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The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 4
By: Neil Clarke - editor
Narrated by: Shari Peele, Morgan Hallett, Catherine Ho, Luis Moreno, Jennifer O'Donnell, Richard Poe
Series: The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Book 4
Narrated by: Shari Peele,Morgan Hallett,Catherine Ho,Luis Moreno,Jennifer O'Donnell,Richard Poe
By: Neil Clarke
Narrated by: Jay Aaseng, Lauren Baldwin, Michael Braun, and others
First contact with a mysterious race of aliens reveals an unusual request; a family's pet dog comes to grips with the newly bestowed gift of human-like intelligence; a poet, in danger and alone on a distant world, makes unlikely allies; hundreds of years in the future, a famous hermit lives in the sea above the now-underwater Harvard University; former friends navigate unsteady peace between human refugees and the technologically superior race that saved them; in a future where human life can be infinitely extended through cybertronic rebirth, one woman declines immortality.
Narrated by: Vikas Adam, Ali Ahn, Lewis Arlt, and others
With The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3, award-winning editor Neil Clarke provides a year-in-review and 27 of the best stories published by both new and established authors in 2017.
Some great stories!
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The Very Best of the Best
35 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction
By: Gardner Dozois - editor
Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny, Will Damron
For decades, The Year's Best Science Fiction has been the most widely read short science fiction anthology of its kind. Now, after 35 annual collections comes the ultimate in science fiction anthologies. In The Very Best of the Best, legendary editor Gardner Dozois selects the finest short stories for this landmark collection, including short fiction from authors such as Charles Stross, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Greg Egan, Stephen Baxter, Pat Cadigan, and any many more.
some excellent stories
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The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 13
By: Jonathan Strahan - editor
Narrated by: Corey Allen, Morgan Hallett, Catherine Ho, and others
The best of the year's science fiction and fantasy stories as selected by the multiple award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan. Distant worlds, time travel, epic adventure, unseen wonders, and much more! The best, most original and brightest science fiction and fantasy stories from around the globe from the past 12 months are brought together in one collection by multiple award winning editor Jonathan Strahan.
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One
Narrated by: Amy Tallmadge, Jeremy Arthur
The best science fiction scrutinizes our culture and politics, examines the limits of the human condition, and zooms across galaxies at faster-than-light speeds, moving from the very near future to the far-flung worlds of tomorrow in the space of a single sentence. Neil Clarke has selected the short science fiction (and only science fiction) best representing the previous year's writing, showcasing the talent, variety, and awesome "sensawunda" that the genre has to offer.
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By Robert Dullighan on 21-03-20
Narrated by: Mimi Chang, Susan Duerden, Deepti Gupta, and others
Science fiction is a portal that opens doors onto futures too rich and strange to imagine. Fantasy takes us through doorways of magic and wonder. For more than a decade award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan has sifted through tens of thousands of stories to select the best, the most interesting, the most engaging science fiction and fantasy to thrill and delight readers.
GOOD COLLECTION OF STORIES
By DENNIS on 14-04-19
From Hugo Award-winning editor Neil Clarke, the best science fiction stories of the year are collected in a single volume.
Keeping up-to-date with the most buzzworthy and cutting-edge science fiction requires sifting through countless magazines, e-zines, websites, blogs, original anthologies, single-author collections, and more - a task accomplishable by only the most determined and voracious readers. For everyone else, Night Shade Books is proud to introduce the latest volume of The Best Science Fiction of the Year, a yearly anthology compiled by Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning editor Neil Clarke, collecting the finest that the genre has to offer, from the biggest names in the field to the most exciting new writers.
The best science fiction scrutinizes our culture and politics, examines the limits of the human condition, and zooms across galaxies at faster-than-light speeds, moving from the very near future to the far-flung worlds of tomorrow in the space of a single sentence. Clarke, publisher and editor-in-chief of the acclaimed and award-winning magazine Clarkesworld, has selected the short science fiction (and only science fiction) best representing the previous year's writing, showcasing the talent, variety, and awesome "sensawunda" that the genre has to offer.
Introduction: A State of the Short SF Field in 2018
When We Were Starless - Simone Heller
Intervention - Kelly Robson
All the Time We've Left to Spend - Alyssa Wong
Domestic Violence - Madeline Ashby
Ten Landscapes of Nili Fossae - Ian McDonald
Prophet of the Roads - Naomi Kritzer
Traces of Us - Vanessa Fogg
Theories of Flight - Linda Nagata
Lab B-15 - Nick Wolven
Requiem - Vandana Singh
Sour Milk Girls - Erin Roberts
Mother Tongues - S. Qiouyi Lu
Singles' Day - Samantha Murray
Nine Last Days on Planet Earth - Daryl Gregory
The Buried Giant - Lavie Tidhar
The Anchorite Wakes - R.S.A. Garcia
Entropy War - Yoon Ha Lee
An Equation of State - Robert Reed
Quantifying Trust - John Chu
Hard Mary - Sofia Samatar
Freezing Rain, a Chance of Falling - L.X. Beckett
Okay, Glory - Elizabeth Bear
Heavy Lifting - A.T. Greenblatt
Lions and Gazelles - Hannu Rajaniemi
Different Seas - Alastair Reynolds
Among the Water Buffaloes, a Tiger's Steps - Aliette de Bodard
Byzantine Empathy - Ken Liu
Meat and Salt and Sparks - Rich Larson
Umbernight - Carolyn Ives Gilman
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What listeners say about The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 4
Brad Beatty
Not science fiction - it is young adult romance
I tried listening to the first three stories. Every one was a nice, fluffy, beautifully written expression of a young woman's feelings. Lost loves, regrets, blah blah. Not compelling, nor interesting. I returned this book.
William G Carrig
Pretty bad
I honestly could not finish this book. Most publishers can not tell the difference between fantasy and science fiction. This is true in this case. Most of the stories are fantasy that takes place in the future, or in space, or in a research facility and that gets them tagged as sci fi.
Listening to the 5-10 stories I did listen to was a chore. It became more daunting of a task as I moved on.
The one story I listened to that had some science in it had very bad science in it. You would not need to know much science to know that what they are saying is not true, not possible. Most scientists would say something like "There is a non zero probability of that occurring" when what they really mean is that something is not possible.
A lot of times an audio book like this might start out weak but it gets better. This one did not.
If this really is the "best" science fiction of some year, I weep for that year.


