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Why Did This Jogger Assault a Homeless Man??
And how did witnesses respond?
By Kyle Morris Last updated Jul 30, 2019
A year ago, someone in Britain thought it would be funny to trash a homeless man's things. What's happened since to the people involved?
In summer 2018, regulars around Lake Merritt in Oakland, CA watched a jogger dumping a local homeless man's belongings – blankets, clothes, and all – into the water. Henry Sintay, who was later identified after cell phone video of his hateful act went viral, claimed he was "cleaning up."
Jogger dismantles Lake Merritt homeless man's encampment, throws some of it into lake (Drew Costley/San Francisco Chronicle) https://t.co/sCX1ZzasEq pic.twitter.com/WJbMQQSitl
— Red Waz (@PostManWaz) June 13, 2018
Multiple witnesses tried to stop him. One man shouted "This is a person's whole life!" while another asked "What gives you the right to do this?" Sintay responded by physically attacking one of the onlookers, Matt Nelson, and was arrested for misdemeanor battery and vandalism. He has since been sentenced to 5 years in prison.
The jogger who tossed a homeless man's belongings into a lake, Henry Sintay, has been arrested on robbery charges for allegedly stealing the phone used to record his actions. pic.twitter.com/aPkk5zKnwp
— AJ+ (@ajplus) June 12, 2018
But the story didn't end there. Once the online attention died down, Oakland resident Kenzie Smith felt compelled to help out the homeless man Sintay had assaulted, known locally as Drew.
Smith recalls, "I took bottles of water. I took a blanket. I took food. I gave Drew the stuff and said, 'Tomorrow I'll be back.'"
Together with another witness to the assault named JJ, Smith pitched in for a tent for Drew. When they realized Oakland city ordinances required him to haul it away each morning, they didn't give up – they decided to get him an apartment.
A GoFundMe campaign raised $14,000 for Drew's apartment, as well as a prepaid phone. JJ and Kenzie found a barber to get him a free haircut and even helped him secure a job.
But, in the end, Drew turned it all down. "He declined the offer. He said the lake is his home, and he didn't really want to be part of the world," Kenzie explained. So the campaign money was instead donated to two homeless charities, and to this day Drew still lives by Lake Merritt. He's reportedly still recovering from the madness of being part of a viral phenomenon.
Part of the reason why Drew turned down all this help may have to do with the soul-crushing realities of being impoverished and poor in Oakland. Things like what Sintay did aren't actually that uncommon – it's just that city authorities are usually the ones doing it.
Oakland is one of many West Coast cities hit hard by the arrival of tech companies, whose influx of employees has driven up housing prices. Although the city's median income is just $60,000, three in 10 homes cost over $1 million. Other cities hit hard by this phenomenon include Berkeley, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle.
Things are so bad for the homeless here that a UN report condemned conditions in Oakland as "cruel and inhumane," "a violation of several human rights," and "a cruelty that might be unparalleled."
Oakland's homeless population grows 47 percent in two years https://t.co/1Ry4fyaahG
— THINKTANKREPAIR (@ThinkTankRepair) July 26, 2019
What do you think of Drew's story? What should be done about homelessness in Oakland and across the West Coast? Let us know in the comments.
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life in karamoja, reflections / September 6, 2013
The Nomadic Lifestyle
We are coming home. Or are we? With our current term coming to an end in just a few weeks, it's hard not to feel a sense of disconnectedness from what's going on around the Mission. The other missionaries are planning for events that will happen while we are stateside. I'm counting the number of days I have left working at the new clinic, realizing that most of the work I've been doing will not be recognizable when we come back as construction will continue in our absence. I just realized that this is our last Friday night in Karamoja (we'll be traveling for various reasons the next couple of Fridays in Uganda).
But most interesting is that I've caught myself telling people about when we're planning to return home, using that word not to mean the United States, but Nakaale. When we first arrived on the field, I was very conscientious about not using the words "home" and "America" as synonyms. It seemed to me that I wanted to communicate with people that this was where we were making our life—that we weren't counting the days until we could get out of here. I did have to think about it then, but almost unconsciously I've slipped into a comfortable association with this place as home.
But the problem is compounded because with our time so short, we are once again anxious to see our families and friends in San Diego, to attend worship at our home church, to eat at Burger King (ok, not Chloe). All of these things are still so ingrained in who we are, that our leaving, or our returning, creates a great mix of emotions. Whether here or there, we are coming home to something while simultaneously leaving something behind.
It's once again a reminder that our home is not here, but in the kingdom of God, and that in all we do, we ought to seek first that kingdom, as Abraham did, knowing that we are wanderers on this earth and that Christ has gone before us to prepare a place for us in glory.
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This panel will provide an overview of the current terrorist threat landscape, how it has changed in the last five to ten years, and strategies to best address this threat at the local and national levels. Emphasis will be placed on how several key events in 2021 have shaped the way we think about research and policy in the fields of radicalization and extremism. Panelists will provide data on fluctuations of the most imminent terrorist threats posed to the U.S. over the last 10 years, why and how possible changes to the threat landscape have taken place, and ways in which the current terrorist threat should be combatted.
The National Institute of Justice's "Research for the Real World" seminar series features research that is changing our thinking about policies and practices.
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ALL set for the big wedding! I don't go a bundle on Royal weddings and will be happy to see the edited highlights at night although I appreciate that millions of folk will be glued to their television screens, come Friday.
As the nation prepares to be sucked inexorably into a whirlpool of nuptial emotion, let me express my burning hope for the William and Kate's big day. I do hope that the television journalists will try to exclude the continuing references and comparisons to Princess Diana, which have been conspicuous since Will gave Kate his mother's engagement ring. It was a wonderful gesture but a misguided one in my book.
I would have thought that a girl getting engaged, would want a ring her husband-to-be had chosen for her or one she had had some imput into herself. Kate, though, seemed happy with it at the engagement press conference but it was hardly the sort of gesture she could have refused.
Now, here we are, in the run-up to the marriage and the references to Princess Diana-isms show no sign of abating, in fact they appear to be building to a climax.
Don't get me wrong, I think it is right and proper that Will and Kate should cherish and honour her memory, particularly given the terrible circumstances of her death, and hold it dear.
What bride would in any case want a comparison with the dress worn by a relative? Every bride chooses her dress because she has chosen it and it is right for her. Please, guys, let it be, and concentrate on covering Will and Kate's big occasion. After all, it is their day.
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How Chipotle's Valuation Multiple Compares with Its Peers
By Rajiv Nanjapla
Valuation multiple
Due to high visibility in Chipotle Mexican Grill's (CMG) earnings, we have considered the forward price-to-earnings (or PE) multiple for our analysis. The forward PE multiple is calculated by dividing Chipotle's stock price from analysts' estimated EPS (earnings per share) for the next four quarters.
Chipotle's forward PE multiple
The announcement of a rise in its marketing and promotional expenses in 2Q17 by Chipotle's management and increasing competition from fast-food restaurants have made investors skeptical of the company's earnings. This led to a fall in its stock price and valuation multiple.
On July 13, 2017, Chipotle's forward PE multiple was 39.1x compared to 50.7x before the announcement of its 1Q17 earnings. On the same day, its peers Panera Bread (PNRA) and Shake Shack (SHAK) were trading at forward PE multiples of 37.5x and 63.9x, respectively.
As a young company, Shake Shack has huge potential to expand. The growth prospects are valued highly by the market, which led Shake Shack to trade at a higher multiple.
To drive its same-store sales growth, Chipotle has been focusing on implementation of digital advancements, improving the quality of menu items, menu innovations, and implementation of new services such as delivery.
The company has increased its marketing and promotional expenses to increase traffic at its restaurants. All these initiatives are expected to increase Chipotle's expenditures. If these initiatives fail to generate the expected sales, the increased expenses could put pressure on the company's margins and lower its earnings.
For the next four quarters, analysts expect Chipotle to post EPS growth of 135.5%, which has been factored into the company's current stock price. If Chipotle posts earnings lower than analysts' estimates, the selling pressure could lower the company's stock price and its valuation multiple.
You can mitigate these company-specific risks by investing in the iShares Select Dividend ETF (DVY), which invests 37.6% of its holdings in restaurants and travel companies.
Next, we'll look at analysts' recommendations ahead of its 2Q17 earnings.


