Bryan Sanders engages audiences across the nation with a unique blend of captivating magic and exhilarating comedy. His performances are raved about by college students from coast to coast as "the must see magician" and "blowing the minds of non-believers". You may pay for your seat, but you'll only need the edge. He is able to connect instantly with crowds through his naturally humble and likable personality - students love his extreme sense of sarcasm. Throughout his 60 minute program students should expect gut busting comedy, wild magic and volumes of audience interaction. Corporations also appreciate his creative ability to promote their products/services in an enthusiastic and entertaining manner. Fortune 500 Companies such as Coca-Cola have quoted him as "entertainer for the decade" and continue to entrust his comedic edge to convey their brand through his consistent stand out performances.


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import cv2
import numpy as np
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
from deepgaze.color_classification import HistogramColorClassifier

#Defining the classifier
my_classifier = HistogramColorClassifier(channels=[0, 1, 2], hist_size=[128, 128, 128], hist_range=[0, 256, 0, 256, 0, 256], hist_type='BGR')

model_1 = cv2.imread('model_1.png') #Flash
model_2 = cv2.imread('model_2.png') #Batman
model_3 = cv2.imread('model_3.png') #Hulk
model_4 = cv2.imread('model_4.png') #Superman
model_5 = cv2.imread('model_5.png') #Capt. America
model_6 = cv2.imread('model_6.png') #Wonder Woman
model_7 = cv2.imread('model_7.png') #Iron Man
model_8 = cv2.imread('model_8.png') #Wolverine
#model_9 = cv2.imread('model_9_c.png') #Thor
#model_10 = cv2.imread('model_10_c.png') #Magneto

my_classifier.addModelHistogram(model_1)
my_classifier.addModelHistogram(model_2)
my_classifier.addModelHistogram(model_3)
my_classifier.addModelHistogram(model_4)
my_classifier.addModelHistogram(model_5)
my_classifier.addModelHistogram(model_6)
my_classifier.addModelHistogram(model_7)
my_classifier.addModelHistogram(model_8)
#my_classifier.addModelHistogram(model_9)
#my_classifier.addModelHistogram(model_10)

image = cv2.imread('image_2.jpg') #Load the image
#Get a numpy array which contains the comparison values
#between the model and the input image
comparison_array = my_classifier.returnHistogramComparisonArray(image, method="intersection")
#Normalisation of the array
comparison_distribution = comparison_array / np.sum(comparison_array)

#Printing the arrays
print("Comparison Array:")
print(comparison_array)
print("Distribution Array: ")
print(comparison_distribution)

#Plotting a bar chart with the probability distribution
#If you are comparing more than 8 superheroes you have to
#change the total objects variable and add new labels in
total_objects = 8
label_objects = ('Flash', 'Batman', 'Hulk', 'Superman', 'Capt. America', 'Wonder Woman', 'Iron Man', 'Wolverine')
font_size = 20
width = 0.5
plt.barh(np.arange(total_objects), comparison_distribution, width, color='r')
plt.yticks(np.arange(total_objects) + width/2.,label_objects , rotation=0, size=font_size)
plt.xlim(0.0, 1.0)
plt.ylim(-0.5, 8.0)
plt.xlabel('Probability', size=font_size)
figManager = plt.get_current_fig_manager()
figManager.window.showMaximized()
plt.show()

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


In a diplomatic initiative to address the lingering conflicts and mistrust in the Gulf region, Iran on Wednesday proposed a new platform for regional peace-building. Delivering a major speech at the Raisina Dialogue here, its foreign minister Javad Zarif said such a forum should offer membership to countries based on a set of general principles to address real issues that affect people of the region and the world.
The announcement of Persian Gulf Regional Dialogue Forum is significant as it comes in the wake of the continued erosion of the Gulf Cooperation Council, which in the recent years has been divided between the Iranian and the Saudi spheres.
The new forum could focus on the promotion of peace and prosperity in the region. Such a forum should offer membership to countries based on a set of general principles to address real issues that affect people of the region and the world.
Admission to such a forum should be based on accepting generally-recognized principles and shared objectives, notably respect for sovereignty, territorial integrity and the political independence of all states. The forum should render international boundaries inviolable and use of force impermissible.
Agenda of the forum: It could connect people of various member countries cutting across all traditional boundaries.
Such a forum shall be helpful in dealing with threats like terrorism and extremism that has left the countries of the region in a state of the continuous state of insecurity.
The member countries will have to follow a set of confidence-building measures. These measures could include freedom of navigation, assurance of free flow of energy and other resources and protection of the fragile marine ecology of the Gulf.
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is a political and economic alliance of six Middle Eastern countries—Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman.
The GCC was established in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in May 1981. The purpose of the GCC is to achieve unity among its members based on their common objectives and their similar political and cultural identities, which are rooted in Arab and Islamic cultures. Presidency of the council rotates annually.
All current member states are monarchies, including three constitutional monarchies (Qatar, Kuwait, and Bahrain), two absolute monarchies (Saudi Arabia and Oman), and one federal monarchy (the United Arab Emirates, which is composed of seven member states, each of which is an absolute monarchy with its own emir).


