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Episode 175 – Brexit, Amazon and Unusual Characters
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In this episode, we discuss Brexit, Baby Boomers, delivery methods for Corporate Fascism, a limbless preacher, an atheist preacher, the lucky country, Scomo nonsense, a cybersecurity minister who has never used a computer, a 69 year old man who identifies as 49 and a man who identified as Native American only to find out he is Chinese.
Stephen Fry Summarises Our Podcast
"A grand canyon has opened up in our world," Fry said. On one side is the new right, promoting a bizarre mixture of Christianity and libertarianism; on the other, the "illiberal liberals", obsessed with identity politics and complaining about things like cultural appropriation. These tiny factions war above, while the rest of us watch, aghast, from the chasm below.
or from a small hill like a meerkat on sentry duty.
Brexit may lead to the breakup of the UK
7:21 But first … what is the UK?
What's the Difference Between Great Britain and the United Kingdom?
The names Great Britain and United Kingdom are often used interchangeably. However, they are not actually synonymous. The reason for the two names, and the difference between them has to do with the history of the British Isles.
The British Isles are a group of islands off the northwestern coast of Europe. The largest of these islands are Britain and Ireland. (Smaller ones include the Isle of Wight.) In the Middle Ages, the name Britain was also applied to a small part of France now known as Brittany. As a result, Great Britain came into use to refer specifically to the island. However, that name had no official significance until 1707, when the island's rival kingdoms of England and Scotland were united as the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Ireland, meanwhile, had effectively been an English colony since the 12th century, and after the emergence of Great Britain, it remained under the influence of the British crown. In 1801 it formally joined with Great Britain as a single political entity, which became known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland—or the United Kingdom for short. However, the union lasted only until 1922, when Ireland (with the exception of six counties in the north) seceded. Ireland soon became a sovereign republic, and its former partner took on the official name of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Great Britain, therefore, is a geographic term referring to the island also known simply as Britain. It's also a political term for the part of the United Kingdom made up of England, Scotland, and Wales (including the outlying islands that they administer, such as the Isle of Wight). United Kingdom, on the other hand, is purely a political term: it's the independent country that encompasses all of Great Britain and the region now called Northern Ireland.
Great Britain versus the United KingdomThe map shows the territories of the British Isles and the names by which they should be referred to.
Theresa May's deal
11:19 The deal describes what Boris Johnson and others have rather old-fashionedly but not inaccurately called "vassalage".
For the whole of the 'transition period', set to end in December 2020, the UK will obey all EU rules but will no longer have any votes in any EU bodies. If a new trade and customs partnership is not signed by its end, the transition period could be extended to a date described in the deal text as "up to 31 December 20XX". Well, at least the UK can know its vassalage won't last beyond 2099.
Once the transition ends the UK has agreed to a 'backstop' that would keep the UK in a customs union with Europe, following EU customs rules, and force Northern Ireland to keep following many single market rules and regulations, unless and until a trade deal is done. The backstop may never come into effect, because both sides say a permanent customs and trade arrangement can be negotiated before it's required. Many observers take this with a grain of salt, noting how many years previous EU trade deals took to negotiate.
And in the end the UK may still stay subject to EU rules, perhaps forever, because of the problem of the Irish border and the only solution that has yet been found to keep it seamless.
Ireland is a special problem
Brexit mess could spell the end for a no longer 'United' Kingdom
Boomers, your privileged, tax-deducted time is up: Millennials have arrived
26:06 Here's some breaking news for Baby Boomers. You've had a very good run and you're just about done.
Generationally, the biggest voting bloc is now the Millennials, born from the mid-80s to the turn of the century – and it is growing by 30,000 every year.
Amazon's Billion-Dollar Shakedown of America's Cities
From Truth Dig
29:55 The company in question is Amazon, which confirmed earlier that morning that Long Island City, Queens, will become the site of its second headquarters (a third headquarters will be located in northern Virginia). The announcement ends a 13-month pageant that saw 238 cities and their elected officials prostrate themselves to CEO Jeff Bezos, only for the multibillionaire to move his company into two of the wealthiest metropolises in the country(New York and Washington, D.C.) and likely displace countless working people. And for this privilege, the state of New York will reward Amazon with more than $1.5 billion in incentives, while the city provides property-tax abatements for the next 25 years—this as it faces public transportation and affordable-housing crises. Amazon, meanwhile, will receive upward of $48,000 in subsidies per employee.
As Derek Thompson argues in The Atlantic, moves like these are not merely outrageous. They should be outlawed.
"Every year, American cities and states spend up to $90 billion in tax breaks and cash grants to urge companies to move among states," he writes. "That's more than the federal government spends on housing, education, or infrastructure. And since cities and states can't print money or run steep deficits, these deals take scarce resources from everything local governments would otherwise pay for, such as schools, roads, police, and prisons."
In Australia, we do the same.
Industry assistance in Queensland. The QCA has identified 112 measures providing $25.3 billion in assistance from 2013 to 2018, including $5.6 billion in budget outlays, $17.1 billion in tax concessions and $1.3 billion in underpriced assets and services.
From Chris Hedges on The Intercept:
JS: Is there a difference in your view between the Democratic and Republican parties given everything we're seeing now in the era of Trump?
CH: Well, of course, there's a difference. It's how you want corporate fascism delivered to you. Do you want it delivered by a Princeton educated, Goldman Sachs criminal or do you want it delivered by racist, nativist, Christian fascist? When this is essentially what the Trump Administration, this is the ideology that the Trump Administration has embraced because Trump has no ideology. So, they're filling his ideological void.
But you know, and you've reported on this, the fundamental engines of oligarchic global corporate power are advanced by both parties and one attempts to present that in a kind of multicultural, inclusive way. The other is, you know, it kind of embraced by troglodytes. But there's no way within the American political system you can in any way tame or challenge the war machine or Goldman Sachs or ExxonMobil.
The wealthy country:
38:25 Australians are the richest people in the world
The crusade kicked off on Friday night with inspirational motivational speaker and Life without Limbs author Nick Vujicic.
42:02 Since 2005, Vujicic says he has shared the Christian message with 8 million people face to face and another 730 million through digital media.
He has been on 2500 flights, given 3500 speeches in 69 countries, met with 18 presidents and 32 governments and spoken in about 2000 prisons.
"God can use a man without arms and legs to be his hands and feet,'' he told the crowd.
He admits his faith journey hasn't been easy with much anger and many questions as a child.
"I was looking for him (God) but he did not make sense to me because I was waiting for arms and legs."
At 10, he said he contemplated trying to kill himself but realised the pain it would cause to his parents.
"By God's grace I'm still here.''
While he says he still would love to be healed, he says it wasn't for his incredible story he would not have been able to motivate and share with so many people around the world.
"When you don't get a miracle you can still be a miracle to someone else.''
He said one of most powerful moments of his life came while preaching in California when a 19-month old boy with no limbs was in the meeting.
He said the boy's mother said she knew then that God still had a purpose for her son's life.
But he says he has had his own miracles, including a degenerative spinal condition which should have left him with metal rods in his back by now.
He said successive MRI scans had shown three holes in his spine disappear one by one.
If you met him, would you try to talk him around to atheism?
TORONTO — A United Church minister faced an unprecedented ecclesiastical court hearing over her professed atheism
46:43 Rev Gretta Vosper, 60, who was ordained in 1993 and had served as minister of West Hill United Church since 1997, has been upfront about her atheism and non-belief in the Bible for years.
Most of her current congregants are supportive of her views but some have been critical, saying her beliefs are at fundamental odds with the doctrine and values of the United Church, Canada's second-largest religious denomination.
Things came to a head after she wrote an open letter to the church's spiritual leader following the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris in January 2015 in which she pointed out that belief in God can motivate bad things.
Following complaints, the Toronto Conference interview committee conducted a review that found in a split decision in 2016 that Vosper was unsuitable to continue in ordained ministry because "she does not believe in God, Jesus Christ or the Holy Spirit."
Vosper's lawyer, Julian Falconer, called it an important day for the United Church that his client no longer was risk of sanction.
"Both parties took a long look at the cost-benefit at running a heresy trial and whether it was good for anyone (and) the results speak for themselves," Falconer said. "They recognized there's a place for Gretta, and that there is no reason to separate the minister and the congregation."
Vosper, who was allowed to keep her position pending outcome of the aborted hearing, is free to continue her ministry without any restrictions. She calls herself an atheist to describe her non-belief in a theistic, interventionist, supernatural being called God.
Critics have called it appalling that the church would allow an atheist to stand in a pulpit and not proclaim the Gospel of Christ. Either way, Vosper said it's been a long road to clearing her name.
Religious freedom lost as White magazine shuts
49:40 In a sign Australia faces a "crisis of freedom", The Weekend Australian can reveal a successful international wedding magazine that chose not to feature gay couples will today announce its decision to shut down after becoming the target of an intimidation campaign.
"We hope that one day soon our society can learn to accept people's differences and different points of view and love each other no matter what," said the couple, who have been married for 17 years.
"A number of advertisers withdrew their sponsorship out of fear of being judged, or in protest. We have had to recognise the reality that White magazine is no longer economically viable.''
51:27 Trump says it's time to start raking the forests
Finland, Finland, Finland
More Scomo Nonsense
