With a new legislative season underway in Sacramento, PORAC is busy meeting with State Senate and Assembly members. We are tracking bills, potential legislation and proposed laws that are being introduced into the pipeline, which will impact how law enforcement officers do their jobs.
The word "transparency" is catnip for legislators, especially when it involves law enforcement. Around the State Capitol, we have heard several elected officials discuss their ideas to bring more transparency to the investigative process that unfolds when deadly force in the line of duty takes a civilian's life. This is an area of tremendous importance to PORAC. Two years ago, Assembly Member Kevin McCarty (D-Sacramento) introduced Assembly Bill 86, which would have required the California attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor whenever a peace officer killed a person in the line of duty. The bill would have given the special prosecutor sole authority to determine whether criminal charges would be filed against the officers involved.
McCarty said his intent was to separate local district attorneys from the investigative process in deadly force cases. He suggested that the close working relationship between law enforcement agencies and most district attorney offices in California could create a potentially challenging environment for objective investigations into the use of deadly force. He also believed a special prosecutor could give the public and media more transparency in the aftermath of critical incidents. PORAC actively opposed AB 86, which expired in the Appropriations Committee last year. But we don't expect its demise to mark the end of proposed legislation that seeks to change time-tested practices of deadly force investigations in California. In fact, McCarty welcomed us into his office just recently to signal his intent to reintroduce this bill. Elected officials must respond to public pressure. Often, they follow trends.
One trend we see involves the introduction of public police commissions or civilian review boards. California law already allows cities and counties to appoint police commissions and civilian review boards. These are typically limited in scope and authority. They generally review and advise, leaving the most difficult decisions right where they belong — locally, with elected district attorneys, mayors, city councils, boards of supervisors and their professional managers. But this could change.
PORAC is alert to the appointment of public police commissions. We are never reluctant to tell elected officials exactly how we feel about this trend. To say we are concerned puts it mildly, and our reluctance to embrace the police commission model comes from experience and history. Many of our membership associations have seen what can happen when the best intentions for transparency and citizen involvement are introduced to the realities of law enforcement. Throw in a dash of political expediency and an overblown media "crisis," and the potential for negative consequences becomes significant.
By their design, police commissions face several inherent challenges. Not being part of the law enforcement chain of command — which is the whole point — civilian review boards can easily lack essential information in the immediate aftermath of a critical incident. Without important information and complete facts, police commissions are tempted to jump to conclusions. Pressured by the public and media in this world of 60-minute television-inspired police investigations, civilian review boards have demonstrated an unwillingness to patiently wait for all the information, some of which requires months to sift through and process. They go public with speculative or incomplete findings.
Another problem for police commissions is the distinction between objective and biased review. Civilian review boards are typically built with political appointments. The presence of members with outspoken biases against law enforcement is not unusual. Even the most open-minded civilian police commissioners will likely have minimal understanding of professional policing and standardized law enforcement procedures, beyond what they have absorbed from the media. Bias and ignorance can easily infect commission outcomes.
The lack of objectivity and professional training can lead civilian police commissions into a world of expectations unrecognizable and unattainable by a veteran cop. Civilian oversight may see no harm in rigid guidelines and inflexible regulations; such inflexible parameters make their tasks easier to manage, but they make your job impossible to do. Unfortunately, that's not how our profession works. Any veteran officer knows the most important skills needed for the job are flexibility, adaptability and fluidity in making decisions. Such concepts are just difficult for civilians to appreciate.
Finally, civilian oversight faces a major challenge that has no connection to politics, bias or experience. By law, they do not have access to law enforcement personnel records — and rightly so. Thus, they may base conclusions on a vague disposition letter, where specific policy violations may or may not be presented without broader context to what happened.
PORAC understands the need for transparency and accountability in law enforcement. In fact, we are working toward proposing sensible and practical legislation to accomplish this. We are aware that our work cannot be successful without consistent widespread public and political support. We recognize why the public and media demand information about critical incidents and deadly force. But we also know the best intentions can bring disastrous consequences for our membership when judgments are biased, rushed and incomplete. So, we'll continue to do our very best at trying to improve law enforcement's relationship with the communities that we serve, but we will never make concessions that compromise your safety.
Thank you for your membership, have fun and be safe!


If you called someone a rat, they probably wouldn't take it as a compliment. But in a clever new study published today in Science, a team of University of Chicago neurobiologists show that rodents could serve as role models for how humans should behave. Rats were given a difficult choice between heart and stomach: either open a container of chocolate chips and enjoy the feast, or free a companion and share the chocolate chip bounty. The results argue that humans aren't the only species to feel empathy for the distress of another and act upon it, suggesting a deep evolutionary basis for helping your fellow creature.
When Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal was a master's student in Israel researching immunosuppression after surgery, she noticed a strange phenomenon in her laboratory rats. When rats were brought to the room where she regularly conducted surgical procedures, they grew extremely agitated.
Other researchers had previously noticed this phenomenon in both humans and animals and gave it the name "emotional contagion," describing when the distress or pain of one individual spreads to others. In 2006, Jeffrey Mogil of McGill University found evidence of this effect in mice, observing that when one mouse is given a mildly painful stimulus, a second mouse viewing the first mouse's pain will exhibit increased sensitivity to pain. When that paper was published, it was considered by some to be the first evidence for empathy in a rodent. But Bartal, having started as a graduate student advised by Jean Decety, Irving B. Harris Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Chicago, wanted to find more definite proof of rat compassion.
Collaborating with the laboratory of Peggy Mason, professor of neurobiology, Bartal designed a test to see whether emotional contagion could actually drive a rat to take action. Two rats who live together in the same cage were placed in a special arena, with one held in a transparent, tube-shaped restrainer and one allowed to roam free. The restrainer's door could be opened by a nudge from the outside, though the free rat – at least initially – didn't know that. But after several sessions where the free rat was visibly agitated by his trapped companion's distress, he figured out how to pop open the restrainer. As you can see in this video from Science, once the free rat learned this trick, he would take action almost immediately upon being placed in the arena during subsequent sessions.
Proving that the free rat's actions were motivated by empathy required more experimental conditions. When the restrainer was left empty, or when researchers put a stuffed toy rat in the tube, the free rat showed no interest in opening the restrainer door. He did, however, when the arena was rigged so that opening the restrainer released the trapped rat into a separate compartment from the free rat, showing that the free rat was not motivated by the "reward" of social interaction. The experiments left behavior motivated by empathy as the simplest explanation for the rats' behavior.
For the strongest test of empathy's power in driving rat behavior, the researchers introduced a wild card in the form of chocolate chips. Mason's previous research proved that rats are big fans of chocolate, so the researchers placed a second restrainer into the arena holding the delicious snack and posing an ethical dilemma for the free rat. If he opened the chocolate tube first, he could dine in peace while his cagemate remained trapped. If he freed the cagemate first, the free rat would have to share his chocolate prize. Surprisingly, the rats did both, choosing to free the cagemate or the chocolate first with roughly equal preference.
Taken together, the experiments are the first evidence of an empathy in rats that runs deeper than emotional contagion, a drive to help a companion in distress that is equally as motivating as the lust for sweets.
Having an animal model of empathy-driven behavior will now allow researchers to study the biological mechanisms that underlie empathy, looking at brain anatomy, stress hormones, and other factors that could motivate a rat to help – or not help. In a more philosophical sense, it shows that helping another individual in need is not a social construct, but a behavior with evolutionary roots that go beyond our own sometimes selfish species.


