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Brazilian Armed Forces Strengthen the Nation's Cyber Defense
In 2011, hackers conducted the first successful attack on Brazilian Army computers. They didn't manage to compromise strategic information during the attack, but they copied names and personal data of service members. The criminals also demonstrated that they were capable of overcoming a firewall on the Army network.
The incident underscored a need that had already been identified by the National Defense Strategy, which in 2008 defined information technology as a strategic sector for Brazil's defense. In 2011, authorities began to implement the Strategic Cyber Defense Project, which falls under the responsibility of the Brazilian Army.
The Strategic Cyber Defense Project has proved successful in preventing further attacks. The project's pillar is the Cyber Defense Center (CDCiber), located at Army headquarters in Brasília. Nine sub-projects focus mainly on training human resources as well as on research and development of cyber defense and security tools.
"In the virtual world, there are thousands of attempts to attack Information and Communications Technology (ITC) systems," said Lieutenant General Paulo Sergio Melo de Carvalho, the head of CDCiber. Data, including that from the Center for the Study, Response, and Treatment of Security Incidents in Brazil (CERT.Br), corroborate "the perception that cyber threats are expanding exponentially with the Internet."
In 2014, more than one million attacks against both civilian and military Internet-connected computers were reported throughout Brazil. The majority of these attacks correspond to fraud attempts (44.6 percent ), followed by scans on computer networks to identify targets (25.1 percent) and cyber-attacks to crash the operation of a specific service (21.3 percent).
Cyber Operations simulators help train Soldiers
To thwart such attacks, the Military is using the skills of both its and civilian personnel, some of whom provide training on how to detect and stop such assaults.
"The profiles of the professionals working in the sector range from people with managerial and technical skills in the field of information security to those with qualifications in the legal area and the research and development area, covering members of the Military and civilians," Lt. Gen. Carvalho added.
There are various training strategies for each branch of such skill-mapping, from internships in national civil industries to courses offered by educational institutions of the Armed Forces, such as the Military Institute of Engineering (IME) and the Integrated Electronic Warfare Center (CIGE, for its Portuguese acronym). The CIGE is equipped with the country's first Cyber Operations Simulator (SIMOC, for its Portuguese acronym), which is to help train teams participating in the Armed Forces' operations Atlântico IV and Anhanduí later this year.
Through SIMOC, it is possible to run cyber protection actions in a controlled environment as well as conduct training based on real scenarios of catastrophes and compromises to national infrastructure.
Brazilian company Rustcom developed the simulator under guidance from CIGE and it has been in use since 2013. Simulated scenarios have been constantly renewed.
"Given that the development of the simulator is a continuous improvement process, new requirements are being introduced to improve the tool. This year, new scenarios will be developed that meet the specificity of the joint training under the Ministry of Defense," Lt. Gen. Carvalho added.
Partnership with educational institutions
The protection of critical Brazilian infrastructure such as hydroelectric power plants, refineries, and telecommunications networks, is one of the critical focus areas for national defense. At least two of the Brazilian Army's seven current strategic projects are designed to minimize infrastructure threats.
While Project Proteger is concerned with physical security, the Strategic Cyber Defense Project aims to protect the virtual environment of these strategic structures. One of the project's most recent initiatives was establishing the Electronic Security Laboratory for Communications and Cybernetics (LaSEC²), which was inaugurated March 3 in the Itaipu Technological Park.
LaSEC² will develop tools for ensuring the security of the federal government's information assets, using security operations for the Itaipu hydroelectric power plant as a model.
"We will work on the protection of Itaipu as a case study, and at the same time, we will seek out national solutions [for cyber defense]," Lt. Gen. Carvalho said during the inauguration ceremony for the laboratory.
The hydroelectric power plant, located between Brazil and Paraguay, is responsible for supplying 17 percent and 75 percent respectively of the nations' consumed energy.
The laboratory is part of the National Information Security and Cryptography Network (RENASIC), one of the Strategic Cyber Defense Project's 10 sub-projects. Since 2008, when RENASIC was established, eight laboratories have been created throughout the country, in addition to LaSEC². Hundreds of university researchers participate in RENASIC with the goal of increasing Brazilian competencies in Information Security and Cryptography (SIC). Since they can make messages unintelligible and decipher encrypted messages, cryptography techniques play an important role in protecting data from unauthorized access.
Cyber defense policy to gain more support
The year 2015 has special importance for the cyber sector in Brazil. Studies and discussions are underway for creation of the National Cyber Defense School and the Cyber Defense Command. The Ministry of Defense stipulated the creation of these organizations in an October 2014 decree (Regulatory Decree 2,777/MD) as part of a series of measures to strengthen the country's cyber defense policy. The initiative complements efforts being made in this area through the Army's Strategic Cyber Defense Project.
The National Cyber Defense School will function as a center for National Cyber Defense research and development and include participation of military and civilian institutions and professionals. The Cyber Defense Command is expected to supervise, coordinate, and provide the technical and regulatory guidance for the activities of the Brazilian Cyber Defense System. The Army's Cyber Defense Center (CDCiber) will focus solely on operations.
According to information from SOUTHCOM's Joint Cyber Center (JCC), CDCiber has collaborated for the past two years with U.S. Army South and the JCC on cyber defense military operation information exchanges.
Both the School and the Command will serve Soldiers from the three branches of Brazil's Armed Forces, with the Joint Chiefs of Staff coordinating operations.
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The next day after Wendy's Sunday adventure, she was glowing. She couldn't wait to see him again. She was so intrigued to learn more. She loved how he looked at living life and how he truly LIVED life so randomly and spontaneously and so FULLY. Wendy wanted to learn everything about him.
During her workday, he texted her a meme. It wasn't just any meme. It was a meme with the taco-man and his posse running, with the meme saying: When you remember you don't have to work today.
It was a holiday and so it was pretty funny to see a meme Wendy and Peter helped create. Texting conversation flowed, they shared what audible books they are listening too, what recent ted talk he listened too. He challenged her mentally, and it was fun. She really enjoyed what he had to say.
After work that day, Peter came to Wendy's house to hang out. Once there, Wendy asked if Peter wanted to go to the rooftop? Peter, said yes. Wendy didn't tell him that is was an AMAZING view of the Atlanta Midtown Skyline & the absolute reason why she even chose to live there.
So, after getting out of the elevator, and walked down the hall to outside on the rooftop, he was so taken aback by how magnificent the buildings looked and how peaceful the busy city looked from that perspective. Peter didn't say a word but just melted into a chair on the rooftop and staired. Wendy couldn't take her eyes off of him. Was he really moved that much from the view? Why hadn't she been so awestruck and just soaked in her surroundings like Peter did? She was seeing how Peter just really slowed himself down to truly enjoy everything around him and she liked that. Wendy wanted that for herself. She had always been operating on all cylinders and feeling like she literally sprints through life. Wendy wanted to be a turtle versus the rabbit- for once. There seemed to be some incredible peace and happiness that lied there.
Wendy up to that day had let fear of getting robbed, raped, and murdered in the city keep her from exploring TOO much on her own. Peter asked Wendy if she wanted to walk around with him. Obvious yes. Time to face Wendy's fear. They walked up North Avenue to Peachtree Street. Down past the Fox Theater, and then eventually found there way back to her house. They saw a lot of questionable characters that would have scared her otherwise that Peter said hello too. Peter gazed at his surroundings barely ever saying a word. Looking up at the buildings, at the people around him. All he ever did was smile the entire time and then he said, Let's walk back. Peter left, hugging Wendy goodbye.
Wendy was disappointed he didn't kiss her once. She then remembered that it really doesn't matter. She had been single for three years up to that point and what was the rush to change that? Wendy still was on her self-discovery journey and decided that she just wanted to learn as much as she could from him. Later, Wendy texted Peter thanking him for taking 8000 steps with her that day (her phone tracks it). He said he enjoyed each and every one of them as well.


