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Witch camps safe havens for alleged witches; we won't close them down – Gender Minister
Cynthia Morrison
The Minister of Gender, Child and Social Protection, Mrs Cynthia Morrison, has said her Ministry has taken a second look at closing down witch camps in the northern part of the country, as they serve as a safe haven for people, mostly old women who are alleged to be witches.
Mrs Morrison's comment comes on the back of the recent attack on a 60-year-old woman called Meri Ibrahim, who was accused of witchcraft at Sumpini in the Savanna Region.
She was beaten to a pulp and suffered gaping matchete wounds.
The victim, according to the police, has been assisted to seek health care while the suspects, five of them, are in custody, awaiting arraignment.
Reacting to this development and the question on when the Ministry will close down witch camps in the northern part of the country, Mrs Morrison told Benjamin Akakpo on the Executive Breakfast Show (EBS) on Class91.3FM that the camps will not be closed down but renamed as they serve as safe havens for alleged witches.
According to her, the people themselves say they will not leave the camps.
The minister explained: "The brutalities don't happen in the camp, they happen in the communities, the people run to the camps for shelter. I asked them: 'Are you ready to go back home?' They are like: 'No, we don't want to go home.'"
"You need to know the history of all these things. They believe in the witches; somebody dreams and sees somebody in the dream and the next is that the chief will call on him/her, interrogate and they will do some rituals…once somebody says they saw you in their dreams and you can't defend yourself, you are banned from the community and you go through this where they beat and torture you and all that, and, so, people who are smart, once they hear of that, they run away.
"Some run away for days before they themselves run to the camps. It is not somebody who takes them, some of them, too, their family members take them. Sometimes, the chiefs send them there because they believe when they get there, they will do some incantations to get the witchcraft powers out of them and they live there as a safe haven."
On the issue of closing down the camps, Ms Morrison noted: "It is not enough to say: 'I'm closing the camps'. Sitting in Accra, I was like: 'We'll close down the camps but the people themselves say if you close down, we 'll not go [home]'. And some of them, the camp is such that they live within the community, it is not an isolated camp…they live within the community, they go to the market, they farm for people just like any other person farms for people in that community and, so, it will be a difficult thing [to do]"
She continued: "The witch camps look like a safe haven for them, so, we are looking at getting them a better home, removing that name 'witch camp', looking at how to keep these women and men safe because they are telling us 'we are not going to go back to our homes.'"
The Gender Minister proposed education as a solution to solving the problem of incessant attacks and belief in witches in that part of the country.
"How do we get this resolved? It's education. The chief will tell you: 'If you don't believe in witches, we do believe they are there and we can't live with them, so, they have to go," the Minister stated.
Six proprietors dead over closure of schools – GNACOPS
Another old woman butchered for alleged witchcraft in Savanna Region
Kennedy Agyapong to release a list of 24 galamsey companies owned by NPP, NDC bigwigs
Ghana Waves App May 14, 2021 May 14, 2021
President Akufo-Addo apologises to Wa residents for military brutalities
Ghana Waves July 14, 2021 July 14, 2021
Police officers now wear 'Osama Bin Laden-like beards, ear and nose rings' – Kwesi Pratt alleges
USA customs arrest Vic Mensa for taking mushrooms from Ghana to America
We're willing to engage UTAG, CETAG further on their concerns – Education Ministry
Reinstate GN bank – PPP begs Akufo-Addo

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Insta360's New ONE X2 Lets You Shoot, Stabilise, and Edit 5.7K 360 Videos
Insta360 has launched today the Insta360 ONE X2, a pocket-sized camera offering stabilisation, 5.7K 360 videos, IPX8 waterproofing, a 360 touch display, and a range of AI-powered editing features. ONE X2 is part camera, part sidekick. With just one device, you can capture every angle at once, and unlock cinematic perspectives that used to require a cameraman or drone.
When you're ready to edit, AI-powered features in the Insta360 app and desktop software help you find and edit your best shots in just a few taps. Insta360 ONE X2 is available to order today via Insta360.com and select retailers worldwide, including B&H Photo Video and Adorama.
Insta360 ONE X2 unlocks a world of creative possibilities. Four ways to shoot—360, Steady Cam, InstaPano, and MultiView—come together to deliver a multi-cam rig that fits in your pocket. With 5.7K 360 degrees capture, the camera catches the action in every direction, so you don't have to point while shooting. Just choose your favorite angle during your edit, or let ONE X2's AI do it for you.
When you want to capture traditional flat videos, there's Steady Cam mode. This mode puts all your firepower behind one of ONE X2's lenses, capturing ultra-stable, ultra-wide footage that's ready for instant sharing. InstaPano is a brand-new photo mode for capturing beautiful panoramas. Rather than moving your camera or phone across a scene and getting poor-stitched, blurry panoramas, it's just one tap and done.
And for solo vloggers and creators, MultiView is a game-changer. Display two angles at once with different fields of view and make sure you're always in frame with the app's face tracking. Whether you're shooting in 360 or Steady Cam mode, FlowState stabilization keeps your shot smooth. ONE X2's stabilization and horizon leveling algorithms are better than ever, allowing you to shoot ultra-stabilized shots with just one pocket-sized cam—no gimbal needed.
The real fun of a 360 camera lies in the Invisible Selfie Stick. Everyone's favorite feature is back with ONE X2, allowing you to capture epic aerial angles without a cameraman or drone. Watch the stick magically disappear in your edit, keeping you in the center of your own story.
There's nothing easier than editing your footage with the Insta360 app's Shot Lab. Shot Lab hosts a continuously updated collection of one-tap templates using the latest and greatest 360 editing techniques. All you need to do is bring the footage and Shot Lab turns it into something epic.
Templates like Dolly Zoom and Stop Motion make cinematic effects as easy as a tap. Clone Trail and Shadow Clone template clone your body in seconds. Ghost Town takes your 360 timelapse and removes people from it, outputting an unobstructed photo.
Select your target with a tap or voice command while shooting. Then head to the app or Studio, where the upgraded Deep Track algorithm can track humans, animals, and other moving objects, keeping your target center-frame, no matter the obstacle.
The beauty of capturing 360 degrees means you don't have to point at your subject when shooting. But having every possible angle at your fingertips can get a little tricky when you're ready to share your footage. Auto Frame combs every inch of your 360 footage and reframes your shot to find the highlights. Improved video recommendations and a new photo algorithm help you find the perfect shot in seconds.
The TimeShift hyperlapse feature is back with ONE X2, and now available for both 360 and Steady Cam shots. Adjust the playback speed while reframing your shot in any direction, or let the AI do it for you. Add a Freeze Frame to slow your video down to a standstill and reframe the angle at the height of the action. It's as simple as a tap in your video's speed settings.
Achieve natural, high-dynamic-range shots in a tap. PureShot mode enhances the dynamic range of your low-light photos, while reducing noise and preserving detail. The image quality improvements don't stop when you head underwater either. AquaVision auto-balances out colors, resulting in crystal-clear underwater content that looks like it was shot in broad daylight. Just toggle it on in the app—no external filter or further editing needed.
Insta360 ONE X2 maintains the pocket-sized form factor of ONE X, while building on its strengths with a range of hardware and performance upgrades. A higher-performance 1630mAh battery keeps you shooting for 80 minutes, while a new ultra-bright high-def touchscreen allows you to preview your shot in 360 degrees.
ONE X2 is also ready for the water, with IPX8 waterproofing. Take it down to 10 meters (33ft) without a case, or use the Dive Case to shoot down to 45 meters with seamless underwater stitching. Four mics hone in on your voice no matter how you hold the camera. You can record stereo audio with a new smart wind-reduction algorithm or record ambisonic for a fully immersive experience.
Voice control allows you to control shooting when ONE X2 is just out of reach. You can even connect your AirPods to control the camera or record audio on the go. Stay connected with friends, family, and colleagues from a distance. Use ONE X2 as a webcam to get a wide-angle split-screen view on Zoom and other popular conferencing platforms. Or go live in 360 degrees on Facebook, Youtube, or any other 360-video channel with the customized RTMP feature.
Insta360 ONE X2 is available to order today via Insta360.com and select retailers worldwide, including B&H Photo Video and Adorama. ONE X2 retails for $429.99. A selection of new accessories are also available including Lens Guards and a Bullet Time Cord for capturing epic slow-mo angles.