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Elgiganten: More revenue with less work
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If you're in the market to buy consumer electronics and household appliances in Scandinavia, you can turn to Elgiganten. The Stockholm-based retailer got its start in 1994 and quickly established itself as the household goods and home electronics market leader in Sweden. Today, customers looking for anything from wine coolers to washing machines can find them online or at one of the company's brick-and-mortar shops across Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway. With over 200,000 people visiting its website daily to view, compare and buy products,1 Elgiganten relies on a solid paid search strategy for success. Competitors were advertising on Elgiganten brand terms, stealing potential customers and driving costs up. Plus, since 2017, the company had increased the number of SKUs online from 10,000 to over 21,000. With such a large inventory of products, the company needed an easy and efficient way to create up-to-date brand and non-brand keywords and campaigns while reaching more consumers, boosting ROI and staying within budget.
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iProspect uses iActivate to create full advertising accounts on Bing Ads for Elgiganten based on its product inventory data. Templates and rules specify how new ads and keywords are to be created, based on what products are available according to the product feed. This ensures that the paid search ads are always up to date. For example, if Elgiganten sells out its stock of toaster ovens, iActivate will pause all ads on the Bing Network for that product until it's back in stock. When new products are added to the Elgiganten product feed, new ads and keywords are automatically created in Bing Ads.
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Not only has Elgiganten benefited from more efficient and streamlined campaign management, it has also improved ad impressions by 186%. Those impressions have, in turn, improved clicks by over 250% and click-through rates by 22%. Yet, we all know the proof is in conversions. Orders from the Bing Network are up 186% and revenue has increased by 296%. And what about the competitors and their keyword-grabbing? Elgiganten has managed to gain clicks from its competitors, growing its click share on the Bing Network to 59%.
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New top story from Time: Viola Davis and Julius Tennon Join TIME's Immersive Project The March as Executive Producers
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Academy, Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor and producer, Viola Davis and actor and producer Julius Tennon, along with their award-winning production company, JuVee Productions, are joining TIME's immersive project The March, which will bring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic "I Have a Dream" speech to virtual reality for the first time, as executive producers, it was announced today by TIME.
Through the use of groundbreaking room-scale, interactive technology, The March will offer audiences an unprecedented opportunity to experience the historic 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic "I Have a Dream" speech from several points of view in virtual reality.
In partnership with Intellectual Properties Management, Inc. (Licensor of the Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr.), which granted TIME development rights for the project, The March will allow contemporary audiences to experience the presence and message of Dr. King. The project will be the most life-like and realistic rendering of a human performance in VR to date, blending advanced VR, AI, film production processes, and machine-learning techniques.
"TIME has always been about the people and ideas that shape the world," said TIME Editor in Chief and CEO Edward Felsenthal. "We are thrilled that Viola Davis and Julius Tennon are joining with TIME to connect Dr. King's message of equality and hope to contemporary audiences through this powerful project."
"We at JuVee are committed to using all forms of art to disrupt, to wake up, to connect and to evoke empathy. The intimacy and immediacy of VR has the power to do just that… and, in addition, to transport," said Viola Davis and Julius Tennon. "It has been an honor to partner with TIME and IPM/King Estate to use this innovative technology to be present at one of the most important moments in history. We believe it will be a catalyst for change, both educationally and personally. This will be in the lexicon of our legacy."
Additionally, American Family Insurance joins the The March as the Presenting Sponsor. With American Family Insurance's sponsorship, the project, which will be presented an experiential exhibition, will travel to select museums and cultural centers across the country beginning in 2020.
"The March tells the story of the men and women who not only dreamed of change, but committed their lives to action," said Mia Tramz, Emmy-winning producer and editorial director of Enterprise and Immersive Experiences at TIME. "There could be no better partners in bringing this project to life than Viola Davis, who is a true leader and force for change, Julius Tennon, and the ambitious team at JuVee Productions. We are also grateful to American Family Insurance, whose commitment to The March will ensure that audiences across the country will be able to experience it firsthand.
For the project, TIME partnered with the Academy Award-nominated immersive media studio RYOT, V.A.L.I.S.studio, Digital Domain, and CAA, which orchestrated the deal on behalf of clients RYOT, JuVee Productions, and Viola Davis, and will also act as a strategic advisor on securing partners and sponsors. In addition to Viola Davis, Julius Tennon, and JuVee Productions, the other executive producers for the project include Jake Sally of RYOT, Peter Matin of V.A.L.I.S.studio, and Mia Tramz and Ian Orefice of TIME.
JuVee Productions is an artist driven production company that produces film, television, theater, immersive and digital content across all spaces of narrative entertainment. JuVee Productions strives to tell inclusive, dynamic character-driven stories that celebrate the broad spectrum of humanity, while paving the way in innovation and tech for future storytellers. Recent VR and immersive experiences include the upcoming Operation Othello, which showcased at Cannes XR 2019, and the launch of the 360 film Spheres: Songs of Infinity at the MoPoP Holodome.
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New world news from Time: A Fire at Kyoto Animation Killed 33 People. Here's What to Know About the Deadly Arson Attack in Japan
Thirty-three people have died and dozens have been left injured after a suspected arson attack in an animation studio in Kyoto, Japan.
A man reportedly shouted "You die!" before setting fire to Kyoto Animation studio on Thursday, local media reports.
The fire started in the three-story building after the suspect sprayed an unidentified liquid accelerant, Kyoto prefectural police and fire department officials said, according to the Associated Press.
With 33 dead, the fire is the worst mass killing in Japan since a man stabbed and killed 19 people at an assisted living facility in western Tokyo in 2016. In 2001, 44 people died in a fire in Tokyo's busy entertainment district, but that it ruled accidental according to the New York Times.
Thirty six others were injured.
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the fire was "too appalling for words" in a post on Twitter, adding: "I would like to express my sympathies to the injured people and pray for a quick recovery."
本日、京都で発生した放火殺人事件では、多数の死傷者が出ており、あまりの凄惨さに言葉を失います。お亡くなりになられた方のご冥福をお祈りいたします。負傷された皆様にお見舞いを申し上げるとともに、一日も早い回復をお祈りしています。
— 安倍晋三 (@AbeShinzo) July 18, 2019
Japan has a famously low crime rate. The number of crimes fell to about 915,000 in 2017, the lowest level in the post-war era.
Here's what to know about the suspected arson attack on Kyoto Animation Co.
Who is suspected of starting the fire?
A 41-year-old man was reportedly seen pouring flammable liquid and setting it alight. A Kyoto prefectural police spokesperson told CNN he had a backpack containing several knives.
Broadcaster NHK said the suspect had been detained in connection with the fire and was later taken to hospital for treatment. A witness told NHK that the suspect was burned on his armed and legs and complained that something had been "stolen" from him, according to the AP.
He has not been identified by authorities.
What is Kyoto Animation Co.?
Kyoto Animation, better known as KyoAni, is unlike many other animation studios. Founded in 1981 by producer Yoko Hatta, is known for its focus on quality rather than quantity, preferring to hire full time illustrators rather than freelance ones.
The studio has produced TV series and feature films, as well as publishing illustrated novels and manga.
What shows and movies have they produced?
Its hits include anime such as Lucky Star, K-On! and Haruhi Suzumiya. Its anime adaptation of the K-On! manga is one of its best-known works. The TV series, a comedy about five high school girls who play in a band, was very successful when it aired in Japan in 2009, according to the Japan Times. It was also broadcast overseas.
A Silent Voice, a feature film that arrived on Netflix in the U.S. last month, was hailed by critics and fans when it was released in 2016. The drama based on manga by Yoshitoki Oima deals with fracturing friendships and childhood suicide. The Guardian gave it a four-star review, calling it "a beguiling film: subtle, sensuous and delicate."
How are the fans reacting?
Thousands of fans and anime industry professionals have taken to Twitter to pay tribute to the studio. Many praised Kyoto Animation for treating its employees well in an industry known for harsh working conditions and low pay. A labour shortage combined with a growing demand for content around the world has put pressure on studios in recent years.
Mike Toole, editor-at-large at Anime News Network, wrote: "Kyoto Animation are a rarity in the anime business: they treat their people well, they strive to own part of their works, and their creations are consistently excellent, at the very least on a technical level."
Kyoto Animation are a rarity in the anime business: they treat their people well, they strive to own part of their works, and their creations are consistently excellent, at the very least on a technical level. Hoping to hell everyone is OK; the article reports some injuries. 😦
— Mike Toole (@MichaelToole) July 18, 2019
Sentai Filmworks, a licensing company specializing in Japanese animation and film based in Houston, Texas, has launched a crowdfunding campaign called Help KyoAni Heal. The campaign has raised over $300,000 our of its $500,000 goal.
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New top story from Time: A Fire at Kyoto Animation Killed 33 People. Here's What to Know About the Deadly Arson Attack in Japan
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New world news from Time: 12 Israelis Detained in Cyprus for Alleged Rape of British Woman
(PARALIMNI, Cyprus) — A Cyprus court has ordered 12 Israelis vacationing on the east Mediterranean island nation to remain in police custody for eight days after a 19-year-old British woman alleged that she was raped.
Judge Tonia Nicolaou removed reporters from the hearing Thursday because some of the suspects were minors.
Israeli Embassy official Yossef Wurmbrand said the suspects' ages ranged from 15½ to 18½ and that the embassy is monitoring the case closely and stands ready to provide support to the suspects and their families.
Some of the suspects' parents were present at the court hearing. They embraced the handcuffed suspects as they arrived at the courthouse in shorts and T-shirts. One young suspect broke down in tears.
The alleged rape occurred early Wednesday at the same hotel in the popular Cyprus resort town of Ayia Napa where the woman and the Israelis were staying separately.
Lawyer Ioannis Habaris who represents four of the suspects, told The Associated Press that prosecutors informed the court that the British woman was raped but that it was unclear exactly how many of the suspects were implicated.
Habaris said there was "some evidence" the British woman was involved in a "relationship" with one of the suspects, but that as far as he knew, there was nothing to corroborate the allegation that the suspects had engaged in any sexual act with the victim.
"As far as I'm concerned and as far as the evidence presented I do not have any material or evidence which … corroborates this story," said Habaris.
Israeli lawyer Nir Yaslovitzh, who represents three of the suspects, said there was no evidence that the victim knew any of the suspects and that the 12 suspects came to the popular resort of Ayia Napa in three separate groups and didn't know each other. Some, he said, had gone on vacation prior to being inducted into the Israeli army.
He said he suspects police investigators are trying to set a trap by implicating all 12 suspects.
"I think it's a trick," Yaslovitzh told the Associated Press. "They want to know how my clients will (react)."
Habaris said he wasn't aware of any police mistreatment of the suspects, but that police should fully investigate any such allegations. He said prosecutors told the court that photographs had been taken during the time of the alleged assault.
New top story from Time: 12 Israelis Detained in Cyprus for Alleged Rape of British Woman
New story in Business from Time: Could Your Cell Phone Really Crash Your Flight? On 2 Popular Boeing Jets, There's a Risk
U.S. government officials in 2014 revealed an alarming safety issue: Passenger cellphones and other types of radio signals could pose a crash threat to some models of Boeing 737 and 777 airplanes.
More than 1,300 jets registered in the U.S. were equipped with cockpit screens vulnerable to interference from Wi-Fi, mobile phones and even outside frequencies such as weather radar, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, which gave airlines until November 2019 to replace the units made by Honeywell International Inc.
Today, potentially hundreds of planes worldwide are still flying with the unsafe systems cited in the FAA report. Flight-critical data including airspeed, altitude and navigation could disappear and "result in loss of airplane control at an altitude insufficient for recovery," the FAA said in the safety bulletin, known as an airworthiness directive.
Honeywell hasn't heard of any blanking display screens caused by cell phones or other radio frequencies while an airplane was in flight, spokeswoman Nina Krauss said. When airlines and Honeywell argued that radio signals were unlikely to cause safety problems during flight, though, the FAA countered that it had run tests on in-service planes — and the jets flunked.
