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Q: change content layout in facelets template by adding url parameter I have the following template file templateBase.xhtml:
<!--Normal SPA Layout-->
<c:if test="#{not MainActionBean.isLayoutTheme(param.theme)}">
<ui:insert name="pageHeader" />
<ui:insert name="content"/>
<ui:insert name="contentFooter"/>
</c:if>

<!--3 panel layout-->
<c:if test="#{MainActionBean.isLayoutTheme(param.theme)}">
        <p:outputPanel id="templateBaseLayoutPanel" >
            <p:layout widgetVar="panelLayout">
                <p:layoutUnit position="west" id="westContentContainer">
                        <h:outputText value="Document List"  />
                        <ui:include src="/common/Documents.xhtml" />
                        <br/>
                        <h:outputText value="Action formulary"  />
                        <ui:insert name="actionSection"/>
                </p:layoutUnit>

                <p:layoutUnit position="center" id="centerContentContainer">
                            <ui:insert name="pageHeader" />
                            <ui:insert name="content"/>
                            <ui:insert name="contentFooter"/>
                </p:layoutUnit>

                <p:layoutUnit position="east" id="eastContentContainer">
East Panel Content
                </p:layoutUnit>
            </p:layout>
        </p:outputPanel>
    </c:if>

What I want to achieve is to change the current SPA layout to another with 3 columns when a given parameter with a specific value is added to the URL. In the SPA layout the "documents list" and "action formulary" are included into a subview in the "content" section of the template and in the 3 panel layout they should move to the west panel.  Currently after adding the param the layout units are being rendered but not the ui:insert and ui:include of the west panel. There are no errors on logs or console and rendition of components is controlled with method "MainActionBean.isLayoutTheme(param.theme)" to prevent ID duplication.
I'd like to know if what I'm trying is even possible or if there is a better approach for this.
P.S: I've tried to summarise and simplify the xhtml structure as much as possible, if needed will post the whole of it.


@isuruf : Today is even worse than yesterday.
At the moment I'm basically trying to brute-force the code space to find a combination that works.
@isuruf Interesting. It could be that it has something to do with missing copy/constructor declarations in a cdef struct/cppclass.
In both cases the crash is in an assignment.
@rwst, maybe changing all instances of RCP[const Basic] to rcp_const_basic would be a good idea right?
@isuruf Yes but I have posted a question on the newsgroup and stated that I cannot change the function signature. Maybe they see from that better that Cython needs fixing ;-), or they even come up with a better workaround than that.
So haven't we just only moved the problem elsewhere?
so I don't need to convert everything.
Does someone know how to turn off caching in SymPy? The solution in the FAQ (SYMPY_USE_CACHE=no) does not work.
@isuruf did I not change everywhere?
In Basic also if thisptr was rcp_const_basic instead of RCP[const Basic] then that error won't be there right?
I may have thought I changed everything but didn't. Some oddity of gvim I suspect.
I'll try it again later. Atm it works using one single cast. @certik The numbers are now in isympy for sin(x)*cos(x) 8ms for N=100, and 770ms for N=1000, which is about 3 times faster than Sage(Pynac), 1-2 times faster than Pari, but 1 order of magnitude slower than Flint.
For N=1000 it's 10x faster than Sage.
However my test py file gets simply aborted (other files pass). How can I get better diagnostics? I'm still a Python noob.
symengine.test is a way to check if symengine installation is successful.
Will look sharper tomorrow, thanks.


