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[Editor's Note: The Stop Online Piracy Act, the House bill that wants to give content holders vast new powers to block web sites in the name of copyright protection, has been delayed despite an extensive lobbying campaign. The reason was widespread online opposition. Hunter Walk, co-creator of #BlackoutSOPA, explains in the article below how his site was able to help rally web users to the cause — and hit upon the new reality of activism in the process.]
At 1pm on Monday January 9th, Greg Hochmuth and I launched #BlackoutSOPA, a site that lets you alter your Twitter profile pic to display SOPA opposition. 15 minutes later the site went down due to more traffic than we expected. That demand was just the beginning. Over the next 10 days, tens of thousands of people used the tool to reach tens of millions of their followers.
Since then, #BlackoutSOPA has received coverage in the Wall St Journal, TechCrunch, the New York Times and several other prominent sources. And the community members ranged from Ashton Kutcher to Occupy Wall Street. There was no 1% or 99% – just 100%. #BlackoutSOPA started because Greg and I wanted to see how we could find other people who cared about stopping the flawed "anti-piracy" bill, but it ended up teaching us about the future of online activism. Here's some of what we learned, plus a few thoughts on what SOPA was trying to do, and why we were fighting it.
A) Treat it Like a Startup: New Features Every Day
The site launched with just a single function, but we had a long list of features to add going forward. Some we never found time to implement (remember this was a nights & weekend project), but overall there was a rapid iteration focusing primarily on distribution — how could we make it more effective for our users to reach their communities? We provided a few links to other SOPA/PIPA resources but our goal was never to provide information. We also had no interest in expanding beyond changing your avatar. Later when we shifted to "take more action" it was by linking to other services such as Meetup or PublicKnowledge.org rather than building our own. It was pure minimum viable product and focus on what we could do best. Some notable post-launch improvements:
Referral tracking. We generated a www.blackoutsopa.org/<your twitter user name> link which turned our users into evangelists. Top referrers were celebrated publicly and every user was able to see the Twitter names of the people they had converted. Made it much more personal.
Facebook and Google+ support. We started with Twitter because they had a great API for what we wanted to accomplish but very quickly our community asked for other services. Over a few days 10 million people were reached via Facebook.
Top Community Members (by Followers): Although we stressed that everyone mattered – whether you had one follower or 1 million – getting a Top Members list up on the site was crucial. It displayed social proof and also gave the media an easy reference point to cite which influencers were on board.
The feedback and support we got kept morale high. When someone like Google's Matt Cutts praises you, it's the equivalent of downing an energy drink. Matt wrote us: "I was really impressed that BlackoutSOPA just worked. It was easy to use, right down to undoing avatar pictures. Iterating quickly–every few hours, they introduced a nice new feature or made BlackoutSOPA more viral. Within a few days, practically everyone in my Twitter stream had a "STOP SOPA" badge. This is what future political organizations should look like: easy to start but engaging and hyper-adaptive." Yes!!!!
What went well
My co-creator Greg is high-performance coding machine. And we divided & conquered perfectly.
We have enough experience with social software to design and prioritize quickly
Were not prepared for offers of help – could have leveraged enthusiasm to build out new functionality, cool visualization, etc
Could have better proactively explained the permissions we needed from users
Load test if possible before launching :)
B) Started With People We Knew, But Grew Because Of People We Didn't Know
Phase 1: Like Me? Then You'll Love #BlackoutSOPA
The line between supporting @hunterwalk and stopping SOPA is becoming thin… – @adamnash, January 10th
It was pretty amazing and personally satisfying to see our leaderboard on Day 1 filled with friends. While most (all?) of these folks certainly opposed SOPA, I do believe it took a personal appeal to ensure they converted into early adopters. Early tweets from Fred Wilson, Brad Feld & MG Siegler actually took down our website 15 minutes after launch due to their large followings.
But my contact list turned out to not be enough and soon I was getting stuck within my own echo chamber. The tech influencers provided validation and quickly got us to ~2,000 members but we weren't getting spread, not jumping across to artists/musicians/creatives and other segments. So we played a big card: @MCHammer.
Having grown friendly with Hammer over the last five years, I knew he could be a bridge – someone with feet in both technology and popular culture. Someone who mainstream press would react to – no one brings smiles like the mention of Hammer. And someone who wasn't afraid to take a stand. My intuition was correct and within a few hours of shooting Hammer an email, he'd joined #BlackoutSOPA with a modified Twitter avatar and a tweet of encouragement to his 2.4 million followers.
Phase 2: Crossing the Chasm – Hello 10k
With Hammer wind at our back, I started to go hard after people on Twitter using two strategies:
1) Hit more tech influencers with stats & social proof – eg "@timoreilly join @fredwilson & 5k other #BlackoutSOPA members. Change your Twitter picture via www.blackoutsopa.org." By this time, most heavy tech Tweeters were definitely seeing our badges in their stream. And early coverage from TechCrunch (our first article!) and Business Insider gave me some awesome cut quotes to make it appear that EVERYONE was jumping on board ("The Craze That's Taking Over Tech People on Twitter Today"). These folks also started preaching to their networks – Dave McClure and Paul Graham both pinged their respective 500 Startups and Y Combinator lists yielding a ton of young founders and hot startups like Pinterest joining the protest.
2) Searched Twitter for top tweets on SOPA and encouraged those folks to join. This was surprisingly effective – I didn't just look for notables with large follower counts. Anyone was game, and they converted in pretty high numbers. I'm fairly certain this is also where we got the OccupyWallStreet and Anonymous crowds involved.
Phase 3: New Media Influencers Fight for the Internet – On Our Way to 85k!