Insta360 Launches the ONE R Action Cam Co-Engineered with Leica
Insta360 today announced ONE R, an adaptive action cam whose unique interchangeable-lens design enables 360-degree capture, standard 4K wide-angle capture, and use of a groundbreaking 5.3K 1-inch sensor — all with a single device. The concept is simple — one battery, one processor and a selection of quick-swapping lens Mods.
In an instant, ONE R transforms from a dual-lens 360 shooter to a standard action cam. ONE R currently offers three ways to shoot with three available lens Mods — the Dual-Lens 360 Mod, the 4K Wide-Angle Mod and the 1-Inch Wide Angle Mod co-engineered with Leica.
The 1-Inch Wide Angle Mod achieves the best performance ever in an action camera, combining a 1-inch sensor with the legendary optical expertise of Leica and 5.3K resolution — in a compact, rugged body backed by Insta360's signature FlowState stabilization.
The ONE R is designed to give creators, athletes, and adventurers a single tool that can adapt to any shoot. In terms of creative freedom, nothing beats a dual-lens 360 camera. It unlocks the ability to reframe shots after the fact, ensures that users never miss the action, and enables unique techniques such as drone-like aerial angles. But for scenes in which action is concentrated in one direction, a reframed shot from a 360 camera still doesn't achieve the same level of quality and resolution as a specialized single-lens shooter.
These two camera formats have unique strengths and tradeoffs — just as telephoto and wide-angle setups on an SLR camera have equal but opposite strengths. The only way to take advantage of both formats is with an easy, efficient way to switch from one to the other on the fly. ONE R is just that. ONE R redefines what's possible with an action cam. Each of its three available Mods unlock breakthrough imaging and quality.
Dual-Lens 360 Mod: This Mod supports 5.7K capture on two lenses that cover every direction at once. It enables a real-time 360-degree preview on ONE R's touchscreen, while innovations like Color Plus, HDR video and Night Shot achieve the best color accuracy and low-light performance in any consumer 360 camera.
4K Wide Angle Mod: Ready for 4K@60fps, this Mod captures crisp, vibrant, stabilized action and supports up to 8x slow-mo. Its reversible design lets you flip the touchscreen from back to front in a snap — perfect for getting real-time feedback when filming yourself.
1-Inch Wide Angle Mod co-engineered with Leica: This Mod achieves a level of quality never before seen in an action cam. The 1-Inch Wide Angle Mod uses a best-in-class 1-inch sensor to capture brilliant 5.3K video and 19MP photos even in complex lighting conditions. Premium performance in a device that's ready to go anywhere — the 1-Inch Wide Angle Mod is a game-changer.
Leica worked closely with Insta360 on the optical engineering and industrial design of the 1-Inch Wide Angle Mod, and contributed its unmatched expertise in image quality and color reproduction.
The ONE R uses a fully upgraded FlowState stabilization algorithm to achieve gimbal-like stabilization whether you're shooting in 360 or with a standard wide-angle. Using a smart scene-detection algorithm, ONE R outclasses the competition with stabilization that holds steady even in low-light scenes.
The ONE R is also IPX8 waterproof to depths of 5 meters (16.4 feet) straight out of the box. For those who want to go deeper, a Dive Case enables descents of up to 60 meters (197 feet). Voice control, meanwhile, lets you control ONE R with a few simple commands. If ONE R is mounted on a helmet or out of reach, just give it a shot.
The best thing about shooting 360 videos is that you capture an infinite number of possible angles and edits. The worst thing about shooting 360 videos is that you capture an infinite number of possible angles and edits. If only there were some kind of artificial intelligence that could analyze a scene in every direction at once to find the most interesting moments and angles.
Enter Auto Frame. Insta360 has developed its own computer vision algorithm to identify the best parts of any 360 video and recommend them to creators. There's still plenty of choices, but the ONE R app's Auto Frame feature helps you quickly narrow down the shots worth considering and does the reframing for you.
AI-powered computer vision also enables ONE R's mind-blowing tracking capabilities. When editing 360 videos, creators can simply select a subject to follow with a tap. The ONE R app will automatically keep it locked in the center-frame. Even if a subject is obscured by an obstacle, ONE R's algorithm will remember it and start tracking again as soon as it reappears.
And if you don't want to wait for post-production to choose your subject, you can also use Deep Track in real-time. ONE R's unique "Point to Track" feature lets you lock onto a subject with the voice prompt "Mark that!". The next time you connect to your camera, you'll get an automatically reframed shot that follows your chosen subject — it's like having a cameraman with you wherever you go.
ONE R brings back Insta360's endlessly fun and versatile Invisible Selfie Stick feature. Easily capture aerial angles and video-game-style third-person views by making your camera grip invisible. Invisible Selfie Stick is only supported when using the Dual-Lens 360 Mod.
ONE R offers a range of both hardware and software upgrades to achieve best-in-class low-light performance. New Night Shot mode captures low-light photos that pop, while automatic de-noising preserves detail in the low-light video. ONE R also supports HDR modes for both photos and videos, and creators can take advantage of Color Plus to do an automatic, one-touch color grade that brings out brighter, more vibrant hues.
When it comes to color reproduction and low-light performance, the 1-Inch Wide Angle Mod co-engineered with Leica is in a class of its own. Its 1-Inch sensor brings out highlights and shadows in vivid detail. Vloggers will be tempted to leave the rest of their kit at home. Every ONE R build comes standard with two onboard mics and an automatic wind-reduction algorithm that achieves great sound straight off the camera.
However, its USB Type-C port and top-mounted Accessory Shoe also allow for easy third-party 3.5mm mic connection. The ONE R app comes with a range of new editing features designed to help creators take advantage of all its capabilities. The TimeShift hyperlapse effect popularized by ONE X can now be completed with a couple of taps, and a new pose-detection algorithm lets creators instantly identify and extract every frame of a clip in which they strike a similar posture — enabling mind-bending stop-motion effects that used to take hours of work.
New Starlapse mode automatically calibrates exposure settings to capture stunning time-lapse of the night sky — creators just pick a time and a place and hit record. The ONE series' signature Bullet Time effect has also been upgraded with a smart horizon-leveling algorithm. FlashCut is the ONE R app's content-aware editing algorithm. First, it finds shots based on a theme set by the creator — like food, travel or pets. Then it combines them on beat into a stylish edit. FlashCut can filter and combine footage captured by any ONE R build — 360 or standard.
ONE R doesn't stop at three Mods. Its unique design enables a huge range of efficient add-ons and upgrades. The standard Battery Base can be swapped for a double-size Boosted Battery Base for extended shooting. Meanwhile, Insta360 today also announced the groundbreaking Insta360 ONE R Aerial Edition, which offers a specialized mounting system to make supported drones completely invisible and captures an unobstructed, airborne 360-degree view.
ONE R is all about choice. Creators can purchase exactly the combination of gear that suits their needs. However, Insta360 also offers a range of prepackaged Editions that give creators everything they need to get started with some of the most powerful combinations of Mods.
Insta360 ONE R Twin Edition brings together two great ways to shoot — the Dual-Lens 360 Mod and 4K Wide Angle Mod — in one convenient package for $479.99; Insta360 ONE R 1-Inch Edition comes standard with the premium 1-Inch Wide Angle Mod co-engineered with Leica and retails for $549.99; and Insta360 ONE R 4K Edition offers creators all they need to enjoy the versatile 4K Wide Angle Mod for $299.99.
Insta360 Launches GO, the World's Smallest Stabilized Camera
Insta360 has today launched GO, a tiny stabilized camera that mounts anywhere. GO uses its innovative form factor and AI-powered smart editing to make capturing life effortlessly. GO is available now via Insta360.com and select retailers worldwide. It weighs only 18.3 grams and goes places that other cameras can't, capture angles other cameras don't, and never gets in the way.
When worn, GO enables seamless, hands-free shooting, so users can capture experiences at the spur of the moment without ever fumbling behind a phone display. But GO is more than wearable. A magnetic body, plus a range of accessories, means GO is ready to clip, tag or hang on just about anything. Shooting video with GO is simple: Pressing its button once records a clip for up to 30 seconds, pressing a second time stops it.