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Converters, on the other hand, are reusable and allow for filling with Bottled Fountain Pen Ink from any manufacturer, giving you a much wider range of color choices. They are proprietary, like cartridges, so you do need to have the correct converter for your pen. Visit our Converters page for specifics. Converters cannot be filled until installed in the pen and then submerged in the ink bottle.
Converters are also very useful for cleaning your fountain pen even if you only use cartridges for your ink supply. Take a look at our Pen Maintenance page for more details.
You can see all the cartridge-converter pens we offer here.
A piston-filler has a built-in reservoir that allows the pen to be filled by dipping the nib and gripping section directly into an ink bottle while twisting the piston knob at the end of the barrel. Piston-fillers often have a larger ink capacity than cartridge-converter pens, leading to their popularity among many fountain pen enthusiasts.
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There are some contemporary eyedropper filled fountain pens. The entire barrel seals and serves as an ink reservoir and is filled using an eyedropper or syringe. This is a potentially messy prospect, but does offer a tremendous ink capacity.
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There are other systems typically found in vintage fountain pens such as Button, Crescent, and Lever fillers.
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All About Pranks
This blog has submissions from many known and not so known pranksters, artists, performers, activists and writers. It provides a continuing and growing exploration into the art of the prank; the role of the prankster as artist, activist and social observer; and the contribution of the prank to society.
In Review: April Fools' Day 2019 Branding, Marketing, and Media Stunts
by Emerson Dameron
Filed under: All About Pranks, Fact or Fiction?, Fraud and Deception, Hype, Media Literacy, Media Pranks, Parody, Practical Jokes and Mischief, Prank News, Pranksters, Publicity Stunts, Satire, Sociology and Psychology of Pranks, Spin, The World of the Prank
Before April Fools' Day 2019 even began, the tech giant Microsoft announced that it would not be indulging in any branded foolishness this year. And that sort of set the tone for the day.
From the rise of the internet and social media through the election of Donald Trump, distinguishing truth from fiction in the online landscape has become less about comedy and more about horror. Even the cutest and cleverest April Fools' publicity stunts are not as well received as they may have been in the past. The overall online mood is darker, more skittish, and more reflective. Still, there's still some levity to be found in the chaos and desperation.
A few editorials addressed the cynicism and fatigue around April Fools' Day from high-level perspectives.
Vox published a history of branded pranks in the internet age.
GQ examined how distrust of the media has sapped some of the fun from April Fools'.
Of the branded pranks that did go down, the most interesting had satirical or meta-comedic elements.
The LA Times took a catty swipe at its cross-country rival and New York's self-important foodie scene.
The Nectar BumbleBed mocked the eccentric fads of the underregulated "health and wellness" industry.
The language-learning app Duolingo poked fun at its own infamously pushy mascot and UX in a cleverly disturbing way.
USA Today challenged its readers to differentiate real fakes from fake fakes.
Others were just plain, dumb, silly, marginally self-aware fun. Here are the best of the rest:
From the science-and-tech world
From gaming
From reddit
From a British angle
From the desks of Time, The Verge, and The Guardian
And there was even some good news!
Burger King's meatless Whopper is not a joke!
Pranksters and comedians are not being displaced by AI!
April Fools' news gags can help fight malicious fake news!
As with any holiday, the best way to spend April Fools' Day is probably not on the internet, but engaged in revelry and camaraderie IRL, fighting the forces of oppression and no-fun-ness in the company of loved ones and loved ones you haven't met yet. So naturally the best news of the day was the annual April Fools' Day Parade – see the highlights [HERE].
Confessions of a Rock and Roll Poser
April Fools' Day 2018: Stunt Roundup
Not #FakeNews, But an Incredible Simulation
Pokemon Go Crime Wave… Not
Posted: April 1st, 2019
New Doc About the Church of the SubGenius Screens at SXSW
Filed under: Practical Jokes and Mischief, Prank News, Pranksters, Sociology and Psychology of Pranks, The History of Pranks, Urban Legends
One reviewer's opinion…
SXSW Film Review: 'J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius'
This diverting enough documentary focuses on the parodic religious "cult" that reached peak hipster awareness in the 1980s.
by Dennis Harvey
Like 8mm films of 1960s "happenings" or videos of 1970s performance art, "J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius" chronicles a cultural footnote that perhaps should be filed under the heading You Had to Be There. The satirical-absurdist "religion" founded by some Texans actually caught fire among hipsters in the 1980s, influencing some of that era's more interesting work in various media while providing a pre-Burning Man, pre-internet "secret club" to cerebral misfits of all stripes.
Sandy K. Boone's documentary is likely to be lost on the not-previously converted, as what seemed the height of snark in the Reagan Era hasn't dated all that well — nor is its appeal apparent as excerpted and recalled here. But those who remember the gospel of "slack" will make this diverting-enough documentary an in-demand work at genre festivals, as a streaming item and in other forums.
In reaction to the disruptive 1960s being "flipped on its head" in the "too-square-again" present day, two Lone Star State fans of nerd-brainiac rock god Captain Beefheart started creating anonymous quasi-cult screeds for their own entertainment in 1979. Dubbing themselves Reverend Ian Stang and Dr. Philo Drummond, they rebelled against their staid Heartland backgrounds, embraced the tenor of extremist religious literature, and ridiculed the American Dream with a mock religion whose deity was J.R. "Bob" Dobbs — a clip art image of 1950s sitcom dad-like hyper-normality whose lore was deliberately contradictory and absurdist.
Read the rest of this article here.
Alan Abel, RIP
Gone Phishing at the White House
Harvard Toasts the Lampoon
Long May Your Refrigerator Run
Posted: March 24th, 2019
LinkNYC Mister Softee Prankster Comes Clean
by Mark Thomas
Filed under: Creative Activism, Culture Jamming and Reality Hacking, Media Pranks, Prank News, Pranksters, The History of Pranks
Payphone performance artist/activist drops a dime on himself…
My Summer of Softee Prank
by Mark Thomas.
In this year of 2019, I use payphones regularly. As such, I feel fortunate to live in New York City, where thousands of old-fashioned landline payphones still line the streets.
A few years ago, when news came that the City decided to replace every single outdoor payphone with LinkNYC Internet kiosks, preëmptively pronouncing this unproven replacement the "payphone of the future", I felt a bit of an affront. How could a decision reaching so deeply into the social fabric of New York be made? Was public input ever solicited regarding this decision that all payphones must be replaced by an unproven, unneeded alternative?
I gave LinkNYC a chance but soon came to loath not only the program but, in almost all respects, the so-called "Smart City" itself. Born of unearned municipal privilege, the arrogant ineptitude of the LinkNYC rollout at times made me cringe.
To express my sentiments about LinkNYC, I subverted their intended purpose. I regarded these kiosks as unwanted, unneeded irritants and turned the machines themselves into irritants, using them as a broadcast platform, blasting ridiculously loud noises and music out of the kiosks' loudspeakers.
This became a social media engineering project for me for most of 2018. (more…)
Speaking Truth to Power in DC
Joey Skaggs Remembers His 1994 National Enquirer Hoax
Culture Jamming Godfather Gets a Fitting Tribute
R.I.P. Tom Hayden (1939-2016)
Posted: February 20th, 2019
Filed under: Art Pranks, Creative Activism, Culture Jamming and Reality Hacking, Media Pranks, Political Pranks, Pranksters, Satire, The History of Pranks
Street theater is flourishing in the era of Trump.
DC's many prankster activists turn anger into street theater
by Ashraf Khalil
Mike Green and Adam Eidinger with Radical Matriarchy
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the nation's capital, it can be hard for protesters to stand out. A group of 50 people — or even 500 — holding signs and shouting hardly merits a second glance in this city of protests.
That's why Washington activists have to get creative. There's an ethos of performative prankster-style protest wired into the District of Columbia's history, dating back decades.
This confrontational street-theater school is flourishing with the Trump administration as its nemesis. Each month brings new acts of political theater — some confrontational, some deliberately absurdist.
"It can take a serious issue into more of a playful place," said Robin Bell, who regularly projects disparaging messages onto the outside of the Trump International Hotel. "Oftentimes we visualize the absurdity of the situation."
In January, a group of activists associated with political pranksters The Yes Men passed out dozens of fake Washington Posts, with detailed articles depicting President Donald Trump resigning and fleeing the White House. For about a month last fall, a Robert Mueller investigation-themed ice cream truck roamed Washington, passing out free scoops with names like IndictMint Chip and Rocky Rod Rosenstein.
While some protests are designed to get attention, others hide in plain sight like Easter eggs for the observant. Within sight of the White House, a realistic-looking street sign declares the street Khashoggi Way, after Jamal Khashoggi, the dissident Saudi journalist killed inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. About 10 of these signs have been scattered around Washington.
Homo Velamine Interviews Joey Skaggs "Maestro of the Farce" [Spanish and English]
Paul Krassner, RIP
Meet the Man Who Invented the Roach Hormone Miracle Cure!
by Joey Skaggs, Editor
Filed under: Creative Activism, Culture Jamming and Reality Hacking, Illusion and Magic, Media Literacy, Media Pranks, Pranksters, Truth that's Stranger than Fiction
Note to Jeff Bezos: Take a page from me and screw the National Enquirer!
In 1994, after The New York Times Magazine published John Tierney's article, Falling For It, about my Dog Meat Soup hoax, the National Enquirer called and said they were doing a profile about me. They wanted an exclusive photo shoot. Not liking or respecting this publication, I declined. They said they were going to do the story with or without any assistance from me. So, I sent an impostor to two different photo shoots.
They published this story:
Page Six of the New York Post exposed the hoax:
Full details of the National Enquirer hoax are here.
Political Prank Topples the Austrian Government. Joey Skaggs Swears He Didn't Do It! [English and German]
Canadaland Podcast Interview with Joey Skaggs
Posted: February 9th, 2019
John Dingell RIP
Filed under: Creative Activism, Political Challenges, Satire
Former Representative John Dingell, the longest serving member of Congress, passed away on February 7, 2019 at age 92. He dictated his last words to America to his wife Rep. Debbie Dingell on the day he died. He had a humble, profound sense of honor and justice, and a satirical sense of humor. His words are worth reading.
John Dingell's Greatest Hits: Lawmaker Had An A+ Trolling Game On Twitter
The retired lawmaker mastered the art of throwing shade, particularly at President Trump.
Former Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) is being remembered for his many achievements during his 59 years in Congress.
Dingell, who died on Thursday at the age of 92, played a role in passing some of the nation's most important legislation, including the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Medicare and the Affordable Care Act. But he'll also be remembered for something else entirely: His solid Twitter game.
Dingell was known for his comedic takes on the news, cracks about himself and — more than anything else over the past couple of years — his constant trolling of President Donald Trump:
I fully support @realDonaldTrump's interest in space travel to Mars, and I wish him the absolute best in his travels.
— John Dingell (@JohnDingell) December 11, 2017
Crooks like Trump will steal a hot stove and come back for the smoke. There's no bar too low. https://t.co/6BjnNwbZp7
— John Dingell (@JohnDingell) January 25, 2019
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Canards For Humanity
R.I.P. Dario Fo (1926-2016)
Why Satire Still Matters: A Case Study
Filed under: Culture Jamming and Reality Hacking, Fact or Fiction?, Fraud and Deception, Hoaxes vs. Scams, Hype, Media Literacy, Media Pranks, Prank News, Pranksters, Publicity Stunts, Truth that's Stranger than Fiction
Last autumn, Jered "Threatin" Eames staged the most alienating, least explicable rock tour stunt since the Sex Pistols hit the deep south. He recently broke his silence.
"The Great Heavy Metal Hoax"
by David Kushner
In November, managers of rock clubs across the United Kingdom began sharing the same weird tale. A pop-metal performer, Threatin, had rented their clubs for his 10-city European tour. Club owners had never heard of the act when a booking agent approached them promising packed houses. Threatin had fervent followers, effusive likes, rows of adoring comments under his YouTube concert videos, which showed him windmilling before a sea of fans. Websites for the record label, managers and a public-relations company who represented Threatin added to his legitimacy. Threatin's Facebook page teemed with hundreds of fans who had RSVP'd for his European jaunt, which was supporting his album, Breaking the World.
But despite all the hype, almost no one came to the shows. It was just Threatin and his three-piece band onstage, and his wife, Kelsey, filming him from the empty floor. And yet Threatin didn't seem to care — he just ripped through a set as if there was a full house. When confronted by confused club owners, Threatin just shrugged, blaming the lack of audience on bad promotion. "It was clear that something weird was happening," says Jonathan "Minty" Minto, who was bartending the night Threatin played at the Exchange, a Bristol club, "but we didn't realize how weird." Intrigued, Minto and his friends started poking around Threatin's Facebook page, only to find that most of the fans lived in Brazil. "The more we clicked," says Minto, "the more apparent it became that every single attendee was bogus."
It all turned out to be fake: The websites, the record label, the PR company, the management company, all traced back to the same GoDaddy account. The throngs of fans in Threatin's concert videos were stock footage. The promised RSVPs never appeared. When word spread of Threatin's apparent deception, club owners were perplexed: Why would someone go to such lengths just to play to empty rooms? Read more.
