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Bruin Democrats, Bruin Republicans gather to debate at UCLA CrossFire
By Grace Morgan
Campus, National, News
Members from Bruin Democrats and the Bruin Republicans debated on issues such as U.S. foreign policy and anti-discrimination laws at the CrossFire debate Thursday evening. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
UCLA's two largest political organizations came together to challenge opposing ideas at a debate Thursday.
Bruin Political Union hosted the UCLA CrossFire debate at Ackerman Student Union, which featured members from the Bruin Democrats and the Bruin Republicans. Participants debated topics including the United States' foreign policy and anti-discrimination laws.
BPU, a nonpartisan group which aims to increase the level of political discourse on campus through debate, facilitated the discussions. Debaters were given two minutes to answer each question and one minute for each rebuttal.
Participants in the debate talked about the national controversy over removing confederate landmarks and statues.
William Fitzgerald, a member of the Bruin Republicans and a first-year economics student, said he thinks many people support the monuments because they think the statues honor their ancestors that lost in the Civil War and represent states' rights.
"To blatantly cast anyone who flies a confederate flag or supports upholding these statutes as racist or someone who believes in the original confederate values is the same logic that is applied when (Islamophobic people) say that all Muslims are terrorists," said Fitzgerald.
Fitzgerald said he thinks local governments should consider removing historical statues on a case-by-case basis because they can be expensive to remove.
"In Sarasota County, Florida, they spent $12,700 to remove a statue that they ended up breaking in the process." he said. "In 2006, Sarasota was voted the number one place for the worst treatment of homeless people. … Is that really (an) efficient allocation of resources when we have a massive (homelessness) problem?"
Fitzgerald added he thinks the monuments are reminders to make sure the Civil War and slavery do not happen again.
On the other hand, Nina Long, a member of the Bruin Democrats and a first-year political science student, said she thinks the monuments were meaningless and symbols of hate.
"The very people who put up these statutes intended for them to intimidate and terrorize black people," said Long.
Long said she thinks taking down these monuments is a moral issue because she believes the monuments dehumanize African-Americans.
Debaters also discussed U.S. foreign policy and escalating tensions between North Korea and the United States.
Terrence White, a fourth-year political science student and member of the Bruin Republicans, said he thinks the United States should take action when there is an impending nuclear strike. He added he thinks President Donald Trump's administration's efforts with other countries in the United Nations to impose economics sanctions on North Korea is reducing the likelihood of an attack.
Bruin Democrat debater and third-year history student Wesley Adams said he thinks economic sanctions do not work against North Korea because of the government's selfish nature.
"(Trump's) strategy of being belligerent with economic sanctions has been shown to not work. If anything, they have doubled down," said Adams. "Economic sanctions primarily hurt the poorest people of the population – sanctions only work if the government of that country is willing to respond to the needs (of) its poorest people."
Adams said he thinks the United States should negotiate with North Korea upfront by addressing the fact that they are now a nuclear state and establishing a back channel for negotiations between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Participants also debated over whether the First Amendment gives businesses the right to refuse service based on sexual orientation.
Bruin Democrat and second-year political science student Henry Lutz said he thinks businesses do not have the right to refuse service to anyone based on sexual orientation because a business is a secular entity, not a religious organization.
"The business itself is providing a public good," said Lutz. "The 14th Amendment was put in place to protect all citizens, which includes same-sex couples."
Bruin Republican and graduate student Rahul Daryanani responded by saying that businesses are private entities that fall under an individual's right to freedom of religion.
Participants in the event said they think the debate allowed for an open dialogue on politically polarizing issues.
Mariela Muro, a third-year political science student, said she thinks the event was a great way to facilitate communication between individuals with opposing view points.
"I think events like these are really productive and no matter where you stand on the political spectrum, being able to express your thoughts and feelings on things is really productive," she said. "Sometimes I think we have a lot more in common than we think we do and that's a good thing."
Grace Morgan


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Q: Use SetParent on project's own console, in a winforms panel I'm trying to take advantage of the console project type's console to display output from my windows form.
Basically I have my project set to a console project type. I open a windows form from Main. On that windows form I have a panel in which I'd like to use SetParent() (pinvoke) that will contain the console.
Is this possible? I've even tried adding another console project to the solution and hosting THAT console project in the panel, but it goes invisible as soon as SetParent() is called. I've tried using ShowWindow() (pinvoke) to get it to be visible but nothing happens. How can I do this?
I've made a wrapper over these Win32 functions but I feel like they're pretty self explanatory. Here's the code:
    private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Utilities.SetParent(Utilities.GetWindowHandle(ConsoleTitle), panel1.Handle);
        Utilities.SetWindowVisible(Utilities.GetWindowHandle(ConsoleTitle), true);
    }

ConsoleTitle is just a string set to my console's title, which is "Tester Console". For the record the console disappears when my code is called, so I know it's grabbing the window handle and doing something.
Thanks for any help!

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The old girl's still got it! It's been a long time since I've driven my WRX, "EVA-00" or "Eva" for short. She typically spends her days in my garage now that she's been a few years retired now from the car show scene, but with my friend Kyle "KP" Pope in town bringing dry skies from Arizona, it was a perfect opportunity to take her out to stretch her legs. Plus, since I hadn't really picked up my camera since November, I was definitely itching for some therapeutic photography to get my head back into a good place.
My friends always joke about me selling her, and to be totally honest, I would entertain the right offer, so if you have one, definitely shoot me an email. Just keep in mind that there's a ton of sentimental value involved here, so don't expect any lowballs to work out in your favor. In any case, many thanks to Kyle Pope for shooting along side and suggesting some locations and ideas.


Been dumped by your one true love?
Did the breakup come "out of the blue" and take you completely by surprise?
Well, this article will show you some strategies to get your ex back for good.
These strategies work, they are well tried and tested so don't be put off by the fact that you instinctively want to do the opposite, just take my word for it and by the end of this article you'll understand what I mean.
Don't make the same mistakes, keep your instincts and urges in check because you want a more objective and planned approach than just rushing in and trying to force things.
If you do this wrong, it will just convince your ex that your breakup really was a good thing.
So, don't let your ex see you as a groveling needy person. This is disastrous.
… unless your ex is a real wimp, this will probably send them running in the opposite direction. In fact, none of those techniques would ever be included in any lesson to get your ex back.
You need to be the opposite of weak and needy. You need to be strong and retain your dignity and respect.
For your best chance of success at reconciling with your ex, you will need to accept your breakup and get into the frame of mind that you are okay with it.
Indeed, if you let your ex think that you've come to realize the breakup was a good thing, then you'll be in the best place to start getting your ex interested in you again.
That's because your ex will be wondering why you're alright with the breakup.
That means your ex will be thinking about… YOU.
… just how you were when they originally met you… all those old feeling… WOW!!!
So leave your ex alone, give them time to get over all the emotions caused by the breakup. Remember, breaking up is also an ordeal for the one who initiates it, not just for the one that gets dumped.
For you to have some hope that your ex will want you back after you have given them a little bit of space and time to get over the breakup, your best strategy is simply to be available.
Answer their phone calls and emails, but don't initiate any contact with them, give them a shoulder to cry on, and don't harass them about getting back together.
Get on with your life and let your ex see what they're missing.
If your ex realizes, of their own accord, that their decision to breakup with you was a bad one, then you have won them back FOR GOOD, and it's your ex that will be apologetic and chasing you.
If you follow this properly, you'll stop "just showing up" at places where your ex is likely to be hanging out.
You'll perhaps find occasional excuses to call your ex (but never more than once or twice a week) and keep this contact very short and don't be tempted to bring up the past or to ask them back.
In other words, avoid anything that could cause conflict.
These short exchanges are merely to give your ex confidence in you and your ability to keep your feelings under control, to show them that you've accepted the breakup and your happy with it.
Appearing strong and confident will do more to get your ex interested in you again than almost anything else you're tempted to try.
If your ex no longer feels threatened by you, if they are comfortable in your company then you are already more than half-way towards getting your ex back again.
So don't mess this bit up.
Most people do, simply because they panic and think, wrongly, that giving their ex time away will just encourage them to move on and start dating someone else.
Don't be one of them, have confidence in yourself and your own attractiveness.
And don't forget, you have what it takes to attract your ex, you did it once already and that time you didn't know them very well.
This time you know so much more about them. Their likes and dislikes, what turns them on (and off), so use this knowledge to your advantage.


