forth with Guy Aitchison, Ben Beach, UKUncut and other 'networked individuals' he had identified as key to the movement, and in many of these he was clearly organizing events with them. Yet although several tweets are cited in the thesis, none of these were.
There was a lot more he had chosen to omit. In 2011, Laurie Penny had written an article for The New Statesman about the most prominent activists in the UK student protest movement. She focussed on two: Ben Beach, who she called 'the Justin Bieber of the new left', and Aaron Peters, 'a former member of David Miliband's Labour leadership campaign team with a tendency to pull an Incredible Hulk act when out on protests'. In the photo accompanying the article, Bastani posed with a mask, black bloc style. Penny wrote that 'Peters and Beach are the sort of leader that this staunchly leaderless movement would otherwise have.' This is an article in a mainstream left publication about the movement Bastani was studying in his thesis, but he didn't mention or cite it once.
Bastani had also co-written an article with Guy Aitchison. This wasn't cited in the thesis, either, but not only is it on the same topic, it even opens with an image of the phrase Bastani used for his title. The article was also collected in Fight Back: A Reader on the Winter of Protest. In its review of that book, The Islington Tribune noted that contributors included 'Guy Aitchison and Aaron Peters, key figures in the UCL occupation and tax justice pressure group UKUncut'.
And that demo at TopShop? In this Youtube clip, you can see that Bastani wasn't just there – he actually led the demo.
That video, Penny's article and the other evidence (such as multiple press images like this) all destroy his claim in the thesis to have upheld 'the highest standards of objectivity', and also prove he was dishonest about his role. To top it all off, Bastani openly boasted about helping to direct UKUncut to the Daily Mail, adding 'I am quite fortunate in that my PhD is all about this. I am almost my own case study.' So he knew exactly what he was up to: there is no suggestion in the finished thesis at all that he is in any way one of its chief subjects.
I decided to email Bastani. The university wouldn't be able to help me if he had deceived them by concealing all this, but it was possible I had got some or even all of it wrong, and I wanted to give him the opportunity to set the record straight. The emails started out cordially enough, but despite his repeated claims to welcome scrutiny of his research it soon became clear this wasn't true. On sending him my list of concerns, he was very dismissive, proclaiming himself disappointed by my 'bland' and 'silly' questions.
As the email exchange went on Bastani became more evasive, and more aggressive. Then, in what felt like a panicked attempt to preempt anything I might write, he went after me on Twitter. He started by tweeting to suggest I was a sad sack loser, then suggested I was a 'fruitloop' and finally threw out the idea I was racist because he's 'a working class brown guy'.
As well as these insults and attempts to undermine my questions, he also tweeted that my claims about his research were 'beyond outlandish' and 'completely unsupported'. In private, he'd dismissed them to me as silly and bland – now he was saying they were serious. I asked him if he could explain that discrepancy, and said he was free to quote publicly from our emails to show where I'd alleged anything outlandish or unsupported. He didn't take me up on that, but instead blocked me via email and shortly afterwards on Twitter.
By this time I had found yet more evidence of his deceptions, most of which I've discussed above. I couldn't press him any further on these, but I think his reaction to my initial set of questions has already done my work for me. As he gave me permission to make our emails public, you can read them through and see for yourself. If you want to read the thesis to check my claims against them, you'll have to ask him for a copy. I think my points are very clear, and his resorting to insult and other tricks to avoid answering them tell their own story.
Sam Taylor forwarded me your PhD thesis, which I've been reading with great interest. I'm thinking of writing about it, because it appears to me it has several serious misrepresentations, omissions and ethical transgressions. On the other hand, it could be that I've misunderstood or misinterpreted these issues, and I don't want to make allegations publicly without checking with you first if I possibly can. May I call you, and if so on what number, to ask you some questions on the record, or email you them at this address? Either works for me. If you'd rather not respond to my questions, that's of course your prerogative. But I thought I'd ask.
Hello Jeremy. Please put these in writing and I will respond fully. Regarding 'ethical transgressions' these tend to be addressed in the literature review.
Thank you for your response. As I said in my previous email, it may be that I've misinterpreted or misunderstood some or even all of the following issues, in which case thank you for clearing them up, and my apologies for the inconvenience of doing so.
Some background: after seeing quite a few over-the-top and ill-researched tweets from you, I wondered how you had managed to get a PhD. Someone put me in touch with Sam Taylor, who by coincidence had wondered the same and was interested in reading your thesis. You know the real sequence of events, and it doesn't reflect well on you at all. Yes, he asked Royal Holloway if you had a PhD, but accepted their answer that you had at once. While I wouldn't like what appeared to be someone gearing up to criticise me for my research much either, as I have nothing to hide what I most certainly wouldn't do is immediately make a false claim about them publicly (that he didn't believe you had a PhD, something he never alleged) and then publicly abuse them several times, including attacking their physical appearance on video to my sizeable number of followers. Your response was to bully, and such shoddy behaviour immediately suggested to me you had something to hide. I think my instinct was right.
My main concern is that I don't think your claim to have attempted to uphold 'the highest standards of objectivity' holds water, mainly because you have gone to some lengths to conceal that you were a much more significant participant in this movement than you pretend. My current view is that you've misrepresented your role in the movement you write about, both as a participant and as a writer about it. You've done this by omitting several key books and articles from your thesis's body text, endnotes and bibliography, as well as several key facts. You appear to have been deliberately, repeatedly deceptive about this, and I think it creates several serious conflicts of interest.
Most notably, you didn't cite any of your own previous writing on this topic, which is highly unusual. There are several reasons to do so. One, of course, is connected to ego - 'look, I do know my onions on this stuff and have published quite a bit already on it, go me!' A more serious reason connected to that is that in showing you have already conducted research in this field you bolster your credibility, especially if previous relevant writing is in high-impact or widely read publications. Another reason for self-citation is that the examiners can see how you have developed your arguments and research. And another is transparency: that you aren't simply cutting and pasting from previous work. This is very widely established practice, and as you will be aware most of the time it involves people citing themselves far too much, so it's very surprising you don't do it at all, especially as you had written a lot of articles that are very relevant to cite.
Some of your articles were even republished in a book, Fight Back: A Reader on the Winter of Protest, published in 2011. Again, there is no citation from you of this. It's a gaping omission, and the reason for it is fairly clear, I think – you're concealing how large a role you played in disseminating the message, and that you were a prominent writer on websites you identify as being key to the movement's success.
That first Guardian article is a call in a national newspaper by a spokesperson for UKUncut to attend one of the key events you write about as one of your cases studies as an 'observer first, participant second', ie the Topshop protest on November 29th 2010. This article had a far greater reach than many others you cite, and is much more directly relevant than almost any you cite. You discuss in some detail the article in The Guardian by UKUncut coordinating committee member 'Sam Baker'. You cannot have possibly missed the two by UKUncut spokesperson 'Alex Pinkerman', and yet you don't mention them at all, or list them in your bibliography.
That's an ego-driven citation, I think, and with the two other points it's quite the tell.
It's you leading the protest, and you who wrote an article in the national press asking people to come to it.
You didn't discuss or cite your articles in The Guardian, or those you wrote for other websites during the period you were researching, or that video, because all show that you weren't simply researching friends and acquaintances, but your own activities. It's hard to imagine a stronger conflict of interest: it's virtually impossible to remove bias when the subject of research is oneself.