This was the big split. Eric left us at Devils Lake for Minneapolis and Tony and Chris rode with us for lunch in Minot. After lunch, we huggedwhere they went south to the Black Hills.
Getting out of North Dakota was the goal. We honestly couldn't leave it fast enough especially as we neared the oil town of Williston. What a crying shame. We did stop to hydrate at what seemed to be the only open pub in the town. Then off to Montana where it was very, very easy to go way faster than any of us should have.
The fact that you could literally see about two miles in every direction meant nothing was going to sneak up on you. Accept for that one little dog that scared the heck out of us as we neared Malta at a break neck speed.
We found our free campground in Malta, were treated to info from the gas station attendant with info on how bad the mosquitoes have been, and then just as we set our tents, the bug sprayer on the back of the F-150 pickup does a drive by and gives a nice blasting of industrial strength bug spray.
Parting shot: If you need something MacGyvered, you want John on your team. His BMW muffler melted his BMW pannier and started to melt his personal gear in the pannier. He found metal. Cut, bent and mounted it so there was no longer an issue.
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Long time ago, Spanish conquistadors went to this little island and explored the mountains cutting through its thick forest. They would often see tiny lights coming out from the trees illuminating the evening sky during nightfall, when they lay to rest. Fireflies were everywhere during that time and it was a wonderful sight to see. From that moment on, the island was dubbed as "isla de fuego" or island of fire. The island gained notoriety over the years through folk tales and legends. Many believe that mystics who perform mambabarang(witchcraft) reside in the hinterland of Siquijor. But contrary to popular belief, suiquihodnons are very much in touch with their religion and the witches believed to be engaging to arts of black magic are loosely based on faith healers with unconventional rituals. For the next two days, I and Ice will be cycle touring around the mystical island and rediscovering its beauty, treasure and magic armed with a camera, an appetite and the spirit of adventure.
Dumaguete and Siquijor is only an hour away via Delta fast craft and they have daily trips going to and fro. I reckon, one should follow a golden rule–never eat before boarding a small fast craft. Heed my warning, as the rough seas can be very tough on land lovers. Obviously, I am neither a mariner nor do I easily get seasick during a boat trip. This time I am making an exception. Rough seas are a normal sight during the months of January and unfortunately for me, I experienced the worst voyage thus far. Needless to say, after an hour from the port of Dumaguete to Siquijor, I was left enervated while onboard the fast craft. It was like a bad case of vertigo, my vision spun around like spinning top. We were seated at the back of the vessel and diesel fumes is putting me to the edge. Nauseated, I stared only at one fixed point and tried to focus. Wave after wave my gut crunched and I started to salivate for no reason. The crew started going around and gave out plastic bags. I suppose they knew somebody would give in and make a mess all over the floor. So i grabbed two and just like my mind was playing on me, as soon as i held the bag, i gave in. I was sweating bullets, wishing it would all be over soon. Then finally, i hear siren and creaks. I gape outside the window and mooring rope were thrown out from the jetty. I waited for everybody to alight and mustered all the strength I had left. At last, I'm back in solid ground! It only took a few minutes till my color went from pale to flesh. Thankfully, I survived this ordeal.
Visiting a small rustic town through a bicycle offers a free glimpse on what the locals do with their everyday lives. These slow mechanical contraption we call bicycles become an ambassador on trips like these. It allows you to engage on local chats and somehow people become interested in you. I would like to think that riding a bicycle is the most benign form of traveling, the humble pace with inconspicuous presence glared by meek smile would consistently gain a warm reception from locals. That is why cycle touring is the best way to discover the islands and its people.
Surviving a ridiculous boat ride from Dumaguete, I was greeted with cool breeze and fine white sand. The impeccable quality of white sandy beaches was evident, located unexpectedly just in the port area. A promising cycle tour is on our way and we couldn't be more excited about it. Just a few meters away from the Port of Siquijor, one can visit the old church of St. Francis de Assisi and its rugged bell tower situated a few meters away from the convent. We headed east, towards Salagdoong Beach, and our objective was to get there before nightfall. We had a very relaxed pace considering I rode a full loaded Brompton while Ice rode a 14inch single speeder. A cycle tour is often rode on a slower pace. The amount of time riding allows the cyclist to engage in a sense of contemplation and draws fine attention to appreciate the details where most motorist pass through unaware. Siquijor roadways are bicycle friendly, the smooth pavement stretched out like a long winding serpent that laid beside white sandy beaches. Cycling here can be blissful or intense depending on the speed of the rider.
Going uphill on some parts are bearable. There were times we dismount and happily stride towards the highest point. Once on top of a hill, we gradually tucked ourselves for better position and gripped firmly on the handlebar all senses working for a white knuckle decent. The Lazi territory had an abundance of rolling hills but we kept our momentum, cycling steadily till we reached the century old Balete tree. The whole scene was surreal. The hazel clad vine curtain that shroud the big Balete tree seemed like looking at the portal to the unknown, as if it was covering something behind. All of these played into Siquijor's mystic allure. We were all alone in the spot and we noticed concrete benches sited lightly near the free-flowing water. Apparently, you can sit down and let the fish nibble your feet. Tiny little bites felt like blunt knives plucking bits of your skin that often leads to a weird sensation.
We had a brief respite and then pressed on towards the town of Lazi. There were more hills to take on yet we still remained oblivious to the challenges. Eventually we saw old structures that seemed like bastions made out of coral stone. The old convent of Lazi is said to be one of the biggest convents inAsia. During its heyday, it served as a vacation house for the diocese's priest. The presence of baroque style architecture is visible on San Isidro Labrador Parish Church. The wide and thick walls were made to withstand time and weather. The church was partially built in the mid 18th century by the Augustinian Recollects. The structure was based using stoned coral walls and the best mahogany timber the town folks can find. The site has been a candidate for UNESCO world heritage list.
Exploring Siquijor offers a wide array of places to visit and one of them is waterfalls. Multi-tiered waterfall with turquoise basin invites a hiker for a refreshing dip. We made our way far up the inner roads that lead up to the jump off point of Cambugahay falls. One has to manage to get down through steep steps. Deep within the forest, nestled in the mountain gully, is the only waterfalls found in Siquijor. By the time we head back to the town of Lazi, the sun was slowly slipping down the horizon and we had a couple of miles left to cover till we get to Maria, Salagdoong beach. We decided to hire a tricycle to take us to Salagdoong just before 8pm. The perks of having a fold up bikes is when anytime we run into trouble, all we do is fold our bikes into a small package and hitch a ride from any help that would come.
A wonderful rise in the morning from a previous long ride was literally a breath of fresh air. Salogdoong Beach was located in the tip of Salagdoong Forest located in Maria, Siquijor. The site offers white sand beach and towering stone ledges perfect for cliff diving. Sunrise at the east was visible from the beach's vantage point. Warm colors reflect over the horizon, which offers a fantastic play of fleeting light that can only be treasured from a sublime memory of a vivid photograph. Shortly after having breakfast, we packed our things and started to ride through a delightful canopy in the forest. Tree line pathways on a sunrise made light streak through branches and morning mist, it reminds me of a scene from the movie-A walk in the Clouds, where a war veteran Paul played by Keanu Reeves, walk outs into a narrow path slowly disappearing into the haze of light ray and morning mist.
We were in high spirits as we had a perfect weather to start off our second day in Siquijor. We were scheduled to visit Tulapos marine sanctuary in the nearby town. It is known to be the largest mangrove forest in Siquijor, we set out to view the forest firsthand. A quick detour meant highways transform into narrow pathway to unpaved single tracks. I was told that there was a tree house hidden deep within the mangrove forest. A hidden treasure only few have known. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate the tree house and even locals knew little on its whereabouts.
Road signs show that we were well on our way to completing our cycle tour of Siquijor. Passing through the town of Larena, we held on for few more hills and rushing cars. Finally, a familiar sight, the bell tower of St. Francis of Assisi is now within reach. Our ride covered a total of 83km in and around Siquijor. Not quite an epic distance but definitely fun in epic proportion.
This is an awesome adventure which inspires me to do the same! I've played with the idea of cycle touring for a few weeks now, and this is pushing me to do it! Thanks.
Another awesome piece Jay! Siquijor also boasts of having one or two of the oldest churches in the Philippines.
Sounds like a great adventure, I am going to make a trip to Siquijor soon taking my cycle. Hope to take 3 to 4 days to see what I can at my own pace. I will have my partner with me and she is new to cycling, is it hard going or do you think a new rider can manage?
hi phill, siquijor is mostly an open flat ride, there are some hilly parts but they are manageable even for those new to cycling. 3 to 4 days is just about enough for a chill relax ride. I'm sure you and your partner will enjoy your cycle tour around this beautiful island. happy cycling!
Pre! Ayos to ah, sana makapag bike/akyat ulit tayo minsan!
master, sana soon, miss ko na din umakyat!
Love your photos. Looks like it was a great adventure!!
What a great adventure and beautiful pictures!
Love the photos! It reminded me of Puerto Rico!
Thanks for giving me a new destination on my ever expanding list of places to go in the world.
thanks, I'm glad to be of help, looking forward to your travels here in the islands of Philippines.
Whoazzy !! Seems like someone had a great Cycling day huh! Gr8 pics !! The pics show that you guys had a wonderful time 😀 Cheers !!
Such an amazing adventure — a beautiful story is told through your photos. You're blessed indeed!
looks like a nice adventure trip on cycle !
What a beautiful journey! Thanks for sharing!
Your trip looks like it was amazing! Thanks so much for sharing your photos and stories!
Interesting reading and a good cycling adventure. I see you have your Brookes B17 saddle they are the most comfortable leather saddle EVER, once it has shaped itself to your bottom!
It's interesting that you are both cycling on fold up bikes, I have a Brompton myself however I wouldn't go on a long trip on it. As I like the comfort of an MTB.
I'm glad you got the hang of taking off the rear wheel, it can be a slight nightmare I dread rear wheel punctures on a Brompton.
Best of luck with the next trip.
Wow! Amazing pictures and a telling account of your adventure!
That looks like such a good time!!! I'm definitely inspired to try out a different way to travel out and about.
A really interesting read of a place I am unfamiliar with. Sounded a great trip and impressive distance for a brompton. Thanks for sharing.
A trip to Siquijor on 2 wheels.. Congrats for being Freshly Pressed!
I like bike, so happy to see your adventure. Great job with fantastic photos. Thank you!
Congratulations, kabayan! This is something to celebrate. I am amazed at how you "patiently" documented this trip/adventure. Well, the effort was worth it as it is featured right there — at the homepage. I'm very proud!
Biking to go to places sounds really fun and adventurous. I think I should give it a try.
thanks sony, comments are overwhelming, i so happy my little blog gained notice. hope to share more adventures to you guys!
Simply amazing! Congratulations on being Freshly Pressed. Mabuhay ang Pilipinas, mabuhay tayong mga Pinoy.
hi janis, you should try this when you visit Philippines, i haven't been to pandan island but i sure love to check it out. thanks!
Handy having little folding bikes. We toured around on folding bikes also for 4 wks. in Europe.
Enjoy the trip. Hoping tailwinds to both of you.
Wow, love these photos! I am a WordPress photographer, so I love seeing posts like this. Keep it up!
thank you aaron, hoping to share more adventures here in wordpress.
Just in case you are not a member of the Pinoy Travel Bloggers, I suggest you should join "the group". You can find them on facebook. You'll sure be qualified.
My next trip will certainly involve a cycle tour. Great story!
Wow, your adventure makes me wanna learn how to ride a bicycle this summer and visit Siquijor too. Sounds a lot of fun! Must learn ASAP!
absolutely amazing travels! I wish i could do something like that right now, but hopefully I will soon enough.
what brand bikes are those? they are pretty compact able, yet seem pretty sturdy, good choice.
oh? i've never heard of that one, i'll be sure to check it out.
how long was the full trip?
we went around the coastal road of siquijor island for two days stopping by for any interest we can find. the other part of the cycle tour is found on other blogpost. enjoy!
Ang ganda talaga ng Pilipinas!!! – from your kababayan all the way in England.
salamat sa pag visit kababayan!
Very nice. It's really good to travel Philippines. Try to visit Bacolod next. It's a metro city but full of cultural background and heavenly tasteful foods.
That is really great stuff! Congrats on being freshly pressed! Looks like you guys had a blast and a fun trip!
This is what you call a perfect travel blog! 🙂 Nice photos, and I must say I love the adventure. 🙂 Coooool!
Wow! Another Filipino on Freshly Pressed. Congrats! Great post by the way. Awesome pictures!
I hope to see the place one day.
sighhhhhh…. that's all i can say…. your photos brought me out of this wintry place to the sun and sands of the Philippines….. i wish…. thank you for sharing…. God be with you in your cycling adventures…. Mabuhay!
Thanks for showing the beauty of our country. There are really lots of popular and undiscovered destinations worth visiting throughout all 7,107 islands in the Philippines. Sadly, I've never been anywhere south of Luzon, but I'll make it a goal to visit maybe Cebu or Bohol in the near future.
you guys rocks. My legs would have been marshmellow after 1/2 hr on those little bikes.
I'm leaving home to go backpacking in August and this is a post to see, but it does salvate my tongue in jealousy!
Awesome adventures you two! Love the bikes!
Very nice Bike idea… kaso I use motorbike… I really love the concept I swear!
Wow that is amazing. I actually really want to try this one day. Would you say a hiking tour or a cycling tour is tougher?
hiking tour and cycling tour may be a strenuous option but it takes in more wonderful experience on the place. you can always take you own pace and enjoy everything along the way. cheers!