Boeing Co. found the interference in a laboratory test in 2012 and hasn't seen similar issues on other aircraft, a company spokesman said. Honeywell is aware of only one case where all six display units in a 737 cockpit went blank, Krauss said. The cause was a software problem that has been fixed and is currently being flight-tested, she said.
The affected 737s are the so-called Next Generation model, a predecessor of the Boeing Max, which was involved in two crashes in less than five months. Cockpit displays on the Max were made by Rockwell Collins, now a unit of United Technologies Corp., not Honeywell. Boeing's 777s also were covered by the FAA order.
The FAA order didn't quantify the amount of radio signals needed to cause interference problems. Still, the radio-signal threat extends beyond that specific display system and FAA warning.
Numerous cell phones left on during any airplane flight "could be a real problem," said professor Tim Wilson, department chair for electrical, computer, software and systems engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. The greater the number of phones emitting radio signals, he said, the greater the potential for interference with a plane's flight system.
Many airlines now permit passengers to turn their phones to "airplane mode," which allows Wi-Fi transmissions. But mobile phones operate at higher power levels, Wilson said, since the signals must reach a cell tower and not just a local antenna or router. "So cellular service is potentially more impactful," he added.
The FAA in 2013 began the process of allowing wider use of electronic devices on planes, provided airlines could demonstrate it was safe. That prompted an outcry from consumer groups concerned about passengers being subjected to the cellphone conversations of seatmates.
No U.S. airlines allowed it and, in 2018, Congress barred the use of cellphones for calls during flights.
Honeywell initially told the FAA that 10,100 display units — or the equivalent of almost 1,700 planes — were affected worldwide. When asked this week about the progress of the fixes, Honeywell's Krauss said that 8,000 components had been replaced and fewer than 400 needed upgrading.
The lower number reflects the fact that some airlines might have had the work performed at non-Honeywell facilities, and regulators in other regions of the world might not have ordered the units replaced. In addition, some planes might have been taken out of service due to age.
Depending on how many planes are still in service, the global number flying with display units that could cause critical data to disappear could be in the hundreds. But Krauss said that "even if a blanking incident were to occur," the units are backed up by multiple redundancies.
Both Delta Air Lines Inc. and Southwest Airlines Co. have completed their overhauls, according to the companies. American Airlines Group Inc. has 14 more jets that need refurbished units, and United Airlines still needs to replace components across 17 aircraft, representatives from those companies said.
Ryanair Holdings Plc, the large Irish-based discount carrier, told the FAA in 2014 that its planes held 707 of the affected Honeywell units and argued at the time that changing out all of them "is imposing a high, and unnecessary, financial burden on operators." A Ryanair spokeswoman said the airline hasn't upgraded all 707 screens but that the carrier inspected all of its display units and "any affected DUs have been replaced."
'Potentially Disastrous'
In just the past three years, mystified pilots flying Boeing NG or 777 jets — the same models cited in the FAA warning on cellphones — have reported more than a dozen instances of important flight information disappearing. Calling the situations "critical," the pilots filed their concerns with the Aviation Safety Reporting System, or ASRS, which is administered by NASA.
Last September, pilots of a 737-700 noticed that various flight information was flashing on and off, and showing different air speeds and altitudes. Then a primary display unit went blank. "At that time," the pilots wrote, "we decided it was best to get the aircraft on the ground."
In January 2017, pilots of a 737 flying out of Costa Rica lost all of their map displays and the flight-management computers on both sides of the plane "during a critical phase of flight in mountainous terrain," according to the crew's ASRS report. If the flight information had disappeared in bad weather or at night, "it could have been a potentially disastrous outcome," the pilot wrote.
Later that year, the captain of a 737-800 reported that key flight data intermittently disappeared as the jet was climbing through turbulence and the screens blanked even more during the descent. After the plane landed, maintenance crews couldn't find any reason for the blanking display units. "Due to no known cause for a known recurring problem," the pilot reported to ASRS, "I refused the aircraft for the next leg."
The NASA-administered database scrubs the reports of identifying details, including names of airlines, pilots and usually the locations. Aviation experts caution that the ASRS filings are based on crew reports and don't provide official findings. And blanking display screens haven't been cited in crashes, only in scary incidents.
Two years ago, the pilot of a 737-800 reported multiple episodes of important flight information "blanking or simply not functioning," including an incident where the plane flew into a wind shear due to lack of data. "The so-called momentary blanking," the pilot wrote, "is a puzzle."
–With assistance from Thomas Black, Justin Bachman, Christopher Jasper and Jonathan Morgan.
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The right captures the tube
Conservative G.E. head Jack Welch tilted TV right with "The McLaughlin Group." Then a Nixon operative named Roger Ailes signed up with a new channel called Fox.
David Brock
May 12, 2004 11:45PM (UTC)
Unlike CNN's "Crossfire," "The Mclaughlin Group" -- highly rated and closely watched during the 1980s -- did not try to create the appearance of balance. The media spectrum was expanded to include the Far Right in the 1970s; yet now, a combination of the conservative biases of media executives, commercial market forces, and a ready stock of warm bodies from the subsidized right-wing message machinery was conspiring to narrow the spectrum of opinion again, only this time in reverse. Suddenly, conservatives had not only won an even berth, as on "Crossfire"; with the advent of "The McLaughlin Group," they ruled.
At its high point, the syndicated "McLaughlin Group," which airs on NBC and PBS affiliates nationally, had 3.5 million viewers, far more than the top-rated FOX News Channel opinion shows today. Host John McLaughlin, a former Jesuit priest, aide to Richard Nixon, and National Review alum, chose the topics, the sequencing, and his four fellow panelists. The show always pitted three or four conservatives against two or even only one liberal. Over the years, one of the liberal slots typically went to a nonideological reporter, such as the Baltimore Sun's dyspeptic Jack Germond. Often, the "liberal" guest, usually the bumbling Morton Kondracke, then of The New Republic and now with the FOX News Channel, was booked to endorse and bestow legitimacy on conservative views.
This arrangement left Newsweek's Eleanor Clift, the sole woman panelist, who was typecast as a screechy feminist, to fend off two or even three angry, white, conservative men. Among the regular panelists, only the liberals -- not the conservatives -- were trained reporters. Putting Clift and Germond -- rather than liberal opinion writers -- up against conservative ideologues bolstered the conservative caricature of all reporters as closet liberals; at the same time, it ensured that liberals would be more restrained and nuanced in their advocacy than their opponents.
This imbalanced and exaggerated TV picture was projected, to Washington and the nation, as if it were somehow a representative microcosm of political dialogue in the country during Ronald Reagan's presidency, leaving the indelible misimpression that conservatism was the dominant view in the country. Meanwhile, McLaughlin's buffoonery -- his exaggerated manner, his nicknames for panelists, his reduction of politics into a game show -- made conservatism seem unthreatening, and even funny. From the composition and tone of "The McLaughlin Group" panels sprang the stereotype that conservatives are entertaining, while liberals are whiny and boring -- another seeming advantage engineered by the Right as the values of entertainment, rather than those of journalism, were prevailing on television.
"The McLaughlin Group" also was instrumental in establishing the now-widespread practice of "buckraking," whereby TV pundits take their show on the paid lecture circuit and for substantial fees reenact their TV roles, playing themselves before industry and trade associations looking for the Washington "inside scoop" or after-dinner levity. Buckraking added a powerful financial incentive for pundits to "stay in character" on television and for aspiring pundits to adopt a marketable style. Belligerent, cocksure conservatives, with liberals as their compliant whipping boys, seemed the meal ticket for both sides. Often, entire panels from shows like "McLaughlin" and CNN's "Capital Gang" go on the road, raking in tens of thousands of dollars apiece. Conservative TV pundits like George Will have taken huge fees speaking before industry groups about which they opine; the corporate market for left-wing pundits is not lucrative.
"The McLaughlin Group" plucked John McLaughlin from his relatively obscure post as National Review "Washington editor" -- where, according to The New Republic, he employed ghostwriters to write under his byline -- and made him one of the most influential media voices in the 1980s. When it began, the show was underwritten by the Edison Electric Institute, a front for the electric power industry with close ties to the GOP. The institute has been a client of Grover Norquist, who, in addition to his leadership of the conservative movement, has dabbled in lobbying on the side. McLaughlin had hoped to launch a conservative-slanted talk show since the mid-1970s, after raising his profile in TV appearances defending the Nixon administration and hosting a local Washington talk show with Robert Novak. He took money from a former Nixon aide to explore the idea.
In 1986, when General Electric bought NBC's parent company, RCA, GE announced that it would become the show's exclusive sponsor and pumped cash into promoting it nationally. The deal was struck following a meeting between McLaughlin and GE chairman Jack Welch, convened at McLaughlin's request by President Ronald Reagan. McLaughlin already had been promoted by NBC with appearances on "Meet the Press" in the early 1980s; McLaughlin's then-wife, Ann, was a high-level Reagan official; and Reagan himself was a fan of "The McLaughlin Group." Reagan also had a relationship with GE, dating back to his stint as host of television's "General Electric Theatre" in the 1950s. According to media critic Ben Bagdikian, GE had "launched Ronald Reagan as a national political spokesman by paying him to make nationwide public speeches against Communism, labor unions, Social Security, public housing, the income tax, and to augment the corporation's support of right-wing political movements."
Thirty years later, GE's agenda hadn't much changed. Known as "Neutron Jack" for his hard-charging management style, Welch, who headed GE until his retirement in 2002, was a conservative Republican; like Ted Turner's early influence at CNN, Welch's role in promoting McLaughlin was an example of how the Right was able to steer the political debate with the approval of top-ranked media executives. McLaughlin expanded his visibility with the GE-sponsored "One on One" syndicated interview show, and he was given a third show on CNBC when that cable network was established by GE in the 1990s. Welch used his influence over "The McLaughlin Group" to promote commentators whom he saw as up-and-coming talent, such as Reagan economics adviser Lawrence Kudlow, "economics editor" of National Review, member of the right-wing Club for Growth, and "fellow" of Newt Gingrich's Progress and Freedom Foundation. Kudlow now has his own CNBC show, on which he was forced to apologize on air for insulting a government witness in the Martha Stewart case as "limp-wristed."
GE funneled financial support directly into the right-wing message machinery. The company gave money to William Simon and Irving Kristol's Institute for Educational Affairs, which funded the racist, sexist, homophobic right-wing campus newspapers; to C. Boyden Gray's Citizens for a Sound Economy; and to the Hudson Institute, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
In a 2002 interview on MSNBC's "Hardball" with Chris Matthews (who got his start on television with guest appearances on The McLaughlin Group), Welch spoke openly about his political views. "And this guy came in named Ronald Reagan that they all thought was stupid and he had a pretty simple thesis and you can disagree with some of his policies or other things, but this guy got American back on track. And the country thrived ..." Welch endorsed George W. Bush's proposals for "tort reform" and for ending taxation on stock dividends, an idea heavily promoted by Kudlow on CNBC's "Kudlow and Cramer" before the Bush administration adopted it. Welch has conceded that on Election Night 2000 -- when a critical call had to be made by network officials about who had won -- he was in the NBC News Control Room, one of "two or three of us cheering for George Bush." He labeled as "crazy" unconfirmed stories that he had said, "What would I have to give you to call the race for Bush?" NBC subsequently refused to release to congressional investigators a videotape of what went on in the room. NBC followed the FOX News Channel in calling the race, wrongly, for Bush.
In the Reagan years, "The McLaughlin Group" was the new normal. Twenty years later, it would be normal up and down the cable dial. The right wing was on call 24/7, while bona fide liberals were an endangered species. Syndicated columnist and former Moral Majority official Cal Thomas got his own show on FOX, while AEI's Ben Wattenberg got a PBS series. Until recently, the Wall Street Journal editorial board had its own hour-long weekly show on CNBC. The Journal's Peggy Noonan and John Fund are regulars on the GE-owned MSNBC cable network. Alone among the nation's editorial page editors, Tony Blankley of the Washington Times is a highly visible TV pundit, with a permanent berth on "The McLaughlin Group." Time's right-wing columnist Charles Krauthammer, who has not published a book, is a fixture on FOX News and "Inside Washington," the D.C.-based political affairs show. Time's left-liberal columnist Barbara Ehrenreich, a runaway best-selling author, is invisible.