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CPRD has generated a number of synthetic datasets that can be used for training purposes or to improve algorithms or machine learning workflows.
Two high-fidelity synthetic datasets are being made available with a nominal administrative fee:
CPRD cardiovascular disease synthetic dataset
CPRD COVID-19 symptoms and risk factors synthetic dataset
An additional fee will apply for an annual teaching licence for the high-fidelity synthetic datasets.
CPRD has also developed the CPRD Aurum sample dataset, a medium-fidelity synthetic dataset that resembles the real world CPRD Aurum. Pricing information is available from enquiries@cprd.com.
CPRD Aurum sample dataset
The three synthetic datasets will need a data sharing agreement (DSA) with the applicant's organisation for access in line with advice received from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) Innovation Hub in response to a formal query by the MHRA.
For access to these datasets please submit the CPRD Synthetic data access request form to enquiries@cprd.com including 'Synthetic data access request' in the email subject header. Applicants from organisations that are not existing CPRD clients will also need to submit a new client request form.
Existing multi-study licence (MSL) clients will not need a separate DSA to access the CPRD Aurum sample dataset as this will be added to their MSL agreement. MSL clients do not need to submit a synthetic data access request form and can apply to access to the CPRD Aurum sample dataset at no additional cost by emailing enquiries@cprd.com.
Download: CPRD synthetic data access request form (Word, 410KB, 3 pages)
CPRD has generated high-fidelity synthetic datasets using a synthetic data generation and evaluation framework that was developed under a grant from the Regulators' Pioneer Fund launched by The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and managed by Innovate UK. The synthetic data generation and evaluation framework used to generate this synthetic dataset and the synthetic datasets are owned by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
A detailed technical description of the methodology used to generate the synthetic datasets is available in the publications by Wang et al. (2021) and Tucker et al. (2020).
These high-fidelity synthetic datasets replicate the complex clinical relationships in real primary care patient data while protecting patient privacy as they are wholly synthetic. They can be used instead of real patient data for complex statistical analyses as well as machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) research applications.
The high-fidelity synthetic datasets are based on data derived from CPRD Aurum and as such, are not suitable if you wish to understand the raw structure of the CPRD Aurum database. For this purpose, please request the medium-fidelity CPRD Aurum sample dataset.
This synthetic dataset is based on anonymised real primary care patient data extracted from the CPRD Aurum database. The dataset focuses on cardiovascular disease risk factors and was a proof-of-concept dataset developed as part of a project funded by the Regulators' Pioneer Fund launched by The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and managed by Innovate UK.
Download: CPRD Synthetic Cardiovascular Disease Data Specification (PDF, 194KB, 5 pages)
https://doi.org/10.11581/yk6n-b652
This synthetic dataset is based on anonymised real primary care patient data extracted from the CPRD Aurum database. The dataset focuses on patients presenting to primary care with symptoms indicative of COVID-19 (confirmed/suspected COVID-19) and control patients with negative COVID-19 test results. The dataset includes data on sociodemographic and clinical risk factors.
The development of this dataset was funded by NHSX using the synthetic data generation and evaluation framework developed under a grant from the Regulators' Pioneer Fund launched by The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and managed by Innovate UK.
Download: CPRD COVID-19 Synthetic Data Specification V4 (PDF, 293KB, 8 pages)
https://doi.org/10.48329/yk2n-sz66
Further information and publications
Press release: New synthetic datasets to assist COVID-19 and cardiovascular research
Download: Tucker et al preprint
Publication: de Benedetti, J., Oues, N., Wang, Z., Myles, P., Tucker, A. (2020). Practical lessons from Generating Synthetic Healthcare Data with Bayesian Networks. In: Koprinska I. et al. (eds) ECML PKDD 2020 Workshops. ECML PKDD 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1323. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65965-3_3
Publication: Tucker, A., Wang, Z., Rotalinti, Y. et al. Generating high-fidelity synthetic patient data for assessing machine learning healthcare software. npj Digit. Med. 3, 147 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-020-00353-9
Publication: Wang, Z., Myles, P., Tucker, A. Generating and evaluating cross-sectional synthetic electronic healthcare data: Preserving data utility and patient privacy. Computational Intelligence. 2021; 1– 33. https://doi.org/10.1111/coin.12427
Publication: Wang, Z et al. Evaluating a Longitudinal Data Generator using Real World Data. 2021 IEEE 34th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS). https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS52027.2021.00074
Download: Wang et al preprint (PDF, 1MB, 6 pages)
Publication: Myles P, et al. Synthetic data and the innovation, assessment, and regulation of AI medical devices. RF Quarterly. 2022;2(4):20-26. Published online 9 December 2022. (A preprint version of this article can be found at Myles et al preprint (PDF, 197KB, 6 pages))
Accepted manuscript: The potential synergies between synthetic data and in silico trials in relation to generating representative virtual population cohorts. Myles et al 2023 Prog. Biomed. Eng. https://doi.org/10.1088/2516-1091/acafbf (A preprint version of this article can be found at Myles et al preprint (PDF, 159KB, 6 pages))
Our R code for generating high-fidelity synthetic data is available via Github (https://github.com/zhenchenwang/latent_model). The R package bnlearn (v4.6.1) is used for all Bayesian network inference. The R function FCI is used, which is part of the pcalg package (v2.6–11), to identify latent variables. Kmmd is implemented using the R Package kernlab (v0.9–29). This code can be used with the high-fidelity cardiovascular synthetic dataset as a ground truth dataset, for training purposes and can be adapted for use with other similar datasets.
The CPRD Aurum sample dataset is a medium-fidelity synthetic dataset that resembles the real world CPRD Aurum with respect to the data types, data values, data formats, data structure and table relationships.
This synthetic dataset can be used for multiple purposes including as a sample dataset to understand the structure and utility of the anonymised CPRD Aurum database, to use as a data management teaching/training resource, to develop/validate/test analytics tools for use with CPRD Aurum data, to improve bespoke CPRD Aurum application interfaces/algorithms, e.g. a bespoke cohort selection tool, or to develop machine learning workflows that can be applied to anonymised CPRD Aurum data. The development of this dataset was funded by NHSX.
For pricing please contact enquiries@cprd.com.
Download: CPRD Aurum sample dataset release notes (PDF, 128KB, 2 pages)
https://doi.org/10.48329/hm7t-qs28


