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MONDAY CARTOON: VERY SCARY, BOYS AND GIRLS
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HOWARD WOLPE, EX-CONGRESSMAN WHO PUSHED FOR '86 ANTI-APARTHEID ACT
By DENNIS HEVESI
Howard E. Wolpe, a former congressman who played a crucial role in passing legislation that imposed economic sanctions on South Africa in the 1980s, helping to bring an end to apartheid while overcoming two vetoes by President Ronald Reagan, died Tuesday at his home in Saugatuck, Mich. He was 71.
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President Bill Clinton with Howard E. Wolpe in 1994.
His cousin Bruce Wolpe said the cause had not been determined.
Mr. Wolpe, a Democrat, represented the Third Congressional District in southwestern Michigan for 14 years, starting in 1978. He was chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee's Subcommittee on Africa from 1982 to 1992. That placed him at the forefront of America's policy response to the growing domestic movement pressuring South Africa's government to end more than half a century of white supremacist rule.
He was a primary sponsor of the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986, which imposed sanctions against American companies doing business in South Africa. Among its provisions, it called for government pension plans to withdraw their investments from corporations doing billions of dollars of business there.
That was too blunt for the White House. "President Reagan saw South Africa as an important ally against expansion of Soviet influence, and he was a very pro-business president," Steve McDonald, director of the Africa program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, said on Friday. "He wanted to use what he called 'constructive engagement' with the government to bring an end to apartheid."
Mr. Reagan twice vetoed versions of the law. Though the second draft was weaker, in Mr. Wolpe's opinion, he led the effort to marshal the bipartisan support needed in both the House and Senate to overturn the second veto.
From the House floor on Aug. 1, 1985, he declared: "The white minority regime will abandon apartheid, and will agree to enter into negotiations with the credible black leadership of the majority of the population, only at that point when it concludes that it has more to lose than to gain by attempting to hold on to apartheid."
Mr. Wolpe retained his concern for Africa well after he retired from Congress in 1992. In a statement on Thursday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said that "as special envoy to Africa's Great Lakes Region under President Clinton, he supported peace talks that helped bring an end to longstanding civil wars in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo."
Howard Eliot Wolpe was born in Los Angeles on Nov. 3, 1939, the only child of Arthur and Zelda Wolpe. He graduated from Reed College in Oregon and went on the earn a doctorate in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Soon after, he began teaching at Western Michigan University. He was later a professor at the University of Michigan and Michigan State University.
Before entering Congress, Mr. Wolpe served in the Michigan House of Representatives. He ran for governor in 1994 but lost to the incumbent, John Engler.
Mr. Wolpe's first marriage, to Celia Jeanene Taylor, ended in divorce. He is survived by his wife, Julianne Fletcher, and a son from his first marriage, Michael.
Apartheid ended in 1994. Among the conditions for lifting sanctions in the legislation championed by Mr. Wolpe was that the South African government release Nelson Mandela from prison.
"One of the first calls that Mandela made when he was finally released in 1990," Mr. McDonald said, "was to Howard Wolpe to thank him for playing the role he did in passing the law."
JAMES HILLMAN, THERAPIST IN MEN'S MOVEMENT
By BENEDICT CAREY
James Hillman, a charismatic therapist and best-selling author whose theories about the psyche helped revive interest in the ideas of Carl Jung, animating the so-called men's movement in the 1990s and stirring the pop-cultural air, died on Thursday at his home in Thompson, Conn. He was 85.
Bill Ballenberg
James Hillman in 1985. His ideas revived interest in Jung.
The cause was complications of bone cancer, his wife, Margot McLean-Hillman, said.
Part scholar, part mystic and part performance artist in his popular lectures, Mr. Hillman began making waves from the day he became the director of studies at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich in 1959.
Mr. Hillman followed his mentor's lead in taking aim at the assumptions behind standard psychotherapies, including Freudian analysis, arguing that the best clues for understanding the human mind lay in myth and imagination, not in standard psychological or medical concepts.
His 1964 book, "Suicide and the Soul," challenged therapists to view thoughts of death not as symptoms to be cured but more as philosophical longings to be explored and understood. A later book, "Re-Visioning Psychology," argued that psychology's narrow focus on pathology served only to amplify feelings of anxiety and depression.
Feelings like those, he said, are rooted not in how one was treated as a child or in some chemical imbalance but in culture, in social interactions, in human nature and its churning imagination. For Mr. Hillman, a person's demons really were demons, and the best course was to accept and understand them. To try to banish them, he said, was only to ask for more trouble.
He might advise a parent trying to manage, say, a mentally troubled son to begin by "stop trying to change him."
By the time he returned to the United States in 1970s, Mr. Hillman had adapted Jungian ideas into a model he called archetypal psychology, rooted in the aesthetic imagination. It was irresistible for many artists, poets, and musicians. The actress Helen Hunt, the composer and performer Meredith Monk, the actor Mark Rylance and John Densmore, the drummer for the Doors, were among his adherents, drawn in part by his force of personality, at once playful and commanding, generous and cunning.
"For all his Saturnine and Martial defense of psyche in our scientifically defined cosmos," Mr. Rylance wrote in a statement, "he is the most jovial person to sit with."
In the late 1980s, Mr. Hillman and two friends, the poet Robert Bly and the writer and storyteller Michael J. Meade, began leading conferences exploring male archetypes in myths, fairy tales and poems.
The gatherings struck a chord, particularly with middle-aged men — Mr. Bly's book "Iron John" became a best-seller — and by the early 1990s there were thousands of such men's workshops and retreats across the country, many complete with drumming, sweat lodges and shout-outs to the ancient ancestors.
"I don't know what to say about James," Mr. Bly said in an e-mail. "You could say, 'James threw enormous parties for the spirits.' "
In 1997, at age 70, Mr. Hillman became a best-selling author himself when "The Soul's Code" reached the New York Times list. He appeared on "Oprah."
"He was in the tradition — or maybe the nontradition — of Alan Watts: a psychologist, thinker and lay philosopher who took concepts from a variety of sources and melded them into his own, particular idiosyncratic take," said Wade E. Pickren, chairman of psychology at Pace University in New York and editor of the journal History of Psychology.
"I think psychology is prone to and also needs people like Hillman who think outside the box," Professor Pickren said. "Sometimes he's following his own idiosyncrasies, but sometimes his observations make us all pause and reconsider."
James Hillman, the third of four children of Julian Hillman, a hotelier, and his wife, Madeleine, was born on April 12, 1926, in a room at one of his father's properties, the Breakers Hotel in Atlantic City. His mother ran an accessory shop.
After high school, James attended the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University for two years before joining the Navy's Hospital Corps in 1944. He studied English literature in Paris at the Sorbonne and graduated with honors from Trinity College in Dublin with a degree in mental and moral science.
But it was when he moved to Zurich and enrolled at the C. G. Jung Institute, in 1953, that his imagination took flight. After 10 years as the director of studies there, he zigzagged between Europe and the United States, writing, giving lectures, editing a Jungian journal and, in 1978, landing at the University of Dallas as graduate dean. There he helped found the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture.
He wrote more than 20 books and was a sought-after speaker, often drawing a full house, delivering the Terry lectures at Yale and others at Harvard and Princeton, and appearing regularly in Switzerland, Italy and India, as well as at annual symposiums at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, Calif., which houses his papers.
Once, early in his career, an editor rejected one of his manuscripts, saying it would "set psychology back 300 years," according to Dick Russell, who is writing a two-volume biography, "The Life and Ideas of James Hillman," due out next year. "He just loved hearing that," Mr. Russell said, "because that's exactly what he wanted to do."
