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HeadlinesDecember 08, 2016
Trump Picks Oil & Gas Advocate Scott Pruitt to Head EPA
President-elect Donald Trump has announced he will nominate Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency. Pruitt has been one of the EPA's fiercest critics and has led a legal effort to overturn parts of President Obama's climate change policies, including his Clean Power Plan. Pruitt claimed the science of climate change is "far from settled." He is also seen as a close ally of the fossil fuel industry. In 2014, The New York Times revealed that Pruitt and other Republican attorneys general had formed what the paper described as an "unprecedented, secretive alliance" with the nation's top energy producers to fight Obama's climate efforts. The Times also exposed Pruitt's close ties to the Oklahoma firm Devon Energy. In 2014, Pruitt sent the EPA a letter accusing federal regulators of overestimating the amount of air pollution caused by energy companies drilling new natural gas wells in Oklahoma. What Pruitt didn't reveal was that the letter was secretly drafted by lawyers at Devon Energy. Senator Bernie Sanders said, "Pruitt's record is not only that of being a climate change denier, but also someone who has worked closely with the fossil fuel industry to make this country more dependent, not less, on fossil fuels." We'll have more on Pruitt after headlines.
Trump Picks Retired Gen. John Kelly as Homeland Security Secretary
Donald Trump also announced he's picked retired four-star Marine General John Kelly to be secretary of homeland security. Kelly was formerly the head of United States Southern Command, where he oversaw the military jail at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Margaret Huang, executive director for Amnesty International USA, said of Kelly, "We're particularly concerned that while chief of U.S. Southern Command, Kelly oversaw Guantánamo during periods of extensive hunger strikes and forced-feeding that was unsafe and inhumane." Kelly has repeatedly testified to Congress that the U.S.-Mexico border represents a threat to national security, leading many to worry he will escalate the militarization of the border and U.S. immigration policy overall. While the head of United States Southern Command, Kelly also promoted the Alliance for Prosperity, a program that provides hundreds of millions of dollars in police and military funding to Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. The program has been criticized by human rights activists and some Democratic lawmakers, who are calling for the suspension of this funding to Honduras until the country addresses its gross human rights violations. Kelly retired from the military in 2015. He's the third general Trump has picked for top positions so far. The other two are retired Lieutenant General Mike Flynn for national security adviser and retired Marine Corps General James Mattis for defense secretary.
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Trump Attacks Carrier Union Leader Who Says Trump "Lied His Ass Off"
Donald Trump attacked union leader Chuck Jones on Twitter on Wednesday, after Jones appeared on CNN criticizing Trump for breaking his promise to Carrier workers in Indiana. Last week, Trump appeared at the Carrier air conditioner plant in Indianapolis and boasted that he'd saved 1,100 jobs from being moved to Mexico. But Jones, who represents the workers, says Trump "lied his ass off." Jones says Trump helped keep only 730 jobs in the U.S., not 1,100. In response to Jones's criticism, Trump tweeted, "Chuck Jones, who is President of United Steelworkers 1999, has done a terrible job representing workers. No wonder companies flee country!"
Syria: Gov't Forces Continue to Seize Parts of Eastern Aleppo
In Syria, government forces are continuing to seize control of parts of eastern Aleppo, as the U.S. and Russia are negotiating a potential deal to allow anti-government rebels to flee. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is slated to meet with Secretary of State John Kerry today. The rescue organization the White Helmets says 61 people died Wednesday amid shelling and airstrikes in rebel-held areas, as government forces seized control of Aleppo's Old City. Medical doctors and other protesters gathered outside the Russian Embassy in Berlin Wednesday to denounce Russian and Syrian bombing in Aleppo.
Reinhard Jung-Hecker: "I am here to protest against the war crimes committed by Russia and Syria in Aleppo. We believe it's outrageous that the world is watching how mass killings are taking place and no one says anything."
Indonesia: 6.5-Magnitude Earthquake Kills More Than 100
In Indonesia, a 6.5-magnitude earthquake has killed more than 100 people after striking the northern tip of Sumatra island Wednesday while many residents were asleep. At least 700 more have been injured, and thousands have been displaced. Wednesday's earthquake is the worst disaster to hit the region since 2004, when a tsunami killed more than 120,000 people in the province.
Philippines: Waves of Extrajudicial Killings Continue, Aided by U.S. Funding
In the Philippines, the death toll from President Rodrigo Duterte's so-called war on drugs continues to rise. Police have killed at least 2,000 people, and vigilantes have killed at least 3,500 more, since Duterte took office this summer. Tens of thousands more have been arrested or turned themselves over to police out of fear they'd be killed. Human rights groups say many of those killed have been summarily shot and had nothing to do with the drug trade. On Wednesday, the White House condemned the extrajudicial killings in the Philippines. But a recent BuzzFeed investigation reveals the U.S. State Department has continued to send millions of dollars in aid, as well as training and equipment, to the Philippine National Police. Meanwhile, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte gave an impression of his December 2 phone call with Donald Trump while speaking Wednesday. He imitated Trump praising Duterte and appealing for a closer relationship between the two men.
President Rodrigo Duterte: "'Oh, President Duterte, we should fix our bad relations. It needs a lot of—you know, you just said something good here, and you're doing great. I know what's your worry about these Americans criticizing you. You are doing good. Go ahead. I had this problem in the border of Mexico and America and this goddamn [bleep] guy.' So now the way he speaks makes me feel like a saint."
That's Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, speaking in Tagalog, saying, "So now the way he speaks makes me feel like a saint," in reference to Donald Trump.
HRW: Remnants of U.S. Weapons Found at Site of Yemen Airstrike That Killed 30 Civilians
In Yemen, thousands of people took to the streets of the capital Sana'a Tuesday to demand an end to the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led bombing campaign, which has killed thousands of people since it began 19 months ago. A new Human Rights Watch report details how U.S.-supplied weapons were used in two recent Saudi-led airstrikes that killed several dozen civilians this fall. The attacks include a September 10 airstrike against a drilling site for water that killed more than 30 people, including three children. Remnants of U.S.-made weapons were found at the scene of this strike.
SC: Testimony Begins in Murder Trial of Dylann Roof
In Charleston, South Carolina, testimony has begun in the trial of Dylann Roof, who faces the death penalty. He's accused of opening fire at Emanuel AME Church in June 2015, killing nine black worshipers, including the pastor, Clementa Pinckney. Roof embraced white supremacist views and was shown in photographs posing with the Confederate flag and a pistol. On Wednesday, the first witness in the trial, Felicia Sanders, says she watched as Roof pulled out a Glock .45-caliber handgun and began shooting, striking and wounding her son and killing her aunt. She says she took cover underneath a table with her 11-year-old granddaughter and tried to cover herself and the girl in other people's blood so Roof would think they were already dead.
Report: Border Patrol Uses Desert as "Weapon," Leading to Death & Disappearance
A new report has accused the U.S. Border Patrol agency of using the desert of the borderlands as a "weapon" that has led to the death or disappearances of tens of thousands of people since the 1990s. The report, issued by the groups No More Deaths and the Coalition of Human Rights, accuses Border Patrol of intentionally promoting deadly apprehension policies, such as chasing people into remote areas of the desert, that lead to migrants' deaths or disappearances. This is Alicia Dinsmore of No More Deaths recounting one such story.
Alicia Dinsmore: "On the night of March 6, 2015, José Cesario Aguilar Esparza and his two nephews were crossing through the U.S.-Mexico borderlands in the desert southeast of Ajo, Arizona, when U.S. Border Patrol agents detected their group and began chasing them. During the chase, the three men became separated. Border Patrol agents arrested two of them, but José Cesario was unaccounted for. Later, it was discovered that he had fallen off a cliff, nearly 200 feet down, and died."
The report says, "The known disappearance of thousands of people in the remote wilderness of the US–Mexico border zone marks one of the great historical crimes of our day."
Texas: For-Profit Detention Centers Continue Holding Families, Despite Judge's Ruling
In Texas, two private detention centers continue to hold migrant women and children seeking asylum, even after a judge barred the state from licensing them as child care facilities. The state has appealed the ruling. For-profit private prison companies GEO Group and CoreCivic, formerly known as CCA, insist they are in compliance with federal standards. Immigration authorities say "operational activities continue without interruption." But advocates reported that after the ruling on Friday, nearly 500 women and children were released with almost no advance notice to local shelters that usually handle dozens of people. They told Democracy Now! they expect another mass release in the coming days. Even with the releases, there are currently an estimated 600 women and children in the Karnes detention center and another 1,800 held at a detention camp in Dilley, both about an hour south of San Antonio.
ACLU Michigan Sues Customs & Border Agency over Warrantless Searches
The American Civil Liberties Union has sued the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency over its refusal to provide complete records of stops and detentions in Michigan. The entire state of Michigan is designated as part of Homeland Security's 100-mile zone, meaning Border Patrol agents have wide powers to engage in warrantless stops. The ACLU of Michigan said, "It's not reasonable to claim that the entire state of Michigan is a border zone. Border enforcement—and the powers that go with it—belongs at the border and not in our communities."
Ilhan Omar Speaks Out After Islamophobic Attack After White House Meeting
In Washington, D.C., Minnesota state House Representative-elect Ilhan Omar says she was attacked by a cab driver, who called her "ISIS" and threatened to rip off her hijab as she was leaving a policy training at the White House. Omar recently made history by being elected to be the nation's first Somali-American lawmaker. She wrote on Facebook Wednesday that the attack was "the most hateful, derogatory, islamophobic, sexist taunts and threats I have ever experienced. … I am still shaken by this incident and can't wrap my head around how bold [people] are becoming in displaying their hate towards Muslims."
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Portland to Tax Companies Whose CEOs Earn More Than 100 Times Workers
In Oregon, Portland's City Council has voted to impose additional taxes on companies whose CEOs earn more than 100 times the median pay of their workers. The measure, which Portland officials say is the first in the nation, targets and penalizes companies that perpetuate income inequality. Portland Mayor Charlie Hales said, "Income inequality is real, it is a national problem, and the federal government isn't doing anything about it."
Palestinian Activist Rasmea Odeh Wins New Trial
And prominent Palestinian activist Rasmea Odeh has won a new trial. Odeh was convicted of immigration fraud in 2014 and then sentenced to 18 months in prison and deportation from the United States for failing to disclose her conviction on bombing charges by an Israeli military court more than 40 years ago. Odeh says her conviction was obtained through weeks of torture and sexual assault in Israeli custody. She has lived in the United States for more than 20 years. Her supporters say she was targeted over her support for Palestinian liberation. Her new trial is slated to begin in Michigan in January.