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Another year is behind us. It's been the most torrid since the
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The human organism has a vast capacity to adapt and accomodate.
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UPDATED 23 October So the latest saga has come and almost gone. The Coalition, which began with a much-vaunted promise of bipartisanship, has now reverted to form. It has accused the Government of bungling the most important financial move it has made, the Bank Deposit Guarantee;...
The great media awakening
Ever since he became Leader of the Opposition, the relationship between the media and Kevin Rudd has been patchy. While he, with Joe Hockey, once enjoyed a convivial regular association with Channel Seven, a connection that still exists, and while his appearances on Channel Ten's Rove ...
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'Melancholy' is an old fashioned word derived from medieval medicine; it literally means 'black bile', an excess of which was believed to cause depression. 'Depressed', which now carries a specific taxonomic meaning, seems to be an inappropriate word to ch...
To quibble or not to quibble
It was just last Tuesday, 14 October, when Malcolm Turnbull announced the Coalition's willing bipartisan support for the Government's $10.4 billion package to stimulate Australia's slowing economy. In a doorstop, he and his deputy added that the Coalition would not quibble ...
Kevin Rudd – all action, no talk
After months of hearing and reading the "all talk no action" mantra, it would be too much to now expect the reverse after the announcement yesterday of the $10 billion 'boost to the economy'. Some journalists got close. In today's issue of The Australian P...
Malcolm's at it again
In several pieces on The Political Sword it has been argued that Malcolm Turnbull is at his best when he's advocating ideas and actions in which he believes, but when he's required to promote that in which he does not have his heart, he flounders and is unconvincing. Over the las...
What's got into our TV interviewers?
This piece is prompted by two recent episodes where the PM was interviewed in a manner that could only be described as aggressive, if not downright rude. We know that politicians enjoy lowly status in the respectability stakes. Broken promises, speaking with a forked tongue and partisa...
Andrew Bolt – Pied Piper to his bloggers
Watching Andrew Bolt on ABC TV's Insiders yesterday, I wondered when last he was subjected to the same critical judgment to which he so eagerly subjects others. This prompted the idea for a series on The Political Sword on how we perceive our political journalists, with Bolt as first under t...
The corrosive effect of political slogans
Spin doctors love slogans. Their focus groups test them for efficacy. They launch them, repeat them incessantly until their use-by date, then go onto the next. They know the corrosive effect the negative ones can have on those to whom they're applied. The media too lo...
Why is the Opposition antagonizing the banks?
Isn't it curious that the conservative side of politics, the free-marketeers, are now at loggerheads with the banks. All the more so with a leader who is an ex-merchant banker. It was the previous Treasurer who defended so fiercely the independence of the Reserve Bank, and indeed...
So will interest rates now always be lower under Labor?
It's almost a year since John Howard parted the scene, but his mantra "Interest rates will always be lower under the Coalition" still rings in our ears. It was powerful, memorable and effective, except at the last election, when so many of the people stopped believing it, o...
Why do so many in the media enjoy a beat-up?
This morning on ABC 774 radio, Kathy Bedford, a temporary morning announcer, raised the matter of a brutal assault on Dr Mukesh Haikerwell, past President of the AMA, that resulted in his being admitted to the Western General Hospital in suburban Melbourne for 'brain surgery'. Fo...
What should we expect from the Shadow Treasurer?
When Brendon Nelson unexpectedly pipped Malcolm Turnbull for leadership of the Coalition last year, even although the Liberal convention is to allow the Deputy Leader to choose a portfolio, it was expected that Nelson would offer Turnbull the post of Shadow Treasurer. That's what happe...
Could the media tide be turning?
It might surprise those who believe the media, particularly News Limited, is anti-Government and pro-Coalition, that some Coalition supporters believe the media is pro-Government and not nearly hard enough on Kevin Rudd and his ministers. Perspective governs perception. For those who b...
The Cringe Dwellers
When the Prime Minister announced his recent trip to the US, the 'cringe dwellers' emerged in numbers. First the Opposition coined what it thought were cute descriptors: 'Kevin 747' and 'Prime Tourist', which apart from giving it some amusement, exposed an...
The Turnbull Report Card 10 days in
10 days ago Malcolm Turnbull became Leader of the Opposition at a time of intense political activity and global financial turmoil. This is one view of how he's travelling. As argued in another post: Will the real Malcolm Turnbull please stand up? Turnbull's performance va...
Integrity in journalism
How do you react to journalists who quote 'informed sources' or 'senior public servants' or 'experienced politicians' but never name them? How much credence do you place on such anonymous sources? How reliable do you believe this 'reporting&rsq...
Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been.
I think the Prime Minister has embarked on a journey and he has no idea where he's taking us.
John Hewson
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Laurence J Peter in 'The Peter Principle'
Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche more profound than anything Marx dreamed of.


we run into "too many files open" exception after a certain time when tomcat is running.
and nothing is really going on on the tomcat at the moment.
when I set the flag to false, everything seems to be fine!
There is nothing that can be closed here, and the URL is a regular file URL. However, calling getLastModified on it indeed leaks a descriptor. There's a problem somewhere and more investigation is needed, but this is odd.
I found a question about a possibly related bug in Tomcat https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53745188/tomcat-undeploys-wars-automatically-after-some-time.
Could the log include details of the exception to easily confirm the cause of the issue?
That is a network issue and unrelated to this bug.