GE launched CNBC in 1989. In 1991, GE made a fateful hire that shifted the entire cable news industry dramatically to the right: Republican operative Roger Ailes became president of CNBC.
Ailes entered politics working for Richard Nixon, showing the campaign how to present paid political events so that they would appear to be news, in order to manipulate public opinion about the candidate. A false warm-and-fuzzy Nixon was sold by Ailes like a "car or a can of peas," as Joe McGinniss put it in "The Selling of the President, 1968." Ailes's father was an Ohio factory foreman who complained of being talked down to by corporate executives at the plant. Ailes shared with Nixon contempt for "elites" and a knack for speaking to the racial prejudices of certain lower-class white men. Discussing the addition of a panelist to a staged Nixon "Man in the Arena" forum, Ailes said: "You know what I'd like? As long as we've got this extra spot open. A good, mean Wallace-ite cab driver. Wouldn't that be great? Some guy to sit there and say, 'Awright, mac, what about these niggers?'"
Ailes, who met Nixon while working as the producer of "The Mike Douglas Show," went to work at the Nixon White House; but his relationship with the president's inner circle soon cooled, and Watergate dealt his career a further setback. Over the next few years, Ailes, a fine arts major who worked his way through Ohio University as a radio disc jockey, toiled in the political wilderness as a speech coach for business executives and moonlighted as an off-Broadway producer. He ran a few political races in the late 1970s before returning to television in 1981 as executive producer of Tom Snyder's hugely successful "Tomorrow: Coast to Coast." When Ailes took the show down-market, ratings plummeted. In 1982, the show was replaced by "Late Night With David Letterman"; once one of NBC's biggest stars, Snyder never fully recovered. Ailes was more resilient.
By 1981, the Reagan revolution had dawned, and Ailes's ability to craft appeals to Nixon's disaffected cultural conservatives was to prove invaluable. Working with his second wife, Norma, a TV producer, Ailes rose to become the country's preeminent GOP political consultant. He spoke the language of the so-called Reagan Democrats: the construction workers and housewives featured in his widely imitated ads.
Still, he was never truly a Reagan insider, and it was not until George H.W. Bush came along that Ailes finally found his horse. His relationship with Bush was cemented after he helped the vice president turn the tables in an interview about the Iran-contra affair with CBS anchor Dan Rather. Ailes prepped Bush to equate his misdoings in the scandal with a temper tantrum that the voluble Rather had once thrown on the CBS set. "Dan Rather is the most biased reporter in the history of broadcasting," Ailes exclaimed after the interview.
Under the direction of Ailes and the late Lee Atwater, the Bush campaign questioned Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis's patriotism, tarred him as an unfit commander in chief, and portrayed him as soft on crime. Though he claimed he had nothing to do with it, Ailes was burned in a controversy over an advertisement produced by an independent pro-Bush group that featured convicted African American murderer Willie Horton, who had committed rape after escaping from a weekend furlough program while Dukakis was governor of Massachusetts. According to Time magazine, Ailes said at the time, "The only question is whether we depict Willie Horton with a knife or without one." Atwater said that Ailes had "two settings: attack and destroy," yet Ailes had the temerity to call Dukakis "the dirtiest campaigner in America."
As a result of the ugly race-baiting campaign, Ailes himself became an infamous figure; his future clients, notably Rudy Giuliani in New York City, suffered a string of defeats. Frozen out of the 1992 Bush campaign, Ailes renounced his political career and announced a return to television.
One evening a few months previous, Ailes had run into Rush Limbaugh at the posh Manhattan restaurant 21. Limbaugh's radio show had established him as a political powerhouse, and Ailes convinced Limbaugh that a syndicated TV show was the obvious progression. Ailes became executive producer of Limbaugh's late-night syndicated talk show. Yet once he left the segmented medium of radio, Limbaugh failed to attract a large broadcast TV audience. Something about Limbaugh did not easily translate to mainstream TV viewers or advertisers, and he eventually quit the show. In the meantime, Ailes -- who had nursed resentments against the press in twenty years of dishonest political warfare -- became a cable network news executive.
In the early 1990s, NBC president Bob Wright was looking for someone to take over CNBC. A friend recommended Ailes, who promptly flew to Nantucket and convinced Jack Welch that he was just the programmer NBC was looking for. Even as NBC executives offered assurances that Ailes had left politics for good, Ailes's NBC deal allowed him to remain affiliated with the floundering Limbaugh broadcast. While serving as both CNBC's president and Limbaugh's producer, Ailes went on Don Imus's radio show to promote Limbaugh's reports of a "suicide cover-up, possibly murder," in the death of White House counsel Vincent Foster. "The guy who's been doing an excellent job for the New York Post [Christopher Ruddy]...for the first time on the Rush Limbaugh show said that...he did not believe it was suicide.... Now, I don't have any evidence.... These people are very good at hiding or destroying evidence."
Politics aside, Ailes was a talented marketer and had a keen sense of production values. In just two years at CNBC, he helped transform it from a ragtag network into the number one financial news network in the United States. During his tenure, ad sales doubled, ratings tripled, and the asset value of the channel soared from about $400 million to more than $1 billion.
While the core of CNBC was business news, NBC's cable outlets fueled the proliferation of political talk television. Working within the confines of a mainstream cable network, Ailes seemed to resist his blunt right-wing instincts in favor of a broad political mix. Added to the roster of cable hosts that included Tom Snyder, Dick Cavett, and John McLaughlin were former Bush campaign aide Mary Matalin, former Clinton aide Dee Dee Myers, Cal Thomas, tabloid showman Geraldo Rivera, liberal actor Charles Grodin, and Ailes himself.
Yet Ailes's attraction to entertainment and partisan opinion -- often uninformed and irresponsible opinion -- over hard news and information had a subtly subversive political impact. In the late 1970s, the only Washington chat shows on the air were the traditional network Sunday morning shows and PBS's sober pair of journalism roundtables, "Agronsky & Company" and "Washington Week in Review." In the 1980s came "The McLaughlin Group," "Crossfire," and "The Capital Gang." Now came a second generation of McLaughlin knockoffs as more cable channels sprung up. As Edith Efron predicted in "The News Twisters," if the spectrum could be expanded to equate professional journalists and Far Right ideological polemicists, if standards of discourse could be altered, if objectivity was no longer prized, if consensus could be destroyed as everything in politics was made into a "he said/she said" standoff, then the right wing would win critical political inroads.
"Confining myself to 'McLaughlin'-like shows and 'Capital Gang'-like shows, every single one of them, if it disappeared tomorrow, journalism would be better off," the writer and editor James Fallows told the American Journalism Review in 1995. Fallows bemoaned the substitution of news for opinion and of solid analysis for pithy sound bites and prognostications: "The world would be better off. Government would be better off. The only people who would be worse off are the actual members of the shows."
While turning CNBC around, Ailes's real interest was creating a new cable channel that he vowed would become the next MTV or ESPN. The new channel was christened America's Talking, and it was designed to reflect Ailes's "homespun woman-by-the-hearth, man-baling-hay Midwestern rugged individualism," according to one former producer. The shows, which Ailes created, included "Bugged!," in which a film crew conducted man-on-the-street interviews to uncover what was "bugging" Americans; "Pork," a call-in show about government waste and fraud; and "Am I Nuts?" on which therapists dispensed advice. None of these corny entries succeeded. The only legacy bequeathed by America's Talking was Chris Matthews, a former Democratic political aide whom Ailes had chosen to coanchor a prime-time political gabfest.
Within NBC, it was not Ailes's politics but, rather, his temperament that rankled. Ailes's bond with Nixon had been instant and deep. As his colleagues described him, Ailes was paranoid and quick to abuse his power to punish perceived enemies, whom he belittled mercilessly. In late 1995, when GE was close to a deal with Microsoft to launch MSNBC, using the subscriber base of the defunct America's Talking channel, a power struggle broke out within the senior ranks of the company. "Let's kill the SOB!" Ailes exhorted his loyalists in discussing their approach toward a corporate competitor.
In a management reshuffling, Ailes in effect lost operational control of CNBC; when MSNBC was unveiled one month later, Ailes was given no role. Within a few weeks, he resigned. A few days after that, Ailes was appointed by Rupert Murdoch to head a new cable channel to compete with both CNN and MSNBC. It would be called the FOX News Channel.
Excerpted with permission from "The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How it Corrupts Democracy" by David Brock. Published by Crown Books.
David Brock's latest book is "The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy." He is also the author of "Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative.
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we'll show the filtering of a guitar string.
And the objective is to demonstrate a lowpass filter.
I got this particular design off of this website right here.
we've got an potentiometer, and we've got actually a second potentiometer here.
One of the potentiometers is for the tone, which is the frequency.
And then the other is for volume.
And this is a first order filter.
Now just to remind you of a couple things.
The input output relationship, the tone control is our circuit.
The input to this circuit comes from our guitar pickup.
And the output would go to an amplifier.
And if it's a low pass filter, it would get rid of a lot of the high frequency.
the transfer function at that frequency gives you the output amplitude.
So you can look at it this way right here.
in the linear scale means you're going to be adding in the log rhythmic scale.
So if we're working with decibels on all these, we add them together.
And you'll see that in the demo.
we looked at inductance, and applications of inductance.
So this one uses the same principle but has a bit of resolution to it.
it vibrates inside the magnetic field, induced by this guitar pickup.
And it causes a current.
So, the current flows in through these lines right here.
Now, let me go ahead and hit the guitar string and we'll see what it looks like.
you can see the signal it look fairly periodic and it decays over time.
the tone that you hear from the guitar string, but it's not a pure tone.
that's because the resolution under which I recorded it.
I'm going to change the resolution, and we'll record this again.
let me go ahead and zoom in on it a little bit more.
like when I pluck it.
from here to here, is the fundamental period.
That's the basic tone that you've got.
The basic note, in other words.
In fact, I see a dip right here, about half-way.
So I see a dip here, a dip about half-way, and a dip here.
And that dip half-way corresponds to a second harmonic.
And then if I look at this, I see a peak right here.
And then we see actually fourth harmonic here as well.
Going back to the platform here.
and then you record that signal.
it is actually a log scale.
I have not yet played a note.
So it's curious to see where that peak occurs.
And if I look at that frequency, that is at 60 hertz.
very common to get noise at 60 hertz because this is electromagnetic noise.
vibrations from equipment, which is powered by 60 hertz powerlines.
we see 60 hertz signals, in noise and signals.
your noise would be at 50 hertz.
we're going to ignore that 60 hertz peak in our experiment.
And in this case the second harmonic is almost as strong as the first harmonic.
A little bit lower, and let's go ahead and measure what that frequency is.
And that's what gives the richness of sound in music.
what if we don't want to hear that second harmonic?
What if we wanted to get rid of the 60 ertz signal?
analyzer, and to look at the frequency spectrum that we get out of a real signal.
Now let's look at the frequency response of the tone control circuit.
If we look at this at -10, at low frequency.
If we go down three decibels, that's about right here.
which is somewhere around close to 900 hertz.
This is the input spectrum of the signal.
This is the raw signal without the filtering.
then all the other harmonics.
that same pluck on the guitar string, I'm showing the output of the tone control.
And what you see, is that at low frequencies, the peaks are both high.
And what's important here is the amplitude difference.
So remember our bandwidth is about 900.
So, I'll mark it on both of them.
then the further you get out, the more it drops off the frequencies.
this beginning frequency, is a lot more than what it is from here to here.
So we're dropping quite a bit more, and that's due to the low pass filter.
The higher up in frequency you go the more it's going to drop off that signal.
Okay, so the key concepts.
First of all, we looked at the input/output relationships.
in the logarithmic scale you add to get the input to output behavior.
the rolloff was minus 20 dB per decate at high frequencies.
This is a passive filter.
Passive filters are made of R, L, and C components.
They require no power supply.
and it's beyond the scope of this course.
But I wanted to mention it because it is very commonly used in real applications.
then you might want to consider looking up active filters.
In particular, they use a component called an operational amplifier.
And they do require a separate power supply.
Why do we use these?
especially because it's easy to shape the frequency response with a filter.
It a lot easier than it is with R, L, and C components to it.
holds whether you're using passive filters or active filters.