Forget About Getting a Table Here
Meet Trump Booster and Digital Chimera Steven Smith (R-GA)
We're Gonna Need More Enthusiasm
The Political Prank That Ensnared the Wall Street Journal
Filed under: Conspiracy Theories, Creative Activism, Culture Jamming and Reality Hacking, Fact or Fiction?, Fraud and Deception, Media Literacy, Media Pranks, Political Pranks, Prank News, Pranksters, The World of the Prank
Laura Loomer is a far-right media provocateur known for shambolic publicity stunts. Her toxic racial rhetoric has resulted in her removal from a number of social media platforms, and she hasn't taken it well. Anxious to stay in the public eye, she was recently tricked into a bizarre caper that oddly also sucked in the Wall Street Journal. This comedy of errors encapsulates much of what is so ridiculous about the current media landscape. See if you can keep up.
"Did the Wall Street Journal Fall for a Prank Directed at Laura Loomer?"
by Jared Holt
EXCERPT FROM THE FULL ARTICLE: "She didn't verify who I am once. Never did she make an attempt," Gillen said. "Everything I gave her as 'info,' she took as gospel. She hasn't batted an eye or questioned anything that I said, ever."
In a recorded phone call Bernard shared with us, Loomer expressed her willingness to leverage all means possible to retaliate against Twitter.
"I'm down with anything, honestly. So if whistle-blowers like yourself just want to come to me—I mean, I'm looking to escalate this as much as I can. I don't even care. The gloves are off right now. [Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey] is banning people simply because they're conservative. … He is taking money from all these Muslims and implementing Sharia law," Loomer told Gillen during a phone call.
Bernard told Right Wing Watch that the goal of their stunt was to see if Loomer would go on-air at Alex Jones' Infowars and repeat what they had told her, after which they planned to reveal the details of their joke in order to make a point about what they said were Loomer's and Infowars' non-existent journalistic standards and confirmation bias.
But something else happened.
"Don't worry it will be big," Loomer wrote to the pranksters in a December text message. "I have a big network of journalists I know."
Read the whole story here.
Right-Wing Website Dosed With Own Medicine
Deep Fakes: Down the Horrifying Rabbit Hole
How Your Fake Right-Wing News Gets Made
Posted: January 21st, 2019
In Search of Ethical Artificial Intelligence
Filed under: Fact or Fiction?, Legal Issues, Media Literacy, Political Challenges, Spin, Truth that's Stranger than Fiction
In a noble effort to assure the ethical use of AI in legal matters, the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) of the Council of Europe is catching up with Joey Skaggs' visionary 1995 Solomon Project hoax. h/t Miso.
"Council of Europe adopts first European Ethical Charter on the use of artificial intelligence in judicial systems"
by Newsroom staff
The European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) of the Council of Europe has adopted the first European text setting out ethical principles relating to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in judicial systems.
The Charter provides a framework of principles that can guide policy makers, legislators and justice professionals when they grapple with the rapid development of AI in national judicial processes.
The CEPEJ's view as set out in the Charter is that the application of AI in the field of justice can contribute to improve the efficiency and quality and must be implemented in a responsible manner which complies with the fundamental rights guaranteed in particular in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Personal Data. For the CEPEJ, it is essential to ensure that AI remains a tool in the service of the general interest and that its use respects individual rights.
The CEPEJ has identified the following core principles to be respected in the field of AI and justice:
Principle of respect of fundamental rights: ensuring that the design and implementation of artificial intelligence tools and services are compatible with fundamental rights;
Principle of non-discrimination: specifically preventing the development or intensification of any discrimination between individuals or groups of individuals;
Principle of quality and security: with regard to the processing of judicial decisions and data, using certified sources and intangible data with models conceived in a multi-disciplinary manner, in a secure technological environment;
Principle of transparency, impartiality and fairness: making data processing methods accessible and understandable, authorising external audits;
Principle "under user control": precluding a prescriptive approach and ensuring that users are informed actors and in control of their choices.
For the CEPEJ, compliance with these principles must be ensured in the processing of judicial decisions and data by algorithms and in the use made of them. Read more.
The Best Defense Against a Bad Guy With a Bot
First Responders to BS: Fact-Checkers are Heroes for Our Times
Alex Jones: Post-Reality Rodeo Clown?
Snopes Checks In on the Facebook Standing Rock Check-in Trend
Reality: Now Faker Than Ever
Filed under: Culture Jamming and Reality Hacking, Fact or Fiction?, Fraud and Deception, Hoaxes vs. Scams, Media Literacy, Propaganda and Disinformation, Spin
In a brilliant and dizzying end-of-year rant, Max Read takes stock of how much of our digital world is constructed from weapons-grade fraud, deception, nonsense, hokum, and miscellaneous bullshit.
"How Much of the Internet is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually"
by Max Read
New York Intelligencer
How much of the internet is fake? Studies generally suggest that, year after year, less than 60 percent of web traffic is human; some years, according to some researchers, a healthy majority of it is bot. For a period of time in 2013, the Times reported this year, a full half of YouTube traffic was "bots masquerading as people," a portion so high that employees feared an inflection point after which YouTube's systems for detecting fraudulent traffic would begin to regard bot traffic as real and human traffic as fake. They called this hypothetical event "the Inversion."
In the future, when I look back from the high-tech gamer jail in which President PewDiePie will have imprisoned me, I will remember 2018 as the year the internet passed the Inversion, not in some strict numerical sense, since bots already outnumber humans online more years than not, but in the perceptual sense. The internet has always played host in its dark corners to schools of catfish and embassies of Nigerian princes, but that darkness now pervades its every aspect: Everything that once seemed definitively and unquestionably real now seems slightly fake; everything that once seemed slightly fake now has the power and presence of the real. The "fakeness" of the post-Inversion internet is less a calculable falsehood and more a particular quality of experience — the uncanny sense that what you encounter online is not "real" but is also undeniably not "fake," and indeed may be both at once, or in succession, as you turn it over in your head. Read more.
WhatsApp Fuels India's #FakeNews Fire
Facebook Fights the Fakers
Filed under: Culture Jamming and Reality Hacking, Fraud and Deception, Media Literacy, Media Pranks, Political Pranks, Prank News, Pranksters, Propaganda and Disinformation, The Future of Pranks
On the topic of our tenuous collective relationship with the concept formerly known as "truth," this examination of "deep fakes," high-tech simulated video recordings of people you recognize doing things they've never actually done, may be the most frightening and portentous emerging story of 2018. And that's saying a mouthful.
"You thought fake news was bad? Deep fakes are where truth goes to die"
by Oscar Schwartz
Fake videos can now be created using a machine learning technique called a "generative adversarial network", or a GAN. A graduate student, Ian Goodfellow, invented GANs in 2014 as a way to algorithmically generate new types of data out of existing data sets. For instance, a GAN can look at thousands of photos of Barack Obama, and then produce a new photo that approximates those photos without being an exact copy of any one of them, as if it has come up with an entirely new portrait of the former president not yet taken. GANs might also be used to generate new audio from existing audio, or new text from existing text – it is a multi-use technology.
The use of this machine learning technique was mostly limited to the AI research community until late 2017, when a Reddit user who went by the moniker "Deepfakes" – a portmanteau of "deep learning" and "fake" – started posting digitally altered pornographic videos. He was building GANs using TensorFlow, Google's free open source machine learning software, to superimpose celebrities' faces on the bodies of women in pornographic movies.
A number of media outlets reported on the porn videos, which became known as "deep fakes". In response, Reddit banned them for violating the site's content policy against involuntary pornography. By this stage, however, the creator of the videos had released FakeApp, an easy-to-use platform for making forged media. The free software effectively democratized the power of GANs. Suddenly, anyone with access to the internet and pictures of a person's face could generate their own deep fake. Read more.
Filed under: Conspiracy Theories, Culture Jamming and Reality Hacking, Fact or Fiction?, Fraud and Deception, Media Literacy, Political Challenges, Propaganda and Disinformation, The World of the Prank
During the 2016 US election cycle, artificial intelligence was wildly successful at spreading lies and propaganda. These researchers suggest weaponizing better bots and aiming them in the opposite direction.
"Bots spread a lot of fakery during the 2016 election. But they can also debunk it."
by Daniel Funke
Aside from their role in amplifying the reach of misinformation, bots also play a critical role in getting it off the ground in the first place. According to the study, bots were likely to amplify false tweets right after they were posted, before they went viral. Then users shared them because it looked like a lot of people already had.
"People tend to put greater trust in messages that appear to originate from many people," said co-author Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of South Florida, in the press release. "Bots prey upon this trust by making messages seem so popular that real people are tricked into spreading their messages for them."
The study suggests Twitter curb the number of automated accounts on social media to cut down on the amplification of misinformation. The company has made some progress toward this end, suspending more than 70 million accounts in May and June alone. More recently, the company took down a bot network that pushed pro-Saudi views about the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi and started letting users report potential fake accounts.
Nonetheless, bots are still wrecking havoc on Twitter — and some aren't used for spreading misinformation at all. So what should fact-checkers do to combat their role in spreading misinformation?
Tai Nalon has spent the better part of the past year trying to answer that question — and her answer is to beat the bots at their own game.
"I think artificial intelligence is the only way to tackle misinformation, and we have to build bots to tackle misinformation," said the director of Aos Fatos, a Brazilian fact-checking project. "(Journalists) have to reach the people where they are reading the news. Now in Brazil, they are reading on social media and on WhatsApp. So why not be there and automate processes using the same tools the bad guys use?" Read more.
Barney Rosset Documentary Seeks Support
Filed under: Creative Activism, First Amendment Issues, Legal Issues, Literary Hoaxes, Media Literacy, Political Challenges, Prank News, Pranksters, The History of Pranks, The Prank as Art, The World of the Prank
Recently, a team of seasoned and passionate documentary filmmakers launched a Kickstarter project to fund Barney's Wall, a tribute to the iconoclastic Evergreen Review publisher, First Amendment crusader, and countercultural titan Barney Rosset.
Now, they need a bit more help to cover permissions, attorney fees, and other expenses associating with bringing such a project to fruit. (We can certainly sympathize.)
If you'd like to donate, you can do so here before January 4th, 2019.
And if you aren't familiar with Rosset, check out his obituary. He's an essential figure in the development of 20th Century creative rebellion, and it's a rousing read in its own right.
"Colleagues said he had 'a whim of steel'. 'He does everything by impulse and then figures out afterward whether he's made a smart move or was just kidding.'"
The Library Pranksters Who Paid a Heavy Fine
Banksy Enters the Travel Business
Filed under: Creative Activism, Culture Jamming and Reality Hacking, Instructionals, Pranksters, Satire, The Prank as Art, What Makes a Good Prank?, Why Do a Prank?
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Shooting Fish in a Barrel for Profit
Filed under: Fraud and Deception, Political Challenges, Propaganda and Disinformation
This pathetic story oozes with irony.
h/t Felipe & Eli
'Nothing on this page is real': How lies become truth in online America
by Eli Saslow
Christopher Blair, 46, sits at his desk at home in Maine and checks his Facebook page, America's Last Line of Defense. He launched the political-satire portal with other liberal bloggers during the 2016 presidential campaign. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
NORTH WATERBORO, Maine — The only light in the house came from the glow of three computer monitors, and Christopher Blair, 46, sat down at a keyboard and started to type. His wife had left for work and his children were on their way to school, but waiting online was his other community, an unreality where nothing was exactly as it seemed. He logged onto his website and began to invent his first news story of the day.
"BREAKING," he wrote, pecking out each letter with his index fingers as he considered the possibilities. Maybe he would announce that Hillary Clinton had died during a secret overseas mission to smuggle more refugees into America. Maybe he would award President Trump the Nobel Peace Prize for his courage in denying climate change.
A new message popped onto Blair's screen from a friend who helped with his website. "What viral insanity should we spread this morning?" the friend asked. (more…)
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AMARILLO, TX (KFDA) - Highland Park ISD will be receiving $15,000 from local agricultural companies to support the district's Snack Pak 4 Kids program.
Representatives from Cactus Feeders, Nutra Blend and Tyson will each present checks for $5,000 to Highland Park on Monday, Feb. 11.
The check presentation will be in the Administration Building at 15300 Amarillo Boulevard East at 11:00 a.m.