Eleanor de Lacy should have been mad to conform to alternate identities together with her stronger-willed cousin. She could by no means persuade Remington Knight of the folly of this union – specifically because the guy appeared so made up our minds for it to occur. Worse nonetheless, she unearths Remington outstanding appealing – and she's charmed via his makes an attempt to seduce her, even if he believes she is already his. but when he ever learns of Eleanor's deception, this bold rogue will wreak havoc…upon her popularity and her center. Remington had anticipated a haughty, unbending aristocrat who could be sure his front into solid society. yet this "duchess" is a so much friendly shock – modest, warm-hearted, endearingly awkward, and a satisfaction to the attention. in brief, she is precisely this type of bride Remington may possibly fall passionately, thoroughly in love with…if he weren't so rationale on his revenge.
Driven to discover the reality concerning the mysterious dying of his ladylove, the Duke of Hawkscliffe will visit any lengths to unmask a assassin. no matter if it ability jeopardizing his acceptance via conducting a scandalous affair with London's so much provocative courtesan--the fascinating yet aloof Belinda Hamilton.
Bel has used her intelligence and wit to allure the city's titled gents, whereas suffering to place the items of her existence again jointly. She wishes a protector, so she accepts Hawk's invitation to develop into his mistress in identify merely. He asks not anything of her physique, yet seeks her assist in snaring an analogous guy who shattered her advantage. jointly they tempt the unforgiving wrath of society--until their dicy charade becomes a deadly appeal, and Bel needs to make a devastating choice which could destroy her final probability at love. . . .
From manhattan instances bestselling writer Julia London comes the second one novel in her irresistibly romantic determined Debutantes trilogy, within which 3 all of sudden destitute aristocratic younger women needs to lodge to determined capacity to take care of appearances. .. and locate the husbands in their desires. woman Greer Fairchild's basically wish of heading off marriage to the 1st bidder lies in travelling into the untamed Welsh nation-state looking for an inheritance she's uncertain even exists -- one reportedly managed through Rhodrick Glendower, Earl of Radnor, sometimes called the Prince of Powys.
It is curious how one girl can hang-out a man… Ten years as a high-stakes jewel thief must have helped me overlook Sophie Huntington Ramsey. yet irrespective of how a long way I traveled, she used to be by no means faraway from my concepts. Her earthy sensuality. Her wild ardour. For ten lengthy years, my reminiscence of our one forbidden evening jointly burned as sizzling because the come across itself.
His reaction surprised Remington. Clark so seldom openly expressed aversion. " In exasperation, Clark said, "He's such an old school aristocrat. " Remington's lips twitched with amusement. "He comes into my office, he sits in that chair"— Clark pointed at Remington's seat—"he tells his secretary what he wants done with his account, and his secretary tells me. " Clark laughed, then looked guilty. "Pardon me, that is an insensitive jest. " Remington toyed with his spoon. html "I never met him. " Clark seemed fascinated by the unsolved mystery.
Clark so seldom openly expressed aversion. " In exasperation, Clark said, "He's such an old school aristocrat. " Remington's lips twitched with amusement. "He comes into my office, he sits in that chair"— Clark pointed at Remington's seat—"he tells his secretary what he wants done with his account, and his secretary tells me. " Clark laughed, then looked guilty. "Pardon me, that is an insensitive jest. " Remington toyed with his spoon. html "I never met him. " Clark seemed fascinated by the unsolved mystery.
Eleanor breathed again. Lord and Lady Picard stood receiving their guests, the lady a consummate hostess, the lord a consummate fool. Eleanor had met them during Madeline's first Season four years ago, but Lady Picard had scarcely looked at Madeline's companion, while Lord Picard had done more than glance. He had leered as he did with every young lady—although not at her face. Eleanor felt sure they wouldn't recognize who she was. But would they recognize who she wasn't? She braced herself, but Lady Picard considered her without the slightest sign of recognition.


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Breakfast, diabetes research, and the right to make bad jokes
'The Today Programme will survive John Humphrys leaving but will we all survive the death of the right to make poor jokes?'
A man comes up to me in the park and asks, "How much are you being paid to write all these nice pieces about John Humphrys?" Quite a lot, I reply. He looks crestfallen. It's odd how people think journalists work for free. The woke-est of folk are keen to get behind paywalls and steal material. They'd squeal blue murder if I nicked the Rugby Paper from the local newsagent while they were leafing through Vanity Fair. I blame journalists' sanctimony about our trade. It's socially useful when it's done well, can provide entertainment and enlightenment, and is a Good Thing—but it's a job, not a calling.
My son Sam has just started his creative writing course at the University of East Anglia. Now that is a calling. He wants to write for a living, but not reportage—proper hard stuff: novels and poetry. We drop him in Norwich, which is as lovely a city as people in the know have long told me. Apparently they invented pedestrianisation there. It's a source of great family pride that Sam is at East Anglia; my cousin Gregory Woods, a homoerotic poet of great standing (Google him!), was there 50 years ago just after the MA course began. I hope Sam manages to publish. And to make enough money to eat.
On the subject of Sam, I was probably in a small minority of people excited by—no: thrilled by—a recent headline in a specialist paper. "Artificial Pancreas Devices System Market: Soaring Demand Assures Motivated Revenue Share During 2019-2026," it read. Sam has type one diabetes—the ghastly auto-immune condition that Theresa May contracted late in life, but generally begins in people in their early years, often blighting lives and causing early deaths. It can be much ameliorated by inventions like the artificial pancreas, which happen because of investors' desire to make a buck. It strikes me as simply bizarre that among some groups—environmentalists in particular—the idea of economic growth has become anathema. It's dotty. And it hurts my son.
Who would have thought that Mishal Husain sipping coffee would make such compelling TV? But it does. When we do our outside broadcasts from universities, one of the features that hugely engages the people who come in at 5.30 am to see the programme go out is the presence of at least one giant screen on which all the comings and goings in the studio in London can be viewed. Aha, Dominic is late with his business news and looks flustered! Gary is giggling! Nick is gesticulating! At Liverpool a few days ago they loved it all. Why? Because radio is ramshackle. It ebbs and flows and people chip in and then leave. It looks like it is: structured but free-flowing. It has none of the staged formality of TV. None of its artifice. Radio is warm and people's eyes light up when they see it.
John still texts, by the way, during the programme. On the first day after he had left he threatened to go to Radio Three. I won't say why but something had not been asked that should have been. He has turned, in other words, into a proper Today programme listener, annoyed with it all but not quite enough to leave.
I fear we have lost the Bristol Cyclists' Twitter writing team though: a joke I made about a racing bicycle going very fast—just like cyclists through red lights in London I said – did not pass the tight lycra test. "Hate," is how they characterised it. Today will survive John leaving but will we all survive the death of the right to make poor jokes?
The alternative to listening, of course, is not listening. Never engaging with ideas you dislike. And plenty of people—not exclusively young but worryingly over-represented among 20 somethings—seem to think that's the way to go. Janice Turner of The Times and I have been judging the latest entries for the Today Student Journalism awards. Entries feature strong reporting and writing on a range of subjects. But one student paper has plainly faced a backlash after publishing a piece entitled "Trump: wrongly portrayed?"
What caught my eye in the editor's pained explanation was that the complaints were not arguing about the piece's flawed logic, but about her right to publish it. How dare she! Burn the heretics and spike their words. Ghastly.
"See it, say it, sorted." Passengers on the old sleeper to Scotland did indeed see that their carriages were ancient. They said it. And now it has been half sorted. The new train we went on the other day from Euston to Edinburgh was super-comfy although not sized for fatties. Which is perhaps why the breakfast—such an important part of night-train travel—was just a mess. The carriage is too cramped and they run out of food. The staff are wonderful and the views unbeatable but the whole thing is run in a kind of surprised way: "Gosh, you want breakfast?" "What, now?"
At least we didn't get turfed out onto a replacement bus which happened to one train-load earlier in the year. But we did fly home, just to be sure.
Letters: jokes missed; sustainable seas; a Senate for the UK An oversized addition to a collection of Victoriana Spirit of the age