Mr. Hillman was married three times. Besides his wife, Ms. McLean-Hillman, an artist, he is survived by four children from his first marriage: Julia Hillman of Woodstock, Conn.; Carola Hillman of St. Gallen, Switzerland; Susanne Hillman of Zurich; and Laurence Hillman of St. Louis; as well as two sisters, Sue Becker and Sybil Pike, and a brother, Joel.
"Some people in desperation have turned to witchcraft, magic and occultism, to drugs and madness, anything to rekindle imagination and find a world ensouled," Mr. Hillman wrote in 1976. "But these reactions are not enough. What is needed is a revisioning, a fundamental shift of perspective out of that soulless predicament we call modern consciousness."
SKYWATCH: PLUTO VS. ERIS: A DEAD HEAT, GOODBYE ELENIN, AND MORE
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Eris and Pluto: Does Size Matter?
October 27, 2011 | It's been nearly a year since the dwarf planet Eris passed directly in front of a star and, in doing so, gave observers the measurements they needed to deduce its diameter. It turns out that Eris and Pluto are almost exactly the same size — and yet different in many ways. > read more
Comet Elenin's Last Gasp
October 25, 2011 | It was never going to be an "extinction-level" threat to Earth, but skygazers had hoped that Comet Elenin (C/2010 X1) would put on a decent show in October's predawn skies. In the end, however, it just went "poof". > read more
"Blue Stragglers" Renewed by Stealing
October 24, 2011 | Some deceptively youthful stars may find their fountains of youth in material they grab off other stars. > read more
S&T: Lauren Darby
Tour November's Sky by Eye and Ear!
October 28, 2011 | With the return to Standard Time for North America and Europe, northern stargazers can catch some of the evening's offerings before dinnertime. Venus and Jupiter are planetary bookends at sunset, with Venus lurking low in the western twilight just as the King of Planets rises in the east. > read more
Uranus and Neptune in 2011
May 31, 2011 | Uranus and Neptune are easy to find with the aid of the charts in this article. > read more
Ceres and Vesta in 2011
September 8, 2011 | The two brightest asteroids are in fine view for binoculars or a telescope. Here are instructions and charts to find them. > read more
Jupiter: Big, Bright, and Beautiful
September 23, 2011 | The "King of Planets," which will dominate the evening sky from late 2011 through early 2012, is a captivating sight no matter how you look at it. > read more
Observe Mira, the Amazing Star
September 28, 2011 | The extraordinary variable star Mira is expected to peak in early October, 2011. > read more
Trusty Comet Garradd
September 1, 2011 | Comet C/2009 P1 Garradd is shining at 7th or maybe even 6th magnitude as it traverses southeastern Hercules. > read more
Sky & Telescope diagram
October 28, 2011 | Jupiter is at an unusually close opposition, as big as you'll ever see it. Venus and Mercury show themselves together briefly after sunset. And Comet Garradd shines on. > read more
December 2011 S&T
Sky & Telescope December 2011
October 26, 2011 | Sky & Telescope's December 2011 issue is now available to digital subscribers. > read more
Let the Star Parties Begin!
April 14, 2011 | Want to gaze at the Milky Way all night or peer into the eyepiece of a 12-inch telescope? Escape the city lights and head for the nearest big amateur nighttime gathering. > read more
. . . .AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: "THE GIANT CLAW" (1957)
Today's B-movie is that science fiction classic The Giant Claw.
Released June, 1957, and produced by Clover Productions (through Columbia Pictures), the film stars Jeff Morrow and Mara Corday. The film was directed by Fred F. Sears.
The film has been derided for its poor special effects and a monster that resembled a puppet/marionette. Jeff Morrow, along with Ms. Corday and the other actors, did not know what the monster looked like until they saw it in a film premiere. Story has it that Mr. Morrow saw a screening of the film, and every time the monster came on-screen, the audience laughed. He was so embarrassed that he sneaked out of the theater.
Seventeen million years old, from some God-forsaken anti-matter galaxy out in space, the giant Chicken/Vulture/Road Runner/Thanksgiving Turkey monster, that is bigger than a battleship, has come to wreak havoc, destruction, and humongous bird droppings on humankind.
There is panic from Broadway to Bombay!
Why did it come here?
What does it want?
Why is it wasting every human being it sees?
Hydrogen bombs, atom bombs. Nothing can stop it.
And it's bigger than a battleship!
See the Giant Claw lay waste to the Empire State Building and the United Nations Building.
See it terrorize and savage a cast of defenseless thousands.
Watch in horror as it picks up a locomotive as if it is a toy train…wait a minute…it is a toy train.
Scream in agony as the Giant Claw annihilates flying jets.
Run as horror darkens the sky and screen.
Will stalwart electronics engineer/pilot Mitch McAfee and mathematician Sally Caldwell be able to save the world?
Fear the Claw.
ABC TO TURN TRACEY MCMILLAN'S SINGLE LADIES-HATING MANIFESTO INTO SITCOM
Okay, Tracey McMillan not Terry McMillan.
This is Tracey McMillan:
She is suffering from psychosis.
This is Terry MacMillan:
She is a well-known author.
Just want to get that clear with those of you about to read the following article.
Akiba Solomon, of Colorlines, gave an excellent critique of an upcoming ABC/Dreamworks sitcom based on the Black woman-hating manifesto of Tracey McMillan. Ms. Solomon hits all the right notes in deconstructing this woman's profaning the humanity of Black women. The article from Ms. Solomon is posted in its entirety. My comments are added in boldface.
ABC to Turn Tracy McMillan's Single Ladies-Hating Manifesto Into Sitcom
Photo: istock
by Akiba Solomon
Thursday, October 27 2011, 9:01 AM EST
I'm having heart palpitations. They could be due to the soil-black bodega coffee I just drank. Or maybe my blood pressure is on high because I just read that ABC is basing a sitcom on "Why You're Not Married", TV writer and author Tracy McMillan's woman-bashing, click-bait manifesto published on Huffington Post this past winter. Billed as a "brutally honest look at love," the DreamWorks-backed ensemble comedy will likely follow the release of McMillan's elegantly titled second book, "Why You're Not Married…Yet: How To Stop Acting Like a Bitch And Start Getting Hitched."
When McMillan's editorial first appeared on HuffPo back in February, I made a point to skip it. While I am a never-married woman in my mid 30s who sometimes yearns for a husband, I didn't understand how a three-times divorced "Mad Men" writer could intuit anything about my romantic life. But after learning that a black woman piece had crossed over to TV, I figured I should check it out.
I regret that decision.
To start, McMillan, the daughter of a black pimp and a white prostitute who abandoned her as a child, believes that "the problem is not men, it's you. Because the fact is—if whatever you're doing right now was going to get you married, you'd already have a ring on it."
After setting up heterosexual female singlehood as a problem, she offers the following helpful observations about unmarried women. I've excerpted them at length to deny the piece traffic and inserted some wise, warm Maya Angelou-worthy responses:
McMillan says: "You're a Bitch."
Here's what I mean by bitch. I mean you're angry. You probably don't think you're angry. You think you're super smart, or if you've been to a lot of therapy, that you're setting boundaries. But the truth is you're pissed…. And it's scaring men off. The deal is: most men just want to marry someone who is nice to them. I am the mother of a 13-year-old boy, which is like living with the single-cell protozoa version of a husband. Here's what my son wants out of life: macaroni and cheese, a video game, and Kim Kardashian.
I say: Yawn. The idea that single women are inherently angry is as cutting-edge as "The Taming of the Shrew." Also: I got your bitch.
[And most women want to marry someone who is nice to them. Many women desire a man who is patient, kind, considerate and a good listener. A man who does not talk down, talk against, nor talk at a woman as if she has no right to exist in this world. Many women want a man who treats them with respect, not contempt.]
McMillan says: "You're Shallow."