Iraqi children are forced to sell pieces of scrap metal scavenged from the ruins of Mosul's Old City, in order to provide for their families and themselves.
Video footage from Mosul on Saturday, shows how young merchants dressed in plastic raincoats collect different kinds of scrap metal - railings, crumpled corrugated iron and empty oil barrels.
According to one of the locals, Abu Ahmed: "we can't make sure of how to support our families. We thought it would be easier after the liberation of the city. Now, nobody shows up to ask about our needs."
Ahmed stated that the Iraqi government is failing to adequately support the rebuilding of the city.
"You see potholes everywhere, the dead corpses are still under rubble. The aid is stolen by the local government officials. They are corrupt people," he added.
The merchants reportedly receive around 5,000 Iraqi dinars ($4) per 100kg of scrap metal they collect.
Mosul, one of Iraq's largest cities, was badly destroyed by the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS; formerly ISIS/ISIL), after they took control in June 2014. The city was recaptured by Iraqi government forces in July 2017 after a nine-month long final battle.
The heaviest fighting took place in the Old City, leaving thousands of buildings, including its old churches and monasteries, in ruins.
Since I can remember its been like that if not worse! When I was 7 years Old I worked as shoes polisher boy, when I turned 10 years old I was walking round the street buying scrap metals and plastics, at the summer months I was selling the ice or travel to Mosul to buy ice creams and ice pops bring them back to duhok and sale them for profit! But most of the times the ice creams and ice pops are melting down because of hot summer days or Got confiscated my Iraqi police at check points, I can remember one time my mother asked me to bring back some debes and tahini, grapes jelly and tahini hummus which I did, when we got to check points I was told by the police to get out of the the buss and told bus driver to go and they opened my bags, pored grapes jelly and tahini over my head drove about five miles away from nearest road and left me to walk home without any water at the hot summer day of Iraq! Now tell me what's changed?