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Expert Insights, What's Next?
The Hybrid Work Model: Ready or Not, Here it Comes
by Traci Lounsbury and Denny Sponsel
The shift to a hybrid work model is a change that is coming to companies across the U.S. and one for which you need to prepare.
American workers with a need for greater flexibility in how they work increasingly edged toward the idea of a hybrid work model, combining remote and in-office work, even before the COVID-19 pandemic gave the workforce the opportunity to experience remote work on a grand scale.
Now that that remote work is on the table after practicing it for a year, companies are realizing that it must be part of their workforce strategy going forward in order to remain competitive in retention and recruitment. Hybrid work is no longer just a buzzword popping up on blogs and news feeds in the COVID-19 era. Most employees today expect that they'll be offered some kind of flexibility when offices reopen on a large scale, and 92 percent of employees surveyed by Smartway2, a workplace scheduling company, say that they would prefer a hybrid arrangement of some kind.
Flexibility in the workplace is about to take on an entirely new meaning, according to a study by CBRE. The term is often used as a catch-all phrase to describe working remotely. However, flexibility is more accurately a double-edged sword that describes the way in which expectations affect work-life integration. When every individual has the power to set his or her own expectations, it creates autonomy for the individual, but subtracts from the collective balance. To find success, organizations must focus on hybrid at the organizational level, not the individual level.
Developing this approach requires more thought than meets the eye, some critical thinking and some advice from experts. Here, we've compiled some of the factors that businesses must consider, and a path forward and resources for creating policies and a model to successfully navigate hybrid.
Is your leadership team trained to manage differently with a hybrid work model?
It's difficult as an executive or a manager not to wonder from time-to-time if your employees might start to get distracted from their work while working from home, and certainly some companies have discovered in the last year that certain employees do need to be in the office in order to be held accountable.
Of course, the best way to find peace of mind on this front is to hire responsible, dedicated employees who can be trusted to accomplish their tasks regardless of their location. But even the most diligent workers might need a little help staying on track sometimes. Companies need to establish systems that keep projects on track and make sure deadlines are clearly communicated and met.
Managing a hybrid work model takes a specialized approach. Employers should set clear guidelines about how maximize this model, including clear expectations and communication about employees' whereabouts on given days and how much flexibility is appropriate.
In addition, part of keeping employees engaged goes hand-in-hand with morale and culture. Employees need to feel like they're part of a team and that they're working together toward a common goal. These things will keep employees motivated to continue contributing to the team dynamic even if they're physically separated from their teams.
On the flip side, those employees who are in the office may need to be reassured that their teammates are pulling their weight from home.
Working from home could also pose challenges or concerns about career trajectory. In order to maintain a carefully constructed pipeline of talent, companies need to ensure that training and education programs are still engaging employees, that mentorships are still being nurtured and overall that team members still feel like they're going places, even if the only place they're physically going is the home office.
Is your culture strong enough for a hybrid work model?
Company culture has grown from something that was barely given a passing thought in the mid-20th Century to something that is critical to a company's ability to attract and retain talent in 21st Century workplaces. And integral to company culture is employee morale. Without engaged employees, it's difficult to maintain a positive and attractive company culture.
Morale for many took a tumble after COVID-19 set in; breaking up happy groups of co-workers who were used to sharing ideas, collaborating, and grabbing happy hour after a long day. Our research shows that while personal productivity ticked up following the advent of remote work, but that collaboration and camaraderie suffered which ultimately effects organizational or team productivity.
Overall mental health has also suffered. A November 2020 study by Aetna International found that Americans are most concerned about gaining weight while working from home, with 46 percent of the 1,000 U.S. respondents to their survey naming it as a concern. Thirty-two percent said that mental health issues, including depression and anxiety, were also a concern as people's social lives largely dried up in addition to their in-person work relationships.
But it's also difficult to achieve the same kind of atmosphere with a portion of the staff working remotely and video chatting with co-workers in the office that you had when everyone was in a room together. Programs like Zoom and Teams are a tool, not a place, and won't offer the same feelings of togetherness; especially when teams are trying to celebrate a win or gather for a company event.
Studies like this one from the Harvard Business Review have also shown that it's more difficult to keep workers motivated when they're working from home that when they're in the office.
Providing a hybrid work model as an intentional strategy is likely to contribute positively to workers' mental health, morale and to company culture.
Is your technology ready for hybrid?
A critical step toward implementing a successful hybrid approach is setting up a technological backbone that can handle the various unique needs of employees who are working in different spaces. This goes beyond teaching employees how to use video chatting software and includes making sure that employees have the proper equipment to do their jobs productively at home, whether that means an extra monitor or a noise-canceling headset for taking calls while the kids are home.
On a larger scale, companies need to ensure that their technological bandwidth and cloud applications can handle in-office and remote loads, and that privacy guardrails like virtual private networks are appropriately established to keep files and data safe while also allowing employees to quickly transmit information
In the office, video chatting capabilities should be put in place and easily accessed, and employees must be trained on how to use these systems to facilitate a seamless workflow between those in the office and those working elsewhere. Latency will be an issue.
Of course, there will always be technical glitches, but the overarching connections that bring together the office and remote workers should be as easy-to-use and well-functioning as possible. The cost of these challenges is extreme with many people in the same meeting experiencing downtime.
In the office, the hybrid approach means offering many different kinds of workspaces, including dedicated desks in an open-plan space, private offices for focused work or sensitive conversations and areas designed specifically for collaboration with those in the office and out.
Ready or not, here it comes
The shift to a hybrid work model is a change that is coming to companies across the U.S. and one for which they need to prepare. The change should be viewed as a positive wholesale, fundamental shift in the way businesses operate, not merely an extension of a temporary work-from-home arrangement.
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Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard's band Calpurnia have split up. READ MORE: The Big Read - Calpurnia: The kids are alright The Canadian four-piece, who...
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Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard wants a time machine to be developed so he can go back and see Nirvana play live. The actor and...
Stranger Things' Finn Wolfhard stars in Weezer's video for their cover of A-Ha's 'Take On Me'
Stranger Things' Finn Wolfhard is the star of Weezer's latest video for their cover of A-Ha's classic track 'Take On Me'. The single is taken...
Calpurnia – Finn Wolfhard and drummer Malcolm Craig discuss fake fans and navigating the industry as a young band
When Finn Wolfhard isn't on set for Netflix's Stranger Things he's writing music and touring the world with his band, Calpurnia. Self-described as a "garage...
Watch Calpurnia's vivid animated video for 'Wasting Time'
Calpurnia have released the new video for their single 'Wasting Time' - watch the vivid animated visuals below. The four-piece - who are fronted by Stranger...
'Stranger Things' star Finn Wolfhard's band Calpurnia announce UK gigs
Calpurnia - the band featuring Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard - have announced two UK shows for November. Check out dates and ticket details...
Stranger Things' Finn Wolfhard's band Calpurnia make their TV debut
Stranger Things' star Finn Wolfhard and his band Calpurnia made their TV debut last night (July 23). READ MORE: The Big Read - Calpurnia: "We're...
Calpurnia share new video for 'Greyhound'
Calpurnia have released a new video for their latest track 'Greyhound'. Fronted by Stranger Things' Finn Wolfhard, the track is taken from the band's...
The Big Read – Calpurnia: "We're best friends living the dream"
Finn Wolfhard and friends – no, not those friends – are set to take on the world with their debut EP, 'Scout', which is out today. Rhian Daly meets the band to talk about music, being mates with Mac DeMarco and what it's like when one of your number is beloved for battling Demogorgons and demonic clowns. Cos what does that really matter when your guitarist can shred?
Finn Wolfhard's Calpurnia share new song 'Greyhound'
Calpurnia have unveiled their new single 'Greyhound'. The track is the third from the band, fronted by Stranger Things actor Finn Wolfhard. They previously released 'City...