Talon, Durwin: "The Technology and Storytelling of Color in the Sequential Narrative. Using Color to Tell Stories." In: International Journal of the Book 4.4 (2007), S. 123–132.
Words and pictures work in unison to drive the sequential narrative. The technology of comic book production has been refined, thereby increasing storytelling possibilities. This paper explores the techniques of using color and technology to immerse the reader within a graphic narrative. This workshop will explore how effective color theory can change emotion, clarify detail, set mood, create an environment and define characters.


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Q: Augmented Lagrangian Method for Inequality Constraints Augmented Lagrangian Method can be used with inequality constraints. The question is how.
One approach (according to Numerical Optimization Book by Nocedal and Wright; page 522), is linearly constrained Lagrangian. Description is shown in the attached image. The question is what $A_k$ in the formulation 17.55b? I do not find any description for that:

A: The matrix $A_k$ should be an approximation of the Jacobian of $c$ at $x_k$. For the first look, you can think of $\nabla c(x_k)^\top$. Then, the constraint is just the first-order Taylor expansion of $c$ at $x_k$.

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Meles Zenawi Makes Africa More Secure
By Abudul Mohammed
As the 50th anniversary of the African Union (formerly the Organisation for African Unity) is being celebrated, the issue of peace and security, and the role played by the organisation and its member states, continues to be a primary preoccupation. In recognition of this, a new, progressive definition of peace and security seems to have emerged.
The definition takes peace and security as a foreign policy tool, contributing to the stability, security and development of Africa, and the strengthening of the continental peace and security architecture. The late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's thoughts on this issue are now, more than ever, relevant to Africa's quest for peace, security and prosperity.
Meles was widely recognised as a bold and innovative economic theorist and practitioner. Less known is his contribution to the theory and practice of Ethiopia's national security and foreign policy.
Drawing upon 21 years of engagement with Meles Zenawi, his senior officials and advisers and his writings, I suggest that his theory and practice in national security, defence and foreign policy deserves greater attention. In the last ten years, for the first time in Ethiopia's history, the country has had a comprehensive and integrated national security and foreign policy doctrine. Meles himself is widely credited with having written the 2002 white paper on national security and foreign policy, and it certainly bears the hallmarks of his writing style.
The national security doctrine is the product of a thorough process of reflection and analysis, characteristic of the EPRDF under Meles' leadership. It is intimately linked to the national development strategy, with the two reinforcing each other.
The white paper also shows the circumstances of its origin – namely, the aftermath of the bitter war with Eritrea and the divisions within the EPRDF that surfaced during and after the war. Just as Meles' writings on economic theory are, in part, a rebuttal of prevalent neoliberal dogmas, the national security and foreign policy paper is a rebuttal of a simplistic tradition of "shallow nationalism", which views Ethiopia as a land besieged by enemies, needing to invest first and foremost in a huge national army to defend its independence and territorial integrity. To the contrary, Meles argued that Ethiopia would become strong by achieving internal cohesion and broad-based development, and suggested that its security strategy should stem from a rigorous analysis of the national predicament.
What we might call the "Meles doctrine" of Ethiopian national security is founded on the three pillars; building the developmental state, harnessing national pride in a progressive manner and recognising the reality of globalisation so as to best utilise it for Ethiopia's advantage.
The core of Meles' argument was that, if Ethiopia is to survive, it needs to become more prosperous and better governed. Although the immediate context of the 1998 war with Eritrea was that Ethiopia had relaxed its military guard, the fundamental reason why the country remained prone to external threats was that it was poor and underdeveloped.
It was national weakness in these aspects that left the country vulnerable to external enemies; both attacks by neighbours and manipulation by global powers. Meles was anxious to rebut those who would argue that Ethiopia's overriding needs were a strong national army and a fierce sense of nationalism; pointing out that the Dergue's vast army collapsed and that chauvinistic pride in Ethiopia's past glories could not be squared with the shame and indignity of being a beggar nation, relying on foreign handouts, with its citizens rushing abroad for even the most menial employment at the first opportunity.
Meles' argued that bragging and arrogant declarations of bravado by previous governments-what he dismissed as 'jingoism with an empty stomach'-divided the citizens, left them without consciousness of their true interests in a strong and united Ethiopia, impoverished the nation and, therefore, exposed it to greater vulnerabilities. Shallow nationalism, he argued, does not properly analyse the internal challenges of Ethiopia and instead looks at Ethiopia from the outside. In turn, this led to a 'siege mentality', in which Ethiopia sought only to guard itself against outside threats, rather than by transforming itself internally to truly be strong.
Meles valued Ethiopian nationalism, but insisted that it must be based on real achievement; national pride is not a policy objective in itself, but must come about through realising democracy and development.
Indeed, Meles recognised the reality of globalisation and sought to make it work for the Ethiopian national interest. Although Ethiopia was poor, it did not mean it should accept others' prescriptions or follow others' dictates.
From this analysis, it followed logically that, under Meles' leadership, Ethiopia's security strategy had internal, regional and global dimensions, integrating development strategy, military strategy and foreign relations.
The internal dimension was, first and foremost, the national objective of accelerating economic growth, in order to attain a democratic developmental state. Much has been written on Ethiopia's economic policies under Meles and this is not the place to repeat these points. The key point to affirm is that sustained rapid growth not only promised to transform the lives of ordinary Ethiopians, but also to build a strong nation.
In the context of a strong economy, the army could be strong. Meles argued that spending of two percent of gross domestic product (GDP) on defence was the maximum that any developing country could afford. He also argued that the backbone of the national army is not its equipment, but its human resources, and emphasised technical training and political education for members of the armed forces.
In 1991, the EPRDF was both a political party and, following the dissolution of the former army, the national army. One of the most significant and unsung achievements of the early years of the EPRDF government was to create a new national defence force: its core remains the EPRDF fighters, but there is no question that today it is a national institution with high professional standing. The reputation that Ethiopian peacekeepers have secured for their conduct in United Nations peacekeeping operations in Rwanda and Sudan (Darfur and Abyei) is testament to the effective transformation of a guerrilla force into a professional military establishment.
According to Meles' analysis, the foundation of regional peace and security, and Ethiopia's relations with its immediate neighbours, should be economic integration and stability. Meles saw the security of the Horn of Africa region as being founded on shared economic growth.
Unfortunately, he saw that some of Ethiopia's immediate neighbours were unlikely to move towards the model of a developmental state, because either they were following no discernible economic strategy or relying on rents or a liberalised economy, which generated highly unequal growth and created socio-political tensions.
Ethiopia's immediate interest in its neighbours was therefore focused upon peaceful access to the sea and cross-border economic activities, but Meles hoped that infrastructural integration (particularly transport and power) would cement the countries together. A particular concern was Ethiopia's traditional insistence on its right to use a fair share of the Nile waters for domestic and regional development (hydropower) and the historic concern, in Egypt, that increased water usage in Ethiopia might undermine Egypt's share of the Nile.
Meles' opinion on Egypt was that there is no clash of vital interest between the two countries on the Nile waters. In fact, it is here that we see how much the Meles doctrine is innovative and free of any traces of chauvinism or quest for one-sided advantages.
He allowed for the possibility that, mistakenly, a state may feel, as Egypt has historically, that they face a threat rooted in the clash of vital interests. In reality, this is far from the truth, or at the least, any threat is not imminent.
He felt that, in this instance, the task of diplomacy is not to be accusatory, but to find ways of dispelling such suspicions. Peace requires consistent communications, with regards to the mutual benefits derived from cooperating on natural resources, such as water; that is the Meles' approach.
Under Meles, Ethiopia put enormous effort into strengthening regional institutions; notably, the African Union (AU). The particular focus of the AU has been peace and security, and Ethiopia has been actively engaged in this, in Somalia and the Sudans.
Ethiopia took the lead in military action in Somalia, in order to engage the Union of Islamic Court and Al-Shabab. This was a controversial operation, undertaken in large part because Ethiopia espied the hand of Eritrea in terrorist groups operating out of Somalia.
Over time, this has laid the foundations for the African Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and the reestablishment of a government there. Because of Ethiopia's history, under previous governments, of meddling in Somalia's internal affairs, Meles did not want to take any formal action in recognising the Somaliland Republic, but Ethiopia has been respectful of Somaliland, helping to preserve its stability and promote its prosperity.