56:16 Scott Morrison: Look I'm a member of a religious community, and my pastor knows what's going on in our church community. He would know, or his wife would know, if there was someone who was leading a local bible study group, or something like that, who is teaching things that is not in accordance with what our faith believes. And they'd be dealing with it, because that's the responsibility of a religious leader.
Meanwhile from The Betoota Advocate:
Australia's first Pentecostal Christian Prime Minister has today been accused of sticking his head in the sand and not identifying clearly anti-social behaviour within his own religious community.
This follows the news that the NSW Child Abuse and Sex Crimes Squad are investigating sexual assault allegations levelled against rugby league superstar Jarryd Hayne, who like Morrison is a high-profile devotee to the pentecostal denomination known as the Assemblies of God
This investigation marks the second time Jarryd Hayne has been accused of such crimes – leaving many political commentators to question whether or not his pastors and fellow churchgoers should shoulder blame for not identifying his criminal tendencies and reporting him to authorities sooner.
Will ScoMo ever cut through in irreligious Australia?
59:32 Crikey pays for its subscription with this article.
Scott Morrison is trying to find the right balance between his dual image as a devout Christian, and a daggy but relatable suburban dad. (Both are doomed objectives)
Well, the serial unveiling of Scott Morrison continues apace and is about the most interesting thing happening in Australian politics at the moment. The Liberal happy warrior is like a Roman soldier-Christian at the moment, his armour stripped away, piece by piece, to reveal a naked torso for the arrows of martyrdom. They thud into him at every press conference. Ever since he revealed that he had prayed for an end to the drought, the game has been on.
ScoMo and his handlers had hoped they could turn him into Howard II, the suburban dag … Alas, he's now like the chaplain brought in for compulsory RE who must endure 2000 years of theological questioning from teenage smart arses: … Morrison could be opening the new Bruce J Tingwell Drainage Hub in Dubbo and someone is still going to ask him if he prayed for better municipal waste management.
Were he your standard cultural Christian atheist — i.e. an Anglican — Morrison could just brush it off. He could say, well, that's below God's pay grade, etc, and it would end. But ScoMo is the real deal: a genuine evangelical Christian who, it seems, will not prevaricate on his faith. So he tells us of the children he has imprisoned yet prays for, the rains he prays for, he claims his Pastor would know if there were terrorists in the midst of his flock.
This can't be a deliberate strategy, can it? Australian suburban dagginess and religion don't mix. Howard never mentioned God that I can recall, and even when he talked about Western civilisation, etc, it was usually in British terms, not on the Judeo-Christian thing. The school chaplains program was as cultural as it was religious.
This is a source of buttock-clenching embarrassment for most Australians, just about the most functionally irreligious people on Earth. Sure, quite a lot of people are walking around with a theology of sorts in their head — some mix of Deism, poster prints of "Desiderata", some borrowed Aboriginal animism, and the residual narcissism that seeks a universal force that won't stop the Holocaust, but will wipe that angry voicemail you left for Troy — but that's not religion, with its commitment, its boundedness, its specificity.
Morrison sees no contradiction in having a silver boat-idol on his desk saying "I stopped these"and worshipping a man who walked on water to save people in boats — no contradiction in praying for the children whose souls he is helping destroy.
We see it plainly, and it turns our stomachs. We see it across all classes and social groups. The only people who can't see it is the rightariat: the Dan Brown theme park that is The Australian, the blinkered Americophiles at the Tele, Alex Hawke's Seven Hills happy clappies, Eric Abetz's Tasmanian Salivating Army, the Spring Street Liberal Tabernacle of Utah Saints, and the chino 'n' pearls think tank Sunday schools, who delude themselves into thinking they represent a God-fearing low taxing silent majority out there somewhere.
God knows, maybe the whole ScoMo #prayernation thing is deliberate. Maybe it's that delusional. But I suspect not. I reckon for every point Morrison gets from a sculled beer, he loses two for praying for better cattle tick control in northern New South Wales.* I reckon it's driving his Newspoll further south. Keep praying, St Sebastian ScoMo! All the way to 58-42! Post-election, you can gather your dozen followers 'round you once more.
The Saturday Paper: While mystery surrounds Scott Morrison's sacking from Tourism Australia, a buried audit report shows numerous anomalies and concerns over contracts worth $184 million.
1:04:44 Ever since Scott Morrison was sacked from his job as managing director of Tourism Australia in 2006, the reasons for his dismissal have been kept secret.
At the time and since, public speculation has variously attributed the now prime minister's removal to a personality clash with his minister, a falling out over changes to the organisation's structure, and a dispute over the agency's contentious "Where the bloody hell are you?" campaign.
But an auditor-general's report completed 10 years ago, which has escaped public scrutiny until now, reveals that in the period leading up to Morrison's dismissal, his agency faced a series of audits and a review of its contractual processes ordered by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, amid serious concerns about its governance.
The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) report examines three major contracts that Tourism Australia signed while Scott Morrison was managing director. It criticises processes in all three cases but especially the contracts for global creative development – advertising campaigns – and media placement services.
Morrison began at Tourism Australia in November 2004 and left 19 months later.
The Saturday Paper understands the events and issues the audit report outlines played a significant role in Morrison's removal. Unconfirmed news reports have since alleged that he received a payout of more than $300,000.
Asked to comment this week on the report's contents in relation to Morrison's dismissal, Fran Bailey (Tourism Minister at the time) would only repeat the one comment she has made before: "I reiterate that it was a unanimous decision to get rid of Mr Morrison by the board and the minister."
Josh Frydenberg escalates row over possible move of Australia's Israel embassy to Jerusalem, saying Mahathir has 'form' for derogatory comments about Jews
1:06:42 Australia's treasurer has hit back at Mahathir Mohamad's warning that Australia moving its embassy in Israel could encourage terrorism by citing a history of antisemitic remarks by the Malaysian prime minister.
The deputy Liberal leader, Josh Frydenberg, accused Mahathir of having form in making "derogatory comments" about Jews in the past, including calling them "hook-nosed", questioning the number of people killed in the Holocaust and banning the classic Holocaust film Schindler's List.
Frydenberg made the comments at a press conference and an interview on Radio National on Friday, as he maintained the pressure on the prime minister, Scott Morrison, to make a decision on the embassy independent of the rising backlash from Australia's near neighbours.
Meanwhile, Christopher Pyne shows the character of this government.
1:11:00 Some moderates want Morrison to dump the idea, but government conservatives favour the shift. The defence minister, Christopher Pyne, repeated a position on Thursday that he favoured two diplomatic presences – an Australian embassy in West Jerusalem and a separate facility in East Jerusalem in the event of a Palestinian state – and he suggested that was the policy Morrison was currently pursuing.
It's not just our pollies who are incompetent
1:12:24 Minister in Charge of Japan's Cybersecurity Says He Has Never Used a Computer
A man, 69, starts a legal fight to identify as 20 years younger
1:13:18 A 69-year-old Dutch "positivity guru" who says he does not feel his age has started a battle to make himself legally 20 years younger on the grounds that he is being discriminated against on a dating app.
Emile Ratelband told a court in Arnhem in the Netherlands that he did not feel "comfortable" with his date of birth, and compared his wish to alter it to people who identified as transgender.
Ratelband said that due to having an official age that did not reflect his emotional state he was struggling to find both work and love. He has asked for his date of birth to be changed from 11 March 1949 to 11 March 1969.
"When I'm 69, I am limited. If I'm 49, then I can buy a new house, drive a different car," he said. "I can take up more work. When I'm on Tinder and it says I'm 69, I don't get an answer. When I'm 49, with the face I have, I will be in a luxurious position."
Doctors had told him his body was that of a 45-year-old man, Ratelband argued. He described himself as a "young god".
I was raised as a Native American. Then a DNA test rocked my identity
1:16:59 Finding out my father lied about his heritage has forced me to radically question who I am.
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Get a Construction Certificate – building approval from your council or a private certifier.
Appoint a Principal Certifying Authority (PCA) to monitor construction – this can be your council or an accredited certifier.
Give the council and the PCA two days' notice before you start work.
Complete any works listed in the 'Prior to commencing work' part of the consent.
The CC must be obtained from your council or an accredited certifier and includes your detailed building plans/engineering details and specifications. The plans will most likely contain a lot more information than your approved DA plans, to allow your builder to work directly from them.
The building must be consistent with them and the development consent.
Any plan changes that are inconsistent with the DA plans would need to be assessed as to whether an application to modify the development consent is required (see Modifications and Reviews).
In order to obtain the CC you may be required to first provide additional reports and pay refundable bonds or development contributions to the council. These details are covered in the conditions of your development consent.
You have the choice as to whom issues your Construction Certificate – the certifying authority can either be your council or an accredited certifier. The NSW Building Professionals Board (BPB) accredits all certifiers that are not employed by your council, and provides the information you need on the NSW Building Professionals Board (BPB) website.
The PCA must be appointed by the 'person having the benefit of the development consent' – this means you as the owner and not your builder. It would probably be the same person or firm that issued your CC, but does not have to be – as with your CC, it can be an accredited certifier or your council as PCA.
The PCA's job is to work with you through the construction process and issue you with an Occupation Certificate (OC) when the work is completed. To make this decision, the PCA inspects the development at various points in the build and ultimately ensures that the building is safe and fit to occupy and in accordance with the development consent and CC.
You should also keep your neighbours informed and report any complaints to the builder and the PCA.
Keeping a close eye on the work and being sure it is consistent with the development consent and any conditions attached is very important. Orders can be issued by council to stop work and fix any errors. This can cost time and money or even lead to penalties. The EP&A Act specifies enforcement measures that can be applied if a development is not built in accordance with its consent.