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Who was with Alice when she boarded Arcadia?
in everyone's opinon, who is the better heroine? Alice of Resident Evil or Lara Croft from Tomb Raider?


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7 everyday uses for AI you never thought about before
By Jamie Carter 2018-01-11T13:00:59.1Z
It's artificial, it's intelligent, and it's everywhere
Do you use artificial intelligence (AI)? It might sound like a high-brow discussion for coders and data scientists, but AI is everywhere. If you use an Amazon Echo, you use AI. If you use Facebook or Netflix, AI is used on you.
AI is a catch-all term for several different technologies – including machine learning, neural networks, voice recognition and natural language processing – but they all have one thing in common (or should do); they allow machines to learn how to respond to your needs. In the future we'll have highly advanced AIs within self-driving cars, smart home thermostats that know when you're on the way home, and – perhaps most excitingly – computers that teach themselves. Some of those might be a long way off, but AI is in your everyday life right now.
1. Searching the web
Every Google search uses AI. Credit: CC0 Creative Commons
The biggest, best and almost the defining search engine of our age – Google – uses AI to try to hunt-down the most relevant results from the web's billions of pages. In the last few years, Googling has become more contextual, and voice-friendly, but a crucial new part of the search algorithm, called RankBrain, is what makes Google search consistent.
As opposed to those questions that pop-up in the search bar before you've finished typing, RankBrain is for finding answers to questions and search terms Google has not come across before. A machine learning tech that looks at the words in a search query and identifies others with a similar meaning, RankBrain attempts to guess what you mean.
2. Smart home assistants
Smart speakers use voice recognition and natural language processing. Credit: CC0 Creative Commons
What started in your phone has now gone into smart speakers like Echo, Google Now and HomePod, but virtual assistants remain the most obvious use of AI in the home. The four big players – Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri, Google's Assistant and Microsoft's Cortana – all use voice recognition and natural language processing for hands-free searching.
The Amazon Echo Look even adds a depth-sensing camera and a smart style assistant to tell you how good your outfit looks in the morning. Or not.
3. Discover and recommendation on Netflix
Recommendation services use AI to tell you what to watch next.
What do you want to watch next? Friends might tell you what they think you should be watching next on Netflix, but it's much easier when Netflix itself tells you what to watch. The AI in use by Netflix is all about creating 'taste communities', and it works like this; an algorithm records your viewing habits of a library of content that has already been tagged by actors, genres and themes. Your behaviour profile is pretty nuanced, detailing exactly what you watched, when you watched it, and in what order.
You're then placed next to others within the 104 million subscribers of Netflix that have similar preferences; that's your taste community. The algorithms watch and learn from everything everyone does within these communities, teasing-out recommendations it's increasingly sure you'll like. Classic machine learning.
4. Facebook's inner workings
Facebook uses DeepText and DeepFace.
Facebook's two billion users upload 350 million photos each day. How does it classify it all so it can sell advertising on the back of all our data? Deep Learning, that's how. As well as using its DeepText algorithm to discover the intended meaning in status updates and comments (and even identify users showing signs of depression or suicidal thoughts), its DeepFace algorithm finds your face in other people's photos.
Much like Netflix identifies 'taste communities', Facebook also uses AI to groups its users together for the easier placement of adverts. It's not stopping there; Facebook AI Research (FAIR) now has three labs in Menlo Park, New York and Paris as is seeks to expand how it uses the latest AI techniques.
5. Uber's dynamic pricing
Uber now uses AI for price discrimination.
Ride-hailing is all the rage, but as all uber geeks know, it all depends on when and where you travel. The fare you pay depends on variables such as the estimated time and distance of the route, traffic congestion, and the supply of Uber drivers when you make the request. However, Uber is now using AI to help with figuring out pricing.
Its impressive AI price algorithm will take into consideration a number of variables and that will be reflected in the price of the fare.
6. Spam filtering on Instagram
Instagram uses DeepText to hunt-down spammers.
Remember when Instagram used to be full of spam? It's not anymore, and that's thanks to the platform's use of DeepText since October 2016. An AI algorithm borrowed from parent company Facebook, DeepText is a deep learning-based text understanding engine.
Facebook claims that it understands with almost human-like accuracy the textual content of several thousands posts per second, and in over 20 languages. It was initially used only to detect follower-hunters and identify spam messages, but now it's also being used to detect offensive language and cyberbullying.
7. Discovering exoplanets
Google's machine learning is helping astronomers find planets. Credit: NASA/Wendy Stenze
OK, so identifying planets around distant stars is in your average, everyday task, the use of AI by astronomers of late is telling. NASA just found an eighth planet circling Kepler-90, a Sun-like star 2,545 light years from Earth, which marks the first time the solar system has been found as well populated as our own. The astronomers made this discovery using Google's machine learning, a subset of artificial intelligence.
Basically, you feed a computer thousands of cats and dogs each classified as either a cat or dog. With a neural network established, the computer can then identify a cattle dog in any picture. You can do the same for planets, too, by giving it pictures of planets and 'not planets'.
"Machine learning really shines in situations where there is so much data that humans can't search it for themselves," said Christopher Shallue, a senior software engineer with Google's research team Google AI.
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Jeep has been making its mark on this green earth for 70 years now. That mark can be found on some of the most treacherous terrain that you can throw at an off-road vehicle. The Jeep is one of the most unmistakable and trusted off-road vehicles on the road since 1941. The Jeep Wrangler, introduced in 1987, continues to embody virtually the same characteristics that Jeeps were originally designed for, except in a modern-day package.
It may seem somewhat out of place to step inside of a new Jeep Wrangler and discover a dressed-up interior, but that is just what you will find in the new 2011 Jeep Wrangler 70th Anniversary Edition. I had the chance to test out the new Jeep Wrangler 70th Anniversary Edition on and off road and what an amazing experience it was.
During my review last year of the 2010 Jeep Wrangler, it was no doubt how far Jeep has come in making their rugged off-roader even better. When it comes to changing things on a Jeep, enthusiasts will rarely accept big changes. That left the Chrysler corporation with the only option of sharpening their knife to carve out subtle changes that majority of Jeep-lovers would appreciate. I'm more than certain that is exactly what they have done for the 2011 model year.
New for 2011 is a slightly revised interior in the Jeep Wrangler. My 70th anniversary edition featuring leather seats embroidered with the 70th Anniversary logos. In the all-new interior you will find a revised dashboard layout, leather-wrapped steering wheel (borrowed from other 2011 model year Chrysler vehicles), an updated Uconnect GPS Nav touch-screen media center entertainment system, new instrument cluster, and revised shifter. I can honestly say the new Jeep's interior is a big improvement and does not make the Wrangler feel any less capable when it comes to proudly wearing the Trail Rated 4×4 badge.
You do not find many changes on the outside of the new 2011 Wrangler with the exception of my 70th Anniversary Edition's wheels. The new wheels are 18-inch 7-spoke polished aluminum wrapped in Bridgestone Dueler rubber. The 70th Anniversary Edition can only be distinguished from other Wranglers by its wheels and 70th Anniversary logo. The 70th Anniversary Edition incorporates the same powertrain as a V6 Wrangler Sahara.
The 3.8-liter 202 horsepower V6 engine, now standard across the Wrangler line, is mated to a 4-speed automatic transmission. In customary fashion, the new Wrangler has an excellent 4×4 (part-time 4WD) system that proved to be a lifesaver during my sand dune excursions. I took my Jeep Wrangler to the beach and then through some sandy trails with many steep inclines and drop-offs. Initially I had some skepticism about taking the Jeep into deep sandy areas but after about 2 minutes in, my Jeep Wrangler proved to be reassuring and never failed me once on the trail. Hill Decent control works great but I did not find myself needing it much after my confidence in the feedback that 4-wheel-drive low gave me.
On road, the new Jeep Wrangler is surprisingly competent and improved over previous generations. Of course with a 95-inch wheelbase you won't get a ride anywhere near as nice as a Cadillac however; you can use the Wrangler for daily commute if you don't mind the way it sharply turns in and high center of gravity. The high ground clearance, 10.3-inches, allows you to clear obstacles off-road but provides some instability on the highway. Braking distance is long and acceleration remains to be sluggish for the new Wrangler. On-road handling vs. off-road is almost a compromise that you must think-out when in the market for a serious off-road vehicle.
Some would argue that the Jeep Wrangler is a purpose built vehicle even after 70 years of "improvements". Sure, that can be said, but now with the 2011 model year's changes, the new Jeep Wrangler aims for a larger audience that may have taken the Wranglers ruggedness as a turnoff. Still, the new Jeep Wrangler is just as capable as it has always been, but it has a few extra soft "edges" when it comes to the interior and creature comforts including polished wheels and heated leather seats found on my 70th Anniversary Edition test vehicle.
The soft zippered convertible top on my 70th Anniversary Edition Wrangler is difficult to remove if you have never removed a top on a Jeep. After a couple attempts, the top is easy to remove and even easier if you have an extra set of hands to help. There is always a security issue with a zipped top, which is why Jeep has a locking center console in addition to the locking glove box. The doors can be removed and if you are crafty enough, you can remove the top bars in order to fold the front windshield down.
After 70 years in the making, it is good to see that Jeep has not lost its iconic American character in the Wrangler. The 2011 Jeep Wrangler continues a long tradition of one of the most, if not the most, capable off-road vehicles to roll off of a factory assembly line.
My 2011 Jeep Wrangler 70th Anniversary Edition had an as-tested price of $31,820 while you can get a base Wrangler Sport for only $22,045 with the same off-road capability.
EPA cargo volume (seats in place): 17.2 cu.ft.


