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I'd be surprised if many Sideereal elders are even higher than Essence 6 when it comes about.
Yeah, considering that a handful of the greatest and most powerful Lunars who remember the First Age are Essence 6, and likely none are Essence 7, I imagine that's pretty much the same for the Sidereals.
If they decide that Chejop should have the highest Essence of any Exalt in the game, it'll probably be 7, not the 9 he had in 2e. But I think there's a good chance even he will only have Essence 6.
Raksi is Essence 7 as of the Lunars Kickstarter preview. In practice this just means she has larger mote pools than Lilith or Ma-Ha-Suchi as they each only get one unique "Elder Prowess" charm, but they don't seem to be making Essence 6 the absolute cutoff. I'd expect to see Chejop at 7 based on that, but if they want to make him the highest Essence Exalt rather than equal highest he'd need to be at least 8.
Originally posted by Speedbump View Post
He's likely not the highest Essence Exalt; Rakan Thulio seems like a better candidate, considering he is at least the oldest Exalt alive. I'd say Chejop and people like Anys Syn would hit 7, like Raksi. And Rakan about 8, tops, if he's given the highest Essence. Otherwise a 7 as well.
Originally posted by Alistair View Post
Essence doesn't have a lot of this "You're this old, you get this Essence" this edition. It's much more about personal development at 6+ and how much the indivdiual thinks that becoming more attune to their Essence will better how they want to do things. Chejob seems much more to me as a workaholic more interest in managing material and temporal issues, rather than high minded esoterica that I think greater Essence is implied to work with.
He had Essence 10 in previous editions in part beucase Essence was assumed to just be maxed-out for the assumed age of a particular character whenever possible, rather than having anything to do with actual interest in such things by the indivdiual.
Essence doesn't have a lot of this "You're this old, you get this Essence" this edition.
That's not actually been the reality of the situation in any edition. First and second edition are full of NPCs who haven't achieved the optimal essence for their age, it's just that it tended to be used to reafirm that NPC write-ups sucked.
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Essence doesn't have a lot of this "You're this old, you get this Essence" this edition. It's much more about personal development at 6+ and how much the indivdiual thinks that becoming more attune to their Essence will better how they want to do things. Chejob seems much more to me as a workaholic more interest in managing material and temporal issues, rather than high minded esoterica that I think greater Essence is implied to work with.
I'd have to check, but I'm pretty sure that in 2nd ed he had Essence 9. Which surprised people, but IIRC the point was that he was too busy, and too invested in his own ideology to achieve true perfect enlightenment.
Is he still much older than her? Not saying he isn't, but I am wondering if either of their ages are mentioned anywhere.
Originally posted by Lioness View Post
I mostly remember for a lot of 1e and 2e a lot of what felt liek infalted Essence stants. You had a lot of 5s about for anyone who was decently old, and then you had basically everyone over 100 as Essence 6, many Essence 7s and 8s about. 2e in particular I remember having a lot of 8-10 NPCs around, including Chejob specifically as a result of what I sitll was a view that 5,000 years old = has to be Essence 10.
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He's still 5000 according to his chapter fiction. I don't think we've got an age on TQoF this edition.
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Considering he's much older than raksi he should be at least at 8.
There are probably a few Lunars who are noticeably older than Raksi that are Essence 4.
Chejop is probably quite puissant among the Exalted, but that's not going to be because of his age, but because he's a significnt architect of the Usurpation, the major guiding hand of the Realm through the Immaculate Order, and just has a general demeanour of "I have to take responsibility for ensuring the continued future of everything", as we see in his core book chapter fiction.
You can probably be Essence 6 when you're about 150 if you manage to achieve a legend of grandeur and distinction even by the standards of the Exalted.
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Originally posted by Isator Levi View Post
I asked Vance a while ago about the Essence scores of surviving First Age elders once, as I was wondering if Essence 5 was a pretty reasonable score for a First Age Lunar (the ones in the book have Essence 6+, but they're particularly famous ones), and he said not all First Age Lunars are even Essence 5. And if Raksi's still one of the youngest First Age Elders, that does indeed mean there's Lunars older than her who are Essence 4.
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Hmmmm.....
I think I wouldn't want this to be a thing that really happens much in the setting; I really like the chart in the corebook that suggests most Exalts of a few hundred years are still Essence 3. (It's important because of how there's literally thousands of Dragonblood who are a few hundred years old.)
But theoretically possible yes, because I'm sure some ST somewhere is going to have a game where the players reach 1000xp when they've been exalted for like 10 years, and is going to think about maybe giving them Essence 6.
I mean, in the game I play, the PCs already have nearly 500xp, solidly into Essence 5, and they've been exalted for 1-30 years. Obviously I don't want them to go up to 6 (they can just fill out into different areas), but if we're still playing this game in 5 years, then I don't see a reason the game should tell the ST that they can't be Essence 6, if that's he wants to do.
I think I wouldn't want this to be a thing that really happens much in the setting
Neither do I. Grandeur and distinction by the standards of all Exalted shouldn't come cheap.


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Vince Marcucci, Assistant General Manager | Birthday: December 28th | Hometown: Woodstown, NJ
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Q: .NET 4.5 File.Copy ok, but file does not exist strange behaviour in our production environment, these days.
I have the following:
try {
    var sourcePath = ... // my source path
    var destinationPath = ... // guess what? You're right, my destination path

    File.Copy(sourcePath, destinationPath);
    Log.Debug(string.Format("Image {0} copied successfully", imagename));
}
catch(Exception e) {
    // exception handling
}

Both source and destination path are on a network share, a folder on an other (virtual) machine with a large number of files (> 500k).
From the last 2 days, the code above runs, logs the last line (the one stating that image  have been copied), but if I check in the destination folder, the supposed destination file does not exist.
I thought that for any I/O error File.Copy would raise an exception, so this thing is driving me mad.
Please note that other code parts that write files in that folder are working correctly. Also, note that all files names are unique (business code not included for brevity is making sure of that), and I think an exception would be thrown or the file would be at least overwritten, in that case.
Has anyone faced the same problem? Possible causes? Any solution?
EDIT 2016-07-01 15:12 (GMT+0200)
Ok, folks, apparently files aren't being deleted at all... simply for apparently no reason at all, after they are copied they're left open in read+write mode from the client connected user.
I found this trying running the reader application on my computer, in debug mode, and trying to open one of the files i knew that were copied recently.
I got an exception stating that the file was opened by someone else, and that seemed weird to me.
Opening Computer Management in the remote server (the one which stores the files), then going to Shared Folders > Open Files, I found that the file was left open in read+write mode from the impersonated user that the web application that copies the files is impersonating to do that job.
Also a whole bunch of other files where in the same conditions, and many others where open in read mode.
I found also in Shared Folders > Sessions, an astronomical long list of session of the impersonated user, all with long idle time.
Since impersonation is used only to copy the files, and then is disposed, I shouldn't expect that, right?
I think maybe there is a problem in the way we impersonate the user during file copy, linked to the large number of files in the destination folder.
I'll check that.
END EDIT
Thanks,
Claudio Valerio