You were claiming to research a movement you were peripherally involved in, when in fact you played a leading role in it. Far from trying to address this, you concealed it. You did that because any semblance of impartiality falls apart when you read those articles or watch that utterly damning video. You write in detail about an event, without revealing your role in drumming up support for it in a national newspaper and leading it on the day. It's also impossible to take you seriously when you discuss the aims of the black bloc and don't reveal you were a part of it, or when you criticize a spokesperson for UKUncut for her interview on Newsnight, without saying you too were a spokesperson for UKUncut, albeit under a pseudonym, and that she was discussing behaviour you had indulged in, when you don't reveal either of these crucial pieces of information.
More concerning is that your adviser was evidently aware of this – the tweet I link to above is to an article by you that prominently features the video of you leading the Topshop protest on November 29th.
You don't mention or cite this article in your thesis, either, I think for obvious reasons: it too destroys your claims to any kind of objectivity or as an 'observer first and participant second'. The idea that you were simply going on these protests and asking some questions while there is blown out of the water by you repeatedly boasting that you were integral to organising them. You also kicked a massive hole in the ethics clauses in your thesis by admitting to the Mail you were, in effect, studying yourself.
'I'm a reasonably good orator and my knowledge, organising and understanding of the direction in which we are going forward is quite useful.
This is a misrepresentation. You didn't just have an inside-track, but were a leading light in UKUncut: writing as a spokesperson for them in a national newspaper, legitimizing their aims and spreading their message through web publications you yourself identify as instrumental to doing just that, and being closely involved in organizing several UKUncut events.
An additional ethical concern here is that you were also influencing the course of your own research. Without your article as 'Alex Pinkerman' in The Guardian, it may have been that that TopShop protest would have been attended by far fewer people. By calling for people to turn up in a national newspaper, you were influencing what you were writing about. Even taking in the idea you were not Pinkerman, your actions at the protest show you whipping up the crowd and stirring them on. If you had simply been on the protest, rather than leading it, there might not have been as much to write about. This is a clear conflict of interest.
Some of your other omissions are also interesting. I find it very surprising that you make no reference anywhere to Regeneration, edited by Clare Coatman and Guy Shrubsole (Lawrence & Wishart, 2012). This has a chapter by Guy Aitchison and Jeremy Gilbert reflecting on the student movement. Gilbert discusses the black bloc problem in depth, and would have been very useful to have quoted, even if to disagree with (as your conclusions broadly do). Aitchison is a friend of yours who you discuss at length in the thesis and even interviewed for it – you can't have not known about this contribution from him to the field, so why have you ignored it? He even cites you in the discussion!
Of course, this reveals that you, like he, are someone deeply involved with and leading the debate within the movement you're pretending to be even slightly dispassionately observing for the purposes of getting around the problem that you're really 'researching' you and your friends' own ideas and activities.
Similarly, Chris Coltrane's chapter in that book is a case study on the same topic as one of your case studies, UKUncut, and you are well aware of him as you tweeted him many times during the period in question, including asking him to come to events and sharing event information with him. Together, these both cover your two case studies in depth, by significant players. Why have you missed all this out?
You also don't discuss or cite any of the work of Paolo Gerbaudo, most obviously Tweets on the Streets, published in 2012. That is not just a key text in this field, but is on exactly the same area as you cover in your thesis. Did you not even know about it, or is there some other reason for the omission?
In essence, your field work consists of you attending some demos, some of which you don't reveal you were instrumental in organising, promoting and leading, and pretending that a few interviews you conducted with 'informants' constitutes anything other than anecdotal and highly partial evidence for your conclusion that, what a surprise, you and your mates are forging a radical and important new path ahead.
You make no mention in your thesis of your two arrests, one of which led to a conviction for a public order offence and a suspended sentence. You've publicly admitted that happened in at least two places, but not in your thesis. It's highly relevant to it, though, because despite your T-shirt being grey, you were clearly a member of the black bloc, something you discuss in detail in the thesis without ever mentioning your own involvement. In accusing the police of violence but not revealing your own violence in this movement, you concealed a serious conflict of interest in your research.
Those are my chief concerns. I'd be delighted for you to prove me wrong about all this.
These are surprisingly bland, silly questions Jeremy. If you want to publicly criticise misapplication of a methodological method please feel free to.
Regarding 'Alex Pinkerton' I'm not him and have never heard of him. As you can see where I have been involved I have been perfectly happy to use my own name.
Regarding Paolo Gerbaudo, he is mentioned in the final chapter. The literature review builds on a literature of dozens of relevant academics going back to the 1960s (Mancur Olson) and even the 19th Century (Durkheim). In terms of the 'collective action literature' he is marginal and that isn't his research agenda in 'Tweets in the Streets' (I presume you know how a PhD works).
In fact Paolo Gerbaudo was one of two external examiners for my viva.
As a robust piece of research I look forward to my PhD being criticised. It was not in the RHUL library as I intend to write a book where its findings are a major part.
I trust your no doubt excellent contribution to the literature will be in a peer-reviewed journal? Presumably you have a PhD in social science too?
Finally, would you also like to read my excellent MSc thesis on EU trade and aid policy? I think you'd enjoy it.
Let me know if I can help you any further. I look forward to reading the piece.
Thanks for the swift reply, Aaron. I note your denial of ever having even heard of 'Alex Pinkerton' despite him citing your work in The Guardian and you then parroting his first few paras almost word for word while leading the demo he called people to attend. It's not the most convincing of denials, let's say.
I note you didn't answer any of my other questions, but instead chose round dismissal and an appeal to authority. I don't have a PhD in any field, just a lowly BA in English literature and language. However, I have worked as an editor for many years, including for a peer-reviewed journal, and this gave me more than enough experience to spot your massive conflicts of interest, fudges over your own role in the movement and prominent omissions to conceal it. You haven't denied any of that, I notice. It's also given me enoguh experience to spot an attempt to close down an uncomfortable set of allegations by high-handed dismissal.
I might well publicly criticise your 'misapplication of a methodological method', but if I do I probably won't use that language.
What page do you mention Gerbaudo's work on? I can't see that anywhere. As he was one of your examiners, no discussion of Tweets and the Streets would seem to me to be even more striking - in terms of full-length books on the rise of social media and its use in emerging protest movements, I would have thought he'd disagree that his research was 'marginal' to your thesis, which covers precisely the same area. You could very easily switch the titles of his book and your thesis, in fact. You can throw in some more jargon to try to bluff me if you fancy, but I doubt it will work. Straight answers are usually a better bet.
Regarding Paolo it should be towards the end. I defended the PhD for 4 years Jeremy, that's the point of the exercise.
Publish whatever you like. In the academy, which is where this document was forged, that is done with peer review by scholars. I can only repeat I look forward to an English BA critiquing a political science PhD with little knowledge of the literature or research universe.
Hi again, Aaron. I still don't see any reference to Gerbaudo's work. What page/s, please?
You seem to think citing the authority of a PhD will impress me, when you forget that I've read yours. My brother-in-law has a PhD in theoretical physics that I admit is far beyond my comprehension - but yours is just you 'researching' activities by your friends and acquaintances while concealing your own role as a leader in the movement. It's not as hard to follow or as you think, especially as I've edited dozens, if not hundreds, of peer-reviewed articles. I can spot bluffs and fudges in academic writing from a distance. Peer review by scholars can be wrong, even in hard science that involves researching concrete facts and not 'demos I've been on', but part of the process is also how authors respond to questions. You insist you look forward to any criticism of your 'robust piece of research', but have now twice refused to answer any of my questions other than the one about 'Alex Pinkerman'.