I am always interested in finding ways to help individuals with ASD express their opinions, especially outside of their focused interests. Today's free autism resource uses a visual system to help students express their views on pets – and how much they like them. Simply review the first page rubric with the students to explain that one star is dislike, two stars is "meh", and three stars is awesome. Then, have the student go through and circle or fill in the number of starts for each pet. After they master the skill, can you use this a social activity as well where a number of students fill out the sheets and then compare the answers as a group!


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Как это поправить можно?

A: Возможно это вам поможет https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8451680/phpmailer-foreach-loop
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I'm three months into my parenting career. I'm not qualified for the job, but who is? It's a self-hiring job, sought after by young people that often possess a complete lack of experience. When my son was born, I didn't even know how to hold him, let alone feed him.
One of the few things I did know going into this gig is that, for a short time, my son would be totally reliant on me for survival. And as he grows up and becomes less and less reliant on me, I must then lead by example. How is he going to learn to take care of himself if I'm not taking care of myself? If I want him to be present, thoughtful and generous, I need to be present, thoughtful and generous. My experience as a practitioner and teacher of yoga has taught me that this approach requires less doing and more being.
During pregnancy, I knew there was a chance I would only be pregnant once, so being present was exceptionally important to me. I spent lots of time journaling my day-to-day experiences, eating nourishing foods, practicing pre-natal yoga, resting and soaking up all the love and attention that pregnant ladies get to enjoy.
At my son's birth, I was fortunate enough to be able to honor my original intention to labor without the use of drugs. This way, I could be fully aware and present with my son during the first few hours of his life.
At this point in motherhood, parenting with presence means taking the time to stare into my baby boy's deep blue eyes while he breast-feeds. It means taking plenty of time to talk to him, to make him smile, strengthening our already special bond. It means not checking out in the middle of a diaper change, mostly because not being present usually results in me getting peed on, but also because he'll be potty trained and off to school in the blink of an eye.
In the future, in order to be present, I'll need to spend less time in front of screens and more time witnessing my son explore how he fits into the world through sports, crafts and art.
I'll need to continue practicing yoga and meditation, genuinely nurturing myself so I can better serve my child.
I'm learning so much in my new role as "mom" and fully expect to keep learning from my son for as long as I live. Being present with him and watching him learn and grow is such a gift. I wouldn't trade it for anything.


The IEEE Power Electronics Society announces the Twentieth IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics, IEEE COMPEL 2019. This workshop brings together researchers, engineers and students from academia and industry for an interactive discussion on the latest advances in modelling, simulation, analysis and control of power electronic devices, circuits and systems.
• Power Electronics Converter Topologies: novel converter topologies, practical implementation challenges and solutions for conventional topologies.
• Control of Power Converters: novel control methods, techniques, and practical implementation.
• Modeling and Simulation: modeling of devices and components in power converter systems including multi-physical modeling and stability analysis.
• Mixed Signal IC design for Power Electronics: on-chip integrated power converters, practical IC implementation of controllers, sensors, and other basic functional blocks for power converters.
• Passive and active components: novel design and analysis of semiconductor components, inductors, and capacitors.
• Applications: power electronics for emerging applications, including electro mobility, power harvesting, and IoT.
• Education & Innovation: innovative teaching methodologies for power electronics.
The digest should not exceed five single-column double-spaced pages, including figures and references, in PDF format. The first page should contain the paper title. No indication of authors' names or affiliation should be included in the 5-page digest.
COMPEL 2019 will be held at the St. George Campus of the University of Toronto, Canada, which is located in the heart of downtown Toronto.