A: Found a solution, I think.
My problem was the code used for impersonating the user with write permissions on the destination folder.
(In my defence, all this project have been inherited from previous software company, and it's pretty massive, so keeping an eye on everything isn't that easy)
The impersonation process was wrapped in a class implementing IDisposable
public class Impersonator :
    IDisposable
{
    public Impersonator()
    {
        string userName = // get username from config
        string password = // get password from config
        string domainName = // get domain from config
        ImpersonateValidUser(userName, domainName, password);
    }

    public void Dispose()
    {
        UndoImpersonation();
    }

    [DllImport("advapi32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
    private static extern int LogonUser(
        string lpszUserName,
        string lpszDomain,
        string lpszPassword,
        int dwLogonType,
        int dwLogonProvider,
        ref IntPtr phToken);

    [DllImport("advapi32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, SetLastError = true)]
    private static extern int DuplicateToken(
        IntPtr hToken,
        int impersonationLevel,
        ref IntPtr hNewToken);

    [DllImport("advapi32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, SetLastError = true)]
    private static extern bool RevertToSelf();

    [DllImport("kernel32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
    private static extern bool CloseHandle(
        IntPtr handle);

    private const int LOGON32_LOGON_INTERACTIVE = 2;
    private const int LOGON32_PROVIDER_DEFAULT = 0;

    private void ImpersonateValidUser(
        string userName,
        string domain,
        string password)
    {
        WindowsIdentity tempWindowsIdentity = null;
        IntPtr token = IntPtr.Zero;
        IntPtr tokenDuplicate = IntPtr.Zero;

        try
        {
            if (RevertToSelf())
            {
                if (LogonUser(
                    userName,
                    domain,
                    password,
                    LOGON32_LOGON_INTERACTIVE,
                    LOGON32_PROVIDER_DEFAULT,
                    ref token) != 0)
                {
                    if (DuplicateToken(token, 2, ref tokenDuplicate) != 0)
                    {
                        tempWindowsIdentity = new WindowsIdentity(tokenDuplicate);
                        impersonationContext = tempWindowsIdentity.Impersonate();
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        throw new Win32Exception(Marshal.GetLastWin32Error());
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    throw new Win32Exception(Marshal.GetLastWin32Error());
                }
            }
            else
            {
                throw new Win32Exception(Marshal.GetLastWin32Error());
            }
        }
        finally
        {
            if (token != IntPtr.Zero)
            {
                CloseHandle(token);
            }
            if (tokenDuplicate != IntPtr.Zero)
            {
                CloseHandle(tokenDuplicate);
            }
        }
    }

    private void UndoImpersonation()
    {
        if (impersonationContext != null)
        {
            impersonationContext.Undo();
        }
    }

    private WindowsImpersonationContext impersonationContext = null;

}

This class is used this way:
using(new Impersonator())
{
    // do stuff with files in here
}

My suspect was that closing the handlers of the impersonated user, somehow, it could break something in the way that windows handles file open by the impersonated user through a network share, as in my case, leaving shared files open in read+write mode, preventing any other process/user to open them.
I modified the Impersonator class as follows:
public class Impersonator :
    IDisposable
{
    public Impersonator()
    {
        string userName = // get username from config
        string password = // get password from config
        string domainName = // get domain from config
        ImpersonateValidUser(userName, domainName, password);
    }

    public void Dispose()
    {
        UndoImpersonation();
        impersonationContext.Dispose();
    }

    [DllImport("advapi32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
    private static extern int LogonUser(
        string lpszUserName,
        string lpszDomain,
        string lpszPassword,
        int dwLogonType,
        int dwLogonProvider,
        ref IntPtr phToken);

    [DllImport("advapi32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, SetLastError = true)]
    private static extern int DuplicateToken(
        IntPtr hToken,
        int impersonationLevel,
        ref IntPtr hNewToken);

    [DllImport("advapi32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, SetLastError = true)]
    private static extern bool RevertToSelf();

    [DllImport("kernel32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
    private static extern bool CloseHandle(
        IntPtr handle);

    private const int LOGON32_LOGON_INTERACTIVE = 2;
    private const int LOGON32_PROVIDER_DEFAULT = 0;

    private void ImpersonateValidUser(
        string userName,
        string domain,
        string password)
    {
        WindowsIdentity tempWindowsIdentity = null;
        token = IntPtr.Zero;
        tokenDuplicate = IntPtr.Zero;

        try
        {
            if (RevertToSelf())
            {
                if (LogonUser(
                    userName,
                    domain,
                    password,
                    LOGON32_LOGON_INTERACTIVE,
                    LOGON32_PROVIDER_DEFAULT,
                    ref token) != 0)
                {
                    if (DuplicateToken(token, 2, ref tokenDuplicate) != 0)
                    {
                        tempWindowsIdentity = new WindowsIdentity(tokenDuplicate);
                        impersonationContext = tempWindowsIdentity.Impersonate();
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        throw new Win32Exception(Marshal.GetLastWin32Error());
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    throw new Win32Exception(Marshal.GetLastWin32Error());
                }
            }
            else
            {
                throw new Win32Exception(Marshal.GetLastWin32Error());
            }
        }
        finally
        {
        }
    }

    private void UndoImpersonation()
    {
        try
        {
            if (impersonationContext != null)
            {
                impersonationContext.Undo();
            }
        }
        finally
        {
            if (token != IntPtr.Zero)
            {
                CloseHandle(token);
            }
            if (tokenDuplicate != IntPtr.Zero)
            {
                CloseHandle(tokenDuplicate);
            }
        }
    }

    private WindowsImpersonationContext impersonationContext = null;
    private IntPtr token;
    private IntPtr tokenDuplicate;