I got something wrong about that article, incidentally, though it looks to me to be even more damning than I first thought. 'Pinkerman's first article was on December 3, so was calling for attendance at the December 4 TopShop demo rather than the one a few days earlier. You were at and write about both of these demos. But 'Pinkerman' starts their article by making precisely the same points you did in person when leading the protest outside TopShop in Oxford Circus on November 29. So is it your claim that this UKUncut spokesperson drew on your claims about Green to write their article, while also citing one of your articles, while using a pseudonym with your initials, to call for people to attend a demo you went on and then wrote about... and you knew nothing about any of this and that is why you didn't cite it? It's not as if the Guardian was irrelevant here: you write in detail about 'Sam Baker's article in the paper. How did you miss 'Pinkerman'?
If my questions were truly 'bland' and 'silly', you'd have answered them instead of trying to swerve them by suggesting my little brain can't possibly hope to understand your research - or, say, a video of you leading a demo you claim to have been an observer of first and participant second.
So, sorry, but this bluffing won't work on me. You're a self-described chancer.1 I think people will be more than able to make up their minds about whether or not my questions have misunderstood your 'methodological methods', and how rigid the peer review process was here. I will simply note you twice refused to answer my detailed questions and instead dismissively appealed to authority in this way. It's rather a telling reaction, I think. If you do fancy changing your mind and answering my questions, I will of course be all ears.
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GS_yXcmbLY This promotional video by Novara Media also includes footage of you leading the November 2010 TopShop demo, and the voice-over also positions you as being a central part of the student movement rather than, as your thesis tries to suggest, some bod who just went along and interviewed some folk while you were milling in the crowd. Oops.
You'll have to forgive me Jeremy but I don't understand the nature of the questions. You are questioning the veracity of the data collected? The appropriateness of the research method? The weaknesses of the conclusions? These are relevant questions, hopefully mitigated in anticipation in the literature review, rather than your gibbering nonsense.
I'm afraid you are going to have to get it through your thick, conspiratorial head, that people you don't like and disagree with can and do meet the criteria for successful doctorates. 'Chancers' don't survive a robust, prolonged process - not that you would have the first idea.
'Glibbering nonsense' now! 'Thick' and 'conspiratorial'. It's not exactly the same as welcoming criticism, this. 'Chancers' was your description, not mine, incidentally, or do you not read footnotes either? You would not be the first chancer to have been awarded a PhD, especially as you have concealed crucial information in the thesis.
How can you not understand my questions? They're straightforward. The appropriateness of your research method, broadly, yes - but I'm asking more specifically why you failed to cite all your own previous writings on this topic, failed to cite others, including Gerbaudo (who you repeatedly state you do, but refuse to say where), why you concealed that you were instrumental in organizing and even lead events you write about, and how you square your claims to have been an 'observer first, participant second' with all of that? They aren't mitigated in the literature review.
You've presented yourself as a student who went on some protests and are doing your best to impartially examine the movements involved, while hiding that you played a key role in them and even wrote as an observer about a demonstration you are on film as leading - weren't you?
I hope that is a clear enough question for you to understand.
Paolo is in the final chapter. He was also, as said, the external supervisor. You are perfectly welcome to contact him.
Secondly, I don't quite get why one has to cite blogs one has previously authored in a PhD, do you think this is a requirement of some kind?
Thirdly, I say in PhD - in the literature review - what my political commitments are and discuss replicability. As it is an exploratory study, not a quantitative generalisable one, there is a different emphasis - namely to generate hypothesis for later academic investigation by others (again, this is how PhDs work). This is all very clearly explained and three separate academics viewed it is sufficient to receive a pass with no corrections.
Participant observation isn't 'impartial', rather the limits of it are triangulated with interview data. Again, this is all documented.
I'm very keen to read the 'expose'. When will it be up?
Where in the final chapter? I see no reference to Paolo Gerbaudo or his work anywhere. Which article or book do you reference, and on which page? Third time of asking now.
They're not just 'blogs', Aaron - you wrote those articles on sites that you yourself identified as being instrumental to the student protest movement and UKUncut, and cited three articles from one of them written by others for that very reason. A requirement? No. But all of your articles on those sites are highly relevant, as they are about the topic of your thesis, provide contemporaneous information and were published on websites you identified as being significant to the events you write about. I explained all this before. It's very unusual not to cite your own relevant work at all, and I think the reason you didn't is because to do so would have made it clear you were a much more instrumental voice and part in these movements than you claim in the thesis. My question is: what is your reason for not citing them?
You keep stating, in effect, that you having a PhD means that your PhD must be fine. Adding in some jargon doesn't change that academics can get things wrong, and can also be misled, which is what I think you've done, and which your response so far only seems to suggest further. Most people would have answered the questions rather than publicly attach the questioner as a 'fruitcake' and privately call them 'thick'. I explained in my initial list of questions that you pay lip service to your political commitment and do not claim to be wholly objective, which would be impossible and absurd - the point, of course, is that you concealed just how involved your role was, eg you write about a demo as an 'observer first, participant second' when anyone can see from the film of it that you were leading the demo. Use of words like triangulation don't magically make this not so.
I'm not sure when it will be up, or even if I'll write it, or where. So far you're providing quite a lot of extra material on Twitter and in this exchange, and I'm still vaguely hoping for some actual answers rather than bluffing and abuse. Can I quote from our emails? You've referred to them on Twitter just now in a dismissive way.
One last question: you claim your PhD was not in the RHUL library because you 'intend to write a book where its findings are a major part', ie that it was embargoed in case you want to use material in it in a book in future. Do you stand by this? Because a) you told Sam Taylor it wasn't there due to outstanding library fines and b) it should then have been listed in the catalogue marked as embargoed, which it wasn't. So what's the truth here?
Regarding your last question, both. There's been no impetus to do it because I plan to convert it into a book (as my supervisor will attest).
You are free to share private communications, I can hardly stop you, but that will mean I won't be communicating further with you as generally I distrust anyone sharing verbatim details from non-public disclosure.
If it's both, the library should have marked it as embargoed - any idea why they didn't? I'll ask them, I guess.
I'll be interested to see if you can take me up on that offer. I doubt it, somehow.
I note you once again ignored all my other questions and points, and refused to indicate where you have cited Paolo Gerbaudo's work (for the fourth time, I believe).
they aren't quoted though, are they, Jeremy - which is what you are asking. As someone with evidently obsessive-compulsive tendencies you might notice that? Nor do I mention you.
thats enough from me. I'll be blocking this email.
No, they aren't quoted - which is why you added 'verbatim' to your email. You won't quote these emails because there's nothing outlandish or unsupported in my questions at all, and you know it. You just claimed it in public, and I've called your bluff on it. You didn't mention me by name because, as you well know, it was in a thread replying to me, and in which I had just made it clear I was the one asking you questions about your thesis.
You've so far resorted to calling me sad, thick, conspiratorial, a fruit-loop and are now going even further in suggesting I have a mental disorder. All for asking you rather straightforward questions about your thesis. As with Sam Taylor, your response to enquiry about your thesis is to pretend to welcome them while dishing out abuse and distractions. In throwing your proverbial toys out of the pram in this way, you've repeatedly avoided a series of valid questions about your research. I don't know who you think you're fooling - but it isn't me.