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America's Wealth Gap Is Much More Obscene Than You Had Imagined
And it's a problem for everyone.
Molly Schwartz
March 1, 2021: Senator Elizabeth Warren introduces the Ultra-Millionaire Tax ActTom Williams/CQ Roll Call/ZUMA
They have super-yachts, wine cellars, multiple homes, home movie theaters, private safe-rooms, and family office suites. The secluded world of the super-wealthy is one that most people only experience through compulsively watchable TV shows like Succession and Gossip Girl. But a new book from Mother Jones Senior Editor Michael Mechanic, Jackpot: How the Super-Rich Really Live–and How Their Wealth Harms Us All, goes beyond mere voyeurism to ask important questions about the gargantuan and growing wealth gap in the United States.
In a conversation with Jamilah King on the Mother Jones Podcast, Mechanic discusses the tension between the promise of the American dream and the stark realities of the present-day wealth gap. He cites a 2011 study published by Michael Norton and Dan Ariely that found the majority of its 5,522 participants underestimated the size of the wealth gap in the United States. At the time, the poorest 40 percent of American's owned a mere 0.3 percent of the nation's wealth, while the top 20 percent owned 84 percent. In the 10 years since that study, the wealth gap has only grown larger. "Which is immoral," Mechanic says. "It's horrible. 40 percent of Americans have no wealth at all."
Listen to the latest episode of the Mother Jones Podcast: Subscribe using Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app.
According to Mechanic, a major culprit for the stratification of American society has been the tax code. Income taxes in the United States may be progressive, but there are fewer mechanisms for taxing accumulated wealth. This is partly because the richest Americans, and their teams of accountants and lawyers, have figured out how to set up complicated tax-dodging mechanisms, like trusts, off-shore accounts, or expatriation. On March 1, 2021, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) introduced the Ultra-Millionaire Tax to try to address this issue. "The very, very, very wealthiest people in America pay a lower tax rate than the people at the bottom, or the people in the middle," Mechanic says. "Which is crazy, but they can do this because of the way the system is set up."
"Higher wealth is associated with more entitlement and narcissism, less compassion."
Studies have found that great wealth can have profound psychological effect on those who have it. Mechanic investigated the ways that affluence can affect a person's behavior, perceptions, and values. "Higher wealth is associated with more entitlement and narcissism, less compassion," explains Mechanic. "People who are wealthier tend to be less socially attuned to those around them; they're more likely to engage in unethical behavior. It just goes on and on."
It's not that the super-wealthy don't suffer. The process of getting rich comes with some unpleasant side-effects like fear, anxiety, and insecurity. People who amass wealth often become afraid of losing it—something one of Mechanic's sources called a "fear-based" mindset—which has created an entire market for luxe safe rooms where they can hunker down and survive not only the random intruder, but also climate catastrophes, mass shootings, and even a chemical attack or dirty bomb. Mechanic interviewed a former military contractor whose company builds safe rooms for obscenely rich people in their their elaborate wine cellars, walk-in closets, and home movie theaters.
But despite the psychological drive for people to hoard wealth once they have it, an overwhelming majority of Americans, rich and poor, Republican and Democrat, would not choose the extremely unequal society in which we find ourselves today. In part of the same 2011 Norton and Ariely study, they showed their subjects two pie charts: One showed the wealth distribution in Sweden, the other the wealth distribution in the United States. When asked which society they'd rather live in, without knowing what these charts represented, more than 90 percent of the study's participants chose Sweden. It's something Mechanic thinks is very telling: "When people visualize how bad the wealth gap is in America," he notes, "they say, I don't want to live there."
Despite the inevitable allure of the cosseted lifestyle, writing a book about the super-wealthy did not leave Mechanic with a desire to join their ranks. "When you have ridiculous amounts of money, it sucks up all your time and energy," says Mechanic. "It wouldn't make me happy."
The Mother Jones Podcast
A Look At Income Inequality Around the World: It's a Choice, Not a Destiny
Income Inequality Is Still Growing, the Same as Always
Taxes, Welfare, and Income Inequality: Here's the CBO's Latest Report


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The Bat Who Got the Hell Out
by James Thurber (1956)
A COLONY OF bats living in a great American cave had got along fine for a thousand generations, flying, hanging head down, eating insects, and raising young, and then one year a male named Flitter, who had fluttered secretly out of his room at night and flown among the haunts of men, told his father that he had decided to get the hell out. The shocked father sent Flitter to Fleder, the great-great-grandfather of all the bats in the cave.
"You should be proud of being a bat among bats," said old Fleder, "for we are one of the oldest species on the planet, much older than Man, and the only mammal capable of true flight."
The discontented young bat was not impressed. "I want to live like a man among men," he said. "Men have the best food, and the most fun, and the cutest females."
At this, old Fleder stormed about the cave, squeaking unintelligibly. Then he recovered his calm and continued his talk. "A man got into my room one night," he said, "and managed somehow to tangle me in his hair. It was a shattering experience, from which I shall never completely recover."
"When men die they go to Heaven, but when bats are dead they are dead," said Flitter. "I want to go to Heaven when I die."
This amused old Fleder in a gaunt and gloomy sort of way, and he chittered, quickered, and zickered for some moments before he could say, "You have no more soul than a moose, or a mouse, or a mole. You should be glad that you will never become an angel for angels do not have true flight. One wants to sleep through eternity, not bumble and flap about forever like a bee or a butterfly."
But Flitter had made up his mind, and the old bat's words of wisdom were in vain. That night, the discontented young bat quit the bat colony, and flickered out of the cave, in the confident hope of giving up his membership in the Chiroptera and joining the happy breed of men. Unfortunately for his dream, he spent his first night hanging head down from the rafters of an auditorium in which a best-selling Inspirationalist was dragging God down to the people's level. Ushers moved silently among the rapt listeners, selling copies of the speaker's books: Shake Hands with the Almighty, You Can Be Jehovah's Pal and Have You Taken Out Eternity Insurance? The speaker was saying, "Have a little talk with the Lord while you're waiting for a bus, or riding to work, or sitting in the dentist's chair. Have comfy chats with the Lord in the little cozy corners of spare time."
Flitter decided that there was something the matter with the acoustics, or with his tragus, caused by hanging head down in the presence of the Eternal Species, but when he began flying about the auditorium, there was no change in the nature of the English sentences. "Tell the Lord to put it there," the inspired man went on. "Give him your duke." The speaker waved clasped hands above his head and gazed up at the ceiling. "Keep pitching, God," he said. "You've got two strikes on Satan."
Flitter, who had never felt sick before in his life, felt sick, and decided to get the air. After he had got the air, he realized that he did not want to become a member of the species Homo sapiens, because of the danger of bumbling or flapping into the Inspirationalist after they had both become angels. And so Flitter returned to the cave, and everybody was astonished to see him, and nobody said anything, and for a time there was a great silence.
"I've come the hell back," said Flitter, meekly. And he resumed, without discontent, the immemorial life of the Chiroptera, flying, hanging head down, eating insects, and raising young.
MORAL: By decent minds is he abhorred who'd make a Babbitt of the Lord.


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The articles say his previous predictions of market crashes were accurate to the day. Some of these were self-reported where we're just supposed to trust him that he told a conference about the impending real estate crisis in 2005. Three other examples of his predictions were from appearances on CNBC London. In none of the videos does he predict anything, merely saying to watch certain calendar dates, whatever that means. This is not exactly concrete evidence of forecasting ability.
I looked around to see if there was any information at all about this guy from before 12 months ago and found this video where he predicted that the Dow Jones would fall by 4,700 points, or almost 30% in 2014. Instead, the Dow was up 10%. In March of this year, he predicted that the markets would revisit their 2016 lows, which they did not do.
Junk like this pops up from time to time on the internet or on financial entertainment media. This is just a reminder to never take these hucksters at face value.