}

Basically I moved the handlers closing in the UndoImpersonation method. Also I had a doubt about leaving the impersonationContext not explicitly disposed, si I disposed it in the Dispose method of the Impersonator class.
Since I put in production this update, I hadn't any other issue with this code, and not any other shared file left open in read+write mode on the destination server.
Maybe not the optimal solution (I still have a whole bunch of sessions in Computer Management > Shared Folders > Sessions, but this seems not harming the system, for now.
If anyone have some additional comment, suggestion or depth study about this situation, I will be please to read.
Thanks,
Claudio

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Frederick W. Lanchester Prize: Winner(s)
The 1992 Frederick W. Lanchester Prize was awarded to a group of five authors who have worked collectively on a long-term research program aimed at establishing a theoretical foundation for primal-dual interior point methods for linear programming and its generalization to linear complementarity problems.
The authors Masakazu Kojima and Toshihito Noma of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nimrod Megiddo of the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., Shinji Mizuno of Wuerzburg University in Germany, and Akiko Yoshise of the University of TsuLuba in Japan were recognized for a collection of 11 articles, including the monograph entitled A Unified Approach to Interior Point Algorithms for Linear Complementarity Problems, which appeared in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, published by Springer Verlag in 1991. The other papers were:
N. Megiddo (1989) "Pathways to the Optimal Set in Linear Programming", in: N. Megiddo, ed., Progress in Mathematical Programming: Interior Point and Related Methods, Springer-Verlag, New York) 131-158.
M. Kojima, S. Mizuno and A. Yoshise (1989) "A Primal-Dual Interior Point Algorithm for Linear Programming", in: N. Megiddo, ed., Progress in Mathematical Programming: Interior Point and Related Methods (Springer-Verlag, New York) 29-47.
M. Kojima, S. Mizuno and A. Yoshise (1989) "A Polynomial-Time Algorithm for a Class of Linear Complementarity Problems", Mathematical Programming, Vol.44, 1-26.
M. Kojima, S. Mizuno and A. Yoshise (1991) "An O(sqrt{n}) Iteration Potential Reduction Algorithm for Linear Complementarity Problems", Mathematical Programming, Vol. 50, 331-342.
M. Kojima, N. Megiddo, T. Noma and A. Yoshise (1991) "A Unified Approach to Interior Point Algorithms for Linear Complementarity Problems", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 538, Springer-Verlag.
M. Kojima, N. Megiddo and S. Mizuno (1993) "Theoretical Convergence of Large-Step Primal-Dual Interior Point Algorithms for Linear Programming", Mathematical Programming, Vol. 59, 1-22.
M. Kojima, N. Megiddo and S. Mizuno (1993) "A Primal-Dual Infeasible-Interior-Point Algorithm for Linear Programming", Mathematical Programming, Vol. 61, 263-280.
N. Megiddo (1991) "On Finding Primal- and Dual-Pptimal bases", ORSA Journal on Computing, Vol.3, 63-65.
M. Kojima, S. Mizuno and T, Noma (1989) "A New Continuation Method for Complementarity Problems with Uniform P-Functions", Mathematical Programming, Vol.43, 107-113.
M. Kojima, N. Megiddo and S. Mizuno (1993) "A General Framework of Continuation Methods for Complementarity Problems", Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 18, 945-963.
M. Kojima, N. Megiddo and T. Noma (1991) "Homotopy Continuation Methods for onlinear Complementarity Problems", Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 16, 754-774.
The citation says, in part, that their "... research has been at the forefront of the very extensive literature on interior point algorithms, which originated with the method of Karmarkar. While their work is mostly theoretical and motivated by complexity issues, it applies to practical algorithms of great economic significance in the solution of a very large-scale LP problems.
"In particular, their monograph not only provides a unified treatment of several important algorithms for the LCP, but also introduces a new matrix class important for such problems. The work is a tour de force in both the generality and power of the results and covers a very wide range of algorithms and problems; in addition, the exposition is excellent."
INFORMS Computing Society Prize: First Place