Meles saw political instability and conflict in Sudan and South Sudan as a serious threat to Ethiopia and the region. Over twenty years, Ethiopia has occasionally had difficult relations with north and south Sudan, but has consistently maintained communication with both in pursuit of a balanced strategy.
Over the last few years, it has vested enormous effort in supporting the AU's efforts to resolve the Sudans' crises. Meles helped establish the AU High Level Implementation Panel, headed by former President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, and supported its efforts, to the extent of dispatching an armoured brigade to the Abyei area, on the north-south border, to constitute the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei.
Meles was acutely aware that Africa needed a coalition of progressive political parties committed to development. He saw a number of candidates across the continent and was close to South Africa's African National Congress (ANC), and undoubtedly shared its thinking about the developmental state. One of his unfinished projects was building a broader understanding of the democratic developmental project in Africa.
Consistent to the country's tradition, particularly Emperor Haileselassie's, who balanced Ethiopia's relations among the major powers of his day and solicited assistance from diverse donors on Ethiopia's terms, Meles sought to make best advantage of the global order. During the 1990s, when the Washington Consensus prevailed over all its rivals in the global policy sphere, the EPRDF leadership fought a rearguard action to preserve the policymaking autonomy of the Ethiopian state. As China and regional powers emerged after the millennium, Meles took the opportunity to expand his options and to be more explicit about his developmental project.
Most notably, Meles commissioned careful studies of the comparative advantages of different donors and selectively sought out diverse donors to contribute to different sectors of the Ethiopian development project. Despite enormous constraints on its capacity, Ethiopia has been exceptionally effective in using international assistance in support of its national development goals.
Twenty five years ago, Ethiopia was not only weak and vulnerable, but was a source of instability in the region. Today, Ethiopia is a force for peace and stability in Africa, as a whole, and especially the Horn.
In the last days of the Dergue, the UN was canvassing the idea of sending peacekeepers to Ethiopia with a strong mandate for using force. Today, Ethiopian peacekeepers are a model for professionalism and effectiveness in Africa. Much of the credit for this transformation belongs to the intellectual leadership of Meles Zenawi and the way in which he was able to translate his doctrine into practice.
Abudul Mohammed, a close friend and chief of staff of the African Union High Level Implementation Panel on Sudan.
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Publisher: Norton Young Readers
Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued
byPeter Sis
Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued quantity
In December 1938, a young Englishman canceled a ski vacation and went instead to Prague to help the hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Nazis who were crowded into the city. Setting up a makeshift headquarters in his hotel room, Nicholas Winton took names and photographs from parents desperate to get their children out of danger. He raised money, found foster families in England, arranged travel and visas, and, when necessary, bribed officials and forged documents. In the frantic spring and summer of 1939, as the Nazi shadow fell over Europe, he organized the transportation of almost 700 children to safety.
Then, when the war began and no more children could be rescued, he put away his records and told no one. It was only fifty years later that a chance discovery and a famous television appearance brought Winton's actions to light.
Peter Sís weaves Winton's experiences and the story of one of the children he saved, Vera Gissing. Nicky & Vera is a tale of decency, action, and courage told in luminous, poetic images by an internationally renowned artist.
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Dad's guts hang from stab wounds as he pleads for help
Brenton Brian Chettle was a friend of the man he tried to kill. Then two years later he broke a fellow inmate's jaw.
by Sherele Moody
Sherele Moody News Corp journalist Sherele Moody started her career in the media more than 25 years ago. She reports across a broad range of topics including and has an extensive background in data analysis and statistics-based journalism. She also specialises in opinion and feature writing on gendered violence and women's issues. Sherele is the recipient of the 2018 BandT Women in Media Social Change Maker Award and has multiple Clarion and Walkley Our Watch journalism excellence awards for her work reducing...
INTESTINES hanging from gaping wounds in his stomach and blood pouring out of his slashed throat, a Queensland father stumbled to his neighbour's doorstep trying to escape the violent ice-fuelled thug who was trying to "execute" him.
Brenton Brian Chettle was a friend of the man, and was spending the night in his home, when he dragged the victim from his bed and forced him at knifepoint into another room.
"Are you going to kill me?," the victim asked as Chettle told him to kneel on the floor.
Fearing Chettle was about to "execute" him, the victim refused to kneel so Chettle drove the knife repeatedly into the man's stomach, forcing him to his knees.
He then pulled the victim's head back by the hair and sliced the man's throat, the Brisbane Supreme Court heard on Friday.
Chettle continued stabbing the victim until the man managed to crawl from a smashed window and onto his neighbour's doorstep.
The victim was on death's door when paramedics arrived, his guts hanging out and a massive amount of blood flowing from the wounds.
The man needed extensive surgery to save his life, the court heard.
Chettle had been taking methamphetamine for 11 or 12 days straight when he attacked the man at Morayfield in May of 2016.
The 26-year-old former Nambour resident pleaded guilty in Brisbane Supreme Court on Friday to one count of attempted murder and one of grievous bodily harm.
He was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the attempted murder.
Chettle received a further three years in jail for a brutal 20-second assault on an unsuspecting prisoner in Woodford Correctional Centre, while on remand for the attack on the Morayfield man.
In the 2018 attack, Chettle walked up to a fellow inmate and smashed him in the head with his fists.
The inmate dropped to the ground.
Chettle repeatedly kicked him, breaking the victim's jaws in multiple places and knocking him unconscious.
Justice David Boddice said Chettle was prone to "wanton brutality" and this was evidenced by the defendant's long criminal history.
"The complainant had allowed you to stay in his home so you took a knife from his kitchen and told him you were going to kill him," Justice Bodice said of the 2016 assault.
"This was a frenzied attack.
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The team seems to value Triple-A, given the entire year Margot, Hedges and Renfroe spent there.
Perhaps that is why they want Urias to skip it?... Those guys mashed in EP but have not set the world on fire at the plate in the Bigs.
Baez and Paddack likely making debut near end of April and nix further behind http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/...story,amp.html
AA is more challenging, and they want Urias and Tatis to play together
I am sure you will see a lot of different combinations there
EP team is straight garbage, I would rather Urias be with a really good team, think about the roster there
at least 5 top 15 guys
Urias is starting at El Paso, according to..Urias.
Any other hot takes?
How was it a hot take? I was just trying to figure out their thinking when someone else said he was starting in SA
Well it was me being snarky, but I deleted it.
But come on, saying AA is harder than AAA? That's at least warm.
AA might be more competitive than AAA. AA is filled with guys trying to prove themselves, and AAA is loaded with guys who can't wait to not be in AAA any more because they're so close.
I get that the parks are easier to hit in... but do the Dodgers hold their prospects back in AA because it is more difficult. Just doesn't seem right to me. It is supposed to be a step closer to the bigs.
FW and SA rosters out
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing
So Franmil will be in AAA. Cool. Better than Renfroe.
Lauer too. Not sure I like that, just because of how hitter friendly it is. I think he's next in line for a call up.
I don't think Urias and Tatis will play together until the bigs. I'd be surprised if he's not up by June.
Whatever happened to Eugy Rosario?
From what I've read, he's a total flake.
So it looks like that transaction sending Urias to San Antonio on the 3/25 was related to sending him back to the organization he ended the year with? He has to be in EP now that he is not on the SA roster.
Initially, I thought that Urias would be in SD right after the Super 2 deadline... but between Asuaje, Spang and Pirela (please keep in LF)... there is just no a lot of room. Seems like the injury bug or a trade would facilitate an Urias call-up.... hopefully, it is the former. I am hoping that Asuaje plays very well and drives up his trade value. The ability of Spang to play 3rd and the OF makes him a more attractive utility piece. I guess the one thing that may signal an early call-up (aside from Urias just mashing in EP) is that we don't have anyone to backup Galvis at SS. He doesn't usually require rest... but the lack of depth at the position at the majors in pretty glaring. Perhaps Urias is here platooning by the end of the month...??? Perhaps playing every day by the trade deadline?
Thanks for posting this. Really excited about FW.... there are just too many names that I am interested in on that roster to count. Can't wait until Thursday.
Phil, the google doc that I opened was empty for El Paso and Lake Elsinore.
I don't think they have release their rosters yet.
Urias, Reyes, Simmons, Kennedy and Lauer officially in EP to start the season:
http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats...=112&sid=t4904
I posted in the series thread that we may see Lauer sooner rather than later here is SD. I forgot about Kennedy. He went kind of under the radar last year... posting a decent ERA for SA. He doesn't project as well as Lauer but they may promote him first anyways. We shall see....