I'm sending this to you despite you saying you're blocking it because I suspect you'll read it anyway.
This is an excerpt from Agent of Influence: Antony Terry and the Shaping of Cold War Fact and Fiction.
For several years during the Cold War, including while he was writing the James Bond novels, Ian Fleming was also working for the Secret Intelligence Service, popularly known as M.I.6.
He was part of a network that at various times also counted among its members Malcolm Muggeridge, Kim Philby, George Blake and Frederick Forsyth. At one point M.I.5 had a long-term plan for John le Carré in the network, but he backed out at the last moment. Had he joined, le Carré would have worked directly for Fleming: a tantalising what-if in espionage history.
M.I.6 ran this network using the somewhat absurd codename 'BIN'. It was first exposed by the Soviet press in 1968, when Izvestia published M.I.6 documents that listed several of its members and their accompanying code numbers, but the story quickly blew over in Britain after a flurry of scornful denials.
BIN was informally known as 'the London Station', and had its headquarters at Londonderry House in Victoria. At one time employing 20 officers, it was part of a larger department within M.I.6 with the title 'Controller of Production Research', which arranged all operations against the Soviet Union that used resources within Britain. BIN was initially overseen by Frederick 'Fanny' Vanden Heuvel, the dandyish son of a papal count and a friend of Fleming. Vanden Heuvel's code number was Z-1, an indication that the department had its roots in the Z Organisation, a network of British businessmen who gathered intelligence in parallel to M.I.6 before and during the Second World War, and in which Vanden Heuvel had been a leading figure.
In line with the Z Organisation's old role, BIN ran the 'frequent travellers': Brits who regularly went behind the Iron Curtain for business purposes and agreed to report what they had seen when they returned home. One of these was Greville Wynne, who would become Oleg Penkovsky's link-man with M.I.6 in Moscow. BIN also targeted foreign diplomats and businessmen working in Britain for recruitment, and carried out the monitoring of embassies' communications.
Finally, it developed and controlled a network within Britain's newspaper industry. The press section had three main roles: to arrange journalistic cover for M.I.6 officers travelling behind the Iron Curtain and elsewhere; to persuade bona fide journalists to gather intelligence for them on the side; and to encourage journalists to produce articles that had a propaganda benefit for Britain.
The concept of journalists working hand in glove with intelligence agencies is a familiar one in popular consciousness, but hard evidence of it taking place in Britain was scant during the Cold War, and even now this is a relatively neglected area of research among historians of the era considering the central role journalists played in shaping perceptions through those decades. The gap is for several reasons, one of them being that the Cold War is not long dead, and has arguably been reanimated. Journalists' involvement in espionage raises several thorny ethical dilemmas—they are supposed to be free thinkers who speak truth to power, after all, rather than deceivers in service of the secret state—but even those who weren't engaged in the practice and disapproved had editors or proprietors who were, and who considered this their patriotic duty. Exposure of M.I.6's work with journalists would have been breaking the Official Secrets Act, as well as risked betraying colleagues and creating a working assumption overseas that all British correspondents were spies, which might have endangered lives.
Many British journalists and former journalists wrote spy fiction during the Cold War, so one might expect the idea to have featured heavily there, especially as the genre provides ample opportunity to reveal secrets between the lines. But while characters working as correspondents for TASS or Pravda are routinely undercover KGB operatives—with the unwritten implication that this was the case in real life (as it often was)—British spy fiction of the era features very few Western intelligence operatives working under journalistic cover. Even in thrillers this topic was, if not taboo, rarely under the spotlight.
However, as the Cold War waned mentions of this activity became more common, first in vague terms, eventually in detailed accounts. There is now enough information in the public domain to piece together how this was carried out.
One of the most significant figures recruited by M.I.6's BIN network was Ian Fleming. Like many others, he had been involved with intelligence during the Second World War: he had been the personal assistant of Admiral John Godfrey, the Director of Naval Intelligence (D.N.I.). Years later, Fleming would take inspiration from Godfrey when creating James Bond's boss M, and as a result many have likened Fleming's wartime activities under Godfrey to those of Bond under M. However, Fleming's role at Naval Intelligence was much more akin to that of the character Bill Tanner, M's trusty chief of staff: he drafted memos on Godfrey's behalf, navigated Whitehall's politics, and helped arrange and oversee operations. Fleming was a desk man, expressly forbidden from taking part in the field on the grounds that, were he to be captured by the Germans, he knew far too much.
Throughout the war, Fleming was in contact with other branches of British intelligence, including the Special Operations Executive, Bletchley Park, M.I.5 and M.I.6. He also worked with the Political Warfare Executive, a group responsible for creating and disseminating propaganda. Fleming was fluent in German, and was used in P.W.E. broadcasts 'telling the Germans that all their U-boats leak'.
At the end of the war M.I.6 were interested in taking on people who already knew the espionage ropes, who had proven themselves discreet, efficient and trustworthy, and whose skills would be useful in the coming Cold War. Fleming fitted the bill. Before the war, he had been a reporter for Reuters, most notably covering the Metropolitan-Vickers Trial in Moscow, and also briefly in the same city as a 'special correspondent' for The Times in 1939—the latter occasion had opened connections to the espionage world that had led to his job in Naval Intelligence. Now he was to combine journalism with work for M.I.6, as in the war not as a field operative but as a desk man. In late 1945, he accepted a job at the Kemsley newspaper group, the offer having likely been facilitated through his friendship with Fanny Vanden Heuvel.
The Kemsley group included the Sunday Times, putting Fleming right at the heart of Fleet Street. Fleming wrote articles for the Sunday Times, chiefly colour pieces as he had a gift for projecting a simultaneously worldly-wise and boyishly enthusiastic view of subjects that took his fancy. From November 1953, he also compiled the paper's gossip and miscellany column 'Atticus', and reviewed books. However, his main job was as 'foreign manager' for the whole Kemsley group, which provided copy for over 20 British national and provincial newspapers and around 600 papers overseas. Fleming managed 88 foreign correspondents, many of whom had also worked for British intelligence in the Second World War—several of whom now continued to do so in peacetime.
The group was officially called the Kemsley Imperial and Foreign Service, but was generally known as 'Mercury', its cable address. While M.I.6 had similar arrangements at other newspapers, Mercury was the jewel in its Fleet Street crown, and one mark of its success is how little an operation taking place at one of Britain's best-known newspapers is known about even today.
'A department of the Foreign Office' was an unsubtle way of referring to M.I.6 in an attempt to trump the request. The ploy didn't work and Fleming resigned his R.N.V.R. commission as a result, but it gives us clear evidence in his own hand that he was working for M.I.6 while at Kemsley—and that he was well aware he was fulfilling that role.
Fleming might well have viewed his role with M.I.6 along such lines, but other than the letter unearthed by Andrew Lycett he appears to have kept such thoughts to himself: there are no hints of it in his interviews, articles or novels. He was an important cog in the agency's machine, but he appears to have carried out his role discreetly. A gentle nudge would have been easily understood in a network largely consisting of old hands in the intelligence game, and activities like this were arranged over liquid lunches at the club or between the lines of letters rather than in ciphers retrieved from dead drops.
For Fleming, involvement with M.I.6 was mutually beneficial. Thanks to his pulling strings in the background, several M.I.6 operatives received the excellent cover of working for one of Britain's best-known newspapers while they were carrying out secret assignments around the world. But Fleming also used the role for his own purposes, incorporating intelligence he learned or sought out from these operatives into his novels. In turn, more by accident than design, his books would come to serve as propaganda for M.I.6 in particular, and for Britain in general.
Agent of Influence is out now: information on where to buy it is here.