See this review on a-n website of the Tate Modern exhibition, which I could not give my energy too after viewing the Klee – Making Visible EY Exhibition.
but I found this insight very interesting and accurate, but the exhibition is best seen alone as it is powerful an not try to do the two at once.
I have got to say that the Klee exhibition was amazing too and particularly appealed to m y textile sensibillities due to the colours used and how they were combined it was a mastery of colour, paint and portrayal of movements, altered realities and emotions. Part of my personal issue was seeing Mira Schendel's mono-chromatic work after that was difficult, but both exhibitions are incredibly powerful in their own right.
Souvenir leaflet of artists names and images.
Why do they create in the way they do?
Will it inspire you to do it?
to sum up each image. After this the Q&A session time allows us to debate and get deeper into the discussion artists and audience.
Bucket List Publications is Accepting Submissions. Great Travel Blog!
I am putting this on specially for Maggie the S. American Tanguera, who needs to get in touch with them.
Where to get the book!
Thinking Caps – Amazon do not seem to have the right number of stock so please go to 2QT to buy your copy.
After running her own design company in the eighties, Maggi spent over 20 years writing, leading, validating and lecturing in Higher Education on Degree and MA courses. Her role in fashion 'Haute Couture' and design 'Textile Craft' courses and Applied Arts Research culminated in a doctorate, for which this book was a practice-based element. This reflective journal written through adversity, extracted enormous inspirational benefits to fuel the creative artistic process and in addition it offers transformative power in order to deal with trauma.
Really looking forward to the launch of my book – if you can't make Carlisle on 29th Feb and would still like to come, thats ok. Please come to Cockermouht New Bookshop on 9th March at 4.30pm for a glass of early Friday evening wine and a chat. The local Celeb Alan Dawson @adaptahouse is going to introduce me!
Maggi talks through her hats, telling a poignant story of love and loss, laced with inspirational creativity. She was a designer/maker who investigated how artists and designers think when they make, so that they could benefit from reflecting on their own experiential learning. As a result through her inspirational diaries, she uncovered her own thinking and the power of the creative artistic process of making and writing to lessen the effects of trauma and sadness.