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Wrong Church: Supporters Say "Don't Come for Us!"
By Ashley Moss
The motorists blocked drive lanes preventing some church members from entering or exiting the parking lot. Friendship-West had planned to host a Black Lives Matter rally that day. Organizers of the "Back the Blue" and "Blue Lives Matter" event said they merely were taking a break from their own ride-related rally when they gathered on the Friendship-West parking lot. Haynes said the motorists' presence was uninvited, unwelcome and "a slap in the face" to all Black churches, many of whose parishioners he said do not support policies touted by President Donald Trump. "They violated our sacred space on so many levels," Haynes said last week, adding that the incident was an example of "white supremacist intimidation."
The recent event brought out community leaders and supporters from other churches and neighboring communities, saying they wanted to make it clear that supporting Friendship-West was not only the right thing to do, it was the only thing to do. James Allen, a retired police officer and former President of the Black Police Organization, Texas Peace Officer Association, said the event was about more than the drive. "It's about getting marching orders to get organized for voter registration, the Census and getting other churches involved," he said.
Jasmine Crockett, who is the Democratic nominee for Texas House District 100, was among the attendees, as was Sen. Royce West and Judge Eric Moye. "We see that fear and intimidation tactics are being used to deter people and it will prayerfully be just the opposite and motivate people," she said. "I think voters should show up by any means necessary in November and vote their conscience. I'm definitely interested in heightening the punishment for persons that trespass at a church for the purpose of intimidation and or hate. "There's a long painful history of traumatizing and vandalizing Black churches. In a state like Texas, I should be able to get bipartisan support for protecting our churches," she added.
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"Coal is not progress, it is death": Indigenous Wayuu woman
by Cortney MacDonnell
Huagill, an Indigenous Wayuu woman from El Carmen de Chucerí, La Guajira sharing her experiences with coal mining in Colombia.
Indigenous Wayuu and Afro-Colombian communities have long been vocal against the forced displacement, environmental degradation, human rights abuses and increasing death toll caused by the Cerrejón coal mine. NB Power sources coal from this mine.
Affected community members blame the mine, which opened operations in 1985, for the loss of 19 rivers in the semi-desert Colombian region of La Guajira.
The land degradation and toxic waste from the mine have caused a humanitarian crisis in surrounding communities that are now suffering from malnutrition and lacking access to water.
Huaguil, from the town of Carmen de Chucerí, speaks out in this video published by the NB Media Co-op.
Huaguil wants the public to know about mining operations in Colombia, listing statistics about the Cerrejón mine's impact on rural communities: "Mining has displaced 35 communities, including Afro-Colombian farmers and Indigenous Wayuu communities."
In 2018, Colombia had the highest number of internally displaced persons in the world reaching 7.7 million people. Often times, the communities are violently and forcibly displaced.
The mine's impact on communities has led to rising death tolls within communities.
"According to UNICEF figures, the largest number of people suffering from hunger was in 2016, which caused 4770 children to be killed by malnutrition," Huaguil said.
Leader of the Indigenous organization Wayúu Shipia, Javier Rojas told The Bogota Post in 2016: "We estimate that in less than ten years, more than 14,000 members of our communities – children, adolescents, expectant mothers and the elderly – have died due to malnutrition."
The mine is currently seeking to expand operations another 16,000 hectares within the municipalities of San Vicente de Chucuri, Simacota, and el Carmen de Chucuri.
"If the projects are approved, this will bring the total destruction of the ecosystem. It would disappear whole rivers and entire populations would become extinct, such as the towns of Santo Domingo del Ramo and Guamo among others," Huaguil said.
"We were promised progress," Huaguil said, "Coal is not progress, it is death."
Cortney MacDonnell is an environmental action reporter with RAVEN (Rural Action and Voices for the Environment), a research project based at the University of New Brunswick.
With files from Francisco Ramirez Cuellar.
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The Poems of Others
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What Sparks Poetry is a serialized feature in which we invite poets to explore experiences and ideas that spark new poems.
In the series The Poems of Others, we've invited poets to pay homage to a poem that first sparked poetry in them—a poem they read that gave them permission to write poetry or the idea that they might write it—a poem that led them down the path to becoming a poet.
Each essay is accompanied by a writing prompt based on an observation about the poem.
Evie Shockley on Jayne Cortez's "There It Is"
Jayne Cortez is one of the poets whose example taught me how expansive the genre of poetry is—or can be. Quite honestly, I no longer recall when or where I first encountered her work. I'm pretty sure it wasn't in a course; when I was a student, she was far from canonical. Yet her poems are included in a number of the anthologies of African American poetry I had begun to collect just before starting grad school, such as Clarence Major's The Garden Thrives, E. Ethelbert Miller's In Search of Color Everywhere, and Michael Harper and Anthony Walton's Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep. And, not surprisingly, she makes an appearance on spoken word CDs released at the turn of this century—like Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Poets Read Their Work and Every Tone a Testimony (An African American Aural History)—that were intended to make aspects of Black culture in the U.S. more widely accessible.
Cortez was a likely, if not inevitable, contributor to such audio anthologies because her poetry was created with its audible performance—in concert with The Firespitters, her jazz and blues band of percussion, string, and brass musicians—in mind. She published collections of her poems on LPs and CDs to nearly the same extent that she published them in books. While many African American poets, from Langston Hughes on, have read their work with or over musical accompaniment, Cortez is relatively unusual in the degree to which she understood her voice as one instrument among the others in the band. The rhythms, phrasing, and attitude of her poetry—its sounds, in other words—were foregrounded in the recordings she made with The Firespitters: but as a feature of, rather than a supplement to, the music.
"There It Is" was the title track from the album Cortez and The Firespitters released in 1982. The poem appeared in her book Firespitters that same year, and was later reprinted in Coagulations and On the Imperial Highway (her New and Selected volumes of 1984 and 2009, respectively). You can listen to it on YouTube, which I highly recommend, but I want to touch on what draws me to the poem as we encounter it in the books—or on the Poetry Daily website, in this case.
Cortez is always deliberate about her poems' address, and the first stanza of this poem provides us a very nuanced example. "My friend," she begins, dropping us immediately into a question. Who does that designation include? We soon realize that the term functions both sincerely and ironically: "they don't care / if you're an individualist / a leftist a rightist / a shithead or a snake." No matter where you fall on the political or moral spectrum, unless you're one of the elite few powerbrokers, the poem is speaking to you.
Before reading on, check out the visual cues she offers as stand-ins for her tone of voice. "They don't care" is a powerful line that, by itself, distills the poem's political analysis. The spatial caesura between "a leftist" and "a rightist" can suggest the perceived distance between those positions, even as the absence of the expected comma underscores the idea that there's no distinction between the two in terms of their treatment.
"The ruling class" has long called the shots, and "they" are determined to get and take whatever they need from you, be it labor, acquiescence, or absolute silence. Cortez's trademark use of enumeratio—a rhetorical device that builds the force of an argument by offering detailed lists of the parts, causes, or effects of an issue—drives home the ruthlessness of this class of people: "They will try to exploit you / absorb you confine you / disconnect you isolate you / or kill you." Enumeratio forms the poem's fundamental structure. Each stanza is a list: the third stanza announces what's in store for those who fall prey to this instrumentalization, for instance, while the fourth catalogues the ruling class modus operandi.
One of the things I love about Cortez's poetry is how she employs this rhetorical strategy to suggest how large a group we, the exploited, are. Black people may be her primary focus, as references to "white supremist lynch mobs" and "african hair styles" suggests, but the scope of her "you" encompasses any of us susceptible to the manipulative, extractive tactics of the ruling class: the mind-numbing escapism of drugs, the divide-and-conquer distraction of "hate," the debilitating obstacle of being un(der)educated, or anything else that diverts us from the collective, concerted effort we'll have to make to gain "the power to control our own lives."
The device of enumeratio also enables Cortez to set up and release the poem's sonic and imagistic energy. The elements of her lists build on the recurring sounds of repeated prepositional phrases ("into your own") and recurring rhythms of parallel construction ("the bulldozers leaping," "the old folks dying"). Additionally, repetition draws us into the surprising, illuminating images she uses to renew the effectiveness of too-familiar political language. Subjection to the ruling class leaves us not simply in a state of "captivity," "submission," and "repression," but wearing "the exaggerated look of captivity / the stylized look of submission" and "the decomposed look of repression," in Cortez's revitalizing lines.
I can't close without pointing to how these lists speak as directly to us in 2021 as they did to her audiences nearly forty years ago. "They" still "organize their police into /killer cops," still "ossify us with angel dust" or equally deadening substitutes like crack, meth, and opioids. Truly, Cortez seems downright prescient with her decreasingly surreal inventory of ruling class tactics, such as "fill[ing] your nostrils with / the swine flu of their arrogance" and "fly[ing] off into the wild blue yonder to / pollute another planet." (She fore/saw you, Jeff Bezos.) This poem, and Cortez's work generally, has supplied me with a brilliant model: a poetics that is imaginative and hard-hitting, unapologetically political and aesthetically complex. She was one of the lights that illuminated my path when I was starting out. I can still see by her glow in today's darknesses. And there it is.
Read Jayne Cortez's "There It Is"
Write a poem in which you use enumeratio to strengthen an argument, by bringing into view the constituent parts of something that concerns you and making those elements vivid and memorable. Play with structures of repetition that will juice your language and unlock your imagination.
Evie Shockley
Evie Shockley is a poet and scholar. Her most recent poetry collections, the new black (Wesleyan, 2011) and semiautomatic (Wesleyan, 2017), both won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; the latter was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the LA Times Book Prize. Her poetry has appeared internationally in print and audio formats, in English and in translation. She has received the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, the Stephen Henderson Award, the Holmes National Poetry Prize, and fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Cave Canem, among others. Shockley is Professor of English at Rutgers University.