When I took Zelda for a ride today, Freedom was wearing two bell boots. When I returned, an hour later, one was outside the fence. Not just over the fence but a good 15 feet over the fence. One was missing in action. And Freedom was cool as a cucumber and not talking.


There's no denying the fact that young people today are locked into their digital media. From posting their latest antics on sites like Facebook and YouTube to listening to music or playing their favorite games, teens are tuned into the latest technology.
In The App Generation: How Today's Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World, developmental psychologists Howard Gardner and Katie Davis discuss how today's youth differ from those who grew up before the digital era.
As the book's title indicates, the authors examine the impact of new technologies on three vital areas of adolescent life: identity, intimacy and imagination. Citing their work and the research of others, Gardner and Davis look at how apps have made young people app-dependent, and they uncover some disturbing drawbacks of app use. Conversely, there are also some positive consequences associated with app usage and these are also addressed.
With over three million apps available to young people on their smartphones, iPads and eReaders, the members of the App Generation, as the authors' dub them, can well be individually defined by which apps they use.
Looking at intimacy on the negative side, apps may encourage superficial ties and discourage face-to-face interactions with other people. On the other hand, they can also expose a person to a wider world and offer novel ways of interacting or relating to people from a broader cultural spectrum.
When considering the influence apps can have on fostering or not fostering imagination, there's quite a spread. 'Apps can make you lazy, discourage the development of new skills, limit you to mimicry or tiny trivial tweaks or tweets – or they can open up whole new worlds for imagining, creating, producing, remixing, even forging new identities and enabling rich forms of intimacy,' state Gardner and Davis.
By providing the pros and cons of app usage, this little book attempts to evaluate some of the issues this technology raises while underscoring the challenges and opportunities that continual reliance on apps presents.
At just barely 200 pages in length, both parents and teachers will want to consult this book to further understand the role apps play in molding the way young people behave and think.


Prudence Island School Welcomes seven students for 2015-2016 school year!
The Prudence Island School is excited to have seven students enrolled for its 2015-2016 school year. Students are working hard, learning, and growing through individualized learning goals.
Kickoff for Walkers and Runners (check-in starts at 10:30 am). Finish with BBQ lunch at Schoolhouse. Pre-Register today so you will have time to ask family, friends and colleagues to sponsor you! Fundraising can be easy and successful–tips will be provided when you pre-register. Scenic 3.8 mile route! Supports a Great Cause: Prudence Island School Foundation!
Thank you Rhode Island Classroom for featuring us on your show!
(June 29-July 3rd) 10:30-2 p.m. Circus camp is sure to be a wild time! Learning to juggle, twirl a baton, and make your own circus stilts are only the beginning of what is sure to be a roaring good time! Campers will be invited to take part in the 4th of July parade on Saturday! Open to ages 6 and up. Camp cost: $60.00 Dance Camp: (July 20-24) The Budding Ballerina camp will be open to children ages 3-5 and focus solely on ballet basics. Children ages 6-13 are invited to join our Dazzling Dancer camp, where we will be exploring ballet and jazz, focusing on technique and choreography. All levels of dance ability are welcome. The week will culminate in all campers performing in a fabulous recital for family and friends Camp cost: $30.00 for Budding Ballerinas, $100.00 for Dazzling Dancers.
(August 16-20) Time: TBD Alex Brassard and Julianna Henault will be back for their second year leading the Prudence Island Chorus! The kids will learn to sing in harmony with a final performance for friends and family at the end of the week.
Have you ever wondered what it is like at a news studio? If you have, keep reading this article and I'll tell you what it's like! On December 6, 2014 the whole school went to Channel 10. Did you know that Channel Ten's symbol is a peacock? One of the first rooms we saw was the control room. We also got to see the news room! The news room is where the stories are found. We also got to say Hi to Frank Colletta while we were there. He's really nice. Then it was off to the studio! The studio is where all of the filming goes on. When we got there we got to meet Kelly. She does the weather. She showed us how it's done. One of the tools she uses is the blue screen which allows her to change the backgrounds. They don't use a green screen because then people with blonde hair get a green halo around their head. If you watched the afternoon news that day you almost got to see us. While Frank was on the air we were right next to him, but not close enough to be seen on the news.