Because GO can be mounted anywhere — from clothing to vehicles — it has to be ready for a bumpy ride. Whether users walk, ride or crossover dribble, GO keeps footage smooth using Insta360's signature FlowState stabilization. FlowState is the secret ingredient that enables GO to get great footage anytime, anywhere.
GO doesn't just save time and hassle during capture. With FlashCut auto-editing, it also saves the hassle of finding and editing your best clips. FlashCut uses AI to find your best shots and combine them — on the beat — into a stylized edit. GO can sort content based on a theme (such as food, cities, smiles) and quality of the shot composition. With FlashCut, users can capture, edit and share their day in a few taps.
For creators who like to get hands-on, the GO app also offers a full-featured editing tool that allows tweaking of everything from transitions to the colour palette and playback speed. The app also lets users easily combine footage from the GO and their smartphone, ensuring their edits bring together all of their best shots.
Thanks to its next-level stabilization, GO makes hyper lapses easy. Mind-blowing shots that used to take expensive gear and hours of editing are now as simple as the press of a button. GO captures hyper lapses for up to 30 minutes at 6x speed. Stationary time-lapses are just as easy. GO's mount-anywhere design lets users capture the flow of time from impossible perspectives.
The GO app's unique Barrel Roll feature lets you twist your shots like a turntable, as many times as you like. It's a head-turning effect that looks even better when combined with a hyper-lapse. Smooth, rolling shots used to take expensive gimbals and fancy footwork. GO uses stabilization and an ultra-wide field of view to make them easy.
GO is IPX4 water-resistant straight out of the box. It's ready for splashes, rain, and submersion in water for up to 10 seconds. GO supports shooting at up to 100 FPS so creators can slow things down and dial in on the action. GO's Charge Case slips into your pocket, allowing for easy charging on the fly. With the Charge Case, GO is ready for about 200 clips a day. After a day of shooting, the Charge Case connects directly to your phone for fast footage transfer.
Any GO purchased via Insta360.com can be laser-engraved to give it a personal touch. GO comes standard with a range of accessories for easy charging and mounting, including the Charge Case, Magnet Pendant, Pivot Stand, Easy Clip, and Sticky Base. GO is priced at $199.99.
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Biomet M2a Hip Lawsuits MDL Consolidation Pending
As Biomet M2a Magnum metal on metal hip replacement attorney, I have written extensively about the inherent early failure problems associated with metal on metal hips like the DePuy ASR, Pinnacle hip replacement models and others made by Biomet, Zimmer, Smith and Nephew and Wright.
In recent years, concerns have emerged about the safety of all metal-on-metal hip replacement systems. The metal-on-metal design causes cobalt and chromium metallic microscopic shards to shear off from the metallic articular surfaces through the grinding wear and tear mechanism. The articular surfaces involve the metallic surfaces of the acetabular cup, femoral head and taper sleeve.
There is mounting evidence of the significant risks that the patients are exposed to; including premature device failure, osteolysis (bone loss), bone and tissue damage, metallosis (metal poisoning) and heavy metal toxicity.
According to lawsuit allegations, this excessive wear makes the Biomet M2a Magnum Hip system prone to fail.
Biomet M2a Magnum MDL Application
The plaintiffs who allegedly been injured by a Biomet M2a Magnum metal on metal hip, have filed a motion with the Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation to create a multi-district (MDL) for individual product liability lawsuits.
The initial filing includes 9 Biomet metal-on-metal claims filed in various federal courts throughout the U.S. and it is expected that many more cases may be filed once approved.
Biomet Metal-On-Metal Hip Problems
The Biomet M2a Magnum was approved by the FDA in 2004 and is made up of all-metal components. Biomet M2a Magnum was initially marketed as a longer-lasting and more durable hip implant suitable for younger, more active patients. But post-marketing reports indicated the implant was failing sooner than expected, with patients complaining of pain, swelling, difficulty walking, and other complications.
FDA Adverse Complaints
The FDA has received at least 450 complaints involving the M2a Magnum and these seem to be increasing with time, as evidenced by the 159 reports already received in 2012.
Reasons for MDL Consolidation
Like the other four metal-on-metal MDLs, involving DePuy ASR, DePuy Pinnacle, Zimmer Durom Cup, Wright Conserve, the M2a Magnum cases will benefit from consolidated proceedings.
Transfer and coordination is likely because these cases involve similar questions of fact, including whether or not the Magnum has caused or will cause harmful effects in patients, whether the defendants concealed any knowledge of the connection between the M2a and its harmful effects, and whether or not they defectively designed and/or manufactured the device. The MDL is designed to allow these cases to proceed jointly and will decrease costs for all parties, conserve valuable judicial resources and avoid the risk of inconsistent rulings.
Current Metal on Metal Hip MDL Consolidation
MDL No. 2158 – In Re Zimmer Durom Cup Hip Implant Litigation in New Jersey established in June of 2010 which now has more than 151 filed lawsuits.
MDL No. 2197 – In Re DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc. ASR Hip Implant Products Liability Litigation in Ohio established in December of 2010 which has more than 4,000 individual lawsuits.
MDL No. 2244 – In Re DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc. Pinnacle Hip Implant Products Liability Litigation established in Texas in May of 2011 which has more than 1,200 individual lawsuits.
MDL No. 2329 – In Re Wright Medical Technology, Inc., Conserve Hip Implant Products Liability Litigation established in Georgia in March of 2012 which has more than 30 lawsuits.
Read more here about the Biomet M2a Magnum hip and visit my website for more information.
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顧客の近く
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メッセの開催日
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Less day-to-day business but with advice and action
After a total of 50 years as Managing Director, Johannes Reilhofer now hands over the CEO job officially and enjoys leaning back and not needing to rule the day-to-day business anymore. He invites you here for a brief review and outlook.
"I was one of the first to start thinking in ones and zeros."
50 years managing director, 50 years in the same job. That may sound boring, but it wasn't. 20 years at JOHNE + REILHOFER and 30 years at Reilhofer KG. A long time that led through various technical generations. In electrical engineering from the tube to the transistor to the peak of integration, to the almighty wonder chip. I experienced my first time at Siemens in the central laboratory in Munich. It was the laboratory for pulse technology, laboratory 501. I was also one of the first to start thinking in ones and zeros. We took care of the transmission via cable, light beams and the recording on tape.
50 years of being a Managing Director come to an end. But Johannes Reilhofer wants to continue with advice and action.
"I was the only revolutionary."
And as is the case, the youth takes on the experienced experts. At that time, I claimed that pulse duration modulation, pulse amplitude modulation and what else was available in pulse techniques, in which any parameter was changed analogously, had no future. Instead, there would only be one method for a successful future: pulse code modulation. A process in which an ADC (analog to digital converter) generates a report from a signal sample in the form of a digital word. That's how I said it back then and today everyone does it that way.
Back in the 1960s, it was revolutionary. Unfortunately, I was the only revolutionary in the laboratory at that time. And the only chance to prove it to the "old experts" was to found my own company. Alone you are much too slow with your product idea, so I needed colleagues who also believed in this idea. Fortunately, I can convince people of my visions very quickly and thus quickly found the right engineers.
When developing new products or functions, the own car in the company car park was sometimes used for tests.
"Johannes Reilhofer, the PCM Pope."
There are certainly a lot of motives for starting a company. Some want to make more money. Others want to exercise power. Or like me: you know exactly that a product or technology is not yet mature and are therefore looking for others to join in.
As early as 1972 I had front pages in trade magazines: Johannes Reilhofer, the PCM Pope. It sounds strange, but I didn't invent the lines. The auto industry pounced on the new product. During the test drives, the possible measurement dynamics increased tremendously, in the crash tests you no longer ended up in noise or overloading and so on. The American FM technology for tape machines was left behind.
"From a commercial point of view, I was the risk for my own company."
I was certainly a good technician at JOHNE + REILHOFER, but commercially I was the risk for my own company. No matter what the task looked like, I always said: we can do it. Well, we could always do it after we realized it with an economic loss.
Starting with Reilhofer KG we developed marketing strategies. Actually, it's very easy. You have to come up with a product that the market needs. And then you have to offer it at a price that the measurement departments of users never manage, even if they have already adopted all of our ideas.
What does the user absolutely need? Well, that's what the experts in the company hierarchy, who are responsible for the costs, determine. You want to do something good for the shareholder, you save. And what is expensive? Well, the staff.