Right as the general wave of SOPA interest hit (at our peak on Wednesday the 18th we were above 30 new users per minute for the entire day!), we finally crossed out of pure tech. The Lonely Island, iJustine, Felicia Day and several other creatives came on board. Boom! SOPA became both trendy and of general interest. It was the spread we needed and also provided some additional jolt to the community. A friend wrote a blog post about us on Hypebot starting discussion among musicians. We were now diverse enough to be perceived as a platform for the protest. I'll admit to a smile of satisfaction here — it was awesome to see such a wide variety — we had the 'Dick in a Box' guys but also John Perry Barlow, Grateful Dead lyricist and EFF co-founder. When Ashton Kutcher joined later in the week it was the perfect ending.
Some early wins generated by our own social network
Leveraged social proof and adoption stats to convert next wave of influencers
A very clear and crisp message with low effort needed to commit
Kept in touch with many of our top users via email to let them know we needed their support
Should have lined up some non-tech influencers earlier and let them be champions of their segments
Could have coordinated early adopters to unleash a second wave of conversions (eg "on Friday we'd appreciate if you'd tweet the following message some time btw 10am and noon PT")
C) Look at These Silly People Trying to Change the World by Changing Their Picture
Although 85,000+ people eagerly joined #BlackoutSOPA we weren't without detractors. There were two types of criticism we saw over the 10 days.
1) "If changing you Twitter avatar were an effective form of political activism, our current president would be a Mad Men cartoon." – Anil Dash
Look, I get that it's hard to cause a revolution from your Aeron chair, but I think Anil and others who thought there wasn't any political value to this exercise are just plain wrong. The idea behind #BlackoutSOPA was to get the already converted to take a persistent and visible action through social media. This would then spill over to awareness of the issue among their followers and display enough momentum to get the press involved. I believe we accomplished all these goals – media reports and "What's SOPA?" replies to folks like @ijustine who helped the effort expand outside the echochamber.
There's also a reality to where we are right now with social media and politicians — they value it, perhaps even overvalue it. Why? Because it's visible and still hard to measure. And because their kids and the media are on it. So to have tens of thousands of people, some very notable, showing a collective action means something. And then once we had you as part of the community we started displaying actions you could take: tweet at these senators, call these congressman and so on. To friends like Bryce Roberts who said "actions speak louder than avatars," my response was simply "great! if you want to voice your support by getting more involved, by any means necessary."
A single caveat to my insistence that social media campaigns are a net positive for causes: beware the "RT if you oppose killing kittens" trap. What I mean is, simplistic statements without goals and which can't evolve into action are meaningless. And even worse they cause 'goodness fatigue' – you feel as if you've already done your part and are thus less likely to engage again when a specific request comes.
2) "So you advocate piracy"
I had a few spirited exchanges with friends or colleagues from the media industry who suggested that me directly or the Silicon Valley elite more generally were putting forth a morally bankrupt stance in order to financially benefit. My answer was simple: Piracy is wrong. Creative systems need commerce to survive. IP deserves protection whether it's code, art, written word, music, video and so on. But SOPA & PIPA aren't the answers because they overreach, they don't address the changes in technology since the DMCA was passed and they have a chilling effect on creative talent. This last point wasn't discussed very often but it's at the heart of my opposition.
A law which allows entire sites to be taken down due to accusation of infringement by its nature favors large companies. They are the ones with the legal, PR and financial resources to fight for their rights. In fact these resources actually serve as a way to force cooperation from creatives and the tech industry. It's like nuclear weapons: "Don't screw with us and we won't screw with you." If SOPA were to pass, I would expect that creators would increasingly find it necessary to run back to the arms of corporations as opposed to going direct to fans.
This unbundling of talent from corporations is perhaps the most powerful and interesting business threat to today's entrenched players. And SOPA/PIPA would have a secondary effect at creating another reason for middlemen to exist besides directly adding value to the talent.
Let's take the recent example of Louis CK distributing his 60 minute comedy special directly to fans and attempting to build out a platform to continue doing this ongoing. Today if there was a rights dispute over a piece of content he had on the site there would be a DMCA process designed to resolve. If his entire site could be taken down would someone like Louis CK be running a different calculation on the benefits or challenges of self-publishing? I don't want to sound like too much of a bomb-thrower here – it's not that I believe corporations are inherently corrupt, I just want middlemen, distributors and managers to truly add value. I don't believe 99% of the SOPA/PIPA supporters were cackling evil suits who immediately wanted to destroy the web. I just think there was more of a tolerance for collateral damage within the media industry than makes sense for the American economy to tolerate.
Lots of people participated and we were able to move from avatars to actions.
Would have loved to engage those supporting SOPA/PIPA more deeply than Twitter or time allowed. Ultimately laws should continue evolving but they must look towards the future, not the past.
It was an amazing two weeks. We don't intend for www.BlackoutSOPA.org to be an ongoing resource, although we'll keep the technology alive for as long as people want to sport the badge (make support issues notwithstanding). On Sunday we turned the site into a call for finding more reasonable, balanced solutions with links to organizations in that spirit. We also memorialized the effort of the community: 87,204 people with combined 78 million connections. Spanning arts (Ashton Kutcher, MC Hammer) and technology (Evan Williams, Chad Hurley, Tim O'reilly). And even entire companies such as Pinterest came on board. Thanks web, we were proud and glad to serve you.
Hunter Walk enjoys writing about the impact of technology and product design at hunterwalk.com. You can also follow him on Twitter via @hunterwalk or add him to your Google+ circle. You can keep up with Greg Hochmuth at dotgrex.com and via @grex on Instagram and Twitter.