Boethius (c.480-c.525/6), though a Christian, worked in the tradition of the Neoplatonic schools, with their strong interest in Aristotelian logic and Platonic metaphysics. He is best known for his Consolation of Philosophy, which he wrote in prisonawaiting execution. His works also include a long series of logical translations, commentaries and monographs and some short but densely-argued theological treatises, all of which were enormously influential on medieval thought. But Boethius was more than a writer who passed on important ancient ideas to the Middle Ages. The essays here by leading specialists, which cover all the main aspects of his writing and its influence, show that he was a distinctive thinker, whose arguments repay careful analysis and who used his literary talents in conjunction with his philosophical abilities to present a complex view of the world.


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How Gowanus Got It's Name
Gowanus, Brooklyn is such a lively neighborhood that we're so proud to be a part of. It's rich with Brooklyn neighborhood history, amazing art, unique shops, and a scrumptious food scene. But where did it get its start and, more importantly, where did its name come from? If you've ever asked yourself these questions, we're […]
Gowanus, Brooklyn is such a lively neighborhood that we're so proud to be a part of. It's rich with Brooklyn neighborhood history, amazing art, unique shops, and a scrumptious food scene. But where did it get its start and, more importantly, where did its name come from? If you've ever asked yourself these questions, we're here with the scoop.
While it seems pretty obvious (to anyone that lives here) that the neighborhood was named after the famed Gowanus Canal, that doesn't really help us figure out where that name came from. However, the truth of the name's origin is about as murky as the water that fills the canal itself. The best guess is that it evolved from Gouwane, the name of a Native American chief who resided in the area long before it looked anything like it does today.
The Gowanus Canal has changed so much over the years but this change first started when early settlers created a series of millponds which are reservoirs that are used to run water-powered mills. Of course, as the years progressed this helped attract a series of wealthy businesspeople to the canal who saw its usefulness as a means of money-making industrial production.
This development helped draw even more people (in need of work) to the area, but it also led to the severe pollution of the once-pristine canal despite the end of so many of the unfortunate actions that created the mess in the first place.
The good news is that the Gowanus Canal has finally started to undergo a much-needed cleanup, with crews beginning to dredge up all the sediment and pollutants that have called the waterway home for the better part of a century. We're excited that this important next step is finally happening. The neighborhood surrounding the canal has grown into a vibrant, desirable hotspot in this borough; it's long overdue that our beloved canal reflects the spirit of our community.
So there you have it; a little bit of insight into how Gowanus, Brooklyn came to be and where its name came from.
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Mexico earthquake: 5.2 magnitude quake affects the Oaxaca region
UFO: Navy pilot that recorded 'Tic Tac' UFO recalls incident
Asteroids: Potentially hazardous space rock spotted traveling towards Earth
An Earth-sized planet found in the habitable zone of a nearby star
How to use habit science to help you keep your New Year's resolution
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Space milestones: here are the missions to look forward to in 2020
UFOs: Leaked footage can threaten national security, says US Navy
Alien life is out there, but our theories are probably steering us away from it
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Asteroids: Space rock to approach Earth's Solar System, says NASA
Mars mission: Expert says to focus on Earth
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Many countries who have succeeded in their efforts to travel to space are now thinking of the possibilities of colonizing a neighboring planet, such as Mars. However, one expert believes otherwise and says that before countries make the decision to colonize other planets, the experts have to focus on Earth first.
Express reports that Nobel prize winner Didier Queloz, one of the three winners of the 2019 Nobel prize for Physics, says that it is improbable to move to Mars due to the logistics alone. Queloz went on to explain that because human life or life, in general, has gone centuries of evolution, life on Earth should stay on Earth, not elsewhere in the solar system.
Queloz even expressed how "irresponsible" it is to even think of escaping Earth as well as the fact that the stars are millions of miles away. "We'd better spend our time and energy trying to fix it" says the astronomer.
Even though efforts to study the conditions of Mars have and still are being made, including the recent discoveries of the possibilities of life being able to exist on the Red Planet, we still have a long way to go in completely understanding what it is like on Mars. There are still so many challenges to the possibility of surviving on Mars, and according to the University of Exeter Professor Dr. Federico Caprotti, the challenges are more on a psychological level that not even space science can be able to answer. One example that Caprotti states is the interplanetary jet lag as the trip to Mars can take more than a year, 400 days to be exact.
Meanwhile, the Daily Mail reports that rocks gathered from Mars can be placed in quarantine on the moon as a preventative measure in case it may contaminate the Earth. One of the concerns during space missions is the interplanetary infection that can be present. In making sure the Earth and Mars are clean, storing the rocks gathered from Mars on the moon can keep a situation similar to "War of the Worlds" from happening, where microbes from Mars infect the ecosystem on Earth.
NASA will be partnering with the European Space Agency or ESA in their Mars2020 Project, where two rovers will be exploring the Red Planet come next year.


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High Court rejects challenge to foreign in-house lawyers' privilege
Russia: Court will not look behind lawyers' role
Legal advice privilege extends to communications with foreign lawyers working in-house even if they are not recognised or regulated as "professional lawyers", the High Court has ruled.
The only requirement for legal advice privilege to attach "is that they should be acting in the capacity or function of a lawyer", said Mrs Justice Moulder.
"There is no additional requirement in my view that foreign lawyers should be 'appropriately qualified' or recognised or regulated as 'professional lawyers'."
In PJSC Tatneft v Bogolyubov & Ors [2020] EWHC 2437 (Comm), the second defendant challenged the claimant's assertion of privilege for communications with its in-house team in Russia.
In-house lawyers are not members of the Russian Bar and their activity is not regulated, unlike that of self-employed, independent and officially registered advocates. The closest concept to privilege in Russia is 'advocate's secrecy', which does not extend to non-advocate in-house lawyers.
Having reviewed the case law, Moulder J said it was the function of the relationship and not the status of the lawyer which was relevant when assessing whether communications with foreign legal advisers attracted privilege.
"In my view it would lead to uncertainty (and thus inconvenience) if, even where the relationship of lawyer and client subsists, the court had to go further and examine particular national standards or regulations in order to determine whether in a particular case a party was protected from the disclosure of his communications with his lawyer.
"It would also raise issues of comity if the court were obliged to express views on the qualifications and regulation of foreign lawyers."
Here, acceding to the application would exclude the clients of all in-house lawyers and a large proportion of other lawyers working in Russia from claiming privilege.
"This would be unfair and inconvenient and illustrates why the courts have not been interested in the foreign lawyer's training or discipline… and have taken the view that legal advice privilege extends to communications with all foreign lawyers regardless of their 'particular national standards, regulations or rules with regard to privilege'."
There was, Moulder J went on, no reason on the authorities to distinguish between private practice and in-house lawyers in this regard.
Were the court to hold that privilege did not extend to in-house lawyers in Russia on the basis that they were not regulated or qualified, "it would have the unfairness that since in house lawyers in Russia cannot be advocates, legal advice privilege could never extend to communications with in-house legal advisers in Russia even though that category of lawyers has been accepted as a matter of English law as being covered by the application of the privilege".
The judge – a former capital markets partner at City giant Linklaters – said she also had regard to the evidence "that it would be likely to exclude from the scope of English legal advice privilege employees of law firms in Russia".
Law firms helping oligarchs suppress criticism "a cancer", says MP
Lawyer jailed after defying order to hand over firm's files to SRA
Judge bemoans huge costs of 17-inch boundary dispute
Partners fined for letting non-lawyer take control of group litigation
Lawyers hits back at attacks by international bodies on privilege