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3.68 | 52 ratings | 5 reviews | 25% 5 stars
Excellent addition to any
rock music collection
Buy THE MOVE Music
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Studio Album, released in 1970
Songs / Tracks Listing
1. Hello Susie (4:51)
2. Beautiful Daughter (2:51)
3. Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited (7:40)
4. Fields Of People (10:58)
5. Don't Make My Baby Blue (6:02)
6. The Last Thing On My Mind (7:36)
Bonus tracks on 1993 & 1998 CD release - 'Something Else From The Move' 1968 Live EP :
7. So You Want To Be A Rock 'n' Roll Star (3:00)
8. Stephanie Knows Who (3:03)
9. Something Else (2:24)
10. It'll Be Me (2:37)
11. Sunshine Help Me (5:12)
Extra bonus tracks on 1998 CD reissue - previously unreleased Live EP outtakes :
12. Piece Of My Heart (4:03)
13. Too Much In Love (2:27)
14. Higher And Higher (3:31)
Bonus tracks on 2016 CD remaster:
7. Wild Tiger Woman (single) (2:41)
8. Omnibus (side B) (3:56)
9. Blackberry Way (single) 3.39 10 A Certain Something (side B) (3:34)
10. Curly (single) (2:46)
11. This Time Tomorrow (B Side) (3:43)
12. Hello Susie (abridged US Single Version) (3:32)
13. Second Class (She's Too Good For Me) (studio 1968) (3:43)
Line-up / Musicians
- Carl Wayne / lead vocals
- Roy Wood / guitars, vocals
- Rick Price / bass, vocals
- Bev Bevan / drums, percussion
- Tony Visconti / strings and woodwind arrangements
Releases information
Artwork: Mike Sheridan "Nickleby"
LP Regal Zonophone - SLRZ 1012 (1970, UK)
LP Music On Vinyl - MOVLP1623 (2016, Europe) Remastered (?)
CD Repertoire Records - REP 4296-WY (1993, Germany) With 5 bonus Live tracks from 1968
CD Repertoire Records - REP 4691-WY (1998, Germany) Remastered (?) with 9 bonus Live tracks
CD Esoteric Recordings - ECLEC 2539 (2016, UK) Remastered by Ben Wiseman with 8 bonus tracks
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and to Quinino for the last updates
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Shazam: Remastered & Expanded Deluxe Edition
Cherry Red 2016 $13.55
Repertoire 1994 $8.85 (used)
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Essential: a masterpiece of rock music(25%)
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Review by Chicapah
I'm so glad this group is included on ProgArchives but, at the same time, they pose a dilemma for me as a reviewer. While I wholeheartedly agree that they belong in the proto-prog bunch, I feel that many listeners might find that categorization to be a stretch. The fact that they were (and are still) relatively unknown in the U.S. presents a sizeable obstacle and the fact that their albums were such a hodgepodge of unrelated styles is yet another. I'll just say their appeal is an acquired taste and leave it at that.
This record in particular holds a special place in my heart because I discovered it shortly after I'd moved out of mom & dad's house, gotten my own apartment and started my life as a free-wheelin' college boy. In 1970 I spent more time in the campus record store than I did in class, having meaningful conversations/arguments about the state of music with the hippie owner and poring over the latest issue of Rolling Stone (Back then it was a respected, viable source of info about rock & roll. Now it's about as relevant as the National Enquirer). It was a glowing review in that rag that made me shell out my meager entertainment funds for this LP and it instantly met my #1 criteria the minute I got it on my turntable: The Move didn't sound like any band I'd ever heard in my life. They were, in a word, different, and that's what I couldn't get enough of.
Their repeated success on the British pop charts, while admirable, hadn't fulfilled their artistic souls. "Shazam" was a drastic departure from that constricting hit single mindset. It's a somewhat schizophrenic and, at times, progressive journey into the realm of extended album cuts. The first track, the rude "Hello Susie," has a big, proggy intro that snaps your brain to attention immediately before it levels out into a straight-ahead rocker that features Rick Price's thick bass guitar tone and Roy Wood's stacked 12-string electric guitars. Whereas most English singers of that era went out of their way to downplay their indigenous accent and sound "American," Roy's gritty native tongue comes barging through unhindered and I applaud him for letting it all hang out. It puts a raw but genuine edge on the song. The flanged harmonies on the chorus belie their psychedelic roots but Bev Bevan's weird drum fills on the accented breaks throw things for a curve. While at first I thought he was just being odd for odd's sake, I soon realized that BB is truly one of the worst drummers on the planet and the logic-defying Achilles heel of not only this group but ELO, as well. (Unfortunately, it's something I obviously have to accept about the band but I'll never, ever understand why he lasted.)
Between the first number and the second you are introduced to the most unusual aspect of this album that has always delighted and intrigued me. They interject spontaneous man-on-the-street interviews that have nothing to do with the music being presented and these unrehearsed snippets lend a levity to the proceedings that is, to my knowledge, totally unique. (The Who scattered faux radio spots on their "Sell Out" LP but these vignettes are something else entirely.) "Beautiful Daughter" is a clever, short ditty with deep acoustic guitars and a string quartet that shines a spotlight on lead vocalist Carl Wayne as he does his best Paul McCartney imitation. Clocking in at less than 3 minutes, it's over before you know it and you're on to the proggiest tune on the album, the incredible "Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited." After a hilarious spoken-word introduction the group explodes into crisp, layered guitars and a gigantic bass sound as Wayne sings about life in a loony bin. There's never a dull musical moment and the straw-hat barbershop quartet refrain of "lock me in and throw the key away." fits perfectly at the end of every chorus. But it's in the instrumental section that things get really intriguing as they incorporate themes from Bach, Dukas and Tchaikovsky into the brilliantly arranged segment, culminating in a deranged vocal interpretation of one of Johann Sebastian's most recognizable melodies as warbled by a choir of inmates from the asylum. As humorous as it is, I'm still amazed to this day by the high level of musicianship displayed throughout this piece, especially by Wood on the guitars. (By the way, there's not a keyboard to be heard on "Shazam.")
The eleven-minute "Fields of People" is a great example of good news/bad news. First the good. It's a well-written, catchy song that rocks with tight, dense harmonies and slick, clean 12-string guitar work from Roy. What distinguishes it from most every tune I've ever heard, though, is the off-the-cuff spoken tomfoolery going on in and around Wayne's vocal track. Taking themselves too seriously was not one of this band's problems and the eclectic, carefree "why the Hell not?" nature of it all gives the tune a charm that I find irresistible. It's as if they weren't about to let cutting an album get in the way of having a bit of fun. You gotta hear it to believe it. The bad news is that, at about halfway through the number, they segue to a long, ridiculously overindulgent, amateurishly performed, sitar-driven Indian pseudo-raga that should have faded out after about 30 seconds. Instead it drones on. And on. And on. Gradually speeding up to go absolutely nowhere. It has no redeeming qualities at all so consider yourself forewarned and prepared to utilize the "skip" button. (In the days of vinyl I used to have to get up, physically lift the needle and skip over this noisy nonsense as if it was some unexplained ritual required to make it through the LP.)
Their heavy-handed, hard rock version of "Don't Make My Baby Blue" proves beyond a doubt that The Move was no longer some lightweight pop outfit. Here they are a supercharged power trio roaring behind Carl's strong, Paul Rodgers-like vocal with Wood sounding like he's pumping a Les Paul through five stacks of Marshall amplifiers set on 11 and peeling the paint off the studio ceiling. Self-restraint was not one of this group's strong points, however, and the out-of-control wah-wah guitar solo gets to be a bit much in the middle. The final tune is a remake of the Tom Paxton folk classic, "The Last Thing on My Mind," where Roy builds a wall of sound with ringing acoustic and 12 string guitars behind Wayne's cabaret-style crooning. But just when you think it's nothing more than a then-popular standard done up big time, Wood takes you on a psychedelic detour with swirling guitar lines and backwards masking that's as trippy as Pink Floyd on peyote. I won't call it great, but it's definitely interesting and memorable.
The remastered version includes 9 cover songs recorded live from the stage of the famous Marquee Club circa 1968 that only goes to show that The Move did their finest work in the confines of the studio. In concert they come off as a British garage band at best and the poor fidelity doesn't do them any favors. The tunes are a nostalgic curiosity, nothing more, and don't hold up to repeated listens.
In the history of progressive rock music I doubt that the playful "Shazam" had much influence on anybody in the genre. However, for the group it was a giant step up from the Top 40 mentality that dominated the recordings that came before and laid the groundwork for more challenging undertakings in the future. It will always remind me of some of the best years of my life so I cherish it for what it is, warts and all. It was Roy Wood's last project before saying farewell to Carl Wayne and joining forces with Jeff Lynne, and it offers hints of the proggier direction he was about to set out on with the final two Move albums and onward to the adventurous debut of The Electric Light Orchestra.
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Review by Easy Livin
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin
Are you going away with no word of farewell?
Having enjoyed their first taste of success in the album charts with their debut album in 1968, it took the Move another 2 years to release a follow up. During the intervening period, the band continued to find considerable singles chart success in the UK, including their first and only number one single "Blackberry way". During those two years, two members of the band (Ace Kefford and Trevor Burton) departed, but the core trio of Wood, Bevan and Wayne remained.
Continuing a policy the band had successfully exploited on their "Something else from the Move" EP, "Shazam" saw the band taking a couple of songs by other established artists and stamping their own identity on them, much like Vanilla Fudge had pioneered in the US.
"Shazam" represents a fundamental shift in emphasis for The Move, at least in terms of album tracks. While they would continue to record commercially appealing singles, this album serves as a first pointer towards the formation of the Electric Light Orchestra. Quite what caused such a sea-change in the band's style is unclear, especially in view of their continued attack on the singles chart.