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Spain Listeria outbreak: More than 200 cases, 3 deaths
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By NewsDesk @infectiousdiseasenews
In a follow-up on the listeriosis outbreak in Spain associated with the consumption of roasted pork meat, Spanish health officials report (computer translated) an additional 29 cases, bringing the total to 204.
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Andalusia, in southern Spain has reported the bulk of the cases with 197, with most of the cases in this community reported from Seville (162).
Of the patients confirmed in Andalusia, 58 percent presented symptoms compatible with acute gastroenteritis, 47% presented with fever, 10% (19) developed meningeal forms and four patients had sepsis.
Three fatalities have been reported to date–two people over 70 with serious comorbidities and a person over 90 years old.
In the rest of the Autonomous Communities, 4 laboratory confirmed cases have been registered (1
in Aragón, 1 in Castilla y León, 1 in Extremadura and 1 pregnant woman of 8 weeks in Madrid who lost the baby) and 3 cases confirmed by epidemiological link (1 in Extremadura and 2 in Aragon).
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In addition, 66 probable cases and 58 suspects have been reported in Aragón, Asturias, Canary Islands, Castile and León, Castilla La Mancha, Catalonia, Community Valenciana, Extremadura, Madrid and Melilla.
In addition, a UK citizen identified in France is suspected to be associated with the same outbreak.
The implicated food source is roasted pork meat, commercialized under the brand 'La Mechá', produced by a company in Seville, Spain. The company has recalled all products manufactured since May 2019 and discontinued production.
Listeria monocytogenes is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.
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Why is Cyber Security Essential in the Education Sector?
Over the last few years, the education sector has become a new favorite target among cyber criminals. From turbulent ransomware attacks to covert data breaches, numerous academic institutions have suffered from various kinds of cyber attacks in recent times.
The introduction and adoption of newer technologies along with the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have fueled the situation further. Cyber criminals are attacking educational institutions with tactics and tools that have worked effectively against businesses.
Why has the Education Sector Become a Lucrative Target?
According to an article by CSO Online, the education sector accounted for 13% of all data breaches in the first half of 2017, which resulted in the compromise of approximately 32 million records!
Here are the major reasons for the popularity of the education sector as a target among cyber criminals:
1. Financial Gain: According to research, educational records are worth up to $265 on the black market. The notion of such huge financial gain is more than enough for threat actors to target academic institutions.
2. Valuable Data: Even though educational institutions may not look as lucrative as healthcare companies or private businesses, they serve as a treasure trove of sensitive financial and personal information including valuable proprietary research data.
(Source: Campus Safety Magazine)
3. Espionage: Espionage is another reason for cyber criminals to target the education sector. Higher education institutes such as universities and colleges often serve as centers for research and possess valuable intellectual property.
(Source: Data Quest)
4. Impacting Operations: Several attacks on academic institutions have been carried out with the motive of causing widespread disruption and adversely affecting the institute's productivity.
(Source: CSO Online)
Major Cyber Security Threats to the Education Sector
A wide range of cyber threats has been plaguing the education sector for years. Here are the top threats hounding educational institutions around the globe:
1. Spear phishing Attacks: Using spear phishing, cyber criminals have taken hold of several academic institutions, resulting in catastrophic losses. An article by Business Line reported that more than 1000 colleges, schools and universities were targeted by various spear-phishing campaigns in Q3 2020.
2. BEC Attacks: Threat actors have also resorted to BEC attacks for targeting organizations in the education sector. The same article by Business Line also reported that Gmail accounts serve as the primary medium for launching the majority of BEC attacks, accounting for 86% of all BEC attacks on academic institutions.
3. Ransomware: As per the FBI, schools have become the most popular targets for ransomware attacks. A number of colleges, schools and universities have been hit by vicious ransomware attacks, leading to devastating consequences.
(Source: SysTools)
4. DDoS Attacks: DDoS attacks or Distributed Denial of Service attacks are very common in the education sector. These attacks offer an easy way for cyber criminals to disrupt operations, especially if the network of the target organization is poorly protected.
5. Data Breaches: Since academic institutes hold a huge cache of valuable information, data breaches have always been common in the education sector.
Recent Cyber Attacks on the Education Sector
As mentioned above, many educational institutions worldwide have been hit by cyber attacks in recent years. Here are some major cyber attacks witnessed by the education sector over the last couple of years.
1. In March 2021, the London-based Harris Federation suffered a ransomware attack and was forced to "temporarily" disable the devices and email systems of all the 50 secondary and primary academies it manages. This resulted in over 37,000 students being unable to access their coursework and correspondence.
"This should be an alarm bell for the public sector, a demonstration of the need to secure each and every endpoint. Even the smallest chink in the nations digital armour could spell disaster."
– Adam Bangle, VP EMEA at BlackBerry, after the attack on Harris Federation
2. The Division of Structural Biology at Oxford University fell victim to a cyber attack in February 2021. It was involved in extensive COVID-related research and access details for several of its systems were spotted online.
3. The University of Northampton was hit by a cyber attack in March 2021 that led to the disruption of its telephone and IT systems and servers.
(Source: Twitter)
4. The University of California, San Francisco paid a ransom of $1.14 million after the NetWalker ransomware locked down multiple servers of its School of Medicine in June 2020.
5. Birmingham college was hit by a ransomware attack and had to ask all of its 20,000 students to stay at home for a week. It had not even been two weeks since they had returned to the college following an extended lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
How to Protect Educational Institutions Against Cyber Attacks?
Whether it is due to the lack of resources and budget or the absence of stringent security policies, academic institutions have been unable to protect themselves against cyber attacks in the past.
With a myriad of cyber security issues hounding the education sector, it is about time for these institutions to take the appropriate precautions and get ahead of threats. So, here are some effective measures you can take to shield an educational institution against cyber threats.
1. Implement a robust Identity Access Management (IAM) system to prevent anyone from obtaining unauthorized access to the network.
2. Conduct periodic Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT) to detect and fix any exploitable vulnerabilities in your organization's cyber security infrastructure.
3. Enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) on all the applicable endpoints across the enterprise networks to add an extra layer of security to your organization's cyber security framework.
4. Train all the employees in the basics of cyber security to generate awareness about various cyber threats and the best ways to deal with them. You can do this with the help of cyber security awareness training tools like ThreatCop.
5. Enforce cyber security best practices like a strong password policy. Make sure your employees are aware of the consequences of not following the practices and understand their responsibility in keeping the organization safe.
Cyber security in the education sector is essential for about a hundred reasons, the most important one of them being to ensure the safety and privacy of students. So, take the necessary measures now and keep your organizations protected against cyber threats.
Are there any other measures you would recommend to keep an academic institution safe?
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Yahoo – AFP, Rob Woollard, February 28, 2018
United States Olympic Committee chief executive Scott Blackmun faced stinging
criticism for his handling of the case involving gymnastics team doctor Larry
Nassar (AFP Photo/Maxx Wolfson)
Los Angeles (AFP) - Embattled United States Olympic Committee chief executive Scott Blackmun has stepped down following calls for his resignation in the wake of the USA gymnastics abuse scandal, it was confirmed on Wednesday.
Blackmun, who faced stinging criticism for his handling of the case involving team doctor Larry Nassar which rocked the sport, departs after eight years in the role.
The 60-year-old administrator had recently disclosed he was battling prostate cancer.
"Given Scott's current health situation, we have mutually agreed it is in the best interest of both Scott and the USOC that we identify new leadership so that we can immediately address the urgent initiatives ahead of us," USOC Chairman Larry Probst said in a statement.
"The USOC is at a critical point in its history. The important work that Scott started needs to continue and will require especially vigorous attention in light of Larry Nassar's decades-long abuse of athletes affiliated with USA Gymnastics."
USOC said board member Susanne Lyons would replace Blackmun as interim chief executive as the hunt for a permanent successor got under way.
Blackmun's departure comes after he had faced calls to resign for his alleged failure to act swiftly as the Nassar scandal unfolded, claims rejected by USOC.
Multiple US senators had demanded his resignation after a Wall Street Journal report that said USOC was made aware of allegations surrounding Nassar in 2015 yet did nothing to intervene.
USOC had defended Blackmun's handling of the case, with Probst telling reporters in Pyeongchang at the Winter Olympics this month that "he did what he was supposed to do and he did the right thing at every turn."
'They don't trust him'
Probst had initially ruled out any changes in personnel until an investigation ordered by USOC had determined who knew what and when, stating that Blackmun had "served USOC with distinction."
However the progress of that investigation was confronted by an immediate roadblock after it emerged last week that several of Nassar's victims had vowed not to co-operate, citing mistrust of USOC and Blackmun.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Olympic gymnasts including gold medallists Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney, had said they would opt out of the investigation.
"The athletes don't want to participate," a lawyer for the gymnasts told the paper. "They don't trust the USOC, and they don't trust (Blackmun)."
Raisman, a prominent Blackmun critic, had questioned how committed USOC was to the investigation.
"For 31 months, I heard nothing," Raisman told the Journal. "I find it hard to believe after all this time that the USOC is genuinely concerned about anything other than the scrutiny it's now facing."
At least 265 female athletes, several of them Olympic gold medal gymnasts, claimed former US Olympic team doctor Nassar abused them over a period of two decades in the worst scandal in US Olympic history.
Nassar, 54, was last month sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison for his crimes after days of harrowing victim-impact testimony.
Blackmun had issued an apology in the wake of those court hearings after USOC failed to send a representative to attend.
"The USOC should have been there to hear it in person, and I am deeply sorry that did not happen," Blackmun said in an apology in January addressed to Nassar's victims.
Labels: #MeToo, Abuse, Integrity - Ethical, Olympics, Sex, Truthful and Transparent, US, Woman
Yahoo – AFP, Jim MANNION, February 27, 2018
House Speaker Paul Ryan says no to a ban on guns "for law abiding
citizens" (AFP Photo/WIN MCNAMEE)
Washington (AFP) - Republican leaders rebuffed calls for major changes in US gun laws Tuesday, blaming the mass shooting at a Florida high school on a "colossal breakdown" of law enforcement rather than the easy availability of assault rifles.
Student survivors of the assault two weeks ago met with members of Congress to press for curbs on gun sales but found little enthusiasm for legislative action beyond closing gaps in a national system of background checks.
"Let me just say we shouldn't be banning guns for law abiding citizens, we should be focusing on making sure citizens who should not get guns in the first place don't get those guns," House Speaker Paul Ryan told reporters.
Ryan and other Republican leaders until now have largely been absent from the debate that has raged since a troubled 19-year-old armed with a semi-automatic rifle killed 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida.
Ryan blamed the February 14 rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on the failure of local authorities to heed numerous warnings about the shooter, Nikolas Cruz, a former student at the school.
"There was a colossal breakdown in the system locally," he said, citing lapses by the FBI and a deputy sheriff accused of failing to act when shooting broke out at the school.
Ryan's argument echoed that of US President Donald Trump who asserted Monday that he would have charged into the school after the shooter, even without a gun.
Trump last week called for raising the minimum age for gun purchases to 21, but has made no mention of that since.
Instead, he has pushed for arming teachers as a first line of defense, an approach favored by the National Rifle Association but widely criticized by teachers themselves as impractical and an unreasonable burden on them.
Trump also has called for building more mental hospitals, a ban on devices known as "bump stocks" to make a semi-automatic weapon fire more rapidly, and better background checks to keep guns out of the hands of "sickos."
A bipartisan bill currently before Congress would step up state and federal agency reporting to a national database of offenses that would bar an individual from purchasing a firearm.
Students are to return to class Wednesday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
School in Parkland, Florida among them senior Emma Gonzalez who has been
vocal in calling for gun control (AFP Photo/JOE RAEDLE)
Closer to home, Florida's legislature is weighing whether to raise the minimum age for gun purchases to 21 as part of a package of measures sponsored by the state's Republican governor. But a ban on assault rifles is not part of the package.
Gun ban
While some Democrats favor more comprehensive gun reform, they hold out little hope for it in a Republican-dominated Congress despite the new momentum created by student survivors of the Florida shooting, and polls showing overwhelming public support for stricter gun laws.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was to meet behind closed doors Tuesday with students from Parkland, where classes will resume on Wednesday, exactly two weeks after tragedy struck.
The students also met Monday evening with Representative Steve Scalise, the number three Republican leader.