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3 Best Cheap Growth Stocks Offer 300% Returns
By Money Morning Staff Reports, Money Morning • December 30, 2020
It has been quite a year for the stock market, which makes finding the best cheap growth stocks increasingly difficult as the S&P 500 (up 15% year to date) and NASDAQ 100 (up 47% year to date) climb.
The rally off the March lows has been breathtaking, with the S&P 500 rising over 70% since the darkest days of March.
The rally has been fueled by the big growth stocks like Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA), Zoom Video Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: ZM), and other big-name companies that have dominated the headlines this year.
If you listen to the talking heads right now, you would get the impression that all growth stocks are trading at ridiculous valuation multiples and are just too expensive to buy at these levels.
Believing that could be the most expensive mistake you ever make.
There are dozens of companies that are growing their free cash flow by double-digit percentages every year that trade at reasonable valuations.
They are not attracting the headlines some of the hyper-growth stocks have received this year.
Still, history tells us that companies with this type of steady growth ultimately reward shareholders very generously…
Here are my latest three best cheap growth stocks to buy today for the new year…
The Best Cheap Growth Stock in Sports
MSG Networks Inc. (NYSE: MSGN) is an excellent example of a stealth growth stock with the potential for long-term profits.
This company owns two major New York area sports networks – MSG Network and MSG+.
The networks carry the games of the New York Knicks, New York Rangers, New York Islanders, New Jersey Devils, and Buffalo Sabres.
The company also carries news and discussions covering the New York Giants and Buffalo Bills of the National Football League.
Reported earnings growth does not look all that exciting for this company, but under the hood, free cash flow has been increasing by almost 20% annually over the last five years.
The stock has been on the orphan list of unloved stocks for several years now, with only a handful of analysts covering the company.
The stock has been largely ignored and, as a result, trades for less than four times free cash flow.
When I look at other broadcasting companies, the average free cash flow multiple is dramatically higher than MSG Network's, making the stock extremely cheap on a relative basis.
With free cash flow growing at a high level, MSGN should trade two to three times the current stock price.
The Best Cheap Growth Stock in Healthcare
Select Medical Holdings Corp. (NYSE: SEM) is another stock that is growing nicely but is off Wall Street's radar screen for now.
Select Medical owns and operates critical illness recovery hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, outpatient rehabilitation clinics, and occupational health centers in the United States.
The business generates a ton of cash, and free cash flow has been growing by more than 30% annually for the past five years.
While Select Medical has very little coverage from Wall Street, those analysts that do follow the company are very bullish about its prospects. They also expect earnings to keep growing at a high level for the next five years.
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Select Medical has exceeded even the most optimistic analysts earning projections with massive positive earnings surprises in the past four quarters.
Despite the outstanding growth and outlook, the stock sells for less than five times free cash flow right now.
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When I got my first 'proper' job after graduating University there was a senior colleague who sort of became my Yoda. He wasn't my boss, but he is someone of huge talent and integrity who, in hindsight, I probably pestered so much that it was easier for him to humour me than try to avoid me! We used to discuss all sorts of things, mainly work related, but plenty of other stuff as well. One such conversation got on to the subject of quality-of-life and a discussion about the things that we really value. He suggested that all we really have is time – it is the ultimate currency – and it is up to each of us to choose what we do with it. You can earn money, learn something new, watch your children grow up, spend time with friends, rest and recuperate or whatever else you fancy. But we only have so much time and so it's probably best not to squander it. It was one of those conversations that sticks with you.
So, I was wondering the other day "Where does the humble bicycle fit into this?" Does riding my bike justify itself as a worthy use of my precious time? I suppose that there is the obvious stuff. I ride my bike to work, which saves me a chunk of money relative to owning a car or buying a train ticket (so I don't need to spend so much time earning it or can spend it in other stuff). It keeps me fit, which, in the short term, makes me happier and healthier and, in the long term, actually provides me with a bit more of that ultimate currency if I'm lucky. And in its own small way, it helps everyone else out a bit by reducing pollution and congestion. All-in-all, probably not a bad way to spend my time?
But what about the really frivolous stuff – a quick blast along the North Downs after work or a weekend away to a Welsh trail centre? The indulgent, selfish sort of riding that's just for cheap thrills rather than saving the planet or my bank balance. Does this stack-up in the ultimate cost-benefit calculation? For me it comes down to two different benefits that are almost polar opposites.
The first is time to think. This is especially true of a solo road ride, but is actually just as relevant to the mountain bike. While I would love to live at the epicentre of miles of exhilarating singletrack, the truth is that every ride from my house includes a bit of fire road climbing, some rather bland bridleways and a road connection or two. At first glance this may seem rather mundane, but over the years I've found that I do some of my best thinking whilst riding these sections. Mulling over ideas that haven't fully fermented, making connections between seemingly unconnected topics, or working through a solution to a tricky problem. I suppose I've never really understood how some people can just drift off, clear their mind or meditate – I just don't seem to be that way. I'm often most happy and excited when I'm on the cusp of fitting all the pieces together. And more often than not, this happens on the bike.
The second big reason for spending time on the bike is the chance to find that magic flow. Apparently, there is a point at which the cognitive load associated with an activity is just enough to fully engage you in the task at hand without overloading the senses. Where you immerse yourself in the here and now, fully focused. Not really thinking, but just doing. It's these moments on the bike that I live for. For me it's the combination of a flowing piece of singletrack combined with just enough bike to perfectly challenge your skills and fitness. And this little formula can have a very narrow window of operation. A few weeks off the bike can dull the fitness and skill levels or a few days of rain can slow the trails just enough to turn one week's perfect ride into the next week's inelegant staccato. And it's this illusive nature that makes it all the more special when it does all fall into place.
So, on the one hand my mountain bike provides me with the opportunity to lose myself in my thoughts and on the other it becomes all consuming. Either way it is incredibly restorative and, for me at least, a very worthwhile use of my precious time. I hope that you're using yours wisely!