Always with heart and mind: for Johannes Reilhofer customer contacts are just as important as every technical detail of the products.
"We wanted to replace the expert in his absence."
And now comes our technical idea that has brought us the economic echo worldwide. When I used to walk through the test halls, I saw a man sitting at every workstation, watching his test item through the bulletproof glass. At least one screen in front of him and possibly some other signal output devices. The test bench driver linked – and this is important – the measurement parameters and what he saw on the screen in his brain. And then his decision came: CONTINUE or, if the damage was suspected to start: STOP.
That was our chance. We had to make it possible for our diagnostic system to take over the expert knowledge. We wanted to replace the expert in his absence. The system had to generate answers and instructions from the data.
So if the expert on the test bench "told" our deltaANALYSER what to look out for, he could go home. A man was then able to implement 3-shift operation with our diagnostic and action system, even on the weekend.
It wasn't just getting cheaper. One man also provided completely new information: why does this component hold in one and never in the other test specimen. Cross-sensitivities became a new and important topic. Today we not only find the weakest component, but also the lifespan of the "oversized".
Also the Joint Venture H-Reilhofer is one of Johannes Reilhofer's successes.
"Now I have given up my job as managing director."
Now I have given my job as managing director to my colleague Stefan Salvermoser, who has been responsible for the commercial processes at Reilhofer KG for many years. Our management team continues to consist of the Global Sales Manager Andreas Mathiak, the CMO Ingo Meyer and the CTO Thomas Satzinger. I myself will remain the owner and will of course be available as a discussion partner for my colleagues.
The new-alt team (from left to right): Thomas Satzinger (CTO), Ingo Meyer (CMO), Johannes Reilhofer (Owner), Stefan Salvermoser (CEO), Andreas Mathiak (Head of Global Sales)
My goal has always been to be a technological pioneer and to give my colleagues a secure job. This is why this company has always remained a KG, so that no shareholders were able to withdraw any profits. Rather, the profits generated will continue to flow into development in the future, so that Reilhofer KG continues to be a technological leader in its defined field of work. To ensure this, the company will be converted into a foundation. That is the logical step of my responsibility.
Yours, Johannes Reilhofer
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Grant to fund network of Catholic thought institutes, fostering faith-science dialogue
By Kate Olivera for CNA
February 18, 2022 Catholic News Agency News Briefs 0 Print
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Denver Newsroom, Feb 18, 2022 / 15:10 pm (CNA).
A Chicago-based Catholic nonprofit has been awarded more than $3.6 million to assist the launch of a national network of independent institutes of Catholic thought, to promote dialogue about the relationship of faith and science.
"The In Lumine Network sets a place at the table of the secular academy for the Catholic intellectual tradition," said Michael Le Chevallier, acting executive director of the Lumen Christi Institute, in a statement announcing the $3,648,000 grant from the John Templeton Foundation.
"It will help established and nascent institutes for Catholic thought to scale up, deepen their engagement around faith and reason, share ideas, build on the successes of others, and amplify impact," he said.
Several institutes for Catholic thought already operate on campuses across the United States, but this project by the Lumen Christi Institute is the first to gather them in a consortium.
The project is called "In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide." It will help institutes of Catholic thought collaborate and refine on-campus offerings, particularly addressing the relationship between faith and science.
The project will also include eight summer seminars for students across the nation.
The project will initially comprise six members: the Lumen Christi Institute at the University of Chicago; the Nova Forum at the University of Southern California; the Collegium Institute at the University of Pennsylvania; the Saint Anselm Institute at the University of Virginia; COLLIS at Cornell University; and the Harvard Catholic Forum at Harvard University.
Nova Forum Director David Albertson said the grant will open new dialogue at USC between faith and science, including medicine and engineering.
The program director for the Harvard Catholic Forum voiced similar hopes, saying the grant would allow the Forum to "enter with confidence into a new phase of growth, expanding our impact on present and future leaders in science, scholarship and the professions."
The grant was announced Feb. 1.
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Software for Processing SAR Images of the Polar Oceans
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
The RADARSAT/ERS-1,2 Geophysical Processor System (RGPS) is an automated system of hardware and software that processes synthetic-aperture-radar (SAR) images of ice and open water in polar oceans to generate higher-level geophysical-data products. Information in such products includes the age and thickness of ice and the onset of melting or freezing. They are all computed by algorithms contained in the RGPS software. In addition to the SAR image data themselves, meteorological fields are used in the analysis of the SAR imagery; therefore, interfaces with external meteorological sources have been established to capture meteorological data. The RGPS is intended to be installed as a subsystem of the Alaska SAR Facility (ASF), though testing of the RGPS had not yet been completed at the time of reporting the information for this article. In operation as subsystem of the ASF, the RGPS would be able to place requests for acquisition of raw SAR data and for preprocessing of those data by other hardware and software, would ingest the preprocessed data, would generate its standard data products routinely, and would deliver these products to an archive for long-term storage and distribution. In addition to the aforementioned geophysical data products generated from SAR imagery, the RGPS would also produce daily surface-pressure, wind, and temperature data on a gridded field.
This program was written by Ronald Kwok, Shirley Pang, Amy Rodgers, and Glenn Cunningham of Caltech for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. No further documentation is available.
This software is available for commercial licensing. Please contact Don Hart of the California Institute of Technology at (818) 393-3425. Refer to NPO-20021.


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For the sake of trying to be more specific, rather than referring to Trinitarian Theology as the term used to describe what it is Perichoresis Australia and the USA are declaring, more specifically, what we are trying to bring to modern Christianity is the gospel that was understood in the mind of the Ancient Church which is the foundation of Trinitarian Theology. Some people may not realise that what they assume to be the gospel they may hear from the pulpit in their local fellowship is far removed from what it is those early Christians believed in those first few centuries. Many times in the early church writings the Apostolic and later fathers of the ancient church made their appeal to Scripture and Tradition. When we use the term today, some may reject this for fear of buying into something other than the Protestant/Evangelical tradition such as the Roman Catholic Church's own interpretative tradition. No single church has a monopoly on Scripture and Tradition. This is far from the case and a discussion on this I think is warranted to clear up what is meant by Scripture and Tradition. It is the the Rule of Faith that stands outside all denominations as the touchstone for which truth is drawn from.
There was a time in our recent history where the Egyptian text could not be translated into our modern language. An engraved stone was found by Napoleon's army at the turn of the 19th century while digging foundations for a new fort. The soldier in command realised the importance of this discovery. On the stone was inscriptions in three languages, one in hieroglyphics, coptic and ancient Greek. The inscriptions of the three languages were eventually pieced together and the mystery of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic were unlocked. The Rosetta Stone became the touchstone for understanding the ancient Egyptian language and provided a way for the correct interpretation of this ancient text. In the same way, this was very much the purpose of Scripture and Tradition. When encountering dubious claims put forward by the many heresies of the early church, they appealed to Scripture and Tradition as a means of rejecting their ideas.
As Christianity began to impact on the more educated circles of the Mediterranean society, there was interest from the many circles of the academic community. Some embraced the gospel in its entirety as being the answer to all they had previously studied. Others however were interested in certain aspects of the message but felt there needed to be some form of correction. In this culture, it was normal to present ideas and put them forward for debate. When the Christians came onto the scene, it may have been perceived that a new kind of "theory" or "thesis" was put forward. Some would have considered the new and strange of ideas of the gospel and promptly rejected it with definite reasons presented as an "antithesis" or a counter-theory. Others still would propose a blending of the two ideas, i.e. Pagan/Christian theory which is called a synthesis or a blending of two theories. The problem the academics in this ancient period encountered is the position of the Christians was not open to negotiation. The Christians believed God has come as this Man, Jesus Christ, of which they were just mere witnesses of His majesty. Their role was to deliver His message through the Apostles as prophesied in the Old Testament which foreshadowed His coming and testified in the New Testament which were eye-witness accounts giving clear meaning to His coming. They delivered the message using the whole scope of Scripture giving clear revelation of this monumental event. In them we find the intimacy of contact between God and the Apostles through their written testimonies. No other single or group of human beings had this privilege. This meant that what the Apostles had was first hand while all others were not even close to second, third hand meaning their understanding of the truth of God had no grounds whatsoever.