Scalise was shot and nearly killed last June at a congressional baseball practice by a heavily armed man.
He said the session with the students was "very emotional."
"Some of the things that they've been through are similar to some of the things that I've been through," he said in an interview with CBS.
But they appear not to have swayed him on the assault rifle ban.
A ban on AR-15s "is not one of the big discussions here," Scalise said.
"You can talk about any one weapon and if you ban that weapon, does that mean that nothing else is going to happen?"
Scalise later joined Ryan in arguing that existing gun laws needed to be better enforced, rather than overhauled.
"This speaks to bigger questions of our culture. What are we teaching our kids? Look at the violence in our culture," Ryan said. "There are bigger questions here than a narrow law."
Labels: Children, Compassion, Consciousness, Integrity - Ethical, NRA, Old Energy, Truthful and Transparent, US, Weapens - Arms
Yahoo – AFP, February 24, 2018
Delta has joined a host of companies that are cutting ties with the National
Rifle Association, the powerful US gun lobby (AFP Photo/Andrew Burton)
Washington (AFP) - US airlines Delta and United on Saturday joined the ever-expanding list of companies cutting ties with the National Rifle Association, the country's powerful gun lobby, in the wake of a deadly school shooting in Florida.
The "#BoycottNRA" hashtag has gained traction on Twitter since the Valentine Day's rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida left 14 students and three staff dead.
"Delta is reaching out to the NRA to let them know we will be ending their contract for discounted rates through our group travel program," Delta said in a statement.
"We will be requesting that the NRA remove our information from their website."
United chimed in with a similar message, also discontinuing discounted rates for NRA members attending the group's annual meeting.
The two airlines join several other companies in retracting benefits for the NRA and its members, including rental car companies Alamo, Avis, Budget, Enterprise and Hertz, First National Bank of Omaha and insurance providers Chubb and MetLife.
"Customer feedback has caused us to review our relationship with the NRA," First National Bank of Omaha said.
Allied Van Lines and North American Van Lines, along with security company Symantec, have also severed ties.
Allied Van Lines said it "no longer has an affiliate relationship with the NRA effective immediately."
None of the companies explicitly linked their statements to the mass shooting in Florida, but their decisions come as activists are pushing for stronger gun controls in the United States.
Bank of America said it would immediately "engage the limited number of clients we have that manufacture assault weapons for nonmilitary use to understand what they can contribute" to helping end mass shootings.
A 19-year-old former student at the Parkland school, Nikolas Cruz, used an assault-style rifle to carry out the February 14 shooting.
The incident has once again shone the spotlight on the NRA, which staunchly opposes any limits to the right to bear arms enshrined in the US Constitution.
On Thursday, National Rifle Association chief Wayne LaPierre slammed what he called "the shameful politicization of tragedy," and called for Americans to be the first line of defense -- meaning arming teachers.
That idea has been embraced by President Donald Trump, who again pushed his controversial plan to arm "firearms adept" teachers with "annual training" to help protect the nation's schools.
"Shootings will not happen again - a big & very inexpensive deterrent. Up to States," Trump tweeted.
Labels: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Donald Trump, Integrity - Ethical, Lobbyists, NRA, Old Energy, Social Media, Truthful and Transparent, US, Weapens - Arms
Yahoo – AFP, John BIERS, February 24, 2018
Just two days before the school shooting in Florida revived the US gun control
debate, debt-plagued gunmaker Remington Outdoor announced it will file for
bankruptcy (AFP Photo/DOMINICK REUTER)
New York (AFP) - Just two days before the school shooting in Florida revived the US gun control debate, debt-plagued gunmaker Remington Outdoor announced it will file for bankruptcy.
The financial woes of the more than 200-year-old company illustrate a paradox of the Trump era: weapon manufacturers miscalculated, ramping up production in anticipation of a Hillary Clinton presidency that would drive sales of those fearing increased gun control.
Instead, they got a period of political dominance for the powerful gun lobby accompanied by financial fragility for the gunmakers.
Since Donald Trump was elected president in November 2016, gun manufacturers have struggled to deal with excess supply, forcing them to rein back manufacturing, cut jobs and slash prices, as well as prompting some executives to be replaced.
"Because Republicans are in control of both the White House and the Congress, the threat of increased gun regulation went way down and so the stocking behavior of consumers went way down," said Emile Courtney, an analyst at S&P Global Ratings.
But since the February 14 Parkland shooting, which left 14 students and three teachers dead, survivors from the Florida school have emerged as powerful advocates for gun control, urging Trump and others to take action.
On Friday, a stampede of major companies, including insurers Chubb and MetLife, security company Symantec and rental car giants Avis Budget Group, Enterprise Holdings and Hertz joined others in ending discount programs for National Rifle Association members.
The move came amid heightened pressure from some consumers as the "#BoycottNRA" hashtag trended on Twitter.
Demand fell 'off the cliff'
If past trends hold, the revived talk of gun restrictions in the wake of the mass shooting will boost gun sales as more consumers stockpile weapons amid worries they could be banned.
But it is unclear how that will affect the companies' bottom line amid a rising tide of antagonism toward the gun lobby.
Sturm Ruger & Company this week became the latest industry player to detail the hit from slackening sales, reporting a 40 percent drop in 2017 profits to $52.1 million, a sharp pullback from the assessment of "stronger-than-normal demand during most of 2016."
The company cut manufacturing of its firearms and has eliminated 700 jobs over the last year, 28 percent of its workforce, executives said on a conference call this week.
Sturm Ruger chief executive Christopher Killoy said the company had made progress in working down inventory amid the tough climate.
Christopher Metz, who was hired as chief executive of Vista Outdoor in October, said pricing is now "much more rational" compared with a significant part of last year.
"There were competitors that were trying to catch up with the kind of falling off the cliff demand," Metz said early this month.
New era?
In the wake of the Parkland shooting, Trump has opened the door to some changes, such as endorsing a ban on "bump stocks," an accessory that can turn a semi-automatic weapon into an automatic one, and urging stronger background checks.
But the president, who praised the National Rifle Association as "very, very great people," also favors arming teachers, a stance ridiculed by educators.
Jeff Pistole, a gun dealer in Arkansas, expects the headlines to boost gun sales in the short run, especially for the AR-15, the gun used in Florida and many other mass shootings.
"Every time there's a shooting, the price spikes on them and then after everything settles down, the price falls back down on them. And after Trump got elected, they got really cheap," he said.
Pistole said the response to Parkland by gun control supporters has been much more muscular compared with the Las Vegas shooting in October, which resulted in 58 fatalities.
"There's been a lot of backlash," he said. "At first, people are saying 'Oh, Trump's president, we're not worried...' but with this one, there's a lot going on in the media, so people are paying attention to it."
This has also increased pressure on companies to cut ties with the gun industry. First National Bank of Omaha announced Thursday it was withdrawing its NRA-branded Visa credit card.
"Customer feedback has caused us to review our relationship with the NRA," First National Bank said on Twitter.
"As a result, First National Bank of Omaha will not renew its contract with the National Rifle Association to issue the NRA Visa card."
Asset manager BlackRock, a large shareholder in American Outdoor Brands, Sturm Ruger and Vista, said it planned to speak with gunmakers following the Florida shooting, but would not sell the shares, according to news reports.
Labels: Children, Integrity - Ethical, NRA, Old Energy, Protests, Social Media, Truthful and Transparent, US
Yahoo – AFP, Leila MACOR, February 22, 2018
Survivors of the mass shooting at Majory Stoneman High School in Florida are
leading what's considered an unprecedented youth mobilization against gun
violence in the US (AFP Photo/RHONA WISE)
Miami (AFP) - Young survivors of the Parkland, Florida school shooting have impressed the world with their eloquence as they grab the banner of the fight to end gun violence in America.
Cameron Kasky started the slogan #NeverAgain, David Hogg is now a target of an online smear campaign and Emma Gonzalez moved many in the country with her cry: "Shame on you!"
Who are the fresh-faced leaders of the #NeverAgain campaign to demand stricter gun laws, an issue that sharply divides American society?
In this file photo taken on February 17, 2018, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
School student Cameron Kasky speaks at a rally for gun control in Fort Lauderdale,
Florida (AFP Photo/RHONA WISE)
Cameron Kasky
The 17-year-old has been described by the New Yorker as a "theater kid" and calls himself the "class clown."
On February 14, the day of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Kasky addressed pro-gun advocates with a scathing Facebook post: "I'm safe... Thank you to all the second amendment warriors who protected me."
Two days after the massacre that left 17 dead at his school, Kasky created the hashtag #NeverAgain, urging his supporters to make it go viral, which it did.
Perhaps his most high-profile moment came on Wednesday, when he confronted US Senator Marco Rubio of Florida at a CNN "town hall" event broadcast on prime time.
Appearing relaxed and confident, the teen confronted the one-time presidential candidate, who has received funding from the powerful National Rifle Association (NRA) pro-gun lobby: "Senator Rubio, can you tell me right now that you will not accept a single donation from the NRA in the future?"
Emma Gonzalez rallied the nascent movement with a fiery
speech that captured widespread attention (AFP Photo/
RHONA WISE)
Emma Gonzalez
"Shame on you!" the 18-year-old declared at an anti-gun rally on February 16th, berating US President Donald Trump and other politicians who accept money from the NRA.
Her fiery speech captured national attention and spurred a nascent movement bringing together student survivors, parents, teachers and other activists.
Gonzalez, whose family has roots in Cuba and is easily recognizable with her shaved head, had written the speech just hours before and her only previous activism was participating in last year's "March for Science."
She and her cohorts called for a "March for Our Lives" in Washington on March 24, saying: "You're either with us, or against us at this point."
The march has since raised at least $2 million in funding from Hollywood A-listers including George Clooney and his human rights lawyer wife Amal, talk show queen Oprah Winfrey, director Steven Spielberg and his actress wife Kate Capshaw, and film producer Jeffrey Katzenberg.
David Hogg (right) gives his account of surviving the shooting at his high
school, which left 17 people dead (AFP Photo/MARK WILSON)
David Hogg
The 17-year-old aspiring journalist took refuge in a closet during the school massacre. Despite the terrifying circumstances, his instinct led him to film interviews with his fellow students while in hiding. The video went viral.
Hogg was recruited by Kasky to help lead the #NeverAgain movement.
But his experience in recent days lays bare the politicization of the issue. Hogg's father is a retired FBI agent and right-wing conspiracy theorists believe the agency is behind a shadowy campaign to bring down Trump.
The teen has been attacked and harassed online, and even accused of being a "crisis actor" paid to travel to tragedies to propagate liberal viewpoints.
"I am not a crisis actor," Hogg said. "I'm someone who had to witness this and live through this and I continue to be having to do that. I'm not acting on anybody's behalf."
Delaney Tarr, 17, is among the generation of Americans for whom the threat
of school shootings has always been a part of life (AFP Photo/RHONA WISE)
Delaney Tarr
The 17-year-old was among hundreds of Florida students who descended on the state legislature this week to demand gun control laws.
"We've had enough of thoughts and prayers," she said. "We are coming after every single one of you and demanding that you take action."
She is among a generation of young Americans who grew up in an era of school shootings, and always carries around her car keys, with the idea that she could hunker down inside the vehicle in such a situation.
When it actually happened, she ended up hiding with her classmates in a closet.
Labels: Children, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Deaths, Indigo, Integrity - Ethical, New Energy, NRA, Protests, Social Media, Society, US, Weapens - Arms
Yahoo – AFP, Martin PARRY, 23 February 2018
Australia's Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce (R), already under fire over an
affair, is now facing a sexual harassment allegation
Australia's scandal-hit deputy leader Barnaby Joyce announced Friday he was quitting and moving to the backbench amid claims of sexual harassment and controversy over an affair with a now-pregnant former aide.
Joyce, whose National Party rules alongside Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's Liberals, has been front-page news in Australia for two weeks since it emerged he had left his wife of 24 years for his younger former media adviser, who is now expecting their baby boy.
The 50-year-old had insisted he would ride out the storm but his position became untenable on Friday when a sexual harassment complaint against him, which he denies, was lodged with the party by an unnamed woman.
Joyce said at a press conference in Armidale, his rural New South Wales seat, that he would step down as Nationals leader and deputy prime minister at a party meeting on Monday.
"It's incredibly important that there be a circuit-breaker, not just for the parliament, but more importantly, a circuit-breaker for Vikki (his lover), for my unborn child, my daughters and for Nat (his wife)," he said.
"This has got to stop. It's not fair on them. It's just completely and utterly unwarranted, the sort of observation that's happened."
Joyce, who has also been criticised for living in an apartment rent-free with now partner Vikki Campion after splitting with his wife, was due to be the acting prime minister this week with Turnbull meeting US President Donald Trump in Washington.
But he opted to take leave.
With Foreign Minister Julie Bishop also out of the country, the role has been assumed by Senate leader Mathias Cormann, who said ahead of Joyce's decision that any harassment claim must be taken seriously.
"Any allegation of sexual harassment is a very serious allegation," he told reporters. "I understand that a formal complaint has been made, and that that complaint is being investigated."
Joyce called the claim "spurious and defamatory" and said he wanted it investigated by the authorities.
"I have asked that that be referred to the police," he said, while admitting it had been "the straw that broke the camel's back".