When it comes to choosing a husband, only one thing really, truly matters: character. So it stands to reason that a man's character should be at the top of the list of things you are looking for, right? But if you're not married, I already know it isn't. Because if you were looking for a man of character, you would have found one by now…. Instead, you are looking for someone tall. Or rich. Or someone who knows what an Eames chair is. Unfortunately, this is not the thinking of a wife. This is the thinking of a teenaged girl. And men of character do not want to marry teenaged girls.
I say: Nothing. Because Racialicious editor Latoya Peterson already covered this in a recent Guardian op-ed. Peterson's piece addressed the "Why Black Women Cain't Get a Man" cottage industry led by Steve Harvey and "Nightline," but I think her points about desire, compatibility and timing are universal.
[There are women who want a man who has character. You will see his character in how he treats all women: his mother, his sisters, his aunts, his daughters. How he treats other women not related to him, says a lot about him. How he treats a waitress who waits on him, how he treats the checker girl at the grocery. How he treats women of all races and ethnicities–goes a long way towards saying a great deal about his character.
"Because if you were looking for a man of character, you would have found one by now…. "
No. You will not have found "one by now". There is no set in stone time limit on when a woman finds the right man for her. Some women are not ready to involve a man in their life when they are in their twenties; some women are ready for a man when they are older. I will echo Ms. Solomon—-it is about timing, compatibility, and desire–and those are universal.]
McMillan says: "You're a Slut."
Hooking up with some guy in a hot tub on a rooftop is fine for the ladies of "Jersey Shore"—but they're not trying to get married. You are. Which means, unfortunately, that if you're having sex outside committed relationships, you will have to stop. Why? Because past a certain age, casual sex is like recreational heroin—it doesn't stay recreational for long. That's due in part to this thing called oxytocin—a bonding hormone that is released when a woman a) nurses her baby and b) has an orgasm—that will totally mess up your casual-sex game.
I say: Is it 1842? Do hot tubs, rooftops and sex outside of betrothal really make women "sluts"? And at the risk of splitting hairs, I have to point out that all sex doesn't lead to orgasms and oxytocin wears off.
[Here we go, the old "Women who have sex are sluts." So, if women are not to have sex, and are to remain chaste, then should that not hold as well for men? How can a woman be the only one doing wrong, but, the man who has sex with her is not wrong just as well?
"b) has an orgasm—that will totally mess up your casual-sex game."
Orgasm for who? Certainly not the woman.
I agree with Ms. Solomon: all sex does not lead to orgasms.
Unless you are a man.
There are various sexual positions (of which I need not point out to any adults reading my post). Many of those positions do not lead to orgasm for women.
Unless it is foreplay followed with oral sex—or the woman is on top, those would be the only two known ways that guarantee a woman an orgasm.]
McMillan says: "You're a Liar."
It usually goes something like this: you meet a guy who is cute and likes you, but he's not really available for a relationship. You know if you tell him the truth—that you're ready for marriage—he will stop calling. Usually that day. And you don't want that. So you just tell him how perfect this is because you only want to have sex for fun!… About 10 minutes later, the oxytocin kicks in. You start wanting more. But you don't tell him that. That's your secret—just between you and 22,000 of your closest girlfriends.
I say: You need more people. In my experience, men don't stop calling because you're ready for marriage and they're not. Actually, I've found that most assume you want to marry them, even if you don't. Know why they believe this? Because male-supremacist writing like McMillan's promotes the idea that women are desperate, clueless, marriage-obsessed, casserole-baking sperm receptacles. In a backhanded way, it also reinforces the idea that men are childlike automatons who barely like women and only care about sex. Men should be offended.
[I agree with Ms. Solomon. A woman needs more people in her circle of relationships. Too many times women get married and it is as if their lives end. They had lives before they married, so goes the same for single women. Activities, hobbies, and surrounding herself with positive uplifting people gives a woman a fulfilling and productive life. Something which many Black women are already doing.
"You know if you tell him the truth—that you're ready for marriage—he will stop calling."
Hell, men can have sex with a woman and stop calling, and your point is what?
Many woman are not interested in marrying the first man who says "Hello" to them that morning. Some women simply want a companion to share life's joys and sorrows with. That companion can be a good friend. Not many women can say they have a man as a good friend. (Or a woman as a good friend). But, just to make sure that everyone reading my words understands when I say friend, I mean friend, not acquaintances.
As for the myth that all women hunger for a man's marriage proposal, it is insulting to men. It paints a picture of men as penis-obsessed robotas, who can think no farther than the next climax and hot meal.
McMillan says: "You're Selfish."
If you're not married, chances are you think a lot about you…. Howevs, a good wife, even a halfway decent one, does not spend most of her day thinking about herself. She has too much s**t to do, especially after having kids. This is why you see a lot of celebrity women getting husbands after they adopt…. After a year or two of thinking about someone other than herself, suddenly, Brad Pitt or Harrison Ford comes along and decides to significantly other her. Which is also to say—if what you really want is a baby, go get you one. Your husband will be along shortly. Motherhood has a way of weeding out the lotharios.
I say: That's original. No, really. I've never heard someone float adoptive motherhood as a cure for selfishness and a way to attract a husband. I'm also intrigued by the idea of motherhood-as-lie-detector. Because players don't dog out single moms. Ever.
[What Ms. Solomon said. That truly is original. Since when have women with young children turned men on? News to me.
And this insane remark:
"Which is also to say—if what you really want is a baby, go get you one. Your husband will be along shortly. Motherhood has a way of weeding out the lotharios."
All I can say is: WTF?
Have a baby, and all the men will come running, eh?
So, Ms. Tracey McMillan, how do you explain women with children who do not have men in their lives—as in the so-called fathers of these children?
You also advocate child abuse, Tracey McMillan. To exhort women or men to have children just for the sake of a hot date or marriage is sickening beyond belief.]
McMillan says: "You're Not Good Enough."
Oh, I don't think that. You do. I can tell because you're not looking for a partner who is your equal. No, you want someone better than you are: better looking, better family, better job. Here is what you need to know: You are enough right this minute. Period. Not understanding this is a major obstacle to getting married, since women who don't know their own worth make terrible wives.
I say: Empowerment-asshole alert! After calling single women bitches, sluts, liars and shallow, throwing in "you are enough right this minute" rings quite false. It's like slapping somebody upside the head with a tube sock full of nickels then giving her an aspirin for the pain.
[Any woman looking for a man in her life would be out of her mind not to want a man who can add substance to her life.
Steel sharpens steel.
A woman empowers herself when she surrounds herself with those who give her good values, information, honesty, loyalty, respect, support, trust, and share interests.
"You are enough right this minute."
Damn, woman. Women are not enough, too little, too much. Make up your damned mind.
No. No one is enough for this minute. Living is a growing and learning experience, right up until the day you die. No mature woman should accept what was alright for her as a child. As an adult, a grown woman has the right to expand and enlarge her life. Methinks you, Ms. Other McMillan have a very big problem with women empowering themselves.]
In closing: I'm looking forward to the forthcoming "Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man" movie starring Chris Brown more than the "Why You're Not Married" show. I hope McMillan enjoys her 15 minutes.
["Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man".
Too much garbage-in, garbage-out TV shows have turned too many in this nation into idiots.]
It will not surprise me when (not if) this hot mess of a show premieres and skyrockets in the ratings.
Some TV viewers in America hunger after the lowest common denominator, and sitcoms like this always do well in pouring forth the vomit that some Americans have looked forward to like a heroin junkie seeking their next fix.
(Article: SOURCE)
COLORLINES: "WE'RE A CULTURE, NOT A COSTUME"
Ohio Univ. Students to Classmates: 'We're a Culture, Not a Costume'
Controversy surrounding racist Halloween costumes have become a routine part of the holiday on college campuses. Jorge Rivas reports on a group of Ohio University students that decided to get in front of the problem this year—and they're making a national sensation doing so.