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Q: ideal behind Maximal ideals are Prime ideals In a set of old lecture notes, I came across this corollary:

Corollary: Any maximal ideal is a prime ideal.

While I do not have the proof for this, what immediately comes to mind is whether this corollary is predicated on the fact that...

Theorem: For any commutative ring $R$ and ideal $A$, $R/A$ is an integral domain iff $A$ is a prime ideal
Theorem: For any commutative ring $R$ and ideal $A$, $R/A$ is an field iff $A$ is a maximal ideal

Recall: Any finite integral domain is a field.
So, from the two theorem above, we can reconcile the fact that a maximal ideal is a prime ideal (and vice versa) on the supposition that the integral domain in question is finite.
Or is there another proof for the claims in my notes?

A: A better fact to use is that every field is an integral domain, whether finite or not.
We want to show:  If $R$ is a commutative ring and an ideal $A \subseteq R$ is maximal then $A$ is prime.
If $A$ is maximal then $R/A$ is a field.  Since $R/A$ is a field, then $R/A$ is an integral domain.  Since $R/A$ is an integral domain, then $A$ is prime.

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Home > The Forums > Music Computers Can Kontakt be used as an RTAS plug in PT 7?
Can Kontakt be used as an RTAS plug in PT 7?
I hope this isn't a dumb question... but I just want to know if I have an option besides having to buy Structure if PT is my work environemnt.
It says it can very clearly on the NI website.... Did you read up on it before posting...?
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I am so afraid of their softsamp/synths that I track everything I arrange as I go along. I have a nightmare of not being able to use certain sounds or can't get back into the session to track. With my deadlines and the people I work for, major labels, if that happened--I'm dead.
Yeah, I did have some issues before with not being able to get back into a PT session. Had to import each softsynth/sampler track, track it, deactivate it, and import the next one. MAJOR PITA!!!!!
Yeah, NI doesn't like being in PT. Nor does it like most computers for that matter.
If you're gonna be working in PT, you might wanna check up on Structure instead.
I am considering that option, but it just seemed like Kontak is so popular due to how good of a sampler it is. Thanks for the tips.
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I did so, and this is how it looks:
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Q: Why does a subcomplex of a cell complex being closed mean the characteristic map has an image in the subset? I was trying to learn some Algebraic Topology though I haven't got very far yet so I would greatly appreciate it if you gave as simple answer as possible.
On page 7 of Hatcher he says:

Since $A$ is closed, the characteristic map of each cell in $A$ has image
  contained in $A$

Why is this true?

A: Oops, the previous version of the answer was not correct. It's even easier: preimage of $A$ is a closed subset of $D^n$, which contains all interior points. Any such closed subset is necessarily entire $D^n$.