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Media culpa
Margaret Wente: photo funnies, laziness, and plagiarism
I try to avoid Margaret Wente. "Mom, she's writing about the urban elites again", my son will yawn at breakfast. But the photo accompanying "Fear and loathing among the eastern elites" May 7, 2011) was curious. It showed how Wente's stock character, the 'snobby eastern urban elite', had "demonized" Stephen Harper. The unidentified photo illustrated the "vitriolic animosity" - "the hatchet job the Liberals have done" on Harper, and how poor Steven Harper is "routinely depicted as a cross between Darth Vader and Lord Voldemort".
I thought the picture of Harper with horns looked like something from a kid's Facebook page. So I checked. Unidentified and missing entirely from the online version (where there's a cartoon about Pakistan), the photo seems to be of this guy hiding behind John Baird - a grainy shot of an eco-activist at a 2007 demo in Stanley Park. Not "eastern", likely not "elite', and, if I had to guess, maybe anarchist or Green, rather than Liberal. Perhaps Wente doesn't choose her images, but this illustrates a deeper sloppiness.
Were the article to have used a Toronto G20 protestor instead of one from B.C., the problem remains; if you're going to complain about vitriolic demonizing, you can't compare the actions of some unsanctioned individual at a demo with the official advertising campaign of, say, the ruling party of Canada. They are not the same thing. To pretend they are is a bit like saying a squad of fully armed RCMP is equivalent to a lone guy with a stapler.
Andrew Coyne highlights the most interesting bit from Paul Wells' election post mortem- a gloating Conservative's analysis of their multi million dollar Ignatieff attack campaign:
'''They say that we try to portray Ignatieff in our ads and so on as a weak and flailing professor,' the war room staffer said. 'No, that's how we portrayed Dion. Dion was weak, you know, Dion was 'not a leader.' …Michael Ignatieff, in our narrative, is a political opportunist who is calculating, who will do and say anything to get elected….He's a schemer…He's a malicious human being…that's kind of the sentiment we're getting at...With Ignatieff, it's 'He's a bad man.'"
I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure any defamation decision would be heavily influenced by whether the offending material was a handmade poster or a national advertising campaign in heavy rotation during the Academy Awards and the Superbowl. People would rightly see the damage from one as being qualitatively and quantitatively different from the other. That's 'natural justice' or (if you're an old-fashioned Mike Harris Conservative) "common sense". But Ms. Wente would have us believe they are the same thing.
Wells also describes how Patrick Muttart (later fired from Harper's 2011 campaign for allegedly shopping a fake photo of Ignatieff to Sun Media), "had the party register a website in Montenegro so its URL could be www.ignatieff.me, reinforcing the notion that the Liberal was 'just in it for me.' They stuffed it full of embarrassing old quotes. Ads ran for weeks on television and radio."
I thought some dumb kid had set up that site, but now we learn it was the PMO.
Is it elitist to say the picture in Wente's article is cheap? Wente, a private school gal with no kids, from a wealthy family, who hobnobs with the Bay Street set and writes for the most elite paper in the country, regularly tells us how anti-elitist she is. My definition of 'elitist' would be someone who is privileged, arrogant and lazy, and Wente is arguably all three.
Wente: Laziness or plagiarism?
Possible plagiarism has already been discussed. But there are lots of other examples, like this:
Wente writes about Hernando de Soto in "The bad-paper trail: Where are the toxic assets?", Globe, May 2, 2009. Almost identical wording had appeared in de Soto's Cato Institute profile:
Wente: "delivering formal property rights to poor people can bring them out of the sway of demagogues and into the modern global economy…"
Cato Institute: "Delivering formal property rights to the poor can bring them out of the sway of demagogues and into the extended order of the modern global economy".
Wente: "For his challenge to the status quo, the Shining Path, the Peruvian Marxist terrorist group, targeted him for assassination. His offices were bombed and his car was machine-gunned. Today, the Shining Path is moribund, and Mr. de Soto continues his passionate mission".
Cato Institute: "For his efforts, the Peruvian Marxist terror group Shining Path targeted him for assassination. The institute's offices were bombed. His car was machine-gunned. Today the Shining Path is moribund, but de Soto remains very much alive and a passionate advocate…"
I'd ignored Wente since finding a bunch of similar stuff in her articles a few years back, but a quick look at recent work shows she's still up to her old tricks.
Here are some bits from Wente's recent piece on the Gulf Oil spill:
Wente: "Red snapper are unbelievable right now," one fisherman said. "You could put a rock on the end a string and they'd bite it."
AP: "Red snapper are unbelievable right now," said Mike Carron, head of the Northern Gulf Institute in Mississippi. "Now you could put a rock on the end of string and they'll bite it."
Lifting that quote from a 2010 AP report, Wente also turns Dr. Mike Carron, a scientist at Mississippi State University, into "a fisherman". Sloppiness, or anti-elitist reflex?
Wente: "People are having a hard time accepting it. Me, too," says Ed Overton, a chemist at Louisiana State University. "There are things that are wrong. There is still oil out there. But it is not nearly as bad as I expected it would be a year later."
Press Register: "People are having a hard time accepting it. Me too," said Ed Overton, a chemist at Louisiana State University…. "There is still oil out there. But it is not nearly as bad as I expected it would be a year later."
http://blog.al.com/live/2011/04/scientists_optimistic_but_caut.html
Wente: most scientists believe the Gulf is in surprisingly good shape. When three dozen of them were asked to rate the current health of the Gulf's ecosystem on a 1-to-100 scale, they gave it an average grade of 68 – not bad, considering that, before the spill, they gave it a 71.
Fox: More than three dozen scientists grade the Gulf's big picture health a 68 on average, using a 1-to-100 scale. What's remarkable is that that's just a few points below the 71 the same researchers gave last summer when asked what grade they would give the ecosystem before the spill.
Even the Fox article, like the others, goes on to acknowledge that the Gulf is not in good shape, but Wente studiously avoids the thrust of each article she cribs from. Here's just one more early example:
In "Not every girl can be a winner" (also May 2, 2009), Wente denounced the Girl Guides for introducing "body image" badges to combat anorexia.
Wente offers quotes, without attribution. Two of them had appeared in a 2004 article by Frank Stephenson in Research in Review.
Stephenson: "Or so says Martin Seligman, an outspoken critic of the self-esteem movement. Seligman considers self-esteem exercises a menace to society... 'What I think has gone wrong,' Seligman says, 'is that we now think we should inject self-esteem directly into our young people, as opposed to producing warranted self-esteem, which I believe comes from doing well with the people you love, doing well in sports, [and] doing well in school.'"
Wente: "Among the biggest critics of the self-esteem movement is cognitive psychologist Martin Seligman. 'We now think we should inject self-esteem directly into our young people, as opposed to producing warranted self-esteem, which I believe comes from doing well with the people you love, doing well in sports, doing well in school,' he said. In his view, self-esteem exercises are a menace to society".
Wente doesn't credit Stephenson' at all, even though the words she uses to describe Seligman's views - "self esteem exercises are a menace to society", are his.
Stephenson also summarizes the work of his colleague Roy Baumeister, who Wente also quotes.
Frank Stephenson: "As a graduate student Baumeister had accepted claims for the benefits of self-esteem uncritically... Baumeister set out to answer the...question, ultimately publishing several even-handed appraisals of self-esteem...'People who have elevated or inflated views of themselves tend to alienate others,' the report states."
Wente: "'People who have elevated or inflated views of themselves tend to alienate others,' wrote social psychologist Roy Baumeister, who used to believe in the importance of instilling self-esteem, until he reviewed all the research".
The Baumeister quote is buried in a long report co-authored by Jennifer Campbell, Joachim Krueger, and Kathleen Vohs, but it appears as a header in Stephenson's piece. Wente uses the highlighted quote, attributing it to Baumeister, without crediting the report's other authors, and again without citing Stephenson.
Wente claims that the Guides' decision to introduce badges related to healthy body image is a bad idea, omitting the most relevant findings in Stephenson's article, which contradicts her claim.
Frank Stephenson: "But low self-esteem does play a substantial role in eating disorders, a big problem, particularly for young women. Today's teen and college-aged women face a national epidemic of anorexia and bulimia, two closely associated emotional disorders that can be fatal if not treated. A great deal of evidence indicates that feelings of inadequacy and self-loathing-low self-esteem-are in fact risk factors in disordered eating, Baumeister's report noted. Work by Kathleen Vohs, one of the report's authors, for example, found that bulimia is strongly associated with low self-esteem".
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090502.COWENT02ART2013//TPStory/National
http://www.rinr.fsu.edu/summer2004/summer2004.pdf
http://www.blnz.com/news/2008/04/23/Rise_Fall_Self-Esteem_0552.html
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090501.wcowent02/BNStory/specialComment/home
I'm no expert on plagiarism or inadequate attribution, but Wente's practices seem not dissimilar to David Warren's, which the Ontario Press Council found lacking. And amongst academics and teachers whom Wente regularly faults for being soft on plagiarism, some examples from her own work would likely merit a fail. That she gets away with it perhaps indicates the different rules that apply to 'eastern urban elites'.
Posted by Just the facts, please at 9:43 PM
Labels: funny pictures, laziness, Margaret Wente, plagiarism
thwap May 8, 2011 at 6:28 AM
Stupid and lazy. What a national treasure. ugh.
Dr.Dawg May 8, 2011 at 7:27 AM
Good God. Didn't they fire Dick Beddoes for just one such infraction back in the day? Lifting some text from a gay rights pamphlet, IIRC?
Standards have surely slipped at the Mop and Pail.
Scanner May 9, 2011 at 1:55 PM
"Standards have surely slipped at the Mop and Pail. "
I guess they're applying the standards usually used at Bell, where theft is the norm unless its you stealing from them.
Rose21 May 19, 2011 at 6:32 AM
Wente challenges our assumptions. That's a good thing.
Cold North Wind September 22, 2012 at 5:27 AM
True- any assumption I might have had that she was a journalist who relied on careful and intelligent research, disappeared some years ago.
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While I was exploring the DMV area (DC, Maryland, Virginia), I took a little excursion over to Gettysburg, PA. What a cute little historic town! And in that town, I found the Sunrise Soap Company. And in this little shop of soaps was soap, soap, and more soap. The bars of soaps came in so many shapes and colors. The bath bombs smelled delish. And so did everything else-- the lip balms, the lotions, and the body scrubs. This was definitely a one stop shop for locals to pick up their artisan soaps and any other bath and body needs. And that's how I picked up these cuties.