"It's quite evident that you can't go to the despatch box with issues like that surrounding you."
Riveted Australia
The daily media headlines on the scandal have riveted the Australian public and sparked debate about workplace culture amid the global #MeToo movement against sexual harassment.
But it has also highlighted the perilous state of the coalition government, which just a few months ago survived a crisis over lawmakers' dual citizenship that threatened its wafer-thin parliamentary majority.
Last week a furious Turnbull, who relies on the smaller National Party to govern, savaged Joyce for "a shocking error of judgement", leading his deputy to fire back that the prime minister was "inept".
In a statement from Washington, Turnbull Friday thanked Joyce for being "a fierce advocate for rural and regional Australia", while insisting the Nationals-Liberal coalition was "undiminished" by the scandal.
But Labor opposition leader Bill Shorten called it "fundamentally damaged" and accused Turnbull of "an atrocious lack of judgement".
"The fact that this scandal has dragged on for 16 days has been damaging to the government, but more importantly, the country," he said.
Joyce's decision to quit came with colleagues reportedly growing increasingly frustrated with his handling of the love-child scandal.
Joyce had opted to give several media interviews this week, at a time when he was expected to be on leave and out of the spotlight, prompting two of the party's backbenchers to publicly call on him to resign.
Junior Nationals minister David Gillespie has indicated he would be a candidate for the vacancy, while reports said Veterans Affairs Minister Michael McCormack had significant backing.
The new Nationals leader will automatically become deputy prime minister, under a coalition agreement between the two major parties of the centre-right.
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UNICEF number two resigns after complaints of inappropriate behavior
Yahoo - AFP, February 22, 2018
Justin Forsyth, seen here at a UNICEF event September 18, 2017, has resigned
as deputy director of the UN children's fund (AFP Photo/Bryan Bedder)
United Nations (United States) (AFP) - UNICEF deputy director Justin Forsyth on Thursday resigned from the UN children's agency following complaints of inappropriate behavior towards female staff in his previous post as head of British charity Save The Children.
He apologized again for his past "mistakes", but said his decision to step down from the top role was driven by concern that the scandal would hurt both organisations.
"I want to make clear I am not resigning from UNICEF because of the mistakes I made at Save the Children. They were dealt with through a proper process many years ago," he said in a statement.
"I apologized unreservedly at the time and face to face. I apologize again.
"There is no doubt in my mind that some of the coverage around me is not just to (rightly) hold me to account, but also to attempt to do serious damage to our cause and the case for aid.
"I am resigning because of the danger of damaging both UNICEF and Save the Children and our wider cause. Two organisations I truly love and cherish. I can't let this happen."
Forsyth joined UNICEF in 2016 after leaving his post as chief executive officer of Save the Children, where he faced complaints from three workers who said he had sent inappropriate texts and commented on what young female staff were wearing.
UNICEF on Wednesday said it was unaware that Forsyth faced those complaints when he was recruited.
"Executive Director Henrietta Fore today accepted Justin Forsyth's resignation from his position as Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF," said a UNICEF statement.
"We are grateful to Mr. Forsyth for his work over the past two years to advocate for the most vulnerable children and help advance UNICEF's mission to save children's lives," it added.
"This mission is now more important than ever."
In the wake of the MeToo movement, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres this month announced a zero-tolerance policy on sexual harassment and vowed new stepped-up measures to address misconduct by staff at the world body.
A new helpline for UN staff will be set up and UN-wide rules put in place to ensure that claims are addressed in the same manner throughout the organization.
The complaints at Save The Children follow revelations that Oxfam was investigating 26 cases of sexual misconduct since a crisis erupted over its handling of a scandal involving prostitution in Haiti.
Three of Oxfam's senior leaders have apologized for the charity's handling of an internal investigation into the use of prostitutes by staff in Haiti following the devastating 2010 earthquake.
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Yahoo – AFP, Gilles CLARENNE, February 21, 2018
Hundreds of students from the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia staged
walkouts and gathered in front of the Capitol in support of gun control (AFP Photo/
Olivier Douliery)
Tallahassee (United States) (AFP) - Student survivors of the Florida school shooting that saw 17 people killed in a hail of bullets last week descended on the state capital Wednesday to ramp up the pressure on lawmakers to enact tougher gun control measures.
Holding signs reading "Never Again" and "Be The Adults, Do Something," students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School rallied with thousands of supporters outside the imposing white stone-columned capitol building in Tallahassee.
"I am here to demand change from my government," student Lorenzo Prado told the crowd. "To let these victims lives be taken without any change in return is an act of treason to our great country."
"To let our fellow countrymen fall beside us without fighting back is to me equal to leaving a soldier to die in the battlefield."
Rallying in solidarity, students staged walkouts from other high schools in Florida and elsewhere vowing to make the tragedy a turning point in America's deadlocked debate on gun control.
In Washington, hundreds of local high school students gathered outside the White House chanting slogans against the National Rifle Association (NRA), the powerful gun lobby, and demanding action from President Donald Trump.
Faced with the massive outpouring of grief and outrage over the Parkland, Florida shooting, Trump was to meet with parents, students and teachers at the White House on Wednesday to discuss school safety.
Trump -- who received strong backing from the NRA during his White House run -- is also showing a new-found willingness to take at least some steps on gun control.
The president threw his support on Tuesday behind moves to ban "bump stocks" -- an accessory that can turn a semi-automatic weapon into an automatic one.
Students from Montgomery Blair High School in Maryland march in support of gun
reform legislation (AFP Photo/WIN MCNAMEE)
Calls to ban bump stocks have been mounting since Stephen Paddock, a retired accountant, used them on several of his weapons to kill 58 concertgoers in Las Vegas in October 2017 in the deadliest mass shooting in recent US history.
Although the former student who shot dead 17 people in Florida last week did not have bump stocks on his gun, there has been a renewed focus on the devices because outlawing them is a rare point of agreement between Democrats, some Republicans and the NRA.
In Florida, more than 100 students from Stoneman Douglas travelled eight hours in buses on Tuesday to meet with state legislators and demand they action on gun laws.
'Things are going to change'
"My classmates and I are probably the most determined group of people you will ever meet," said student Sofie Whitney.
"People are talking about how we aren't serious because we're children, but... we're serious."
The students' push for change hit a hurdle Tuesday when the Republican-dominated Florida House of Representatives declined to take up a debate on legislation that would have banned assault weapons and large-capacity magazines.
The US Congress is also deadlocked on the gun debate, accomplishing nothing since the shooting in Las Vegas.
"We must actually make a difference," Trump said Tuesday.
"We must move past cliches and tired debates and focus on evidence-based solutions and security measures that actually work," he said. "We must do more to protect our children."
A memorial for victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in
Parkland, Florida (AFP Photo/RHONA WISE)
"This includes implementing common sense security measures and addressing mental health issues," he said, "including better coordination between federal and state law enforcement to take swift action when there are warning signs."
Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz, 19, had a history of troubling behavior and a person close to him warned the FBI five weeks before the shooting that he was a threat -- but no action was taken.
Cruz legally bought the gun he used in the attack -- an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle -- and the White House said Tuesday it would consider raising the age for such purchases.
"I think that's certainly something that's on the table," spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said.
Students are planning a march on Washington next month and on Tuesday, they earned two million dollars in pledges from Hollywood A-listers George Clooney and his human rights lawyer wife Amal, Oprah Winfrey, director Steven Spielberg and film producer Jeffrey Katzenberg.
The "March for Our Lives" is scheduled to take place on March 24, with sister rallies planned across the country.
Americans support stricter gun laws by a 66 to 31 percent margin, according to a poll released on Tuesday by Quinnipiac University.
It described the margin as "the highest level of support" for stricter gun control since it began surveys on the question in 2008.
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Yahoo – AFP, Alice RITCHIE, February 18, 2018
Actress Emma Watson has made a £1 million donation to launch a new British fund
to help women facing harassement and abuse at work. (AFP Photo/CHRIS DELMAS)
London (AFP) - Actress and activist Emma Watson has donated £1 million to kickstart a new British fund to help women facing harassment and abuse at work, launched ahead of Sunday's Baftas and backed by hundreds of female entertainment stars.
The justice and equality fund was announced in an open letter supporting the US Time's Up movement, signed by around 200 women, including actresses Kate Winslet, Emma Thompson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Keira Knightley and Saoirse Ronan.
The letter is addressed to "dear sisters" -- as was a similar missive signed by Hollywood stars last month -- and calls for an international movement to stamp out a culture of abuse exposed by the Harvey Weinstein scandal.
The fundraising page for the new fund shows Watson, who won fame in the Harry Potter films and is now a UN Women goodwill ambassador, made the opening £1 million (1.13 million euros, $1.4 million) donation.
Knightley and British actor Tom Hiddleston have both given £10,000 to the fund, which will be used to set up a network of advice, support and advocacy projects to tackle abuse across all sectors of work.
It follows a legal aid fund set up by A-list stars in the United States to help both women and men abused at work.
"In the very near past, we lived in a world where sexual harassment was an uncomfortable joke; an unavoidable, awkward part of being a girl or a woman," the letter published in The Observer newspaper says.
"In 2018, we seem to have woken up in a world ripe for change. If we truly embrace this moment, a line in the sand will turn to stone."
Other stars, including Keira Knightley, have also made donations to
a new "justice and equality fund" for victims of sexual harassment
and abuse. (AFP Photo/ANGELA WEISS)
'Imbalance of power'
The letter was published ahead of the British Academy Film Awards on Sunday night, when stars are expected to repeat the protest staged at last month's Golden Globes awards and wear black in a show of solidarity with victims.
Some are also expected to bring activists with them to highlight their work.
"As we approach the Baftas, our industry's time for celebration and acknowledgement, we hope we can celebrate this tremendous moment of solidarity and unity across borders by coming together and making this movement international," the letter says.
It emphasises that revelations about abuse in Hollywood have now spread across the world, saying the movement is about more than just the entertainment industry.
It highlights problems in Britain such as the gender pay gap and changes to work that often make it more insecure.
"This movement is intersectional, with conversations across race, class, community, ability and work environment, to talk about the imbalance of power," the letter states.
Around 160 activists and academics have signed a sister letter pledging support for the new fund, which will be administered by the organisation Rosa.
The signatories thank the high-profile stars for helping "push issues such as sexual harassment and rape into the public consciousness in an unprecedented way".
"We believe that this is a moment in time when we can harness our collective energies to dismantle the wall of silence that surrounds violence against women and girls," they say.
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Traits that increase outgoing damage should stack additively in order to eliminate the runaway damage numbers that certain builds have.
It s just pure luck. The rev had 25 stack might AND he had the 2 beasts boons AND you had 25 stack vuln.
Maybe classes shouldn't be able to stack that much damage mods in 4s?
The rev had 0 boons at 0:15, with his first boons at 0:16. He had 20 might in addition to fury when he began Unrelenting Assault at 0:20. Worth pointing out that I only had 18 vuln when I was hit not 25, and that I was using a Paladin's Amulet so it's not like I didn't have any toughness.
Why shouldn't I? I had the option of engaging the Mesmer or the Rev. My class can't do kitten against a Mesmer, but I can do something against a rev. Moreover I knew from previous experience that the rev wasn't particularly good and that I could best him easily, a assumption that was quickly confirmed by I was besting him up until he pressed 3 on his keyboard and deleted me from existence.
The entire reason I made this thread is because I essentially got robbed because I had no way to expect that a skill that normally doesn't exceed 6k damage would hit me for 17k. This isn't a problem exclusive to revenant either. I've seen 12k Warrior GS3, 4k engi rifle autos, literally everything soulbeast does. The damage formulation in this game is fundamentally broken.
While im not opposed to OPs idea, I think the problems with revs insane burst go much deeper than just the dmg modifiers or even the 25 might and perma fury (=which should be freaking nerfed as well).
Revs have been playing more or less the exact same build with the exact same playstyle since HoT release.
And when I look at their go-to traitlines, I can't help but to see it as the rev-equivalent of a fire/air weaver.
There is absolutely 0 defense in their trait choices.
Anet has continuously buffed dwarf stance and the retribution traitline and yet people just dont use them.
So personally I see two ways to "fix" Rev.
First: Nerf literally every "gain might"-, "gain fury"- and dmg modifier trait to a level that can be dealt with.
Second: Take the nerfbat to the Shiro-stance, specifically "Riposting Shadows" and "Phase Traversal".
Riposting Shadows is such an obnoxiously powerfull skill, that legit makes me wonder if the Devs have even realized how hard it carries the spec.
Read its skilldescription. It's disgustingly stacked.
It clears movement impairing conditions, breaks stun, is a 600 range backwards evade, gives endurance and gives you fury and therefor 5 mighstacks if you traited correctly.