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What was your favorite summer concert? Here's ours!
By Tarik Moody
Published September 8, 2015 at 6:16 PM CDT
Summer shows are dying down, but they are still fresh in our memory like the sweet taste of a cream puff or roasted corn at Summerfest. What was your favorite show this summer? Here are our favorite memories!
Jordan:
Painted Caves at Westown
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The Rolling Stones at Summerfest
The Rolling Stones, Summerfest, June 23rd. While I've seen the Stones countless times since the Steel Wheels Tour in 1989, this one was special in the way I got to go. The day before the show I looked at second-hand ticket markets and tix were off-the-charts expensive. I lamented on the radio how I'd like to go but was ticketless. A nice 88Nine member reached out and told me he had an extra he'd let go for face value. DONE! The show was spectacular, especially with Chicago Blues legend Buddy Guy opening and playing "Champagne & Reefer" with the band. I wrote a review HERE.
Belle & Sebastian/Courtney Barnett at the Pabst Theater
Belle & Sebastian and Courtney Barnett at the Pabst Theater on June 19th.
Courtney Barnett opened and rocked my socks. I half expected that she would be more of a relaxed performer (based on slurring charm of her vocals), but I was dead wrong. She rocked hard on her guitar and screamed those lyrics. She gave me energy and I wanted to hear more. Belle & Sebastian were also better than I had expected. I'm a huge fan and I figured the show would be of the gentle, sit-down type. It was the opposite. The audience was brought on stage for numerous dance parties and the band encouraged sing-a-longs. My favorite moment of the show was hearing the entire audience singing to "Stars of Track and Field." Hands down, my favorite show of the summer.
Dori:
The Faint at Summerfest
One of my all-time favorite bands came to Summerfest from Omaha, Nebraska. I've been a fan of The Faint since they first started back in 1995. I've seen them every time they've been in Milwaukee and traveled to Chicago on the times they skipped playing here. Their blend of electronic beats, punk, dance and new-wave music speaks right to my soul. What made this night extra special was being plucked right from the crowd (along with our gang of dancers) to enjoy the show from the VIP area right up front. Plenty of room to dance, instead of balancing on the bleachers. Thanks to the stage manager Sasha for making our night extra special and to The Faint for always bringing the crazy wild light show and energy to their shows.
Makenzie:
Sir Paul McCartney at Lollapalooza
Yeah... It was pretty nuts. But to be fair, from a guy that's got years of performing under his belt, some of the (arguably) best songs of all time in his lineup, the cool accent and (definitely) the budget, how could it not be? I went down to Lolla with some of our 88Nine interns this year (one of which was a HUGE Beatles fan) and after a long exhausting day of walking around in the heat, watching the sunset and singing along with Paul was was the perfect way to close out the night. ...Not to mention the killer duet with Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes was pretty cool to see. And the fireworks didn't hurt, either.
Sarah:
Kendrick Lamar at Summerfest
My favorite concert memory from this summer was seeing Kendrick Lamar at Summerfest. I ended up going last minute with Tarik. I usually don't dance but that show had me feeling the summer vibe and in a carefree state of mind.
Sylvan Esso at Eaux Claires
I've seen Sylvan Esso multiple times in settings as intimate as less than 100 people, but seeing them among thousands at Eaux Claires was an incredible experience. It felt like every song was an encore because of how loud and long lasting the crow's reaction was to each song. It was truly remarkable.
Tarik:
Rhythm Lab Micforfest. It was my favorite because it was very intimate, and diverse. It didn't offer your typical large festival amenities like port-o-johns, terrible food, huge crowds. In addition to the main event, couple of the artists took part in workshops the next day to hang out with youth from True-Skool.
How about you? Share your favorite summer concert memory below!
Tarik Moody
HYFIN Program Director | Radio Milwaukee
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Koeth has brought undergrads into the lab each week this spring in a unique design class aimed at building a new and larger 19-inch cyclotron—the measurement refers to the size of the magnet used to create the beam—that will crank up the beam strength fivefold compared to his existing machine.
Teaching assistant and physics doctoral student Kiersten Ruisard and senior Julian Hammett measure the cyclotron's magnetic field.
After a few years and several generations of students, the new accelerator should be up and running, achieving what's known as "first beam." It will edge out the 12-inch machine to become the largest-ever cyclotron built by undergraduates, Koeth says.
The class is designed to lay the foundation in careers ranging from research to medicine, as well as to introduce students to Koeth's lifelong vision of science, which is all about devising and building innovations in the lab. It's an ethic that runs counter to much modern research, in which scientists ask increasingly specialized questions, and often find answers through computerized data analysis.
Despite running UMD's radiation facilities, conducting his own research and overseeing students, his cyclotron exerts a special pull on him—and those who work with him say that's putting it mildly.
"He's super busy… But with the cyclotron, he'll be like, 'Oh yeah, I just spent the whole weekend working on it.'" says Kiersten Ruisard, a fifth-year physics doctoral student working with Koeth on UMER and a teaching assistant in the cyclotron class.