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Started By Traveler, Oct 12 2018 10:06 PM
#1 Traveler
Rambling Member
LocationPhilly Area
I think in this day and age it is not a bad idea having a thread for each major country that affect our future. It looks like Saudi Arabia is the next. Been around for a long time and still generating way too much mischief. So maybe this will have legs.
So I thought I would open this topic on the latest outrage in the Turkish Embassy. Did Khashoggi manage to actually record his own death and transmit to the cloud simultaneously? I don't think so, but you guys might know differently.
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."-- Winston Churchill
"Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices" Voltaire
#2 baw1064
formerly of the public sector
LocationEarthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanos--oh my!
So I'll just throw down the gauntlet here. If we just decided to wipe out Saudi Arabia (including Mecca and Medina) would we have enough firepower to be the last ones standing after all the inevitable blowback?
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not." --Dr. Seuss
#3 JackD
LocationChicago area
"Enough fire power to be the last ones standing?" Yes, until the radiation sickness got rid of us ending the most recent die off.
Yeah, but the only countries that could produce that much radiation would be Russia, China, and India--none of whom would shed a lot of tears over the demise of an Islamist theocracy.
Who with nukes would blow back?
As to my question, this suggests that the watch had no ability to transmit audio in real time.
The Apple Watch also won't necessarily give investigators a second-by-second chart of Khashoggi's heart rate. Because their battery lives are limited, Apple Watches typically only collect that sort of granular data if a person is exercising. Otherwise, the watch usually only samples a user's heart rate by measuring it every five minutes. You would only be able to see the heart rate fluctuations indicating a murder if the attack happened while the watch was taking a sample. More advanced versions of the watch and its operating system do have an A.I. feature that can sense when a person is exercising or exhibits a sudden spike in heart rate, so it's possible that the device would pick up on a victim's elevated rates during an attack. But since we don't know the specs of his particular watch, it's hard to say whether this might be the case here.
There's always Pakistan and are we sure the the Saudis have no nukes? I agree it's far fetched but obliterating another rich country may produce unanticipated results. There's also the minor matter of all those citizens and residents of Saudi who have nothing to do with that government's actions. As to Pakistan, destroying Mecca might piss them off what with it being Islam's holy city and all.
Trump starts lying to protect his business partners, i.e. Saudi Arabia.
President Trump has once again come to the defense of Saudi Arabia, telling reporters on Monday morning that Saudi officials have repeatedly denied murdering critic and journalist Jamal Khashoggi—and suggesting that Khashoggi could have been murdered by "rogue killers" instead. "I just spoke with the king of Saudi Arabia, who denies any knowledge of what took place, with regard to, what he said, was his Saudi Arabian citizen," Trump said, according to pool video outside the White House. Trump added that he is sending Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Saudi Arabia to investigate. "I don't want to get into [the king's] mind," Trump added, "but it sounded to me like maybe these could have been rogue killers. Who knows?"
CNN just broke that the Saudis will admit it.
#10 LFC
Traveler, on 15 October 2018 - 02:58 PM, said:
Sounds like they have the answer to Trump's question.
"I don't want to get into [the king's] mind," Trump added, "but it sounded to me like maybe these could have been rogue killers. Who knows?"
#11 J-CA
Probably in one of my drunken stupors..
baw1064, on 12 October 2018 - 10:35 PM, said:
I guess if you are a completely amoral psychopath then you think that killing millions of innocent people is acceptable so then you know.. as long as you are standing at the end what else matters?
I am the burrito until someone hands me to a philosopher.
#12 pnwguy
J-CA, on 15 October 2018 - 11:28 PM, said:
That sounds like the basis for The Dumpster Doctrine (all copyrights reserved)
#13 Traveler
Wapo has a pretty good summary of current findings. But still no mention of how the Turks got that audio. The Apple watch story seems to have faded away. I think that was just a ploy to cover up that the Turks had the place wired for sound.
#15 D. C. Sessions
I don't have to pretend to be an adult any more
LocationCentral New Mexico
Fortunately our Constitutional checks and balances will protect us from anyone like that having power.
The way a lot of catastrophes happen is that X doesn't occur because there are safeguards in place, therefore people assume X isn't a worry and they remove the safeguards. Then X happens.
— Nate Silver
"Robots aren't the problem. Capitalism is." -- Last words of Stephen Hawking.
These days, "libertarian" is just a euphemism for a Nazi who's afraid to commit.
"If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention." -- Heather Heyer
"I'd rather have my child, but by golly, if I gotta give her up, we're gonna make it count." -- Her mother
"Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. You will rule or ruin in all events." -- some RINO
#16 Joanna
LocationFlorida
D. C. Sessions, on 16 October 2018 - 08:18 AM, said:
Let's hope. These checks and balances haven't been too effective in the last two years. We now realize they are more like an honor system, that something that's written in stone.
#17 George Rowell
LocationIn Perth now
I know a little about the surveillance trade. In the old days a bug would be placed in situ and the battery would be gone in a week. Now days the bugs have a pulsed receiver that can last for years on a battery and turn on the TX as required. A bug can be in place for years before it is activated. I have seen bugs in bricks, pens, anything small. Squirt bugs record sound and squirt the sound out in pulses hundreds of times faster so that it looks like noise. Snuggle bugs operate near or at powerful local radio stations and the powerful local signals are removed by antennas or other means. Mobile phone software bugs are at least 38 years old, they were used in those huge phones with rubber ducky antennas and can be remotely activated. Same goes for computers and even smart TV's. Laser beams shined on windows get modulated and can be detected, split light beams being very noise free. Beamed microwaves are also effective and can pick up sound modulations on a lot of items. A few years ago I phoned up an ex-spook and asked what was popular and he said for long range snooping RF beaming was still in vogue. (That sort of took me back because it was first used by the Russians 50 odd years ago) Then there are telephone pole bugs with local date-time recorders. And on and on and on ----
If I had to guess I would say someone in that embassy had a smart phone, switched on - or not, makes no difference.
A doctor knows a little about a lot. A specialist knows a lot about a little. In time the doctor knows less and less about more and more and the specialist knows more and more about less and less until ultimately the doctor knows nothing about everything and the specialist knows everything about nothing.
#18 AnBr
Curse you! I wanted to sleep tonight.
"Trump's a stupid man's idea of a smart person, a poor man's idea of a rich person & a weak man's idea of a strong man."
— Fran Lebowitz
"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."
— Carl Sagan
Pray for Trump: Psalm 109:8
"Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers arc in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness."
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Second inaugural address January, 1937
AnBr, on 16 October 2018 - 07:28 PM, said:
As the sign says, "Coffee. You can sleep when you're dead."
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Fortaleza dos Valos est une municipalité brésilienne située dans l'État du Rio Grande do Sul.

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