All that on a ~6 second CD if you take the energy cost/regeneration ratio into account.
And Phase Traversal is in a similar boat.
If RS would actually be nerfed to give "just" the 600 range backwards evade with movement impairing condition clear (and they can keep the stun break for all I care), maybe they would actually have to drop some damage and take proper defensive traits or stances.
If I cant take full PVE dps traits on my weaver without getting absolutely demolished, why can Revs do just that?
Is this a veiled nerf Revenant thread or change how damage modifiers work?
Because I honestly can't believe people are complaining about Revenant's but then again, this is the pvp forum and I don't expect much nowadays.
Haha ! Pwned by potato class!
if you think these are high numbers you should meet my deadeye!
the game needs caps in its competitive modes. not just for damage either.
Hmm.. I've never ever seen an a engi rifle auto exceed 2500 with might and vuln in PvP. I think that's not a skill you would lump in a "scaling out of control" pile.
You died while having enough endurance to dodge. Rev damage is crazy but this was your fault. Had you placed weakness on him after dodging sword 3 you would've probably won.
Some people need to get their information straight, before suggesting things.
I suggested this a couple months ago in general discussion, the thread was removed.
First of all ....if you wanna play the "lololol get your facts straigth"-card, you should know that fury only gives 2 stacks of might in pvp.
Secondly, Notoriety is still very much meta on revs and gives 3 mighstacks on shiro-skill use.
Oh darn a typo on my phone, but yes I forgot to account for Notoriety so you got me there, but doesn't change the fact that skill functions similar to almost every other movement but removing movement impairing effects and right now Weaver has one of the most defensive builds that can still burst people down quite effectively if the player knows what they are doing.
So let's get this straight you are saying a skill that only when heavily traited to add 5 might, that costs almost half of the classes resource which can take away from being able to utilize other skills both weapon and utility, which no other class has to deal with.
Riposting Shadows is Shiro's signature skill from GW1. It's disgustingly powerful and a callback to the actual legend. I think that it should be powerful, but the ability of the Revenant to stack so many boons that buff the damage to insane levels without any real game play investment (like blasting might for example) as a passive is what should be looked at and adjusted in PvP specifically.
It's almost like they should shave Notoriety for PvP only, instead of nerfing 1 skill, since the trait seems to be the issue for RS being so strong.
Im not cherry picking. Notoriety for instance is extremely powerful regardless of what skill you use (might being 33% more effective).
Its not that uncommon the see a revenant chain RS into dodge into Rs into dodge. And they still regen enough energy to throw in a staff 3 at some point.
Oh geeze the current Weaver build in PvP is great defense and great burst, and lulz at can't burst in water... it's not like Weaver doesn't have access to other attumejts/attunement combos that can't burst, again cherry picking.
And again using the the RS especially Twice in a row locks Revenant from using almost every skill except AA or forcing them to Legend Swap which isn't always ideal, and one more time, if Revs use almost any other skills or in a different legend guess what no RS up due to lack of energy. Again have to look at the class as a whole instead of cherry picking inna vacuum.
The issue isn't RS it's Notoriety, so the smart thing to do is shave Notoriety's might gain slightly in PvP.
Passive game play can be fun if it's not something that over-centralizes the need to counter with class or sigil specific features like boon ripping. In order to adequately handle this Rev build and keep it from decimating in team fights, you basically have to focus boon rip and even then it's still very powerful. Not all classes have access to reliable boon rip to handle passive elements of a class. It creates game play situations that aren't engaging and show that there's a selfish element to the class design since devs seem to care more about how OP they can make a class feel to the player to get that dopamine pumping rather than how it influences the game as a whole. No class should be able to stack might that high with no assistance from other classes while smoking a cigar and involving more passive gameplay elements than active ones.
Passive game play can be fun if it's not something that over-centralizes the need to counter with class or sigil specific features like boon ripping. In order to adequately handle this Rev build and keep it from decimating in team fights, you basically have to focus boon rip and even then it's still very powerful. Not all classes have access to reliable boon rip to handle passive elements of a class. It creates game play situations that aren't engaging and show that there's a selfish element to the class design since devs seem to care more about how OP they can make a class feel to the player to get that dopamine pumping rather than how it influences the game as a whole. No class should be able to stack might that high with no assistance from other classes while smoking a cigar involving passive gameplay elements more than active ones.
Again read what I said, it might help I said shave the might generation, let's repeat that one more time, shave the might generation of Notoriety, and every class in PvP does have access to boon rip through sigils, if boons are such an issue it would be smart for people having issues with booms to run those, now this doesn't even take into account 3 classes with the best boon rip in game, or the fact that any class can easily generate 25 might with the Sigil, Runes and inherent traits and skills those classes have, fyi Rev isn't the only class that can easily generate 25 might by itself.
And technically it's not passive gameplay since you have to use specific active skills to utilize those traits js.
You got hit for 17k from a S3. S3 is highly telegraphed and doesn't hit all the damage instantly. There are other skills in the game on other classes that can do twice this damage instantly and in many cases from stealth with no telegraph or animation at all. You had enough endurance for an evade, but didn't use it.
Funny that you say that Rev has to give up its ability to counterpressure when they want to chain RS' but still make an argument for weaver being able to "burst" their targets.
Anyhow...to get somewhat back on track.
I said nerfing RS was 1 of 2 options. Im fine with nerfing their dmg mods and offensive boon accessibility as well.
And (this time at least) I have to agree that Notoriety is one of the main offenders.
But not only because it produces might as a byproduct, but also because it makes might in general more effective (40 power per stack is pretty neat).
Personally I would prefer it tho, if Rev simply was forced to take up actual defenses.
Shield is pretty nice ever since the buffs it received. Retribution traitline also doesn't look bad (at least on paper).
But nobody uses those tools, since their full PVE-dps specs still gives them reasonably good defenses.
For one Revs inherent design locks them out of doing things, ie can't access utility skills if they use a weapon skill or two, or vice versa at all times, something that Weaver doesn't have to worry about since, you know because Weavers utilities and weapon skills are tied to the exact same resource pool so weavers can be defensive and offensive at the same time, they aren't sacrificing anything for their great survivability and great burst, smh.
Oh I wish Rev had more meaningful Defenses for PvP, but because of Revs inherent design the defenses they have mean next to nothing in sPvP, which means they have to go all in damage wise if they are going to be useful.
weavers can be defensive and offensive at the same time, they aren't sacrificing anything for their great survivability and great burst, smh.
Sry for wasting everyones time.
People that know how to properly use the class understand that nothing is actually sacrificed, since you know using a skill doesn't lock them out of using others, let's not forget Weaver gets dual attunements which shore up the weakness of the individual attunements... it's clear to see when people don't know how to properly evaluate classes or know how to properly use their class.
You can do that on weaver. Just because YOU can't doesnt mean it's not possible.
OP got destroyed by trash REV playing zerk amulet because he's horrible.
OP had a dodge, all utility skills and his heal still available btw. Kind of embarrassing of you to post this. You spam your 3 skill in panic and eat like 6 attacks from somebody playing berserker amulet with nothing done in that time period.
A power reaper complaining about getting wrecked in a 1v1 by a power build is a bit ironic considering what a power reaper can do with its pbaoe cleave to multiple foes in its radius. Note how Soul Spiral doesn't split its damage between targets like Unrelenting Assault.
What many people who ask for this cant seem to math out is the fact that the difference in multiplied vs additive is like 20% on the extreme side with ALL the multipliers setup for the scenario. The obvious exception is Soul Beast with 40% and 50% damage modifiers.
And the dishonesty continues...It wasn't removed. After showing how little you understood the math behind damage multipliers you just kept on going and people lost interest trying to debate/teach you.
I've only got exactly 2 evades as a necro and rev sword3 is typically not worth burning a extremely precious dodge charge on. Yeah sure looking back with hindsight knowing that the sword3 would do 17k damage makes it obvious that it should have been dodged, but in the moment where you don't know that the skill is going to hit for almost 3 times as much damage as it typically would it's not a bad play.
I was also aware that he blinded me when I casting RS5, but I was more interested in seeing if I could bait a dodge, plus I wanted the chill field down.
I'm sorry I didn't realize I needed to blow my precious dodge charge on a skill that almost never does more than 6k.
Question: If I didn't have the video that is in the OP, would you have believed me when if I said that my paladin's reaper got hit for 17k by Unrelenting Assault? I would guess not, because 17k is a pretty absurd number for that skill. Yet it obviously did happen. I have 100% been hit by a 4k rifle auto before and you just have to take my word on it. Yeah it's not something that happens all the time, but it happens and it's gamebreaking when it does.
The comment was removed because you posted in across more than one subforum. The topic is fine.
It would also be alot more balanced.
Wouldnt making dmg buffs additive be a direct nerf to rev's dmg output and as a result rev would look for maybe more tankyness to offset the risks for the increased ttk?
I saw the clip a couple of days ago and it was silly ye. Tho to be completely honest idk if i prefer them stacking additively or simply being much harder to stack and require team effort to do so. Which one would you prefer?
I dont think so tbh.
Like, if we multiply all the dmg mods with each other (for revenant), the extra dmg we get in comparison to an additive stack is very insignificant.
So additively those would be 40%.
Unless this is wrong, it doesn't seem like that much of an issue.
So instead of getting hit for 17k, you would instead be hit for ~16k.
Please correct me if im wrong here.
If you do you get and additive of 63% (ferocity not included) and a multiplicative of 81%. Including ferocity in that number gets 165% additive and 366% multiplicative.
Still in my opinion this would be a good long term solution as it would be much easier to manage the increased damage. It can be as easy as just change the +5% to damage to +5% to power or ferocity.
Just keep in mind i don't think this would solve the one shot builds but IMO it would make the one-shot skills more manageable.
Certain people cry Nerf whenever they lose to anything, a quick perusal of posts shows this, nothing ever changes, certain people never see themselves as being the issue or hold themselves accountable for poor play/lack of skill, it's always some outside factor that is the problem and needs to be nerfed.
I dont think his issue is the skill rather how much dmg mods can scale it off the charts.
How do damage reduction work though? Do they stack multiplicatively as well?
Yep, some stacked additively while other multiplicatively but got changed to multiplicative due to unintended stacking which allowed to reduce almost all damage taken, ie Rite Of the Great Dwarf was changed from additive.
Imo it's kind of iffy to include vuln stacks in this calc, since its application and maintenance (in relevant quantities) are very situation- and MU-dependant. Fair point on the rune tho....can throw in another 1.05 mod for strength runes (since i dont think scholar runes are good on rev).
Also what do you mean by "Including ferocity in that number gets 165% additive..."?
Edit: Nvm. I assume you meant 265% and that was a typo.
But ...so you want ferocity to stack additively with dmg modifiers as well?
Cause that would be a huge nerf to all powerspecs in general.
I used a ferocity value of 2.02 with a rune modifier of 1.05 which would be equal to a Scholar + Marauder setup.
No 165% is the correct value. I did typo in that it should have been 267% for the multiplicative. So it's 165% damage gain vs 267% damage gain. The actual modifiers are 2.65 and 3.67 but do remember that a modifier of 1.0 means no damage change, for clarity I chopped off 1.0 so that the percentage is only the percentage gained. In other words simply switching from additive damage modifiers to multiplicative modifiers resulted in 102% more damage output.
My concern is that I want to bring the damage delta for skills down, not for just rev but for everyone. For example as a necro I often get frustrated by the insane delta on how much damage Ghastly Claws does. I've seen everything from 3k (no crits and no mods) to 13k+ (stars aligned) thus meaning the skill has a damage range of negligible to instant win. This is not conductive to a good experience when I can't trust on my burst skills to burst and can't trust my opponents filler skills to actually do filler damage.
There are a lot of classes that require the damage to stack in the way that it currently does now or they wouldn't be viable at all. In other words, all competitive balance in the game is designed around the way damage multiplies and if anet were to change that, they'd need to seriously overhaul every class with that change or it would break the game in ways that will take years for current patching speeds to fix.
The game is currently already another bunker wars meta, even within this high dps meta. Changing multiplicative damage stacking will seal the deal on a game meta where players are unable to kill each other. That's gonna get real boring, real fast.
Hey I'm not saying changes couldn't be made, but it's important to identify the real problem here, and that problem in my opinion is not the way damage stacks, but rather power creep in general. Things were fine for 6 years up until recently when every class suddenly began vomiting 25 stacks of might, quickness, and every other boon in game with nearly 100% uptimes.
If this thread is about damage modifiers then you should know Elementalists have a lot of damage modifiers too.
Not sure why people would want that nerfed, but im also assuming people thought about things in the overall picture before they posted.
If the thread is about Rev and nerfing Rev then I cant say much, rather see the damage on ranger toned down.