Just what is it about the cyclotron—small and essentially outdated as a research platform—that so motivates a veteran of some of the biggest particle physics projects?
"I ask myself that almost every day," Koeth admits.
Practically every component of the answer lies in his science-obsessed childhood in the 1970s and '80s. Barely out of toddlerhood, Koeth, now 41, was enthralled by electricity and the motors and pumps that his father, Bill, a diesel mechanic, sometimes brought home.
Undergraduate students disassemble and clean a vacuum pump for the new cyclotron.
His father built an electrical experiment station, powered by a 12-volt battery hidden safely out of reach in the basement, where the young Koeth tore apart radios and other electronic devices, then tried to reassemble them.
His earliest physics experiment—at age 5—was based on the patterns he'd observed in shining flashlight beams on a wall. He crossed two beams when awake at 4 a.m. one morning, expecting them to smash into each other and change appearance. But they shined through each other with no apparent effect.
As a middle schooler, Koeth's interest turned toward radiation, and he laid out a diagram on his basement floor for a nuclear reactor that luckily never came to fruition.
To buy a handheld radiation detector called a Geiger counter, he devised "probably my one and only flash of entrepreneurship" when he offered to inspect all of his neighbors' houses for radiation for a small fee. He didn't have many takers. Later, Koeth convinced a teacher to give him an unused Civil Defense Geiger counter, which he carried nearly everywhere, and still owns.
One afternoon, while meeting a friend at a school from which he'd transferred, 13-year-old Koeth saw the needle swing wildly. The signal was strongest near a closet door in one of the science classrooms, so he and the teacher dug until they found a box containing a small metal rod. The supremely laid-back teacher was happy to let the boy take the radioactive bauble home.
Once there, Koeth tested it with a detector for industrial-strength doses of radiation. He'd never seen a source strong enough to make it react—until then.
It says something fundamental about the young Koeth that he'd already prepared for just such an outlandish eventuality by lining the interior of a 60-gallon steel drum with concrete—an accepted way to isolate radioactive material. "I put it in there, and then I told my dad," he says.
Local first responders had trouble believing the call from the elder Koeth, but after a couple of days, New Jersey authorities finally cordoned off his street to mount an emergency response.
Was Koeth terrified of the legal consequences, or of the wrath he'd face from his parents? No. In fact, he was ecstatic as he watched technicians collect the rod and isolate it in a lead-lined container. It turned out to be a "nasopharyngeal radium applicator," used from the '40s to the '60s to treat ear, nose and throat woes with radiation.
Luckily, none of the radium had flaked off in the Koeth home, sparing the family a complicated cleanup, or even demolition. A state report entitled "The Piscataway Radium Incident" (left) praised eighth-grade Tim for his "unusually high level of understanding and care in handling the source." Experts calculated he'd only been zapped with as much extra radiation as he'd pick up from natural sources in a year. It was a small price to pay for discovering his career path.
On a February morning, three students lined up at a cluttered counter in the cyclotron lab, scrubbing the greasy innards of an old vacuum pump with alcohol and acetone. It will eventually be one of two pumps evacuating air from the beam chamber of the new 19-inch cyclotron.
Koeth had been saving them in his garage for a decade, waiting for just this moment.
He got his own hands dirty building the 12-inch cyclotron out of donated and surplus materials as an undergraduate at Rutgers University in the mid-1990s. He'd settled on the idea after realizing that with their massive magnets, kilowatts of electrical power, high-voltage radio frequency systems—all working in concert to produce radiation—cyclotrons represent everything that had captured his scientific imagination as a boy.
He got it running in 1999 and has been lovingly refining and upgrading its capabilities since. He came to the University of Maryland in 2009 as a postdoctoral researcher, and finally brought the machine from New Jersey last fall.
He lured a number of graduate students along with him, including Heidi Baumgartner, a doctoral student in electrical engineering whose investigations center on UMER. As a teenager at astronomy camp, she and friends decided to build their own cyclotron using Koeth's detailed overview of his own as a guide.
She designed the machine with the help of email advice from Koeth. He later encouraged her to study physics at MIT, where she moved on to bigger things while retaining the do-it-yourself ethic Koeth helped instill.
Undergrad physics major Tom Fowler '17 started hanging around the cyclotron lab as soon as the machine arrived, even before he registered for the class.
At age 13, Tim Koeth works in his basement science lab, where his fascination with radiation and particle beams took root.
Like Koeth, Beaudoin spends most of his time on UMER. He got involved with the cyclotron, however, when Koeth convinced him to drive up to Rutgers with him so they could work on it together.
There's no better way to plunge students into the deep end of accelerator physics than to give them a fully functional machine to work with, even if it's toylike compared to the multibillion-dollar behemoths, Koeth says.