AGENT THIRTEEN (8) has a strong record over this distance and she led all the way over the 531m at Gawler two runs ago, can lead or come from behind. BRILLIANT BAILS (5) also races well here and can get out safely, chance with clear running in this. AMITY MARLOW (2) won well at this trip last start, while RIP IT RALPH (3) also has claims in this.
First up on this track but has a solid career record over the shorter trips and can get out safely. Extra distance could tests so will need a good start.
Has been solid over this distance and she led all the way in 30.04 here last time out. Does best when leading early so the start will be all important.
Placed in four of his last five including two sub thirty second efforts here. Can jump on his day and has good mid race speed. Has been freshened.
Placed in two of his three tries at this distance and posted a 30.16 effort here last start. Hit or miss early but could run a race in this open affair.
Races well over this journey and he led all the way over the 531m at Gawler three runs back. Has gone best from wide boxes but looks well suited in this.
Has won here but her record is modest at this trip and she finished out of the money in her last five runs. Has missed the start often here.
Strike rate is poor at this trip and he finished out of the money in his last ten starts. Can be slow out and has found it tough from this draw.
Can lead or come from behind and she led all the way over the 531m at Gawler two runs back. Handles wide draws okay and looks a chance in this.


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Hiding order Beneath the cloak of disorder is simply a question of subdivision; concealing courage under a show of timidity presupposes a fund of latent energy;masking strength with weakness is to be effected by tactical dispositions.
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Strong-weak cooperation and cross-regional cooperation have developed in the lawyer trade.
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The strength of the magnet was large or small according to the strength of the current.
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District Attorney Summer Stephan Friday issued a warning to businesses and scammers not to take advantage of consumers by price gouging during San Diego County's state of emergency caused by raging wildfires.
During a declared state of emergency, it is illegal for a business to increase prices for essential goods and services by more than 10 percent, unless it can show its own costs have increased.
In addition, it is a misdemeanor for a hotel or motel to increase regular rates by more than 10 percent during a declared emergency and for the 30 days following the state of emergency. Looting during this time becomes a felony, punishable by three years in prison.
Stephan said anyone should be extremely cautious if approached by aggressive agents, adjusters or contractors after a disaster. She said most businesses are honest and have good intentions, but there are always bad actors waiting to take advantage of disaster victims.