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The Moral Case
Cory Panshin on December 6, 2014
At times when the visions are rapidly shifting and mutating, people begin to choose up sides on the basis of their allegiance to one vision or another and act out the consequences in public. Right now, the chaos vision is tied in with the worst abuses of the current social order, so it is at the center of the conflict between those who benefit from that order and those who suffer under it. This is why racism and sexism have become such flashpoints.
The chaos vision emerged in the 18th and 19th centuries out of a perception of the human mind as fundamentally irrational and chaotic. It went through its period of greatest moral purity from the 1920s to the 1960s, when it provided the justification for throwing off the inhibitions and puritanical condemnations of the Victorians. But even then, it was perceived ambivalently — sometimes regarded as liberating and empowering but just as often blamed for violence and social disorder. And now that it is entering its rancid old age, the negative outcome of both these perceptions is becoming overwhelming.
For more than a century, the most chaotic and irrational aspects of the vision have been associated with African-Americans. At the peak of "scientific" racism in the early 1900s, Negroes were portrayed as low in intellect, given to superstitious fears, frequently hopped up on drugs, and unable to control their passions. None of that stopped white people from appropriating jazz and other aspects of black culture — but generally only after they had been cleaned up and shorn of their most raw and vulgar elements.
In the 1940s and 50s, the atrocious example of the Nazis made it unacceptable to portray other races as literally subhuman, so the focus of racism shifted to black culture instead. Rock 'n' roll was feared as a socially disruptive force that could turn clean-cut white boys into addicts and criminals, and it was not until the late 1960s, when the counterculture embraced everything associated with chaos, that black culture came to be valued on its own merits.
But by then racism was being cranked up for another go-round. The inner city riots of the middle 60s were conflated with the antiwar protests of the Vietnam era, and Nixon campaigned in 1968 on a slogan of "law and order" — two words that have always represented the antithesis of chaos. Nixon followed up by announcing a "war on crime" in his first State of the Union address in 1970, followed by the "war on drugs" in 1971, and the black community was once more squarely in the cross hairs.
Meanwhile, the chaos vision itself had entered a new phase. It was going mainstream and abandoning the outsider stance that had given it the moral authority to critique existing social norms. In the late 1970s, chaos would inherit the job of stabilizing society after the fragmentation of the previous decade. However, it could fulfill that role only if the socially acceptable aspects of chaos were kept rigorously separated from those that were seen as innately disruptive.
Not surprisingly, the latter category drew heavily on cliches about inner city decadence and decay — drugs and crime, the "pathology" of the black family, "welfare queens," and eventually gangsta rap and the ghost of the Black Panthers. These stereotypes of chaos were endlessly repeated in films and sensationalized news stories, and they haunt the nightmares of the forces of law and order to this day.
As one recent article on the shooting of Mike Brown put it, "To believe that Brown charged at Wilson in the midst of a hail of gunfire is to believe that black people are monsters, mythical superhuman creatures, who do not understand the physics of bullets, even as they rip through flesh. To white people, who co-sign Wilson's account of events, this seems like an entirely reasonable assertion, one helped along by a lifetime of media consumption that represents black masculinity as magical, monstrous and mythic."
However, the elements of chaos that the culture chose to normalize back in the 1970s have been equally harmful — only on the axis of sex rather than that of race.
A century ago, when the chaos vision was young, women were often identified with chaos. They were vamps or gold-diggers or dizzy blondes, while men were rational and level-headed. But in recent decades, women have more often been portrayed as anti-chaotic — the humorless enforcers of a stifling normality who want to lure men into marriage, tidy up their lives, set them to changing diapers, and deny their innate wildness. And that makes it the obligation of real men everywhere to stand up for the chaos within the male soul.
It's possible to point to the exact moment when the balance between the sexes shifted. Throughout the 1960s, women were still often characterized in films as lovable kooks and free spirits. But that trope faded out at the very end of the decade, just when masculinity began to be defined in terms of violence, aggression, and male dominance.
A preliminary indication came in 1968, when 2001: A Space Odyssey promoted the "killer ape" theory, based on the idea that "war and interpersonal aggression was the driving force behind human evolution."
But an even more definitive turning point was marked by Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, released in 1969. The film was considered shocking at the time for its violence, but what stands out in retrospect (and I recommend reading the summary at the link) is the degree of violence and sexual abuse specifically directed towards women.
And the new attitudes were validated by Dave Mech's The Wolf: The Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species (1970), which popularized the concept of the "alpha male." The validity of that concept has since been debunked — but we have spent the last 45 years believing that our very humanity grows out of male aggression and dominance.
In the end, though, scientific debunking can only go so far. The belief in an overinflated concept of masculinity has been sustained by its emotional appeal, not by intellectual arguments, and the best way to attack it is by making a moral case against its consequences.
Morality — the bone-deep conviction that certain things are just plain wrong and can't be excused or justified — is something of a blunt instrument. However, it seems to be the best tool we humans have for dealing with situations where we know something is awry but can't say exactly what. And the good news is that the toxic side of chaos — the side that enables both racism and sexism — is about to get the bloody shit kicked out of it.
Of course, the chaos vision won't go away entirely when that happens. But over the next few years, it will be forced to repent of its wicked ways, abandon some of its core premises, and forgo its unqualified endorsement of human irrationality.
What remains in the end will amount to little more than a general philosophical statement about the virtues of spontaneity and improvisation in an unpredictable and ever-changing universe. That will make it possible for chaos to take on the kindly old granddad role as senior member of a dominant partnership in which it plays second fiddle to the younger and more dynamic holism vision.
To be sure, none of that will happen quickly or easily. The humbling of chaos may be as much as ten years off and is likely to require an order of crisis equivalent to Nixon's resignation in 1974 or the stock market crash of 1929. In the meantime, there's going to be a lot of sturm and drang to suffer through as chaos turns insanely defensive and repressive.
Over the last two or three years, with the failure of the democracy vision and the collapse of the democracy-and-chaos partnership, chaos has been left without any effective opposition. A few useful reforms have come about as a result — notably same-sex marriage and the legalization of marijuana. But now the good times are over, and as the coalition of holism and horizontalism begins to confront chaos in the name of environmental justice, we can expect to see things turn really nasty.
Nastier than under Nixon even. Nastier than the 1920s, when the Red Scare was used as an excuse to put the screws to the Wobblies and other assorted radicals and troublemakers. The Espionage Act of 1917, which was used to destroy the Wobblies in the 1920s and was trotted out again in 1971 to charge Daniel Ellsberg for releasing the Pentagon Papers, has recently been used to convict Chelsea Manning and to bring charges against Edward Snowden. And that's only the start.
These major transitions haven't always been as painful as the last couple, but I don't see any reason to believe this is going to be one of the easy ones. It isn't even clear to me that the United States will come out the other side in anything like its present form. The ecological imperatives of the holism vision are meeting with a great deal more resistance here than in Europe or even China, and compared to Latin America, the horizontalism vision is barely on the table.
But we have to do the best we can with the cards we're dealt — and the most pressing issue for Americans is how to make the impending battle between chaos and the alliance of holism and horizontalism more positive and less viciously destructive.
One helpful tactic may be to attack chaos at its weak spots rather than confronting its coercive power directly. That's why it makes perfect sense to press the moral case against racism and sexism — and against the violence and abuse deeply embedded in both.
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Ambassis agassizii é uma espécie de peixe da família Ambassidae.