With just 6 tracks in total, four of which run to over 6 minutes, it is immediately apparent that this album will not be as instantly accessible as the eponymous debut. We start however with another potential single. "Hello Suzie" (a song originally written by Roy Wood for Amen Corner, who took it into the singles chart as a pop number) is the heaviest song recorded by the band up to this point, but it retains a strong hook and superb vocals by Wood. The song is something of a cross between Led Zeppelin and the Beatles. "Beautiful daughter" is the only genuinely short track on the album, running to a shade under 3 minutes. The track has much in keeping with the first album, Carl Wayne taking lead vocal on a delightfully orchestrated light ditty.
With "Cherry blossom clinic revisited" we reach the real meat of the album. The song is a reworking of the aborted single from the band's debut. It opens with a mildly amusing spoken passage introducing a startlingly heavy interpretation of the song. The instrumental passage bizarrely includes an extract from Bach's "Jesu joy of man's desiring" played on acoustic guitar.
The first part of the 11 minute "Fields of people" is a slightly lighter psychedelic number with a catchy melody and effective harmonies. The song, which is credited to Wyatt Day / Jon Pierson, was originally recorded by the late 60's US band Ars Nova (although their version ran to under 3 minutes!). The Move's version is in two distinct halves, the latter part being a sitar recital. "Don't make my baby blue" was a hit for Frankie Lane in the early 60's, written by the renown song writing team of Barry Mann and Cynthia Weill. This is probably the heaviest track on a very heavy album. The blues leanings of the song remain, albeit rather drowned out by the rather chaotic sledgehammer beat.
In one of the most imaginative moves of their career, the final cover is of Tom Paxtons's folk classic "The last thing on my mind", a number often mistaken for a traditional folk song. This wonderful 6½ minute interpretation respects the integrity of the song, but presents it in a whole new prog orientated dimension, complete with a magical space rock instrumental section.
In all, a highly ambitious second album by The Move, which sees them taking bold steps into new territories. Those who acquired the album on the basis of the band's many great singles may have been puzzled by what they found, but in these parts, this is arguably a definitive proto prog album.
This would be Carl Wayne's final album with the Move. After unsuccessfully attempting to reunite the band with former members, and conscious of Roy Wood's fledgling ambitions relating to his Electric Light Orchestra project, Wayne opted for a solo career. He actually recorded with ELO, but the recording were not used at the time. He went on to work with Mike Oldfield (on "Earth moving"), and in 2000 replaced Allan Clarke in the Hollies. Sadly, Carl Wayne passed away in 2004.
Posted Saturday, November 1, 2008 | Review this album | Report (Review #187551)
Review by siLLy puPPy
COLLABORATOR PSIKE, JR/F/Canterbury & Eclectic Teams
It's hard to believe well into the 21st century that a band like THE MOVE which was hardly ever a household name outside of the UK, was in fact one of the top pop acts of the late 60s racking up an impressive number of hits, actually 20 in total in a short five year period but found little success outside of their British homeland. Taking a few cues from The Beatles and not just in the musical department, THE MOVE was one of those bands that released many singles that weren't included on the albums themselves and in the beginning the focus was more on the pop singles rather than on fully developed albums, therefore in this same five year period this band originally led by bassist / vocalist Chris Kefford only released two albums and much like the Beatles had transmogrified from a typical 60s beat garage rock sounding band with strong pop hooks into a veritable art rock band that wisely retained the pop sensibilities all the while increasing the complexity and weirdness into a heavy rock and proto-prog territory on their second album SHAZAM! (I reeeeally want to add a lightning bolt after that!)
Five years in, Kefford found his influence overpowered by guitarist / keyboardist / vocalist Roy Wood and in 1968 exited stage right after a nervous breakdown resulting from a liberal fascination, and excessive love affair with LSD experimentation. As Wood took the reins, THE MOVE, well?. moved into new territories and with Kefford's departure Trevor Burton would switch from guitar to fill his bass duties only to depart midstream only to be replaced by Rick Price. Making it even more complicated was the fact that Tony Visconti played bass on "Beautiful Daughter" which resulted in that track being used from older sessions, so while SHAZAM! was recorded in a much shorter time than the long term recording sessions of the debut album, this track in a way connected the band to their Beatles pop influences in the fact that it sounds like a reworked making of "Eleanor Rigby" complete with a exuberant violin and chamber pop backing.
SHAZAM is a few steps up from the eponymous debut, which i really found to be an excellent pop rock album of 1968, however on this sophomore outing Wood and company fine-tuned their overall sound into a veritable art rock band that foresaw many trends that made the 70s so great. This album is a testament to its era. It equally catches the zeitgeist of the 60s hippie vibe that was slowly waning all the while jumping ahead into progressive pastures that were blossoming all around them. The result is electrifying like that lightning bolt from the sky that like Billy Batson uttering the word SHAZAM! becomes the powerful superhero Captain Marvel. While the original album only had six tracks, they are quite diverse and all but "Beautiful Daughter" clock in at the five minute mark or more and despite continuing to hit the charts even in 1970 with singles, none of the six tracks on this album were even released as singles making SHAZAM truly an art rock album oriented musical ride all the way.
"Hello Susie" starts things off with a blistering heavy guitar riff oriented sound for 1970 allowing singer Carl Wayne to wail his vocals in a snarling heavy rock shout-a-thon where he battles to be heard over the heavy guitar, bass and surprisingly sophisticated drum techniques implemented by Bev Bevan. At this point THE MOVE was known for their mixing it up with Roy Wood penned originals and covers of other artists. The first three tracks are Wood's creations whereas the second half of the album is all covers. "Beautiful Daughter" rescued from past sessions and a 2.0 version of The Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby" unleashes a string savvy power ballad as well as the shortest track on the album at a less than three minute running time. Then we come to one of my favorite tracks of the album: "Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited." As the name implies, this one is taken from the first album but perfected in every way. Firstly, the instrumentation is impeccable with guitars, bass, drums and vocals ramping up their respective roles. The stylistic changes suit the music perfectly and the medley type ventures toward the end that incorporate different variations on classical pieces by J.S. Bach and Tchaikovsky is stunningly brilliant and surprisingly amusing.
Side two begins with the other genius track of "Fields Of People," which although a cover of an Ars Nova hippie dippie track from a few years prior is crafted into a bona fide masterpiece of musical pleasure with a marriage of classical music sensibilities with the 60s beat pop rock that THE MOVE made their own. The verse / chorus infectious pop grooves evolve into a veritable Indo-raga finale which takes the entire track to close to the eleven minute mark yet not for one second does this one get boring. The remaining two tracks are sort of the more ordinary of the bunch. "Don't Make My Baby Blue" is a rather Janis Joplin sounding bluesy rocker with heavy guitar riffs and soul gusto while "The Last Thing On My Mind" dips back into the psychedelic pop 60s for a wild trippy guitar rock track that meanders on into the ethers and beyond for a seven and a half minute ride. The album is rather light-hearted as THE MOVE adopted the rather Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band approach of silly narrative between and even with tracks to add a personal touch of mood and situation to add some personal connections.
Wham bam i love SHAZAM! This was a grower and not one that immediately revealed its secrets to me. It was like a worm that embedded itself in my soul and only really unleashed its magic after probably the fifth listen or so. And then i was hooked! While highly accessible upon the first listen, it doesn't really differentiate itself from other contemporary pop music at first at least not for me despite the progressive nuances. This album was yet another crossroads in the band's history. After SHAZAM singer Carl Wayne would part ways and Jeff Lynne would join the band and effectively take control and make THE MOVE a proto-Electric Light Orchestra outfit. And it's no surprise that Lynne had his eye on this band since ELO's mission statement was based on the fact that they wanted to take the classical pop characteristics of The Beatles and take them even further. Well, that exactly what THE MOVE was doing on SHAZAM. Don't let the horrible album cover fool you. This is one of 1970's coolest pop rock albums to have been recorded. It's like something The Beatles should have recorded somewhere down the road had they not broken up and ventured even further toward progressive pastures after "Sgt. Peppers."
4.5 but not quite good enough to round up
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A Step Up from their debut. With a more lively and harder edge, Shazam jolts the listener into realizing this is a new Move sound than all the radio-friendly singles represented on their debut. Roy Wood had begun growing his hair even longer and dressing in entertaining ways and Carl Wayne the le ... (read more)
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Shazam is the album where The Move really learned how to rock! Fresh off a tour of the States, the band decided to make an album out of its highlights. The final product sees them playing heaver, longer and LOUDER than ever before. Quite a far cry from the Mod-pop these guys formerly indulged in, ... (read more)
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Drone Strikes Abroad
Should the United States Continue Its Use of Drone Strikes Abroad?
Last updated on: 10/29/2020 | Author: ProCon.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), otherwise known as drones, are remotely-controlled aircraft which may be armed with missiles and bombs for attack missions. Since the World Trade Center attacks on Sep. 11, 2001 and the subsequent "War on Terror," the United States has used thousands of drones to kill suspected terrorists in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, and other countries.
Proponents state that drones strikes help prevent "boots on the ground" combat and makes America safer, that the strikes are legal under American and international law, and that they are carried out with the support of Americans and foreign governments
Opponents state that drone strikes kill civilians, creating more terrorists than they kill and sowing animosity in foreign countries, that the strikes are extrajudicial and illegal, and create a dangerous disconnect between the horrors of war and soldiers carrying out the strikes.