Kumar, A.; Srivastava, D.; Agrawal, M. and Goel, A. Snapshot of PM Loads Evaluated at Major Road and Railway Intersections in an Urban Locality. 2014. International Journal of Environmental Protection, 4 (1), 23-29.
Manish Agrawal & Anubha Goel (2013), Characterization of Carcinogenic Compounds from Incense burning at Places of Worship, International Workshop on Changing Chemistry in Changing Climate: Monsoon (C4), IITM Pune, May 1-3, 2013. BEST PAPER AWARD.


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Dershowitz: "Secret" Emails About Underage Sex Allegations Will Put "Prominent People In Handcuffs"
By cloverchronicle on January 7, 2019
Source: Real Clear Politics, Law & Crime
In an interview Thursday morning with 'Good Day New York,' Alan Dershowitz pushed back against allegations that he had sex with underage girls through billionaire convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. He said he is being framed and has emails that will put "prominent people in handcuffs."
"There are emails so far that are secret, but that prove, not only that I was framed, but who framed me," Dershowitz said. "It names names. These people are going to go to jail once these e-mails come out because this was a total frame up for financial reasons, and I can prove it, and will prove it. Have me back on the show when the e-mails come out, boy it will be so interesting because there will be prominent people in handcuffs. Prominent people in handcuffs once these e-mails come out."
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Iraqi forces push deeper into Mosul
US-backed Iraqi forces have pushed deeper into western Mosul and advanced in several populated areas in southern districts.
This after re-taking the city's airport from the so-called Islamic State, which is trying to cling on to its last major urban stronghold.
It has been putting up some stiff resistance and, according to Iraqi officials, has been using armed drones.
"There was resistance from the enemy and it was very strong, as they used car bombs and drones. But thank God, they couldn't hit their targets and we are dealing with is. And right now, the advance is continuing," said Colonel Haider Ibrahim, from the Iraqi Special Operations Forces.
Civilians continue to be caught up in it all: some injured, some fleeing, many more trapped.
The advancing forces are now just a few kilometres away from the mosque in Mosul's old city where ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a caliphate in 2014 – spanning Iraq and Syria.
Losing Mosul would be a major blow, but the militants still control swathes of territory elsewhere.
Iraqi forces capture Mosul airport in a major gain to driving Islamic State from western half of city: state TV. https://t.co/WPqsdGmqvppic.twitter.com/mZ5wFfG7Bc
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) 23 February 2017
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Doug Ottley at his best in 1956 Southland Soccer Competition
Soccer is at an exciting time this season with any of three teams able to win, Waihopai, Brigadiers or United. Each team still has to play one game to complete the round and on current form it would be impossible to pick a winner. It shows how tight this competition is with Brigadiers and United fighting out a hard draw in atrocious conditions, and the final score of 1-1 was a fair indication of the game.
In the earlier round Brigadiers were lucky to be able to draw with the versatile Waihopai side, but there was nothing lucky about the tie with United. In this game, Bob Morrison played a strong game and Doug Ottley was his usual tower of strength and the red shirts that day was every bit as good as the United side, under the leadership of J. Kellock.
The Southland Times commented that "Special mention has to be made of Doug Ottley, and his work in the forwards was nothing short of spetacular. He showed that he has lost none of the skills which saw him represent New Zealand a few years ago"
As expected Waihopai beat Thistle, but it was not as easy for them as expected and the score indicated. At half-time there was still no score and up to that time Thistle had a couple of chances where they could have put the ball in the goal. As it was the score actually made Waihopai look better than it was.
The two goals were the result of Thistle's goalkeepr, Fraser, his decision making in leaving the sticks at the wrong moment proved fatal for his team. J. Blackwell, the back-up goalie proved his worth in the game against United recently with approx 5 saved goals and one amazing dive that stopped a sure goal from the boot of Ollie Schins.