@joerogan https://t.co/SZWQdAjLMc - would love some insight by Rhonda. This is the 2nd consecutive study downplaying vitamins.
A new meta-study, gathering data from over two million participants, has concluded that multivitamins and mineral supplements do not improve cardiovascular health or protect against heart attack and stroke. The systematic review suggests if a person is generally healthy then multivitamin/mineral dietary supplements confer no cardiovascular benefits.
Back in May a massive meta-analysis comprising 179 different clinical trials concluded that most common vitamin supplements provided no health benefits. Whereas that study broadly evaluated data across all causes of mortality, this new meta-study homed in on specific issues related to cardiovascular health.
After a broad literature search, the researchers targeted 18 specific studies to include in the meta-analysis. Over two million subjects were evaluated, with an average follow-up duration of 12 years. The results were reasonably conclusive, with no evidence found to suggest multivitamin/mineral dietary supplements reduce risk of cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease or stroke.


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Stockmarkets
Slow but sure progress in India
Reform may be slow in coming in India, but things are getting better for investors.
by: Andrew Van Sickle
India's Sensex index, after hitting a new record last year, has gone off the boil. Foreign equity inflows have hit their lowest point since August 2013. What's gone wrong? "Capital is like a dog," one fund manager told James Crabtree and David Keohane in the Financial Times. "It goes to where it is best treated." The government's recent surprise decision to raise $6.4bn dollars in tax from global fund managers has prompted fury and legal challenges.
But the bigger problem is the new government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was elected a year ago this week. He was heralded as a great reformer, but progress has been slower than investors had hoped.Yet the big picture remains encouraging.
A series of laws raising the limits on foreign direct investment (FDI) in sectors ranging from defence to insurance and pensions has left India with "one of the most open FDI regimes in the emerging world", says Crabtree. The government has ditched costly diesel subsidies, plans to boost investment in infrastructure, and has pushed states to liberalise labour laws.
One key change is a nationwide general sales tax (the equivalent of VAT) to replace the messy patchwork of state levies. This would usher in a genuine single market. Opposition in the upper house may delay its arrival beyond April next year, however.
The government will also auction all mineral rights to stop them going to politically connected firms.A new law will open the coal sector to competition, eventually ending Coal India's monopoly and helping to end electricity shortages. Modi's approach, says Niharika Mandhana in The Wall Street Journal, can be summed up as fixing the plumbing before building a new house.
The government now plans a new bankruptcy law and has promised to resolve the tax dispute with investors, which may in fact have been down to a bureaucratic error it seems the finance ministry failed to notice that its officials planned to implement it.
In sum, "things are getting better" under Modi, "even if we all wish he'd [implement reforms] even more quickly", says Bejoy Das Gupta of the Institute of International Finance. Lower oil prices, along with India's sound demographics and a strong presence in global services, complete the picture.Our favourite India play, Aberdeen's New India Investment Trust (LSE: NII), trades on a 9% discount to its net asset value.
Asian economy
I wish I knew what an emerging market was, but I'm too embarrassed to ask
This week's "too embarrassed to ask" explains what emerging markets are, and why you might want to invest in them.
Bullish investors return to emerging markets
The ink had barely dried on the US-China trade deal before the bulls began pouring into emerging markets.
Why investors should beware of India's surging stockmarket
The BSE Sensex benchmark index has soared by 90% since March, largely driven by foreign investors. But India's bull market is very vulnerable.
How to invest in Africa as it takes its place in the post-pandemic sun
The African Continental Free Trade Agreement has come into force. Favourable demographics, improving governance and a growing technology sector also b…