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A Decade Later, Republicans Still Don't Understand Iraq
Republicans have something to gain from recasting the gruesome waste of blood and treasure the U.S. poured into Iraq as a success story that President Obama ruined.
As the U.S. ceaselessly moves towards yet another large-scale conflict in the Middle East, hawks in Congress are already screeching that the current U.S. strategy to destroy Islamic State just isn't bold enough. Instead of planes and air-to-surface missiles, they insist, Obama should be deploying a small army.
But all of the people itching to send ground troops back into Iraq and possibly -- oh, if they may dream! -- invade Syria have two things in common. Aside from being disastrously wrong about the invasion of Iraq in 2003, they all have something to gain from recasting the gruesome waste of blood and treasure the U.S. poured into Iraq as a success story that President Obama personally ruined by ending the war in 2011.
The Wall Street Journal has a rundown of the usual culprits calling for rapid escalation, and here's a sordid reminder of just how wrong each of them is:
"It is our fight. It is not just their fight," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) said Sunday on Fox News Sunday. He said Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL, will eventually attack the U.S. unless it is stopped. "They are planning to come here. To destroy ISIL, you have to kill or capture their leaders ... The president needs to rise to the occasion before we all get killed at home."
This isn't the first time Graham has prophesied doom; here's what he said about Iraq in 2003:
"[Saddam has] failed to account for 26,000 liters of anthrax that we knew he was in possession of in 1998. He failed to account for 1.5 tons of VX nerve agent that could kill millions of people. He failed to account for 550 artillery shells with mustard gas ... we need to get on with the idea of disarming him and having a regime change, because it's in our national interest."
Those WMDs didn't exist. The "regime change" just ushered in an ineffective American puppet state. So maybe Graham's claim that U.S. ground troops are necessary to keep Islamic State from killing us all is a little suspect.
Moving on, here's former George H.W. Bush Secretary of State James Baker on Meet the Press:
"I'm not suggesting we need to get into another ground war in the Middle East. I'm just saying we cannot do this without having some forces on the ground that can help our air campaign ... You can't do this with just air power."
In 2002, Baker argued in The New York Times that the only way to topple Saddam was "the application of military force, including sufficient ground troops to occupy the country (including Baghdad), depose the current leadership and install a successor government." That worked out well! By the way, that was before The Nation revealed that Baker held conflicting interests during his Bush-appointed tenure managing Iraqi debt.
On Fox News Sunday, Bush-era CIA director Mike Hayden made similar recommendations :
"Air power won't be sufficient. When you just rely on airpower, people don't doubt your strength, they doubt your intention."
In 2006, Hayden gave a little-noticed speech acknowledging that the Iraq War was inspiring jihadism, but claiming the coming U.S. victory would more than erase their gains. Two years later, Baker triumphantly told The Washington Post that Dubya had beaten back the insurgent threat:
"On balance, we are doing pretty well ... Near strategic defeat of al-Qaeda in Iraq. Near strategic defeat for al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia. Significant setbacks for al-Qaeda globally -- and here I'm going to use the word 'ideologically' -- as a lot of the Islamic world pushes back on their form of Islam."
Al-Qaeda was not actually all that close to strategic defeat, launching successful attacks in 2013 that freed hundreds of battle-hardened prisoners from Iraqi jails. Rather than going away, al-Qaeda in Iraq underwent an internal power struggle and transformed into ISIS.
But there's one thing Hayden conveniently leaves out: al-Qaeda didn't exist in Iraq before 2003. Until the U.S. deposed its government, created a catastrophic power vacuum and openly challenged extremists to "bring it on," Iraq didn't harbor radical Islamic groups. Today, ISIS has thousands of angry, well-trained foreign fighters versed in asymmetric warfare, and America has 4,489 pointlessly empty seats at the dinner table during the holidays. Hayden's call for renewed ground troops in Iraq look a lot like trying to get rid of a hornet's nest by repeatedly jabbing it with your fingers.
Other prominent armchair generals clamoring for another U.S. ground invasion include Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.). The former notoriously referred to the thousands of Americans killed or wounded in Iraq as a "small price to pay" for imperial American goals in the Middle East, while a leaked memo from his office obtained by Think Progress in 2006 repeatedly told colleagues to stress the non-existent Iraq-9/11 link. The latter borrowed and then distanced himself from President Bush's "stay the course" phraseology and grilled Obama so harshly on his previous refusals to arm the Syrian opposition that the POTUS told him he was full of "horseshit." To this day, Corker maddeningly believes that Islamic State threatens "to completely undo the progress of years of U.S. sacrifice" instead of the reality that years of U.S. sacrifice created it.
Finally, there's John McCain (R-Ariz.), who is probably the most dangerous of the bunch. While a President McCain would have never left Iraq, actual McCain is pretty busy erasing the distinction. He successfully hedged the White House into admitting ground troops weren't off the table this week and is pressuring the GOP's anti-intervention wing to flip in favor of war. If boots do hit the ground, it will be in large part because McCain wants them there.
To be clear, a lot of Democrats are for amplifying the U.S. effort against Islamic State, and ostensibly liberal 2016 front-runners like Hillary Clinton are rushing to be the hawkiest. Most of them are wrong, too. But please don't forget that the Republicans most loudly demanding we go another round were some of the peppiest cheerleaders during our 8-year losing streak.
Unfortunately, that's exactly the reason that Americans are being fed so much chest-thumping, pro-war rhetoric right now: a lot of powerful people have an interest in promoting the narrative that the War in Iraq was all but won until President Obama and his meddling Dems. That's a very dangerous notion, one which may get many American personnel killed or maimed in a land very far from home. The U.S. has more choices in Iraq than doubling down or doubling down with ground troops. Given how quickly mission creep has already overtaken the White House, pretending otherwise may quickly result in a lot of bombs, body bags and tears.
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Here's Another Ex-Bushie Who Needs to Shut the F**k Up About Iraq
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Obama Cannot Commit Ground Troops to Defeat ISIS Because of George Bush's Epic Failure in Iraq
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Warren likely to announce 2020 presidential run on Feb. 9
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Trump official says tax refunds will go out on time
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Today was the day to go to Masada and like so much of the tour, it was a fantastic experience and gave me so much to think about.
But the jewel in the crown was going UP to Jerusalem. And UP we did go. When we reached the Mount of Olives – which is really a very long ridge that surrounds part of the city – we were off the bus to take a look from a viewing spot. The first thing I saw was the dome of the rock. I actually felt a sickening feeling. We've talked a lot about the end times both here and in Bible classes at Berean. That bright shining golden dome seemed to make me understand for really the first time why our Lord was weeping when He looked upon Jerusalem and saw it's fate and all the evil that would take place until He comes again. That dome seems to represent the darkness not only of the future but of the present and the past.
Our tour guide asked us to pray for the peace of Jerusalem. It has much new meaning for me now and my prayers will change because now the peace of Jerusalem is heavy on my heart and has such new meaning.