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We Are Just As Welcome As Holy Water In Satan's Drink (Reissue)
by Dave Nowels at 27 March 2019, 10:12 PM
Founded in 1998, PSYCHOPUNCH is a Swedish band that's been carrying and setting the Punk Rock standard proudly for over 20 years. During that time, like any volatile situation, there's been turnover. PSYCHOPUNCH has never wavered in their intentions. So, despite the occasional obstacle, they have consistently maintained what they feel is important to their sound…..rhythm, attitude and never ending persistence.
"We Are Just As Welcome As Holy Water In Satan's Drink" was originally released in 2007, and has now been reissued by Massacre Records as a 20th Anniversary Special Edition. The full original album is supplemented with a bonus disc that features the band's 1998 demo, "333 Half as Evil" demo. Essentially, eight more tracks of mayhem. The original cover art is retained which features awesome pin-up/retro vintage style like all of their releases do.
The original album open with "Down in Flames" and carries an immediate resemblance to SOCIAL DESTRUCTION's sound. There's not a whole lot of variety happening here, nothing overly inventive or revolutionary. The majority of tracks are quick ragers clocking in under 5 minutes, and that's just fine. What the album represents is low slung guitars, whirlwind drums, raw vocals throughout and a basic balls in your face rock-n-roll attitude. Don't like it? Fuck off. I've always loved the more punk aspect of bands. It's just more interesting I suppose, and PSYCHOPUNCH have that swagger down to an art.
"Going Crazy" the title track and "Stranded" were blatant favorites for me on my first listen through. During subsequent listens, "Back For Good" and the album opener "Down in Flames" captured my attention. These songs carry a more noticeable melodic aspect than most of their contemporaries. I guarantee that once you become familiar with these songs, you'll be singing along.
The bonus disc of demo material is a fun historical journey back in time. This was a self produced release that the band sent to a multitude of record labels only to face rejection. The band apparently took out a loan, recorded "We Are Just As Welcome As Holy Water In Satan's Drink" and found themselves signed to the legendary White Jazz Records label. Lucky for us they did maintain that persistence. I'm glad I discovered this band, and in particular, this album. Massacre Records and PSYCHOPUNCH have certainly done us a service by reissuing it. I can only hope this 20th anniversary release leads to more fans discovering this underground legend.
1. Down in Flames
2. Straightjacket Hell
3. Goin´ Crazy
4. Good For Nothing at All
5. Stranded (for Holly Ramone)
6. Dear Life: Sweet Nothing
7. Goodbye Suckerville
8. W.A.J.A.W.A.H.W.I.S.D.
9. Cold Heart Disaster
10. Back for Good
Bonus CD / 333 Half As Evil (demo '98)
1. Worth the Pain
3. Dying On My Own
4. I Can´t Stand Lucy
5. Pleasure Kill
6. I´ll Be a Fool if I Let You Walk Away
7. Loser in the End
8. Stranded (instrumental)
JM – Lead Vocals, Guitar
Joey – Guitar
Mumbles – Bass
Peppe - Drums
Record Label: Massacre Records
Edited 27 January 2023


The style and the aesthetics of furniture today has become something to be noticed and appreciated. The grand world of furniture design, is one full of shapes, textures, colours and luxury. It is what dreams are made of.


The 2-Way, Double 5.25 inch BT25 tower loudspeaker is apart of the Brighton Series that consist of three tower speakers, two bookshelf speakers, two powered subs, one bipolar surround speaker and one centre channel. Brighton loudspeakers feature Sinclair's trademark luxurious black lacquer baffle and traditional cabinet styling that instantly makes it the aesthetic highlight of any room.
The slightly redesigned Brighton Series will immediately impress with satisfying sound and striking cosmetic design. The cosmetic enhancements include sculpted side panels on the cabinets that provide a rounded, slimming appearance and solid enclosure as well as a black, gloss kick panel and top cap. that instantly makes it the aesthetic highlight of any room. But Brighton is far more than a pretty face. Sophisticated technology such as Woven Fiberglass Hybrid drivers including true phase plugs, ultra-wide dispersion tweeters, and DALtech damping systems create Brighton's detailed, natural sound that reflects a distinct European heritage.
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The new Woven Fiberglass Hybrid cone is a new driver material designed for tremendous bass response. Fiberglass possesses a wonderful strength to weight ratio, making it light enough to react quickly for a tight response, yet strong enough to maintain its shape during challenging passages so it's free of unwanted distortion. Fiberglass is processed, woven, formed into the desired shape and fitted to a natural fiber backing to result in the Woven Fiberglass Hybrid cone.
The phase plug slows down the acoustic wave from the center of the cone so it's transmitted at the same time as the acoustic wave from the edge, which is marginally slower, for perfect sonic accuracy. It also reduces cone mass to permit an extended frequency response and allows more airflow through the motor structure which improves cooling, thus increasing power handling.
Distortion occurs when a speaker resonates from the speaker's own energy, discoloring the desired sound and resulting in reduced sound quality. DALtech, which stands for Dead as Lead Technology, eliminates this distortion with the placement of DALtech acoustic damping material to strategic parts of the speaker cabinet, capturing and absorbing the unwanted resonances for pure, untainted speaker reproduction.