First, make sure you find the perfect wedding dress.
Also, only choose the best-est of your girlfriends to stand by your side. That's a fact!
When it comes to bridesmaids dresses go classic with everyone in the same color and same style ORRRR my favorite, let everyone choose their favorite cut in a certain color. Lastly, you can just choose a color palate that you love and tell your bridesmaids to go wild and choose their favorite dress within that palate.
Groomsmen your number one goal for the day is to get the groom ready and sober-ish to his Big Day. You have one job gentlemen!
Next thought- everyone always is staring at the bride as she enters but take a second to glance to the groom who may or may not be losing his composure over his beautiful descending bride. The faces of some of these men as they see their soon to be wife is beyond priceless.
Brides and grooms out there planning your wedding-- don't skimp on the First Dance song!
Also, when looking for a wedding band make sure you have the best in the city because we all know that the band makes the party. The end. Don't pass go, don't collect 200-- get a AWESOME BAND!
And last but not least--- don't drop the bride when you dip her for y'all's sparkler send off!!
I am here for you brides!!
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PRINCIPALS/
HEWlEtt-WoodmErE
Hewlett-Woodmere Public Schools, one of the leading
school districts on Long Island, New York, seeks an
exceptional, experienced, visionary educational leader to
serve as Principal for our award winning high school.
Hewlett High School, consistently ranked among the top
performing high schools in the country, maintains a 95%
graduation rate, 22 dual-enrollment/college courses,
27 AP courses, an award-winning science research
program, and vibrant athletics and arts programs.
Principal Pool Process
Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) is the 10th largest school system in the nation. Located in
Northern Virginia, outside of Washington D.C., FCPS is searching for aspiring and experienced
administrative leaders to join our school-based leadership teams to work with parents, schoolbased personnel, and central office professional staff.
SEEKING A DYNAMIC EDUCATIONAL LEADER
WITH SECONDARY ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
* Promotes an open, inclusive environment
* Envisions excellence for all students
* Excellent communication skills
* Well-versed in Secondary curricula and use of technology
* Working knowledge of NYS requirements for
special needs and ENL students
* Proven team builder with ability to motivate staff and students
* Fosters strong relationships with community
The school system has implemented a newly designed principal-selection process that includes
placing qualified candidates in a pool from which they may be selected for a specific school.
George W. Hewlett High School
Must possess NYS Certification: SBL or SAS or SDA
Salary commensurate with experience and highly competitive
To meet the hiring needs of anticipated principal vacancies for the 2018-2019 school year, the
next selection window for the pool will open on January 3, 2018.
To learn more about the FPCS principal pool process and application components interested
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Our district is committed to educational transformation to
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We are seeking a highly effective leader to serve as J.P.
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The Calhoun School seeks a creative, experienced, and forward-thinking leader to develop and implement effective strategies consistent
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Reporting to Head of School Steven Solnick, who joined Calhoun in July 2017 from his role as President of Warren Wilson College
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Recognized nationally as a leader in progressive education, Calhoun is a thoughtful, caring, compassionate, and intellectual community
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Only 52 out of 10,000 Syrian Refugees Admitted into U.S. This Year Are Christians
By Debra Heine Aug 30, 2016 2:42 PM ET
The Obama administration this week reached its goal of taking in 10,000 Syrian refugees by Oct. 1, but unfortunately, very few of the new arrivals are Christian. According to CBN, "the official count for the fiscal year reached 10,126 resettled Syrians when 224 refugees arrived Monday." Only a small handful of those reaching our shores are Christian.
Although 1 million Christians have fled Syria, Christians comprise only 0.51 percent of the refugee total. More than 98 percent of those allowed into the United States this fiscal year are Sunni Muslims, the largest Islamic sect in Syria comprising 74 percent of that population.
Some Christians believe the Syrian Christian immigration numbers should be much higher; the percentage of those allowed into the United States should reflect their percentage of the population in Syria.
Last September, President Obama pledged to increase the number of Syrian refugees allowed to enter the United States. He set a goal of 10,000, six times the number of those allowed to enter the U.S. in FY 2015 when a total of 1682 were admitted – that compared to only 105 Syrian refugees admitted in FY 2014.
Although Christians are 10 percent of the Syrian population, only 100 Syrian Christian refugees have been allowed to enter the United States since the start of the civil war more than five years ago.
The U.N. High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) maintains that part of the reason for the disparity is because only 15 percent of Syrian refugees are in formal U.N. camps. The reason Christians avoid the camps is reportedly because they don't feel safe there among hostile Muslim refugees.
National Security Adviser Susan Rice expressed the administration's satisfaction with the program in a statement yesterday: "Today, I am pleased to announce that we will meet this goal more than a month ahead of schedule. Our 10,000th Syrian refugee will arrive this afternoon," Rice said.
Fox News National Security Analyst KT McFarland, on the other hand, said on "Varney and Co." Tuesday that what we are witnessing in the Middle East amounts to Christian genocide — and the United States is complicit. McFarland made the comment after Stuart Varney reported that only 52 of the Syrian refugees who have been allowed in the country this year are Christians.
"The Christians in the Middle East are being discriminated against and crimes [are being] committed against them for three reasons," McFarland explained. "One — ISIS has targeted them specifically for mass genocide. Two — when they flee and try to go into the refugee camps, the Muslims are kicking them out of the refugee camps. And three– we're not letting them into this country."
She added, "it is Christian genocide and we are complicit."
Rev. Ibrahim Nseir, pastor of the National Evangelical Synod of Syria and Lebanon and the Presbyterian Church in Aleppo, told Fox News in May: "We are facing terrorist action in the whole geography of Syria. They are destroying our churches, killing and kidnapping Christians, stealing our homes and our businesses."
Christians made up nearly a third of the Syrian population in the 1920s, according to Fox. By 2011, Christians in Syria numbered only 2.2 million, or less than 10 percent of the nation's population. After years of civil war, experts now estimate that the Christians make up less than five percent of the population.
Yet Obama doesn't consider this persecuted minority to be a priority — because any sort of "religious litmus test" for admitting Syrian refugees would be "un-American" and "contrary to our values."
The Obama administration has yet to announce its goal for next year, but immigration observers expect the number to be set at 20,000. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says she'd like to see the number increased to 65,000.
In the meantime, a poll conducted in 2015 found that 1 in 5 Syrians support ISIS and a third of them support the Al-Nusra Front, which is affiliated with Al Qaeda.
Via FrontPageMagazine:
Since Sunnis are 3/4rs of the population and Shiites and Christians aren't likely to support either group, this really means that Sunni Muslim support for both terror groups is even higher than these numbers make it seem.
The Obama administration let in 9,945 Syrian Muslims this year and Hillary wants to bring in a whopping 65,000 next year. Do the math and vote accordingly.
Debra Heine is a Catholic, mom of six and long time political pundit. She has written for several blogs including her own, Nice Deb, and Breitbart. Conservative libertarian. Never Hillary.
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The Lefts' Increasingly Untenable Approach to Black People


AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced that at the upcoming Tour de France, the United States Postal Service (USPS) Pro Cycling Team, which is presented by Berry Floors, will use a series of Trek bicycles designed on workstations based on the AMD Opteron(TM) processor with Direct Connect Architecture. The USPS team is led by five-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, who Saturday will begin his quest for a record sixth straight Tour title.
As the Official Technology Partner of Armstrong and the USPS team, AMD provides a variety of AMD64 technology solutions to Trek Bicycles. For example, using AMD Athlon(TM) 64 processor-powered notebooks and AMD Opteron processor-based workstations, the technology team at Trek can more effectively predict and influence the effects of multiple variables involved in virtual wind-tunnel testing, helping riders optimize racing performance.
"Competing in a race such as the Tour de France demands using every resource to remain ahead of the competition, and AMD's superior technology has enabled Trek to design standard road, climbing and time trial bicycles that are truly cutting-edge," said Lance Armstrong. "By enabling sophisticated solutions that have advanced bike design, testing and overall communication, AMD has provided our team with a distinct competitive advantage."
Trek selected AMD Opteron and AMD Athlon 64 processor-based solutions due to the superior performance, outstanding reliability and scalability provided by AMD64 technology. By enabling Trek to leverage its existing 32-bit applications as well as benefit from the performance and memory benefits of 64-bit computing, AMD64 technology has helped accelerate Trek's pursuit of the most advanced bicycle designs for Lance Armstrong and the USPS Pro Cycling team.
"Each year as Trek explores new ways to improve the bicycles for Lance and the USPS Team, we also look to improve our product development tools. AMD has provided the technology to enable that improvement," said Michael Sagan, senior designer and technology principal for Trek's Advanced Concepts Group. "With the AMD Opteron and AMD Athlon 64 processors, our design team has saved hours developing frames, which translates to seconds saved for Lance and the team – and that is invaluable."
Founded in 1976 in Waterloo, Wisconsin, Trek is the world leader in bicycle products and accessories, with 1,500 employees worldwide who incorporate the most advanced technology available into Trek products, resulting in many industry innovations throughout the company's 25-year history.
"By enabling Trek to advance the design of their award-winning bicycles, AMD64 technology has helped them remain ahead of the competition," said Henri Richard, AMD's executive vice president, worldwide sales and marketing. "Helping Lance Armstrong compete for a sixth consecutive Tour de France victory underscores how AMD is enabling customers, like Trek, to meet ever-more demanding challenges."
AMD's sponsorship agreement with the USPS Pro Cycling Team reaffirms the company's commitment to providing high performance solutions to organizations and businesses seeking to gain competitive advantages. Many leading enterprise application benchmarks recognize the AMD Opteron processor as the highest performing x86 processor available today. Industry benchmarks for critical enterprise applications such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), messaging and collaboration, Web serving, high performance computing and database serving confirm that the world's highest performing 2P and 4P servers are now powered by AMD Opteron processors.


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Q: PHP - Sort array on basis of another index's values (stored in another small array) I have this array:
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A: try this
// assuming $your_object_array is your main array

$your_new_array = array();
$pool_order = array(1,2,3,4,5);

foreach($pool_order as $order)
{
   foreach($your_object_array as $key=>$arr)
   {
      if($order==$arr->pool_id)
      {
          $your_new_array[] = $arr;
          unset($your_object_array[$key]);
      }
   }
}

print_r($your_new_array);

A: Have you tried array_multisort()? It seems like the function that you are looking for:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.array-multisort.php
<?php
$array[] = array(
  'key1'        => 1,
  'dummy_data'  => 2,
  'pool_id'     => 3
);

$array[] = array(
  'key1'        => 5,
  'dummy_data'  => 7,
  'pool_id'     => 2
);

$array[] = array(
  'key1'        => 2,
  'dummy_data'  => 4,
  'pool_id'     => 1
);

foreach ($array as $entry) {
  $pool_ids[] = $entry['pool_id'];
}
array_multisort($pool_ids, SORT_ASC, SORT_STRING, $array);

echo '<pre>';
print_r($array);
echo '</pre>';
?>

A: foreach($pool_order as $order)
{
    foreach($oldArray as $ele)
    {
        if($ele->pool_id == $order)
        {
            $sortedArr[] = $ele;
        }
    }
}

Just for reference. Can be optimize depends on your application assumption.