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Man injured at work wanted to hire the Lombardi Law Firm and to discharge the firm currently handling his case which made me wonder why. Was this a client or a lawyer problem?
I personally knew the gentleman from other work we'd recently done. He is a reasonable guy and his wife referred him to us. I knew from representing her this was a good family. So, we agreed to take over the case and I was able to review the other lawyer's file. The "file" included communication with the client in the form of text messages, but little else.
Because of the Internet, many clients are more aware today than they were 30 years ago. There is a lot more information readily available than there was in the 80's and 90's. When the client doubts the lawyer's credibility it is easily verified through questions and answers.
There are many more forms of communication than there was previously "back-in-the-day". Email, cell phones, fax and smart phones to name the most widely used. Is all of this good?
Some's good and some's bad. Some is used incorrectly and way too often.
Ease of use and availability can create unrealistic expectations for clients and for lawyer. The use of these tools needs to be managed.
So what did I see and what does it have to do with earning a fee?
What I saw was way too much texting between lawyer and client with most of it coming from the lawyer. The lawyer's messages were cryptic not full sentences, lacked punctuation and were mainly questions of no real significance; but tended to demonstrate how little the lawyer knew about his case. The questions posed to the client did nothing to develop confidence with the client and mostly ordered the client to do things like get records then report back to the lawyer.
Now I'm not against getting the client involved in developing evidence, but when that appears to be all the lawyer is doing, ordering the client to do what we lawyers are supposed to be doing, it creates doubts that the lawyer is doing the legal work of lawyering.
If you are not being paid weekly benefits, your claim is denied and you have no income, then isn't it time to file the claim and engage in formal discovery? Yeah, I thought so too. I can tell you this, it's not time to text the client and ask "How u doing?", while watching an Iowa football game.
Ultimately clients ask this question: Is my lawyer lawyering? And if the answer is no, they look for one that will lawyer. Clients don't mind paying for good legal services. Lawyers shouldn't be waiting around for money to be put on the table to see how much they get; lawyers should be doing the things lawyers can do to make it happen.
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Maori Sovereignty - The Pakeha Perspective (Editor: Carol Archie)
Maori Sovereignty - The Maori Perspective (Editor Hineani Melbourne)
were published by Hodder Moa Beckett in 1995.
In these two volumes, 35 New Zealander with a wide range of backgrounds were interviewed about their views of Maori Sovereignty and I was one of them. Because the publishers would not allow me to reproduce my chapter, I have paraphrased it.
It was my first opportunity to set down my thoughts on biculturalism in New Zealand. I have given the matter much thought since - for which see below.
The Chinese in a Bicultural New Zealand - the way forward was a paper I presented at a conference in Dunedin in 1998 and sets out the historical and constitutional background to biculturalism and suggests that the way forward for the Chinese in New Zealand involves accepting biculturalism and adapting to it. The paper includes several Appendices.
In October 2004 I was invited by the Human Rights Commission to speak about Human Rights and the Treaty of Waitangi - a view from the Asian Community
In November 2005 I spoke about The Treaty of Waitangi and Human Rights - from bicultural to multicultural at the Human Rights, The Treaty of Waitangi and Asian Communities Symposium - sponsored by the Human Rights Commission.
In 2005 and 2006 I wrote some masters research essays:
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Evidence of an evolving model for the Chinese community in New Zealand from 1950 to the present.
The Role and Influence of the Waitangi Tribunal on our emerging multicultural society
Migrants and the Waitangi Tribunal
Can the Chinese support the Report on the Orakei Claim?
The New Zealand First Party has promoted a Bill to delete the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi from all legislation. The New Zealand Chinese Association made a written submission to the Jusitce and Electoral Select Committee of Parliament opposing this Bill. Later it made oral submissions to expand on its view.
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It would be enough for them to open their jaws and cute little plovers would run to give a helping hand. Can you believe that crocodiles are so reasonably patient while birds are jumping over their tongue? Well, that is because they know this game will help them to clean all food remains from their mouth, while plovers will enjoy a plenty of food.
This is why they are always looking for friends to help them and lead Ratels directly to the hive. Once the Ratels destroy the beehive and open it, it is easy for guides to use the remains from the ground.
Just like they are leading other animals to their goal, sometimes they do the same with people. The cooperation is the most important in this cruel world.
Cattle Egrets are not doing good for livestock, but neither they are doing anything wrong. They are just following the big animals while they are moving through the grass. Every time big cattle pass through the lawn, some insects don't survive and they become a banquet for egrets.
In this way, birds are using the advantages of one-way symbiosis. But sometimes, even among the biggest opponents, there is a time of truce. There is a species of woodpeckers called Southern Rufous, and this one is ready to negotiate. Somehow, during the nesting time, a woodpecker uses the ants' nests to lay eggs, and both of the species are protecting the place. Nature has wonderful solutions. It is hard to make friends with meat ants, but leaf hoppers are lucky because they can produce substances which are tasteful and ants like eating them.
Just because of that, leaf hoppers have the privilege to be a partner protected from predators and have a friendly status. Well, some animals are just more friendly than others. Caterpillars also enjoy the protection of the army consisted of meat ants.
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This is not only because their substances are suitable for feeding, but because they are also sticky and useful as a valuable material in nest-building. Symbiotic relationships may be either obligate, i. Mutualistic relationships may be either obligate for both species, obligate for one but facultative for the other, or facultative for both.
An Egyptian Plover picking the teeth of a Nile crocodile A large percentage of herbivores have mutualistic gut fauna that help them digest plant matter, which is more difficult to digest than animal prey. Coral reefs are the result of mutualisms between coral organisms and various types of algae that live inside them. Most land plants and land ecosystems rely on mutualisms between the plants, which fix carbon from the air, and mycorrhyzal fungi, which help in extracting minerals from the ground.
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An example of mutual symbiosis is the relationship between the ocellaris clownfish that dwell among the tentacles of Ritteri sea anemones. The territorial fish protects the anemone from anemone-eating fish, and in turn the stinging tentacles of the anemone protect the clownfish from its predators. A special mucus on the clownfish protects it from the stinging tentacles.
There are also many types of tropical and sub-tropical ants that have evolved very complex relationships with certain tree species. Alder tree root nodule Endosymbiosis is any symbiotic relationship in which one symbiont lives within the tissues of the other, either in the intracellular space or extracellularly.
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HMS Basilisk (H11) war ein Zerstörer der B-Klasse der britischen Royal Navy. Im Zweiten Weltkrieg wurde der Zerstörer mit den Battle Honours "Norway 1940" und "Dunkirk 1940" ausgezeichnet.
Am 1. Juni 1940 wurde das Schiff während der Evakuierung der britischen Truppen bei Dünkirchen von der deutschen Luftwaffe versenkt.