The Lakeland Police Department made Florida headlines on April 10, 2018 when a social media video post showing two officers using what appeared to be unnecessary force on suspect Justin Abbott began circulating. One bystander was so shocked by the violent use of force that he felt compelled to record the act, while other witnesses later called WFLA to express their concern over the events. The Lakeland Police Department indicated through a Facebook post that it was aware of and investigating the incident which occurred near US 98 North and the I4 overpass.


Once a month, on no fixed date, Parklife DC hosts Parklife DC Screens, a concert film and documentary series, at DC9 (1940 9th St NW, DC).
Stay tuned for the next edition.
On the second Thursday of many months, Parklife DC hosts Careless Memories: A New Wave Party, where we play some favorite tunes inspired by many of the concerts we review. Admission is free!
Dodge City (917 U St. NW, DC) is a comfortable, laidback bar specializing in craft cocktails and beers, located at the U Street Metro Station, only steps away from the 9:30 Club and DC9.
Join us at Careless Memories: Style Icons on Thursday, April 11!
David Bowie inspired a clutch of UK fashionistas known as the New Romantics, including bands such as Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Culture Club, Ultravox, Adam Ant, Eurythmics, and more.
First wave introduced us to some spectacular guitarists, including Andy Taylor of Duran Duran and Johnny Marr of The Smiths. Let's rock the night away.
Inspired by New Order's performance at The Anthem on Aug. 28.
We celebrated a birthday! Yay!
Inspired by The Human League, who have four West Coast tour dates this week but none on the East Coast!
To toast Midge Ure, who is coming to town, we played the music of Ultravox and like-minded bands from the most synthpop genre ever.
Because Hall and Oates perform at Capital One Arena in June, we played nothing but their music all night!
Inspired by David Byrne, former frontman of the Talking Heads, at The Anthem this spring.
Inspired by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) at 9:30 Club on Tuesday, March 6.
Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017: Careless Memories: Do They Know It's Christmas?
Our Christmas party, featuring New Wave Christmas tunes.
Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017: Careless Memories: Are Friends Electric?
Inspired by Gary Numan at 9:30 Club on Friday, March 9.
Inspired by Squeeze at 9:30 Club on Tuesday, Nov. 28.
Celebrating the bands of the post-punk/new wave rival, including Interpol, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs, The Sounds, and more.
Inspired by Depeche Mode at Verizon Center on Thursday, Sept. 7.
Inspired by Blondie at Wolf Trap on Thursday, Aug. 3.
Inspired by the Retro Futura Tour with headliner Howard Jones, which visited Baltimore on Sunday, July 30.
Inspired by a terrorist attack on Manchester, we played favorite UK artists like The Smiths, New Order, and others who hail from the city.
Inspired by the performance of Giorgio Moroder at 9:30 Club on Friday, May 12.
Inspired by Colin Hay at The Birhmere on Sunday, March 12, and Monday, March 13.
Inspired by Book of Love at U Street Music Hall on Saturday, Feb. 11.
Inspired by the late David Bowie's birthday on Jan. 8.
Inspired by Duran Duran and their New Year's shows at MGM National Harbor on Saturday, Dec. 31 and Sunday, Jan. 1.
Inspired by Peter Hook and The Light at the Howard Theatre on Wednesday, Nov. 23.
Inspired by the Pet Shop Boys at Warner Theatre on Friday, Nov. 11.
Inspired by Echo and the Bunnymen at the 9:30 Club on Friday, Sept. 9.
Inspired by good music all around!
Inspired by a recent trip to Paris at its Pigalle New Wave Party — our inaugural edition!


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Due sul pianerottolo is a 1976 Italian comedy film written and directed by Mario Amendola. It is based on a successful comedy play with the same name starred by the same cast.

Cast

 Erminio Macario: Prof. Luigi Savoia
 Rita Pavone: Guglielmina 'Mimma' Castigliano
 Margherita Fumero:  Margherita Boccioni Stagno
 Gianni Agus: Dr. Gianni Tagliolini
 Mario Carotenuto:  Vespasiano Baudolino
 Enzo Liberti: Brigadiere Icardi
 Franco Agostini: Ettore Baudolino
 Renzo Marignano
 Luca Sportelli

See also
 List of Italian films of 1976

References

External links

1976 films
Italian comedy films
Films directed by Mario Amendola
1976 comedy films
Films scored by Guido & Maurizio De Angelis
1970s Italian films

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A Note on Blogging
It has been a very strange week here in Baja Canada, and an odd one for writing about.
I started this blog as a way to write things down that I wanted to remember, tell a few stories and keep myself and whatever readers I acquired along the way entertained. I like telling stories – it's what I do for a living.
But recently all of the stories have been grim.
I live in a nascent police state, with a governor who is clearly out of control and bent on destroying a century of successful tradition and progress in the name of a lunatic fringe ideology. One who does not value education, perhaps because he never really took his own seriously, and who has decided that the children of this state shouldn't even have the option to do so. One who does not see any particular need to follow laws that restrain his whims, or even the Constitution of his own state. One who is aided and abetted by a network of similarly radical cronies with similar disregard for decency, law and history.
Things are now so bad that firefighters responding to emergency calls in the Capitol are denied admission by hired goons with badges.
Things are now so bad that the Sheriff of the county has publicly labeled Governor Teabagger's excessive police presence a "palace guard."
Things are now so bad that the head of the Wisconsin Professional Police Association called the governor's plans "insanely wrong."
Things are now so bad that Teabaggers in the Senate have passed a law calling for the arrest of Democratic Senators despite the fact that such action is clearly unconstitutional.
It's all about power. It's all about greed. It's all about forcing an extremist agenda down the throats of the rest of us in complete disregard for American values, history and law.
And it's not much fun to write about.
That's just one more offense to be laid at the feet of this tin-horn dictator, and nowhere near the biggest, just the most personal.
Ewan said...
Sorry that it's not as fun; but for we lurkers, it's hugely valuable. I've pointed several friends to your blog, and it's possibly my favourite - so, anyway, thanks.
Thanks, Ewan - I appreciate it.
I'll keep writing and telling stories, because that's what I do and because the stories need to be told. I'm glad you're enjoying them. :)
All I can really say is: keep the faith, David.
I'm trying, Eric. Thanks.