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Internet Eavesdropping: A Brave New World of Wiretapping
As telephone conversations have moved to the Internet, so have those who want to listen in. But the technology needed to do so would entail a dangerous expansion of the government's surveillance powers
By Whitfield Diffie, Susan Landau on September 1, 2008
Credit: Harry Campbell
The advent of computer-based telephone switches and the Internet has made it more difficult for the government to monitor the communications of criminals, spies and terrorists.
Federal agencies want Internet companies to comply with the same wiretapping requirements that apply to telecommunications carriers. This proposal, though, may stifle Internet innovation.
Furthermore, the new surveillance facilities might be misused by overzealous government officials or hijacked by terrorists or spies interested in monitoring U.S. communications.
As long as people have engaged in private conversations, eavesdroppers have tried to listen in. When important matters were discussed in parlors, people slipped in under the eaves—literally within the "eavesdrop"—to hear what was being said. When conversations moved to telephones, the wires were tapped. And now that so much human activity takes place in cyberspace, spies have infiltrated that realm as well.
Unlike earlier, physical frontiers, cyberspace is a human construct. The rules, designs and investments we make in cyberspace will shape the ways espionage, privacy and security will interact. Today there is a clear movement to give intelligence activities a privileged position, building in the capacity of authorities to intercept cyberspace communications. The advantages of this trend for fighting crime and terrorism are obvious.
The drawbacks may be less obvious. For one thing, adding such intercept infrastructure would undermine the nimble, bottom-up structure of the Internet that has been so congenial to business innovation: its costs would drive many small U.S. Internet service providers (ISPs) out of business, and the top-down control it would require would threaten the nation's role as a leader and innovator in communications.
Furthermore, by putting too much emphasis on the capacity to intercept Internet communications, we may be undermining civil liberties. We may also damage the security of cyberspace and ultimately the security of the nation. If the U.S. builds extensive wiretapping into our communications system, how do we guarantee that the facilities we build will not be misused? Our police and intelligence agencies, through corruption or merely excessive zeal, may use them to spy on Americans in violation of the U.S. Constitution. And, with any intercept capability, there is a risk that it could fall into the wrong hands. Criminals, terrorists and foreign intelligence services may gain access to our surveillance facilities and use them against us. The architectures needed to protect against these two threats are different.
Such issues are important enough to merit a broad national debate. Unfortunately, though, the public's ability to participate in the discussion is impeded by the fog of secrecy that surrounds all intelligence, particularly message interception ("signals intelligence").
A Brief History of Wiretapping
To understand the current controversy over wiretapping, one must understand the history of communications technology. From the development of the telephone in the 19th century until the past decade or two, remote voice communications were carried almost exclusively by circuit-switched systems. When one person picked up the phone to call another, one or more telephone switches along the way would connect their wires so that a continuous circuit would be formed. This circuit would persist for the duration of the call, after which the switches would disconnect the wires, freeing resources to handle other calls. Call switching was essentially the only thing that telephone switches did. Other services associated with the telephone—call forwarding and message taking, for example—were handled by human operators.
Wiretapping has had an on-and-off legal history in the U.S. The earliest wiretaps were simply extra wires—connected to the line between the telephone company's central office and the subscriber—that carried the signal to a pair of earphones and a recorder. Later on, wiretaps were installed at the central office on the frames that held the incoming wires. At first, the courts held that a wiretap does not constitute a search when it involves no trespass, but over time that viewpoint changed. In 1967 the U.S. Supreme Court decided in the case of Katz v. United States that the interception of communications is indeed a search and that a warrant is required. This decision prompted Congress in 1968 to pass a law providing for wiretap warrants in criminal investigations. But Congress's action left the use of wiretapping for foreign intelligence in legal limbo. Congressional investigations that followed the 1972 Watergate break-in uncovered a history of presidential operations that had employed and, as it turned out, abused the practice, spying on peaceful, domestic political organizations as well as hostile, foreign ones. So, in 1978, Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which took the controversial step of creating a secret federal court for issuing wiretap warrants.
Most of the surveillance of communications for foreign intelligence purposes lay outside the scope of the wiretapping law, because this activity had primarily involved the interception of radio signals rather than physical intrusions into phone systems. (When operating in other countries, American intelligence services could not place wiretaps on phone lines as easily as they could in the U.S.) Another important distinction between domestic and foreign communications surveillance is scale: inside the U.S., wiretapping has traditionally been regarded as an extreme investigative technique, something to be applied only to very serious crimes. Outside the country, though, the interception of communications is big business. The National Security Agency (NSA) spends billions of dollars every year intercepting foreign communications from ground bases, ships, airplanes and satellites.
But the most important differences are procedural. Within the U.S. the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution guarantees the right of the people to be free from "unreasonable searches and seizures." The logic of a "reasonable" search is that law-enforcement officers must make an unprivileged observation (that is, one that does not invade the suspect's privacy) whose results give them "probable cause" with which they can approach the courts for a search warrant. What they are not permitted to do, in either physical searches or wiretaps, is to search first and then use what they find as evidence that the search was legitimate. This procedure, however, is exactly what intelligence agents do, except that they usually do not employ their results to prosecute criminals. An intelligence officer relies on professional judgment and available information to make the decision to spy on a foreign target; the operation will then be judged as a success or failure depending on what intelligence was obtained and what resources were expended.
The rules established in FISA make three fundamental distinctions: between "U.S. persons" (citizens, legal residents and American corporations) and foreigners; between communications inside and outside the U.S.; and between wired and wireless communications. Briefly, wired communications entirely within the U.S. are protected—intercepting them requires a warrant. But radio communications that include people outside the country are protected only if the signal is intercepted in the U.S. and the government's target is a particular, known U.S. person who is in the country at the time.
Until recently, whenever the FISA rules applied, they imposed a burden similar to that imposed by ordinary criminal law. To seek a warrant, an intelligence agency had to specify a particular location, telecommunications channel or person and explain why the target should be subject to surveillance. Operating "foreign intelligence–style," intercepting communications and then using the recorded conversations to justify the interception, was not permitted.
Almost accidentally, the rules set by FISA included an important loophole that Congress had intended to be only temporary: radio communications involving parties who were not U.S. persons could be intercepted from inside the U.S. without warrants. At the time FISA was passed and for many years thereafter, the radio exemption was a great boon to the intelligence community. Satellite radio relays had revolutionized international communications in the 1960s and 1970s and carried most of the phone calls entering and leaving the country. Radio communications that were partly or completely among parties outside the U.S. were legally and physically vulnerable to interception by NSA antennas at places such as Yakima, Wash., and Vint Hill Farms in Virginia.
In the 1970s a new transmission medium emerged as an alternative for long-haul communications. Optical fibers—long, thin strands of glass that carry signals via laser light—offered great advantages in communicating between fixed locations. Fiber lines have tremendous capacity; they are not plagued by the quarter-second delay that slows satellite relays; they are intrinsically more secure than radio; and, for a combination of technical and business reasons, they have become very cheap. From the 1990s onward, the vast majority of communications from one fixed location to another have moved by fiber. Because fiber communications are "wired," U.S. law gives them greater protection. The intelligence community could not intercept these communications as freely as they could radio traffic, and the FISA rules began to chafe.
A particularly sensitive issue for intelligence agencies was the so-called transit traffic. Some 20 percent of the communications carried on U.S. networks originate and terminate outside the country, moving between Europe, Asia and Latin America. Transit traffic is not a new phenomenon; it was already present in the satellite era. But under FISA rules, the interception of fiber communications at points inside the U.S. required a warrant. This requirement upset the standard processes of intelligence agents, who were unaccustomed to seeking probable cause before initiating surveillance.
At about the same time, computer-based switching systems began to replace the traditional electromechanical switches in U.S. telephone networks. This computerization paved the way for services such as automated call forwarding and answering systems, which unintentionally but effectively bypassed standard wiretapping techniques. Suppose that a caller to a wiretapped phone left a message with an answering service provided by the telephone company. If the target of the investigation checked his messages from a phone other than his own, the communication would never travel over the tapped line and thus would not be intercepted.
Congress responded in 1994 with the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), which requires telecommunications companies to make it possible for the government to tap all the communications of a targeted subscriber no matter what automated services the subscriber uses. In addition to mandating an improvement in the quality of information that can be obtained from wiretaps, CALEA obliged telecommunications carriers to be able to execute far more simultaneous wiretaps than had previously been possible.
Tapping the Net
CALEA was passed just as large numbers of people began using the Internet, which employs a communications method that is entirely different from circuit-switched telephony. Internet users send information in small packets, each of which carries a destination address and a return address, just like a letter in the postal system. With circuit switching, a brief telephone call incurs the same setup costs as a long one, so making a call to send only a few words is uneconomical. But on a packet-switched network, short messages are cheap and shorter messages are cheaper. Web browsing is possible because Internet connections can be used briefly and discarded. Each time you click on a Web link, you establish a new connection.
In the era of circuit-switched communications, wiretapping worked because telephone instruments, numbers and users were bound closely together. A telephone was hard to move, and a new telephone number was hard to get. An organization's messages moved on the same channels for long periods, so it was easy to intercept them repeatedly. Computerized switching and the Internet have made surveillance much more challenging. Today people can easily get new telephone numbers as well as e-mail addresses, instant messaging handles and other identifiers. And the advent of voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP), the standard that allows the transmission of voice communications over packet-switched networks, has further decentralized control of the communications infrastructure. In a VoIP system such as the popular Skype service, for example, the setting up of phone calls and the transmission of traffic are entirely separate.
If CALEA, as interpreted literally, were applied to decentralized VoIP services, the provider would be required to intercept targeted customers' phone calls and relay them to the government but might be totally incapable of complying with such a demand. Consider a typical VoIP call running between the laptop computers of two people, both of whom are traveling. Alice initiates the call from a lounge at O'Hare airport in Chicago, and Bob receives it at a hotel bar in San Francisco. The VoIP provider's role in the process is limited: it discovers the Internet protocol (IP) addresses through which Alice and Bob are connected and communicates each person's address to the other's computer. After the setup is completed, the VoIP provider plays no further role. Instead the actual voice conversation is carried by the Internet service providers (ISPs) through which Alice and Bob access the Internet, together with other Internet carriers to which those ISPs are connected.
In this environment a government agency might have to serve wiretap warrants on many telecommunications carriers just to monitor a single target. Suppose we imagine a CALEA-style intercept regime that could capture a VoIP call. It must begin with an order to the VoIP provider targeting either Alice or Bob. When law-enforcement agents receive word from the provider that the target is engaged in a call, they must consider the IP addresses of Alice and Bob and send an intercept warrant to one or more ISPs at which the call can be intercepted. The ISPs must be prepared to accept, authenticate and implement the warrant in real time. One problem with this scenario is that only ISPs in the U.S. (and possibly some in cooperating countries) would be required to honor the warrant. A more serious difficulty is the massive security problem that such an arrangement would present. Anyone who could penetrate an ISP's wiretap function would be able to spy on its subscribers at will.
CALEA recognized the difference between traditional telephony and the Internet and exempted the Internet, referred to as "information services," from the provisions of the new law. Yet in 2004, despite that distinction, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration responded to the challenge of monitoring Internet communications by proposing that providers of broadband Internet access be required to comply with the CALEA requirements. The Federal Communications Commission and the courts have so far supported law enforcement in extending CALEA to "interconnected VoIP" (the form most like traditional telephony), relying on a provision of CALEA that refers to services that are a "substantial" replacement for the telephone system. This proposal, if adopted, would be the first step on a road leading to dangers not present in conventional wiretapping.
In particular, the government's actions threaten the continued growth of the Internet, which has become a hotbed of innovation as a consequence of its distributed control and loose connectivity. Unlike a telephone carrier's network, the Internet is not centrally planned and managed. The addition of a new service, such as call forwarding, in the telephone system typically takes years of planning and development. But an Internet entrepreneur can start a new business in a garage or dorm room, using nothing but a home computer and a broadband connection. If law enforcement succeeds in mandating interception facilities for every Internet carrier, the industry as a whole could be pushed back into the procrustean bed of conventional telecommunications. To incorporate extensive surveillance capabilities, new Internet services would have to be developed in long cycles dependent on federal approval. In a century in which the great opportunities lie in information-based businesses, Americans must do everything possible to foster innovation rather than stifling it. If we do not, we may fall behind countries that follow a different course. Such an outcome would represent a long-term threat to national security.
Another threat is more immediate. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, no opponent has had the ability to spy on U.S. communications with anything approximating comprehensive coverage. The Soviets had fleets of trawlers patrolling both coasts of the U.S., diplomatic facilities in major American cities, satellites overhead and ground bases such as the Lourdes facility near Havana. Their capabilities in signals intelligence were second to none. In comparison, the current opponents we most fear, such as al Qaeda, and even major nations such as China have no such ability. They are, however, trying to achieve it, and building wiretapping into the Internet might give it to them. Computers would control the intercept devices, and those computers themselves would be controlled remotely. Such systems could be just as much subject to capture as Web sites and personal computers. The government's proposed interception policies must be judged in the light of such vast and uncertain dangers.
Cyberwars
The administration of President George W. Bush recently relaxed some of the 30-year-old restrictions on communications surveillance mandated by FISA. In 2007 Congress, under intense pressure from the White House, passed the Protect America Act (PAA), which amended FISA by expanding the radio exemption to cover all communications. The law provided that any communication reasonably believed to have a participant outside the U.S. could be intercepted without a warrant. Given the degree to which business services in the U.S. are being outsourced to overseas providers, the new law made a large fraction of American commercial and personal telecommunications activity subject to monitoring. Congress was sufficiently nervous about this course of action that it provided for PAA to expire in 2008.
This past July, after months of controversy, Congress passed a bill fundamentally expanding the executive branch's wiretapping authority and reducing the FISA court's role in international cases to reviewing the general procedures of a proposed wiretap rather than the specifics of a case. Political debate over the bill, however, did not center on wiretapping authority, as one might expect for a sweeping change. Most attention focused instead on giving retroactive immunity for past illegal wiretapping.
In early 2008 the administration offered a new rationale for expanding communications surveillance: securing the Internet. The current state of Internet security is indeed abysmal. Most computers cannot protect themselves from penetration by malware—software designed to infiltrate and damage computer systems—and a substantial fraction of the computers linked to the Internet are under the control of parties other than their owners. These machines have been surreptitiously captured and organized into "botnets," whose computing power is then resold in a kind of electronic slave trade. In response to the failure of traditional defensive approaches, President Bush signed a national security directive in January authorizing a Cyber Initiative. Most of the initiative is secret, but its initial move—extensive surveillance of the substantial amount of Internet traffic that moves in and out of the U.S. government—is too sweeping to be concealed. To facilitate the surveillance, the administration plans to reduce the number of connections between government agencies and the Internet from thousands to fewer than a hundred, and that requires changing or retiring thousands of IP addresses. The Cyber Initiative captures the dilemma of signals intelligence perfectly. A system that monitors federal communications for signs of foreign intrusion will also capture all the legitimate communications that Americans have with their government.
The administration is seeking the power to intercept American communications using the same tactics long employed in foreign intelligence gathering—that is, without having to go to the courts for warrants and describe in advance whose communications it intends to intercept. The advocates of expanded surveillance have valid concerns: not only do we face opponents who are not tied to particular nations and can move freely in and out of the U.S., we also have a critical cybersecurity problem. The Internet is swiftly becoming the primary medium for both commercial and government business, as well as the preferred communications method for many individuals. Its security problems are analogous to having the roads overrun with bandits or the sea-lanes controlled by pirates. Under these circumstances, it is not surprising to find the government seeking to patrol the Internet, just as the nation's police and armed services have patrolled the roads or the high seas in the past.
But policing the Internet, as opposed to securing the computers that populate it, may be a treacherous remedy. Will the government's monitoring tools be any more secure than the network they are trying to protect? If not, we run the risk that the surveillance facilities will be subverted or actually used against the U.S. The security problems that plague the Internet may beset the computers that will do the policing as much as the computers being policed. If the government expands spying on the Internet without solving the underlying computer security problems, we are courting disaster.
The inherent dangers are made worse by the secrecy surrounding the government's initiatives. One casualty of recent approaches to communications interception has been what might be called the two-organization rule. The security of many crucial systems, such as those controlling nuclear weapons, relies on the requirement that critical actions be taken by two people simultaneously. Until recently, federal law mandated a similar approach to wiretapping, allowing the government to issue wiretap orders but requiring the phone companies to install the taps. Under this arrangement, a phone company would be reluctant to act on a wiretap order it suspected was illegal, because its compliance would make it vulnerable to both prosecution and civil liability. Eliminating the role of the phone companies removes an important safeguard. If we follow this course, we may create a regime entirely out of view of Congress, the courts and the press—and perhaps entirely out of control.
The distance our world has moved into cyberspace in the past century is minuscule compared with the distance it will move in the next. We are in the process of building the world in which future humans will live, as surely as the first city dwellers did 5,000 years ago. Communication is fundamental to our species; private communication is fundamental to both our national security and our democracy. Our challenge is to maintain this privacy in the midst of new communications technologies and serious national security threats. But it is critical to make choices that preserve privacy, communications security and the ability to innovate. Otherwise, all hope of having a free society will vanish.
Note: This article was originally published with the title, "Brave New World of Wiretapping".
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The fire escapes on the Baxter Building in Harlingen are being taken down.
HARLINGEN — The original plan was to keep it as a historical memento, but time, weather and exposure combined to doom the iconic fire escape on the Baxter Building's south side.
The metal stairs affixed to the brickwork on the building have rusted out, and some of the rungs on the staircase have even come loose.
"This fire escape would have had to have been cleaned up, primed and repainted to leave it in place, and it was just rusted down," Rodger Lewis, construction site supervisor, said yesterday. "If you look at the fire escape itself, we sure don't want anybody to get on the fire escape and cause them to get hurt. You see the treads on that landing? Or on the stairway going up? They're damaged. It's not in good shape.
" It's a safety issue, it's a restoration issue, it's a historical issue," he added.
The $4.5 million renovation of the city's most iconic piece of architecture continues. Built in 1927, the nine-story structure at the corner of A Street and Jackson Street is being converted into 24 largely low-income housing units.
The building is a representative example of what is known as the "Medical Arts Building" era of American architecture. Similar buildings, or at least those still standing, have been renovated in cities across the South and the Midwest.
Lewis said yesterday at the Baxter job site his crew would remove the top half of the fire escape today once power lines have been moved a few feet away from the building to meet legal distance requirements to safely bring down the escape.
Then the crew will affix a block-and-tackle to the roof and lower the fire escape to the ground.
"We think that's the easiest way to do it, and the safest way," Lewis said. "It's less inconvenience. You can think about a crane sitting out here … we'd block traffic, we'd block the alley and it would be a mess for the downtown businesses.
Renovation work on the Baxter Building began this summer and the owners hope to have the job completed in eight months.
Developers MRE Capital, based in Kansas City, Missouri, were awarded $3.3 million in state tax credits over a decade as part of its plan to restore the Baxter Building close to its original condition.
The developer will turn the building into 24 apartments, of which 19 will be low-income units.
MRE has finished or is currently involved in similar renovation projects in Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Alabama and Texas. Several of these properties are remarkably similar in appearance to the Baxter Building — older, urban high-rises of six, eight and 11 stories.
MRE has already finished renovating around a dozen mostly historic hotels, using a similar tax credit strategy to ensure the survival of historic buildings in cities like Pratt, Kansas, Claremore, Oklahoma, Cisco, Texas, and Plainview, Texas.
It isn't known what the apartments in the Baxter Building will rent for, but developers previously have said their pricing will reflect the city's market rate.