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The M1 helmet is a combat helmet that was used by the U.S. military from World War II until 1985, when it was succeeded by the PASGT helmet. The M1 helmet has become an icon of the US military, with its design inspiring other militaries around the world.

History

Development

At the entry of the United States into World War I, the US military was without a combat helmet; initially US troops arriving in Europe were issued with British Mk I Brodie helmets, and those integrated with French units were given French M15 Adrian helmets. The United States quickly commenced manufacture of a version of the Mk I, designated the M1917, producing some 2,700,000 by the end of hostilities. At that point, the shortcomings of the M1917, which lacked balance and protection of the head from lateral fire, resulted in a project to produce a better helmet which would also have a distinctively American appearance. Between 1919 and 1920, a number of new designs of helmets were tested by the Infantry Board in comparative trials along with the M1917 and helmets of other armies. One of those designs, the Helmet Number 5A, was selected for further study. This was an improved version of the Helmet Number 5, developed in 1917 and 1918 by Bashford Dean, the curator of arms and armor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which had been rejected during the war because of its supposed resemblance to the German stahlhelm. Eventually, tests held at Fort Benning between 1924 and 1926 showed that although the 5A offered better side protection than the M1917, it was more easily penetrated from above and in some circumstances the shape of the helmet could interfere with properly holding and firing a rifle. Further ballistic tests at the Aberdeen Proving Ground resulted in the decision to retain the M1917 in 1934, which was then given a redesigned leather cradle and designated the M1917A1 or "Kelly" helmet.

In 1940, with World War II raging on in Europe and Asia, it seemed likely that the United States might soon be at war again. The Infantry Board resurrected the quest to find a better type of helmet, since the ongoing conflict had shown that the M1917, designed to protect men standing in trenches from falling shell splinters and shrapnel, would be inadequate on the modern battlefield. The board reported:

Accordingly, the board, under the direction of Brigadier General Courtney Hodges, took the M1917 shell as the basis of the new prototype, trimmed off the brim and added a visor and skirt-like extensions to protect the back and sides of the wearer's head. Rejecting the conventional systems of cradles, the new helmet was given a Riddell type liner and suspension system, based on the contemporary style of football helmet, with an adjustable strap for the nape of the neck to prevent the helmet from rocking. The resulting prototype was designated the TS-3, and the McCord Radiator Company manufactured the first examples from Hadfield steel. In tests, they were found to be able to resist a .45 ACP pistol bullet fired at point-blank range, exceeding the initial specification. The TS-3 was given official approval on June 6, 1941 and was designated "Helmet, Steel, M1". Full scale production commenced almost immediately.

Service
Over 22 million U.S. M1 steel helmets were manufactured through September 1945. Production was done by McCord Radiator and Manufacturing Company and Schlueter Manufacturing Company; the former developed a method to create an almost eighteen-centimeter deep bowl in a single pressing, which was an engineering milestone at the time.

Total production per year during the period 1941-45 :

- 1941 : 323 510

- 1942 : 5 001 384

- 1943 : 7 648 880

- 1944 : 5 703 520

- 1945 : 3 685 721

In 1944, the stainless steel helmet rim with a seam at the front was replaced by a manganese steel rim with a rear seam, as well as the helmet bails being changed from a fixed, welded version to a swivel model in 1942, along with slight alterations to the shaping of the side brim. Further M1 helmets were manufactured for the Korean War.

Production continued during the Cold War era with periodic improvements; in 1955 a grommet in the front of the liner was deleted, in 1964 the liner construction was changed to laminated nylon and a new chinstrap design was introduced in 1975. The final contract for US M1 helmets was placed in 1976. The M1 was phased out of US service during the 1980s in favor of the PASGT helmet, which offered increased ergonomics and ballistic protection.

Following World War II, the M1 helmet was widely adopted or copied by numerous other countries and its distinctive shape was adopted as the NATO standard. Postwar analysis of wartime casualty figures by the US Army Operations Research Office found that 54 percent of hits to the M1 helmet failed to penetrate, and estimated that 70,000 men had been saved from death or injury by wearing it.

Design

The M1 is a combination of two "one-size-fits-all" helmets—an outer metal shell, sometimes called the "steel pot", and a hard hat–type liner nestled inside it featuring an adjustable suspension system. Helmet covers and netting would be applied by covering the steel shell with the extra material tucked inside the shell and secured by inserting the liner.

The outer shell should not be worn by itself. The liner can be worn by itself, providing protection similar to a hard hat, and was often worn in such fashion by military policemen, Assistant Drill Instructors (known as AIs), and rifle/machine gun/pistol range staff, although they were supposed to wear steel at the range. The liner is sometimes worn in U.S. military ceremonies and parades, painted white or chromed. The depth of the helmet is , the width is , and length is , the steel shell thickness is 0.044" (1.12 mm), The weight of a World War II–era M1 is approximately , including the liner and chinstrap.