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Q: Gitlab CI doesnt trigger pipelines on commit to the specified branch I am trying to trigger a pipeline on any type of change/commit (push/merge/webIDE etc) to a specific branch called test branch. Not sure why it doesn't trigger at all even after I make a change to a file in that specific branch.
    default:
      tags:
        - specs

    stages:
      - validate

    Trigger job:
      stage: validate
      script:
        - curl -X POST -F token=$ENTDV_PL_TRIGGER_TOKEN -F "ref=master" https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/1252972/trigger/pipeline
      variables:
        CI_DEBUG_TRACE: "true"
      rules:
         - if: '$CI_COMMIT_BRANCH == "testbranch"'

A: If you want Trigger job to only be run when changes are made on testbranch, you can modify your Trigger job to the following:
Trigger job:
  stage: validate
  script:
    -  curl -X POST -F token=$ENTDV_PL_TRIGGER_TOKEN -F "ref=master" https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/1252972/trigger/pipeline
  variables:
    CI_DEBUG_TRACE: "true"
  only:
    - testbranch

The Gitlab CI documentation is actually quite good. Here is a link to how "only" works: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/index.html#only--except
From the docs: "Use the only:refs and except:refs keywords to control when to add jobs to a pipeline based on branch names or pipeline types."
You can do some other neat things like specifying only merge_requests or using regex for triggering jobs and what not.