Pro & Con Arguments
Drone strikes make the United States safer by remotely decimating terrorist networks across the world.
Drone strikes in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia have killed between 7,665 and 14,247 militants and alleged militants, including high-level commanders implicated in organizing plots against the United States. [6] [7] [8] [9] [131]
According to President Obama, "[d]ozens of highly skilled al Qaeda commanders, trainers, bomb makers and operatives have been taken off the battlefield. Plots have been disrupted that would have targeted international aviation, U.S. transit systems, European cities and our troops in Afghanistan. Simply put, these strikes have saved lives." [10]
Beyond killing terrorists, that drones are remotely piloted saves US military lives. Drones are launched from bases in allied countries and are operated remotely by pilots in the United States, minimizing the risk of injury and death that would occur if ground soldiers and airplane pilots were used instead. [18] Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and their affiliates often operate in distant and environmentally unforgiving locations where it would be extremely dangerous for the United States to deploy teams of special forces to track and capture terrorists. Such pursuits may pose serious risks to US troops including firefights with surrounding tribal communities, anti-aircraft shelling, land mines, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), suicide bombers, snipers, dangerous weather conditions, harsh environments, etc. Drone strikes eliminate all of those risks common to "boots on the ground" missions. [10]
Drone strikes are legal under American and international law.
Presidential powers under Article II of the US Constitution allow the use of force against an imminent threat without congressional approval. [29] Additionally, in 2001 Congress passed the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), authorizing armed conflict with al Qaeda and associated forces indefinitely. [30] The AUMF states that the President is "authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons." [31] The AUMF does not have a geographic boundary, and the Obama administration notes that al Qaeda militants far from the battlefield in Afghanistan are still engaged in armed conflict with the United States and therefore covered under the law. [32]
Article 51 of the UN Charter provides for a nation's inherent right to self-defense when it has been attacked. [24] The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions has said that Article 51 applies if the targeted state agrees to the use of force in its territory, or the targeted group operating within its territory was responsible for an act of aggression against the targeting state where the host state is unwilling or unable to control the threat themselves. [25] Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia have officially consented to US drone strikes within their countries because they are unable to control terrorist groups within their own borders. [26]
Harold Hongju Koh, JD, Professor of International Law at Yale University and former US State Department Legal Adviser explained, "a state that is engaged in an armed conflict or in legitimate self-defense is not required to provide targets with legal process before the state may use lethal force.," and a country may target individuals in foreign countries if they are directly participating in hostilities or posing an imminent threat that only lethal force can prevent. [27]
The United States also has the right under international law to "anticipatory self-defense," which gives the right to use force against a real and imminent threat when the necessity of that self-defense is "instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means, and no moment of deliberation." [28]
Americans support drone strikes.
A Jan. 23, 2020 poll, after the Jan. 3 drone strikes that killed Iranian Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani, found that 35% of Americans agree that drone strikes are a "very effective way to achieve US foreign policy," an increase from 23% in 2015. Fewer people believe signing international agreements (29%), sanctions (23%), or military intervention (17%) are very effective. [140] Meanwhile ,47% supported President Trump's decision to order the strikes that killed Soleimani and others. [141]
According to a July 18, 2013 survey by Pew Research, 61% of Americans supported drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. Support spanned the political divide, including Republicans (69%), independents (60%), and Democrats (59%). [2]
A Mar. 20, 2013 poll by the Gallup organization found that 65% of Americans believed the US government should "use drones to launch airstrikes in other countries against suspected terrorists" and 74% of Americans who "very" or "somewhat" closely follow news stories about drones supported the attacks. [47]
A May 28, 2013 Christian Science Monitor/TIPP poll found that 57% of Americans supported drone strikes targeting "al Qaeda targets and other terrorists in foreign countries." [48]
Drone strikes are carried out with the collaboration and encouragement of local governments, and make those countries safer.
US drone strikes help countries fight terrorist threats to their own domestic peace and stability, including al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan, al-Shabaab in Somalia, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen, and al Qaeda in the Maghreb in Algeria and Mali.
On Aug. 21, 2020, for example, acting in cooperation with the Somali National Army, a US drone strike killed a "high-ranking" al-Shabab bomb and IED maker. [144]
Yemen's President, Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, has openly praised drone strikes in his country, stating that the "electronic brain's precision is unmatched by the human brain." [34]
In a 2008 State Department cable made public by Wikileaks, Pakistani Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Kayani asked US officials for more drone strikes, and in Apr. 2013 former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf acknowledged to CNN that his government had secretly signed off on US drone strikes. [35] [36] In Pakistan, where the vast majority of drone strikes are carried out, drones contributed to a major decrease in violence. The 41 suicide attacks in Pakistan in 2011 were down from a record high of 87 in 2009, which coincided with an over ten-fold increase in the number of drone strikes. [37]
After the Jan. 2020 strike that killed Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Major General Soleimani in Iran, President Donald Trump stated, "Soleimani has been perpetrating acts of terror to destabilize the Middle East for the last 20 years… Just recently, Soleimani led the brutal repression of protestors in Iran, where more than a thousand innocent civilians were tortured and killed by their own government… The future belongs to the people of Iran — those who seek peaceful coexistence and cooperation — not the terrorist warlords who plunder their nation to finance bloodshed abroad." [145]
Drones limit the scope, scale, and casualties of military action, keeping the US military and civilians in other countries safer.
Invading Pakistan, Yemen, or Somalia with boots on the ground to capture relatively small terrorist groups would lead to expensive conflict, responsibility for destabilizing those governments, large numbers of civilian casualties, empowerment of enemies who view the United States as an occupying imperialist power, US military deaths, among other consequences. America's attempt to destroy al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan by invading and occupying the country resulted in a war that has dragged on for over 12 years. Using drone strikes against terrorists abroad allows the United States to achieve its goals at a fraction of the cost of an invasion in money, manpower, and lives. [142] [143]
Drones are launched from bases in allied countries and are operated remotely by pilots in the United States, minimizing the risk of injury and death that would occur if ground soldiers and airplane pilots were used instead. [18] Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and their affiliates often operate in distant and environmentally unforgiving locations where it would be extremely dangerous for the United States to deploy teams of special forces to track and capture terrorists. Such pursuits may pose serious risks to US troops including firefights with surrounding tribal communities, anti-aircraft shelling, land mines, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), suicide bombers, snipers, dangerous weather conditions, harsh environments, etc. [10] Further, drone pilots suffer less than traditional pilots because they do not have to be directly present on the battlefield, can live a normal civilian life in the United States, and do not risk death or serious injury. Only 4% of active-duty drone pilots are at "high risk for PTSD" compared to the 12-17% of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. [46]
Drones also have lower civilian casualties than "boots on the ground" missions. Between 1,193 and 2,654 civilians have died in drone strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen, or between 7% and 15% of the those killed by drones . [131] By contrast, about 335,000 total civilians have been killed violently in the War on Terror in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syrian, and Yemen. [139] The traditional weapons of war – bombs, shells, mines, mortars – cause more collateral (unintended) damage to people and property than drones, whose accuracy and technical precision mostly limit casualties to combatants and intended targets. [13] Civilian deaths in World War II are estimated at 40 to 67% of total war deaths. [13] [14] In the Korean, Vietnam, and Balkan Wars, civilian deaths accounted for approximately 70%, 31%, and 45% of deaths respectively. [15] [16] [17]
Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, PhD, stated, "You can far more easily limit collateral damage with a drone than you can with a bomb, even a precision-guided munition, off an airplane." Former CIA Director Leon Panetta, JD, concurred, ""I think this is one of the most precise weapons that we have in our arsenal." And Former State Department Legal Advisor Harold Hongju Koh, JD, agreed that drones "have helped to make our targeting even more precise." [149] [150] [151] [152]
Con 1
Drone strikes mostly kill low-value targets and create more terrorists.
Reuters reported that of the 500 "militants" the CIA believed it had killed with drones between 2008 and 2010, only 14 were "top-tier militant targets," and 25 were "mid-to-high-level organizers" of al Qaeda, the Taliban, or other hostile groups. [59] The CIA had killed around 12 times more low-level fighters than mid-to-high-level during that same period. [59] According to the New America Foundation, from 2004 to 2012 an estimated 49 "militant leaders" were killed in drone strikes, constituting "2% of all drone-related fatalities." [60]
Abdulghani Al-Iryani, senior researcher at the Sana'a Center for Strategic Studies, noted many militants operating in Yemen are "people who are aggrieved by attacks on their homes that forced them to go out and fight." [49] While Abdulrasheed Al-Faqih, Executive Director of Mwatana Organization for Human Rights, explained, "Incidents of civilian harm in Yemen continue to negatively affect the reputation of the United States in the country and push local communities to consider violence and revenge as the only solution to the harm they suffer." [146]