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Home » Blogs » brad's blog » The DSRC/V2V/Connected Car Emperor has no clothes
The DSRC/V2V/Connected Car Emperor has no clothes
Submitted by brad on Tue, 2017-05-02 08:34
Plans are underway to ask for a legal mandate to install radio communications devices in all new cars, starting around 2020. These radios would do "vehicle to vehicle" (v2v) and vehicle to infrastructure communication using a wifi-derived protocol called DSRC.
These plans began long ago, when all of us wondered, "wouldn't it be cool if computers in cars could talk to other cars?" It seemed like it should be cool but in fact, after decades of trying, very few useful applications have actually shown up. However, that has not stopped fans of the idea. They had almost given up when robocars came along. As the hype built over robocars they realized that they might have an application there, and this application could make their solution finally find its problem. Since then, there have been many declarations that V2V communication is important or even essential for robocars. That what this is all really about is the "connected car." Whole conferences and industry groups push heavily on the connected car concept.
Of course robocars will be connected, but barely. They will want updates to maps and on road conditions and events -- the same things you see if you run programs like Waze. When parked, they will also want updates to their software and more detailed map data. But no sane designer plans to have them depend on real time connectivity. It might provide useful information, but it often won't, and you need to depend on things you built and tested that work 100% of the time. Everything else is just a little gravy.
I have written many comments on the issues with v2v and related technologies. Recently, the DSRC fans got a proposal in place for the government to mandate all new cars come with DSRC radios which will, among other things, constantly broadcast their position and what they are doing. The government will mandate a decade old radio technology that is already obsolete, and which probably will never work, and certainly won't work as well as other technologies which are arriving without government help in mobile phones and data networks.
There was a comment period. I wrote up a commentary, and have expanded it into an essay on:
Why the V2V "emperor" has no clothes.
Connected Autonomous Vehicles -- Pick 2.
jamesdouma
I should preface this comment with the statement that I'm agnostic on V2V systems. As you suggest, the value is incremental and there is some risk.
That said, I'm surprised that you have such a negative take on V2V. For one thing, in our discussions of lidar you've suggested that the extra cost it adds to a robocar (thousands of dollars, in this case) is negligible if it results in any improvement in safety at all. So to object to the cost of something that probably turns out to add $20 in cost to a car seems kind of inconsistent. Having a radio beacon on a vehicle that broadcasts the vehicle's state continuously doesn't seem like such a bad idea. Similar beacons on fixed road features, construction sites, accident sites, or even special situation vehicles (cyclists?, blind pedestrians?) could improve safety in a meaningful number of situations. There are things that no lidar, radar, or camera can see which are relevant, like a car stalled on the inside edge of a high speed blind curve, or an emergency vehicle speeding through an intersection congested with large trucks. There's very real potential to improve safety even for otherwise very capable robcars.
The security risk is there, of course, but it's not a particularly big obstacle at the transmit end since the beacon can be pretty simple and doesn't need access to any vehicle control systems. At the receive end it's just one more sensor which like any other could be spoofed and which like any other needs to be intelligently managed relative to the reliability of the data it provides and the overall situation. The implication that just having a radio receiver on a car necessarily leads to increased likelihood of being hacked is very weak. All new cars will soon have radio receivers for software updates anyway and that vector is much more risky than a much simpler radio beacon receiver.
As for grievers and the like - the world already abounds with simple opportunities for those so inclined. It's easy to throw a handful of cheap and disposable tire-puncturing objects onto a road, drop a brick from an overpass, or sabotage a traffic sign. Adding radio beacons to cars isn't going to meaningfully increase the opportunities for miscreants assuming the implementers of vehicle receivers aren't naive.
And privacy? If someone wants to monitor all the traffic going through an intersection a license plate camera will already do that just fine. Within a few years public cameras monitored by image recognition systems are going to eliminate technical barriers to privacy violation pretty thoroughly. The solution to that is going to have to come in the form of a social consensus on privacy rights and obligations. Technical conventions will have little effect there except in the very short term.
The issue with V2V is not just that it provides only modest benefit. It's the flawed design that stops it from doing even that. It depends on somebody else doing their part, which only happens with a law, and the law usually fails at such things. So it's not $20 extra (eventually), it's $20 for every single car on the road. Or at least tens of millions before it provides some value. LIDAR gives a value to the car that uses it today. The designer of that car can judge if the cost and benefit match, and make the decision. If a better LIDAR or other sensor comes out, they can switch. If LIDAR stops being worth it, they can stop using it.
To do V2V right everybody has to do it, and in the same way, which means under a government enforced standard. This is really, really hard to do, and impossible to keep current with the times in a fast changing technological world. And then, to boot, it adds security risk. And you didn't build or test it, and you want to trust your life to what some other car vendor made?
The beacon does not present a security risk to the transmitter but it does create a privacy risk. But once you receive, it's another story. Inherent in v2v is receiving messages from random parties along the road, lots of them. You're a server now, you aren't just a client -- it's a whole new risk category. The messages must be processed by the driving systems of the car, the most critical ones. In theory we need not care if the infotainment system is put at risk (though that has been the path in to many cars in recent attacks) but the driving system is the most important to secure.
As for software updates over the radio -- I am not so sure about that. These are cars, after all. They don't need to get their software updates long range. They can travel to where they will get updated, perhaps by a physical plug or short-range radio link.
Griefers are not the only thing to worry about, but they add to the list.
Yes, they have licence plate readers. But this makes it much easier, and makes it easy to do it invisibly.
Design problem
$20 strikes me as a really cheap piece of safety equipment. Backup cameras cost many times that amount, and the safety potential of backup cameras is quite a bit less than that of vehicle transponders. So it would cost $200MM/year to outfit U.S. cars with transponder systems. Economic losses due to traffic collisions, according to the NHTSA, are on the order of $1T per year. So if transponders reduce collision rates by 0.02% in a steady state condition then it's an economic win. I'd be shocked if transponders could not provide a useful warning more often than one time in 5000.
I'm not familiar with the details of V2V proposals. But your analysis doesn't seem to fit the vehicle transponder model. There's incremental value to be had in having the transponder even if only a fraction of vehicles have it. If my car breaks down on a foggy mountain road and it has a transponder to broadcast it's dilemma to approaching vehicles then that reduces the number of cars that might crash into me while I'm waiting for a tow. It doesn't require universal adoption by other vehicles to start having a benefit. And I don't understand your claim that it would require a mandatory standard to work. Web protocols are really complicated and they don't require legally mandatory standards to work. There's no law that says my web browser has to implement http in a particular way, and yet web browsers seem to work pretty well. Vehicle manufacturers have an incentive to do a decent implementation because otherwise it's not a salable safety feature, and failure to implement it reasonably would open manufacturers to liability. A relatively few vehicle manufacturers account for a large fraction of all vehicles on the road so even a few of them rolling transponders out into their new vehicles would rapidly create a large base of usable signals. Compatibility testing would not be difficult if the protocol were kept simple.
Of course, sloppy implementation of transponder signal receivers can create risk. But a sloppy implementation of a camera or a radar, which also feed actionable messages into the driving system, can also create risk. Just as you might receive messages from many transponders your lidar receives many potential signals from street signs, dogs, and potholes. All of those have to be interpreted as potentially flawed and managed accordingly. Sometimes transponders will broadcast the wrong location because they have a bad GPS signal, or they will broadcast the wrong code because they are malfunctioning or misconfigured. Received signals have to be interpreted with the understanding that noisy and even malicious input is a possibility. The receiver doesn't need to be a control channel, it can just be a sensor.
Aircraft have transponders and receivers and have had them for many years. And aircraft seem to be popular targets for sabotage, at least if our national security tribes are to be believed. I would think that if the transponder model had ineradicable security flaws that we'd have seen them exploited by now.
No value alone
Again, it's not $20 for value, it's $20 for everybody. And no value until you get a lot of people using it. So you pay $20 ($100 at retail level) for nothing on day one, and it slowly starts to gain small amounts of value. You have sold your 2020 car long before you ever got any value from it, but the guy who bought it from you in 2026 got a small value, and the 2030 buyer a bit more.
If you got to everybody with a radio, it would help. But at huge cost, and 20 years from now. If, in 1995, a law had required every car to buy a 1995 cell phone, then today every car on the road would have one. A 1995 cell phone, that is. Which nobody would want. (Actually, at least the 2017 phones can do all their goodies and still talk to the 1995 phones if there are still analog towers -- which there aren't -- so this would work better.)
For your car stalled there is already a solution. Transmit to public traffic databases that you are stalled, and everybody will know in 1-2 seconds. A crash with a stalled car only has a tiny probability of happening the moment you stall. This requires nothing -- it already exists. Millions of people run programs like Waze which warn me of stalled cars ahead on the road today. All that's missing is your car automatically telling databases like waze about it.
The issue about being sloppy is this. I control, test and certify the sensors in my own car. I have no control over other people's. My sensors detect what is really there. A street sign may be flawed (though generally cars prefer not to read signs but to have a map of them) but the sensor will detect what it is, and you can fix it.
Kara K
value of connected vehicles
Nice comments, James! I have a colleague here at UT Austin (Chris Claudel) who can build such transmitters/receivers at $50 each for docking/securing inside conventional vehicles (e.g., on the dashboard). I believe most of our existing fleet will add these devices quickly, to reduce crash likelihood & thus save on insurance, and to signal to red lights (e.g., late at night, when others aren't around) that they are coming & would love a green light (making many signals more efficient). A simple app on our phones (communicating with the docked device) will alert us to problematic trajectories (e.g., of red-light runners to our side & pedestrians in the darkness), will report recent wildlife crossing in the area (e.g., a deer pack siting), and will communicate with roadside units warning of slippery curves ahead (from a recent CV's report). In this way, we "educate"/enlighten most of the existing fleet rather quickly, improving safety & site-specific information. What do you think Brad?
Not v2v
The problem is that even if it's cheap to add to your car (and $50 is not cheap in the auto world) it doesn't help you unless the other cars also do it. Never has a network technology been created that did not provide value to the first customers. You will never see all cars doing this so you need to detect them, and those deer, without it.
However, many of the applications you specify have no need for low latency and are better done via mobile data networks. What's left is just knowing about cars you can't see. Which is nice, but is it enough to justify this plan?
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Multiple law professors submitted public comments in response to the ABA's suggested requirement.
One professor noted that the new mandates are 'based on pseudo-science on race relations which has no valid backing.'
Ben Zeisloft | Staff Reporter, Daily Wire
Wednesday, July 7, 2021 3:30 PM
Law professors slammed the American Bar Association for suggesting that law schools be subjugated to an anti-bias training mandate.
Last month, Campus Reform reported that the American Bar Association suggested modifying one of its regulations for universities to include "a new section requiring law schools to provide training and education on bias, cross-cultural competency, and racism." Such initiatives would occur "at the start of the program of legal education" and "at least once again before graduation."
[RELATED: American Bar Association considers anti-bias training mandate for law schools]
Public comments for the policy reveal that many professors by no means agree with the requirement.
University of California, Berkeley Law School professor Steven Solomon commented that the new policies "constitute unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination" and are "based upon invalid social science which has not been established." More specifically, they are "based on pseudo-science on race relations which has no valid backing."
Cornell University Law School professor William Jacobson, who runs the blog Legal Insurrection, noted that the term "equity" — added to one of its policies "without definition" — is a "relatively recent buzzword associated with various Critical Race Theory offshoots, particularly that espoused by Prof. Ibram X. Kendi."
"It is hotly contested whether equality of results, rather than equality of opportunity, is an appropriate goal, particularly where discrimination is used to achieve equal results," wrote Jacobson. "Regardless, by injecting 'equity' as a concept into accreditation process, the ABA uses its accreditation power to make what will be understood to be an ideological point and will take 'equity' off the table for debate. That is not the role of ABA accreditation, and it is an abuse of power."
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Meanwhile, a group of deans from prominent law schools — including the University of Oregon, Penn State, Rutgers, and Boston University — wrote to "wholeheartedly endorse" the changes proposed by the American Bar Association.
"The American Bar Association, the legal academy, and the legal profession are the gatekeepers of democracy. For democracy to work, we must engage actively in equality work, especially recognizing the disproportionate disadvantage burdening individuals who have been marginalized through ascriptive discrimination, which is cumulative when these individuals have intersecting identities," the professors wrote.
Campus Reform reached out to the American Bar Association for comment; this article will be updated accordingly.
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Q: What is the difference between applications for different version of windows I have already read Difference between programs compiled for different OS. Now, I would like to know, why some apps run only on win 8 and others only on win 7 and others on both,...?