From the very early days of the Church it was both Scripture and Tradition that helped her to stay true to what was delivered into their hands from the Apostles who, in turn, had the message of the Gospel delivered to them by Jesus Christ in Person. The Creator of heaven and earth was standing before them. This is the One who is before all things and in Him all things consist and are held together. The saw Him with their eyes, they touched with their own hands and the heard Him with their own ears. This is the only One who knows the Father and this is the only One the Father knows. Enormous value therefore was placed on the Scriptures, especially what we now know to be the New Testament.
Much of the documents were widely available not just to the Christians around the world, but to the many heretics in various areas. Christians held that these Scriptures had their primary Source in the Person, the Words and works of Jesus Christ bringing the right context for how Scripture was to be interpreted. Thus it was by revelation that the truth was to be approached with God Himself in the Person of Jesus Christ who is the ultimate source of our revelation and the one who mediates it to us through Himself by His Spirit. This revelation was entrusted to the prophets and to the eye-witnesses of the Incarnate Word, the apostles, and ultimately passed onto the church. What the Lord entrusted to, the apostles declared and the fathers safeguarded is what is usually understood to be the tradition. In addition, we must take into account what the prophets proclaimed in the Old Testament about Christ's coming in advance was also coupled with what the apostles preached after He came. When the apostles read the Scriptures after the resurrection and the pouring out of the Holy Spirit, they now had a bias and their eyes were enlightened by the revelation of Jesus Christ. When the gospels were written along with the epistles, these texts were soon given equal regard to the Old Testament as Holy Scripture. Their particular method of exegesis and interpretation rested on the fact of who they claimed Jesus Christ to be and the whole scope of these Scriptures used collectively to show His claim to be valid. What appeared to be understood to be tradition was the teaching that corresponded with all that Jesus Christ taught.
During the second century, the battle between the Gnostics and the Christians was in full swing. While the ancient Christian community held fast to the testimony of New Testament Scripture so what was declared throughout the world was identical with those of Jesus Christ Himself, the Gnostics exploited it to their own end claiming they had access to a secret apostolic tradition of their own. The lineage of the gospel was precisely through the Apostles, who received it from Christ and then Christ who Being God come to us in Person, bringing with Him and in Himself the only precise and accurate knowledge of God. The oral transmission of the Gospel by the Apostles in an open and public way was given as much credibility as the Scriptures themselves. In his fifth book of Against Heresies, Irenaeus said that the Barbarians had received the faith without the letters: To which course many nations of those barbarians who believe in Christ do assent, having salvation written in their hearts by the Spirit, without paper or ink, and, carefully preserving the ancient tradition, believing in one God, the Creator of heaven and earth, and all things therein, by means of Christ Jesus, the Son of God; who, because of His surpassing love towards His creation, condescended to be born of the virgin, He Himself uniting man through Himself to God, and having suffered under Pontius Pilate, and rising again, and having been received up in splendour, shall come in glory, the Saviour of those who are saved, and the Judge of those who are judged, and sending into eternal fire those who transform the truth, and despise His Father and His advent. Those who, in the absence of written documents, have believed this faith, are barbarians, so far as regards our language; but as regards doctrine, manner, and tenor of life, they are, because of faith, very wise indeed; and they do please God, ordering their conversation in all righteousness, chastity, and wisdom. If any one were to preach to these men the inventions of the heretics, speaking to them in their own language, they would at once stop their ears, and flee as far off as possible, not enduring even to listen to the blasphemous address. Thus, by means of that ancient tradition of the apostles, they do not suffer their mind to conceive anything of the [doctrines suggested by the] portentous language of these teachers, among whom neither Church nor doctrine has ever been established (3.4.2). If you read this carefully enough, you will also see one of the formal statements made often by the fathers that would some 150 years or so later be formalised into what we know to be the Nicene Creed.
The tradition was understood not be a pick and choose according to one's whims. The only authority was to embrace all that the Apostle's testified to in the whole scope of the New Testament Scripture. In essence, Scripture and Tradition worked hand in hand and was not suppose to be contrasted against one another. The oral tradition was accepted as valid only if it was in harmony with what was testified in the Scriptures.
Apart from their refusal to accept the divinity of Jesus Christ, the characteristic trademark for the heretics was to use a string of Scripture verses to support their "super gospel". They felt the gospel was reserved only for those who were enlightened with "special knowledge". One could hear their argument and if it did not appear to make sense, it would only be because one hadn't quite grasped what they would call "special spiritual enlightenment," reserved for those who were chosen by God "to see." In much the same way, this is how the 5-point Calvinism, as well as its bedfellow, the followers of Arminius, of the 17th Century works. If one does not embrace this teaching, it is only because they were not chosen "to see" or used their so called "free will" not to see, this "special knowledge" by God and are elected to perdition. Once the divinity of Jesus Christ is undermined or disregarded altogether, the fixed point through which all the ways and works of God was drawn from loses its force. The knowledge no longer rests on God Himself in the Person and work of Jesus Christ but on the fantasies and imaginations of human beings. The glory of God uniting Himself to humanity at the Incarnation begins to fade into insignificance.
The battle against Gnosticism continued into the third century. So much so that it started to have an impact on the school in Alexandria. Clement and his student Origen began to use language that had subtle characteristics of of the Gnostics. Their writings took an over-emphasis of tapping into a spiritual way of understanding where only the elite of the church were able to understand. By turning certain aspects of theology into a "special knowledge" meant the student had to conform to a set of ambiguous premises narrowing an understanding that was universal towards a particular way reserved only for those who could get it. There grew a duality between the elite clergy and the rest who were not spiritual enough to understand. It was out of this way of thinking using a set of fixed theories and hypotheses that Origen's heresy of universalism was birthed. This cause and effect kind of language and thinking which Origen attempted to inject into Scripture and Tradition was firmly rejected by the later ancient theologians. Universalism today still has the same Gnostic way of thinking and this "special knowledge" appeal that draws so many people in. This is not to say that Origen did not respect tradition and Scripture. When push came to shove with the heretics he faced, it was Scripture and Tradition through which he defended the faith. Later theologians respected the brilliant mind of this man but often said that Origen was too puffed up with his own brilliance and took things too far.
Around about this time the Roman church was slowly beginning to be regarded as the proper custodians of the Apostolic rule of faith. However, it was the formulation of the Nicene Creed in 325AD and its expansion in Constantinople in 380AD that was the full expression of it (Epiphanius Ancoratus 118). In addition, though it took some decades for the Creed to be universally accepted as the one creed that expressed all that was believed from the beginning, its content concisely summed up what is meant be tradition and the means of interpreting the Scripture in the right way. By solidifying the belief in the unity of Being of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit through the controversial phrase homoousios to Patri, though not scriptural in its origin, this phrase expressed all that Scripture and tradition had to say. It is at this point in history where there is harmony between what the whole church believed between Scripture and Tradition and how the gospel was expressed and taught.
Now I am not waving the banner of the Roman Catholic Church nor any other church for that matter. The Banner I wave is the Scripture and Tradition that is concisely summarised in the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed and the writings in support of it from the Apostles, through the fathers leading up to this period, and those who continued to defend it beyond this period. Athanasius says in Ad Afros 4 "This enables us to see, brethren, that they of Nicaea breathe the spirit of Scripture, in that God says in, 'I am that I am,' and through Jeremiah, 'Who is in His substance and has seen His word;' and just below, 'if they had stood in My subsistence and heard My words:' now subsistence is essence, and means nothing else but very being, which Jeremiah calls existence, in the words, 'and they heard not the voice of existence. ' For subsistence, and essence, is existence: for it is, or in other words exists." In this way, the fathers of this council believed that one must subordinate Scriptures through the mind of the Apostles and to that of Jesus Christ, who is God of God.
The Bible does not necessarily stand alone and with the great movements of the ancient church as well as the reformation, it was through the interpretive tradition of the ancient church that both were helped to steer on course. It is knowing in Jesus Christ we see God fully disclosed in His Words, His Person and His work who is of the same being with the Father. The whole scope of Scripture rests on Him as her own touchstone. The Niceno/Constantinopolitan Creed was formulated as a concise definition of the tradition that was held since the very beginning through the many and various formal statements from many of the fathers through the ages of this early period. If any denomination has a statement of belief that falls short of the whole scope of Scripture in the same manner in which the ancient church held so dearly, then one can be sure they have fallen into the trap of the Gnostic mindset and have lost touch with reality. The church firmly believed in the full implication of the Incarnation. That is, when Jesus Christ was born, God united Himself to all humanity. It is our duty as Christians to embrace this in its entirety and not withdraw in fear at its shocking and reverberating impact on all humanity.