The number of Al Qaeda core members in the Arabian Peninsula grew from no more than 300 in 2009 when drone strikes resumed to at least 700 in 2012, resulting in an increase in terrorist attacks in the region. [50] Both the "Underwear Bomber," who tried to blow up an American airliner in 2009, and the "Times Square Bomber," who tried to set off a car bomb in New York City in 2010, cited drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia as motivators for the plots. [51] [52] David Rohde, who was held captive by the Taliban for eight months, stated, "the Taliban were able to garner recruits in their aftermath by exaggerating the number of civilian casualties." [147]
Drone strikes terrorize and kill civilians.
A Pakistani man stated, "When [children] hear the drones, they get really scared, and they can hear them all the time so they're always fearful that the drone is going to attack them. Because of the noise, we're psychologically disturbed — women, men, and children… Twenty-four hours, [a] person is in stress and there is pain in his head." [148] Yemeni tribal sheik Mullah Zabara said, "we consider the drones terrorism. The drones are flying day and night, frightening women and children, disturbing sleeping people. This is terrorism." [49]
Clive Stafford Smith, Director of Reprieve, a human rights organization, stated, "an entire region is being terrorized by the constant threat of death from the skies. Their way of life is collapsing: kids are too terrified to go to school, adults are afraid to attend weddings, funerals, business meetings, or anything that involves gathering in groups." [58]
According to Micah Zenko, PhD, political scientist, and Amelia May Wolf, research associate in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations, "drones are far less precise than airstrikes conducted by piloted aircraft, which themselves also conduct 'precision strikes.' Drones result in far more civilian fatalities per each bomb dropped." [149]
President Obama's policy of "signature strikes" allowed the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the military's Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) to target anyone who fits a specific terrorist profile or engages in behavior the US government associates with terrorists, regardless of whether they have been conclusively identified as enemy combatants. [53] Classified documents leaked in Oct. 2015 showed that in one five-month period of drone strikes in Afghanistan, as many as 90% of those killed were not the intended targets, and that those unintended deaths were classified as "enemies killed in action" regardless of whether they were civilians or combatants. [120]
At the height of the drone program in Pakistan in 2009 and 2010, as many as half of the strikes were classified as signature strikes. [54] According to top-secret intelligence reports, drone operators are not always certain of who they are killing "despite the administration's guarantees of the accuracy of the CIA's targeting intelligence." [55] The CIA and JSOC target "associated forces," "foreign fighters," "suspected extremists," and "other militants," but do not publicly reveal whether the people killed are actively involved in terrorism against the United States. [56] In two sets of classified documents obtained by NBC News, 26 of 114 drone strikes in Pakistan and Afghanistan between Sep. 3, 2010 and Oct. 30, 2011, targeted "other militants," meaning that the CIA could not conclusively determine the affiliation of those killed. [54]
Secretive drone strikes amount to extrajudicial assassination and violate human rights.
Drone strikes are secretive, lack sufficient legal oversight, and prevent citizens from holding their leaders accountable. Drone strikes often skip steps taken by boots on the ground approaches. The Human Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School explains, "While interrogation and detention, as recent history shows all too well, carry their own risks of human rights abuses, these non-lethal approaches at least provide the opportunity for an assessment of whether targeted individuals in fact pose a threat to U.S. interests—an opportunity taken off the table by drone strikes." [153]
The United States frequently calls drone strikes "targeted killings," a term that does not have a definition in international law. Charli Carpenter, PhD, Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, explained, "The term was originally coined by a human rights organization to distinguish El Salvador death squads' assassination of individuals from the squads' wider indiscriminate killings of civilians. Both acts, Americas Watch correctly argued, violated human rights standards as well as the international laws surrounding war." Thus, "targeted killings" are, Carpenter explained, "the extrajudicial execution of nonstate political adversaries," or political assassination, which is "taboo in war," banned by the 1907 Hague Convention and the 1998 Rome Statute, and is a "violation of the human right to life enshrined in Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights." [154]
UN Rapporteur on Extra-Judicial Executions Agnès Callamard tweeted in response to a Jan. 2020 drone strike, "The targeted killings of Qasem Soleimani and Abu mahdi al muhandi most likely violate international law incl human rights law. Lawful justifications for such killings are very narrowly defined and it is hard to imagine how any of these can apply to these killings." [156]
The strikes are expecially problematic outside of declared war, when even terrorists must be arrested, tried, and convicted of a capital crime before being killed. [154]
Drone strikes violate the sovereignty of other countries and are extremely unpopular in the affected countries.
Strikes are often carried out without the permission and against the objection of the target countries. Iraq Parliament Speaker Mohammed al-Halboosi called the Jan. 2020 strike that killed Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani "a flagrant violation of sovereignty, and a violation of international conventions… "Any security and military operation on Iraqi territory must have the approval of the government." [155]
Pakistan's foreign ministry called drone strikes "illegal" and said they violated the country's sovereignty. [70] On Oct. 22, 2013, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said that the "use of drones is not only a continued violation of our territorial integrity but also detrimental to our resolve at efforts in eliminating terrorism from our country… I would therefore stress the need for an end to drone attacks." [71]
The United Nations' Human Rights Chief, Special Rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, and Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions have all called US drone strikes a violation of sovereignty, and have pressed for investigations into the legality of the attacks. [72] [73] [74] In a July 18, 2013, 39-country survey by Pew Research, only six countries approved of US drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. [2]
General Stanley McChrystal, former leader of the US military in Afghanistan, says that the "resentment created by American use of unmanned strikes… is much greater than the average American appreciates. They are hated on a visceral level, even by people who've never seen one or seen the effects of one." [79]
76% of residents in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of northwestern Pakistan (where 96% of drone strikes in the country are carried out) oppose American drone strikes. [80] 48% think the strikes largely kill civilians. [81] Only 17% of Pakistanis back American drone strikes against leaders of extremist groups, even if they are conducted in conjunction with the Pakistani government. [82]
On Dec. 16, 2013, Yemen's parliament passed a motion calling for the United States to end its drone program in the country after a wedding convoy of 11 to 15 people were killed by a US drone strike. [85]
Drone strikes allow an emotional disconnect from the horrors of war and inflict psychological stress on drone operators.
According to D. Keith Shurtleff, an Army chaplain and the ethics instructor for the Soldier Support Institute at Fort Jackson, stated, "as war becomes safer and easier, as soldiers are removed from the horrors of war and see the enemy not as humans but as blips on a screen, there is a very real danger of losing the deterrent that such horrors provide." Without this deterrent, it becomes easier for soldiers to kill via a process called "doubling," in which "[o]therwise nice and normal people create psychic doubles that carry out sometimes terrible acts their normal identity never would." [157]
Drone pilot Colonel D. Scott Brenton, in a July 29, 2012 interview with the New York Times, acknowledged the disconnect of what journalist Elisabeth Bumiller described as "fighting a telewar with a joystick and a throttle from his padded seat in American suburbia" thousands of miles away from the battlefield, then driving home to help with homework. "I feel no emotional attachment to the enemy," he said. "I have a duty, and I execute the duty… No one in my immediate environment is aware of anything that occurred." [76]
A study from the Department of Neuropsychiatry at the US Air Force's School of Aerospace Medicine found that drone pilots, in addition to witnessing traumatic combat experiences, face several unique problems: lack of a clear demarcation between combat and personal/family life; extremely long hours with monotonous work and low staffing; "existential conflict" brought on by the guilt and remorse over being an "aerial sniper"; and social isolation during work, which could diminish unit cohesion and increase susceptibility to PTSD. [46]
1. The first recorded use of attack drones occurred on July 15, 1849 when the Habsburg Austrian Empire launched 200 pilotless balloons armed with bombs against the revolution-minded citizens of Venice. [1]
2. Between Nov. 1944 and Apr. 1945, Japan released more than 9,000 bomb-laden balloons across the Pacific, intending to cause forest fires and panic in the western United States in operation "Fu-Go." Because the US government, in concert with the American press, kept the balloons a secret, the Japanese believed the tactic ineffective and abandoned the project. [87] [88]
3. The first drone strike in Afghanistan, piloted by Air Force operators controlled by CIA analysts, happened on Oct. 7, 2001, a failed attempt to kill Taliban Supreme Commander Mullah Mohammed Omar. [129] [130]
4. The first known killing by armed drones occurred in Nov. 2001, when a Predator killed Muhammad Atef, al Qaeda's military commander. [129] [130]
5. According to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, there have been at least 14,040 confirmed strikes between Jan. 2002 and Jan. 2019. Between 8,858 and 16,901 people have been killed, including 910 to 2,200 civilians, and 283 to 454 civilians. [131]
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Q: Why does Django raise "KeyError"? I am currently trying to implement pagination to my Django web app. However, when I try to use template tags from the library, Django raises a key error. To be specific:
KeyError
KeyError: 'request'