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The Alzheimer's Association website is an excellent resource for caregivers. To access the caregiver resources, click on "Life with Alzheimer's" at the top of the page and then click on "Caregiver Center." There you'll find several major links. To get an idea of the breadth and depth of information provided, click on each one of these and take a look at the sub-links and their sub-links.
For example, "Daily Care" has sections on Behaviors, Communication, Activities, Respite Care, Memory Loss, Personal Care and Medical Care. Click on these titles to see what is included in each. Under Personal Care you'll find information and advice about issues such as Incontinence, Bathing, Dressing, Grooming, and Dental Care, just to name a few.
Under "Get Support" you'll find sub-sections on Finding Your Local Chapter, Message Boards, Support Groups, Your Health, and Care Training. There are Message Boards for Caregivers, Spouses' or Partners' Caregivers and Younger-Onset Alzheimer's Disease or other dementias. The section on Support Groups includes information on how to find one locally. There are also online Support Groups operated by the Association.
If you click on "Planning for the Future" you'll see topics such as Legal Matters, Care Options, Pay for Care, Safety, Dementia and Driving, as well as detailed explanations of Medicare, Medicare Part D, Medicaid, Insurance, and other related issues.
The section for "Kids and Teens" is especially helpful for families having young people affected by the Alzheimer's disease of a grandparent or other close elderly person. It includes introductory information, videos, an explanation of how Alzheimer's affects the brain, and stories for different age groups.
The Community Resource Finder section can help you find local resources, including your local Alzheimer's Association chapter, various types of facilities, geriatric care managers, day care programs, elder law attorneys, home care professionals, support groups, hospices and transportation.
Lack of inhibition is a trait of many people living with Alzheimer's. It can lead to unwanted behaviors, as I discussed in my previous article on the topic. However, as with many things to do with Alzheimer's, there is the other side of the coin. In my personal experience, lack of inhibition can be just as positive and beautiful as it can be negative.
Here are some wonderful examples of lack of inhibition from Ed.
Although before developing dementia Ed was rather reserved when it came to expressing physical affection, when he had dementia, he changed. For example he usually held the hands of his visitors – even the men – often all the way through their visit.
Another example occurred one day when I was visiting and all of a sudden Angel, who I thought was the most beautiful aide in the entire place, came in just to ask him if he needed anything.
He said he didn't but patted the empty space next to him on the sofa, inviting her to sit down. She did and the three of us engaged in pleasant conversation. After a while, Ed reached up and began to gently stroke her golden hair. She smiled and put her arm around his shoulder. It was a lovely and natural gesture that warmed my heart.
What Happens: Loss of inhibition is not uncommon in people living with dementia. Some of the classic resulting behaviors, listed on an article entitled, "Symptom Guide," published on the Dementia Guide website, are: Makes comments that are mean or hurtful, Curses and uses foul language, Makes sexually suggestive comments or advances, Lacks modesty (e.g., changes in front of people, urinates in public), Tells jokes that are offensive.
Know that some behaviors aren't what they look like. People with dementia who are losing language skills often express themselves with actions. For example, someone who unzips his pants may need to use the restroom. A person who disrobes may be hot. Someone who hurls a stream of foul language may feel stressed.
Notice what else is going on when a behavior occurs; something about the environment may be triggering a reaction in the form of this inappropriate behavior. Pay attention to the noise level, who's present, the time of day, whether the person has eaten or used the bathroom. Jot down this information if an odd behavior happens more than once.
Ignore these behaviors where possible. Reacting to them — especially with outrage or disapproval — may only egg on or upset the person.
React with calm reassurance. The person may be acting out because he or she feels uncomfortable, insecure, or overwhelmed by noise (such as in a public place).
Research has consistently shown that touch can be beneficial to people living with Alzheimer's. For example, scientists at UCLA studied the physiologic effect of touch. They concluded that touch can dampen symptoms of the disease. Specifically, they found that it decreases stress, increases the relaxation response and decreases anxiety.
An article by D. L. Wood and M. Diamond, published in the journal, Biological Research Nursing, discusses a study in which subjects with Alzheimer's received treatment with therapeutic touch for five to seven minutes twice a day for three days. There was a significant decrease in overall agitated behavior and in two specific behaviors – vocalization and pacing or walking – during treatment and 11 days of a post-treatment period.
Another article, by Rand L. Griffin and Evelyn Vitro, published in the American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias, presented results of an observational study conducted at the Alzheimer's Resource Center of Connecticut.
So if you aren't regularly expressing affection by touching your loved one with Alzheimer's, try it the next time you are with him or her. You may be pleasantly surprised at the response you get.
While we all experience some of these symptoms from time to time, this PDF is particularly helpful for several reasons. For each symptom it gives examples. It also explains what could be considered a "normal" sign of aging for each of the 10 items. Finally, it has space to write in examples of an individual's specific symptoms to take to the doctor.
Look closely at the PDF and you'll notice a couple of things. First is that the severity and frequency of a given symptom is important. For example, if a person is an accountant and becomes completely unable to balance the checkbook this may be reason for concern. But occasionally making an error while working on the checkbook is probably not something you should worry about.
The second thing is that the symptoms of Alzheimer's typically disrupt daily life while signs of normal aging usually do not.
I would suggest two circumstances that might lead you to take your loved one to a doctor. First, if they are experiencing the type of memory issues indicated above as possible signs of Alzheimer's, it would be a good idea to write examples down on the Alzheimer's Association PDF and take it to a neurologist or family physician.
Second, even if they aren't having such memory problems but either you or they are still overly worried about memory issues, it might be worth a trip to the doctor if for no reason other than to put your mind at ease.


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