Shell

Construction

The non-magnetic Hadfield manganese steel for M1 helmet shells was smelted at the Carnegie Steel Company or the Sharon Steel Company of Pennsylvania. After being poured into fifteen-ton ingots (also called "heats"), the steel was divided into 216-inch by 36-inch by 4-inch blocks, known as "lifts," which were then cut into three equal 72-inch pieces to make them easier to handle. The cut lifts were sent to the Gary Works in Gary, Indiana for further processing, after which they were each reduced into 250 68-inch by 36-inch by 0.044-inch sheets, which were cut into 16.5-inch circles. The helmet discs were oiled and banded into lots of 400 for delivery by rail to McCord or Schlueter for pressing and final assembly.

Each "heat" of steel was assigned a unique number by the smelter, as was each of its "lifts." When each new heat was unloaded at McCord or Schlueter, it was assigned a sequential number, and each lift within the heat was assigned a letter of the alphabet (for example, the third lift unloaded of the forty-ninth heat received by McCord would be 49C). This unique "lot and lift" number was stamped onto each helmet produced from the discs of a particular lift, and allowed for traceability in case the helmets exhibited defects. The "lot and lift" number is in reference to the time when the fabricator received the helmet discs, not when they were made into finished helmets. Lifts of heats were not loaded onto or unloaded from railcars in any particular order, and were often warehoused (also in no particular order) before being finished.

The helmet discs were drawn to a depth of seven inches to create the rough helmet shape, or "shell," and the edges were trimmed. The edge of the shell has a crimped metal rim running around it, which provides a smooth edge. This is usually known as the "rim". The rim has a seam where the ends of the strip meet. On the earliest shells the seam met at the front. This was moved to the back of the rim in November 1944 At this time, the rim also went from being made of stainless steel to manganese steel. On each side of the shell, there are stainless steel loops for the chinstrap. Early World War II production shells had fixed, rectangular loops, and mid-war to 1960s helmets feature movable rectangular loops. This feature was adopted in 1943 to address the problem that when earlier helmets were dropped, the fixed loops were more susceptible to breaking off. Early shells for paratrooper helmets feature fixed, D-shaped loops. The shells were then painted with flat olive drab paint, with the paint on the outside of the shell sprinkled with either finely ground cork (World War II era) or silica sand (postwar).

World War II-production helmets feature sewn-on cotton web olive drab shade 3 chinstraps, replaced gradually throughout 1943 and 1944 with olive drab shade 7 chinstraps. 1950s and later production chinstraps are made of olive drab webbing attached to the loops with removable metal clips. Nylon chinstraps were introduced in the U.S. military in 1975. These straps featured a two-piece web chin cup and were fastened by a metal snap rather than buckle.

Uses

Many soldiers wore the webbing chinstraps unfastened or looped around the back of the helmet and clipped together. This practice arose for two reasons: First, because hand-to-hand combat was anticipated, and an enemy could be expected to attack from behind, reach over the helmet, grab its visor, and pull. If the chinstrap were worn, the head would be snapped back, causing the victim to lose balance, and leave the throat and stomach exposed to a knife thrust. Secondly, many men incorrectly believed that a nearby exploding bomb or artillery shell could cause the chinstrap to break their neck when the helmet was caught in its concussive force, although a replacement buckle, the T1 pressure-release buckle, was manufactured that allowed the chinstrap to release automatically should this occur. In place of the chinstrap, the nape strap inside the liner was counted on to provide sufficient contact to keep the helmet from easily falling off the wearer's head.

The design of the bowl-like shell led to some novel uses:  When separated from the liner, the shell could be used as an entrenching tool, a hammer, washbasin, bucket, bowl, and as a seat. The shell was also used as a cooking pot, but the practice was discouraged as it would make the metal alloy brittle.

Liner

Construction

The liner is a hard hat-like support for the suspension, and is designed to fit snugly inside the steel shell.

The first liners were produced in June 1941 and designed by Hawley Products Company. The suspension was initially made from strips of silver rayon webbing stretched around and across the inside of the liner. A sweatband is clipped onto these, and is adjusted to fit around the head of the wearer. Three triangular bands of rayon meet at the top of the helmet, where they were adjusted by a shoestring to fit the height and shape of the wearer's head. A snap-on nape strap cushioned the liner against the back of the wearer's neck and stops it from falling off. As the rayon had a tendency to stretch and not recover its shape, the suspension material was later changed to olive drab number 3, and then olive drab number 7, herringbone twill cotton webbing.

World War II and Korean War-era liners have their own chinstrap made from brown leather. The liner chinstrap does not have loops like the shell; it was either riveted directly to the inside of the liner (early examples) or snapped onto studs. It can still swivel inside the liner. The chinstrap is usually seen looped over the brim of the shell, and helps to keep it in place when its own chinstraps are not in use.

Early liners were made from a mix of compressed paper fibers impregnated with phenolic resin, with olive drab cotton twill fabric stretched over the outside. They were discontinued in November 1942 because they degraded quickly in high heat and high humidity environments. They were replaced by evolving plastic liners, using a process developed by the Inland Division of General Motors. These liners were made of strips of cotton cloth bathed in phenolic resin and draped in a star shape over a liner-shaped mold, where they were subjected to pressure to form a liner. The initial "low pressure" process was deemed unacceptable by the Army, but accepted out of need. These liners were made by St. Clair Manufacturing and Hood Rubber Company. Hawley, Hood, and St. Clair's contracts were cancelled by early 1944, when a "high pressure" process which produced better-quality liners became commercially viable. Companies which produced "high pressure" liners during World War II included Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, CAPAC Manufacturing, Inland (whose molds were acquired by Firestone after their contract was cancelled), Mine Safety Appliances Company, Seaman Paper Company, and International Molded Plastics, Inc.

Liners essentially identical in construction to "high pressure" World War II examples were produced between 1951 and 1954 during the Korean War by the Micarta Division of Westinghouse and CAPAC Manufacturing. In the 1960s, the M1 helmet liner was redesigned, eliminating the leather chinstrap, nape strap, and changing the suspension webbing to a pattern resembling an asterisk in a coarse cotton web material in lieu of the earlier cotton herringbone twill. In the early 1970s, suspension materials changed to a thicker, more flexible nylon with a rougher unbeveled rim.  Later changes included a move to a yellow and green material for liner construction.

Paratrooper liners

M1 helmet liners intended for use by paratroopers had a different construction. The short piece of webbing which held the nape strap at the back of the wearer's neck was extended around the sides of the liner, and terminated on each side in "A" shaped yokes which hung down below the rim of the liner and had buckles for an adjustable chin cup made of molded leather. Two female snaps on the inside of the liner above the "A" yokes accepted male snaps on each of the steel shell's chinstraps, and helped to keep the liner inside the steel shell during abrupt or violent movements.

Accessories

Cover

In late 1942, the United States Marine Corps used a cloth helmet cover with a camouflage pattern for its helmets. The cover was made from cotton herringbone twill fabric. It had a "forest green" pattern on one side and a "brown coral island" pattern on the other.