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Group-to-Individual Inference
Groups (of People) and Inferences about Individual Members of Groups (of People): Thoughts Provoked by Professor Sharon Davies – but through absolutely no fault of hers!
Can or should inferences be drawn about individuals from their membership in a group or groups of people?
Can inferences about a particular person's behavior be drawn from a person's membership in the group (i) Roman Catholics, (ii) Muslims, (iii) French citizens, or (iv) the Aryan Brotherhood (a once-widespread racist prison gang committed to violence and other vile matters, see United States v. Abel, 469 U.S. 45 (1984))?
*** Not all members of a group of people always or even ordinarily act the same way under the same or similar circumstances. For example, the behavior of "French citizens" and "Muslims" (often) varies widely.
Therefore?
*** Can the membership of an individual in a group of people support inferences about the behavior of that individual?
Individual people – all individual people – belong to many groups, perhaps an infinite number of groups. For example, one person may belong to the following groups: (i) French citizens, (ii) Roman Catholics, (iii) females, (iv) adults, (v) regular newspaper readers, (vi) practitioners of voodoo, (vii) child molesters, and (viii) homo sapiens.
N.B. A riddle: Since there are not an infinite number of people, how is it possible for individual people to belong to an infinite number of groups of people?
*** It is reasonable to suppose that male Roman Catholics tend to act differently than female Roman Catholics in some circumstances.
It is reasonable to suppose that adult male French Roman Catholics tend to act differently than adult male German Roman Catholics in some circumstances.
And it is definitely reasonable to suppose that adult male Bavarian Roman Catholics act differently than adult male Prussian Roman Catholics!
It is unlikely that any of us have ever observed the behavior of other people who belong to exactly the same constellation of groups to which any individual person belongs. This would in fact be impossible – since all individual people are to some extent different and thus belong, to some extent, to different constellations of groups of people.
Of course, many us – indeed, all of us – are profoundly ignorant about the behavior of many groups – often without being aware of the depths of our ignorance.
*** Is it immoral to base inferences about individuals on the behavior or characteristics of groups?
Is it illegal to do so (in, say, the courtroom)?
Is it unconstitutional to do so?
Is it possible for anyone to draw inferences about individuals – individual people – without drawing on knowledge or assumptions about the behavior or characteristics of groups – including groups of people?
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9/11 and Investigation: The Proper Study of Hints of the Future
In recent days and months there have been many reports of investigative blunders before 9/11. See, for example, the AP report carried by salon.com and the recent book THE CELL by John Miller & Michael Stone with Chris Mitchell. And it is hard to avoid the conclusion that serious investigative blunders were committed. (Just why were those guys interested in learning how to fly large jet planes without being interested in learning how to get such planes on the ground safely?)
But any fair evaluation of the performance of the FBI, the CIA, and similar investigative and intelligence agencies must consider that the process of investigation is extraordinarily difficult, in many respects far more difficult than, say, the evaluation of evidence presented by lawyers in trials. The difficulty of investigation is related to the "hindsight effect," the tendency of people to say, after some unexpected event has happened, that any fool could and should have expected that the unforeseen event would happen.
One of the things that makes investigation extraordinarily difficult is that in many investigations the investigator does not know the questions, let alone the answers: the investigator does not know, for example, that an important question is whether or not someone will hijack a plane and crash it into a building rather than, say, whether or not someone will park a truck bomb in front of the American embassy in Turkmenistan. (Is there an American embassy in Turkmenistan?)
Test yourself. What question or questions should the FBI et al. be trying to answer now, today? Whether or not someone will commandeer a passenger jet and crash it into a building? Whether someone will commandeer a passenger ship and then park and explode it near mid-town Manhattan? Whether someone will carry a nuclear bomb in a suitcase across the U.S.-Canadian border by Minnesota? Whether someone will dump LSD (or worse) into the Concord, Massachusetts, reservoir? The range of possible threats -- and, thus, the range of possible questions -- is enormous.
But the 9/11 tragedy suggests that the investigator's dilemma is not always hopeless. Evidence has the important capacity to suggest pertinent possibilities; little bits of evidence have the ability to provoke the imagination in productive ways. Example of such a "provocative evidentiary trifle": students who wanted to learn to fly without wanting to learn how to survive flying. (There were in fact investigators -- e.g., FBI agents -- who drew the conclusions that were, in hindsight, right on the button. Taken as a whole, America's intelligence and investigative systems failed. But it should not be forgotten that in the midst of this massive intelligence failure, there were some remarkable individual victories, victories achieved by investigators who clearly had a remarkable degree of intelligence, diligence, and imagination.)
"Policy makers" -- I mean legislators and other such people -- have now jumped on the bandwagon: they now recognize the importance of intelligent intelligence. And they now realize what some people (e.g., David Schum) have been saying for quite some time: connecting dots is as important as collecting dots; i.e., analyzing evidence is as important as collecting it. But what remains unclear (to this writer) is whether these same policy makers appreciate the price that must be paid for intelligent intelligence analysis. By all accounts, the amount of evidence and data collected by intelligence agencies such as the FBI and the CIA is enormous. The problem investigators, investigators, and analysts face, therefore, is not so much a shortage of data as a surfeit of data, an abundance of data. The trouble is that someone must sit down and think about the masses evidence and data that our intelligence and investigative agencies manage to collect. (This means, at a minimum, that potentially important bits of information embedded in foreign languages must be translated into languages that intelligence analysts can understand. But such translation, of course, is not sufficient.)
Until the artificial intelligence people make more progress than they have so far, effective evaluation of masses of data and evidence is an extraordinarily time-consuming and labor-intensive process. If we in the U.S. are are seriously worried about terrorist threats, we must be prepared to foot the bill to pay for analysts whose job it is to look at masses of evidence and data in the hope of detecting therein signs and hints of terrorist activities and dangers.
So the bad news is that effective intelligence analysis is very expensive. But there is also good news: We may not have to surrender our rights and liberties to achieve effective investigation. The failures of American intelligence with regard to 9/11 were not due to the absence of pertinent evidence and data. There was, it now appears, an abundance of such evidence and data. Our system of intelligence and investigation failed us principally because the system did not make good use of the evidence and information that it already had in its hands.
Labels: 9/11 and foresight, 9/11 and handsight, 9/11 and investigation, investigation and civil liberties, investigation and questions, investigation and trifles
DNA in the News: Imperfect Evidence and Imperfect Justice
Yesterday we commented on an attempt to use DNA evidence to exonerate a prisoner of murder (and rape). Today we can report that the attempted exoneration was successful and that the (former) prisoner is Eddie Joe Lloyd.
The exoneration of Mr. Lloyd (by the Innocence Project) moved the NYTimes to editorialize, "Every DNA reversal is a lesson in the problems with one prosecutorial tool or another. Witnesses are unreliable. Criminals will lie in exchange for lenient treatment. Mr. Lloyd's case shows that even a signed confession is not always what it seems. And it provides further proof that the American justice system is imperfect at best, and frequently far too flawed to rely on capital punishment." Section A; Page 16; Column 1; Editorial Desk (Headline "110 Wrongful Convictions, and Counting"), August 27, 2002, Tuesday, Late Edition - Final.
We have no opinion about Mr. Lloyd's guilt or innocence; we are unfamiliar with the details of his case. However, we do have some questions about the NYTimes view of the case:
#1: Was it DNA that taught the NYTimes that "witnesses [can be] unreliable"? Or did the NYTimes know that before?
#1A: Did DNA and the Lloyd case teach the NYTimes that witnesses are always unreliable? (If so, the NYTimes editors might wish to reconsider their position.)
#2: Did the NYTimes only recently realize that "[c]riminals will lie in exchange for lenient treatment"?
#2A: Does the NYTimes believe that the (unreliable) testimony of criminals who hope for lenient treatment should be removed from the courtrooms of our land? Always? Should such testimony be removed from the pages of our newspapers? And should the (unreliable) testimony of criminals or prisoners who give testimony in the hope of exculpating themselves also be removed from the courtrooms and newspapers of our land? (If so, should the American criminal justice system and the NYTimes have ignored Mr. Lloyd's professions of his innocence?)