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Share this Story: Swim club surpasses expectations
Swim club surpasses expectations
The Lions have been focusing on technique for strokes, turns and starts.
Guest Author, Susan McNeill
Jun 17, 2019 • November 27, 2020 • 1 minute read
A member of Nipawin Lions Swim Club competing at a tournament in Humboldt recently Photo by Greg Wiseman
By Greg Wiseman for the Nipawin Journal
Members of the Nipawin Lions Swim Club surpassed any expectations their coaches had of them at their first meet of the year.
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"Everyone had such a good day. No one disqualified in any races so it was unreal actually," said Lion's coach Glenda Dmyterko.
The 15 girls on the team earned 90 points leaving them in second place behind the host Humboldt Hammerheads on June 15. The boys had 45 points, good enough for fourth. Combined the Lions had 135 points, leaving them tied for third overall.
The results are fantastic, especially considering the experience level of the team.
"Lots of them haven't done a swim meet before. A couple have missed a few years and come back to the club its awesome. We have a really large club this year and we are really happy with it," Dmyterko said.
Heading in to the meet the Lions have been focusing on technique for strokes, turns and starts.
Some were naturally nervous at the start of the meet, but those fears didn't last long.
The team will be focusing on the same aspects of racing for the next two weeks before heading south to Regina for the next meet.
"We are probably going to keep working on the same things, which is everything."
Although inexperienced, the Lions are optimistic about the season as their enthusiasm compensates for any areas they are lacking in.
"We have quite a few kids that are excited about competing this year."