Also: Urban Outfitters' 'Indian Chic' Prompts Sadly Familiar Outrage
Occupy Oakland Faces a Troubled Police Dept.–and Historic Mayor
The city's first Asian-American mayor ordered raids on Oakland's Occupiers. Roberto Lovato reports from the scene, where questions swirled about race and power in the 21st century.
Walmart Can't Lead Us Out of the Food Desert
Efforts to get affordable healthy foods into deprived communities are finally spreading around the country. Unfortunately, legislators have focused on courting corporate supermarkets rather than supporting local alternatives that would be truly healthy.
300 Colorado Homeowners Close Their Accounts at Wells Fargo
On Tuesday, 300 members of the Colorado Progressive Coalition divested from the state's largest bank.
Counties Defy Feds, Vow Not to Detain Immigrants on ICE's Behalf
Both Santa Clara County and Washington, D.C. are finding ways around the federal government's Secure Communities deportation program.
Why Los Angeles Police Can't Ticket Students on Their Way to School
Observers say that black and Latino students were ticketed most often. Now, advocates are searching for policies that actually work.
FBI Uses Maps to Track Muslims and Fight Fake Crime
Warrantless surveillance of Muslim communities continues, now with high-tech tools.
ICE Agent During Search: 'The Warrant is Coming Out of My Balls'
The ACLU alleges that ICE's tactics are growing dirtier by the day.
HATEWATCH: HATE CHARGES STAND IN CROSS-BURNING TRIAL
Hate charges stand in cross-burning trial
BY ROBERT McDONALD
A San Luis Obispo County Superior Court judge let stand hate crime charges against four defendants accused of burning a cross outside of a black woman's Arroyo Grande home.
Defense lawyers argued the hate crime allegations should be dropped because, in this case, the cross burning was symbolic speech. The cross was burned March 18 at the site where the father of one of the defendants was killed by a sheriff's deputy 17 years before.
Jeremiah Hernandez, Jason Kahn, Sara Matheny, and William Soto face arson, conspiracy, and hate crime charges.
Superior Court Judge Jacquelyn Duffy rejected the defense motion, saying First Amendment protections didn't apply in this case. The next court hearing is scheduled for Nov. 2.
Any time you burn anything on a person's property, against their will or to harm and threaten that person or persons, that is arson, a felony under state law. Per California's Penal Code, Chapter 1, Arson:
(a) "Structure" means any building, or commercial or public tent,
bridge, tunnel, or powerplant.
(b) "Forest land" means any brush covered land, cut-over land,
forest, grasslands, or woods.
(c) "Property" means real property or personal property, other
than a structure or forest land.
(d) "Inhabited" means currently being used for dwelling purposes
whether occupied or not. "Inhabited structure" and "inhabited
property" do not include the real property on which an inhabited
structure or an inhabited property is located.
(e) "Maliciously" imports a wish to vex, defraud, annoy, or injure
another person, or an intent to do a wrongful act, established
either by proof or presumption of law.
(f) "Recklessly" means a person is aware of and consciously
disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that his or her act
will set fire to, burn, or cause to burn a structure, forest land, or
property. The risk shall be of such nature and degree that disregard
thereof constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of conduct
that a reasonable person would observe in the situation. A person who
creates such a risk but is unaware thereof solely by reason of
voluntary intoxication also acts recklessly with respect thereto.
451. A person is guilty of arson when he or she willfully and
maliciously sets fire to or burns or causes to be burned or who aids,
counsels, or procures the burning of, any structure, forest land, or
As for the following:
"Defense lawyers argued the hate crime allegations should be dropped because, in this case, the cross burning was symbolic speech."
It is symbolic, alright.
Cross burning anywhere on the property of a Black citizen is meant to invoke racist hate, no matter how the criminals try to spin it.
As for what the defendant's attorneys tried to do in court, I would refer them to the following court case decision:
–Virginia vs. Black, et. al.
-"High Court Upholds Cross Burning Ban"
Cross burning has a long history in America, and there never has been, nor ever will be anything that will erase its vicious history of racial intimidation, domination, and hatred.
SHERRICE IVERSON (1989-1997)


Brian Daluz, from the Council for the National Resistance of Timor, believes Timorese are being herded into concentration camps.
Hotel housekeeper Belinda Nicholls stole the show at the Second Wave rally with her story of the triumph of a group of newly-unionised workers.
International: The Hand of God?
John Passant asks whether Turkey's Earthquake was a natural disaster or a criminal act.
Republic: The Republic Debate: Should It Go Into Extra Time?
In the battle of political - sporting analogies, a skeptic states his case.
The Federal Court has put a dampener on outsourcing within a corporate structure.
A new film challenges the boundaries between reality and "virtual" reality and explores some of the moral issues that these technologies will introduce.
Two Sydney trade unionists were tonight in Darwin after being forced out of the UNAMET compound in Dili, leaving just 40 United Nation officials in the devastated capital.
A key union has questioned the real effect of industrial bans being placed on Indonesia, fearing the action could be playing into the hands of the Indonesian military.
Textile workers have called on Games Organisers to immediately cancel the contracts of Indonesian producers supplying uniforms for the 2000 Olympics.
Professional web-site hackers hired by big companies to infiltrate trade union web-sites could be the next generation of union-busters, Internet activist Eric Lee warned this week.
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A Federal Court judge has ordered the release of a letter from Workplace Relations minister Peter Reith to the Employment Advocate which unions believe will support its allegations of conspiracy between the two over Melbourne's Federation Square project.
The Carr Government appears set to grant workers a half-day public holiday, after the state's loudest interest group - the Daily Telegraph - gave the proposition the thumbs up.
About 1500 people gathered in Sydney this week for a spirited rally as part of the 24 Hour strike called by the NSW Teachers Federation and supported by the NSW Public Service Association.
There is a terrible feeling of helplessness for those of us watching the atrocities in East Timor unfold with such brutal inevitability.
Stuck in a gridlock that has been 25 years in the making, we search desperately for a fix - military action, political action, consumer action, industrial action, economic sanctions. And we are told that each course could be futile - perhaps even counter-productive.
The only surprise about the crisis is that it comes as such a surprise. Six months ago Sister Josephine warned this would happen; three months ago the ACTU delegation raised the same concerns, even last week - as the voting took place - our reporters there were warning the situation on the ground was a nightmare waiting to happen.
And how were these warnings received? Those of us who are interested monitored the news and shook our heads disapprovingly. Most just ignored it as another bad news story and reached for the latest issue of Who magazine, where the only crises are the love lives of the rich and fatuous.
Until all hell breaks loose and the horror is in our living rooms and we expect our leaders to do "something" to stop the unbearable truth from being realised.
What else can we do? We all have our obligations - our jobs, our homes, our families - and there are not enough hours in the day to process all this information. We have our lives to live, comfortable with our place in the world order, removed from the poverty of our neighbours. That is someone else's problem.
Which is all true. But when these outrages confront us on our own doorstep we should not be surprised. We have ignored them for 25 years and a couple of days outrage will not rewrite history.
None of which means we should not keep doing all we can to pressure the international community to ensure the violence ends and the referendum is honoured. But we have no right to expect a quick or easy fix.
For in a very real sense East Timor is the inevitable result of our collective passivity.


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Social Media Influencer Sentenced to 14 Years for Devising Plan to Steal Domain Name at Gunpoint
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Social media influencer Rossi Lorathio Adams II has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for his role in a plot to steal a domain name at gunpoint.
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Iowa announced Adams' sentencing in a Monday after he was found guilty of one count of conspiracy to interfere with commerce by force, threats, and violence in April.