The United States Army often utilized nets to reduce the helmets' shine when wet and to allow burlap scrim or vegetation to be added for camouflage purposes.  Most nets were acquired from British or Canadian Army stocks or cut from larger camouflage nets. The Army did not adopt an official issue net until the "Net, Helmet, with Band" that included an elastic neoprene band to keep it in place.

After World War II, no new covers were issued and at the start of the Korean War, many soldiers had to improvise covers from burlap sandbags or parachute fabric. A consignment of 100,000 olive drab covers was dispatched to the theater, but the ship carrying them, , sank in a collision en route and they were all lost. In 1963, the Army and Marine Corps adopted a reversible fabric cover called the Mitchel Pattern, with a leafy green pattern on one side and orange and brown cloud pattern on the other. This type was nearly omnipresent in Vietnam, where, for the first time, the Army wore the cloth camouflage as general issue. In Vietnam, the green portion of the reversible fabric camouflage was normally worn outermost. Helmet covers in the (European) woodland camouflage, were designed for fighting in the European Theater of Operations (NATO), and became the post-Vietnam (jungle pattern) camouflage cover used by the US military from the late 1970s onward.  The (European) Woodland pattern was not reversible; they were only printed on one side, though some rare desert camouflage examples do exist. These covers were all constructed from two semi-circular pieces of cloth stitched together to form a dome-like shape conforming to the helmet's shape. They were secured to the helmet by folding their open ends into the steel pot, and then placing the liner inside, trapping the cloth between the pot and the liner. An olive green elastic band, intended to hold additional camouflage materials, was often worn around the helmet to further hold the cover in place.

Other armies used these or similar covers printed with different camouflage patterns, or employed entirely different methods. In the Dutch Army, for example, it was common practice to use a square piece of burlap as a helmet cover on M1 helmets, usually secured by a net and a wide rubber band.

During the Battle of the Bulge and Korean War, soldiers made white helmet covers as camouflage in snowy areas. They were not issued to soldiers, so many soldiers simply made them from a white cloth from a shirt or tablecloth.

Users

Current

 : Being replaced. Still in use by Border Guard Bangladesh and other forces.
 : Some M1s still in service by Military Police and ceremonial units.
 : Only used by Dominican military honor guard forces.
 : Made locally and are still in service.
 : Limited use by the Indonesian Armed Forces and the Indonesian Police for Ceremonial purposes, still in use by the Indonesian Military Police.
 : Uses the West German-made M1s.
 : Used only in the Guatemalan Army and Navy.
 : Uses the Type 66 helmet, modeled after the M1 helmet that was supplied to the JSDF. Currently used in non-combat operations. Formerly used M1s supplied by the US to the JSDF before the adoption of the Type 66.
 : Formerly used by former Panamanian military, now in use by Panamanian Public Forces.

 : Used in the Korean War. Uses M1-style ballistic helmets made by Silver Star.
 : Ceremonial units in chrome finish.
 : Used by the Army and Military Police – info provided by damians war collection (January 1, 2022)
: Used by the Turkish military, most made locally. Still used as ceremonial helmet
 : Used US M1 for 1944 to present received by the EDA (Excess Defense Article) 1942 – 1945, FMS (Foreign Military Sales) and MAP (Military Aid Program) with some still in use, and M1-style ballistic helmets for South Korean-made (M76).
 : Some M1s used by the Vietnamese military.

Former

 : Used by the Argentine military before they were replaced.
 : Australian Defence Force previously used Australian and American-made M1s from the 1960s to the 1990s. Replaced by the Australian-made M91 PASGT helmet in the 1990s.
 : Used by the Austrian Army after it was reformed in 1955 with 30,000 M1s supplied by the US. Copies made in 1958 known as Stahlhelm 2 (M.58) with another made in the 1970s with a German-made helmet suspension, all made by Ulbrichts Witwe.
 : Used Ulbrichts-made M1 helmets.
 : Used surplus M1 helmets complete with ERDL pattern or U.S. Woodland from various sources during the Bosnian War.
 : Formerly used US and Brazilian-made M1s for its military.
 : Formerly used by the Royal Hong Kong Police Force.
 : Used US, Brazilian, and South Korean-made M1s before being removed from service.
 : Used until the 1990s, when it was replaced by the CG634 helmet.
 : Formerly used by the Chilean military with liners made by Baselli Hnos.
 : Used in the Second Sino-Japanese War and in the Chinese Civil War. Used by Taiwan until the 1990s.
 : Used surplus M1 helmets complete with ERDL pattern or U.S. Woodland from various sources during the Croatian War of Independence.
 : Formerly used US-made M1 helmets.
 : Used in Cuban military until Bastista was deposed, replaced by Warsaw Pact-made helmets.
 : Used Ulbrichts-made M1 helmets under the designation of Staalhjelm model 48 (m/48).
 : Formerly in use by the Ecuadorian military.
 : Provided by the US in the 1970s as part of military aid, now replaced by PASGT.
 : Adopted by the Greek Army in 1952.
 : Used by former Haitian military.
 : Formerly used by Honduran military after signing the Rio Treaty.
 : Formerly used by the Imperial Iranian Army. Used by the Islamic Republic of Iran's army, until retirement, however it occasionally still sees some limited use.
 : Formerly used by the Israeli military, supplied by the UK, France, and the United States. Some M1s used have a combination of US and Israeli parts.
 : Used American-made M1s.
 : Formerly used by the Mexican military.
 :Used by Malaysian Army and Royal Malaysia Police.
 : Used by the New Zealand Army from the 1960s all the way to 2000s, mostly using US and South Korean-made M1s.
 : Used Ulbrichts-made M1 helmets.
 : The Guardia Nacional de Nicaragua used M1 helmets supplied by the United States 1954-1979.
 : Used Ulbrichts-made M1 helmets.
 :Formerly used by the Pakistan Army. Replaced by GIDs ballistic helmets.
 : Adopted the M1 after signing the Rio Treaty.
 : Formerly used M1 helmets supplied by the US. Some obtained from Israel and West Germany.
 : Formerly used M1 helmet in the Armed Forces of the Philippines. Some reserve stocks for training of the recruits.
 : Formerly used M1 helmets supplied via South Korea and Taiwan.
 : Formerly used by the Singaporean military from the late 1950s with inner liners made locally. Used up until the mid-1980s, when they began to be gradually replaced, and finally phased out, by a similar helmet to the US PASGT helmet, in the 1990s.
 : Used M1s made from America and Europe, modified for marine and paratrooper forces.
 : The standard helmet of the South Vietnamese military from 1955 up until the fall of the country to North Vietnam in 1975, all throughout the Vietnam War.
  : Formerly used by the Royal Thai Police's Crime Suppression Division.
 : Formerly used by the United States Air Force as the M3 and later, the M5, helmet for flak protection. Formerly used by the US military from the 1940s to the 80s, replaced by the PASGT.
 : Used by the Venezuelan military, now replaced. Majority made in the US and South Korea.
 : Formerly used by the West German army, helmets made by F. W. Quist Company. The West German M-62 Stahlhelm was a direct copy of the U.S. M1 helmet. It was properly called "zweiteiliger Stahlhelm" (two-piece steel helmet). In 1958 the helmet was made as a one-piece helmet and renamed Stahlhelm M1A1. The M1A1 came in three sizes: 66, 68, and 71. This helmet was used until 1981 when a modified version was released and renamed the Helm1A1. Modifications included a 3-point chin strap with the third point connecting at the nape, extra large sizes, and a further adjustable liner. The M1A1 Stahlhelm remained in service until 1992 when the Bundeswehr replaced it with a PASGT-derived kevlar helmet called the Gefechtshelm ("Combat helmet").