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Ben Kiernan is the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History at Yale University, and has served as Chair of the Council on Southeast Asia Studies and as Founding Director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale. He is the author of Việt Nam: A History from Earliest Times to the Present (Oxford, 2017), How Pol Pot Came to Power (Yale, 2004), The Pol Pot Regime (Yale, 1996), Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur (Yale, 2007), and Genocide and Resistance in Southeast Asia (2008).
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Mass tree-planting in Ethiopia broke world records, but its impact will take time
Planting billions of trees can help tackle the climate crisis
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Posted 30 August 2019 16:27 GMT
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People plant avocado trees in Katbare, Ethiopia, on June 23, 2011. Photo via Trees for the Future on Flickr CC BY 2.0.
Editor's note: This story was written by guest contributor Sheila Halder, farm systems coordinator at Send a Cow.
There's no doubt about it — trees are good for the planet. The power of trees has dominated headlines all summer.
In late July, Ethiopia claimed to have set a world record by planting 350 million tree saplings in a single day. The initiative was part of a wider tree planting policy launched by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, whose administration aims to tackle deforestation and climate change by planting 4.7 billion trees by October this year.
Also in July, The Crowther Lab of ETH Zurich published a study which found that planting billions of trees across the world was the most affordable and effective way of tackling climate change.
Not only do trees clean our air and help fight climate change — but they also promote biodiversity. A study carried out in Costa Rica found that planting a single tree could boost the number of bird species from near zero to 80.
Trees also offer infinite, tangible benefits to farmers. They improve soil quality, reduce soil erosion, and provide shelter for livestock and crops. This is important considering how much fertile land farmers own globally – that's a huge amount of tree planting potential.
Planting 350 million tree saplings in a day is an incredible achievement, but it takes time for trees to mature and reach their full carbon-capturing potential.
Working across six African countries, Send a Cow, a nongovernmental organization, encourages smallholder farmers to plant multi-purpose trees that offer more than one output. For example, growing tree species that provide fruit to eat and sell but also provides firewood or introduce nitrogen into the soil. These benefits give farmers more reasons to plant and maintain trees, even where space is limited.
Ethiopia follows in the footsteps of other mass tree-planting initiatives in China and India. Mass tree-planting projects are exciting, but the solution is never as simple as it seems. During this precious time of growth, trees must be protected from removal or destruction while also safeguarding existing, mature forests.
Other ecosystems, including trees, are critical in terms of carbon retention. Burning fossil fuels and deforestation have resulted in an alarming amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere, resulting in rapid, irreversible changes to the climate.
Trees remove carbon dioxide from the air, storing it within trees and soil, and release oxygen into the atmosphere. But permafrost (a thick subsurface layer of soil that remains below freezing point), peat and grasslands, (which are found in both mountainous and arid regions of Ethiopia), are also effective in capturing carbon and need to be preserved and rehabilitated, too.
Which trees are best?
Some critics of Ethiopia's "Green Legacy" mass tree-planting initiative have warned of the dangers of planting non-native tree species which can actually destroy ecosystems rather than improve them.
Historically, Ethiopia has used eucalyptus, native to Australia, to quickly reforest areas that have been cleared for agriculture. The tree was introduced at the end of the 19th century and over a dozen eucalyptus species have been planted in Ethiopia during the last century — mainly for use as a source of fuel and for construction. Though fast-growing, the commonly used species drain water resources, enhance soil erosion and actually deplete the soil of nutrients.
This time, however, citizens reportedly planted tree seedlings of indigenous species as well as non-indigenous eucalyptus and avocado trees. Indigenous species have evolved in their countries of origin over millennia and have built up a resistance to current diseases. The Ethiopian government's approach seems to reflect a shift away from simply planting more eucalyptus.
However, sometimes non-native species make sense. For example, a species of shrub called calliandra, originally from Central America, is highly effective in producing high protein animal fodder in East Africa. Calliandra seed is widely available and affordable for small-scale farmers. Likewise, when people need trees for wood, the most suitable, and fastest-growing trees may not be local ones. In these cases, farmers must consider the purposes of the trees they are planting and their local environments while also relying on good ecological planning.
Flood-prone valleys where trees absorb the water prevent unfavorable conditions for other plants. The resilient eucalyptus can also be coppiced — a management technique that involves felling trees at the base and allowing them to regrow. Therefore, it's a popular choice for firewood because of its continuous, replenishing supply.
There is no silver bullet to the climate crisis, but tree planting is a part of the solution.
Protecting existing forests and other ecosystems is just as important as planting new trees. City planners can also play a part by limiting urban sprawl and preventing the land from being turned into man-made structures. Young people in rural East Africa must see a viable future in farming and stay committed to protecting the land.
Reducing the use of carbon-based fuels such as coal, oil and gas is also a must.
Reforestation can profoundly impact the world: One pro-active community group in Ethiopia recently volunteered their time and donated funds to regenerate eight hectares of land. Group members spent hours toiling the land and collectively planted 5,000 trees and 1,200 grass cuttings with plans to introduce fruit trees soon.
Imagine the impact if this community spirit was harnessed across the world.
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It is an interesting article. Tree planting is one of the major actions to mitigate climate change. Countries shall adopt such practice in order to get the benefit out of it. However, what matters most is caring for the seedlings planted until they are able to withstand the pressure from the environment (human, livestock, natural enemies, etc.). It is good to think about carbon trading to bring income to the communities exercising planting trees. It is also possible to enhance the ecosystem benefits out of trees. Ethiopia has a huge potential in beekeeping and this can be practiced in the places where trees are growing. Beekeeping in turn creates employment opportunities for the unemployed.
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Orchids are one of the largest families of flowers on earth, with almost 27,000 species, and can be found almost anywhere, from the tropics to the Arctic Circle. The orchid is typically associated with human sexuality, because of the flower's resemblance to male and female sexual anatomy. The ancient Greek word 'orxhis' translates today as 'testicle'. In places such as China, Africa, Germany and Egypt, the orchid was considered to be a love potion and aphrodisiac. Many East Asian cultures esteemed the orchid as a symbol of something precious and rare, while the Aztecs drunk vanilla orchid with chocolate to give them strength and power. When it comes to orchid tattoos, women see it as a great way to represent their beauty and femininity, while men usually lean toward the meaning of strength and charm.