The case unfolded in 2015 when Adams — also known as "Polo" started a company called State Snaps while he was a student at Iowa State.
The company's claim to fame was posting risqué images of wild-partying college students on its Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat feeds. Iowa State was not pleased, according to the United States Attorney's Office Northern District of Iowa, but Adams, now 27, continued posting, often using the hashtag #DoItForState.
According to court records, Adams had more than one million followers on his social channels at the height of State Snaps' success. Though he already owned the DoIt4State.com domain, he wanted to buy DoItForState.com as well. The problem? The URL wasn't for sale. When the Cedar Rapids-based owner of the domain refused to sell it, Adams hatched a violent plan to steal it instead, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office release.
Things took a turn in June 2017 when Adams asked his cousin Sherman Hopkins Jr. to break into the home of the domain-owner — identified only as "E.D." in court filings — and try to steal the domain at gunpoint. Adams had found the owner's address through GoDaddy registration records, according to the United State's Attorney's Office.
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The news release states that Adams had "provided Hopkins with a demand note, which contained instructions for transferring the domain to Adams' GoDaddy account."
Court records show that Hopkins was wearing pantyhose on his head, as well as a hat and sunglasses, and was carrying a stolen gun as well as a taser.
Upon entering the victim's home, Hopkins kicked down the bedroom door of the domain-owner, who had heard him break in and tried to hide. Hopkins ordered the victim to follow the instructions on the demand note before pistol-whipping him in the head and holding the gun to his head, the release states.
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The victim attempted to wrestle the gun away from Hopkins and was subsequently shot in the leg — but the victim also managed to shoot Hopkins in the chest multiple times before calling the police.
In addition to his 14-year sentence, Adams was also ordered to make nearly $9,000 in restitution as well as pay costs of prosecution, which totals to $3,957. He has also been ordered to repay the Court $22,000 in attorney fees, according to the United State's Attorney's Office.
Adams is currently being held in the United States Marshal's custody until he is transported to federal prison.
In 2018, Hopkins was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
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Logroño, 4 September 2017. The Exhibition Hall Ibercaja (San Anton 3, Logroño) hosts from today until 16 September 'Melo Jiguen', the latest photographic exhibition of Coopera ONGD. Director of Ibercaja Cultural Center, love Ciriza, and the director of Coopera, David Chimeno, inaugurated this morning the exhibition, which it is like a box full of color and feelings with a group of Senegalese women. The author of these images is the photographer Mercedes Vall, who made these photographs in the Senegalese town of Malicounda during his trip to the country as a volunteer of the NGO Coopera.
Mercedes Vall, volunteer of the NGO Coopera heart and photographer, captures like no beauty and soul of everyday things, transmits his experience and feelings in each of the photographs that make up this sample.
The exhibition 'Melo Jiguen' is part of the awareness project 'Look and Think' of the NGO Coopera, which it is formed by a total of 9 exhibition modules, being the last sample has been incorporated into the cycle.
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Friendships like the one between Zoella and Tanya Burr were extremely common during YouTube's heyday. The creators, who were part of a larger community of British YouTubers, regularly appeared on each other's content and capitalized on the envy of their friendship from viewers.
As the years have passed, online and in public, Zoella and Tanya have made fewer appearances together, leading some to assume they had a fall out. Are they still friends, or is there drama between them?
Are Tanya And Zoella Still Friends?
The pair continuously made appearances on each other's platforms at the height of Zoella and Tanya's popularity on YouTube, working together and making vlogs of their hangouts. Together, their videos would comfortably pull in hundreds of thousands of views each, and the relationship seemed to be carried off-camera.
The pair produced less content together as the years progressed. Although you used to be able to go and see them hanging out on one of their social media, now they barely post together.
But there is really no hint that their relationship is over, considering the obvious lack of material coming from their interactions. They still follow each other online and also like posts from each other, so it's obvious they still love each other.
There was some talk that after Tanya and her longtime husband, Jim Chapman, split, the two may have called their relationship off, but even then, Tanya and Jim said they were both on good terms.
"[Jim and I have] been best friends for 12 years, [but] people will want some drama from it," Tanya told The Telegraph. "We're always going to be in each other's lives, hopefully."
Despite concerns that they had a falling out, there seems to be no bad blood between Zoella and Tanya, actually. Although their relationship might not be as public as it used to be, they are certainly not feuding and fans have no need to worry about any drama between them.
What happened To YouTube's British crew?
It's not just Tanya and Zoella who haven't been publicly hanging out in a while, it's a lot of the community actually. This very famous group of friends also included Jim, Alfie Deyes, Marcus Butler, Caspar Lee, Fleur De Force, and Louise Pentland, but as the years progressed, together they made a lot less material.
But when they're not plastering their time together for viewers on their vlog sites, the community of friends still remains intact. In reality, in an interview in 2019, Louise personally admitted that there was no drama inside the party.
"People think there's a lot more drama than there is," she told Metro. "We do all talk but it's progressed from this very online showing every aspect of our relationship and [collaborating] to just being people who are friends."
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In theory, experts are brought to court to shed light on areas in which lay knowledge is lacking. One such area is statistical analysis, the use of which has soared since the 1960s. Stephan Michelson was there, being the first to use (and create software for) multiple-pools analytic techniques, one of the first to use survival analysis as a tool for analyzing promotion, and possibly the first to enter a regression analysis as evidence in a federal district court. This is not a technical book, however. Nor is it a book of war stories. At the heart of this book lies the realization that courts are not organized to receive, comprehend, or utilize honest analyses from experts. This is not news to judges, who understand what experts are; who so expect experts to be corrupt that they are unable to discern when one is not. What is news to judges, in this book, is what to do about it. Michelson excoriates so-called experts for their biased and often incompetent charades. He establishes their lack of skill, the lack of expertise among "experts," not as the point of the book, but as its premise. He then analyzes the forces operating on the system, finding—no surprise—that "truth" is not only not rewarded, but is structurally excluded. He goes on to propose a novel approach to the gatekeeping function imposed on judges by the federal rules and the 1993 Daubert Supreme Court decision (and its successors). This book is written for professionals, for social scientists and statisticians, attorneys and judges. It is not an easy read. Hundreds of cases, and hundreds of professional journal and law review articles, are discussed and used to derive or demonstrate principles important to the evaluation of experts. The grist for this mill includes history, theory, and practice. Ultimately, this book is meant to be more than a contribution to the discussion of "science" in court: It is the platform from which all future work in this field will start.
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Silk Labs is not a well known name in the tech industry but the company was co-founded by Mozilla's former CTO Andreas Gal. The company released a crowdfunded smart home monitoring camera back in 2016 which showed off its lightweight AI tech. Dubbed Sense, the inconspicuous device included facial and object recognition tech that could recognize multiple faces and even pets. It could also play music based on the user's taste and pair with third-party gadgets like Sonos speakers and smart light bulbs.
The acquisition would presumably help Apple fortify its existing device lineup in particular those that use AI technology. Apple is reportedly looking to improve AI-enabled products, including HomePod, which lags behind Amazon Echo devices and Google Home. Amazon and Google accounted for 70 percent share of the global smart speaker shipments in the first quarter of 2018, with Apple selling 600,000 HomePods in the period.
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SIX MONTHS IN, GDPR COMPLIANCE CONCERNS LINGER
The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation remains a difficult-to-grasp wild card for many organizations, with compliance concerns still top of mind. In one recent study, some organizations said full compliance might be impossible.
Six months after the effective date of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, organizations are still grappling with GDPR's practical impact and compliance challenges.
More than half of respondents to to a recent survey [PDF] by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (56 percent) said they still haven't complied with the regulation, and one-fifth said that full compliance may be impossible. The average organization spent $3 million on compliance efforts.