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Toward a Shared Definition ...
Toward a Shared Definition of Scholarly Writing Styles: A Call to Action for Readers, Writers, and Reviewers
September/October 2015, Volume :40 Number 5 , page 220 - 223 [Free]
Heinrich, Kathleen T. PhD, RN, FAAN
What is a scholarly writing style? If you're not quite sure, here's a for instance. Were you tempted to cross out the contraction you're, the second word in the previous sentence, and change it to you are? Then this article has already violated 1 of your stylistic standards for good scholarly writing-no contractions. Which brings us back to the original question: What is a scholarly writing style? Thomas and Turner1(p10) liken writing styles to "the typeface in which a text is printed. We may overlook it and frequently do, but it is always there." As precise definitions elude, the simplest way to define style is to differentiate it from substance. If substance is what you write about, then style is how you write about it.
In the midst of a cultural shift accelerated by the Internet, a single standard for scholarly writing is giving way to a divergence of styles. Yet academics, as a group, fear that attending to style shifts the focus from substantive content to form and leads to scholarly writing that colleagues consider unserious.2 Given this shared concern, why should you-as a reader, writer, or reviewer for Nurse Educator (NE)-care about scholarly writing styles? Because your reading pleasure and NE's future may depend on it.
With the stakes so high, let's be clear. Substance is not what lures you to read journal articles on unlikely topics, what softens your preconceived notions with a compelling sequence of complex ideas simply stated, or what leaves you seeing the world differently. Only stylish scholarly writing can make that happen. Unfortunately, stylish scholarly writing is in short supply. Experts agree the gap is growing between what readers call good writing and what's being published.2-4 Editors and reviewers commiserate over the sorry state of manuscripts being submitted to nursing journals across the board. So it's timely, during NE's 40th anniversary, to spark an exchange of ideas about the writing style(s) that best communicate everything from novel teaching strategies to the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL).
After showing how NE reviewers' diverse views on scholarly writing styles mirror the style wars that are splintering academic disciplines and the culture at large into factions, this article shares some of the latest thinking on writing styles. My intent is to empower readers, writers, and reviewers to generate a shared definition of scholarly writing styles that make NE articles enlightening and entertaining to read, a pleasure to write, and a delight to review.
What Do Mixed NE Reviews Say About Scholarly Writing Style Preferences?
Have you ever submitted a manuscript sure it would be accepted only to have journal reviewers disagree with you and with each other? That's exactly what happened to a recent paper of mine, even though, as a long-time NE contributor and reviewer, I thought I knew a winning manuscript when I wrote one.
In reading the reviews, the first reviewer's comments were as expected, "The style is quite informal, using first and second person and including contractions. Given the nature of the topic, which emphasizes personal connection, the informal, conversational style fits the message." This reviewer recommended publication with minor revisions. A warning bell sounded when another reviewer suggested adding, "more scholarly references such as from the field of communication. Your ideas are worthy, but might be better in a short column in a different journal. It does not fit for a scholarly journal such as Nurse Educator." The third reviewer, after an encouraging opening sentence, voiced similar concerns, "The topic is interesting and relevant. The important points are not supported with references, and there is no clear argument developed. It is not appropriate for publication in a journal."
The editorial decision was accept with revisions that included adding citations and omitting some of the personal reflections as 2 reviewers "did not think this paper was a good fit for a scholarly journal and was too focused on the author's development and experience." Why the difference between the first reviewer's comments and recommendations and those of the other 2 reviewers?
Is There One Good Scholarly Writing Style or Many?
Teaching and learning are intimate activities and localized practices. When studied at close range, which is almost always, findings cannot be generalized. How then are teacher-scholars to advance the knowledge base when the prevailing scholarly writing style precludes personal sharing? Not to mention that an impersonal style is at odds with the conversational write-ups of SoTL projects in publications from The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as well as in the higher education literature.
After sharing these concerns with the editor, she asked that I write this article. In the course of my research, it became clear that the controversy over scholarly writing styles goes well beyond this journal and well beyond nursing. The debate playing out in academe and within the larger culture is this: Is there only 1 acceptable scholarly writing style, or are there many? This is far from a new question because the history of language is, according to Elbow, "a continual tug of war between divergence and standardization."3( p366)
From this perspective, the first reviewer on my NE manuscript is a stand-in for those on the side of divergence. For them, stylish scholarly writing has more to do with making intelligent choices-matching message and style-than with following rules,2 whereas the other reviewers represent those with a standardized view of good scholarly writing. They equate scholarship with rules such as writing in the third person, eschewing personal stories and narratives, and posing arguments liberally cited with scholarly references.
Where's the Divide When It Comes to Scholarly Writing Styles?
The polar opposites for those with a standardized definition of scholarly writing are both-ands for those with a divergent view. From a standardized point of view, for example, good scholarly writing enlightens, whereas a divergent perspective allows for scholarly writing that both enlightens and entertains. This section explores 3 polarities that separate these stylistic camps and shares thought leaders' perspectives on each one.
Should Scholarly Writing Styles Distance or Engage Readers?
From the time we learned to hold a pen, we were taught to write school papers in the third person. Many nurses associate writing in the third person with scholarship and continue this practice for the whole of their careers. Some who try first-person writing worry that owning their own ideas, rather than hiding behind vague references to the author, renders them more vulnerable to criticism.
Writing in the third person distances authors from readers, whereas writing in the first person-using personal pronouns like I, you, and we-connects authors and readers. While wanting nursing scholarship to be taken seriously by the scientific community may be driving third-person writing, Chinn5(p1) writes that scholarly discourse is actually inhibited by the "[horizontal ellipsis]outdated idea that the use of first-person pronouns is forbidden."
Outdated is the operative word here. The APA Publication Manual endorsed the use of personal pronouns in social science writing in 1974.6 The AMA Manual of Style, the format used in NE, does so implicitly.7 As early as 1976, Zinsser8 pointed out that good writers make science accessible by "being themselves" and writing in the first person with warmth and humanity. These days, most academic disciplines allow first-person pronouns in scholarly journals, and this includes medical journals.2
Should Scholarly Writing Styles Enlighten or Entertain Readers?
Those of the standardized persuasion view personal story and narrative with suspicion because it nudges scholarly writing closer to the bright lights and glitz of entertainment. This goes to explaining why NE reviewers considered my manuscript unsuitable for a scholarly journal: too much storytelling (entertainment) and too little argument (enlightenment).
Yet, Sword's2 review of 100 style guides revealed that the telling of stories and the weaving of compelling narratives are a signature of good academic writing. Anecdotal evidence supports this. When she interviewed faculty across disciplines, they agreed it was tough to stay with scholarly articles that don't engage them in the conversation. From this, Sword2 concluded that good scholarly writing shows and tells through narrative as well as text.