Geschichte des Zerstörers
Am 4. März 1929 erhielt die Werft John Brown & Company in Clydebank neben Hawthorn Leslie den Auftrag, zwei Schiffe der zweiten Zerstörerklasse der Royal Navy, die nach Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs gebaut wurde, zu fertigen. Die Werft hatte 1928 schon Bauaufträge für zwei Zerstörer der vorangehenden A-Klasse erhalten.
Die Kiellegung der Basilisk erfolgte am 19. August 1929 mit der Baunummer 531.
Die zehnte Basilisk der Royal Navy lief am 6. August 1930 vom Stapel und wurde am 4. März 1931 in Dienst gestellt.
Die vorangegangene Basilisk war ein von J. Samuel White gebauter Zerstörer der Beagle-Klasse, der von 1910 bis 1921 im Dienst der Royal Navy stand.

Einsatzgeschichte
Die Basilisk wurde mit ihren Schwesterschiffen zuerst der "4th Destroyer Flotilla" bei der Mediterranean Fleet zugeordnet. Da die britische Mittelmeerflotte meist die neuesten Zerstörer erhielt, wurde die Flottille 1936 zur Home Fleet verlegt und durch die "2nd Destroyer Flotilla" ersetzt, die gerade auf die neuen Zerstörer der H-Klasse umgerüstet worden war. Wegen der zunehmenden politischen Spannungen war die Basilisk, wie auch andere Schiffe der Klasse, 1937 weiterhin vor der spanischen Küste im Einsatz und beteiligte sich an den sogenannten Neutralitätspatrouillen wegen des spanischen Bürgerkriegs. Nach der Eroberung von Málaga durch Francos Truppen im Februar 1937 lief die Basilisk dort ein und ihr Kommandant setzte sich für dort ansässige britische Staatsbürger ein.
Als die alte "4th Destroyer Flotilla" im März 1939 aufgelöst wurde, wurde die Basilisk Alarmzerstörer in Devonport und dann mit den Schwesterschiffen der neugebildeten "19. Zerstörerflottille" in Dover zugeteilt.