"But there is good news: The GDPR looks a lot less complicated and confusing in practice than it initially did on paper," IAPP said in a news release. "While privacy professionals are still struggling with certain tasks, difficulty scores have dropped considerably for every individual compliance process."
Lingering issues with GDPR may be creating side effects that could prove problematic in the long run. Among them:
Headaches in the merger process. A recent report from Merrill Corporation says that acquisitions in many parts of the world, including the European Union, Middle East, and Africa, have been held up due to concerns with GDPR compliance. More than half of respondents said that compliance concerns with a target firm that emerged in the due-diligence process stopped an acquisition dead in its tracks, and two-thirds said it would lead to increased scrutiny.
Unexpected security problems. Recently, a plug-in used by a number of WordPress sites for GDPR compliance purposes was hacked, allowing attackers to store malicious commands in a WordPress installation. The attack was ironic: A plug-in intended to protect data privacy could itself be used for identity theft. GDPR creates new variables, and similar attempts to take advantage of them may crop up in the coming months.
Departures from the EU market. Some organizations have chosen to comply with the regulation by removing their websites from the European market entirely. In the media space, for example, Tribune Publishing (which recently reverted to its original name, from Tronc), has blocked EU visitors from accessing most of its news outlets, with a promise that they will eventually be able to return. But this strategy seems unlikely to be effective in the long run, as support for new data privacy rules in the U.S. is growing.
Confusion about violations. There remains substantial uncertainty about whether compliance efforts actually meet GDPR's requirements. At Digiday's Programmatic Media Summit, an unnamed participant mused, "We almost need someone to get in trouble to set an example for the rest of us to know what not to do." Because that example has yet to emerge, organizations are likely to be wondering whether all the work they put into compliance was enough.
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Starship Technologies raises $40 million for autonomous delivery robots
Kyle Wiggers@Kyle_L_Wiggers	 August 20, 2019 6:00 AM
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It's anticipated that the autonomous delivery robots market will be worth $34 billion by 2024, up from $11.9 billion in 2018. Some analysts predict that by then, in cities around the world, thousands of drones and rovers will regularly ferry food, drink, toiletries, and parcels on command to customers miles away.
It's a future on which the investors behind robotics startup Starship Technologies are confidently banking. To that end, Starship this morning revealed that it's secured $40 million in series A funding led by Morpheus Ventures, with participation from Shasta Ventures, Matrix Partners, MetaPlanet Holdings, TDK Ventures, Qu Ventures, and others. The fresh capital brings the San Francisco-based company's total raised to over $80 million, following two seed rounds totaling $42.2 million, which CEO Lex Bayer says will be used to grow Starship's geographic footprint.
Starship also announced today that its robot fleets have completed over 100,000 deliveries and traveled more than 350,000 miles collectively, up from 50,000 deliveries and 150,000 miles as of April 2019. The milestone comes as the startup barrels toward its goal of offering delivery to over one million students, which it intends to reach by expanding to over 100 universities in the next two years.
"An entire generation of university students are growing up in a world where they expect to receive a delivery from a robot after a few taps on their smartphone," said Bayer, formerly the CEO of Airbnb Payments. "The reception to our service both on campuses and in neighborhoods has been phenomenal. Our customers appreciate how we make their lives easier and give them back the gift of time."
On campuses like the University of Pittsburgh, where Starship kicked off service this week ahead of a September 9 launch at Purdue University, mobile apps for Android and iOS handle ordering. Customers select what they'd like from a menu and drop a map pin where they want their delivery to be sent, and Starship's rovers — which can carry up to 20 pounds of goods (about three shopping bags' worth) in their password-locked compartments — get moving while continuously reporting their location. When they arrive at their destination, they issue an alert via the app.
Starship's six-wheeled robots pack a wealth of electronics, including nine cameras and ultrasonic sensors that afford them a 360-degree view of their surroundings. They have a maximum speed of 10 miles per hour and are capable of recharging, crossing streets, climbing curbs, traveling at night, and operating in rain and snow without human supervision. As a precaution, however, a team of teleoperators monitors their progress and can take control if need be.
Courtesy of an ongoing collaboration between Starship and food and facilities management providers like Sodexo, Starship earlier this year deployed fleets of robots at Northern Arizona University's Flagstaff campus and George Mason University's Fairfax campus. That follows on the heels of partnerships with Domino's in Germany, food-delivery firm Just Eat in London, and DoorDash in the U.S.
Starship offers a $10-per-month commercial package delivery service for businesses and consumer clients, complementing its large-scale commercial meal delivery program for corporate and academic campuses in Europe and the U.S. No matter the offering, delivery customers pay a flat fee of around $1.99.
Starship is far from the only company vying for a slice of the self-driving robots delivery market, which counts among its ranks well-funded startups like Marble, Starship Technologies, Nuro, Robomart, Boxbot, FedEx, Postmates, Dispatch, and Robby. Just this month, Amazon rolled its Scout robots to parts of Southern California, expanding the tech giant's pilot program from Snohomish County, Washington.
To date, Starship — which was founded in 2014 by Skype veterans Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis — has completed hundreds of trials in nine U.S. states, The District of Columbia, and over 20 countries internationally. It claims its robots have crossed 4 million streets and delivered over 6,000 pizzas, 7,000 gallons of milk, 8,000 coffees, 9,000 sushi rolls, 15,000 bananas, and 3,700 diapers combined.
"We've evaluated the autonomous tech market segment around the world, and Starship is miles ahead of others in bringing advanced technology valued by real paying customers," said TDK ventures managing director Nicolas Sauvage. "Starship's machine learning, computer vision, and sensor fusion is the most advanced we've seen in autonomous robotic delivery. We look forward to contributing to the success of Starship in this important and emerging space."
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George Clooney says his ER character got away with being a womaniser because he saved children
Jacob Stolworthy
Before George Clooney was a Hollywood star, he was Dr Doug Ross in ER.
The actor appeared as the pediatrician in the medical drama's first five seasons from 1995 to 1999.
While ultimately coming good in the end, his character was depicted as a womaniser whose behaviour often took on a toxic light, especially when viewed decades later.
Despite this, Ross remains one of the show's best loved characters alongside Mark Greene (Anthony Edwards), John Carter (Noah Wyle) and Julianna Margulies (Carol Hathaway).
Clooney thinks he knows why this is, and in a new interview with Deadline, reflected upon his time on the show.
"I was a womaniser on the show and I was a drunk," he said, adding: "But, as long as at the end of every episode I'd be like 'Don't touch that kid,' then I could get away with anything."
He said this knowledge of his time on ER helped when directing and starring in his new film, the Netflix drama The Midnight Sky.
In the film, Clooney plays a scientist named Augustine who is all alone in the Arctic on a depopulated Earth. However, he soon finds that he has a young girl for company named Iris (the eight year old newcomer Caoilinn Springall).
"I knew it gave me an opening as an actor to not have to try and make this guy necessarily likeable," he said. "That all I had to do was try to protect the girl and then everything else you could be as unhappy or as angry. He doesn't smile at all or anything."
The Midnight Sky will be released on Netflix on 3 December. ER is available to binge on All 4.
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Beating the cheating: The next hurdle for students and schools after exams are cancelled
The cancellation of GCSE and A-level exams earlier this month will have come as a relief to many students and teachers across the country. However, most pupils have spent a significant portion of the last year learning from home, and some believe online assessments are harder to monitor and may not reflect their true abilities. Adam Smith reports
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The four main engines for Nasa's new "megarocket" are to be fired in unison for the first time.