In digital marketing, nailing all three of these is tough. It's difficult because they all kind of work together. You can control presentation to a certain extent, but how will you know if your presentation is really "the best" if you are not testing. If you are not testing then, you can never optimize for what your customers really want. Sure, you can take some guesses and maybe they will perform in your digital marketing campaign, but will you ever really know? That is a shaky foundation for your marketing efforts, at best.
What if there was a framework that someone has that could help you do this yourself? What if this framework can be done using 100% free tools? Well, after setting a few things up, you can be up and running. When you are done reading this article you will have the ability to test anything (as long as you adapt it to your needs). You will be able to determine whether your "optimizations" are good, and if they are, to what effect. Once implemented, you will have an ongoing process to improve your search presence over time!
The reason that I chose these two to test is because they are some of the easiest to get started with. You are able to test changes pretty quickly, and they are done with Google in mind. In theory, you could use this same framework for paid search, but not every property has a budget for that, and even if you don't have a budget for SEO, you can still make some of these changes at your leisure.
So What Are These Meta Doo-hickies?
I'm sure that all of you are familiar with this image above. Anytime that you perform a Google search, you get a results page that has links like these. Well, the purple part is what i considered the meta title. Below that is the URL for the page, and underneath that is the meta description. Google can dynamically pull in content from your website for the page title and meta description, but do you really want to leave presentation of your brand to someone else? Since you have some control (Google might still replace them at times) over what gets shown, wouldnt you want to put your best foot forward?
The title is your first opportunity to get visitors interested in clicking on your organic placement. It is a best practice to put the keyword that you are targeting in the title. As far as length goes, there are a few ways to look at this. The character limit is 65, but I prefer to follow the pixel limit of 568px. Even if you keep it under 65 characters, sometimes Google will still cut the title, and you'll see those dreaded ellipses! Make sure it is over 30 characters or 200px. If you have anything less than that, then you are not really saying anything enticing in your title.
If the title is what gets people's attention, then the description is what seals the deal and gets them over to the website. At the end of the day, that is the name of the game. The meta description should reinforce what the title says, but should offer something more. Adding more context in the meta description can bring more qualified users to your website. Again, the character limit for the description is 156, but I prefer the 940px limit. You also never want to go below 70 characters or 400px, because you can't really entice with such a small amount of words.
How Can I Check My Meta's?
Well, there are two ways that I typically check. One is on Google and the other is with a tool called Screaming Frog.
To check on Google, you just need a simple "site:" command. This can be accomplished by putting site:yourdomain.com into a google search box. Once you run the search, you can see what your presentation looks like. If you see any of your titles or meta descriptions being cut off, then those are the ones that you are going to want to take care of first.
Alternatively, you can download a little program called Screaming Frog. For technical tasks like this, you can't really beat it. They offer a free version, but it limits your crawling ability. I would suggest that you invest in the paid version. All that you have to do with this program is input your domain into the search box and hit START. Then go to the tabs labeled PAGE TITLES and META DESCRIPTIONS. In these tabs, you can filter by the issues that need your attention. Its that simple!
Column A will help you keep track of how many days removed you are from the experiment, so that you can check performance of old versus new. I chose 7 days and 28 days since they are default comparisons in Search Console. Conditionally formatting them with the color of your choice, lets you see when you need to check.
Column B allows you to keep track of the types of tests you are running.
C is checking if you submitted it to be crawled by Google. This is a manual process that you need to do on your own.
E:F are the relevant dates as of the day of the testing. They are all formulas and update daily.
G is the page that you are testing. I like to conditionally format for duplicates so that you can see whether you are making multiple types of changes on the same URL.
H, I, J, K are the metrics that you are comparing.
L is your theory/what you tested, etc.
M is the old version/the control v. what the new version is.
So there you have it. It is a little tedious to set up at first, but once you have the frame in place, you can massage it to your needs. This way, you will always be in a constant state of optimization and hopefully at the end of 6-12 months, you will see noticeable improvements. Just remember, that it might take a little bit of time to understand the ins and outs of the testing process, but it will be well worth the knowledge that you will gain from this. If you need help setting one of these up for yourself, please feel free to reach out to us on LinkedIn or Contact Us today.


Your article and comments regarding thinking as a group reminded me of a policy called "communitarian" with which I personally only became familiar with a few years ago. Great article.
I am so fortunate I grew up in the 60's and early 70s. I feel very sorry for parents and children these days.


With nearly 100 art galleries in Laguna Beach, the question is not "Where do we find the art?" but "How do we get around to see it all?"
Our city's art colony beginnings have continued to protect and promote the creative talent and innovation here in Laguna Beach. To dip your toe in, we recommend attending First Thursday's Art Walk, which occurs on the first Thursday of each month. All of the galleries throw their doors open and quite often offer personal tours, drinks and appetizers. Of course, admission is always free, and our Laguna Beach trolleys shuttle art lovers throughout the town as an added courtesy.
At the "crown" of Laguna Beach just north of Main Beach sits our lauded Laguna Art Museum, the oldest museum in California. Certainly one of the more innovative museums around, the Laguna Art Museum offers a variety of workshops, tours, artist keynote events, children's activities and featured live music in its galleries on the second Thursday of every month in partnership with Laguna Beach Live!.
Follow our calendar here as many galleries and consortiums of artists will host their own events during the month, especially around the holidays. Or, connect with our guides and maps that offer a complete index of the galleries and their style of featured art (traditional fine art, contemporary, wildlife, California, sculpture, fine art, paintings and more).


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Q: how to query the memory layout of pandas.dataframe I want to to query the memory layout of a pandas.dataframe. More explicitly, given a dataframe df (say, of the type np.float32), I would like to known if it is column-contiguous or row-contiguous.