See also
 M1C helmet
 Modèle 1951 helmet
 Iraqi M80 helmet

References

Books

Journals

External links

 Are Navy Helmets Bulletproof? Battleship New Jersey, Youtube - Show and tell video of M1 helmet and US Navy Mk II talker helmet

1940s fashion
20th-century fashion
21st-century fashion
International Hat Company
Combat helmets of the United States
World War II military equipment of the United States
Canadian military uniforms
Combat helmets of Canada
Military equipment introduced from 1940 to 1944

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Obviously photographing animals and creatures in their own native habitat is far more rewarding, but let's face it, there are not many of us who have the money to travel far and beyond to capture these.
The below are some photographs from London Zoo.
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[Related to How to Be a Good Depressive Citizen, this tumblr post and also this one]
I want to talk about something that plays out in the communities I love.
But first, I want to talk about schizophrenia.*
There's this feature of the onset schizophrenia that makes it extraordinarily hard to treat. We call the before-full-blown-schizophrenia stage 'prodromal', and if you can catch it right in that stage, or close to it, your outcomes are much better.
Except that the big obvious signs of schizophrenia in that stage are negative symptoms: speaking in monosyllables, emotional flatness, anhedonia, disinterest in activities and relationships and friendships. And in most cases, this part plays out in relative silence.
Your friend stops reaching out to spend time with you, flakes out on group plans, seems bored in conversation. After a while, you stop being the one to call. They've found other friends, they just aren't that into you, you've got other friends who put more work into the relationship. It's quiet and it's insidious, and I'd bet you don't quite notice it until you run into each other at the store and wow, it's been months since you hung out!
For the most part, this is normal and natural–friendships do the slow fade* and fizzle and evolve. The vast majority of these things are not the result of an incoming bout of psychosis. So you can't do much to address this. You could possibly make it the social norm to follow up on waning friendships until someone explicitly tells you they hate your company, but I imagine this as being hard to enforce and resulting in more excuses for ignoring other people's boundaries. (If your solution is to only do this for friends you know are at risk for developing schizophrenia, then you may have even more forthright friends than I.)
So, what happens in most of the prodromal cases is that the person quietly retreats–maybe not even quite noticing that they are–and then when the positive symptoms of schizophrenia set in (hallucinations or delusions or magical thinking, etc), there isn't a support system there for them. There aren't friends there daily who can confirm that they're going to work or taking medication. There isn't friendship for friendship's sake; relational interactions are important. And the extent to which this occurs is fairly predictive of outcome of the disorder. High social support means fewer episodes and hospitalizations, better medication adherence. Lower social support…doesn't.
And back to communities I love.
Communities have hierarchies. There's variance in how much they're enforced; there are levels of enforcement and policing and explicit/implicit acknowledgement of the rankings.
Except that this gets incredibly complicated in communities that are specifically about help-seeking, about coming together and supporting each other; the communities that are explicitly about Not Being Like The Rest of Society. Take, for instance, the mental health community. (Though you could almost as easily use the geek community, or other nerd/geek subtypes.)
The thing is, communities, even those created to be Not Like The Rest of Society, have values on multiple axes. Charisma, though perhaps a slightly altered definition, plays a role. Ditto for the halo effect, though attractiveness might be assessed slightly differently. And so through accidental privileges and intentional power-grabs, some people in the community end up more liked and more likeable.
I am not positive, but I would guess that it is somewhat harder to be in a community where you're not supposed to be stigmatized, where your particular Problem isn't unusual, and to have all of that and watch them say "oh no, that sounds bad" and help everyone else more. And that this problem is magnified when the community you're in is one you joined because The Rest of Society already did a bad job of caring.
And of course, people wish to prioritize helping their friends, and I think we mostly accept and encourage this. But it remains that some strangers will say "X happened", and there will be an outpouring of support and love and empathy and praise. And you can have the same thing…maybe you have it worse, maybe you can't afford to be so public about it, or don't have the social support to let you present a showered and articulate and slightly-self-deprecating face. Maybe you don't have the right language; you hate being crazy, you don't know how to preface your anorexia-thoughts with how you know that healthy can be at any size, but sometimes your brain lies…because you aren't at the place where you know it does.
And this is a problem. These are the people you want, in the abstract, to help the most–the ones who are new to the community, who aren't already popular, who aren't able to be effortlessly cared-about. They're also the ones that can sound like they pattern-match for the people you're in this community to avoid. They can be the ones who trigger you or make you slightly uncomfortable. And you joined this community to be safe and relaxed away from The Rest of Society, right?
You can try to fix this, in these communities. You can assign people to make up the difference; to do the checking in and supporting. You can try to deliberately close the gap. Except that these communities also tend to put lots of value on being open and honest…and this sort of thing can quickly feel fake and dishonest. Not to mention, it's work! You're not being asked to comfortably inhabit your one safe space, you're being asked to do emotional work to keep it. And The Rest of Society doesn't do this, and weren't you trying to carve out your own place that wasn't emotionally exhausting?
But, in the mental health community, you're in a community that's explicitly about supporting people without ready access to society at large. So it might be even more important that you work hard to help more than just those who can passionately and lucidly explain their pain.
But…it's easy to fall into patterns of identifying with charismatic leaders and using specific ingroup vocabulary, and helping the people who can tell you exactly and clearly what they need (with the implied understanding that if you're busy or unable to help, they'll get support some other way). Because there's a difference between someone looking up at you and saying I need everything and I'm mostly okay, but could you do this one thing? and diffusion of responsibility is a hell of a drug.
I…don't have a solution to this. I'm not sure I even have part of one. But I do know that in my community, in the wide, tumblr and blog and activisty mental health community, there are those who get help, and those who get helped more.
Two notes: One, I'm not talking about privilege here in the classic social justice sense, because I see this replicate across homogenous groups who align on the commonly cited axes of privileges. For instance, I'd expect the phenomenon in a small group of equal-income, same-aged, same race friends. Two, by note One, I'm not saying we should ignore the role privilege plays, just that I had a word limit.
*This…happens in real life more than I care to admit.
**For the record, The African Violet of Friendship is sometimes a much better idea than the slow fade.
Kate Donovan
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I don't have the same sort of experience with online mental health communities that you do, so I'd be interested to start some discussion.
In particular, you wrote:
I think this is the solution, but perhaps implemented more explicitly. Recently, the Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities in my province implemented a university student helpline, which is similar to any sort of "Crisis Line" except this is a catch-all "talk to a professional" line for students who may be going through stress or crises, but don't actually feel it's important enough to call a crisis line (or associate too much stigma with a crisis line).
Anyway, I wanted to bring out that example, because I think even help lines can have that feeling of being "open and honest" even though you know it's trained professionals on the other line whose job it is to help you. I've used both this, and the crisis line, myself, and they've been immensely helpful.
That being said, is it too idealistic to see if online mental health communities can gather volunteers (who might not immediately be going through a mental health crisis, but want to give back to a community that helped them, etc.)?
Curious to hear more about your experience.
Kate Donovan says
I agree that helplines can do this very well, but don't think I'd describe them as a community; they're more of a service. What about, for instance, the autism community, which is online (as well as in meatspace). The second (?) tumblr link I posted at the top sees this sort of dynamic playing out there.