In other words, good scholarly writing both enlightens and entertains readers. This stance calls into question academics and journalists' damning, either-or views of each other's writing styles. When academics refer to a paper as journalistic, it's code for superficial and unsubstantiated; when journalists call a paper academic, what they really mean is that it's jargon-laden and impenetrable.
Should Scholarly Writing Styles Stimulate Critical Thinking or Creative Juices?
Even though nursing is both an art and a science, nursing journals typically favor scientific writing that stimulates critical thinking and undervalue artful writing that inspires creativity. Sword2(p123) explains this by observing, "disciplinary cultures that value creative expression encourage and reward creatively structured scholarship, whereas disciplinary cultures that privilege scientific rigor encourage and reward structural rigor."
By way of example, research articles in nursing journals follow the conventional structure known as IMRAD (introduction, methods, results, and discussion) written in what is called a practical style. According to Pinker,9( p14) practical style "allows the reader to acquire timely information with a minimum of distraction, because writing is an instrument for delivering information with maximum efficiency and in such a way as to place the least burden on the reader."
Even though practical stylists value clarity and directness, Pinker9(p7) encourages them to write with flair by forgoing "plain words, austere expression, and formal style." Sword2(p73) suggests scholarly writers enliven articles with words that are vibrant and active, rather than predictable and jargon-y, and with titles as creative as they are descriptive. Dispelling the myth that scientific papers must have serious titles to be taken seriously, she offers inventive titles such as "Idioms Are Oblivious, Arrows Are Meticulous, Monads Are Promiscuous" as a testimony to the disruptive thinking that constellates innovation.
What Do Scholarly Writing Styles That Cross the Divide Look Like?
The NE Web site invites authors to contribute with a self-description, "Continuing its rich tradition of disseminating relevant, timely, and practical articles, Nurse Educator is now also inviting manuscripts on research in nursing education." What scholarly writing style(s) befit a specialty journal for nursing faculty that also publishes SoTL projects? This section excerpts 3 SoTL articles along with a scholarly writing style scorecard that relays the emphasis each one places on distancing versus engaging, enlightening versus entertaining, and stimulating critical thinking versus inspiring creativity.
Oermann's10 article, "Defining and Assessing the Scholarship of Teaching in Nursing," is a good example of the practical writing style. In an opening sentence as precise and efficient as her title, she writes, "Scholarship is essential to nursing education and the teacher's role: it is through the scholarly work of nurse educators that we expand our knowledge about student learning and identify best practices for promoting their learning and development."10( p370) Written for readers who want to understand SoTL well and quickly, this style fits the message. Italicized items on the scorecard reflect this article's emphasis on each polarity:
* Distance/Engage: draws readers closer with the personal pronoun "we"
* Enlighten/Entertain: congruent with the practical style, this article enlightens
* Stimulate Critical Thinking/Creativity
Benner and her colleagues' seminal text, Educating Nurses: A Call for Radical Transformation, follows the conversational writing style used by other Carnegie Foundation studies of professional education. Past President Schulman's foreword is written in this style, "From my vantage point in the kitchen, I take this occasion to reflect on our studies of nursing education though the lens of all the other studies we conducted."11(p ix) The coauthors integrate a practical style with Benner's12 paradigm case approach to connect with readers using personal pronouns (we, our) and narratives in the form of cases, vignettes, and stories. This style fits their message. The scorecard conveys the relative emphasis placed on polarities in this article:
* Distance/Engage: draws readers closer using personal pronouns
* Enlighten/Entertain: uses paradigm cases to entertain and enlighten
Two English professors, Berg and Seeber,13 describe a SoTL project in "The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy." Their title is a take-off on the Slow Food Movement, and their scholarly writing style is warmed with a human touch, "In the current global context-in which universities are faced more than ever with justifying their existence-to speak of professors' stress might appear self-indulgent. Indeed, some colleagues have suggested that we stop whining, while others have described our project as brave."13(p3) This style fits the message. This article's scorecard?
* Enlighten/Entertain
Although all 3 articles are written in the practical style, they engage readers through the use of personal pronouns. Only the last 2 use storytelling and narrative to enlighten and entertain as well as to stimulate critical thinking and creativity.
Implications and Action Steps
Is there room in a nursing journal such as NE for a variety of scholarly writing styles? The answer is yes. As evidenced by the foregoing exemplars, a divergence of styles allow for a richer reading experience. Given the split over divergence and standardization, however, a dialogue is needed to explore NE readers', writers', and reviewers' perspectives on scholarly writing styles. Three action steps for sparking such a dialogue follow:
* Make Stylish Academic Writing,2 an exquisitely researched and evidence-based guidebook, required reading for all NE reviewers.
* Poll readers and authors to determine what types of articles, also known as scholarly writing styles, they want to see published in NE.
* Convene reviewers for a dialogue informed by readers' poll findings and by their reading of Stylish Academic Writing2 to surface a shared definition of scholarly writing styles suitable for a journal that publishes both practical application and educational research articles.
The loosening of standardization and trend toward divergence in scholarly writing styles reflects a larger social movement being driven by an Internet that's empowering people across the globe to write with vernacular eloquence.3 Because this trend is as inevitable as it is unstoppable, only 1 question matters. Will NE publish a range of articles with formats that match scholarly writing style and message or enforce a single, standardized definition of style? A definition that will, in all likelihood, cost NE relevance along with readership. This article argues in favor of readers, writers, and reviewers embracing an expanded definition of scholarly writing styles that make for NE articles that are a joy to read, a pleasure to write, and a delight to review.
With gratitude to Drs Kim Belcik, Diane Monsivais, and Leli Pedro for their compassionate critiques.
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2. Sword D. Stylish Academic Writing. Boston MA: Harvard University Press; 2012. [Context Link]
3. Elbow P. Vernacular Eloquence: What Speech Can Bring to Writing. New York: Oxford University Press; 2012. [Context Link]
4. Pinker S. Why academic writing stinks and how to fix it. The Chronicle of Higher Education.Available at http://www.Chronicle.com. Published 2014. Accessed April 1, 2015. [Context Link]
5. Chinn P. Reflections on scholarly discourse. Nurs Author Editor 25( 1). Available at http://www.nurseauthor&editor.com. Published 2015. Accessed April 1, 2015. [Context Link]
6. American Psychological Association. Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. 6th ed. Washington, DC: The American Psychological Association; 2010. [Context Link]
7. AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors. 10th ed. Oxford: Oxford UP; 2009. [Context Link]
8. Zinsser W. On Writing Well: An Informal Guide to Writing Non-fiction. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers; 1976. [Context Link]
9. Pinker S. The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21rst Century. New York: Viking; 2014. [Context Link]
10. Oermann MH. Defining and assessing the scholarship of teaching in nursing. J Prof Nurs. 2014; 30( 5): 370-375. [Context Link]
11. Benner P, Suthphen M, Leonard V, Day L. Educating Nurses: A Call for Radical Transformation. Preparation for the Professions. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass; 2008. [Context Link]
12. Benner P. The role of articulation in understanding practice and experience as sources of knowledge in clinical nursing. In: Tully J, ed. Philosophy in an Age of Pluralism: The Philosophy of Charles Taylor in Question. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1994: 1136-1155. [Context Link]
13. Berg M, Seeber BK. The slow professor: challenging the culture of speed in the academy. Transformative Dialogues Teaching and Learning Journal. 2013; 6( 3): 1-7. [Context Link]