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1) Ontario Craft Cider Week kicks off today with events across the province.
2) Hard Cider Sales Rebound After Two Years of Declines according to Nielsen data obtained by Forbes.
3) The Biodiversity Heritage Library releases its Pomology: Apples and Cider collection with online access to the Herefordshire Pomona, the Vinetum Britannicum, and other classic texts.
5) Cider Culture explores how cheesemakers use cider in Made with Cider: Jasper Hill Willoughby Washed-Rind Soft Cheese.
7) Harry's Cider of Somerset is the Supreme British Champion and Johnny Fall Down of Cork is the Supreme International Champion at the British Cider Championships at the Royal Bath & West Show. And Old Monty Cider of Mid Wales is the Champion Producer at the Welsh Perry & Cider Society Championships.
8) Entry registration is open for the Australian Cider Awards and the inaugural Japan Cider and Perry Awards.
9) On tap this weekend: the Hudson Valley Cider Festival (New York), Melick's Hard Cider Festival (New Jersey), the opening of Minnesota Cider Week, the International Cider Festival (Rotterdam), and World Cider Day.
10) Along Came a Cider reviews 2 Towns Pearadise and WildCraft Hard Cider. Cider Says reviews Shacksbury Spritz and Aspall Perronelle's Blush. I Think About Beer reviews Cyril Zangs Ciderman. Cidercraft reviews Cidrerie Milton Cid Rosé. CiderScene reviews Treehorn Miyabi. Cider Table reviews Uncle John's Apple Blueberry. Cider Couple review Cold Hollow Cider Mill Barn Dance. The Cider Drinker reviews 6 Somewhere Sweet. Cider Explorer reviews Dunkertons Breakwells Seedling, InCide Holunder, and Maeloc Sidra Extra Ecológica. Cider from Poland interviews Cydr Chyliczki. And Real Cider Reviews previews the Festival Ciders at GABS Sydney and reviews Willie Smith's Whisky Aged Cider 2016.


Hermes Taylor-Weiner is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Karolinska Institute. Prior, he was a doctoral candidate in the department of Bioengineering at UCSD. Under the supervision of Dr. Adam Engler, Hermes studies how extracellular matrix properties can be engineered to direct embryonic stem cell differentiation toward definitive endoderm, the embryonic precursor to the adult pancreas. Hermes' graduate studies have been supported by the UCSD Competitive Edge Fellowship Program and by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program. While at UCSD, Hermes has co-led the Department of Bioengineering's NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program. The REU program provides research opportunities to students from backgrounds that have been traditionally underrepresented in engineering and encourages these students to pursue an advanced degree. As a program coordinator, Hermes has helped participants win competitive research fellowships and gain admission to top graduate programs. Hermes' long-term career goals include broadening the participation of students in STEM related fields through mentoring and public policy.


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Q: permanently append text to a UITextView I'm trying a create a UITextView that upon selection adds the users handle to the beginning of the text.
I understand it is possible to create another UITextView and place it to the left of the second UITextView to make it look like they are part of the same range but for formatting purposes it would be much easier if both parts were part of the same textview...
Here's the function I'm using along with an example of it being used.
func addHandle(text:String, handle:String) -> NSAttributedString {

    let convertedText = NSMutableAttributedString()

    let h = NSMutableAttributedString(string: handle)
    h.beginEditing()

    let m = NSMutableAttributedString(string: text)
    m.beginEditing()

    do {
        m.addAttributes([NSFontAttributeName: UIFont.init(name: "PingFangSC-Regular", size: 18)], range: (m.string as NSString).range(of: m.string))
        h.addAttributes([NSFontAttributeName: UIFont.init(name: "PingFangSC-Medium", size: 18)], range: (h.string as NSString).range(of: h.string))

        convertedText.append(h)
        convertedText.append(m)

        m.endEditing()
        h.endEditing()
    }
    return convertedText
}

let myHandle = "Johnny: "
let myMessage = "This is a test"

addHandle(text: myMessage, handle: myHandle)

In this scenario the both handle and message are able to be concatenated.
However when the text is changed, as seen below, since the handle is part of the new text it runs the function again and adds the handle again.
func textViewDidBeginEditing(_ textView: UITextView) {
    let currentString: String = textView.text!
    self.t.searchBar.attributedText = addHandle(text: currentString, handle: "Johnny: ")
}

 func textViewDidChange(_ textView: UITextView) {

    let currentString: String = textView.text!
    self.t.searchBar.attributedText = addHandle(text: currentString, handle: "Johnny: ")

    UIView.animate(withDuration: 0.15, delay: 0, options: UIViewAnimationOptions.curveEaseOut, animations: {
        self.view.layoutIfNeeded()
    }, completion: { (completed) in

    })
}

How should I go about modifying the my function or implementation to ensure that

*

*The handle is always first before the message

*The user cannot erase the handle from the text

The following should be possible:
Johhny: Test Message
Johnny:
This should not be possible
Johnn
Any suggestions?
EDIT:
Here's a screenshot displaying the current behavior.
The handle is "Johnny: "and the text typed was "This"

A: I think you should use something like that (note I used textField, but you can made the same for textView):
public func textField(_ textField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersIn range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool {
   var newString = (textField.text! as NSString).replacingCharacters(in: range, with: string)
   if !newString.hasPrefix(handle) {
       newString = "\(handle): \(newString)"
   }
   textView.text = newString

   // Optional font color change for the handle
   let attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: textView.text!, attributes: [ NSFontAttributeName : generalFont, NSForegroundColorAttributeName: textView.textColor ]);
   attributedString.addAttribute(NSFontAttributeName, value: anotherFont, range: NSMakeRange(0, handle.characters.count));
   textView.attributedText = attributedString
   return false
}

Also you can try to check range and deny editing (return false) if the range covers the first characters of the string (where you handle is placed).

A: Please check :
funs textView(_ textView: UITextView, shouldChangeTextIn range: NSRange, replacementText text: String) -> Bool {

    let myHandle = "Johnny: "
    let substringRange: NSRange = (textView.text as NSString).range(of: myHandle)
    if range.location >= substringRange.location && range.location <= substringRange.location + substringRange.length - 1 {
        return false
    }
    return true
}