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Жан-Філіпп Гбамен (,  25 вересня 1995, Сан-Педро) — івуарійський футболіст, опорний півзахисник англійського «Евертона» і національної збірної Кот-д'Івуару. На умовах оренди грає в Туреччині за «Трабзонспор».

Клубна кар'єра
Народився 25 вересня 1995 року в місті Сан-Педро. Вихованець футбольної школи клубу «Ланс», до якої потрапив у 12-річному віці.

З 2012 року почав грати за другу команду «Ланса», а з наступного року залучався вже до складу його основної команди. Протягом трьох сезонів був серед гравців її основного складу.

13 липня 2016 року уклав п'ятирічний контракт з німецьким «Майнц 05», у складі якого протягом трьох сезонів провів 86 матчів у Бундеслізі.

У серпні 2019 року за 25 мільйонів фунтів перейшов до англійського «Евертона». Провівши лише дві гри за нову команду, отримав важку травму, яка з урахуванням операцій, відновлення і рецидивів залишила його поза грою до завершення сезону 2019/20. У травні 2020 року під час тренування знов травмувався, ще на півроку відтермінувавши повернення на футбольне поле.

Виступи за збірні
2012 року дебютував у складі юнацької збірної Франції (U-18), загалом на юнацькому рівні взяв участь у 13 іграх, відзначившись 2 забитими голами.

Протягом 2014–2016 років залучався до складу молодіжної збірної Франції. На молодіжному рівні зіграв у 7 офіційних матчах.

2017 року дебютував в офіційних матчах у складі національної збірної Кот-д'Івуару.

У складі збірної був учасником Кубка африканських націй 2019 року в Єгипті, де виходив на поле у трьох іграх, включаючи програний чвертьфінальний матч проти збірної Алжиру, після якого івуарійці припинили боротьбу.