Here is my settings.py:
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse_lazy
from os.path import dirname, join, exists
import os

# Build paths inside the project like this: join(BASE_DIR, "directory")
BASE_DIR = dirname(dirname(dirname(__file__)))
STATICFILES_DIRS = [join(BASE_DIR, 'static')]
MEDIA_ROOT = join(BASE_DIR, 'media')
MEDIA_URL = "/media/"

# Use Django templates using the new Django 1.8 TEMPLATES settings
TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [
            join(BASE_DIR, 'templates'),
            # insert more TEMPLATE_DIRS here
        ],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                # Insert your TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS here or use this
                # list if you haven't customized them:
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.i18n',
                'django.template.context_processors.media',
                'django.template.context_processors.static',
                'django.template.context_processors.tz',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
            ],
        },
    },
]

# Use 12factor inspired environment variables or from a file
import environ
env = environ.Env()

# Ideally move env file should be outside the git repo
# i.e. BASE_DIR.parent.parent
env_file = join(dirname(__file__), 'local.env')
if exists(env_file):
    environ.Env.read_env(str(env_file))

# Quick-start development settings - unsuitable for production
# See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/checklist/

ALLOWED_HOSTS = []

# Application definition

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django_admin_bootstrapped',
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',

    'authtools',
    'crispy_forms',
    'easy_thumbnails',
    'geoposition',
    'bootstrap_pagination',

    'profiles',
    'accounts',
    'clients',

)

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.SessionAuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
)

ROOT_URLCONF = 'saas.urls'

WSGI_APPLICATION = 'saas.wsgi.application'

# Database
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#databases

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
        'NAME': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'db.sqlite3'),
    }
}

# Internationalization
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/i18n/

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'

TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'

USE_I18N = True

USE_L10N = True

USE_TZ = True

# Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static-files/

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

ALLOWED_HOSTS = []

# Crispy Form Theme - Bootstrap 3
CRISPY_TEMPLATE_PACK = 'bootstrap3'

# For Bootstrap 3, change error alert to 'danger'
from django.contrib import messages
MESSAGE_TAGS = {
    messages.ERROR: 'danger'
}

# Authentication Settings
AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'authtools.User'
LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = reverse_lazy("profiles:show_self")
LOGIN_URL = reverse_lazy("accounts:login")

THUMBNAIL_EXTENSION = 'png'     # Or any extn for your thumbnails

The template-tag I am trying to run is:
{% block pagination %}
    {% bootstrap_paginate page_obj range=10 show_prev_next="false" show_first_last="true" %}
{% endblock %}

What to do?

A: The bootstrap_paginate template tag expects your template context to contain the request variable. Make it available by changing your context_processors to:
'context_processors': [
    # Insert your TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS here or use this
    # list if you haven't customized them:
    'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
    'django.template.context_processors.debug',
    'django.template.context_processors.i18n',
    'django.template.context_processors.media',
    'django.template.context_processors.static',
    'django.template.context_processors.tz',
    'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
    'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.request', # <-- Here we add the request
],

A: if you have imported
import django_heroku

Then put this:
django_heroku.settings(local())

in the end of your settings.py file


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