#3: Is it news (to the NYTimes) that "even a signed confession is not always what it seems"?
#4: Does Mr. Lloyd's case demonstrate that "the American justice system is imperfect"? (The answer is "yes" -- though we do have to assume Mr. Lloyd's innocence.)
#4A: Does Mr. Lloyd's case -- or the 109 other cases of apparent exculpation to which the NYTimes refers -- reveal the extent of the imperfections in the "American [criminal] justice system"? Or is it necessary to know how many times the criminal justice gets it right?
*** Questions, questions! What about answers?
Well, consider these (limited) points:
First: Although capital punishment may be a bad idea, the Lloyd case -- by itself -- only shows -- at most -- that the American criminal justice system sometimes convicts innocent people. The Lloyd case (by itself) does not show the relative frequency of wrongful convictions.
Second: While the Lloyd case (and cases like it) may show that witnesses and confessions are sometimes "unreliable," the Lloyd case and cases like it do not show that witnesses or confessions are always or ordinarily unreliable (much less worthless), and the Lloyd case and cases like it do not by themselves tell us how the American justice system should deal with confessions or self-interested testimony.
Third: The Lloyd case should teach us -- but it won't, alas --, it should teach us that DNA evidence is not a magic bullet on the question of criminal guilt or innocence. While I have little reason to doubt Mr. Lloyd's claim of innocence, there is ample reason to reject any claim that the DNA evidence in his case -- or in any other case -- conclusively demonstrates his innocence. Errors run two ways in the criminal justice system -- in favor of criminal defendants as well against them. And, DNA (or any other existing forensic technology) notwithstanding, fact finding errors of either kind remain inevitable in the criminal justice system.
Labels: DNA lessons, lessons of DNA
News Item #1: Sam Dillon, "Fighting Back, Accused Priests Charge Slander," The New York Times, Section 1, Page 1, National Desk, August 25, 2002 (Sunday, Late Edition - Final) reports that some priests are now bringing lawsuits against accusers who, the priests say, defamed them (the priests) by falsely accusing them (the priests) of sexual abuse. A "survivors group" castigated one such defamation lawsuit as "un-Christian, vengeful-style litigation that may scare others who have been abused and are hurting into remaining silent."
If one is a priest who has been falsely accused and maligned, one might instead be inclined to say that a defamation lawsuit is one way to right a grievous wrong.
It's all a matter of perspective -- and, one hopes, of the facts! Right? Yes? No?
News item #2: Today's NYTimes (which has not yet appeared on an internet site that I can access) carries a story about a prisoner who claims to have been wrongly convicted. The story asserts that a DNA test or tests show that the bodily fluids found on pertinent clothing were not the prisoner's and, it is said, this DNA evidence thus shows (or tends to show) the prisoner's innocence of the murder for which he was convicted long ago. The same story notes that this same prisoner signed a written confession, a confession in which the prisoner apparently admitted committing the murder for which he was tried and convicted. To help explain this confession -- to explain why the prisoner might have confessed committing a crime that he did not commit --, the story quotes an expert -- I am reciting this from memory--, the story quotes an expert who asserts that when police officers have in hand the person who they believe to be the perpetrator, such police officers have a strong inclination to assemble evidence that supports their suspicion and their case. The implication is that this inclination -- this desire to wrap up a case against a person believed to be guilty -- explains the confession of the prisoner who is the subject of the NYTimes story. Suppose it is so: suppose police officers will often go to great lengths to secure convictions of the people who they think are the perpetrators. If this is how police often behave and if this inclination is the explanation for this prisoner's confession, might this (hypothesized) inclination also explain why the bodily fluids allegedly found on the pertinent clothing or materials do not match the prisoner's body? You out there -- you lurkers! -- tell this suspicious mind (mine, I mean)--, dear Reader(s), tell this suspicious mind the {fantastic?} possibility that it (this suspicious mind) is entertaining! (Your discovery will be its own reward.)
Labels: clergy sex abuse scandal, clergy sexual abuse and counterclaims for defamation, investigative bias and false confessions and a possible explanation for non-matching DNA
On Doing Non-Bovine Blogging
Being new -- brand new -- to blogging, this blogger needs advice about good blogging. Should I compose my thoughts before I blog? Or should I blog daily -- with 1/4-baked thoughts?
I should avoid the confessional (narcissistic) mode, no? That being said, would this (possibly incompetent) law teacher's occasional impressions about the job of teaching Evidence interest anyone? Not?
Do you want to hear grand thoughts about probability, inference, uncertainty, et al.? Or would you prefer my thoughts about current events -- such as botched police investigations? Both?
My thanks in advance for your advice.
Labels: blogging advice wanted, non-bovine blogging
Time and Justice in Massachusetts
It appears that at least some of the numerous plaintiffs and alleged victims in the "Catholic clergy sex abuse scandal" cases claim that they repressed their memories of their abuse by Catholic clergy. See, e.g., Douglas Belkin, "Shanley Pleads Not Guilty," The Boston Globe,Metro/Region p. B1 ( July 11, 2002).
Long-lasting defects in memory have occasionally been a rewarding attribute in Massachusetts.
In 1992 Ann Shahzade commenced a civil action in which she averred that she had been sexually abused by the defendant – her cousin – more than forty-seven [47!] years earlier. Shahzade v. Gregory, 930 F. Supp. 673 (D. Mass. 1996). The sexual abuse allegedly occurred from 1940 to 1945. Plaintiff was 68 years old when she commenced her lawsuit against her even more elderly cousin. Defendant – her cousin – made a motion for summary judgment: he argued that plaintiff's civil action was barred by the applicable Massachusetts statute of limitations. United States District Court Judge Harrington, however, denied the motion. He reasoned that there was admissible evidence that plaintiff had repressed her memories of having been abused, repressed memories that plaintiff allegedly recovered during psychotherapy in 1990. Judge Harrington acknowledged that the evidence clearly showed that plaintiff had long believed – indeed, had believed for much of her adult life – that she had been abused by her cousin. But Judge Harrington concluded that there was sufficient admissible evidence to show that until 1990 – when psychotherapy allegedly allowed plaintiff to fully recover her repressed memories and thus endowed her with new understanding – plaintiff did not appreciate the cause of the harms that she allegedly experienced as a result of the alleged sexual abuse by her cousin half a century before.
Labels: clergy sex abuse scandal, repressed and recovered memory
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BRET BAIER (HOST): Somebody had to see something that helps them piece together this puzzle.
WHEELER: Oh, absolutely. And that's why there's a number of police officers, it's just been reported by Jonathan Hunt, that's just arrived at the hospital. And the reason is because they need to start interviewing those witnesses, the survivors, as quickly as possible, so that they can start putting the pieces together in terms of what everybody saw. You know, did they recognize the person? Did the guys -- did the shooters, did they say anything? So far it hasn't been reported that they said anything, which I find kind of interesting, because typically if it's a terrorist activity, or a terrorist attack, they're going holler out Allahu Akbar or something. So far, Bret, we haven't heard any of that.


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Jean-Luc Brassard quits as Canada's chef de mission for Rio Olympics
By Morgan CampbellStaff Reporter
Mon., April 11, 2016timer2 min. read
Freestyle skiing champion Jean-Luc Brassard, who earlier this year criticized the Canadian Olympic Committee's handling of alleged sexual harassment by former president Marcel Aubut, has stepped down as Canada's chef de mission for the Summer Games in Rio.
Back in February, Brassard told Radio-Canada he would considering resigning over the Aubut scandal. The COC said Monday he was leaving for "business and personal reasons."
"Since becoming chef de mission, my professional obligations and other responsibilities have made it very challenging for me to manage time-wise," Brassard said in a statement. "After much reflection, I have come to the difficult decision, and in the best interest of Team Canada, to step down as chef de mission. I arrived at the conclusion that I could not help the athletes to the extent that I would like."
Brassard, 43, went on to say he had full confidence in the Canadian team and called COC president Tricia Smith "a women of integrity who has done tremendous work since she arrived at the COC."
Smith called Brassard a "great Olympian."
"He has also been a great supporter to me as we take a new direction at the COC and I thank him personally for that," she said.