Статистика виступів

Статистика виступів за збірну

Посилання

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Radio 3 is to ABC Classic FM as Radio 2 is to…?
BBC Radio 2 is apparently the UK's most popular radio station. If anyone knows about the original footage of this promo or how it was put together I'd be interested to hear, because the concept for it could have been such a failure if it wasn't executed properly, but it seems to work pretty well.
Also, whats the British or American equivalent of Triple J? Radio 6? KCRW?
Overthinking a timeslot. Jack and Bobby.
Jack and Bobby is a high concept drama about "two brothers, one of whom grows up to become the President of the United States and one of whom dies before his time". It's from the producer of The West Wing, and was broadcast on the teen centric WB Network (now The CW) in the US for one season in 2004.
Its only the second US drama I can think one of a few US dramas to air on the ABC in recent years (Carnivale and Angels in America miniseries), and unlike its grown up counterpart The West Wing, it got no promotion (that I saw) and has been placed in the 11.40pm Monday night timeslot.
Its my understanding the show was probably acquired in a deal when the ABC got The West Wing, I'm not sure if the ABC just isn't that keen on it, but I can't understand the total lack of promotion, and if it wasn't for my prior knowledge of the show I doubt I would have even noticed it in the TV guide.
Having only seen the first episode I'm yet to make my mind up, it is interesting though the mental weight I've placed on the show purely because its airing on the national broadcaster, and while the timeslot may show the ABC doesn't have much faith in it, I think it might just be interesting to see where this of-course-now-cancelled show takes us.
According to the BBC Richard Hammond is out of intensive care and is making "satisfactory progress". He's suffered signficant brain injury (which I can only hope is different to brain damage). The above video is from last nights BBC Ten O'Clock news about the accident.
Richard Hammond has been seriously hurt while filming a segment for the upcoming season of Top Gear. For more read this, and lets hope he recovers.
Breakfast, and the other Sunrise.
The opening sequence of BBC Breakfast (on the same set as Newsnight?) and Sky Sunrise, some of what Britain wakes up to in the morning. These clips are a few months old so you'll have to tell me if things have changed in the world of UK morning television.
I'm not sure if the UK has the same "judge a person by what breakfast television they watch" (or don't watch) that we seem to have in Australia, but it would be interesting to hear whats the most popular in the UK.
Check out the Today show and Australian Sunrise openers as well.
Like a Version: Such Great Heights.
Published on September 17, 2006 in ABC1 and Videos: TV. 8 Comments Tags: ben folds, covers, triple j.
UPDATE: The Kooks sing MGMT with their version of Kids (2.7mb).
I love cover versions of songs. Good ones can be awesome and I think the reinterpretation of an existing text is something that has so much potential, whether its music, literature, movies or television. The above video is this week's like a version from triple j with Ben Folds doing a piano and percussion heavy cover of The Postal Service's 'Such Great Heights'.
Random and sometimes surprising covers often turn up on Hype Machine, so check it out. Along with the Ben Folds cover mp3 here is some tracks I've stumbled upon lately.
The Chaser may do a good job putting A Current Affair and Today Tonight in its place, but nothing is quite as fun as the crap these two shows come out with themselves.
So with Naomi Robson being deported from Indonesia while trying to save Wa Wa from cannibals, lets have a look at how the two rival networks covered the event.
And be sure to see the story following the Wa Wa report, its good to see so much diversity.
Basically, just get digital already.
So its not the best promo I've ever seen, but it is simple, makes the point and hopefully will be succinct enough to appeal to people who might otherwise have no idea about digital television.
That's Australia, but as for the UK check out the BBC's Freeview push and Digit Al.
Like I've said before Canberra only gets the SBS EPG, but on my recent night in Sydney I managed to capture Nine's new guide, and Seven's as well. Ten's remains embarrassingly out of date so I didn't bother with it.


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The narratives about automation and its impact on jobs go from urgent to hopeful and everything in between.
Regardless of where you land, it's hard to argue against the idea that technologies like AI and robotics will change our economy and the nature of work in the coming years.
A recent World Economic Forum report noted that some estimates show automation could displace 75 million jobs by 2022, while at the same time creating 133 million new roles. While these estimates predict a net positive for the number of new jobs in the coming decade, displaced workers will need to learn new skills to adapt to the changes. If employees can't be retrained quickly for jobs in the changing economy, society is likely to face some degree of turmoil.
According to Bryan Talebi, CEO and founder of AI education startup Ahura AI, the same technologies erasing and creating jobs can help workers bridge the gap between the two.
Ahura is developing a product to capture biometric data from adult learners who are using computers to complete online education programs. The goal is to feed this data to an AI system that can modify and adapt their program to optimize for the most effective teaching method.
While the prospect of a computer recording and scrutinizing a learner's behavioral data will surely generate unease across a society growing more aware and uncomfortable with digital surveillance, some people may look past such discomfort if they experience improved learning outcomes. Users of the system would, in theory, have their own personalized instruction shaped specifically for their unique learning style.
And according to Talebi, their systems are showing some promise.
"Based on our early tests, our technology allows people to learn three to five times faster than traditional education," Talebi told me.
Currently, Ahura's system uses the video camera and microphone that come standard on the laptops, tablets, and mobile devices most students are using for their learning programs.
With the computer's camera Ahura can capture facial movements and micro expressions, measure eye movements, and track fidget score (a measure of how much a student moves while learning). The microphone tracks voice sentiment, and the AI leverages natural language processing to review the learner's word usage.
From this collection of data Ahura can, according to Talebi, identify the optimal way to deliver content to each individual.
For some users that might mean a video tutorial is the best style of learning, while others may benefit more from some form of experiential or text-based delivery.
"The goal is to alter the format of the content in real-time to optimize for attention and retention of the information," said Talebi. One of Ahura's main goals is to reduce the frequency with which students switch from their learning program to distractions like social media.
"We can now predict with a 60 percent confidence interval ten seconds before someone switches over to Facebook or Instagram. There's a lot of work to do to get that up to a 95 percent level, so I don't want to overstate things, but that's a promising indication that we can work to cut down on the amount of context-switching by our students," Talebi said.
Talebi repeatedly mentioned his ambition to leverage the same design principles used by Facebook, Twitter, and others to increase the time users spend on those platforms, but instead use them to design more compelling and even addictive education programs that can compete for attention with social media.
But the notion that Ahura's system could one day be used to create compelling or addictive education necessarily presses against a set of justified fears surrounding data privacy. Growing anxiety surrounding the potential to misuse user data for social manipulation is widespread.
"Of course there is a real danger, especially because we are collecting so much data about our users which is specifically connected to how they consume content. And because we are looking so closely at the ways people interact with content, it's incredibly important that this technology never be used for propaganda or to sell things to people," Talebi tried to assure me.
Unsurprisingly (and worrying), using this AI system to sell products to people is exactly where some investors' ambitions immediately turn once they learn about the company's capabilities, according to Talebi. During our discussion Talebi regularly cited the now infamous example of Cambridge Analytica, the political consulting firm hired by the Trump campaign to run a psychographically targeted persuasion campaign on the US population during the most recent presidential election.
"It's important that we don't use this technology in those ways. We're aware that things can go sideways, so we're hoping to put up guardrails to ensure our system is helping and not harming society," Talebi said.
Talebi will surely need to take real action on such a claim, but says the company is in the process of identifying a structure for an ethics review board—one that carries significant influence with similar voting authority as the executive team and the regular board.
"Our goal is to build an ethics review board that has teeth, is diverse in both gender and background but also in thought and belief structures. The idea is to have our ethics review panel ensure we're building things ethically," he said.
Data privacy appears to be an important issue for Talebi, who occasionally referenced a major competitor in the space based in China. According to a recent article from MIT Tech Review outlining the astonishing growth of AI-powered education platforms in China, data privacy concerns may be less severe there than in the West.
Ahura is currently developing upgrades to an early alpha-stage prototype, but is already capturing data from students from at least one Ivy League school and a variety of other places. Their next step is to roll out a working beta version to over 200,000 users as part of a partnership with an unnamed corporate client who will be measuring the platform's efficacy against a control group.
Going forward, Ahura hopes to add to its suite of biometric data capture by including things like pupil dilation and facial flushing, heart rate, sleep patterns, or whatever else may give their system an edge in improving learning outcomes.
As information technologies increasingly automate work, it's likely we'll also see rapid changes to our labor systems. It's also looking increasingly likely that those same technologies will be used to improve our ability to give people the right skills when they need them. It may be one way to address the challenges automation is sure to bring.
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Ahura AI is an artificial intelligence-based, one-on-one instructor. Just like a private tutor, Ahura assesses body language to help students understand the material being taught. If confused or frustrated, Ahura's AI adapts to explain the material in a different way that the student understands better. If the student is distracted or frustrated, Ahura will engage the student with more interesting material. If the student is stressed, Ahura relaxes the difficulty so the student builds confidence. Ahura is one-to-one instruction using artificial intelligence. Read more about Ahura AI at www.ahuraai.com.
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Registered in 1967 with the charity commissioner, the CM's relief fund can be used for funding cultural activities, the official said.
MUMBAI: The sanction of Rs eight lakh from Maharashtra Chief Minister's Relief Fund for a dance troupe's visit to Thailand has sparked a row with the opposition questioning the BJP-led government's "priorities" at a time when the state is reeling under severe drought.
An RTI query filed by activist Anil Galgali found that Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis approved Rs 8 lakh for a government employees dance troupe to participate in a competition in Bangkok in December. He sanctioned the sum that was transferred to Sachivalaya Gymkhana for the dance contest.
However, an official of the CMO said there is no wrongdoing in disbursing of the fund.
Registered in 1967 with the charity commissioner, the CM's relief fund can be used for funding cultural activities, the official said, amid mounting criticism of the move.
Maharashtra Congress General Secretary Sanjay Dutt said the government's priorities are flawed. "It attaches more importance to funds for dance than funds for drought," he said.
NCP spokesperson Nawab Malik told PTI that the state government "which does not have funds to help cancer and heart patients, was very prompt in giving money for the dance troupe's visit to Thailand".
The government should recover the money and if it fails to do so, Fadnavis should pay from his pocket, he said.
The Gymkhana had sought aid to send its 15-member team of government employees to enable them to participate in a dance competition in Bangkok from December 26-30.
The 5th Cultural Olympiad of Performing Arts 2015 is being held in Bangkok by Global Council of Art and Culture.
"The disbursement of the fund is made at the discretion of the Chief Minister, and in accordance with the Chief Ministers directions," said the official.
The official from CMO said the funds were granted for government employees and were not for any commercial performance. "There is no wrongdoing while disbursing the funds," he said.