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## Installation

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```
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```

## Usage

Usage is the same as The League's OAuth client, using `\AdamPaterson\OAuth2\Client\Provider\Rdio` as the provider.

### Authorization Code Flow

session_start();

```php
<?php
$provider = new \AdamPaterson\OAuth2\Client\Provider\Rdio([
    'clientId'          => '{rdio-client-id}',
    'clientSecret'      => '{rdio-client-secret}',
    'redirectUri'       => 'https://example.com/callback-url',
]);

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    } catch (Exception $e) {

        // Failed to get user details
        exit('Oh dear...');
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}

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``` bash
$ ./vendor/bin/phpunit
```

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UHC administered self-insured health plan, AT&T, sued in federal court for embezzlement, self-dealing in medical claims overpayment offset dispute.
On June 1, 2016, in the southern district of Texas Federal Court, United HealthCare administered self-insured ERISA plan, AT&T Inc. and its Plan Administrator Larry Ruzicka were sued in federal court. According to the complaint: "This dispute arises out of Defendants' ongoing and systematic ERISA violations consisting of an elaborate scheme to abstract, withhold, embezzle and convert self-insured Plan Assets ".
An almost identical separate suit was filed against another United HealthCare administered health plan, GAP Inc. less than 30 days before this case was filed. According to industry experts, more and more CEO's, CFO's and Plan Administrators are exposed to tremendous liabilities due to poorly managed or "Head in the Sand" monitoring practices. As we have written about and predicted, this is evidence of the growing trend of self-insured health plans being exposed to tremendous liability by TPAs.
One of the serious problems these cases present to the self-insured health plans is inaccuracies on the Form 5500/Tax filings. ERISA requires IRS Form 5500 reporting to be accurate. AT&T, GAP Inc. and others may be reporting incorrect amounts on direct and indirect compensation, for example, based on the alleged facts of these cases.
These cases also illustrate an ironic twist, in many cases, the ASO agreements prohibit the plan from auditing the claims that the TPA's are paying on behalf of the self-insured plan, which on its face, seems to be a remarkably absurd clause that any plan sponsor would agree to sign.
The Court Case Info: RedOak Hospital, LLC v. AT&T Inc., AT&T Savings and Security Plan and Larry Ruzicka, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division, Case 4:16-cv-01542, Filed on 06/01/16.
According to court documents, REDOAK Hospital Plaintiff filed a DOL EBSA Complaint on the alleged overpayment offset by the Defendants Plan, and the plan's co-fiduciary, UHC, prior to filling this ERISA lawsuit, alleging:
"This dispute arises out of [AT&T's]ongoing and systematic ERISA violations consisting of an elaborate scheme to abstract, withhold, embezzle and convert self-insured Plan Assets that were approved and allegedly paid to Plaintiff for Plaintiff's claim, to purportedly, but impermissibly, satisfy a falsely alleged overpayment‖ for another stranger claim, especially when the stranger is a plan beneficiary of a fully-insured plan that is insured by the Plan's co-fiduciary, United Healthcare (hereinafter, "United").[AT&T] knew or should have known that the Plan's overpayment recovery provisions cannot be triggered until there is an allegation of overpayment by the Plan to the Plan Beneficiary subject to this action, and that converting the Plan Assets by a fiduciary or co-fiduciary of the Plan, in this case United, to the use of another, and ultimately its own use, to pay to its own account is absolutely prohibited under ERISA statutes. [AT&T] and United have conspired and engaged in many other embezzlement schemes, including, but not limited to, making deductions on entitled claim payments through the misrepresentation that a Viant/Multiplan contract is in place with Plaintiff; this action is only challenging the cross-plan offset embezzlement scheme discussed in detail below.", according to court documents.
According to RedOak attorney Ebadullah Khan, this and the Gap Inc. case represent the first of many more cases the hospital intends to bring for the same alleged violations. Kahn told Law360, "Prior to seeking judicial review for this case, RedOak Hospital had exhausted any and all internal/administrative appeal requirements," Khan went on to say, "The cross-plan offset practice at issue in this case is the most common form of denial for RedOak Hospital, and as a result RedOak Hospital is preparing to file approximately 100 more cases similar to this AT&T complaint."
As we have accurately predicted, the No. 1 health care claim denial in the country today is the overpayment recoupment and claims-offset. Correspondingly, for self-insured health plans, the No. 1 hidden cost is overpayment recoupment and plan assets embezzlement and until the courts offer guidance on the practice of cross plan offsetting, we will continue to see many more cases such as these from providers all across the country. Additionally, should the courts weigh in and bar the practice, will self-insured plan sponsors, like AT&T and Gap Inc. be held liable for these ERISA violations and be removed from serving as fiduciaries.
There are billions of healthcare dollars at stake, according to industry estimates. Overall, overpayment recoveries initiated by the large carriers have reached into the billions of dollars over the past 5 to 7 years. Yet, self-insured health plans have not reaped the benefits of successful overpayment recoupments.
Consequently, recoupment through offsetting, when used as an anti-fraud initiative, has become an increasingly popular source of revenue for insurers. While there is a need for anti-fraud initiatives in healthcare today, it is critical that every health plan comply with all applicable federal laws, ERISA and PPACA claims regulations, as well as statutory fiduciary duties. Insurers and Health Plans must comply with all applicable federal laws, ERISA and PPACA claims regulations, as well as statutory fiduciary duties before recouping one single dollar.
Over the past 6 years, Avym has closely followed decisions from the Supreme Court and federal appeals courts on ERISA prohibited self-dealing against ERISA plan TPA's for managed care savings.
Avym Corp. has advocated for ERISA plan assets audit and embezzlement recovery education and consulting. With new Supreme Court guidance on ERISA anti-fraud protection, we are ready to assist all self-insured plans recover billions of dollars of self-insured plan assets, on behalf of hard-working Americans. To find out more about Avym Corporation's Fiduciary Overpayment Recovery Specialist (FOR) and Fiduciary Overpayment Recovery Contractor (FORC) programs click here.
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It was a real pleasure reading this article. As a Forensic Auditor working within the medical industry, I see this happening more often than you would dare think. Another issue of concern is the withholding of deductibles and co-insurance after the patient has met their annual benefits responsibilities. I have in my office more than during the time span of 2013 -2014 Aetna was responsible for withholding more than $2 Million, that I have supporting documents for. My office has been speaking with Aetna about this for more than 2 years to no avail.
If at all possible look into that issue, I think you would be mortified.
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UnitedHealthcare Class Action-UHC Sued for Overpayment Offsets in Violation of ERISA and for Misleading Patients and Plan Sponsors
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Posted: 22 Jul 2014 at 13:38
Although from available evidence to date it seems that the shooting down of Flight MH-17 by pro-Russian rebels could have been an error, the culpability of the pro-Russian Rebels in the Ukraine is multiplied by their refusing to allow crash investigators onto the site and their blatant looting of passengers property.