Angela Merkel's Christian Democrat party (CDU) is set to elect a new leader on Saturday, signalling the start of an election campaign that will see the end of her 15 years in power. The candidates hope to succeed Mrs Merkel, who has announced she will stand down as chancellor in September following general elections. Friedrich Merz, a long-standing rival of Mrs Merkel's who quit politics altogether after he lost control of the party to her in 2002, is attempting a comeback. The pro-business Mr Merz has pledged to reverse Mrs Merkel's centrist course and return the CDU to what he sees as its conservative roots. Armin Laschet is the continuity candidate and standard-bearer for the Merkellian centrists. As regional leader of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state, he has the most government experience of the candidates but has been damaged by his handling of the coronavirus. A third candidate, Norbert Röttgen, was eliminated on Saturday morning after he came last in the first round of voting. The new party leader will be chosen in an online run-off vote by 1,001 delegates. The winner is not guaranteed a clear run at the chancellorship in September. German party leaders are not automatically candidates for chancellor and the CDU is not set to name its candidate until Easter. Waiting in the wings are Markus Söder, the leader of the CDU's Bavarian sister party, and Jens Spahn, the health minister. Both are considerably more popular with voters than any of the leadership candidates and both will hope they have a chance at the chancellorship. The party leadership was supposed to have been settled in April. Twice delayed by the pandemic, the party conference had to be shifted to an online event, with delegates watching from their homes as the three candidates spoke in an empty television studio.
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Q: Definition of open relative, can't understand explanation I can't figure out this paragraph:

$E$ is open relative to $Y$ if to each $p\in E$ there is associated an $r\gt 0$ such that $q\in E$ whenever $d(p,q)\lt r$ and $q\in Y$

Does this look like this:
$\forall p\in E, \exists r\in\Bbb R^+$ such that $d(p,q)\lt r, q\in Y \implies q\in E$
I can't figure out what this means, can I have some examples?

My attempt: For some $E$ open relative to $Y$, $E$ is bounded by some $r$, e.g. $\forall p,q\in E,\exists r\in\Bbb R^+,d(p,q)\lt r$ and every one of these elements is also in $Y$ or something.
I can't work it out, someone explain please?

A: A set $A$ is open relative to $E$ if given any $x\in A$ there is a ball $B(x,\delta)$ such that $B(x,\delta)\cap E $ is contained in $A$. This simply means that we don't want the whole ball to be contained in $A$; but just the part of the ball that is inside $E$. For example, $[0,1)$ is open relative to $[0,1]$, but it is not open relative to $\Bbb R$.

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Jasso in Cara Mía's Teotl: The Sand Show. Photo courtesy of Cara Mia Theatre Co.
Dallas actor Ivan Jasso has a history of playing non-humans: a Chihuahua, a man-eating plant, an ancient Aztec god and, now, the moon.
But these are just a testament to his talent onstage, the ability to swing from animal to human, Shakespeare (in both Spanish and English) to Mel Brooks. Next up, the busy actor is playing two roles in José Rivera's Obie-winning References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot at the Latino Cultural Center, presented by Cara Mía Theatre Co. from February 20 to March 8.
First he's Benito, the war-scarred husband of the lonely housewife Gabriela. He's also Gabriela's confidant the Moon, whom she turns to when Benito grows more and more distant. Cara Mía's production will use actors from its artistic ensemble as well as current SMU students, and place the audience onstage to foster an even more intimate experience.
In advance of Salvador Dalí, Jasso took the time to fill out our survey of serious, fun and sometimes ridiculous questions.
Previous work in the DFW area: Skippyjon Jones, Mariachi Girl, Don't U Luv Me?, Junie B. in Jingle Bells Batman Smells, Señora Tortuga (Dallas Children's Theater); Antony and Cleopatra, Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Dallas); Zoot Suit, Teotl, The Magic Rainforest, Romeo y Julieta, Dreamers: A Bloodline, El Viaje De Tina, Nuestra Pastorela, The House on Mango Street, Crystal City 1969 (Cara Mia Theatre Co.); Working: A Musical, Angels Fall, The Night of the Iguana (Contemporary Theatre of Dallas); The Producers (Uptown Players); Long Way Go Down (Kitchen Dog Theatre); 42nd Street (Garland Summer Musicals).
First theater role: A wolf and a prince in a middle school production called Magic To Do. It was written by the director with help from the students.
First stage show you ever saw: I don't really remember what it was. The first clear memory I have is Comic Potential at Theatre Three.
Moment you decided to pursue a career in theater: I have a memory of making a quick change offstage during one performance of the previously mentioned middle school production, Magic To Do, where I realized "Hey, this is fun! I want to do this more!" I never did theater in high school. But the moment I made the decision was after a calculus class in college.
I was going to be an electronic engineer at first, but it just didn't feel right. So that afternoon, I decided to change paths and continue finding that joy I had found years before. And it's still fun.
Special skills: Patience, growing facial hair, creating a meal from whatever ingredients are left in the fridge and pantry.
Something you're REALLY bad at: Leaving dirty socks on the floor.
Current pop culture obsession: Comic book-related things (movies, TV shows, articles, etc.). And playing Clash of Clans.
Favorite movie(s): The Goonies, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, The Shawshank Redemption, From Dusk Till Dawn, Pulp Fiction (or any Tarantino flick), Tombstone, Back to the Future trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Star Wars (IV, V, VI), The Dark Knight, most of the Marvel Comics films, Goodfellas, The Fifth Element, Tropic Thunder, and many more.
Favorite musician(s): The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Roots, Los Lobos, Prince, Jack White, Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan, Jimi Hendrix, Michael Jackson, James Brown, The Black Keys, Justin Timberlake, Kanye West, Timbaland, Dr. Dre, RZA, Billy Joel, Outkast, Elton John.
Favorite song: Depends on the mood and the moment.
Dream role: Again, I don't know if there is just one. I've always wanted to play Usnavi in In The Heights, or Iago in Othello, or Danny in Danny and the Deep Blue Sea.
Something most people don't know about you: My first language was Spanish, so I had a bit of an accent when I spoke English. When I began studying theater and film, I had to practice vocal exercises to neutralize my English.
Pre-show warm-up: Depends on the show. Usually includes leg and back stretches. Some vocal articulation warm-ups. If I have to sing, I play vocal warm-up tracks in my car on the way.
Favorite part about your current role: I get to play opposite my wife (Stephanie Cleghorn Jasso).
Most challenging part about your current role: Working out to feel and look the part.
Most embarrassing onstage mishap: I was doing Guys and Dolls and the crotch of my pants split open during a stretch five seconds before the curtains went up for the big dance number. I don't think any audience members noticed, but would they have mentioned it?
Career you'd have if you weren't in theater: I'd like to think firefighter.
Favorite post-show spot: Home with the wife relaxing.
Favorite thing about Dallas-Forth Worth: It's my home.
Most memorable theater moment: Opening night, during the curtain call of Crystal City 1969. Most of the theater was packed with folks from Crystal City, Texas. A lot of them had lived through the events portrayed in the play. Some were watching themselves portrayed on stage.
There was an incredible energy emitting from all the people. I had never felt that before! Tears formed as that energy surged through me and the rest of the cast.


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Pinellas County, Florida -- The annual Holiday Lights Dog Parade in Pinellas County is scheduled for Sunday, December 29 at the Florida Botanical Gardens.
Doggie revelers will don costumes and strut their stuff for fun and prizes. The parade begins at 2 p.m., with registration from 1 to 1:45 p.m. in the Florida Botanical Gardens parking lot.
Judges for the competition include Dr. David Tollen of Oakhurst Veterinary & Kennels, Dr. Jennifer Saez of Animal Care Clinic of Largo and David Parhill, Hills Science Food Diet.