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Sleep apnea is associated with cardiovascular risk factors among kidney transplant patients
Miklos Zsolt Molnar, Alpar Sandor Lazar, Anett Lindner, Katalin Fornadi, Maria Eszter Czira, Andrea Dunai, Rezso Zoller, Andras Szentkiralyi, Laszlo Rosivall, Colin Michael Shapiro, Marta Novak, Istvan Mucsi
Dementia & Complexity in Later Life
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: We assessed the prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and its clinical correlates in a large sample of patients who received a kidney transplant (Tx). We also compared the prevalence of the disorder between dialysis patients who were on the waiting list for a Tx (WL) and Tx patients.
DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS: This was a cross-sectional study of 100 Tx and 50 WL patients who underwent one-night polysomnography (SLeep disorders Evaluation in Patients after kidney Transplantation [SLEPT] Study). Sociodemographic information and data about medication, comorbidity, and laboratory parameters were collected.
RESULTS: The prevalence of mild (apnea-hypopnea index [AHI] > or =5/h and <15/h), moderate (AHI > or =15/h and <30/h), and severe OSA (AHI > or =30/h) was 18, 11, and 14% in the Tx group and 28, 16, and 10% in the WL group, respectively. The AHI was significantly correlated with age (rho = 0.34), body mass index (rho = 0.45), neck circumference (rho = 0.4), abdominal circumference (rho = 0.51), and hemoglobin (rho = 0.24) in the Tx group. The proportion of Tx patients who were treated with three or more antihypertensive drugs was significantly higher in the OSA group (56 versus 31%; P = 0.022). Despite taking significantly more antihypertensive drugs, the average systolic BP was still higher in patients with versus without OSA (147 +/- 21 versus 139 +/- 18 mmHg; P = 0.059).
CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of OSA is similar in Tx and WL patients and it may contribute to presence of hypertension in patients who receive a Tx.
Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
https://doi.org/10.2215/CJN.04030609
Kidney Transplantation
Waiting Lists
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Molnar, M. Z., Lazar, A. S., Lindner, A., Fornadi, K., Czira, M. E., Dunai, A., Zoller, R., Szentkiralyi, A., Rosivall, L., Shapiro, C. M., Novak, M., & Mucsi, I. (2010). Sleep apnea is associated with cardiovascular risk factors among kidney transplant patients. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 5(1), 125-132. https://doi.org/10.2215/CJN.04030609
Molnar, Miklos Zsolt ; Lazar, Alpar Sandor ; Lindner, Anett ; Fornadi, Katalin ; Czira, Maria Eszter ; Dunai, Andrea ; Zoller, Rezso ; Szentkiralyi, Andras ; Rosivall, Laszlo ; Shapiro, Colin Michael ; Novak, Marta ; Mucsi, Istvan. / Sleep apnea is associated with cardiovascular risk factors among kidney transplant patients. In: Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 2010 ; Vol. 5, No. 1. pp. 125-132.
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Within this report QUANTUM project investigated the existing quality gaps as well as their reasons and summarised existing guidelines, laws and services for quality management within construction projects in Europe.
QUANTUM project aims to close the gap between actual and designed energy performances of buildings through Quality Management (QM). The consortium organised its first successful workshop at CLIMA2016, the 13th REHVA World Congress held on 24th May in Aalborg.