In the most recent TV clip, the rebels are seen with heavy equipment removing parts of the aircraft fuseleage from the crash site, thereby denying investigators, if they were permitted on site, any hope of proving what had happened.
It may well be said that no real investigation is necessary, as we all know what happened, but from air crash investigations come ideas for airline safety improvement.
That, directly or indirectly, Vladmir Putin is ultimately responsible for the downing of MH-17 is inescapable. The weapons used are Russian, and the operators would have needed Russian training.
This whole episode was predictable, given that the world allowed Russia to interfere with the Ukraines government and structure-regardless of those who would say to the contrary.
Had NATO or the European powers banded together in aiding the Ukraine when this trouble first began, the passengers on MH-17 could well still be alive.
The only small positive to come out of this shameful episode is that the rebels have now handed over the "black boxes" from MH-17.
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It's a disgusting episode, but one must ad some culpability to the airlines. Many (not all) decided to keep flying over a war zone, one in which a couple of Ukrainian planes had been shot down, by (predictably) low skilled operators with high tech equipment. This is negligence. Malaysian Airlines has since announced a detour around Ukraine. Via Syrian airspace. I'm not kidding.
toyomotor wrote:
** No real investigation will occur. Nor would it necessarily be successful given the machinations by the Russians and their proxies. As they continue to support their SPETZNAZ led, equipped, and directed lap dogs. Whom, one might add now, afaic, join the illustrate ranks of terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. I don't believe in misidentification of radar targets nor do I believe it was a case of inexperience.
What it was was murder and terrorism.
** All true Toyo but a significant portion of the blame must be laid at the feet of the current US Admin. It's indecisive and appeasement intended foreign policy towards the Russians is well documented. I neither expect the NATO or EU nations to do anything. Why should they? When the most recent history of the region has always included decisive US response and leadership. None of which, for at least the next two years, is forthcoming. The same can be said for the ME and the now ongoing Hamas instigated conflict with Israel.
But the so called social democrats will be along I'm sure to obfuscate that away. As much as they continue to hide from the recent downing of the aircraft. All the oratory and rhetoric in the world, from Europe, and the US, will make no difference to the Russians. Europe remains terrified of their impact on their economies. And the Russians know this and will play it.
When the actual solution is an age old one: 'peace through strength'
and not an apology from a weak and vacillating US government.
Immediate actions?
a. Re institute the missile defense program in Europe.
b. Increase troop rotational and training with NATO allies that border Russia. Immediately grant Ukraine access as a member of NATO.
c. Freeze all Russian assets in the US. And revoke diplomatic credentials and travel visas of Russian business interests and representatives.
d. Begin immediate shipments of Natural gas and coal to European markets.
e. All European and US monies currently sent to support Hamas. Be re directed towards the Ukraine.
f. and finally the shipment of lethal weapons and training teams to the same.
Because in the end, it is as you note, a Russian incident and Russian responsibility. And as long as a former KGB thug is in the Kremlin. Intent on and deluded with visions of a reemergence of the glory days of the USSR is present.
Then indeed a 'reset' is necessary. But it not the folly of the Obama-Clinton variety.
Captain Vancouver wrote:
No sh*t???
Pardon my language, are these folks for real?
Why not over Israel or Palestine?
Sheesh!!!
Arlington wrote:
Missile defense is ineffective, and in the case of a widespread nuclear attack, totally ineffective. Billions would be spent to achieve no political gain.
Moving troops around was impressive in 1850, but would mean nothing in the nuclear age. Bringing Ukraine into NATO would legally oblige Europe and the US to immediately intervene in that country, which would take us to WW3.
A robust move, but it will never happen. Your entrepreneurial friends have billions of western dollars invested in Russia, and would stand to loose them in retaliation, and so would insist Washington made the "right" decision.
Europe is not going to start burning massive amounts of coal for (sound) environmental reasons, and there are currently no pipelines or specialized ships available to ship natural gas, although that is being worked on, and will soon allow W Europe more latitude in policy.
European and US money does not support Hamas. The UN and other aid agencies do support humanitarian projects in Gaza, without which we would truly have a genocide going on.
Ukraine is already heavily armed. Although technical support in some areas might be in the cards. I'm not sure if this is already being done.
In short, international relationships require a bit more depth of thought than simple adolescent muscle flexing.
Realistically, I think this is were Putin will be made to back down on Ukraine. Despite a big military, Russia still has a tiny economy in relation to the west. And Putin's backing depends, in large measure, on the uber-rich in the Russian kleptocracy:
"..Following the July 17 downing of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet in eastern Ukraine, widely blamed on Moscow-backed rebels, U.S. exchange-traded funds that invest in Russia saw one of their biggest net outflows for the year — US$28.54-million pulled out for the five days ending July 18. Russia easily led all other emerging market countries in outflows..."
http://business.financialpost.com/2014/07/21/russian-billionaires-who-have-lost-14-5-billion-this-year-live-in-horror-as-putin-risks-isolation/
I can see, in part, where Arlington's coming from, to sit and watch another major tragedy unfold, without seeing an appropriate and rapid response is frustrating.
I would have liked to have seen armed support for the Ukraine when the pro-Russian guerillas first started their actions in Crimea. I recognise that it was never going to happen for the many reasons that you've put forward.
Financial embargoes on Russia will only translate to more hardship for the innocent population-so we sit and watch and wait.
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CV wrote:
Many (not all) decided to keep flying over a war zone, one in which a couple of Ukrainian planes had been shot down, by (predictably) low skilled operators with high tech equipment. This is negligence. Malaysian Airlines has since announced a detour around Ukraine. Via Syrian airspace. I'm not kidding.
Maybe you are not kidding but you are wrong.
All airlines including Malaysia are now flying over Turkey and Iran. The MH16 flight path is: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/MAS16
(I'm not sure if that website changes during the day as the flight progresses. If you can't see it they may have changed.)
Also all airlines were flying over Eastern Ukraine, not just Malaysia. Malaysian Airlines is IMO one of the best airlines in the world.
All true Toyo but a significant portion of the blame must be laid at the feet of the current US Admin. It's indecisive and appeasement intended foreign policy towards the Russians is well documented. I neither expect the NATO or EU nations to do anything. Why should they? When the most recent history of the region has always included decisive US response and leadership. None of which, for at least the next two years, is forthcoming.
Because this is a history forum, I think it's important to remember the history and present of the Ukraine before commenting too much.