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Q: Why we can't find a lot more general pattern between pythagorean triples? Although there are patterns between primitive Pythagorean triples but why we can't find any pattern between all of them(i.e. all existing Pythagorean triplets)or why there is not a very generalisation of this concept?Why it's random? Any specific reason?

A: There is definitely a classified pattern to all Pythagorean triples. However, the primitive triples are the exciting ones to classify.
Once we have established a classification of all the primitive Pythagorean triples (which is a cool result), the classification of all Pythagorean triples follows automatically and almost trivially. We simply multiply each primitive triple by all possible natural numbers to get all possible triples. Thus authors rarely even bother to mention this broader classification.
Note that for a Pythagorean triple $(a, b, c)$, $\gcd(a, b, c) = 1$ is equivalent to $a, b, c$ being pairwise coprime (and, more generally, $\gcd(a, b, c) = d$ is equivalent to $\gcd(a, b) = \gcd(b, c) = \gcd(a, c) = d$). This is because their defining relationship $a^2+b^2=c^2$ forces any factor shared by two of the numbers to also be shared by the third.

A: Perhaps you are wondering if there is a pattern in their generation? Euclid's formula here shown as $F(m,k)$
$ \quad A=m^2-k^2,\quad B=2mk,\quad C=m^2+k^2\quad$
generates primitives triangles if $(m,k)$ are mutually prime and of opposite parity. All triples may be generated by multiplying each term by a constant but those are not "interesting" because who cares about $(6,8,10), (9,12,15), etc?$ one problem with Euclid's formula is that it generates trivial triples such as $(0,2,2)$ if $m=k$ and non-primitives if$(m,n)$ are the same parity, i.e. both odd or both even. Viewing the results of this formula "can" give one the impression that there are no "simple" patterns in Pythagorean triples.
I developed a formula $G(n,k)$ that generates only the subset where $GCD(A,B,C)=(2x-1)^2, x\in\mathbb{N}$.
\begin{equation}
  A=(2n-1)^2+2(2n-1)k\qquad B=2(2n-1)k+2k^2\qquad C=(2n-1)^2+2(2n-1)k+2k^2
\end{equation}
This formula makes some patterns easier to "see" (as seen in this sample table).
\begin{array}{c|c|c|c|c|c|c|}
n & k=1 & k=2 & k=3 & k=4 & k=5   &  k=6  \\ \hline
Set_1 & 3,4,5 & 5,12,13& 7,24,25& 9,40,41& 11,60,61 & 13,84,85 \\ \hline
Set_2 & 15,8,17 & 21,20,29 &27,36,45 &33,56,65 & 39,80,89 & 45,108,117 \\ \hline
Set_3 & 35,12,37 & 45,28,53 &55,48,73 &65,72,97 &  75,100,125 & 85,132,157 \\ \hline
Set_{4} &63,16,65 &77,36,85 &91,60,109 &105,88,137 &119,120,169 & 133,156,205 \\ \hline
Set_{5} &99,20,101 &117,44,125 &135,72,153 &153,104,185 &171,140,221 & 189,180,261 \\ \hline
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Note that the difference between $A$-values in any set is always the same
$A_x+2(2n-1)=A_{x+1}$.
Note that only $Set_1$ or when $k=1$ are all triples primitive and only in $Set_1$ can both $A$ and $C$ be prime.
Note that $(C-B)=(2n-1)^2$ for all triples generated.
Note that $C-A=2k^2$ for all members of any column.
Note how (for primitives) $|B=A|= X$ where $X$ is a prime number $p$ raised to any non-negative power $n$ and $p\equiv \pm 1 \mod 8$. Under $100$, $X\in \{1,7, 17, 23, 31, 41, 47, 49, 71, 73, 79, 89, 97\}$
Note how $G(n,k)=F(2m-1+k,k) $ if you separately compare the formulas' triples generated.
Of course there are many more relationships to be found here and here and elsewhere. The two formulas shown appear to be the most useful in "finding triples" but that is another topic altogether.

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Stone is heading back to court after he accused Jackson of being part of a "Deep State" conspiracy against him and President Donald Trump. He posted an image of Jackson with crosshairs above her head, a post he later removed and made excuses about to absolve himself of any responsibility. His attorney would later file an apology with the court on Stone's behalf, which many legal experts said they have never seen before.
Jackson, however, ordered Stone to drag himself into her courtroom on Thursday to explain himself and argue why she shouldn't revoke his bail agreement and throw his sorry a** in jail.
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When CNN turned to Quinn for expert legal analysis, he did not beat around the bush as he mocked Stone for stupidly attacking the judge overseeing his case.
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Quinn then opined that Jackson won't jail Stone because she won't feed into his claim that he's being persecuted.
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Sitting on the swings of a playground, watching the sun go down, it occurred to me that this nicely-kept park was the last thing I expected to see at the remnant of this Queensland mining town. Not that I knew at the time, but it's the pride and joy of the town's last resident, who did walk by and wave. We waved back, not realising the man was the only reason the town hasn't yet been swallowed by the open pit mine that borders it.
When playing decay tourist, it's easy to focus on the physical aspects – collapsing buildings, mouldering curtains, and all the other elements that feed into that aesthetic. But, sometimes we're fortunate, and find some insights into the human history that fleshes things out and make it more than just a movie set.
Somewhere, I have photos of the stickers on some kitchen cupboard doors: Masters of the Universe, Magic Mountain, Samboy, Beware of Strangers. There isn't much of a floor left in much of the house that held them, and the back yard is a slope of long grass and angular prickly pears, crowned with a bent Hills Hoist.
Reading into the history of a dying town is sobering, though. It's easy to pass through unaware of the despair and heartache, and the stress that drove people to departure and suicide. It's inevitable that coming to appreciate just a touch of the reality is a humbling thing.
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