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Complement-mediated Extracellular Vesicle release as a measure of endothelial dysfunction and prognostic marker for COVID-19 in peripheral blood - Letter to the Editor
Article type: Letter
Authors: Inal, Jameela; b; *
Affiliations: [a] School of Human Sciences, London Metropolitan University, London, UK | [b] School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Jameel Inal, E-mails: [email protected]; [email protected].
DOI: 10.3233/CH-200958
Journal: Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation, vol. 75, no. 4, pp. 383-386, 2020
The recent articles in Clin. Hemorheol. Microcirc. by Jung et al. [1–3], elegantly highlighted the thrombotic complications that arise in severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and discussed the role vascular injury and associated hyper inflammation play in bringing about multi-organ failure in severe disease. Coagulation and venous thromboembolism (VTE) in COVID-19 commonly presents as deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or pulmonary embolism (PE), and occurs because of inflammation, blood vessel injury and associated endothelial dysfunction. Likely contributors to this thrombotic milieu, hitherto little discussed in this COVID-19 pandemic, include Extracellular Vesicles (EVs), nanosized, cell-derived intercellular communicative vesicles, carrying proteins, bioactive lipids and miRNAs. Endothelial cell- (EC-) derived EVs (EEVs) are often released because of endothelial injury [4] and also likely to contribute to this prothrombotic environment. Whilst EVs and VTE in cancer has been much described, there is a significant knowledge gap concerning EVs and VTE in infectious disease. This letter considers how, as part of ongoing inflammation, complement may be activated in SARS-CoV-2 infection and so mediate EV biogenesis. It also assesses the role procoagulant EVs play in the context of coagulopathy and VTE in COVID-19, and their potential as a prognostic peripheral blood marker.
During a viral infection, complement activation resulting in membrane attack complex- (C5b-9-) mediated damage of ECs will bring about the release of EEVs. However, in COVID-19 there are scarce few preprints describing complement activation [5], and EVs have so far only been mentioned in the literature as prospective therapeutic tools. A local prothrombotic environment is initiated early in infection (Fig. A(1)), as Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 is taken up during Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) entry, causing AngII-mediated activation of ECs, platelets and the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines. Triggering of complement via MBL recognition of damaged cells, such as ECs (Fig. A(2)), in COVID-19, would generate the Lectin Pathway (LP)/Classical Pathway (CP) C3 convertase on these cells, Ca2+-mediated release of EVs (Fig. A(3 and 4iii)) and release of anaphylatoxins, C3a and C5a. Besides recruiting inflammatory cells, C3a/C5a activate ECs and platelets, promoting proinflammatory cytokine release, coagulation and TF expression [6], as does MBL-associated Serine Protease (MASP-1) cleavage of Protease-Activated Receptor 4 on ECs [7].
Fig. A(1)
Fig. Extracellular Vesicles and coagulopathy in COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 stimulate endocytosis via angiotensis-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), initiates the release of proinflammatory cytokines and induces endothelial damage (1). Complement is activated (2). The resulting Ca2+ influx (3) through deposited C5b-9 (and the SARS-CoV-2 E-protein Ca2+ channel from ERGIC/ER, not shown) results in a Ca2+ mediated Extracellular Vesicle (EV) release. (4): (i) Weibel Palade Body exocytosis releasing vWF and CD63+/CD9–/CD81– small EVs; (ii) MultiVesicular Body exocytosis releasing CD63+/CD9+/CD81+ small EVs; (iii) release of plasma membrane-derived medium EVs carrying coagulation proteins. In severe COVID-19 (A), where there is increased circulating EV levels, with their known function in coagulopathy, EVs could play an important role in COVID-related deaths through VTE. Coagulation factors including vWF, and EVs with more procoagulant morphalogies, as markers of endothelial damage, are released during severe COVID-19 (A) as opposed to those released during recovery (B).
As for SARS-CoV infection, where autoantibodies are formed against cryptic autoantigens, revealed upon endothelial damage [8], in SARS-CoV-2 infection, where endothelialitis occurs [9], similar autoantibodies must stimulate CP-mediated complement activation and release of EEVs (Fig. A(2–4)). With certain viral infections, a transitory increase in pathogenic anti-phospholipid (aPL) antibodies (APLA) may occur, and if present in COVID-19, result in thrombotic complications. Recently, three COVID-19 patients with advanced coagulopathy and several cerebral infarctions were found to have aPL antibodies (anticardiolipin IgA and anti-β2-glycoprotein I IgA and IgG) [10]. Although the anti-β2GPI IgG suggests autoantibodies present before COVID-19, it is also likely that the anti-β2GPI component of APLA stimulates EV release from ECs [11], monocytes and platelets. The implication of antiphospholipid syndrome could explain the coagulopathy, damage to ECs and cerebral ischaemia, as seen in severe COVID-19.
EVs budding from the EC plasma membrane (medium EVs [mEVs] or microvesicles), expressing E-selectin (CD62E+), tissue factor (TF+) and other coagulation factors, are known to be raised in patients with cancer/autoimmune disease and associated VTE [12]. They may also be raised in infectious diseases as in meningococcal sepsis, where prothrombotic events are common, and where raised TF+-EVs are derived from monocytes stimulated by endotoxin [13]. In severe COVID-19, which may lead to acute respiratory distress syndrome, sepsis, septic shock and eventual death, raised TF+-EVs are also likely. However, besides EVs stimulating thrombosis through TF-dependent mechanisms, in COVID-19, their procoagulant nature is also due to phosphatidylserine (PtdSer) exposed on the outer leaflet of the EV lipid bilayer. With exposed negatively charged PtdSer, EEVs and platelet-derived EVs (PEVs) are able to electrostatically bind various cationic coagulation cascade proteins.
Markers of EC injury and inflammation such as circulating EVs, but also including vWF and Factor VIII [14], all important contributors to coagulopathy, VTE and increased mortality, are largely raised in COVID-19 [14]. Besides furthering understanding of pathology and mortality risk in COVID-19, this capacity to measure EC dysfunction in the systemic vasculature (Fig. A(4)), namely EEVs with associated surface-bound coagulation factors (prothrombin and factors VII, IX and X) and vWF, could be used for stratification of COVID-19 severity or clinical prognosis in treatment (comparing dysfunctional endothelium (Fig. A) with convalescent endothelium (Fig. B)). Other EEV phenotypes which are useful in stratification of thrombotic disorders and could similarly be used in monitoring clinical progression of COVID-19 include CD31 (PECAM-1)/CD105 (endoglin) markers of myocardial infarction/acute coronary syndromes and CD54 (ICAM-1)/CD63E (E-selectin)/CD105 (endoglin), markers of acute ischaemic stroke.
Recently however, some exciting new markers of endothelial injury have emerged. This includes CD63+ small EVs (sEVs or exosomes), discovered in Weibel-Palade bodies (WPBs) as intraluminal vesicles [15]. Released from ECs following endothelial injury, during WPB exocytosis, along with vWF and P-selectin (Fig. A(4i), WPB-sEVs have a unique molecular signature (CD63+/CD9–/CD81–). Importantly, these WPB-derived sEVs are distinguishable from sEVs (CD63+/CD9+/CD81+) constitutively released through exocytosis of multivesicular bodies (Fig. A(4ii) and B). As WPB-derived sEVs are only released with vWF upon WPB exocytosis, they could represent an excellent novel marker of endothelial dysfunction in COVID-19. PEVs already make ideal diagnostic markers of PE; as specific EVs can be immunoaffinity purified from plasma [16] and generally make optimal diagnostic tools for non-invasive liquid biopsy [17], EEV phenotypes typical of thrombotic disorders, should now be used as an important new predictive biomarker monitoring disease progression and therapy response in COVID-19 patients.
The author confirms to be the sole contributor to this manuscript.
The author confirms there are no conflicts of interest.
Jung F , Krüger-Genge A , Franke RP , Hufert F , Küpper JH . COVID-19 and the endothelium. Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation. 2020;75(1):7–11.
Jung EM , Stroszczynski C , Jung F . Contrast enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS) to detect abdominal microcirculatory disorders in severe cases of COVID-19 infection: First experience. Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation. 2020;74(4):353–61.
Jung EM , Stroszczynski C , Jung F . Contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) to assess pleural pulmonal changes in severe COVID-19 infection: First results. Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation. 2020;75(1):19–26.
Jung KH , Chu K , Lee ST , Park HK , Bahn JJ , Kim DH , et al. Circulating endothelial microparticles as a marker of cerebrovascular disease. Annals of Neurology. 2009;66(2):191–9.
Mobini M , Ghasemian R , Larijani LV , Mataji M , Maleki I . Vasculitis-Associated Auto-antibodies and Complement Levels in patients with COVID-19 Infection. 2020.
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Megyeri M , Makó V , Beinrohr L , Doleschall Z , Prohászka Z , Cervenak L , et al. Complement protease MASP-1 activates human endothelial cells: PAR4 activation is a link between complement and endothelial function. Journal of Immunology (Baltimore, Md: 1950). 2009;183(5):3409–16.
Yang YH , Huang YH , Chuang YH , Peng CM , Wang LC , Lin YT , et al. Autoantibodies against human epithelial cells and endothelial cells after severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-associated coronavirus infection. Journal of Medical Virology. 2005;77(1):1–7.
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Zhang Y , Xiao M , Zhang S , Xia P , Cao W , Jiang W , et al. Coagulopathy and Antiphospholipid Antibodies in Patients with Covid-19. The New England Journal of Medicine. 2020;382(17):e38.
Holnthoner W , Bonstingl C , Hromada C , Muehleder S , Zipperle J , Stojkovic S , et al. Endothelial Cell-derived Extracellular Vesicles Size-dependently Exert Procoagulant Activity Detected by Thromboelastometry. Scientific Reports. 2017;7(1):3707.
Zarà M , Guidetti GF , Camera M , Canobbio I , Amadio P , Torti M , et al. Biology and Role of Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) in the Pathogenesis of Thrombosis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2019;20(11).
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01/22/2012 6:57:42 PM - chargerwayne Updated Video: video title - I installed my reworked grille with rebuilt motors for the rotating headlights. This is one of the unique features of a first generation Charger. I have taken the car in one parade so far and rotated the headlights several times and watched the young kids jaws drop open !
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09/22/2011 1:14:56 PM - chargerwayne Photo Comment: Here she ids getting her wheel alignment done . She was way out and when they first put her on the machine it didn't register it being there till they adjusted it some. Now she drives great.
09/22/2011 1:14:54 PM - chargerwayne Photo Comment: Here she ids getting her wheel alignment done . She was way out and when they first put her on the machine it didn't register it being there till they adjusted it some. Now she drives great.
09/22/2011 1:12:52 PM - chargerwayne Photo Comment: I installed the electric motors for the hideaway headlights but my buddy still hasn't painted my grille parts yet. So if I do go out to shows I'm always the first to leave before it gets dark. I've been reassured by him he will get them done for me.
09/22/2011 1:0:36 PM - chargerwayne Photo Comment: Engine bay up and running. The brand new heater core dumped coolant into the floor the first time I ran the engine so I just looped it for now. The Demon Carb was pretty easy to set up once I read the directions about 10 times. Set the timing and adjusted the Carb with a vacuum gauge . She definitely runs good now.
09/22/2011 12:28:06 PM - chargerwayne Photo Comment: Back at Home Just as pretty as a picture ready for me to start reassembly.
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09/22/2011 12:3:34 PM - chargerwayne Photo Comment: Then they sent it back to me to put it back on its wheels So I installed the suspension and K frame and the rear end.