A: you can examine the flags attribute of the underlying numpy array. The underlying numpy array can be accessed through the pd.DataFrame.values
example:
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.random(12).reshape(4,3), columns=list('abc'))
df.values.flags
#outputs:
C_CONTIGUOUS : True
F_CONTIGUOUS : False
OWNDATA : False
WRITEABLE : True
ALIGNED : True
WRITEBACKIFCOPY : False
UPDATEIFCOPY : False

As you can see from the output, in this case the data is row-contiguous (C_CONTINUOUS). F_CONTINUOUS signifies that the data is column-contiguous

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They will not only guide you in the right path but also will help you get the most out of your projects without wasting your money. If you want to make these projects successful and more efficient, you will have to have all the right tools and equipment. If you are trying to pull a project off without modern tools and advanced machineries, you will most likely end up wasting a good amount of time and as you can understand, that can be a direct impact on your professional reputation.
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Age of Coexistence
The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World
Ussama Makdisi
Fletcher Jones Foundation Imprint in Humanities
Oakland, CA:
Today's headlines paint the Middle East as a collection of war-torn countries and extremist groups consumed by sectarian rage. Ussama Makdisi's Age of Coexistence reveals a hidden and hopeful story that counters this clichéd portrayal. It shows how a region rich with ethnic and religious diversity created a modern culture of coexistence amid Ottoman reformation, European colonialism, and the emergence of nationalism.
Moving from the nineteenth century to the present, this groundbreaking book explores, without denial or equivocation, the politics of pluralism during the Ottoman Empire and in the post-Ottoman Arab world. Rather than judging the Arab world as a place of age-old sectarian animosities, Age of Coexistence describes the forging of a complex system of coexistence, what Makdisi calls the "ecumenical frame." He argues that new forms of antisectarian politics, and some of the most important examples of Muslim-Christian political collaboration, crystallized to make and define the modern Arab world.
Despite massive challenges and setbacks, and despite the persistence of colonialism and authoritarianism, this framework for coexistence has endured for nearly a century. It is a reminder that religious diversity does not automatically lead to sectarianism. Instead, as Makdisi demonstrates, people of different faiths, but not necessarily of different political outlooks, have consistently tried to build modern societies that transcend religious and sectarian differences.
Ussama Makdisi is Professor of History and the first Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University.
Ottoman Empire, nationalism, coexistence, anti sectarian politics, authoritarianism, Arab world


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I have been guilty of referring to this book as the "most dangerous book in the Bible." Luther and Zwingli were contemporaries who couldn't agree on much of anything but both of them agreed that the book of Revelation had no place in the Bible.
It would be impossible to count the number of times in the last 2,000 years that misguided "preachers" have used this book to predict the end of the world. Some of their followers have been led to do outlandish things, including mass suicide, as a result of these predictions.
Before starting any Bible study we should recognize that what we are reading was written for someone else. As far as Revelation goes we are actually reading someone else's mail.
The time and dates of our study of this much misunderstood book will begin on February 20 and 21 and conclude on March 20 and 21. The Tuesday class will be at 4:00 PM and the Wednesday class at 10:30. Each class will be approximately one hour. An outline of study will be available beginning Feb. 4th.


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MAJOR ARCHIBALD WILLINGHAM BUTT died on this date. (b: 1865) Butt was an influential military aide to U.S. Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. Before becoming an aide to Roosevelt, Butt had pursued a career in journalism and served in the Spanish-American War. He died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic.
He served in the Phillippines from 1900 to 1904. While he was in the Philippines, he had a part in founding the Military Order of the Carabao, a tongue-in-cheek spoof of military fraternal organization that is still in operation today. In 1904, he was made Depot Quartermaster of Washington D.C., where he met President Theodore Roosevelt. In 1906, he was sent to Cuba as part of a pacification force. In 1908, now a captain, Butt was recalled to Washington to serve as chief military aide to President Roosevelt. When William Howard Taft became President the following year, Butt stayed on in the same capacity. In 1911, Butt was promoted to the rank of major.
In the early spring of 1912, Butt's health took a turn for the worse; urged to rest by President Taft, he left on a six-week vacation to Europe. He was accompanied for part of his vacation by the American painter Frances David Millet, his longtime domestic partner. Butt's only known official work during his vacation was a visit with Pope Piuz X, during which he delivered to the pontiff a personal message from Taft. Butt booked passage on the RMS Titanic for his return to the U.S. He boarded the Titanic at Southhampton, UK on April 10, 1912; his partner Millet boarded the ship at Cherbourg, France later that same day. Butt was playing cards on the night of April 14 in the first-class smoking room when the Titanic struck an iceberg. The ship was completely submerged by 2:20 AM the next morning, and plunged to the ocean floor.
Major Butt's actions on board the ship while it was sinking are largely unverified, but many accounts of a typically sensationalist nature were published by newspapers after the disaster. According to some accounts, Titanic captain Edward J. Smith informed Butt that the "ship was doomed" and that "lifeboats were being readied." Butt immediately began acting as another officer of the ship, herding women and children into the lifeboats. One account tells of Butt preventing desperate steerage passengers trying to escape. Walter Lord's book A Night To Remember disagrees with claims that Butt acted like an officer, claiming he was more likely quietly observing the ship's evacuation. Butt was last seen in the smoking room, making no attempt to save himself. He went down with the Titanic; his remains were not found.
Butt lived with his longtime domestic partner, Frank Millet, in an old-fashioned district of Washington, D.C. "Millet, my artist friend who lives with me" was Butt's designation for his companion. In D.C. they were known for throwing large parties that were attended by members of congress, justices of the Supreme Court and President Taft, himself. As a result of a society not wanting to pry into their lives, insiders in Washington tried not to focus too closely on the men's relationship, but they recognized their mutual affection. The two were aboard the Titanic when it sank on the early morning of April 15, 1912. Butt's body was not recovered. But Millet's was found later floating on the sea and was returned to the U.S. for burial. The memorial fountain erected in the Ellipse area of the President's Park in Washington is called the Butt-Millet Fountain.