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A live episode of The Microscopists featuring Eric Betzig
Ask Eric Anything:
The Microscopists is going LIVE! For a one-off and very special guest - Eric Betzig!
We already know so much about Eric, but I hope that our chat will reveal more about the man behind the many ingenious contributions to the world of microscopy, life sciences, and science in general.
While Eric is well known for receiving the 2014 Nobel Prize for Chemistry along with Stefan Hell and William Moerner for developing super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, you might be surprised to hear that he doesn't consider himself a chemist at all.
Join us as we talk about the challenges and excitement of building a living room microscope, moving from academia to industry and back again, and how being a house husband led to a scientific breakthrough.
As this is a live event, you'll have the opportunity to put your own questions to Eric. Places will be limited so make sure you register now for the opportunity to ask Eric anything.
Eric Betzig
Professor of Physics
Professor of Molecular and Cell biology
Janelia Research Campus
Eric is a Professor of Molecular and Cell biology, the Eugene D. Commins Presidential Chair in Experimental Physics, a Senior Fellow at the Janelia Research Campus, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of California, Berkeley.
Eric has had an unconventional career, moving between industry and academia and even leaving research altogether, first to be a house husband and then to work for his father in the machine tool industry. His return to research came after he, together with his best friend Harald Hess, built the first super-resolution single-molecule localization microscope in Harald's living room. This work not only heralded his return to academic research but resulted in him receiving the 2014 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. His work continues to focus on the development of new imaging tools for biological research.
Read Eric's Bio
Head of Imaging and Cytometry
Royal Microscopical Society
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Willms, Henry J. (1882-1965)
Henry and Susanna Willms
Henry J. Willms: farmer, writer, and churchman; born 12 June 1882 in Petershagen, Molotchna Mennonite Settlement, South Russia to Jacob and Maria (Walde) Willms. He was the sixth of thirteen children. On 21 October 1905 he married Susanna Neufeld. They had seven children: Jacob, Henry, Margaret, Susanna, Mary, Kathleen, and John.
Henry completed high school in Halbstadt, Molotchna and was baptized in the local Mennonite Church. He owned a farm in Tiege. During World War I he worked in the Russian forestry service (Forsteidienst).
Owing to the turmoil caused by the Russian Revolution, two of his brothers immigrated to Canada in 1925. However, Henry felt compelled to remain in Soviet Russia to help build the country under a socialistic government. In 1921, Lenin had persuaded the 10th Party Congress to approve the New Economic Policy. These initiatives seemed to promise improvement for ordinary people. Then in 1928 Joseph Stalin introduced his Five Year Plan, emphasizing the development of heavy industry as a means of rebuilding the war-shattered Russian economy. Henry notes in his diary that as a result of the havoc caused by these measures, the Willms family fled to Moscow. They attribute their departure from the Soviet Union in 1929 and eventual immigration to Canada as God's providence.
Along with five other families, the Willms family settled in Abbotsford in 1931. With the influx of numerous other Mennonite settlers, Henry became active in developing the social life of the community. Soon after arriving in Abbotsford, Henry joined the South Abbotsford Mennonite Brethren Church, and served as secretary-treasurer of the church for many years.
Henry was a visionary. He encouraged Mennonite settlers to start a co-op grocery store, a local co-op fire insurance plan, a bulldozer co-op for clearing stumps from the land, and a co-op berry processing plant – the Abbotsford Growers Co-op. Henry also took great interest in the development of a German-language Bible school (South Abbotsford Mennonite Brethren Bible School, the predecessor of the present Columbia Bible College). During World War II Mennonites, being primarily German-speaking people, feared that they might lose their possessions and be evicted from the coast as had happened to people of Japanese ancestry. These war-induced tensions notwithstanding, Henry J. Willms was part of a committee that petitioned the provincial government for permission to start a Mennonite high school in Abbotsford. With official permission to do so, the Mennonitische Erziehungs Institute was begun in 1943, and soon became the Mennonite Educational Institute.
Willms was also keenly interested in local evangelism, resulting in the establishment of the "Rand Mission", a mission organization whose goal it was to evangelize the areas surrounding Clearbrook and Abbotsford. This mission became the predecessor to the West Coast Children's Mission, which eventually became the British Columbia Mennonite Brethren Board of Church Extension.
Henry J. Willms farmed to pay his bills. However, he found community work and writing more to his liking than farming. He died in Abbotsford on 31 July 1965.
Willms, H. J. Die Sued-Abbotsford Ansiedlung, ein Historischer Bericht Vor den Toren Moscau. Abbotsford, BC: South Abbotsford Mennonite Brethren Church, 195?.
Willms, Henry J. Personal Papers, including Mein Lebenslauf, a One Year Diary – 1909, and a Two Year Diary – 1928-1930.
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Berlin Federal Correctional Institution, sometimes referred to as Berlin FCI, is a medium security prison located in Berlin New Hampshire, part of Coos County. Berlin FCI operates a minimum security satellite prison camp located adjacent to the main facility. The camp houses approximately 79 minimum security males, while the main unit houses over 1,016 male inmates. Berlin FCI contains three housing units, A, B, and C.
Berlin FCI is located on over 700 acres of land. The main unit is secured by two 16 foot chain link fences with ten rolls of razor wire between them. In addition, motion and microwave detection systems are implemented to monitor movements at the perimeter. Two roving patrol vehicles monitor the perimeter 24 hours per day.
Inmates located at the minimum security camp provide a labor support force to the main unit. These camp inmates are employed in work details that include facility maintenance, landscaping, kitchen and laundry duty.
Inmates at FCI Berlin are offered a variety of programs and activities that include educational, vocational, recreational, religious and mental health programs. A Residential Drug Abuse Program, known as RDAP, is provided to medium security inmates who have alcohol/drug problems. Literacy and English Second Language are a required program for inmates who do not currently possess these skills. Educational programs include Adult Continuing Education (ACE) courses and GED courses/testing. Inmates who currently possess a high school diploma or GED can take occupational educational programs and even earn a degree or certification in specific fields.
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Offenders located at Berlin Federal Correctional Institution are allowed visits on Saturdays, Sundays and Federal Holidays from 8:15am to 3pm. The processing of visitors will end at 2pm, so if you arrive after 2pm you will not be allowed to visit. All visitors must be on the inmate's approved visitation list. Inmates are allowed up to five approved visitors during a single visit. All visitors 16 years and older must sign into the visitors log book. Visitors are allowed to bring a small clear Ziploc bag with up to twenty dollars in denominations no larger then $5.
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Transfer spotlight: Liverpool and Arsenal target Nolito – Spain's answer to Jamie Vardy?
29th January 2016, 4:00 pm
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Liverpool and Arsenal target Nolito isn't short of admirers, and rightly so.
The 29-year-old, in similar circumstances to Jamie Vardy at Leicester, appears to be experiencing an Indian summer in his career after being cast aside by Barcelona in his earlier years.
talkSPORT understands that the Reds have tabled an €18m offer for the Celta Vigo hitman, viewing him as an ideal and cheaper alternative to Alex Teixeira, who appears increasingly unlikely to leave Shakhtar Donetsk this month.
But who is the Spaniard?
Full name: Manuel Agudo Duran
Position: Forward/Winger
La Liga appearances for Celta Vigo: 84
La Liga goals for Celta Vigo: 35
Spain caps: 5
Nolito was reportedly on the verge of a return to Barcelona this month nearly five years after he was deemed surplus to requirements by the Catalans. The Spaniard moved to Benfica in 2011 before he really stepped up his development when Celta brought him back to Spain in 2013. Barca were tipped to secure his services in January until they recently backed out of negotiations, putting Arsenal and Liverpool on red alert.
To continue the Barcelona theme, Nolito was instrumental in September in inflicting the European champions' first defeat of the season in a stunning 4-1 win. He scored one, a beautiful curled effort (see video below), and then set up former Liverpool man Iago Aspas twice in the rout.
His low centre of gravity is reminiscent of Sergio Aguero and Luis Suarez, but he is at his most influential when coming off the left wing rather than the focal point up front.
Could he be on the move before Monday's deadline?
Watch Nolito's stunning display against Barcelona from earlier this campaign:


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The Revolution's Torturers: Systematic Human Rights Abuses in New Libya
By Andrew Bashi
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Leading human rights organizations detail how militias that fought for the overthrow of the Gaddafi regime are utilizing the very same brutal tactics that they once claimed to oppose.
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The month of February marks the one-year anniversary of the beginning of protests against the now fallen Gaddafi regime in Libya. While many Libyans have been in the streets celebrating the fall of one oppressive regime, several leading human rights agencies are fearful of what the country has become and where it may be headed.
A report published by Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday documents widespread human rights violations by the very militia groups that fought to topple the Gaddafi government. The report, Militias threaten hopes for new Libya, describes the militias as being "largely out of control." Amnesty's representatives expressed grave concern over the near-universal impunity for crimes committed by the anti-Gaddafi militias.
The specific crimes highlighted by the report are numerous. From widespread torture and unlawful killings to extralegal secret detentions, the militias appear to be adopting practices just as brutal as those they once criticized under the fallen regime. Speaking to the Daily Mail, Donatella Rovera, AI's senior crisis response advisor, described some of what was witnessed on the ground: "I have seen people who have been beaten with iron bars and rubber pipes, some hardly able to walk. . .Men are hung by handcuffs from a doorframe and attacked with electric wires. Tasers are applied to their ears and genitals, and finger and toenails are torn out."
The report comes at the heel of a slew of abuses that human rights organizations have exposed over the last several months.
In January, aid agency Doctors Without Borders (MSF) halted its work in detention centers in the Libyan city of Misrata. According to MSF general director Christopher Stokes detainees were brought to the doctors in the middle of torture sessions "in order to make them fit for further interrogation." At least 8,500 individuals remain in detention centers around the country.
Earlier this month Human Rights Watch documented the story of Libya's former ambassador to France, Omar Brebesh, who was tortured to death after he voluntarily submitted to questioning in Tripoli over his work for the former regime. Less than 24 hours later, his body became a gruesome display of the militia's brutality--fractured ribs, welts, cuts, and removed toenails.
Numerous videos have surfaced showing the atrocities taking place. One obtained last month by the Daily Mail depicts a shopkeeper pleading for his life as militiamen whip and electrocute him with live wires. The man's story is not unique as militias continue to terrorize entire communities, many of which are largely comprised of internally displaced refugees.
In the mean time, clashes between the numerous militia groups continue to intensify, leading to countless deaths, including dozens over the last week.
How the government can successfully reign in the hundreds of militia groups that have sprung up over the last year is still unclear, but it will be crucial if it aims to make Libya a freer country than it was a year ago.
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Andrew Bashi is a Winter 2012 editorial intern at In These Times. A-third year law student at Loyola University Chicago, he is an active board member of the Chicago Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild.
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CHEER seeks Sussex County match to state funding for expanded kitchen
Mar 16th, 2019 · by Glenn Rolfe · Comments:
GEORGETOWN — CHEER Inc. brought its capital campaign to Sussex County Council this week, with a request for money to support its commercial kitchen upgrade that will feed the nutritional need of the county's growing senior population for decades to come.
"We are seeking at least $400,000 from the state. We are asking for a match from the county in that same amount," said CHEER Executive Director Ken Bock. "The state provided $200,000 in its last budget and we have been talking with legislators who are supportive of trying to secure more money in this coming year's budget … at least a match of that amount.
"We are asking the county to match that; $200,000 in the budget that is being developed now, and $200,000 in the subsequent year budget," said Mr. Bock.
Last year CHEER launched Cooking for Sussex Seniors, a $1.673 million fundraising campaign to renovate and expand existing kitchen facilities at CHEER's Warren & Charles Allen Community Center in Georgetown.
The project is designed to meet senior nutrition needs for the next 40 years.
The new kitchen will replace the current outdated, undersized kitchen facility in the Thurman Adams State Service Center that CHEER officials say cannot adequately meet CHEER's daily production demand of 1,700 meals.
"That kitchen was built in the 1980s, renovated in 1990s and designed to produce between 800 and 850 meals a day," said Mr. Bock. "Equipment in that kitchen has a designed life of 20 to 25 years. Today, that undersized kitchen that is over 30 years of age is being called upon to produce twice the number of meals it was ever designed to produce. The equipment has aged beyond its service life. The facility is undersized. It does not have the capacity. We are producing twice the number of daily meals in a kitchen that is 32 years old."
Mr. Bock highlighted commentary from a November 2017 routine Delaware Health and Social Services inspection report which said "production has excessively outgrown the capacity of the kitchen … need more production and refrigerated capacity." (He noted that the facility has never failed or been cited for a violation in public health inspection.)
Nutrition is the largest service CHEER offers, providing meals daily in congregate sites located in two Georgetown locations along with Greenwood, Lewes, Long Neck, Milton, Ocean View and Roxana, all facilities operated by CHEER. In addition, CHEER provides congregate meals at senior sites in Laurel and Bridgeville.
"Our homebound meals program, Meals on Wheels provides homebound meals throughout all of Sus-sex County. We are in Milford. We are in Delmar. We are in Seaford, all of Sussex County with exception of the area in Rehoboth and Lewes where there is a separate, smaller Meals on Wheels provider," said Mr. Bock. "This is only made possible by through our volunteers, who are committed, dedicated to making a difference in the lives of people in Sussex County."
CHEER has more than 450 active volunteers who make those services. he said.
But the current kitchen facility simply "cannot serve the current demand and it certainly cannot re-spond to the future demands here in Sussex County," said Mr. Bock.
The new nutrition center will include renovation of 2,000 square feet of existing kitchen area with a 4,300-square-foot expansion.
This, Mr. Bock told council, would provide production capability to serve 2,625 meals daily "which we project the demand to be over the next few years with the growth of the Baby Boomers."
Beckett Wheatley, CHEER's Chief Operating Officer, presented cardboard plates to council members Doug Hudson, Irwin "I.G." Burton and Michael Vincent, signed by CHEER seniors from their respective council districts.
Councilmen John Rieley and Samuel Wilson Jr. previously received signed plates while attending CHEER's recent advocacy breakfast.
For years, the county has supported CHEER, mostly through the county's annual Human Services Grant Program. This fiscal year, Sussex County's support for CHEER totals $55,100, which includes $5,500 per seven locations, $9,600 for general operations, $6,000 for the homebound meal program and a $1,000 council grant, County Finance Director Gina Jennings said.
March for Meals
Mr. Bock invited county council members to participate in the Meals on Wheels/March for Meals program, a national initiative on March 21.
Gov. John Carney, U.S. Sen. Thomas Carper and other state officials are scheduled to participate, Mr. Bock said. In Sussex County, March for Meals will start at 10:30 a.m.
"Take an hour of out of your schedule. Go with a volunteer and go to someone's home and actually deliver a meal," said Mr. Bock. "See what that is like first hand, to experience what is involved, not just in delivering the meal but delivering hope to people who are alone and may have nobody else. See what it means to go into some of these homes and see how some of these people are living and what we do to help provide quality of life and allow them to stay in their homes throughout Sussex County."


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ADATA Just Released Its Newest Consumer Flagship SSD, The XPG SX8000 | TechWinter - Technology News & Reviews
ADATA Just Released Its Newest Consumer Flagship SSD, The XPG SX8000
ADATA has launched a new M.2 3D NAND SSD part of the XPG (Xtreme Performance Gear) products, which are famous for their great performance and attractive style. The XPG SX8000 drives promise up to 2.4 GB/s read speed as well as the enhanced reliability of 3D NAND.
The SX8000 meets NVMe 1.2 specifications and connects directly to motherboards via PCI Express 3.0 x4 (PCIe 3×4) to deliver the 2.4GB/s read and 1GB/s write, with 100K/140K IOPS. The SX8000 arrives in diverse capacities (128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB variants), ensuring a new generation of SSD performance is available to more users. A slightly faster version is fitted with an attractive XPG heatsink will release by the end of October, promising an aesthetic bonus for the case modding enthusiasts.
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What's more, the SX8000 has merits in terms of its architecture – it uses reliable 3D MLC NAND Flash. This means that not only will it be more effective, but a smaller form factor and also decreased power consumption. According to the manufacturer, SX8000 features a 2 million hour MTBF (mean time between failures) rating, or 25 percent longer than 2D NAND SSD (which average 1.5 million hours).
The SX8000 features full NVMe 1.2 compatibility, and powering a large performance boost that means users notice gains in real world scenarios, especially loading times within games that require the heavy asset streaming and in professional applications such as graphics and audio rendering.
Adata says that a faster, heatsink-clad version of the SX8000 is coming in late October. Presumably the naked version of drive will be arrive beforehand. The SX8000 will be available in 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB variants, all covered by a 5-year warranty.
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