É endémica da Austrália.

Ambassis
Fauna da Austrália
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Bon Voyage, it's the LAST Whoopie Pie Sale!
After many surveys, much debate, and several near-death brawls between a few individuals, the flavors have been decided.
I gave you a list of many many whoopie pies, such as those pictures below, and you were asked to make the final cut. However, I must confess, I did sway one vote. I included one whoopie that had not made the final 10 cut, yet it was made aware to me that without this whoopie pie in the sale, they would just lose it…go crazy…tip over a cow..or something.
I didn't want that for the cow.
So, Orange Dreamsicle made the cut.
No further questions on that subject.
But, I must remind you..that this is the last culinary expression that i will be painting here in the great US of A (At least for about 4ish months).
In honor of that, I have extended the whoopie pie offerings to 6 flavors and offered a stock your freezer special for all to enjoy.
I'm not kidding guys, if you have every wanted to order whoopie pies….now is the time.
Who knows, maybe I'll become a Venetian gondola captain and never come back.
Or maybe I'll gain so much weight making pastries that I wouldn't be able to fit back onto the plain to come back.
Or maybe, the more glamorous of the possibilities, maybe I'll get an extremely vital spray tan and become an Italian model.
The moral of the story is….I could never come back.
You would really be upset at yourself for not ordering whoopie pies now if I never came back, wouldn't you.
Well, my friends, I think you've deliberated quite well.
Peanut Butter Tandy Cake: The famous treat morphed into a whoopie! A yellow whoopie pie shell is the canvas for a decadent peanut butter filling and a thin layer of milk chocolate ganache. Finally, this lip licking whoopie is finished with a peanut butter twirl.
Orange Dreamsicle: You have tasted and you have voted for this one! A delicious orange whoopie pie base is filled with a creamy cream cheese icing, dunked in white chocolate, and finished with an orange chocolate drizzle. Tastes like summer.
Lemon Blueberry Streusel: Two vanilla blueberry "muffin" tops with a buttery struesel are filled with a fluffy lemon cream filling and topped with a white chocolate swirl.
Chocolate Thin Mint: You can expect a good dose of Girl Scout in this one! A chocolate fudge shell is baked on top of a Thin mint grasshopper cookie. Next this whoopie is filled with a fluffy mint frosting and finished with a green chocolate twirl.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup: This chocolate fudge whoopie pie has a mini peanut butter cup baked right inside! Next, the shell is dipped in milk chocolate, filled with a creamy peanut butter filling, and finished with a peanut butter twirl.
Old School Original: The classic chocolate fudge shell filled with a creamy vanilla frosting.
Delivery is available for a small fee. Free delivery on orders $90 and above.
The longed after, novel written about, mouth watering Dreamsicle whoopie pie.
The chocolate thin mint whoopie, my dear friends…causes something that we would like to call….
I would quite my job and move to Newark just to eat one of those.
I might have changed my mind.
but really…that's how good this whoopie is. Feat your mind on that.
Just remember, as you finish reading this tragic post about my departure and your lack of whoopie pies for the next 4 and a half months, that you have the opportunity to STOCK UP. Buy many, freeze many, enjoy many (for the next few months).
Don't let yourself and your friends down….
It's what everyone is doing these days.