Former cyclist Curt Harnett will be the new chef. He was the Canadian team's chef de mission at last summer's Pan American Games in Toronto.
Smith succeeded Aubut after he stepped down in October. Several women accused Abut of sexual comments and unwanted touching. The 68-year-old lawyer has not faced any criminal charges.
He apologized to "those who may have been offended by my behaviour" in his resignation statement.
The COC subsequently hired a human resources firm to conduct a review of the organization's policies and practices in the wake of the scandal.
The COC adopted all eight recommendations in the review and fired two executives and a manager.
Less than a month after the review's results were made public, Brassard expressed concern about how the situation had been handled in an interview with Radio-Canada.
"During the last four years, red lights were lit on a number of occasions, and intentionally or not, they were ignored," Brassard said in the interview. "I want to know why. We're not talking about budgetary mistakes or financial issues, we're talking about human feelings."
Brassard said at the time he had written a letter to the COC's board of directors outlining his concerns.
"If I have the impression I can't do anything for the employees who are still hurt by this, I would consider that a failure, and I might have to distance myself," he said.
In response to Brassard's criticism, Smith said "we have taken the steps so far we need to take in terms of making sure our staff is safe, the workplace is healthy.
"It's a process. If more steps need to be taken, they will be taken."
Retired short-track speedskater Isabelle Charest and gold-medal winning wrestler Carol Huynh will be Harnett's assistants.
Brassard was the assistant chef de mission for the Canadian team at the 2014 Sochi Olympic and was named the Rio chef later that year.


In this blog, we will go more in depth about UV inks.
A few weeks ago, we discussed UV inks as a popular ink for wide format printer inks. In this blog, we will go more in depth about UV inks. What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of it? Read on to learn more about this fascinating type of printer ink that has been greatly gaining in popularity.
UV inks don't dry without being cured first.
Spills are difficult to clean up. If any workers step in the spilled ink, it will stay stuck to them, and they may unknowingly track the ink across different rooms.
The initial startup costs to begin using UV inks is higher.
Operators need to remember to avoid direct skin contact. UV inks are known to cause skin irritation. In some cases, people may even have allergic reactions they don't know about until they come into contact with said ink.
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August heat had us bringing in the lowest miles of the year with 802.76 miles and a total for the year at 18,603.78 miles so far for 2017. This update is through the end of August. Summer has drawn to a close and the competition has really heated up. Below are the ones leading the charge currently and the top four have really been battling it out. If you forgot to enter your race miles we will include them in the next update. Looking for races to enter? Be sure to check out the Run It Fast – Club Race Discounts in the Facebook group.
Leading the women is RIF #644 Ila Brandli with 1,346.5 points. Second place, RIF #450 Patricia Klein with 901.3 points. Coming in third place is RIF #525 Karen Vollan with 893.4 points.
Leading the men is RIF #263 Denis McCarthy with 1,404.4 points. Second place, RIF #638 Ken Fattmann with 1,203.5 points. Coming in third place is RIF #279 George Southgate with 1,022.3 points.
France's François D'haene held off Spain's Kilian Jornet to win the 2017 Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc with a time of 19:01:32.
Jornet finished 15 minutes back in 19:16:38. The first American, third overall, finisher was Tim Tollefson in 19:53:00.
Spain's Nuria Picas was the female winner of the 2017 UTMB in 25:46:43 barely holding off Switzerland's Andrea Huser who finished less than 3 minutes back in 25:49:18. Third female went to France's Christelle Bard in 26:39:03.


This three day workshop was conducted at the Bangladesh Medical Research Council (BMRC), Dhaka. It was supported by the World Health Organization, South-East Asia Regional Office and Librarians Without Borders®/Medical Library Association (LWB). The instructors were Dr. Lenny Rhine, LWB and Dr. Md. Nazim Uddin, icddr,b.
In 2015, Mr. Charles Raby, Technical Information Management & Dissemination, SEARO visited Dhaka and initiated the organization of the first Hinari Training of Trainer Workshop in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Without his initial work, this training would not have occurred.
Local arrangements were facilitated and coordinated by Dr. M. Mostafa Zaman and M. Aminul Haque of the WHO Country Office, Dr. Mahmood-zu-jahan, BMRC and Dr. Deepti Munjal, SEARO. Without their assistance, the successful logistics of this workshop would not have been achieved. Of special note was the support from the BMRC staff. They were attentive to all our needs – IT support, last minute printing, tea breaks in the computer room, etc. Consequently, all the logistics of the workshop worked quite well at the BMRC venue. One final note is about the help of M. Al Mamun, icddr'b. Although he technically was a participant, Mamun supported the goals of the workshop in many useful ways.
Key library staff from twenty institutions in the Dhaka region attended the training. The participants were from medical universities and hospitals, governmental ministries, medical specialty organizations and research institutes – all key health-related entities within Bangladesh. Only one institution needed to register for Hinari and participants from another three needed to receive their institutions' passwords. These tasks were initiated during the workshop and completed the next week with the assistance of the Hinari staff in Geneva.
In the three day workshop, the goals were to have the participants learn the critical skills of Hinari and related resources and be able to conduct training to the various target groups at their respective organizations. Institutions in Bangladesh have access to all Hinari publishers except three so that there is a wealth of information currently available to the users. While most of the presentations were in English, additional summaries were completed in Bengali.
The modules covered were searching skills and evaluation of health sites on the Internet, Hinari portal including 'access problems and solutions', Hinari/PubMed (website, filters, history and advanced search, MY NCBI accounts), the alternate Summon search tool for Hinari, evidence-based medicine, e-book and Internet resources for Bangladesh users, discussion of Hinari and Research4Life training material, a summary of the Zotero reference management software plus a review of authorship skills material (How to read and write a scientific paper, plagiarism, web-bibliography).
We also focused on the Hinari marketing module and had all the participants complete the Marketing checklist (spreadsheet). This is a tool for developing a detailed marketing plan for each institution. After six months, the participants will receive a survey that 'evaluates' their outcomes and particularly the use of the marketing plan.
At the end of the workshop, the participants completed a post-workshop survey. Almost all the participants 'agreed' that the workshop was well organized, had relevant material with useful 'hands-on' exercises, that the trainers were knowledgeable/organized, effective presenters and responsive to questions and that the workshop resulted in their obtaining useful knowledge and skills. According to the participants, major strengths of the workshop included Demos/Hands on, Information Gained and Networking.
There were a significantly broader reply to the 'length was appropriate for course content' question. The responses were 60% replying 'agree' and the remaining 40% noting 'somewhat agree' or 'somewhat disagree' or one 'disagree'. This disparity can be attributed to the differing levels of knowledge and skills of the participants. When checking the hands-on exercises, there was a large number of participants that we would say 'OK, keep working; looks great' while, with a smaller number, we had to sit and, step by step, go through the exercises.
In conclusion, this was a successful workshop because of the dedication, interest and skills of the participants. Overall, a large number of librarians obtained the skills necessary to use and conduct training about the Hinari and Internet resources that were discussed. One example of this was the 'group exercises' activities (marketing and workshop scenarios) as this was the best group responses of any workshop. Without the assistance of Nazim, WHO/Country Office staff members and support staff from the BMRC, this workshop would not have been as successful.
An additional positive byproduct of the workshop was the participation by Ms. Natalia Rodriguez, Communications Coordinator for the Research4Life Programs. Her goals were to obtain video and interviews to develop material especially for social media - to promote the programs and the training resources. Besides communicating with the workshop participants, Ms. Rodriguez conducted several valuable interviews with staff at International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons (BCPS), National Health Library & Documentation Centre (NHLDC) and the World Health Organization Country Office. She covered all aspects of the training program in terms of communication.
On April 20, 2016, an additional workshop was conducted at the WHO Country Office. This was organized by M. Mostafa Zaman and Lenny Rhine was the instructor. Approximately 20 individuals attended this training. The material covered including literature searching using PubMed (portal features, filters, history option, MY NCBI), How to read and write a scientific paper, Plagiarism and Zotero/Reference Management Software. Due to the five-hour length of the workshop, the modules were condensed somewhat. Downloading the Zotero onto the WHO computers and completing the key functions exercises definitely was time consuming and we had a technical problem with the Word plugin option. The staff learned a set of information skills that can be applied to their research and policy development activities.