A: It has to do with the subset of features that are available on the specified OS (Windows 7 or 8 for instance).
For example, if (as a programmer) I use the cool 'taskbar preview' functionality and add buttons to the taskbar preview of my icon, I'm using a specific set of programming instructions (known as an API). This API is only available for the system it was designed for. It really is not unlike the difference between programs compiled for different OS's.
That's one reason programs will only work for certain OS's (regardless if the OS is newer than the program or not).
Another reason is the programmer specifically compiled the program to only target one OS (this happens more than you might think). In this case, when the program is run, a certain flag would kick off and say 'not compatible with this version of Windows' or whatever the case may be.
There can be other reasons but the most common are the use of a very specific API or building the program specifically for an OS.
edit: forgot to mention that the OS itself can be programmed to 'not work' with certain other programs. There are a lot of games built for Windows XP that will work with earlier versions of Windows (2000 down) but simply will NOT work with Windows 7+. This can be because of various reasons (API/driver incompatibility for example) that Windows itself might 'block' for security/stability reasons.


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2nd Sunday Crime Welcomes Cara Black with her 17th Aimee LeDuc 7/9/17 6PM CST
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Libby Hellmann
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"A mystery as sharp as Aimée's designer stiletto heels… Black juggles numerous plot lines with panache and brings to life the charm and grit of Paris."—Publishers Weekly
PI Aimée Leduc is walking through Saint-Germain when Suzanne Lesage, a Brigade Criminelle agent on an elite counterterrorism squad, finds her. Suzanne has just returned from the former Yugoslavia, where she was hunting down dangerous war criminals for the Hague. Suzanne is convinced she's being stalked by a ghost—a Serbian warlord she thought she'd killed. She's suffering from PTSD and her boss thinks she's imagining things. She begs Aimée to investigate—is it possible Mirko Vladic could be alive and in Paris with a blood vendetta?
Aimée is already working on a huge case, plus she's got an eight-month-old baby to take care of. But she can't say no to Suzanne, whom she owes a big favor. Aimée chases the few leads, and all evidence confirms Mirko Vladic is dead. Uuntil Suzanne's team begins to turn up dead in a series of strange, tragic accidents. Are these just coincidences? Or are things not what they seem?
Cara Black is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 17 books in the Aimée Leduc series, set in Paris. Cara has been nominated for the Anthony and Macavity Awards, and won a Washington Post Book World Book of the Year citation, and more. With more than 400,000 books in print, Cara's novels been translated into German, Norwegian, Japanese, French, Spanish, Italian, and Hebrew.
Libby Hellmann, host of 2nd Sunday Crime has published 15 Compulsively Readable Thriers.This is a copyrighted podcast solely owned by the Authors on The Air Global Radio Network LLC.


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