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Q: Validation of a result (logic) Suppose that the nonnegative function $f$ is such that for any $v>1$ there are $C,L>0$ so that $f(x)\leq Cx^{-v}$ for all $x>L$. It is clear that $\lim_{x\to\infty}f(x)=0$.
Is it true that $f(x)x^l\to 0$ for all $l\in\mathbb N$?
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Let $l>2$ be fixed. On one hand, there exists $v>l$ such that $f(x)x^l\leq Cx^{l-v}\to 0, x\to\infty,$ by hypothesis.
On the other hand, there exists $v\leq l$ such that $f(x)x^l\leq Cx^{l-v}\to \infty, x\to\infty.$
What conclusion can I make?
My intuition reads the "for any $v>1$" part as "$v$ can be chosen arbitrarily large". In this sense, $f(x)x^l\to 0$ follows. My conflict is that there are values of $v$ such that I get $f(x)x^l\leq \infty$ which does not prove what I want. What is the right idea: "$v$ can be chosen arbitrarily large" vs "the result should follow for all $v>1$"?
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Let $l\in\mathbb N^*$ be fixed. Consider the following hypotheses:

*

*$f>0$ is such that there is $v>l$,  $f(x)\leq Cx^{-v}$.

*$f>0$ is such that for all $v>1$,  $f(x)\leq Cx^{-v}$.

Under 1, $f(x)x^l\to 0$. As 2 implies 1, the same conclusion must hold.

A: For given $l \in \Bbb N$ you want to show that $\lim_{x\to\infty}f(x)x^l=0$. To this end, you use the given hypothesis with "a suitable" $v$ such that the desired conclusion follows.
As you noticed, any $v > l$ works. So you can argue as follows:

For $v = l+1$ there exist $C, L  > 0$ such that  $f(x)\leq Cx^{-l-1}$ for $x > L$. Then
$$
 0 \le f(x)x^l \le \frac{C}{x}
$$
for $x > L$, which implies $\lim_{x\to\infty}f(x)x^l=0$.

That is a complete proof. It does not matter that other choices of $v$ do not imply the desired conclusion.


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1 Lacertae, som är stjärnans Flamsteed-beteckning, är en ensam stjärna belägen i den södra delen av stjärnbilden Ödlan. Den har en skenbar magnitud på ca 4,15 och är svagt synlig för blotta ögat där ljusföroreningar ej förekommer. Baserat på parallaxmätning inom Hipparcosuppdraget på ca 5,3 mas, beräknas den befinna sig på ett avstånd på ca 620 ljusår (ca 190 parsek) från solen. Den rör sig närmare solen med en heliocentrisk radialhastighet av ca -9 km/s.

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1 Lacertae är en orange till gul ljusstark jättestjärna av spektralklass K3 II-III. Den har en massa som är ca 4 solmassor, en radie som är ca 69 solradier och utsänder ca 1 450 gånger mera energi än solen från dess fotosfär vid en effektiv temperatur av ca 4 300 K. Stjärnan var en gång en misstänkt variabel, men detta upphävdes senare.

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 https://www.universeguide.com/star/109937/1lacertae.

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It's the final day of week one in our 28 Days of Love. This week we focused on connecting to our hearts, bringing our hearts into alignment with our higher-self, and nourishing our hearts through our diets. Our hearts long for us to listen to them. To let them take the lead while it works with our spirit, mind, and body. We may speak of our souls, thoughts, beliefs, actions, and heart as if they are separate entities existing outside of each other. Yet they are always connected. Always acting in coordination with each other even when we find ourselves in dangerous or painful situations. Our souls are love. When we are disconnected from our true state of being, we believe in scarcity, separation, division, and lack. We are not these things. We are not bound by the rules of society, the government, or religious bodies. We our bound only by what we can imagine. So now I ask you to dream. To use these exercises from the past week to consciously connect your heart and soul.
We will soon cover the importance of shifting our thoughts towards love, moving our bodies in in ways that connect with our heart, and creating sacred space. Open yourself up to the possibilities of what your life could be. These 28 Days are just the beginning to a lifetime of Love.


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