Kriegseinsätze
Bei Kriegsbeginn gehörte zu seinen Aufgaben des Zerstörers die Sicherung von Geleitzügen und Kriegsschiffen in den Gewässern an der britischen Nordseeküste sowie Patrouillen vor und in der Straße von Dover.

In der Nacht vom 12. auf den 13. November 1939 geleitete das Schiff zusammen mit dem Schwesterschiff Blanche den Minenleger Adventure auf einem Marsch von Grimsby nach Portsmouth. Dieser geriet in der Themsemündung in eine Minensperre, die wenige Stunden zuvor von den deutschen Zerstörern Karl Galster, Hans Lüdemann, Hermann Künne und Wilhelm Heidkamp gelegt worden war. Als die Zerstörer den beschädigten Minenleger aus dem Minenfeld herausgeleiten wollten, lief Blanche ebenfalls auf eine Mine und sank einige Zeit später im Schlepp. Die Basilisk nahm die Besatzung der Blanche und die Verwundeten der schwer beschädigten Adventure an Bord und brachte sie an Land.

Der Zerstörer wurde Mitte April 1940 zur Home Fleet abgeordnet, die alliierte Truppen, um die im Rahmen des Unternehmens Weserübung im Norwegen gelandeten deutschen Truppen wieder zu vertreiben. Die Basilisk verlegte am 24. April mit dem Schlachtschiff Resolution sowie den Zerstörern Wren und Hesperus in den Raum Narvik, das mit amphibischen Operationen zurückerobert werden sollte. Der Zerstörer griff mit seinen Geschützen auch in die Landkämpfe ein. Am 20. Mai wurde der Zerstörer aus Norwegen wieder abgezogen und traf am 30. Mai wieder in Dover ein.

Das Ende der Basilisk
Die Basilisk wurde dann gemeinsam mit vielen anderen Schiffen bei der Evakuierung der um Dünkirchen eingekesselten alliierten Truppen (Operation Dynamo) eingesetzt. An ihrem ersten Einsatztag, dem 31. Mai 1940, konnte sie zwei Fahrten durchführen und 338 bzw. 357 Soldaten zur Britischen Insel zurückführen.

Am 1. Juni lief das Schiff wieder zur französischen Kanalküste. Dabei wurde es unmittelbar vor der Küste von deutschen Sturzkampfbombern angegriffen und durch Bombentreffer schwer beschädigt. Es wurde versucht, den manövrierunfähigen Zerstörer abzuschleppen, der bei einem weiteren Angriff auf  sank. Der belgische Fischdampfer Jolie Mascotte und der alte Zerstörer Whitehall retteten 131 Mann von dem sinkenden Schiff. Die Whitehall zerstörte das sinkende Wrack völlig mit ihrer Artillerie und Torpedos.

Literatur
 Norman Friedman: British Destroyers From Earliest Days to the Second World War. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland 2009, ISBN 978-1-59114-081-8.
 W.J.R. Gardner: The Evacuation from Dunkirk: Operation Dynamo, 26 May-4 June 1940, Frank Cass, London (2000), ISBN 0-7146-5120-6
 M. J. Whitley: Destroyers of World War Two. Arms and Armour Press, London 1988, ISBN 0-85368-910-5.

Weblinks

 HMS Basilisk (H11) – B-class destroyer
 HMS Basilisk (H11)
 Chronik Seekrieg 1939–1945

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B-Klasse (1930)
Schiffsverlust im Zweiten Weltkrieg
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Home UofM Media Room News Releases UofM Events Oct. 5-7 Will Focus on Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness
UofM Events Oct. 5-7 Will Focus on Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness
September 24, 2015 - The University of Memphis Office for Institutional Equity and Office of Student Conduct will be hosting events Oct. 5-7 focused on sexual assault prevention and awareness. The events include:
Monday, Oct. 5 - "Let's Talk About Sex," 5:30 p.m., University Center Theatre. An open discussion about current and developing topics related to sexual activity among college students including consent, sex education, contraception, rape culture, societally imposed shame and double standards. Panelists will include Dr. K.B. Turner, chair of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Claudia Haltom from A Step Ahead Foundation; Lisa Moore from Girls Inc. of Memphis; and Mollie Anderson, UofM doctoral student in experimental psychology.
Tuesday, Oct. 6 - Community Resources Fair, 11:30 am to 1 p.m., University Center Atrium. University and local organizations will provide information about services they provide related to sexual assault, domestic violence, counseling services and more.
Screenings of The Hunting Ground, 1 and 7 p.m., Michael D. Rose Theatre. The documentary offers a look at the prevalence of sexual assault on college campuses, university responses to these incidents, and the toll they take on survivors. The UofM was selected for the showcase screening, which is being underwritten by a grant secured by the filmmaker and features writer-director Kirby Dick in a panel discussion following each of the screenings.
Wednesday, Oct. 7 - Take a Stand Day. Activities will include a Pledge Campaign, where individuals can show their commitment to preventing sexual assault by making a pledge.
For more information, contact Latosha Dexter at 678.4264.
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