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Q: Activity bot - parallax - moving the robots with sensors - C Programming This is my code for moving an activity bot from its starting point to the ending point.  It detects obstacles on both sides and turns away from them.
I save the sequence of moves in an array so that I can return to the starting point without using any sensors. **(Which is the code after the "//return" comment)
#include "simpletools.h"
#include "abdrive.h"
#include "ping.h"

int back[200];
int i = 0;

int main() {
  int distance;

  int irLeft = 0, irRight = 0;

  low(26);
  low(27);

  while (1) {
    if (ping_cm(8) < 5) {
      break;
    }

    freqout(11, 1, 38000);
    irLeft = input(10);

    freqout(1, 1, 38000);
    irRight = input(2);

    if (irLeft == irRight == 1) {
      drive_goto(10,10);
      back[i] = 10;
      ++i;
      back[i]= 10;
      ++i;
    }

    if (irLeft == 0) {
      drive_goto(20,10);
      back[i] = 20;
      ++i;
      back[i] = 10;
      ++i;
    }

    if (irRight == 0) {
      drive_goto(10,20);
      back[i]= 10;
      ++i;
      back[i]= 20;
      ++i;
    }
  }
  drive_goto(51, 0);   // Make a 180 degree turn
  drive_goto(51, 0);

//return
  while (1) {
    if (i == 0) {
      break;
    }
    drive_goto(back[i], back[--i]);
    --i;
  }

  return 0;
}

The robot successfully moves to the goal, but it does not move back to the starting point. What can the problem be?

A: You appear to have an off-by-one error.  As you move forward, you track in variable i the index of the next available position in your movement history array.  When you start the trip back, you use the current value of i as if it were instead the index of the last value recorded.  On the way back you need to decrement i before each read, mirroring the behavior on the forward path of incrementing it after each write.


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Hawke's Brewing funds environmental project
October 18, 2021 by Media Release
Funding from a Hawke's Brewing Landcare Threatened Species Grant enabled Capertee Valley Landcare to implement its Water for Woodland Birds project by installing watering points at key Regent Honeyeater breeding locations.
Located in the New South Wales Central Tablelands, the Capertee Valley is a Key Biodiversity Area supporting over 240 species of birds including a number of threatened and declining Woodland Birds. It is also one of the most important breeding locations for the critically endangered Regent Honeyeater.
With rivers, tributaries and waterholes altered and degraded so much they are no longer a reliable source of water, these vulnerable species are left to compete for a drink, making it difficult for them to survive.
Capertee Valley Landcare engaged local volunteers to assist with the successful installation of four long-term bird watering stations at key locations in close proximity to known Regent Honeyeater nesting sites that didn't already have a water supply.
Kerrie Cooke, President of Capertee Valley Landcare, says, "By providing a necessary resource for some of our most vulnerable species, like the Regent Honeyeater, we are buying time to learn how to improve, heal and regenerate our landscape to become a safe place for these species to once again flourish.
"Because of this project, we are now providing water to our woodland birds in a safe setting, close to their preferred habitat and nesting areas."
Hawke's Brewing Co. co-founder, Nathan Lennon said, "It's been incredibly gratifying to support multiple Landcare groups, like our mates in the Capertee Valley and help fund critical community-based projects. It's wonderful to see the amazing environmental outcomes that they have worked so hard to achieve."
Former Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, was integral to the creation of the not-for-profit Landcare Australia in 1989. He remained a strong supporter of the landcare movement throughout his life. According to Nathan, Bob's only condition for letting the company use his name was that 100 percent of his royalties be donated to Landcare Australia. Mr Hawke's estate generously continues this arrangement.
"Our promise to Bob was that we'd grow Hawke's into a national brand, worthy of his legacy, while giving all Australians the opportunity to not just enjoy our beers, but also do to their bit for our beautiful environment. We've always said we'd like to contribute over $1M in donations to Landcare Australia. As we scale to become national, this milestone is drawing nearer," said Lennon.
Since 2017, nearly $300,000 in contributions to Landcare Australia from Hawke's beer sales have helped fund numerous projects, including the 2020 Hawke's Landcare Endangered Species Grants that, in addition to the Capertee Landcare Group, supported the Native Animal Rescue Group in New South Wales and Kersbrook Landcare Group in South Australia.
In 2022, Hawke's is set to fund an urban-focused environmental project managed by Landcare Australia, along with other special initiatives to be announced at a later date.
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Twenty amateur singers have been holed up at Mount Airy Presbyterian Church many nights as they rehearse for the NBC reality series Clash of the Choirs.
Premise: Five celebs – Patti LaBelle in Philly, Kelly Rowland in Houston, Michael Bolton in New Haven, Conn., Nick Lachey in Cincinnati, and Blake Shelton in Oklahoma City – choose and train 20-member choirs in their hometowns to sing on the four-night live series, starting Dec. 17 in New York.
Winners will fund a local charity; LaBelle's is With Our Voices, a health-outreach program.
Rounding out LaBelle's choir are Amanda Gordon and Liimu McGill of Glenside; Christina Blue of Trenton; Frank DiCristo of Media; Joshua Womer of Mount Pleasant Mills, Pa.; Lucas Lasagna of Allentown; Katie Romano of Norristown; and Philadelphians Arlyn Wolters, Danielle Baker, Darian Moore, Jessie Reed-Benton, J'onett DeVeaubray, Mary McClinnaham, Niesha Cherry, Rachael Sutliff, Robbie Cunningham, Sharon Gary-Dixon, and Shonse Hawkins.


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Advanced study of U.S. and international professional auditing and ethics standards. Topics include audits of an Issuer, a Non-issuer, and governmental entities, attestation and assurance standards, and standards for performing accounting and review services.
Prerequisites: ACCT 622 with a grade C or better.
Equivalent Quarter Course: ACCT 6650.