Registration is $10 and is open to the first 100 dogs. Proceeds go to support the Florida Botanical Gardens. A gift bag and certificate will be awarded to each dog that is registered. The registration form can be found on line at www.flbg.org or forms will be available on site the day of the event. For more information about registration or the event, please call (727) 582-2247.
The Foundation will also be selling dog collars, dog leashes and dog collar lights that light up for nighttime safety.
The event is sponsored by the Florida Botanical Garden Foundation, Oakhurst Veterinary & Kennels, the Animal Care Clinic of Largo, Largo Feed, Pets Unlimited and Bluff's Animal Hospital.
The Florida Botanical Gardens, located at 12520 Ulmerton Road in Largo, showcases gardens of tropical plants, roses, fruits, herbs, hibiscus, bromeliads and more. The gardens are open every day from 7 a.m. until dusk. Admission is free during daylight hours. For more information about the Florida Botanical Gardens, visit www.flbg.org or call (727) 582-2100.


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Q: Anaconda 3: Failed to create menus How to resolve 'failed to create menus' error while installing anaconda 3 in windows 7?
I tried to changes in my environment variable but I can't resolve this problem.
I think this is the problem related to path variable.

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The National Capital Commission (NCC) wishes to control Geocaching in the Gatineau Park. Therefore, it is currently setting a procedure for caches within its territory, and is asking geocachers to archive all caches in the park. They are requesting the cooperation of concerned geocachers to pick up all the containers.
Since then it has been determined that the National Capital Commission has contacted neither Groundspeak (the company that runs geocaching.com) nor the reviewer in question. Rather, the reviewer apparently took it upon himself to issue the email, without actually reading the Gatineau Park Ecosystem Conservation Plan.
The local geocache community is, to say the least, extremely unimpressed. The actions of the reviewer have seriously undermined the confidence some cachers have in the reviewer system in general, and in the reviewer in question specifically. Especially in the reviewer.
There have been some calls to have Gatineau Park removed from the area of responsibility of the reviewer in question and given to a reviewer who lives closer to the national capital region. Personally, I think there's merit to this suggestion and hope that this is what happens. There two or three reviewers who are closer to the national capital region who would be good fits, though one is active in the local geocaching community so they might be too close. But either of the other two would be good choices.
I'm glad that the NCC isn't the culprit in all this. Regardless, they've probably taken some flack that they don't deserve. I tried to be fairly restrained in my previous blog entry about this topic, but I still pointed the finger at them and for that I apologize.
There are still some geocaches that are going to have to be removed because they're in integral compensation zone (ICZ), but the number of affected geocaches is around 40, and nowhere near 300.
Hopefully, the local geocaching community and the NCC can work together with respect to geocaching in Gatineau Park. I know that I, for one, am interested in this and I'm almost certain that other members of the geocaching community are, too.


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The SciFest National Final 2021 Awards Ceremony
The SciFest National Final 2021 Awards Ceremony took place at 4.00 pm on Saturday 27 November. The ceremony was streamed live on YouTube and may be viewed on the SciFest National Final website here
It may also be viewed directly on YouTube here or by clicking on the image on the left
The SciFest National Final officially started on Friday 26 November, at 7:30pm with a series of talks, kicking off with a welcome address by Dr Niamh Shaw, Irish engineer, scientist, writer and performer. Talks continued on Saturday, 27 November. For a full list of speakers and to view the programme, please click here.
If you haven't already done so, please take a few minutes to view the students' projects on the national final website scifestfinal2021.ie here. In the face of the unprecedented challenges of the past year their ingenuity and innovation are an inspiration to us all.
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Those of us who choose to enrich our lives with a pet will usually stop at nothing to give them a safe, happy, healthy life.
Yet one of the most fundamental processes for doing that – spaying and neutering – is still too often overlooked by pet owners.
It is a topic that seems to get frequent and glaring attention.
But until we are able to alleviate the tragedy of unwanted animals, it's worth revisiting again and again.
It is our hope in this article to provide some important facts about spaying and neutering and to encourage all pet owners to make the important choice to do so.
Millions of healthy dogs and cats are being euthanized in shelters across the world each year because there are not enough homes to go around.
And uncounted millions more suffer illness, starvation and death on the streets despite the fact that – as some experts calculate – these numbers could be reduced by 65% – 70% if we simply prevented unwanted litters of puppies and kittens.
Did you know that a single non-spayed female dog and her non-spayed offspring can produce 67,000 puppies in only 6 years? Or that one non-spayed female cat and her non-spayed offspring can produce 370,000 kittens in only 7 years?
Perhaps surprisingly, not all of them are born to homeless street animals. Many times they are the unwanted puppies and kittens of family pets.
But we can all be a part of the solution if we will spay or neuter the pets we adopt into our homes.
Spaying and neutering are actually very affordable surgeries. And, in most communities, there are low-cost or free spay-and-neuter clinics meaning everyone can have access to the procedures.
Compared to the cost of having and caring for a litter (or worse, taking a litter to the shelter), spaying and neutering is definitely a more cost-effective and compassionate choice.
Spaying and neutering have no impact on your pet's personality. The procedures will reduce or eliminate some undesirable behaviors (aggression, urine marking, roaming, etc.).
Furthermore, it often increases your pets' interest in you since they will no longer be focused on finding a mate!
The procedures have no effect at all on your pets' cognitive abilities. They will continue to engage, interact and learn new things as they did before spaying or neutering.
Pets become overweight – just like people – when they are inactive, eat too much and exercise too little, not because they are spayed/neutered.
Your pets will stay fit and trim if you control their food intake and make sure they get regular exercise.
It is actually best to spay females before they are sexually mature because spaying reduces the risk of certain cancers in female dogs and cats by as much as 85%.
These procedures are now the most common surgeries performed by veterinarians. Your pet will experience relatively little pain and discomfort and will be back to normal activities within a few days in most cases.
MOST importantly, spaying and neutering will reduce the number of homeless pets on the streets and in shelters and that benefit is immeasurable!
The customary age for neutering or spaying dogs is 6 – 9 months of age, but the procedure is sometimes performed earlier (as early as 12 – 16 weeks in certain breeds). The customary age for neutering or spaying cats is 5 – 7 months of age, but the procedure is sometimes performed earlier (as early as 8 – 10 weeks in certain cases).
Dogs and cats can be spayed or neutered as adults, too. If you're adopting an adult animal, the enormous need to spay and neuter still applies!
Of course, to determine the best age to spay/neuter your own pets, always consult your veterinarian.
While it is natural for us to be concerned about putting our pets through a surgical procedure, your veterinarian can reassure you and answer any questions you have during the careful examination he or she should perform prior to surgery (this pre-op exam is essential to making sure your pet is in good health and can tolerate the procedure well).
There are no lengthy and complex preparations for spaying or neutering.
The night before surgery, you'll likely be asked to eliminate food and water after midnight. If spaying or neutering a puppy or kitten, however, this may not be the case since they require more frequent nutrition and hydration.
Your veterinarian should provide you with pre-op instructions that are right for your pet.
Your veterinarian will also provide post-op instructions that should be followed very carefully.
For pain and discomfort, medication will often be sent home with you and there may be restrictions on diet for a period of time.
It will be important as well to keep your pet calm for a few days while they begin to heal. But overall, the post-op care of your pet is simple to manage.
Our towns and communities spend staggering sums of money annually to round up, care for and sadly, to euthanize the millions of homeless animals that result from the lack of spaying and neutering.
Safe and affordable spaying and neutering of all the pets we adopt into our homes can substantially impact this tragedy.
Spay and neuter your pets as early as possible. Encourage your family and friends to do the same.
Support your local low-cost or free spay-and-neuter clinics and if your community does not have these services, talk to your local veterinarians about getting them started.
Do your compassionate part to help our beautiful animal kingdom thrive!