Kiev is the birthplace of Russian culture and the Russian nation. The Kiev Rus were destroyed by the Mongol invasions and the frontier cities in the far north such as Tver, Moscow, and Novgorod were left the rebuild the Russian nation. Eventually Moscow became the premier Russian city and the most powerful Duchy in the region. They re-took Kiev from the Poles over 400 years ago. Eastern Ukraine and the Crimea were never a part of Poland or ruled from Kiev. They were part of the Crimean Khanate and the Golden Horde. The Ottoman Empire supporting the Crimean Tartars constantly fought against Russian expansion in the eastern steppe but eventually lost about 250 years ago. Far western Ukraine (Lviv/Lvov) was taken by the Russians in the Holocaust from Poland. It was forcably Ukrainianised/Russianised in the 1940s and 50s.
The word Ukraine was only invented about 120 years ago. It was invented as an administrative region by the Soviets. Crimea and Eastern Ukrain was added to that administrative region in the 1950s and until 1991 a Ukrainian was no less Russian than a Californian is American. Until the orange revolution in 2005 the Ukrainian government was staunchly pro-Russian, that revolution then failed at the next election and they again had a pro-russian government until this year when the elected government was again overthrown. The overthrow of that government prompted the revolts across Ukraine including the successful ones in Crimea and Donetsk.
The areas the areas that have seen the biggest pro-Russian revolts are the areas that were part of the Crimean Khanate and the Ottoman Empire. These are areas that have never been ruled nor identified with Kiev, they were taken for the Russian people by the Moscovites from the Tartars. Furthermore Crimea has been Russia's principle naval base for over 200 years. It will be full of the sons & daughters of the Russian Navy. The areas that have been the most anti-Russian (Lviv) are arguably actually parts of Poland that were taken in 1939.
So, you should be able to conclude several things from this:
1) It is surprising that Putin has allowed the Ukraine to leave Russia without a fight.
2) It is surprising that Putin has no done more to help the people of Donetsk and has not sent in Russian troops.
3) It is unreasonable to expect the Moscovites to leave the Kiev Rus to the west.
4) Any other Russian leader would start a nuclear war over this.
5) Obama's "indecisive and appeasement intended foreign policy towards the Russians" has done what no other power has done since the Mongols - pulled portions of the Russian motherland out of Moscovite control.
6) It is reasonable to expect the Moscovites will want Kiev back.
7) It is reasonable to expect the Moscovites would give up Lviv.
8) Trying to take Ukraine out of Russia is like trying to take New England out of the USA
Edited by Omar al Hashim - 23 Jul 2014 at 20:11
Omar:
But the Ukraine is a sovereign nation, and as such, whether you like or not, whether Putin likes it or not, the Ukranian people are entitled to self determination.
If in fact the majority of the Ukranian people want the Crimea back under Russian control, so be it.
That an overall ethnic minority of Russians want Crimea back as a part of Russia, doesn't really count.
It would be the same if some of the people in, for example, Boston wanted to succeed and become a province of the UK-and the UK provided them with training, arms and materiel to assist their revolt.
Omar al Hashim wrote:
The MH flight over Syria was all over the media, and in at least one report admitted to by the airline. This may well have been changed, and not too surprisingly if so, due to the media scrutiny.
It is true that airlines fly regularly over conflict zones. However each flight must (or certainly should) be appraised for safety given current conditions. Some, including BA I believe, chose not to fly over Ukraine. It was crazy for any airline to route air traffic over Ukraine after several military planes were shot down, one reportedly from 21,000 ft.
To choose another route over an area that has seen some aerial warfare recently, after loosing two aircraft within months, is an indication of poor judgement, IMO. The majority seem to see Turkey-Iraq-the Persian Gulf route as a safer bet than Syria. Tough choice in that part of the world perhaps, but in this case MH seemed the outlier.
This is a great post, and brings us some balance. I'd just like to add a couple of points.
Aggressive Stalinist economic policies in the '30s caused many deaths in the region, which apparently didn't endear Moscow to the population. When Germany invaded in '41, there were enough in the country to see this as a plus, and many joined a militia that supported Germany against the Soviets.
Recent opinion polls I've seen in the media show pretty clearly a desire for independence, and surprisingly even a number of ethnic Russians seem to share this view.
I'm not so sure. The average Russian doesn't have billions to loose, and is merely a bystander to the massive embezzlement and corruption of the ruling elite. They will struggle on, stoic as ever. It is the rich who are threatened, and could stand to see their lifestyle erode. More importantly, they are likely to pressure Putin to smarten up before they see too many rubles going down the drain. This makes more sense than moving fighter jets up to Romania.
toyo wrote:
That's a good analogy. It would be exactly if some of the people in, say Boston, wanted to become a provence of the UK and the UK backed them. Let's call these people Canadians.
Self determination is the best way of resolving territorial disputes without resorting to war, yet the trick with self determination is that you have to respect which ever way the people choose, even if it's not your side. Crimea and Donetsk have voted to be in Russia.
The Soviets deliberately divided the SSRs to make them easy to control. They did not divide them according to ethnic, geographic or any other sensible divisions. That's why the central asian states are funny shapes, and that's why Ukraine is so big. Ukraine is at least 4 regions. Moldova, the Crimean Khanate, parts of Poland, and the Kiev region.
The people in the former Crimean Khanate from Odessa to Kharkov have been pro-Moscow, voted for pro-Moscow parties and seen pro-Moscow unrest. The people in the bit that's basically Poland have been staunchly anti-Moscow, and most of the people in the Kiev region, even as far as Dnepropetrovsk have been generally anti-Moscow. I don't know what's happening in the Moldovian bit. I'm guessing if they have a choice they'd like to be in Moldovia or Romania.
There is a significant regional divide in Ukraine and there is huge interference from both Russia and the west. Self-determination would be great but I don't think either side is willing to do it.
I am not aware of any change, I didn't hear anything about that. There's a lot of misinformation and speculation about this story around.
It's easy to say in hindsight that they shouldn't have been flying there but they were following established proceedure and following all safety guidelines.
Stalin killed a lot of people not just in Ukraine. In fact if you haven't been masacarred by the Moscovites at some point in the last 500 years you are doing pretty well.
While it is a well known fact that the Soviets and Germans combined to invade Poland in 1939 it is not that well known that the Poles never got the bits the Soviets took back. They are now Western Ukraine and Western Belarus. At the end of WW2 the Russians wouldn't give up what they took in 1939 and as a result the whole of Poland was shifted a couple of hundred kilometers westward. Silsia, Pomerania and Prussia were ethnically cleansed of Germans and given to the Poles, while Lviv, Vilnius, Brest were ethnically cleansed of Poles and Jews and given to the Russians. I am not aware of how many Poles walked out of a catholic church and into an orthodox one to avoid being ethnically cleansed but I suspect this is a big reason why western ukraine is not pro moscow.
I have seen the same but I am not sure how far you can trust polls in this situation
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