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New Rules Transform New York City Into a Wonderful, Open-Air Bazaar
Posted on 10/28/2020, 7:00 PM
What's the top reason people visit New York City? If you guessed Broadway shows, museums, or even restaurants, you'd be wrong, wrong, and wrong. Year after year, shopping is cited as the main reason people plan a trip to the Big Apple— something I know well, as the author of Frommer's EasyGuide to New York City. As in the rest of the United States, the city's retail sector has been wallop...
WATCH: Kazakhstan Makes Nice—Very Nice!—with Borat By Taking His Catchphrase
The premise of the newly released Borat sequel, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, is that Sacha Baron Cohen's titular character, a clueless Kazakh journalist, must deliver an animal or, barring that, his daughter (living conditions for both are roughly the same in Borat's homeland) to the Trump administration. This is meant to be Borat's penance for making Kazakhstan a laughingstock in the first movie (...
Costa Rica Fully Reopens to Tourism—No Test, No Quarantine Required
Starting November 1, all international travelers, including those from anywhere in the United States, are welcome to visit Costa Rica—and neither a quarantine period nor a negative Covid-19 test are required for entry. The Central American nation, a tourism heavy hitter due to its jungles and beaches, had been previously admitting "select" international travelers from areas considered low-risk...
Dingle, Ireland's Beloved Dolphin, Fungie, Has Disappeared
Ireland may be the land of leprechauns, banshees, and merrows, but its most magical being was real, and it swam in the waters off County Kerry. In 1984, a lone, bottleneck dolphin was spotted in the bay of the town of Dingle, on Ireland's west coast, by a lighthouse keeper who was escorting fishing boats out to sea. The dolphin was still there when the keeper brought the boats back into the har...
WATCH: Rare Waterfalls Appear All Over Australia's Uluru
Visitors at Uluru in Australia's Northern Territory got a rare treat this week: the sight of waterfalls tumbling over the surface of the red sandstone monolith. That only happens when there's a lot of sudden rain in the region—and since this area, part of the arid "Red Centre," is one of Australia's driest, the phenomenon doesn't happen often. (The photo above was taken in 2010.) But earlie...
The Word Is Out: Language Museum Opens in D.C.
UPDATE, October 23, 2020: Originally scheduled to open in the spring of 2020, the Planet Word language museum in Washington, D.C., began welcoming visitors on Thursday, October 22, instead. This post, first published on February 17, 2020, has been updated below. A new museum dedicated to language has come to Washington, D.C. Housed in the renovated Franklin School building—site of one of th...
Feeling Stressed? Watch These Soothing Aerial Videos of Icelandic Scenery
Posted on 10/21/2020, 10:00 PM
With coronavirus infection rates surging yet again and the U.S. presidential campaign nearing its nerve-racking climax, we could use something soothing for a change. Fortunately, Iceland's flagship carrier, Icelandair, has obliged with a series of videos showing peaceful aerial footage of the island nation, which is basically a 40,000-square-mile screen saver floating in the North Atlantic. ...
Can You Find the Secret Location of Mississippi's Tiniest Museum?
Here's all you'll get in the way of an address for a new museum in Hattiesburg, Mississippi: It's in an alley downtown. Billed as the state's tiniest showcase for collections "of all types from the whimsical . . . to the macabre," the Hattiesburg Pocket Museum is a four-shelf cabinet of curiosities housed in the window of a formerly boarded-up storeroom. The Hattiesburg Convention Commissio...
Bid for a Piece of Hotel History in the Waldorf Astoria Auction
Midtown Manhattan's famed Waldorf Astoria New York (301 Park Ave.) closed for renovations in 2017. When the 47-floor building's hotel rooms and residences finally reopen in 2022, they'll be filled with mostly new furnishings and decor. Of course, space will be made in the new design for some holdover memorabilia from the Waldorf Astoria's nearly nine-decade run as a luxury lodging for presid...
Take a Cinematic Driving Tour Through the Hometown of the "Halloween" Creator
We'll say this for Michael Myers, the embodiment of pure evil in the Halloween movies: At least he wears a mask when he's within 6 feet of people. His bare-faced victims, on the other hand, spray germs everywhere with all that screaming. Fortunately for road trippers who take the self-guided driving tour of Halloween creator John Carpenter's hometown, the personal travel bubble of a car help...
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Israeli settlement buildings around Givat Zeev and Ramat Givat Zeev in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, near Jerusalem, on Tuesday. The C of E, the RC Church, the Methodists, Quakers, URC, and Church of Scotland have called on the UK Government to help deter further annexation of the West Bank by the Israeli Government. A joint statement on Monday said: "If annexation proceeds, it would gravely undermine international law with serious consequences for the common good of our global society. . . Only a robust response, working alongside others in the international community, can help to prevent this tragedy"
Israeli settlement buildings around Givat Zeev and Ramat Givat Zeev in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, near Jerusalem, on Tuesday. The C of E, the RC ...
Human-rights concerns over Hong Kong law
A NEW national security law for Hong Kong (News, 5 June), which sets out to ban "treason, secession, sedition, and subversion", came into effect on Wednesday. In response, the UK Government announced new arrangements for British Nationals Overseas, including the extension of visa rights and new immigration rules to allow citizens the right to live and work in the UK for longer and gain full British citizenship. The chief executive of Christian Solidarity Worldwide, Mervyn Thomas, expressed his dismay at a law "which is at odds with Hong Kong's long-standing status as a city based on the rule of law and respect for human rights".
US bishop welcomes Georgia's hate-crimes legislation
THE Episcopalian Bishop of Atlanta in the United States, the Rt Revd Rob Wright, has welcomed the unexpected passing of the Hate Crimes Bill in the state of Georgia. The legislation, which enhances the penalties for crimes motivated by the race, sexual orientation, or religion of the victims, was passed on Tuesday by wide margins in both Houses of the state legislature. It had been held up in a Senate committee without a hearing for more than a year until last week. The hearing was set after an outcry over the death of an unarmed 25-year-old African-American man, Ahmaud Arbery, who was shot and killed by police while he was out jogging near Brunswick in Georgia, in March (Comment, 15 May). Bishop Wright said: "Our state's citizens deserve a hate crimes bill that affirms equal treatment under the law."
New Anglican Province of Alexandria formed
THE international secretariat of the Anglican Communion has confirmed the inauguration of its newest member: the Anglican Province of Alexandria. The secretary-general of the Anglican Communion, the Most Revd Dr Josiah Idowu-Fearon, described it as one of the largest and most diverse in the Communion. The Province will have four dioceses: Egypt, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and Gambella. Its Primate will be Dr Mouneer Anis, who will also continue as Bishop of Egypt until his retirement next year.
Police officers dehumanised my children, says Archdeacon Smallman
Link found between demand for PPE and increase in modern slavery
Syrian refugees' plight alarms UN
Islamist peril in Nigeria, report warns
Protection requires co-operation
Churchwarden resigns after vicar's remarks about taking the knee
Women describe pitfalls on path to priesthood
Bishops pledge swift action to combat racism in the Church of England
Wycliffe ordinand raises funds for library books by female authors
Church leaders urge Germany to prioritise EU solidarity during presidency
Patriarch Kirill praises Russian armed forces
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Swift County 4h Is On The Cuttingedge Of Technology
Swift County 4-H is on the Cutting-Edge of Technology
A new app is being used to help Swift County MN 4-H to accomplish their mission of developing citizenship, leadership, responsibility and life skills of the community's youth through experiential learning programs. Stephanie Smith, Office Support Specialist for the University of Minnesota Swift County Extension, along with Becca Turnquist, Swift County 4-H Program Coordinator, helped to spearhead the creation and implementation of the app to make it easier for 4-H members, parents and alumni to stay connected to the organization and take advantage of programs and opportunities.
According to Smith, their location in Swift County helped to make the project possible. "Without Swift County's broadband access, we would not have been able to create our Swift County MN 4-H mobile app. We wanted a better way to reach our 4-H families in the area. With the help of the Swift County RDA and Blandin Foundation's Broadband Communities Program, we were able to make that possible. Our families were able to use the app for the first time at this year's Swift County Fair for livestock show programs, completing registrations and a calendar of events. We received a lot of positive feedback!"
Turnquist continued by saying, "Ultimately, we created the app based on feedback from our 4-H families. We use many different websites for 4-H registration and to provide information. At times, it was confusing for 4-H families, creating unnecessary difficulties. We wanted to streamline the process and make things easier. The solution was to contain everything in an app that could be used by families and staff members. Now, when someone asks a question or needs to access a registration, we can easily direct them to the app for fast answers."
To reach this point, Smith worked closely with Dylan McNeill, a second year 4-H Aquatic Invasive Species intern. He helped develop the app by creating content for the 4-H Aquatic Invasive Species program. Dylan also helped to test and promote the app. Having an intern work on the project was an ideal fit for an organization who prides itself on creating future leaders.
Swift County 4-H also received support for the app at the state level. They were supported by the University of Minnesota Extension 4-H Youth Development in piloting the app. "An app is something our state leaders and other counties have been considering. We happened to be the first to develop one of our own. The state is rolling out an app to use for the State Fair through a different developer - Grandstand. We developed ours through Swiftic, so they are anxious to compare the differences in ours and theirs," said Turnquist.
For those living in Swift County it will come as no surprise that the local 4-H was the first in the state to develop and implement an app. Swift County is enterprising by nature, so leadership and being the first to try something comes naturally.
Becca Turnquist views the app as something that was necessary to solve a problem so once they decided to create one, they didn't hesitate to act. Being willing to take a risk on new technology has served them well and brought attention to Swift County. "We see the app as a benefit to improve communication in our program. The more users we have, the greater our outreach. It's also cool to be, if not the first, one of the first in the county to use/create a mobile app. Hopefully it's something we can continue to teach and/or help guide other county organizations to create an app of their own, as well as have youth involved in the teaching process," she said.
Download the Swift County MN 4-H App
Community members are encouraged to download the app to stay informed of upcoming events, or to get program updates. The app also contains information on the county fair, calendar of events, training links, project enrollments and member enrollments. You can also learn more about the Swift County 4-H here.
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Kerkhoven EDA Launches $12,500 "Jump-Start Kerkhoven" Business Plan Contest
Swift County Is Enterprising by Nature
Swift County ranked 3rd in Minnesota for broadband speeds at 100 Mbps down and 20 Mbps up
PFA Approves $20.8 Million for Projects in Three Greater Minnesota Cities


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Trust Your Science: How does carbon load on a column relate to retention?
Have you ever heard that higher carbon loads on a chromatographic column lead to more retention? Or, have you heard that column equivalency is driven by matching percent carbon between columns?
Columns specified in compendial monographs are typically designated by the bonded phase and percent carbon value. Many scientists expect equivalent retention between columns with equivalent % carbon values. In this episode of Trust Your Science, we take a look at the impact the percent carbon value has on chromatographic retention, to prove or disprove if there truly is a correlation between the two. Kim Haynes and Jonathan Turner are chromatography experts at Waters.


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