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Decoding the Proton's Response to an External Electromagnetic Field
A beam of electrons (e-) scatters from a proton (the sphere with two "up" quarks in red and one "down" quark in green) with enough energy to produce a photon (γ ). This exposes the proton's internal structure to the electromagnetic field of the photon.
A collaboration of nuclear physicists from 18 institutions have measured the proton's electromagnetic generalized polarizabilities.
The visible world is founded on the proton, the only composite building block of matter that is stable in nature. This means that scientists seeking to understand the formation of matter need to explain the fundamental properties of the proton. A team of physicists measured the proton's electric polarizability. This is a fundamental structural property of the proton. It characterizes the proton's susceptibility to deformation, or its "stretchability," in the presence of a photon's electromagnetic field. The results reveal a puzzling new structure—a bump in the polarizability that nuclear theory cannot explain.
The proton is a cornerstone of the visible matter in the universe. By measuring how the proton responds to an external electromagnetic field, physicists gain insight into the dynamics of the strong force. They can also understand how the proton emerges from its fundamental quark and gluon constituents. The new data contradict the theoretical predictions. They offer valuable input towards an improved theory that will be able to successfully describe this fundamental proton property.
In a new experiment conducted at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, a collaboration of nuclear physicists from 18 institutions have measured the proton's electromagnetic generalized polarizabilities. The electric polarizability characterizes the susceptibility to deformation, or "stretchability," of the proton in the presence of an external electric field, while the magnetic polarizability offers insight into the magnetic contributions in the proton. The experiment employed the virtual Compton scattering process, during which a real photon is produced and provides the electromagnetic perturbation to the proton that is needed to measure its polarizabilities.
The current theory predicts that the proton electric polarizability has a monotonic dependence as a function of the distance scale in the proton. That fact is a direct consequence of the increasingly dominant role of the quark degrees-of-freedom, which leads to the strong binding of the nucleon at short distance scales. The new results reveal a puzzling structure in this fundamental proton property that corresponds to a local enhancement of its magnitude as a function of the distance-scale in the nucleon. This striking contradiction to the theoretical predictions suggests that scientific understanding of the strong interaction that binds the proton's elementary quark and gluon constituents together may be missing a key dynamical element. This presents a significant challenge to the prevalent theory.
Nikos Sparveris
sparveri@temple.edu
This work has been supported by the Department of Energy Office of Science, Nuclear Physics program.
Li, R., et al., Measured proton electromagnetic structure deviates from theoretical predictions. Nature 611, 265–270 (2022). [DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05248-1]


Not even when it's aimed at bigots and cretins.
America can survive crappy ideas.
America can survive nasty statues.
America can't survive normalization of political violence.
That should be the takeaway over the last two weeks. The latest round of racial and political recriminations began with a horrifying alt-right white-supremacist torchlight rally around the base of a statue of Robert E. Lee in Virginia, developed into a street brawl between white supremacists and antifa thugs, and culminated in one of the white supremacists ramming his car into a crowd of innocent counter-protesters. President Trump exacerbated tensions by failing to clearly condemn the white supremacists, then condemned them, then seemed to un-condemn some of them by stating that there were some "very fine people" marching with them.
And then it escalated. Over the past two weeks, we've seen antifa attacking police officers in Boston and Dallas, vandals breaking a Christopher Columbus statue and tearing down Confederate monuments, and one man attempting to bomb a Confederate statue in Houston.
Meanwhile, members of the mainstream Left have excused violence in the name of "anti-fascism." Chris Cuomo of CNN, Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, Hillary Clinton spokesperson Brian Fallon — all of them compared antifa thugs in Charlottesville to World War II Allied soldiers invading beaches at Normandy. In the pages of the Washington Post, historian Mark Bray of Dartmouth University gushed over antifa's "willingness to physically defend themselves and others from white supremacist violence" Professor N. D. B. Connolly of Johns Hopkins University called for Americans to "start throwing rocks" at white supremacists.
So, what's scarier: a thousand pasty and pathetic would-be tough guys marching around in the middle of the night shouting, "Jews will not replace us," then weeping openly when arrest warrants are issued for violence, or the mainstream Left embracing violence in the streets? Some college-age dweeb goose-stepping around with a flag created 50 years before his birth, or somebody punching that guy, to the cheers of the media?
Words can be awful; ideologies can be evil. But violence breaks a society in half. The Nazis could never have risen without the specter of violent Reds on the loose to fight against. The Confederacy could never have gained steam so quickly without the abolitionist vigilantism of John Brown. Violence — even in the name of wiping away evil ideologies — tends to breed more violence, unless it is a legitimate last resort.
What's more, the initiator of violence in the streets tends to offend the sensibilities of those who oppose violence in a civilized society. He thereby creates sympathy for those who defend themselves — even if those who defend themselves are disgusting cretins. That's because most people in a civilized society agree with Max Weber's essential dictum that the state's existence rests on its monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force. Whoever violates that covenant destroys the state.
Precedents are dangerous things; let the reins of government then be braced and held with a steady hand, and every violation of the Constitution be reprehended: if defective, let it be amended, but not suffered to be trampled upon whilst it has an existence.
Any attempt to undermine our republic through reliance on political violence is nothing more than terrorism.
We still live in a republic. Any attempt to undermine that republic through reliance on political violence is nothing more than terrorism, and the mainstream Left's willingness to associate with that terrorism draws us closer to conflict. Yes, Nazis should be vigorously opposed — with words. If they break the law, the police should arrest them. But if we begin to legitimize political violence, where will the Left draw its lines? Antifa believes that all of its enemies are fascists, from actual white supremacists to normal Republican marchers in Portland, Ore. We've already seen the Left shrug off political violence in Boston at a rally labeled white supremacist — even though the rally organizers explicitly denounced white supremacism publicly. How far will the Left go to wink at violence?
And if the Left winks at violence, how long until the Right responds in kind?
In 1964, Malcolm X stated that it was incumbent on black victims of racism to use the ballot. The choice, he stated, was "either a ballot or a bullet." We're now 50 years beyond the Civil Rights Act of that year. Ballots have proved effective means of change in a constitutional republic; never have the number of Nazis and white supremacists in America been so small. They will continue to shrink quietly into the hellish ether whence they came. But not if they're brought back from the brink of death into vicious life by violent opposition that destroys the social compact in search of monsters to slay.


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Users only see what they are supposed to see.
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ChannelValue® is an innovative partner relationship management software that gives your indirect distribution channels a one-stop marketing, sales and motivational platform.
The solution offers innovative ways to improve channel partner motivation and channel partner retention.
Already leveraged by leading companies, ChannelValue® is based on extensive channel experience and known industry standards.
This channel incentives software will help you unleash the potential of channel partners by exploiting innovative relationship management tools.
Help your customers make the most of their channel network.
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